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What is arbitration?
What is arbitration?
Many legal issues arise when a couple separates: custody and access, financial issues and dividing the family property are often the most pressing. Some people decide to attempt to resolve these issues without going to court and use one of a variety of alternative dispute resolution techniques.
Arbitration is one of these techniques. It is a legal procedure in which the people agree to choose an outside third party to hear the evidence; listen to both their arguments and give a legally binding decision. These decisions are called arbitral awards.
Arbitrators will only deal with the issues that the people ask them to. They cannot grant a divorce or issue a restraining order, but can make orders dealing with most of the other issues that come up after a relationship has ended.
An arbitrator’s decision is legally binding.
A number of protections and rules apply to family law arbitrations, including:
• all family law arbitrations must follow the law of Ontario or of another Canadian jurisdiction. Religious or other laws cannot be used
• family arbitration agreements are considered domestic contracts
• people cannot give up their right to appeal an arbitral award to court
• people must have independent legal advice before beginning the arbitration
• all family law arbitrators have to take training in Canadian family law and domestic violence
• arbitrators must screen for any history of violence or abuse, or any other power imbalance between the people that could have an impact on the fairness of the process
Arbitration is an effective alternative to the family court process for some people because it can be more efficient, less formal and less expensive. The process has more flexibility than the family court and people can choose a particular arbitrator.
It is not for everyone, however. Where there has been abuse or a power imbalance in the relationship, arbitration may not be an appropriate way to proceed. Cost can also be a significant barrier — each person requires a certificate of independent legal advice and should have a lawyer through the arbitration process. Legal aid does not cover the costs of family law arbitrations, so people have to pay for their own lawyers as well as the arbitrator’s fees.
This information is also available for download.
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Film Review: Bat $#*! Crazy (2011)
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Joseph has one friend in the world with whom he shares his problems; everyone else just sees Joseph as missing a little cheese off his cracker. These problems include a girlfriend (who isn’t really his girlfriend anymore) who is being unfaithful, a missing dog, people talking about him at work, and now someone, or something, is following him. He’s been mixing his meds with booze and that’s not helping. He’s losing his mind, true, but that won’t stop him from not being the victim anymore.
Written and Directed by Ari Kirschenbaum and Marquette Williams
Starring: Desmond Askew, Tupelo Jereme, Elimu Nelson
“A belief is like a guillotine: just as heavy, just as light” – Franz Kafka
And so begins Bat $#*! Crazy. After watching the film in its entirety, I understand why the quote is relevant. The movie shows us the unfortunate path of Joseph, who has some textbook paranoid delusions: he’s being watched, there’s a conspiracy and everyone is plotting against him, etc. His belief that these things are true brings relevance to the quote…although the quote itself I am still wrapping my brain around. There’s a whole philosophy entwined in that quote. I need to do some research on it I suppose.
The film itself has a number of cool things going for it. The movie is interspersed with images from later in the movie which acts as an incredibly effective tool for foreshadowing. This technique is used from the beginning of the film and, in the opening scene, is edited into an interesting yet benign conversation (think Tarantino-esque dialogue minus the extreme circumstance).
Also present throughout the movie is an old folk tale about Lupold, a lonely wolf who is transformed into a murderous beast because of the manipulations of a deceitful crow named Ravetti. What’s cool about this element of the film is that I found myself as interested in the evolution of that storyline as I was in the outcome Joseph’s fate. Throughout the movie I was trying to determine who was represented by the wolf and who was represented by the crow. I think I finally figured it out, but what’s important is how cool the telling of the tale (voiced over by a child with a Britich accent) echoed the plot points of the film.
There were two other elements in the film that undoubtedly symbolized something, but, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what it was they were symbolizing. The first was an old man with an armload of books, and the second was Joseph’s missing dog. The former made random appearances in the movie like the locust dude in Hellraiser, while the latter was referred to numerous times by Joseph’s “friends” in much the same way that Snake Pliskin is told “I heard you were dead” in Escape From New York. This helped lend continuity to the film in a quirky kind of way. Nobody particularly cares for Joseph, but they are concerned about his dog. I have no idea what either of those two elements meant to the movie, though I’m almost positive they weren’t put in there by accident.
The movie is intriguing for the most part, although about midway through Joseph’s downward spiral into dementia it did seem to plateau a little, which made the story drag a bit; I became weary of further examples of his psychosis. Once I got past that little speed bump though, it tidied up nicely. The end left me a little confused, but didn’t make me angry. Even the soundtrack was groovy. It was like a strange c**ktail of New Age and Smooth Jazz. Think Yanni meets Kenny G, but cool.
I have to say, this film surprised me. I thought it deserved a way better score than the 2.2 that was displayed on IMDb. But that’s why critics suck. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say.
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is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever.
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Monday, January 07, 2013
McCain's Long War on Hagel
Unseen
in the cloud of preemptive dust over the nomination for Secretary of Defense is
more than a decade of fallout from a friendship with John McCain that broke apart
into bitterness.
Chuck
Hagel had supported the fellow Vietnam veteran’s run for president in 2000 but
then angered his Senate colleague to the point that McCain, moving to the
Neo-Con Right, approvingly posted on his own web site a Los Angeles Times article of March 3, 2001 (months before 9/11)
headlined “On Iraq, GOP Split Over Gaining World Respect or Enforcing It.”
It
read: “Hagel has repeatedly warned that the United States must disarm Iraq in a
way that reinforces international alliances...McCain has become the champion of
the hard-line neoconservative thinkers who want to move quickly against Iraq,
no matter how many countries agree...
“In
all, while Hagel argues that broadening international cooperation is the key to
security in this new era, McCain believes ‘credibility’ in delivering military
force is the top priority. The one is focused on winning respect, the other
believes in enforcing it.”
A
year and a half later, as the Bush Administration prepared to invade Iraq, Hagel
called Chief of Staff Andy Card to ask why the President would consider going
to war “without Congress being with him?” As a result, Hagel later revealed, “a
few of us--Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I--were invited to discussions with the
White House...
“Finally,
begrudgingly, they sent over a resolution for Congress to approve. Well, it was
astounding. It said they could go anywhere in the region...Sure as hell it was
clear they meant the whole Middle East. It was anything they wanted.”
Hagel,
Biden and Lugar “had to rewrite it...stripped the language the White House had
set up and put our language in it.” That was what Congress approved.
More
than a decade later, GOP elephants who never forget are piling on Hagel for his
party sin of being a premature opponent of Bush’s war, which later morphed into
McCain’s.
Whatever
the merits of side issues such as a Hagel remark about Israel and another about
gays, a serious Senate confirmation process will have to take account of his
courage and tenacity over Iraq that proved to be as right as McCain was wrong.
Barack
Obama was in the Senate then too and observed Hagel’s qualities up close. His
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I want to design a 2 steps sign up screen:
1. identification
2. personal info
My question is regarding step 1. In this step the user will have to choose between ID or passport number. Once he choose, he will have to fill 2 fields: identification and name. So my dilemma is if I should put radio buttons next to the ID and pass and once one chooses it will open 2 input fields below the 2 radio buttons.
For example:
radio button 1
radio button 2
input field 1.x
input field 1.y
Is this behavior normal? Is there also another option?
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Isn't it so that the ID number and passport number differs in syntax/length? This of course differs from where you live, but I know in Sweden they differ in length.
In that case you could simply inform the user that he can fill the identification field with either passport number or ID number and then programmatically distinguish what type of information it is.
This way you will skip one step/click in the sign up without losing any information.
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True. And I agree with everything you said above. this type of identification was an example. In my case I did the ID/pass in one field as input field 2 (since they differ in length) and the radio buttons are for client number or CC 4 last digits - as input field 1. – Milah Mar 14 '12 at 16:45
That is the real answer ! – Gildas Frémont May 3 '13 at 14:46
IMO, this will work for your case.
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I think that since the radio buttons are not that visible it will cause some load. I believe this option is more common in login/signup options – Milah Mar 14 '12 at 16:37
Do it like this. Have all four elements visible at all times. If the field labels change depending on which radio button is selected, that's fine. At least this way the user will know where to fill out the additional information.
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The only problem I have with this is the alignment of the radio buttons. Horizontal alignment is hard to read. ( – Bart Gijssens Mar 14 '12 at 12:41
Haha good point, I dunno how I missed that one. – Matt Rockwell Mar 14 '12 at 12:59
Thanks. This is what I thought also (vertical), so basically you suggests that I will display one open as a default selected id right? – Milah Mar 14 '12 at 16:35
@MattRockwell what if I will put the fields under each radio button? in order to keep the hierarchy? Is this ok? – Milah Mar 15 '12 at 6:53
So do you mean that there is only a single field for each corresponding radio button? – Matt Rockwell Mar 15 '12 at 11:07
Another possibility would be to really split it up into 2 steps.
• In a first screen you just choose ID or Passport nr, then the user clicks "Next"
• In a second screen the user needs to fill in the 2 input field, based on the identification method he selected in step 1.
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What would the user gain from splitting one step into two steps? I just can't see how this would be beneficial in any way, rather the other way around. – AndroidHustle Mar 14 '12 at 12:29
Same reason MS uses "Wizards". What is a single task in the mind of a user (getting signed up), is split up into multiple steps. In this particular case, if this is the only information that needs to be filled in, it may be overkill. I leave that up to the person asking the question. I am not saying my answer is better than the other answers. I only suggested it as an alternative. In fact I think Matt Rockwell's answer is the best (upvoted). – Bart Gijssens Mar 14 '12 at 12:38
I see your line of thinking, not sure it's really applicable in this situation though. Using Wizards is a good way to create order with a set of synchronized steps, where actions taken in previous steps often influence the following steps. In this case however, in my meaning, there's no real reason to separate it. In the worst case the user realizes that he chose the wrong input while entering the text fields. This will cost 5 clicks compared to 2 if you keep it on the same page. Just wanted to explain myself, didn't want to sound like I was just flaming your answer. Not my meaning at all. – AndroidHustle Mar 14 '12 at 12:54
Mind that the number of clicks is not a good measure for usability (… and Secondly, the action in step 1 does influence step 2: the fields that the user needs to enter are different. I agree the difference is small, maybe too small. – Bart Gijssens Mar 14 '12 at 13:01
It's not good to cut down on clicks in a way that compromises a feature, that's true. But still there's no need to add clicks where there's no need for it. And I'm not sure that I would say that the first step does influence the second step. If it really did influence the second step they would greatly differ between each other, here it's just a matter of labeling one text field. That could just as well be handled live, and the logic is easily taken care of by JS (or what ever platform the OP intends to develop for). – AndroidHustle Mar 14 '12 at 13:16
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Q:
Go to anchor AFTER loading
The Idea
I have a User Manual page, it is kinda big, and each topic has a anchor linked to it.
In my product page, I can link the client straight to that topic in the manual with a anchor, like:
Manual:
<a href="#manage_options">Managing Options</a>
<!-- Instructions on how to manage options -->
Product Page:
<a href="http://example.com/manual/#!/manage_options">How to Manage Options</a>
The Problem
When I click the "How to Manage Options" link in Product Page, it goes to the manual and immediately to the #manage_options anchor
But it often stops in the wrong place, because it goes to the anchor, then it keeps loading images, which changes the position of the content
Is it possible to wait for all the content to be loaded, then it goes to the anchor, or any better solution for this problem?
A:
...it keeps loading images, which changes the position of the content
It's a best practice to explicitly declare your image sizes to avoid unnecessary repaints:
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rendering#SpecifyImageDimensions
Specify image dimensions
Overview
Specifying a width and height for all images allows for faster
rendering by eliminating the need for unnecessary reflows and
repaints.
Details
When the browser lays out the page, it needs to be able to flow around
replaceable elements such as images. It can begin to render a page
even before images are downloaded, provided that it knows the
dimensions to wrap non-replaceable elements around. If no dimensions
are specified in the containing document, or if the dimensions
specified don't match those of the actual images, the browser will
require a reflow and repaint once the images are downloaded. To
prevent reflows, specify the width and height of all images, either in
the HTML tag, or in CSS.
Recommendations
Specify dimensions that match those of the images themselves. Don't
use width and height specifications to scale images on the fly. If an
image file is actually 60 x 60 pixels, don't set the dimensions to 30
x 30 in the HTML or CSS. If the image needs to be smaller, scale it in
an image editor and set its dimensions to match (see Optimize images
for details.) Be sure to specify dimensions on the image element or
block-level parent Be sure to set the dimensions on the element
itself, or a block-level parent. If the parent is not block-level, the
dimensions will be ignored. Do not set dimensions on an ancestor that
is not an immediate parent.
So use:
<img src="cat.jpg" alt="A Cat" width="360" height="200">
Or
<img src="cat.jpg" alt="A Cat" style="width:360px;height:200px;">
...or you can specify the dimensions in an external stylesheet, but generally that is more difficult with varying image sizes. This will ensure your content doesn't shift as images are loaded.
A:
You can solve the problem using a JQuery script, this can postpone the anchor link after the page is loaded, i added an offset of 20 px also.
$(document).ready(function() {
if(window.location.hash) {
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $(window.location.hash).offset().top - 20
}, 500);
}
});
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Solid, consistent sailing wins regatta for crew of Bunky's Boat
August 16, 1992|By Nancy Noyes
Asked for the secret of his win last weekend in the 14-boat J/24 class at Severn Sailing Association's (SSA) Ed Hoyt Regatta, Annapolitan Bunky Hines said, "Have a baby, win a race."
In fact, it was solid and consistent sailing in the two-day, five-race event that won Hines and his Bunky's Boat crew the regatta.
But Hines regarded it as a fitting celebration of the birth of his daughter, Charlotte Christine, the night before the regatta began.
He emerged at the top of the fleet at the end of Saturday's racing and held on through Sunday's contests to win the regatta.
Hines, a lifelong sailor who regularly competes in Chesapeake 20s as well as J/24s, is associated with Hartge's Yacht Yard in Galesville. He and wife, Chrissy, are also the proud parents of a son, Richard, 3.
The regatta, named for SSA's veteran Tempest sailor Ed Hoyt of Annapolis, began as a relatively informal Tempest-only event. It gradually expanded with invitations to other SSA keelboat fleets to join the fun, adding starts for J/24s and Solings, and subsequently gaining sanction for Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association High Point.
Hoyt himself also competed again this year, placing second in the Tempest class, behind the seemingly unbeatable Tom O'Hara, who won that class' regatta with a perfect four-ace score.
Although both the J/24 and Soling classes sailed two races Sunday on top of Saturday's three, there was only a single Tempest start Sunday, bringing that class' series to a total of four.
In the Soling class, Annapolitan Peter Gleitz dominated once again, with four aces and a third in the fifth race, which was won by Soling veteran Stuart Walker, who finished the regatta fourth after missing Saturday's races.
This year's event, with consistently heavy air Saturday and a variety of conditions ranging from light and shifty to a fairly powerful blow Sunday, put crews to the test.
Many sailors, especially in the J/24 division, had shifted positions within their existing teams or added new, in-training members for the regatta.
Ed Hoyt Regatta
J/24 (14 starters): 1. Bunky's Boat, Bunky Hines, Annapolis, 11.75 (3-2-1-2-4); 2. Sailin' Shoes, Scott Leonard, Annapolis, 12.5 (1-3-5-1-3); 3. AJ, David Scheidt, Gingerville, 19 (2-6-6-3- 2); 4. Latent Defect, Stewart Spettel, Alexandria, Va., 22.5 (4- 1-2-PMS-1); 5. Dilligaff, Steve Voorhis, Annapolis, 28 (5-8-3-6-6).
Tempest (5 starters): 1. Tom O'Hara, Alexandria, Va., 3 (1-1-1-1); 2. Edgar Hoyt, Annapolis, 11 (3*-3-2-2); 3. Cem Akisoglu, Washington, 16 (2-2-DNC-DNC).
Soling (6 starters): 1. Peter Gleitz, Annapolis, 6 (1-1-1-1-3); 2. Michael Butz, [address unavailable], 15 (3-4-3-3-2); 3. John Harper, Great Falls, Va., 20 (2-2-2-DNC-DNC).
* denotes 20 percent penalty added to finish position for score.
Severn Sailing Association's Junior Program came to a close Thursday evening with the traditional graduation and awards ceremony and cookout.
The program, which began June 22, included classes for the three ranks of Seaman, Mate and Skipper for Optimist sailors, as well as two 420 divisions, Mate and Skipper, for the most senior members of the program.
New among the many awards this year was the Corinthian Cup, awarded to "that junior sailor whose actions befit that of a young lady or gentleman and whose spirit reflects that the race best sailed is the one most fairly sailed."
This year's recipient was Joe Fava, son of James and Donna Fava of Pasadena and a member of the Optimist Skipper class. He was also the winner of last month's 37-boat Optimist division in the CBYRA Junior Open Regatta sponsored jointly by SSA and Annapolis Yacht Club.
Outstanding boy and girl sailors' awards went to Optimist Skipper Scott MacMullan, son of W. A. MacMullan of Arnold, and 420 Skipper Karen Coe, daughter of Jennifer and Steve Coe of Annapolis, respectively.
The prestigious Golden Bowl, considered to be the ultimate SSA junior racing trophy, was awarded to Brad Julian, son of Peter and Diane Julian of Annapolis, for his win in the 420 Skipper division.
SSA Junior Program Awards
Optimist Seaman Class
Guppy Bowl: 1. Danny Anderson, Baltimore; 2. Scott Weller, Annapolis; 3. Matt Dixon, Annapolis.
Sportsmanship Award: Matt Dixon.
Most Improved: Meg Myers, Annapolis.
Parent/Child Races: 1. Justin Disborough/Dave & Justine Disborough, Annapolis; 2. Sarah Hale/Tom & Francie Hale, Annapolis; 3. Ryan Carroll/Larry Carroll, Arnold.
Thursday Night Series: 1. Justin Disborough; 2. Adam Owings, Annapolis; 3. Sarah Hale.
Optimist Mate Class
Turtle Bowl: 1. Chris Summers, Annapolis; 2. Fred Antell, Annapolis; 3. Kevin Sweeney, Riva.
Most Improved: Kevin Sweeney.
Parent/Child Races: 1. Emily Rodriguez/Polli Rodriguez, Annapolis; 2. Rusty Potee/Russell Potee, Arnold; 3. Brendan Shattuck/Alden Shattuck, Annapolis.
Thursday Night Series: 1. Fred Antell; 2. Rusty Potee; 3. Emily Rodriguez.
Optimist Skippers Class
Commodore's Bowl: 1. Scott MacMullan, Arnold; 2. Pat Doherty, Annapolis; 3. J. C. Waldron, Annapolis.
Most Improved: Trevor Shattuck, Annapolis.
Parent/Child Races: 1. Karl Schneider/Bill Schneider, Annapolis; 2. Brian Conway/Joe Conway, Annapolis; 3. John Foye/Pat Foye, Arnold.
Thursday Night Series: 1. John Foye; 2. Matt Shubert, Annapolis; 3. Trevor Shattuck.
420 Mates Class
Bailer Bowl: 1. Shawn Ritter, Annapolis; 2. Ben Manning, Annapolis; 3. Noah Donaldson, Annapolis.
Most Improved: Shawn Ritter.
Parent/Child Series: 1. Lauren Peterson/Robert Peterson, Annapolis.
Thursday Night Series: 1. Noah Donaldson.
420 Skippers Class
Golden Bowl: 1. Brad Julian, Annapolis; 2. Karen Coe, Annapolis; 3. Keith Matney/Tim Olson, Annapolis.
Most Improved: Karen Coe.
Labrot High Point Award: Brad Julian.
Special Trophies
Pat Empey Trophy (Outstanding Girl Sailor): Karen Coe.
McLean Welch Trophy (Outstanding Boy Sailor): Scott MacMullan.
Sandy MacVicker Sportsmanship Trophy: Keith Matney.
McDowell Marlinspike Trophy: Sarah Hale.
Bartlett Trophy (Outstanding Dedication to SSA Goals): John Foye.
Corinthian Cup: Joe Fava, Pasadena.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Where I Ask the Internet to Help My Sister
This is a brief message from one of my sisters. This is butterfly gardening sister(BGS) and she has a fennel problem.
BGS asks "Hey, I have a question for you and all your gardening buddies. My bronze fennel is croaking. Why? It's wilting and dying within a day, one after another. They aren't trying to go to seed or anything. In the past they have been fine with being wet or dry and never wilted. Is there something in my soil?"
Aunt Debbi here, I know that regular fennel sets seed and dies back in hot weather. I've not grown bronze fennel, but thought it was a perennial in zone 8a. Any ideas what could be going on?
Hey, I think I can just nickname my sister BUGS. Now that's fun. Bet she thinks twice about visiting this blog again, teeheee.
1. Haven't grown fennel in a while, so I'm no help. Haha, i like that ~ Bugs!
2. OMG OMG OMG I can once again read your blog!! I have nothing useful to say about fennel or gardening (you are my guru) I just wanted to say I can READ YOUR BLOG again!
3. Lepidoptera are not BUGS.
4. Could sister's fennel have nematodes? I think they cause things to die like that.
I am having a terrible time with white fuzzy caterpillars that I think turn into white moths. They are eating everything--including pond plants! Ugh!!!
5. Nole, we will fix that lack of fennel at your place. BTW, your dill seeds are packaged and on the way.
Foxy, So glad you are able to visit again.
Jenn, I am sure she appreciates you standing up for her. Being my baby sister is not easy.
Linda, I never thought about nematodes. That might be the problem. I think it is either too much water or spider mites. Gotta get over there and check it out.
6. I was thinking too much water. I have some growing out back waiting on the monarchs to arrive. I have faith that you will solve the issue.
Hope you feel better.
7. Mine was suffering from aphids and had some dye-back. It is perennial and likes moist well drained soil in full sun.
As it is your "butterfly garden sister" - is it being eaten by swallowtail caterpillars?
8. Anna, we had thos really big rains more than a week ago, but it is dry now.
Karen, she would be happy if the swallowtails were eating it. They are planted in a berm, so good drainage. Maybe aphids maybe powdery mildew. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9773107767105104}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '375801', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:C5N4ISHEN2CFZWCUTYVXI4377AKYLA3E', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:19bd77d9-c2be-4544-b82e-2de70ea673ef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 12, 28, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.217.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OKSGLADU3GFZN25BCXD7N4SDYPNBP3GD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4f040959-cc9f-459a-b3d5-3c6e63099fa9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://auntdebbisgarden.blogspot.com/2009/06/where-i-ask-internet-to-help-my-sister.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b6cba86c-532c-43ee-ad07-812f3052de9f>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '448', 'url': 'http://auntdebbisgarden.blogspot.com/2009/06/where-i-ask-internet-to-help-my-sister.html', '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': '0.020948588848114014', 'original_id': '17a83802c8f30544eb8229ca28c0ace92066341df22a3363a1821c3a02d1bafe'} |
Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd
Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd is a heritage-listed church at 615 Brookfield Road, Brookfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1892 to 1893. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 April 2000.
History
The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd was constructed in 1892. The architect is unknown, however, it is possible that the design may be attributed to the work of John Hingeston Buckeridge, architect for the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane from 1886–1902. Buckeridge lived in Sydney from 1892 and managed the design of church buildings from there.
Reverend John Vincent, the first chaplain in the penal settlement of Moreton Bay, then part of the Diocese of Newcastle, arrived in 1829. Up until the late 1840s, parishioners held services in makeshift buildings, open-air services and in private homes. In 1848 land was chosen in the present Queen's Park in George Street for the first Anglican Church in Brisbane, St John the Evangelist. With the establishment of the Colony of Queensland in December 1859, it became necessary to form a new diocese within the Anglican Church. The Bishop of the new Diocese of Brisbane, Reverend Edward Wyndham Tufnell, arrived in September 1860. Tufnell brought with him six young clergymen, including the Reverend Thomas Jones who played an important part in the early days of the Church of the Good Shepherd and other churches of the diocese.
By 1870, the Parish of Toowong had been formed and Brookfield was included as a remote part of that parish. By this time, Brookfield was settled by farmers and timbergetters who had arrived in the area in the late 1850s and 1860s. The Reverend Robert Creyke administered to the remote areas of the large parish. A centre for worship was established at Indooroopilly in 1887 and the Church of St Andrew was formally opened by William Webber, Anglican Bishop of Brisbane, on 25 August 1889. It is possible that Hedley Allen Dunn was the architect of this church. On 9 January 1890, the Parish of Toowong was divided and the boundaries of the Indooroopilly Parish were fixed, making Brookfield a remote part of the Indooroopilly Parish. Even with a change in Parish boundaries, the Anglican parishioners of Brookfield were still required to travel some distance to church. During one of his visits to Brookfield for services the Reverend Arthur Richard Rivers encouraged the local people to construct a church, and consequently, a Building Committee was established.
The land that was acquired for the building of a church, on the corner of Brookfield and Boscombe Streets, had been surveyed for sale in 1859. It was originally part of a land grant farmed by John McGrath, who obtained the Deed of Grant in January 1861. It was in October 1892 that the Building Committee purchased the land, for , from the owner, William Thomas Gee. On 21 November 1892, the solicitors, Wilson, Newman-Wilson and Hemming, forwarded to the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane the Certificate of Title for the land on which the Church of the Good Shepherd was to be built. The church cost to build and was consecrated on Easter Monday 2 April 1893. The architect of the church is unknown, though, it is likely that it was not designed directly by John Hingeston Buckeridge, the Diocesan Architect. There were, however, plans drawn by Buckeridge which Bishop Webber made available to some Building Committees. These plans were intended to assist in costing and assessing sizes, and the Church of the Good Shepherd may have been based on one of these plans.
To reduce costs the interior was originally unlined, revealing the studwork, and the timber was oiled rather than stained or painted. The gable roofs of the church were originally clad with "stringy-bark" shingles. The north vestry appears to have been added after the building was opened and may account for the presence of chamferboards on the internal south wall of the vestry. The later addition of vestries was not uncommon was usually related to funding availability. Sometime in the 1930s, the shingle roof was replaced by iron sheeting and in the early 1950s, the interior walls were lined and painted. The chancel interior was clad with "masonite" and louvre windows were installed on either side of the altar.
During the 1960s, further maintenance work was carried out and the church was repainted and rewired. The sanctuary was relined with clear-finished, horizontal pine boards and the floor around the vestry and pulpit was repaired. During this time the church floor was sanded and varnished.
In 1968, the Parish of Kenmore, Brookfield and Moggill was formed. During the 1980s, stained glass was installed and the church was repaired once more. The adjacent parish hall was built in 1985 to the designs of architect Philip Gough. The church bell, originally located outside the vestry, was moved to a position north of the west porch.
Description
The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd is a single-storey, timber church set on wooden stumps, sited on a rise to the northern side of Brookfield Road. It comprises a four-bay nave, a chancel and a north vestry and west porch. There is a separate sanctuary with an independent roof and raised floor. The church measures twelve metres by six metres, excluding the vestry and porch, and has a seating capacity of approximately eighty. The church is clad externally in white painted chamferboards.
The east window is an under-scaled triplet and the taller flanking windows are set in square frames. The glass in the east windows, including the centre panel depicting the Good Shepherd, was installed in 1981. The west gable wall is characterised by the central west porch and the scalloped timber barge boards. The apex of the west wall has a vent opening with a pointed arch head and is fitted with timber louvres. The gable of the west porch is clad in weatherboards and the porch walls are open above the timber railing. The four lancet windows in each of the nave side walls comprise two centre pivoting timber-frame windows each with a central transom. The gable roofs of the nave and west porch are sheeted with corrugated iron painted red. The roofs over the nave and the porch have decorative scalloped timber bargeboards.
Internally, the nave has an open timber ceiling comprising tied principal rafters, purlins and diagonally laid boards. All ceiling timbers in the nave have been painted. The interior walls of the nave have been lined in sheet material with cover battens over the joints and painted. The unpainted timber ceiling over the sanctuary follows the polygonal plan and reveals rafters and diagonal boarding. Two metal tie rods restrain the sanctuary walls at eave level. The pointed arch chancel arch, somewhat awkwardly integrated with a square opening to the sanctuary, is surmounted by a louvred gable vent. The sanctuary walls have been clad in clear finished, horizontal pine boards. The suspended timber floor has east–west laid boards.
The Church is surrounded by mature conifers and eucalypts.
The Parish Hall (1985) is not considered to be of cultural heritage significance.
Heritage listing
Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 April 2000 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
The Church is important in demonstrating the development of the Anglican Church in Queensland and Brookfield during this time.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, corner Brookfield and Boscombe Streets, Brookfield was constructed in the late nineteenth century and is of aesthetic significance as a picturesque and well executed example of a Gothic influenced timber ecclesiastical building. Many simple timber churches were constructed throughout Queensland, this example is distinguished by the quality of its design and by its visual cohesion with other historic buildings in the area, including the Uniting Church, constructed in 1871, Brookfield School, established in 1874 and the Brookfield cemetery, established in 1872.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, corner Brookfield and Boscombe Streets, Brookfield was constructed in the late nineteenth century and is of aesthetic significance as a picturesque and well executed example of a Gothic influenced timber ecclesiastical building. Many simple timber churches were constructed throughout Queensland, this example is distinguished by the quality of its design and by its visual cohesion with other historic buildings in the area, including the Uniting Church, constructed in 1871, Brookfield School, established in 1874 and the Brookfield cemetery, established in 1872.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
As a place of public worship for over 100 years, the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd has social value for the local Anglican community.
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Category:Anglican church buildings in Brisbane
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Category:Churches completed in 1893
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Chris Hedges: Integrity forged in cages
If truth is to be heard, as Theodor Adorno wrote, suffering must be allowed to speak. Flannery O’Connor recognized that the moral life always entails confrontation with the world.
By Chris Hedges, | EDUCATE!
Chris Hedges gave this talk to 27 graduating students who were formerly incarcerated—several of whom he taught in prison—and their families at Rutgers University on Friday. The ceremony was held by the Mountainview Program at Rutgers, which helps students complete their degrees at Rutgers after they take college courses inside prisons through the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium (NJ-STEP) program. Read a transcript of his speech or watch a video of the address at the bottom of the post.
Integrity is determined not by what we do in life, but what we do with what life gives us. It is what we overcome. Integrity is the ability to affirm our dignity even when the world tells us we are worthless. Integrity is forged in pain and suffering, loss and tragedy. It is forged in the courtrooms where you were sentenced. It is forged in the shackles you were forced to wear. It is forged in the cages where you lived, sometimes for decades. It is forged in the cries of your children, those who lost their mothers or their fathers to the monstrosity of mass incarceration. It is forged in the heartache of your parents, your brothers, your sisters, your spouses and your partners. Integrity is forged by surmounting the hell around you to study in a cramped and claustrophobic cell for the college degree no one, perhaps not even you, thought you would ever earn. Integrity is to refuse to become a statistic. Integrity is to rise up and shout out to an indifferent universe: I AM SOMEBODY. And today no one can deny who you are, what you have achieved and what you have become—college graduates, men and women of integrity who held on fiercely to your dignity and your capacity to exert your will, and triumphed.
In Tony Kushner’s play “Angels in America” he writes of the suffering and demonization of gay men with AIDS, not unlike the suffering and demonization many of you have felt as members of the criminal caste.
“In your experience of the world. How do people change?” Harper asks.
“Well it has something to do with God so it’s not very nice,” the Mormon mother answers. “God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can’t even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It’s up to you to do the stitching.”
“And then get up,” Harper says. “And walk around.”
“Just mangled guts pretending,” the Mormon mother affirms.
“That’s how people change,” says Harper.
Trauma is not static. It is dynamic. It is written on your flesh. These scars will keep you honest if you use them to see your own face in those who are demonized—women, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, Muslims, poor people of color.
There are people in this room who committed crimes, but there are no criminals here today. Not that criminals do not exist. Is it not criminal to allow more than 12 million children in the United States to go to bed hungry every night while Amazon, which earned $11 billion in profits last year, paid no federal taxes? In fact, in our system of corporate welfare, Amazon received a $129 million tax rebate from the federal government. Is it not criminal that half of all Americans live in poverty, or near-poverty, while the three richest men in America, including the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, have combined fortunes worth more than the total wealth of the poorest half of Americans? Is it not criminal that millions of factory jobs, which once allowed families to earn a living wage with health and retirement benefits, have been shipped to places like Monterrey, Mexico, where Mexican workers in GM plants earn $3 an hour without benefits? Is it not criminal that our families have been sacrificed to feed the mania for corporate profit, left to rot in violent and post-industrial wastelands such as Newark or Camden? Is it not criminal to harass and terrorize the poor on the streets of our cities for petty activities, such as selling loose cigarettes or “obstructing pedestrian traffic,” which means standing too long on a sidewalk, while Bank of America, Citibank and Goldman Sachs have never been held accountable for trashing the global economy, wiping out 40 percent of the world’s wealth through fraud? Is not criminal that, as poverty has gone up and crime has actually gone down, our prison population has more than doubled?
George Bernard Shaw got it right:
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said of society that “some are guilty, but all are responsible.” The crime of poverty is a communal crime. Our failure, as the richest nation on earth, to provide safe and healthy communities, ones where all children have enough to eat and a future, is a communal crime. Our failure to provide everyone, and especially the poor, with a good education is a communal crime. Our failure to make health care a human right and our forcing parents, burdened with astronomical medical bills, to bankrupt themselves to save their sick sons or daughters are communal crimes. Our failure to provide meaningful work—in short, the possibility of hope—is a communal crime. Our decision to militarize police forces and build prisons, rather than invest in people, is a communal crime. Our misguided belief in charity and philanthropy rather than justice is a communal crime. “You Christians have a vested interest in unjust structures which produce victims to whom you then can pour out your hearts in charity,” Karl Marx said, chastising a group of church leaders.
If we do not work to eliminate the causes of poverty, the greatest of all crimes, the institutional structures that keep the poor poor, then we are responsible. There are issues of personal morality, and they are important, but they mean nothing without a commitment to social morality. Only those who have been there truly understand. Only those with integrity speak the truth. And this is why I place my faith in you.
In that class we read August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” The conjurer Bynum Walker tells traumatized African Americans emerging from the nightmare of slavery and lynching that they each have a song, but they must seek it out. Once they find their song, they will find their unity as a people, their inner freedom and their identity. The search for one’s song in Wilson’s play functions like prayer. It gives each person a purpose, strength and hope. It allows a person, even one who has been bitterly oppressed, to speak his or her truth defiantly to the world. Our song affirms us, even if we are dejected and despised, as human beings.
Boris was as determined as I to make that song, your song, heard outside the prison walls, to lift up that truth, to affirm the integrity of those the world has forgotten and demonized. Your song is vital. It must be heard. I do not know if I could have endured what you have endured and become who you have become. Boris once told our friend Michael Nigro that he did not understand why people like me went into the prison, that in the ’hood when somebody did something for you, he or she usually wanted something. But you should know, my students, what you have given me. It cannot be quantified monetarily. It is one of the most precious things I possess. It is your friendship. And that is why today I am the most blessed among you. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '718', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.966057538986206}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '82801', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OBXWQENP37WCB7SGZTBHJ52EIRWCGH4A', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:96da6bc2-f7b4-4d22-a983-3a7be44cd2c2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 23, 13, 11, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.47.228.109', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VS64BDZGYPCYIUAMHWC5INPEIX6K6M26', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8cf54a6f-62cb-4ce9-8f0c-ac820ba1974a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.rapidshift.net/chris-hedges-integrity-forged-in-cages/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b7ba5b8f-0813-4479-acf3-5eac049acfda>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1749', 'url': 'http://www.rapidshift.net/chris-hedges-integrity-forged-in-cages/', '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-10-67-67-254.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': '0.02102053165435791', 'original_id': '7c2dfb93b12e4cbbc23acc631dab0bb03470047388d3dda4e2532d0e3e3dec6c'} |
Storage Security, the Last Line of Defense -
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Storage Security, the Last Line of Defense
We have all heard about the high-profile cases of groups hacking into a system and making off with the loot. Once the hacker gets into a system, it is pretty clear that anything the hacker wants is fair game. Of course, that starts with getting root access, and once the hacker gets root access, any files that were yours are, in most cases, the hacker's. This begs two questions:
1. Should the datapath be made more secure?
2. If the datapath should be more secure, how do we make it so?
Should the Datapath Be Made More Secure?
As crazy as it seems, people have told me there is no need for storage security; all that is needed is network and OS security, and securing the file system and data path is not important. Their argument is that storage security is far too hard to manage. Of course, I ask what they mean and I do not seem to get a straight answer very often. What I think people are concerned about is the complexity of key management for disk drives, but this is only one aspect of storage security. Disk encryption allows the easy destruction of a disk once it has been removed from a system. Disk encryption does not prevent anyone getting into the system from accessing data from your system, as the encryption is done by disk drive when written and it is decrypted when read. The argument that the OS and network, including user passwords, is all the security that is needed is a flawed argument in my opinion.
If hackers want access to your system, there must be multiple levels of security to prevent total access and limit damage if someone does break into the system. If you have valuable data, think of it as when someone breaks into the system -- as an attempt will likely be made, and hackers have been very successful of late.
How to Increase Security
I believe storage security needs must start at the file system and have multiple layers, including some for large systems, potentially the Fibre Channel network, but I believe storage security must begin at the file system. The current framework with user (UID), group (GID) and potential access control lists (ACLS) does not provide the needed security. Once someone gets root access, the game is over, and all of the files are available. Of course, users could encrypt the data, but without a standard for per-file encryption and key management that everyone agrees on for every file system from MVS to Linux to Windows to whatever, this becomes a problem for management, which might need access to the files of a fired employee or an employee who goes on a four-week vacation and forgets the encryption key. I use an encrypted disk partition with TrueCrypt that has more than a 20 character key -- but what if I have a stroke next Monday? How will anyone get my files off of my computer? Honestly, they cannot without great difficulty because no one is going to guess my key, and it will have to be cracked the hard way and at a large cost in terms of time and money.
The answer in my opinion is SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) and MLS (multi-level security). The history of proprietary security enhanced operating systems is a sordid one. From UNICOS on Cray Research machines to Secure Solaris, Secure IRIX and a long list of other vendor-secure MLS operating systems, no system has ever gone on to commercial success. None of these operating systems or any other have had broad market acceptance outside of a few sites. Rarely, if ever, have they been considered in the commercial world. There could be many reason why. Here are a few I can think of:
1. Market timing for the OS and the specific hardware did not meet requirements because the performance requirements exceeded what the vendor could offer
2. Limited feature set where an OS supported only a local file system with performance that did not match application requirements and backup, and HSM applications did not work.
3. People did not care much about security except for a few government sites
4. Administration costs too much, given specialized training needed for each operating system
Those are some of the reasons, but I think likely the most important reason is MLS systems are difficult for users trying to do things the way they have done in the past, given security constraints. Users can no longer share files the way they are used to, as each file will have a set of security constraints based on the security level specific to that user. Even if two users are at the same level, they still might not be able to share files as easily as they had before as the administrator could set many other security constraints. Logging in as a superuser (root) does not mean if setup properly that you can see all of the files or even any of the files, and changing things on the system without everything being logged is impossible. If a hacker gets superuser access in a system, he might have access to everything from the files to the system logs. This will allow the hacker to erase traces of what was done.
Fixing the Mess
My modest proposal is that SELinux become the base for all systems and that we all adopt it and make it work with things like NFS CIFS, shared file systems and NAS file system. Operating systems should support this hierarchy. This will require changes to the way everyone does business, from the vendors that will need to make some changes, to the standards bodies that will have to adopt new frameworks to access, to administrators and users to how they exchange files, to how systems are administered. Changes will need to be made to file systems to support the new security requirements. This will be a major change for things like shared file system, which will require authentication.
What about network access to file systems with NFS and CIFS? I expect they will likely have to have additional authentication to support these new security frameworks and new standards. SELinux is not the be-all and end-all to solve all security problems and issues, but it surely is a step in the right direction, addressing something that has gotten little attention in the current hacker-rich environment. SELinux helps protect the security of the data if someone gets into the system. Of course, if SELinux is poorly configured or people use absurdly simple passwords, such as abc123 or something similar, all bets are off, as all the hacker has to do it log in as each user. It is a bit more difficult, but it is still pretty easy. I think with all the recent hacks from Sony, to news outlets, to government sites all over the world, it is time we all turn up the level of effort and stop just depending on perimeter security. We must get serious about end-to-end security with IPv6 and IPSEC, much stronger passwords as a requirement and SELinux. The whole area of strong passwords and strong authentication must be addressed so employees forget them can be authenticated and able to get into the system.
None of this is going to be simple, but today a single, unsecure outside-facing machine with network access allows inside access to myriad machines. We must move to much stronger authentication in operating systems and for data access, and I believe SELinux is a very good step in the right direction.
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We have white smoke!
DiEM25 Greece
Wed 02, 2018, Articles
Spread the word
DiEM25’s members overwhelmingly approved the name of our new Greek electoral wing – the political party with which DiEM25 will contest elections in Greece, returning the spirit of the Greek Spring to the place of its birth.
As with all major DiEM25 decisions, members voted from across Europe, confirming once again that another Europe is not just possible – but that it is here, within DiEM25! This is the splendid innovation that DiEM25 has ushered into European and national politics, turning European Internationalism into a reality and a European Demos into a tangible possibility.
And the name of our Greek party?
Why ‘front’?
• Because Greece is suffocating in a Europe that is deconstructing itself
• Because, as long as countries like Greece are suffocating, Europe will be deconstructing itself, thus reinforcing the suffocation of Greece
Only a broad, unifying, paneuropean front against our Oligarchy-Without-Borders, that is responsible for Greece’s debt-bondage, can ever give breathing space to Greece and relief to its citizens.
Why ‘European realist disobedience’?
• Because the only way to be a responsible Greek citizen today is to disobey the ludicrous policies that are responsible for Greece’s dessertification
• Because the only way of respecting Greece’s Parliamentarianism, Constitution and… common sense is to end the blind obedience to the directives of the troika and its domestic agents
Authentic Greek Europeanists, today, understand that they have a duty to disobey the incompetent pseudo-technocrats who, on the altar of narrow oligarchic interests, are sacrificing Greece while de-legitimising Europe.
Why MeRA?
Because ‘mera’ in Greek translates into ‘day’, or ‘diem’ in Latin. And because Greeks have had enough of the long night of debt bondage to which they have been condemned for so many consecutive years.
Over the next days and weeks, our members’ decision to create MeRA25 will lead to our new Greek party’s Manifesto. On Tuesday 20/2 a pre-inauguration public meetings will take place in Kalamata (Municipal Cultural Centre, at 7.30pm) while, on Monday 26/3, MeRA25’s inauguration will take place in Athens.
Until then, we call upon all European democrats who were cheered by the news of MeRA25’s impending birth, and who think this is a beginning worthy of their support, to visit this page and register their practical support.
This is merely the beginning. Greece is merely the beginning. Onwards to our pan-European campaign, culminating in the May 2019 European Parliament elections!
Carpe DiEM25 (and… MeRA25)
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Menstrual cycle, blood pressure and ischemic pain sensitivity in women: a preliminary investigation.
Eleven women were tested twice for ischemic pain sensitivity; once during their follicular phase (Days 4-9) and once during their mid-late luteal phase (5-10 days after ovulation) of a confirmed ovulatory cycle. Additionally, in order to examine blood pressure-related hypoalgesic effects, each had 3-4 clinic blood pressures determined during an initial screening interview and each also completed a daily symptom calendar for one complete menstrual cycle prior to testing in order to investigate relationships between 'real life' symptomatology and laboratory-induced pain sensitivity. Results revealed significantly shorter pain tolerance times and marginally shorter pain threshold times in the luteal vs. follicular phase, while verbal descriptors of pain intensity (sensory) and pain unpleasantness (affective) did not vary with cycle phase. Clinic blood pressures were positively correlated with pain threshold and tolerance times assessed during both cycle phases. Real-life physical symptom ratings were predictive of laboratory pain intensity ratings during the follicular phase and tended to predict unpleasantness ratings during both phases. These results not only confirm recent reports of greater sensitivity to ischemic pain in women during the luteal phase of their cycle, but extend the literature by demonstrating pressure-related hypoalgesic effects in women during both cycle phases. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '11ceaa0ae2b587044ac88d5fdcafff879099cc45f34ff377023045573adc3f10'} |
Disentangling the link between depressive symptoms and plasma oxytocin in men: The role of brooding rumination.
The links between plasma oxytocin and depression are controversial, ranging from negative to positive associations. The present study was conducted to reconcile those conflicting findings; amongst the features of depression, we considered rumination and hypothesised that rumination would function as moderator between depressive symptoms and oxytocin. Seventy five clinically normal adult male volunteers were assessed for depressive characteristics by means of the Ruminative Responses Scale and Beck's Depression Inventory-II; plasma oxytocin was measured by means of competitive enzyme immunoassay. The results demonstrate that high depressive symptoms were negatively associated with oxytocin concentrations at high rumination levels while such an association did not exist at low levels of rumination. The present findings suggest there are complex associations between oxytocin and brooding rumination, the latter being an important feature among depressive symptoms observed in clinically normal individuals. This complexity can underlie the current lack of consensus on the role of oxytocin in depression. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fe5f800109b35c23994f0caacf2a5a843a90843613add630e32fee96b1a5ced4'} |
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1. how to push data to KDB using qpython?
2. is there any script to push data to HDB? assume I have lots of dated trade data, how can I push data to kdb by setting trade date as the data of HDB.
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1. Doing this via qpython is no different from those via other interfaces (including q itself): you open a connection (e.g. to tickerplant, assuming a tp+rdb+hdb setup) and call a function that will get your data persisted (e.g. .u.upd[`trade; data]).
2. Generally speaking, backpopulating historical data in a right way isn't straightforward: it could be done as simple as splaying data using set, one for each partition (date), if you have complete data to write; if you've got partial data to write (e.g. trades for a new instrument type), you may have to re-sort the combined data and re-apply attributes wherever needed. The q language itself is short of higher-level APIs that handles the nuances, but I find TorQ has a good collections of those, which makes the task easier. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8765624165534973}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '168277', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4S5EAZRVBQ2YZTLOLPNHE5MWL72HEYRX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a3749360-e47a-4682-9b6d-caaa0e0885c8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 27, 1, 3, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.85.151.73', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7ZMNCTTTINCNLHVLNHHKK5L2QUU4ZKAF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:36ba59fb-523d-4ace-a117-0f80e9ab68cb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://community.kx.com/t5/General/publish-data-to-kdb-uisng-qpython/td-p/12710', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d7d255dc-4755-49be-b8be-31c1997e2362>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '194', 'url': 'https://community.kx.com/t5/General/publish-data-to-kdb-uisng-qpython/td-p/12710', '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-10-67-67-127\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': '0.6711838841438293', 'original_id': '25873dd15b11aa3fd67f69dbe5878e9d36e6ccd3c006be89e8e7d75b6560efe1'} |
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#ifndef MEMORYMONITOR_H
#define MEMORYMONITOR_H
#include "Common.h"
#include <stdint.h>
#include <map>
#include <QObject>
#include "Timer.h"
#include "Mutex.h"
#if defined(TARGET_DEVICE)
extern "C" {
#include <memchute.h>
}
#endif
class MemoryMonitor : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
enum MemState {
Normal = 0,
Medium,
Low,
Critical
};
static MemoryMonitor* instance();
void start();
MemState state() const { return m_state; }
bool allowNewNativeAppLaunch(int appMemoryRequirement); // appMemoryRequirement in MB
void monitorNativeProcessMemory(pid_t pid, int maxMemAllowed, pid_t updateFromPid = 0);
bool getMemInfo(int& lowMemoryEntryRem, int& criticalMemoryEntryRem, int& rebootMemoryEntryRem);
Q_SIGNALS:
void memoryStateChanged(bool critical);
private:
MemoryMonitor();
~MemoryMonitor();
bool timerTicked();
int getCurrentRssUsage() const;
int getProcessMemInfo(pid_t pid);
#if defined(TARGET_DEVICE)
static void memchuteCallback(MemchuteThreshold threshold);
void memchuteStateChanged();
int getMonitoredProcessesMemoryOffset();
void checkMonitoredProcesses();
#endif
private:
Timer<MemoryMonitor> m_timer;
int m_currRssUsage;
static const int kFileNameLen = 128;
char m_fileName[kFileNameLen];
MemState m_state;
#if defined(TARGET_DEVICE)
MemchuteWatcher* m_memWatch;
typedef struct
{
pid_t pid;
int maxMemAllowed;
int violationNumber;
} ProcMemMonitor;
typedef std::map<pid_t, ProcMemMonitor*> ProcMemRestrictions;
ProcMemRestrictions memRestrict;
#endif
};
#endif /* MEMORYMONITOR_H */
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He said at the time: “I would never say that Powell was racist in any way at all. Had we listened to him, we would have much better race relations now than we have got.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ab49a1b6a01726e639b71a53fecdba381c526d8edef06d35f1f333d323617580'} |
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1. Lee Brenton كتب:
In my view, the maker of this video has a similar attitude to neal adams.
2. Hobo Joe كتب:
To the maker of this video- Just because you don’t understand something,
doesn’t mean that when you cynically parrot back the things you haven’t
grasped,that they somehow become illegitimate through your ignorance of its
mechanisms. It means simply, that *you still don’t understand what you are
criticizing*. That should really scare you. It scares me.
3. David Small كتب:
@John Vasili: Let’s put our thinking caps on. First, you need to know how
gravity works. Pretty much, mass is attracted to mass. When you have a
whole bunch of mass, the more it will attract. Simple enough. Now when
you have something with the mass of the sun (about 1.989E30 kg) there is a
whole bunch of mass pulling together, so it should shrink, right? Well it
is indeed possible to overcome the force of gravity, it’s as easy as
standing up or jumping or flying. The thing that stops the sun from
imploding into an infinitesimal point of seemingly infinite mass is the
nuclear fusion of hydrogen atoms that the sun is made of (along with
helium.) The fusion releases energy that excites the atoms and keeps them
moving and expanding, but the gravitational force slows it down. Now onto
why the sun would expand if it loses mass; to put it in simple terms, there
is less gravity (please go and read up on this, because I don’t want to
write an entire research paper on YouTube.) Onto the Earth part of my
essay. Earth is made up of much heavier elements that are much cooler and
denser than the sun. The Earth’s core is hot, not because of fusion (it
would be very bad if it were) but because of a list of factors, such as
friction and radioactive decay (not the same as fusion.) This means that
the chemicals that make up Earth are not fighting as hard to escape its
gravitational pull. In order to expand the Earth, the elements inside of
the core would need to gain enough energy to become gas (this is due to
solids and liquids not being able to expand or contract easily;) are there
gasses inside the earth? Absolutely. Are there enough to cause it to
expand… no. I hope this might clear things up a little, but I’d urge you
to go do some research from real scientific papers to see how it all adds
up. Don’t just accept what you hear or read based on “it sounds like it
could be real,” instead, go look at the whole picture and come to your own
conclusion. Never stop learning, please.
4. John Vasili كتب:
You sound ironic but I think you are wrong. First of all why are you so
sure that the earth must gain mass while it expands?
If you get 1 Kg of Hydrogen and 1 Kg of Iron do you really believe that
they occupy the same volume?
Do you know that our sun looses mass continuously (even today)? But all
scientific community agree that our sun will expand in size before it dies.
It will expand so big they say that it will eat up its planets including
the earth. Do you agree with this? If yes, then tell us if you think the
sun will gain mass during this expansion or will it loose mass? Do you know
I think that if you correctly knew any of the above then you should not
pose the question “where is the mass is coming from if the earth expands in
5. michael delaney كتب:
all stars and planets should have the same mass in solid form since they
formed in absolute zero, a foundation for all growing planets or stars
therefore in essence all stars should reach similar size as should all
planets as matter converts from solid to liquid to gas with an increase in
core temperatures brought about by elliptical orbits
6. Samuel Chamberlin كتب:
I agree and disagree on some of this video. I do believe however, that the
earth is expanding/getting bigger due to its collection dust and molecules
it gathers in orbiting the sun.
7. ImJoeYeah كتب:
I’d like to ask you some questions on your new formula for gravity.
If there were two hydrogen atoms floating in space billions of light years
from anything else, how would you work out the gravitational force between
them? It would just be the usual formula for gravity we have now, right?
8. Jonathan Novak كتب:
I have to agree, no matter how good the jigsaw puzzle and giant animal
gravity evidence is the lack of an answer as to mechanism disqualifies the
evidence. Some of these same people also suggested the absorption of space
field dark matter caused the apparent increase in mass and gravity. Since
I just realized that all gravity explanations are silly then there is no
gravity and I can now fly. THanks, it certainly will save plane fare.
This gravity explanation was indeed proved false wasn’t it? By the way,
how do I get down?
9. pcarb كتب:
OK Mr science man I just saw a great American patriot ask this simple
question which I will repeat Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t
explain that can you? I’m waiting………
10. bencubed كتب:
if you acknowledge seafloor spread as the cause of the rifting of Pangea,
where was subduction at that time which should have stopped the movement,
or rendered it equal to seafloor growth?
11. watchoutwhat كتب:
more than 250 million years ago there was a supercontinent called
MU/Lemuria that co-existed with the supercontinent Pangaea, the Indigenous
myths esp. from Philippines encoded an event that caused the obliteration
of large portion of MU / Lemuria cosmic in scale and recorded the Permian
Triassic Extinction Event that eventually resulted with the Continental
Drift, not necessarily the Expanding Earth Theory, search: Ric Vil Hori’s
Lemurian Timeline.
12. sathearn كتب:
@Amy My purpose is not to demonstrate growth, but to oppose misleading
claims (e.g., about the nature of arguments in the literature). Here again,
you misrepresent me as saying that there are not measurements, contrary to
what I said, and my point that compensation within the active margin
preempts further compensation of spreading draws a complete blank.
13. michael delaney كتب:
Jupiter and Saturn are liquid gas giants NOT and I repeat NOT gas giants
Neptune and Uranus are primarily solid H and solid Helium but NOT gas giants
Hydrogen is a gas when it becomes a star
Hydrogen is a solid when it is like Neptune and Uranus (nascent star)
Hydrogen is a liquid when it is like Jupiter and Saturn(nascent star)
dark matter is in stars that are in solid and liquid form of Hydrogen
I will be teaching this on you tube for those of you who are tired of using
your caveman club to instill antiquated dogma of mass equaling gravity
14. Yameen Rasheed كتب:
This is new.
Apparently, there are some nutters who have a hunch that the Earth is
expanding. (and therefore Science is wrong)
[Edit: Ah! Here it is. The plate tectonic conspiracy of Science debunked,
and used to prove the Qur’an scientific miracle! http://goo.gl/0k8cM ]
15. michael delaney كتب:
science is in error when considering gravity that is why they call Neptune
and Uranus snow balls. Since originally it was thought that both Uranus
and Neptune should be primarily composed of solid H and solid Helium but
when they found that gravity was weaker as a result of space missions they
had to either change their views on gravity or modify Neptune s and Uranus
composition which was easier. so that is what they did
16. michael delaney كتب:
Mans error is in using a star as a fulcrum for gravity, bad science
stars can be of different size because of core temperatures not mass and if
they are capable of rising, the star is also capable of increasing volume
and therefore increasing surface area and increasing the perceived gravity
gravity is ever changing as is volume
volume will grow until it gets to a point where radioactive decay cannot
support further growth and the planet or star begins the process of losing
rotation and shrinking instead of growing
17. michael delaney كتب:
Mars and Earth have the same mass but different volume due to core
temperatures affecting both Earths mass and Mars mass differently
The rise in earths core temperature has brought about an increase in radius
and an increase in surface speed but mass is again equal that is why they
both share the same rotation period regardless of size
notice that earth is double mars radius as is its surface speed which is
indicative of core temperatures NOT mass affecting gravity
as core temperatures rise so does surface area so does gravity
18. michael delaney كتب:
gravity grows and shrinks with a planets increase and decrease in volume.
once we understand that gravity is a consequence of rising core
temperatures we will also realize that we are in error about gravity being
a function of mass but rather a function of core temperature
All of the planets are of equal mass it is volume that is at different
ratio to the
original masss
Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter and our Sun are of the same mass but volume
is the fulcrum for gravity not mass
19. ben cubed كتب:
The EE hypothesis accounts for mountain range formation via the buckling of
lesser-curvature plate crust reacting to pressure of conforming to the
wider/expanding curvature forces beneath. This also accounts for known
processes of subduction.
20. zarnell كتب:
I watched this expanding earth video the other night. I admit i was
entertained and it made me think about expanding gas and things like that.
Over all I enjoyed it for entertainment value. Thanks for reality and I
love the “POP” at the end with the balloon that was hilarious!!
21. michael delaney كتب:
Gravity is caveman talk
mass does not equal gravity it is the increase in temperature that brings
about a rise in pressure and an increase in volume which imposes an ever
changing gravity as Electromagnetism grows at the core
Hydrogen is stored in solid form where radioactive decay is minimized, it
is change in core temperatures brought about by elliptical orbits and flux
transfer events which allows for the gradual increase in radioactive decay
22. michael delaney كتب:
stars form slowly from solid hydrogen until they become as big as Neptune
or Uranus at which they will become as Saturn and eventually as Jupiter and
finally a Nebula to a star
23. michael delaney كتب:
A nebula will eventually form around Jupiter
core temperatures will rise and Jupiter will slowly transform to a nebula
and eventually a star in an electromagnetic universe
24. michael delaney كتب:
Hydrogen is compressed at high temperatures which creates great pressures
and an increase in volume, this is a trinity of nature that we have not
properly acknowledged, If we acknowledge that temperatures are prone to
rise as a result of elliptical orbits we will then find why planets and
stars must shrink their orbits and increase angular momentum with the
advent of time
25. Raciepie كتب:
Neal Adams is a jerk. I asked how it works and he basically called me an
ignorant idiot just for asking…
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Bridge example problem
Hi there,
I run a Arduino Mega 2560 with a Yun Shield.
I tryed to load the Bridge example, but when I try
curl localhost/arduino/digital/13
I get this response
Could not connect to YunServer 146 Connection refused
I tryed to remove the line "server.listenOnLocalhost();" as suggested in other threads, with no results.
The REST API is open
Also, after a amount of time, the pin 13 goes down (is put up by the setup()) and any request to the REST API is answered black
Try to make a HTTP request directly on port 5555 returns no answer
Someone know how to help?
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## 功能概述
一个校验器框架，提供注解校验方法参数和对象属性的功能，在方法运行前，拦截方法并执行参数校验，如果校验失败可以抛出自定义异常和信息；便于拓展自定义校验器。
开发时，参考了Hibernate-Validator 5.x，但是没有做到兼容，因为JSR-303提供的注解的方法太少，不方便拓展，所以写了这个框架。
## 运行环境
要求JDK1.8+
使用说明：
1. 在spring容器中定义`AspectjProxyPoint`， 这是校验器的切面拦截功能，会默认拦截所有的标记有`@Valid`的方法或类上面有`@Valid`注解的内部所有方法。
1) `@Valid` value 启用部分属性校验
2) `@Valid` skip 忽略部分属性校验
3) `@Valid` inside 开启内部校验，即对象属性校验，同`@Inside`注解
2. 现在可以使用框架中自带的校验器注解。
* 在任意方法上标记`@Valid`注解，表明校验该方法运行时的入参。
* 在任意类上标记`@Valid`注解，表明校验该类中所有方法运行时的入参。
* 在任意类上标记`@Valid`注解，表明校验该类中所有方法运行时的入参。
* `@Valid`注解，默认全部校验，当标记value时按照标记校验，标记inside时取消或者开启内部校验。
* `@Inside`注解，当标记在类中时,优先级高于@Valid` 中的inside
```
@Controller
@RequestMapping("user")
public UserController {
@ResponseBody
public User create(@Valid(value = {"name"}) @NotNull User user) {
...
}
}
```
3. 在非spring环境使用校验器功能
```
//标记校验对象内部字段的注解，否则默认不去校验对象内部字段
@Inside
class User {
@IntRange(max = 1880, min = 5)
private int age;
@NotBlank
private String name;
@Length(min = 10)
private List<String> list;
}
//校验对象
public void test() {
User user = new User();
user.setAge(0);
user.setList(Lists.newArrayList("12"));
user.setName("asdf");
Context context = Context.newInstance();
//fast=false表示即使校验过程中，存在校验失败，将校验结果仍然收集到校验收集器中，而不是立即抛出异常.
context.setFast(false);
Validated validated = new Validated(user, context);
Collector check = validated.access();
System.out.println(check.getResult());
}
```
5. 框架内部可用校验器注解
* 校验器注解的具体使用方法，可以阅读源代码的api注释文档。
* 注意该框架的校验器的包名为`org.aoju.bus.validate.annotation`
* 下列校验器注解，默认都**不会**产生校验对象内部字段的功能。如需校验对象内部字段，请使用后文提到的`@Inside`注解。
```
@Blank: 字符串必须为空
@Each: 遍历数组或列表、Map执行校验器
@Equals: toString方法的返回值必须和指定的字符串相同
@False: boolean, Boolean类型的值必须为false
@In: 对象必须包含在指定的数组中
@InEnum: 对象必须在指定的枚举类型中
@IntRange: 数字必须在指定的范围
@Length: 字符串长度或数组、列表长度在指定范围
@MultiValidate: 注入指定的一个或多个校验器校验对象
@NotBlank: 字符串不能为null或为空字符串，多个空白字符也不允许
@NotIn: 对象不能在指定的数组内
@NotNull: 对象不能为null
@Null: 对象必须为null
@Reflect: 通过反射执行一个指定的方法，其中被校验对象作为入参，最后指定校验器校验方法的运行结果
@Regex: 正则表达式校验字符串
@True: boolean, Boolean类型的值必须为true
```
* 特殊的元数据注解
```
@Valid: 标记在类上或方法上，表示校验切面拦截位置
@Group: 标记在被校验方法上或入参上，表示当前的校验组
@Inside: 标记在被校验方法的入参或POJO字段上，表示校验对象内部字段
@Array: 在自定义注解时，标记在自定义校验注解上，表示被校验对象是数组或列表时，仅遍历校验内部元素。
@Filler: 在自定义注解时，标记在自定义注解的内部方法上，表示该方法的值可以在emsg插值中使用。
@Complex： 在自定义注解时，标记在自定义注解上，表示该注解使用的具体的校验执行器。
@ValidEx: 校验异常注解，校验失败时将ValidateException替换为指定的异常并抛出
```
6. 自定义校验器及注解：
1. 自定义一个注解，必须有errcode、errmsg、group、field四个方法。注解上要有`@Complex`标明注解在运行时使用的校验器，示例如下：
```
@Documented
@Target({ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.FIELD})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Complex(value = Builder._BLANK, clazz = BlankStrategy.class)
public @interface Blank {
/**
* 默认使用的异常码
*/
int errcode() default Builder.DEFAULT_ERRCODE;
/**
* 默认使用的异常信息
*/
String errmsg() default "${field}字符串必须为空";
/**
* 校验器组
*/
String[] group() default {};
/**
* 被校验字段名称
*/
String field() default Builder.DEFAULT_FIELD;
}
```
2. 实现一个校验器，实现`Complex`接口， 并且将其注入Spring容器中。
```
public class BlankStrategy implements Complex<String, Blank> {
@Override
public boolean on(String object, Blank annotation, ValidateContext context) {
return validate(object, context);
}
}
```
3. 在需要进行参数校验的地方使用该注解
```
@Valid //标记注解，启用验证器AOP拦截
public append(@Blank String str) {
...
}
``` | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e50d43578dd86351ab494692ba3e6a218b46a34ea56106b44119d287498c6ed1'} |
Jan. 12, 2022
The Surprising Habits of Backable People
#37: Bestselling author Suneel Gupta joins Chris to discuss how to make your ideas sound so appealing to others that they not only adopt them but advocate for them. They talk about how to make failure work in your favor, why conviction and storytelling can be more compelling than statistics, why you should stop trying to be charismatic, and the power of going the extra mile.
Suneel Gupta (@suneel) is the bestselling author of Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You. At one point of his career, if you googled “failure” you would get a New York Times article featuring his story. He was the founding CEO of RISE, named app of the year by Apple, which was acquired by One Medical. Suneel later ran for US Congress, served on the faculty at Harvard University and is currently an emissary for Gross National Happiness between the US and the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Selected Links From The Episode
Connect with Suneel: Website | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn
Suneel's Book: Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You
New York Times article featuring Suneel’s journey of failure
LaidOffCamp: Tech Crunch | NPR
Full Show Notes
Who is Suneel Gupta? [00:16]
Chris’ crazy story getting laid off in 2009. [01:38]
Suneel Gupta’s viral failure story. [02:53]
Making failure work in your favor. [04:30]
Why having a brilliant idea is not enough. [05:50]
Yes, you can do anything you want - but there’s a caveat. [07:38]
Why casting a central character can be more powerful than statistics when you pitch to investors. [09:17]
Are backable people all charismatic people (and why you shouldn’t try to be charismatic)? [14:23]
How not being too rigorous can help you (and 4 types of people you need in your backable circle). [17:31]
Applying lessons from the failures of successful people. [26:58]
Non-obvious lessons from the failures of successful people (conviction and exhibition matches). OR Why you might want to practice your speech 21 times. [28:51]
Flipping outsiders into insiders. [34:21]
Building muscle memory for what you want to master. [35:55]
What to ask instead of “what do you think”. [38:31]
Why you should have shorter presentations.[42:23]
Starting conversations and building rapport with complete strangers. [50:52]
The energy you give off matters. [57:30]
Why you should go one step beyond what anyone else would do. [59:40]
Preparing the energy you want to bring and calling out the negatives upfront. [01:08:15]
What Suneel Gupta is working on now. [01:13:37]
How to connect with Suneel Gupta. [01:16:03]
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Zeitgeist: Survivalist Reality Show Winner to Get Own Bunker (as survival condos sell out)
Well that ties a couple cultural trends together in a neat little package doesn't it.
From NBC Los Angeles:
"These are not people that you may think are living in a shelter in the middle of the woods," Spike exec says. "These could be your friends"
Survivalist Reality Show Winner to Get Own Bunker
This artist rendering released by Vivos, an underground shelter network, shows a design for an underground bunker. Spike TV will be airing a six-episode series called "Last Family on Earth" a competition in which survivalists will compete for an underground bunker in an undisclosed location.
The network said Tuesday that its six-episode series called "Last Family on Earth" will feature survivalists competing to show how tough and resourceful they are. The winner gets an underground bunker in an undisclosed location.
Sharon Levy, executive vice president of original programming at Spike, said the series doesn't necessarily coincide with the theory that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted the end of the world will arrive in December 2012.
Levy said polls show that many people believe that there will be some catastrophic event like an earthquake or epidemic that threatens civilization, and these are the people who will participate in the show.
"We don't think there's anything funny about that," Levy said. "We think it's a very interesting segment of the population that is very prepared, is highly intelligent....MORE
These things are apparently the hottest ticket in real estate.
From CNET:
Apocalypse-proof condos already sold out
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit the remnants of humanity.
What's your favorite doomsday scenario? Epidemic? Nuclear fallout? The Rapture redux? How about the Mayan apocalypse?
None of these will ruin your day if you live in Survival Condo, a converted nuclear ballistic missile silo in Kansas. With supplies of food, air, and water, you can wait out Armageddon underground.
For years, developer Larry Hall, a former software engineer, has been working on a 1960s-era Atlas F missile silo in north-central Kansas, turning it into luxury lockdown residences in preparation for inevitable end-times (see cleanup photos here). He says all units in the complex sold out this month, and there's even a waiting list.
Why did he want to turn this 174-foot-deep hole into condos? "To have a safe place for the increasing number of threats that are occurring," Hall says. But why are people willing to pay $2 million apiece for the 1,820-square-foot units?...MORE
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10 Unbelievable Facts About Coca-Cola
Almost everyone must have come across the word ‘Coca-Cola’ atleast once in their life. Did you know that Fanta was invented in Hitler occupied Nazi Germany and that Pepsi called the FBI when people with ‘verified sources’ tried to sell Coca Cola’s secret recipe to them. Scroll down to know more!
1. Coca-Cola started out as a stimulating nerve tonic and used wine as sweetening agent
Coca Wine Advertisement
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John Pemberton, the pharmacist founder behind Coca-Cola was a great ‘Coca’ aficionado and sought out to brew an enterprising drink combining a cocktail of medicine and ‘soft’ beverage. The “Pemberton’s French wine coca” was a glorious market hit until Atlanta introduced liquor regulations in 1886. Sugar syrup replaced wine and the product was sold as ‘Coca-Cola: the temperance drink’ after he reworked the recipe. (source)
2. The bottle design was inspired by Victorian era Hobble skirt
Coke bottle inspired by hobble skirt
Image source: wikipedia
Coca-Cola underwent a major product design changeover with the introduction of ‘Hobble skirt’ bottles and to this day, theories exist and one being that the curved bottle shape was inspired by narrow skirt dresses. But that’s not true. It was an error made by T. Clyde Edwards, an auditor working for the company. His research for Coca and Cola at the library landed him on the page of ‘Cocoa’ and decided to use the outline of Cocoa bean pod from the Encyclopedia Britannica as reference. (source)
3. Coca-Cola was considered as an effective contraceptive
Coke ad yes
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It was believed for a long, long time that the carbonic acid in Coke made it the most simple, cost-friendly and hippiest birth control measure. A post-coitus procedure of vaginal douching was thought to decrease sperm mobility. Using Old Coke, New Coke, Diet Coke and the decaffeinated ones in laboratory research gave varied results but major inference was that the soft drink was useless as spermicides. It is notable to mention that the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two sets of team – one for discovering the ‘sperm killing’ ability of Coca-Cola and the other for disproving it by chance. (source)
4. Coca-Cola wanted to replace tap water with soft drinks and bottled water
H2NO campaign by Coca-Cola
Image source: Imgur
Highly aggressive advertising campaign for bottled water industry –that’s how Coca-Cola is mentioned in Management Literature as it dissuaded ‘tap water‘ seeking customers to increase profit although the company uses tap water as the source of their bottled water. Coca-Cola spearheaded a hush-hush campaign ‘H2NO’ through a series of online messages to distributors and restaurants throughout U.S. The Olive Garden ‘say No to H2O ‘campaign was successful and the news broke out. (source)
viper rapper
An American artist named Viper released 347 albums in 2014 alone that is almost one album per day
You have a Look-alike on this Planet, Not Convinced?, Well Here’s Proof | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9502737522125244}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '214667', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2FRJIZWEEULGVMAHDP5ULE5RCBCLDL5M', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:90aefdd9-c97a-41fc-8c45-8b02563f1b1c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 17, 22, 0, 5), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.67.213', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3IQ5KL2OOYY2PNBSI6A5A227WSKO4XLV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f6a1543-3779-4950-a62a-e9e228b71770>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://unbelievable-facts.com/2015/02/10-unbelievable-facts-coca-cola.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2bc11f50-ac46-4562-a963-414e41866d6a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '466', 'url': 'https://unbelievable-facts.com/2015/02/10-unbelievable-facts-coca-cola.html', '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-10-67-67-33.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': '0.026482045650482178', 'original_id': 'd23aebd7e4783d01c865925c0aa33adc464b44c0e2e84e868d7a99646f8f954b'} |
I am trying to customize this document, it's a CV template for XeTeX. What I'd like to be able to do is change the main font. I belive the section of the code I need to change is this:
\setmainfont[SmallCapsFont = Fontin SmallCaps]{Fontin}
I downloaded and installed Fontin just to be able to see the document in its original form before trying to customize it. It works fine.
Now I need some other fonts to try, and I can't figure out how to find out the font names I could use. I tried a few well-known names like Times and Verdana, these fonts were not found. Also tried some font names I have found in different documents and webpages, eg. Cambria, TeX Gyre Bonum, Lucida Grande, which were rejected because either they were not found or their names contained an illegal character: a space. (Which pretty much stunned me since the fontspec documentation is full of multi-word font names...)
The documentation on the fontspec package (v2.1e 2010/11/17) doesn't help me much. All it says about this is "TODO: add explanation for how to find out what the font name is."
So how do I find the names of the fonts I can use?
Edit: I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with the latest TeXlive 2010 from tug.org.
• What OS are you using? Windows/OSX/Linux? – Alan Munn Feb 23 '11 at 21:44
• @Alan: added info. – Heisenb0rg Feb 23 '11 at 21:46
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I don't use Linux, so I'm not an expert here; can you see what fonts are available to XeTeX using the fc-list command line tool? (P.S. In the next release fontspec will be slightly better at reporting when a font can't be found — no more ‘illegal character’ errors.) – Will Robertson Feb 24 '11 at 5:19
Your operating system should have some font previewer that shows the font name when you double click on a file. Spaces should not pose any problems (e.g. \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} works if you have the otf version of Linux Libertine installed). The error message for fonts with spaces that are not found is rather misleading. It means that the font is not installed and not that spaces are not allowed.
Of course you can only use fonts that are actually installed on your system. Under Linux, fonts are (I think) usually under /usr/share/fonts/ and $HOME/.fonts. Also try locate .ttf and locate .otf.
Fonts that are installed with your TeX distribution (like the TeX Gyre fonts; look in .../texmf-dist/fonts) need to be called with their file name (in XeTeX, LuaTeX accepts the font name). For example,
UprightFont= *-regular,
• You say, for XeTeX I need to specify the file name, how come it perfectly works with Fontin? (I installed Fontin under ~/.fonts/fontin and ran fc-cache -fv.) – Heisenb0rg Feb 23 '11 at 21:56
• @Heisenb0rg: You need to specify the file name if the font is not in one of the system font directories, but is in one of the TeX font directories (don't ask me why). In my example, TeX Gyre Termes is located in usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/. (Also, you don't need to run fc-cache. Just dropping the font in ~/.fonts/ is enough.) – Caramdir Feb 24 '11 at 0:02
• Miktex has no problems to find a font by font name in the texmf-trees. E.g. \setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes} finds J:/MiKTeX2.9/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyretermes-regular.otf. Perhaps it works because miktex added to localfonts.conf in fontconfig/config beside others the entry <dir>J:\MiKTeX2.9\fonts\opentype</dir> – Ulrike Fischer Feb 24 '11 at 10:46
Besides the font viewer of your operating systems, you can also use Eddie Kohler’s LCDF Type Software otfinfo to find the font family name of OpenType and TrueType fonts:
$ otfinfo --family texgyreheros-regular.otf
TeX Gyre Heros
$ otfinfo --family Cambria.ttf
If you are on a Macintosh computer and want to use one of the system font with the .dfont-extenstion, you can use the Fondu software to convert them to TrueType.
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According to the website of the Law Offices of Crowe & Mulvey, LLP, specific rules for medical malpractice cases can vary from case to case and from state to state. Things such as the statute of limitations may be different from one state to another, but the general qualifications for whether or not a case is considered possible medical malpractice are fairly similar across the board. Medical malpractice is a very specific accusation to make against a doctor or hospital, so having an understanding of what it is can help you determine whether you’ve been a victim of negligence at the hands of a medical professional. The following is a brief overview of the necessary circumstances for filing a medical malpractice case:
• There was an established doctor-patient relationship What this means is that you must have hired the physician in question and he or she must have agreed to being hired. This means that a legitimate doctor-patient relationship existed, and it was not merely casual advice given at a social gathering by someone who happens to be a doctor.
• The doctor acted negligently A doctor that deviates from the standard of care, which essentially means behaving in a reasonable and attentive manner that any other doctor would behave in, may be liable for any harm that comes to a patient as a result. Usually a medical expert is brought in on medical malpractice cases to paint a picture of what is generally expected of a physician when dealing with the circumstances of that particular case.
• The patient was harmed Although a doctor may have acted negligently, it does not always lead to negative consequences. In order for a medical malpractice case to be legitimate, the patient must have suffered some kind of physical, financial, or psychological harm.
• The patient was harmed because of the negligence A patient must establish that it was due to the doctor’s negligence, and not just their condition, that harm was caused. If it was more likely than not that the doctor’s negligence is the cause for the harm, then the doctor may be held liable.
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Sale, Apartment, 87.5 sq. m, 4 bedroom
Sale, Apartment, 87.5 sq. m, 4 bedroom
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Year built
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To purchase a large spacious apartment in a convenient location.
Close to train station,bus stop.
Close to shops and popular supermarket chains and shopping centers (about 1 km)
The apartment area of 87.5 m2 consisting of 4 room, light kitchenette ( with window) and balcony 2.8 m2 and 3.4 m2.In addition, a separate dressing room.
Windows on the North-East and South-West.
Parking place in front of the building.
Piped (security)
117 297 $
1 341 $/sq.m.
Lot: 42344
Irena Czernenko
Polski, Русский, Українська
Request information
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The FBI has released its notes from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server after numerous media outlets put in Freedom of Information Act requests. Everyone became curious over the fact that the FBI did not recommend charges against Hillary.
The FBI interviewed Hillary for 3.5 hours on July 2 at its headquarters in DC. Three days later, Comey announced his shocking decision, despite listing all the ways Clinton and her aides were careless with classified materials on her private email server. For example, she had NO IDEA how to classify information.
From CNN:
“Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure,” the agency said in a statement. “We also are releasing a factual summary of the FBI’s investigation into this matter.”
The bureau said it had redacted “classified information or other material exempt from disclosure under FOIA.”
People continue to dog Trump over his remarks about Hillary’s health, but look at this. She couldn’t even remember details from briefings at that time.
Hardly anyone knew her email address.
Cannot find her 13 BlackBerry devices
Aides would smash her old devices with hammers.
DELETION of emails.
The guy who got the emails couldn’t even give the FBI a straight answer on where he found them.
The Archive laptop came from…..THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
They had a guy transfer the emails and he did to his Gmail account. Now the FBI or the guy cannot find the laptop or the thumb drive. Oh, there were at least 56 classified emails and 302 emails that Clinton did not hand over to the State Dept.
Her server remained completely unsecure her first months as secretary.
She claims she never saw or had any training on email or sensitive documents.
She had no idea that the C meant classified.
Confirmation of classified information.
There were times hackers tried to get into her email and system.
She actually thought discussions over a possible drone strike didn’t need to be classified.
Her system was not compliant with Federal Records Act.
You can find the documents here at the FBI website. Go through them and if you find anything interesting please leave them in the comments! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '19', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9713573455810548}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '166793', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:P5WIST7SYXAFJFOXRPOQ5PS7HI7GVTKU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a4ddad10-7367-4bcf-be88-1372d7c08418>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 13, 15, 11, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.10.36.21', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6D4VFQYRSKZ37IRLTR4NNIJHICYGSVKZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5a5fd4fe-da2c-4264-b2d4-bbb460bbf1e6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/fbi-releases-notes-from-hillary-email-investigation/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4fea4e21-ceb9-40c4-ac59-d76cff25e4cb>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '389', 'url': 'https://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/fbi-releases-notes-from-hillary-email-investigation/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-179-113-199.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': '0.16573095321655273', 'original_id': '4e7c84d9776ae3c3de32900d2d2dc8a9144a69b812fb0eba05ef7f969c8731dc'} |
Bitmap from StorageItemThumbnail shows wrong dimensions in GridView
I am currently building an app and one bug that I can't seem to figure out is this:
These images are PDF page snapshots, and are actually in portrait format. Somehow, it won't display correctly. I can actually see the wrong size and the size that it's supposed to show.
Does anyone have an idea why it would do this?
Converter code:
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language)
{
BitmapImage image = null;
if (value != null)
{
if (value.GetType() != typeof(StorageItemThumbnail))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Expected a StorageItemThumbnail as binding input.");
}
if (targetType != typeof(ImageSource))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Expected ImageSource as binding output.");
}
if ((StorageItemThumbnail)value == null)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Thumbnail is null.");
return image;
}
image = new BitmapImage();
using (var thumbNailClonedStream = ((StorageItemThumbnail)value).CloneStream())
{
image.DecodePixelType = DecodePixelType.Logical;
_ = image.SetSourceAsync(thumbNailClonedStream);
}
}
return image;
}
Thumbnail retrieval (destinationFile = StorageFile):
StorageItemThumbnail thumbnail = await destinationFile.GetThumbnailAsync(ThumbnailMode.PicturesView, 500, ThumbnailOptions.UseCurrentScale);
CurrentPages.Add(new AppPage
{
ImageFile = destinationFile,
OriginalFile = file,
Thumbnail = thumbnail
});
GridView XAML:
<GridView Name="pagesViewer" ItemsSource="{x:Bind CurrentPages, Mode=OneWay}" Margin="0,0,0,40" Grid.Row="1" CanDrag="True" CanDragItems="True" CanReorderItems="True" Background="White" AllowDrop="True" Drop="pagesViewer_Drop" DragOver="pagesViewer_DragOver">
<GridView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:DataType="local:AppPage">
<StackPanel Height="280" Width="200" Margin="12" AutomationProperties.Name="{x:Bind PageNumber}" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{x:Bind OriginalFile.Name}" Background="WhiteSmoke" IsRightTapEnabled="True">
<StackPanel.ContextFlyout>
<MenuFlyout>
<MenuFlyout.Items>
<MenuFlyoutItem x:Name="DeletePage" Text="Remove Page" />
<MenuFlyoutItem x:Name="AddBlankBefore" Text="Add Blank Before" />
<MenuFlyoutItem x:Name="AddBlankAfter" Text="Add Blank After" />
</MenuFlyout.Items>
</MenuFlyout>
</StackPanel.ContextFlyout>
<Image Source="{x:Bind Thumbnail, Converter={StaticResource ResourceKey=ThumbnailConverter}}" Height="240" Width="200" Stretch="Uniform" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" />
<StackPanel Margin="0,12">
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind PageNumber, Mode=OneWay}" Foreground="Black" FontWeight="Light" FontSize="15" TextAlignment="Center" />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</GridView.ItemTemplate>
<GridView.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<ItemsWrapGrid MaximumRowsOrColumns="10" Orientation="Horizontal" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</GridView.ItemsPanel>
</GridView>
Bitmap from StorageItemThumbnail shows wrong dimensions in GridView
Please refer GetThumbnailAsync document, The requested size, in pixels, of the longest edge of the thumbnail. Windows uses the requestedSize as a guide and tries to scale the thumbnail image without reducing the quality of the image. When you set ThumbnailMode as PicturesView and call GetThumbnailAsync method like the following
await destinationFile.GetThumbnailAsync(ThumbnailMode.PicturesView, 500, ThumbnailOptions.UseCurrentScale);
It will cut image with 19 / 13, then the width will be limit as 500 and the height will be limit as 342.
For your scenario, we suggest you use ThumbnailMode.SingleItem to replace above and set Image Stretch property as Fill
StorageItemThumbnail thumbnail = await file.GetThumbnailAsync(ThumbnailMode.SingleItem, 500, ThumbnailOptions.ResizeThumbnail);
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Meap in a spaceship.
Gender: Male
Height: Shorter than Phineas
Nationality: Alien
Hometown: Outer space
Nemesis: Mitch
Professional Information
Intergalactic Security Agent
Friends and Family
Unknown, but has one as his mother-in-law was shown
Behind the Scenes
Debut Appearance:
"The Chronicles of Meap"
Final Appearance:
"Last Day of Summer"
Voiced by:
Lorenzo Lamas
Jeff Foxworthy (Meap with a mustache made in Georgia)
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (Meap with a British mustache)
Old Meap
Meap with an English mustache.
Georgia Meap
Meap with a mustache made in Georgia.
Meap came from a species of small sentient beings that speaks solely in a language that takes the form of the word "meap". At some point, he was enlisted in an organization and rigorously trained to be able to confront extraterrestrial criminals in combat. He eventually acquired a state-of-the-art spaceship that would be his means of transportation around deep space. A fellow member of his species, Mitch, is his longest-standing and only known opponent, with whom he has frequently matched tides with. ("The Chronicles of Meap", "Meapless in Seattle")
While on Earth
In the midst of a hot pursuit after Mitch, Meap's spaceship was hit by a stray remote-control baseball from two human beings Phineas and Ferb, damaging it beyond usable condition and forcing it into an uncontrollable crash-course into Earth. Upon crash-landing in their backyard, Meap was an immediate interest to the boys, who were intrigued by his language, his race, and his superficial appearance as "cute". As they began to repair his ship, he set off after Candace, being mistaken by her as a Bango-Ru doll, and went with her to a Bango-Ru convention.
However, because of Meap's unusual behavior, he along with Candace were kicked out of the convention. Candace tried to return Meap to her brothers, but when she met with them along with Isabella in the now-repaired ship, she witnessed them being abducted by Mitch, an extraterrestrial poacher who had been using the ship's radar signature to track Meap down. In spite of the communication barrier standing between Candace and Meap they teamed up with each other and worked in cooperation to reach Mitch's space station. After an ensuing struggle in which the five nearly fell into Mitch's custody Meap managed to subdue Mitch and he was arrested.
Meap vs. Mitch: Round II
Later on, Meap sought Phineas and Ferb's cooperation when Mitch once again threatened intergalactic peace. Unfortunately for him he was unable to immediately communicate with them due to the absence of a mustache translator. Subsequently, Mitch tracked them down and attacked, forcing them, Candace, and a recently-arrived Isabella to run. In the ship and with the aid of an emergency mustache, he explained to his entourage of a struggle to attain a grail containing an extremely rare chemical long banned from his home planet, known as Cutonium, which would grant its holder absolute dominance over the galaxy. Soon afterwards they embarked on a wild-goose chase into Seattle where they attempted to unearth the grail of cutonium, only to be beaten to it when Doofenshmirtz drank it out of stupidity and was seized by Mitch.
Personality and traits
Meap with mustache
Meap thanks his new human friends.
Meap is a very brute force. While being small and of seemingly weak demeanor, Meap can easily take on an opponent more than twice his size, showing either a straight face or utter amusement. He seems to be able to shoot a destructive "rainbow beam" from his mouth. He enjoys his job, as he is very good at it, and will smile while on missions. As all members of his race, Meap speaks with a complete straight face when speaking his native language, never truly blinking. He is unable to speak English without a translator mustache as shown in the picture. When a mustache is not in use he can only say the word meap.
Background Information
• Not only did veteran voice actor Lorenzo Lamas provide Meap's voice for when he spoke with the standard mustache translator, but he also did the "meaps" for when Meap spoke without the mustache.
• Meap has Chibi-Anime eyes like most of the "Bango-Ru" he was mistaken to be.
Meap without hat
Meap putting the hat on during the credits.
Rainbow of death
Meap's rainbow death ray.
• His "rainbow beam" could possibly be a subtle reference to the meme 'Shoop da Whoop" in which the titular character, Dr Octagonapus, does the same thing.
• He has his own commercial that advertise a food product called Meap's Carbonated Goulash ("Ferb TV").
• A few first season episodes has Candace saying "Meap" before the character is even introduced. ("The Fast and the Phineas", "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World", "Backyard Aquarium", "Candace Disconnected")
• Carl also says "Meap" when he is hit by the Ultimate-Evil-inator in "Where's Perry?".
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Unilateral concurrence of pyelocaliceal diverticula and intracapsular angiomyolipoma in the kidney of a cat.
A 7-month-old cat was examined for progressive abdominal distension. Radiography showed a fluid-containing cyst, which had subsequently ruptured as the result of a fall. Nephrectomy was performed, and examination revealed the coexistence of pyelocaliceal diverticula with a cystic intracapsular angiomyolipoma (mesenchymal hamartoma) in the left kidney. The diverticula were present on both cranial and caudal poles of the kidney and were lined by transitional epithelium. The hamartoma was characterized by the presence of multiple mesenchymal tissues, including thick-walled blood vessels, smooth muscle, and adipose tissue. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'bb18cfba5ed67ad7a1732e62455f4a41742c483f4f2cd2727d7bef80b575f01d'} |
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This news story details how someone got in another person’s car, drove it away and filled it with gas thinking it was their own. How do you possibly do that?
When I get in my own CX-3, I immediately feel like its “off” if my wife has been driving it. The seat and mirrors are wrong to begin with.
This isn’t the first I’ve heard of this either.
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#include <fstream>
#include "gtest/gtest.h"
#include "qpp.h"
using namespace qpp;
// Unit testing "input_output.hpp"
#if (0)
/******************************************************************************/
/// BEGIN template <typename Derived> dyn_mat<typename Derived::Scalar>
/// qpp::load(std::istream& is)
///
/// template <typename Derived> void qpp::save(
/// const Eigen::MatrixBase<Derived>& A, std::ostream& os)
TEST(qpp_load_save, Matrix) {
// matrices,complex, real and integer
// DA = 1, DB = 1 degenerate case
idx DA = 1, DB = 1;
cmat A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB), loadA;
dmat B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB), loadB;
dyn_mat<int> C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB), loadC;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// DA = 1, DB = 10
DA = 1, DB = 10;
A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB);
B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB);
C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// DA = 32, DB = 24
DA = 32, DB = 24;
A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB);
B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB);
C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// expression
A = rand<cmat>(5, 5);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A * A + A, fout);
}
cmat load_expression;
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
load_expression = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(load_expression - (A * A + A)), 1e-7);
}
/******************************************************************************/
TEST(qpp_load_save, Vector) {
// kets/row vectors, complex, real and integer
// D = 1 degenerate case
idx D = 1;
ket A = randket(D), loadA;
dyn_row_vect<double> B = dyn_row_vect<double>::Random(D), loadB;
dyn_row_vect<int> C = dyn_row_vect<int>::Random(D), loadC;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadA = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadB = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<double>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// D = 32
D = 32;
A = randket(D);
B = dyn_row_vect<double>::Random(D);
C = dyn_row_vect<int>::Random(D);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadA = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadB = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<double>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// expression
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.dat", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
qpp::save(3. * A + A, fout);
}
ket load_expression;
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.dat", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
load_expression = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(load_expression - (3. * A + A)), 1e-7);
}
#endif // if (0)
/******************************************************************************/
/// BEGIN template <typename Derived> dyn_mat<typename Derived::Scalar>
/// qpp::load(std::istream& is)
///
/// template <typename Derived> void qpp::save(
/// const Eigen::MatrixBase<Derived>& A, std::ostream& os)
TEST(qpp_load_save, Matrix) {
// matrices,complex, real and integer
// DA = 1, DB = 1 degenerate case
idx DA = 1, DB = 1;
cmat A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB), loadA;
dmat B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB), loadB;
dyn_mat<int> C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB), loadC;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// DA = 1, DB = 10
DA = 1, DB = 10;
A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB);
B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB);
C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// DA = 32, DB = 24
DA = 32, DB = 24;
A = rand<cmat>(DA, DB);
B = rand<dmat>(DA, DB);
C = dyn_mat<int>::Random(DA, DB);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadA = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadB = qpp::load<dmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_mat<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// expression
A = rand<cmat>(5, 5);
cmat expression = A * A + A, load_expression;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A * A + A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
load_expression = qpp::load<cmat>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(load_expression - expression), 1e-7);
}
/******************************************************************************/
TEST(qpp_load_save, Vector) {
// kets/row vectors, complex, real and integer
// D = 1 degenerate case
idx D = 1;
ket A = randket(D), loadA;
dyn_row_vect<double> B = dyn_row_vect<double>::Random(D), loadB;
dyn_row_vect<int> C = dyn_row_vect<int>::Random(D), loadC;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadA = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadB = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<double>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// D = 32
D = 32;
A = randket(D);
B = dyn_row_vect<double>::Random(D);
C = dyn_row_vect<int>::Random(D);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadA = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadA - A), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(B, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadB = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<double>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadB - B), 1e-7);
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(C, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
loadC = qpp::load<dyn_row_vect<int>>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(loadC - C), 1e-7);
// expression
ket expression = 3. * A + A, load_expression;
{
std::ofstream fout("mat.txt");
qpp::save(3. * A + A, fout);
}
{
std::ifstream fin("mat.txt");
load_expression = qpp::load<ket>(fin);
}
EXPECT_NEAR(0, norm(load_expression - expression), 1e-7);
}
/******************************************************************************/
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The power of communication and what this means for Article 50
So last week I wrote about the dimensions of communication and I was flattered by the response I received. But the biggest impact by far was that only a day or two after first releasing the post that I was hit with the epiphany about what it is we provide in the language industry.
Over a number of years now I’ve been asking myself what it is I actually do that helps others. Don’t get me wrong I know that I help people and businesses but what is it exactly that they get from me? After writing my, to date, best blog of the year last week I had an epiphany. Whatever way you want to frame it, the answer to long term question has been answered and the answer is pretty simple, but still very profound. I help people communicate in such a manner that they build trust with people who do not speak their language.
With the submission, today, of Article 50 there is never a more important time in our country’s recent history where communication in multiple languages is going to be of utmost importance. And building new foundations of trust are absolutely paramount.
The power of communication
Throughout our entire lives, we’re influenced by our environment and those who communicate within it. It is initially how we gain the knowledge of our first language, but it goes far deeper than that. Our political viewpoints, our life lessons, our futures all begin with how we are communicated to and from where; making things extremely complicated when we get older if our views later differ from those of whom we uphold the greatest amount of respect. When this happens it demonstrates a level of adult development beyond that of the majority (72%), as they have begun their transition into Postconventional Understanding.
If you find the time to read the paper on Ego Development Theory by Susanne Cook-Greuter you’ll gain significant insight into this fascinating area of behavioural science. In short, those who can “break the mould” and begin thinking individually, and further, are the ones who have a significantly more grounded understanding of how important communication really is and rather than impose this upon others, they are more likely to listen and question their own views in order to further their own understanding and development.
Volume of noise
As we here in the UK enter into the next phase of our country’s history, there is going to be a huge amount of rhetoric from both divides rebuking and counter claiming the other sides “body of Truth”. Sadly for us to be able to hear the real discussions we have to filter out all this noise and begin to look for those individuals who demonstrate a far greater propensity to listen and review than they do posturing as “know it alls”. It is often said that the ones to be more mindful of are the quietest in the room and this is very sound advice. All of that said, Article 50 has now been instigated and there is going to be some significant shouting to filter out over the coming 2 years but we, the United Kingdom, need to also become the most attentive listeners throughout this period.
Communication channels
Throughout the Article 50 process, we’re going to be engaged in negotiations with countries who’s primary language is NOT English. (Oh yeah, that old chestnut!!) Well yes, in fact, older than you may think. Religious or not what was written in the 1 Corinthians 14: 10-12 is probably more important on this, 29th March 2017 than ever before.
Quote: “Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning. If I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.”
We HAVE to ensure that over the next 24 months our message is clear, concise and in a language that the receiving party understands. This does not just mean the translated text it means the context of what we are saying needs to be expressed within that text. The people we are negotiating with, need to believe us, trust us and moreover have a positive emotional connection with us. If the information we provide them with does not convey these messages then our future, and that of our children and grandchildren will be in serious jeopardy.
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\section{Existence of Prime between Prime and Factorial}
Tags: Prime Numbers
\begin{theorem}
Let $p$ be a prime number.
Then there exists a prime number $q$ such that:
:$p < q \le p! + 1$
where $p!$ denotes the factorial of $p$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $N = p! + 1$.
If $N$ is prime, then the proof is complete.
Otherwise, from Positive Integer Greater than 1 has Prime Divisor, $N$ has a prime divisor $q$.
From Absolute Value of Integer is not less than Divisors:
:$q < N$
{{AimForCont}} $q \le p$.
Then by the definition of factorial:
:$q \divides p!$
But $q$ was chosen so that :$q \divides N$.
Let $p! = q m_1, N = q m_2$.
Then:
:$1 = N - p! = q \paren {m_2 - m_1}$
and so:
:$q \divides 1$
From Absolute Value of Integer is not less than Divisors:
:$q \le 1$
and so $q$ cannot be a prime number.
It follows by Proof by Contradiction that $q > p$.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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Story: Siva Settling Dispute Among Tamil Scholars
Tiruvilayadal Puranam
Pundits and Shastris Interpret Ola Leaves
Image of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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President Trump Likely to Pardon Any Damn Turkey Who Can Get Dirt on Joe Biden (Or Make His Son Disappear on Thanksgiving)
Donald Trump was lit up in his impeachment hearings last week like a Christmas boat parade on steroids, but Thanksgiving will get the first laugh if the president offers to pardon anyone, even the White House turkey, who can find dirt on his likely presidential opponent, Joe Biden. Given that the former Vice President might not even take the stage next election against the sitting president, it kind of makes you wonder what other probes he has out on folks like Elizabeth Warren (other than proving her Pocohantas-ness), Bernie Sanders and now potentially Michael Bloomberg. But one thing is for certain: When Trump does sit down to eat his pardoned turkey, likely extra crispy, he’s going to be wishing on a star that his son, Donald Trump Jr., isn’t sitting across from him. That’s one turkey nobody can pardon no matter how they try.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Staff (Getty)
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Slideshow: A Visual Guide to ADHD in Adults
ADHD Affects Adults, Too
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not limited to children -- 30% to 70% of kids with ADHD continue having symptoms when they grow up. In addition, people who were never diagnosed as kids may develop more obvious symptoms in adulthood, causing trouble on the job or in relationships. Many adults don’t realize they have ADHD, leaving them mystified about why their goals seem to slip out of reach.
Signs of Adult ADHD: Running Late
Signs of Adult ADHD: Risky Driving
Signs of Adult ADHD: Distraction
Signs of Adult ADHD: Outbursts
Adults with ADHD may have problems with self-control. This can lead to:
• Difficulty controlling anger
• Impulsive behaviors
• Blurting out rude or insulting thoughts
Signs of Adult ADHD: Hyperfocus
Multitasking or ADHD?
ADHD or Something Else?
What Causes ADHD?
In people with ADHD, brain chemicals called neurotransmitters are less active in areas of the brain that control attention. Researchers don't know exactly what causes this chemical imbalance, but they think genes may play a role, because ADHD often runs in families. Studies have also linked ADHD to prenatal exposure to cigarettes and alcohol.
An Evolutionary Advantage?
One genetic variation that causes ADHD-like traits is more common in the world's nomadic peoples. Researchers think that traits such as impulsive behavior, novelty-seeking, and unpredictability might help nomads track down food and other resources. So the same qualities that make it challenging to excel at a desk job may have been an advantage to nomadic ancestors.
Diagnosing ADHD in Adults
Many adults don’t learn that they have ADHD until they get help for another problem, such as anxiety or depression. Discussing poor habits, troubles at work, or marital conflicts often reveals that ADHD is at fault. To confirm the diagnosis, the disorder must have been present during childhood, even if it was never diagnosed. Old report cards or talking with relatives can document childhood problems, such as poor focus and hyperactivity.
Testing for ADHD
During an evaluation for ADHD, some mental health professionals use neuropsychological tests. These can include timed, computer-based tests that measure attention and problem-solving skills. Neuropsychological testing is not needed to make a diagnosis, but it can shed light on how ADHD affects a person's daily life. It can also uncover coexisting conditions, such as learning disabilities.
Complications of Adult ADHD
Coping with the symptoms of adult ADHD can be frustrating in itself. At the same time, many adults with ADHD struggle with depression, anxiety, or obsessive compulsive disorder. They’re also more likely to smoke or abuse drugs. People with ADHD can limit these problems by seeking proper treatment.
Medications for ADHD
The most common medicines for ADHD are stimulants. It may seem ironic that people who are restless or hyperactive get help from stimulants. But there is good evidence that these drugs sharpen concentration by correcting an imbalance of brain chemicals. If stimulants aren't sufficient, your doctor may prescribe an antidepressant to stabilize mood or a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, such as atomoxetine, which can help control impulsive behaviors.
How Effective Are ADHD Drugs?
There have been far fewer studies of ADHD drugs in adults than in children, but the research to date is promising. Studies have consistently shown adults taking stimulants have fewer ADHD symptoms. The benefits kick in within 30 minutes of the first dose and can last all day in the case of controlled-release medications.
Counseling for ADHD
Most adults with ADHD improve when they start medication, but they may continue to struggle with poor habits and low self-esteem. Counseling for ADHD focuses on getting organized, setting helpful routines, repairing relationships, and improving social skills. There is evidence that cognitive-behavioral therapy is particularly helpful in managing problems of daily life that are associated with ADHD.
Adult ADHD on the Job
Holding down a job can be tough for people with ADHD. They often have trouble breaking down tasks and following directions, staying organized, and making deadlines. They’re also prone to tardiness and careless mistakes. In one national survey, only half of adults with ADHD were employed full time, compared to 72% of adults without the disorder. People with ADHD also tend to earn less than their peers.
Careers for Adults with ADHD
There's not much research yet into the careers where people with ADHD are likely to thrive. But ADHD expert Russell A. Barkely, MD, reports that his patients have excelled in sales, acting, the military, photography, athletic coaching, and many trade professions. Having ADHD does not prevent you from pursuing any career that interests you.
Job Coaching for ADHD
People with ADHD may be able to boost their job performance with coaching or mentoring. The mentor will help with organization skills, such as taking notes, keeping a daily planner and prioritizing a to-do list. A quiet workspace with few distractions may help. ADHD is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This means employers must make adjustments to support a worker’s needs.
Adult ADHD and Marriage
ADHD can sabotage marriage and other relationships. The condition makes it difficult to remember social commitments, birthdays, or anniversaries, finish household chores, and pay bills on time. Adults with ADHD may lose their tempers easily or engage in reckless behavior. This leads to higher rates of separation and divorce.
Life Coaching for ADHD
Like having a mentor in the workplace, some people with ADHD benefit from having a coach for everyday life. Coaching is generally a supplement to more formal psychological counseling. The mentor helps the patient put newly learned skills into practice in real-life situations, whether organizing the home or planning a trip.
Organizational Skills for ADHD
Smart phone "organizer" apps can be especially useful for people with ADHD. Use an app to create a new to-do list every night, and you'll always have it with you on your phone. Keep your list organized by using four categories: calls, emails, tasks, and errands. Other apps can help you keep your schedule up to date, so you won't miss important events.
Diet Tips for Adults with ADHD
Some experts believe foods that provide quality brain fuel could reduce symptoms of ADHD. High-protein foods, including nuts, meat, beans, and eggs, may improve concentration. Replacing simple carbs with complex carbs, like whole-grain pasta or brown rice, can help ward off mood swings and stabilize energy levels.
Does Sugar Worsen ADHD?
The idea that sugar makes people hyperactive is popular, but there is no evidence that sweets cause ADHD or make its symptoms worse. Research in children indicates switching to a sugar substitute, such as aspartame, does not reduce symptoms of ADHD.
Outlook for Adults With ADHD
Adults with ADHD don’t outgrow the condition, but many learn to manage it successfully. Long-term treatment can reduce problems at home and at work, bringing patients closer to their families and their professional goals.
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD on June 05, 2012
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I am not a plumber or work with pipes normally, but am an engineer by trade.
I'm trying to cut threads on a 1 1/4 pvc sch40 pipe. This will be used to house electronic equipment and not used for any pressure purpose. I have a special 12R rigid die for pvc, using a handle.
While cutting the threads, I get about 3/4 of the way through, when the handle stops suddenly. It requires an enormous amount of pressure to continue. However I noticed when then happens, I back it off just slightly and notice that it looks like it's taking a rather large bite of material, spanning about 4 thread widths. It usually cuts very small strips that exit the die separately, but this is a large chunk of plastic spanning about 4 threads that is all connected together.
If I back off even further, causing one of the cutter blades to pass backwards over that spot, it seems to remove that 'chunk' of material and I can continue using only light force. When it gets to where the pipe is just barely covering all the cutters, the handle stops again. This time, it's permanent. I can't make it cut beyond that, no matter what I try. The pipe turns in the vise if I use more force.
It was my understanding that the end of the pvc pipe should extend to the end of the die and not just barely covering all the cutters.
I also noticed that when I try to screw an end cap on, on some threads, the cap goes on many turns before it tightens while on other threads, it only goes on a couple of threads before stopping.
Is this normal? If not, what am I doing wrong or what do I need to do right. I am not using any cutting fluid or oil. I'm applying as even a force from start to finish. The die is brand new from Rigid. I'm using a wood plug inside the pvc pipe so it doesn't deform. This wood dowel does not extend to the threading end, but only where the vise holds the pipe. The force required to turn the handle is so light (until it stops), that I felt the wood dowel inside wouldn't make a difference. I may be wrong.
Thank you for any advice.
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
First you probably need to 'set' the dies. Do this with a new factory metal nipple. Loosen the 4 screws on the diehead about 2 turns. Thread the metal nipple all the way in. Then tighten the screws in a clockwise order.
The wooden dowel needs to extend all the way to the end of the pipe. Any deflexion in the plastic will give you a poor thread. Try a little liquid soap instead of oil.
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
Wow! Quick response. I'm impressed.
To make sure I understand, I loosen the 4 screws holding the back plate of the die. I use a factory metal nipple (not sure what this is, but assuming that I use a normal metal pipe end?) and put it all the way into the die until it just passes the end of the cutters or to the end of the die (flush to the back plate?). Then re tighten the screws. I'm assuming that this procedure lines up the cutters with a 'normal' thread.
Thanks in advance for helping to clarify my misunderstandings.
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
Yes, normal pipe thread but NOT one that was cut by hand. Use a store bought 1-1/4" nipple. Thread all the way to the INSIDE of the backplate or just past the cutters (I find going all the way to the end gives you too deep of a thread. Others may tell you differently) Where ever the nipple thread ends up, don't force it. Only go hand tight then maybe a 1/4 turn more. Then tighten screws with nipple in place. You should be good to go then.
FYI: schedule 40 is always a PITA to thread. Sch. 80 is easier
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it.
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
i have a 1'' pvc die and it works good.
are you using fresh pipe and is it the the grey pvc?
older pipe tends to get brittle.
open the dies up like bill said and you should be fine with new clean pipe.
phoebe it is
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Re: I'm having problems cutting thread in pvc
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Many Americans don’t have to worry about giving Uncle Sam part of their hard-earned cash for their income taxes this year.
An estimated 45.3 percent of American households — roughly 77.5 million — will pay no federal individual income tax, according to data for the 2015 tax year from the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington-based research group. (Note that this does not necessarily mean they won’t owe their states income tax.)
Roughly half pay no federal income tax because they have no taxable income, and the other roughly half get enough tax breaks to erase their tax liability, explains Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
Despite the fact that rich people paying little in the way of income taxes makes plenty of headlines, this is the exception to the rule: The top 1 percent of taxpayers pay a higher effective income tax rate than any other group (around 23 percent, according to a report released by the Tax Policy Center in 2014) — nearly seven times higher than those in the bottom 50 percent.
On average, those in the bottom 40 percent of the income spectrum end up getting money from the government. Meanwhile, the richest 20 percent of Americans, by far, pay the most in income taxes, forking over nearly 87 percent of all the income tax collected by Uncle Sam.
The top 1 percent of Americans, who have an average income of more than $2.1 million, pay 43.6 percent of all the federal individual income tax in the US; the top 0.1 percent — just 115,000 households, whose average income is more than $9.4 million — pay more than 20 percent of it.
When it comes to all federal taxes — individual income, payroll, excise, corporate income and estate taxes — the distributions of who pays what is more spread out. This is partially because nearly everyone pays excise taxes, which include taxes on gasoline, alcohol and cigarettes. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd2d0f33ee517fdfd38ad5c4cdff06fd5ed1136c022402dd1de983d188640f59b'} |
Vintage Pulp Apr 30 2021
That's right, I'm looking at you. Read this magazine and learn how to be a real man.
It seems to us that the purpose of men's adventure magazines was to teach ordinary schlubs a little something about how to keep it real, and this issue of Male published in April 1962 fulfills the mandate. Behind the steely-eyed cover art by Harry Schaare, and mixed between interior art by Charles Copeland, Rafael de Soto, James Bama, and Walter Popp, readers learn how to navigate big city vice, survive a nuclear attack, avoid appliance repair scams, pick the perfect car to cruise the open road, and—most importantly—get a raise at their soulsucking office jobs.
Those are all fine offerings, but we particularly like the story, “Let's Let the Russians Beat Us to the Moon,” which suggests that if the Russians are so eager to get to the moon let them serve as sacrificial lambs—since the place is filled unknown dangers. Journalist and skeptic Ray Lunt reasons, “For all our scientists know, the moon may be 10,000 miles from where we think it is, paved with quicksand 90 feet deep, and full of brain gas instead of air.” Instead of air? Sounds like he was the one inhaling brain gas.
We checked out the story just to find out what brain gas was, and learned basically nothing. He mentions that some scientists—unnamed of course—believe the moon might harbor poisonous gas, but the brain thing never comes up. What a tease. He does, though, run through a long list of other moon horrors fit for a Heinlein novel. He must have been really bummed in 1969 when it turned out to be just a big, dusty rock. We have scans below, and more Male in the website. Feel free to click the keywords.
Femmes Fatales Apr 11 2021
Sometimes you need to take a moment.
We know this moment well. Occasionally you need the world to just stop. In fact, we've built our lives around making this feeling last for weeks at a time. The person you see here having some she-time is Lilia del Valle, a Mexican actress—though born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic—who was active throughout the 1950s and ’60s, with this promo shot dating from 1955. She made about thirty movies, including 1952's El bello durmiente, aka The Beautiful Dreamer. Which is what it looks like she's doing here. In that case let's move on and not disturb her.
Femmes Fatales Jul 15 2020
In a field full of wildflowers she's the wildest of all.
Exotic Tina Aumont, whose father was French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont and mother was Dominican actress Maria Montez, built an appropriately international film career mainly in Italy and France. But surprisingly she was American. In fact, she was born in Hollywood. Some of her films include Salon Kitty, La principessa nuda, aka The Nude Princess, and Satyricon—the Gian Luigi Polidoro one, not the Fellini one. Though she did later star in Fellini's Casanova in 1976. The photo above is from 1975 and first appeared in Italian Playboy.
Modern Pulp Nov 18 2017
Vintage Pulp Apr 10 2017
Schubert runs into trouble Nero and far.
Shot in the Dominican Republic, Il pavone nero is one of those voodoo and sex cocktails that were popular in international b-cinema during the 1970s. In fact, its English title is Voodoo Sexy, which tells you everything you need to know, just in case the promo poster doesn't. Other examples from this fertile genre discussed here on Pulp Intl. include Porno Shock, aka Voodoo Passion, and Al tropico del cancro, aka Tropic of Cancer. And of course queen b Laura Gemser had a few run-ins with santería as well.
In Il pavone nero an Italian engineer goes to Santo Domingo to help build a dam. His wife—the lovely Karin Schubert—surprises him in his hotel after he thought he'd left her in Italy. It's the first of many surprises. Rather than stay in the hotel the couple opt to inhabit an isolated beach shack on the border with Haiti, a domicile that was occupied by the previous dam engineer, who inexplicably disappeared. Uh oh. This is a classic case of thumbing one's nose at fate.
We quickly find that ethnic Haitians in the region are against the dam, and that voodoo rites are their weapon of choice to prevent its construction. But their leader Balaga, played by U.S. actor, musician, and sexploitation go-to voodoo guy Don Powell, carves out a little time from his resistance activities to pursue Schubert, possibly drawn by her astounding whitegirl afro. She in turn is drawn by the local santería rituals, which involve a bit of chicken chopping—poor chickens—and some humping of the fully explicit variety, depending on which version of the film you watch. Though Schubert would later delve into porn, her scenes here were performed by a body double.
Il pavone nero ends with the arrest of the voodoo environmentalists, which means the dam is no longer in danger. Can't stop progress, after all. There may be an environmental message buried in this film, or an anti-colonial message, or a racial harmony message, or even a spiritual message, but those are all secondary to the real point—for audiences to enjoy some vanilla Schubert getting freaky with the locals. The movie delivers ample opportunities, as you can see in the promo images below. Also, there's a cockfight. There's always a cockfight. Poor chickens. Il pavone nero premiered in Italy today in 1975.
Hollywoodland Jan 3 2015
Confidential dishes dirt but tries not to cross the line.
Confidential gives Kim Novak the cover and Lili St Cyr the inset on an issue published this month in 1965. Inside, the editors offer readers mostly lukewarm rehash, as was Confidential’s usual approach during its fangless mid-1960’s years, but there are also a few interesting tidbits. We learn that Lili St. Cyr took more than thirty Nembutals during her 1958 suicide attempt, yet still managed to survive though as few as three pills can be fatal. Ramfis Trujillo’s wild Parisian parties are detailed, including the time he and his entourage shot up the lobby of the Hotel George V. And we find out that Frank Sinatra paid a $400 fine in Spain for disturbing the peace when he blew up after a woman threw a drink on him.
But make no mistake—the once mighty Confidential was walking on eggshells after being on the wrong end of some costly lawsuits. Maverick owner Robert Harrison had sold the magazine to Hy Steirman, who realized the easiest way to avoid litigation was to take on targets that either wouldn’t fight back or couldn’t be bothered to care. Ramfis Trujillo, for example, was a mass-murderer and likely found articles about his crazed partying flattering. Thailand’s dictator Sarit Thanarat is also slammed in this issue, and you can bet he gave less than a shit about the write-up—if he was even aware of it. Editors sling mud at Marilyn Monroe, who was dead. Amorphous group targets, like the “limp wrist set,” the Mafia, real estate swindlers, and escaped Nazis make up the rest of the subject matter.
But even if Confidential wasn’t kicking ass and taking names in 1965, its visuals were still quite nice, with those impactful black, white and red graphics, and that super hip language that’s so much of its time but which is still amazing to read today. Try this on for size: “Call the men in the white coats and get the whacky wagon rolling, your favorite swinging correspondent is ready for Flipsville!” We’re always ready for Flipsville, and we’re always ready for mid-century tabloids, too. How many of these do we have left in our collection? You wouldn’t believe us if we told you. We’d sell some, but how could we possibly part with them? We’re stuck with them. And so are you. Twenty-plus scans below.
Vintage Pulp | Politique Diabolique Nov 25 2010
No matter how far we run the strings of our history are still attached.
How times have changed. Could one of the most brutal killers in the world openly hobnob with the Hollywood set today? We doubt it. But back in the day, a few rumors of murder only bolstered a man’s adventurous reputation, as proved by this November 1958 Whisper showing Rafael “Ramfis” Trujillo, Jr. charming Zsa Zsa Gabor and Kim Novak. One or both women, you may notice, actually appear courtesy an X-acto knife and glue, but what self-respecting tabloid has time to locate a legit photo when paste-up will do the job almost as well? Trujillo did date and bed both Gabor and Novak in real life, which makes this cover technically accurate, and makes him the second most enviable Dominican jet-setter in history.
Ramfis Trujillo reportedly gave most women that frisson some find irresistible, but his life wasn’t all starlets and champagne. Though he wanted nothing more than to be a playboy, there was an obstacle in the form of family baggage. Specifically, his father was a sadistic military dictator who had been put in power in the Dominican Republic by the CIA. Trujillo, Sr. expected his son to continue in the family business. This had been abundantly clear to Ramfis since the day his father made him a full general—with full pay—at age nine. For this and other reasons, he grew up with a warped sense of power and by the time of this Whisper cover had already ordered several murders and indulged in the occasional gang rape. He might have been considered a classic chip off the old block, save for rumors that Ramfis’s father was actually a Cuban named Rafael Dominicis—hence the “illegitimate dastard” tag in the banner. But the story about Ramfis being illegitimate was strongly denied by everyone involved (except Dominicis, who “disappeared”).
In any case, through the late fifties Ramfis tomcatted his way from Hollywood to Paris, and only occasionally let his urbane manner slip to reveal someone considerably less charming beneath. He seemed to have settled into his chosen lifestyle permanently when he married an actress named Lita Milan, below, who had starred opposite Paul Newman inThe Left-Handed Gun. But back in the Dominican, the impulsive Rafael Trujillo, Sr. was behaving less and less like the good lap dog the CIA had put in charge three decades earlier. Eventually, his U.S. benefactors turned against him and he died in a fusillade of possibly CIA-arranged bullets.
Junior succumbed to the pull of familial duty, as well as the desire for revenge, and flew back to the Dominican to restore order. This involved personally killing some of the participants in his father’s assassination. While this must have given him great satisfaction, it did little to stabilize the country. Under pressure from both internal enemies and the U.S., Ramfis Trujillo fled to Spain less than a year later with a casket containing millions in cash, jewels, bonds, and his father. By 1969 he was dead too, due to complications stemming from an automobile accident. In the end he presents an interesting question of nature versus nurture, i.e. was he meant to be a ladykiller, a real killer, or both?
Hollywoodland Jul 30 2009
He had a lot in common with the guy on those Dos Equis commercials, except he was real.
Today we’re back to the top dog of classic tabloids, the always-titillating Confidential. The above issue is from fifty-five years ago this month, July 1954, and as always the cover promises scandalous inside scoop—this time on champs, presidents, and filthy rich heiresses. But it’s the unassuming banner on the Rubirosa murder case that interests us, because it refers to none other than Porfirio Rubirosa, and if you’ve never heard of him, then prepare yourself to meet (cue grandiose flamenco chords) The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Rubirosa was born in the Dominican Republic in 1909 but raised in France, where his father, an army general, had scored the chargé d'affaires position at the Dominican consulate in Paris. When the young Rubirosa was seventeen he returned to the Dominican to study law, but enlisted in the military before finishing. In 1932, after a weeklong courtship, he married a seventeen year-old girl named Flor de Oro Trujillo, who happened to be the daughter of mass-murdering military dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. For normal men, rush-marrying a dictator’s little flower would result in a one-way ticket to the torture chamber, but for the charming Rubirosa it meant a diplomatic post in Berlin.
In 1935, Rubirosa’s cousin, Luis de la Fuente Rubirosa, was accused of assassinating exiled Dominican politician Sergio Bencosme in New York City. It was Rafael Trujillo’s work, but de la Fuente Rubirosa was the triggerman, and Porifirio was suspected of being an accomplice. That’s the murder Confidential references, and if you’re asking yourself why they cared about it nineteen years after the event, it’s because by then Rubirosa was very famous. But we’ll get to that.
Rubirosa had developed passions for polo, racing, gambling, and other expensive upper crust pursuits. He excelled at all of them. Perhaps the only thing he wasn’t good at was fidelity, which led to his divorce from Flor in 1937. But his sheer magnetism—or perhaps the fact that he was a valuable hired gun—kept him in dictator dad’s good graces, and he continued to receive diplomatic posts. When World War II swept across Europe, Rubirosa made a stack of money selling Dominican exit visas to fleeing Jews. At some point the Gestapo imprisoned him, but he was released after six months. After that, he was allegedly recruited as a political assassin.
In 1942 he met and married the French actress Danielle Darrieux, who you see above. From then on Rubirosa traveled in cinematic circles, which meant a more public profile. A consequence of this was that tidbits of his personal life began to leak out. Suddenly everyone knew he was a great lover, and that he had a penis measuring anywhere from eleven to fourteen inches, depending on whom you believed. After a while the slang term “rubirosa” became popular in France. They used it to refer to the giant pepper grinders in restaurants, and still do to this day.
By now there were open questions about Rubirosa’s racial background. He was very dark, and was often described as “nut brown.” Rumors spread that he was part black—a devastating accusation in the 1940s, and one still used very effectively as a smear even in today’s supposedly post-racial age. But Rubirosa handled the gossip with the panacheyou'd expect from The Most Interesting Man in the World—he never addressed it all, at least not in public. His silence basically amounted to: “So what if I am?” And if the rumors bothered him, he surely derived ample compensation from the fact that legions of female admirers who’d heard about that pepper grinder of his didn’t care.
Because of the ease with which he was able to meet and bed women, Rubirosa found it impossible to remain faithful, even to an elegant beauty like Danielle Darrieux. They divorced in 1947, and the high-profile involvements began to pile up. There was Dolores del Rio, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Soraya Esfandiary, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Doris Duke (who happened to be the richest woman in the world), and Barbara Hutton (who was the second richest woman in the world). He fooled around with his first love Flor during his marriage to Duke, and with Zsa Zsa Gabor during his marriage to Hutton. When Duke divorced him he walked with $500,000, a string of polo ponies, some sports cars, a converted B-25 bomber, and a 17th century house in Paris. When Hutton divorced him—after only five weeks—he added a coffee plantation in the Dominican, another B-25, and $3.5 million to his holdings.
By now he was a professional celebrity. He was friendly with Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. One night in Paris, after teaching Davis how to properly kiss a woman's hand, the two went out to perfect the technique by flirting with women on the Champs-Élysées. Frank Sinatra once asked Rubirosa, “Rubi, have you ever held a full-timejob?” Rubirosa reportedly answered, “Women are my full-time job.” At some point he met Ian Fleming, and the novice writer came up with the great idea of basing a character on Rubirosa—a certain spy named James Bond.
Rubirosa’s fame made him tabloid fodder, and the scandal sheets dutifully tried to dig up dirt on him. They went back to the racial stuff, and whispered about that nineteen year-old New York murder. But the rumors that he had been an assassin just fed into his growing legend. He seemed to know everything, was one of the boys, one with the girls, and had already done more than most men manage in a lifetime. Truman Capote saw Rubirosa’s cock and rated it eleven inches. A female acquaintance pointed out a size twelve loafer in a shoe store and said Rubi had it beat. Rubirosa partied his way from Hollywood to Rome to Monaco, and wherever he went local women hung around his favorite hotels and bars, hoping to meet him.
He was racing his Ferrari professionally, and competed twice in the 24-hour race at LeMans. He was also looking for a relationship that would last, and in 1956 he married for the fifth time to actress Odile Rodin. She was nineteen and he was 42. He had mellowed—not a lot—but just enough to remain faithful. The marriage seemed to work. He was still boyish and exciting, and his biggest asset—that famous pepper grinder—showed no signs of diminishing with age. He began working on his memoirs. He was still young for that, but he had lived so much.
In 1965 Rubirosa was part of a team that won the Coupe de France polo cup. He spent the night of the victory celebrating at a Paris nightspot called Jimmy’s, then headed home in his Ferrari. The roads werewet, and he was a little drunk. He lost control of the car and died in a fiery crash. The Most Interesting Man in the World was gone—literally burning out rather than fading away. He never finished his memoirs, and today the closest the world has to a Porfirio Rubirosa is a fictional character in a Dos Equis commercial.
More than almost any man of his era, Porfirio Rubirosa represents the lost glamour and mystery of a time that can never be reclaimed. He was the product of a more innocent and refined—yet also crueler—age. Reading about his life is like reading about an event you’d give anything to have witnessed, even if it would have been dangerous to be there. Rumor has it a few Rubirosa-based scripts are floating around Hollywood. Supposedly Antonio Banderas has rights to one, and wants to play the lead role. Maybe it’s a lack of imagination on our part, but we don’t see it. There is no shortage of legends in history, but we can’t think of one whose shoes would be more difficult to fill. As much as we’d like to see a Rubirosa biopic, our advice is this: if it’s better to burn out than to fade away, maybe it’s also better to never try and rekindle the flame.
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ABC Fire Extinguisher Co. has served the greater Pittsburgh area with the knowledge and reliability that can only come from nearly 60 years of experience. When founder William Groomes founded ABC Fire in 1960, his goal was to protect property and save lives. As his knowledge and experience grew, he was soon teaching others about fire safety and prevention and helping businesses to navigate and comply with the often-confusing fire codes and regulations. He quickly became known as a name you could trust, giving ABC Fire the solid foundation to grow into the successful company it is today. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '18', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9847988486289978}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '44367', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JJR33KIQREMNST4EM677HXOWSX5D25QW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:933e05f2-37a5-471f-ac5f-39fb111b0ece>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 8, 48, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '107.180.78.250', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2N62Q7YXVAEWUPMJS6ZUJNOZ35MOI6Z7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a4efaf7f-fb28-49bd-b3e4-86ff0608cacb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.abcfire.com/abc-fire-extinguisher-co-company-history/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:97d6654f-edf4-475f-b3ae-d1f70f488aa8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '100', 'url': 'http://www.abcfire.com/abc-fire-extinguisher-co-company-history/', '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-10-233-105-41.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': '0.03968214988708496', 'original_id': '2b010ddcc52b3e6c98706aac53dbcbd799700245eac40587b3d14e1ccba3e79e'} |
Ten Things I Had Forgotten About France
Everybody speaks French! In Ottawa, I rarely hear “Parisian French”, and if I do, I tend to turn around and glance at whoever talked. Well, I keep on doing that here: whenever I hear French, I turn around. And I really have to stop doing it. This is France.
Everything is tiny: people, cars, streets, apartments etc.
Woman all seem to dress the same: boots, leggings, a skirt or “skinny” jeans, and their beloved scarf. And all they wear is black, light black, dark black and… oh yeah, grey.
French bread is still awesome and they are still a lot of independent bakeries everywhere. Phew.
French are a bit grumpy and always seem to be reluctant to serve you. And when they do, it’s like they are doing you a huge favour. Goddammit, I’m paying for that baguette, can you please hand it to me?!
There is a lot of police everywhere. I rarely see the cops in Ottawa, unless there is a traffic accident.
There are school-aged kids and teens hanging out in the street at noon and in the evening. No yellow school buses to shuttle everyone home here!
Brittany is damp. It’s 15°C but it feels much colder because of the constant humidity and light drizzle.
Stores close early. I wanted to buy the newspaper yesterday, and I rushed to the news agent at 7:10 p.m. Tough luck, it was closed. Whatever you need to do, get it done before 7:00 p.m.!
Being in France feels like being stuck in a time-wrap. Nothing ever changes. For instance, two years ago, I clearly remember a heated local debate about building a new airport in the city (the mayor approved, the constituents didn’t). Two years later, the headlines in the newspapers are the exact same!
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1. Salut Zhu,
Are you back in France? How long are you going to be there?
Everytime I go to Madrid I feel like an stranger in my own hometown. Everything looks the same but different at the same time.
When was the last time you visited France?
Take care,
• I last visited a bit less than two years ago, and I’m here until April 11 (3 weeks in total). Yes, visiting always feels a bit strange!
2. i thought you’re gonna list down ten things like you always do, lol!
anyway, back in the old world, the feeling must be strange yet familiar at the same time eh? 😉
sometimes changes dont necessarily mean a good thing. for me, i wouldn’t want a historic old town to lose its charms to modern developments! :)
• That’s exactly how it feels: familiar yet foreign. But I’m not as surprised as I was when I first came back after a long time abroad, I know what to expect now.
3. What shocked me the most when I was back in France (after, uh, about 5-years absence) is how much people smoke everywhere! There is the tentative “smoking” section in restaurants, but no restriction in the café terraces or in a public place. As long as it’s outside, nobody seems to care lighting a cigarette in your face even if you didn’t ask for it!
As a non smoker, this is something that I find quite disagreeable. I had actually quite forgotten all about it after so many years in Canada where the non-smoking policy seems to be the norm!
• I don’t see it as much now. Most French seem to abide by the non-smoking laws. They do smoke on terraces and patio but frankly, it doesn’t bother me. I find the attitude towards smokers a bit too much in Canada sometimes. That said, I agree: respect is the key.
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More Than Twice As Many Women Are Running For Congress In 2018 Compared With 2016
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It was Saturday afternoon, and Abigail Spanberger was in a busy hallway at the Chesterfield County Public Library in Midlothian, Va., minutes away from training a room of about 40 campaign volunteers. She seemed ready for a quick interview, but then abruptly called out to her campaign manager.
"Hey Dana, Eileen Davis is about to come through. Can you head her off at the pass so she doesn't interrupt the — "
She cut herself off and turned to me.
"That's my mother," Spanberger said, laughing.
Her mom is volunteering for her campaign?
"Evidently."
Spanberger didn't know she was coming?
"I just saw her walking. I did not know she was coming. But all her friends are in this county, so ..."
Democratic women (even those who don't have a daughter running for Congress) are amped up for 2018. It's visible in Spanberger's volunteers, about two-thirds of whom are women, and in this race's candidates as well.
Spanberger is one of four Democrats, three women, along with one man, vying for that party's nomination in this district. And that miniwave in Virginia's 7th Congressional District is a microcosm of something happening nationwide.
At latest count, 431 women were running for or were likely to run for the House nationwide — 339 Democrats and 92 Republicans. At this point in 2016, there were fewer than half that: 212. Likewise, 50 women are running for or likely to run for Senate, compared with 25 at this point in 2016. Many have not officially filed for office yet — filing deadlines have not occurred in many states. But thus far, this year is on track to break records.
A largely Democratic phenomenon
"We've never seen anything like this. Ever seen anything like this," said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, which recruits and trains female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights.
At this point in the 2016 cycle, she said, about 920 women had reached out to EMILY's List saying they were interested in running for office. At that time, that was a relatively high number. And it makes this year's total all the more eye-popping.
"To have over 30,000 women raise their hand, it's unprecedented," said Schriock. That figure comprises more than just 2018 candidates, however. Some of those women are interested in running in elections in future years. Others may end up working on campaigns.
Whether it's House, Senate, or governor's races, that energy is largely one-sided, according to Deborah Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
"I think it's really being driven on the Democratic side," she said. "I think the energy and the excitement and the determination, not just to run but also in terms of who's going to show up to vote, right now, that's on the side of the Democrats."
One other way Virginia's 7th District parallels national political dynamics: The man they elected last time has energized Democratic women. Republican Dave Brat, who holds the seat, made headlines in January 2017, when a video captured his remarks to a town hall about women opposing his policies.
"And now, since Obamacare and these issues have come up, the women are in my grill no matter where I go," he said, to laughter from his constituents.
That comment upset plenty of Democrats. And yet, in Helen Alli's view, Brat is exactly right.
"Women are in his grill. We need to be in his grill," said Alli, the third female Democratic candidate running in the district. The main issue on which she disagrees with Brat is health care. Brat voted for the Republicans' American Health Care Act, which would have undone key parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Brat told NPR that that he was simply using language that he had heard voters use against him. Regardless, the quote has fired up women in the district, according to Spanberger, another Democratic candidate in the district.
"It was a bit of a rallying call for many people, and a funny comment, a funny turn of phrase that he used," she said, "but I think it is representative of the fact that there are a lot of people — many of them women — who started this past year, in 2017, really being vocal about what was important to them."
Donald Trump, "the gift that keeps on giving"
Of course, it's not just Brat firing up women in the 7th District. They, like many women nationwide, are fired up by Donald Trump.
"At one time, when the election happened, and the Women's March, we all just by telepathy just said, 'No we gotta fix this. We're gonna fix it.' And we are," said Alli.
Trump's election and inauguration kicked off a nationwide movement among Democratic women. Women took to the streets by the millions in January 2017, bearing protest signs and wearing "pussy hats," in reference to the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump bragged about sexual assault.
And since his election, Trump has continued to dump gasoline on the already roaring fire of Democratic women's enthusiasm, according to Rutgers' Walsh.
"I've often thought that if you were an organizer out there trying to organize what is called the resistance or the women organizing the women who are thinking about running," Walsh said, "Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of motivation to stay engaged and stay involved and not lose your enthusiasm."
Everything from policies on health care and immigration to scandals like former White House staff secretary Rob Porter's resignation after allegations of domestic abuse continually combines to keep Democratic women energized, she said.
"Conservatives are just not included. We're not invited"
Democrats aren't the only ones having a big year when it comes to recruitment. Republican women likewise have seen a surge in candidates, even if it isn't quite as eye-popping a surge as Democrats' numbers. Twenty-one Republican women are running for Senate this year, along with 92 for the House, and 31 for governorships. In all those cases, that's more than in any year at this point since at least 2002, according to figures from Rutgers University.
According to Missy Shorey, executive director of Maggie's List, which promotes and trains female Republican candidates, Republican women are excluded from many conversations about gender politics in the U.S. today.
"For so many of those marches, conservatives are just not included. We're not invited," she said. "In fact, we're disinvited sometimes. That's fine, if that's the way the left wants [us] to be treated. But ignore us at your own peril."
Despite the Democratic wave, Shorey is optimistic about November. She says Republicans are seeing increased energy as well, though it's different. And Shorey thinks some voters will perceive the newly galvanized Democratic women as too angry.
"I think when you see on the left the whole concept of 'the avengers,' I would argue that the avenger is an angry offering that in many areas will be rejected," Shorey said.
On top of that, she thinks high-profile sexual misconduct allegations against men in Washington will turn voters toward female candidates as a practical matter. She talks about a conversation she had recently with one female Republican candidate.
"She said, 'I have more men coming up to me saying, "I'm going to vote for you, because I am sick of the way these men have been behaving," ' " Shorey said.
But then, the sexual misconduct allegations against the president himself, by more than a dozen women, are a major factor pushing Democratic women to run for office.
For Schriock of EMILY's List, that wave is a silver lining of Trump's election ... but, in her mind, it's cold comfort.
"It is not worth, it was not worth it. I would have taken our 920 who wanted to run [in 2016] to have a different president. I would have taken that."
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Voting on party, not gender
An influx of female candidates doesn't necessarily mean more women will be inspired to vote for those candidates. In general, political scientists say, people vote based on party far more than they vote based on gender.
For Breanne Woodson, a voter from Cumberland County, Va., that's definitely the case.
"Since I've been 18, I've never voted Republican. I probably never will," Woodson said.
Woodson met Alli while the candidate was campaigning at a salon in Henrico, Va. Woodson said she wasn't sure whom she might vote for in a primary election. But in the general election, party would mean more than a candidate being a woman.
"I don't really care about their gender, as long as they're a decent person and I know they're going to do what they're supposed to do," she said.
That said, there are some voters who do care about gender to some degree. One is Zahra Lakhani, owner of the salon Alli visited. While Lakhani declined to give her political party, she said she was happy to let a candidate like Alli come and campaign at her salon.
"Only a woman can understand a woman's challenges. And being a mother, being a daughter, a sister, a wife, divorced, single mom, business owner, leader in community as well, it's not just one thing that you do," she said. "So a woman is the only one who will understand another woman and their challenges." | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8b5ac7687033d8238863a936874bf3d6374a87950d02d2d0057ea7392fcdaf24'} |
How Random.
Posted by Tom Colvin (CTO), 5 Mar 2011
Computers aren't very good at being random. They're machines built entirely on rules, with no free choice. How can you tell them to pick something randomly?
They end up, in fact, producing only "random-ish" numbers - they look random, but are essentially predictable.
Humans are, by nature, much better at being random. We do completely weird unpredictable things. A lot of people exclusively do completely weird unpredictable things.
Which is why, at least from this perspective, the results of a NIST study on password security may be a little surprising. Their study is worth reading (or forcing your administrators to read). In a nutshell, it describes how much easier human-chosen passwords are to guess than machine-chosen passwords.
It describes the entropy of different types of passwords. Entropy, in this case, is a measure of how random the password is: a password of E "bits of Entropy" can be guessed in 2E trials. Or: the lower the entropy of the password, the faster it can be guessed.
And the really interesting bit is just how much difference there is in the entropy of computer-generated versus human-chosen passwords.
Take for example an 8-character password, chosen from upper case and lower case letters, numbers, and any one of 30 symbols. That gives a choice of 94 symbols for each of the 8 characters, or 948 different possible combinations. If it were truly random, it would therefore need 948 different trials to guess it, because any choice is as likely as any other. (948 is about 252.7, so we say it has 52.7 bits of entropy.)
But if the user were to choose a password themselves, some choices are more likely than others. For example a lot of passwords are based on dictionary words, and we can then analyse different letter combinations to gauge what is more likely. In English, the most common starting letter is 'T' and if the word starts with a consonant then it's likely that the next letter is a vowel.
Naturally one man has spent his career analysing all such patterns, and we derive an estimate of the entropy of human-chosen passwords from this. For an 8 character password chosen from an "alphabet" of 94 characters, there are just 18 bits of entropy. That is to say, you'll most likely guess the password within 218 attempts.
That result is astonishing. An 8-character random computer-generated password is 23 thousand million times harder to guess than a human-chosen one!
So how long would it actually take to guess the password? Let's say we can make 1 million password attempts per second. (This isn't unreasonable: if a hash of the password is obtained, which in many cases is readily available, a modern computer should be able to compare about 1 million keys per second to that hash.) Even at that fast rate, the computer-generated password would take nearly 200 years to crack. But the user-chosen one would take less than a second!
So what recommendations should we make to all those who ask our assistance?
• Prevent users from choosing common passwords. Preventing users from having any one of the 50,000 most common passwords increases the entropy of their choice from 18 bits to 24 bits (for an 8-character password). In other words, it requires 64 times the amount of time to guess.
• Apply "composition rules". Requiring at least one of each of a lower case letter, an upper case letter, a number and a symbol increases the entropy for the same 8-character password to 30 bits. That is still crackable in 16 minutes, but that's vastly better than "less than a second".
• Use long passwords. The longer the password, the greater the entropy. A 12-character password has 34 bits of entropy (~5 hours) and a 20-character password has 42 bits (~51 days) when combined with the above 2 rules. Longer passwords needn't be harder to remember: just think of a mnemonic. For example, the first letter of each word in a verse of your favourite song.
• Finally, consider computer-generating passwords for users. It's the single most effective way to increase entropy. The downside is that it makes passwords harder to remember, so users will probably write them down. Possibly on a sticky note attached to their monitor.
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April 11 - May 2, 2018 Here’s a run-down of the latest tokens to go live on the Bancor Network. These new activations bring the total number of live tokens on Bancor to 77, and increases the number of crypto-pairs on the network to over 2,850 — which is more than any other crypto platform in the world. Tokens on the network are instantly convertible for one another on-chain and directly from Bancor’s native wallet or any other Web3 wallet. PundiX (NPXS) Activated on: April 11, 2018
Website: https://pundix.com Pundi X’s mission is to make buying cryptocurrency as easy as buying bottled water. Its POS system facilitates cryptocurrency payments and transactions, and also accepts transactions through mobile wallets and bank cards.
Measurable Data Token (MDT) Activated on: April 13, 2018
Website: https://www.mdt.co/ Measurable Data Token (MDT) is a decentralized data exchange ecosystem connecting users, data providers, and data buyers. SyncFab (MFG) Activated on: April 17, 2018
Website: https://syncfab.com/ SyncFab is building a peer-to-peer manufacturing supply chain and incentivized token system adapted for public and private blockchains.
Auctus (AUC) Activated on: April 21, 2018
Website: https://auctus.org/ Auctus is a retirement plan platform with traditional and cryptocurrency assets, powered by smart contracts.
BlitzPredict (XBP) Activated on: April 24, 2018
Website: https://www.blitzpredict.io/ BlitzPredict is a global platform providing liquidity to users of blockchain prediction markets and sportsbooks.
Fintrux (FTX) Activated on: April 24, 2018
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Clintons’ Haitian Black Magic Secret
Yes, I’m going there, and here’s why: To understand the evil motivations of another human, one must explore their psyche to see how and why they operate the way they do. When reviewing the Clintons‘ countless money laundering and pay-to-play schemes, one may ask, what the hell do they need all of this money for? Well, buying people off requires a lot of money. And why do they need to buy people off? Simple: the Clintons‘ thirst for power is insatiable. Let me say that again: the Clintons‘ thirst for power is insatiable. So much so that they stop at nothing to get what they want while enjoying the stain of destruction they leave along our path. In fact, their hunger for power is so strong, they even seek assistance through the help of voodoo and black magic with the hope of ensuring outcomes.
Some may already be aware of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s experience with voodoo from the passage in Bill Clinton’s memoir “My Life”. However, I don’t believe anyone is aware of their dark secret regarding the former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his black magic. Did someone say secret? Shhh
Surely their story begins long before the 70’s when it comes to their lust for power and the dark arts, but this journey begins in 1975 when the Clintons took their first trip to Haiti shortly after they married. Bill Clinton found a particular experience to be “the most interesting day of the trip”, and he decided to include it in his memoir. Bill, Hillary, and their friend David Edwards had the opportunity to see voodoo in practice in a village near Port-au-Prince. The priest was Max Beauvoir, who had abandoned his career as a chemical engineer when his voodoo-priest grandfather died and named him as his successor.
Beauvoir gave them a “brief course in voodoo theology” as Clinton described it. Later that afternoon, the ceremony began. Clinton wrote:
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“After several minutes of rhythmic dancing to pounding drums, the spirits arrived, seizing a woman and a man. The man proceeded to rub a burning torch all over his body and walk on hot coals without being burned. The woman, in a frenzy, screamed repeatedly, then grabbed a live chicken and bit its head off. Then the spirits left and those who had been possessed fell to the ground.”
Clinton wrote that his “brief foray into the world of voodoo” furthered his fascination with “the way different cultures try to make sense of life, nature, and the virtually universal belief that there is a nonphysical spirit force at work in the world.”
Clinton had recently lost the race for congress and Arkansas was about to have an opening for attorney general, so he was trying to decide whether to give it another run.
“By the time we got back from Haiti, I had determined to run for attorney general,” Clinton recalled. This time, he won – and was on his way to the White House.
One lesson he took from Haiti, he wrote: “The Lord works in mysterious ways.”
Yes, the Lord does work in mysterious ways Bill, and I don’t think a voodoo ceremony is going to save you now.
This was potentially the early stages of the Clintons intrigue into the world of voodoo, and they returned several times to Haiti for voodoo ceremonies (and black magic) to assist with Bill’s elections. This may sound like a contrived story, but this has been confirmed by Haitian officials and priests, in addition to my source, a native of Haiti. It is important to understand that surveys have put the number of voodoo adherents in Haiti as high as 85 percent, even among the educated classes, and Houngans (a voodoo priest) are even more important in the Haitian capital than psychiatrists are in Washington, D.C.
The stories that follow were reported in the Haïti Observateur, but were kept from mainstream news in the U.S.. There were a handful of local sources in the U.S. that picked up the story over time. However, there are some interesting details that were not reported, and an event that followed that has not been reported on.
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Excerpts from WND’s report covering the Haiti Observateur from 1998:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In this land where witch doctors carry more clout than conventional PhDs or professional campaign advisers, the average citizen has been provided a mind-boggling explanation for why Bill Clinton so handily beat President George H. W. Bush in 1992, triumphed to re-election easily in 1996 and is now facing impeachment.
Acting on the advice of a “houngan” or sorcerer, supplied by then-exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Clinton did not change his underwear the last week of the 1992 campaign, voodoo practitioners say.
The same houngan also cast a “malediction” on President Bush by manipulating a doll made in the president’s image, goes the story. The torment climaxed when the houngan caused Bush’s projectile vomit into the lap of the Japanese prime minister as the world press looked on, disgracing him with the public.
Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who was a priest in Aristide’s entourage, claimed that Aristide had developed a powerful grip on Clinton’s psyche through the power of voodoo.
Former President George H. W. Bush under a spell of nausea, vomits on Prime Minister of Japan:
But it didn’t end there, as WND continued:
Both Haitian officials and the Haiti Observateur stated that Clinton reaffirmed his faith in voodoo during his March 31, 1995 visit to the island. The official purpose of the visit as told by the American media was to celebrate Haiti’s supposed “return to democracy. ” However, the Haitian press had a much different story. The headlines of the March 29, 1995 issue of the Haiti Observateur read: “CLINTON ASSISTERA A UNE CEREMONIE VAUDOU EN HAITI” (Clinton to assist in a voodoo ceremony in Haiti). The story, confirmed by Haitian officials, stated that initiating Clinton under the power of voodoo had two purposes — to render him impervious to the attacks of his Republican enemies in Washington, and to guarantee his re-election. While the initiation could protect Clinton from his political enemies, they say, it could not protect him from himself.
The ceremony was said to have been hidden within a public event touted as a dedication of a monument to Haiti’s boat people. The focal point was a “magic well” concealed inside a sculptor’s rendition of a brick and concrete boat which was hurriedly constructed for the event in the vicinity of Aristide’s residence at Tabarre.
It should be noted that Aristide, a de-frocked priest, earlier in 1995 had renounced the Catholic Church and said he was returning to the voodoo faith of his ancestors. In July of the same year, he held a large voodoo congress at the National Palace attended by over 300 leading houngans and “bocors” (black magicians — including leaders of the dreaded “Bizango Cult,” which practices zombification and human sacrifice). Upon addressing the first voodoo congress, Aristide proclaimed voodoo to be one of the great religions of the world alongside Christianity, Islam and Judaism and also announced funding for a national voodoo temple. Both Aristide’s renunciation of the Catholic Church and his voodoo congress, while widely publicized in the Haitian press, were completely suppressed in the American news media.
In the days leading up to Clinton’s visit, according to sources in Haiti, many occult preparations took place. These were intended not only to grant Clinton the power to overcome the challenges facing his presidency and defeat the Whitewater investigations, but also to give Aristide the power to continue to control Clinton.
One account that circulated in Port-au-Prince is that when Aristide dedicated the “secret well” before Clinton’s visit that he “shed the blood of a newborn infant in gratitude to the gods whom he believes allowed his return to power.”
To maximize the occult forces at work, even the date chosen for Clinton’s visit — March 31 — was part of an elaborate ritual. The digits are the reverse of “13,” which the voodoo calendar considers the most propitious date for casting spells. Thus, the voodoo practitioners say, while Clinton believed that he was coming to the well at Tabarre to sell his soul to Lucifer for power and protection through the initiation of voodoo, he was also the victim of a classic Haitian double-cross.
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I found the footage from the “return to democracy” event Bill Clinton presented at in Haiti on March 31st in 1995. There was something very ironic I caught when watching this. Bill’s introduction was at exactly 13:33. He immediately proceeded with his (deceitful) speech which carried on right up to exactly 30:31 when he said “merci and thank you”, yet there was a strange glitch right at 30:30 as though it was intentionally cut short by a couple seconds in order to meet the 30:31 mark. Sounds a bit strange, but consider the source. This footage is from the official public record produced by the White House Television (WHTV) crew, provided by the Clinton Presidential Library. That being said, it sure seems like these time markers and the length of the speech was very intentional and so important that they felt the need to alter it by a couple seconds.
What is not told in this story are the details of the black magic ceremony that followed in 1996. Shhh, it’s a secret.
First, I want to explain the difference between Haitian voodoo and black magic. Animals are sometimes sacrificed in Haitian voodoo. A variety of animals are sacrificed, such as pigs, goats, chickens, and bulls. “The intent and emphasis of sacrifice is not upon the death of the animal, it is upon the transfusion of its life to the loa; for the understanding is that flesh and blood are of the essence of life and vigor, and these will restore the divine energy of the god,” stated Maya Deren in her book Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of HaitiSexual acts are a big part of both voodoo and black magic. My source describes black magic ceremonies to be of a very different nature that involves darker aspects of sexual acts prior to rituals and oftentimes babies are sacrificed, their bodies are devoured and blood drank. I asked what happens to their bones, and my source told me they grind them up so nothing is left behind. Yes, I said babies.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide has a background in both voodoo and black magic. Born to peasants in the southern town of Port Salut, Aristide saw violence at an early age. When he was very young, his father was lynched after he was accused of using black magic to commit evil acts. Aristide and the Clintons have quite an extensive history together filled with corruption, deceit and a Coup d’état which I am not going to get into here.
In 1996, Hillary Clinton traveled to Haiti alone to engage in a black magic ceremony to ensure Bill Clinton’s election for his second term as President. My source tells me:
The ceremony orchestrated by Aristide for Bill Clinton’s re-election was done in Tabarre where Aristide resides with the help of black magic priest Wilthan Lherisson. As customary in black magic ceremonies, sexual acts and orgies are part of the ritual, and during that ceremony Hillary had sex with Aristide! Oftentimes these sexual acts lead up to the sacrifice of a baby. In this particular ceremony, I am told a baby was not believed to have been sacrificed. This was not a voodoo ceremony, as the center of the universe for Voodoo is at “Ville Okan” in the NW part of Haiti, near the city of Port de Paix where Aristide is not welcome. This was a black magic ceremony and the Clintons have had powerful black magic priests working for them in Haiti for quite some time.
I want to emphasize that last sentence: The Clinton’s have powerful black magic priests working for them in Haiti. Whether you believe in black magic or not, is irrelevant. It is very real to these people, and their soulless vessels work overtime to achieve all that they desire at the expense of others, including human lives. This in itself offers insight as to how their minds operate and how their psyche works. These are true stories, beginning with the one told by Bill Clinton himself “…and the virtually universal belief that there is a nonphysical spirit force at work in the world.” And his belief that this ceremony played a role in his election as Attorney General of AR further shows this is a path the Clintons have been on for quite some time.
The Clintons’ hands are in everything. They are at the very center of the corrupt power structure. Their thirst for power is insatiable, and they invoke black magic to achieve their desires. Is it any wonder as to why our government agencies and officials are petrified to flip on this soulless duo? Do they fear their names may be added to the Clinton death count, or do they fear a black magic spell will strike them down? Whereas a baby was not sacrificed in this particular ceremony Hillary engaged in, she fully understands the nature of black magic ceremonies and is complicit in the sacrifice of babies. If Hillary is okay with sacrificing babies, what would stop her from sacrificing adults? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Sit with that for a moment.
I myself believe in the power of our thoughts, intentions, and light source that we project out to the world. No matter how dark or how evil the Clintons and their affiliates are, they will never strike through those that hold the power of light – even with the use of their dark magic. And in their murky shadow lies the truth we will all continue to expose so as to see them put down in the darkest corner of the world where they belong. GITMO has a cell with their name on it, and is gathering dust as we all eagerly await their arrival.
Courtesy of Freedom Outpost
Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally published at CoreysDigs.com
Corey Lynn is an investigative journalist who digs for truth in a world where nothing is as it seems, and then connecting the dots and presenting her findings to you. You can follow her work at CoreysDigs.com.
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Re: Interesting topic
Post by Rock » November 17th, 2011, 6:41 am
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begone wrote:I was browsing for some possible social experiment about filipinas when I came across this topic. And i cant resist to make an account and to comment on this. Haha
Okay about the topic. Uhm I think its because middle class filipinas are not the greedy type unlike those poor, little prostitutes(sorry for the term). And middle class filipinas can support themselves or doesnt need money since their families have enough.
Uhm I think also that you should ask yourself why you cant find any middle class filipinas or why they wont date you. Maybe try to look at the mirror first and try to dress impressive enough or passable for a middle class filipina's taste. Middle class filipinas like guys who knows how to dress properly. :)
I am a middle class filipina and yeah tbh i dont like to date foreigners cause people(especially those who do not know me personally) might think i am one of those whores who are only after money. But im still open for a possibility to date one. Well it depends on the situation and the person.
Middle class filipinas also has a large circle of friends(same class) especially those who are college students and the fresh graduates or the young adults. Young adults M.C. filipinas are kinda choosy and would like to date only within our age. :)
And I really hate those poor bitches cause they are the reason why people from other countries generalize us(filipinas). I hate their attitudes, some of them talk loud, very cheap, has no manners, etc. Well what can you expect from people who didnt go to school.
Is this the attitude of an average middle class Filipina? If so, they'd fit right in the U.S.
Middle Class is often a state of mind. It's not just an income level, job or educational level. Sometimes it's who you believe you are equal to or better than.
My ex-wife's family was from Trinidad, so we went to Trinidad for our honeymoon. We were scheduled to spend a few days staying with some of her cousins. I was expecting denizens of the 3rd world. Instead, they were middle class suburbanites, financially successful, sent their kids to college in the UK, traveled all over the world - and were as arrogant as a wealthy American. Our first night we were taken to a restaurant with about 20 members of the family. The owner of the restaurant came over and personally served us and the family's patriarch ordered dinner for each of us, saying "Dave, you'll like this; Rita, you'll like that." He acted like a Mafia Don or Donald Trump and had nearly that much power and influence in his town. I realized that even in the 3rd world the successful man can be as big an ass as in the U.S. And of course, I also recognized my American arrogance for expecting them to be poor and modest.
So, while I am interested in Begone's perspective, personally I would be cautious with a girl who expressed such views.
Dave, if and when you travel more, open your eyes and take it all in, especially when you visit such third world countries as Kenya or PI. As you get past the typical newbie illusions (assuming you are in-country for an extended time), expect to grow a lot more jaded as the realities slowly sink-in. There is a strong stigma associated with young locals who date older westerners in such areas because it's generally perceived as a type of prostitution.
Sometimes, it can be bad enough that it even taints the younger foreigners too, affecting their in-country dating prospects. This is why I strongly recommend young guys seeking a serious LT relationship with a quality girl to by-pass the poor countries and focus on medium income regions. Sure, there are some who beat the odds. Its just so much easier to do in many of the more affluent areas. Average looking or worse younger western guys can get huge handicaps relative to the west in these places.
On the other hand, older guys are probably best suited to the poor world if they still desire mates near their prime years. Just understand, there's an implied contract in these types of LT relationships which is basically understood by all locals. The girls who are willing to enter such arrangements will be those who are passed over by the more desirable guys - locals and foreigners alike. This group tends to be those who fit one or probably more of the following - very poor, rudimentary education, single mom, history in P4P, shorter, darker, rougher looking, plain faced or worse. Fortunately, a lot of white expats are attracted to these sorts and as old guys, are cynical and realistic enough to be OK with slow-burn P4P relationships. So it ends-up being the cliched win-win for all.
As for Trinidad, its hardly 3rd world. Amazing how Americans often assume by default that any part of the world they are not familiar with is poor and backwards.
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Re: Interesting topic
Post by davewe » November 17th, 2011, 8:27 pm
Rock wrote:
davewe wrote:
Gee, I thought that was the point of the story, that my American ignorance made assumptions about what I would be encountering.
As my former father in law often would point out to me, the country is actually called Trinidad and Tobago. Tobago is spectacular but decidedly 3rd world, Trinidad is a developing island, at least in some cities. But even in the suburban neighborhood the cousins lived in there was extrordinary poverty just down the street.
To make the mix of the country even more complicated, the cousins were of Indian heritage (though my ex was of African heritage) and by definition the Indian Trinidadians were considered socially of a higher class than the African Trinidadians. (The country is 40% Indian, 40% African, and 20% others) So, as in many other countries, class is not only defined by their jobs and income, but also by racial heritage. As ladislav often says, nationally they all consider themselves Trinidadians, but class is a different story.
We Americans define middle class based on our experiences in a country where a broad middle class is in the majority. If we accept the stated statistic that in the PI the middle class is only 20%, then that 20% might justifiably feel pretty damn superior to most people in the country. And that feeling of superiority is what an outsider might pick up on when he visits or moves there.
I can only state my own personal preference - your mileage may vary. If I met a woman who believed herself to be superior to the vast majority, whom she defined as "poor bitches" and of "cheap manners" - well, I'd run the other way.
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• Team, today I want to continue from from previous article. I will talk about the best practices of Virtual Servers and how we can set or utilize our CPUs.
I would like us to look at our windows systems and SQL Servers configurations before proceeding with this article. Try and think it through why certain systems are configured that way. So I will take CPU and Memory first but let us define Virtualization
What is Virtualization?
Let’s go back to the era of Main Frames and Multi-Users and Networking. In the 1990s, virtualization was used primarily to re-create end-user environments on a single piece of mainframe hardware.
This kind of architecture was forgotten after the era of x36 machines until VMWare which is one of the leading market of virtualization revived the market and almost 86 percent IT industries today have and are still implementing the said technology.
In computing, virtualization means to create a virtual version of a device or resource, such as a server, storage device, network or even an operating system where the framework divides the resource into one or more execution environments. Example, if I have a Hard Disk that is drive C: of 100GB and I decided to divide the drive into two or three maybe Drive C: 30GB, Drive D:60GB and drive E: 10GB, then we refer to this as Virtualization. Revival and adjustment of this technology of virtualization has resulted to having technologies like VDI, VLANs etc.
We have different types of virtualizations example, the partitioning of a Server into smaller servers is referred to as Server Virtualization (hardware Virtualization is our focus), multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage unit is Storage Virtualization, using network resources through a logical segmentation of a single physical network is Network Virtualization (like VLAN) and the operating system virtualizations is the use of software to allow a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at the same time. With virtualization, several operating systems can be run in parallel on a single central processing unit (CPU).
In Server virtualization, a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system is created. Software executed on these virtual machines is separated from the underlying hardware resources. For example, a computer that is running Microsoft Windows may host a virtual machine that looks like a computer with different operating system;
In Server virtualization, the host machine is the actual machine on which the virtualization takes place, and the guest machine is the virtual machine inside the host. We can have as many Guests inside the host (physical machine) as possible depending on the resources (CPU, memory, HDD etc) available and if the machine allows virtualization. In server virtualization each virtual machine runs its own operating system known as “guest Operating system”. Typically this guest operating system is running onto another operating system called “Host Operating System” with the help of virtualization software. Each virtual machine (VM) running in this manner is totally unaware of any other software is also running on the same fabric. The software that creates a virtual machine on the host hardware is called a hypervisor or Virtual Machine Manager.
I just have to stop!! And then talk about SQL Server Administration. Although its good to deviate to explain the basics and history as most of us can’t even define what a computer is, yet we are Database Administrators, Application Developers or IT Professional…. What kind of IT Pro are you?? I had to explain all these so that when I begin to explain performance tuning in SQL Server as it’s relate to infrastructure, you will know what to look at. We have always looked at the scripts but that is not enough. This is why Developers finds it difficult to become DBAs.
So let us talk about Virtualization in SQL Server.
As Database Administrators and Developers, when we see CPU growing or a spike to a certain level we worry why this is happening and begin to point fingers! Yes its our job in ensuring that CPU can even be zero percent if possible. The truth is, looking at it from the management perspective, they will not commit any financial resources if the CPU is not fully utilized (closed to 100% use). I guess some of the CIOs, CEOs and other IT experts know what I am talking about lol.
When we used to work on physical servers life was much easier and since the advent of virtual servers, life became complex for SQL Server administrators because more things are to be considered before configuring SQL Servers on Virtual Servers. Today SQL Server on physical Server can accept a higher number of transactions per second (TPS) on a high OLTP workload than a Virtual Machine SQL Server. Simple query like below can help you determine the TPS on any machine. You can try it out but I am talking from experience as Microsoft Certified Data and BI expert. You also use a third party software
select * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE OBJECT_NAME = 'SQLServer:Databases' AND counter_name = 'Transactions/sec' AND instance_name = 'db_name' ---database name
This is an example:
SELECT cntr_value, * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE counter_name = 'transactions/sec' AND OBJECT_NAME = 'SQLServer:Databases' AND instance_name = 'AdventureWorks'
Now, when we are to set up Windows Server, it is not advisable to allow the WINTEL or windows team carry out the configuration or setup alone. You need to give them your requirements for that Virtual Server. Allowing them to do the setup may not actually meet your requirements and you may have serious issues at the end. If it was a physical server, that is understandable and your primary focus then will just be CPU speed and the number of Cores. But we are talking about Virtual Servers.
Before, you give the Server Team your configuration, you may need to snip around and know the following points or ask the following questions:
What is the current configurations of the physical host resources (Memory, CPUs, hypervisor, storage etc) ?
How many Guests are going to be on the Host? A host of 32GB memory can house 30 Guests of 4GB memory resulting to 120GB memory utilization… Surprise? What came to your mind is how can a 32GB Physical host house internally (Guests) consuming 120 GB as against 30GB? Yes, this is where Hypervisor come to play.
What is the make of the server and the Hypervisor (how updatable)?
How many LANs will be attached to the Guest?
These are some of the basic questions applying to the physical Host of your Guest (Virtual Machine). You can add if you want to lol. Understanding some of those questions from the Infrastructure Team will help you to determine your configuration requirements for your Virtual Server. Example, what happened if the WINTEL Team decides to have more Guests than it’s required for the physical machine? You don’t want to have issues with the Guests you may not be able to determine. So some of the questions about the Guest VM are as follows:
What will be the speed of the Virtual Cores on the Guest? The power saving CPUs like INTEL will automatically slow down when some Cores are not been used. If we are not pushing the CPU hard it will go down and return some speed back to the host.
Do we get the same amount of usage of each of these Cores is another question. Some system administrators (WINTEL) always want to limit the amount of power we get from every Cores been used even if we have them available or unused!! U see why I said you have to understand your infrastructure before you can be a good Database Administrator? Especially now that every organization is going Virtualization and cloud! Don’t be left out, get out of your legacy systems and update your skills!
How many Virtual Cores do we really need?
Do we need 4 Cores or 8 Cores, if we have 8 Cores does not mean we really need the entire 8 Cores because it might result to idleness of Cores or may result to performance issues. SQL Server schedule work on the 8 virtual cores and if we are unable go get the 8 Virtual Cores to work at the sometime, what happens? If we have 8 Cores then our codes may need to use the 8 cores concurrently.
As I said before now, having 8 Cores on a Virtual Box does not mean you will be using the entirely the 8 Cores, it will also depends on availability and the instructions and the Hypervisors.
That brings me to the last question, how is our buffer Caches working with these Cores, do we use the same Cores for running instructions remembering how we have cache our stored procedures and other instructions.
Let me explain this into details because its very vital in Virtualization.
Lets assume we have 6 Cores on a typical Physical Server. Then we decided to configure this server to have two Guests or Virtual Servers. One of the Guest Servers is SQL Server and the other to be an Application Server (App Server)
From the diagram above. SQL Server has some set of Stored Procedures to run and data to be retrieved and worked upon. So SQL Server will use the first available 3 Cores (SET A). It may have retrieved some data and instructions and those are cached automatically in the L1 and L2 Cores respectively, it continues working and continue storing data on the Cores memory until the process complete and make the Cores available as Sleeping or idle. So the Cores (SET A) are now Idle.
Ok, now let’s imagine another program or application like EasyMoney is been executed? It will go straight to the sleeping first 3 Cores as instructed by the hypervisor. The sleeping cores are still SET A because to the application all 6 cores are available, so it will decide to choose the first 3 Cores.
Now, as the application begin to execute, it may now decide to make a call to SQL Server which is where the Application Database is stored. Now SQL Server will be looking for Core to use because of the way the hypervisor is running. Remember, SQL Server has data already cached on the first 3 Cores but the Application Server is using the Cores currently. What will SQL Server do? Use the 2nd set of Cores (SET B)? If it does, it will loose the data is has cached on SET A (first 3 cores) and would have to copy them across or cache over again! Do we now see where performance issues will come from?
SQL Server may also decide to wait for the application to complete using the first three cores before it will now schedule its own job! It may be little wait though! That was why I said, it’s not how many Cores you may have (if not fully utilized) will determine the processing power or task completion. Do not get me wrong, the other part of the story may be better be scheduling the job on the last 3 cores and copy data across. Its soo complete to provide a solution to this! Sometimes, we have L3 Cache as well which may make all Cores sharing the same CPU Cache. Which means, it may not matter if you schedule SQL Server to run on SET A or SET B but there is always a but! Then we should have to know how we schedule CPUs for our Virtual Machines. This gives us the opportunity to discuss some facts on CPU best practices and settings
1. Don’t use too much Virtual Cores. From the example above you see that its not how many virtual cores but the ability to get all of them to work the same time.
2. Remove all unnecessary items attached to your virtual drives because by default when a virtual Guest is created it automatically at all unnecessary accesses not required like CD Drive. Do you noticed even your Laptop with CD drive sometimes work slower than the one without CD Drives.
3. Ensure the Hypervisors are updated on a regular basis because the newer it is the better it helps in managing the Guests.
4. Background processes are challenges to Servers and ensure they are disabled because it will impact performance.
5. SQL Server is NUMA and instance aware. Please try and install single SQL Server on each Guest than having more than one sql server on a Guest. It will impact the CPU.
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Q:
Staying to enjoy the unexpected playing of recorded music during the 3 weeks/9 days
Assuming for a moment that one holds that the prohibition of listening to music during the Three Weeks / Nine Days applies to recorded music, if one were in a store that had music playing on the speaker system, and one's favorite song came on, could one take a moment to enjoy the song? If the answer is no, one should not take any added pleasure in the music, should one try not to listen to it (cover one's ears and say "lalalala" for three minutes or so) or leave the store until it is over? If one can stay, and even enjoy the music, can one sit and relax and enjoy it, or should one try to stick to one's business and enjoy it as little as possible?
Case in point, this morning, 3 Av, I was purchasing some food for breakfast, at a little convenience store near my office, which also operates as a mini-cafe, cooking fresh food, with seating available to customers. As I was getting my things together for purchase, one of my all-time favorite songs came on the radio, which was being played loudly enough to provide background music for the customers' and employees' enjoyment. I took note of it, and since I had to wait to check out before the song ended, I was given about a minute or so to simply stand there, doing nothing, listening to one of my favorite songs, which was being played at the decision of the store owner, during the Nine Days.
I suppose I could have left for the last remaining 2 minutes or so, but I did not. Nor, however, did I sit down at one of the tables to enjoy it; I actually checked out and left before the song ended (it's a long song).
Any thoughts? Sources appreciated.
A:
Seth, all of the detailed laws regarding when you don't have to worry about listening to music and when you do are really just applications of a single broader law: When Av comes around, we restrict our joy. Actions that are done for joy are improper. If they are done for other reasons, thats OK.
For example, building for joy is prohibited. So I can't paint my kitchen. But I can replace my gutters if they are in disrepair. I can't listen to music for pleasure. But I can listen if I am stressed or depressed and want to remove that displeasure.
So, you were OK "listening" to the music while your goal was to buy breakfast even if you happened to like the song (no la-las necessary), but once you made a positive decision to enjoy it, that would violate the mishna.
I have had this challenge many times. I wish it were my worst aveira.
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Can't search my database for relevant data || Error: Trying to get property of non-object
So i'm trying to search my database using to text input fields, both have name and id attributes, one has product for both of these, the other has brand for both. The problem comes with the PHP, it connects to the database just fine, and it claims to accept the sql statement, but once it gets to a certain line (which will have a comment above it in the code below), it gives me the error "Trying to get property of non-object", and i believe that this line is required for a database search to work in the first place. Any help would be appreciated.
<!--This is the form used to submit the query-->
<form action="searchDB.php" method="GET" id="searchForm">
<input type="text" name="product" id="product" placeholder="Product...">
<input type="text" name="brand" id="brand" placeholder="Brand...">
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Search">
PHP/MySQL:
$product = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET['product']);
$brand = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET['brand']);
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbase);
if(empty($_GET['product']||$_GET['brand'])){ //fields contain no value
die('please input a search!'); // kill the database connection
}
if ($conn->connect_error) {
echo "Connection failed: ". $conn->connect_error;
}else{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE product = $product AND brand = $brand";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
//echo $sql;
}
//THIS IS WHERE IT SAYS THE ERROR OCCURS, "if($result->num_rows>0"
//specifically
if ($result->num_rows > 0){
//output each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
echo "Product: " . $row["product"]. " Brand: " . $row["brand"]. "
Age: " . $row["age"]. " Cost: " . $row["cost"]. " Specification: " .
$row["specification"]. " Image: " . $row["image"]. "<br>";
}
}else{
echo "Sorry, we could not find any products relating to your search.";
}
mysqli_close($conn);
A:
As I said in comments, you can't use the escape function before the connection was established.
Your connection logic also needed to be modified, so here's what we end up with, along with a few modifications such as adding the empty() to the other GET array.
I also quoted the variables in VALUES since those stand to be strings.
Make sure that both of those values get satisfied, otherwise you may need to change the AND to an OR operator.
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbase);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
echo "Connection failed: ". $conn->connect_error;
}
if(empty($_GET['product']) || empty($_GET['brand']) ){
die('please input a search!');
}else{
$product = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET['product']);
$brand = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET['brand']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE product = '$product' AND brand = '$brand'";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if(!$result){
echo "The query failed: " . mysqli_error($conn);
}
if ($result->num_rows > 0){
//output each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
echo "Product: " . $row["product"]. " Brand: " . $row["brand"]. "
Age: " . $row["age"]. " Cost: " . $row["cost"]. " Specification: " .
$row["specification"]. " Image: " . $row["image"]. "<br>";
}
}else{
echo "Sorry, we could not find any products relating to your search.";
}
}
mysqli_close($conn);
and as I also stated in comments, if what you posted is your actual code, it's missing the closing </form> tag.
Check for errors against the query with mysqli_error($conn).
Note: Use a prepared statement, they're much better to help guard against an SQL injection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_statement
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Structural analysis of a unique hybrid-type ganglioside with isoglobo-, neolacto-, and ganglio-core from the gills of the Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus keta).
Monosialosyl gangliosides from the gills of the Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, have been prepared by solvent extraction and DEAE-Sephadex column chromatography. The unknown acidic glycolipids (M14 and M15) with slower mobility than GM1a on thin-layer chromatography were separated by Iatrobeads column chromatography and were characterized by compositional analysis, methylation analysis, chemical, and enzymatic degradation, negative-ion LSIMS, and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Both M14 and M15 contained a same oligosaccharide core with isoglobo-, neolacto-, and ganglio-series as follows: [carbohydrate structure: see text]. The only difference between M14 and M15 was in fatty acid acylation. Analysis of the fatty acids indicated a predominance of C24:1 fatty acid in M14 and shorter chain saturated fatty acids, C14:0 and C16:0, in M15. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '186484634a333eafde04a77eb1f15d2f37d3323d325615c6c8c1d214f787b1bc'} |
What is the Smart-Meter for?
The Smart-Meter is an energy metering device installed at the site’s AC grid entry point. The role of the meter is to monitor and report real time energy consumption of the site. This measurement is sent to the IMEON inverter via a wired connection.
When the IMEON inverter receives information from the Smart-Meter, it responds by injecting power to AC Grid, corresponding to the real time energy consumption measured by the meter. The injected power would come from your solar installation and / or the battery, the renewable sources would therefore be used to offset the consumption from AC Grid as close to 0W as possible (within the power rating of the IMEON), without exporting power to the grid.
For example, if the installed IMEON is a 3kW single phase unit and that:
• the consumption measured by the Smart-Meter is 4kW,
• the solar installation produces 2kW,
• the battery can supply 1kW,
The IMEON will inject 3kW (solar + battery production, limited by power rating of the inverter) to AC Grid. The additional power of 1kW will be withdrawn from the electricity network. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.92258483171463}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '95058', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:T5GANMRG3DJYK2SIIXJTMDFFPU2VJOPK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0f05ebeb-94de-47bb-8afd-45f522321717>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 5, 59, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '213.186.33.17', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:32T2OVMQT3E4M56UUKUFJ6OODVSFJBLK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5ad39c2c-5150-4be1-b94a-4f4291aa8c6b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://imeon-energy.com.au/faq-au/what-is-the-smart-meter-for/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:293a6d09-6608-42f1-aa37-fe8ad49f3c7c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '183', 'url': 'https://imeon-energy.com.au/faq-au/what-is-the-smart-meter-for/', '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-10-67-67-241.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': '0.029650747776031494', 'original_id': '87aec26d6c8f5aaa34ab22f8ba4977be06efbcf02aa3c4c8e903daf80fb4b8d7'} |
Why the U.S. Dollar Is So Powerful (Video)
Why the U.S. Dollar Is So Powerful
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The U.S. dollar is so integral to Lebanon’s economy that its depletion from the market has plunged the country into a full-blown financial crisis.
But why is the Lebanese pound dependant on American currency, and why is the U.S dollar so powerful?
The story of the dollar’s domination over the world’s market dates back to the early 1900s. Before the first World War, developed countries were pegging their currencies to gold as a stability measure.
But when WWI erupted in 1914, these countries were forced to revert to paper money reserves to pay the expenses of their armies. This caused the values of their currencies to dwindle.
At that time, Britain was the leading nation in world commerce, but this was about to change. To keep its dominant status, Britain swam against the current and kept its pound sterling pegged to gold.
By 1917, Britain’s military expenses had created a great shortage of currency, which led it to borrow money from the U.S for the first time.
Two years later, Britain delinked its currency from gold, and the U.S. dollar took over the global market.
The new standard
Fast forward a couple of decades: World War II broke out and the U.S, before getting involved in the battle, was selling the Allies weapons and other supplies, receiving payments mainly in gold.
Near the end of the war, the U.S. owned the majority of the world’s gold reserves. This left other countries at a great disadvantage and brought forth the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944.
This agreement, attended by 44 Allied nations, dictated that countries would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the U.S. dollar.
As such, the dollar, which was still linked to gold, replaced the standard of gold reserves.
In other words, the world’s countries began accumulating reserves of U.S. dollars instead of gold. In 1971, the U.S. delinked its currency from gold, and exchange rates became dependant on market forces instead of gold, as they are today.
Several factors, including economic and political stability and efficient, adaptive financial policies, have kept the dollar the most powerful and resilient currency in the global market over the years.
After the dollar established itself as a global reserve, the fates of numerous international currencies, including the Lebanese pound, became tied to it.
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This remains the case today and explains why a shortage of U.S. dollars in Lebanon is killing its national currency.
Lebanon is one of the countries that rely heavily on the dollar for day-to-day trading. The U.S. dollar’s presence, therefore, is fundamental for the health of the Lebanese economy.
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Unexpected Accusations on the Moon
Unexpected Accusations on the Moon
Unexpected Accusations on the Moon
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The moon has always been blamed for the incidents that are beyond the understanding of humans. Most of these unexpected accusations are absurd because there isn’t any logical evidence to support such claims. In some cases, future investigations did reveal that these allegations were actually correct.
Irrespective of the authenticity of blames, the following are some of the unexpected accusations that were leveled against the moon.
Childbirth - Unexpected Accusations
A lot of people believe that there is an association between childbirth and full moons. They believe that the gravitational pull of the full moon affects the amniotic fluid in the body of pregnant women. As a result, the moon causes the water to break and is responsible for inducing labor. Despite the fact that it is NOT true, this misconception has been around for several centuries.
It is one of those unexpected accusations that wouldn’t die, even after a lot of studies (against it). The most extensive of them was published in 2001 that covered the details of 70 million childbirths. Daniel Coton was the researcher who analyzed the records of children born over 20 years. His findings clearly revealed that this connection is nothing but an allegation.
Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis
Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis - Unexpected Accusations
This painful eye condition is caused either by Enterovirus 70 or Coxsackievirus A24. The obvious symptoms of this infection include reddening and swelling of eyes. Similarly, you will have pus dripping out of the infected eyes. This non-lethal disease generally takes about a week to disappear on its own.
The first case of Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis was reported in Ghana in 1969. It was the same year when Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the moon. A lot of people believed that the crew of Apollo 11 brought these viruses (from the moon) to the Earth. For this reason, native Africans labeled this eye condition as ‘Apollo’.
Although this disease is commonly observed in Africa, cases of Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis have also been reported in other countries.
The Great Crypto Crash
The Great Crypto Crash - Unexpected Accusations
In January 2018, the value of all cryptocurrencies depreciated by nearly 80% in less than 30 days. Owing to the catastrophic impact of this devaluation, it was named as The Great Crypto Crash. When all the investors and analysts were looking for a reason, Alexander Wallin blamed the moon for this crash.
Wallin is the CEO of Sprinklebit, an investing platform. He claimed that this drastic drop in the cryptocurrency market was caused by the Lunar New Year. The fact that the Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar made moon the culprit.
According to Wallin, Chinese investors sold their Bitcoins to fund their New Year celebrations. Due to the excess of Bitcoins in the market, the prices crashed. This random connection makes it one of the most unexpected accusations on the moon.
Full moons are often blamed for causing horrific traffic accidents. The researchers from the University of Toronto and Princeton University conducted a study to determine the accuracy of these claims. In their research, they studied motorcycle accidents (over a 30-year period) in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
The results showed that there were 5% more accidents on the nights with full moons. The situation became even worse during super moons as the probability of accidents rose to 27%. This is because the light of a full/super moon can prove distracting for riders (and drivers). Similarly, the increased visibility can urge the riders to go faster than their usual speeds.
The Death of Thomas Jackson
The Death of Thomas Jackson
This unfortunate incident refers to one of those unexpected accusations on the moon that were actually correct. On 2nd May 1863, the Confederates launched an attack against the Union that led to the Battle of Chancellorsville. This was the night when General Thomas Stonewall Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own troops. He died a week later due to complications.
A couple of researchers from Texas State University analyzed the case and claimed that the full moon was responsible for this misunderstanding. Generally, it is believed that full moons enhance visibility. However, this assumption can be wrong if the moon is right in front of you. In that case, everything appears as a dark, featureless shadow.
This is exactly what soldiers of the 18th North Carolina infantry saw. They couldn’t determine the presence of their own men because all they could see were approaching black shadows. Consequently, they opened fire to protect themselves. In the process, Stonewall was struck by three musket balls that killed him.
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Gluten 101
The hidden food that hurts…
Over 18 million Americans suffer from gluten sensitivities and this number is rising fast. The rapid growth has lead to a flood of gluten free products. It’s important to know that not all of these gluten free foods are nutritious. There is a Right and Wrong way to eat gluten free and your health depends on it. Let us show you the way!
Some facts about gluten that you should know
1. What is gluten?
Gluten is a general term to describe the proteins found in wheat, rye, and barley. For the more technical reader, gluten is made up of different prolamin proteins found in certain foods. These prolamins include gliadin (in wheat), secalin (in rye), and hordein (in barley). Rice and corn also contain prolamins, but they are not harmful to those sensitive to gluten.
2. How can eating gluten hurt me?
When gluten enters your body, your immune system responds by attacking the gluten molecule and unfortunately, also attacks your body. When the gluten reaches your small intestine, the villi are damaged. Damaged villi prevent your body from properly absorbing nutrients. Toxins and gluten fragments can pass through the damaged intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream. Your body will view these foreign substances as invaders and respond by attacking them and your cells. Malnutrition is very common and can lead to many different symptoms. Gluten sensitivity is often misdiagnosed because doctors often relate its daily symptoms to other causes.
3. How is GlutenFreeDaily different from other gluten free diets?
Just because a food is “gluten free” doesn’t necessarily mean it is healthy. A lot of gluten free foods brands replace the gluten with more sugar and fat to compensate for texture and flavor. This can be very misleading when you think you are eating healthy. We have addressed this issue and others by creating a custom gluten free diet. Your guide has considered the glycemic load, sugar content, fat content, carbohydrates, and sodium content, for all foods, ensuring you the healthiest diet possible.
4. What are some symptoms of gluten intolerance?
Just to name a few…
Weight Problems
Abdominal pain, Bloating
Fatigue or Weakness
Canker Sores
Lactose intolerance
Headaches or Migraines
Gas, Diarrhea, or Constipation
Respiratory problems
Inflammation, Swelling, or Rashes
Hair loss, Acne
Infertility or Miscarriages
Lupus, autoimmune
Irregular stool
Acid reflux
Vitamin Deficiencies, Joint Pain, Muscle Cramping
Unfortunately the list goes on… We have created a page that lists all these gluten related symptoms and also have created free profile assessment tool to see if our gluten free program can benefit you.
5. How fast can a gluten free diet reverse my symptoms?
Your body will begin the healing process as soon you eliminate gluten. Most people will already begin feeling better within a couple days, some may take weeks, or even months for their intestinal damage to reverse. The more strict you follow the diet, the faster your recovery. The better you recognize the daily negative effects of gluten, the easier it will become to follow the diet regularly. Most symptoms are reversible, but depending on the severity and length of malnutrition, some may be long lasting, or even permanent. It is extremely important to go gluten-free as early as possible.
6. What are my chances of being sensitive to gluten?
More than 18,000,000 Americans have already recognized an allergy or intolerance to gluten. Celiac disease diagnosis rate may reach 50-60% by 2019, thanks to efforts to raise public awareness. And a staggering 97% of gluten intolerance sufferers are misdiagnosed and mistreated! This includes you or your loved ones. The problem is that most people who suffer from gluten intolerance may not know it, since the symptoms often mask themselves as those of other conditions.
7. What are some of the foods on the gluten free diet?
There are many basic natural foods allowed in a gluten free diet. These include: Fresh meats, fish, poultry, Most dairy products, Fruits, Vegetables, Rice, Potatoes. There are hundreds of gluten free substitutes for foods that normally contain gluten. You can find gluten free substitutes for these foods: Breads, Cereals, Crackers, Croutons, Pasta, Cookies, Cakes and pies, Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Salad dressings, Beer, and Candy. We make it simple and show you how to eat these foods for a clean eating lifestyle.
8. Can my doctor diagnose me with a gluten allergy?
Yes. Misdiagnoses can leave a gluten sufferer with continued distress and further damage to their bodies, so it is important for people who think they might suffer from gluten intolerance to see their physician for an accurate diagnosis. The disease is difficult to get a handle on and physicians often misdiagnose Celiac disease or gluten intolerance for irritable bowel syndrome, other food allergies, chronic fatigue, weight problems, or malnutrition. In fact, with something as elusive as gluten intolerance, many patients must take the role of educating their physicians about the illness.
9. Should I get tested for Celiac disease?
If gluten free foods are benefiting you, it is important to know why. It is also necessary to know how serious you need follow this lifestyle, whether it’s for treatment, or just weight loss and wellness benefits. To be diagnosed with Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, consult your doctor.
Here’s a helpful list of what to include in your blood test:
Endomysial antibody (EMA-IgA)
Anti-gliadin antibody (AGA-IgG, AGA-IgA)
Total serum IgA
Tissue transglutaminase antibody (tTG – IgA/IgG)
10. Can I eat gluten free when I’m eating out?
Preparing your own meals is the easiest way to monitor your diet, but this doesn’t mean you can’t dine out. Choose places that specialize in the kinds of foods you can eat. Order simply prepared fresh foods and avoid breaded and batter-coated foods. Be cautious of sauces and don’t be afraid to ask the chef about any other questionable ingredients.
11. Can I still eat my favorite meals?
Absolutely. For bread, flour, and pasta lovers with gluten intolerance or Celiac Disease, there are an increasing number of gluten free products on the market. In fact, there are gluten free substitutes for most gluten-containing foods, from brownies to beer. Many specialty grocery stores sell gluten free foods. After substituting gluten free ingredients, you can cook all your favorite meals. We make it simple and break all this down for you as part of our diet and meal plans.
12. Wheat-free vs. gluten-free?
Wheat-free and gluten-free are not the same. Having a wheat allergy and being sensitive to gluten are not the same either. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten sensitivity, or gluten intolerance, is a common developed autoimmune disease in which the small intestine is damaged when digesting gluten. A wheat allergy is an allergic reaction (or acute condition) specific to digesting wheat, not an autoimmune disease. It is still important for someone with a wheat-allergy to eat gluten-free. It is also important to know that saying “wheat-free” doesn’t necessarily mean “gluten-free.” Make sure all your specialty items say “gluten-free.”
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Leaked: Specifications Of Microsoft's Upcoming Lumia 940 | TechTree.com
Leaked: Specifications Of Microsoft's Upcoming Lumia 940
Reports suggest the device could be one of the first to sport a Gorilla Glass 4 panel up-front
Microsoft is all-set to launch its entry-level Lumia 535 later today, but the excitement doesn't seem to end just there. Reports emerging from a Nokia supplier factory suggest that the upcoming flagship Lumia 940 will be a powerful device, and should be the first Gorilla Glass 4 sporting device.
While there's no way to corroborate the authenticity of the leak, the Lumia 940 will supposedly feature a 5-inch 1080p display, protected by a slab of Gorilla Glass 4. The device will be powered by a 2.7GHz Snapdragon 805 processor, coupled to a hefty 3GB of RAM.
When it comes to the imaging department, the 940 will feature a 24MP PureView camera at the back and a 5MP shooter up front. The flagship device will also have the ability to shoot video in 4K at 60fps, which is great for the mobile filmmaker.
The other big news is that the device will run on the upcoming Windows 10 mobile OS, which if true means the device isn't coming out anytime soon. While we'd advice you to take all the information provided with a pinch of salt, the leaked specifications don't seem to be unrealistic in any way.
Rounding up the specs sheet, the Lumia 940 will measure in at 137 x 71 x 8.9mm, meaning it isn't going to be winning any awards in the slimness department. Further, the device will weigh in at 149g, which is comparable to other devices of the same size.
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Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an air-routing household appliance with a removable and washable filter disposed in the air stream.
German Published, Non-Prosecuted Patent Application DE 197 05 616 A1 discloses a laundry dryer in which a first lint filter is followed by a second, finer, deep-bed filter that can be cleaned under flowing water. The deep-bed filter is produced from foam material and, therefore, has to be cleaned carefully. Furthermore, the action of the deep-bed filter amounts to no more than an improved filter action in respect of the lints entrained in the air stream.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an air-routing household appliance with a washable filter that overcomes the hereinafore-mentioned disadvantages of the heretofore-known devices of this general type and that has an air filter of broadened functionality that, moreover, can be cleaned more effectively.
With the foregoing and other objects in view, there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a condensation laundry dryer, including a closed process-air circuit in which process air is circulated, a heating device disposed in the process-air circuit for heating the process air, a cooling device disposed in the process-air circuit for cooling moisture-laden process air, and a removable washable filter disposed in the process-air circuit for at least one of binding and decomposing odorous substances located in the process air, the washable filter having a flexible fiber material.
According to the invention, the filter is of a flexible fiber material and is finished such that it can bind and/or decompose odorous substances. The flexible fiber material ensures a mechanical resistance of the filter that allows thorough cleaning, particularly in a washing machine. The filter can, thus, be washed with a high introduction of mechanical energy and also at high temperatures. The precondition for filter treatment is, thereby, also afforded, making it possible to clean and/or regenerate odor filters to a sufficient extent.
The fiber material can be treated with particles of a material that can bind odorous substances and from which the odorous substances can also be washed out again. These particles may be activated charcoal, or special minerals. A treatment of the fiber material with catalytically acting materials that can decompose odorous substances may also be envisaged.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, advantageously, the filter has no hard components. As a result, it can also be washed in a household washing machine in the same way as completely normal laundry, without the risk of the washing machine being damaged.
In accordance with a further feature of the invention, the filter may be of a sheet-like piece of fibrous nonwoven, fibrous woven fabric, or fibrous knitted fabric, the household appliance having a receptacle for holding and tension-mounting the filter within the air stream. The filter may, in such a case, be of a portion of a filter material capable of being manufactured in a string so that it can be made available in a highly cost-effective way. The receptacle for the filter is, advantageously, removable from the household appliance to make it easier to insert and extract the filter.
In accordance with an added feature of the invention, the filter may be preceded by a coarse filter for removing particles from the air stream. The filter can, thus, be protected against coarse particles that could clog it or be detrimental to its action.
In accordance with a concomitant feature of the invention, the coarse filter is a lint filter.
Advantageously, the invention is used in a condensation laundry dryer, in which process air is circulated in a closed circuit and in the process-air circuit of which are disposed a heating device for heating the process air, a cooling device for cooling moisture-laden process air, the filter, and a preceding lint filter as the coarse filter. In such an application, account can be taken of a frequent requirement of users that is aimed at freeing the laundry of unpleasant odorous substances. This may arise when the garment has been exposed to cigarette smoke and merely an airing of the garment is desired. The odor filter is, advantageously, disposed, within the process-air circuit, at the point at which the best conditions for removing the odorous substances from the process air prevail. Thus, for example, in the section between the cooling device and heating device, the temperature of the process air is the lowest and the relative atmospheric moisture is the highest, and, downstream of the heating device and before contact with the laundry to be dried, the temperature is the highest and the relative atmospheric moisture the lowest.
A control device of the condensation laundry dryer may, advantageously, be set up such that the process air can be heated to a temperature below that normally used for laundry drying and can be circulated. Thus, the laundry can be treated more carefully and, nevertheless, aired, while energy can also be saved due to the reduced temperature. Furthermore, the control device may be set up such that the process air can be circulated even with the cooling device switched off. Cooling of the process air is not necessary during airing because no moisture has to be removed from the process air and, therefore, further energy can be saved.
Further applications of the invention are, for example, vapor extraction hoods, vacuum cleaners, and heating fans.
Other features that are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in an air-routing household appliance with a washable filter, it is, nevertheless, not intended to be limited to the details shown because various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
The construction and method of operation of the invention, however, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '54d0b508c47bd2652ef1a9059277db8db447b7ae522c0c422e134a9905581822'} |
Dysplastic nevi of the scalp and forehead in children.
To determine if there is a significant difference in the relative frequency and degree of atypia of sporadic dysplastic nevi from the scalp, face, and neck area in children as compared with nevi from the rest of the body, we reviewed 99 consecutive biopsy specimens of melanocytic nevi from the scalp, face, and neck areas in children less than 18 years of age and compared them with 95 consecutive cases of nevi from other areas of the body in children of the same age. Large numbers of the nevi biopsied from the scalp (13 of 31; 41.93%) and forehead (2 of 10; 20%) were dysplastic. The number of dysplastic nevi from the neck (1 of 58; 1.72%) was not assessed as very different from the incidence found in other regions of the body, where 7 dysplastic nevi (7.36%) from a total of 95 nevi were found. Of the 13 dysplastic nevi from the scalp, 9 showed minimal atypia and 4 showed moderate atypia. No nevi with severe atypia were found. Many pigmented nevi from the scalp and forehead in children in this study were dysplastic. This finding points out the importance of examining the scalp of children for the presence of dysplastic nevi. The majority of nevi from the neck were common nevi. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9126646ebca954255809fc082bf7611ec2af6c3dcc91939106a74916a3b6da07'} |
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How does Isolde die in Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde?"?
Asked by sliceswiththings (11661points) May 10th, 2010
All the synopses I’ve found just say that after Tristan dies, she just dies too. Does she kill herself? Die of a broken heart?
Oops, sorry, they both die in the end. Go see it anyway!
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cfrydj's avatar
Argh, spoiled. ;)
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Hmm, reckon I should change the question and warn of a spoiler?
Lightlyseared's avatar
Why don’t you read the actual play?
sliceswiththings's avatar
@Lightlyseared Because the paper is for a music class. Unfortunately the score is not very useful for exact plot details. And because it’s due in a few hours.
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She commits suicide according to this.
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Liebestod or “love death”. The exact mechanism of death was never specified in Wagner’s libretto.
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(a) the complex reflection coefficient at the load,
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Offense Level Lowered
Be certain you’ve swallowed your coffee before reading this link explaining why the Muslim Offense level has been lowered from Orange to Yellow.
It seems the Saudi’s have re-run the Danish non-apology and said that now that the Danes have really apologized, we can all go back to work.
Read the whole thing – the world is a funny, funny place.
This was funny for about a second but now I’m ticked. Who the he** do these people (United for Peace and Justice) think they are?
These groups are on the steering committe, just to keep in mind. I don’t think lefties are unpatriotic, I think these people are! And what’s more they are the enemy if they think they have a right to set aside my vote and topple this government!
* The Communist Party (no surprise there!)
* National Hip Hop Political Caucus
* Iraq Veterans Against The War
* September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows
* Teen Peace Project
* Not In Our Name
* Military Families Speak Out
* US Campaign To End The Israeli Occupation
* National Network On Cuba (again, no surprise)
* DC Anti-War Network
The Enviromental Republican titles today’s post “Laws that do the opposite” in regards to health care laws to force Walmart to provide levels of insurance.
His title brings to mind this NYTimes story about a prison in Afghanistan, Bagram, that 1) was never meant to be a prison, but more of a short term holding facility and 2) has, shall we say, less comfortable conditions than Guantanamo because 1) it was never meant to be a prison and 2) well, it’s not in US territory.
Because of things like UN calls to shut Guantanamo down and UN reports on “torture” in Guantanamo, now, the administration has decided not to send more detainees to Guantanamo. Since no one has any better ideas…….they stay at the holding center!
I’m certain that’s not what the UN intended……unintended consequences guys, or, “laws that do the opposite”.
Interesting. Reason why the left should worry about Chavez. Reason number 4.
CHAVEZ WANTS TO BECOME A WORLD BANK. Few causes have impassioned the left more in the last few decades than the foreign debt of underdeveloped nations, which is attributed to a conspiracy on the part of big banks and their government backers. Chávez is fast becoming a creditor to many Latin American nations by buying their sovereign bonds (which are issued only after he offers to buy them.). He has become an IMF and a World Bank onto himself. Argentina and Ecuador combined owe him a bit less than $2 billion so far.
Read the whole thing. I was at a party once of the basic Boulder County liberals and there was a woman there from Venezuela. Just for fun, someone brought up Mr. Chavez to get her take on him and his persecution from the US. She thinks he’s a loon too! It was one of those priceless moments.
Iraq News
Iraq the Model has news today. The permalink isn’t working, so I am taking the liberty of copying the whole post from Omar.
Curfew extended in Baghdad and thre other provinces.
Mosques attacked/shot at without damage: 21 not 51
Moderately damaged: 6 not 23
Mosques destroyed totally: 1 not 3
Civilians killed: 119 not 183
More from the press conference:
In the same press conference, the interior minister said “we are not going to show tolerance towards those who cause violence anymore, those who felt like doing something have done what they done but we will accept no more of this” obviously referring to those who let their anger push them to violence.
The defense minister added that they are working in the government on activating the counter-terrorism laws which includes “arresting anyone who’s found guilty of provoking violence”.
Posted by Omar @ 15:43
Life in Saudi Arabia
for a woman is hard to imagine.
After a women get’s questioned for being in a cassette shop and then questions the problem, the Religious policman clues her in:
She’s being a bit faux-naive, to make her point. It’s quite simple, it’s all about aisle width. The “cassette shops” (although we do actually have CD’s as well!) in the shopping mall have nice wide aisles, like the ones in the supermarket picture above. Men and women can pass without coming too close to each other. But the little “Mom and Pop” cassette shops, the ones with a sub-continent manager/cashier, and an absentee Saudi owner, are much more cramped. With aisles of one metre or less, you have to squeeze past other shoppers. So it’s a no-no for women, even Western women, they usually have signs saying “Men only”, and I’m surprised our reporter claims not to be aware of the issue.
Whatever happened to cat blogging?
Iraq the Model has a local scene too.
Captain Ed has the scoop on the Phillipines.
Civil War in Iraq
Is kind of supported by Ali of Iraq.
I’m not being pessimistic here nor have I gave up, on the contrary I’m still optimistic and I don’t see a limited civil war as that bad, as what would it mean? Destruction and killing on the identity? Sorry to say that that’s already happening but none of the real killers is showing his face. So let them do it and say it frankly and that, I believe, will relieve a lot of the tension. I always thought that a civil war was needed to clear this tension and I had this thought more than 15 years ago when I stopped being a Sunni and that gave me access to what both sides really think of each other and it was scary…
Scary. This guy, Ali, is the other Iraq the Model brother who went out on his own. One of the reasons he thinks civil war would be ok is because we’re there to keep things from getting out of control. Grrrrrrrrrr.
…. while if they don’t (listen to Sistani) then they may take Iraq into a civil war which is not that unlikely now to happen given the strong Iranian interference and support for those radical components among She’at. But is that really that disastrous? Maybe, but I tend to think it won’t be for many reasons. 1st such civil war will never be a full scale one with the American troops still in Iraq, so all that can happen is merely increasing the assassinations carried out by both radical Sunnis and She’at towards each other which may serve to expose those parties further more to everyone.
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Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome.
A case of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome involving marked enlargement of the upper lip, plicated tongue, and recurrent migraine headaches has been described. After growth of the lip had ceased, lip size was reduced by surgical intervention involving broad and deep wedge-shaped excision on the oral side. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5b62dfebcd169b97e9289e58067216e4628ae4ebb3cb5c3b5cf6122c06343c95'} |
The Mischievous Nancy Pelosi
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After an almost one month delay, Nancy Pelosi has decided to send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate so that they can begin a trial. Her purported reasoning for delay has been met with consistent and stern resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Constitution clearly states that the House has the sole power of impeachment and the Senate has sole power to try an impeachment. Although falling under the suggestion of Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe who originally floated the idea of delaying sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate in hopes of creating some kind of cloud over President Trump, the strategy backfired royally on three fronts.
First, the Democrats moved on impeachment under the guise of urgency. Trump’s alleged transgressions were so grievous, we were told, that impeachment was the only solution to saving the Republic. He had to be removed from office lest we allow our future Presidents to invite foreign influence in our elections. This is what the entire case against Trump boiled down to in the end- a phone call between Trump and the new president of Ukraine and some bizarre formulation of a quid pro quo. It did not matter that there was none; Trump was a threat to democracy and had to be removed. Through delay, under the most specious of arguments, Pelosi effectively took “urgency” off the table, despite her stated rationale and that of Laurence Tribe.
Second, polling has consistently showed that impeachment has fallen flat with voters. If anything, it has proven to many voters what Trump has been saying about Democrats all along- that they were out to get him since November 2016. To many, it seems petty and vindictive especially given the reasons here. This has nothing to do with p***y-grabbing statements, mischaracterizations of statements about Charlottesville, “Muslim bans,” or Trump’s undoing of the Obama agenda. This was personal between Trump and the Democrats and their radical base and to many, if polls are to believed, it was a turn-off, if not a turn-on in favor of Trump among fence-sitters.
Third, say what you want about Mitch McConnell (and there is much to dislike), but he knows the Senate rules and is highly protective of the Senate. Perhaps, Pelosi believed she could get some kind of concession from McConnell on the execution of a Senate trial, but McConnell held his ground and basically told her to take a hike. Instead, when she sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate along with their cadre of misfit floor managers, the trial will be strictly on terms dictated by Mitch McConnell. If this were a criminal trial, hopefully McConnell will rebalance the scales of due process.
However, whether by design or accident, perhaps there is another reason Pelosi delayed the process while hiding behind a facade of “impartiality” and “fairness” on the part of the Senate. An impeachment trial could take anywhere between 2-6 weeks. The trial of Bill Clinton- where the charges were more solid than those against Trump- took five weeks. Assuming a trial starts soon after the articles are presented to the Senate, that takes us somewhere near a final vote by the Senate well past the Iowa caucuses.
This also takes two Senators- Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders- off the campaign trail. Imagine both of them foregoing their Constitutional duty to sit in an impeachment trial and instead campaign in Iowa.
A Senate trial in the midst of a hotly contested Democrat nomination process effectively takes two of the three main combatants off the battlefield. Warren and Sanders would become exclusively Sunday campaigners since the Senate, including an impeachment trial, does not convene on Sundays. It should also be remembered that all Senate business ceases once an impeachment trial commences. This obviously benefits the other person in that nomination mix- Joe Biden.
Let’s face reality- any non-Senator running for the Democrats other than Biden is not going to win the nomination. A Senate trial would leave only Biden and Buttigieg campaigning in Iowa. Even Klobuchar and Booker (is he still in the race?) would have to spend weeks in Washington.
Pelosi’s strategy inadvertently works to the advantage of Joe Biden. Of course, Sanders and Warren can make grandstanding speeches from the floor of the Senate in a trial, but that cuts into the all-important face-to-face campaigning in a state like Iowa. Already, Elizabeth Warren is grumbling about being taken off the campaign trail for a trial likely to end in acquittal for Trump. One suspects Bernie Sanders is secretly cursing Nancy Pelosi right now. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9621040225028992}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '72015', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LU7CLKQEBHSV633ILX44C43ZFLFTTJNV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7e85959a-63e1-4fed-9de7-3f612efe6ce4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 5, 33, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.17.211', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JSI7FHF7UUP6W2ETVK27NQB45ZK7MFMP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ef3dcee7-79c9-4a9e-a5a1-8c3bd3ddd05d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://redstate.com/diary/davenj1/2020/01/12/the-mischievous-nancy-pelosi-n240882', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:529f39eb-e4de-4b12-931a-dff991e8ba76>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '742', 'url': 'https://redstate.com/diary/davenj1/2020/01/12/the-mischievous-nancy-pelosi-n240882', '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': '0.04350244998931885', 'original_id': '3b4281e305191a27bea82a438e23e3d14b51a0b702a230ad2e29afdadc7a34a1'} |
BattleCommand_Conversion2:
; conversion2
ld a, [wAttackMissed]
and a
jr nz, .failed
ld hl, wBattleMonType1
ldh a, [hBattleTurn]
and a
jr z, .got_type
ld hl, wEnemyMonType1
.got_type
ld a, BATTLE_VARS_LAST_COUNTER_MOVE_OPP
call GetBattleVar
and a
jr z, .failed
push hl
dec a
ld hl, Moves + MOVE_TYPE
call GetMoveAttr
ld d, a
pop hl
cp CURSE_TYPE
jr z, .failed
call AnimateCurrentMove
call BattleCommand_SwitchTurn
.loop
call BattleRandom
maskbits NUM_TYPES
cp UNUSED_TYPES
jr c, .okay
cp UNUSED_TYPES_END
jr c, .loop
cp TYPES_END
jr nc, .loop
.okay
ld [hli], a
ld [hld], a
push hl
ld a, BATTLE_VARS_MOVE_TYPE
call GetBattleVarAddr
push af
push hl
ld a, d
ld [hl], a
call BattleCheckTypeMatchup
pop hl
pop af
ld [hl], a
pop hl
ld a, [wTypeMatchup]
cp EFFECTIVE
jr nc, .loop
call BattleCommand_SwitchTurn
ld a, [hl]
ld [wNamedObjectIndexBuffer], a
predef GetTypeName
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Is it possible to have heroes in your party for the Underworld quests? If so, how many of your 8 party members is it practical to have be heroes in order to finish the quests?
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It is certainly an extremely difficult challenge, but it is possible to do it with one human player and 7 heroes, and here's a guide on how to do it: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/7h-underworld-guide-t10480563.html
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There are a few specific spots where having additional people would greatly help as heros can get overwhelmed quite easily. Also, having a few very specialized builds would greatly help. Namely, a obsidian flesh elementalist and a spellbreaker monk.
1. The Four Horsemen - the enemies comes as two split groups here, most teams send 1 obsidian flesh tank + SB monk handle one side while the team takes out the other half.
2. Escort of Souls - It helps a lot if one person triggers the quest while the rest of the party remains at the spawning point to kill enemies and clear the path. Otherwise, the souls will die.
3. Servants of Grenth - same thing as the Four Horsemen, two groups will spawn, one towards the king one towards the reaper and you must protect both.
There are a few other tips and tricks that a skilled UW quester should know, I haven't done this in a while and the last time I did the mission was with my guild. It is highly recommended you go in with at least one person who knows what they are doing. Even a proper UW run with a prepared team will take ~1.5 hours.
Short answer, the more knowledgeable human players you can get, the easier UW will be. It will be extremely hard to do with just heroes.
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If you have an obby, you're not going to need to split the Monk with him as long as he can dodge a bone spike worth a crap. 4H's Sig of Humility has almost no duration, and Obby is completely maintainable now (and extremely boring to play in UW, as there really isn't enough spell damage down there to kill you anyway). – Artless Mar 22 '12 at 0:08
I seem to recall that you cannot take Heroes into these areas. They will be removed from the team when you enter.
As for small team builds there are lots for farming the Underworld and Fissure of Woe, or doing chest runs.
Have a look through these, and check out the ones marked (UW) Underworld and (FoW) Fissure of Woe.
Also I would do a search on YouTube for some solo or two man team clears. Be sure to check the dates on the videos though, as some may be old and skills will have changed.
Henchmen cannot enter this area, but Heroes can.
So yes, it seems that you can build the small team builds using Heroes. As for the completion of the quests, I see no reason why you couldn't build an entire Hero team to tackle these zones.
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As I remember - there are some splits strongly recommended for some quests, so its pretty hard to do UW with heroes only.
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srijeda, 13. kolovoza 2014.
Split Tips
General information, tips and hints on Split by a local man:
1. Split is the second biggest city in Croatia.
2. Split is located on a peninsula and has the see on the south, north and east.
3. In the North of the city is the Industrial zone. The East side is coverd with a forest, and in the South are the beaches.
4. Split has its local forest on the East called "Marjan". No building alowed and a godd place for some quietly walk or run with the family or dog.
5. There are two main roads in Split. "Domovinskog Rata" street on the north and "Poljicka cesta" on the south. Both will lead you neer the center of the city, or to the city exit.
6. You can find small shops and a lot of fast food's across Split, so drink and food should't be a problem.
7. Talking bad about Hajduk club can get you in problems if the crowd around you are fans.
8. Using a Bus is more common in Split. Taxi is considered expensive in Split.
9. Free drinkable water taps can be found across Split.Dont drink if there is a "NO DRINKING SIGN".
10. Although throwing garbage in the trash can is a common courtesy, nobody will look at you with disrespect when you leave glass/plastic/ can bottles on the side. Bottles can be exchanged for money in Croatia, and are picked up by poor people.
11. Eating and drinking in the Split center is a lot expensive then the rest of the city. If you are on a strict buget, walk from the center to find a restaurant.
12. Parking in the city center is hard to find and also expensive. There is a lot of free parking places if you can find them.
13. Bublic drinking is tehnically aginst the law, but nobody cares. Having a beer/bottle of votka on a wall/park won't bring you problems.
14. Smoking in closed public areas is forbidden.A lot of bars and cafee bars will let you smoke but ask first.
15. Split shopkeepers and stand sellers don't like to Bargain. The price is mostly fixed, but buying multiple items can get you a discount if you ask.
-The most well known Sport teams are:
HNK Hajduk(Football) - Founded in 1911. One of the most succesfull football clubs in Croatia, having big financial problemsnow. Fans are called "Torcida" and are known in the supporter world. Plays on Stadion "Poljud".
RNK Split(Football) -founded in 1912. "The Hajduk's little brother" is not little any more, and is competing in the Croatian 1. League with Hajduk.Was in the 4.Croatina League in season 2007/2008 and made up to 1. League by season 2010/2011 (Yes... 4 years, 4 advancements).Plays at stadium "Park Mladezi"(translation: "Park of youth")
KK Split(Basketball)-Founded 1945. The pride of Split basketball. Now also in financial problems.It has a big european and national history.Plays at "Gripe".
RK Nada(Rugby) Founded 1959. (translation: "Hope"). The best rugby club in Croatia(Won the league last 12 years.) Plays at "Stari Plac".
Most known Sport People from Split(still alive):
Blanka Vlasic (High Jump Athlete)
Goran Ivanisevic (Tennis)
Toni Kukoc (Basketball)
Ivano Balic (Handball)
Slaven Bilic (Fotball manager)
Duje Draganja (Swimmer)
For more Split local advices check the folowing links:
BTW. Click on a add to support the writers.
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Night V. The Relapse.
Humbly inscribed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield.
1 Lorenzo! to recriminate is just.
2 Fondness for fame is avarice of air.
3 I grant the man is vain who writes for praise.
4 Praise no man e'er deserved, who sought no more.
5 As just thy second charge. I grant the Muse
6 Has often blush'd at her degenerate sons,
7 Retain'd by Sense to plead her filthy cause
8 To raise the low, to magnify the mean,
9 And subtilize the gross into refined:
10 As if to magic numbers' powerful charm
11 'T was given to make a civet of their song
12 Obscene, and sweeten ordure to perfume.
13 Wit, a true Pagan, deifies the brute,
14 And lifts our swine-enjoyments from the mire.
15 The fact notorious, nor obscure the cause.
16 We wear the chains of Pleasure and of Pride:
17 These share the man; and these distract him too;
18 Draw different ways, and clash in their commands.
19 Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars;
20 But Pleasure, lark-like, nests upon the ground.
21 Joys shared by brute-creation Pride resents,
22 Pleasure embraces. Man would both enjoy,
23 And both at once: a point how hard to gain!
24 But what can't Wit, when stung by strong desire?
25 Wit dares attempt this arduous enterprise.
26 Since joys of Sense can't rise to Reason's taste,
27 In subtle Sophistry's laborious forge
28 Wit hammers out a reason new, that stoops
29 To sordid scenes, and greets them with applause.
30 Wit calls the Graces the chaste zone to loose,
31 Nor less than a plump god to fill the bowl;
32 A thousand phantoms, and a thousand spells,
33 A thousand opiates scatters to delude,
34 To fascinate, inebriate, lay asleep,
35 And the fool'd mind delightfully confound.
36 Thus that which shock'd the Judgment, shocks no more;
37 That which gave Pride offence, no more offends.
38 Pleasure and Pride, by nature mortal foes,
39 At war eternal which in man shall reign,
40 By Wit's address, patch up a fatal peace,
41 And hand in hand lead on the rank debauch,
42 From rank refined to delicate and gay.
43 Art, cursed Art! wipes off the' indebted blush
44 From Nature's cheek, and bronzes every shame.
45 Man smiles in ruin, glories in his guilt,
46 And Infamy stands candidate for praise.
47 All writ by man in favour of the soul
48 These sensual ethics far in bulk transcend.
49 The flowers of eloquence profusely pour'd
50 O'er spotted Vice, fill half the letter'd world.
51 Can powers of genius exorcise their page,
52 And consecrate enormities with song?
53 But let not these inexpiable strains
54 Condemn the Muse that knows her dignity;
55 Nor meanly stops at Time, but holds the world
56 As 't is, in Nature's ample field, a point
57 A point in her esteem; from whence to start,
58 And run the round of universal space,
59 To visit being universal there,
60 And Being's Source, that utmost flight of mind!
61 Yet, spite of this so vast circumference,
62 Well knows, but what is moral, nought is great.
63 Sing sirens only? Do not angels sing?
64 There is in Poesy a decent pride,
65 Which well becomes her when she speaks to Prose,
66 Her younger sister; haply, not more wise.
67 Think'st thou, Lorenzo, to find pastimes here?
68 No guilty passion blown into a flame,
69 No foible flatter'd, dignity disgraced,
70 No fairy field of fiction, all on flower,
71 No rainbow colours here, or silken tale;
72 But solemn counsels, images of awe,
73 Truths which Eternity lets fall on man
74 With double weight, through these revolving spheres,
75 This death-deep silence, and incumbent shade:
76 Thoughts such as shall revisit your last hour;
77 Visit uncall'd, and live when life expires;
78 And thy dark pencil, Midnight, darker still
79 In melancholy dipp'd, embrowns the whole.
80 Yet this, e'en this, my laughter-loving friends!
81 Lorenzo, and thy brothers of the smile!
82 If what imports you most can most engage,
83 Shall steal your ear, and chain you to my song.
84 Or if you fail me, know, the wise shall taste
85 The truths I sing; the truths I sing shall feel;
86 And, feeling, give assent; and their assent
87 Is ample recompence; is more than praise.
88 But chiefly thine, O Lichfield! nor mistake:
89 Think not unintroduced I force my way;
90 Narcissa, not unknown, not unallied,
91 By virtue or by blood, illustrious youth,
92 To thee, from blooming amaranthine bowers,
93 Where all the language harmony, descends
94 Uncall'd, and asks admittance for the Muse;
95 A Muse that will not pain thee with thy praise;
96 Thy praise she drops, by nobler still inspired.
97 O Thou blest Spirit! whether the supreme,
98 Great antemundane Father! in whose breast
99 Embryo-creation, unborn being, dwelt,
100 And all its various revolutions roll'd
101 Present, though future, prior to themselves;
102 Whose breath can blow it into nought again;
103 Or from His throne some delegated Power,
104 Who, studious of our peace, dost turn the thought
105 From vain and vile to solid and sublime!
106 Unseen Thou lead'st me to delicious draughts
107 Of inspiration, from a purer stream,
108 And fuller of the God, than that which burst
109 From famed Castalia: nor is yet allay'd
110 My sacred thirst; though long my soul has ranged
111 Through pleasing paths of moral and Divine,
112 By Thee sustain'd, and lighted by the STARS.
113 By them best lighted are the paths of thought:
114 Nights are their days, their most illumined hours.
115 By day the soul, o'erborne by life's career,
116 Stunn'd by the din, and giddy with the glare,
117 Reels far from reason, jostled by the throng.
118 By day the soul is passive, all her thoughts
119 Imposed, precarious, broken, ere mature.
120 By night, from objects free, from passion cool,
121 Thoughts uncontroll'd and unimpress'd, the births
122 Of pure election, arbitrary range,
123 Not to the limits of one world confined,
124 But from ethereal travels light on earth,
125 As voyagers drop anchor, for repose.
126 Let Indians, and the gay, like Indians, fond
127 Of feather'd fopperies, the sun adore:
128 Darkness has more divinity for me:
129 It strikes thought inward; it drives back the soul
130 To settle on herself, our point supreme!
131 There lies our theatre; there sits our judge.
132 Darkness the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene;
133 'T is the kind hand of Providence stretch'd out
134 'Twixt man and vanity; 't is Reason's reign,
135 And Virtue's too; these tutelary shades
136 Are man's asylum from the tainted throng.
137 Night is the good man's friend, and guardian too;
138 It no less rescues Virtue than inspires.
139 Virtue for ever frail, as fair, below,
140 Her tender nature suffers in the crowd,
141 Nor touches on the world without a stain.
142 The world's infectious; few bring back at eve,
143 Immaculate, the manners of the morn.
144 Something we thought, is blotted; we resolved,
145 Is shaken; we renounced, returns again.
146 Each salutation may slide-in a sin
147 Unthought before, or fix a former flaw.
148 Nor is it strange; light, motion, concourse, noise,
149 All scatter us abroad; Thought, outward-bound,
150 Neglectful of our home-affairs, flies off
151 In fume and dissipation, quits her charge,
152 And leaves the breast unguarded to the foe.
153 Present example gets within our guard,
154 And acts with double force, by few repell'd.
155 Ambition fires ambition; love of gain
156 Strikes like a pestilence, from breast to breast;
157 Riot, pride, perfidy, blue vapours breathe;
158 And inhumanity is caught from man,
159 From smiling man! A slight, a single glance,
160 And shot at random, often has brought home
161 A sudden fever to the throbbing heart
162 Of envy, rancour, or impure desire.
163 We see, we hear, with peril; Safety dwells
164 Remote from multitude; the world's a school
165 Of wrong, and what proficients swarm around!
166 We must or imitate or disapprove;
167 Must list as their accomplices, or foes;
168 That stains our innocence, this wounds our peace.
169 From Nature's birth, hence, Wisdom has been smit
170 With sweet recess, and languish'd for the shade.
171 This sacred shade and solitude, what is it?
172 'T is the felt presence of the Deity.
173 Few are the faults we flatter when alone.
174 Vice sinks in her allurements, is ungilt,
175 And looks, like other objects, black by night:
176 By night an Atheist half-believes a God.
177 Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend;
178 The conscious Moon, through every distant age,
179 Has held a lamp to Wisdom, and let fall
180 On Contemplation's eye her purging ray.
181 The famed Athenian, he who woo'd from heaven
182 Philosophy the fair, to dwell with men,
183 And form their manners, not inflame their pride,
184 While o'er his head, as fearful to molest
185 His labouring mind, the stars in silence slide,
186 And seem all gazing on their future guest,
187 See him soliciting his ardent suit
188 In private audience: all the live-long night,
189 Rigid in thought, and motionless, he stands;
190 Nor quits his theme or posture till the sun
191 (Rude drunkard! rising rosy from the main)
192 Disturbs his nobler intellectual beam,
193 And gives him to the tumult of the world.
194 Hail, precious moments, stolen from the black waste
195 Of murder'd Time! auspicious Midnight, hail!
196 The world excluded, every passion hush'd,
197 And open'd a calm intercourse with Heaven,
198 Here the soul sits in council; ponders past,
199 Predestines future action; sees, not feels,
200 Tumultuous life, and reasons with the storm;
201 All her lies answers, and thinks down her charms.
202 What awful joy! what mental liberty!
203 I am not pent in darkness: rather say,
204 (If not too bold,) in darkness I'm embower'd.
205 Delightful gloom! the clustering thoughts around
206 Spontaneous rise, and blossom in the shade;
207 But droop by day, and sicken in the sun.
208 Thought borrows light elsewhere; from that flast fire,
209 Fountain of animation, whence descends
210 Urania, my celestial guest! who deigns
211 Nightly to visit me, so mean; and now,
212 Conscious how needful discipline to man,
213 From pleasing dalliance with the charms of Night,
214 My wandering thought recalls, to what excites
215 Far other beat of heart, Narcissa's tomb!
216 Or is it feeble Nature calls me back,
217 And breaks my spirit into grief again?
218 Is it a Stygian vapour in my blood,
219 A cold, slow puddle, creeping through my veins?
220 Or is it thus with all men? Thus with all.
221 What are we? how unequal! now we soar,
222 And now we sink. To be the same, transcends
223 Our present prowess. Dearly pays the soul
224 For lodging ill; too dearly rents her clay.
225 Reason, a baffled counsellor, but adds
226 The blush of weakness to the bane of woe.
227 The noblest spirit, fighting her hard fate
228 In this damp, dusky region, charged with storms,
229 But feebly flutters, yet untaught to fly;
230 Or, flying, short her flight, and sure her fall.
231 Our utmost strength, when down, to rise again;
232 And not to yield, though beaten, all our praise.
233 'T is vain to seek in men for more than man.
234 Though proud in promise, big in previous thought,
235 Experience damps our triumph. I, who late,
236 Emerging from the shadows of the grave,
237 Where Grief detain'd me prisoner, mounting high,
238 Threw wide the gates of everlasting day,
239 And call'd mankind to glory, shook off pain,
240 Mortality shook off, in ether pure,
241 And struck the stars; now feel my spirits fail:
242 They drop me from the zenith; down I rush,
243 Like him whom Fable fledged with waxen wings,
244 In sorrow drown'd but not in sorrow lost.
245 How wretched is the man who never mourn'd!
246 I dive for precious pearl in sorrow's stream:
247 Not so the thoughtless man that only grieves;
248 Takes all the torment, and rejects the gain,
249 (Inestimable gain!) and gives Heaven leave
250 To make him but more wretched, not more wise.
251 If wisdom is our lesson, (and what else
252 Ennobles man? what else have angels learnt?)
253 Grief, more proficients in thy school are made
254 Than Genius, or proud Learning, e'er could boast.
255 Voracious Learning, often over-fed,
256 Digests not into sense her motley meal.
257 This Book-case, with dark booty almost burst,
258 This forager on others' wisdom, leaves
259 Her native farm, her reason, quite untill'd.
260 With mix'd manure she surfeits the rank soil,
261 Dung'd, but not dress'd, and rich to beggary.
262 A pomp untameable of weeds prevails.
263 Her servant's wealth encumber'd Wisdom mourns.
264 And what says Genius? "Let the dull be wise."
265 Genius, too hard for right, can prove it wrong;
266 And loves to boast where blush men less inspired.
267 It pleads exemption from the laws of Sense;
268 Considers Reason as a leveller;
269 And scorns to share a blessing with the crowd;
270 That wise it could be, thinks an ample claim
271 To Glory, and to Pleasure gives the rest.
272 Crassus but sleeps, Ardelio is undone.
273 Wisdom less shudders at a fool than wit.
274 But Wisdom smiles when humbled mortals weep.
275 When Sorrow wounds the breast, as ploughs the glebe,
276 And hearts obdurate feel her softening shower;
277 Her seed celestial, then, glad Wisdom sows;
278 Her golden harvest triumphs in the soil.
279 If so, Narcissa! welcome my Relapse:
280 I'll raise a tax on my calamity,
281 And reap rich compensation from my pain.
282 I'll range the plenteous intellectual field;
283 And gather every thought of sovereign power,
284 To chase the moral maladies of man;
285 Thoughts which may bear transplanting to the skies,
286 Though natives of this coarse penurious soil;
287 Nor wholly wither there, where seraphs sing,
288 Refined, exalted, not annull'd, in heaven:
289 Reason, the sun that gives them birth, the same
290 In either clime, though more illustrious there.
291 These, choicely cull'd, and elegantly ranged,
292 Shall form a garland for Narcissa's tomb;
293 And, peradventure, of no fading flowers.
294 Say, on what themes shall puzzled choice descend?
295 "The"importance of contemplating the tomb;
296 Why men decline it; Suicide's foul birth;
297 The various kinds of Grief; the faults of Age;
298 And Death's dread character, " invite my song.
299 And, first, the' importance of our end survey'd.
300 Friends counsel quick dismission of our grief.
301 Mistaken kindness! our hearts heal too soon.
302 Are they more kind than He who struck the blow,
303 Who bid it do His errand in our hearts,
304 And banish peace, till nobler guests arrive,
305 And bring it back a true and endless peace?
306 Calamities are friends: as glaring day
307 Of these unnumber'd lustres robs our sight,
308 Prosperity puts out unnumber'd thoughts
309 Of import high, and light Divine, to man.
310 The man how bless'd, who, sick of gaudy scenes,
311 (Scenes apt to thrust between us and ourselves!)
312 Is led by choice to take his favourite walk
313 Beneath Death's gloomy, silent, cypress shades,
314 Unpierced by Vanity's fantastic ray;
315 To read his monuments, to weigh his dust,
316 Visit his vaults, and dwell among the tombs!
317 Lorenzo! read with me Narcissa's stone;
318 (Narcissa was thy favourite;) let us read
319 Her moral stone: few doctors preach so well;
320 Few orators so tenderly can touch
321 The feeling heart. What pathos in the date!
322 Apt words can strike; and yet in them we see
323 Faint images of what we here enjoy.
324 What cause have we to build on length of life?
325 Temptations seize when Fear is laid asleep,
326 And Ill foreboded is our strongest guard.
327 See, from her tomb, as from an humble shrine,
328 Truth, radiant goddess, sallies on my soul,
329 And puts Delusion's dusky train to flight;
330 Dispels the mists our sultry passions raise,
331 From objects low, terrestrial, and obscene;
332 And shows the real estimate of things,
333 Which no man, unafflicted, ever saw;
334 Pulls off the veil from Virtue's rising charms;
335 Detects Temptation in a thousand lies.
336 Truth bids me look on men as autumn leaves,
337 And all they bleed for as the summer's dust,
338 Driven by the whirlwind. Lighted by her beams,
339 I widen my horizon, gain new powers,
340 See things invisible, feel things remote,
341 Am present with futurities; think nought
342 To man so foreign as the joys possess'd,
343 Nought so much his as those beyond the grave.
344 No folly keeps its colour in her sight;
345 Pale worldly Wisdom loses all her charms;
346 In pompous promise from her schemes profound,
347 If future fate she plans, 't is all in leaves,
348 Like Sibyl, unsubstantial, fleeting bliss!
349 At the first blast it vanishes in air.
350 Not so celestial. Wouldst thou know, Lorenzo,
351 How differ worldly Wisdom and Divine?
352 Just as the waning and the waxing moon.
353 More empty worldly Wisdom every day,
354 And every day more fair her rival shines.
355 When later, there's less time to play the fool.
356 Soon our whole term for Wisdom is expired,
357 (Thou know'st she calls no council in the grave,)
358 And "everlasting fool"is writ in fire,
359 Or real Wisdom wafts us to the skies.
360 As worldly schemes resemble Sibyl's leaves,
361 The good man's days to Sibyl's books compare,
362 (En ancient story read, thou know'st the tale,)
363 In price still rising, as in number less;
364 Inestimable quite his final hour.
365 For that, who thrones can offer, offer thrones:
366 Insolvent worlds the purchase cannot pay.
367 "O let me die his death!"all Nature cries.
368 "Then live his life!" all Nature falters there.
369 Our great Physician daily to consult,
370 To commune with the Grave, our only cure.
371 What grave prescribes the best? A friend's; and yet
372 From a friend's grave how soon we disengage!
373 E'en to the dearest, as his marble, cold.
374 Why are friends ravish'd from us? 'T is to bind,
375 By soft Affection's ties, on human hearts,
376 The thought of death, which Reason, too supine,
377 Or misemploy'd, so rarely fastens there.
378 Nor Reason, nor Affection, no, nor both
379 Combined, can break the witchcrafts of the world.
380 Behold the' inexorable hour at hand!
381 Behold the' inexorable hour forgot!
382 And to forget it the chief aim of life,
383 Though well to ponder it is life's chief end.
384 Is Death, that ever threatening, ne'er remote,
385 That all-important, and that only sure,
386 (Come when he will,) an unexpected guest?
387 Nay, though invited by the loudest calls
388 Of blind Imprudence, unexpected still?
389 Though numerous messengers are sent before,
390 To warn his great arrival. What the cause,
391 The wondrous cause, of this mysterious ill?
392 All heaven looks down, astonish'd at the sight.
393 Is it, that Life has sown her joys so thick,
394 We can't thrust in a single care between?
395 Is it, that Life has such a swarm of cares,
396 The thought of death can't enter for the throng?
397 Is it, that Time steals on with downy feet,
398 Nor wakes Indulgence from her golden dream?
399 To-day is so like yesterday, it cheats;
400 We take the lying sister for the same.
401 Life glides away, Lorenzo, like a brook;
402 For ever changing, unperceived the change.
403 In the same brook none ever bathed him twice:
404 To the same life none ever twice awoke.
405 We call the brook the same; the same we think
406 Our life, though still more rapid in its flow;
407 Nor mark the much irrevocably lapsed,
408 And mingled with the sea. Or shall we say,
409 (Retaining still the brook to bear us on,)
410 That life is like a vessel on the stream?
411 In life embark'd, we smoothly down the tide
412 Of time descend, but not on time intent;
413 Amused, unconscious of the gliding wave;
414 Till on a sudden we perceive a shock;
415 We start, awake, look out; what see we there?
416 Our brittle bark is burst on Charon's shore.
417 Is this the cause Death flies all human thought?
418 Or is it Judgment by the Will struck blind,
419 (That domineering mistress of the soul,)
420 Like him so strong, by Delilah the fair?
421 Or is it Fear turns startled Reason back,
422 From looking down a precipice so steep?
423 'T is dreadful; and the dread is wisely placed,
424 By Nature, conscious of the make of man.
425 A dreadful friend it is, a terror kind,
426 A flaming sword to guard the tree of life.
427 By that unawed, in life's most smiling hour,
428 The good man would repine; would suffer joys,
429 And burn impatient for his promised skies.
430 The bad, on each punctilious pique of Pride,
431 Or gloom of Humour, would give Rage the rein,
432 Bound o'er the barrier, rush into the dark,
433 And mar the schemes of Providence below
434 What groan was that, Lorenzo? Furies! rise;
435 And drown, in your less execrable yell,
436 Britannia's shame. There took her gloomy flight,
437 On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul,
438 Blasted from hell, with horrid lust of death,
439 Thy friend, the brave, the gallant Altamont,
440 So call'd, so thought: and then he fled the field.
441 Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
442 O Britain, infamous for suicide!
443 An island in thy manners! far disjoin'd
444 From the whole world of rationals beside!
445 In ambient waves plunge thy polluted head,
446 Wash the dire stain, nor shock the Continent.
447 But thou be shock'd, while I detect the cause
448 Of Self-Assault, expose the monster's birth,
449 And bid Abhorrence hiss it round the world.
450 Blame not thy clime, nor chide the distant sun;
451 The sun is innocent, thy clime absolved:
452 Immoral climes kind Nature never made.
453 The cause I sing in Eden might prevail,
454 And proves it is thy folly, not thy fate.
455 The soul of man, (let man in homage bow,
456 Who names his soul,) a native of the skies,
457 High-born and free, her freedom should maintain,
458 Unsold, unmortgaged for Earth's little bribes.
459 The' illustrious stranger, in this foreign land,
460 Like strangers, jealous of her dignity,
461 Studious of home, and ardent to return,
462 Of Earth suspicious, Earth's enchanted cup
463 With cool reserve light touching, should indulge
464 On Immortality her godlike taste;
465 There take large draughts; make her chief banquet there.
466 But some reject this sustenance Divine;
467 To beggarly vile appetites descend;
468 Ask alms of Earth for guests that came from heaven;
469 Sink into slaves; and sell, for present hire,
470 Their rich reversion, and (what shares its fate)
471 Their native freedom, to the prince who sways
472 This nether world; and, when his payments fail,
473 When his foul basket gorges them no more,
474 Or their pall'd palates loathe the basket full,
475 Are instantly, with wild demoniac rage,
476 For breaking all the chains of Providence,
477 And bursting their confinement; though fast barr'd
478 By laws Divine and human; guarded strong
479 With horrors doubled to defend the pass
480 The blackest Nature or dire Guilt can raise;
481 And moated round with fathomless destruction,
482 Sure to receive and whelm them in their fall.
483 Such, Britons! is the cause, to you unknown,
484 Or worse, o'erlook'd; o'erlook'd by magistrates,
485 Thus criminals themselves. I grant the deed
486 Is madness; but the madness of the heart.
487 And what is that? Our utmost bound of guilt.
488 A sensual, unreflecting life is big
489 With monstrous births, and Suicide, to crown
490 The black infernal brood. The bold to break
491 Heaven's law supreme, and desperately rush
492 Through sacred Nature's murder on their own,
493 Because they never think of death, they die.
494 'T is equally man's duty, glory, gain,
495 At once to shun and meditate his end.
496 When by the bed of languishment we sit,
497 (The seat of wisdom! if our choice, not fate,)
498 Or o'er our dying friends in anguish hang,
499 Wipe the cold dew, or stay the sinking head,
500 Number their moments, and in every clock
501 Start at the voice of an eternity;
502 See the dim lamp of life just feebly lift
503 An agonizing beam, at us to gaze,
504 Then sink again, and quiver into death,
505 That most pathetic herald of our own:
506 How read we such sad scenes? as sent to man
507 In perfect vengeance? No; in pity sent,
508 To melt him down, like wax, and then impress,
509 Indelible, Death's image on his heart;
510 Bleeding for others, trembling for himself.
511 We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile:
512 The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry.
513 Our quick-returning folly cancels all;
514 As the tide rushing rases what is writ
515 In yielding sands, and smooths the letter'd shore.
516 Lorenzo! hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh,
517 Or studied the philosophy of tears?
518 (A science yet unlectured in our schools:)
519 Hast thou descended deep into the breast,
520 And seen their source? If not, descend with me,
521 And trace these briny rivulets to their springs.
522 Our funeral tears from different causes rise.
523 As if from separate cisterns in the soul,
524 Of various kinds, they flow. From tender hearts,
525 By soft contagion call'd, some burst at once,
526 And stream obsequious to the leading eye.
527 Some ask more time, by curious art distill'd.
528 Some hearts, in secret hard, unapt to melt,
529 Struck by the magic of the public eye,
530 Like Moses' smitten rock, gush out amain.
531 Some weep to share the fame of the deceased,
532 So high in merit, and to them so dear.
533 They dwell on praises which they think they share;
534 And thus, without a blush, commend themselves.
535 Some mourn in proof that something they could love;
536 They weep, not to relieve their grief, but show.
537 Some weep in perfect justice to the dead,
538 As conscious all their love is in arrear.
539 Some mischievously weep, not unapprized
540 Tears sometimes aid the conquest of an eye.
541 With what address the soft Ephesians draw
542 Their sable net-work o'er entangled hearts!
543 As seen through crystal, how their roses glow,
544 While liquid pearl runs trickling down their cheek!
545 Of hers not prouder Egypt's wanton queen,
546 Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love.
547 Some weep at Death, abstracted from the dead,
548 And celebrate, like Charles, their own decease.
549 By kind construction some are deem'd to weep,
550 Because a decent veil conceals their joy.
551 Some weep in earnest, and yet weep in vain;
552 As deep in indiscretion as in woe.
553 Passion, blind Passion, impotently pours
554 Tears that deserve more tears, while Reason sleeps,
555 Or gazes, like an idiot, unconcern'd,
556 Nor comprehends the meaning of the storm;
557 Knows not it speaks to her, and her alone.
558 Irrationals all sorrow are beneath,
559 That noble gift, that privilege of man!
560 From Sorrow's pang, the birth of endless joy.
561 But these are barren of that birth Divine:
562 They weep impetuous as the summer storm,
563 And full as short! The cruel grief soon tamed,
564 They make a pastime of the stingless tale;
565 Far as the deep-resounding knell, they spread
566 The dreadful news, and hardly feel it more:
567 No grain of wisdom pays them for their woe.
568 Half round the globe, the tears pump'd up by Death
569 Are spent in watering vanities of life;
570 In making Folly flourish still more fair.
571 When the sick soul, her wonted stay withdrawn,
572 Reclines on earth, and sorrows in the dust,
573 Instead of learning there her true support,
574 Though there thrown down her true support to learn,
575 Without Heaven's aid impatient to be bless'd,
576 She crawls to the next shrub or bramble vile,
577 Though from the stately cedar's arms she fell;
578 With stale, forsworn embraces clings anew,
579 The stranger weds, and blossoms, as before,
580 In all the fruitless fopperies of life;
581 Presents her weed, well fancied, at the ball,
582 And raffles for the death's-head on the ring.
583 So wept Aurelia, till the destined youth
584 Stepp'd in with his receipt for making smiles,
585 And blanching sables into bridal bloom.
586 So wept Lorenzo fair Clarissa's fate,
587 Who gave that angel boy on whom he dotes;
588 And died to give him, orphan'd in his birth!
589 Not such, Narcissa, my distress for thee;
590 I'll make an altar of thy sacred tomb,
591 To sacrifice to Wisdom. What wast thou?
592 "Young, gay, and fortunate!"Each yields a theme:
593 I'll dwell on each, to shun thought more severe;
594 (Heaven knows I labour with severer still!)
595 I'll dwell on each, and quite exhaust thy death.
596 A soul without reflection, like a pile
597 Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
598 And, first, thy youth: what says it to grey hairs?
599 Narcissa, I'm become thy pupil now.
600 Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew,
601 She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
602 Time on this head has snow'd, yet still 't is borne
603 Aloft, nor thinks but on another's grave.
604 Cover'd with shame I speak it, Age severe
605 Old worn-out Vice sets down for Virtue fair;
606 With graceless gravity chastising Youth,
607 That Youth chastised surpassing in a fault,
608 Father of all, forgetfulness of Death!
609 As if, like objects pressing on the sight,
610 Death had advanced too near us to be seen;
611 Or, that life's loan Time ripen'd into right,
612 And men might plead prescription from the grave;
613 Deathless, from repetition of reprieve.
614 Deathless? far from it! such are dead already;
615 Their hearts are buried; and the world their grave.
616 Tell me, some god! my guardian angel, tell,
617 What thus infatuates? what enchantment plants
618 The phantom of an age 'twixt us and Death
619 Already at the door? He knocks; we hear him,
620 And yet we will not hear. What mail defends
621 Our untouch'd hearts? What miracle turns off
622 The pointed thought, which from a thousand quivers
623 Is daily darted, and is daily shunn'd?
624 We stand, as in a battle, throngs on throngs
625 Around us falling; wounded oft ourselves;
626 Though bleeding with our wounds, immortal still!
627 We see Time's furrows on another's brow,
628 And Death, intrench'd, preparing his assault:
629 How few themselves in that just mirror see!
630 Or, seeing, draw their inference as strong!
631 There Death is certain; doubtful here: he must,
632 And soon we may, within an age expire.
633 Though grey our heads, our thoughts and aims are green;
634 Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent;
635 Folly sings six, while Nature points at twelve.
636 Absurd longevity! "More, more,"it cries:
637 More life, more wealth, more trash of every kind.
638 And wherefore mad for more, when relish fails?
639 Object and Appetite must club for joy.
640 Shall Folly labour hard to mend the bow,
641 (Baubles I mean, that strike us from without,)
642 While Nature is relaxing every string?
643 Ask Thought for joy; grow rich, and hoard within.
644 Think you the soul, when this life's rattles cease,
645 Has nothing of more manly to succeed?
646 Contract the taste immortal; learn e'en now
647 To relish what alone subsists hereafter.
648 Divine or none, henceforth, your joys for ever.
649 Of age the glory is, to wish to die;
650 That wish is praise and promise; it applauds
651 Past life, and promises our future bliss.
652 What weakness see not children in their sires?
653 Grand-climacterical absurdities!
654 Grey-hair'd authority to faults of youth,
655 How shocking! it makes Folly thrice a fool;
656 And our first childhood might our last despise.
657 Peace and esteem is all that age can hope.
658 Nothing but wisdom gives the first; the last,
659 Nothing but the repute of being wise.
660 Folly bars both: our age is quite undone.
661 What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows,
662 Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
663 No wish should loiter, then, this side the grave.
664 Our hearts should leave the world before the knell
665 Calls for our carcasses to mend the soil.
666 Enough to live in tempest, die in port.
667 Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat
668 Defects of judgment, and the will's subdue;
669 Walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore
670 Of that vast ocean it must sail so soon,
671 And put good works on board, and wait the wind
672 That shortly blows us into worlds unknown;
673 If unconsider'd too, a dreadful scene!
674 All should be prophets to themselves; foresee
675 Their future fate; their future fate foretaste:
676 This art would waste the bitterness of death.
677 The thought of death alone the fear destroys.
678 A disaffection to that precious thought
679 Is more than midnight darkness on the soul,
680 Which sleeps beneath it, on a precipice,
681 Puff'd off by the first blast, and lost for ever.
682 Dost ask, Lorenzo, why so warmly press'd,
683 By repetition hammer'd on thine ear,
684 The thought of Death? That thought is the machine,
685 The grand machine that heaves us from the dust,
686 And rears us into men! That thought plied home
687 Will soon reduce the ghastly precipice
688 O'erhanging hell, will soften the descent,
689 And gently slope our passage to the grave.
690 How warmly to be wish'd! What heart of flesh
691 Would trifle with tremendous, dare extremes,
692 Yawn o'er the fate of infinite? What hand,
693 Beyond the blackest brand of censure bold,
694 (To speak a language too well known to thee,)
695 Would at a moment give its all to chance,
696 And stamp the die for an eternity?
697 Aid me, Narcissa! aid me to keep pace
698 With Destiny; and ere her scissors cut
699 My thread of life, to break this tougher thread
700 Of moral death, that ties me to the world.
701 Sting thou my slumbering Reason to send forth
702 A thought of observation on the foe;
703 To sally, and survey the rapid march
704 Of his ten thousand messengers to man;
705 Who, Jehu-like, behind him turns them all.
706 All accident apart, by Nature sign'd,
707 My warrant is gone out, though dormant yet;
708 Perhaps behind one moment lurks my fate.
709 Must I then forward only look for Death?
710 Backward I turn mine eye, and find him there.
711 Man is a self-survivor every year.
712 Man, like a stream, is in perpetual flow.
713 Death's a destroyer of quotidian prey.
714 My youth, my noon-tide, his; my yesterday;
715 The bold invader shares the present hour.
716 Each moment on the former shuts the grave.
717 While man is growing, life is in decrease,
718 And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
719 Our birth is nothing but our death begun;
720 As tapers waste that instant they take fire.
721 Shall we then fear lest that should come to pass,
722 Which comes to pass each moment of our lives?
723 If fear we must, let that death turn us pale
724 Which murders strength and ardour; what remains
725 Should rather call on Death, than dread his call.
726 Ye partners of my fault and my decline!
727 Thoughtless of death, but when your neighbour's knell
728 (Rude visitant!) knocks hard at your dull sense,
729 And with its thunder scarce obtains your ear!
730 Be death your theme in every place and hour;
731 Nor longer want, ye monumental sires,
732 A brother-tomb to tell you, you shall die.
733 That death you dread, (so great is Nature's skill!)
734 Know, you shall court, before you shall enjoy.
735 But you are learn'd; in volumes deep you sit,
736 In wisdom shallow. Pompous ignorance!
737 Would you be still more learned than the learn'd?
738 Learn well to know how much need not be known,
739 And what that knowledge which impairs your sense.
740 Our needful knowledge, like our needful food,
741 Unhedged, lies open in life's common field,
742 And bids all welcome to the vital feast.
743 You scorn what lies before you in the page
744 Of Nature and Experience, moral truth,
745 Of indispensable, eternal fruit;
746 Fruit on which mortals, feeding, turn to gods,
747 And dive in science for distinguish'd names,
748 Dishonest fomentation of your pride,
749 Sinking in virtue as you rise in fame.
750 Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords
751 Light, but not heat; it leaves you undevout,
752 Frozen at heart, while speculation shines.
753 Awake, ye curious indagators, fond
754 Of knowing all, but what avails you known.
755 If you would learn Death's character, attend.
756 All casts of conduct, all degrees of health,
757 All dies of fortune, and all dates of age,
758 Together shook in his impartial urn,
759 Come forth at random; or, if choice is made,
760 The choice is quite sarcastic, and insults
761 All bold conjecture and fond hopes of man.
762 What countless multitudes not only leave
763 But deeply disappoint us by their deaths!
764 Though great our sorrow, greater our surprise.
765 Like other tyrants, Death delights to smite
766 What, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power
767 And arbitrary nod. His joy supreme,
768 To bid the wretch survive the fortunate;
769 The feeble wrap the' athletic in his shroud;
770 And weeping fathers build their children's tomb:
771 Me thine, Narcissa! What, though short thy date?
772 Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures.
773 That life is long which answers life's great end.
774 The time that bears no fruit deserves no name.
775 The man of wisdom is the man of years.
776 In hoary youth Methuselahs may die;
777 O how misdated on their flattering tombs!
778 Narcissa's youth has lectured me thus far.
779 And can her gaiety give counsel too?
780 That, like the Jews' famed oracle of gems,
781 Sparkles instruction; such as throws new light,
782 And opens more the character of Death,
783 Ill known to thee, Lorenzo! This thy vaunt:
784 "Give death his due, the wretched and the old;
785 E'en let him sweep his rubbish to the grave:
786 Let him not violate kind Nature's laws,
787 But own man born to live, as well as die"
788 Wretched and old thou givest him: young and gay
789 He takes; and plunder is a tyrant's joy.
790 What if I prove, "The farthest from the fear
791 Are often nearest to the stroke of Fate?"
792 All more than common, menaces an end.
793 A blaze betokens brevity of life:
794 As if bright embers should emit a flame,
795 Glad spirits sparkled from Narcissa's eye,
796 And made youth younger, and taught life to live.
797 As Nature's opposites wage endless war,
798 For this offence, as treason to the deep
799 Inviolable stupor of his reign,
800 Where Lust and turbulent Ambition sleep,
801 Death took swift vengeance. As he life detests,
802 More life is still more odious; and, reduced
803 By conquest, aggrandizes more his power.
804 But wherefore aggrandized? By Heaven's decree,
805 To plant the soul on her eternal guard,
806 In awful expectation of our end.
807 Thus runs Death's dread commission: "Strike, but so
808 As most alarms the living by the dead."
809 Hence stratagem delights him, and surprise,
810 And cruel sport with man's securities.
811 Not simple conquest, triumph is his aim;
812 And where least fear'd, there conquest triumphs most.
813 This proves my bold assertion not too bold.
814 What are his arts to lay our fears asleep?
815 Tiberian arts his purposes wrap up
816 In deep dissimulation's darkest night.
817 Like princes unconfess'd in foreign courts,
818 Who travel under cover, Death assumes
819 The name and look of Life, and dwells among us;
820 He takes all shapes that serve his black designs;
821 Though master of a wider empire far
822 Than that o'er which the Roman eagle flew,
823 Like Nero, he's a fiddler, charioteer;
824 Or drives his phaeton in female guise;
825 Quite unsuspected, till, the wheel beneath,
826 His disarray'd oblation he devours.
827 He most affects the forms least like himself,
828 His slender self: hence burly corpulence
829 Is his familiar wear, and sleek disguise.
830 Behind the rosy bloom he loves to lurk,
831 Or ambush in a smile; or, wanton, dive
832 In dimples deep: Love's eddies, which draw-in
833 Unwary hearts, and sink them in despair.
834 Such on Narcissa's couch he loiter'd long
835 Unknown, and, when detected, still was seen
836 To smile: such peace has Innocence in death!
837 Most happy they whom least his arts deceive!
838 One eye on Death, and one full fix'd on Heaven,
839 Becomes a mortal and immortal man.
840 Long on his wiles a piqued and jealous spy,
841 I've seen, or dreamt I saw, the tyrant dress,
842 Lay by his horrors, and put on his smiles.
843 Say, Muse, for thou remember'st, call it back;
844 And show Lorenzo the surprising scene:
845 If 'twas a dream, his genius can explain.
846 'T was in a circle of the gay I stood:
847 Death would have enter'd; Nature push'd him back;
848 Supported by a Doctor of renown,
849 His point he gain'd; then artfully dismiss'd
850 The sage, for Death design'd to be conceal'd.
851 He gave an old vivacious usurer
852 His meagre aspect, and his naked bones;
853 In gratitude for plumping up his prey,
854 A pamper'd spendthrift, whose fantastic air,
855 Well-fashion'd figure, and cockaded brow,
856 He took in change, and underneath the pride
857 Of costly linen tuck'd his filthy shroud.
858 His crooked bow he straighten'd to a cane,
859 And hid his deadly shafts in Myra's eye.
860 The dreadful masquerader, thus equipp'd,
861 Out-sallies on adventures. Ask you where?
862 Where is he not? For his peculiar haunts
863 Let this suffice: Sure as night follows day,
864 Death treads in Pleasure's footsteps round the world,
865 When Pleasure treads the paths which Reason shuns.
866 When against Reason Riot shuts the door,
867 And Gaiety supplies the place of Sense,
868 Then foremost, at the banquet and the ball,
869 Death leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die:
870 Nor ever fails the midnight bowl to crown.
871 Gaily carousing to his gay compeers,
872 Inly he laughs to see them laugh at him,
873 As absent far; and when the revel burns,
874 When Fear is banish'd, and triumphant Thought,
875 Calling for all the joys beneath the moon,
876 Against him turns the key, and bids him sup
877 With their progenitors, he drops his mask,
878 Frowns out at full; they start, despair, expire.
879 Scarce with more sudden terror and surprise
880 From his black mask of nitre, touch'd by fire,
881 He bursts, expands, roars, blazes, and devours.
882 And is not this triumphant treachery,
883 And more than simple conquest, in the fiend?
884 And now, Lorenzo, dost thou wrap thy soul
885 In soft security, because unknown
886 Which moment is commission'd to destroy?
887 In Death's uncertainty thy danger lies.
888 Is Death uncertain? Therefore thou be fix'd,
889 Fix'd as a sentinel, all eye, all ear,
890 All expectation of the coming foe.
891 Rouse, stand in arms, nor lean against thy spear,
892 Lest slumber steal one moment o'er thy soul,
893 And Fate surprise thee nodding. Watch, be strong:
894 Thus give each day the merit and renown
895 Of dying well, though doom'd but once to die.
896 Nor let life's period hidden (as from most)
897 Hide, too, from thee the precious use of life.
898 Early, not sudden, was Narcissa's fate:
899 Soon, not surprising, Death his visit paid:
900 Her Thought went forth to meet him on his way,
901 Nor Gaiety forgot it was to die;
902 Though Fortune, too, (our third and final theme,)
903 As an accomplice, play'd her gaudy plumes,
904 And every glittering gewgaw, on her sight,
905 To dazzle and debauch it from its mark.
906 Death's dreadful advent is the mark of man,
907 And every thought that misses it is blind.
908 Fortune, with Youth and Gaiety, conspired
909 To weave a triple wreath of happiness
910 (If happiness on earth) to crown her brow.
911 And could Death charge through such a shining shield?
912 That shining shield invites the tyrant's spear,
913 As if to damp our elevated aims,
914 And strongly preach humility to man.
915 O how portentous is prosperity!
916 How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines!
917 Few years but yield us proof of Death's ambition,
918 To cull his victims from the fairest fold,
919 And sheathe his shafts in all the pride of life.
920 When flooded with abundance, purpled o'er
921 With recent honours, bloom'd with every bliss,
922 Set up in ostentation, made the gaze,
923 The gaudy centre, of the public eye;
924 When Fortune thus has toss'd her child in air,
925 Snatch'd from the covert of an humble state,
926 How often have I seen him dropp'd at once,
927 Our morning's envy, and our evening's sigh!
928 As if her bounties were the signal given,
929 The flowery wreath, to mark the sacrifice,
930 And call Death's arrows on the destined prey!
931 High Fortune seems in cruel league with Fate.
932 Ask you for what? To give his war on man
933 The deeper dread, and more illustrious spoil;
934 Thus to keep daring mortals more in awe.
935 And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime
936 Of life? to hang his airy nest on high,
937 On the slight timber of the topmost bough,
938 Rock'd at each breeze, and menacing a fall?
939 Granting grim Death at equal distance there,
940 Yet peace begins just where ambition ends.
941 What makes man wretched? happiness denied?
942 Lorenzo! no: 't is Happiness disdain'd.
943 She comes too meanly dress'd to win our smile,
944 And calls herself Content, a homely name:
945 Our flame is Transport, and Content our scorn.
946 Ambition turns, and shuts the door against her,
947 And weds a Toil, a Tempest, in her stead;
948 A Tempest, to warm Transport near of kin.
949 Unknowing what our mortal state admits
950 Life's modest joys we ruin while we raise,
951 And all our ecstasies are wounds to peace;
952 Peace, the full portion of mankind below.
953 And since thy peace is dear, ambitious youth!
954 Of Fortune fond, as thoughtless of thy fate!
955 As late I drew Death's picture, to stir up
956 Thy wholesome fears; now, drawn in contrast, see
957 Gay Fortune's, thy vain hopes to reprimand.
958 See, high in air the sportive goddess hangs,
959 Unlocks her casket, spreads her glittering ware,
960 And calls the giddy winds to puff abroad
961 Her random bounties o'er the gaping throng.
962 All rush rapacious, friends o'er trodden friends,
963 Sons o'er their fathers, subjects o'er their kings,
964 Priests o'er their gods, and lovers o'er the fair,
965 (Still more adored,) to snatch the golden shower.
966 Gold glitters most where Virtue shines no more,
967 As stars from absent suns have leave to shine.
968 O what a precious pack of votaries,
969 Unkennell'd from the prisons and the stews,
970 Pour in, all opening in their Idol's praise!
971 All, ardent, eye each wafture of her hand,
972 And, wide-expanding their voracious jaws
973 Morsel on morsel swallow down unchew'd,
974 Untasted, through mad appetite for more;
975 Gorged to the throat, yet lean and ravenous still;
976 Sagacious all to trace the smallest game,
977 And bold to seize the greatest. If (blest chance!)
978 Court-zephyrs sweetly breathe, they launch, they fly
979 O'er just, o'er sacred, all forbidden ground,
980 Drunk with the burning scent of place or power,
981 Staunch to the foot of Lucre, till they die.
982 Or, if for men you take them, as I mark
983 Their manners, thou their various fates survey.
984 With aim mismeasured and impetuous speed,
985 Some, darting, strike their ardent wish far off,
986 Through fury to possess it: some succeed,
987 But stumble, and let fall the taken prize.
988 From some, by sudden blasts, 't is whirl'd away,
989 And lodged in bosoms that ne'er dream'd of gain.
990 To some it sticks so close, that, when torn off,
991 Torn is the man, and mortal is the wound.
992 Some, o'er-enamour'd of their bags, run mad,
993 Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
994 Together some (unhappy rivals!) seize,
995 And rend abundance into poverty.
996 Loud croaks the raven of the law, and smiles:
997 Smiles too the goddess; but smiles most at those
998 (fust victims of exorbitant desire!)
999 Who perish at their own request, and, whelm'd
1000 Beneath her load of lavish grants, expire.
1001 Fortune is famous for her numbers skin:
1002 The number small which happiness can bear.
1003 Though various for a while their fates, at last
1004 One curse involves them all: at Death's approach,
1005 All read their riches backward into loss,
1006 And mourn in just proportion to their store.
1007 And Death's approach (if orthodox my song)
1008 Is hasten'd by the lure of Fortune's smiles.
1009 And art thou still a glutton of bright gold?
1010 And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin?
1011 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow;
1012 A blow which, while it executes, alarms,
1013 And startles thousands with a single fall.
1014 As when some stately growth of oak, or pine,
1015 Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,
1016 The sun's defiance and the flock's defence,
1017 By the strong strokes of labouring hinds subdued,
1018 Loud groans her last, and, rushing from her height,
1019 In cumbrous ruin thunders to the ground;
1020 The conscious forest trembles at the shock,
1021 And hill, and stream, and distant dale resound.
1022 These high-aim'd darts of Death, and these alone,
1023 Should I collect, my quiver would be full;
1024 A quiver which, suspended in mid air,
1025 Or near Heaven's Archer, in the zodiac, hung,
1026 (So could it be,) should draw the public eye,
1027 The gaze and contemplation of mankind;
1028 A constellation awful, yet benign,
1029 To guide the gay through life's tempestuous wave;
1030 Nor suffer them to strike the common rock,
1031 "From greater danger to grow more secure,
1032 And, wrapp'd in happiness, forget their fate."
1033 Lysander, happy past the common lot,
1034 Was warn'd of danger, but too gay to fear.
1035 He woo'd the fair Aspasia; she was kind:
1036 In youth, form, fortune, fame, they both were bless'd:
1037 All who knew envied, yet in envy loved:
1038 Can Fancy form more finish'd happiness?
1039 Fix'd was the nuptial hour. Her stately dome
1040 Rose on the sounding beach. The glittering spires
1041 Float in the wave, and break against the shore:
1042 So break those glittering shadows, human joys!
1043 The faithless morning smiled; he takes his leave,
1044 To re-embrace, in ecstasies, at eve.
1045 The rising storm forbids. The news arrives;
1046 Untold she saw it in her servant's eye.
1047 She felt it seen; (her heart was apt to feel;)
1048 And, drown'd without the furious ocean's aid,
1049 In suffocating sorrows, shares his tomb.
1050 Now round the sumptuous bridal monument
1051 The guilty billows innocently roar;
1052 And the rough sailor, passing, drops a tear.
1053 A tear! can tears suffice? but not for me.
1054 How vain our efforts! and our arts how vain!
1055 The distant train of thought I took, to shun,
1056 Has thrown me on, my fate. These died together;
1057 Happy in ruin! undivorced by death!
1058 Or ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
1059 Narcissa! Pity bleeds at thought of thee;
1060 Yet thou wast only near me; not myself.
1061 Survive myself? That cures all other woe.
1062 Narcissa lives; Philander is forgot.
1063 O the soft commerce! O the tender ties,
1064 Close twisted with the fibres of the heart!
1065 Which, broken, break them, and drain off the soul
1066 Of human joy, and make it pain to live.
1067 And is it then to live? When such friends part,
1068 Tis the survivor dies. My heart! no more.
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Title (in Source Edition): [The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality.] Night V. The Relapse.
Author: Edward Young
Themes: philosophical enquiry; death
Genres: blank verse; meditation; graveyard school
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In fairly short order, the fr unit has become one of my favorite parts of the CSS Grid specification. If you’re not familiar, Robin Rendle wrote an excellent introduction last year; unsurprisingly, Rachel Andrew has been talking about it for ages. In short, fr is a near-magical value that lets us quickly address the remaining space in a grid area.
A quick example! I have one! Let’s say I wanted to create a layout that has a fixed-width column on the left, and a flexible column that expands off to the right. Well, that’s a matter of writing something like this:
.region { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 175px 1fr; }
If we were to translate grid-template-columns: 175px 1fr to English, we’ve created a 175px -wide column on the left of our region element, followed by a column that’s as wide as the remaining space.
Neat, right? Here’s another example from Robin: we can use fr to quickly create a set of 12 flexible columns right next to a fixed-width element, like so:
.region { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 250px repeat( 12, 1fr ); }
Here, we’ve created a 250px -wide column, followed by 12 other colums that perfectly divide the available space that remains.
Heck, I’m using fr on this little website. If you opened up Firefox’s Layout inspector, you’d see grid lines that look something like this:
The grid lines that control the layout for my website. (View full image.)
That layout’s powered by this bit of CSS:
.page-content { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr repeat( 12, minmax( 1em, 5.208333333rem ) ) 1fr; grid-column-gap: 0.75%; }
This sorely needs a refactor (like most of my site) but: I’ve created a twelve-column region in the center of my design, which is where most of the content is laid out. But that region is bracketed by two 1fr -wide columns on each side, which would—in theory! I’m not currently using it!—allow me to have full-bleed layouts, like so:
A hypothetical layout on my website, aligning a figure to both edges of the browser window. (View full image.)
Each of these layouts are all achievable with no muss, no fuss, and with no complex math—all thanks to fr .
But hey, just to be clear, you can still do complicated layout calculations! (And sometimes, you’ll have to.) For one recent example, I’d recommend Dan Webb’s walkthrough of how he created a complex, irregular responsive layout in CSS Grid. In it, he offers a clear, detailed breakdown of how he produced Jennie Lewis’ complex layout, and the decisions he made along the way. It’s great stuff.
There’s been a bit of discussion recently about using CSS Grid for responsive layouts, with some folks opining fairly authoritatively about How CSS Grid Is Changing Responsive Design. And the thing I’ve admired most about this discussion is how little consensus there is among those takes—how varied everyone’s perspectives are. In other words, CSS Grid is changing everyone’s responsive practices in subtly different ways.
—so! How’s CSS Grid changing responsive design for me, you might ask?
(…I realize you probably didn’t ask this. Sorry.)
Well, I’m speaking just for myself here, but I can say the underlying ingredients for a responsive layout haven’t changed much for me: I’m still creating flexible, grid-based layouts, dropping in flexible images and media, and then adapting those flexible layouts with media queries. But! How I create each of those three things is different than it was a few months ago, much less a few years ago. And I’m sure the more I learn about Grid, the more my practice might change over time. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a780e9846f699ec1b151f4c40c7e99e43fdf4476cb57b55bfdeb14188b4aa948'} |
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - December 13, 2016) - Moleculin Biotech, Inc., (NASDAQ: MBRX) ("Moleculin" or the "Company"), a preclinical pharmaceutical company focused on the development of anti-cancer drug candidates, many of which are based on license agreements with The University of Texas System on behalf of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, today announced its scientific presentation at the 28th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. Waldemar Priebe, PhD, Moleculin's Founder, Founding Scientist, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board presented the Abstract on November 30th at the Symposium in Munich, Germany.
Wally Klemp, Chairman and CEO stated, "This presentation shows proof of concept data for our WP1122 portfolio, including data demonstrating increased survival of animals with human brain tumors treated with WP1122, as well as its biodistribution and pharmacokinetics. In non-optimal doses and treatment regimens, our lead inhibitor WP1122 performed equal to or better than the current market leader, cytotoxic drug temozolomide and significantly improved survival in animals treated with WP1122 in combination with temozolomide."
The following is an overview of the presentation, titled "Latentiation of 2-deoxy-D-glucose". No curative therapy exists for patients with high-grade malignant gliomas (GBMs). New approaches to the treatment of this disease are currently being evaluated with mixed results. One approach, that deserves to be therapeutically exploited, is targeting brain tumor metabolism. 2-Deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), a known effective inhibitor of glycolysis, has been clinically tested but results did not meet expectations due to poor drug-like characteristics and inability to achieve therapeutic concentrations of 2-DG in the brain.
Dr. Waldemar Priebe stated, "We proposed to use latentiation of 2-DG to overcome this problem by chemically modifying biologically active 2-DG to form prodrugs with increased brain uptake that will be able to liberate in vivo the parent compound 2-DG in the brain. In our approach, we synthesized a series of differentially acetylated derivatives of 2-DG. Preliminary in vivo studies in mice of selected diacetates of 2-DG demonstrated >9 fold increased levels of 2-DG in the brain when compared with levels of 2-DG after administration of equimolar amount of 2-DG itself. Ultimately, our studies focused on a single compound 3,6-di-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-D-glucose (WP1122)."
Compound WP1122 was administered in vivo without toxic death up to the highest feasible dose of 3.0 g/kg intravenously and orally up to 6.0 g/kg. Significantly increased survival, comparable to or better than that of temozolomide, was observed for orally administered WP1122 in a U87 orthotopic glioma model at a dose of 1.25 g/kg. These promising results prompted continuation of preclinical toxicology evaluation of WP1122 aimed at the initiation of formal IND enabling studies. In addition, the proof of concept delivered by WP1122 has provided not only an effective approach to develop novel agents able to effectively cross the blood brain barrier but also a method to create a new class of dual function prodrugs by exploring biologically active acids.
Moleculin Biotech, Inc. is a preclinical pharmaceutical company focused on the development of anti-cancer drug candidates, some of which are based on discoveries made at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Our lead product candidate is Annamycin, a Phase II clinical stage anthracycline for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, more commonly referred to as AML. We also have two pre-clinical small molecule portfolios, one of which is focused on the modulation of hard-to-target tumor cell signaling mechanisms and recruitment of the patient's own immune system, the other targeting tumor specific metabolism.
Some of the statements in this release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, the ability to achieve future promising results of preclinical toxicology evaluation of WP1122 sufficient to initiate formal IND enabling studies and the acceptance of the patent application filed. These statements relate to future events, future expectations, plans and prospects. Although Moleculin Biotech believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Moleculin Biotech has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "projects," "intends," "potential," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should," "approximately" or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2016, as amended (Registration No. 333-209323). Any forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of its date. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '94d917f277d79a8dce85a390bb9b9f2bc860392c7b7fa159ab513e1bbce81040'} |
Former Dundalk FC striker Pat Hoban has been released by newly promoted League One side Oxford Utd.
The Galway native joined the club after helping Dundalk to their first league title in 19 years in 2014. Hoban was the top scorer in that campaign with 20 league goals but his time in England did not go as well.
He struggled for both game time and goals with Oxford and after a falling out with manager Michael Appleton at the turn of the year was shipped out on loan to Stevenage Borough before ending the campaign at Grimsby, where he was largely second fiddle to another former League of Ireland star, Padraig Amond.
Grimsby did manage to secure promotion back to the Football League next season but it remains to be seen whether they or any other English clubs will be interested in his services or whether a return to the League of Ireland could be on the cards.
Dundalk boss Stephen Kenny has already ruled out a move for the former Mervue Utd man. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '765554999f32a2a2805b3efd91b93a0c1919203ca845167d0ab1e8fcee36b06c'} |
[The COMBELL project. Analysis of the medical clinical competence].
The most frequent tests for evaluate medical education in Spain, do not analyze clinical competence. The aims of this project was to introduce a method for the assessment of clinical skills using the simulation methodology with standardized patients. All 83 first-year medical residents were evaluated. Three evaluation exercises were used in all study. The first was 10 standardized patients encounters, the second was 100 multiple choice questions, and the third 60 clinical images. Sixty-four last year medical students were evaluated using the same 10 standardized patients. The global mean score for the residents was 56.7% for all the encounters, and was lower in physical examination and patients notes. The global mean score for the students was 57.1% and was also lower in physical examination. We did not find correlations between clinical competence assessment, multiple choice-questions, MIR exam and clinical images. Our results show that: this assessment method was successful; the clinical competence levels of our residents and students, and the lack of statistical correlation between this method and other methods, which, basically analyze cognitive capacities. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e2fc8e472fa28d1ea73839e020060c389a6c7237fb43302906b5e5895f109f6e'} |
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Due to the performance difference between production-based sports cars and purpose-built sports prototypes, one race usually involves several racing classes, each fighting for their own championship.Drivers edit Most of the works drivers of the 1950s were amateurs, paid little or nothing, reimbursed their expenses and given bonuses for winning (although there were certainly exceptions, such as the Grand Prix drivers who were brought in for some events).The sport soon blossomed in Southern California, and quickly spread around the world.In Europe, the Monte Carlo Rally, the French and Austrian Alpines, and the Liège were joined by a host of new events that quickly established themselves as classics: the Lisbon Rally (Portugal, 1947 the Tulip Rally (the Netherlands, 1949 the Rally to the Midnight Sun."The Perfect Racecar." Popular Science 268.4 (2006 50-51.5 Because it was held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally.A large proportion of professional racing drivers began in karts, often from a very young age, such as Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso.In the 1930s, helped by the tough winters, it became the premier European rally, attracting 300 or more participants.20 One participant had been Prince Henry of Austria, who was inspired to do better, so he enlisted the aid of the Imperial Automobile Club of Germany to create the first Prinz Heinrich Fahrt (Prince Henry Trial) in 1908.Hamilton 1987 p 30 Fangio, Juan Manuel, with Carozzo, Roberto.The only modern equipment used is related to safety and timing.The first was the Gran Premio del Norte of 1940, run from Buenos Aires to Lima and back; it was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a much modified Chevrolet coupé.
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America's toddlers are currently our biggest losers. Recent federal data shows a dramatic 43 percent drop in obesity rates among 2- to 5-year-old children during the past decade. But don't break out the celebratory cupcakes just yet. America still has a major weight problem, and now, it turns out, there are different types of belly fat to worry about -- one of which you can't even see. The distinction is important.
Subcutaneous fat refers to the visible, pinch-able fat beneath (sub) the skin (cutaneous). It may be thicker in some places than others, but for the most part subcutaneous fat is evenly distributed all over your body.
Visceral fat is even more dangerous. This deadly fat wraps around the organs deep in your abdomen, spiking your risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and metabolic syndrome. You can't see or pinch visceral fat, and it's often associated with a large waist.
The good news is you can start blasting belly fat -- both types -- today, with these five healthy habits I discovered while researching my newest book about calorie-cutting and food swaps, Eat It To Beat It!:
1. Swap Your Cup(s) O Joe for Green Tea
Sipping on green tea throughout the morning has been shown to help whittle your waist, but too much coffee has the opposite effect. What makes green tea so waist friendly are compounds called catechins, belly-fat crusaders that blast adipose tissue by revving the metabolism, increasing the release of fat from fat cells (particularly in the belly), and then speeding up the liver's fat burning capacity. In a recent study, participants who combined a daily habit of 4-5 cups of green tea each day with a 25-minute sweat session (you're already doing that part, right>) lost two more pounds than the non tea-drinking exercisers. Meanwhile, a research team in Washington found that the same amount of coffee (5+ cups/day) doubled visceral belly fat.
2. Snack on Popcorn
I'm not suggesting a movie theater binge, but without the butter and excess salt, popcorn can be an apple-shaped snacker's best friend. At only 30 calories, a cup of popped kernels provides over 9 grams of whole grains -- a dietary staple of people with the littlest middles. A Tufts University study found that participants who ate three or more servings of whole grains (oats, quinoa, brown rice, wheat) had 10 percent less belly fat than people who ate the same amount of calories from refined carbs (white stuff: bread, rice, pasta). Further research is required to figure out exactly why this is the case, but the hypothesis is it has to do with the high fiber and slow-burn properties of whole grains. When it comes to diet, being unrefined is a good thing!
3. Sprinkle Pepper on Your Meals
Meet Piperine, the fat blasting ninja! A powerful compound found in black pepper, piperine has been used for centuries in Eastern medicine to treat multiple health conditions including inflammation and tummy troubles. But recent animal studies have found that piperine may also have the profound ability to reduce inflammation and interfere with the formation of new fat cells -- a reaction known as adipogenesis, resulting in a decrease in waist size, body fat, and cholesterol levels. More pepper, please!
4. Swap Cooking Grease for Coconut Oil
If you haven't yet tried coconut oil, stop what you're doing right now, grab a pen, and add it to the top of your grocery list: virgin coconut oil. Studies suggest that just two tablespoons of the stuff each day can shrink your waist faster than your favorite Zumba class. What makes coconut oil superior to other fats is its medium chain triglycerides. Unlike the long-chain fatty acids found in animal sources of saturated fat, coconut oil doesn't seem to raise your cholesterol and is more likely to be burned as energy than stored as blubber. Its high smoke point makes it great for just about every dish, from eggs to stir-frys, and a perfect substitute for butter when baking (you could even try some on your popcorn for a double dose of belly blasting goodness).
5. Indulge in Dark Chocolate
It's every chocoholic's dream: Research now shows that eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate can reduce overall body fat and shrink the waist. A study among women with normal weight obesity who ate a Mediterranean diet that included two servings of dark chocolate each day showed a significant reduction in waist size than when on a cocoa-free meal plan. Researchers say it has to do with the flavonoids, heart-healthy compounds in chocolate that have important antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Just be sure you're reaching for a bar with at least 70 percent cacao, and stay away from the "alkalized" stuff, which has a significantly reduced flavonoid content.
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Reserve Army Of The Hungry
SNAP participation. (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
I have returned from the 3rd annual Modern Monetary Theory conference, and I am now catching up on things. One of the observations that stuck with me was some comments about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) made by the presenter Maggie Dickinson. She noted that the welfare state did not contract completely since the 1980s, as some components have grown, with SNAP being an example of growth. While thinking about this, I realised that the rise in food assistance (such as SNAP, as well as food banks, which have grown in importance in the other "anglo" countries at least) helps explain the breakdown in employment statistics as an indicator.
Noting that the unemployment rate is "broken" as an indicator as a result of the changing structure of the labour market is not particularly novel. For example, Bill Mitchell's academic work has documented the structural changes in employment policies in the OECD since the early 1990s, and the rise of "underemployment." (Bill Mitchell is one of the founders of MMT, and I was on a panel with at the conference.) My concern is somewhat more stark: employment status as a whole has become somewhat meaningless as an indicator.
(Note: the panels are available on video at:
I will first discuss some of the more "technocratic" implications of my thinking first, then dip into political economic ramblings.
Is a Job at Starvation Level Wages a Job?
In the industrialised countries in the post-war era, providing workers with the resources to allow for "food security" was not considered that big a deal. Hunger was an issue for the jobless. Although I am not an expert on the Soviet system, I believe that even the 1980s Soviet Union managed to feed its workers (a major concern was that they were dipping too much into the vodka rations).
Courtesy of the economic policies provided by a highly educated economist class, this is no longer the case. We now have people who are employed, yet need to lean on assistance -- either from charities, or governments -- to get adequate nutrition. Meanwhile, I am unaware of any collapse in productivity in the agricultural sector that could explain this shift.
The question is straightforward: does it matter what the official unemployment numbers are if the people who are working are dependent upon food aid? If we look at the chart at the top of the article (unfortunately, no time for formatting), we can see the explosion of SNAP recipients in response to the Financial Crisis, and the slow rate of decay. (I did not have time to better present the data, but by comparison, the official number of unemployed on the U-3 measure is currently bouncing around 6 million people.)
It seems straightforward that if workers as a class had bargaining power -- which is what the monetary policy hawks have been warning against since 2010 -- SNAP participation would have fallen a lot faster.
As a result. it is no surprise that forecasts of rising inflation based on NAIRU estimates would fail. My concern is that it is unclear that even the underemployment indicators will become misleading in this environment.
No Indicator, 'Mo Problems
Why do we care about this breakdown as an indicator from a technical point of view? We want to forecast the wage inflation rate, based on the plausible argument that higher wages might eventually feed through into consumer price inflation (which is the usual definition of "inflation" that people use).
(As a disclaimer, there is a gap between wage inflation and CPI inflation, and rising wages may just represent an income share shift towards workers. However, it is hard to see how rapid wage rises can be sustained without rising consumer prices. [Thanks to Jerry Brown for spotting typo.] )
We want to be able to forecast wage increases. We typically look at some form of capacity utilisation measure -- like the unemployment rate -- to try to make such a forecast. However, if those measures break down, we have a hard time to measure the "pressures" in the labour market. We have to infer the level of utilisation by looking at wage inflation. That is, we are trying to forecast wage inflation by looking at -- wage inflation.
Luckily, I am not in the forecasting business, so the circularity of that logic is not my problem.
How "Inefficient" is the Job Guarantee?
I will now turn to some political economy issues. I will first start with an argument about the Job Guarantee, that I have seen advanced by Simon Wren-Lewis. Since I do not have a reference handy, I will just paraphrase his argument here.
The argument is that the number of people in the Job Guarantee (the "JG rate") will be higher than the number of unemployed people "all else equal" when we have inflation stability. The premise is based on search theory, that people find unemployment more unattractive than a JG job. As a result, it will take greater wages to coax them out of the JG programme. If we assume that something like NAIRU exists, we need a greater number of JG workers to get the same anti-inflationary effect as a pool of unemployed.
I always had technical complaints about Wren-Lewis' argument. However, my thinking about this SNAP data is causing me to go internet Austrian, on top of my technical concerns.
Under current institutional arrangements, the presumption that private employment is efficient is misguided. We have employers who are incapable of paying their workers a starvation level wage, and this is obviously unsustainable. However, charities and government assistance are bailing them out. These firms are destroying capital, and are undermining the profitability of legitimate firms. Euthanising these firms will raise domestic productivity. A Job Guarantee that pays a living wage will accomplish exactly that, whereas the "reserve army of the unemployed" strategy preferred by neoclassicals leaves those firms in place.
I have some doubts that there are no flaws in this logic. However, it underlines the shakiness of "all else equal" arguments when we are attempting to make structural changes to economic institutions.
(c) Brian Romanchuk 2019
1. " However, it is hard to see how rapid wage rises cannot be sustained without rising consumer prices."
Should that be 'can be sustained'?
2. Welcome back to Blogsville after your MMT conference hiatus.
The SNAP data opens a window into a puzzling question: In a world where we must eat to live, do workers, when working, merely eat to a better standard?
I guess we could extend the thought to miles driven, kind of car used, and housing. Hmmm, maybe working primarily relates to daily living standards?
3. Thanks Brian. This is an interesting inquiry - really a bit of a different look at SNAP, correlating or connecting those data to the unemployment underemployment numbers. It will take me longer to think about your thesis than your other readers.
one thing that has bothered me is that as I recall, the unemployment rate calculations were redesigned (?) during the (I think) Obama administration. I think the real unemployment rate after including those who had simply given up (excluded from the official (now modified) unemployment rate) was 4-7% higher. Perhaps this is captured with the SNAP recipient count.
and one more thought: there are about 15+ other nutrition programs across 3 federal agencies. I would expect a similar trend line in those programs.
Thanks again!
1. The only thing I can think of during the Obama administration was that states changed the rules for unemployment insurance. This caused the amount of jobless claims to collapse to unprecedented lows.
Earlier, there were changes made, possibly in the Clinton admin, if not in the 1970s or early 1980s. Working from memory, the choice of which unemployment rate is the “headline” number was switched.
To explain, there are multiple definitions of unemployment, ranging from U-1 to at least U-6. (Working from memory, there...) The “headline” is U-3, which is somewhat strict. The term “headline” refers to the fact that it is the number that is used for “unemployment rate” in the BLS news release, and how it is reported. It does not capture things like underemployment (working part time, but want full time), but underemployment shows up in U-6. U-6 did give a more realistic picture than U-3, but my argument here is that it might be missing some key changes to the economic structure.
4. No one picked up on my question "In a world where we must eat to live, do workers, when working, merely eat to a better standard?" so I will see where I can take it.
First, the scene. In Brian's chart SNAP is reported in terms of unadjusted population. SNAP currently takes the form of a debit card that can be used to purchase food, thereby extending the food budget of eligible recipients. For 2018, the average SNAP benefit was $126 per person per month. The program targets low income persons but includes working persons.
A federal government program, the payments were larger than possible if the program was limited by tax receipts. The surplus benefits were funded by borrowing without intention to reduce future debt or by outright creation of money.
With scene set, what does this SNAP data say about unemployment?
Not much in my opinion. The data speaks more to expected standards of nutrition compared to income received no matter what the source of income.
Who benefits from this program? The most direct benefits go to recipients. Next in line: food producers and purveyors. Farther down the line: all other producers, vendors and sales tax collectors. Last in line: Long term savers (individuals, pension funds) who delay spending until they have need for the newly created money.
SNAP spending into the economy should increase the number of jobs available but nothing is said about what wage levels might be. In all probability, some of the jobs that are held (maybe part time) by SNAP beneficiaries would be due to the SNAP program itself.
Brian mentions the MMT Job Guarantee program with better paying jobs for participants. Presumably these JG jobs would include a pay rate that would make SNAP benefits unnecessary for participants. I can't help but wonder what JG workers will be doing. Would they displace present low income workers or compete with them by spending more newly created money in the market place?
It would be nice if the SNAP program was not needed as a result of work related income that was more evenly distributed. That said, many of the SNAP recipients cannot work for some reason. An even distribution of work related income would not be an instant solution.
I will end this by saying: I really don't see much relationship between SNAP numbers, unemployment numbers, and the MMT JG program.
1. Roger, most descriptions of the Job Guarantee rely on wages for the work to be set at some socially determined standard of decency rather than being determined by 'the labor market'. Hopefully society would set a standard that allowed wages to be adequate to feed and house and clothe oneself if you are working.
Brian has pointed out that some current private sector jobs do not even pay enough for that minimal decency. And that those employers are, in a real sense, being subsidized by society through our various social programs, without which, the employee would not be able to maintain even that minimal standard. And this allows their employer to be more competitive because of the lesser labor costs. And undermines the ability of firms that pay decent wages to stay in business.
One way of understanding the Job Guarantee is to consider the wage paid as the de facto minimum wage plus the opportunity to always have work at that wage if desired. Hopefully it would compete with crap jobs that don't pay enough to support oneself and drive their wages up.
2. Not sure how to answer. My argument is that we ended up in a situation where being employed is not a meaningful indicator for well-being. This is very different than it was in the 1950s-1980s, where the conservative mantra was that getting a job (and getting married) was the best anti-poverty programme. Now, you can get a job and still be living in poverty. This greatly changes the bargaining position of workers, and hence the breakdown of NAIRU.
In an ideal world, the JG wage would be a living wage, and return the situation closer to that earlier era. However, a JG has not been enacted, so it is far too early to speculate on what the level of the wage will be.
3. It may be too early to speculate what level of wage of the JG would be if we ever even got something like it into actual policy, but it is not too early to think about the range of wages that would allow it to fulfil the economic purposes that MMT says it will. I mean it seems to me that there is some range of wage levels that would enable a JG to act as a buffer stock of labor that might modify inflationary tendencies like MMT says it will. And that there could be wage levels that were either too high to do that because the private sector could not entice people out of the program, or too low that people would ever use the program in the first place.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
What if time was money ?
"Time is money" they say. But what if it really was ? Imagine that instead of Euros we earned the Hours we worked. What would happen ? Let's explore this idea.
Well, first of all most inequalities would be gone. One hour of work would simply be worth one Hour of money. No matter what work you do, it all has the same value, which is the amount of time that you into put in. Interestingly there are only 24 hours in a day, so noone could possibily earn more than 24 Hours per day (there you go, a natural limit for the maximum income).
Now, let's see what else could happen. Today, most of the money circulating is created by banks through debts (with all the negative consequences that has, if you are interested in knowing more, check out this documentary). Imagine that there is no organism that can issue Hours, but that Hours can solely be created through work. So you work 3 Hours and « puff », 3 Hours are introduced into the system and they belong to you. It's not government or banks who have the power : it's just us and our ability to work.
This means that the whole power structure of employer and employee crumbles at once. Let me explain. What happens today is that you look for a job so you can earn money. However, for someone to hire you, that person (or company) needs to own a lot of money, or to have borrowed it from a bank. So you are dependend of those who 1) have accumulated wealth, or 2) have borrowed tons of money (and thus are in fact paying you with debt). In this new Hour system however, your employer does not give you Hours in exchange for your work. You create the Hours through your work (i.e. as you work, new Hours are introduced into the system and they belong to you).
What does this mean ? That anyone can hire anyone for any kind of task ! (without the need to have accumulated wealth first) Which means : an abundance of work (there are so many things that can be done today, but are not being done for the lack of money). Which means : gone is unemployment (and probably also gone are the majority of crimes). Which means : gone is also slavery. Cause, if there are so many tasks that you can choose from in order to earn some Hours, you will think twice before doing a job that is degrading, that exploits you, or harms others and society. All those things we accept to do today in fear of loosing our precious income are gone : cause income we can generate by doing any work we choose! And work is in abundance !
It sounds crazy doesn't it? But I like it !:)
PS : I am very curious about your reactions. I feel like I have stepped into some kind of "mind-trap" and thus can't see a "very obvious problem" with this Hour system. Sure, it's not a thought through system. It's just a crazy idea which I hope points towards new possibilities. It's an idea for discussion. :)
Monday, April 16, 2012
A crisis of willingness
Serving the economy
When money was first invented it probably was a great invention. It facilitated transactions and perhaps it even enabled wealth distribution. In other words: money served us. Today our monetary system has grown into a capricious monster with a life own called the economy. The economy needs to be well-fed and taken care of, otherwise beware of divine wrath!... When upset, the economy first growls to spread fear and make everyone serve it even harder. When that is not enough it just launches an attack and swallows people...
Today money doesn't serve us, we serve it. We are enslaved to economy.
A crisis made out of thin air
Today the economy is growling again and has started swallowing people as well. It's crisis. If we take distance from the economy for a moment however we will see that the most essential things that build our world have not changed.
• Did food production suddenly drop drastically so that many need to die from hunger? NO. In fact there is enough food being produced today on the planet to provide everyone with a 2700 kcal diet per day [1]. Hunger and malnutrition are unnecessary.
• Did the world population suddenly drop so that there are now not enough people to work and create the food and comforts that we all so cherish? NO. On the contrary many are unemployed.
• Did the physical and digital infrastructures that we have suddenly collapse? NO. The world has never been as connected as it is today! Never has it been as easy to share information, ideas and resources.
What does this mean? It means that in principle we have all the infrastructure, natural resources and manpower necessary to keep everyone happy on this planet.
So what is this crisis really about? The only crisis I see is a crisis of willingness. The willingness to open our eyes and see that today we can abandon the old paradigm and build a better world. The willingness to put our differences aside, unite as humanity and create those conditions that will allow the maximum amount of people to live healthy, comfortable and happy lives.
Open your eyes: We can abandon slavery and build a better world.
Friday, January 20, 2012
The voices in my head
I sat down to meditate a few days ago, trying to silence my mind. However, thought kept arising and I took a moment to observe them.
I realized that there are several types of thoughts or voices. Each voice has its own character. There is:
The (micro-)manager: Constantly telling me about the things that I should do. "You still have to do this.", "Oh, do not forget to do that too.". "When you open your computer, don't forget to send an email to X, and don't forget to mention that ....." etc, etc, etc. Making a to-do-list shuts her up usually. But sometimes she just goes on, and on, and on....
The DJ: This one loves playing music! This usually is fun, unless of course she is playing an annoying song. Or unless I want to meditate! ;)
The VJ: This one loves playing back scenes and conversations from my life. Unfortunately she quiet often shows me those parts that make me feel insecure and/or ashamed. When I am lucky, she shows me fleeting images of beautiful moment. Then other times she also plays back neutral scenes for no apparent reason.
The blogger: Whenever I have an insight or follow a trail of thought, this voice translates everything into words. She loves describing my thoughts and experiences in a way that will allow me to share them. She is also quiet obsessed with finding the right words and often rephrases... Persistently she keeps on repeating her "wonderful" phrases until I write them down (which I am doing now). PS: I think she is rather vain and has some issues with her mortality.
The simpleton: This voice makes me laugh! When all the other voices have been silenced this one pops-up and says something like: "I am sitting!", "I am here!" or "I am!". She loves stating the obvious! I guess she likes to affirm her existence.
The lunatic (or: the politician): I sometimes hear her talking right before I fall asleep. She always seems to be talking about something mightily interesting and oh, so intellectual! She talks of things that are beyond me and her beautiful, impressive words flow like a waterfall. However, whenever I try to zoom-in and understand what she is saying she stops! As a result I never know what she is talking about, but I suspect that her speech has no true substance.
The observer: Of course there must be someone experiencing all of this, listening to all these thoughts. I call her the observer. Usually she is the one acknowledging feelings and listening to the voices.
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Approximately 0.1% of graduates in of Iowa receive fashion degrees every year.
Thus, Iowa's 5 fashion schools put out approximately 112 fashion professionals each year.
Top Schools
The top-ranked school in Iowa that has a fashion program is Iowa State University. Iowa State University, which was ranked 60th in the country in 2010, is located in Ames.
In 2010, Iowa State University graduated 97 students from its fashion program.
Iowa State University charged in-state students $6,997 in tuition fees per year.
The second-ranked school in Iowa that has a fashion program is Des Moines Area Community College. Des Moines Area Community College, which was ranked 80th in the country in 2010, is located in Ankeny.
In 2010, Des Moines Area Community College graduated 11 students from its fashion program.
Des Moines Area Community College charged in-state students $3,750 in tuition fees per year.
Ellsworth Community College, which is located in Iowa Falls, is the third-ranked school in Iowa that has a fashion program. It received a ranking of 83rd in the country in 2010.
In 2010, Ellsworth Community College graduated 1 students from its fashion programs.
The tuition rate at Ellsworth Community College was $3,816 per year.
Cost
If you choose to attend a Iowa fashion school, average tuition will be $4,384 per year. However, tuition at your particular institution may range from $3,540 per year to $6,997 per year.
The Iowa fashion schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
Iowa State University - located in Ames, students are charged $6,997 per year
Ellsworth Community College - located in Iowa Falls, students are charged $3,816 per year
Marshalltown Community College - located in Marshalltown, students are charged $3,816 per year
The following Iowa fashion schools had the lowest tuition rates:
Kirkwood Community College - located in Cedar Rapids, students are charged $3,540 per year
Des Moines Area Community College - located in Ankeny, students are charged $3,750 per year
Ellsworth Community College - located in Iowa Falls, students are charged $3,816 per year
A fashion degree from an Iowa school... what next?
Many Iowa fashion graduates become a merchadiser, fashion magazine editor, photographer, sales associate, and pattern designer.
In 2010, there were 50,420 fashion professional working in Iowa, including 1,500 marketing managers, 970 merchadisers, and 1,360 fashion magazine editors.
The Iowa counties with the largest populations of fashion professional are:
Dallas County - 11,280 fashion professionals
Scott County - 6,630 fashion professionals
Appanoose County - 6,170 fashion professionals
Projected Growth
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts by 2018, an estimated 60,670 fashion professionals will be working in Iowa. This would require the number of fashion professional to grow by 7%.
Salary
On average, fashion professionals earn $45,843 per year.
In 2010, however, some Iowa fashion professional earned as little as less than $15,700 per year or as much as more than $163,210 per year.
The counties in Iowa with the highest average salary for fashion professionals are:
Woodbury County - $55,860 per year
Scott County - $54,835 per year
Dallas County - $53,904 per year
The Iowa counties with the lowest average salary for fashion professionals are:
Allamakee County - $40,140 per year
Appanoose County - $42,168 per year
Adair County - $43,103 per year
The fashion professionals with highest average salaries in Iowa were:
Marketing Manager - $96,570 per year
Fashion Magazine Editor - $50,460 per year
Merchadiser - $44,900 per year
The fashion professionals with lowest average salaries in Iowa were:
Photographer - $25,930 per year
Sales Associate - $25,280 per year
More Information
Take a look at the graphs and charts below for additional Iowa statistics regarding a career in fashion and to compare salaries with a variety of related fields such as fashion or fashion design.
Here are the different levels of study available for you to explore.
Associate's Degree in Fashion in Iowa
Bachelor's Degree in Fashion in Iowa
Certificate in Fashion in Iowa
Want to study at your own time and pace?
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Engaging History Lesson: The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln first shared with his entire cabinet a draft of what would become the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862. His plan received a mixed reception among his advisers given the dire times in which the administration faced. When teaching about the Emancipation Proclamation, the dynamics surrounding the processes leading up to the enactment of the executive decision can be harnessed to make relevant an engaging history lesson.
Everyone back then thought that way
We all have at least one. We all have a pet fallacy that, despite wide acceptance, in nonetheless false, wrong and downright dumb if you think about it. For me, the proposition that an entire population perceived some monolithic understanding of any issue ranks second highest among my several peeves relating to history. However, the teaching of history in such a way as to promote this form of decidedly poor thinking has a place of contempt all its own in my collection. History lessons always provide opportunities for training students how to think better and the Emancipation Proclamation offers a particularly fertile topic for this purpose.
Risks and rewards
The Emancipation Proclamation was treated by multiple reactions from all quarters at the time it became known. The closest response to a single mindset was from the Slave States, but the viewpoints between border states not in secession and those in revolt were certainly different for obvious reasons.
In the Northern States, there was no shortage of white supremacists even among the ranks of abolitionists. The may not have approved of slavery, but they did not accept any concept of racial equality. While the Emancipation Proclamation did not bestow equality, it was seen by some as a venture into troublesome territory where blacks might presume future elevation in status.
So what factors led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Leading students to understand three influencing components, two political and one military, effectively promotes higher learning on a topic not well comprehended by many adults.
Political risks
The fall of 1862 was not only a time of military concerns, but of political calculations. The mid-term elections loomed roughly six weeks ahead of the preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. Many of Lincoln’s advisers and fellow Republicans feared that a perceived shift in the war’s focus from preserving the Union to a precursory move to end slavery might cost Republicans seats and possibly control in Congress. The main threat came from those who were openly talking of a negotiated peace with those states in rebellion, a negotiation based in part with guarantees of the continuation of slavery.
Until the slaughter at Antietam, nearly equal to that of the Confederate victory of Second Bull Run earlier that summer, but fought over three days, the general public had not seen such horrific loss of life in a single day. Also before Antietam, Union victories were relatively scarce, though most of the blood-letting had been done on Southern soil.
One of Lee’s main objectives for invading the North was to expose the civilian population to having war fought on their doorsteps. Despite having his plans thwarted in Northern Maryland, a border state due only to to Lincoln’s constitutionally questionable occupation of the state’s capital and major cities, the populous state of Pennsylvania’s citizenry fully realized the proximity of warfare which would come the following year. These political risks were weighed by Lincoln in light of several likely political scenarios.
In the event of significant losses in the mid-term election of November, the peace advocates might bring to a close the military action against the states in rebellion. Perhaps as a hedge against this very real possibility, Lincoln avoided the issue of freeing slaves in the border states or in those areas of the South already under Union control. The weighing by students in both moral and political terms is a promising point of discussion by students. They come face to face with the exact problems Lincoln faced when deciding on whether or not to issue his now famous proclamation.
Foreign recognition
A critical goal of the Confederacy was to secure diplomatic recognition by one or more European nations, Great Britain in particular. To that end, Southern influence had already won a small, but significant political victory over the North by England’s declaration of neutrality concerning the Union’s blockade of Southern ports. In what would later prove to be a disastrous decision, the South withheld its cotton from export in 1861 in hopes of hastening recognition by Great Britain, the major consumer of American cotton.
Though powerful forces in Great Britain were intent upon official recognition of the Confederacy, anti-slavery sentiment would never allow government to recognize a nation inextricably tied to the institution of slavery, a practice the English had abolished decades earlier. Though Great Britain continued to provide material aid to the South, the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation effectively countered all serious diplomatic hopes of the South.
The military value of declaring slaves free
Against the uncertain political climate of late summer 1862, Lincoln recognized that every slave’s toil on behalf of those supporting the uprising equated to the availability of men for Lee’s forces. Denying the South of its major source of labor would tip the balance forevermore back to the North which enjoyed industrial and manpower superiority over the Confederacy. It was Lincoln’s fervent hope that word of the Emancipation would result in a growing exodus into the Union lines of newly freed slaves from the South. In teaching about this anticipated benefit – that never materialized to any significant degree – allowing students to brainstorm the reasons why Southern slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation did not flee in great numbers affords a powerful means for student to support reasoning with factual evidence.
Converging on an independent interpretation
I’m quite a fan of the jigsaw method of teaching a broad or complex topic or unit. Given the ample number of perspectives, intended goals and conflicting responses towards the Emancipation Proclamation, the jigsaw method seems highly appropriate.
As one of many appropriate combination of topic groupings, divide students into a half-dozen groups of four or five members each. I recommend that three of these groups cover the two political and one military consideration of the document as described previously. For the remaining three groups, focus on responses from such perspectives as that of Frederick Douglass, border states, and of course, the viewpoints among the states then in rebellion.
Each group should begin by reading the actual text of the Emancipation Proclamation. After assessing for a solid comprehension of what the document did and did not do, have each group research the topic assigned and produce a short summary.
Again, after assessing for evidence of good analysis in the summaries, reform four groups comprised of members from each of the initial six research teams. Provide the members with copies of all summaries and then task each of the four reformed groups with producing a cohesive synthesis of all perspectives with each point supported with factual evidence. Expect passionate responses.
Following presentations by each group to the combined class, conclude this unit with a structured debriefing. During this final discussion, challenge the students, each according to his or her aptitude, to relate what was learned about the Emancipation Proclamation to any present day issue involving ideological, though not necessarily violent, confrontation.
The value of investing time on this important document and affiliated history will be realized by faster – deeper – comprehension of future events. By intentionally placing students in the frustrating place of approaching a topic from multiple, sometimes contradictory vantage points you prepare these scholars to be better equipped independent learners, the ultimate goal of great teaching.
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the orchids a year later
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Example of How Children Are Brutalized
This Facebook post shares how brutally ear-piercing shops are willing to treat children.
An Open Letter To Claire’s Corporate.
I am a former employee of one of your Edmonton, Alberta area Claire's locations. I didn’t mind piercing the ears of children who were excited to get new earrings, but nervous about the procedure. I’d do what I could to put them at ease. I had a couple "gray area" piercings, though; piercings where the children resisted heavily, were pressured and intimidated by the parents into settling down, and the children weren't happy with what had happened even after the earrings were in place and the standard lollipop had been dispensed. I didn't feel good about those, and I started to wonder at what point the piercer and the parent are actually violating a child's personal boundaries. Last week was a breaking point.
A seven year old girl came in to Claire's with her mother to get her ears pierced. I was to assist with the piercing, since it was what we call a "double," both ears at the same time. It's reserved for nervous kids who might change their mind after the first earring goes in. The girl pleaded and sobbed for thirty minutes not to be pierced. Despite Mom saying, "Honey, we can go home whenever you want," she was not letting her daughter go home. She was putting a great deal of pressure on her daughter to go through with the piercing. This child was articulate, smart, and well aware of herself and her body. She expressed that she didn't want us touching her, that we were standing too close, that she was feeling uncomfortable. She made it clear she no longer wanted to get her ears pierced. She begged, over and over again, for Mom to please, just take her home. That child's message was loud and clear to me: Do not touch my body, do not pierce my ears, I do not want to be here. I'm inclined to respect a child's right to say, "NO," to any adult forcing any kind of non-medical contact on them, so I told the other piercer I wouldn't be part of the ear piercing for this girl. To my great relief, in the end the mother respected her daughter's wishes, and took her home.
The next day at work, my manager asked about the previous day. I explained the child that refused the piercing and begged to be left alone, and I told my manager that I would not have been able to pierce that little girl's ears if Mom had insisted on it. I was firmly told, "You would have had no choice but to do it."
So I brought up the worst scenario I could think of. I wanted to know how far we were supposed to take this policy of piercing non-consenting children. "So if a mother is physically restraining her daughter, holding her down and saying, 'DO IT,' while that little girl cries and asks me not to, do I do the piercing?" My manager did not hesitate to respond, "Yes, you do the piercing."
I gave my notice that day. I had a choice between facing disciplinary actions (that would eventually lead to my termination) the next time I refused to pierce the ears of children who withdrew their consent, or leaving on my own terms. I chose the latter. My manager continues to assert that the other Claire's managers in this district are in agreement with her, and that our District Sales Manager confirms this policy is correct: Children can be held down and pierced. Children do not have a voice in the piercing process. The associate doing the piercing has no right to refuse to shoot metal through the ears of a child who begs not to be touched.
Your Policies and Procedures Manual offers only one policy, Policy 509, on the right to refuse a piercing. It is this: “We reserve to the right to refuse an ear piercing if a successful one cannot be done.” There is no mention of the use of physical restraint by the parent, or the employee’s right to refuse an ear piercing if their concerns are for the emotional welfare of the child. Basically, if I’m not going to get kicked in the head by that restrained child, or if that hysterical seven year old is unlikely to knock the gun from my hand, I must go ahead with the piercing.
This is, by my point of view, a deeply flawed policy that helps facilitate situations where children can be traumatized or otherwise subject to forms of intimidation and abuse in-store. The employee who refuses to be a party to these actions will be, “coached,” written up, and eventually terminated after enough write-ups.
I believe in upholding a child’s right to bodily integrity at all costs, and I will not be an adult that commits an indignity to a child. Kids who don’t want to endure the discomfort and pain of the procedure should not be forced to because a paying adult comes in, claims to be the legal guardian and insists upon the ear piercing. I cannot be part of a company that teaches a child that their right to say, “NO”, to invasive non-medical contact can be so easily overridden by an adult, and moreover, that they're supposed to accept that. This is about a child’s right to refuse to be pierced. This is also about an employee’s right to refuse to pierce the child that refuses to be pierced.
If you are a company that cares about kids, I implore you to consider changing this policy that blatantly ignores every child who vocally protests, cries, shows obvious signs of distress or is physically restrained by their alleged guardian while they sob and beg to be released. There needs to be something in place that protects both the rights of the child to protect his or her own body, and the right for the employee to refuse to pierce a heavily distressed child that adamantly refuses to have his or her ears pierced.
So I implore you now, as does everyone who shares this letter--Be better. Be accountable. Know what’s going on in your stores, and do something about it. And until you do, myself and perhaps many others have no interest in shopping at Claire’s and helping fund what we believe to be a cruel practice. Our children deserve better. Please do better by them.
Anonymous at 1:06 AM on April 8, 2019 | #12100 | reply | quote
Hello I'm new here. I'm an aspiring author and artist. I have an Instagram it's Mingmecha where I have some of my work. I'm 23 and manage a restaurant. I'm have many hobbies and interests and am a professional card game player as well. I value philosophy science and rational people. My goal is to meet other geniuses as other people have always dissapointed me all my life I've felt alone my fire is dimming as I have no real social relationships of real value. I fear that my literature will not reach the people I want it to but my goal is to at least have someone else who gets it. I've never accepted anything less then the world that ayn rand invisioned. In my fiction I plan to complete some of her philosophy that she hadn't got to for example music, general artifical intelligence, the role of transhumansism and bionic, discovering a metaphysical altering technology and more. I hope I can find a friend as that's my prime motive in posting here. Thank you for your time. Also I'm a 23 year old male for what it's worth giving the writing an identity.
B at 2:41 AM on April 8, 2019 | #12101 | reply | quote
These are ambitious goals. Lots of people try these things and fail. What are you doing to accomplish this, and how does it differ from what's already been tried?
Dagny at 10:51 AM on April 8, 2019 | #12102 | reply | quote
Hi B,
After learning chess and programming, I read *The Fabric of Reality* by David Deutsch, started having discussions with him, and got into philosophy. I think epistemology is the most important field. Bad intellectual methods harm progress in all other fields.
My studies have included writing/discussing a huge amount (I'm unaware of any philosopher who has done half as much) and these books, which are a list of some of the best: http://fallibleideas.com/books
BTW, regarding card games, I was the best Hearthstone player for a couple months early on. But I got tired of the game and quit. I also wrote guides.
I've found the world's intellectuals disappointing and unwilling to debate ideas or learn/think much. They are fakers pursuing social status. Their problems date back to childhood, where their minds are largely destroyed by around age 7, as Ayn Rand discusses in *The Comprachicos*. David Deutsch explained it in more detail by applying Critical Rationalist epistemology to parenting/education (the result is called Taking Children Seriously ).
Besides advancing philosophy, I've been trying to understand the world's irrationality and how to deal with it, and made some progress. Besides Deutsch's idea of static memes, I've developed the ideas of Paths Forward and Overreaching. Paths Forward is about how to organize ideas and debate so that people can collaborate effectively instead of ignoring corrections and criticisms that other people know and are willing to share. "Intellectuals" don't do this. Overreaching is about how people fail at learning philosophy because they do things which are too hard, and their error rate exceeds their ability to deal with errors. These ideas can help anyone who is trying to learn or advance philosophy.
I'm always looking for people who are interested in ideas enough, and honest enough, to learn what's already known about philosophy and then contribute something new.
curi at 11:19 AM on April 8, 2019 | #12103 | reply | quote
#12102 I plan to figure that out I'm still young and learning, but I know I am capable. Seeing what others have done without an objectivist perspective on these issues have left them hit roadblocks. I plan to express these ideas in my novels in a romantic way. After I have done this I want to focus more on being a philosopher. Right now I don't have the time to dedicate myself to full time research but I will later after I have established my restaurant business more.
Anonymous at 5:55 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12107 | reply | quote
#12103 I take ideas very seriously I think you are the only person I've met who takes them to the ideal extent I'd like to be in. I just learned about popper and David through you I am going to start reading those books as soon as they arrive. I have read all rands books even her old magazine and her letters. Epistemology is something that interests me greatly because my novel right now is about music. Have you read Emotion in Life & Music : A New Science by Johnson, M. Zachary? He is an objectivist and has the best theory I've found on music. It's incomplete but I have some ideas for what's missing but it involves learning more into epistemology.
Anonymous at 6:07 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12108 | reply | quote
A reply of mine on an Objectivism subreddit:
>Those Americans who have "independent minds dedicated to the supremacy of truth" are not all perishing, but many are doing what Oism was created to help us do, live on earth.
>In many cases, how we live is not to proselytize or promote Objectivism (or a less well-defined yet honest/independent/productive way to live) with overt acts or plans, but rather through living our lives and potentially the odd conversation every once in a while.
I am all for living on earth. I think careful discussion of ideas helps with that. I am doubtful that independent minds dedicated to the supremacy of truth would be satisfied with "potentially the odd conversation every once in a while." Also, it's not even an issue of promoting or proselytizing Objectivism -- you need to discuss Objectivism extensively in order to have a thorough, first-handed understanding of it *for yourself*. You need to do *thousands of error corrections* in order to understand a hard topic well: http://curi.us/2052-do-thousands-of-error-corrections
Rand pioneered Objectivism and helped us all enormously, but we still have to work -- a lot -- at understanding the details in our own minds. And if people are doing this, there should be some evidence.
Anonymous at 6:23 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12109 | reply | quote
That seems backwards. You need to get the ideas right first, as well as you can, before writing novels to share them. When you focus more on being a philosopher, you will find out you were mistaken about some of your previous beliefs, and therefore that your novels contain mistakes that you could have avoided if you'd written them after you knew more.
One needs philosophy, particularly rational methods for thinking and learning, in order to do other things effectively. So one should be competent at philosophy (critical thinking skills, judging ideas, learning methods, understanding how to find and fix errors, etc.) before trying to do much else.
Our current cultural situation is: there are only a handful of competent philosophers. Unless you're at the top of the field, you're incompetent. It shouldn't be that way. It should be possible to just learn the basics and leave the rest to the experts while you do something else like a novel. But we don't live in that world. To get the basics of philosophy right makes you an expert today – and it's hard to get them right because most educational materials will teach you misconceptions. It currently takes extensive, serious study of philosophy, like a professional or expert, just to sort out the good ideas from the crap and become competent.
Dagny at 7:21 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12110 | reply | quote
#12110 I understand that but at what point will I hold off my novels by continuing to pursue being an actual philosopher. I struggle with this because I have put in the work and studied everything not just in philosophy because I believe one must be a polymath to be a writer. After all you are creating another universe just as consitient as the rules that dictate our world. I wouldn't call myself a professional philosopher but I do know a quite alot. I tried going to ocon and talking with everyone and they always gave me this "who do you think you are kid" and I was so resentful that no one wanted to listen or challenge some inconsistencies in there objectivism. Now I'm all for ayn rand being a genius but she died before she could finish epistemology. I guess what I'm saying is I'm not sure how far to postpone my writing for the virtue of accuracy and innovative ideas. But I value the truth more. I don't know the solution to that.
B at 7:38 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12111 | reply | quote
I replied about Objectivism on Reddit
>The threat of jail and being exposed to poor ideas are very different motivations, and I think those who realize the sacredness of their fire rarely let it go out.
Ideas rule the world. The Fountainhead:
>When the agents were gone, Wynand pressed a button on his desk, summoning Alvah Scarret. Scarret entered the office, smiling happily. He always answered that buzzer with the flattered eagerness of an office boy.
>“Alvah, what in hell is the Gallant Gallstone?”
>Scarret laughed. “Oh, that? It’s the title of a novel. By Lois Cook.”
>“What kind of a novel?”
>“Oh, just a lot of drivel. It’s supposed to be a sort of prose poem. It’s all about a gallstone that thinks that it’s an independent entity, a sort of a rugged individualist of the gall bladder, if you see what I mean, and then the man takes a big dose of castor oil—there’s a graphic description of the consequences—I’m not sure it’s correct medically, but anyway that’s the end of the gallant gallstone. It’s all supposed to prove that there’s no such thing as free will.”
Consider the effect a bad culture will have on whether or not people wind up realizing the sacredness of their fire.
Justin Mallone at 7:39 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12112 | reply | quote
#12111 I think you should do what you can to test your knowledge. Talking to people at OCON was a good thing to try. I tried HBL and every other online Objectivist forum I found, instead, as well as several local Objectivist groups.
Do you have essays which people can review to tell you about some of your mistakes or missing knowledge, if they can spot it? (Or, in the alternative, they could agree with you and learn from you.) You should have some accomplishments where you say "I think this is good" and challenge anyone to tell you something you're missing. You should have something to represent the quality of your thinking which people can look at. These accomplishments should begin smaller – e.g. a few essays before a novel – so that you can get feedback more quickly with less work invested. Some of the early ones should be philosophy related so that your philosophy knowledge can be tested.
Also, you should survey all the major philosophies and have positions on them. That doesn't mean studying them all. It means having a general understanding of them (a survey book that covers many philosophies is OK). Then, either judge each philosophy is valuable and learn more, or else if you think it's bad then find a refutation of it written by anyone. That refutation should be held up as a challenge to people – can you refute this? – just like your own personal accomplishments. (And, again, readers may learn from it rather than attempt to knock it down. It gives people both options, a positive or negative reaction.) If errors are pointed out in the refutation you have accepted of a philosophy, then you should give the topic more attention to better understand what the existing arguments on the matter are and what position you should take (and whether you should actually start reading primary sources).
So instead of saying, "Marx? I haven't considered him yet." You say, "Marx? His views were refuted by Mises in his economic calculation argument and his book, *Socialism*. Did Mises make a mistake? Do you know something I'm missing?"
In the case where there are no quality refutations of a philosophy – no one has pointed out what's wrong with it - then it might be right and merits some attention now. It's not safe to ignore it. What if there are many bad ideas which haven't been refuted? Most bad ideas can be refuted in short, simple ways by reusing general purpose arguments. E.g. if philosophy P is subjectivist, then you can point to a refutation of subjectivism in general, rather than something which deals with philosophy P in particular.
These are some of the things I talk about in my Paths Forward material, and which I try to do as part of how I organize my knowledge and deal with the world. I find people don't do this, which means they ignore ideas I consider correct with no reason given, and also they don't put forward some of their own ideas to be criticized (and are actually willing to respond to questions and and criticisms – some people have a book or blog, but challenging the public to point out errors, and actually addressing counter-arguments, is rare.)
curi at 8:06 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12113 | reply | quote
Since you brought it up, I checked his blog and found some good points, so I looked through some of the book. I like some parts but also find major errors like his acceptance of psychiatry and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) in ch. 1. (For my answer to that, see Thomas Szasz's books.) I find some parts vague and fuzzy, like his claim that music is superior to other types of art (ch. 8). There are lots of minor errors like how he views "solipsism" – he doesn't seem familiar with that specific philosophy and then talks about the word like it has a less specific meaning. This stood out to me because solipsism is treated in a much more precise way in *The Fabric of Reality*. For Zachary's book, I don't think he should have mentioned solipsism at all. Another detail error was:
> The culture of ancient Greece, with its incredibly focussed and economical poetic and musical expression, with its exquisitely simple beauty and strangely pregnant melodic-emotional content, was first smashed by a conquest by the materialistic Romans (in the Battle of Corinth, 146 BC).
Athens was smashed by conquest, by Sparta, before that. Also, I object to using the word "materialistic" negatively.
I agree that with lots of what he says about emotions being based on ideas not genes, and often being related to childhood baggage that people haven't untangled. I think he makes it sound much easier to sort out than it actually is, though. I also agree that evil exists and that can be hard for more rational people to comprehend, and there's a problem and danger there. It's also dangerous to declare people evil and stop trying to interact rationally (what if I make an incorrect judgment like that!?), so this is a hard topic.
> The special method of the enemies of reason is relentlessness. Since they are not focussed on any productive activity, all of their energy can be channeled into the war on reason. Reason is a sorting faculty, which deals with incoming data by conceptualizing it and organizing it. Its enemies know the surest way to defeat reason: swamp it, overload it, confuse it, crush it under a weight of nonsense. Never give it a chance to achieve the clarity it needs.
I think the answer to this is developing reusable criticisms which refute entire categories of ideas. I don't think reason, properly organized, gets overloaded. Once you know a lot of criticisms of common errors, it gets hard to come up with new ideas that aren't *already* refuted. To save time, we must criticism patterns of error instead of every error individually. If someone finds ideas overwhelming to deal with, it indicates a problem with their knowledge and thinking methods. I think a harder aspects evil to deal with are, in general, *dishonesty* and *violence*, and, in our current culture, *social status contests*.
curi at 8:32 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12114 | reply | quote
Johnson, M. Zachary. Emotion in Life & Music: A New Science (p. 22). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
> The **intensity** parameter is the force or strength of the music; it is a function of volume or the *amount of sound*, including simple loudness, and two forms of pitch density: the complexity of simultaneous sonorities, and the effect on any given moment of music of the full context that preceded and prepared it.
This is the first time he uses the word "sonorities" in the book. He doesn't explain what it means. I don't know enough about music to know what he's talking about. Maybe what he's saying refers to technical knowledge about music and makes sense and can clearly communicate to someone with the appropriate background. But this is one example of how his communication about music is not suitable for a lay reader.
Looking it up, I find out it means giving sound, or giving a clear or loud sound. If there is a technical meaning so this word communicates some important detail, I'm not seeing it. If it's just a fancy word with a simple meaning, then I don't think he's explaining well. I thought this word would have to have a special meaning for the passage to be meaningful.
Does the passage just mean this?
> Musical intensity comes from loudness, from using multiple sounds at once [somehow], and from interplay [somehow] between sound at different times.
Also, is there a particular passage focused on music which you think is great and which is readable by a non-expert?
curi at 8:42 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12115 | reply | quote
hitler's beneficiaries
This book is about how the Germans got welfare programs from the Nazis funded by plunder, conquest and murder
oh my god it's turpentine at 11:09 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12116 | reply | quote
Only 36?
Most "capitalists" in the novel were villains but the number seems really small
Anonymous at 9:58 AM on April 9, 2019 | #12118 | reply | quote
Gab's free speech browser extension is being deplatformed by Google and Mozilla. What a world. It just let you talk with other people who use the extension.
Also Gab seem to be too stupid to have a blog. wtf!? I didn't want to link a tweet with a picture of text.
Anonymous at 1:02 PM on April 11, 2019 | #12122 | reply | quote
Roger Scruton: An apology for thinking
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/roger-scruton-an-apology-for-thinking/ :
> I deplore the current use of [the word 'Islamophobia'], since it implies that there is some peculiar & irrational state of mind from which all objections to Islam proceed... I think of ‘homophobia’ as a similar word, designed to close all debate about a matter in which only one view is now deemed permissible.
Alisa at 3:18 PM on April 11, 2019 | #12123 | reply | quote
You're not a philosopher and you don't understand philosophy - you're a fraud.
Most of your time is spent lying to yourself about these things.
You'd be disgusting were you not so laughably pathetic.
Anonymous at 12:38 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12124 | reply | quote
oh my god it's turpentine at 12:42 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12125 | reply | quote
#12125 I have. It's nice. Don't see the relevance though.
He spends a lot of effort trying to drag people into his narcissistic delusions. Time to say the truth.
Anonymous at 1:06 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12126 | reply | quote
> #12103
> You're not a philosopher and you don't understand philosophy - you're a fraud.
> Most of your time is spent lying to yourself about these things.
> You'd be disgusting were you not so laughably pathetic.
>"Senor d'Anconia," declared the woman with the earrings, "I don't agree with you!"
>"If you can refute a single sentence I uttered, madame, I shall hear it gratefully."
Anonymous at 1:15 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12127 | reply | quote
#12127 Are you sure you understand what refutation is?
(BTW curi is completely clueless about that. Doesn't get it. Doesn't get anything really. His parents (or somebody) abused him and he coped with it by becoming this pathetic. It's a life long journey of proving Mama wrong.)
Anonymous at 1:20 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12128 | reply | quote
> #12127 Are you sure you understand what refutation is?
You're boring. If you have something to say regarding refutation, why don't you offer criticism instead of bland hate? I assume it's because you actually have nothing to say and are a poseur. Prove me wrong if you can. Otherwise, fuck off.
Anonymous at 1:24 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12129 | reply | quote
#12129 I'm not boring; you are.
I'm not interested in talking with you. Only to other people reading this. They are far better and smarter than you.
Anonymous at 1:32 PM on April 12, 2019 | #12130 | reply | quote
I replied about Objectivism on reddit:
>But one of my points is that at some level of understanding the law of diminishing returns comes in, and that plus opportunity costs makes me less likely to spend time talking about Oism the more I understand it
I don't think "diminishing returns" applies here, at least not in a straightforward way. If you got world class at understanding Objectivism, that would let you accomplish stuff in a variety of fields that you wouldn't be able to otherwise. Perhaps, given some set of goals, going *past* the point of world class would be unnecessary -- like you wouldn't want to be pioneering the next level of breakthroughs in Objectivism if philosophy wasn't your primary interest. But getting to world class in the first place is totally worth it.
And if somebody's world class at something, there's some evidence. George Reisman, for example, is a great economist, and it shows up in his writing. He studied under Rand and Mises. He's not a professional philosopher, but he's got tons of understanding of Objectivism.
I think people underestimate the level of philosophy knowledge that would be helpful to them in *any* goal by a huge factor, and also overestimate the philosophy knowledge they actually have (especially in terms of how much they've integrated it into their life versus learned it as concepts that aren't well integrated).
Also, regarding the role of discussing ideas in effective thinking, see
Justin Mallone at 6:53 PM on April 13, 2019 | #12134 | reply | quote
If you don't organize your learning/thinking/etc you're kinda wasting your time. You'll do stuff like reinventing incorrect versions of knowledge that is already well-developed and available to read. But inspiration matters too, being free to try stuff instead of just following a plan.
Solution? Organize your learning but also have free time. Aim for a minimum of 50% of your time to do organized/planned stuff every month. The amount of other stuff can vary based on inspiration, but it shouldn't take over a whole month, that's dangerous.
Anonymous at 12:41 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12135 | reply | quote
Soviet Central Planners Relied on the Sears Catalog. lol @ socialism
> I referred earlier to the price setting arrangements which were established in the Soviet Union. There, economists located in the Gosplan offices were responsible for this function, and as an understanding of the implications of von Mises' arguments concerning the inherent incapacity of a socialist economy to generate prices for all the goods and services which are characteristic of a modern economy permeated through the West---it took forty years or more for that to happen---the question arose: Where did prices in the Soviet Union come from?
> In the late seventies and early eighties, American economists began to travel to the Soviet Union and Gordon Tullock, an American economist who should have received the Nobel Prize for his work in public choice theory, took the opportunity, on a visit to Gosplan in Moscow, to ask that very question. Rather sheepishly his respondent took out a rather ancient Sears Roebuck catalogue from his desk and handed it over. Tullock didn't know what to make of this until it was explained that the Gosplan officials used the prices quoted for goods in the catalogue to obtain relativities between this and that item. They would then try to match the goods of the catalogue to what was available in the Soviet Union and then fix prices according to the relativities prescribed by Sears Roebuck. Where there was no match of product they just had to guess. So prices in the USSR were determined by Sears Roebuck.
> What is extraordinary about the Soviet Union, in retrospect, was that it lasted so long, and was, for so long, such a very real threat to the West.
Justin Mallone at 12:47 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12136 | reply | quote
reddit comment about Oism
I agree with all of Objectivism (I mean Rand said, not anyone else), as far as it goes. That is, I think it is contextual knowledge. I'm unaware of any substantial errors where Rand had a worse view than the standard view, or clearly should have known better at the time. I regard Rand as by far the best philosopher.
I'll bring up two areas where I disagree, but in neither case do I blame her. You have to start with what humanity already knows and improve things from there. One can't normally be blamed for not having made even more improvements.
Note, this is not normal. Most people, even some of the best people, have a mix of good ideas and bad ideas. When they try to have different ideas (different than mainstream/standard/tradition), they improve some ideas and they end up with worse ideas in some cases. Popper, for example, made a lot of big mistakes. Lots of his views are far worse than knowledge he had available. He rejected some great ideas like, in short, classical liberalism and economics.
Back to Rand, I think she is wiser about femininity and gender roles than other people in general. She understands them better than regular people who accept them (understanding how they work and which parts are good or bad). And I think the people who just reject gender roles are, in general, clueless radicals. But I think she overrates the value of gender roles for extremely good, rational people like Dagny. I don't accept them as an ideal or a necessary part of life (we're born tabula rasa, not with a gendered mind). I won't go into why because this is a big topic and I don't think it's what you wanted to focus on, and it's not a major part of Objectivism anyway.
As far as epistemology goes, Rand said nothing about CR (Critical Rationalism). She said very little about induction. What she did say was either along the lines of the standard view or better. She said she didn't know all the answers about induction (hadn't studied it), and she was aware of some hard parts, some problems, which she personally didn't know the answers to (having not studied it). I think she believed there must be answers because clearly we do learn stuff, science works, reason works, etc. The parts of epistemology where she had more to say is great stuff. So basically, in epistemology, she improved some things and left some other things alone.
CR says that the problems with induction are insurmountable (and gives improved arguments beyond the prior anti-inductive criticism), and says that the same goals can be achieved by a different method. This can be accepted while changing very little about Objectivist epistemology, because Objectivist epistemology doesn't rely on or talk about particular details about how induction works. It just relies on us being able to learn in a way connected with reality, which uses observation somehow, and results in genuine, contextual knowledge. CR offers that. So you just use that instead of induction and it doesn't change much because the rest of Objectivist is reasonably separate.
I have found some Objectivists don't mind this perspective, but some are really hostile to any disagreement with induction. I'll pause here and see what you think of the outline of the situation, without going into what CR actually says.
curi at 3:03 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12137 | reply | quote
How do I get back in touch with my emotions?
Anonymous at 11:22 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12138 | reply | quote
reddit comment on dispute with binswanger
>> He says my ideas are wrong. He selected one example to present, but it illustrates his own dishonesty.
> I consider this slander, because I disagree with your premise (explained subsequently in your post) that he evaded your point. In fact, he engaged with you on that point at length (the "eyes are opinionated" topic). In my view, you were completely wrong on that and his position is right. However, if I recall correctly, I didn't think (at the time) he handled that in exactly the right way. I would have agreed with him, but I would have said something a bit different. Anyway, to say that he evaded your point is, in my opinion, completely mistaken.
I appreciate the detailed response. It's too much to debate all at once, and it might be better to try talking CR instead. First, I'm going to respond to one point and see how it goes. I picked this one because it says "slander".
I think you're factually mistaken. I wrote in an epistemology post:
>>> As Popper put it: all observation is theory-laden. You need theories first. Raw observation is both impossible (because e.g. our eyes are opinionated--they let us see green but not infrared) and worthless (because there're infinitely many characteristics and patterns out there that one could observe).
HB quoted a partial sentence and said:
>> Is this serious? As stated, it is wild primacy of consciousness.
Later in that post he also said:
>> (I'm reminded of Quine's gavagai "problem," if you are familiar with that.)
Full post: https://pastebin.com/XJkGUmtm
I responded with point-by-point answers. **HB did not reply.**
Regarding primacy of consciousness, I said:
> How so? There are many different possible designs for eyes, and we have a particular one with various strengths (can see green) and weaknesses (can't see ultraviolet). This isn't a claim about consciousness.
Regarding gavagai problem, I said:
> Do you have a refutation of it? I took a look at it and I thought the basic point is correct (that any finite data set is compatible with infinitely many patterns or interpretations.)
> This is one of the major logical issues I've been talking about. I think it refutes some claims about epistemology. One needs an epistemology that doesn't run into this problem. I have that. You don't.
So here, HB had brought up a named version of one of the major issues we were debating. Despite being tangential to the thing about eyes, it was highly on topic to what we'd been discussing before that. Great. And I asked if he had any answer to that problem he brought up (he'd put "problem" in quotes and his epistemology position requires an answer to it) and he did not reply.
This was not the only exchange related to eyes and perception. Here's another:
>>>> Also, as a scientific matter, computation is done on the information from our eyes before it reaches our mind.
>>> No computation is done there. That’s metaphor. There’s no computation done anywhere outside the human mind. Even computers don’t actually compute. In philosophy, we have to speak literally, not metaphorically.
>> I was speaking literally. Have you read science about our visual system? Information from the eye is processed in an lossy (irreversible, information-losing) way before it reaches the mind. In short, visual information is simplified according to some algorithms specified by our genes prior to perceiving it.
>> This is just like if you’re writing an iOS photography app but don’t have access to the raw images from the camera, only images which iOS has already modified with some algorithms. (Offhand, I think apps can access raw images now, but couldn’t in the past.)
>> But I don’t know what you’re talking about by saying computers don’t compute. My computer can compute 2+3 and NAND among many other things. I guess you must be using some non-standard definition of computation? To understand me, it’s important to read what I’m saying with my terminology, not some alternative terminology you prefer. (This came up a lot with Popper, too, where words he used were read with an Objectivist meaning instead of Popper’s own meaning.)
HB didn't respond substantively to this. All he said was:
> Read it? I worked as intern for over a year with one of the field's greats: Richard Held.
> I am not up on the the discoveries made since the 60s, however; but I don't think what you reference is anything discovered since then. By the way, Jerry Letvin, who discovered the fact that you cited earlier about frog vision, was also at MIT at that time.
The pattern here is *not* patient explanation from HB for several iterations and then giving up eventually. I never got basic answers about what he meant about some things. Note that my conception of computation is not a Popperian thing, it's standard (today but maybe not in the 60's, I don't know, that's rather early in the field of computers) in our society among people who deal with computation, e.g. among software developers, AI researchers, and physicists (who have a theory of quantum computation, among other things, which btw my mentor David Deutsch helped develop).
curi at 11:39 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12139 | reply | quote
#12138 See http://curi.us/1944-questions
Anonymous at 11:51 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12141 | reply | quote
I'm don't feel sad though. Rather, I have difficulty feeling anything at all. That is the problem. It makes life feel robotic and detached. It's not fun or enjoyable. How do I get the color back?
Anonymous at 11:56 PM on April 14, 2019 | #12142 | reply | quote
#12142 I don't have a solution to "How do I get back in touch with my emotions?". That describes millions of different problems. You should state steps you already took to find the answer yourself, and why they didn't work.
Anonymous at 12:00 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12143 | reply | quote
Well, I learned how to meditate except that usually places me further away from my emotions. Most of my time is usually invested in doing hobbies by myself, during which I'm very good at keeping in touch with my mental and emotional state. However outside of this, like with other people, it all goes tits up. I'm unable to feel things or have much thoughts at all that involve people other than myself. Not like narcissistic. It's just an inability to be involved.
So lately I tried cybering with a stranger and it felt mostly awkward and creepy. I basically had to ignore my inner voice and just do what I thought would be the most genuine way to follow the intimacy meme. Interacting this way was like off-and-on feelings, and overall kinda bad.
Some time before this I went to a group event but was unable to approach anyone because my mind kept going blank.
And I recently was hanging out on a discord server for one of my interests and I couldn't relate with anyone. Most of my questions seemed to confuse and annoy everyone. So I ended up leaving.
Anonymous at 12:19 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12144 | reply | quote
It you want to act so that people relate to you, learn social dynamics like Girls Chase. You might like people less, though.
Why do you want to be more emotional?
Anonymous at 12:36 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12145 | reply | quote
I don't think I'm that interested in cis women tbh. When I was cybering it was with a guy older than me and I thought there was a faint possibility of living with him in the future (quickly realized he was just fishing when his account went inactive the next day). I sort of dated a girl when I was younger. I dunno if I feel the same way anymore. Nearly all social games I want to avoid cause they feel immoral.
The desire to be emotional is to bring back 'the light', if that makes any sense. Life feels empty and pointless without feelings, even if problems are being solved. Which is why I'm suspecting I haven't found the right problems. Except I don't know where to look anymore and a lot of the time I'm finding myself looking for the exit to Life.
Anonymous at 12:47 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12146 | reply | quote
> I don't think I'm that interested in cis women tbh.
The linked social dynamics are relevant to any type of social interaction. It teaches what the social games are and how they work. You can do some of them or you can have poor rapport with most people, your choice.
> The desire to be emotional is to bring back 'the light'
Conventional emotions are shallow and superficial. You were indoctrinated with memes. It never added real meaning to your life.
If you want to get it back, embrace being normal more. E.g. become Christian, that's some heavy duty stuff to reconnect you to tradition/convention.
If you want a rational alternative, learn Objectivism and FI. Objectivism might resonate with you, so try that. If it doesn't work easily, you'd have to learn it via intellectual study, which is a big project which you don't have teh prerequisites for, but you could work towards it over a period of several years if you cared enough and were honest enough.
Anonymous at 1:08 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12147 | reply | quote
If this isn't the sort of thing to be asking here that's understandable, I guess. It would be helpful if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Anonymous at 1:09 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12148 | reply | quote
#12148 Your topic is fine.
curi at 1:12 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12149 | reply | quote
This isn't strictly related to conventions as far as I can tell. I was fairly happy as a child and the world had that full spectrum of color emotionally, regardless of the activity. Also not sure if you're partially or directly arguing something about traditional memes having to do with feeling the impact of thoughts and actions. It's considerably more involved than that.
Anonymous at 1:17 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12150 | reply | quote
#12150 You seem rather lost, unskilled, and now to be trying to argue with me instead of understand what I was saying. You didn't even ask a question this time.
I don't think helping you is in my interest. You haven't shown value and I don't expect you to stay long. I don't think I'll benefit from writing five high-effort comments next, while you say things of the same quality as you have so far, and then you leave without explanation after that.
Anonymous at 1:26 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12151 | reply | quote
If I didn't feel lost and looking for help I wouldn't be here. I thought a question was implied the way my post was phrased. Sorry if there's miscommunication. I'm not that good at intellectual stuff. Does that mean I'm not worth your time? Like, I said, point me in the right direction if this isn't the place for me.
Anonymous at 1:35 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12152 | reply | quote
continuing the reddit discussion
> Is it possible that the "eyes are opinionated" issue came up between you and HB more than once (i.e. in separate threads) on HBL?
Not with the word "opinionated" (I searched), but the topic did come up more than the two exchanges I discussed in my grandparent comment.
> But it may be that the "eyes are opinionated" discussion came just as he was in the stage of cutting you off. I strongly suspect that that is exactly the case.
I checked.
Discussion began Oct 17, 2016, and ended Nov 16. I said "eyes are opinionated" on Nov 6, not at the end. It's actually about half way because I initially discussed some other topics and posted criticism of some of Popper's errors. I think debate about Popper and epistemology began in earnest on Oct 26 when I wrote this: http://curi.us/1921-the-harry-binswanger-letter-posts#c7085
So "eyes are opinionated" came around the middle of the debate. Note that in the linked post, rather than simply presenting an alien context, I did translations between contexts.
> P.S. Thanks for keeping things compact and civil so far! After my last post, which ran up to reddit's 10,000-char limit, I was afraid the conversation would spiral out of control.
Ditto. So far you're very easy to deal with, and civil, for someone with such a negative pre-existing opinion about me.
> Assuming that you are not a Kantian and also don't consider computers to be conscious (as a pan-psychic might), you and HB are really just objecting to the way the other uses certain words, rather than expressing an underlying philosophical disagreement.
I thought it was partly a terminology issue at the time, but I struggled to get others to acknowledge that and let me clarify what I and Popper meant by things. I found it was an ongoing problem. Hence HB attacked me for the earlier "opinionated" statement when he banned me, rather than accepting my clarifications of my view.
I have no interest in defending the way I used the word "opinionated". I can say that in other ways. But my use of "computation" is important in many fields, is precise IMO, and I don't know of any replacement terminology. What *do* computers do? What should "quantum computation" be called? And, related, are AGIs possible to build in principle?
I'm open to going into additional detail about the HBL exchanges or to discussing CR at this point. I think you see now that I have detailed reasoning for what I wrote about HB, so maybe, without persuading you, that is enough to set it aside for now. If you want to discuss CR now, you could reply to my HBL post linked above, or ask a question or say whatever else.
curi at 1:44 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12153 | reply | quote
So I read a bunch of articles on that girl chasing site and everything about it seems alien and unwanted and totally unlike anything I have ever thought about wanting or even witnessed personally. I'm not looking to become a predator.
Also wondering if the lack of reply to #12152 means I'm unwelcome here. Since I'm too dumb to understand your perspective.
Anonymous at 2:41 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12154 | reply | quote
#12154 You haven't pointed out a single error. It explains how social dynamics actually works, in fact, whether you like it or not. It does not advocate being a predator; you shouldn't slander things without quotes or knowledge; your message is low quality.
Anonymous at 2:47 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12155 | reply | quote
It's an explanation from a particular perspective I am not interested in learning. Obviously this is not true for all people and cultures across the planet. Not sure why I have to spell out 'errors' in something I don't want or need.
I dunno. The material is being presented in a way like I would be preying on normal people by studying their ways and patterns. To my knowledge it's not slander to give my impression of what something makes me feel.
Anonymous at 3:01 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12156 | reply | quote
You repeated your slander, gave no specifics, and basically said "I don't want the help you offered, because I'm hostile to your ideas."
Anonymous at 3:03 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12157 | reply | quote
btw Is it possible to tone down the conversation? I don't think it's beneficial being this aggressive.
Anonymous at 3:04 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12158 | reply | quote
I'm saying it's not for me. I don't like it. Sorry?
Anonymous at 3:06 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12159 | reply | quote
#12158 You were being super aggressive, I asked you to stop, then you did it more. If you want to tone it down, then do so, as I asked.
> I'm saying it's not for me. I don't like it. Sorry?
Your views are false and unargued. If you want help you have to learn better ideas, not reject anything you don't already know.
Anonymous at 3:09 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12160 | reply | quote
Why do you want to make me feel worse than I already am?
Anonymous at 3:13 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12161 | reply | quote
Is this your first time posting here? And why did you come here? What do you know or like about FI?
Anonymous at 3:14 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12162 | reply | quote
A friend introduced me to this place when I was younger and learned some things that broke a lot of normal functioning behaviors. They were also broken well before introducing me, apparently. But they're now better off and I'm not and I don't know how to fix the connection between my head and heart. So I thought I'd try coming back to where stuff started getting a lot worse for me. To be extra clear, I don't know the extent of blame for how things got worse. I just know stuff happened here. It could be all my fault.
Anonymous at 3:23 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12163 | reply | quote
Who are you? Are you Canadian? Can you reference some of your old posts?
Anonymous at 3:24 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12164 | reply | quote
I currently reside in canada but I do not identify as canadian (I don't know or talk to any natives except for small things like ordering food). I doubt I could find my old posts, especially given the state I'm in.
Anonymous at 3:30 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12165 | reply | quote
I'll check back here tomorrow. Hopefully in a better mindset. Have a good day.
Anonymous at 3:41 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12166 | reply | quote
a sentence diagramming worksheet on sentences using "there" as an expletive https://www.k12reader.com/sentence-structure/diagramming_grammar_expletives.pdf
Anonymous at 6:38 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12167 | reply | quote
reddit comment on how eyes work
re HBL, yes I think that's part of it. I found lots of the debate topics unpredictable because they weren't about things Rand wrote. The math, big numbers, measurement error and computers stuff aren't part of Objectivism. They also aren't something I'd run into at any other Objectivist forum, online or IRL. And the rejection of fallibilism contradicts Rand.
I think we have disagreements about physics and computers. It's not just terminology.
In this post (and going forward, unless you refuse) I'll use my terminology re "compute". I think this is important. "Compute" will refer to what computers do (computers also "process" "information" or "data", and "run" "algorithms" or "software", all of which is equivalent to math). For what consciousnesses do which present-day computers do not do, I'll use the word "think" (also: guess, conjecture, hypothesize, brainstorm, conclude, figure out, judge, ponder, surmise, believe, conclude, etc.)
With that said, I'll try to explain eyes and see if we can agree there or not.
Our eyes have a particular nature or identity which was developed by biological evolution. E.g. they can see green but not ultraviolet. Our eyes give us some information about reality but not all information. Our eyes are a type of camera and work similarly to artificial cameras we've built. There's no fundamental difference. It's not like computers vs. minds (consciousness is a fundamental difference there).
The information from our eyes can be misleading *if* interpreted incorrectly. This is not the eyes' fault. The error is in the thinking about what one saw, not in the eyes. E.g. if my table looks blurry, that doesn't mean it is blurry – actually my eyes are physically deformed. Our eyes just follow the laws of physics and give us information. Using that information correctly can be complicated. Eyes can be damaged or broken just like a car motor. You'd never call a motor "wrong" or "misleading", but you would blame it as the explanation for why your car isn't moving and get it repaired. Similarly, I can blame my eye being partially broken or damaged for why the table looks blurry, and repair it with laser eye surgery or fix the issue with glasses.
Understanding the information from our eyes can be hard even when they're in perfect working condition. A straight stick looks bent when partially in water, but isn't. Men 10,000 years ago could learn it's not bent, and to be wary of what they see underwater, but a scientific understanding of what's actually happening was way beyond them. This is because our vision is related to how photons travel. Similarly, desert mirages are due to complicated properties of how light works (blue light from the sky travels beneath eye level and then back up, which is why people think they see blue below them. Then they assume it's water because of the color and apparent location).
This means: the correctness of our observations of reality depends on the correctness of the ideas by which we interpret the information provided by our eyes. If we make conceptual errors regarding the nature of our eyes, we can reach incorrect conclusions like that a smooth table isn't smooth, that a straight stick is bent, or that there's something blue below eye level when there isn't.
Furthermore, our minds do not have access to raw image data. I'll begin with iPhone cameras. The camera captures raw data, then the CPU computes mathematical/software algorithms with the raw image data as input and a different image as output. The goal is making the photos look better. The photo I see on screen and save on disk is different than the raw data the camera had. It's impossible, in principle, to reconstruct the raw camera data from the saved image.
So to understand what is really there in reality, using an iPhone photo, you must consider not only the nature of the camera it uses, but also the nature of the computations done to the image data.
Human vision works this way too. After the eye captures raw data, that data is processed and changed before one's mind gets it. Irreversible computation happens. To correctly interpret what is really out there, we must know something about the nature of our eyes *and* know something about the nature of the mathematical/software algorithms which take the raw vision data and input and output modified data.
There are many possible cameras and data processing algorithms. Some are better than others. Some are more useful. Some show the world upside down, and some show it right side up. Some see green light and some don't.
I regard the factual claims I've made as part of science.
None of this prevents us from using our vision to learn about reality. The nature of our eyes, and of the computation done on the raw image data, is not chaotic or arbitrary. It's consistent and understandable. Vision follows the laws of physics and the nature of the physical objects involved (table, photons, eye, optic nerve).
I would say we don't "directly" see a table, in my terminology, because the visual information that gets to our mind has causality like this: table -> photons -> eyes -> computation -> mind. It's not just table -> mind. (BTW we could actually break it down in more detail with more steps.) However, there is a real connection between the vision information my mind has access to and reality. I don't see illusions or delusions or what a trickster demon wants me to see. I see what it looks like when a particular type of camera, with particular data processing algorithms, is hit by photons coming from that table.
What do you think?
curi at 11:57 AM on April 15, 2019 | #12168 | reply | quote
Back again. Here's another badly done post I'm monitoring on roughly the same issue from a different culture sphere.
Anonymous at 2:33 PM on April 15, 2019 | #12169 | reply | quote
#12169 There are no quick fixes for you here. If you want to learn how to think, begin doing that.
Anonymous at 2:37 PM on April 15, 2019 | #12170 | reply | quote
Ok thank you for your time.
Anonymous at 2:51 PM on April 15, 2019 | #12171 | reply | quote
good reddit discussion
> Agreed. Though, as an aside, my view is that mistakes are possible in general, but some things are simple enough to be certain about in a given context, such as 1+1=2 (which I don't think you need sophisticated mathematics to reach, or to prove). I presume HB agrees with that, as far as that goes.
I don't see what simplicity has to do with it and I find your statement ambiguous.
Is the issue: Can I get a 100% guarantee that this idea is the best possible idea given the current context? No. I could have been dishonest or unreasonable. I could have made a mistake when evaluating the available evidence and conceptual understanding. There's no way to absolutely guarantee those things didn't happen. This is the same whether it's something simple or complicated.
One doesn't need a 100% guarantee. What one needs is a judgment or conclusion. Thinking has to reach a point where you accept an idea, reject alternatives, and move forward. It can reconsidered in the future if new arguments are thought of or new evidence is found, but that's uncommon. At any given time, most conclusions stand and are not currently being reconsidered (so our ideas are largely stable, not in constant chaos).
So is the issue: Can I reach a conclusion? Can I stop pondering further and decide something and move on? Can I attain *knowledge* and act on it? Yes. And this doesn't depend on whether the issue is simple or complicated. We do this with complicated stuff too, e.g. judging that Rearden Metal is good was a complicated judgment but it was nevertheless possible to reach a conclusion about that matter. Simple stuff isn't special.
If "certain" means: "qualifies as knowledge, is good enough to form a judgment and proceed" then we have that not only with basic math but with many complicated things too. But if "certain" refers to 100% guarantees against error, then I don't think we can have that even with very simple stuff. So I don't see what fundamental difference simple vs. complex makes. It's just easier, as a matter of degree, to acquire knowledge about simple stuff. It takes less thought to reach a conclusion.
> Those two perspectives are equally valid.
> there is no one canonical representation of the table
You're not wrong, but: Some perspectives/representations are convoluted. Some are less useful for biological evolutionary survival value. Some are less useful for the pursuit of human values. Just because one can mathematically convert between two things shouldn't make one indifferent between them. (Also some perspectives are actually incorrect, but I think we're just discussing correct ones.)
I believe a lot of what Objectivism and CR are actually about, and the quest for knowledge in general, is how to break symmetries, how to prefer some representations or perspectives, how to differentiate things, how to get away from "there are infinitely many representations, which are compatible with all the data, and aren't wrong" (something CR uses against induction, because we think induction fails to solve that problem, and it has to be handled a different way) or "there are infinitely many places you could put the origin on that graph. with a different origin, that point at 2,2 could be at 3,3, or 7,42, or -20,-999, or at any other coordinates" or "there are infinitely many possible aliens who could be tricking us, in any of infinitely many arbitrary ways using infinitely many different logically possible advanced technologies". Each of the ways aliens could be tricking us is a perspective which is not factually, empirically wrong nor does it violate the rules of logic. Each alien scenario, if complete enough, comes with a representation of each table, sometimes as a hologram or anything else instead of as wood, and that representation is logically compatible with all our sensory evidence. Nevertheless, that kind of thinking is dangerous and can lead to postmodernism, skepticism, etc. FWIW I find the attitudes of some Objectivists like "just dismiss the arbitrary" as not a good enough answer, I think a more detailed rebuttal is merited and that CR has it. And, technically, there is no easy way to exactly define which things are arbitrary – that's a big part of the problem is actually figuring out, in a principled and comprehensive way, which things are arbitrary junk ("I know the arbitrary when I see it" is inadequate).
> We just need to form non-contradictory beliefs about our existence, in the widest possible context. For all intents and purposes, we just call that reality, but we don't actually know that there isn't a wider context beyond the one we have.
> So for instance, it "could be" the case (but it's arbitrary to assert that it either is or isn't) that all of our perceptions are merely simulated (like in the Matrix).
I *know* that I'm not living in a solipsistic dream world in the same way that I know 1+1=2. I used rational thinking to reach a conclusion. There are no counter-arguments that I irrationally ignored; all known counter-arguments have known refutations. I believe there are no known flaws, today, with my claim, and no reason to reopen it for further investigation. That is my judgment. (The arguments against solipsism which persuaded me are in *The Fabric of Reality* by David Deutsch.)
I also *know* that I don't live in the particular simulation presented in The Matrix. It's ridiculous. I'll omit the arguments though.
I think Rand would call this knowledge and would disagree with your "don't actually know". You don't need a absolute 100% proof to know something.
There are some simulation scenarios for which I'd say I don't know, I haven't reached a conclusion. (I know some anti-simulation arguments but I haven't spent a lot of time considering it, and I haven't decided they are conclusive, I'm not yet ready to make a judgment.) Then what? I consider: *Given that I haven't reached a conclusion about that issue, what should I do, what should I believe, and how should I act?* I reach conclusions about that. So while I may be stuck on some intellectual puzzles, I'm not stuck regarding living my life. What to believe is easy: that I don't know. How to act is: the same as if I wasn't living in a simulation. There are no behavior changes that would make sense. I have reasoning for that, but I'll omit it.
> To me, the fact that there is further transformation of the raw data after the eye makes an initial impression is of interest to science, but not particularly of interest to philosophy.
I agree.
> I object to this. Ancient humans (e.g. Greeks) were able to know a lot about what is out there, and they didn't know anything about the "algorithms" that modify the raw impression formed by the eye before the sense data is available to the mind.
They did know a lot about how to interpret the vision data which reached their minds so that their interpretation matched reality – which means, it correctly accounted for the nature of photons and of the human vision system.
It doesn't have to be scientific style knowledge, or written out as computer code or math, to be knowledge. They knew that water and smoke can distort vision, that blurry vision or blindness in general are faults of the visual system not of the external world (but that there are exceptions like fog and blindfolds), that human vision is orderly but can be unreliable in low light conditions, that an apple looks like an apple regardless of which country you're in or which day of the week it is, and so on. They knew their vision didn't make many special exceptions, and they knew some of the exceptions. That's a good understanding of the situation. I imagine they knew that accurate depth perception is hard in some cases, and much harder if you only have one eye. They knew their visual system was limited by distance, and that this was an issue of vision not reality (if they walked closer to a distant farmhouse, it's their vision which changes as they get closer, not the farmhouse itself). They knew, roughly, how light works: it goes in straight lines, does not go through most objects (opaque) but does go through some (transparent). You can't see what's on the other side of an object which is directly in front of you if it's large enough to block your field of vision, but you can look from a different angle. If you go further back from something, it looks smaller even though it's the same size, and now you can see some things past that were blocked before. Another vision limitation, which the ancients may well have known about, is the time delay between something happening and seeing it. This comes up in e.g. baseball. (I think they must have known about reaction times, which matter in combat. When you both stand still and swing a practice sword at someone, there is a delay before they start moving to block it. But I don't know if they realized that part of it was a delay in seeing things. They could maybe have thought vision was instantaneous and attributed the delay to the mind deciding to block or to the muscles being slow to act.)
This stuff is a body of knowledge. It has to be passed on culturally, or be inborn, or be reinvented by children. In each case, errors are possible both in transmission (or reinvention) of the knowledge and in the body of knowledge itself.
curi at 5:56 PM on April 15, 2019 | #12172 | reply | quote
If you read the reddit discussion and like it, please *post a comment saying so on reddit*. The guy I'm talking with probably estimates that zero people care besides me and him.
curi at 7:36 PM on April 15, 2019 | #12173 | reply | quote
What is your opinion on people who abuse mechanics in games to be the best at X hobby, sport, gambling, etc? For example I’m one the the best yugioh tcg players in my state, and I often have to create decks that involve “unfair” or “broken” strategists like winning on my first turn by creating a field that is so impossible to break that my opponent would have to forfeit. Or for example if anyone knows super smash bros melee pro player hungryhox, and his controversial playing style where he plays jiggly puff and abuses him by ledge stalling. Are these actions “immoral”? I’m inclined to believe what’s true in your work is true in your hobbies as in knowledge is contextual and interrelated. Perhaps it’s not explicitly the same as committing fraud or manipulation of someone but there is a fuzzy line and I don’t like haveing contradictions in my life. I don’t want to accept a middle of the road thinking. What’s wrong with my thinking?
B at 2:20 AM on April 16, 2019 | #12174 | reply | quote
I'm not curi but here are some disorganized thoughts. What people consider "abuse" is often fine. I think using game mechanics effectively is fine. What would not be fine is stuff like DDoSing someone during an online game or breaking into someone's hotel room so you can get a look at their deck or something like that.
If a tournament wants to restrict some characters or technique because they are considered too game breaking, or if people want to agree to House rules for a similar reason, that can be okay. People are often bad at judging what's game breaking though. Lots of games (like SSBM) have had extensive discovery of techniques that would not have happened if people had been playing in narrow, self-limiting ways where they caved to every accusation of being abusive or cheesy. It takes some real skill -- the kind of skill that figures out potential game breaking stuff in the first place -- in order to be able to judge issues like whether something is too game breaking.
In general, if you're doing some activity, you should play to win, and not care about people calling stuff abuse, cheesy, whatever. Don't be a scrub http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win
That sounds fine. Though I'm curious what determines outcomes when first turn wins are possible. Is it a Rock Paper Scissors game of trying to guess what sort of deck the opponent will use, and if you guess right you're good and if you don't you're fucked?
Incidentally I had some mild interest in yugioh years ago, did not realize it was still played.
Not wanting to accept contradictions is good. Are you an Objectivist? Can you say more about what immorality you think is potentially involved?
Justin Mallone at 6:06 AM on April 16, 2019 | #12175 | reply | quote
#12174 The point of a game is to figure out the most effective strategies and to win. Games are maximization problems. If you think a game is bad, don't play it or modify it. SSBM should try out some ruleset changes.
Asking people to play "nice" gives a disadvantage to the "nicest" people. It's essentially asking each person to make up game rules and follow those. But then different people play by different rules, which is unfair and punishes the "nicer" people who restrict themselves more. And, anyway, people disagree about what kind of gameplay is desirable. Instead, a single clear ruleset for everyone is needed.
Are you going to continue our previous discussion? E.g. #12113
curi at 1:05 PM on April 16, 2019 | #12176 | reply | quote
criticism of a view on limited govt
> Ways to fund a proper government without taxation could include fees for government enforcement of contracts, voluntary donations, fines for lawbreakers, small fees for “losers” in civil trials, and lotteries.
I'll share criticisms of two of these.
If the government runs a lottery, it's competing with private businesses, no different than if it runs a steel mill or grocery store in order to fund itself. Or else the government has prohibited anyone else from running a lotto, which is even worse. I see no solution to taxation here and I don't see how any free market advocate could want governments to be involved with lottos.
Contract enforcement fees are a similar issue. If you are prohibited from fully enforcing your own contracts (the alternative being anarchy), then the government has a monopoly on a core part of life, and you have no real choice but to pay the government what they demand. That's not *voluntary* government funding. A tax or "fee" on people who interact in contractual ways is like a tax or "fee" for people who earn an income. It's essentially different than a use fee for a small, optional part of life like crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
curi at 1:21 PM on April 16, 2019 | #12177 | reply | quote
What caused the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes
In October 2018 and March 2019, two Boeing 737 Max 8s crashed, killing 346 people. On April 15, 2019, Vox published a 6-minute video which, aside from some editorializing about capitalism at the end, does a good job explaining what caused the crashes.
Here's my summary of the video:
In 2010, Airbus, Boeing's main competitor, announced an upgrade to the engines on their most popular plane, the A320. The upgraded model, called the A320neo, would be 15% more fuel-efficient while flying essentially the same as the A320.
In response, Boeing rushed to make update their corresponding model, the 737. The result was called the 737 Max 8.
Due to differences in plane height, the 737 Max 8's engine didn't fit neatly under the wing like A320neo's engine. The higher location of the 737 Max 8's engine caused the plane's nose to tilt up during full thrust (e.g., during takeoff).
This uptilt was a significant departure from the flight behavior of the original 737. It would have required expensive pilot retraining. Rather than re-engineer the plane itself, Boeing added software, which they called the MCAS, to *automatically push the nose down if the pilot flew at too high of an angle*. The 737 Max 8s MCAS appears to have engaged at the wrong time, causing the two crashes.
Josh Jordan at 12:49 PM on April 17, 2019 | #12180 | reply | quote
A Reddit commenter who claims to have worked at Boeing from 2008-9 agrees with the explanation in the Vox video and made some scathing comments about Boeing as an organization:
> I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period and I can absolutely guarantee this happened... Boeing's corporate culture is the worst shitshow I have ever experienced. ...
Josh Jordan at 12:56 PM on April 17, 2019 | #12181 | reply | quote
> vouchers could be used for one-bedroom apartments renting at up to $2,648 a month
> Tenants with vouchers pay 30 percent of whatever income they have toward rent, with the city subsidizing the rest.
DC moved a bunch of homeless into nice a nice apartment complex, at taxpayer expense. What could go wrong!?!? Read and find out.
Anonymous at 9:33 PM on April 17, 2019 | #12182 | reply | quote
When Elliot abuses you I highly recommend you repeat his behaviours back at him.
He can't stand his reflection in a mirror. As he attacks it, his every insult is really an admission of what he truly is.
Anonymous at 8:52 AM on April 20, 2019 | #12184 | reply | quote
#12184 What behaviour do you interpret as an attack?
oh my god it's turpentine at 12:37 PM on April 20, 2019 | #12186 | reply | quote
#12186 Calling someone's criticism of GirlsChase "slander". Framing people not replying to his points as "evasion".
These are carefully chosen words not innocent mistakes.
Anonymous at 3:14 PM on April 20, 2019 | #12187 | reply | quote
Detailed Majora's Mask remake criticism:
Anonymous at 11:08 PM on April 20, 2019 | #12188 | reply | quote
> These are carefully chosen words not innocent mistakes.
It wasn’t a criticism. It was a conclusion. Criticism requires explanation and conclusions don’t.
If someone doesn’t know how to tell the difference between a criticism and a conclusion, then he’s definitely not going to know how to tell the difference between evasion and non-evasion.
Anonymous at 10:02 AM on April 21, 2019 | #12189 | reply | quote
Calling a conclusion "slander" is an attack too. Don't distract from that fact with trivialities. Pay attention!
The funny thing is that while most people don't evade Elliot does so constantly. It's one of his little confessions that he accuses people of that. Rather than engaging with the substance of what other people are saying he plays word games.
It's a tactic mediocre minds use to lie to themselves they're great. "Look this guy doesn't use the word as I do. Therefore he doesn't understand its meaning. What a sad a world! When will I find an intellectual equal I can actually talk to? (Hint: never)"
Many historic examples of this pattern. Take Hegel, Lacan, etc. Except they were good at it and he's hopelessly mediocre.
Anonymous at 4:15 PM on April 21, 2019 | #12190 | reply | quote
Why don't you give your definition of evasion and a concrete example of Elliot evading, with an explanation as to exactly what the evasion is.
Anonymous at 4:28 PM on April 21, 2019 | #12191 | reply | quote
#12191 He's too busy trolling by e.g. denying that calling PUA authors/fans/practitioners/etc *predators* (without knowing much of anything about them) is a slander. He's doing this without even mentioning that they were called predators or discussing whether that claim is insulting, is true, is slanderous, etc.
He's just here to bait people (particularly curi, who he seems to assume is the author of a variety of anonymous posts). He's never even going to tell us what actually triggered him. Did he have a discussion in which he felt bad about a criticism curi said? Who is he and what was said? Blank out. Maybe anonymous said it and he blamed curi.
Is he a Popperian? A parent? An Objectivist? Blank out.
He's resentful of some past conflict which he won't name. Why feed him rational questions/prompts when all he does is spit on them?
Anonymous at 4:39 PM on April 21, 2019 | #12192 | reply | quote
#12191 This is another tactic commonly used around here - asking the other side to invest a ridiculous amount of effort - and when they refuse - interpret that as somehow reflecting badly on them. You may not guess it by the virtue of the fact that I comment here - but I actually have a life!
It is rather telling though that questions are always asked in response to such accusations. They are rather difficult to contradict with a straight face.
Anonymous at 7:37 PM on April 21, 2019 | #12193 | reply | quote
#12192 You seem like a reasonable person so I will respond.
I'm not perfect. I'd prefer not to talk about my motives though, save for one. And that is that Elliot is a truly toxic person that has harmed many good people. And that hurts me.
Anonymous at 7:46 PM on April 21, 2019 | #12194 | reply | quote
What do you think?
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The frequently derided Perth public transport system has proved the big winner in The Weekend West’s third amazing race through the peak-hour streets of the metropolitan area.
First conducted in 2010, the race involved four competitors leaving from a designated location in four suburbs and using different modes of transport to travel to the city.
This year, the electric bicycle joined the race, taking on the car, public transport and the standard bike.
The competitors left about 7.45am from Noranda, Warwick, Murdoch and Cannington.
Camera Icon Participants in “The Amazing Race” included commuters who took the train, cycled, drove and caught the bus. Credit: Danella Bevis
This year, the race was undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Transport and the “finishing line” was outside its office in William Street in the CBD.
The train won on three routes, including a comprehensive victory from Warwick where it was almost twice as fast as every other mode.
Warwick car driver Natalie Richards reported bumper-to-bumper traffic for most of the journey and “my speedo rarely went above 60km/h”.
“The most disheartening thing was crawling along the freeway while trains and motorbikes zipped by, knowing there was nothing I could do about it,” she said.
The only route where public transport lost was from Noranda, where our commuter had to change buses in Morley.
The electric bike proved faster than the standard bike on two routes, however, the e-biker experienced a mechanical fault on the Murdoch route.
On all routes, the car and bike had similar times, separated by just a few minutes.
Public Transport Authority spokesman David Hynes said the results proved that public transport was one of the best options for Perth commuters.
“Our passengers — the people who actually use public transport in this city — think so too,” he said. “For a number of years, Transperth’s passenger satisfaction monitor has indicated nine in 10 of our passengers are either satisfied or very satisfied with our services.
Camera Icon Liam Heitson with his e-bike. Credit: Iain Gillespie
“As the participants in the amazing race would have realised, catching public transport can often lead to time savings, but there are other benefits too.
“In the most recent Canstar City Trains survey, the independent satisfaction monitor not only found Perth passengers had the best service (for the fifth survey running) but those who commute to and from work using Transperth trains spend an average of $33 a week which, depending on their travel journey, is the lowest in the nation.”
Mr Hynes also said that a 2015 Australasian Railway Association survey had found that Perth commuters could save $10,000 a year by using public transport.
“Transperth buses, trains and ferries are also the safest and best way for commuters to multi-task and use technology, read a book, catch up on work emails or a blog or watch a Netflix show while on the move,” he said.
“That’s not something that can be done while behind the wheel, so even if a journey on public transport takes more time, it’s time that can be spent on leisure activities and relaxing, rather than the stress of battling peak-hour traffic.
“Public transport is also congestion-busting, taking drivers off busy roads and transporting them far more efficiently than private cars.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'cf4f82feeddf9ef65c537e0d60f58cd6962839e191e8754a6ae9258bcf6564d2'} |
Enbridge economists: It makes sense to refine our oil abroad
EDMONTON – Economists for pipeline builder Enbridge say it makes more financial sense to ship crude oil to Asia than trying to refine it first in Canada.
Economist Robert Mansell told a federal review panel in Edmonton that the heavy startup costs and the thin profit margins don’t make refineries feasible without heavy government subsidy.
Mansell says given the construction boom on refineries in Asia, it just makes more sense to ship the crude oil there.
Enbridge is seeking federal approval to build a pipeline from the Edmonton area across B.C. to a port at Kitimat where crude would be shipped by supertanker to Asia.
Mansell was answering questions from a lawyer representing the Alberta Federation of Labour.
Outside the hearing, AFL President Gil McGowan said he doesn’t accept the argument from Enbridge, given that existing Canadian refineries are profitable and that Asia is building them as fast as it can. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '724874ab6d9dd8bd7a4de81e6a7551a0c02f3ce729979a40cc5aa28a22a9069c'} |
20 Years After His Death, Eazy-E Deserves a Spot on Rap's Mount Rushmore
Peter Dokus
For Eazy-E, the concept of gangsta rap was fully formed in his mind.
By 1986, the genre, which nobody then called "gangsta rap" ("reality rap," please) had begun to sprout in L.A. by way of Ice-T's "6 'n the Mornin'," which was patterned after Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D's "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" But there was no gangsta-rap label, and certainly no gangsta-rap genre.
Eazy-E was an unlikely progenitor. "I didn't know he rapped," remembers MC Ren, his future bandmate in N.W.A. "Ain't nobody know."
Ren grew up in Compton two blocks from the diminutive, quiet Eric Wright, who made his name in the neighborhood selling crack. But Wright grew apprehensive about the lifestyle and sought to parlay his earnings into a rap business. His first single, "Boyz-n-the-Hood," caught fire in the streets, helping build his fledgling imprint, Ruthless Records.
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"He was the only person I knew who had his own record on his own label," Ren says. "He didn't have no offices or no shit like that. It was just the idea that he had a record."
"He was a visionary," says Phyllis Pollack, who later became Eazy's publicist. "He came up with ideas for things that later happened." N.W.A's success begat Ice Cube and Dr. Dre's solo success, and Dre begat Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game and, to some extent, Kendrick Lamar. Even Tupac and Biggie owe Eazy a debt; their labels, Death Row and Bad Boy, followed in Ruthless' wake.
But today, 20 years after his death, Eazy isn't venerated the way many of those artists are. Even with the N.W.A biopic on the horizon, he's remembered by some as a footnote, rather than a hip-hop colossus who changed everything. With Tupac and Biggie's faces chiseled onto rap's Mount Rushmore and the likes of Jay-Z, Nas, André 3000 and Eminem duking it out for the other spots, Eazy's not even in the conversation.
But he should be. In fact, he deserves to be on the mountain.
To be clear, Eazy was far from a technically great rapper. He famously took forever to record "Boyz-n-the-Hood" because of his poor flow. "I ain't never see nobody take that many takes," Ren says. And he usually didn't write his own verses. People such as Ice Cube, Ren, The D.O.C. and Dr. Dre often did that for him.
But Eazy's high-pitched voice -- alternately hilarious and terrifying -- stands up well on record. More importantly, he had the gangsta vision that ultimately took over hip-hop and remains its driving force today.
Eazy handpicked once-in-a-lifetime talents Dre and Cube for N.W.A, and they would reap much of the glory for their production and lyrics, respectively. But their inspiration, by all accounts, was Eazy's life and times.
"Seventy-five percent of the lyrics and content you hear in N.W.A was going on in Compton and was lived by my father," says Eazy's firstborn son, a rapper himself who goes by the name Lil Eazy-E. "All we're doing, we're plugging into Eric's life," said Dr. Dre, according to N.W.A manager Jerry Heller's memoir, Ruthless.
Eazy wanted to express what was really happening on the streets of late-'80s Los Angeles, then in the throes of the crack epidemic, gang violence and police chief Daryl Gates' assault on its poorest citizens.
"We're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton," Eazy told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. "We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb."
The media often were dismissive of N.W.A during their time. Straight Outta Compton "is well-known for an obscene anti-police number," the Times wrote glibly in 1992. The song in question was, of course, "Fuck tha Police," which pre-dated Rodney King, Michael Brown and the entire #blacklivesmatter debate. It's now considered the greatest protest song in rap history.
N.W.A weren't usually political in the same way as, say, Public Enemy. But Eazy's vision was progressive in its own way -- he let his artists talk about whatever they wanted to.
"Now you can say anything in hip-hop and express yourself," MC Ren says. "But back when we were doing it, record companies would be skeptical about the shit we would say. The average company wouldn't have let us come out."
"We were able to do hardcore music at Ruthless Records without any restraints," seconds Big Hutch, of Ruthless act Above the Law. "In the late '80s, early '90s, that was unheard of."
Eazy's ideas about what gangsta rap would look, feel and sound like seemed to emerge from him fully formed. Before Ice Cube wrote "Boyz-n-the-Hood," Eazy explained to him the street mentality he was trying to capture. In fact, "Boyz" initially was intended for a New York act called H.B.O., who didn't know what to make of its West Coast slang.
The first time he met with N.W.A's future manager, Jerry Heller, Eazy laid out his vision for the group. "He was explaining how, all of the stuff we rap about, we try to sound like New Yorkers," remembers N.W.A promoter Doug Young, who was also at the meeting. "So the concept of this group, they're going to be hip-hop, they're going to be real street with it. But they're going to represent the way that we talk in L.A., the way that we act in L.A. They're going to promote the L.A. culture."
Thanks to albums like Straight Outta Compton, The Chronic and Doggystyle, L.A. culture became synonymous with gangsta-rap culture, which became synonymous with hip-hop culture generally. "This is [the] place where it originated from, when it comes to talking about what's going on in the streets," Ice Cube says. "And by this being the original place, it has power. It has an aura to it. And I think the whole country is [as] fascinated with L.A. living as they are [with] something like The Sopranos, something where they want to know more but they don't want to get no closer."
Golden-era acts like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul may have emphasized the positive, but hip-hop remains, more than any other, the genre where artists outside the white mainstream can tell gritty, urban stories in all their uncensored glory. And it wouldn't have been possible without N.W.A.
Eazy himself released a pair of classic solo albums: Eazy-Duz-It and It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, the former the humorous complement to Straight Outta Compton and the latter the fiery (but still quite funny) response to Dre's disses on "Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')." It's On, made after Cube and Dre had abandoned him, demonstrates that Eazy was more than just the beneficiary of their brilliance.
And his influence remains massive today. Practically every young artist considers himself or herself not just a rapper but also an entrepreneur and the leader of a "movement." Eazy, who launched the careers of dozens of artists, set the archetype.
In fact, until the day he died, at Cedars-Sinai of AIDS on March 26, 1995, he maintained his unwavering vision: to promote music made by and for people from downtrodden urban areas. That everybody else seemed to like it, and continues to clamor for it to this day, was simply gravy.
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Properly preserving this inheritance will require renewed respect for religious liberty and the democratic principles that support it. When religion is not influential in a society or has ceased to be, the state inherits the entire burden of public morality, crime and intolerance. You were taught never to lie, and to respect the life and freedom of others the same as your own. Of course, the accommodation of religious liberty does not undermine other crucial interests in society. Not only does religion teach virtue, it catalyzes moral action. Freedom is the voice of the Church of Scientology. (Einstein himself until late in his life was looked upon as a maverick and denied admittance into learned societies.). How does a Volunteer Minister accomplish these miracles? Where such an attack occurs, primary targets are its religious and national gods and heroes, its potential of leadership and the self-respect and integrity of its members. It is important to understand bad conditions don’t just happen. As they politically insist on monopoly and use social and political propaganda to enforce their monopoly, they debar actual search for real answers to human nature. Yet science itself is merely a tool by which the physical universe can be better controlled. Briefly, a Volunteer Minister fulfills the definition of religion in this increasingly cynical and hopeless world. Religious freedom must include protecting morally or religiously motivated public expression. When you were there, from your youngest years, you were taught that you should voluntarily obey the law; that you should respect other people’s property, and not steal it. Not only does religion teach virtue, it catalyzes moral action. Freedom is a trademark and is used with its owner’s permission. For more information on the use of the name of the Church, go to our online. But they are most condemned by their attacks on anyone who seeks answers and upon the civilizing influences of religion. We look forward to keeping in contact with you. What he failed to predict was that the West would export its culture to the rest of the world and thus grip the entire world in its death throes. Indeed, preserving religious freedom also has its benefits. [ii] According to estimates, more than 90 percent of those who attend weekly worship services donate to charity, and nearly 70 percent volunteer for charitable causes.[iii]. You are now leaving a website maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their failures are attested by lack of result in the field of human nature. Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Response: One Year Later, Mormon Volunteerism Highlighted in New Study, When reporting about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, please use the complete name of the Church in the first reference. and ed. It then must use punishment and police. Where the religious sense of community and with it real trust and integrity can be destroyed then that society is like a sand castle unable to defend itself against the inexorable sea. [iii] Arthur C. Brooks, “Religious Faith and Charitable Giving,” Policy Review (October 2003). Of course, such attacks on religion run counter to man’s traditional aspirations to spiritual fulfillment and an ethical way of life. For the last hundred years or so religion has been beset with a relentless attack. Gerhard Lenski on page 331 of his The Religious Factor, a Sociologist’s Inquiry, defines religion as “a system of beliefs about the nature of force(s), ultimately shaping man’s destiny, and the practices associated therewith, shared by members of a group.”, Scientific activities can be as fanatical as religious ones. To download all photos or videos related to this article, select the links at the bottom of each section. At stake are whether the ideals we cherish will survive or some new abhorrent set of values win the day. But beneath all these attacks on organized religion there was a more fundamental target: the spirituality of man, your own basic spiritual nature, self-respect and peace of mind. Freedom seeks out and illuminates solutions to society’s problems. Factors such as living conditions, life span, medical services, the prison system, homelessness, food production, military and education are all, to a major extent, a reflection of the ethics and morals of the dominant religion. Government can and does, for example, impose reasonable restrictions to protect the health and safety of citizens in a pluralistic society. Of course, if one is going to find fault with something, it implies that he wishes to do something about it and would if he could. Only by a spiritual awareness and inculcation of the spiritual value of these attributes can they come about. We should cherish the positive effect of the religion on our society, but also be aware that religion in wrong hand can become a real force of evil that is also willing to do some horrible things. For more information on the use of the name of the Church, go to our online Style Guide. The linked site has its own terms of use, privacy policies, and security practices that differ from those on our website. By concentrating on spiritual values instead of criminality a new day may yet dawn for man. From this realization of their own religious nature individuals can again come to an awareness of God and become more themselves. Let’s look again at the definition of religion. This trend is disconcerting, especially to people of faith. Scientific groups can themselves be religious “orthodox science” monopolies. Examples abound of religious faith inspiring communities to profound acts of charity and selfless service. To download media files, please first review and agree to the Terms of Use. This enables religious institutions to express their message, determine who they are, and live out their convictions in meaningful ways. The great religious civilizing forces of the past, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and others, have all emphasized differentiation of good from evil and higher ethical values. A society is capable of surviving for thousands of years unless it is attacked from within or without by hostile forces. * Reference: A Scientific Study of Religion by J. Milton Yunger, Oberlin College. In a few words, religion can be defined as belief in spiritual beings. The quality of being religious implies two things: first, a belief that evil, pain, bewilderment and injustice are fundamental facts of existence; second, a set of practices and related sanctified beliefs that express a conviction that man can ultimately be saved from those facts.*. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '406', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9560243487358092}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16088', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OWFPOR2C5AP3KWSQMBISGW3UDJ75NRY7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5517c6ce-c0af-4607-938e-8e0c2c282338>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 12, 5, 38, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.6.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZHV5RAVZA4QGIEXEEFWHES5B326AT57G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4f916dbc-5dd5-417b-8bf6-493c819e994c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://unitedtravelbooking.com/site/03a3ca-how-does-religion-influence-society', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:deed061d-f4fc-4404-9acf-42c51463e1c6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1103', 'url': 'https://unitedtravelbooking.com/site/03a3ca-how-does-religion-influence-society', '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-10-67-67-25.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': '0.02190423011779785', 'original_id': 'd42ec2c81d1862a18ee77dc93ec1fd3f92135cd46f0003261f459e39543b1acc'} |
sweet scents from birthday candles
not skinny
glass with writing, sticky
chocolate covered in red
white gloves turned yellow
from too much use
crayon covered cards
alliteration at its best
speakers allowing me to hear
what is really being said
synonyms are not always what i'm looking for
plastic jewelry has always won my heart
magazines displaying everything nobody wants
the same wispy painting
sitting next to me
with the colors bleeding
wispy wishes screaming
maybe not today
maybe doesn't always mean no. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9298542141914368}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31670', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BWDVXPAS3XQXGQ4JAZF6NQ4GVUEYNUIW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6afc335f-1467-4c2b-94d7-2356a9ad5e13>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 18, 4, 8, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.205.184.8', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LWIOLVZXPB2QHCZQGHRWTN2DBC3PRMAM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:83e1b2a5-55f3-43d4-a3a9-fde7bda7ba4f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2033243/1/Electric-Wire-Rings', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f3f82ad-c9cc-4bd5-bffd-5ce86020a745>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '87', 'url': 'https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2033243/1/Electric-Wire-Rings', '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': '0.2256910800933838', 'original_id': '3e979e3c9b171d5f2cdc52157988eda6993e7c21af2fd76739ee63b61a9695fa'} |
The New Music Seminar returns to NYC
By Noah Michelson
How does the plethora of music out there change the game for upcoming musicians?
There are more aspiring artists than ever, so that’s the good thing. And the good news is more people are into music than ever before. All of that’s great. But once they get to a certain place, how does an artist break out of what we call the “obscurity line” -- the noise floor, where those 99,000 release that don’t sell 1,000 units is just noise -- how do you break out above it? To me, we have to redefine success.
So the days of diamond records -- selling 10 million albums -- won’t return?
There are 27 of those ever in history, and there’ll never be another. We’re talking about that with Michael Jackson now -- about him selling 700 million worldwide or something like that. Nobody will ever do that again. Those days are over. Even the idea of buying records might be over in the next five years, and maybe people will just listen to music or just download singles. There are so many trends that have changed.
What’s changing?
It’s not just about your voice. It’s not just about your artistic ability anymore. Now it’s all about your ability to blog, your ability to have a video on YouTube, which is even maybe more influential than MTV, in some cases, since they hardly play videos anymore.
And you have to wear next to nothing.
Like Tila Tequila, who was one of the breakouts of the whole MySpace era. Courtney Holt is going to give the keynote speech; he’s the president of MySpace music. What he’s doing is creating tools for artists to reach their fans better, which is what MySpace is for. The future of the music business is about the relationship between artists and their fans and how to monetize that relationship and how to feed content -- creative content of all types, not just music, but also videos, still images and blog text -- to your fan base on a regular basis to keep them engaged. In the old days, it was, you make an album, you go out and tour, and two years later you go and make another album. You can’t get away with that anymore. I think those days are sort of coming to an end, unless you’re a superstar. It’s a whole new world, and now is the time to talk about it, because old record labels that are still doing the old thing and artists that are doing the old thing are the dinosaurs. They’re going to be extinct in five years or less.
So how about the idea of iconic artists like Madonna or Michael Jackson -- is it gone? In 20 years, will we even have any?
Will it be Lady Gaga? The old fashioned Top-40 artists, I’m not sure if that’s going to be there. I don’t know if there’s going to be Top-40 in the future because everything’s getting so fragmented.
Well, maybe you’ll discover the next Madonna at this seminar.
That’s what people are saying about Lady Gaga, but I don’t know. It takes time to know who the next Madonna is. She stood the test of time. She’s older than Michael Jackson, and she’s still got her head on. And I go to her show every time she comes, no matter how expensive it gets, because I’m one of those suckers. You probably know a lot of people who go to the shows every time she comes by. [Laughs]
Yeah -- every gay person I know. [Laughs]
No matter how big she got, she always went to gay clubs, and she always performed, and she was always inspired by what was happening there. And she understands that audience, and she’s been true to that audience. That’s something that other artists can learn from her.
For more information on the New Music Seminar, visit
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Fluid Compositional Analysis by Combined Gas Chromatographic and Direct Flash Methods
ABSTRACT
A method and apparatus for providing compositional analysis of hydrocarbon fluids from well samples up to a C30+ fraction. The method includes the steps of heating a sample to a temperature of about 220° F., and collecting the liquid and gaseous fractions therefrom. Both the liquid and gaseous fractions are analyzed by gas chromatography. Additionally, the volume of the gas, and the volume, molecular weight and mass of the liquid are determined. The results are then analyzed to provide a total composition of the hydrocarbon fluids.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a method for obtaining compositional analysis of hydrocarbons present in a geological formation. More specifically, the invention relates to an improved method for obtaining extended hydrocarbon fluid compositional analysis of a well sample, up to and including a C30+ fraction, by direct flash method and gas chromatography.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Analyses of the hydrocarbon fluids from a reservoir are usually carried out by direct distillation of the sample, followed by gas chromatographic analysis of one or more distilled fractions. One major weakness of this technique, however, is that current techniques for this process typically do not produce extended compositional data (i.e., up to and including a C₃₀₊ fraction) that are necessary for use with modern compositional and process simulations. Instead, current techniques generally only provide data for the C12+ fraction, and possibly the C20+ fractions.
Hydrocarbon or petroleum reservoir fluids exist in formations as “live fluids.” Because the fluid is at elevated pressure and temperature conditions within the formation, non-hydrocarbon gases (e.g., N₂, CO₂, H₂S) and light hydrocarbons (e.g., C₁ to C₅) are typically dissolved in the oil. During production, as fluid containing the hydrocarbons flows to the wellhead and subsequently to the surface separators, the gases and light hydrocarbons dissolved therein begin to evolve due to lower pressures and temperatures. The evolved gases thus can alter the composition of the original oil, as it existed in the formation, and two phases, a liquid phase and a vapor phase, emanate. A surface separator separates the liquid and vapor phases. Vapor is collected at the separator gas orifice and liquid at the separator oil outlet. These separate liquid and vapor streams are then analyzed in a laboratory to obtain their individual molecular compositions. The prior art techniques take the individual molecular compositions, and then mathematically recombine them using the original gas-oil ratio to produce a total well-stream composition, which typically includes the individual values of each of the hydrocarbon components up to a C12+ fraction. (That is, individual hydrocarbons are reported up to and including the C11 fraction, and a C12+ fraction is also reported). In a similar manner, a bottom-hole sample is flashed at ambient conditions to produce a flashed vapor, and the flashed vapor and remaining liquid are then each separately analyzed for their molecular compositions. Each of these compositions are mathematically recombined with the volumes of vapor and liquid recovered to produce the well stream composition, usually to C12+.
One prior art apparatus and method for compositional analyses utilizes a topping unit, a distillation column, and at least one gas chromatograph. The topping unit includes interconnected calibrated aluminum cylinders, with each cylinder being connected to a manometer with tubing and valves. The whole unit is enclosed with an insulated material and cabinet doors. The distillation system consists of a distillation flask, e.g. a 500 mL distillation flask, having a tapered joint, an inlet to charge the sample, and a thermometer to measure the still temperature. A heating mantle and a thermocouple are included for measuring the temperature of the fluid in the flask. It includes a low temperature distillation apparatus where the flashed oil is heated to about 608° F. and the vapor can be condensed in a condenser supplied with a circulation of cold water to leaving a liquid C12+ fraction residue. Evolved gas can be collected in the evacuated topping unit and the condensate cut fraction collected in a receiver. Both the gas and the condensate fractions may be analyzed by gas chromatography, and the density and molecular weight of the residual oil C12+ fraction measured and used to calculate the total fluid composition. This method suffers, however, in that it only provides compositional data up to the C12+ fraction.
Thus, there exists a need to provide methods of analyzing hydrocarbon fractions up to at least a C20+ fraction, preferably up to a C30+ fraction for use in advanced simulations.
SUMMARY
The current invention provides methods for the rapid and accurate determination of the composition of a hydrocarbon sample, such as a hydrocarbon reservoir sample, wherein the composition includes hydrocarbon components up to and including a C30+ fraction.
In one aspect, a method for separating and analyzing a hydrocarbon sample is provided. The method includes the steps of separating the hydrocarbon sample into a first fraction and a second fraction, wherein the first fraction includes hydrocarbons having a boiling point less than about 220° F. and the second fraction includes hydrocarbons having a boiling point greater than about 220° F. The method further includes the step of measuring the volume of the first fraction, and the steps of measuring the mass, density and molecular weight of the second fraction. The method includes the step of determining the composition of the first fraction by gas chromatography with a first gas chromatograph, determining the composition of the second fraction by gas chromatography with a second gas chromatograph, and combining the compositions of the first and second fractions to obtain a total composition of the hydrocarbon sample up to a C30+ hydrocarbon fraction.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a method for analyzing the hydrocarbon composition of a hydrocarbon bearing reservoir. The method includes the steps of obtaining a hydrocarbon sample from the hydrocarbon bearing reservoir, and heating the hydrocarbon sample to produce two fractions. The first fraction has an upper boiling point less than or equal to the lower boiling point of the second fraction. The method includes the step of providing the first and second fractions to first and second gas chromatographs to obtain compositional analysis of the first and second fractions; and combining the compositional analysis of the first fraction and the compositional analysis of the second fraction to obtain a total compositional analysis of the hydrocarbon sample.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 provides an apparatus for the compositional analysis of a hydrocarbon liquid according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 provides a method for the compositional analysis of a hydrocarbon liquid according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 provides a method for the compositional analysis of a hydrocarbon liquid according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 provides a method for the determination of the molecular weight of a C30+ hydrocarbon fraction.
FIG. 5 provides a method for the determination of the density of a C30+ hydrocarbon fraction.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Although the following detailed description contains many specific details for purposes of illustration, it is understood that one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that many examples, variations and alterations to the following details are within the scope and spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the exemplary embodiments of the invention described herein are set forth without any loss of generality, and without imposing limitations, relating to the claimed invention.
Whereas many of the prior art techniques for calculating total compositional analysis of hydrocarbons, including cryogenic distillation, fractional distillation and direct sampling techniques, are time consuming, complicated and have certain inaccuracies associated with the results, techniques are needed that improve upon these shortcomings. Additionally, current industry standards only provide fractional analysis of hydrocarbon fractions up to a C7+ or C12+ fraction, which is insufficient for many of the simulation programs being used today to evaluate reservoirs. Thus, the present invention addresses problems associated with prior art techniques by providing methods for analyzing hydrocarbon fractions that are accurate, rapid, less complicated, and involve minimal human error.
FIG. 1 shows apparatus 10 for separating and analyzing reservoir fluids to provide compositional analysis according to one embodiment of the present invention. Flask 12 is provided and is heated by heating plate 14 or a like heating device (e.g., heating mantel, heating tape, and like devices). Flask 12 includes stirring means for homogenizing samples while being heated, such as a mechanical stirrer or a magnetic stir plate and magnet. Flask 12 can be sized according to the desired sample size. Hydrocarbon containing fluids can be supplied to flask 12 via line 16, and flow of the fluids to the flask can be controlled with valve 18. Hydrocarbon and other gases produced by the heating of the fluid in flask 12 exit the flask via outlet line 20 to topping unit 24. The flow of gases from flask 12 to topping unit 24 can be controlled with valve 22. Topping unit 24 can include multiple vessels for collecting flashed gas. For example, in an embodiment of the invention, topping unit 24 can include three vessels; first vessel 26, second vessel 28, and third vessel 30, wherein the first, second, and third vessels are connected to topping unit inlet line 23 by first valve 32, second valve 34, and third valve 36, respectively. Flow of gas from flask 12 via outlet line 20 to topping unit inlet line 23 can be controlled with valve 22. Topping unit 24 gas outlet 38 can be controlled by valve 40. Gas outlet 38 can be used to supply a gas sample to an associated gas chromatograph. Apparatus 10 further includes at least one gas chromatograph for analyzing samples. In certain embodiments, apparatus 10 can include at least two gas chromatographs, wherein the first gas chromatograph is used for analysis of a gas fraction and a second gas chromatograph is used for analysis of a liquid fraction.
Hydrocarbon liquid samples are heated in flask 12 to a temperature of between approximately 200° F. and 220° F., alternatively between about 200° F. and 210° F., alternatively between about 210° F. and 220° F., alternatively approximately 220° F. to evaporate the lighter ends up to about hydrocarbons including C6. In certain embodiments, the temperature to which the hydrocarbon liquid samples in flask 12 are heated is between about 200° F. and 250° F., alternatively between about 210° F. and 230° F. The residual liquid in flask 12, having a boiling point greater than about 200° F., or in certain embodiments, having a boiling point greater than about 220° F., and the topped gas are separately collected and stored, and can each separately be connected to a gas chromatograph for subsequent analysis. In certain embodiments, the residual liquid and gas fractions are separately analyzed by gas chromatography.
In certain embodiments, one or more vessels within topping unit 24 can have a larger volume than the other vessels. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, second vessel 28 can have a larger volume than first vessel 26 and third vessel 30. In one embodiment of the present invention, first and third vessels, 26 and 30, respectively, can have an internal volume of between about 4 and 5 L, and second vessel 28 can have a volume of between about 15 and 25 L.
In addition, apparatus 10 can include means for measuring the density, volume and/or molecular weight of the residual liquid fraction. Apparatus 10 can also includes means for measuring volume and/or density of the gas fraction. Exemplary apparatuses for the measurement of density and molecular weight include the Anton Paar DMA 450 Densitometer and the Cryette WR, respectively. The cylinders for topping unit 24 can each be pre-calibrated such that Cylinder 1 has a known and pre-determined volume, for example Cylinder 1 can have a volume of 4.578 L, Cylinder 2 can have a volume of 19.32 L, and Cylinder 3 can have a volume of 4.578 L. All volume calibrations are conducted at 760 mmHG and a temperature of 180° F. The density of the gas can be determined, for example, with a gas chromatograph.
Apparatus 10 can also include a computing device (not shown) selected from one or more networked personal computer, laptop computer, server, or like device. The computing device can include one or more software correlation module installed on said computing device, or accessible to said computer device, for performing various calculations including correlations, corrections, or statistical methods, and for storing data relating to correlations, corrections, or statistical methods. The computing device can include computer instruction code, such as for example, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, and the like. The software code can be stored as a series of instructions or commands on a readable computer medium, including random access memory, read only memory, a magnetic medium, such as for example, a hard drive or floppy disc, an optical medium, or like device. In addition, the computing device can include software operable to receive and store values corresponding to measurements relating to the volume of the gas and liquid fractions, the mass of the liquid fraction, the molecular weight of the liquid fraction, and the composition of the gas and liquid fractions, as determined by a gas chromatograph, and to provide results related to the total composition of a wellbore samples.
The computing device can include a computer program product, wherein the computer program product that is provided can include a set of instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform various operations, including receiving physical measurements of and relating to the gas and liquid residue fractions, receiving gas chromatograph composition data for and relating to the gas and liquid residue fractions, calculating the compositional data for the gas and liquid fractions, combining the compositional data for the gas and liquid residue fractions to produce a total compositional analysis for a hydrocarbon sample, correlating the density, mass and volume measurements for the gas and liquid residue fractions to determine mole concentration and molecular weight, and correlating the density, mass, volume, and molecular weights with the gas chromatograph compositional data.
In certain embodiments, the computer program product can be configured to mathematically recombine the gas and the liquid compositions, as determined by gas chromatography, and to further provide either a well-stream composition or a separator liquid composition. The calculated molecular weight and density of a hydrocarbon sample using an estimated value for the C30+ fraction can be provided to the computing device, and a computer program included therein can then correlate and compare the gas and liquid compositions of the hydrocarbon sample, as determined by gas chromatography, to the measured molecular weight and density of the hydrocarbon sample. After the determination of the C30+ fraction and an initial confirmatory match has been made, the properties of additional plus fractions, such as the C7+, C12+, and/or C20+ fraction, can then be determined and calculated. This technique can be used to acquire extended fluid composition up to the C₃₀₊ fraction, along with other plus fraction average properties.
In certain embodiments, the gas analysis gas chromatograph apparatus and the liquid residue gas chromatograph apparatus can be separately configured. For example, in certain embodiments, the gas analysis gas chromatograph can include various columns for the separation of various components contained in the gas sample, including low molecular weight hydrocarbons. For example, the gas chromatograph can include a molecular sieve for separation of oxygen, nitrogen and methane gases. In certain embodiments, the column can include a 60/80 mesh, which may have dimensions of 15′ by 125″ OD. In certain preferred embodiments, the 60/80 mesh column can be positioned outside of the oven of the gas chromatograph, to increase elution of various components as it has been found that certain compounds elute better at or about room temperature.
Other suitable columns for use in the gas analysis gas chromatograph can include an HP HeySep Q 60/80 mesh column, for example having a length of about 8 feet and an OD of about 125″, to separate carbon dioxide, ethane, propane, and hydrogen sulfide compounds from the gas fraction; a 35% DC 200/500 on chromosorb PAW-DMCS 80/100, for example having a length of about 15 feet and an OD of about 125″, for back-flushing heavy components, such as hydrocarbons having a greater mass than about heptane, or the like; and/or an HP-1 cross linked methyl silicone capillary column, for example having a length of about 50 meters, for separation of hydrocarbons having between about 1 and 10 carbon atoms.
The dual channel high sensitivity thermal conductivity detector and a flame ionization detectors of the gas analyzer can be configured as follows. In certain embodiments, the thermal conductivity detector can be positioned as the front detector and can have a maximum temperature of up to about 200° C., and a reference flow of up to about 40 mL/min. The flame ionization detector can be positioned as the back detector and can be configured to have a maximum temperature of about 250° C. and a hydrogen/air flow ratio of between about 1:20 and 1:5, alternatively between about 1:12 and 1:8, or preferably the hydrogen/air flow ratio is about 1:10.
The condensate and residue gas chromatograph can include an Ultra-Alloy-1 (MS/HT) column, preferably including Valco Series W-Model FU0041 injection valves, which can be connected to a flame ionization detector. Typically, the flame ionization detector can be operated at temperatures of up to about 350° C., having a hydrogen/air flow ratio of between about 1:20 and 1:5, alternatively between about 1:12 and 1:8, or preferably the hydrogen/air flow ratio is about 1:10, utilizing a carrier gas, such as helium, which can be supplied at a carrier gas flow rate of about 25 mL/min.
Injection of either the gas or liquid residue hydrocarbon sample into a gas chromatograph can include a step of establishing a carrier gas flow in the gas chromatograph through the chromatographic columns, wherein the carrier gas is heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize volatile hydrocarbon components and any hydrocarbon solvent, such that the hydrocarbon components and solvent pass through the chromatographic column with the carrier gas.
Apparatus 10 can include multiple calibrated aluminum cylinders, for example three calibrated aluminum cylinders, which can be connected to each other, wherein each can also be connected to a manometer (not shown) with tubing and valves. The manometer(s) can be configured to measure the pressure within the cylinder(s), both before and after evacuation, and after gas sampling, to provide initial and final system pressures. The specific cylinder(s) are selected for use in the present invention on a sample by sample basis, based upon certain sample properties, including the gas-to-oil ratio (GOR) and the bubble point pressure of the hydrocarbon sample.
A still can be directly connected to the inlet of the topping unit. Heating means, such as a heating mantle, hot plate, heating tape, or like means can be provided to heat fluid contained in the still. Means for measuring the temperature of liquids within the still, such as a thermometer, thermocouple, or like means, can also be provided.
As shown in FIG. 2, method 100 for determining the total compositional analysis of a hydrocarbon sample is provided. In first supply step 102, a hydrocarbon containing liquid is supplied to distillation step 104, where the hydrocarbon containing liquid sample is heated to a temperature of at least about 530 F, alternatively at least about 550° F., to produce three fractions; a light gas fraction, a distillation cut, and a liquid residue fraction. Distillation step 104 utilizes cold water circulation through a condenser or like means to recover the hydrocarbons. Evolved gas is collected in a topping unit, and gas condensate is collected in a receiver. Light gas fraction analysis step 106 analyzes a light gas fraction that includes hydrocarbons up to about hexanes (i.e., having up to about 6 carbon atoms), or hydrocarbons having a boiling point of less than about 69° C. The light gas fraction can also include light non-hydrocarbon gases, such as hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen. Distillation cut analysis step 108 analyzes a fraction that includes hydrocarbons having between about 6 and 11 carbon atoms, or hydrocarbons having a boiling point between about 69° C. and 200° C. Liquid residue fraction analysis step 110 analyzes a fraction that includes hydrocarbons having about 12 and greater carbon atoms, or hydrocarbons having a boiling point of greater than about 200° C.
Light gas fraction analysis step 106 includes volume determination step 112, and gas chromatography step 114, wherein the gas chromatography step provides compositional analysis of the light gas fraction. Distillation cut analysis step 108 includes a mass determination step 116, and a gas chromatography step 118. Liquid residue fraction analysis step 110 includes a mass determination step 120, a molecular weight determination step 122, and a density determination step 124. The results of all determination steps for the light gas fraction, distillation cut, and liquid residue fractions are then combined and undergo further calculations in total compositional analysis step 126. The liquid residue fraction includes the C12+ fraction. Current methods of analysis do not provide compositional analysis of a hydrocarbon fraction beyond the C12+ fraction.
FIG. 3 provides an improved method for determining the total composition of a hydrocarbon containing wellbore sample, according to one embodiment of the present invention, for the compositional analysis of hydrocarbon sample. In a first supply step 202, a hydrocarbon sample is supplied to a vessel, such as a flask, and flash heated to a temperature of at least about 200° F. to provide two fractions, a gas fraction, which includes hydrocarbons having up to about 8 carbon atoms, and a liquid residue fraction, having hydrocarbons having about 7 carbon atoms and greater. Gas fraction analysis step 206 includes volume determination step 210 and gas chromatography step 212, which provides compositional analysis of the gas fraction. Liquid residue fraction analysis step 208 includes mass determination step 214, molecular weight determination step 218, density determination step 220, and gas chromatography step 216, which provides compositional analysis of the liquid residue fraction. The results of all of the above described measurement steps for the gas and liquid residue fractions can then be combined, and can undergo further calculations total compositional analysis step 222.
The method provided in FIG. 3 utilizes a flash technique step 204 where the hydrocarbon sample fluids are heated under atmospheric conditions to at least about 200° F., preferably up to about 220° F., to evaporate the lighter end hydrocarbons up to about hexane or heptane (i.e., about C6 or C7, respectively). The flash technique step 204 for preparing the gas fraction and liquid residue fraction according to the present invention does not require high heat, does not require reduced pressure, does not employ a distillation process, does not require a cold water input for condensation purposes, and does not require the separate step of collecting of a light condensate fraction for analysis. The present method is simpler in both the preparation of fractions and the analysis thereof, and allows for a reduction in the time required for analysis by up to about 50%, thus doubling the number of different analyses that can be completed.
Both the gas fraction, which can include hydrocarbons up to and including about hexane and other light compounds, and the liquid residue fraction, which can include hydrocarbons including about 6 and greater carbon atoms (i.e., hexane and greater hydrocarbons), can be analyzed by gas chromatography steps, 212 and 216 respectively, to provide individual compositional analysis results for each of the two fractions. In certain embodiments, separate gas chromatographs can be utilized for the analysis, and in certain embodiments the separate gas chromatographs can be separately configured for the analysis of gas or liquid residue fractions.
Total compositional analysis step 222 can include the steps of providing all collected data, including the gas chromatography results of the gas fraction and liquid residue fraction, as well as gas fraction volume determination step 210, liquid residue fraction mass determination step 214, liquid residue fraction molecular weight determination step 218, and liquid residue fraction density determination step 220, and the step calculating the total composition make-up of the hydrocarbon sample from these measured values. The steps for the determination of the molecular weight and density are further described herein.
In preferred embodiments, the C30+ fraction of the hydrocarbon sample is first computed from the liquid residue fraction, typically by matching a pre-calculated liquid residue fraction molecular weight and density with measured liquid residue fraction molecular weight and measured liquid residue fraction density. After the C30+ fraction has been determined and matched, the other fractions, such as a C7+, C12+, and C20+ fractions can then be calculated.
Referring now to FIG. 4, a process 300 for determining the molecular weight of a hydrocarbon sample is provided. In first step 310, the liquid masses of each component in the hydrocarbon sample, up to and including the C29 component, are calculated. A gas chromatograph can be used to determine the compositional make-up of the hydrocarbon sample up to the C29 component. For clearly defined components, such as C1 to C5, the liquid masses are calculated by multiplying the molecular weight of the component by the measured mole fraction of the component. For fractional cuts, such as for example, C6, C12, up to C29, the molecular weight is selected from published values (such as, Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering, by Donald Katz). In step 320, a value is selected for the molecular weight of the C30+ fraction. In certain embodiments, such as for condensate, an estimated value of the molecular weight of the C30+ fraction of between about 450 g/mol and about 700 g/mol is used. Alternatively, in certain embodiments, such as for black oil, an estimated value of the molecular weight of between about 550 g/mol and about 900 g/mol is used. In step 330, the liquid mass of the C30+ fraction is calculated, based upon the molecular weight of the C30+ fraction, as provided in step 320. In step 340, the liquid mass of the fractions up to the C29 component, as calculated in step 310, and the liquid mass of the C30+ fraction, as calculated in step 330, are combined to give a total liquid mass of the sample.
In step 350, the total fluid molecular weight is calculated, such as by freezing point depression utilizing a Cryette WR apparatus. In step 360, the calculated molecular weight from step 350 is compared against the measured molecular weight, to determine if the difference between the calculated molecular weight and measured molecular weight are within a pre-determined range to be considered sufficiently accurate. Typically, the values of the calculated molecular weight and the measured molecular weight are desired to be within about 10% of each other to be considered sufficiently accurate. If the values are sufficiently accurate, then in step 370, the molecular weight values for all fractions, including the C30+ fraction, are determined. Alternatively, if the values are not sufficiently accurate (that is, the difference between the calculated molecular weight and the measured molecular weight is greater than about 10%), then in step 380, another molecular weight for the C30+ fraction is selected, and step 330 for the determination of the liquid mass of the C30+ fraction is repeated using the molecular weight value selected in step 380. The procedure is repeated until the difference between the calculated molecular weight and the measured molecular weight for the fluid is determined to be sufficiently accurate.
Referring now to FIG. 5, the procedure for determining the density of the C30+ fraction 400 is provided. In first step 410, the liquid volumes of the components up to the C29 component, including non hydrocarbon components like nitrogen gas, are calculated. In step 420, a value for the density of the C30+ fraction is chosen. In certain embodiments, such as for a condensate sample, a C30+ density value of between about 0.80 g/cc and about 0.90 g/cc is selected. In certain other embodiments, such as for a black oil sample, a C30+ density value of between about 0.85 g/cc and about 0.95 g/cc is selected. In step 430, the C30+ liquid volume is then calculated using the selected density of the C30+ fraction. The C30+ liquid volume is calculated by dividing the C30+ liquid weight by the selected C30+ density. In step 440, the total liquid volumes for the fractions up to the C29 component and the C30+ fractions are calculated.
In step 450, the fluid density of the total liquid sample is then calculated, such as with an Anton Paar DMA 450 Densitometer, or like device. The fluid density for the total liquid sample is calculated by dividing the total liquid weight of the sample, as determined in step 340 described above, by the total liquid volume determined in step 440. In step 460, the calculated fluid density determined in step 450 is compared with the measured fluid density to determine if the calculated density and the measured density are within a pre-determined range such that they are to be considered sufficiently accurate to proceed. Typically, the values of the calculated density and the measured density are desired to be within about 5% of each other to be considered sufficiently accurate. If the difference between the calculated density and the measured density are sufficiently accurate, then in step 470 the density for all fractions, including the C30+ fraction is calculated. Alternatively, if the difference between the calculated density and the measured density are not sufficiently accurate, (i.e., the difference between the calculated density and the measured density is greater than about 5%), then in step 480, another density value for the C30+ fraction is selected, and step 430 is repeated. The procedure is repeated until the difference between the calculated density and the measured density for the fluid is determined to be sufficiently accurate.
After the density of the C30+ fraction has been determined within sufficient accuracy, the C7+, C12+, and C20+ fraction densities can be determined as follows. For the determination of the C7+ fraction, the weights of all components from the C7 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together, and the sum is divided by 100 to obtain a total weight of the C7+ fraction. The volumes of each component from the C7 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together to obtain a total volume of the C7+ fraction. The total weight of the C7+ fraction is then divided by the total volume of the C7+ fraction to obtain a C7+ density.
Similarly, determination of the C12+ fraction proceeds as follows: the weights of all components from the C12 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together, and the sum is divided by 100 to obtain a total weight of the C12+ fraction. The volumes of each component from the C12 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together to obtain a total volume of the C12+ fraction. The total weight of the C12+ fraction is then divided by the total volume of the C12+ fraction to obtain a C7+ density.
The determination of the C20+ fraction proceeds as follows: the weights of all components from the C20 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together, and the sum is divided by 100 to obtain a total weight of the C20+ fraction. The volumes of each component from the C20 component up to and including the C30+ fraction are added together to obtain a total volume of the C20+ fraction. The total weight of the C20+ fraction is then divided by the total volume of the C20+ fraction to obtain a C20+ density.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a well bottom hydrocarbon sample is analyzed to determine total hydrocarbon composition. The hydrocarbon sample is heated to a temperature of at least about 200° F., preferably to a temperature of about 220° F., to produce the gas fraction and a liquid residue fraction, wherein the gas fraction includes carbon compounds up to about C6, dissolved gasses such as nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of C7 and C8 compounds. The number of moles of the liquid sample can be determined by dividing the measured mass of the liquid fraction by the measured molecular weight of the liquid fraction. Average molecular weight can be determined by freezing point depression. The number of moles of the gas sample can be determined, for example, by dividing the measured volume of gas fraction at standard conditions (60° F.) with the known volume of one mole of gas at standard conditions (23,690 cm³). The total number of moles was determined, for example, by adding the number of moles of the liquid residue fraction and the number of moles of the gas fraction.
The number of moles of each individual component for both the liquid residue fraction and the gas fraction can then be determined, for example, by multiplying the mole fraction component determined by the gas chromatography, by the total number of moles of either liquid residue fraction or gas fraction. The sum of the individual moles of each of the gas and liquid residue fractions can then be calculated. The wellstream mole composition can then be determined, for example, by dividing the mole fraction of each component in the liquid residue fraction and the gas fraction by the total number of moles for both the liquid residue and the gas fractions. A mole percentage can then be determined from the calculation.
The gas chromatograph can produce a chromatogram that can include various different peaks corresponding to each individual component within the sample, based upon total retention time of the compound in the chromatograph. The areas for each individual peak correspond to the concentration of each individual compound present within an injected sample. Peak areas are typically automatically calculated by the gas chromatograph, and can be a main input into an associated computer program that can be utilized for determining the overall wellstream composition of a hydrocarbon sample.
For the liquid residue fraction, the molecular weight and density are specifically measured and are matched to determine the C30+ fraction component. In certain embodiments, in determining the C30+ fraction component of a sample, the program portion of the present invention can utilize historical wellstream data relating to the measured molecular weights and densities for reservoirs, as well as the published molecular weights and densities of single carbon number (SCN), for reliable determination of the C30+ fraction.
In certain embodiments of the present invention, the chromatograph can be calibrated prior to analyzing a wellstream hydrocarbon sample. For example, in certain instances, a reference standard containing a known amount of C30+ fraction is used to calibrate the gas chromatograph. For a light oil sample, the calibration reference sample can include between about 30% and 40% by weight of a known C30+ fraction, preferably up to about 35% by weight of a known C₃₀₊ fraction. For a heavy oil sample, the calibration reference sample can include between about 40% and 50% by weight of a known C30+ fraction, preferably up to about 45% by weight of the known C30+ fraction. In certain embodiments, a known amount of a light hydrocarbon reference, for example hexane, can also be injected with the C30+ fraction reference sample, to concurrently determine average retention times for both hexane and the C30+ fraction sample. The response factor of the internal standard can be adjusted during quantification to match the final calculated C30+ fraction based upon the weight fraction of the C30+ fraction.
Calibration of the thermal conductivity and flame ionization detectors can be by known means, such as by using standard gas and liquid samples. For example, the thermal conductivity detector responses can be measured for various compounds, including nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and alkanes having between 1 and 9 carbon atoms, based upon the mass injected and the peak areas from the analysis of the standard samples.
Calibration of the flame ionization detector can be done using known standards, or a separate standard can be prepared for such a calibration. For example, in certain embodiments of the present invention, a liquid mixture that includes a known concentration of hydrocarbons having between about 5 and 16 carbon atoms can be prepared by measuring between about 0.05 and 0.40 mg of the various hydrocarbons and placing into a clean, dry volumetric flask, which after all of the paraffinic hydrocarbons were added, can be topped to volume with pentane. Density of the calibration sample can be calculated by comparing the empty mass of the flask, and the mass of the flask with the liquid samples placed therein.
The improved analysis methods of the present invention provide data for accurate compositional simulations, estimation of reserves, field surveillance of enhanced oil recovery, and gas cycling projects. In addition, providing accurate compositional data is essential to the tuning of equation of state fluid characterization models for input into reservoir and process simulations. The technique presented in this paper has been successfully used to acquire an extended well-stream composition of oil and gas samples and it has several advantages over the traditional method of compositional analysis.
The method of the present invention offers multiple advantages over prior art methods for acquiring fluid composition data. For example, in contrast to many of the prior art methods, which only provide compositional analysis only up to a C12+ fraction, certain embodiments of the present invention can provide extended compositional data up to a C30+ fraction, along with various other plus fraction properties. In other embodiments, the methods according to the present invention include flashing the sample at atmospheric conditions by heating the hydrocarbon or wellstream oil sample up to about 220° F., rather than heating the vessel to temperatures greater than about 500° F., or even above about 600° F., as required by the prior art. In addition to requiring additional energy and equipment, heating the sample being analyzed to the higher temperatures can result in partial cracking of the fluid sample, thereby providing an inaccurate determination of the composition of the sample. The recovered gas and liquid fractions from the flashing of the hydrocarbon sample, according to the present invention, can be analyzed using gas chromatography, and the resulting compositional analysis can then be imported into a computer program designed for accurate quantification of the analysis. The measured volumes of the various fractions and the measured molecular weight and density of the liquid residue fraction can then be utilized and applied to compute a well-stream composition for the fluid. Thus, in certain embodiments of the present invention, the use of the present methods can result in the saving of significant time, and can increase and in certain instances, double the number of fluids analyses that can be performed each year.
The C₃₀₊ fraction data is preferred to be used over C12+ or C20+ fractional data for simulations or equation of state calculations. Accurate knowledge of each component up to the C30+ fraction, rather than a lower fraction, improves accuracy of simulations and reduces the number of corrections or adjustments that must be made.
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The examples below show calibration and usage of at least one embodiment of the present inventive methods for the compositional analysis of a fluid.
Prior to analyzing either a bottom-hole sample or a fraction obtained from a sample from a liquid separator, precautions were taken to ensure that the sample was in a single phase by pressurizing and homogenizing the sample to a pressure above the bubble point through use of a Sprague pump connected to the hydraulic side of the sample cylinder. The sampling end of the cylinder was connected to the receiving end of the still, which in turn was connected through the still outlet to the inlet of the topping cylinders. When all connections were completed between the cylinders, the system was evacuated through the topping unit to the sample end of the cylinder. The sample end valve was then opened slightly, thereby ensuring that the sample pressure was maintained at a pressure that was above the bubble point pressure. Between about 50 and 100 mL of sample, depending on the nature of the fluid sample, were flash heated at room temperature conditions. For example, the fluid sample was heated to a temperature of about 220° F., and the evolved gas was collected and measured at the topping unit. Additionally, the collected gas sample was analyzed by gas chromatography and also measured to determine the volume of the collected gas sample. In a similar fashion, liquid residue was cooled and collected for gas chromatographic analysis, and the density and molecular weight were also measured.
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GUI vs CLI: Which for Managing Network Switch?
Network switch is the major building block of many business networks, as they connect multiple PCs, printers, access points, servers, and other hardware to make your business up and running. Switches enables you to send and receive information and access shared resources in a smooth, efficient and highly secure way. It happens at some points we need to make settings or adjustments on switches to perform certain function, like configuring VLAN or check status of switch ports. So how to get the configuration access to a network switch? Does GUI or CLI work better for you? What’s the difference between GUI vs CLI? We’ll address these issues and guide you to manage switch via GUI and CLI.
gui vs cli for configuring network switch
What Is GUI (Graphical User Interface)?
GUI is short for Graphical User Interface – it uses graphics like windows, scrollbars, buttons, etc. to allow users to communicate with the data switch or GUI operating system. It facilitate users, especially novice users in an intuitive and easy-to-learn way. GUI access need recognition and good exploratory analysis and graphics, which is more suitable for users who requires no access to advanced tasks.
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What Is CLI (Command Line Interface)?
CLI stands for Command Line Interface, which allows users to write commands in a terminal or console window to communicate with an operating system. CLI acts as the medium between operators and the network switch: Users have to type command to perform a task. CLI is more accurate than GUI, but it has a very steep learning curve. CLI is appropriate for users who uses it in a regular basis, or for the costly computing where input precision is the priority.
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GUI vs CLI: What Is the Difference?
GUI vs CLI, both as the mainstream interface for accessing network switch, differs in the following aspects:
Ease of Use: CLI enable users to type manual command in order to perform the desired task whereas in GUI users provided visuals to communicate with the data switch. So the beginners will pick up a GUI much faster than a CLI.
Control: With a GUI, there’s control over files and the operating system – but advanced tasks may still need CLI. While CLI enables all the control over file system and operating system, making tasks simple.
Speed: In GUI, using the mouse and the keyboard to control is slower than using the command line. With CLI, the operator simply use the keyboard and may need to execute only few commands to complete the task.
Hacking: In terms of hacking, all the vulnerability exploits are done from command line. All the remote access and file manipulation are done from the command line.
Scripting: CLI excels in this field since it allows you to create a script that contains few lines of command and it will do the work for you.
Here we use the chart to summarize GUI vs CLI differences.
Command line interface enables a user to communicate with the system through commands.
Graphical User interface permits a user to interact with the system by using graphics which includes images, icons, etc.
Device used
Mouse and keyboard
Ease of performing tasks
Hard to perform an operation and require expertise.
Easy to perform tasks and does not require expertise.
More flexible
Memory consumption
Can’t be changed
Custom changes can be employed
Integration and extensibility
Scope of potential improvements
GUI vs CLI: How to Use Them to Manage Network Switch?
CLI and GUI are different kinds of user interfaces with their own merits and drawbacks. It is important to understand where each one excels so you can pick the right tool. Using the defining features of two different tools provides the best of both worlds. The following video, using FS S5850-32S2Q 10GbE switch as an example, offers a complete guide on how to use command line and GUI to access a network switch, through which you may figure out which one fits better for you.
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