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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
corner view bergen, norway: staple foods
sorry i'm so late, but i've been a bit sick today. feeling better now, although 'food' isn't really a high priority right now...
if you ask for the most typical food here nowadays, the answer will probably - and sadly - be this:
yup, frozen pizza.
if you ask for traditional food from western norway, you might regret you asked. if you're sqeemish, don't scroll down, or you might feel a bit sick yourself.
although eating this particular dish is mainly kept for enthusiasts (and some brave tourists), smalahove is probably the one thing you'll hear mentioned most often when asking about western norwegian traditional food. it scares the shit out of foreigners and most norwegians too. smalahove, - literally 'sheeps head', is an old tradition from these parts of norway, from back when one had to be frugal to survive. formerly a poor man's food, this is today considered a delicacy.
i picked the least scary picture. just go ahead, google it, and enjoy the photos of it in various stages of being eaten. like, when there's nothing left on the plate but the scull and the teeth.
smalahove is usually eaten in the months before christmas, and yes, you eat everything. including the eyeballs. for some, eating this has become some sort of test to show how brave you are. but i think this is limited to your first try, as most people discover that it's actually just salty lambs meat and quite good. perhaps except for the eyballs. i wouldn't know, i've never tried it and i'm not particularly tempted!
(at least, i was decent enough to wait till you'd had your breakfast :) )
Saturday, June 27, 2009
alive bumble bee
dead bumble bee
Thursday, June 25, 2009
elderflower lemonade/syrup
care to join me for a glass of homemade elderflower lemonade? you will need an elder tree (sambucus nigra/black elder) in bloom for this (dancing mermaid in front is optional). if you don't have one, nick some off your neighbours tree. or go hunting.
this is incredible easy to make, it practically makes itself. if it looks complicated, it's only because i tend to blabber.
EDITED TO ADD: i just found out that lemonade is not commonly diluted with water, so just to make clear; this is syrup to be diluted!!
40 - 60 clusters of elderflower blossoms
3 organic lemons
2 liters of water
2 kg sugar
20-25 grams of citric acid (optional, depending on storage - see below)
- pick your blossoms in dry weather, and preferably when newly blooming. the tree continues to bring forth fresh blossoms for about a month, so there's plenty of opportunities for making another batch later if you like. - don't rinse the blossoms in water, but gently shake them to drop any bugs. the rest is strained out later on. - place the blossoms in a laaaarge pot/bowl.
three clusters in different stages of blooming
cut them just about so - cut the lemons in slim slices. keep the rind/skin on, that's why you'd want organic ones (if you can't find organic lemons, you can leave your non organic ones in a bowl of water and add 3-4 tablespoons of baking soda. this will rinse off most of the pesticides). - add the lemons and the sugar to the water and bring to a boil. - dissolve the citric acid in the mix and pour it all boiling hot over the blossoms. - leave to cool, then place in the fridge with a lid/cloth/big plate or so on top. leave it in the fridge for 3 days, stirring the mix once or twice a day.
- strain the mix through a loosely woven (and clean!) cloth. - put it on clean, cold bottles/jars/what have you, and store in a cool place.
you can put the syrup in the freezer to make it last longer. if you know it won't be stored for long, you can leave out the citric acid. on the opposite, you can rinse the bottles with atamon water (a preservative based on benzoic acid) before you fill them with the syrup, to make them last longer.
to drink - and this is essential: mix about 1 part syrup and 8 parts water in a glass. of course, this will depend on your preferences. if you like it sweet, use more syrup and less water. this can just as easily be made into tea, by adding hot instead of cold water.
EDITED TO ADD: well whaddayaknow, i learned something new from this post. i found out that most people outside of (northern?) europe don't drink saft (norwegian term). i thought 'lemonade/limonade' was the common name for saft, but of course it's not. when i looked up 'elder' at wikipedia, i found this: "The French and Central Europeans (Austrians, Croatians), but particularly the Swiss (the foremost experts of Sambucus cultivation and culinary applications) are known for their elderflower syrup, most commonly made from an extract of elderflower blossoms, which can be added into pancake (Palatschinken) mix instead of blueberries. Most Balkan countries (Serbia, Romania, Macedonia) will use a similar method to make a syrup which is diluted with water and used as a drink."
the 'syrup diluted with water' is what we call saft (which actually means 'juice', but is not to be mistaken for juice as in orange, grape or cranberry juice), and is probably the most common drink among kids here. it's usually made of berries and fruit, which requires a somewhat different procedure than the one described here.
oh, and of course - the photos in this post are completely unnecessary. but what fun would that be?
midsummer boy
thirteen years ago...this midsummer eve*, that little buddha baby turned into a teenager.
something sticky in his hair, new shoes, a brand new t-shirt from his tae kwon do club, and a 4 hour old ipod.
i'm not gonna say 'how did that happen?', because i was there, all along. and i remember him; every bit of him. i remember him better than i do his sister, even if she's a lot younger. he was, after all, my first.
i might remember him, but i don't remember me from all those years. all i know is that i've changed a lot, and that i'm not exactly sure how. but i know it's for the better, and i know it wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the gift of motherhood this boy bestowed upon me.
it's an interesting age. all the clichés are true. they go from child to teenager and back again in a split second, oh about 20 times a day. it really is a roller coaster ride, just as much for us as for him. it's like; 'who is he now?'. yeah. a bit like that. a bit like working with someone with multiple personalities. and work it is, but then it's all play again. whoa!
we went for a hike around a lake today, and after using his ipod for 30 minutes or so (feeling so very cool and teenage like in the middle of the forest), he declared it 'needed to rest'. he had found this tree instead. big boy, maybe, but not bigger than that. thank goodness.
*due to the church's attempt of christianizing the pagan people and their customs, midsummer celebrations take place on the 23rd instead of the 21st here in scandinavia. it is called saint hans - hans being a short form of johannes (john). (btw, in the netherlands it's called saint jan - be sure to check out daans great midsummer celebration here!). it is actually the 24th that is saint johns day, but it's an old scandinavian pagan tradition to start a celebration the night before it occurs. this is also the case for all the other christianized holidays.
moving the midsummer celebration a couple of days and varnishing it with a christian name didn't really do much, though - st hans is still a celebration of fertility and the sweetness of summer; the bonfires are still lit everywhere, and young people still take to the woods in the night.
saint john; the saint of barbeques, bonfires and a'maying. i wonder what he would have thought of that.
PS - i will post the recipe and a step by step instruction to making elderflower lemonade tomorrow.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
no corner view this week! although i LOVED the challenge of photographing music (but had absolutely no idea how to do it - i'm looking forward to see how everybody else did it!). but this week has been filled to the brim with celebrations, spending time with family and good friends, and eating delicious food.
mu little big girl went through the kindergarten gate for the last time. ceremonially, this time. they were handed over the walking stick they had been carving, the feltet bag they had been making, and a carving knife. in august, she will be a second grader, and have proper classes in the school building. chairs, desks, blackboard, teacher. she's sooo eager.
and i? i see another chapter closing. ambivalent, no doubt, but mostly eager, like her. curious; what kind of student will she be? will it be a good group of children? how will her books look like? what subject will be her favourite?
so - bye bye to the rose garden kindergarten. hello school, where big brother goes.
and that's another transition. he's becoming an eighth grader, which means transition to secondary school/junior high school.
oh my.
the questions i have for that transition are a whole other story; will he start smoking? will he continue doing sports? will he choose a christian confirmation or a humanist one? how much will it cost (big question!)? will he have girlfriends, boyfriends or both? will he engage in politics or car theft? who will he become during those three years?
it's dead exciting and a lot of fun to watch your kids grow, become, finding their shape and form and - hopefully - their place in this world.
but is sure is scary as well.
thank you for your comments about my soap making! i will give it another go very soon, and hopefully be able to show some nice soap pics :)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
special treat
my lovely daughter made me a gift a little while ago.
you guessed it. earrings!
i tried to explain to her why i wouldn't put them on right away.
she gentle explained back to me that i needn't worry about it being painful, as she had made her friend a pair the day before in kindergarten - out of two used nails she had found on the ground. and it worked just fine.
maybe i ought to have called that girl's mother?
Thursday, June 18, 2009
the little things
i was so happy yesterday when i managed to harvest a loadfull of elderflowers from the garden just in time before the rain came. now i have a big bowl of elder/lemonade ripening in the fridge. it'll be done in a few days time, we can't wait, it smells heavenly!
i finally got my hands on the crocheting yarn that i plan to knit another kitchen towel out of. on needles size 2,5 (according to my measurer, that size doesn't exist in the u.s. but it's between u.s. sizes 1 and 2). let's just see how that goes.
the flowers me and my girl picked on our way home from the shoe shop just down the road. the kids both needed new shoes, and we all needed this lovely bouquet. it's the little things, you know.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
corner view bergen, norway: street fashion
street fashion? street, uhm, fashion?
let me put it this way:
the woman
the man
the hat
perhaps some real street fashion at:
jeanette, athena, pienduzz, latisha, clairette, satsuki
Sunday, June 14, 2009
the things we used to do on grass
my son's summer graduation from taekwondo school was celebrated with a spontaneous trip to the botanical garden in town, and some delicious thai take away. my husband and i hadn't been there for many many years, and were reminded of the very much alive feeling you get at parks - from people really using the space, taking the grass floor into possession. it was good. very very good.
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Overnight Beer Shredded Chicken
3-5 lbs boneless chicken breasts
3 cans of beer
1 packet of taco seasoning
water if needed to add
1) add all ingredients to crockpot
2) add water or more beer to cover the chicken
3) cook at low heat for about 12 hours ( I cook overnight)
4) Chill-skim off hardened fat (or skip this step and drain the chicken with a slotted spoon)
5) The chicken will fall apart naturally- I store it in some of the juices from the crockpot so it doesn’t dry out too much
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How does cold travel?
Does what we as humans consider "cold" travel through space like heat does? Could a planet have moons that are cold because the planet itself is cold? I know cold is really just air, but could it somehow travel from one astronomical body to another?
well, heres the deal. i am a writer, and i have a new idea for a book, but in the book, a planet is constantly cold beyond all reason because of their "star" (actually a planet) is just a solid clump of ice 100 times the size of Jupiter. would it be possible for the cold to transfer from the ice block in the vacuum of space?
No, cold doesn't travel in the same way that heat does. However, heat wouldn't be coming from anywhere else, so your planet would definitely be cold. If somehow the planet heated up but the star didn't, then either the planet would cool down pretty quickly when it moved away (heat would be radiated into the cold of space and towards the cold star), or it would need to have a LOT of greenhouse gases in its atmosphere.
So the star wouldn't 'give' the planet 'cold', but it would take its heat away instead (although chances are it wouldn't have any heat to speak of).
If you are looking for a physical mechanism for a light emitting, cold thing removing energy from a orbiting planet you're going to struggle.
If two astronomical bodies are seperated by vacuum, they can generally only send energy to each other. They can't take it.
From the point of view of a story, I'd dispense with requiring a physical explanation and have the situation exist without explanation. If you want to use a physical sounding term that might be involved, may I suggest 'resonance'. You can blame everything on that.
well, heres the deal. i am a writer, and i have a new idea for a book, but in the book, a planet is constantly cold beyond all reason because of their "star" (actually a planet) is just a solid clump of ice 100 times the size of Jupiter. would it be possible for the cold to transfer from the ice block in the vacuum of space?
It would help to think of cold as the ground state for everything. If you're not receiving energy, you're cold. In the absence of any significant energy source, the ground state is cold.
Does what we as humans consider "cold" travel through space like heat does? Could a planet have moons that are cold because the planet itself is cold? I know cold is really just air, but could it somehow travel from one astronomical body to another?
Bear in mind that “cold” isn’t a form of energy; it is merely the absence thereof, so “cold” naturally exists in the absence of heat energy. "Cold" therefore, doesn’t radiate rather, that which is cold absorbs heat energy, so “cold” has no need to travel since heat energy provides the energy for its own transport. If you remove all sources of heat, objects begin to immediately cool down. This is why the shaded side of an object in the vacuum of space would otherwise be frigid when the energy from our Sun is merely blocked by an opaque object. This is just one of the reasons that many objects placed in orbit that must be protected from extreme cold are typically rotated to help regulate the object’s temperature. Of course, that which requires extreme cold is kept shaded from the Sun to make use of the extreme cold that naturally exists in the absence of an energy source (as when attempting to prevent liquid helium from boiling off before its time in satellites). | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'cf841b3d3c8e58c7db60085c59cc4bd2ca019ae61791e9c8bc0a565ce2eb8af8'} |
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DETROIT — Attorneys John Royal and Sharon McPhail took the first successful step toward overturning the conviction of Michigan Citizen reporter Diane Bukowski.
She was sentenced to probation, community service and fines following a trial ending May 1 on two felony counts of resisting and obstructing a police officer.
In a hearing Friday, Nov. 20, trial Judge Michael Hathaway granted Bukowski’s motion for an evidentiary hearing and scheduled it for Dec. 23.
“It was a significant event in the process of vindication,” Royal said following the hearing.
Her lawyers argue that Bukowski did not receive effective representation, was sandbagged at trial when the prosecutor presented a last minute witness the defense had no knowledge of, and was tried on charges dismissed at the preliminary hearing.
Bukowski was tried on charges stemming from a doubly fatal accident following a police chase of a motorcyclist and a pedestrian hit during that chase, Nov. 4, 2008.
One of the strongest issues on appeal, Royal said, was that Judge Beverly Hayes-Sipes, who presided at the preliminary hearing, dismissed all charges against Bukowski that crossing the yellow accident scene tape constituted resisting and obstructing. Hayes-Sipes bound Bukowski over only on allegations that she had physically resisted being arrested and hand-cuffed.
The prosecutor never appealed the Hayes-Sipes ruling, Royal said, yet at trial, Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Trzcinski tried her and the judge instructed the jury to consider whether she had crossed the yellow tape as constituting resisting and obstructing.
Crossing the yellow tape was an issue that was not properly before Judge Hathaway, Royal said. “No one brought that to the court’s attention. It is one basis for arguing ineffective assistance of counsel.”
Royal explained he thinks that after the prosecutor saw the Channel 2, Fox News video tape of the accident scene, which caught the arrest and handcuffing of Bukowski on tape, that there was, from his perspective, clearly no evidence of Bukowski resisting the officers.
Bukowski’s attorneys want to interview the cameraman who took the video since Judge Hathaway commented during trial, while the jury was out, that it looked to him that Fox 2 was also inside the yellow tape.
Royal and McPhail argue selective prosecution, why was reporter Bukowski prosecuted while other media outlets and reporters routinely cross the yellow line.
During trial, Prosecutor Trzcinski brought in a surprise last-minute witness, security guard Karl Scales who testified that he saw Bukowski behind the yellow tape. Neither the defendant nor her lawyer were aware of Scales’ existence. His name had not appeared in any police reports or added to the list of res gestae witnesses.
Producing Scales, without letting the defense know beforehand, is a clear violation of the law, Royal and McPhail argued.
Bukowski’s rights were also denied because she could not present to the jury her role as a reporter at the scene, could not get an extension of time to hire a new attorney after her first attorney quit, nor could the new attorney get time to adequately prepare for trial.
An affidavit from former Fox News reporter and current council president-elect Charles Pugh states that reporters routinely work behind yellow police tape. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '3ccb69ad555e33013e71b7648967fdd6f6b7f762702d4d026f25548efb8a864f'} |
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New Broome
The 1970 X6 Austin Kimberley and Tasman ushered in a fresh start for British Leyland’s Antipodean outpost. But it would prove a short-lived one.
Even prior to becoming part of the British Leyland conglomerate, the BMC motor company was not renowned for making astute product decisions. Certainly, from the point when the ADO 17 (Landcrab) series was introduced, little or nothing to emerge from Longbridge was entirely fit for its intended purpose. ADO 17 entered the UK market in late 1964 as the Austin 1800 (its identical Morris equivalent arrived a bewildering two years later) and was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception from the domestic market, who were not clamouring to Continue reading “New Broome” | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9634251594543456}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '70084', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7RZAV6ZWBKOOE4JPF4UUXL57VDBPY4VE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:98498502-f7c8-43e4-b704-c6d8e2dbb419>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 17, 18, 5, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GSQ5TZM3C4OM4ZXEQYNBJGFMKVJVKJZF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ddf5131f-2ea8-49fb-b5c5-baf87e86bb2f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://driventowrite.com/2020/08/08/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d95a2240-7fd8-4ed6-a6d4-669e3c224553>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '115', 'url': 'https://driventowrite.com/2020/08/08/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-52.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (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': '0.022398293018341064', 'original_id': 'aa3a4be8e695c9a6ed88af219eae9b25b2287cfc7d7dec3e5d7dd80d7498d4f3'} |
7 F.3d 241
U.S.v.Johnson**
NO. 936147
United States Court of Appeals,Eleventh Circuit.
Oct 13, 1993
1
Appeal From: N.D.Ala.
2
AFFIRMED.
**
Local Rule 36 case
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A DRAM cell device is generally divided into a cell array region and a peripheral logic region. The cell array region includes a plurality of memory cells in a matrix-type format, and the peripheral region includes a circuit to operate the memory cells.
Transistors are formed in both the cell array region and in the peripheral region, respectively, to have different optimal characteristics, since the transistors must function differently according to their roles in the device. For example, the transistor in the cell array region may have a single source/drain region made of a low concentration impurity diffusion region, while a transistor in the peripheral region may have a source/drain of a LDD (lightly doped drain) structure. In addition, the transistor in the cell array region may have gate single spacers and the transistor in the peripheral region may have gate double spacers.
FIGS. 1A to 1C are cross-sectional views of MOS transistors formed by a conventional method. FIG. 1A schematically shows a cell array NMOS transistor in a cell array region. Referring to FIG. 1A, the cell array NMOS transistor includes a gate electrode 12 formed over a semiconductor substrate 10, gate spacers 14, with a thickness of about 700 Å to 800 Å, aligned on either lateral side of the gate electrode 12, and a low concentration n-type impurity diffusion region 16 with a predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate 10, outwardly disposed from the gate spacers 14.
FIGS. 1B and 1C schematically show a peripheral NMOS transistor and a peripheral PMOS transistor, respectively, formed on the peripheral region. The peripheral NMOS transistor includes a gate electrode 22, gate spacers 24, with a thickness of about 700 Å to 800 Å, aligned on either lateral side of the gate electrode 22, a low concentration n-type impurity diffusion region 25 with a predetermined depth, in the semiconductor substrate 10, downwardly disposed from lateral edge of the gate spacers 24, and a high concentration n-type impurity region 26 with a predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate 10, disposed outwardly from a lateral edge of the gate spacers 24. In other words, the peripheral NMOS transistor has a so-called LDD (lightly doped drain) structure.
Referring to FIG. 1C, the peripheral PMOS transistor includes a gate electrode 32, gate spacers 34, with a thickness of about 700 Å to 800 Å, aligned on lateral side of the gate electrode 32, a low concentration n-type or p-type impurity diffusion region 35, with a predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate 10 downwardly disposed from a lateral edge of the gate spacers 34, and a high concentration p-type impurity region 36, with a predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate 10 disposed outwardly from lateral edge of the gate spacers 34. In other words, the peripheral PMOS transistor also has a so-called LDD (lightly doped drain) structure.
The n-type impurity preferably comprises P (phosphorous), As (arsenic), or the like. As is well known, an arsenic impurity has a greater molecular weight than a phosphorous impurity and can therefore cause substrate damage and current leakage. On the other hand, phosphorous has a greater diffusion rate than arsenic and can therefore cause a short channel effect in the transistor. As a result, phosphorous is generally used for the formation of transistors in the cell array region, for clear on/off operation and improved refresh time. In the peripheral region, phosphorous is generally used for long channel transistors, and arsenic is generally used for short channel transistors, despite the danger of leakage loss.
As described above, phosphorous ions have a greater diffusion rate, which increases the short channel effect. To address problems with phosphorous ions and to obtain a maximum effective channel length, cell array NMOS transistors in the cell array region are formed according to the following process sequence. After a gate spacer 24 is formed on the lateral sidewall of the gate 22, an impurity ions implanting process is performed using the gate 22 and gate spacer 24 as a mask, to form an n-type impurity diffusion region 26 and thereby obtain a maximum effective channel length. A heat treatment is required, however, to drive out n-type impurities into the semiconductor substrate both outside of the gate electrode. It is very difficult, however, to diffuse out n-type impurities to a desired depth within the semiconductor substrate.
Also, the impurity in the peripheral region simultaneously diffuses out and the effective channel length of the transistor is likewise reduced, thereby causing the device fail. In particular, a p-type impurity diffusion region of the peripheral PMOS transistor in the peripheral region is formed by implanting boron (B), which has a greater diffusion rate. As a result, the peripheral PMOS transistor is greatly affected by the reduction of the effective channel length.
To address the effect of the reduced effective channel length in the peripheral region, an n-type low-concentration impurity diffusion region can be replaced by a different n-type low concentration impurity diffusion region as shown in FIG. 1C. By doing this, the problem of reduction of the effective channel length encountered in the p-type diffusion region can be prevented. As can be seen in FIG. 1C, a high concentration p-type impurity diffusion region is overlapped with low concentration n-type impurity diffusion region. However, the formation of such diffusion region configuration requires very careful controlling of both the thickness of the gate spacer 34 and of the annealing temperature. Also, the diffusion of a high concentration p-type impurity makes the impurity in the LDD region maintain a high concentration, thus making it difficult to prevent hot carrier effect. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e0424d4b21608d6f08a455b043091bb4d652f101b925c6c765e11bba02ef352d'} |
\section{Primitive of Reciprocal of a x squared plus b x plus c/b equal to 0/Proof 2}
Tags: Primitive of Reciprocal of a x squared plus b x plus c, Primitives involving a x squared plus b x plus c
\begin{theorem}
Let $a \in \R_{\ne 0}$.
Let $b = 0$.
Then:
:$\ds \int \frac {\d x} {a x^2 + b x + c} = \begin{cases}
\dfrac 1 {\sqrt {a c} } \map \arctan {x \sqrt {\dfrac a c} } + C & : a c > 0 \\
\dfrac 1 {2 \sqrt {-a c} } \ln \size {\dfrac {a x - \sqrt {-a c} } {a x + \sqrt {-a c} } } + C & : a c < 0 \\
\dfrac {-1} {a x} + C & : c = 0
\end{cases}$
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $b = 0$.
From Primitive of Reciprocal of a x squared plus b x plus c, we have:
:$\ds \int \frac {\d x} {a x^2 + b x + c} = \begin{cases}
\dfrac 2 {\sqrt {4 a c - b^2} } \map \arctan {\dfrac {2 a x + b} {\sqrt {4 a c - b^2} } } + C & : b^2 - 4 a c < 0 \\
\dfrac 1 {\sqrt {b^2 - 4 a c} } \ln \size {\dfrac {2 a x + b - \sqrt {b^2 - 4 a c} } {2 a x + b + \sqrt {b^2 - 4 a c} } } + C & : b^2 - 4 a c > 0 \\
\dfrac {-2} {2 a x + b} + C & : b^2 = 4 a c
\end{cases}$
Let $a c > 0$.
Then $b^2 - 4 a c = 0 - 4 a c < 0$ and so:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int \frac {\d x} {a x^2 + 0 x + c}
| r = \frac 2 {\sqrt {4 a c - 0^2} } \map \arctan {\frac {2 a x + 0} {\sqrt {4 a c - 0^2} } } + C
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 2 {\sqrt {4 a c} } \map \arctan {\frac {2 a x} {\sqrt {4 a c} } } + C
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 1 {\sqrt {a c} } \map \arctan {x \sqrt {\dfrac a c} } + C
| c = simplifying
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed|lemma}}
Let $a c < 0$.
Then $b^2 - 4 a c = 0 - 4 a c > 0$ and so:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int \frac {\d x} {a x^2 + 0 x + c}
| r = \frac 1 {\sqrt {0^2 - 4 a c} } \ln \size {\frac {2 a x + 0 - \sqrt {0^2 - 4 a c} } {2 a x + 0 + \sqrt {0^2 - 4 a c} } } + C
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 1 {\sqrt {- 4 a c} } \ln \size {\frac {2 a x - \sqrt {- 4 a c} } {2 a x + \sqrt {- 4 a c} } } + C
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \dfrac 1 {2 \sqrt {-a c} } \ln \size {\dfrac {a x - \sqrt {-a c} } {a x + \sqrt {-a c} } } + C
| c = simplifying
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed|lemma}}
Let $c = 0$.
Then $b^2 - 4 a c = 0 - 0 = 0$ and so:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int \frac {\d x} {a x^2 + 0 x + 0}
| r = \frac {-2} {2 a x + 0} + C
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac {-1} {a x} + C
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
Category:Primitive of Reciprocal of a x squared plus b x plus c
\end{proof}
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Maine Facts
March 15, 1820
Following the Revolution, frontier settlers who resented being ruled from Boston pressed for separation from Massachusetts. Coastal merchants, who held the balance of political power at the time, resisted the separation movement until the War of 1812 showed that Massachusetts was unable or unwilling to provide adequate protection for the people of the district against British raids.
With popular sentiment unified behind statehood, the seperation movement went forward. Congress established Maine as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thereby preserving the numerical balance between free and slave states in the nation.
The moose is the largest member of the deer family in the world. In North America it is found in wooded areas of Canada and the northern United States.
Maximum size of a bull may stand more than 6 ft high at the shoulder and weigh more than 1400 lbs. The males bare enormous , broud, flattened antlers with prongs, or tines which can attain a spread of 5ft or more. The antlers are shed each year after the mating season.
Wild Blueberry
Wild blueberries are harvested from late July to early September in Maine. Harvesting is still mainly by hand rake - a close-tined special RAKE invented about 112 years ago by local Downeaster, Abijah Tabbutt and modified in minor variations since then. The secret is in the wielding of the rake - a special pushing and twisting motion of the wrists designed to tease the ripe berries from their grasp of the vine without crushing. Hand-raking is increasingly being replaced by mechanized harvesting. Although the technology is getting very good, hand-raking will always have its place - due ina large part to the hilly and rocky terrain that a lot of wild blueberry patches are found on.
Recognized in 1927 as the official state bird, The Blacked-capped Chickadee does not migrate and is a common sight in the woods and in backyard bird feeders in the state throughout the year.
Incorporated first as Harrington, Augusta formally changed its name June 9, 1797. The town was designated the capital of Maine in 1827 and was incorporated as a city in 1849. Augusta is also recognized as the population center of the state.
Maine Coon Cat
Known for it long, flowing coat and intelligence, the Maine Coon is one of the most popular breeds of cat in the world. The origins of this cat are unknown and are linked to legends surronding notable figures of history such as, Marie Antoinette, Captain Charles Coon, and the Vikings.
Landlocked Salmon
The Landlocked Salmon, a subspecies of the Atlantic salmon, live in the lakes and rivers of Maine without ever descending into the ocean. Landlocked salmon attain a maximum weight of about 35 lbs and is one of the most sought after prizes for both professional and amateur fishermen alike.
State Flag
The coat of arms of the State of Maine is placed on a blue field fo the same shade of blue in the flag of the United States and was adopted by the Legislature of 1909.
The state seal that rests in the middle of the flag is a shield adorned with a image of a moose resting in a field bordered by ocean and forest with a pine tree directly behind. On either side of the shield, a farmer rests on his scythe, and a sailor leans on an anchor. Above is the motto "Dirigo" meaning "I lead", and an image of the North Star Polaris. Below the shield is a banner that reads "Maine". In 1919 the legislature made it law that the design of the seal should no longer vary, and it is still used today.
Pine Cone and Tassle
Adopted by the Legislature of 1895 and the state flower of Maine, the White Pine is considered to be the largest conifer in the Northeastern United States.
Tourmaline is classified as a semi-precious stone and the gem comes in a wide variety of colors. Discovered in the state in 1822, tourmaline was mined heavily in the state and in the early 1900's Maine was one of the world's largest producers of the gem.
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin was protected by Governor Percival Baxter in the 1930's as the centerpiece of Baxter State Park. As the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, Katahdin inspires hikers and photographers as a symbol of state and climbing the peak is often deemed as a right-of-passage for many Mainers.
Honey Bee
The honey bee was recognized as the official state insect of Maine in 1975 because of the importance of the species' pollination techniques to Maine's agriculture.
State Population:
1,274,923 (38th among states)
"State of Maine Song"
words and music by Roger Vinton Snow
Grand State of Maine, proudly we sing
To tell your glories to the land
To shout your praises till the echoes ring
Should fate unkind send us to roam
The scent of the fragrant pines,
The tang of the salty sea will call us home.
Oh, Pine Tree State
Your woods, fields and hills
Your lakes, streams and rockbound coast
Will ever fill our hearts with thrills
And tho' we seek far and wide
Our search will be in vain
To find a fairer spot on earth
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"Boom." Must be the sound of a gunshot.
Smoke. Must be from the nearby homeless encampment.
Those were two thoughts Vacaville resident Perry Hookey had as he was driving into work on Highway 37 in Vallejo before dawn Thursday morning.
Reality, however, was far different and more tragic.
A big rig and pickup truck collided on the highway shortly before 6:40 a.m. for an as-of-yet unknown reason, forcing both vehicles into a concrete Sonoma Boulevard overcross rail, and the big rig down the embankment.
Hookey, an off-duty paramedic with 24 years experience was heading to work at Medic Ambulance's Couch Street office. He and two other passersby, only identified as "Tony" and "Stephen," stopped at the scene, and shortly after realized something was missing -- the big rig's driver.
Inside the truck, hauling Ace Hardware household products, was 43-year-old William Ballard, of Citrus Heights who had been knocked unconscious in the upside vehicle, his body hanging by his seat belt. A passerby with a fire extinguisher tried to put out the flames, to no avail.
The truck was engulfed in flames. In fact, the sole of Ballard's shoe had caught fire and a muffled "boom" went off in the trailer behind him soon after Hookey crawled into the crumbling remains of the cab.
"I basically just went into medic mode, paramedic mode. I knew I had a job to do, I knew what the guy needed," Hookey, who is Medic Ambulance's education/training coordinator, recalled later Thursday. "My hands are all I had to work with.
My goal was just getting the poor guy out of the truck, because I didn't want to just stand by and hear him burning to death."
Hookey sent Tony looking for a knife to cut the seat belt while he and Stephen crawled inside the burning truck. It quickly became apparent that the rescuers had no time to wait.
In the process of trying to push Ballard up out of his seat belt, Hookey would not even feel his arm getting burned by dripping debris -- immune to the pain while his adrenaline raced.
Ballard, who would be dragged from the burning truck by Hookey and Stephen in time, later succumbed to his injuries at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center. Hookey said while his efforts were what he humbly considered as "just doing my job," the other two -- Tony and Stephen were "the people who should be recognized."
"They're everyday citizens that were just on their way to work and they stopped, and they helped," Hookey said.
The rescue, though ultimately unsuccessful, came just in time.
"Literally, we had no sooner got the guy out and the whole cab just burst into flames. You could feel the flames," Hookey said.
Helen Pierson, Medic Ambulance's chief financial officer, said her employee is "way too humble."
"To follow through, to get in there, to feel the heat, to know the fire's going on -- not knowing if there's going to be a blast -- it almost is like a movie script, that (the truck) goes off the minute they take the body out," Pierson said. "The three of them are just three wonderful angels that were there. It's truly unfortunate that the man did not live, but this man had the best chance ever to make it."
The 24-year-old Petaluma driver of the pickup truck that had collided with the big rig declined medical treatment at the scene, according to the California Highway Patrol. After the rescue, parts of both Highway 37 and Sonoma Boulevard were closed to traffic for about three hours, and Sonoma County hazardous materials crews responded to the fire, though ultimately no contaminants were released. The connector ramp between the two highways opened after more than an eight-hour closure.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the Fairfield CHP Office at 428-2100.
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Q:
Aligning ImageSpan with Spanable String
I know there are many questions of the same type available and I have tried so many solutions but all of them are not meeting my requirements.
My problem is that I have to add a dynamic line spacing between the text containing Spanable strings and Imagespan but when I add the line spacing the alignment of the text and image gets distorted.
I have tried almost all of the solutions available on Stackoverflow like this, this & this but all in vein.
I have attached screenshots
Screenshot before adding dynamic line spacing
2. Screenshot after adding dynamic line spacing
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
A:
Use "y" in onDraw method to find the baseline of text and then align the drawable to baseline of text view
public class VerticalImageSpan extends ImageSpan {
public VerticalImageSpan(Drawable drawable) {
super(drawable);
}
/**
* update the text line height
*/
@Override
public int getSize(Paint paint, CharSequence text, int start, int end,
Paint.FontMetricsInt fontMetricsInt) {
Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
Rect rect = drawable.getBounds();
if (fontMetricsInt != null) {
Paint.FontMetricsInt fmPaint = paint.getFontMetricsInt();
int fontHeight = fmPaint.descent - fmPaint.ascent;
int drHeight = rect.bottom - rect.top;
int centerY = fmPaint.ascent + fontHeight / 2;
fontMetricsInt.ascent = centerY - drHeight / 2;
fontMetricsInt.top = fontMetricsInt.ascent;
fontMetricsInt.bottom = centerY + drHeight / 2;
fontMetricsInt.descent = fontMetricsInt.bottom;
}
return rect.right;
}
/**
* see detail message in android.text.TextLine
*
* @param canvas the canvas, can be null if not rendering
* @param text the text to be draw
* @param start the text start position
* @param end the text end position
* @param x the edge of the replacement closest to the leading margin
* @param top the top of the line
* @param y the baseline
* @param bottom the bottom of the line
* @param paint the work paint
*/
@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas, CharSequence text, int start, int end,
float x, int top, int y, int bottom, Paint paint) {
Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
canvas.save();
Paint.FontMetricsInt fmPaint = paint.getFontMetricsInt();
int fontHeight = fmPaint.descent - fmPaint.ascent;
int centerY = y + fmPaint.descent - fontHeight / 2;
int transY = centerY - (drawable.getBounds().bottom - drawable.getBounds().top) / 2;
canvas.translate(x, transY);
drawable.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
}
}
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Q:
How much memory for unit test suite is ok?
I have ~700 tests with ~1500 assertions, tests are running on sqlite on RAM drive. I run this using phpunit /dir/name, without any additional suite setup.
The tests are written well (I hope so), the app and each one test runs fast and the memory usage for each one is not big (never bigger than 10M).
Everything is ok once the tests are running separated. But when I run all the tests together,
PHPUnit reports memory usage about 450MB.
Is 500M ok? Shall I update the memory_limit to 700MB to be safe?
How to avoid such a memory usage?
I understand that the answer is depends on the app, but I wonder which memory level can tests for a medium level app reach.
Update:
We are using transactions and rollback db changes in tearDown()
A:
PHPUnit instantiates a test case for each test method and each argument array for each data provider before running any tests. To boot, any exception and assertion failure has a reference to the instance that threw it. This makes it very important to unset any instance variables you assigned to the test in tearDown() as MasterCassim said.
But it mainly means that you have to accept a growing memory requirement as the number of tests increase. If you generate code coverage as well this jumps considerably. Our main website project runs with a limit of 2GB.
You can run the tests in separate processes, but you'll pay a high price in increased run times.
Note: Issue #10 is supposed to address this, but I don't know what the status of it is in 3.6.
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Q:
Run a script on Raspbian startup but not on terminal open
I have added a command in .bashrc to run a script at startup of my Raspberry Pi, but everytime I open a new terminal the same script executes again.
Is there any way I can make this script run only on startup / power up and not each time I open a new terminal?
A:
You can use a cron job.
Cron is used when you want to schedule jobs to run at specific times, e.g. every hour, every Sunday at 3 a.m. It stores the details in a table for each user called a crontab which is read during boot.
One of the "times" you can specify is at a reboot.
To list your crontab use the command
crontab -l
To edit/create your crontab use the command
crontab -e
On occasion you might want to run a script as root in which case precede the previous two commands with sudo.
Use the following commands for help
man cron
man -5 crontab
In your case you need a simple job like I use to mount a NFS disk at boot. My crontab contains the following:
@reboot (sleep 60; /bin/mount /code)&
You need to use crontab -e and add the following to your crontab
@reboot /home/pi/script
where /home/pi/script is the full path to the script you want to run.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Duck and Cover Motherfuckers!
The Sky is Falling
Or not.
Depending upon where in the world you are, its December 21st, and we're still here. All of this 2012/Nibiru is typical new-age BS with minimal actual science involved. If this body was already in our ellipses, even if it was several weeks out of SRA, it would be readily viewable by over 90% percent of the worlds population during our day and night cycles.
Certainly wouldn't be any hiding it at this point. So today, and in the coming months when nothing happens, will the individuals across the web and YouTube have the self-respect to remove their fear mongering garbage?
I have a feeling they'll just extend the predictions (most are making lots of money off this nonsense). Did I say December 21st, 2012? What I actually meant was sometime in 2013.
Oh man, this pseudoscience bullshit really pisses me off!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
Stop the Madness!
I originally saw Bigelow's Hurt Locker when I was deployed to Iraq in 2010. I hated it. It was absolute garbage from the get-go, especially from a EOD standpoint. It's a overtly obnoxious, ignorant, and inaccurate piece of Hollywood shlock that loves to continue the time honored Hollywood tradition of portraying members of the Armed Forces as psychopathic lunatics. In furtherance of Bigelowlife's impression of our men and women in uniform, we're punched in the face with comments like; "Going to war is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It could be fun." "I don't know man, they all look the same." Which of course references an Iraqi.
Hollywood's stereotyped depiction of unstable vets is in full swing here, with an increasingly reckless adrenaline junkie and his disregard for safety and communication SOP puts everyone around him in danger. When the men in the ranks display cold, casual racism, an American Colonel savagely orders that an Iraqi be left to bleed to death and a profoundly unprofessional protagonist, so demented by war he can no longer love his own son, repeatedly endangers himself and the men in his charge, I don't see "nuance" or "depth" or "complicated" characters.
Hollywood prefers cowardice over courage; witless whiners to motivated individuals; gutless wimps and hollow phonies to men who know the meaning of self-sacrifice and integrity. That’s the only conclusion one can draw after seeing Hollywood’s recent plethora of anti-military films.
So, where does that leave Zero Dark Thirty? Probably along the same lines as Hurt Locker. It'll be a highly political film with minimal attention to detail, overt dramatization of events, and a singular hatred for the U.S. Military, though it will be subtle. I may have to force myself to see it just to write a review. Though I'll likely have to get nice and liquored up to do it.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Fan Mail
I get around 300+ messages in my YouTube inbox a day. Most of them are associated with user comments and a few are PM's dealing with various subjects from the documentaries I've posted, to questions about the military or something related to ArmA. That said, this is one of the most off the wall messages I've ever received. It's some sort of tirade about the Marines, Obama, Google, 9/11, Stolen Valor, assassination attempts and a few others.
The rambling continues on and on and it is hard to determine what the fuck this is actually about. This is due to the horrendous spelling, syntax and proper paragraph formatting errors. Well that, and it appears this individual is a whack-job of Galactic proportions.
All lawful aid and protection
When i was last in the USMC, marines decided to find it fun to help Obama, make sure no one was going to be there to help me against organised crime, it was people like Obama who was getting contracts to people who wanted to try and murder me, getting help of George W Bush meant that, i was able to go to military School that gained me a superior role in the USMC,
Now in 2012, i am not able to get any assistance from the Marine Corps because Marines have a hate for citizens who make no effort to defend the USA, i understand this because it is citizens who create conspiracies to get innocent people murdered.
it was citizens who helped make sure life seemed normal so that when i complained to police or tried to get help , It would be easy to say, i can not prove who or how people attacked me, so they are not going to help.. This defied the passport note of the Australian and american passport note.
example, having a request almost like a right to all lawful aid and protection or every assistance and protection
this is something i am not able to get because people find it fun to help hijack my industry Google. Originally marines wanted to help because Citizens who hide in life creating conspiracies and attack towards American Citizens. took jobs to help cover up the hijacking and murders carried out to hijack google.
I am currently not even able to get all lawful aid and protection from the Consulates in Australia because people got the support of Obama to keep the jobs i got them fired from because they used there power of position to help make sure i did not get help against people who tried to get me murdered, and stranded in Australia. ..
In 1994 i used to make claimed to people that i got purple hearts and Congregationalist medals of honour, Obama even came to the Whitehouse to give me the Medals all though he was not needed to
people who wanted me to prove this attacked me, i asked if they thought they were smart enough to see how i can prove this at the age i was in 1994/1995. they all agreed if i could prove it they would help...
i showed them the passport note, told them my story
and i was able to prove what i claimed..
now in 2012, people do not want me to prove it because they were lead to forget about me, and now they possibly remember me, they feel guilty because in 1995 the people who attacked me got Obama help to make sure i did not get all lawful aid and protection or every assistance and protection, because the claims i had of protecting the twin towers was a bluff to stop people trying to get me murdered or trying to help organised crime hijack my industry google..
Here is his YouTube channel -
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Securing Syrian chemical weapons may take tens of thousands of troops
Good call on the massive defense cut-backs...
Monday, November 12, 2012
It's Stolen and I Know It
Fakers, Fakers, every where,
And all these men did lie;
Fakers, Fakers, every where,
And one deserves a punch to the eye.
I have a singular hatred for individuals claiming military service when they have never served. I have a even greater loathing for those claiming to be prior Special Forces, or Tier-1 Operators when they never were. It's become a mission of mine, to an extent of course, to hunt these dick-magnets down, out them, and generally make their life hell.
I present to you Curtis Lynn
Curtis holding his Browning M1906 .30 cal prior to storming Omaha Beach.
Whilst playing a round of ArmA II online I came across this low-speed, high-drag individual on a TS3 server I frequent. Introductions were made, hello's exchanged, and current and prior service stories ensued. Shootin' the shit as it were, I asked what branch he'd served in and what his prior MOS was. He then stated he was former SF, a 18B to be exact, and was formerly 5th Group out of Campbell. Alright matey, AWESOME! Of course I'm AD Army and have more than a passing familiarity with ODA and Fort Campbell (that's where I attended Air-Assault School).
Unless that person is in uniform, on Post, and that Tab is visible on his left shoulder, this "I was/am Special Forces" typically throws up a Red Flag for me.
Luckily a friend of mine (we'll call him Gordo) was also in attendance that night. Gordo has spent a lot of time working closely with Group over the years, and Curtis' statement also peaked his interest. We began our questioning with simple topics such as - What Team were you on? What was your SFAS class number? What were your CO and 1SG's names? None of these were answered. All of these queries were meet with dead silence, trailing off, or supposed COMM problems. I even asked him where the Class-Six was. That's the liquor store for all you civies out there. Dead silence again. I'm sorry, but every Soldier on every military instillation knows exactly where the fuckin' booze store is at!
At this point I knew we had a faker, I just had to do a little digging.
I was provided with his address (I won't be disseminating it). That was more than enough to get the ball rolling. In my research I learned that he was currently living in Anchorage Alaska, is currently employed by Pitney Bowes, and spent a total of four years in the Army. First and foremost, anyone that has completed their entire SF training regimen is going to have a extension placed upon the current contract they hold. That means they usually serve 6 years or more on AD. This is due to the length of training they undergo such as; SPOC, Selection, the Q Course, DLI, etc. etc. Right then and there is a major hole in his story.
He should probably add Lying Asshole to his work history.
I submitted everything I had at the time to a buddy that has contacts in Special Forces. Below is a portion of that email.
Just talked to ******** and he can't find anything on this guy. He even checked a few places you wouldn't be able to get to. Hell, ******** was at 5th Group in '99 and that guy's name doesn't ring a bell. His first thought was this guy is BS simply by the way he dodged questions.
Whether Active, Reserve, Guard, Retired, or just plain out, this small elite community maintains connections and databases that I just don't have access to. If he wasn't able to find a mention of Curtis anywhere in the "SF Club", then he was never an alumni.
I'm still digging around and have filed a FoIA request for his Page 1 and 2 of his DD-214 to determine his actual previous duty status. I'll continue updating as more information trickles in.
I don't know what it's called; I only know the sound it makes when it lies!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Asskickery of the Week: GROM
Polish GROM kill 20+ Taliban
The incident took place on the 26th of October. GROM Commandos on a combat patrol with the support of a air-assault unit separate from the Polish Task Force. After landing, the Poles were then attacked by numerically superior Taliban forces in a Complex Ambush.
The Taliban then surrounded the Poles. The exchange of fire lasted over three hours. During the battle, over 20 Taliban fighters were killed and 14 were wounded, among the dead was their commander. Two GROM Soldiers received minor wounds.
I don't know what it is about GROM. They're just fuckin' badasses.
GROM Operators clearing a cave system in Afghanistan
Douche-Canoe of the Week: Josh "Tank" Watts
Josh Watts - Obese Douchebag
The Moosehead Grill in Charlotte, N.C., played host to some staggering jackassery this past Sunday. Garrett Carnes, a Marine veteran who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan, stopped at the restaurant with his wife Courtney and other family members after attending the Cowboys-Panthers game. Things had grown ugly before Carnes, who was wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey, even got into the restaurant.
Garrett Carnes
“He was standing at the door, and he started harassing us because of the Cowboys jerseys,” Coburn said. He said the fan told Garrett Carnes, “Don’t use your wheelchair as a crutch.”
The fan, who did not want to give his name, gave a different account. “Moosehead is a Panthers’ bar,” he said. “When they came, wearing the Cowboys’ jerseys, I started up on them. I asked them if they were Cowboys fans who lived in North Carolina.”
Watts at a Panthers game, wearing pads no less. Extreme douch-baggery
A certain Marine once said - "no better friend, no worse enemy"
I have a feeling that area Devil Dogs from Lejeune might be out on a Mission...
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Coping Mechanisms
Becks! The Budweiser of Germany. Why I drink it and so should you.
Over the years I've grown rather fond of this particular beer for some reason. Could be the time I spent in Germany, or it could be due to the fact that its sold by the truckload here at the post liquor store. Probably a combination thereof.
1.) Becks compliments any meal. Kinda.
2.) For an import its not that expensive, nor is it cheap. Wait...
3.) It has a rather interesting flavor. It's not quite the stout of Guinness or the punch of a Russian Imperial. Can't quite place it. Defiantly unique.
4.) It can be purchased for around $14 a twelve pack. Excellent price for a import in my opinion. These prices aren't applicable to you nasty civilian types.
5.) Goes great at BBQ's, weddings, funerals, christenings, while playing video games, while watching your friends play video games, the second coming, Bar Mitzvahs, more weddings, bachelor parties, at strip joints (not the low-brow ones), birthdays, while at work, at the movies, and a myriad of other activities.
So start drinking right now! That's an order.
I don't have a drinking problem. The Class Six is open 24 hours a day here.
Positions I don't agree with, yet have no say in whatsoever
Overdue: Why It’s Time to End the U.S. Military’s Female Combat Ban
The military was the first major American institution to integrate African Americans. It’s now open to gay and lesbian soldiers. It’s time to let women serve in combat, writes Megan H. MacKenzie.
Today, 214,098 women serve in the U.S. military, representing 14.6 percent of total service members. Hundreds of female soldiers have received a Combat Action Badge, awarded for actively engaging with a hostile enemy. Two women, Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester and Specialist Monica Lin Brown, have been awarded Silver Stars—one of the highest military decorations awarded for valor in combat—for their service in Afghanistan and Iraq.
U.S. Marine Sgt. Michelle Hill from the first battalion 7th Marines Regiment takes part in a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan, Helmand province on June 6, 2012. (Adek Berry, AFP / Getty Images)
Yet the U.S. military, at least officially, still bans women from serving in direct combat positions. As irregular warfare has become increasingly common in the last few decades, the difference on the ground between front line and support roles is no longer clear. Numerous policy changes have also eroded the division between combat and noncombat positions. More and more military officials recognize the contributions made by female soldiers. Politicians, veterans, and military experts have begun actively lobbying Washington to drop the ban. And a 2011 survey conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post found that 73 percent of Americans support allowing women in combat. But Congress has not budged.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter Review
Something terrible this way comes! Unfortunately, that isn't a tag line for a movie.
The newest installment in the MoH franchise isn't very good. In fact it borders on the terrible. The not extravagantly outstanding, but enjoyable Medal of Honor 2010 had quite a lot of things going for it, namely the campaign and associated storyline. It was well told through the eyes of Tier-1 personnel conducting operations which were loosely based upon those during Operation Anaconda. The characters were engrossing and the protracted plot was interesting, it pulled the player into that world, it made you want to experience what was going to happen next.
The campaign in Warfighter is a little different. Really different. And really incoherent. It juts back and forth constantly, from the past to the present, back to the past, and even further into the past, and then right into a mission. Danger Close would like you to believe Warfighter is the story of a operator toeing the line between family and duty, but you learn so little about the man that the attempt rings hollow. The central character is a blank canvas, his back-story nonexistent, and any explanation as to why his wife is constantly pissed off is unknown. Selfish cow should hit up the Class-6 like the rest of the base wives. Of course I'm joking... perhaps.
"Authentic experience" indeed. Hey brah, your Magpul pop-up sights are on backwards.
While there are some intense and memorable moments here and there especially the driving segments, they pale in comparison to a sporadic AI, frequent bugs, and texture popping issues. True, the PC version looks like a BMW compared to its Yugo Console brethren, the visuals are still rather bland in places and texture streaming issues abound.
In today's market of competitive online gaming, my hopes remained optimistic as to the multi-player component. Those were however quickly dashed once I actually launched a session. Upon choosing a server I was greeted with a menu UI that was more awkward and confusing then it should have to be, and before I could even choose my kit, the game had me spawned right into the action. Okay, very well then. I'll just kill someone, die, and try again. I acquired my target, a bush-wookie (sniper), and fired around 15 rounds into him from around 25 meters. Was he killed? No, no he wasn't. He did however turn to face me and with a single round, ended my digital life.
Hmm... Lets try this again, shall we? Prior to spawning I quickly chose weapon customization - You won't fool me again Warfighter. Being that the map I was currently playing on was more of a CQB level, I thought it would behoove of me to pick iron sights or a optic more suited to the environment. Unfortunately however, I was stuck with the ACOG and its magnification level, the other options including iron sights weren't unlocked yet. Wait, I have to unlock iron sights? Shouldn't the unlock process be the other way around?
Take cover, the net-code is terrible!
Not even taking into consideration the questionable rank and progression system. There are serious problems with round registration as the bullets impact or don't impact a character. This is due to the fact that the hit-box in Warfighter is horrendous, and while BF3 suffers from the same ailment, it appears that Danger Close screwed something up... or they didn't care to improve upon it... I don't know. If you're hoping that Hardcore mode would make the game a little more interesting, increasing the lethality, and forcing people to think tactically, think again. All Danger Close has done is to remove certain HUD elements for said mode, negating one of the primary reasons gamers play on more difficult settings.
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What Are Charter Schools?
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At some point when you are looking for a school for your child, you will likely hear the term “charter school.” But many people don’t really understand what charter schools are, or how they are different from regular public schools.
Charter schools are like public schools in that they do not charge admission to their students. But, they differ from traditional public schools in three different ways.
First of all, charter schools are funded based on accountability. Charter schools each have a contract that states the goals of the school. If the goals are met and if the school performs up to standards, they receive funding; if not, they are closed. Accountability is important for charter schools.
Secondly, charter schools have more freedom than public schools. They do not have as much red tape and as many strict regulations as regular public schools (although they do have to stick with the same major state laws and regulations as traditional public schools).
Next, charter schools offer choice. The goals of each charter school are different. Some are designed to meet the needs of a specific community. Others may have goals that help students in certain academic areas or may have specifically different teaching environments. Parents can choose a charter school for their child based upon which school they feel is the best fit for their child.
Charter schools are quickly spreading across the country, with more and more opening every year. There are over 4100 charter schools currently, with that number rapidly rising.
Some people are worried that charter schools take funding away from public schools. This is not the case—charter schools are public schools. Whichever school a student attends, whether a regular public school or a charter school, the funding money for that student follows him to that school.
Charter schools can be good schools to consider when deciding on a school for your child.
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Former McLaren chief engineer Pat Fry is set to join Ferrari's technical strength according to reports in the Italian media.
The 46-year-old, who quit McLaren in May after working for the team for 18 years, has signed for the Italian squad according to Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. It remains unclear when he will take up his position or what his role will be.
When asked to confirm the story, a Ferrari spokesperson refused to comment.
McLaren's managing director Jonathan Neale recently spoke of Fry's decision to leave the team in a media phone-in last month: "Whenever somebody of Pat's calibre leaves the team it is sad, and we like Pat very much and he is a fine engineer but people have their lives to lead and want to do other things.
"It doesn't give me any concern for the performance of the team or what we do for next year's car at all because we are still a team that has strength in depth and we are committed to maintaining that," he added. "Yes it's regrettable but Pat has to move on and do other things with his life and we have carried on as you would expect."
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Why Are We Still Asking if a Dying Woman Should Be Able to Get an Abortion to Save Her Life?
A recent analysis of abortion attitudes by The New York Times came to the right conclusion: The divide on how Americans feel about abortion is much smaller than partisan politics would have us believe.
But there's a bigger idea that the piece in the Times — and the poll it relies on — missed: All too often, we're still asking the wrong questions when it comes to gauging public opinion on abortion. We're too focused on questions at the margins — death versus abortion, rape, and incest or abortion under all circumstances or no circumstances. These questions do little to illuminate the reality of most women's lives and the range of feelings people have about abortions that happen in the real world.
Much of the piece centers on how Americans feel about two questions. The first is whether a woman who needs an abortion to save her life should be able to get one. Why are we still asking this? Is whether a woman should be forced to die rather than have an abortion really still up for debate when it comes to public opinion? I don't think so.
The other question examined at length concerns a woman who wants an abortion because of the sex of the baby. To set the record straight, that's a largely imagined scenario, designed in part by abortion opponents to communicate the stigmatizing idea that a woman who has decided to have an abortion is doing so for a frivolous reason. Not to mention that it's racist, relying on ugly stereotypes about women of color. Asking this question doesn't get at any kind of truth on abortion attitudes.
I'm thrilled that the analysis in the Times' got the real answer. But it's still not asking the right questions.
Women have abortions for complex reasons — to better take care of the children they already have, to pursue an education or career and improve their life circumstances, or simply because they know they are not in a position to be the best parent they can be.
For many years, it's been clear that when you ask people about how abortion impacts real women's lives — instead of party-line questions about abortion under all circumstances or no circumstances — you get surprising answers and high levels of agreement.
Vox recently took this wholly different approach. Instead of asking the standard questions, the poll asked questions like:
"Which comes closer to your view: The law says a woman has a right to an abortion. As long as this is the law, women should have access to safe and affordable abortion care. Or even though there is a right to abortion, we should work to reduce abortions by making it harder for women to access care."
"Think about a woman who has decided to have an abortion. How would you want that experience to be for her?"
And even:
"If a close family member or friend told you she decided to have an abortion, would you give her a lot of support?"
When you ask these types of questions, a much deeper, more nuanced, and more accurate picture of attitudes on abortion appears. In that picture, it's clear that Americans are in overwhelming agreement that a woman who has decided to get an abortion should be able to get one without additional hurdles. They're in overwhelming agreement that we shouldn't be passing laws that make a woman who has decided to get an abortion feel ashamed about her decision.
And Americans agree that lawmakers who are determined to restrict access to abortion are moving our country in the wrong direction.
Buried in the Times piece, even with it's strange focus on scenarios that have little connection to most abortions, is one clear truth: "Focusing on the exact details of abortion decisions may reveal more about when Americans agree on this difficult issue than when they disagree."
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Finally, someone demonstrates how Poll questions SHOULD be asked. Well written.
why should anyone be able to decide if another should live or not? It's MURDER!
Don't you just love how the baby murderers on the left have to lie to support their infanticide. If your a woman who has an abortion then by the Aclus own admission your selfish. You want to kill your baby because it will hurt your financial situation or your career. Wow. How selfish can a woman be?
It is unfortunate that we have groups like the ACLU trying to defend a woman's "right' to kill another life. Just because that life happens to be inside that woman does not make it ethical or moral to kill that life. The people who support this supposed "right" do not include the facts in their propaganda literature. They say abortions are harmless and painless to both the mother and her baby. The truth is that major commercial operations like planned parenthood and others do not put safety as their top priority. Instead, they put money at the top and they are willing to kill and maim as many babies and cause as many deep physical and emotional wounds to the mothers as possible. If there is a mother reading this, I hope she researches how the procedure is performed. All I will say is it involves slicing up the baby in order to remove it from the womb. What really makes me both sad and angry is that organizations like the ACLU claim to represent and fight for the civil rights of the disabled and then they turn around and support abortion in court which 90% of children diagnosed with down syndrome in the womb have lost their lives to. Maybe the ACLU is intentionally overlooking these disabled humans' right not to be exterminated? All this to promote the image that women don't have to worry about the consequences of having sex because the ACLU will continue to fight to make sure that in the event your actions have consequences, you won't have to face them since abortion is legal. Come on people, if you have sex and get pregnant, don't make your baby pay for your actions. Instead, have the baby and put him or her up for adoption so that your gift of life will have a chance to grow up and live.
Robert Holley
Is there not an Amendment to the Constitution outlawing forced labor? Is not pregnancy and birthing, work. Done correctly it is 24/7 job. And if forced, is it not a form of punishment.
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lloj i insekteve
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Megatelus brahminus
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Big Agnes
cierra + nick || engaged
this fun loving couple were so fun to spend time with
we ventured out on a gloomy Sunday afternoon + hiked up the trail behind Cierra folks house.
we posted up in a snowy field and I watched these two light up each time they looked at each other + the got cozy on their Big Agnes coats and tossed some snow + did some piggy back rides and had a grand ole time. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9677259922027588}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '60552', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NQEMKEOJMLA5QNYBQ5T5LSFDUFYC22DX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1429a68c-472f-4974-a1f5-1b6f6928a34d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 23, 7, 19, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QICBFGNG3GOMH3MAZPMHNMWYGUEYCJNV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:339f2005-a612-4f34-9f4e-f3f47c83c3bf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.daniellezimmererphotography.com/558300a5e4b057edbffd7290/tag/Big+Agnes', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd038fda-6a26-4068-b0c5-e691a273ed30>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '76', 'url': 'http://www.daniellezimmererphotography.com/558300a5e4b057edbffd7290/tag/Big+Agnes', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-186-87-179.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': '0.26823902130126953', 'original_id': '4aa0991dc07636d8556329eabb83be5f2c8a0094ffd18c1fd97f69fc86194353'} |
Why does WHS keep sending backup notices instead of doing a backup RRS feed
• Question
• Why does WHS keep sending backup notices instead of doing a backup?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:26 PM
All replies
• What "backup notices" are you talking about? Are your home computers on during the backup window (by default midnight to 6:00 AM)? If they're in hibernation or standby, is the client configured to wake for backups (right click the system tray icon)?
Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:50 AM
• Backup Notice: "computer X" has not been backed up ... no backup in X days."
The network is a "work" network, and no other measures have been taken to block invasive media searching and security risky behavior of Windows 7. All recommended settings and software has been installed along with all Windows Updates. The system is set up as a nework lab to test hardware and software compatiblity.
The back up window is 23 hours long. There are currently 7 computers, all are recent clean installs of windows 7, 2 computers are 64-bit. 3 computers have new Intel motherboards because windows 7 Upgrade Advisor indicated the original boards were compatible, but Event Viewer reported that HAL Event ID 12 required a BIOS update and Intel Support verified that the motherboard (DP35DP) BIOS would not be updated to support Windows 7, so motherboards were replaced.
Two of the computers are running production systems and crash when Intel audio drivers are installed, but appear to be stable with Windows7 driver. Systems were set to sleep, but they continually sleep and wake up, which causes the speaker systems to pop, which may damage speaker cones. Those systems have been set to only turn off the display.
Another issue is that if the Win7 computer sharing the printer is sleeping, it does not wakeup to print. It has also been set to not sleep, but turn off the monitor.
The computers are frequently turned off for 12 to 24 hours, but when they are on, they are in the backup window. They are all set to wakeup for backups. When first set up they all start making backups and will operate for long stretches of time, but some event causes them to stop. Normally, I turn off backups and then turn on backups if a computer stops and they will make a backup almost immediately and again work correctly for some time. As a matter of principle, I should not have to do a manual backup and if the system can continuously send me messages telling me to turn on the system, why can't it just do a backup?
I also get a continual stream of "not genuine windows software" notices. All Microsoft software has been purchased directly from Microsoft and activated on a clean install. All computers have OEM Windows 7 certified components, and no overclocking. I am trying to deterime the most reliable and stable system in each case.
There are a number of other issues with Windows 7, but I think I've provided all WHS relevant issues.
WHS is running on an Intel desktop (DG33BU) motherboard, which is not a server motherboard. As you probably know it only takes adding one line to make this work and others have also done it (http://dascomputerconsultants.com/Server2003OnIntel.htm ). If this is a possible issue, I'm open to suggestions as to how to find a relaible server motherboard that is reasonably priced (less than $200). I don't know the current status, but at one time WHS was to utilize "that old computer that would have been recycled".
I hope the beta test on the next releases are considering these issues.
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\section{Equivalence of Definitions of Irreducible Polynomial over Field}
Tags: Irreducible Polynomials
\begin{theorem}
Let $K$ be a field.
{{TFAE|def = Irreducible Polynomial}}
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Note that by Field is Integral Domain, $K$ is indeed an integral domain.
{{proof wanted}}
Category:Irreducible Polynomials
\end{proof}
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Weather Channel Founder, John Coleman: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
Who should we believe: John Coleman, meteorologist and the founder of the Weather Channel or Al Gore, political hack? And to think that I thought the debate on global warming was over!
Hat Tip: News Busters
• lynn lytle
it is a scam. we are not doing it,globle warming.get rid of Bi o fuels,the poor will not be able to buy a tortilla soon. i say go neculer. and lets start drilling where the libs are stoping us.letslook at the SUN,i think the spots are doing it.
• Mike Lofton
30 years ago it was the coming iceage,now warming; which would have advantages to the growing season and increased food supply.
But that doesn’t fit the template.
I would call Al Gore an idiot, if it weren’t an insult to idiots.
• Jeff Molby
Al Gore, political hack
How dare you talk about a Nobel Peace Prize winner like that!
• js290
That dude is so fired…
• UCrawford
At my Rotary chapter we had a meteorologist give a great presentation about the “science” behind the global warming crews. Incorrectly deployed temperature monitors, improperly collated data, utterly speculative climate models…it’s incredible just how bullshit the scientific case for global warming is. I’d say it’s incredible that the press has bought so completely into it, but then again a large number of those guys are gullible idiots anyway when you hit them with pseudo-scientific terminology.
• Poptech
NO ‘Consensus’ on “Man-Made” Global Warming:
• General Specific
Oops. You have a few mistakes or typos in the above. Let me correct for you.
“Who should we believe: John Coleman, man who goes ‘wheeeeeee’ on television news when reporting the weather each evening’ or the man who funded the internet, took proactive action against ozone gasses, was vice president of the united states, started a successful cable channel, won a nobel prize and several awards for a financially successful movie, and won the 2000 presidential election–popular vote and the vote in Florida.”
There. Now it’s much more accurate.
Obviously you vote for the “wheeeeeee” guy.
Great post by the way. You really get to the heart of the matter. You must be a deep thinker.
See a devastating rebuttal’s to Coleman’s rant at
• Eric
To use Capital Weather’s own terminology, here’s a devastating rebuttal to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. There’s a lot of inconvenient untruth being spread about.
• amanda
hahaha. The Nobel Peace Prize has been reduced to a politicized piece of junk.
He did not meet any of the requirements one is supposed to meet to receive it. It’s just a bunch of political crap, he beat out a woman who saved over eighty people in the Holocaust. Al Gore is a ridiculous person, and so is his show of slides.
I’m also quite sure he didn’t fund the internet all on his own, nor do I care about things like him making lots of money, what does that have to do with his retarded movie being ACCURATE?
• Dave J
If, indeed, global warming is such a near term, devastating threat, why is it that NONE of the high visibility proponents “walk the walk”? I’m not talking about buying a Prius or a flex fuel whatever (which diverts food corn from starving 3rd world citizenry to higher paying fuel corn markets…fact).
Driving a smaller car occasionally while living in an energy sucking mansion is hypocrisy. And buying carbon credits, whatever that is, simply soothes their not-so-guilty consciences.
The Earth is not in danger, it takes care of itself despite comets, asteroids, supervolcanoes, etc. Our impact isn’t going to do much.
When Al Gore and the Hollywood hot air group change their lifestyles in a meaningful fashion, then I’ll sit up and listen. Meanwhile, I just see a political fad, pure and simple.
Dave (with a tiny carbon footprint), a GW doubter.
• Dave J,,2205948,00.html
for your consideration, concerning biofuels. It appears there is an economic downside, invisible to the end users.
• Alex N.
Re: the so-called “devastating rebuttal” posted at
It would be a real stretch to call this rebuttal “devastating.” In the main, this “rebuttal” resorts to name calling. Coleman’s arguments about media gullibility in the face of political pressure is not even contradicted in this “devastating rebuttal.” Could it be that Coleman’s argument is, in fact, true?
• bob gregg
I do climate studies. There is NO global warming. Some regions are warming others are cooling. You can not call it global. It is the way for scientist to get funding. Heck, give me $100,000 grant and I will tell you whatever you want to hear. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '483', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9453720450401306}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '68797', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QHKOP3W3MDXS2W76DSOADPMBTH5UWAAD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1358e5b4-ee66-47f5-8af6-ba5eaa9de3aa>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 16, 41, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '184.168.47.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GFNH5GPDMRKDFHCR5CHJUM2D6QI3SOML', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:124cbaec-6a10-4a42-8dac-8a62acf39bc3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/09/weather-channel-founder-john-coleman-global-warming-%E2%80%98greatest-scam-in-history%E2%80%99/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3c135b7c-1bd0-4ca3-8cea-dbe96a4c6469>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1227', 'url': 'http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/09/weather-channel-founder-john-coleman-global-warming-%E2%80%98greatest-scam-in-history%E2%80%99/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.036830008029937744', 'original_id': '429d545bb9da832c31aec29d774ce5344cd4176b14a19c554191c1df48fefe3d'} |
\section{Implication is Left Distributive over Conjunction/Formulation 1/Proof 2}
Tags: Truth Table Proofs, Implication is Left Distributive over Conjunction
\begin{theorem}
:$p \implies \left({q \land r}\right) \dashv \vdash \left({p \implies q}\right) \land \left({p \implies r}\right)$
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
We apply the Method of Truth Tables.
As can be seen by inspection, the truth values under the main connectives match for all boolean interpretations.
$\begin{array}{|ccccc||ccccccc|} \hline
p & \implies & (q & \land & r) & (p & \implies & q) & \land & (p & \implies & r) \\
\hline
F & T & F & F & F & F & T & F & T & F & T & F \\
F & T & F & F & T & F & T & F & T & F & T & T \\
F & T & T & F & F & F & T & T & T & F & T & F \\
F & T & T & T & T & F & T & T & T & F & T & T \\
T & F & F & F & F & T & F & F & F & T & F & F \\
T & F & F & F & T & T & F & F & F & T & T & T \\
T & F & T & F & F & T & T & T & F & T & F & F \\
T & T & T & T & T & T & T & T & T & T & T & T \\
\hline
\end{array}$
{{qed}}
Category:Implication is Left Distributive over Conjunction
Category:Truth Table Proofs
\end{proof}
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A Brief History of Motherhood
It used to be that people had kids because they couldn’t not have them, and then they were just there, like your hog or cow or field of corn. Slightly more intelligent, slightly more useful, slightly more cherished. You fed them whatever you had, I’m guessing some pork or beef or corn, and put some home-spun organic clothes on them, because there were no Targets, gave them a bed of some kind and then went back to churning your butter. Which was a lot of work, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I want to churn butter. And the kids crawled around and pooped in the corner every now and then, but your floor was dirt, so what did you care. And occasionally a kid contracted a diphtheria or got trampled by a horse, and it was super sad but you had twenty more, so you got over it. If they didn’t die young, you turned them out into the barn or field or chained them to a butter churn. That was the way it was, and if anyone had anything to say about it, like, “I don’t wanna churn butter!!! I want a popsicle!!!” then you just beat them with the butter churn, and that pretty much solved that problem.
Parenting was not something that was given a lot of thought, certainly not something “experts” wrote books about and read books about while anxiously biting their nails and worrying it was too late for Johnny, he was already destined for a lifetime of wearing baseball caps backwards while gaming in the basement and watching internet porn and it is all your fault because you only breastfed him for 2 years and his baby food contained a preservative that Jenny McCarthy has since made illegal. No, those parents had enough on their plates just putting food on their plates, and actually, they may not have even had plates, or else they had to make their plates themselves, which was hardly worth the effort when you can just eat off the pooped-on floor. Life was pretty brutal in general, and children probably figured out early on that they had better shut up and help themselves or they weren’t going to live to acquire their own butter churn.
Now we buy butter in a store, or if we are a midwestern grandmother with a cholesterol problem or Fabio, we buy I Can’t Believe It’s not Butter. But in a store. With all the extra time we save, we do crafts with our children and teach them to compose symphonies and shuttle them to their Chinese/ballet/Chinese-ballet classes and generally make a huge deal over them. They come to the very logical conclusion at an early age that they are, in fact, Beyonce, or some other like celebrity, and can say things like, “Get my damn milk already” without endangering their lives. And parenting is now officially a THING, an occupation all to its own, at which you can either succeed or fail. You can even get fired, in the form of CPS showing up at your house, although that is a level of failure that I suppose doesn’t exist in the work world, unless you are a CEO or a President of the United States, in which case you may still keep your job.
Now, there was a golden decade or so after labor saving devices, store-bought butter, and disposable diapers somewhat relieved women’s past burdens in the home but before they discovered that television and tobacco kills and your children have to ride in car seats and wear sunscreen at all times and need constant attention and nurturing and crafting or they will hate you. That period was called the 60s, maybe into the 70s, and I know from watching a lot of movies that mothers sat around smoking cigarettes, drinking boxed wine, playing bridge, and getting their hair “set.” True, they did still have to cook and clean, or at least cook, until shag carpeting went out of style, and everyone realized things were disgusting down in there. But then the microwave was invented. One of my earliest memories was our family buying our first one circa 1978, after which my mother converted every recipe she had to a microwave version (which probably used up all the time the microwave saved, not to mention making the chicken really rubbery) and allowed her to do… I have no idea. Because whatever she was doing, she wasn’t doing it anywhere near me. I was either watching The Brady Bunch, roller skating in the basement or picking my nose and wiping the boogers on the wall behind my bed (was THAT ever a horrifying moving day).
But then lots of women got all educated and started entering the work force in large numbers and people in general got more educated and children became fewer and more precious and people started studying children and coming up with theories of parenting the basic thrust of which were that YOU SUCK, and a bunch of other stuff happened, too, like car seats being invented, including dire warnings that if you don’t break a couple fingers tightening the straps to maximum capacity, your child will die a painful death next time you have a fender bender. And then women started feeling guilty about working, and a lot of them started going back home, college and graduate degrees retained, to raise their kids guilt-free (as if that is even humanly possible anymore) and to the best of their extensive abilities, and the ones that kept working started looking for more and more ways to assure their kids that they were extra-extra-special and Mommy loves you even though Mommy, gulp, likes her job somewhat but not too much and really I would stay home if we didn’t need to save up for your medical school.
And thus, motherhood—whether performed by over-qualified former career women who now directed their talents and ambitions toward their children, or angst-ridden current career women looking for ways to assure themselves, their kids, and society writ large that they were not horrible people—became a full-fledged profession, complete with its own journals, best practices, and review panels (i.e. other mothers, as well as your children’s future therapists).
Here’s the thing, though: While only certain women become accountants, doctors, lawyers, teachers, chefs, or whatever, most of women, statistically, will become mothers. And while one’s choice of an occupation is usually correlated to one’s suitability, talent, and passion for that occupation, one’s choice to become a mother—and in some cases, there is no choice, there is more of a, What, it’s Tuesday?! This pill pack says it’s Saturday. I’m confused—is not. We become mothers because we become obsessed with our partners and think our love is so great, it needs another body or two to inhabit. We become mothers because we want to be genetically immortal. Because we want someone to wipe our butts for us some day. Because our marriage is too easy and perfect and we want to see if it can handle an existential threat to its life. Because we love Star Wars and want an excuse to play with our action figures again. Because we are committed to the continuation of the human race, and we see a bunch of stupid people reproducing and become concerned. Because it’s just what you DO, according to society. Just because.
And some of us, maybe even most of us, become mothers because we are very well suited for it. We have the skills and temperament not just for the relationship, but for the job. We dreamed of nothing else as little girls, love the smell of babies, cry about children growing up, do not feel nauseous when we encounter a woman breastfeeding, like making cupcakes and other baked items, do not just wrap our Christmas presents in a perfunctory way but actually put curled ribbons and other crap on them, and can cook dinner while children incessantly whine and scream all around us. We are maternal.
Then there are the rest of us. The ones who as little girls could not understand why their friends were so eager to live a life of enslavement to mercurial masters, think toddlers aren’t so much cute as RIDICULOUS TERRORISTS, like eating cupcakes and other baked items made by other people, put Christmas presents maybe in a gift bag without tissue paper or just whip them out of the closet unwrapped on Christmas morning, and approach cooking dinner with unrestrained children in the vicinity as if we are climbing over a chain link fence with a pack of Rottweilers chewing our toes off. If there were an interview process to become a mother, we wouldn’t even know how to lie.
“In a hypothetical scenario, if a child throws up on you while you are sitting on a sofa, what would you clean first, the child, yourself, or the furniture?”
“None of the above? I think I would just start crying and maybe run out of the house.”
“I’m sorry, the correct answer is ALL OF IT, simultaneously, but if one thing has to give, it would be yourself. If necessary, you would wear those vomit clothes until the child’s high school graduation as long as he needed something and your house was a mess.”
“Oh. I guess I don’t get the job.”
“No, you’re getting the job. You’re just going to be really, really bad at it. And you get some stretch marks, too. Congrats!”
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Notes from Open Source Discovery Portal Camp
== Notes from Open Source Discovery Portal Camp == On 6 November 2008, there was a meeting at I stand up and move down so that I can repay the Palinet offices in Philadelphia to discuss the future of open source discovery portals. The [ VuFind] and [ Blacklight] projects favor he had already started cooperating by sharing indexing code in the form of [http://codejust given SolrMarc], and as <a community we wanted to explore whether there were other ways we could be cooperating, and what our development priorities should be. We discussed the following topics and some people identified themselves as particularly interested in following up on specific topics and doing further work in a given area. Bess took notes, which are pasted here, but please feel free to expand upon these with your own memories of the conversation. href=== Jangle === Andrew started by giving us a brief introduction to [ Jangle], a standard approach to building a toolset for interacting with the ILS. It was kickstarted by the DLF ILS API set. The idea is to create a standard way of interacting with the ILS. Jangle is the first implementation of this, and is planned as the "reference implementation." It's an open source standard approach, and will give us a lot of flexibility. Gabe points out that the DLF standard and the Jangle standard aren't the same thing exactly, but people seem to agree it's still a good start at standardization. Andrew asks, how do we contribute the VuFind drivers to Jangle? Is there an NCIP driver for Jangle? [ Xtensible Catalog] is using NCIP, for example. One problem with this, though, is that many vendors don't implement NCIP. Ross Singer is the main developer for Jangle, and he wrote an article about it for the latest code4lib journal. Everyone's homework is to go read that article, available [http:modules/profile/ here]. Many institutions are hacking their own ILS, it would be more efficient if we all share this code through something like Jangle, which could then be used by VuFind, Blacklight, [ Helios], or any other project that could talk to Jangle. Eric Morgan: Jangle is a step in the right direction. DLF came up with a list of API features they want, and then Ross came along and said here's a simple RESTful implementation of a lot of that API, based on ATOM publishing protocol. We need a number of agreed upon shapes of URLs that do things like tell me the status of this book, authority information for a person. To what degree do we want to use something like Jangle in vufindphp? There aren't a lot of choices right now, and this seems like a good project to explore further. What about XC? There's a lot of frustration around this project, because they say they are open source but haven't actually made any of their source available. How do we get them to participate with the larger community? There's a growing community of developers around these issues, and XC should be involved. Eric says someone should have explicitly invited them. (interested in further development: Bess, Andrew, Gabe) uid=== Non-catalog content / digital repositories === Could we adapt SolrMARC to also include SolrOAI? Yes, Bob, Naomi and Andrew all have ideas about how this could work. Sounds like this is the kernel of our kernel. Solr already has a lot of functionality to allow for this. Do we want a couple of plugins, one for solr and one for OAI? Or do we want an app that handles both? Lots of little data silos aren't going to work, we need everything in a local catalog. But that doesn't mean we should all try to be google. We still need well-defined collection development policies. What about social data? SoPAC is neat, and has an independent layer for saving social data. We also talked about Blacklight and the ways it brings in various data sources and handles behavior for different kinds of objects, e.g., [ MusicBrainz] data for music items. (interested in further development: Bob, Dennis, Peter, Naomi, Bess) === solr marc === Q: How well is solr marc handling bad data these days? Bob: I've been adding to marc4j more permissive reading and error correction. It's also reporting errors as it finds them, to make it easier to find bad records. Request for writing to log files instead of standard out. How to handle records with bad leaders? Naomi has some marc test data. We need more test driven development. Naomi is offering code for parsing OCLC numbers and LC numbers, she'll be working with Bob next week to get that into solrmarc. Chris from Villanova is going to do some graphic design work for solr marc. Yay! (Interested in further development: Bob, Naomi, Chris, Bess) === Authority control === Can we get the LC authority control data, index it locally, and take advantage of that in our searching. Actually getting the authority index data is the problem. It's government monitored data, so why can't we get access to it? We can get snapshots, but there's no method for harvesting it. We need some way to get weekly / monthly updates of authority data. EdSu might have set something up, but it isn't an official service. Eric says go ahead and implement something, and don't worry about the update method right now. Can we get authority data? Does Open Library have any authority data? Bess will look into this. "Fred Data74301 " >pornotube<-- subject authorities Consensus seems to be that we need a proof of concept first, see how well that scales, and then after that start lobbying LC / OCLC / Palinet / other vendors. (Interested in further development: Ya'aqov, Daniel, Mark, Bess) === Dedupping / FRBR === We need to look at Trish Williams' work with hierarchical solr records for implementing FRBR. If we start working with this maybe we can advocate for getting this into the solr trunk. Do we really need FRBR or will "other editions" do the trick? xISBN and xISSN does a pretty good job from OCLC, and can be implemented in just a few lines of code. No one understands FRBR anyway. One user group that could really use FRBR is musicians, to tie together recordings and scores. The Variations project at Indiana is working with this. OCLC also made public their algorithm for FRBRizing work. Some libraries have a problem stemming from having digitized versions of an item, and then the digital version has a catalog entry, but then in your VuFind system you index both the digital surrogate and the catalog record about the digital surrogate. You probably want to combine these or suppress Open Library is also very interested in de-duping research. === Serials holdings === Marc format for holdings data (MFHD)xISSN service might be helpful for this, tooBibliographic records for serials should refer to each other. How to represent this data for users? There's a summary holdings field, a one-line display, and then there's a detailed holding display. There can be multiple screens of lines with this. Summary holdings are pretty easy, detail holdings are hard. Are they necessary? Maybe we can handle this the way we're doing "composition era" in blacklight? If we know the range, we can assign values for all possible values of this range. You can get an extract of all serial holdings from your Open URL database (SFX), harvest your journal holdings through that. Texas A&M is doing this w/ SFX. This seems like an efficient way of getting detailed holdings. Indexing this might be helpful if you don't have marc records for all of your electronic holdings, and it also might help for knowing when you have full text online and when you don't. (interested in further development: Ya'aqov, Mark) === Federated Search / article content === Can we partner with LibraryFind? Or should we implement an engine like pazpar2? IndexData has something called pazpar2, which is a federated search engine. (Interested in further development: one guy, whose name I didn't catch. Please self identify!) === back-end arch / OSS methods === We never really discussed this, but Peter and Peter said they were interested in following up on this topic. === kernelizing the projects === - solrmarc- solroai- authority data & merging === How do we organize - How do we reach out to libraries and formalize a committment? ===John, Dennis, Joe, Andrew, Mark, Daniel>
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Q:
How to set color for CSS3 html5 progress element?
Is it possible to set the color of the "bar" for the element in HTML5 (when you specify a value, the bar is filled up to the point of the value)? If so, how? background-color and background don't seem to have any effect. Is the technique cross compatible with the latest version of all browsers?
A:
You can style the color of the bar in the <progress> element by changing the background of a few browser-proprietary selectors.
In Firefox, you can use the following:
progress::-moz-progress-bar { background: blue; }
In Chrome or Safari, you can use:
progress::-webkit-progress-value { background: blue; }
In IE10, you just need to use the color attribute:
progress { color: blue; }
Source: http://html5doctor.com/the-progress-element/
A:
WebKit / Blink
background-color
To color the background-color of a progress element (the part that does not increase/decrease) in WebKit browsers use the following:
progress::-webkit-progress-bar {background-color: #000; width: 100%;}
color
To color the effective color of the moving part of a progress element use the following:
progress::-webkit-progress-value {background-color: #aaa !important;}
Gecko / Firefox
background-color
To color the background-color of a progress element (the part that does not increase/decrease) in Gecko browsers use the following:
progress {background-color: #000;}
color
To color the effective color of the moving part of a progress element use the following:
progress::-moz-progress-bar {background-color: #aaa !important;}
Trident / Internet Explorer (and "Edge")
When Microsoft actually makes the effort they really do actually come through, this one actually makes perfect straight-forward sense.
background-color
progress {background-color: #000;}
color
progress {color: #aaa;}
A:
Each browser seems to handle progress bar styling differently at the moment, and therefore you need to style it like this:
progress {
/* style rules */
}
progress::-webkit-progress-bar {
/* style rules */
}
progress::-webkit-progress-value {
/* style rules */
}
progress::-moz-progress-bar {
/* style rules */
}
WebKit styles for Chrome and Safari and moz styles for Firefox.
From here you can simply add a background colour with background-color.
Good Luck! Any queries, drop me a comment below.
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Rep: LQ) To get us started, can you give us a little background information about yourself? (LQ)
volkerdi) Sure. I was born in Virginia while my dad was stationed out there as a Navy dentist. We moved to North Dakota when I was very young. As far back as I can remember I was interested in science, the space race, and other typical interests of a kid who wanted to be some kind of scientist someday. I had an erector set, lots of Lego blocks, and a pretty decent chemistry set full of poisons they'd never allow kids to play with today. When I was 7 or 8 years old my class took a field trip to North Dakota State University to see the computer department, and it was there that I got my first taste of UNIX and realized that I wanted to work with computers. I had an Atari 2600 and wanted to get the fairly rare BASIC cartridge for it (but never did), and when personal computers started to appear, I began hanging out at Radio Shacks and electronics stores to get my computer fix. The Radio Shack at the mall had the TRS-80 Model I on display and a nice collection of books on BASIC. I learned to program typing in program listings from one of David Ahl's computer game books and then figuring out how to modify them. The store was happy to have me come in and enter some code, and save the programs to tape so they'd have demos. But alas, they did not make the sale, and my first computer was an Apple ][+, and with it I learned to program Pascal (UCSD p-System), an integer C called Hyper-C, Forth, and other languages. Forth led to appreciation of RPN, and I still use only HP RPN calculators to this day. After high school I entered college as a computer engineering major (kind of a 5 year EEE / CS degree), but after 2 years of that it was clear to me that hardware design really wasn't my calling and that a computer science degree would be better for me. Also, the school I'd chosen was very much focused on VMS. I ended up transferring to Moorhead State University, which had just been given a bunch of AT&T UNIX equipment and was actually connected to the Internet (the other school only had BITNET access, which was fairly useless). It was while finishing my degree at MSU that I first started working with Linux.
LQ) How did you get involved with Linux and Open Source, and what was the path that lead to you starting Slackware? (LQ)
volkerdi) It was 1992 when I first heard that there was this project going on where someone in Finland was trying to build a UNIX clone. At the time I was running OS/2 on a 16MHz 386/sx. It was a good operating system, but what I really wanted was some kind of UNIX. I'd looked at the ads for Coherent in Byte magazine and had considered that, as well as Minix. I'd even gone down to the local computer store and asked about SCO Xenix, which if I recall correctly, they wanted a couple of thousand bucks for a single-user license! I'll pass, thanks. So I was pretty excited to head to the computer lab and start checking out the USENET groups and FTP sites where the development was taking place. It almost seemed too good to be true at the time, but soon I had H. J. Lu's floppies running on my machine (it works!), and checked out MCC Interim Linux next. Yggdrasil was around back then, too, but I didn't try that one until much later since my machine didn't have a CD-ROM drive. I pretty quickly landed (softly) on one of the early releases of Peter MacDonald'sSLS distribution.
I was taking a class on artificial intelligence, and the coding was all done in LISP. We were provided with a DOS based LISP interpreter to use, but the CLISP interpreter that came with SLS turned out to be far, far better. I told my professor about CLISP, and about Linux, and he asked if I could help him install Linux on one of the lab's computers, an AT&T 486 with an S3 video card. We went down there and did the install, and it went pretty well. I took out my notebook ("time to fix the bugs!") and started fixing all the problems that I'd documented in the time I'd been using SLS, and this led to him asking if it would be possible to fix all those bugs on the floppy disks, and make the installer more automated, so that maybe future classes could do their programming on Linux and not have to license a fairly mediocre version of LISP. I was up for the challenge and started figuring out just how things had been put together. SLS had shipped as a mostly binary only release with hardly any source code for anything, and not a lot of clues as to how things were built. There weren't any build scripts for anything, though that was pretty typical for Linux distributions in 1993 (and was a trap I fell into myself early on until I got tired of having to relearn what I'd done every time something needed to be rebuilt). Over the next month or so I corrected all the bugs that I knew about in SLS, upgraded the kernel, and did a major cleanup of the installer. My friend Brett Person was my original beta tester (and contributed a lot to the installer as well), and by April of 1993 was encouraging me to share what I had back with the Internet. I got a few more beta testers around this time by directly emailing people who were posting on comp.os.linux running into problems with SLS and asking if they'd like to help test what we were working on. I got a lot of good feedback, and more encouragement to put the beta up for FTP. So, in July of 1993 I put the first public release of Slackware on an FTP site running on an AT&T 3b2 UNIX box and announced it to comp.os.linux. The response was pretty overwhelming... especially to the UNIX box that was hosting it. I tried to keep things running for a few days, but it wasn't going to cut it, and Linux wasn't yet up to the task yet either (TCP/IP still suffered from random hangs), so I put out a call for help hosting it. Among the responses was one from Rod Grimes of the FreeBSD project offering space on Walnut Creek CDROM's ftp.cdrom.com server, which I gratefully accepted. This led to a long relationship with the folks at Walnut Creek CDROM.
LQ) Which Slackware release to date has been the most demanding/difficult to put together? What about the most rewarding? (solarfields)
volkerdi) Thinking back, there are definitely a few of them that stand out as being particularly challenging, generally due to a major transition of some kind. The move from a.out to ELF was certainly one of them, as was converting from ELF libc5 to glibc when the first stable glibc release came along. I was _really_ glad to see glibc release as stable, because I'd adopted a policy of not shipping beta versions of critical components like the C libraries or compiler, but most other distributions had gone ahead and based on pre-releases of glibc. I was close to violating that policy when the long promised stable glibc finally came along. Probably the most difficult and also the most rewarding release was Slackware 13.0, the first release to support the x86_64 architecture. Eric Hameleers deserves a great deal of credit for his work on porting Slackware to AMD64/x86_64 systems, and for making sure that it would be possible to add multilib support to it fairly easily. I'd been inclined to support 64-bit only, using the same library directories as 32-bit Slackware, and viewed /lib64 as an unnecessary complication that was going to require patching a lot of sources to make it work. It did require a lot of patching initially, and still does in places, but /lib64 was the solution that everyone ended up using.
LQ) Slackware is reported to be the oldest surviving Linux distribution, to what does you attribute this longevity? (ChrisAbela)
volkerdi) I try very hard with Slackware to defer to the wishes of the upstream developers. This isn't the place to be patching in new features, or packaging beta versions (if that can be helped). Lao Tzu said that in order to lead, one must follow. I have my own ideas about how things should work, of course, but I try not to impose them in a selfish manner. The goal is to move forward without abandoning the project's roots. I have nothing against change, but at the same time I try not to let things get juggled around simply for the sake of making them different. People who come back to Slackware after a time tend to be pleasantly surprised that they don't need to relearn how to do everything. This has given us quite a loyal following, for which I am grateful. I guess we're doing something right.
LQ) Did you ever think Slackware would last this long? Do you still have the same enthusiasm for providing Slackware that you had when you started? (jmccue)
volkerdi) No, I didn't think that Slackware would last this long, or at least that I wouldn't still be working on it by this point, but it did reach a sort of a critical mass early on where it was going to continue forward in some form or another whether it was under my guidance or not. I'm still very enthusiastic about Slackware, but it is different than the early days when things were just getting rolling. Those were exciting times for Slackware and for Linux, watching the early adoption. Slackware had the first Linux related booth at COMDEX and we pretty much got mobbed demonstrating a web server running off of a laptop! The first Linux Kongress held in the Netherlands in 1994 was another highlight of the early rise of Linux. It's hard to top things like that. Later on, having Walnut Creek merge with BSDi and try to position ourselves to go public was exciting, and then devastating as the market crashed, the IPO was called off, and the company was sold off when the cash ran out. I'm happy to still be doing what I'm doing though. I love working on Slackware and being a part of the larger Linux community, and continue to believe that it's important work.
LQ) Where do you see Slackware 5 years from now? (smoooth103)
volkerdi) Your guess is probably as good as mine, as far as that's concerned. Five years is a really long time in the computer field. Thinking back over the history of the project, I really couldn't have predicted the course of events, and the majority of it is determined by upstream projects and the ever changing needs of the users. So, I like to stay focused on more immediate goals. As those are accomplished, what
needs to happen next comes into focus. It's been more a process of evolution than directed design. The challenge over the next five years will be to remain true to Slackware's roots in UNIX philosophy as other projects and developers to may have completely different goals contribute to Linux as a whole. The world seems to be moving away from personal computers and towards communication appliances, and applications (especially in business) are moving towards cloud services. How that will impact the direction of Slackware remains to be seen.
LQ) Have you considered a succession plan such as a Slackware Foundation, similar to Mozilla, Libreoffice, etc.? (kingbeowulf)
volkerdi) I'm not sure those examples could really be called "succession plans" -- the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization, while Libreoffice is a fork that resulted from a general unhappiness with the direction that Oracle had taken OpenOffice (or at least a feeling that it was headed the wrong way). In the first case, I have considered something along those lines before. FreeBSD has a not-for-profit corporation that functions to accept donations of hardware and funds to help support the project, and it seems to work for them. I've considered that kind of thing, but wouldn't really know where to begin with it. Setting up any kind of non-profit or not-for-profit is a fairly major undertaking and it's not something that I see as feasible to try to take on without a lot of outside help.
Now to answer what I think you are really getting at -- is there Slackware after Patrick? I'd think that there would be. Back in 2004 when I got ill the team had many discussions about that, we did come to conclusions about how to handle the big "what if". The folks on the team weren't about to let the project drop.
So anyway, we don't have a succession plan, per se, but it's a bridge we would cross when we get there. Meanwhile we try to avoid riding together on the same bus.
LQ) What do you think about the panic that seems to ensue when the main Slackware site goes down? (kristizz)
volkerdi) Panic tends to create more panic, and when I see everyone freaking out I do the same. Especially when the code for the web site is something that was cobbled together long ago by people that have since moved on. Unfortunately, it seems like every time the project hits a bump in the road, there will be people who try to paint this as the tolling of the death knell. And it's been that way for a long time, and not just for our project. I think Netcraft has confirmed the death of just about every open source project that exists at one point or another. That said, it does hurt when the tone of comments tends toward suggesting that the reason there's no immediate solution is because I don't care. Believe me, I care, and when the trolls fire barbs at me I can get pretty discouraged and start thinking nonsense like "I used to be a Linux guru, but then I took an arrow to the knee." I try to come away with a sense of renewed determination, though. And the site is back up, ported to a newer PHP by Mark Post. We're looking at better things for the future, like a decent content management system that would allow us to post news items more frequently. It's been a while since slackware.com was really a hub of activity -- most of our web presence is here on LinuxQuestions, and personally I like that a lot better than thinking about trying to run our own web forum. We did that back around 2000 and found more of our time going into that than into advancing the project. And that's part of why we ended up porting the old site and getting it back online rather than proceeding with building up something from scratch. There was significant progress made towards a completely new website, but that effort should be going into getting -current in shape for a release instead. There's a lot of stuff in the queue.
LQ) Would you say your hard work pays, and the development of Slackware satisfies you economically and personally? (BlackRider)
volkerdi) Well, economically speaking the past few years have been pretty thin. If I hadn't made the strategic decision to head back to Minnesota several years ago there's no way I could have stayed afloat living in the bay area. California is not at all a cheap place to live, and I was always cutting it close out there. Lately I've been cutting it pretty close here, too. I don't even have insurance any more... knock on wood. Personally, absolutely. I've made friends all over the world. I hear from people every day who love Slackware and depend on it for critical tasks, and who don't want to run something else. Working on the project is exciting and fun, and the folks on the team are some of my best friends. It's just not possible to put a dollar value on that.
LQ) Can you describe your typical work day? (slacker77)
volkerdi) I don't follow a standard format, but my day would typically include coffee (very important!), reading my email and LinuxQuestions, and communicating with the rest of the team over IRC. I follow a lot of mailing lists such as BugTraq and oss-security, and many of the other lists run by upstream projects to keep tabs on the changes that are going to affect us. The other team members have areas they are handling, and keep queues of proposed packages, and I go over that to see if it's the right time to start integrating them into -current. There's a lot of compiling and testing of potential updates, and there's more patching involved now than there was in years past, so I do spend a fair amount of time either looking for patches that we need or writing them myself. We all have to do that, really. It seems like upgrades to the toolchain (gcc and glibc in particular) tend to break existing code more often, so what should be a simple version bump turns into porting something to the new compiler (I'm interested to see to what extent llvm/clang are adopted, because I suspect that might be less of a moving target). Of course, updating build scripts, compiling, packaging, and testing are the bread and butter of the project, but those come after a lot of research... I'd rather release well than release often because it's not always that easy to back away from a mistake after it's been merged into -current, much less as part of a stable release.
See: fortune -m "three lines" fortunes2
LQ) Can you describe your personal desktop setup (WM/DE)?
volkerdi) I'm running KDE on my personal desktop pretty much as Slackware ships it, and have used that almost exclusively since it was added. Before that I used FVWM for years. I've tried most of the popular window managers and environments at some point or another, long enough to get to know the ins and outs of them. I'm also a fan of Xfce because it is nice and snappy on my older machines while still providing a complete environment.
LQ) Can you give us some behind-the-scenes report of what hardware you use for testing/development/day-to-day work? (tuxrukes)
volkerdi) The machine I'm using for nearly all of the development here is an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T running at 3.3GHz, with 16GB of RAM. It's got 5 SATA drives in it, 4 of them running as LVM on RAID5, and another set up as a scratch drive for test installs. I'm a computer packrat and have many of my older machines running in some capacity or another, such as signing packages and generating the checksum and manifest files, and syncing out updates to the server we use to hold the not yet public trees. And there are examples of nVidia, Intel, and AMD video hardware so that I can make sure those are working properly. That was especially important leading up to the 13.37 release as everything was transitioning to drivers that use kernel modesetting... there were some tricky issues to overcome with that.
LQ) Slack had always had somewhat closed model of coming to life. What is the best way to contribute to Slackware? Maybe contributing to popular community projects? Or is it best to start Slack related project and see if it catches on? (bobzilla)
volkerdi) If you see something that's missing and that you think has wide enough appeal, you can always submit a SlackBuild for it to slackbuilds.org (if there's not one already... it's quite a large collection). That's also helpful to us if we ever decide to package it in the official tree. Starting a Slackware related project is also a way to go. When we quit packaging GNOME we were happy to see some teams step up to provide it. Testing what's in -current and reporting bugs is also a major help, especially if you've worked out a fix for them. Same goes for likely candidates for upgrades in the development tree. We get quite a bit of help from people who are testing things coming from upstream and find that the existing SlackBuild isn't working to compile them, figure out why, and let us know about it. A lot of this pending development discussion happens on LinuxQuestions, so please share what you know here.
LQ) How do you choose who you work with in your team? How did AlienBOB, Alan_Hicks, rworkman etc. get chosen? (suppy)
volkerdi) First a bit of history is in order -- Slackware core as it stands today is really the second generation team. The first team consisted of David Cantrell, Chris Lumens, and Logan Johnson. David and Logan approached me at a trade show in Chicago. At that time Slackware had never had a website and they volunteered to help build one. When I moved out to California to work for Walnut Creek, they offered them jobs as well, and they worked with me until the dot com bubble burst. David and Chris work for Red Hat now, mostly on the installer, and Logan is working at MOVL. Chris had a bit of fame a couple of years ago as the mastermind behind Fedora's hot dog theme.
The current team began as an unofficial Slackware mirrors system. Erik Jan Tromp (aka alphageek) ran a webpage listing these mirror sites and in addition to his own Slackware mirror there were several other mirror sites and administrators, and they had an IRC channel that they used to discuss what was going on with the mirrors. Eventually they ended up mailing me about it, and lured me into IRC. Initially it was to talk about issues pertaining to distributing the software, but it evolved into talking about development issues. People who have been in the IRC channel longer than I have include mrgoblin, amrit, karlmag, alphageek, and a few others who continue to lurk there but aren't so active any more. After that time, people who got added to core had usually made some kind of major contribution to Slackware in an unofficial sense, and were then invited to join. Robby and Alan were invited due to their work on SlackBuilds.org, and alienBOB through his work on creating a clean port to the x86_64 architecture and all of his extra public packaging work. Fred Emmott of Slamd64 (now working at Facebook) was also invited in and we still see him there. Mark Post was added after porting Slackware to the IBM S/390 mainframe (and feeding back bug fixes discovered along the way). Heinz Wiesinger was invited for performing various miracles, most recently figuring out the issues with mysql and PHP, including how to build PHP in a single pass and have the extensions remain compatible with all the various flavors of PHP in the package and the different Apache Multi-Processing Modules. We had also ended up absorbing a lot of his SlackBuilds from slackbuilds.org, so it seemed a good fit.
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Rep: LQ) Have you considered ways to more consistently communicate with Slackware users (perhaps via a blog or Google+)? What about a more open development model, such as one based on git? (many)
I have considered making more use of social media. I have Google+ and Twitter accounts, and used them to announce or discuss Slackware related issues. I have Facebook, too, but don't use it all that much. I've never really been drawn to the idea of having my own blog (I'm glad alienBOB does, though). I've been trying to put more information into the ChangeLog than simply a list of changed packages though.
As far as a more open development model such as git or other version control, it's probably going to become necessary at some point moving forward, and rworkman in particular is really pushing for something like that to be integrated into our development model. Right now we have several people maintaining their own private trees and I spend an increasing amount of time reconciling differences between updates that were developed in parallel. I've always known that I don't scale, but it's becoming pretty painfully obvious that acting as the commit master for everything going into the -current tree isn't going to be sustainable for very much longer as the number of support packages needed for KDE and other things continues to grow. This is especially true if we ever expect the ARM and other ports of Slackware to all be working off the same source tree. On that note, it might also be time to start thinking about centralizing some parts of the SlackBuild system. While it's nice to have the build script completely self-contained, it's not very convenient when it comes time to support a new architecture. Nothing like deciding to add some new options to the ARCH block in there and having to edit every single SlackBuild in order to pull off what ought to be a simple addition. So these are some of the things to look at once we get this release out and start up another development cycle.
LQ) What do you think of the current trends in desktop environments (Unity, Gnome 3)? Years ago you chose KDE for Slackware; are you happy with the direction (semantic desktop) it has taken? (fgcl2k)
volkerdi) I haven't really had enough personal experience with Unity or GNOME 3 to have formed a strong opinion about them, but my observations of Unity lead me to believe that it's probably an intuitive environment for people that are used to smartphone or tablet interfaces. And my guess it that they're looking ahead to that market. I'm pretty sure I'd be more comfortable with GNOME shell myself. Between GNOME and KDE, I'm happy that it's KDE that's in the main Slackware tree. I like it a lot, and believe it has a more consistent feel to it. Maybe that's because the framework is developed primarily in C++. I tend to prefer C to C++ overall for most things, but I do think that C++ is the better language for GUI development because it's easier to make use of existing components and therefore the temptation to reinvent the wheel and do things outside of the provided framework isn't as strong. The transition from Qt3/KDE3 to Qt4/KDE4 was a bit bumpy (but we waited out the first couple of releases), and I think that most people would agree that KDE4 has evolved into a world class desktop environment. I'm looking forward to a newer Xfce too, but that's going to require absorbing a few of the GNOME dependencies that I was sort of glad to see gone. Not really a big deal though, since Robby's doing much of the heavy lifting there, and the new versions of Xfce look really good so the few additional support packages we'll need to add back will be worth the result.
LQ) Right now, there are a number of potentially intrusive technical changes coming to some of the major distributions. How do you feel some of these will impact Linux in general and Slackware specifically? Are there any you would considering merging into Slackware? (55020 & tuxrules)
volkerdi) Yeah, I see a few things coming down the line that may cause a shakeup to our usual way of doing things, and could force Slackware to become, well, perhaps less UNIX-like. I guess the two big ones that are on the horizon are Wayland and systemd. Whether we end up using them or not remains to be seen. It's quite possible that we won't end up having a choice in the matter depending on how development that's out of our hands goes. It's hard to say whether moving to these technologies would be a good thing for Slackware overall. Concerning systemd, I do like the idea of a faster boot time (obviously), but I also like controlling the startup of the system with shell scripts that are readable, and I'm guessing that's what most Slackware users prefer too. I don't spend all day rebooting my machine, and having looked at systemd config files it seems to me a very foreign way of controlling a system to me, and attempting to control services, sockets, devices, mounts, etc., all within one daemon flies in the face of the UNIX concept of doing one thing and doing it well. To the typical end user, if this results in a faster boot then mission accomplished. With udev being phased out in favor of systemd performing those tasks we'll have to make the decision at some point between whether we want to try to maintain udev ourselves, have systemd replace just udev's functions, or if we want the whole kit and caboodle. Wayland, by comparison, seems fairly innocuous, assuming that they'll be able to implement network transparency either directly or through some kind of add-on compatibility layer. Again, another thing that most desktop users don't have a lot of use for but many users can't do without. I like X11, and would probably stick with it if moving to Wayland meant losing that feature, even if Wayland's rendering method carried with it some benefits like reduced rendering artifacts or increased video performance. I guess we'll just have to see what the overall benefit is when it's far enough along to make such comparisons.
Right now, the big change that has me concerned about the future of not just Slackware but Linux in general is the impending implementation of Secure Boot in all Windows8 client certified hardware, and the total lockdown of ARM hardware with no option to shut this "feature" off. I'm imagining that we'll proceed forward initially requiring that Secure Boot be disabled in order to install Slackware, and was (to say the least) rather surprised that wasn't the path all the Linux distributions were taking. If that makes it impossible to dual boot without making a BIOS setting change, or leaves us without drivers because they are designed to only run against certain signed kernels then we'll have to reconsider that approach, but I can't imagine our users being happy if they suddenly found that they were prohibited from compiling their own kernels and modules. The goal here will be to maximize the end user's freedom to modify their own system, and if that means they'll need to go into the BIOS and flip a switch that doesn't seem like a high bar. Hopefully that won't evolve into needing to flash the BIOS because the switch has gone away when the next generation of machines comes out, if flashing the BIOS would even be possible. All it would take is making that a requirement for the next Windows hardware certification. I'd urge everyone to sign the Free Software Foundation's secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot petition to let the hardware manufacturers know where you stand on this issue. I'm especially disappointed to hear that the ARM based systems designed for Windows will be locked down out of the gate, but maybe it's possible that Google or some other company will come through for us. And maybe Alan Hicks was ahead of the curve when he bought an Apple laptop to do Linux development on. Interesting times we live in, indeed.
LQ) What do you think about Fedora and Solaris 'simplifying' the filesystem by doing stuff like merging /usr/bin and /bin? Something you would ever consider? (ruario)
volkerdi) Sure, I could see doing that, but we'll see how it goes elsewhere and to what extent things start to expect it to be that way. On Slackware (and other systems) a lot of the binaries that would otherwise install to /usr/bin have to be moved to /bin because they are needed before /usr is available, if /usr is on a separate partition. Likewise, libraries have also had to move. This has led to a lot of symlinks pointing from /usr/bin to /bin, or from /usr/sbin to /sbin, and elsewhere around the system. Now, I'm not sure that I consider this to be a bad enough situation that it's worth the pain of changing it, but it's certainly under consideration. Really, the most painful requirement about /usr was the rule that it had to be possible to mount it as a network volume. That might have been a good idea at the time when hard drives were expensive and small, but it probably isn't done a whole lot today. If we do make a change like that it would be a major change (and would warrant a major version number bump for sure), and I'm not sure how (or if) upgrading from an earlier version would work. Perhaps with a tool on the installer that would transform the system to the new layout? Dancing that dance on a running machine would be a difficult trick with the package utilities based on shell scripts that are using binaries at the same time that they'd have to be moved around.
On a related note, we're looking into how to best handle a top-level /run directory. This does make sense, if not to merge /var/run with it, at least to have it available in early boot.
As far as these kinds of changes are concerned, we have to be certain that they actually solve important issues and leave us better off than we were before, and without new problems that we didn't previously have. Sure, the way things are now until /usr comes online we may be dealing with a limited set of utilities, but we've been able to make due with them in early boot so far. If, for example, the changes make it a requirement to use an initramfs on every system, I wouldn't necessarily consider that to be simplifying things.
LQ) Given the success of some much younger distros, do you have any regrets with the direction he has taken Slackware in, and does he have any aspirations to get his creation more readily accepted by the masses? (vdemuth)
volkerdi) Heh... that's a tough one. Of course, with the power of hindsight I can look back and see a bunch of what might be considered "Gary Kildall moments" where doing things differently would have led to fame and fortune. Would that have been good for me, or for Slackware? It's very hard to say. Look at what happens to some of those lottery winners. The reason I didn't go along with some of those early offers that might
have followed that path was because the people with the cash didn't really want Slackware. They wanted Slackware's market share at the time. I wasn't even sure they wanted me -- I could have been quickly marginalized out of the business. I knew nothing of startups and venture capital, and early on was reluctant to accept payment for what I was doing at all because I felt like I was taking advantage of all the unpaid developers creating the components that I was putting together. Of course, since then an entire industry has grown around Linux, and I wouldn't mind having a bigger piece of that, but if my goal had been to make as much money as possible I'm really not sure that it would have happened anyway, and it's quite likely that Slackware would either have been a flash in the pan or turned into something completely different. In many ways, Slackware has evolved into a learning tool. There's a learning curve, and then the reward of understanding. Slackware's not going to fight you if you want to replace or recompile part of it. Somehow I think that's never going to be what the masses want, and I'm OK with that.
LQ) What tools do you use to keep track of all the packages in Slackware and how do you decide what gets updated and when? (trxdraxon)
volkerdi) Actually, it doesn't really require a lot of custom tools to track the number of packages that we currently have. I keep lftp bookmarks so that it's easy to find an upstream FTP site using "lftp <package>", and leave some hints in the tree (package.url). Otherwise, a lot of the TODO list and tracking here is in the form of a couple of notebooks. I know some of you might be laughing at the idea of tracking things on paper, but it's an efficient enough way to figure out what to do next. What is more difficult than finding stale packages is considering the impact that upgrading any given package is going to have on the system. Some of that is just guesswork, and some of it is based on past experience. After you've been doing this for a long time, you start to get a feel for which packages are going to be safe upgrades, and which ones you should be wary of (in spite of promises of ABI/API compatibility). Plus, we've all got our own favorite projects that we follow development and announcements for. User requests are also incredibly important in determining what gets updated, especially if an update is needed as a dependency for something that we don't ship. We do have a couple of tools that were written by Stuart Winter that we use to find packages that link against a given library, or binaries that need to be recompiled because libraries that they were linked against have gone missing. Those come in handy when shared libraries bump their major version numbers. I guess I wouldn't mind having a script that would search for newer upstream versions of all the Slackware packages and generate a report about what's available, but we do tend to find these things out anyway. Updates that are not libraries or dependencies for other packages can be done whenever there's time to do them. Packages that are dependencies for other things have to be done more carefully, and if it's going to cause a lot of rebuilds I might wait until there are updates available for some of the larger things that are going to have to be rebuilt (e.g. KDE). If bumping a dependency is going to cause other packages to need a rebuild, I'll do them all at once in the same batch. Even in -current, I don't like to see anything broken for very long, and leaving dangling dependencies is a definite no-no. Maintenance of older Slackware versions is mostly done for security reasons and there I prefer upgrading packages over patching them if the compatibility can be trusted (sometimes this will fix other problems as well), but if an upgrade might mean breaking compatibility then we'll patch the problems rather than possibly throwing a wrench in the works on production systems.
LQ) How does Slackware's reputation make you, personally, feel? Is it a point of pride that your distro is considered difficult to install/use and expert level, or do you view that negatively because it keeps new users from wanting to try Slack? (trademark91)
volkerdi) Hopefully that's not all of Slackware's reputation! And to the extent that it is, it's not something that I agree with. The goal back when the project was started was to make it easy, and to keep things simple. But to paraphrase Einstein, you want to make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. There's a point of diminishing return when adding additional layers and interfaces, especially when it comes to system configuration. I've seen automated configuration do things like strip out all the comments in a config file, or worse just completely rewrite the thing because you had the nerve to try editing it outside of the approved system. And I do feel like Slackware has been shafted in some of the reviews over the years, largely because there's a tendency to review only the installer and not the system itself. There is certainly a learning curve, but that's true for all versions of Linux. We've never tried to make things hard, but perhaps we also haven't tried to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. Things like aliasing rm to 'rm -i' don't help the user learn to be careful.
LQ) Slackware's passionate userbase is infamous. Do you have any words for them? (dugan)
volkerdi) Slackware may not have a huge userbase, but it is an extremely dedicated and loyal one. There are some really great folks in the Slackware community. Thanks for keeping me in line!
LQ) By default, Slackware installs an unusually large selection of text editors. Which one do you actually use? (dugan)
volkerdi) I actually use elvis most of the time (out of habit, and because it gets the job done), but I'm also a fan of vim. The vim color syntax highlighting has definitely saved me a lot of time debugging shell scripts.
When I was at Southeast Linux Fest last year, Andrew Psaltis gave a talk on Emacs that impressed the hell out of me, though. I was telling some of the people there that I was going to try switching to Emacs. I did try using it for a while, but not long enough to really got the hang of it (though I remained impressed). But, I drifted back to my vi comfort zone pretty quickly.
LQ) How are things going in general? Is there anything slackware fans can do to help with any inconveniences? (H_TeXMeX_H )
volkderi) Send lawyers, guns, and money! I've seen things better before, but I've also seen them worse, and I'm glad that we moved back to Minnesota before the economic downturn... it would have been a lot worse for us on the west coast, financially speaking. I am really grateful for the donations that have kept things afloat. If I had any ideas about how else Slackware fans could help out, I'd let you folks know. Frankly, a business model that's based mostly around selling physical media doesn't make a lot of sense in this era of widespread high-speed net access -- just look at what the record companies claim it has done to them. How to generate sustainable funding for the project is a looming question. Maybe have periodic fund drives similar to what public radio does?
LQ) Back in an old 1994 interview you stated that you were a homebrewer. Do you still have time for that these days? Related to that what is your favourite beer? Is beer your drink of choice? (ruario)
volkerdi) Yes, I did indeed brew beer, but it's been years now. I never did brew again after moving to California, but I kept most of my equipment, and have recently had the itch to try it again. So, I picked up some German pale malt and Spalt hops and will be brewing some Altbier one of these days. I've missed the cool season but the furnace room stays pretty chilly in the summertime when the air conditioning is running (it's also a good spot to keep the servers).
If I'm going to be drinking alcohol, yes, I'd say beer is my usual drink (otherwise coffee... and soda, but trying to cut back on that). Guinness is one of my favorites (especially the Foreign Extra). For cheap beer, I'll take a Pabst Blue Ribbon.
LQ) I caught your interview in Hacker Public Radio. Besides the Grateful Dead and incense, what other musical genres do you enjoy? When you're not working on Slackware, what other hobbies/activities do you enjoy? (kingbeowulf)
volkerdi) I also enjoy jazz, classic stuff from greats like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. I also like J.S. Bach, especially the harpsichord partitas. Gotta credit Hofstader and _Go:del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ for getting me interested in those (and Bach's "Musical Offering"), which are very interesting both musically and mathematically. Earl Scruggs and John Hartford are my favorite banjo players. Back in the mid 90s I went to see Jorma Kaukonen (who used to play lead guitar for the Jefferson Airplane) play a show not far from where I'm living now in Minnesota. John Hartford was also on the bill, but I wasn't yet all that aware of his music, which was an old time style banjo with lots of songs about steamboats and the Mississippi River. I ended up collecting a lot of his CDs over the years and picked up the 5-string banjo myself probably as a result of that one show. Other music -- blues, dixieland, big band, trance/glitch (like Oval), "found sound" mashups like Negativland, old country music. There's a great country AM radio station in Fallon, Nevada that I'd tune in when traveling through when all I had was a radio in my car. Now I've got satellite radio in my car... lately it's been tuned in to the 1940's station.
I like old cars, and have a 1967 Firebird that I've been driving for more than half my life. My wife acquired a 1950 Chevy last summer. It's got a 6 cylinder Stovebolt 230 in it, and only 53,000 miles. That one's going to take some work though... it needs almost full choke to run and seems to starve out once it's warmed up. I have a rebuild kit for the Rochester B carburetor on it which should help (it's got gas leaking from the gaskets), and might also be looking at vacuum leaks, or maybe the heat riser that's stuck is cooking the carb. Ah, great gearhead entertainment!
I'm also passionate about photography. I used to shoot black and white (Kodak Tri-X) and develop it myself. Now all my cameras are digital, and I don't own an SLR, but I still like to see if I can get good results from relatively cheap equipment. I use a Canon S90 point and shoot that's got the CHDK enhanced firmware on it that allows a lot of the advanced features that you normally only see in SLRs. The S90 can save RAW images natively, but even cheaper Canons can as well when using CHDK. I've taken a ton of bracketed photos, which is where you shoot a sequence of photos at different exposures that can be combined to make High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos. I've also done Kite Aerial Photography using CHDK's timer features, setting the camera to snap a picture every 15 seconds and sending it up on a kite. So far so good on getting the camera back in one piece, and I've gotten some really great shots that way.
LQ) Over the years, you must have done quite a few interviews. Is there any question you always wish an interviewer would ask but never has? (jeremy)
volkerdi) Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?
No, just kidding, but I couldn't resist having a Monty Python reference in here. :-) And to answer the question, not that I can think of.
Thanks folks, it has been fun! Let's do this on Reddit someday.
Take care,
Pat
### 06-07-2012, 08:48 PM #4 Linux.tar.gz Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003 Location: Paris Distribution: Slackware forever. Posts: 2,437
Rep: Brilliant !
Thanks.
<3 <3 <3 <3 06-07-2012, 09:26 PM #5 chess Member
Registered: Mar 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Distribution: Slackware and OpenBSD Posts: 737
Rep: Awesome, awesome interview. Slackware will always be my favorite Linux distribution -- it's the distro that got me to love Linux back in the day (circa 1999/2000) -- and it's still on my machines today. Thanks for all the hard work, Pat, and I am really glad that the project is still going strong. 06-07-2012, 09:41 PM #6 yanyan LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2008 Distribution: Slackware 11.0 Posts: 1
Rep: Thanks LQ for the interview and thank you Patrick for everything, EVERYTHING. 06-07-2012, 11:59 PM #7 Anonymo Member
Registered: Dec 2004 Location: The Woodlands, Texas Distribution: Slackware, Archlinux, CentOS Posts: 193
Rep: What is Pat's Reddit name? Volkerdi?
Awesome interview! 06-08-2012, 12:08 AM #8 memzilla LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012 Posts: 1
Rep: Thanks Patrick! Back in 1996, Slackware 3.0 got my hand-me-down 386SX/16 on the Internet. I think it had 4MB of RAM, which was not enough to run Netscape on Windows 3.x, but was enough to run lynx on Slackware.
I downloaded the floppy sets on a Pentium machine with a 28.8 modem that I had access to in the evening.
When I went to start the install, I realized that my 3.5-inch floppy drive was not configured to boot the system, and not knowing how to change that, I looked around for some 5.25-inch floppies I could use to get the install started. The only 5.25-inch floppies handy that evening happened to be the install disks for Microsoft Windows, so I got out the scissors and cut a notch in the side of the MS Windows floppies, and created the 'boot' and 'root' disks.
After some patient waiting and lots of swapping 3.5-inch floppies, I had my first Linux system. With a little help from minicom, I managed to cobble together a script to establish a SLIP connection to my ISP.
The first time I compiled a kernel, I started it in the evening and it was still going when I woke up the next morning!
I tried to install a CD drive in the machine, only to find out that a 386DX/25 was the minimum system needed to run a CD drive.
Eventually I upgraded to a 486 DX2/66 with 16MB of RAM, which was able to run XFree86, and to the Walnut Creek Slackware CD-ROMs.
Thanks, Patrick, for helping me get on the Internet and for introducing me, and countless others I expect, to Linux! 06-08-2012, 01:19 AM #9 chr15t0 Member
Registered: Jun 2002 Location: London Distribution: Slackware Posts: 201
Rep: Nice Nice interview.. It shows how the Slackware philosophy is strongly bred out of Pat's inclination to quietly observe rather than just hop on bandwagons.
Thanks LQ & Pat. 06-08-2012, 03:30 AM #10 dazdaz Member
Registered: Aug 2003 Location: Europe Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu Posts: 333
Rep: Thanks a lot for the interview, I really enjoyed reading that. It's good to know that not everything has been taken away by the corporate world.
After starting out with MCC Interim distribution, I moved onto Slackware and used that for many happy years.
Configuring pppd and chat using scripts for the first time were a real challenge in those days as there was very little documentation or examples to follow.
I worked with source code for almost every application, there were no build scripts (configure/autoconf/scons).
Thanks again, really enjoyed reading the interview and a special thanks to Patrick. Last edited by dazdaz; 06-08-2012 at 05:22 AM . 06-08-2012, 05:15 AM #11 Broker824 Member
Registered: Apr 2010 Location: Serbia Distribution: Slackware 14.1 and Current, CrunchBang 11, Ubuntu 14.04, antiX 13.1 Posts: 107
Rep: Thank You very much for interview. Last edited by Broker824; 06-08-2012 at 06:26 AM . 06-08-2012, 06:51 AM #12 Duodecimo Fernandes LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012 Posts: 1
Rep: Thanks for all work on Slackware, and gratz for the nice interview. It was very good you took some time to expose a rich experience on free software. I use Slackware since I found it on a series of Walnut Creek Cd's bought on a convention here in Brazil on early 90's, if I remember correctly. It has been a life experience of learning and a tool for share knowledge with my students (I'm a CS teacher).Slackware rocks! 06-08-2012, 06:53 AM #13 _toudi_ LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2009 Posts: 6
Rep: great job! it couldn't have been better
Slackware simply works!
It seems that I've spent 17 years (a lifetime in front of a computer that works great because You've done a brilliant job!
thank you!
ps. do not look back it's perfect the way it is! it's just at it should be.. I've been using slack since late 1995 and over the years there were times when out of frustration, that no new version of slack came out for a year, I would check other major distributions, I have tried them all only to realize that they are nothing compared to slack!Slackware simply works!It seems that I've spent 17 years (a lifetimein front of a computer that works great because You've done a brilliant job!thank you!ps. do not look back it's perfect the way it is! it's just at it should be.. 06-08-2012, 08:07 AM #14 dan_s28 LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2012 Posts: 1
Rep: I just retired my slackware polo shirt. I have been wearing it to work, for over 12 years, maybe close to 15?
After this interview I think I will buy a new one to help support the Slackware team.
Thanks for a great distro!
-Dan S. 06-08-2012, 08:21 AM #15 bsd1101 LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2010 Location: Brooklyn NY Distribution: Slackware 64 Posts: 27
Rep: Thank you, and fsck secure boot
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French Workplace Courts Mediate Disputes
In the Prud'hommes, local panels with medieval roots, judges elected by workers and bosses dispense efficient justice
`CAN you demonstrate, Maitre, that Monsieur Barrabas actually made use of information provided by his wife, to the prejudice of her employer?"
A dozen or so people sit in scattered rows facing the bench. Behind it, four judges, medallions hung around their necks on broad tricolor ribbons, listen to the testimony. The case has been brought by a telecommunications specialist fired for allegedly passing trade secrets to her husband, who works for her company's competition. A dockworker in bluejeans and sneakers presides.
This is the Conseil des Prud'hommes, a tribunal for the settlement of workplace disputes that is unique to France. Any conflict pitting an individual employee against his or her employer is brought first before the Prud'hommes. Four conseillers (councilors) - two workers, two employers - judge each case. They are elected and have no advanced legal training, but their decisions are binding. Steady rise in cases
Serge Faye, who directs legal services for one of France's three main labor federations and has been a councilor since 1979, says the most striking development in the Prud'hommes' activity has been its extension across all fields of employment. "Whereas in the past, certain branches of industry might have been particularly concerned, now it's everyone: industry, commerce, the service sector, white-collar workers, too," Mr. Faye says.
In 1991, more than 200,000 cases were brought before the Prud'hommes and some 148,000 were concluded. These numbers have risen steadily over the last 15 years.
Every major town has a Prud'homal council - 279 spread across France. The Paris chamber is in a northeastern neighborhood amid bakeries and cafes. The building is squat and square, made entirely of tinted glass. Its five color-coded floors correspond to the council's five sections (administration, commerce, industry, agriculture, and diverse). The hearing rooms are spare and clean, decorated only by a bust of Liberty, who looks down from an alcove in the wall behind the bench.
The only archaic thing about the Paris council is the name above the doorway. In Old French, prud'homme meant a "prudent man," a man respected for his character and good judgment.
The notion that ordinary men (and today women) of repute should judge their peers goes back to the 12th and 13th centuries, when nascent towns were fighting for their autonomy from the landed nobility. One of the clauses often demanded in early town charters was that the burghers be free from the lord's justice, which was slow, costly, and ill-suited to the new flood of commercial disputes that concerned the burgeoning towns.
It was Napoleon who founded, in the Lyon silk works, the institution as it has survived to the present day. At the turn of the 20th century - against a backdrop of economic crisis, violent strikes, and a growing revolutionary trade-union movement - the tribunal achieved its crucial modern elements: universal competence in the domains of industry, commerce, and transport; women's eligibility to vote and serve; and equal division of judges between management and labor, with presidents rotating.
To Philippe Sommers, an employer and past Prud'homal councilor in Fontainebleau, it is this equality that is most impressive about the Prud'hommes. "Parity among the judges," he says, "imposes an equal dialogue. And that leads to a justice that is less false."
Also critical, in Mr. Sommers's view, is that the councilors are not legal specialists. "We're workers and employers first. Only secondly are we jurisprudents. We're men of good sense and experience. And it really works."
Prud'homal justice is relatively swift: An average case spends between eight and 10 months in the system, slightly less than an ordinary civil suit. A hearing rarely takes more than half an hour, and except in extraordinary circumstances, councilors deliberate and announce their decision immediately.
The procedure is free: There are no court charges, except legal fees for those who choose to engage a lawyer. Councilors, who are released from their regular jobs for the time they sit - from four to 18 hours per week - are paid for that time by the government at a rate equal to their regular salaries. Informal proceedings
The proceedings are relatively informal. Parties, especially employees, often speak in their own behalf. The result is a plain - and often animated - dialogue.
Every case must pass through a conciliation phase, at which both parties are required to appear in person. One out of every 10 conflicts is settled at that stage. "Conciliation is terribly important," Sommers says. "It reduces the cost of the proceedings, and it allows civil relations between the parties to be restored."
Given the importance of the Prud'hommes in French life, observers point with concern to the decreasing voter participation in the elections for councilors, held once every five years. In balloting last December, the rate was down to 43 percent among employees. Less than one third of employers typically vote.
Part of the reason for the increasing abstention may be that Prud'homal elections serve multiple purposes. Because worker candidates are presented not individually, but by slates according to labor federation, the vote has become a measure of trade-unionism in general, and of the relative strength of the five labor federations. In France, as in the United States, trade unionism is declining.
In spite of their bitter rivalry, however, French unions are unanimous in their support of the Prud'hommes. Each has legal-services divisions to handle cases, and several have published guides to the Prud'hommes' jurisdiction and procedures. They joined in calling on workers to vote in the elections. The unions' support is shared, moreover, by the main employers' association, the CNPF (Conseil National du Patronat Francais).
"Naturally," says Alain Gauze, a Marseille delegate to the CGT (Confration Grale du Travail), France's largest labor federation, "the employers would rather go to court and pay a fine than be faced with a strike.... A legal procedure is easier for them to deal with." Empowerment for workers
Indeed there is some dispute in France as to whether the Prud'homal system undermines worker militancy - inducing employees to accept an individual settlement rather than demand collective rights.
Employee councilors and plaintiffs agree, however, that the experience of bringing suit against an employer in a truly equal setting is a profoundly empowering one.
Dockworker Andre Rouard, for example, has spent the past year and a half in the vanguard of a nationwide labor conflict that included almost weekly strike actions and occasionally violent confrontations with the national police. But he is equally devoted to his duties as presiding councilor of the Marseilles Conseil des Prud'hommes. "What comes up before the Prud'hommes," he says, "are issues of legal rights. They need to be defended, too."
Mr. Rouard uses his role in court as a way of imposing his equal status on a society that he says is unwilling to accept it. "I wear my bluejeans on purpose," he says. "They told me to put on a suit, and the next time I came in with my shirt undone to here. So they gave up." But inside the courtroom, Rouard runs the proceedings with authority and precision and renders judgments that are linked tightly to the language of France's labor laws.
Not everyone is happy with the justice of the Prud'hommes. Professional judges call it "amateurish." Councilors call for more administrative personnel and improved automation. And many unionists wish it were possible to order the rehiring of a worker judged to have been fired unfairly, besides levying a fine.
"But that's a labor-law reform," says Councilor Faye, "not a reform of the Prud'hommes. It's a critical question, though. The ability to impose and enforce sanctions other than fines is one of the key issues in French labor law, and French law in general."
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Commentary on Vajra Verses
Dzogchen | Longchen Nyingtik | Tibetan MastersYukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol
English | 中文 | བོད་ཡིག
Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol
Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol
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Commentary on the Vajra Verses on the Natural State
by Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol
Here, in this explanation of the Vajra Verses on the Natural State, a mind treasure of the Omniscient Jigme Lingpa, there are three parts:
I. The virtuous beginning: the meaning of the introduction
II. The virtuous middle: the meaning of the main part
III. The virtuous end: the meaning of the conclusion
I. The Introduction
This has two parts: 1) the meaning of the title, and 2) the expression of homage.
1. The title
This refers to the line: “The Vajra Verses on the Natural State.” All phenomena are by nature emptiness, beyond arising, remaining and ceasing. In essence they are primordially pure, like space. Not produced by conditions, they are uncompounded. This has been elaborately explained as the so-called “element” or “buddha-nature” (sugatagarbha) in the profound secret teachings of the Bliss-gone Teacher, such as the sūtras revealing buddha-nature. The King of Samādhi says:
Pure, pristine, luminous,
Unwavering, and unconditioned,
This essence of the sugatas
Is the nature as it has always been.
As this says, the essence of the buddha-nature has always been pure since the very beginning. Adventitious stains have never been part of its primordial condition, so it is by nature pristine and clear, without any impurity. It is not a nihilistic void, but is naturally luminous. As it does not fall into any ontological extreme, such as existing, not existing, and so on, and is beyond any conceptual limitation, it is unwavering. And as it is untainted by conditions, it is unconditioned. The sūtras of the middle turning reveal its nature as the 'three gateways of liberation.' As The Sūtra Requested by Brahmā says:
All phenomena have the nature of emptiness, beyond conceptual reference.
All phenomena have the nature of characterlessness, beyond conceptual thought.
All phenomena have the nature of wishlessness, beyond acceptance and rejection.
In the tantras of the uncommon Secret Mantra this is described as the original, primordial ground, or the dharmakāya rigpa which is present as the ground, and so on. The Precious Treasury of Philosophy says:
This original, primordial ground or naturally arising wisdom, which is expansive and beyond limitation or bias, is empty in essence, like the sky. It is clear by nature, like the sun or moon. And it is all-pervasive in its compassionate energy, like rays of light. These three qualities have always been essentially indivisible, as the nature of the three-kāya wisdom.
If we realize this naturally arising wisdom, which is referred to in various ways, then it becomes the basis for nirvāṇa. If we fail to realize it [i.e.naturally arising wisdom], then saṃsāra arises. Basic space has always been unconditioned; it is natural and spontaneously present buddhahood. As all the qualities of buddhahood are complete within it, it is the sugata-essence. It is obscured by stains, so it is the ultimate all-ground (ālaya). And in essence it is primordially pure, so it is the wisdom of clear light. As it is beyond any form of limiting projection, such as 'existing' or 'not existing', it is profound emptiness and the view of the Middle Way. As it is free from all conceptual elaboration, it is the transcendent perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā). And as it has always been beyond transition or change, it is suchness.
This original natural state of primordial purity, unaltered and ordinary awareness, the open, unimpeded dharmakāya, or lucid quality of wisdom awareness, is taught to have the nature of the seven vajra qualities. The Omniscient Rangjung Dorje said:
It is impenetrable to the minds of intellectuals.
It is impervious to conventional reasoning.
It is true, as it accords with the natural state.
It is incorruptible, difficult for the unfortunate to fathom.
It is stable, its essence being beyond transition or change.
It is unimpeded, pervading throughout, and penetrating all, saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.
It is invincible, as nothing whatsoever can hinder it.
The instructions for pointing out directly the nature of this great and universal precursor to both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, the dharmakāya of the original dharmakāya buddha Samantabhadra are contained here, in these forty lines of infallible vajra speech.
2. Expression of Homage
At the beginning of this instruction of the Clear Light Great Perfection, there is an expression of homage to the extraordinary teacher, glorious Samantabhadra, the guide who has no origin or conclusion. He is the all-accomplishing king of wisdom, the Buddha who possesses the three qualities of self-origination: his buddhahood did not originate in the ordinary mind, his instructions did not derive from scriptures, and his fruition did not arise from a cause. To this glorious, original protector, the author offers homage beyond any involvement with the conceptual mind.
II. The Main Part
This has seven sections: 1) identifying the ground, path and fruition, 2) describing calm abiding and insight, 3) showing rigpa to be the three kāyas, 4) pointing out how this is spontaneously present, 5) showing how view, meditation and action are purified within basic space, 6) the pitfalls to be avoided, and 7) decisive resolution.
1. Identifying the Ground, Path & Fruition
The natural state of the ground is free from complexity,
And ground-appearances are rigpa-dharmakāya.
The path has always been clear of effort, from the very beginning.
When this nature itself is made manifest, it is the great source of freedom.
The fruition is not something separate and set apart.
The natural state of the primordial ground is free from the four or eight conceptual limitations. Anything can arise within the basic space of that intrinsic nature, or 'as-it-isness', just as anything can appear in the immaculate surface of a mirror. How is this? In the expanse of clear light, free from centre or circumference, whatever arises dawns as the display of primordial wisdom, without falling into the limited dimensions of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. The natural state of the primordial ground is thus beyond all conceptual limitation.
“Ground-appearances” here refers to the time at which the yogi directly perceives the ground that is superior in its essence to the indeterminate all-ground of impure saṃsāric experience. At that time, all clinging and fixation connected with delusory thought is naturally freed, without being rejected, and this is what we call “primordially pure rigpa.” Then, when the vajra chains of awareness, which appear as the unceasing radiance of spontaneous presence, are seen directly as objects of sensory perception, that is “seeing the dharmakāya”. A Dzogchen tantra says, “Child of noble family, if you wish to look into the face of dharmakāya, become familiar with the vajra chains that are rigpa's radiance.”
The line “The path has always...etc.” refers to the fact that this ground and its ground-appearances are unconditioned. They are not dependent on other conditioned factors. The line shows that on the path, within the basic space that is free from effort and striving, the very consciousness that would eliminate or cultivate temporary risings has always been pure, from the very beginning.
When the primordially pure rigpa of the path stage is realized directly and freedom becomes extensive, there is awakening within the expanse of great primordial purity, the basic space that is the ultimate source of freedom.
These qualities of ground, path and fruition are not isolated from one another like separate tent dwellings. As the Uttaratantra puts it:
As it was before, so it is thereafter,
For it is, by its very nature, changeless.
2. Calm Abiding & Insight
When the fruition itself is present as cause,
Settling completely is calm abiding (śamatha).
Any sudden rising is rigpa's own radiance,
And vivid awareness is insight (vipaśyanā).
Directly, upon fading, there's primordial experience.
When the ultimate fruition is not yet manifest, but is present as a cause, the stillness that comes from allowing any rising thoughts to settle completely is calm abiding (śamatha). This is likened to an ocean free from waves. Any thought which arises all of a sudden through the radiance or expressive power of the real nature is the radiance of rigpa. When we are vividly aware of this, that is what we call “naturally arising wisdom”, or the “wisdom of clear insight” (vipaśyanā). As all thoughts are nakedly freed, and fade into the basic space of the dharmadhātu, this brings about primordial experience, in which we remain.
3. How Rigpa is the Three Kāyas
Remaining genuinely is the dharmakāya,
Accompanying awareness is the sambhogakāya,
Stillness and movement, non-dual, is the nirmāṇakāya.
This is what we call the “three-kāya rigpa.”
The first line refers to remaining genuinely in the uncontrived wisdom mind of primordial purity, in which phenomena dissolve, the natural state of the ground, beyond confinement and liberation. When this 'ordinary' state of awareness is recognized just as it is, without 'changing its fur' or 'altering its colour', then, as it is untainted by apparent objects externally and unspoilt by the clinging mind within, that is direct realization of the wisdom of dharmakāya, rigpa-emptiness. The fact that the spontaneous radiance, which is unceasing and the ground out of which saṃsāra and nirvāṇa unfold, is not blocked, but arises, while we are aware of it, is what we call the sambhogakāya. Even though the expressive power (rtsal) of compassionate energy arises as objects, if thoughts vanish without trace, so that there is no opportunity for habitual tendencies to form, and arising and liberation occur simultaneously, then we come to master the great wisdom in which there is no division between stillness and movement. The ceaseless arising of the display from the king-like dharmakāya beyond transference is said to be the nirmāṇakāya. The “three-kāya rigpa” is what we call the inseparability of these qualities.
4. How this is spontaneously present
While remaining at ease, there's no clinging to experience.
Vivid movements of mind are freed, ungraspable.
Liberated in vivid clarity, there's no post-meditative state of mind.
This is what we call the “spontaneously present three kāyas.”
When the mind's 'knot' of dualistic grasping is released and undone the essence of the primordially pure ground is beyond labelling or identification. It is unfathomable by the conceptual mind and inexpressible by words. It is beyond any objective reference that could be described, and the one who might describe it is no longer present. Even if one were to remain in this experience of all-penetrating, unimpeded dharmakāya, the wisdom that is beyond the limiting confines of hope and fear, uninterruptedly day and night, still it would not feature the slightest thought of attachment to itself. The Omniscient Longchenpa put it like this:
When perfecting realization of genuine primordial purity,
There is no one who wishes for such realization,
And in the realization itself, there is no conceit.
The yogi of illusion is thus beyond compare.
When movement of mind, which arises vividly through the expressive power of spontaneous presence, is freed by itself, it is beyond identification. As the Thalgyur says:
Free from the beginning, there is no basis for repetition.
Freed by itself, there is no antidote.
Nakedly free, it vanishes as it is seen.
As this says, in 'naked freedom' whatever thoughts arise, whether subtle or more apparent, are liberated with mere recognition, through the crucial point of their absence of any real essence. This is compared to meeting an old acquaintance. 'Self-freedom' means that, based on the crucial point of the absence of any antidote, whatever thoughts arise come into being automatically and are freed automatically, like a snake unwinding its own knots. 'Primordial freedom' means remaining in the primordial nature. Based on the crucial point of the absence of any basis for repetition, the naturally abiding ground has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. This freedom which is beyond benefit and harm is illustrated by a thief entering an empty house. Furthermore, it is also said, “Freed upon arising, there is no before and no after.” As this indicates, when whatever arises in the mind is clearly freed within the space of the dharmadhātu, it is like the example of writing on water. Just as writing and its disappearance occur at the same time, arising and liberation occur simultaneously for whatever thoughts appear. And, according to the Omniscient King of Dharma, this uninterrupted process of spontaneous arising and spontaneous liberation is a special feature of the Natural Great Perfection.
From the perspective of meditative equipoise, in which one does not waver from this natural essence of primordial purity, one is freed from the five aggregates, and even in the post-meditation of the unceasing radiance of spontaneous presence one is untainted by the eight ordinary modes of consciousness. With no distinction between meditation and post-meditation, the name 'post-meditative state' does not apply. Like a traveller arriving at the fabled island of jewels who might search for ordinary earth and stones but will never find them, once we reach a point at which all that rises in the mind becomes the display of primordial wisdom, even though we might search for instances of ordinary delusion we will not find them. At this stage, all phenomena based upon dualistic perception are freed by themselves, even without being rejected. Like last night's darkness, which vanishes spontaneously and without trace in the light of the rising sun, dualistic perception disappears, even if we can not say where it is that it goes. As the vajra ḍākinī said, “For the yogi free from limitation, like the dawning of the sun, this is the experience of dharmakāya. Emaho!” Indeed, if you realize this, it is what we call “the spontaneously present, unaltered yoga in which the three kāyas are experienced on the path.”
5. How view, meditation and conduct are purified within basic space
Without any deliberate view, it is beyond dullness and agitation.
Without deliberate meditation, it is entering the original 'womb'.
Without deliberate conduct, it is free from rigid notions or ideas.
One who has mastered this is a “lord among yogis.”
When gaining this kind of realization, there is no dualistic division into an object to be viewed and the mindfulness that is the viewer. Moreover, it is free from dullness caused by the diminishing of awareness's clarity and the agitation of thoughts directed towards objects. The fact that meditative concentration with a particular focus does not lead to enlightenment is explained in The Lion's Perfect Power:
Practising meditative concentration you will not see the meaning of dharmatā.
Naturally present absorption (samādhi) is free from any deliberative position.
Free from conceptual mind, the natural state is equal to the limits of space.
There is no thought through which objects of reference might be perceived.
As this indicates, there is not the tiniest speck of meditation to be cultivated, and this is known as “entering the original womb.”
When this kind of realization unfolds, it is free of something to meditate on and one who settles in meditation. It is also beyond any particular form of conduct related to post-meditation, as one is beyond all fixed notions or ideas about rejecting or cultivating the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.
Anyone who masters the wisdom of rigpa in the genuine state[1] of the ultimate nature and who consequently gains power over all the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa in their equalness, is what we would call a great lord among siddhas.
6. Pitfalls to be Avoided
If you are aware of a thought as it suddenly appears,
And can sustain the continuity of recognition,
That is insight (vipaśyanā) gone astray in character.
It can also be referred to as “post-meditation.”
But it's not the freeing of thoughts as dharmakāya,
And we must cut directly to the source.
While the mind remains in empty clarity, if you are aware of a thought suddenly appearing and you sustain that continuity, this is the insight that errs in terms of character. It is not genuine insight. It would be fine to label it with the term 'post-meditation'. It is not a state in which whatever thoughts arise are freed as dharmakāya. Rather, whatever mental afflictions occur first arise as an object, are then noticed with pure awareness or mindfulness, and are finally left to settle in their own place. But this is merely the approach of purifying movement so that thoughts become objectless and without root. What is needed is to cut directly to the source, so that, through the crucial point of freedom in the dharmatā nature itself, whatever afflictions and thoughts arise do not hold firm, but disintegrate, freed by their very nature in simultaneous arising and liberation.
7. Decisive Resolution
Rigpa has always been free from conceptual elaboration.
Conventions such as 'view', 'meditation' or 'conduct' and
Any clinging to them is cleared, without basis or origin.
Good thoughts, bad thoughts, and those in between,
Without slipping into any such categorization,
Are freed upon arising, without any agent to make distinctions.
As long as awareness does not lose its own ground,
There is no need for anything more than this.
In order to show how this 'ordinary' rigpa has always been free from conceptual elaboration from the very beginning, the text points out how the conventions of 'view', 'meditation' and 'conduct' are like mere impressions. No matter how the unobstructed radiance of rigpa arises, delusory perception is cleared by itself, without any basis or foundation for clinging to it. When it arises as positive thoughts they arise spontaneously and are freed spontaneously. And when it arises as negative thoughts they become the vast expanse free from all limitations. When remaining in the same state, even neutral thoughts vanish by themselves. Not falling into any position related to existence or non-existence, and without considering there to be an agent separate from freedom upon arising, maintain unaltered 'ordinary' consciousness, the inexpressible state of awareness and emptiness. If this does not lose its own ground, there is no need for any further, supposedly greater form of view or meditation.
III. Conclusion
1. How it is Unnecessary to Clarify Doubts by Consulting Others
Even if you were to meet a hundred scholarly monks, a thousand siddhas,
Ten thousand translators and pandits, a hundred thousand instructions,
Or a billion treatises, still there'd be no call to clarify uncertainty or doubt.
This pith instruction is the concentrated essence of many hundreds of thousands of canonical sources, treatises, tantras, commentaries and pith instructions, from hundreds of scholars, who are skilled in explanation, debate and composition, and monks, who are supreme among all those maintaining the vinaya; as well as thousands of siddhas with knowledge, love and power; tens of thousands of lotsāwas, who translated the teachings from Indian languages into Tibetan; and paṇḍitas, learned in the five sciences. Even if you were to encounter many millions or even billions of other treatises, still there would be no need to clarify uncertainty or doubt, as this is the final, definitive statement.
2. Colophon
Samaya. Let the signs be absorbed.
To my only son, Khyentse Özer, this was given by the Samantabhadra of awareness in the manner of a transmission of blessings and realization. Do not show it to anyone, but conceal it in your heart.
Thus, in the Akaniṣṭha cave on the twenty-sixth day of the Month of Miracles, at a time when the ḍākinīs gathered during my dark retreat, I set this down on a side of precious paper.
This profound aural transmission is sealed with 'atham'.
Only this! Only this!
The contents are elaborated upon in The Words of the Omniscient One.
| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2015, at the request of Dza Kilung Rinpoche.
1. Here Yukhok Chatralwa makes reference to the literal meaning of the term for “yoga” in Tibetan, naljor (rnal 'byor), and its individual syllables “nal” (rnal), meaning “genuine state”, and “jor” ('byor) meaning “to unite with”. ↩
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Ala. college asks court to toss suit over shooting
Monday - 1/14/2013, 2:29pm EST
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The University of South Alabama and its police chief want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a nude student who was shot to death by a campus police officer.
Both the school and university police chief Zeke Aull argued in court documents that they are immune from being sued under state law in the October death of freshman Gil Collar, 18, of Wetumpka.
His parentsfiled the suit over the killing last month. They are seeking an unspecified amount of money and a court order requiring the school to arm its officers with stun guns.
Aside from arguing he can't be held liable for Collar's death, Aull also asked a judge to refuse the demand to arm all school officers with the weapons, which are used to shock suspects into submission.
Aull argued such an order is both outside the power of a court and would affect state budgets since the weapons can cost more than $1,000 apiece and the arming cartridges costs hundreds of dollars each.
Besides, Aull said, stun guns aren't a guarantee against fatal police confrontations.
"It has been well-reported that suspects have been seriously injured and/or died from the proper use of (stun guns), so they are not without dangers," his attorney wrote in a motion.
A judge has scheduled a hearing on the dismissal requests for Feb. 8 in Mobile.
Collar's parents also sued the officer identified by the university as firing the fatal shot, Trevis Austin, but he has not filed a response.
Authorities have said Collar, who wrestled in high school, banged on a door and windows of the university police station in the dark, prompting the officer to come outside with his gun drawn.
Collar, who was nude and believed to be on some sort of drug, acted aggressively toward the officer and stood in a fighting stance before he was shot. Mobile County investigators said Collar never touched the officer or got any closer to him than a few feet.
The district attorney's office said it would investigate the shooting and ask grand jurors to consider whether to file charges, but the case hasn't gotten that far yet.
"It just takes time to get all the information together to present it," Deborah Tillman, the chief assistant district attorney, said Monday.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Mid-Week Reads: Lies Your English Teacher Told You
Lies your English teacher told you.
Two upper class Indians try living on Rs 100 per day.
Can we please stop setting weight loss goals?
106 excuses that prevent you from becoming great. And OHMIGOD he's only 25.
This is two years old, but hilarious. An assistant freaks out because someone trying to schedule a meeting with her boss calls her by a nickname she doesn't like.
Stop paying Johnny Depp "stupid money." Celebrities make too much -- and we can do something about it.
batulm said...
This was really interesting stuff, Unmana. Enjoyed the reads.
Unmana said...
I'm glad you liked it, Banno!
~G said...
The name calling article was hilarious! Reminded me of the novel e by matt beaumont. have you read that one? the entire book is in the form of emails in an office and is really really funny!
Unmana said...
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A new political ad contrasting Hillary Clinton’s statements from 2008 and her daughter’s statements from this year about Bernie Sanders is shining a spotlight on Ms. Clinton’s blatant hypocrisy on healthcare.
In 2008, Mrs. Clinton attacked then-Senator Barack Obama for criticizing her for her stances on healthcare. According to Mrs. Clinton, people who criticize Democrats over healthcare are using a page out of Republicans’ playbook:
Obama’s actions were “reminiscent of the same sort of Republican attacks on Democrats,” Mrs. Clinton said. “Since when do Democrats attack one another on universal healthcare?” she demanded to know.
Yet, today, Mrs. Clinton is attacking Senator Bernie Sanders over healthcare, even going so far as to have her daughter Chelsea go on the offensive. A new ad, released today, splices together Mrs. Clinton’s statements from 2008 and her daughter’s statements from this week.
The ad begins with Hillary Clinton angrily denouncing Barack Obama for disagreeing with Mrs. Clinton over healthcare. It then cuts to Chelsea Clinton criticizing Mr. Sanders. It then shows Mrs. Clinton demand to know, “Since when do Democrats attack one another on universal healthcare?” and then shows Chelsea attacking Mr. Sanders over universal healthcare.
You can see the ad below:
In the aftermath of Chelsea Clinton’s attacks on Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Clinton has defended them, despite the fact that they have been deemed inaccurate.
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Subject: Re: ROLO automatically after *Panic?
From: Dave Jones (dave_at_hfpacoustical.com)
Date: 2003-10-07
At 09:36 AM 10/7/2003 +0200, Linus wrote:
>I think it's the wrong way to fix things. Let's remove the cause of the
>panic instead.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
I brought up the issue because I've been having *Panic rec upd: -6 errors
during my long term recording sessions. I don't monitor the units so I
don't find out about the errors until I check on them (sometimes days
later) and find them stopped.
The rec upd error is returned by the Xing header code. Apparently, at the
beginning of MPEG_STOP_DONE, the file is closed and then opened again. This
second open fails for some reason. -6 appears to indicate that the file
can't be found in the directory. So it sounds like for some reason the file
is closed and then can't be found during the immediate reopen. Might this
be due to a slow hard drive spin up or a power fluctuation that delays a
write, or are we writing to a buffer here? Sorry, I'm not much of a
programmer and haven't been able to digest all the guts of Rockbox.
I've removed the Xing header creation section and am running a comparison
test between Rockbox with the Xing code and Rockbox without. It might take
a few days before any results come in, though.
>Dave Jones wrote:
>>What I'd like is to set up my Rockbox so that as soon as it was turned on
>>it would start recording. Then if any errors were encountered during
>>recording, it would Rolo, forcing a restart of the firmware and thus
>>start recording again. It's pretty straight forward to set Rockbox up to
>>start recording right after startup, but is it a really bad idea to Rolo
>>after a panic message?
Dave Jones P.E.
Senior Project Engineer
HFP Acoustical Consultants Inc.
6001 Savoy Dr., Suite 115
Houston, Texas 77036
713.789.9400 (phone)
713.789.5493 (fax)
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Monday, October 31, 2011
The incessant clicking of the washer knob pulls me out of my reverie. Laundry has become such a mindless chore I don't even realize what I'm doing anymore as I run through the motions. I stop the noise by pulling the knob out and the clicking is replaced by the rush of water as it flows into the cylinder. I reach up to the cupboard over head and fill a cup of sweet and flowery laundry soap.
It's late. I'm in my pajamas and I'm ready to go to bed, but my husband's work pants are beyond the point of I figure I better save his co-workers from passing out tomorrow.
Just as I tilt my hand to pour the sweet smelling soap over the clothes, the lights snap off and the water in the washer comes to a sudden stop.
Instantly my insides constrict. I can't find the air around me. My lungs are aching for it, but my muscles won't move to give them any relief. I can feel my eyes widening as I beg for them to penetrate through the blackness of the laundry room. But there is no light. It's as if I've been struck blind.
Finally, a small wisp of air reaches my throat and I'm able to move. My steps are light and slow as I wave my fingertips through the open space in front of me. I know there is nothing in my way. I've been in this basement thousands of times before, but the blackness is throwing off every sense of being I have.
There goes the air again. And I'm frozen in what I assume is the middle of my laundry room. Even though I can't breathe, I manage to break the silence.
No answer. Stay calm.
'D...did the p...power go out? you have a f...flashlight?'
No answer again, but I hear something. A soft patter hitting the cement floor. Now it seems the air is coming in too quickly through my lips.
'It's not funny,' I say, still trying to convince myself my husband is standing in front of me playing a very nasty joke. 'You know I hate the dark.'
Something slides across one of the shelves to the right of me and crashes to the floor. I hear the shards of glass shatter on the ground. I jump backward, slamming the middle of my back on the corner of the dryer. It's like a fat needle has been shot straight into my spine and I crouch to the ground, fighting back tears.
Applesauce. That's what I smell. Someone...something has knocked over a jar of applesauce from my pantry shelf. I don't dare move forward. I'm barefoot, but more than that I don't want to run into anyone. My breathing is still coming out ragged and uncontrolled.
Something brushes against my hand. It tickles me to the bone. I scurry backward and slip on something very wet on the floor. Was it the laundry soap? It had to have been, but it didn't feel like soap. This was much more watery than soap. I put my hand underneath my nostril and take a tentative sniff.
Rusty, metallic, and all too familiar.
The tears are flowing freely down my cheeks now, but the muscles in my body find their functionality and I scramble to get to my feet and dart from the room. I don't care that there is glass on the floor. I just want to get out of here.
One sharp and tiny piece of glass penetrates the skin on my left heel, but I still fly to the door. I feel along the wood for the handle, but I can't find it. My fingers fumble around and my sobs are now so loud, I'm surprised no one has heard me down here.
Something prickles on the back of my neck and I whip around. I'm pressed up against the door as much as I can as I feel goosebumps creep up my arms and my sides. But it's not cold. It's sweltering hot. So hot that sweat drips down my hairline and flicks off of my eyelashes.
I still smell blood and applesauce. I can't hear anything but my own crazy breathing patterns. I still can't see. Nothing but blackness. Sweat mingled with tears sting my tongue, and the shard of glass lodged in my heel takes on a new wave of pain.
I still can't find the doorknob.
But someone else does.
I fall backward as the door opens. Right into a warm and familiar chest.
'Whoa. Are you okay?'
His voice is the most beautiful thing in the world. Fate must think so too because the lights flicker back on. My eyes take forever to adjust to the brightness of it.
'What happened? Did you accidentally knock that over?' He's looking over my shoulder at the shattered jar of applesauce on the floor.
I can't find my voice. I don't even have the strength to move. I'm looking for the pool of blood on the floor, but there isn't any.
He lets go of me and examines the jar. 'I'll go get a mop. Don't come in here. There's glass everywhere.'
He stops and studies my face. I know I must look white, and a mess. He scoops me back into his arms.
'Hey, it's okay.'
I shake my head in his chest. 'I...I cut myself.'
He pulls back. 'Where?'
I point at my foot.
He crouches down and takes it delicately in his hands. But his expression suddenly changes. Now he's the one who loses his color.
'That bad?' I say.
His eyes flicker up to mine and a shadow of darkness flashes across his irises.
The lights go out.
Okay, now that I've officially scared the crap out of myself, I'm going to go change my pants. :) Happy Halloween everyone!
Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Versatile Blogger Award :)
Versatile: Capable of doing many things competently.
Hmm...not sure if I deserve this award, but hey! I will take it! A big Thank You to Krista at I Take the Pen! She has an amazing blog! So check it out if you haven't already!
Here are the rules:
Thank the person who nominated you. Tell 7 things about yourself so that your readers may learn more about you and nominate 15 other newly discovered bloggers and let them know you nominated them.
Seven things about Moi. Hmm...
1. My left elbow can bend the other the wrong way. I broke it twice when I was younger and got this magic power from it, lol.
2. I am a Harry Potter fanatic! My room growing up used to be covered in posters and calendars and shelves of toys (in their original boxes of course). Yes...I am a nerd.
3. I met my hubby when I was 15 years old. He's the first and only person I've kissed.
(insert cute 'awww')
4. One of the first stories I wrote was for a reflections contest in elementary school. I won a medal and a journal. It was about a hot air balloon trip.
5. I talk to myself...a lot. I act out scenes with my characters while I'm folding laundry or doing the dishes. Thankfully my kids aren't old enough to tell me, "Mom, you're writing out loud again."
6. Every Thursday night is spent curled up on the couch, glued to the TV. Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, The Office, and Project Runway line-up. (Don't judge me ;) )
7. I came up with the idea for the current MS I'm writing by falling down the stairs. My 3 year old looked down at me sitting on the landing by the door and said, "Momma, you need to be caaareful."
Now to pass on this lovely award. I know some of you may already have it, but that's okay :)
2. Jolene Perry @ Been Writing?
4. Maggie Fechner @ Mommy's Always Write
5. Kimberly Krey @ Kimberly Krey
7. Hope Roberson @ My Protector: The Calling
9. Catherine Denton @ Winged Writer
10. Charity Bradford @ Charity's Writing Journey
11. Tara Tyler @ Tara Tyler Talks
13. Melodie Wright @ Forever Rewrighting
14. Lisa Regan @ Lisa L. Regan
15. Carrie Butler @ So, You're a Writer...
I love all of these bloggers!
Yay for awards, and everyone have a fabulous weekend!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Critique Partner for Hire
Name: Cassie Mae
Genre of the book you want critiqued: MG Fantasy
What should your critique partner expect from you?
I read with an extremely critical eye, and I'm an active partner. I check my email everyday and I'll read the chapter you send me and have notes back to you very quickly. I'm willing to answer any questions/concerns you have with your MS at any time.
What do you expect from a critique partner?
I want to build a relationship with someone who will treat my MS with respect and care. I already have a critique partner (who is absolutely AMAZING!), but I am looking for another set of fresh eyes to tackle my book. I want honesty...even if it's brutal. But I also want someone who will answer questions for me if I'm having a difficult time getting through a certain scene, or building a character.
What kind of books are you interested in?
Anything really, but my favorites are in the YA and MG, but I do love a good romance, or literary fiction. I do not read erotica. I'm too immature to be helpful with that :) and I read historical fiction, but I know next to nothing about any history...unless it was about 5 minutes if you want help with facts, I'm probably not the best person to ask.
What do you hope to achieve from the critique partner relationship?
I want to gain a genuine friendship. I want to learn and grow in my writing. I want to help someone help achieve these very same things if I can. Most of all, I want to share my work with someone who can help make it stronger. And I love to read! So I would be a constant cheerleader, pushing and encouraging my partner to keep going with their MS.
So, if you are looking for someone like me *sheepish grin* please send me an email and let's start critiquing!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Giving Up or Moving On?
Because I'm posting this so soon after the Casting Call, I'm linking that post because it really is awesome!! (If I do say so myself ;) ) So if you missed my last post, here it is.
Okay...prepare yourself for a long read, but I hope that you'll stick around to read it all. Because I tell things better in story version, here it goes...
I stand in the center of a room. At least, I think it's the center. Everything is white, blank, like when an animator draws a solitary character on a crisp white piece of paper. My mind races with the possibilities before me, of what I can do to make this place beautiful. As ideas pop into my head, several staircases form in front of me, each one unique and bursting with the flames of intrigue. I want to explore them all, but I know I must pace myself, and only choose one staircase to focus on.
I pick one to my right. As I take my first step, an overwhelming feeling of anxiety sweeps over me. It's a good anxiety, one I want to feel more of, so I keep climbing, creating the ornate staircase one step at a time. After I climb for what seems like eternity, I finally reach what I feel is the final step. I turn around and look downward at my work. I'm so enthralled by it's beauty, and so pleased in my own accomplishments, I desire to share it with trusted friends. I want them to look at it, to tell me what they love about it, what they don't love about it. I know it's not perfect...not yet.
I pull out my cell phone and dial the numbers, feeling illuminated and light as my friends tell me they would love to see the grand staircase. I sit on the 'top stair' and wait for the phone to ring. Eventually, the calls come in. Some of them leave me in a state of complete bliss, and I go on and on about stair number 5 with them and how I came up with the idea on how to decorate that particular step. While other calls leave me in a state of stupidity. How could I have messed up step number 27 so badly it takes every effort for my friends to keep climbing?
After lots and lots of waiting, my friends have seen all of my work. They have several notes for me, all of which are extremely helpful. I thank them and send them back down the staircase while I sit and process what they all have said.
I know I must rework. There is tons to be done. I stand up to move downward, but instead, another stair forms going up. The exact replica of what I've already done lies before me, and I sigh a breath of relief that I don't have to climb the same stairs twice.
I start again, cutting out the eyesores and adding beautiful elements. A few steps are completely demolished while others are left alone. I reach the end again, cramped and exhausted. I sit down on the step and call different friends. Surely this time, I've gotten it right.
I soon realize that this staircase is just beginning. After the same process of building, reworking, rethinking, recreating happens over and over again, I finally feel that attempt number 8 is the polished and complete staircase. So beautiful and perfect, it's time to trust it into the hands of people I do not know.
I've heard of agents. I've researched who wants what in their staircase. I'm ready to let them glory in my work, as much as I have. I'm tired, but very anxious. I send word out to them about these grand steps, and hope they find me up here.
I receive no phone calls, but I do get lots of papers. Letters that float downward out of the unreachable sky and land at my feet. Each one saying the same thing. They do not wish to see my staircase.
I'm here on this step, slowly being beat down with every letter that finds its way to me. I create a bed, a fridge full of Ben and Jerry's, even a shelf of my favorite staircases, but I can't find it in my heart to look at them. They only make me more depressed.
After another letter reaches me, I only read the opening line, "Dear Staircase Maker, Although..." before I crumple it up and toss it downward. I bury my face in my hands and let the tears cascade down my cheeks. All my work, it truly was a labor of love, will never be seen by anyone but me, and a few close friends. I gaze upward, seeing a never-ending ascent into the unknown. It's dark and gives me an ominous feeling. I flick my eyes downward again to see the ornately carved staircase I've worked so hard on. One I have to leave behind once I reach the bottom. But I remember there are more staircases down there. Others that I could work on. I look at the step I'm on. It's comforting with it's relaxing furniture, endless supply of ice-cream, and there are lots of successful staircases I could look at. So, what do I do?
The three choices seem to pull at me from all directions, making me cry again. I sink my head down and pray as hard as I can to find the answer. Tell me what to do.
The answer is beautiful in its simplicity. One word reaches my ears. "Move."
Move...move where? There are two ways to move. Up or down. Another paper hits my foot and I reach down to look at it. It's another rejection, but this one is different. It gives reasoning why they do not wish to see my staircase. Real reasoning, not just the general "I've seen a staircase like yours before." They actually came and took a peek at my work.
A voice reaches my ears. A voice I never expected to hear out loud, because he only exists in my head. A character I created to take the journey on the staircase, he's shouting down at me. I can't see him, but I can see in my head the look on his face. He wants to be heard by more than just me. I can hear the pain in his voice if I stay on the step. Feeling elated, I stand up.
Two choices now. I won't stay here on this step, as comforting as it is. I need to keep climbing or descending. If I climb, who knows how many more steps there are like this one. How many times I'll want to sit and sulk. But my characters voice continues to echo downward at me, encouraging me to keep going up. If I descend, there are more staircases at the bottom, and I can begin creating anew. Several more ideas pop into my mind, and I'm excited to begin something new and different.
I gaze upward, I gaze downward. I square my shoulders and stalk over to the fridge and grab a pint of the Ben and Jerry's. I'm going to need it. There's a lot of hard work ahead of me. I take a deep breath and close my eyes as I take a step.
Yes, I'm leaving you hanging there. Because it doesn't matter if the step was up or down. All that matters is the narrator was moving on. Whether it was with this project or the next is irrelevant. He/she did not give up.
I think a lot of times we writers tend to feel guilty over times like these. When we feel so lost in our own work, and we're unsure whether we need to keep reworking the same manuscript or move on to the next one. It's a tough road either way, but we should not feel guilty, or feel like we 'gave up' when we put one project aside to work on a different one. It doesn't mean we failed. We can always hop a flight over to staircase one whenever we get tired of staircase two. I admit I've descended the staircase a lot more times than I've climbed. But the staircase is not forgotten. It is always there in the back of my mind as I climb more staircases.
We only give up when we stop altogether. It's nice to take a break on that comforting step, but to live there is dangerous for a true writer. It stalls our creativity. We must learn to take that rest, but pick ourselves back up and MOVE.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
My Warm Fuzzy for the Day
Before I begin my post, I've added a new page to my blog. I've posted my first page up for critique! (Gulp) So if you are interested, please send me any feedback you have on it. Thanks!
Okay, now onto my post :)
I joined Juliana Brandt's Warm Fuzzy BlogFest! If you want to join click here or click the warm fuzzy icon on my sidebar. :)
This week's question: What's the best response you've gotten when you've told someone you are a writer?
Here's my scenarios :)
Scene: I'm at a church activity, leaning against the wall and chatting with a friend.
"So, I saw on Facebook that you are writing a book."
"Yeah..." I say with a sheepish grin.
"That's really cool. How long is it?"
My face flushes. "Like, 400 pages." Her eyes widen and I quickly add, "but it hasn't been edited yet."
"Oh, you're like serious about it then."
I laugh. "Ya, I'm serious about it."
(That 400 page book is now much much shorter ;) )
Scene: I'm out with a friend I haven't spoken to in a long time. Husbands are at home with kids and I'm finally able to have some adult girl talk.
"What do you do?"
I swallow the chicken wrap I've been chewing on for the last ten seconds. "I'm a stay at home mom."
"That must be great to be able to stay at home!" she says enthusiastically and takes a sip of her water. "Do you want to go back to work eventually though?"
"Well, I'm a writer too," I say. Usually I avoid divulging this information. Past conversations have left things feeling awkward.
She raises her eyebrows. "Wow, what kind of stuff do you write?"
My stomach tenses up. Don't know why I'm so nervous about talking about this. "Mainly Young Adult and Middle Grade novels."
Her mouth drops. "Oh, I thought when you said 'writer' I thought you meant like poetry or something like that."
"I do that too, but it's not one of my strong suits."
She picks up her drink and takes another sip. I wait for the inevitable awkward silence that comes until I find something else to talk about, but she clears her throat and says, "Wow. I'm impressed."
We continued talking for a while about it, but I will stop there. It was so nice to talk about my book though with someone outside of the writing community. Got me a little more confident to tell people, 'Yes, I am a writer.'
Hope everyone has a fabulous day! :)
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Casting Call!
The wonderful Carrie Butler, Lisa Regan, and Melodie Wright are hosting this week's Casting Call! I'm here to introduce you to the fabulous people who have only been living in my head for the past, oh...let's just say they've been up there for a while, screaming to get out and let their story be told to the world!
Before you see them, I'd first like to thank my wonderful, amazing friend Taara for taking my nonsensical descriptions and drawing them so accurately. Thank you again Taara for taking the time out of your busy schedule to create visuals of my demanding characters.
Okay, here we go...drum roll please...
He is the main man...uh boy...who's snarky and sarcastic, but at the same time, very socially awkward. He finds himself thrown into a situation he can't exactly run away from, even though he has tried. His best friends are his parents, who seem to have mysteriously disappeared. His title is The Ultimate Immortal because, well, that's what he is. ;)
A pain-in-the-butt Sorceress of the Elements (someone who controls Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) who kidnaps Jonathan to save him from the evil guy. She's tight-lipped and stony with a tragic past, but she's one tough girl who can hold her own.
If I were to spend a day with any of these characters, I would definitely be hanging out with Trevor. He's fun and energetic who always has a (sometimes inappropriate) joke on the tip of his tongue. He's into beating unbeatable levels on video games and categorizing his movies by genre and taste. And since he's an illusionist, he sure knows how to be creative.
Very compassionate, loving, caring, thoughtful, and motherly girl. She balances Trevor (her husband) out perfectly! She's a transporter, which means she can pop in and out of view unexpectedly. Comes in handy when you need a quick get-a-way.
Shawn is one of the 'bad guys' sent to collect Jonathan and take him to The Master. He's bad, and he likes it. As an influencer, he's able to force people to think a certain way. He's so cocky and so wonderfully evil.
There you have it! My awesome characters! Thanks for stopping by and make sure to hit everyone's Casting Calls! (You can find the links on Carrie Butler's page, which I linked above.)
Friday, October 21, 2011
Awards and Contests
I think my stomach has been in one constant knot since I told my husband, 'Hey, I think I want to write a book.' And now I've finally found the courage (who knows where it came from) to enter in a few contests to--forgive the cliche--test the writing waters. I entered in a few last week, and the one I am currently in is called 'An Agent's Inbox' over on Mother. Write. Repeat.
It'll be a few days before the agent makes her announcement of who wins, and honestly I don't expect to, but I entered so I could get some opinions on my first page and query. There are a bunch of great entries over there, and if you haven't already, you should go look at some of them. And while you are over there, you can check out my entry and please tell me what you think of it. I could use all the help I can get and if you have any good notes for me, that would be great!
Here's the link for my entry: The Privileged
Thanks everyone for all your amazing support! I love this 'Writer's Unite!' blogging world and I'm so happy to be a part of it all. :)
And the wonderful A.E. Martin gave me my very first award! (Thank you!!!) She has an awesome blog, so hop on over and check it out.
The rules are to thank the person who gave you the award and pass it on to fifteen recently discovered blogs. I've decided to pass it on to my most recent followers: 1: Karen Lee Hallam 2: Kelley Lynn 3: Ninja Girl 4: Rachael Renee Anderson 5: L.M Miller 6: Lisa L. Regan 7: Angie C.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I Need a Hero (Part Three): Bad to the Bone
We've reached the third and final segment of my ramblings on some pretty awesome characters, and why I think they are so loved. I've already talked about those amazing protags and their lovers/best buds, but what is it that makes a hero? Opposition! If any of you have seen Megamind, you'll know what I mean by that. Without the bad guy, it's boring! Sometimes the bad guy isn't a guy (or girl)'s a thing, or a personal struggle. Either way, without the conflict it would be just some person you're reading about that has no real goal. Let me boring. So, I'll be going in the same order as the other posts...enjoy!
Luke/Kronos: Rick Riordan really does his research. He picks the demon of all demons and then sticks him inside of a demi-god's body. Agh! Freak me out! Now Luke has a damaged past, vindictive feelings towards his father and such, so it makes him a perfect candidate for the antagonist. It's hard to not want him to come around and defeat his literal inner demon, but then again, you are rooting for Percy to kick some serious butt. What I'm saying is, a good antag can make the reader understand where they are coming from and why they are so bad. Luke does this well.
Jane: There are too many 'bad guys' in this story so I'm picking the least for me. Little girls scare me, I'm not kidding. Their innocent persona is all an act, and Jane is a scary little monster who can cause you so much pain you want to kill yourself, and then if she feels like it, she'll do it for you. I think she's scary to me because she scares the crap out of Bella...and Bella is immune to her! This is a good example of a bad girl who we don't know the entire story. I like that too. It's just the way she's lived her entire vampire life, so for her, this is normal.
President Snow: There are so many 'bad guys' in this story too, but the real bad guy is this fat, red lipped, stinks like a rotting corpse, president who makes teens battle it out against each other in an arena and has everyone watch it like Survivor. I love stories in which the government plays a huge part, because the 'little people' are trapped, threatened, and beaten into doing what they want. Dictatorship...ugh, what an ugly word. But Katniss' rebel fire is what takes him down, and she still manages to keep her head throughout it all. She knows what's right. But I digress, because now I'm talking about the protag again.
WARNING! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ FABLEHAVEN, AND YOU WANT TO, DO NOT READ THIS PARAGRAPH! Gavin: Again, so many bad guys, but this one is my favorite! He had me fooled the entire time, and I was falling in love with him and when I found out his true character, I almost threw the book across the room because I was so pissed! How could he do this to me! But what a great evil character to evoke such a strong emotion in its reader, and to have been able to trick me the entire way. To this day, that is one of my most shocking reading experiences ever!
Gollum: I like this creature. His story is so sad, but it makes it all the more understandable. He transforms into what he is because he was so consumed by the evil power of the ring. The ring itself is the bad guy in this story because it will bring out the worst part of someone. To battle with one's self is a real challenge, and sometimes we end up losing...just like this sad creature.
Lord Voldemort: AGH! He doesn't even have a body (for the first little bit) and he's still running the show. And then he gets one and Bam! It's so much worse! And I'm sorry, a bad dude that kills little babies...that's just pure evil. And we know his story. And I like how he relates to Harry in many ways, but you can see the difference their choices make. Like Dumbledore the movie I think...'It's not our abilities that make us who we are, it is our choices.' Voldemort is the ultimate bad guy, and when he finally gets's one of the best parts of the book!
Now some of my own evil guys...again in the same order...
The Master: He's an immortal who has the power to control any living organism...a puppet master so to speak. He kills any immortal who possesses a power that would trump his own before they are old enough to know how to use it. And he's after my protag for one purpose: to use him so he can not only have dominion over the immortal realm, but the mortal world too. His back story is tragic, but I'm not going to give it away just yet. :)
Zoe: In this story, Zoe is her own personal bad guy. She's battling with her obsession to be accepted and popular that she hides who she really is. She inflicts every conflict on herself and it's hard to change once that's happened.
Claire Timothy: Emmaline's sister who seeks to kill her so she can take the throne. She's a tiny little thing with big plans to control the country. She kills without blinking an eye, and she's very superior. She's an evil little thing.
Well, that's it! If you missed part one or part two go check them out! And please mention any of your own characters or bad guys that scare the crap out of you!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
I Need a Hero (Part Two): I think I'm in Love
Yesterday I posted about some of the popular protags in books, and now I'd like to talk about another awesome thing about them...their love interests. (Or for some of them, their best buddies.) Personally, I think the love interest and the best friend are just as important as the hero of the story. I relate to the hero because of the relationships they have, so if I could be friends with these characters, I fall in love with them, just like the main character does. If they can evoke the same strong feelings in me when I read their lines or their actions, then the book becomes one of my instant favorites. Enough about me...let's talk about those awesome love interests and best friends! (I'll be going in the same order as I did yesterday.)
Annabeth: She's awesome! I like reading her because she puts Percy in his place all the time. She controls that ego of his with her teasing humor and glares. And not to mention she's brilliant and strong. She can hold her own. But she has her weaknesses, like everyone. She has a tense relationship with her father...and obviously her mother...and she's in love with the bad guy. And a girl who wants to change the guy for the better is totally relatable.
Edward Cullen: Swoon. He is the epitome of sexy vampire. When I read twilight, I would reread his lines to see the hidden meaning behind them. He says he was incapable of changing, but when he meets her, he's changed for real this time, and he can never love someone else. Talk about commitment. And I like that he's 'old fashioned' when it comes to sex. He's different, he's not someone who you can find anytime, anywhere. That's what makes him sexy. Not the fact he's a vampire, or he's even a good vampire, but of the person he is. (This is of course book Edward, not movie Edward.)
Peeta Mellark: Oh my goodness, I love Peeta! He is my favorite love interest of all time, I'm not kidding! He's so...perfect in his imperfections. He's not the 'hunter' but he's the caring and sensitive guy who sees the good in a girl who feels she doesn't deserve it. He's loved her since he was a little boy...come on, that's cute...and though his life wasn't as hard as Katniss', his life wasn't easy. And yet he's so compassionate. And he's smart. He's smooth. He knows how to express himself. I reread his scenes with Katniss and fall in love with him over and over again. (Don't tell the hubby ;) )
Bracken: Now, I realize that this unicorn doesn't show up until the very last book, but he has such an impact on the story, it's hard not to mention him. He befriends Seth immediately, and Kendra and him have an instant connection. He's trustworthy and strong, and kicks some serious butt when it comes to fighting demons (real and inner). And he gives up a lot of things for the greater good, which backfires, and yet he doesn't resent that. He moves on and does what he can to rectify it.
Sam: Now, Frodo doesn't have a love interest, but he does have an amazing best friend. Sam is my personal favorite character. He's loyal and caring and there is no way Frodo would have made it all the way to Mount Doom without him. What I love most about him is he was never tempted by the ring. (Book Sam) And to me, that says a lot about his character.
Ron Weasley: Harry has a love interest, but there is two people who stick by him throughout the entire series, and since Ron is my favorite, I'm going to talk about him. He is a grumpy gus, but he's hilarious! He's always put on the backburner, which is why I'm so happy he gets the girl. He's not the brightest kid, but that doesn't stop him from triumphing. He's average, and yet at the same time, he does more for Harry than I think anyone realizes. I want to go through each book and tell you how, but I really don't have the space for that. :)
Now, some of my characters love interests...(again in the same order)
Tamara: She's headstrong and knows how to take care of herself. She has a tragic background that has caused her to keep a distance from everyone, but she's so protective over Jonathan, he can't help but be drawn to her, even if she is a pain in the butt.
Zakary Gibbons: He's a nerd who loves going to Comic Con and talking Elvish and reading the hidden meanings behind World of Warcraft. But most of all, he's not ashamed of who he is. He doesn't change himself for anyone just to become socially acceptable. And he's a good friend, even to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Benjamin York: Emma and Rupert were both the narrators in this book, and I talked about them both yesterday, so I'm introducing you to Benjamin, the loyal friend and body guard of the two mc's. He's incredibly smart, and loves learning new things. And even though he risks his life for these two people he barely knows, he does it because he knows it's the right thing to do.
If you missed part one, you can find it here and part three here
And please share some love interests and best buddies who you love!
Monday, October 17, 2011
I Need a Hero (Part one)
Have you ever read a book and fallen in love with the protag? I know what you're thinking...ALL THE TIME! So it got me thinking about what makes a good hero. They are all different, but what do they have that makes them so lovable? There are several reasons, but I think the main one would be because they are relatable. Here are a few popular examples...
Percy Jackson. I love the voice he has. He's snarky and brave, but what I love most about him is the genuine love he has for his mother. It makes him vulnerable, but as a mom of two boys, I hope when they are teenagers they still love me like they do now...even if they don't admit it, 'cause that wouldn't be cool.
Bella Swan: I honestly find her annoying as all get out, HOWEVER, whenever I read the book, I can't help but picture myself in her shoes. It's not Bella talking, it's Cassie. And I'm feeling things I don't want to feel, and getting annoyed with myself. Think about Bella for a minute, and if you see anything that describes who you are, or who you've been in the past, then you'd be joining about all the female population. (And if you are a guy, then you don't have to think about it, lol) She views herself as ordinary, nothing special, falls for an unattainable hottie, has a weird relationship with her parents, has a best friend 'down the street', and gets her heart broken by said hottie and feels like it's the end of the world. I could keep going, but for the sake of space, I'll stop there.
Katniss Everdeen: A true bad-a who knows how to kick some serious butt! I read in Katniss' perspective and I want to be her. I only wish I could do half the things she can. Not only that, but she's smart. She's cautious and brave, and sacrificing. Who doesn't want a heroine like that?
Seth and Kendra Sorenson: I chose both of them because the story is told from both of their POV's. But they are so different, and yet both such lovable heroes. Seth is naive and risky, but by making all the mistakes he does, he learns (the hard way) how to deal with difficult things. He's also super funny and therefore a lot of fun to read. Kendra is more cautious, but she has to deal with the same fallout that comes from Seth's decisions. And she uses her head and takes risks as well, thinking them all the way through.
Frodo Baggins: Who would have thought that a little hobbit could travel across middle earth battling orcs and urikai (or however you spell that) and big giant spiders, all the while carrying a possessed ring that brings out your inner demons? And you have a freaky little mutated hobbit as your guide who tries to get you killed more than once. Ya, I'd say Frodo is a definite hero who deserves to be loved.
Harry Potter: (Now, you knew I'd talk about him) My favorite hero of all time, Harry is thrown into a world he didn't know existed, after being bullied his whole life by his aunt, uncle, and cousin. But what I love about Harry is he is human. He gets pissed off and does stupid things. And we've watched him grow throughout the series to become someone who keeps things in perspective and sacrifices himself for the greater good. His ability to love is what makes him a hero. Not his magical skills. We can all find a little bit of ourselves as we read his story.
Now, allow me to introduce you to a few of my own protags, and why I fell in love with them when I wrote them.
Jonathan Stevens: He's sarcastic, but socially awkward. He's not completely confident in his abilities, but that doesn't stop him from doing what he knows is right. And when it comes to saving someone he cares about, he'd pretty much do anything to make sure they aren't hurt in anyway, even if that means putting himself in harm's way. I like writing for him because he says exactly how he feels, even if it comes out in an awkward way.
Zoe Livingston: She's a total fraud, hiding behind things that would make her popular instead of being herself. She sees what mess she's making, but she doesn't do anything to stop it for fear of being bullied or laughed at. Her internal struggle is what makes her relatable, and fun to write for.
Rupert Hestivan: He's got a temper, and he's had a pretty rough childhood. He was beaten by his father up until he was eighteen. He also pretended to be a mute his whole life because of his fear of his father. He's vulnerable and damaged, but he's got a good heart underneath it all. And he's driven. When he sets his sights on something, he follows through. Writing for him is fun because of how tortured he is.
Emmaline Timothy: She's young, naive, and outgoing, but most of all she's compassionate. She hasn't quite found her place in the world yet and has to 'fly by the seat of her pants'. She hasn't had to deal with tragedy, so when she does, it's a whole new experience for her. Whenever I write for her, I make sure to have her emotions right on the surface.
There are several other things that make a hero lovable, which include their love interest and their enemy. So stay tuned for Part Two and Part Three of this post when I talk about those awesome characters!
Is there a hero you love that I didn't mention? Tell me why you love them :)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Dealing with Inadequacy
Worst part of revising? So far it's been the constant voice in my head that tells me I'm wasting my time because the story is good, but it's not told very well. I rewrite, and rework it so it sounds better, but I can't help but think when I go over it a third time, I will feel the same way about what I've changed already. I kept wondering if this was normal. I didn't want to give up on the book because I think it's a great story, so how do I make it better? Will it ever live up to my expectations? Will I ever have the guts to send it to agents?
So, let me just tell you how awesome my critique partner and my beta readers are. (I know I've said it before, but bear with me :) ) I was looking over the notes on a particular chapter and there were some typos and funky sentences, but because my readers are such wonderful people, I had some really great notes there as well. Whenever I read an uplifting comment, it would outweigh the feelings of inadequacy, and I could keep going.
Without meaning to sound too cliche, writing is an emotional roller coaster. One day I'm raving about the scene I just wrote and the next I'm hacking it to pieces. My poor characters have taken some beatings from me, not to mention the real life people I interact with, and I've had to rely on a lot of things to get me through it...prayer, chocolate, hugs, movies and books that make me laugh, and did I mention chocolate? Lots and lots of chocolate!
I hope I'm not the only writer that doesn't feel good enough sometimes. I think that's what makes us better writers. If we started out perfect, there is no room for growth, creativity, and ideas. So as much as I hate 'hating' on myself, I know it'll help me in the long run. (And keeps me balanced, for when those times I feel full of myself.)
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Whew, I made it!
Revision day is here! It's been almost three weeks since I typed out those last words of my latest book, and now I can dive right back in. During my break, I've started writing another project, spent more time with the kids, studied up on revision, and gone crazy. I wasn't expecting to take this long of a break, but I'm glad I did. I have all the notes from my first round of Betas, so now I can put them to good use. Yay...very excited!
I'm also on the look out for my second round of Beta readers (my charlies :) ) So, if you are interested, let me know!
Thanks everyone again for the support. It means so much to me!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Yay for contests!
I entered a contest at Lisa Regan's blog for a 50 word pitch for my fantasy book. I decided to enter The Privileged.
I'm also going to be doing the Casting Call, which I'll be doing for the same book. I'm super excited about this and can't wait for you all to see the people I picture when I write them.
Wish me luck!!
Monday, October 10, 2011
A Writer's Pay Days
My mommy often describes certain events as 'pay days' for mothers. I completely agree with her about this. When my son wraps his arms around me and says 'I love you' it's a pay day. When my baby learns to take his first steps, when the boys share their toys with each other, or when they do anything on their own, it's a pay day. I'm lucky that I have pay days almost every day.
As with mothering, writing is the same way. We writers aren't guaranteed to be paid. We work hard, put everything we have into our writing, and spend countless hours staring at the computer (or notepad) writing, rewriting, editing, critiquing, reading, and stressing, crying, screaming, all at the same time trying not to lose our sanity. (That last part sounds exactly like mothering as well, lol) So, I look forward to those 'pay days' as a writer, which can be just as priceless as actually getting paid. (or so I assume)
For example:
The first chapter you ever write for a WiP, and every chapter that follows it.
Completing your first draft.
Getting those emails from your beta readers and critique partners.
When people quote things to you from your book.
Getting to the rewrite.
Laughing at a scene you've written.
Creating a lovable character.
Creating a despised character.
Completing your second draft.
When people ask when it's their turn to read one of your books.
When people ask if you've written the sequel yet.
When people comment on your facebook page or blog (wink).
Coming up with a new idea.
Completing your third draft...and the fourth, and the fifth, and the sixth...
Getting a helpful rejection...Yes I do count this as a pay day.
Getting a request for a partial or full.
Realizing where you've gone wrong, and knowing how to fix it.
I really could go on and on, and I'm sure you all have many more examples. Please share them in the comment thread if you have any to add.
Even as a currently unpublished and unsigned author, I still get to experience the wonderful feeling that comes with getting paid to do what I love. I see it happen every day as I mother, and as I write. :)
Friday, October 7, 2011
Character Quirks
Raisin Bran is one of my favorite cereals, however...I hate the taste of raisins. So, every time I pour myself a bowl, I pick out all the raisins I can find before I put milk in it. I've tried buying just bran cereal, but it just doesn't taste the same. There's something about raisin bran that is so yummy...without the raisins. I know, I'm weird.
But it got me thinking about the quirks I gave my characters. Just like me with my Raisin Bran, things that made them unique. (And perhaps a little weird too.) For example:
There is one character that twiddles her fingers when something is bugging her. The fact that my MC notices every time she does this, makes her easier to read without her ever having to say something.
Another character hates awkward silences, and always tries to cover them with an elaborate movement. Like slamming a book on a table, slapping his knee, stretching his arms out, or making faces at people in the room.
And my MC always makes a joke when he's uncomfortable. The reactions he gets from different characters either makes him more uncomfortable, or eases the tension in the room.
What I realized as I gave characters different quirks like these was not only was I adding humor to the storyline, I was giving them consistency. I was giving them personality. I was making them human. Whenever I went through the dialog, I highlighted whoever was talking in a specific color. That way when I read all the blue lines, for example, I made sure it all sounded like the same person. I've heard this works for a lot of writers, and it definitely works for me.
Body language is just as important as dialog. The actions that come from a character need to be consistent. That's why I loved giving them each a unique trait.
What are some quirks you have? Or quirks you've given your characters?
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Am I getting better?
WARNING: Very long post ahead. I didn't think I would end up writing another novel ;)
Just as with anything else, writing gets better with practice. And with a lot of studying. I have to admit, I had no clue what I was doing when I wrote novel #1, and I queried WAY too soon. I was unprepared, and very naive about the entire thing, but do I regret it? No.
I'll tell you why. I learned so much from that experience, and literary agents gave me such great feedback, even though the answer was 'no', some gave me areas where I needed work. As I look back at that first novel, I cringe at all the things I know are wrong with it. It needs some desperate TLC, which I hope to give it some day, but as for right now, I'm focusing on another project. The one I started after preparing myself, and studying up on all the lingo and 'rules' of good writing.
Here are the basic mistakes I made with attempt #1, which I have since learned from and I am doing now.
No Beta Readers: I was too much of a chicken to send it out to anyone I knew, except my mommy, and even then, I was terrified. I know this sounds completely ridiculous, because I was willing to send it to literary agents. For some reason, in my head, I find it so much more intimidating sending it to people I see most days, or I talk to often. I've never been good at sharing my talents with these people, because I'm afraid they'll feel obligated to like it, and I wouldn't get the truth. And then if I got the truth, and it was bad, I'd be afraid that our relationship would have this underlining tension...them wondering if I'm upset with them, and me wondering if they are wondering that. (If that makes sense.)
Anyway, I'm rambling, but the point is, I need beta readers! And I needed to learn how to trust the people I chose. When I realized I needed them, I posted a request on facebook (with shaking fingers) and sent it out. Of course this was after I had already queried several agents. *slaps forehead*
No Critique Partner: I didn't even know what a critique partner was, lol. And until I had one, I didn't realize how essential they are. Not only were they diving into my manuscript, I was going through theirs. Doing this has taught me a lot about voice, descriptions, plot, narrative, character development, showing vs telling, too many adverbs, hooks, cliffhangers...things I didn't know much or anything about until I had to critique someone's work. I have a FABULOUS critique partner now (thank you QueryTracker, for letting me find her) and I'm looking for more.
Thinking the first draft was ready for agents: Do I need to explain more? Ugh, what was I thinking?
Not a clear voice: I've talked about this before, but I didn't have an intriguing enough least in the first few chapters. As I read on, it sounded like I'd finally found it, but an agent wouldn't read all the way to chapter five if page one was all back story.
Not researching: I researched 'how to get published' and got the basics, but I didn't research the things I needed to. I knew the process, but I didn't know what it took to be successful. One agent I queried, one I will query again because of her wonderfully personalized rejection said this: (Oh I can't believe I'm sharing this with you...eep!)
Dear Cassandra,
Thank you for your query, and for the sample of the novel. I read all the material with interest, and certainly thought your concept was intriguing. I love the dilemma that your protagonist finds himself in, not knowing what choice to make with the knowledge he has.
Regrettably, though, I have to pass. While there's a lot to recommend your novel, ultimately I wasn't as taken with the writing as I had hoped to be. The descriptions of the area don't really make sense. They seem more in keeping with someone from a different area, where other land masses might be out there or life was advanced so the way of life here would be called 'primitive'. There's also a tendency to tell, rather than show, what's going on.
Naturally, another agency may have an entirely different opinion, so I urge you to query others with this project. I wish you every success.
Awesome Agent
I actually loved getting this rejection letter because it gave me something that I was quickly losing: hope. Hope that someone was actually reading my work, and hope that there was something there with my idea. And it gave me direction. Oh Awesome Agent, I want to query you again, but next time, I will prepare for it. I received this rejection from the first draft, actually two days after I finished it. Agh! If only I had been ready, I may have received a request, but live and learn.
I could go on and on with what I didn't know, and I'm sure there is more that I don't know, but I am learning. I'm studying and growing. I can already tell with the current work in progress I've improved. I'm hoping that I keep improving as I continue to write. Everyone's blogs have been extremely helpful. The online community and support we writers have for each other is amazing. It's not a group of people fighting each other for an agent, it's a family, one I'm so lucky to be a part of. And everyone has helped remove some of my ignorance in this writing world.
So am I getting better? I'd like to think so.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Waiting and waiting and waiting...
Patience is the most evil word in the history of words. It seems in the world of writing, all we ever do is wait and wait and every point in the process. I read a post from a blogger friend which basically summed up what we wait for, allow me to paraphrase. We wait to be inspired, we wait for an idea, we wait for beta readers, we wait for revision time, we wait for query time, we wait while querying....a lot! Then there's the waiting that I've never experienced, which is once represented there is more submission entries, more waiting. I bet the submission process heightens every emotion you experience during querying about ten times. My gut clenches just thinking about it. Then if the book gets snagged up, and you're doing your happy dance and screaming out...there is more waiting. It may be a year or two before its release date, and during that time I'm sure before contracts are drawn out and official, you have to wait to tell everyone.
This is worse than pregnancy in terms of patience...I never thought I would say that.
So why do we writers do it? Plain and simple, because despite all the waiting and anxiety, we love to write. I think every writer has passion, drive, potential, and the willingness to learn. We all have the chance to be successful in this business, as long as we push through all the hard times and learn (sigh) patience.
What inspired me to post about this today? My ever anxious fingers want to plow back into my recently finished first draft. It is killing me not to open up the document and dive into places I know need some work. I have been rewriting in my sleep, I'm sure my husband has heard me talking while I'm unconscious about adverbs and showing vs telling and so on and so forth. I still have another week before I can touch it...agh!
So, what to do with my time while I wait? I'm always up for a good book, I've been blogging, I've started new projects, but honestly I've had to stay away from the computer as much as I can because my self control is losing its strength...and I've found myself opening that folder that says 'The Privileged', and then quickly clicking the close button before I look at the words there. Because if I read even a little bit, I won't be able to resist my editing fingers.
Spending lots of time with the family is helping to distract me. The boys are really good at turning my attention to other things. And my girl's night out last night was indeed a good idea, and hopefully I see a date with my hubby on the horizon. And maybe, just maybe with all the distractions, I can get through this week without completely losing my mind.
So, here's to waiting...and learning patience, which is a never-ending lesson in life, and to the beauty that is the life of a writer. Though it is a tough career, it is completely worth it!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
I would be lying to you if I felt confident about everything in my life 24 hours a day. I think anyone who claims that would be lying to you. And it has been one of those weeks when I felt quite the opposite of confident.
I'm a religious person, and I rely on the power of prayer to get me through these type of weeks, days, months, whatever, but I find myself often skirting around asking certain things of the Lord, feeling too insignificant, or too unworthy to be asking for them. After all, I'm already so incredibly blessed, why should I be asking for more?
When I decided to make writing a career, I asked the Lord to give me opportunities to learn, to grow, to be happy and successful in the decision I've made. However, I can not find it in me to ask for specifics, like getting an agent, getting published, or even finishing a book. It felt like I would be asking to star in the next blockbuster was too much, so unattainable, that I would be wasting my breath to ask for it.
Can you see the problem already? It's not that it is too much to ask for, it is my lack of faith, my lack of confidence, in my Heavenly Father, and in myself. Today, as I listened to many talks, there was one that struck my heart so profoundly, it made me realize how ridiculous I was being.
There was a story told, the moral being that Heavenly Father always hears our prayers, and considers everything we ask for with love, no matter how insignificant...or how outlandish it may seem to others. Because it is important to us, it is important to Him, because He loves us.
It got me thinking, though I haven't asked for those specific things that seem too extravagant for little ol' me, I was still receiving the blessings that I have asked for. Why would my Heavenly Father deny me the things I want/desire if He felt they were right for me? And even if I never get published, never find an agent, why would Heavenly Father deny me the love and comfort I will need in those times of feeling not good enough?
He wouldn't. He hasn't.
I already have so much, so many blessings that have helped me be the person I am now. I have a loving husband and two great baby boys. I have a supportive family, loving parents and siblings, and great neighbors. I have my girls, those beautiful young women who inspire me daily with their strength in this scary world. I have great friends who encourage me to be who I am, and give me a listening ear.
Back to writing...I have so much here as well. The Lord has blessed me with the drive I need to keep going, to persevere despite setbacks and difficulties. I have the tools to learn, to grow, and to expand my abilities in this tough business. I have an amazing online support system, a great critique partner, wonderful beta readers, and so much more!
I am not too insignificant for the things I want, because I already have them. And I must remember it each night as I kneel down to thank my Heavenly Father. Hopefully now I can find the strength to ask Him for all the desires of my heart.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Can you hear me?: Finding your voice
I like to explore as I write. Not one of my projects have been narrated by the same age or even the same gender as each other. So how do I get a strong voice from each story?
I research for starters. The first novel I wrote felt easy, because the character was my age so I thought I could relate, but when I read over it, I couldn't tell if the narrator was female or male. I didn't really get a sense of who they were, or how they would respond to different situations. So I went back over it, doing something I've heard works for other writers and interviewing my characters before my rewrite, and using it as the backbone to getting the voice I needed. Since this book was told in two different perspectives, a 20 year old girl and a 24 year old guy, I 'interviewed' both of them.
It worked! As I was rewriting, I found myself shaking my head at some of the dialog, saying to myself, 'Now wait a minute, that's not what Rupert would say here.' And I changed it to make his character more consistent, more believable, and more real. I did the same with Emma, and now I do that before every new WiP. I interview my main character, and when another character is introduced, I do the same. Just as it is important to do this with the 'good guys' it's good to do this with my antagonist too. I've even used characters interviewing each other, which has been really fun.
I've loved stretching myself and working out of my comfort zones as I try writing for different ages, different genres, and finding out what works best for me. :)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Sharing God's Love
1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)
Solomon Rosenberg, his wife, his 2 sons, and his mother and father were arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust of WWII. It was a labor camp and the rules were simple: "As long as you can do your work, you are permitted to live. When you become too weak to do your work, then you will be exterminated."
Rosenberg watched his mother and father being marched off to their deaths when they became too weak to work. He knew that his youngest son, David, would be next because David had always been a frail child.
One day Rosenberg came back, but he didn’t see those familiar faces. He finally discovered his oldest son, Joshua, in a corner, huddled, weeping, and praying. He said, "Josh, tell me it’s not true." Joshua turned and said, "It is true, Poppa. Today David was not strong enough to do his work, so they came for him."
"But WHERE is your mother?" Asked Mr. Rosenberg.
"Oh Poppa," he exclaimed. "When they came for David, he was afraid and he was crying. Momma said, ‘There is nothing to be afraid of, David,’ . . . . And then she took his hand and went with him."
There are few things as strong as the love of a parent for their children – a love so strong that it would choose to give up life so their child can be comforted.
The love of Mrs. Rosenberg pictures the sacrificial love Jesus has for us. In order to take away our fear of death, He went before us (Hebrews 2:14-15). He met death "head on" – in fact, He died for us so that we might have the forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life (Ephesians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:10). Jesus was buried but emerged from the grave victorious, so that we might have hope in the Resurrection. "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 15:55, 57).
The victory belongs to those who submit their lives to Christ: believing in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turning from sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confessing Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and being baptized (immersed) for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:38). Victory will continue to be enjoyed by those who continue to follow Jesus faithfully for the rest of their lives (1 John 1:7).
Today is a good day to share that love not only with your children but to those He brings into your life.
Dear Lord, help us show your love to all those that come in our path today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Consider Back Pain Real Joy?
James 1:2-4 (NIV)
During the past months we have received reports from my doctors that in the human mind are hard to understand. Today’s verses have been a real encouragement. No life is free from encounters with pain, disappointment, struggles, and temptations. We all go through storms and through them, we either become better, or we become bitter.
If we choose to focus on our misery during these storms, our love for God can grow cold. We will question His sovereignty: “Where was God when I needed Him? How could He allow this to happen to me?” Our passion and fervor for God begin to wane, and though we pray or attend church, there is now an invisible wall between us and God.
Although enduring storms is never easy, we can often look back on them as some of the more intense periods of growth in our lives. If we choose to depend on God in the midst of our storms, we will come through them with greater faith, commitment, and effectiveness for Christ. Sometimes it is in our darkest and most turbulent storms that we see our greatest victories.
Let’s pray for each other as we all go through the trials of life that we may be strong and receive the victory that God has for each one of us.
Dear Lord, as we go through the storms in life we pray that we would stay focused on You. We pray that we would allow the difficult time to grow and become more like You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Love Wrapped Around Like a Shirt.
1 John 4:9-11 (NIV)
Growing up one of the things I remember about vacation was that mom would spend weeks before getting ready to leave. By getting ready I mean she would sew each days outfits. Yes each and every day we would match as the 5 of us traveled across the great USA. As I read this story it reminded me of this great memory.
"Do you like my dress?" She asked of a passing stranger. "My mommy made it just for me." She said with a tear in her eye.
"Well, I think it's very pretty, so tell me little one, why are you crying?"
With a quiver in her voice the little girl answered.
"After Mommy made me this dress, she had to go away."
"Well, now," said the lady, "with a little girl like you waiting for her, I'm sure she'll be right back."
"No ma'am, you don't understand," said the child through her tears, "my Daddy said that she's up in heaven now with Grandfather."
Finally the woman realized what the child meant, and why she was crying. Kneeling down she gently cradled the child in her arms and together they cried for the mommy that was gone. Then suddenly the little girl did something that the woman thought was a bit strange. She stopped crying, stepped back from the woman and began to sing. She sang so softly that it was almost a whisper. It was the sweetest sound the woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small bird. After the child stopped singing she explained to the lady,
"My mommy used to sing that song to me before she went away, and she made me promise to sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me stop." "See," she exclaimed, "it did, and now my eyes are dry!"
As the woman turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve,
"Lady, can you stay just a minute? I want to show you something."
"Of course," she answered, "what do you want me to see?"
Pointing to a spot on her dress, she said,
"Right here is where my Mommy kissed my dress, and here,"
pointing to another spot,
"and here is another kiss, and here, and here," "Mommy said that she put all those kisses on my dress so that I would have her kisses for every boo-boo that made me cry."
Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at a Mother who knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away the hurts that she knew her daughter would get. So she took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put them into this dress that her child now so proudly wore. She no longer saw a little girl in a simple dress, she saw a child wrapped in her Mother's love.
What a great example of God’s love. He wraps each of us in His love to protect and guide us. Take the time today to share that love.
Dear Lord, thank You that You wrap us in Your great love. Help us share that love today by wrapping our arms around someone today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Are You Setting and Example to Others?
Titus 2:7-8 (NIV)
Anthusa lived from 330 to 374 A.D. in Antioch. Widowed at the age of 20, she is remembered for her influence in the life of her son, John Chrysostom, one of the greatest preachers and leaders of the 4th-century church. Her contemporaries described Anthusa as cultured, attractive, and from a wealthy family. Yet she chose to not remarry after her husband's death, deciding instead to devote herself to rearing her two children, John and his sister.
Anthusa provided for John the ablest teachers. Her Christian example made such an impression on one of her son's teachers that he exclaimed: "What wonderful women are found among Christians!'" John later wrote that his mother not only taught her children to know and love the teachings of the Bible, but also that her very life was a model of biblical teaching.
People are watching you to see if Jesus Christ DOES make a difference in your life.
Are you setting an example to others?
Dear Lord, we pray that we would be the Christian example to those around us today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Love at Home
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
If we live in a house of spotless beauty with everything painted and in its place, but have not love, we are a housekeeper-not a homemaker.
If we have time for mowing the yard, washing the car, and painting, but have not love, our children learn cleanliness-not godliness.
Love leaves the dirt on the car in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window.
Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is there through the trials.
Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, and then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood.
Before I became a father I took glory in the fact that the house was in prefect condition.
Now I glory in God's perfection of my child. As a father, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
Dear Lord, help us have our priorities right as we raise the children that You have given to us. Help our lives be filled with love as we teach and train our children. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Are You Helping Your Children to Know the Lord?
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
Start children off on the way they should go,
In the late 1880's, Benjamin B. Warfield, a professor at Princeton University, traced the known descendants of Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was the first president of Princeton and one of the key preachers in religious revival known as the "Great Awakening" during the eighteenth century. Warfield charted the 1,394 known descendants of Edwards. Of his known descendants there were 13 college presidents, 65 college professors, 30 judges, 100 lawyers, 60 physicians, 75 army and navy officers, 100 pastors, 60 authors of prominence, 3 United States senators, 80 public servants in other capacities including governors and ministers to foreign countries, and one vice-president of the United States.
Richard Dugdale, a sociologist and a contemporary of Warfield's, traced the known descendants of Max Jukes. Jukes was a Dutch immigrant that arrived in New York in the early 1700's. An alcoholic who couldn't hold a job, of the 903 descendants of Jukes, 300 were delinquents, 145 confirmed drunkards, 90 were prostitutes, and over 100 spent an average of 13 years in prison including seven were convicted for murder. The Jukes' family cost the taxpayers of New York over 1.2 million dollars. The descendants of Edwards never cost the government a single penny, instead making contributions of incalculable worth.
The best ministry parents can have is to train their children to know Jesus Christ. Are you helping your child to know the Lord?
Dear Lord, today we pray for our children. Help us to take the time to teach them to know You better. Help us prepare them with a good foundation so that they will become the person You want them to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Does Your Time Have to be Bought?
Deuteronomy 11:19 (NIV)
As I laid in bed last night not being able to sleep I was reading some articles on parenting. I came across this story and wanted to share it.
Greatly surprised, but giving his boy a glaring look, the father said: "Look, son, not even your mother knows that". "Don't bother me now, I'm tired."
Okay, Daddy? Could you loan me ten dollars?" The boy asked. Showing his restlessness and positively disturbed, the father yelled: "So that was the reason you asked how much I earn, right? Go to sleep and don't bother me anymore!"
It was already dark and the father was meditating on what he said and Was feeling guilty? Maybe he thought, his son wanted to buy something. Finally, trying to ease his mind, the father went to his son's room.
"Are you asleep, son?" Asked the father.
"No, Daddy. Why?" Replied the boy, partially asleep.
"Thanks, Daddy!" Rejoiced the son, while putting his hand under his pillow and removing some money. "Now I have enough!! Now I have twenty dollars!" The boy said to his father, who was gazing at his son, confused at what his son had just said. "Daddy, could you sell me one hour of your time?"
Whether you are a dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, brother or sister are you spending your time wisely with those you love?
Dear Lord, help us open our eyes today and see how we can spend our time wisely. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Do Your Desires Block God's Blessings?
Matthew 7:11 (NIV)
Angry, he rose his voice to his father and said "with all your money, you give me a Bible?" And stormed out of the house.
How many times do we miss God's blessings because we can't see past our own desires???????
Dear Lord, thank You for all You do for us. Help u snot let our own desires get in the way of what You have for us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Are You Devoted to Your Children?
Deuteronomy 11:19 (NIV)
I read a story that was told during a business training seminar. To illustrate motivation, the trainer asked one of the business executives in the audience to come forward.
The trainer said, "I want you to imagine that I have placed a wooden beam across the floor here and I would like for you to walk from one end of the beam to the other end. Would you do that for $20?"
The man said that he would.
Then leader continued, "Now, I want you to imagine that I take that same beam and raise it up to the top of a forty-story building and run it across the street to another tall building. Would you still walk across the beam for $20?"
This time the man answered that he would not.
"How about for a $100?"
"No!" The man emphasized.
The trainer forged ahead. "You have a child, right?"
"This time, what if I were to hold your child over the edge of the building and tell you that if you do not walk across the beam I will drop your child. Would you walk across?"
Surprisingly, the father hesitated for a beat, then smiled and asked, "Which child do you have?"
The trainer, of course, was right in assuming that a parent's devotion to a child is usually greater than almost any amount of fear associated with saving that child. Most parents love their children fiercely and would do anything possible to help them.
An eastern newspaper reported that a train in Bangladesh accidentally struck a calf elephant. The mother elephant apparently became upset over the incident, for a little while later another train came along and spotted the female standing in the middle of the track. Though the engineer blasted his horn, she would not budge. When the train came to a halt, she began butting it with her head! For fifteen minutes she hammered the engine, rendering it inoperable. Once satisfied, she walked off into the jungle, stranding two hundred passengers for five hours while they waited for a replacement engine! Someone should hang a sign around her neck that reads: DON'T MESS WITH MY KID!
Such a devotion to family is only natural in humans. And though many of us may never be in a position to actually have to save a child's physical life, we can channel our devotion into other, equally productive, areas.
1. Devote LOTS of time to your child. Quality time means nothing if it rarely occurs. Spend time reading, laughing, playing, exploring, learning, talking, and just sitting quietly together.
2. Devote LOTS of positive attention to your child. Let her know she is important by the way you speak and listen to her.
3. Devote LOTS of love to your child. He is one of the most important people you'll ever have the privilege of knowing.
4. Devote LOTS of energy to learning how to be the best parent possible. All of our children are different and require different skills from us.
5. Devote LOTS of yourself, and you'll never regret the valuable investment.
Dear Lord, thanks for the children You have given to us. We pray that no matter their age that we will be devoted to them. Help us to continue to be the guidance You want us to be for them. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Just Like My Dad
1 Corinthians 11:1 (NIV)
Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
Matty Lovo is only nine years old, but the story of his level-headed daring deserves to be told. In the telling of his story, there is a line from the hero himself that should make all of us who are parents and grandparents take notice.
Matty's father drives one of those huge big-rig trucks that is part of American commerce. One week his semi was pulling two trailers loaded with lumber through St. Helens, Oregon. Matty was riding in the cab with him. He was enjoying the high-sitting ride and view. He liked the powerful sounds of the motor. He took pride in being with his dad. Then the unexpected happened.
Matthew Lovo Sr. Had a seizure of some sort. Doctors are still trying to figure it out. He lost consciousness at the wheel of his truck, and it veered into oncoming traffic and struck a utility pole. Matthew Lovo Jr. Didn't panic.
When he saw his father had collapsed, Matty called his name. When there was no answer, he smacked him to try to wake him up. Then he did what he had to do. He climbed across his dad and into the driver’s seat. He steered the big truck back into its lanes and had the presence of mind to get on the truck's C.B. radio to ask what he should do. Somebody heard his plea for help and told him to turn off the ignition key. He did that. The rig began to slow down.
At just that moment, the semi passed Christopher Howard. Driving the opposite direction on the highway, he saw that a child was at the wheel of the slow-moving vehicle. He stopped his car, jumped out, and chased down the truck on foot. He jumped aboard, climbed into the cab with Matty, and applied the brakes that a nine-year-old boy's legs could not reach while steering.
The St. Helens Police Department didn't ticket Matty. To the contrary, it made a public statement of support for his "cool demeanor" in an incident that could have ended tragically.
"I just did the stuff," said a humble Matty. "I thought, I should just do what my Dad does." He did. And he is a young hero for it.
Some of us Dads and Moms should think about this father-son story very deeply. Our children watch. They absorb. They take their cues about how to react to crises and joys, family and friends, God and man. You've heard all your life about how more lessons are caught than taught, haven't you? It is true!
"I should just do what my Dad does," thought Matty. And it served him well on that day to remember and imitate his father's habits in driving a truck. May it serve him well in a thousand other settings as well.
Make sure your actions are worthy of having your children copy. If you find yourself doing things that aren’t good for them to copy make today the day that you change what you do.
Dear Lord, Thanks for our fathers and for our children. May we be the examples our children need to follow today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Just 5 More Minutes
Proverbs 17:6 (NIV)
Children’s children are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?
Dear Lord, thank You for those who You have put into our life. Help us take advantage of the time we have with them. Help us each value the time we have. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Friday, September 19, 2014
The Perfect Father
Ephesians 6:4 (NIV)
One of the criticisms of Christianity is that it is a crutch for the weak. Belief in God is considered by some to be nothing more than an illusion to satisfy unconscious needs. But Dr. Paul Vitz wondered the opposite: suppose it's the atheists who are engaging in unconscious wish fulfillment. To find the answer, Vitz scanned the last four centuries for patterns that distinguish the lives of atheists from the lives of theists.
After studying the lives of more than a dozen of the world's most influential atheists, Vitz discovered they all had one thing in common: defective relationships with their fathers. Vitz defines "defective" fathers as those who were dead, abusive, weak, or who abandoned their children.
Sigmund Freud wrote that his father was a sexual pervert. Thomas Hobbes's father was an Anglican clergyman who got into a fight with another man in the churchyard and, subsequently, abandoned his family. Ludwig Feuerbach, at age 13, was abandoned by his father, who openly took up living with another woman in a different town. Voltaire fought constantly with his father, causing him later to reject his surname.
Schopenhauer's father committed suicide when he was 16. Both Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche lost their fathers at the age of four. Sartre's father died before Sartre was born, and Camus was a year old when he lost his father. Hume also lost his father in early childhood. Hitler's father was a violent man who unmercifully beat Adolf, his mother, and even the family dog; he died when Adolf was 14. Stalin's father also administered brutal beatings to his son.
Being a father means more than providing a paycheck. It is modeling what our Heavenly Father is.
Dear Lord, thank the Lord for being the perfect Father and example to each of us. Help each of us fathers to strive to be like You and share Your love as we raise the children You have given to us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Are You Caring For Your Family?
1 Timothy 5:4 (NIV)
As baseball season 2014 winds down I want to share a story about one of my favorite ball players. Tim Burke was born on February 19, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska. After attending the University of Nebraska, he entered professional baseball and began his Major League baseball career on April 8, 1985. In the early 1990's, Tim and his wife wanted to start a family, but then they discovered they were unable to have children. After much prayer, they decided to adopt four special-needs international children.
This led to one of the most difficult decisions in Tim's life. He discovered that the time on the road playing baseball was conflicting with the time his wife and children needed him to be a husband and a dad. Tim turned to the Lord and prayed and soon the decision became easy. After the 1992 season and eight years in the major leagues, he was going to retire from baseball to devote more time with his family. When he left the stadium for the last time, reporters asked why he was retiring at such an early age. He replied: "Baseball is going to do just fine without me. It's not going to miss a beat. But I'm the only father my children have. I'm the only husband my wife has. And they need me a lot more than baseball does."
One of the greatest ministries we can have is to your own family. It brings joy to your relatives and it is pleasing to God. Are you letting the things of this world get in the way of honoring and caring for your family?
Dear Lord, we thank You for our family. We ask that You would show us today how we can be more loving and caring to each one of those I our family. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Bridging the Gap
John 3:16 (NIV)
There once was this turntable bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day, the bridge sat parallel with the tracks, allowing ships to pass freely on both sides. At certain times each day a train would come along, and the bridge would be turned sideways across the river allowing the trains to cross. A switch man sat in a small shack on one side of the river where he operated the controls to turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed.
One day as the switch man was waiting for the last train of the day to come, he looked off into the distance through the dimming twilight and caught sight of the train's light , he stepped to the controls and waited until the train was within prescribed distance when he was to turn the bridge into position. To his horror, he found that the locking control didn't work. If the bridge was not locked into position, securely, it would wobble back and forth at the ends when the train came onto it. This would cause the train to jump the track and go crashing into the river. It was a passenger train with many people aboard. He left the bridge turned across the river, and he hurried across the bridge to the other side where there was a lever he could use to operate the lock manually.
He could hear the rumble of the train now. He took hold of the lever and leaned backward to apply pressure to keep the mechanism locked. Many lives depended on this man's strength. Then, coming across the bridge from the direction of his control shack he heard a sound that made his blood run cold, "Daddy, where are you?" His four year old son was crossing the bridge to look for him. His first impulse was to cry out to the child, "RUN RUN" but the train was too close, and his tiny legs would never make it across the bridge in time. The man almost lifted the lever to run and snatch up his son, and carry him to safety, but he realized he could not get back to the lever in time. Either people on the train or his son must die.
He took only a moment to make his decision. The train sped safely and swiftly on its way, and no one aboard was aware of the tiny, broken body thrown mercilessly into the river by the rushing train, nor were they aware of the pitiful figure of a sobbing man still clinging tightly to the lever long after the train had passed. They didn't see him walking home more slowly than he had ever walked, to tell his wife how he had sacrificed her son.
Now if you can comprehend the feeling that which went through this man's heart you can understand the feeling of our heavenly Father when He sacrificed His Son to bridge the gap between us and eternal life.
How does God feel when we speed along through life without giving a thought to what was done for us through His Son, Jesus Christ? Can there be any wonder that He caused the earth to tremble and the skies to darken when His only Son died?
Remember that Jesus bridged that gap for us.
Dear Lord, thank You for bridging the gap for us. Help us remember the sacrifice that You made for us. Give us somebody to share that great gift today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Are You a Person of Your Word?
1 John 3:18 (NIV)
In 1989 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened Armenia, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes.
In the midst of utter devastation and chaos, a father left his wife securely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be, only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.
After the traumatic initial shock, he remembered the promise he had made to his son: "No matter what, I'll always be there for you!" And tears began to fill his eyes. As he looked at the pile of debris that once was the school, it looked hopeless, but he kept remembering his commitment to his son.
He began to concentrate on where he walked his son to class at school each morning. Remembering his son's classroom would be in the back right corner of the building, he rushed there and started digging through the rubble.
As he was digging, other forlorn parents arrived, clutching their hearts, saying: "My son!" "My daughter!" Other well meaning parents tried to pull him off of what was left of the school saying:
"It's too late!"
"They're dead!"
"You can’t help!"
"Go home!"
"Come on, face reality, there's nothing you can do!"
"You're just going to make things worse!"
To each parent he responded with one line: "Are you going to help me now?" And then he proceeded to dig for his son, stone by stone.
The fire chief showed up and tried to pull him off of the school's debris saying "Fires are breaking out, explosions are happening everywhere. You're in danger. We'll take care of it. Go home." To which this loving, caring Armenian father asked, "Are you going to help me now?"
The police came and said, "You're angry, distraught and it's over. You're endangering others. Go home. We'll handle it!" To which he replied, "Are you going to help me now?" No one helped.
Courageously he proceeded alone because he needed to know for himself: "Is my boy alive or is he dead?"
He dug for eight hours...12 hours...24hours...36 hours...then, in the 38th hour, he pulled back a boulder and heard his son's voice. He screamed his son's name, 'ARMAND!" He heard back, "Dad!?! It's me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told 'em that if you were alive, you'd save me and when you saved me, they'd be saved. You promised, 'No matter what, I'll always be there for you!' You did it, Dad!"
"What's going on in there? How is it?" The father asked.
"There are 14 of us left out of 33, Dad. We're scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you're here. When the building collapsed, it made a wedge, like a triangle, and it saved us."
"Come on out, boy!"
"No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, 'cause I know you'll get me! No matter what, I know you'll be there for me!"
Will you be there for your family, no matter what?
Dear Lord, we pray that today we would be parents of our word. Help us stand firm with the words that we say. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Promises, Promises
1 John 2:5 (NIV)
Here are some guidelines for each of us regarding making promises.
1. Don't make a promise unless you are 100% sure you can follow through.
This mean you have to take the time to think the promise through thoroughly before you make it.
2. If you can't make the promise because you aren't sure, then be prepared to share your reasons for NOT promising.
It will happen that you don't always have all the facts, and when it does, it's better to NOT make the promise
3. If something arises that you can't keep the promise you already made, be prepared to share your reasons for NOT keeping that promise.
When you sit down and openly explain the reasons why you cannot keep your promise, it will go a long ways towards helping them to understand.
4. Be prepared to try and see things from the other’s point of view.
When this happens, make an effort to try and see things from their point of view, and if you can do so without compromising your own, take their ideas into consideration!
5. If you don't have a valid reason for not doing so, KEEP THAT PROMISE!
Once you've established yourself as one who keeps your promises, people will be much more likely to see you as someone they can trust, as someone they can come to when they need something, as someone they can come to when they are having problems. And, most importantly, when you teach them that God keeps all of His promises, they will believe you.
Dear Lord, help us to be very careful when we make a promise so that those that know us we see us as honest people and people of our word. So that when we share with them that You keep Your promises they will believe. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Children God's Gift
Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)
Whoever spares the rod hates their children,
As we read stories in the news we can see the real need for discipline. In our day and age, discipline in families is on the decline. Instead of parents being the "big boss", more and more children rule their homes. This impacts all areas of their lives, from the classroom, to their social interactions, to their developing habits, to their decision making, and to their future lives.
Discipline is vitally important for the following reasons:
1. It teaches children the concept of right and wrong. If they are never disciplined, kids will never learn when their behavior is unacceptable. They will never learn the difference between right and wrong.
2. It teaches boundaries. Children who are not disciplined will never learn there are boundaries that must not be crossed. And if they never learn the concept of boundaries, they will never learn to set boundaries in their own lives!
3. It teaches a respect for authority. If your kids always get their way with you, they will learn that they are the "big boss", that they are the ones in control. It will become very difficult for them to accept other authority figures, such as teachers, pastors, even authorities of the law.
4. It teaches them to accept God's discipline. And God does discipline us! We are told to welcome God's discipline, but we will never be able to do so if we have never learned the concept of discipline!
5. It allows for discipline in schools. Without the concept of discipline being established at home, it is very difficult to have a disciplined classroom, which is a prerequisite for learning.
6. It teaches them good social skills. No one likes to be with someone who always insists on their own way.
7. It helps them to develop good habits. No concept of discipline makes temperance an impossible thing to learn. It leads to children who have no boundaries, children who easily fall into the traps of poor eating habits, poor personal hygiene, and the more deadly traps of drugs, alcohol and sex.
8. It helps them learn good decision making skills. You can't guide those kids into good decision making if what they say is the law, if they have no respect for your authority.
9. It sets the ground work for a mature, Godly adult. Remember, an undisciplined child grows up to be an undisciplined adult!
Remember our kids are a gift from God. He puts them in our charge to lead and guide them to become the children of God that will bring honor to Him.
Dear Lord, we thank You for the children that You have given to us. Help us discipline them in love so that they will become the people You would have them to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Waiting on the Lord
Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
But those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be a bird, flying through the air with the wings of an eagle, so strong, so fast, so high? I love watching videos of eagles as they soar through the heavens. How they effortlessly dive out of the sky and snag their next meal. Would life have been better if we were eagles?
Sometimes I wish that I could fly as high as an eagle, and with good cause: eagles can fly above a storm. Eagles fly at great heights, flung upward by massive winds, soaring above it all. Picture it -- flying above a storm! So it is with us. With God's help, as we wait on Him, we can mount up with wings as eagles, and fly above the storm! We are helped by the storm's currents to escape the buffeting and fly above all the stressful commotions of this life. That sounds good to me.
There have been days that I just sit completely overwhelmed by the pain in my back. The storms of life are hard to endure, for they hurt us, not only physically, but also spiritually. We can feel alone and afraid. But Jesus brings us good news! We can turn our hurts, our thoughts, our very souls towards the Lord and wait on Him. He is with us. In the quietness, we feel our souls refreshed and lifted high above it all. It won't be long before we can fly high above the hurt, soaring with joyful abandon above it all.
The Lord has promised never to leave us, never to forsake us. We read those encouraging words in Matthew 28:20, "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (NIV) Jesus' acceptance and love are so wonderfully healing that our souls are set free, and we are encouraged to try again. We are free of the burden of what happened. We can fly high, ever higher like an eagle, high above life's turmoil and pain. God's love is with us as we wait on the Lord patiently. His words encourage us. Each storm strengthens our faith, for it is God's promise that, as we wait on Him, we mount up like the eagle above the storms of life. We can face today.
Dear Lord, as we experience the pains of life help us hang on to You. As we commit to You what is worrying us and hurting us in this life, may we fly high in Your love. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Pain is Temporary
2 Corinthians 4:17 (NIV)
What better person to pen these words than Corrie ten Boom since she was a survivor of World War II Nazi death camps. Her family helped many Jews escape Nazi Germany, but on February 28, 1944, they were all arrested for their crimes and shipped off to Scheveningen prison. Two of her family members-along with a nephew, were released immediately. One died 10 days later. Corrie and a remaining sister were shipped to another prison camp and then another where Corrie's sister died on December 28, 1944. Before dying, she related to Corrie, "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still." Twelve days later, Corrie was released.
Corrie ten Boom's pain must have seemed everlasting and unbearable. Paul endured his share as well yet wrote, "For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!" (II Corinthians 4:17)
Pain is no respecter of persons. We all endure it. Some for shorter periods of time. Others seem to be afflicted their entire life with physical pain. And still others seem never to escape emotional battles and brokenness.
I've learned to accept painful episodes-regardless of their nature, as coming from God. Though he doesn't send incidents that conflict with his nature, he at least allows them and uses them in some way for my good. My greatest life lessons have arrived through unpleasant affairs.
And as Paul relates, pain-whether spiritual, emotional, or physical, is temporary. It may appear to last forever, but God controls its duration. When I compare occurrences of tenderness with the joy and bliss of heaven, it's much easier to endure.
How are you responding to your outbreaks of pain?
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Benefits of Recreation
Benefits of Recreation
travel leisure and recreation
The imaginative and prescient of the Leisure, Sport, and Tourism program is to work collaboratively within the Department of Health and Human Performance and Middle Tennessee State University to strengthen our students individually and collectively. We will put together college students to face the future by being globally oriented and elegantly prepared for the new challenges our society faces on this millennium. (Same as FL 4220.) Examines international travel and tourism issues and trends, travel challenges, demand, well-liked destinations, security, and international travel and tourism organizations.
Tourism fatigue
You meet new individuals which might flip into lifelong associates, or fall head over heels with a spot that you’ll come back to visit time and time again. Every single journey is completely different, and you’ll treasure each second of it by your self or with a loved one. For younger individuals nevertheless, leisure travel is finding that subsequent nice adventure, getting misplaced in extraordinary and unique locations, consuming unique delicacies, and backpacking by way of Europe, America, Asia, or Australia. For them, every little thing is feasible, and it’s what makes touring more thrilling.
Then, various value restoration options could be identified, the selection among which depend on the socioeconomic and institutional circumstances in water supply and pricing. Alternatives embrace market pricing, tradable permits, quotas, taxes/subsidies, academic and consciousness campaigns, voluntary agreements, and legal devices. In the first step of this method the socioeconomic importance of water-associated companies is examined throughout the assorted economic sectors. Socioeconomic data are analyzed to evaluate the nature and the importance of water uses and companies and to construct a baseline situation towards which various scenarios could be in contrast.
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In probably the most excessive case of area-time compression, individuals may fly from one metropolis, the place they preserve a house, to a different, the place they work during the identical day. A small proportion of execs are “bicoastal,” that is, they maintain homes in cities on each coasts, normally Manhattan and Los Angeles. By the year 2000, a mature air journey trade consisting of numerous carriers and almost infinite destinations carried over seven hundred,000 passenger journeys domestically. To ensure, frequent enterprise journey contains a major percentage of whole journeys.
In the last years, there are many locations on the earth that the local inhabitants develops an anti-tourism sentiment and protests towards tourists. One of essentially the most prominent examples of such a mobilization was the so-called “Tourists go home” movement, which emerged in 2014 in Spain as a result of slogans and mottos calling the tourists to go back to their homes. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '52', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.92558616399765}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '34593', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:D4VGBJY3BTHVFKUFQRIHVHXEU4BM6VIO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:15b63962-17aa-4440-96ae-6464c4d73f05>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 26, 9, 47, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.200.108', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EJOUQ6L6DNXCUO2JJCARUGLWND652ATK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2e4e6d61-0938-412c-8a9a-e0919fdf52be>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://slovakia-travelguide.info/benefits-of-recreation-8.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d7d3e491-9d70-4c43-8688-9ff44e1a5666>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '445', 'url': 'https://slovakia-travelguide.info/benefits-of-recreation-8.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-142\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': '0.023831963539123535', 'original_id': '7845c5b1c9dec2b53913428b7206e0eafdbb29f4b0a7c070c01ab7910b9ad44d'} |
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LiamSalt 8Aug2013 23:33
Need urgent help with C VIM program
I am new to coding in C and even newer to using VIM
I am currently trying to write a code that will store PID numbers of a child after a fork, I have to be able to enter an amount that will be created, so far I have managed to be able to get them to print (which puts me on the right path as far as I am concerned) but I am having issues.
Using the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
int prod = atoi(argv[1]);
int count = 0;
if(argc == 2)
while(count < prod)
int i;
printf("Child printing");
printf("getpid: %d, getppid: %d \n",getpid(), getppid());
printf("Not enough paramterers");
return 0;
while this has some success, it is for some reason creating a 3rd iteration and I can't work out why
The "success" print is more of a marker, but every time I run the program I get this result:
k110-1:~ s029119a$ ./try3.exe 2
Child printinggetpid: 9335, getppid: 1
k110-1:~ s029119a$
Child printinggetpid: 9336, getppid: 1
Child printinggetpid: 9337, getppid: 1
Can anyone offer any advice or tell me what I'm doing wrong, why is it doing this?
xpi0t0s 11Aug2013 23:17
Re: Need urgent help with C VIM program
At count=0, try3.exe calls fork() and creates a new process. That new process displays 9335. Remember that you have two identical processes immediately after a fork. After the if, both processes increment count and go to the top of the while. Both processes then have count=1, which is less than prod=2, so display "success", and both then fork again, creating two processes 9336 and 9337. All four processes then increment count, find it to be equal to prod and exit.
Basically what you're doing wrong here is allowing the child processes to continue executing the parent code. Typically the "if(i==0)" block would contain the child code, and that block would end with a call to exit() or some other mechanism to prevent it continuing into the wrong code.
xpi0t0s 11Aug2013 23:21
Re: Need urgent help with C VIM program
Before you fix this bug, have a bit of fun by trying a larger parameter, maybe up to 5, but not much bigger unless it's a computer you can freely perform a DoS attack on without implications. See if you can work out why you get the number of processes you do. If you don't see why you shouldn't try a number bigger than 5, first read up on "exponential growth".
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Norway men's national under-18 ice hockey team
The Norway men's national under-18 ice hockey team is the men's national under-18 ice hockey team of Norway. The team is controlled by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The team represents Norway at the IIHF World U18 Championships.
International competitions
IIHF World U18 Championships
1999: 10th place
2000: 1st in Pool B
2001: 9th place
2002: 11th place
2003: 1st in Division I Group B
2004: 10th place
2005: 1st in Division I Group B
2006: 10th place
2007: 3rd in Division I Group B
2008: 1st in Division I Group B
2009: 9th place
2010: 1st in Division I Group A
2011: 9th place
2012: 2nd in Division I Group A
External links
Norway at IIHF.com
under
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Aménagement de la forêt domaniale de Guines
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WARSAW, Poland — In the Baltic States they celebrate their liberation from the Soviet Union in the middle of March.
Winter's worst lies grey on the streets, but that doesn't stop people in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, and Riga, capital of Latvia, from marching solemnly to honor the heroes who fought vainly to keep the Soviet Union at bay.
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Among those who march are groups who honor those who fell wearing the uniform of the Waffen SS, the military arm of the notorious Nazi paramilitary unit. These SS veteran marches are not fringe events. Thousands march and thousands more turn out to cheer them on.
The parades' permits are applied for by members of the governing party in parliament. Marchers are defended by the government.
Latvia's president Andris Berzins reportedly praised the SS veterans on Latvian television last week, "It’s crazy to think they’re war criminals." Berzins added, “Many people lost their lives for the future of Latvia. I don’t see any basis to deny this … it seems to me it’s not acceptable to dishonor these people, before whom we should bow our heads,” he said.
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It's not just on Independence Day that the Nazi past intrudes on public life.
In 2008, the Lithuanian parliament passed a law banning the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
In 2010, a local Lithuanian court ruled that Swastikas were exempt from that law because the twisted crosses were ‘Lithuania’s historical heritage rather than symbols of Nazi Germany." It would be easier to accept that explanation if the crowds didn't cheer the marchers on with cries of "Juden Raus!" or "Jews out!" as eyewitnesses have attested.
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The official tolerance for marches honoring those who fought with the SS is part of a general trend in the Baltic States and all along the eastern borders of Europe: an embrace of a form of exclusionary nationalism that belongs to the 19th century, rather than the globalized 21st. It is the kind of nationalism that underpinned Hitler's theory of "One People and One Reich."
In recent weeks, Latvian voters rejected a proposition that Russian be acknowledged as the country's second official language. Around 27 percent of Latvia's population of 2 million is native Russian speaking. When the votes were counted Latvian president Berzins, said, "An overwhelming majority of Latvian citizens have expressed their unequivocal support for one of the core constitutional values, the national language."
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Tensions between Lithuania and Poland are also high over language. Officially, government forms and all shop signs are supposed to be in the Lithuanian language. The largest minority in Lithuania is Polish, around 6.7 percent of the population. There are significant differences in the Polish language from Lithuanian.
Lithuania's Polish minority is demanding the right to spell their names on official documents in Polish rather than in the Lithuanian alphabet. They also want Polish shops to be able to put signs up in Polish. Quantifying the strength of the ultra-nationalists is almost impossible. Dovid Katz, an American scholar based in Vilnius who runs Defendinghistory.com, says it is sizable.
"Ultra-nationalism is a real trend and it's being mainstreamed. Many of its supporters are young and they have dynamism." Katz adds, "It's hard too imagine that these EU and NATO countries are taking up this nativist ideology."
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Certainly, the Baltic states' counterparts in the EU and NATO are deeply concerned. On March 11th, the American Embassy in Vilnius backed an alternative parade, "Celebrate Freedom" organized by leading human rights campaigners.
The Council of Europe published a report on the Nazi marches in Latvia in February. It said, "All attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborated with the Nazis, should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimizing in any way Nazism should be banned."
The report went on to state that the EC, "cannot but express concern about any attempt to justify fighting in the Waffen SS and collaborating with the Nazis, as it risks fueling racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance … "
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That is the key point. The endorsement of Nazi collaboration by some officials gives encouragement to racists and violent xenophobes. It discriminates against minorities and preserves an official place for the kind of racial hatred which has watered too much of the soil that lies in the land between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
The reason for this resurgence in ugly ultra-nationalism is an unanswered question of history: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin? This may seem like a question for the seminar room, but not here. In the countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea the question is deeply emotional. It has been rephrased this way: Does the blood of someone killed fighting the Soviet Union cry out louder from the grave than someone who died fighting with the Soviets against the Nazis? And what about those who were simply murdered without taking up arms?
In the eastern borderlands of Europe, those deep questions are the meat of politics. When a small group of Lithuania's Social Democrats signed an international declaration in January on the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee conference; when the Nazis initiated the "Final Solution" for Europe's Jews.
The declaration said it was wrong to diminish the Holocaust by saying it was "equal to, similar to or equivalent to" Soviet Communism's crimes. Lithuania's foreign minister, Audronius Azubalis, tore into them, “In essence, this sort of rhetoric by the Social Democrats repeats the Kremlin’s ideological positions, that Stalin is good and Hitler bad. It isn’t possible to find differences between Hitler and Stalin except in their moustaches (Hitler’s was shorter)."
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The statement gave offense, but Azubalis was simply playing on a view that is common in the area. Marek Chodakiewicz, Polish-born professor of history at Washington's Institute of World Politics tells an old Polish joke: “Whom do we fight first? Nazis or Communists? Let’s fight the former first: business before pleasure.”
The importance of history
Historians and sociologists around Europe's eastern edge all agree: the basic questions of politics in the area have been settled.
All the countries are ruled by right-of-center governments who buy into free-market economics.
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"Ideology does not drive political discussion in Poland. Politicians, journalists, when they get into arguments, it’s about history," says Jan Olaszek, a historian at Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a government created, quasi-official institution that uses historical research for activist purposes — bringing prosecutions for "Crimes against the Polish Nation."
That view is echoed down the road in L'viv Ukraine. "History is extremely politicized here," says Sofia Dyak, director of the Center for Urban History in Eastern Europe. "History is not an objective study. It is about serving an ideological agenda. It used to be Soviet. Now it is about a nationalist history. So it is used in a highly selective manner."
Things can get very twisted in this highly selective, political use of the historical record. Much of that twisting can be found in the persistence of anti-Semitism in the region. One hundred years ago, the area from the Baltic to the Black Sea was the heartland of world Jewry. Today there are virtually no Jews left. Between 90 and 95 percent were murdered in the Holocaust, those who survived left for Israel, the United States and other countries.
"Lack of Jews is not a problem for anti-Semites," says Polish sociologist Rafal Pankoswki. "Anti-Semites don't need Jews around to hate them." In Pankowski's view, anti-Semitic language, "is a kind of discourse of hostility not just to Jews but to the whole idea of diversity. It is a form of social protest to express anger about things."
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Part of the new nationalist mythology is based on old canards. Jews are an international cabal that seek to rule the world. Soviet communism was part of that plot. Marx was Jewish, right? So was Trotsky, so were many of the early Bolsheviks. Even today in Poland, Pankowski points out, liberals have the epithet "zydokomuna,"which means, "Jew communist" thrown at them when they defend anything from gay rights to the European Union.
According to Pankowski, using the word Jew as a general term of abuse occurs most at soccer games. "At matches fans abuse each other by calling each other Jews. At one match last year in Przesow one set of fans unfurled a banner with the slogan 'Death to the Hook-Nosed Ones' written over a stereotyped picture of a Jewish man with a big nose wearing a yarmulke."
Were there any Jews in the stadium?
"No," says Pankowski. "This is how fans act everywhere."
In Lithuania, the explicit connection in many minds between Jews and the Soviet Union is demonstrated in the bizarre case of two elderly Holocaust survivors, Fania Branstovsky, a librarian at the Vilnius Yiddish library, and Dr. Rachel Margolis, a biologist. Both escaped from the Vilnius ghetto during the war. Both joined Soviet-backed partisans fighting the Nazis.
In 2008, when they were both in their late 80s, criminal investigators, in a glare of publicity announced they intended to arrest the pair for war crimes for their alleged participation in an action around a Lithuanian village in 1944 in which civilians were killed. No charges were brought, no apologies were given. Although both women, now in their 90s, are alive to receive such an apology. Whether the ultra-nationalists will continue to assert themselves into national life is unclear.
Dovid Katz notes, "Lithuanian Prime Minister Andreas Kubilius doesn't have a fascist bone in his body." But Katz notes, while many politicians disapprove of the ultra-nationalists they keep silent. "The politicians could easily condemn this. There is a total lack of moral courage."
What is odd about the entrenchment of ultra-nationalism is that the area was always one of shifting national boundaries and mixed populations. Every country in the region has been subject to repeated subjugation to larger countries' imperial designs. The Soviet Union was only the most recent. One hundred years ago none of these countries were independent either. They were subject to Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungarian imperial hegemony.
Many historians and politicians in the region constantly remind western visitors that their newly liberated nations are only just being allowed to go through historical processes America and western Europe went through in the 18th and 19th century.
Professor Marek Chodakiewicz says, "The people of the Intermarium, the lands between the Black and Baltic Seas, were frozen in the Soviet totalitarian iceberg for 50 to 70 years. Now they are finally free to kvetch. And kvetch they do. It is a necessary, therapeutic, and cathartical exercise. Without coming to grips with the past, there is chaos." But it's a question of how you come to grips with the past.
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Empire Award for Best British Director
The Empire Award for Best British Director was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor a British director working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best British Director was first introduced at the 2nd Empire Awards ceremony in 1997 with Danny Boyle receiving the award for his direction of Trainspotting and last presented as an annual award at the 6th Empire Awards ceremony in 2001 with it returning for a final time at the 10th Empire Awards ceremony in 2005. It was one of three Best British awards retired that year (the others being Best British Actor and Best British Actress). Winners were voted by the readers of Empire magazine.
Since its inception, the award has been given to six directors. Guy Ritchie, Roger Michell and Shane Meadows were nominated on two occasions each, more than any other director. Matthew Vaughn was the last winner in this category for his role in Layer Cake.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.
1990s
2000s
Multiple awards and nominations
No individual received more than one Best British Director award.
Multiple nominations
The following individuals received two or more Best British Director nominations:
References
External links
Director
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Reading the Parables of Jesus – John Dominic Crossan
In a previous post, I tracked the shift in Parables studies away from the allegorical methods of the medieval church to the “one point per parable” method of Adolf Jülicher. In the next several posts I want to talk about a few other scholars who developed Jülicher’s ideas in the twentieth century (Dodd and Jeremias) and a short note on the rise of literary studies of parables beginning in the 1960’s. In this post I want to briefly look at the work of John Dominic Crossan on the parables. One problem is that he has written so much that it is almost impossible to summarize him fairly in 500 words. I thought to omit him from this survey, but his work seems to be the best example of postmodern literary technique applied to the parables.
John Dominic CrossanAs a founding member of the SBL Parables group, John Dominic Crossan followed Funk’s lead in his work on the parables in a bewildering number of articles which employ at various times virtually every literary-critical method. As an engaging writer, reading Crossan is always a joy, but one is always left wondering what he really thinks. At times he seems to be playing with the parables and other literature just because he can. He creates new combinations of diverse literature which challenge in unanticipated ways, but ultimately leave one wondering if there is anything in his reading which Jesus might have recognized as one of his parables!
For Crossan, the parables are the “preaching itself and are not merely serving the purpose of a lesson” (In Parables, 21). Crossan argues “the parable does not belong to the realm of didactic tools and pedagogic tactics but comes from the world of poetic metaphors and symbolic expressions” (“Parable and Example,” 87).
Yet parables are not allegories, because an allegory can still be reduced to some propositional statement. Because of this assumption that the parables are art, Crossan is free to approach these stories as stories, employing a structuralist or deconstructionalist method. Crossan eventually turns Jesus into a Cynic teacher and dispenses with most of the parables as having much historical value at all as words of Jesus (The Historical Jesus).
In his later writings, Crossan has argued that parables are polyvalent: parables are capable of many meanings since they are capable of being read in many contexts (“Metamodel for Polyvalent Narration”). The interpreter “plays” with the parable and creates a new and unique meaning from the plot of the parable. The same reader may return to the text on multiple occasions and develop quite different readings of the same parable.
The reader has changed and may sense new connections and insights from the same text. Crossan has made a pass at the parables from the perspective of deconstructionism as well (Cliffs of Fall). Crossan argues that metaphor of a parable creates a “void” which requires the reader to create meaning through the “free play of interpretations.” These “free plays” can include anything, juxtaposing a parable of Jesus and a modern poem might result in interesting, new insights.
The result is interesting to read, but seems to be about as far from the meaning of historical Jesus as a reader could get! While I do think that assumption and reader-context bear on the interpretation of a text, I am not sure that the resulting interpretation should be confused with the original meaning of the text. I suspect that those attracted to a full-blown reader response interpretation of the parables will not particularly care about the author’s original intent, or simply despair that it is possible to discover that intent.
Is it possible to read the parables as polyvalent, metaphors which are capable of almost limitless meaning, and still consider the text of the Gospels authoritative in any sense of the word? Does Crossan’s concept of polyvance help the reader of the parables at all?
“Parable and Example in the Teaching of Jesus.” Semeia 1 (1974): 62-104.
“Metamodel for Polyvalent Narration.” Semeia, 9 (1977): 105-47.
Cliffs of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus. (New York: Seabury Press, 1980).
In Parables. (San Francisco: Harper, 1985).
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
8 thoughts on “Reading the Parables of Jesus – John Dominic Crossan
1. P. Long asks the question, “Is it possible to read the gospels as polyvalent, metaphors which are capable of almost limitless meaning, and still consider the text of the Gospels as authoritative in any sense of the word”? Seeing that Crossan thinks that “the interpreter “plays” with the parable and creates a new and unique meaning from the plot of the parable”. I am not sure that Crossan thinks that much of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospels actually came from him. To assume that the parables can be a “wide open interpretation” based on the whims of the one reading it can leave plenty of room for eisagetical error. Jesus had one meaning of his parables with a little room for alligorization but not a “free play of interpretation”.
2. John Crossan’s approach to the interpreting the parables is problematic in my opinion. The statement from Crossan which caught my eye was his opinion that parables come “from the world of poetic metaphors and symbolic expressions”. I believe this sort of approach to interpretation compromises the intent of Jesus’ teachings by taking advantage of the unique literary style of the text. If we reduce the parables to stories which may or may have not been said by the historical Jesus, we also risk missing out on their applicable teachings on morality and truth. Crossan also asserts that a new and unique meaning can be constructed every time the reader works through a parable. I believe this is a dangerous statement because, although a deeper understanding may be inspired through further study, I believe that biblical understanding is the work of the Spirit (John 14:26) as opposed to human reconstruction. Ignoring intended meaning(s) and leaning on human intellect for understanding can quickly lead to a “watering-down” of truth.
3. I feel the same as scott, that it would cause a lot of problems if people read the teaching and took it however they wanted, and then make it authoritative because it’s scripture. We have to go by exactly what the scripture says and have to take the examples Jesus gives. I feel that if we read it and interpret it how we want, (which may be wrong), then we can claim that it’s authoritative and say that Jesus said it, when really Jesus meant something completely different. We don’t want to look at the parables as stories because then its not authoritative. I believe that Jesus taught these parables with a purpose and a point and it has one main point that He was trying to make. We can’t just make metaphors out of His text and distort the image of God.
4. Of course the scripture and the parables in it are open to interpretations. Having the Holy Spirit in us allows us to gain deeper and more thorough understanding of the intended meaning of what was meant in the Parables. I am against taking the parables seriously by way of interpreting them as polyvalent, metaphors which are capable of almost limitless meaning, and still consider the text of the Gospels authoritative in any sense of the word. That doesn’t sit well with me. But that is under the conviction category for me, so this is just my belief about parables.
5. I have never really thought of this as being a way of interpreting parables. It is really interesting, but at the same time it kind of makes sense that this is a way to view things. I do not really like the idea of the “limitless” ideas concept. It just reminds me too much of people thinking that there are multiple ways to be saved… I don’t know. Plus, I am pretty confident in believing that Jesus told the parables to the people to convey a specific message or to make a certain point. With other Scriptures, I do see how you can learn something new from the different times you read it, but parables are pretty cut and dry. I like what Scott said about how if we just turn Jesus’ teachings into stories then we are going to miss out on the truth that He has to offer. Strauss gives several things to keep in mind while interpreting the parables and one of them is to “seek the primary point of the parable” (451). In a parable, there is typically just one main point that He is trying to get across, and with that I do not feel like there is room to come up with different meanings and “stories” for each parable and teaching.
6. John Dominic Crossan is a well-known scholar with lots of studies and has written a lot on this.
He looks at the parables as the world of poetic metaphors and symbolic expressions (Long, 2012). In this, he looks at them in an art form of stories. In his later writings, he studied and argued that parables are polyvalent. This meaning through a reader’s study and reading they may see multiple meanings as they read it over again. I believe that we can always learn something new from the Bible stories and verses when we read it multiple times. As we grow our perspective and focuses can change, as a result, we observe details we might not have before. Crossan sees the metaphor in parables to create an openness to interpretation. This is where I disagree, I truly believe our own opinions and temptations can get in the way of a biblical and sound interpretation. The Bible was not given to justify our opinions, but to give us guidelines for our life and how we can have a relationship with Christ and have our lives reflect His. When we get caught up in our own interpretations we can lose sight of our relationship and how we should reflect Him.
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Angry fans take to Cleveland Browns Facebook page over national anthem protest
Posted: 10:58 AM, Aug 22, 2017
Updated: 2017-08-22 17:00:20Z
Angry fans take to Cleveland Browns Facebook page over national anthem protest
Angry fans took to the Cleveland Browns Facebook page overnight and into Tuesday morning to voice their frustration with the players who kneeled during the national anthem Monday night.
"I wanted to take the opportunity with my teammates during the anthem to pray for our country," said DeValve, one of two white players to participate. "And also to draw attention to the fact that we have work to do. And that's why I did what I did."
But many fans weren't so supportive.
The Browns Facebook page lit up after the game, with people calling the team "disgraceful."
"Pray before or pray after. Taking a knee during the National Anthem these days screams disrespect for our Flag, Our Country and our troops. My son and the entire armed forces deserve better than that," wrote one person.
"Cleveland Browns needed all the fans they can get!" wrote another. "They have one less now! How pathetic! You are not paid to protest! I for one am done with any professional team that act’s this way! Lost any money from me for life! For years I have protested as to why you are so bad and never win any more, now I see it’s your Teams values! Good luck but you lost this fan for life and all my spending$$. This country needs heroes and patriots not millionaire crybaby’s who disrespect this country and our flag!"
"A whole season of this kneeling garbage? You're paid to play a game in order to entertain us and give us an escape from the daily grind. Do your protesting on your own time. Can you get paid the incredible $$ you get paid playing football,ANYWHERE else on this planet? Be grateful for the cool job you scored only because you live in America"
"Shame on you Browns players who took a knee during National Anthem. I won't support a team who condones this behavior. I support Black Lives Matter but to disrespect your country by taking a knee is childish and offensive. Think of better, more productive way to support Black Lives Matter like donating your time and money to youth groups. To take a knee just makes you look foolish"
A few of the comments were supportive.
"Ya'll need to chill," said one person. "Patriotism is not blindly supporting your country. That is called Nationalism, like Nazi germany and Communist Russia. Patriotism is being able to look your country in the face and say "You can do better".
"Anyone willing to sell tickets because of protests for men, women and children who can't and don't have the spotlight like these men do can sell me their tickets.... I am willing to buy them since you're so disgusted at these men fighting for equality for those who can't...." said another.
Browns coach Hue Jackson, who last week clarified previous remarks that seemed to indicate he was opposed to any demonstrations, stood behind his players.
"We respect our players; we respect the flag," Jackson said following Cleveland's 10-6 win. "Those guys came to me and talked to me about it before they ever made a decision to do it. That is the way we feel about it, and we have talked about this. I said at some point in time, they may, and they have. I won't know about the next game until it happens, but again, this was tonight and we will move on from there." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '94', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9687347412109376}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '71365', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DRKM3L4JRG7TPLSLJRGSHMNMBN2UPCEV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d58f82e2-d0c3-48c8-a771-b93287988c91>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 18, 40, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.84.181.127', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4YIZCTTMQFOBU3CZ4CU6U2EZLT7PE7DC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5eb895bc-bd78-47eb-bf26-77fcbbeef8d6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.kjrh.com/sports/angry-fans-take-to-cleveland-browns-facebook-page-over-national-anthem-protest', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7de7497e-ff48-428e-b617-f13cf7a4ff97>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '662', 'url': 'https://www.kjrh.com/sports/angry-fans-take-to-cleveland-browns-facebook-page-over-national-anthem-protest', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-192-21.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': '0.03532755374908447', 'original_id': 'c80d4244bdf3ab845a87ee14cf8e53bea6e24e226d3a9d8289bf16ce99641d61'} |
Climate Change Is Turning Your Produce Into Junk Food
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Higher CO2 levels caused a “significant decrease in the concentrations of zinc, iron, and protein” for wheat and rice.
These are potentially grave findings, because a large swath of humanity relies on rice, wheat, and legumes for these very nutrients, the authors note. They report that two billion people already suffer from zinc and iron deficiencies, “causing a loss of 63 million life-years annually.” According to the Harvard press release, the “reduction in these nutrients represents the most significant health threat ever shown to be associated with climate change.” Symptoms of zinc deficiency include stunted growth, appetite loss, impaired immune function, hair loss, diarrhea, delayed sexual maturation, impotence, hypogonadism (for males), and eye and skin lesions; while iron deficiency brings on fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, and headache.
Roundup “loses its efficacy on weeds grown at CO2 levels projected to occur in the coming decades.”
Meanwhile, in my post last week about the big National Climate Assessment and its finding on agriculture, I left out a key point on weeds. The report’s agriculture section notes that “several weed species benefit more than crops from higher temperatures and CO2 levels,” meaning that climate change will likely intensify weed pressure on farmers. And then it adds a bombshell: glyphosate, the widely used herbicide marketed by Monsanto as Roundup, “loses its efficacy on weeds grown at CO2 levels projected to occur in the coming decades.” And that means “higher concentrations of the chemical and more frequent sprayings thus will be needed, increasing economic and environmental costs associated with chemical use.”
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numerus ex mutatione caeli, aeftii, frigore, vento, pluvia^ vigiliis, vul¬ neribus, defatigatione, malo vidtu &fame, otio vicifTim & intemperan¬ tia, nunc ulitatis,nunc Epidemicis morbis conflidantur. Si quod lumen diverfe Artes fibi invicem accendunt, quis Freindo dodlrinae varie¬ tate excultior ? Siquid emolumenti, fermones commifcendo cum ejufdem Artis ProfelToribus, hauriendum eft, quis Societatis Medicse amandor ? Sicui ufui eft, Scientiam cum nitore copia ac vi verbo¬ rum univerfts hominibus pervulgare, quis eloquentior ? Quid igitur ei tum, praeter Artis prsmia, defuit ? Quid ulterius moliri poterat, nifi ut in Civitate domicilium poneret, in qua honefte commode- que inftitutum vitae genus fequeretur, & facili dodtorum commer¬ cio gauderet, inter quos tamen plus doceret quam difceret ? Ita¬ que Londini confedit, neque ab hac Urbe unquam poftea migra¬ vit. Ubi ftatim ab initio, neque potentioribus adulando, neque vilioribus fubmittendo fe, opes famamve quaeftvit. Solis enim In¬ genii & Eruditionis & Experientiae adminiculis in Arte fua c^pit inclarefcere : in ea Arte, quae, quoniam' circa res latentes atque an-. cipites haud raro, occupatur. Viris in ea non verlatis, utut alioqui folertiflimi ftnt, nedum vulgo qui etiam a vulgariffimis decipi folet, facultatem de efte(ftibus ejus judicandi minime concedit ; cujus igi¬ tur exercitatio quaeftuofa aflentatiunculis. & oftentatione & vanilo¬ quentia multo magis, quam acumine 6c dodlrina & judicio, niti¬ tur. Is autem ita longe abfuit ab hujufmodi fuco & fallaciis, ut illum ex aegris nonnulli tanquam haud fatis obfequentem & 'officio^ fiim, ex Medicis; vero pauci quidam velut receptis opinionibus nimis fidenter adverfantem, minus dilexerint. Tamen in propofito per- ftans, ubi femel cmerferat, omnes cito nominis fui celebritate pra^- fdnxit. . j Anna 1716; Librum Hippocratis Epidemiorum Primum atque Tertium edidit^ hifque accommodavit Novem de Febribus Com¬ mentarios. Dignum profe(fto Argumentum, in quo Viri duo Arte & Facundia ita infignes pro virili elaborarent. Nam Acu t^' quidem Febres Mortalium partem longe maximam & afficiunt & interimunt. Nunc latenter ac pedetentim, nunc temporis pun£to; violentiffime invadunt ; nunc lento, nunc praecipiti motu, feruntur in falutem, aut exitium. Nullum aque Morbi genus omnibus ^Etatibus commune eft ; nullum fanos^ ac valentes; homines aeque corripit ; nullum ex ma¬ gis diverfis contrariifquexaufis originem ducit, nullum eft quod plu¬ ribus ac magis pernieibfts Affedlibus viam fternat. Nihil ftngulas vel univerfas: Corporis partes, gravius affiigit, nihil potentius Animas facultates eyer.titr. ,f /Eadem remedia, pro diverfo. morbi tempore, & 2gri ftatu, nunc falutaria funt, nunc mortifera. Ubinam igitur requiri poteft euriofior in Medico diligentia ?' ubinam animus in ju¬ dicando acrior, in agendo praefentior ? Nunc audacem & expedi¬ tum, nunc cautum & dilatorem efle convenit. .Modo viam infti- tutam fequi neqefle eft, modo curfum relinquere, modoi reli<fturn i. : - v iterare. X: 9 R AT 10. iterare. Igitur in hoc maxime ftudium atque operam fuam vide¬ tur pofuiffe Hippocrates, ut ea quae ad Febrium notitiam pertinent 6 accurate ipfe inveftigaret, & aliis diferte diftindleque exponeret. Varia primo Tempeftatum genera defcribit, & fuccedentes fibi in¬ vicem Coeli mutationes; cumque ex hac caufa Morbi Epidemici prscipue nafcantur, animadvertit quibufnam Temporibus fingidai Febrium Species invaluerint, quae prout diverfa facie fe ohenduat, aut aliam aliam ve Corporis partem caeteris magis vehementer im¬ petunt, varia quoque nomina fortiuntur ; harumque frequentiam, malignitatem, durationem, & eventum docet ; docet etiam cujuf- nam aetatis, temperamenti, confuetudinis, & vidtus homines adorta fint, quibufque Symptomatis ftipatae ; omnia denique notatu digna commemorat quae in plerifque aegrotantium generaliter acciderinr. Sed quod ad' rem maxime pertinet, vias omnes accurate indicar, quibus Natura laborantes ad fanitatem perduxerit; quo collimaos Artifex, vel hujus conatibus obfecundare, vel eos imitari femper Ic- dulo debet. Particulares deinde iS^grorum Hiftorias fu bjicit ; quod eo magis utile ac neceflarium, quod eadem Febris ab eadem caufa, pro differente cujufqueVaforum capacitate & Fibrarum textura, ac Fiuido- rum quantjtate, confiftentia, motu, 8c fecretione difllmili, vanos homi¬ nes gradu modoque multum variante afficit. Etiam in eodem Cor¬ pore, nunc adeo rapidus^Sanguinis impetus ac violenta huc illucve in¬ clinatio, nunc contra is Circulationis languor ; & humorum modo ita fubitae largaeque profuhones, modo ita pertinax eorundem re¬ tentio eft, ut qui ad Morbi nomen potius, quam ad diverfos ip- fius effedus diverfamque aegri conditionem refpicit, nihil memo¬ rabile unquam in Curationibus praeftare valeat. Hoc igitur infti- tutum merito probat, qui progreffus & defed:us in Scientiis & vera ad augmentum ^ earum adjumenta optime perfpexit, Verulamius : ” intermiffam querens illam Hippocratis diligentiam utilem admo¬ dum & accuratam, cui 'moris erat narrativam componere Cafuum ” circa aegrotos Specialium ; referendo qualis fuiffet morbi natura, !’ qualis medicatio, qualis eventus, Atque hujus rei naffis nobis ' x.jam* exemplum tarai iprpprium atque infigne, in eo fcilicet Viro, ” qui tanquam Parens Artis habitus eft, minime opus erit exemplum aliquod forinfecum ab alienis' Artibus petere ; veluti a prudentia ” Jurifconfultorum, quibus nihil antiquius quam illuftriores cafus 'novas ‘decifiones ( fcriptis mandare, quo melius fe ad futuros ” cafus muniant & inftruant. Iftam proinde continuationem Me- j: dicinalium Narrationum defiderari video, praefertim' in unum Cor- 7 pus cum 'diligentia & judicio digeftam. Quam tamen non in- Vi telligo ita ‘fieri debere amplam, ut plane vulgata & quae quotidie 7 obveniant excipiat, '■ (id ‘enim’ infinitum quiddam leffet neque ad ’' rem:) nec rurfus tam anguftam, .ut folummodo mirabilia ‘ & ftu- ’" -penda (id quod aj nonnullis fadum eft)> compledatur. Multa rnenim in modo ^ei 8c cifcumftantiis ejus mpva funt, quae in genere /lipfo nova non funt. Qui autem ad obfervandurn adjiciet ani- mum. 9 R F J T I 0. XI ” mum, ei etiam in rebus, quce vulgares funt, multa obfervatu dig- ” na occurrent.” Ad hanc formam delineantur Hiftoriae ab Hip¬ pocrate traditae, quae partim quidem fatis frequentes, partim vero rariores, omnes morbum circa vitae mortifque confinia fluduantem exprimunt. Alii enim Phrenitide, alii Angina, aut Pleuritide, aut Ileo, aut Inflammatione Gangraenofa correpti funt. Neque hic quenquam reperias, quem non aut ingens Capitis dolor, aut Co¬ ma, aut Delirium, aut Convulfio, aut plura ex his mala, tentaverint. Videas aegritudines eafdem ex intemperantia Vini, Cibi, Veneris, ex nimia Quiete, & Exercitatione, ex pravo Vidu, ex M^rore con¬ tradas ; febricitantes videas Viros fiEtatis, Temperamenti, & Con- fuetudinis diverfae : Virgines, quibus Purgationes Menftrus jam tum fluere incipiebant. Mulieres Praegnantes, Abortum paflas. Parturi¬ entes, Puerperas. Quidam Primo, Secundo, Quarto, aut Quinto Die : quidam, non nifi pofl Odogefimum, aut Centefimum & vice- fimum Diem, mortui funt, vel fervati. Hi ex toto liberati, illi Recidivam palTi funt. Neque vero haec fams inhians, ut plerique ex Recentioribus, literis conlignavit Hippocrates : in quorum fcrip- lis Cohvalefcentium Hiftorias fatis multas legimus, mortuos tegit terra. Plures enim ab illo memorantur, qui perierint. Id qui¬ dem fapienter fadum ; quoniam &; ad Praefagitionem inftituendam, & ad ordinandam Curationis normam, & ad explorandas Remedio¬ rum vires, haud minus dirigi poteft Medentis confilium ex attenta obfervatione eorum qui moriuntur, quam eorum qui ad fanitatem perveniunt. De Medendi Methodo pauca admodum in hoc opere tradit Hippocrates : quod inde obtigilTe credo, quod alibi figillatim de Acutorum Morborum Curatione egerat, in hunc finem Sangui¬ nis detradionem, Alvum Evacuantia, Fomenta, ac Ptifanse Hordea¬ cea potum, maxime commendans. Ac Sydenhami noflri pracipua laus eft, quod in defcribendis Febribus hos Epidemiorum Libros, iri medicandis Librum de Vidu Acutorum ante oculosTabuerit. In Scripta hac adeo numeris omnibus abfoluta, five potius in Naturam iplam, Commentarios exaravit Freindus. Cumque agroti qui eva- ferint. Humorum aut per unam, aut per plures Corporis vias, Excre- tione, omnes reflituti lint: & ex Mortuis hi diutius 'traxerint, qui¬ bus larga fuerit eorundem profufio, quam illi quibus nulla aut exigua pro vi ac duratione Morbi Evacuatio obtigerit. Febrium Cu¬ rationem perite judicavit maxima ex parte in iifdem Evacuationi¬ bus Arte opportune moliendis confidere. Is itaque de Miffione Sanguinis, de Sudoribus, de.yomitione,-d;e Exfcreatione, de Pur¬ gatione, & de Urinae Profluvio, ac de horurn* commodo & tempeftivo ufu differit : Commentario uno de Velicantium, quae Cantharidas recipiunt, virtute adjedo, ,quas haud mod^) perCutim Seri fluxum ciendo, fed Sanguinem quoque exagitando, & exiliflimos Corporis meatus referando, mirificam faepe opem afferre indicat. Haec ille omnia fi luculenter praefliterit (praeftitit autem cum fagacitate & nitore admirabili) quid jam reflat, nifi ut praecepta ejus folerter adhibea- h mus, » • T RM F A T I 0. Xll mus, atque Experientia confirmemus. Nam ut ad fingulos quofque cafus cum fru6tu accommodentur, multum certe uniufcujufque judicio relinquendum eft. Harum omnium Evacuationum com¬ moditatem, noxamque aut inutilitatem, & intellexit & explicuit Freindus ; cum haud ita pauci, lina alterave earum freti, quafi in Se6tas abierint. Aliorum in Miflione Sanguinis, aliorum in Sudo- rificis, aliorum in Voniitione omnis fere Medicina confiftit. Quidam Purgationem omnino damnant, quidam parum emolumenti abfque hac provenire pofle contendunt. Vix aliud eft, in quo omnes con¬ veniant, nifi de Emeticis ubi naufea eft, & Clyfteribus in Alvi aftri- <ftione. Quanquam enim Venae fedtionem vix quifpiam nunc die¬ rum ex toto rejiciat, tamen de mittendo Sanguine haud minor con- troverfia eft, cUm alii hunc frequenter admodum ac liberaliter, alii raro parceque detrahi velint. Ita fuis quifque Remediis unice fidentes, caetera, tanquam inutilia vel etiam noxia, experiri metuunt. Diver- fas quidem in diverfis Regionibus cUrandi vias magis prodefte, & Ra¬ tioni & Experientiae congruit ; verum uni cuivis perpetuo adhaerefcere abfurda plane res eft. Britanni, propter moderatam Caeli temperiem, fiquidem ob Maris circumfluentis viciniam raro vehementi vel calore vel frigore infeftemur, haud ita violentis Inflammationibus opportuni funt ; verum, ob frequentes tempeftatum mutationes, frequentius aegrotant : &, quia cibo folido craffoque indulgent. Aeremque fpirant valde humidum, magis lentis atque obftinatis Febribus languefcunt. Quid quod Hypochondriacis, Hyftericifque, & caeteris Nervorum Afle- £libus, nulla gens peraeque obnoxia eft. Unde & parciorem Sangui¬ nis miflionem, & Vidtum liberaliorem requirunt, & Remediis Diapho¬ reticis ac Veficantibus magnopere juvantur. Galli autem efca levi ac digeftibili maxime deledantur, vinis tenuibus, odoratis, concodlioni Utilibus : corpus ambulatione multa, ludis & occupationibus frivo¬ lis mentem recreant* Unde Cruditates patiuntur nec frequentes nec longas ; ubi vero naufeam aliquam aut bilis fludluationem in Stomacho perfenferint, ad Abftinentiam ftatim, & ad Jufcula vel fimplicia vel medicata confugiunt, quorum ope his incommodis brevi liberantur. Utque nos in initiis languorum vinofum aliquid & ardens pro more expetimus, ita ii contra, utpote Febriculis ex levi quavis occalione tentati, hume<ftantia & refrigerantia defiderant. Veruntamen, quia cibis fucculentis 6c variis & Aromatum copia conditis bis in die ad fatietatem vefcuntur. Morbis omnibus a nimio Sanguinis motu & abundantia produdlis patent, ac praecipue Febri¬ bus Inflammatoriis, Putridis, Biliofis. Quamobrem Evacuationes largas, tam per Alvum, quam per Venae fedionem, & mature po- ftulant, & repetitas fuftinent. Hifpani vero Lufitanique vidu utun¬ tur probo, parco, uniformi, fimplicij^ Quare ex eo infirmitatibus minime obnoxii, morbis duntaxat e temporum mutationibus & Aeris qualitate ortis infeftantur ; contra quae omni cautione fele muni¬ unt, in tuenda lanitate ufque ad fuperftitionem religiofi. Igitur ad fene<ftutem viridem atque vegetam vulgo perveniunt: nifi fi qui Veneris • » 9 RjE F a T I 0. Veneris ufu vel contagiofo vel immodico, ad quam ultra vires, cum ob alimenti tenuitatem corporis habitu fint exfangui & exfucco, a calore & defidia follicitantur, vivendi libi tempora procidant. Fe¬ bres quidem Ardentes, ob liceam atque torridam in his Nationi^ bus Casii conftitutionem. Caput & Pulmones fubito ac vehementer affligunt j raro autem evenit ut Homines magnam humorum in Inteftinis putrefeentium copiam accumulent. Quoniam in calidis regionibus valde imbecillis concodlio eft, harumque incol® ftatim levi quolibet in vidlu errore offenduntur, & ibidem intemperantia & indigeftioni Vomitus Bilioli cum Febribus, Diarrhce® ac Dyfen- terias exitiales freqijentiffime fuperveniunt; ex quo, malorum immi¬ nentium gnari, ebrietatem & ingluviem fummopere detellantur. Itaque Purgationes etiam crebras defugiunt j & praecipuam in fre¬ quenti admodum miffione Sanguinis, in emollientibus Alvi Lotioni¬ bus, in Liquorum Diluentium potitatione, Acidilque Frudliuum fuc- cis, medelae fiduciam redte ponunt. Galli quoque, perinde ac hi, venam odties deciefve incidere haudquaquam reformidant ; nobifeum praeclare agitur, li id Une homicidii fulpicione bis terve iterare liceat. Hoc tamen modo, five nimia Sanguinis & Humo¬ rum Copia eft, ea expeditiftlme minuitur : ftve Rarefcentia nimia, optime cavetur ne Vala ulterius diftendant perrumpantque : ftve nimius Lentor, Ipatium ad dimotionem iplorum ampliatur : ftve qua- quaverfum Motu citatiori feruntur, Celeritas eorum inhibetur : ftve in partes aliquas violentius impinguntur, eorundem impetus alio deriva¬ tur. Febres certe peracutae, larga detradione Sanguinis, intra breve tem¬ poris fpatium, miro faepe cum fucceffu tolluntur : unde iftarum Gen¬ tium Medici audentiores fadti, aegris etiam ab hoc auxilii genere mi¬ nime alienis, nimis pertinaciter eidem vise inftftunt, cum non jam eadem maneat cubantis conditio 5 nam ft Febres diutius inh^reant, Homines continuata exinanitione, aut viribus defedli cito intereunt, aut in morbos infanabiles decidunt, qui ex debili Circulatione & Stagnatione humorum in extremis vafculis oriuntur, uti funt Cseci- tates, Marafmi, Vifcerum Obftrudliones, Scirrhi, & Hydropes. Idem- que de Purgatione dici poteft. Et in hac quidem re potiflimum, etiam quoad populares fuos, Medici mihi videntur ifti peccare : no- ftrates autem, quorum neque temperamentum, neque habitum, ne¬ que vidus cenfuetudinem fatis diligenter attendunt, valetudinis caufa peregrinantes frequentius peffundant. Utinam & nos pravis aftantium praejudiciis & aegrorum cupiditatibus obfequendo, in ho¬ rum perniciem non nimis aliquando gratificemur. Multse paflim audiuntur de Nervorum Affedibus querimonise ; unde ftquis gra¬ vitatem ^ Capitis, Artuum impotentiam, & Spirituum dejedionem, cum ftti & calore non immodico, perfentiat, Nervola quadam Fe¬ bre correptum fefe conjicit, & calida ftatim expofeit Cardiaca. Verum hoc pr^textu Evacuantia negligere, & Pulveres Aromaticos, Salefque Ardentes, & Spiritus quafi liquidi Ignis vim habentes Fe¬ bricitantibus indeftnenter devorandos exhibere, imperiti aut adulan¬ tis XIV 9 R^FATIO. tis Medici eft. Quod ad Venae fedlionem attinet, haec in Acutio¬ ribus Morbis paulo liberius ufurpata, non omnibus hodie, perinde ac olim fuit, terrori eft ; at Purgatio, nili forte in Infantibus ac Pueris, haud ita multum in ufu eft. Quafi vero ii aut ex firmiore materia, aut alio artificio contexti fint, quam natu grandiores : aut quafi Liberi magis intemperantes elTent eorum Patribus. Annon, ex in¬ ordinata viaus ratione & minus curiofo ciborum dekau. Stomacho & Inteftinis infigniter laboramus ? Itaque de tempeftiv^ Vomitio¬ nis ufu nemo difputat ; nemo item Clyfteres vel praecipere vel af- fumere metuit. Cumque Primarum, uti dicuntur. Viarum principio finique concedantur h$c Evacuantia, quid caufe poteft efle cur media pars earum ejufdem generis Remediis privetur ? pr^fertim cum in tenuibus Inteftinis multo uberiores humorum fecretiones fiant, & VaforumLadeorum pars longe maxima ex iis originem fuam ducat. Clyfteres quidem, licet ad fuperiora Inteftina non pervadant, tamen inferiora vacuando facilem quoque ab alteris iftis ftercori defcenfum expediunt j verum EiUemata, haud, uti Purgantia, craf- fam illam atque vifcidam fuperiorum Inteftinorum Tunicis agglu¬ tinatam materiam abftergunt depelluntque : cujus magnam illic fiepe copiam diu h^rere deprehendimus e folidarum faecum cumulo quae in fine Febrium, licet aegri vix aliud quam Liquida aftumferint^ Alvo vel naturaliter vel per Artem follicitata, egeruntur. Atque etfi Catharticorum ope Materiam quandam Febrilem a Sanguine fe- gregari excernique haud credibile putem, tamen eorum virtus ex eo tantum, quod Inteftinis afferunt, levamento minime aeftimanda eft. Alias enimj eafque eximias utilitates pr^ftant. Primo enim, corruptis humoribus ejedisj alimentum, quod ingeritur, purum & integrum ad Sanguinem defertur : deinde, Inteftinis depletione fubfidentibus, Vifcera atque ingentia Sanguinis Vafa qus Abdomine continentur, minus coarffata, liberius Circulationi fpatium prae¬ bent : poftremo. Jecoris, Pancreatis, & aliarum Glandularum exitus referantur. Unde Diaphragma & Pulmones refpiratione faciliori gaudent, in Caput haud ita violenter propellitur Sanguis, per uni- verfum Corpus turbatus Circulationis curfus in ordinem revertitur ; Alvique fiuxus & promoventur Critici, & arcentur Symptomatici. Huc accedit, quod Sudorificorum ufus longe tutior fit & efficacior poft Ven^ Sedionem & Purgationem, inanitis laxatifque Vafis, & patefadis eorum ofculis. Ex quo facilius per Cutis poros defide- rata promovetur Evacuatio, & ab eo cavetur, quod maxime me¬ tuendum eft, ne dum in ciendo Sudore toti fumus. Remedia huc fpedantia Inflammationes internas & Obftrudiones auge¬ ant. Igitur ubi Morbus Alvo, ut fieri folet, diu aftridae fu per¬ venit, ubi poft Vomitionem naufea cum rudu graveolenti etiam- num inhasret, ubi pituita ftomacho molefta eft, ubi os ama- refcit, ubi abdomen auda vifcerum mole aut flatibus diftendi- tur, ubi inteftina cum ventris -ficcitate vel etiam fluore torquen¬ tur, ubi corpus pravis fuccis abundat, quid obftat quo minus ienia, TR^FAT 10. XV lenia, quorum copia nobis fuppetit, praefertim in initiis Febrium, Purgantia imperemus ? Certe Hippocrates, licet haud alia ei cog¬ nita fuerint quam calida & vehementia Cathartica, tamen & haec etiam aliquando in Febribus neceffario adhibenda effe perfpexit. Is enim in Aphorifmis ita praecipit, — ” Incipientibus Morbis, fiquid movendum videtur, move : vigefcentibus vero, quiefccre melius ” eft.’* Et — ” In Acutis AfFedlionibus, raro, & in Principiis, Pur- ” gante utendum : atque hoc, diligenti prius adhibita cautione, facien- ” dum.” Et — ” Purgandum in valde Acutis, li turgeat Materia, ea- ” dem die: morari enim in talibus, malum eft.” Atque in his verfimi- liter ille iEgyptios fecutus eft, a quibus Medicina cum caeteris Ar¬ tibus ad Graecos derivata eft. Ii enim folebant, tefte Diodoro, ” Morbos praeoccupare. Corpora curantes Clyfteribus, & Potionibus ” quibufdam Purgantibus, & Abftinentia, & Vomitione : idque in- ” terdum ftngulis diebus, interdum poft tres aut quatuor dies in- ” terpofttos. Nam, diftributo omni nutrimento, majorem ejus par- ” tem efle fuperfluam, atque hinc morbos creari ; ideoque Cura- ” tionem modo expolitam, qua principia morbi tolluntur, ad re- ” cuperandam valetudinem maxime conferre affirmabant.” Simi¬ liter, Medici fuorum temporum feliciffimi, in Belgio Lommius, in Gallia Fernelius, in Anglia Sydenhamus, Purgantibus in Curatione Febrium primas poft Venae fedionem tribuere non dubitarunt. Sy¬ denhamus quidem in eo, quod poftremum fcriplit, Opufculo, h^c de iis habet : ” Cum Catharlis imperata curationi hujus Febris ob- ” efle nonnullis forte videatur, pro comperto affirmo, nihil ita certo ” atque ita potenter aegrum refrigerare atque Catharlin, poft Venae ” fedionem, quae ubique praemittenda eft, celebratam. Tametli ” enim Medicamentum Purgans eo ipfo quo fumitur die, atque adeo ” inter operandum majorem impraefentiarum & in Sanguine & in ” reliquis Humoribus, quam qui ante fuit, tumultum excitet, & pro- ” inde Febrem intendat ; id tamen noxae emolumento mox inde ” fubfecuturo plus fatis penfatur. Teftatur enim Experientia, Ca- ” tharlin modo poft edudum Sanguinem tentetur, quibuflibet aliis ” Remediis felicius certiufque Febrem perdomare ; tum quatenus ” faedam illam Humorum illuviem e corpore exigat, a quibus ut a ” caufa antecedente Febris accendebatur : vel li non antea pecca- ” bant ii, jam faltem concalefadli, & a Febris ardore quaft codi & ” conftipati, ad ejufdem moram diuturniorem multum faciunt ; tum ” etiam quatenus Anodyno viam fternit, quod tutius longe certiuf- ’ que officio fuo fungitur, quam li Humores peccantes, qui Pare- ” gorici vires aliter potuiflent infringere. Neque vero totum illud argumentum pertradavit, id folum in fe fulcipiens ut enarraret virtutem eorum in Febre, quae Variolas Con¬ fluentes, maturitate Pullularum aut vigente aut jam inclinata, fem- i per -•-it»''' F A T I 0. xvi per excipit. Cumque haec Medendi ratio, licet a Sydenhamo pras- monftrata, 'apud nos pene exoleverat, doctrinam fuam Virorum ali-. quot in Arte Medica maxime illuftrium confenfu munire idoneum judicavit: quorum Epiftolas, graves fahe ac perutiles, huic Operi infertas legimus. Eodem ipfe auxilio & in aliis Febribus frequen¬ ter ufus eft : '6c, quantopere id ei placuerit, confiat ex iisqus de hac re iri Hiftoria Medicinse poftea a fe fcripta tradidit. -De Alexandro Tralliano agens, ” In Gaufo, hve Morbo qui ab illo Febris Ardens ” Spuria dicitur, ubi redundat Bilis, & materia Evacuationi fefe offert, ” & Febris haud intenfa .eft. Purgationem Venfe fedtioni praefert : ” eum alii Sanguinis miffioni maxime nitantur. Obfervationem hanc adjicit peracutam & perutilem^: Memini me, inquit, etiam ” Acuta laborantem Febri purgafle; verum hxc res non modo mul- ” tam & exquifitam animadverfionem ac judicium, fed Medicum ” quoque deftderat fidenti praefentique animo. Ii qui Experientia ” rationem adjungunt, hiijufce obfervationis facile vim perfpicient ; ” neque viam hanc negabunt in quibufdam cafibus, fiquis huic pru- ” denter inftiterit, mira cum felicitate tentari. Hic enim frequenter ” aut fequends aut adjuvanda Naturse modus eft aptiftimus.- Caput ” apud Oribafium eft ex Archigene ad hanc rem fpedans ; idque ” redle animadvertit Galenus, Diarrhoeam ex naturalibus iis auxiliis ” efle unam, per qu® Morbus ifte ad Crifim perducitur. Porro ” neutiquam violenta Trallianus, fed lenia tantum, in Febre Ter- ” tiana & Quotidiana, exhibet Purgantia : qua^ res animadverfionem ” feriam meretur, Virumque illum, non modo acri cum judicio, fed ” caute ac fideliter. Artem fuam exercuifle comprobat.” Per hffic omnia id laboro, ut licet Purgationem in Febribus prope ad ex¬ tremum ufque Spiritum, quod in Natione quadam non inufitatum eftj minime iterari velim: tamen, • viribus fubfiftentibus, haudqua- quam formidabile Remedii genus efle oftendam. Neque video cur & in Meridionalibus Europze plagis, fub Febre languida & imbe¬ cillo Corpore, Veficantibus, taiiquam nos, audacfter uti non pof- fint : aut cur Vinum, ut a Graecis regionum aeque calidarum incolis vel in Phrenitide aliquando fieri folebat, aut etiam Vino fortiora propinare dubitent. Febremque accendere. Nam in quolibet aegro, quovis in loco, quocunque tempore, ubi Dolor Calorque ingravef- cit, Refpiratio arda laboriofa & fublimis, Pulfus autem tenfus for- tifque eft, ea neceffaria funt praefidia, quae Materiae Vafa onerantis copiam imminuant, ac Fluidorum impetum refraenent : contra, ubi robur infirmum eft, Refpiratio frequens parva ac debilis, Pulfus au¬ tem creber exilis & languidus, ea «tentanda funt quae Spiritus refo- cillent, motumque Sanguinis torpentem exfufcitent. 'Scriptis lejus affequi poffum, in Curatione Febrium Freindi con filia. .Caeterumin Commentariis continentur etiam Difquifitiones nonnullae .ad Oeconomiam Animalem & Pathologiam fpeaantes, uti de Sedlione Venarum Jugularium, de Pleuritidis ac Peripneumoniae Sede, de Ex- xretione Cuticulari & Inteftinali \ ubi optimo in lumine collocantur quacunque rationes ad explicanda hajc argumenta a penitiori Mecha- (nices & Anatomiae .cognitione hauriri potuerint. Opus autem in- ategrum Amico fuojcarifTimo & ftudiorum con forti, Ricardo Frewin, eadem nominis 'fama. eodemque cum amore hominum Oxonii, quo 'ipfe Londini, tunc temporis hodieque Medicinam exercenti dedica¬ vit. .JaquaDedioitione juvat profe(fto tramitem illum oculis fignare, iper quem Viri duo. excellentis ingenii & induftri^, in eodem ftadio de- acurrentes, una quoque feliciter ad Artis fuae metas pervenerint. De .Epidemiorum Libris, Freindique in eos Commentariis, 'multa curti -hujus laude, dicet ^ab. eo in quibufdam rebus diifentiens, Epiftolam .ad eundem fcripfit Anno 1718 Vir Eruditifiimus, a quo accura¬ tam HippocratisiEditionem avide expedamus, Daniel Trillerus. Sed' cum haec ^ad rem.Criticam magis quam Medicam fpedent, qute- fliones maximi momenti ab-eo examinatae' hujufmodi fint. An Pul- 'fuum notitiam habuerit, An Remedia Sudorifica adhibuerit. An ex'- .terni Cantharidum ufus plus quam uno in loco meminerit Hippo¬ crates? operae pretium non videtur his minutiis immorari: pr^- fertim cum Johannes King in -plerifque Trillero dode refpon- derit, ' , < . > Anno 1 7 1 9,Freindus edidit, de Purgantibus in Secunda Variolarum Confluentium Febre adhibendis, Epiftolam ad Virum Clarfflirnum Ri- cardum Mead, quicum amicitia & laboruiiiFocietate cbrijundiftimus diu vixerat: cujufqueiLitteras perelegantes de eadem're ad.Freindum feriptas, & Commentariis fupra memoratis infertas, legimus. Ereindus autem argumentum hoc ideo uberius illuftrare voluit, quod multi vulgaria praejudicia mordicus tenentes dodrinae huic tanquam nov^ ac inutili acriter oblatrarent. Woodwardus autem in fLibro quo¬ dam perinfulfo, quem paulo ante hoc tempus vulgaverat de Me¬ dicinae Statu, Purgantium in Variolis Patronos indigniftimis contu¬ meliis laceraverat. Is, ex Ofhcina in Currum prorepens, Medici prtes agere concupivit. Quod fi aliquid incepto dignum praefti- tiflet, id ei adeo non vitio verterem, ut fumma potius laude pr^- dicandum judicarem. Fuit autem ab initio, fuitque femper, & in communi vita Se in Medicinae ufu Vir abfurditatis perridieuk. Huic. Freindus nihil refpondit ferio : id idem fuifiet ac cum Umbra pug¬ nare ; Libellum autem fub Empirici cujufdam nomine edidit, ubi rifu lepidiftimo acrem exagitavit Hominis pr^fervidi Bilem, acer- biftimas injurias elegantibus facetiis propulfavit. Tamen ut recla¬ mantium ora penitus occluderet, inftituti fui utilitatem, & rationi¬ bus, & audoritate idonea, & Hiftoriis Hippocratico plane more feriptis, confirmavit; quarum veritatem ne malevoli ipfius fidei unice niti dicerent, cautum ab eo eft nequam narraret; ubi adjutor ei in medica- • • • XVlll 9 FJ T I 0, medicatione praefto non fuiflet. Haec etiam, ut ipfe ait, ” nota fatis. ” atque illuftria, non ex otioforum hominum cerebro effufa, fed ex ” ipfa Artis Magiftra Experientia, eaque multiplici, dedudla : non in ” angulis, non in gurguftiis, inter nutrices & aniculas clanculum ^ eonfidta, fed in luce atque confpedtil hominum, maximeque intra *’ Nobilium parietes, coram Teftibus idoneis gefta atque probata ” funt.” Purgantia in periculofo ifto Variolarum flatu, etiam ab Arabibus, qui Morbi de fcriptionem primi tradiderunt, ufurpata: ac deinde a pluribus infequentium Saeculorum Medicis judicio & Artis ufu praedantibus, paffim commendata obfeivat. Nihil autem de Remedii hujus modo ac tempore accurate praeceptum indicat, ante Sydenhami tempora : qui 6c Variolas luculentius depinxit, & earum curatibnem felicius abfolvit, quam omnes omnium gentium atque aetatum Medici. Is in Variolis Confluentibus, Die Decimo tertio, fi modo praemiffa fuerit Venae fe<dio, prae caeteris remediis Purga¬ tionem convenire arbitratus, prorfus interim ante hunc Diem tentari vetuit. Sed id, quemadmodum in Commentariis monuit Freindus, atque uti ex his quas recenfet Hiftoriis perfpicue liquet, frigidum nimis confilium, nec fatis pro periculo expeditum. Itaque fiquid ille novi fecitj in eo novatum eft, quod & interdum omifla Venae fedlione, &, cum citius plerumque, quam Die Decimo tertio, ad ultima ventum fit, hoc auxilii paulo maturius etiam arripi debere exiftimavit. Confilii fui rationes ab ipfo dedudlas Ledtor magna cum voluptate perpendet ; hoc tantum fummatim dicam. Cum Puflulae in ficcam & Cruftofam Scabiem abierint, ita parum fpe- rari debere, vel ut libere peragatur ipfa, qu$ naturaliter magna in copia fieri folet. Cuticularis humorum Perfpiratio, nedum materiae relidae expulfionem, ut quicquid ab Evacuatione petendum fit, id in Vense Sedione, Alvumque moventibus, maxime confidat. Nam licet copiofum Urinae fluxum optare debeamus, Diureticorum tamen effedus eorum nomini rarius refpondet. Veficantia nihil nifi tenue Serum eliciunt, cujus copia hic non obeft : eorumque virtus interna magis attendi debet. Quod fi in quacunque Febre eadem Ventris ficcitas perftaret, quis etiam in corpore imbecillo Laxantia formidare deberet, quorum 6c facul- 9 FJTIO. X facultas ejGTet lenis & quantitas mediocris ? At in Variolis non modo plerumque Venter diu claufus permanet, fed Materis putrefadls pars hos ipfoSj per quos exiit, Meatus Crufta tenaci obducit, pars intus relidla novam denuo Febrem accendit, cui, fi prster modum fs- viat, novs quoque ad humorum corruptorum ejedlionem aperiends fjiit vis. Neque alia adhuc commodior inventa efl, quam qus fit per Alvum. Quod nifi mature & abundanter fiat, etiam pofl- eaquam Morbi sflus ita deferbuerit ut non jam amplius prsfens dif- crimen intentet, frequenter ei fuccedunt AbfcelTus, Furunculi, Tufles, atque Tabes. Notatque Freindus, neminem unquam ex iis, quos fetvare non potuit hoc auxilii genus. Alvi unquam pro¬ fluvio intercidiffe, neminem in ipfo Purgandi curfu periifTe : hos ipfos vero qui, adhibitis utcunque Catharticis, perierint tamen, fem- per inde fere ad tempus aliquod fuiffe levatos. Porro Hiftoriis in hac Epiftola narratis magnopere debemus, quod quocunque Vari- olarurn tempore, fi atrocia urgent Symptomata, minori jam cum hominum praejudicio Sanguinem detrahere audeamus ; quas res, contra quam vulgo creditum eft, faciliorem iis exitum aperit, ne¬ dum intercludit : ac praefertim in initio morbi opportuna eft. An non enim ea materiae frequenter fubeft copia, quaj per Eruptionis tempus expelli nequeat: atque ideo Cerebrum premat. Cordis mo- tLMii perturbet, fauces ftrangulet, & Pulmones inferciat? An non hinc Arteriae adeo turgefcere ac diftendi poffunt, ut, jcum 6c ipfae rurfus debito modo contrahere fe non valeant, & Vafa ipfis inter¬ texta atque adjacentia coardtent, liber Fluidorum eurfus praepedia¬ tur ? An non, etiamfi materiae quantitas non immodica fit, taiiien a vehementer incitata Sanguinis, Velocitate iidem effedlus oriri que¬ unt ? An non ex Fibrarum irritatione Pori Cuticulares conftringi occludique : atque has ob caufas eas Partium Internarum labes contingere, quae in apertis Mortuorum Cadaveribus. confpiciuntur. Tumores videlicet Inflammatorii, Extravafationes, Abfceflus, & Gangraenae ? Igitur ei, qui Cordis & Arteriarum Contradlionem ac Dilatationem reciprocam, atque hoc modo jugiter continuatam San¬ guinis Circulationem animo comprehenderit, luce debet efle clarius, quamobrem in repletis firmifque Corporibus non modo ad averten- - dam a Capite ac Vifceribus Fluidorum violentiam, norrmodo ad Hu^ mores' intra Vafa fua cohibendos fluxilefque reddendosj^ neque ad Secretiones folum & Excretiones caeteras moderate ac' falutariter peragendas, fed ad eam quoque quas per Cutim fit Sudorum atque Halituum expulflonem adjuvandam, liberali Sanguinis miflidne nul¬ lum aliud inveniri poflit vel tutius vel efficacius vel praefentius auxi¬ lium. Ita quoque arcentur optime pericula, quas in Variolis femper timeri debent, quaeque exitium repentinum minantur. Phrenitis, Spirandi difficultas, & Angina. Quanto autem fatius eft. Remedio, a quo nihil noxas metui, ingens emolumentum fperari‘poteft, mala imminentia mature praecavere, quam idem, utcunque idoneum, an¬ ceps tamen redditum, ^magis alieno tempore experiri. Hac de re k in 9 RM F AT I 0. XX in Hiftoria Medicinae verbis fequentibus optime egit Freindus: ” Nonnulla tradit Aetius, quibus Medicus etiam utiliter inftrui pof- ” Ft. Unum eo fpedlans exemplum proferam, in quo curandi nobis ” regula ad imitandum aptiflima proponitur. Haec in Capite quodam “ invenitnr, quod li non omne, pars faltem ejus de Herodoto fumta “ efl; ; ubi tractantur ’E^civSrly.ajti, live Eruptiones Cuticulares cujufcun- “ que generis, quje vel Febri fuperveniunt, vel huic ab initio jun- guntur : ex prjefertim, quae pruritum movent^ & iii cute pulicum “ morlibus hmiles efflorefcunt. In hoc cafu, Naturani rediindanti- “ bus ac vitiolis humoribus onerari dicit: quae nili Evacuatione aliqua, aut per Voniitum, aut per Alvum exhauriantur, partes Vitales ado- riendo multum periculi intentant, Quamobrem in initio ftatim, 11 Febris violenti exarferit. Sanguinem mitti jubet. Minime dubito, quin, uti nunc obtinet, ita illis quoque teniporibus vulgaris illa “ opinio obtinuerit, ut ab Eruptione Cuticulari hujufniodi medek vetaretur : cujus h$c plerumque ratio affertur, ne eo modo humor a Circumferentia ad Centrum recedat. Verurri argumentationis ‘‘ iflius fallacia, li ad Oeconomiae Animalis normam exigatur, facil- lime detegi poteft ; atque in promtu eft deriionftrare, quemadmo- “ dum in multis cahbus, ubi abundat fanguis,vel is nimium glutinofus “ efl-j’ detradtio ejus lentorem partium attenuet, ac liberiorem earum “ reddat circulationem : quo fit ut non modo non cohibeatur, fed benignius etiam procedat Eruptio. Igitur in Eryfipelate, Variolis, “ Morbillis, Febre Scarlatina, aliifque fimilibus vitiis, fi vehementia fint lymptomata, 6c caput vel pulmonem afiiciant, aut ih alia qua- “ vis parte dolorem ingentem moveant, haud abfque ratione ac tuto “ prorfus Vena inciditur. Ego certe,- quanquam haud aliud frequen- “ tius experimentum inftituefim, ne femel quidem animadverti quam- libet harum Eruptionum pofl: miffionem Sanguinis retrocefiiffe, ubi affedtus ipfe id auxilii requireret. In Eryfipelate praefertim, fed & “ in aliis quoque cafibus, ubi Inflammatio adeft. Experientia docet, per ipfius partis affed:^ Scarificationem, cum Membranas illic onere “ gravatae craffiores appareant, frequenter malum omne mira cum “ celeritate diflipatum evanefcere.” Neque in alia fuit opinione, qui ante demonftratam. Sanguinis Circulationem floruit, Medicus cum* primis fagax & experiens, Carolus Pifo. Anno iy2o, Freindus Orationem habuit Anniverfariam, extJar- vasi inftitutd, in eorum commemorationem, qui fua in Collegium Medicorum Londinenfe beneficentia claruerunt. Fuitque tanti Viri & pr^co & imitator optimus. Quippe cum ante Harvaeum Ars nofira, verbis magis quam rebus, opinionibus magis quam veritate freta, quafi in tenebris jaceret, ipfe tandem exortus novum atque inopinatum in plerafque hujus Scientiae partes lumen diffudit. Ita ut Rationalis Medicina plus ei foli, quam eundis eo aetate prioribus debeat ; neque ex pofierioribus quifquam huic aliquid memorabile adjecerit, qui non Sanguinis Circulantis inventum ut argumentatio¬ nis fuae bafin pofuerit. Ecquid enim de Nutritione & Audu Cor- |3oris, ecquid de Sanitate ac Morbis, ecquid de Vit^ Mortifque Cau¬ lis, aliunde clare perfpicimus ? Ecquid lucis in ea qu^ manet rerum obfcuritate, nifi ab eadem lampade, petendum eft ? Neque hanc ille veritatem cafu quodam aut conjedura affecutus eft : fed ex fre¬ quentibus tam mortuorum quam Vivorum Animalium diffedioni- bus primus deprehendit, & rationibus firmiffimis munitam ac de- monftratione fenfibili confirmatam in sternum ftabilivit. Noverat Vir perfpicaciffimus Artem medendi ideo potiffimum per plurima retro fecula manfifle truncam & imperfedam, quod Profeftbres ejus ob fuperftitionem quandam ab aperiendis Hominum Cadave¬ ribus temperaffent. Igitur 8c Anatomfe operam fedulo dedit, neque hanc tamen exercuit, tanquam Opifex merus, qui Machina partes exiliffimas ejufque conftrudlionem accurate callens. Motus interim principia legefque & mirificos effedtus plane ignorat; -verum ex Cordis & Arteriarum Venarumque fabrica & fitu, motum ufufque harum partium, & perpetuum Sanguinis recurfum detexit. Refert- que Bdylius, cum percontatus eflet Harvaeum, quomodo ei in men¬ tem venillet cogitatio de Circulatione Sanguinis : hunc dixifle, cum “ Venarum Valvulas in Corpore ubique ita pofitas videret, ut libe- “ rum Sanguini verfus Cor praeberent curfum, verum eidem in con- “ trariam partem fluxuro obftarent, hinc collegifte fefe, haud fine ‘‘ confilio tot tali artificio Valvulas a provida rerum omnium effe- drice Natura collocatas : nullumque hujus rei probabiliorem efte ‘‘ finem, quam, quoniam Sanguis, ob interpofitionem Valvularum, “ per Venas ad Artus devehi non poftet, ut is per Arterias tranfmit- “ teretur, perque Venas rediret, quarum Valvulae ei hac via fluenti “ non obfifterent.” Neque vero, intra notitiam inventi fui fubfi- ftens Harvasus, non intellexit etiam quantopere poftet id Medi¬ cinae illuftranda promovendaeque infervire. “ Ex iis, inquit “ ille, quae in Circulatione, & hac pofita, obveniunt, ufus & utili- tates inveftigandae veritatis funt plures. ” Pathologia, & Therapeia recepta, quorum caufas non novimus, ” effe tamen nullus dubitat : videlicet Febrium Putridarum, Revul- fionis, & Purgationis Excrementorum. Ea omnia tamen Circui- ” tus beneficio intelliguntur.” Et poftea — ” Campum invenio, ubi ” longius percurrere 6c latius fpeculando exfpatiari pofTum. Sed ” enim tanta hinc veritatis elucefcit lux, qua tot problemata expli- ” cari, tot dubia folvi, tot afFedionum & morborum caufe & curandi ” occafiones invefligari poffunt, ut peculiarem tradatum poftulare ” videantur. De quibus omnibus, in Obfervationibus meis Medici- ” nalibus, admiratione digna tradam.” Et in fine Operis -- ” Cir- ” cuitus fi vel impeditur, vel pervertitur, vel nimium concitatur, ” multa periculofa morborum genera & Symptomata admiranda con- ” fequuntur ; tam in Venis, ut varices, apoftemata, dolores, ha^mor- ’ rhoides, h^morrhagi® ; quam in Arteriis, ut tumores, phlegmo- ' nes, dolores intenfifiimi & lancinantes, aneuryfmata, farcofes, ” fluxiones, fuffocationes fiibitaneae, afthma, flupor, apoplexia, & ” alia innumerabilia. Inter Medicinales Obfervationes, & in Pa- ” thoiogia, ea tradere potero, qute nunquam hadenus a quovis ob- ” fervata comperio.” Verum haec omnia, magno Medicinae damno, inter chartas periifie credibile eft, quas, ardente bello civili, ex Mufeo fuo raptas, queritur in Libro de Generatione Animalium Harvaeus ; uti & aliud opus haud minus elaboratum ac utile. Ufque ad feculum pofiremo elapfum parum exculta fuerat ea Anatomia? pars, quae in Morbidorum Cadaverum apertione verfatur : quanquam olim ” in ^gypto. Reges corpora mortuorum ad ferutandos mor- ” bos infecuilTe ” tradat Plinius. Harvaeus autem Anatomiam fuam ad Medicinae ufum maxime accommodatum litteris mandare decre¬ verat. ” Non enim, inquit ille, ut alii, folum locos morborum ex ” cadaveribus Sanorum indagando, & fecundum mentem aliorum, morborum fpecies, qui iis in locis videri potuiflent, recenfendo : V ^ed ut ex multis difiedionibus corporum iEgrotorum, gravifiimis & miris affedionibus confedorumj quomodo & qualiter partes interiores in fitu, magnitudine, conftitutione, figura, fubftantia, & reliquis accidentibus fenfibilibus, a naturali forma & apparen¬ tia (quam vulgo omnes Anatomici deferibunt) permutentur, & quam variis modis & miris afficiantur, enarrandum fufeiperem. Sicut enim Sanorum & boni habitus corporum difiedlio plurimum ad Philofophiam & redam Phyfiologiam facit : ita corporum ” Morboforum & Cachedicorum infpedio potiffimum ad Patholo- giam Philofophicam. Quippe eorum, quae funt fecundum Na- turam, contemplatio Phyfiologica eft prius a Medicis nofcenda ; quoniam, quod fecundum Naturam eft, id redum, & tum fui tum obliqui regula : cujus luce errores affedufque Praeternaturales definiendo, Pathologia poftea clarius innotefeit, & ex Pathologia ufus & Ars Medendi, novaque plurima Remedia inveniendi occa- fiones occurrunt. Neque quifquam facile crederet, quantum in , Morbis, praefertim Chronicis, Interiora pervertantur, & quanta ” Partium l I TR^FAT 10. xxiii ” Partium Interiorum Monftra gignantur. Aufim dicere, plus una ” diffedio & apertio Tabidi, aut morbo aliquo antiquo vel venenato ” confedi Corporis, ad Medieinam attulit commodi, quam decem ” Corpora Strangulatorum.” Haec ftudia, hi labores ad felicem & occupatiffimam Praxin, ad ingentem nominis famam, ad Archiatri munus extulerunt & Harvseum & Freindum. Anatorhiam Freindus miro femper cum affectu coluit; hanc veritatis teftem, hanc erroris confutatricem, hanc in dubiis rebus viae ducem optimam arbitra¬ tus eft ; ope hujus multa paffim ipfe intricata 6c perplexa enodavit. ” Haec, ut ipfe ait, late in omnem Medicinae ambitum pertinet : fine ” qua illa aut nulla omnino eft, aut Empirica. Perpetuo quippe ” fludluat Artificis fententia, nifi Artis Fundamenta exquifite perci- ” piat ; & ficui cafu aliquo res bene cefferit, nulla is alia laude dig- ” nus eft, quam quod omne confilium in Fortuna pofuerit.” Idem- que cum Harvaeo Freindus argumentum fumens, Praelecfliones Ana¬ tomicas in Theatro Chirurgorum Londinenfium habuit : ubi de Cordis Arteriarum & Venarum Struftura Motu Ufuque, ac de harum partium Morbis Morborumque Curationibus do6le & accurate differuit. Quas Praeledtiones publicas facere fupervacaneum ideo vifum eft, quod, qu^ in iis rriaxime notatu digna funt, fparfa paffim in Hifloria Medicinae reperiri poffunt, pr^cipue iis in locis, ubi de Syncope, Aheuryfmate, ac Circulationis ufu, fermo effi Neque vero Freindus unquam Morbidorum Cadaverum apertioni, cujus rei fummam facultatem habuit cum in Caftris verfaretur, aut tunc temporis, aut in Urbe poftea, quantumvis negotiis impeditus, inte- reffe neglexit. Ejufque in hac re ftudium tum infignes aliquot hujufmodi diffedionum Hiftoriae ab eo enarratae, tum fequentia ipfius verba declarant, ” Optandum effiet, ut quemadmodum h^c ” Sanorum, ita & illa Morbidorum Corporum infpedlio apud nos ” in confuetudinem veniret. Etenim res minime controverfa efl, ” lucem effie omnem ab Arte Anatomica petendam, qua Medicus ” Morborum plurimorum & proprias Sedes eruere poffiit, & Signa ” legitima internofcere.” Quod ad Sanguinis Circulationem attinet, hanc Audlori fuo Harvaeo Freindus ita affieruit, ut nihil ultra de hac re ambigi queat ; variafque hujus dodtrinae utilitates variis tum Ex¬ emplis tum Ratiociniis ubique, data occafione, illuftrat. Quare in eo Patria noftra jure gloriari poteft, quod & inventum hoc primus omnium tradiderit Harvaeus, idemque nemo quifquam Freindo fe¬ licius ad ufum Medicinae accommodaverit. Harvaeus, inter alia dona Collegio Medicorum impertita. Epulum quotannis fuo fumtu fieri, & Orationem Anniverfariam haberi curavit. Freindus, ut erat Medicorum concordiae & feftivitatis valde ftudiofus, cum primis elaboravit ut Epulum hoc, diu intermiffium, inflauraretur : atque Orationem nulli earum, quae illo in loco unquam pronuntiatae funt, fecundam habuit. Harvaeus eidem Collegio Fundum fuum vivus donavit ; Freindus etiam, cum in vivis effiet, Theatrum Anatomi¬ cum in iTde Chrifli Oxonii aedificare decreverat, ac ftipendium 1 Praeledori XXIV 9 F AT I 0. Praledori liberale in perpetuum conftituere. Hoc immatura morte praepeditus non, uti ftatuerat, fecit : at moriens, poft Familiam fuam, Medicae Familias confuluit. Nam fi Filio ejus fine Liberis mori contigerit, mille Librae ab eo in Ufiis fupra didos legata funt ; ac fi duo Fratris Filii infuper fine Prole obierint, Haereditas omnis ad ponenda in eadem Urbe Nofocomii initia eroganda eft. Per omne illius Parlamenti tempus, quod Anno 1722 congre¬ gatum efi, in Curia Britannica Freindus Senator confedit : quod in praecedenti, non nifi per paucos Menfes, fecerat. Illic in magno eloquentium Oratorum numero, ob fummam ejus in dicendo vini ac leporem, magnopere inclaruit. Sub initium Anni 1723 evidentifiime oftendit, quam vehe¬ menti Artis fuae promovendae ftudio flagraret; hanc enim, cum propter calamitatem, quas fola ei per omnem vitam obtigit, aegros invifendi facultate privaretur, fcriptis ornare non deftitit. Quippe Epiftolam illam elegantem. De quibufdam Variolarum Generibus, iri Turri Londinenfi exaravit. Quam ob caufam illic eflet inclufus, non hic eft inquirendi locus. Illud certe conftat, nihil hujufmodi ob- ftitifle quo minus poftea, Auguftiffimi Rex & Regina Britannia nunc aufpicato ' imperantes, tunc temporis Wallias Principes, plenam in integritate & peritia ejus fidem ponerent. Nam cum Liberi ipforum gravibus & periculofis Morbis laborarent, Confilio ejus ufi funt : quod ita profpere ceflit, ut praeconceptam de eo opinionem haud medi¬ ocriter auxerinti In eodem loco Hiftoriam Medicinae inchoavit, a Galeni tempore ufque ad initium Saeculi Decimi Sexti. Cujus Primuni Volumen Anno 172^, & Secundum Anno proximo prodiit. Haec, ab eo Anglice fcripta, a me in Latinum fermonem converfa eft. Quam Tradudionem qui evolverint^ minime dubito quin futurum fit ut Fliftoriae fide, rerum varietate, aliorum Audtorum examinatione, exquifito ipfius judicio, praeceptorum utilitate, & obfervationum de- ledtu vehementer obledlatos fe fuifle agnofeant: etfi ufitatam Freindi facundiam 8c orationis nitorem valde defiderabunt, quippe qui in iis omnibus quae Latine fcripfit Celfi ac Ciceronis inaffedlatam ele¬ gantiam conjunxerit. Quod fi verba ac fententias ejus, id quod fa¬ cere diligenter ftudui, fideliter ac perfpicue reddidero, hanc mihi gratiam debebunt Exteri, quod Libri adeo utilis ac jucundi lecftione non ultra carituri fint. Etiam Notulae quaedam, Manu ipfius fcriptae, & Codici impreflb adjedtae, loco fuo hic a me infertae funt. C^id in Hiftoria hac praeftiterit, breviter ac fummatim percurram. In Primo Volumine de Graecis Scriptoribus agit, qui poft Galeni tem¬ pora floruerunt. Oribafii, Aedi, Alexandri, Paulique States defig- nat : de qua re nihil antea apud optimos Hiftoricos nifi perturba¬ tum 8c confufum reperiri poterat. Atque etfi, ut Philofophiam Ariftoteles, ita quoque Medicinam prope omnem abforbuerat Ga¬ lenus, tamen & in his Audloribus multa fatis fingularia occurrere animadvertit, ut omnino digni fint qui ftudiofe verfentur. Multa in his T R M F A T I 0. XXV his Medicorum illuftrium, Galeno antiquiorum, fragmenta pretiofa confervantur. Multa in Chirurgia fa6la funt incrementa. Qusedam, Recentiorum Saeculorum inventa falfo credita, iis adjudicantur : uti Glandularum Salivalium cognitio, Setacei, Cauteriorum ad aperien¬ dos in Cute Fonticulos, & Acupundturae in Hydrope ufus. Quid item certi de caeterorum Graecorum, qui iftis pofteriores fuerint, aetate invefligari potuerit, perfequitur. Peftis a Procopio & Euagrio narrata defcribitur. Liquorum Diftillatorum prima apud Graecos mentio notatur. Nofocomium ab Alexio Imperatore magnificen- tiffime exftrudlum, atque immenh in hujus ufum reditus ab eodem donati commemorantur. Verum, uti Hiftoria communis, fi fo- lummodo ad animi delectationem, non item ad informandos homi¬ num mores, fcripta eft, neque nos hujus leCtio & ad vitanda Ante- cefforura vitia hortetur, & ad imitandas eorum virtutes accendat, permediocris pretii eft : ita quoque Freindus nihil memorabile fe faClurum judicaCit, nifi Lucubrationes fu^ ad Praxin Artifque ufum prsEcipue fpeCtarent. Morbos inufttatos, qui a Veteribus defcripti funt, exponit : uti Dracunculos, & Lycanthropiam. Medendi ra¬ tiones ab iifdem ufurpatas, quas jam vel in' defuetudinem abierint, vel rarius adhibeantur, commendat : uti Scarificationem, & Arte- ridtomiam. De Purgatione in Febribus, de eadem leniter admodum ac frequenter inftituenda in Morbis Chronicis, de Venas feCtiohe in Exanthematis, & Syncope: de remedii utriufque lifu in Cordis Pal¬ pitatione, egregie difterit. De Aneuryfmate, de Hernia Inguinali & Crurali, de Difeutientium & Suppurantium indicatione, ac modo, & auxiliis ad utramque rem efficacibus, de Circulationis invento ac variis utilitatibus ad Praxin, permulta habet leCtu jucundiffima. In fine Libri Veterum prasftantiam eximie collaudat, & pro eo acriter contendit ne nuda tantum Experientia freti ea adjumenta defpicia- mus, qu$ ex diligenti optimorum AuClorum pervolutione petenda funt. ffiquus profeClo & idoneus hujus rei Arbiter, qui diuturnam Experientiam cum aftiduo Litterarum ftudio conjunxerit : quique, ut ineunte retate probatiffimos Magiftros, tanquam Vire duces, ele- aerat, ita hos denho confummatus jam Artifex, in concluftone vitae, tanquam Judex Cenforque^ ad examen revocaverit. In Secundo Volumine, Litterarum omnium apud Arabas initia progrefllim, & Chalipharum his faventium ftudia ac munificentiam, fufe expo¬ nit. Deinceps Medicorum ex ifto populo, tam quorum fcripta ad nos pervenerunt, quam qui nomine nobis antea inauditi erant, aetates evolvit : indicatque, quid quifque eorum ad Artis fure incrementum contulerit. De Morbis agitur, qui vel hujus tantum Gentis Scrip¬ toribus cogniti fint, uti Vena Medinenfis : vel ab iis primo memo¬ rati, uti Spina Ventofa. | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'b30451747_2', 'collection': 'Latin-PD', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '1733.0', 'title': 'Opera omnia medica', 'creator': 'Freind, John, 1675-1728', 'language': 'Latin', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '7221', 'token_count': '15324', '__index_level_0__': '38190', 'original_id': '4a07a01cb5c4b0fd5e3ff330a910545a49352312e38ea6901c06b4538fb34c54'} |
USS Bulmer
USS Bulmer (DD-222/AG-86) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Captain Roscoe Bulmer, and was the last warship of the Asiatic Fleet in USN commission.
Bulmer was launched 22 January 1920 by William Cramp & Sons; sponsored by Miss Anita Paor Bulmer, daughter of Captain Bulmer; and commissioned on 16 August 1920, Lieutenant Commander J. C. Jennings in command.
Service history
Inter-War Period
In 1920, Bulmer joined the Pacific Fleet, based at San Diego, California. In 1923, she joined the U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, and later the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters. Early in 1925, she was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. She operated as a unit of Destroyer Squadron 5 (DesRon 5), Destroyer Division 14 (DesDiv 14), alternately based in the winter at Manila and Cavite, Philippine Islands, and in the summer at Chefoo, China. Early in 1939, Bulmer was assigned to the South China Patrol and was later reassigned to DesRon 29, DesDiv 58, on Neutrality Patrol under the Commandant, 16th Naval District. In January 1941, she participated in the Asiatic Fleet Problem and then continued patrolling in the Philippines.
World War II
When the United States entered World War II, Bulmer was still assigned to the Asiatic Fleet and stationed in the Philippines. During the early months of the war she engaged in patrol, escort, and antisubmarine duties throughout the southwest Pacific. On 9 January 1942 Bulmer was one of five destroyers in an escort composed of the cruisers and , with the other destroyers , , , and departing from Darwin to Surabaya escorting the transport Bloemfontein. That transport had been part of the Pensacola Convoy and had left Brisbane 30 December 1941 with Army reinforcements composed of the 26th Field Artillery Brigade and Headquarters Battery, the 1st Battalion, 131st Field Artillery and supplies from that convoy destined for Java.
As a unit of Task Force 5 (TF 5), DesRon 29, Bulmer took part in the Battle of Bali Sea on 4 February 1942, where the allies were defeated. She also took part in the unsuccessful Allied attempt to intercept Japanese invasion convoys off Palembang, Sumatra. On 19 February, along with and , she departed Tjilatjap, Java, for Exmouth Gulf, Australia, and an overhaul.
Bulmer served on patrol duty at various Australian ports until May. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 16 June and reported to Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet, for duty. From June 1942 to May 1943, she operated as an escort vessel for convoys sailing between Pearl Harbor and San Francisco and return.
Bulmer was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet in May and arrived at New York on 14 June. Her first Atlantic assignment was as a unit of Task Group 21.12 (TG 21.12) from 14 June to 22 September. During this sweep of the North Atlantic, aircraft from sank on 13 July.
Bulmer next made a trans-Atlantic voyage to Swansea Wales and then commenced convoy escort duty between northeastern Atlantic ports and North Africa from 4 October 1943 to 31 July 1944. On 13–14 January, during one of these voyages, Bulmer and other escorts made several attacks against a German wolf pack of submarines in the eastern Atlantic. Bulmer conducted her attacks very aggressively and although not officially credited there is a chance that she sank or severely damaged . On the morning of 14 January, she rescued 17 German survivors, including the captain, of a sunken German submarine believed to have been , which was sunk on 13 January by a British flying boat.
From 1 August to 4 October 1944, she conducted operations in Narragansett Bay. Bulmer's designation was changed to AG-86 on 1 December. She reported to the Panama Canal Zone on 27 December for training duty with newly commissioned submarines. In July 1945, she returned to the United States and was assigned to the operational control of Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, and operated out of Port Everglades, Florida. Bulmer was decommissioned on 16 August 1946 and sold on 19 February 1947.
Awards
She received two battle stars for her World War II service.
As of 2005, no other ship has been named Bulmer.
References
External links
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/222.htm
Category:Clemson-class destroyers
Category:World War II destroyers of the United States
Category:Ships built by William Cramp & Sons
Category:Ships built in Philadelphia
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The Unbroken Thread
I believe in destiny of a sort. Not the destiny of the Calvinists where an omniscient God writes the script and pulls the strings. But the destiny of Einstein where each physical state of the universe, including the brain of each living organism, necessarily leads to the next state in a dynamic kaleidoscope of interactions. Yes there is beauty, yes there is wonder, yes there is color, music, excitement and despair. But each state of this wonderful world merges necessarily into the next, in an unbroken thread. We are observers of the life we act out. This is how I see it in my moments of quiet reflection. But when the moment comes when I need to make a decision and to act, I become an independent agent taking the reins of my own future. An unmoved mover, an existentialist. Until my next period of quiet reflection when I can once again feel life’s progressive unfolding. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8991137742996216}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61761', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PZSEMZTP2KGH3MDUSKEQZIXH3DDMJUZA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1ba20c0e-4f52-4ce2-859a-964587e2130e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 23, 5, 5, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.22.121', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HZNGWZ6FTGKWNFQV3YG5Y5JO4IQGMGDL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e3f86e7c-5e38-4c86-922f-9dd05f2842cc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.brain-and-mind.com/2013/03/the-unbroken-thread.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:888a0827-d728-4e1a-9378-01c3f11d53e1>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '159', 'url': 'http://www.brain-and-mind.com/2013/03/the-unbroken-thread.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 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': '0.05252903699874878', 'original_id': '02352d20ff0987ba23968b5dbcb37876a4c6ff9b1b1e06292f7325d5453ea074'} |
North Korea and South Korea – ANOTHER Technology of Gambling
North Korea and South Korea – ANOTHER Technology of Gambling
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Many of the world’s most well-known casino gaming businesses have a presence in southern Korea. Both most prominent gaming corporations in south Korea are the Dongguan Casino and the Lotte Cardomom Co Ltd. Both these companies are recognized as world-class gaming companies and also produce a wide variety of popular casino games. Besides their high quality products, in addition they employ hundreds of professionals who are well versed in the art and science of casino gaming. Not absolutely all of the games offered by 카지노 룰렛 these companies could be played at home. Many of them require that the gamer is situated in the vicinity of the gambling establishment.
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My music doesnt see size, it just hits my heart ! Chillin Playlist
In the first episode of Kurve Konfidential on YouTube, I said I had a music play list for when i getting ready to go out.
This will consist of all different types of songs, but it’s usually upbeat and meaning full, to me.but the thing i love about my music, is that it doesnt see size or colour and its just something that entres straight to your soul.
We all have dramas in your life, no matter what it is, music always makes me feel better. And especially when I’m feeling at my fattest. I find myself cocooned in my room, tidying it up while singing and/or dancing my heart out. Tidying can take hours because I’m to busy looking for more songs on YouTube or SoundCloud.
I’m not gonna lie, I find using my room an excuse to everyone, so I can just be with my music and myself.
Music is a personal affair for me, I’m happy to share songs with friends but I hate listening to music with people, I get sunk into every word and feel listening to music with others can take that away and invade my space. Maybe someone would say I go to deep when listening to music, but it’s a natural reaction for me.
Words, key changes, and the instruments all gets me locked. I can have a conversation with someone and as soon as a good song comes on I’m gone, I no longer understand what that persons saying. If it’s a song I have never heard before, I then get me phone out, find my Shazam app, wait anxiously for it to get the name of the song, once that has been done, I can then focus on the person who I was having a conversation with.
Music has comforted me when I have gone through hard times. I just thought that this was just a phase as a teenager, but I’ve done this through my whole life. The comfort I get from having a good music session is amazing.
No it’s not the same as going to a club and dancing nonstop and I really do mean NON-STOP all night, which I my second favourite music related thing to do. But being still with music on loud or with your headphones give me space. I think I find music intimate, a song can take me to places where I haven’t been, you could say it’s similar to a book. I also seem to make up music videos for songs lol, I know it’s sad. I often give music all of my attention, even down to the lyrics.
Another thing that makes me happy and excited is discovering that the song completely changes half way through, till the point that you think you’re listening to a brand new song sometimes.
Do you ever get those times when you’re feeling a certain way and a song comes on to completely explain exactly how your feeling, it happens so often. It’s like god is saying “Yes my chid, it’s OK to feel this way and I understand”.
TBH, I think I’m quite OCD when it comes to my music, which is fine. Wish I was like this with me car and keeping it tidy.
Anyway hope you like my play list. It’s just a few songs that I can’t stop listening to at the moment.
Let me know how music benefits you, or just your own relationship with your music.
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I have written an Application what posts Photos on a FanPage into a Specific Album long time ago.
Now I didn't used for a half year. Now I had to set up the Application again and grant the extended Permissions to the Fan Page (streamm_publish) again. But now I've a Problem, I'm using the old REST API what now gives me the error: An unknown error ocurred with the error code 1.
Then I tried to post throught the Facebook Graph api. I tried to make a call to the Api /pageid/albumid/photos what's not working(Unknown path components) I tried to makea a call to /albumid_from_my_page/photos then the Photos were posted to my profile I tried to upload it to /pageid/photos what is the same as the one above
But the code fpr the REST Api worked well, what's the problem there, and why the new Graph Api isn't working how she should?(BUG?)
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To post a photo to an album, this is the code:
$post_data = array(
"message" => "My photo caption",
$album_id = "XXXXX";
$facebook->api("/$album_id/photos", 'post', $post_data);
Now I suppose to interact with the page albums you need a page access_token added to your $post_data array, for this check this answer.
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You need take ACCESS_TOKEN page...
try: http://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts?access_token= GET THIS TOKEN USING GRAPH API... OR MAKE USING the getAccessToken()...
and will see all pages and aplications that u have, find just application for this case and COPY TOKEN... and damn!!!
It's possible to see this token thought GRAPH API EXPLORER...
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Official Full Name
optic atrophy 1 (autosomal dominant)
OPA1; optic atrophy 1 (autosomal dominant); dynamin-like 120 kDa protein, mitochondrial; dynamin like guanosine triphosphatase; FLJ12460; KIAA0567; MGM1; mitochondrial dynamin like GTPase; NPG; NTG; optic atrophy protein 1; mitochondrial dynamin-like GTPa; optic atrophy protein 1 homolog; fk62d06; zgc:92092; wu:fb77a10; wu:fk62d06
GTPase optic atrophy type 1 (OPA1) gene encodes a mitochondrial protein localized in the inter-membrane space (IMS) and associated to mitochondrial membranes. OPA1 is essential for adapting mitochondrial function and preserving cellular health. OPA1 governs the delicate balance between fusion and fission in the dynamic mitochondrial network. A disturbance of this balance, often observed under stress and pathologic conditions, causes mitochondrial fragmentation and can ultimately result in cell death. In recent years, a growing number of evidences suggest that the prevention of OMA1-mediated OPA1 processing and mitochondrial fragmentation might thus offer the exciting therapeutic potential for human diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.
OPA1 expression
OPA1, and its yeast orthologues Mgm1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Msp1p in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, belongs to the dynamins’ family; with which it shares three conserved regions: a GTPase domain, a middle domain and a carboxy-terminal coiled-coil domain (CC-II) also called GTPase effector domain (GED). The latter is involved in the oligomerization and activation of the dynamins. The amino-terminal region of OPA1, preceding the GTPase domain, displays a mitochondrial import sequence (MIS) followed by a predicted transmembrane domain (TM1) and a coiled-coil domain (CC-I) located downstream of alternatively spliced exons. In humans, OPA1 ORF is built from 30 exons, 3 of which are alternatively spliced leading to 8 mRNA.
OPA1 and mitochondrial fusion
The delicate balance between fission and fusion is struck by the tight regulation of several dynamin-related proteins that are localized at the inner membrane (IMM) and outer membrane (OMM) (Figure 1). They all share a highly conserved GTPase domain and possess the ability to self-assemble, hydrolyze GTP and remodel membranes. At the OMM, mitochondrial fission is orchestrated by the mitochondrial recruitment and assembly of cytosolic dynamin-related protein 1 (DRP1, also known as DNM1L) into oligomers at sites of scission.
Figure 1. OPA1 regulates mitochondrial morphology and dynamics.
Loss of function of OPA1 by RNAi or gene knockout, or of Mgm1p and Msp1p, causes fragmentation of the tubular mitochondrial reticulum. Conversely, over-production of this protein promotes mitochondrial elongation in cells where mitochondria are punctuated. Surprisingly, over-expression of the dynamin in cells with tubular mitochondria causes mitochondrial fragmentation. However, such cells still possess a normal mitochondrial fusion activity. The profusion activity of OPA1 is further confirmed by experiments showing that mitochondrial fusion is impaired in OPA1-depleted or Opa1−/− cells. Interestingly, levels of OPA1 can differentially influence two types of fusion: a “transient fusion” that result in the rapid exchange of soluble components without affecting the morphology of mitochondria and a “complete fusion” that permits the exchange of all mitochondrial components and affect mitochondrial morphology.
OPA1 and disease
OPA1 was named so after its genetic mutation was shown to be the main cause of autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA). This optic neuropathy is characterized by a destruction of retinal ganglion cells and the optic nerve, resulting in progressive vision loss. Although OPA1 is highly expressed in the retina, it is broadly expressed throughout the body and this might reflect the multiple disorders that have presented themselves in patients harboring heterozygous mutations of OPA1, including deafness and dementia. Until recently, all OPA1 mutations found in patients have been identified as heterozygous, with the only homozygous OPA1 mutation causing early-onset encephalomyopathy, cardiomyopathy and death during infancy.
In the last years, some invertebrate models bearing OPA1 mutations have been developed. In Caenorhabditis elegans mutations of the OPA1 orthologue, eat-3, cause mitochondrial fragmentation and inner membrane septa accumulation in matrix, both suggesting defect in fusion, as well as hypersensitivity to oxidative stress but no evidence for increased cell death. Homozygous mutations of dOpa1, the drosophila ortholog of OPA1, result in embryonic lethality and cause rough and glossy eyes phenotypes in somatic clones of adult flies by two distinct pathogenic pathways. Heterozygous mutations result in a shortened lifespan, increased production of ROS, sensitivity to oxidative stress, defects in the activity of respiratory chain complexes, aberrant mitochondrial structures as well as skeletal muscle, heart and eyes dysfunctions of which the latter is partially reversed by antioxidant treatments. In accordance, recent studies show that OPA1 mutations affect other organs besides the retina in human and mouse. These data suggest that OPA1 mutations could cause multiple organ abnormalities and furthermore indicate that the pathogenesis could be organ specific.
Exciting progress continues to improve our understanding of how the proteolytic processing of OPA1 is central to its function. It would be fascinating to discover whether preventing stress-induced OPA1 processing by OMA1 can improve the phenotypes of other mitochondrial-dysfunction-associated pathologies. However, targeting OMA1 for therapeutic use would require greater understanding of the role of OMA1-mediated OPA1 processing for mitochondrial quality control under conditions of transient stress and would also benefit from a greater exploration of additional substrates in mammalian models. In any case, further steps can now be taken to explore the therapeutic potential of preventing excessive stress-induced mitochondrial fragmentation in different tissues with a goal to eventually alleviate the severe symptoms of human diseases that are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.
1. Macvicar T, Langer T. OPA1 processing in cell death and disease - the long and short of it. Journal of Cell Science, 2016, 129(12):2297.
2. Bertholet A M, et al. OPA1 loss of function affects in vitro neuronal maturation. Brain, 2013, 136(5):1518-1533.
3. Williams P A, et al. Opa1 is essential for retinal ganglion cell synaptic architecture and connectivity. Brain, 2012, 135(2):493-505.
4. Landes T, et al. OPA1 (dys)functions. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2010, 21(6):593-598.
5. Carelli V, et al. Syndromic parkinsonism and dementia associated with OPA1 missense mutations. Annals of Neurology, 2015, 78(1):21-38.
6. Spiegel R, et al. Fatal infantile mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and optic atrophy associated with a homozygous OPA1 mutation. Journal of Medical Genetics, 2016, 53(2):127-131.
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What Is A Jew?
I get nervous when a person who is not a Jew purports to answer the question, “What is a Jew?”
This week, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has purported to do just that with his Executive Order declaring that anti-Semitic actions on college campuses will be opposed with the Title VI of US law that makes it a crime to discriminate against anyone because of color, race, or national origin. To be fair, this Executive Order was apparently encouraged by the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is a Jew. The avowed intent is to prevent legitimate criticism of the policies and actions of the Israeli government from flowing over into discrimination against Jewish individuals for being Jewish. In this light the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has welcomed the Executive Order.
But there is a darker side to this issue. Can it be that the President’s motive – suggested by his personal history of strongly anti-Semitic statements – is not motivated by his desire for justice for Jews, but by his desire to shore up his political base (mostly conservative Evangelical) with a public support for the government of Israel?
And a darker side yet: students of European history from its beginning are painfully aware that the defining of Jews by political tyrants has never ended well for Jews. Specifically, the defining of a Jew as person of a distinctly other racial or national origin has been the foundation stone for discrimination, oppression, pogroms, and extermination. Most recently, it was Adolph Hitler’s definition of Jews as a race and nationality apart from German. The first step in the oppression of German Jews by the National Socialists (Nazis) was the labeling of them as “other.” The Final Solution was the death camps.
So while on the surface of it the Executive Order to prevent discrimination of Jews on campuses looks like a good thing, just below the surface it quickly begins to look like something else: a government with a questionable human rights record defining a people as “other.” The Trump order should be evaluated in the light of the Trump record, and a healthy amount of concern is in order.
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Jamal Khashoggi’s killers spared death sentence
Jamal Khashoggi
Jamal Khashoggi was an outspoken critic of the Saudi government. Source: POMED (via Wikimedia Commons)
Following a trial into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, five of those found guilty were given the death sentence until a plea from Khashoggi's children.
By Hallum Cowell | Deputy Editor
The five people convicted for involvement in the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi have had their sentence’s – previously to death – commuted. The five will now serve 20-year jail terms after Mr Khashoggi’s family intervened.
What happened to Mr Khashoggi?
The journalist was murdered in 2018 after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul. It was later revealed that he was murdered by Saudi agents who, the Saudi government claims, were conducting a “rogue operation”. They claim that the team who murdered Mr Khashoggi were meant to return the journalist to Saudi Arabia and had instead killed him.
As a long-standing critic of the Saudi government, Jamal Khashoggi’s murder caused huge outcry from the international community with many seeing it as an attack on journalistic freedom and a threat to those who would seek to ask tough questions of the ruling elite.
What has the trial been like so far?
Following international pressure, Saudi Arabia placed eight people on trial in connection to the murder in December 2019, including two former aids to the Saudi Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The Crown Prince himself denies any involvement.
Five of those on trial were sentenced to death, while the other three were given prison terms for their part in covering up the crime.
Despite the trial, and the denial of involvement from Saudi officials, UN special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard called the trial “the antithesis of justice”, adding that Mr Khashoggi was “the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution” and claiming the Saudi government were responsible for this murder.
Many would rather see the trial conducted in Turkey, where the murder took place, however the Saudi government have insisted that the trial be held in Mr Khashoggi’s home country.
The changing of the sentence
In May 2020 those sentenced to death had their sentence changed to 20 years in jail.
The change came after Mr Khashoggi’s children asked those convicted to be spared the death sentence. Salah, Mr Khashoggi’s son, said that “if a person forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allah.”
“Therefore, we the sons of the Martyr Jamal Khashoggi announce pardoning those who killed our father, seeking reward from God almighty.”
Salah Khashoggi added that he did not believe the murder of his father was premeditated and therefore would not want those found guilty to be sentenced to death.
Under Saudi law a death sentence can be commuted if a pardon is issued by the victim’s family.
Hatice Cengiz, Mr Khashoggi’s fiancée and Turkish citizen, did not agree with the decision made by Salah Khashoggi and his siblings. She said that “Jamal was killed inside his country’s consulate while getting the documents to complete our marriage. The killers came from Saudi Arabia with premeditation to lure, ambush [and] kill him.”
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Thirty million years ago, this beach was part of France
A recent geological survey of the Isle of Wight has come to the worrying conclusion that the island is shrinking at a rate of two millimetres per year.
The first survey on the actual size of the island in 1952 revealed it to have an area of 380.56777 square kilometres. A survey that began in 2006 and was completed earlier this year has discovered that the island now has a surface area of 380.56762 square kilometres. This has been put down either to rising sea levels, coastal erosion, an imperial to metric conversion error, poor measurement in the fifties, or most worryingly of all, the centimetre getting bigger!
"This is a discrepancy of over ten centimetres!" said head of Geology on the Isle of Wight, Marla Kintyre. Kintyre has also calculated that thirty million years previously, the island was twice the size it is now. Maybe more.
On hearing the news, house prices in Ventnor, Ryde and Yarmouth fell through the floor, with any house less than ten metres from a cliff immediately put up for sale, despite it taking approximately five thousand years before the island will have shrunk enough to cover that ten metres.
"We calculate that the island will have completely disappeared nineteen million years," said Kintyre. "Give or take a few hundred thousand. I've already booked my flight off the island while we still have an airport!"
Panic house selling on the island has become rife since learning that the population only have nineteen million more years before the house market there has completely gone. Although, reports of inflatables and life rafts have gone up in recent weeks.
"I'm two miles from the coast," said Elsie Horef, an elderly Godshill resident, who has recently bought an inflatable life raft. "I'm not very good at converting metric into Imperial, and my calculations for circumference using the area maybe a little suspect, but I've worked out my house will be underwater by next Tuesday!"
Long term Ventnor resident, Harold Regus, has done his own calculations and has only one thing to say to the rest of the island's population: "Feckin eejits, the lot of them."
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What do you want?
By Kendall
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I don't own 'em, I'm not making anything off 'em.
I was cleaning out my files and found this old challenge response from another group that I realized I never posted here, so here it is...
It had been a long time since Stephanie Plum had worked a distraction job, and she had a feeling this one would be her last. With Ranger being out of town for a few months now, she hadn't been called upon to slut it up for the cause of bringing some slime-ball to justice, so when she'd gotten Tank's call, she'd known he was desperate. Without hesitation, she'd agreed and gotten dressed in her finest slut-wear. Too-short black leather mini-skirt, black lace push-up bra under a long-sleeve white cotton shirt that was so tight and see-through it left very little to the imagination, and 4" black patent leather FMPs. Her hair was big and her make-up heavy, and the skip didn't stand a chance.
Or so she'd thought.
The takedown hadn't gone smoothly by any stretch of the imagination. The skip had caught onto her distraction techniques and pulled a knife before the guys could take him down. Stephanie hadn't been hurt, thanks to some quick-acting Merry Men, but she was shaken.
With the help of a couple tequila shots from Johnny, the bartender, Stephanie calmed herself down enough to make her way out to the parking lot where they guys were loading the skip into a truck. She noticed the creep's nose was bleeding heavily and looked a bit more crooked than it had a few minutes ago. Lester walked to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"You okay, beautiful?"
She nodded and leaned into him, grateful for the friendly shoulder, "You'd think I'd be used to having my life threatened by now."
"You're a ballsy chick, Plum. Any other girl would be bawling her eyes out after having a knife to her throat."
She shrugged. "I knew you guys would take care of me. Speaking of which," she said, taking his hand in hers and examining his bloody knuckles a little bit more closely, "this have anything to do with the guy bleeding all over the back of Tank's truck right now?"
A mischievous grin spread across Lester's face. "Don't know what you're talking about."
She smiled back at him.
"Want me to give you a ride home, Steph?"
"No, I feel like going back inside and having another drink. Care to join me?"
He gave her a wink. "Now there's an offer I can't refuse," he said, taking her hand in his and leading her back into the noisy bar.
On the way in, she couldn't help but notice how good he looked in his black swat cargos and skin-tight t-shirt. His dark hair had recently been cut into short, mussed spikes leaving his neck completely exposed. There was something about that few inches of dark, Latino skin rising from the neckline of his shirt that made her want to sink her teeth into him. Was it just him, she wondered, or are all men's necks this sexy?
They got a table and Lester ordered a pitcher of beer. It didn't take long for them to reach the bottom as they chatted and flirted along the way. He was a sexy guy and she knew that flirting was second nature to him, but she was a little surprised that, after a few beers, she found herself giving it as good as she was taking it.
Not that flirting with Lester was a hardship.
He was hot. Plain and simple. Although, truly, there wasn't anything plain or simple about him. He had devastating good looks and a body to match. If tall, dark and handsome is your thing, Lester Santos is your man. And she was willing to bet underneath it all, the hottest Calvin Klein model had nothing on him.
It was clear that she wasn't the only one who noticed. All around her, girls were tripping over themselves, thrusting their silicone-enhanced breasts in his direction, and casually trying to lure his gaze, but despite their best efforts, he never took his eyes off of Stephanie. And she had to admit, she really liked being the center of his attention…even if she knew it was just for that night.
At some point during their second pitcher, they found themselves on the crowded dance floor, grinding their bodies against each other in beat with the music. He was a good dancer, she mused. But, she was learning the more she got to know him, he was good at a lot of things, so she wasn't really surprised. His hands held firmly onto her hips as their bodies maintained head to toe contact.
"You're causing a riot moving like that in that outfit, beautiful."
She flashed him a mischievous grin of her own. "Don't know what you're talking about," she said, repeating his words to him.
"Every guy in here looks like he wants to punch me in the face and take my place."
"And you love it."
He laughed, "As a matter of fact..."
He slid his knee between her legs and she had to hang onto him to steady herself. His muscular thigh caused her mini-skirt to ride up just slightly and the feel of him between her legs nearly caused an orgasm right there in the middle of the bar.
Without even thinking, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled his head down to hers. As their lips touched, his hands slid around and grasped her ass, pulling her even more tightly against him. She opened her mouth to him and his tongue snaked out…tasting her…teasing her. Evidence of his arousal was pressed into her abdomen and she felt her panties dampen in response.
"Dammit, you're so fucking hot," he practically growled.
"Lester…," was all she managed back.
Unconcerned that they were putting on a show for everyone in the bar, they continued to grind against each other. She couldn't remember the last time she'd been this turned on and at that moment, all she cared about was getting him naked.
Apparently, he had similar intentions. He kissed his way to her ear and spoke in a deep, lust-filled voice, "I'm taking you home now." Then he grasped her hand and led her towards the door, throwing a few bills down as they passed their table.
He didn't break stride until they reached his truck, and she had to practically jog to keep up with him. He spun her around so that she was facing him and pressed her up against the side of the truck. He studied her through hooded eyes before his mouth crashed down on hers.
She pulled the t-shirt from his cargos and slid her hands up his bare abdomen, feeling the warmth that radiated from his skin. The muscles beneath had been worked to perfection and they seemed to respond to her touch.
He pulled back and smoothed her hair away from her face. "Not here."
She nodded and climbed into the truck when he opened the door for her. They made the ride in silence, but her heart was pounding. It had been months since she'd had an orgasm with someone else in the room and if she hadn't been a teensy-weensy bit drunk, she probably would have been scared out of her mind that it was Lester who was going to break her dry spell. Lester had a reputation and let's just say, she hoped she could live up to his standards.
Good thing she wasn't entirely sober or she would be hitting the hills running.
They pulled into her parking lot and made their way up the stairs to her second floor apartment. He'd opened the door before she could finish fishing her keys out of her purse. As soon as they were inside, he pulled her to him and brought his lips crashing down on hers. God, he felt good, she thought. The fire that he'd ignited on the dance floor was back in full-force with one touch of his lips. He brought his hand up and caressed her breast through her shirt. He walked her backwards into her bedroom without breaking the kiss.
He pulled back long enough to peel her shirt over her head and then removed his own. She ran her hands over his smooth, muscular chest, lower over his ridged abdomen, and lower yet until she found his belt. She worked the leather strap through the clasp until it was free and then quickly undid the button and zipper on his pants.
His mouth left hers and made its way to her neck, "Are you sure you want to do this? You've had a lot to drink," he said with little conviction as he continued raining open mouthed kisses all over her neck.
She slid her hands inside the waistband of his pants and grasped his tight backside, smiling when she discovering there was nothing between him and his cargos. She eased his pants down his waist. "I'm not drunk. Just a little buzzed is all," she said as his cargos slid slowly to the floor, leaving him standing there in all his spectacular, aroused, glory. Calvin Klein, eat your heart out.
He drew her to him and continued kissing her neck as she let her head fall back giving him more room to work. The sensations his warm mouth were causing were reaching all the way to her core. "I just don't want you to do anything you'll regret in the morning," he said, his thick voice sending reverberations down her skin.
With a hand on each of his shoulders, she pushed him down to a sitting position on the bed. "No regrets. I'm sober enough to know what I'm doing and to know what I want."
He looked at her through darkened eyes and his mouth tilted into a wicked smile. "Tell me what you want."
She straddled his him on the bed and as she did, her mini skirt rose up past her hips so that the only thing separating them was the thin layer of silk from her panties, which were now soaking wet. She leaned in, her tongue tracing a path up his corded neck. She nipped at his ear before whispering, "I want you to fuck me." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.995355486869812}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '42349', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LDLJUW6IBZUB4ZQUFRTWCPB7NRVYQBZU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bc923dd1-afd2-4a31-81e4-b4c1b51e87d4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 25, 2, 26, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.205.184.7', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SOOV4GG3KOMMYDG3R42TUAERDFEA56R2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:07947012-f906-4bdf-85c3-55d3392f5ceb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4727634/1/What-Do-You-Want', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:06a16f20-c06d-4c13-b3df-74082c4b52ed>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1713', 'url': 'https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4727634/1/What-Do-You-Want', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-13\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2017\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': '0.12359678745269775', 'original_id': '7b7a501acd7fe30b26240c9dfdb12f3e8dc83e6d418f11056c3d3311757b2544'} |
Is Excessive Sovereign Debt a Threat to Peace?
Opening day of the Annual Conference of the European Center for Peace and Development, City Hall, Belgrade, 26 October 2018
By Boudewijn MohrBEAUNE, Burgundy, France, Nov 7 2018 (IPS)
Some 30 years ago, the international banks were afloat with petrodollars, deposited by the oil exporting countries. The banks in turn stepped up lending to Latin America, in a big way. The new branch of Société Générale in New York where I was working at the time followed suit rapidly building up its portfolio, as the bank needed to make loans to get its branch off the ground.
Latin America was not my territory; my clients were French companies establishing subsidiaries in the United States. But when in 1982 I witnessed the panic in New York surrounding the implosion of Mexico’s debt, I wondered; and then began to write about it in a renowned Dutch newspaper in Holland, also offering ideas for solving the debt overhang.
I simply failed to grasp why commercial banks, in their eagerness to make loans, would lend so excessively, as they themselves must have known that such loans carried great risks. The banks probably did so willy-nilly, following in the footsteps of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
At that time, the IMF was trying to help redress large balance of payment deficits of countries in Latin America through imposing stiff austerity measures, curbing inflation and trying to rekindle growth.
Today the IMF does not wince pumping 57 billion dollars into Argentina, a questionable step, and if only for weakening its own capital base in exchange for an excessive sovereign loan.
Given Argentina’s history, a portion of the loan unlikely may never be repaid, would need to be re-phased or simply forgiven. Their president says that chance is “zero”. The IMF now needs a major capital injection that may not be so easy to negotiate this time around, according to the Financial Times.
Has then nothing changed since the 1980s?
Not a whole lot in any case. But in my mind something important did change compared to 30 years ago: the world’s money supply today is unimaginably massive. You could call it a bubble of money in circulation; and that means that all that floating money, like the petrodollars of the past, needs to find a home, ergo loans to those countries that have less of it.
Poverty the ultimate threat facing humanity
Most researchers now agree that poverty is the ultimate threat facing humanity, and not only in the developing world. Everything bad emanates from it. Today poverty has increased to unbearable levels for many, a result of conflicts, climate change and rising food prices.
Today’s poverty reduction strategies now include provisions for the poor. This approach is rooted in UNICEF’s tireless campaign for economic adjustment with a human face in the ‘80s under the leadership of UNICEF’s Richard Jolly and his team of economists, and was enthusiastically endorsed by Jim Grant.
The proposal was to shield the poor and vulnerable from the worst effects of the austerity measures through strong social protection and safety nets. It is encouraging to note that Christine Lagarde pledged for more flexible measures in IMF lending that would include strong provisions to protect the most vulnerable.
This intention should be properly institutionalised and respected by her successors. For now, inequality in every aspect of life continues unabated; you are all familiar with the statistics.
Sovereign debt as a threat to peace
In 2012 the Max Planck Research Institute published a discussion paper with the most telling title “Sovereign debt crises as threats to the peace nations”. Its author, Matthias Goldmann, a senior research fellow, found that more reliable data than before enable researchers to point to a correlation between sovereign debt and the risk of armed conflict or even civil war. I have seen this in West and Southern Africa.
Sovereign debt reduces the ability of the state to adequately provide basic services to the most vulnerable, such as health and education services. I have witnessed in Africa that countries in pre-conflict situations have had declining budget allocations for health and education, far below internationally established norms (10% for health and 25% for education).
Beginning in the 1980s, poverty increased steadily in Côte d’Ivoire. World prices of cacao were steadily declining; and conflict in the form of protests and strikes began to rear its ugly head.
I was stationed in Abidjan when it got worse, with demonstrating university students, the university closed, burnt-out cars and soldiers roaming the streets in hijacked vehicles. It took 10 years for the civil conflict to end. In the end the country was exhausted and essentially bankrupt.
After the peace accords of 1992 Mozambique had no trouble finding loans and grants. At the 1995 Consultative Group Meeting in Paris, over 1 billion dollars was raised, a huge sum for its time. In the late 1990s Mozambique’s south developed fast with several huge investments from South Africa, for example a gigantic aluminum smelter near Maputo and upgrading of road and rail network. It was double-digit growth.
But the north, traditionally marginalised, stayed further behind. Not surprisingly, many years later the conflict flared up again between Frelimo and Renamo in the centre and north of the country.
In Rwanda, sovereign debt increased massively in the early 1990s. A structural adjustment programme imposed harsh austerity measures, but military expenditures were exempted. Public services collapsed with cuts in health and education expenditures. Development aid and foreign loans were channelled towards financing the military.
The army swelled to 40,000 troops. Clearly something bad was at hand. But nobody wanted to know. Ethnic tensions, already high in this small and overpopulated country, rose significantly, and then imploded into genocide. Rwanda’s sovereign debt was the worst debt trap the world had ever seen.
When Michel Camdessus retired from the IMF, he warned that poverty would “undermine societies through confrontation, violence and civil disorder”. This, I believe has always been so throughout history, but we paid lip service to change.
With all the problems our planet faces, inequality and poverty should not be the most difficult problems to solve once and for all. After all, states have the responsibility to protect its citizens in a human way, as adopted in 2006 in a unanimous resolution, R2P for short.
To note that R2P does not deny the right to use the military option as a last resort. What is new though is that the UN Security Council in case of a grave violation of this responsibility to protect its citizens, for example genocide, may decide to move into a sovereign nation.
Now if a sovereign debt crisis can be proven to threaten essential social and economic rights of populations and thus might constitute a threat to peace in that country and the sub-region, can the Security Council intervene on the basis of R2P?
What is the correct point to intervene? When there are signs that excessive debt is threatening peace, could the Security Council intervene pre-emptively? Goldmann argues that the Security Council might decide to intervene if there are additional factors, such as ethnical, racial, or structural inequality. These factors usually deteriorate as a result of economic hardship.
And lastly, how would the Security Council relate to and work with the major sovereign debt lender, the IMF, in pre-empting these threats to peace? Intriguing questions which beg for urgent answers.
*Prior to his stint with UNICEF, Boudewijn Mohr was a senior international corporate banker in New York, first with Chase Manhattan Bank in Wall Street and later at Societe Generale branch in New York City. This article is based on an address to the annual conference of the European Centre for Peace & Development in Belgrade last month. The theme of the conference was “A New Concept of Human Security.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': '530c95ba5046ed148a49f40797c06e07be4eb4a4ed85f26ce2609bf3d5ee6e93'} |
Ψάξε όποια λέξη θες, όπως bukkake:
Basically when someone says something just to fuck with you, and it turns out to be a lie.
Khloe: "Hey babe, my hot friend wants to come over and have a threesome with us."
Ryan: "What? Really?!"
Khloe: "Hahahahaha no bitch. I'm just yanking your cock."
Ryan: "Fuck you hoe, that ain't cool."
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AAMC FL 2-PSYCH/SOCH Section Questions/Doubts
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AAMC FL 2-PSYCH/SOCH Section Questions/Doubts
Post by svpatel » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:20 pm
10. How do I break this Q down in simpler terms to find the correct ans? Also I don't get why A is correct. The ans description is confusing.
18. Isn't dissonance when you have an opposing belief and action. so here you will take longer to respond if you think being obese is not good but act in a way to show that is good? that would be dissonance I thought but its not. Also why is schema the ans? Bc isn't schema is just all of the knowledge about a particular thing eg basketball-schema will have everything you know abt it.
20.I get that the best ans is social desirability. But why does selection bias not apply here? is it bc it is not bias to want to make the experiment better by avoiding traps such as getting ans that are socially acceptable but not really you views on the topic?
24. Where should I look for in the NS course content to learn the most impt stuff about drugs and things mentioned in the ans choices here?
36. How do I break this Q down in simpler terms to find the correct ans? This was a tough passage to understand too. I picked C but ans was B. Idk why.
45. Why is it not Analytical(relating to or using analysis or logical reasoning)? YOu could be logically thinking and be like I shouldn't go out and play vid games and study for MCAT to get into med school next year?
54. Why is it not A? A functionalist says that everything in society serves a function and is interconnected. That fits with A.
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Re: AAMC FL 2-PSYCH/SOCH Section Questions/Doubts
Post by NS_Tutor_Mathias » Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:01 pm
This is just about recalling what a source monitoring error is. Namely, recalling a piece of information but either not recalling the source or not recalling the source correctly. Essentially, if you see 3 spellings of Benedict Cumberbatch's name and were convinced you chose the correct one - you may actually be recalling a popular misspelling. Or if you feel you know about a particular biological process, but actually read about it in a layman's publication rather than a journal - but are convinced as if you'd read a paper on it. Those sorts of things.
This question just says that people were first introduced to a bunch of fake names. Then, a day later, they were given a list full of fake names and real celebrity names. Some of the fake names were new, some of the fake names they had already seen. They are then asked to point out which names are real. What is probably going to happen if the participants make mostly source monitoring errors?
And you would want to recognize that people will usually identify primarily real celebrities, followed by fake names that they had been introduced to earlier, and least frequently identify fake names they've never seen before.
You're not entirely wrong, in that in extreme cases, there may be dissonance between what a participant might instinctively reply versus consciously. But in general, mental schemas are what is being tested on the IAT. The mental representations people. Readily available schemas will lead to low response times, less readily available ones to longer ones.
Because it is only asking you what the final sentence of paragraph 2 describes - which talks about the quality of responses, not the quality of sampling.
I will get back to you on that, I am not 100% that the current course has a detailed drug & psychoactive substance section.
This is just asking what you can conclude from those two studies, assuming they are methodologically sound (and they are presented as such). One study tested only light vs dark and only in 3-4 month olds, the other had two age groups (3-4 and 6-7 month olds) and tested shapes instead of colors. The second study found no preference for novel or familiar shapes in the younger group, but a preference for novel shapes in the older group. Since they do not contradict each other, we can safely say that human cognition seems to develop over time and is not fixed.
Analytical in the term of long-term rewards would be the ability to maximize those rewards and chose those that bring additional benefits. Simply because one works for a long-term reward does not mean that long-term reward is worth anything. One may assume getting into medical school will make happiness, but for some people analytical thought has not gone into that assumption. Likewise, people will work long hours, sacrifice things that would have gotten them much more pleasure, make myopic and unpleasant decisions, all in the name of a delayed reward.
Just because it is hard to do so, does not mean it is worthwhile. However, cultivating the ability to delay gratification is within the MCAT-relevant definition of emotional intelligence.
The obverse case is also possible: One may have the analytical faculties to decide what brings one the best outcome, but lack the emotional control to act on it.
Because functionalism includes the concepts of latent versus manifest function. Ceasing smoking is very much not a manifest function of yoga (we have documentation on the history of yoga, and 'stop smoking' does not appear to be among its founding principles).
Answer choice D describes the concept of a latent function. A describes either a central route persuasion model or another cognitive theoretical approach to why yoga is beneficial, not the functionalist perspective that some things are useful (and serve a function) by accident (concept of a latent function).
I wouldn't worry about this distinction overly much, this portion of P/S can be ill-defined. It is purely a matter of familiarity with the AAMC content outline and P/S terms, and not one of deeper reasoning.
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The two poles of the French Revolution were the passionate idealism of the republic and the utter finality of the guillotine. "Danton" finds itself comfortable at those two extremes and leaves the parts in the middle -- the facts, the issues, the minor personalities -- to the historians.
This movie may not be an accurate record of the events of 1793 and 1794, and indeed in Paris the critics are up in arms over its inaccuracies. But as a record of the fiery passions and glorious personalities of the revolution, it is absolutely superb. I remember a moment in "Napoleon," the silent 1927 classic by Abel Gance, when Gance tied his camera to a rope and made it into a pendulum that swung back and forth above the inflamed debate in the French senate. That is the spirit in which this film was made.
The name of the director may help to explain the wounded sensibilities of the French. He is Andrzej Wajda, one of the two greatest Polish directors, and winner of last year's Cannes Film Festival for his "Man of Iron," about the Solidarity movement. Wajda is temporarily living in Paris, where it is possible that the subject of the revolution reminded him of the same populist passions in Solidarity.
In any event, he has made a great historical picture, and one with sweat and grime all over it. Whenever I go to see any movie set in the past, I'm reminded of Jack L. Warner's immortal instructions to his producers at Warner Bros., after a series of historical movies had bombed: "Don't give me any more pictures where the people write with feathers." The people in "Danton" write with feathers, and they wear wigs and strike poses, but they do it in scenes of such fierce belief that we forget everything except the moment.
The movie is basically about the conflict between two of the most striking personalities of the period, the two revolutionary leaders Danton and Robespierre, who were on the same side at the beginning but came to have fundamental philosophical differences that only the guillotine could settle.
Danton is played by Gerard Depardieu, that large, proletarian French actor who is so useful in roles where high-flown emotions need some sort of grounding. He makes his hoarse-voiced, idealistic speeches to the senate sound like a football coach at halftime.
Robespierre is played by a Polish actor, Wojciech Pszoniak, as a self-obsessed hypochondriac whose political strategy seems largely determined by his need to make his headaches go away.
Wajda's camera moves through 18th century Paris with complete familiarity. He fills the city with the poor, with street people, with crooks and prostitutes and inflamed rabble, and there is always the sense of those crowds pressing outside as the senate meets. And then he shows Danton and Robespierre, each perfectly aware of the other's motives and of the possibility of the guillotine, conducting an intellectual duel. The scene of the great confrontation between the two of them is so well acted and directed that, for the first time in any movie about the French Revolution, I felt I was listening to people and not speeches.
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Rick Scott's latest policy proposal in his bid for Florida's U.S. Senate seat takes aim at lawmakers' paychecks.
In a rollout event at Florida Forklift in Tampa, the governor said congressional officials shouldn't get a salary if they fail to pass a budget.
"In Washington, it's completely dysfunctional. They don't do their job. They don't get things done," Scott said to the crowd of several dozen, which included state Sen. Dana Young, R-Tampa. "Why should they get paid when they don't do their job? Their most important job is the budgeting job."
The policy is Scott's fourth in a series he calls, "Make Washington Work." He's also called for congressional term limits and a presidential line item veto — proposals which would require Constitutional amendments — and for the requirement of a Congressional two-thirds majority vote for tax increases.
Read more about Rick Scott's policy proposals here, here and here.
In a highly polarized Washington, Scott's proposal could punish the Congressional members living more or less paycheck to paycheck.
But a spokesman for Ron DeSantis, R-Palm Coast, who claimed that his Congressional paycheck amounted to about 90 percent of his 2017 salary on recent disclosure forms, said DeSantis supports Scott's proposal.
The governor also brushed off concerns about the feasibility of his program after the event.
"I'm going to continue to put out policy proposals," Scott said in brief press conference. "I know some of them are going to be difficult to get done. I'm not going to give up. I'm going to work hard to get them done. I don't think anyone thought we could get to 1.5 million jobs when I got elected back in 2010. We worked on that every day and we dealt with our numbers there."
A spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, Scott's all but certain opponent this fall, noted that Nelson voted for a 2013 measure that would have suspended Congressional pay until a budget resolution for the 2014 fiscal year was passed.
Under that law, even if Congress failed to pass a budget, they would have received their paychecks on Jan. 5, 2015, the last day of the 113th Congress. (DeSantis supported the bill.)
The measure passed, but 33 of the 34 Senate "Nay" votes came from Republicans.
"Rick Scott's extreme partisanship is exactly what's wrong with Washington and the source of this problem," the spokeswoman, Carlie Weibel, said in a statement. "Bill Nelson supported this legislation, proving he will work across the aisle – not wedded to a party or ideology – to compromise and do what's best for Floridians."
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<header>Registres</header>
<b>Fitxer de registre d'accessos</b>: El valor per defecte depèn del sistema,
normalment és algun lloc de <tt>/var</tt>. Registra l'activitat de la
petició del client. Conté una entrada per cada petició HTTP I ICP rebuda.
<p>
<b>Fitxer de registre de depuració</b>: El valor per defecte depèn del sistema.
Fitxer de registre del cau. Aquest és on va a parar la informació general
sobre el comportament del cau. Pots incrementar la quantitat de dades
registrades amb les opcions <b>Opcions de depuració</b>.
<p>
<b>Fitxer de registre d'emmagatzematge</b>: El valor per defecte depèn del
sistema. Mostra quins objectes s'expulsen del cau i quins objectes s'hi desen
(i per quant temps). Per desactivar-lo, introdueix "cap". De fet, no hi ha
cap utilitat per analitzar les dades, així que si el desactives no passa res.
<p>
<b>Fitxer de metadades del cau</b>: Per defecte, <tt>swap.log</tt> a cada
directori del cau. Aquest fitxer de registre guarda les metadades dels
objectes desats al disc. És útil per reconstruir el cau en engegar.
Normalment, aquest fitxer resideix a cada directori del cau, però pots
especificar-hi un camí alternatiu. Tingues en compte que has de donar un
nom complet, no només un directori. Donat que aquest és l'índex de tota
la llista d'objectes, NO el pots rotar periòdicament!
<p>
Si es pot utilitzar %s en el nom del fitxer, llavors, se substituirà amb una
representació del nom del directori cau, on cada '/' se substitueix amb
'.'. Això és necessari per permetre l'addició/supressió de línies de
directori cau quan s'utilitza un intercanvi de cau alternatiu.
<p>
Si hi ha més d'un directori cau i no s'utilitza %s en el nom, llavors
aquests registres d'intercanvi tindran noms com ara:
<p>
<ul>
<li>cache_swap_log.00
<li>cache_swap_log.01
<li>cache_swap_log.02
</ul>
<p>
L'extensió numerada (que s'afegeix automàticament) correspon a l'ordre de
les línies del directori cau a la configuració. Si canvies l'ordre del
les línies del directori cau d'aquest fitxer, llavors aquests fitxers de
registre NO correspondran a l'entrada correcta del directori cau (si no és
que en canvies el nom manualment). Recomanem que NO utilitzis aquesta
opció. És millor mantenir aquests fitxers de registre a cada directori cau.
<p>
<b>Utilitza el format de registre HTTPD</b>: Per defecte, no. El cau pot
emular el format de fitxer de registres que molts programes 'http' utilitzen.
Per des/activar aquesta emulació, posa aquest valor a 'sí' o 'no'.
Per defecte, s'utilitza el format natiu de registre,ja que inclou
informació útil utilitzada pels analitzadors de registres específics de Squid.
<p>
<b>Registra les capçaleres MIME</b>: Per defecte, no. El cau pot registrar
tant les capçaleres MIME de petició com de resposta per a cada transacció
HTTP. Les capçaleres es codifiquen de forma segura i apareixeran com dos
camps tancats entre claus al final del registre d'accés (tant com pel format
natiu com pel format HTTP emulat). Per activar aquest registre, posa-ho a
activat.
<p>
<b>Fitxer de registre d'agents d'usuari</b>: Per defecte, cap. Si es
configura amb l'opció "--enable-useragent-log", Squid escriurà el camp
User-Agent de les peticions HTTP al nom de fitxer especificat.
<p>
<b>Fitxer de PID</b>: El valor per defecte depèn del sistema. Un nom de fitxer
per escriure-hi l'id del procés. Per desactivar-lo, posa-hi "cap".
<p>
<b>Executa consultes d'identificació RFC931 per les ACLs</b>: Per defecte, cap.
Executa consultes d'identificació per trobar el nom d'usuari dels clients
qualsevol cosa d'aquestes ACLs.
<p>
<b>Temps límit d'identificació RFC931</b>: Per defecte, 30 segons. Temps màxim
d'espera de les peticions IDENT. Si és massa alt i has activat consultes
d'identificació, pots patir una denegació de servei per culpa de tenir
moltes consultes d'identificació entrant a la vegada.
<p>
<b>Registra noms de host complets</b>: Per defecte, no. Registra el nom de
host complet dels clients.
<p>
<b>Màscara de subxarxa de registre</b>: Per defecte, 255.255.255.255. Una
màscara de subxarxa per les adreces client dels fitxers de registre i la
sortida del gestor del cau. Canvia-ho per protegir la privacitat dels
clients del cau. Una màscara 255.255.255.0 registrarà totes les IPs
d'aquest rang amb el darrer dígit posat a '0'.
<p>
<b>Opcions de depuració</b>: Per defecte "ALL,1".
Les opcions de registre s'estableixen com secció,nivell on s'assigna una
secció única a cada fitxer font. El resultat de la depuració Completa (nivell 9)en els nivells inferiors pot produir un fitxer de registre molt gran, així
que ves amb compte. la paraula màgica "ALL" estableix els nivells de
depuració per a tots els nivells. Normalment, recomanem posar-hi "ALL,1".
<p>
<b>Taula de capçaleres MIME</b>: Camí de la taula MIME de Squid. Normalment,
no hi ha necessitat de canviar-ho, però si ho fas, el fitxer per defecte conté
exemples i informació de formatat.
<hr>
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HeadMouse Extreme
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HeadMouse Extreme replaces the standard computer mouse for people who cannot use or have limited use of their hands when controlling a computer or augmentative communication device. The HeadMouse translates natural movements of a user's head into directly proportional movements of the computer mouse pointer.
The HeadMouse has a wireless optical sensor which tracks a tiny disposable target that is conveniently placed on the users forehead, glasses, hat, etc. It works just like a computer mouse, with the mouse pointer being moved by the motion of the user's head. The HeadMouse will track the user's head with the user located in any comfortable viewing position relative to the computer display.
Resolution of the HeadMouse is precise to allow a user to control the mouse pointer down to the minimum, pixel perfect, resolution of the computer display. This precision allows a user to perform such tasks as drawing, gaming, graphics work and Computer Aided Design (CAD).
HeadMouse Extreme connects to the computer or augmentative communication device through a USB port and operates using standard mouse drivers. No special software is required. The HeadMouse is powered by the host device, over the USB connection. The integrated electronic tilt sensor automatically adapts to even the most unusual mounting requirements. The HeadMouse Extreme emulates a USB computer mouse so no special software is required for operations.
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"My grandfather," 1 continued, "will pay you hand- somely for any service you do to me and my friend." "Now that's not far off forgeing," said the captain, in a tone as much as to say we were bad all over. 128 Tin: ADVK.NTrilKS (»F IIAUIIV l:l(IIM< )NI> 1 saw tlie waters slide by liis cabin-wiiulows. My desolation, my humiliation, my chained fury, tumbled to- gether. Out it came, — "Cai)tain, do behave to us like a gentleman, and you shall never repent it. Our relatives will be miserable about us. They — captain! — they don't know where we are. We have u't even a change of clothes. Of course we know we 're at your mercy, but do behave like an honest man. You shall Ije jtaid or not, just as you please, for putting us on shore, but we shall be eternally grateful to you. Oi course you mean kindly to us; we see that — " "1 thank the Lord for it ! " he interposed. "Only you really are under a delusion. It's extraor- dinary. You can't be quite in your right senses about us; you must be — I don't mean to speak disrespectfully — what we call on shore, cracked about us ..." "Doddered, don't they say in one of the shires ?" he remarked. Half -encouraged, and in the belief that I might be get- ting eloquent, 1 appealed to his manliness. Why should he take advantage of a coujtle of boys? I struck the key of his ]K)Ssible fatherly feelings: What misery were not our friends suffering now. ("Ay , a bucketful now saves an ocean in time to come !" he flung in his word.) I bade liim, with more ])athetic dignity, reflect on the dreadful hiatus in our studies. " Is that Latin or Greek ? " he asked. I would not reply to the cold-blooded question. He said the New Testament was written in Greek, he knew, and haj)[)y were those who could read it in the original. " Well, and how can we be learning to read it on board ship ? " said Temple, an observation that exasperated me be- cause it seemed more to the point than my lengthy speech, and betrayed that he thought so; however, I took it up, — "How can we be graduating for our s])here in life. Cap- tain Welsh, on board your vessel ? Tell us that." He ]»layed tliumb and knuckles on his table. Just when I was hoping that good would come of the senseless tune, Temple cried, — " Tell us what your exact intentions are. Captain Welsh. W^hat do you mean to do with us ? " WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE 129 " Mean to take you the voyage out and tlie voyage home, Providence willing," said the captain, and he rose. We declined his otter of tea, though I fancy we could have gnawed at a bone. " There 's no compulsion in that matter," he said. " You share ray cabin while you 're my guests, shipmates, and apprentices in the path of living; my cabin and my sub- stance, the same as if you were what the North-countrymen call bairns o' mine: I 've none o' my own. My wife was a barren woman. I 've none but my old mother at home. Have your sulks out, lads; you'll come round like the Priscilla on a tack, and discover you 've made way by it." We quitted his cabin, bowing stiffly. Temple declared old Rippenger was better than this canting rascal. The sea was around us, a distant yellow twinkle telling of land. " His wife a barren woman ! what 's that to us ! " Temple went on, exploding at intervals. "So was Sarah. His cabin and his substance! He talks more like a preacher than a sailor. I should like to see him in a storm ! He 's no sailor at all. His men hate him. It would n't be difficult to get up a mutiny on board this ship. Richie, I understand the whole plot: he's in want of cabin-boys. The fellow has impressed us. We shall have to serve till we touch land. Thank God, there 's a British consul every- where ; I say that seriously. I love my country ; may she always be powerful ! My life is always at her — Did you feel that pitch of the ship ? Of all the names ever given to a vessel, I do think Priscilla is without exception the most utterly detestable. Oh ! there again. No, it '11 be too bad, Richie, if we 're beaten in this way." "If you are beaten," said I, scarcely venturing to speak lest I should cry or be sick. We both felt that the vessel was conspiring to ruin our self-respect. I set my head to think as hard as possible on Latin verses (my instinct must have drawn me to them as to a species of intellectual biscuit steeped in spirit, tough, and comforting, and fundamentally oj)posed to exist- ing circumstances, otherwise I cannot account for the attraction). They helped me for a time; they kept off 9 l.U> Tin: ADVKNTrHES OF llAKHV niCMMOND sill-]>ity, and kejit tlie machiut'ry of tlic iiiiiid at work. riu'V lifted me, as it were, to an npper floor removed fruiii tlie treaeherously sit^hinf; Triscilla. 15ut I eame down HUiokly with a crash; no dexterous manaj^enient of my mental resources could save me from tlie hemp like smdl of the ship, nor would leaning over the taffrail, nor lying curled under a tarpaulin. The sailors- heaped jiilot-eoats upon us. It was a bad ship, they said, to he sick on hoanl of, for no such thing as brandy was allowed in the old l^riscilla. iStill 1 am sure I tasted some before 1 fell into a state of semi-insensibility. As in a trance I heard Tem])le's moans, and the captain's voice across the gusty wind, and the forlorn crunching of the ship down great waves. The captain's figure was sometimes stoojiing over us, more great-coats were piled on us; sometimes the wind whistled thinner than one fancies the shrieks of creatures dead of starvation and restless, that spend their souls in a shriek as long as the}' can hold it on, say nursery-maids; the sliip made a truce with the waters and grunted: we took two or three ]dayful blows, we were drenched with spray, uphill we laboured, we caught the moon in a net of rigging, away we jdunged; we mounted to plunge again and again. I reproached the vessel in argument for some imaginary inconsistency. Memory was like a heavy barrel on my breast, rolling with the sea. CHAPTER XIII WE CONDUCT SEVKRAL LEAKNED ARGIMEXTS WITH THi CAPTAIX OF THE PKISCILLA Captain Welsh soon conquered us. The latest meal we had eaten was on the frosty common under the fir- trees. After a tremendous fast, with sea-sickness super- vening, the eggs and bacon, and pleasant benevolent- smelling tea on the captain's table were things not to be resisted by two health}' boys who had previously stripped and faced buckets of maddening ice-cold salt-water, dashed at us by a jolly sailor. An open mind for new impressions WE ARGUE W^TH CAPTAIN WELSH 131 came with the warmth of our clothes. We ate, bearing within us the souls of injured innocents; nevertheless, we were thankful, and, to the captain's grace, a long one, we bowed heads decently. It was a glorious breakfast, for which land and sea had prepared us in about equal de- grees: I confess, my feelings when I jumped out of the cabin were almost those of one born afresh to life and un- derstanding. Temple and I took counsel. We agreed that sulking would be ridiculous, unmanly, ungentlemanly. The captain had us fast, as if we were under a lion's paw; he was evidently a well-meaning man, a fanatic deluded concerning our characters: the barque Friscilla was bound for a German port, and should arrive there in a few days, — why not run the voyage merrily since we were treated with kindness ? ISTeither the squire nor Temple's father could complain of our conduct; we were simply victims of an error that was assisting us to a knowledge of the world, a youth's proper ambition. "And we 're not going to be starved," said Temple. 1 smiled, thinking I perceived the reason why I had failed in my oration over-night; so I determined that on no future occasion would I let pride stand in the way of provender. Breakfast had completely transformed tis. We held it due to ourselves that we should demand ex- planations from Joseph Double, the mate, and then, after hearing him furnish them with a cordial alacrity to which we might have attached unlimited credence had he not protested against our dreaming him to have sui)plied hot rum-and-water on board, we wrote our names and addresses in the captain's log-book, and immediately asked permis- sion to go to the mast-head. He laughed. Out of his cabin there was no smack of the ])reacher in him. His men said he was a sto\it seaman, mad on the subject of grog and girls. Why, it was on account of grog and girls that he was giving us this dish of salt-water to purify us! Grog and girls ! cried we. We vowed upon our honour as gentlemen we had tasted grog for the first time in our lives on board the Priscilla. How about the girls ? they asked. We informed them we knew none but girls who were ladies. Thereupon one sailor nodded, one sent up a crow, one said the misfortune of the case lay in all 132 THK ADVKNTrKKS OV IIAi:i:Y KKII.MOND girls being such pivcious ruio ladies; and one 8j)oke in dreadfully blank language, he accused us of treating the rriscilla as a tavern lor the entertainment of bad company, stilting that he had helped to row nie and luy associates from the shore to the ship. "Poor Mr. Double! " says he; "there was only one way for him to jump you two young gentlemen out, o' that snaj)- dragou bowl you was in — or (juaslimire, call it; so he 'ticed you on board wi' the bait you was swallowing, which was making the devil serve the Lord's turn. And 1 '11 re- member that night, for 1 yielded to swearing, and drank too ! " The other sailors roaretl with laughter. 1 tipjted them, not to aj)})ear offended by their susjti- cions. We thought them all hypocrites, and were as much in error as if we had thought them all honest. Things went fairly well with the exception of the lessons in Scripture. Our work was mere playing at sailoring, helping furl sails, haul ropes, study charts, carry mes- sages, and such like. Tem])le made his voice shrewdly em|)hatic to explain to the captain that we liked the work, but that such lessons as these out of Scripture were what the veriest youngsters were crammed with. "Such lessons as these, maybe, don't have the meaning on land they get to have on the high seas,'" rejjlied the caj)- tain : "and those youngsters you talk of were not called in to throw a light on ])assages: for I may teach you ship's business aboard my barque, but we 're all children inside the liook." He groaned heartily to hear that our learning lay in the direction of Pagan Gods and Goddesses, and heathen his- torians and poets; adding, it was not new to him, and perha[)S that was why the world was as it was. Nor did he wonder, he said, at our running from studies of those filthy writings loose uy)on London; it was as natural as dunghill steam. Temj)le ])retended he was forced by the captain's undue severity to defend Venus; he said, I thought rather wittily, " Sailors ought to have a respect for her, for she was born in the middle of the sea, and she steered straight for land, so she must have had a pretty good idea of navigation." But the captain answered none the less keenly, "She WE ARGUE WITH CAPTAIN WELSH 133 had her idea of navigating, as the devil of mischief always has, in the direction where there 's most to corrupt; and, my lad, she teaches the navigation that leads to the bottom beneath us." He might be right, still our mien was evil in reciting the lessons from Scripture; and though Captain Welsh had intelligence, we could not draw into it the how and the why of the indignity we experienced. We had rather lie had been a savage captain, to have braced our spirits to sturdy resistance, instead of a mild, good-humoured man of kind intentions, who lent us his linen to wear, fed us at his table, and taxed our most gentlemanly feelings to find excuses for him. Our way of revenging ourselves be- comingly was to laud the heroes of antiquity, as if they had possession of our souls and touched the fountain of v/orship. Whenever Captain Welsh exclaimed, "Well done," or the equivalent, "That's an idea," we referred him to Plutarch for our great exemplar. He hurled texts at it openly, or slyly dropped a particu- larly heavy one, in the hope of surprising it with a death- blow. We beheld him poring over his Bible for texts that should be sovereign medicines for us, deadly for tlie devil within us. Consequently, we were on the defensive: bits of Cicero, bits of Seneca, soundly and nobly moral, did service on behalf of Paganism; we remembered them cer- tainly almost as if an imji had brought them from afar. Kor had we any desire to be in opposition to the cause he supported. What we were opposed to was the dogmatic arrogance of a just but ignorant man, who had his one spe- cific for everything, and saw mortal sickness in all other remedies or recreations. Temple said to him, — "If the Archbishop of Canterbury were to tell me Greek and Latin authors are bad for me, I should listen to his i:U THK Ai)Vi:Nrri:i:s ok hauuv icummom) remarks, bocatiso lie's a scliolar: lie knows tlu' languages, anil knows what they eontain." Cajitaiii Welsh replied, — "If the Arehbishoj) o' Canterbury sailed the sea, and lived in Foul Alley, Waterside, wheu on shore, and so felt what it is to toss ou top of the waves o' perdition, he 'd understand the value of a big, clean, well-mamied, well- ]irovisionetl ship, instead o' your galliots wi' gaudy sails, your barges that can't rise to a sea, your yachts that run to port like mother's pets at first j)i})e o' the storm, your trim-built wherries." "So you'd have only one sort of vessel afloat!" said I. "There 's the difference of a man who 's a scholar." "I'd have," said the captain, "every lad like you, my lad, trained in the big ship, and he wouldn't capsize, and be found betrayed by his light timbers as I found you. Serve your apprenticeship in the Lord's three-decker; then to command what you may." "No, no, Captain Welsh," says Temple; "you must grind at Latin and Greek when you're a chick, or you won't ever master the rudiments. Upon my honour, 1 declare it 's the truth, you must. If you 'd like to try, and are of a mind for a go at Greek, we '11 do our best to help you through the aorists. It looks harder than Latin, but after a start it 's easier. Only, 1 'm afraid your three- decker's apprenticeship '11 stand in your way." "Greek 's to be done for me; I can pay clever gentlemen fordoing Greek for me," said the captain. "The knowl- edge and the love of virtue I must do for myself; and not to be wrecked, I must do it early." "Well, that's neither learning nor human nature," said I. " It 's the knowledge o' the right rules for human nature, my lad." " Would you kidnap youngsters to serve in your ship, captain ?" " I 'd bless the wind that blew them there, foul or not, my lad." " And there they 'd stick when yon had them, captain ? " "I 'd think it was the Lord's will they should stick there awhile, my lad — yes." WE ARGUE WITH CAPTAIN WELSH 135 " And what of their parents ? " "Youngsters out like gossamers on a wind, their parents are where they sow themselves, my lad." • ,. "I call that hard on the real parents, Captain Welsh," said Temple. " It 's harder on Providence when parents breed that kind o' light creature, my lad." We were all getting excited, talking our best, such as it was; the captain leaning over his side of the table, clasp- ing his hands unintentionally preacher-like; we on our side supporting our chins on our fists, quick to be at him. Temple was brilliant; he wanted to convert the captain, and avowed it. "For," said he, "you're not like one of those tract- fellows. You 're a man we can respect, a good seaman, master of your ship, and hearty, and no mewing sancti- moniousness, and we can see and excuse your mistake as to us two; but now, there 's my father at home — he 's a good man, but he 's a man of the world, and reads his classics and his Bible. He 's none the worse for it, I assure you." " Where was his son the night of the fog ? " said the captain. " Well, he happened to be out in it." " Where 'd he be now but for one o' my men ? " " Who can answer that, Captain Welsh ? " "I can, my lad — stewing in an ante-room of hell-gates, I veril}'' believe." Temple sighed at the captain's infatuation, and said, — " I '11 tell you of a fellow at our school named Drew ; he was old Rippenger's best theological scholar — always got the prize for theology. Well, he was a confirmed sneak. I 've taken him into a corner and described the torments of dying to him, and his look was disgusting — he broke out in a clammy sweat. 'Don't, don't! ' he 'd cry. 'You're just the fellow to suffer intensely, ' I told him. And what was his idea of escaping it ? Why, by learning the whole of Deuteronomy and the Acts of the Apostles by heart ! His idea of Judgement Day was old Rippenger's half- yearly examin&tion. These are facts, you k»now, Captain Welsh." 186 TIIH AnVKNTlKlvS OF IIAKKV lUCIlMUNU I testified to them briefly. The captain said a curious thin^' : " I '11 make an appoint- ment with yuu in leviathan's jaws the night of a storm, my lad." " With pleasure," said Temple. "The Lord send it!" exclaimed the caj)tain. His head was bent forward, and he was gazing up into his eyebrows. Before we knew that anything was coming, he was out on a narrative of a scholar of one of the Universities. Our ears were indifferent to the young num's career from the heights of fortune to delirium tremens down the cataract of brandy, until the captain s])oke of a dark night on the I'ool of the Thames; and here his voice struggled, and we tried hard to catch the thread of the tale. Two men and a girl were in the boat. The men fought, the girl shrieked, the boat was upset, the three were drowned. All this came so suddenly that nothing but tlie ca])tain's heavy thump of his fist on the table kej)t us from laughing. He was quite unable to relate the tale, and we had to gather it from his exclamations. One of the men was mate of a vessel lying in the Pool, having only cast anchor that evening; the girl was his sweetheart; the other man had once been a fine young University gentleman, and had be- come an outfitter's drunken agent. The brave sailor had nourished him often when on shore, and he, with the fluent tongue which his college had trimmed for him, had led the girl to sin during her lover's absence. Howsoever, they put off together to welcome him on his arrival, never sus- pecting that their secret had been whispered to Kobert Welsh beforehand. Howsoever, Kobert gave them hearty greeting, and down to the cabin they went, and there sat drinking up to midnight. " Three lost souls! " said the captain. " See how they run," Temple sang, half audibly, and flushed hot, ashamed of himself. " "T was I had to hear the news to his mother," the captain pursued ; " and it was a task, my lads, for I was then little more than your age, and the glass was Robert's only fault, and he was my only brother." I offered my hand to the captain. He grasped it power- I MEET OLD FRIENDS 137 fully. "That crew in a boat, and wouldn't you know the devil 'd be coxswain ? " he called loudly, and buried his face. " No," he said, looking up at us, " I pray for no storm, but, by the Lord's mercy, for a way to your hearts through fire or water. And now on deck, my lads, while your beds are made up. Three blind things we verily are." Captain Welsh showed he was sharp of hearing. His allusion to the humming of the tune of the mice gave Temple a fit of remorse, and he apologized. "Ay," said the captain, "it is so; own it: frivolity's the fruit of that training that 's all for the flesh. But dip you into some o' my books on my shelves here, and learn to see living man half skeleton, like life and shadow, and never to living man need you pray forgiveness, my lad." By sheer force of character he gained the command of our respect. Though we agreed on deck that he had bungled his story, it impressed us; we felt less able to cope with him, and less willing to encounter a storm. " We shall have one, of course," Temple said, affecting resignation, with a glance aloft. I was superstitiously of the same opinion, and praised the vessel. "Oh, Priscilla's the very name of a ship that founders with all hands and sends a bottle on shore," said Temple. " There is n't a bottle on board," said I ; and this piece of nonsense helped us to sleep off our gloom. CHAPTER XIV I MEET OLD FRIENDS Notwithstanding the prognostications it pleased us to indulge, we had a tolerably smooth voyage. On a clear cold Sunday morning we were sailing between a foreign river's banks, and Temple and I were alternately reading a chapter out of the Bible to the assembled ship's crew, in advance of the captain's short exhortation. We had ceased to look at 138 Tin: ADVENTUKES OF IIAIIUV KICIIMONI) ourselves iinvanlly, ami we lianlly tliought it strango. lint our hearts beat IVir a view of tlie great merchant city, which was called a tree city, ami then-lure, 'remple suggested, must bear certain portions of resemblance to old Kngland ; so we made up our minds to like it. '' A wonderful place for beer cellars," a sailor observed to us slyly, and hitched himself up from the breech to the scalp. At all events, it was a place where we could buy linen. For that purpose. Captain Welsh handed us over to the care of his trusted mate Mr. Josei)h Double, and we were soon in the streets of the city, desirous of purchasing half their contents. My supply of money was not enough for what I deemed necessary purchases. Temple had split his clothes, mine were tarred ; we were appearing at a disadvantage, and we intended to dine at a good hotel and subsequently go to a theatre. Yet I had no wish to part with my watch. 'Mr. Double said it might be arranged. It was pawned at a shop for a sum equivalent in our money to about twelve pounds, and Temple obliged me by taking charge of the ticket. Thus we v/ere enabled to dress suitably and dine pleasantly, and, as Mv. Double remarked, no one could rob me of my gold watch now. We visited a couple of beer- cellars to taste the drink of the people, and discovered three of our men engaged in a similar undertaking. 1 projjosed that it should be done at my expense. They praised their captain, but asked us, as gentlemen and scholars, whether it was reasonable to object to liquor because your brother was carried out on a high tide ? Mr. Double commended them to moderation. Their reply was to estimate an immoderate amount of liquor as due to them, with profound composure. "Those rascals," Mr. Double informed us, *' are not in the captain's confidence; they 're tidy seamen, though, and they submit to the captain's laws on board and have their liberty ashore." We inquired what the difference was between their privi- leges and his. " Why," said he, " if they 're so much as accused of a disobedient act, off they 're scurried, and lose fair wages and a kind captain. And let any man Jack of 'em accuse me, ^d he bounds a indiarubber ball against a wall and gets it ; I MEET OLD FRIENDS 139 all he meant to give he gets. Once you fix the confidence of your superior, you're waterproof." "We held our peace, but we could have spoken. Mr. Double had no moral hostility toward theatres. Supposing he did not relish the performance, he could enjoy a spell in the open air, he said, and this he speedily decided to do. Had we not been bound in honour to remain for him to fetch us, we also should have retired from a representa- tion of which we understood only the word ja. It was tire- some to be perpetually waiting for the return of this word. We felt somewhat as dogs must feel when human speech is addressed to them. Accordingly, we professed, without concealment, to despise the whole performance. I reminded Temple of a saying of the Emperor Charles V. as to a knowl- edge of languages. "Hem!" he went, critically; "it's all very well for a German to talk in that way, but you can't be five times au Englishman if you're a foreigner." We heard English laughter near us. Presently an Eng- lish gentleman accosted us. " Mr. Villiers, I believe ? " He bowed at me. " My name is Richmond." He bowed again, with excuses, talked of the Play, and telegraphed to a lady sitting in a box fronting us. I saw that she wrote on a slip of paper; she beckoned; the gen- tleman quitted us, and soon after placed a twisted note in my hand. It ran : — " Miss Goodwin (whose Christian name is Clara) wishes very much to know how it has fared with Mr. Harry Rich- mond since he left Venice." I pushed past a number of discontented knees, trying, on my way to her box, to recollect her vividly, but I could barely recollect her at all, until I had sat beside her five minutes. Colonel Goodwin was asleep in a corner of the box. Awakened by the sound of his native tongue, he recognized me immediately. " On your way to your father ? " he said, as he shook my hand. I thought it araazin;: he should guess that in Germany. " Do you know where he is, sir ? " I asked. " We saw him," replied tlie colonel ; " when was it, Clara? A week or ten days ago." no Tlir. AIiVKNTlUKS (tl' IIAKUV KKIIMoM) "Yes." sa ill Miss Goodwill ; "we will talk of thai liy- aiul-by." Ami slu> ovcrtloucd with coiniiiciits on J113 jut- soiial appoaiancH', aiul jilioil me with (jm'stioiis, hut woiihl answiT iu)iu! of luiiic. I fi'U'hed Toinplo into the box to introdiiec him. Wo wore introduced in turn to Ca})tain Malet, the gentleman who had aeeosted me below. "You understand German, then ? " said Miss Goodwin. Slie stared at hearing that we knew only the word Jf, for it made our presence in CJermany unaecountahle. "The most dangerous word of all," said Ctdonel Good- win, and begged us always to repeat after it the negative uein for an antidote, " You have both seen my father ? " I whispered to ^liss Goodwin; "both? We have been separated. Do tell me everything. Don't look at the stage — they s})eak sueh noiLsense. IIow did you remember me ? IIow hap])y I am to have met you I Oh! I haven't forgotten the gon- dolas and the striped posts, and sfali and the other word ; but soon after we were separated, and I have n't seen him since." She touched her father's arm. " At once, if you like," said he, jumping up erect. "In Germany was it?" I i>ersisted. She nodded gravely and leaned softly on my arm while we marched out of the theatre to her hotel — 1 in such a state of happiness underlying bewilderment and strong e.xpectation that I should have cried out loud had not pride in my partner restrained me. At her tea-table I narrated the whole of my adventure backwards to the time of our parting in Venice, hurrying it over as quick as T could, with the breathless termination, "And now?" They had an incomprehensible reluctance to jicrfoiin their part of the implied compact. !Miss Goodwin looked at Captain Malet, He took his leave. Then she, said, " IIow glad I am you have dropped that odious name of Roy ! Papa and I have talked of you frequently — latterly very often. I meant to write to you, Harry Richmond. I should have done it the moment we returned to England." "You must know," said the colonel, "that I am an I MEET OLD FEIENDS 141 amateur inspector of fortresses, aud my poor Clara has to trudge tlie Coutinent with me to pick up the latest inven- tions in artillery and other matters, for which I get no thanks at head-quarters — but it's one way of serving one's country when the steel lies rusting. We are now for home by way of Paris. I hope that you and your friend will give us your company. I will see this Captain Welsh of yours before we start. Clara, you decided ou dragging me to the theatre to-night with your usual admirable instinct." I reminded Miss Goodwiu of my father being in Ger- many. " Yes, he is at one of the Courts, a long distance from here," she said, rapidly. "And you came by accident in a merchant-ship ! You are one of those who are marked for extraordinary adventures. Confess : you would have set eyes on me, and uot known me. It's a miracle that I should meet my little friend Harry — little no longer : my friend all the same, are you not ? " I hoped so ardently. She with great urgency added, " Then come with us. Prove that you put faith in our friendship." In desperation I exclaimed, " But I must, I must hear of my father." She turned to consult the colonel's face. "Certainly," he said, and eulogized a loving son. "Clara will talk to you. I 'm for bed. What was the name of the play we saw this evening ? Oh ! Strueiisee, to be sure. We missed the scaffold." He wished us good-night on an appointment of the hour for breakfast, and ordered beds for us in the hotel. Miss Goodwin commenced: "But really I have nothing to tell you, or very little. You know, Papa has introduc- tions everywhere; we are like Continental people, and speak a variety of languages, and I am almost a foreigner, we are so much abroad ; iDut I do think English boys should be educated at home : I hope you '11 go to an English college." Noticing my painful look, "We saw him at the Court of the Prince of Eppenwelzen," she said, as if her brows ached. "He is very kindly treated there; he was there 142 TiiK Ai).i:N'rri:i-s ok i!ai;i:v kkiimom) some wofks atjo. TIh; J)1;uh' lies out in tlic II:inuvi'r diirc- tiun, far from lion*. lie told us that you were with >()ur grandfather, and 1 must see Kiversley Cirange, and the truth is you must take me there. I susj)eet you have your peace to make ; perhaps 1 shall hel]) yuu, and be a true Teribanou. ^Ve go over Amsterdam, the Hague, Brusstds, and you shall see the battleiield, Paris, straight to London. Yes, you are fickle ; you have not once ealled me Teribanou." Her voluble rattling succeeded in fencing off my ques- tions before I could exactly shape them, as 1 staggered from blind to blind idea, now thinking of the sombre red lleneh, and now of the German prince's Court. "^Von't you tell me any more to-night?" I said, Avhen she paused. "Indeed, I have not any more to tell," she assured me. It was clear to me that she had joined the mysterious league against m}- father. I began to have a choking in the throat. I thanked her and wished her good-night while I was still capable of smiling. At my next interview with Colonel Goodwin he spoke promptly on the subject of my wanderings. I was of au age, he said, to know my own interests. No doubt filial affection was excellent in its way, but in fact it was highly questionable whether my father was still at the Court of this German prince ; my father had stated that he meant to visit England to obtain an interview with his son, and I might miss him by a harum-scarum chase over Germany. And besides, was 1 not offending my grandfather and my aunt, to whom I owed so much ? He appealed to my warmest feelings on their behalf. This was just the moment, he said, when there Avas a turning-point in my fortunes. He could assure me most earnestly that 1 should do no good by knocking at this ])rince's doors, and have nothing but bitterness if I did in the end discover my father. " Surely you understand the advantages of being bred a gentleman?" he wound up. "L'nder your grand- father's care you have a career before you, a fine fortune in prospect, everything a young man can wish for. And I must tell 3-ou candidh', you run great risk of missing all these things by hunting your father to earth. Give your- self a little time : reflect on it." I MEET OLD FRIENDS 143 " I have," I cried. " I have come out to find him, and I must." The colonel renewed his arguments and persuasions until he was worn out. 1 thanked him continually for his kind- ness. Clara Goodwin besought me in a surprising manner to accompany her to England, called herself Peribanou, and with that name conjured up my father to my eyes in his breathing form. She said, as her father had done, that I was called on now to decide upon my future : she had a presentiment that evil would come to me of my unchecked, headstrong will, which she dignified by terming it a true but reckless affection : she believed she had been thrown in my path to prove herself a serviceable friend, a Peribanou of twenty-six who would not expect rne to marry her when she had earned my gratitude. They set Temple on me, and that was very funuy. To hear him with his " I say, Richie, come, perhaps it 's as well to know where a thing should stop; your father knows you 're at Eiversley, and he '11 be after you when conven- ient ; and just fancy the squire! " was laughable. He had some anxiety to be home again, or at least at Riversley. I offered him to ]\Iiss Goodwin. She reproached me and coaxed me; she was exceedingly sweet. " Well," she said, in an odd, resigned fashion, ''rest a day with us ; will you refuse me that ? " I consented; she knew not with what fretfulness. We went out to gaze at the shops and edifices, and I bought two light bags for slinging over the shoulder, two nightshirts, tooth-brushes, and pocket-combs, and a large map of Ger- many. By dint of vehement entreaties I led her to point to the territory of the Prince of Eppenweizen-Sarkeld. " His income is rather less than that of your grandfather, friend Harry," she remarked. I doated on the spot until I could have dropped my finger on it blindfold. Two or three pitched battles brought us to a friendly arrangement. The colonel exacted my promise that if I saw my father at Sarkeld in Eppenwelzen I would not stay with him longer than seven days : and that if he was not there I would journey home fortliwith. When I had yielded the promise frankly on my honour, he introduced mo to a banker of the city, who agreed to furnish me money to in Tlir. AKVF.NTrKKS nr IIAIMIV incHMoND <';irry nu' on to Kii^'l;nul in caso 1 slicnild require it A (lili.uHnce en^'ai,MMl to deliver lue witliiii a frw miles of Sar- keltl. I wrote a letter to my Aunt Dorothy, telliiif; litr faets. and one to the stpiire, heginninjj;, " We were eau<;lit on our arrival in London by the thiekest log ever remem- bered," as if it had been settled on my departure from IJiversley that Temple and I were bound tor London. INIi.ss (loodwin was my post-bag. She said when we liad dined, about two hours before the starting of the diligence, "])on't you think y(m ought to go and wish that eai)tain of the vessel you sailed in good-bye ? " ] fell into her plot so far as to walk down to the quays on the river-side and recon- noitre the ship. But there I saw my prison. I kissed my hand to Captain "Welsh's mainmast rather ironically, though not without regard for him. Miss Goodwin lifted her eye- lids at our reappearance. As she made no confession of her treason 1 did not accuse her, and jierhaps it was owing to a movement of her conscience that at our parting she drew me to her near enough for a kiss to come of itself. Four-antl-twenty German words of essential service to a traveller in Germany constituted our knowledge of the lan- guage, and these were on paper transcribed by IVIiss Good- win's own hand. In the gloom of the diligence, packed between Germans of a size that not even Tacitus had ]ire- l»ared me for, smoked over from all sides, it was a fascinat- ing study. Temple and I exchanged the paper half-hourly while the light lasted. When that had fled, nothing was left us to combat the sensation that we were in the depths of a manure-bed, for the windows were closed, the tobacco- smoke thickened, the hides of animals wrapping our im- mense companions reeked ; fire occasionally glowed in their pipe-l;owls ; they were silent, and gave out smoke and heat incessantly, like inanimate forces of nature. I had most fantastic ideas, — that I had taken root and ripened, and must expect my head to drop off at any instant: that 1 was deep down, wedged in the solid mass of the earth. But I need not repeat them : they were accurately translated in imagination from my physical miseries. The dim revival of light, when I had well-nigh ceased to hope for it, showed us all like malefactors imperfectly hanged, or drowned T^retches in a cabin under water. I had one Colossus bulg- A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY 145 ing over my shoulder ! Temple was blotted out. His face, emerging from beneath a block of curly bearskin, was like that of one frozen in wonderment. (Jutside there was a melting snow on the higher hills ; the clouds over them grew steel-blue. We were going through a valley in a fir-forest. CHAPTER XV WE AKE ACCOSTED BY A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY IN THE FOREST Bowls of hot coffee and milk, with white rolls of bread to dip in them, refreshed us at a forest inn. For some minutes after the meal Temple and 1 talked like inter- changing putfs of steam, but soon subsided to our staring fit. The pipes were lit again. What we heard sounded like a language of the rocks and caves, and roots plucked up, a language of gluttons feasting ; the word ja was like a door always on the hinge in every mouth. Dumpy chil- dren, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. We observed one young urchin sitting on a stone opposite a dog, and he and the dog took alternate bites off a [)latter- shaped cake, big enough to require both his hands to hold it. Whether the dog ever snapped more than his share was matter of speculation to us. It was an education for him in good manners, and when we were sitting at dinner we wished our companions had enjoyed it. They fed with 'their heads in their plates, splashed and clattered jaws, •without paying us any hospitable attention whatever, so that we had the dish of Lazarus. They were perfectly ;kind, notwithstanding, and allowed a portion of my great :map of Germany to lie spread over their knees in the dili- ;gence, whilst Temple and I pored along the lines of the rivers. One would thrust his square-nailed finger to the name of a city and pronounce it; one gave us lessons in the expression of the vowels, with the softening of three fof them, which seemed like a regulation drill movement for 10 \\u Till: Ai>\ I.N II KKS OF iiAi;i;\ i:i(iiM<iM> takiiii: an ogj^ iuio llie muutli, and sliowing rr[)L'ntanco of tlu' act. " iSarki'ld," we fxclaiiucil mutually, ami thi-y mailt' a gulloiiin;^ motion of tlii'ir liamls, |ioinliiig beyond tlif liills. Sarki'ld was to the right. Sarkelil to the left, as the road wound on. "No,^no," said Temple, as if curdling; "let's call this place the mouth of Hades. Greek things don't make you feel funny," I laughed louder than Avas necessary, and remarked that I never had cared so much for Greek as on board Cajitain Welsh's vessel. '• It's because he was all on the opposite tack I went on quoting," said Temple. " I used to read with my father in the holidays, and your Eev. Simon has kept you up to the mark; so it was all fair. It's not on our consciences that we crammed the captain about our knowledge." " No. I 'm glad of it," said I. Temple pursued, " Whatever happens to a fellow, he can meet anything so long as he can say — I've behaved like a m.m of honour. And those German tales — they only upset you. You don't see the reason of the thing. Why is a A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY 147 man to be haunted lialf his life ? Well, suppose he did commit a murder. Bat if he didn't, can't he walk through an old castle without meeting ghosts ? or a forest ? " The dusky scenery of a strange land was influencing Temple. It affected me so I made the worst of it for a cure. " Fancy those pines saying, ' There go two more,' Temple. Well ; and fancy this — a little earth-dwarf as broad as I 'ra long and high as my shoulder. One day he met the love- liest girl in the whole country, and she promised to marry ii'un in twenty years' time, in return for a sack of jewels worth all Germany and half England. You should have seen her dragging it home. People thouglit it full of char- coal. She married the man she loved, and the twenty years passed over, and at the stroke of the hour when she first met the dwarf, thousands of bells began ringing through the forest, and her husband cries out, 'What is the meaning of it ? ' and they rode up to a garland of fresh flowers that dropped on her head, and right into a gold ring that closed on her finger, and — look, Temple, look ! " " Where ? " asked the dear little fellow, looking in all earnest, from which the gloom of the place may be im- agined, for, by suddenly mixing it with my absurd story, I discomposed his air of sovereign indifference as much as one does the surface of a lake by casting a stone in it. We rounded the rocky corner of the gorge at a^slightly accelerated pace in dead silence. It opened out to restora- tive daylight, and we breathed better and chaffed one another, and, beholding a house with pendent gold grapes, applauded the diligence conductor's expressive pantomime. | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'adventuresofharr00mere_8', 'collection': 'US-PD-Books', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '7632', 'token_count': '10571', '__index_level_0__': '49280', 'original_id': '7f6d06e30c0792396fd587e3dd4d4a33fece4189cb7b501166f85fef3bf4cdb5'} |
ltu online - bb, course management/development faqs
Blackboard, Course Management, and Course Development FAQs
Each question is presented on a separate page which you can print. The information presented on these FAQs is developed to address faculty immediate needs while they are in the midst of teaching and/or developing courses.
As you can imagine, this can result in a large knowledge base as it grows. As it grows, the FAQs will begin to be categorized into different sections.
How do I create a graded Discussion Forum in Blackboard?
What do I do about students who are not attending an LTU Online class?
How do I activate a quiz on Blackboard?
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How do I narrate a PowerPoint presentation?
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New Patients
We would like your first experience with Dynamic Performance Therapy to be as easy and comfortable as possible. Below we have outlined some information that will help familiarize you with the process. To schedule your first appointment, please contact us at (256) 837-5425
Your First Visit
With recent changes in state law, a physician's referral is no longer required for a physical therapist to perform an initial evaluation. If you have a problem, we encourage you to come in for an initial evaluation to assess the problem and determine if physical therapy is appropriate for you. Get the process started...don't delay. Many studies have confirmed what common sense already tells us. The longer we wait to get help, the worse the problem gets and the longer it takes to fix it. If your therapist determines physical therapy would help your problem, we can assist you in obtaining a referral, which is needed in some cases for insurance reimbursement and to perform follow-up treatment. If you already have a referral from your physician, please bring your referral to your first visit. If your physician's office told you they would fax your referral, please let us know so we can confirm we have received it.While subsequent treatment sessions generally begin on the hour, for your first evaluation you will be asked to arrive 15 minutes before the hour. This allows time for paperwork to be processed and entered into our system. We recommend intake forms (see below) be downloaded, printed, and filled out prior to your arrival. This will expedite the registration process and allow your evaluation to start on time.You and your physical therapist will then discuss your problem and history in more detail. Your therapist will then evaluate your problem including assessing movement, performing tests, and taking measurements.Treatment may begin during this first visit. This may provide you with some relief from your symptoms, and it also provides your therapist with a more hands-on assessment of your problem. Because your therapist will be assessing movement and performing treatment, it is important you wear clothing which will allow them to access the region for evaluation and treatment.You will be given a folder at the end of your first appointment. Your exercises, given as homework, will be kept in this folder. You may be given one or two exercises on your first visit, but don’t worry, we will avoid giving you exercises that are too difficult for you to perform. Try to bring your exercise folder with you every visit as we will continue to add, change, and update your home program as your status progresses. This folder also contains useful information about our services and your insurance coverage.You and your therapist will also decide on a treatment plan, establishing the number of sessions per week you will need. Following your visit, your physical therapist will document your session and send a copy of your evaluation to your physician. Our administrative staff will collect a co-payment and work with you on scheduling follow-up appointments with your assigned team of therapists.Congratulations, you have taken your first step on the road to better health.
What to Wear
For every area we address, we need to assess and treat the entire region and this is easier when the region is readily accessible. In addition, part of the session will involve exercises and therefore comfortable, loose fitting clothing are important. A tank top or loose fitting t-shirt works best for treating the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand as well as the mid-back. T-shirt and gym shorts for low back, hip, knee, foot and ankle are the most optimal. However, you are welcome to discuss other options with your therapist if you are uncomfortable wearing any of these items. We also have gowns, shorts and T-shirts available in the clinic if you forget to bring clothing items to a session. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5d55159a415a6d369d1f15a3bf6192b4843d393ca13e2a763e74b4d7f6664d7e'} |
Who’s Paying for Assistive Technology?
When Lee Huffman wants to use his personal computer, he launches a special application that magnifies the screen, allows him to change background colors in case his eyes get tired of the bright hues, and reads whatever text is on display. This tool helps him get information online, work on his projects and carry with his daily tasks as editor for AccessWorld, a magazine of the American Foundation of the Blind (AFB) that provides technology news for the blind and visually impaired.
In his early childhood, Huffman was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a genetic eye disorder that leads to progressive vision loss. Since then he’s been taking on the challenge of finding ways to stay active in society and aspire to a normal professional path by using assistive technology.
The special software that he uses costs around $700 and it was purchased by AFB. Other sophisticated technology tools, such as special laptops or tablets that blind or low-vision people use to function in society and aspire to full-time positions can cost thousands of dollars, but none of them are covered by health insurance, experts say, since they are not considered medical devices.
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#include "pch.h"
#include "Epoch/Platform/OpenGL/OpenGLRendererAPI.h"
#include <glad/glad.h>
namespace Epoch {
void OpenGLRendererAPI::init()
{
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
}
void OpenGLRendererAPI::setViewPort(uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t width, uint32_t height)
{
glViewport(x, y, width, height);
}
void OpenGLRendererAPI::setClearColor(const glm::vec4& color)
{
glClearColor(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.a);
}
void OpenGLRendererAPI::clear()
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
}
void OpenGLRendererAPI::drawIndexed(const std::shared_ptr<VertexArray>& vertexArray)
{
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, vertexArray->getIndexBuffer()->getCount(), GL_UNSIGNED_INT, nullptr);
}
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/*
Copyright 2020 The KubeSphere Authors.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/
package version
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/kubesphere/kubekey/version"
"github.com/spf13/cobra"
"io"
"strings"
)
type VersionOptions struct {
ShortVersion bool
ShowSupportedK8sVersionList bool
}
func NewVersionOptions() *VersionOptions {
return &VersionOptions{}
}
// NewCmdVersion creates a new version command
func NewCmdVersion() *cobra.Command {
o := NewVersionOptions()
cmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "version",
Short: "print the client version information",
RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
if o.ShowSupportedK8sVersionList {
return printSupportedK8sVersionList(cmd.OutOrStdout())
}
return printVersion(o.ShortVersion)
},
}
o.AddFlags(cmd)
return cmd
}
func (o *VersionOptions) AddFlags(cmd *cobra.Command) {
cmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&o.ShortVersion, "short", "", false, "print the version number")
cmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&o.ShowSupportedK8sVersionList, "show-supported-k8s", "", false,
`print the version of supported k8s`)
}
func printVersion(short bool) error {
v := version.Get()
if short {
if len(v.GitCommit) >= 7 {
fmt.Printf("%s+g%s\n", v.Version, v.GitCommit[:7])
return nil
}
fmt.Println(version.GetVersion())
}
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", v)
return nil
}
func printSupportedK8sVersionList(output io.Writer) (err error) {
_, err = output.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintln(strings.Join(version.SupportedK8sVersionList(), "\n"))))
return
}
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Only five months late for Boo.com launch
Time to flog some sports kit
Common Topics
Boo.com, the online shopping service for slaves to sports fashion, has launched in seven countries.
The company, which saw its launch date delayed by five months due to software problems, has secured substantial financial muscle for a European start-up. It is already worth more than £125 million, according to today's FT.
Investors include the Benetton family and investment bank Goldman Sachs. Boo, which was yesterday launched simultaneously in seven countries including the UK, US, Germany and France, allows e-shoppers to browse for the latest hip sports items. Anything from a peach-fuzz basketball dress to a three-tone Lighthouse Bucket - that's a sun hat to you and me - can be found online. And the site is designed to be as funky as its users - 3D images of the items can be spun round, zoomed into or modelled on screen.
However, a representative of Boo.com said the company would not be a discounter. "Our clients have given us products to sell at their prices. Europe has specific set prices for items, as opposed to the US," she said.
The company said it was aiming at customers who wanted to keep up with the latest sportswear fashion, but who were without access to the necessary shops. "Imagine if you are sitting in some suburb in Iowa, and you want the latest acupuncture kit. It's a matter of ease. You don't have to go to the high street and we are offering products which are hard to find in most areas," the representative added. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '411ac77b9df31324e5bdc4ff985e2e6797d1f01175174e6cc87005a339a75bf9'} |
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Hi Again!!
Yikes! It's been a LONG time since I've posted!! Dave's on vacation, and he's home and catching up on household projects and trying to get his office/studio organized, plus he's trying to get familiar with his new gear....so, in light of him doing some work on the house, my home has been torn apart!
We decided to lay a new floor in our kitchen. We had green and white marble tile, laid like a checkerboard, and let me tell you, that floor was the most dangerous floor I've ever walked on!! Super impractical for a busy kitchen! If I spilled something on it, I couldn't see it, and invariably someone would walk in and walk right into the spill, slipping and falling! We lived with that green and white floor for 9 years before we moved to the country, and when we came back, we saw that in front of the sink, in a 4x4 foot section, the tiles had been completely shattered! It was just time to lay a new floor. So, Hannah and Russell tore up the floor last month and we lived with a bare, dusty floor for a month or so. Dave put in 16 HOURS NON-STOP, without sleep, working on my floor so that I could have my kitchen back. It's always interesting and character building to try to live and make your home in only two rooms, without a stove! My husband is a true man and an awesome provider. During the time he worked on the floor, we couldn't go in the kitchen at all, especially when he was grouting the tiles. After you grout tiles you have to let them sit for a specific number of hours, usually at least 12 hours. Zoyks! That was tough for all of us! But we made it and my floor is beautiful. It's a gorgeous, natural looking, light terra cotta tile look with light clay-colored grout. I'll post pictures of the before-and-after, as soon as we find them!!
The next Big Event around our house is.....Hannah's birthday! She's going to be old enough that she can start learning how to drive. She really already knows how, from driving tractors since she was small! She is going to be a great driver. I'm excited to see what this next year holds for her.
We absolutely LOVE it when Daddy has vacations! We love having him home all day, every day! However, he may feel differently, as he ends up needing a vacation from his vacation! He'll go back to work to relax!
And, as though the Lord were spilling out bowls of blessing on us, the weather has been absolutely fabulous and fine. Clear skies, gentle breezes, temps in the low 80's....ahhhhhh, summer has come to us at last!
1 comment:
Hi LeanneI would love to see your floor! I know what it's like to live in a half done house ( our renovations have been going on well it seems forever). Lovely to catch up on your news ~ enjoy your summer weather!!BlessingsRenata:)
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View Full Version : Ext.Component should provide an event like 'render' or 'afterrender'
14 Dec 2011, 11:37 AM
Both 'render' and 'afterrender' events come pretty handy with ExtJs and I guess they are very widely used.
Touch 2 seems to have given us a blanket method called "initialize" that has supposedly replaced all these events, plus "initComponent", "afterRender" etc. methods.
However atleast giving "render" and "afterrender" events is desirable (I would want afterRender method too but not sure if other community members/Touch team would agree).
Let me give you 2 reasons for adding these events back in Touch 2:
1) I needed to manipulate scrolling of a Component manually after it had rendered. No such event and nothing else available.
I ended up doing the following:
initialize: function () {
Ext.Toolbar.prototype.initialize.call(this, arguments);
var scroller = this.getScrollable().getScroller();
setTimeout(function () {
//My code using scroller
}, 1000);
The dom of the component (and its items) was not completely ready when initialize was called. I had to do a setTimeout to have the dom ready. render/afterrender would address this easily.
2) Notice the first line of initilize method above. It looks very ugly. initialize is supposed to be overridden in derived classes that invoke this.callParent.
But what if a single component on a page needs to perform some initializationt task. Giving initilize method in component config gives me the above ugly code and there seems to be no other method/event available to override/subscribe.
Jamie Avins
14 Dec 2011, 11:51 AM
There is a 'painted' event that should be used if you need to access properties on elements after they are actually in the DOM. Thus far we have not put in the older 'render' events as Touch 2 no longer follows the same process as it used to. Elements can now move in and out of the DOM, effectively being de-rendered or erased from the DOM body. Touch 2 may fire the painted/erased event multiple times, which would never happen in Touch 1 or ExtJS. We do plan on putting render and afterrender back in for backward compatibility, but they should be considered deprecated and won't function exactly the same. This is similar to the loss of afterLayout/doLayout which really no longer exist as they did before.
5 Jan 2012, 10:53 AM
Yes Jamie, I understand that. But what about the use-case in my second point.
Let's say I have a DataView which when rendered, I need to scroll to the 10th item in the list. Afterwards, when tabs are switched or something like that, I don't care.
An event which fires the first time a component gets "painted" would be really useful as I can imagine a lot of other use cases too. I know you would suggest using "painted" with {single: true} and that certainly is a good option. But having a one-time "painted" event might come in handy.
If the Touch team does not agree, I would not push for it as we have an easy workaround.
6 Jan 2012, 12:14 AM
It's the same for me. I'm accessing the element right after component creation and am listening to the painted event right now, but it feels kind of ugly to use {single: true} to catch only the first event. Maybe a shorthand like firstpainted instead of the old render event is an idea? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9439319372177124}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '7523', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KJV7FSWA5L2CNLUI3BG75VX3TYEDGJWZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a6872a46-e47e-475c-8b6e-bbbe36e4d990>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 13, 11, 58, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '50.19.83.128', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZO3IXY4RFGK6OI6SYUJYK4WHTTSNW54I', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ebfcbe5d-90c7-4107-917e-08359e6c358c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.sencha.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-161770.html?s=9ef3731df8194c57c6eac8c050829a90', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:90555b5d-8d94-4a0a-8276-02a5108955fc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '532', 'url': 'http://www.sencha.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-161770.html?s=9ef3731df8194c57c6eac8c050829a90', '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': '0.08146262168884277', 'original_id': 'e50184cfe09f0d449effd714456ff4b9814ac2a7750af3a1223c5c158ca3fdce'} |
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This game looked absolutely amazing, but it's the realistic feel that made Assassin's Creed one of the games of the show. The crowded city streets looked and felt alive, and the actions of ordinary citizens created a world that was perhaps more believable than anything else on the floor. People stop and stare when you act suspiciously, gather around when you create a scene, and flee in terror when something violent goes down. Kill someone important enough and they might just try to stop you from fleeing. The animations and reactions were like nothing else on the show floor. It's safe to say that immersion-breaking, brick-dumb game AI is at the top of Assassin's hit list. We're definitely prepared to look the other way when that hit goes down. Speaking of death, it only takes one well-placed strike to end a life here -- yours or your enemy's -- so it appears the game also has plans to eliminate video game conventions of lifebars and repetitive combination attacks as well.
With a degree of freedom similar to something like Grand Theft Auto, the game gives its main character an incredible degree of mobility, letting you climb anything that sticks out more than a couple of inches. This allows for some incredible acrobatic escapes, but hiding in plain sight could work even better. Mirroring the incredibly slick sequence in the game's trailer, the assassin was able clasp his hands in holy reverence and hide in plain sight amongst a group of monks -- much cooler than crouching in a shadowy corner. Assassin's Creed showed a lot of promise in its brief performance, and a strange possibility of a high-tech, virtual reality hook. We'll definitely be watching this one closely.
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Japanese Gamers Divided on Subtitles vs. Dubs
| 22 Feb 2010 21:49
If you were to ask a Japanese gamer if they preferred to play Western-made games with Japanese subtitles or dubbed audio, the results would be a surprisingly even split.
Want to know one of the only surefire ways to start a flame war online (other than posting Xbox 360 propaganda on a Sony fanboy forum or vice versa)? Go to any active anime fan community, and post a thread about how you like anime dubs. Within minutes, someone will invariably respond calling you an idiot who prefers an obviously inferior and bastardized product. And someone will respond to them, saying that some people just don't want to have to read all of the dialogue, or want to watch it while they're splitting their attention. Before you know it? Chaos has erupted.
Judging by the mini-controversy that erupted when it was announced that the English release of Final Fantasy XIII would not contain the Japanese audio, that same sentiment is prevalent in the gaming community as well: Do we want our Japanese-made games to come with subtitles, or do we want all the dialogue fully voiced? While we can argue that all day, it's interesting to consider the reverse: What do the Japanese gamers prefer when Western-made games come out across the Pacific?
A poll by videogame publisher Spike attempted to answer that question, and the results? Well, the results were an almost even split: 49% preferred original audio with Japanese subtitles, while 47% favored full Japanese-language dubbing. So if you took a random Japanese gamer and asked him or her that same question, looks like the odds are even that it could go either way.
Clearly, this just means that more publishers should just include both subtitles and dubs on every localized game - with opinion so evenly divided, why not just let everyone choose to their preference?
If I want to play Uncharted 2 in Japanese, that should be my god-given right, dammit!
(Andriasang via Joystiq)
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A spacecraft en route to Mercury just caught this fresh new look at Venus
BepiColombo, a Mercury-bound mission jointly run by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is snapping up a wealth of new images and collecting some new data that may tease out new clues about the Venusian atmosphere—and whether it could be home to extraterrestrial life.
What happened: On Thursday morning, as part of a long journey to Mercury, BepiColombo made a close pass of Venus at a distance of about 6,660 miles. The flyby is meant to use Venus’s gravity as a speed-reducing force to adjust the trajectory of the spacecraft on to its eventual destination.
Hype of life: Although the flyby was planned for maneuvering purposes, it afforded scientists an opportunity for a closer look at Venus. The interest around the flyby is bigger since last month’s revelations that Venus’s clouds contain phosphine, a possible sign that there is biological activity on the planet. If the phosphine is there, then there’s a good chance it’s a result of biology, and that means life might be residing within the thick, carbon-rich atmosphere. However, it’s also possible those traces of phosphine might be the result of exotic natural chemistry not found on Earth. Still cool, but not aliens.
What did the mission actually observe? Most of BepiColombo’s instruments are still stored away until the rendezvous with Mercury—including its primary camera. Those that are functional at the moment (10 in total) are still designed primarily for studying the atmosphere-less Mercury. But there are still some bits of data the spacecraft collected that may be useful.
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A sequence of images taken during BepiColombo’s flyby of Venus on October 15.
Two smaller cameras facing the spacecraft itself are turned on, and they managed to take several photos of Venus (obscured a bit by the probe’s magnetometer and antenna). An onboard spectrometer (which measures emissions of electromagnetic wavelengths to unravel the chemistry of other objects) took over 100,000 spectral images of the Venusian atmosphere. Other instruments studied the planet’s temperature and density as well as its magnetic environment and how it interacts with solar winds.
Don’t hold your breath: It’s unlikely that the spectrometer and other activated instruments were able to study phosphine molecules on Venus during this flyby. But they might be able to hint at the presence of other biosignatures that could bolster evidence for possible life on Venus.
Moreover, this first flyby of Venus could be thought of as a practice run for a second one BepiColombo will make in August 2021. Now that the mission team has a better sense of how to better calibrate these instruments to study Venus more closely, they’ll have a better opportunity to do some better data collection next year, when the distance will shrink down to just 340 miles. The chances of detecting phosphine on that flyby are still slim, but not zero. And traces of other biosignatures could be spotted too.
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Vita) New Screenshots
New screenshots of the upcoming handheld adventure of Nathan Drake, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, have emerged. Now these may be doctored photos, and they may not be. They almost seem too good to be true, but we won't know until gamers get their hands on Sony's PlayStation Vita in Japan later this year. For now, glare in amazement at these astonishing pics.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Top Five Reasons to Hate Sony
We wrap up the work week with another top five list. It's time for some more vitriol here on SuperPhillip Central. This go around we're focusing it on Sony who went from first to worst in epic fashion. The words "$599 US Dollars" and "massive damage" will always haunt Sony and the Sony faithful. I hate to pick on a company while they're down, but let's find out exactly which five reasons are more than enough to despise Sony.
5) Their fanboys are the most idiotic this generation
Fanboys are ugly no matter which company they root for. Sony fanboys are the worst. Being in first was all these poor, diluted souls knew of. Now that Nintendo and even newcomer Microsoft are kicking them to the curb in sales, Sony's fanboys can't help but feel like going to multiple forums and trolling. They're everywhere-- GameFAQs, GameTrailers, NeoGAF-- everywhere. They are without a doubt the most obnoxious group in gaming right now. Thankfully not all Sony fanboys are annoying, but the vocal minority of them are. However, we thank ye for all your glorious meltdowns on message boards far and wide!
4) The PSN hacking fiasco
How awful was this? Millions in dollars lost, customer satisfaction down the pooper, and numerous hackers stealing credit card information were some of the effects of Sony's PlayStation Network getting hacked. You're foolish if you now save your credit card information to Sony's servers. They can't be trusted with it. The sheer incompetence of the company was staggering. Case in point: keep your credit cards away from Sony.
3) Old VS. New PlayStation 3s
Comparing old PS3s to new PS3s shows a lot to the unknowing eye. For one, new PS3s compared to old ones have a lot of features taken out such as backwards compatibility. Furthermore, old PlayStation 3s aren't built as well as they should be and break down much more easily. Who hasn't heard of the moniker of the "Yellow Light of Death"? When one receives this curse on their PlayStation 3, they can opt to send it in to Sony for repair for a costly fee. When they get it back, there's no guarantee that it will be stay fixed permanently. This means it can break down again, and the repair process begins anew, or they must purchase a Slim. Both options pretty much blow for the consumer.
2) They're reactionary and not revolutionary.
How many times have we seen Sony copy the competition? Most recently they bent over backwards to scoot past Nintendo's patent on the Wii remote and blatantly copied it to make the marketshare failure known as the PlayStation Move. Sony's company philosophy behind innovation is essentially see what Nintendo is doing and copy it, sometimes enhancing the technology by a half-step. We've seen this with rumble, analog sticks, and of course, as stated before, motion control tech. For shame, Sony. For shame.
1) They're in third place, and they're still cocky as can be.
Nothing like a distant third place company like Sony to be cocky to make them look like the jackasses they are. If Jack Tretton isn't opening his mouth and inserting his foot (remember when Phil Harrison informed us that rumble was a last gen feature?), some other Sony stooge is saying something stupid toward the competition. You look at a company like Nintendo who were humble when they were in last place, and you look at Sony who can't help being the company to root against (or for if you're one of the aforementioned obnoxious fanboys). Even their Kevin Butler commercials are heavy-handed with fanboy self-wanking propaganda. For being a Japanese company, a country known for being humble, Sony certainly doesn't show it.
As you can see, Sony is trying its hardest to be an unlikeable company. From having an inferior online structure compared to Microsoft to being stupidly cocky, Sony is in a bad place right now. On the bright side of things, they still make some of the best first-party games out there next to Nintendo (your opinion might be different-- that's fine), and they have a new portable with lots of support coming. Not all is bad in the land of Sony. They're still one of my favorite companies around.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Review Round-Up - June-August
Zelda leads the charge with a tremendous score.
The conclusion of the month not only introduces a new Central City Census, but it also shows us the reviews of the past month. Since we haven't had a Review Round-Up for three months, let's review the past trio of months. Things started out slow with a retro review of Metroid: Zero Mission which earned an outstanding 9.5, followed in August with Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collected which garnered a stellar 8.5 which just so happens to be the same score our first Nintendo 3DS game review got, Dead or Alive Dimensions. Concluding the month both The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening received sensational scores of 10 and 9.5 respectively, and finally, James Bond 007: Blood Stone got the above-average score of 6.0. Remember that 5.0 is considered average here at SuperPhillip Central. All-in-all, summer was quite a good time for gaming!
Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA) - 9.5
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (PSP) - 8.5
Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS) - 8.5
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) - 10
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (GBC, 3DS VC) - 9.5
James Bond 007: Blood Stone (PS3, 360) - 6.0
DoA kicked off our 3DS reviews here at SPC.
Central City Census - September
A new month means a new census here at SuperPhillip Central, but before we get into that, let's check out August's results.
With the Nintendo 3DS dropping in price, do you plan on purchasing one?
Yes, I can't wait to own one.
9 (26%)
I'm going to buy a second one.
0 (0%)
Maybe. I'm waiting on more games.
10 (29%)
No, I'm not interested in one.
10 (29%)
No, I already own one.
5 (14%)
Votes so far: 34
This time around we have a tie for first place, each with 29% of the vote and ten votes apiece. The question asked whether the new 3DS price drop made you want to get Nintendo's newest handheld. Most of you are either waiting on more games or aren't interested at all. In a close second place at 26% of the vote is "Yes, I can't wait to own one". Perhaps those twenty free Ambassador games had something to do with it... 14% of the vote already own one, and no one is getting a second 3DS. With that let's check out September's census.
The Nintendo 3DS is starting to light the world on fire with increased sales due to the price drop. That doesn't seem to be affecting Sony's PlayStation Vita which is due out this year in Japan. Which handheld has the most games that interests you thus far? Poll closes at the end of the month as always.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
James Bond 007: Blood Stone (PS3, 360) Review
Let's go away from The Legend of Zelda series for now. I'm sure you guys must be burned out reading about one of my favorite franchises. Regardless, GameStop recently had James Bond 007: Blood Stone for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for the low price of $9.99. Not bad for a game that isn't even a year old. I felt I wasn't giving too much money to the evil corporation, so I didn't mind paying the low cost of entry. Here's my review of Blood Stone, our last review of the month of August.
Daniel Craig and Joss Stone team up for
a slightly satisfying spy thriller.
Gamers fondly remember the glory days of the Bond license with Rare's Nintendo 64 masterpiece, Goldeneye 007. Many companies have since tried to top the game including Electronic Arts who shamelessly used the Goldeneye name in Rogue Agent to try to get sales and Activision who essentially remade the game with the excellent GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo Wii. This, of course, was after their first attempt at making a Bond game with the above-average Quantum of Solace 007. With James Bond 007: Blood Stone, this is Activision's third attempt at publishing a Bond game. Is the third time a charm?
Blood Stone starts out and holds back no punches. Immediately players are thrust into the role of James Bond as he boards a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in Athens, Greece. The villain he is after gets away via speedboat, and like the daring and dashing hero he is, Bond pursues in a hardcore chase. The main story of Blood Stone introduces a character named Nicole who Bond becomes very attached to. Her uncle may or may not be involved in a shady business deal. It's up to you the player as Bond to solve the mystery and save the world. The cutscenes aren't too shabby, and the terrific threesome of Daniel Craig, Joss Stone, and Dame Judi Dench provide their voices to the game. Unfortunately the game ends on a cliffhanger, and seeing as the developer behind Blood Stone is now disbanded by Activision, it doesn't appear players will get to find out the satisfying conclusion to the game.
Blood Stone is a third-person shooter using the Call of Duty engine-- or something similar to it. As Bond takes damage, the screen turns a brighter shade of red. If it gets too red, a message will pop up smack dab in the center of the screen urging the player to get behind cover. Cover is key in Blood Stone. You'll be peeking your head out, taking down guards, soldiers, and other enemies who each want nothing more than to put Bond out to pasture permanently. While behind cover Bond can slide around corners effortlessly, switch between adjacent cover, and hide like a three year-0ld who doesn't want to take his or her medicine.
Use cover to not only get a jump on
your enemies but to save your hide.
Bond can only carry two guns at a time-- one pistol and an alternate weapon. There's a variety in his arsenal from sniper rifles to grenade launchers to assault rifles. The enemy also possesses these weapons, so tread carefully, 007. When enemies get too close for comfort, James can always knock them out with a melee move. While in a melee attack, Bond is completely invincible to enemy bullets. As a reward for melees, 007 can earn up to three Focus Aims at a time. These are triggered by holding the shoulder button and firing. Focus Aim shots are instant, one-hit kills to any opponent they penetrate. These are instrumental to clearing the 007 difficulty mode. It's quite cool saving up three Focus Aims, having three unknowing enemies, and firing off three shots which quickly silence them.
Melee moves give James Bond Focus Aims to work with.
In James's and Nicole's journey across the world, they will visit many exotic locales like Istanbul, Russia, and Burma. Levels are mostly linear, but there is some exploration to be had. Intelligence is an optional feat to accomplish. By using Bond's smartphone, he can download information on nearby intel. Then the player can read up on the various intel collected (pending you can read the obnoxiously small font the game uses). While this is more for achievement and trophy whores, collecting intelligence is a good way to lengthen the game as there's a lot to collect in Blood Stone. Certain levels also have Bond using button prompts to leap over chasms and crevasses, using his smartphone to play a button-pressing mini-game to shut off security cameras in a casino's garden, and have James stealthily creeping through the enemy's stronghold, trying not to get caught.
To break up the numerous gunfights and brawls are driving sequences. Bond's various vehicles to no surprise control well. After all Bizarre Creations (the developer) is the team behind such racing greats like Project Gotham Racing and Blur. As Bond you'll be chasing after large construction vehicles in the raining streets of China, roaring through shipyards, attempting to avoid traffic and other vehicles, going the wrong way down busy highways, and jetting across a river of ice, trying to avoid a watery and icy death in Russia as a helicopter fires off a barrage of bullets at 007's car. These sequences feature plenty of checkpoints and are quite the adrenaline rush.
Explosions, explosions everywhere and not any time to think.
Conversely from the single-player story mode, there's multiplayer action to partake in. There's three modes to choose from: Team Deathmatch (first team to fifty points in ten minutes or less), Team Objective (finish three objectives before the other team), and Last Man Standing (where it's every man for himself to see who survives the longest). Team warfare consists of players siding with MI6 or a group called The Mercenaries. There's eight players per team for a total of sixteen players. Each game lasts ten minutes or less, and maps are chosen randomly. Weapons are scattered all over the place, but mostly are located at each team's home base. Players earn medals for killing opponents with the various weaponry and earn experience for kills and assists. Individual kills net the skillful player with thirty experience points while assists give the player half that. At the conclusion of each game, awards for least deaths, most kills, most melees, and more are handed out, and the experience is given to the player,. They can earn new levels once enough experience has been gathered. New levels unlock new guns to utilize and obliterate opponents with.
Online runs smoothly enough, but there is sometimes lag to worry about which makes aiming quite the futility. Melee attacks are one-hit kills, and oftentimes players melee each other at the same time resulting in both players dying simultaneously. As with story mode, melee attacks earn the player Focus Aims which are surefire ways to instantly incapacitate an enemy. This may seem like a cheap mechanic for multiplayer, but seeing as deaths are common in battle, it's not particularly a problem. Only the most competent player will acquire and keep a nice supply of Focus Aims. Lastly, the online community is still mildly successful and active. For instance, waiting for games in Team Deathmatch isn't a huge happenstance.
Blood Stone is an impressive-looking game even if it borrows heavily from the Call of Duty graphical engine. Explosions are great to look at, backgrounds and textures look gorgeous, and character models aren't that lifeless or animate poorly. Shooting off the helmets of guards is a personal guilty pleasure of mine-- well, that and blowing them to kingdom-come with a grenade launcher. The soundtrack, composed by long-time great Richard Jacques, probably best known for me for his work on the Saturn and PC versions of Sonic 3D Blast, sounds excellent, big, and brassy. All-in-all, the presentation package of Blood Stone is above-satisfactory.
The visuals are pretty crisp and clean.
They're the least of Blood Stone's worries.
James Bond 007: Blood Stone is a relatively short game. Yes, there's multiple difficulties with the highest, 007 mode, allowing some enemies to kill Bond in one shot, but most players will opt out. The campaign is very much forgettable, and the multiplayer is nothing we haven't seen before. That notwithstanding Blood Stone is an above-average Bond game and little more. Yes, the budget is big, the story is compelling enough, and the mission objectives are varied, but those who have played enough third-person shooters will feel a great sense of familiarity with what is presented here. Perhaps this title needed to be shaken up more than it was stirred...
[SuperPhillip Says: 6.0/10]
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (GBC, 3DS VC) Retro Review
It's time for our first Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console game. I did not own a Game Boy Color, so this was my first time playing the colored remake of Link's Awakening. It's none other than The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. Let's get to it!
Dream A Little Dream With Me
The original Link's Awakening was a vast journey crammed onto a small Game Boy cartridge and even smaller black-and-white Game Boy screen. It followed the adventures of everyone's favorite pointy-eared hero, Link, as he explored a land that wasn't Hyrule for once. Years later with the release of the Game Boy Color, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX was released with new features and bonus content. Even more years later, it returns as one of the first titles available for the Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console service. With the ability to save and load a save state whenever thanks to the 3DS, this version of Link's Awakening could be the best one yet.
Sailing along a peaceful ocean, our hero, Link, charts a course to who-knows-where. Suddenly the weather turns ugly as a devastating storm rolls in. His boat gets shredded to pieces by the rough waves and tides of Neptune's bounty. Link falls unconscious and winds up on the shore of a mysterious isle. It is here that he is found and taken in by an innocent young girl named Marin. Link wakes up in her house inside Mabel Village. Exploring the island a little, Link meets a wise old owl who informs him that if he wants to leave the island, he'll have to gather eight instruments to wake the Wind Fish that sleeps at the top of Koholint Island. With that our hero has a goal in mind. Meeting characters and monsters alike, Link's Awakening has the player invested in their adventure.
Like many stories this one begins in bed.
For those new to The Legend of Zelda series, the flow of the franchise is as follows. You control Link through the overworld which connects all of the caves, dungeons, castles, and towns of the game. Koholint Island is larger than it looks. There's deserts, tall mountain ranges, odious bogs, mysterious forests, and monster-infested prairies to explore. As Link gets closer to awakening the Wind Fish, these monsters grow even more restless and bloodthirsty. The main task of Link is to head inside the eight dungeons of Koholint Island, obtain the legendary musical instruments inside each, and play them in front of the Wind Fish's egg.
Dungeons are where the action and puzzles take place. Dungeons are where small keys, maps (which shows off rooms Link has and has not yet ventured into), compasses (which show the locations of treasures and has a beacon that goes off in rooms where keys are located as Link enters them), stone beaks (when placed in owl statues reveal hints to dungeon puzzles) and dungeon items. Each dungeon has an item to collect which is essential to completing the dangers hidden inside. There's Roc's Feather which allows Link to leap over holes in the ground, the Running Shoes which enable Link to run through crystals and get past slower hazards quickly, and the Hookshot which gives Link the ability to grab onto and pull himself across large distances without worry-- to name a few. Usually these items are key to tackling the Nightmare (or boss) lurking in the deepest part of the dungeon. One boss has you bombing its face while another has you picking up a genie's bottle and chucking it into a wall to damage it.
This over-sized worm is only defeated
through slashing its tail.
Dungeons require a lot of thinking, quick reflexes, and some good old fashioned ingenuity. Puzzles range from simple block-pushing and defeating enemies in a certain order to more complicated endeavors such as carrying an iron ball around and tossing it at four pillars to bring the top floor crashing down for Link to access it. Some enemies are puzzles in themselves, requiring the player to comprehend their weakness(es) to defeat them. Each dungeon has a mid-boss which when defeated gives Link a continue point. This continue point is a warp point linking the mid-boss room to the start of the dungeon. This is great if the player dies and must begin from the dungeon's entrance. Most dungeons feature 2D side-scrolling parts where careful platforming is key. One might even see the appearance of some Mushroom Kingdom enemies like Goombas, Cheep-Cheeps and Piranha Plants!
Um, waiter, there's some Mario in my Zelda...
Unfortunately with the limited amount of buttons on the original Game Boy and ensuing Game Boy Color, players only have two buttons to assign items to. This means players must constantly switch between the item select screen (the pause menu in other words) and the action. This gets annoying when players must use more than two items at a time. The incessant switching grows tedious at times, but otherwise the button limitations aren't too terribly... well... limiting.
Constantly switching between items on the subscreen can
get annoying, but it's a minor beef I have with this game.
When Link isn't in a dungeon, he'll be doing lots of side stuff. From exploring caves to leading a ghost to its grave, there's plenty of overworld action to be had here. There's also numerous hidden goodies to be found for those bold enough to look for them. The Legend of Zelda veterans know and love Heart Containers. Collecting four of these gives Link an extra heart in his health counter. These are often placed in hard-to-reach and hard-to-find locations such as behind bomb-able walls and given as rewards in mini-games like Mabel Village's fishing game. Additionally there's an assortment of Secret Seashells to gather. These can be under bushes, under rocks, and even buried under the soil. Collecting all of these rewards the player with an upgraded Master Sword. Some of these locations, however, are almost impossible to locate without the assistance of a FAQ or walkthrough. Who would really know to circle the castle moat and dive by the coast to pick up a Heart Container? Not I, for one. Finally, capable and patient players can participate in a long-winded trading sequence to obtain one of the best items in the game.
New additions were added to Link's Awakening DX besides the obvious one: color. An all-new and secret color dungeon has been included. When the player completes it and takes down the boss guarding the treasure, the fairy inside will give the player the choice of boosting offense or defense. The new dungeon itself isn't particularly that long or challenging, but it is cool to have it as a non-mandatory bonus. There's also a new photo mini-game where Link can explore Koholint Island, getting his picture taken at various landmarks and during certain scenarios. Perhaps something cool will happen if you beat the game without ever seeing the game over screen..!
Typically you want to jump OVER these holes.
Link's Awakening DX obviously improves upon the visuals of the original through the addition of color. Everything has its own color palette, so you're not stuck with everything being a shade of green and black or black and white or whatever two color combination you were previously stuck with. The sensational musical score remains unchanged, and that's just fine by me. Some songs might come across as grating, but tracks like Mabel Village, the overworld, and Tal Tal Heights are without a doubt memorable classics that withstand the test of time. Perhaps the only problem I have with the presentation has to do with touching certain objects. Each time you touch an object that you don't have the proper item to take of, a message pops up that slowly scrolls. After the third or so time of "this rock has cracks, maybe you can shatter it somehow", I was getting irritated.
Overall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is a terrific start to the hand-held adventures of the boy clad in green, Link. The dungeons are expertly-designed with plenty of hidden secrets, dastardly traps and puzzles, and a living, breathing island full of loveable and interesting characters. The presentation from the simplistic graphics to the classic score is tremendous, and it's terrific to be able to save anywhere you want via the 3DS's save state feature. Link's Awakening DX is a must-have download for any 3DS owner with a proper online connection. If you're looking for a better 3DS download, let's face it-- you're dreaming.
[SuperPhillip Says: 9.5/10]
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) Limited Edition Bundle Announced
While we're on this Zelda kick, why not show off what Nintendo of America unveiled yesterday? It's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Limited Edition bundle. What is bundled with this edition is a gold Wii Remote Plus with jacket, a 25th anniversary concert soundtrack CD (of performances to be held in October), and the game itself all for the price of $69.99. Click the image below for an expanded version. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword soars onto the Wii November 20th.
Monday, August 29, 2011
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) Review
We're approaching the end of August, but I have in store some more reviews in the meantime. Let's start the work week off with the review of the biggest Nintendo 3DS title yet. It may be a remake, but it's the remake of one of the best games of all time in this reviewer's opinion. It is none other than The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.
One of the best games of all time just got a bit better.
In 1998 The Legend of Zelda series entered a new dimension-- three-dimensions. It perfected targeting in a 3D space, used a superior camera, had memorable characters, superb dungeon design, and revolutionized the gaming industry, garnering numerous Game of the Year 1998 awards and is seen on numerous Best Game of All Time lists. Fast-forward to 2011 and now The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time goes full circle-- this time in glasses-less 3D with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Does this epic adventure still hold up, approximately thirteen years later?
Players don the green tunic of a young forest boy named Link. With orders by the Great Deku Tree, the lifeblood of Kokiri Forest, his home, the tree assigns Navi, a helpful fairy, to the formerly fairy-less lad. Obtaining a shield and sword, Link goes to see the Deku Tree once he is summoned. It appears that a man from the Gerudo Desert (a place where one man is born every 100 years) placed a curse on the Deku Tree, and it's Link's duty as the fabled Hero of Time to go inside the tree, take out the source of the curse, and save the day. After taking out the root of the curse, the Deku Tree withers away, but not before assigning Link a new task. It is up to the young hero to go to Hyrule Castle where guards patrol, sneak through, and meet up with Princess Zelda who warns him of the nefarious and sinister Ganondorf. The evil man wishes to enter the Sacred Realm. Only by collecting three spiritual stones to open the way up to the Temple of Time where the Master Sword sleeps will Link and Zelda be able to put a stop to Ganondorf's plans. Or so they think... The story is told through silent text and in-game cutscenes full of wonderful and dynamic camera angles. By the time Link collects all three spiritual stones, the player might think the game is near over, but you're not even halfway done.
Link, with trusty steed, Epona, ride across Hyrule Field.
Link pulls out the legendary Master Sword and gets transported seven years into the future where he is a full-fledged adult. Hyrule Castle Town which was once a happy-go-lucky and peaceful place is now littered with ghastly zombie-like creatures known as Redeads. Ganondorf has turned the once lovely land of Hyrule into Hell on earth. Armed with the Ocarina of Time, an instrument tossed out into the castle moat by a desperate Zelda who retreated from Hyrule Castle, being chased and pursued by the villainous Ganondorf, Link must now collect six Sage Medallions to open the way to Ganon's Castle, summon up the courage to take the foe down, and restore peace and order to the war-torn Hyrule.
The structure of Ocarina of Time allows Link to fully explore the sprawling land of Hyrule. Hyrule Field is the central hub that connects all of the towns and notable places such as Lake Hylia, the Gerudo Desert, and Zora's Domain. Through talking with the various non-playable characters and help solving their problems, the player will eventually have the way open to a dungeon, where the real action takes place. More on those later.
The targeting system allows the player to lock-on to a person or enemy and have the camera thus lock-on to the target by holding or tapping on the left shoulder button (the right shoulder button serves as Link's shield). Link can then sidestep around the target, allowing for encounters of the epic kind. This is all thanks to his fairy companion, Navi. If players get stumped on an enemy's weakness, they can tap the Navi icon on the bottom screen to get a helpful hint. Navi will also give Link knowledge on what to do next occasionally, and it is beneficial for new players as it is easy to get lost in the large land of Hyrule. There's plenty of things to do, enemies to encounter, and items to obtain. The touch screen is also how players can swiftly shift between items. This time around players can assign items to four different places: the Y and X buttons and the I and II buttons on the touch screen. This makes shifting between putting on and off the Iron Boots in the Water Temple much less of a hassle.
The targeting system allows for the
camera to be centered on the action in battle.
Speaking of items and weaponry, there's a bounty to collect in Ocarina of Time. The Ocarina of Time itself can perform a host of things like turning day to night and vice versa, calling Epona the horse for Adult Link to ride across Hyrule Field once it has been rescued, transport Link across Hyrule to set locations, and unlock and open secret doors, among many other uses. Playing the correct songs is key, and it's simpler than ever. This time around with the Nintendo 3DS remake, you can open up the Ocarina menu by tapping the touch screen, and either pressing the correct sequence of buttons to perform a song or tapping the touch screen with the stylus. You can even look up memorized songs and they will be listed, so you, the player, won't have to memorize them yourself.
There's a dozen or so songs to learn--
each giving Link new powers and abilities.
Besides the Ocarina of Time, there's a whole slew of items to collect. Each dungeon has a secret treasure to collect which makes finishing said dungeon possible. For instance the Deku Tree's treasure is the Fairy Slingshot which players can enter a first-person viewpoint to aim either with the analog stick or with the 3DS's gyro sensor (or a combination of both). Young Link cannot use all the items that Adult Link uses (such as the Hero's Bow and Hookshot) whereas Adult Link cannot use all the items that Young Link uses (like the Fairy Slingshot). Thanks to the control options available, it's never been easier to aim the Hookshot, Hero's Bow, and Fairy Slingshot.
Apart from mandatory items, there's a lot of bonus and optional items to grab. For instance well-hidden in the most secret spots of Hyrule are Heart Containers. Collecting four pieces earns Link an additional heart to add to his health counter. These are earned through playing mini-games such as shooting ranges, collected in hard-to-find or hard-to-reach areas, or found through helping out certain citizens of Hyrule. There's also four bottles to gather. These can house anything from fish to health-restoring faeries and potions. Additionally, there is a trading sequence which has Link madly dashing around Hyrule to earn the best sword in the game. Without it needing to be said, if it's optional content you want, Ocarina of Time delivers in spades.
When you're not exploring the land of Hyrule, visiting the denizens, you'll be neck-deep in the deep, dark, and dank dungeons. The dungeons themselves are expertly-crafted, full of secrets and puzzles. There's standard block-pushing puzzles, but there's also more fiendishly-designed ones, too. There's rooms where Link must properly use the items in his inventory to open locked doors, hit switches in the correct order, lower and raise the water level in a dungeon, move mirrors around to redirect sunlight, and collect silver rupees to open doors-- among other tasks. In the approximately eight or so main dungeons of the game (there's also numerous miniature dungeons like the Bottom of the Well and the Ice Cavern), Link must collect small keys, big keys, and items to advance. Thankfully there's help. Inside every dungeon is a map and compass which can be accessed via the touch screen. The map shows every room on every floor of the dungeon, showing which rooms Link has already visited. The compass, meanwhile, shows the locations of all treasures including keys, rupees (the monetary system of Hyrule), and other goodies. Each dungeon has a mini-boss to contend with and a final boss which is usually defeated by using the dungeon's treasure against it, conveniently enough. While one boss has you carefully reflecting its shots back at it with your sword, another has you smashing it over the head with a hammer as it rears its ugly head out of one of various holes.
This puzzle requires Link to use the
Lens of Truth to find the correct solution.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D isn't just the original game remade in 3D with updated visuals. No, no. New content was added. The main attraction here is the ability to replay through the game in the Master Quest. This mode features new puzzles, room arrangements, a mirrored world, and Link takes double damage. Unfortunately players must first beat the original quest to unlock it which may put some people off. Additionally inside Link's Kokiri Forest home, there's a billboard that allows Link to face off against previously-beaten bosses in a boss rush-like mode. If players do not know where to turn to next, certain Gossip Stones can be crawled into where videos will show what to do next as well as show certain hidden secrets. Thus, there's plenty of extras to make this forty dollar game worth it.
Playing the Nintendo 64 original now is a bit difficult after playing the revised 3DS remake. First of all, the N64 original was plagued with slowdown in various parts of the game. This is not the case with the remake. The enhanced graphics look sharp and detailed. Link's model is particularly grand and eye-pleasing. The textures have been upgraded, and they look fantastic, too. The 3D itself is pretty amazing when the player can get the viewing angle just right. Otherwise it gets quite blurry. Sound-wise, everything pretty much remains unchanged. There is one orchestrated piece at the end of the game, however, and it sounds magnificent. Overall, the visual bump added to Ocarina of Time 3D is quite impressive.
The Spirit Temple has Link traveling through time
as both a boy and as an adult to truly divulge its secrets.
Depending on how many times you've played Ocarina of Time, how much of a fan you are of the game, or how long it has been since you've played the game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D may be a worthwhile purchase. For me, the added bonus content and upgraded visuals made owning this game worth it. It is without a doubt the definitive version. The added bonuses such as the extra-challenging Master Quest and boss rush modes makes for many satisfying hours of sword-swinging and boss-busting. To put it simply and eloquently as said in the headline, one of the best games of all time just got a bit better.
[SuperPhillip Says: 10/10]
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Star Fox 64 3D (3DS) North American Commercial
After a week off, it's back to business here at SuperPhillip Central. To kick off the week, we have the North American advertisement for Star Fox 64 3D for the Nintendo 3DS which is getting a September 9th release date. This particular commercial shows off the local multiplayer action the game possesses. Unfortunately, and for whatever silly reason, there is no online play.
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Tamoxifen promotes differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitors in vitro.
The most promising therapeutic approach to finding the cure for devastating demyelinating conditions is the identification of clinically safe pharmacological agents that can promote differentiation of endogenous oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). Here we show that the breast cancer medication tamoxifen (TMX), with well-documented clinical safety and confirmed beneficial effects in various models of demyelinating conditions, stimulates differentiation of rat glial progenitors to mature oligodendrocytes in vitro. Clinically applicable doses of TMX significantly increased both the number of CNPase-positive oligodendrocytes and protein levels of myelin basic protein, measured with Western blots. Furthermore, we also found that OPC differentiation was stimulated, not only by the pro-drug TMX-citrate (TMXC), but also by two main TMX metabolites, 4-hydroxy-TMX and endoxifen. Differentiating effects of TMXC and its metabolites were completely abolished in the presence of estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist, ICI182780. In contrast to TMXC and 4-hydroxy-TMX, endoxifen also induced astrogliogenesis, but independent of the ER activation. In sum, we showed that the TMX prodrug and its two main metabolites (4-hydroxy-TMX and endoxifen) promote ER-dependent oligodendrogenesis in vitro, not reported before. Given that differentiating effects of TMX were achieved with clinically safe doses, TMX is likely one of the most promising FDA-approved drugs for the possible treatment of demyelinating diseases. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '73f9a3079d4dd1855a0e2b6b7aeb757815274a0650b398f1590aa21802ec9c0d'} |
Interaction between yeast eukaryotic initiation factor eIF4E and mRNA 5' cap analogues differs from that for murine eIF4E.
Measurements of interaction of 7-methyl-GTP eIF4E from S. cerevisiae were performed by means of two methods: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) and fluorescence titration. The equilibrium association constants (Kas) derived from the two methods show significantly different affinity of yeast eIF4E for the mRNA 5' cap than those of the murine and human proteins. The observed differences in the Kas values and the enthalpy changes of the association (deltaH(o)) suggest some dissimilarity in the mode of binding and stabilization of cap in the complexes with eIF4E from various sources. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5f423d6437c015b90839d9d2249339c7ee1df404dbf619ce34a906b107d470b6'} |
WARS: Battle of Phobos Illustrated Novella Series Coming this Summer!
This Summer, Grail Quest Books will unveil the first three installments of its WARS: The Battle of Phobos novella series. The nine-part series (one trilogy per faction) will serve to introduce readers and WARS gamers to the depth and richness of Decipher’s Inc.’s WARS universe while also building on the gaming and short fiction canon already published.
The Battle of Phobos is one of the defining events of the WARS timeline. The incapacity of the three human factions–the Gongen, Earthers, and Mavericks–to get along comes to a head at the Mars’ moon in 2388. What these factions do not expect is how this broken relationship will be exploited by the appearance of a great rift in space-time.
“Our goal is to establish a group of characters, some of who will play an important future role in the resolution of the conflict in our solar system,” says Josh Radke, the Director of the novella series. “We chose this major event because the Shi and Quay are not yet a factor in the story to potentially overwhelm the reader. Afterall, the primary focus of the overall theme in WARS is the human struggle for a society that can best meet its maximum potential.”
The alluded to threat is that of the Shi and Quay, two alien races who suddenly find themselves in our Solar System via a rift in space created by the Shi–the event around which the gaming material and related short fiction (released in 2004-05) was based. In the WARS canon, the Battle of Phobos is labeled as “the largest battle in human history” and takes place about three years before the space rift appears.
Radke continues, “When considering just the human factions, WARS is unique in that defining ‘the good guys’ is not so simple. It is very close to the American Civil War–which had the North, South, and the law-light Wild West.” Luke Skywalker has the fascist Empire; Jack Bauer/Ryan has America’s enemies; Star Trek has Federation captains who represent the virtues of humanity; Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne have a pantheon of primary foes used by their creators to explore the various questions and motives of our society and the different way we approach them.
“But WARS does not fit so conveniently into these formulas, providing a vital uniqueness,” Radke observes. Afterall, its always easy to cheer for (Earth) humans when they are the focus or the heroes and villains are clearly defined. But what happens when all human parties involved are flawed and at the same time can make a claim at heroic status. So instead of “choose your own adventure”, WARS is naturally an environment for “choose your own side”.
Radke is excited about the implications of this fictional environment. “Dogfights and duels and sprawling battles are the priority in this vision of the 24th century–this is what readers should expect from a book titled ‘WARS’, and they will have their fill. However, those that want a bit more than just romping adventure will have that too. There is an opportunity for an interesting debate for those that wish to do so.”
Each faction’s book trilogy will be written to contain common elements of the overall story of the pivotal Battle of Phobos (and its lead-up events). This way if a reader is only interested in a specific faction then they will still get the whole story–albeit solely from that faction’s perspective–without being obligated to read the other factions’ novellas. The first round of novellas will detail events just weeks before the battle breaks out.
“The event that started it all–the nuclear meltdown in Asia–has always been under-represented in the WARS universe,” asserts Sean E. Williams, the authour of the Gongen volume. “Who were the people responsible? How did they handle the situation? How did they cope afterward? Similarly, how do [the eastern Asian descendants] handle the responsibility that has fallen on them?”
The Gongen novella will be two stories told in parallel: one focusing on Hijen Shijin, the brilliant mind behind Shocho–the artificial intelligence considered responsible for preventing the nuclear meltdown disaster from poisoning the whole planet. The other will follow his descendant over three centuries later, Orochito, as he attempts to navigate treason, conspiracy, and sabotage in his quest to evolve Shocho into an entity better able to defend the Gongen from its present enemies.
On the Earther side, XeLabs scientist, Thomason Grayger, was part of the ‘Shroud project’ (among other things). The initial failure of the Shroud tech, which led to individuals being trapped in invisibility, and XeLabs less than caring approach to helping those subjects, has led him to defect to the Mavericks. Unfortunately for Grayger, an unknown party has contacted Jylan Rathe, a ranking member of CISyn, about Grayger’s defection.
Rathe wants the Shroud prototype (and the subjects trapped wearing it) for his corporation and pulls strings to convince the Central Governance Corp (CGC) to help him. Thus XeLabs tasks its best officer, Captain Rogan Hallard of the Venusian Rangers, to get the technology back. The only way for any of the parties to achieve their goal will be to infiltrate a well-defended Maverick asteroid base–and none are prepared for events that follow, or how they will impact the coming hostilities.
“The novella is meant to begin introducing some of the complex themes of WARS, which is inherently filled with moral quandaries due to the differing motivations and views of the three [human] factions,” explains Earther authour, Nathan P. Butler. “In this case, the conflict is predominantly one of purpose through the arc of Rogan Hallard, a man whose background drives him to see himself as a servant and healer, while his profession and skill set as the Shadowsurfer’s captain makes him often one on the front lines.” Further Butler is looking forward to WARS fans “seeing characters they know become who they are by the time of the post-Rift conflict.”
Finally, there are the Mavericks; for Jim Perry: “it’s Deadwood in space. To me, the idiom that fits the Mavericks best is that of the Old West. Another idiom which suits Maverick culture,” Perry adds, “is that of the golden age of piracy. Their behavior, hooks for hands, pegs for legs and flamboyant physical decoration. Pirates were bold, loud, and liked to make an entrance.” Based on this, Jim’s character of choice, Jack Wilgress, may be something of an exception.
Jack and his gang, the Knaves, are commandeering a vessel filled with ship parts, power cells and weapons. As they are raiding the ship, a rival gang shows up. Killer Cait is angry that Jack beat her to this ship, a target she’s been eye-ing for some time. Jack agrees to meet with her at the Nest to discuss a deal, unwittingly setting up a date with destiny that will plunge Jack headlong into a building conflict he wants nothing to do with as well as the culture of Maverick “body tech-enhancement” he has (so far) managed to avoid.
All three novellas, scheduled for release starting this summer (and continuing through the year), are already available for pre-order. Each novella will be approximately 120 pages and will include ten full-colour art lithographs by artists featured in the card and roleplaying games. The novellas will initially be available through various online outlets upon release, and are expected to be available from at least one major bookseller chain by the end of the year.
Finally, for a limited time, customers who pre-order will receive an exclusive artist sketch card depicting a WARS character by Kat Laurange, Samantha Nowak, or Amanda Nix. Quantities are very limited, so don’t wait! (Sketch cards will be mailed with the pre-order shipment.)
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Currently I am using an external PDF image to get a color gradient provide in the margins. See the output below. I achieve this by using command \ULCornerWallPaper{1}{./pictures/wallpaper_1.pdf}
However, this method is very inefficient because importing the external picture every time results in a long compilation time. Is there a better way of doing it?
The gradient is only applied to some of the pages so it would be ideal if you provided me with a solution which I can include in \ULCornerWallPaper{1}{} so I can undo gradient after a while using command \ClearWallPaper.
Could I achieve this using tikz? I'm not very familiar with it, but it looks like a possible tool for solving my problem.
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You could have a look on tikz and the current page node. This allows you to attach tikz graphics to a page and shading is fairly easy in tikz. Look for example here – Benedikt Bauer Oct 2 '12 at 12:21
But i ll have to apply tikz picture for every single page. This is not an option. – 71GA Oct 2 '12 at 17:09
I tried using tikz and i have a problem because my gradient goes over my marginal notes and not below them. – 71GA Oct 2 '12 at 22:42
I think you can have a look to How to set colored ruled margins for different pages?: the answer automatically does not cover marginal notes and you can set the gradient easily. Notice that I think the background package allows you to choose the pages in which display the background. – Claudio Fiandrino Oct 3 '12 at 8:30
Pardon me, but the following quote just seemed appropriate. "...I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain." - Fermat :) – McGafter Mar 27 '13 at 9:10
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The solution below defines two alternative ways of drawing a coloured gradient in the margin background on a selection of pages:
1. Invoke the \conditionalmarginbg (which takes no argument) at the beginning of your document and then toggle the margin background on/off in your document by using the \startdrawmarginbg and \stopdrawmarginbg macros.
2. Invoke \marginbgpagelist at the beginning of your document; its only argument is a list of pages on which to draw a margin background. That list uses pgffor's \foreach syntax, so you can specify 10,...,20 to draw a margin back on pages 10 to 20.
In the example below, I used \conditionalmarginbg and, for visualisation, I emphasised (red, bold text) where \startdrawmarginbg and \stopdrawmarginbg are invoked.
• You'll need to run pdflatex no fewer than 3 times to get the correct output.
• I presume you need(ed) this for a book, so I didn't bother making my solution compatible with the oneside class option. It works fine with twoside, though.
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\usepackage{lipsum} % for filler text
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} % for setting the dimensions
contents = {},%
opacity = 1,%
scale = 1,
\usepackage{etoolbox} % defines the \ifnumodd macro
% Let's define some colours for this colour gradient
% a switch for toggling margin background on/off
% redefinition of \emph, just to show where
% my \startdrawmarginbg and \stopdrawmarginbg are invoked in the example
% ----- Two possible strategies -----
% --- \conditionalmarginbg ---
% Invoke the following macro at the beginning of the document and then
% use \startdrawmarginbg and \stopdrawmarginbg to toggle the margin background
% gradient on/off in the document.
% --- \marginbgpagelist ---
% Invoke the following macro at the beginning of the document.
% It's only (mandatory) argument is a list (using pgffor's \foreach syntax)
% corresponding to the pages on which a margin background gradient
% should be drawn.
\foreach \p in {#1}%
% ----- Auxiliary macros -----
% Auxiliary macro for both \conditionalmarginbg and \marginbgpagelist
% Auxiliary macro for \thispagemarginbg
(current page marginpar area.south west |- current page.south)%
(current page.north east)
(current page marginpar area.south east |- current page.south)%
(current page.north west)
\errmessage{Incompatible value supplied to \string\marginbgevenorodd}
\tikz[remember picture,overlay]
bottom color = outercolor,%
top color = innercolor,%
shading angle = \shadeangle,%
] \marginrectangle;%
% Use either...
% \marginbgpagelist{2,3,...,4}
% or...
\emph{A margin background gradient is drawn from this page onwards.}
\emph{No margin background gradient is drawn from this page onwards.}
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I will provide a solution which draws the gradient using MetaFun. It's drawn on the page layer, which means it is located underneath the text elements and margin notes. You can also use leftpage or rightpage to include different backgrounds on even and odd pages.
Since MetaPost is much faster than TikZ or including external figures you don't have worry about the compilation times. The uniqueMPgraphic ensures that the graphic is computed only once and reused. This enables to draw 1000 pages with gradient background in about 2.5s (on my machine).
The location is customisable via the option gradientmargin. Here's a complete example using ConTeXt.
\setuplayout [width=13cm]
path p;
p := OverlayBox leftenlarged -\framedparameter{gradientmargin};
linear_shade(p, 0, white, OverlayColor);
setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox OverlayBox;
\dorecurse{10}{\input knuth}
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Family tackles miles of tough road
Dayton Hayward doesn't sweat the small stuff.
The 15-year-old can't afford to, not with a lifetime of goals in mind and a limited time to accomplish them. Dayton has cerebral palsy, but instead of thinking about what he can't do, Dayton thinks about what he can.
On Saturday, Dayton added an iron man distance triathlon to the can-do list with help from his mom and family friend. The team of three completed the Expedition Man Endurance Festival and Ultra-Distance Triathlon that began at Zephyr Cove Resort and ended at the Sparks Marina.
Together, in about 17 hours, they pounded out 142 miles of race that was paved by unyielding determination, unconditional support and a refusal to fail.
"We were not going to quit. We were going to finish the race even if everyone went home," Dayton's mom, Sherrine Hayward said. "This was not about us. This was about Dayton."
It starts with a swim
The frigid waters of Lake Tahoe were actually a welcome relief for Hayward and family friend Tasha Adams as they slipped in around 6 a.m. The two women were used to training in the toasty 90-degree waters back home in Gilbert, Ariz., while wearing wet suits. The cold water was a nice change.
They wore belts around their waists so they could attach Dayton's raft and take turns pulling him along the 2.4-mile swim at Zephyr.
As dawn approached, the three set out on the first leg of their journey. It was going to be a long day, but tough was nothing new.
"Dayton's life has been tough," Hayward said. "It's just been tough. So why not just keep going tough?"
Without a doubt, Dayton was dealt a tough hand. He has cerebral palsy, a seizure disorder and a visual impairment. Doctors gave him two months to live when he was born, but much like now, Dayton had other plans.
Although he can't talk, Dayton understands everything going on around him and blinks to communicate.
"He knew about triathlons but he didn't know how far an iron man was," Hayward said. "We started talking to him about it and asked him if he wanted to do it and if he could sit that long. He blinked. Blink, blink, blink - that means yes."
Now came the matter of finding an iron-distance triathlon that would accept them. Hayward started looking, but because of Dayton's young age and medical condition, she was met with rejection.
It was an easy way out, but Hayward didn't take it.
"I have never given up with Dayton. There's always a different avenue to take. When it's one of your children, and it's something you feel is important to them or that they would benefit from, then a 'no' doesn't mean there's not a different way," she said. "So I think I would have kept trying until I found somebody, somewhere who accepted him."
That someone turned out to be Expedition Man race director Ryan Kolodge, who spent the better part of a year slapping rejection in the face as he put together his first iron man distance triathlon.
"If people would have turned me down I wouldn't be where I am today," Kolodge said. "People at least need to be given a chance, an opportunity. Why deny this kid?"
Why indeed, because Dayton is just a kid who loves being outside, and like most boys his age, loves things that go fast.
"He loves roller coasters. He loves the wind in his face," Hayward said.
Riding against the wind
Dayton wore a huge grin as the wind whipped against his face on the downhill ride into Carson City. Downhill was the easy part.
Before the coasting was a grueling 8.7-mile climb to Carson Pass. The women switched off pulling Dayton behind them. The combined weight of Dayton and the cart was 125 pounds, but believe it or not the toughest part was yet to come.
Once the team reached Washoe County, the valley unleashed its windy fury as the women tried to pedal over the hills.
"The wind was pushing the cart backward," Hayward said. "We were only going 10 miles an hour down in that valley and that was a little bit discouraging, but when one of us was pulling the other was encouraging."
Their families met them along the way, acting as pit crew every 28 miles as the women switched off. It was the same family support system that got them through training in the first place.
With five and four kids respectively, Hayward and Adams still managed to train three hours per day, six days per week. This usually meant starting at 4 a.m. so they could get the kids to school by 7 a.m.
When Dayton couldn't train with them, the women would simulate his weight with 71 pounds of water in whatever they were pulling or pushing.
"Our team name is 71 Soul because he's 71 pounds and it takes a whole lot of soul to do the iron man," Hayward said.
We push together
It was getting dark as the three entered the final stage of the journey, a 26-mile run to Sparks Marina. Running was their favorite part, not just because it was their strength, but also because they could push together. The run also gave them a chance to talk to Dayton since he was right in front of them.
The majority of racers had long since finished, but the team pushed on into the gathering darkness hoping to finish before midnight. As the sun disappeared completely, two women in a golf cart appeared to light the final miles.
"I have no idea who they were," Hayward said, "but they helped us see once the lights were out."
The Haywards have always seemed to find a way through the dark, and as for Dayton, he became an iron man the day he beat his two-month life expectancy. The team finished 15 minutes before the midnight deadline, and was met by a barrage of friends and family. The real prize, however, was already won miles before the finish line.
"When we're all through and our days are done, I will look back and just be happy for what we've given each other. He gave me a totally different perspective on life. Little things are not as important. It doesn't matter what you look like. It doesn't matter what you wear or how much you make," Hayward said. "Being able to hold your head up is important. Being able to breathe on your own, being able to smile at someone - that's important."
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