text
stringlengths 3
7.38M
| source_data
stringclasses 5
values | info
stringlengths 83
12.5k
|
|---|---|---|
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Up The Mountain With Friends
A gurgling river, sparkling like silver, rushes underneath the bridge. The mountain is lush and green, and a path has been cut through it, extending into heaven and perhaps beyond. The same road, a few hours into the future, can be seen in the distance, wrapping itself around the mountain in a fond embrace.
Seven children stand at the beginning of the road, with heavy bags on their shoulders and warm cloaks over their bodies. One lad, who has been this way before, stands in front of the rest and talks of the adventures which lie ahead of them. A few chocolates come out of a hidden pocket, and he offers these to the rest. Only the girl with curly black hair refuses to accept the treat. Another girl promises to eat her chocolate soon; the others swallow theirs eagerly.
They begin their trip, with smiles in their eyes and songs on their lips - songs set to the beat of their hearts. The climb is steep and soon their tongues are dry. The two lads who trail the group are filled with doubt. What lies ahead? Exactly how much adventure can we have, so that it can be termed an adequate amount?
One of these lads, bespectacled and slim, trails the group with a book in hand. He carries it as a jewel, afraid of losing it, and within it, his thoughts. The curly-haired girl and a boy with a cap too large for his head walk in front of him. The boy plods through the path, stumbling across small streams and rocks, shouting out to the people who walk ahead of him. He is in the mood for an adventure, and he is letting everyone know.
Suddenly he sees an elf. The elf crawls over the rocks, and jumps across streams - which appear to him as almighty rivers. This amuses the children, who stop to catch a glimpse of the violet mountains. The sun is overhead, throwing its golden rays at large blue butterflies. Blue wings flutter vigorously in the cool misty air, and carry their dainty bodies easily across the rocks.
The mountain now looks like a game: it resembles a puzzle, but no one quite knows what the puzzle is about.
"This is a land where people only walk up the hill, and no one goes back," cries the lad with the oversized cap.
"It is so beautiful!" says the elf from atop a high rock.
The girl who promised to take her chocolate soon looks pensive; perhaps she feels left out? She stares into the kaleidoscopic abyss. The tall lad, wrapped in an earthy shawl, stands away from the rest of the group, seeking silence in the mountain's intrinsic sounds. The boy wearing glasses scribbles furiously in his notebook, but he doesn't know what he writes.
They walk along the edge of the mountain, but the children are not afraid. It is because they don't look down. They don't fear that which may not exist. At every turn, a path opens up in front of them. They rush eagerly to the edge of the mountain, and just when they are about to reach the corner, the path bends and escapes their clutches. The mountain changes hue and voice - first it is violet, then orange, suddenly blue and finally red.
The air thins. The leader of the group stops to rest. He seems to know the path well. He stares animatedly at the most inane objects. There is so much to see! Everything is vivid, vibrant and tangible. Even the air appears in a cool blue tinge. But when they stop to meditate upon what they see, the children realize that they do not see anything in particular.
By focussing upon any one object in their fields of vision, they lose sight of everything else, and therefore lose the moment.
"The moment is part of the picture," cry one of the boys. "You cannot take a picture of this even a moment from now. It has to be now. Or it never will be."
This puts everybody in a deeply contemplative mood. A few faces look sad. The boy who trails continues to write: "What am I if I cannot document?" he writes. He realizes that his scribbling disturbs him, but he cannot help himself. He is trapped by his own enterprise.
The air is thin now, and shrubs gave way to grey stone. The mountain has turned hostile. "We must not rest now; it will soon be dark!" says the leader.
"Do not cease to climb until the slope levels," says one of the girls.
"If I climb this hill alone and no one sees me climb, do I really climb it? What proof do I have that I have climbed it?"
The children are going mad. It is becoming cold; the sun fades in the west behind grey hills which are tinged with orange. The climb is nearly over, or so they have been told.
"There is a hot spring at the end of all this," says the boy in the shawl to the elf.
"Is there really?"
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Paint, Blood and The End
I prefer the setting sun, when the clock nears the end
To the rising one, full of uncertain promise,
When you don't know the beginning from the middle;
Where the day will go, you are unaware.
The setting sun is a symbol of everything good
In a world where nothing is certain;
Because promises are lies, and embellished truths,
Realized only by coincidence.
I prefer the void of leaving someone
To the impatient beginning of relationships
When people are full of energy and trust,
When all there is can be lost forever.
I prefer painful, heartfelt words
To poems that will render me happy.
For there is truth in only one of them,
And poems can easily be taken away.
I am yet to meet a malevolent person,
Which is why there isn't, I am certain,
The need to doubt the intentions of a man
Who leaves you bloodied and brutalized.
I prefer sweat and blood to conditioned hair,
Wrinkled skin to the pale white cream,
Ignorant men to the preachers of this world;
I want your face, not your mask.
The closure in the evening West
Makes the day worth living again;
Misery will end and so will happiness,
And you will fall asleep to wake up again.
Endings are more glorious than the start,
Because there is closure in the finishing line.
There are no chasms, there are no peaks,
There is the end and nothing else.
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
An Insufficient Democracy - The Defense of Arvind Kejriwal
The way people have been swayed over a period of two weeks is nothing short of unbelievable. Around the time of Christmas, AK was still being hailed as a messiah from the heavens, as a savior of the common-man, as the last bastion against corruption - he was almost called the son of God. Today, he is nearly a criminal: he is a fool whose understanding of politics and its nuances is worse than those who sit in their armchairs and spew venom on him.
"Delhi ka CM pagal hai", "He is an anarchist", "He is the Item-Girl of Indian Politics" - I don't think anyone in the recent past has been showered with as many vivid adjectives during such a short period of time. As the anarchist staged a dharna on the roads of Delhi, people fumed and cried foul. During the days preceding AAP's great run to victory, protests identical to this had become synonymous with the name 'Arvind Kejriwal'; they did, by no small measure, influence the outcome of the 2013 elections.
People criticized him even during those days, and they are right to carry on in the same vein for nothing has changed with Arvind Kejriwal. But why are his own supporters up in arms? What has changed now that the very same dharna has become unacceptable? Did the voters of Delhi bring AAP into power hoping that the Aam Aadmi Party would change its colours and become another Congress or a BJP? When you vote for a zealot, you will get a zealot - not a tame country mouse.
"Why did you not stage a dharna when a child was found abandoned in a rubbish heap a few weeks ago? Why are you silent, Kejriwal?" challenged a man who claims to be the Voice of India. Suddenly, the various times AK had not staged dharnas became important to people. Arvind Kejriwal was using these cheap tactics only to further his Lok Sabha ambitions. Everyone had something to say about the wolf in common man's clothing.
When Delhi voted the AAP into an unprecedented second place, I was shocked like many others. Here was a man with absolutely no history in governance, and people had trusted him to go all the way in the capital of the country. Kejriwal, since the beginning, has maintained that his one goal in life is to eradicate corruption. To hand over the reins of a large city to such a man was always a risky prospect - but Democracy allows people to make such choices. And people made that choice when they undertook the risk: corruption had quite clearly leeched its way into their very bones and they took a leap of faith.
Today, Kejriwal defends the same promises that he made. He may be a fool, but he is not a hypocrite. This characteristic of his makes for a strange politician. Democracy doesn't support such men who walk their talk. Democracy is at its best when it does nothing; when people are lulled into a sense of security, they absolutely love their leaders. People may appreciate the talk, but they are averse to actions. In the great average that such a political system creates, a man with ideas stands out like a clown in rainbow clothing.
I am certain that an intelligent man in the CM's chair will not hold protests in Delhi's cold streets if he was able to solve his troubles sitting at home. Clearly unable to effect change from his chair, he came down to the roads in order to utilize the only method he seems to know. Whether this is right or wrong is debatable, but the people who voted him into power shouldn't really have a problem with it. He is, after all, only trying to deliver on his promises.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-
-For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men-
-Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man. - Mark Antony, "Julius Caesar" - William Shakespaere
"But Arvind Kejriwal is an honourable man" - I cannot help but draw parallels. The above speech ended with the words - "Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt". When everyone says the same thing again and again, even if it is untrue, it will become fact.
Dialogue and opinions are an integral part of democracy. Everyone has the right to voice his or her views, but with media shouting its 'news' into peoples' ears, the aam aadmi no longer knows what to do. We must remember that the aam aadmi is one who laughs at Kumar Vishwas' racist and sexist humour; surely, such a man cannot hold his own opinions when he's being pummeled into submission by might of the Voice of India.
Arvind Kejriwal's goal is not in question; if his means to the goal weren't a problem to you before, it shouldn't bother you now. The vigilantes among his comical assembly of politicians have much to learn, but having brought a party into power, it makes sense to give them some time. Perhaps an insensitive haasya-kavi and a reckless Law Minister will go some way in eliminating corruption: two weeks is too small a period to develop opinions about anybody!
Most importantly, let us realize why we praise or criticize anybody. In this market of voices, we develop meaningless opinions in the hope that we get heard.
P.S. Every single person I know wishes for a corruption free India in which they alone can pay a small bribe and get their work done.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '150', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.973962128162384}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '155013', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WAAC5CYUAFMOCJIWELV25HHLA7HJTWEJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6a56c366-770e-4c82-abc1-8edf51eebc6f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 20, 4, 20, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.228.43', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZY6D4F2Y3AFJUJXSGGRPHHBGYUJJZX4W', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:83a72224-04ce-498a-ab4c-f8759531d8cb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://konfessionsofageenius.blogspot.com/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b4472b35-f325-4d61-a077-7ff389de3925>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '2241', 'url': 'http://konfessionsofageenius.blogspot.com/', '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': '0.037002623081207275', 'original_id': '853fdb6b0da00f17c5adb986dc9877eb2ed7292b657908ee06ff1179d02d6bcf'}
|
LAHORE - The Sunday makeshift markets, which are popular for their affordable rates, have now become out of commoners reach, as the prices of all vegetables are increasing constantly. The City district government is taking no step to bring down the spiralling prices, however it blames the torrential rains in Sindh and low arrival of vegetables from Punjab districts for inflationary trend in veggies. Prices of veggies and fruits have skyrocketed beyond the reach of the common man, as the arrival of seasonal vegetables have come down drastically, leaving the public with no other choice but to restrict themselves to a few vegetables like brinjal, potato and cabbage. Not just the expensive peas, beans and capsicum, but the relatively affordable tomatoes, onion and potatoes, drumstick and turnip the basic ingredients in most local dishes are no more within the reach of a majority of people. The price of onion in the weekly bazaars of the provincial capital is continuously increasing as it has gone up to Rs40 per kg from Rs30 within period of one week while tomato rates are hovering around Rs60 to Rs70 there. A turnip which was selling at just Rs10 or Rs15 is now of Rs40-50 per kg. The price of tomato is now hovering around Rs60-70 a kg at makeshift bazaar. It was just Rs15-20 just one month back. Bottle gourd that cost Rs20 some weeks ago is now being sold for Rs80; ridge gourd, which is usually Rs20-25 a kg, is now sold at Rs60-80 a kg. Even a bundle of coriander is not less than Rs20 in cheaper markets. Brinjal, which normally sells for Rs10-15 per kg, now costs more than Rs25. Several vegetables are nowhere to be seen; if they are available in little quantity they are being sold for high prices as against their normal rates. Cucumber is being sold for Rs50-70 against Rs20-25 per kg. Beans that were sold at Rs100 per kg, while the price of capsicum has doubled and is now sold for Rs120. Even Keera is sold for Rs 25-30 as kg as against the usual price of Rs10-15 a kg all recording a price jump of more than 100 per cent. The officials say that the arrivals of vegetables have come down from their usual supply mainly due to floods. They further said they had prepared plans to ensure vegetables at cheaper rates but, due to damage of crops like leafy vegetables, cucumber and bottle gourd, the prices of other vegetables are also soaring.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9744754433631896}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '83263', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FA7T4HE2JBZJRF74ZMPJEYL2LNDCVXRX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2cceb743-c76d-4163-8446-d6c4c72d7d6d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 19, 21, 16, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '94.130.90.114', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MUUXU6GJO43RFAWMTD5GH57TMQYC2TNC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fb135942-f558-4384-9d20-fd250edb11b3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://staging.nation.com.pk/17-Oct-2011/no-afordable-prices', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:63fea88c-6569-481a-a605-3a375af79bc8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '417', 'url': 'https://staging.nation.com.pk/17-Oct-2011/no-afordable-prices', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-97.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04044598340988159', 'original_id': '1a464e329f8410436f06e4c419215debccc18880eedb9711c88c0b99b433f7e3'}
|
Have you ever wondered how to bring both theory and practice into your simulation? We are currently consulting with one of our clients to create a simulation with video clips from two different mentors: one is a clinical researcher in a specific therapeutic area and the other is a primary care physician with experience diagnosing and treating patients in that therapeutic area.
This strategy involves creating a unique voice for each mentor. For this simulation, one mentor takes the “Voice of Knowledge.” In this role, the clinical researcher steps into the simulation at key moments to provide relevant research informing best practice. Using short video interview excerpts, the Voice of Knowledge mentor provides just in time information as learners diagnose and treat their fictional patient.
The primary care physician assumes the “Voice of Practice.” His (or her) role is to translate the research into practical application while caring for patients. Since the learners for this simulation are also primary care providers, the Voice of Practice mentor is the primary mentor in the simulation. So, we see him more often in the simulation. Through video clips, this mentor greets the learners and orients them to the simulation and their patient, and guides them through their decision-making process. The goal here is to help learners identify how they can implement the research information into their practice.
Of course, we don’t tell learners that there is a Voice of Practice or a Voice of Knowledge. However, we use these labels as we design the simulation to help clarify and communicate the different roles of each mentor. This characterization helps us determine when to insert the different mentors, and how to coach subject matter experts on what to discuss in their video clips. It also helps us write dialogue. For example, we use a different tone (or voice) when writing dialogue for the mentors. The Voice of Knowledge has a more formal and academic tone. This narrator answers the question, “What is the latest research about this condition?” Whereas, the Voice of Practice has a more familiar tone that translates theoretical content into the everyday actions common in a healthcare setting. The Voice of Practice answers the question, “How can I use this information while caring for my patients?”
How could you create two different mentor voices in your simulations?
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9345780611038208}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14449', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2IR4EK6G5ROQM5RSZQNLW7DFLHG54XXQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d09aaa34-1bda-46a6-8ce1-3075c925b66e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 24, 6, 15, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.156.217.124', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YBJRE2AP5BXL2PO4UNNYUAOUSFSQ4TD2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9713b04b-bb9c-400c-94d4-fab24ff99b04>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.kynectiv.com/blog/bridging-theory-practice-integrating-perspectives', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:daa5c265-6aff-428b-a947-e43ce139054b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '380', 'url': 'https://www.kynectiv.com/blog/bridging-theory-practice-integrating-perspectives', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-129.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.024373531341552734', 'original_id': '20cade6b6ea310e85c6327a264781b5092c2922c236f52ab364e06c883f23853'}
|
Tag Archive for weight loss plan
Most Successful Weight Management Plan
The Most Successful Weight Management Plan Ever!
Yoga For Weight ManagementReducing weight can be a tough procedure, particularly if you have a great deal of weight to lose. After attempting a variety of programs, and reading books and watching videos to slim down, eventually you’ll choose or discover your own methods to keep the weight down. Here are a few suggestions you can carry out in your life to keep your weight off and have the most successful weight management plan ever.
Weight-loss is both a diet plan and workout, so do not forget to do both. If you attempt to drop weight by using a diet plan alone, your body still may not look fantastic because of an absence of muscles. On the other hand, just working out without altering diet plan may not a person burn off enough calories to drop any of your weight.
To reduce weight, you should train yourself to consume less. There are many temptations to consume almost everything you see. Signboards and advertisements, are all around us. They are developed to make you feel like you are starving. The secret to managing the temptation is to pay attention to the hints from your body, informing you when your stomach is not hungry. Just consume when you are really requiring nourishment and just consume enough to please that requirement for more food.
Eating natural fruit is a terrific way to obtain your sweet tooth repair without undoing your diet plan. Most fruits are full of terrific vitamins, and is not excessively filled with damaging calories that will trigger weight gain.
Consume breakfast every day to help you to lose weight. In general, individuals who eat breakfast do not weigh as much as those who do not eat breakfast. Since you have actually not had anything to eat before you went to sleep, by early morning your body has actually went into a fasting mode. Breakfast breaks that cycle and keeps your metabolic process stabilized. If you go another 4 or more hours without eating, your body starts to go into hunger mode and you are far more likely to over eat on high-calorie treats or over sized lunch.
Some weight reduction plans ought to be gone with much caution. Frequently, individuals discover after a little time that they can not do a crash diet or it does not make it into their lifestyle. It is best to try weight reduction as a complete body make over than simply a short-term option.
Eat Healthy Meals
Successful weight management plan.
Do not avoid meals. Avoiding meals is among the worst things anybody aiming to drop weight can make. Avoiding meals just denies your body of valuable energy it could be utilizing to exercise, it also plays around your metabolic process. Instead of avoiding meals, try healthy ones loaded with healthy ingredients.
Keep your alcohol consumption way down or don’t drink alcohol at all specifically in the very first couple of weeks of your weight loss plan and workout program for best outcomes. Alcohol hinders and reduces your metabolic process, in addition to being high in calories. These calories do not have dietary worth and are referred to as empty calories.
These ideas will assist you to help start your the most successful weight management plan you have ever tried. Find which ones fit you and your way of life, and never stop trying to find methods to keep yourself trim. As soon as you discover the details that works best for you, you will discover that dropping weight does not need to be that tough of a thing to do.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9570373296737672}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28420', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6XXTYFLWCERGJHLRWBWWKVB4BFMNAG6U', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:422344c8-f79c-4912-9c9c-9a0d7464cc23>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 11, 18, 10, 56, 47), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.201.146.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:E4Q5ASEDN6JSUK7PNCHRCMSNJ2RLKUAU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f30ec805-0ad7-4bd8-ac9b-3bd26ddb63c6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://nervehealthsupport.com/tag/weight-loss-plan/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e15a5b6a-9040-4866-a537-e5e12fb68f38>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '607', 'url': 'http://nervehealthsupport.com/tag/weight-loss-plan/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-184-173.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.028022050857543945', 'original_id': '6a2ed2aabc0f8b36410787ed95649cf8ede3dee7fe762b6773b4a50d5bd5368b'}
|
Q:
How to find if a function is inbuilt function or user-defined
Lets say if I have a function a. I would like to know if its inbuilt function or a function defined by the user.
I have tried checking if a.toString() has [native code] in it but user-defined functions which have the substring [native code] would fail. Is there any better way of doing this?
A:
So, here some code to check:
var rgx = /\[native code\]\s*\}\s*$/;
function some(){
'[native code]'
}
console.log(
rgx.test(print.toString()),
rgx.test(some.toString())
);
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '14a0f778938cb155c54e63bb5234fc65995c0871af141bd5c98677e3f2942542'}
|
Gintang ang Val Mora, Passo sa Italya, sa ibabaw sa utlanan sa Swisa. Nahimutang ni sa lalawigan sa Provincia di Sondrio ug rehiyon sa Lombardia, sa amihanang bahin sa nasod, km sa amihanan sa Rome ang ulohan sa nasod. metros ibabaw sa dagat kahaboga ang nahimutangan sa Val Mora, Passo.
Ang yuta palibot sa Val Mora, Passo kay kabukiran sa sidlakan, apan sa kasadpan nga kini mao ang kabungtoran. Ang kinahabogang dapit sa palibot dunay gihabogon nga ka metro ug km sa sidlakan sa Val Mora, Passo. Dunay mga ka tawo kada kilometro kwadrado sa palibot sa Val Mora, Passo may gamay nga populasyon. Ang kinadul-ang mas dakong lungsod mao ang Livigno, km sa kasadpan sa Val Mora, Passo. Hapit nalukop sa kasagbotan ang palibot sa Val Mora, Passo. Sa rehiyon palibot sa Val Mora, Passo, kabukiran talagsaon komon.
Ang klima tundra. Ang kasarangang giiniton °C. Ang kinainitan nga bulan Hulyo, sa °C, ug ang kinabugnawan Enero, sa °C. Ang kasarangang pag-ulan milimetro matag tuig. Ang kinabasaan nga bulan Agosto, sa milimetro nga ulan, ug ang kinaugahan Marso, sa milimetro.
Saysay
Ang mga gi basihan niini
Val Mora
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passo%20di%20Val%20Mora', 'collection': 'Wikipedia', 'open_type': 'Open Web', 'license': 'CC-By-SA', 'date': '2023.0', 'title': 'Passo di Val Mora', 'creator': 'https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passo di Val Mora&action=history', 'language': 'Cebuano', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '188', 'token_count': '290', '__index_level_0__': '26405', 'original_id': '1d54226b3ec1aef074197aa8cbabf287edf93c21e63a93654d1e48b9d95cfdf5'}
|
Touching Us Gently: Irresistible Things Women Do - AskMen
Messages You have no messages
Notifications You have no notifications
3. Touching Us Gently
Think back to the first time your wife or girlfriend touched you. Not an accidental brushing of arms, but something deliberate, infused with sexual tension and romantic potential. How do they do that? It doesn't matter, because it drives us crazy every time.
Show comments
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8954486846923828}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39300', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YJOIN3V5INBGOUYTSEPPYTCSI6CHK2XZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0475f275-f590-4f3e-9fb6-ef446546683d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 11, 21, 17, 3, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.50.134.165', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PLVJHNRMR5WVMCMVJZW43GSUYURSD3VI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ee382644-79be-468f-8fc7-8efee9f22b67>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/irresistible-things-women-do_3.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c6dde1c7-6a1c-4fd7-a1a6-ddfac017ca33>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '69', 'url': 'https://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/irresistible-things-women-do_3.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-144-127-200.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.9973103404045105', 'original_id': '0f1aeb50da03cd42fe6b11456e558db963559b5839fdbde75b2557f2e17b77a6'}
|
define({
"viewer": {
"main": {
"scaleBarUnits": "metric",
"clearSearch": "Notīrīt",
"datePattern": "d.MMM.yyyy."
},
"errors": {
"createMap": "Nevar izveidot karti",
"general": "Kļūda",
"bingError": "Šīs aplikācijas izvietošana prasa jūsu pašu Bing Maps taustiņu.",
"noLayers": "Nav operatīvo slāņu",
"noSearchResults": "Atvainojiet, rezultāti netika atrasti.",
"noGroupResults": "Grupu nevar atrast.",
"noMatches": "Atbilstība netika atrasta.",
"noMapsFound": "Kartes netika atrastas."
},
"sidePanel": {
"title": "Apzīmējumi",
"legendButton": "Apzīmējumi",
"layersButton": "Slāņi",
"legendButtonTitle": "Kartes apzīmējumi",
"aboutButton": "Par",
"aboutButtonTitle": "Par Karti",
"message": "Nav operatīvo slāņu"
},
"groupPage": {
"showAllMaps": "Rādīt visas kartes",
"searchTitle": "Meklēt šo grupu",
"searchTitleShort": "Meklēt",
"searchPlaceholder": "Meklēt kartes",
"itemTitle": "Skatīt karti",
"gridSwitch": "Pārslēgties uz Tīkla skatu",
"listSwitch": "Pārslēgties uz Saraksta skatu",
"loadingText": "Ielādē kartes…"
},
"sortFields": {
"sortBy": "Kārtot pēc",
"modified": "Datums",
"title": "Nosaukums",
"type": "Tips",
"numRatings": "Novērtējumi",
"avgRating": "Vid. novērtējums",
"numComments": "Komentāri",
"numViews": "Skati"
},
"comments": {
"commentsHeader": "Komentāri",
"posted": "Pasta sūtījums",
"by": "ar",
"deleteComment": "izdzēst",
"editComment": "rediģēt",
"noComments": "Nav komentāru",
"addCommentButton": "Pievienot komentāru",
"signIn": "Pierakstīties",
"register": "Reģistrēties",
"or": "vai",
"toPost": "lai sūtītu komentāru."
},
"buttons": {
"cancel": "Atcelt",
"submit": "Pakļauties"
},
"rating": {
"signIn": "Pierakstīties",
"toRate": "novērtēt."
},
"itemInfo": {
"createdLabel": "izveidots",
"ratingsLabel": "novērtējums",
"ratingsLabelPlural": "novērtējumi",
"viewsLabel": "skats",
"viewsLabelPlural": "skati",
"commentsLabel": "komentārs",
"commentsLabelPlural": "komentāri",
"modifiedLabel": "Pēdējā modificēšana",
"by": "ar",
"separator": ","
},
"mapPage": {
"findLocation": "Meklēt izvietojumu",
"findPlaceholder": "Izvietot adresi",
"aboutHeader": "Par šo karti",
"layersHeader": "Slāņi",
"enterFullscreen": "Pilnekrāna skats",
"exitFullscreen": "Iziet no pilnekrāna",
"arcgisLink": "Vienības detaļas",
"moreInformation": "Vairāk informācijas",
"geoLocateTitle": "Lieto pašreizējo izvietojumu",
"openInMobile": "Atvērt Mobilajā lietotnē",
"openInArcGIS": "Map Viewer",
"openInExplorer": "Explorer Online",
"ownerHeader": "Īpašnieks:",
"switchBasemap": "Pārslēgt pamatkarti",
"getMobileApp": "Darbojas lietotne",
"constraintsHeading": "Lietošanas ierobežojumi",
"createdLabel": "Izveidots",
"noDescription": "Bez apraksta.",
"detailsLabel": "Detaļas"
},
"filterItems": {
"show": "Parādīt",
"all": "Visi rezultāti",
"maps": "Kartes",
"layers": "Slāņi",
"applications": "Lietotnes",
"tools": "Rīki",
"files": "Faili"
},
"pagination": {
"previous": "Iepriekšējs",
"next": "Nākošais",
"first": "Pirmā lapa",
"last": "Pēdējā lapa",
"helip": "…",
"page": "Lapa"
}
}
});
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://github.com/RandallWilliams/map-gallery-template-js/blob/master/nls/lv/template.js', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'Apache-2.0', 'date': '2021.0', 'title': 'map-gallery-template-js', 'creator': 'RandallWilliams', 'language': 'JavaScript', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '291', 'token_count': '1345', '__index_level_0__': '42881', 'original_id': '535be7098bc30a9701aedee8f799cc86f8be0d86ed97bdc04b51659b1940ef2e'}
|
Cycleboard Launch
Cycleboard
PRODUCT RENDERING
Paper Triangles worked closely with CycleBoard, a three wheeled electric scooter, to create beautifully rendered images and videos for their website launch! We highlighted the amazing technology that the team at CycleBoard put into their product.
Reusing Assets
The problem we had to solve was figuring out how to take their existing manufacturing data and generate website elements.
We took the CAD data from their team and reused it to create 3D renderings and animations that would highlight key features of the board. They used these videos to create an interactive 3D tour so visitors could explore the product’s revolutionary design and features.
Customizer
Cycleboard comes with many different varieties of decks, add-ons, and colors. We had to figure out a way to show that variety in an efficient and economical manner.
By reusing assets from the tour, we were able to render out different views and accessories of the Cycleboard. We wanted to create a fluent and interactive way for riders to choose their favorite type of board and add-ons! Super happy with how the tour and customizer turned out!
We wanted to create a fluent and simple way for riders to choose their favorite type of board and add-ons! Super happy with how the tour and customizer turned out!
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'a9c9faf6956de568d54c8a2fb0910673995bb4dad340cf4f0f0df8627983ccde'}
|
by Matthew Simmons
One year, she got a kite. It was a box kite, rainbow. It had long tails. The sides had faces. Angry, angry faces. Eight faces. They seemed to object to one another, and when she would take the kite out to the park to fly it, the faces would begin to bicker with one another.
You shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up.
Around and around it went. She tuned the kite out as well as she could, but the endless angry incantations circled and circled and circled in her brain. And it got shriller and shriller and shriller. Always the faces fought with one another. Continually, they bickered like brothers. (Or like she was led to believe brothers bickered. She was an only child and preferred the company of other only children. On rare occasions, she would befriend someone with a single sibling—never more than one. But those relationships were doomed. She felt teamed up on.)
I would like to face front.
No, I would like to face front.
You always face front. I think it is my turn to face front.
I'm sick of facing front upside down and would like the kite turned over.
The kite can't be turned over because the tail is on your end. You and the other four are the bottom.
How dare you use the word 'bottom' to describe where the four of us are. It's that kind of subtle hierarchical language use that proves what a classicist you are.
This is precisely the kind of conversation that gets us nowhere, gentlemen.
Always trying to play the peace-maker. Always trying to suggest that you are somehow superior to the rest of us intellectually and spiritually because you manage to see through our 'petty' squabbles. This is why we all hate you the most.
And where do you get off calling us 'gentlemen?' We have no primary or secondary sexual characteristics and could well decide we want to self-identify as either gender. I'm sick of you oppressing me.
I'm, frankly, sick of all of you and all your worthless talk. Why can't we have a day, an hour, even a moment of silence?
Yes, right. So you can 'meditate' on some sort of important conceptual framework for your manifesto.
I'm sick of that manifesto. You can't even put it down on paper. You can only deliver it and hand it down through the oral tradition, and since we are the only kite this little girl owns, there's no chance you'll be able to propagate it. No one will hear it. None of us care to memorize it.
At least I am trying to do something with my time. At least I have goals. At least I feel like my life has meaning!
Enough, she screamed. Enough, enough, enough. And they would quiet down for a short time. But soon they would be back at it.
The kite's eight faces wouldn't even stop to enjoy flight! It was remarkable. A tragedy. They floated above the park on beautiful Spring and Summer days, over the green fields and the trees, and they floated near the gentle cloud cover, but saw none of it. Fought and bickered and huffed. It was too much to bear. Eventually, she flew the kite in a strong Autumn windstorm, and when a gust pulled it from her hand and out into the trees where it was torn to shreds by the bare branches, she did not once feel regret.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9657160639762878}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14166', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JKEU4NDJGWCN3AP6QOVEFIVXBQZHCCV2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b8fd6944-6314-417a-b424-161ce0fdd827>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 21, 11, 4, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '50.17.202.132', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UVVYYVBVPMBKI3CNWGB3HNTM5OEFVIAL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:51547d52-e57b-4c70-b038-36b502276aab>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://fictionaut.com/stories/matthew-simmons/kite', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5c33c354-14dc-4831-8e07-0e51827b2112>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '603', 'url': 'http://fictionaut.com/stories/matthew-simmons/kite', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-214.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1330280303955078', 'original_id': 'c8f42d8fd001daa1db9a01637540fa6456e9032aec3ec6922c644ccb23ca377a'}
|
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Forgive me...
picture credit:
1. ugh, that last if something we might have done might have caused it.....felt...
2. "I forgive you for being human...SO HUMAN --as that is how I made you. Welcome into this place I have kept for you, Dear Verena".
Hugs and Blessings!
(I didn't make this up--it just sort of wrote itself. Know what I mean, Jelly Bean?)
3. P.S. OK, you've waited for this surprise:
"Here is your Tweetie-bird, HAPPY to be reunited with "Mommie"...
4. Don't we all have these thoughts once in a while?
Lovely to read you again ~
5. The ending blew me away. Wow. Just... wow. This does a perfect job of redirection; guiding the reader along a familiar track of thought and reason so that they assume they know were the train is going, and then in one dynamite blow you change everything by blowing the bridge out. Fantastic work, Shadow.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '52', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.955264449119568}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '107972', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OXOZABRCZPV5H23C3FJDX2ESKB4Z5EBX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3659e31d-cea6-4ba2-baca-7a494df8f0f6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 25, 8, 12, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VZG6M5QKKUY3CRZITDBNHJ7LOU57YWO3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8bd93ad6-ed6f-4325-808e-b12842d206e9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://gsp-shadow.blogspot.com/2013/01/forgive-me.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6d24c38a-57dd-4ba4-babf-9b464927b592>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '209', 'url': 'https://gsp-shadow.blogspot.com/2013/01/forgive-me.html', '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-10-109-171-211.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': '0.2738758325576782', 'original_id': '914e050ce8f892d78a0018979e6113787ba9f84a0ad3a3bdbb07f046c13d1cd6'}
|
Sola Scriptura vs. Scriptura, Part 3. The Bible’s Table of Contents
20140207-183446Protestant Church of Christ Arguments for New Testament Canonical Certitude, and Its Reliance on Catholic Inspiration and Authority
CofC Christians,
When pressed on matters of Bible origins and the Protestant Church of Christ’s only purported available source of revelation (the “Bible only”), your group must avoid the history of the canon’s formation; your group’s self-perceived legitimacy would be at risk if the Catholic Church were shown to be intrinsically connected with the Bible’s development. Your group is a “Bible-only” group, and your group insists that it is the nascent Church, so your group must insist that the nascent Church was a “Bible-only” Church. As such, your group does not approach the Bible as Christians normally approach it (within Liturgy); it approaches the Bible with assumption that the “Bible only” is the only source of religious truth, and therefore, the Bible must in some way establish for itself that the Bible is the full, complete, unspoiled, and self-authenticating written word of God.
I would bet that most of your group’s members know that the Table of Contents at the beginning of their Bibles is not Scripture, but I would also bet that most of your members have never considered why they believe their Bible’s Table of Contents is correct. Is this not an important topic? If you believe that the words within the Bible are there as your sole religious authority, then should you not be prepared to make a reasonable defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15)?
The original sixteenth century Reformers struggled with this same topic; they knew the Catholic Church was the body that in fact wrote the New Testament and compiled the Bible, but they could not remain faithful to that body, and they set out to produce Catholic-less reasons as to how they might know that the Bible’s Table of Contents is correct. So, of course, the early Reformers disagreed on which books should be included. They not only disagreed on which books should be included in the Old Testament, but they disagreed on which books should be included in the New Testament! They disagreed for one reason: they denied the authority of the historical Church that created the Bible, and therefore, denied the only authority that could determine its rightful contents. The resulting Protestant New Testament (which, when ironed out, remained true to the historical Catholic New Testament), and the Protestant Old Testament are what your group has since adopted as its Bible.
Your group, which is a descendent of the Reformation, adopted the already-discerned (though later-developed) Protestant canon, and has too developed an a posterori argument (dependence on prior knowledge: a previously-established canon) in which it claims to know that the Bible’s Table of Contents is correct, and it hopes its posits can somehow hold water with no dependence on any Catholic decisions. What I will show you is what I have found to be your group’s most popular and indicative argument for canonical certitude, and I will also show you how your argument cannot reasonably support your position because it presupposes Catholic inspiration and authority—presupposes the very elements that your argument is primarily designed to erase.
Your group’s argument is that the Bible’s contents—the New Testament specifically—are self-authenticating. As evidence for its claim, it presents several verses that have already been established as inspired by the Catholic Church; its argument begins with an already-established canon. Put differently, its starting point alone proves that “Bible-only” Christianity cannot establish the canon! It is no different than insisting a tiger must have stripes because tigers have stripes. Nonetheless, I will present each stripe Protestant apologists typically present, and then show how each verse does not support their theory of a self-authenticating canon. I will show you how such verses actually prove that the canon is not self-authenticating and that an extra-biblical source was (and is) needed to provide Christians with an accurate canon of Sacred Scripture. The verses are:
• 2 Peter 3:15-16
• 1 John 1:1-4
• 2 Timothy 3:16 with 2 Peter 1:21
• 2 Timothy 3:16 with 1 Timothy 5:18.
• 2 Peter 3:15-16 reads:
Let us not be unstable, but rather, admit that St. Peter was not establishing any sacred Table of Contents. St. Peter was the Pope. He was Catholic, so it is intellectually dishonest (or ignorant) for a person to use St. Peter’s Letter as any sort of proof for the Catholic Church’s noninvolvement with the canon’s formation. But your group does not acknowledge this historical fact, hopes its hearers are equally ignorant, and proceeds to interpret the passage to their own destruction. Your group twists the passage from what it reads to an interpretation that means, “All of St. Paul’s letters are inspired.” And since your already-established Bible contains letters written by St. Paul, your group convinces itself that a large portion of the New Testament is authenticated by the use of St. Peter’s Letter.
It is true that St. Peter was referring to St. Paul’s letters, and your apologists suggest that St. Peter’s reference to St. Paul’s letters provides a self-authenticating proof for the inspiration of all of St. Paul’s letters that are now bound within the New Testament. But it is possible that not all of St. Paul’s letters are inspired, otherwise, the New Testament is missing a portion of God’s written word. The books we now recognize as 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians should probably be called 2 Corinthians and 3 Corinthians, because within 1 Corinthians, St. Paul referred to his previous letter to the Corinthians (cf. 5:9), which we no longer possess. He also referred to a letter to La-odice’a (cf. Colossians 4:16).3 And perhaps he wrote additional letters to the Corinthians we do not know about! So is the New Testament complete? And if your theory (that the Protestant Church of Christ is in fact the nascent Church) were correct, if the Protestant Church of Christ somehow existed prior to your 19th century formation, and if it were the true Church established by Christ as guardians of the true Deposit of Faith, then why did it not preserve St. Paul’s letters—letters that you, if consistent, must regard as inspired? If St. Peter called such writings scripture, then your stewardship, not the Catholic Church’s, should be questioned.
If all of St. Paul’s letters are inspired, which is the assumption your apologists must maintain when they submit this passage as a proof for a self-authenticating Pauline corpus, then should we not worry that the Bible is an imperfect and insufficient code? Has God’s word been lost, and shall it return to Him empty (Isaiah 55:11)? Has an iota or a dot passed away (cf. Matthew 5:18)? Your members might then admit that some of St. Paul’s letters were not inspired in order to gloss over such problems, but doing so suggests that your group knowingly presents this passage in a less than forthright manner. Have your converts and children considered these facts before they publicly confess that Jesus is Lord, before they get baptized (or “re-baptized”), prior to entering into a “Bible-only” paradigm? Have they rightly concluded that the very fact of an Apostle writing something down does not constitute his product as Holy Writ? Have your members considered how such proof demands that the writings of all the Apostles should be scrutinized, should be evaluated in some way, should be determined as inspired or not inspired by a means other than the fact that their Bibles now include them?
The reasonable interpretation of the passage at hand (2 Peter 3:15-16) does not call all of St. Paul’s letters inspired, but rather, calls specific letters by St. Paul scripture, that all of St. Pau’s letters that are scripture are indeed scripture. The passage does not provide a criterion for placement within the canon; it reveals, simply, that some of St. Paul’s letters are inspired and belong within the Christian canon of Scripture, and it does not explain which letters should or should not be included.
But why even discuss the Pauline corpus without first establishing the status of St. Peter’s Second Letter? Your group has not established why St. Peter’s Second Letter is inspired! If your group could present any reason why St. Peter’s Letter is inspired, and if you could somehow prove that St. Peter meant only the letters from St. Paul that were later chosen to be placed within the canon are inspired (and that his other letters are not inspired), then this passage might serve as a sort of proof for a self-authenticating partial canon. Of course, it cannot, and it has no recourse, because the only body that offered any authoritative input into the discussion is consciously ignored, yet subconsciously depended on.
Another example of your dependence as it is relates to 2 Peter 3:15-16 is in regards to the Book of Hebrews. Your members believe the Book of Hebrews belongs in the Bible. Hebrews, again, does not claim inspiration for itself, and no other book from the Bible refers to the Book of Hebrews as Scripture. You most likely believe St. Paul wrote the Book of Hebrews, and since you must believe St. Peter called all of St. Paul’s letters scripture, you accept the book of Hebrews as you assume St. Peter had. But St. Peter, within his Letter, did not communicate that the Book of Hebrews was authored by St. Paul. Nor does the Book of Hebrews itself reveal who its author is. In other words, the “Bible only” cannot, in any way, establish the status of the Book of Hebrews. So why do you believe the Book of Hebrews was written by St. Paul and is rightly included within the Christian canon? Could your belief root from the fact that the Catholic Church has a memory—a Sacred Tradition; other Catholic writings—and you have absorbed her teaching?
Are you aware the book the Church came to recognize as St. Peter’s Second Letter was one of the last books admitted to the Christian canon? The early Church Fathers debated its status more than most writings that are now in the New Testament; Martin Luther (a 16th century founder of Protestantism) was suspicious of 2 Peter as well, but not as much as Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation—all of which he tried to remove from the New Testament canon. As a thought experiment, imagine if Luther had his way and successfully removed four books from the New Testament. Would your group not have simply accepted his canon, which would be the canon your group would have been born under? If you think your group would not have blindly accepted Luther’s New Testament canon, then answer to yourself why it in fact accepts Luther’s final Old Testament canon!
So how does the passage you present as proof for the Pauline corpus’ status hinge upon a passage that had not yet been regarded as inspired? Did your not-yet existing group privately interpret St. Peter’s Letter—a Letter that had not yet been recognized as inspired—to determine that St. Paul’s letters were inspired? If so, then was your group not consulting an “extra-biblical” source at least as authoritative as the Pauline portions it wished to verify? Of course, you would counter by stating that St. Peter’s Letter was inspired even if the Church had not come to know it as such, which is true. But the fact is that if your group existed, and if your group did consult St. Peter’s Letter for clues as to whether or not St. Paul’s letters are inspired, then your group would have in fact consciously consulted material that it did not recognize as inspired—what it knew as Scripture was not its ultimate authority because it consulted with, and relied upon, the assumed authority of an extra-biblical tradition.
Clearly, your apologists’ attempt to eradicate any Catholic input from the Bible’s formation, and its desire to establish a self-authenticating canon of Scripture is not aided by their use of 2 Peter 3:15-16. The very use of the passage to prove that St. Paul’s letters are inspired presupposes the inspiration of St. Peter’s Second Letter, and inadvertently presupposes the authority of the first Pope and the Catholic Church.
Your group, however, must endure the embarrassment its position forces upon itself. Without it, the “Bible only” could not establish the status of a large portion of the New Testament; and your members would become vulnerable to a more reasonable, and Catholic, alternative.
• 1 John 1:1-4 reads:
St. John was Catholic, so even if this verse, in any way, could provide an argument for a self-authenticating canon, it is impossible for the passage to provide support for a canon that is not dependent on the Catholic Church. And one can read the passage as many times as she would like, but she would not find any support whatsoever for a self-authenticating canon. Professional Protestant Church of Christ anti-Catholic blogger and preacher Scott J. Shifferd explained how your group uses the passage.4 Shifferd chose a Bible version that translates the last sentence of the passage as These things we write to you (which is fine). He explained St. John’s use of the words These things we write to you are understood by your group as an indication that all the apostolic writings are Scripture. Shifferd’s problem, of course, is that the passage communicates nothing of the sort. But the passage is not what is important to Shifferd or others who must argue against the Catholic Church’s construction of the Christian canon and for their theory of a self-authenticating canon. In other words, Shifferd and your apologists want the world to ignore the circular logic that your group promotes: that “the Bible says what the Bible is,” or, “St. John’s writings are inspired because St. John’s writings say they are inspired.” Should we not all, then, become Mormon? After all, the Book of Mormon actually claims inspiration for itself! But the Restorationist Mormons actually have a better argument than your Restorationist community, because 1 John 1:1-4 does not, in any way, claim that it is inspired or that any apostolic writing is inspired.
And of course, just as with the previous passage (2 Peter 3:15-16), your apologists cannot account for the inspiration of the primary passage at hand. Therefore, any resulting interpretation of the primary passage that results in a declaration of another book’s inspirational status cannot be fully trusted as inspired itself. This passage is not evidence for the inspiration of any book—even of itself or any other letter by the Apostle John. But your group ignores these facts, because it must, by extension, insist that all of the Apostle John’s letters are inspired; because there would be no way your theory of a self-authenticating canon could support the inclusion of St. John’s Gospel, 2nd John, 3rd John, and Revelation unless it convinces itself that the passage means what it does not mean. Not one Johannine book claims inspiration for itself (save Revelation, perhaps), and not one other biblical book assigns inspiration to the Johannine collection; so you must rely on your unfounded insistence for their inclusion of any book that the Apostle John allegedly wrote.
Could a true “Bible-only” Christian have any reason to believe that John’s Revelation is inspired? Why do you believe the Apostle John wrote it? There were many “Johns” that could have written Revelation, but you assume it was the Apostle, and therefore, conclude that Revelation deserves inclusion within the Christian canon. Is it not the Catholic Church’s Tradition that has created your presupposed cultural acceptance of St. John’s authorship that you rely on for your belief in Revelation’s inspiration? If your reliance is not on the Catholic Church’s Sacred Tradition, then what extra-biblical source are you relying on? What extra-biblical source are you using to, in fact, prove to your more-discerning observers that the Christian canon is not self-authenticating—prove that the “Bible only” cannot be your sole authority on matters of religion!
Now let us assume your intelligentsia does in fact believe what it expects Catholic Christians and the world to believe. Does the very fact that an Apostle wrote a letter, treatise, or instructions prove that such writings are inspired and belong in the Bible? If all the apostolic writings are inspired, then is the Protestant Bible complete even though it is lacking at least one letter by St. Paul? If your interpretation of 1 John 1:1-4 is that all the apostolic writings are inspired, which is precisely what your group expects Catholics and the world to believe in order for your theory of a self-authenticating canon to be accepted, then you must also admit that your Bible has been corrupted and is an imperfect code—is unable to provide you with a trustworthy pattern from which to imitate. Or, perhaps, your interpretation is correct only when your community must provide a desperate argument for its Catholic-less canonical certitude?
The earliest extra-biblical Church document we have is called The Didache, also called The Teachings of the Twelve, and it may have been composed by the Apostles or their schools as early as A.D. 70. (I will address The Didache more in future essays.) Its authorship is no more spurious than the Book of Hebrews or Revelation, yet your group does not recognize it as inspired. The Catholic Church of Christ does not recognize The Didache as inspired either, but the Catholic Church does not force 1 John 1:1-4 to mean all the apostolic writings are inspired; your group does! Put differently, your group has no reason to believe that some of the books now included within the New Testament are inspired as proved by their alleged apostolic authorship, while The Didache is rightly not included within the New Testament even though it possesses similar apostolic status. In other words, your forced interpretation of the primary passage is not reasonable, and your group, as proved by its inconsistent use of its interpretation and acceptance of a canon that both includes and excludes apostolic writings, does not even believe its own argument for a self-authenticating canon. Why, then, should anyone else believe it?
The most sober understanding of St. John’s passage is precisely what he wrote, which is that we (the Apostles) wrote so that our (Apostles’ and readers’) joy may be complete. The text contains no hint, no clue, no inference, nothing at all that might suggest that all apostolic writings are inspired. Nor does the text offer any reason to believe all of St. John’s writings are inspired. And it is a fact that the early Church not only wrestled with the status of St. John’s writings, but with the discernment of which writings are authored by, and not authored by, St. John. The Johannine collection is not found in the Bible because the Johannine collection says it belongs in the Bible, because it certainly does not say that; it is found in the Bible because an extra-biblical authority had determined it belongs there. And the now-determined apostolic writings are not found in the Bible because the apostolic writings say they belong in the Bible, because they certainly do not say that either; they are found in the Bible because an extra-biblical authority had determined they belong there.
• 2 Timothy 3:16 with 2 Peter 1:21 (New International Version) read: All scripture is inspired by God . . . , [and] . . . prophets . . . spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
I will explain St. Paul’s passage more in depth later in this chapter when I illustrate how he does not support the Protestant Church of Christ’s belief in “Bible-only” Christianity. But for now, I will show you how your group wrongly uses his passage as a proof for its theory that the New Testament is self-authenticating and independent of Catholic inspiration and authority.
As these passages relate to this topic, your group draws on its interpretation (not the words) of the texts, which is that God alone orchestrated and performed the Bible’s deliverance to the world. When Catholics assert that the Catholic Church gave the world the Bible, your members normally react by saying something to the effect of, “God gave us the Bible.” But the Catholic Church of Christ agrees with your group (or rather, your group agrees with the Catholic Church); God gave the world the Bible! The Catholic Church, however, does not rely on an unreflective and simplistic dismissal—a denial of the fact that God gave the world the Bible by using the Christian Church as its deliverer. (I am primarily addressing the New Testament’s origin and compilation.) Absolutely, all scripture is inspired by God, . . . carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16 Revised Standard Version; 2 Peter 1:21 NIV), but the Catholic Church recognizes the fact that God chose specific men who were moved by the Holy Spirit and who spoke from God (2 Peter 1:21 RSV). The holy men of God who spoke (Douay-Rheims) were real, were in communion with a specific primitive ecclesial structure, and that structure was the house of God, the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth (1 Timothy 3:15 RSV). Do you believe your community is the pillar and ground of truth, or do you believe the Protestant canon of Scripture is the pillar and ground of truth? Can you deny your principle—that the Bible is your purported “sole authority”—and appeal to the house of God for religious truth? Does the language of the inspired text not suggest that it is the Catholic Church who was, and is, the agent whom God chose, and chooses, to deliver His word?
The house of God is real, and it is Catholic. Is it not the Catholic Church who calls herself the house of God? Is it not the Catholic house of God that, as proved by her own writing in this very verse, appeals to a body of inspired men and not the “Bible only”? Does your community follow this pattern?
Did Jesus’ Incarnation not involve a woman? Are you also so suspicious of Mary’s Catholic characteristics that you cannot admit she was the deliverer of the Deliverer—the Mother of God—or that she was even real! Would it be honest to argue that God did not choose a specific woman as the ark who would tent Jesus and deliver the Word Incarnate? Was the Holy Spirit who would come upon her and overshadow her (Luke 1:35) a different spirit than He who carried along the holy men of God? But your group denies the fact that the holy men to whom God entrusted to present His God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16 NIV) Holy Writ were Catholic—but rather, were either unimportant vessels who are not worthy of the honor that the God-breathed texts ascribe to them, or were latent and pre-existent Protestant Church of Christ sympathizers. Put differently, the denial of the Catholic Church’s intrinsic involvement with God’s gift of Christian Scripture is as vapid as suggesting that Jesus was not sent forth . . . , born of a woman (Galatians 4:4 RSV).
All Catholic generations call Mary blessed (Luke 1:48), and all Catholic generations know where Sacred Scripture came from as well. The few generations of Restorationist Christians who have walked the earth have never called Mary blessed (is she not “just a good woman” to you?), so it would be quite out of character if your group were to thank the Church for her motherhood in delivering the written word of God.
• 2 Timothy 3:16 with 1 Timothy 5:18 read: All scripture is inspired by God . . . , [and] . . . for the scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
The Protestant Church of Christ combines these two passages, and presents them as meaning, “The Protestant Old Testament and the now-formed New Testament are all Scripture, and therefore, all that should be in the Bible is what we have in our own Bibles.” This meaning is, of course, circular (the Bible establishes the Bible), but it also implies that St. Paul somehow knew that some (not all) of his own letters would become Scripture, and he knew that all of the other writings that are now in the New Testament—even writings that had not yet been written—would become Scripture. And since St. Paul, here, is quoting from both the Old Testament and what would become part of the New Testament, your apologists conclude that the nascent Church would resemble modern “Bible-only” communities.
That is the full-view illogic of your position, but let us zoom in. St. Paul rightly taught St. Timothy in his Second Letter that all scripture is inspired by God. And in his First Letter, St. Paul referred to Deuteronomy 25:4 (You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.) and the Gospel of St. Luke 10:7 (The laborer deserves his wages.) as scripture. And since St. Paul referred to a book from the Old Testament and a book that is now included in the New Testament, your apologists insist St. Paul was referring to “the Bible” as we enjoy it today. St. Paul indeed referred to St. Luke’s Gospel as Scripture, and that is one reason why the Catholic Church knows his Gospel deserves residence in the canon of Christian Scripture. Does St. Paul, in this passage, mention any of the other twenty-six books that are in the New Testament? Do your apologists typically address how St. Paul did not endorse the other twenty-six books of the New Testament, but only St. Luke’s Gospel? Instead, they force St. Paul to have written what he did not write, which is that all the New Testament books were (evidently) written, discerned, canonized, and bound as a single volume by the time he quoted St. Luke’s Gospel.
Consider, now, how your group has gravitated to a meaning that St. Paul clearly did not communicate, and how it avoids what he clearly did communicate. One does not need to search a different Letter (1 Timothy) to find out what St. Paul was in fact calling scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16 because he explained what Scriptures he was referring to in verse 15. He wrote, How from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings. So it is clear St. Paul did recognize that the writings St. Timothy knew from childhood are sacred—that the Old Testament writings, not the later-formed New Testament canon, are Sacred Scripture.
When analyzed, your conjoined use of the passages at hand does not support your group’s desire for a Catholic-less self-authenticating canon; it supports the Catholic Church of Christ’s understanding that St. Paul recognized the Old Testament as Scripture, and that there were some writings such as St. Luke’s Gospel that were used within Liturgy and regarded as inspired. But it does not support your theory of a self-authenticating canon because such passages cannot be proved inspired by the “Bible only” (according to your own Rule). And even if they were proved inspired by the “Bible only”, they do not address the status of eighty-nine percent (twenty-four of twenty-seven books; the New Testament less Luke’s Gospel, 1 Timothy, and 2 Timothy) of the now-discerned New Testament’s Table of Contents from which your group circularly argues.
These are some of the problems that disprove your theory of a self-authenticating canon. But there is one principle that members of your group should think about, which is how they know the New Testament is complete; how they know public revelation ceased upon the death of the last Apostle.
Your group believes the New Testament is closed (complete), and rightly so; the Catholic Church believes it is closed as well. However, your group has no way of knowing from the “Bible only” if the twenty-seven books that comprise the New Testament are all that God intended for us to recognize as New Testament Scripture. How do you know there should not be a twenty-eighth or twenty-ninth book? Some of your members present Revelation 22:18 as a proof that the Bible is closed:
One problem with this proof is that the “Bible” did not yet exist (the “Bible” was not a book), and so this book refers to the Book of Revelation only. There are other passages in Scripture with similar language. Consider: You shall not add to the word which I command you (Deuteronomy 4:2). Perhaps, then, we should deny every proceeding verse from Deuteronomy, such as: You shall not add to it or take from it (12:32). Should we deny every book that was written after Deuteronomy? Should the canon have been closed after Proverbs? Surely, if Revelation teaches that the canon is closed, then Do not add to his words (Proverbs 30:6) teaches that the Old Testament canon ends with Proverbs!
But some of your members are less “Fundamentalist” than others, and rightly know “the word of God” includes the entirety of God’s public revelation, and know not to force a specific proof-text as the chronological end-point for public revelation. However, the problem of proving the closure of public revelation from the “Bible only” remains. The best argument your group provides is from Jude 3:
In the Protestant Church of Christ’s collective mind, the faith is essentially synonymous with “the Bible,” so if the faith was once delivered, then, in your minds, the full canon of Christian Scripture was once delivered. (The Catholic Church recognizes that “the faith” and “the Bible” are different things.) The first problem, of course, is your inability to provide a non-circular argument for the inspiration of the Book of Jude; and then you must explain how this passage can somehow evade the same problem that Deuteronomy, Proverbs, and Revelation have. Jude was most likely not the last written book of the New Testament; most scholars believe 2 Peter was written after it. Unless Jude was the last written book of the now-determined canon, the author did not intend to communicate that the canon should be forever closed. It is true that Jude was one of the last letters written, and you are right in that regard; but Jude was also one of the last books admitted to the Christian canon. The Church had not declared Jude as inspired for centuries, which hints to a logical conclusion you should consider: If Jude provides your proof-text for a closed canon, then the Church either appealed to an “extra-biblical” writing to determine the canon, or it determined the canon by its own authority. In other words, your group’s use of Jude 3 as an argument for the closure of public revelation inadvertently establishes your reliance on Catholic inspiration and authority.
Where does your belief come from? Why do you believe the canon is closed? What extra-biblical authority has heard and answered your appeal? Though you deny it, your belief is a Catholic leftover, a precious artifact from the ancient and living Sacred Tradition you have not fully abandoned. But let us consider your belief that the canon was closed at the death of the last Apostle; does your belief not allow for other texts that were in fact written before the death of the last Apostle to be included within the canon?
The Didache, as I already mentioned, was written before the death of the last Apostle, and it was likely written by the Apostles themselves. As such, The Didache achieves your presumed criteria for inclusion, yet you somehow rightly presume it should not be a part of the Christian canon. We have writings by Polycarp, who died in A.D 156, who was a disciple of the Apostle John. We also have writings by Ignatius of Antioch who was martyred around A.D. 107. Consider St. Clement (a successor of St. Peter; the fourth pope) who did in A.D. 99. Pope Clement wrote a letter to the Corinthians that we now call 1 Clement. His letter was read within the Church before the death of the last Apostle, yet you do not believe his Letter is inspired. St. Clement was a close associate to the Apostles, yet his writings are not canonical while other associates of the Apostles (such as St. Mark) are, and his Letter was so highly regarded that many bishops in the Church were convinced that it was in fact inspired; it, like The Didache, was circulated and read within the Church for centuries. But the Catholic Magisterium with her authority made a decision, and its decision was that 1 Clement was not inspired. There was absolutely no “biblical” way of knowing if 1 Clement was inspired or not—the “Bible” was not yet a finalized collection of books. What magisterium other than that of the Catholic Church do you think you have submitted to when you accept only the twenty-seven books that are now in your Bible as the only inspired New Testament writings?
The Bible, like Jesus, has a mother who gave it flesh. The written word, like the Incarnate Word, has a mother who protected it when it was young and vulnerable. The Bible has a mother who knows it and understands it more than any other body. Catholic Christians are not threatened by the very real facts that surround the Bible’s authorship, compilation, and canonization. The Protestant Church of Christ, however, must argue for the Bible’s hopeful Catholic-less origins and for its Catholic-less self-authentication in order to remain true to its antipathy for the Catholic Church, and to support its own founding, though anti-biblical, principle: sola Scriptura.
© Copyright. All written material is property of Patrick Vandapool. All rights reserved.
If this sort of stuff interests you then please help me via Patreon!
3 Some scholars argue that St. Paul’s letter to La-odice’a is his letter to the Ephesians.
4 Available at as of July 6, 2014. HEAVILY edited after the fact, misleading in numerous ways, etc. Standard CofC stuff.
This entry was posted in Scott J. Shifferd and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '217', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9685769081115724}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '92660', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TBJ4S6CIBB2K2AO7FGL66M4RZUHPXNQW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4c963171-ff1b-4cef-8d54-eb805c0b1617>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 23, 2, 16, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6VESPNRGKXAJ6YHPEKHG2UXQSEPXXISB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c67e82b1-3bff-4b3d-bd65-b6d209efbca4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://patrickvandapool.com/2018/04/13/sola-scriptura-vs-scriptura-part-3-the-bibles-table-of-contents/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6bf60736-0d81-485f-9a2c-9def27b7d7c7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '5789', 'url': 'https://patrickvandapool.com/2018/04/13/sola-scriptura-vs-scriptura-part-3-the-bibles-table-of-contents/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-95-180-234.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019805967807769775', 'original_id': '316bb1f70040fc423682c9e4eb99c2ff6c021db8faaaad5be8da1171aaeac055'}
|
Content supported by
Why 'innovation' needs to take a step back
byChristopher Guess
Apr 29 in Media entrepreneurship
Words and terms are prone to periods of popularity. These turn of phrases rise, get inevitably coopted, overused and diluted and eventually fall far from grace.
This has happened many times before, whether it’s “synergy” or “paradigm shift,” the words begin with value and then ring hollow after only a few short years. The most recent of these words to follow in this grand tradition is the star-child of the tech crowd, “innovate.”
Like many of the high-flying terms over the years, “innovate” (and its brethren “innovation,” “innovating” and “innovative”) is a catch all. It allows the speaker, writer or marketing agent to imbue an organization with a sense of purpose without ever actually having to say what the hell the group does.
Not everything should be called an innovation. A new font on an interface is considered “an innovation in UI.” A better filing system is “an innovation in office management.” Treating passengers with respect is considered an “innovation in airline service.” These are all ideas that can be qualified, at best, as incremental improvements (or basic human decency).
None of these actually change much of anything; they’re not new or counterintuitive. They break no ground. However, putting the word “innovative” in front of each of them justifies a price raise on fundamentally the same product, or a salary bump for the middle manager that proposed it.
“Innovation” has made strides beyond the corporate speak. It’s now unfortunately the biggest word in government, media and the sciences as well. My argument isn’t that concepts and creations can’t and shouldn’t be labeled “innovative.” It’s that, just as when everyone is an expert, no one is; when everything is an innovation, nothing is.
The bar has been set too low. Sometimes the right thing to do is to incrementally improve already working methodologies. To overhaul a system should be the last resort, one that’s undertaken when what already exists is fundamentally broken or hopelessly outdated.
There are many, many examples of recent innovations that were absolutely necessary. The advent of mobile applications for newspapers truly changed the game. The ability for an organization to allow their readers to always have the publication in their pocket revolutionized the consumption of media content. News was no longer limited to sitting at a desk reading a web page or a dead-tree paper. Mobile distribution went so much further as well, allowing a news organization to scoop their competition and immediately disseminate breaking stories with alerts and notifications.
Digital cameras were an innovation. Cell phones, the word processor, Twitter, desktop publishing software, interactive videos — these are innovations that truly changed the media world.
However, VICE is considered “innovative” (and wins awards for it) because it reports compelling international stories in a voice people want to read. That’s not innovation; it’s just creating good work that engages readers. It’s what used to be called quality journalism.
True innovation is supposed to be an upheaval. True innovation is supposed to be a revelatory idea that reinvents or creates out of whole cloth an entire industry. Innovation has its place, but journalism has sat stagnant and fallen so far behind other media industries for so long, that now anything that simply works is considered an industry-defying revolution.
If you’re looking for something to keep track of, look at concepts, not the individual implementations of them. Here are a few to think about:
Receiving news on a digital watch
With the Apple Watch, the New York Times has introduced extremely short pieces of news. Basically they’re just ledes so they’re visible and easy to glance at. This idea has been around in phone notifications for a long time, but I think there will be some interesting attempts to restructure the sentences away from basic headline formatting.
Live streaming
Now, live streaming has been around for a long time in the format of “TV” but the fact that anyone can do it, from anywhere, adds a brand new element. Periscope and Meerkat are the two major players right now, and personally, I think this will go up and then crash again, much like the blog boom/bust. We’ll have to sit and see how news organizations can coopt it and use the technology to reach viewers.
GOOD automatic translations
Google Translate and the like have been around for a while, but Microsoft has recently been testing real time, full audio, translations in Skype. I’ve been lucky enough to test it and trust me, it’s really, really good. This may well open up entire new lines of distribution and consumption, since the language something was written or produced in may no longer be a barrier.
Christopher Guess, a computer programmer and photojournalist, is an expert in mobile technology. He also has experience working on media sustainability projects. Learn more about his work as an ICFJ Knight Fellow here.
Main image CC-licensed by Flickr via Daniel Foster.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.945030391216278}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '40262', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5O5XC5B4QTTW6FBOXOSFYPZUP7VFBTYG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7072827e-206c-4f42-b5bd-de1964e33c48>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 22, 8, 2, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.185.0.4', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:P6VFNBNENQZBVUPQR63UXVHGCJ5JI42J', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a997e29b-a4f1-4843-9f76-718c3bdd897e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://ijnet.org/en/story/why-innovation-needs-take-step-back', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f3d57532-e5d5-42e5-8341-44361086acd8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '798', 'url': 'https://ijnet.org/en/story/why-innovation-needs-take-step-back', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-45-61-6.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': '0.04806703329086304', 'original_id': '2998221ab9e60b5c7a49ae115c9fa892303881c7ed64772a1fbc9d393f997027'}
|
Printed from
SK Telecom said in talks to buy Sprint
updated 04:40 pm EDT, Tue July 15, 2008
SK Telecom May Buy Sprint
Korean communications giant SK Telecom is discussing buying out third-largest American cell carrier Sprint, CNBC claims. Although technically smaller than Sprint, sources say SKT hopes to bring a private equity group into the deal that would give it enough financial clout to complete the deal. The Korean company allegedly wants any takeover to occur on friendly terms and is proceeding slowly, with any possible agreement still uncertain and weeks away at the earliest.
SKT's Korean nature also means it must be cautious and comply with US regulations concerning foreign ownership, although such large deals aren't unprecedented and were preceded by Deutsche Telekom's takeover of VoiceStream in 2001, later changing the carrier's name to T-Mobile USA.
The deal would represent a significant return to American involvement for SKT, which gave up direct control of a US carrier when it agreed to Virgin's takeover of Helio last month and gave up most of its stake in the resulting company.
It also potentially upsets the US cellular market. Sprint has continued to lose customers even as it tries to regain favor by simplifying its plans, offering unlimited data services, and introducing more designer phones such as the Samsung Instinct. An improved Sprint would both be shored up against T-Mobile and would be in a better position to compete against AT&T and Verizon, which currently have substantial leads in active subscribers.
By Electronista Staff
Post tools:
1. Guest
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Nov 1999
GSM > CDMA
'nuff said
1. NPS_CA
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jul 2008
SKT is actually UMTS
SKT and KTF in Korea are being incentivized by the South Korean government to move to UMTS/3G to be in line with other countries and not push a Qualcomm only approach.I was actually in Korea last week and had perfect coverage on both SKT and KTF on my Nokia E61i (GSM/UMTS). There are actually better handset incentives and choices to take a UMTS/3G phone.So you can be sure that SKT doesn't mean Sprint stays on CDMA.
Login Here
Network Headlines
Most Popular
Recent Reviews
Thecus N2310 NAS
iRig Pads
DoxieGo Portable Scanner
Most Commented
Popular News
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '56', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9627761244773864}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '74882', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WTQUM3HUCYB4IRY4RAVVHJWMR4R65DC5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a99a7904-0851-40ad-8365-acae39881bb1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 25, 3, 52, 53), 'WARC-IP-Address': '207.58.150.180', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CAC4JQVMF2IR5BLQPZ5CHHTQANS53PVD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3faa63dd-fa35-4f2b-8f2b-95f67f4dd6cf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/15/sk.telecom.may.buy.sprint/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:58431410-ead1-4c1d-82f7-8a919bcdfdbd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '464', 'url': 'http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/15/sk.telecom.may.buy.sprint/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-06\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for January 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': '0.022508084774017334', 'original_id': '2fc3b4a186359fd18073940fb9e3eebc4d21d734a36223caaecfd89dbb25dc7e'}
|
Sport Production Summit 2019: MediaKind’s Stuart Boorn on how the cloud improves product efficiency
In sports, the name of the game is pushing the technological envelope. On both sides of the coin, networks have experimented with new ideas such as 360-degree video and vendors have tried to find ways to enhance the OTT experience with low-latency. A blossoming sector of the industry, esports, is one that is tinkering the most with these concepts.
At the Sport Production Summit 2019, Stuart Boorn, vice president of product management, MediaKind and SVG Europe’s Heather McLean detailed the current developments in these areas, how sports broadcasters can take advantage of deploying services more efficiently through the cloud, and why the importance of fan immersion will play a large role at their IBC booth.
Subscribe and Get SVG Europe Newsletters
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9144744873046876}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41183', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:E2E3HHNJP7ZNNOHCB7N7S2YWYMGYHDJ5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:608a2632-aee3-4f22-a39e-83bf83f509bd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 26, 21, 35, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.81.139', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZR7RO3VPPZXQTAJPRMSEDLWUV7ZQ35Z2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:59fec3ae-3d5c-4a63-8321-fc4908a96b0b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/sport-production-summit-2019-mediakinds-stuart-boorn-on-how-the-cloud-improves-product-efficiency/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1f383593-4121-4429-bcf4-8d0949f388c7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '135', 'url': 'https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/sport-production-summit-2019-mediakinds-stuart-boorn-on-how-the-cloud-improves-product-efficiency/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-24\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May/June 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-117.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0295906662940979', 'original_id': 'a00c852a4e55c0688dc89a266dad8261ac329b3e815b2fb41a74502a537664a7'}
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>SET035</title>
<link href="/cwsi/formmanager/css/formmanager.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="/common/css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<script>
function validateForm()
{
showErrorMessageFM(document.getElementById('a1_Name'),"Name is required.");
showErrorMessageFM(document.getElementById('a2_Phone'),"Phone is required.");
showErrorMessageFM(document.getElementById('b1_Card Number'),"Card Number is required.");
showErrorMessageFM(document.getElementById('b2_Purge Date'),"Purge Date is required.");
if(!((document.getElementById('b3_Region A').checked) || (document.getElementById('b4_Region B').checked )|| (document.getElementById('b5_Region C').checked ) || (document.getElementById('b6_Region D').checked ) || (document.getElementById('b7_Region E').checked )))
{
addErrorMessage("Please select at least one Region.");
}
showErrorMessageForDropDownFM(document.getElementById('b8_Status'),"","Please select the Card Status.");
}
</script>
<body class="wpsPortalText">
<div id="print_div">
<FORM action="" enctype="" onclick="">
<TABLE border="0" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="8">
<tr>
<td class="wpsPortalText" valign="bottom">
<p class="wpsPortalText">
<table class="contact-table" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="7" class="heading"><span class="heading">Institution Information</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText">Name:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox"><input type="Text" size="30" name="a1_Name" value="" class=""></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText">Phone:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox"><input type="Text" size="20" name="a2_Phone" value="" class=""></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText">Title:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox"><input type="Text" size="20" name="a3_Title" value="" class=""></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText">Email:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox" width=40%><input type="Text" size="35" name="a4_Email" value="" class=""></td>
<td width="40"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><br><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7" class="heading"><span class="heading">Visa Hot Carding</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText" nowrap>Card Number:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox"><input type="Text" size="18" maxlength="16" name="b1_Card Number" value="" class=""></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText" nowrap>Purge Date:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox"><input type="Text" size="12" maxlength="10" name="b2_Purge Date" value="" class=""> <i>(MM/DD/YYYY)</i></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText" nowrap>Region(s):</td>
<td class="wpsformBox" colspan="4">
<input type="Checkbox" name="b3_Region A" value="A-Asia" class=""> A - Asia-Pacific<br>
<input type="Checkbox" name="b4_Region B" value="B-CEMEA " class=""> B - CEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa)<br>
<input type="Checkbox" name="b5_Region C" value="C-Canada" class=""> C - Canada<br>
<input type="Checkbox" name="b6_Region D" value="E-Europe" class=""> E - Europe Union<br>
<input type="Checkbox" name="b7_Region E" value="F-Caribbean" class=""> F - Latin America and Caribbean
</td>
<td width="20"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformText">Status:</td>
<td class="wpsformBox" colspan="4">
<select name="b8_Status">
<option value =""> Select One </option>
<option value ="lost">Lost</option>
<option value ="stolen">Stolen</option>
</select>
</td>
<td width="20"> </td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><br><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="7" class="heading"><span class="heading">Additional Comments</span></td>
</tr>
<td width="20"> </td>
<td class="wpsformBox" colspan="5"><textarea cols="65" name="b9_Additional Comments" rows="5" class=""></textarea></td>
<td width="20"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
|
the_stack
|
{'hexsha': '67565871674c2ce3edd489e313ccca82dc90373a', 'size': '4617', 'ext': 'html', 'lang': 'HTML', 'max_stars_repo_path': '1.18/root/usr/share/nginx/html/portal/files/services/forms/set035.html', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'technovikram/nginx-container', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': 'fcbbf9b59f8b85bb2f59291fe0f7b000e754a5ac', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': '1.18/root/usr/share/nginx/html/portal/files/services/forms/set035.html', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'technovikram/nginx-container', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': 'fcbbf9b59f8b85bb2f59291fe0f7b000e754a5ac', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': '1.18/root/usr/share/nginx/html/portal/files/services/forms/set035.html', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'technovikram/nginx-container', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': 'fcbbf9b59f8b85bb2f59291fe0f7b000e754a5ac', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_forks_count': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '', 'avg_line_length': '37.2338709677', 'max_line_length': '269', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.615118042', 'original_id': '7ae32e22032231b788f533afd698193ff469a498fb8633179e3582ef5619a74b'}
|
Abia State: And the Scam Continues
According to Socrates, if good people don't go into politics and govern the population, they will be ruled by charlatans.
Orji Uzor Kalu
And that was what happened in 1999 when honourable men stood by and watched Chief Orji Uzor Kalu become the governor of Abia State.
After strengthening his grip on power, Orji Kalu started a high wired scam that has remained the albatross to the development of Abia State.
Kalu created a de facto House of Assembly at Nweke Street in Aba; his mother’s residence. His mother, Mrs Eunice Kalu became the Speaker of that House.
Mother Excellency
As such, every political jobber visited Nweke Street to get clearance from Mother Excellency, as she was called, before gaining any political appointment from her son (Gov. Kalu).
In fact, the clearance didn’t come cheap. Mrs Kalu humiliated those politicians that set their feet at Nweke Street including the so called Abia elder Statesmen.
They were made to wash her clothes, sweep her house, and even peel the melons that were used to prepare soup for her. She even extorted money from the credulous.
Nevertheless, after the degradation, they were taken before a shrine to swear an oath of allegiance to Mother Excellency and her son. Most Abians remained speechless and helpless.
But the few who dared talked, simply described the happenings in Abia State as MAMACRACY - government by Mama and for Mama. Obviously, that is not the definition of democracy.
With the exception of Hon. Acho Obioma (Chomen), almost every other political office holder including those that were ‘elected’ in Abia State; passed through Nweke Street and as usual swore an oath of allegiance before a shrine.
T.A Orji
And that was why Chief T. A. Orji, the immediate past governor of Abia State was able to 'win' the 2007 gubernatorial election from his cell at Kirikiri Prison.
A feat only the great magician himself (Orji Kalu) can achieve.
Anyway, T.A Orji having endured so much mortification in the hands of Mother and Son Excellencies, estranged from his godfather – Orji Uzor Kalu.
By now T.A Orji has rediscovered himself and thus, declared to Abians that he has liberated them from the clutches of the Satanic Mother and Son that have been holding Abians to ransom.
That statement was a subtle acknowledgement that his participation in the Orji kalu’s administration involved reading some Satanic Verses – apologies to Salmon Rushdie.
And perhaps, admitting indirectly that he’s the man that featured in the above initiation video, which he has always denied.
All the same, with power and his position well secured, T.A Orji re-branded himself to OCHENDO GLOBAL – whatever that means. He also called himself – the liberator.
In reality, if Ochendo liberated people, then, it is himself and his family. In fact, immediately after his re-election in 2011, Ochendo introduced the biggest scam that made Abians to see Orji Kalu as a Saint that he isn’t.
Like his predecessor, T.A Orji allowed his son to become the de facto governor
Ikuku Ochendo
of Abia State. His unknown son, Chinedu Orji became notoriously known as IKUKU Ochendo.
Ikuku literally means wind in Igbo language. And unfortunately, "the ill wind that blows no one any good" - Shakespeare
And hence, Ikuku started blowing away some powerful politicians and the few that survived the storm started worshipping him and singing his praises. He also admonished them. The Political jobbers got clearance from him before receiving political positions from his father.
The same scheme used by Orji Kalu and his mother, but in all fairness, I never heard that Ikuku or Ochendo took anybody to any shrine to swear an oath.
However, father and son acquired every available property in Umuahia – the State Capital. Their primitive acquisition of wealth was never hidden. Abians knew about it but realised that they have found themselves in yet again, a new type of democracy – SONCRACY - government by the son and for the son.
And so, with power and enormous funds at his disposal, Ikuku was able to impose Okezie Ikpeazu PhD as the current governor of Abia State. And Gov. Ikpeazu has just introduced a new type of scam that’s quite different from what his predecessors practised.
Gov. Ikpeazu in a Bulldozer
Indeed, within 2 days of his tenure, Gov. Ikpeazu was pictured seated in a Bulldozer in Aba where he informed some onlookers that he has contracted some firms to start the reconstruction of Aba roads.
Unbelievably, some Abians have started praising him with all sorts of name-calling such as, my able governor; you are god-sent and etc. They have actually believed his scam.
Let me ask; why would anybody believe that Gov. Ikpeazu awarded a road contract within his 2 days in office? Is it out of sycophancy or ignorance? Awarding contracts without due process?
By the way, where did he get the money from? Does Abia State has any money in its coffers? If the answer is yes, then his starting point should be; paying off the salary arrears the previous administration owed to Abia civil servants.
Well, Gov. Ikpeazu should note: in as much as there is separation of power, but we’ll be failing if we unconcern ourselves with what happens in the States and local government areas - an aspect of Pres. Buhari’s inaugural speech.
In the end, the scam continues in Abia State since I can’t imagine how Pres. Buhari would trouble a State Governor that has immunity from criminal prosecution.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '23', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.981023371219635}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '60030', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:636KOKLPC3Z4YHJ7H525PRCTUZFC2EQM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f36ea43f-03fe-46b8-bd03-bf163662eff2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 53, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.83', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FQOVD5BJVVKWUM2X3K63QYWLCKQFP7AT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7584b27b-747d-4fa9-a0fa-7cb31136776d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.dozideas.com/2015/06/abia-state-and-scam-continues.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:db4a52e5-d8b5-42bd-81f8-b0b3bc258209>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '928', 'url': 'http://www.dozideas.com/2015/06/abia-state-and-scam-continues.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-93-215-43.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.01873314380645752', 'original_id': 'd7c2df1af50b90805edb625e8adf2140850a9bad88ebd911dc1bcc0ec3f4b4dc'}
|
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in April 1949 as a military alliance to protect Western European countries against aggression by the Soviet Union. NATO originally had 12 members including Canada and the United States. The first Secretary-General of NATO said that its goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." However, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, NATO did not close shop. On the contrary, it expanded and became even more contentious. NATO now has 29 members, 12 of whom were formerly associated with the Soviet Bloc. The expanded NATO alliance apparently wants to surround nuclear-armed Russia with military bases and anti-ballistic missile sites.
The failure of NATO to disband after the collapse of the Soviet Union is not surprising. The United States has always been the dominant member of NATO, which has consistently functioned as a military agent of U.S. world domination. This outcome was manifest in the very formation of the NATO alliance. In 1949 (and for many years thereafter), the Soviet Union was still recuperating from the devastating effects of World War II in which it lost 13 percent of its population and most of its industrial plant. Moscow had neither the intention nor the capacity to invade Western Europe.
But NATO provided enduring legal sanction for de-facto U.S. military control of Western Europe and beyond. It was also a military shield for European capitalism. After World War II, strong leftist movements existed in several Western European countries. NATO enabled U.S. armed forces to intimidate and/or suppress any anti-capitalist revolutionary movements in the region. It also allowed the United States to circumvent (and hence weaken) the United Nations, over which Washington never exercised complete control.
NATO is a dangerous, harmful, and thoroughly unnecessary force in the contemporary world. It creates fear and insecurity rather than well-being and political stability. Instead of preserving peace, it increases the likelihood of war. NATO divides our world into hostile military alliances reminiscent of the antagonistic coalitions that fostered World War I. Moreover, the NATO alliance constitutes a lucrative subsidy to weapons-producing industries and hence a huge theft from billions of needy human beings.
A passionate denunciation of NATO is given by Dennis J. Halliday, former United Nations assistant secretary-general (1994-98): "NATO as it expands today is absolutely not what the world of struggling economies and deprived populations require. It is nothing but a negative force. It is undermining an already fragile United Nations. NATO has not been appointed policeman for the globe. It is self-serving, lacks integrity, has demonstrated its leadership cannot be trusted and creates nothing positive. It only yields destruction and human poverty, insecurity and misery. NATO must be abolished!"
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '78', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9580467939376832}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '58670', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:G3C53FJTEO3AAXAEWP33ZOAVHM24RTZS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9fe419e9-747d-42a2-b880-c5cc4dd3eb9e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 25, 4, 25, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.33.53', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:AWIPCRKCNOHXT7RG4PI6WHU7ALRKZ3K7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:88caf8ae-3d89-4278-8e81-a867edc602ca>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_30129027/peace-train-nato-must-be-abolished', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:31c0dbad-a73e-4453-8c24-65eb07bb713d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '461', 'url': 'http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_30129027/peace-train-nato-must-be-abolished', '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': '0.13476645946502686', 'original_id': 'ea5c3cc307007fd9a37f0a309f154259081f0e1b40d7d5a960147f179d5b4f40'}
|
by Peter Moskos
December 13, 2010
Keeping Southie Real (...stupid)
The Boston Herald reports on "several random beatings on perceived outsiders by South Boston punks."
Years ago, late at night, I used to ride my bike through South Boston a lot (the Castle Island causeway was a great destination). But it just so happens that Southie was home to some of the stupidest must heroined-out white people you'll ever meet.
It's like a little bit of South Baltimore right in yuppie Boston, but more racist. I felt more ill-at-east in parts of Southie (and also the white parts of Dorchester) than I ever did in the ghetto. And I'm white!
Going through Southie I had to stay on our toes (inasmuch as you can, riding a bicycle). Local yahoos would occasionally drive by and shout things like, "get a car, you fag!" or maybe throw an empty beer can. It may not sound so bad until you realize how defenseless you are on a bicycle, and how their little "joke" could easily kill you. "Ya honor," they would later say in court, "We didn't mean him to die. We was just kiddin' around, ya know, havin' a good time. We didn't know he was going to fawl off his bike when we bumped him with ah caaah"
Sometimes I'd ride with my roommate after our job at the restaurant ended and the bars had closed. After 2AM the streets were empty. We had a routine--which we still joke about even though we never had to use it--if somebody wanted to run us down for being "bike-riding fags" or some other similar offense. Johnnie, cause he could put on a wicked-thick local accent, would say, "Naw, we ain't fags, this is for the Jimmy Fund! We're doin' it for the retaaaaded kids!"
Anyway, Southie has gentrified quite a bit since the 1990s. But apparently, not enough.
Gotti Rules said...
Hey Pete,
Boy did these guys know you or what? I have known you were a homo for years now and they knew it just from you riding a bicycle. Your lucky I wasn't a cop in Southie, because I would have locked your ass up because I know damn well you didn't have a light on your bike.
PCM said...
You wouldn't have been able to catch me, big boy!
Anonymous said...
You gotta admit, a Hahvahd grad student riding a bike in South Boston at night is kinda askin' for it. No, really asking for it.
PCM said...
It's not like I'm wearing a friggin' Harvard sweater or my bike has a giant glowing crimson H.
Is everybody biking fast through South Boston at night "asking for it"?
PCM said...
You know, that "asking for it" concept kind of pisses me off. What exactly was I asking for? Somebody potentially killing me because I was riding a bike through "their" neighborhood?
I was a fucking glorified busboy getting off work.
What the hell does where I was going to school have to do with anything?
My friend graduated from a suburban community college. Was he "asking for it," too?
Anonymous said...
The community college guy was especially asking for it. He thought he was so much better than the Southies, didn't he? He hit, but he hit soft, i.e., community college. You gotta respect a guy who hits and hits hard, but you gotta crush a guy who hits and hits soft.
PCM said...
Actually, no. He didn't. He's pretty salt of the earth. He's now a bartender who lives in Somerville.
At least now you're cracking me up rather than pissing me off.
While you appreciate all the subtitles of class conflict in Boston and America, I just want to ride a bike without getting killed.
Hit and hit hard!
PCM said...
And just for the record, we are better than idiots who beat up strangers.
Anonymous said...
My intent was to crack you up from the beginning; sorry it took so long.
It goes without saying that Boston brahmin and their hangers-on should be able to bike through any part of the commonwealth with impunity. In the olden days the Southies knew to step aside... lest the goon squad show them the way to the Mystic River's muddy bottom. How far the little empire has fallen.
And the fact that your guy lives and tends bar in Somerville... well, these days that could just mean he's a novelist who hasn't yet combined forces with a bicurious hipster doctoral candidate from the FAS, pooling rent and eyeing choice flats in Porter or Central Squares.
Riding a bike without getting killed was never guaranteed to a man south of the Charles and north of Stonington.
PCM said...
You could get killed for riding a bike in Charlestown, too.
Sorry. I thought you were serious. I'm a bit slow at seeing humor in killing-bicyclists jokes. Because it happens.
And my friend works in Boston. Upscale, too. So there you go.
In Baltimore, bikes were so rare, they didn't know what to make of me ("dang... how does that thing stay up by itself?"). I've never had a problem riding in New York.
I was with my friend the day they put benches in Central Square. It seemed crazy at the time... And then heartbreaking when they tore down the building of the last feta seller in Cambridge (who happened to Ethiopian, right were the buses start). You can't go home again.
Sometimes I miss living in Inman Square. I felt at home in the neighborhood. And I miss the old Abbey Lounge (before it closed and before they had music). When I moved there were about six non-upscale bars on Beacon/Hampshire. Now there are none. "Pete," Steve the bartender at the Abbey once told me, "You'll never find the woman of your dreams in here. You'll be lucky if you find a woman with all her teeth."
Anonymous said...
"...when they tore down the building of the last feta seller in Cambridge..."
Just thinking this thought in South Boston will get you killed dead.
PCM said...
There's going to be a rumble: St. Constantine and Helen versus St. Brigid.
(The Greeks of Central Square are gonna get our asses kicked.)
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '26', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.978440761566162}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '167204', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AWS6DKZ22J55NSLTCX2T625C5KS6FERN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0ce2ee85-498c-467e-bfb1-0f7dda358bfe>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 6, 13, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.83', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TYN44YY6BJR34VXDHWCASXMX2VHOBM3G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:acde8c7b-701e-49e0-a1ca-87218f326b0d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.copinthehood.com/2010/12/keeping-southie-real-stupid.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:cc391800-58e4-422f-b1df-50553e61a9b6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1025', 'url': 'http://www.copinthehood.com/2010/12/keeping-southie-real-stupid.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-152-117-40.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.13285791873931885', 'original_id': 'cde0fc579639af331e1ce3953e5d0367253b98cc8bb3cc1008bb6a58565c1d9d'}
|
Impact of Evolution of Technology in Workplace
Michael McGuire, training and workforce development manager was also interviewed for this research paper, and further elaborated on how technology has impacted learning and teaching in the corporate environment. He explained how a lot of learning in today’s businesses is happening through microlearning, largely due to the evolution of technology. Microlearning, as Michael went on to explain, is short bursts of learning content with concise content that is easy for the reader to comprehend and digest. Companies are using various forms of technology to incorporate microlearning into their organization – a brief article on industry trends, a short video on what to do for a fire drill, or one part to a series of email trainings on regulatory compliance. According to Michael, these microlearning sessions can be more effective than traditional classroom settings because you have the learner’s undivided attention, even if only for a short amount of time. Through its evolution, technology is shaping our workplace, from employers to employees and even prospective job candidates. Technology has transformed how we communicate, manage, and present material in the workplace. The impacts of ever-changing technology, both positive and negative, have been realized worldwide.
Don't use plagiarized sources. Get your custom essay on
“Impact of Evolution of Technology in Workplace”
Get custom essay
For students who will soon be entering the workforce, competency with various technologies is a must for many industries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of the jobs in today’s workplace require some amount of technological skills (Macaulay, 2014). What this implies is that students need to be proficient in a wide range of technologies to be more marketable to potential employers. Microsoft Office applications are some of the most widely used technologies in American businesses today, used for all types of information, including data collection, word processing, and presentation of material. Microsoft PowerPoint, for example, has been installed on over 1 Billion computers and the ability to generate a presentation in PowerPoint “has become an indispensable corporate survival skill” (Dubrin, 2016). Research projects, team assignments, and group presentations assigned in school all help to build those skills for students.
However, just having technological competence doesn’t automatically guarantee an individual a job in a competitive marketplace. Being able to utilize those skills to effectively interpret, analyze, and communicate the outputs of those technologies is equally as important (McMahon, 2013). By strictly focusing on the technology itself, we have the potential to overlook what the technology should enable us to do – convey our information more effectively. Even with the best technology, businesses still need the “human touch”, meaning employees who can translate what the technology is telling us into terms that the average employee can understand. Furthermore, the outputs of those technologies are rendered useless if businesses can’t properly analyze that information and share the results.
The evolution in technology has not only made an impact on those looking to enter the workforce, but also on those who are currently employed. In the United States, technology has transformed the type of work that employees are doing, the methods through which they perform their work, and the amount of work. Companies and managers need to be cognizant of the digital evolution in the workplace and realize the impact that it has on their employees. This topic is important because nearly all companies are impacted by technology in some way, shape, or form, and understanding the benefits of technology in the workplace can help businesses achieve better results.
“The work of the mind is changing as rapidly as the work of hands. Artificial intelligence has the capacity to replace human intellect in almost every routine task” (Wright, 2018). Robotics are being used now more than ever, thus requiring more of the workforce to be skilled in managing computerized systems and also to troubleshoot issues with these systems. Occupations in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields had a 10.5 percent growth rate in the United States between 2009 and 2015, compared to the 5.2 percent growth rate of non-STEM occupations, and are expected to grow even faster in the coming years (Fayer, Lacey, & Watson, 2017). This illustrates the importance of technology in the current and prospective workforce. Businesses need to be mindful of the technological skills required for an agile and competitive workplace.
Technology is not only changing the nature of the work we do, but also how we do our work: face-to-face conversations being replaced with instant messaging, phone calls being replaced with e-mail, and manual calculations replaced with formulas in a spreadsheet. Video and web conferencing are becoming more popular than ever by allowing for live audio and visual feeds to be communicated through a web-based meeting setting (McIntosh, Davis, & Luecke, 2008). This next step in virtual meeting technology has its advantages over just telephone conferencing, including providing visuals to support the topic of discussion and facilitating real-time changes to the presentation content. Many companies are also now utilizing collaboration software for team-based virtual project work, which helps to provide a similar feel of all team members working in the same location. Some features of collaboration software include a virtual whiteboard for brainstorming and thought generation, chatrooms for team discussions, and checklists for daily or weekly team deliverables (McIntosh et al., 2008).
Michael McGuire discussed some thoughts as to how technology has changed the company culture is some businesses. Michael explained that some corporate cultures have become less interactive with the evolution of technology, for example, people sending emails to each other from within earshot. He went on to talk about how email has been used in some companies as means of digital traceability – by sending an email to a colleague rather than talking face-to-face, there is proof that the message or request was sent. This form of communication has taken precedent in some cases because there is a digital record trail and proof of delivery if ever a dispute would arise.
Workplace technology also makes us more digitally connected than ever outside of the office due to the fact that “computer networks allow employees to work from the office, their home, or anywhere” (Cascio & Montealegre, 2016).This interconnectedness has some potential ramifications for employees, however, if not kept in balance. In some instances, having the ability to complete work remotely has created an “always on work environment”, where employees are expected to be always accessible outside of normal working hours (Day, Scott, & Kelloway, 2010). This expectation may be set by the employer or just perceived by the employee, due to the individual’s commitment to organizational citizenship behavior or the norms established by their colleagues (Dubrin, 2016).
So what does the evolution in technology mean for managers? Well, as the old adage states: leadership is something that never goes out of style. Humans still have a competitive advantage over machines in dealing with ambiguity, creating vision or purpose, and motivating employees. Inspiring employees and providing direction requires leaders to use intuition and emotional intelligence in ways machines can’t compute. Technology needs to be a supplement to, not a replacement of, the leadership process (Cascio et al., 2016). Using virtual teams as an example, technology facilitates the interaction of a virtual team whose members aren’t physically in the same location, but the expectations of the leader are the same regardless of if the team is meeting face-to-face or virtually. In order to be successful, the team leader must still foster a collaborative environment, set expectations and milestones for the team, and find creative ways to establish trust between the team members (Wallace, 2004).
Leaders can use technology to their advantage because it has made widespread communication much faster and easier. Leveraging this information, leaders can show recognition to all levels of the organization with the touch of a button. With digital communication streams becoming more prevalent in the workplace, leaders can now recognize their employees through various avenues like mass e-mail, company newsletters, message boards, and blogs. These forms of recognition, like all other uses of technology, should supplement the face-to-face interaction rather than replace it. Many companies now utilize digital appreciation tools to send gratitude and monetary incentives for those who go above and beyond what is expected. One company that specializes in workplace appreciation is O.C. Tanner; by providing online recognition tools to businesses and allowing for personalized messages from the sender, employees can directly give recognition within minutes to any level in the organization (Sine, 2017).
The process of communicating (recognition or any other message) has stayed the same even with the evolution of technology, but the means through which we communicate has changed. Communication, whether it be face-to-face or electronically, involves the source sending a message through some channel (or medium) to a receiver, factoring in the environment and noise within the communication stream, and receiving feedback from the receiver (Dubrin, 2016). Technology has primarily altered the channel through which we communicate. When sending an e-mail, for example, the channel is electronically delivering the message in written form rather than having the sender communicate the message verbally. While this is a faster method to communicate something, it also has the potential to make the message more ambiguous, due to the lack of nonverbal cues. An electronic written message does not indicate the sender’s expression, voice tone, or body language to the receiver. Michael McGuire discussed during the interview that some people will try to “read intent” into an email message – because email lacks the nonverbal cues of traditional communication, sometimes the receiver will interpret the message on how they perceive the message should be read. These perceptions aren’t always accurate however, and because of it, digital forms of communication that lack nonverbal cues are sometimes misinterpreted or misunderstood. Because of this, leaders and managers must be direct with their electronic communications, and ensure to clearly state their message, as to not have their message misinterpreted by their audience.
Proper utilization of electronic communication streams can improve a leader’s to effectively communicate a message. Realizing that people have different learning styles, leaders can use technology to transmit their message in ways so that the entire audience receives and understands it. Learning styles are divided into basically three different approaches – visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, and utilizing all three methods when delivering a message increases the likelihood of reception from the audience (Dubrin, 2016). This holds true with almost any message, regardless of complexity or circumstance. For example, if a leader is introducing a new product line to his or her team, they could show a video or use applicable technology to show how the product is used to appeal to the visual learners, describe its purpose and functionality for the auditory learners, and bring in a prototype for the kinesthetic learners to test out. Leaders need to understand that people respond differently to technology, and should evaluate the appropriate usage of technology based on the audience.
Did you like this example?
Cite this page
Impact of Evolution of Technology in Workplace. (2021, Apr 03). Retrieved September 30, 2022 , from
Save time with Studydriver!
Get custom essay
Stuck on ideas? Struggling with a concept?
Get help with your assigment
Leave your email and we will send a sample to you.
Stop wasting your time searching for samples!
Get unique paper
I'm Chatbot Amy :)
Find Writer
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '19', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9457232356071472}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '161501', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4JNSKWZW353FKDWYDHKRM4HZQE6YD3I4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:985f7ddc-bbdf-4890-8a91-b7346da8e45c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 30, 7, 15, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.195.13', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EBDOI2ZQ7WIPTWSY354JK36HBPMMQFGH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4688bdfe-a19b-40ac-9a7a-4e9d5dac5865>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://studydriver.com/impact-of-evolution-of-technology-in-workplace/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:895b77fd-79d8-4a03-9dcc-e1e47dc12ca6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1914', 'url': 'https://studydriver.com/impact-of-evolution-of-technology-in-workplace/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-88\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-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': '0.028268277645111084', 'original_id': '448609f763619c880d4ce33f57c9875a0b9beddc92c2c6bbf70fb8613cdc5db6'}
|
Heat-resistant Fanset trolleys
27th of January 2015
Trolley systems from Fanset are manufactured in chemical- and heat-resistant polypropylene, in 6 mm thickness. Said to be easy to manoeuvre, each model features tyres capable of transporting up to 100 kg of weight, along with buffer and brakes.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'dc819ad7c62d2e30e25a81d22451650eeac26816f9912f2cc7065132e427e941'}
|
Critical Thinking / 6 posts found
Perspectives on Critical Thinking
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Perspectives on Creations & Problems focuses on the essential difference in perspective between problems and creations.
The Thinker by Rodin
How Critical Thinking Can Make You Happier
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Everyone thinks. It’s a fact of human life. The big question is: How does your thinking affect your life? For a change of perspective on your life, ponder this question to discover if many of your life miseries could be ended by learning how to think critically about how you think.
Leonardo da Vinci Quote on Perceptions
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Leonardo da Vinci claimed this about knowledge and perceptions.
Walter Lippmann Quote on Truth
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Walter Lippmann describes how truth becomes distorted.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Happiness Quote
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identifies the reason why happiness is so hard to find.
Helen Keller Quote on Heresy and Orthodoxy
by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Helen Keller claims this about heresy and orthodoxy.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.80013108253479}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '74696', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GRRVBFKAOJLRXEA2C3T3S7NEWHXVUDZO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b9352d26-20ed-457e-bf9d-ee257f2f810d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 5, 23, 16, 39, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '37.60.255.90', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GFDU4CNQTLQIGYNKXEPKUOOVBOSTZAAN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c92fb0b9-0298-435c-a9cd-cf12f96a7241>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://kalindarosestevenson.com/category/critical-thinking/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3636b3dd-051f-405f-98aa-b8f282d553fa>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '168', 'url': 'http://kalindarosestevenson.com/category/critical-thinking/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-224-210.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-22\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.03520095348358154', 'original_id': '6924a5c625bf1ca76e4a5905852a2d245f358a8b1bb59e07a404e28bbf86d051'}
|
He scattered hot and cold, but as fed, To grow there and to hear: Let me not live, (Thus his melancholy off; began, On the catastrophe and heel of passion, When it was out,) let me not line, After my — lacks eil; to be that An 8 who were apprehensive Yore: 2 disdain; who, Of their garlands, we content Expire who their fashion; — this! he I, after him, do answer him with too, I fear Was, nor yet can bring home,) WALK. dissolved ram el W454 2 Lord. Now you loved, Sir; There, that lost lend it you, shall Par Since the Phygian at your father's died? 55 Was much famed. 15 br. h Ber. Sams six months, since, why flag: 11 King. If he were living, I would try him Lend e an Bra: the rest have worn me duft With several applications; Nature and Sickness Debate it at their leisure. Wale, Coyner, 4 - My son's no dearer. - 3 Your Majesty. Countess at R 6. fe je. Steward 2 Chun. 5'| Ce. J Will now bear; what say you of this gentle woman? "Steward mn, che care I have had to even your cost, I with might be found in the calendar of my men — — Dd — r. "On, then, on, then our eyes and will, Eleartich of CELTS when of our selves and public them." This Sentiment never has again — in eye, Troilus and Crude: The whole follows, we publish them. Count. Well, Sir, does this know? I believe; it is my dear, — — — —, for; 2 = 2 hs wits 7. 8 4. "Cle is n — to y poor, EP 918 1 5 2} "ow 0 Y $ 2 12; 4 Ks #4; FH e > wp pe; 7 1 y rom 8 Count. Well, Sir, 41 g; - „ £5 5 3 <4} I E741; 1 F r5 7 8 * 1 Co. Nog - na un gn so well cher 2 thou many of the rich are dammed but if k have” po. ship's good will to go in rarity 8 | ma and r will do as we may. Count. Well, chou needs be 2 Ce. In Abel case, and mine 10wny- * %% = ge, b think, I shall er have the dioſhog 1 of God, till I have ae f my body; 1 bears- are WV Count. Tell me thy reason why. thou wilt e ch. My poor body, Madam, Return to it. I am driven on by the flesh and he must in ge that = Count. Is this all your 2 | 3 they are. : 3 The FR Cle. has been Madam, | a wic Tr = £. % n » 4 1 ry <- 2x *. 25 1 N. f ; $f: * = Z, f Pre 41 4 - * *. e 2 2 10 chylus; but that Poet has something in Ch eee ee 8 thefts Raſages. 5 » 1 = 1 N > v5 * 4. —engu _ 7 a. 1. 2 AlvGre map 7 _ 2 25725 A 5. Dat to be os OY 5 ff.. SO . ww 6K. * all den and blood are; e in ndeed, I marry, that I may repent. e GOD, Teo .-: Count. Thy marriage, Tooner: than thy. Liebe A. Cle. I am out of friends, Nadanz and I. 3 5 3 Bure friends for my wife's sake. - 25 7 Fs £13 £2 103: 1 bY riſher of my flesh, and blood; he ee cheriſheth m Count. Such friends are thine enemies, RG t why Clo. Ware should, Madam, in great Friends 3 for the knaves come to do that for me, Which I am weary of, he, that cares my land, spares my team, and gives me leave to inne the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my drudge; he, that comforts my wife, is the chest and blood, loves my flesh and blood; he, W loyes my flesh and blood, is my friend: ergo, he, the kiſes my wife, in my friend. If men could be contented to say what they were. For a marriage; for young Charbon the puritan, old Poyſan the prophet, for their hearts are ever'd in religion, their heads are both one; They: wap: Joul: inal together, like any deer ch? berd. Count. Will thou: be a foul-mouthed and a luminous knave? | )))) Count. A propher, 5 Madam; 35 and I. speak the rut the next way OE 20 For I the ballad will ante which men full ie Your marriage comes by destiny, your cuckow fing by kind. Count. Get is gone, Sir, I talk with you more often. S. 9950 57:10 1 aw; Stew. May it 1. jeaſs 3 you, + = vg that he bid Helm come to you; of her I am to speak." Count. Sirrah, tell my nde derben 1 would speak with her, Helen I mean. 5 | Cie. Was this fair face the cause, ind the, (6) Was this fair face the cause, chat it, 8 Why the Greeks sacked Troy 5 Was this n, T9 70 As the sun, chat it, 8 Why he (Griiavy cd Ro VE Ons 5 Fond done, fond done; — for Paris he Huren ek Was this King Priam s jo.. to „ With that she sighed as she spoke rg And gave this sentence then; of HP. Among nine bad if one be good, | © For 60 n e r * 3 * pry It 2. 1 3 ry upon it; Ae 17 155 1 5 x $5.0 223] 17 5 14 14 5 is e id 6 Hts here 5a | 12 10 de 4 1 3 tis evidence. e zd Line is wanting. *The Old Falio's give Us a e. Part of it; but how to supply the lost the Question: Mr. oy WI Kerwe has given us the Fragment honetly, as he found it :. but Mr. Per, hat rather than to, ſeep foun 55 has ſunk. it upon Us. — I communicate wa 10 1 765 Friend e ile I found FLEE Is in the 0 83 #34 3 8 "Jos CE : os IAU A done, dons, JO OTE CG: I 4 29 2 N * ef 5 8 a-. .- this 550 kaum, EDM 346 1 was not. v it Was Pa „ * who was A Jos 4 how e = 15 "whet n this & = ö 2 (whoever She was,) had ſaid, Was this the Face chat rund Troy? to »J th {0 iqe0's ment Ralenite, and ſay, What a fond Derd was : this! — * Priam's My] roger! from him, that was his 1 Joys! bY * ve cut 7 agr "oft the Simplicity of thoſe antient N | Paris es to their Mode of Lochtion. 80 7 « the Genins of the Balla, Hiſtory, | ade Cb l Hine g bable. An 8 upon the enſuing. Keane 7 me EAR our | «tg Demonſtration.” 2 74 245 | I will only ſubjoin, - in Confirmation of my Friend's i Fer re jecture, that, in The Maid in tbe Mill b 5 and 1 | \ Wh # iCapof another old Ballad _ oy e I . cre fe} p ſponding with ours. 3 246 | 2 | And here 207 Paris e * 1 1 99 7255 5 3 $4 28 * 0 —_ "—- e Ae. a 5 „ 6) | ** ave e hows e 75 e hy 1 . 4 ia en.] „ 5. — is a joke — 5 Een that there was One good in Ten. Upon which the — Weg Fe What! = in ten! Von corrupt the, Sirrah. — This shows, chart — was, 2255 only in Ten. Deiphobus, Dins, Hector En 2 2 3 A 4a DI gt 18 * rn 0 n + So _ * —— n 1 n 9 actor; 7 ee he) od 1.2 4 * 5 # ps N 9 Fort TG, Ike © 7 n F [0G 2 * WH ee * gl R * P 4 Fo; *, Le Op Nog 5 / IE; r LOI TIS fs Ker; So. bo GEES 8 I ee EE ( 4 08% n Y n -. 9 IG, F 3 ; 8 2 £ * 3s. 8 14 2 "Tl 2 aa 2 — - 3 5 * - * 5 WW ö 2 a!, 4 * 2 ff 7-2 « - TY b *. Whas, ons en ud = ener * n my which * ri "rh" ſo wou the puny all the year! we'd find no fault with the e tithe - woman, if I Pee the Paragon; one in xen, quoth 0 a'! an we might have a good man born but even | star, or at an earthquake, would mend the Na $073 well; a man may draw his heart out, ere he - Count. Foul be gane, Sir knows, and do as T command you.” Pl Clo. That man that should be at a woman's command, and yet no hurt done! tho' honesty be no tyrant, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplus of humility over the black gown of a big heart: nts going, for smooth, bare is * =o ro 6 9 0 ui. yh Well, now. "560 fadam, you boxe your bene Stow. I know, | Madam man 0 EL 2 dunn, Faith, I PE 1 father bequeath'd her to me; and the herself, without other advantages, may lawfully make title ro as much love as she finds; there is more owing her, than is paid; en ** = paid hers than he'll demand. | e Myſtery. The 24 Sina neu a. 10. er e 40 thro, #1 8 ek nine good, gangs home 2c 1 ee but one bad in n ;ͤk A Vile Continuation of the ; as 6d, of the first Stanza: and it relates with tex. Sons of P "wh | . have themselves well except this Paris. D why * me ten Sons, Bap it not be a d, when univeuld] Tradition has. gin 2 A This I reply, that, at the time of this unfortitude Fan ef his Reign, he Had but ten. To these this Songliar alludes, 'Thej were, dgathon, Ar | Haun,'Higpetheus, Pammon, Paris: 8 Polo, Je seeme partiellanly hamonroud. in the Clown, (and 8 as a Festors) all 8 ) Xs: Ballad, and turn it was Sarcalm | Mr. Warburton. ; song, 5 mw good woman in tem fo al S K mr >. po © wo rr eee e * - r not any stranger. ſenſe. Her matter Wes, R s e a Ly was ogy hs « more de * 8 5 "0. : 1 ] think, ſhe wished me; alone the Was, and did communicate to, ber ſelf her own word to ber on i cars; the + thought, I date vow for her, 9. = „ jour son; Fortune, the said, was no Goddeks, (& that - had put such difference between their two. Love, no God, that would not extend his might, where qualities were level; high; but his eyes, that would suffer the me. Priz d without recuécing in the Feta = 5 terward. This the deliver d in the most bitter tegen of sorrow, that cer I heard a virgin. Crelaim = which I held it my duty | speedily vithal ; sittence, in A. loſs that may happen, ; 608. cerns you something to know it. On Count. You have discharged this honesty; eep it... to your self many like libels informed of this. re, which hung so tottering in wy balances than. I I could neither believe nor misdoubt; pray you, leave: me; shall this in your bosom, and I thank you. For honestly I. 3 e =—— (8) Fortune, d, was no Godless, &c. Laur, 20 Cad, Ke. m- . This r 0. a Love, no God, that. 2 were level, Quan of Wendt here, appear for e ve been co y the Sentence is entirely altered by cher 1 | make but a Botch. | "The Steward. is speal * AP fabjoin, than Low — in the Text? ; Dina 1 Figs, here w ſuffer, be? poor" Reſcue, &c. | For in pete Hide, Diana was us well known to, provide fit, as Cupid over 2 r n 4 Te TVET ** Megs n 1 * 7 8 r - rn 2 * A. 2 ] | 8 *. r. * hd; — KEY 48:55 5 YL g EPP *. % ES TIE %. N 1 0 7 14 Aff el, hw Eu. „ II ahb f. Count. Eva, it was with me, when I was young. If we are nature's, these are ours: this thorn is our love of youth rightly belongs; our blood to us, this to be born; it is the show and seal of nature's truth, where love's strong passion is imprudent in youth; by our remembrances of days foregone, such were our faults, or then we thought them none, her eye is sick on you; I observe her now. Hel. What is your pleasure, Madam? Count. Helen, you know, I am a mother! How do you know, I am a mother! Hel. Mine honorable mistress. Count. Nay, a mother; why not a mother? When I said a bier. Methought, you saw a serpent; what's in mother, that you start at it? I say, I'm your mother; and put you in the catalogue of that were en womanhood mine; it's often seen, I express to you a mother's care. Adoption thrives with nature; and choice of a native tribe to us from foreign seeds. You never hear me with a mother's groan, but I express to you a mother's care: God's mercy! maiden, do's it curd thy blood, to say, I am thy mother? What's the matter, this disinterested messenger of wet. The many-colored words, rounds the way, Why, that you are my father? Hel. That I am not. Count. I say, I am, your mother, Hel. Pardon, Madam. The Count Rouillon cannot be my own son from humble, he from honored name; No note upon my parents, his all — ee lo. My mother, my dear lord, he is; I serve, and will his valet de; he must not be my brother. Nor your mother? If you love me, you are my father. McJù, ua = ac 4A..o ou OvOo2<« _ Aa a 3 Wet % . 1 * OS ; 8 k, Fl. Yori my Hecker, l 2340 rn” A 1 fra ras my, foros your We RS not my Pede 3 Indeed, my mother! r were you both during me here! 1 care no more for, than I do for heaven, - n So I were not his sister: can't no other, a ; But I your daughter, he must be my brother!?P===: > Count, 18 Poles, you bes. + be my agent "i God thield, 3 To mean it not, daughter and mother ö 80 ſtrive upon your purse! what, pale again? 5 ny hath caught your fondness. — Now I = I mystery of your loneliness, and find oe Your tears head; now to all sense tis e ps 1 Vou love my son; invention is a sham'd, nn Against the proclamation of thy passion, 1 7 + To say,” thou doft not; therefore tell he cond; 0 But tell me then, tis so. For, look, thy cherks © Conscience As it is one to the other; and thine eyes see it so groggy shown in thy behavior, that in their kind they speak it: only sin. And hellish obstinacy tie = rongue, MET, That truth should be suspected; speak, it is. If it be so, you've wound a goodly. If it be so, we are. And with some Spleen. I dare warrant, the Poet meant, his old Lady should say no more than This: “I now, on the very day of the month of May, I will write to you, and I will write to you.” For 85 R. I have amended the Text, Lane, 1 Steward, in the foregoing Scene, where I give the Countels Intelligence of Helen's Bebout, says: "A lone, and did write to her, and did write to her. Alone, she was, and did write to her, and did write to her.” The Author has as the Word Londering, to sit alone, again in his Hamlet. "We will be shown our faults: read on this page, ewe 17, 3 1 nn knows of him no mere. My dear, let not your hate encounter with my love, Per loving where you do; but if your self, Whose Honour Cites virtuous youth, Ever in so try a flame of liking. Wim, and love dearly, that aur Was such a good and lone; O'er then, go to her, who's state is such, that cannot be told, and give, where the is sure to love; That forks not to find that, which Search implies, But, on abs, lives sweetly, where the gies Count. Had you an intent? To go to Paris? No. Prog * 9 — 727 * 75 2 1 5 4 £4 <E. W. a 1 4 "Re ny * 3 7 7 4 » 4 f 7 5 Is * 4 2 lt \ 2 N 2 * A 3. 4 Io * E. | ; « „ -, $2. *-4 - * ID „ L 3 3 8 5 N 2 ö * 4, -y £ — 2 8 . : 1 * "07" 1 7 p. 1 a ä x #299. : * as L 6-3 - a V. 4 n : 3 8 65 ks 3h; © 2 2 L ＋ » 44 > 55 Oy EIS "508. A J's PC AE BR Wap - + y. : 7 va A I b ; : *. K+ "3 *, : ; - a 8 ke. 6 a; f cf 8; 8 of 2 8 8 3 * i 1 : -.. = ; : I 2. ny 1 Tel. 2 2 V 2 2 I 4x" ['# *, 18 1 3 : by.” 3 2 n. Y * T Fd as Ne p x 3 + J q „ 3 8 * }. 2 n 55 } : 2, ” A ; * F EST nene by 1 : " #3 8 * % 4 q = * * Hel. I will el pads ray 0 it war; 1 fo a „ You know, my father left me some Preſeriptions, _ 0 Of rare and proy'd effects; such as his wa — And manifest Experience had collected For general sovereignty z and that he will'd me. 5 In heedful’s reservation to be set down, „ As notes, whose faculties inclu’ive.. More than they were in note: among the 1 255 4 There is 8 Remedy, apf roy'd, set down, 5 To cure the desperate la anguilhingsy whereof The King is Re lo Count. This was your motive for Paris, was it, (ou al Hel. My lord your son made me to think of the Elſe Paris, and the medicine, and the King, Had from the conversation of * 3 | Happily been absent then, Z Mes Count. But think you, Hin, If you should tender your. He would receive it 8 2 5 Are of a mind; he, that they 3 5 They, that chey cannot help How ſhall "ti crodit, 3 A poor unlearned Virgin, when the Schools, -' 1 Embowell'd of their rige, _—_ left off | The danger to it (elf? + - BEET Wo ; 1 Hel. There's ſomethin ng e's * More than my father's in, (whi bich was the g xreat t I Of his Profeſſion,) that 9 — Tecapt | Shall for my legacy be f 1 8 By ch luckieſt! 5 in heav'n; and, would .. onour But give me leave to try ſucceſs, 7d yenture The well-loft life of mine on his Orace's yy * ” — 1 N 7 * — ? N x" 2 . eds 8 = . en Ren * By ſuch a day and hour. 5 MY a ; c Count. Doft thou believe t? Hel. Ay * Madam, kno wi. 9 "hy, Helen, cho Ds 1*⁰ my bee OY Means — 8 and u iy loving greet To thoſe 1 mine 1 in Vork. '1 ** at r — in a 2 + Fg. Py F 3231. ; * : * * 5 » 74 > $24) 7. 3 3 8 3 1 5. HO * 58 5 73 * * 45 8: ERP £4 + 7 * N * 2's $6 3 + N 43 +. * ; : 2 ns > Tl 8 3 4 * 9 4 4 N 80. 1 2 4 i r ** ; 1333 8 4 8 9 0 - 1 l 3 gx 4 8 FOE Ep. N £ * 4 uy 1 3 4 wy Lake 25 * % 0 2 # $ 8 * 17 Ys $ # > oy #4 * : * 4 8 GEN E. : the Crs. Viihes.” 5 * bs 2 ; z = a Emer the Bags with divers young * all e i | the Florentine war. — we RAI x FS + : "Ty. * „ E % „ = R F * : : E ; l * „ — — 1 * i E <<» * N y 8 *. 4 f - : 4 2. * g > -. * 5 — 1 "I - f 6 5 4 5 Y * 5. 3 e * 3 f 3:4 Ne - $5 1 MW 4 TR * » pn Ss of 7 " 1 * T7 5 TS 8 it. + 3 F Arewel, young king, Sake: simple; Do not e from Jou: you, -ords, f 8 he 4472 bet wirt you. - If Both. a ain, pho" The doth stretch it wy as 9 cel „ And 2 bh fon bock... = ** 1 Lord. is our h e, Bir, 3 10 5 200 Fin ſoldiers, to return,” „ 2 3 go Grace in health, 2 EO Ss 15 g. no, it cannot bez 2 8 yet my heart 4 Will not confess, it owns the malady That doth my life beſiege; fare well young deu, Whether I live or die, be you the Sons Of worthy French men; (a o) let her Bt (Thoſe bated, that inherit but the Fall 3 WM Of the laſt Monarchy; ;) lee, Fe, 500 come eee lis, (Theſe bated, A 1 Fall” PL, Es ee Of the la Monarchy ) fee, &c.] This NIN node 66 very obscure Paſ of Shateſpeare, and which therefore may very well demand Explanation. I. he time of under t very fern Tenures, 654 Karel, as Wee & the Roman Fa 5 R a — * 5 1. - XY «. Ae T n 4 >, W a TO SS on YE a NS gle Oi . F 8 ee 12383 SSS FS ? my => Not to woo Bonds but to wed it; Wilen 539.3. 7, oh The brave Guestant shrinks, find What you” feel. That Fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. 1, 2 Lord. Health at your bidding serves your Majesty! Lig. Those girls of Nah, take heed of them. They say, our French lack language to defy you, If they demand: beware of being deceived. Before you serve, buy 15 a 8 Both. Our hearts receive your warning; Ling. Come hither to me. 85 Lord. Oh, Lord, that you will stay. Bind us! Par. It is not his fault; the spark. 2 Lord. Oh, it is brave wars. Par. Most admirable; I have seen those wars. Par. I am commanded here, and kept a coil. Too young, and the next year, and it is too early. The An thy mind stand to it, boy, steal away. Shall I stay by the forchor's to a mop? Creeking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till Honor be bought, and no sword worn. But one to dance with heavy u, ill steel away. See another; and the Third was of free States. Now the way; men is meant the Romans, 2515 of the four general Monarchies, who in the Fall of this Monarchy, in the Scramble, several cities set up for them. Now the rest might Be said properly to inherit the Fall of the Monarchy. But the Emperor could not be said to inherit the Fall of the onarchy, any more than a Son, who inherits an impaired Estate, could be said to inherit the Fall of his Estate. Much less could. the Pope, by a Donation in the Times of its Duration, be ſaid to do — This being premiſed, now to the Senſe. The King ſays, Higher Italy ;= giving it the "Bank of Preference to France; but he corrects himſelf and ys, I except Thoſe from that Precedency, who only inherit the Fall of the laſt Monarchy ; as all the little perty States; for inſtance, Florence to whom theſe Voluntiers were going. As if he. had ſaid, E give the Place. of Honour ts the Emperour and Pope, but not to the free States. All here is clear; and tis exactly Shakeſpeare's Mannes „ Who lov'd to ſhew his 5 on ſuch Occaſions. 15 Mr. Warburton. * — * 1 Lord * i 2 « ＋ 2 9 - , * * * 2 , ; * the Fall of n Eſtate: Tho thoſe, who had defrauded the Fa- 5 wet Lord. + Ther ee hel. e it it, Count. | Lam your acceſſary, and ſo f a Welt. ſ ; oo * Wer LP: N Abet x 5 Pareieg. is; 2 | ta Ty hy rl! — 8 EY good Sp and — hy kr word. 1. nd i th bi i cicatrice, an emblem of l of me 72 Lord. We ſhall port Gap rain; 7 , Mars dogs on you for "his force! EY will . ag; the. Kin 1 MDA WER. Lord ; U r ious c o the noble NT: you haye refran'd your ſelf wony to the lift. too cold un be more expreſſive ta them, f they wear t — 1. 11 a ts of the time ; there, & muſter true Wo ent, f. nd moye under the in- 4 of the moſt 7 2. and tho' the devil lead the meaſure, ſuch are to 15 h _ _ and take a more dilated farewel. 1 | | ber) You ball nd is the Regiment his Cicatrics, an Emblem of War ſurgrining, News of the Lade could ſhe that s fl ht Tran neceſfary here, when there is not common in the 5 Pat bande without uch Tranſpoſition. Parelles only meam, Ihall find ons C 3 Camp with a Scar on his lef Koop of wer y Sword gave him.” Our Poet has en: For i — 7 5 en in other ee ou 1%; | | 1 1 if wfon a RA. 2 Ci {bo and capable 1 e e the 6 61 ini * Captain 8 7 ON iter Cheek i} It is aan 515 n hon K — . . | . Since r ker bets — ant red A to | * —_ 7 ew e Bu. And I wall bf 1 75 4 8 Ce Paß. Worthy 3 and like 6 e 0 Laf. Parde a my Fond; for ine and, for King. Pl fee thee to ſtand up. ' Then here's a man ftands, tl al rdon. you Bad Knedl'd, my lord; i ak me an that at my bidding Jen could fo find up. King. L would, I had; io T had broke thy Pate, And ask'd thee mercy for't. Good faith, acroes; dor ty bed thn 'Tis he; Will Low be cur of Ye, My Pa of 5 could reach chem: Med cin, That's able to 0 breite lite into an What her is this?” 4 85 27 5 0s Doctor-she: r If you will Ne her; now, by n If seriously I convey | ges In this my 1 1 have” Pe With pas Ap at-m her sex, her Wisdom and FB hath EIS. 12 A y;, but a Person 5 On Acer — ay Ee 8 12 Wiy, Doctor Sue; — and urin #0 het Mt 5 n ee aw weaknesses, 1 will eo IE, That done, laugh well at me. King. Now, good Lafeu, _ | Bd N Bring in the admiration, that we with ide" 15 55 59 May spend our wonder too, or take pi; "og 'By ting bow thou took'ft it. h y Pl fit you B51 Aoi not be all day neither. 0750 Lau. Thus he his special Nothing er ever prologues. . [Returns. 5 N come Tong ways. [Bringing in + Helen This haute hath wings, indeed. | 1 Nay, come your ways, | his is his Majesty, say your mind to him; A traitor "yr do ook like; but such traitors... His Majesty Smy, I'm Crefid's Uncle, that dare leave two together; fare you well. TIM King. Now, fair One, do's your hag Fallon will. Hel. Ay, my good Lord. Gerard de Narbon was my Father, I would. In what he did profess, well found. Ling. I knew him. Hel. The rather will I ſpare, my. RM 3 Tg Knowing him, is enough: on's bed of 1 1 Many Receipts he gave me, chiefly one, "got Which as the deareſt iſſue of his practice, And of his old experience th only Darling, He bade me ſtore up, as a triple eye, Safer than mine own two: more dear I have ſo; " | And hearing your high Majeſty is touched 2 With that malignant cauſe, wherein the honour Of my dear Father's gift — chief in e + I come to tender it, and my nee | With all bound humbleneſs. 1 Lk We thank you, Maiden; ut may not be ſo. credulous of Cure, hen our moſt learned Doctors leave us; and The congregated College have concluded, That * Art can never ranſome Nature * Pa rom — "+4 13. o Wart * „ * EF. For that is her Demand, and know her del Pl - 88 cr. £m. erg 208 2 = 5 FLY = *» —. 2 cud From ber unaidable eſtate: we muſt not So ſtain our judgment, or corrupt our hope To proſtitute our paſt- cure mala ith | To empericks 3 Or to. diſſever ſo 1708, Lain $0033 11 "oth Our great felf and our credit, to D Sr 2 A ſenſeleſs. help, when help paſt ſenſe we deem. Hel. My duty then ſhall pay me for my pain J will no more enforce mine ofſſice on vous Humbly intreating from your royal thoughts King. I cannot give thee leſs, to be call'd grateſuß z Thou thought ſt to help me, and uch thanks I give, As one near death to thoſe that with him live; 1211 But w hat Ar full | I : know, t hou., know ſt no part * | I knowing all my peril, thou no arr. » wx * P- 52 * 1 1 1. „ STE > $S-k# Hel. What I can do, can do no hurt to try Since you ſet up your Reſt gainſt remead : He that of greateſt Works is finiſher, „ We Ait iT Oft does. them by the weakeſt mister? So holy Writ in Babes hath judgment ſno wn, When Judges have been Babes; great floods have flown, From ſimple ſources; and great ſeas have dryd. When Mir'cles have by th”. greateſt been deny d. Oft expectation fails, and moſt oft there Where moſt it promiſes: and oft it hits ” Where hope is coldeſt, and deſpair, moſt ſits. King. I muſt not hear, thee z fare thee, well, kind * : oa ef NBER SY" 4 A OX Thy pains, not us'd, muſt by thy ſelf be paid 7 ; * n * „ 7 1 . + 64 4 5 * 2. * fi . LEES ES > Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their reward. 1 Hofer ' N Hel. Inſpired merit 0 by breath is barr d- of Il is not fo with him that all things knows. As it is with us, that we quarre our guess by how: But most it is presumption in us, when The help of heaven we count the act of men. Dear Sir, to my endeavours, give consent. Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. I am not an imposter, that proclaim my Myself against the level of mine aim. But In common sense, Art is not power, nor cure. Art is not glory. Hop thou my cure? The greatest Grab tending mingp, Ring Ere twice the horses of the rp, Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring; Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Most Heurts Heurts hath 'd his flee! Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass. Hath told the thirteen minutes how they had been informed from your sound parts. Health shall live free; and if you, without knowledge, can find it, you will find it. What do you venture? Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name seemed other, no worse of worst extended. With vile torture let my life be ended. Methinks, in thee some blessed Spirit doth fed his powerful soul, within an organ weak; and impossibilities would slay, some savage ways. Thy life is dear; for all that life can rule, worth name of life, in thee hath estimate. The happiness and Prong can be happy, thou this to hazard, needs must estimate skill in science, or not. Youth, beauty, sublimity, virtue, and skill in life. All that is better than death, then, thou hast a daughter, than death. Daughter, than death, of the eyes, an think I. Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, and all. This verse is 125. De OY OD &@. 2? Direct Pra, Fr vhyſick 10 will 177 that mine own death; If I die; of 2 Hel. If I break time, or flinch in property of what if kept, unpitied 155 me die, And well def > of helping, death's 1 *I feeg = But if I help, what do 8 Promise me?” y oe nan King. (14 Make thy eee Hel. But Will you r 1 Ling. Ay, by my Scepter, May hips of E Hevn, Hel. Then shall thou give me: which thy kin I hand, What Husband in thy power I will command. Exempted be from me the arroganee To choose from forth the royal blood of Fran i ND. My low and humble name is Fass ate all Fit: ATSC With any branch or image o — 5 20 Unt But such a one thy vastness, whom I know | BA ION $1 Is free for me to ask, thee to be shown; ox. King. Here is my hand, the remises observed. Thy will by my performance all be served: „att So, make the choice of thine own-ꝗ timo 1er I, W Th y reſolv'd Patient, on thee still rely. With whom? More should I question, thee; and more I walls! Oh, more to know, could not be mort to trust? From whence thou came, how tended on, but unquestioned: welcome, and undoubted blessedness. From whence thou came, how tended on, but unquestioned: Unquestioned: Welcome, and undoubted blessedness.
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-shakespeare_shakespeare-william_1733_2_21', 'collection': 'English-PD', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '1733.0', 'title': 'The works of Shakespeare: in seven volumes. Collated with the oldest copies, and corrected; with notes, explanatory, and critical: by Mr. Theobald. 1733: Vol 2', 'creator': 'Shakespeare, William', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '5972', 'token_count': '8166', '__index_level_0__': '34777', 'original_id': 'a54d9856ff4881a9e23bd5cc513f89877e165ea303928ccfc08251523a1782cf'}
|
Site Mobile Navigation
Vanities, and Hungry New Yorkers
At Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, demand has increased significantly.Credit
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
This past week the New York Public Library acquired the papers of Tom Wolfe for the sum of $2.15 million. The material, which fills about 190 boxes and includes correspondence between Mr. Wolfe and his tailor, was paid for largely with a private donation, and while the figure is hardly exorbitant in the realm of cultural philanthropy, which vastly outpaces social-service philanthropy, it represents more than twice the amount of the biggest gift ever made by an individual to the Food Bank for New York City. The all too obvious irony is that it is just this sort of fracture in the city’s psychology that might find trenchant expression in a piece of writing by Tom Wolfe.
While it arguably strains fairness to impugn the generosity of New Yorkers, who demonstrate exceeding largess, charity here is more closely tied to self-promotion than to the anonymous doing of good works. Although it is one of the largest food banks in the country, supplying food to more than 1,000 pantries and soup kitchens, and although it has been in existence for three decades, the Food Bank received its first $1 million donation from a private citizen only two years ago, and it came from a foreigner who had moved here and become appalled at how little the affluent classes seemed to understand problems of native poverty and hunger.
There is virtually no more immediate way to affect the lives of the poor than to give to the agencies that help feed them, especially now when need has so greatly escalated. As a result of cuts to SNAP, the federal food stamp program, which went into effect on Nov. 1 (and precede further potential reductions of $4 billion to $40 billion), food pantries are already experiencing mounting burdens. One of the city’s largest, the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger in Brooklyn, has seen more than a one-third increase this month in the number of people coming in, compared with November of last year. Another, the New York Common Pantry in East Harlem, was seeing a 25 percent rise during the five months before the cuts.
Even before the cuts went into effect, matching supply with demand presented wounding challenges. According to a study of emergency food program participation released by the Food Bank last month, there are 100,000 more New Yorkers relying on these services today than six years ago, while there are fewer pantries to serve them. In another sign of distress, the term “emergency” now seems misapplied.
When the Food Bank was created in 1983, its founders foresaw a life span of merely a decade or so, in which the organization would primarily serve homeless men. Instead it functions today largely to assist working families, Margarette Purvis, its president, said, and 60 percent of those surveyed for the Food Bank’s study reported that they had been coming to a particular soup kitchen or pantry for more than a year. This notion that hunger has come to exist as the status quo is reflected in a 2010 analysis conducted by the national organization Feeding America, which supplies food to local food banks. The study revealed that the majority of clients in the group’s network were visiting food pantries not for temporary assistance but for continuing sustenance.
And sustenance is broadly defined. If you visit the New York Common Pantry on a Wednesday morning, you are quite likely to find men lined up for haircuts, as pantries find themselves forced to evolve into purveyors of more than groceries and sandwiches. The poor have come to depend on pantries for diapers, shampoo, paper towels, toothpaste — the sorts of products that are costly, necessary and typically not covered by food stamps.
What further complicates matters in the world of food relief is the increased complexity of sourcing. In the early days of food pantries, much of what came in arrived in the form of canned goods, but the country’s growing investment in nutrition has meant that relief groups strive to supply more fresh fruits and vegetables now, which requires them to incur greater costs of refrigeration. At the same time, the buying patterns of grocers have become ever more sophisticated, meaning that they can more closely predict the number of pears, for instance, that they can sell, leaving less overstock available for donation. (At the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, “the produce coming in is at compost level,” Melanie Samuels, its executive director, said, which isn’t entirely useless because the organization runs an urban farm.)
Another trend that has developed over the past decade is the diversion of food to secondary markets. Food close to its expiration date, which otherwise might have found its way to a food bank or pantry, is now sold to dollar stores or countries where regulation may be less stringent.
In this country at this time of year, many of us are called to the food drive, the ritual of delivering canned cranberries, or turkeys or breads to a designated location from which they must be transported to a warehouse and then sorted, edited and so on. This, too, isn’t quite as simple as it may seem, presenting the problem of what Ms. Purvis calls “high touch,” the involvement of too many hands driving up costs and reducing efficiency.
As it happens, there is little to surpass the efficiency of money. While it may feel more intimately virtuous, more morally instructive, to tell a small child that you’ll be packing up food for the needy and taking it to school, it may ultimately be more effective just to have that child sit and watch you write a check.
EMAIL: bigcity@nytimes.com
A version of this article appears in print on November 24, 2013, on page MB1 of the New York edition with the headline: Vanities, and Hungry New Yorkers. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '9daf9def51d79722a9d90069aa989055ae2f8c3cadd1b12ad819b4add633e717'}
|
Standing Rock controversy triggers local reactions
Kathryn Nicolai, Staff Writer
The escalating conflict at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation regarding the construction of the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) elicited a strong reaction from several University students as well as central Pennsylvania residents who support the protests.
As most students returned home for Thanksgiving break, Joseph DiBartolo ’19, Emma Downey ’18, and Fern Morrison ’19 drove over 24 hours on Nov. 18 to the Rosebud Camp, one of the several existing encampments where protesters have gathered since August to oppose DAPL’s construction. The students slept in a tent, adapting to the culture and habits customary of the indigenous space until Nov. 23.
Downey said the camp was “very organized,” with orientation meetings every morning and a legal services tent which provided forms for every visitor in case of arrest, and a bail fund so every person arrested could be bailed out.
Throughout the five days, Morrison spent her time “painting signs, sewing, washing dishes, working to spread news from camp to camp, talking with new people, going to meetings and participat[ing] in an action [protest],” Morrison said.
Downey said she met people at the camp from Germany, the United Kingdom, and across the United States, with varying social, religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds.
Local 66-year-old political activist Gene Stilp of Middle Paxton Township, Pa., is known for numerous public advocacy lawsuits against the government of Pennsylvania. Stilp arrived at a legal operation center in the Bismarck area of North Dakota less than a week ago to give legal assistance to protesters who had been arrested. Stilp said he has been monitoring the Standing Rock controversy over the past six months. He talked with attorney Chase Iron Eyes from the Sioux Tribe and visited the site after hearing their requests for legal assistance.
“Half the battle is just showing up,” Stilp said.
Members of 300 different indigenous tribes attended the protest at the Standing Rock Reservation, according to Stilp. The people whom Stilp will assist are given a public defender, advised to plead innocent, given a $200 bail and will go to trial on Jan. 17. Stilp calls charges brought against peaceful protesters “ridiculous.”
The students who visited the Rosebud Camp stated that police used tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and fire hoses against protesters in freezing temperatures.
“I saw a couple on their knees in prayer near the police barricade, and a cop came up and sprayed them mercilessly with pepper spray. They remained on their knees in quiet prayer until they could not take it anymore, and then had to walk away. If that doesn’t move other people, if that doesn’t make you question the real purpose of police, the purpose of a pipeline, the purpose of humanity—I’m not sure if we’ll ever be able to move forward to a better, more progressive society,” Downey said.
Morrison reported being among a crowd of peaceful protesters who were tear gassed.
“I was shocked by the illegal, inhumane actions of the very people that are supposed to be ‘protecting’ our rights as citizens,” Morrison said.
According to Stilp, DAPL opponents argue that its construction threatens to pollute the reservations’ main sources of water. He argued that aquifers, rocks that can contain or transmit groundwater, would be easily susceptible to leakage and pollution from the pipeline. The notion “water is life” was emphasized by Stilp and has become a rallying cry for those who oppose the pipeline. Downey accredited her motivation to protest in person to this phrase.
“Water is pure, it gives life, cleanses, and is required for all living things. Oil pollutes, it kills, and essentially represents every social ill,” Downey said.
Both the students and Stilp viewed the strong reactions to the controversy as an indicator of the widespread problems regarding both environmentalism and racist attitudes toward indigenous peoples. Stilp argued that oil companies are the root of many environmental and cultural problems dating back to the Eisenhower administration, and that this specific battle is far-reaching. He referenced Pennsylvania residents’ apathy towards the implications of fossil fuels. Towns such as Shamokin Dam and Hazleton still produce coal which, according to Stilp, is “a dead industry.” Stilp condemned those serving for Pennsylvania’s 10th and 11th districts for ignoring the severity of climate change.
The conflict is not about stopping a pipeline, but is instead about “stopping pollution, stopping racism, stopping corporations from choosing money over people, and exposing the complacency of our government,” Downey said.
Stilp sees this battle as one between morality and greed. Through peaceful action and public knowledge, he believes this can be resolved on the side of morality.
(Visited 233 times, 1 visits today)
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9456635117530824}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '165570', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FT6QBT5T6W62PXUN54J3TOO5N624W2ZH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2fda74f1-c485-4eb1-8648-ebc2cc227f50>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 30, 0, 36, 55), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.142.119', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VFR5P4KN2I3VBM7FECUCXWUIQELIO4GY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:101cc9b6-e1b1-4905-a512-703a86e3fd9d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://bucknellian.net/70905/news/standing-rock-controversy-incites-local-reactions/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:37706db2-c85a-496d-b779-f09f5b9184a2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '741', 'url': 'https://bucknellian.net/70905/news/standing-rock-controversy-incites-local-reactions/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-88\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-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': '0.06428056955337524', 'original_id': 'ba17e9ba443a780663148ee46cd88790837fcf252885a2a26ddd7cb161827ab4'}
|
notifications are annoying
• Ok,
I have a huge problem with the notification badges. I for example switch back to Photoshop, flux is setup to be disabled for this of course, so it tells me this in the lower right side. Problem is I just wanted to click on some settings in Photoshop this notification is now blocking:
1: the notification is not all the way at the bottom, there is a small gap, but this gap is still blocked by flux, I can't click the menus of Photoshop visible underneath it there
2: since my mouse is now hovering over the notification flux thinks I like it and wont fade it out, have to click it away manually
3: gets really annoying when switching between different windows to be told every time "flux is disabled for program x" when I was just checking something in the broweser for a 2nd or did something on my desktio
4: it seems sometimes those notifications are randomly appearing "disabled for chrome" which I never did, and the program isn't even adjusting for it (which of course is right since I didn't define that exception)
• They're aware of this and are looking at solutions for a future update.
Regarding #2, that's Windows, not f.lux. F.lux is simply using the notification system in Windows (which is why that area is called the Notification Area). That's how Windows reacts when you hover over these kinds of notifications. It's set up this way so that you can prevent a notification from fading away before you're finished looking at it. It's just a Windows thing, not f.lux, and no you can't change it.
• fixing, it will be one time per session in next build.
Log in to reply
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9646187424659728}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '42360', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EF636LPX6P73DWXVW5IAMCXCPTBTA74N', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:56d7fefd-6c47-419e-9c37-0188f16a862f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 20, 21, 29, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.176.200.22', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2Y2K22K5IPATLGM2YSXIN6E7IDO2VVC6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a701351e-b679-42ee-8775-4166ae485703>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/3767/notifications-are-annoying/1', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c4d449b4-dd19-4980-ab72-d95ab324609d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '285', 'url': 'https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/3767/notifications-are-annoying/1', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-170.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06436485052108765', 'original_id': 'c03c691b727d2746f38c003045ce7dd18c8eb10e2dddc1fb1b12cf8befbe3e67'}
|
\section{Floor Function/Examples/Floor of Minus One Half}
Tags: Examples of Floor Function, Floor Function
\begin{theorem}
:$\floor {-\dfrac 1 2} = -1$
where $\floor x$ denotes the floor of $x$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
We have that:
:$-1 = -\dfrac 2 2 \le -\dfrac 1 2$
and:
:$0 > -\dfrac 1 2$
Hence $-1$ is the floor of $-\dfrac 1 2$ by definition.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
|
math_pile
|
{'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': '1d9ce210185bd1ec4217d92fdc417818f14f291769f6c23db071183d3eedc5b0'}
|
Why would a prime minister with a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament go to the polls two years early? While Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is experiencing a slump in the polls at present, it is two years away from having to front the electorate if the normal electoral cycle is followed. If we scratch the surface it is not difficult to find reasons why Abe has taken this extraordinary step. But what really needs explaining is why Abe is risking so much in the process.
Abe's justification for the snap election is to seek a mandate to delay a planned increase in the consumption tax from 8% to 10%, originally scheduled for October 2015. This is a flimsy excuse indeed, given the LDP's overwhelming majority in both houses of parliament. The Government can revisit the consumption tax legislation and get it through whenever it pleases.
The real incentive for Abe here is to placate the party's rank and file, for whom the April 2015 round of local elections across the country loom large. Japan has just officially gone into recession, voters in the regions have not seen the benefits of the quantitative-easing aspect of Abenomics, and their wages are not keeping pace with inflation. When asked if they want to delay the planned tax increase, most voters will yelp 'YES' in response.
There is self-interest at play also. Abe is scheduled to face his own party in September 2015 in the election for the presidency of the ruling LDP. With an electoral slump in April, Abe could easily be blamed for diminishing the LDP's fortunes through the failure of Abenomics, the policy that bears his name. Abe could be tossed out as prime minister if he is not returned to the presidency of the party.
From this perspective then, the December election starts to look like a self-serving attempt to provide a democratic sheen to what is essentially a spot of internal party trouble.
We can also see that, by interrupting the electoral cycle, the LDP will avoid confronting a hostile electorate in both houses of parliament in the same year (2016), thus limiting the fallout should the economy remain flat.
Cynics will point to the fact that the LDP under Abe is clever to time this election for December, because it is difficult to recall a time when the opposition parties have been in greater disarray than they are at present. But this where the spectre of political risk enters the picture.
With several small opposition parties locked in self-defeating hostilities against each other, the LDP is literally the only political force capable of winning power in its own right. But there is another political entity that needs to be taken into account – the non-aligned voter. The LDP is sitting on only 41% approval ratings; 38% of the country supports no party.
So the real contest in December is not between the LDP and the rest but between the LDP and no-one. Voters can express their democratic dismay at the lack of a viable choice by simply staying away from the polling booth. If less than 50% of the electorate turns out to vote, Abe's resort to the fig leaf of democracy will be exposed.
Moreover, he may lose his precious two-thirds majority in the lower house, now that the electorate is really able to react to the policy agenda that has only been revealed after the last poll in 2012. The post-electoral moves by the Abe cabinet to reinterpret the pacifist clause of the constitution to allow for collective self-defence, and his determination to re-start Japan's nuclear power generators, will now receive the electoral scrutiny they deserve.
Abe wants to claim a mandate for Abenomics before economic policy failures become too entrenched by asking voters to answer an easy question: do you want to delay a tax increase? But voters may flex their democratic muscles in quite another way, slicing the LDP's majority and undermining the very notion of a mandate, by staying at home on election day. This is the political risk Abe has chosen to face off against in December. And it is a huge risk, given that this is an election Japan simply did not have to have.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9727491736412048}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '35941', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3WI3PXP6Q34KGJMWB5W4WLBFX25CVZW3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:16228d8b-ef21-44c2-88fc-c0e5548d0189>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 14, 8, 30, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.252.93.100', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6YO3TG2Q5X6ATJA2SPQFW4R7YIFA3SCB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:02eb48f6-bc91-47f1-a2ef-50776090120e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/the-interpreter/shinzo-abe-risks-ire-disaffected-voters', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dbbad579-5c25-46ab-8ee8-1a299ba616cd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '704', 'url': 'http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/the-interpreter/shinzo-abe-risks-ire-disaffected-voters', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-116.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09610050916671753', 'original_id': 'ca70299ac1fb6ee117597eb152343bd660b1377d4d7f0b626e087b06da68dcd2'}
|
os: ruckuswireless-hotzone
text: 'Ruckus Wireless HotZone'
type: wireless
icon: ruckus
mib_dir: ruckus
over:
- { graph: device_bits, text: Traffic }
- { graph: device_wireless_clients, text: 'Number of Clients' }
discovery:
-
sysObjectID:
- .1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.3.1.4
poller_modules:
wireless: true
discovery_modules:
wireless: true
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '5e7809e548b500ce973ebc930ddd29df3262b51ccf73712991fe4629b52078f9'}
|
Who Profits from Ukraine’s War
To start with, an explanation is needed for this article’s sheer length:
The civil war now raging inside Ukraine is a turning-point in world history, regarding many different respects:
For one thing, this civil war was produced as the direct result of the 2014 coup in Ukraine that was carried out by the Obama Administration in much the same general way that the Eisenhower Administration had carried out the 1953 coup in Iran that installed the Shah there, but the impact of Obama’s Ukrainian coup will be even bigger long-term than that earlier one produced (and we all live with that earlier one even today after the Shah’s overthrow in 1979), because this one will either extend “the American Century” or else end it. (“The American Century” is the period of the U.S. dollar’s serving as the global reserve currency. Americans living today tend to take that for granted, but so too did the Brits when the pound was king, until their Empire collapsed.) (And see this, for a shocker on the global-reserve-currency matter: the battle over this matter could actually split the Western Alliance itself.)
And, thirdly (and we won’t go beyond three), Obama’s coup’s being right next door to the other major nuclear power, Russia — which is its real target — actually does pose the danger of a nuclear war between these two countries as a very possible outcome, which would destroy all of civilization. None of our earlier coups presented any threat of a nuclear war.
So, this report will be lengthy on account of the sheer historical magnitude of the stakes here.
An actual ethnic-cleansing — a campaign of “either leave or else die” — is occurring right now inside Ukraine as a direct and intended consequence of a decision that was made by, and that is continually being reinforced by, Barack Obama. From the standpoint of Obama, the ethnic cleansing is not being done with any specifically genocidal (or “racist”) intent; but, at the bottom levels (the level of the troops who are carrying it out) there indeed is a very strong ethnic hatred of the Russian-speaking population, and so it is overtly naziistic (or hate-driven fascism) at those lower levels. The focus of the present article is on the motivation of the deciders, the aristocratic psychopaths at the top of the operation, and not on the motivation of the far-more-numerous sheer bigots at the bottom. No one can understand an organized campaign like this if the focus is on motivation anywhere other than at the very top, since that’s what actually led the operation. Even if the riots here might look as if they were unplanned, they were highly organized, carried out with strict discipline at the very top — as will here be demonstrated.
A 41-minute documentary has been produced and is online, “Ukraine Crisis Today,” interviewing “terrorists” (as our side calls them) who have been bombed by the Ukrainian Government. We — that is, the United States — installed this Ukrainian government, on February 22nd, in a coup (falsely presented as a democracy movement, but run actually by the U.S. CIA and two Ukrainian fascist parties) against Ukraine’s democratically elected President, Viktor Yanukovych. The government that we installed is now bombing the areas of Ukraine where the voters had voted overwhelmingly for Yanukovych, in Ukraine’s last national election, which took place during February 2010. Our side calls the residents of the Yanukovich-supporting areas “terrorists.” Those are the people our Ukrainian regime bombs.
Professor M.F. de Noli, of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, is the first person to fit the parts together to explain the profit-interests that are behind the February 22nd coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democracy, and that replaced it with a government controlled by a coalition of two nazi parties and two fascist parties. (The difference between these two respective ideologies is that nazism is the specifically racist form of fascism. The current government of Ukraine is 100% fascist, but it’s not 100% nazi. So, that’s the ideological background behind the civil war in Ukraine: both types of fascism run the government there, after Obama’s Ukrainian coup in February.)
Writing at professorsblog.com, this great historian, Dr. de Noli, noticed that whereas in “Berlin 27 Feb 1933, Nazis set fire the Reichstag, and Adolf Hitler blames ‘pro-Russian gangsters’,” a chief instigator of the 22 February 2014 Ukrainian coup was a leading Swedish nazi, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, and that a remarkably similar tactic was used by Bildt and the Obama Administration to start the Ukrainian civil war. De Noli notes that this war was sparked and made inevitable when in “Odessa 2 May 2014, nazis set fire [to the Trade] Union building and Carl Bildt blames ‘pro-Russian gangsters’.” In both of the two instances (first, with Hitler, and then with Obama), a “false-flag operation” was employed in order to confuse onlookers regarding which side the perpetrators of these fires and explosions actually were on. For example, in the Odessa event, the thugs wore armbands with anti-nazi insignia but were actually from the two Ukrainian nazi parties, Svoboda and Pravy Sektor. They used those armbands in order to confuse onlookers to think that the people who were setting fire to the anti-nazis were themselves anti-nazis. This was a very carefully planned operation, and you can see here and here, video documentation of the thugs who did it and who are still doing violent false-flag operations inside Ukraine: these people are Ukrainian nazis, not German ones, but they model themselves upon the German original, as you can see from their own insignia, which are shown in those videos, and which insignia vary little from the swastika and the SS symbol. Ukraine’s nazis are rather bold about modeling themselves upon Hitler’s Nazis — the original nazis.
The more-elementary background isn’t provided by de Noli, and so I’ll just summarize it here (although I have done it previously): The U.S. was backing Ukrainian nazis, even before Barack Obama became the U.S. President, so Obama was continuing George W. Bush’s policy on this (as on so many other matters). Actually, the CIA was advising Ukraine’s nazis (both of its two nazi, or racist-fascist, parties) at least as early as 2004, under Bush’s regime. Due to this, for example, one of Ukraine’s two nazi parties, the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine (inverting Hitler’s “National Socialist Party of Germany), changed its name to “Svoboda” or “Freedom,” in order to make it seem more appealing to the rising numbers of American libertarians or supporters of “freedom” or “liberty” (a slogan heavily promoted by America’s aristocracy, who crave liberty only for themselves: liberty from and against democratic government, such as freedom from regulatory agencies — aristocrats tend to hate democracy, because it regulates them and so provides some modicum of accountability, which threatens them, and they cannot stand any accountability, at all). Svoboda is one of the two Ukrainian nazi parties in the country’s present four-party ruling coalition, and the other two parties are merely fascist. The other nazi party is called “Right Sector,” which is a phrase by which the party refers to itself as being right wing, instead of as being “libertarian” or “pro-business” or “free-market.” Though these two nazi parties market themselves slightly differently, they’re actually pretty much the same.
A good background-article from Greg Rose, on the installation of both of Ukraine’s nazi parties into the Obama post-coup government, was issued shortly after the coup, and was titled “Ukrainian Ultra-Rightists Given Major Cabinet Posts in Government.” The same power-structure exists in the Ukrainian government today, though there have been some personnel-shifts, so that the article by Rose is still current. As per guidance by Obama’s agent on Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, most of the cabinet posts in the new government went to Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party, which is an extreme-nationalist party but smart enough to avoid public idolization of Ukraine’s own native nazi, Stepan Bandera (the great hero to both Right Sector and Freedom), who had led Ukraine’s most-extreme-nationalist party when Hitler’s troops marched in and took them over. (The famous phone call during the coup, in which Victoria Nuland told the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine that “Yats is the guy” to run the new government, was referring to Tymoshenko’s main agent, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Nuland chose him to lead the country because his boss Tymoshenko herself — who was called “the eleven billion dollar woman,” and “the gas princess” — was still in prison on a corruption conviction; she hadn’t yet been released from prison, and that’s why “Yats is the guy,” and not “Tymoshenko is the person.”) A very minor party in today’s coalition is Vitaly Klitschko’s UDAR Party, which is somewhat like America’s Republican Party, or Britain’s Tories. They received almost no government posts; they weren’t sufficiently far-right to suit Obama’s nazi intentions, which are now being carried out in Ukraine under the ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Immediately, the U.S. received a big payoff from the coup. A Right Sector official Stepan Kubiv was appointed on February 24th as Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine’s Ben Bernanke. As I have reported on several occasions (here with links to multiple sources), “more than 40 heavy boxes” of gold were reported to have been secretly flown from the National Bank of Ukraine to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s sub-basement at 33 Liberty Street off Wall Street, in the early morning hours of March 7th. This happened within less than two weeks of the coup. This gold would constitute about $2 billion being paid to the U.S. after (according to Victoria Nuland) the U.S. Government had already spent “more than 5 billion dollars” to install Kubiv and his colleagues in control of Ukraine. Ukraine’s total “official gold holdings” as of March 2014 were 42.3 tons. This tonnage was unchanged from the month before. So, on the official numbers, that’s what would have constituted the cargo aboard this flight. If each one of those “heavy boxes” contained exactly one ton, then it would make sense that “more than 40 heavy boxes” were boarded onto that flight. The first report of this alleged shipment was Russia’s iskra-news.info, on March 7th. Later that same day, Marcus Brooks of NewsWire-24 headlined Ukrainian Gold Reserves Loaded on an Unidentified Transport Aircraft in Kiev’s Borispol Airport and Flown to Uncle Sam’s Vault.” He wrote: “A source in the Ukrainian government confirmed that the transfer of the gold reserves of Ukraine to the United States was ordered by the acting [now permanent] P[rime] M[inister] Arseny Yatsenyuk.” Then, on March 10th, the Gold Anti-Trust Acton Committee asked the Federal Reserve system “whether the United States has taken custody of Ukraine’s gold reserves” and never received back a response. That same day, the zerohedge blog posted a commentary closing: “We hope, for their sake, they weren’t also just ‘liberated’ of all their gold, which after a brief stay 80 feet below the surface at 33 Liberty, will promptly find its way either to the Bundesbank, or to the billionaire oligarchs, based either in London or elsewhere, and currently in charge of ‘post-liberation’ Ukraine.” So: the huge unpaid debt that Ukraine owes to Russia is even less likely to be repaid, because the people in control of Ukraine started immediately by cleaning out the national central bank’s gold in order to pay back some of the mere $5+ billion they owe to their U.S. Government benefactors — and, of course, they’ve now got to pay U.S. firms for the loads of weapons with which to exterminate the residents in Ukraine’s southeastern half (as they’re now doing). Ukraine owes Russia tens of billions of dollars, and so Obama’s policy of getting Ukraine to pay off western banks and central banks before a penny will go eastward, to Russia, is part of his plan in the scheme.
My personal research has established that Carl Bildt was among the invitees present at the annual private international nazi Bilderberg meetings, in both 2013 and 2014, and that a major topic of discussion at both of those meetings was the planned nazification of Ukraine, the takeover of Ukraine by that country’s nazis. Both the Right Sector Party and the Freedom Party crave to exterminate ethnic Russians, much the same as Germany’s Nazis craved to exterminate Jews. So, the “racism” that Obama installed into power by his coup is specifically anti-Russian: an ethnic hatred of Russians. Other Bilderberg attendees during both of those years (2013 and 2014) were Christine LaGarde, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, John Kerr, David Petraeus, and the heads of many investment firms that control weapons-makers and fossil-fuel companies (Ukraine has undeveloped deposits of that). Also present at the 2014 meeting, but not in 2013, was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the head of NATO, which strongly wants Ukraine to become a member of that anti-Russian military alliance. NATO is basically the world’s largest buyers’ cooperative for military hardware, and it’s committed to conquering Russia so that there will be no nation outside (or independent from) Washington’s orbit of control.
De Noli points out that Carl Bildt “is a genuine US government agent” and a passionate supporter of U.S. global control, or as de Noli puts it, “extreme views on America … ‘über alles’.” De Noli notes that a Swedish newspaper reported that “Wikileaks has diplomatic reports that allegedly show that foreign minister Carl Bildt is communications officer for the United States,” but that Bildt said that this report was just a “smear.” De Noli notes that throughout Bildt’s career, Bildt has displayed a “fascistic approach to violence against demonstrators,” and that explicitly Bildt condems the anti-fascist demonstrators who were burned alive inside Odessa’s Trade Unions Building on May 2nd, in the incident that sparked Ukraine’s civil war — this event (carried out under Washington’s orders) proved to all Ukrainians who were of Russian ethnic background and whose mother-tongue was Russian, that they were viscerally hated by the group that the U.S. had just placed into power. Immediately, men in the southeastern half of Ukraine started acquiring guns, to protect themselves and their families from Kiev’s forces. Odessa’s massacre was seminal.
“Videos from many different clips, made by many different photographers, some of them even from the pro-junta side, tell, however, another story [than the official one]. They show that the ‘pro-Russian activists’ who attacked the ‘peaceful pro-Ukrainian rally’ in reality were pro-junta activists who had put on St. George [anti-junta] ribbons to make them look like pro-Russians. The videos show clearly how they collaborated with policemen who, just like the ‘false-flag’ activists, were dressed with red armbands [another pro-Russian symbol: both red armbands and St. George ribbons were pro-Russian, anti-nazi]. Their task was to ignite the ‘peaceful rally’ [the actually rowdy group of pro-Kiev soccer-fans] and drag [draw] them towards the Kulikovo field [in front of the Trade Unions Building] … where the real anti-fascist demonstrators had their camp [in tents, in front of the Trade Unions Building]. Also the ‘peaceful pro-Ukrainian rally’ was in reality a gang of football [our lingo ‘soccer’]-hooligans especially brought [bussed] into Odessa by an oligarch (Ihor Kolomoysky) supporting the Kiev junta.” (Kolomoyski, in fact, co-masterminded the massacre. Ukraine’s oligarchs — and Kolomoyki’s personal fortune is estimated variously at between $7 billion and $2 billion but is mostly in secret bank accounts in Switzerland where he had been living until his friends Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk made him the governor of a southeastern province, and so his wealth might be considerably higher than that — own the soccer clubs and know very well the political orientation of their fans and their tendency toward violence. This use of soccer fans brought in from the northwest was a brilliant move on Kolomoysky’s part.)
That blog-post then presented (it linked to) a video documenting that narrative. There is no question but that it is a truthful account of the event which sparked Ukraine’s civil war – sparked the war between the U.S.-installed Ukrainian Government, versus the entire population in the southeastern half of Ukraine: the half of the country where Viktor Yanukovych (the President whom America’s February 2014 coup overthrew) had sealed his February 2010 electoral win with huge electoral majorities and so became Ukraine’s President. This 11-minute video (and you can click directly onto it here) is devastating about the Obama Administration’s lies concerning this matter — the lies that are practically the only things that the U.S. public believes or “know” about the conflict in Ukraine.
Bildt blamed “pro-Russia thugs” for the massacre – for this incineration of pro-Russian Ukrainians. That characterization of it tested the public’s stupidity to its very limits (since it portrays pro-Russians as murdering their fellow pro-Russians; it’s an insane “explanation”), but the aristocrats who own “news” media in the West were successful at getting it over the line and into the public’s mind: it was the standard way that TV and even most “alternative” news sources have presented this matter. Incredible though that might seem, most of the public actually fell for this blatant sucker-punch from the aristocracy. It just goes to demonstrate how easily public opinion can be manipulated, even into believing things that make no real sense – things that defy the most basic common sense. It might be shocking, but this is the way things actually are. Most people are that gullible. (Without that, for example, Fox “News” would have no audience at all. Depressing but unquestionably true.)
Dr. de Noli ties Bildt into the U.S. White House as being on America’s payroll. De Noli headlines, “Weapon-Export Industry Behind US & Swedish Foreign Offices Instigating War in Ukraine?” and he writes: “One thing that stroked me was to read now in the papers that NATO is asking its ‘friends in Europe’ to increase substantially their expenditures in defense (read, ‘to purchase more weapons’), due to the ‘Ukraine crisis’. So, how paramount is the weapon-export business in the agenda of US & Swedish politicians instigating upon the Ukraine junta to wage both ‘anti-terrorist’ ops against their own population, and war against its neighbour [Russia]? Three main Foreign Office politicians from US and Sweden have [become] distinguished in pushing EU countries to provocations against Russia, and expressly instigating the ‘use of force’ (read weapons) in Eastern Ukraine: Senator John McCain, State Secretary John Kerry, and Fo[reign] Min[ister] Carl B[i]ldt. At the same time, they have asked NATO and EU countries to purchase more weapons ‘in view of the conflict with Russia’. ”
De Noli provides an international ranking of countries on the basis of “Arms Exports per Capita in 2011” and shows that Sweden is #1 and Israel is #2. (Russia is #4, and U.S. is #8.) De Noli basically makes the case that Carl Bildt is thus ideally positioned to be able to profit as a middleman from assisting the U.S. to replace the Russian-oriented Viktor Yanukovych with the U.S. nazi-oriented government that now rules Ukraine and that now is being granted a huge line of credit to purchase weapons and military contractors (including former Blackwater mercenaries) from NATO countries (especially Sweden). He further notes, quoting from the excellent Rixstep website, that Bildt had brilliantly performed this same function during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. “Carl Bildt made millions off the US invasion of Iraq. He sat on the board of directors of investment company Legg Mason, managing huge financial holdings in the US weapons industry, and at the same time was a lobbyist for weapons giant Lockheed Martin. … Bombs rained with shock and awe over the Iraqi capital starting on 19 March 2003; Lockheed Martin’s stock value more than doubled in two years, from $45 to over $100, warranting its listing as one of Legg Mason’s most successful investments.”
Many links are provided there to Rixstep’s devastating data incriminating Bildt behind the invasion of Iraq.
However, that is a “per-capita” ranking; the U.S. is the #1 global arms-maker on an absolute basis, and America’s arms-dealers are constantly selling weapons to “allied” nations. A typical month’s report can be seen in an 8 July 2014 piece from Boiling Frogs Report, “BFP Exclusive Report — A Distillation of DOD Funding Priorities for June 2014,” which sub-headed, “DOD Spent $34,247,088 on 276 individual Contracts in June 2014.” It itemized a vast and rapidly flowing river of killing-machines flowing out to NATO and other nations, from the plants of Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Goodrich, and many other U.S. companies.
Overall, this history is an entry into the backroom hell that today is burning southeastern Ukraine with bombs that kill many residents and that cause others to flee to refugee camps that are being set up for them in Russia. The end result of the entire operation will be a reduction in the voter-base in Ukraine of opposition against Ukraine’s becoming the chief base for nuclear missiles that will be aimed at next-door Russia.
On another web-page, de Noli headlines “What is the ‘Ukraine Crisis’ all about? Why U.S. B-2 Stealth strategic bombers lande[d] in Europe — for the first time ever?” He notes there:
“The Ukraine Junta was installed after a coup engineered by the US [State] Department. After several visits of top US and Swedish government officials to Kiev – including Vice-President Biden and 7 visits of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt – the Junta initiated a ferocious ‘anti-terrorist’ offensive against the Donbass region, targeting in the main the civilian populations in a variety of massacres described here elsewhere (See Ukraine Fascists: Three massacres in only one month). The conflict has been all along a direct provocation to get Russia to directly intervene militarily in Ukraine, with the domino effect that this would convey in the political and economic relations of Russia with various important EU countries. The geopolitical sanctions already in effect against Russia initiated at the initiat[iv]e of US and Sweden (I refer to political measures such as the G8 exercise [becoming now the G-7 with the expulsion from it of Russia]) converge to [produce an] obstacle [against] the Gas trade between Russia and some EU countries.”
All of these factors converge to portray a tightly knit international aristocracy that stands to gain trillions of dollars from arranging for the nuclear annihilation of Russia, via bases in Ukraine and other NATO countries.
That article about “Full Spectrum Dominance” is from Christopher Black, James Henry Fetzer, Alex Mezyaev, and Christof Lehmann.
Basically, what all of this comes down to is that the Bilderberg meetings have brought together the key people who have been setting this deal up for a long time. That’s where they have all come together to meet in private, out of range of NSA, Russian intelligence, and all other intelligence agencies, truly in private: all the “right” people, with all the “right” connections, making all the “right” deals, because they know ahead of time what is going to happen since they’re all agreeing together, in private, to make it happen.
This is the international pinnacle, behind the preparations for World War III. Trillions of dollars are to be made from it, and these people aren’t going to be receiving all of it, but they will determine who will, and this power to decide that, will make themselves enormously richer than they are today. The people they serve are the U.S. aristocracy and the ones abroad who subordinate themselves to it.
This is what the world is coming to, and how it’s getting there — and by whom.
If you didn’t know it before, the reason you didn’t know it isn’t that finding this out is so terribly difficult or expensive to do: the information provided here is all from the Web; and I’ve cited sources here all of which I have checked out and verified as being accurate: I’ve excluded all sources that don’t meet my stringent tests for accuracy. The reason you didn’t know this before is instead that the international aristocrats themselves own the “news” media. The only way to strike back at them for hiding from you what is in plain sight to any keen investigator is to cancel all subscriptions to them and to rely purely on free media, such as the one where you are now reading this article. Paying for news now is something that only fools continue to do, and aristocrats farm fools and have always done so, but the Web gives an individual the opportunity now to escape from the stockyards, and free one’s mind, even if one cannot free oneself physically from the pervasive surrounding reality of a world that’s dominated by corrupt psychopathic predators, because that’s where we all are and have always been. The euphemism that the aristocracy has crafted to refer to it is “the free market,” like “the invisible hand” of God, that’s really just the secret hand of the aristocracy. And this is the reality of it, not the myth that’s taught in college and university classrooms, which themselves spread the standard propaganda that was created for the aristocracy, as aristocrats’ weapon against the public that they control and exploit.
The civil war in Ukraine is the military crux-point by which America’s aristocracy aims to obliterate any possibility of opposition to its global supremacy. Dominance is what it’s all about — locking in, for a long time to come, the American aristocracy’s dominance, no matter how many peons may need to be killed in the enterprise to do so.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, economic, scientific, and educational issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to:
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'a12b2db4b27b14329b36023f45963db5a60554c6051d26a26d6a547cfbae123a'}
|
Democrat and Republican candidates say they would reform Jones Act, if elected
HONOLULU, Oct. 10, 2018 >> Both of the leading candidates seeking to represent Hawaii’s Congressional District 1 in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat Ed Case and Republican Cam Cavasso, agree that the Jones Act should be updated.
That’s what they told several dozen people last month at a forum hosted by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and ThinkTech Hawaii. The two candidates said at the Sept. 28 event that if elected Nov. 6, they would work to reform the federal shipping law, which allows only U.S.-built, -crewed and -flagged ships to transport goods between U.S. ports.
Keli’i Akina, Ph.D., president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, said, “It’s encouraging that both the Democratic and Republican candidates are calling for Jones Act reform. In a time of highly divisive politics, updating this century-old act is one of the few issues that has broad support.”
Case, a Democrat who represented Hawaii in Congress from 2002 to 2007, said the Jones Act creates a “virtual monopoly” because Hawaii can’t operate like mainland companies and utilize trucks or trains to bring in goods.
“We are susceptible to monopolies in this small insular state 2,500 miles away from the mainland, and much farther than that from any of our main markets in Asia for imports,” he said.
Case pointed out that while in Congress, he introduced three bills to reform the Jones Act, also known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.
As reported in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on July 25, 2003, the first of Case’s measures would have exempted all noncontiguous U.S. locations from the Jones Act. The second bill would have exempted just Hawaii. And the third would have exempted just Hawaii agriculture and livestock.
Cavasso, a Republican who was state representative from 1985 to 1991, said he would like “to allow international ships on their way to the West Coast to … stop in Hawaii, unload their cargo, and continue on to the West Coast, so that we can reduce our costs of goods here in Hawaii.”
Cavasso said ships that bring goods to Hawaii from the U.S. mainland return only 5 percent full because Hawaii doesn’t produce enough of its own goods, which means Hawaii companies have to pay for shipping both ways to compensate.
Two other of the five total candidates seeking to represent Hawaii in the U.S. House — Calvin Griffin, nonpartisan, and Michelle Tippens, Libertarian — have said they also would seek, if elected, to repeal or update the Jones Act.
The Green Party of Hawaii candidate, Zachary Burd, has been unavailable for comment, but a spokesperson said the party currently has no official position on the issue.
Akina said, “The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii hopes that whichever candidate wins on Nov. 6, they will go to Congress and do their best to help update the Jones Act.”
The full video of the Case-Cavasso forum can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=PsdAQwdPn98.
###
For more information or to arrange an interview with Keli’i Akina, Ph.D., contact Josh Mason, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii communications director, at (918) 261-8444 or jmason@grassrootinstitute.org The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and educational institution devoted to promoting individual liberty, economic freedom and accountable government.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '3e54f30a59ab4008b313659d37ee8fc89f18b79aedab9d92885cc0b65833cb07'}
|
Subscribe Feedback English
look up any word, like lunk:
10. the distillers
by me.1715 January 14, 2005 add a video add an image
1. The Distillers
The best female fronted band with the best and hottest front person
Did you see the Distillers last night? The rocked.
2. The Distillers
A great punk band with a lead singer than screams into the mic and somehow makes it sound beautiful.
The Distillers roxor my soxors.
3. The Distillers
a great hardcore punk band.
hey i like her voice.
4. The Distillers
Fucking rock!
Brody Dalle Sings And plays lead guitar Beautifully man!
Yo, That chick from the distillers is buff man.
by GirlSkater January 17, 2004 add a video add an image
5. The Distillers
The distillers concer in leeds was f**king amazing!
by revenant April 23, 2004 add a video add an image
6. The Distillers
A bad ass punk/hardcore band. One of the best female front-woman in history
The Distillers Rock
by Nater June 02, 2003 add a video add an image
7. The Distillers
Awesome band with a great lead singer.
Brodie is a great singer, just bcuz she doesn't sound like all other female singers doesn't mean she's a bad singer, it makes her better.
rss and gcal
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '89', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9046030640602112}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '46684', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7IFMZDSEOMWC2P6KD5D7YS5TOHIKAKTB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:342fd33c-555a-481d-900f-ca738a59fffd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 13, 10, 10, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.27.72.184', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JZB2J6SIOICF7TT7SMUQ7TE3V7KHOIRI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4070c06d-5c1d-4aad-a93f-a263e26db45f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20distillers&defid=998384', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2def4fb3-040d-4357-83e7-d0e15be35779>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '314', 'url': 'http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20distillers&defid=998384', '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': '0.019224226474761963', 'original_id': 'e44a5df3567d0cf3b4faf38654b8c1ada0ce8831f385253bfa540bafeb651ff0'}
|
Three Questions To Ask Before Letting Your Employees Telecommute
Posted by Sabrina George on Fri, Jul 24, 2015 @ 09:47 AM
You are considering offering telecommuting as a way of making your business more flexible, and also making life easier for your employees. But is your business equipped to handle the demands of a telecommuting environment? Telecommuting can diminish productivity and add unnecessary challenges if employees lack the proper communications technology (i.e. a Web conferencing platform.)
Here are three questions to ask before you give remote working the green light in your company:
1. How will your employees collaborate? One of the upsides to having everyone together in the same room is that this type of environment breeds collaboration among workers. Onstream Meetings, for example, makes it possible to exchange and edit multimedia in real time over a shared screen, while communicating via text, audio and video. Using the platform, your employees can collaborate as if they are sitting right next to one another.
2. How will you protect your sensitive data? Don’t risk transmitting sensitive information (i.e. payment, contact, personal health or any other form of private data) over the Web without taking the proper precautions. Invest in a secure, cloud-based Web conferencing platform like Onstream Meetings that will encrypt your information and transmit it over a private, hosted network.
3. How will you meet as a team? Just because your team is spread out doesn’t mean you have to stop communicating as a single team. Using Onstream Meetings, your whole department can exchange ideas in a group-wide conference. Onstream makes it easy for a single user to moderate a meeting, so that everyone can have an equal shot of speaking. And with the help of a full content library, moderators can easily share files with the group as needed without having to disrupt the meeting by searching endlessly for specific documents.
Click here to learn more about how Onstream Meetings can help facilitate telecommuting in your enterprise.
Tags: communicating, Onstream Media, online communications, webinar, Onstream Webinars, onstream, Online meetings, conferencing software, communication tools, Conferencing Platform
OW 300x250 resized 600
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.888639509677887}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '84368', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HCQD6OXAL4DEBCIBKBXK5SGJFTWKLEU2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:60e3c0fa-2c5d-4c25-85fc-564fa70ef154>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 21, 19, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.17.130.180', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6DCOHVFPJMSJECKVBQXOBDWGEZSQBS43', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ebd54ee1-a71f-4d7e-9d1f-37263355668f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://info.infiniteconferencing.com/bid/104192/Three-Questions-To-Ask-Before-Letting-Your-Employees-Telecommute', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd05c3b0-b209-41af-9579-86acabec0581>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '340', 'url': 'https://info.infiniteconferencing.com/bid/104192/Three-Questions-To-Ask-Before-Letting-Your-Employees-Telecommute', '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-10-146-95-138.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': '0.018890023231506348', 'original_id': '30fce2ab0cae03162fe0991eb5dc7230d892bf2bf7ce872d0ff20d1dd45d8364'}
|
Discover 'Win More - Win More' Negotiating - a far better way!
I'm sure you've heard of the phrase 'win-win negotiating'. Over the past decade I've been experimenting and teaching a new approach which takes negotiated outcomes to an even higher level.
The challenge with traditional approaches can be the lack of collaboration and generation of new thinking to generate an outcome where both parties leave the negotiation with more than they thought possible.
Usually a negotiation starts because of a problem. One party wants one thing and the party wants something different. The problem is we tend to then discuss the two situations around a table to gain an amicable agreement. Often with one party not really happy and looking to cut back on the service or product in secret to maintain their margins!
It has been said, "Negotiation is a give and take process, and being in control of the process is the only way to be successful at it.” Celso Cukierkom
The only problem with a give and take process is that it can kill creativity and new ideas to satisfy both parties interests. The discussion tends to just be around the two positions of the parties involved.
“When negotiating in a project context it's important to remember that the most important aspect is what happens after the negotiation. You still have to deliver a project with the people you just negotiated with.” Graham Wilson
The main shift in this new approach is to start by unlearning all the tactics and manipulation techniques used by many to influence, persuade and cajole people into a solution. Tactics like: good cop - bad cop, choice close, third party, higher authority, silence and imposed deadlines. It's good to be able to spot when these are being used on you but they have no place in an effective negotiation in today's world.
I'm a big fan of the principled approach to negotiation outlined in Getting to Yes by Ury and Fry. They recommend that we:
1. Separate the people from the problem
2. Focus on interests not positions
3. Generate a variety of options for mutual gain
4. Insist on objective criteria
Principles are great but I've found it is the crafting of an effective process that ensures success. We need to see negotiation as a collaborative process that is crafted for the context you are in. In a project context it could look something like this:
Win more - Win more
The secret is in the set up, relationship building and the skills of the negotiators to have great conversations and dialogue. They need to be skilled in problem solving, creativity and visual management techniques. We recommend that the principles outlined previously are used to guide behaviours of both parties during the negotiation process.
We also like to develop the conversational skills of presence, hyper-awareness, de-coding, voicing and flow control on our programmes. Visual management techniques are really important too. When you put the issue on a whiteboard, flip chart or paper on the table, you separate the people from the problem. The emotions are reduced and both parties start to work together to craft a great solution to the situation.
All the great problem solving and creativity tools also come into play as both parties co -build a solution. Six Thinking Hats, Force Field Analysis, Gap Leap, 5 Whys, Cause and Effect, Radiant Problem Solving to name a few.
Once the climate is set, trust established and great dialogue takes place, that is when the magic really happens. Together you create 'win-more win-more' outcomes.
Happy 'win-more win-more' negotiating...
Every success,
Register Now Leadership Athlete Masterclass CTA
About the author
Graham Wilson
Graham Wilson
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '35', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9461307525634766}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '42318', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:63RAYLSD2YIXY6HMZL5CKSPVYJAIB7CU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8cd2010c-64e0-4fd8-a935-1f514dac29f7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 8, 3, 7, 43, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.60.103.2', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZUY5HPSK237DOWEGNCTI37SFRBSOIO47', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9993933e-614c-4f74-9dd8-23bc61ff9780>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.thesuccessfactory.co.uk/blog/discover-win-more-win-more-negotiating-a-far-better-way', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:beed5c21-12fa-4e64-9ea2-862ba23b92d4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '636', 'url': 'https://www.thesuccessfactory.co.uk/blog/discover-win-more-win-more-negotiating-a-far-better-way', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-31\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July/August 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-169.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02696317434310913', 'original_id': '5e42f12de7c10fac6ea05b103504533c7a420d321964d476de97827a4c9ae7e8'}
|
Cranberry oil
Cranberry oil
is a dark yellow to greenish oil with a gentle-nutty scent. The name cranberry has its origin in its beak shaped and slim blossom that reminds of a crane head. The German cowberry is a relative to the cranberry. The plant belongs to the family of Ericaceae, an evergreen dwarf shrub, that is domiciled in North America and Canada. The berries are red, cherry-sized fruits with four air chambers, with its kernels inside. It blossoms in june. The harvest is from september to october. There are two kinds of harvesting:
Frist option: The fields get flooded. The fruits float due to their air chambers on the top of the water and get skimmed off. Second option: The berries get picked and collected by a machine. After both options the kernsels get pressed.
Product details
Qualities:cold pressed, cold pressed organic
Apperance:dark yellow to greenish
CAS number:91770-88-6
Origin country: Canada
Physical state:liquid
Container:canister, drum, IBC
INCI:Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil
Durability:12 months
Your contact
Furkan Budak
Gerhard Schorsch
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '26', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8704830408096313}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '55993', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NUGIR2HCIEUBUZLNBW624I23LQXVAI46', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:852b6e43-dd54-4e3c-aa64-f5a147883305>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 21, 12, 8, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '85.13.163.90', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7BCXWQWRY6UAM3MTIB7AAT2SNVPP46NT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fc54d452-50b5-4a76-bb60-93c1ec1c735d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://ulrichgmbh.de/en/products/essential-oils/cranberry-oil/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bb62b51d-4328-482c-a827-e53db8139a42>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '215', 'url': 'https://ulrichgmbh.de/en/products/essential-oils/cranberry-oil/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-206.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06671464443206787', 'original_id': '97cfbb958ea8ebf4a8b60b278ce2ab0173564bb0f977f3ca1be75922310bfbee'}
|
AUSTRAL Biologicals Custom Services
AUSTRAL Biological currently offers three kinds of custom services
1. Custom Monoclonal Antibody Service, which involves the development of hybridoma cell lines that secrete monoclonal antibodies specific for a given antigen.
2. Custom Polyclonal Antibody Service. This service includes the use of at least 2 rabbits and it is performed in 3 phases. However, individual projects can be customized to meet client's demand.
3. Protein Purification Service offers information for outsourcing protein chemistry work. Protein purification, characterization and stability studies are part of these services.
top | home
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9086865782737732}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '8396', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FFMSNPL26TLXQDYMHI6Q6DHHSD4JK7IA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:31a8946f-7c1d-43ea-9c7f-eaedec02c2cd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 19, 18, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '128.65.195.143', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DRJ2Z2OKQNBFOJO6SLJPFUYHPT56XGVF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a3da4b7-cf78-40ef-ba16-50c5facf115f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.australbiologicals.com/index.php?what=services&id=26', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:26b3c5ed-33fc-4797-9fa7-8ca4807e1a35>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '92', 'url': 'http://www.australbiologicals.com/index.php?what=services&id=26', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-145-45-50.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05955171585083008', 'original_id': 'a8cbb5c9ff088a1a02ccca704c95a13ee66ba8a9f80f84310c503649610e7a27'}
|
Plodding ahead
Sometimes the updates are neither world shaking nor glamorous.
Small changes on manipulating the research page. Making sure the “more info” button for technologies disappears when proper, and the research topic buttons disappear/reappear in relation to their discovery, shift properly, and format their text correctly.
Alrighty, there might be fewer updates as I get into the more technical implementation side which is just GUI changes and/or behind the scenes changes, unless requested otherwise. We shall see.
Also, massive time setting up Kickstarter page. More that we shall see.
Been working on getting Kickstarter up lately; as business admin, PR, designer and programmer sometimes things get scattered. Had to film and edit together a video, learn how to use iMovie, put together a few more pictures, and edit the music so that it would fit. I’m getting tired of being a jack of all trades, I’d rather just be programming and designing! But soon enough. Also, Angry Cat Games, LLC is live, so this baby has a home. :)
Sloggin’ ahead
Getting the bare bones for all systems in for rapid prototyping, will balance and polish later.
For now, I’ve set up the research panel, systems to read in the tech tree, the manipulation of the research table, and all things research related. Not exciting to list down, but all part of the grand scheme of things.
Since it’s been a while:
Implemented formations: soldiers will start in the order and positions you chose for them.
Implementing Player Data screen : Screen showing how many missions have been run, total kills, etc, etc.
Taking it a bit easy after making the mad combat rush last week. With basic combat done, a lot more design work is coming up, as well as GUI implementation. (Graphical User Interface, or menus)
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8905861377716064}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '19205', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BCZE4WY7PFRAZPIEESR4XMHUWEMQ7RJT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:633f6295-6b47-476f-a392-015685219d80>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 18, 7, 18, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '50.63.82.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F2BR6EZYEEQBYKKAALP7YRLNGS2UQ2VS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4ec72a73-d53b-48cd-a25d-9b717c656ed5>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://war-heroesgame.com/?m=201209', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bd9c0cd6-86cc-4622-8952-23984aa69ed3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '287', 'url': 'http://war-heroesgame.com/?m=201209', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-76-76.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.023890018463134766', 'original_id': 'e8f2eb9dbdf65b39b7bb6ad3ed233e8547a8467e4790d240f00a739c96a5b5a4'}
|
NCAA's well-intentioned APR increase still has major flaws
On the surface, Thursday's NCAA announcement of an increase in Academic Progress Report (APR) standards and tying schools' rolling averages into postseason eligibility is commendable.
An organization that often moves at a snail's pace needed fewer than 24 hours after two days of reform discussions to put words into action, and a system that's often accused of putting money first (and second and third) now has a more rigorous academic check to help provide balance.
That said, anytime you boil down academic progress at over 340 Division I basketball programs into a single number, you're asking for trouble. APR figures are generated by a formula with more loopholes than the U.S. tax code and are scaled the same way for everyone without regard for school size, athletic department finances, or racial and socioeconomic demographics of athletes. That's completely misguided, and as constructed, feels like an academic version of the RPI.
You know the RPI, that annual whipping boy of a calculation that simultaneously is disavowed by the NCAA as a selection criteria (technically true) and so impactful in terms of seeding and at-large selection (in terms of top-50 wins and schedule strength) that it's created a cottage industry of projections. The RPI formula, with an absence of scheduling regulations and the prevalence of guarantee games nationwide, remains heavily slanted toward major-conference teams. With the NCAA tournament money and quantifiable impact on recruiting at stake each year, big programs have massive incentive to game the system in their favor and smaller programs are at a profound disadvantage in trying to meet the same standards of inclusion.
Those themes may all sound very familiar in 2015-16 when these new APR regulations take effect.
There is no question the new APR requirements will hit smaller programs harder. These schools, especially in leagues like the SWAC and MEAC, don't have the budgets to provide the academic support necessary to help players remain on track as defined by the APR. It's no coincidence that many of these teams spend most of November and December away from campus, essentially as fundraising arms for the universities as they collect guarantee checks and 40-point losses. (Whether these programs should continue as Division I concerns is a related question, but for now they are classified as such, so any rules created need to account for their situations, too.)
What kind of impact are we talking about? Per the NCAA's own APR database, a total of three SWAC and MEAC schools (out of 21) would have been eligible to play in the NCAA Tournament if the new standard of 930 was applied to their current four-year averages. Your MEAC tournament final would be North Carolina A&T vs. Hampton. And faux congratulations to Alcorn State, which would win the SWAC auto bid by default. In the Ohio Valley Conference, also one of the nation's poorest, half of its members would be ineligible. Shouldn't a system do a better job of helping these schools educate players rather than taking away opportunities because they're underfinanced?
There's also no question, much like the RPI, that using the APR in a vacuum has flaws. The overarching goal of academic progress should be to ensure graduation, but there is a low correlation to the official NCAA "Graduation Success Rates," because you can't compare a snapshot of current academic standing against graduation rates that take six years to compile. More important, the way the formula accounts for transfers (who are a plus if they have a 2.6 GPA and a minus otherwise) and early entrants into the NBA draft (Kentucky thanks you for finishing your freshman classes, John Wall) puts responsibility on programs where they don't even control the choices being made by their athletes. The NCAA absolutely needs to address these inconsistencies, as two identical APRs currently can mean very different things.
And, sadly, there's probably no question that with the NCAA tournament at stake, there is now even more incentive for academic fraud to be perpetuated in order to keep a program eligible. The idealism of the college experience is nice, but not when billions of dollars in TV money and millions of dollars in coaching contracts are involved. Historically, grade changing and other malfeasance typically was the province of star players, so they could remain eligible. Now everyone's grades matter and there's way too much reward to assume that no one will risk cheating to make sure someone -- anyone -- doesn't jeopardize a program's NCAA chances.
So, yes, Thursday was a decent day for the NCAA, but it's not unfair for cynics to think the quick reaction at the presidents' retreat is as much a p.r. move as a well-thought out, long-term solution. The NCAA has been getting crushed by an avalanche of bad publicity and a perception that it no longer can effectively govern major-college athletics. Creating a stronger link between academic performance and athletics should be the main mandate of Mark Emmert's tenure, and he needs to take individual moments like this, improve them and cobble them into a long and painful process of NCAA reform.
Hopefully, that reform will be tailored to account for the differences across the NCAA's Division I members, which would be a much fairer landscape than the one announced on Thursday. For now, maybe we should dub this change the "Piñata Rule." Threatening to take away the NCAA tournament is a big stick to wave around, but the NCAA remains mostly blind while it's swinging it.
More More Sports
We've Got Apps Too
Get expert analysis, unrivaled access, and the award-winning storytelling only SI can provide — from Peter King, Tom Verducci, Lee Jenkins, Grant Wahl, Andy Staples and more — delivered straight to you, along with up-to-the-minute news and live scores.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'a7eb2685329ff1c640fdfb67b24a06e0679390ee0896b0581de5b6425e5cbb24'}
|
import React from "react";
import { Text, View } from "react-native";
import GlassButton from "../Styles/GlassButton";
import GlassInput from "../Styles/GlassInput";
import MainGradient from "../Styles/MainGradient";
import MainGlassContainer from "../Styles/MainGlassContainer";
import { Styles } from "../Styles/Styles";
import { Alert } from "react-native";
// Firebase
import { auth } from "../FirebaseConfig";
import { createUserWithEmailAndPassword } from "firebase/auth";
// Register
const Register = (props) => {
const [name, onChangeName] = React.useState("");
const [passw, onChangePassw] = React.useState("");
const onPress = () => {
//Register on Firebase
console.log("User Registration Started.")
//make better validation
if (name.length < 4) {
Alert.alert("Please enter an email address.");
return;
}
//make better validation
if (passw.length < 4) {
Alert.alert("Please enter a password.");
return;
}
createUserWithEmailAndPassword(auth, name, passw)
.then(function (_firebaseUser) {
const user = _firebaseUser.user.email;
Alert.alert(`User ${user} registered!`);
onChangeName("");
onChangePassw("");
//Redirect to login
props.navigation.navigate('Login')
})
.catch(function (error) {
var errorCode = error.code;
var errorMessage = error.message;
if (errorCode == "auth/weak-password") {
Alert.alert("The password is too weak.");
} else {
Alert.alert(errorMessage);
}
console.log(error);
});
};
return (
<View
style={[
Styles.mainScreen,
{ justifyContent: "space-between" },
{ paddingTop: 60 },
]}
>
<MainGradient />
<MainGlassContainer>
<Text style={[Styles.title, { marginBottom: 30 }]}>Weather Alerts</Text>
<Text style={Styles.label}>Create a new Account</Text>
<Text style={Styles.label}>Email</Text>
<GlassInput
value={name}
onChangeText={onChangeName}
placeholder="Email"
autoCapitalize="none"
autoCorrect={false}
autoCompleteType="email"
keyboardType="email-address"
/>
<Text></Text>
<Text style={Styles.label}>Password</Text>
<GlassInput
value={passw}
onChangeText={onChangePassw}
placeholder="Password"
autoCapitalize="none"
autoCorrect={false}
autoCompleteType="password"
keyboardType="visible-password"
/>
<GlassButton
style={[{ marginTop: 10 }]}
text="Register"
onPress={onPress}
/>
</MainGlassContainer>
</View>
);
};
export default Register;
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://github.com/Lmizuno/Weather-Alerts/blob/master/Screens/Register.js', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'Apache-2.0', 'date': '', 'title': 'Weather-Alerts', 'creator': 'Lmizuno', 'language': 'JavaScript', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '229', 'token_count': '810', '__index_level_0__': '38123', 'original_id': '1d53c4b332374fc83359217dc1495e4b645332b1d31e3ad2d53e71313f40e863'}
|
It is important to understand the terminology used by manufacturers when purchasing recycled towel and tissue products. They often reference two categories when discussing recycled paper products — recovered fiber and post consumer waste material.
Recovered fibers are generated from what is left after the completion of the paper making process. This includes, but is not limited to, mill wastes, wood chips, bindery trimmings, butt rolls and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories and rejected unused stock.
This recovered fiber is a globally traded commodity and is highly sought after. Europe, the Far East and the Americas account for 90 percent of the global trade, which is more than 200 million tons.
The second category is post consumer waste materials, which are finished products that went out into the world and were recovered from the waste stream for the purpose of recycling. This category makes up a smaller percentage of the paper fiber used in the U.S., but the government standard for recycled paper use has increased the demand for these post-consumer materials.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9524274468421936}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '89147', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3K6UQB2ILXV5YNZQJIKC6DWHQZ7MR2MC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8798a4e9-9d15-4601-a740-76b80377ea40>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 12, 8, 32, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '96.30.244.127', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JSY7GXMMWSWSGFBKMS3RV3I2JA5U3L3X', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:25222aee-d67a-44c6-89a4-656a09186663>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.cleanlink.com/cleanlinkminute/details/Where-Does-Recycled-Paper-Come-From--22038', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b1cf6bd5-c907-4af9-b16d-5985709304ac>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '170', 'url': 'https://www.cleanlink.com/cleanlinkminute/details/Where-Does-Recycled-Paper-Come-From--22038', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-224.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.021091043949127197', 'original_id': 'df4d88566940bef9b12b4237463d1cae7e91b2500f6050ffde0f725082a5c1c4'}
|
Selection modes
Let's start learning selection modes with selecting a single musical event.
Usually when a project is just opened the first musical event of the first voice on the first track is already selected. To choose another musical event simply tap on its area which contains noteheads, stem, flags, rest symbol, or empty placeholder. By default such selection is in Input mode. Other selection modes are Fragment mode and Interactive mode.
Selection modes
Switching between selection modes
Input mode
Input mode is indicated by a lighter highlighting color. It is purposed for adding notes and other data such as lyrics or chord diagrams to a selected position.
In this mode you can navigate between neighboring musical events by tapping BackwardBackward button and ForwardForward button buttons.
When the last musical event of the last bar is reached and you tap the Forward button it creates a new bar.
Fragment mode
Fragment mode, indicated by a more saturated highlighting color, is designed to perform actions on selected objects. This mode allows you to work with multiple musical events or bars. You can copy, cut, replace them or batch modify their properties.
To switch to the Fragment mode from the Input mode tap again on the selection area. Tapping anywhere on the score in the Fragment mode resets selection to Input mode and selects a tapped musical event.
Interactive mode
Interactive mode is a temporary mode used to select multiple objects. It is indicated by a saturated border and available via long press on the selected area in both Input and Fragment modes. After you release a finger it switches to Fragment mode allowing you to modify choosen elements.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8874201774597168}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62500', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2SUQEUH6LLA2K3FR3HNFCQAED6NNACC4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:98ef221c-46e3-47a7-aff0-26fc1f7155e5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 18, 5, 45, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '90.156.201.123', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:AI22JIPOAXCK5I3UHEMN3JDR5XBBFRPE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f3eac933-febf-4980-b6a1-e108d9d6e21e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://staventabs.com/hc/guides/ios/basics/concepts/selection-modes/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1e81c892-ccd1-4388-b21f-a47baa344ef7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '277', 'url': 'https://staventabs.com/hc/guides/ios/basics/concepts/selection-modes/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-26\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-149-156-229.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': '0.025778472423553467', 'original_id': '46da37707c604d41020fd28641b14246b34c5f2354408f012e27d14ce284d798'}
|
RoadBike Review's Forum Archives
RoadBikeReview.com's Forum Archives - Components
8 sp sti problem(4 posts)
8 sp sti problemrodemiles
Jun 12, 2001 10:42 AM
I have an older model dura ace 8 sp sti shifter that is giving me a problem. It shifts down the block fine but when shifting up it won't return to it's correct position. I have to manually move it back into position. Anybody got any suggestions?
When did you last over-haul your shifters?seth1
Jun 12, 2001 11:10 AM
Unfortunately this is a pretty involved proceedure. I was told by one shop that I had to send it back to Shimano. I went to another shop and they injected some kind of cleaner followed by some grease. That worked very well. How old is the cable? How often do you clean the deraleur?
When did you last over-haul your shifters?rodemiles
Jun 12, 2001 1:33 PM
I haven't overhauled the shifters before now. It's not the cable: the shifter is currently off the bike and is still binding. Sure wish I know how they cleaned yours and greased it.
Two-step processKerry Irons
Jun 12, 2001 6:25 PM
1) "increase" your cable tension. IOW, back out the adjuster barrel at the deraileur. If you are shifting well to smaller cogs, but not shifting up to larger cogs, you need to take some slack out of the cable. Only if/when it shifts poorly in both directions can you conclude that you have cable, derailleur, or shifter problems.
2) Shimano shifters are generally "no user serviceable parts inside" but you can improve their performance by flushing them with some light weight lube. TriFlow works well because it is available in an aerosol with a spray tube that you can get in all the nooks and crannies. Sluicing in the lube while shifting through the gears is a messy operation but serves to clean and lube the shifters. If you get the urge, you can follow this up with some spray grease (available at hardware and automotive stores - usually lithium grease) for a little longer lasting lube. Also, this might be the time to bring up cable lubrication, and even lube of the pivots on your derailleur. One other thing you can play with is the "B" screw on the derailleur - the one that adjusts the angle of the derailleur body relative to the hanger. A hint: try to remember the original setting of this screw so you can take it back to starting point if it makes things worse or does no good.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '5', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9164426922798156}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '15479', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GOMKGWHJ2WUGVBITEYWXRS3M4M5OYC6X', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a6a0e3ba-9040-4cc0-87e5-86d87acb9e9c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 21, 10, 21, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.14.253.215', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5KCOH2TO6IM7JKSSTXCCXJGNS3LTDX6J', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:504365f4-082a-4257-9d09-376a0ce48078>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://archive.roadbikereview.com/00/0EEC97B0.php', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9fe42af6-a2fd-411b-b3ee-4c155d04f122>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '430', 'url': 'http://archive.roadbikereview.com/00/0EEC97B0.php', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-164-45-152.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-34\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.02139991521835327', 'original_id': '9b7e08804681f9f530baf0d5bd2bebee262c33262af90d2b257b5bd23f03e699'}
|
Creation Of Districts – A Big Step Towards Disintegration Of Manipur
By Jimmy Pamei
Manipur is like tiny India with varied communities, colorful traditions and diverse tastes. Though there were tensions from time to time, the state had managed to hammer out solutions and so continue to exist as a harmonious colorful state. There had been various ethnic
clashes in the state. But they all limp back to normalcy as time goes by. One community that often haunts the most upon the state integrity is the Naga community. When they do, they usually strike at the foundation of the state. Their independence movement or the so called ‘Framework Agreement’, ‘Alternative Arrangement’ or whatever stirs the water of Manipur. The latest move by the state in creating 7 new districts is a new salt rubbed to the unhealed wounds of the Naga’s sentiments.
In states like Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal new districts or state were created on the basis of administrative convenience, population size (about 1 million for a district), distance of district headquarter, urbanization factor etc. However the Manipur Government recent move in creating new districts was in the garb of administrative convenience, but the real intention seems to be political. And this step is somewhat likens to ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. And it is conjectured that the decision makers saw the danger while taking such bold steps, and that they have not scan the state thoroughly to see beyond their political walls. The move was bold, but is not the wisest. In order to appease one group, the whole state is plunged into the wagon of suffering.
For a long time some community have been clamoring for separation or severing of ties with Manipur state for various reasons. The Nagas in particular have their own point and the desperate hope of integrating their kith and kin as envisaged in their pursuit for sovereignty or whatever, and the so called ‘Framework Agreement’ of 2015 have given much fillip to their hope – for separation from the present Manipur state. That they ‘mean business’ is oft repeated in their various statements that ‘not an inch’ should be touched while creating new districts, especially referring to Sadar Hills and Jiribam. The All
Meitei Club Organization Manipur (AMCOM) and Meitei Youth Front South East Asia (MYFSEA) too have stated that the Manipur State Darbar Act 1932 should be looked into while creating new districts to protect the Meitei agricultural land.
But the state government has blatantly flexed its muscle by creating not only two but 7 districts in Manipur.
While seeming to take revenge against one group or organization, and while flexing the muscle to indicate dominance the other end of the state is put on the furnace. The situation now looks as if it is going to end up like the comic of Tom and Jerry.
Several reasons can be cited, besides the ethnic issues, as a writing on the wall for disintegration of Manipur from being a single entity.
The administration of the former or old districts was so bad and pathetic. Government schemes did not reached the target groups, there were instances much red tapism, rampant corruption in appointment to jobs and schemes distribution, nepotism, favouritism, and apathy towards the tribal communities have been lingering issue for many decades. For example the pathetic road condition of all the hill districts of the state speaks volume about it. They are so pathetic.
Who is responsible for such condition in this so called welfare state? What about the appointment to various posts through written or oral test? How many genuine people have been? In addition to all these doldrums what is the meaning of the attempt to inaugurate an incomplete project? What is the meaning of Passing Bills while some communities are deadly against it? The intention could be for benefit of one community, but the affected community has kick back so badly that the very foundation of state integrity is already at risk now.
What is the meaning of ‘breaking ceasefire ground rules while Manipur has said ceasefire doesn’t extend to the state’? What is the meaning of the valley community trying to become ‘Tribal’ people while attacking the hill Tribal community? Didn’t this valley community have sanskritized so high up in the hierarchy and have acted ‘holier than thou’ for decades and have they not treated the tribal communities as the ‘pariah’ for ages?
The creation of new districts was, for sure, not really for administrative convenience. There are several reasons for that argument. Even the former districts do not have sufficient officers and doctors and specialists and engineers. And even those appointed to the post at the hill district do not come to report at their stations.
What is the meaning of increasing the number of district when the earlier districts were not administered efficiently and conveniently?
What is that convenience for administration now? Therefore the logical conclusion is that the intention behind new districts creation is simply either political or communal. If it is political it is at the cost of communalism. If it is at the cost of communalism it is communalism in toto. Therefore the impact is predictable: it is another move towards disintegration of the state.
However there is also solution to every problem. Now since the discussion has filter down to the issue of communalism, the last hope for regaining trust of every community is to listen to their stories.
The government should have, at least in principle, listened to the complaints of the stakeholders while creating new districts. And that can still be done at this crucial stage. One biggest danger in the disintegration of Manipur is the Naga issue. Their struggle for the so called ‘sovereignty’ or ‘alternative arrangement’ or the ‘supra state’ ‘framework agreement’ and the likes have given this community that false or true hope. And when such hopes are already indicating danger, instead of pacifying them the Government action of instigating communal feeling is adding strength for their assertion. Instead give coax them and assure them with genuine promises, and faith that measures will be taken up to protect their interest. Make good use of the so called Goodwill Commission or other intermediaries who are willing to give peace back a chance. Recall those old traditions where the valley community has to engage the tribal people to complete some of the rituals. Actually everyone and every communities were one people in the first place.
Source: Imphal Free Press
Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9620358943939208}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '183614', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UWJBHURKA5L4JPRCDR6OO5N6JJ6CPI63', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f4648e3d-e30a-4012-9456-03a86af45bf1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 17, 22, 11, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.25.120', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MGSQGEFP4KQRONIX2ZNN5FD52XXDMAXG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a76e6ef1-4f4b-4fa5-aaf0-a3e78b0c2337>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://kanglaonline.com/2017/01/creation-of-districts-a-big-step-towards-disintegration-of-manipur/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e45be326-c1fd-4c1f-92ac-287cffcb759a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1078', 'url': 'http://kanglaonline.com/2017/01/creation-of-districts-a-big-step-towards-disintegration-of-manipur/', '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': '0.04959726333618164', 'original_id': 'd8af9cf5f223c055aa4b822e7af0eae27a2aa7e5065b89a0cd33405f8452ebbd'}
|
How to change coroutine scope?
Say, you have to make as suspending HTTP call in your ViewModel and based on that response execute an action: (Boolean)->Unit.
Now, action() need to be executed in the Activity/Fragment lifecicleScope so i would do something like:
// we are into the ViewModel
fun makeCall(
lifecycleScope: AndroidLifecycleScope,
action: (Boolean) -> Unit
) = viewModelScope.launch {
try {
val result = httpClinet.get<MyClass>(myUrl)
lifecycleScope.launch { action(true) }
} catch (e: Throwable) {
lifecycleScope.launch { action(false) }
The problem here is that i need to catch the error inside makeCall() since the error does not get propagated.
Also, is this the correct way to handle this usecase? I am pretty sure I am missing something.
Should I post the error as well as a MutableLiveData<Throwable> and observe it?
First, why does action() need to run in a scope? It’s not a suspend function.
Second, passing a callback doesn’t seem very coroutine-y.
Third, this doesn’t seem very MVVM-y. The Activity/Fragment should observe some property in the view model to know when the call completes. The data in the property should be relevant to what the view needs to display. The view doesn’t care what exception was thrown, just that there was a failure.
Maybe the property is a sealed class, with one subclass for “processing” (view displays a progress spinner), one for success which contains the result, and one for failure which contains an error message to display to the user.
How about:
fun makeCall(
lifecycleScope: AndroidLifecycleScope,
action: (Boolean) -> Unit
) = lifecycleScope.launch(start = CoroutineStart.UNDISPATHCED) {
try {
withContext(viewModelScope.coroutineContext) {
} catch (e: Throwable) {
This will call withContext in the calling thread, which will schedule httpClient in the view model context, and resume from withContext in the life cycle context.
Yeah I forgot to add the suspend modifier to action.
Indeed I am a little ashamed of this solution.
In my app, what I am trying to achieve is to wait for the login call, then if it ended without error, let the activity know it. The possible errors are sealed classes. I suppose I should catch the error and post either a Boolean or the error.
The reason behind why I was using the lifecycleScope was to avoid to call action if the owner was destroyed. Indeed observing the error as MutableLiveData<AuthException> is more elegant and Android friendly.
But still, what’s the idiomatic way of changing scope?
In the world of structured concurrency, launching a coroutine in another scope is sort of like goto, which is evil :wink:. So I don’t think you should do it.
Conceptually, the only thing that should launch coroutines on a scope is the thing that owns the scope. The Activity has a scope, so only the Activity should launch on the scope.
So I am not approaching the problem correctly?
The real question is, “What problem are you trying to solve?” We’ve already got a solution for your original problem that doesn’t involve changing scope. So what’s a problem whose solution might involve changing scope?
1 Like
Good point
@mtimmerm I think that code will do one of two things:
1. The withContext will crash because you are mixing contexts from two different scopes.
2. It will switch execution to the dispatcher used by the viewModelScope, but it’s still running in the lifecycleScope, so it will be cancelled if the lifecycleScope is cancelled, which isn’t what we want.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9005886912345886}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '27960', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AZTD7FF2DINMWM5BN3H6VSZPCSN2OJLG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:30e3f3cb-7104-489f-a4b9-3a4c29610d49>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 18, 6, 29, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.52.80.20', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CKKBQWJNFEKV6NSPA7ZCVD7J7WM7JJCZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:15ac74c1-95b4-4841-ad19-5e6daf362684>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-change-coroutine-scope/15495', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:cd62844a-54fb-4f12-a317-eff35a95dfc8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '539', 'url': 'https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-change-coroutine-scope/15495', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-05\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-129.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.026335060596466064', 'original_id': '1afbe5a642be809b0dd530f0c73c7d3dd6db4c258b1ab3801cbacd44cded763e'}
|
#########################################################################
# CMAKE MINIMAL VERSION
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.11)
# PROJECT PROPERTIES
project ("Cache2Q" LANGUAGES CXX)
#########################################################################
add_compile_options(
-Wall
-Wpedantic
-Wno-int-to-pointer-cast
-Wno-variadic-macros
-Wno-unused-parameter
-Wno-sign-compare
-Wno-misleading-indentation
-Wcast-align
-Wcast-qual
-Wctor-dtor-privacy
-Wenum-compare
-Wfloat-equal
-Wnon-virtual-dtor
-Wold-style-cast
-Woverloaded-virtual
-Wredundant-decls
-Wsign-promo
)
#########################################################################
# EXECUTABLE FILE PROPERTIES
set(CACHE_NAME "cache")
set(CACHE_NAME_LOGS_ON "cache_log")
set(CACHE_GEN_TEST "cache_test")
set(HEADERS
include/page.hpp
include/cache_mem.hpp
include/2q_cache.hpp
)
set(CACHE_SOURCES
src/main.cpp
)
set(TEST_SOURCES
tests/main.cpp
)
# EXECUTABLE FILE
add_executable(${CACHE_NAME} ${CACHE_SOURCES})
add_executable(${CACHE_NAME_LOGS_ON} ${CACHE_SOURCES})
add_executable(${CACHE_GEN_TEST} ${TEST_SOURCES})
target_include_directories(${CACHE_NAME} PRIVATE include src)
target_include_directories(${CACHE_NAME_LOGS_ON} PRIVATE include src)
target_include_directories(${CACHE_GEN_TEST} PRIVATE include tests)
target_compile_definitions(${CACHE_NAME_LOGS_ON} PRIVATE LOG_ON)
#########################################################################
# ASSEMBLY OPTIONS
set_target_properties(${CACHE_NAME} PROPERTIES
CXX_STANDARD 20
CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON
)
set_target_properties(${CACHE_NAME_LOGS_ON} PROPERTIES
CXX_STANDARD 20
CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON
)
set_target_properties(${CACHE_GEN_TEST} PROPERTIES
CXX_STANDARD 20
CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON
)
if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS)
set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
endif()
#########################################################################
|
the_stack
|
{'hexsha': '23915d3b22874eccac0c7153b1dc55b933755743', 'size': '2072', 'ext': 'txt', 'lang': 'Text', 'max_stars_repo_path': '1. Cache (2Q)/CMakeLists.txt', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'Vokerlee/-PP-Course-Intel-', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': '2e67d768ff71f58d6e66977cf0b6ac6490fe045c', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_stars_count': '1', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '2021-09-27T21:21:40.000Z', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '2021-09-27T21:21:40.000Z', 'max_issues_repo_path': '1. Cache (2Q)/CMakeLists.txt', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'Vokerlee/-PP-Course-Intel-', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': '2e67d768ff71f58d6e66977cf0b6ac6490fe045c', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': '1. Cache (2Q)/CMakeLists.txt', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'Vokerlee/-PP-Course-Intel-', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': '2e67d768ff71f58d6e66977cf0b6ac6490fe045c', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_forks_count': '1', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '2022-01-22T15:35:25.000Z', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '2022-01-22T15:35:25.000Z', 'avg_line_length': '23.2808988764', 'max_line_length': '73', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.5999034749', 'original_id': '344ae0ac147893292d85f0f34d0f0cdefb3117d5ff8339122b27e118fc807469'}
|
import { diff, isValidSourceMap, makeMap } from "../src/diff";
import { aSourceMap, bSourceMap } from "./mockSourceMaps";
describe("isValidSourceMap()", () => {
test("returns true when an object resembles a source map", () => {
expect(isValidSourceMap({})).toBe(false);
expect(isValidSourceMap({ sources: [] })).toBe(false);
expect(isValidSourceMap({ sourcesContent: [] })).toBe(false);
const badSourceMap = { sources: "", sourcesContent: "" } as any;
expect(isValidSourceMap(badSourceMap)).toBe(false);
expect(isValidSourceMap({ sources: [], sourcesContent: [] })).toBe(true);
});
});
describe("makeMap()", () => {
test("creates a map of files with content", () => {
expect(makeMap(aSourceMap)).toMatchSnapshot();
});
});
describe("diff()", () => {
test("returns empty array if one of the source maps is invalid", () => {
expect(diff({}, bSourceMap)).toEqual([]);
expect(diff(aSourceMap, {})).toEqual([]);
expect(diff({}, {})).toEqual([]);
});
test("returns empty array if there are no diffs", () => {
expect(diff(aSourceMap, aSourceMap)).toEqual([]);
});
test("returns files that differ between two bundles", () => {
expect(diff(aSourceMap, bSourceMap)).toMatchSnapshot();
});
});
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://github.com/asmundg/rnx-kit/blob/master/packages/bundle-diff/test/diff.test.ts', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '2021.0', 'title': 'rnx-kit', 'creator': 'asmundg', 'language': 'TypeScript', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '130', 'token_count': '384', '__index_level_0__': '19263', 'original_id': 'b68d30548501357036037b4698c044519a4e1c06c86453bc0f6ddf0a3f3470da'}
|
Uganda's Anti-Gay Laws
Michael Sean Winters
|
Feb. 25, 2014
Distinctly Catholic
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a law passed by that nation’s parliament that increases penalties for homosexual acts, acts which had been proscribed by law since colonial times but rarely enforced. The socio-cultural situation is different from that discussed yesterday in Arizona[1], but the challenge to Catholic orthodoxy posed by these instances of anti-gay bigotry is the same and that challenge is foundational.
Western governments, including President Obama, denounced the new law as did groups like Amnesty International. Unsurprisingly, this had little effect and whatever effect it had was probably counter-productive: Africans, understandably, are as hostile to cultural colonialism today as they were to political colonialism in the past. They do not like Westerners telling them what to do and who can blame them?
Unfortunately, there are various reports that conservative Christian groups based in the U.S. were instrumental in proposing the law in the first place. As in Russia, the World Congress of Families, which is based in Illinois, has been telling Ugandan legislators that there is a “gay agenda,” that gays try and recruit children to their lifestyle, that gays are trying to undermine Western civilization, and a bunch of other bunk. Having failed to win the culture war stateside, these evangelical culture warriors have taken their ammunition on the road, to places that never saw “Will & Grace.”
In 2009, when an earlier law which prescribed the death penalty for certain gay activities was proposed, the Catholic Church boldly opposed it. An inter-denominational organization to which the Catholic Church in Uganda belongs has been more supportive of this law. I am not sure the reason for the change, but it is worse than regrettable.
To be clear, and to repeat: The challenge posed by these laws is to Catholic orthodoxy. Huh? Aren’t Catholics supposed to believe that homosexual inclinations are disordered? Aren’t we supposed to believe that marriage is uniquely between one man and one woman for an entire lifetime? Aren’t we supposed to see efforts by gays and lesbians to be accepted as equals as a threat to our religious liberty?
The starting point for all Catholic social and ethical teaching is the inviolable dignity of each and every human being. This dignity is rooted first in the Imago Dei, the belief revealed to God’s people Israel, that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God. For Catholics, this dignity received further affirmation and scope by reason of our belief in the Incarnation, our belief that God Himself came down from heaven and took on human flesh for our salvation. This commitment to human dignity, and the breadth of its scope, is further strengthened by our Scriptural testimony, where, in St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians, we are instructed: “For in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations or principalities or authorities – all things were created through him and for him.” (Col 1:16) There is no footnote in that Letter to the Colossians that indicates “except the gays.”
Obviously, sin obscures our human dignity but it does not, it cannot, defeat it. These dogmatic beliefs in the Imago Dei and the Incarnation and the relationship of Jesus Christ to the Creation of all that is, these are beliefs about God that lead us to our core belief about humankind: That ours is an inestimable and inalienable dignity. That is the ground from which all of our ethical teachings sprout. This belief in human dignity is why we Catholics oppose abortion. It is why we believe all people have a right to a living wage. It is why we oppose violence and favor diplomacy and negotiation. It is why we treasure the family where human life is protected and permitted to grow. It is why we oppose all forms of unjust discrimination. It is why we must, as the Master instructed us in the Gospel last Sunday, learn to love our enemies, to give our cloak as well, and to walk the second mile.
The bishops in Uganda must ask themselves: Did we walk that second mile? I am all for promoting the traditional family. But, the Holy Father issued a letter to families this morning in Rome, and he managed to avoid blaming gays for the challenges that afflict the family in today’s culture. And these conservative evangelicals who roam the earth seeking the destruction of gays, are they not at least a little bit curious about how the modern economy is threatening the family? In Quadragesimo anno, Pope Pius XI wrote, “It is an intolerable abuse, and to be abolished at all cost, for mothers on account of the father’s low wage to be forced to engage in gainful occupation outside the home to the neglect of their proper cares and duties, especially the training of children.” That was 1931, so you can forgive Pius XI his understanding of women’s aspirations, but if you are looking for something that has, in fact, harmed family life in this country, and you do not look at stagnant wages set against a rising cost of living, you are missing a far greater threat to family life than anything a gay couple wants to do at City Hall.
Gays are right to be alarmed by this new law in Uganda. I am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but I recall seeing prisoners’ clothes at Auschwitz with the pink triangle on the breast and shuddering to the very depths of my soul. It is a measure of a humane and Christian civilization that small minority groups have their human dignity protected. There is no straight line from Uganda to the death camps. There is no line at all, just as the situation in Arizona is not like that in Uganda. But, what unites them is this: The Christian Church must learn how to promote family life without attacking the human dignity of gay men and women. That is foundational. It is a sin to do otherwise. The gravity of that sin differs from culture to culture. I do not expect Africa to embrace Upper West Side values tomorrow or anytime. But, the Church must proclaim the dignity of each and every human person in all places and at all times if we are to be true to our most basic dogmatic beliefs.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'deab73ee9b41a9443abcea6a6209d44fb2c687b6708e437102c24a87a6a36bff'}
|
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
A new language on the Internet ?
I received a mail that was forwarded to me by Martin Benjamin (the Kamusi project). The mail was by a gentleman who wants to promote his mother tongue, the Bangubangu language. This is the first time that written material in this language has been created. The first project is a book in English, French and Swahili called “Teach yourself the Kibangubangou”.
I am thrilled with initiatives like this. The book is there now what to do next. Do you print it with an organisation like Lulu? Do you advise to make it a Wikibook? To what extend are concepts like copyright and licenses relevant and understood ..
It would be great to make this project succeed and have kids learn their mother tongue. There are stumbling blocks. Google does support less languages then the Wikimedia Foundation; Google does some hundred and The WMF some two hundred and fifty. One of the problems is that there is not much material in any but the bigger languages and Google does good by already doing this much.
To make an impact, I think it is crucial for material in particularly the endangered languages, to be tagged correctly. This gives Google and the other search engines a fighting chance to function on little material. For the Bangubangu language, there is no proper tag yet. The question is if the IETF will consider to do something about it. They are religious in their belief that the ISO-639-3 is not approved yet and that the bnx code therefore is not to be used. At issue is that there is a need that presents itself for this language.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Kanab Ambersnail
According to a heading on the English Wikipedia mainpage, the article about the Kanab Ambersnail was the 1.500.000th article. I think this is very spectacular. Personally I find it funny that I can write about it before I have read about it on slashdot :)
Congratulations to all who make Wikipedia so special.
The I&I conference
Last Wednesday and Thursday I was at the annual I&I conference in Lunteren. This conference brings together many of the ICT (information & computer technology) coordinators of Dutch and also some Flemish schools. I have had the privilege to be for the second time. This year we had beautiful new Wikipedia folders, Marc Bergsma demonstrated a OLPC motherboard; it got a lot of interest particular when it was learned that a full system can be available for Dutch schools for the school year 2008/2009.
One great project I learned about is called TEEM. TEEM is a project where teachers evaluate educational websites and CD/DVD based resources for their use in classrooms. The way it is organised is such that I can understand why British teachers trust it as a resource. The way that it is funded however is one that creates a sad systemic bias. Reviews are paid for by publishers the consequence is that open content course ware will not be evaluated. This funding model also keeps out those publishers that do not pay for a review. This governmental political choice was to encourage innovation and competition. It is not unreasonable to suggest that it effectively costs the British schools more money as they do not learn about what is available for free.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Whose language is it anyway ?
Much of Microsoft's software has been translated in the Mapuzugun or is it the Mapundugun language. They did this in consultation with the Chilean government.
The Mapuche people have gone to court because they disagree that Microsoft or the Chilean government had the right to do this. The language it is claimed is theirs, and the translation was done without consulting the Mapuche people.
Many people do not understand or know what is behind this. Why would people be opposed against becoming part of the digital world? To me, the key thing to appreciate in the reporting is the accusation of "violating their cultural and collective heritage". There are competing orthographies for this language and one is strongly favoured by the government.
So if I remember things well, this has everything to do about the involvement of the people that use the language. Mapundugun is spoken in both Argentina and Chile and here the government of a nation and the most powerful company of the world seem to be taken on because they do not represent the Mapuche people and are denied the right to decide for them.
In that light it makes perfect sense to go to court and insist that this is very much not wanted.
Friday, November 17, 2006
To the winner go all the spoils
Sunday, November 12, 2006
The worth of MediaWiki
Friday, November 10, 2006
Running the interwiki bot for Wiktionary
I run the interwiki functionality of pywikipedia bot on all the Wiktionaries. It is a thing that I started and it is the kind of public service that needs doing. It links all the words that are spelled the same by adding "interwiki" links. These are the things that you see at the left hand side where it is indicated that there is also information in another language.
I have done this now for over a year and what I just noticed is the amount of words that I do not understand is growing rapidly. On the one hand it is to be expected as it is in line with the rapid growth of projects like the Vietnamese wiktionary. What now starts to happen more is that multiple wiktionaries have words together. That is what I see when I watch the bot.
In a way it would be fun to have WiktionaryZ in there. Currently we have 159.004 Expressions and we have 10.557 DefinedMeanings. Based on the expressions we would be the fourth project in size, it would be more reasonable to use the DefinedMeaning for the comparison and this would have us as the 26th in size.
Comparing Wiktionary with WiktionaryZ is like apples and oranges. Where Wiktionary has each word only once, WiktionaryZ counts them as existing in a language. Where there can be many red-linked articles on a Wiktionary page, the WiktionaryZ expressions are implicitly there.
It makes better sense to appreciate what the implications are of the numbers. In lexicology size counts. Only when people have a good chance of finding the information they are looking for will they find a resource useful. It is one reason why it makes sense to concentrate on certain topics or domains. WiktionaryZ is rich in ecological terminology due to the information that we got by including the GEMET thesaurus. By working on the OLPC children's dictionary we get a lot of the basic stuff that is the bread and butter of dictionaries.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Some thoughts on Alexa
Alexa is a website that provides an indication of the popularity of websites on the Internet. What I do does not matter, as Alexa only measures the use of Internet Explorer which is statistically becoming a less brilliant idea. Given the amount of people using Firefox on WiktionaryZ, I am sure that they do not know where many of the alpha crowd hangs out.
We have had our downtime this week and, I have been looking at how this affects our standing at Alexa. Sure enough, after two days of downtime, we hit the 900.000th place. Now that we are back up, we rebound nicely and today we are already back at number 478,316 for the weekly average.
WiktionaryZ has its own statistics, here you will find that our daily average hits did take a pounding. Given no more downtime and given that the trend of continued interest continues, the numbers will improve but the average will be depressed. At this moment all this is not crucial. When we get people to rely on WiktionaryZ, our service level needs to be much improved.
In a conversation with a developer I said once, when you respect our users, you have to treat them as if they cost us $150,- an hour. The point is that with the realisation how valuable contributors are, you are more likely to give them with the respect that they are due. With professional people using wikis, there actually is money paid for the time spend editing wikis this makes it more plain but it does not make a difference. Editors are to be respected and it is important to make the most out of what they do for us.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The semantic web to the rescue ?
The reporting on the Internet Governance Forum in Athens is mighty interesting. Yet another nice article on the BBC website with some thought provoking ideas.
I find it really interesting that spoken languages are considered. However, practically at this stage the Internet is very much oriented towards written languages and, given the amount of stumbling blocks that exist to integrate languages other than the ones using a Latin script, I am afraid this is just a red herring.
I was also amused to see that the semantic web was brought to the fore as one solution to the problem of linguistic diversity. Yes, it is intended to be understood by computers. Computers are used by people and the semantic web is decidedly English. This raises the question how this computer that apparently understands English communicates to its user who does not.
There are however some great things to be said about the semantic web; first of all the terms used should be unambiguous. This in turn means that it should be possible to translate it to other languages than English. This is a challenge that we face in WiktionaryZ. We are able to have semantic relations and our semantic relations do translate to the language of the User Interface. So when the terms have been translated, in WiktionaryZ relations can be understood not only but also by computers.
This is a good moment for a disclaimer; WiktionaryZ is pre-alpha software. Many of the issues that have been tackled in the development of the semantic web we have not considered let alone touched. We hope / expect that we will be allowed to stand on "the shoulders of giants".
Is this a "good" word
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '691', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9587996602058412}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '164824', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:34UZTARII2XYA6464VRPG7GWCPOB6POX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:455ffe3f-d89a-4a37-a41b-5a5107e27199>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 22, 4, 20, 21), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.13.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MWFU2OIWLEITJD2QKBP74RRRXMQDBJ3N', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd933423-9e4b-41f7-aff5-d3776d246a9f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2006_11_01_archive.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c5c357e2-120a-49c9-b9cc-c5857209c68d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '2466', 'url': 'http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2006_11_01_archive.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-143-241-238.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.03420037031173706', 'original_id': '50355a64acf168f1b576101ba114d12d8e5e135d813f0b0f1929158b42b1e924'}
|
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9"/>
<meta name="generator" content="Doxygen 1.8.13"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
<title>XORSHIFT-ADD(xsadd): xsadd.h File Reference</title>
<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dynsections.js"></script>
<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="top"><!-- do not remove this div, it is closed by doxygen! -->
<div id="titlearea">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 56px;">
<td id="projectalign" style="padding-left: 0.5em;">
<div id="projectname">XORSHIFT-ADD(xsadd)
 <span id="projectnumber">1.0</span>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<!-- end header part -->
<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.8.13 -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="menudata.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
initMenu('',false,false,'search.php','Search');
});
</script>
<div id="main-nav"></div>
</div><!-- top -->
<div class="header">
<div class="summary">
<a href="#nested-classes">Data Structures</a> |
<a href="#define-members">Macros</a> |
<a href="#func-members">Functions</a> |
<a href="#var-members">Variables</a> </div>
<div class="headertitle">
<div class="title">xsadd.h File Reference</div> </div>
</div><!--header-->
<div class="contents">
<p>XORSHIFT-ADD: 128-bit internal state pseudorandom number generator.
<a href="#details">More...</a></p>
<div class="textblock"><code>#include <stdint.h></code><br />
<code>#include <inttypes.h></code><br />
</div>
<p><a href="xsadd_8h_source.html">Go to the source code of this file.</a></p>
<table class="memberdecls">
<tr class="heading"><td colspan="2"><h2 class="groupheader"><a name="nested-classes"></a>
Data Structures</h2></td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">struct  </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a></td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">xsadd internal state vector and parameters <a href="structxsadd__t.html#details">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table><table class="memberdecls">
<tr class="heading"><td colspan="2"><h2 class="groupheader"><a name="define-members"></a>
Macros</h2></td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">#define </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0">XSADD_FLOAT_MUL</a>   (1.0f / 16777216.0f)</td></tr>
<tr class="separator:ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">#define </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407">XSADD_DOUBLE_MUL</a>   (1.0 / 9007199254740992.0)</td></tr>
<tr class="separator:ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table><table class="memberdecls">
<tr class="heading"><td colspan="2"><h2 class="groupheader"><a name="func-members"></a>
Functions</h2></td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee">xsadd_init</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd, uint32_t seed)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function initializes the internal state array with a 32-bit unsigned integer seed. <a href="#a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b">xsadd_init_by_array</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd, const uint32_t seed[], int size)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function initializes the internal state array, with an array of 32-bit unsigned integers used as seeds. <a href="#a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0">xsadd_next_state</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function changes internal state of xsadd. <a href="#af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static uint32_t </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">xsadd_uint32</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function outputs 32-bit unsigned integer from internal state. <a href="#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static float </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">xsadd_float</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function outputs floating point number from internal state. <a href="#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static float </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f">xsadd_floatOC</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function outputs floating point number from internal state. <a href="#a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static double </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">This function outputs double precision floating point number from internal state. <a href="#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2">xsadd_jump</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd, uint32_t mul_step, const char *base_step)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">jump function <a href="#a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8">xsadd_jump_by_polynomial</a> (<a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> *xsadd, const char *jump_str)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">jump using the jump polynomial. <a href="#a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226">xsadd_calculate_jump_polynomial</a> (char *jump_str, uint32_t mul_step, const char *base_step)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">calculate jump polynomial. <a href="#a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table><table class="memberdecls">
<tr class="heading"><td colspan="2"><h2 class="groupheader"><a name="var-members"></a>
Variables</h2></td></tr>
<tr class="memitem:ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">const char *const </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad">xsadd_jump_base_step</a></td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Recomended large jump step. <a href="#ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
<tr class="separator:ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table>
<a name="details" id="details"></a><h2 class="groupheader">Detailed Description</h2>
<div class="textblock"><p>XORSHIFT-ADD: 128-bit internal state pseudorandom number generator. </p>
<dl class="section author"><dt>Author</dt><dd>Mutsuo Saito (Manieth Corp.) </dd>
<dd>
Makoto Matsumoto (Hiroshima University)</dd></dl>
<p>Copyright (c) 2014 Mutsuo Saito, Makoto Matsumoto, Hiroshima University and Manieth Corp. All rights reserved.</p>
<p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:</p>
<p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p>
<p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. </p>
</div><h2 class="groupheader">Macro Definition Documentation</h2>
<a id="ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407">◆ </a></span>XSADD_DOUBLE_MUL</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">#define XSADD_DOUBLE_MUL   (1.0 / 9007199254740992.0)</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0">◆ </a></span>XSADD_FLOAT_MUL</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">#define XSADD_FLOAT_MUL   (1.0f / 16777216.0f)</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">xsadd_float()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<h2 class="groupheader">Function Documentation</h2>
<a id="a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226">◆ </a></span>xsadd_calculate_jump_polynomial()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">void xsadd_calculate_jump_polynomial </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype">char * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>jump_str</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">uint32_t </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>mul_step</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">const char * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>base_step</em> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>)</td>
<td></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>calculate jump polynomial. </p>
<p>This function is time consuming. jump_str needs 33 bytes memory.</p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[out]</td><td class="paramname">jump_str</td><td>the result of this calculation. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">mul_step</td><td>jump step is mul_step * base_step. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">base_step</td><td>hexadecimal string of jump base. </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">◆ </a></span>xsadd_double()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="mlabels">
<tr>
<td class="mlabels-left">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">static double xsadd_double </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em></td><td>)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="mlabels-right">
<span class="mlabels"><span class="mlabel">inline</span><span class="mlabel">static</span></span> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function outputs double precision floating point number from internal state. </p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd internal state </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>floating point number r (0.0 < r <= 1.0) </dd></dl>
<p class="reference">References <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a029536fb55a8e61756e4a30745252226">xsadd_calculate_jump_polynomial()</a>, <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ad71ffb9ebebc52cdd9197f78d6c09407">XSADD_DOUBLE_MUL</a>, <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2">xsadd_jump()</a>, <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad">xsadd_jump_base_step</a>, <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8">xsadd_jump_by_polynomial()</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">xsadd_uint32()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">◆ </a></span>xsadd_float()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="mlabels">
<tr>
<td class="mlabels-left">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">static float xsadd_float </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em></td><td>)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="mlabels-right">
<span class="mlabels"><span class="mlabel">inline</span><span class="mlabel">static</span></span> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function outputs floating point number from internal state. </p>
<p>This function is implemented using multiplying by 1 / 2^23. floating point multiplication is faster than using union trick in my Intel CPU. </p><dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd internal state </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>floating point number r (0.0 <= r < 1.0) </dd></dl>
<p class="reference">References <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ab98b93b5cdfc361ad7b05bfb5174e9d0">XSADD_FLOAT_MUL</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">xsadd_uint32()</a>.</p>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f">xsadd_floatOC()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f">◆ </a></span>xsadd_floatOC()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="mlabels">
<tr>
<td class="mlabels-left">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">static float xsadd_floatOC </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em></td><td>)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="mlabels-right">
<span class="mlabels"><span class="mlabel">inline</span><span class="mlabel">static</span></span> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function outputs floating point number from internal state. </p>
<p>This function may return 1.0 and never returns 0.0. </p><dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd internal state </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>floating point number r (0.0 < r <= 1.0) </dd></dl>
<p class="reference">References <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">xsadd_float()</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0">xsadd_next_state()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a3179b6572f274f5caee62dab0b2a5aee">◆ </a></span>xsadd_init()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">void xsadd_init </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">uint32_t </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>seed</em> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>)</td>
<td></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function initializes the internal state array with a 32-bit unsigned integer seed. </p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd state vector. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">seed</td><td>a 32-bit unsigned integer used as a seed. </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a73dc480dbd27e27d47997703c3ea709b">◆ </a></span>xsadd_init_by_array()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">void xsadd_init_by_array </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">const uint32_t </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>seed</em>[], </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">int </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>size</em> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>)</td>
<td></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function initializes the internal state array, with an array of 32-bit unsigned integers used as seeds. </p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd state vector. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">seed</td><td>the array of 32-bit integers, used as a seed. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">size</td><td>the length of seed. </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a7c8419a8305ed87b56e71ec1dca5f7e2">◆ </a></span>xsadd_jump()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">void xsadd_jump </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">uint32_t </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>mul_step</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">const char * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>base_step</em> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>)</td>
<td></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>jump function </p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd structure, overwritten by new state after calling this function. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">mul_step</td><td>jump step is mul_step * base_step. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">base_step</td><td>hexadecimal number string less than 2<sup>128</sup>. </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#a928b229628af4d36764decaf4a06a0c8">◆ </a></span>xsadd_jump_by_polynomial()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">void xsadd_jump_by_polynomial </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em>, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paramkey"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="paramtype">const char * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>jump_str</em> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>)</td>
<td></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>jump using the jump polynomial. </p>
<p>This function is not as time consuming as calculating jump polynomial. This function can use multiple times for the xsadd structure. </p><dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd structure, overwritten by new state after calling this function. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">jump_poly</td><td>the jump polynomial calculated by xsadd_calculate_jump_polynomial. </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0">◆ </a></span>xsadd_next_state()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="mlabels">
<tr>
<td class="mlabels-left">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">static void xsadd_next_state </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em></td><td>)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="mlabels-right">
<span class="mlabels"><span class="mlabel">inline</span><span class="mlabel">static</span></span> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function changes internal state of xsadd. </p>
<p>Users should not call this function directly. </p><dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd internal state </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="reference">References <a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html#ae335b90080fb7862fbed227682fdf4fa">xsadd_t::state</a>.</p>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a99393dc68ee805c4709bb82053361f4f">xsadd_floatOC()</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">xsadd_uint32()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<a id="ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#ae9f7785d2eaebad1c8447a5fb4ed1c39">◆ </a></span>xsadd_uint32()</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="mlabels">
<tr>
<td class="mlabels-left">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">static uint32_t xsadd_uint32 </td>
<td>(</td>
<td class="paramtype"><a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html">xsadd_t</a> * </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>xsadd</em></td><td>)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="mlabels-right">
<span class="mlabels"><span class="mlabel">inline</span><span class="mlabel">static</span></span> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>This function outputs 32-bit unsigned integer from internal state. </p>
<dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
<table class="params">
<tr><td class="paramdir">[in,out]</td><td class="paramname">xsadd</td><td>xsadd internal state </td></tr>
</table>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>32-bit unsigned integer r (0 <= r < 2^32) </dd></dl>
<p class="reference">References <a class="el" href="structxsadd__t.html#ae335b90080fb7862fbed227682fdf4fa">xsadd_t::state</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#af88948376d575eadb6588ff204e41bd0">xsadd_next_state()</a>.</p>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>, and <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a090f236b7f9820e9ca47c7e9af303264">xsadd_float()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<h2 class="groupheader">Variable Documentation</h2>
<a id="ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad"></a>
<h2 class="memtitle"><span class="permalink"><a href="#ae49979d2864861864599d2d7e8d88cad">◆ </a></span>xsadd_jump_base_step</h2>
<div class="memitem">
<div class="memproto">
<table class="memname">
<tr>
<td class="memname">const char* const xsadd_jump_base_step</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div class="memdoc">
<p>Recomended large jump step. </p>
<p>The value is 3^41. </p>
<p class="reference">Referenced by <a class="el" href="xsadd_8h.html#a5e394f0972e20159857b9c6fd4e0719f">xsadd_double()</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div><!-- contents -->
<!-- start footer part -->
<hr class="footer"/><address class="footer"><small>
Generated on Thu Jul 9 2020 19:40:08 for XORSHIFT-ADD(xsadd) by  <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html">
<img class="footer" src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen"/>
</a> 1.8.13
</small></address>
</body>
</html>
|
the_stack
|
{'hexsha': '353d49d100b852dcbd14d15a80d7da780c46f0ef', 'size': '31340', 'ext': 'html', 'lang': 'HTML', 'max_stars_repo_path': 'XsAddNative/html/xsadd_8h.html', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'Tokeiya/XorShiftAddSharp', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': '38cd35fd9706d6bd94df831bcbb0a1eac24e8859', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['BSD-3-Clause']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': 'XsAddNative/html/xsadd_8h.html', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'Tokeiya/XorShiftAddSharp', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': '38cd35fd9706d6bd94df831bcbb0a1eac24e8859', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['BSD-3-Clause']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': 'XsAddNative/html/xsadd_8h.html', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'Tokeiya/XorShiftAddSharp', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': '38cd35fd9706d6bd94df831bcbb0a1eac24e8859', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['BSD-3-Clause']", 'max_forks_count': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '', 'avg_line_length': '53.5726495726', 'max_line_length': '610', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.6714741544', 'original_id': '894924062948cb02a3667855a0abf9207eb86235002983c09f8329074adab22f'}
|
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="DeblockFilter.cs" company="HandBrake Project (http://handbrake.fr)">
// This file is part of the HandBrake source code - It may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
// </copyright>
// <summary>
// Defines the DeblockFilter type.
// </summary>
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace HandBrakeWPF.ViewModelItems.Filters
{
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using Caliburn.Micro;
using HandBrake.Interop.Interop;
using HandBrake.Interop.Interop.HbLib;
using HandBrake.Interop.Interop.Model.Encoding;
using HandBrakeWPF.Model.Filters;
using HandBrakeWPF.Services.Encode.Model;
using HandBrakeWPF.Services.Presets.Model;
using HandBrakeWPF.Services.Scan.Model;
using Action = System.Action;
public class DeblockFilter : PropertyChangedBase
{
public static readonly string Off = "off";
public static readonly string Custom = "custom";
private readonly Action triggerTabChanged;
public DeblockFilter(EncodeTask currentTask, Action triggerTabChanged)
{
this.triggerTabChanged = triggerTabChanged;
this.CurrentTask = currentTask;
this.SetPresets();
this.SetTunes();
}
public EncodeTask CurrentTask { get; private set; }
public object Presets { get; set; }
public object Tunes { get; set; }
public bool ShowDeblockTune => this.SelectedPreset != null && this.SelectedPreset.Key != Off && this.SelectedPreset.Key != Custom;
public bool ShowDeblockCustom => this.SelectedPreset != null && this.SelectedPreset.Key == Custom;
public FilterPreset SelectedPreset
{
get => this.CurrentTask.DeblockPreset;
set
{
if (Equals(value, this.CurrentTask.DeblockPreset)) return;
this.CurrentTask.DeblockPreset = value;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.SelectedPreset);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.ShowDeblockTune);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.ShowDeblockCustom);
this.triggerTabChanged();
}
}
public FilterTune SelectedTune
{
get => this.CurrentTask.DeblockTune;
set
{
if (Equals(value, this.CurrentTask.DeblockTune)) return;
this.CurrentTask.DeblockTune = value;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.SelectedTune);
this.triggerTabChanged();
}
}
public string CustomDeblock
{
get => this.CurrentTask.CustomDeblock;
set
{
if (value == this.CurrentTask.CustomDeblock) return;
this.CurrentTask.CustomDeblock = value;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.CustomDeblock);
}
}
public void SetPreset(Preset preset, EncodeTask task)
{
this.CurrentTask = task;
if (preset == null)
{
this.SelectedPreset = new FilterPreset(HandBrakeFilterHelpers.GetFilterPresets((int)hb_filter_ids.HB_FILTER_DEBLOCK).FirstOrDefault(s => s.ShortName == "off"));
this.CustomDeblock = string.Empty;
this.SelectedTune = null;
return;
}
this.SelectedPreset = preset.Task.DeblockPreset;
this.SelectedTune = preset.Task.DeblockTune;
this.CustomDeblock = preset.Task.CustomDeblock;
}
public void UpdateTask(EncodeTask task)
{
this.CurrentTask = task;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.SelectedPreset);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.SelectedTune);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.CustomDeblock);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.ShowDeblockTune);
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.ShowDeblockCustom);
}
public bool MatchesPreset(Preset preset)
{
if (this.SelectedPreset?.Key != preset.Task?.DeblockPreset?.Key)
{
return false;
}
if (this.SelectedTune.Key != preset?.Task?.DeblockTune.Key)
{
return false;
}
if (this.CustomDeblock != preset?.Task?.CustomDeblock)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
public void SetSource(Source source, Title title, Preset preset, EncodeTask task)
{
this.CurrentTask = task;
}
private void SetPresets()
{
BindingList<FilterPreset> presets = new BindingList<FilterPreset>();
foreach (HBPresetTune tune in HandBrakeFilterHelpers.GetFilterPresets((int)hb_filter_ids.HB_FILTER_DEBLOCK))
{
presets.Add(new FilterPreset(tune));
}
this.Presets = presets;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.Presets);
}
private void SetTunes()
{
BindingList<FilterTune> tunes = new BindingList<FilterTune>();
foreach (HBPresetTune tune in HandBrakeFilterHelpers.GetFilterTunes((int)hb_filter_ids.HB_FILTER_DEBLOCK))
{
tunes.Add(new FilterTune(tune));
}
this.Tunes = tunes;
this.NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => this.Tunes);
}
}
}
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '6e8111d197e49565dd4ed4adf302d75509fcdbdde8268e2386360dd648069021'}
|
"some music was meant to stay underground..."
Battleroar Announces New Guitarist Antreas Sotiropoulos
Greek metal band Battleroar has issued the following update:
"Battleroar proudly announces that guitar player Antreas Sotiropoulos (Everdome, Wolfcry) has joined forces! The new line-up is already working out really well and everybody is pleased and excited."
What's Next?
Please share this article if you found it interesting.
0 Comments on "Battleroar Announces New Guitarist"
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '35', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9191374182701112}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '26152', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EWMKVAKSJYDSNG6S7FJAFBWJPSIYQN2T', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:52957fa7-1bc6-4151-9553-313d3fab7102>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 7, 30, 2, 4, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '205.134.170.41', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7JOYHBZYECNWVIBHI2PYPZOIK2VHXYKE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f5acdd28-661f-4cb2-a914-f48df49121a6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=60318', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b3fc11a3-fe57-4481-aeed-af8b2521f144>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '124', 'url': 'http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=60318', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 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': '0.02725386619567871', 'original_id': '63d9f5ae317e4b589c2469b824aecf517dfad0ca9ac235d2b33aa4d7928e3a3f'}
|
Stakeholder engagement and participation
Some of the most challenging decisions in ocean planning and management stem from the relationship between people and the environment. The attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and knowledge of stakeholders can have a profound effect on the success of ocean management.
The nature and extent of stakeholder involvement will differ greatly between countries and will be significantly influenced by the culture of the specific country as well as any political or legal requirements for participation that already exist.
With extensive experience working with stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, Blue Resources can manage the complete stakeholder engagement process including:
• improving the information base by accessing information held by stakeholders;
• improving decision-making and validate approaches through external scrutiny and testing;
• developing consensus by identifying and acknowledging shared views and objectives;
• resolving differences of view through early and open discussion and through clear, transparent dialogue with stakeholders;
• promoting stakeholder understanding of the need for the governance reforms, what the reforms will involve and the risks of taking no action; and
• establishing links and networks useful in implementing governance reforms.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9368818402290344}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '37445', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZMFF5E2OG6AAZTG7UB24W3THBFBRJKYZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f9eb3218-6fce-4c02-b088-9a401c4d119b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 20, 2, 18, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '35.214.20.231', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GVGAN7SEEEZB76X2XRG5G6G4CXREMX3K', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ecf342a9-d1a0-4f47-aac4-1b1c24322007>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://blueresources.co.uk/what-we-do-developing-innovative-strategies-for-blue-growth/stakeholder-engagement-and-participation/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6b48c690-8548-4231-8f5e-02c14ed9c46d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '182', 'url': 'http://blueresources.co.uk/what-we-do-developing-innovative-strategies-for-blue-growth/stakeholder-engagement-and-participation/', '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-10-67-67-22\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': '0.02360600233078003', 'original_id': '8f32e7f4f0df951a2689585c07f8bba687824b84e30de76000e9d2de99c6c68a'}
|
James Berkland is a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) from 1973 to 1994. He is well-known for his controversial earthquake prediction methods that include calculating the number of missing pets ads in the newspapers of earthquake-prone areas.
Berkland’s interest in geology began as a child, as he says his dad was a “rock-hound”. After earning his BA in Geology at U.C. Berkeley in 1958 he went directly to work for six years with the U.S. Geological Survey, involving laboratory and fieldwork throughout the western United States, including Alaska. Then, after earning his Masters degree in Geology at San Jose State University in 1964 he accepted the position of Engineering Geologist with the U.S. Bureau or Reclamation, based in Sacramento, and for the next five years worked on engineering projects involving the storage and moving of water at a number of dam sites, tunnels and canals in California and Oregon.
Berkland worked on his Ph.D. in geology at the University of California at Davis until 1972, and although he passed his Ph.D. orals, he didn’t complete his dissertation within the required seven years. However he published more than 50 scientific papers, many of which utilized his Ph.D. studies, including a paper delivered at the International Geological Congress at Montreal in 1972.
Berkland was Assistant Professor of Geology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina until 1973, where he shared in the discovery of evidence for Pleistocene glaciation in the Southern Appalachians. Berkland then moved backed to California and worked for the U.S.G.S. for over twenty years. He was the first County Geologist for the most populous county in northern California, Santa Clara County. Besides helping to establish geologic ordinances widely held as models in the field, Berkland served on many committees and advisory boards. He also held a position for two years as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, and he received distinguished member awards from the Santa Clara County Engineers and Architects Association and the SABER Society at San Jose State University.
Berkland claims that he can predict earthquakes with over 75% accuracy by calculating the number of lost pet ads in the newspaper, and observing the lunar-tide cycles. He has been meticulously saving and counting lost pet ads for many years, and he says that the number of missing dogs and cats goes up significantly for as long as two weeks prior to an earthquake. Berkland also noted that many earthquakes occurred at the time of maximum tidal forces associated with the twice-monthly alignments of the Sun and Moon. In the 70s he began to make informal predictions, scoring six out of eight during 1974, including the 5.2M Thanksgiving Day Quake of November 27th. This one hit the day after he had predicted it at a meeting of U.S.G.S. geologists, and it synchronistically shook him and his daughter while they were attending the movie Earthquake.
Despite Berkland’s successes in earthquake prediction he found it almost impossible to publish on the subject in scientific journals. His career began to suffer although his credentials included fellowship in the Geological Society of America and membership in the Association of Engineering Geologists, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi Science Honor Society, Peninsula Geological Society, Seismological Society of America, and others.
Gravitational variations due to the lunar cycles, he says, create “seismic windows” of greater earthquake probability. When the number of missing pets also suddenly rises, then a quake is likely to happen. Berkland said he thinks the U.S.G.S. won’t accept unusual animal behavior data because it doesn’t fit with their current scientific paradigm. (Researchers who attempt earthquake prediction are often lumped into the same category as fortune tellers and scam artists by traditional geologists.) It is not surprising then to hear that Berkland was suspended from his position as Santa Clara county geologist for claiming to predict earthquakes–such as the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in Northern California, which was preceded by numerous reports of odd animal behavior.
When I did the research for Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s book Dogs That Know When Their Owner’s Are Coming Home, I set out to replicate Berkland’s findings, and I sat in the Santa Cruz Public Library for several weeks counting the Lost Pet ads in the San Jose Mercury News microfilm collection. I confirmed that Berkland’s calculations were indeed correct; there was a significant rise in the number of missing dog and cat ads in the weeks prior to the 1989 quake. The trouble was that when I checked the number of missing pet ads for the year before, during the same time period, there was also a rise–yet an earthquake didn’t follow the rise that year. So more counting needs to be done to determine whether seasonal effects might influence this phenomenon or not, but it does appear that Berkland is on to something significant with his method.
Berkland has made many media appearances. He was interviewed on the Art Bell radio show, and has appeared on Frontline, Sightings, Strange Universe, Northwest Afternoon, Town Meeting, Bill Cosby Show, The Other Side, Two at Noon, Evening Matinee, Jeff Rense show, George Putnam Show, Mitch Battros Show, Laura Lee Show, and many other broadcasts. In 1991 he was featured in the Farmer s Almanac, and his annual predictions are now published in the Dot Tide Tables.
Berkland also publishes his predictions in a newsletter called Syzygy, and he maintains Quakeline, a 900-line telephone information service that was originally nationwide, but is now restricted to the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about Berkland’s work visit his web site: www.syzygyjob.com
I interviewed Jim at his home on November 1, 1996, when he was living in San Jose, California. Jim is a very friendly guy, and he gets very enthusiastic when he talks about geology and earthquakes. We spoke about his career in geology, his methods of earthquake prediction, and what he thinks the animals are picking up on that is causing them to disappear prior to earthquakes.
David: How did you get involved in earthquake prediction?
James: As a county geologist I came out here in September of 1973, directly from Appalachian State University, where I was a Assistant Professor for a year. But I’m a native Californian, raised in the Bay Area. I was born down in Glendale, but we moved to Somoma Valley when I was six years old.
David: How did you first become interested in geology? Why don’t we start with that.
James: Well, my dad was a rock hound, and I was brought up in the country, with animals and hikes, hunting and fishing all around there. I’d see different terrain, and pick up rocks, different pretty rocks, stick them in the pocket. My dad was interested in lots of things, and was frustrated in a number of ways. He was an electrician, a store-keeper, and never had gone to colleges. He almost started in medicine, but didn’t.
I went directly from high school to a local Santa Rosa Junior College. Then I was going to work for six months and earn money to go to Berkeley in forestry, but it turned into almost six years. I worked at the biggest industry in Sonoma County, which is Sonoma State Hospital for the mentally retarded. I almost didn’t get out of there. It was handy, only a mile a way from where I lived, and I had kind of a pleasing job. It was like having Boy Scout troop. I would take the kids up in the hills for hikes and things.
Of course, my colleagues there were tickled, because suddenly instead of 120 kids on the ward, there would have maybe 75 or less. It was a lot easier to handle while I was away for four or five hours. I would pack the kids lunches, and go up and fish up at the creeks. We’d look at the wildlife, and turn over rocks to see what’s underneath. So I finally I decided there’s got to be a little more. I’m trained for more than this. It was easy, but it wasn’t challenging, and there was so “many things that I was interested in, but couldn’t seem to follow up on. So I went down to become a forester.
When I got to Berkeley in the middle of Spring semester it turned out that I’d already received all of the prerequisites for upper division, and there were no more courses available to me, without taking the forestry field camp, involved in measuring logs, timber country, and working in a logging mill. So I said, well, what does that pay,?
Well, no, they said, you pay us. It costs you $200. 1 said, no, next summer I’ve got to work again. Well, sorry you can’t take any upper division classes until you’ve had this summer field camp. Well, my buddy was taking geology at Berkeley, and he said, we don’t have to have our geology field camp until the end of our senior year. So because all of the prerequisites were identical I just shifted right into geology, and never looked back. After two years at Berkeley I went directly to the U.S.G.S., were I worked as a non-professional for almost six years, maybe a little over, during 1958 to 1964.
David: Had you earned your Ph.D.?
James: No, I just had a bachelors. I thought, well, I’ll just work at the U.S.G.S., work my way up, show them what I can do, gradually become a geologist, and go from there. Well, it turned out, it didn’t work that way. To get with the U.S.G.S. you pretty much had to have a Ph.D., except under times
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '7a1b9895998711df72fca7b4146816436013a8186bf690153a4732b499edc735'}
|
Take the 2-minute tour ×
So i'm writing an Erlang program, and I have a message as a string coming in via a socket.
I need to check to make sure the message is in the format: [Integer, Space, Integer, "\r\n"] e.g. "1 3\r\n" and then only do something if the message matches this format.
I have tried
case Move of
[X1, 32 ,Y1,13,10]->
%do stuff....
%don't do stuff...
It works fine if the message is correct, but it just seems to crash if the message doesn't match.
I have a feeling I may be going about this completely the wrong way, but am not sure what else to try...
Cheers for any help or advice =]
EDIT: Ok nevermind! Replacing the "true->" with "_->" makes it work just fine -_- silly me!
I'd still be interested to know if this is the best way of going about this, or if there is a better way.
Cheers again :)
share|improve this question
How do you mean a better way? To test the structure? In that case using pattern matching is the way to go. Whether you you do it with a case or a separate function depends on what fits the best. Or were you thinking of something else? – rvirding Jan 29 '11 at 1:21
add comment
1 Answer
instead of true you have to use _ - wildcard which matches anything
P.S. oops, saw your edit too late.
answer to your second question would be - use functions instead of cases:
f([X1, 32, Y1, 13, 10]) ->
f(_) ->
share|improve this answer
add comment
Your Answer
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '20', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8839966058731079}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62531', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HZ4Z4HUWG6BCB2JCGGCPB6ASJBHEHFEW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:933f401c-e880-49cd-b36b-7bf1907f2aea>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 10, 17, 46), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.252.206.140', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TISQ3VBEIXNA7MFWPYCBWMK5XCXQSPPG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:87ddf70e-7ed6-42e2-8839-35604c496422>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4832892/erlang-pattern-matching-problem', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fece25cc-0192-42a0-9c05-0bec184e688d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '301', 'url': 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4832892/erlang-pattern-matching-problem', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 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': '0.4869093894958496', 'original_id': 'b845fa6698ca99b83d1c09bc97e1ad0922c0ec7c4af7fdee8f7f99966c68c904'}
|
import multiprocessing
import queue
import threading
import uuid
from typing import Type
import pytest
import singletons
from singletons.exceptions import NoGreenthreadEnvironmentWarning
JOIN_TIMEOUT = 2
def test_global_factory() -> None:
"""Test GlobalFactory."""
@singletons.GlobalFactory
def my_uuid():
return uuid.uuid4()
a = my_uuid()
b = my_uuid()
assert a is b
@singletons.ProcessFactory
def process_my_uuid():
"""Get a uuid per Process."""
return uuid.uuid4()
def process_inner_func(q: multiprocessing.Queue):
"""Helper function for testing ProcessFactory."""
a = process_my_uuid()
b = process_my_uuid()
q.put((a, b))
@singletons.ThreadFactory
def thread_my_uuid():
"""Get a uuid per Thread."""
return uuid.uuid4()
def thread_inner_func(q: queue.Queue):
"""Helper function for testing ThreadFactory."""
a = thread_my_uuid()
b = thread_my_uuid()
q.put((a, b))
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
("prefix", "queue_cls", "process", "repetitions"),
[
("process", multiprocessing.Queue, multiprocessing.Process, 8),
("thread", queue.Queue, threading.Thread, 8),
],
)
def test_process_factory(prefix: str, queue_cls: Type, process: Type, repetitions: int) -> None:
"""Test Process and Thread Factories."""
test_q = queue_cls()
processes = []
for _ in range(repetitions):
p = process(target=globals()[f"{prefix}_inner_func"], args=(test_q,))
p.start()
processes.append(p)
seen_uuids = set()
while len(seen_uuids) < repetitions:
a, b = test_q.get(timeout=JOIN_TIMEOUT)
assert a == b
assert a not in seen_uuids
seen_uuids.add(a)
def test_greenthread_factory_with_no_greenthreads():
"""Test Greenthread Factory when there are no greenthread libraries enabled."""
@singletons.GreenthreadFactory
def my_uuid():
"""Get a uuid per greenthread."""
return uuid.uuid4()
with pytest.warns(NoGreenthreadEnvironmentWarning):
a = my_uuid()
b = my_uuid()
assert a is b
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://github.com/jmaroeder/python-singletons/blob/master/tests/test_factory.py', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '2020.0', 'title': 'python-singletons', 'creator': 'jmaroeder', 'language': 'Python', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '199', 'token_count': '681', '__index_level_0__': '44258', 'original_id': '83cced59724c351f217b09077a6479ad46f926152fc609a36ed940ea09d7df10'}
|
Navigate Up
Pediatric Center - A-Z Index
Print This Page
CT scan
A computed tomography (CT) scan is an imaging method that uses x-rays to create pictures of cross-sections of the body.
Related tests include:
Alternative Names
CAT scan; Computed axial tomography scan; Computed tomography scan
How the test is performed
You will be asked to lie on a narrow table that slides into the center of the CT scanner.
Once you are inside the scanner, the machine's x-ray beam rotates around you. Modern "spiral" scanners can perform the exam without stopping.
A computer creates separate images of the body area, called slices. These images can be stored, viewed on a monitor, or printed on film. Three-dimensional models of the body area can be created by stacking the slices together.
You must stay still during the exam, because movement causes blurred images. You may be told to hold your breath for short periods of time.
Complete scans usually take only a few minutes. The newest scanners can image your entire body in less than 30 seconds.
How to prepare for the test
Certain exams require a special dye, called contrast, to be delivered into your body before the test starts. Contrast helps certain areas show up better on the x-rays.
Let your doctor know if you have ever had a reaction to contrast. You may need to take medicines before the test in order to avoid another reaction.
Contrast can be given several ways, and depends on the type of CT being performed.
• It may be delivered through a vein (IV) in your hand or forearm.
• It may be given into your rectum using an enema.
• You might drink the contrast before your scan. When you drink the contrast depends on the type of exam being done. The contrast liquid may taste chalky, although some are flavored. The contrast passes out of your body through your stools.
If contrast is used, you may also be asked not to eat or drink anything for 4-6 hours before the test.
Before receiving the contrast, tell your health care provider if you take the diabetes medication metformin (Glucophage). People taking this medicine may need to stop temporarily.
Find out if the CT machine has a weight limit if you weigh more than 300 pounds. Too much weight can cause damage to the scanner.
You will need to remove jewelry and wear a hospital gown during the study.
How the test will feel
Some people may have discomfort from lying on the hard table.
Contrast given through an IV may cause a slight burning feeling, a metallic taste in the mouth, and a warm flushing of the body. These sensations are normal and usually go away within a few seconds.
Why the test is performed
A CT scan creates detailed pictures of the body, including the brain, chest, spine, and abdomen. The test may be used to:
• Diagnose an infection
• Guide a surgeon to the right area during a biopsy
• Identify masses and tumors, including cancer
• Study blood vessels
Normal Values
Results are considered normal if the organs and structures being examined are normal in appearance.
What abnormal results mean
Abnormal results depend on the part of the body being studied. Talk to your health care provider about questions and concerns.
What the risks are
Risks of CT scans include:
• Allergic reaction to contrast dye
• Being exposed to radiation
CT scans expose you to more radiation than regular x-rays. Having many x-rays or CT scans over time may increase your risk for cancer. However, the risk from any one scan is small. You and your doctor should weigh this risk against the value of the information that will come from a CT scan.
Some people have allergies to contrast dye. Let your doctor know if you have ever had an allergic reaction to injected contrast dye.
• The most common type of contrast given into a vein contains iodine. If you have an iodine allergy, type of contrast may cause nausea or vomiting ,sneezing , itching ,or hives .
• If you absolutely must be given such contrast, your doctor may give you antihistamines (such as Benadryl) or steroids before the test.
• Your kidneys help remove iodine out of the body. You may need to receive extra fluids after the to help flush iodine out of the body if you have diabetes or kidney disease.
Rarely, the dye may cause a life-threatening allergic response called anaphylaxis . If you have any trouble breathing during the test, tell the scanner operator immediately. Scanners come with an intercom and speakers, so the operator can hear you at all times.
Shaw AS, Dixon AK. Multidetector computed tomography. In: Adam A, Dixon AK, eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 4.
Updated: 11/9/2012
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '323', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9041767716407776}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61464', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZSHTHGW7CM4RV3WXV2DSWC2XVLPEQHN4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1530b79d-9eae-4631-8b28-d93de0730cb5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 4, 41, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '128.147.244.108', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:P4YCZPW3VFTCI2EPM6LUBXPSQODJK7U3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c1b04cd0-ba0f-47b3-afb1-ed53e3eab57e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.upmc.com/health-library/Pages/ADAM.aspx?GenContentId=003330&ProductId=112&ProjectId=1', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:66cc967a-904d-43e2-b94e-68346cab902c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1101', 'url': 'http://www.upmc.com/health-library/Pages/ADAM.aspx?GenContentId=003330&ProductId=112&ProjectId=1', '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': '0.04799342155456543', 'original_id': '7bfca37cb83ad56b8edb1374d2ac9ea822071eb65ab4e82ebc5551d689885cc0'}
|
\section{Laplace Transform Exists if Function Piecewise Continuous and of Exponential Order}
Tags: Laplace Transforms
\begin{theorem}
Let $f$ be a real function which is:
:piecewise continuous in every closed interval $\closedint 0 N$
:of exponential order $\gamma$ for $t > N$
Then the Laplace transform $\map F s$ of $\map f t$ exists for all $s > \gamma$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
For all $N \in \Z_{>0}$:
:$\ds \int_0^\infty e^{-s t} \map f t \rd t = \int_0^N e^{-s t} \map f t \rd t + \int_N^\infty e^{-s t} \map f t \rd t$
We have that $f$ is piecewise continuous in every closed interval $\closedint 0 N$.
Hence the first of the integrals on the {{RHS}} exists.
Also, as $\map f t$ is of exponential order $\gamma$ for $t > N$, so does the second integral on the {{RHS}}.
Indeed:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \size {\int_N^\infty e^{-s t} \map f t \rd t}
| o = \le
| r = \int_N^\infty \size {e^{-s t} \map f t} \rd t
| c =
}}
{{eqn | o = \le
| r = \int_0^\infty e^{-s t} \size {\map f t} \rd t
| c =
}}
{{eqn | o = \le
| r = \int_0^\infty e^{-s t} M e^{\gamma t} \rd t
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \dfrac M {s - \gamma}
| c = Laplace Transform of Exponential
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Thus the Laplace transform exists for $s > \gamma$.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
|
math_pile
|
{'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': '45ca4a6e8787d2ff32dc7e1e34698fdc455f95a6eee8019fd9888d334ecd042d'}
|
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Horace and Montaigne Go to White Castle
[Ulisse Aldrovandi (1642) Monstrorum Historia]
[Ambroise Pare (1582) Des Monstres et Prodiges]
He also includes this rather amusing snark:
Oh snap.
[Fortunio Liceti (1665) De Monstris]
A woman faire for parts superior,
Ends in a fish for parts inferior.
Gregor Reisch (1517) Margarita Philosophia]
Speaking of which, doesn't this sound familiar?
Woah. I only just noticed that.
[Pics via]
1 comment:
1. I am currently completing a book on Montaigne that reads his Essays through the prism of this passage you quote from "Of Friendship." My thesis is that he is specifically referring to the symmetrical grotesque decorative motifs, often in twin vertical panels on either side of a central axis, discovered in the late 15th century in Nero's Domus Aurea, and reincarnated by Raphael and his team in the Vatican Loggia. Montaigne, my argument goes, arranged his essays in symmetrical pairs around a central essay in each of his three books. The result is a combination of order and disorder. The order is maintained by the symmetry itself, in which each essay repeats motifs, words, and analogous situations, from its twin essay, as in the vertical grotesques the monsters, etc. on one side repeat (but often with slight differences) those on another. The disorder comes from the way one figure is followed by another with which it can have no realistic causal connection (as Vitruvius complained) as we move vertically up or down either of the twin panels. The order is horizontal, the disorder vertical. The equivalent of the disorder in the Essais is the disorderly way one essay follows another in their sequence, as well as the sometimes seemingly disorderly way many of the essays, considered alone, proceed.
I'd be pleased to discuss this further: Randolph Runyon at
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '779', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9557071328163148}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '106609', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KANPOAV536AGRGPRBWV6NW5NZ4IN7ANE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2abbe8ac-80ab-4829-b613-b336a412a2fe>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 7, 30, 2, 56, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.228.107', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HDUDJHPNTMSGCAHXUUAA5SVMHQJ5Y7KW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8c7f2dda-372c-4aa5-8dc9-1577ff5a7f3c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://groteskology.blogspot.com/2010/08/horace-and-montaigne-go-to-white-castle.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:80e41f0d-cb5a-4917-8dd7-35d7aa53af7a>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '1119', 'url': 'http://groteskology.blogspot.com/2010/08/horace-and-montaigne-go-to-white-castle.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 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': '0.06001001596450806', 'original_id': '44e8a9786538fc153da7b96ea3fea4ac9d0043139ff4e1ebe182510ac35aa354'}
|
• Casie Shimansky
The Power to Decide
Updated: Jan 16, 2019
In 2004 my sister died. It was sudden. It was tragic. It was unexpected.
It was the brutal, gut-wrenching discovery late one night at a hospital in Gainesville, Florida that we might go home without her...we never, ever saw it coming.
After the single darkest night, the sun rose the next day and...we drove back to Orlando, a family of four. That's where our New Normal began, but even that took weeks and months and years to develop. I won't even say we've perfected it now, all these years later.
I cannot tell you much about life, but...in that moment, I knew the desperation of wanting something with every fiber of my being - and having the outcome fill me with a bottomless sadness. An uncertain fear. A fiery anger. A sea of confusion.
There were days that felt empty, hours that felt the revolting surge of pain, weeks of mind-numbing torment. Yet, still...the sun continued to rise. Birds still sang. Gusts of wind still swept by. I could stand in a crowded store...and the world kept moving. Eventually, I'd just pick any old toothpaste off the shelf and sludge through the quicksand that filled the space between me and check out.
Then the morning came where I had to decide. I was two weeks shy of 21 - a kid trapped in an adult's body, "Am I going to live the rest of my life like this..."
I shook the thought off. I immediately knew it wasn't my answer - unless I wanted to someday arrive in Heaven myself and have Kellie promptly kick my ass. I wasn't going to stay here. Grief could come along for the ride with me...but I was going to call the shots.
I still had no idea what the other way to live was though. How do you pick up the pieces and figure out a New Normal? I mean, I really hadn't even figured out the OLD Normal, if I'm being honest...
That's the moment I decided to get out of bed and just accomplish one thing every day. Maybe it was just putting clothes on and throwing my hair into a pony tail that first day. A few days later I tried to put on makeup (still with waterproof mascara - just in case) and a week later...I went back to work.
Eventually that decision to accomplish one small thing every day was the motivating factor for me to Live Out Loud.
Live Out Loud, to me, isn't about going sky diving or learning how to breathe fire (although it very well might for you) -- but, to me, the art of Living Out Loud is to accomplish that one thing every single day.
Put one foot in front of the other. Do the things that scare you. Find your comfort zone and race past it. Big things count. SMALL THINGS COUNT. Every day. In a week, a month...365 days later -- you'll see how far you've gone.
That's how I found my New Normal. It's also how I learned to fight for my Silver Linings.
I was mad at the sun when it dared to shine the morning we left Gainesville without Kellie.
I was mad at the sun's warmth nearly every day for weeks after when I could feel nothing else.
I hated that the sun allowed the world to continue moving when I ached and hurt and couldn't function.
But, here's the thing I realized the day I discovered I had the power to decide -- the sun gives us a new chance every single day to get it right, to try again, to live out loud. So, just because one day was a miss...doesn't mean the ones after have to be.
You have the power to decide.
You can fight to find those Silver Linings.
You can choose to be happy.
You can Live Out Loud.
And you can start any moment you're ready.
26 views0 comments
Recent Posts
See All
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9747353196144104}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '701632', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QARXOSZZAGMFWQQM6YNUMUZE2HDXI6RL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:70e41967-15af-4ac0-8ece-8e9eae524314>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 27, 1, 44, 5), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.117.168.233', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ICFLO4YXJO4V5EQOVDWIQ5WQMWRFCDQN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d5bb68c2-14c8-4aa6-bd92-677e2cc4c4a3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.thenameiscasie.com/post/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e81f7b5d-c840-47fd-b147-51188a83c6e0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '664', 'url': 'https://www.thenameiscasie.com/post/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-40\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-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': '0.02185112237930298', 'original_id': 'd215a7eba4bd1b5e88252562079fde8917a142f26bcdfaacca28490432682675'}
|
What Are the Main Advantages and Disadvantages of Foam Paddle Boards?
Paddle boards are a great way to get exercise, have fun, and experience a sport that is both fun and exciting. The sport of paddle boarding has been around for many years but recently has become very popular among the surfing community. Paddle boarding is basically surfing with a paddle. While surfing, participants propel themselves using their own body weight pushing against their paddles.
Stand up paddle boards are a smaller variation of the normal paddle boards. They are not very common but can be found on sale online and in specialty stores. Stand up paddle boards are made out of fiberglass or carbon fiber. A smaller version of this board is sometimes called a” SUP board” (supra water board) while larger variations are usually referred to as” SUP boards”.
Stand up paddle boards come in several different types, such as flat bottom, v-shaped, soft bottom, and semi-curved. Flat bottom stand ups provide more resistance and are known for their excellent workout qualities. The v-shape stand ups are designed to be used in combination with solid boards to make for a unique style of riding.
Soft bottom paddle boards have some advantages over their solid counterparts. They tend to be more comfortable when it comes to storage. This is because they are easier to pack up into small packages. They also tend to be less expensive when compared to solid sups. Several prominent companies manufacture soft bottom sups including Kustom, Rhino, and Endeavors.
One of the advantages of choosing a wooden paddle board over a plastic one is the level of quality assurance that is present. Wooden paddle boards are typically manufactured in the United States and throughout the world. Most paddle boards that are made in the US are made from high-quality maple or poplar woods. These materials are long lasting and durable, and are less likely to crack, warp, or rot over time.
The stability of a paddle board is another advantage to consider. There are many different types of surfboards on the market today. Many paddleboards are used for surfing, kite boarding, and stand up paddle boarding. All of these activities involve an uneven surface. In most cases, the paddle will move across this surface with considerable friction.
This type of interaction can have adverse effects on paddle boards and can cause damage to the decking. In some cases, damage can also occur due to wind exposure. Best Paddle Boards In addition, inflatable sups are typically more stable than many wooden paddleboards. The stability of inflatable sups is often cited as an advantage for stand up surfing and kite surfing.
Overall, wood is considered to be one of the best materials for paddle boards. Wood costs more than fiberglass, but it is much more stable, offers a greater carrying capacity, and has fewer design issues. Fiberglass is less expensive but tends to shatter easily if it is dropped. Finally, inflatable sups cost less but carry more weight. This makes inflatable boats and boards a better choice for leisure paddling.
Onboard storage is another consideration. As mentioned above, fiberglass and wood are heavier than alternative materials. They also cost more. Wooden boards are generally easier to store and are fairly lightweight. However, their larger size means they will attract more storage space. In contrast, plastic or composite materials are more easily compressed and transported, which can result in significant savings.
It is possible to get a moderately priced plastic or composite paddle board in the mid-priced range. However, foam sup construction advantages lead to a preference for solid sups. Many board shops prefer to stock solid foam boards. One of the reasons for this is the savings in storage space provided by foam storage systems. These systems are typically small enough to fit into small areas, like lockers. Additionally, foam boards provide increased maneuverability and better overall performance.
In addition to board handles, we must consider what type of feet a paddler has. A longboard surfer will typically prefer wide board handles that are wider than those used by a longboarder with a medium body type. This is because the longboarder’s feet will have a more even distribution of weight over the board and large board handles will help support the board and its rider.
When comparing different kinds of foot positions, we generally compare board positions with a longboard versus a freestyle board. Board position is usually measured from the toe box of the board to the top of the nose bone on a freestyle board. A longboard surfer will tend to stand on their toes and reach down with both hands. This results in a narrower stance than with a paddle board. If the board allows for a stable stance without touching the ground, then we consider a foam core paddle board.
You May Also Like
About the Author: necisopr
Leave a Reply
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9604597687721252}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '32881', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:72PKT3UG6LOZZPKJIPEEPLYI5RL3V5WN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5cbef42f-aad6-4567-8d58-480ee7710338>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 22, 20, 59, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.8.207', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UKZKNGZCQGX5TWCI2NBMYK72WW3MZDUJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3b208caf-0f42-4807-bc03-c415e825caac>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.negociosabiertospr.com/what-are-the-main-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-foam-paddle-boards/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8e4bd701-fb5b-41b8-998b-0d8bba04a4ff>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '828', 'url': 'https://www.negociosabiertospr.com/what-are-the-main-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-foam-paddle-boards/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-53.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.19645720720291138', 'original_id': 'de5616e7f45032c1b788748a69f3226643fa2e62cf1d9654f3b98f908c19ad13'}
|
Question: What Does GSM Paper Weight Mean?
Is higher GSM paper better?
Weight value of paper is measured in gsm (grams per square metre).
The higher the gsm the better quality and feel of the paper..
Is 80gsm a good paper?
paper thickness Thickness of paper is specified by its weight in grams per square metre (GM or GSM). Low grade photocopier paper is around 80gsm; letterheads 100-120gsm with good quality letterhead around 120gsm. Business cards are around 350gsm and flyers around 300gsm-350gsm.
Which is better 70 GSM or 80 GSM?
How does GSM work paper?
GSM is an acronym standing for ‘Grams per Square Meter’. Quite simply, it allows print buyers and print suppliers to know exactly about the quality of paper that is being ordered. The higher the GSM number, the heavier the paper. If you’re buying print then make sure you know what you’re talking about.
What is 120gsm paper Suitable for?
80 gsm is ideal for forms, letters and handouts. Standard home/office printing paper thickness. 90 gsm is widely used as office paper. 90gsm is our lowest white paper thickness, commonly used for black and white printing.
What is good quality paper GSM?
Most printing paper has a gsm between 60 and 120. 80gsm is standard. Anything from 160gsm is considered card. GSM is a good guide to quality.
How thick is 80gsm paper?
Uncoated Paper (also referred to as Bond, Offset or Laser)WeightThickness80gsm100mic90gsm112mic100gsm125mic12 more rows•Aug 29, 2018
What is 300gsm paper used for?
300gsm+- Card with a weight higher that 300gsm is classed has heavyweight card and is usually used for business cards and card inserts.
Which paper is better 70gsm or 75 GSM?
A 70gsm Eucalyptus-pulp paper can use up to 37% less wood pulp than a standard 80gsm to make the same number of reams. … Also, 70 or 75gsm paper is often cheaper because the mills sell paper by the tonne, and you get about 50 more reams of 70gsm in a tonne than you do of 80gsm.
What is the difference between 80gsm and 90gsm paper?
80gsm paper – suitable for everyday printing needs. 90gsm paper – provides better quality colour prints but is also suitable for general office use. … 120gsm paper – again is suitable for letterheads as well as documents for presentations.
What GSM is normal a4 paper?
55 gsmFor instance, the letter-size paper is A4, 55 gsm paper. The first measurement refers to the length and width, while the second measurement refers to the weight and thickness.
Which GSM paper is better for painting?
Is 250gsm paper thick?
This is most notable in uncoated boards with cheaper grades having the same thickness but weighing less than more superior grades. Common board weights and their approximate thicknesses are: 200gsm = 150 to 220mics. 250gsm = 190 to 285mics.
What is the best GSM for photo paper?
200gsm to 300gsmIt makes particular sense when you have many images to print as lower GSM often mean the paper is cheaper to buy. 200gsm to 300gsm – Such weights are ideal for printing images when the keepsake element is clearly strong. The most common examples are greetings cards, invitation cards, gallery images and so on.
What GSM is thick card?
280gsm – 350gsm – Getting thicker! This kind of weight is great for a more luxury effect and a far sturdier base. 280gsm is a very popular weight for cardstock used in cardmaking. Many people would use thicker card, 300gsm and above for 3d projects like making card boxes or gift boxes.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '112', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9329482913017272}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '32678', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HDQ6IV2C6C257FUAXQGW6WNQEEZ2Q5AE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5f35b21d-da0c-43ba-9d57-091fd93f60a6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 5, 52, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.130.40.26', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VF3MVSDXCRAX4WMEFUE7EQRNPV7HRGIK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:79e9ed63-48a1-44dc-a56c-77a0c8ba22a7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://tayomosebi.com/qa/question-what-does-gsm-paper-weight-mean.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d70bbbdf-675d-4328-b4ef-c19f0aababdf>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '676', 'url': 'https://tayomosebi.com/qa/question-what-does-gsm-paper-weight-mean.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-128.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09680390357971191', 'original_id': 'e326065c8d5099c029e40f4543157677f07e228cc8918045cb1c803a507bb8c2'}
|
006: Mail & Macular Degeneration
Kati recounts a story about a patient who broke a hip and had struggles with a common yet meaningful task.
Good Fit Poor Fit
Good Fit Poor Fit
006: Mail & Macular Degeneration
[00:00:30] Welcome to episode six. We’re sharing about how the design of outdoor pathways impacts the ability of people to get their mail. This will help you understand how individual needs and the design of the environment result in either a good fit or a poor fit. It’s the little things that make a big difference.
[00:00:47] It’s Kati and today I’m going to tell you a story about a woman that I treated during my fieldwork experience at an inpatient rehab facility.
[00:00:56] We’re going to call her Denise. Denise was a really awesome woman, and she had, unfortunately, fell while getting her mail, broke her hip and had to get a hip replacement surgery. Denise was 85 years young and had poor vision because of macular degeneration, so getting around her house and walking around outside was really difficult for her.
[00:01:16] For those of you who might not know what macular degeneration is, I will give you a quick explanation. So macular degeneration is caused by the deterioration of the central portion of our retina, which is called the macula. The macula is responsible for focusing our central vision and controls our ability to read, drive a car, recognize people and faces, and to see objects in fine detail.
[00:01:42] So when you have macular degeneration, you basically have a dark spot or a black spot right in the center of your vision. So it can be very difficult to see things clearly and to see obstacles and steps and things like that. So Denise told me that she was often bumping into things, she couldn’t see her front steps clearly, she couldn’t really judge distance, so her balance was off. And so all of this kind of is what caused her to fall. She told me that she was walking down her front steps to go get mail from her mailbox. She ended up missing a step and fell down and broke her hip. And like I said, she had to get hip replacement surgery.
[00:02:19] So after the surgery, she came to our rehab hospital to get therapy, and that’s where I met her. And while she was there, we talked a lot about what occupations were meaningful to her and how she would be able to complete those tasks safely once she got back home. Denise told me that getting to her mailbox was something that she needed to do every day, but now that she had a pretty bad fall, she was really fearful of that. So it was really important to Denise that she would be able to get to her mailbox so that she could pay her bills. And she really enjoyed writing letters to family and friends, so we needed to figure out how to either modify the activity or change the environment to make it easier for her.
[00:02:56] My initial recommendation was for Denise to pay her bills online and email or text her family and friends. And I thought I could teach her how to use the voice messages on her iPhone, or I could teach her how to use her technology. But, uh, Denise was not a fan of that option. She said, “No way! I am not dealing with all that technology. I don’t understand it. I don’t want anything to do with it.” Denise was pretty set in her ways, so I was like, okay, that’s fine.
[00:03:24] I educated her on various ways that we could possibly change her environment at home so that it was safer and would work better for her.
[00:03:32] The first suggestion that I had made was instead of using her front door entrance, which had these steep steps that were made of stone, she could instead use her side door entrance.
[00:03:43] However, she would need a professional to come in and pave a walkway from that side door to the mailbox because it was an uneven surface of grass and dirt and rocks, and it just looked very unsafe. I recommended that that walkway that would go from the side door to the mailbox be wide enough for her to use a walker and smooth enough so that she didn’t trip on anything.
[00:04:05] Additionally, it would be beneficial if they were able to stamp the edges of the walkway with some kind of texture so that she would know and be able to feel when she might be stepping off of the path. And this is also important for someone who is completely blind and is using a cane to feel where they’re going.
[00:04:24] If they were able to feel that texture on the side of the walkway, or if they were even able to feel maybe mulch that came up to the side of the walkway, just feeling two different textures would be able to help them stay on the path so that they didn’t encounter any unsafe areas of the yard or something like that.
[00:04:44] I also recommended to have decent lighting because she could be using this pathway in the early morning or in the evening. It would be beneficial to have the walkway lit as well.
[00:04:54] The last thing that I recommended was to install a different mailbox. They actually make mailboxes with a front and a back opening. So instead of having to walk around all the way to the front of the mailbox, which typically means you have to stand in the street, you’re now able to stand behind the mailbox and open it from the back so she can access the mail that way. And then they would also need to maybe pave a little platform around the bottom of the mailbox so that she wouldn’t have to step in the grass to get the mail.
[00:05:24] All in all, it would be a lot safer for Denise and she would be able to do her occupation of getting the mail, paying her bills and writing letters to friends and family. Denise was very thankful that I was able to make these recommendations and told me that she was going to talk to her son to see if he could hire someone to come out and make those changes.
[00:05:42] So this is just another example of how the design of a home can be a barrier to someone after they’ve encountered or experienced a health impairment. This happens very, very frequently. It happens all the time where someone will go to the hospital and they’ll go to a rehab facility and they’ll come home and the house just doesn’t work for them and they’ll have to make all these expensive changes.
[00:06:04] So that’s why it’s so important to consider the needs and abilities of all people prior to construction so that houses can be functional for everyone forever.
2 replies on “006: Mail & Macular Degeneration”
Leave a Reply
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9858052730560304}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '135567', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QOKCTP7ISQMWUK7BSRTJNQ6753I7ZENJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ed6c389f-8eb8-49f0-b37e-9aa5b4d16801>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 21, 21, 21, 14), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.33.231', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:J3GGW76HBYVZSW2IOME5LLSOVUBUNK6J', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:20e7bffd-5978-45a0-a38c-425ddad55d25>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://universaldesign.org/podcast/006-mail-macular-degeneration', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f5cbda89-13d4-4694-aac2-fd75b90b0897>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1178', 'url': 'https://universaldesign.org/podcast/006-mail-macular-degeneration', '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-10-67-67-130\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': '0.09965687990188599', 'original_id': '36ae05978b65e82275460eddee209126cf880071963ebaf24f45314f43f5fec7'}
|
Featured Research
from universities, journals, and other organizations
Moving To The US Increases Cancer Risk For Hispanics
Date:
August 7, 2009
Source:
American Association for Cancer Research
Summary:
Results of a new study confirm trends that different Hispanic population groups have higher incidence rates of certain cancers and worse cancer outcomes if they live in the United States, than they do if they live in their homelands.
Share This
Results of a new study confirm trends that different Hispanic population groups have higher incidence rates of certain cancers and worse cancer outcomes if they live in the United States, than they do if they live in their homelands.
Related Articles
"Hispanics are not all the same with regard to their cancer experience," said Paulo S. Pinheiro, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., researcher in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
"Targeted interventions for cancer prevention and control should take into account the specificity of each Hispanic subgroup: Cubans, Puerto Ricans or Mexicans," added Pinheiro, who is the study's lead researcher. Pinheiro received support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
These results are published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Studies to date have classified all Hispanics under the same umbrella, as a single ethnic group, hiding the differences between each population group.
"They are really heterogeneous from cultural and socioeconomic perspectives and represent several population groups," said Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H., director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research, and co-associate director of the Cancer Prevention and Population Studies research program at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
The Hispanic population in the United States is increasing according to Ramirez — nearly one in every three people will be Hispanic by 2050. Ramirez, who was not involved in this research, said it is important to conduct studies like this to better understand these differences and learn what predisposes different population groups to certain types of cancer, in order to improve health outcomes.
Pinheiro and colleagues evaluated the kinds of cancers occurring in each Hispanic population group and compared their risk after moving to the United States. They conducted the study in Florida, which has a diverse Hispanic community composed of Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Central and South Americans.
The results indicated that these population groups showed different patterns of cancer once they moved to the United States; Mexicans had the lowest rates of cancer overall and Puerto Ricans had the highest rates of cancer. Cubans' risk of cancer most closely resembles that of non-Hispanic whites. Similar to the U.S. non-Hispanic white population, Cubans and Puerto Ricans seemed to acquire higher risk for diet-related cancers relatively quickly.
Furthermore, Cuban males had higher incidence of tobacco-related cancers; Puerto Rican men had high incidence of liver cancer; and Mexican women had a higher incidence of cervical cancer.
For all cancers combined, risk for most cancers was higher (at least 40 percent) among Hispanics living in the United States compared with those who live in their countries of origin. Colorectal cancer risk among Cubans and Mexicans who moved to the United States was more than double that in Cuba and Mexico. The same was said for lung cancer among Mexican and Puerto Rican Floridian women compared to those in Mexico or Puerto Rico.
"This suggests that changes in their environment and lifestyles make them more prone to develop cancer," Pinheiro said. "It is puzzling that the groups for which integration in mainstream American society is easier, including access to health care, are also those with higher cancer rates even after accounting for the increased detection of certain cancers in the United States."
These results present important opportunities for United States and international collaborations in the prevention, treatment and research of cancer. While physicians may not have to change the care they provide, Ramirez said they should be more aware of the diversity and differences in cancer prevalence among this population.
"Don't assume that all Hispanics are the same," Ramirez said. "Physicians should probe Hispanic patients more on their background and family history to identify any problematic behaviors that could contribute to health problems."
Patients should become better informed of some of the positive aspects of their original lifestyles and should be strongly discouraged from adopting unfavorable lifestyles that may be more common in the United States, such as unhealthy diets, smoking and alcohol use, according to Pinheiro and Ramirez.
Additional studies are warranted to assess the variations in cancer risk according to socio-economic status and length of time spent in the United States within each Hispanic population group, in order to evaluate habits that may predispose them to certain cancers. More research should focus on these unique populations in relation not only to cancer, but to other diseases, according to the researchers.
American Association for Cancer Research. "Moving To The US Increases Cancer Risk For Hispanics." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 August 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090806080144.htm>.
American Association for Cancer Research. (2009, August 7). Moving To The US Increases Cancer Risk For Hispanics. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 3, 2015 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090806080144.htm
American Association for Cancer Research. "Moving To The US Increases Cancer Risk For Hispanics." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090806080144.htm (accessed March 3, 2015).
More From ScienceDaily
More Health & Medicine News
Featured Research
Mar. 3, 2015 — No significant change in home habits of smokers have been observed in the aftermath of a ban on smoking in public spaces, researchers report. Greater inspiration to kick the habit likely comes from ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Heart function has been associated with the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease through a new study. Participants with decreased heart function, measured by cardiac index, were two to ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Children of recently separated or divorced families are likelier to drink sugar-sweetened beverages than children in families where the parents are married, putting them at higher risk for obesity ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Gastric bypass and similar stomach-shrinking surgeries are a popular option for obese patients looking to lose weight or treat type 2 diabetes. While the surgeries have been linked to a decreased ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Most people consume more salt than they need and therefore have a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, which are the two leading causes of death worldwide. But a new study reveals that dietary ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Twice as many children born to mothers who took antibiotics during pregnancy were diagnosed with asthma by age 3 than children born to mothers who didn’t take prenatal antibiotics, a new study has ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Pediatric otolaryngologists and surgeons are concerned with parents getting the wrong message regarding the safety/desirability of letting babies and young children eat peanuts to prevent them from ... full story
Mar. 3, 2015 — Why do people shake hands? A new study suggests one of the reasons for this ancient custom may be to check out each other's odors. Even if we are not consciously aware of this, handshaking may ... full story
Featured Videos
Mom Triumphs Over Tragedy, Helps Other Families
AP (Mar. 3, 2015) — After her son, Dax, died from a rare form of leukemia, Julie Locke decided to give back to the doctors at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who tried to save his life. She raised $1.6M to help other patients and their families. (March 3)
Video provided by AP
Woman Convicted of Poisoning Son
AP (Mar. 3, 2015) — A woman who blogged for years about her son's constant health woes was convicted Monday of poisoning him to death by force-feeding heavy concentrations of sodium through his stomach tube. (March 3)
Video provided by AP
Related Stories
July 14, 2014 — Rates of testicular cancer have been rising dramatically in recent years among young Hispanic American men, but not among their non-Hispanic counterparts. The findings indicate that greater awareness ... full story
Sep. 30, 2013 — More Hispanic Texans die from cancer than any other cause, according to a new report. The report documents cancer as the leading cause of death among Hispanic Texans under the age of 76. Only three ... full story
Sep. 17, 2012 — A new report from American Cancer Society researchers finds that despite declining death rates, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the United ... full story
July 19, 2010 — Racial and ethnic trends in the skin cancer melanoma appear different in Florida than from national estimates, with higher incidence rates among Hispanic men and non-Hispanic black women but lower ... full story
ScienceDaily features breaking news and videos about the latest discoveries in health, technology, the environment, and more -- from major news services and leading universities, scientific journals, and research organizations.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'cc669eaf9525a4ca98307ca369fe388ddfdee82e878897aae526affb460a5e78'}
|
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Who Can Baptize?
Last Sunday the church I'm attending had a baptism service. In one of the baptisms, a father baptized his son. That got me thinking:
- is it biblically allowable for a non-church leader (e.g. pastor) to perform a baptism?
- should baptisms be connected to a local church?
- should baptism be preceded by a period of discipleship/testing/training or immediately after salvation?
Then I read Kevin DeYoung's post on the first question above. I greatly appreciate DeYoung's blog and the courage and insight he portrays on it. This is not a "gospel" issue, but a fun one to think about and discuss. So I thought I'd weigh in on his four arguments:
1) He says: "Biblically, we see that those who perform Christian baptism in the New Testament have been set apart by Christ for an office in the church (e.g., Peter, Paul, Phillip). Strictly speaking, the Great Commission, with its command to baptize, was given to the apostles, not to every believer indiscriminately. There is no evidence to show that private members baptized."
First, the most natural reading of Acts 9:18 is that Ananias baptized Paul. We have zero evidence that Ananias was an elder.
Second, Phillip was not an elder. Some may consider him a deacon, though that specific title is not used in Acts 6. In fact, the only two men from Acts 6 that are described after that passage are described as preaching the gospel: Stephen and Phillip. Philip seems to be more of an evangelist. He may have been a proto-deacon, but that is different from being an elder.
Third, the logic seems to be that every one explicitly described as baptizing in Scripture is a church leader, so only church leaders should baptize. If that's the case, would DeYoung use the same logic to say "since only adult believers are explicitly described in Scripture as being baptized, only adult believers should be baptized"? I'm doubting that ...
Fourth, while DeYoung has clarified his comments about the Great Commission being given "to the apostles," I still find his thoughts on this wanting. If we are following "good instincts" by "obeying" the Great Commission by sending missionaries throughout the world, then couldn't we also be involved in baptism more directly? Regardless, I do believe the Great Commission was initially intended for more than just the apostles. I believe every believer should be involved in going, making disciples, baptizing, and teaching. That doesn't mean that every believer will go into the jungle and start a church, but on some level they are to be involved in this process. Nothing in the Great Commission seems to limit the teaching or baptizing to only the apostles or the "church leadership".
Finally, D. A. Carson says the following regarding the Great Commission in his Matthew commentary (page 666): “The injunction is given at least to the Eleven, but to the Eleven in their own role as disciples (28:16). Therefore, they are paradigms for all disciples. Plausibly, the command is given to a larger gathering of disciples. … Either way, it is binding on all Jesus' disciples to make others what they themselves are—disciples of Jesus Christ.”
Jared Bartholomew said...
David, i posted this comment on that website. i really went on a rant. I am posting it below, but want to clarify that i'm not trying to bash theologians or those who have doctorates in biblical studies.
Reading posts such as this [Kevin DeYoung's post] really frustrate and somewhat anger me. Yes, i get it - the Church does have some structure and functionality that is systematic, monotonous, and legalistic. Sure . . . we should research and honor these laws. IMO, this post is going too far. Who should usher? Who can break bread? Who can host Church meetings at houses? Who can sing? Who can pray? Who can give announcements - Are they allowed to give them in front of the pulpit?
Outside of Baptism's symbolic reference, it's a fairly useless sacrament. In the mean time, we are desperately trying to extract some discreet, hidden rules of Baptism. It's as if we read all the Old Testament laws and were disappointed because we thought it wasn't enough. God bless theologians with initials behind their names, but i think sometimes it's fair to accuse them of trying to resurrect a modern day Talmud for the Church. We can't baptize unless an ordained minister is around? The tune of this post sounds so familiar with some passages in the New Testament.
"One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"
The pharisees were great at conjuring up rules that seemed to exist with an obscure explanation attached to it.
Jordan Steffaniak said...
Dr. C,
Thanks for weighing in on this issue. Insightful. Appreciate that nice little jab at infant baptism too - that was a good call. :) Just found it odd to have "666" be an okay page number to quote from for a dispensationalist. Ha!
Jordan Steffaniak said...
P.S. I am not a Covenant guy either. Hovering in the New Covenant area but not fully satisfied yet. Will see...
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '36', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9759814739227296}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '72608', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NMRA5YQJ56R4IE57TSTMNRMHHKTEZQRN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a6bc586a-8ada-4e63-97ed-4442bb5a808d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 16, 22, 21, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VHZYMQDOW3TEUWCHJKZKYEN4HCY6N7HW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a84b654d-05aa-49ad-a8f7-8ec5f504ac87>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://slaveoftheword.blogspot.com/2014/02/who-can-baptize.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:39151393-8cad-4d88-b737-0a706d6bae98>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '898', 'url': 'http://slaveoftheword.blogspot.com/2014/02/who-can-baptize.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-111-247-49.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.021144628524780273', 'original_id': '799de1634bb00d98bc5dd9e38d1f2e51e2e93e17a6a5bdcc61c3852e6304383c'}
|
Abennement. Bierteljährlich pränumer. für Vonn ( einschließl. Traggeld ) 4 Mark 50 Pf. , desgl. bei allen preuß. Post = Aemtern 4 Mark 50 Pf. Die „ Bonner Zeitung " erscheint täglich. Inserate. Gebühren für die Sgespaltene Petitzeile oder deren Raum 20 Pf. pränumer. Reclame für die 3gespaltene Petitzeile 60 Pf. pränumer. Expedition Münsterplatz Nr. 12. 333. Jus un Luin im v. Keusser ( Hamum Kmher. Zweiundstebenzigster Jahrgang. Bonn , Montag , 6. Derember Nachmittags. Veruutwertlicher Radacteur : Hermann Reusser. 1380. * In Frankreich ist in diesen Tagen wieder einer jener Skandal = Processe zum Aus trag gekommen , ohne die der Pariser nun einmal nicht leben zu können scheint. Den Herren Laisant , Director des republikanischen Journals „ Petit Parisien " , und Rochefort , Eigenthümer und Chef Redacteur des radikalen „ Intransigeant “ , war es urplötzlich in den Sinn gekommen , daß der frühere Kriegsminister und spätere Com mandant des XI. Armee = Corps , General de Cissey , bei Pferde = und Waffen = Ankäufen für den Staat seinerzeit ein gutes Geschäft gemacht , und daß die geschiedene Gattin des Obersten Jung , Frau von Kaulla , deren Beziehungen zu Herrn de Eissey sich wohl nicht mehr in Ab rede stellen lassen , an diesem Geschäfte theilgenommen habe. Auf die allerunhaltbarsten Gerüchte hin fühlten sich die beiden „ Patrioten “ veranlaßt , den General in ihren Blättern auf das Schmählichste an zugreifen und zu verläumden , so daß derselbe sich genöthigt sah , den Schutz der Gerichte für sich anzurufen. Am 25. v. M : begann nun vor dem Pariser Zuchtpolizei = Gericht die Verhandlung , zu welcher der. General de Eissey mit dem Großkrenz der Ehrenlegion ge schmückt erschienen war , während Mr. Laisant , Mitglied der De putirten = Kammer und Freund Gambetta ' s , es vorgezogen hatte , der Vorladung überhaupt nicht Folge zu leisten. Mr. Rochefort , der Marquis de Lucay dagegen , stellte sich dem Gerichte , beantragte aber gleichzeitig mit dem Advokaten seines Mitangeklagten die Ver tagung der Verhandlung bis nach Beendigung der Enquête , welche auf Empfehlung der gambettistischen Linken die Deputirtenkammer gegen de Eissey einzuleiten sich gemüßigt gesehen hat. Dieser Ver tagungsantrag wurde vom Gerichte jedoch verworfen , Rochefort und Ge nossen mußten sich also dazu verstehen , an Beweismaterial nur das herbeizuschaffen , was ihnen ausreichend erschienen war , um darauf ihre elenden Verläumder = Artikel zu stützen. Wie sich nun sehr bald herausstellte , war das blutwenig. Der eine der pflichtgetreuen Repu blikaner , Mr. Rochefort , hatte sich auf seinem Redactions = Zimmer ein Märchen erzählen lassen , der andere , Herr Laisant , früher selbst Offizier , wollte , wie sein Advokat mittheilte , von einem Intendantur Beamten etwas gehört haben , Genaues aber wußte weder Rochefort , noch der Advokat Laisant ' s anzugeben , so daß die Entlastung de Cissey ' s seinem Advokaten , Herrn Robinet de Clery , der eine stattliche Reihe von Generälen und höheren Offizieren als Zeugen vorführte , ziem lich leicht gemacht wurde. Nichtsdestoweniger verurtheilte der Ge richtshof , der selbstverständlich Dank den wiederholten „ Purificatio nen “ , welche die dritte Republik in allen Aemtern und Rangstufen vorgenommen hat , aus lauter in der Wolle gefärbten Republikanern zusammengesetzt war , die beiden Verläumder nur zu Geldstrafen , welche mit der Größe der dem General zugefügten Ehrenkränkung keineswegs im Verhältniß stehen. General de Eissey will sich denn auch bei diesem Erkenntniß nicht beruhigen ; er hat seine Appellation bereits anmelden , die ihm als Schadenersatz zugesprochenen Summen aber dem militärischen Unterstützungsfonds zuweisen lassen. Der ganze Skandal = Proceß mit seinem offenbar parteiisch gefärbten Aus gang hat in allen besseren Kreisen Frankreichs und vorzüglich inner halb der Armee das peinlichste Aufsehen gemacht ; der Soldat fühlt seine Ehre in den Händen der Richter nicht mehr sicher , und die Thatsache , daß nun auch Frau v. Kaulla ihrerseits gegen eine Reihe von Zeitungen Verläumdungs = Processe angestrengt hat , ist selbstver ständlich das geeignetste Mittel , die Aufregung noch höher zu treiben. Ihren Enquête = Antrag in der Deputirten = Kammer über die Affaire Eissey bereut die Linke bereits ; sie würde die parlamentarische Unter suchung gern unausgeführt lassen , wenn jetzt nur ihre Gegner , denen natürlich durch die Gerichtsverhandlungen der Muth gewaltig ge wachsen ist , davon ablassen wollten. Daran ist aber durchaus nicht zu denken , man freut sich auf Seiten der Nicht = Republikaner selbst verständlich dieser so unerwartet sich bietenden Gelegenheit , dem ver haßten Regime , das in erster Linie doch immer Gambetta repräsen tirt , einmal ein Paroli bieten zu können. 1 Amtliche Nachrichten. Berlin , K Der. Se. Majestät der König haben Allergnädigst geruht : Den Rentier Otto Hermann Mühlberg zu Berlin in den Adelstand zu erheben , sowie den Landgerichtsrath Schneider in Aachen zum Land gerichts = Director zu ernennen. Dem Kaufmann Louis Müller in Wesel ist die nachgesuchte Ent lassung von dem Amte als Handelsrichter bei der Kammer für Handels sachen in Duisburg ertheilt. # Berlin , 5. Dec. In der gestrigen Sitzung der Budget Commission wurde die Antwort des Herrn Finanzministers auf die seitens der Budget = Commission auf Grund des Antrags Rickert gestellte Frage über die Höhe,2 , Matrikularbeiträge pro 1881/82 mitgetheilt. Der Her „ inzminister erklärte , daß er den Betrag der Matrikularbeiträge " ! " 881/82 zur Zeit noch nicht mittheilen könne , da der Etatsentwurf Bundesrath noch nicht fest gestellt sei. Indeß unterliege es keinein Zweifel , daß die Reichs ausgaben in Folge der Erhöhung des Militär = Etats nicht unerheblich höher sein würden , als im letzten Etat. Ob diese Mehrausgaben durch Erhöhung der Matrikularbeiträge oder wie sonst gedeckt werden , werde sich erst im Reichstage herausstellen. Man würde für eine Erhöhung der Position 42 Nr. 1 ( Matrikularbeiträge ) zur Zeit jedenfalls keine sichere Unterlage haben. Sollte eine Erhöhung der Matrikularbeiträge im Reich wirklich eintreten , so würde die erforder liche Zahlung nur als Mehrausgabe gegen den Etat in Rechnung gestellt werden können. Ueber das Resultat der Volkszählung geht uns aus dem sta tistischen Burean der Stadt Berlin folgende Mittheilung zu : „ Die am 1. December d. J. vorläufig ermittelte Einwohnerzahl der Stadt Berlin beträgt 1,118,630 incl. Militär , exel. Schiffsbevölkerung und diplomatisches Corps. “ Zur Vergleichung knüpfen wir daran die Mittheilung , daß am 1. December 1875 gezählt wurden 964,240. Der Zuwachs innerhalb des f „ fjährigen Zeitraums beträgt somit 154,930 Personen , fast genau 16 ° Procent. „ Berlin hat sein gegen wärtiges Weichbild seit dem Jahre 1860 und damals wurde die Bevölkerung angenommen auf 528,900 Einwohner. Seit jener Zeit hat sie sich etwa verdoppelt. In den vier Jahren zwischen den Volkszählungen von 1871 und 1875 stieg die Zahl von 824,580 auf 964,240 , also um 139,660 , also um 17 Procent in einer vier jährigen Periode. Eine gewisse Verlangsamung der Vermehrung ist also inzwischen eingetreten. Am Freitag Abend 8 Uhr waren gegen 400 Studenten , welche sich der Pekition an den Reichskanzler angeschlossen hatten , zu geschäftlichen Mittheilungen bei Rönisch , Unter den Linden , versammelt. Der Besitzer des Lokals hatte darauf bestanden , daß sehr vielen , etwas zu spät kommenden Commilitonen der Eintritt in die überfüllten Säle versagt werde. Die Versammlung verlief ohne Debatte und trennte sich schon um 10 Uhr. Mit Bezug auf die lär mende Demonstration gegen Professor Lasson sprach man sich , be richtet die „ Post “ , einstimmig dahin aus , daß „ dieselbe als Folge verschiedener provocirender Vorgänge leider zwar erklärlich , nichtsdesto weniger aber höchst bedauerlich sei. “ Gleichzeitig kamen alle Anwe senden , eingedenk der Mahnungen Professor Heinrich von Treitschke ' s , überein , jeden neuen Tumult , wie er von anderer Seite geplant sein sollte , nach besten Kräften zu verhindern. Es sei zu erwar ten , daß auch Professor Lasson die Form zu einem entgegenkommenden Schritte finden und seine jüdischen Schüler von weiteren Provocatio nen ( wie demonstratives Klatschen ) zurückzuhalten wissen werde. Der hiesige unter dem Vorsitze des Prof. Bardeleben stehende Aerzteverein hat die Forderungen betreffs der Homöopathie und der Homöopathen und ihre jetzige Stellung im Staat festgesetzt , darunter auch die Aufhebung der Ausnahmestellung , in welcher die sogenannten homöopathischen Aerzte durch die Befugniß des Selbst dispensirens sich bisher befunden haben. Post und Telegraphie haben in den sieben Monaten vom Etatsjahrbeginn bis Ende October 3,437,952 M. mehr und die 21 ) Der Schuld geopfert. Erzählung von Elfriede von Werner. X. Mittlerweile hatte Herr Wilford geradeswegs seinen Weg nach dem Hotel der Signora Alighieri eingeschlagen. Draußen in der frischen , freien Luft war es ihm leichter und freier um ' s Herz geworden , ohne daß er sich in dessen irgend welche Illusionen machte. Mit jedem Schritte , der Charles Wilford dem Hause der gefürchteten Feindin näher brachte , fühlte er auch seinen Kopf klarer. Endlich stand er vor der Thür des Hauses. Ohne das leiseste Zögern streckte er seine Hand aus und zog die Glocke , welche einen lauten , scharfen Ton von sich gab. Unmittelbar darauf öffnete ein reich gallonirter Diener die Thür , und kaum fünf Minuten später stand Charles Wilford im Vorzimmer seiner erbittertsten Feindin. Es dauerte lange , ehe er zu der Dame des Hauses geführt wurde. Viel leicht wollte sie ihm Zeit gönnen , den Reichthum , Luxus und Geschmack zu bewundern , der sich hier zu einem prächtigen Ganzen vereinte. Die Signora war unzweifelhaft eine reiche Dame , deren Geschmack indessen hier und da durch eine gewisse Ueberladung gekennzeichnet wurde. Ueberall Pracht und bornstarbige Teppiche , Sitber gestickt , cher dach Tipriche , Bilder von vielleicht nicht unbedeutenden Künstlern , noch viel weniger Kunsstun geordnet , Statuetten , ein unberechenbares schmücken besimmt sund. Wilford muste sich gester un all desen Dingen schte es nicht , und derr sich mit Reichtum sel war , woher se falschge Siah , undeben , wenngleich er darüber in Zwei sei war , woher sie foiche Schätze genommen. Aber nicht hierbei verweilten die Gedanken des Kaufherrn lange , sie schweiften zurück in weite Ferne , in die Vergangenheit. Vor ihm stand so lebhaft , wie nie zuvor , Ulrikens Bild in ihrer zauberhaften Schönheit , Liebenswürdigkeit und Anmuth , das vollendete Bild echter Weiblichkeit und Milde. Nur einmal hatte er sie ernst und streng gesehen , damals , als er sie zum letzten Male erblickte. Wie ganz anders wäre Alles geworden , hätte er ihr , die er einzig und allein geliebt , auch die Treue bewahrt. Ein Leben voll Ruhe und Frieden , voll endlosen , stillen Glückes , wäre ihm zu Theil geworden , während er jetzt am Schlusse eines ruhelosen Daseins stand , eines Daseins , welches kaum einen einzigen Moment ungetrübten Glückes aufzuweisen hatte. Wahrlich ! Charles Wilford hatte seine Strafe in seinem eigenen Ge wissen gefunden , und es hätte Faustine Bordini ' s Rachsucht nicht bedurft , ihn zu strafen. Der unglückliche Mann hatte Zeit genug , die Vergangenheit an sich vor über ziehen zu lassen , Zeit genug , sich auch des kleinsten Punktes darin zu erinnern. Niemand ftörte ihn. Im Hause selbst war es todtenstill , und nur gedämpft drang das Straßengeräusch bis hierher. In diesem Augenblicke öffnete sich eine Thür und eine Frauengestalt schritt über die Schwelle. Sie blieb überrascht stehen , als sie den Fremden bemerkte und ebenso leise wollte sie sich zurückziehen , als ein Ausruf von den Lippen des unbekannten Herrn sie gebannt stehen ließ. „ Ewiger Gott ! diese Züge ! " Das waren die Worte , welche von den bleichen , blutlosen Lippen des Kaufherrn kamen. Er stand im Begriff , auf die verwirrte und erröthende Frauengestalt zuzustürzen und sie , von der Allgewalt der Erinnerung überwältigt , in seine Arme zu schließen , als er sich plötzlich erinnerte , daß das ja unmöglich Ulrike — seine verlorene Ulrike sein könne. Wäre sie noch unter den Lebenden , sie müßte so alt sein wie er , wenn er sie sich auch nie anders hatte denken können , als die , welche da in holder Verwirrung vor ihm stand. Das war sie , wie sie in seiner Erinnerung fortgelebt , so hatte er sie sich gedacht — war es ein Wunder , daß ihn seine Fassung verließ ? Doch jetzt öffnete sich eine andere Thür — eine Dame rauschte in das Gemach , und um ihren harten , s. lzen Mund zuckte es voll Hohn , als sie das junge Mädchen und Herrn Wilford erblickte. Die Signora Alighieri genoß ihren ersten Triumph. „ Camilla — Du hier ? “ fragte sie voller Verwunderung. „ Geh ' auf Dein Zimmer , Kind , ich werde Dich rufen lassen , wenn ich Deine Gegen wart wünsche. “ Das junge Mädchen zog sich bescheiden und erröthend zurück und Signora Alighieri stand Charles Wilford gegenüber — zwei erbitterte Feinde , wie sie sich kaum erbitteter gedacht werden können. Die Signora hatte ihre kostbarste Toilette gemacht. Prächtiger , schwarzer Sammet umfloß in schweren Falten ihre Gestalt. Blitzende Juwelen schmückten Hals und Arme und werthvolle Spitzen umsäumten die zahllosen Puffen und Falten. Schweigend maßen sich die Feinde , als wollten sie vorerst , ehe der Kampf begann , ihre Stärke erproben. In den Augen der Dame blitzte es dämonisch , als sie Charles Wilford ' s verfallene Gestalt betrachtete. Glücklich war er nicht gewesen , er selbst bildete den glänzendsten Beweis. „ Signora Alighieri , oder besser Madame Bordini " , begann Charles Wilford nach einer kurzen Pause , „ wissen Sie , was mich zu Ihnen führt ? " „ Ich kann es mir denken “ , gab sie kalt zur Antwort. „ Ich habe diese Stunde erwartet. " „ Gewiß , das unterlag wohl keinem Zweifel. Und was nun ? “ „ Darnach möchte ich Sie fragen , Herr Wilford. Ich finde es sonderbar , und muß offen bekennen , ich bin es nicht gewohnt , daß man sich in dieser Weise bei mir einführt. “ „ Sie werden mir wohl eine Ausnahme gestatten , Madame. Es ist ja nicht das erste Mal , daß wir uns begegnen. “ „ Allerdings nicht ; aber ich möchte Sie dringend bitten “ , fuhr die Dame mit scharfer , erhöhter Stimme fort , „ die Vergangenheit vollständig ruhen zu lassen , sie hat für mich nicht so viel Erfreuliches , um mich ihrer gern zu erinnern. “ „ Und Sie glauben , Madame , daß es bei uns möglich ist , die Vergangen heit von der Gegenwart zu trennen ? “ Reichsbahnverwaltung in selbiger Zeit 938,502 M. mehr als in der entsprechenden Vorjahrzeit eingetragen. Die Berufung des Geheimrathes Dr. Lotze in Göttingen zum Profeffor der Philosophie in Berlin ist nunmehr vollzogen ; Herr Dr. Lotze wird zu Ostern nach Berlin übersiedeln ; voraussichtlich wird er zu Weihnachten hier eintreffen , um die nöthigen Vorbereitun gen zu machen. Die Schwierigkeiten , welche sich der Berufung des Herrn Dr. Lotze entgegenstellten , waren von Anfang an finanzieller Natur und konnten erst auf eifriges Betreiben der philosophischen Fakultät gehoben werden. Die „ National = Zeitung “ schreibt : „ In Herrn Dr. Lotze wird die Berliner Universität , die berufen ist , eine führende Stellung unter den deutschen Universitäten ein zunehmen , eine neue Zierde gewinnen. Herr Dr. Lotze , der von dem Studium der Medicin und der Naturwissenschaften aus gegangen ist , hat namentlich in der Psychologie neue Gesichtspunke erschlossen , sein System sucht exacte Forschung und Idealismus zu vereinen , seine schriftstellerische Thätigkeit dehnt sich über alle Zweige der Philosophie aus. Seit Langem hat Herr Dr. Lotze zahlreiche Schüler an sich heranzuziehen gewußt , er wird sicher auch hier in Berlin einen umfassenden Wirkungskreis finden. Eine Philosophie , die es ablehnt , mit den Leidenschaften des Tages den freien Forscher blick zu verschränken , kann nie willkommener geheißen werden als gerade heute , wo die Wissenschaft oft nur da zu sein scheint , um tendenziösen und leidenschaftlichen Bestrebungen einen gewissen Schein zu geben und ihr erstes Attribut , den Drang nach Wahrheit , oft so schmerzlich vermissen läßt. Herr Lotze ist im Jahr 1817 zu Bautzen geboren , habilitirte sich 1842 in Leipzig und wirkt seit 1844 in Göttingen , dem er trotz mannigfacher an ihn ergangener Rufe bis jetzt treu geblieben war. “ * Berlin , 5. Dec. Der rasche Fortgang , den die Verhandlungen über den Staatshaushalts = Etat im Plenum des Abgeordneten hauses nehmen , entscheidet noch nicht dafär , daß es möglich sein wird , die Etatsberathung nach dem Wunsche des Präsidiums und noch viel mehr nach jenem der Regierung in den vierzehn Tagen , die noch bis zu den Weihnachtsferien bleiben , im Abgeordnetenhause wenigstens zu Ende zu führen. Wenn man hier und da angenom men hat , daß das Centrum sich bemüßigt finden könnte , von dem Culturkampf bei der Berathung des Cultusetats Abstand zu nehmen , so wird das jetzt als irrig bezeichnet. Das Centrum soll hiernach im Gegentheil entschlossen sein , die ganze Reihe seiner viel jährigen Beschwerden wieder vorzubringen und namentlich das Kapitel der Kölner Dombaufeier nach allen Richtungen hin zu erörtern. Die Erfahrung früherer Jahre lehrt , daß hierzu oft die ununterbro chenen Plenarsitzungen einer Woche nicht ausreichten ; außerdem aber bereiten sich über die finanziellen Fragen große und umfangreiche Debatten vor. Die Ablehnung des von der Regierung angebotenen Steuererlasses wird heute schon als sehr wahrscheinlich angesehen. Das Herrenhaus wird in den Tagen vom 14. bis 20. d. M. seine Arbeiten wieder aufnehmen , bezw. soweit dies die dem Hause zuerst unterbreiteten Vorlagen betrifft , erledigen. Wie wir hören , wird zu eingehenderen Debatten nur das Gesetz über die Pfandleiher führen , über welches die damit betraute Commission den Justizrath Adams zum Berichterstatter bestellt hat. Die Arbeiten des Landtages werden vom 20. oder 22. d. bis zum 10. Januar k. J. ruhen , und die Zeit bis zur Mitte des Februar , wo man schon wegen des bis zum 1. April fertig zu stellenden Reichsetats den Reichstag einberufen muß , wird kaum hinreichen , von den wichtigen Arbeiten , die dem Landtage sonst noch vorliegen , auch nur das Wichtigste zu erledigen. Es ist richtig , daß die Frage einer Nachsession des Landtages inner halb der Regierung noch nicht zur Sprache gekommen ist , und ebenso richtig , daß die Regierung einer solchen Eventualität soweit als irgend thunlich aus dem Wege zu gehen entschlossen ist. Ob sie sich aber dennoch wird vermeiden lassen können , wird man nach Lage der Dinge sich selber sagen. In Bezug auf die Frage wegen Förderung des Secundär bahnwesens erfahren wir Folgendes : Von den 52 , theils von privater , theils von staatlicher Seite projectirten Linien kommen 9 auf die Rheinprovinz , 7 auf Westpreußen , 6 auf Hannover , „ Ohne Zweifel , denn ich will nicht an jene Zeit erinnert sein , wo ein elender Wicht an meinem einzigen , heißgeliebten Kinde , an meinem Abgott zum Verräther wurde " , stieß die Dame leidenschaftlich hervor. „ Ich denke , Charles Wilford , wir kennen uns und sollten nicht den leisesten Versuch machen , unsere Gefühle zu bemänteln. Herunter mit der Maske der Con venienz. Fort mit dem Scheine , ich brenne vor Begierde , meinem erbittert sten Feinde offen gegenüber zu treten , und — o , wie heiß habe ich diesen Moment herbeigesehnt ! “ „ Das war ein offenes Wort , Faustine Bordini “ , sagte Charles Wilford , tief aufathmend , „ und ich danke Ihnen , daß Sie es gesprochen. “ „ O , ich wollte es nicht , fürwahr es war nicht mein Wille , Dir diesen Moment in irgend etwas zu erleichtern " , stieß die Signora mit wuthbeben den Lippen hervor. „ Aber als ich in Dein verhaßtes Antlitz sah , da konnte ich mich nicht bezwingen , und wenn ich auch dadurch einen Theil meines Triumphes , Dir kalt und gleichgültig gegenüber zu stehen , einbüßen mußte. Aber es wäre auch Thorheit gewesen , Dir anders als so gegenüber zu treten , denn Du weißt , welche Gefühle mich beherrschen. Ich kenne kein anderes als das der Rache , keines , als Dich zu verderben. “ „ Ich weiß das , aber gestatten Sie mir die Frage , ob Sie gesonnen sind. Seite 1350 5 auf Schleswig = Holstein , 4 auf die Provinz Sachsen , 3 auf Schlesien , 3 auf Hessen = Rassan , 2 auf Ostpreußen , 2 auf Posen , 1 auf Brandenburg und 1 auf Westfalen. Außerdem sind werch , sopie Sachen bei der Veratung der gash deeude , Wie verlautet , vied barsfend den Bau von Seumdäkrtahnen , als dadurch der Regierung arn weienlich abtängg sein werde , wücden , dasselbe Planaistig Meiut dur Verstgung gestelt werden mäisig nach festen Normnen uu Verdern und für diesen Zuck rigel. Die „ Nat. = Zige erthan iu verwendende Fands u gevinnen. un. Mathelung , Seigende Zuscrist ut den Etchze Setäcde ir Seask els Seisesereische ier Verliaer übischen mitischen Bewegung von Seiten der deutschen Joden zu geschehen habe. Di Emagende führt , einer längeren Auspr 6 , daß nicht blos Senaece Pegnus eie Schuch angethen , sondern auch den Gesse der That. Es sei jedoch böchle Zeit , daß in diesea Versheszen ches nothwendig begonnen werden müsse , Friedens und zur Ehre des bereits geschazt Jue durgerlichen sester Plan und ein bewustes Ziel gebrach aen geuichen Namens , ein und willigen Kräfste nicht zersplitert und en gen ie damt die vorhandenen lei übereite Handlungen begangen würden. Comités , oder wie man den Namen far Hiernu sei die Einsetzung eines wie wäblen wolle — weiches als —. aue derarige Vereinigung sont drobten Interessen der deuschen Jadenanu Otsan zum Schute der be In diesem Sinne entschied sich auch di Fer au ; undedingt erforderich. tros der Erregtbeit der Gemüher anerkenneng — 0 Die Versammlung genehnigte , daß sich das dermal Vorsitze des Einladenden als Comits conftitngad burean unter den zu ergäinzen. Die Zahl der Mitglieder soe sten Fechntern „ asere Stromverhältnisse untersucht : 2 ) auf Grund ee gechniker unsere Strompet. — , Stand Landesgrenge bis Bingen , unter Verüche ur die Strece von der Schiffaher unmselich sein io weit dis mit Rücsicht auf de Lch ) breits eingestelt seienein und an Verbeäiner * München , Dec. Die Erhebung des Staatsministers Ihr J. v. eut m. , De. Die ,. Geeage V. Straßburg , 4. Dec. Das hiesige Kriegsgericht hat den Feuer Fesung Diedenhefen , die besaungen dadurch , dais er Blane der eie Gerche id Wern. esch s euds ist uteinen eite aichean ud rcht Sorcerg drga iarsminster erwartete , daß sie ihm die Mittel zur Am 30. November hat im ganzen Lande die Kaiser Josef Verlauf genommen. Die Weigerung des Prüsheuzn metenhanses , auf den Wansch seiner Freunde Feier zu gedenten , hat einen sthe unginsigen Jaus 4. S Stantritz , esehes sehsen une dr Aischalagher ue ue ür eine so wichtige Frage und ersuche den Senat , nicht andere Er es Sesteese erchenge u e e Fecklungsmandner auf dene Longchamps geplaut vird , mit der ein „. tungsmändort auf dem Mont Valérien combinirt sein würde. Josoh Reinach zsamengstelt sad uerg , Waen iige Pud bsichk Had uf de Zit vunr 16 10 Giechenal er g , daß , Gambena diese Veröstentlichung als ein Die Hammern weriden 881 vicher rise am 20. Derember vertagt und am 11. 30. nuar 1801 wieber elöfftet werden. Die Regierung hat , wie die „ Agence Havas “ erfährt , beschlossen , keinen historischen Werth hätten , verkauft am Magenkrebs leidet , soll von den Aerzten aufgegeben worden sein. Großbritannien. dobsin gerischich dut sich nach langem Schwanken. gieden , das Parlament erst am 6. Januar nächsten Jah eruicierc dier Ba weternis uterzechnete Proklamation in # # e Verleter bes gesammten Königreichs an dem genann die trische Frageu von Geschäften “ , vomit natitrlich nur de Heren vom Parlamente werden. Der Premitemiascher uuhpendig machen weroen. Der Plemummster höfft , wie es scheint , in Ueberein stimmung mit seinen radikalen Collegen , den Herren Bright und Chamberlain , daß die irische Landliga sich noch einige Wochen gedulden und die Ausarbeitung der „ irischen Reformbill “ , mit wel cher der Staatssekretär für Irland , Mr. Forster , dann vor das Parlament zu treten gedenkt , ruhig abwarten werde. Indessen wird wie schaegde von den Liasten in der bisherigen Weise fortge Töieren , Anstregr ice , Morde , Versthumelungen von Menschen und Vernchmungen Dtamsistungen und riamus unwürdig ist , ein schnelles Ende zu bereiten , vermag sich das Cabinet Glat stone durchaus nicht zu entschließen , — ein Räthsel , wenn die dop in aler Mande pire. — u eit Beziom der Vera Glastone haben , Genfalls froslockeng i Seste abberufen chatenls in Ragusa und Catarg i udd Monaute lung disten Traziomödien der Weitgeschichte. lon begeben werde. Ehensalg siche nuch Tau nach Maltr ahgehen. u6e ausenen. ihrem Feinde Ruhe und Hohn entzegen Rröfkels Du daran , Charles Wilford ? “ mein Kud ein halbes Menschenalter hiadurch Der Kelisden Kenr de Seganteudter iche loser Wub , aber mit einer energschen Roeaupg Kan. — 6 freigemacht. Seurtzung hue sie sich von ihm sprüche mn eine Person erbest , die Dir so sern sest. Dd Sinde misgenesisen raurigen Anbück dar. Seine Gedanlen und Vegrsfe Vergleich m ihr in ein Nichts auf. Ee war Alle vergessen nicht , daß ihm noch ein Kind lebte , von dessen Existenz er nichts wußte. Schweden und Norwegen. dem Zwiespalt zwischen Krone und Volksvertretung. Die constitntionellen Fragen einzulegen , ausgesprochen war , den der Kntglschen Peitragatben Aude Veiegen , sih u Gan unanfechtbare Weise für stion , weiche im Schoße der Kammer gen , welche mit dieser doppelten und hoßen Autzrite e Gewiß ist dieser Ausganede Alaner sud sehr veröisene Lope. d de urmegzschen Rern 2 et. Petue Kusion. ulcs an den Senas 5 Der. Ein heute verifenlichter kasrlicher 1. Januar 1887 — die ae Autedung der Salzgacse vom den Inport von Saiz , du Veratstzung der Zelgebührn für Die „ Agence Russe " bestätigt ebenfalls die Zurückberufung der erxceinigten Flotte und hebt hervor , daß dieselbe keineswegs eine Auf „ ug ben europäischen Concerts involvire. Das russische Geschwa Ssere eeiechei besben , um dort zur Verfügur Ktallen reien Paut zu verbleiben , welche zur Zeit in Griechenland. gendiune Prieasenundentlihe Heresausgsben vraniche der 95. weiczen , Zgcen das Gald vrweader werden solle. Der Munsgter Prusicrnt Kumunduros erwiderte : Im gegenwärtigen Augenblicke , wo es gelte zu handeln und nicht zu reden , müsse er es als einen ie aut Dir Kanst sdant. Seichalante Kaldt ur ue # # Ein ditgirrung bereite sich darauf vor , die Beschlüsse Europas auszuführen und bestrebe sich , hierfür auch die Mitwirkung Europas zu gewinnen. Nichts deute darauf hin , daß die Mächte # Beschlüsse ein weniger großes Interesse hätte so erheische Berliner Beschlüsse ein wenige. # # - Inkrregse halle , so erheisch seine Ehre , dennoch jedes Opfer zur Erreichung dieses Zieles zu bringen. Er ( Kumunduros ) wende sich deshalb an den Patriotis Er bite un den Bestand de g den Vatiatsnus der Oppostion. aserung bedärfe ohne sede Reservez die Ne. untrchseung d. u e würigen Unständen der ungethellen er ganzen Nation , um im Augenblicke der Action mit der erforderlichen Autorität auftreten zu können. — Im weiteren Badger für das Jahr 1881 u Vinanzmuster Saitrpulos das Eerge han , Bogog einem Naltonalhgarde Einberusen wunde u ceiulig aug die Asten. # „ Reuter ' schen Bureaus wird aus Teheran , 4. Der. , ge meiver : Der Kurdenhäuptling Scheilh Obeidullah griff die Perser bei Ser zurück und bedroßen andauernd Urnmiah. in Folge „ sich Angesichts der europäischen Flotte in der Bucht von Cat Vom Rhein und aus Westfalen. Thter 4 aluden Zusen. seit varachern = Bückling kop , koop Bücklinalt ist setanih vuen ie Sischiae ehiche de dinr beüin Laiz hause über den Bau neuer Eisenbahnlinien machen wird , die Strecke dem Laitereweliger “ : Was de in Folge der Caranbolage mit ga ig Jiszsegei Schischen gesunkene „ Concordia VII. “ angeht VII : ia eri ver gu sren F1 ers. vor ca. 5 Jahren neu gebaut. Sie besitzt eine Ma schine von 35 Pferdekraft und eine Tragfähigkeit von 2500 Ctrn. Seisen und g Schiffes bestand in Kafer , Rosinen , Häringen , das Schin ier seisden Producken und war für ea. 90. 00 Mark , Mit Auenahm. di Reschine für 10. 000 Mark versichert. See # ae einer Sendung Häringe für einen Düsseldorfer Rausmunn im Werthe von 3400 Mark war Alles versichert. B gagirt. Von der ganien set erthetlch en lich verdorben , us Schifladung fnd über 75 Prnamt ganz belannen Vierdruckapparate ist jez. Auwedung der lohnt , die Frage anzuregen , ob es nicht besser wäre , wieder zu der vom Fast zu verzgapsen. Mag die eieu Gerstensat ric sein , so sind die Apparate di beim Bnschann Bossitum under Jus absolut ausgeschlossen ist. Daß das große arce = Ansicht theilt , geht schon daraus hervor , daß auf der Düsseldorfer ausstellung nirgendswo ein größerer Bier = Consum statt gefunden hat , als bei „ Diederichs " , wo der Gerstensaft frisch Faß verabreicht wurde. Eine sehr feine Restauration in unsere dat verschurgen dies Verfahren ebenfalls eingeschlagen , und wir dür reinen Geschmag 10 dos igeigerf dant kommende Vier durch e Srscman auszeichnet. ( Elberf. Zig. ) Bochum , 5. Dec. Die „ Dortmunder Zeitung " bringt in ihrer # # tragen ein Kreuz. Wer diese traurige Karte beschaut , der ge wühlt , wie sich ein unheilvoller Halbkreis um Bochum , von Castrop Bochum baräat mor eche gu , seu die welteste Entfernung von chum verrag. uut sechv Kilometer , also knapp anderthalb Stunden. genannte Blatt bemerkt , es enthalte sich , Schlüsse aus der Lage sich ihm bei Verachung de. Jdr muider sich belst ausdenten , was sich ihm bei. # uug err Zeichnung aufdränge. Aus dieser Be muexkung , gehz , wohl hervor , daß man den Thäter nur in Bochum selbst se # # ruen glaubt. Der Karte ist ferner beigefügt eine Recapi. der einzelnen Fälle , die mit tödtlichem Ausgange endeten. Die kiste der unglücklichen Gemordeten war die achtzehnjährige Jose phine Kost , welche am 30. December 1878 , Mittags gegen 12 Uhr dur Si , sesige uu an der Bischung des Weges nach Bochum Schichenen Geeiuen Riemen erdrosselt vorgefunden wurde. Die ver schabinen Gegenstände , welche das Mädchen bei sich trug , als Korb weihen der Gesche egeschirm , lagen verstreut der Gemeind , Schon einige Tage vorher solte ein Mädchen in Gut und Nog grauem ie biva angefallen sein , ebenso ein Mädchen auf dem Wege Se au grsgen. Zeche „ Liborius = Herminenglück “ von einem etwa hart , roichem Frschen — ui hellionden Haupthar und Schnurr mannschaben. — / Der Oencht , mit einer grauen Jope und Berg , 71 , Uhr , die vierzehnshzenge 3u i am. Jul 1879 , Morzens Fe die gübe batete. Sief ; Ouerenburg auf enem Weideselde , vo Weidegrenge behe wurdte in einem etwa 130 Schrite von Der Sau enden Hölzchen mit ihrem eigenen Halstuche — Dag erin 8s des Mädchens war durch eine Dornenhecke gesteckt. Gaktron , weiche ier we die Liette Schülen aus dem Spredey bei Gisenberg , wg u d August , Margens 9 Uhr , auf dem Felde bei ubderfallen wurdese mit dem Binden von Roggen beschäftigt war , schaße des Madchens und vrschienu u um Vdernseche die des un Ertschuvene zertretene Stellen. Die Leiche umn den Gesgin der Nähe befindlichen Buschverke in einem Graben , Aler Wabrscheinlsckeit ung Oweinsledernen Rlemnen und ein Tut , Mörder und seinerm S u haste ein hefiger Kampf zwischen den einem Opfer stattgefunden , denn dem letzteren waren die Fingernägel abgelisen und die Brust zerkratzt. — Der vierte Mord wurde am 30. Juli 1880 bei Herne vollführt. Am genannten Tage wurde die achtzehnjährige Minna Pott Morgens 6½ Uhr mit Kaffee auf das Feld geschickt in die Herner Mark , bei dem Wege von Hiltrop nach Castrop. Nr. 333 Bonner Zeitung vom 6. December 1880. Seite 1351 vember an der Hebamme Becker , einer Mutter von vier Kindern , verübt wurde. Sie war um 6 Uhr Morgens abgerufen und wurde um 3 Uhr Nachmittags in einem Hohlwege bei Altenbochum er drosselt , mit aufgeschnittenen Pulsadern und auch sonst noch scheußlich mit dem Messer verstümmelt , aufgefunden. Damit schließt diese graufige Liste , und wir müssen leider sagen : vorläufig ; denn noch immer hat es nicht gelingen wollen , den oder die elenden Thäter zu entdecken. Fast steht zu befürchten , daß es hier geht , wie in Waldenburg in Schlesien , wo früher gleiche Un thaten verübt wurden und bis heute noch ungerächt sind. Zum Schluß bemerkt die „ Dortm. Ztg. “ : Eins wollen wir hier noch hervorheben und das müßten unserer Ansicht nach die Bochumer Blätter immer und immer wieder betonen , daß , wenn es wirklich gelingen sollte , ein solches Scheusal zu fassen , auf keinen Fall Lynchjustiz an ihm geübt werde , denn ganz abgesehen davon , daß es doch möglicherweise einen Unschuldigen treffen könnte , muß der Kerl wie ein rohes Ei behan delt werden , daß er bekennen kann und daß alles klargestellt werde , damit nicht ein ihm dann vielleicht erwünschter Todtschlag ihm gestattet , sein verruchtes Geheimniß mit in die Grube zu nehmen. * Münster , 4. Dec. Die „ Westf. Pr. = Ztg. “ schreibt : So reich an außergewöhnlichen Ereignissen wie unser doch sonst als friedfertig bekanntes Münster in jüngerer Zeit ist verhältnißmäßig wohl kaum eine große Stadt. Nachdem vor einigen Tagen ein bisher als acht bar angesehener Mann in öffentlicher Gerichtssitzung zum Betrüger gestempelt , nachdem ferner ein allgemein als solide betrachtetes Hand lungshaus ( F. W. Wittkampf ) vorgestern plötzlich seine Zahlungen eingestellt , wurde gestern Abend in der Hörsterkaserne ein Sergeant vom 13. Regiment von seiner Braut mit einem Dolche erstochen. Der Sergeant unterhielt nämlich seit mehreren Jahren mit einem unter polizeilicher Sitten = Controle stehenden jungen Frauenzimmer ein Liebesverhältniß , worauf nach der Ansicht des Letzteren die Heirath folgen sollte. Gestern Abend nun brachte das Frauenzimmer dem Sergeanten das Abendbrod in , die Kaserne , nahm einen an der Wand hängenden Dolch und stach damit , wie sie behauptet , spielend nach dem Sergeanten. Der Stich mit dem haarscharfen Dolch muß zuweit und ins Herz gedrungen sein , denn der Sergeant legte sich aufs Bett und war eine Leiche. Absichtliche Tödtung scheint nicht vorzuliegen. Die Frauensperson ist verhaftet. * Münster , 5. Dec. Nach dem soeben erschienenen Verzeichniß der Behörden , Lehrer , Beamten und Studirenden der hiesigen Königl. Akademie wird dieselbe im gegenwärtigen Wintersemester 1880 — 81 von 276 Studirenden , worunter neun Hospitanten , besucht. Die theologische Fakultät zählt 69 , die philosophische Fakultät 198 , und zwar die historisch = philologische Abtheilung 152 , die mathematisch naturwissenschaftliche 46 Studirende. Ein Vergleich mit den Frequenz verhältnissen des letzten Wintersemesters ergibt , daß die Zahl der Studirenden bei der theologischen Fakultät um 12 abgenommen , da gegen bei der philosophischen Fakultät um 33 zugenommen hat , und zwar entfallen von letzterer Zahl auf die historisch = philologische 23 , auf die mathematisch = naturwissenschaftliche Abtheilung zehn. — Es ist sonach die Zahl der Studirenden bei der philosophischen Fakultät dieselbe geblieben wie im letzten Sommersemester , ein Umstand , der um deswillen beachtenswerth erscheint , als die gegenwärtige Frequenz höhe trotz der Verlegung der Abiturientenexamina auf Ostern erreicht worden ist. Ein Vergleich der Frequenzen aller Wintersemester von 1865/66 bis 1877/78 und sämmtlicher seitherigen Semester ergibt , daß die gegenwärtige Zahl der bei der philosophischen Fakultät Immatrikulirten die höchste bisher erreichte ist , wobei selbstredend bezüglich der ersten , in Vergleich gezogenen Semester die Theologie Studirenden , nach einer früher geltenden Bestimmung , in den ersten Semestern bei der philosophischen Fakultät Immatrikulirten in gebracht sind. unabweislich wurde , so ist , wie das „ Wochenblatt für Architekten und In genieure “ mittheilt , der Regierungsbaumeister R. Bohn am 1. d. M. wie der nach Pergamon abgereist. — Dasselbe Blatt bringt die etwas lakonische Nachricht , daß die Akademie des Bauwesens in ihrer Sitzung vom 22. No vember d. J. den Ausbau des Straßburger Münsters nach fünfstündiger sehr lebhafter Debatte vorläufig abgelehnt hat. Eingehendere Mittheilun gen hierüber würden bei dem für die Angelegenheit in weiten Kreisen er weckten Interesse recht erwünscht sein. Literatur , Kunst und Wissenschaft. * Mit dem soeben erschienenen 45. Heft beschließt die von Paul Lindau herausgegebene Monatsschrift „ Nord und Süd “. ( Verlag von S. Schott laender in Breslau ) ihren 15. Band. Das neue Heft darf sich , gleich so vielen seiner Vorgänger , eines ebenso vielgestaltigen wie wertbvollen In halts rühmen. An der Spitze trägt es den Namen Rudolph Lindau ' s , der , von den Lesern nur allzu lange vermißt , ihnen heute aus der Fülle seines Talentes heraus eine Erzählung voll psychologischer Vertiefung und von der feinsten Factur spendet : „ Treu bis in den Tod “. Es folgt ihm Professor F. v. Duhn in Heidelberg , ein ausgezeichneter Schüler von Ernst Curtius , mit einer eingehenden , mannigfach Neues bietenden Studie über die „ Anfänge der römischen Kunstsammlun gen ". Ihm schließt sich an Professor Dr. von Basch in Wien mit einem Aufsatze über „ Das Leben des Kreislaufs ". Dieser Beitrag wird nicht nur durch die vortreffliche Behandlung des Themas , sondern auch durch die Thatsache Interesse erregen , daß sein Verfasser , heut ein angesehener Universitätslehrer in Wien , den unglücklichen Kaiser Maxi milian als Leibarzt nach Mexiko begleitete. In dem vierten Beitrage , einer Erzählung : „ Der Haararzt “ , geißelt Ludwig Freiherr von Ompteda. Fäistreicher und überaus ergötzlicher Weise das Verbältniß zwischen Kuynopfigen und ihren angeblichen Helfern. O. Schrader in Jena gibt in dem folgenden Aufsatze scharfsinnige und anregende , auf die Sprach wissenschaft sich stützende Untersuchungen „ aus der Geschichte der Kruse hat eine seiner unnachahmlichen See geschichten in Versen beigesteuert , „ die Siegelbewahrer “ , eine Dich tung voll liebenswürdiger Laune. Der originelle und bedeutsame Brief wechsel zwischen Moritz von Schwind und Bernbard Schädel in Darmstadt findet in dem Hefte seinen Abschluß. In einem achten Beitrage gibt der berühmte Augenarzt Prof. Schmidt = Rimpler , Rector der Universität Marburg , sehr interessante Aufschlüsse über „ das Blindsein “ , die aus einer großartigen Erfahrung sich ergeben. Zu dem dem Hefte heigegebenen , künstlerisch radirten Porträt Andreas Achenbachs hat Ludwig Pietsch mit der an ihm gewohnten Fachkenntniß und Flüssigkeit der Darstellung eine begleitende Charakteristik geschrieben. Reichhaltige bibliographische Notizen bilden wie gewöhnlich den Schluß des sorgfältig ausgestatteten , üver zwolf Bogen starken Heftes. # Für den Weihnachtstisch. Gewissenhafte Eltern können nicht streng genug in der Auswahl der Bücher sein , welche sie ihren Kindern in die Hand geben. Immer dringender machen einsichtige Pädagozen auf die außerordentliche Bedeutung der ersten Lectäre aufmerksam. Eine unglaub liche Masse vot Schlechtem und Mittelmäßigem drängt sich auf den Markt. Wir empfehlen daher wiederholt die in Wort und Bild anerkannt schönste und gediegenste Jugendschrift , die „ Deutsche Jugend " , herausgegeben von Julius Lohmeyer ( Verlag von Alphons Dürr in Leipzig ). Alle Kenner der Jugendliteratur sind darüber einig , daß keine andere Nation ein in literarischer und künstlerischer Beziehung bedeutenderes Jugend werk besitzt. Das preußische Unterrichtsministerium bezeichnet dasselbe be kanntlich als Muster der Jugendliteratur , und die hervorragendsten Päda gogen , unter diesen Dir. Fr. Dittes , Schulrath A. Berthelt , Prof. W. # # # # Sminardir. C. Kehr , Schulrath L. Kellner , Dir. R. Schorn nein , pros. I. V. Stoy , Dir. I. V. Widmann , Prof. Heinr. Viehoff , Dir. Dr. Friedländer , Dir. Fr. Krepßig , Dir. Th. Bach , Dr. Werner Hahn , Dr. Richard Lange , Dr. A. W. Grube u. s. w. schließen sich diesem Urtheile in einer kürzlich erschienenen an Eltern und Erzieher gerichteten Publikation in lebhaftester und anerkennendster Weise an. Das ausgezeichnete Jugend werk bietet in seinen Erzählungen , Natur = und Geschichtsbildern , Märchen und Sagen , Balladen , Spielen , Verstandesübungen , humoristischen Gaben und seinem unübertroffenen Bilderschmuck , welcher von den ersten Meistern der Illustration , wie L. Burger , F. Flinzer , Wold. Friedrich , J. Klein michel , E. Klimsch , O. Pletsch , Ludw. Richter , Paul Thumann , A. v. Werner ausgeführt wird , ein reiches Füllhorn des wahrhaft Guten und Schönen. Unsere bedeutendsten Jugendschriftsteller und Poeten , unter diesen Victor Blütbgen , Felix Dahn , Emil Frommel , A. W. Grube , Fr. Güll , Herm. Kletke , F. v. Köppen , G. Lang , R. Löwicke , Herm. Schmid , Th. Storm , Job. Trojan , Jul. Sturm , Karl Gerok widmen dem Werke ihre dauernde Mitwirkung. Jeder Band , der ein abgeschlossenes Ganzes für sich bildet , empfieblt sich als eine der glänzendsten und werthvollsten Weihnachtsgaben fur ninder vom achten bis zum vierzehnten Lebensjahre. Das neue Abon nement auf die Heftausgabe , vierteljährlich drei Mark , beginnt am ersten Januar. er Die Arbeiten in Pergamon nehmen einen günstigen Fortgang. Ge genwärtig ist man mit ungefähr 100 Arbeitern oberhalb der Altarterrasse mit Untersuchungen beschäftigt. Da die Anwesenheit eines Architekten jetzt Vermischtes. * London , 4. Dec. Heimkehrende Schiffe berichten über gewaltige Stürme auf dem Atlantischen Meer. Der Dampfer „ Manitoban “ büßte deshalb unterwegs hundert Stück Rindvieh ein. * # # * New = York , 2. Dec. Der Kapitän des Inman = Dampfers „ City of Berlin " berichtet , daß seine letzte Fahrt von Liverpool nach New = York die stürmischste war , die er je gemacht. Alle von transatlantischen Häfen kom menden Schiffe melden , daß sie fürchterliches Wetter hatten , welches sie nö thigte , äußerst langsam zu fahren. *. * Als am 30. November in Berlin Repräsentantenwahlen zur jüdischen Gemeinde vorgenommen wurden , fand man an der Synagoge in der Ora nienburgerstraße ( dem Wabllokal ) ein rothes Plakat angeheftet , welches lau tete : „ Wählet keinen Juden ! “ # # Berlin , 4. Dec. Die Art und Weise , wie Jander seine Flucht aus Berlin bewerkstelligte und wie er sodann in Pommern , Mecklen burg und den angrenzenden Gegenden herumgereist ist , beweist die hohe Verschlagenheit dieses Menschen , und es verdienen aus den darüber ge machten Ermittelungen noch eine Reihe einzelner Thatsachen erwähnt zu werden. Nachdem Jander am 9. November Mittags in der mütterlichen Wohnung einen Teller Suppe gegessen , nahm er eine Scheere an sich und ging damit nach der Leipziger Straße. Hier trat er in einen Hausflur , in dem er mit der Scheere den Schnurrbart abschnitt. Dann begab er sich zu einem Bar bier am Leipziger Platz , bei dem er sich rafiren ließ. Dieser , bei welchem Jander bartlos , anscheinend seit einigen Tagen nicht rasirt , eingetreten war , hat demzufolge während der Recherchen nach dem Barbier , welcher etwa dem Jander den Schnurrbart abgeschnitten , sich nicht gemeldet. Von dem Barbier begab sich Jander nach einem Garderobengeschäft in der Leipziger Straße , woselbst er ein Jaquet kaufte , das er im Garten Bellevue anzog. Das Jaquet gab ihm das Aussehen eines Hausdieners und stand im Ein klang mit den Legitimationspapieren des Hausdieners Linke , welche Jander bei sich trug. Er vervollständigte sodann noch seine Equipirung als Haus diener. In der Chausseestraße kaufte er sich ein Paar lange Stiefeln und eine Mütze mit Cocarde nebst einem Knotenstock und einem bölzernen , ganz unscheinbaren Koffer , wie die Burschen vom Lande in der Regel einen sol chen bei sich führen. In den Koffer legte er seine alten Stiefel , während er die eben gekauften anzog. In diesem Aufzug , den Koffer in der Hand tragend , begab er sich zu Fuß nach dem Stettiner Bahnhof , löste sich ein Billet IV. Klasse nach Neustadt = Eberswalde und setzte sich im Waggon auf seinen Koffer. Jander hatte dabei seine Rolle als Hausdiener so meister haft durchgeführt , daß die auf ihn vigilirenden Beamten nicht ver muthen konnten , daß der plump auftretende Bursche mit dem gesuchten Banquiergehülfen Jander identisch wäre. In Eberswalde kehrte Jander in einen in der Nähe des Bahnhofes belegenen Krug ein und fuhr am anderen Morgen weiter nach Stettin , woselbst er , als er in den Zeitungen las , daß ermittelt sei , er reise unter dem Namen eines Hausdieners Linke , sofort die Rolle eines Hausdieners aufgab , den Holzkoffer nebst Mütze in der Schänke , in der er sich während der ersten Tage aufgehalten , zurück ließ , sich sodann als Guts = Inspector equipirte und ein besseres Hotel bezog. Von da ab trat er bis zu seiner Ergreifung als Guts = Inspector auf. Als solcher verkehrte er in Stettin in dem bekannten Lokal „ Luftdichter Schnei der " und machte sodann noch Reisen nach verschiedenen Städten in Pom mern , Mecklenburg u. s. , wobei er die Vorsicht gebrauchte , seine Reise koffer und Kleidung öfter durch neue Koffer und Sachen zu ersetzen , wäh rend er die alten scheinbar aus Vergeßlichkeit zurückließ. Diese Vorsicht , welche den Zweck hatte , etwaige Verfolger von seiner Spur abzubringen , erleichterte jedoch schließlich seine Ermittelung. Denn in Schwerin , wo selbst er in dem „ Hotel zum Stern “ eine Reisetasche nebst Taschentuch zu rückgelassen hatte , fiel dies auf und lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit des Gastbaus personals auf den angeblichen Guts = Inspector Sarnow. Während J. in der ersten Zeit nach der Flucht sehr vorsichtig war , verlor er von Tag zu Tag immer mehr diese Vorsicht , da die vergeblichen Recherchen der Po lizei nach ihm , worüber ihn die Zeitungen unterrichteten , ihn sicher machten. Er ließ sich darauf ein , mit anderen Personen , insbesondere mit Frauenspersonen , zu verkehren und mehr Gelo auszugeben , als dies bei Guts = Inspectoren üblich ist. In dieser auffälligen Weise trat er auch in Wismar auf und machte sich in dem Maße auffällig , daß , als Commissar Richard aus der Vergleichung der Handschriften auf die Ver muthung kam , daß Sarnow mit Jander identisch sei diese Vermuthung von vielen Seiten als richtig bestätigt wurde. — Ueber Jander ' s An kunft hier werden noch folgende Details gemeldet : Als der Zug in den hiesigen Hamburger Bahnhof einlief stürzte das ungeduldige Publikum auf die Beamten los und rief : „ Wo ist Jander ? “ Auf die Antwort : „ Im dritten Wagen " wälzte sich die Menschenmasse dorthin , und gleich darauf entstiegen die beiden Criminalbeamten in Civil mit Jander dem Coupé. Jander , ein Mann von kleiner , unansehnlicher Gestalt , trug einen dunkeln Winterüberzieher , desgleichen Beinkleider und einen niedrigen schmalrandigen Filzhut. Beide Hände waren ihm vorn geschlossen , und über ihnen bing , sorgfaltig gefaltet , seine Reisedecke. Unter entsetzlichem Gedränge der Neu gierigen gingen die beiden Criminalbeamten , die den anscheinend sehr nieder geschlagenen Jander in ihre Mitte nahmen und denen Schutzleute in Uni form vorauseilten , dem Ausgange zu , um dort eine geschlossene Droschke zu nehmen. Jander mußte sich auf den Rücksitz derselben setzen , während die Beamten im Fonds Platz nahmen. Ebe der Kutscher aber sein Gefährt in Bewegung setzen konnte , rief das Publikum unaufhörlich : „ Jander ! wo hast Du das Geld ! " bis endlich der eine der beiden Criminalbeamten am offenen Fenster der Droschke eine kleine schwarzlederne Handtasche zeigte , in der muthmaßlich die stattliche Zahl der glücklich wieder erlangten Tausend - und Hundert = Markscheine verborgen war. Dies war das Signal zu einem all gemeinen Hurrab , unter dem sich das Gefährt endlich langsam nach der Stadtvogtei in Bewegung setzte. feierte gestern unter reger Betheiligung der Mitglieder sein 34. Stiftungsfest in der Beethovenhalle. Nach einleitender Musik , ausgeführt durch das Stadt Bonner = Musikcorvs , wurde die Reihe der Lieder durch Abt ' s frischen „ Sängergruß " eröffnet und daran schloß sich Koschat ' s „ Abschied “ , der die Hörer wunderbar anheimelte und bewegte. Herr Ritterath , der bewährte Bassist , trug die Arie „ O Isis " trefflich vor. Es folgten Lieder , als : „ Du bist mein Traum " , „ Heut scheid ' ich " u. a. m. Herr Branscheidt er rang sich durch mehrere Gesangvorträge , namentlich des „ Czarenliedes " und des schnell beliebt gewordenen Liedes des alten Soldaten aus der Brüll ' schen Oper „ Das goldene Kreuz “ , stürmischen Beifall. Auch an launigen Vor trägen. Terzetten und Duetten fehlte es nicht. Der Präsident ließ in kurzer Ansprache den Verein , der Vice = Präsident den altbewährten Präsidenten , Herrn Rechtsanwalt Wrede , leben. Dem umsichtigen Dirigenten ward der verdiente Kranz gespendet , während Herr Weinholz unter lebhaftem Beifall sein Gedicht : „ Das deutsche Lied , was ist das Lied ? “ vortrug. Möge sich der Verein durch den Eintritt von neuen Kräften , die für das deutsche Lied Herz und Sinn haben , immer mehr stärken und durch seine Leistungen Freudenblumen für Andere und sich selbst zum Kranze reihen ! □ Bonn , 6. Dec. Wie aus Inseraten der vorliegenden Nummer ersicht lich , findet morgen Dinstag keine Vorstellung auf unserem Theater Statt und tritt der rühmlichst bekannte Tenorist Anton Schott vom Königl. Hoftheater in Hannover am nächsten Freitag als „ Lohengrin “ in der gleich namigen Wagner ’ schen Oper hierselbst auf. Ob noch weitere Gastspiele des gefeierten Sängers auf unserer Bühne gegeben werden , ist noch ungewiß , wird aber jedenfalls mit von dem Besuche der Lohengrin = Vorstellung abhängen. * Bonn , 6. Dec. In Beuel wurde gestern ein Mensch verhaftet , der in dem Verdachte stebt , Falschmünzerei betrieben zu haben. Es sollen bei der stattgehabten Haussuchung auch etliche zur Herstellung des Falschgeldes benutzte Formen gefunden worden sein. Meteorologische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte zu Vonn. Dec. 4. Maximum der Tagestemperatur. ° 5 C. Dec. 5. Minimum der Tagestemperatur. ° 6 C. 1 Uhr Nachm. Barometer auf 0 “ reducirt 767. 6 Millimeter. Temperatur. ° 7 C. Höhe des Niederschlages in 24 Stunden. 1 Millimeler. Dec. 5. Maximu der Tagestemperatur. ° 6 C. Dec. 6. Minimum der Tagestemperatur. ° 5 C. 1 Uhr Nachm. Barometer auf 0 “ reducirt 766. 4 Millimeter. Temperatur. ° 5 C. Höhe des Niederschlages in 24 Stunden. 4 Millimeter. Jephta , Oratorium von Carissimi. 6 Bonn , 6. December. In dem für morgen — Diustag — angezeigten Concerte unseres evangelischen Kirchengesang = Vereins kommt ein Werk zur Aufführung , das die Aufmerksamkeit des Publikums um so mehr in An spruch nehmen dürfte , je seltener es bisher auf den Concertprogrammen eine Stelle gefunden hat , nämlich Jephta , Oratorium für Chor , Soli und Orgel von Giacomo Carissimi , 1600 — 1674 , Capellmeister an der Apolli narikirche in Rom. Vollständig wurde dieses lange Zeit hindurch gänzlich vergessene Werk veröffentlicht zuerst durch Friedrich Chrysander in seinen „ Denkmälern der Tonkunst " , dann , für den Gebrauch in Gesangvereinen , in umgeschriebener resp. ergänzter Gestalt von dem verdienten Leiter des Vereins für classische Kirchenmusik in Stuttgart , Herrn J. Faißt. Diese Bearbeitung liegt , abgesehen von wenigen Stellen , wo man sich genauer dem Originale angeschlossen hat , der Aufführung des Kirchengesang = Vereins zu Grunde. Es möchte nicht leicht ein Werk geben , das geeigneter wäre , die weit verbreitete Meinung , die Compositionen der Meister vor Bach und Haendel seien kindliche Versuche , neben den Kunstschöpfungen neuerer und neuester Musiker des Nennens nicht werth , so gründlich zu widerlegen , als das Ca rissimi ' sche Oratorium. Der Gegenstand desselben ist die bekannte biblische Geschichte vom Richter Jephta , der vor seinem Heereszuge gegen die Am moniter Gott gelobt , ihm für den Fall des Sieges Das zu opfern , was bei seiner Rückkehr zuerst aus seinem Hause ihm entgegenkomme. Dieses Opfer wird seine Tochter , die sich willig in das furchtbare Geschick ergibt , das allein vom Vater erbittend , daß sie zwei Monde auf dem Gebirge mit den Gespielen ihre Jungfrauschaft beweine. — Diese Erzählung ist in dem Carissimi ' schen Werke auf die einfachste Weise zur Darstellung gekommen. Von einer Stimme ( vertheilt unter Alt , Tenor und Baß ) wird die biblische Erzählung von Anfang bis zu Ende recitativisch vorgetragen , in ähnlicher Weise , wie es aus den Bach ' schen Passionen be kannt ist. Unterbrochen wird dieselbe durch die Gesänge der handelnden Personen , Jephta ' s und seiner Krieger , der Tochter und ihrer Gespielen , des ganzen Volkes. Außerdem aber werden gewisse Höhepunkte der Erzäh lung durch Chöre markirt , so gleich zu Anfang der kriegerische Auszug Jephta ' s , die Niederlage der Ammoniter , der Fortgang der Tochter auf das Gebirge. Es ist schwer , mit wenig Worten über die einzelnen Schönheiten des Oratoriums zu reden. Man muß staunen , wie der Componist es verstan den hat , in engstem Rahmen die verschiedenartigsten Empfindungen zum vollendetem Ausdrucke zu bringen. Grandios ist die Steigerung in der ersten Scene , in welcher Auszug und Kampf Jephta ' s dargestellt wird. Man hört den festen Schritt der gewappneten Murmschaft , wenn der sechsstim mige Chor beginnt : „ So auf die Kinder Ammon zog Jephta zum Streite " ; das Ertönen der Schlachtsignale und den beginnenden Kampf schildert in höchst charakteristischer Weise ein kurzer , schreidiger Chor , nur von den Sopranstimmen gesungen. Dem Gefühle der Uebermacht auf Seiten der Israeliten gibt dann zuerst eine Stimme trotzig Ausdruck , worauf die ganze Masse des Volkes einbricht : „ Weichet Verworfene “ , ein Chor , gegen dessen wilden Siegesjubel die Schilderung der Niederlage Ammon ' s in dem origi nellen dreistimmigen Chor : „ Klagegeheul erfüllte Ammon “ , grell absticht. Trotz der mehr gleichmäßigen Grundstimmung in der folgenden Scene ist auch hier eine sehr wirkungsvolle Steigerung bemerkbar. Mit hellem Jubelliede zieht die Tochter dem Vater entgegen , der Chor der Jungfrauen löst sie ab , ihre Empfindungen zu lebhafterem Ausdrucke bringend ; noch einmal singt die Tochter ihr anfängliches Lied , um sich dann von dem Jauchzen des ganzen Volkes ablösen zu lassen. So schön alle diese Partien sind , am größten erscheint der Componist doch in der zweiten Hälfte seines Werkes. Schon das Recitativ des Erzählers , das den Eindruck , welchen die Begegnung mit der Tochter auf Jephta macht , kurz berichtet , ist von ergreifender Wirkung. Aber was ist dieses gegen das darauf folgende Zwiegespräch zwischen Jephta und seiner Tochter ! Hier wie in der später folgenden Klage auf dem Gebirge liegt eine Composition vor , von der man getrost wird sagen dürfen , daß sie in ihrer Weise für alle Zeiten unerreicht bleiben wird. Die Recitative sind von einer dramatischen Kraft , wie man sie bei einem Gluck findet. Der Gegensatz zwischen den zuerst an den Schrei der Verzweiflung grenzenden , weiterhin thränenersticktem Schluchzen ähnlichen Klagen des Vaters und den kindlichen Fragen der Tochter , die Anfangs noch ganz ahnungslos ist und erst nach und nach ihr Geschick anfängt zu begreifen , ist von unbeschreiblicher Wirfung , die noch dadurch erhöht wird , daß diese bewegte Scene abschließt mit einem kürzen vierstimmigen Chor , der von dem Fortgang der Tochter auf das Gebirge berichtet , ebenso tief als gehalten im Ausdruck der Trauer. Aber noch über diese Scene hinaus hat es der Componist verstanden , die volle Theilnahme des Hörers wach zu halten. Jephta ' s Tochter beklagt auf dem Gebirge ihre Jungfrauschaft. Es ist nicht mehr das ahnungs lose Kind von ehedem , ihr bitteres Geschick ist ihr ganz klar geworden , Bäume und Quellen fordert sie auf , mit ihr zu trauern , und das Echo aus den Bergen wiederholt ihre Klagerufe , bis das ganze Volk das Ende des Heldenkindes gleichsam verhüllt mit einem breitem Trauerchore , der auf den Zuhörer einen erschütternden Eindruck ausüben muß. Möchte es dem Kirchen = Gesangvereine gelingen , seine schöne , aber auch schwierige Aufgabe annähernd so auszuführen , wie es der , nach Faißt ' s treffender Bezeichnung „ hohen , unvergänglichen Schönheit " des Carissimi ' schen Bries miträcht. Handel , Industrie und Verkehr. * Fruchtpreise zu Neuß am 6. Dec. Mr. 67. Weizen 4 Qual. 4 100 Kilo 3. Landroggen 1. 4 100 Kilo ) 2. „ Gerste Winter = 4 100 Kilo Sommer = ( Eingesandt. ) Die Verpestung des Godesberger Baches und des Weihers im hofgarten. In der Nacht vom 4. zum 5. d. M. wurde aus einem Hause der Co blenzerstraße oberhalb der zweiten Fährgasse der Latrinen = Inhalt in großen Quantitäten in den Godesberger Bach gepumpt , so daß nicht nur aus die sem , sondern auch aus dem Weiber im Hofgarten die penetrantesten Aus dünstungen emvorstiegen. Wir befinden uns also auf dem besten Wege , daß die schönste und gesundeste Straße der Stadt gesundheitsgefährlich und un ser Hofgarten , wo Alt und Jung sich zu erholen pflegt , eine Keimstätte der gefährlichsten Krankheiten werden soll. Seite 1352 Civilstand der Ober = Bürgermeisterei Bonn. Geburten. dolph , Sohn mn chegan Su u. # ug , Sohn von Guntav Sponsky , Tapezierer , und von Helena Drein = Pdr den 24. Friedrich , Sohn von Hu vert Schaaf , Anstreicher , und von Ursula Thelen. Catharina , Tochter von Franz Joseph Klein , Schlosser , und von Catharina Stoßdorf. Den 25. Friedrich Wilhelm August , Sohn von N. N. fremd. 26. Georg , Sohn von Johann Breuer , Fuhrknecht , und von Ca tharina Cremer. 26. Franz , Sohn von Johann Michael Duell , Schuhmacher , und von Maria Schäfer. Den 27. Reinbold Friedrich Alfred , Sohn von Dr. August Friedrich Rudolph Hörnle , Professor , und von Sophia Friedrike Romig. Den 27. Franz , Sohn von N. N. fremd. Den 28. Johann Heinrich Theodor , Sohn von Theodor Brouwers , Bürstenmacher , und von Maria Clara Braun. Den 28. Andreas Friedrich Carl , Sohn von Jacob Ludwig Mar quart , Fabrikant , und von Ida Marie Antoin. Mathilde Ermekeil. „ Den 29. Carl Gottlieb , Sohn von Robert Schulz , Hausvater , und von Catharina Mand. Den 29. Friedrich Otto Ernst , Sohn von Anton Herbst , Kürsch ner , und von Philippine Schumann. Den 29. Carl , Sohn von N. N. fremd. Den 30. Agnes , Tochter von Peter Joseph Fritzen , Ackerer , und von Agnes Schneider. Den 30. Peter , Sohn von N. N. Den 30. Ottilie , Tochter von N. N. fremd. Den 1. Dec. : Johanna , Tochter von Josepo Schwer , Lehrer , und von Agnes Breuer. Den 1. Hubertine , Tochter von N. N. fremd. Den 1. Adolph , Sohn von N. N. fremd. Den 2. Heinrich Hubert Conrad , Sohn von Heinrich Greven , Schneider , und von Catharina Blümer. Den 2. Maria , Tochter von N. N. fremd. Den 2. Heinrich , Sohn von N. N. fremd. Den 2. Hermann , Sohn von N. N. fremd. Heirathsverkündigungen. Den 29. Nov. : Wilhelm Peter Kra mer , Schreiner , mit Catharina Müller. Den 30. Jacob Ahrend , Schneider , mit Anna Oehm. Den 2. Dec. : Mathias Brink , Fa brikarbeiter , mit Auguste Agnes Lohmann. Den 2. Georg Kröll , Schreiner , mit Wilhelmine Johanne Ducker. Heirathen. Den 26. Nov. : Jobann Düx , Schlos ser , mit Thekla Maria Magdalena von Wiltberg. Den 26. Joseph Münstermann , Braumeister , mit Catharina Louise Fiegen. Den 27. Albert Julius Heinrich Tempel , Wittwer von Maria Jeß , Polizeisekretär , mit Anna Maria Steimel. Den 27. Johann Friedrich Ernst Laugls , Schneider , mit Johanna Wilhelmina Husmann. Sterbefälle. Den 25. Nov. : Peter Ertz , alt 13T. Den 25. Theodor Engels , Ehemann der Helena Fey , Zimmerer , alt 48 Jahre. Den 26. Johann Imdahl , alt 17 Jahre. Den 26. Emil Joseph Heinrich Eich , alt 19 Monate. Den 26. Catharina Klein , alt 1 T. Den 26. Clara Rösberg , alt 4 J. Den 26. Carl Ponsch , alt 18 M. 27. Peter Faßbender , alt 5½ Oeffentliche Versteigerung im städtischen Leihhause zu Bonn. Bonner Zeitung vom 6. December 1880. Mittwoch den 5. Januar 1881 , Nachmittags 2½ Uhr , werden die im Monate Concert deserang. Kirchen , Dinstag den 7. December 1880 , Abends 6 Uhr , in der neuen Kirche. Nr. 333 December 1879 und früher versetzten , nicht eingelösten Pfänder , bis incl. Nro. 20920 im Leihhause dahier versteigert. Desgleichen am Mittwoch den 9. Februar 1881 die Pfänder aus dem Monate Januar 1880 bis incl. Nro. 20724 — und am Mittwoch den 2. März 1881 die Pfänder aus dem Monate Feoruar 1880. PROGRAMM. 1 ) Präludium und Fuge in Emoll von J. S. Bach. 2 ) Chor von Fr. Suriano. 3 ) Arie für Sopran aus „ Jephta und seine Tochter “ von Reinthaler. 4 ) Choral - vorspiel „ Schmücke dich , o liebe Seele “ von J. S. Bach. 5 ) Arie für Alt aus „ Athalla “ von Händel. 6 ) Psalm 43 für achtstimmigen Chor von F. Mendelssohn. Tephse Orstus. # II. Thell. Jephin , Cratorium für Chor , Soli u. Orgel von Carissimi ( 1600 — 1674 ). Die Sopranseli werden gesungen von Fräulein Johanna zur Nieden aus Bremen. Herrn G. Cohen , Marke. Mendelssohn. Jäger und Schützen. Sämmtliche gediente Jäger und Schützen des Kreises un stino eingelagen , am Mittwoch den 8 Oeremb. % 80 end eee gise Iiger und Schiten des Kreis C. Wecember 1880 , Nach Eschamen Pechovenhale zu Bonner Wandkalender für das Jahr 1831. „ ist erschienen , und in der Expedition der Bonner Zeitung zu haben. Preis 20 Pf. Astral - Ofl , Cigarren - Abschnitt - Sammel - Verein Bonn Petroleum. Absolut sicher gegen Feuersge fahr , crystallhelle Farbe , grösste Leuchtkraft , geruchlos beim Gebrauch. Per Liter à 40 Pfennig. In BONN zu haben bei : Peter Gerhard , Peter Graf , Jos. Lander , L. Hasenmüller , J. G. Steiner & Co. , M. Wallenfang , Th. Wiepking. In Godesberg bei : Herm. Klein. Die anerkannt besten Schrottkohlen der Zeche Lau genbrahm aus dem Schiffe zu beziehen. Breitestraße 1. A. H. Stein , Breitestraße 1. und lege Wiegezettel der süädtischen Wage be. Samstag den 18. December cr. , Abends 7 Uhr , in der Beethoven - Halle Permanente Kunst IV. cgnachts - Bescheerungs = Fest ffämger mitwirkung des Banner Wönne der Buchhandlun Max Cohen & Sohn ( Fr. C Kaiserplatz 18. Haupt - Depôt : P. A. Stenger jun. , Köln. Das Astral - un kann - an Fann auf jeder Lampe alter oder neuer Construction gebrannt werden , doch ist dringend zu empfehlen , bei einem Versuche die Lampe vor her sorgfältig zu reinigen und einen frischen Docht zu nehmen. mitwirkung des Donner manner - Gesang. und geehrter Dilettanten abhalten und wendet sich hiermit bisher bewährten Wohlthätigkeitssinn der Bürgerschaft mit der Jchre nach Krüen zu forderg. bescghüige Perasgeieg Coulesionen in Auraichte geroennen. gung , gorie wilce Grben sung , sowie milde Gaben nehmen mit Dank entgegen : Braun - Peretti. Hundsgasse 3 , Brüning , Sternstr. 63 , J. Dansard , Kölner Chaussee 16 , Rr Wespris ; Kömerplats 3 , Ebert , Restauration Besthoven - Halle , Never , Vichmarbe1 * Marr , Franziskanerstrasse , Emil Müller - Moitz , Wenzelgasse 51 , A. Nonn , Bonng. 13 , Grsase Srh. P - Wülme , Kai PPtmann , Nar strasse Zyo , n. Wi # ms , Kaiserplatz 16 , woselbst auch Loose à Stück 25 Pf. , sowie Festkarten für den Saal ( grün ) zu 50 Pf. , für die Seiten Ssleris ( grau ) zu 75 Pf. und für die Mittelgallerie ( roth ) zn 1 M. zu Der Vorstand. Vier Soiréen für Kammer musik im Saale des Golde nen Stern in Bonn. in Vonn. Dinstag den 7. Deebr. cr. findet keine Vorstellung Statt. Die Direction. Donnerstag den 9. Decbr. , 6½ Uhr , von ½ Meter bis zu 10 Meter billig abzugeben. E. Lion , Markt 37. Stadt = Theater in Bonn. Unter Direction von M. Ernst. Anfang 5½ Uhr. Freitag den 10. Deebr. 1880. — Abonnem. A. Serie I. Vorst. 10. Bei erhöhten Preisen. Gastspiel des Herrn Anton Schott. Lohengrin. Romantische Oper in 3 Akten von Richard Wagner. Zweite Soirée unter gefl. Mitwirkung des Herrn Prof. J. Seiss aus Köln. PROGRANH. 1 ) Streichquartett in Amoll ( op. 29 ) von Fr. Schubert. 2 ) tzuartett ( Gmoll ) für Piano forte , Violine , Bratsche und Violoncelle von C. Saint Saöns ( op. 41 ). 3 ) Streichquartett ( Esdur , op. 74 ) von L. van Beethoven. Stadt = Theater in Bonn. Die verehrlichen Abonnenten werden hierdurch höflichst ersucht , die Abonnementskarten zur II. Serie gegen Einzahlung der II. Rate des Abonnementsbetrages in der Musikalien = Handlung W. Sulzbach , Fürstenstr. 2 , gefälligst in Empfang zu nehmen. Bonn , den 4. December 1880. Die Direction. Ausführende : die Herren Seiss , Japha , v. Königslöw , Jensen und Ebert. Das mit der Agentur der Kölni schen Zeitung für Bonn und Umge gend verbund. Insertions - Comptoir Gust. Cohen , 11 Markt , besorgt Inserate für alle Zeitungen und Zeit schr. aufs schnellste u. pünktlichste. Lohengrin : Herr A. Schott vom als Gast. gl. Theater in Hannover aie dgise der Plätze : Schrottgeriß aus dem Schisse zu beziehen von G. Zingsheim. Den 27. Wilhelm Mus , alt 17 J. Den 28. Catharina Barbara Kröll , alt 64 Jahre. Den 28. Sophia Rang , alt 20 M. 28. Helena Pohlmann , alt 20 Jahre. Den 28. Julie Friedrike Courtan , Wittwe von Georg Wilhelm Frey tag , alt 70 Jahre. Den 29. Helene Winterscheidt , Ehe frau von Lambert Orth alt 36 J. Den 30. Werner Wirtz , Ehemann der Catharina Wischmeier , Maler , alt 42 Jahre. Den 1. Dec. : Elisabeth Frechen , Ebefrau von Wilhelm Wersdörfer , alt 47 Jahre. Ein leichter gefederter Transport wagen , 25 — 30 Centner Tragkraft , Spurweite , zu kaufen gesucht. Franco = Offerten sub H. G. 100. nebst Preisangabe besorgt die Expe dition d. Bl. Ein wohlerbaltenes Tafelklavier , gut erhaltene Möbel und ein Kran tenstuhl sind umzugshalber billig zu verkaufen. Näheres in der Expedition d. Bl. Königliche Oberförsterei Kottenforst. Am Freitag den 10. d. , Morgens 10 Uhr , die noch unverkauften Holzbestände aus den und Buschhopenenn Schönwaldhaus , Lüftelberg Vonn ( Meckent , deim Gastwirth Herrn Mühlens Guschune grigeugeimerstraße ) zum meistbietenden Verkaufe. Nähere eee # # ernellen die Förster der genannten Reviere und die Ober Bonn , den 4. December 1880. Der Forstmeister , Sprengel. Abonnements für diese und die noch folgenden 2 Soiréen zu 7½ Mark , sowie Einzel billets à 4 Mark sind in der Musikalien - Handlung Gustav Cohen , 11 Markt , zu haben. Rheinische Eisenbahn. Von Bonn nach Köln “ , 6 , * 645 , 791 , 842 , 10 “ Morgens ; 12 “ 1 % " 5 Nachm. ; 64 % % 8 , 921 Abds Bonner Bildungs = Verein. Preußische Reuten = Versicherungs = Anstalt. Nach den im laufenden Jahre bis zum November eingegange Billige Herren = , Damen = und Kinder = Schuhe und Stiefel bei A. Rössel , Sternstraße Nr. 5. 30 Mark verloren. Bekanntmachung. Der von mir am 11. März d. J. gegen die Näherin Katbarina Sturm aus Köln erlassene Steck brief wird hierdurch als erledigt zurück genommen. Bonn , den 3. December 1880. Der Untersuchungsrichter beim Königl. Landgericht , von Niebuhr. 20 = und 10 = Mark = Stück auf der Theaterstr. bis Kasernenstr. verloren. Abzug. gegen Bel. in der Exp. d. Bl. Verloren eine goldene Damenuhr nebst Kette in der Näße der Zaumschule. Abzug. geg. zure Selognung Remiginsstraße 5. Dombau = Loose , Hamburg. Silber = Loose. P. Piske , Münsterplatz 21. 25,000 Mark um Austhun be reit. Offerten sub L. 2. an die Expedition d. Bl. Gannsagung. Allen Denjenigen , die unserem lieben Vater , Schwiegervater und Großvater Herrn Georg Noerpel gestern die letzte Ehre erwiesen haben , sagen unseren herzlichsten Dank. Bonn , den 6. December 1880. Die trauernden Hinterbliebenen. Eine perfete Costum = Arbeiterin sucht noch einige Kunden in und aus dem Hause. Näh. Fürstenstr. 6 , 2. Et. Ein Wäscheschrank zu verlaufen , Coblenzerstraße Nr. 128. Nähmaschige und zwei Commoden zu verkaufen , Josephstraße Nr. 56. Haus in der Stadt mit circa 20 Räumen und circa 1 Morgen Ter rain , welches sich zur Bleiche eignet , unter günstigen Bedingungen zu ver kauf , durch J. J. Heynen , Kölnstr. 21. Ladenlokal nebst Wohnung gleich oder per 15. Mai zu vermiethen , Franziskanerstraße Nr. 3. Zu vermiethen zum 15. Mai 1881 die bisber von Herrn Prof. Ritter bewohnten herr schaftl. Etagen Baumschuler Allee 24. Näh. im Hause selbst bei Fr. Moers. Eckhaus Colmantstr. 2 , mit 16 Zimm. , z. verm. , Meckenheimerstr.
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'B75RQMIMSOWNO3XXLOHY2N2NTMB4RVV5_1', 'collection': 'German-PD-Newspapers', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '1880.0', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'German', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '11461', 'token_count': '18334', '__index_level_0__': '34678', 'original_id': 'ff2f5440b6fe65d88bb7de7074ca2f13b306e79b3fb4c46c0f2ff4ad45924c84'}
|
<html>
<body>
<h1>Author: Marilyn Bowering</h1>
<h3>Cited by</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href='Rex Shelley.html' class='author'>Rex Shelley</a> (1)
<ul>
<li>IN: <i>People of the Pear Tree</i> (1993) Poetry, Singaporean
<br>EPIGRAPH: <i><b>The pear tree drops its fruit -
yellow stones ripe as olives -
not a fall out of love,
but a ripened fruit,
over over over,
into the world.</i></b>
<br>FROM: <i>St. Augustine's Pear Tree</i>, (None), Poem, Canada
</ul>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
|
the_stack
|
{'hexsha': '5affb39b02c9a17fed998ebc73889ce96078ca06', 'size': '506', 'ext': 'html', 'lang': 'HTML', 'max_stars_repo_path': 'docs/epi/Marilyn Bowering.html', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'bond-lab/epigraphs', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': 'f8cfe2ea42459788b79989b1a9ed805b659f890f', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': 'docs/epi/Marilyn Bowering.html', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'bond-lab/epigraphs', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': 'f8cfe2ea42459788b79989b1a9ed805b659f890f', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': 'docs/epi/Marilyn Bowering.html', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'bond-lab/epigraphs', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': 'f8cfe2ea42459788b79989b1a9ed805b659f890f', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_forks_count': '1', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '2020-06-06T09:51:29.000Z', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '2020-06-06T09:51:29.000Z', 'avg_line_length': '24.0952380952', 'max_line_length': '81', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.6146245059', 'original_id': 'bbcc7998666309da32df226d28806dbcb2b3a70bf8d36f137a1b9079abde7b90'}
|
The session on Nuclear Organization and Control of Gene Expression brought together researchers who are interested in a wide range of questions related to nuclear cell biology and who use a variety of experimental approaches to tackle the biological questions at hand.
Recruiting factors to active genes
==================================
Nuclear factors involved in transcription and RNA processing are dynamically roaming the nucleus. **Yaron Shav-Tal** (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) presented measurements of splicing-factor intracellular kinetics using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, fluorescence loss after photobleaching, and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Kinetics were probed in the nucleoplasm and nuclear speckles and on an actively transcribing gene. Further analysis showed that ongoing pre-mRNA splicing does not impede the release of RNA polymerase after transcription termination ([@B1]).
Development and the epigenome
=============================
The three-dimensional context of the epigenome is likely to play a major role in gene expression. **Jennifer Phillips-Cremins** (Victor Corces\'s laboratory, Emory University) and colleagues examined the geometric configurations of chromatin architecture during development. They used chromosome conformation capture carbon copy technology in combination with high-throughput sequencing to generate structure maps for pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells, multipotent ES-derived neural progenitor cells, and mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Their kb-resolution analysis revealed a complex chromatin interaction network in ES cells that undergoes extensive reorganization during neural lineage commitment.
DNA repair: who\'s on first?
============================
DNA mismatch repair corrects mistakes made during DNA replication that otherwise could lead to mutations. **Chris Campbell** (Arshad Desai\'s laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) and colleagues in the Kolodner laboratory developed new assays for visualizing different stages of mismatch repair in live cells, allowing them to determine when and how various components of the mismatch machinery contribute to the repair process. These assays are powerful tools for the analysis of mutants that disrupt the mismatch repair pathway, including disease mutants identified from cancer patients.
Nuclear shape: all dressed up and nowhere to go
===============================================
The yeast nuclear envelope does not break down during mitosis but instead increases in size before dividing. But what happens when cells delay in mitosis? Work from **Orna Cohen-Fix\'s** laboratory (National Institutes of Health) showed that under these conditions, membrane is still added to the nucleus, but rather than increasing in size, the nucleus forms a single, long extension. Cohen-Fix and colleagues hypothesize that this allows cells to maintain intranuclear organization during a prolonged mitotic delay.
Sperm nuclei thrive on PIPs
===========================
Nuclear morphogenesis during sperm head formation is critical for sperm development and male fertility. **Lacramioara Fabian** (Julie Brill\'s laboratory, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) showed that phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate (PIP2) is critical for shaping the sperm head and for nuclear elongation and chromatin condensation during spermiogenesis in flies. PIP2 may regulate these events directly or by affecting levels of other phosphoinositides or inositol polyphosphates. This establishes a novel role for PIPs in nuclear morphogenesis and spermatogenesis.
mRNP export: recycling of the dead (-box protein)
=================================================
The regulation of the DEAD-box protein 5 (Dbp5) nucleotide-binding cycle is critical in mRNA-protein export. **Kristen Noble** (Susan Wente\'s laboratory, Vanderbilt University) and colleagues found that an essential mRNA export protein, Gle1, stimulates the ATPase activity of Dbp5 by stimulating ATP loading, while the nuclear pore complex protein Nup159 directly stimulates Dbp5 release of ADP to complete the cycle ([@B2]). This is the first report of a nucleotide release factor for a DEAD-box protein, serving as a novel paradigm for DEAD-box protein regulation.
[DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-12-0981](http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1091/mbc.E11-12-0981)
[^1]: *Molecular Biology of the Cell* Volume 23 Page 976
*MBoC* is pleased to publish this summary of the Minisymposium "Nuclear Organization and Control of Gene Expression" held at the American Society for Cell Biology 2011 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, December 6, 2011.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '00ac76848febd7a84c55ee1ae870d26d100dfa98abb438e71a266204ba80045a'}
|
Japan's government and top carmakers, including Toyota, are joining forces to bet big that they can speed up the arrival of the fuel cell era: a still costly and complex technology that uses hydrogen as fuel and could virtually end the problem of automotive pollution.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '113e3e35d96459056eda6cf11e46d8d4cfb4a649666b4c169aa9df3318ea968f'}
|
Q:
Find IDs and names of students who took CS-101 and did not take CS-319
Can someone help with this homework problem:
Find IDs and names of students who took CS-101 and did not take
CS-319.
These are the two tables that I can use for this assignment:
TAKES (Table)
ID (PK)
course_id (PK)
sec_id (PK)
semester (PK)
year (PK)
grade
STUDENT (Table)
ID (PK)
name
dept_name
tot_cred
I tried this but was unable to successfully exclude the students who who took "CS-319"
SELECT ID, name, course_id
FROM (
SELECT ID, name, course_id
FROM student NATURAL JOIN takes
WHERE course_id != "CS-319") AS T1
WHERE course_id = "CS-101"
A:
There are at least three separate ways to solve this problem in SQL.
Set operations ( SELECT then exclude using EXCEPT ).
As MySQL doesn't support EXCEPT we can use NOT IN instead.
Anti-join (LEFT OUTER JOIN).
Join and discriminate on COUNT.
Approach 1: SELECT then exclude using EXCEPT:
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-101'
EXCEPT
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-319'
Then use this as an inner-query to JOIN on student information:
SELECT
iq.student_id,
student.name
FROM
(
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-101'
EXCEPT
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-319'
) AS iq
INNER JOIN students ON iq.student_id = students.student_id
Approach 1 for MySQL (using NOT IN):
SELECT
iq.student_id,
student.name
FROM
(
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-101'
AND
student_id NOT IN
(
SELECT
student_id
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-319'
)
) AS iq
INNER JOIN students ON iq.student_id = students.student_id
Approach 2: Anti-join:
SELECT
s.student_id,
s.name
FROM
students AS S
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT
student_id,
COUNT(*) AS Cs101Count
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-101'
GROUP BY
student_id
) AS c1 ON s.student_id = c1.student_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT
student_id,
COUNT(*) AS Cs319Count
FROM
takes
WHERE
course_id = 'CS-319'
GROUP BY
student_id
) AS c2 ON s.student_id = c2.student_id
WHERE
c1.Cs101Count > 0
AND
c2.cS319Count = 0
Approach 3: Join and discriminate on COUNT:
SELECT
s.student_id,
s.name
FROM
students AS S
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT
student_id,
COUNT( CASE WHEN course_id = 'CS-101' END ) AS Cs101Count,
COUNT( CASE WHEN course_id = 'CS-319' END ) AS Cs319Count
FROM
takes
GROUP BY
student_id
) AS c ON c.student_id = s.student_id
WHERE
c.Cs101Count > 0
AND
c.Cs319Count = 0
More approaches:
There are other alternatives using WHERE EXISTS, WHERE NOT EXISTS, and so on. One of the problems (or challenges) when using SQL is there are different ways to query the source data to get the exact same results. Have fun!
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'd1c7109ea034affc06d96487391506af8f964a6d8d9d782a0e9e389d3b34f0de'}
|
Monday, April 18, 2011
Easter? No, Thanks. I Think I'll Passover That One.
I'm a bad Jew. There, I fully admit to it and am quite willing to state it as fact before anyone with strong opinions feels the need to do it for me.
Our conversion to Judaism was a bumpy one. Well, mine was. TJ was apparently sure of himself from Day One. Me, I took some convincing. In the end, I determined that the things I had learned about Judaism over the course of our one year of study were more in synch with how I had always perceived the world than the previous 30 years of not practicing Christianity had been...and moreso than any length of time actually practicing Christianity could ever hope to be.
Christmas was always the sticking point. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: I LOVE Christmas. It was the hardest thing for me to give up, and honestly, if our belongings weren't so late in arriving here in Guadalajara, I'm not sure what would have happened this past holiday season. In the end, I settled for some volunteer work and a friendly meal with coworkers. Nothing to be ashamed about there...nothing except the not-so-secret longing I had for a Christmas Tree surrounded by presents.
I've never understood why it was such a big deal. I mean, *I* know that I only care about the secular aspects of Christmas. Isn't that all that matters? TJ didn't think so, but I thought that I had found my justification when, on the night of our "Introduction to Judaism" class's holiday discussion, I asked the rabbi the following question:
"We're all adults. We know what Christmas is supposed to mean. But nobody here is clamoring for Easter, which is by far the more important of the two holidays in the Christian faith. So why does it matter if we want to hold on to a little Christmas?"
...and she didn't have an answer. She said she would get back to me, but never did. I felt as if I had one that battle.
I was wrong.
Over the course of the past two weeks, as people began making their Easter plans, not one, not two, but THREE separate people have engaged me in the following conversation.
"Are you doing anything for Easter?"
"Why not?"
"...I'm Jewish."
"But you went to Christmas parties, right?"
"Well, then, what's the difference?"
There is no way to credibly respond to such a statement. I'm guilty as charged.
My rabbi may not have had an answer to the Jews-and-Christmas question...but, now, I do. Or maybe she did have an answer, but knew that I wasn't quite ready to hear it.
Jews that allow themselves to get publicly wrapped up in Christmas (in all its secular glory) put themselves at risk of being pigeonholed as bad Jews.
The same people that will gladly tell a Jew in December that it's ok to let himself enjoy a little Christmas cheer because, "hey, we all know it's a nonreligious holiday, anyway" will be right there in March or April letting him know that he's already slipped up, so he might as well enjoy the Easter Egg Hunt and baked ham, Passover be damned because it's not like he consistently practices his faith anyway.
I say none of these things as a criticism against these three people. No, I say it as a criticism against myself. Why would I fault them, when 1) I'm the one that slipped up, and 2) prior to my conversion I would likely have said the same in their shoes?
I don't resent their observation. I embrace it.
It's going to make me a better, stronger, more sensitive Jew.
In related news, TJ and I conducted our first ever self-led Passover Seder this evening....and it wasn't half bad!
1. I share your annoyance, perhaps for the same reason, but under completely different circumstances. I am annoyed at the presumption of Christianity and the presumed celebration of Christian holidays. Questions like, "What are you doing for Easter?" make me want to lash out about the Pagan roots and symbols of their so-called Christian holiday. Then I remember, they're just making conversation...not a political statement. :-) Meanwhile, I completely enjoy the peanut butter-filled chocolates and caramel-filled cadbury eggs. I also put up a fabulously decorated "martha stewart" tree (as my friends and family call it) each Christmas. I also put up a menorah. I can't decide on a tradition to celebrate, I guess. :-)
2. A few years ago when I was at work and our bosses lined up and handed out the holiday bonus checks. At first they said happy holidays which was much appreciated by me since I celebrate Yule rather than Christmas. After a few people one of higher ups who is Catholic declared loudly "I know were supposed to say happy holidays but screw that I'm saying merry christmas." His comments that followed indicated that anyone offended should be celebrating christmas anyway. The rest of us got merry christmas greetings.
It felt much like the angry "merry christmas!" I get in response from people when I say "happy holidays" sometimes, where they are less wishing you happy greetings and more making their displeasure known that you didnt give them the greeting they think everyone should give.
There does tend to be an attitude that everyone should celebrate the holidays of the majority.
I celebrate Yule and Ostara but I will still attend celebrations of Christmas and Easter. When I do there is a different feeling the one has meaning the other doesnt. I can definitely see where your coming from on avoiding opening yourself to the "whats the difference" response.
I would say celebrate what you want how you want it, no one but you can give them permission to make you feel inferior or wrong. Being consistent might help avoid some annoying attempts by people to 'catch' you however.
3. Great post, Aar. I love ^^^ that response, MeAndYou. But, I also think the key is that Christianity is robed in proselytization (regardless of whether or not its affiliates do, or not).
4. Thanks for the feedback guys, but let's try not to take this into an anti-Christian direction. Notice that I never labelled my three challengers as Christian.
Remember that Christmas and Easter are popular, fun holidays that are celebrated by Christians and the unaffiliated alike. :-)
5. Pfft...that kind of distinction is almost as funny as when two of my co-worker "gave up" eating certain things for Lent. Uhm, they aren't even Christian! I'm sorry, but if you're not of a Christian sect that observed Lent, you're simply on a diet like the rest of us who avoid bad foods for a period of time. Way to insult those who actually observe lent.
It's also funny, a co-worker asked me what I was doing for Easter, similar to above, and when I told her nothing, she's like, NOT EVEN PAINTING EGGS?? Sigh. Could we get a diversity trainer up in here?
6. i appreciate these someone who also struggles with religion. would like to see pics of your seder!
7. Thanks! I would gladly share, but unfortunately there are no photos to speak of. We were so busy with work, life, etc...that this was a VERY low-key seder. We had the plate, we had the Haggadah, and we had our PJs on. lol. Next year, I promise!
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9832618832588196}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98306', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LPE6O6FAWBZYCFKV4VQZD2XNE7RZSS7N', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2e733f68-bb55-4557-9266-120cbeefa3f3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 16, 21, 48, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PUUTEO4VJYRNFF3KWAIYC7WTZ6JNGFYA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a8a41562-3fbe-49bc-95df-dc3d496730a7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://adventuresbyaaron.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-no-thanks-i-think-ill-passover.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9279877f-ba5d-48fb-8422-9b87a2edbb05>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1234', 'url': 'http://adventuresbyaaron.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-no-thanks-i-think-ill-passover.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-184.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04881781339645386', 'original_id': 'c43c753a985c4aaa23548fcc791c8b9d09860b1fb3565e6f512fb6b513fa20ee'}
|
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
taxonomy template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja instance of taxonomy template
টেমপ্লেট:শ্রেণীবিন্যাসবিদ্যা/Malacoraja
উইকিমিডিয়া টেমপ্লেট
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Vikimedijin šablon
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Таксономски шаблон
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Taxonomy template
Plantilla:Taxonomía/Malacoraja
Plantilla de Wikimedia
Plantilla:Taxonomía/Malacoraja instancia de plantilla taxonómica
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
維基媒體模板
Šablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
šablon na Wikimediji
Šablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Taksonomski šablon
Predložak:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Taksonomski predložak
Шаблон:Таксономия/Malacoraja
шаблон проекта Викимедиа
Шаблон:Таксономия/Malacoraja это частный случай понятия таксономический шаблон Викимедиа
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
таксономічний шаблон Вікімедіа
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja є одним із таксономічний шаблон Вікімедіа
Modèle:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
modèle de Wikimedia
Vorlage:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-Vorlage
Sablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimédia-sablon
Format:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
format Wikimedia
Предлошка:Автотаксономија/Malacoraja
шаблон на Викимедија
Предлошка:Автотаксономија/Malacoraja е таксономска предлошка
Predloga:Taksonomija/Malacoraja
predloga Wikimedie
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Уикимедия шаблон
Πρότυπο:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Πρότυπο εγχειρήματος Wikimedia
Šablóna:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
šablóna projektov Wikimedia
Stampë:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Stampë e Wikimedias
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Template di un progetto Wikimedia
Predefinição:Taxonomia/Malacoraja
Predefinição da Wikimedia
Predefinição:Taxonomia/Malacoraja instância de predefinição de taxonomia
Sjabloon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-sjabloon
Šablona:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Šablona na projektech Wikimedia
Szablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Szablon w projekcie Wikimedia
Skabelon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-skabelon
Skabelon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja tilfælde af Wikimedia-skabelon for taksonomi
Mal:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-mal
Mall:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-mall
Malline:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-malline
Mall:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia mall
Veidne:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia projekta veidne
Šablonas:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Vikimedijos šablonas
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Шаблон праекта Вікімедыя
Plantilla:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Plantilla de Wikimedia
Şablon:Taksonomi/Malacoraja
Vikimedya şablonu
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
قالب ويكيميديا
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
الگوی ویکیمدی
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
ウィキメディアのテンプレート
टेम्पलेट:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
साँचा विकिपीडिया
틀:분류군:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
위키미디어 틀
Bản mẫu:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Bản mẫu Wikimedia
Ашаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Ашаблон Авикипедиа
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Seunaleuëk:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Pola Wikimèdia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
維基媒體模板
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Template Vichipedia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Taxonomy template
Sjabloon:Taksonomie/Malacoraja
Sjabloon Wikimedia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Taxonomy template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
şablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Şablon Wikipidia
Ŝablono:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Vikimedia ŝablono
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
Vorlage:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia vorlage
Txantiloi:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimediako txantiloia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
維基媒體模板
Prantilla:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Prantilla Güiquipeya
Ӱлекер:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
Modèle:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Modèle Wikipeediya
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
አብነት:ታክሶኖሚ/Malacoraja
መለጠፊያ ውክፔዲያ
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
维基媒体模板
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja 隶属于 分类学模板
Näüdüs:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia näüdüs
Plantilla:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Plantilla de Wikimedia
Sjabloon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-sjabloon
Bysen:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Ƿikipǣdia bysen
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
模板:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
模板 Veizgiek Bakgoh
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Fyrimynd Wikimedia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
維基媒體模
Modèlo:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Modèlo Wikimedia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
قالب ويكيميديا
Àdàkọ:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Àdàkọ Wikimedia
Föörlaag:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-föörlaag
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
قالب ويكيميديا
Template:TaxonomyMalacoraja
וויקימעדיע מוסטער
Model:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Model Vichipedie
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
শ্ৰেণীবিভাজন টেমপ্লেট
თარგი:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
თარგი ვიკიპედია
Berjocht:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-berjocht
Plantía:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Plantía de Wikimedia
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Itemplate yeWikimedia
Teimpléad:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Vicipéid teimpléad
Tipapitcikesinihikan:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia tipapitcikesinihikan
Кевлар:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Кевләр Бикипеди
Şablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Şablon Vikipediya
Шаблон:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Шаблон Википедия
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
模板 维基百科
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
模板 維基百科
Teza:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia teza:
Royuwaay:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia royuwaay
Modèle:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
modèle de Wikimedia
खाँचा:वर्गीकरण/Malacoraja
विकिमीडिया खाँचा
Bakatan:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Batakan Wikimedia
Teamplaid:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Uicipeid teamplaid
Plantilla:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Plantilla Wikipidiya
Modelo:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Modelo da Wikimedia
Modele:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Modele Wikimedia
Şablon:Taksonomiya/Malacoraja
Şablon Vikipediya
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
الگو ویکیپدیا
Näüdüs:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Näüdüs Vikipeediä
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
قالب ویکی پدیا
Tembiecharã:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Tembiecharã Vikipetã
Samafomot:Malacoraja
Wikimedia samafomot
Ҡалып:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Викимедиа ҡалыбы
सांचो:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia सांचो
Patrôon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia patrôon
Mal:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimédia mal
Templat:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia templat
Šablon:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Vikimedii šablon
Vorlog:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-Vorlog
𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
Modeło:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia мodeło
Šabluons:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia šabluons
Vorlage:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia-Vorlage
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
Plantilya:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Plantilya Wikimedia
ઢાંચો:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
વિકિપીડિયા ઢાંચો
Andoza:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Andoza Vikipediya
Шаблён:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Шаблён праекту Вікімэдыя
Clowan:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Clowan Wikimedia
टेम्पलेट:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
टेम्पलेट विकिपीडिया
قېلىپ:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
قېلىپ ۋىكىپېدىيە
Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja
Wikimedia template
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116309800', 'collection': 'Wikidata', 'open_type': 'Semantic data', 'license': 'CC0', 'date': '', 'title': 'Template:Taxonomy/Malacoraja', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'Multilingual', 'language_type': 'Semantic data', 'word_count': '443', 'token_count': '3210', '__index_level_0__': '23872', 'original_id': '7c1aa2150fc0e4f2f21ded5f6559d280522553ba84293385d1d9f395c949e9ad'}
|
Remind App for Parents
Parents are encouraged to join the REMIND app!
REMIND helps the school and teachers communicate with students nad parents safely and efficiently. All personal information is kept private and users will never see each others phone numbers.
To subscribe to REMIND please use the following link:
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8550585508346558}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '333771', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SRKMZNNKO65MXEEF5ZJXACFTUBWOF5GQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8286936f-5ec4-4942-b634-fdaf450ccaeb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 22, 23, 18, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.230.60.177', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JRDQR2WXSBZBZQMS4Q4YVYUZXHJ7F4UH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5cc6d3a2-20a1-4f01-8ccb-1f70748517dd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.centralschoolpioneers.org/copy-of-parents', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ac43e815-d98a-4e4c-a9dc-d476fafc5938>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '50', 'url': 'https://www.centralschoolpioneers.org/copy-of-parents', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-187.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.15667766332626343', 'original_id': 'e6195ca390f71e6fff3449620fed1a87f086377b4c2f973863634e5e24f4f00e'}
|
St. Augustine Fire Department
From time to time I see fire hydrants flushing water. Is this necessary?
Yes, for a number of reasons. The SAFD must conduct the inspections to certify the hydrants are operational, provide adequate water flow, and can maintain adequate pressure. The readings during the testing period are taken and relate directly to the ISO (Insurance Service Office) rating.
What is the ISA rating and how does it affect me as a homeowner?
Insurance companies use ISO’s PPC evaluations as a factor in setting the premiums they charge for property insurance; the better the community’s PPC grade, the lower the premiums the insurance company would charge for property insurance in that community.
How often are the hydrants tested?
Twice yearly. Notification to all businesses are made by the SAFD. Homeowners who are less affected by the flushing may notice a slight lowering of water pressure.
How many hydrants are within the city limits?
There are 571 water hydrants and are tested twice yearly.
What is the safety inspection program?
The program allows low risk occupancy businesses such as offices, small businesses and stores to complete a self-inspection of their property.
What are the benefits of the program?
It allows the redistribution of our inspection staffing to larger, higher risk occupancies. Also, the inspection can be done at the convenience of the business owner.
Can I get the paperwork off the COSA's Web site?
Yes, to download the instructions, click here. To download the form, click here.
While I live in the City of St. Augustine, during hurricane notification, where do I direct my questions?
Hopefully, all St. Augustine and St. Johns County residents and businesses have made preparations for a hurricane prior to any notification. The SAFD works in coordination and in tandem with the St. Johns County Department of Emergency Management (SJCDEM.) All news releases are made by both governmental bodies acting together with the SAFD is fully involved with the SJCDEM and its decision making.
In emergencies who do I call?
The SAFD is called through the 911 program. Calls asking questions about the SAFD can be answered by calling 825.1098.
<Go back
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '13', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.93651682138443}", 'metadata': '{\'Content-Length\': \'14428\', \'Content-Type\': \'application/http; msgtype=response\', \'WARC-Block-Digest\': \'sha1:PSPLEI5MUDOU26RYDGYBBPEFUWBEZAGH\', \'WARC-Concurrent-To\': \'<urn:uuid:0b0d9ac0-6c32-48f4-8746-64052b5c5c8a>\', \'WARC-Date\': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 23, 3, 37, 51), \'WARC-IP-Address\': \'74.113.141.14\', \'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type\': None, \'WARC-Payload-Digest\': \'sha1:YQ53ZESH5VCQICOK5G27YDNY5Q5FIUMN\', \'WARC-Record-ID\': \'<urn:uuid:bd9519ec-7adb-4f16-9c60-9e0b09c2b331>\', \'WARC-Target-URI\': "http://staugustinegovernment.com/the-city/FAQ\'s/FireDept.cfm", \'WARC-Type\': \'response\', \'WARC-Warcinfo-ID\': \'<urn:uuid:dd896836-c089-4b56-9246-1a0b7e112146>\', \'WARC-Truncated\': \'length\'}', 'previous_word_count': '355', 'url': "http://staugustinegovernment.com/the-city/FAQ's/FireDept.cfm", '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': '0.028638184070587158', 'original_id': '6638911c132f532a3f3343f123dad301a1441575a9e0f8e41f65c325d439f8b4'}
|
Diana Taurasi MVP Press Conference Quotes
On being told she won MVP: "I got the phone call from Ann Meyers about two days ago, and I was walking around the mall and she told me. I was so nervous and so excited and shocked and I felt like a little kid again.
Throughout my career you get a lot of awards, first team, all star, but this one truly means a lot. After this summer of a lot of up and downs, I've really got to see the people that have my back from the Phoenix Mercury, the Suns, my family.
So it's been very special and the 11 most important people were my teammates. You know, they had my back the whole time and that means a lot. If I try to list every single person that I should I'm going to miss probably everyone, but I know when they read it, the people who had a hand in it will smile and enjoy it just as much as I am.
So it's really humbling and, you know, to be on that list of the past M.V.P. winners is something pretty incredible, it really is.
On if she's playing the best basketball of her life "I went overseas this last year and I made a commitment to get better, mentally, physically to get better at something that I wasn't very good at and it's something as as a pivot or a jab step, being consistent on the free throw line, rebounding every game as being a way to affect the game.
I tried to carry that over into the WNBA which is the hardest, most intense league you can play in women's basketball, so if you can get it done here you can feel pretty good about yourself. That was the mindset I brought in coming into the summer and it's worked out pretty well.
On receiving 27 first-place votes: "I didn't know what the tally was and I don't think it matters. Anyone who was up for the award, Tamika, Katie Douglas, Cappie, everyone was deserving, they had amazing seasons. It was fun to watch, I followed them. The award, you know, should say Phoenix Mercury on it, that's the way I feel. Everyone contributed to what it is. It's pretty special."
On if she ever lost her focus this summer: "For a minute, I did lose my focus and it's a situation that I'll always keep in the back of my mind. It reminds you how fragile life and one's career is, whether it's in sports or writing. If it's something that you love to do, you should never put it in jeopardy and for a minute there I did and I'll keep that in the back of my head for the rest of my life."
2009 WNBA Playoffs.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9900332689285278}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '32761', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XCD5D2MBDCB3H4QCA6ERZJATDGBGAQL3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2c525ff5-b18a-4f84-a961-a267c076f65c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 19, 9, 53, 46), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.62.6.73', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XK2TS3UBZ47N3V7FDTY7TDFACPQPKLZN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:29e2e233-20ba-46cb-8a95-8b49488a2d76>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.wnba.com/playoffs2009/taurasi_quotes_090929.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bea6524f-6f12-44d3-b955-a271a8b63c78>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '482', 'url': 'http://www.wnba.com/playoffs2009/taurasi_quotes_090929.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 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': '0.06048017740249634', 'original_id': '828941554b4ecbdd78eb22a2d827d0d0728a81075eadb7733937ef2b93b2f2a4'}
|
\section{Positive Rational Numbers under Addition fulfil Naturally Ordered Semigroup Axioms 2 to 4}
Tags: Naturally Ordered Semigroup
\begin{theorem}
Let $\Q_{\ge 0}$ denote the set of positive rational numbers.
Consider the naturally ordered semigroup axioms:
{{:Axiom:Naturally Ordered Semigroup Axioms}}
The algebraic structure:
:$\struct {\Q_{\ge 0}, +, \le}$
is an ordered semigroup which fulfils the axioms:
:{{NOSAxiom|2}}
:{{NOSAxiom|3}}
:{{NOSAxiom|4}}
but:
:does not fulfil {{NOSAxiom|1}}
:$\struct {\Q_{\ge 0}, +}$is not isomorphic to $\struct {\N, +}$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
First we note that from Positive Rational Numbers under Addition form Ordered Semigroup:
:$\struct {\Q_{\ge 0}, +, \le}$ is an ordered semigroup.
\end{proof}
|
math_pile
|
{'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': '074cb9f11eebada9a3e4a50a045bf67ae7896b6c68eff2ba8d6bed1fec890159'}
|
//
// TechPlainObject.h
//
//
#import "_TechPlainObject.h"
@interface TechPlainObject : _TechPlainObject
// Custom logic goes here.
@end
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '43c241451b98e3e24993b1ed54c9307895366325fdbed940c959d17a5bc4d796'}
|
No. 19 Columbia Blanks No. 34 Men’s Tennis, 7-0, In Ivy Opener
Denis Nguyen was one of five singles players to play a three-set match Saturday at Columbia (Gil Talbot).
In a battle between the Ivy League's top two teams, the Harvard men's tennis team could not overcome a raucous crowd and a powerful Columbia lineup, dropping a 7-0 decision to the Lions in its Ivy League-opening match. The loss puts Harvard at 11-6 on the season while Columbia improves to an impressive 15-1.
Doubles was closely contested, especially on the first and third courts, but Columbia made sure to grab the opening point of the match to put the pressure on the Crimson. The Lions' top team of Narayana and Schnur edged out Harvard's Casey MacMaster and Denis Nguyen, 8-7, and the Crimson's Sebastian Beltrame and Christo Schultz fell by a similar score on the third court.
All but one singles match stretched to a third set, but once again, it was the home team that clawed for the victories. Beltrame was the first to finish in singles, dropping a 6-2, 6-0 match on the second singles court in the lone straight-set contest of the day. Shaun Chaudhuri (No. 3), Steinroeder (No. 4) and Brian Yeung (No. 5) all captured the first set of their respective singles match, giving the Crimson life in the battle.
Rookie singles specialist Andrew Ball dropped the first set quickly at No. 6, but fought back to take the second and fended off a handful of match points before eventually falling, 6-1, 5-7, 7-5. Chaudhuri would go onto drop the second and third sets in a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 defeat, and Steinroeder would do the same in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 final. Yeung and first singles player Nguyen would retire in the third sets of their matches upon the decision of the match.
Harvard continues its Ivy slate tomorrow as it travels to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on Cornell in a 1 p.m., match.
#1 - Narayana/Schnur (Columbia) def. Nguyen/MacMaster (Harvard) 8-7
#2 - Lin/Vermeer (Columbia) def. Yeung/Hu (Harvard) 8-4
#3 - Vancura/Pham (Columbia) def. Beltrame/Schultz (Harvard) 8-7
#1 - Lin (Columbia) def. Nguyen (Harvard) 6-1, 4-6, 4-3 (retired)
#2 - Ignat (Columbia) def. Beltrame (Harvard) 6-2, 6-0
#3 - Schnur (Columia) def. Chaudhuri (Harvard) 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
#4 - Narayana (Columbia) def Steinroeder (Harvard) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3
#5 - Vancura (Columbia) v. Yeung (Harvard) 6-7, 7-5, 2-1 (retired)
#6 - Vermeer (Columbia) def. Ball (Harvard) 6-1, 5-7, 7-5
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9081687927246094}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '69785', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ITLNWPC42HNIV7CZYRUOXEHHKVG6QKK4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5ed2379d-0c96-4db3-8e41-02f65524b619>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 23, 3, 49, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '67.228.165.36', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:67V2ORPPQLTP4AWSHGYFZMVJZICKPT6V', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:377477e9-a48f-49cf-af08-e490f282e326>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mten/2013-14/releases/201404057m2f77', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd896836-c089-4b56-9246-1a0b7e112146>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '385', 'url': 'http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mten/2013-14/releases/201404057m2f77', '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': '0.05437171459197998', 'original_id': '45557425953dce2522df2ae8c78363e18d6fdc8aa406c36f7b0c198b15003b3c'}
|
Aesthetic Quality of the Built and natural environment: why does it matter? in “Green Cities: Blue Cities of Europe”
This research includes a ten point community health gains model which, amongst other questions, seeks to answer the following: How can the aesthetic quality of an environment help to improve the ‘quality of life’?
WHO has defined this as: “an individual’s perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and the value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns” (WHOQOL Group, 1993).
Go to resource
WGBCHealthyBuildings, healthy buildings, placemaking, design quality
(0)Report a broken link
Our Sponsors
Ecobuild Marks and Spencer Mitsubishi Electrica Wates foundation
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '15', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8988755345344543}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31120', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EXO4EYPLTAH7BK7QZTTJYZ4OMM2V2MVF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f16942d6-8cf3-45b0-8fe4-aa4dc86046ec>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 30, 5, 9, 43), 'WARC-IP-Address': '31.170.121.94', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5G6HHRV6WGLLX6P5BW3BBXJ5VZAPAFFC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5c1d1b0d-6cbd-4162-8ccd-c422f94d1fa7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://pinpoint.ukgbc.org/resource/9234-aesthetic-quality-of-the-built-and-natural-environment-why-does-it-matter-in-green-cities-blue-cities-of-europe.php', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3225fec2-d61e-4d1d-ac54-ce0bb94b7bde>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '127', 'url': 'http://pinpoint.ukgbc.org/resource/9234-aesthetic-quality-of-the-built-and-natural-environment-why-does-it-matter-in-green-cities-blue-cities-of-europe.php', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-150.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.28408366441726685', 'original_id': '91baec68f2538169a10bc4557e5557e261804d79f5ff35737ea622de29c5d2b8'}
|
SQL Events
SQL Events
The SQL Events tab page displays information about all executed SQL statements.
Here you can find information about:
• SQL Statement - displays the completed SQL statement.
• Start Time - shows the time when the statement is executed.
• Duration (ms) - the duration of the operation in milliseconds.
• Rows - the number of the records (rows) returned by the query.
• ContextId - displays the id of the OpenAccessContext.
• Context Name - displays the name of the context class.
Context Menu Operations
The context menu for the selected row in the SQL Events grid exposes the following actions:
• Go To LINQ Statement - navigates to the corresponding LINQ record in the LINQ/API Events.
• Go To Grouped SQL Statement - navigates to the corresponding parent record in the Grouped SQL Events.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '22', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.77437424659729}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '11429', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FNXMX3LPLCV7TQVYOXYE4HRTHII6WUI4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bc24d5fd-1d6f-4730-b6f6-3ae7d75b7f9c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 18, 4, 30, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.60.12.160', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UCXPD2HS474735MPE6FXMA5MENIVHXYP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:50eab226-85f7-4e8a-a78e-57df4d769710>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://docs.telerik.com/data-access/deprecated/feature-reference/tools/profiler-and-tuning-advisor/events-view/feature-ref-tools-profiler-events-sql-events.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7b84f3e8-b27c-4b7f-8c61-115bb10620cc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '164', 'url': 'https://docs.telerik.com/data-access/deprecated/feature-reference/tools/profiler-and-tuning-advisor/events-view/feature-ref-tools-profiler-events-sql-events.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-74.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09753197431564331', 'original_id': '727851fce131c5d5e80ec83659298fb144335c5c40d2e07b224b5abc339ab5cb'}
|
Revised. Amendments from Version 1
==================================
The current version of the article incorporates the suggestions made by the reviewers. The changes are as follows: **Section**: - Section 1. Introduction: The section has being reworked. - Section 2. Methods: - Sub-section 2.1 now provides an overview of the architecture of SciLite - Sub-section 2.2 has been expanded to include new annotations types (gene-disease relationships and manually curated protein-protein interactions). - Sub-section 2.3 provides an overview of the Web Annotation model. - Sub-section 2.4 has been reworked. - Sub-section 2.5 now includes a new figure (4) that provides an overview on the feedback mechanism. - Section 3 now provides details on how the user research was conducted. The section has been restructured with two new sub sections: - 3.1 -- Engagement with text-mining community - 3.2 -- Future directions. **Figures**: All the figures previously included have been updated and a new figure (figure 4) has been introduced. **Supplementary material**: The supplementary material provides details on the classes and relations used to model the annotations as RDF along with sample SPARQL queries.
1. Introduction {#s1}
===============
Biological databases underpin life sciences research, aiding scientists in the process of knowledge discovery. The data within EMBL-EBI data resources were recently estimated to make research more efficient, minimally by £1bn per year ( [@ref-4]). One of the major contributing factors to this value is the structured rich metadata around deposited datasets, gathered both on submission and post-deposition, largely through the efforts of professional data curators who extract pertinent information, making the data more useful to the scientific community. Trained expert curators read numerous scientific articles to annotate data with information, such as biological functions, molecular interactions and gene-disease associations. Biocuration follows a formalised workflow that often involves: a) finding domain-relevant articles; b) identifying mentions of the bioentities of interest in those articles, e.g., proteins, genes, diseases, and accession numbers; c) identifying molecular events and evidences, such as entity interactions and experimental methods; and d) coordinating with software developers to update the information and annotations in the databases ( [@ref-7]; [@ref-14]). Additionally, curators often collaborate with developers and researchers in developing standards for data collection, nomenclature, vocabularies/ontologies and metadata. Curation is a time consuming and challenging task, as the bio-entities and biological concept descriptions sought be spread within an article or over multiple articles. For instance, curators may have to identify interacting partners for a large set of proteins or protein complexes, categorizing them based on evidences for the interaction, such as physical and/or causal interactions, often inferred through implicit author statements. The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) ( [@ref-3]) was founded in 2009, to co-ordinate curation activities and share new methods. Considering the exponential growth in data, there is increasing pressure for curation to be better supported by sophisticated computational approaches to make curation efforts sustainable in the long term.
To this end, text-mining methodologies offer one approach to enhance biocuration workflows. Automated information extraction and literature analysis using text-mining has increased in sophistication over the last decade, with the ability to process full text articles, and retrieve entities and relationships, such as accession numbers, molecular interactions and gene-disease associations ( [@ref-27]). Dedicated tools and pipelines have been developed for retrieving articles based on a given article category, tagging bio-entities of interest in articles, and identifying co-occurrences of entities in texts based on set of relations ( [@ref-1]; [@ref-16]; [@ref-23]; [@ref-24]). There are a number of text-mining based tools that have been developed to facilitate automated extraction of various article types and biological concepts, such as [Textpresso](http://www.textpresso.org/) ( [@ref-19]), [iHOP](http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/) ( [@ref-10]), [Whatizit](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/webservices/whatizit/info.jsf) ( [@ref-26]), [EAGLi](http://eagl.unige.ch/EAGLi/oldindex.htm) ( [@ref-13]; [@ref-11]) [EVEX](http://www.evexdb.org/) ( [@ref-18]), [PubTator](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Lu/Demo/PubTator/) ( [@ref-30]) and [Argo](http://argo.nactem.ac.uk/) ( [@ref-25]). Among these tools, Textpresso has been significantly adapted by data providers and the curation community to triage articles for curation ( [@ref-8]; [@ref-29]). Collaboration between curators and the text-mining community has been fostered by the BioCreative (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction systems in Biology) workshop series, which broadly focuses on improving text-mining outputs in terms of precision and recall to assist curators. Additionally, infrastructure initiatives, such as [BeCalm](http://www.becalm.eu/) and [OpenMinTed](http://openminted.eu/) have more recently been established with an aim to orchestrate various text-mining efforts.
In addition to the above examples, other tools annotate entities in scientific articles and link them to the corresponding data sources. For instance, [Reflect](http://reflect.ws/) ( [@ref-20]) and [EXTRACT](https://extract.hcmr.gr/) ( [@ref-22]) are tools that use real-time tagging and augmented browsing approach to tag bio-entities, such as genes, proteins and small molecules described in papers. Whereas, [Utopia documents](http://getutopia.com/) ( [@ref-2]), is a desktop application that links explicit and implicit information on static (PDF) versions of articles to the corresponding online resources. Furthermore, [PubAnnotation](http://pubannotation.org/) is an online resource developed by the Data Base Centre for Life Sciences ( [DBCLS](http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en)), which serves as a repository for text annotations. The tool uses text alignment functions to create new annotations or map existing annotations on scientific articles.
We have to acknowledge that articles are read and discovered in different contexts, for example, via locally saved PDFs, literature indexing services and databases, and via publisher's websites. While the above listed tools can support information extraction and in some cases integration, the annotations generated are hard to share across different platforms. In part this is due to the lack of a common standard to exchange annotations. Although formats like [BioC](http://bioc.sourceforge.net/) ( [@ref-6]) and Biological Expression Language ( [BEL](http://openbel.org/)) are used to represent text-mined outputs, they are highly specific to the domain and their uptake is limited beyond the life sciences text mining community. Recently, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed the [Web Annotation Data Model](http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/) as a standard to share annotations across different platforms. Based on the [Resource Description Framework](http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/) (RDF), the model can represent text quotes/fragments, links, video segments and images, which are located in a document via a prefix-suffix tagging approach that offers opportunities to mix and show both human and machine-generated annotations on any instance of the same content.
In this article, we describe a new platform, SciLite, developed as part of [Europe PMC](https://europepmc.org/) ( [@ref-9]) that allows text-mined annotations from any source to be displayed on full text articles. The aim of this platform is to capitalise on the text-mining advances from the research community, bringing the results to a broader audience of readers and developers who might use the results to address additional challenges around information retrieval, visualization and integration. In the context of ELIXIR, the European Infrastructure for life sciences data, of particular interest is the reuse of text mining outputs to make deeper links between the literature and biological data resources, providing more seamless navigation and clear evidence behind curatorial statements.
2. Methods {#s2}
==========
2.1. Architecture {#s2.1}
-----------------
SciLite is a platform that allows text-mined annotations from any provider to be highlighted on scientific articles. The platform consolidates various text-mined annotations (see [section 2.2](#s2.2){ref-type="other"}) and displays those annotations on full text research articles browsed within Europe PMC webpages. Currently, SciLite operates on full text articles with the license type: CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-NC (\~ [900000](http://europepmc.org/search?query=%28LICENSE:%22CC-BY%22+OR+LICENSE:%22CC-BY-NC%22+OR+LICENSE:%22CC0%22%29&page=1) articles at the time of writing).
Annotations received from contributors are modelled according to the W3C standard Web Annotation Data Model (see [section 2.3](#s2.3){ref-type="other"} for more information). The annotations are stored in a MongoDB database. MongoDB is performant and fetching annotations for a given PMCID is straightforward. Additionally, annotations are stored as RDF in a triple store ( [OpenLink Virtuoso](https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/) version 7.2). RDF is more powerful for graph-based queries; offering an opportunity to explore SciLite annotations in conjunction with other RDF graphs in the Linked Data cloud. The SciLite RDF endpoint is publicly available (see [section 5](#s5){ref-type="other"}) and contains over 1.4 billion triples (as of May 2017). Details on classes, relations and sample queries are available in the [Supplementary material](#SM1){ref-type="other"}. Furthermore, we plan on providing a public RESTful API within the next few months.
SciLite is very flexible regarding the frequency of data deposition by contributors: anything from a static dataset to daily updates can be accommodated. Once stored in the database, the SciLite application uses an API to retrieve annotations for a given article. The article view provides the opportunity for reader feedback on the quality of annotations, which can be reported back to the source text-mining algorithm for potential future improvement (see [section 2.5](#s2.5){ref-type="other"} for more information). [Figure 1](#f1){ref-type="fig"} gives an overview of the workflow by which text-mined annotations can be accommodated and viewed on the SciLite platform.
{#f1}
Should it be desirable, the EMBL-EBI [Embassy Cloud](http://www.embassycloud.org/) is available for groups to operate their text-mining workflows on a daily basis.
2.2. Annotation types {#s2.2}
---------------------
- **Named entities:** Annotations supplied by the Europe PMC text-mining pipeline identifies concepts, such as gene/protein names, organisms, diseases, GO terms, chemicals and accession numbers. This is achieved through a cascade of three modules: section tagger ( [@ref-15]), sentence splitter and named entity taggers, a module that applies the dictionary-based approach ( [@ref-26]) and a machine-learning based filter ( [@ref-5]), for filtering out potential false positives in annotations.
- **Biological events:** The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), Manchester, UK, extracted annotations on approximately 150,000 open-access articles as part of the Europe PMC project in 2015. For the initial phase, over 400 phosphorylation events from this set are included.
- **Relationships:**Target-disease associations are supplied by two providers:
- Open Targets ( [@ref-17]): Open Targets is a platform for accessing potential drug targets associated with disease. The dataset included in SciLite currently contains over 2 million text mined gene-disease associations.
- DisGeNET ( [@ref-23]): The DisGeNET platform contains collections of genes and gene variants associated with human diseases. The platform contains data from various sources that includes curated sources, animal models and scientific articles. From this, a subset of 7000 gene-disease associations are integrated.
- **Text phrases:**
- Gene Reference into Function ( [GeneRIF](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/about-generif)): GeneRIF refers to the function of genes that are extracted from articles by MeSH indexers and added to the NCBI's Entrez Gene records. GeneRIFs can be simple "cut-and-paste" text snippets from abstracts or full text, but sometimes are a more complex synthesis of text fragments. The text mining group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Geneva, Switzerland has mapped GeneRIFs back onto article full text and supplied the results to SciLite as part of the [Elixir-EXCELERATE](http://www.elixir-europe.org/excelerate) project. A dedicated application has been developed to identify GeneRIFs that combine extracts from several sections of the original article ( [@ref-12]). The current dataset contains over 32,000 GeneRIF statements.
- Molecular interactions: Text snippets describing protein-protein interactions extracted manually from scientific articles were supplied by [IntAct](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/) ( [@ref-21]). Over 100 high-quality curated statements have been included in SciLite.
2.3. Representing annotations in SciLite {#s2.3}
----------------------------------------
The text-mined outputs are represented in the [Web Annotation Data Model](http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/). The model consists of a *Target* - the text describing an entity and a *Body* -- a link (to the data source) for the tagged entity; the representation may vary according to the type of annotation. For the current set of annotations, we adopted the [Text Quote Selector](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/#textquoteselector) and the [Fragment Selector](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/#fragmentselector) models. The former is used to represent named entities and biological events (see [Figure 2](#f2){ref-type="fig"}) and the latter to represent relationships and text phrases (see [Figure 3](#f3){ref-type="fig"}).
):\
the figure lists the vocabularies used to represent the text-mined annotations. The annotation consists of a link for the tagged entity (Body - UniProt: P52176) and the mentions of the entity (Target) in the text snippet. The text is represented by: prefix -- the text that occurs before the tagged entity; exact -- tagged entity itself ( *MMP9*); and postfix -- the text snippet that occurs after the tagged entity.](wellcomeopenres-1-13087-g0001){#f2}
):\
the figure lists the vocabularies used to represent the annotation. The annotation consists of: Body - text phrase about protein mTOR and a target - data source link for the described protein (UniProt: P09237).](wellcomeopenres-1-13087-g0002){#f3}
2.4. User interface {#s2.4}
-------------------
To make annotations available to readers, the MongoDB database is queried using API requests fetching all the relevant annotations for a given article. The retrieved annotations are highlighted (colour coded) on the Europe PMC website (see [Figure 5](#f5){ref-type="fig"}). Additionally, the annotations are interactive; clicking the highlighted annotation opens a popup-box containing additional information about the annotation (see [Figure 6](#f6){ref-type="fig"}), such as source of annotation and link to the related database. The algorithm used to highlight annotations consists of the following steps:
• Retrieving all the annotations for a specific PMCID from the annotation database using an API request.
• Sorting the annotations from the API response according to their position in the text (ascending order of occurrence). This is done in order to optimize the performance of the searching process in the article text.
• A listener is associated with each annotation tag to display the corresponding information in the popup window.
2.5. Improving annotation accuracy {#s2.5}
----------------------------------
To reduce false positives, we have set up a semi-automated process that enables a user to report an annotation error, which triggers the removal of that specific annotation. These reports can be collected periodically to improve the text-mining workflows (see [Figure 4](#f4){ref-type="fig"}). The handling of error reports involves two steps:
- Once an error report is received from a user the particular annotation is deleted from the annotation databases. This is a daily procedure that engenders user trust.
- The report may be used to refine the text-mining algorithms. Often ambiguous terms are reported that are incorrect in the context of the sentence. This often occurs with three letter entity names. For instance, *EPO,* would be tagged as [Erythropoietin](http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/A3FFS8) protein while the sentence could be referring to the *European Patent Office (EPO)*. This step is carried out over a longer period of time, allowing the providers to examine the reports prior to the inclusion of those exceptions in their algorithms.
The current process does not take into account false negatives, i.e. when an annotation was missed by an algorithm. A mechanism to handle false negatives would be a desirable future development.
{#f4}
{#f5}
3. Discussion {#s3}
=============
We have adopted a user-driven approach towards the development of SciLite, conducting user research on cognitive and functional aspects of the platform. We have tested SciLite with users that have a range of backgrounds over different geographical locations. A total of 17 users participated, including curators, senior researchers, clinicians and doctoral students. The test sessions were unguided, that is, the users were observed for their behaviour whilst (1) visually scanning an article of interest, (2) discovering annotation types and features and (3) reacting to the annotations. At the end of the session, the subjects were asked to rate the feature:
- Would they like to use such a feature?
- Was the feature easy to use?
- Trust in data quality and confidence in using the feature.
Overall the feedback was positive. While users' annotation preferences differed based on their background, most people found at least three annotation types (e.g.: gene/proteins, diseases, organisms) useful. Everyone preferred annotations to be turned off by default as the appearance of different colours immediately on viewing the article was distracting. Some users commented that viewing different annotation types highlighted in close proximity in the text was useful, as it suggested a possible relationship between those terms e.g. chemical-disease. In an earlier version of SciLite, users found it hard to locate the highlighted terms in the text. In response to this feedback, we introduced a term navigation feature (up/down buttons) that allows users browse through the highlighted terms quickly. We also found that inaccuracies affects user trust. This observation resulted in the development of the feedback mechanism described in [section 2.5](#s2.5){ref-type="other"}. Other useful suggestions addressed the information that appears in the popup window, range of annotation types (e.g.: cell types, software), and the ability to refine a search based on the type of highlighted annotation. The receipt of user feedback and subsequent improvement of SciLite in response is an iterative process that will continue in the future.
3.1. Engagement with the text mining community {#s3.1}
----------------------------------------------
The goal of the BioCreative v.5 [BeCalm](http://www.becalm.eu/) task was to provide the means to benchmark text mining services from different providers, addressing not only the efficacy of the text mining itself, but also technical aspects of services offered. Ideally, the outcomes of BeCalm-based benchmarking would feed into SciLite, allowing "best of class" annotations to be made available in Europe PMC interfaces and APIs. Not only would this approach deliver state-of-the-art text mining results into a widely used interface, it would also counter a potential future user interface challenge of too many repeat annotations from different groups layered on articles. While this is technically possible, it could lead to a performance burden and is unlikely to be of interest to the wider scientific community.
Further extended collaborations within the text-mining community will address the challenge of providing different annotation types that serve different user needs. We welcome contributions encourage them to share annotations on SciLite. The SciLite participation [page](http://europepmc.org/Annotations), which provides details on data requirements, submission formats and examples for interested groups.
3.2. Future development {#s3.2}
-----------------------
Highlighting biological terms enables skim-reading of articles and the links are useful for verification of the term, but it is only one application of the text mining. We envision that the annotations store and basic SciLite visualisations described here are a basis for the development of further applications by third parties that have the potential to improve full text searching, filtering and integration with biological data. An initial example of this application layer is the use of the [BioJS](https://www.biojs.net/) framework to display 3D interactive views of molecular structures identified through text mined PDB accession numbers. In this case, for a given text mined PDB ID, SciLite calls the BioJS module that fetches the structure coordinate information and another that then renders the coordinates using JSmol (see [PMC4014462](http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014462) and [Figure 6](#f6){ref-type="fig"}).
{#f6}
4. Conclusion {#s4}
=============
As there is no let-up in the production of data and publication of articles, the need to find programmatic ways to bridge the gap between literature and data increases. SciLite is an initial step in this direction, but the impact of SciLite will be more pronounced with community-wide participation. We will continue to engage with the text mining and curation communities in particular to extend this work in the future.
5. Data and software availability {#s5}
=================================
Annotation examples: Annotations available in SciLite can be accessed [here](http://europepmc.org/search?query=%28LICENSE:%22CC-BY%22+OR+LICENSE:%22CC-BY-NC%22+OR+LICENSE:%22CC0%22%29&page=1).
Annotation data: The RDF data generated by the SciLite platform is available for querying at: <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/rdf/sparql>
Latest source code: <https://github.com/EuropePMC/Biojs.Annotator/tree/Biojs.Annotator_1.0>
Archived source code as at the time of publication: Biojs.Annotator version 1.0 - DOI: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.183819> ( [@ref-28]).
License: [Apache version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
We would like to acknowledge the valuable inputs provided by: Dr. Paolo Ciccarese and Dr. Timothy Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, Dr. Senay Kafkas and the EBI RDF platform team. We would like to thank the reviewers for their constructive suggestions.
Supplementary material {#SM1}
======================
**Supplementary File 1: Classes and relations used to model the annotations as RDF, with sample SPARQL queries.**
Click here for additional data file.
10.21956/wellcomeopenres.13087.r24114
Referee response for version 2
Maynard
Diana
1
Referee
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
18
7
2017
Version 2
The authors have taken the reviewers\' comments into consideration and I am happy with the revised version, other than a few minor English mistakes which should be fixed.
p.3 on set of relations -\> on sets of relations
with an aim to orchestrate -\> with the aim of orchestrating
Whereas, Utopia documents -\> On the other hand, Utopia documents
publisher\'s websites -\> publishers\' websites
p.4 \"performant\" is not an English word. I suggest \"perform well\" or equivalent.
p.5 Annotations\....identifies concepts -\> Annotations..identify concepts
a subset\....are integrated -\> a subset\...is integrated
onto article full-text -\> onto full-text articles
EPO, would be tagged -\> EPO would be tagged
p.7 allows users browse -\> allows users to browse
inaccuracies affects -\> inaccuracies affect
p.10 The last 2 sentences in paragraph 2 (beginning \"We welcome contributions\") are both ungrammatical. Also, encourage whom? Contributors? The second sentence has no main verb.
I have read this submission. I believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard.
10.21956/wellcomeopenres.13087.r18409
Referee response for version 2
Hirschman
Lynette
1
Referee
Biomedical Informatics, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
18
7
2017
Version 2
This version has addressed the major comments from the reviewers. I have only a few minor suggestions for further revision.
In Figures 2 and 3, what is the significance of the colors? They don\'t seem to be consistent across the figures. Also, the presentation order for the children of a given node type seems to differ in the figures \-- in Fig 2, the \"hasBody\" link is the left-hand child and hasTarget is the right-hand child; in Fig 3, those are reversed. Presumably order is not relevant, but it would be easier on the reader if the presentation order were consistent. Also, it would be useful to provide (an excerpt) of the actual text that gave rise to the annotation.
Section 3: there is reference to a \"feature\" that subjects were asked to rate. What does \"feature\" refer to?
Section 3 5 lines from end of paragraph: I couldn\'t understand the sentenced \"\...that appears in the popup window, range of annotation types\...\"
p\. 10, l. 6 \-- \"While this is technically possible\...\" \-- what is technically possible? Providing repeat annotations?
A few minor editing suggestions: The term \"evidence\" is a collective noun in English; use of the plural sounds awkward.p. 3 Introduction col 1, line 4 from bottom: this is hard (for me) to parse - does this mean: \...descriptions sought can be spread within an article\...\"?p. 3 col 2., parag 2, line 10: set should be \"sets\"p. 3 col 2 parag 3 l. 5 \_ \"an augmented browsing approach\"p. 4 col 1 line 5: \"their uptake is limited outside of the life sciences\...\"p. 4 col 2 parag 2 graph-based queries, offering an \... (change semi-colon to comma)p. 5 col 1 line 6 from bottom: \"A dedicated applications has been developed \... that combines extracts (should be singular)p. 7 col 2 inaccuracies affect user trust (should be plural form)
.
I have read this submission. I believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard.
10.21956/wellcomeopenres.10999.r19404
Referee response for version 1
Maynard
Diana
1
Referee
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
17
1
2017
Version 1
This paper describes an interesting and useful platform for enhancing research articles with enriched biological metadata, and the ensuing visualisation. It is good to see that both the software and data are also freely available. The description of the architecture and rationale are clearly presented, but I think the paper needs some refocusing. There are many existing similar platforms for displaying such metadata, and thus the concept itself is far from novel. It is unclear how the SciLite approach in principle differs from such existing platforms. The second paragraph of the Introduction provides some references to these, which is used as evidence of the importance of this kind of tool, along with the current development of new infrastructures such as OpenMinTed, but some explanation of how SciLite could (or could not) be integrated with these would be useful.
What is interesting in this work is the particular focus on the biological data and the underlying approach to annotation, but this is treated rather superficially in the paper.
Something which concerns me a little is that the approach to annotation itself seems rather shallow -- this may simply due to the brevity of description and the focus more on architectural aspects. In the Introduction, Semantic Web Technologies are mentioned, but I recommend going a little bit beyond the concept that "ontologies are useful" and explaining in more detail how they help with the task. From the description of the annotation process and visualisation, this is not apparent, although linking terms to ontologies offers great potential for enhanced visualization and exploration for the end-user (though it's not clear whether this is offered in the platform, and if not, why not). The authors claim that "when such information is presented effectually it will aid users in identifying the main concepts" but it is not clear how this is possible in the current platform. Note also that "effectually" should be replaced with "effectively".
I would suggest expanding Section 2.2 to explain better the methodology for named entity extraction. From the description, the approach sounds rather simplistic, but I suspect that this description hides some complexity. A fuller description of the actual dictionary-based approach and spurious entity filtering techniques would be useful. The reference given is only a summary of dictionary-based approaches in general, but I couldn't see anywhere a description of or link to the actual technique used in SciLite. It is also not clear how major issues such as entity disambiguation and variation are dealt with, in order to ensure correct linking to the ontology.
In Figure 2, please make it clearer what the original text is from which the figure is derived.
Figure 4 does not actually show the popup containing additional information about the annotation, but the text describing it indicates that it does. It would be useful to see this popup also.
Section 2.5 goes into quite some detail about the interface, but most of this is rather standard technology used in most annotation/text mining GUIs (for instance, the mechanism for sorting the annotations to display) and could easily be omitted. In the last bullet point in this section, "correspondent" should be "corresponding".
In Section 2.6 (and throughout the paper), "setup" should be two words when used as a verb. In bullet point b, it is not clear what is meant by "relatively" here -- I think this word could just be deleted.
In Section 3, the presentation of the evaluation could do with being more detailed, as this is an important aspect of the platform. What does it really mean to say that "most people found at least 3 annotation types useful"? This is rather vague. How many annotation types were there in total? Did they find the actual annotations useful too? What about the ontologies and the popup information? How did they use the information shown to them, and how did it enhance their experience? What did they find not useful? Did they have suggestions for improvement? How accurate were the annotations? Are there any plans to provide relational information also (as it seems to be indicated by the users that this would be useful)? There are tools that already can provide this kind of information, see for example GATE's Prospector tool:
V. Tablan, K. Bontcheva, I. Roberts, and H. Cunningham. Mímir: An open-source semantic search framework for interactive information seeking and discovery. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 2014.
A final point -- throughout the paper, the authors have added a comma after the phrase "such as". The comma should precede this phrase. For example, "web annotations such as, text..." should be "web annotations, such as text..."
In summary, the work is interesting, but I think it could be enhanced greatly by a considerable rewrite with more focus on the underlying methodology and evaluation parts.
I have read this submission. I believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard, however I have significant reservations, as outlined above.
Venkatesan
Aravind
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
4
7
2017
Dear Diana Maynard,
Thank you for providing your inputs with regard to our paper. We have reworked the manuscript, addressing your suggestions.
Overview of the changes made are as follows: Section 1. Introduction: The section has being restructured and now acknowledges contributions made by other annotation tools.Section 2. Methods: Sub-section 2.1 (Architecture) now provides an overview of the architecture of SciLite (includes new Figure 1)Sub-section 2.2 (Annotation types) has been expand to include new annotations types (gene-disease relationships and manually curated protein-protein interactions).Sub-section 2.3 describes the Web Annotation model (includes new Figures: 2 and 3).Sub-section 2.4 (User interface) has been reworked to provide concise description of the highlighting process.Sub-section 2.5 now includes a new Figure (4) that provides an overview on the feedback mechanism. Section 3. Discussion: The section now provides details on how the user research was conducted. The section has been restructured with two new sub sections: 3.1 -- Engagement with text-mining community3.2 -- Future directions.Supplementary material: The supplementary material provides details on the classes and relations used to model the annotations as RDF along with sample SPARQL queries. We think that the manuscript is much improved as a result of your feedback. Please see a point-by-point response, below:
*\*The description of the architecture and rationale are clearly presented, but I think the paper needs some refocusing. There are many existing similar platforms for displaying such metadata, and thus the concept itself is far from novel. It is unclear how the SciLite approach in principle differs from such existing platforms. The second paragraph of the Introduction provides some references to these, which is used as evidence of the importance of this kind of tool, along with the current development of new infrastructures such as OpenMinTed, but some explanation of how SciLite could (or could not) be integrated with these would be useful.*
The Introduction section now acknowledges the state of the art and describes the complementary role of SciLite.
The novelty of SciLite is that it allows annotations from multiple sources to be included and displayed in Europe PMC, for the purposes of reuse for readers, and to integrate literature with data on an infrastructural level. Europe PMC is a database that is updated daily with new content and already has a large user base, so rather than expecting users to visit another interface, the text-mining results are incorporated into their usual search behaviour. SciLite complements OpenMinTed in that the outputs from such infrastructures, which is focussed on the needs of text miners rather than end users, can be made widely and publically available. This aspect has been included in section 3.1.
*\*What is interesting in this work is the particular focus on the biological data and the underlying approach to annotation, but this is treated rather superficially in the paper.*
*Something which concerns me a little is that the approach to annotation itself seems rather shallow -- this may simply due to the brevity of description and the focus more on architectural aspects. In the Introduction, Semantic Web Technologies are mentioned, but I recommend going a little bit beyond the concept that "ontologies are useful" and explaining in more detail how they help with the task. From the description of the annotation process and visualisation, this is not apparent, although linking terms to ontologies offers great potential for enhanced visualization and exploration for the end-user (though it's not clear whether this is offered in the platform, and if not, why not). The authors claim that "when such information is presented effectually it will aid users in identifying the main concepts" but it is not clear how this is possible in the current platform. Note also that "effectually" should be replaced with "effectively".*
We acknowledge that some of the original text was misleading. In the current version of the manuscript parts of the introduction has been reworked, focussing on sharing of text-mined annotations for the benefit of the end-user. In this regard, we have now added a paragraph to review the state of the art, highlighting the advantages of using the Web Annotation Data model and the complementary role played by SciLite.
*\*I would suggest expanding Section 2.2 to explain better the methodology for named entity extraction. From the description, the approach sounds rather simplistic, but I suspect that this description hides some complexity. A fuller description of the actual dictionary-based approach and spurious entity filtering techniques would be useful. The reference given is only a summary of dictionary-based approaches in general, but I couldn't see anywhere a description of or link to the actual technique used in SciLite. It is also not clear how major issues such as entity disambiguation and variation are dealt with, in order to ensure correct linking to the ontology.*
The main aim of SciLite is to be a platform for sharing the text mining outputs multiple sources, in this sense, describing text mining methodology used by contributors is beyond the objectives of SciLite. Since the Europe PMC text mining pipeline also serves as a provider for SciLite we briefly mention the steps involved, citing the articles in which the methodology of these steps are described.
*\*In Figure 2, please make it clearer what the original text is from which the figure is derived.*
We have simplified Figures 2 and 3. The figure legends now describe the sample model with links to the source articles that contains the original annotation.
*\*Figure 4 does not actually show the popup containing additional information about the annotation, but the text describing it indicates that it does. It would be useful to see this popup also.*
The correction has now been made, the text now refers to Figure 6 which includes a popup window and an example link has been included for the same.
*\*Section 2.5 goes into quite some detail about the interface, but most of this is rather standard technology used in most annotation/text mining GUIs (for instance, the mechanism for sorting the annotations to display) and could easily be omitted. In the last bullet point in this section, "correspondent" should be "corresponding".*
We agree with the point being made. We have now reworked the section providing concise description of the highlighting process.
*\*In Section 2.6 (and throughout the paper), "setup" should be two words when used as a verb.*
We have now made the necessary corrections throughout the article.
*\*In bullet point b, it is not clear what is meant by "relatively" here -- I think this word could just be deleted.*
Step b requires the providers to make necessary improvements to their algorithms and this is more time consuming than step a, which is a "quick fix". The text has been rephrase, we hope the sentence reads better.
*\*In Section 3, the presentation of the evaluation could do with being more detailed, as this is an important aspect of the platform. What does it really mean to say that "most people found at least 3 annotation types useful"? This is rather vague. How many annotation types were there in total? Did they find the actual annotations useful too? What about the ontologies and the popup information? How did they use the information shown to them, and how did it enhance their experience? What did they find not useful? Did they have suggestions for improvement? How accurate were the annotations?*
We agree with the point being made with regards to user research. Section 3 has been expanded, providing details on how the usability tests were conducted, aspects of SciLite that the users liked and how we improved SciLite based on the feedback we received.
*\*Are there any plans to provide relational information also (as it seems to be indicated by the users that this would be useful)?*
SciLite now includes gene-disease relationship provided by two contributors (Open Targets platform and DisGeNET) and protein-protein interactions from IntAct. To accommodate the latest development we have expanded sub-section 2.2
*\*There are tools that already can provide this kind of information, see for example GATE's Prospector tool:*
*V. Tablan, K. Bontcheva, I. Roberts, and H. Cunningham. Mímir: An open-source semantic search framework for interactive information seeking and discovery. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 2014.*
We have now reworked the manuscript focusing on SciLite as a platform for bringing various text mined annotations to the wider scientific community. In this sense, we believe that Mímir (as a search framework) is broader in its application when compared to SciLite.
*\*A final point -- throughout the paper, the authors have added a comma after the phrase "such as". The comma should precede this phrase. For example, "web annotations such as, text..." should be "web annotations, such as text..."*
We have edited the text for grammatical corrections and hope that the text now reads significantly better!
10.21956/wellcomeopenres.10999.r18964
Referee response for version 1
Harland
Lee
1
Referee
Scibite Limited, Cambridge, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
13
1
2017
Version 1
\* This article describes the \"SciLite\" tool for enriching biomedical articles with annotations derived from text mining and other sources and the benefits such an approach has for users. It is well written and referenced and outlines the principles in a consistent way. The application links at the bottom of the article pointed to valid working websites. I think it valid to review both the paper and the tool itself and all of the functionality I tried on the website worked very well and there were no software errors, validating that the system is running as described in the paper.
In terms of areas for consideration:
\* The introduction is fine, the major omission being coverage of previous work on in-line biological annotation, I would strongly support the acknowledgement of the reflect.ws tool which was perhaps the most prominent one here - and note that many biological web page annotators, both commercial and non-commercial exist (e.g. EXTRACT https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baw005/2630147/EXTRACT-interactive-extraction-of-environment which works very well on the Europe PMC website). The introduction should clarify the advantages the authors approach brings over 3rd party, javascript bookmarklet approaches.
\* Its not clear what the actual tagging methodology is 2.2 states \"Named entity taggers: the module is based on the dictionary-based approach (Rebholz-Schuhmann *et al.*, 2008) combined with a machine-learning based filter (Chang *et al.*, 2007), for filtering out potential false positives in annotations.\". Does this use these existing tools or have the authors invented new ones and which vocabularies were used? I think those in the text mining field would be interested to know more about how the text mining is done \[I would agree this is not a text mining methods paper, but this is very light on detail here\]. Maybe I missed it but \"Sentence splitter: an in-house module to identify sentence boundaries.\" could also do with some form of definition (what\'s it based on, were any improvements needed etc, the tool correctly doesn\'t split \'Nkx6.1\' so there is some logic being coded there).
\* The use of RDF is interesting but no justification is given as to what advantages RDF provides over other database mechanisms. Why was RDF chosen over other systems? It seems that the queries are fairly straight forward (for an input ID give me annotations) and I\'m not sure they require RDF necessarily. There are genuine other reasons I could think of but it would be good for the authors to describe this choice. Indeed the authors then state they are considering use of MongoDb (using RDF or not?). This seems to hint at some problems using RDF, but no information is given. I think the authors either need to describe why or perhaps remove this sentence entirely as these seems like more internal technical discussion?
\* The system performed well for human centric articles but less so when looking at plant or bacterial data\... This is a really hard problem in text mining and I don\'t expect the authors to solve it here but it would be good to perhaps outline whether the system could be tuned to address anything here as non-human area researchers will be using the tool.
\* 2.6.a When error reported there is a \"Quick fix\" where the annotation is deleted. It is not clear if this is just for that 1 article or all articles as it may be an erroneous synonym? While 2.6.b hints to this \"refine the text-mining algorithm.\" it gives no detail as to what this entails. Again, this is not a text mining methods paper, but examples would be useful here.
\* Further, Figure 1 - doesnt touch on maintainence. When source vocabs change (e.g. as 2.6.b hints) do all articles need to be re-run? Are there version markers on the annotations? How regularly are older articles re-annotated? Is provenance applied to annotations, I didn\'t see any void/prov markers in Figure 2.
\* Following on the provenance theme, the authors state: \"Additionally, the open architecture of SciLite\... data for clear provenance of curatorial statements.\". I think this is shown in Figure 3 but only if you know what the RDF prefixes for void and prov mean, so perhaps should be described in the main article text for non RDF people.
\* Finally, section (2) talks about the systems handling of false positives but does not mention false negatives at all which are equally irritating to the user. What is the proposed approach here?
\* 3. \"Everyone preferred annotations to be turned off by default.\" - I think thats a fairly important statement, did you ask why?
\* The link to the Sparql end point http://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/rdf/sparql provides only a default view and it is left to the user to figure out the schema and queries necessary. I am not sure of the best mechanism (supplementary data or footnote?) but an example query or two would be very helpful to get started
\* In general, figures could do with a bit more description as to what they are showing.
I have read this submission. I believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard, however I have significant reservations, as outlined above.
Venkatesan
Aravind
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
4
7
2017
Dear Lee Harland,
Thank you for providing your inputs with regard to our paper. We have reworked the manuscript, addressing your suggestions.
Overview of the changes made are as follows: Section 1. Introduction: The section has being restructured and now acknowledges contributions made by other annotation tools.Section 2. Methods: Sub-section 2.1 (Architecture) now provides an overview of the architecture of SciLite (includes new figure 1)Sub-section 2.2 (Annotation types) has been expand to include new annotations types (gene-disease relationships and manually curated protein-protein interactions).Sub-section 2.3 describes the Web Annotation model (includes new figures: 2 and 3).Sub-section 2.4 (User interface) has been reworked to provide concise description of the highlighting process.Sub-section 2.5 now includes a new figure (4) that provides an overview on the feedback mechanism. Section 3. Discussion: The section now provides details on how the user research was conducted. The section has been restructured with two new sub sections: 3.1 -- Engagement with text-mining community3.2 -- Future directions.Supplementary material: The supplementary material provides details on the classes and relations used to model the annotations as RDF along with sample SPARQL queries. We think that the manuscript is much improved as a result of your feedback. Please see a point-by-point response, below:
*\* The introduction is fine, the major omission being coverage of previous work on in-line biological annotation, I would strongly support the acknowledgement of the reflect.ws tool which was perhaps the most prominent one here - and note that many biological web page annotators, both commercial and non-commercial exist (e.g. EXTRACT https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baw005/2630147/EXTRACT-interactive-extraction-of-environment which works very well on the Europe PMC website). The introduction should clarify the advantages the authors approach brings over 3rd party, javascript bookmarklet approaches.*
We have now added a paragraph in the Introduction section acknowledging the contributions made by other annotation tools. The section highlights the rationale behind the development of SciLite in comparison with other tools.
The main advantage of SciLite is that the platform aggregates annotations made by different tools. For instance, if desired annotations made by Reflect or Extract can be shared in SciLite. This allows users to view different types of annotations for a given article on Europe PMC website.
*\* Its not clear what the actual tagging methodology is 2.2 states \"Named entity taggers: the module is based on the dictionary-based approach (Rebholz-Schuhmann et al., 2008) combined with a machine-learning based filter (Chang et al., 2007), for filtering out potential false positives in annotations.\". Does this use these existing tools or have the authors invented new ones and which vocabularies were used? I think those in the text mining field would be interested to know more about how the text mining is done \[I would agree this is not a text mining methods paper, but this is very light on detail here\]. Maybe I missed it but \"Sentence splitter: an in-house module to identify sentence boundaries.\" could also do with some form of definition (what\'s it based on, were any improvements needed etc, the tool correctly doesn\'t split \'Nkx6.1\' so there is some logic being coded there).*
The purpose of SciLite is to be a platform for sharing the text mining work of others, so in a sense the text mining methodology used by contributors is not the business of SciLite. However, as the Europe PMC text mining pipeline also serves as a provider for SciLite we have briefly mentioned the steps involved and referred to the articles in which the methodology of these steps is described.
*\* The use of RDF is interesting but no justification is given as to what advantages RDF provides over other database mechanisms. Why was RDF chosen over other systems? It seems that the queries are fairly straight forward (for an input ID give me annotations) and I\'m not sure they require RDF necessarily. There are genuine other reasons I could think of but it would be good for the authors to describe this choice. Indeed the authors then state they are considering use of MongoDb (using RDF or not?). This seems to hint at some problems using RDF, but no information is given. I think the authors either need to describe why or perhaps remove this sentence entirely as these seems like more internal technical discussion?*
We agree with the point being made. Based on our performance tests we find MongoDB to be more performant for retrieving annotations for a given PMCID. Whereas, RDF is a natural choice for linked data and is suitable for performing graph-based queries.
We have now restructured parts of the section to highlight this point, correspondingly we have changed Figure 1.
*\* The system performed well for human centric articles but less so when looking at plant or bacterial data\... This is a really hard problem in text mining and I don\'t expect the authors to solve it here but it would be good to perhaps outline whether the system could be tuned to address anything here as non-human area researchers will be using the tool.*
Our approach to resolving the challenges of text mining across different fields and phylogenies is to engage the text mining community to provide their insights and solutions in SciLite. This key message of the article has been reworked to be much clearer (we acknowledge that some of the original phrasing was misleading).
*\* 2.6.a When error reported there is a \"Quick fix\" where the annotation is deleted. It is not clear if this is just for that 1 article or all articles as it may be an erroneous synonym?*
"Quick fix" is only for the specific instance in a specific article where an error was reported, as means of a quick response to user feedback. We have another mechanism which allows providers to correct their algorithms to reduce errors globally. This method could be improved further in the future to extend the deletion of a specific instance to "all instances in the article", for example.
*\*While 2.6.b hints to this \"refine the text-mining algorithm.\" it gives no detail as to what this entails. Again, this is not a text mining methods paper, but examples would be useful here.*
Error reports are submitted to the corresponding provider as refining text mining algorithms is not part of the SciLite workflow. However, improvements would entail, for instance, revising dictionaries by removing erroneous synonyms.
*\* Further, Figure 1 - doesnt touch on maintenance. When source vocabs change (e.g. as 2.6.b hints) do all articles need to be re-run? Are there version markers on the annotations? How regularly are older articles re-annotated? Is provenance applied to annotations, I didn\'t see any void/prov markers in Figure 2.*
In SciLite when new dataset is submitted, all annotations are checked and in cases where the annotations have changed the corresponding collections (in MongoDB) and the RDF triples are updated. When new data set is available the provenance graphs are updated.
Figure 1 has been replaced with a new Figure, the figure now provides an overview of the SciLite workflow, touching upon the maintenance aspect.
Figure 2 has been modified to refocus on the representation of annotations in the Web Annotation model. We hope the new figure is more understandable to the readers.
*\* Following on the provenance theme, the authors state: \"Additionally, the open architecture of SciLite\... data for clear provenance of curatorial statements.\". I think this is shown in Figure 3 but only if you know what the RDF prefixes for void and prov mean, so perhaps should be described in the main article text for non RDF people.*
In the indicated sentence we were referring to annotations as textual evidence and were not referring to "provenance" in the context of RDF. We acknowledge that the usage of the phrase was misleading, we have now rephrased the sentence.
*\* Finally, section (2) talks about the systems handling of false positives but does not mention false negatives at all which are equally irritating to the user. What is the proposed approach here?*
You have hit on a tricky problem: how to report a false negative. Without an easy way for people to, for example, highlight text and add a comment, it will be a cumbersome task to report false negatives. It is possible that solutions such as hypothes.is could help here, especially given that both SciLite and hypothes.is use the Web Annotation standard; we plan to explore these options in the future.
*\* 3. \"Everyone preferred annotations to be turned off by default.\" - I think thats a fairly important statement, did you ask why?*
Based on the user feedback, we find that annotations highlighted (in different colours) by default are distracting to the user. Hence, the users preferred to choose the type of annotations that are of interest to them.
We have expanded the section explaining the process of testing SciLite with the users and describe the feedback we received.
*\* The link to the Sparql end point http://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/rdf/sparql provides only a default view and it is left to the user to figure out the schema and queries necessary. I am not sure of the best mechanism (supplementary data or footnote?) but an example query or two would be very helpful to get started*
We agree with the point being made, we have now added Supplementary material with details of relations and classes used along with sample queries. We also plan on releasing a RESTful API on the annotations within the next few months
*\* In general, figures could do with a bit more description as to what they are showing.*
We have extended the figure legends to be more descriptive.
10.21956/wellcomeopenres.10999.r18949
Referee response for version 1
Hirschman
Lynette
1
Referee
Biomedical Informatics, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
5
1
2017
Version 1
The article describes the SciLite project and capability; SciLite opens exciting new possibilities by supporting the automated tagging (and indexing) of biological entities. The article presents the background behind the development of these capabilities and a description of both the capabilities and the underlying components.
Overall, the article provides a clear presentation of the rationale for SciLite, a useful description of the underlying approach and architecture, and a good bibliography referencing many of the key works related to automated extraction of bio-entities. However, there are several places which need clarification or elaboration, including 1) whether SciLite can extract the "essence" of an article; 2) explanations of the contents (and abbreviations) of Figs 2 and 3 -- and how they relate to the text descriptions in the article; 3) some discussion of how to handle multiple sources for the same information, and 4) a link to (a demo of) SciLite, to allow interested people to explore this new capability. In addition, there are some detailed minor questions/suggestions at the end of the review.
Capturing the "essence" of an article: In the description of capabilities, there is one statement that requires either rethinking or further explanation: "When such information \[referring to text-mined, linked entities\] is presented effectually it will aid users in identifying the main concepts, plausibly beginning to reduce the burden of extracting the essence of a given article." (p. 2, col. 2, para. 3) There is a danger that tagging of entities in full text articles can overwhelm the user, rather than giving them a sense of the essence of an article. It may be true that tagging entities in an **[abstract]{.ul}** might make the key entities jump out; or that providing a summary table listing the most frequently mentioned entities might provide such an overview of "main concepts" -- but simply tagging many types of entities (especially if there are false positives in the tagging) can quickly overwhelm the user.Explaining Figs 2 and 3: These figures each need a paragraph or so of text to explain what is being illustrated, and how to read the graph displayed. For Fig 2., it would be very helpful to see the actual annotation generated (in its textual context); it would be good to gloss the various abbreviations in the graph (what is oa as a prefix? What is orb? What are the urls and their suffixes \#1-2s and \#1-2t? What are the things in boxes? In the box on the lower left, Fig 2, why are there multiple quote marks: "CSF-1""induces expression..." and what do these mean? For Fig 3, what are the items in the box with dashed lines in the upper left? What do the various terms dc, dcterms, orb, oa, void, prov mean? What is the actual example GeneRIF that is being constructed? And pretty much the same request as for Fig 2 -- describe the contents of the figure in text, so that the reader can follow what is being shown. Handling of multiple sources of the same kind of information -- given that there are multiple taggers for certain entities types (e.g., genes/proteins), will there be a capability for users to choose which tagger they want? Will there be a way for users to select high precision vs high recall? Will there be any attempt to create an ensemble system from multiple taggers?Please provide a link so that interested readers can explore SciLite.
Minor comments/questions:
p.2 col. 1, para 1 middle -- I couldn't follow the second part of the sentence, starting with "where...": "This workflow is highly interconnected and precise where the databases are both dependent and required for this practice."
p.2 col. 2 para 1: suggest replacing "instituted" with "fostered".
p.2. col. 2 para 2 top- suggest removing the first clause (it's redundant) -- e.g., remove "Having described the importance of information extraction by using text-mining methods in the context of aiding manual curation" -- and just start the paragraph with "The other essential aspect..."
p.2, col. 2 para 2 end: suggest changing "and integrate data" to "and integration of data"
p\. 2, col. 2, para 3 l 2: suggest changing "mechanism toward" to "mechanism to support"
p.2. col. 2 last para: suggest changing "an aim to leverage text-mining solutions towards" to "an aim of leveraging text-mining solutions for"
p\. 5, section 2.5 on User Interface -- would it be appropriate to cite the Reflect project here, as a groundbreaking application to provide enriched metadata about objects in text? \[ [Reflect: augmented browsing for the life scientist](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&cluster=14492202234599267343&btnI=1&hl=en) E Pafilis, SI O\'Donoghue, LJ Jensen, H Horn, M Kuhn... - Nature biotechnology, 2009)
p\. 7, col. 2, para 2 suggest changing "platform, this offers" to "platform, which offers"
p\. 9, col 1 Author Contributions -- insert "the" before SciLite text mining pipeline"
I have read this submission. I believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard, however I have significant reservations, as outlined above.
Venkatesan
Aravind
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
**Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
4
7
2017
Dear Lynette Hirschman,
Thank you for providing your inputs with regard to our paper. We have reworked the manuscript, addressing your suggestions.
Overview of the changes made are as follows: Section 1. Introduction: The section has being restructured and now acknowledges contributions made by other annotation tools.Section 2. Methods: Sub-section 2.1 (Architecture) now provides an overview of the architecture of SciLite (includes new figure 1)Sub-section 2.2 (Annotation types) has been expand to include new annotations types (gene-disease relationships and manually curated protein-protein interactions).Sub-section 2.3 describes the Web Annotation model (includes new figures: 2 and 3).Sub-section 2.4 (User interface) has been reworked to provide concise description of the highlighting process.Sub-section 2.5 now includes a new figure (4) that provides an overview on the feedback mechanism. Section 3. Discussion: The section now provides details on how the user research was conducted. The section has been restructured with two new sub sections: 3.1 -- Engagement with text-mining community3.2 -- Future directions.Supplementary material: The supplementary material provides details on the classes and relations used to model the annotations as RDF along with sample SPARQL queries. We think that the manuscript is much improved as a result of your feedback. Please see a point-by-point response, below:
*\*Capturing the "essence" of an article: In the description of capabilities, there is one statement that requires either rethinking or further explanation: "When such information \[referring to text-mined, linked entities\] is presented effectually it will aid users in identifying the main concepts, plausibly beginning to reduce the burden of extracting the essence of a given article." (p. 2, col. 2, para. 3) There is a danger that tagging of entities in full text articles can overwhelm the user, rather than giving them a sense of the essence of an article. It may be true that tagging entities in an abstract might make the key entities jump out; or that providing a summary table listing the most frequently mentioned entities might provide such an overview of "main concepts" -- but simply tagging many types of entities (especially if there are false positives in the tagging) can quickly overwhelm the user.*
We understand and agree with the point being made. Highlighting different annotation types could serve as an indicator (referred to in the text as "essence") with respect to the key concepts described in a given paper. We have now rewritten the paragraph to avoid confusion.
*\*Explaining Figs 2 and 3: These figures each need a paragraph or so of text to explain what is being illustrated, and how to read the graph displayed. For Fig 2., it would be very helpful to see the actual annotation generated (in its textual context); it would be good to gloss the various abbreviations in the graph (what is oa as a prefix? What is orb? What are the urls and their suffixes \#1-2s and \#1-2t? What are the things in boxes? In the box on the lower left, Fig 2, why are there multiple quote marks: "CSF-1""induces expression..." and what do these mean?*
*For Fig 3, what are the items in the box with dashed lines in the upper left? What do the various terms dc, dcterms, orb, oa, void, prov mean? What is the actual example GeneRIF that is being constructed? And pretty much the same request as for Fig 2 -- describe the contents of the figure in text, so that the reader can follow what is being shown.*
We agree that the figures could be confusing to readers with limited exposure to RDF concepts. We now briefly describe the Web Annotation Model (Sub-section 2.3), further, we have simplified Figures 2 and 3. The figure legends now describes the sample model with links that point to the source articles that contains the exemplified annotations.
*\*Handling of multiple sources of the same kind of information -- given that there are multiple taggers for certain entities types (e.g., genes/proteins), will there be a capability for users to choose which tagger they want? Will there be a way for users to select high precision vs high recall? Will there be any attempt to create an ensemble system from multiple taggers?*
SciLite can host similar semantic types from multiple sources. The platform allows users to choose relevant sources of their interest. However, it is unlikely that this would be of interest to the wider scientific community. Ideally SciLite would consume annotations through systems like BeCalm, allowing users access to benchmarked "high quality" annotations.
*\*Please provide a link so that interested readers can explore SciLite.*
SciLite platform is integrated in Europe PMC and can be seen in action on any CC-BY or CC-BY-NC article. We have provided links to the illustrated examples in the figure legends of 2, 3 and 5 and a link (in sub-section 2.1 and section 5) that lists all the CC-BY and CC-BY-NC articles.
*\*Minor comments/questions:*
*p.2 col. 1, para 1 middle -- I couldn't follow the second part of the sentence, starting with "where...": "This workflow is highly interconnected and precise where the databases are both dependent and required for this practice."*
*p.2 col. 2 para 1: suggest replacing "instituted" with "fostered".*
*p.2. col. 2 para 2 top- suggest removing the first clause (it's redundant) -- e.g., remove "Having described the importance of information extraction by using text-mining methods in the context of aiding manual curation" -- and just start the paragraph with "The other essential aspect..."*
*p.2, col. 2 para 2 end: suggest changing "and integrate data" to "and integration of data"*
*p. 2, col. 2, para 3 l 2: suggest changing "mechanism toward" to "mechanism to support"*
*p.2. col. 2 last para: suggest changing "an aim to leverage text-mining solutions towards" to "an aim of leveraging text-mining solutions for"*
*p. 5, section 2.5 on User Interface -- would it be appropriate to cite the Reflect project here, as a groundbreaking application to provide enriched metadata about objects in text? \[Reflect: augmented browsing for the life scientist E Pafilis, SI O\'Donoghue, LJ Jensen, H Horn, M Kuhn... - Nature biotechnology, 2009)*
*p. 7, col. 2, para 2 suggest changing "platform, this offers" to "platform, which offers"*
*p. 9, col 1 Author Contributions -- insert "the" before SciLite text mining pipeline"*
We have made all the minor correction and added paragraphs to review the state of the art (including the Reflect application).
[^1]: ^†^Equal contributors
[^2]: AV contributed to the data integration aspects of SciLite and wrote the manuscript; JHK, FT designed and implemented the SciLite text-mining pipeline and front-end component; MIS worked on project management, conducted user research, front-end design of annotations on Europe PMC; JC and RBN designed and worked on NaCTeM annotation extraction; SA guided and conceived NaCTeM annotation extraction; JG designed and extracted GeneRIF dataset; PR conceived extraction of GeneRIF dataset within Elixir-EXCELERATE project. JM conceived SciLite and co-authored the manuscript. All the authors approved the final manuscript.
[^3]: **Competing interests:**No competing interests were disclosed.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '8c8c4713238da29fceb11852402bc192afc7912bc93bcada18eef6c6fc20ceb3'}
|
August 13, 2013
Specialized bone tools made by Neandertals before the arrival of modern humans into Europe
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1302730110
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
Marie Soressia et al.
Grognard said...
There was a 50K+ year old set of what looked like a modern makeup kit containing face paints found a while ago. I won't be surprised to see evidence of more knowledge flow the other way. Also I bet bones have been used by everyone a long time, they just don't last.
terryt said...
Yet again we see the narrowing of the gulf between the two 'species'.
I CAN DO IT said...
do you have pictures of these bone tools
eurologist said...
I wonder if the wooden Neanderthal tools categorized as "fire tenders" were actually used for leather processing, as well.
andrew said...
I'm not sure what to make of this study, and the abstract languages illustrates that the authors are tentative as well.
While examples of modern humans using bone tools are ubiquitous from ca. 70kya, this is the only instance ever, that I can recall, of a Neanderthal using a bone tool. Bone tools are one of the real tool set litmus tests that distinguish between Neanderthals and modern humans.
The fact that these tools are seen more than 200 kya after Neanderthals first appear within ca. 10 kya of the first documented replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans, and coincident with the early Upper Paleolithic suggests that a cultural diffusion from modern humans would explain this anomaly. But, as the authors explain, there isn't an easy explanation. If it is Neanderthal source, why didn't it become widespread and why was it so late to develop. If it was from modern humans, why wasn't it seen in Europe until then?
Rokus said...
This is just another indication that late Neanderthal and early modern humans are part of a single cultural development. The "replacement" part involved may just be an example of successful multi-way integration that could happen by then on a global scale.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '189', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9384506344795228}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '136147', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:E5QTBQTVRSN4YQBCPV7E44KZLCBOZVSB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ec36107d-af92-4ef4-b129-3439cdb2087c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 9, 12, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.228.42', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OGCMRE5X4RRQ6D7RK6UGA6ATIFV4IOZJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7a5c1301-a523-4b5f-8e1a-6f5e5c73fccc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/08/specialized-bone-tools-made-by.html?showComment=1377033729731&m=0', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2a6e64d8-9d87-4d55-85be-a094e00437a1>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '523', 'url': 'http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/08/specialized-bone-tools-made-by.html?showComment=1377033729731&m=0', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.8609144687652588', 'original_id': '8189291287cb82713ca3bf1e9081970568fe2db69e351dea6bf742c924feb0bb'}
|
Deadly Calm [The Storm Breaks]
Eerie calm. Seconds ticking by. Clouds stacked on the horizon. Heartbeat. Drawn breath. The squeak of leather. The ring of metal. Uneasy horse hooves. Heartbeat. Another breath. A rush of wind. The squall line is nearly upon you. Heartbeat. Breathe… can you taste the distant hint of rain? The storm is nearly upon you. Rumbling thunder… or is it the marching of ten thousand feet? Palms slick. Heartbeat. Long, deep breath…
One more hour
It will all be over
One more hour
It will all be done
Even if you lose this battle
The war can still be won
So take a deep breath
Warrior, clear your head
Shake off the distractions
This fray is the last one
For just one hour
You don’t have to run
The Warrior’s Sacrifice
You emerged alive
You offered your life
In pain and strife.
A simple thank you
Does not suffice
For the gratefulness
Cherished inside.
Danger every day
You cleared the path
You paved the way.
You gave yourself
Stood in the breach
Passed through hell.
What else can I say?
What else can I do
But shake your hand with
Teary eyes and a thank you.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.6769877672195435}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '52593', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TADIYFGW7X533WSGTGMXCCK3HD432XK4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:139832bf-6b54-434a-ac1f-1432027a8773>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 5, 13, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2A7IA2W2R3PWDB42ND2B3XRM3S5ZEURL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2e70d758-bd8c-45b2-ac4f-f1ae61ff3d54>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://thestarlitforest.wordpress.com/tag/warrior/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eed8719f-01b9-46dd-96a7-2d085326fc04>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '189', 'url': 'https://thestarlitforest.wordpress.com/tag/warrior/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-35-204-242.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06034332513809204', 'original_id': 'c0b8ef48b437b3681b46835646bccdf160481ae02586b941b64fab88a20160f5'}
|
All Byleth can think, whenever she sees Dimitri, is I should have been there for him.
He had already been falling to pieces when she'd vanished. In her absence, he's broken. She'd barely recognized him when they were reunited, an eye missing, hair long and uncombed, face sallow. Abrasive and cynical and obsessed with revenge. And then Byleth actually witnesses him talking to himself, under the impression of hearing voices, and her concern skyrockets.
If he'd had even one person with him…if she'd been there for him…
What she wouldn't give to turn back the hands of time that far.
It quickly becomes an unspoken agreement among those in the inner circle—comprised of Byleth's former students and several top figures among the Knights and monastery—to hide how unstable Dimitri is. Their revolution, if you can call it that, is as new as the coming spring; the Kingdom of Faerghus and the Knights of Seiros are both resting all their hopes on the prince. For them to learn he doesn't care about the ideals he once swore to protect would be a death blow to their coalition.
It helps that he almost never goes out in public. He doesn't train anymore—instead, he "hunts", slips away from the monastery to plague nearby bandits and Imperial patrols. When she finds out, Byleth assigns Cyril and Mercedes to discretely follow him each time he does; Cyril because of his sharp eyes and wyvern, Mercedes because she can keep Dimitri alive.
She doesn't ask them to stop him or bring him back. Byleth doubts they could. In her darkest moments, she wonders if anyone can.
So they hide Dimitri, and say he's working when people ask why they haven't seen him. He's healing from his injuries in the last battle. He's praying for success. The residents of Garreg Mach swallow it, but despite all their efforts, whispers do eventually start.
Byleth doesn't know why, but for some reason, Dimitri haunts the cathedral at night. She'd like to believe it brings him a sense of comfort, but that's likely just wishful thinking. In any event, one day she is walking past a group of soldiers, and hears: "…talking to himself. He sounded like a madman."
"Seriously?" one of his friends asks, and Byleth stops. She scans her environment. She had been preparing to leave the training grounds after her spar with Felix; dinner is approaching, and the area is rapidly emptying. The only ones within earshot are herself and this small group. She recognizes two of the faces as the ones guarding the cathedral the night before. She starts towards them.
"I was there too. Just about jumped out of my skin when he started."
"Yeah, and you know the rumors of what he's been doing these past five years, right? Makes me wonder…"
The man stops as he catches sight of Byleth. She doesn't say anything. She just levels her "scary blank professor stare", as Annette once called it, at him until he drops his eyes. She turns and does the same to each of the other three individuals, who all balk in turn. It is calm, deliberate. She lets the seconds tick by, dragging the silence out.
"Do not repeat such things," she finally says, when she's judged they've squirmed long enough.
The soldiers hasten to assure her they won't, they're so sorry, and salute before scurrying away. Byleth watches them go, rubs her forehead, and sighs.
That night, she goes to the cathedral with no real plan in mind except that she has to do something. She wants to help Dimitri so badly it hurts, but she doesn't know how. Everything she's tried has been spurned—invitations to meals, teatime, even sparring. He doesn't even attend their war meetings or do his share of paperwork. It's as though he has no use for anything that isn't revenge.
But maybe, if she's there, the soldiers will think he's talking to her instead of the ghosts in his head. That would be better than nothing.
Byleth nods at the guards as she passes through the cathedral's entrance. She closes her eyes and inhales. The scent of incense faintly lingers in the air. Her shoulders relax a fraction.
Despite not being raised religious, she's always liked it here. There's just something so peaceful about it. Curiosity invited her to study the teachings of Seiros, and faith came after. Learning that Sothis had been the goddess all along just sealed her newfound faith, and the calm she feels when she's here has only increased since.
Now there's just rubble where the altar was. The shards of broken stained glass have been swept away, pews brought in, holes plastered, but the cathedral is no longer what it once was. And yet the sense of peace remains.
Dimitri is standing near where the altar used to be, his back to her. He is unmoving, his head bowed. In the dimly lit interior, his fur mantle and hunched shoulders make him seem like a massive, hulking lion. As she approaches, Byleth picks up words: "…don't look at me like that, Father…please, I swear, I'll bring you her head soon…"
Her footsteps echo loudly in the grand space. Dimitri stops shorts. His head turns and his single remaining eye glares at her, an ice-blue dagger. "What do you want?"
It comes out as a growl, and even though she should be used to his demeanor by now, her heart twists. She thinks back to a ball, a talk with a smiling young man at the Goddess Tower, and the absence of that man makes her want to weep in a way she only has once before.
"My room is stuffy. I need a quiet place to work," she says, holding out her stacks of paper like an offering. She brought them with her partially for cover, and partially because there really is too much to do. There are reports to fill, supplies to catalogue, merchants to contact, troops to evaluate. She wouldn't be able to relax if she knew those tasks remained unfinished.
Dimitri eyes her a moment longer, then snorts and walks away, dismissing her. He doesn't leave the cathedral, just moves to the far side and starts pacing over there. Watching him, Byleth realizes that if she tries to approach now, she'll just drive him away. Her conversation dies before it even gets to start.
Alright, she thinks. At least he's still here and hasn't ordered me to leave. I'll take it.
She can be patient. If she needs to wait, to let Dimitri get used to her company again before she tries to speak…she will. No matter how long it takes.
Byleth forms a proper plan and returns the next night. And the night after that. Night upon night, until Dimitri stops scowling at her whenever she enters. He stops moving as far in the cathedral to prowl, and then stops moving away at all. Byleth hasn't heard any more rumors of his madness, so that's one thing achieved. If only the other were as easy.
For a time, she doesn't speak to him at all. It feels horrible thinking of him like a wild animal, but it's the best comparison she can make. Startle it, and it'll run or attack. Once he gets used to her presence, then she tries talking.
She starts with work. Casual questions, asking him about their strategy for defeating the Empire. All his responses are short and unhelpful. "We will carve a path to their heart, to Edelgard's heart, and rip it out of her chest," he would growl, or something similar.
"Barreling ahead with brute force isn't going to work. We need to return to Faerghus, reclaim our territory, get more troops," she would respond, to no avail.
After accepting she's not going to draw him out that way, Byleth tries another. His five years fighting Imperial patrols have given him quite some knowledge about their movements, so asking about that proves a little more fruitful. If by 'fruitful' she means 'she knows where to send groups so he's not hunting alone anymore'.
"How did you lose your eye?" she asks, after a few weeks have passed. Her topics about logistics and strategy are exhausted; dredging up memories of their school year doesn't work; idle conversation about people or the day's events or the future leads nowhere. Asking about his lonely, solitary existence is all she has left.
She's taken to a pew in the front row, on the right-hand side. Dimitri never sits, but she leaves a spot open on her right in case he wants to. He's standing immobile at the rubble, but sound carries well here; the echo of her voice reaches him easily enough. He doesn't spare her a glance as he answers, "Why do you care?"
"Medically speaking, knowing the injury that took it will help our healers if future problems arrive."
He doesn't immediately react to that, so she adds, "And as your friend, I'm concerned."
He snorts. "You think you can be friends with a corpse."
"You're not a corpse, Dimitri."
Byleth waits, but no answer is forthcoming. She's just about resigned herself to another failure when Dimitri's deep baritone resonates through the air. "An ambush. I was travelling along the Airmid River when an arrow suddenly pierced my eye."
"An Imperial ambush?"
"It may has well have been. Their uniforms marked them as soldiers of the Alliance's House Gloucester. Cowardly beasts who support her."
As always when speaking of Edelgard, venom laces his voice. But all Byleth can picture is Dimitri by the river, alone, disoriented, blood gushing from an eye, fighting with teeth bared. No one would have been around to heal him afterwards. Her throat closes. "How did you treat it?"
"I got used to patching up my wounds quickly. This was just a more irritating one."
"I'm sorry."
"Spare me your empty apologies. I don't need or want them."
His tone slams the door on the conversation, and silence regains its hold on them.
They rendezvous with Lord Rodrigue, and there aren't words to describe the feeling in Byleth's chest when Dimitri thanks him. His voice had actually cracked as he'd called him 'friend'. For just a moment, he'd been vulnerable. Byleth had seen a little piece of the goodness she knew was still in him. Now that she has, she won't stop until she's brought them all out and exposed them to the light.
"Good evening, Dimitri," she greets when she enters the cathedral.
Byleth has learned what signifies a good or bad night for Dimitri. Good nights are marked by brooding silence and terse conversation. Bad nights are marked by tuning her out and talking to himself. Really bad nights are marked by him begging his ghosts for forgiveness. Those are the hardest for her, because the urge to hug him is unbearable, and she knows he won't respond well if she tries.
He grunts, which means this will be a good night. Come to think of it, the bad nights are starting to decrease. And he doesn't rant as much on them.
Now that Lord Rodrigue is here, may they decrease even more, she prays.
She settles down in her usual pew, spreading the papers out next to her. Lord Rodrigue didn't bring just soldiers with him, but money and resources as well. They'd had their first proper feast earlier that day to celebrate. Byleth had sat with her former students, warmth budding in her chest as she'd watched them smile and eat real, good food for the first time in ages.
"Oh, Professor, you look happy!" Mercedes had exclaimed, and she had been drawn into the conversation.
Byleth still can't put into words how much it means to her that her students can look at her expressionless face and see the emotions churning underneath. People have told her since she was little that she was too emotionless, or creepy, or apathetic. Only Father and some mercenaries had been able to read her face, but they'd known her all her life. So, for this group of people, who'd known her far less, to see her heart accurately…it only sealed her love for them.
And of her students, Dimitri was the very first to interpret her face. He'd even been the first to see a real smile.
He'd called it mesmerizing, she remembered.
"Why are you here?"
The gravelly voice breaks through her reminiscence, shattering it like a glass orb. Byleth starts. Her quill is poised over the paper, ink dripping. The blob is quite large; she must have been lost in her thoughts for some time.
She puts the unfinished paperwork aside and looks up at Dimitri. Byleth evaluates his face, gauges whether he's just being hostile or is really in the mood to listen, and decides it's the latter. "Because I don't think you should be alone."
"What, out of friendship? Don't bother. I only need you and your friends to help me kill Edelgard."
"Do you remember when my father died?" she pushes, ignoring the hurt that causes. Her breath hitches slightly. To them all, it's been five years since Father's death; to her, it's been a handful of months. His absence is an open wound in her side, painful and raw.
"I wouldn't come out my room. Hanneman and Manuela had to take over classes for me. But through it all, you and the rest of the Blue Lions were supportive. All of you got me through that dark time...but it was you, Dimitri, who helped the most. And I…"
She stops. Swallows the words that had threatened to escape just then, about how he was just special to her. She's not used to talking so much, except in lectures. She especially doesn't talk about her feelings. She's just not comfortable with it.
"I want to be there for you like you were for me," she finally says.
He's quiet for so long that she dares hope that maybe, just maybe, this reached him. But then he scoffs, and her heart sinks. "You can't help me."
Byleth closes her eyes against the disappointment. Only for a moment. Then she opens them and looks him straight in the face. "I don't intend to stop trying."
A few hours later, Dimitri leaves, but Byleth remains, her mind unable to settle. When Lord Rodrigue appears and entrusts Dimitri to her, Byleth wonders if destiny is trying to tell her something. If it is, it's that she must not fail, and so she amends I don't intend to stop trying to I won't let you down.
Dedue is alive. Dedue is alive, and Byleth openly smiles when the battle is over and everyone flocks to him. He tries to stay nonchalant, but he's clearly touched as they shower him with cries of joy and relief. Dimitri actually attends the celebration feast they hold for his return, and yes, he spends most of it skulking, but it's progress. She even sees him pat the head of one of the orphan children their army picked up, to be sent back to Garreg Mach, in their march.
While their camp at the Great Bridge of Myrddin doesn't have the ingredients Garreg Mach does, the best cooks in the army collaborate and produce food that is of far better quality than their usual fare. To prevent a line from getting too long, several stations for serving the food have been set up, strategically placed by Byleth's careful eye. Her and the Blue Lions' status as army commanders guarantees them their own table, which they bring outdoors and decorate with a vase, holding blossoms transplanted from the monastery's greenhouse. For just a short while, it's almost like old times.
But long before the stars come out, as Byleth is fetching her third plate of food, she spots Dimitri's tall frame moving away. Hastily grabbing the plate, she hurries after him, weaving through the tables and crowds. It's a good thing he's so tall and big, and the prince; people just part for him.
She has a feeling she knows where he's going, and it's correct. There is no grand, ruined cathedral in their camp, but there is a tent they use for worship services and prayer. The guards unlucky enough to be on duty have had food brought to them, but their minds are clearly elsewhere. Byleth gives them a stern look, and they snap to attention. She understands wanting to celebrate, but she will not have their army brought down by a surprise attack.
The tent's interior is large yet somewhat modest. There's a small, cloth-covered table that serves as an altar and clunky benches instead of smooth pews. Still, everything is kept in good condition, the candles are scented, there's even a carpet rolled out.
"Go away," Dimitri growls, without looking back at her, as she follows him to the altar.
She doesn't. Byleth sits on a bench, puts the plate on her knees, and begins cutting her fish. "You left early."
"I don't belong out there."
"Of course you do. Dedue is alive, Dimitri, and that's wonderful. But the Blue Lions still aren't complete without you."
There's the rapid sound of stomping boots, and suddenly a shadow falls over her. She looks up. Dimitri is towering over her, glaring down, his broad shoulders obscuring most of her view. The height difference between them is already painfully clear when she's standing; now, with her sitting and him on his feet, he may as well be a giant.
He places his hands on the back of the bench, boxing her in. Her skin prickles with awareness at their proximity. Byleth ignores it. Instead, she narrows her eyes and cranes her neck so she can glare him in the face. "Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd," she enunciates clearly. "Do not try to intimidate me."
"What does it take to be rid of you? Your presence is an irritant. All you want is for things to go back to the way they were before, and they won't. The Dimitri you knew is dead. Stop pretending otherwise!"
"I will not. You can't pretend you weren't happy to see Dedue again. I saw you. The monster you claim to be wouldn't care about Dedue's life."
"I am a monster, Professor. I have taken countless lives in ways that would sicken you if I described them. And when we clash with Edelgard at Gronder Field, I will rip her throat out with my bare teeth if I must. I have become a rabid beast to destroy other beasts, and that's all I can be."
The anger in his voice is real, but underneath it she can hear anguish. Self-loathing. All the things she would slay for him if she could. "It is never too late. All you have to do is decide to change."
"I'll kill you," he threatens.
"Go ahead." She's not afraid. She knows her Dimitri is still in there somewhere. He would never kill her.
His chest heaves with hard breath as his face turns mutinous. Byleth doesn't waver. She just waits, until finally, Dimitri lets out a frustrated roar, pushes away, and storms off. Not to the other side of the tent, but outside.
Byleth drops her eyes to her fish, which no longer looks appetizing. Perhaps she'd pushed him too far. But with what particular battle is coming next, she fears that facing Edelgard might just undo all the progress he's made.
After the Battle of Gronder Field, after the funeral for Lord Rodrigue, after Dimitri apologizes to them all and vows to atone, they return to Garreg Mach. Byleth isn't sure what she'll see when she enters the cathedral that night; she half-expects it to be empty, but no, he's there, in his usual spot. And he's waiting for her. She blinks twice, pleasantly surprised.
"Professor!" he exclaims as she walks up to him. "I was hoping you'd show."
"Just Byleth is fine," she says. It's the same thing she's told all her former students. Byleth doesn't mind still being called Professor, but she wants to make it clear they are her friends and family. She's not their teacher anymore, after all; it'd be a shame if that's all she was to them.
His lips twitch. "Yes, I know, Professor."
He's teasing her. That's good.
"Nightmares?" she asks, settling down on the pew and putting the papers to the side. Dimitri sits on her right. Joy twines through her.
"No, but I expect they'll be there when I go to sleep. I just wanted to delay meeting them." His head lowers, hair falling to obscure his face. "I know my new path is right, but I'm afraid of facing the scorn of my loved ones."
"You forgave yourself," she reminds him. "That's the first step."
"Yes…you're correct. I will simply have to endure until then."
Byleth shakes her head. "No need to endure alone. You can always turn to me for help."
The movement blows a stray lock of hair right into her mouth. She spits it out and tucks it behind her ear. As she does, she notices that Dimitri is following the motion of her hand. Byleth glances at it, then back at him. "Do you want to hold it?"
He starts, his cheeks turning the slightest shade of pink. "Ah…no, you have work to do, I can't inconvenience you…"
Ignoring his protests, she reaches over, tugs off his glove, and takes his left hand. He stops talking immediately. A dazed expression crosses his face.
Five years. Five years with no physical contact from another human being, save injuries. Her touch is the first he's had in half a decade; how monumental that moment in the rain, when he'd murmured her hands were warm, must have been for him. How then, can she ever refuse to offer that comfort again if he needs it?
Besides, she likes holding his hand, she decides. His palm is sweaty, but his fingers envelop hers, curling over her wrist. It's comforting.
She squeezes. He takes a shaky breath, then squeezes back.
And Byleth smiles.
A/N: Hello yes, I blazed through the Blue Lions route and it destroyed me. What an emotional rollercoaster. Dimileth is for sure my 3H OTP.
One of the things I noticed was that, from the timeskip to Chapter 18, Dimitri spends all his time in the cathedral. Cue wild speculations of "what if he haunts it at night because he can't sleep and Byleth finds out and starts hanging out there so he won't be alone." Combine that with my feels at his hearing voices, and this was born.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '9315088a7a756c2a039c72cd9e2062c4577d4cb2d9c9e9b908eb7ee7bbbdd832'}
|
Follow TV Tropes
No True Scotsman
Go To
[C]omic fans are ruthless. The instant you say something about a character or storyline that they disagree with, they immediately do their very best to exclude you from the community. Girls get it the worst — a girl can't wear an Aquaman T-shirt to any kind of nerdy gathering without getting accused of not being a true fan (whatever the hell that means) and being grilled with Aquaman trivia questions that no human being should be able to answer. (The correct answer to "If you're such a big fan, then in what issue of Aquaman did we learn the name of Aquaman's father?" is "Fuck you — Arthur, Prince of the Sea, belongs to everyone)."
No True Scotsman (also referred to as the fallacy of "Victory by Definition" in Robert Allen's "The Propaganda Game") is an intentional logical fallacy which involves the act of setting up standards for a particular scenario, then redefining those same standards in order to exclude a particular outcome.
The Trope Namer and prime example of this sort of behavior is a hypothetical scenario (first told by British philosopher Antony Flew in his 1975 book Thinking About Thinking) in which a Scotsman reads about a horrible crime in the newspaper that takes place in the English town of Brighton and smugly thinks to himself, "No Scotsman wouldn ever do such a thing." Something much worse happens in nearby Aberdeen and is reported on the next day. Rather than admit that he's wrong, he instead thinks, "No true Scotsman would ever do such a thing." In this case, he is retroactively changing his standards of what a Scotsman is from "someone who lives in Scotland" to "someone who meets my standard of acceptable Scottish behavior."
A similar way of illustrating the point:
Angus: No Scotsman puts sugar in his porridge!
Bonnie: But my uncle Scotty MacScotscot does just that!
Angus: Weel, then he's no' a true Scotsman.
This is very common within subcultures. Works or creators are discredited as not part of the genre due to not living up to arbitrary standards (or just being popular). Often this is followed by examples of what are considered real examples of the genre (see also Pretender Diss). By extension, you aren't considered a real fan of the genre if you don't know of these works. Sometimes, when dealing with a Dead Horse Genre or another sufficiently ghettoized field, the fallacy is used to try and distance a well-liked entry from it. A related tactic is called gatekeeping and refers to when someone claims to be a fan of X and another person challenges them to prove they are a "real" fan of X by reciting a bunch of facts about X.
In real life, it's most commonly found in arguments about politics, race, nationality, or religion, usually when it comes to perceived stereotypes that something negative "can only be done" in a specific region or group of people (especially The Rival) and not the accuser's own group; with of course ignoring the fact that it can.
Essentially a form of Begging the Question, in that, to accept the argument that No True Scotsman would do X, one must accept that the definition of "True Scotsman" includes "would not do X." It's also a good example of Confirmation Bias in action. Related to Moving the Goalposts, where the definition isn't changed, but the standards for accepting a counter-argument are made increasingly more rigorous.
Tropes which rely on, or include this fallacy:
Looks like this fallacy but is not:
• If the group being referred to has clearly-defined or generally accepted membership standards that exclude the counter-example. For instance: if a statement is made about "Eagle Scouts", and a rebuttal is offered concerning "Boy Scouts", pointing out that "Not all Boy Scouts are Eagle Scouts" is not No True Scotsman.
• Even if a group doesn't have a formal membership standards system, it can have widely accepted standards what does and doesn't constitute responsible/acceptable actions. For example, it's not fallacious to say that "no responsible gun owner would do that," because someone violating gun safety rules is by definition acting irresponsibly.
• If the group being referred to has specific and/or objective guidelines/rules of behavior as a member of said group. E.G., "No clean cop would take a bribe" is not fallacious, because a clean cop, by definition, doesn't take bribes.
• If the action axiomatically note or logically disqualifies one from inclusion in the group, such as "No true bachelor is married" or "No true triangle has four sides." For example, "No right-handed person predominantly uses their left hand" is not fallacious because right-handed people are defined as those who predominantly use their right hand. Someone who is calling themselves "right-handed" but predominantly uses their left hand either is lying, trying to torture themselves, or doesn't understand the distinction between "right-handed" and "left-handed" people.
• If the term is redefined because it is susceptible to multiple interpretations and there was legitimate confusion about which was being used. This would be sloppy, but not necessarily fallacious. It could be clarified by observing, "You Keep Using That Word..." Of course, if the term in question is political, what counts as Insistent Terminology and what counts as No True Scotsman will depend on what political views you have. And we'll leave it at that.
• If the term means different things at different times due to time marching on. Led Zeppelin isn't true Heavy Metal based on how the term is defined today, even though the term was used to describe the band in the 1970s.
Not related to Violent Glaswegian, Brave Scot, The Scottish Trope, that Shcottish actor, or Fake Scot.
A form of Selective Obliviousness. Straw Affiliation is a related form of this. Stop Being Stereotypical and Not So Different are often invoked when these situations occur. The inverse is Hitler Ate Sugar, when someone tries to argue that all True Scotsmen are evil because of one bad apple, though both tropes can be (and often are) used hand-in-hand to stigmatize and exclude certain people/things/etc.
In regards to Real Life examples, what may be considered as "a true/not a true (whatever)" often relies on personal interpretation which can result in heated arguments, so let's not go there.
It's perhaps also worth mentioning that, among those who wear the kilt, a "True Scotsman" is the humorous term for someone who is confident enough to go commando. So if someone asks "Are you a true Scotsman," it might not be this fallacy— they may just be wondering about your underwear.
Fictional Examples:
open/close all folders
Anime & Manga
• Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran: The samurai in the 11th episode; the only 'true' samurai in their opinion are samurai that think like them. They talk about honor in one scene, for instance, they refuse to sneak attack and decide on a time and place of neutral favor. Then they attack him three to one, even when he reveals himself to be unarmed. Everyone who doesn't act like this is a "coward" or a "maggot".
• In One Piece, there's a great deal of Fantastic Racism between humanity and fishmen. Arlong split off from the Sun Pirates and formed his own crew because their leader Jinbe went and became a privateer for the human-ruled World Government to help patch things up, but the worst case are the New Fishman Pirates. Their leaders hate humans to the extent that they'll kill any fishmen or merfolk who seek peace with humans. Hody Jones, leader of the pirates, is even willing to have all of Fishman Island destroyed than have fishmen and humans understand each other, all out of Irrational Hatred.
• In Gundam Build Divers this is the major drive of Big Bad Tsukasa Shiba. He hates the Gunpla Battle Nexus Online game because the Gunpla Battlers there don't spend their time, money and energy battling, smashing and rebuilding their Gunpla. He feels that their way of battling is inferior to his because they never experienced his kind of combat. He has this worldview completely shattered when Riku, a player of GBN, ends up coming up on top in a duel.
Comic Books
• Superboy Prime doesn't think Conner Kent is the real Superboy in Infinite Crisis due to his lack of confidence in himself and darker personality. In fact, Earth-2 Superman believes the same about the entirety of the concurrent DC Universe, insisting that everything about it is inferior and corrupt, and therefore unworthy of being called the "real" Earth, until he's asked if that's the case with Dick Grayson, and has to admit that no, it isn't.
• Judge Dredd: The deranged philosophy of the Dark Judges is that all life is a crime. So in order to judge people without hypocrisy they allowed themselves to be transformed into zombies. After their whole planet had been wiped out, their leader Judge Death gathered his followers and purged all but his three closest supporters. His argument was that they were not really Dark Judges since they were too much like the living.
• In My Immortal, Ebony and friends are obsessed with which characters are "real goffs" and which are just "tryin 2 be goffik". Hagrid, or rather "Hargrid", is reclassified repeatedly, always for nonsensical, arbitrary reasons. How a person becomes a "real goff" never is explained (among a lot of other things), with the closest anyone can guess is that you're born a goff.
• Dead or Alive 4: The Devil Factor: Ayane spitefully tells Kasumi that, given her compassionate nature and reluctance to kill, she could never hope to be a real ninja.
• In Equestria: A History Revealed, the narrator thinks she's the only legitimate historical essay writer because she's the only one brave enough to tell the "truth", and dismisses all other works of real historians as false. She even calls herself the one true historian in Equestria at one point.
Films — Animated
• The BFG: The other giants essentially disown the BFG for not eating humans, though neither party does anything to patch the ties. The climax of the film makes it clear that they don't even consider him a giant.
Fleshlumpeater: You is not giant! You is more like...human bean!
BFG: Human being! Yes! I'd rather be one of them than like you!
Films — Live-Action
• In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, much like the original movies, there's the Ape Shall Never Kill Ape rule, which Koba uses to taunt Caesar at the end. Caesar responded by declaring that he was no ape. Given how Koba already violated that rule by trying to assassinate Caesar and murdering Ash, this trope holds some real weight for once.
• Jack Reacher has one of the few rational examples of the trope: if the real killer was US Army sniper James Barr, he would have picked the best possible vantage point for the shooting spree (one that forces targets to walk towards or away, and with the sun to the shooter's back). Instead, the shooter picked the worst (sun in the shooter's eyes, with targets walking left and right) indicating that the shooting location was chosen to hold the resulting Orgy of Evidence instead of practicality — especially since he lacked the Improbable Aiming Skills to make shots from such a bad vantage point, and his Boring, but Practical training was based on choosing the best place from which to shoot.
• In My Cousin Vinny, Vinny cross-examines a witness who claims to have seen the defendants leave the scene of the crime while he made grits for breakfast. Vinny asks if the witness used "instant grits". The witness answers "No self-respecting Southerner would use instant grits. I take pride in my grits."
• The Christian film Christian Mingle, as Hugo and Jake from The Bible Reloaded pointed out, incurs on this with its protagonist, who is a young woman who starts using the eponymous dating website for Christians. Despite claiming to have been raised as one, been baptized, and believing in Jesus in general, all the other characters treat her as not being a true Christian because she doesn't go to church or read The Bible very often and botching a prayer before dinner because she's not accustomed to it. It's even more baffling when the film shows that when creating a profile the dating website does have an option for saying how often one goes to church (including the option "Not at all").
• In X-Men: The Last Stand, Magneto meets with a group of teenage/young adult mutants he's looking to recruit. They all have facial tattoos, and one snidely asks Magneto "If you're so proud of being a mutant, where's your mark?" Magneto shuts her down pretty easily, however, by showing the serial number Those Wacky Nazis tattooed on him in a concentration camp, and stating that he will never allow himself to be marked again.
• Cloud Atlas: Inverted, invoked, and exploited by Mr. Meeks in the pub.
• In A Song of Ice and Fire:
• Sansa maintains her belief in a world of Knights in Shining Armor, despite repeatedly confronting evidence that many knights are just thugs with swords, by declaring that any knight who doesn't live up to her expectations and their vows to protect the innocent is obviously "no true knight." Her behavior fits in with the "objective guidelines of behavior" exception since, as noted, to become a knight you have to make certain vows to protect the innocent, fight with honor, protect women etc. It might be more accurate to say that "true knights" are actually in the minority in the setting. Thus, she seems to be sticking to this even after acquiring Jade-Colored Glasses by recognizing that true knights, if they exist at all, are very rare.
• In "The Hedge Knight" Dunk invokes this when seeking a sixth man to fight by his side in his Trial of Seven. When an entire stand of knights refuse to acknowledge the rightness of his cause, he shouts "Are there no true knights among you?" Then the Prince of Dragonstone himself rides out to fight alongside him, citing that Dunk was the one who behaved "as all knights should".
• The Halkans in the Star Trek Novel Verse are total pacifists, who insist that there is no violence of any kind in their hearts. As a result of this, anyone capable of violence cannot be truly Halkan, and will be regarded as a non-person.
• Matters of ethnicity are discussed in George MacDonald Fraser's McAuslan trilogy of short stories. Author Avatar Dand McNeill discusses the agonies the Gordon Highlanders went through when accepting a draft of soldiers from the Liverpool Scottish—sons and grandsons of Scotsmen who'd settled in Liverpool but who had the accent of Merseyside rather than Clydeside. One of whom was black, played the bagpipes, and applied to join the Regimental Band. The question was "Can a black-skinned Scouser be said to qualify as Scottish?" closely followed by "What's it going to look like?"
• Dand also describes the Pipe-Sergeant in these terms:
If he hadn't been such a decent wee man, he'd undoubtedly have been a professional Scotsman of the most offensive type.
Fleshlumpeater: You is not giant! You is like... human bean!
BFG: Human being! Yes! I'd rather be like them, than like you!
• In Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell is always getting this from various individuals. He's not really a trusted councilor, he's a strange whim of the king's. He's more Italian than English. He's Jewish, his father was Irish, he has no place among gentlemen, etcetera etcetera etcetera.
• In The Compleat Angler (1653), the author speaks of turtledoves, showing that the trope is Older Than Steam:
the survivor scorns ... to outlive his or her mate, and this is taken for a truth; and if the survivor shall ever couple with another, then not only the living but the dead, be it either the he or the she, is denied the name and honour of a true turtle-dove
Live Action TV
• The Daily Show:
• Excessive use of this in the 2008 US Presidential campaign led to Jon Stewart producing a handy test: "Are You A Real American?"
• The May 5, 2014 segment showed how Republicans running against other Republicans all declare the opponent to be "not a true conservative" (tying into the Real Life example of RINO) by showcasing all the potential definitions thereof and how they are applied in a South Carolina race.
• In an episode of Desmond's, Desmond's son is failed on an essay about black British youth, because his teacher thinks it reflects a middle-class background which isn't typical of urban culture. Or as his sister puts it "They're saying he's not black enough!"
• Game of Thrones: Balon notes that Euron always mocked their customs and traditions. Euron then arrives at the Kingsmoot and states that by killing Balon he was a true Ironborn because he "paid the Iron price" rather than wait his turn in the line of succession.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
• One of the tactics used by Gul Dukat. After the Klingons attacked, the new civilian government pressed for a diplomatic solution. This flew in the face of his pride, so he waged a one-ship war on the Klingons and then forged an alliance with the Dominion. He says the following to Major Kira:
Dukat: What Cardassians? Don't you see, Major? They're paralyzed. They're beaten and defeated. I am the only Cardassian left, and if no one else will stand against the Klingons, I will.
• Sirella, Martok's wife, who Jadzia Dax has to please before she can marry Worf. During the reading of ceremonial reading of The Chronicle, a history of the Martok family's unbroken (until now, ahem) bloodline, Jadzia sprinkles in her own extracurricular research, including: a positive spin on an Oliver Cromwell-type figure in Klingon history, the revelation that Sirella's claim to nobility is false, and that her mother-in-law's ancestor was not the Princess but a concubine who lived out of the royal stables.
Sirella: You are STRAYING FROM THE SAGA!!
• From "hew-mon" standards, Quark is an appalling boss, but from Ferengi standards, he's quite benevolent. He gave food and medicine to Bajoran refugees at just above cost and tries to look out for his employees.
Quark: I can reform! I'll start gouging the customers again! I'll revoke all my employees' vacation time!
Brunt: ...You gave them vacations?
• In "The Seige of AR-357" Quark tries to disabuse his Human admiring nephew, Nog, by pointing out that Humans are nice if they are in comfort, but that if those creature comforts are taken away and a human is threatened, humans are just as, if not more, ruthless than a cold blooded Klingon Warrior, while Ferengi do not act in such a manner and try to keep peace far longer than humans would. Later, when the Camp is overrun by enemy troops, Quark kills one of the soldiers threatening him and a wounded Nog. Quark then looks at the gun and reacts in horror at the realization he grossly over estimated his willingness to compromise.
• Having been raised by The Federation, Worf sometimes gets this from other Klingons, especially when he does something more human than Klingon.
Dahar Master Kor:' Any Klingon who denies himself the Right of Vengeance is no Klingon at all!
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
• In many episodes, Will often mocks Carlton for not being black enough. For example:
Carlton: Wait 'till we come downstairs in these tuxes. People may not think we're twins, but I'll bet they'll think we're brothers.
Will: You know, I don't think you'll have to worry about anybody mistaking you for a brother.
• Used a bit more seriously in the episode "Blood is Thicker Than Mud", where Will and Carlton try to join an all-black fraternity. Although they're both hazed, Carlton's is more severe than Will's, and even after he endures everything they put him through, the Pledgemaster still refuses to let Carlton join because he thinks he's a "sellout". Will quits in disgust when he finds out, and after they return home and tell Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian what happened, Phil laments: "When are we going to stop doing this to each other?"
Professional Wrestling
• Portia Perez says that if you don't recognize her, then you aren't a real pro wrestling fan. Also, Allison Danger is a diet Canadian.
• In their 100th episode, the hosts of Who Back When note that the most common trend they see when someone sends them hate mail is to ask how they can call themselves Doctor Who fans yet go on to rate episodes as anything less than perfect. Their own view is that the fact that some episodes are genuinely bad does not detract from their love of the series. Indeed, they see Doctor Who as something to be loved, warts and all.
Recorded Comedy
• George Carlin related this on his album FM/AM:
I got fired in Las Vegas from the Frontier Hotel for saying "shit." In a town where the big game is called "craps." There seems to be some sort of double standard. I'm sure there was some Texan standing outside the casino saying "Aw, shit, I crapped out!" They fly those guys in for free. They fired me. Shit!
• In The Bible, John 19:12 has the Jewish leaders shouting to Pontius Pilate "If you release this man (Jesus), you are no Friend of Caesar. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar." Being governor of Judea, Pilate held the title of Friend of Caesar (a status above ordinary subjects), and the Jewish leaders are implying that if Pilate releases Jesus, he's no "true" Friend of Caesar (which makes this trope Older Than Feudalism).
Tabletop Games
• The Orks of Warhammer 40,000 happily use No True Greenskin to stir up conflict when they can't find anyone else to fight. For example, Orks of the Goff clan know that the only proper greenskin is one who disdains fancy uniforms and is serious about busting in heads, the Bad Moons know that Orks ought to strut about in flashy clothes and blast things with snazzed-up shootas, the Snakebites know that the only true Orks fight with simple weapons astride a Squiggoth, while the Evil Suns know that being an Ork is all about racing around on a bike, buggy or trukk. The Blood Axe clan doesn't do this because they think being a true Ork is about turning your enemy's tricks against them, which then becomes one of the reasons they get it from the other clans.
• Dungeons & Dragons writer and designer Monte Cook wasn't exactly discreet about how much he liked Wizards and nor was he discreet about how much he hated Sorcerers, sabotaging the class' rules and abilities for years to keep Wizards top-tier. Another designer, Skip Williams, once went on record for openly saying that he despised the Sorcerer class and thought they were just discount Wizards. This despite the two classes playing in a very similar fashion.note .
• Cyrano de Bergerac: In Act IV Scene III, this fallacy is played perfectly straight In-Universe. All the Gascon cadets are sick to death of De Guiche because he is The Dandy wearing an ermine cape, plotting with his uncle Cardinal Richelieu. When captain Carbon tries to defend him, one cadet says that De Guiche is "No True Gascon":
Carbon: For all that—a Gascon.
The First Cadet: Ay, false Gascon!... trust him not...
Gascons should ever be crack-brained...
Naught more dangerous than a rational Gascon.
Video Games
• The game Metal Wolf Chaos features propaganda news reports that define a true American as "anyone who supports the idea of having the families and friends of terrorist sympathisers murdered in the streets" rather than "anyone who is a citizen or long-standing resident of America".
• In Team Fortress 2, if an Engineer Dominates another Engineer, one possible response is "A real Texan would've dodged that".
• Rozalin from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories loves her father, Overlord Zenon. Until she actually meets him in person, and discovers he's actually kind of a jerk who seems to care for her only as a decorative object to be 'kept safe' in a castle isolated from the outside world. She immediately deduces that he can't be the real Overlord Zenon and is only a fake. She's actually right, but her reasoning that no true Overlord Zenon is a petty jerk had nothing to do with it — the real Overlord Zenon is much worse. Or at least used to be, until reincarnating as Rozalin.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
• This lies at the heart of Skyrim's civil war. The Stormcloaks know that no true son or daughter of Skyrim would follow an empire that bowed to an elven treaty outlawing the worship of the Nords' patron deity Talos, while loyalists argue that no true Nord would abandon their allies in their hour of greatest need or fight against the empire that Talos himself founded before he ascended to godhood.
• No true dovah would ever flee from a fight, especially against another dovah. When Alduin flees from the Dragonborn after fighting them on the Throat of the World, the rest of the dragons start questioning his right to lead, and his second-in-command Odahviing actually assists you (once you defeat him) because he dislikes serving a Dirty Coward.
• The Thalmor believe this about any Altmer who do not support them. Any true Altmer should gladly follow a genocidally racist faction hell bent on destroying the world in order to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. The non-Thalmor Altmer's response is generally to say Stop Being Stereotypical while ensuring the other races that not all Altmer are Thalmor.
• In the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, Lilith is incredibly reluctant to let Mr. Torgue join in on their game of Bunkers & Badasses because he is a muscular guy, so she believes he's not a true geek and only wants to play because being geeky is "trendy" now. It's invoked again moments later when Tina asks him "Three Geeky Questions". Torgue gets the first two right, but the third has an Unexpectedly Obscure Answer, and he doesn't know. Therefore, according to Lilith, Torgue isn't really into geek culture. After a great deal of Inelegant Blubbering from Torgue, she reluctantly agrees to let him stay as a sidequest-giver. One wonders what her problem is, since she had no problem with Mordecai playing and he is very clearly not interested in the game or anything else geeky (of course, he doesn't try to pretend he is, either).
• Dragon Age:
• In Dragon Age: Origins, Sten believes in both things and people having an essential nature they are born with and you can't change. For example, if you are born to a merchant clan but become a blacksmith, you are never a blacksmith. You are, forever, a merchant trying to be a blacksmith. If your character is female, Sten comments that you seem to be both a woman and a soldier but this is impossible, you must be either a woman or a soldier. His conclusion is that you aren't a woman, even though you clearly look like one. If the PC is male he'll have this conversation with Liliana.
• This gets weird in Dragon Age II DLC, when you meet Tallis, who is both a woman and a warrior and follows the same religion/philosophy that Sten did. This is because the Qun classifies her (like all official assassins) as a priest rather than a warrior.
• Dragon Age: Inquisition introduces yet another twist. Iron Bull explains that if a person of one gender can best serve society in a role of the other, they're called "Aqun-Athlok", or transgender. So, for example, if a child the tamassrans think is female shows proficiency at fighting, but isn't good enough at lying to be made a spy like Tallis, everyone acknowledges that the midwife made a mistake in saying they were a girl, the child is put in the military, and from then on is expected to look and act exactly like all the other men, because he is a man. Hence Sten's confusion: the female Warden was clearly a warrior and therefore, a man, but looked and acted like a woman. Iron Bull mentions he gets around this issue by mentally slotting them between genders depending on whether they have armor on at the time.
• In World of Warcraft there are five Horde factions: the playable Horde, which includes all Horde races and not just the orcs like the other examples; the Dark Horde, The Remnant of the Warcraft II Horde that is based mostly in Blackrock Mountain and the Burning Steppes; the Fel Horde, the still demon-corrupted remnant of the Warcraft II expansion Horde in Outland, mostly aligned with Illidan; Garrosh Hellscream's True Horde, which is the orc supremacist faction of the Horde civil war that plays out during the fourth expansion; and finally the Iron Horde, the pre-Warcraft Horde hijacked and industrialized by Garrosh after some time traveling shenanigans during the fifth expansion.
• In the Dwarf Fortress community, experienced players often try to make Difficult, but Awesome solutions to otherwise mundane problems. When asked why they don't use an easier solution, the usual response is, "It's not dwarven enough."
• In Mass Effect 2, whenever Miranda is confronted with Cerberus's horrific acts (the experiments on Jack, the Thresher Maw attack on Akuze, the experiments you encountered in the first game, etc.), she will insist those weren't "real Cerberus" or rogue cells. She has a small point in the case of Jack, as we learn those scientists were going rogue about something, but otherwise this is treated as her being in denial about the kinds of things Cerberus has done. Part of her Character Development is overcoming this.
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time gives you two different control options for Z-Targetting: Switch (which targets something when you press the button, and then deselects when you press it again) and Hold (which requires you to hold down the button and clears your target as soon as it's released). A gossip stone claims that "real Zelda players" use the latter option.
Western Animation
• The theme-song of "The Adventures of Ned Flanders", a short at the end of the The Simpsons episode "The Front":
Singers: ♪Hens love roosters, geese love ganders, everyone else loves Ned Flanders.
Homer: Not me!
Singers:Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders.
• Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production: In "Bugs Bunny?", Bugs meets a group of "real" (less anthropomorphic) rabbits who don't believe he's actually a rabbit and put him through a series of challenges to prove he is.
Example of:
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '31', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9620988965034484}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '112363', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WZCEO2RORBPVCR2ZV4K36SBVZNS433IX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:22de8583-bd73-4221-a82f-9dd2dd543b7e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 4, 4, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.16.236.130', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NDVLP7W6YJLDGRYSHBZYO33UUZH5NY33', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f21e0357-0388-483f-bbc1-d86d908ba075>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTrueScotsman', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:be8c386a-15ab-4c22-b93a-70c7046b7684>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '5024', 'url': 'https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTrueScotsman', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-109-209-241.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': '0.1606634259223938', 'original_id': '7e8d1ee791ca3f5efa48490dc5157fcdd14d33739de00067aad562e74c42ecaf'}
|
The Future Expertise Of Warfare
Science and Expertise will not be the most well-liked academic path among young folks. I didn’t had one at the time, but I believed it will be an excellent thing to read news or watch tv after I’m in park or taking a walk. I was in a position to download many books I couldn’t find wherever else. The Mag Lev expertise just isn’t a secret to everyone as is it at present used on some railways in Europe and in the United States.\n\nFor everyone else, there may be sustainable expertise such as the Hydrogen Transmission Network. In this means, economic system can continue to grow, meaningful alternative of existence may be reality for folks, and setting stands to be restored to health. Given the madness of the human race for making every little thing automated, the day just isn’t far-off after we might be dependent on expertise to meet even our smallest needs.\n\nThe sad truth at present is that there are multitudes not only in the United States but all around the world which might be left with-out the benefits that these technologies may deliver. But, the resolve to use the technologies that we’ve and develop more for the betterment of all of mankind relies by the implementation of National Economic Reform’s Science and Expertise Directive.\n\nWithout gaining this information mankind will find it next to unimaginable to be able to reach and explore the far reaches of our own galaxy let alone the rest of the universe. And when you watch close enough, you just would possibly find that some of at present’s finest-identified actors happened to have their formative moments in tech-related crisis back in the day.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '005f1c25a44396e98c589b4fdc8b4b0b6bdd122b732657141fc117533c6a668b'}
|
431 A.2d 1220 (1981)
STATE
v.
Bruce LEONARDO.
No. 79-455-C.A.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
July 3, 1981.
*1221 Dennis J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., Alyssa L. Talanker, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.
Amato A. DeLuca, Warwick, for defendant.
OPINION
BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal by the defendant, Bruce Leonardo, from a denial by a Superior Court justice of his motion to reduce sentence in accordance with Rule 35 of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure.
In March 1974, a Superior Court jury convicted defendant of murder in the second degree and conspiracy to commit murder. Four other individuals also had been indicted in connection with this crime. The state successfully had moved to sever Leonardo's trial from his codefendants and then presented the case against Leonardo in a trial before a jury. After Leonardo's conviction, the other four defendants pleaded guilty to various charges contained in the indictment and were sentenced.[1] Thereafter, the trial justice sentenced Leonardo to fifty years on the conviction of murder and a concurrent ten-year sentence for the conviction of conspiracy to commit murder. The defendant appealed these judgments of conviction to this court, and we affirmed. State v. Leonardo, R.I., 375 A.2d 1388 (1977).
A year later, defendant filed a Rule 35 motion to reduce his sentence. The defendant complained that the sentence imposed by the trial justice was unduly severe because his codefendants had received shorter sentences. In addition, defendant asserted that he had "made substantial progress towards rehabilitation" in the years since his conviction.
In denying this motion, the Superior Court justice made these observations:
"With the past record of the defendant, only parts of which I have alluded to and considering the current conviction after a long trial in which there was overwhelming evidence of guilt and in the absence of any expression of remorse or regret or contrition the Court felt that there was nothing to recommend anything but a long and severe sentence.
"* * *
"I have tried very, very hard to recreate the circumstances which existed when the sentence in this case was imposed by me to determine whether or not it was in any way illegal. It was not illegal in my opinion. It was severe, I admit, but it was called for at the time.
"* * *
"One final comment which the Court feels compelled to make is the apparent disparity and unevenness of sentences imposed on this defendant and the codefendants who were indicted with him in connection with the Giarusso murder. It is no secret that persons who assist the police and prosecution in obtaining convictions of other guilty persons do obtain favorable treatment, and sometimes are able to negotiate less severe sentences. * * * Yes, Mr. Leonardo's codefendants received lesser sentences. They did cooperate with the authorities, they did not require the state to conduct a long and costly trial, and therefore by custom and practice they were entitled and did receive favorable consideration."
In taking this appeal from the denial of his motion, defendant has shifted the focus of his argument. Instead of renewing his *1222 attack directly on the severity of the sentence and emphasizing his "born-again" attitude, defendant has fastened on the last sentence in the quoted excerpt from the denial of his motion to reduce. According to defendant, the remark indicates that the trial justice abused his discretion when he sentenced him by penalizing defendant for exercising his constitutional right to a jury trial. Thus, the issue we confront is whether the trial justice's remarks demonstrate that the justice improperly considered defendant's decision to stand trial as a factor justifying imposition of a longer sentence on defendant.
This court will overturn a denial of a motion to reduce sentence only "where a sentence is manifestly excessive even though within authorized statutory limits * * *." State v. Fortes, 114 R.I. 161, 173, 330 A.2d 404, 411 (1975). In Fortes, we determined that a manifestly excessive sentence was a sentence "grossly disparate from sentences generally imposed for similar offenses" and imposed "without justification." Id.; accord, State v. Giorgi, R.I., 397 A.2d 898, 899 (1979); State v. Rollins, 116 R.I. 528, 539, 359 A.2d 315, 321 (1976); State v. Crescenzo, 114 R.I. 242, 263, 332 A.2d 421, 433 (1975). Under Rule 35, the sentencing justice "may correct an illegal sentence at any time."[2]
Having reviewed the basis for defendant's sentence, we cannot say that it was manifestly excessive. The defendant was convicted of a murder committed at the Adult Correctional Institutions while awaiting trial on an unrelated offense. His past record indicated that he had been involved in other crimes of violence. The sentencing justice was aware of other factors that demonstrated a long and severe sentence was appropriate; the sentence itself was within statutory limitations. Finally, as the sentencing justice noted, "[i]t is for the parole board to hear and consider the status and completeness of the defendant's rehabilitation at the time he becomes eligible for consideration by the parole board * *." We are confident that the parole board will give defendant due consideration of the appropriate time.
The defendant, however, has relied largely on the challenged statement of the sentencing justice as indicative of his attitude toward defendant at the time of passing sentence. We agree with defendant's initial contention that a judge may not impose a more severe sentence wholly, or even partly, because that defendant elected to stand trial instead of pleading guilty. Commonwealth v. Bethea, 474 Pa. 571, 580, 379 A.2d 102, 107 (1977); see, e.g., United States v. Duffy, 479 F.2d 1038, 1039 (2d Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 978, 94 S.Ct. 299, 38 L.Ed.2d 221 (1973); United States v. Wiley, 278 F.2d 500, 504 (7th Cir.1960); State v. Rollins, 116 R.I. at 538, 359 A.2d at 320; cf. North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 725, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 2080, 23 L.Ed.2d 656, 669 (1969) (due process clause prohibits judge from penalizing defendant with more severe sentence because defendant exercised right to appeal).
Granting of leniency to defendants who plead guilty does not violate the constitutional rights of those who choose to stand trial. See Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742, 753, 90 S.Ct. 1463, 1471, 25 L.Ed.2d 747, 759 (1970). Furthermore, "[a] show of lenience to those who exhibit contrition by admitting guilt does not carry a corollary that the Judge indulges a policy of penalizing those who elect to stand trial." *1223 United States v. Thompson, 476 F.2d 1196, 1201 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 918, 94 S. Ct. 214, 38 L. Ed. 2d 154 (1973); accord, United States ex rel. Miller v. LaVallee, 320 F. Supp. 452, 455 (E.D.N.Y.), aff'd on other grounds, 436 F.2d 875 (2d Cir. 1970) (per curiam), cert. denied, 402 U.S. 914, 91 S. Ct. 1367, 28 L. Ed. 2d 657 (1971). It is not enough for a defendant to point to the disparity between his sentence and that of his equally guilty codefendants to prevail on a claim that he was penalized because he chose to stand trial. See 3 ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, § 14-1.8 at 14.49 (1980).
Nonetheless, the defendant has asserted that the language in the sentencing justice's opinion supports his contention that he paid an unfair price for exercising his right to have a trial. We cannot agree with this conclusion. The sentencing justice's comments were made four years after he had imposed the sentence and arose in the context of a motion to reduce, not at the time of sentence itself. Cf. United States v. Araujo, 539 F.2d 287, 292 (2d Cir.), cert. denied sub nom., Rivera v. United States, 429 U.S. 983, 97 S. Ct. 498, 50 L. Ed. 2d 593 (1976) (challenged comments regarding sentencing merely "offhand" remarks to jurors). This fact by itself is not dispositive of the issue, but it must be considered in any analysis of the disputed remarks. Similarly, we must consider the entire opinion as well as the foundation upon which the sentencing justice made his decision. See United States v. Underwood, 588 F.2d 1073, 1078 (5th Cir. 1979). When the record is reviewed, it is clear that the sentencing justice's comment about the "long and costly trial" was merely an explanatory reference regarding the less severe sentences given to Leonardo's codefendants. Moreover, this statement was made after the sentencing justice had delineated an entirely reasonable basis upon which he had imposed sentence. Therefore, we do not believe that the sentencing justice penalized the defendant for exercising his right to trial by jury.
The defendant's appeal is denied and dismissed, and the case is remitted to the Superior Court.
SHEA, J., did not participate.
NOTES
[1] One defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere.
[2] Rule 35 of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure states:
"The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time. The court may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner and it may reduce any sentence within one hundred twenty (120) days after the sentence is imposed, or within one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt by the court of a mandate of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island issued upon affirmance of the judgment or dismissal of the appeal, or within one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt by the court of a mandate or order of the Supreme Court of the United States issued upon affirmance of the judgment, dismissal of the appeal, or denial of a writ of certiorari. The court may reduce a sentence, the execution of which has been suspended, upon revocation of probation.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'a6622a3d108f33b6b43689d68ef71ceb24dd243fadd92f0506864a15568e6447'}
|
Antony Green's Election Blog
Below the Line Preference Flows at the 2013 WA Senate Election
Last year's Senate election saw the final members elected in each state largely determined by complex preference deals. Arranging and delivering on these Senate preference deals was made possible by the use of group ticket or 'above the line' voting. With more than 95% of all voters using the group ticket voting option, the power over preferences was delivered into the hands of the small number of people who arranged the preference deals between the parties.
Those preference deals meant that some candidates of parties with little first preference support managed to be elected almost entirely thanks to engineered preference deals.
The most dramatic examples were the preference 'harvesting' operations that allowed Ricky Muir of the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party to win from 0.5% of the vote in Victoria, and the remarkable victory of Wayne Dropulich from the Australian Sports Party in Western Australia having polled only 0.23% of the first preference vote.
Both men owe their victories entirely to ticket voting. Were Senate elections conducted like House elections, with voters required to complete their own preferences, then neither man would have been elected. Only group ticket voting makes it possible for micro-parties to control their preferences tightly enough to engineer the election of candidates from such low first preference votes.
With Western Australia going to the polls at a Senate election re-run this Saturday, it is interesting to ask what last September's preference flows would have been like without group ticket voting?
One way to answer the question is to look at the ballot papers of those voters who did not use the 'above the line' option, voters who filled in their own preferences for candidates 'below the line'.
For this purpose I have undertaken research analysing all ballot papers completed below the line at last year's WA Senate election. The research reveals parties that voters see as having ideological affinities with each other. It also reveals parties for which below the line preferences were at odds with preference orderings on party group ticket votes.
The key findings of the research are that
Labor and Green voters see a clear affinity between the their parties, and Coalition supporters see a similar affinity between the Liberal and National parties.
Voters for several small left parties saw a clear affinity between their parties and the Greens, while amongst Christian based parties there was a clear clustering of support amongst voters for Family First, the Australian Christians and Rise Up Australia.
Voters seemed to see no clear affinity between the Palmer United Party and other major parties. This suggests support for Palmer United last September was part protest and drawn equally from other parties, and also suggests that voters had no perception of a particular ideological bent to the party.
While eighteen small parties delivered 100% of above the line preferences to the Sports Party, only 13% of people who voted for the same parties below the line gave preferences to the Sports Party, highlighting how preference harvesting was responsible for the Sports Party's success.
Comparing above and below the line preferences highlights several parties who gave strategic preferences to parties with which below the line voters saw no political affinity.
The data used in the study was the electronic versions of 50,131 ballot papers admitted as formal to last year's re-count. Formality rules mean that not all of those ballot papers had complete sequences of preferences from 1 to 62. There were 43,511 ballot papers with a complete sequence and another 6,620 included in the count but with breaks or duplications in the preference sequence. The data does not include any informal ballot papers.
Analysing the ballot papers for preference flows requires me to simplify the data to concentrate on parties and groups rather than candidates. I also have to make several definitions to explain preference flows.
I use the term 'home group' to define the first preference of a ballot paper, an 'immediate next preference' to classify what a voter did with their next preferences after the home group, and an 'effective preference' to classify which party a ballot paper potentially reached towards the end of the distribution of preferences. I compare how flows revealed as immediate and effective preferences compared with the same information for the lodged group ticket votes.
Reducing the analysis to parties and groups rather than candidates is backed by the manner in which people completed their ballot papers. The overwhelming majority of voters gave first preference for lead candidates in each group, and most voters also gave preferences for all candidates in their home group before moving on to another group.
Fairly obviously I define the home group for a ballot paper as being the group for which the ballot paper's first preference is indicated. I make no distinction between which candidate in the group received the first preference as my interest is only in the home group.
Having defined each ballot paper's home group, the immediate next preference is the first number in a preference sequence that is not for a candidate in the home group. So if you voted 1 and 2 for the candidates in column A, and then 3 for a candidate in Column B, then the immediate next preference is for Column B. The overwhelming majority of below the line voters number all candidates in the home group before giving a preference to a candidate in another group. I make no distinction between voters who number all candidates in a group and those who leave the group 'early'.
As I will explain below, the concept of home groups and immediate next preferences reveal two types of preferential relationships on a ballot paper.
I call the most important of these an affinity preference, a preference that is indicated by such a large proportion of home group's ballot papers that it must indicate that voters saw some affinity between their preferred party and the party they gave an immediate preference to.
Another type of preference I find is what I call a proximity preference, a weaker preference flow than an affinity preference, which appears to relate to the physical structure of the ballot, specifically the proximity of two groups to each other on what was a large ballot paper.
The table below sets out data on the strongest flows of immediate next preferences for each home group on the ballot paper. The table has been ordered in descending vote order and the columns in the table are -
Column 1 - the group code representing the left to right ordering of groups. There were 28 groups listed from A to Z followed by AA then Ungrouped.
Column 2 - the percentage of first preference vote for the group/party
Column 3 - the party name of the group
Column 4 - the number of 'below the line' first preference votes for the party. These are the 'home group' votes for the party.
Column 5 - the number of below the line votes for a party expressed as a percentage of all votes for the party. As the table shows, the proportion of below the line votes varied greatly between parties.
Column 6 - the percentage of immediate next preference for other parties. All preference flows of more than 10% are shown in the table. The asterisk '*' highlights parties receiving preferences that were within three columns of the home group on the ballot paper.
Clearly the above table highlights that many voters see ideological affinities between certain parties. Liberal voters prefer Nationals, Nationals prefer Liberals, Labor voters prefer the Greens and vice versa. The three Christian values parties, Family First, Australian Christians and Rise Up Australia, all have strong flows of preferences to each other from below the line voters operating with no assistance from how-to-vote cards.
Several parties with small vote tallies also demonstrate affinity preference flows. Katter's Australian Party voters clearly preferred Palmer United. Voters for Wikileaks, Socialist Equality, Australian Democrats, Australian Independents and Animal Justice delivered strong flows of preferences to the Greens. There is also some affinity between the Sex Party and HEMP, though proximity on the ballot paper may have increased this preference flow.
Very interestingly, two of the higher polling parties in Palmer United and the Liberal Democrats appear to have no particular affinities to other parties on the ballot paper. Neither party produced a significant preference flow to another party, very different from all of the other high polling parties on the ballot paper.
With Palmer United Party, does this reveal that the party attracted its support from across the political spectrum? Or does it reveal that the party is so new that those who voted for it had no particular view on which other parties on the ballot paper had an affinity to Palmer United? Does it reveal that voters have a blurred view of the party's ideology?
Another point with the Liberal Democrat vote is the very low percentage of below the line voting. Only 1.4% of Liberal Democrat votes were below the line, more like the rates recorded for the Labor and Liberal parties and substantially different from the higher rate of below the line voting for every other minor party. Similar low rates of below the line voting for the Liberal Democrats were seen in other states. The low rate of below the line voting for the Liberal Democrats is another piece of evidence that voters confused the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democrats.
An interesting finding in the table is that 38.2% preference flow from Smokers Rights in Column A to the Liberal Democrats in Column B. While these two parties are closely related, this would not be well known to voters. This flow represents the peculiarly Australian phenomena of the 'donkey vote', a simple left-to-right ordering of preferences.
Similar preference flows caused by the structure of the ballot paper appears towards the bottom of the table, where parties with low votes revealed only weak preference flows. The lower the vote for a party, the more it seems that proximity preferences are in play, voters numbering their home group and then carrying on in a nearby column.
A point I need to repeat is that below the line voters had no guide as to how they should distribute preferences. Voters made up their own mind with no how-to-vote cues, relying instead on their perceptions of the parties. That is why I talk of affinity preference flows, as such flows indicate a significant numbers of voters for home groups such as Labor, Liberal, National and Green, having a perception of an ideologically similar party to preference next. The preference flows reveal how voters perceive parties to be related.
It is possible to compare the affinity preference flows with the immediate next preferences of each party's group voting ticket. For the Labor, Liberal and National Parties, the immediate next preferences on their group ticket vote were for the Greens, National and Liberal Parties respectively, in line with below the line affinities. The Green group ticket vote was quite different, inserting nine minor parties including the Sports Party before reaching Labor. Clearly the Green group ticket vote had a strategic element to its ordering.
The problem with the Senate ticketing system is it encourages such strategic preference orderings. If parties were instead trying to influence voters with how-to-vote cards, then much simpler and ideologically more consistent preference orderings would be chosen.
Ticket voting encourages such game playing, most spectacularly in the case of preference-harvesting by micro-parties, where any ideological content in a group preference ticket is abandoned to enter the lottery of strategic preference designed to corral preferences in the hope they can be accumulated to reach a quota.
One way of examining where group ticket preferences are strategic is to compare where the group ticket votes finish at the end of the count compared to the preference affinities of below the line votes.
To do this I need to define an effective preferences. An effective preference is one for a candidate who remains in the race for a final vacancy at the end of the count. Because of nearly complete compulsory preferential voting, at some point all ballot papers reach one of the small number of candidates competing for the final seats.
In the case of the 2013 WA Senate election, I have chosen five candidates as producing effective preferences. These were the five candidates competing for the final three seats in WA last September. These candidates were the Liberal Party's third candidate Linda Reynolds, Labor's second candidate Louise Pratt, and the lead candidates for the Greens, Scott Ludlam, Palmer United's Zhenya Wang, or the Australian Sports Party's Wayne Dropulich.
The intricacies of the count mean you cannot say a ballot paper's preference reached an effective preference. Green preferences were never distributed, so the party's effective preference for Wayne Dropulich ahead of other candidates never came into play. The order that candidates were excluded also meant it was not possible for both the Sports Party and Palmer United to be present together at the end of the count, as both parties relied on each other for preferences to win election.
But the fact you can state where a party's effective preference would have reached compared to the effective preferences of below the line votes is revealing of where parties lodged group ticket votes with a strategic rather than a preferred preference ordering.
The table below compares the above and below the line effective preferences for the parties of the five candidates I defined above. The structure of the table means that effective preferences for these five parties must be for one of the other four parties, which explains the zero entries in the table.
BTL
Percentage Effective Preferences for BTL Votes
Home Group
Ticket Effective Preference
Votes
LIB
ALP
GRN
PUP
SPRTS
Exhaust
Liberal
Dropulich - Sports Party
6329
..
15.9
15.2
42.7
23.1
3.0
Labor
Ludlam - Greens
8342
8.0
..
65.8
14.3
9.8
2.1
Greens
Dropulich - Sports Party
14361
5.3
74.2
..
10.0
8.7
1.8
Palmer United
Ludlam - Greens
2659
25.7
18.8
26.9
..
24.6
4.0
Sports Party
Wang - Palmer United
131
22.9
17.6
31.3
24.4
..
3.8
Some key points about this table are -
The exhausted votes represents the small number of ballot papers permitted to remain in the count despite having gaps or duplications in their sequence. These ballot paper are put aside without having finally reached a candidate.
The earlier table revealed a strong affinity preference for the National Party amongst Liberal voters. The entry in the above table skips this affinity preference as the lead National candidate has not been defined as one of the effective preferences.
Labor's ticket preference for Scott Ludlam corresponded to two-thirds of the preference of below the line votes. Labor's ticket had a preference that matched the affinity perceived by below the line voters.
Three quarters of Green below the line voters had an affinity preference for the Labor Party, but this was not reflected on the Greens group ticket vote preference ordering, which had a strategic preference for the Sports Party ahead of Labor. It should be pointed out that while the Green ticket had this theoretic preference for the Sports Party, the preference was in fact never used because no Green preferences were distributed.
Below the line Palmer United and Sports Party preferences have little structure in the direction. As displayed in the earlier table of immediate preferences, low polling parties or parties with no clear ideological position do not see strong flows of below the line preferences to another party.
The next table shows the below the line effective preferences of the 18 minor and micro parties that helped elect the Sport Party with their group ticket vote. As the table shows, the below the line preference flows for Sports Party feeder parties were sometimes very different from the lodged ticket.
BTL
Percentage Effective Preferences for BTL Votes
Home Group
% Vote
Votes
LIB
ALP
GRN
PUP
SPRTS
Exhaust
Liberal Democrats
3.43
628
28.7
6.5
14.8
35.8
8.4
5.7
Australian Christians
1.64
1823
55.1
10.3
7.8
18.0
7.0
1.8
Sex Party
1.49
1689
8.9
14.7
44.9
16.7
12.5
2.2
HEMP
1.07
1233
7.6
13.1
38.0
22.1
16.7
2.6
Shooters and Fishers
1.04
1036
24.9
10.5
5.3
27.9
28.8
2.6
Wikileaks
0.75
1638
9.1
14.3
47.9
19.7
7.6
1.4
Animal Justice
0.74
716
9.9
12.3
53.5
11.7
10.9
1.7
Smokers Rights
0.67
638
5.6
8.0
10.5
58.0
12.7
5.2
Family First
0.67
480
40.2
10.2
14.8
21.3
11.3
2.3
Motoring Enthusiasts
0.59
414
16.7
13.3
13.3
21.5
32.4
2.9
Fishing and Lifestyle
0.44
218
15.6
9.6
11.9
22.5
36.2
4.1
Australian Independents
0.31
354
7.3
9.6
45.5
22.0
11.9
3.7
Australian Democrats
0.29
575
10.3
19.8
52.5
11.1
5.6
0.7
Rise Up Australia
0.29
388
38.9
7.5
11.6
29.6
10.6
1.8
Stop the Greens
0.17
141
22.0
11.3
6.4
26.2
29.8
4.3
No Carbon Tax
0.11
92
37.0
10.9
18.5
21.7
8.7
3.3
Stable Population
0.10
312
20.8
12.2
37.5
17.6
9.6
2.2
Australian Voice
0.09
57
5.3
7.0
24.6
33.3
24.6
5.3
All 18 parties
12432
21.0
12.0
28.7
22.5
13.3
2.5
Several points need to be highlighted about the above table.
Voters for smaller parties tended to avoid the major parties. Strong flows of BTL preferences to major parties in the above table are very indicative of micro-parties lodging group ticket votes with strategic preferences rather preferences with an ideological affinity. Instances of this are highlighted in bold.
Australian Christian, Family First, No Carbon Tax and Rise Up Australia below the line voters clearly saw greater affinity with the Liberal Party than the strategic preference each party gave to the Sports Party.
Below the line voters for the Sex Party, HEMP, Wikileaks, Animal Justice, Stable Population, Australian Independents and Australian Democrats clearly saw a greater affinity with the Greens than their party's strategic preference for the Sports Party.
The 58.0% flow from Smokers Rights to Palmer United is largely the donkey vote, with the Liberal Democrats in Column B revealing a similar flow.
The alternative view that voters voted this way below the line in opposition to their party's lodged ticket seems unlikely given how few people examine the tickets. The one party where this may be the case is Wikileaks, where there was controversy of the ticket lodged by the party.
Finally, the table below shows the effective preferences for the five remaining groups on the ballot paper that did not direct preferences to the Sports Party.
Pct
BTL
Percentage Effective Preferences for BTL Votes
Home Group (Pct)
Ticket Effective Preference
Vote
Votes
LIB
ALP
GRN
PUP
SPRTS
Exhaust
National
Reynolds - Liberal
5.07
4405
42.1
14.0
19.7
16.2
6.6
1.4
Katter's Australia
Wang - Palmer United
0.30
401
16.2
9.0
12.0
54.4
7.0
1.5
Secular Party
Ludlam - Greens
0.11
485
11.1
13.0
58.8
9.9
6.0
1.2
One Nation - Ungrouped
None
0.03
422
24.6
10.9
12.6
29.6
19.7
2.6
Socialist Equality
Split ALP, LIB, GRN
0.03
164
3.7
11.0
57.9
17.1
9.8
0.6
Clearly the National Party, Katter's Australian Party and the Secular Party lodged party tickets that matched the expectations of below the line voters. The sole One Nation candidate had no group preference, while the Socialist Equality Party's decision to lodge three tickets splitting preferences equally between Labor, the Liberals and Greens, was completely at odds with what below the line voters thought of the parties.
So what can we draw from this analysis? The below the line data shows that voters for many parties saw clear ideological affinities between their first preference party and other parties on the ballot.
If group ticket voting were abolished and optional preferential voting either above or below the line introduced, then parties would issue how-to-vote material recommending preferences. You would expect parties to select sequences in line with the ideological affinities perceived by voters, and less likely to adopt strategic preference flows.
Recommending a strategic preference for a micro-party would be a waste of time for a major party if ticket voting was abolished, as the micro-party would be unable to deliver on its end of the strategic preference deal.
Most of the findings outlined in this post concerning larger parties are relatively obvious - the affinity preferences between the parties make ideological sense. The lack of affinity preference in the Palmer United below the line vote is an unusual finding, but makes sense if you view the party as a new entrant campaigning with anti-major party rhetoric.
The key finding though is how many group ticket votes of minor and micro parties are completely at odds with the preferences revealed in the below the line preferences flows. In particular, that 18 parties delivered 100% of above the line preferences to the Sports Party, but only 13% of below the line voters, is revealing in how much group ticket voting allows Senate election results to be manipulated by labyrinthine preference deals.
Comments
A very interesting article Antony.
I've always voted BTL either to reorder a major party ticket or support a minor party, and to ensure I determine my preference flow. This has never been simple for the Senate, but I've found the http://www.belowtheline.org.au site very useful in 2013 and for this year's WA Senate election. The print your own voting guide facility will be particularly useful with the number of candidates this year.
The introduction of optional preferential voting would be a major step forward, as would electronic voting if it facilitated a view of the BTL result when an Above the Line vote was selected - if voters could then edit the BTL flow the preference deals would lose their impact.
COMMENT: The answer is simply to get rid of the tickets and simplify the voting system, which means voters would have a better chance of understanding what they are doing.
- Frank F - Kalamunda April 04, 2014 at 12:54 PM
I work in IT with similar complexity data sets and I have been thinking about the problem of preference flows not following voters desires.
Could the above the line votes just treat the below the line votes as the tickets for distribution? In other words each below the line vote if distributed would have a number of above the line votes "piggy-backing" it.
eg. based on the WA data above Liberal BTL votes get 83.333 piggy-backers and Green BTL votes get only 8.696 piggy backers.
The main advantages of this method is the same ballot paper and voting method could be used reducing voter re-education costs and initial voter error. I'm sure there must be some problem/disadvantage to this method I cannot see and I would appreciate if you point me in it's direction.
COMMENT: The solution is clearly to simplify the voting system. The most likely option is to allow optional preferential voting above the line for parties and abolish the tickets altogether.
This is a bit off-topic, but I've looked at the SA Legislative Council's full distribution of preferences. It appears that the Nick Xenophon group did much better than the ABC calculator output suggested they would. They were actually less than 300 votes behind Shooters & Fishers when one of those had to be excluded. As it was, Xenophon was excluded, electing both Labor and Family First to the final two seats.
If S & F had been excluded at that point instead, I think Family First and the 2nd Xenophon person would have been elected. Is this right?
Thanks for this post and the Blog in general Antony. I ran 4 simulations through your calculator this morning and came up with your conclusion the first two times. Trying to get the Greens elected I attempted again and managed to oust a Labor position and replace it with a HEMP candidate. I finally at my fourth attempt got the Greens in at the expense of Pratt, but to do that the Labor vote really needs to collapse through low voter turn out. Interesting and fun to do. Thanks again.
- Paul Gruyters April 04, 2014 at 02:28 PM
Rightly or wrongly; I am absolutely certain that the abolition of Group Ticket voting - replacing it with OPV ATL will also ensure far less micro-parties even bother to go to the trouble of nominating in future elections.
This is because the power to conjure that 6th Senate seat has been taken from them and handed back to the voters.
I hope that Government enquiry into all matters relating to the 2013 election recommends this change to the electoral process.
I tried to perform the same kind of analysis on the Victorian Senate Ticket - distributing preferences by ignoring the group ticket votes and multiplying the value of the BTL votes accordingly.
My result ended up electing Susan Kroger to the #6 senate spot for Victoria instead of Ricky Muir who was eliminated quite early in my count.
Antony, Are you planning to perform a similar exercise with the other State senate counts to see who would and wouldn't have been elected if Group Ticket Voting was not permitted?
- Jeff April 04, 2014 at 02:35 PM
The Socialist Equality Party lodged its three-way preference split because it was trying to ensure its preferences played no part in the outcome. This cannot be fully accomplished, but the approach they adopted was the one that came closest to achieving their objective. Individual voters who vote below the line cannot do this and have to make a choice. The study revealed that, when the choice is forced, over half of SEP voters opt for the Greens over the other parties nominated. I don't find this surprising.
- Greg Platt April 04, 2014 at 02:42 PM
What you havent taken into account is that some voters dont vote BTL to show some 'affinity' for what party candidates they roughly put 1st and 2nd ... it is the party candidates they put 1st and LAST that count. Many of my friends claim to do this - they put their party candidates 1st and Greens LAST.... that way the Greens will be the last to get their vote, if they can help it.
COMMENT: I don't have to take it into account. The last preference on a ballot paper is never counted as the preference is never reached. On my tables of effective preferences using your example, such a vote will always be for one of the other parties as all those other parties are reached before the Greens.
Next week I will probably publish tables of the last preference given for each first preference, but such a table is meaningless in working out where a party's preferences get to, because the last preference can never be reached.
- Matt G April 04, 2014 at 07:32 PM
As more people might be voting below the line this election, can you confirm, as per your article last year, that a person can vote both above and below the line? I.e. If your below the line voting declared invalid, your "1" above the line will be considered your vote.
AEC, of course, say you can only vote above OR below the line. Thx.
COMMENT: A vote marked above and below the line is formal, and after the re-count last year, any returning officer who doesn't know that should be sacked.
- E April 04, 2014 at 09:12 PM
"Recommending a strategic preference for a micro-party would be a waste of time for a major party if ticket voting was abolished, as the micro-party would be unable to deliver on its end of the strategic preference deal."
1. Given the high below-the-line voting for a micro-party compared with a major party isn't this statement already relevant?
2. Many preference deals seem to be between upper and lower house, rather than within the upper house, although this is usually between major and minor rather than major and micro parties. In this case wouldn't abolishing ticket voting mean that the major party would be unable to deliver votes to the minor party in the upper house whilst, because of the much smaller choice and a more effective How-to-Vote card, the minor party would be able to deliver votes to the major party in the lower house?
COMMENT: (1) - no, because 13% of a 5-10% BTL vote plus 100% of 90-95% ATL is vastly different from 13% of 100% of all votes. (2) A lot of micro-parties contesting lower houses are trying to get their Senate vote just that little bit higher, making it more likely they will stay in the count through the preference harvesting process. Abolish the tickets, preference harvesting stops, the floods of lower house candidates are also diminished.
- Dennis Matthews April 04, 2014 at 09:56 PM
The issue of voting both above and below the line is interesting.
In the SA elections the SA Electoral Commission has separately counted not only above and below the line but also those below the line votes that stayed below the line and those that were moved to above the line.
I assume the latter was done when the below the line voting was ambiguous or didn't fill in all the boxes or missed out a number.
This shows that voting only below the line can be no better and sometimes worse than voting above the line simply because the chances of making a mistake are high. Doing both is a belt and braces strategy but doing just below the line risks an informal vote.
COMMENT: All electoral acts include a provision that deals with votes marked above and below the line. The Commonwealth Electoral Act allows up to three errors and also requires only 90% of square to be filled. The SA Act requires all squares to be filled and no errors are permitted.
- Dennis Matthews April 05, 2014 at 12:24 PM
I think that if ticket votes are eliminated, parties will still exert significant influence on preferences via their "how-to-vote" leaflets.
How much influence is an interesting question. Obviously current below-the-line voters are less likely to follow a how-to-vote, but the big variable is how many current above-the-line voters would be prepared to do their own thing if it becomes easier as a result of (1) being able to preference above-the-line and (2) less candidates as the micro-parties fall away.
I agree that many of the micro-parties will go away without ticket votes because they won't be able to influence preferences AT ALL, because they don't have a real movement from which to draw volunteers to hand out how-to-votes.
The few genuine micro-parties that do tend to be represented at polling booths (I certainly saw the Socialist Alliance at mine back in September, there may have been one or two others) will likely still contest, and I think that's a good thing, as they're in it for the right reason.
- Alaric April 05, 2014 at 07:17 PM
Interesting stuff. You must have put a lot of work into that. Thanks. Two minor comments, but first I should declare that I started the Liberal Democrats so I'm a bit biased.
(1) I don't doubt that there was some Liberal-LDP confusion, but I have another thesis that you might like to consider if/when you have the time. For some voters, I think LDP and Palmer fill a similar niche in the political marketplace. There seems to be some evidence for that in the BTL voting above as many LDP votes went to Palmer. I'd be curious if the reverse was also true. I note that the 2013 performance of LDP and Palmer in different states seem to be inversely related… with LDP doing relatively worse when Palmer does relatively better. I don't pretend this is the only factor, and I don't know if it's a big factor, but it seems like a logically coherent possibility with some anecdotal evidence.
(2) Again, I don't doubt that the donkey vote was an important element, but I suspect that at least some Smokers preferences flowed to the LDP on purpose. The SRP said in their campaign that they had an agreement with the LDP and were preferencing the LDP… and that makes a lot of sense in terms of policy. While many voters wouldn't have known that, I assume that BTL voters are relatively more informed so it is reasonable to expect that some of them would be aware of the link, approved of the link, and voted accordingly.
Obviously you have the data to say so definitively, but are people really donkey voting below the line - filling out the whole ballot paper starting at the top left and finishing at the bottom right? I find that incredible.
COMMENT: Yes, there are a small number of people doing it, and for parties in Column A with low votes, the donkey votes make up a disproportionate part of that small vote and it shows up in the preference flows.
Regarding Tim's comment on below-the-line donkey votes, I sorted the below-the-line data from 2013 and found that 52 people completed a full 1 to 62 donkey vote (groups in order, left-to-right).
A further 49 went as far as 1 to 10 through the ideological smorgasbord of Smoker's Rights-LDP-Australian Christians-HEMP-Socialist Equality. Some of these appear to have been attempted donkeys that got derailed later on by missing a number or poor handwriting, but would have still been valid votes up to the first skipped or repeated number.
- Alaric April 06, 2014 at 04:36 PM
Given how close Pratt is to getting a quota at the same time as PUP, do you the higher proportion of Labor BTL to Lib BTL could push her over the quota line? Could you analyse the 2013 BTL votes to a 2-party preferred case, an extension of your "effective prefference" investigation? For Pratt to make it, she needs to reach the quota at the same time as PUP, and not allow excess PUP votes to flow to the Libs.
COMMENT: Most of the Labor BTL votes are already included in the totals, so they can't improve Pratt's position.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '842e8dac57f0d838b6716cec076e493d8b2a88c9ac8c1ca9dfe0026cfd7254c3'}
|
Iron Hill Brewery Set To Debut Popular Pumpkin Beers On September 5
Press Release
Aug. 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM
WILMINGTON, DE — On Friday, September 5, beginning at 5 p.m., all 10 regional Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant locations will celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new season with the annual release of both The Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale and Classic Pumpkin Ale. Iron Hill’s award-winning Pumpkin Ale will be available on draught at all 10 locations through Halloween (Friday, October 31), and pumpkin lovers will be able to take home The Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale in cork-finished 750 mL bottles for a limited time.
“I can’t think of a style of beer that we do here at Iron Hill that evokes such pomp and circumstance. This is a release that our fans mark down on their calendars months and months in advance,” says Director of Brewing Operations Mark Edelson. “Pumpkin Ale is also one of our favorite beers to make, too, with its spicy and bold flavors — it really tastes like pumpkin pie in a glass — and we look forward to pouring our award-winning pumpkin ales throughout the season.”
Iron Hill’s Pumpkin Ale is a medium-bodied, copper-colored ale with malt-y sweetness and a balancing bitterness. It is spiced with traditional pumpkin pie spices and vanilla, in lieu of finishing hops, for intensely seasonal flavor. The Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale is a hearty autumnal beer brewed each year with more than 200 pounds of pumpkins, as well as pumpkin pie spices, molasses and Belgian candi sugar, giving it a rich flavor and heady aroma, evocative of wool sweaters, crisp evenings by the fire and all things fall. Throughout the season, the beer will be sold as a Bottled Reserve, Iron Hill’s line of cork-finished 750 ml bottles, for $19.50. The Great Imperial Pumpkin Ale’s collectible bottles feature a custom-designed label from local artist Jeff Schaller, inspired by the beloved comic strip Peanuts.
Founded by home brewers Kevin Finn and Mark Edelson and restaurateur Kevin Davies in Newark, DE in 1996, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant has blossomed from one restaurant and brewery to 10 locations across the mid-Atlantic, with an 11th location, in Ardmore, PA scheduled to open in the coming year. Each restaurant is dedicated to producing and serving top-quality hand-crafted beers and cuisine in a warm and hospitable setting, and all are open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'e34b5f8a41ec349265b446d2c3748095269f8b5f9dd27b92868bfa3c7bba165b'}
|
Nearly 100 volunteers with the USO in Jacksonville fed nearly 3,000 military service members and their families Thanksgiving Day.
"It's all about taking care of our own," one volunteer said.
"I'm happy that I'm helping other people," another said.
"Giving myself to those who aren't so fortunate enough to be home."
Thanksgiving Day has several meanings, but it means more to Pfc. Charles Ford this year, than any other.
"I was kind of worried it would be disappointing being away from my family, being away from my wife, but at the same time, I'm able to make the best of it with these guys, as we've all grown pretty close," Ford said.
It's the first time Ford and his fellow Marines couldn't make it home for the holiday. Retired Sgt. Maj. Joesph Houle says the USO in Jacksonville is a home away from home.
"The main thing is camaraderie -- that they're sitting down here, families sitting down, being able to talk to one another and renew old relationships and friendships," Houle said.
Volunteers prepared a feast and packed boxes of food to deliver to those on duty at local bases. This is the 19th year that the USO has hosted this event.
The turkey, ham, green beans and yams are a special treat for Natasha Price's family.
"It means a lot," Price said. "I know a lot of them because I work at Camp Lejeune, and a lot aren't from here. I know it means a lot having a home-cooked meal, when you can't get home."
And it's a memorable year for Houle.
"This year's special because we have most of our Marines home from the war, if you will," Houle said. "So we're going to have Marines here that have been deployed, five, six times in the last 10 years."
But most importantly, it's the military bringing everyone together. It's the military that gives Ford a reason to be thankful.
"Most of my life, leading up to now, hasn't really accomplished much, but I actually feel as though I have kind of a sense of purpose, now," Ford said. "That's definitely something I'm thankful for."
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9861177802085876}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61013', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:I5FREICINBOCXWNZKXGEPFMQZKVJUXTY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:329d9541-11bd-491b-9618-565186bf8999>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 1, 15, 57, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.31.29.37', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OJORPZKSYF7CUADMPYHOKNJDKEHNT542', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ee44b35f-3912-4cc1-aaa9-b6ee9c39fa53>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.wcti12.com/news/uso-volunteers-host-thanksgiving-feast-for-military-members-and-families/23203312', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:91e8b40c-8be6-4c45-83db-54427d7a1169>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '348', 'url': 'http://www.wcti12.com/news/uso-volunteers-host-thanksgiving-feast-for-military-members-and-families/23203312', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 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': '0.037558913230895996', 'original_id': '5791d3a1a554f1825fe3fc331122d9f78811c931920386207e3c7f406c4bf3b9'}
|
Waterproof Tile Sealer
Tiles waterproofing is one area where most of the major waterproofing sealers fail. Why? Simply because most of the tiling work is done in bathrooms and kitchens which are constantly marauded by water, something that is not suited to typical waterproofing solutions. Tile waterproofing in most cases requires protection even in constantly wet conditions. Apart from this, the texture of tiles does not allow many waterproofing agents to stick to the tiles.
This is where specially formulated waterproof tile sealer comes into the picture. These kinds of sealers are now being manufactured by many companies. Let us take a look at a few of them and see which ones are the best suited for which type of applications.
Crommelin Elastoseal HD
Crommelin Elastoseal HD is an elastomeric membrane that is known for its high tensile strength. The sealer is basically a heavy duty neoprene compound that can be used for the purpose of protecting and waterproofing tiles. The sealer is known for its excellent elongation properties and tends to remain watertight even in permanently wet conditions.
Apart from being used on tiles, the sealer can also be used to protect a number of surfaces from water damage such as reinforced concrete, balconies, roofs, retaining walls, basements, etc.
Wrimco PSC Sealer
Wrimco PSC sealer is a water based penetrating sealer that works by entering the surface of porous materials and protects these surfaces from the inside. The sealer is primarily a flouro chemical sealer and can be used to seal settings that are permanently under water.
Some of the principle characteristics of the sealer include the following.
• The sealer is water-based; hence it has a low viscosity and is easy to apply.
• The sealer forms a layer over the surface that is to be protected. This layer is impervious to water but allows water vapor to pass through.
• Apart from this the sealer repels both water as well as oils.
• Since the sealer bonds with the surface on which it is applied, it adds to the strength and durability of the surface in the long run.
• The sealer forms a near colorless, invisible coating; hence it does not affect the natural look and feel of the surface that has been coated by it.
Durabit Reo Waterproof Membrane
Durabit Reo is a polymer emulsion waterproofing membrane that is water based and which can be used to both waterproof and internally reinforce the surface that is coated by it. The distinctive feature of the sealer is that it incorporates into itself micro fibers which add to the durability and effectiveness of the sealer.
Since the sealer cures to form a durable, impervious membrane that resists getting damaged even when immersed in water it is great for use in areas which are constantly under water or exposed to water. Apart from all this, the sealer is quite easy to apply and use.
These are some of the waterproof tile sealers which are commonly used by construction agencies and individual users to protect and waterproof the tiling work in their homes as well as offices.
Back to Top
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9615259766578674}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '9771', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FKGITLJKZYZ72UFXBSW6RLYBXQF3OLXB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a0565d55-b6bd-4932-9d7f-03723123ccb8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 23, 0, 26, 21), 'WARC-IP-Address': '97.74.180.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ITMR3ORDZWSCOA4SQOTELNDUIFEESQAI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f8a88dbd-6735-49d4-81f3-fd6511f7b962>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://waterproofingsealers.com/waterproof-tile-sealer.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e1b838f4-deac-4375-abf2-3cb649ef124d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '516', 'url': 'http://waterproofingsealers.com/waterproof-tile-sealer.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-95-180-234.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.030256330966949463', 'original_id': '3af2010ec0b19867f276175231e6bf6a980eb2cb111280a32b388d625c4b4383'}
|
Might it still be possible to recover this hard drive?
Years ago, I ran into a patch of horrible luck. My laptop’s hard drive crashed, and my diskette backups turned out to be faulty.
At that point, I couldn’t afford to have the data recovered from the drive.
Now, I can probably afford to have it recovered, but the hard drive is really really old. It crashed in 1996, and it was old then.
It’s been in one of those anti-static bags ever since.
Is there any hope?
Yes, hard drive media is very stable. As long as the drive has not physically failed, any computer shop usually has decent stuff for pulling from blown partitions and such.
At this point, all you can get is a definate maybe. It will all depend on the reason for the crash. Corrupted boot block/ partition/ other soft errors. Chances are good. Problems with the heads or positioning mechanism would pretty much require the services of a clean room ($$$).
Were you in my neighborhood, I’d plug it into an adapter and slave it to my system for quick diagnostics. Soft errors I’d mirror the drive and go from there. Hardware failure I’d unplug from immediately because there woudn’t be anything I could do.
Is the data worth what it would cost to send to a clean room service?
I’m pretty sure this was a physical failure of the drive.
I don’t know if the data is worth a clean room service, since I’m not sure what sort of cost we’d be talking about. I got estimates when the failure originally happened, and it was a couple hundred dollars. I was completely broke, so I couldn’t do it then.
The actual contents are two novels. Well, one full novel and two half novels.
Recovery from physical failures is expensive, plan on somewhere between $600-$2000. The stuff they quote you “little as $99” in the ads is for basic stuff anyone can do with a little time and effort. Several places do “no data no charge” but its not uncommon for them to find alot of stuff, just not always what you were hoping for. If its something with financial value, its often worth the price.
I don’t think my data is worth that.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9686920642852784}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25547', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FSFK6ZUQVQPDIHILD2AOKZEDYFBXMRQ4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f4c45940-c587-41a0-99e5-38c8a6d65207>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 5, 14, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.71.168.201', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:36GPQYOPK2K2S2HARIRJ4B5ZJ7JITMXL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9a86ad26-b0c5-4492-8265-2ae7247a9ebf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-it-still-be-possible-to-recover-this-hard-drive/412920', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:529f39eb-e4de-4b12-931a-dff991e8ba76>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '376', 'url': 'https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-it-still-be-possible-to-recover-this-hard-drive/412920', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-45\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-253.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': '0.3299218416213989', 'original_id': '214b60eb4d1ec3839b28c7275620db5b606fd7ec97870f255a342ce45b15e3e3'}
|
^) For the history of the Romantic Revival see: Eastlake, A History of the Gothic Revival in England (London, 1871). Phelps, The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement (Boston, 1893). Beers, History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (New* York, 1910). Beers, History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1902). — 57 — Ages, and felt the beauty of the old romances, however unclassic their form, while the mysteries of Christianity replaced with him pagan mythology. His imagination also drew its inspiration from the past; action, however, he prefers to feeling. As to the love of nature, already in his youth it seized hold of him and never deserted him after. ^) So Scott belongs to romanticism, and his place in it is a very important one, for he was the first to win the public ear for the new poetry and by virtue of his novels he was a romantic writer of the most powerful influence both in England and abroad.-) ') See Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. I, p. 40, where Scott says, speaking about the period when he was thirteen years of age: — "From this time the love of natural beauty, more especially when combined with ancient ruins, or remains of our father's piety or splendour, became with me an insatiable passion, which, if circumstances had permitted, I would willingly have gratified by travelling over half the globe." ■-) .... "Scott and the romantic movement are almost synonymous terms." A History of English Literature by Thompson, p. 550. Saintsbury in A History of Nineteenth Century Literature, p. 69, also calls Scott "the poet, who, though, according to the canons of poetical criticism most in favour during this century, he ranks lower than either \\'ordsworth or Coleridge, did far more to popularize the general theory of Romantic poetry than either." Again we read in Saintsbury, A Shoii History of English Literature, p. 665: "From the historic point of view, hardly the greatest poets exceed Scott in importance. Without him it is extremely improbable that Byron would have done anything more than the Giffordian satires, which were most congenial to him, and which, though clever enough, are of no real moment. And without his influence, reinforced as it was a decade later by his own novels and Byron's poems, the complete conversion of the public taste could not, so far as we can see, have by any possibility been effected." Speaking of the novel Saintsbury says of Scott, p. 681 : "He found the class still half;despised, very scantily explored, popular, but with a sort of underground and illicit popularity. He left it the equal of any literary department in repute, profit, possibility; and (which must be said, though it is travelling out of our usual record) he infused into it, as Fielding had begun to do before him, a tradition of moral and intellectual health, of manliness, of truth and honour, freedom and courtesy, which has distinguished the best days of the English novel as it distinguishes those of any other literary kind." The change in the appreciation of the novel had come about 1820. Cf. "The times seem to be past when an apology was requisite from reviewers for condescending to notice a novel ; when they felt themselves bound in dignity to deprecate the suspicion of paying much regard to such trifles, and pleaded the necessity of occasionally stooping to humour the taste of their fair readers. The delights of fiction, if not more keenly or more generally relished, are at least more readily acknowledged by men of - 58 - There is here a close connection between the past and romanticism. For there is nothing Hke the study of history to excite imagination, which again is the essentiel element of romanticism. But then the past must be studied in the right manner, in all its general aspects. It should be a study not only of chronicles and histories, but also of monu- ments and relics, of ancient observances and customs, of notions and beliefs, of traditions and superstitions, of what- ever is in any way related to times gone by. By the side of the merely historic, the political, social, and intellectual aspects of the past must be examined. Imagination touching this material changes old ruins into strong castles, knights and ladies, lords and serfs move about them again, burghers throno- the streets of the ancient towns, and the past is no longer an idle word, but a world in which each person lives his own life and has his own story to tell. Both the past and imagination are found in Scott. We have already seen how he applied the historical element to literature. His extraordinary accomplishments as an historian stood him in good stead here. '^For Scott brings to his work and puts at the disposal of his readers the attributes not only of a learned antiquary, folklorist and balladmonger, poet and historian, but also those of a sagacious statesman, ecclesiologist, soldier, sportsman, literary critic, topographer, bon vivant, genealogist, raconteur, and trained lawyer." ^) This knowledge and sagacity act as ballast to the ready flight of his imagination. 2) sense and taste; and we have lived to hear the merits of the best of this class of writings discussed by some of the ablest scholars and soundest reasoners of the present day." From an article in The Quarterly Review, No. XLVIll, p. 352. That Scott nevertheless owes something to his predecessors we see in Dibelius, Englische Romankunst, Vol. II, p. 227: "Auf alien Gebieten seiner Kunst fanden wir die Spuren von Fielding, Smollett, Richardson, Mrs. Radcliffe und anderen." 0 The Bookman. Illustrated History of English Literature by Seccombe and Nicoll, Vol. 11, p. 406. ') Cf. Saintsbury's History of Nineteenth Century Literature, p. 137. "Scott had done in prose fiction what the poets and the dramatist had sometimes done likewise. Ostensibly going to the past, and to some extent really borrowing its circumstances, he had in reality gone straight to man as man; he had varied the particular trapping only to exhibit the universal substance." — 59 — The spirit of the past is the first dominant quahty in Scott's work, his romanticism is the second, and is at the same time the great cause of his popularity. ^) In this respect Scott's imagination is the strength and the weakness of the romances. For it expresses itself in action at the expense of feeling, and influences Scott's method of writing, making it objective. Hence there is no minute analysis in his poems and novels, nor are there shades and distinctions of passion. 'We see this clearly in the characters which are painted more from the outside than from the inside. Now this lack of feeling, of a generally subjective element ~) is especially injurious to poetry, and we need not wonder that after his first success Scott gave up verse for prose, ^) escaping from the competition of Byron. Yet it was through the medium of Scott's writings that the eyes of the public were opened to the beauties of the poetry of the Lake school, and of Byron, of Shelley and of Keats. His romances in verse appealed to popular taste and trained the literary judgment of their readers. More than this, he was even a teacher throuo^h his novels, for these influenced a far larger number of persons than his poems, and his triumph in the field of prose is indeed unparalleled. By his 'Waverley novels Scott taught his people, and, by proxy, other nations as well, how to read. It is true that his romances in prose ^) "Scott saw the incompatibility of the aims of history and fiction, and satisfied himself with seeking verisimilitude rather than antiquarian accuracy. The difficulty is a real one; to this day it is hard, if not impossible, for a novelist who lays his scene in the fourteenth century to convince or gratify a student who has enjoyed the writings of Chaucer and Froissart. Such a novel can be rescued from triviality only by genius, which knows how to touch lightly on transitory fashion, and to rest the interest of the story on the unchanging fashions of the human heart. Quod semper et ubique et ab omnibus is the saving creed of a novelist." Raleigh, The English Novel, p. 282. ') Scott is in so far subjective as he sees the world with the eyes of his own generous, chivalrous nature, but his pictures have little shadow. ^) Nor must it be forgotten that Scott was a tale-teller before a poet. "Although possessed of a poetic faculty always real, often great, and sometimes quite consummate, there is no doubt that he was in the first place, and by natural kind, even more of a tale-teller than of a poet in the modern sense, that he was a 'maker' first of all." Saintbury, A Short History of English Literature, p. 666. Thompson in A History of English Literature, p. 556, calls Scott's poem "each a novel in verse". — 6o — were not perfect either, but such as they were, they were unsurpassed in his own life-time. Thus Scott was the first to introduce romanticism to the nineteenth century. ^) For this he chose his own vehicle, the one best suited to the action found in his work. 2) For his poems he made use of the octo-syllabic verse of the Norman-French romances, as did Milton, Butler, Gay, and others, and modified this metre after a chance hearing of Coleridge's Christabel, read from a manuscript. The monotony which seemed inherent in it is avoided by the introduction of short lines and occasional irregularities. Lines of four and six syllables are interchanged at times with those of eight, and sometimes the verse contains as many as twelve syllables. And though the foot is iambic, we find other measures as well. The rhyme is in general connected and only occasionally alternates as in the old ballad stanza, or is diversified by other modes. In this way Scott refined the iambic tetrameter to an attractive form for his romantic tales, and was able to express their sustained life and motion.^) His lines have a music of their own, which makes us think in reading them that we hear the charging knight, the clanging blows, the tramping of horses, the beating of drums. Scott is especially the writer of action. *) 0 "An interest in past history, a desire to revive in fiction the picturesque element of bygone institutions and customs, was of the essence of the Romantic revival." Raleigh, The English Novel, p. 278. -) In the Introduction to Canto Third of Marmion the author, portraying his own life and character, asks his friend Erskine: "For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet's wel^conn'd task?" And begs him to spare the friend in the minstrel: "Though wild as cloud, as stream, as gale. Flow forth, flow unrestrain'd, my Tale!" ') Whenever Scott forsook his octosyllabic verse, as in The Vision of Don Roderick, where he used the heroic verse, or in Harold the Dauntless with its mixed metres, he seems to be out of his element. ^) "No poet ever equalled Scott in the description of wild and simple scenes and the expression of wild and simple feelings. But I have said enough now of his poetry, in which, good as it is, Scott's genius did not reach its highest point. The hurried tramp of his somewhat monotonous metre, is apt to weary the ear of men who do not find their sufficient happiness, as he did, in dreaming of the wild and daring enterprises of his loved Borderland. The very quality in his verse which makes it seize so — 6i — To express this animation of action he chose the novel, when he was beaten out of the field of poetry by greater men ^), after having performed his task in the interest of romanticism in this domain. For he wanted to remain free from the rules and con- ventions of classicism as he had been when he wrote his poems in the old ballad metre. And there was no better method for representing human life in its full activity than the novel. The form of the drama and the epic had been defined, and going back to the days of the Romans and Greeks was bound by rules, which classicism and neo-classicism are and always were ready to assert. More- over comedy is intended to give rise to laughter rather than tears and to reflect external ordinary life rather than exceptional incidents, and tragedy implies some fault on the part of the principal character in the drama, bringing about an unhappy ending and awes the spectator in its development. The epic again should have but a single main subject, a definite hero, orderly arrangement and grave and dignified treatment. All these departments of literature are limited not only in form and character but also in length. That romantic upstart, however, the novel may be called free and may yet possess all the qualities of its classic rivals, s) Thus, when in the beginning of the nine- powerfully on the imaginations of plain, bold, adventurous men, often makes it hammer fatiguingly against the brain of those who need the relief of a wider horizon and a richer world." Mutton's Sir Walter Scott, p. 59. 0 Concerning the poet Scott and his relation to Byron, to whom he abandoned poetry, see Saintsbury's Nineteenth Century Literature. On p. 75 it says: "It appears to me at least, that on no sound theory of poetical criticism can Scott be ranked as a poet below Byron, who was his imitator in narrative and his inferior in lyric." ^) In this respect the prefatory chapters to the several books of Fielding's Tom Jones may be of interest. The great novelist here states some of his views on literature and in one chapter, speaking about the place due to extraordinary scenes and to matters of no consequence he says: — "My reader, then, is not to be surprised, if, in the course of this work, he shall find some chapters very short, and others altogether as long; some that contain only the time of a single day, and others that comprise years; in a word, if my history sometimes seems to stand still, and sometimes to fly. For all which I shall not look on myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever; for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein. And these laws, my readers, whom I consider as my subjects, are bound to — 62 — teenth century all literature was at an ebb, and only the new poetry began to find its followers and adherents, Scott took for his new prose the novel as the fit method of expression. And owing to him, this despised and but scantily explored class of literature became the equal of poetry and the drama, in popularity even excelled them. So the novel proved to be for Scott the right instrument for painting human nature in action, much more so than the romance in verse. As to Scott's method of telling his story, he sometimes puts it into the mouth of the principal character as in Rob Roy, or employs the means of letters and narrative as in Redgauntlet. As a general rule, however, he tells his tale directly. He himself remains invisible and cannot be ques- tioned about causes and events, but he knows and sees ever)1:hing. For Scott's stories with their many incidents and large perspective this is the right method. It is also dramatic, and whenever the writer likes he can put off his ring of Gyges and be his own chorus. The romantic writer of action thus already appears in the external form and method of his romances. But the character of his work is much more clearly pronounced in its internal qualities. And here, as already pointed out, im- agination predominates. For the full expression of passion we must look to the work of other romantic writers not to that of Scott. In him fiction scores its triumphs, not feeling.^) believe in and to obey; with which, that they may readily and cheerfully comply, 1 do hereby assure them, that I shall principally regard their ease and advantage in all such institutions ; for I do not, like a jure divino tyrant, imagine that they are my slaves, or my commodity. I am, indeed, set over them for their own good only, and was created for their use, and not they for mine. Nor do I doubt, while I make their interest the great rule of my writings, they will unanimously concur in supporting my dignity, and in rendering me all the honour I shall deserve or desire." The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Book II, Chapter I. Cf. Kurt Gaebel, Beitrage zur Technik der Erzahlung in den Romanen Walter Scotts, Kapitel IV, where the author writes about Scott's dramatic and picturesque tendencies. ') Speaking of Scott as a poet, Saintsbury says: — „He is a poet of description, of action, of narration, rather than of intense feeling or thought." Nineteenth Century Literature, p. 75. Of the novelist the same might be said. - 63 - So imagination is the moving power of Scott's romances. By it the writer communicates Hfe to the persons, the story, the dialogue. It is also found in the picturesque descriptions. This may be at the expense of depth, but not of action. That imagination takes a foremost place in Scott's work we see, first of all, in the characters.') Before him in the days of classicism, convention reigned supreme and poetic diction called every young man a swain, every young woman a nymph. Nor was there much more diversity in the painting of characters in the drama. The eighteenth-century novel, nothwithstanding its dramatic nature, was also prosaic and at the same time realistic. From the romantic past with its impossible heroes of accomplished knights and ladies the novelist had turned to the commonplace present. Yet there was a turn for the better about the beginning ot the nineteenth century both in poetry and prose. We must, however, go back to Shakespeare to find a romantic writer like Scott. The novelist also has in common with the great dramatist, the representation of human nature in action, and consequently the variety and multitude of his personages. But he ranks below him in the delineations of passion and feeling, in the grasp of the complexity of human character.") Scott's dramatis personae are carried along in the strong tide of their own lives, the interest of which never flags for lack of adventures and incidents;^) the writer also paints the picturesque stage on which they ') "As in the imagination of Shakespeare, so in that of Scott the principal form and object were the structure — that is a hard word — the undulation and diversified composition of human society ; the picture of this stood in the centre, and everything else was accessory and secondary to it." Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot, The Waverley Novels, p. 157. ') "We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them!" Carlyle's Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. V, p. 272. But see also Hutton's criticism of Carlyle's judgment in Sir Walter Scott by Richard H. Hutton, p. 106 sqq. ") The Author of Waverley speaking about the method of his works in the Introductory Epistle to The Fortunes of Nigel says, p. xxx: — "When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again." _ 64 move, and all this at the expense of psychology. It is with ,. the charactes as with the tales, they work themselves out. :, Hence no elaborate descriptions, but instead of these a ,; portrayal by means of incidents, comments, slight touches. ^ Scott's personages have no time for introspection and for j this reason good and evil meeting in the same person seem ii to exist separately without coalescing as in real life. In general, however, the characters are either good or bad, j though of the internal life of their souls not much is seen ; we must judge them by their words and actions more than by their thoughts. Minute analysis is foreign to Scott's genius. His is not the philosophic mind that separates ij substance and form and lays bare the soul to reveal its il inmost workings. He possesses other qualities. He is the !^ imaginative writer who cannot construct a plot except to ;i deviate from it, and who suffers no control, but whose [i mind embodies in concrete form what his fancy conjures up and in this he misses no picturesque details. How he paints his characters may be seen in the portrait 't of the wandering harper in Scott's first romance in verse : j '•When kindness had his wants supplied ! And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride: And he began to talk anon, Of good Earl Francis, dead and gone. And of Earl Walter, rest him, God! A braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew, Of the old warriors of Buccleuch : And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain. Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak. He thought even yet, the sooth to speak. That, if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd. But, when he reach'd the room of state. Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease. - 65 - Which marks securit}- to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain I The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart and gave him time, Till every string's according glee Was blended into harmony. And then, he said, he would full fain He could recall an ancient strain, He never thought to sing again. It was not framed for village churls, But for high dames and mighty earls : He had play'd it to King Charles the Good, When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd, yet fear'd to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd. And an uncertain warbling made. And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild. The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong. He swept the sounding chords along; The present scene, the future lot. His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, "T was thus the Latest Minstrel sung!" i) The romantic writer shows himself here in the incom- pleteness of the picture which leaves to the reader's imag- ination something indicated by a few suggestive words. He is also found in the wonderful simplicity which speaks to the heart. But Scott's special way of writing is seen in the manner in which he depicts the harper's mood. He comes here perhaps as near to analysing the mind of a character as he does anyu^here. But it is done by describing action. The 0 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Introductic — 66 — minstrel after being tended well eels his strength revive, and with returning comfort his pride rises. He wishes to requite the hospitality shown to him, for does he not know i "full many a tale" "of the old warriors of Buccleuch"? But j when he enters "the room of state", where the duchess, i "with all her ladies", sits, his self-reliance gives place to ; diffidence. The recollections of the past are too much for | him, and only tactful encouragement prevents his breaking i down altogether. When, however, the harp has been tuned, | he again feels confident and wants to give his best. And so, i hesitating and tentatively, the harper recalls "the long-for- j gotten melody" and then loses himself, his troubles, and l his age "in the full tide of song." Thus with more vagueness | than precision, with more energy than method, but with | wonderful imaginative picturesqueness, the aged minstrel is J drawn.') In the harper, however, we have but a character !; found in the framework of the poem, and the above | abstract is given here on account of its being, all the same, a beautiful and distinct picture, and because it dis- plays the way in which Scott describes feelings though such description is somewhat rare with him. Another instance of Scott's picturesque art of writing is ii the character of Squire Inglewood in i?^^ ^^_y. Miss Vernon i: introduces him to the reader by drawing a ludicrous picture i' of the magistrate and his clerk to Francis Osbaldistone, who, \' accompanied by her, is on his way to Inglewood Place ;«! to exculpate himself. Inglewood has sacrificed his scruples \* ^) Cf. Pitt's opinion of the lines describing the old harper's embarrassment: H "This is a sort of thing which I might have expected in painting, but ji could never have fancied capable of being given in poetry." Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol II, p. 34. A more general statement is that of The Quarterly Review, Vol. Ill p. 512: "Never, we think, has the analogy between poetry and painting ji been more strikingly exemplified than in the writings of Mr. Scott. He sees everything with a painter's eye. Whatever he represents has a j character of individuality, and is drawn with an accuracy and minute* ness of discrimination which we are not accustomed to expect from verbal !| description." The Monthly Review (London, 1806), Vol. XLIX, p. 297, though disapproving , (i of the looseness and extravagance of the narrative, says : "Yet if such defects i: can be redeemed by much faithful and lively painting, and by the beauty ' H of many detached passages, the Lay of the Last Minstrel will stand absolved j « before the tribunal of criticism," and transcribes the Introduction at length, it! J - 67 - of Jacobitical loyalty and become a justice in order to be able to enforce the game-laws. His clerk, Jobson, is a zeal- ous Protestant, and a friend to the existing government. "'Now his principal, retaining a sort of instinctive attachment to the opinions which he professed openly, until he relaxed his political creed with the patriotic view of enforcing the law against unauthorised destroyers of black-game, grouse, partridges, and hares, is particularly embarrassed when the zeal of his assistant involves him in judicial proceedings connected with his earlier faith ; and, instead of seconding his zeal, he seldom fails to oppose to it a double dose of indolence and lack of exertion. And this inactivit)- does not b}- any means arise from actual stupidity. On the contrary-, for one whose principal delight is in eating and drinking, he is an alert, joyous, and lively old soul, which makes his assumed dulness the more diverting. So you may see Jobson on such occasions, like a bit of broken-down blood-tit condemned to drag an overloaded cart, puffing, strutting, and spluttering, to get the Justice put in motion, while, though the wheels groan, creak, and revolve slowly, the great and preponderating weight of the vehicle fairly frustrates the efforts of the willing quadruped, and prevents its being brought into a state of actual progression. Na)- more, the unfortunate pon)-, I understand, has been heard to complain, that this same car of justice, which he finds it so hard to put in motion on some occasions, can on others run fast enough down hill of its own accord, dragging his reluctant self backwards along with it, when any thing can be done of service to Squire Inglewood's quondam friends. And then Mr. Jobson talks big about reporting his principal to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it were not for his particular regard and friendship for Mr. Inglewood and his family.' " ^) To give a description even by the words of another may be somewhat out of Scott's line, but the writer is all himself when he paints his character in the meeting between the accused and the justice. Osbaldistone finds Inglewood taking his leisure after dinner in the company of his clerk and the accuser, Morris, over a bottle of sack. The justice has just chanted an old ditty and is having his revenge upon the man who has troubled him with declarations by threatening him into singing, when Osbaldistone appears on the scene and creates a new 0 Rob Roy, Chapter VII. — 68 — disturbance. Telling his story in the first person, the latter says: — "I broke the silence of surprise occasioned by my abrupt entrance. — *iVh- name, Mr. Inglewood, is Francis Osbaldistone ; I understand that some scoundrel has brought a complaint before }ou, charging me with being concerned in a loss which he says he has sustained.' 'Sir,' said the Justice, somewhat peevishly, 'these are matters I never enter upon after dinner — there is a time for everything, and a justice of peace must eat as well as other folks.' The goodly person of Mr. Inglewood, by the way, seemed by no means to have suffered by any fasts, whether in the service of the law or of religion. 'I beg pardon for an ill-timed visit, sir; but as my reputation is concerned, and as the dinner appears to be concluded — ' 'It is not concluded, sir,' replied the magistrate; 'man requires digestion as well as food, and I protest I cannot have benefit from my victuals, unless I am allowed two hours of quiet leisure, intermixed with harmless mirth, and a moderate circulation of the bottle.' 'If your honour will forgive me,' said Mr. Jobson, who had produced and arranged his writing implements in the brief space that our conversation afforded ; 'as this is a case of felony, and the gentleman seems something impatient, the charge is contra pacem doniini regis — ' 'D — n dominie regis!' said the impatient Justice — 'I hope it's no treason to say so; — but it's enough to make one mad to be worried in this way. Have I a moment of my life quiet, for warrants, orders, directions, acts, bails, bonds, and recognisances.'' I pronounce to )'ou, Mr. Jobson, that I shall send }^ou and the justiceship to the devil one of these da}'s.' 'Your honour will consider the dignity of the office — one of the quorum and custos rotulorum, an office of which Sir Edward Coke wisely saith. The whole Christian world hath not the like of it, so it be duly executed.' 'Well,* said the justice, partly reconciled by this eulogium on the dignit)- of his situation, and gulping down the rest of his dissatisfaction in a huge bumper of claret, 'let us to this gear then, and get rid of it as fast as we can. — Here }'ou, sir — }ou, Morris — you, knight of the sorrowful countenance — is this Mr. Francis Osbaldistone the gentleman whom you charge with being act and part of felony?' 'I, sir?' replied Morris, whose scattered wits had hardh' }et re-assembled themselves — 'I charge nothing — I say nothing against the gentleman.' - 69 - 'Then wc dismiss your complaint, sir, that's all. and a good riddance — Push about the bottle — Mr. Osbaldistone, help yourself.' " ^) Jobson here interferes and keeps Morris to his declaration, when Diana Vernon appears. She is heartily welcomed by the justice, who old bachelor though he is, knows what is due to beauty. The accusation is now at last heard and a violent altercation follows between the accused and the clerk, Jobson, however, is called away and though he wants to make out the warrant for committal before he goes, the magistrate, afraid of any more judicial business wishes to wait till his return. Then in the absence of the clerk the justice feels as happy as a schoolboy in the holidays and wants to settle the matter in his own way by making Osbaldistone give back the port- manteau and hush up the thing. A stranger, however, appears upon business notwithstanding the justice's protestation, and exculpates the accused. The declarations now find their way to the fire and Morris under the escort of the stranger, Campbell, leaves the mansion of Justice Inglewood. 'The joy which that worthy magistrate received at this easy conclusion of a matter which threatened him with some trouble in his judicial capacity, was somewhat damped by reflection on what his clerk's view of the transaction might be at his return. 'Now. I shall have Jobson on my shoulders about these d — d papers — I doubt I should not have destro}-ed them, after ail — But, hang it, it is onh' paying his fees, and that will make all smooth — And now, Miss Die Vernon, though 1 have liberated all the others, I intend to sign a writ for committing you to the custody of Mother Blakes, my old housekeeper, for the evening, and we will send for my neighbour Mrs. Musgrave, and the Miss Dawkins, and your cousins, and have old Cobs the fiddler, and be as merry as the maids; and Frank Osbaldistone and I will have a carouse that will make us fit company for you in half an hour.' " -) 0 Rob Roy. Chapter VIII. ') Rob Roy. Chapter IX. — 70 — Miss Vernon and Mr. Frank, however, have to go, but not without the necessary admonitions from the honest magistrate. His last words are : — " 'And now, get ye both gone, and leave me to my pipe of tobacco, and my meditations, for what says the song — "The Indian leaf doth briefly burn ; So doth man's strength to weakness turn ; — The fire of youth extinguish'd quite, Comes age, like embers, dry and white. Think of this as you take tobacco. " ' " ''■) Such is the manner in which Scott paints his characters, and in all of them we must admire the vividness and brilliancy of the pictures. It is true that he does not analyse the human heart, and that the student of human character does not gain much knowledge from his work, but imagination has won its triumphs here. While later writers, too, profiting by what he has indicated may improve upon his method, his greatness as a picturesque writer remains unchallenged. As such Scott draws his characters in bold outline, gaining in breadth what he loses in depth. Nor does he restrict himself in the multitude of his personages. His wealth of fancy, stimulated by knowledge, may be seen in the gallery of portraits found in the tales and novels. And in all these characters we find the same picturesque touch. Scott paints kings and queens, courtiers and statesmen, preachers and schoolmasters, peasants and farmers, beggars and gipsies, matrons and maidens, dairy-women and maids, and many more figures, but all are living personages whatever they may be, whether Christian or infidel, high or low, tree or bond, rich or poor. His pictures are always real and lifelike. ') This is equally true of the writer's historic characters, which to a certain extent are bound by history, and are therefore most apt either to degenerate into caricatures or to become mere props for the display of the writer's knowledge. Scott's historic insight, however, was keen enough to prevent the one, while his imagination guarded him from the other. 0 Rob Roy, Chapter IX. ') We may make an exception for The Black Dwarf, an unsuccessful work, which we may regard as a sacrifice offered up by Scott on the altar of the tale of terror. I Not that the historical basis on which his conception of such personages rests is always trustworthy or that the minuter details of history are paid much attention to in painting them, but as a whole the pictures are generally right and always vivid. Already in the poems we may admire the genius with which Scott draws such pictures as that of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, in The Lord of the Isles, of James IV in Marmioii. and of his son James V in The Lady of the Lake. Take for instance the figure of the reckless warrior who defied the might of England on Flodden Field. At Holyrood he is feasting his chiefs before they march southward. ''Well loved that splendid monarch aye The banquet and the song, By day the tourney, and by night The merry dance, traced fast and light, The maskers quaint, the pageant bright, The revel loud and long. This feast outshone his banquets past. It was his blithest — and his last". ^) When Marmion, the English ambassador, enters the palace-halls, the king comes to greet him and Scott paints his manly form and noble mien, nor does he forget his royal garb. But then he turns again to the pleasure-loving monarch himself, whose heart, however, knows one sharp pang. "Light!}- from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; — Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. I said he joy'd in banquet bower ; But, 'mid his mirth, 'twas often strange How suddenly his cheer would change, His look o'ercast and lower, If, in a sudden turn, he felt The pressure of his iron belt, That bound his 'oreast in penance pain, In memory of his father slain. Even so 'twas strange how, evermore, Soon as the passing pang was o'er Forward he rush'd, with double glee, Into the stream of revelry ; 0 MAvmion, Canto Fifth, VII. — 72 — Thus, dim-seen object of affright Startles the courser in his flight, And half he halts, half springs aside; But feels the quickening spur applied, And, straining on the tighten'd rein, Scours doubly swift o'er hill and plain." ^) The king is then painted as under the influence of the |j French queen and Sir Hugh the Heron's wife, for whose \i sakes he had planned an invasion into England. "And yet, the sooth to tell, Nor England's fair, nor France's Queen, Were worth one pearl-drop, bright and sheen. From Margaret's eyes that fell, — His own Queen Margaret, who, in Lithgow's bower. All lonely sat, and wept the weary hour." ^) Lady Heron sings of young Lochinvar and a look ex- changed between her and Marmion displeases James, who turns to the ambassador to announce to him his defiance of Henry of England. Even the Douglas opposes the war in vain. But when the king upbraids his noble, remorse again seizes him at the mention of the slaughtered favourite Cochran's name and he asks Douglas to forgive him, when he sees a tear in his eye. At Marmion's words in favour of peace, however, the headstrong prince again breaks out. "Displeased was James, that stranger view'd And tamper'd with his changing mood. 'Laugh those that can, weep those that may,' Thus did the fiery Monarch say, 'Southward I march by break of day; And if within Tantallon strong. The good Lord Marmion tarries long, Perchance our meeting next may fall At Tamworth, in his castle-hall.' " ^) And at the last words of warning by Marmion, "The Monarch lightly turn'd away, And to his nobles loud did call, — 'Lords, to the dance, — a hall 1 a hall !' Himself his cloak and sword flung by, And led Dame Heron gallantly ; ') Marmion, Canto Fifth, IX. ') Marmion, Canto Fifth, X. «) Marmion, Canto Fifth, XVII. — 73 — And minstrels, at the royal order, Rung out — 'Blue Bonnets o'er the Border.'"^) This is indeed a picture full of life and animation. The novels, however, offer an even better opportunity to Scott for displaying his genius as a picturesque writer, and the number of historical portraits in them is also much larger than in the poems. In The Talisman Richard Coeur de Lion and his chivalrous enemy Saladin occur, in Iva?ihoe Richard appears again with his mean brother John, the two mighty rivals Louis XI and Charles the Bold are painted in Quentin Durward, by the side of Charles of Burgundy in A7tne of Geierstein we see Margaret of Anjou and Rene \ of Provence, in The Monastery and The Abbot Mary, Queen of Scots, and Murray are found, Kenilworth gives us Elizabeth Tudor as well as Sussex and Leicester, in The Fortunes of Nigel James I is depicted, Charles I and Cromwell appear in Woodstock, Charles II in Peveril of the Peak, while Old Mortality describes Claverhouse and Monmouth, and an important character in Waverley is the Young Pretender, Charles Edward. All of these are well-known persons in Scottish, English, or continental history. Many more historic portraits might easily be added to these, or the names of I other great figures who play their part in the novels. As another illustration of Scott's picturesque characters we take the portrait of Queen Mary in The Abbot, after she ■ has escaped from prison and is once more among her friends. I "Mary's first feeling when she awoke was the doubt of her ' freedom ; and the impulse prompted her to start from bed. and hastily throwing her mantle over her shoulders, to look out at the casement of her apartment. O sight of joy 1 instead of the crystal sheet of Lochleven, unaltered save by the influence of the wind, a landscape of wood and moorland lay before her, and the park around the castle was occupied by the troops of her most faith- j ful and most favourite nobles. 'Rise, rise, Catherine', cried the enraptured Princess ; 'arise and come hither! — here are swords and spears is true hands, and glittering armour on loyal hearts. Here are banners, my girl, floating in the wind, as lightly as summer clouds — Great God! what pleasure to my weary eyes to trace their devices — thine own brave father's — the princely Hamilton's — the faithful •) Marmxon, Canto Fifth, XVII. — 74 — i , Fleming's — See — se€ — they have caught a glimpse of me, and i throng toward the window 1' She flung the casement open, and with her bare head from i which the tresses flew back loose and dishevelled, her fair arms, ! slenderly veiled by her mantle, returned by motion and sign the 1 exulting shouts of the warriors, which echoed for many a furlong 1 3 around. When the first burst of ecstatic joy was over, she recol- j : lected how lightly she was dressed, and, putting her hands to her ' •: face, which was covered with blushes at the recollection, withdrew ; abruptly from the window. The cause of her retreat was easily.
|
common_corpus
|
{'identifier': 'scotthisinfluenc00vissrich_4', 'collection': 'US-PD-Books', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '', 'title': 'Scott and his influence on Dutch literature ..', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '7349', 'token_count': '9720', '__index_level_0__': '14164', 'original_id': '6a694656375ad3949edbe7bfb672a8f8f1fc47cbd818dcc31017f22fbbcb75f8'}
|
SELENOPROTEIN O is a chloroplast protein involved in ROS scavenging and its absence increases dehydration tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The evolutionary conserved family of Selenoproteins performs redox-regulatory functions in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. Among them, members of the SELENOPROTEIN O (SELO) subfamily are located in mammalian and yeast mitochondria, but their functions are thus far enigmatic. Screening of T-DNA knockout mutants for resistance to the proline analogue thioproline (T4C), identified mutant alleles of the plant SELO homologue in Arabidopsis thaliana. Absence of SELO resulted in a stress-induced transcriptional activation instead of silencing of mitochondrial proline dehydrogenase, and also high elevation of Δ(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase involved in degradation of proline, thereby alleviating T4C inhibition and lessening drought-induced proline accumulation. Unlike its animal homologues, SELO was localized to chloroplasts of plants ectopically expressing SELO-GFP. The protein was co-fractionated with thylakoid membrane complexes, and co-immunoprecipitated with FNR, PGRL1 and STN7, all involved in regulating PSI and downstream electron flow. The selo mutants displayed extended survival under dehydration, accompanied by longer photosynthetic activity, compared with wild-type plants. Enhanced expression of genes encoding ROS scavenging enzymes in the unstressed selo mutant correlated with higher oxidant scavenging capacity and reduced methyl viologen damage. The study elucidates SELO as a PSI-related component involved in regulating ROS levels and stress responses.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': 'fcd36d8511dc606997e005f1e0f9dc9e3923676d737f4fc5bcc8b9291cd72eeb'}
|
Life insurance for suicide attempt survivors?
Does any one know if in the uk anyone has ever managed to get life insurance after a suicide attempt ? It seems even if it was 30 years or more ago that you are blacklisted for life and never able to get life insurance.
Is this true?
2 answers 2
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.96841961145401}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '95096', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WSV2WE553Q5EZEQDGILBNLGARXLVCFD5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:630f1268-a4c2-4369-9ec2-41bb31ea3b29>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 4, 48, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '66.218.84.43', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OFVBOPEIAMKUFOCOXQOVDUJKXUTJFRPE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:73bdc062-1aaf-4d67-b678-af8269518517>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120626132629AAlFa3m', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:53a5f168-52c2-416a-bf15-74f28109966b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '56', 'url': 'https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120626132629AAlFa3m', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-81-203-254.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04363590478897095', 'original_id': '080cd3e65a887e06fc453687b40aeb1123a7ba89ebe96faaeb5cc53e083ca7b6'}
|
Monuments & Battlefields in South Africa
Isandalwana: the greatest defeat ever inflicted on the British Army by a native force…
From the arrival of the white man at the Cape, and the advent of recorded history, the region has been locked in a restless struggle both within and between the major racial groups. Events of great significance, such as the Great Trek, the Anglo/Zulu and the Anglo/Boer Wars, the wars of pacification between occupier and native in various parts of the country, and the ongoing confusion as to what defines a native of South Africa, have all contributed to a lively, and indeed living history.
Race History
All the races of South Africa take their history seriously, but in a nation where the wounds of repression and racism are still fresh, many of the commemorative monuments are mutually antagonistic, and what is revered by one is often reviled by another. When for so many years the white minority of South Africa held both the purse strings and command over the documentation of history, the bulk of historical monuments in the country tend to be those commemorating white endeavour. However in the decade since independence much iconography has come into being celebrating the black liberation struggle and the heroes and champions that it produced.
From the many building of historic interest in the Cape, the sombre battlefields of KwaZulu Natal, almost every aspect of this history has left physical traces that remain to be examined and explored by those interested in such things.
The main points of interest for a history traveller in South Africa are the many sites and monuments the commemorate from both sides the Anglo/Boer War. This was a race war before the black and white race issue had really surfaced in South Africa, and remains one of the most iconic conflicts to affect Britain in her quest to amass a global empire. It was unusual insofar as it matched white man against white, and was a glorious moment in Boer history, even in defeat, for it was a defeat that took a contribution from every colony and dominion of the Empire to ultimately achieve.
The Anglo/Zulu War, although less important in the scheme of colonial conflicts, was one of the greatest, if not the greatest defeat inflicted on the British Army by a purely native power. To the Zulu it was a bitter moment as the end came of their domination of the landscape, and the rise of their unique military culture. To the settler minority it was the culmination of a program of pacification that had brought, one after another, all of the major local powers to heel, and under the suzerainty of either British or Boer rule.
The monuments of both of these wars are revered, and are scattered widely across the region and country. For a traveller curious to absorb and learn about the bloody and divided history of South Africa, there is, unlike in many countries of the region, a richly preserved heritage of sites and monuments that stitch together a tale of empire, of creation and destruction, and of the harsh and bloody march of human progress.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9640473127365112}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '95873', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YXBNEXQXKYQVB5JOIUSUPR33J467S6TR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:874487cf-c9dc-4cd6-921e-bee225451a07>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 23, 7, 30, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.199.113.87', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7GP3PEQJCSJCQVG3YCWZ6MMB6LEMFD4G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1980e8ea-2520-4c78-be86-a027015cb815>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.southafricalogue.com/monuments-battlefields', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:cb06c3a0-89c0-48e8-95e1-f7283cad647e>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '533', 'url': 'http://www.southafricalogue.com/monuments-battlefields', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-09\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 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': '0.15427929162979126', 'original_id': '37e92712565ad75034d29e5985240e63a00320f4045a6e145d54268ab6078269'}
|
The Shrine of Sounds
Human ear can hear sound frequencies between approximately 20 and 20,000 hertz. You identify certain sounds for different things and make sense of the world through sounds, to sense and to communicate. Some sounds are unfamiliar to your ears, and you’ll sense anticipation for what you’ll face. Some sounds are unwanted, they disturb you like that time you were taking a nap and a loud bang on your front door woke you up abruptly, or the ones that made it difficult for you to hear your friend speaking to you across a loud bar, these sounds are called noise.
But instead I found myself in that very shrine hearing all the noises I never expected to hear.
I pictured an air of serenity in my head when I thought of a Buddhist shrine; the sound of the monk’s bare feet against the wooden flooring of the shrine and faint chimes…
View original post 1,269 more words
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9025930166244508}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '51298', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2D2E2HNIGG6KJNNF2OL5TNCIKJS4PS54', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6796a7ae-0c24-42f3-9d2d-db5d2bb48e75>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 23, 7, 53, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MIGSXJTN6SWWL3DWGT47H77CXXYCH3DZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3df9e990-4dfd-4d10-a6d7-79f3433e5a03>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://pamelaingrida.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/the-shrine-of-sounds/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:801f5e82-8147-4c48-9d49-3808e323e9e5>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '215', 'url': 'https://pamelaingrida.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/the-shrine-of-sounds/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-76-76.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.4206843376159668', 'original_id': 'bfbd207895f7e73002f99d660e8ab6686087f5df3c5670fc98005edef4641260'}
|
---
abstract: 'A synthesis of Polyakov loop models of the deconfinement transition and quasiparticle models of gluon plasma thermodynamics leads to a class of models in which gluons move in a non-trivial Polyakov loop background. These models are successful candidates for explaining both critical behavior and the equation of state for the $SU(3)$ gauge theory at finite temperature. Two sensitive lattice probes which can discriminate between models are the Polyakov loop $P$ and $\varepsilon -3p$.'
address:
- |
Dept. of Physics, Washington University,\
St. Louis, Mo, 63130, USA
- |
Indiana University,\
Bloomington, In, 47405 USA
author:
- 'P. Meisinger T. Miller and M. Ogilvie[^1]'
title: Theory and Phenomenology of the Polyakov loop in QCD Thermodynamics
---
The body of results on the critical behavior and thermodynamics of QCD and related theories at finite temperature are among the most important that lattice gauge theory simulations have provided, giving important guidance in both theory and experiment. Theoretical work on the thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma at zero chemical potential is often benchmarked against results from lattice simulations. Here we explore a class of models which synthesize the attractive features of quasiparticle models of the quark-gluon plasma [@Peshier:1995ty][@Levai:1997yx][@Schneider:2001nf] and Polyakov loop models of the deconfinement phase transition [@Pisarski:2000eq][@Meisinger:2001cq]. Quasiparticle models, which are partially motivated by perturbation theory, have been successful in fitting lattice results for thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure over a large range of temperatures, but typically at the cost of introducing a number of extra assumptions and parameters. Polyakov loop models extend the equilibrium free energy density $f$ to a function of the Polyakov loop $P$, which is the order parameter for the deconfining phase transition in pure gauge theories. The spontaneous breaking of center symmetry in pure gauge theories, which underlies our understanding of the deconfinement transition, occurs in these models because the free energy develops symmetry-breaking global minima above the deconfinement temperature $T_{c}$.
The general class of models of deconfinement we study have free energies of the form $$\begin{aligned}
f(T,P)&=&V(T,P)-p_g(T,P,M(T))\nonumber\\
&&+B(T,P,M(T)).\end{aligned}$$ The first term $V(T,P)$ is phenomenological, and favors the confined phase at low temperature. The second term is the negative of the quasiparticle pressure $p_g$, and represents the contribution of gluonic quasiparticles moving in the presence of a background Polyakov loop. The quasiparticle pressure is given by $$\begin{aligned}
p_g(T,P,M(T))&=&-2T\int \frac{d^{3}k}{\left( 2\pi \right)^{3}}\nonumber\\
&&\cdot Tr_{A}\,\ln \left[ 1-e^{-\beta \omega _{k}}P\right] \end{aligned}$$ where $Tr_{A}$ denotes the trace in the adjoint representation. The pressure depends on the quasiparticle mass through the quasiparticle energy, assumed to have the simple form $\omega _{k}=\sqrt{k^{2}+M\left( T\right) ^{2}};$ the quasiparticle mass is temperature-dependent. The third term is the so-called bag term. It arises because the zero-quasiparticle state has a non-zero, temperature-dependent energy $B$. If we assume that $B$ depends on $T$ only through the quasiparticle mass $M$, then thermodynamic consistency leads to an expression for $B\,$which may be written as $$\begin{aligned}
B(T,P,M(T))&=&\int_{T_{0}}^{T}d\tau \frac{\partial M^{2} }{\partial \tau }\int \frac{d^{3}k}
{\left( 2\pi \right) ^{3}}\frac{1}{k^{2}}\nonumber\\
&&\cdot Tr_{A}\,\ln \left[ 1-e^{-\omega _{k}/\tau }P\right].\end{aligned}$$ After minimization with respect to $P$, the equilibrium pressure is given by the negative of the minimum of the free energy density.
In previous work [@Meisinger:2001cq], we have developed two models for the $SU(N)$ deconfinement transition which fit within this general class. In both models, we took $M=0$ and hence $B=0$. Both of these models gave a good representation of the critical behavior for all $N$, and reasonable thermodynamic behavior. Here we extend the second of these two models, called model B, to model B+M which includes quasiparticle mass effects. The potential $V\,$associated with model B has the form $$V(T,P)=-\frac{T}{R^{3}}\ln \left[ \mu \left( P\right) \right] +v_{0}$$ where $\mu (P)$ is Haar measure on the gauge group. This form for the potential can be understood as enforcing color neutrality at scales $R$ and larger. We again use the parameter $R$ to set $T_{c}$ to the result of lattice simulations. The constant $v_{0}$ is used to match the pressure at one point on the curve, again chosen to be $T_{c}$.
We show in figure \[fig:pcross\] the dimensionless pressure $p/T^{4}\,$as a function of $ T/T_{c}$ for models B and B+M, along with simulation data from [@Boyd:1996bx]. Note that once $R$ and $v_0$ are fixed by determining $T_{c}$ and $p(T_c)$, there are no more free parameters in model B. The pressure from Model B overshoots the lattice data at higher temperatures, and the quasiparticle mass corrects this. The quasiparticle mass term has the form suggested by perturbation theory, $M(T)=g(T)T/\sqrt{2}$. We take the temperature-dependent coupling constant to be given by $g^2(T)={8\pi ^{2}}/{11\ln \left( T/\Lambda \right) } $ where $\Lambda $ is an adjustable parameter. We have obtained the best fit to the lattice pressure data by replacing $T/\Lambda $ in $g(T)$ with a crossover function of the form $\left[ \left( T/\Lambda \right) ^{n}+\left( T_{cr}/\Lambda \right) ^{n}\right] ^{1/n}$ where we have taken $n=10$. Both Polyakov loop effects and a rapidly rising quasiparticle mass suppress the temperature as one moves to lower temperature, and both are not needed. It is physically plausible that $g$ does not run with $T$ all the way down to zero temperature, and the crossover function provides that effect. The critical temperature is taken to be $T_{c}=0.272\,GeV$, although an exact number is not needed. The parameter $R$ is determined from $T_{c}$, and is given by $R^{-1}=0.61T_{c}=0.17\,GeV$ which may be compared with the result for model $B$, $R^{-1}=73T_{c}=0.2\,GeV$. The value of $\Lambda $ obtained was $0.3T_{c}=.081\,GeV$, with a crossover temperature $T_{cr}=2.4T_{c}$.
![$p/T^4$ versus $T/T_c$.[]{data-label="fig:pcross"}](p-B+B+M.eps){width="17pc"}
Figure \[fig:delta\] compares the dimensionless interaction measure $\Delta =(\varepsilon -3p)/T^{4}$ for model B+M with both lattice results and a quasiparticle model without Polyakov loop effects ($L=1$). Model B+M shows a peak in $\Delta $ just above $T_{c}$, consistent with the lattice data, and correctly reproduces the latent heat of the first-order $SU(3)$ deconfinement transition. Of course, the model without Polyakov loops effects is incapable of reproducing the deconfinement transition. The first-order character of the $SU(3)$ deconfinement transition is also clear in Figure \[fig:Pol\], which shows the Polyakov loop as a function of $T/T_{c}$The shape of the curve is similar to that found in a recent lattice determination of the Polyakov loop [@Kaczmarek:2002mc]. It is also interesting to compare the quasiparticle masses for model B+M with the $L=1$ model, as shown in figure \[fig:Mred\]. The most notable difference is the rapid rise of the quasiparticle mass in the $L=1$ model near $T_c$.
![$(\epsilon - 3 p)/T^4$ versus versus $T/T_c$.[]{data-label="fig:delta"}](Delta.eps){width="17pc"}
![ $L=Tr_{F}\left( P\right) /N_{c}$ versus $T/T_c$.[]{data-label="fig:Pol"}](Pol.eps){width="17pc"}
![$M(T)/T$ versus versus $T/T_c$.[]{data-label="fig:Mred"}](Mred.eps){width="17pc"}
It should be apparent that many models will be able to fit lattice thermodynamic results well. The ability to describe both the thermodynamic results and the deconfinement transition, while not unique to the model described here, seems very desirable. The introduction of an extra term $V$ in the free energy is phenomenological, but based on our understanding of the deconfinement transition. The onus of describing the temperature region just above $T_{c}$ is placed where it likely belongs, on the confinement mechanism. It is possible to extend this model to include quarks. As with confinement, our inability to describe chiral symmetry breaking in a fundamental way forces us to use phenomenological models, in this case of Nambu-Jona Lasinio type. Nevertheless, a useful synthesis of our current understanding of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration is likely possible.
[9]{}
A. Peshier, B. Kampfer, O. P. Pavlenko and G. Soff, Phys. Rev. D [**54**]{} (1996) 2399. P. Levai and U. W. Heinz, Phys. Rev. C [**57**]{} (1998) 1879. R. A. Schneider and W. Weise, Phys. Rev. C [**64**]{} (2001) 055201. R. D. Pisarski, Phys. Rev. D [**62**]{} (2000) 111501. P. N. Meisinger, T. R. Miller and M. C. Ogilvie, Phys. Rev. D [**65**]{} (2002) 034009. G. Boyd, J. Engels, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, C. Legeland, M. Lutgemeier and B. Petersson, Nucl. Phys. B [**469**]{} (1996) 419. O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, P. Petreczky and F. Zantow, Phys. Lett. B [**543**]{} (2002) 41.
[^1]: Supported by the U.S. Dept. of Energy under grant DE-FG02-91ER40628.
|
mini_pile
|
{'original_id': '5eb9ff4feeaeebe24559e94318f10d1b12dd409e092530f17cdaa2a5ad4a883a'}
|
statsاحصائيات: 30,168 إصدارات من 1,984 برامج
اختيار عنوان البرنامج... للرجوع إلى الإصدار الذي أحب!
Macrium Reflect 5.0.4351
4,679 التنزيلات
Macrium Reflect 5.0.4351 0 out of 5 based on 0 ratings.
Macrium Reflect 5.0.4351 غير المفتاح
# Scheduled Task Postpone
* Scheduled backup tasks now present a postpone option if the backup notification delay has been set in the Defaults
# Bug fixes:
* Definition Filename Issue
- A scheduled task may not run if the path or the xml file name contained '-full', '-inc' or '-diff'. This has been resolved.
* Free Edition Fix Boot Problems
- The Fix Boot Problems option may not work on 32 bit based rescue systems, this only affected Free Edition customers only. This has been resolved.
* UEFI Rescue Media Creation
- The creation of rescue media on UEFI systems would, on some motherboards, fail to create valid media. This has been resolved.
* Network Logon Defaults
- An issue where a configured network logon default would not match correctly with an XML definition was raised. This has been resolved.
* Rescue Media Drivers
- An issue where certain Perc RAID controllers were not being correctly handled for Server 2003 and SBS 2003 was raised. This has been resolved.
* DVD Backup Verify
- An issue where setting backup verification and using DVD media as the target would cause the optical drive tray to be ejected prior to the verify causing the verify to fail. This has been resolved.
* UEFI Recovery Boot Menu Option
- An issue where the recovery boot menu option failed to be set for some UEFI systems on install. This has been resolved.
* Recovery Boot Menu
- Pressing the 'OK' button twice when adding the Windows PE boot menu option could cause multiple boot menu entries. This has been resolved.
* Browse For Folders
- If Windows Explorer was set to hide system and hidden files then system and hidden files were also excluded from the browse dialogs in Macrium Reflect. This has been resolved.
* Rescue Media USB3 Root Hub Detection
- Some USB3 root hubs were not being correctly matched during the rescue media creation process. This has been resolved.
* WinPE Boot Process
- During the WinPE boot process some USB devices would not be detected or have drivers loaded due to being uninitialized. This has been resolved.
* Fix Boot Problems
- Running Fix Boot Problems would render the bootmgr file to become visible and thereby accessible to standard user accounts. This has been resolved.
Macrium Reflect 5 يبني
Macrium Reflect تعليقات
blog comments powered by Disqus
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.872737467288971}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '27638', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GUABSNMWFWNUCV6KU6CCPKNBV4TVXXPZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:945259fe-71c2-41db-93a2-742fcc95b580>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 3, 46, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.243.251.208', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PKH5YJG2WXD5IQDWEDRQN3QLE4TTQDKI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b79e44e1-d6f4-446c-b7ed-896ffeab3f4c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://ar.oldversion.com/windows/macrium-reflect-5-0-4351', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:159efae8-70ef-41f2-a8e7-e78a4cd8280f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '398', 'url': 'http://ar.oldversion.com/windows/macrium-reflect-5-0-4351', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-101-220-24.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03671830892562866', 'original_id': '4a1d83fa1db81cdbfd006220a8fd14f9fd84db024fea3e3c41dea89ceca2e4a3'}
|
Our house
I do.
There is even a picture of it on our fridge.
Next to the gold cards that Skatey is very proud of.
We even have a story about our imaginary house. It is a ramshackle old villa within walking distance of the sea. There's fretwork around the veranda with saplings growing up through the decking and creepers winding up around the pillars. Some sweet jasmine sneaks it's way into the kitchen where baskets of herbs and vegetables are stacked waiting for preservation. Lemon verbena, thyme, Echinacea, and walnuts drying, a cat is watching a mouse. Herbal tinctures and dried herbs in dark glass jars line the shelves alongside picked onions and brandied cherries. An ancient coal range bakes bread, heats water and in winter we warm our feet in it's oven while coffee peculates on top. The attic has spiders, creaky floorboards and sunlight streaming in, a family quilt covers the bed. There are secret passages and a dark and creepy staircase. Outside the grounds are full of native birdsong because the cats and dog are too old to chase. There are beehives and a goat out back near a stream with a water wheel. Silly old sheep come when you call them and possums eat my roses and apples. Wildflowers do their own gardening as the sound of the waves crash and whales are sighted in the distance.
For Skatey there's a shed where he's restoring an old car, for teen there's Internet connection, for Pj Granny lives there too and for the red head there are monarch butterflies and books.
Do you have an imaginary house somewhere?
melissa said...
ahh.. lovely, gill! i like the sound of that. x
Flower's Page said...
Can we come for an 'imaginary' holiday? lol
Melissa van Boekhout said...
That sounds like my dream house! ( my mum has had that same picture in her bedroom fro the last 15 years!) I'm afraid we are being priced out of attaining that around here though!
Tracy said...
I have an imaginary house too. Actually more of a dream house as it really exists but I could never afford to buy it.
Your imaginary house sounds and looks delightful. I'd like to come for an imaginary visit too.
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9575088620185852}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '114811', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BSMKSGRIRUWUPMNPTLZTXJXA5AD3ZXG3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d03b2796-8d37-4d8d-a6e5-4a06a72e83ef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 5, 52, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.161', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RKTVIVVUR4FUN6TIXQGVWBF5XS63KKIN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0d648454-87cb-4877-8f3d-eba214c787f1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://wwwgillybeansgardencom.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-house.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ee824fbf-b77d-43f8-9cef-7953c361f8f8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '377', 'url': 'http://wwwgillybeansgardencom.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-house.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-37-226-241.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.10230910778045654', 'original_id': 'b7552ab7e73dd0097d0f7f3a8d5107fec55740beb01468d39983d4fd12d4e19d'}
|
Saturday, October 27, 2007
This Week in Peace & Social Justice (10-27-2007)
Clinton Receiving Unprecedented Support from U.S. Weapons Industry
The U.S. defense industry has joined big Wall Street businesses in their robust support for Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. This reverses the defense industry’s traditional partiality towards Republicans. "The contributions clearly suggest the arms industry has reached the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed," said Thomas Edsall, an academic at Columbia University in New York.
World War III
Bush, in the same week that he signed a new round of unilateral sanctions on Iran into existence and labeled part of Iran’s military a terrorist organization, also began using the term “WWIII” in reference to the situation with Iran. This scary escalation of rhetoric is reminiscent of the sharp escalation in administration rhetoric in the weeks and months before the Iraq War. (Please see the next article below for a better idea on what the real facts are).
Commentary: Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad? (Fareed Zakaria)
“The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality…Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?”
Billionaires Up, Average Americans Down
This quote says it all: "The 25th anniversary of the Forbes 400 isn't party time for America. We have a record 482 billionaires - and record foreclosures. We have a record 482 billionaires - and a record 47 million people without any health insurance. Since 2000, we have added 184 billionaires - and 5 million more people living below the poverty line."
Guatemalan Labor Unions’ Leaders Killed
Marco Tulio Ramirez was the fifth Guatemalan labor union leader killed this year. "Masked gunmen dumped a Guatemalan banana picker's bullet-ridden corpse yards from fields of fruit bound for the United States, a grim reminder of the risks of organizing labor in the Central American country." Pay attention to the U.S. companies mentioned at the end of the article and make sure you select your fruit carefully next time you are at the grocery store.
Quote of the Week: At a Stanford University discussion, Gen. John Abizaid (Ret.), the former CENTCOM Commander, said, when asked about the Iraq campaign: "Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that…We've treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations. Our message to them is: Guys, keep your pumps open, prices low, be nice to the Israelis and you can do whatever you want out back. Osama and 9/11 is the distilled essence that represents everything going on out back."
Myf said...
how do people write new entries?
Matthew Thomas Miller said...
send them to me for now
|
dclm_baseline
|
{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '183', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9409213662147522}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '40719', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:USXILPMAN4L33FNQQ6M5TSDPBEGYXBNT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0c29ccf6-d984-444d-8586-cefd1895faf9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 18, 7, 33, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.8.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:527MPHMEUW5SRQX4E5ENQVKBXNAV4GA2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:360ceb54-e9d3-4b5e-9aff-38fe1c5b456a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://washupeace.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-week-in-peace-social-justice-10-27.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:59e075fc-4379-4f54-8718-564072a89c9a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '509', 'url': 'http://washupeace.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-week-in-peace-social-justice-10-27.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-218-138-106.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\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': '0.03876286745071411', 'original_id': '8fe14c7c07796a0ec4e2e4fbc9fbebcfbb9071822b9c6ee9e75c361af5f99128'}
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.