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i SAIiT liAKE TRTBtnyE; MOiNTPAY MpRNUSTG, May 16, 1904:. 3 -Mf,' 'jiH IE EXHIBIT f GAME FISH Paradise for Anglers ' at i Louis, (superb Display of Perch, ' Jroqt, Bass, Pickerel; Muskeliunge, Etc. 1 ' yuBsylwmia, Minnesota and Mis led Furnish Many Specimens Hi.; rrom Their Streams. 3'!MCiil T)l2 Trlbun0 41 'it T. LOUIS. Mo , May 15. Anglors who km vlflt the "World's fair tako delight Jill jE the live exhibits of frame fich. In ,hi pace of Forestry, Fish and Pennsylvania has twcnty-slx rttiiums In which arc displayed the m'mt snd rtrcli that Inhabit tho Adlron Wlccc i ircams. Missouri In a similar man .Lr ahon-s the choicest of the finny txlbo ML h f0UDd In tho Interior brooks and rSfV-Tirs, and Minnesota has added to tho Vl' j-jon tho muskellungc and. pickerel so Ytji;vccr furnishes two of the moat in- Jiifos fcaturcD of the display, an iJm Vtspiiui of blind fish taken from cavo W-ms In the Ha Ha Tonka region In Wii&e county and a monster Mississippi ia.-rirr catfish that occupies a largo pool A ' i'-i Too blln(1 llsh aro sllown here " r'tte first time. They aro small In clze Si 'lidteveiio ejea Tho catfish was cap H 'l ttd in a Foulhwest Missouri sink hole, m I,itr It h3l nren lcft .b' tho ccdlne J I' 'dJ of a J ear apo. It Is a3 large a3 ail Cold Water Gamo Fish. Li i Xcirly all of' the game fish are of tho v ''Ai water variety. Tho streams that $ IP.P frt.'h tho aquariums In which they ,1 it'wtept come from refrigerating tanks I' rf Cltered wator. Tho supply is kept fresh trkavir.j th" svastc pipe constantly opon. : ftt'tankJ in which the fish aro kept are c! and Kla-s. tho side exposed for m. ibftrvsllon belns: transparent Tho water 1 ' isdciran-J the fish aro seen to fine ad j ?muse. I Fd bv a rustic brook tilled v.-IUi pold ti i larpe pool affords a placo In tho t '.Jmolvanla exhibit for tho display of ? 'iirjtr ppcclraenn than the tnnks will nc i Tsaxodale. Here are to tc peon sturgeons 'I'mtirn lo five feet in lencth. srass nlke. t i'saMmge and carp They nro tho larg m L; cl Ircsh Witer fish and arc much " 'r.-jbt after by Xlmrods. ? (r large and small-mouthed black bass, Iroiit, speckled trout, rainbow trout I ,.cd pickerel are represented in largo num- II 1 train the cold wat?r tnnks. The brown j t-VBtli regarded In Pennsylvania ns a dc- ' rittivc game flsh His habits, observed 1wu;h a panr of glass, are Interesting Lo it lovers of sport. Tho brook and ;k!fd trout aro regarded as the most tiutllul of American fish Specimens of Sunfish. b ether tanks arc to be found specimens ! funSsh gnthered from Pennsylvania Mb and ponds There Is nlso the calico :rcb. Thlrh is attractive becauso of Its iri-co!orcd scalr3. The white porch and tan local aperies are included In this Mbll. There aro also a few of the "uall M rlkc, Fometimcs known as the ntbanna salmon, and the blue aun Ecckers aro not an excluslro product of suylranla, for it Is a common joke Sat their existence is universal, but a fit'iiy It, mad" of the species because tho Kiktr Is found In nearly all the waters 'tfitt State They are Inferior as a food ib. ar.d eaten only in the spring. Fresh nter hcepshcad and bullheads arc other cr.r specimens of food fish shown. , Pariwt is tho nntne of a destructive fish itch s Inferior to catfish, and la some sold under that name. There aro sifr tribes of less Interest to the angler, Y loves only tho sport, but which aro ! put value to tho collection, e-v aro foun(1 I'1 abundance In tho .K-tylklll river, whore they were accl :til!y Introduced more .than flflv yoars lo iron China and Japan Tho exhibit hfro 'nclucies oniy those taken from nasyhTinli streamr. Thcv aro of nil r'a the best adapted to the aquarium. ' Sturgeon Becoming; Extinct. 5 Jtuicon Is fant becoming extinct. J Ine nnost specimens of tho trlb'i cojn to exist have been brought tn tho Kcrtds felr This fish is a survivor of v- Uivonlan ago and reaches a weight pounds. It 13 highly valued as a yMd In Mlss jur:1!) oxhiblls are specl--s or the rainbow and brook trout and . sizen and large-mouthed bluck basn. .re are rdso some beautiful cropplo and tL". i c?.Ii wal-er llsh that require treat st i!lmilar to that given to the Penn J",? ""-c fish. White perch, buffalo M blue and chincl catfish from tho jti!U5l;,pi the Missouri and other rivers in1?..0 tho ther spcclmcnn. e,. w ithe rchlhlta were selected from ijj K' streams and lakes of Mln rnf,avo,,?toflHnln resorts along the, ll'Me Cerent pncy, Mcramcc and tiiim ?Ta h2x contributed to tho col IiV il;. Al n"it of brook trout of spe m rnnicst ' furpliihcd by August Iauth !fuS Mo- wh0 1,as Profitably cul IbiMiinH rar,eJ0'l for the market and li utnSv, fisheries IftatH?? Jn "Position pcrloJ fly-casting MTll.- ,5C; 3ust WCBt of the Palace of Jftitfi A,.! i,sh a1d Gfim. which is tho J4t.,. ldnPr ,L,h anu exhibit JLrt of nS,U conic'c for honors in this jitl 01 fishermen. ijfo. Notice of Eemoval. lsJSBMacieod haa removed her dreaa-M-nB parlors to 23 W. Gth South. JEWISH HOSPITAL FOR f CONSUMPTIVES PROSPERS i ITTSIIURG. May is.-Thc trustees of ':tMI National Hospital for Con lDji W al Dcnvcr met here today. Tho W TL,rCport 6nwo'l that since thc hos ?Wdsmita,r!le? -W0 had been con ,T9 cafrv Fm la, no w In the treasury. itats in th?J' W thero w'cro CO pn 155 a dii5hnhosi?,t"'' m woro admitted l Gult'T werc fc-clcctcd and PhllKnh,cl111' Joph Sheenbergcr "rgcr were added to the lOASTORIA Ki or ants and Chilireiu You Have Always Boughi Indians Building Hills al St. Louis Mud Lodges and Grass Tepees Are Erected by tho Pawnees and the "Wiohitas. Special to The Tribune. ST. IX3UJS, May 15,-yisltors to the Indian reservation at thc World'3 fair durfrig May may wltnoss tho the erection of Indian huts and en cainpmenla by tho Indians as they ar rive. Tho Pnwnee3 arc at work on their mud lodges and tho Wichita Indians on their famed grass tepees. For this work tho oldest Indians of tho tribe aro brought, an the younger Indlnns, under tho ef fects of civilization, are losing tho prln cl.PrlefLof Ilut 0Jld lodee building. ni"r"r SIo,"5 Indians from tho Rosobud agency of South Dakota aro now rv.rV-. pc"o Indians and two expert blanket-weaving maidens of thc Jsaveio trib-, from Santa Clara. N M are also in camp. The Puohlos are expert metal workora and arc udorned with spoc Imona of thc class of work they sell dur ing thc exposition. July 18 Dale for Reunion of Elks Elaborate Programme for Entertain ment of the Visitors at Cincinnati j During the "Week: ST. LOUIS, Slay 15. Thc programme for tho national reunion of the Benevolent and Protcctlvo Order of Elks, to be held In Cincinnati tho week of July IS, has been completed. It provides an unusually elaborato aeries of entertainments, covering a period of flvo days. The grand lodge of tho order, .which convenes during each reunion, ls to bo entertained with an excursion on tho Ohio river, ending at night with a display of fireworks on tho banks of tho river, in which the Kentucky lodgco will Join with Cincinnati lodge. A feature of tho pro gramme will be a band contest for theso prizes Bands of thirty or mora pieces, first prlzo 51000, aecond $250; bands of loss than thirty pieces, first prlzo J500, second $250. ' For tho parade theso prizes aro offered: $500 to tho lodgo having the greatest num ber In parado, $UX to tho lodgo having the grcatcot aggrogato mileage, $500 to the lodgo mnklnc best appearance, JDO0 to tho lodge wearing the most unique uniform, and $oCO to the lodge accompanied by thc greatest number of ladies. Syracuse and Saratoga, N. T., nro tho only avowed candidates for the next reunion. Rich Society Girl lo Mejlie Veil Hcnounces Life of Luxury in San Francisco to Enter Convent in New York, at Albany. N'EW YORK. May 15. Turning her back on the society of which she had been a leader, bidding good-byo to family and friends, gladly re nouncing a llfo of luxury and pleasure, Miss Eleanor Doming, a California heir ess, will bury horflolf In a few days In tho convent of the Sacred Heart In Al bany. "Beautiful Nellie Doming," as ho Is known In her set In Stin Francisco is a daughter of Joseph G. Doming, one of several millionaire brothers famous on the CoaBt Since her entry into ioclcty, four years ago, when she was 1" years old, Miss Doming ha3 been ono of tho favorites of fashion at thc Golden Gate. No parly was considered complete without her, for she wa3 the llfo of each. She had ad mlrors a-plenty, but she remained heart-, whole, showing no preference for any man. One characteristic of which her friends have nlwnyo spoken wan her at tachment to her church, but It came a a great surprlso to them when she said she was going lo renounce tho world and tako tho black veil. A I'Vtv weeks ago Miss Doming distrib uted her Jewels, valued al thousands of dollars, among her friends. What money sl'o has In her own right and her sharo of her fathcr'a fortuno will go to tho Ro man Catholic church. Miss Doming will make a short visit In this cltv before going to Albany with her cousins who arc known aa tho "stun ning Deming twins." Easy for the Japs to Place Hew Loan Success of Present Issue Has Con tributed to Feeling of Public Confidence. j LONDON, May 15. Thc feature of tho woek of tho Slack oxchango has been the great strength of all hlgh 'class securities, and events general ly havo boon favorable to tho markets. II ls behoved Japan could easily place another loan here, and the success of tho present Issue haa contributed to tho con fident feeling, which has boon greatly as sisted by tho signing of the convention with the Chinese Government for a sup ply of labor to South Africa. Most of thc markets participated In tho rise in prices, but tho American section proved an exception. The unfavorable In iluenco affecting Wall .street, the gold ex ports and tho unsatisfactory crop reports, had a weakening Influence hero. Mexican railroad Issues attracted great attention, and there was a substantial rise on the announcement of the dividend. Y. M, C, A. CONVENTION COMES TO A CLOSE I T3UFFALO. May 15. Two mass meet ings, one for women and the other for men, services in several churchco and an evening meeting at Convention hall today ended the thirty-fifth nnnunl convention of Iho International Young Men's Chris tian Association of North America. At tho mooting for women Miss Helen !. Gould read thc lesson of tho day. W. M. Danncr, general uecretary of the. associa tion s health farm at Denver, told of tho benefits of tho health farm, whero younsr men In search of health aro helped to pass thc time In pleasant companionship. , ' To Kill Germs hy Street Sprinkling Disinfectants to Be Placed in the Wa ter TJsod for Laying Disease t Breeding Dust. , HJ EW YORK, May lC.-Nothlng has so. Q deeply Interested t,hc Department of Health and tho Strcot Cleaning de partment in a long time aa tho project under discussion to mako uso of disinfectants In water with which streets aro sprinkled an a means of checking tho Bnrcad of disease, especially the spread of luboroulosls. In Its results it Is believed thcro will bo equally great Interest on tho part of tho public If, as expected, there 13 a marked decline In the number of tuberculosis cascfl. It Is believed tuberculosis Is spread chiefly in duet of tho streets as a result of drying saliva which ha been expec torated by persons suffering from con sumption 1 Aa yet thc matter is in the fxperlmcntnl stngo and It may bo several weeks boforo any practical demonstration Is made. Tests aro bolng conducted of various chlorides and other disinfectants with re gard to their ability to kill disease gorras without themselves making offonsh'o odors or otherwise being unpleasant! or dangerous. - 1 In Philadelphia a test haa been mado which Is said to be satisfactory. When it has been determined what Is the most .feasible way to dlstrlbuto disinfectant and othor details perfected. Immediate steps will be taken to carry out tho plan. Ring up 1053-Z for all kinds of ro. nalrs or alterations on your bulldlnga Screens and job work a ppeclalty. Esti mates cheerfully given. H. F. Williams 160 East Second South. INSANE FREAK OF DRUNKEN MAN Happenings of the Past Week at tho Smoky City of Salt Lake Valley. Special to The Tribune, , MURRAY, May 15. Whisky was re sponsible for an insano freak by Gcorgo Ncumcyer on Friday nftor noon. 11c was standing on tho street when ho suddenly announced that he wan not afraid to lio down with his head between a horse's down with his hcau between a horse's hcclB. A moment later ho put his Idea Into execution. Thc horso which ho se lected for tho exhibition could not seo tho Joko and began to Jump and kick. Ncumcyer was kicked In thc head and was unconscious when ho was picked up and carried to his room. Iho Proyldenco that Welches over dninkon men and children was 'with hlra, however, and ho soon re covered. This community mourns tho loss of a very estimable young laay, Miss Gussle Olson, who died in the bloom of her life at L03 Angeles on May 3. at thc age of 22, Thc body was shipped to Murray, whero tho funeral took place Mondav, May 9, from tho ward mectlng-housc. Ifeart trou blo Is given as tho cauao of her doath. Miss Olson held a prominent place in soci ety circles and ls best remembered as tho queen In thc extensive celebration that took nlaco In Murray on Pioneer day, 1902 The father of Miss Olsen, who was called by wire to her bedside, arrived In I.os Angeles in time to listen to the last words uttered by his dying child. Mrs. William Trcsflcld's homo Is quar antined on account of diphtheria. Mr. and Mrp. J. Sanders are visiting in Murray. Herbert Jncobsen was sent back to thc reform school, from where he was re leased a few months ago on good be havior Tho carpenter shop of Gcorgo Grantor was destroyed by firo last Tuesday after noon. Ho sustained a loss of about $300. C D. Brlnton of South Cottonwood has engaged in thc mercantile business at Bingham Junction. A. Papas will open a fruit and vegetable business In the store occupied till lately by tho Elshop & Peters mattress factory on State street. The Norwegian Brotherhood has ar ranged for an excursion to Caldcr's park, to take pl.ce May 17. Frank Heck of the Highland Boy has left for Michigan, whero his father Is reported to bo seriously 111. Mrs. Charles Eatchel Is recovering from a sovcro Illness. Sho had to undergo an operation. Tho West Jordan and Lovendahl dis trict schools engaged In playing baseball and other games last Thursday. West Jordan cam out victorious. Damon lodge No 10 has extended a rcso lut'on of condolence to John Brownleo on tho occasion of tho death of his mother, who died recently In Wyoming. A number of offenders appeared before tho Pf llco court Gcorgo Mltchel was sen tenced to seven dnys' hard labor, Peter Anderson to pny 53,' I. E. Irnes to pay 5P, and John Dugan to pay $5 Tho offense In all these cases was drunkenness. Raymond, the little boy of Mr. and Mrs. James Richards, was violently thrown out of a buggy Tuesday, May 10. He landed between thc horse's hind feet and re ceived Injuries which, however, are not of a dangerous nature. A surprising fact that Oriental coffee rclls at 35c per pound and is better than most 40c klnda. COOK TEA AND COFFEE CO., 11 East Third South. EDWARD WENTZ'S FATHER APOLOGIZES TO JURY BRISTOL, Tcnn., May 15 Thc Coro ner's Jury which rendered a verdict of accidental shooting In the case of Edward L. Wcntz, whoso dead body was found in Wise county, Virginia, several days ago, received a reply from Dr. J. S. Wcntz re garding his alleged criminal charge In re lation to- thc finding of tho Jury. Dr. Wcntz makes an apology to tho Jury, de claring thnt lie did not use such terms as were credited to him In thc press dis patches. Dr. Wentx was credited with intimating that tho verdict was Intended lo shield th6 murderers of his son, who were friends of the jury. An Open Letter. From the Chapln. S. C, News: Early in the j.prlnrj my wife and I were taken with diarrhoea and so severe were the pains, that we called a physician who prescribed for us, but his , medicines failed to give any relief. A friend who had a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on hand gave each of us a d03e and wo at ence felt the effects, I procured a bot tle and before using tho entire con tents wo -were entirely cured. It la a wonderful remedy and should be found in every household. H. C. Bailey, Edi tor., This remedy is for sale by all leading- druccuiti. ( GET BUSY FOR. l REMOVAL SALE OPENS I j THURSDAY, MAY 1 9th. I Daily 2:30 and 7:30. j HIRSrl, WICKWIRE & CO. ( Hand-Tailored Clothes are shaped by correct cutting and putting to- 3 gether. They are shaped right to start with and they keep their shape ? ! through tho hardest wear. Nothing equals them in Ready-to Wear i . Clothes in America. Come, let us prove it to you. I ! Rowe& Kelly Co. ! 132 Main Street 1 One Price. Plain. Figures. I i I OSWEGO 1 I CORN., STARCH Which has been used for 55 years is of an- i questioned purity and neVer disappoints in f ! results. It is the ide,al form of starch and is i i considered the standard' ofexcellence. Mrs. Helen Armstrong. 3 ISAHOQP RESTORED "Oupibhie" ISBljPS ThU CTtxit Vt-xMAblo Trtanren tt mrrtptlc of a. fimoii Freneti phTBlriw, Trill Swf ? WfiH hood, Iniomnlo, PeiM la tbe Bek. Scmlanl EtaU1otv. )sfl-yon fJlttfSlS pomSo. II Trtopii uT J06M1 ty flax of nUht. PromtinHtT. ntJcTf rvo cbecked wi rtcSSa plnctT per earn, nro twiblrfwiuj ir-tUtt. CWPIbfeNK H'SS.S'JU fiOD'BE-PXTZS 2mim DO- Bait Juaka CitT. TXtaX Asecctt&- Drunkenness cured. A poalllva Dd permanent curs for drunkenneu and the opium diseases. There- Lb no publicity, no sickness. Ladlat treated as privately as at thotr own homes. The Keoly InatJtutt, W W, Bo, TempK Salt Lake City. Utah- HOTEL KNUTSFORD, New and oieexnt In all Its appointments, 2S0 roomff, single or en suite, SI rooms witb bnili. G. B, Holmes, Propriotor. ' 'C?!aTTBC5S' ffl jjP Better tSian any En stern make, W1TJ cost you less money. Ask your deal er for them. Look for our trade- mnrlf . t Utah Bedding & M'f'g Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. IJ. W. CUBEXE, fi ASSAYER. G T9 W 3rd South. 8alt Lake City. g "5 pi '' ll BARTON CO. I Will discontinue handling Bojs' and Children's Clothing, Hafej I' j I; I J ! and furnishings, commencing Monday morning, Maj 16. The I ' 5?i ; I new Spring Slock in this department will be sold regardless r ' , h Sof cost. The deeply cut prices will move the goods quickly. ' M' ; jl Here is a benefit for Boys and Parents. ' ONE PRICE TO lAXIi. ' ' Ijl?!!' '' I ! IH' ! 1 45-47 MAIN STREET. ;. 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From The Desk Of The Library Director: Academic Research Or Danger To Society?
Aug 11, 2017 04:59AM ● By Theresa Gilman
Dracut Public Library
Parker Library Director, Nanci Hill
On July 24, 2017, the following question was posted to the Facebook Page of the ALA (American Library Association) Think Tank.
Anonymous asks:
I work in a small, rural library. Recently we've had a patron asking about books regarding serial killers and looking up the same info on our public computers. He also made extensive notes on this subject as well as on schizophrenia. He left these notes in one of the books he was looking at. He was also seen and heard walking around the library talking to himself.
There were no patron complaints about this man. However, a staff member felt uncomfortable and mentioned it to management. Management then turned the camera pictures of this person over to the police. He was then identified and banned from the library.
My question is this: if he wasn't harming anyone and there were no patron complaints, do you all feel he should be allowed to use the library as he needs?
I was very interested in how the people around me thought that this situation should be handled, so I posed it to the staff. I received four responses. They are as follows:
• If he is not a harm to himself or others, I think he should have been able to use the library like everyone else.
• It sets a dangerous precedent in the library that anyone who looks suspicious or makes someone else uncomfortable could be banned.
And in this tumultuous atmosphere, things can quickly snowball out of control. We also don't know the specifics of the circumstances. Maybe he was a method actor, or a writer researching a character. Management should have followed up with the patron before overstepping their role and going to the police. If he made no direct threats to anyone's safety, there was no immediate need to have him banned.
• Right off the bat I felt like this scenario was a set up. My first thought was, the author led with 'I work in a small rural library' did anyone on staff know the patron? I worked in a high school library and I was never surprised by what a student might ask for when working on a school project or just for general curiosity. Why this person was looking for information on these subjects isn't the point, and that's what the librarian who complained was trying to get at.
Patrons come to me for subjects so varied I couldn't possibly keep track of them, nor would I want to. My job is to help them get the information they need. My responsibility to the patron ends there.
I'm not sure if the situation was as simple as it was presented, (things rarely are) but with this limited information I would say, yes they overacted. If patron was not causing a problem for the staff or other patrons and he was minding his own business, then it should have ended there.
As a librarian you are always faced with how close you get to your patrons while maintaining your professional distance. Being friendly, courteous, and helpful is within your job purview; being nosy is not. If a patron volunteers information to me to engage me in their reason for searching, that's different.
• The library management committed a great injustice to this patron. The library is a place where any person can gather information of any kind, and they denied that to a member of their community. This member of the community hurt no one, was not hurting himself, and committed no crime.
When people leave notes in books, it is our responsibility to remove and discard them, not to read them and then judge the person who may have left them there. The staff and management in this case was entirely in the wrong. If we used the kind of logic these people did, every person who read a thriller or murder mystery would have cause to be banned from their library.
The patron is entitled to read what they want, and act the way that they want to, even if it seems strange to others. No one has to enjoy it, but that person is allowed to do it. If I were concerned for an individual's well-being, I would possibly have a conversation with them at the desk while they were checking books out. Even a "Hey, I love that book!" can often get a usually-quiet patron talking. I would also try and pool information across my staff to see if there were any friends or family in the area who could help.
Sometimes a person who has a mental illness may not be a threat to a single soul, but need reminding to take their medication every day. It sounds like if this person was looking up information on schizophrenia, and talked to themselves, they may have been concerned that they were showing early signs of the illness.
My hope is that this situation could be the standard against which other patron issues can be held, and one would say "JUST DON'T DO THIS."
I have to say, that I was very happy with the responses that I received. As people who work in a public library, we follow the ALA (American Library Association)'s Bill of Rights, which includes (among other things) the following statements:
I'm very interested in knowing what you think about this situation. If you have a response, please email me at [email protected]
Nanci Hill, Library Director
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We use advanced diagnostic tools to provide accurate diagnoses and treatment options. The key tools are explained below.
Urodynamic Testing
Urodynamic testing, Cystoscopy, Ultrasound advanced diagnostic tools for urogynecologyUro means urinary system or “bladder” and Dynamic means “active changes.” Urodynamic Testing is a way of evaluating the active changes and behaviors that occur during the function of the urinary bladder, urethral sphincter, and pelvic floor muscles.
The test usually involves the placement of a very small catheter, or tube, in the bladder, and another small tube in the rectum. Sterile fluid is then used to fill the bladder, so that your doctor can tell how the bladder behaves as it is getting full. This test can be very helpful to figure out what parts of your bladder are not functioning correctly and the results of this test will often help your doctor determine the best treatment for you.
The testing should not be painful. The catheters are generally very small. It is important to remember that these tests can often help you find the right treatment to fix these problems. Your doctor may request that you arrive at the office with a full bladder, if you can.
Cystoscopy is a way to look at the inside of your bladder with a camera. Numbing gel maybe placed in the urethra, which is the tube that connects your bladder and the outside. After this, a tiny telescope is passed into the bladder. Sterile fluid is then used to fill the bladder, so that your doctor can see inside. This allows your doctor to make sure that there are no abnormalities which might be causing your bladder symptoms such as stones, tumors or inflammation. The testing should not be painful. The test generally takes between 10 and 30 minutes. You will know the results immediately after the test.
Anorectal Manometry
Anorectal manometry testing is usually performed to asses the function of the rectum, the anal sphincter muscles and the process of defecation. A small catheter is placed in the rectum and attached to a computerized pressure measuring system. A series of measurments are performed including anal sphincter strength, rectal sensations and reflexes. The test is not painful and takes about 20-30 minutes. This test can be valuable in evaluating patients who complain of accidental bowel leakage, obstructive defecation and incomplete rectal empyting. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '10', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9354230165481568}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '35994', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5JAH2EULSAREQIXAYXXU3Y7P7NIB43SX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2600a9c9-de63-4566-a301-a2c140881cc9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.188.26.227', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7RCKSCMJFYHDLXP3S6TH4RWEQUZSUBN2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f7847c22-676f-4776-b37f-b4e148612791>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://azurogyn.com/tools/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d89b0817-18b5-4643-9328-842017544281>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '392', 'url': 'https://azurogyn.com/tools/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-37-226-241.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.026068389415740967', 'original_id': 'ea297899c6be40bc28cb0fcea9680ef5e3bdba751936839c298b7002da2fb661'} |
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There is more known about Nelson Mandela around the world than any other person to live in the 20th and 21st century. This is especially true for Canadians and we were blessed to have hosted Mr. Mandela three times during his time as South Africa's President. Mr. Mandela did feel a close connection to Canada.
According to Carleton University political science professor Linda Freeman, who has written extensively on Canada's relationship with South Africa, Canada’s support of Nelson Mandela and opposition to apartheid was not always the case. For example, Prime Minister Trudeau actually defended trade and investment with the apartheid regime and stated that the idea of economic sanctions were "unrealistic," and expressed “irritation” with those who advocated them.
In 1984 that all changed with the election victory of Brian Mulroney. Canadian and South African historians agree that Prime Minister Mulroney not only did more for South Africa than any other Canadian prime minister but also more than any other world leader! It was Mulroney's campaign to ratchet up the diplomatic and economic pressure on the apartheid regime. This included a few very public battles with Margaret Thatcher on the issue.
Stephen Lewis, Mulroney's choice in 1984 to be ambassador to the United Nations said recently: "Mulroney did not waver in his support towards Mr. Mandela. Because I've had contact with Mandela since then, I know that he felt that Canada's role in his release, and in overcoming apartheid, was singular, very important."
Yes, we do know a great deal about this fascinating man, Nelson Mandela, but we found some interesting, not well known facts to share with you.
• Mandela's birth name - Rolihlahla - is an isiXhosa name that means "pulling the branch of the tree". Colloquially it also means "troublemaker". His English name, Nelson, was given to him by a missionary schoolteacher.
• He fled the Eastern Cape for Johannesburg after the leader of the Tembu people, tried to set up an arranged marriage for him. After arriving in the city, he found work as a night watchman at a mine.
• Mandela's first wife Evelyn Mase was a nurse and was the breadwinner in the family supporting Mandela while he studied law at Wits University. They had four children together and divorced in 1958.
• During his time in prison, he was consigned to hard labour in a lime quarry for much of that time and was, at first, only allowed one visitor and one letter every six months.
• The apartheid government offered to release Mandela on no less than six occasions but he rejected them each time. On one such occasion Mandela released a statement saying: "I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom ... What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people [the ANC] remains banned?"
• After he was separated from his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, he asked Amina Cachalia, with whom he had a long relationship, to marry him but she turned him down. On his 80th birthday, Mandela married Graça Machel, the widow of Mozambique's former president Samora Machel.
• The ANC was labelled a terrorist organization by the apartheid government and was recognized as such by countries including the US and Britain. It was only in 2008 that the United States finally removed Mandela and other ANC members from its terror list.
• Hundreds of awards and honours have been bestowed on Mandela. Among others, he is an honorary citizen of Canada, an honorary member of the British Labour Party, and an honorary member of Manchester United. He also had a nuclear particle (the 'Mandela particle'), a prehistoric woodpecker (Australopicus nelsonmandelai) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela) named after him.
• His favorite dish is probably not yours: He's been wined and dined by world leaders. But what Mandela loved eating most was tripe, the stomach lining of farm animals
Have you seen the movie; Invictus?
Released in 2009 starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon is the story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. The title Invictus may be translated from the Latin as "undefeated" or "unconquered".
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Astronomically Far Away: How to Measure the Universe
light sources in our universe
(Image: © European Southern Observatory)
It starts with triangles
Even better than triangles
To carry us even farther into the reaches of the cosmos, we need to switch to a different measurement method. This new method is again based on a very simple concept: brightness. If I know exactly how bright something is, then by measuring how bright something looks, I can figure out how far away it is. Farther things look dimmer. Super simple. We just need to know exactly how bright stuff in space is.
Fortunately, nature gives us a few of these "standard candles." One is a kind of star called a Cepheid , which periodically goes from dumb and dim to hot and bright in the matter of weeks or even days. That itself isn't all that special — stars do, after all, change brightness all the time — but what's peculiar about Cepheids is that the time between episodes is proportional to their true brightness. The brighter a Cepheid is in real life (as in, up-close-in-your-stellar-face real life), the longer it takes to cycle back and forth.
Their name doesn't mean anything special. As usual in astronomy, they're named after the constellation where they were first discovered — in this case, Cepheus. And the connection between their true brightness and the time between episodes was discovered about 100 years ago using the ever-reliable parallax method on a few nearby stars. That means we can measure a Cepheid star's cycle (which is supereasy, at least when it comes to astronomy) and immediately know its true brightness (which is superhard, at least until we can build probes that go there and just look). And we can compare the true brightness to how bright it looks, do a little math, take a little nap and tell the world how far away that Cepheid is, reaching even beyond the limited parallax method.
By the way, this is how Edwin Hubble convinced everyone that we should change the name from the Andromeda nebula to the Andromeda galaxy, because the Cepheids there were just a bit too far away to be inside the Milky Way, thereby radically expanding our conception of the true size of the universe.
Knowing what we don't know
Also, we're not exactly sure how Cepheids … you know, work. The best we can figure is that it has something to do with the layers of gas surrounding the star. The gas may be (somewhat) cool, hugging close to the star and blanketing the light from our eager telescopes. But the star's intense radiation puffs the gas out farther away from the star, thinning it enough to let the starlight pass through. After a while, the gas layer gets tired of that game, cools off and settles back closer to the star. Unsure of where exactly to live, it cycles back and forth, sometimes days at a time, for centuries.
That's only our best guess; we actually have only a vague understanding of what powers the variability of Cepheids. But get this: It doesn't matter. I'll say it again, with emphasis: It doesn't matter. When it comes to using Cepheids as a distance-measurement device, what matters most is there's some way to measure the true brightness. The fact that a relationship exists between a Cepheid's period and brightness is all we need. (Well, yeah, if you're an astrophysicist interested in explaining all the goings-on up in space, then it's important. But if you just need a reliable distance estimator, then not so much.)
Cepheids give us rulers to some pretty far-out places — even those beyond our own galaxy. But at even greater distances, their usefulness peters out. If you can't see an individual star anymore, then it's no use to try to measure its periodicity. You need to use something brighter, something more intense, something … super. A supernova, for example.
Bright enough, common enough and reliable enough to use as a standard candle, supernovae (and, specifically, ones known as Type Ia) are so supremely bright that they allow us to measure some truly awe-inspiring distances, over halfway to the edge of the observable universe.
Not bad for a little trigonometry.
Learn more by visiting Paul Sutter's Expert Voices landing page, and by listening to the episode "How do we know far away stuff is…far away?" on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the Web at Thanks to Harold for the question that led to this piece! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter and
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[The title of this post is taken from a poem by Kipling The Old Issue.]
I've alluded in the past for a Big Day coming. It had come today!
Today, 28/07/2005 @ 11:03 AM I was released from the IDF after four years of service.
This was one hell of a good day, to say the least. I'm now officially a mere citizen of Israel. The last four years have been... interesting.
I have served exclusively in military prisons, starting as a warder in Prison 6, which is a prison for holding IDF soldiers. The work load was crazy (19 hours a day was the norm) and the work wasn't fun. I met a lot of people that I wouldn't have met otherwise, I got to help to some of them, had two separate attempts by drug dealers (two different ones) to have a contract (the fatal kind) on me. I got a lot of people skill (mostly by necessity) and an aversion to Noblesse, which is the cigarette that the prisoners smoke.
Then I went for officers training and had the time of my life during Bahad 1 (the training base for officers in the IDF). I had a lot of really good people with me and I got to work on interesting problems (mostly unrelated to what I would do, but it's good to know that I can conquer the mountain if I have to.).
Afterward it was a post in the biggest prison in the Middle East. This time it was a prison for Palestinians terrorists, the place is called Qteziot, but most of the foreign media call it Ansar 3. I was quite shock to find out just how many horror stories there are about the prison on the net (most of it is wrong in so many levels I couldn't formulate a rebuttal even if I was allowed to).
The first thing I did when I got to Qteziot was to get personally acquainted with each of the ~500 prisoners that I was in charge of, which is something that I truly never want to do again. As a plain soldier I always thought that officers had the easy life, since they didn't deal with all the boring / ugly / annoying stuff, but for the first six months as an officer I worked much harder then I ever worked as a soldier. I had a lot of fun, and it was a good place to be in. The prison had just started to get established and I was able to influence quite a bit there (in fact, I designed the prison's logo, which caused a redesign in the logos of all the military prisons in Israel :-D ).
I served there just under two years, first as a Company Commander's Second (probably bad translation of the term), then as the prison's Operations Officer. I was also in charge of (the literal translation is Escorts Officer, which sound just as bad in Hebrew as it is in English) of securely transporting terrorists to courts, hospitals and other prisons. Near the end I was the prison's Instruction Officer, which allowed me to create some spectacularly bad Power Point presentations and some really cool movies ( in Windows Movie Maker, no less :-) ). At that point I was getting sick of the prison, there were quite a few personal changes, and I didn't like the atmosphere in the place so I had a stint in instruction soldiers fresh off Basic Training for about a month.
My new position was a prison's commander near Jenin. It is a small prison, which means that I was in charge of pretty much everything. The good side was that I was free to do mostly as I pleased, but the flip side was that I also had to handle a lot of the routine stuff myself. I'm not sure if it's good or bad that I couldn't blog about that time. Although what I'd to say would be of interest to very few. Nevertheless, it would have felt better to tell someone all those strange stories. Take for example the mess that crazy inmate in cell #3 did when he set fire to the cell because he wanted a bottle of coke (the drink, not the drug), or what happened when the transport to the asylum got to a completely different prison. Oh the other hand, maybe it's better that I didn't post those things, they are mostly insider's jokes. And I don't suppose that anyone who read this blog has spend any time working at a prison.
During the time I was in the army I had to deal with the strangest situations. What do you do when a soldier hands you a live scorpion as a parting gift, for instance? That is not something that Miss Manners ever covered, I bet. :-)
Four years have passed, I'm now a part of the reserve army of the IDF (and likely would continue serving in prisons when on reserve duty :-( ), looking back, it was interesting at times, often frustrating and hard, almost always the situation was when I had to a choice between what I was supposed to do and what I wanted to do. I got to discuss politics with a panel that included the Islamic Jihad, the Hamas and the PLO (the three main terrorists organizations) with side comments from the Democratic Front and the Communist Front (the two minor terrorists organization, which are even more fanatics than the rest, if this is possible). That was a good way to pass the night shits; we usually managed to resolve all the problems in a reasonable manner and reach world peace by 4:10 AM, by which time we had to stop so they could pray.
I was part of the Derech Chadasha (New Path) operation, during the Hudna's days (when it seemed that there might be peace in the Middle East), as Israel released close to three hundred prisoners, all of them have signed a declaration saying that they will not deal with Terror again. Just over a month later, two bombings, in Tzriffin and Jerusalem both of them were released in Derech Chadasha. It was this, among many other things, that made serving there so hard. On the one hand you are required to provide the prisoners with proper treatment and on the other hand... you listen to the news and see a bombing in Jerusalem and hear them celebrating. And that is in addition to the usual conflict of being in a position where you need to take care of people who would truly like to kill you.
I'm glad beyond words that I've finished with all of this.
I look back, and four years have passed. I'm not the same man I was when I entered the army. I grew, I learned (mostly thing I didn't want to know), I experienced both joy and sadness, had successes and failures. I wouldn't repeat it for anything, yet I wouldn't give up the experience for the world. How did a geek like me ended up being in such a place, I truly cannot say.
I remember that on the first few days of my last post I was in an interview with my commander and he mentioned that no one have ever finished such a post without at least a single criminal investigation. Talk about encouragement. I was the first to manage to do that. Thinking about it, I never once was on trial (and in this army, this means a lot, they put you to trail for losing a magazine).
I'm free to do as I please now, the Army's Phone (which they call VPN, for some reason) is no longer. I will not get calls in the middle of the night, or Friday's Shabbat Supper about whatever strange thing this or that prisoner did which require my personal attention. I will wake up in Sunday and I'll not have to go back to prison. I can now leave by no man's leave, underneath the law. Time to start a new life.
Most soldiers go to a trip abroad when they are released from the army, usually to the Far East, it's called "To Sit Under A Mushroom" and include high levels of alcohol and drugs and low level of personal hygiene. There is a nice song about such a boy, called: "Moshe, You're Not A Hedgehog." I've considered it carefully and decided that I've objections on several levels to that, so I'll pass.
Now I need to get a job and start living the life where you get up in the morning and you got a choice at what you wear.
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Israeli Soldier Perspectives « I’m just some Muslim…
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Valentine's Day Proposal Bliss-Bomb, Unlike You Have Ever Seen… Try Not To Undefined Undefined Laugh or Cry !
This story is a Journalist's dream (especially if you write for Lifestyle, People or Entertainment demographic) BECAUSE there's a deeper story underneath that makes it worth looking into.
Australian Country Boy gets a dream one day of a place where he will meet his Soulmate.
He leaves his 800-person rural town to search the world for an EXACT place on the planet - one that he has never seen before.
It takes him 1-whole year to find it ... when he finds it ... he waits there EVERY DAY until his Beloved shows up and answers his 3-word Puzzle.
What the Australian Country Boy doesn't know is that that his Soulmate-to-Be was working with Jason Mraz (Celebrity Musician, Grammy Award Winner) to create some magic of her own, to Magnetize Her Beloved Aussie Boy right to her home town.
150x friends of these two people helped make a Short Movie (11:11) to tell a LOVE STORY of how these two people just Followed Their Bliss, found each other and made something really special happen.
How the Aussie Country Boy creates a Series of Bliss-Bombs for the girl that has Hidden Cameras, that lasts 6 and a half hours and executed across 3 cities.
Urban Dictionary definition of a Bliss-Bomb
But they don't give us the whole Buffet - they just serve up an Appetizer ... there's MORE Story behind-the-scenes.
In a fast-paced, hectic, even jaded world ... here is a couple that's actually the real deal and it's refreshing smile
Have a look at why this "LOVE STORY" video will bring a smile and warm the hearts and souls of its viewers showing that there can be MAGIC in finding Love.
FollowYourBliss.TV is a new Internet TV Channel devoted to helping people find their Passion, Path and Purpose so they can Have the Business & Life They Love.
Some of their supporters include Oprah Repeat-Guests, Emmy Award Winners, Personal Development Gurus, Best-Selling Authors, Celebrities, Famous Musicians and a 300-person strong community in Southern California.
Contact : Nikki Jade
Organization: FollowYourBliss.TV
Telephone: 1.858.848.YESS (9377)
[USA - PST - business hours]
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The Platypus: Half Mammal Half Reptile?
The platypus: for most of us, it is one of those quirky creatures from Australia that one day we hope to see. From an evolutionary standpoint, however, the platypus is fascinating.
An animal that produces milk for its young, yet at the same time lays eggs? A cute, furry, webbed-footed creature that can also release venom so strong modern-day painkillers are useless to affected humans? Rumor has it that at first glance, it was so bizarre that the animal wasn’t even believed to be real, but a mish-mash of others that were assembled together.
And rightly so: When studying the animal kingdom in school, mammals were completely distinct from reptiles. However, the platypus seems to be a unique combination of both.
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<h3 class="content-header-title">Add Coupon</h3>
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<div class="breadcrumb-wrapper col-12">
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<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Coupon</a>
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Facebook Co-Creator Eduardo Saverin Renounces US Citizenship Before IPO - Technologist
Technologist - The FindLaw Legal Technology Blog
Facebook Co-Creator Eduardo Saverin Renounces US Citizenship Before IPO
Why did Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounce his U.S. citizenship?
The answer to this question was the subject of much speculation on Friday, when news broke that the Brazilian-born tech investor renounced his U.S. citizenship back in September. It was only on April 30, when the IRS published a list of citizens who have chosen to expatriate, that the information became public.
Many believe Saverin is trying to avoid an astronomical tax bill in the wake of Facebook's IPO. His shares are worth as much as $3.84 billion.
But Saverin's spokeswoman says this is not the case, reports Forbes. He currently lives in Singapore and plans to remain there for quite some time. Eduardo Saverin renounced his citizenship because it was more practical to do so.
It probably doesn't hurt that Singapore has no capital gains tax.
Preparing for Facebook's IPO or not, renouncing his citizenship pre-IPO was a wise move, according to Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, director of the international tax program at the University of Michigan. When U.S. citizens expatriate, they still pay capital gains taxes on their stock holdings, he told Forbes. The IRS treats stock as if it has been sold.
The amount paid is based on an appraisal by tax advisors. When the company is private, Avi-Yonah explains, ex-citizens can argue that the stock is worth less because of the difficulty of selling private shares. But once the company has gone public, it's much more difficult to argue about value.
The fact that Eduardo Saverin renounced his citizenship pre-IPO may have saved him millions of dollars. That's pretty useful for someone who continues to invest in technology startups.
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Seamless House Boots (Knit Style C)
Bulky / 12 ply (7 wpi) ?
This pattern is available for $3.50 USD buy it now
Similar to the style A, in this style B the sole is attached to the foot along the knitting process eliminating the seaming at the end. Alpaca yarn, alpaca fleece and thread of 100% wool is combined together. Boots are felted.
Level: Intermediate
Yarn: DK weight 100gr/3.8oz, wool or alpaca rovin 100gr/3.8oz
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Noritsu go from strength to strength in the UK marketOn June the 24th and 25th Photoxport/Noritsu hosted open days for Noritsu products showcasing the leading edge Green II Inkjet drylab. The enthusiastic turn out of Industry attendees enjoyed over the two days, Seminars from Noritsu’s head of Strategic Sales & marketing Worldwide Mr Ron Kubara who delivered keynote demonstrations on Noritsu’s unique state-of-the-art E-Z software, this now industry defacto standard for delivering high quality results with ease of use for the operator. There was also Q&A Session about the New Green products and consumables. The attendee’s also got to meet with Noritsu President Mr Fujimoto who explained noritsu new range of systems and forthcoming New product line up, he emphasised Noritsu commitment to The UK market and Noritsu support for Photoxport’s efforts in reestablishing noritsu in the UK Market … Mr Fujimoto was impressed with the passion for Noritsu’s products in the UK which came across from the level of industry attendees.
A number of smart new wooden own-branded frames have been launched by UK & Ireland Photo Frames and Albums distributor, Kenro Ltd.
The new Lytton Series of frames - available in either painted matt white or black wood grain finish - have a 30mm x 13mm deep flat profile, giving them a very contemporary look. They are particularly suited to displaying black and white photos. With a free-standing easel back, they come in sizes: 6x4, 7x5, 8x6 and 10x8 inches.
The new Milton Series of wooden frames have a flat styled 35mm x 15mm deep profile and are available in three different colours: smooth finish Ivory, Black or trendy Champagne. With a free-standing easel back, they come in sizes: 6x4, 7x5, 8x6 and 10x8 inches.
The Kenro Chester Series has been a favourite for a while now and the range now boasts three new sizes. Available in Black or White they have a generous and bold 35mm wide profile with a raised filigree design and removable picture mats. They have free-standing easel backs and are available in sizes 6x4, 7x5 and 8x6 inches, plus the new 10x8 inch version. They are now also available in multi-aperture sizes, with wall hanging fixings, to hold either three 6x4 inch or three 7x5 inch photos.
Finally, the City Series is a classic wood Certificate size frame (A4) with a 20mm x 15mm deep rounded cushion profile. This neutral coloured frame has a gold edge to highlight the photo or certificate, and features a free-standing easel back.
All these new frames are supplied shrink-wrapped with protective card corners in an individual bubble bag.
Says Paul Kench, Kenro's managing director: "Retailers can be confident that all Kenro Frame ranges are great quality and offer excellent value for money. We are constantly on the look-out for new frames that provide added interest, and our wooden frame ranges remain a firm favourite."
The fashionable new 'Kington Antique' series have a distressed ivory antique style matt painted finish with 38mm wide x 22mm deep swept profile, while the 'Kington Beaded' series have an ornate 35mm wide x 20mm deep profile with a distressed painted cream finish and decorative beading around the picture area.
The Kington series wooden frames are available in sizes 6x4, 7x5, 8x6 and 10x8 inches and are supplied shrink wrapped with protective card corners and individual bubble bag. All have free-standing easel backs and would take pride of place on today's trendy 'worn-look' pastel-coloured furniture.
The new Kenro Toulon Series of 'shabby chic' wooden frames have a 30mm wide x 15mm deep shaped profile and come in three different colours: white, brown or blue, with a washed wood grain finish. They are available in sizes 6x4, 7x5, 8x6 and 10x8 inches and are supplied shrink wrapped with protective card corners and bubble bag, with free-standing easel backs.
Says Paul Kench, Kenro's managing director: "More and more customers are going for the 'well worn' look style of frames, perhaps to match that popular style of kitchen, living room and bedroom furniture. But also, this style of frame fits well in a room with contemporary decoration, which is perhaps why they are so popular with retailers."
Kenro Ltd, the exclusive UK distributor of Nissin flash guns and accessories, has announced the immediate availability of a new SONY fit for the TIPA Award-winning Nissin Di700A with Commander Air1 Flash Kit. The new Sony stable mate joins the existing line-up for Canon and Nikon cameras.The flash kit is a 2.4GHz radio transmission wireless flash system that links up to 21 Nissin Air System (NAS) flash guns.
Hi all,
We've got a new situation that started recently, our 2901 MLVA lamp turns off intermittently.
Last week was quite hot and the store was 84-86 degrees F, even with the A/C on, so the lamp would turn off -high heat- this I can understand.
(with 2 error messages: 6027 MLVA Lamp...
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Hello,
I'm trying to activate Digital ICE but I can't find the menu.
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Android Question TTS only with Internet ?
Discussion in 'Android Questions' started by JTmartins, May 20, 2015.
1. JTmartins
JTmartins Active Member Licensed User
I've been playing with TTS engine and is working as expected in my app.
However it only works when there is an internet connection and by that I mean if internet is on, all the strings are spoken, if internet is off, tablet stays quiet as a dead seagull.
Is this the standard way ?
I'm using Google standard Speech Engine
many thanks
2. lemonisdead
lemonisdead Well-Known Member Licensed User
Hello JM,
It depends on the model you do use. On some models you can download the offline files required by the TTS engine. Check from your Android's settings (Language and Input) if you can download the necessary files.
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3. JTmartins
JTmartins Active Member Licensed User
Thanks Lemonisdead.
I guess they are installed. I can see the Portuguese language and when I select it I have a female voice with 6.1MB and a little trash bin on the right side, so that probably means the voice is installed and I can delete it if I want.
Also in the settings there is an example we can listen to, and that example works without internet connection.
I really did not wanted this to work only with internet access... :(
4. JTmartins
JTmartins Active Member Licensed User
Sudenly without any started to work with and without Internet access...
Don't know why...but I'm happy now :)
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5. abhishek007p
abhishek007p Active Member Licensed User
Basically, Google sends the text to its server and returns a audio which is played. Alternatively it may also trigger a automatic download of TTS engine. Both of these require Internet connection. If there is no Internet then nothing is audible so user complains that your app is not working. so tell the user in advance to either download speech engine for offline use or connect to internet.
You can use this code to open the TTS Settings so user can download the engine quickly.
Dim objAction As Intent
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[Establishment of a podocyte cell injury model induced by puromycin aminonucleoside].
To establish a podocyte cell injury model induced by puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN), an in vitro model for studying the role of podocytes, especial the slit diaphragm molecules in proteinuria at the cellular and molecular levels. MPC5 were treated for 24 and 48 hours by 15, 45 and 75 mg/L PAN, respectively. The podocyte molecular behavior during podocyte injury was evaluated: the apoptotic podocyte cells were revealed with FITC-Annexin V and Propidium Iodide (PI) assay and the proliferative podocyte cells detected with MTT assay after PAN treatment. The distribution of Nephrin and Podocin was revealed with indirect-immunofluorescent staining under confocal microscope. The distribution of F-actin was revealed with direct-immunofluorescent staining under microscope. The percentage of apoptotic podocyte cells was increased in a dose- and time-dependent manner after PAN treatment. In PAN-treated group, the apoptosis was obviously increased at hour 48, the PAN-45 treated group was 33.48% +/- 14.55% and PAN-75 treated group 38.01% +/- 12.13% vs the control group 6.38% +/- 0.50% (P<0.01). We set up an in vitro podocyte injury model treated with PAN for the first time. This reliable cell model is a good basis for further studies on podocyte injury. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '03e0c83a29daf6d1f639fd6014d1ff434c077b22b94d447bf69e751f3f045963'} |
Potty Training and Dyspraxia
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13 Responses to “Potty Training and Dyspraxia”
1. Some children with Dyspraxia have difficulties getting potty trained and with other activities such as bottom wiping- do you have concerns you want to discuss?
2. Potty training can be hard for some children with Dyspraxia also the difficulties of learning how to wipe bottoms properly.
It is sometimes the conversation that everyone avoids. Have you had difficulties with your child?
How have you found successful ways of helping- share them with others.
3. Debra says:
My 7 year old son has problems with bed wetting. He has never had a dry nappy and now has started having bowel movements at night. Can you help?
4. Sarah A says:
I have a 12 year old son with Verbal Dyspraxia who wets during the day, but is generally dry at night. Is this linked to the dyspraxia? It has been investigated twice by paediatricians, lastly trying Oxybutinin but this made him doubly incontinent, and the Paediatrician said nothing further could be done. His school are now pushing for further investigations but I don’t know where to turn, can you give any advice please?
5. Debra Lowy says:
My little boy will be 3 and a half next month and has DCD as well as sensory integration issues. He refuses to sit on a potty or a toilet seat as he says it hurts him. Do you have any advice?
He also doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s having a bowel movement or doing a wee until a second or two before he’s doing it so he seems to be a long way off being potty trained even if he were amenable to it. Is this developmental delay directly attributable to the DCD and what specifically causes it?
6. Amanda Kirby says:
It is sometimes difficult to know why there is some delay. He is still quite young and there is wide developmental variation.
OK- bed wetting first- try the website ERIC- see organisations on this site- they have some great ideas and methods of helping including use of alarms.It can run in families- and around 10% of 5 year olds still wet at night.
Wetting at night and verbal dyspraxia- I dont know of any link between the two. Could you ask school to take him to the toilet on a very regular basis so he has opportunity. Could they also use a card system so he can tell them if he needs to go.
3 year old and potty training- he may not be getting an adequate sensation. try and make it a good experience, tempting him with raisins for example or watching TV for with you if he sits on it for a few minutes. Leave it around and give him the opportunity to use it. You can get potties with tunes if you pee in them= this can give him a signal if he is successful also.
7. Angela says:
My 10 year old was diagnosed with dysphraxia at 8yrs and has always struggled to wipe his bottom clean himself. This is now getting embarrassing for him and causes difficulties at school. I have tried everything I can think of with no success.
8. Michelle Weston says:
My 13 year old stepson has lived with us since 8.5 years. I have tried everything to toilet train as he used to stand but wouldn’t hold himself, so I made him sit and still he wouldn’t hold and I was always cleaning up the floor, but he won’t wipe, just pulls off toilet paper and puts it down the toilet to make it look as if he is using it, but he’d rather use his fingers (not all the time), I’m going to try him with wet wipes – is there anything else I can try?
9. Birgitta from Norway says:
Hi, my son is 12,5 years old and struggles with the coordination of wiping his bottom. Since he is aware about that, he wants me to help. I help him. We sometimes do it together to train. I hold his hand, make sure the papaer covers the skin inside his hand, and we wipe together. That way he gets the experience og the movement without failing/getting dirty.
And this takes us a small step ahead towards independence…
10. dyscovery says:
Great idea to encourage independence. Using wet wipes and practicing where to wipe when not actually doing it can help. Thanks for your ideas
11. Supernanny says:
* Use big wet wipes or kichen roll (stronger & bigger than toilet paper!)
* Let the child stand on the floor and put one leg on the toilet seat/a stool etc to create extra space “down below” & increase maneuverability
Hope it helps!!
12. Barbara says:
I have three sons (grown up now), one of whom is dyspraxic. I think it’s important not to make a huge deal out things, especially ‘milestones’ so I didn’t potty train at all. We went straight from nappies, to using the toilet, (with an ‘adaptor’ seat). My sons were in nappies a little longer than their peers, (I didn’t see it as a race at the time, though) When they were ready, THEY decided to use the loo instead and it all went very smoothly and was quite a relaxed process. My dyspraxic son tended to use more paper but, other than that, the whole process went very smoothly. He was also dry and nappy free at night three weeks after ditching nappies during the day. I really believe it’s important not to put pressure on children to achieve ‘milestones’ but be supportive and encouraging to help them find their own way. So what if it seems to take a little longer than other people’s children?
13. Isabella says:
Dear Brigitta from Norway,
I read your post of 2 years ago and was very interested as I have a son of 12 with exactly the same problems. Did you discover any tips over this time.
Isabella from England!
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A black bird flies across the sky. Ask three different people what type of bird it is, and you may very well get three different answers: a raven, a crow or a blackbird! In fact, these birds are often confused with one another because they have certain similarities, such as coloring.
What are some differences between these three birds? For starters, blackbirds are much smaller than crows and ravens. Many are only 10 inches in length. Also, some blackbirds are not entirely black. For example, they may be dark brown in color, or black with markings of a different hue, such as red. Some blackbirds even have orange beaks!
Telling a crow and a raven apart may be a bit trickier, but there ARE differences! For example, crows are smaller than ravens. A raven weighs twice as much as a crow! The beak of a crow is smaller and straighter than the beak of a raven, which is rounded at the bottom. In addition, the tail feathers of a crow are shaped like a fan, while the tail feathers of a raven come together in a central point.
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American Justice is Blind, But the Scales are Rigged
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When it comes to justice in America, the scales definitely badly need a visit by an inspector from the Department of Weights and Standards.
Consider the recent decision by Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina tossing out the federal indictment of five Blackwater (Now Xe) mercenaries for the 2007 slaughter of 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad.
The judge found that federal prosecutors had improperly used incriminating statements which he said had been "compelled" from the Blackwater personnel under "threat of job loss."
Let's compare that to how the courts have handled other cases. We might start with John Walker Lindh, the young American captured in the first days of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Indicted on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, Lindh, currently serving a 20 year sentence after a plea agreement reached with the government, never had his case thrown out, though the government's main evidence was a statement allegedly made by him (this on the word of an FBI agent) that he had been a member of the Taliban and Al Qaeda--a statement that even if actually made, had come at a time that Lindh was being kept duct-taped to a gurney and held in an unheated, unlit metal shipping container, with an untreated bullet wound in his leg, and denied access to an attorney. Surely the coercion behind this "confession"--Lindh's military captors allegedly were threatening him that he would die in Afghanistan--was at least as severe as the threat to Blackwater guards that they could lose their jobs if they didn't tell what had happened at the bloody shooting in Baghdad. Yet Lindh's charges were allowed to stand.
Or compare the Blackwater case to the case of Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on Pennsylvania's death row now for 27 years for the 1981 killing of a white Philadelphia police officer, Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal was convicted largely on the basis of testimony by two alleged "eye-witnesses": an African-American prostitute named Cynthia White and a white taxi driver named Robert Chobert. White gave wildly different accounts of what she had "seen" from her position on the sidewalk several car lengths away from the shooting. In her first statement to police, on Dec. 9, 1981, the day of the shooting, she claimed the shooter of officer Faulkner had "fired the gun at the police officer four or five times" after which "the police officer fell to the ground, started screaming." But after that initial interview, White kept being picked up again and again by police, who would bring her to homicide where she would be re-interviewed. Each time, her version of what she had seen would change, and the number of shots fired at the officer while he was standing would get lower, from "four or five shots" on Dec. 12, to "one or two shots" on Dec. 17, to just one shot on Jan. 8. Asked at trial by Abu-Jamal's attorney why her account of what she had seen kept changing, White replied, "They were asking me questions, and they asked me in a different way to explain it." Was White being coerced by police investigators into making perjured testimony? White was a prostitute. Police kept arresting her on the street and asking her the same questions over and over. At least one fellow prostitute, Veronica Jones, later testified that she had been similarly pressured by police, with the offer allegedly being made that if she said what police investigators wanted, she would be left alone and would even be protected in her street-walking activity.
Chobert, meanwhile, the taxi driver, claimed to have been parked in his taxi behind Officer Faulkner's squad car, when he witnessed the shooting two cars ahead of him. There has always been a question as to whether Chobert was really parked where he said he was. White, in two drawings of the scene done for police investigators, showed Faulkner's car, Abu-Jamal's brother's car, and a Ford that was not involved in the incident at all, but she did not show any taxi. Nor did any other witness report seeing Chobert or his cab. In any event, while Joseph McGill, the assistant DA prosecuting the case, assured the jury of Chobert's integrity ("Do you think anybody could get him to say anything that wasn't the truth?" he asked them rhetorically in his summation.), in fact, he had worked assiduously to prevent them from knowing that this witness actually was a convicted arsonist (he had thrown a molotov cocktail into an elementary school for money and was currently on out on probation for a five year sentence). McGill also convinced the judge to keep from the jury the information that Chobert was driving his cab on a license that had been suspended for a DWI conviction--something that could have been used to revoke his probation and send him to jail to serve his term. Further, McGill failed to tell either the jury or the judge or the defense that Chobert had asked him if the prosecutor could help him "fix" his license problem. Clearly, Chobert was also testifying in this controversial case under considerable coercion.
Yet through years of appeals, though the evidence of coerced testimony is clear in this case, no judge has seen fit to toss out Abu-Jamal's conviction and order a new trial.
Although it is clearly anathema to any kind of fair trial, coercion is commonplace in American "justice." Whether a judge will decide that the coercion of confessions or of witnesses requires the tossing out of an indictment, or the overturning of a conviction, though, appears to have more to do with the political connections of the defendant than with the merits of the case.
John Walker Lindh was portrayed in the months before his trial as "the American Taliban" by no less than the Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft. He was widely portrayed in the media at the time as a traitor to America, though he had actually joined up with Taliban fighters in August of 2001, a monthbeforethe 9-11 attacks at a time that the US had no troops in Afghanistan, and was actually holding governmental meetings with the Taliban government over a pipeline deal, and over efforts to attack opium growing in the country.
Abu-Jamal, since the shooting of Officer Faulkner, has been the target of a nationwide campaign by the police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, to have him convicted and executed.
There is really no doubt that Blackwater "security guards" working for the US military and State Department, perhaps fearing they were under attack, went on a shooting rampage in a Baghdad intersection, mowing down 14 civilians, including women and children, and wounding many more. One of the group initially charged even confessed and is currently serving jail time for his actions. But in the view of a federal judge, the fear on the part of his colleagues that they might lose their jobs if they didn't tell investigators what had happened makes their initial confessions "coerced," and since those statements were used by federal prosecutors as a basis for their indictment of the men, the indictment was flawed and had to be tossed out.
American justice at work.
The scales are not balanced.
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Fun House
Image:Funhouse logo.jpg
Linda Lusardi (non-broadcast pilot)
Pat Sharp
Two cheerleading twins called Melanie and Martina Grant
Voiceover: Gary King
Scottish in association with Action Time for ITV, 24 February 1989 to to 29 December 1999 (149 episodes in 11 series)
Gunge = Good?
File:Funhouse gunge.jpgGunge, inevitably
Two teams of two play three gungy games to win points. After each game they are asked a question worth more points. After the third game it's the Fun Kart grand prix, a race around the studio where they can earn lots and lots of bonus points. This section would be good, were it not for the fact that the karts go at around 2mph, seemingly. (Maybe Health and Safety rules were kicking in rather too much even then - mind you, such rules were tightened up in the early 1990s anyway). Also, if there was any way of balancing the distance given that the red kart always had the inside lane all the way round other then a foot-and-a-half disadvantage at the start, we'd love to know what it was. At the end of this round, the losing contestants are eliminated, but they get a consolation prize or two each: these varied through the series, but were usually along the lines of a 'Fun House' jacket, backpack, watch and/or items of stationery.
File:Funhouse kartrace.jpgThe infamous kart race
Fun House = Fun?
At this point the winners go into the Funhouse, by far the best bit of the show, where they can win some fabulous prizes, which can include cameras, sports equipment, cinema passes, skateboards and mystery tours, among other things - and the contestants get one each in all cases, rightly so. They have two minutes in order to collect the fifteen prize tags hidden around the various obstacles. Each person can only collect three tags before they have to come out, tag the other player and they do the same. We don't believe that any teams actually managed to get all 15 tags, which would have been pretty nigh-impossible within the time-limits, given that they could only collect 3 tags at a time, not to mention getting past all the obstacles they had to cope with, some of which could slow them down considerably. Still, they nearly always managed to get a decent number of tags, and these quite often included the prizes that the contestants concerned had told Sharp beforehand that they really wanted.
File:Funhouse slide.jpgEverybody likes a slide
The kiddies confer by nearly headbutting.
Key moments
One jackpot question that seemed quite hard (at least for the contestants' age-group) was, "Name 3 American states beginning with M". Not surprisingly, the contestants did not win the jackpot in this case. Another tricky question asked was, "Apart from the UK, name 3 countries that have a king or a queen" - once again, the contestants concerned were unable to do so. In fairness, though, said jackpot was won on a number of occasions and the balance between those who won and those who didn't was pretty fair - after all, like all other shows, they couldn't very well have contestants win every time, no matter how much we, the viewers, would have loved that to happen. There were also occasions when the winning contestants did not manage to find the Power Prize tag, but that was relatively rare.
Sharp would often make quite an entrance, usually on a bike, a scooter, a skateboard or a pair of rollerblades, or seemingly anything else that came to hand (or foot). And, of course, his hairstyle was always eye-catching - in most cases, it was the oh-so-80s mullet.
Pat Sharp: "Here's the Fun House!", "Good luck to all of our players on the Fun House today!", "Re-run the Fun!", "You're going in the Fun House!" and, to the audience, just before the endgame, "Come and join us!"
Theme music
By David Pringle and Bob Heatlie.
It's a real crazy show where anything can go.
The Fun House theme music.
It took 11 minutes for the production team to reset the Fun House for another show. Pretty quick, really, when you think of the considerable mess that the show normally created.
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Big Little Lies Author Liane Moriarty at Lennox
In a coup for Lennox Arts Board, one of the star guests of Byron Writers Festival this year, Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, will be appearing at a special feature event at Club Lennox on Saturday 4 August.
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of seven internationally bestselling novels, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist’s Love Story and the number one New York Times bestsellers The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty. Her books have been read by more than ten million people worldwide, including one million in Australia.
Film rights to What Alice Forgot have been pre-empted by Sony TriStar with Jennifer Aniston starring as Alice.
The Husband’s Secret was a number one UK bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and has been translated into over 40 languages. CBS Films has acquired the film rights with Blake Lively attached as lead actor and executive producer.
With Big Little Lies, Liane became the first Australian author to have a novel debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list and it has been adapted for television by Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon who also star in the series, scripted by David E Kelley. The HBO series of Big Little Lies screened in the first half of 2017 and was nominated for sixteen, and won five, Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress for Nicole Kidman’s role as Celeste.
Truly Madly Guilty also debuted at number one in its first week of publication on the New York Times bestseller list and both Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty were number one bestsellers in Australia. Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have also optioned the film rights to Truly Madly Guilty.
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What's Going On? Pilgrimage to the Grassy Knoll
For years I've been increasingly fascinated by the JFK assassination, and this week I did the one thing every JFK researcher must do sooner or later: I went to the Grassy Knoll, to check out Dealy Plaza and the scene of the crime for myself. To maximize the interestingness, I decided to go on the 40th anniversary of the event, and it was indeed quite fascinating.
I went to the Grassy Knoll expecting it to solidify my belief in the conspiracy... but it didn't. In fact, while I return with an armful of persuasive books with titles like Who Shot JFK? and Cover Up, I also return with a feeling that Oswald might actually have been a just lone nut after all.
I went to the Grassy Knoll because I've heard from conspiracists that visiting Dealy Plaza is a transformative experience... that seeing it for yourself makes it clear that Oswald couldn't have done it alone. But after standing on the Grassy Knoll myself, and more importantly, standing on the X in the road where Kennedy was when that final shot was fired, I have to say, it doesn't seem all that hard to believe. As you can see in this picture of me in the fatal position, the window the shots came from does seem to offer a pretty clear shot. And as I stood in that tragically-cursed spot, I couldn't help but think, gee, it's really not that far away. I imagined trying to shoot at someone in that window from where I stood, and while I know nothing about rifles and marksmanship, it doesn't seem like it would be very hard for someone who was an expert.
I went to the Grassy Knoll because I knew there'd be original witnesses on hand who turn out for this event every year, whom I could find and talk to myself. I was particularly delighted to meet and talk with Beverly Oliver, who says she made a home movie of the assassination which disappeared at the hands of the FBI (a truly unique object which I've considered turning into a new Chrononauts artifact someday). But while there were indeed original witnesses at the Remembrance Ceremony who say they heard shots coming from the Grassy Knoll, there was also at least one guy on hand saying he'd seen it all quite clearly, and was certain the shots all came from the sixth floor window. And I know humans are often poor witnesses, and often make up stories. So I tend to distrust everyone in my search for that which rings the bell of truth.
I went to the Grassy Knoll because I wanted to see who else would show up that day, and the freak show did not disappoint. I was very excited to find a small game company set up in the pergola (that white structure just up from the Grassy Knoll) selling a board game they'd published called ConspiracyLand. Even though it was a huge box and it wasn't easy squeezing it into my luggage, I just had to buy a copy. (I've often joked about trying to create a JFK assassination parlor game, not really thinking such a thing was possible... but here it is!)
I went to the Grassy Knoll because I've come to think of the JFK assassination as the greatest murder mystery of all time, and as long as I was going I decided to also attend the conference of conspiracy researchers being held that weekend, a gathering I like to call GrassyKnollCon (thanks to Chris Welsh for that!) but which is actually named the "November in Dallas" conference, which is put on by a group called JFK Lancer. It's like a gathering of amateur sleuths all trying to unravel the same case, meeting together each year to compare notes.
The conference was actually pretty small... I'd say it was about the size of Lollagazebo, and seemed much smaller than the NORML conferences I've been to. There were only two vendors on hand, but they were offering an amazing assortment of JFK books for sale. (I bought 5.) Oddly enough, Jesse Ventura (who addressed the last NORML conference I attended) was in attendance, giving speeches both at the Remembrance Ceremony on the Grassy Knoll and at the JFK Lancer banquet that night. He talked about possibly running for president someday, vowing if he did that re-opening the case would be one of his priorities, and described his visit to ask Castro if he had any involvement in the JFK murder. (He said No.)
I went to GrassyKnollCon with no idea of what to expect, and frankly, I have to confess that I wasn't that impressed. I also have to admit that I was quite compelled by the Peter Jennings review of the case that was shown on TV a week ago. While they basically ignored a bunch of suspicious elements relating to the case, the detailed computer-models of Dealy Plaza did a pretty good job of proving the validity of single-bullet theory, upon which the entire case hinges.
I still have a lot of questions... there are a lot of strange things about the JFK case which haven't been explained to my satisfaction, and I plan to continue my own research into the mystery. I will continue to have an open mind about all the possibilities. However, I also pride myself on being able to change my mind when I'm wrong, and despite all the puzzles and misinformation, the case for conspiracy seems to demand too much Faith. (This was something many speakers said, including Jesse Ventura: "Keep the faith.")
Today's Conclusion: For awhile, I thought there had to be a conspiracy... but after returning from the Grassy Knoll, I am no longer convinced.
But it was a fun trip anyway... while there, I got to visit with some friends who live in the area named Leslie and Jeremy, and since Russell decided (again) to tag along, we got to spend another few days playing Homeworlds together. (I sure love that game... we played it 11 times!)
Contagious DreamsIn other news, we've re-arranged our webstores a bit. Our Contagious Dreams website was originally formed to sell cool games made by small companies, other than our own. Then some of the companies got too big to fit under that umbrella, and we found other games by larger companies that were really cool too, so we formed Good Schaufenster, as a place to sell those. Then there were other cool things we found that were not even games that we wanted to be able to sell, so we formed the Random Emporium.
Now it's all gotten to be just too much -- too many categories, and too many different little stores. We also want to minimize confusion as to which products are made by us, and which are made by other companies. So, we're keeping the concept of the Random Emporium, and collapsing everything not made by us into that (since "cool stuff we want to sell" can easily include cool games by other companies).
Random EmporiumSo here we are, The Random Emporium: Stuff made by other companies, that's so neat, we just had to carry it... games, non-games, little companies, big companies -- whatever. If it was so neat that we wanted to carry it at our site, even though we didn't make it -- then it goes in the Random Emporium.
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With technology advancing at such a rapid pace, many new applications are overloaded with features that take away from the actual solution the software was designed to provide in the first place. These bells and whistles are nice to have especially for promotional purposes, but rarely do they meet the actual needs of the end user. This is especially true in transportation. With the rampant use of expensive, closed, fragmented and time-consuming legacy systems, many companies are just looking to do things better and more efficiently.
I recently read a posting by Adrian Gonzalez of Talking Logistics called Simplicity-as-a-Service: A New Value Proposition for Software Vendors and 3PLs?, where he speaks about how in JDA’s internal lingo they use SaaS to mean “Simplicity-as-a-Service” and I could not agree more. I have spent the last two years studying and researching the telematics and technology landscape for the trucking industry and the one thing I can tell you is that most players, large or small, have missed the boat when it comes to a simple, useful, and efficient products.
The telematics industry has come a long way with the advent of installed cab technologies and mobile applications. All types of data, ranging from driver location to vehicle diagnostics, are readily available. In logistics, specifically in trucking, people and their relationships are a huge component of the process lifecycle. The disconnect that currently exists because of the many layers to the fragmented process is what accounts for the majority of problems. Information is critical but so is the ability to act on it directly with those involved. With this overwhelming amount of data comes the responsibility of analyzing and interpreting the data in real-time to be able to make real-time decisions and take effective immediate action.
That is where Tranzport is different. The Tranzport team, made up of industry veterans and technology experts, has been listening to the voice of the end-users, and has created a product that integrates seamlessly into the existing workflow of the industry. By introducing simple, innovative technologies that will enhance the lives of these customers, Tranzport improves but doesn’t completely change the way they work. The addition of essential and needed functionality for real-time proactive action in communications, visibility, transparency, and accountability makes Tranzport your one-stop, all-encompassing solution for the Trucking industry.
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The transportation industry was forever changed when the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the interstate trucking industry. The support for deregulation was mixed. Those who were opposed were concerned about the financial impact on the monopolies they held on certain lanes and regions. Others applauded it. The deregulations that followed allowed companies like Estes and JB Hunt to become transportation giants, but one of the most significant impacts was the ability for many small trucking companies to throw their hat into the transportation ring. Since then, these smaller trucking companies, including owner operators, have managed to keep up with the bigger players, but new regulations pose a threat to their existence.
Now let’s fast forward. Most will agree that today’s technological advances have had a positive impact on the industry as a whole from both a profitability standpoint and more importantly, from a safety and compliance one. Technology has helped level the playing field for many small to mid-size companies to incorporate and implement Transportation Management Systems (TMS) systems to help manage their fleet operations, control costs, and continue to save their thin profit margins that affect the trucking industry as a whole. However, one area that many have yet to embrace is the implementation of electronic logging devices (ELDs).
It is estimated that nearly 50 percent of commercial trucks do not use ELDs, but the FMCSA has mandated that all commercial vehicles use them by December 2017. Many owner operators and small to mid-size trucking companies oppose the ELD mandate due to the cost, not just to implement the system but to maintain it and stay compliant. If they don’t, they face significant fines. To make matters worse, many shippers are considering making it policy that they will only use trucking companies that have implemented ELDs in all of their vehicles, and require that they show proof so they can continue as an authorized carrier.
The debate has been ongoing since the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century” bill or more commonly known as MAP-12 was enacted in 2012. What, if any, will the impact be when the mandate takes effect on December 2017? By definition the ELD mandate’s sole purpose is to make the trucking industry safer, by using technology to track a drivers status, and ensure the motoring public is protected from the many devastating accidents that have claimed the lives of so many over the years. To even hear that there is an argument or push back for this mandate would make anyone scratch their head and question motives. However, safety is not what is at the core of the arguments by so many including the Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), who filed a lawsuit in hopes of blocking the mandate. The suit was last heard by a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago on September 23rd 2016 and is currently awaiting final decision. OOIDA argues that the rule itself does not specifically define how the data gathered by ELDs can and could be used other than for log tracking purposes, and how the cost associated with the new ELD rule could possibly put so many of them and smaller sized companies out of business.
Many in the industry feel that its history simply repeating itself and a move back to the days before deregulation, such that only large companies will be able to afford to stay compliant. The argument continues that it’s the service and competition garnered by having the owner operators and smaller companies operating that keeps the larger companies honest and transparent. It is also noted that drivers’ pay has fallen dramatically since trucking deregulation in 1980, with wages dropping approximately 62%. While the verdict is still out and the possibility that the ELD mandate could be dropped all together, one thing we can all agree on is that technology will not only continue to play a part in the industry but continue to dictate the direction that transportation and logistics is heading today and into tomorrow.
A study of public truckload carriers who adopted ELDs in 2010 and 2011 revealed a 6 to 8% drop in utilization during the implementation period. After implementation, carriers were able to gain back 2 to 3% of the utilization they initially lost. In addition, transitioning to ELDs will have the largest impact on smaller carriers. This is significant as FMCSA estimates 99% of freight carriers are “small entities.” A recent poll of almost 1,500 owner-operators found that 37% are planning to retire or look for other work due to ELDs. An additional 11% are planning to only run short haul-hauls as short-haul drivers are exempt from the ELD rule.
What are your thoughts on the current and proposed pending regulations and how you feel technology currently is and could affect the transportation industry going forward?
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El famoso “Detention Time”
Todos lo reclaman, todos lo discuten, no existen un precio establecido pero todos hablan del “detention Time”, pero… que es detention time?, Este es el tiempo que transcurre entre el momento en que un camión llega a cargar o entregar una carga y se cumple el cometido. En realidad no existe un precio obligatorio para su pago, este valor está establecido por el shipper, tal vez el reciver o en otros casos el mismo broker, pero yendo más allá de una remuneración monetaria, el “detention time” afecta a la industria en general de otras formas aun no recompensadas.
En la perspectiva del chofer, ese tiempo que transcurre bajo la ley de transporte regulada por el DOT (por sus siglas en ingles Department Of Transportation) es considerado como tiempo “on duty” que afecta sus horas de manejo, si ese conductor paso 5 horas esperando a que lo carguen o descarguen, son 5 horas que ya no podrá manejar y por ende es dinero que no podrá generar. Esta consideración no es tomada en cuenta por ninguno de los participantes en el proceso del Transporte, cada ente está enfocado en su propio éxito.
En la perspectiva del shipper o reciver, la espera de un camión para cargar o descargar afecta el tiempo en bodega, inventario, manejo de personal y probablemente la perdida de una venta.
En la visión del broker, saber que el tiempo de espera de un chofer es un potencial pago extra que en muchos casos será absorbido por ellos mismos porque su cliente no remunera estas situaciones.
Si vemos el resultado, todos los participantes resultan afectados por esta situación, pero… que es la causa principal del famoso “Detention Time”? Definitivamente existe una sola respuesta a esta pregunta y es la COMUNICACION.
Si existe un enlace directo entre los participantes, donde se anticipe y se comunique con eficiencia cualquier demora o anticipación de la recogida o entrega de una carga, cada participante podrá tomar decisiones y mejorar su proceso interno, no se trata de beneficiar a ninguno en particular, se trata de usar la información a su propio beneficio.
Si el proceso de mover una carga enlaza de manera eficiente a los participantes del proceso, el famoso “Detention Time” ya no será un dolor de cabeza para la industria; el transporte no funciona con la esperanza de que todo salga bien, funciona con hechos reales y con la certeza de que todos los participantes pueden tener una demora, pero es la comunicación la que ayudara a cada uno a tomar decisiones en pos de mejorar su rendimiento.
Tranzport entiende este problema del que todos hablan y nadie propone una real solución, comunicación es la clave y el acceso directo de los participantes al éxito, el transporte es un trabajo en equipo que mueve nuestro país. En Tranzpor valoramos y traducimos el valor de la comunicación con hechos.
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Tedescos
Mùsica
Mùsica clàssiga
Cumponidores de operas
Direttores de orchestra
Luteranos
Romanticismu
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Pullman - Owen Science Library
I am the subject librarian for the following subject areas: Biological Systems Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Mechanical and Materials Engineering. This involves being a liaison with the faculty, students and researchers by providing instruction and reference.
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Agile Development Definition And Examples
Agile Development MethodologyThe Agile Method is a distinct approach to project management that is utilized in application development. 1 way to assume of the interlocking nature of these 3 roles in this agile methodology is as a racecar. I wasn’t supplied the job, and I can choose to chalk that up to either the false-unfavorable dilemma or the reality that I blew a couple of questions. I consider there ought to be two or additional different types of interviewers per interview so the candidate can get a better chance of answering the concerns (it may assist to reduce the false negative outcomes). The client monitors progress and prioritises feature requests to be worked on during the subsequent Sprint. I never interview all that properly, even even though I like to pretend I am not a dumbass.
Expertise in unique areas of application development life cycles and Software program Architecture. The ScrumMaster is the team’s coach, and aids Scrum practitioners realize their highest level of performance. Considering that then, lean practices have also emerged as a worthwhile agile methodology and so are integrated beneath the agile improvement umbrella in the illustration later. The product manager participates throughout the course of action by answering inquiries as they arise.
In Stage 4, the product owner, the master, and the improvement group plan sprints, also known as iterations, and start off making the solution within those sprints. I am not saying that algorithms and information structures are not significant, but there’s a lot more to improvement than just realizing exactly where and how to place a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.
When there are questions throughout the procedure, having access to a product manager permits for swift resolution to any problems. You must be in a position to implement one particular utilizing only arrays in your favourite language, in about the space of a single interview. OK, the key aim of every software developer and each improvement group is to deliver the highest attainable worth to employers and consumers.
This does not imply that a tester will be expected to re-architect the method folks will invest most (and from time to time all) of their time operating in what ever discipline they worked ahead of adopting the agile Scrum model. At the finish of a sprint, the group conducts a sprint review through which the team demonstrates the new functionality to the PO or any other stakeholder who wishes to offer feedback that could influence the subsequent sprint. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '14', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9385157823562622}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98928', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LYV43CLWR7TAG3E3WMEP5DUU5VPXYCWD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fbd151fa-115b-43de-a7c3-17bc23794158>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 18, 9, 42, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '68.65.123.152', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KNLNXICTXFKEU2FQCZUEDCHTSPMN34XI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:441ce90c-4142-424d-9991-6cd66f65abe6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.bigracesolution.com/agile-development-definition-and-examples.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:83f572b5-6075-41db-9bc4-63864723afc8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '417', 'url': 'https://www.bigracesolution.com/agile-development-definition-and-examples.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-136-233-116.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': '0.02293241024017334', 'original_id': 'a549ab234352ba92a6f4a4eb4ddac38648167554e2feaaf78a798c0062bd3190'} |
"Speaking of Asia — BlackBerry's plans for a China launch are still unclear. We asked about specifics at the launch event last week but were not given a clear answer on carrier or release dates. BlackBerry has not responded to our requests for more information on its Asia strategy moving forward."
Hi, what do you mean?
I think they don't even know what is the message in this case.
You have to under how the new BBRY (aka RIM) works. They have been releasing their devices to countries who carry the most volume first and slowly releasing them in countries that sell very few. I would recommend if you really want one buy one from Ebay or somewhere as I know one the reasons why BBRY doesn't even have their devices made in China is because they would end up like iSheep devices (aka Apple), people in China would be opening up knock off stores trying to selling fake BlackBerry devices. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd0dea1c3fe170de156d54ac6af25782ddb0e2e755c4fca170b4329ffdfc834bf'} |
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Retail therapy .....A bio-psycho-historical perspective
My dear fiscally tortured, commercially squashed ,fellow impulsive shoppers.
The last post educated you apes about the chain of unfortunate events set in motion by the evolution. These events gave birth to almost all the evils that plague the earth today.
The ascent of Money ....the most potent intoxicant known to our unfortunate species.
Apart from greed, inequalities, colonialism, militarism, war, exploitation, slavery and chewing gum , Money..and hence commerce... gave rise to another monster......A monster which surpasses all others as the source of human suffering. All of the above mentioned maladies that have afflicted the human race , may or may not have tormented you directly. But this affliction affects you squarely..directly... mercilessly and takes no prisoners.
Yes gentlemen, I am talking about those brain wrecking trips to the Malls/Markets/Stores/Hawkers ...endless deliberations on what to buy ..the colors ..shades.. the mindbogglingly enormous problem of choice . I am referring to those pitiable cries that your mind utters as it is being drowned in the deep waters of financial ruin , weighed down by the sink stones of credit card bills .I , my fellow Apes of masculine gender, present to you, our common enemy....Shopping
The male species have been crying foul for centuries and on the other hand the female species have shown no sign of acknowledging that something is wrong with the whole business. This paradox has intrigued the thinkers and scientists since time immemorial. Is it the old fashioned propensity of humans to gather more and more that is at work, or is it something else.(in fact, Aristotle was driven to philosophy by his wife's passion for buying camel skin sandals from Egypt and indigo robes from Asia Minor, sold by the Persian merchants ). The answer was found after a couple of millennia , by sheer accident.
Cross comparative analysis has been done on the craniums of the fossilized skeletons found in paleolithic sites and the skulls of humans in the ruins of bronze age cities.Studies have been conducted on the pickled grey matter of the Egyptian mummies.Early medieval scientists have raided graveyards and studied the skulls and the brains of departed fellow humanoids. Pioneering Victorian surgeons have peeped into the cranial cavities while attempting to cure common cold. This quest has continued to the age of Brain Mapping and MRI and has generated truckloads of data.
All through the several centuries of research into the mysteries of the walnut shaped organ occupying our heads, there has been one common finding.It has been found that the Nucleus Accumbens, or the reward center of the brain has,through the ages, shown an increase in size and prominence in the females of the species. This puzzled the scientists to no end but they couldn't explain this. The data was filed and the scholars moved on to work on other more important scientific pursuits like developing better smelling anti lice shampoo.
Then one fine day....some nerdy researcher...wanted to have fun..and his idea of orgasmic fun was playing with statistical data . He superimposed this cranial data on the economic data of the various civilizations of the world. He was amazed by the pattern that emerged.
The increase pattern in the size of the Nucleus Accumbens matched exactly with the increase in trade and commerce through the ages.
This finding caused a renewed interest in this fascinating subject of the interrelation between the development of the brain and the emergence of retail markets and vica verca. Universities were flooded with funding offers . Whole new Departments of Economic Psychology and Departments of Transactional Neurotics were set up to delve into this field. MIT even created a Samuel Moore Walton Chair of Comparative Neuronomics ...of course funded by Wal-Mart.
Concerted multidisciplinary effort resulted in the identification of the true nature of the problem.Test conducted on female mice helped crack the puzzle. The Female mice were exposed to shelves full of cheese of different colors and textures , gleaming feeding bowls ..and other stuff that the mice find to be interesting. This resulted in abnormal secretion of Estrogen and increase in the size of reward lobes. More tests were conducted..this time on human subjects..cheese being replaced by designer clothes..cosmetics..and of course The results were incredibly similar . A historical discovery had been made.The increased secretions and the resultant increase in the size of Nucleus Accumbens propels the females of the species into a frenzy of uncontrolled purchases and it is followed by an depressive episode of self doubts over the nature of purchases ,as the estrogen levels decline.
The scientists named this phenomena as The Compulsive Serendipitous Transactional Yearning Syndrome...or the COSTLY Syndrome. The syndrome's origin was explained as thus...during the good old day of apehood , the females were responsible for gathering and the males for hunting. Hunting provided a solid nutrition base but gathering provided finer things in life,like bones to be made into neck pieces..skins to be fashioned into latest high fashion loincloths. The Nucleus Accumbens worked normally , the choices being limited. Bones were all white...skins all smelt as bad. But as the civilization and trade brought about an unprecedented explosion of choice...this over burdened the circuits and the lobe started acting funny. Things have been going downhill ever since.
This discovery has exposed a great historical injustice. Generations of males have blamed , abused and embarrassed the females over their seemingly irrational and self destructive purchase habits. They have sulked for days after their wives have gone out and bought themselves their 269th pair of fancy footwear. They have had to be pushed and shoved from one store to another , after their wives have spent only a few hours evaluating a few hundred different shades of maraschino red chiffon fabric...and dismissed the store to be low on choice.
The truth is that the females are as much a victim of this anomaly embedded in their genetic blueprint as are the men. They cant help it . Shopping is an instinctive, involuntary reflex reaction to the external stimuli of the sight of goodies filled endless shelves in malls and stores. Its a chemically triggered brain impulse, same as the sight of a chilled bottle of beer induces instant throat choking thirst in the male apes. The male species needs to sensitize itself . The need is to deal with the situation with a great amount of care and thoughtfulness. She needs your support. A few tips are given below.
Firstly,the male species should strive to be physically fit. Apart from being a cerebral exercise of the extreme variety, shopping also entails great physical effort. ( A comparable situation would be playing chess with a gorilla who has the IQ of an Einstein ). A fighting fit husband shall endure miles of walking in the malls/markets/store aisles with a smile , all the time carrying half a tonne of shopping bags.It will also safeguard your heart when you sign the bills. This will keep her happy. So bye bye pizza and beer.....hello treadmill.
During the course of expedition into the retail kingdom, you may be asked for your opinion on stuff that is in consideration. Be very very careful here. An immediate response is a recipe for serious trouble...she will take it as a sign of non seriousness and your not paying attention...and just wanting to end the ordeal soon....and she is probably correct. Take your time..put in a lot of ummmmmms and well lemme sees in your answer. DO NOT...i repeat, do not appear to be certain of your opinion in the first instance. Appear to be evaluating the choices with the seriousness you will reserve for calculating the amount of beer needed and the choice of snacks to be ordered before you sit down to watch the World Cup match with your beer buddies. If you can do this you have ensured another peaceful evening .
Develop a good memory. She may , after a couple of days of the retail expedition , have that episode of self doubt over the stuff bought. You are now in a minefield. Under no circumstances fuel her doubts .....stand by the opinion you gave. Any deviation will be caught, noted, tucked away in memory and will be used to give you hell later. To avoid this you need to remember what opinion you gave in the first place.
Then there is the question of Guilt Purchases. She may, after spending the equivalent of the GDP of a small African nation on girly stuff , suddenly feel guilty about not buying you anything.To offset this guilt you may be imposed upon with something you do not want. Under no circumstances refuse that red polka dotted shirt with yellow sleeves. Accept it as you would accept an oxygen cylinder while stranded in outer space.... with gratitude in your teary eyes.
The above mentioned simple measures will go a long way in dealing with the symptoms of the COSTLY Syndrome. Please remember , a cure is not possible, only palliative care can be given. Compassion and empathy are the terms to remember. Both genders need to stick together and brave this out till the devolutionaries bring about the devolution and we go back to our old tree swinging ways.
So, The Preaching Monkey ends another sermon about the evils of evolution.
Keep the faith....and keep shopping.
Long live the Devolution.
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1. Nice piece! You buy civilisation by paying taxes, as Justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes said; and you buy peace funding the shopping expeditions of your better half, I suppose! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9401338696479796}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '73610', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6UMLN2K4CVWT7TFOSRGDETJAIMUK5MNH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d3780c32-2240-4394-87cf-bafb601c1be8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 20, 5, 34, 14), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.218.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ARSRHEXJAFCQMQ57IFJLMTXUD3B2FV6Y', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7882fbc3-1c8a-4415-8e3a-6993c61ce037>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://preachingmonkey.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-dear-fiscally-tortured-commercially.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ea7a1619-e48a-4a82-a0dc-de3b68eaf7a1>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1507', 'url': 'http://preachingmonkey.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-dear-fiscally-tortured-commercially.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-181-87-197.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0952567458152771', 'original_id': '5a0907f570d8d46483b1359b220b825eed3f59beddc4ebfd7157a509145e2066'} |
Greening coal: breakthroughs and challenges in carbon capture and storage.
Like it or not, coal is here to stay, for the next few decades at least. Continued use of coal in this age of growing greenhouse gas controls will require removing carbon dioxide from the coal waste stream. We already remove toxicants such as sulfur dioxide and mercury, and the removal of CO₂ is the next step in reducing the environmental impacts of using coal as an energy source (i.e., greening coal). This paper outlines some of the complexities encountered in capturing CO₂ from coal, transporting it large distances through pipelines, and storing it safely underground. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ea12710f19c9bf881c155c1082a8688a595053a9f62a2be6e7b0d50a0f915189'} |
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IMDb Beats Hollywood's Age Discrimination Law
By George Khoury, Esq. on February 22, 2018 5:56 AM
In a case that has entertained those who follow the entertainment industry, IMDb has won summary judgment against the state of California and the Screen Actors Guild. Generally, the case challenged a new law that would have prevented IMDb from publishing the ages of actors and actresses, upon a thespian's request, in order to fight against age discrimination in the industry.
The law was basically struck down last year when the district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from being enforced. And now, with the court's summary judgment ruling, the law is all but dead (unless it can be revived by some miraculous appeal, which will likely be filed based on SAG's response).
Age Discrimination in Hollywood
While there is no doubt that age discrimination is a serious problem in the industry, the court did not find that the law was a reasonable attempt to fight the problem. And though the court applied strict scrutiny in striking down the law, one wonders whether the court would have let the law go into effect at any level of scrutiny.
The court ruled, like it did when it granted the preliminary injunction, that the law did not cut constitutional muster, and could not be squared away with the First Amendment. Also, given the level of information available on information sites, like Wikipedia, and through search engines, like Google, the law simply does not make sense as the information being prohibited by statute is likely easily findable online.
The court highlighted that the ageism problem really appeared to be a gender discrimination and sexism problem. Also, the court explained that the law was too narrowly focused on IMDb. Given the recent pushes of the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns, the court's analysis seems to make perfect sense. Unfortunately for those adult actors that love getting cast as high school kids, California law won't help you lie to producers about your age (not like anyone believed you anyway -- looking at you the entire original cast of Beverly Hills 90210).
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abstract: 'In the majority of magnetic systems the surface is required to order at the same temperature as the bulk. In the present study, we report a distinct and unexpected surface magnetic phase transition, uniquely at a lower temperature than the Néel temperature. Employing grazing incidence X-ray resonant magnetic scattering we have observed the near surface behavior of uranium dioxide. UO$_2$ is a non-collinear, triple-[**q**]{}, antiferromagnet with the U ions on an face-centered-cubic lattice. Theoretical investigations establish that at the surface the energy increase, due to the lost bonds, reduces when the spins near the surface rotate, gradually losing their normal to the surface component. At the surface the lowest-energy spin configuration has a double-[**q**]{} (planar) structure. With increasing temperature, thermal fluctuations saturate the in-plane crystal field anisotropy at the surface, leading to soft excitations that have ferromagnetic $XY$ character and are decoupled from the bulk. The structure factor of a finite two-dimensional $XY$ model, fits the experimental data well for several orders of magnitude of the scattered intensity. Our results support a distinct magnetic transition at the surface in the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.'
author:
- 'S. Langridge'
- 'G.M. Watson'
- 'D. Gibbs'
- 'J. J. Betouras'
- 'N. I. Gidopoulos'
- 'F. Pollmann'
- 'M.W. Long'
- 'C. Vettier'
- 'G.H. Lander'
title: Distinct magnetic phase transition at the surface of an antiferromagnet
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An interesting question is how the magnetism at the surface of a magnet differs from its bulk magnetism. Understanding the rôle of the breaking of translational and inversion symmetry and how the bulk structure and order terminate at the surface of materials is the subject of the rich field of electronic reconstruction [@Okamoto2004]. Experimental control of such symmetries leads to emergent behavior with charge, orbital, and spin order not present in the bulk [@Hwang2012]. Moreover, for the case of antiferromagnets, it has recently been shown that spintronic effects can be realized affording new opportunities for device applications [@Park2011].
Usually in magnets, the onset of bulk magnetic order coincides with that at the surface having the same transition temperature: the bulk ordering acts as an effective field for the surface [@FisherFerdinand1967; @BinderHohenberg1974; @RudnickJasnow1982]. Nevertheless, there are extraordinary magnets with stronger magnetic interactions on the surface, which can promote order at a higher temperature than the bulk [@LubenskyRubin; @BrayMoore1977]. However, given the coupling between the bulk and the surface, surface antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering at a critical temperature below the Néel temperature of the bulk has not been reported nor predicted yet. Our study provides the first observation of this situation as well as a theoretical description.
Although surface magnetism has been investigated theoretically for many years [@Binder1986], there are still relatively few experimental scattering studies. This is in contrast to structural studies which are well developed. The emphasis on structural transitions is not surprising given the difficulty in studying the magnetic order from effectively hundreds of pico-grams of material. Only with the photon brightness of a third generation x-ray source and the amplified sensitivity to magnetism afforded by resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) [@hannon] is this feasible. In this work, we utilize both of these developments, together with the enhancement in surface sensitivity arising from grazing incidence. Furthermore, we exploit the large resonant enhancement in the magnetic scattering cross-section at the uranium $\rm{M_{IV}}$ absorption edge [@uas], to study the magnetism at the surface of antiferromagnetic UO$_2$.
This dramatic resonant enhancement makes UO$_2$ the best candidate to observe surface magnetism. In addition, its magnetism gives rise to unexpected behavior close to the surface. For example, at the surface of UO$_2$, the bulk first order magnetic transition becomes continuous [@uo2]. UO$_2$ has the CaF$_2$ crystal structure, where the uranium, U$^{4+}$, cations reside on an face centred cubic (fcc) lattice with eight nearest-neighbor oxygen, O$^{2-}$, anions forming a cube. Below the N[é]{}el temperature T$_N$, the magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole moments [@wilkins2006; @rmp2009] of the two 5*f* electrons on the U$^{4+}$ cations adopt long range AFM order of the transverse triple-[**q**]{} type.
The triple-[**q**]{} AFM order results from the balancing of three single-[**q**]{} components of AFM order: (001)-type planes with ferromagnetic and electric ferro-quadrupolar order are stacked antiferromagnetically along the three equivalent $<001>$ directions. At the same time, the oxygen anion cage that surrounds each U$^{4+}$ cation distorts in such way that cubic symmetry is preserved. At T$_N \sim 30.2$ K, there is a discontinuous order-disorder transition and for $T > T_N$ the long range magnetic order, the electric quadrupole order and the Jahn-Teller distortion of the oxygen cage, all disappear [@wilkins2006].
A key technique to provide atomic resolution information on surface ordering is grazing incidence X-ray scattering [@Feidenhans'l1989]. The abrupt termination of a crystal at its surface gives rise to rods of diffuse scattering, the so-called structural or charge truncation rods (CTRs), which are parallel to the surface normal and connect the charge Bragg reflections [@uo2]. The variation of the scattered intensity along the CTRs gives information about the electronic charge density near the surface. Analogously, the abrupt truncation of magnetic order at the sample surface gives rise to magnetic truncation rods (MTRs) as shown in Fig. \[fn1\]. In this work, we report measurements of MTR scattering that allows us to obtain information about the magnetic configuration near the surface of UO$_2$.
![fcc allowed structural Bragg reflections in the $(001) \times (010)$ plane: H, K, L are all even or all odd. The structural or charge bulk Bragg spots are solid red. The magnetic Bragg spots are open. The red solid lines show TRs which are both structural and magnetic. The blue dotted lines are pure MTRs. The inset schematically depicts the grazing incidence scattering geometry employed in the experiment. $\alpha_{i(f)}, \textrm{\textbf{k}}_{i(f)}$ are the incident(final) angle and wavevector respectively. $\textrm{\textbf{Q}}$ is the wavevector transfer which is mainly contained within the surface. []{data-label="fn1"}](scattgeo.pdf)
For the experimental geometry, the RXS signal is sensitive to the component of the uranium magnetic moment parallel to the scattered wavevector ($\textbf{k}_f$), which lies primarily in the surface (See inset Fig. \[fn1\]). The chosen position on the MTR for our measurements is correlated to the depth accessed by our probe; giving a near-surface sensitivity of about 10 nm, measurements at Bragg spots are essentially bulk whereas away from the Bragg spots the measurements are dominated by surface scattering. A characterization of the temperature dependence of the MTR will therefore allow us to quantify the change of magnetic behavior at the surface.
![Upper curves: The observed normalized intensity (closed symbols) at the magnetic truncation rod $(0 \ Q_K \ 0.97)$ for two temperatures below the bulk Néel temperature. Lower curves: The equivalent data (open symbols) for the bulk magnetic Bragg peak $(011)$. The respective data are normalized and offset for clarity. The solid lines are best fits to the model described in the text.[]{data-label="fn2"}](Figure2.pdf)
A transverse cut through the bulk magnetic $(011)$ Bragg reflection (open symbols) is shown in Fig. \[fn2\] (lower curves) for two temperatures below T$_N$. There is no change in the observed lineshape, which is empirically well described by a Lorentzian function raised to the power of 1.75. Below the bulk ordering transition (T$_N$), we expect the bulk Bragg reflection lineshape to be temperature independent, as observed. In contrast, the magnetic scattering (Fig. \[fn2\] upper curves) across the $(0 \ Q_K \ 0.97)$ MTR (purely magnetic rod) exhibits a pronounced change in lineshape with changing temperature.
The initial working hypothesis is two-dimensional (2D) behavior at the surface region. Indeed, phenomenologically the best fit of the MTR scattering lineshape is provided by the structure factor $S({\bf Q})$ derived for a 2D $XY$ model, with a Lorentzian-square distribution of domain sizes. To obtain this structure factor, we followed the derivation by Dutta and Sinha [@dutta] but used the static spin-spin correlation function $\langle {\bf S} ({\bf r}) \cdot {\bf S}(0) \rangle $ [@Hill1996] in place of the atomic form factor. For large distances the 2D correlation function decays with distance $r$ as $(r/\xi)^{-\eta}$, where $\xi$ is the size of the system, here the in-plane, domain size. The surface domain size, $\xi$ below $T_{N}$, where bulk magnetic order is present, is expected to be independent of temperature.
The strength of $\eta \ge 0$ controls how fast spin correlations decay with distance and thus, it is a measure of the disorder of the magnetism at the surface: $\eta = 0 $ corresponds to perfect order, while finite values of $\eta > 0$ correspond to quasi-long range order. The explicit form of $S({\bf Q})$ is given in the supplementary material. The in-plane domain size at base temperature (15 K) is found to be $\xi=250\pm10\rm{nm}$ and is consistent with that found in Ref. [@uo2].
![ Intensities versus wave-vector as a function of temperature. One can observe that for temperatures above 22.8 K the reduction in intensity as a function of $Q_K$ is much more gradual (linear) than for lower temperatures as shown explicitly for two temperatures in Fig. 2. This is a key signature of magnetic roughening. The data are offset for clarity. []{data-label="fn3"}](fn3.pdf)
In Fig. \[fn3\] we show MTR intensities *vs.* $Q_K$ collected at several temperatures below T$_N$. We also show their fits, with $\eta$ and the amplitide as the only parameters, using the 2D structure factor $S({\bf Q})$. The quality of the fit is excellent over several orders of magnitude in intensity and all temperatures measured. The dotted (red) line corresponds to $\eta = 0$ and gives the convolution of the delta function $\delta(Q)$ with the experimental resolution.
![ (a) Open circles show the integrated intensity of the (011) magnetic Bragg reflection as a function of temperature. The transition is first order (discontinuous). The line connecting the points is a fit to the expression $ I_0 (1 - {T \over T_N} )^{2 \beta} $ with $\beta = 0.3$. The blue squares show the integrated intensity at the MTR (0 1 0.97) near the (011) Bragg spot. The transition at the surface appears continuous. (b) The variation of $\eta$ as a function of temperature. A discontinuity is identified at a temperature, $T_{KT}$.[]{data-label="fn4"}](fn4.pdf)
Finally, in Fig. \[fn4\]a we confirm, with new data, a striking observation first reported in Ref. [@uo2]: the bulk first order transition at the surface appears continuous. In Fig. \[fn4\]b we show the fitted values of $\eta$ as a function of temperature. A discontinuity is observed at a new characteristic temperature $T_{KT}=26.8K$. Looking forward we shall discuss this transition in the context of the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition [@kt; @berezinskii]. For temperatures below $T_{KT}$ the exponent $\eta (T)$ is almost constant, while above $T_{KT}$, the exponent $\eta $ increases rapidly. The critical value, $\eta (T_{KT}) = 0.25$, is consistent with a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the surface [@kt; @berezinskii].
The KT transition, in two dimensions, is characterized by the appearance of algebraic order in the system; it is associated with vortex unbinding, in the original theoretical treatment of the $XY$ model [@kt; @berezinskii]. This type of transition is observed in structural surface roughening, which we now briefly discuss, although our magnetic transition corresponds directly to the original theoretical formulation.
The surface roughening transitions and the KT transition are in the same universality class. Below the roughening transition temperature the surface is smooth, while above the surface height is no longer well defined. In a scattering experiment, below the critical temperature, a measurement of the transverse lineshape of the CTR should yield a $\delta$ function (ignoring resolution effects). Above the critical temperature, the scattering is described by a power law line-shape characterized by the same exponent, $\eta$, and giving rise to power law singularities: $S(q)\propto q^{\eta - 2}$. This exponent $\eta$ is then a measure of the surface roughness. Surface induced order-disorder transitions [@lipowsky] have been observed in a range of systems, including the chemical surfaces of Ag(001) [@held], $\rm{Cu}_{3}\rm{Au}$ [@cu3au]. In addition, KT transitions have been also observed recently in trapped atomic gases [@hadzibabic], in exciton-polariton condensates [@roumpos], and in a photonic lattice [@situ_2013]. Even though it was suggested as the archetypal example, an observation in a purely magnetic system is extremely rare and this is the first time that it takes place at the surface of a three-dimensional magnet.
For a KT transition the basic ingredients are the two spatial dimensions and an $XY$ behavior of the magnetic moments. Therefore the main questions to address the explanation of the present results are: (i) whether the surface of UO$_2$ is decoupled from the bulk, demonstrating 2D behavior and (ii) whether the surface of UO$_2$ is then described by an $XY$ Hamiltonian.
In UO$_2$ and for temperatures below T$_N$ there is simultaneously magnetic [@wilkins2006; @rmp2009] and electric quadrupolar triple-[**q**]{} AFM order, and a Jahn-Teller distortion of the oxygen cage surrounding the U$^{4+}$ cations, that retains its cubic symmetry following the triple-[**q**]{} bulk order of the U$^{4+}$ cations. In the following analysis we subsume into a generic anisotropy a potentially essential ingredient, namely the Jahn-Teller distortion of the oxygen cage.
The unusual and sophisticated transverse triple-[**q**]{} magnetic order only occurs in geometrically frustrated geometries, such as UO$_2$, with the uranium atoms sitting on a fcc lattice [@rmp2009]. The main sophistication is that there are three styles of long-range order, and each of these states are simultaneously present in equal amounts in a triple-[**q**]{} magnet.
The triple-[**q**]{} states, have several unusual characteristics. Firstly, due to the non-collinear spins, there is a huge magnetoelastic coupling which leads to hybridisation between phonons and spin-waves [@Caciuffo1999; @rmp2009]. Secondly, and more pertinent, the spins can heal disorder [@martin]: neighboring non-collinear spins can rotate a component parallel to each-other locally and the ordering can be subtly altered in such a way that usual magnets cannot. Indeed, the low energy spin-wave corresponds to precisely such distortions which are energetically the lowest energy fluctuations of the magnet.
The relevant Hamiltonian of a triple-[**q**]{} magnetic structure has been discussed previously [@perbak]. It includes a Heisenberg term as well as some anisotropic ones. The small spin-wave gap, observed in UO$_2$, at the magnetic reciprocal lattice points [@caciuffo2011] demonstrates that the Heisenberg energy dominates and indicates that multiple-[**q**]{} deformations are the lowest energy magnetic excitations. The anisotropic terms though, lead to the stability of a triple-[**q**]{} structure.
It is essential to understand how this Hamiltonian is optimized in the presence of a surface. The surface severely affects one of the three equivalent triple-[**q**]{} magnetic structures. Starting from the triple-[**q**]{} state in the bulk it seems natural to eliminate this third component and leave a double-[**q**]{} state at the surface which tolerates the loss of bonding. The energetic expense is the anisotropy energy and the balance between these two energy-scales determines how the angle $\psi$, between the moments and the cube axes, changes smoothly, between the bulk value $\psi_\infty = 35.26^{\rm o}$ ($\psi_\infty = \arcsin{(1/\sqrt{3})}$) for the triple-[**q**]{} state and the surface value $\psi_0 = 0^{\rm o}$ for the double-[**q**]{} state. This picture has been confirmed by classical Monte Carlo simulations of finite clusters with periodic boundary conditions in the xy-plane of the fcc lattice (with area $L_x \times L_y$) and open boundary conditions in the z-direction (which extends from $-L_z/2$ to $+L_z/2$ so that the plane perpendicular to the z-axis at $z=0$ represents the bulk of the crystal). Finite size scaling then confirms that the triple-[**q**]{} antiferromagnetism becomes double-[**q**]{} as the surface is approached. These calculations clearly establish the XY character of the magnetic structure and the absence of a moment perpendicular to the surface. The details of these calculations, which partly contribute to the explanation of a KT transition, are beyond the scope of the present letter and will appear elsewhere.
In UO$_2$, in-plane deviations from the double-[**q**]{} surface state are only weakly coupled to the bulk and with nearly isotropic, plane rotor character. There is a weak residual crystal-field potential, which at low enough temperatures, destroys the isotropy in the $xy$ plane. Because the surface-bulk coupling does not vanish, thermodynamically, no order that exists in the bulk can disappear sharply below the surface. Given that all three triple-[**q**]{} order parameters are present up to the first-order transition in the bulk, in principle, none of these orders can control a surface transition. However, the analogy with similar unusual behavior in the bulk helps to explain our findings.
In Sr$_2$YRuO$_6$, a partial long-range ordered state with coupled alternate AFM YRuO$_4$ square layers coexisting with the short-range correlations is developed below T$_{N1}$ =32 K and a second transition to a fully ordered AFM state below T$_{N2}$=24 K [@Granado]. The reduced dimensionality of the spin correlations is arguably due to a cancelation of the magnetic coupling between consecutive AFM square layers in fcc antiferromagnets. In UO$_2$ a similar behavior with more spectacular results, comes from the almost independence of the surface and the bulk which are weakly coupled.
The puzzle to understand the two bulk phase transitions in these type-I antiferromagnets is the same: at intermediate temperatures between the two transitions, the existing order of the higher temperature phase is expected to influence and keep the lower temperature phase ordered too. The way out is that the symmetries of the two phases are different. Theoretical studies of the planar rotor model, in the presence of a $p$-fold crystal field anisotropy establish [@Jose] that above a critical temperature thermal fluctuations saturate the anisotropy field, when $p \ge 4$, and reduce the model to an effectively isotropic planar rotor. At the surface of UO$_2$, the energy scale of the anisotropy field is the same as the coupling with the bulk, and the excitations of the double-[**q**]{} surface state also thermally decouple from the bulk. Hence, the surface magnetic transition of the UO$_2$ can be interpreted as the broken symmetry, double-[**q**]{} surface layer pointing along the anisotropy directions, destabilizing into an isotropic, spatially-varying, power-law controlled, double-[**q**]{} state.
The angle that characterizes the style of double-[**q**]{} state is the variable that loses its algebraic order; thus providing the second crucial theoretical ingredient of $XY$ model behavior. When in-plane excitations of the surface state become thermodynamically isotropic, they also effectively decouple from the bulk. In the experiment, this is the region where the power law exponent $\eta$ increases rapidly with increasing temperature.
As a consequence, the physical picture of the distinct surface behavior of the triple-[**q**]{} magnetism in UO$_2$ now emerges. The bulk has a triple-[**q**]{} state with a spin-wave gap that softens close to T$_N$. The expected bulk transition to a spatially varying multiple-[**q**]{} magnetism is very well characterized as a first order transition. At the surface, the spins flatten, providing a local double-[**q**]{} state with weakened anisotropy. This state does indeed suffer a continuous transition to a 2D, spatially varying double-[**q**]{} state, at a different characteristic temperature.
The observed remarkable effect of the surface, seemingly acting differently from the bulk, is a consequence of the magnetic frustration; this can lead to a two-step process towards final order, both in the bulk and independently on the surface. This phenomenon has been revealed as a result of the advancement of the x-ray magnetic scattering technique at third generation synchrotron sources. By producing epitaxial nanoscale thin films of UO$_2$ it should be possible to induce finite thickness effects thereby stabilizing uniquely the double-[**q**]{} state which would then be accessible by the methodology outlined in this work. The sharp changes in the correlation functions and the subsequent analysis is consistent with the scenario of a surface phase transition in the universality class of Kosterlitz-Thouless, the ramifications of which, should be further investigated theoretically.
We thank the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for the provision of beamtime. We gratefully acknowledge useful discussions with N. Bernhoeft. One of us (SL) gratefully acknowledges fruitful discussions with M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha and R.M. Dalgliesh. SL and NG gratefully acknowledge discussions with Paola Verrucchi on the nature of the KT transition. JJB gratefully acknowledges interesting discussions with Jeroen van den Brink and Daniel Khomskii and support from EPSRC under EP/H049797/1. Work performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the US DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-CH7600016.
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I get visitors from Manila quite often. They are usually suppliers and consultants who come here to Palawan to identify business opportunities. Our discussions usually start with business topics, then gradually stray to the scenic spots and natural wonders of the province. It did not hit me at first, but I began to realize that many fellow Filipinos are not aware of the “bising.”
Many names, but little information?
Other names for Palawan Tree Squirrel appear to include “Northern Palawan Tree Squirrel,” “Southern Palawan Tree Squirrel,” “Palawan Red Tail Squirrel,” and locally, “Bising.” I am actually unsure if all these names refer to the same species. In fact, I was quite surprised to realize that nothing substantial is known about the Palawan Tree Squirrel after I spent hours searching for information about it on the internet.
Never would I imagine that something I considered so common—to the point of being a pest—would be so unknown to other parts of the country or to the worldwide web. Fortunately for me, my mission is to share my personal encounters with these creatures, and not to tell their story like an encyclopedia.
I grew up thinking that the Bising was a common animal all throughout the world. After all, they shared certain similarities with their cousins, the rats and mice. When I was a child, almost every other household kept a Bising as a pet at some point. Squirrels also appeared often on TV, so naturally, a child would assume that this creature was everywhere. As time passed, I discovered that this was not the case. In fact, a lot of Filipinos do not know what a Bising is, or that we have squirrels in the Philippines. My personal explanation for this is that, of the three types of squirrels that I actually know of, they all exist only in Palawan.
My research led me to discover that there is in fact another type of squirrel that exists in Mindanao and in limited parts of Visayas, although I have yet to meet the Visayan or Mindanaoan who could tell me that s/he has actually seen the animal. The limited distribution of these squirrel species—plus the very limited study of and material about them—may probably explain why they are quite unknown to people outside their range.
Getting spotted and heard
Trying to locate one can be a challenge at first. But when they start moving in the late morning, they are very enjoyable to watch. Just keep still so they will not be distracted from their games. The Bising, whether captive or in its natural habitat, is a very interesting creature to observe.
It is reddish in color, hence the name “Red Tail Squirrel.” I have noticed that some Bising have a darker shade of fur on their backs. I am guessing that these are the older ones because the smaller ones always have that bright glaring color. However, their color looks more like fiery orange than red, which makes spotting them relatively easy. I wonder why it was not colored to blend into the background? One can easily spot it jumping from branch to branch.
I recently spotted a group of Bising scampering around a wooded area behind the campus of Palawan Hope Christian School, which is located along a commercial road. My office building is nearby. Whenever I come to office extra early, I hear a loud chirping call. I have ignored this call for a long time.
But one day, about a month ago, I finally decided to find out once and for all what kind of bird was able to make such loud calls. As I ventured into the wooded area, lo, it was not the chirping of birds, but of squirrels. The sound is quite similar to the chirping of common birds like the maya, only much louder. The Bising’s call goes thus: one distinct syllable at a time, with 1 to 4 seconds of silence in between. It is quite relaxing, unlike the incessant and rapid chatter of the maya, which makes you feel they are always arguing about something.
The Bising tail is also fun to watch. The tail twitches up every time it makes a call, looking like a tiny fluffy feather duster. This accessory puts the Bising high on the cuteness list, as opposed to their cousins the rats.
Last year, I went to another wooded part of town just about a kilometer from my office building. This mini-forest is near the sea and it transitions from terrestrial trees, like acacia and mahogany, to a mangrove forest. It was about sunset and I was really surprised to get caught in the middle of a Bising gang’s roughhousing. They were practically all around me, jumping from tree to tree and making all sorts of noises. I was also surprised to know that they do go down the mangrove forest to play and explore. Mangrove trees grow on areas where the ground becomes mud when the water recedes at low tide but practically becomes the sea during high tide. I did not expect that these rodents would like to play on waters half a meter deep.
From my observations of these wild Bising, I can tell that their body length is about 6 inches in length and the tail is about just as long. I have seen slightly bigger specimens but definitely not as big as the ones hunted by TV personalities for dinner on survival shows. The American and European counterparts of the Bising are much larger, particularly the grey squirrels. I have also observed that their Western counterparts have thicker and fluffier fur. I surmise that this is because of the climate. We Pinoys like to take our shirts off on hot days, while our Western friends need thick garments from autumn to spring. Maybe this is also the case for Pinoy squirrels and Western squirrels.
Up Close and Personal with a Native Squirrel
I was able to touch and pet these creatures during my younger years, and the tame ones are fun companions indeed. Caution must be taken when handling them, however. Those that are truly safe to pet and have around children are the ones that were domesticated at a young age.
These were fairly common during the 80s and the 90s. Baby squirrels would practically fall off coconut trees during the niyog or buko (coconut) harvest while the adults would run away. People would then adopt these abandoned babies and they could become pretty tame. If domesticated properly, they became fully attached to their owners. They could be brought out to the streets by putting them inside loose pockets, where they will stay cozy until called out by their owner.
The Bising that are domesticated later can still become dependent on their owners but they are very jumpy at the sight of people. Even those that are accustomed to the presence of their owners can give you a bad nip when you try to pet them, and I am speaking based on experience. Fortunately, I am still well today despite the absence of tetanus and rabies shots during my time. The teeth of squirrels are typical of rodents, with one pair above and one pair below. They are very, very sharp. A gentle nip can be very painful. A strong nip can cause a deep gash.
For those who have pet rodents, such as hamsters and guinea pigs, you would have an idea of what it is like to have a squirrel for a pet. Imagine a red and slender counterpart of the hamster with three times the jumpiness and speed: that’s the pet Bising. Indeed, squirrels are very active, and they should be. In the wild, they can leap from tree to tree and branch to branch a couple of meters apart and 10 meters above the ground with great accuracy and confidence. I guess “learn from your mistakes” does not apply in a squirrel’s life.
So, instead of a hamster wheel, the squirrel would prefer some driftwood to climb and run on. It is actually a great injustice to lock the Bising in a cage no bigger than a child’s school bag, but that is the case for most of the captive Bising that I saw during my younger days. There are pet owners who do provide a decent place for their pet squirrel to stay in, with ample space for the Bising to scamper around and an imitation tree hole for a “bedroom.”
It is worth mentioning that the tail does add considerable novelty to having a pet Bising. I cannot think of another pet rodent that can beat the squirrel when it comes to this fancy accessory.
The Bising is fairly easy to keep; they eat most fruits and nuts. However, some owners lose their pets because they try to feed them meat or oily food. Even fried peanuts are harmful to these creatures.
They like to groom themselves. So as long as they are given space to rest, away from the ground and moisture, they can maintain the healthy fluff and glow of their fur without many problems.
Another trait of the squirrel that owners must remember is that they have a more nervous disposition compared to other rodent pets. The sound of planes flying by, loud cars, popping firecrackers, and even the loud shrieks of children scare them. They get very much stressed out by noise; in fact, it is not unheard of for a very frightened Bising to just drop dead in its cage.
I understand there are laws prohibiting the possession of wildlife but I do hope they can make an exemption for the Bising. They are fun to be with and they are quite abundant. I don’t think they will become endangered any time soon. Besides, they are still considered as pests by coconut farmers. They have also grown accustomed to the presence of human beings, which is why I can spot Bising colonies so close to the school and other human developments. As long as there are trees and an adequate food supply, the Bising can thrive. We import rodents like hamsters, white rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, and others for the local pet trade. Why not develop our very own rodent for this industry? It is actually a very strong contender for preferred pet of the year.
While I am very enthusiastic about the idea of Bising becoming part of the pet trade, caution must also be exercised. I encountered feral white rats in Metro Manila some years ago. I cannot say for sure if this will lead to a wildlife or agricultural disaster since I do not know how its interbreeding with other rats will affect the environment. Still, it only goes to show that irresponsible pet owners who release their pet rodents or fish into the local community or waterways can cause irreparable damage.
An obvious example for this is the damage that the pleco catfish and knifefish are wreaking on Laguna Bay. Imagine the damage to orchards, banana plantations, and coconut farms if the squirrel is allowed to thrive in areas where it did not exist before. We must not forget that there is always a responsibility attached to pet keeping.
Right now, I do not have a pet Bising. But I surely hope I can be allowed to keep a pair or two, and I will build them the nicest cage that pet rodents can dream of.
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Smaerd 2
Wake up! Dear one.
I, Smaerd have more to tell you.
Let me tell you what happened
After our walk on Aspirations lane the other night.
Starting from when Greed walked away with Earther.
Greed plied Earther with wine.
They wined and dined and danced the night away.
Earther forgot her worries.
She felt tender feelings for handsome Greed.
For Greed had a face all-comely,
His were a sight for sore eyes.
His body was what mortals called Adonis-like.
If only she knew what lay underneath.
Her feelings gave her heart and head a sensation akin to floating.
He seemed to have the same feelings.
And like a balloon they floated.
She gave in to the fire in her.
Letting them consume her.
So they burnt out her eyes.
She became blind to his wrongdoings.
Earther who thought herself cautious and wise gave in foolishly to Greed.
His looks, his words and her heartbreak,
Were his weapon.
She did not think to look beyond his surface.
And so, Greed weighed in and plundered,
Violating every inch of Earther.
While, Humane looked on helplessly.
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The use, functions and advantages of the cardboard display stand
In addition to the traditional shelf and display stand functions, paper shelves and display stands have the following features:
The appearance of the cardboard display stand can be printed in color, which is an excellent advertising carrier;
The cardboard display stands are all (or mainly) printed paper and high-hardness paperboard, which are sufficient to carry promotional items and meet strict environmental requirements;
Applicable to all kinds of large-scale promotional activities, stores, shopping malls, exhibitions, etc. The patterns, colors and shapes can be freely and innovatively designed, and the publicity effect is excellent;
Light weight, can be stacked flat, saving transportation logistics costs, can be used repeatedly;
Economical and extremely practical, the seller has finished using it. If it is improved due to factors such as the appearance of the product, it is convenient to dispose of the recycling department.
Different paper materials can be selected according to the requirements of customers and carriers, and can be combined with other materials (metal, wood, plastic, etc.) to form a mixed structure display stand;
Convenient supplier to ship directly from the place of origin to the final point of sale to unpack and sell, saving the cost of repeated stacking and packaging
The paper shelf/cardboard display stand has high economic value, and it has the function of attracting customers and promoting goods for any business form of business form. At the same time, it has the effect of improving the image of the product and the visibility of the company. The paper shelf/cardboard display stand mainly has the following functions:
New product notification
Most paper shelves/cardboard pallet displays are advertising advertisements for new products. When new products are sold, in conjunction with other publicity media, the use of paper shelves/cardboard display stands for sales promotion at the sales location can attract consumers’ attention and stimulate their desire to purchase.
Attract customers into the store
Two-thirds of the actual purchases are made on a temporary basis, and it is clear that retail sales are directly proportional to their customer traffic. Therefore, the first step in the promotion of paper shelf/cardboard floor displays is to attract people to the store.
Lead customers to stop
How to attract customers to pay attention to the goods and attract interest, the paper shelf/cardboard display stand can attract customers’ attention with its novel patterns, beautiful colors, unique ideas and other forms, so that it stops to stay and then has an interest in the products in the advertisement. Ingenious, eye-catching paper shelves/cardboard displays often have unexpected effects. In addition, live advertising, such as on-site operation, trial samples, and free tasting, can also greatly motivate customers’ interests and induce purchase motives.
Promote final purchase
Inspiring customers to make the final purchase is the core function of the paper shelf/cardboard display. To this end, we must seize the customer’s concerns and excitement. In fact, the previous induction work is the basis for the customer’s final purchase. The customer’s purchase decision is a process. As long as the promotion work in the process is completed, the result will naturally occur.
Replace salesperson
The paper shelf/cardboard display stand has the reputation of “silent salesman” and “most faithful salesman”. The environment often used by paper boxes/paper shelves/cardboard hook displays is a supermarket, and the supermarket is a self-selected purchase method. In the supermarket, when the consumer faces many products and cannot start, an outstanding paper shelf placed around the goods/ cardboard display stands to provide merchandise information to consumers faithfully and continuously, and to play a role in attracting consumers and making their purchase decisions.
Create a sales atmosphere
Using paper shelves/cardboard display stands with strong colors, beautiful patterns, outstanding shapes, humorous movements, accurate and vivid advertising language, you can create a strong sales atmosphere, attract consumers’ attention and make purchase impulses.
Enhance corporate image
The paper shelf/cardboard display stand, like other advertisements, can play a role in establishing and enhancing the corporate image in the sales environment, thereby maintaining a good relationship with consumers. Paper shelf/cardboard display stand is an important part of corporate visual identity. Retail companies can make store logos, standard characters, standard colors, corporate image patterns, promotional slogans, slogans, etc. into various forms of paper shelves/cardboard display stands to create a distinctive corporate image.
Holiday promotion
Paper shelves/cardboard displays are an important means of matching holiday promotions. In a variety of traditional and modern festivals, paper shelves/cardboard displays can create a happy atmosphere. The paper shelf/cardboard display rack has played a role in fueling the holiday season.
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<p>最近迷恋上了Python，觉得爬数据来分析的感觉很爽，哈哈哈哈，我就想看看上热评和评论长度有没有关系-。-</p>
<p>当然啦，‘纸上得来终觉浅，绝知此事要躬行’嘛，爬个数据玩玩才有意思，那就网易云音乐吧。。。</p>
<p>先说个好玩的，一直没换token啥的。。然后发现自己请求不到数据了。。被网易云音乐的服务器拉黑了吗。。</p>
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<p>说说思路和遇到的问题吧。</p>
<p>思路呢，我的想法是从一首歌开始发散到附近歌曲，获取评论，然后存到本地，最后统计下各个评论个数，算一下平均数就知道了。</p>
<p>遇到问题不少，毕竟第一次玩嘛。。</p>
<p>首先，怎么拿到评论，最初的想法是从页面里直接拿div里的数据，后来发现不行，它是iframe里的，一开始拿不到的。
ok，你总得请求吧，那我去network里看请求还不行？我自己post查数据去。
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<p>第二个，post带啥信息呢？有个form表单的params和encSecKey，带上，不行，还说我cheating。。。找同学（感谢姚大侠老师的谆谆教诲0.0）请教，可能是因为
没头？好吧，带个header确实可以了o(╯□╰)o。话说，如果不是iframe里的，不带header可以吗？
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<p>第三个，拿到json里的值。习惯了js里的点取值形式。。这里不行。。非得['key']形式。。你看看，js晚发展就是有好处，兼收各家所长！</p>
<p>代码还是很简单的，引几个库（Python的库实在太多了。。），我用了requests发请求，json处理字典。代码github可见。最后是成功了，本地已经有数据了，但是可能由于请求太多，被暂时拉黑了。希望不是永久的。。明天再请求下</p>
<p>其实本来想做个从随机数的，加上songId，后来发现不行，404太多了，拿不到歌，那我就想去热歌榜拿id，但是又没拿到id，今天稍晚了，回头继续完善。</p>
<p>以上为1126update，日后再更</p>
<p style="margin-top: 40px;">啊哈，最近太忙啦，没有去学习如何反反爬，模仿人工请求啥的，只能每次手动请求点了。一共爬了几百首歌吧，看下结果。</p>
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<li>16235</li>
<li>13947</li>
<li>12788</li>
<li>14603</li>
<li>13621</li>
<li>14522</li>
<li>13375</li>
<li>13253</li>
<li>12542</li>
<li>12315</li>
<li>12318</li>
<li>13294</li>
<li>12579</li>
<li>9871</li>
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<p>这是110首歌的热门评论前十吧，总字数。应该讲，字多，还是有帮助上热门滴。</p>
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 21, 2011) – ETSU and Kennesaw State both scored in the opening twenty minutes of the game; however, neither team could find the game-winner through regulation and both overtime periods as the ETSU women’s soccer team tied the Owls, 1-1, Friday night at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
Kennesaw State struck first when Katie Schwartz scored in the 14th minute, but senior Genna Petersen (Loveland, Ohio) netted the equalizer three minutes later to pull within one goal of tying former Lady Buc Erin Ashton for the program’s single-season goal scoring record.
“Both sides had a lot of chances out there,” said ETSU head coach Adam Sayers. “We wanted a good response after the [Florida] Gulf Coast game last week and we certainly got it from a performance standpoint… Give credit to Kennesaw State because they created a lot of chances as well.”
ETSU (11-4-1, 6-1-1 A-Sun) gained a point in the conference standings but now trail FGCU and Jacksonville by three points. The Lady Bucs can still earn the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the A-Sun Tournament with a win against Mercer on Sunday.
Kennesaw State (6-8-2, 2-5-1 A-Sun) moved from eighth place into a tie for seventh in the A-Sun standings, but played itself out of the conference tournament. The best KSU can do now is finish in a tie for sixth place with Mercer, but the Owls will have lost the head-to-head tiebreak having been defeated by the Bears, 1-0, last Friday.
Both ETSU and KSU had their chances to grab the lead, as ETSU finished with a 22-20 shot advantage, but senior goalkeeper Caitlin Gaughan (Indianapolis, Ind.) and KSU’s junior goalkeeper Melissa Hutto made incredible stops to keep the game at a draw. Gaughan finished with six saves, one ahead of Hutto’s five.
In the coldest weather the Lady Bucs have played in at Summers-Taylor Stadium this year, ETSU got off to a hot start with Petersen’s first of a team-high seven shots on the night. The senior’s early attempt was blocked over the line for a corner.
Sophomore Samantha Kron (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), the Lady Bucs’ biggest threat from the corner this year with three assists and a goal off corner kicks, stepped in for the set piece that eventually found freshman Jenna Caudle (Middletown, Md.). The team’s second-leading goal scorer fired her first of four shots in the match, but Hutto was there for one of her five stops on the night.
KSU got warmed up in the 12th minute when Sofia Blanco stepped in for the Owls’ first corner attempt. The cross was cleared, but KSU stayed on the attack with a shot which led to another corner.
Blanco’s second attempt of the night sailed into the box and created havoc. The Lady Bucs went up to clear the ball, but instead hit it off the crossbar as the ball bounced back into the field of play. With the ball loose in the box, Schwartz came up and fired in KSU’s first goal of the match to put the Owls ahead.
The lead did not last long, as Petersen pulled through with her conference-leading 11th goal of the season less than three minutes later. With ETSU in possession of the ball near midfield, the Lady Bucs’ leading goal scorer received a pass and dribbled the ball through KSU defenders and into the right side of the box. From just inside the penalty area, Petersen took a shot back towards the near post which beat the outstretched Hutto and went into the bottom-left corner of the net for the equalizer.
Only one shot came on goal for either side through the remainder of the half, as ETSU and KSU took the 1-1 score into the break. The Owls held an 8-6 shot and 3-1 corner advantage after the opening 45 minutes.
After junior Morgan Thomas (Maryville, Tenn.) put two shots at Hutto in the 16th minute of the second half, Gaughan pulled through with the save of the night. Shelby Crosby received a through ball for KSU and got the senior keeper one-on-one. Mere feet from each other in the penalty area, Crosby fired to her right only to watch Gaughan react with a brilliant save.
Katrina Frost, KSU’s leading goal scorer, tried to put in the rebound, but her attempt went wide. The shot was one of a game-high eight for Frost, as the game remained deadlocked.
A back-and-forth second half saw ETSU take nine shots to Kennesaw’s eight, as KSU’s fifth corner of the night was cleared out with under a minute to go and the two team’s awaited the start of overtime.
Frost opened the extra session with a shot saved by Gaughan, before Kron stepped in for back-to-back ETSU corners. The first of the two corners found Thomas as the Maryville, Tenn. native took a chance which was blocked over the goal line for a second corner. Sophomore Ramey Kerns (Kings Mountain, N.C.) collected the second attempt from Kron, but blasted her shot wide.
ETSU’s best chance at a victory came in the second overtime period when freshman Tessa Johnson (Knoxville, Tenn.) nearly scored off another Kron corner. With just over six minutes remaining in the game, Johnson settled the cross as it came through to the opposite side of the box. With the ball at the far post, Johnson shot back towards the near post and beat Hutto, but an Owl defender standing at the goal line cleared away the shot before it went in.
Petersen and freshman Emilee Engelhaupt (Charlotte, N.C.) put two more shots at Hutto in the final minutes, but neither came as close to Johnson’s attempt as the match ended in a draw.
The Lady Bucs will now look to Sunday, when they close out the regular season at home with a chance to clinch a first-round bye in the A-Sun Tournament against Mercer at 1 p.m.
For more information on ETSU women’s soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women’s soccer links. Fans can also visit the Lady Bucs on Facebook at ETSU Buccaneer Women's Soccer. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd52da4c9f27e07d055c1bdbe8f149cf0838a81b5651c18829d35a1ec6296990c'} |
On Saturday night, we all speculated about what Brent Musburger could have said that was bad enough that ABC felt the need to cut off the audio while he and Kirk Herbstreit pulled themselves together. Today, we have the unedited version: piss. He said "piss," instead of "pick."
Booooo. If there's a story here, is that Kirk Herbstreit bugs out when Brent Musburger says, "piss." Come on, Herbie. You were a quarterback in college! You work with Lee Corso! You've heard much worse. Maybe it's the incongruous effect of Brent Musburger uttering an oath, but with that face Herbstreit makes, you'd think Musburger had starting talking about Herbstreit banging Erin Andrews. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9715121388435364}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '698867', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JE4OYKCBMOWXRJP2D2AIDN6WDPK27LB3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b84497f0-e6c2-4ce0-bca0-c64b15ec9929>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 23, 6, 39, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.65.34', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ALYOZ6NFK77UNHDU2Z6N2MLRGVY7LR53', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4221053d-25a2-4b98-bb56-0b5af38fb177>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://deadspin.com/5940077/brent-musburger-said-piss-and-kirk-herbstreit-couldnt-keep-his-shit-together?tag=top/not%7Cdeals/not%7Cwindows/not%7Candroid-downloads/not%7Cchrome-extensions/not%7Cquotables/not%7Creader-poll/not%7Cwindows-app-directory/not%7Cfeatured-desktop', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:855cb137-e449-4f73-b669-b9187fadb08b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '108', 'url': 'https://deadspin.com/5940077/brent-musburger-said-piss-and-kirk-herbstreit-couldnt-keep-his-shit-together?tag=top/not%7Cdeals/not%7Cwindows/not%7Candroid-downloads/not%7Cchrome-extensions/not%7Cquotables/not%7Creader-poll/not%7Cwindows-app-directory/not%7Cfeatured-desktop', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-168-9-17.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.28528696298599243', 'original_id': 'e89d0e38e5d4c2a061e809da52f77f89e92bf4b3fca2f9d7bf37f7afdbd3673e'} |
\section{Ring is Subring of Itself}
Tags: Subrings
\begin{theorem}
Let $R$ be a ring.
Then $R$ is a subring of itself.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
$R$ is a ring and $R \subseteq R$.
It follows by definition that $R$ is a subring of $R$.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States on Tuesday (Nov. 6) following a heated battle with Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the key battleground state of Ohio. Within minutes of learning the news, country music's top stars were celebrating, congratulating, complaining or simply making jokes about the 2012 election results. Like much of the nation, Nashville's best are split politically.
Sara Evans was perhaps the most vocal, tweeting her displeasure with how the results were coming in before the election was called for President Obama. Others who supported Romney did a better job of keeping their chin up. Charlie Daniels vowed the fight would go on, while Obama supporters like Chely Wright and Billy Ray Cyrus raised a hand to fist bump followers on Twitter.
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Lest we forget By: Olakunle Abimbola
Gloating partisans sure enjoy poking and peppering Bukola Saraki, Senate President, and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker, House of Representatives, over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeat, at the November 17 by-election, into three federal constituencies.
On the personal lane, you can’t over-stretch these defeats. Neither the Kwara nor the Bauchi defeat came from Saraki’s or Dogara’s direct constituencies. Indeed, the Kwara federal constituency is outside Saraki’s Kwara Central senatorial district.
Yet, as a symbolic pointer, to the possible electoral drubbing to come, particularly for those treacherous 8th National Assembly members, that turned vicious powers and principalities against the people’s core interests, that was immensely satisfying.
To boot: both Saraki and Dogara symbolize those partisan and people treacheries. So, it is sweet they bear the brunt of those defeats, even if vicarious.
Partisan treachery, because both got into the National Assembly via All Progressives Congress (APC) mandates. Saraki’s brazen perfidy against his party, to willy-nilly land the Senate presidency, is known to all; and still riles the conscientious.
From there, both Saraki and Dogara have returned to PDP; but lack the basic personal decency, talk less of honour, to surrender the Senate Presidency and the House Speakership — perks they got on APC’s parliamentary majority. Still, though they grimly sit tight, they stand much more defanged.
Now, to people treachery. Even if principle is rare on the opportunistic partisan plain, how do you justify deliberate anti-people manoeuvres, by parliament whose social contract ought to be pro-people?
For three years, this 8th National Assembly, under the leadership of Saraki and Dogara, chisel away at the national budget. Like noxious rats, they claw at the document, keeping the plums for selves; throwing the chaff the people’s way.
Though their sole business ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest number, to echo Jeremy Bentham, their target would appear inflicting the greatest sorrow on the greatest number, but seasoning that evil with parliamentary cant.
An economy that dipped into recession and was bereft of savings needed to ramp up its infrastructure, to get moving again.
That was the spirit of the budgets, these past three years, to achieve swift infrastructural rebirth, particularly in roads and rail — the vital transportation sector, so key to re-galvanizing the economy.
But their majestic lawmakers clearly had contrary ideas. If they were not accused of satanic padding of the document for personal lollies — equating deep communal pains — they were manically slicing off huge funds, budgeted for key national road arteries, for the so-called community projects: boreholes, the purchase of Keke Marwa (shuttle tricycles) for constituents and sundry cases of budgetary dissipation.
Yes, constituency projects are no democratic crime. But the rogue motive for these particular dissipations would appear clear.
After subverting the Federal Government’s efforts at a nationwide infrastructure rebirth, budget paring for junk projects becomes sweet poison to turn the local folks against an “incompetent” central Leviathan!
There are even tales: that the Saraki Senate presidency was an alleged Trojan horse to sabotage President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at vaulting the country from the 2015 trough; and that the scorched earth legislative agenda was a double whammy: discredit and de-market the present order by rogue parliamentary activism; then prepare the ground for a triumphant return to PDP.
A version of that tale even alleged: that Atiku Abubakar, ex-APC but current PDP presidential candidate, allegedly midwifed Saraki’s emergency as willy-nilly Senate president, as a fundamental part of the Saraki-Dogara wreck-and-bale stratagem.
Still, for all you know, all these might just be vicious political yarns, that come with the explosive territory of political intrigue and soulless gaming for power.
But whatever the facts or fiction, the 8th National Assembly’s recourse to diverting funds from crucial projects has achieved at least two spectacular goals: the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, hitherto billed for completion by December 2019, won’t reach that threshold until 2021!
Another casualty is the 2nd Niger Bridge, which completion period is now 48 months. That has prompted a delegation of South East leaders going to plead with the president to help speed up the completion process to 24 months.
The 2nd Niger Bridge is an especial anti-climax. After for eons surviving its ogbanje project status, and finally getting off the ground against all odds, it has to be slowed down by political intrigues, from the same parliament, supposed to be a conclave loyal to the people!
That is the height of this parliament’s people treachery. Because of these clearly unpatriotic intrigues, whatever contribution these transport infrastructures can contribute to Nigeria’s real economic growth is delayed by at least two years. The multiplier effects of that setback are massive.
So, as the people continue to face avoidable economic strangulations, their representatives, both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, continue feeding fat — not to champion the people’s welfare but to push arid intrigues, that further ruin the majority and law-abiding.
Which is why, lest we forget: the coming election season must be payback time.
At the acme of this National Assembly’s anti-people misconduct, when some deluded parliamentarians got smitten by hubris; scorning sponsoring parties and voters, as no more than despicable serfs, this column, on its logo, started an on-running campaign: “Correct the mistake of 2015. Vote out the corrupt legislators”.
Come February 2019, it is time to walk that talk. It is time to reward those loyal parliamentarians, that put their voters’ interests first. But it is also time to maul, with a vengeance, parliamentary reactionaries, that rewarded their parties and voters with concentrated contempt.
That is why it is immensely pleasing that both Saraki and Dogara are feeling the earliest heats, en route to 2019, given the roasting of their party at the November 17 federal by-elections.
Both might have offered the suspect leadership for a parliament that brutally short-changed Nigerians. But also, no member of that gang, bivouacked in the people’s legislative chambers, must escape judgment on Election Day.
Besides, it’s high time Nigerians got over the costly illusion that voting the president is all that matters. This 8th National Assembly has exploded that myth, with its anti-people conduct.
Can you just imagine the progress this country would have made now, had the Saraki-Dogara legislature kept faith with the Buhari executive’s infrastructural vision?
That is why, in 2019, Nigerians must vote both the president and the right set of parliamentarians.
Vacation time
It’s vacation time, after a full year’s toll. On virtual election eve, that looks like abandoning duty. But though the spirit is willing, the body is tired. Thanks readers, for a most active interaction, and see you, by God’s grace, in mid-January 2019. Do have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'bbd531159d72b59743aeedaccbf260642e11db3411572b74fe04b3b67994dab1'} |
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These bowed femurs were found (top to bottom) in China’s Tianyuan cave, Russia’s Sunghir burial site, and the Czech Republic’s Dolní Vĕstonice site.
Erik Trinkaus
Frequent inbreeding may have caused skeletal abnormalities in early humans
Early humans faced countless challenges as they fanned out of Africa: icy conditions, saber-tooth cats, and, according to a new study of ancient skeletons, an unusually high number of birth defects, both debilitating and relatively inconsequential. It’s unclear why such abnormalities seem to be so common, but scientists say one strong possibility is rampant inbreeding among small hunter-gatherer groups.
“This paper represents a valuable compilation,” says Vincenzo Formicola, an anthropologist at the University of Pisa in Italy who wasn’t involved in the new work. “Many cases reported in the list were unknown to me and, I assume, to many people working in the field.”
Many human fossils from the Pleistocene (roughly 2.5 million B.C.E. to 9700 B.C.E.) have unusual features. For example, femur bones with abnormal bowing have been found from China to the Czech Republic. The skull of a toddler found in the Qafzeh cave in Israel had a swollen braincase consistent with hydrocephalus, a condition in which fluid floods the skull. And a fossilized man in Liguria in Italy had a bowed right upper arm bone but a normal left one.
By and large, these were viewed as one-off curiosities. But Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, noticed a pattern: These skeletal deformations seemed to be suspiciously common in the fossil record.
So Trinkaus did the math. He assembled data on 66 individuals with skeletal abnormalities mostly dating to the past 200,000 years. The fossils, most from young adults, were found in sites scattered throughout the Middle East and Eurasia and represent several different species of Homo. Trinkaus then researched how common their conditions are in modern human populations.
He found that about two-thirds of the ancient abnormalities occur in less than 1% of modern humans. Another dozen or so didn’t match any known modern developmental disorder. Trinkaus ran the odds that archaeologists would have uncovered so many ancient abnormalities by chance, and he found that it would have been a “truly, vanishingly small probability.” That suggests, he reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that early humans faced some cultural or environmental pressure that led to so many deformities.
One possibility, previously proposed by other researchers: Ancient people with skeletal deformities might have been seen as shamans and given careful burials, making their bodies more likely to be preserved and later found. Another: Pregnant mothers didn’t get enough of the right nutrients, leading to more skeletal disorders. But Trinkaus notes that, whereas some skeletal disorders like rickets affect the whole body, many skeletons were found with deformities on only one side of the body. He also says many fossils in his analysis show no evidence of special rites.
However, several bodies show abnormalities consistent with known genetic mutations, and multiple individuals from at least one site exhibited several different conditions, suggesting the people might be related. It’s thought that most human populations at the time were small and isolated, Trinkaus says. In those conditions, inbreeding can lead to widespread harmful genetic mutations.
Evidence of low genetic diversity among Pleistocene humans based on ancient DNA analysis also supports this hypothesis, says Hallie Buckley, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. “Of all the arguments put forward … this seems the most likely explanation.”
Further analysis of ancient DNA at these sites might confirm inbreeding, but prepping samples for such investigations often means destroying them. “Ancient DNA has become increasingly viewed as a ‘magic bullet’ to shoot at any question about past human populations, but that may not always be justified,” Buckley says.
Siân Halcrow, Buckley’s colleague at the University of Otago, says that although she appreciates Trinkaus’s thorough cataloging, his paper has several weaknesses, most notably in its estimates of how common these abnormalities are in modern people—and how common they used to be. It would be better to compare the ancient rates to later populations in prehistory or early historic populations, she says, but unfortunately those data don’t exist.
No matter the cause, many of the deformities would have been debilitating. The fact that so many survived past childhood suggests early humans must have offered each other social support and medical knowhow, Trinkaus says. For example, although hydrocephaly is rarely a death sentence thanks to modern treatment, it can easily be fatal if left untreated. “The Qefzeh child with hydrocephaly lived until about 3 or 4 years old. When you consider it lived 100,000 years ago, that’s pretty amazing.” | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '5', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9640254378318788}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '112317', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TPHMAAXI3DJ2UJGMQYVY6X5GGUSB4SIA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c3773b93-807d-465a-a131-5f032a505ce9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 2, 40, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.183.83.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CMV7OOAIDRIITKSIGKNCUFJX5A5OVCTX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3a891fae-e91e-452b-a7e6-9ed28d6f25ee>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/frequent-inbreeding-may-have-caused-skeletal-abnormalities-early-humans', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a84aaa6e-feea-484c-827f-046afc7d8fe8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '776', 'url': 'https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/frequent-inbreeding-may-have-caused-skeletal-abnormalities-early-humans', '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-10-67-67-137.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': '0.15347498655319214', 'original_id': '8e9f22c67699e2f21e4df9bdab0485f2bd1ea7a08671eb4aad7f5519ccca16fa'} |
Exactly What Bitcoin means?
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Bitcoin are becoming a very well-known and preferred kind of foreign currency with time. Though, precisely what is Bitcoin? The next article may go over the inn’s and out’s of this currency that popped up out from no in which and spread such as a wildfire. What makes it distinct from typical currencies?
Bitcoin can be an electronic currency exchange; it is not printed out and never will be. They are kept electronically and no-one has control of it possibly. Their made by individuals and organizations, producing the initial possibly method of money called crypto currency. While regular foreign currencies are noticed in the real world, Bitcoin goes by means of millions of computer systems all around the world. From Bitcoin in America to Bitcoin in India, it is now an international currency exchange. Nevertheless the largest variation it offers utilizing foreign currencies, is it is decentralized. This means that no distinct company or lender has it.
As mentioned previously, the easy answer is no-one. Bitcoin is just not a published currency exchange, it is a computerized one. You can also make purchases on the internet utilizing the ethereum code. So that you can’t churn out endless Bitcoin? Certainly not, Bitcoin was created to by no means “mine” more than 21 million Bitcoin in the community at one time. Although they can be split up into smaller sized quantities. 100 millionth of any Bitcoin is called a “Satoshi”, following its designer.
For performances mainly and standard use, Bitcoin will depend on gold and silver. Even so, in fact Bitcoin is in fact based upon 100 % pure mathematics. It offers nothing to conceal sometimes as it’s an open source. So anyone can check into it to determine if it’s operating how they assert.
1. As said before, it is decentralized. It is really not owned by any sort of business or bank. Each and every software program that mines the Bitcoin makes up a group, and they interact. The theory was, and it worked well, that in case 1 community goes down, the money continues to moves.
1. it’s effortless to set up. You are able to put in place a Bitcoin account in seconds, unlike the large banks.
1. it’s anonymous, at least the component that your particular Bitcoin deals with usually are not related to any sort of private data.
1. It’s entirely translucent, each of the transactions employing Bitcoin are displayed on a large graph or chart, known as the block chain, but no person knows it’s you as no brands are connected to it.
1. Purchase costs are minuscule, and in comparison to a bank’s service fees, the rare and little costs Bitcoin costs are close to practically nothing. It’s speedy, extremely fast. Anywhere you deliver funds way too; it normally will arrive in minutes soon after handlings. It’s low-reputable, which means as soon as you send out your Bitcoin away, they’re went forever. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9623203277587892}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '50067', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GSVZLXR2743T2OUOCC7FZ4EHBE3RMR37', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:09673c91-801e-4790-aa04-98e1a8df665e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 19, 43, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '85.204.51.100', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XSR4UX3HYTCSAMCVBTLEGMB46PVUQAZP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:541f2895-c24e-42ba-8818-eb4d59efa276>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://lawport-sydneyplus.com/finance/exactly-what-bitcoin-means.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:0363a31c-9b7e-45cb-b96f-e4cfd437e025>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '492', 'url': 'http://lawport-sydneyplus.com/finance/exactly-what-bitcoin-means.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-29-113-152.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': '0.37894874811172485', 'original_id': '641cc2b31868c3428dc22b4b5546059408e69d5a185671ff05ca845273af9f7f'} |
It's Christmas — put that cellphone away
December 24, 2012|Beth Kassab, Local News Columnist
If you already have decided to take my challenge and put your cellphone away today, then you're probably well on your way to a day of hands-free bliss.
For those who need a little more convincing, here are my Top 25 reasons to ditch the smartphone and tablet today (including a couple of exceptions):
1. More eye contact is good for the soul.
2. Less phone time is good for your brain. Scientists say we benefit from downtime every now and then.
3. Watching the Miami Heat lose is far more satisfying on a bigger screen.
4. Christmas is all about memories. Your kids will have better memories if your nose isn't stuck to a phone screen as you graze Facebook.
5. Case in point: I'm sure glad smartphones weren't around when my dad helped me learn to ride my first bike on Christmas Day all those years ago. It definitely took both hands to keep this clumsy rider upright.
6. Putting your cellphones away is just one more way you can really get into the Christmas spirit and decorate. One reader sent me a photo of her "holiday home for electronics," a beautifully decorated cardboard house complete with lights.
7. Or print out your own festive "no cell" placard here: It's the small, thoughtful touches that people remember most about a holiday gathering.
8. Consider this: If you put your phone away, you won't accidentally toss it in the trash along with all that crumpled up wrapping paper on the floor. Who wants to be digging through the garbage on Christmas night?
9. It will make for a retro Christmas. If you're into that sort of thing.
10. Real Scrabble is more fun than Words with Friends.
11. Tweeting nonstop on Christmas = #obnoxious.
12. Texting and too much eggnog don't mix.
13. That wily Elf on the Shelf sure is good at hiding things. Your smartphone just might be next if you don't put it away.
14. The light from cellphones may work as a 21st-century replacement for lighters at concerts. But cellphone glow instead of Christmas candles? Not so much.
15. Google executives encourage their employees to unplug and exercise, or retreat to a nap room during the workday. They find that the best ideas often come when employees can think uninhibited by a constant barrage of information. If you have a Christmas epiphany, no need to thank me.
16. You may think it's cute to play "Jingle Bells" with the piano app on your iPhone, but the rest of us think it's so annoying we could spit chestnuts.
17. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, many businesses are closed, and there's a good chance you're off work. What better time for a digital detox?
18. Less of a chance you'll spill eggnog on your phone.
19. "You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not text I'm telling you why ... " Santa is already watching for next year.
20. Because I said so. OK, so that one was the mom in me talking.
21. Taking photos with your phone is a big exception. We all want to capture the look on dad's face when he gets yet another golf shirt. Just don't take pictures with your iPad because that always looks ridiculous.
22. Of course there's also an exception for calling or sending messages to people you can't be with on Christmas. Grandparents hundreds of miles away. A brother or sister in Afghanistan. It's all good.
23. Fewer fingers texting means more hands in the kitchen or wherever help is needed.
24. You deserve a break.
25. Paying attention to your family and not being distracted by a smartphone may just be the best present you could give them. or 407-420-5448
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The New 52 Interviews: The Fury of Firestorm
Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver talk about the Nuclear Men.
Superstar duo Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver talked with us about their plans for the return of Firestorm.
IGN Comics: This series is one of the few among the New 52 to feature more than one writer. What does that approach offer the series? Do you find it appropriate given the dual nature of Firestorm?
Gail Simone: That was a big part of the appeal for me. It's no secret that while Ethan and I are great friends, we disagree on everything except how to make good comics. That friction is a big part of the fun, and we wanted to exploit that, not avoid it.
Ronnie and Jason have different points of view, and both are full of immediate preconceptions about the other. They both have some growing up to do. So do Ethan and I. I just looked at Ethan's Facebook page and he's got a picture of his Great Dane's poop as the first image, so I know of which I speak.
Ethan Van Sciver: I've always believed that collaboration works really well in building ideas and taking bigger chances. It always seems to happen that an idea I bring to the table takes a story right to the edge, but teeters there, and Gail will take it just a little bit further, bringing a rush of adrenaline. "Can we really do this? Yes, of course we can!" It's very exciting. And obviously when dealing with a story that will explore geopolitics and even terrorism, the more points of view, the better. We've got two distinct characters in Ronnie and Jason. And two distinct characters in me and Gail. We're hoping that our behind-the-scenes occasional disagreements will make for an interesting comic book!
IGN: Where does this book fall in the new DC timeline? Are you starting with a flashback like in Justice League, or does it take place in the present?
Simone: It's in the present, this is the first time Ronnie and Jason have met, the first time they have been Firestorm. And you don't need to have read a single DC book to know what's going on immediately.
Van Sciver: There's an important backstory that we will learn with our boys over time. It's part of the mystery.
IGN: How does the Ronnie/Jason dynamic compare to how it was portrayed in Brightest Day? Are the characters still very much at odds with each other?
Simone: At this stage, definitely. They instantly make assumptions about each other and take an immediate disliking for that reason, and neither is ENTIRELY fair about the other, but there's still some truth to the accusations they each hurl.
Right now, we have a culture that is thriving on conflict. Even the suggestion of peaceful, reasoned resolutions to problems both local and global is mocked and derided openly. You can go on television urging war for no reason and be cheered, but talk about peace, and suddenly you're a wimp and a quitter. Reaching out to your enemy, even admitting KNOWLEDGE of your enemy, is seen as weakness. I think that's an incredibly juvenile life philosophy, but it's becoming more and more a political default position.
Firestorm is about the things that separate us, big and small. And hopefully, learning to rise above them. And it's also about nuclear monsters bashing the hell out of each other. Did I forget to mention that?
Van Sciver: Ronnie and Jason both operate from a different set of values and instincts, and it causes misunderstandings. And those misunderstandings lead to violence from time to time. (As often as possible, in fact. This IS a superhero comic book!) We'll see how this same dynamic works from within politics, from nation to nations. Lies and propaganda feed hatred and distrust, and it's just an endless loop that can't be undone without better and more honest communication.
But there is real evil in this world. People who aren't interested in living peacefully with other people. While some misunderstandings can be ironed out, and trust built, we can't coexist with monsters. Much of Firestorm will be about sorting out those differences of politics, faith and opinion, and ideologies and agendas that simply must be destroyed.
IGN: Both characters are being de-aged back to high school status. Is that much different from writing them as college students?
Simone: Sure, the change there would be huge. Wasn't college different for you from high school? These are kids with lots of questions, but few answers. They haven't formed any answers, yet.
Van Sciver: High school students are only slightly more malleable than college students. And we need Ronnie and Jason to be willing to learn, but they must also be able to be deceived. It's all part of the larger plan of the man who put this all in motion.
IGN: The covers revealed so far show Ronnie and Jason in individual Firestorm costumes. Do their powers work differently now?
Simone: The powers DO work differently. Ethan's got a take on the powers that is remarkable, I can't wait to see it play out. It's huge in scope, game-altering, maybe.
IGN: What kind of supporting cast will our heroes be relying on in this series?
Simone: They have a lot of enemies and only one real ally, a girl who is also on the run named Tonya, who becomes inextricably linked with Jason and Ronnie both, and who will be carrying a secret of her own.
Van Sciver: More enemies than friends, I'm sorry to report! But they have their loving parents, who will do the best they can with their frightening new circumstances, and Ronnie and Jason's new responsibilities!
IGN: Will Firestorm be facing his own unique villains, some old DC favorites, or a combination of the two?
Simone: Mostly his own villains, at this point, but he WILL interface with the rest of the DCU. He's too big, too powerful to ignore.
Van Sciver: Firestorm fans will be happy to see some old names pop up here and there! But we're also building up some brand new bad guys. And I think you can expect to see some DCU guest stars pretty soon as well.
IGN: Gail, your run on The Atom a few years ago allowed you to dabble in the sci-fi realm much more than books like Birds of Prey and Secret Six. Are you hoping to play up that aspect here?
Simone: I always tried to make sure the science in the Atom was rock solid, even though it was of that genre, "weird science," meaning that stuff that's right on the border of out-and-out fantasy.
A lot of the science in Firestorm comes directly from some major science figures, but my biggest help in this area has been the great Professor James Kakalios, who is not only a great resource but a huge comic book fan himself. THANK YOU, JAMES!
Firestorm is a lot of fun, it's about the uncaged danger of irresponsible use of power all over the world. We'll see a dozen countries and dozens of new, powered characters. It's exciting and fun, and a little bit ominous. I hope you try it out!
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
dna and carbon buckyball for comparison
There you go, Guy. There is a pretty substantial size difference.
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The Guy said...
That's a lot of packing space. I've got a pdb file for a nifty cell membrane "valve" I wonder how well it would fit into the faces of the DNA buckyball. Hmmm.... Then you'd have a conditionally openable container.
The Guy said...
It also occurs to me that it'd be a stone cold breeze to cover the hexagons and pentagons with DNA origami tiles thus forming an empty solid. The edges of the tiles could be ph sensitive to release their connection to the polygon struts except along one edge and that'd be a simple flap valve. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.945110321044922}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '34765', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3ELEXDKG5SE2CPTEE3MYCVGT2RVRUFXT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7af188f9-13fc-4492-a4ef-f722b5b26d89>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 19, 17, 6, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IHYBGSD3FXL627YRMNLH5KW75NPJSB3S', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:74e6ee88-fe19-47ba-8df2-1d31fe79a488>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://machine-phase.blogspot.com/2008/04/dna-and-carbon-buckyball-for-comparison.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:027efcad-ca8e-4efb-8a9b-2bb34cdc15fe>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '134', 'url': 'http://machine-phase.blogspot.com/2008/04/dna-and-carbon-buckyball-for-comparison.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-145-31-7.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07241588830947876', 'original_id': '415f2243cffedd69441595ca16479c38a6ac26b18bd85ceb4e1f4c0e160cce0f'} |
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Editorial: Be thankful for those who give of themselves for others
first_imgCategories: Editorial, OpinionOn this day of Thanksgiving, many face challenges, meager challenges and challenges so monumental that others among us can’t begin to comprehend how they get by.It’s so hard to be thankful sometimes when it seems the world just keeps pouring it on.But our area is full of people who truly care about others and who sacrifice a bit of themselves to help others in need.Today, for example, there are hundreds of people right in our area who are serving Thanksgiving meals to people in need or people who just need the company. These meals don’t happen on a whim. They take months of planning and organizing and solicitation of volunteers. Someone stood in a hot kitchen and precooked all those turkeys and mashed potatoes and vegetables and pies. They took time out of their evenings and weekends. Other individuals and companies donated the food for the meals, the plates and utensils, the kitchen facilities and the places to hold the meals. Others donated cash to help pay for it.Parents brought their children to help, both to impart on them the joy of giving and to remind them how blessed they are compared to others. Many are taking this Thanksgiving morning to deliver those meals to those who can’t leave their homes, leaving their warm homes for cold cars packed with packages of food.All this giving for just one event.It’s flat-out amazing when you think about what people do around here to help others and to serve their community throughout the year.During the natural disasters in Texas, Florida and the Pacific Northwest, we’ve had people who actually took time off from their jobs and away from their families, got on a plane and went there, helping feed people or provide medical care or assist with the cleanup. More from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesEDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationEDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motoristsFoss: Should main downtown branch of the Schenectady County Public Library reopen?EDITORIAL: Urgent: Today is the last day to complete the census We have people serving on community boards and school boards and in charitable organizations and hospitals and senior centers and church groups for no pay, no recognition. They probably even have to put up with some grief from people. The jobs are hard, and we know what a sacrifice it can be to serve. The most gratifying high notes in our communities are those involving the acts of young people.College students venture out to help their adopted hometowns, doing everything from organizing and staffing blood drives to fixing up elderly people’s property to raking leaves at the homes of senior citizens to sprucing up historic sites to leaving homemade hats and scarves on trees for the homeless to take.The generation that often gets criticized for its selfishness is in no short supply of individuals willing to invest their time and energy into helping others. Fear not; the future is safe in their hands.Whatever you do in the community, however you serve, whatever big or little contribution you might make to bettering the lives of others, it is appreciated. People’s lives are better for what you do. Your community is better.Today, when we sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, let’s make sure we remember to thank the givers. We have people around here who regularly go on missions to other countries to provide needed water, sewer treatment and medical attention.Every day, teams of volunteers go out into the community and rebuild Little League fields, clean up graffiti from bridges and buildings, rake the leaves and mow cemeteries so families can more appropriately honor the people they’ve lost.We have people raising money for victims of tragedies like car accidents and fires for medical care or to help offset the families’ expenses.We have people buying toys for children so they have a nice Christmas and people who organize trucks and volunteers to deliver the presents. We have people who regularly prepare care packages for soldiers serving overseas, giving them a touch of home even though they’re thousands of miles away.Throughout the year, people donate and package backpacks for hundreds of local children who come from impoverished homes, making sure these kids have food and school supplies so they’re at their best to learn.We have people who volunteer on the nastiest nights of the year to staff emergency shelters so that the homeless have a place to escape the cold.We have people with construction skills who donate their time and effort building homes for poor families, allowing them to provide a safe place for their children and have pride in home ownership.last_img read more | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '40', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9630889296531676}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '18256', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TCQCGLGRKMOGKX6NJPLIQ2ZW5ZK4BMY4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:338b69cb-2b69-408c-a3e7-59edd3e06a15>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 20, 19, 43, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.175.96', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PVUATJ4SOP3WHKZET7CFKO2FSXFURJSS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:45ff95c9-15d2-415b-87b8-74ee153719dc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://hdysy.cn/beccitag/%E7%88%B1%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7ae', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9c1d7dcc-b4c9-49c2-bec9-e487c3bcd83e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '782', 'url': 'https://hdysy.cn/beccitag/%E7%88%B1%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7ae', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-55.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': '0.019326210021972656', 'original_id': '73a44d68c811c7f19073b451fbba31a61540ffb837574f55d7a23a2bae6518a3'} |
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Qmail-send is the core of Qmail's mail delivery process. It monitors the mail queue, dispaches individual deliveries from messages to happen at bothe the local and remote channel, schedules redelivery attempts, and asks qmail-clean to clean-up (remove) messges from the queue when they are done. It also creates the Bounce messages to return messages to the sender (via the envelope -Path ) if a message was not deliverable.
A channel refers to either the local or remote delivery queue.
The roadmap
As described, you can tell this program does a lot. At 1455 lines of C code, it is still rather compact. Still, there are several sections within the program which Bernstein has apologized for leaving the code in one large file (find the comments starting with "this file is too long").
These sections are:
1. Main - The main processing loop. See below
2. Filenames - routines that builds the queue file names given the message inode number
3. Rewriting - Converts the recipient address, implementing the VERP and the "percent hack"
4. Info - Reads the Info queue file, containing the return path (Sender address) of the message
5. Communication - Handles writes though the pipes to the delivery subprocesses
6. Cleanups - Handles communication to qmail-clean
7. Priority Queues - Deals with the internal list of messages to deliver
8. Jobs - Manges information regarding jobs, each is a delivery process.
9. Bounces - Handles Bounced messges to the sender
10. Deliveries - High-level delivery starting and tracking
11. Passes - Makes a "pass" over the messages in a channel.
12. Todo - The "To do" queue is a list of new messages that must be scheduled for delivery
Qmail-send is a busy process, but will first load the queue into the priority queue and initializes the various components above. It then will start to deliver any pending messages in the queue, filling up the maximum concurrent delivery jobs as available. It then sleeps until it gets a message send into one of its pipes: from a delivery process (lspawn, rspawn), the new-message trigger (see $QMAIL_HOME/queue/lock/trigger which is a named pipe which qmail-queue kicks whenver it inserts a new message.) It then checks and handles delivery results, processing the "to do" queue, makes another "pass" over the message delivery list, then handles any message cleanup. Then is tries to sleep again.
Such is the life of qmail-send. All this hard work, and no praise or thank yous.
Note to self: Qmail makes delivery attempys by individual devileries, not individual messages. Qmail will attempt to make all deliveries to a message concurrently. This means that if a message has 1000 recipients, it will try to deliver to each of those 1000 until theey have all been tried. After that message has been exhausted, it will get the next message out of the priority queue. This batch mentality is that qmail will process deliveries at only one message at a time within the channel (local/remote)! Therefore to qmail, each recipient of each message is ahead of all receipients of the next message; they must wait to receive their mail. This can cause an apparent bottle-neck in delivery, but really shouldn't be a problem for users who have one or a few recipients for a message. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '30', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8938601613044739}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '12070', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TH4YQKI2DEDKDAVUFW7UNYOTUNVWGUGI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:09134ccc-32b3-4543-817f-0138e7fd8266>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 11, 6, 50, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '163.172.179.58', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:34CVFIYLJMJSNXSIMH27HWEUEWA72YEX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:23013a95-2893-4ea1-b913-0839bd38defe>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://wijata.com/software/cyberdesk.com.qmail.qmail-send.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2b5de3b5-5574-439a-86c6-afdbcccd4d16>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '628', 'url': 'http://wijata.com/software/cyberdesk.com.qmail.qmail-send.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-16.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': '0.02883833646774292', 'original_id': '76c569da60037890fa875f6bc06a9549cabd5313ed34608086edda8a960f2d5c'} |
Radio is playing through my speakers but no programs are running
By lindyd
Dec 15, 2007
1. This is SO strange, started happening a couple days ago. I have AVG, winpatrol, zonealarm, and spybot. Everything is saying that my system is clear, no viruses. I can run hijack this if someone would want me to, however maybe someone's heard of this and can tell me what it is.
I have NOTHING running except tskmgr. I just rebooted my system, I had taskmanager up to try to find out why my performance is peaking so much, seems like my system resources are really being taxed (I know when my computer "fan" or whatever is making noise down there comes on. It normally happens when I have lots of windows open that I'm simultaneously working in. I can understand that. But when no windows are open and nothing is running?) The performance should be next to just when I am looking in task manager to see what is running if anything, and wondering why my performance is so high, I hear a radio program coming through my speakers. I don't have any Cd in my drive, I haven't turned anything on. This has happened twice now, it comes out of nowhere. Sounds like a radio because the first time I heard a little music, then some DJ's talking. This time it was some programming.
THIS IS CREEPING ME OUT!! Is there a virus on my system that is playing some internet radio station on my system without me knowing it??? Could that account for the performance issue? It was on for about one minute, then was gone. Now that it is gone, my performance is back down to normal, like between 2-20%...
2. evilfantasy
evilfantasy Banned Posts: 428;en-us;261186
3. Daveskater
Daveskater Banned Posts: 2,031
What evilfantasy has said about sounds different because that is sent to the pc's internal speaker and what you describe is sound coming out of your pc's external speakers.
The only reason I could think of something randomly playing itself is if there is a malware connecting to some sort of internet radio station, like you said, and playing it to you.
It wouldn't hurt to put an HJT log up so we can look at it, follow these instructions and attach your log to a new reply in this thread.
How to post an HJT log as an attachment
4. almcneil
almcneil TS Guru Posts: 1,554
I would suggest running Ad-Aware 2007 (free) and AVG Anti-Spyware. Repost if you're still having this problem.
5. ultraorange
ultraorange TS Rookie
Yeah I'm having the same problem on my parents computer. It's like I'm listening to an internet radio station. Stuff about moto cross and skateboarding and well it's dumb installing HJT now.
6. ultraorange
ultraorange TS Rookie
Ok as soon as I ran it the music stopped
7. damusca
damusca TS Rookie Posts: 43
HJT would show the exact registry entry that you need to remove and show your programme right away, I appreciate your frustration but the people above really know what they are speaking about and you should show a little more respect for their assistance, after all, they will show you how to clear and fix your system.
Run HJT and post the report if you would like it resolved.
8. hanming86
hanming86 TS Rookie
SAme here
Yea i have this thing going on in my laptop too. What's interesting would be when i end process/kill the iexplore.exe in tast manager, the music stops.
here's an attachment of the HJT log file in any case.
Attached Files:
9. gilesy
gilesy TS Rookie
hi guys i also have same sort of problem just happened today, my nod32 for some reason went out of date ?! lol and seems to have let in something but mines not a radio site its little movie clips from internet sites one for instance has been and keeps playing a trailer of " the haunted " movie
and in task manager there are loads of strange processes and also i have now fixed nod32 and it picked up 9 viruses but the problem still persits
starting to stress me out now :p any help would be greatful i will try and get that hjt log file sorted now and post if in a bit
thanks in advance
10. jobeard
jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 13,525 +338
I'll give you one: While sitting at my system, if my cell phone is -just about to ring-,
my desktop system with a Sound Blaster card will buzz the speaker system UNTIL the phone does actually ring.
This is Radio Frequence Interference (RFI) and occurs when the signal strength is strong enough to 'swamp' the circuitry.
(fyi: I built shortwave radio stuff in the past).
Two conditions are likely
1. you are physically located close to the radio station
2. and your system is not adequately 'shielded'
When you are very close to the station and it transmits megawatts of RF power,
you are just out of luck -- it takes armor plating to avoid RFI in that case.
11. Cybergus
Cybergus TS Rookie
ctrl+alt+del and you will find two suspicious processes: one is 8270.exe and when deleted the music stops which tells me VIRUS! Another one is 6770.exe
12. Kasu
Kasu TS Rookie
This is a common problem if u buy Logitech speakers i've noticed and it only seems to happen when a speaker is near an alarm clock, 4 friends and i all bought the same speakers Logitech 5.1 coz they where cheap and only 50$ for a set lol and they all do it. if they are sitting close to a radio or radio alarm clock.
But so far i've only noticed that with logitech... still would be worth scanning over your computer just to be safe.
13. surge7477
surge7477 TS Rookie
I ran HJT I sent it to trend micro I did ctrl alt delete no files that match cybergus this is so frustrating
please help before its starts playing you can here the noise of a click like when you click somthing on the computer sry i couldnt find how to attach a file
14. surge7477
surge7477 TS Rookie
how can I attach my hjt log ? sry im nt the greatest with comps
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The Violence in Nigeria: What's Behind the Conflict?
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Residents of the Nigerian village of Dogo Nahawa stand by a mass grave on March 8, 2010, as health officials cover bodies of people killed during a religious clash with the Hausa-Fulani
The machete killings of hundreds of villagers near the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday have thrown the sectarian problems of Africa's most populous nation into the spotlight again. Nigerian officials claim the latest bloodshed — most victims were Christians, many of them women and children — was retaliation for clashes in the same city in January. In that massacre, Christian attackers killed 300 Muslims.
Nigeria has been wracked by periodic episodes of violence for decades. The country's 150 million people are divided about equally between Christians and Muslims and further splintered into about 250 tribes. Jos, some 300 miles north of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, sits smack-dab in the center of Nigeria's tumultuous "middle belt," a so-called cultural fault line that divides the country's Muslim north from the Christian south. The "middle belt" is a melting pot where the major ethnic groups of Nigeria — Hausa-Fulani Muslims and Yoruba and Igbo Christians — usually coexist peacefully but sometimes collide.
Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence isn't ethnic or religious differences but the scramble for land, scarce resources and political clout. Poverty, joblessness and corrupt politics drive extremists from both sides to commit horrendous atrocities. Although the nation rakes in billions of dollars in oil revenue annually, the majority of Nigerians scrape by on less than a dollar a day. In Plateau State, where Jos is located, Muslim cattle herders from the north and Christian farmers from the south vie for control of the fertile plains.
That poor distribution of wealth has also sparked conflict in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta region, where militants lobbying for a greater share of oil revenue regularly blow up pipelines and kidnap foreign oil workers. Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain.
Kakabadse blames a lethal combination of outside oil interests, long-standing local conflicts and poverty for the sectarian strife. "In Nigeria the Christian-Muslim thing is the tip of the iceberg," he says. "What's underneath the water is a much more complex sociopolitical situation, which cannot be explained just in terms of the religious divide. You have a recipe ripe for conflict, and it just so happens to be Christian-Muslim."
Sectarian conflict erupted most profoundly in 1967, when three primarily Igbo eastern states seceded under the name Republic of Biafra, sparking a bloody three-year civil war. The attempt to break away ultimately failed, and Nigeria reintegrated the Igbo majority region in 1970.
Violence among Muslim and Christian ethnic groups was largely kept in check by a succession of military regimes until 1999, when Nigeria returned to civilian rule. While democracy permits greater freedom of religious expression in Nigeria, it has also intensified the political and economic friction between ethnic groups. Rioting in 2001 killed more than 1,000 people, and subsequent outbreaks in 2004 and 2008 killed another thousand. Smaller but no less vicious attacks in 2009 claimed dozens of lives.
Police have arrested more than 90 people for their alleged roles in this week's massacre. Washington and international human-rights groups are calling on Nigeria to prosecute and punish those responsible. "It's time to draw a line in the sand," Human Rights Watch researcher Corinne Dufka said in a statement. "The authorities need to protect these communities, bring the perpetrators to book and address the root causes of violence." But even if that happens, the violence is unlikely to end altogether. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9503794312477112}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '46743', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EKARFIYZT4PVQITRO2Z2JML7M4YBWU33', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7be76a75-8003-4b73-b1f4-fd60a8334362>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 30, 2, 39, 34), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.62.7.32', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RLGR6IJMI7CLFMM3SCIQURVMZFTCASI3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a5b0a3c9-41a6-4c57-bc9e-ba68b57fd0c0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1971010,00.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:76f58660-bb33-43e2-803a-574cc4e8734f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '620', 'url': 'http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1971010,00.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-06\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for January 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.043567657470703125', 'original_id': 'c2a755afc2e975bd1520ce14cc4389b9896e9ac3657a96e92417338eff995e21'} |
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Q:
Better $_GET security
My PHP is very rusty. I have a md5 hash that's being passed via get to a script and then I'm grabbing it like this:
$id = $_GET['id'];
Obviously there's a security risk here...I was thinking of checking the string length to make sure it's 32 characters long but that doesn't seem very robust to me. What else could I do to make it more secure?
thanks
A:
You could validate with a regex to make sure it consists of only alphanumeric characters.
E.g. something like this (my PHP is rusty too):
if(preg_match("/^[A-Fa-f0-9]{32}$/", $id) > 0) {
// All good
}
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Ýmir Vigfússon: Why I Teach People How To Hack at TEDxReykjavík (Transcript)
Watch and read the full transcript of Icelandic hacker Ýmir Vigfússon’s TEDx Talk: Why I Teach People How To Hack at TEDxReykjavík conference.
Full speaker bio:
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Ýmir Vigfússon – Icelandic hacker and computer security expert
I grew up as a hacker. And by hacker I mean somebody who can break into a computer. And my goal here today is to explain to you why I teach other people how to hack.
So imagine a world filled with intellectually capable people who all share a common passion. And in this world the only way you communicate is through a chat interface. So you have no idea who the person is in the other end. It could be a 13 year old girl from Haiti, it could be a 37 year old law enforcement agent from Thailand, it could be artificial intelligence, you just don’t know. But it doesn’t even matter. You see your background, your age, your sex, your class, your looks, none of that has any bearing in this world that I’m describing. The only thing that matters in this world is your knowledge, your skills and your curiosity for understanding how the digital world works.
So the world that I’m describing is the hacker underground where I spent my teenage years. So what drew me to that place? What drew me to this world? I’m sure at some point in your life you must have tried to guess someone’s password, right? Yes, that’s right. Do you remember that feeling, that rush, the kind of euphoric sensation of accomplishment and power when you succeeded? Right? It’s the same kind of feeling that you would get when you solve a complex puzzle or when you beat someone at chess, when you prove a mathematical theory. You feel as if somehow you outsmarted a real or imaginary opponent.
So hackers get that same excited rush when they defeat someone’s program to make it do something that was not intended to do, or when they gain unauthorized access to someone’s system. It’s really not that hard to relate. I mean, imagine this — imagine this, you’re in your online bank and you’re about to transfer money to your friend. Just for kicks, instead of putting in the amount you put in the number 0, just to see what happens, just for kicks. And nothing happens. And you persist, you keep at it and you try something else and you try putting in letters instead of numbers, and again so the site blocked. And you press arrear, you try again, you try putting in a negative number just to see what will happen. And lo and behold it goes through and what have you done? Now instead of you transferring money from your account to your friend you’re effectively taking money from your friend’s account to put into yours, right, without any notification. Can you imagine what you would feel like if you had just discovered this?
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All right. I’m sure you would feel surprised. I’m sure you would slightly elated. I’m sure you’d feel like as if you outflanked an entire army of programmers whose only purpose it was to try to keep out people like yourself. And I’m sure you’d feel a bit uneasy that it was this easy to defeat the security of the site to which you are trusting your money, right?
So most people I know would get a huge kick out of finding this type of vulnerability. But they wouldn’t abuse it. They’d just enjoy the process of finding this bug and then they would report it. Unfortunately that is becoming more and more accepted. As it turns out, this particular bug that I’m describing to you was real, was actually found by my friend, who at some point just called me like, ‘Hey Ýmir, this is this hysterical one. Look at your account. Now look at it again. Isn’t that funny?’ So he’s doing this audit of some internet security bank, yeah, it was really funny.
Anyway, so I’m sure somebody can relate but during your teenage years you don’t really have much of a moral compass, somebody can relate to that I hope. So I was sitting at one point in my room and I was hacking the server at an Icelandic internet service provider. And some member of my family picked up the phone, ‘Oh Ýmir, are you on the phone?’ was disconnected me from the internet. This is from the time when everybody had modems, right? But moreover it disconnected me from the server that I was hacking and left that server completely unusable. And in such a state of disarray that I couldn’t even get back into it. And I just remember sitting there looking at my screen, feeling utterly devastated over what had happened. I had no idea what to do. I was just – I had this cancer’s feeling of guilt in my gut, just I really had no idea what recourse I had. And I remember spending the entire night with my friends just discussing what to do. And it was decided that the following morning I would go to this company and tell them what I had done.
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Books tagged: manhattanmurders
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The Bondage Murders Organized Crime In New York City 1923-1924
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 8,150. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2014. Categories: Nonfiction » True Crime » Murder, Nonfiction » True Crime » Organized crime
Sir Basil Thomson, formerly of Scotland Yard, took an interest in the murders of Louise Lawson and Dorothy Keenan. He realized that their deaths was the work of persons who defied detection easily. One of Keenan's acquaintances/suitors was the son-in-law of Harry Daugherty, who was the U.S. Attorney General under President Warren Harding. The thieves/murderers specialized in furs and jewelry. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '34', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.92140531539917}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41181', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BC6AHPI2PXSVXCQQI7XIL5XGINZQ6SKB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f21f15a3-a73a-417a-8a2c-01a5b697adaa>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 6, 3, 10, 12, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.237.174.63', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FZHWEUHTZRM4V65GWLLRVMSPFWV6GWM4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ecf299f6-1172-48fa-b414-6ab8935dcff1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.smashwords.com/books/tags/manhattanmurders', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:86475a0c-b8ec-4b0c-b823-10e1fa749aca>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '120', 'url': 'http://www.smashwords.com/books/tags/manhattanmurders', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-22\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 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': '0.02799278497695923', 'original_id': 'a9623897e686c31bb4a1428b6c306aa69036f9b9633aec3c384cf11aa76e0524'} |
The Beanie Babies, also known as Caravaggio's Toys, pays homage to the idea of collecting as a social phenomena. Photographing these objects as if each had the status of rare relic, I approach them with the seriousness that Baroque or Renaissance painters would have given to the subjects of their portraits. With the employment of chiaroscuro lighting and the placement of each toy in the camera's frame, I give larger than life importance to these stuffed, low brow figures. The series extols the quality of light in the photographic image while maintaining a lively subtext of humor. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9498560428619384}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '42704', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:H2KOD7GTMETYIAGXB5NOQQJLN6CU2D4H', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:57582217-0b0d-478f-931e-69711ec54011>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 22, 18, 28, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '18.235.135.157', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KHCQTBYN5E3B5HKPQT3IJELBWQWTXQMU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8dcfb71b-dad9-4902-8830-68434695548f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.joybushphotography.com/beanies', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3cd9d04f-9f40-46b3-860b-413e7c5a114d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '97', 'url': 'http://www.joybushphotography.com/beanies', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-133.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09308511018753052', 'original_id': '2e0553cb42cc3d774810924ebc42fb2bc2a6fb5b43c643da8cc67ce20296c81e'} |
The Sorensen Monologues
Archive for February 13th, 2018
The Selective Free Speech Warrior
A backlash against the #MeToo movement rages, with conservatives spluttering about the awful feminists posing an existential threat to liberal democratic order, or some such thing. Look, I am not a fan of Twitter’s mob mentality even when I agree with the mob. But that’s the nature of the medium, a problem not isolated to just anti-sexual harassment activists.
This backlash is a massively disproportionate response, indicative of a highly distorted media universe where pundits are rewarded for saying that the nation’s biggest problems originate with liberals — remember the obsession with “PC on campus” during the election? As I have noted elsewhere, the speech concept has been utterly perverted to suit right wing efforts to chill speech.
A few relevant links:
The linguist and progressive activist George Lakoff, author of “Don’t Think of an Elephant”, is being sued for defamation by a wealthy Georgian-American businessman who was present at the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer. Lakoff cited the businessman’s alleged involvement in money-laundering in a TV interview. The businessman’s legal team includes a lawyer who represented Trump in a previous lawsuit. I find this incredibly chilling, and deserving of much, much wider coverage than it’s getting. Lakoff has a GoFundMe set up for his legal expenses.
Also deserving major headlines is the plight of the “J20” inauguration protesters still facing felony rioting charges. Many had their charges dropped, but 59 people still face the possibility of years in prison for merely being present when a few people engaged in vandalism. This is huge news with major implications for the right to protest.
Then there’s the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” In this day and age of neo-Nazis, it sounds fine, right? But in practice, it conflates legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with bigotry. Many liberal Jewish groups are opposed to it for this reason. Of course, the Trump administration is appointing a fervent supporter of the act to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.
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Does revision always mean reduction?
saucepan for reductionism post
‘Which one was Canning Miss?’
‘He was the Tory Prime Minister in 1827.’
‘Oh.’ [Frowns].
‘He’s the one who had the duel with Castlereagh – the one who completely missed.’
‘Oh yeah! Him! He was the liberal one who the old fashioned ones didn’t like, wasn’t he? The bloke who liked Catholics?’
My Year 12 students are revising for a mock exam. There is a lot to remember in 1783-1832 and Tom is struggling. I would once have been tempted to give Tom a crib sheet on Canning. This would probably have led me to creating summaries of all the Prime Ministers from Pitt to Gray, in which I would have boiled down what we had learnt this year into 5-10 key points about each key individual.
Yet now I know better, thanks to Brown, Roediger and McCaniel. They are the authors of a book about called Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, and I have blogged about this excellent book before (HERE ). Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive learning, the premise behind this book is that learning should be effortful if it is to be effective. The book has helped me to recognise the two main pitfalls of my ‘boiling down’ approach to supporting pupils with revision:
1. I would have done all of the effort of synthesis for them. In re-reading textbook chapters, the AQA Scheme of Work and my teaching resources, I would have spent a great deal of time reviewing my notes, and consolidating my own understanding of what are the most important points to remember for each Prime Minister. The benefits for the students, I thought, would be that they would have some handouts that would make them feel secure, and which would lessen their workload in terms of identifying the key points to note about each Prime Minister. Underlining and highlighting my pre-prepared notes would have only have given them an “illusion of mastery”, however; the gains would have faded quickly. By allowing the pupils to give up the struggle of learning, any information they might have learnt from my crib sheets would be much less likely to stick. “Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging”, argue Brown et. al., “leads both to more complex mastery and to better retention of what was learned”. Why can’t the students themselves re-read their notes, the AQA Scheme of Work inserted into their folders, and their handouts?
2. By stripping down each Prime Minister’s character, policies, actions, achievements, mistakes, misfortunes, alliances (and so forth) into half a side of A4, the opportunities for pupils to create their own ‘mental models’ of the world in which these past Prime Ministers inhabited were much reduced. The opportunity for creating ‘multiple layers of meaning’ decrease as soon as I take out some of the ‘extraneous’ detail. It is this detail – a duel (Canning), a personal bankruptcy (Pitt), an iron nickname (Wellington) – that has the potential to strengthen memory.
A key finding from the authors’ research into cognitive psychology is that reflection is an excellent tool to improve learning.
Reflection can involve several cognitive activities…that lead to stronger learning. These include retrieval (recalling recently learned knowledge to mind), elaboration (for example, connecting new knowledge to what you already know), and generation (for example, rephrasing key ideas in your own words or visualising and mentally rehearsing what you might do differently next time).
“Elaboration”, according to the authors of Make It Stick, “improves your mastery of new material and multiplies the mental cues available to you for later recall and application of it.” A particularly powerful form is to think of a metaphor or visual image for the material studied. Creating a summary sheet using graphics to illustrate interrelationships, structures and concepts, is an example of effective elaboration; additional layers of meaning in the material studied can be discovered and displayed.
I could create the ‘bare bones’ of a reflection sheet for every Prime Minister in which I present graphics to stimulate pupils’ memories of different aspects of each Prime Minister’s time in office. Yet I decided to create only one (see my example: Pitt Graphic Summary). This was a leap of faith, in two ways. First, it was a leap outside of the model that I held in my head about what effective learning entails. My belief that making students’ lives easier would lead to better learning outcomes was so ingrained, that it took an effort of will to stop at the one sheet. Second, it was a leap of faith in terms of trusting the students to continue making reflection sheets. Should I do it anyway, as a little help from me might be better than them not helping themselves at all? Yet this was to allow my fear of poor results to get in the way of preparing my students for effective lifelong learning. This is why ‘being transparent’ about the need for learning to be effortful is so important: “be up front about some of the frustrations and difficulties…and explain why it’s worth persisting.”
In summary, ‘elaboration’ may seem, at first glance, to be counter-intuitive as a way of revising material: surely we need to be taking away any extraneous detail, rather than adding it. Yet elaboration multiplies the mental clues available for the recall and application of the material studied. The duel between Castlereagh and Canning is not important information by itself. Yet if it helps Tom to make the connection between Canning and a pro-liberal stance, in contrast to the reactionary position of Castlereagh, then it is well worth him learning it.
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Texan quits Electoral College rather than vote for Trump, 'bring dishonor to God'
A Texas Republican in the Electoral College has announced that he will quit rather than cast his vote for Donald Trump.
Art Sisneros, 40, said in a blog post over the weekend that "the best option I see at this time is to resign my position as an elector."
"Voting for Trump would bring dishonor to God," the welding supply salesman wrote. He said he was resigning so that he could be replaced with "someone that can vote for Trump."
Sisneros, who was one of 38 Texans in the Electoral College, had previously mentioned concerns about supporting Trump, saying the Republican "is not biblically qualified for office."
Texas doesn't require its presidential electors to vote in accordance with the state's presidential election results. Trump won Texas by around 9 percentage points and captured 290 overall electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 232.
Texas electors meet in Austin next month to vote for president. By state law, they can vote then on a replacement for Sisneros.
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A Dickensian tale of makeshift families and petty thievery, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters is a finely tuned investigation of relationships. “Blood is thicker than water,” some say, relying on ancestry and lineage to shape their identities. Others lament, “You can’t choose your family.” But it turns out you can, and those who create their own families experience something more deep-rooted than standard bonds. Kore-eda’s film situates a group of poor vagabonds and criminals under the same roof and, with empathy and understanding, demonstrates that a family is how you define it. Kore-eda’s story is inhabited by characters who rename themselves, creating their own rules and justifications for how they live their lives. They realize that blood bonds often disappoint. However, the provisional family in Shoplifters is not without its share of disenchantment and personal trials; like most families, it’s an imperfect assemblage of human flaws. But its construction by choice rather than obligation lends the group a particular poignancy, imbuing it with an import at least equivalent to, if not higher than, that of blood relations. Through studied observations of behavior and subtle formal beauty, Kore-eda finds beauty and tenderness in otherwise strange conditions.
The improvised Japanese family at the center of Shoplifters lives in a hut that belongs to Granny Hatsue, played by Kirin Kiki, the matriarch of Kore-eda’s Still Walking (2008). Five people inhabit the cramped space under Granny’s roof—a few rooms, a bath, and a small kitchen—none of them related by blood. Yet, each trust and accept one another more than most genetic relations do. If there’s a fatherly Fagin in the bunch, it would be Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), who teaches the pre-adolescent boy Shota (Jyo Kairi) how to pilfer food from grocery stores without being spotted. “Whatever’s in the store doesn’t belong to anyone yet,” he tells Shota. An elaborate series of hand signals, nods, and distractions lead to a successful haul of food for their clan. To be sure, Osamu isn’t sending children out to do his sleight-of-hand bidding or receive stolen goods for personal profit; it’s a shared experienced carried out for their family’s mutual survival. But Shota hasn’t completely converted to Osamu’s way of life, nor has the young boy accepted Osamu as his temporary father. Despite pleas to do so, Shota refuses to refer to Osamu as his parent.
shoplifters-2On the way home from a successful day of minor larceny, Osamu notices a young girl seated outside of her family’s front door, clinging to a rail. She’s a curious sight since it’s dark and cold out. Has she been abandoned? She doesn’t speak, but she’s nearly frozen. Osamu resolves to take her back to the bungalow, where they notice that the five-year-old, whose name is Yuri (Miyu Sasaki), has scars all over her arms. They question, albeit briefly, the ethical and legal implications of their actions, worrying that the authorities might search for her. Have they kidnapped her? Decidedly not, they resolve, since they’re not asking for a ransom. Their concerns prove somewhat unfounded, however, after two months pass and the neglectful, abusive parents still haven’t filed a missing persons report—an indication that they never wanted Yuri in the first place. In the meantime, Yuri becomes a member of Granny’s family, while the viewer suspects that everyone in the bunch has arrived in this hut under similarly unromantic, even tragic circumstances.
This family has all the components of three generations living under one roof, working to support the whole, but none of them have genuine family ties. Take the twentysomething daughter of the family, Aki (pop-star Mayu Matsuoka); she works at a sex booth, where she isn’t asked to remove her clothes but she isn’t exactly doing savory things for her clientele. Osamu’s wife, Nobuyo (Sakura Ando)—who claims that her husband is like an old goat that no longer requires sexual attention, a viewpoint that becomes almost comical when the origins of their relationship are later revealed—works two jobs, in a laundry and on a construction site, and yet neither pays well. At the laundry, she’s forced to take part in a workshare program that means her hours are cut to allow another worker time on the clock. Everyone gets paid less; everyone stays poor, and no one wins. At home, Nobuyo and Granny alternate caretaker duties, cooking and tending to Yuri’s wellbeing. Kore-eda’s crafty inclusion of such elements is part of his larger critique of Japanese society, which deprives families, forcing those without families together. Nevertheless, he finds something affecting within otherwise pitiless social conditions.
It’s implied that everyone lives with Granny because she has a reliable source of income drawn from her late husband’s pension; though, that proves false, as do most assumptions and pretenses about the characters in Shoplifters. Granny siphons her income from the adult children of her late husband and his mistress; Granny uses this disgrace to eke sympathy, and regular payments, from them. Osamu and Nobuyo were never married, and the shocking situation in which they came together is one of many rather macabre details in the film. Consider how matter-of-factly everyone handles a death among their temporary clan; they hide the body so as not to be discovered by authorities. However morbid their behavior, their devotion to maintaining their family is touching. Even so, Kore-eda never treats these discoveries and developments like grand twists in a plot. He gradually alters our perspective by revealing small pieces of information, while immersing the viewer in his characters’ subjectivity.
shoplifters-3Families, most often shattered and displaced, remain a constant presence in Kore-eda’s cinema. Although he began as a documentarian, the Japanese director’s first drama from 1995, Maborosi, focused on a woman whose husband kills himself, leaving behind a devastated family. With After Life (1998), he incorporated a spiritual element, where the recently deceased must choose a single memory from their former lives as a memento, causing some self-examination amid the characters about the quality of their past relationships. Whether he uses fringe genres to explore families, as he often does, or settles into the quiet, measured looks at human drama—found in Still WalkingLike Father, Like Son (2013); Our Little Sister (2015); and After the Storm (2016)—Kore-eda’s most prevalent theme is not just family, but the fractured family. Fortunately, he does more than showcase such dynamics; he deconstructs, reassembles, and challenges traditionalism with incredible empathy. After all, Shoplifters is a tender film about a family comprised of thieves, murderers, kidnappers, scammers, and liars.
Kore-eda delivers at once severe and sensitive reflections through Ryuto Kondo’s lyrical camerawork, which resists typical shaky-cam depictions of squalor. Never does the treatment devolve into a marked representation of social realism with its purposefully gritty aesthetic that assumes an on-the-streets vibe. Instead, Shoplifters was filmed with the understated precision of a master, a quality recognized earlier in 2018 when it won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Kore-eda’s eye has often been compared to that of Yasujiro Ozu, whose penchant for an unmoving camera and deceptively simple framing transform his work about the family into uncommon portraits. Though Kore-eda’s work inhabits the Ozu realm of family dramas, his subject matter is often more playful and unconventional, similar to that of Mikio Naruse, and his formal touches follow in elusive ways. By using a style vaguely reminiscent of the one employed by Ozu to investigate the traditional Japanese family, Kore-eda exposes the artifice of those traditions when he applies them to an alternative type.
Indeed, there’s a pervasive sense in Shoplifters that none of this will last, as though everyone involved, except perhaps Shota and Yuri, knows their make-do family must come to an end before long. Are they just pretending in the sense that they are joyfully playing house while they can? If so, it renders their unit all the more precious, as it’s self-made, and thus somehow more intimate and meaningful. At the same time, their bonds expose the trick of blood relations, how they can sometimes convince us of bonds that do not exist. It’s routine to feel like you have nothing in common with your biological family members but then feel closer ties to those who you’ve named your real family. A later sequence finds Granny’s people together at the beach, with moments of elation in their togetherness contrasted by the sudden, forlorn realization of how fleeting such moments will be in the shared life on display. It’s the kind of scene that students of dramaturgy and cinematic narratives know will be followed by a grim turn. But that doesn’t make the scene hollow or any less touching. The enduring lesson of Shoplifters is that family is what you make of it. Whether it’s a makeshift family or one born from blood bonds, they each require a certain blind faith that they will work. Sometimes that faith is betrayed. Sometimes, it’s all we have.
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Spain takes its cheese production very seriously as you may have already worked out while visiting the local weekly market, traditional craft markets or small villages in the countryside or mountain areas. Mind you, even our hypermarkets all have a large area dedicated to cheese, where all the products are laid out in a lavish display.
Bearing this in mind, you may or may not be surprised to read that Spain has been awarded with three distinctions for three of its cheeses, as they have been voted in the top 20 best cheeses in the world at the World Cheese Awards – the equivalent to The Oscars but in cheese world.
This year, this prestigious competition was held in Bergen in Norway, and featured 3,472 cheeses from 41 different countries.
While the top spot went to ‘Fanaost Aged-Gouda’, a Norwegian cheese elaborated on a tiny farm with only 12 cows, Spanish cheeses occupy the 6th, 11th and 14th positions, with a further 12 Spanish cheeses being awarded the ‘Super Gold’ medal and featuring in the top 80 cheeses globally.
Here are the top 16 cheeses in the world as voted in 2018:
1. Fanaost Aged-Gouda. Norway
2. Agour Pur Brebis AOP Ossau Iraty. France
3. Helfeit, Brun Geitost, Tinn tradisjon, Stordalen Gardsbruk. Norway
4. Almnäs Tegel Almnäs Brukal. Sweeden
5. Riserva del Fondatore. Caseificio Il Fiorino. Italy
6. Formatge Madurat Formatges Mas El Garet. Spain
7. Lihmskov Grand Fromage. Denmark
8. Taupinette Jousseaume. France
9. Baffalo Blu Caseificio Defendi Luigi Srl. Italy
10. Caciocavallo Azienda Agricola E Zootecnica Posticchia Sabelli. Italy
11. Majorero DOP – Maxorata semicurado con Pimentón. Grupo Ganaderos de Fuerteventura. Spain
12. Kilembe Belnori. Boutique Cheesery. South Africa
13. Golden Cross Golden Cross Cheese. United Kingdom
14. La Reserva, Mezcla. Queserías Entrepinares. Spain
15. Pecorino Gran Riserva del Passatore Romagna Terre. Italy
16. Maayan Harod Shirat Roim. Israel
And under the ‘super gold’ category, and therefore amongst the 80 best cheeses in the world, are the following Spanish cheeses:
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Woman filmed drying underwear on plane air conditioning
Woman filmed drying underwear on plane air conditioning
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A woman made the most of her downtime on a flight to Russia by drying her underwear on the plane's overhead air conditioner.
Passengers were puzzled but remained silent as the woman, flying from Antalya in Turkey to Moscow, unashamedly held her undies in the air for around 20 minutes.
The moment was been caught on camera, showing her flipping the briefs over every now and again to ensure they were fully dried.
Other passengers said she did not seem embarrassed by her unusual behaviour on board the Ural Airlines flight.
"Everybody was looking with interest and confusion, but everybody remained silent," one passenger said, according to the Daily Mail UK.
Unsurprisingly the video is doing the rounds online and it seems everybody has something to say about it.
Some people are defending her actions, saying it's not a bad way to multitask when you're confined to your seat.
"Those [underwear] aren't an adult's… looks like they belong to a kid," one commenter noted.
"This is not the worst thing in the modern world," another added.
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When you enter the command C-/, Emacs undoes some part of your recent changes to a buffer. When you enter C-/ again, it undoes another chunk of work.
I have read the Emacs manual entry on Undo but it is vague about exactly how it works. The manual says "Consecutive character insertion commands are usually grouped together into a single undo record" but it does not explain how it decides the number of character insertion commands that constitute a group. The number of characters it puts in a group seems random.
Can anyone explain the algorithm Emacs uses to group characters into undo records?
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The logic for setting undo boundaries is mostly in self-insert-command which is implemented in cmds.c. You'll have to read the code for the full story, but basically:
• As long as you are just typing characters, there's an undo boundary every 20 characters you type.
• But if you issue a different editing command (you kill a word, for example), this causes an undo boundary to be added immediately, resetting the character count.
• Certain "hairy" insertions (as determined by internal_self_insert) cause an an undo boundary to be added immediately, and the character count to be reset. Reading the code, it looks as though these are: (1) in overwrite-mode, if you overwrote a character with one that has a different width, e.g. typing over a tab; (2) if the character you inserted caused an abbreviation to be expanded; (3) if the character you typed caused auto-fill-mode to insert indentation.
• In addition, any editing command that decides it would be a good idea to have an undo boundary can request it by calling undo-boundary. This does not cause the character count to be reset.
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Thanks for your answer! – John D. Cook Jul 6 '11 at 12:58
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What Happens When the Person You're Dating Comes Out as Non-Binary?
"It gave us more freedom to be and do who and what we wanted."
09 August 2017, 3:41am
In most societies, the gender and sexuality binary are solid as stone, taught to us from a young age and assigned at birth. Pink or blue, man or woman: For too many, one's genitalia determines sex and, consequently, who they're attracted to and what traits they embody. But those constructs are not set in stone; they are fluid and ever-evolving, and have been that way throughout history.
Paige, 24
I am a non-binary trans femme who has been undergoing hormone treatment for two years. My partner and I have been together for three years. She calls herself a lesbian for the sake of convenience in a cisheteronormative setting. We're in an open relationship, and she's been with another partner for four years.
My partner wasn't really surprised by anything I've told her about myself. She's known me since before I came out and has said things like, "I kind of felt as if you weren't a cisgender heterosexual man." I was allowing people to call me a "man," use "he" pronouns and so on, but I came out a few months into the relationship. For me, personally, it's helped me work through a lot of fears and insecurities.
It's really wonderful to have somebody who may not understand everything you're going through but loves you no matter how you choose to dress or call yourself. Gender roles are not an issue in our relationship. She never expects me to "be a man," and I never expect her to be a certain kind of woman. Not having those expectations just makes living easier day to day. We can avoid the pressure of prescribed gender roles and have a little bit of paradise in our relationship at home.
In society, there is [pressure] people put on us; they'll read us as a gay man and lesbian or something. Those expectations make people react based on how they think we're presenting. But between the two of us, it's a lot more peaceful.
Clarity, 22
Even if there hadn't been, I was starting to see signs of gender non-conformity in general. When they told me they were officially going to come out, I encouraged them to transition into a more femme identity, but still non-binary. They were initially hesitant, but I was relieved when they did. That said, I was scared for them, too. There's a lot of political turmoil surrounding trans people these days.
Dating someone who is non-binary means having neither a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Nobody feels forced into those heteronormative roles. Nobody feels obligated to pay or hold open doors; it takes off a lot of pressure about who "has to do" what. They treat me with such respect as a person. They don't see me a certain way and I think that's hard to find from anyone.
Sam was always feminine and a lot of people thought they were gay. When I met them, I knew they were not a typical masculine person, which is why I liked them. They were very sensitive, upfront, and intuitive and asked a lot of questions. We both had a lot of conversation about how neither one of us wanted to be treated as a "girl" or a "boy." Both of us felt like we were much more complicated than that; that our feelings were more complicated, and that gender as a social construct is very limiting.
It got easier and made more sense as they started to come out. I am not a particularly feminine woman all the time. I don't want or care to be. I like things that aren't typically feminine; I'm very strong and authoritative, I'm very decisive and very logical, and I'm a good leader. In many heteronormative power dynamics, you, as the woman, are considered to be more submissive—you can't go out of the house wearing certain things or can't express your sexuality in certain ways. There are lots of limitations on how women and men can act in relationships.
It was hard for me to connect with men who didn't want to be emotional or women who either wanted me to be "masculine" or more "feminine." Sam doesn't interrupt or patronize me, something you get all the time as a woman in general. I am a sensitive person and total cry baby, so it's OK to have someone who is really comforting and gets it.
Taylor, 22
I've been a non-binary femme for about two years. I was dating somebody for three years, and we were dating for a year before I came out. It was a huge part of my coming into myself. My gender expression is feminine, especially appearance-wise, but I don't identify with femininity too much. Being non-binary is really freeing because I don't relate to masculinity either.
My partner was really, really supportive, which was helpful. I got to discover myself through the process of explaining my identity to someone who cared about me and their reactions were nothing but helpful and kind. I didn't come out publicly until about a year ago so when I decided to use they/them pronouns; my partner was really supportive and would remind people about that.
I always knew my partner was more feminine than me and we kind of found the words for it later. It didn't change too much but it opened up a lot. I've always been the dominant one in the relationship so none of that changed. It made sense afterwards. It gave us more freedom to be and do who and what we wanted.
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chacha' Chamorro
I just had a really really great laugh, and you'll never guess why.
Someone actually said that I'm chacha' or picky about Chamorro language. hahahahahaha.
It was so ridiculously stupid that I'm actually having trouble typing right now.
But I guess that given what he said and others have said, it would probably be a good idea for me to clarify my ideas on language. And to start, chinacha' is probably worst term to use.
The only thing I am picky about in language is that people be open to different forms.
Opposed to what most people think, where language fluency has to do with learning a particular grammar really really well, I think of fluency as being able to move between different registers or types of a single language. So fluency for me isn't that you know the "proper" way of speaking Chamorro as best as you can, but more so that when different types of Chamorro come along, you have no trouble speaking or understanding them as well. For the most part Chamorros are open to different forms of Chamorro, with the largest exception being Chamorro spoken by people who are learning it as a second language. It is in this regard that Chamorro is hardly open, but instead becomes a very rigid language.
Here's one example from a young boy who emailed me and who has been slowly trying to learn. While out in the yard with an older cousin who speaks fairly good Chamorro, they saw some fruit on a tree. The boy asked his cousin to get some fruit for him using the verb "ayek" or "chose." The cousin told him that this was wrong and that he should use the word tife' not ayek. Sounds simple enough right? Ayek and tife' refer to different types of "picking." But its not that simple, what should have also been communicated is that ayek might be right, if he meant "select one," and not "pick one (off the tree)." But so often what happens in these situations where the language is being taught is that a simple correction takes place, not providing a real lesson in the language. The boy emailed me asking me if his cousin was correct and I told him what I wrote above, that you might have been correct depending on what you meant, and so when people are teaching you, you should try to get them past the simple correction and get them to actually teach you the language in a more fuller way.
As time has gone on Chamorro has become a more and more narrow language, this is evidenced by the ways in which existing prefixes and suffixes in the language are resisted when they are applied in ways that the fluent speaker hasn't hear before. Chamorro is full of a wide array of these add ons, which allow us to form incredible words, but when language learners attempt to do this, they are often told that that is not correct, or that you don't use them like that.
Examples that language learners have brought to my attention are prefixes such as e-, chat-, ha-, and la-, and suffixes such as -i and -yi. E- for those who don't know is the prefix used for designating the hunting or pursuing of something. So a recognized word in the language is epanglao or so hunt for crabs. This prefix is recognized commonly with a few words, but in reality could be used to refer to anything, yet when learners have attempted to attach it to different words to try and say things, (such as epalao'an for hunting or searching for women or ebinadu) they are told that its wrong and given a more commonly accepted way of saying it. This is what I mean when I speak of preferences being imposed. According to the grammar rules for Chamorro epalao'an or ebunita are appropriate terms, and they should be allowed, or at least discussed. People who are helping others speak Chamorro shouldn't just dimiss things which they aren't familiar with, which is what too commonly takes place. If its is incomprehensible then correct it, but if it is just unfamiliar then don't be in such a hurry, you might find that this strange new form might improve your Chamorro as well.
This creativity should not be stifled, because if it is allowed and nurtured it will lead to the revitalization of Chamorro. Our people were mighty poets, yet with the emphasis on speaking properly Chamorro, the variety within Chamorro has slowly been disappearing. Today, you can see sparks of that vitality and life, but too often when those learning Chamorro attempt to be creative with the language, they are told to just use the common ways of saying things.
Let me reiterate once again, that I'm not saying that people shouldn't learn the language well, but more so that whatever you teach as a fluent speaker IS NOT as simple as "I am just teaching Chamorro." How you teach it means the life or death of Chamorro.
It was my grandmother who made this clear to me when she was teaching me. She taught vastly different then anyone else, because she was always open to different ways of saying things and always offered different ways of saying things. When I would ask he if something was correct, or if I said something incorrect she would correct me, but then offer me several different ways of saying the same thing. When I would try to use different forms, she enjoyed it, she enjoyed it because it made our minds move and keep them fresh and alive.
Now, I've already been "accused" of trying to impose my beliefs on how Chamorro language should be taught on others. But am I really imposing anything? All I am offering is a perspective on why Chamorro isn't a vital and energetic language, and for those who want it to survive, it might be good to listen to me. I don't know everything or have all the answers, but I don't mind discussing things which others don't like. I don't mind saying that its not only the fault of those who can't speak Chamorro, its just that amongst Chamorro speakers, they are the ones who are always blamed.
Preserving a language as in the rules of speech won't revitalize Chamorro. It will make our language ready for a museum but it won't keep it alive. Only by allowing it to be an open language, where unfamiliar speech is understood and accepted will it survive. Only when we focus on comprehension and not abstract rule preservation will it survive.
If you don't like what I'm saying, please feel free to ignore me. I am not imposing anything on you. I am not commanding you to be sensitive. To not tease people. To not correct people. If you read my last few posts on this then you'll see I'm not saying anything like that.
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Then your grandmother has a gift for teaching language. Most people don't give the full explanantions as to the reasons you do or don't say certain phrases for particular meanings.
I think you don't realize that most Chamorro speakers don't have an education in Chamorro. Most of them learned it growing up. They only know what they have heard. So they don't explain it as well as you would like them to. That doesn't mean that they over critisize people, it means they're bad language teachers...
As to the use of Chamorro's prefixes and suffixes, you're absolutely right, you can use them on most things to make a specific meaning. It's just that it's not part of the venacular, and people don't know all of the precise functions of all the prefixes and suffixes in Chamorro, regardless if they use them day in and day out. It's the same in English... If you were to negate the word "prudent" in English, most people would say "imprudent." That doesn't mean that a word like "unprudent" or "inprudent" wouldn't carry the same meaning. What I'm trying to say is that while all of the words would carry the same connotation, only one of them would be acceptable by the majority of the people. They might have no problem with understanding the words, but it isn't within their own vocabulary to say "inprudent" or "unprudent." The same is the case in Chamorro speakers. The difference is that most English speakers have had the benifit of learning about the grammar of their language in school, so the English speaker might be better apt to explain why you don't use certain grammatic devices in certain places. That doesn't mean that the people who have taken Chamorro classes would be able to teach it well either.
Anyways, I agree with you that you should be creative in Chamorro. The only thing I would be wary about is trying to forego the subtle intricacies of the language for the sake of creativity. It would be a very sad thing to get lose any more of our beautiful lanaguage...
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She’d been cleaning that kitchen for hours, no mess left to scrub.
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“Jenny…” I prayed and wished you’d hear me.
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I shook from head to toe, but couldn’t look away, couldn’t ask the voice to stop. I felt you; I sensed you close to me. And you repeated for me to: “Look into the sky, Christopher.”
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‘’I’m scared.’’ Barely a whisper, but you heard me. You always did.
‘’Don’t be. We’ll be together.’’ And then, as if I doubted the voice wasn’t yours, ‘’Journeys may end and nights might fall, but Brother, you will always be loved.’’
‘’And through the hardship of rain and the sorrow of dreams, you will always remain Sister mine.’’ I’ve remembered these words ever since you first read them to me at bedtime, back when I was a kid and you were my world.
Home in the stars
I’d never be alone again, Jenny, because I joined you. The stars became my home, and I turned them blue just for you.
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Purpose, Character of Use, and Authorization for the NIEHS Kids' Pages
The NIEHS Kids' Pages is a government (non-profit) educational website authorized by a 1997 Presidential Memorandum. It is designed to:
teach children about the connections between their health and the environment;
encourage children to pursue careers in health, science, and the environment;
explain the mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and
assist children in learning to read and master challenging mathematics and science.
The NIEHS Kids' Pages include a wide variety of fun activities designed to attract children to this website where they can learn about the impact of the environment on human health, the NIEHS mission, and possible careers in health, medicine, science, mathematics, and the environment.
So why do we include a Sing-Along section?How is that "educationally" relevant?
In support of the White House Memorandum guidelines that were issued, the Sing-Along pages are included because sing-along activities are particularly useful for motivating young children to learn to read and to improve their reading skills. Since starting the site we have received numerous letters from educators and other visitors supporting the value of sing-along materials as an educational tool; many others also indicated that the music site is particularly helpful for children and adults with special needs.
We greatly appreciate the input and ideas we have received from parents, teachers, and caretakers about how our site can help with educational initiatives. More information and tools relating to the educational purpose of music can be found at
The Educational Benefits of Music
, including links to Songs for Teaching. In addition, here are a few excerpts on this subject that were taken from our visitors' email messages:
"Most of my kids are poor readers BECAUSE reading was something 'you must do because I say so' and not because it's fun. Their environment never taught them that reading is fun. That's my job. And thanks to your site, I'm able to do my job better."
"I have been NYS certified in both Special Education and Educating the Emotionally Disturbed for over twenty-five years. I have worked in reformatories for teenage boys and girls (where I am currently employed), public schools, and a NYS prison. Music is a universal language—cross cultural, multi-ethnic, etc. Most of our troubled youth (all income brackets, all ethnic groups, racial groups, etc.) are often difficult to reach because teachers/social workers/caring adults do not have a common language with these youngsters. Music, and music lyrics, are an excellent first step in establishing communications. By using the lyrics on your site, I have been able to capture my students' interests. From there I can lead them to vocabulary improvement, poetic ideas, dealing with feelings—in short, coping with reality, even if it is an ugly reality."
All of the materials presented on this website were collected from other online resources and are used solely for non-commercial educational purposes. No commercial gains will be generated by the contents of this website and materials herein are considered to be available to NIEHS for use solely in a non-profit manner as an educational tool for children. No harmful effect on the market is anticipated and, if anything, it is our understanding that organizations or entities represented by these materials might inadvertently be helped by their inclusion on this site. If you have any concerns with our use of any of these materials, please so that we can rectify the situation. (Also see
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. )
White House Press Release of April 18, 1997 (presented below), authorizes the development of this website.
Authorization
White House Press ReleaseMEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
My number one priority for the next 4 years is to make sure that all Americans have the best education in the world.
One of the goals of my Call to Action for American Education is to bring the power of the Information Age into all of our schools. This will require connecting every classroom and library to the Internet by the year 2000; making sure that every child has access to modern, multimedia computers; giving teachers the training they need to be as comfortable with the computer as they are with the chalkboard; and increasing the availability of high-quality educational content. When America meets the challenge of making every child technologically literate, children in rural towns, the suburbs, and inner city schools will have the same access to the same universe of knowledge.
I believe that Federal agencies can make a significant contribution to expanding this universe of knowledge. Some agencies have already launched a number of exciting projects in this area. The White House has a special "White House for Kids" home page with information on the history of the White House. NASA's K-12 initiative allows students to interact with astronauts and to share in the excitement of scientific pursuits such as the exploration of Mars and Jupiter and with experiments conducted on the Space Shuttle. The AskERIC service (Education Resources Information Center), supported by the Department of Education, has a virtual library of more than 900 lesson plans for K-12 teachers, and provides answers to questions from educators within 48 hours— using a nationwide network of experts and databases of the latest research. Students participating in the Vice President's GLOBE project (Global Learning and Observation for a Better Environment) collect actual atmospheric, aquatic, and biological data and use the Internet to share, analyze, and discuss the data with scientists and students all over the world. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense's CAETI program (Computer-Aided Education and Training Initiative), the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has developed a program that allows high school students to request and download their own observations of the universe from professional telescopes.
We can and should do more, however. Over the next 3 months, you should determine what resources you can make available that would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning, and produce and make available a new or expanded version of your service within 6 months.
You should use the following guidelines to support this initiative:
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Posts Tagged ‘bash’
Learning Bash Scripts (3)
October 4th, 2011 No comments
This post covers the loop usage of bash shell. NOTE: read inline comments carefully 🙂
1. for loop
# loop list, last value remains
for test in Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado
echo The next state is $test
echo "The last state we visited was $test"
echo "Wait, now we're visiting $test"
# using escape or quote
for test in I don\'t know if "this'll" work
echo "word: $test"
# loop variable & files
states="Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia"
for state in $states; do
echo $state >> $statesfile
for state in `cat $statesfile`; do
echo "Visit beautiful $state"
rm $statesfile
# loop directory
for file in ~/.b*; do
if [ -d "$file" ]; then
echo "$file is a directory"
elif [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "$file is a file"
echo "$file doesn't exist"
# c-style syntax
echo "The next number is $i"
# IFS (internal field separator) to separator string
for entry in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
echo "Values in $entry:"
for value in $entry; do
echo " $value"
2. while loop
while [ $var1 -gt 0 ]; do
echo $var1
var1=$[ $var1 - 1 ]
3. until loop
until [ $var1 -eq 0 ]; do
echo $var1
var1=$[ $var1 - 25 ]
4. break & continue
# break
for (( a = 1; a < 4; a++ )); do
echo "Outer loop: $a"
for (( b = 1; b < 100; b++ )); do
if [ $b -eq 5 ]; then
echo "Inner loop: $b"
# break outer loop
echo "Outer loop: $a"
if [ $b -eq 5 ]; then
break 2
echo "Inner loop: $b"
# continue outer loop
for (( a = 1; a <= 5; a++ )); do
echo "Iteration $a:"
for (( b = 1; b < 3; b++ )); do
if [ $a -gt 2 ] && [ $a -lt 4 ]; then
continue 2
var3=$[ $a * $b ]
echo " The result of $a * $b is $var3"
There may be times when you’re in an inner loop but need to stop the outer loop. The break command includes a single command line parameter value: break n where n indicates the level of the loop to break out of. By default, n is 1, indicating to break out of the current loop. If you set n to a value of 2, the break command will stop the next level of the outer loop.
5. redirect & pipe
Finally, you can either pipe or redirect the output of a loop within your shell script.
for (( a = 1; a < 10; a++ )); do
echo "The number is $a"
done > $testfile
echo "The command is finished."
cat $testfile
rm $testfile
Categories: Linux Tags: , ,
Learning Bash Scripts (2)
October 4th, 2011 No comments
When creating a shell script file, you must specify the shell you are using in the first line of the file. The format for this is:
# This script displays the date and who's logged on
In a normal shell script line, the pound sign(#) is used as a comment line. A comment line in a shell script isn’t processed by the shell. However, the first line of a shell script file is a special case, and the pound sign followed by the exclamation point tells the hell what shell to run the script under (yes, you can be using a bash shell and run your script using another shell).
2. Display
The echo command can display a simple text string if you add the string following the command.
# basic usage
echo This is a test.
echo "Let's see if this'll work"
# environment variables
echo "User info for user: $USER"
echo UID: $UID
echo HOME: $HOME
echo "The cost of the item is \$15"
# user variables
echo "$guest checked in $days days ago"
echo "$guest checked in $days days ago"
# backtip
echo "The date and time are: " $testing
The echo command uses either double or single quotes to delineate text strings. If you use them within your string, you need to use one type of quote within the text and the other type to delineate the string.
You may also see variables referenced using the format ${variable}. The extra braces around the variable name are often used to help identify the variable name from the dollar sign.
Just like system variables, user variables can be referenced using the dollar sign. It’s important to remember that when referencing a variable value you use the dollar sign, but when referencing the variable to assign a value to it, you do not use the dollar sign.
3. Redirect I/O
>: output redirect
>>: output redirect append data
<: input redirect
<<: inline input redirect
# wc << EOF
> test string 1
> test string 2
> test string 3
3 9 42
The inline input redirection symbol is the double less-than symbol (<<). Besides this symbol, you must specify a text marker that delineates the beginning and end of the data used for input. You can use any string value for the text marker, but it must be the same at the beginning of the data and the end of the data.
4. Math Expression
var3=`expr $var1 \* $var2`
var4=$[$var1 * $var2]
var5=`expr $var1 / $var2`
var6=$[$var1 / $var2]
var7=`echo "scale=3; $var1 / $var2" | bc`
echo The result is $var3
echo The result is $var4
echo The result is $var5
echo The result is $var6
echo The result is $var7
The expr command allowed the processing of equations from the command line. Note the spaces around operator is necessary. Escape character(backslash) is used to identify any characters that may be misinterpreted by the shell before being passed to the expr command.
Bash also provides a much easier way of performing mathematical equations. In bash, when assigning a mathematical value to a variable, you can enclose the mathematical equation using a dollar sign and square brackets ($[ operation ]).
The bash shell mathematical operators support only integer arithmetic. The most popular solution uses the built-in bash calculator, called bc.
5. Structured Commands
5.1 if/else
The bash shell if statement runs the command defined on the if line. If the exit status of the command is zero (the command completed successfully), the commands listed under the then section are executed. If the exit status of the command is anything else, the then commands aren’t executed, and the bash shell moves on to the next command in the script.
# if-then
if grep $user /etc/passwd; then
echo "The bash files for user $user are:"
ls -a /home/$user/.b*
# if-then-else
if grep $user2 /etc/passwd; then
echo "The bash files for user $user2 are:"
ls -a /home/$user2/.b*
echo "The user name $user2 does not exist on this system"
if grep $user3 /etc/passwd; then
echo "The bash files for user $user3 are:"
ls -a /home/$user3/.b*
elif grep $user2 /etc/passwd; then
echo "The bash files for user $user2 are:"
ls -a /home/$user2/.b*
echo "The user name $user2 and $user3 does not exist on this system"
5.2 test
The test command provides a way to test different conditions in an if-then statement. If the condition listed in the test command evaluates to true, the test command exits with a zero exit status code, making the if-then statement behave in much the same way that if-then statements work in other programming languages. If the condition is false, the test command exits with a 1, which causes the if-then statement to fail.
*) Numeric Comparisons
Comparison Description
n1 -eq n2 Check if n1 is equal to n2.
n1 -ge n2 Check if n1 is greater than or equal to n2.
n1 -gt n2 Check if n1 is greater than n2.
n1 -le n2 Check if n1 is less than or equal to n2.
n1 -lt n2 Check if n1 is less than n2.
n1 -ne n2 Check if n1 is not equal to n2.
if [ $val1 -gt $val2 ]; then
echo "$val1 is greater than $val2"
echo "$val1 is less than $val2"
if (( $val1 > $val2 )); then
echo "$val1 is greater than $val2"
echo "$val1 is less than $val2"
However, The test command wasn’t able to handle the floating-point value.
You may also notice usage of double parentheses. It provide advanced mathematical formulas for comparisons, no escape is needed in it:
Symbol Description
val++ Post-increment
val– Post-decrement
++val Pre-increment
–val Pre-decrement
! Logical negation
Bitwise negation
** Exponentiation
<< Left bitwise shift
>> Right bitwise shift
& Bitwise Boolean AND
| Bitwise Boolean OR
** Exponentiation
&& && Logical AND
|| Logical OR
*) String Comparisons
Comparison Description
str1 = str2 Check if str1 is the same as string str2.
str1 != str2 Check if str1 is not the same as str2.
str1 < str2 Check if str1 is less than str2.
str1 > str2 Check if str1 is greater than str2.
-n str1 Check if str1 has a length greater than zero.
-z str1 Check if str1 has a length of zero.
Trying to determine if one string is less than or greater than another is where things start getting tricky. There are two problems that often plague shell programmers when trying to use the greater-than or less-than features of the test command:
– The greater-than and less-than symbols must be escaped, or the shell will use them as redirection symbols, with the string values as filenames.
– The greater-than and less-than order is not the same as that used with the sort command.
if [ $val1 \> $val2 ]; then
echo "$val1 is greater than $val2"
echo "$val1 is less than $val2"
if [[ $val1 > $val2 ]]; then
echo "$val1 is greater than $val2"
echo "$val1 is less than $val2"
The double bracketed expression uses the standard string comparison used in the test command. However, it provides an additional feature that the test command doesn’t, pattern matching. No escape is needed anymore.
Capitalized letters are treated as less than lowercase letters in the test command. However, when you put the same strings in a file and use the sort command, the lowercase letters appear first. This is due to the ordering technique each command uses. The test command uses standard ASCII ordering, using each character’s ASCII numeric value to determine the sort order. The sort command uses the sorting order defined for the system locale language settings. For the English language, the locale settings specify that lowercase letters appear before uppercase letters in sorted order.
While the BashFAQ said: As of bash 4.1, string comparisons using < or > respect the current locale when done in [[, but not in [ or test. In fact, [ and test have never used locale collating order even though past man pages said they did. Bash versions prior to 4.1 do not use locale collating order for [[ either. So you get opposite result when running on CentOS-5.7(bash-3.2) and Ubuntu-10.04(bash-4.1) with [[ operator. And bash-4.1 is consistent with sort command now.
5.3 case
Well, this is easy, just walk through the snippet:
case $USER in
gonwan | barbara)
echo "Welcome, $USER"
echo "Please enjoy your visit"
echo "Special testing account"
echo "Do not forget to log off when you're done"
echo "Sorry, you are not allowed here"
All sample code are tested under CentOS-5.7 and Ubuntu-10.04.
Categories: Linux Tags: , ,
Learning Bash Scripts (1)
August 28th, 2011 No comments
1. Shell Types
There are three ways of starting a bash shell:
– As a default login shell at login time
– As an interactive shell that is not the login shell
– As a non-interactive shell to run a script
Login Shell
Interactive Shell
Non-interactive Shell
2. Terminfo Database
3. Virtual Consoles
4. Environment Variables
There are two types of environment variables in the bash shell:
– Global variables
– Local variables
To view the global environment variables, use the printenv command.
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rob of sequence vt?
1/36
Four letters picked without replacement from jjjjj. Give prob of sequence jjjj.
1
Three letters picked without replacement from rrraaraaararrarrrrr. What is prob of sequence rra?
154/969
Calculate prob of sequence wbnw when four letters picked without replacement from bwbwbbbbbbbbbn.
1/1092
Two letters picked without replacement from {n: 6, x: 4}. What is prob of sequence nn?
1/3
Calculate prob of sequence kwkk when four letters picked without replacement from {k: 17, w: 3}.
2/19
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1/28
Two letters picked without replacement from {l: 3, n: 2}. What is prob of sequence nl?
3/10
Calculate prob of sequence lppc when four letters picked without replacement from ipppclcvp.
1/126
Two letters picked without replacement from {f: 1, w: 2, s: 10, q: 3}. Give prob of sequence ws.
1/12
Calculate prob of sequence fdd when three letters picked without replacement from dfkxd.
1/30
Three letters picked without replacement from mmqcmqmmcqcj. What is prob of sequence qcj?
3/440
Four letters picked without replacement from yyuuy. What is prob of sequence uyuy?
1/10
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1/19
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1/4368
Four letters picked without replacement from oaoahahooaoao. What is prob of sequence aooh?
5/286
Two letters picked without replacement from ccvr. Give prob of sequence rv.
1/12
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3/40
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1/45
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1/45
Four letters picked without replacement from {d: 11, t: 2}. Give prob of sequence ddtd.
3/26
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3/20
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3/70
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1/48
Four letters picked without replacement from wzwmmwmwmzmm. Give prob of sequence wzmw.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Just Do It
"Just do it."
Ever heard this slogan made famous by Nike? It rings so true.
When it comes down to it, what differentiates successful people from everyone else is taking action. Yes, mistakes will be made. But, we should not be so afraid to make mistakes that it will stop us. Taking action and doing something is better than doing nothing at all.
One of my fellow investors always brings this question to people who are thinking about getting into investing,
"If you continued to do the same thing you did this year, where would you be next year? Would you be where you want to be?"
If you continue to do nothing, you can never change your situation. If you want to change your situation, you must take action. Now, I'm not advocating going full force into investing and quitting your job. Quite honestly, that is not the best thing to do.
Get educated first. Figure out where you want to be financially and how you will get there. This will depend on your experience level and financial situation. Do you need to build up some cash first? Or, are you ready to invest into income producing assets and have the necessary cash reserves?
If you are just starting out, the best and safest way to go is to find a local investor in your area who is doing what you want to do. You may have to go through a few people to find the "right fit." What you want to do is find someone you can learn from locally who also wants you to grow as a person. It needs to be a mutually beneficial relationship for both of you. Remember, nothing is free and it is ALWAYS a two way street.
Take a couple people out to lunch and find one person you can connect with and feel you can learn from. So, what does the other person get in return? Well, I would say that you would need to figure out a way so that both parties can help each other. I highly recommend finding deals for other investors to start out. You can highly leverage yourself learning from a local investor who can also tell you what to look for and their investment criteria.
Most times investors are open to this and will gladly pay a finders fee to you if a deal is done as a result of your work. Be sure to check the local laws of your state to see how this can be done legally. Some investors decide to contract this work out as independent contractors, or some even may offer to put you on payroll. It all depends on who you are working with.
When you're first starting out, always remember the goal is to learn. Do not, I repeat, do not get greedy and think you know everything. No one knows everything. Most times, you learn on the job - learn by doing. Yes, you can read about the experiences of others. But, you will learn through your own experience. Personally, I didn't understand this concept when I first started out. Now, I do.
All in all, have fun with it. If you can take action by at least finding deals either for someone else or for yourself, the battle is halfway done. Once you get good at finding deals and putting deals together, then you are well on your way.
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Marital Conflict and Divorce
How to help couples become companions and not enemies in the journey
By Mark R. Laaser
Many pastors know this scenario: A husband and wife come to his office and share how bad their marriage is. The pastor wants to provide counseling, but all they want to know is, “What does the Bible say about divorce?” or “Will we be condemned if we do not stay together?”
The pastor knows the biblical answer. Jesus said, “I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery” (Matthew 19:3–9). Paul wrote, “A wife must not separate from her husband. … And a husband must not divorce his wife” (1 Corinthians 7:10,11).
The Book of Genesis, Jesus’ teaching on marriage, and Paul’s writing agree that when a man and a woman come together in marriage they create a one-flesh union. Paul admits that this is a “profound mystery” (Ephesians 5:32). He then explained that he was talking about the relationship of Christ with the Church. In other words, a husband should be willing to sacrifice his life for his spouse and avoid making selfish demands on her. When selfishness, not selflessness, occurs in marriages, conflict is the result.
So, what does a pastor do? He needs to ask the couple if they would be willing to work on their marriage in ways they may not have tried before. If a pastor cannot do the long-term counseling this will require, he can refer them to a competent Christian counselor.
A pastor must not use guilt to persuade a couple to attend counseling by telling them, “God hates divorce.” Rather, he needs to challenge them to give themselves opportunity to find the relationship that God intends for them to have.
All Couples Go Through A Process Of Development
Pastors need to help couples gain perspective. Couples are not alone in their conflicts, and conflict is a part of normal development for couples. One myth couples might believe is that marriage should always be exciting and romantic. If it is not, something must be wrong. The truth is that relationships develop over time; they mature and grow. A love that lasts is continually growing in spiritual depth and emotional intimacy. The struggles and challenges of life give couples opportunity to achieve this growth.
A person generally goes through six stages in life. First, he is single. If he has done his individual developmental work well, he will have a strong identity and be fully aware of God’s calling, plan, and purpose for his life.
Second, some enchanted evening a person meets his spouse. Bells start ringing and violins start playing. The two only have eyes for each other. They become identified as a couple and lose themselves in each other. We often refer to this period as being infatuated with one another.
Third, sometime after marriage, the honeymoon ends. One morning the wife discovers that her husband does not put the toilet paper roll on right. The husband remembers his wife was raised Assemblies of God; he was not. He is a Republican; she is a Democrat. One spouse likes frequent sex; the other does not. Quirks and idiosyncrasies become apparent. Some begin to doubt that they married the right person. Conflicts over differences develop. One or both spouses decide it is time to develop their own life. As a result, they lose interest in each other. This leads to separateness and mutual coexistence.
Fourth, people go through a phase where they seem to get lost in themselves. One spouse may become preoccupied with work while the other is preoccupied with their children. This is the dangerous time when one or both spouses may turn to unhealthy ways of coping with their feelings of being separate and alone. Compulsive or addictive behaviors may result for some. Sadly, some will turn to other people, and affairs are the result.
Criticizing one’s spouse for coping in an unhealthy way leads to ongoing conflict and the couple seems stuck. Some couples use avoidance to cope with the pain, or the couple might turn to anger and conflict. Anger and conflict, at least, create adrenalin. Fighting might be the only passion being experienced in the relationship. In this stage couples might fight, then make up. They often become caught up in this endless cycle of ups and downs.
If a couple is strong and patient, they can survive this stage and move on to the next. Paul said, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:4,5).
Fifth, to survive, couples must hold on to the belief that God brought them together for a reason. If God had intended people to be exactly alike, one person in the marriage would not be needed. As they grow in their relationship, couples discover that one has strengths where the other has weaknesses. Couples also learn how to cooperate and become intimate allies. Perhaps couples even find that their strengths and weaknesses are a completely matched set.
In the final stage of development, couples understand that they are capable of taking care of themselves as individuals because they depend on God. They recognize their strengths, talents, and weaknesses as they develop self-confidence. But out of their strengths they also choose to remain together. While couples know they can be alone, they know that their spouse completes them in a spiritual and covenantal union. The two have become one and rejoice in it.
Few couples have the courage to get to this last stage. Most couples bounce back and forth between stages 2, 3, and 4. When some get to stage 3, their perceptions of their differences and the constant conflicts that go with them lead them into divorce.
In counseling, ask couples where they think they fit in these stages. Help them see that the process is normal. Challenge them to make it to the last two stages. Getting beyond stage 4 requires knowing how to resolve conflict in healthy ways.
Resolving Conflict: The Problem Is Never The Problem
Family therapist Virginia Satir was fond of saying, “The problem is never the problem, coping with the problem is the problem.”
A couple’s conflict can develop over issues that are only symptoms or expressions of deeper issues. When a couple battles over superficial issues, there is no solution because the deeper thoughts, feelings, and needs are not being addressed.
Pastors can help couples see that they are fighting over issues that are not the real problem. At every turn the pastor must gently steer them away from these superficial arguments while helping them walk through deeper levels of understanding.
First, help couples understand how each of them copes with life. Give them examples of what coping means. Some people use substances such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, and even caffeine to change the way they feel in the neurochemistry of their brains. Some people use activities such as eating, shopping, cleaning, or sex to find a high that medicates feelings. These coping strategies can get out of control for some and become addictions. Others use avoidance strategies by working, sleeping, watching TV, or getting overly involved in various other activities.
Have each person make a list of his coping strategies and share these with his spouse. This is the beginning of taking responsibility for each person’s own actions.
Second, teach couples how they might be relating to each other in a variety of ways that may help them cope with difficult feelings but is detrimental to their marriage. One or both spouses may be constantly blaming the other. Some spouses try to always please the other one. This is sometimes referred to as codependency. Others may act in what they consider reasonable, but sometimes self-righteous ways. Christians who use this approach may use Scripture to prove their reasonable point. Finally, some may act as if they do not care or that everything is irrelevant.
In counseling I sometimes have couples stand and assume a posture they think looks like blaming, pleasing, being reasonable, or not caring. I then ask them to choose the one stance they do the most. This is also a way of taking personal responsibility.
Third, through your own modeling, teach couples about feelings. I give couples a list of feeling words and have them pick which ones they know they feel. You can sometimes see in their faces how they are feeling. Point that out to them. Have them listen to each other and reflect back what their partner is feeling.
Fourth, teach couples how to realize that they have certain core beliefs about themselves that have been formed in their history. This involves their families, churches, schools, and culture in general.
Many times I am confronted by people who say, “You can talk all you want about grace and God’s love, but I know it does not apply to me.”
Where does this roadblock come from? Somewhere in these people’s past they were told they did not measure up, they were bad, and they did not deserve to get their needs met.
Men can develop incorrect messages about being men from the lies of culture. The same dynamic can happen to women. For example, men are led to believe that their greatest need is sex, when, in reality, this is a biological myth. Women can be led to believe that they are intellectually inferior to men. This too is a biological myth. The lists of core beliefs that people hold about themselves can be endless. These incorrect beliefs, however, may keep people stuck in conflicts. If a woman has believed since her early years that she has never been attractive, how can her husband convince her otherwise? Have couples list the core beliefs they carry with them, and have them discuss with each other where they learned them.
Fifth, help couples admit to the expectations they desire from their spouses. These expectations are formed out of a person’s basic desires. When a person does not know how to get his desires met in his relationship with Christ and with others, he expect his spouse to fulfill these. For example, if a mother has not nurtured her son in a healthy way, her son may later expect his wife to nurture him in motherly ways. How many wives have said to their husbands, “I am not your mother”?
People bring these expectations with them to the altar. But people are not consciously aware of these expectations. A person gets mad when his spouse does not seem to live up to what he expects. Help couples see that many of the things they expect from each other are things that we can only expect from God.
Next to the bottom of these levels are seven desires of the heart that are universal to both men and women. These are: the desire to be heard and understood, affirmed, blessed, safe, touched in nonsexual ways, chosen, and included.
Men and women have more in common than they have things that separate them. Recent studies have discovered that 95 percent of the Mars and Venus differences are learned behaviors. People can unlearn these. There is no value in focusing on differences that are gender based. This usually leads to criticism and anger that is often disguised as sarcasm.
How many conflicts occur because couples do not listen to each other? How many people long for affirmation and feel their spouse does not give them any. Blessing is about the unconditional love that we should have received from our parents but may expect from our spouse. Safety means freedom from anxiety. Healthy touch is a basic need people have. When babies are born, if they are not touched enough, they will have a failure to thrive and can even die.
Much of the conflict couples experience occurs when their need to be touched is confused with their need to be sexual. Even though people can be physically attracted to many others, God has put in people a desire to be the only one in another person’s life. Furthermore, the only way to stay physically faithful is to spiritually choose in your heart that your spouse is the only person for you.
Finally, all people long to be included by their community, in their homes, neighborhoods, and churches. When people do not feel included, they can become isolated and alone. Conflict in marriage can occur when one spouse does not feel included in the other spouse’s life.
An example of how unmet desires can rise to the surface of marital conflict is the desire to be safe. All people have ways they believe will make them safe. They believe that if they have enough money they will be free of worry and problems. A wife may feel it is important to have a tight budget. Her husband may hide his anxiety by not thinking about money. Imagine the conflict that can occur between them because they have different strategies for managing their need to be safe.
During counseling I give couples a list of these seven desires and ask them to reflect on how they have expected their spouses to meet these desires. I point out that God is the only one with whom we can be heard and understood, affirmed, blessed, touched, safe, chosen, and included. I then challenge couples to sacrificially serve the other in these desires. I have each person keep a daily log of how he is doing in these ways of serving.
Finally, at the bottom of all conflicts is the fact couples forget who they are in Christ. First, they do not remember that they are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). Next, they forget that God loves them so much that He sent His only Son. Then, they lose faith that only God can meet their deepest desires. Ultimately, they develop unrealistic expectations based on faulty core beliefs that lead to unbearable feelings. The ways people cope with these feelings can cause conflict with their spouses who may not help them with their coping strategies.
I encourage pastors to have couples sit facing each other knee to knee. Have them hold hands and look each other in the eye. Then have a conversation with them about all levels of this model. By practicing, pastors can help couples begin their discussions at the bottom of this list, acknowledging the truth of who they are as individuals and as couples in Christ. From this place, they can find that, as God satisfies their desires, they can seek to serve the desires of each other. As expectations fade, couples will develop a true understanding of who they are, their difficult feelings will lead to joy, and false coping will disappear. Couples will become companions and not enemies in the journey.
Neil B. Wiseman
Mark R. Laaser, Ph.D., Chanhassan, Minnesota, serves as director of the Institute for Healthy Sexuality of the American Association of Christian Counselors (1-800-526-8673), and as executive director of Faithful and True Ministries.
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Here at LPJL we’ve made it our mission to #ExposeFakeClinics and we’ve done a lot of work in calling them out. Next year an important case about fake clinics is going to the Supreme Court. You can read about it here but what it basically boils down to is: California passed a law that said CPCs have to post signs that say that the state subsidizes abortion and contraceptives and also signs that say if they are a licensed medical facility. Apparently, that caused a lot of pearl-clutching at CPCs so to Washington we go. We’ll be on this story til the end (and then some), but for today we wanted to highlight a particularly stupid opinion piece that was published by US News and World Report. Like most anti-choice things it attempts to sound reasonable but then instantly falls into hysteria about the “unborn.” But what’s particularly concerning about this one is just how many things it gets wrong, and ABOUT ITS OWN CAUSE! You can read it here or, better, you can read Lizz Winstead’s takedown of all it’s inanities below:
LIE #1 “The Supreme Court announced last week that it will consider whether the state of California can force pro-life, faith-inspired crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion.”
Jeebus. They even lie kicking off what the Supreme Court case is about.
Actually, (there will be a lot of “actually-ing” as I tear this thing apart) SCOTUS decided to hear whether or not the First Amendment extends to a non-medical facility’s right to impersonate a medical facility, and use not-doctors dressed in lab coats to give inaccurate medical information to pregnant patients as a tactic to dissuade them from having an abortion.
LIE #2 Rather than supporting and promoting these “neighbor-helping-neighbor” efforts, pro-choice activists would like crisis pregnancy centers closed, or at least their energies hijacked to promote abortion instead.
Actually, we do not want tax dollars paying to keep these places operating, especially when the tax dollars are coming out of Medicaid and TANF, the very programs low-income families who are looking for support need. Also, contrary to this tedious exercise in word salad, what those of us who are pro choice are asking for is not “promoting” anything, but offering information about abortion services. Unlike these fake clinics who only promote their view of how pregnancy should go, regardless of a person’s circumstance, we would like the person coming to them to be the one deciding what is best for themselves.
LIE #3 Americans respond generously and without fanfare to their neighbors' sudden needs and crises. One crisis that exists across the country each day is the challenge of unexpected pregnancy. The solution most commonly offered is abortion.
The solution most commonly offered?!? It is offered because it is a solution that many people ask for. It is a solution people will chose when they are not ready to start a family, or never want to start a family. Fun Fact: Some people have sex for fun, and not to have kids. Weird right?
LIE #4 Every year, state and local governments channel half a billion dollars to Planned Parenthood which in turn performs about half of all surgical abortions in the U.S. and over 80 percent of nonsurgical abortions.
Actually, independent abortion providers perform most of the abortions in the US. But the authors here site Planned Parenthood because it is another way they like to fudge words to make you think PP is using tax dollars to pay for abortion. (Which they should be able to, BUT THEY CAN’T).
I mean, look at how that sentence is framed. They make it sound like half a billion dollars goes to PP FOR abortions when in reality it’s all used for Medicaid patients to get wellness visits, pap smears and prenatal care. THINGS THESE CREEPY FAKE CLINICS DO NOT PROVIDE. You know what else they don’t tell you in this article? A big reason they want to defund PP is that in states where they already have defunded them, that money goes to funding these fake clinics, who, say it with me, PROVIDE. NO. MEDICAL. CARE.
Also, what is your point? That when patients come to Planned Parenthood seeking abortion, Planned Parenthood provides them? Good. This MAY be is the hottest of takes in this article.
LIE #5 While abortion is sold as a quick and easy fix, for many women, it is not the solution they seek. What they want instead is to welcome their child into the world.
Who is “selling abortion?” No one has to. Pregnant people make decisions to have an abortions everyday. In fact one in four women make that decision in their lifetime, all on their on without any ad campaign, promotional materials or discount codes. They do it because they’ve DECIDED TO. Also, talking someone out of a medical service they want is not medical care.
LIE #6 Responding to the desire of these women, countless volunteers run to the rescue.
RESCUE??? OMG, are they comparing vulnerable pregnant people shelter dogs?
LIE #7 Staffed predominantly by women, over 2,000 crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. offer alternatives to abortion such as assistance in enrolling in Medicaid for pregnancy and delivery care, training in basic skills, free diapers, baby food, formula and strollers, even parenting and spousal classes for couples.
Um, there are actually aprox. 4,000 CPCs in the U.S. How do you not know facts about your own effing cause??
Also, if having a child is the solution they seek- these fake clinics do nothing to help keep funded the government programs they recommend to pregnant people. They vote for politicians who cut the very help they are recommending! So they are signing them up for assistance that could very well not be there for them in a year or two. Hello, what’s up with that CHIP funding? And when they do offer diapers or a crib often there are strings attached, classes to take, or volunteering for hours at the fake clinic in order to receive help. Should we force poor folks, who may work 2 jobs to make ends meet, to volunteer for hours just to get a blanket and a box of diapers? That just seems so Christian…
LIE #8 Radiologists read ultrasounds, free of cost, of fetuses as young as three weeks post-conception.
It’s not a fetus until 8 weeks post-conception (the correct term is embryo) and you cannot see a embryo at 3 weeks unless you do a transvaginal ultrasound, because a 3-week-old embryo is the size of a sesame seed. Most of these places are not medical facilities so we’d be honestly… a little terrified if they were actually performing transvaginal ultrasounds, not to mention even a speck of dirt on the creepy unregulated ultrasound probe would be bigger than anything you’d detect at this point. I mean, if you’re gonna lie this big, maybe just do some googling of what is actually plausible.
LIE #9 These ultrasounds not only help plan the birth by dating the pregnancy, but also help the mother, and often the father, to connect emotionally to their child.
No one is asking you to be the connector, or the convincer. Also, there are countless reports of patients bringing CPC ultrasound images to a real clinic and the gestational age is way off. That means the patient was lied to or had an incompetent radiologist. You pick what is creepier. But what I find so disgusting is after going through this, then all the state mandated hoops, by the time a patient gets to a clinic that provides abortion, way too many are now too far along to receive the procedure. People end up in your quack CPC’s because they are either seeking prenatal care, seeking financial help after the baby is born, or they are seeking abortion. CPC’s PROVIDE NONE OF THESE THINGS.
LIE #10 California's Reproductive FACT Act requires crisis pregnancy centers that are licensed to provide medical services hand out a notice that immediate and free or low-cost abortions are available nearby, with a phone number for inquiries.
The FACT Act is just one example of a troubling trend of states and cities attacking crisis pregnancy centers. Hawaii, for example, recently passed a law requiring medical and non-medical pregnancy centers to post a disclaimer that Hawaii has “family planning” programs, including abortion.
Why “family planning” in quotes? It is a thing. #TeamPetty
LIE #11 Centers must, at a minimum, provide the website where women can find information on these services.
Doctors and nurses working at pregnancy centers in Illinois are being forced to promote abortion to their pregnant patients.
And the city of Baltimore has an ordinance that requires pregnancy centers to post signs stating they do not perform abortions.
Creating a law that says, “if you claim to be a medical facility that offers pregnancy counseling then you must tell the patient all of the medical options available” is not forcing you to promote abortion, it is forcing you give the facts about all the options a pregnant person may inquire about.
Also, the horror of having to let people know the truth instead of deceiving people until they come in so you can shame and stigmatize them if they are not seeking the outcome the CPC THINKS you should choose.
LIE #12 The one-sided nature of these laws is made clear by the fact that abortion clinics are not required to post signs informing their clients that they do not offer prenatal care, adoption services or other support for women who want to give birth to their children.
Um. Clinics that only provide abortion state that is what they provide. We. Provide. Abortion. Also, they gladly refer people who want to continue a pregnancy to get resources to help them do just that. Differences being- a clinic that provides abortion doesn’t try to tell a woman what she wants or needs. Instead, a woman comes to their clinic and tells the clinic what she needs then the clinic provides it or refers them to someplace else. Triple also- there are many clinics that do provide abortion, prenatal care, and childbirth, so what is your point?
QUADRUPLE ALSO- Are you making up more lies that abortion providers lure you in pretending they will provide those things and then talk you into an abortion? Because that is NOT a thing.
LIE #13 To post a sign or inform women of where they can get an abortion may not seem like a big deal, but it is a huge deal for the people who volunteer at these centers.
Their mission is most definitely pro-life and they are motivated by their faith to help both the mother and child.
Then post that front and center! Why is this hard? Y’all are sounding like St Peter denying Jesus. HERE, I MADE YOU ONE. MAKE A BILLBOARD LIKE THIS AND WE WILL GO AWAY:
LIE #14 Laws attacking crisis pregnancy centers violate the volunteer’s First Amendment rights by forcing them to promote abortion, not just in a general way, but in very specific ways, to the woman sitting in the waiting area or in front of them in a counseling session. In fact, for many volunteers, knowingly, even if begrudgingly, pointing a pregnant woman in the direction of the local abortion clinic has grave moral implications. Conditioning a volunteer's work on her violating her conscience leaves her with only two options: She can disobey the law or she can stop volunteering.
LIE #15 Mistakenly labeled as an attack on California's permissive abortion laws, NIFLA v. Becerra really involves whether the First Amendment protects the right of Americans to lend a hand to pregnant women in need. All this activism against the generous volunteer efforts of so many good-hearted Americans hinders their work and reduces assistance for pregnant women seeking help. Our laws should respect the different convictions that enlarge the hearts of our citizens and drive them to seek the good of their neighbors – after all, the American instinct to come to the aid of one another is an important part of what makes this country so great.
First things first CPCs are organizations, not kind old granny’s, so stop trying to make this sound like all your intentions are above board here! The first amendment is one of our country’s greatest innovations and you’re treating it like it means you just don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do and no one can ever get mad at your for your opinions. Here’s the deal, like we’ve said throughout this piece, go off into the sunset and “help” pregnant people who have actively decided to not have an abortion all you want. Honestly, please do. But if a person is still deciding, if they are looking for some safe options (one of them being abortion), then luring them in and promising a lot of things and then telling them they’re bad and irresponsible or praying on them and scaring them into having a baby, well, that’s actively cruel. At the end of the day the first amendment protects our right to say this and, honestly, your right to write this dumbass article. But what it doesn’t protect is active deception. The law is not making you say “I love abortion” (although we say that in the mirror every morning) it’s simply saying that you have to provide all the facts especially if you claim to be facilities that provide all the facts. That shouldn’t be so hard. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9530938863754272}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '109853', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ERCF3HTWYNSRQD737R3QGQW44I25ID4T', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:68c420c7-7442-4ab2-b1eb-3005b5ad4cd9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 12, 7, 7, 25, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '83.68.31.240', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QTXYDRORB25BA6G6K2XKXJDAZSU2HYW6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d47b020a-5125-4887-8382-30d138592575>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.aafront.org/wednesday-lizz-winstead-rant/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fd5a520b-f9a5-4732-a8e0-cb6a1760231a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '2208', 'url': 'https://www.aafront.org/wednesday-lizz-winstead-rant/', '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-10-67-67-11\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': '0.11404240131378174', 'original_id': '3b0a5aae5e59ec9b199a91e1b4fe620b8f1ca02b433f1f36f4c658180afa7e76'} |
<div class="leaf "><div class="inner justify"><p class="no-indent ">one of the men; “our noble master commands it—Thou must e'en leave this chamber to a fairer guest.”</p><p>“Ay,” grumbled the hag, “even thus is service requited. I have known when my bare word would have cast the best man-at-arms among ye out of saddle and out of service; and now must I up and away at the command of every groom such as thou.”</p><p>“Good Dame Urfried,” said the other man, “stand not to reason on it, but up and away. Lords' hests must be listened to with a quick ear. Thou hast had thy day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old war-horse turned out on the barren heath—thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them—Come, amble off with thee.”</p><p class=" stretch-last-line ">“Ill omens dog ye both!” said the old woman; “and a kennel be your burying-place! May the evil demon Zernebock tear me limb from limb, if I leave my own</p></div> </div> | the_stack | {'hexsha': '45727643b376b09bb625454e3ee3d35e16a3b75e', 'size': '1012', 'ext': 'html', 'lang': 'HTML', 'max_stars_repo_path': 'manuscript/page-605/body.html', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'marvindanig/ivanhoe-a-romance', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': 'e61fcfd75c80a6989f0fe173bca6e0bb6f401bab', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['BlueOak-1.0.0', 'MIT']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': 'manuscript/page-605/body.html', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'marvindanig/ivanhoe-a-romance', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': 'e61fcfd75c80a6989f0fe173bca6e0bb6f401bab', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['BlueOak-1.0.0', 'MIT']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': 'manuscript/page-605/body.html', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'marvindanig/ivanhoe-a-romance', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': 'e61fcfd75c80a6989f0fe173bca6e0bb6f401bab', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['BlueOak-1.0.0', 'MIT']", 'max_forks_count': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '', 'avg_line_length': '1012.0', 'max_line_length': '1012', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.7341897233', 'original_id': '2409d48563e6317623b31cb6cdf8e257e94702dda25d9f3415e3bb18d9024a9e'} |
Heart of the Warrior
heart of the warrior
Heart of the Warrior (All The King’s Men #2)
I had already liked the first novel in the series and it took me a while to work up to reading this because it centered around the male enforcers I got a glimpse of in that book. I have never read a romance where it centered around two men before, but am really glad that I got to read this one. I was so pulled into this from the beginning and it totally surprised me how much I got into it. The characters were so real in their feelings and reactions that I found myself sympathizing with them or being mad when they did something totally boneheaded. The romance was sweet with a serious hot edge that surprised me, since I got totally sucked in, who knew I liked two guys together. The world they inhabit is well defined and in a known place which makes it even easier to identify with. The fact that they are vampires is secondary to everything else that goes on with them. This has opened me up to the possibilities and made me more open to try more in this vein, hopefully just as well written.
Severin has been pining away for Arion since their encounter in Ari’s kitchen six weeks earlier and does not know what to do. He has to see him every night at work and it seems that their brief contact has not affected Ari in the least. Arion has always had a hard time having relations with women but things were so different when he had his short lived encounter with Sev, it was explosive in more ways then one. Both of these men have secrets that they are trying to keep hidden from each other, friends, and family. This may be important to them but other factors are conspiring to make their lives even more difficult.
With cobalt use rising to epidemic proportions things are getting crazy on the streets for enforcers. Severin has more than his share of trouble brewing, his last boyfriends sister is looking to kill him and he has no idea when or where she might show up, his hated father is trying to make amends for his contemptible actions of the past and he wants none of it, and keep his lineage a secret could work for or against him. But with all that going on his main focus is Ari and how he can get him to love him, because the calling is upon him and he must have his mate.
I loved these two men together because they were hot, sweet, and so good for each other. Their romance was hard won and hard fought with family and friends who would not understand, and support from the most unlikely place. This book is more than worth the time as is the first book if you have not read it “Rise of the Fallen” is perfect. I am recommending this highly!! But be aware that there are multiple explicit sex scenes between our two hunky vampires. Very tingle worthy to me! MM Romance
**As I have done with the previous book I listened to this for my second time and enjoyed it just as much as the first. The narrator, Mikela Drew did a wonderful job with all the characters which enhanced the story. I remember feeling a bit squeamish when I first started reading this book but only found a very nice story in the end.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Yeah, I ain’t no human mix. Sev clapped his hands together in dust-off fashion and stood up. Good ol’ Dad had been a full-on, full-blood, virile vampire. Extremely powerful. And a jackass. Sev had only met his father once, but the meeting had left an impression when the two had nearly beaten each other to death.
Sometimes Sev felt guilty for what happened to her, as if he was to blame. They had to keep their relationship a secret because it would cause them both too much pain if people knew they came from two separate sides of the old war. She would be ostracized by the drecks if they knew she had kept a vampire’s offspring and carried it to term rather than kill herself. He would be seen as a threat or a dreck sympathizer if his teammates or other vampires learned of his half dreck bloodlines. This was what they called being between a rock and a hard place. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9922943115234376}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '59566', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6DIDPCKCYRROYGTQ2SLLUJYPNLEDFNL2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:06d5cd73-4577-439f-89f2-0c0c96d46c38>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 13, 12, 6, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3PTL44G46N64YR3BNPHGLKX4BGWNXBOT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6b886858-2f55-415e-bea9-cd65b9e7dac8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://chippyreader.wordpress.com/category/adult/mm-romance/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ef28f876-c3e6-47cf-a12b-f6575d6faddf>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '756', 'url': 'https://chippyreader.wordpress.com/category/adult/mm-romance/', '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-10-165-185-158.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': '0.024407565593719482', 'original_id': '412f2a9e9311673ba7cf6520ec807d99f1fd9638a5915c48b219a455c3021197'} |
Final Thoughts on the Atheist Prayer Experiment
Ever wonder why you got no results from prayer? You weren’t doing it right!
The Experiment is over. I did have some curious experiences. Decide for yourself if they were coincidences or the voice of God. [Read more...]
Tips for Dealing with Creationists
Ray Comfort’s fabled “crocoduck”
Creationists say the craziest things. I’ll save for later a critique of the actual errors in their arguments against evolution. Let’s look instead at some of the higher-level errors they make. Consider this a dose of Creationist vaccine. [Read more...]
Imagine a Christianity Without Indoctrination
Promotional poster for the movie “Jesus Camp” (2006)
What would happen if we categorized Christianity as an adult activity? It would be like smoking, drinking, voting, driving, sex, and so on—things that you must be mature enough to handle wisely. This adults-only Christianity would die out within a few generations. What does that say about the truth of Christianity? [Read more...]
Gospels vs. the Perfect Miracle Claim
Tinker Bell
We can argue back and forth for hours about the quality of the evidence in the gospels, but to understand the evidence, let’s simplify. Drop the problematic aspects of the gospel story and ask yourself if this makes it more credible … or less. [Read more...]
Are We Just Molecules in Motion?
Diagram of water molecule
Can a mechanistic view of the human brain explain consciousness or morality? Some Christian apologists say no, but they need to see these properties as emergent phenomena. [Read more...]
Christianity 2.0: Secular Christianity
A software upgrade—Microsoft Windows 3.1
How might Christianity evolve to become a better global citizen? I propose the idea of secular Christianity. [Read more...]
Josephus: A Reliable Source?
Illuminated Latin manuscript of “Antiquities of the Jews” by Josephus, 1466 (subset)
Josephus was a Jewish historian whose first-century writings mention Jesus. Christian apologists eagerly point to two references in particular as extra-biblical evidence of the miraculous works of Jesus. We’ll investigate them both to see if they hold up. [Read more...]
The Sin of Sodom was Homosexuality … Right?
Sodom and Gomorrah small
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is often held up as clear evidence that the Bible was against homosexuality. But was homosexuality really the sin of Sodom? [Read more...]
Believers are Products of their Environment
Muslims circle the Kaaba (“Cube”) in Mecca
What fraction of Christians were not raised in a Christian environment? What fraction of Muslims were not raised in a Muslim environment? What does it say about the validity of religious claims that people typically take on the religion of their culture? [Read more...]
Saint … or Insane?
Charles Manson
Andrea Yates drowned her five children to save them from Satan, but both she and Joan of Arc heard the voice of God. Charles Manson vs. Abraham. Jim Jones vs. Joshua. Who’s the saint, and who’s insane? How do we distinguish them? [Read more...] | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '42', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9373664259910583}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '100982', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OHHC3U4FTJPNT5LGPUGP7I2IMNTXD5JT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:571ab994-571c-46e3-a7a1-a0f40b709319>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 28, 7, 53, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.230.18.247', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SBAIN6LMTFWPGFZO2LDYJRU62SF4HKFV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:67fed5f7-810f-4b4a-9f82-6321519954ea>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/page/31/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:39a5a28b-67da-45f1-9c46-9abbb95a0f74>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '468', 'url': 'http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/page/31/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-35\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for August 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.14356231689453125', 'original_id': '87f487480b8fc0bfdab09d356a100380c4f724433700087a49a55e44080f511e'} |
//
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//
#pragma once
// appleseed.foundation headers.
#include "foundation/platform/compiler.h"
// Standard headers.
#include <cassert>
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstring>
#include <exception>
namespace foundation
{
//
// Base class for all appleseed exceptions.
//
class Exception
: public std::exception
{
public:
// Constructors.
Exception();
explicit Exception(const char* what);
// Returns a generic, implementation-defined description of the exception.
const char* what() const throw() override;
protected:
// Copy a string to another, ensuring that no overflow occurs and that the
// resulting string is always properly null-terminated.
static void copy_string(
char* destination,
const char* source,
const size_t destination_size);
char m_what[2048];
void set_what(const char* what);
};
//
// Exception class implementation.
//
inline Exception::Exception()
{
set_what("foundation::Exception");
}
inline Exception::Exception(const char* what)
{
set_what(what);
}
inline const char* Exception::what() const throw()
{
return m_what;
}
inline void Exception::copy_string(
char* destination,
const char* source,
const size_t destination_size)
{
assert(destination);
assert(source);
assert(destination_size > 0);
std::strncpy(destination, source, destination_size - 1);
destination[destination_size - 1] = '\0';
}
inline void Exception::set_what(const char* what)
{
copy_string(m_what, what, sizeof(m_what));
}
} // namespace foundation
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Offshore Energy Integration Can Deliver 30% Of Uk's Net Zero Target
Partnering and co-ordinating infrastructure important for decarbonisation. The integration of offshore energy systems, including oil and gas, renewables, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, could contribute to deliver approximately 30% of the UK's total carbon reduction requirements needed to meet the 2050 net zero target. [Read Full Article] | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9003931283950806}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41174', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IUC7U7G5KJHIIKUKIHAL32EVTN3S77VK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:896f91da-96ea-4f08-bb6f-76f560cdb72e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 26, 13, 2, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '88.202.190.101', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3OHOD5L5Q7YWORTNDFIMJLJRQ6CPRUJC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7639199d-f6d8-4c03-9073-831572734fc4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?278817-Offshore-Energy-Integration-Can-Deliver-30-Of-Uk-amp-39-s-Net-Zero-Target&p=1193841&mode=threaded', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e4b8300d-6124-40d7-9b0f-1f3ec7134652>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '67', 'url': 'http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?278817-Offshore-Energy-Integration-Can-Deliver-30-Of-Uk-amp-39-s-Net-Zero-Target&p=1193841&mode=threaded', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-156\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': '0.08724552392959595', 'original_id': '93bdfd65a53fa7c0bd2f7f09c1798ab3499166545d0eb109e8c61d53169eedab'} |
/*
* =====================================================================================
*
* Filename: array.c
* Description: additional memory management
* Author: Stephan Laukien
* Email: software@laukien.com
* License: Simplified BSD License
* Copyright: (c) 2011-2017
*
* =====================================================================================
*/
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <la/memory.h>
void *memory_set(void *buffer, int character, size_t size) {
char *p; /* pointer to buffer */
if (!size) {
errno = EINVAL;
return NULL;
}
p = (char *)buffer;
while (size) {
*p++ = character;
--size;
}
return buffer;
}
void *memory_zero(void *buffer, size_t size) {
char *p; /* pointer to buffer */
if (!size) {
errno = EINVAL;
return NULL;
}
/* write buffer */
memset(buffer, '\0', size);
/* suppress GCC- & LLVM-optimize */
asm volatile("" : : "r"(&buffer) : "memory");
/* convert type */
p = (char *)buffer;
/* make read-operation */
if (size > 1) {
if (p[0] > p[size - 1]) p[0] = p[size - 1];
else p[size - 1] = p[0];
} else {
if (p[0] != '\0') p[0] = '\0';
}
return buffer;
}
void memory_print(void *buffer, size_t size) {
char *p; /* pointer to buffer */
if (!size) {
errno = EINVAL;
return;
}
p = (char *)buffer;
while (size) {
putc(*p++, stdout);
--size;
}
}
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C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied..
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The World Social Forum Still Matters
The World Social Forum (WSF) has met regularly since its first meeting in Porto Alegre in 2001. And just as regularly, there have been analysts who have announced its demise as a relevant expression of the Global Left. And nonetheless, somehow, it continues to matter in the struggle for global justice.
The most recent meeting was in Montreal, Quebec on August 9-14, 2016. This meeting was in some ways different from previous ones. It was the first one held in the Global North. The decision to hold it there was a deliberate attempt to demonstrate the globality of the WSF.
This decision came at a price. The Canadian government refused visas for a significant number of prospective attendees coming from the Global South. The cost of travel and lodging for attendees was relatively high. The result was a meeting with a reduced number of participants, and one that was tilted more than previously to persons coming from the Global North. This was no surprise to the organizers. The belief was that the price was worth the positive side of the decision.
In some ways, the meeting was like all previous meetings of the WSF. On the one hand, there was an immense range of themes under discussion. And participants tended to attend those thematic panels that were of greatest interest to them. The result was a network of thematic ghettos, and an insufficient amount of trans-communication between the range of different worldwide political struggles.
On the other hand, there was a major debate about the validity of the « horizontal » manner in which the WSF was organized. Its critics argued that the WSF was not (or no longer) relevant, as a result, to the real political struggles going on everywhere. This debate has been held repeatedly, but this time it was perhaps more intense, and even angry. Nonetheless, its essence remained the same.
The major new argument among those who were unhappy with the « horizontalist » mode of organization was that we should not be looking at who is now attending the WSF but at those who are no longer attending it because they have come to see it as an expensive waste of time, since it did not further the actual political struggle.
The counter-argument is that the WSF has shown itself to be a powerful brand name. There are now an ever-growing number of countless regional, national, and local social forums. There are endless thematic forums at all geographical levels. These forums, as the global WSF itself, are self-organizing. The WSF has proved to be a bottom-up concept, not a top-down one. And this remains its essential strength.
Of course, none of us has quantitative data to back up these assertions, one way or the other. It is a battle of one set of intuitive and genuinely subjective judgments against another. If it has become more intense, it is largely because the global political struggle that seemed so relatively favorable to the Global Left a decade ago now seems to have been reversed. The resulting pessimism within the global justice movement has led to the harsher internal debate of the WSF. It is not the WSF that has caused this worldwide greater difficulty for the Global Left. Rather, it is this reversal that has led to more internal debate within the WSF.
My own sense is that we have to keep our eye on the global struggle, and the role that the WSF can play in it. If we were to hold no more WSF meetings, it might liberate some money, energy, and time for other activities. But these « other activities » might never occur, as pessimism leads to withdrawal from activism. The meetings of the WSF, however imperfect, are acts both of renewal and optimism. The leaders of two major organizations in the Tunisian struggles - the FTDES (Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights) and the UGTT (Tunisian General Labor Union) - have written a very critical paper analyzing the failings of the Montreal meeting. Nonetheless, they end their paper by saying that, despite the flaws, the meeting was a success because it preserved le sillon de l’espoir (« the trace of hope »).
One very positive aspect of the Montreal meeting was that the sessions devoted to the future of the WSF were massively attended. The debates were fierce, but what it showed to me was that the attendees wanted to debate. They were seeking ways to strengthen their struggles. They thought that how the WSF was organized might be part of the answer.
The secret of the WSF from the outset has been that it sought to be widely inclusive of all the tendencies within the Global Left. It sought to be mindful of the historic failures of the Global Left over the past two centuries. It has been a plus, not a minus, in the worldwide struggle to transform the world-system and to replace it with a relatively democratic, relatively egalitarian one. Let us not waste our time throwing stones at each other. Let us continue to talk to each other and learn from each other.
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Hannah Baird, a 38-year-old professional manager, developed a problem after the five-hour flight from Sydney to Perth.
HB: I had a deep vein thrombosis a few years ago so I wanted to reduce the risks of recurrence by drinking lots of water and moving around the cabin as much as possible. However, after standing for about 10 minutes I was asked by the flight attendant to return to my seat.
The next day my left calf was a bit sore. There was no swelling so I thought it was just some muscle stiffness from sitting down for a long time. I went for a walk to try and loosen it up, but that made no difference.
There was a low level ache in my calf that came and went. After two days my leg was more painful and swollen and the ache more continuous. As it was more difficult to walk, I went to an accident and emergency department.
AP: What did the hospital say?
HB: The doctors thought it was unlikely I had a deep vein thrombosis as my calf swelling was minimal. I had an ultrasound and was told that I had 'phlebitis'. The treatment was a daily dose of enoxaparin for six weeks. I was given one demonstration of how to inject myself and then I was discharged with no follow-up. I was told to find a general practitioner and get a referral for a nuclear medicine scan. The hospital said that I should not fly for a month, however given the impracticalities of not returning home to Sydney they agreed that flying after one week was possible. I could do little else but rest in my hotel, as it was difficult to walk.
AP: How did you manage the treatment?
HB: The injections stung a bit. I suffered bruising after my first injection, but I got better at injecting myself in the abdomen every morning. About two weeks into the six-week course my leg had improved.
At the end of the course I had a lot of syringes and needles. My local general practice would not take them because of the cost of disposal, nor could I find a pharmacy to take them. My local council has a needle disposal service, but it only operates between 9 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday. That's not much good for people who work full-time.
AP: Did you have further assessments?
HB: I have no family history of thrombosis, I don't smoke and I was not taking oestrogens so my general practitioner referred me to a specialist for investigation. The specialists described my initial blood tests as 'strange', so just repeated them. These repeat tests did not show any clotting problems.
AP: What advice were you given for future flights?
HB: The specialist recommended that I wear stockings, drink water, no alcohol and inject a small dose of enoxaparin before and after flights, trains or car journeys of over two hours. Everybody tells you to wear support stockings, but the problem is, where do you find them? Nobody seems to know. I had to ring around a lot of places before I found somewhere that could supply them.
AP: Any other comments on your experience?
HB: When I was in Western Australia I had to use taxis to get between my hotel, the hospital, the general practitioner, the X-ray rooms, etc. Some people may have difficulty getting to their appointments if they are unable to use public transport and cannot afford a taxi.
It would be helpful to get advice about when you can resume physical activity while you are being treated for a thrombosis. I like to go to the gym, but I was unsure when it would be safe to start exercising again. About a year later I had a pulmonary embolism, so I am now on warfarin for life. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.987921416759491}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '193834', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BTQKMI5JPVS2QDSWIH4OVRIGYWSLSO5U', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:010dc09c-3acd-414c-8b53-65743814103c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 20, 23, 37, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.25.163.47', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PRN7BLBBIOECQMGWK3L7DQSGHR4WWOYJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:575427d6-65cf-43c9-a8e7-1a9a7472cd69>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/flying-and-thromboembolism-a-patients-perspective', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:07446ed9-8bf0-4b66-b4f9-20c0a59e56cb>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '642', 'url': 'https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/flying-and-thromboembolism-a-patients-perspective', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-190.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': '0.07980316877365112', 'original_id': '27d82deaaa5d70693dfeb7f05d15b62854b16342e56380b795f8014c9ed39838'} |
When the Westboro Baptist Church Protests Leonard Nimoy’s Funeral, What Is the Appropriate Phaser Setting?
I’ve been trying to determine the appropriate phaser setting for dealing with these people, and have decided to go with “heavy stun.”
Heavy stun is kinder than the WBC adults deserve, but some of those WBC people are infants and children, and they have a chance of throwing off their brainwashing as they grow up. I would not deny them that chance.
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I'm a little worried about the reduction in airflow... should I be? And if so, how should I straighten the fins?
radiator fins
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Your efficiency probably isn't harmed too much by this—you still have basically the same area of radiator fins. If you had a fan blowing through the fins (e.g. on a computer heatsink) I might be a little more concerned because active airflow is an important part of the cooling. But how much active air circulation is really going on behind your fridge?
Anyway, if it's bothering you, you can buy a "radiator fin comb" or "fin straightener", which is basically a tough plastic comb that you can use to straighten the fins. They make them in different sizes based on the spacing of the fins, so get a multi-size comb or measure your fins first.
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thanks. I previously had to replace the compressor on this fridge (and it was only a couple years old) and the repair guy said he thought the problem was the quantity of dust accumulating (in combination with a hot kitchen). So ever since I have tried to keep it clean, but at some point someone I asked to clean it mashed the fins rather than using the air compressor. – Michael Bishop Jan 29 '13 at 14:46
+1 for the fin comb. Air circulation is critical to refrigerator compressor functioning. While the damage to these fins do not seem severe, blocked air flow can kill the appliance. – bib Jan 29 '13 at 15:26
oh, and there is a fan actively blowing on it – Michael Bishop Jan 29 '13 at 16:53
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Probability in Midihub Editor
Would it be possible to add in to the Midihub Editor a probability option?
The idea being to say set a probability of 50% and all notes streaming through - only 50% would pass.
Of course you would be able to set percentage values from 0% (never pass) to 100% (always pass).
Hi, there’s a ‘Chance’ pipe which does this available, see its description here:
Ah! That’s excellent - adds a very nice feature - thanks for getting back
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Excellent, exactly what I was looking for. However, what I also need is the ability to change the chance from outside, can I set the chance from outside somehow?
As fallback, would it be possible to use a file as intermediate? So the chance pipe reads the chance from file and my custom software updates the file, eg once per second or 10-20 secs would also be acceptable
Nearly all of the parameters can be MIDI mapped, including the Chance percentage. :slight_smile: | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9374657273292542}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '35522', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:V255JXINH5Q266OT2YTIVLAQY3KAIQIL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:578ed82d-ebd8-4bdd-840b-ab5408f6a14f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 12, 8, 8, 56, 18), 'WARC-IP-Address': '142.93.172.202', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EBIDDJMFX6VEXK32QQR6GGVQ2WZ7S2N4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:edbdc751-f0c5-4fbc-aa7d-9b0ad48a7cf1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://community.blokas.io/t/probability-in-midihub-editor/1372', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:280a1aad-fd13-4a28-9d18-09e7a8c5821e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '162', 'url': 'https://community.blokas.io/t/probability-in-midihub-editor/1372', '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-10-67-67-71\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': '0.056338608264923096', 'original_id': '9bf928f1214de438c832b2102c1515d8c917d0653094e600a9d452f8e6e3e97e'} |
Wonder what a G-LOC looks like?
Wonder no more. A G induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) happens when the brain stops getting oxygen due to an inability of the cardiovascular system to pump blood against the force of several gravities.
Fighter planes pulling G’s can cause it, and our pilots are trained (and equipped) to try and avoid the blackout. Civilian riders don’t do as well at 7 G’s.
Enter our intrepid reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, getting to ride backseat in a Blue Angels F-18. Good video of his blackouts, and he comes across as a fun guy.
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by Victoria Prescott
Victoria Prescott
Comedy, Drama
Film Short
New York City, New York
Penny's story is filled with love and laughter but it is missing one thing. We don't often look at the women that are "childless NOT by choice". What does it do to a nurturing soul to be without the thing she always wanted, always assumed would be, where does she fit, will she survive the grief. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9625349640846252}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '96283', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5E7LDUKLWBPRXJQL2Q4VHAN67NSYZFFJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:079bbd7d-b08c-4551-acaa-70aadcbc5fa2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 22, 21, 27, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '50.19.238.46', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZSEPXPLXBMMEHIWZXLPFEQBOHJL644M6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a85fad59-f585-4dd1-8bd3-7e0b41f1f830>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/penny', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e7c6c91c-2f00-4b54-9699-0216970fc309>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '71', 'url': 'https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/penny', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-133.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.9430724382400513', 'original_id': '72e692260d61613dcd549b95f1b6065a3743d39f66c1efd4b5447102f5d04c67'} |
South Korea’s Leader Credits Trump for North Korea Talks
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea during a televised news conference in Seoul on Wednesday.CreditCreditPool photo by Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea warned on Wednesday that North Korea would face stiffer sanctions if it resumed weapons tests, while crediting President Trump with helping force the North to resume dialogue and strike a broader agreement to improve Korean ties.
“I am giving a lot of credit to President Trump,” Mr. Moon said at a nationally televised news conference a day after the two Koreas forged their agreement during border talks. “I am expressing my gratitude.”
The White House said that Mr. Trump and Mr. Moon had spoken and “underscored the importance of continuing the maximum pressure campaign against North Korea,” adding that Mr. Trump “expressed his openness to holding talks between the United States and North Korea at the appropriate time, under the right circumstances.”
Mr. Moon’s comments and his conversation with Mr. Trump suggested a tactful maneuver by the South Korean leader to stroke the ego of Mr. Trump, who has claimed credit for the inter-Korean dialogue, while easing fears in Washington and among his conservative critics at home that in his eagerness for dialogue, he may be too accommodating to North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
In a post on Twitter last week, Mr. Trump asserted that North Korea had gone to the negotiating table because he had been “firm, strong and willing to commit our total ‘might’ against the North.” Mr. Moon agreed on Wednesday that Mr. Kim’s decision to start a dialogue with the South could be a sign that the Trump administration’s policy of applying maximum sanctions and pressure was working.
And he said South Korea and its allies must seize on the North’s renewed appetite for negotiations to persuade it to join broader talks involving the United States over how to end its rapidly advancing nuclear weapons program — an approach the North’s chief delegate to the border talks angrily rejected on Tuesday.
Otherwise, North Korea made a surprisingly conciliatory gesture during the talks, promising to send a delegation of athletes, cheerleaders and journalists to the Winter Olympics being held next month in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang. The North also agreed to more talks with the South, including a dialogue between their militaries, to ease tensions and improve ties.
This week’s talks, in the border village of Panmunjom, were the first governmental dialogue between the Koreas in more than two years, and the agreements they produced were hailed as a welcome reprieve for South Koreans after a year of talk of war over the North’s nuclear and long-range missile programs.
But they also came amid concern that Mr. Moon might end up facilitating Mr. Kim’s strategy of fracturing the American-led sanctions campaign and driving a wedge between Seoul and Washington.
Police officers on Wednesday outside the venue where speed-skating events at the Winter Olympics are to be held. In a conciliatory gesture this week, North Korea promised to send a delegation to the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.CreditYonhap, via European Pressphoto Agency
Addressing such concerns, Mr. Moon said there was a limit to how far the two Koreas could go in improving ties if North Korea did not move toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
”The two issues — improving inter-Korean relations and resolving the North Korean nuclear issue — cannot be separated,” Mr. Moon said. “If the North provokes again or does not show sincerity on revising its nuclear problem, the international community will continue to apply even stronger sanctions and pressure.”
“My government has no intention of easing sanctions unilaterally,” he added, dismissing speculation that he might lift some of the sanctions imposed by his conservative predecessors, like the closing of a joint factory park in the North Korean town of Kaesong.
But Mr. Moon, a vocal critic of Washington’s plan to use military force to resolve the North’s nuclear threat, reiterated that the ultimate goal of sanctions and pressure must be to force North Korea to negotiate. He emphasized that his top national security and foreign policy goal was to prevent war on the Korean Peninsula.
Since he took office last May, Mr. Moon has faced detractors at home, especially older and conservative South Koreans who fear he may concede too much to the North as he doggedly champions talks. Such concerns have persisted even as Mr. Moon has moved to build more powerful missiles and get new weapons from the United States to counter the North’s nuclear threat.
Conservative South Koreans, as well as American policymakers, remain deeply skeptical of Mr. Kim, the North Korean leader, who has accelerated the pace of nuclear and missile tests since taking power six years ago.
In a New Year’s Day speech, Mr. Kim proposed dialogue with the South to discuss his country’s participation in the Pyeongchang Olympics, which Mr. Moon has called for repeatedly. But he wants North Korea to be accepted as a nuclear weapons state, even boasting in his speech that he now had a “button” in his office to launch nuclear missiles at the mainland United States. At the same time, he urged Koreans on both sides to work together for peace.
During the border talks on Tuesday, the North’s top negotiator, Ri Son-kwon, categorically rejected the South’s attempt to discuss the nuclear issue, calling it “absurd” and warning that it could derail efforts to improve inter-Korean relations. He said North Korea’s nuclear weapons were not built to attack South Koreans, Chinese or Russians, but were “aimed solely at the United States.”
For decades, North Korea has refused to discuss its nuclear weapons program with the South, insisting that it is an issue to be addressed only by it and the United States.
On Tuesday, Canada and the United States will host a meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, of foreign ministers from countries that supported the United Nations-backed effort to repel North Korean forces after the 1950 invasion of South Korea. China said on Wednesday that it would not attend the meeting because not all of the main parties to the conflict would be in attendance.
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Course detail
Mathematics I
FSI-1M-AAcad. year: 2019/2020
Basic concepts of the set theory and mathematical logic.
Linear algebra: matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations.
Vector calculus and analytic geometry.
Differential calculus of functions of one variable: basic elementary functions, limits, derivative and its applications.
Integral calculus of functions of one variable: primitive function, proper integral and its applications.
Nabízen zahradničním studentům
Všech fakult
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will be made familiar with linear algebra, analytic geometry and differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable. They will be able to solve systems of linear equations and apply the methods of linear algebra and differential and integral calculus when dealing with engineering tasks. After completing the course students will be prepared for further study of technical disciplines.
Students are expected to have basic knowledge of secondary school mathematics.
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Thomas G. B.: Calculus (Addison Wesley, 2003)
Thomas G.B., Finney R.L.: Calculus and Analytic Geometry (7th edition)
Rektorys K. a spol.: Přehled užité matematiky I,II (SNTL, 1988)
Nedoma J.: Matematika I., Část první. Algebra a geometrie (skriptum VUT)
Nedoma J.: Matematika I. Část druhá. Diferenciální a integrální počet funkcí jedné proměnné (skriptum VUT)
Sneall D.B., Hosack J.M.: Calculus, An Integrated Approach
Děmidovič B. P.: Sbírka úloh a cvičení z matematické analýzy
Eliaš J., Horváth J., Kajan J.: Zbierka úloh z vyššej matematiky I, II, III, IV (Alfa Bratislava, 1985)
Nedoma J.: Matematika I. Část třetí, Integrální počet funkcí jedné proměnné (skriptum VUT)
Mezník I. - Karásek J. - Miklíček J.: Matematika I pro strojní fakulty (SNTL 1992)
Howard, A.A.: Elementary Linear Algebra, Wiley 2002
Satunino, L.S., Hille, E., Etgen, J.G.: Calculus: One and Several Variables, Wiley 2002
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
COURSE-UNIT CREDIT REQUIREMENTS: There are two written tests (each at most 12 points) within the seminars and a semestral work from the computer support (at most 1 point).
The student can obtain at most 25 points alltogether within the seminars. Condition for the course-unit credit: to obtain at least 6 points from each written test. Students, who do not fulfil conditions for the course-unit credit, can repeat the written test during first two weeks of examination time.
The exam has an obligatory written (and possible oral) part.
In a 120-minute written test, students have to solve the following four problems:
Problem 1: Functions and their properties, equations, inequalities (at most 10 points)
Problem 2: In linear algebra, analytic geometry (at most 20 points)
Problem 3: In differential calculus (at most 25 points)
Problem 4: In integral calculus (at most 20 points)
Above problems can also contain a theoretical question.
1. Results from seminars (at most 25 points)
2. Results from the written examination (at most 75 points)
Final classification:
0-49 points: F
50-59 points: E
60-69 points: D
70-79 points: C
80-89 points: B
90-100 points: A
Language of instruction
Work placements
Not applicable.
The course aims to acquaint the students with the basics of linear algebra, vector calculus, analytic geometry and differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable. This will enable them attend engineering courses and deal with engineering problems. Another goal of the course is to develop the students' logical thinking.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at lectures is recommended, attendance at seminars is required. The lessons are planned on the basis of a weekly schedule. The way of compensation for an absence is fully at the discretion of the teacher.
Classification of course in study plans
• Programme B3S-A Bachelor's
branch B-STI , 1. year of study, winter semester, 9 credits, compulsory
• Programme B3S-Z Bachelor's
• Programme B3S-P Bachelor's
branch B-STI , 1. year of study, winter semester, 9 credits, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
52 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Week 1: Basics of mathematical logic and set operations, matrices and determinants (transposing, adding, and multiplying matrices, common matrix types).
Week 2: Matrices and determinants (determinants and their properties, regular and singular matrices, inverse to a matrix, calculating the inverse to a matrix using determinants), systems of linear algebraic equations (Cramer's rule, Gauss elimination method).
Week 3: More about systems of linear algebraic equations (Frobenius theorem, calculating the inverse to a matrix using the elimination method), vector calculus (operations with vectors, scalar (dot) product, vector (cross) product, scalar triple (box) product).
Week 4: Analytic geometry in 3D (problems involving straight lines and planes, classification of conics and quadratic surfaces), the notion of a function (domain and range, bounded functions, even and odd functions, periodic functions, monotonous functions, composite functions, one-to-one functions, inverse functions).
Week 5: Basic elementary functions (exponential, logarithm, general power, trigonometric functions and cyclometric (inverse to trigonometric functions), polynomials (root of a polynomial, the fundamental theorem of algebra, multiplicity of a root, product breakdown of a polynomial), introducing the notion of a rational function.
Week 6: Sequences and their limits, limit of a function, continuous functions.
Week 7: Derivative of a function (basic problem of differential calculus, notion of derivative, calculating derivatives, geometric applications of derivatives), calculating the limit of a function using L' Hospital rule.
Week 8: Monotonous functions, maxima and minima of functions, points of inflection, convex and concave functions, asymptotes, sketching the graph of a function.
Week 9: Differential of a function, Taylor polynomial, parametric and polar definitions of curves and functions (parametric definition of a derivative, transforming parametric definitions into polar ones and vice versa).
Week 10: Primitive function (antiderivative) (definition, properties and basic formulas), integrating by parts, method of substitution.
Week 11: Integrating rational functions (no complex roots in the denominator), calculating a primitive function by the method of substitution in some of the elementary functions.
Week 12: Riemann integral (basic problem of integral calculus, definition and properties of the Riemann integral), calculating the Riemann integral (Newton' s formula).
Week 13: Applications of the definite integral (surface area of a plane figure, length of a curve, volume and lateral surface area of a rotational body), improper integral.
44 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
The first week will be devoted to revision of knowledge gained at secondary school. Following weeks: seminars related to the lectures given in the previous week.
Computer-assisted exercise
8 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
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