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I want to tell you how TMS has changed my life. I have been diagnosed with severe depression for over 20 years. My mother, her siblings and all of my siblings have the genetic defect that results in severe depression and overwhelming anxiety.
As you know, my clinical depression has been very difficult to control despite numerous changes in medicines and over 15 years of counseling. After one month of treatments my family and friends tell me that they see in me a person that they have not seen in 20 years. One family member said "I don't know what you are doing differently - but whatever it is don't change."
My depression simply overwhelmed me before TMS and at times I felt that I had no hope. Now, I rest better at night, my anxiety level is almost nonexistent. It seems that the grass is greener, the sky is bluer and life has promise. With one monthly treatment I am able to maintain the progress that I have achieved.
As you know, my mother and brother had electric shock therapy which helped with their depression but caused significant permanent memory loss. In my profession I cannot risk memory loss so having the opportunity to have a procedure with all of the benefits of electric shock therapy without the negative effects was a godsend.
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful treatment.
Carole Rhodes Star News Article
Since I began receiving TMS treatments with Dr. Buongiorno the quality of my life has improved more than I ever could have imagined. I have struggled with depression for many years and had forgotten what it felt like to be truly happy until I tried TMS. The treatment has undoubtedly had many benefits for my daily life and I am exceedingly grateful for it.
The TMS treatments have helped my body and mind in numerous ways. They significantly reduced the frequency of migraines, which I suffered from often along with stress headaches. My memory has improved, and less stress and anxiety has allowed me to focus more on life and enjoying myself in it. I am more motivated now and am happy to have a restored energy level. While chronically depressed, waking up was the worst part of my day and I was most irritable in the morning, feeling as though the whole day was looming over my head and would most certainly bring more bad than good. Even if nothing bad did happen, my depression would still make the day feel like a dreary burden. After undergoing TMS treatments, I wake up mentally and emotionally balanced and excited for the day.
The effects of the treatment has been noticed by both my family and friends. As TMS relieves me of prolonged sadness and worry, people close to me have commented on catching me smiling more often and having a more positive outlook.
I would still be under the darkest rain cloud and without hope if I had not undergone this treatment with Dr. Buongiorno. He is a brilliant doctor who has explained every step of the process to me and understands why I have thus far chosen to use the maintenance magnet instead of trying more medication. TMS treatment allows people who struggle with depression the opportunity to combat it more with their own faculties, which is very important to someone like me. By lifting my depression, TMS has given me a new beginning, and I feel its greatest benefit is that it has given me a greater capacity for peace and love.
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Netflix Fix: Getting monogomish with 'Fling'
Feb. 13, 2013 at 3:05 p.m.
Updated Feb. 12, 2013 at 8:13 p.m.
Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford are only two of the stars of "Fling" who share their love.
Watch If.
'Lovers in a Dangerous Time'
• Not Rated, I'd say PG-13
• 1 hour and 39 minutes
• Watch if you want to check out the Canadian countryside and want to make out with someone at your high school reunion.
'The House'
• Not rated, I'd say PG
• 1 hour and 22 minutes
• Watch if you are looking for an animated "kids" movie that is fun and creative. If you're into anything in the vein of Miyazaki's films ("Spirited Away," "Ponyo," etc.), this Korean creation should be perfect for you.
'Footloose (2011)'
• PG-13
• 1 hour and 57 minutes
• Watch if you are really into Julianne Hough, even though she's kind of an awful actress, and if you are into super fun, choreographed numbers.
The lines between love and sex must have had a clearer distinction once upon a time, but somewhere between Shakespeare and sexting, things seem to have gotten a little muddy.
Is it possible to exterminate all feelings while still being intimate with someone? Or is what we sometimes call "making love" something some of us can just do - truly no strings attached?
We've all seen that movie, Ashton Kutcher gets the girl in the end, whatever. That's not what this is about.
"Fling" (Rated R, 1 hour and 38 minutes) is a movie about an attractive, young couple named Samantha and Mason who are in an open relationship. They are, as the kids are saying these days, monogomish. They live together, sleep together and, whenever they are so inclined, go on dates and hook up with other people.
The catch: only that they are honest with each other and their respective dalliances.
So when Mason asks Samantha where she's been all night after a wedding, Samantha tells him all about her college boyfriend who showed up and took her to bed. And where was Mason all night? In the jacuzzi with the groom's sister, of course.
It sounds ridiculous, but it isn't hard to buy into Samantha and Mason's relationship. They make fun of each other as they start seeing other people and are playful in poking at each other while establishing their own relationship's boundaries. "Oh is that your boyfriend calling?" coos Mason to Samantha as she continues to explore the old college flame suddenly back in her life.
The two bat off jealousy persistently as they zip from scene to scene with their other lovers, and for a moment, you're almost sold on this idea of "modern love" and "open-mindedness." That is, of course, until Mason becomes too attached to the barely legal girl who has been chasing him for years and Samantha becomes pregnant.
Some might feel like the movie gets a little predictable, but I disagree. "Fling" isn't about who ends up with whom or a cautionary tale about not having an open relationship. It's about growing from our relationships, building up the people you love and realizing what we really want and what we have to give up to get it.
As the credits roll, you should be trying to decide which relationship in the movie was the real fling and whether it actually turned out to be just what our young couple needed to be happy.
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roussel / duchamp / cortázar / fassio
“Serious critics, of course, know that none of this is possible: in the first place, the Lyncée is an imaginary ship; secondly, Duchamp and Roussel never met. (Duchamp relates that he saw Roussel only once, in the Café La Régence, the one in the poem by César Vallejo, and that the author of Locus Solus was playing chess with a friend. ‘I am afraid I neglected to introduce myself,’ adds Duchamp.) But others do not allow these physical difficulties to obscure the truth of a more worthy reality. Not only did Duchamp and Roussel make the journey to [Buenos Aires] but they also met an echo from the future there, linked to them in ways that serious critics would likewise fail to credit. Juan Esteben Fassio prepared the ground by inventing in the heart of Buenos Aires a machine for reading the New Impressions of Africa during the same period when I, without knowing him, wrote Persio’s first monologues in The Winners, using a system of phonetic analogies inspired by Roussel; years later, Fassio attempted to fashion a new machine for reading Hopscotch, unaware that my most obsessive work during those years in Paris was with the obscure texts of Duchamp and the works of Roussel. A double impulse gradually converged upon the austral vertex where Roussel and Duchamp would meet once again in Buenos Aires, when an inventor and a writer – who perhaps years earlier had also watched each other across a cafe in the heart of the city, neglecting to introduce themselves – would meet through a machine conceived by the first to facilitate the reading of the second. If the Lyncée navigated the coasts of Africa, still some of its passengers reached our American shores, and the proof is in what follows, a short of joke designed to lead astray those who search for treasure with solemn faces.”
(Julio Cortázar, from “Of Another Bachelor Machine,” pp. 53–4 in Around the Day in Eighty Worlds.)
“210 West 14th Street, New York City 6 Feb. 1950
My dear Carrouges,
Long after your letter I received the text, which I’ve read over several times.
It is true I am indebted to Raymond Roussel for having enabled me, from 1912 on, to think of something else instead of retinal painting (André Breton will enlighten you as to this term, because we have discussed it together), but I must declare that I have not read In the Penal Colony, and only read the Metamorphosis a number of years ago.
Just to let you know the circumstantial events which led me to the Mariée.
So I was astonished at the parallelism which you have so clearly established.
The conclusions you have come to in the sphere of ‘inner significance’ interest me deeply even though I do not subscribe to them (except as far as the glass is concerned).
My intentions as a painter, which have nothing to do with the deep result, of which I cannot be conscious, were aimed at the problems of ‘aesthetic validity’ obtained principally through the abandonment of visual phenomena, both from the retinal and the anecdotal point of view.
As for the rest, I can tell you that the introduction of a ground theme explaining or provoking certain ‘acts’ of the Mariée and the bachelors, never came into my mind – but it is likely that my ancestors made me ‘speak’, like them, of what my grandchildren will also say.
Celibately yours, Marcel Duchamp”
(Quoted on p. 49 of Le macchine celibi/The Bachelor Machines, ed. Jean Clair & Harald Szeemann, following the contribution by Michel Carrouges. This letter appears to have been translated from French to Italian before being put into English.)
• László Krasznahorkai has a short story in The Guardian.
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“In [Percy] Rainford’s original photography, Duchamp is seated at a desk, seen in profile with his face slightly overlapping a chessboard propped up against the wall. The chesmen are attached (glued?) to the board to illustrate the endgame developed by French avant-garde poet and playwright Raymond Roussel, who is considered one of Duchamp’s most important influences. [Frederick] Kiesler’s understanding of the importance of Roussel’s work for Duchamp’s creative process is evidenced by the inscription he added on the reverse of fold-out pages, ‘Marcel D.—born 1887—artiste-inventeur‘ and ‘R. Roussel—born 1877—artiste-inventeur,’ with symbols of the black and white kings positioned respictively nevxt to each name. While Kiesler, who was a keen chess player and frequent opponent of Duchamp, was surely familiar with his friend’s feelings about Roussel, Linda Henderson has suggested that the architect’s clear parallel between these two revolutionaries was drawn ‘undoubtedly with Duchamp’s help.’ At the far end of the flap on the left side of Kiesler’s triptych, the phrase ‘Fous, Cavaliers et Rois‘ (‘Fools, Knights and Kings’) is printed, along with small drawings of a jester and a knight. This was an appropriate use of chess characters on Kiesler’s part to summarize the multi-dimensional careers of Duchamp and Roussel.”
(Bradley Bailey, “Passionate Pastimes,” in Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, p. 77)
rayner heppenstall, restaurant critic
“From Vitrac’s account of his visit, it would appear that, by 1926, Roussel was already accustomed to receive visitors at Charlotte Dufrène’s apartment in the Rue Pierre-Charron, a practice which M. Leiris’s account might have led us to think Roussel only adopted later (perhaps because not until later, when he was living in a disreputable hotel, did he take to receiving even old friends at Mme. Dufrène’s). At any rate, although Roussel was apparently still resident with the Elchingens at Neuilly, Vitrac was received at ‘l’appartement d’une femme‘, and it was clearly in a turning off the Champs-Élysées, as the Rue Pîerre-Charron is. This little street is nowadays best known to men of letters as that in which stands the maison internationale of the P.E.N. Club, flanked on one side by a night club called Le Sexy and facing The Chickens Self, a restaurant no doubt specialising in barbecued chicken and operated on self-service principles.”
(Rayner Heppenstall, Raymond Roussel: a critical study, p. 13)
the passion of duchamp
Marcel Duchamp retirant
Marcel Duchamp retirant, à la requête des cubistes, son Nu descendant un Escalier du Salon des Indépendants.
Marcel Duchamp, Gabrielle et Francis Picabia
Marcel Duchamp, Gabrielle et Francis Picabia, Guillaume Apollinaire assistant au théâtre Antoine à une représentation d’Impressions d’Afrique de Raymond Roussel.
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Welcome to the Powerhouse. The University of Houston provides countless opportunities to meet new people, listen to distinguished lecturers, nourish your talents, experience public art from renowned artists and become involved with the community and various student organizations while living in one of the most exciting cities in the nation.
Places to See
The campus life offers the vibe of a small community set amongst the urban offerings of Houston. Our on-campus offerings include restaurants, art exhibits, activity centers, live performances and athletic events which make our university much more than a place to learn — it's a place to thrive.
At UH the Student Center is the hub of student life. Equipped with north and south wings, the Student Center is home to student organizations, study and social areas, a food court, campus shops, IT services and an on-campus game room complete with a bowling alley.
The M.D. Anderson Library has one of the best academic collections in the city. The library features a state of the art recording studio, technology training and daily events. Our special collections even include the Houston Hip Hop Collections.
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration across the performing, visual, and literary arts.
Where to Live
Student Housing & Residential Life is a department within Student Affairs consisting of three primary areas: Residential Life, Operations, and Housing and Conference Services. Approximately 6,000 students live in seven distinct housing areas that provide a comprehensive student services program. These areas are managed by full-time, live-in staff members, including professional Residence Life Coordinators, faculty-in-residence and Resident Advisors (student staff).
Where to Eat
The University of Houston has a variety of dining options to choose from on and off-campus. If you’re on campus then check out our dining halls - Moody Towers or Cougar Woods. Student meal plans are healthy, flexible and affordable.Can’t decide where to eat? Then download the UH Dining Services app. It gives you the daily scoop on campus menus.
The Student Center Satellite is also home to the largest food court on campus. This is a great place to grab pizza, sushi, halal certified Indian cuisine or a coffee. So stop by with friends after class.
UH is also home to the latest trend of outdoor dining by having local food trucks present their fare to our campus. Check out the calendar to view the weekly rotating schedule.
Students can rent a car by the hour or day. Gas and insurance included.
The UH campus offers both a place to learn and a place to have fun. With everything located within walking distance on campus, UH Cougars enjoy the feeling of a small campus community nestled within the bustling urban city. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '82ff4e369a10b2521f6aa2a0fc996ff398319618ec98b470f2aa4baf82476a81'} |
Five things you need to know about the 76ers today:
1. It appeared Tuesday night that fans in Philadelphia did not support the 76ers' decision to take Nerlens Noel out of the rotation for the foreseeable future. How else can you explain the chants "We want Nerlens" and the standing ovation he received while checking into the game in the third quarter of Tuesday's setback to the New Orleans Pelicans?
2. Without Noel and Richaun Holmes in the game and with Joel Embiid at power forward, the Sixers have major defensive problems. It's a layup line waiting to happen.
3. Embiid wants to play alongside Noel in the team's twin towers set. He made that known following Tuesday's setback.
4. Ersan Ilyasova is turning into a double-figures machine. The reserve power forward has scored in double-figures in 22 of his 25 games since being acquired in a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
5. T. J. McConnell's 39 steals rank second behind Robert Covington's 41 on the team. Not bad for McConnell, considering Covington has played 181 more minutes.
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The Satir Model of Transformational Systemic Change looks at your foundation
“I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now”
The Satir Model focuses on how life experiences and our early learning influence our individual perspectives and way of being in and experiencing the world.
Fundamental to this model is the belief that every person has the ability to connect with the wisdom and resources within them to move towards positively directional change.
Through gentle exploration and metaphor, beliefs, perspectives, feelings, expectations and yearnings that often lie out of a person’s conscious awareness are explored.
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Is it possible to left align a printed out value in Fortran, instead of the default right alignment ?
For example, I have formatters like this
"(A1, I12, 9F12.6)"
I would like the strings and numbers printed with these formatters to be left aligned, instead of right aligned.
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everything is right aligned, I think the answer M. S. B. gave with the writing to string is the only loop-hole out of that. The idea with right aligning is that when using the same format, periods are aligned. – steabert Apr 13 '11 at 8:47
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Isn't right-justified the default?
If you first write a number to a string, you could use the intrinsics adjustL or adjustR to get either adjustment, then output the string.
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Yes, I meant the opposite. Sorry. I could not sleep tonight (I am jet lagged 10 hours) – Stefano Borini Apr 12 '11 at 14:50
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Using Colors to Create a Feng Shui Office
Color PalletBefore you move into a new office space, deciding what colors to use for walls, furniture and accessories is important. Although it’s easiest to do, stark white walls and minimal decorating create a cold, institutional atmosphere. Instead, create a feng shui office to create a calm, welcoming environment that helps employees, clients or patients relax and feel comfortable. Here are some ideas for colors that will make your office space feel less institutional and more welcoming.
Green represents the wood element in feng shui. It is a healing color and it represents renewal, growth and fresh, new energy. Using pale green paint on walls in the waiting room is a good idea. If you’d rather keep the walls a neutral color, bring in green elements such as furniture and window treatments. However, the easiest way to bring green into your office is with plants. Plants also create a warm, home-like environment that puts patients at ease and they also help purify the air.
In feng shui, pink is representative of the fire element. It is a good way to bring a soothing energy into any room. A very pale pink paint color on examining room walls or restrooms is a simple, yet effective way to incorporate this element. Other ways this to do this is by adding artwork, flowers and other simple accessories with a pink tone to them. You don’t have to overwhelm the space with pink to take advantage of its soothing effect.
Purple represents the fire element in feng shui. It’s a high vibration color that improves the mood and energy level of those that encounter it. For this reason, it’s wise to limit the use of purple to lighter tones and only use it in moderation. The best way to do this is to choose artwork, accent pillows and smaller accessories that have elements of purple in them.
In feng shui, yellow is the Earth element, representing sunshine. It’s a cheery color that increases self-esteem, improves health and give an overall sense of well-being. If your office is on the dark side, consider light yellow walls to brighten the space with a warm, sunny feeling. Another simple trick is to add a vase of artificial yellow flowers on a waiting room table.
In feng shui, the color white is the metal element and it represents purity, innocence and cleanliness. The crisp, fresh feeling it can bring into a room are perfect for a medical office, but should not be the main color. Use pure white as an accent color around door frames, windows and accessories such as window coverings and accent pieces.
It’s no surprise that blue represents the water element of feng shui. Associated with the blue sky and clear, refreshing waters, it’s a calming color. An easy way to bring blue into your décor is by adding artwork that depicts ocean waves on a beach or a serene lake scene. Blue carpeting, accent pillows and window dressings with blue elements are other ideas. A small fish tank is another simple, yet effective way to bring the water element into your office.
If you’re planning on moving to a new office space, either conventional, executive suite or medical office space, in the near future, contact us. Our experts understand how important the right office can be. We’ll be happy to help you find the perfect location and offer some more great decorating ideas.
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Breathing The Air In Venezuela? Prepare To Pay
Tyler Durden's picture
There is something to be said about every socialist paradise in the history of socialist paradises: they always run out of other people's money. And when they do, stuff like this happens: the biggest international airport in Venezuela is charging a fee for the right to inhale clean air.
As BBC correctly notes, we're used to a seemingly endless range of taxes and surcharges when we fly - passenger taxes, departure taxes, fuel levies. But Maiquetia International Airport in Caracas has taken this a step further - passengers flying out now have to pay 127 bolivars tax ($20) for the air they breathe.
Wait, a tax to breathe the air? Why yes - it is meant to cover the cost of a newly-installed system which uses ozone to purify the building's air conditioning system. A press release from the Ministry of Water and Air Transport says it's the first airport in South America and the Caribbean to use the technology, which it claims will eliminate bacterial growth to "protect the health of travellers," as well as deodorizing and sanitising the building.
Needless to say, the denizens of the socialist paradise are all but enthused. From BBC:
But with tickets out of the country already expensive and scarce because of Venezuela's economic crisis, many on social media have responded to the tax with both humour and outrage.
Radio presenter Daniel Martínez tweeted: "Could you explain to me the ozone thing in Maiquetia? The toilets don't have water, the air-con is broken, there are stray dogs inside the airport, but there's ozone?"
"Soon we will be charged for the 'good gas'" was another tweet - a rueful reference to the tear gas that the police often use on opposition protesters. The satirical news blog El Chiguire Bipolar ran the headline: "Maiquetia Airport unveils robot that puts you upside-down and takes your money."
Some Venezuelans on social media fear the tax could end up being a new source of corruption. Others see it as evidence of how short of cash the airport is. Most international airlines have reduced the number of flights to the country because of a financial dispute with the Venezuelan government.
Depending who you ask, the tax is funny, infuriating, or just one more surreal aspect of a country that has the biggest oil reserves in the world, yet at the same time has shortages of toilet paper and sugar.
And in a "developed world" obsessed with minizing the impact of fossil fuels and maximizing the size of friendly totalitarian governments everywhere, and which is one reserve currency announcement away from being far more insolvent than Venezuela, one can be sure that Venezuela's experiment with air trax is coming to a socialist paradise near you.
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NidStyles's picture
I guess Total Recall came early this year :-)
Latina Lover's picture
The Global Warmists must be so jealous that despite spending hundreds of billion lying to the western world masses, they were unable to con them into a carbon tax, aka, taxing the right to breathe air. Instead, dumb, stupid Venezuela, pulls off the financial coup of the century ( biggest scam since the Fed Reserve) and convinces the local populace to buy into this fraud.
Suck it Al Gore!
Liberal's picture
Taxing people to breathe...Why didn't we liberals think of it first?!
Groundhog Day's picture
i guess SPACE BALLS was way ahead of its time!
SilverIsKing's picture
I can provide my own brand of air if they'd like and I'll only charge them a can of beans.
TeamDepends's picture
Nothing says third-world like stray dogs in the airport.
Skateboarder's picture
TSA mothafuckas are stray dawgs. Do we count?
TeamDepends's picture
You have insulted a very large number of crafty canines. Good day!
Skateboarder's picture
Not as insulting as having a cancer-scan or an 'ol fashoined groparoo from these paedophiles.
COSMOS's picture
Venzuela is prime target for a coup by the US state dept. Has anyone seen Nuland handing out cookies down there. With all that oil sitting in the ground waiting for US corporations its a waiting game.
Amazing the amount of bad press about the country from MSM
jimmytorpedo's picture
How about stray dogs in Olympic athletes hotel corridors?
or how about when the President of a country decides he can kill anyone he likes?
Hint,'s all the third world now.
ugmug's picture
I'm waiting for medicinal marijuana air to become available in all US airports. You can't get anything easier than that. Why waste the effort of lighting up when its provided by the ventilation system.....people will willingly pay $20 for that.
AlaricBalth's picture
Holy Cow!! Why don't they just tax us for exhaling a greenhouse gas (CO2)??
Oh wait.....
Liberal's picture
Tax the breathers!
(And subsidize free air for the rest of us liberals)
nmewn's picture
Fucking socialists, I swear.
Liberal's picture
You didn't build that...air.
nmewn's picture
MDB did it better.
But keep workin on it ;-)
gimme-gimme-gimme's picture
It's not a tax. This is something a good capitalist would do you stupid Capitalist cunts should learn from them.
Groundhog Day's picture
When I teach my 10 year old the ways of the world we live in, I rouinely remind him that absolutely nothing is free in this world except for AIR....and now in one part of the world absolutely nothing is free
vulcanraven's picture
"Come on Cohagen, give those people air!"
Luckhasit's picture
"Fuck them, it'll be a lesson to the others."
El Oregonian's picture
Gives a new meaning to the word "AIR LINES".
Idiot Utopians...
Oldwood's picture
Whats the fine for farting???...two years in jail?
dirtscratcher's picture
"Whats the fine for farting???...two years in jail?"
Well, looks like I'm in for a life sentence after that burrito I just ate.
semperfi's picture
ever eat at Mexico 1900 in La Mirada, CA? 1 fart down, 1899 to go.
gcjohns1971's picture
Obama is so happy with the results Social Justice Campaigners achieved in Venuzuela, he has decided to import them to help create a similar economic miracle in the US.
pachanguero's picture
Oue Rico Papi! Still the hottest broke ass chicks in the world. Viva Socialismo!
DarthVaderMentor's picture
I love those nude beaches......wonder if they tax your eyeballs?
Cacete de Ouro's picture
I would gladly pay for mouth to mouth resuscitation lessons at the airport from some of those hot Venezuelan chicks
NoDebt's picture
Too late, Tylers. It's already here in the US. The TSA just raised a fee/surtax on all airline tickets - up to an exta $22 per flight.
The punchline: the fee will be used to PAY DOWN THE NATIONAL DEFICIT. And yes, they said that with a straight face. Link:
NOTaREALmerican's picture
Wow, they must be expecting a big surge in passengers. Let's see... the national debt / 22 bucks, that's allot of airplanes.
NoDebt's picture
Only rich people fly in airplanes. So it's cool.
I, myself, am a Middle Class Shut-InTM. I can live a VERY comfortable middle class life as long as I don't go anywhere or do anything.
Luckhasit's picture
Haha, nice to know we're all the same!
semperfi's picture
somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of dimes !
Dr. Engali's picture
Speaking of saying things with a straight face:
NoDebt's picture
I'm not sure what's scarier. That he thinks anyone would belive that, or that maybe he believes it himself.
Just thank God that we have big oceans on either side of us and plenty of southern states we can give to Mexico to appease them as they slowly take us over by sheer numbers. Canada is still pretty friendly when it's time to escape the US.
nmewn's picture
Speaking of saying things with a straight face:
Marc Rich's lawyer (Eric Holder) despite his lack of bringing charges on the Black Panthers in Philly or Lois Lerner at the IRS for "voter intimidation" seems to think we have a problem with, you guessed it, voter intimidation:
“I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for -- I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote,” Holder said."
And its high time to talk about what "Rule of Law" this man operates under regarding illegal aliens. Is it this one?...
"How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking — goes to the core of who we are as a nation," the attorney general said, explaining a program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for minors brought here by drug cartels and other human traffickers."
Or this one?...
Napolitano: Tell me, Mr. Holder, why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy?
Holder: Because we didn’t need a court order. INS can do this on its own.
Napolitano: You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy.
Holder: We didn’t need an order.
Napolitano: Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn’t need one?
Holder: [Silence]
Napolitano: The fact is, for the first time in history you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it.
Anyone remember Elian Gonzalez?
Holders duplicity knows no bounds.
davidalan1's picture
NO FUCKING WAY !!!!! bwaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
"salt free air" - I just KNOW Bloomberg has a hand in this and tomorrow Cramer will be pumping
perrier....."back to you Bob pisani"
Rockfish's picture
Sounds like capitalism. I provide you a service ( clean air) and charge for it. If you don't want to pay find an alternative route out of this shit hole. Now if they subsidize some users well that's socialism.
Hobbleknee's picture
Ozone is a pollutant at ground level.
Took Red Pill's picture
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
semperfi's picture
LibertarianMenace's picture
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[Twisted-Python] twisted framework for multiple application server herd?
lemon tea lemontea_rocks at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 27 19:54:26 EST 2007
let's assume that we are building a new Wikimedia-style service where (1) updates to articles will happen far more often and (2) access will be required via various protocols, not just HTTP. In this new service the application server looks like it will be a bottleneck. From a software point of view our application will turn into too much of a pain to add nontraditional servers (e.g., for access via cell phones, where the cell phones are frequently broadcasting their GPS locations). From a systems point of view the response time looks like it will too slow because the Wikimedia application server is a central bottleneck.
To solve this lets look at a different architecture called an "application server herd", where the multiple application servers communicate directly to each other as well as via the core database and caches. The interserver communications are designed for rapidly-evolving data (e.g., GPS-based locations) whereas the database server will still be used for more stable data that is less-often accessed or that requires transactional semantics. For example, you might have four application servers A, B, C, D such that A talks with B and C, and B and C talk with D, so that if a user's cell phone posts updates about its location to any one of the application servers then the other servers will learn of the change after one or two interserver transmissions, without having to talk to the database.
how well Twisted is suited for this kind of application and how well will it really work in practice. In particular, how easy is it to write applications using Twisted, and how maintainable and reliable those applications will be?what might be the pros n cons of using twisted.
any comments?
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\section{Omega is Closed in Uncountable Closed Ordinal Space but not G-Delta Set}
Tags: G-Delta Sets, Ordinal Spaces
\begin{theorem}
Let $\Omega$ denote the first uncountable ordinal.
Let $\closedint 0 \Omega$ denote the closed ordinal space on $\Omega$.
Then $\set \Omega$ is a closed set of $\closedint 0 \Omega$ but not a $G_\delta$ set.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
The complement relative to $\closedint 0 \Omega$ of $\set \Omega$ is $\hointr 0 \Omega$, which is open in $\closedint 0 \Omega$.
Hence, by definition, $\set \Omega$ is a closed set of $\closedint 0 \Omega$.
Let $G_i$ be a countable set of open sets of $\closedint 0 \Omega$ which contain $\Omega$.
Then we can find a set of basis elements of $\closedint 0 \Omega$ of the form $\hointl {\alpha_i} \Omega \subseteq G_i$ for each $i$.
Each $\hointr 0 {\alpha_i}$ is countable.
We also have Countable Union of Countable Sets is Countable.
Thus the infimum of the $\alpha_i$ is an ordinal $\gamma$ which is less than $\Omega$.
Therefore:
:$\ds \bigcap G_i \supseteq \hointl \gamma \Omega \ne \set \Omega$
That is, $\set \Omega$ cannot be expressed as a countable intersection of open sets of $\closedint 0 \Omega$.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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package us.myles.ViaVersion.util;
import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import com.google.common.io.CharStreams;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class CommentStore {
private final Map<String, List<String>> headers = Maps.newConcurrentMap();
private final char pathSeperator;
private final int indents;
private List<String> mainHeader = Lists.newArrayList();
public CommentStore(char pathSeperator, int indents) {
this.pathSeperator = pathSeperator;
this.indents = indents;
}
/**
* Set the main header displayed at top of config.
*
* @param header header
*/
public void mainHeader(String... header) {
mainHeader = Arrays.asList(header);
}
/**
* Get main header displayed at top of config.
*
* @return header
*/
public List<String> mainHeader() {
return mainHeader;
}
/**
* Set option header.
*
* @param key of option (or section)
* @param header of option (or section)
*/
public void header(String key, String... header) {
// String value = Joiner.on('\n').join(header);
headers.put(key, Arrays.asList(header));
}
/**
* Get header of option
*
* @param key of option (or section)
* @return Header
*/
public List<String> header(String key) {
return headers.get(key);
}
public void storeComments(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
String contents;
try {
contents = CharStreams.toString(reader);
} finally {
reader.close();
}
StringBuilder memoryData = new StringBuilder();
// Parse headers
final String pathSeparator = Character.toString(this.pathSeperator);
int currentIndents = 0;
String key = "";
List<String> headers = Lists.newArrayList();
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if (line.isEmpty()) continue; // Skip empty lines
int indent = getSuccessiveCharCount(line, ' ');
String subline = indent > 0 ? line.substring(indent) : line;
if (subline.startsWith("#")) {
if (subline.startsWith("#>")) {
String txt = subline.startsWith("#> ") ? subline.substring(3) : subline.substring(2);
mainHeader.add(txt);
continue; // Main header, handled by bukkit
}
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headers.add(txt);
continue;
}
int indents = indent / this.indents;
if (indents <= currentIndents) {
// Remove last section of key
String[] array = key.split(Pattern.quote(pathSeparator));
int backspace = currentIndents - indents + 1;
key = join(array, this.pathSeperator, 0, array.length - backspace);
}
// Add new section to key
String separator = key.length() > 0 ? pathSeparator : "";
String lineKey = line.contains(":") ? line.split(Pattern.quote(":"))[0] : line;
key += separator + lineKey.substring(indent);
currentIndents = indents;
memoryData.append(line).append('\n');
if (!headers.isEmpty()) {
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Archive for February, 2011
February 28, 2011
Red Herring
cat among pigeons
In a literal sense, there is no such fish species as a ‘red herring’; rather it refers to a particularly ‘strong kipper’ (a fish that has been strongly cured and smoked making it pungent smelling and reddish in color).
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February 28, 2011
Chekhov’s Gun
uncle vanya
Chekhov’s gun is a literary technique whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but its significance does not become clear until later in the narrative. The concept is named after Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who mentioned several variants of the concept in letters. Chekhov himself makes use of this principle in ‘Uncle Vanya,’ in which a pistol is introduced early on as a seemingly irrelevant prop and, towards the end of the play, becomes much more important as Uncle Vanya, in a rage, grabs it and tries to commit homicide.
The phrase ‘Chekhov’s gun’ is often interpreted as a method of foreshadowing, but the concept can also be interpreted as meaning ‘do not include any unnecessary elements in a story.’ Failure to observe the rule of ‘Chekhov’s gun’ may be cited by critics when discussing plot holes. The opposite of Chekhov’s gun is a ‘red herring,’ a plot device that’s designed to divert attention.
February 28, 2011
Herman’s Hermits
hermans hermits
Herman’s Hermits is an English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1963. For a brief time the group rivalled the Beatles on the charts, and was the top-selling pop act in the U.S. in 1965. The group’s manager and producer, Mickie Most (who controlled the band’s output), emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image, although the band originally played R&B numbers. This helped Herman’s Hermits become hugely successful in the mid-1960s but hampered the band’s creativity, relegating Noone, Hopwood, Leckenby and Green’s original songs to quickly recorded B-sides and album cuts.
Their first hit was a cover of Earl Jean’s ‘I’m Into Something Good’ (written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King), which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 13 in the US in 1964. They never topped the British charts again, but had two US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1’s with ‘Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter’ and ‘I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am’ (a British music hall song dating from 1911). These songs were aimed at a US fan-base, with Peter Noone exaggerating his Manchester accent; the band was not fond of either song and they were never released as singles in Britain.
February 28, 2011
red book
RTFM (‘read the fucking manual’) is a brusque way to remind others to try to help themselves in obvious ways before seeking assistance from others. Since the rise of the Web, pervasive internet connectivity, and ubiquitous search, a similar type of response has involved the idea that by asking questions that could easily be answered by even the most cursory, obvious search, the user embarrasses himself by showing that the very idea of searching before asking didn’t even occur to him.
The most common variants of this type are GIYF (‘Google is your friend’) and LMGTFY (‘let me google that for you’), both with a tone of patronizing helpfulness (with varying degrees of sarcasm).Often the responder will even insert a link into the reply that, when the user clicks it, will take them to a saved search query. The clear implication is that’you should know by now to do this yourself.’
February 28, 2011
Giant’s Causeway
Giants causeway
February 27, 2011
the 39 steps
maltese falcon
February 27, 2011
The Pascha is a 12 story brothel in Cologne, Germany. With about 120 prostitutes, over 80 employees and up to 1000 customers per day, it is the largest brothel in Europe. The brothel was opened in January 1972 in the Hornstraße, under the name ‘Eros Center.’ It was Europe’s first high rise brothel. The city of Cologne wanted to eliminate the red light district ‘Kleine Brinkgasse’ in the city center and issued a license to build the new brothel on land owned by the city in the outskirts of town. The house rents 126 rooms on 7 floors to prostitutes for a fee of 180 Euros per day, which includes meals, medical care, and the 20 Euros of tax that authorities collect per prostitute per day.
February 27, 2011
Hagi ware
Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is ‘imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.’ It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence (impermanence, suffering, and non-self).
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February 27, 2011
Mono No Aware
Mono no aware (literally ‘the pathos of things’), also translated as ‘an empathy toward things,’ or ‘a sensitivity of ephemera,’ is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of ‘mujo’ or the transience of things and a gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing. The term was coined in the eighteenth century by the Edo period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga, and was originally a concept used in his literary criticism of ‘The Tale of Genji,’ and later applied to other seminal Japanese works including the ‘Man’yōshū,’ becoming central to his philosophy of literature, and eventually to Japanese cultural tradition.
The word is derived from the Japanese word ‘mono’ (lit. ‘things’) and ‘aware,’ which was a Heian period expression of measured surprise (similar to ‘ah’ or ‘oh’), translating roughly as ‘pathos,’ ‘poignancy,’ ‘deep feeling,’ or ‘sensitivity.’ Thus, mono no aware has frequently been translated as “the ‘ahh-ness’ of things,” life and love. The quintessentially ‘Japanese’ director Yasujiro Ozu was well known for creating a sense of mono no aware, frequently climaxing with a character saying a very understated ‘ii tenki desu ne’ (‘It is fine weather, isn’t it?’), after both a familial and societal paradigm shift, such as daughter being married off, against the backdrop of a swiftly changing Japan.
February 27, 2011
no more blues
Saudade is a Portuguese word difficult to translate adequately, which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return. Saudade has been described as a ‘vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist … a turning towards the past or towards the future.’ A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing.
It may also be translated as a deep longing or yearning for something which does not exist or is unattainable. Saudade was once described as ‘the love that remains’ or ‘the love that stays’ after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again.
February 27, 2011
Sehnsucht is a German noun translated as ‘longing,’ ‘yearning’ and ‘craving,’ or in a wider sense a type of ‘intensely missing.’ The word is almost impossible to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. Its meaning is somewhat similar to the Portuguese word, ‘saudade.’ The stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no satisfactory corresponding term in another language.
The term is a compound word, originating from an ardent longing or yearning (‘das Sehnen’) and addiction (‘die Sucht’). However, these words do not adequately encapsulate the full meaning of their resulting compound, even when considered together.
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February 27, 2011
the socks
Persepolis is a French-language autobiographical comic by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis. Drawn in black and white, the graphic novel found great popularity following its release, and was translated into several languages. The English edition combines the first two French books and was translated by Blake Ferris and Satrapi’s husband, Mattias Ripa.
In 2007, an animated film adaptation of the graphic novel was created, with author Satrapi co-directing with French comic artist Vincent Paronnaud. The film utilized the same style of the graphic novel, although there are a handful of scenes in the present day that are shown in color, while the rest of the flashback events are illustrated in black and white, as in the novel. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '904', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9580235481262208}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '101672', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:65O2IQCGJ6CLWINH4FFZFRDL3FMBVX2C', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7048d2b9-67b8-4dbb-9bd0-591e68ae336f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 1, 37, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4QBMY37EKPG7QDUVWGA6S3IJDCFO25PA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c38aabd6-efcc-4e5f-843e-1e7cef47d164>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://thedailyomnivore.net/2011/02/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a84aaa6e-feea-484c-827f-046afc7d8fe8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1894', 'url': 'https://thedailyomnivore.net/2011/02/', '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': '0.04340243339538574', 'original_id': '01c46fcffe3a3d448e2fe8a6a09c66b7005f0afad89dc083495a4ad243b3e87e'} |
How Your Gut Bacteria Can Mess With Your Weight
How Your Gut Bacteria Can Mess With Your Weight Hero Image
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Microbiome is the term used to describe the vast ecology of bacteria (and viruses and fungi) that live on and in the body. Conventional medical wisdom may consider bacteria to be "bad" for us, representing the spread of disease, etc., but we have over 1,000 different types numbering in the trillions of "good bacteria" in and on our bodies and particularly in our gut.
These bacteria play many roles in our body, including:
• Production of vitamins like B12, folate, niacin, and vitamin K
• Caloric extraction and digestion
• Maintenance of the gut wall and protection against bad bacteria
• Regulation of the immune system and inflammation
• Production of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate that fuels the brain and intestine
• Weight loss and appetite regulation
• Production of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin
That's quite a list! Lots of research has been done in the past two decades to explore how our microbiome can affect our health and our weight. Although the data in these studies is still developing, conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and obesity are being associated with changes in gut bacteria.
In terms of weight, Dr. Raphael Kellman, author of The Microbiome Diet, says, "Simply put, if you get the microbiome—that collection of bacteria inside you—healthy, you will lose weight."
"It's less about eating a certain percentage of carbohydrates, protein, and fat than about correcting the overgrowth of unhealthy bacteria, which is making you crave the wrong foods, triggering inflammation."
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The relationship between good bacteria and weight loss.
Here are a few reasons why improving your balance of good bacteria to bad bacteria may aid in weight loss:
1. Different bacteria in your gut extract different amounts of nutrients.
The textbook definition of how to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you expend—the calories-in-vs.-calories-out theory. But the meaning of "calories in" is not exactly just counting the calories that go into your mouth and stomach. The calories that count are those extracted by your digestive enzymes and the trillions of bacteria in your intestines.
Overweight people tend to have more firmicutes bacteria, which convert food to calories at a higher rate than bacteroidetes, another type of bacteria that slim people have more of, which convert less food to calories. If you lose weight, you increase bacteroidetes and decrease firmicutes.
2. Gut bacteria can affect the immune system and inflammation.
Inflammation can trigger increased appetite and insulin resistance, which then increases unhealthy food cravings. Gut bacteria send chemical messages to the brain that sway our appetite and mood.
A poor diet, comprised of lots of processed foods, refined carbs, and sugar can feed bad bacteria, which cause us to crave even more of those foods, whereas increasing healthy bacteria helps curb cravings by decreasing inflammation. In addition, exercise releases an anti-inflammatory substance that enhances immunity and decreases inflammation.
3. A healthy gut helps production of the feel-good neurotransmitters.
Dopamine and serotonin are two neurotransmitters that are produced in the gut and affect the brain. They can potentially decrease stress eating and contribute to better food choices and overall sense of well-being. Without them, there can be moodiness, depression, and anxiety. A healthy balance of bacteria in your gut aids in the production of dopamine and serotonin.
Signs your microbiome is unhealthy:
What contributes to an unhealthy microbiome?
• Infections such as Lyme disease, mold, or autoimmune diseases
• Hormonal imbalances
• Poor diet of simple sugars, processed, and low-fiber foods
• Overuse of antibiotics, NSAIDS, and acid-reducing meds
• Toxins like PCBs, lead, mercury, and arsenic
Genetics, age, and lifestyle also affect your microbiome, and more new studies are emerging that shed more light on how our microbiome affects our health. So how can we use this information to be healthier or to lose weight?
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How to feed your good bacteria:
Add more of the following into your diet:
1. Prebiotics:
Prebiotics are plant fiber compounds that pass undigested through the upper part of the GI tract and help stimulate the growth of good bacteria by feeding them. Some sources are asparagus, chicory root, garlic, Jerusalem artichoke, jicama, and onions.
2. Probiotics:
Probiotics are a type of good bacteria, similar to the ones that reside in your gut. Good sources of probiotics include fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, miso, and kimchee. For supplements, a multistrain probiotic is recommended—bifidobacterium for your colon and lactobacillus works in your small intestine.
3. Fiber:
Fiber helps promote growth of friendly bacteria. Aim for 25 to 35 grams a day. Fiber is found in vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. Make your plate one-half to three-quarters vegetables and plant-based foods. If you are not currently eating lots of fiber, increase slowly and drink adequate water. Soluble fiber (found in flaxseed, sweet potatoes, apricots, oranges, Brussels sprouts, legumes, and oatmeal) has been shown to be the most effective type of fiber for weight loss.
4. Plants:
Eat a variety of plant foods to stimulate a larger variety of types of bacteria.
5. Healthy fats:
Consume more omega-3 fats found in fatty fish and flaxseeds, monounsaturated fats such as olive and avocado oil, and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) found in coconut oil. Use these in place of other vegetable oils.
Foods to cut back on:
To help get more of the good bacteria, cut out the foods that feed the bad bacteria.
1. Processed foods:
Refined carbs, processed, and low-fiber foods and sugars.
2. Animal protein:
A diet heavy in fat and protein (such as meat and cheese) feeds a type of bacteria, biophilia, that has been linked to inflammation.
3. Artificial sweeteners:
These may negatively affect the microbiome and cause increased fat synthesis and insulin resistance even though they contain no calories.
While weight loss relies on many factors, having balanced bacteria in your gut is a good starting place and will also improve your overall health and well-being. While many of us are born with a certain balance of types of bacteria, there is a lot you can do to influence that balance throughout your life, such as eating well, exercising, reducing stress, and getting enough sleep.
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4905.18 Depreciation account.
Every public utility shall carry a proper and adequate depreciation or deferred maintenance account, whenever the public utilities commission, after investigation, determines that a depreciation account can be reasonably required. The commission shall ascertain, determine, and prescribe what are proper and adequate charges for depreciation of the several classes of property for each public utility. The charge for depreciation shall be such as will provide the amount required over the cost and expense of maintenance to keep the property of the public utility in a state of efficiency corresponding to the progress of the art or industry. The commission may prescribe such changes in such charges for depreciation as it finds necessary.
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Granvin Church
Granvin Church () is a parish church in Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the eastern shore of the Granvinsvatnet in the small farm area called "Granvin". This place located a few kilometers north of the village of Granvin. The church is part of the Granvin parish in the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in 1726 to replace a centuries-old stave church that was on the same site. The present church seats about 350 people.
See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin
References
Category:Churches in Hordaland
Category:Voss
Category:1726 establishments in Norway
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1. No cop ever prevented a crime from occuring.
2. Of course not. Police have no duty to protect, despite the slogans on the
squad cars.
It's been ruled on before, I believe at the federal level, maybe even
3. The children's blood this guy kills next week will be on Smeltzer's hands. He can explain to family and friends why his conclusion was stupid and irresponsible, noting 3 prior offenses. The police simply waited till he committed the crime he choose to commit after he choose to drink. Turning ones self in is not a reason for dismissal, and if the DWI is about taking responsibility for one decision drunk or not, what has Smeltzer done. We've spent billions on policing, marketing and legislation to get to this point and Smeltzer no says drunk people are not responsible for their decisions?
Smeltzer needs to step down.
4. I've heard of the conception you're talking about, Stanchion, but note the wording quoted here that relieves the police of duty to "intercede and take a person into preventative detention prior to the commission of a crime." It seems quite reasonable.
What you're talking about is often said in pro-gun carry arguments, but it seems to me that it's usually said about police with a lot of disdain, and even animosity. I don't think that's good strategy.
5. FredCity- Well, I first heard about it back in college. I also believe there was some outcry
about the police not responding to calls during the Rodney King riots.
If I recall correctly, and I may not, is that there was a legal issue regarding a woman who
was in fear of a man/husband/stalker/etc and the police wouldn't protect her proactively. I
don't really recall details but basically it was determined by a court I think that police have
no duty to protect citizens.
But yes, it is also an argument forwarded by the open carry movement which I'm a part of.
I don't know that I've witnessed the disdain or animosity you speak of. If any of that
exists, I would have to say it's disdain for the sometimes ignorant public who thinks that
911 is the answer to their safety and well being.
I didn't read the ruling above but I would generally be against the police acting in a
preventative manner. It sounds good in theory, but I can think of a 'whole lotta problems'
that could arise with the State arresting/detaining people for what they might do instead of
what they did do.
Not that we haven't already begun that process.
6. Oh and I forgot to mention regarding the 911 thing.
I believe I mentioned this a few months ago so forgive me if you've heard it. But I
came upon a car that had hit the wall and rolled over on its roof. There were
probably a good 2 dozen vehicles in front of me across the 3 lanes.
Not 1 person had gotten out of their vehicle to see if they could help. So I pulled
over to the shoulder and sprinted past all these morons (too harsh?) sitting in their
SUVs and you just know they were all on their cell phones calling 911.
That's my pet peeve about the public. Call 911 and don't ever think of actually
getting involved.
7. Thanks Stanchion -- it's a pleasure to read your perspectives. I'll have to keep an eye out for more on that case.
I think I know what you're saying -- people need to be better prepared to take care of everyday situations themselves.
8. Think a better decision could of been reached. Agree both with Smeltzer and appeals court. Smeltzer was right to question duty of police to be proactive whereas the appeals court was correct to question if the conviction should of been upheld. Issue here is the person tried to get help. If the man had said have a gun going to kill so and so, police would of responded. Where a drunk driver can have the same impact.
See here a plea for help from a person with AODA issues being ignored. Proper response which court should of commented on was for police to detain the man on involuntary hold to separate him from the ability to drive or gotten him into AAA. Police would of felt horrific if that man had gotten behind the wheel and killed someone.
We create the criminal, loss of life from not answering the plea for help. It would of been very simple for the cops to weigh if the man was a fake by accepting the offer to slip on the cuffs. Someone wanting those cuffs is someone in need. Its no different than a rape victim or kid that is a crime victim running to the police for help. Those with AODA issues are fighting their monsters.
There are those with such chronic AODA with likely mental illness that their own means of control are in prisons or in custody. Police shouldn't see that as a weakness or make fun of those folks. They should be proud to serve to understand that some citizens simply have AODA issues and they are apart of the solution as is the court. Knew a drunk that his entire ability to control was based on idea of having a jail cell close by. He wrestled for years in and out of prison until someone thought of the idea of moving him to live close to the police station. He has been somber about 20 years now and still lives near a police station. There tends to be fewer bars, less access for AODA victims in such an area. It was a cool idea really and it worked.
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If you’ve read my little “about me” blurb you may know that I am currently adapting to the Paleo Lifestyle aka the diet without the joy of Cheez-its and Honey Nut Cheerios. Seriously though, I’ve been glaring at people eating sandwiches and I don’t even care for bread all that much. My vice is chocolate. And Cheez-its. Boxes and boxes of crunchy and salty white cheddar Cheez-its. My freshman year economics professor told the class that her favorite thing to eat was Cheez-its and Coke. Something about complementary goods, whatever. This is pretty much the only thing I learned in that class, but most importantly she was right!! Have you tried Cheez-its and Coke??? Don’t buy in bulk! Seriously. I am saving you from standing next to your pantry in your pajamas and eating out of the box. I digress.
Paleo. I’ve been trying to eat very clean, but mostly I’ve been trying to find desserts that would be fluffy, chocolatey, satisfy my cravings, and not taste like I’m chewing wet sand (banana bread review coming up). Apparently such desserts exist even on a diet (I know, I was surprised too). In fact, these particular muffins are so good that I’d make them even if I wasn’t on a no-carb bandwagon. I adapted (blatantly copied) the recipe for Moist Chocolate Zucchini Bread courtesy of PaleOMG. FYI, she has a ton of great and actually edible Paleo recipes. I can tell you as a lover of all things carbs and chocolate that all the recipes I’ve tried from her website tasted fantastic.
Anyway, the only change I’ve made is adding some bittersweet chocolate chips. Whatever. It was still super healthy compared to what I usually eat. I also cut the recipe in half and baked it for 20 minutes in muffin tins. Perfect. Also, you can’t go wrong with a dessert that consists of 1 tablespoon of coconut flour and zucchini. I am so healthy, I am practically eating air. Go make them now and let me know what you think!!!
Are you currently following any “lifestyle” or “diet” deal? Have you found many recipes that were even better than their non-diet counterparts? Let me know!
Imagine starting a blog because someone told you to find something to do. Imagine starting a blog because a shrink said it would be a nifty idea to actually do something you enjoy. Feeling totally BBC Sherlock Holmes yet? If you are not, it is your fault and you need to catch up on your Sherlock experience… like immediately.
Ok. Now that you are back from netflixing all episodes we can continue. Speaking of Netflix, House of Cards anyone? If Kevin Spacey does not completely creep you out, then you are an alien and I want to hang out with you. Is it completely depressing that my Saturday consisted of 13 straight hours of cheering on Congressman Underwood’s total evilness? Oh who am I kidding… it was AMAZING! It had all the delightful aspects of a dramathrillerpolitics tv show: backstabbing, journalists with unlimited resources, people meeting in a sketchy Washington diner, the usual. BTW, can someone please direct me to one of those lovely establishments which apparently serve food good enough that people come back for 13 straight episodes or 7 seasons (looking at you, Bones).
Anyway, thinking back to my original sentence and rereading this opening post I came to the conclusion that the only hobby I may actually have (between grad school and sleep) is serial watching of tv shows (if it wasn’t clear from my nonstop tv talk). Not even kidding. I watch them all: Homeland (!!!!), Downton Abbey (!!!!), Gossip Girl (sigh), The Vampire Diaries (stop judging me for putting GG and TVD next to the pure greatness of Claire Danes), 30 Rock (sadness), TBBT, and the list can continue on for probably another page. I gotta stop though because I don’t think I’ve been able to actually follow one logical train of thought for longer than two sentences.
Anyway, I will probably be recapping some shows I am interested in or even shows I am not interested in but happened to stream during my Saturday break from reality. Feel free to suggest new things for me to watch or even things to do outside of tv (you earn brownie points for outside the box ideas, yes you totally do). Feel free to leave a comment or email me, I am excited to have you! | mini_pile | {'original_id': '96bd8e24bc88cedae4dd948bdafba78d19dfd45c973073dbd23a466e7ec94b55'} |
• Why Am I So Negative?
By Jim Squire MDiv RP |
You’re not alone if you feel that your brain tends to focus on the negative more, in fact everyone struggles with this to some degree. Research has shown that our brain responds more frequently to stimuli it deems negative and that it has a greater sensitivity to anything negative. There is a theory referred to as negative evolutionary bias which states those that have a brain that focuses more on the negative tended to survive longer and therefore had a greater opportunity to procreate and pass on their genes. I often explain it to clients that one of the…
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Predictions suggest Emma will become the most popular baby girl name for 2018
For the last few years, there's been baby names that seem to have cemented their spot in the top ten list.
Olivia, for example, has been a moniker of choice for many parents recently.
But baby name predictions for the year ahead are really set to shake things up, as many less frequently heard of names are thought to see a surge.
Will baby Hazels be taking over next year?
Rylie, Stella and Penelope all feature on the list
Babygaga, a pregnancy news website, has looked back at trend records to predict names that will come back in fashion for next year.
While some classic (and royal inspired) names have made the list, many are more unusual.
Emma, which means whole or universal, has topped the list for 2018.
But which others are featured?
Charlotte comes second on the list, perhaps hinting at royal inspiration
Top 20 baby girl name predictions for 2018
1. Emma
2. Charlotte
3. Sadie
4. Violet
5. Kennedy
6. Savannah
7. Penelope
8. Victoria
9. Ellie
10. Hazel
Are these the names winning over pregnant parents-to-be now?
11. Natalie
12. Luna
13. Rylie
14. Aurora
15. Scarlett
16. Nora
17. Zoe
18. Amelia
19. Harper
20. Stella
Baby girls called Nora, Savannah and Sadie are thought to be taking over next year
Recently, it was also discovered which currently popular baby girl names are likelier to lead to someone earning a higher salary.
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Metal Releases
Lance King
Lance King - ReProgram
ReProgram looks to find harmony in the dissonant world that we have created. Legendary singer Lance King, original voice behind Pyramaze and Balance Of Power has released his second solo album with a style of music he has properly labeled “Celestial Metal.” Co-produced by Lance and renowned producer/guitarist Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Evergrey, Epica, Amaranthe), ReProgram features a small armada of well-established co-writers and performers.
Listen Now!
"Reaction Formation"
1. 1. ReProgram
2. 2. Pointing Fingers
3. 3. Stand Your Ground
4. 4. Technology
5. 5. Reaction Formation
6. 6. Limitless
7. 7. Wide Open
8. 8. Chaotica
9. 9. Spell Of Domestication
10. 10. Perfect World
11. 11. A Mind At War
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Revisiting France’s Role in Rwanda’s Genocide
French soldiers on patrol pass by ethnic Hutu troops from the Rwandan government near Gisenyie, Rwanda, on June 27, 1994. France’s role in the Rwandan genocide has long been disputed. PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images
Here, Newsweek reviews the events that led to the mass killings and the role France played during and after the genocide.
How Was Former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana Assassinated?
On the night of April 6, 1994, Habyarimana was flying back to the Rwandan capital of Kigali, following a summit in Tanzania. Also on board was the then president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, along with seven other Rwandan and Burundian officials and a three-man French crew.
As the plane circled before landing in Kigali, it was struck by two surface-to-air missiles, bursting into flames mid-air before crashing into the garden of the presidential palace and exploding on impact. Everyone onboard was killed.
What Happened After Habyarimana’s Assassination?
Rwanda was already in the middle of a civil conflict that was cast along ethnic lines. Rwanda has a Hutu majority of around 85 percent; the remaining 15 percent of the population are largely Tutsi. Habyarimana was a Hutu and the country’s government at the time was dominated by the majority ethnic group. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel organization led by the minority Tutsis, was fighting a guerilla war for power that had led to the creation of Hutu extremist militias determined to resist the RPF.
Within hours of Habyarimana’s assassination, Hutu militias and government troops began systematically killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus throughout the country. The killing went on for 100 days, claiming the lives of an estimated 1 in 10 Rwandans, before the RPF seized control of Kigali and declared a ceasefire.
Who Shot Down Habyarimana’s Plane?
This remains a mystery. Hutu militias immediately pointed the finger at the RPF, of which Kagame was a senior commander. Kagame, however, has maintained that Habyarimana’s murder was the work of Hutu extremists trying to prevent the then Rwandan president from signing a peace agreement with the RPF, and to provide a pretext for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.
Why Has France Reopened an Investigation?
France is responding to claims made by Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a founding member of the RPF and Kagame’s former army chief, who is now living in exile in South Africa. In a written deposition submitted to French magistrates earlier in 2016, Nyamwasa claimed that, on the night of Habyarimana’s assassination, Kagame told him and other officials that the murder had been carried out by members of the RPF. In the deposition, Nyamwasa claimed that Kagame said the missiles had been smuggled into Kigali with a load of firewood and that the mission had been kept secret to avoid any leakage.
France began its original probe in 1998 following a complaint from the families of the French crew members who died when the plane was shot down. The inquiry reached several dead ends due to problems evaluating evidence and summoning suspects. In 2006, a French judge issued arrest warrants for nine high-ranking Rwandan officials close to Kagame on suspicion of plotting Habyarimana’s assassination. The move prompted Kagame to break off diplomatic ties with France, though they were later resumed in 2009.
How Has Rwanda Reacted To France’s Decision?
Kagame has been defiant following France’s decision to reopen the probe. “The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France’s interests,” Kagame told an audience at an official judicial function on Monday, Reuters reported. “It should be France in the dock being tried, not anybody in Rwanda and not Rwandans
The latter comment references previous accusations Kagame has made against France of abetting the genocide by training and arming the Hutu militias responsible for the killings. In a 2014 interview with French weekly Jeune Afrique, Kagame said that both France and Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonizer, had played a “direct role” in the “political preparation for the genocide.” France has long denied this accusation: a French parliamentary commission reported in 1998 that, while France’s eventual intervention via a U.N.-mandated operation came too late, the country had not participated in the genocide in any way and had actually taken a leading role in the international community’s response. During the first visit by a French president to Rwanda since the genocide in 2010, then-French leader Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that France made “mistakes” and was afflicted by “a sort of blindness” in its response to the genocide, but stopped short of making a full apology.
Sarkozy at Rwandan genocide memorial France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy visits the Memorial of the Rwandan genocide in Kigali on February 25, 2010. Sarkozy admitted that France made “mistakes” during the genocide but did not fully apologize for its role. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images
What Could Happen Next?
French authorities have requested the cooperation of South Africa—where Nyamwasa currently lives in a secret location—in formally questioning the former army chief. Nyamwasa, who was indicted by France in 2006 and has also been sentenced to 24 years in jail by a Rwandan court, was the subject of a failed assassination attempt in 2010 in South Africa, which his wife claimed was ordered by the Rwandan government. The Rwandan government denied that charge.
Should France pursue the investigation, Kagame could potentially cut off diplomatic relations for the second time. Kagame’s combative language indicates he will not take French interference in Rwandan affairs lying down. “If starting all over again is a showdown, we will have a showdown, there is no problem about that,” he said. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '136', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9663981795310974}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '91871', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:J2VYTXUW4OIAAXJ2EVGAABUEEP7VX4EA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:79cb103e-df00-46c1-8ddd-56135a2d8ed4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 22, 12, 31), 'WARC-IP-Address': '46.30.213.3', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2YIDES3GFIEUUHIN52J4D5W4BTVSNZYZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4070a58b-0be3-4983-a6f2-c4c6cfcc24ed>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.thelocalafricanews.com/revisiting-frances-role-rwandas-genocide/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f8557f7b-1a67-47e2-a4ce-913e66b8bba6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1046', 'url': 'https://www.thelocalafricanews.com/revisiting-frances-role-rwandas-genocide/', '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-10-159-220-225.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': '0.16885441541671753', 'original_id': '80a16df3810c80bb0d7fc33f3bd8b6c119a7db14758b5f7c6899136e488220e6'} |
Q:
most suitable OSGi platform?
We are currently developing a new software for which we decided OSGi modularity would be quite useful, as the software itself can be pretty well decomposed into modular structure in order to avoid code mess in the future and be able to easily add new features and hook into existing ones.
I have been playing with two (probably most popular) OSGi platforms, Eclipse Equinox (with Gemini Blueprint) and Apache Felix (with Aries). Basically I am now at the point of making a decision, which one we should use.
We have pretty much experience with Spring, so we would like to continue using that, along with annotations (such as @Autowired for autowiring beans WITHIN the SAME bundle, @ServiceReference for autowiring across bundles), some particular Spring addons (such as Data JPA), Hibernate as a JPA provider (so far, we have experience only with Hibernate as an JPA implementation, it has all features we need so we want to avoid having to switch to something else), JMS messaging (with ActiveMQ client) and few other features.
Later on, we also want to be able to implement our own security manager (to control access to certain bundles, based on e.g. their digital signatures, certificates with Permissions embedded in them)
So far, I have been able to make two testing bundles (one was using a service from the other) and treat them as Spring Beans on Equinox with Gemini BP. However, I've had some problems with annotations, though (and I don't really like wiring beans in XMLs, especially with not so complicated architecture - most of them are Singletons).
I've tried Aries as well (but not succeeded with enabling Spring there; probably just haven't spent enough time on that yet :) ).
Which OSGi platform do you recommend for such use case?
A:
This one will be probably not the best answer but I think it is useful for you if I share my experiences. A couple of years ago I had exactly the same situation. I was experienced with Spring, JPA (Hibernate and EclipseLink). I found OSGi modularity useful so we started projects based on OSGi.
As I had used Spring before, it was obvious to use Blueprint (we ended up using Apache Aries as it was more stable than Gemini Blueprint). We did that for two years. However, we had many issues so I started to implement a new Blueprint container based on the specification. I heard many times that OSGi DS is better but as I had been a Spring fan before, the tutorials did not make me change my mind. I had the feeling that ConfigAdmin would have been really nice to use but with Blueprint it was not really possible to write nice code (I know that there is the cm namespace but it did not work well for us).
At the EclipseCon I talked to Peter Kriens and he convinced me to try out DS on a project. I did so and now I feel really sad about the time I used Blueprint (I did not mean to hurt you, Aries guys :)). Declarative Services together with ConfigurationAdmin is designed to work within the OSGi modularized world. I am pretty sure I know well your current feelings but if I really suggest to you not to make the same mistakes I did. Try to create two bundles with DS components, getting the Configuration from felix-configadmin and feel the power.
As of JPA, we used first EclipseLink. As it was too buggy, we switched to Hibernate. I wrote an adapter to be able to use it (available on GitHub). As much as I know, Hibernate has now more support in this topic, I have never tried it. In the end, we decided to leave JPA. We are on the end of replacing our infrastructure from JPA to Liquibase+QueryDSL. The components are more or less ready at https://github.com/everit-org, we need to work on documentation. If you are interested, why we switched from JPA, read the comments under the this blog post: http://blog.osgi.org/2013/12/attributes-attributes-and-attributes.html
My answer in short:
If you want to avoid of using Declarative Services due to historical reasons (that is a mistake, but I can understand it), use Apache Aries or Gemini BP (that you find better). As Apache Aries was created for OSGi, all namespace handlers that are written for Aries will work for sure. Aries will not support the namespace handlers written for Spring as Aries has its own API. However, ActiveMQ and other projects have Aries namespace handler implementations. Once more, I suggest to consider using DS instead and write your code in Java instead of XML. If you design small modules, deployment time will not be a problem. On the other hand, you will get lots of benefits at the configuration and stability part.
JPA with Hibernate can be used in OSGi. An example can be found here: https://github.com/everit-org/osgi-hibernate. More up-to-date examples are available if you google. I recommend that you should look around as JPA works, but it is not OSGi friendly.
Concerning to the engine: If you use Felix, you can be sure that your code will run on other containers like Equinox or Knopflerfish. The other two has special features that if you use, you may run into the problem that you cannot port your code later. I personally use Equinox, but it has historical reasons.
A:
We use blueprint with Apache aries a lot. Recently there were lots of bugs related to aries but most are fixed right now. Blueprint works pretty well for us but it is lacking a bit support for enterprise features compared to JavaEE. It has basic container managed transactions but little more on this side.
Declarative services seem to be more stable and light weight than blueprint. They also really embrace the dynamic nature of OSGi. On the other hand DS does not have any extension for e.g. JPA and container managed transactions. So I am not sure how difficult it is to write real business code with them.
I would be really careful with Gemini blueprint. Springsource seems to have completely abondoned OSGi. So I fear that Gemini blueprint will go the same way as spring dm which is not maintained at all. Of course gemini is at eclipse now but I am not sure the community alone can support this.
In mid term I would really like to use CDI and the full JavaEE support on OSGi. There already is pax cdi which provides support for CDI on OSGi and there are portable extensions for e.g. JPA and container managed transactions from Apache Deltaspike. Unfortunately it is not yet fully working so as of now this is no real option.
So my recommendation is to currently do your own proof of concepts with Aries blueprint and DS and decide between the two. At the same time I would keep an eye open for JavaEE support on OSGi to see when it might be ready.
For the basic OSGi platform I think felix and equinox both are nice. It may also make sense to take a look at Apache Karaf which provides management and enterprise functionality on top of both frameworks.
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5 Powerful Reasons to Own Instead of Rent
Owning a home has great financial benefits.
“Homeownership appears to help borrowers accumulate housing and non-housing wealth in a variety of ways, with tax advantages, greater financial flexibility due to secured borrowing, built-in ‘default’ savings with mortgage amortization and nominally fixed payments, and the potential to lower home maintenance costs through sweat equity.”
Let’s breakdown 5 major financial benefits of homeownership:
1. Housing is typically the one leveraged investment available
Homeownership allows households to amplify any appreciation on the value of their homes by a leverage factor. A 20% down payment results in a leverage factor of five, meaning every percentage point rise in the value of your home is a 5% return on your equity. If you put down 10%, your leverage factor is 10.
Example: Let’s assume you purchased a $300,000 home and put down $60,000 (20%). If the house appreciates by $30,000, that is only a 10% increase in value but a 50% increase in equity.
2. You’re paying for housing whether you own or rent
Some argue that renting eliminates the cost of property taxes and home repairs. Every potential renter must realize that all the expenses the landlord incurs (property taxes, repairs, insurance, etc.) are baked into the rent payment already – along with a profit margin!!
3. Owning is usually a form of “forced savings”
Studies have shown that homeowners have a net worth that is 44X greater than that of a renter. As a matter of fact, it was recently estimated that a family buying an average priced home this past January could build more than $42,000 in family wealth over the next five years.
4. Owning is a hedge against inflation
House values and rents tend to go up at or higher than the rate of inflation. When you own, your home’s value will protect you from that inflation.
5. There are still substantial tax benefits to owning
We know that the new tax reform bill puts limits on some deductions on certain homes. However, in the research paper referenced above, the authors explain:
“…the mortgage interest deduction is not the main source of these gains; even if it were removed, homeowners would continue to benefit from a lack of taxation of imputed rent and capital gains.”
Bottom Line
From a financial standpoint, owning a home has always been and will always be better than renting.
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January 17th, 2016
NDP statement on World Religion Day
New Democrat Foreign Affairs critic Hélène Laverdière made the following statement on World Religion Day:
“Today, people around the world are celebrating World Religion Day – a celebration that brings together believers from all religions to foster greater understanding.
While tolerance has come a long way, millions of people throughout the world face discrimination, abuse and violence simply for practicing their religion or refusing to claim a faith. This is unacceptable.
As the progressive opposition, New Democrats are committed to fighting religious intolerance and promoting freedom of conscience in Canada and around the globe. We recognize freedom of religion as a fundamental human right and will continue working to build a more just, respectful and harmonious world.” | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9033422470092772}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31211', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IUZ7BGVUIPODU7EUVMFUNBJGQVGQV7NC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3dd7f086-6c51-459d-a3ac-bc3dc0fa76fa>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 10, 19, 49, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '35.196.149.117', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7TKMBDW7CFKFQXEOU5D7XUBCGY5BT5ZK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8c4e4b76-8843-4505-b0ae-9ddff7efe2c4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-statement-world-religion-day', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5c3e0cb1-1aee-4a47-9656-532f36f0f8de>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '124', 'url': 'https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-statement-world-religion-day', '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-10-150-135-54.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': '0.035297513008117676', 'original_id': '0bcece611450d1472d44d1603743c633639d26793771aa28743274786cf83f15'} |
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After a persistent two months of lobbying the Assemblyman Steven Branford’s office, the new appendage of Class 406b EBike laws has been cancelled. I repeat they are not going to at this time criminalize from what Erasmo in their Sacramento offices told me. This would have in the name of making bicycle paths safer and promoting ebikes, 1.) Discouraged ebike sales and 2.) Do nothing to address the real bicycle path safety issues. So what are these issues and what were they going to do with electric bicycles?
Currently in California if you have a 1 kilowatt (that is 1,000 watt) motor and a limitor on the controller for the ebike that limits it to a maximum speed of no more than 20 mph, the bicycle is thus considered a normal pedal bike. In my case and that of thousands more within the state we already met those guidelines. What the good assemblyman’s team decided they were going to do was do ebike riders a favor and fix something that already worked fine. In essence they were going to append the current law, make the largest motor size reduced to 750 watts, added weight restrictions that a bicycle weighing more than 80 pounds was banned from bicycle paths. I wonder what moron dreamed up that reward for investing in green transportation and sports equipment?
Let us take the weight issue first. With over 13,000 miles of bicycle path riding and traditional path riding for years now, rider’s come in all sizes including weights and I shall now show you how the assemblyman’s team got it wrong. Let us say you have a woman who weigh’s in at 120 pounds on an 85 pound ebike. That is a total of 205 pounds, with me so far? Now let us say you have a 6′ 4″ tall muscle guy on a polycarbon 33 speed that can pedal to 50mph, much faster than the girl’s ebike at 20 mph or even 30 mph, and the guy weighs in on a 40 pound bicycle himself at 250 pounds. That is 290 pounds! So weight is irrelevant here. What is a factor though are the following criteria the new law’s appendage does not fix.
1.) Speed
2.) Pedestrians on the Bicycle Path
3.) Toddlers riding side-by-side with parent
These following three issues are safety related so let us see how they can be fixed. Speed. The average rider rides between 16 to 28 mph on the bicycle path. The maximum speed set at 28. if the path is clear, if pedestrians are present set at 12mph.
Pedestrians are ticketable offense for using the bicycle path but cops never ticket them. Start ticketing them, say 500 dollars for the first time, 5,000 dollars on the second time. This will get them off the bicycle path. Parent takes children or baby stroller on bicycle path, child endangerment!
Dad gets junior a small bicycle with training wheels, great! You have to start somewhere. Stick the kid in the same land as dad ahead of him, no more than 20 feet. This removes the kid from the opposing bicycle lane where he rides next to dad or mom.
These are the three main things plaguing the bicycle path. Fix these, allow all bicycles whether electric or pedal, regardless of motor size, weight. Cyclist goes past maximum posted speed limit they get a big fat ticket, that’s it. The cops don’t have to guess a motor size, weigh a bike etc. This works plain and simple and it really makes bicycle paths safer while promoting a green piece of equipment.
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I've just captured my second Mediterranean City and have just been reminded that I recently used the "Install a New Assassin Den" mission in my first captured city.
But what does it do. I can't see anything obvious that "+1 Assassin slot(s) in the city" has achieved (in my first city, of course, haven't used in second one yet).
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Once you've taken control of a city, you can assign assassins to work in that city from the Guild interface. At the start, you can only assign 2 assassins per city, but building additional dens means you can assign additional assassins, up to a max of 5.
When assigned to work in a city, the assassins will generate income for you and help you to retain control of the city. The more experienced the assassins are, the better the job they will do. You can also assign these assassins contracts from the city they are currently responsible for.
Assigning assassins to a city removes them from your "normal" assassin roster - they will be unavailable to call in combat or send on contracts outside of their city. However, you will also be able to recruit new assassins to replace them. Do note that once you've assigned at least one assassin to a city, you can't empty the city completely out - you can swap assassins around, but once there's at least one in the city, there must always be one left.
I personally never used this mechanic, (I managed just a core team of "global" assassins who I could send on contracts and call in battle) and I found that I still had plenty of money and resources. If you find this particular aspect of the game interesting, though, then building additional dens is an important part of expanding your ability to utilize it.
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Ah yes, on PC I have to hover the mouse over a city name and press CTRL to access the relevant screen. Hadn't even seen it before. – DMA57361 Mar 8 '12 at 22:36
I barely had enough money before the endgame even with my income from cities basically maxed (which DRAMATICALLY increases your income potential). So, YMMV, but I'd encourage you to do this since it's relatively low effort. – Shinrai Mar 13 '12 at 17:19
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Marvel
Written by Eric Shanower, art by Skottie Young
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Well, I suppose I should say I've never read any of L. Frank Baum's books, but I really should, someday. My knowledge of this story comes mostly from the Judy Garland movie... which of course I adore, though I'm sure it diverges in a number of ways from the source material. There have of course been many adaptations in various media over the years, though I'm familiar with very little of it. This 8-issue limited series is probably closer to the original book than most adaptations, but as I say, I wouldn't really know. Apparently the writer, Eric Shanower, has done a number of Oz-based stuff before, so I reckon he knows what he's doing, even if I have no knowledge of his prior work. All I can really say with certainty is that I quite enjoyed this adaptation, both the writing and the art. It's just beautiful, and amazingly charming.
I'm sure you're all familiar with the story, regardless of whether you've read the books, or just seen the movie (if you tell me you've never seen the movie, I won't believe you). It starts with young Dorothy Gale, who lives in Kansas with her Uncle Henry, a farmer, and Aunt Em, and of course her dog, Toto. A cyclone shows up, and sweeps the house away with Dorothy and Toto in it, and they land in a strange place called Oz, miraculously unharmed. She meets people called Munchkins, who are grateful to her for killing the Wicked Witch of the East, on whom the house had landed. Dorothy didn't mean to kill anyone, of course. She also meets the Good Witch of the North, who tells her about the wizard of Oz, who lives in the City of Emeralds. The Good Witch also gives Dorothy the Wicked Witch's silver shoes to wear.
Dorothy and Toto set out alone, hoping the Wizard will be able to help her get home. Soon they meet the Scarecrow, who joins them. He wants the Wizard to give him some brains. In book 2, they meet the Tin Woodman, who joins them in the hopes the Wizard will give him a heart. Soon after that, they meet a Cowardly Lion, who also joins them, hoping the Wizard can give him some courage. In book 3, the group overcame a number of obstacles on their way, including a field of poppies which put Dorothy and the Lion to sleep. The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow received some help from the Mouse Queen and her subjects, in transporting the Lion away from the poppy field.
In book 4, they finally reach the Emerald City, where they must all wear spectacles that filter out the blinding brilliance of the city, where everything is green. Each member of the party gets to see the Wizard alone, and he appears in a different form to each of them; but he tells each of them the same thing, that they must kill the Wicked Witch of the West before he will help them. None of them are happy about this nor particularly hopeful about their chances, but they have no choice. So, in book 5, they set out to find her. She is aware they are coming, however, and send out various groups to destroy them, but each group fails... Until, finally, she sends out the winged monkeys, who she could command three times, when wearing a golden cap. She'd already used them twice, so this was her final time. And the monkeys managed to tear apart the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, and brought Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion to the Witch's castle. The Lion was kept in a cage, and Dorothy became a servant. But the Witch was afraid to harm Dorothy... and wanted to get her silver shoes. Finally she got one of them, which made Dorothy mad. This led to her unwittingly killing the Witch (yes, with a bucket of water), and thus freeing the Winkies, who were her slaves. She and her friends were happy to stay with the grateful Winkies for a time, but eventually they went out and put the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman back together, and Dorothy also took the golden cap, not knowing its power. And then they set out to return to the Emerald City....
Well, they have several more brief adventures before the end of the series, stuff that wasn't in the movie. It was all interesting enough, but... I don't feel like detailing anything specific from this point on. Of course, I've also left out plenty of detail about the stuff that happened up to this point. This includes details of characters' backstories that were never really seen in the movie, as well as details of their journey together. Meanwhile, I must say, the story makes it pretty obvious that the Scarecrow has more brains than he thinks, the Tin Woodman has more heart than he thinks, and the Lion has more courage than he thinks. Dorothy... obviously has all of these traits. So... I'm really liking all of the characters and the whole story. It has an old-fashioned simplicity about it, but... it's also rather knowing. Quaint, sweet, clever, amusing, engaging, and a little dark... it's got everything you could ask for, including happy endings for everyone.
And then, there's another Oz miniseries, but I decided not to collect it. And I expect there may be still other miniseries after that. But maybe someday I'll buy trade paperback versions of those, or something.
comix index
Untitled Document The Wizard of Oz
movies: The Wizard of Oz * Journey Back to Oz * Return to Oz * Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
TV: Tales of the Wizard of Oz * The Wizard of Oz in Concert * The Muppets' Wizard of Oz * Tin Man * Once Upon a Time * The Wiz Live! * Emerald City
web: Lost in Oz
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#
# This auxiliary script is used in several Trigger tests.
#
# If the table need data than the file std_data/funcs_1/memory_tb3.txt
# could be used.
#
--disable_warnings
drop table if exists tb3;
--enable_warnings
--replace_result $engine_type <engine_to_be_used>
eval create table tb3 (
f118 char not null DEFAULT 'a',
f119 char binary not null DEFAULT b'101',
f120 char ascii not null DEFAULT b'101',
f121 char(50),
f122 char(50),
f129 binary not null DEFAULT b'101',
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f131 tinyint unsigned not null DEFAULT 99,
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f135 smallint unsigned not null DEFAULT 999,
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f137 smallint unsigned zerofill not null DEFAULT 999,
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f141 mediumint unsigned zerofill not null DEFAULT 9999,
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f157 decimal (64) unsigned,
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f159 decimal (64) zerofill,
f160 decimal (0) unsigned zerofill,
f161 decimal (64) unsigned zerofill,
f162 decimal (0,0),
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f164 decimal (0,0) unsigned,
f165 decimal (63,30) unsigned,
f166 decimal (0,0) zerofill,
f167 decimal (63,30) zerofill,
f168 decimal (0,0) unsigned zerofill,
f169 decimal (63,30) unsigned zerofill,
f170 numeric,
f171 numeric unsigned,
f172 numeric zerofill,
f173 numeric unsigned zerofill,
f174 numeric (0),
f175 numeric (64)
) engine = $engine_type;
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review
Director: David Yates
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins Rated: PG-13
Watch the trailer here
The Story – Not the film for newbies to jump on.
Newt Scamander – Eddie Redmayne
Gellert Grendelwald – Johnny Depp
Jacob Kowalski – Dan Fogler
Albus Dumbledore – Jude Law
Credence Barebone – Ezra Miller
Leta Lastrange – Zoe Kravitz
Final Verdict
Cinematic Quality: 4 out of 5
Fun Factor: 3.5 out of 5
Worth the price of admission: 3.5 out of 5
Re-watch Value: 3 out of 5
Overall Score – 3.5 dark wizards rising out of 5
What Stan Lee Meant To A DC Fanboy.
The pop culture world has been mourning the loss of Stan Lee this last week after he passed away on Monday at the age of 95. The internet is still flooded with social media posts paying their digital respects to the man who will be remembered for co-creating some of the most iconic comic book characters ever to exist. Stan’s influence had an immeasurable impact on my life as well, and I wanted to write about that briefly.
Avengers #1. Art by Jack Kirby.
I definitely read plenty of comics as a kid, but some of my earliest memories interacting with the Marvel Universe are actually from watching two of the most legendary cartoons of the 90’s: Spider-Man and X-Men. Cartoons like these played a key role in getting me hooked into comics and cultivating a love of art in general. I remember buying several books over the years from school book fairs that detailed how to draw the Marvel characters, and for a long time I even considered becoming a cartoonist or comic book artist.
The X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons of the 90s were the best.
If you were unfortunate to have missed these animated gems growing up, the animation in both were top quality while also doing a fantastic job of capturing the essence of the comics. Both shows had memorable opening themes as well, with music that screamed 90s. Once either of these two shows started, nothing else mattered until the episode was over.
Do yourself a favor and check out the opening titles to both Spider-Man and X-Men.
Honestly, whenever forced to choose I’ve always leaned more to the DC Universe. My parents named me after Superman actor Christopher Reeve (a tale for another day), which naturally made me gravitate to that side of the superhero aisle. That being said, I wholeheartedly believe there is enough geek love to go around for both companies’ cast of characters.
Marvel and DC have always offered 2 sides of the same coin for me, allowing me to jump back and forth depending on what kind of story I’m in the mood for. And who was the person responsible for differentiating Marvel from the rest of the superheroes at the time? In large part it was Stan Lee of course.
The DC Universe roster has been around longer and excels at telling entertaining stories that provide an escape from reality. These heroes live more in the realm of fantasy and mythology as the universe is crowded with super powered beings from other planets who always do the right thing to protect their imaginary cities from the forces of evil. They are truly larger than life.
Stan saw this even back in the 60’s and decided to tell his stories from a different angle. He created characters along side legendary artists Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others who at their core were every day humans, based in real cities, dealing not just with bad guys wanting to wreck everything but their own real life dilemas as well.
This famous panel drawn by Steve Ditko was paid homage in Spiderman: Homecoming.
This artwork from iconic artist Steve Ditko was paid homage in Spiderman: Homecoming.
The Marvel characters don’t just provide entertaining escapism, they also resonate with readers. They’re not just tireless do-gooders who always do the right thing. They make mistakes. They fail. They give us hope that it’s possible to do great things while also struggling with every day life. I’m not saying these qualities are completely absent from the DC Universe; only that Stan set up Marvel to consistently do a far better job.
The X-men constantly face prejudice and racism from a world that doesn’t understand their mutant abilities. Tony Stark is his own worst enemy with a monster size ego and inner demons of alcoholism. Mathew Murdock, a nobody from Hell’s Kitchen, turned his crippling disability into one of his greatest strengths as a hero. Peter Parker is constantly forced to juggle the pressures of his personal life with crime fighting. The list could go on for pages.
The immense success of the Marvel movies over the past decade is also proof of how much these characters resonate with the world. I was 23 years old when Iron-Man released and now at 33, married, and a baby on the way the franchise is 20 movies in and still going strong. I, like so many others have been to every single opening weekend, and have collected each film as it came out on DVD/Blu ray. I absolutely love and am fascinated with how these movies all contect together and reference each other as every iteration builds the universe just a little deeper, just like issues of comic books.
President of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige deserves a large amount of credit for crafting films that appeal to the masses, but the heart of the these characters wouldnt exist without Stan. Honestly, seeing Stan’s cameo in every single film is also part of the experience that will sadly end after his last cameo in the upcoming Avengers 4.
Despite all of this, I don’t find myself overly saddened thinking about Stan’s passing. He had a long and fulfilling life, and is now at rest after accomplishing more with his life than most ever think is possible. He has inspired countless artists and creators to leave their mark on the world and will continue to do so as future generations experience his universe for the first time.
My wife and I meeting Stan at Awesome Con.
I’m beyond grateful to have met Stan a year or so ago at Awesome Con in DC, but as incredible an experience as it was, I was surprised at how little he resembled the comic book rockstar from my childhood. He kept reminding me of someone’s grandfather that should probably just be at home, resting. I think it was in that moment that I knew and accepted this marvelous man (see what I did there) wouldnt be with us much longer.
However, this is not how he will be remembered. He will be remembered for all the things previously mentioned in this post; as the man that revolutionized not just comics but art, TV, and film as well. He will be remembered for his bombastic story telling, a knack for alliteration, and his trademark sunglasses and mustache.
Never fear true believers. Though he is no longer among us, his legacy on pop culture will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.
The Origin of Movie Genres: Science Fiction
What are your favorite movie genres? Action, horror, sci-fi, drama, superhero? Have you ever wondered where those genres got their start? With every genre there is an obvious beginning, a pioneer to blaze the trail and inspire future filmmakers.
I’ve had a book for a while that was recommended by a friend; 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Seems like a pushy title but sure. It’s actually a terrific book if you’re interested in film history or just discovering new movies. You can pick up the latest edition here. Flipping through the different era’s of influential film history, I realized I had no idea what these early trend setters were and it would be fun to learn and post about them.
I have the 2015 edition. If you love film history or just discovering fantastic movies, this is a great book you should consider picking up.
This post we’re going to take a broad overview look at the first entry in the book which showcases the beginning of the science fiction genre; one of my personal favorites. Try thinking back to the oldest sci-fi movie you can remember. For some memory may only go as far back as 1978’s Star Wars, others have seen 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still. However, to see the first, we have to go further back still. Much further.
The first known science fiction film was created in 1902 by the French cinema pioneer, Georges Méliès titled Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). This was a time when cinema was in it’s infancy and dominated by short films showcasing people in the daily routines of life.
George Méliès and his impressive ‘stache.
Méliès made hundreds of movies over his career and revolutionized cinema in ways that we still enjoy today. He was the first to make a movie based on a fictional story, to incorporate special effects into his films including camera tricks such as splicing, multiple exposures and time lapse photography among others. He was also the first to create elaborate, often times hand painted, multi-scene sets. All of these characteristics define A Trip to the Moon and made it one of the most famous films of the era.
Unfortunately, he was not able to keep up with the much larger competing film companies and retired broke in 1912. Many of these rival companies (including Edison’s in the United States) pirated and sold Méliès films without paying royalties back to Méliès company, Star Films. I guess it’s true what they say after all; “piracy is not a victimless crime.”
A theatrical poster for A Trip to the Moon.
A rough sketch of a movie poster design Méliès created himself.
A Trip to the Moon is only 14 mins long which was actually far longer than the standard 1-2 min films that were common in his day. Many were even shorter than that. This “extended” run time allowed Méliès to create a surprisingly complex story totaling 30 different scenes in all. His budget for such an elaborate endeavor was unheard of; 10,000 francs which would be roughly the equivalent of $50,000 US today. This film was the summer blockbuster of the time period.
A Trip to the Moon had un-paralleled set design for it’s time.
A brief summary of the plot: a group of scientists headed by Professor Barbenfouillis (played by Méliès himself) travel to the moon in a bullet shaped rocket, shot from an enormous cannon. While exploring the surface, they encounter and are captured by a race of moon aliens known as Selenites. The group manages to escape and fight their way back to the rocket, successfully traveling back to Earth with a captured Selenite. The group is celebrated as heroes and receive a parade in their honor.
The cannon that blasts the rocket ship towards the moon.
Méliès drew from multiple sources for his film including the literature of his time such as Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and H. G. Wells’ First Men in the Moon (1901).
“The idea of ‘A Trip to the Moon‘ came to me when I was reading a book by Jules Verne called ‘From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon’. So I imagined, using the same means as Jules Verne(shooting a projectile from an enormous canon), landing on the moon, in such a way that I could put together some arresting and amusing fairy tale images, show the outside and the inside of the moon, and some monsters that might live on the moon, add one or two artistic effects.”
Méliès also incorporated his knowledge from past careers as a magician and theater owner with elaborately designed sets and sensational special effects. I watched the film before knowing his professional background and various scenes in particular actually made me think of a magician such as when the Selenites disappear into puffs of smoke after being struck, Professor Barbenfouillis’ umbrella changing into a mushroom, or even the acrobatic showmanship of the Selenites (who were actual acrobats Méliès hired for the part).
Watch the first sci-fi movie:
Being that this movie is in the public domain, it’s easy to find on YouTube. Here is the original black and white version. When it was originally released, the film was silent, and a live orchestra would play various pieces while the scenes were narrated.
There is also a color version that was thought to be lost but has since been found and restored over several years by a group called Lobster Films and showcased at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The French electronica duo known as Air also created an “official” score to accompany the film. If I’m being honest the score is creative and fun to listen to, but I can’t help thinking that it doesn’t fit with the music of the time period. At the very least it’s interesting how much impact music has on the tone of a film.
After watching A Trip to the Moon, much of it will seem completely absurd. In fact, you could probably turn the number of scientific laws broken during the film into a fun drinking game. One of my favorite moments happened when to travel back to earth, all that was required was pulling the rocket over a cliff and then gravity took over. The movie is littered with moments like this.
The statue erected to commemorate Professor Barbenfouillis’ return. Most historians believe this scene is part of the political satire Méliès weaved into the film.
Film historians believe though that much of the ridiculousness is because the film was intended to be satirical in nature. Méliès was mocking the scientific community of his day as well as injecting the film with strong anti-imperialist themes. So not only is Méliès the first movie maker to bring a fictional story to life, he’s also the first to use that story to convey a larger message to his audience.
It’s also fascinating how the basic themes of sci-fi movies haven’t changed much in last 116 years. Sure things are more elaborate now, but A Trip to the Moon has all the major story beats still seen in movies today: Flying through space in a rocket ship, landing and exploring the moon, encountering an evil alien race, bringing an alien back to Earth. Méliès technically even setup the possibility for a sequel with the aliens coming to earth for revenge! Think of the franchise possibilities! Just kidding.
The most famous scene of the film; the scientists’ rocket lands on the moon…or more like shoots the moon in the eye, sending blood or some kind of weird moon juice squirting from the point of impact. Gross.
Next time you go to watch your favorite sci-fi movie, think about this first example; how far the genre has come and how much the themes honestly haven’t changed too drastically over the years. Also don’t forget the name George Méliès. He was extremely influential to cinema and will be popping up again in a future genre posts.
Schneider, Steven Jay (2015), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Hauppage, New York. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. p. 20.
Wikipedia – A Trip to the Moon
AMC Filmsite
TCM Biography of George Méliès
A Star is Born Review
Directed by: Bradley Cooper
Run-time: 2 hours 16 mins
Watch the trailer
Final Verdict
Cinematic Quality: 4 out of 5
Enjoyment Factor: 4.5 out of 5
Worth the price of admission: 4 out of 5
Overall Score – 4 chart topping songs out of 5.
Our Geeked-Out Star Wars Baby Announcement!
It’s no secret that my wife and I love movies. Sure we have different taste in genre sometimes, but it’s a fun thing to share.
At our wedding reception last year, we decided to give it a movie theme:
our favors were movie candy:
Our seating cart had a different movie poster at each table with guests’ faces photoshopped into the poster:
and our photo booth had a movie theme:
It’s been a great year (Michelle didn’t make me say that I swear) and this week we announced excitedly that we are pregnant with our first baby.
When we first found out, we went back and forth on how exactly we should do the official announcement on social media. We kept coming back to keeping the movie theme from the wedding going, but we couldn’t agree on how exactly to do it.
That is until our first sonogram, where we found out the due date: May 4th. Star Wars day. Suddenly it all became clear, almost as if a light came down from geek heaven: A Star Wars baby announcement.
The first part consisted of creating our own unique version of the “crawl” featured at the beginning of every Star Wars movie. There’s a great little app called “Star Words” that is very simple to use: just type in whatever you want the text to say and it takes care of the rest.
We also decided (aka Michelle allowed me) to take our picture in Star Wars themed shirts as you see below. Thanks to our friends Katie and Christian for playing photographer for us!
The final part was to include our sonogram in the announcement. Michelle got very good at photoshopping faces for our wedding seating chart and she quickly created this little master piece:
While it’s not likely that the baby will actually be born on May 4th, it is still a pretty awesome due date and was a blast putting together the announcement for our first kid. Hopefully they’ll appreciate it one day. Either that or they’ll think it’s the most embarrassing thing ever. Most likely both.
Venom: Movie Review
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Run-time: 2hr and 20 min Rated PG-13
Check out the trailer here
Riz Ahmed as Carlton Drake, head of the Life Foundation.
Jenny Slate as Dr Skirth.
Michelle Williams as Eddie’s girlfriend Anne Weying.
Final Verdict
Cinematic Quality: 3.5 out of 5
Fun Factor: 4.5 out of 5
Worth the price of admission: 3.5 out of 5
Re-watch Value: 3.5 out of 5
Overall Score – 3.75 body part Venom snacks out of 5
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Runtime: 2hrs 8min Rating: PG-13
Check out the trailer
The Story
The Actors
Final Verdict
Cinematic Quality: 3.5 out of 5
• supporting characters are forgettable
Fun Factor: 4 out of 5
Worth the price of admission: 2 out of 5
Re-watch Value: 3 out of 5
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[Correlations between pre, peri, and postnatal risk factors and the psychomotor development during the 1st half year of life].
Data from 1288 illustrated questionnaires were analysed with regard to the correlation of pre-, peri- and postnatal complications and infant psychomotor development. The information on the infants' case history was obtained through the parents retrospectively. Data on psychomotor development were gained prospectively by means of continuous parental observation. Statistical evaluation showed that correlations among many risk factors in our sample and developmental items decrease already during the first six months of life. That is to say, depending on the length of time subsequent to their pre- and perinatal effects many obstetric complications lose their significance for a given state of psychomotor development as well as for prognosis. Furthermore, one should consider that even prediction through recent and current risk factors may often only be of short-term value. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '20d2a6ee8ed522e26777cfe1e9a363c6dadc2ecbf115c1c0cee64f915e2b9d9d'} |
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What are the Different Types of e-Cigarettes Available?
If you’re a smoker and are just transitioning to e-cigs, understanding the difference between all the different models on the market can be daunting. There are literally thousands of models to choose from, all with their own specificities, pros, and cons. But once you have the basics down, finding the right device for you becomes a breeze. Here are some of the main types of e-cigs available on the market.
“Cigalike” e-Cigs
These types of e-cigs were particularly popular when e-cigs were just being introduced. As a matter of fact, they are often called first generation e-cigs because they were the first ones on the market. Just like their name implies, “cigalike” e-cigs, or two-pieces as they’re often referred to, are the closest thing you’re going to get to a cigarette in electronic form.
Among all the different e-Cigarette types, these are by far the easiest to use or maintain. They are usually comprised of two elements, which is where the name “two-piece” comes from. One part is known as the cartomizer, which contains the cartridge and the heated element. The larger part of the e-cig is where the battery is located. All you have to do charge the battery up, attach the cartomizer and start vaping away. It’s that simple.
For a long period of time, cigalikes were the only types of e-cigs you could find on the market and there are still somewhat popular, especially for people switching from regular cigarettes who still want to replicate the experience. You can buy pre-filled e-cig cartridges and pop them in your cartomizer. Some models also allow you to add your own liquid. The coil in the cartomizer will then heat up the cartridge and produce the vapor.
These units are really fun to use. All you have to do is keep cartridges and a full battery wherever you go, and you’re set. They actually replicate the experience of smoking an actual cigarette and don’t attract as much attention in public when using them.
If you’re one of those people who want to deal with the least maintenance possible, then these are recommended. And cartridges are becoming cheaper and cheaper as well. There are no adjustments to make and you don’t have to worry about mixing anything, and they cost way cheaper than regular cigarettes. Each e-cig cartridge represents roughly between one and a half and two cigarette packs. Each one will give you around 300 to 400 pulls.
Ego-Style e-Cigarettes
While cigalikes where prominent for a long time, they did have their set of limitations that made them somewhat inconvenient. Ego-style e-cigs improved on a lot of these flaws and fast took over.
For instance, these have larger tanks that allow you to fill them up with your own liquid. While some cigalike pens do allow you to add your own liquid as well, few allow you to add as much as you would be able to in an ego-style pen. This way, you can buy liquid in larger quantities and have multiple flavors. Some models also allow you to add your own e-liquid on hand instead of constantly having to buy cartridges.
Also, these types of e-Cigarettes will allow you to use them the whole day through on a single charge. They also give you much more control over your vaping experience. If you buy a cigalike e-cig and you’re dissatisfied with the vapor production, then you’re stuck with it. Most ego-style models allow you to adjust the voltage as you wish so you can control the harshness of the vapor or control the amount of vapor that is produced.
Ego-type e-cigs are composed of a battery, tank, and atomizer. What differentiates them from cigalikes is that the atomizer and the tank are two separates pieces. This gives you the advantage to replace the atomizer whenever you like without having to change the tank as well. And they offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to battery types. You can go for a smaller, more comfortable unit with less capacity or a bigger one that could last you for days.
E-Cig Mods
But for some people, ego-style e-cigs do not give them the amount of control they would like. That’s why modded devices and e-cig mods are all the rage right now. While mods and modded devices are different, anything that veers away from traditional models will usually be referred to as a mod.
When talking about vaping mods, there are several components to consider. First, you have your tanks that are quite similar to the clearomizer you’ll find on ego-style e-cigs and are responsible for holding the liquid in. Those that use factory coils are usually divided into two distinct categories: sub ohm tanks and above ohm, or standard, tanks. Above ohm tanks use atomizers with a resistance of over 1 ohm while sub ohms tanks are those that allow coils with under 1 ohm of resistance. Some tanks will even allow you to build your own coils.
Next, you have the battery. There are endless of battery/box options out there in tons of varieties, so the list is practically endless. Some of these mods will allow you to control voltage like ego-style e-cigs do, but will also give you control over wattage too. And many now offer temperature control as well instead of just voltage and wattage.
While mods are usually the choice of most seasoned vapors, they can improve the experience for anyone. If you don’t know which mod to pick, you can check out sites that review various models and take a look at their specs. If you want to check out some reviews of the most recent mods, click here to see page. Mods are the most advanced types of e-cigs, but they’re definitely much more convenient than other options with all factors considered.
There are tons of different options available to vapers. It’s up to you to choose one based on your needs, budget, and expectations. If in doubt, speak to an expert at your nearest vaping store or ask other vapers online.
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Wherein I am chastised
Yep…targeted harassment…of fascists. Now I've heard it all.
And heaven forfend anyone suggest soldiers might be called upon to kill people in the discharge of their duties. Where did I get that strange idea?
Friday, February 7, 2020
Climate 2020: Still on a glide-path to diaster, part three ("Peak Coal")
In Parts One & Two, I illustrated how the probability of ongoing exponential economic growth makes RCP8.5 (or something even worse) a quite plausible future. But what are the arguments against RCP8.5 as a plausible future?
Thus Zeke Hausfather in Carbon Brief:
One particular aspect of both the RCP8.5 and the new SSP 8.5 scenarios that has drawn quite a bit of criticism from energy researchers are their assumptions around future coal use. Reaching the CO2 emissions in these scenarios requires a large-scale increase in coal use – with 6.5 times more coal use in 2100 than today.…
With global coal use having declined slightly since its peak in 2014, it is hard to envision a world where coal expands this dramatically in the future even in the absence of new climate policies. This is particularly true given the falling prices of alternative energy technologies in recent years. A forthcoming “expert elicitation” – where energy experts were asked to assess the likelihood of various outcomes – gives RCP8.5 only a 5% chance of occurring among all the possible no-policy baseline scenarios.
Argument I: Coal use peaked in 2014 [or 2013, depending on the source], and is likely to continue to decline, making the expansion of coal use posited in RCP8.5 implausible.
Truly, it's hard to dispute that, just look at this graph of global coal consumption annually:
Not Really
No, I'm only kidding! That's part of a graph of global temperatures:
Here's the real data on annual coal consumption:
Except I'm obvisously still kidding, because I've just taken the September Arctic sea ice area and inverted it:
This is -- I promise, joke over, the real thing -- global annual coal consumption:
You can see that the record-highest annual coal consumption was in 2013. This is true, just as it is true that the record-highest average temperature of the Earth was in 2016, and the record-lowest September Arctic sea ice extent was in 2012. But we cannot say coal consumption "peaked" in 2013 any more than we can that global temperatures "peaked" in 2016. What we can say is that 2013 had the highest coal consumption on record, and the second highest was -- 2018 (the last year for which we have data. We also can say that the last eight years of the data (2011-2018) contained the eight highest coal-consuming years.
When it comes to short-term noise in a long-term trend, climate realists have been round and round this bend before. All the good-faith voices on the climate know the the denialist short con of "no warming since [insert current warmest year on record.] I would suggest we apply the same skeptical attitude to "peak coal."
Certainly these trends are not exactly analogous. We know the temperature record will be broken again (and again, and again) because of the remorseless laws of atmospheric physics. No law of human behavior is half so ironclad. It may be that after the false spring of 2017 & 2018 (when coal consumption appeared to resume its upward march) will be a blip, and 2013 truly will stand as the peak, as the rest of the world follows the United States and Western Europe in aggressively phasing out coal. But is that really the most likely scenario here?
The primary reason for the decline in coal consumption from 2014-2016 (it doesn't sound that impressive when we put dates on it, does it?) was that the rapid growth in Chinese consumption abated and their consumption was steady, not rapidly rising, over the past decade:
This coupled with the continued reduction in coal use in the United States and Europe accounts for coal's modest decline. Will this decline spread rapidly to the rest of the world? Or, to put it another way, is China's transition a function of their increasing wealth and sophistication (intolerance of air pollution, desire to be a leader on climate change, need to develop clean energy exports) or is it a function of global structural change (perhaps caused by inexpensive renewables) which will spread to all corners of the globe BEFORE said corners are as wealthy and powerful as China?
A definitive answer to that question is beyond my powers, but we can check in on some of the large, poor countries who, if they emulate China and the United States, could easily push coal consumption to the levels seen in RCP8.5.
Let's start with India, soon to be the most populous country in the world, currently averaging 6-7% GDP growth annually.
Not much sign of a coal phase-out there. How about in Africa? Data for the whole of Africa or Sub-Saharan Africa as a region is hard to come by (if you have a source, put it and your thoughts about my poor research skills in the comments.) The largest country in terms of population is Nigeria, is coal declining there?
It doesn't seem so. If anything, it seems like it's just getting revved up. Another fast-growing economy, neglected by Western pundits doubtless due to the long shadows of CHina and India, is Indonesia, with a population of 264 millions and average annual GDP growth of 4-6% over the last 20 years. How is the post-coal future unfolding on the great Pacific archipelago?
India has another important neighbor besides China, their former compatriots and current mortal enemies, the Pakistanis. Unfortunately, though they have their share of differences, in regards to burning the dirtiest fuel on Earth, they seem to be of one mind.
You can see a similar pattern in other large developing countries like Brazil, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Vietnam (all with rapidly growing economies and with over half a billion people between them):
I have probably contributed substantially to global warming with the bits consumed by all of these graphics, but the point is this: the decline in coal consumption from its "peak" was short-lived, was almost entirely driven by the decisions/economic circumstances of a few wealthy countries and one huge middle-income country (and aspiring superpower) (China.) The trend, if it can even be called that, is not nearly enduring enough, dramatic enough, or widespread enough to lead us to abandon the default assumption that more growth leads to more energy use, and more energy use, in the absence of strong collective political action, means burning more coal.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Climate Change 2020: Still on a glide-path to disaster, Part Two
In Part One I created a simple model to illustrate how easily the world could reach or exceed the emissions projected by RCP8.5: (Long-term GDP growth) x (smaller annual improvements in emissions intensity) = way too much CO2.
In Part Two, as promised, I'm going to look at some of the "ground truth" of global development that makes those rising emissions in my very simple model plausible.
First, the goal posts: RCP8.5 projects 88Gt/year of CO2 emissions in 2100. Without fussing too much about the area under the curve, if a scenario gives us >88Gt/year of CO2 emissions in 2100, we can conclude that RCP8.5 is realistic, presuming said scenario is realistic. Make sense? So our first data points:
RCP8.5, Co2 emissions in 2100: 88Gt
RCP8.5, CO2e: 120Gt
Current CO2 emissions (2019): 37Gt
We're going to ignore CO2-equivalents for now, because the non-CO2 forcings are largely short-lived, more easily reversible problems, such as methane, which are less relevant on the century scale.
If I were asked to sum up in a single phrase the reason RCP8.5 cannot be ruled out, and is, in fact, highly plausible, it would be "economic growth."
Leaving aside the bright spot of the Great Depression -- sarcasm very much intended -- and the hangover from WWI and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the world has not seen less than 3% growth over any five-year period for the past hundred years.
It is hoped that population growth will continue to slow in the coming decades, but that is unlikely slow economic growth overall -- if anything, the relationship between economic growth and population growth tends to be the inverse of that.
Even 3% growth, sustained over the next 80 years, leads to a world where the average person is richer -- far richer -- than the average American is today: ($170k/year at purchasing power parity.)
What might such a world look like in terms of greenhouse gas emissions?
We had better hope they don't emit like Americans, because that would be the ball game:
US carbon emissions per capita: 16.5 tons/year
If the world in 2100 emits like the US: 181.5Gt/year
So to put the question in a deliberately stringent way, for RCP8.5 or something worse to NOT unfold over the next 80 years, either long-term GDP growth needs to fall precipitously, which would be a vast crisis of human suffering in its own right, and which virtually no one thinks is just or even sane, OR the population must fall dramatically, OR we are positing a world in which 11 billion people are 2-3 richer than present-day Americans, but produce nothing remotely resembling an American's average greenhouse gas emissions.
Note that this is just another, hopefully slightly more concrete and accessible, way of talking about carbon intensity and the "decoupling" of economic growth: finding a way for 5-10 billion people to be richer than Americans without producing anything remotely like the GHG emissions we do.
I wish "not remotely" were a rhetorical flourish, but it isn't. Doing 20%, 30%, 50% better than we do in terms of CO2 per unit of production is not enough.
Germany, for example, has invested a vast amount in renewable energy, grid improvements, and conservation. The exact figure is debated, but the total investment to date is generally agreed to be on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. So let's imagine a wealthy world that invests heavily in renewables and makes the progress Germany has made.
German CO2 emissions: 11 tons/year per capita
If the world in 2100 emits like Germany: 121Gt/year
Again, our simple thought experiment blows past the RCP8.5 scenario and into uncharted territory. The same thing happens in a world that emits like China (although with 3% growth, said world would be an order of magnitude richer than China, $170k/year per capita vs $17k):
China: 8.5 tons
If the world in 2100 emits like China today: 93.5Gt
Just to be clear, this thought experiment imagines a world where carbon intensity is vastly improved, producing ten times as much per unit of CO2 emitted compared to China today. It's not enough. RCP8.5 is still on the table.
These thought experiments illustrate why (Long-term GDP growth) x (smaller annual improvements in emissions intensity) is such a menacing equation. Since the advent of modern capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, two of the most predictable things about human history is that people will make more people and those people will strive to get rich. And eventually, in more or less time depending on things like the level of governmental dysfunction, frequency of wars and revolutions, and availability of capital, people do get rich (compared to where they or their parents started.)
So when assessing the likelihood of RCP8.5 or worse, we can break it down to several simple wagers:
• The population in 2100 will be dramatically lower than today: bad bet.
• Economic growth, averaged over decades, will halt or reverse itself, in contradistinction to the entirety of human history since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: bad bet.
• Vastly richer and more numerous human societies will, without significant exception, produce vastly more goods and services per unit of emissions: Unknown (policy dependent.)
Given one of these bets must pay off to have any hope of avoiding RCP8.5 or worse, can we really say RCP8.5 is "implausible"?
In Part Three, I'll discuss the four main lines of reasoning offered to justify playing down or ruling out RCP8.5, and why I think these rhetorical mountains are practical molehills.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Climate Change 2020: Still on a glide-path to disaster, Part One
In the last few years, some climate analysts have underlined the fact -- which was never in doubt, but was arguably under-emphasized -- that RCP 8.5 was designed more as a worst case than as the shortest-odds bet.
As anyone might anticipate who has spent more than five minutes interacting with climate deniers or lukewarmers/inactivists, numerous bad-faith actors took this as their cue to one the one hand exaggerate the importance of RCP 8.5 to the climate literature and on the other to claim it has been admitted to be impossible.
I only wish I were kidding. Eric Roston's screed is representative:
To justify relegating the "nightmare scenario" to the "dustbin," Rosten cites the following Nature editorial:
The first problem here is that, by definition, implausible is not impossible. And when dealing with "nightmare scenarios," identifying them as implausible is far from making the case we should "say goodbye" to the possibilities.
But the major problem with this thinking, in my view, is that RCP 8.5 is quite plausible, and those who say it isn't -- to say nothing of deniers screaming about "the RCP 8.5 fraud" -- are overreacting to short-term trends and politicians' promises.
The case against RCP8.5, in broad strokes, is this:
*Coal use peaked in 2013, and is likely to continue to decline, making the expansion of coal use posited in RCP8.5 implausible.
*Clean energy options (solar and wind) have dramatically fallen in price, making a return to dirter energy unlikely.
*The amount of coal required to make RCP8.5 a reality may not even exist on earth -- certainly it will not be cost-effective to extract it.
*The pledges by the vast majority of the world's governments in the Paris accords and elsewhere suggest a "business as usual" path far below that of RCP8.5.
Before addressing these points one by one, let's construct a simple model to illustrate why RCP8.5 is still quite plausible.
There are two overwhelming important long-time drivers of GHG emissions: population growth, and economic growth. Both can be captured by a single metric: total (not per capita) global GDP, sometimes called Gross World Product (GWP.)
While it is possible to decouple economic production from GHG emissions, in practice this is a slow, halting, process. Since 1980, carbon intensity (emissions per unit of GDP at purchasing power parity) has fallen slowly, by less than 1.5% per annum:
Helpfully, carbon intensity worldwide fell by roughly 50% from 1970 to 2015, making calculations easy: .985 ^ 45 = .51. It's a pretty steady decline. Global GDP was $12 trillion in 1970 and $78 trillion in 2014, yielding an average annual growth rate of 4.2%.
The simplest possible model would just extend these trends into the future. Each year we have 4.2% more GDP, causing 1.5% less emissions per unit. Since 4.2% is quite a bit greater than 1.5%, our uber-simple model projects emissions will continue to grow: .985 (emissions intensity) x 1.042 (GDP) = 1.2637 (CO2 emissions grow by 2.6% per year.)
If you start with the current numbers, plug in the growth rate of 2.6%, and look at 2100, you don't get RCP8.5 -- you get something far, far worse. RCP8.5 projects a leveling off of emissions growth and emissions of less than 30GtC of carbon annually, compared to 10GtC today.
2.6% growth, on the other hand, would see us over 75GtC in 2100 -- more than double RCP8.5. That's without incorporating carbon-cycle feedbacks or assuming any turn for the worse in terms of climate policy. It's just a straight-up extrapolation of current trends. And while I am not a modelling expert, and extrapolating current trends is far from the only way to guess at the shape of the future (and obviously depends heavily on which trends you project forwards) nevertheless, "Things continue as they are" is always a scenario we should give serious consideration to, lest we outsmart ourselves like the political analysts who fail to seriously consider "Person leading in the polls wins" when predicting the outcome of an election.
In Part Two, I'll look at the trends that make continued exponential growth in carbon emissions a frighteningly plausible prospect (Spoiler alert: it's population growth and economic growth, plus a dash of human perversity.
In Part Three, I'll look at the 4 points offered as cause for optimism regarding RCP8.5, and how there's less there than meets the eye.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Twitter Follies and Our Digital Dystopia
A couple of weeks ago, Twitter locked my account over this tweet:
As far as I can tell, this tweet violated no rules, nor did the block notice tell me what rule I had violated. There was literally a blank line in the notice where the violation was supposed to be.
After waiting two weeks with no action on an appeal, I deleted the tweet (it can live on here for all time, or until the people running Blogger have a similar attack of whimsy.) This is a minor irritation, but it does focus one's mind on the fact that large areas of the public commons -- places where art, politics, propaganda and rebellion happen -- are in the hands of a tiny number of technology companies.
These companies' very size pushes them towards a conservative (small "c") orientation because, like network television of old, they are free services offered to a mass audience. Services like that tend to succeed by being liked by many people and hated by no one -- which is, in the long run, a surefire recipe for mediocrity.
Television stopped sucking when operators like HBO and Netflix created a competing model in which, due to the dynamics of subscription services, lots of people could hate a thing, but if a reasonable number of people loved it enough to keep sending their subscription fee, you could offend, bore, or outrage a bunch of people on the margins. And that is why Three's Company and The Wire are very different kinds of art.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and their rivals are free, mass-market services -- more Friends than BoJack Horseman. And if we're going to continue to organize, advertize, and solipsize online -- and what is the alternative? -- that is going to be a problem.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Fearmongering at the border
David Brooks, attempting to mimic the human emotion of "compassion," in his column today offers the following analogy:
Suppose one night there is a knock on your door. You open it to find 100 bedraggled families shivering in your yard — exhausted, filthy, terrified. The first cry of your heart would be to take them in, but you’d know there were too many.
If there were any confusion, the "100 bedraggled families" are the "hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America or seeking economic opportunity"[1].
But the math here does not remotely add up. Let's say there are "hundreds of thousands" of refugees at the southern border (the "yard.") There are 329 million Americans in our "household." A half a million refugees is not "100 bedraggled families" -- which would equate to 33 billion(!) refugees. It's 0.15% of the US population -- which is the equivalent of a family of four letting one person sleep on their couch for one weekend out of the year.
We are not one family facing a hundred impoverished families. We are the richest, most powerful nation in the history of human civilization, occupying the third largest territory (bigger than India! Bigger than China!), overwhelming populated by immigrants and their near descendants.
That so many conservatives are ready to exploit a humanitarian crisis of their own making to argue that the US is just helpless before the brown horde of the 0.15% percent is frankly pathetic at best, racist and deliberately disingenuous at worst.
1. Aficionados of Zionist histories will recognize the strategic ambiguity of "fleeing violence…or seeking economic opportunity" as a near relative of the popular "fled or were expelled" to characterize ethnically cleansed Palestinians. "Centrists" love this phraseology because they can admit the awkward facts whilst giving their more bigoted readers an "out," eg "fled," "economic opportunity."
Saturday, February 23, 2019
The loss of Diablo Canyon and the fallacy of "100% renewable replacement": Part Two: No subsitutions
In part one, I discussed the imminent shutdown of Diablo Canyon, a nuclear plant supplying 18,000 GWh of carbon-free electricity per year. Antinuclear activists rationalize this move with a simple argument -- all of Diablo Canyon's output will be replaced by renewable energy. No harm, no foul. This is nonsense.
After the loss of the San Onofre nuclear plant in 2013, California's fossil fuel emissions increased by 35%. To reassure climate hawks that this will not happen again, the legislature passed SB 1090, which proclaims "The commission shall ensure that integrated resource plans are designed to avoid any increase in emissions of greenhouse gases as a result of the retirement of the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant."
Both the general logic that treats this kind of supposed substitution as a win, and the specific case of applying this logic to the California of 2019, fall apart under scrutiny.
As to the logic of substitution: put simply, climate change is an emergency: this is no time for lateral moves. The objective is to reduce, then eliminate, greenhouse gas emissions. In the electricity sector, that means eliminating fossil-fuel-burning plants. And California still has (and buys energy from) a lot of those.
It must be said again: swapping out one low carbon source for another is like being caught cheating on your spouse and making amends by promising to give up dairy. It's like responding to flunking out of college by substituting boxers for briefs. It's like being told your child has bacterial meningitis, and going out and buying a Prius. In other words, it's an expensive, time-consuming switch that's completely irrelevant to the problem we are facing.
Antinuclear activists promise that there are 18,000 GWh of wave, wind, and solar, plus efficiency, available at a reasonable cost, cheaper than Diablo Canyon. Great! We will have that, please, and Diablo Canyon -- and cut out a big chunk of the natural gas and coal (still!) that are today part of California's energy mix.
Activists argue we cannot afford new renewable generation unless we redirect the money that would be used to re-license and operate Diablo Canyon. That argument, stated in general form, goes as follows: there is only so much money to fight climate change, and we cannot increase it, so new green energy must cannibalize other green energy for funding.
I doubt very much anti-nuclear environmentalists would accept this line of reasoning outside the context of nuclear energy. As we contemplate a Green New Deal that would cost trillions of dollars to implement (which does not mean it's a bad idea!) the idea that you can only fund one clean source by cannibalizing another is an absurd rationalization of a predetermined anti-nuclear conclusion.
So much for the abstract logic of "substitution." What about California's specific case? What will happen when Diablo Canyon's two reactors shut down (in 2024 and 2025, respectively)?
California is in the midst of a fantastic boom in renewables, during which the California legislature has set ambitious targets for energy from renewable sources, only for California's utilities to surpass those targets again and again. (This in turn has prompted the state to repeatedly raise the bar, increasing the targeted percentage of renewables and shortening the time horizon.) The current standard looks like this:
California's renewable energy sector has been rapidly expending since 2002 and will continue to rapidly expand regardless of whether Diablo Canyon closes in 2025 or 2045 -- that is mandated by law. As of November 2018 an estimated 34% of California's electricity comes from renewable sources:
Over the course of the next 11 years -- again, entirely independent of what happens with Diablo Canyon and its very low carbon (but not "renewable") electricity, California's electricity from renewables has to increase from 34% to 60% of the total (assuming the targets are not revised upwards, as they have been several times already.)
So what will happen when Diablo Canyon goes offline is very predictable. The utility will point to some of the renewable projects that have come on line in the prior few years, and to those coming on line in the following few years, and will designate them as "replacing" the output of Diablo Canyon. Maybe, if they really want to impress, they will temporarily import some renewable energy from other states until their homegrown renewable generation catches up. But presuming they will continue to make smooth progress towards the 2030 goal of 60% renewables, that should take, at most, 2-3 years.
And all of that renewable electricity generation was going to happen anyway. None of it is/will be new or unexpected. Rain or shine, the law says California utilities have to grow the share of renewables by 2-3% of total generation per annum to hit the legislature's targets. With the shuttering of Diablo Canyon, several years of that progress will be designating as "replacement" for those lost ergs. That's bookkeeping. Fossil fuel burning, instead of declining, will (best case) stay at current levels ("avoid any increase.") Exactly as common sense would suggest, eliminating a large amount of non-fossil-fuel electricity generation will result in more fossil fuel burning, with the (state-mandated, pre-existing) increase in renewables being used as a fig leaf. But the climate doesn't care -- more CO2 is more CO2, whether it is from an absolute increase in emissions or from sabotaging a decline in emissions already in progress. Worse is worse.
Coming soon:
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Q:
Is there a metric for time taken by AWS-DMS for full load?
I'm using AWS-DMS to migrate existing data only from a Postgres db as source to aws-S3 as target. I have created a migration task for this, and I'm able to do the aforementioned.
However, I wanted to know how much time it took for a task to complete. I couldn't find a time completion metric in either the metrics corresponding to the task or the metrics corresponding to the replication-instance.
How do I find out the time taken for the full load?
A:
Using the AWS CLI you can try using the describe-replication-tasks function.
This will provide you with both the Start and Stop times, as well as the time elapsed.
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The Senator says that he has alluded to the Inaderjuacy of bank reserves, that " this inadequacy becomes painfully appa- rent," and yet, with this condition of tilings, when this inade- quacy is ** painfully apparent," and when he and his committee have had four months to consider this question, he brings into this body, upon a day's notice, a new measure in which no allu- sion is made to this unhealthy and abnormal condition, and no remedy presentetL This is of a piece. Mr. President, with the administration of the Finance Committee under the Seu:itor from Rhode Island during his entire administration of twelve years. During that time how many efforts has the Senator made to reform the bank act? Did he not know twelve years ago, as well as to-day, that this system of piling up the bank reserves of the country In a few cities, to be used there for promotion and speculation, was prejudicial to the safety of the country? Year before last we had a warning upon this subject, if prior to that time we had lacketi information upon It. I remember In the debate In the early part of 1907, long be- fore the recent panic, when the Senator then, as now, was bent upon inflating the currency Instead of securing upon a safe foundation the banking system of the country, that I then pre- sented an amendment. A measure was pending In this body providing, I believe, for greater issues of currency, a larger pro- portion of currency upon national bonds, increasing the pro- portion from 90 r>er cent to 100 per cent— resulting, I believe, in an issue of $400,000,000 more of bank notes— and also doing away with that provision of the banking act which prevented bank notes from being retired at a rate of more than $3,000,000 a month. When this measure was pending I then presente<l to the Senate an amendment intended to remedy this conditicu regarding the reserves. In my remarks upon that occasion I said: Now. Mr. President. I wish to say one word reRardlng the reservw of those banks. We have a system which crowds all the reserves of the national banks of the country in New York City. That seems to me to be a vlcioiia system, because it collects from every nart of the country money to be used simply in speculation. Mr. OWEN. Mr. President- The VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Nevada yield to the Senator from Oklahoma? Mr. NEWI^4.NDS. Yes. Mr. OWEN. I suggest the absents of a quorum. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The absence of a quorum being suggested, the Secretary will call the roll. The Secretary cal!e<i the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names : Aldrlch Brandege* ' Carter CuIIom Ankeny Brls^is Clapp Curtis Bacon S">2^°. Clark, Wyo. Depew Bttverids* Burkett Clay Dick Bonh Borrowi Culberson Dillinghaa fi Smoot Sutherland Taylor Tefler Warner Warren dn Pont Hale Nelsoa |7«nt Heyburn Newlands Foraker Hopkins Owen Frasler Kean Overman Oalllnger Knox Paynter Gary Ixjnjr IMles Guggenheim McLaurIn Simmons The VICt^PRESIDENT. Forty-seven Senators have an- swered to their names. A quorum is present Mr. NEW1.ANI»S. Mr. President, I should like the attention of the Sena '/or from Rhode Island for a moment. I call his attention to i few sentences in his speech of February 10, 1908, in which he said: I have already alluded to the inadequacy of bank reserves. When we compare ttie reserve.s of our banks with the reserves of similar European institutions, this inadetjuacy becomes painfully apparent. Now, I wiHh to ask the Senator whether there is any provi- sion in this Mil regarding bank reserves? Mr. ALDRICH. There is no provision in the bill regarding bank reserves, but there Is a provision for the appointment of a commission to consider what changes shall be made In our banking laws, and I have no doubt that the subject of reserves will be one oC the first questions taken up by that commission. Mr. NEWEANDS. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Senator from Rhode Island another question, and that is whether ther; is any provision in this bill upon which an in- struction car bo based to the conferees to provide that the country bank;- shall keep a larger percentage of their reserves within their own vaults? Would it, in the present status of the couferenc '. assuming that this report is rejected, be within the i)ower of that conference committee to take up the question of the reserves and report upon it? Mr. ALDRICH. There Is no question of reserves in differ- ence between the two Houses, and the conference committee has no authority to take up questions that are not involved in differences of opinion between the two Houses. ^^ Mr. NEWLANDS. The bill as originally iwissed, the so-called "Aldrlch bill,' had a provision regarding the reserves. I should like to ask tli.? Senator from Rhode Island how it is that this bill includes no provision in regard to reserves? Mr. ALDRICH. The bill which went to the House from the Senate, upon which the conference committee has acted, con- tained no pro ision in regard to reserves. Mr. NEWLANDS. But the former bill, known as the "Al- drlch bill," di ;l, as I understand It. Mr. ALDRICH. The conference committee had no authority to take Into ccosideration a bill which passed Congress, or either House, at a period prior to the passage of this bill. Mr. NEWL\NDS. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Senator from Rhode Island, who has been chairman of the Fi- nance Commit tee, I believe, for the last twelve years, at least, whether during that time he has always been of the impression that the bank reserves of our national-bank system were pain- fully inadequc te, and whether or not he has ever presented to that committe.^ any measure looking either to an increase of the reserves or to a proper distribution of them? Mr. ALDRICH. Mr. President, the Committee on Finance try to take up and consider carefully all the measures presented to them. If tlie Senator from Nevada, with his wide experience and great knowledge upon this subject, had presented a bill in regard to the subject, I am sure the committee would liave given it careful consideration, but I have no recollection of any such bill having been presented. Mr. NEWL.\NDS. Mr. President, we have here an evidence of the maladndnistratlon of the Republican party, of its utter failure to apjireciate the gravity of the situation regarding national banks. We have here the admission of the chairman of that commltte\ who has been in charge of the Finance Com- mittee of the Senate for the past twelve years, that the reserves are painfully i nadequate, and yet during tliat time no effort has been made to correct this evil. The Senator has not lacked warning regarding it A year ago last February, long before the recent panic, when the Senator had a bill up providing, as his bills generally do, for the inflation of the currency of the country, and not for the proper regulation of banking, I ofTered to that bill an amend- ment absolutely germane, providing that country banks should be compelled to keep at least— I believe that was the form of the amendmeiit— three-fifths of their reserves within their vaults; but tliis change was to be gradually brought about within a i)erlod of ten year8,-sb as to cause no immediate wrenching of our financial system. That amendiaent was opposed by the Senator from Rhode Island and defeated; 'and yet within a year a new light has fallen upon the Senator from Rhode Island, and he now sees that our reseryes are "painfully inadequate;" he now ae^ that the distribution of these reserves Is prejudlcUil to the banking interests of the ctmntry. and that the concent:-atlon of these reserves In a few gr-Mt cities, in less than 400 banks out of nearly 6,000 banks, tends to the promotion cf speculation and to the derangement of the business of the country. And yet, though the Senator was warned of It two vears ago and found his realization of tiie warning in the panic of last fall he presents to this body, when the emergency Is over and the time for rational legislation has come, a measure simply to inflate the currency, to exiiggerate still further the bank loans of the country and he dees it whilst in the very q)eech in which he presents the necessity of legislation he admits that this condition Is painfully apparent At the time he presented the bill he urged the condition of emergency. He said that there was a panic upon us— for the panic attlrat time was not spent— and he urged his bill then as a measure of Immediate relief. The force of the panic has been spent, the business conditions of the country are reviving and we are now marching on to better conditions of business and of c<?nmerce. The Senator has had three months In which he could call together the experts of the country, the bankers of the country, and the commercial men of the country— the economists of the country-and obtain their Judgment upon this subject; but to-day, Instead of presenting us an adequate measure of relief Intended to cure existing abnormalities, whicli the Senator himself admits, he presents this measure, which 1« intended simply to Increase in the future the inflation of bank- loans, adding over $500,000,000 to the vast superstructure of credit now built up upon tie narrow and tottering basis which lias existed for so long a tirae. Mr. President the Senator says that the proposed commission will be charged with the duty of framing a bill; and yet I observe that the commission is to be composed, so far as the Senate is concerned, of members of the Finance Committee, the very committee which has been so derelict in duty under the leadership of the Senator from Rhode Island. I think the country will have small confidence in the results of the work of a commission so organized, when we have had absolute non- action, apathy, and inertia in this committee under the leader- ship of the Senator from Rh-xle Island for the past twelve years. Now, what is the condition of the exaggerated bank loans? irw. '^°***''' '° ^'^ speech presented It most powerfully. Since 1900, In a period of eight years, according to his statement the bank loans have increased from $5,000,000,000, If I recollect his statement aright, to $10,000,000,000; and I refer onlv to the bank loans of commercial banks. From $5,000,00(),000 to $10,000,000,000 In eight years. How has that been accom- plished? By inadequacy of reserves In the State banks and by an Improper distribution of the reserves of the national banks. The Senator believes In the powers of the nation. He be- lieves in the great interstate-commerce power of the Constitu- tion when applied to grants. The Senator and his party hare never failed to exercise tliat power when a subsidy has been asked for. They never fail to exercise that power when a great and powerful corixyratlon wanted anything from the Government. We have made laud grants; we have made subsidies; we have guaranteed railroad bonds under that power, bu* when it comes to the question of restricting these great corporations to whom the Senator and his party would be so liberal, then he doubts our power under the Interstate-i'ommerce clause. The Senator and his party then take th^'mselves to that " twi- light zone" to which Mr. Br-yan so aptly alluded— the zone of twilight between the natiomJ powers and the State powers in which these great corporations avoid the exercise of both na- tional and State sovereignty. So when I suggest In this body, belonging, as I do, to the Dem- ocratic party, a party that believes simply in the constitution of delegated powers and th«! powers implied In the delegated powers, that banking Is a matter of Interstate commerce Just as much as Is railroading, tbat the transaction by which goftdn are tran8iK)rted from a point in one Staie to a prdnt In another State does not vary at all from the reciprocal transactioo by which money Is transferred from the consignee to the consignor through the banks, and that State banks, as well as State rail- roads, under the Interstate-commerce power are subject to the regulation of the entire Union of States, he doubts the power. I could well understand how such an objection might come from this side of the house, with Its rlews regarding the strict construction of the Constitution, but I can not understand how the objection can come from the other side of the house. It has never failed to exert these powers to the largest degree when subsidy or grant were concerned. Why should It hesitate to exercise them when restriction and regulation of these gigantic State corporations engaged in interstate commerce are Involved? 7116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE. May 28. 7116 CONGRESSIONAL EECORD— SENATE. May 28, Now, a few words only would bring the reserves of the S; ate bankis under the same control as the reserves of the natknal banks tod require the holding of the proper proportion of ttose reserves within the buuk vaults. The nation has the same power to apj'ly safetj' appliances to State banks engaged in inter- jBtate commerce as to a State railroad engaged In interstate com- mercv. And we all know that the business of the banks of the country may be prostrated at any time if the safety appliaQce of a proper reserve of cash to meet obligations to depositoni ia uot maintained. In a few words we could provide that all banks engaged in iaterstate commerce should keep the same percentage of re- serves within their vaults as is required of national banks. It is true you wot.\d luive to make the diange gradually, running OT«r a period oi years, for it would be, of course, an unwise tblng to bring all the banks up with a sudden jerk to the re- quirements of a rational law upon this subject. It mi{;ht result in the sudden contraction of bank loans, which would lavolve liquidation. But certainly a gradual reform, running over a period of ten years, would accomplish a beneficial change. We would then have a rational system of t>ankiug In this country, both national and State banks maintaining the same reserves and the same security to their depositors, whereas under the system proposed by the Senator from Rhode Island, or, rather — for no system is proposed by him — imder a national system, however perfected It may be, the only thing we acfompiish is the perfection of the administration of the national banics of the country that have only 40 per cent of the deposits of the country and less than this proportion of the banking capital of the country. It lies in the power of the State banks, if they are permittetl to go on and conduct business In this Irrational way without pn^^er reserves, to paralyze the national banking system itself, for if their system Is not protected, if they do not keep the proper anoount of cash on hand to meet the onlinary deuuinds of their depositors, a panic is sure to ct>nM,', and tiie panic will Inrolve national banks as well, for panics are always unreason- ing, and, of course, if tlie depositors all call upon the banks for their money at one time liquidatl<«i and bankruptcy will ensue. I protest against this system of legislating for only one-third of tbe banking system of the country. I protest against tliis i^stem which perfects only the national banks of the country and absolutely Ignores the great power of the union of the States to require security and safety from the State banks themselves in the iuterest of the goaeral business of the coun- try and of commerce, interstate and foreign. We can not allow twothirds of the banking machinery of is country to break down. We can not confine our efforts simply to perfecting the luitional-bank system, when it involves only ohe-thlrd of the banks, about one-tiiird of the capital, and about 40 per cent of the dejiosits of the country. To what extremes has loose legislation in the various States gone upon this iMuiking question! We ail know that in the State of New York the trust company has become an institu- tion of great Importance during modem times. The name is a seductive <me. It invites conii«1euce, and yet a great number of tbese trust companies really conduct a confidence game in- stead of administering tiielr affairs in the iuterest of their stockholders and tiwir depositors; and State legislation Ims been loose regarding them. I read the other day the communication of the presidoit of a Trust company in New York to tl>e legislature of that State, which at tliat time was seeking simply to compej them to keep a reserve of 10 per cent on hand, any part of wliich could be in national-bank notes, a thing unknown to our system, for na- tional-bank notes are not legal-tender money. They constitute no pn^ter portion of a bank reserve. He protested against the requirement of a reserve. He said tliat statistics showed that the trust companies were as safe and successful as the national banks themselves, and alluded to the great business they liad done and that thus far none of them, he believed, had failed. ^fid-^et his very sUtement showed tljat the trust companies to which he referred had In actual legal-tender money an insig- nificant reserve, not exceeding, if my recollection is right, 2 or i 3 per cent. The banking business of the national banks became so endan- ! gered by this system of kxjse State banking, permitting banks upon inadequate capital and reserves to make enormous profits, i that we found a dist>o&itiou on the port of the managers to go out of the naiioual bank corporatioo and into the State orgaui- xatigas, and the only thing that prevented many of them from going out was the legislation presented by the S«iator from Rhode Island, which increased the amount of bank currwicy that they could issua upon natiooai bonds from 90 to 100 per cent, and which released them from other restrictions that pre- viously existed. Even then we find that many of these national banks, in order to make money, were obliged to couple them- selves with trust companies. It is a familiar thing for a national bank in any one of the great cities to have a trust company at its back door, with tho stock held by the national bank or Its stockholders, and the loose banking with large profits Is done through the trust com- pany. There is no provision regarding the relation o{ capital to loans. There are no adequate provisions regarding the rela- tion of reserves to deposits. So we find in New York one trust company, the Knickerbocker Trust Company, with a capital of only $1,000,000, having $50,000,000 of deposits and a reserve which I can not state with accuracy, but which was ridiculously small. Think of per- mitting a bank with a capital of only $1,000,000 to accept de- posits to the extent of $50,000,000 and then loan out every dol- lar of those deposits ! Safe banking, according to the admission of the Senator from Rhode Island, requires that there should be a fixed relation between the capital of the bank and the loans made by the bank and tiiat no bank should be permitted to loan more than five times its own capital out of its depositors' money, but should keep the rest of the depositors' money within its own vaults resi>onsIve to their demands. I ask the Senator from Okla- homa [Mr. OwE!T] whether that is not regarded as a safe rule in banking, the Senator himself being a banker? And yet we have In the Knickerbocker Trust Company a relation of capital to bank loans not of 1 to 5, but of 1 to 50. We are told that the Entire commerce of the country, Inter- state and foreign, can be absolutely prostrated because the Union lacks the power to r^ulate the corporations created by an individual State. I deny It. This Union was formed for some purpose. It is our Union. It Is a Union of the States. It is not a centralized government far off from us. It Is a Government of which we are a part, and one of the things for which the Union was organized was the promotion and regula- tion of interstate and foreign commerce — full regulation of it— and the power of the Union of States Is as complete over Inter- state commerce as is the power of the individual State over tho commerce within Its boundaries. These banks all engage in interstate commerce. The bulk of their transactions are interstate. Banking knows no State lines. The banking center of one State may l>e in another State. The Federal power, as the Senator from Oklahoma suia^ests. did tax the circulation of the State banks. That was an exhibition of great power, and yet men hesitate now In the exercise of this great power over interstate commerce to take hold of the bank- ing S3'stem of the country under a full and comprehensive plan and fo shape It, not radically, not by violently wrenching it, but by a gradual course of reform under the direction of the Comp- troller of the Currency, extwiding over a perioti of ten years or more, the progress being so made year by year as to make our «itire banking system, national and State, secure. In the inter- est of both Interstate and of State commerce. But if anyone has any doubt about the power of the nation to act in this matter, we can surely act In a persuasive man- ner. We are organizing under this bill clearing-house associa- tions for the purpose of aggregating the national banks to- gether, upon the theory that in union there is strength, so that the association, the central botly, can have the combined '' strength of all those who constitute its membership and can in time of need help any weak or discipline any recalcitrant member. Now, why should we not give the State banks the opportunity of entering these clearing-house associations? They are members of clearing-house associations now, either voluntary associations or associations organized under State law. Why should we not permit them through these clearing- house associations to receive their proportion of the emergency money based upon securities just as good as those of the na- tional banks? Why should we not, under regulations imposed by the Secre- tary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency and with proper guards, admit them to membership in these clear- ing-house associations? And if we do it, can we not make it upon conditions? And what should the conditions be? Tho conditions should be that they maintain the sjime reserve and that they maintam the same proportion of capital to loans as is required of the national banks, and so by this persuasive method — for thousands of banks would come into these clear- ing-bouse unctions in order to avail themselves of the benefit of this eOMifencT money — we would, wfthout any question of constitutional law, bring the entire banking system of this coun- try into harmony, so far as protection of depositors Is concerned. m 1908. COXGRESSIONAL EE(X)RD— SENATE. 7117 I do not ftand simply for the protection of the depositors of these bunks I stand also f<T tlie |w«|eetioD of tlw ^>eoi>ie who make loans from the b;ink8. Wtan f«« quickly draw out the money from a bank au<l pay It to the depositors what does it mean? It neans the proxtratioii of some man who has bor- rowed mone^ from the bank, and these men are tiie men of energj- and enterpriw, who have built up the entire country. We want to protect them as well, and the best way to protect them is to iwevent constantly recurring panics, to make our banking system so safe that a depositor will never think of going to the bank and demanding his money excei^t for the cur- rent demands of his husines.-* or of his household. If we do that wo will protect tho borrowers of the country, the men of energy, and i;he men of enterprise who have made this country what It Is. Mr. President, I am aware that we are going to have some difliculty in j:etting a suihciency of basic money to suwwrt this great structure of credit which we have built up. We have ex- aggerated otr system of bank loans and we have exagger- ated our 8>:<tem of credit money. We ha\e $3.000,0<K),(X>0 of so-called "uioney" iu this country,^ only one billion and a half of which is gold. We have to-diiy $660,000,000 of uncovered paper money, consisting of bank notes and of greenbacks, de- ducting, of cours*e, the gold which Is In the Treasury as a re- demption funi for the grecnbjicks ajid deducting the 5 per cent rethniiptlon fi nd that stands back of the national-bank notes. ^\'e have $CGO,OCO,000 of uncovered paper money. There Is no country In the world— at least, no civilized country— that has so large a pr( iwrtion. and we propot^ tinder this system to add to it over $50i),00<J,Ot'0 of uncovered paper monej-, for, recollect, there is a difference between secored money and covered money. Covered money Is the money that Is cc)vered dollar for dollar by legal-tender specie, and secured money is money that may be secureil by national bonds or by county bonds or by the assets of banks. We have to-day $000,000,000 of uncovered jjaper money. It calls for gold, every dollar of it. We have to-day $600,000,000 of silver which luis been turned by legislation Inta a call for gold, so that the silver to-day is simply a material upon which a promise to pay gold Is stamped, and really It is as much uncovered money to-day as is the paper money to which I have alluded. How do the other countries of the world stand regarding uncov- ere<l paper money? We find that the United States has ,$(J00,- 000,(;<A), to which we propose to add iwssibly $500,000,000 more. We find that the United Kingdom, consisting of Australia, Can- ada, the British Islands, and India, with a total population of three or four hundred million people, has only about $200,000,- 000 of uncovered paper money, whilst we have $600,000,000, with the pro^»ect of $500,000,000 more. Then comes France, frequently alluded to, which has only $269,000,000 of uncovered paper money. It had more. It Is true. Immediately after the lYanco- Prussian war, for it had to pay off its debt to Germany in gold and had to substitute iwiper money in its pUice, and it did so by the issue of the not^ of the Bank of France. But unlike our Government It immediately sought to cover that extraordinary issue of pai>er gradually through a series of years by taking In gold and silver, and to-day as a result of their prudent management they have outstanding only $269,- 000,000 of uncovered paijer money, whilst we have kept out our uncovered greenbacks, we have kept out our uncovered national-bank notes, and we propose now to issue $500,000,000 more of uncovered paper money. There may come a time when the demand will come, not from depositors, but from the holders of this uncovered paper money ; there may come a time when war Is impending, when thev will say, " We demand the redemption in gold," and then the credit of the Government itself will be imperiled, and that of course will involve the imi>eriling of the Interests of all. Now, I was alluding to France, which has $269,000,«)0. Italy stands with $150,000,000. Now I come to the South American countries, whose example I am sure none of us would wish to emulate, and we find out of a total of $4,000,000,000 of uncov- ered liSjier money, more or less, in the world, of which we have one-sixth and will have one-fourth under this svstem. South America has over a billion and a half, or one-third of the en- tire amount Colombia has $1,000,000,000 of uncovered paper money. Brazil has $363,000,000 of uncovered paper money. Argentina has $293,000,000 of uncovered paper money. Shall we emulate the example of Argentina and of Brazil and of Co- lombia In our financial system? And yet Senators make cwistant allusl<m upon this floor to the- fact that the banks of Europe, the great civiliaed nations In the world, have a certain elasticity of issue of uncovered paper money. I have shown you how much they ha>-e out I^ whole Briti* Empir»? has not otw fVAMOOOe* Franm only $269,«XX\000. and Germany with a very lucoMMenMa amount. You will find tiat the Bank oC Itegtaod aM tte Bank of G^manj hare enormous reser^^ea of told, aad tbe* ^tensions of currency wh ch thsqr ar» peraltftid to make stta teave a large reserve of g )id In tlieir trewory tor the Imme- diate redMuptlon of this jKiper money wh«i It Is i^esanted* and we propose to issue this vast amount (rf emermcr c«r^ reocy hi addition to the i>tkJO,t»00,000 of unoov««l pner t»> day without providing a saOklmt redeapttsB fund. Mr. President, it has beat a Caroctts tacpressioc of ■I'^irtt every financial man who has spoken npon the subject 4nnm the past year that we haT<i the wor«t llnanciul system la S world- I ask if we have it who la napoaslble for it? Wbrt IKirty announced itself to bf the party of somul money in 1886? What party challenged tha Democracy upon that question? The Republican party. It has been in full power. The Sen- ator from Rhode Island has been in <±arse of tiris e«amittec for twelve years, and yet during that time not a slngla icmedlal measure has be«a brought into this body for the eorracdon of these evils tliat exist. On the contrary, the legislation that bas been brought la has simply tended to give uk re uncorerad waaatf, ta Iniiiaat the issue, to enlarge the infiation ; and the oOect of it tea be will not say the purpose of it was— the organlaatioA of - great corporations, the inflated iasuea of stocks aad bonda, use of the hard eamfaigB of the ycananry of the covatry te every section for the promotion of the sale of tfaoae atocka and bonds upon the market. W«» have had every year a lyataai eC iniiation in New York, followed by a period of contActloa, where the public was mUked every year 1^ these ptanotera aad ^leculators, and yet no effort has been made to etna tUa maeo- lative condition. On tlie contrary, every act ot legislaUon bas tended to In- crease the Inflation and to Increase the oppcrrtunity of these men to spoliate the country. I have no word of reproach agatoat tlie bankov as a daaa. I have but tlie higheat reapect for the banking organisatiana of file country. But a system of piratical banking has been en- gaged in in the great centers of the country for which tliey ar« not responsible, but this body is leaponsiblc. The Hei>ubUcan partj- is responsible, for it has given then the opportunitv for this kind of promotion. Think of it ! Oit of $700,000.00") in reserves in all the national banks of the country, about $500.- 000,000 Is accumulated in three reserve cities, and most of it In the city of New York. Mr. President, I would not wrench this system violently. I do not believe in radical reform. I believe in iirogrcaaive re- form. I believe we should bring about these thinga gradually, running over a period of five, ten, or twenty yeara, but we should steadily make progress toward a more iierfect system of banking, one tlmt will involve tlie correction of the evils, both of our natioral-bank ^stem and of our State-bank sys- tem, so far as the constitutional power of the nation can be exercised- So far as concerns the organizations of these clearing-hoaaa associatiooa, perhaps I might differ with the action of the eem> mittee in some details, yet I think the movement is in tha right direction. It accords with the theorj' of home t/vtetm' ment, of local self-government. It gives the banks in a particular State or In a psrtlcnlar banking district, regardless of State lines, the ofiportunlty to »et together for mutual support and mutaal aid, and that means of ooorae the prevention and relief of panics. It aMana ralea regarding the relation of loans to capital and rcaerres aad da* posits, for we will find if we only leave theae auitters to tha regulation of the unions of banks, they will neceaaarily brtag into their councils the best men of the banking fratemtty, and their whole power and Influence will be exercised in the line of good banking. Thus far we have run too strongly toward decentralteatkm. I would not run too far toward centralisatimi. The organisa- tion of these clearlng-hoase associations is, to my mind, a com- mendable plan. I would amplify it, however, by admitting the State banks to these organizations, and with the api)roval of tlie Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Cur- rency, and under certain rules and regulations as to the jse- serves which they shall keqi and tlie proportion of loans ta capital which they will maintain. We might go a step further In the direction of solidif>iac the bankhig Interests of the eonntry In the line of tlw safety. We might provide ttiat the prraldrafB af ttm dearing-haaae associatioas shall meet aunanHy in tka cMy Washington th«<!i vaold probably be leas thaa 100 af and that tliey 7118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE. May 28, / cem. We mlsht iijlvc them the power to select nine commis- stoners to constitute, with the Secretary of the Treasury as chairman and the Comptroller of the Currency as secretary, a banking Cf^mmlsslon, one from each judicial circuit In the country, who would sit permanently at Washington and act In a purely advisory way to the Secretary of the Treasury, the President of the United States, and to Congress Itself. Can there be any doubt but that the clearing-house asso- ciations would send here their best men, the l)e8t trained men, the safest men, the truest men, the men of highest character and Integrity? They would be brought here In contact with Congress, in contact with the Secretary of the Treasury, with the Comptroller of the Currency, with the President of the United States, and they could be called upon at any time for Information and for advice. I would not at first give them any positive powers. I would ■Imply have them here in an advisory way. I am aware that this Is open to the^ objection of government by commission. When anyone now Miggests the appointment of a commisKion, the first outcry is " government by commis- sion." We Americans have a way of thinking by the brand. ToB have only to put on a brand by some name Intended to be opprobrious and many people, without thinking of the essen- tial principles involved, condenm It because of the brand. Whenever the word " centralization," I observe, is used upon that Bide of the House It Is used for that purpose. It Is used to summon to yonr aid the active opposition of members on this side of the House to measures which your side opposes. And the resix>nse Is often made, when yon brand a thing as a usur- pation of power or brand It as centralization. It prevents many men from thinking upon the ementlal principles. So recently It has been the custom to brand these commis- sions and to allude to their action as " government by conmiis- •ion." Mr. President, there Is no objection to a commission properly constituted for investigation and report. There Is no reason why Congress Itself should restrict the membership of erery commission it creates to Members of Congress. There Is no reason why commissions should not be appointed In an advisory way to collect Information, to make rejwrts, to communicate to Congress, to communicate to the President, to communicate with the Secretarj- of the Treasury. I submit It Is much better to have this method of communication than the present condition of things, where the Secretary of the Treasury Is compelled to go to New York as the only source of laftMmation when an emergency arises. Mr- President, I was alluding to the possible formation of a banking commission which would be representative of these clearing-house associations, which would have its per- manent sessions In Washington, and we could have at hand the benefits of Its information at any time. Mr. TELLER. Mr. President The VICE-PRESIDENT. I>oes the Senator from Nevada yield to the Senator from Colorado? Mr. NBWLANDS. Certainly. Mr. TELLER. I should like to make a suggestion to the Senator as to the body that might take charge of this question. I do not know how It would strike him, but I would suggest that we might refer It to this new house of governors that we are having. Mr. NEWLANDS. Well. Mr. President. I am Inclined to think that the new house of goremors was a very appropriate conference for the purpose of ascertaining what the views of the entire country were regarding the conservation of our natnral reaources, a question of very much greater importance than the banking question which we now have before us. I know of no body ft men so well equlpi>ed to present the Tiewa of their conatl'.eits as the executives of the various States of the Union. I ii Ink It was a very happy thought which suggested the gathering of this board of goveniors at Wash- ington to consider this great question of the waste of the en- ergies of the Republic that Is going on, and to take measures for the cure of existing conditions; and I look for such a shaphig of public opinion upon that subject as will result in immediate legislation. I wish to say to the S«iator from Colorado that I have as high an Idea as he has of the capacity and the ability and the fonctlons of the body to which I belong, but I recognize one fact, and that Is that It Is not a creator of public opinion, but that it follows public opinion; and I welcome all conferences wh€*»ver held as formulating public opinion In regard to legis- lation that Is Imperiously demanded by the country. Mr. TELI.ER. I should like to suggest to the Senator that I did not underrate the governors, but as they had disposed of the great questions that they came here for, I thought we might have something else for them to do in the future. Mr. NEWLANDS. In view of the great apathy and Inertia and Inactivity of the Committee on Finance under the adminis- tration of the Senator from Rhode Island during the last twelve years, I think I am entirely safe in saying that it would be very much better to Intrust this question of the reformation of our tMinking system to the "house of governors" than to the Fi- nance Committee of the Senate. I stated that the Senator from Rhode Island had referred to the painful inadequacy of our reserves In a recent speech, and I stated that he had warning uixin this subject. If I may be permitted, without apiwirent egotism, to do so, I will refer to a sjieech which I made over a year ago, l>efore the recent panic, and which possibly the Senator from Rhode Island heard, for he was In the Chamber. I observe the Senator from Rhode Island Is retiring from the Senate Chamber. I should like him to hear this, but inasmuch as he is turning a deaf ear to It, I will read It to the rest of the Senate. It Is from a speech delivered by me February 26, 11)07. Now. Mr. President, I wish to say one word regarding the reserves of these l):ink«. We have a system which crowds all the reserves of all the national banks of the country In New York City. That seemB to me to be a vicious system, because It collects from every part of the country moneys to be used simply in B|>eculatlon. When the moneys are needed In the West and In theSouth a contraction of the volume "of money is caused in New York, and we have the stock panics which may at any time be so Inrce in their proportion as to Involve bank panics in New York and resulting bank panics throughout the United States. Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. President The VICE-PRESIDENT. l>oes the Senator from ^'evadil yield to the Senator from Texas? Mr. NEWL.\Nl)S. Certainly. Mr. CULBERSON. Noticing that the Senator from Rhode Island has returned to the Chaml>er, I suggest to the Senator from Nevada to reread the iwrtion he read in his absence, as the n*<enator from Nevada desired the attention of the Senator from Rhode Island to it. Mr. NEWLANDS. I will read it again. Now, Mr. President, I wish to say one word regarding the reserves of these Itanks. We have a system which crowds all the reserves of all the national banks of the country in New York City. That seems to mc to t)e a vicious system, l>ecause it collects from every part of the country moneys to t)e used simply in speculation. When the moneys are needed In the West and In the South a contraction of the volume of money is caused in New York, and we have the stock panics which may at anv time be so large In their proportion as to Involve Itank i>anics in New York and resulting bank panics throughout the United States. Now, let us see how much of these reserves can be placed in New York. There arc sixteen reserve cities provided for by the national banking act. National banks in these cities are required to keep '25 per cent of their deposits In cash, but they are allowed to deposit one- half of such cash in banks in New York City and no other city. I should add two other cities, St. Louis and Chicago. New York Is the central reserve city in the United States. The re- sult Is that all of these national banks In the sixteen reserve cities may really have only cash reserves of l.li r»er cent, provided they dei>08it the remaining Jl'i per cent In the national banks of New York City. Then, how is it with the other cities that are not reserve cities, the country hanks, the banks of the smaller cities? Thev are compelled by law to keep a reserve of 15 per fent. They must have reserves equa'l to 15 per cent of their deposits. But they are permitted to deposit three-fifths of their supposed cash reserve In the reserve cities. The result is that under the law the national banks of the smaller cities are compelled to keep on hand only 6 per cent of their deposits, and the remaining three-fifths of the 15 per cent may be deposited in the re- serve cities, and then the national banks In the reserve cities can de- posit f.ne-hnlf of these moneys in the New York City banks under the system to which I have referred. So the tendency is to deposit in New York one-half of all the reserves of all the national banks in the United States — I have just shown that in New York City, Just prior to the time of the recent panic, about one-half of the entire reserves of all the national banks of the country were in New York City. So the tendency is to deposit In New Y'ork one-half of all the re- serves of all the national banks of the United States It seems to me that is an unfair advantage to give to New York. 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1. Who did Taylor kind of have a running feud with from the team that kind of came to light after their playing days? Was it Kramer? Taylor was one of the few players during his time that lifted weights.
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2. He lifted weights but had back issues...not sure if that is the reason. He epitomized the Lombardi spirit with his toughness and ability to push linebackers aside. Wish him the best.
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3. I believe that Taylor's comments on head injuries are misguided. I'm glad that he doesn't have health issues, but he is the exception rather than the rule.
Players do tend to hit more around the head now, and it is as much because of the improvement of equipment as anything else. Those helmets back in the 60's were about as much good as a souvenir baseball helmet today.
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4. Been watching Green Bay since I was 9 in 1959. Taylor was and is still my favorite all time Packer. Adderly and Wood, close followed by Favre and Butler.
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5. He played one full season, gained 1000 yards, on a knee injury that now would automatically be fixed via surgery. I can't imagine how he did it, but he did it. He'd hit Dick Butkus like a freight train. He was the fullback and did way more blocking than Hornung. How would you like to have two 1000 yards Hall of Fame runners in one backfield?
6. Meany - "the fans loved Ray Nitschke and he treated people like they should be treated."
I met and shook hands with Ol #66 in 1977 at Henry Jordan's wake - I was a classmate of his son.
I remember how his handshake engulfed my hand and how kind this hero was to me and all my buddies, especially Henry Jr, whose dad passed very suddenly at age 42.
Ray Nitschke was a class act and always had time for people.
Chicago kid, played at Illinois becomes one of the greatest Packers of all time.
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7. Jim Brown led the NFL in rushing every year of his career but one. Yup, Jim Taylor beat him one year. Taylor was a sight to behold. Amid all the recent talk about toughness, Taylor was all of that. His running style might best be described as violent. Just great to watch.
As far as the crybaby tag, he had every right to complain. The Packers paid Anderson and Grabowski big bucks to get them from going with the AFL. Taylor was at the end of his career, an all-pro and member of championship teams. It wasn't like recent years where everyone understood that first rounders would get huge contracts but that the vets would eventually get theirs later. It was a whole new thing back then and the vets like Taylor never did "get theirs."
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8. Jim Taylor was one of the toughest players ever...some said he was like tackling a piano. Paul Hornung could do it all and literally did. Ray Nitschke was an absolutely awesome middle linebacker and an awesome human being. Ray called my Dad to wish him a Happy Birthday on his 80th birthday. Dad almost fell off his chair, he was totally surprised and amazed. Herb Adderley was the Dion Sanders of his day. Willie Wood was just as good in his own way. Willie Davis and Henry Jordan were so very good as football players and as people. Bart Starr, very special in so many ways, and the Packers leader. Bart played extremely well under pressure. And many others. What a team!
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9. Said it before, Taylor should have his number retired by the team. Only 2 players from a team that won 5 championships had there numbers retired, one more from the offense and defense would be appropriate.
10. I get a kick our of how sports fans call pro athletes "classy" Classy for a pro ball player is not the same as classy for the common man. That is jus an old slobberbone saying that some media hoser came up with that is now meaningless. Classy should be reserved for how you act to ordnary people when no cameras are on. Ray was fun and could be quite a charmer...but he was also a loud, obnoxious, skirt chaser and quite full of himself. One of my favorite all time players...but classy???? NO
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President Trump Just Called Himself a ‘Nationalist.’ Here’s What That Means—and Why It’s So Dangerous.
Nationalism is not patriotism. Just ask George Orwell.
Normally, there’s a kind of catharsis in watching someone finally admit to themselves and the world who they truly are. Not here. It has never been much of a secret that Donald Trump, American president, is a nationalist. The debate is more often over what adjective might go in front. And yet it was singularly unnerving on Tuesday—in the context of a midterm election campaign in which he and his Republican allies are appealing to racism and anti-immigrant sentiment and fear in a strategy so explicit that The New York Times felt comfortable calling it out—to hear him declare, loudly and proudly, that he is “a nationalist, OK?”
The juxtaposition here between “globalist” and “nationalist” is a Steve Bannon joint—a nice hat-tip to the guy on a day where he could be found playing a near-empty conference room on Staten Island. It’s the kind of binary nonsense that authoritarian types feed on, an us-or-them formulation where the United States can succeed, or the wider world can succeed, but you can’t have both. In the context of a globalized, entirely interconnected world—a development Trump is powerless to reverse—it is fantasy. But it gets the people going.
Now that the President of the United States has embraced it as his own, it’s worth digging into what the term “nationalist” actually means and the historical baggage it carries. For this, we can turn once again to George Orwell, the legendary British theorist who, more recently, has become a prop for diaper-wearing right-wing propagandists who looked him up on brainy quote dot com. The essential point, also made eloquently by Charles de Gaulle, is that not only are nationalism and patriotism not the same, the gap between them is not some difference of degree. They are often wholly contrasting emotional forces, as Orwell writes in his Notes on Nationalism:
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Warning! This Ain’t Your Gramma’s Nun.
Terrifying Real-Life Encounter Inspires New Horror Film “The Nun”…
“I feel the presence of a nun in this church…”
—Lorraine Warren, psychic investigator/demonologist, speaking to a group of psychic researchers and photographers (including husband Ed Warren) at Borley Rectory in England, during a trip there in the 1970s; it is noted that Lorraine uttered the remark immediately upon entering the building at 12:00 A.M.
The Nun, played by the amazing Bonnie Aarons, first appeared in the 2016 James Wan film The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist, a sequel of sorts (but then again not really) to Wan’s 2013 film The Conjuring (sequels, perhaps, in that both films are based on true stories straight out of the case files of Catholic demonologists and founders of the New England Society for Psychical Research, Ed and Lorraine Warren—played in both films by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively). In The Conjuring 2, Aaron’s character, called “Valek” in the annals of Hell, is a demon that’s attached itself psychically to Farmiga’s character—medium and demonologist Lorraine Warren—and has manifested itself to her since she was a child in the form of a Catholic Nun…as an insult to and a perversion of Warren’s Christian faith.
In the 1970s, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren saw a spectral nun in a British abbey. Real-life psychic investigators for the Catholic Church, the Warrens investigated many of the workd’s most visible—and horrifying—spirit and demonic encounters including The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring incident, the Perronne family hauntings, and the Enfield poltergeist infestation in England.
In The Nun, the latest movie in the ever-expanding Conjuring universe, a cowl-clad demon with piercing yellow eyes and dagger-like teeth haunts the cloisters of a Romanian abbey and terrorizes local clergy. The film is a prequel to The Conjuring, which detailed the real case files of noted demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Those case files have also inspired film classics such as The Conjuring 2, Anabelle, Annabelle: Creation, and the 1979 horror classic The Amityville Horror.
So how much of the story about The Nun is based on actual events?
The Warren’s son-in-law, Tony Spera, said that The Nun’s ecclesiastical phantom bears resemblance to a “real” spectral nun the Warrens encountered during a 1970s trip to the much-haunted Borley Rectory in southern England.
Below: Rare color photographs of Borley Rectory taken in 1929 (left) and 1943 after the fire (right) by England’s own famous (and infamous) ghost hunter Harry Price (Source:
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<pre class='rust trait'>pub trait AsRawFd {
fn <a href='#tymethod.as_raw_fd' class='fnname'>as_raw_fd</a>(&self) -> <a class='type' href='../../../../std/os/unix/io/type.RawFd.html' title='std::os::unix::io::RawFd'>RawFd</a>;
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Unfortunately, the House of Representatives` failure to vote on two important immigration-related amendments to the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act (HR 1) is a bad sign that my fears may have been prescient.
Would it have stopped the lawsuit?
No. It would not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, and if by some miracle it did, Obama would have vetoed it. Of course, a truly brave and united Republican House could threaten a government shutdown if the Administration had continued the lawsuit—but such a bold step is unlikely for the usual ignominious reasons.
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But Amendment 112 was still vitally important.
As I have written time and time again, Arizona`s SB 1070 has become the symbol of immigration enforcement in the nation. Arizona is being demonized by the Left and the MainStream Media as an anomalous “rogue state” that does not represent the country on immigration. The failure, thus far, of any other state to pass a copycat law unfortunately reinforces this lying narrative. But if the majority of the House of Representatives had voted to say that they oppose Obama`s scandalous lawsuit against the state, that would have sent a message that Arizona is not alone.
Alas, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) offered a point of order saying that the Amendment constituted legislation and could not be added to an appropriations bill. (More on that later). This objection was sustained by the chair of the appropriations committee Hal Rogers (R-KY)
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Each year, the U.S. grants 50,000 visas based on a lottery system to a variety of countries, now mostly Third World. The concept behind the lottery: because our post-1965 immigration system is primarily based on “family reunification”, chain migration cannot begin until there are a few anchors to sponsor their extended families. Then they can shoulder everyone else aside, which is why the bulk of our legal immigrant populations originates from a few random countries in Latin America and Asia. This was not sufficiently diverse for Senator Edward Kennedy, who wanted more Irish, so in 1986 the “Diversity Immigrant Visa” began to give visas by lottery to immigrants from countries that sent few immigrants to America, with a proportion originally reserved for Ireland. Natives of the major immigrant sending countries, such as China, Mexico, and El Salvador, Vietnam, and Canada are ineligible for the lottery. It`s still regularly referred to on the Hill as “the Irish program”, although only 201 visas were awarded to Ireland in 2011.
The Visa Lottery supposedly alleviates the desperate shortage of immigrants from Nairobi and Yemen and makes our immigration policy even more “diverse” than it already is, with immigrants who can sponsor their extended family members and get chain migration started. It has enriched the American mosaic by providing green cards to immigrants like Hesham Mohamed Hedayet, who shot up LAX Airport, and Moroccan Karim Koubriti, who was convicted of starting a sleeper terrorist cell in Detroit less than a week after 9-11.
Notwithstanding the stupidity of randomly handing out green cards to people from the least developed countries in the world, and regardless of national security concerns, the mere fact that the U.S. has 9% unemployment is reason enough to stop giving 50,000 additional work permits for not reason whatsoever each year.
Of course, the U.S. issues 1.1 million legal visas each year, so cutting the 50,000 visas for one year is hardly enough. However, with literally no discussion of cutting legal immigration since the jobs recession began, even a baby step like suspending the Diversity Lottery was an important first step towards getting the reduction of legal immigration back into the national conversation.
Any immigration patriot signed up for action alerts from groups like Team America PAC, FAIR, Numbers USA, and CAPS would have received nearly a dozen e-mails last week informing them that there would be a vote on Wednesday, then Thursday, and then Friday or the weekend…and then they would finally have heard that the Republican House Leadership cut off voting on all Amendments before the Goodlatte Amendment came to the floor.
In a February 18 blog post at NumbersUSA, Roy Beck notes that his lobbyists tell him not to read too much into the failure to vote on the immigration Amendments—presumably because hundreds were introduced and Congress was voting until midnight day after day and needed to recess.
Beck himself, however, was suspicious. He noted that, for the past four years, Democrats tried to avoid any immigration votes until the lame duck DREAM Act—but at the same time
“Republican leaders [when they were the] congressional minority also didn`t want any immigration votes because they felt voting for less immigration would be too controversial and hurt their Members` chances of re-election. Lobbyists and strategists from the George Bush wing of the Party have the ear of Republican congressional leaders and what they say is what you would expect to hear from George Bush who continues to say that failure to pass the mass amnesty and foreign worker increase was one of the biggest disappointments of his Presidency.
“So both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders have engaged in a conspiracy of silence on immigration issues, for the most part. Is that what happened this week? It looks like it. But I can`t prove it.”
I am inclined to agree with Beck`s suspicions. Yes, there were a lot of amendments, but the Republican leadership allowed votes on over 150 Amendments on issues such as Defunding Planned Parenthood (Amendment 95) and banning the military from advertising at NASCAR events (Amendment 92.)
Also, the point of order raised against the Poe Amendment dealing with legislation was very questionable. The House voted on Amendments prohibiting funds for the EPA to use (Amendment 101), or effectively denying funding to Obamacare (Amendments 102, 103, 104, 105 and 106), which would seem in effect to constitute legislation as well. The Appropriations Committee chairman who agreed to block the Poe Amendment, Republican Hal Rogers, used to be one of the leaders in fighting mass immigration in the 1990s. But he has done nothing in the last several years after he rose to a leadership position within the GOP.
Plus, as I acknowledged above, the Amendment would not have survived reconciliation and was more of a symbolic statement of support towards Arizona—so any legal or parliamentary concerns would have been moot.
In the 2008 and 2010 elections, many patriotic immigration reform activists told me that was very difficult to run against freshman and sophomore Democrats on immigration because of the “conspiracy of silence” that Beck spoke of. No immigration votes had come to the floor, so it was difficult to point to any tangible bad actions by these Democrats.
The Democrats did hand Republicans some useful political ammunition with the lame duck DREAM Act Amnesty vote. But if Republicans had any brains, they would systematically force the Democrats to take positions against patriotic immigration reform.
Incidentally, the same day the Republicans blocked the immigration votes, Rasmussen released a poll on immigration. Once again, voters supported an Arizona style immigration law in their state by over a 2-1 margin. When asked “If State Believes Feds Are Not Enforcing Immigration Laws Should They Have Right To Enforce on Their Own? ” voters answered in the Affirmative by a 67-22 margin.
Significantly, Independent voters overwhelming agreed with both propositions supporting them by a 57-25% and 74%-18% margin respectively. And Republicans were virtually unanimous. with 87% believing states can enforce their immigration laws and only 5% disagreeing; and 77% wanting an Arizona style immigration law in their state and only 5-10% opposing one. [67% Say States Should Be Able To Enforce Immigration Laws If Feds Are Not, Rasmussen Reports, February 18, 2011 (breakdown by party for subscribers only)]
Unfortunately, that 5%-10% minority of the Republican Party consists of corporate funders, libertarian ideologues, and boneheaded political consultants. And they are apparently all Congressional Republican leadership (J. Boehner, chief culprit) cares to listen to.
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What is the fine if your family overstays Visit Visa in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Residency Law treats the overstayers very strictly. Overstayers here refers to the people who continue to live in Saudi Arabia even after expiry of their visa. If someone overstays their visit visa, there are harsh penalties imposed on them and their sponsors.
Penalties on the Over Stayer of visa
If someone is caught by the authorities and his or her visa is already expired, he will be immediately detained in the Saudi Detention Center. After detention, they will have to pay for the expenses of returning back to the country so that they can be deported. Saudi Authorities may impose a ban of some years upon the residency law violators.
Moreover, Saudi Authorities also hold the right to impose some fine on such persons. Gulf News has reported that a plan to ban the deported expatriates from one GCC country from entering on work visas in any other GCC country has been finalized. To know about the status of the implementation, click on this link “GCC Wide Ban on Deported Expatriates of GCC Countries
Penalties on the Sponsor of Over Stayer of Visa
Every person enters Saudi Arabia with the guarantee of someone. In the case of work visa or business visa, this is a Company or Saudi person. In the case of Umrah visa, this is some agents and in the case of a family visit visa, it is the expatriate Saudi resident.
While we are not sure about penalties which could be imposed on the companies or Saudi Person, an expatriate becoming Kafeel of family visit visa is fine with the heavy amount if his family overstays in the Kingdom. It is very important to mention here that expat living in Saudi Arabia on Iqama takes the responsibility of the family members entering the Kingdom.
1. If a visitor overstays his visa for the first time, he will be fined SR 15,000/- followed by the deportation.
2. If a visitor overstays his visa for the second time, he will be fined SR 25,000/-, 3 months jail followed by the deportation.
3. If a visitor overstays his visa for the third time, he will be fined SR 50,000/-, 6 months jail followed by the deportation.
Precautions to Avoid Such Situation
I have already explained the problems you may have to face if your family overstays in Saudi Arabia. However, by adopting certain precautions, you can avoid such unfavorable condition.
1-Book the ticket at least 3 days before the date of expiry of family visa so that in the case of even delayed flight, you have enough margins to cover yourself.
2-Some people get confused by the Hijri and Gregorian dates. When it is written on the family visa “3 months” it means three Hijri months. You can use a converter available on the internet to get the Gregorian date. There can be a difference of one day in conversion, so be cautious and conservative in your approach.
3-Never ever even think to take benefit of the grace period of 15 days which can be given extremely emergency situation.
Source: Arab News
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Modern PVP Sucks and Here's Why
Editorials By Adam Tingle on August 21, 2012
Modern PVP Sucks and Here's Why
A few weeks ago, at an event for a particularly popular MMO halfway across the world, I found myself spraying food and hate across a dinner table. What had started as a charming meal, had turned into a skirmish that floated somewhere between the dumplings and Shiitake mushrooms.
Why? Well as often happens when MMORPG enthusiasts get together, just after swapping EverQuest corpse-run tales, and right before it all broke down into campfire musings about just what Star Wars Galaxies could have been, someone mentioned Player versus Player.
I won't mention names, but their view on this mechanic seemed fantastical, illuminated, and almost ethereal. I was intrigued. My ears moved in the way that something surprising will provoke. "You see, what I love about PvP is the camaraderie, the tactics, working in a team to take down a target."
I sat and listened patiently. We all "ummed" and "awwed" in the way that polite company will, and then without knowing, my finger extended accusatorily, and I dropped the bomb: "It isn't like that though is it? It's essentially a game of one person running around in a circle, like a little b*tch, jabbing the "1" key."
Then things got heated. I may have called into question the legitimacy of his birth; he might have insulted the poor Queen Elizabeth. It all went down. It all came out... but I'm still not done.
How on Earth can people think that this particularly sordid piece of MMOing good? It's a travesty of a mechanic, a dirty little immersion breaking "aren't I a great little backstabbing bastard" type of thing. I blame it for everything that is bad in online games. The incessant duel requests, the constant "HAH ONLY 136DPS, N00B!" dialogue, and worst of all, those competitive sorts it brought: the type of half-wit that says things like "Oh, the tactics of it all blah blah blah."
I started playing online games in 1999 (yeah I'm going there). Player versus player-ing was but a pipe dream: the sparkle in some kid's eye, or in Mark Jacobs' showering cubicle (a story for another day). If you wanted to hurt someone else, you had to physically find them and punch them in the mush cave. Or failing that, rob them blind in Ultima Online and start a campaign of hate that drove some people near madness. There weren’t any structured environments in which players could safely slap at each other's faces like pansies. If you committed to stabbing a virtual other, you followed through. Larceny and murder. If your victim was left wearing nothing but a pair of underpants, you'd done your job.
Which is why all this pampering boils my blood; plus the fact I'm absolutely awful at it. There was a time when all you had to do was jab the "a" button, and sit back in your chair. We were less "in" the game, as much as coaches of it. We equipped our swords, set up our buffs, and then asked our avatar to go out and do their best, as we sat from the sidelines, hooting and hollering in praise or criticism. It also gave us more time to eat cheese.
Now we have hotbars, cooldowns, teams, guilds, specific roles, scenarios, 50 versus 50, honour, prestige, waxing, and the spork. It's all too much. In days gone by, really committing to a role was printing out a hand drawn map of Black Burrow and staying up until 2am. We didn't do talent trees, or builds, we just simply logged in, and enjoyed the game. What was wrong with that?
I suppose my specific gripe with PVP these days is the almost separate game of it all. To me an MMORPG is something you lose yourself into. It is a world apart from our own, it has lore, and it has an atmosphere. Your actions and stories are as anecdotal as the physical world; and there's something utterly compelling about that - and yet, as soon as you start talking PvP builds and what's best in that certain element, it all sort of crumbles apart.
PvP makes it all seem like such a game. And I know, that sounds utterly pathetic, of course it is a game, I'm not so deluded as to think I am indeed a grey-bearded dwarf hailing from the furthest reaches of Ost Goroth. Oh if only. But what I mean is that it seems so out of character with everything else about the MMORPG genre.
You are transported, as if by magic, to this certain battleground - and regardless of how many times you've trampled through there, it is still an endless skirmish, your actions meaningless. Doesn't that get to anybody else? The only player conflict I can stomach is the DAoC/WAR style, and yet we've thrown that by the wayside because its deemed too hard to organise - or perhaps too difficult for a new gaming culture that is bred on quick matches and a lack of brain. (I’ll give you my take on GW2’s WvW when I get some time with the thing.
But I can concede that I am in the minority. I can happily believe that most of you are now spitting bile, and calling for my death - which is fine, because you probably have a really good Rogue PvP spec build that could do the job. Why wouldn't you? You spent all that time perfecting your virtual trade.
I am simply a man embittered by more hotbar savvy foes. I panic. As soon as enemies start circling, I start to spasm, jump, run side to side, flee, and plead. I've even been known to dance - well, in school the bullies might leave you alone if you were funny, right? Right?
Player versus Player - love it or hate it? I know which camp I certainly sit in. Is it the non-skilled, jab fest that I believe it to be? Or like my fellow MMORPG journalists claim, is it a game about tactics, working together, and all that highfaluting conflict? Am I missing something? Am I just a boring English bastard? Let me know in the comments below.
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Guttering on domestic and commercial properties can get clogged up with debris during the winter months as leaves and twigs fall off trees. This is common in areas outside of the city where there are more open spaces. Now that we have reached Spring and the winter weather is behind us, it is time to get out and check/clean your gutters.
Gutters are easy to clean and you should check them at least twice a year to stop the debris building up too much. If left to collect debris, the excess weight of leaves and twigs can cause even greater issues, including cracks in the guttering. Clogs in the downpipes can also cause water to pool around the roof, contributing to water ingress.
Before cleaning, try and watch the weather for a while. Debris that is dry is much lighter and easier to clean than wet leaves and mush. If possible use a trowel to scoop out any of the wet stuff at the bottom or to remove blockages. When cleaning, always start at the end of the down pipe and work your way out from this point. If your downpipe has a filter remove this and clean is thoroughly. Try water jetting any bits that might have got caught and you cannot remove by hand.
When all the large debris has been removed from the pipe and you have made your way to the other end, use a hose or water jet to force any other muck from within your gutters down into the drains. Start away from the downpipe and work your way across once again. If after doing this the water does not drain away then this could indicate a problem in your down pipe. Using the hose again, but this time on full pressure feed it up the downpipe and try and break up any blockages.
If after doing all of the above you still notice water sitting in your gutters, you could have a wrongly sloped gutter alignment. Gutters should slope ever so slightly down towards the downpipe meaning no water collects or pools in the guttering. Professional help from one of our team should eradicate the problem, with the use of specialist equipment.
Should you have a constant issue with debris getting into your gutters, you could try a gutter screen which can be installed on top for the guttering. This ensures that only water off the roof runs into the gutters keeping them flowing.
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How to Evaluate Performance & Provide Positive Feedback
by Sam Ashe-Edmunds
There are as many theories about effective employee evaluations and providing feedback as there are human resources gurus, but two common themes often emerge as essential tools. Using objective benchmarks to critique staff members and balancing the amount of positive and negative feedback you use will help you educate your employees without crushing their spirits.
Performance Evaluations
The most effective way to provide objective performance evaluations is to set measurable goals and communicate them to each employee in advance. Giving your staff members detailed written job descriptions will keep them and your managers on the same page as to what each employee should accomplish in his position. This reduces miscommunications and frustrating surprises that can pop up during the annual review. Set as many objective measurements for productivity and efficiency as possible to let employees track their progress each month and make adjustments based on their results.
Positive Feedback
To soften the impact on morale of negative feedback you must give employees, start your evaluations with the positive news. Show the employee where she performed well, how she did in meeting her goals and what goals she succeeded in achieving. After you have told her she has made positive accomplishments, discuss where she can improve. Rather than characterizing her shortcomings as failures, treat them as areas that need attention and discuss methods for improvement. Simply telling an employee she missed her objectives without giving her a chance to explain or discussing how she can improve can lead to morale problems. Finish your review reiterating the employee’s successes and providing an action plan going forward to end the meeting on a positive note.
Photo Credits
• Creatas Images/Creatas/Getty Images
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
form doesn't follow function-- in architecture.
1 comment :
Erik said...
Not to dispute the study's findings, but maybe to diminish them a bit, it occurs to me that a building's form is more than just its facade. The interior architecture of a library is vastly different from that of a concert hall, to serve different functions. Maybe the point of "form follows function" is not so much that you can recognize the building from its front door, as that the building is designed to support what people do inside it.
(I'm assuming, because it sounded that way from the article, that it's the outside of the building that was photographed and shown to study participants.) | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '170', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9798951148986816}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '87414', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SMF7TN6TDHU2TAPZT7IV2WCKRX7EVBG4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:381b161d-518e-47fe-a1c4-f28841574f6d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 2, 29, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.8.19', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FRFSXXJZSDOHYS5TBRU7LOUMU2NOYNPY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:05690934-1ca1-4319-8a44-ad8156f68a1a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2005/12/form-doesnt-follow-function-in.html?showComment=1136226840000', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c0ece6e4-5049-4fbb-bf99-f7efc22693d2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '301', 'url': 'http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2005/12/form-doesnt-follow-function-in.html?showComment=1136226840000', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-39.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09410589933395386', 'original_id': 'f93bcea0b3fc1dc9a4227b419d287d020aaa622b09983c71ef00915633636a55'} |
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Preliminary evidence for the benefits of “Jymmin” – creating or influencing music while exercising
The researchers suspect that being able to influence music causes a bigger release of endogenous opioids
By Emma Young
Listening to music while exercising can make a work-out feel more pleasant. But might having some control over the sound of that music have an even stronger effect? A new study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, suggests that it does. In theory, this approach (known as known as “Jymmin” – gym plus jammin’…) might help injured athletes and other rehab patients to complete beneficial, but painful, exercise programmes. As the researchers, led by Thomas Fritz at the Max Planck Institute for Human Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, note, “Physical pain can present a significant obstacle to the success of physical exercise rehabilitation, increasing negative affect and decreasing patient motivation.”
Ten men and nine women, all in their twenties, worked out for ten minutes, in pairs, facing each other. One member of the pair used a cable lat pulldown machine (which exercises the latissimus dorsi muscle in the back, and also the biceps), while the other used an abdominal muscle trainer.
For one session, the exercise machines were hooked up to computer software that modified the music being played depending on how hard the participants worked. The fast-tempo (130 beats per minute) soundtrack featured a drum beat, bass guitar line and a melody played on a synthesiser. A faster rate of pulldowns on the lat/bicep machine altered the sound, so that the higher-frequency notes were more audible. For the other machine, more frequent sit-ups increased the pitch of the melody line.
For the other session, the participants heard the soundtracks created by other pairs – their own efforts had no effect on the music, although it remained upbeat. Some participants completed this session first, others did this one second.
Immediately after each exercise session, the participants took a pain tolerance test: they had to plunge their non-dominant hand and arm into painfully cold water and keep it there for as long as possible. After the exercise session in which they’d influenced the music, the participants kept their hands in the cold water for, on average, five seconds longer – an average of 50 seconds, compared with 45 seconds when they’d exercised without affecting the music.
Ideally, the researchers would have measured pain tolerance during the exercise. Practically, this would have been hard, though, which is why they did it afterwards. But they argue that the results indicate differences in pain tolerance during the two different exercise sessions.
The researchers suspect that being able to influence the music through exercise caused a bigger release of endogenous opioids, and that this explains the results. There are, though, other potential interpretations. What we pay attention to can have a huge influence on our perception of pain: perhaps when the participants were altering the melody, they paid more attention to the music, and less to their own physical state – and so felt less pain, and could tolerate more afterwards.
There are many other questions still to be answered, not least, whether the same effects might be observed in people exercising alone, rather than in pairs; whether the benefits of exercise conducted while influencing music would actually be as beneficial, in terms of rehab, as exercising while passively listening to music, even if the latter hurts more (in fact, the researchers found that when the participants had influence over the music, they actually worked less hard on the lat machine); and whether it could even reduce required painkiller dosages. It’s worth investigating further.
Musical Agency during Physical Exercise Decreases Pain
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Sharepoint : problem when we update a file during a checking in
Recently, somebody asked me to add version history to word documents stored in Sharepoint. The word documents were docx files, based on the OpenXML format. This was a great opportunity to try the new OpenXML sdk 2.0 CTP (I’ve used a lot the Package & PackagePart classes in the past).
I decided to create an event handler overriding ItemCheckingIn method of the SPItemEventReceiver class and to a table in my OpenXml document (fig 1).
Fig 1.Overriding ItemCheckingIn and modifying the document
Then, after having associated my event handler with a document library, checking in a document generated an exception (fig 2)
Fig 2.Save Conflict exception when we update a list item during a Checkingin
To check my code, I’ve tried the following tests (without success):
1. I’ve commented the AddTable() function –>same error
2. Instead of Update, I’ve tried SystemUpdate() –>same error
Then I decided to override the CheckedIn event instead of the Checkingin (fig 3)
Fig 3. Trapping the ItemCheckedIn event
When I checked in, I got the usual window asking to to select the version (fig 4) ; here let’s select 0.2
Fig 4. Version selection , selecting 0.2
When I clicked on the document, indeed the version history shows up (fig 5).
Fig 5.Version history in the word document
But when I checked the version history, I’ve noticed that the system had created an additional draft version (fig 6).
Fig 6. version history: an additional draft version created.
The real culprit is the call to the SPFile::SaveBinary() function (see fig 3); it seems that there is no way to bypass it ! I’ve tried several things like removing the call to SaveBinary() and calling Flush() and Close() on the stream the file was not modified.
I hope that we will find a elegant way to achieve this in Sharepoint vNext.
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I just can't right now! XD RGBs expressions are priceless! Man hero you are a smart one! I hope they get along soon. >.<
XD lol rgb. So are we to assume that hero is some sort of er... Special person in some way? Or is it only humans that can save their world? :/ also I really can't get enough of this adorable ness! <3
@Kitty star: he must be going Christmas shopping. >.< :D
aw, the trees are dreaming! and it only took me 14 read overs to get that! derp
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Yup he digs her awesomeness.
You know I could imagine RGB streaking. XD just imagine a floating TV head... O_o
@Caelidra: aw, yeah you know it ;)
OOHHH I just feel so warm right now >.<
@Sushirolled: I see wad you did there. smooth. B-)
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Someone went to bed before encoding the video for us poor people not there in person - get the video up there already then! ;) :)
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I can't stand the monochrome icons in the solution explorer either, its too hard to pick out what each icon is. I can see how someone who could extract no semantic meaning from looking at that explorer (i.e. a designer) might think its great, but for a coder? Its a disaster.
Even from a design perspective the icons are ugly. The folder icon for instance is horsey - perhaps because of the huge expanse of black. The file icon for C# is redundant as it is on a file with .cs extension and its not showing its a file.
I think what this is all showing, is that metro doesn't work for complex UIs and blindly enforcing it is causing a lot of pain. Theoretically I like the idea of a lack of chrome and clutter, but the practical implementation is definitely wanting. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9386187195777892}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '36567', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CGVFDNZNJUB4MYIECU7UKBM7VTCND74S', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:eb4fa4ab-9fb5-4f81-8cd1-d971b128cf54>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 2, 19, 17, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '65.52.16.230', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ARHRQPKR74GUVSFAMVU56Z25K4SL77FV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4cef5c15-7c72-4804-a685-836d855e4416>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dan123', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3809423a-bb61-4874-b21e-17497eeff4f8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '233', 'url': 'http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dan123', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03640758991241455', 'original_id': 'f9f84bad506ca94a163b4c2275f36387f0e97de68889b24eb8305bb6fa0ac4f4'} |
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This seems like a phishing attack, and it's a disclosure vulnerability to send 404 response in this case. Unfortunately that's just what IIS does.
I would rather these guys not even know my server existed.
Edit: Of course, once a TCP connection has already been established, they know something is on that port. It might be nice if they didn't know it was IIS on the other side
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Phishing is more a social engineering attack aimed at geting a person to reveal passwords, etc. This is more a port scanning or domain scanning attack. – Knox Aug 30 '11 at 12:35
There is no way for them to NOT know that your server exists; it has already opened a TCP connection to their system in order for them to send the hostname. – Kevin M Aug 30 '11 at 12:37
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When you say "random domains" you mean hostnames right? Not IP addresses?
If the former, a hostname is, at least in theory, completely disconnected from the actual IP address of the server from the point of view of the server. Every (well, almost every) HTTP request will have a HTTP-Header called 'Host', it's very easy to simulate or "fake" it. Take the following command
curl -H "Host: serverfault.com" http://www.google.com/
(Ignore the output)
That command gets Google's servers to respond to a request for 'serverfault.com' as if it was a normal virtual host, which in the case of Google looks like it's pointing to a file that redirects to the main Google site.
Put simply, there is no way to 'block' these requests without getting your firewall to analize each request and that opens up a whole other world of issues. A 404 or 403 response is correct, 404 means the resource does not exist on the server, although normally this reffers to a file, it could reffer to an entire site too.
Your server choosing to respond or not, is based (simplisticly) solely on the target IP address, not the hostname. By the time the server gets to reading the hostname it's already established a connection. Yes you could get it to just drop the connection but responding with a 404 is a much better option because it officially tells the client the resource does not exist.
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nginx does have the ability to parse the hostname, and respond based on the results - if it's incorrect (or non-existant), nginx can return a 444 code (not a real code, basically tells nginx to not respond at all to the request, not even a 404). Would IIS have any similar capability? – Cyclops Aug 30 '11 at 12:57
@Cyclops Yes but it's still returning /a/ response, it can return any response it wants but it has to return something. My best suggestion would be setting up a 'catch all' vhost (All domains without their own VHOSTs) and getting it to 301/302 redirect to your main site. Not an IIS user so not exactly sure how one would do that but Apache will respond to all unknown domains with the first VHOST it finds in it's config. You could even get it to respond with a message telling them to go away, but they probably won't read it =) – sam Aug 30 '11 at 13:07
No, when I use the 444 code in an nginx reply, it does not return any response - my browser testing shows that the browser times out waiting for a reply. A server does not have to return any response if it doesn't want to... (granted there may be some HTTP standards it's breaking, but so what :) Nginx Docs: "nonstandard code 444 closes the connection without sending any headers" – Cyclops Aug 30 '11 at 13:11
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Q:
Cannot send jQuery ajax() request to php
I have a trouble in using ajax() function. I have an html file with a form and have a segment of JavaScript code:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function(){
var url = "xxx.php/";
var param = $("#streetInput").serialize() + "&";
param += $("#cityInput").serialize() + "&";
param += $("#stateInput").serialize();
htmlobj = $.ajax({
url: url,
data: param,
type: 'GET',
dataType: 'JSON',
success: function(output) {
// parse the data here
},
error: function() {
}
});
});
});
</script>
I want construct an URL pointing to a specified php file by GET method. However, I don't know how to retrieve the parameters sent through URL in xxx.php file. I don't know how to debug. I just type
<?php
echo $_GET("streetInput");
echo $_GET("cityInput");
......
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
?>
but it didn't work. Can someone help me out? I want to give three parameters through URL to xxx.php, then print those elements
In xxx.php file, I construct a URL for an API request and get an XML file back. And I want to convert the $xml file to JSON format and return to my html file.
A:
Change your JS code to:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function(){
var url = "xxx.php";
var param = $("#streetInput").serialize() + "&";
param += $("#cityInput").serialize() + "&";
param += $("#stateInput").serialize();
$.ajax({url: url, data: param, type: 'GET'});
});
});
</script>
Or, if you have only these fields in form, use this:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function(){
var url = "xxx.php";
var param = $(this).serializeArray(); //<- Or, .serialize() can also be used
$.ajax({url: url, data: param, type: 'GET'});
});
});
</script>
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Film Review: The Nice Guys
In association with the Grosvenor
The Nice Guys is Shane Black’s third feature film and partners Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as an enforcer and PI investigator respectively. The two grudgingly work together to solve the mystery behind the murder of a porn actress who may be connected to the disappearance of another woman. What stems from this is an engaging and utterly hilarious belter of a film.
This film works on many levels thanks to its intelligent, witty script. The central mystery is an intricate but immersive one which leaves you guessing up until the film’s chaotic climax. It sucks us in and gets us invested thanks to the handling of the idea and the likability of Gosling and Crowe. These two work magic together and play off of each other brilliantly with both sweet and humorous results. They’re essentially opposite extremes of the same personality with Gosling being more professional but also more wimpy and Crowe as rough and dangerous but probably better at the job. They’re a perfect mismatch and their chemistry is top notch.
What also works in the film’s favour is the style and setting it adopts. It’s set in 70s L.A. and the fast paced editing and atmosphere Black creates makes it seem as though you’re watching a 70s film on the big screen. There’s an absurd sense of fun channelling through the direction that’s reminiscing of the classic buddy cop era before it felt redundant. It’s both refreshing and exciting.
But the best aspect here is the comedy. The film has a very dry and often dark sense of humour. When combined with the contrasting personalities of the main characters, this makes for wonderfully hard laughs. The banter exchanged between Crowe and Gosling or Gosling and his daughter are fantastic and the film is somehow able to make even the grittiest of gun fights leave you in stitches.
As a result, The Nice Guys is enormously entertaining. It’s violent, gritty and screwed up but thanks to the skill of its script and the craftsmanship of its direction we’re left with a film full of charm and wit with an original and side-splittingly funny spin on the mystery noir buddy cop genre. A stylish explosion of violence, ineptitude and humour, The Nice Guys should not be missed.
[Calum Cooper]
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Why Republicans Lose Elections
San Francisco Chronicle: Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP. I agree, but not in the way the Austrian Oak recommends:
Uh, no.
That is how we hand the control of government to leftists. By becoming leftists ourselves. A conservative voter finds no real difference in his choice, and is less likely to support the republican. A leftist, concerned with brand identity, will always choose the democrat candidate. Result? Leftist weenies win elections. If the democrat candidate can co-opt some conservative issues from the republican candidate (e.g., Jim Webb and Mark Warner), all the better for them.
The GOP needs solidly conservative candidates to run on a solidly conservative platform. We do not need to go masquerading in liberal costumes of climate change, health care, minimum wage, and illegal alien amnesty.
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Hebrews 8:1-6 NIRV
The High Priest of a New Covenant
References for Hebrews 8:1
5 They serve at a sacred tent. But it is only a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. That's why God warned Moses when he was about to build the holy tent. God said, "Be sure to make everything just like the pattern I showed you on the mountain."(Exodus 25:40) | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '114', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.977554738521576}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '73018', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:METLEA7SKM3UXAC4TBG47NAKZFSDD6EI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7e22837a-7a3c-43d0-931a-b4c6bf25eddc>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 8, 2, 12), 'WARC-IP-Address': '190.93.243.20', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ERWGJOENQEPU7CTHNSJTTXETOQ54PHNU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7e98a131-0084-4c9f-b752-a0ba7bf1c8bc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.biblestudytools.com/nirv/hebrews/passage/?q=hebrews+8:1-6', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3c9fd5ef-38eb-4eee-bf2e-001bc8e966df>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '203', 'url': 'http://www.biblestudytools.com/nirv/hebrews/passage/?q=hebrews+8:1-6', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07200384140014648', 'original_id': 'efffd89fbc390baf44871c97a5b8344e0e2bf0e4476ec0bbe6b0489f55633b27'} |
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78-Year-Old Diabetic May Be Hypoglycemic
May 05, 1985| UCLA/USC Long Term Care Gerontology Center
Question: My 78-year-old mother lives in an apartment adjoining my home. She is diabetic and takes insulin by injection. Lately she's had episodes where she became sweaty and had a terrible headache. The last time she was dizzy, and I was afraid she'd fall. A friend says that mother probably has low blood sugar. Do you think that's the problem?
Answer: The symptoms you describe are associated with low blood glucose, or hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is a serious condition that should be discussed with your mother's physician. It results when too much insulin is working and glucose leaves the blood too rapidly, causing the level to drop below the normal range (below 70 milligrams percent, with symptoms usually beginning below 50).
Low blood glucose may be caused by a number of factors, including skipping a meal or snack, extra exercise without eating extra food, or taking too much insulin. Symptoms include palpitation, pounding headaches often in the back of the head, and feeling sweaty, nervous, shaky, dizzy or confused.
If your mother's symptoms recur, test her blood glucose immediately. This can be done at home using a finger-stick to obtain blood and a chemically impregnated strip to estimate the glucose level. Ask her doctor or nurse to instruct you in doing this test.
When these symptoms happen, or if the test shows that her blood glucose is below the normal range, get some glucose into her blood right away by giving her something to eat or drink that quickly changes into glucose, such as milk, orange juice, hard sugar candies or sugar lumps. Special glucose gels and tablets are also available. Check her blood glucose again in 20 minutes, and if the symptoms persist or her blood glucose is still too low, repeat the snack and do another blood-glucose check in 20 minutes. If the problem is not resolved, call her physician.
It is possible that hypoglycemia could cause your mother to pass out. If he feels it's necessary, her doctor can teach you to inject a medication called glucagon that will help her blood-glucose level rise quickly back to normal.
Q: Since dollar exchange rates are so favorable, my husband and I are planning a vacation to Central and South America. We have not been to any countries south of the border in 20 years, because I had diarrhea on our last trip. Will I be more susceptible to diarrhea because I'm older?
A: Age has nothing to do with one's susceptibility to diarrhea. About 2.5 million Americans who travel are likely to come down with the ailment. Diarrhea is caused by infectious microorganisms, chiefly Escherichia coli, which stick to the small intestine and cause the intestine to shed fluid or weep.
Diarrhea is rarely life-threatening and generally ends in a few days, even without treatment. Some related symptoms include abdominal cramps, nausea, bloating, urgency and general malaise.
Recently a panel convened by the National Institutes of Health recommended that travelers not take antibiotics, Pepto-Bismol and other over-the-counter medicines to prevent diarrhea. Their feeling was that most travelers don't come down with the ailment, and all of the medicines can cause side-effects.
We suggest you take Pepto-Bismol, Bactrim or Septra with you, and should you have diarrhea, use it. The medicines usually end most cases in less than a day. Avoid raw vegetables, meat, seafood, unpasteurized milk and other dairy products, and unpeeled fruit. If you cannot peel it, cook it or boil it, forget it. The safest beverages are carbonated. If diarrhea persists, see a doctor.
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Pricing Direction For Recessionary Times – Higher
Marketers are usually obsessed with market share and top line growth. In the recessionary times when customers are feeling the pinch and switching to private labels one would expect a price war among the major CPG labels for market share. But exactly the opposite is happening. There are four news stories from recent Wall Street Journal issues:
1. Heinz Profit Rises 11% Amid Price Increases
2. Higher Prices Fuel Nestlé’s Profit
3. Higher Prices Propel Unilever Earnings
4. P&G, Others Are Confident Higher Prices Will Stick
Of course this increase in profit with increase in price point to pricing inefficiencies until now, marketers have been pricing it below their profit maximizing price, probably focused on market share.
So why will the prices go up with profit despite drop in revenues? With recession, as some customers shift to private labels those who are left and prefer these brands have a higher willingness to pay and are loyal to the brands despite the price. Until now the CPG companies were going after the wider market with lower price. Now they know that they can’t get the price sensitive segment and hence it makes no sense to leave their loyal customers with higher consumer surplus. Hence the increase in price.
But how can profit go up when revenues go down? The price increase is pure profit but when marketers lose sales volume the loss in revenue is not all profit. As long as the marginal profit from increase in price is more than the loss of profit from lost sales, the marketer will gain from the price increase despite loss in revenue.
So the strong brands are increasing prices not decreasing and they are reporting increasing profits despite drop in revenues for some. If you are a investor are you worried about drop in revenues or happy to get increase in profit?
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Increased Precautions We're Taking in Response to COVID-19
LAST UPDATED ON 12/17/2020
As updates on the impact of the coronavirus continue to be released, we want to take a moment to inform you of the heightened preventative measures we have put in place at Shaker Clinic to keep our patients, their families, and our employees safe. All efforts are guided by and in adherence to the recommendations distributed by the CDC.
• All staff has received infection prevention and control training.
• Thorough disinfection and hygiene guidance has been provided.
• Cleaning service contracts have been reviewed for additional support.
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
• Clean and disinfect objects and surfaces that are frequently touched.
For detailed information on COVID-19, please visit
Leading Psychosis Treatment Center in Cleveland, OH
Shaker Clinic, located just outside of Cleveland, OH, provides comprehensive treatment for senior adults struggling with psychosis.
Psychosis Treatment
Learn about psychosis
Psychosis occurs when an individual experiences a sudden loss of contact with, or a break from, reality. Most commonly symptomatic of a mental illness, psychosis affects different people in a variety of ways. Many individuals experience hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking patterns while in a psychotic state. Many people will develop intense, overwhelming feelings of paranoia as they become disconnected from their true surroundings and will begin to behave in ways that are grossly disproportionate to the situations that they are in. While some individuals will experience psychosis for a day, a few days, or a few weeks, others may suffer from this debilitating condition on a continual basis.
When a person experiences a state of psychosis, it should be viewed as a sign that a serious illness exists and he or she should be evaluated as soon as possible in order to ensure that the most appropriate level of care at a treatment center like Shaker Clinic is recommended and administered in order to prevent further distress and the onset of more detrimental consequences.
Psychosis characteristics
The features of psychosis can range from movement and thought disorders to the presentation of hallucinations and delusions. The various characteristics of psychosis are described in more detail in the following:
Hallucinations consist of false or distorted sensory perceptions that result in an individual experiencing auditory, visual, or olfactory sensations that do not actually exist. However, for people who are experiencing the hallucination, the sensations are very real and they are unable to distinguish between falsities and truths.
Delusions are characterized by strong, sincere beliefs that a person has despite the fact that those beliefs hold no basis in reality. Even when individuals are presented with clear evidence that their beliefs are unfounded, they remain unable to accept it. This abnormality in a person’s thought processes often results in the onset of extreme paranoia.
Catatonic behavior exists when individuals experience a complete lack of motor activity. This is typically exemplified by the tightening of one’s muscles and extreme rigidity. In some instances, people with psychosis will oscillate between periods of catatonia, where they are not able to move at all, and periods of hyperactivity, where they are in constant state of motion.
Disorganized behavior is characterized by patterns of behavior that are abnormal, unpredictable, and inappropriate to one’s given environment. Disorganized behavior is often displayed by episodes in which individuals act overly silly and childlike, or overly aggressive and angry. Other forms of disorganized behavior can include inappropriate staring, cyclical motioning, and echoing.
Disorganized thinking occurs when individuals are plagued by thoughts that are confused and disturbed, causing an individual to be incapable of thinking clearly. When people experience this feature of psychosis, their thinking patterns are typically either moving at such a rapid pace that they feel overwhelmed by their thoughts, or they are slowed so drastically that it feels as though they are not having any thoughts at all.
Causes and Risk Factors
Causes and risk factors for psychosis
Experts believe that it is the result of a combination of factors working together that makes one more susceptible to developing psychosis. Consider the following:
Genetic: Due to the fact that psychosis is often indicative of the presence of a mental illness, and mental illnesses are known to run in families, the onset of psychosis is believed by experts in the field to have a genetic link.
Physical: Structural changes in the brain have been shown as being present in those who are suffering from psychosis. Scientific studies have demonstrated that psychosis can result from organic medical conditions, including metabolic imbalances, neurological conditions, autoimmune disorders, endocrine disorders, and renal disease. These conditions have all been known to trigger episodes of psychosis.
Environmental: There are some environmental conditions that have been known to trigger short-term psychosis, also known as brief psychotic disorder. Things such as experiencing an excessive amount of stress, going through a trauma, or going through major, unexpected life changes can elicit the onset of psychosis.
Risk Factors:
• Personal history of mental illness
• Family history of mental illness
• Being exposed to toxic substances
• History of substance abuse
• Experiencing severe trauma
• Having recently given birth
Signs and Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of psychosis
The signs and symptoms of psychosis will vary amongst those who are suffering from it depending on a number of different factors, included the cause that initiated the onset of the psychotic break, whether or not a mental illness is present, as well as other individual factors that are unique to the individual, such as one’s personality and temperament. Examples of various symptoms that may be exhibited by a person who is experiencing psychosis may include the following:
• Disorganized speech
• Disorganized, bizarre, and/or inappropriate behaviors
• Extreme paranoia
• Visual hallucinations
• Auditory hallucinations
• Olfactory hallucinations
• Responding to non-existent external stimuli
• Delusions
• Depersonalization
• Social isolation
• Lacking appropriate hygiene
• Engaging is self-harming behaviors
• Loss of interest in things once interested in
Types of Treatment
Types of psychosis treatment offered at Shaker Clinic in Cleveland, OH
In the majority of cases, psychosis will require inpatient care. However, if you have a disorder that is commonly associated with psychosis, there are some outpatient therapies that can be beneficial in helping to manage one’s symptoms in order to prevent further psychotic episodes. Additionally, an outpatient treatment center, like Shaker Clinic, can be used as a step-down from a more intensive treatment regimen, such as inpatient or partial hospitalization programs, in order to help prevent the need for future hospitalization. Furthermore, by taking part in ongoing outpatient therapy at a treatment center like Shaker Clinic, the mental health professionals with whom an individual is working may be able to recognize symptoms of psychosis earlier and make appropriate referrals for high levels of care when necessary.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Psychosis and co-occurring disorders
In some cases, individuals will be affected by psychosis for a few day or weeks but, in other cases, psychosis can be symptomatic of a chronic psychiatric condition or of significant physical health concerns. Some of the disorders of which psychosis is most frequently symptomatic include:
Schizophrenia is likely the most common mental health disorder associated with psychotic features. Individuals who have schizophrenia experience monumental misinterpretations of the world around them and struggle to differentiate between what is real and what is not real.
Bipolar disorder causes individuals to experience extreme fluctuations in mood that oscillate between states of mania and depression. Both mania and depression can be accompanied by psychotic symptoms, typically in the form of visual or auditory hallucinations.
Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness that causes those afflicted by it to experience symptoms that resemble both a mood disorder, such as bipolar disorder, as well as schizophrenia.
Certain forms of dementia can render some individuals susceptible to experiencing the onset of psychosis, typically causing severe disturbances in their behaviors. Amongst dementia patients, paranoid delusions and visual hallucinations tend to be the most commonly displayed of psychotic features.
Physical illnesses or medical conditions can sometimes trigger psychosis. Illnesses that interfere with the structure and normal functioning of an individual’s brain are believed to be the most likely type of condition to elicit a psychotic episode.
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April 24, 2007
Discussion Topic: Can Hunting Save Kenya’s Wildlife?
Kenya’s wildlife numbers have dwindled by at least two-thirds in the last 30 years. Now a government committee’s recommendation to lift the ban on hunting--which they say would promote better wildlife management and bring in big money that could be put into conservation—is stirring debate.
From the Daily News:
Tempers have flared, and one Kenyan journalist recently protested at the idea of Arab royals and rich Americans, "bored by ordinary living", blasting away at big game while children in rags look on from the doorways of mud huts. . . .
Supporters of hunting include not only ranchers and sports hunters themselves, but also some veteran conservationists who have worked in the country for decades. . . .
Well-funded foreign animal welfare groups, mostly based in the United States, have muddied the debate, and even "subverted democracy", in Kenya, says [Mike Norton-Griffiths, an expert on the economics of wildlife management].
These groups seem determined to make sure hunting never returns, apparently regardless of whether this leads to further falls in wildlife numbers or continued rural poverty, he says.
What do you think?
Kristine Shreve
Has anyone ever done a study comparing the health and populations of animals in countries that allow some sort of hunting with those that don't? It would be an interesting thing to see.
the countries around Kenya all allow big game hunting. their animal populations are thriving because the animals have economic viability. kenya has tried to utilize its animals strictly for ecotourism (photo safaris) with a much lower success level. games licenses along with export and trophy fees generate revenue. guides, bearers, trackers, all add to the economy. people just taking photos require much less service levels.
Brian M.
Would there have been any incentive to restore the wild turkey if was not considered a viable game bird? The same thing SHOULD happen in Kenya. How many other animals were brought back from the brink in America because hunters supported the effort. Wood Duck, Pronghorn, etc.
Kenya is suffering from significant poaching. It is also struggling with civil wars in bordering nations, and the incursion of refugees and armed warlords into their north. Some regions have overpopulated elephants, and other regions where most elephants are gone. Apart from the parks where ecotourists visit, there is little funding to manage the impact of wildlife in the rapidly overpopulating more agricultural parts of the country.
Hunting is one very strong incentive to support wild species in a place that otherwise would consider them vermin. Africa's wild species are simply a jewel -- something precious to the rest of mankind over the planet. Hunting fees have been seen to support wildlife in surrounding nations.
BUT -- there's a proviso: the country has to be stable enough, and disciplined enough not to kill the golden goose with creeping corruption. Zimbabwe's troubles make that clear: regions where hunting lands have been transferred to Mugabe's cronies have lost their wildlife. And Zim is not earning so much $'s to support that wildlife, either.
Unfortunately, Kenya's wildlife leadership has tried for many years to introduce hunting following the more modern African model -- but it is still too politically hot... now in a country facing the instability of their northern neighbors...
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Early lung cancer diagnostic tests
By | November 16, 2011
Cancer precursor lesions and early detection of lung cancer than chest imaging, the need for early lung cancer diagnostic test checks the following:
Early lung cancer diagnostic test 1. bronchoscopy current widespread use of bronchoscopy of normal tissue and precancerous lesions, low resolution, the diagnostic positive rate was only about 37%, and fluorescence bronchoscopy (LIFE) for early lung cancer The positive rate of diagnosis of 75% or more, LIFE by normal tissues, precancerous lesions and new biological differences between the spontaneous fluorescence to detect and locate new biological epithelium.
Early lung cancer diagnostic tests 2. Cytology by sputum smear method, bronchoscopy brush biopsy or bronchoalveolar lavage, biopsy, etc. to obtain cells for cytological screening, there are 3 methods: Computer Aided sputum cytology image analysis; transformed epithelial cells of the immune staining; PCR-based cancer gene mutations. Sputum smears found that specimens of lung cancer after 74% of malignancy associated changes can be detected, and 12 months before clinical diagnosis can be detected or earlier; cytology diagnosis of central lung cancer is the most valuable One way to find a part of cytology lack of obvious symptoms and chest X ray nor the performance of early lung cancer lesions.
Check in early diagnosis of lung cancer 3. Chest imaging diagnosis, chest CT and magnetic resonance imaging can help the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer, precancerous lesions, but only the thickness of layers of cells, it is difficult airways in the early lesions found on occurred around the airway atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) and diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNCH) can thin spiral CT.
(1) early chest X-ray signs: lesion diameter 2.0em less, according to its original morphological features, is broadly divided into three types: nodular type, patch type, hollow type.
(2) High-resolution CT slices of early signs: According to the density of ground-glass density, divided into solid nodules and high-density nodules. Ground-glass density shadow in the high-resolution CT (HRCT) lung density on the performance slightly increased, but the film still shows blood vessels and bronchi. Limitations of ground-glass density shadow can be atypical adenomatous hyperplasia and early-stage lung performance.
Check in early diagnosis of lung cancer 4. Morphometric analysis and DNA content determination by computer image analysis system quantitative determination of tissue sections or cell smears of morphological changes, combined with DNA content determination to judge, to overcome the microscope and when the pathologist's subjective differences between different observers, and improve lung cancer before the disease, diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lung cancer the accuracy and reliability.
Check in early diagnosis of lung cancer 5. Lung cancer gene checks oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes associated with control of cell growth and differentiation in lung precancerous lesions and early lung cancer, may have related to the expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor gene abnormalities.
(1) myc oncogene: To study the poorly differentiated lung epithelial cells around the cancer gene found in the increased expression of myc and ras.
(2) Kr, gene: is to determine the genetic susceptibility of lung cancer, known as the pulmonary adenoma susceptibility gene.
(3) bcl-2: the signal by suppressing apoptosis plays a role in tumorigenesis.
(4) tumor suppressor gene p53: may promote tumor angiogenesis plays an important role.
(5) tumor suppressor gene p16.
(6) Rb: Early lung cancer can be used as an important basis for classification.
Others include FHIT (fragilehistidinetriad) precancerous lesions of the molecular markers, anti-apoptotic protein AKT, CFR-l/PAM-l receptor, CD44 and so on.
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Q:
AngularJS failed to upload file express
I am trying to upload a file to express ( so i can upload it to mongoDB later on). However, when I try to upload a file to express, i print out the response data, and it seems like nothing is getting passed in.
Im using ng-file-upload.min.js. Can anyone help me out?
script.js
var app = angular.module('fileUpload', ['ngFileUpload']);
app.controller('MyCtrl', ['$scope', 'Upload', '$timeout', function ($scope, Upload, $timeout) {
$scope.uploadFiles = function(files, errFiles) {
$scope.files = files;
$scope.errFiles = errFiles;
angular.forEach(files, function(file) {
file.upload = Upload.upload({
url: '/uploadFile',
data: {file: file}
});
file.upload.then(function (response) {
$timeout(function () {
file.result = response.data;
});
}, function (response) {
if (response.status > 0)
$scope.errorMsg = response.status + ': ' + response.data;
}, function (evt) {
file.progress = Math.min(100, parseInt(100.0 *evt.loaded / evt.total));
});
});
}
}]);
Server.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path'); //core module
var databaseUrl = "localhost:27017/DB"; // default env
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var multer = require('multer');
var storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, callback) {
callback(null, './uploads');
},
filename: function (req, file, callback) {
callback(null, file.fieldname + '-' + Date.now());
}
});
var upload = multer({ storage : storage}).single('userFile');
// Configure app
var app = express();
// Store all html files in views
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/views'));
// Parses recived json input
app.use(bodyParser.json());
// Store all js in Scripts folder
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/scripts'));
// Technology not needed but good practice, especailly when serval people are working on it
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile('index.html');
});
// Listen for Seach collection request
app.post('/uploadFile',function(req,res){
upload(req,res,function(err) {
if(err) {
console.log("Error uploading file");
}else{
var databaseName = "E-learn" , collection = "Uploads";
var data = req.body;
console.log("Got req:"+req);
}
});
});
// Implement a web server to listen to requests on port 4444
app.listen(5555, function(){
console.log('ready on port 5555');
});
Index.html
<!-- Page Content -->
<div class="container" ng-app="fileUpload" ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<div class="panel panel-default">
<div class="panel-heading"><strong>Upload Files</strong> <small>Bootstrap files upload</small></div>
<div class="panel-body">
<!-- Standar Form -->
<h4>Select files from your computer</h4>
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="js-upload-form">
<div class="form-inline">
<div class="form-group">
<input name="userFile" type="file" ngf-select="uploadFiles($files, $invalidFiles)" multiple accept="image/*" ngf-max-height="1000" ngf-max-size="1MB">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" id="js-upload-submit">Upload files</button>
</div>
</form>
<!-- Drop Zone -->
<h4>Or drag and drop files below</h4>
<div class="upload-drop-zone" id="drop-zone" ngf-drop ngf-select ng-model="files" class="drop-box"
ngf-drag-over-class="'dragover'" ngf-multiple="true" ngf-allow-dir="true"
accept="image/*,application/pdf" ngf-pattern="'image/*,application/pdf'">
Just drag and drop files here
</div>
<!-- Progress Bar
<div class="progress">
<div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar" aria-valuenow="60" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" style="width: 60%;">
<span class="sr-only">60% Complete</span>
</div>
</div>
-->
<!-- Upload Finished -->
<div class="js-upload-finished">
<h3>Processed files</h3>
<div class="list-group">
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="f in files" style="font:smaller"><span class="badge alert-success pull-right">{{f.name}} {{f.$errorParam}}</span>
<span class="progress" ng-show="f.progress >= 0">
<div style="width:{{f.progress}}%" ng-bind="f.progress + '%'"></div>
</span>
</li>
<li ng-repeat="f in errFiles" style="font:smaller">
{{f.name}} {{f.$error}} {{f.$errorParam}}
</li>
</ul>
{{errorMsg}}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Result
Error uploading file
A:
As Mitchell Simoens Said multer is a good option. Im guessing you need some help writing the code. So here is an example.
var multer = require('multer');
var storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, callback) {
callback(null, './uploads');
},
filename: function (req, file, callback) {
callback(null, file.fieldname + '-' + Date.now());
}
});
var upload = multer({ storage : storage}).single('file');
app.post('/uploadFile',function (req,res){
upload(req,res,function (err) {
if (err) {
console.log("Error uploading file");
}
var databaseName = "E-learn" , collection = "Uploads";
var data = req.body;
console.log("Got req:"+req);
});
});
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Thursday, 20 October 2011
Before We Say Goodbye by Gabriella Ambrosio
Before We Say Goodbye is a beautifully written, very short novel / novella. (I think it takes about 2 hours to read it all). I read this in bursts - nearly half of it in one go while waiting at an airport, then, months later, another chunk.
Why the months of reading other things? Because, as beautifully written and effective as this novel is, it is not an easy read. The book has a dreamy atmosphere - even though it is extremely well grounded, too. A strange thing to say: a book that feels like a (bad) dream, and almost like journalism, all at the same time.
Initially, I struggled a bit (one character's internal process is a bit surreal, and I can sometimes find the surreal a struggle to read). But once I got past the discombobulation that the sheer number of characters (and different names, all of which sound equally alien to my ears) and the occasional episodes of a near-feverish imagination engender, it is a very rewarding book.
On some levels, I want to set aside a few hours and read it again, all in one go, to appreciate the craftsmanship of the writing, the detail, and the emotional depth. On another level, I may never read it again at all. The dreaminess is not just pretty, it is sinister, too, and there is that feeling of inevitability that sometimes haunts a dream.
If you watched Paradise Now, or if you read Joe Sacco's Palestine, and were able to appreciate (though not, perhaps, enjoy) these, then Before We Say Goodbye is likely to be well up your street. It is so beautifully crafted, there is almost joy in reading it - though it is filled with sadness and despair...
Rating: 5/5
Monday, 29 August 2011
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Rating: 5/5
Monday, 15 August 2011
City of Veils by Zoë Ferraris
City of Veils, the sequel to The Night of the Mi'raj / Finding Nouf is another crime novel set in and around Jedda in Saudi Arabia. It could probably stand on its own without the first novel - but it does continue some of the character relationships that were slowly established previously (after a gap of 8 months or so).
The two heroes from the first novel are once again central to the plot: Nayir, a desert guide and very devout Muslim, and Katya, a woman working in the Forensics department of the Saudi police force. Two other big new characters are now part of the plot: Osama, a police officer who is more confident and less spiteful around women than many other men, and Miriam, an American woman who lives in Jedda.
The story starts when a female body is found on the beach: badly burned, stabbed, beaten and decaying. Meanwhile, Miriam returns from a month-long holiday in America to be reunited with her husband, who promptly forgets to pick her up at the airport, and then, barely having brought her home, disappears.
This is the tale of an investigation into the murder - and also the tale of an American woman suddenly isolated and alone in one of the scariest places on Earth to be a woman in. The premise is interesting, to say the least.
The novel is a smooth read. This time, there is more tension worked into the plot. We're still not in serial-killer-territory, but there is a sense of peril around Miriam. The murder, this time around, is very obviously a violent murder rather than a possible murder. (In the first novel, it is an unexplained death for the longest time, and there is not much of a sense that more violence might occur). More tension in this book means a brisker pace - but there are also more characters, and this imbalances the novel a little. Not every plotline is as tense as every other plotline, so it can sometimes feel like one chapter is hitting the accelerator, while another is shifting down a gear and meandering a little.
By far the most awkward angle of the novel is when it strays dangerously close into The Da Vinci Code territory. Its heart is never in it, and this is not a novel about religious conspiracies - yet there is a sprinkling of this in the plot, and as reader, I felt myself cringing and hoping that it would not develop into a Dan Brown clone. It never does - but it dabbles with the idea.
Much of the attraction of Night of the Mi'raj was that it introduces an alien land that not many people experience. City of Veils feels even more immersive in Saudi Arabian culture - sometimes intentionally straying to the sort of scene a Western reader might have expected, but found missing in the first novel. Does it always convince? I'm not sure - the police is written about in a respectful and competent manner, and in many ways, these could be investigators in any country. Yes, there are cultural differences, but there are no fundamental differences in the characters of the people. Are people really more or less the same, all around the world, just adapting their lives into different behavioural patterns, but without deep-rooted differences? I don't know - this book makes it feel that way. It does not help that it's all written in English, so characters use swearwords like "f***" when things go wrong. Basically, everyone's speech patterns are American (with a few common Arabic words thrown in), while their behaviour patterns are Saudi.
I enjoyed this book a lot. I enjoyed it more than the first novel - it has more tension and peril in it. I also think it would probably make a fantastic movie. But it is somehow not quite perfect: characters are a bit too self-analytical, a bit too explanatory, the narrative tone a bit too removed to be fully immersed. It's a novel that comes within grasping distance of genre-defining greatness, but can't quite capitalise on its great ideas and concept to their fullest potential. Well worth a read, definitely, but probably not a second, third or fourth read.
Rating: 4/5
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
The Night of the Mi'raj by Zoë Ferraris
Rating: 4/5
Sunday, 24 July 2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
I don't quite feel this is appropriate.
Rating: 3/5
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
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An Introduction to Vedic Astrology
Most people in the western world are not family with Vedic astrology. This articles provides an introduction to Vedic astrology and its history.
Vedic astrology is more than 10000 years old, but no ones knows exactly how old the Vedic period is. The Vedic time period is still debated, but is considered to have originated in the Indian subcontinent. Unlike modern science and technology, this Vedic period was the time frame where people used Vedic knowledge in their daily life. There was a set health care system named Ayurveda. This system is now a very big industry. Astrology or Jyotish is a branch in that Vedic lifestyle. Jyotish means nothing but knowledge of light.
Veda means a lot in Sanskrit. It means sacred knowledge, sacred lore, finding, perception, true knowledge and much more. The knowledge about Vedas have spread in four texts Rig veda, Yajur veda, Sama veda and Atharva veda. There are so many scriptures from these books mentions astrology.
Even though there are many texts available about Vedic astrology, Vedanga Jyotish can be considered as main text which is supposed to be originated in the later part of the Vedic era. It is all about astronomical calculations and astrology as well. There are so many other books giving detailed descriptions about astrology like Brihat Parshara Hora Sastra, Jaimini Sutras, Phaldeepika, Uttara Kalaamrit, and Bhrigu sutras.
The western astrology system is ahead of Vedic astrology by 23 degrees. For example, if the Sun in a Vedic birth chart is at 20 degrees Sagittarius. A western birth chart will show the Sun to be within the early degrees of Capricorn. So, the calendar is quite different between the two systems. Accordingly, the dates of the months also change. The two systems are name western and eastern calender’s.
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Q:
UPDATE SQL table based on query
I have a table called students with 1000 students in. I have a query which tells me which of those students has free tuition. In the stduents table I have a field called FreeTuition and I want to populate/update that field with the results of the query. Do I need to use some kind of loop?
The students table has StuCode which is unique, the query returns StuCode of all the students with free tuition. This is how I want it to look:
| StuCode | FreeTuition |
-------------------------
| S12345 | Yes |
| S12346 | No |
-------------------------
A:
Not at all. Something like this:
with yourquery as (
<your query here>
)
update s
set FreeTuition = (case when yq. StuCode is not null then 'Y' else 'N' end)
from students s left join
yourquery yq
on s. StuCode = yq. StuCode;
Note: This sets the value for all students, yes or no. You can change the left join to just join to set the value only for students returned by the subquery.
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Simplicity and Why the Universe Exists
Philosophy 72 (279):125 - 132 (1997)
If big bang cosmology is true, then the universe began to exist about 15 billion years ago with a 'big bang', an explosion of matter, energy and space from a singular point. This singularity is spatially and temporally pointlike; that is, it has zero spatial dimensions and exists for an instant (at t=0) before exploding with a 'big bang'. The big bang singularity is also lawless; Stephen Hawking writes: A singularity is a place where the classical concepts of space and time break down as do all the known laws of physics because they are all formulated on a classical space time background. ... [T]his breakdown is not merely a result of our ignorance of the correct theory but represents a fundamental limitation to our ability to predict the future [of the singularity], a limitation that is analogous but additional to the limitation imposed by the normal quantum mechanical uncertainty principle. [1] The lawlessness of the singularity entails that it 'would thus emit all [possible] configurations of particles with equal probability' [2]. Paul Davies describes this vividly: 'Anything can come out of a naked singularity -in the case of the big bang the universe came out.' [3]
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Monday, 2 September 2013
But it's not about "road safety", is it?
There's a good summary at Sky News about the pro's and con's of the EU's proposal for automatic speed limiters i.e. they are a load of nonsense.
Before they start lecturing us about "road safety" they might like to think about learning from us how to get road deaths down to half the current European average (one of the things of which we in the UK can be rightly proud, I think).
But the article misses out the most fundamental point, which is behind two-thirds of EU proposals, and that is that some lobbying body somewhere has spotted a gap in the market.
If they can persuade the EU to pass such a crackpot Regulation or Directive, then some large corporate somewhere will be able to earn itself silly retro-fitting 250 million motor vehicles with these gadgets.
Even if they can only charge €10 a pop, and it will probably be more like €100, that is still a shed load of money, with no chance of a refund as and when it turns out they cause more accidents than they prevent.
The Stigler said...
Having just returned from France, I can bear witness to the fact that a lot of the French drive like total twats. They speed up right behind you, overtake and then pull right in front of you. Even on an Autoroute where it's completely unnecessary.
But I suspect the biggest cause of death is kids on little moped like things, who seem to have a death wish.
The whole idea is crazy. I've broken the speed limit for good reason. An ambulance behind me on a main road was coming up on me very fast, I couldn't pull over, so I hit the accelerator and was doing 80mph on a 70mph road.
My guess in these situations is that it's really about something else, and this is the "unreasonable desire" that then gets compromised to what is really wanted (like satellite tracking of cars).
Mark Wadsworth said...
TS, satellite tracking is a bonus from their point of view, but in this country they can already do this with surveillance cameras and automatic number plate recognition.
Lola said...
Right. That's it. I will finish the rebuild on my 100% mechanical (i.e. no 'puters) car I first built in 1978. There is no way they can fit speed limiters to that. Nor could they to any of the thousands of other 'classics' - at least not reliably.
Actaully thinking about it, they could force the replacement of the ignition points with an anctuator thingy coupled to a rev limiter. But what I'd then do is to get it tested with a very low final drive ratio that I'd then switch to a higher one when said tech has been installed.
Plus I bet none of this would apply to 'official' cars.
Welcome back to the Zil lanes.
Bayard said...
Lola, it might interest you to know that I did a project on a 100% mechanical speed limiter back at the start of the 80's when I was an engineering student. The thrust of the project was to limit speed without limiting acceleration.
It's all bunk anyway, as anyone who has been re-educated, sorry, on a speed awareness course knows, that the fast roads are the safest ones. The vast majority of accidents happen on minor roads where you can't easily exceed the speed limit, but can easily drive too fast for the road conditions.
Anyway, a better way of improving road safety, as Mark has pointed out, is to mandate and enforce the "two-second rule" and have that instead of a national speed limit.
Bayard said...
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/*!
* Copyright 2016 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
* Licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See LICENSE file in the project root for license information.
*/
import { CodingErrorAction } from "./CodingErrorAction";
import { Interval } from "./misc/Interval";
/**
* Decodes UTF-8 bytes directly to Unicode code points, stored in an
* {@link IntBuffer}.
*
* Unlike {@link CharsetDecoder}, this does not use UTF-16 as an
* intermediate representation, so this optimizes the common case of
* decoding a UTF-8 file for parsing as Unicode code points.
*/
export declare class UTF8CodePointDecoder {
protected readonly decodingErrorAction: CodingErrorAction;
protected decodingTrailBytesNeeded: number;
protected decodingCurrentCodePoint: number;
protected validDecodedCodePointRange: Interval;
/**
* Constructs a new {@link UTF8CodePointDecoder} with a specified
* {@link CodingErrorAction} to handle invalid UTF-8 sequences.
*/
constructor(decodingErrorAction: CodingErrorAction);
/**
* Resets the state in this {@link UTF8CodePointDecoder}, preparing it
* for use with a new input buffer.
*/
reset(): void;
/**
* Decodes as many UTF-8 bytes as possible from {@code utf8BytesIn},
* writing the result to {@code codePointsOut}.
*
* If you have more bytes to decode, set {@code endOfInput} to
* {@code false} and call this method again once more bytes
* are available.
*
* If there are no more bytes available, make sure to call this
* setting {@code endOfInput} to {@code true} so that any invalid
* UTF-8 sequence at the end of the input is handled.
*
* If {@code codePointsOut} is not large enough to store the result,
* a new buffer is allocated and returned. Otherwise, returns
* {@code codePointsOut}.
*
* After returning, the {@link ByteBuffer#position position} of
* {@code utf8BytesIn} is moved forward to reflect the bytes consumed,
* and the {@link IntBuffer#position position} of the result
* is moved forward to reflect the code points written.
*
* The {@link IntBuffer#limit limit} of the result is not changed,
* so if this is the end of the input, you will want to set the
* limit to the {@link IntBuffer#position position}, then
* {@link IntBuffer#flip flip} the result to prepare for reading.
*/
decodeCodePointsFromBuffer(utf8BytesIn: {
data: Uint8Array;
position: number;
}, codePointsOut: {
data: Int32Array;
position: number;
}, endOfInput: boolean): {
data: Int32Array;
position: number;
};
private decodeLeadingByte(leadingByte);
private decodeTrailingByte(trailingByte);
private appendCodePointFromInterval(codePoint, validCodePointRange, codePointsOut);
private appendCodePoint(codePoint, codePointsOut);
private handleDecodeError(error, codePointsOut);
}
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Zydus Launches World’s First Biosimilar of Adalimumab
Access to this therapy will impact 12 million people suffering from auto immune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and Ankylosin Spondylitis in India
After more than a decade-long wait, the revolutionary therapy that provided a new lease of life to millions of patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and other auto immune disorders globally will now be accessible to patients in India. Zydus Cadila becomes the first company anywhere in the world to launch the biosimilar of Adalimumab – the world’s largest selling therapy. Developed by the researchers at the Zydus Research Centre, the biosimilar has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India and will be marketed under the brand name Exemptia, to treat auto immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
This novel non-infringing process for Adalimumab and a novel non-infringing formulation have been researched, developed and produced by scientists at the Zydus Research Centre. The biosimilar is the first to be launched by any company in the world and is a ‘fingerprint match’ with the originator in terms of safety, purity and potency of the product. The biosimilar of Adalimumab is a part of Zydus’ robust biologics programme which has the largest number of monoclonal antibodies under development in India. The group’s R&D pipeline which comprises 24 biologics includes biosimilars and three novel biologics. These biologics are being developed to treat auto immune disorders like arthritis, cancer, infertility and stroke.
Adalimumab, the fully human anti-TNF alpha monoclonal antibody, was first approved globally in 2002 and has since then been the most preferred therapy to treat patients suffering from auto immune disorders. However, the therapy was not available to patients in India. It is estimated that more than 12 million patients in India suffer from these chronic conditions which progressively deteriorate and lead to lifelong pain and in some cases, even disability.
Speaking on the breakthrough, Deputy Managing Director of Zydus Cadila, Dr. Sharvil P. Patel said, “At Zydus, we believe that innovations must bridge unmet healthcare needs and provide solutions to patients who are suffering from disease and disability especially in such chronic conditions. This therapy will offer a new lease of life to millions in India who have not had access to this therapy so far. We are happy to offer them hope, freedom from pain and a better quality of life through Exemptia.”
Biosimilars are biological products that are ‘similar’ or ‘highly similar’ to the reference medicinal products (originator products) following the EMA (European Medicines Agency), FDA (Food and Drug Administration, USA) and the CDSCO regulatory guidelines. Biosimilars have a similar level of efficacy and safety compared to that of the originator products and provide additional advantage to patients in terms of affordability and accessibility.
Exemptia is given as a 40 mg subcutaneous injection once every alternate week. Patients normally would have to take the treatment for six months. It has been clinically observed that the therapy is able to arrest the degeneration and the patient goes into remission – which means the auto immune disorder is under control and the patient is able to live a life without pain and can actually lead a fully active life. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'bba8f8cf843f9c05bcadfa214257ce30adc195590e07eabe458bd652d37b8b21'} |
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Today's Viral Video: Twelve-year-olds form metal band
Jarad Dawkins and Malcolm Brickhouse love metal.
The two kids, who are featured in today's viral video from "Creative Videos 4 U," form the two-piece back Unlocking the Truth and dream of playing the biggest venues, even if they're only actually playing in the basement.
Along the way, they say they've learned about the importance of being yourself.
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Variety: Acrostic
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon are here for you at graduation.
ACROSTIC — Before I begin, I want to mention that we understand the need for a convenient link back to the main Wordplay page, which was lost when we changed systems. We are working on bringing it back to the Wordplay label at the top of the column. That may take a while, though, so for the time being, that link will be at the very beginning of each column, where it tells you which day’s puzzle we’re discussing.
This Sunday’s acrostic is from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” the first of six autobiographical books by Maya Angelou and a 20th-century American classic. It’s a lighthearted passage from a very heavy-duty memoir, although the sentiment, concerning the treachery and evil of adults vs. children, is pretty profound. So, happy summer, children!
I got started with YES WE CAN, EDITH PIAF, HYDE PARK and EMPHASIS. The entries as a whole weren’t ridiculously hard, but I learned what a “mentum” was (useful for the next time I meet a GOATEED guy or actual goat) and thought the clues for LEMONADE and DEHYDRATED were particularly good.
Wordies like us are always on the alert for pig-Latinized terms that happen to be real words, such as ashtray (from trash) and X-ray (from Rex). Sometimes a new one enters the lists, such as eBay; but then some older ones may lose their currency (is Alice Faye still remembered?).
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Willipedia - User contributions [en] 2022-12-08T09:06:24Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.32.1 WARP 2005-10-15T23:12:18Z <p> Minor typo edit</p> <hr /> <div>WARP (the Williams Association of Role-Players) is a club dedicated to roleplaying and similar [[Odd quad | Odd Quad]]-type activities. The club is noted for its laissez-faire organization; traditionally WARP only holds one meeting, at the beginning of the year, and thereafter organizes through its listserver in smaller groups. (If it sounds fragmented and chaotic, that's because it is.) Although roleplaying is a primary focus of WARP, it coordinates a variety of similar activities. Among them are bopswording (hitting each other with PVC-and-foam swords for fun and profit), Laser Tag, board games, card games, and whatever else comes to mind. <br /> <br /> The WARP listserver, in addition to serving as the coordination tool of the club, also serves the valuable purpose of a spam conduit, down which people send links to strange news articles, online games, and other procrastination aids. The listserver is also a good place to settle important fantasy-battle questions, like "who would win in a fight: a cave troll, or a pack of velociraptors?" Finally, the WARP listserver is an excellent place to observe WARP crust in action, since many WARP members never leave the listserver even after graduation.<br /> <br /> Traditionally WARP has two "real" officer positions: the Figurehead (president) and the Shady Grand Vizier (treasurer). The current (05-06) Figurehead is [[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06]], and the current Grand Vizier is [[Jake F. Manley '07]]. In practice, WARP has a long hierarchy of ever-fluctuating ceremonial titles, the most enduring of which is the [[Not-Pope]].<br /> <br /> WARP is affiliated with most of the other organizations of the [[Odd quad | Odd Quad]], if only by shared membership. The strongest link is to the [[Deviants]] listserver, which serves as a more neutral socialization branch of essentially the same social group. Other closely-affiliated organizations include the [[Elizabethans]], the [[(Moocho Macho Moocow Military) Marching Band]], and the [[Mad Cow]].</div> Ephlats 2005-10-15T04:47:32Z <p> Edited out porn spam</p> <hr /> <div>The Ephlats are a coed a cappella singing group that sings a variety of musical styles, with an emphasis on accesible pop music. It is the oldest continuously running a cappella group on campus (48 years), though the group has been through changes over the years; for example, during the 60's the group actually used guitars and a gong. The Ephlats are known to be the best looking student organization on campus.<br /> <br /> The current ('05-'06) members of the Ephlats are:<br /> <br /> Seniors:<br /> <br /> Sasha Gsovski '06 (President)<br/><br /> <br /> Juniors:<br /> <br /> Nirmal Deshpande '07<br/><br /> Liz Spragins '07 (Musical Director) <br/><br /> <br /> Sophomores:<br /> <br /> Constantine Mavroudis '08<br/><br /> Steve Melis '08<br/><br /> Trevor Newman '08<br/><br /> Kate Peterson '08<br/><br /> Andrew Wang '08<br/><br /> Caitlin Warthin '08<br/><br /> <br /> First-Years:<br /> <br /> Helen Hatch '09 <br/><br /> Kate Johnson '09<br/><br /> Jessica Kopcho '09 <br/><br /> Buckly Marshall '09<br/><br /> Zach Safford '09 <br/><br /> Stefanie Williams '09 <br/><br /> Dan Winston '09 <br/><br /> <br /> Visit the Ephlats online at !</div> Sean Carollo 2005-10-15T00:33:43Z <p> A brief summary of Sean</p> <hr /> <div>Sean A. Carollo '07 is a really special guy. 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How people leave organizations: Unfolding theory in a changing workforce
by Johnson, Edgar R., Ph.D., CAPELLA UNIVERSITY, 2009, 83 pages; 3349780
This study tests Lee and Mitchell’s unfolding model of voluntary employee departure from an organization. Expanding conventional wisdom, the model predicts that “shocks” play an important role in initiating the decision process people use when determining whether to leave or stay with their organizations. Additionally, the model stipulates that there are five distinct decision paths that individuals follow when making a decision to stay with or leave an organization. The unfolding model has been tested previously with female nurses, professional consultants in Big 6 accounting firms, and military officers. For this study, 41 professional businesswomen who had quit their jobs or seriously considered quitting their jobs in the last 3 years completed an online survey. Data gathered from the survey and follow-up interviews were analyzed through correlations, analyses of medians, and contingency tables. Results indicated that 56% of participants reported a “shock,” that there was an association between path and type of “shock,” and that 68% of participants followed one of the five decision paths predicted by the model. Conclusions, recommendations for the development of the model, implications for further study, and organizational retention strategies are discussed.
AdviserGeorge Ecker
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsManagement; Occupational psychology
Publication Number3349780
About ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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Après ces premières mesures, le général Clauzel voulut frapper un coup décisif, débloquer ses troupes, châtier l'insolence du bey de Tittery. II part d'Alger avec 8,000 hommes , passe le col du Teniah , franchit sous le feu de l'ennemi la première chaîne de l'Atlas, formée de montagnes abruptes , met en déroute les Arabes par une savante manœuvre, entre à Médéah et y installe un nouveau bey. Mais il commet une faute, en y laissant une garnison de 1,200 hommes que des milliers de Kabyles viennent assiéger, et mettent dans l'obligation de demander du secours. Un peu plus tard, il est obligé de faire revenir la garnison de Médéah, car l'armée d'occupation vient d'être réduite encore, et les diflicullés extérieures ont décidé le gouvernement à ne laisser que quatre régiments d'infanterie en A[rique. Le général Clauzel fut bientôt rappelé en France et remplacé par le général Derthézène auquel on laissait 9.000 hom mes à, peine, juste de quoi empêcher les Arabes de lui couper ta tète. A l'activité énergique, aux vues aventureuses de son prédécesseur, le général Uerthézène crut pouvoir subs tituer une réserve poussée jusqu'à la timidité, un sys tème de mansuétude et de bons procédés qui eut pour résultat d'accroître l'insolence des Arabes, de nous dé considérer à leurs yeux. Leur audace ne connut plus de bornes, et c'est à grand'peine que le commandant en chef parvint à conduire une partie de son armée jusqu'à Médéah pour y appuyer l'autorité du bey que nous y avions établi. Au retour de l'expédition, son arrière I 170 L'ALeÉRiK ^ardè ^ut assaillie par 12,000 Arabes, comme elle des cendait dii col de Mouzaïa. Malgré leur épuisement, les troupes, Un ifaomeht surprises et troublées, firent face avec leur courage habituel à un ennemi bien su périeur en nombre, et la colonne expéditionnaire ren tra dans ses cantonnements, ayant combattu et mar ché sans Interruption pendant quatre jours, avec deux cent cinquànte-cincj hommes tués oU blessés. Mais T uni forme français avait rétrogradé devant le burnous^ et le prestiy;e de nos armes était détruit aux yeux des Arabes poUr lesquels tout mouvement de retraite est une dé faite ; aussi 8*émpressèrelit-ils d'accourir de toutes parts sous les drapeaux d'un chef renommé, Ben-Zandun, et pendant plusieurs mois ce île fut qu'une série de petits combats incessants^ où nos troupes, toujours victorieu ses, devaient se montrer partout & la fois ; à peine âvaiént-èlles contraint une tribu à la soumission, qu'une autre se mettait en campagne. Le duc de Rovigo'qui remplaça le général Berthézène (décembre 1831) parut dès Tabord décidé à prendre le contre-pied des errements de ce dernier, à inaugurer contre les tribus hostiles uii véritable système de ter reur et d'exécutions sommaires. Après avoir remporté de brillants succès à Koléah, BoufTarik, puni les Bli diens par une razzia, il imagina d'accorder des sauf conduits à deux chefs arabes qu'il fit arrêter ensuite, juger et exécuter. Sans doute, ces chefs avaient été convaincus de trahison , mais rendre perfidie pour perfidie, ce n'était pas le moyen de donner ufte haute idée de notre bonne foi et de notre civilisation supé rieure. De tels procédés devaient amener de sanglantes représailles : plusieurs de nos détachements, surpris par l'eimi^mi} furent massacrés jusqu'au dernier homme* Grftce à l'habile administration du général Voirol, i jouir d'une tranquillité relative : la province d'Alger puljo dehors de deux expéditions heureuses contre les Had joutes, il s'établit une sorte de trêve tacite entre les Ara bes et les Français. Le général Voirol en profita pour multiplier avec les indigènes les relations de commerce et de bon voisinage ; il imprima un redoublement d'ac tivité aux travaux de dessèchement des marécages, entreprit la construction d'ouvrages considérables, d'un réseau de routes dans toutes les directions, installa de nombreux postes pour protéger les colons de la Mî tidja. Sans plaintes, sans murmures, par de véritables prodiges de patience, de résignation courageuse, les troupes exécutèrent cette tâche ingrate, ignorée, où tant de soldats contractaient le germe de maladies mor telles. Dans la province de Conslanline, notre situation res tait précaire et chancelante ; il avait fallu trois expédi tions pour réduire la place de Bone, un des ports les plus rapprochés de Constanline, le point sur lequel il Impor tait le plus de prévenir chmet-Bey. Le général Munk d'Uîer s'y montra aussi bon administrateur que brillant ofGcier; ayant puni et sévèrement châtié les tribus des Ouled-Attia, coupables de nombreux actes de brigan dage, il s'appliqua et réussit à entretenir des relations amicales avec ses voisins. En 1833, le général Trézel s'empara de Bougie, mal gré l'opini&lre résistance des Kabyles qui défendirent leur ville avec acharnement. Entourés, bloqués par des tribus belliqueuses, le commandant Duvivier et ses com pagnons d'armes sentirent leur courage grandir avec le péril, maintinrent leur conquête en dépit des retours of fensifs, des Continuelles tentatives d'un ennemi dix 1 172 L*ALGÉR1B fois plus nombreux, en dépit des maladies qui exerçaient de terribles ravages dans cette faible garnison. Au com mencement de 1835, Bone et Bougie étaient les seuls établissements de la France dans la province de Gons tantine. C'est la province d'Oran qui allait devenir le théâtre des événements les plus considérables, c'est là qu'une politique décousue et incertaine devait enfanter les pé rils les plus grands ; là fut, grâce aux fautes accumulées de nos gouverneurs, le berceau de la puissance d'Âbd-el Kader. Les choses avaient d'€d:)ord semblé se présenter d'une manière satisfaisante : parmi les indigènes, au cune unité de volonté, de commandement ; chacun cou rait à sa haine, à ses querelles, ne s'occupant que de secouer définitivement le joug des Turcs. Le bey d'Oran demandait aux Français de le débarrasser de son bey lik; après quelques hésitations, le général Clauzel, crai gnant les menées de l'empereur du Maroc qui con voitait cette riche proie, envoya à Oran un régiment d'infanterie. En même temps, pour n'avoir plus à s'oc cuper de cette ville et de Constantine, le général en chef conclut avec le bey de Tunis une convention par laquelle il lui abandonnait ces deux provinces, à la con dition que celui-ci reconnaîtrait la suzeraineté de la France et paierait un tribut annuel. Le ministère refusa de ratifier ce traité, blâma et rappela le général, par ce motif capital : <c que la convention préjugeait la question de savoir si nous garderions indéfiniment Al ger. » Chargé du commandement de la province, le général Boyer ne pouvait s'aventurer loin de la place d'Oran avec les faibles ressources dont il disposait. Jusque-là les Ara bes n'avaient pas osé nous attaquer ; le soin de leurs propres affaires, leurs dissensions intestines les absor baient, les chefs se disputaient le pouvoir à main ar mée, toute la province se trouvait en proie à l'anarchie. Dans cette situation indécise, qui n'était ni la paix ni la guerre, l'empereur du Maroc cherchiiil à tirer parti de l'agitation indisciplinée des Arabes, de l'inaction forcée du général Boyer ; non content d'étendre de jour en jour son influence sur la province d'Oran, il osa envoyer à Médéah et Milianah des agents qui s'installèrent comme gouverneurs en son nom. A la Un, les indigènes se lassèrent de l'anarchiiî qui les dévorait. Les tribus voisinesde Mascara, affranchies de la domination turque, voulurent se donner pour chef un vieux marabout vénéré, nommé Sidi-el-Hadji-Mahiddin, qui leur conseillait de réunir leurs forces contre les chrétiens, de rendre a la nationalité arabe sa supréma tie d'autrefois. Il refusa cet honneur, en alléguant son grand âge, et offrit à sa place son troisième fils, Abd-el Kader, âgé de vingt-quatre ans, qu'il assurait être doué de toutes les qualités d'intelligence, de valeur et de piété nécessaires pour les mènera la victoire. Pour entraîner ces peuples épris du merveilleux, il leur raconte que dans son dernier voyage à la Mecque, un vieux fakir l'a abordé et lui a remis trois pommes en lui disant : l'une est pour loi, une autre est pour ton lils que voilà, la troi sième est pour le sultan, celui que lu as laissé à la mai son. L'auditoire acclame le jeune chef ainsi proposé : peu après, la ville de Mascara qui s'était constituée en république, le reconnaît pour émir et lui donne ainsi un avantage marqué sur les autres chefs Indigènes, ses rivaux d'influence et d'ambition. Abd-el-Kader esta la fois l'homme le plus éloquent et le meilleur cavalier de son pays: il n"a rien négligé pour 174 L*ALOÉRIB devenir un taleb (savant) et se dit shériff ou descendant du prophète. Nul mieux que lui ne connaît et n'observe les lois du Coran ; doiié d'une irrésistible puissance d'at traction, il possède les qualités de Tapôtre, du général, n'a qu'à paraître au milieu des tribus pour dominer les volontés et subjuguer les cœurs. C'est un Jugurtha mo derne, cet homme ambitieux, pensif et pâle, qui hait ar demment la France, incarne les rêves, les passions de tout un peuple, et qui, vis-à-vis des siens, se pare du titre de coupeur de tètes de chrétiens pour Tamour de Dieu. Aussitôt qu'il entre en scène, il imprime à la lutte un caractère nouveau : il prêche la guerre sainte, la croisade musulmane contre les chrétieps, rassemble dix mille cavaliers et vient assaillir Oran. Mais notre garnison est sur ses gardes, et diverses expéditions de l'émir restent sans succès. A leur tour, nos soldats vont chercher l'ennemi en rase campagne, le mettent plu sieurs fois en déroute, opèrent de fortes razzias sur les troupeaux d'une tribu hostile, celle desGarabas. Dans ces premières luttes^ Abd-el-Kader semble avoir sur tout pour but de discipliner ses troupes, de les familiari ser avec l'uniforme et le canon français; il dirige l'attaque et la défense, donne à tous l'exemple du sang-froid, lançant son cheval contre les boulets et les obus qu'il voit ricocher à ses côtés, saluant de ses plaisanteries ceux qui viennent siffler à ses oreilles. L'émir a compris que sa seule supériorité consiste dans le nombre, qu'il importe de nous fatiguer par des attaques multipliées, de nous condamner à de perpétuais combats de détail. Il ne perd pas une occasion d'étendre la' sphère de son pouvoir, et tandis que le général Desmichels, succes seur du général Boyer, s'empare de deux points impor L'jlLGÉRlt 175 tanU de la côte, Arzew et Mostaganem, Abd-el-Kader marclie sur Tlemcen, et fait reconnaître son autorité par les Maures, maîtres de la ville ; toutefois il ne peut obte nir le môme résultat des Turcs et des S.ouIoiig;lis qui occupent la citadelle. Dès la fin de 1833, la plupart des tribus de la province subissent l'ascendant du héros arabe, qui a mis les Français en dehors de toutes relations commerciales avec les indigènes. Oran, Arzew, Mostaganem sont comme en quarantaine par rapport à l'intérieur, et les vivres n'arrivent dans ces villes que par mer. Cette si tuation paraît intolérable au général Desmichels qui, reprenant la pensée de se décharger sur le peuple con quis de tous les embarras de l'occupation, essaie de faire de son ennemi l'allié de la France. Le 26 février 1831, il signe avec lui un traité, qui le constitue de fait souve rain de la province d'Oran, lui donne le monopole de tout le commerce à la manière de Méhémel-Ali, le reconnaît a prince des croyants, m Tout le commerce d'importation et d'exportation se fera par le port d'Ar zew abandonné à l'émir; liberté absolue laissée aux Arabes, pour acheter des armes, des munitions de guerre ; interdiction à ceux-ci de traiter directement avec les Européens ; ils devront vendre à l'agent d'..bd-el-Kader, et celui-ci revendra à nos marchands d'après un tarif fixé par lui-même. Au prix de ces con ditions désastreuses, l'émir promet de faire cesser les hostilités, de rendre les prisonniers, de laisser les mar chés libres, de permettre de voyager dans Tinlérieur à tout chrétien muni d'un sauf-conduit de son consul à Oran. Pour comble d'aberration , le général Des michels a conclu ce traité sans autorisation, à l'insu de son chef et de son gouvernement, sans aucune ré I 176 L'ALGÉRIE serve de ratification ; enfin le traité a été divisé en deux parties, et il n*a pas communiqué les conditions des Ara bes. Ce n'est qu*à la suite de réclamations de nos négo ciants contre le monopole réservé à l'émir, que l'on connut la vérité : le général Desmichels fut rappelé et remplacé par le général TrézeL Ainsi nous élevions de nos propres mains l'édifice de cette puissance qui devait nous coûter si cher un jour ; nous forgions des armes contre nous-mêmes • « Ce sont les chrétiens qui t'ont fait ce que tu es, disait à Abd-el Kader un chef de Oarabas ; avant leur arrivée, tu n'é tais rien, je suis plus grand que toi. i» Cependant, la question de la conservation ou de l'aban don de l'Algérie se posait devant les Chambres françai ses et l'opinion publique. Abd-el-Kader a employé les loisirs que lui a faits le traité du général Desmichels; en peu de mois, il a formé le noyau d'une nation arabe, groupé les tron çon» épars de la race indigène, créé des finances, attiré des ouvriers européens, établi des fabriques de fusils et de poudre, organisé une armée régulière contre laquelle aucune révolte partielle no peut tenir (1), « Les marabouts voyaient en lui l'homme prédestine qui devait faire sortir l'empire arabe de ses ruines, et cet élément de désordre était devenu une force de plus dans les mains de l'émir qui commandait au nom du ciel et de la terre. Il était vraiment l'élu du jDcuple, car il en avait toutes les passions et il en personnifiait tous les instincts : le besoin d'ordre, cette première nécessité des sociétés imparfaites, et la soif de la nationalité, cette première passion d'une race longtemps déchue et cepen dant pleine des souvenirs de sa grandeur, entraînaient toutes les populations musulmanes sous sa loi, et celte attraction s'étendait jusque dans les villes que nous occu pions.Il semblait ètreaussi l'élu de Dieu, car chaque jour de sa destinée était marqué par raccompliasement merveil leux des prophéties, et on eût dit que le doigt de Dieu le 178 l'alsébie guidait au milieu des dangers, qui se multipliaient, comme pour faire ressortir encore la protection céleste dont le peuple le croyait entouré, d Par le fer, les hon neurs et les dignités, il détruit ou conquiert Taristo cratie oligarchique des tribus ; la fortune le débarrasse de ses plus redoutables rivaux : Sidi-el-Aribi, Mustapha, Ben Ismaïl Mouça meurent ou sont obligés de fuir de vant lui ; le succès^ cet argumehi auquel les musulmans rCont point de réplique, cette auréole toujours divine^ lui rallie tous les dissidents. Il franchit le Chéiif, ce fleuve sacré, nouveau Rubicon, donne des chefs à la province de Tittery. Bientôt, du Maroc à Alger^ sauf les villes d'Oran et de Mostaganem, tout obéit à sa loi; bientôt ces Arabes, dans leur hedne contre le chrétien, ne font plus qu'un seul fusil. Il se montre aussi habile diplomate que bon administrateur ; grâce au juif Durand, homme adroit et fin, il parvient à circon venir le comte d'Erlon et Tintéresse à sa fortune comme il a su capter la confiance du général Desmi chels. Mais il commet une première faute : il semble que sa grandeur nouvelle lui donne le vertige; il manque de patience, et dans sa hâte d'arriver au but, ne garde même plus les apparences. Peut-être veut-il profiter des incertitudes, des erreurs du gouvernement; peut-être aussi est-il forcé de nous combattre sans cesse, sous peine de voir son autorité méconnue, remplacée par l'anar chie qull a fait cesser; son système en effet repose sur la guerre sainte ; la guerre est sa légitimité, son titre à l'obéissance passive des Arabes. Le prince des croyants lève le masque dès le mois de juin 1835; habitué atout exiger et à tout obtenir, il an nonce au général Trézel qu'il ira chercher et châtier sous l'algébie 179 les murs d'Alger deux tribus, les Douaira et lea Zmélas, qui se sont mises sous la protection de la France; il signifie que sa religion ne lui permet pas de laisser aucun musulman sous l'autorité des chrétiens. Le géné ral Trézel ne peut supporter tant d'insolence : il relève le gantet sedécide à entrer en campagne. Avec 2,300 hom mes, il marche contre un ennemi huit fois plus nom breu.; après un premiersuccès.iise trouve surpris dans les défilés de la Macta par l'armée d'Abd-el-Kader. Celle-ci va peut-être anéantir le faible corps expédi tionnaire qu'une panique soudaine a saisi, et dont les ba taillons éperdus, haletants, se heurtent, se confondent, n'entendent plus la voix de leurs chefs, perdent le senti ment de leurs devoirset jusqu'à l'instinct de la conserva tion. Mais une partie des Arabes, ivres de carnage, se sont débandés pour massacrer nos blessés et piller le convoi. Grâce aux elTorls surhumains des chasseurs à cheval, d'un bataillon du 06°" et de l'ai-tillerie, le brave et malheureux général Trézel parvient à opérer su re traite, laissant à l'ennemi quatre cenU tètes, la majeure partie de son matériel avec un obusier do montagne. L'émir a rassasie les musulmans des trois plus grandes jouissances qu'ils puissentconcevoir : tuer, piller, humi lier les chiens de chrétiens; l'Algérie est pleine de sa gloire. Mais il a perdu trois mille de ses meilleurs guer riers, il prévoit que la France ne laissera pas impuni l'échec infligé à ses armes, et s'efforce d'en diminuer l'importance aux yeux du gouverneur général, auquel il persuade que l'événement est le résultat d'une querelle toute personnelle entre le général Trézttl et lui. La France s'est émue à la nouvelle du revers de la Macta: ce que n'ont pu faire cinq années do victoires, une seule défaite le produit soudain. Louis-Philippe, la 18Q l'algéhie duc d'Orléans remportent un premier triomphe. La Chambre repousse les réductions proposées par la commission du budget; le maréchal Clauzel qui passe pour être Thomme d'exécution par excellence, remplace le comte Drouet d'Erlon, avec mission de tirer d'Âbd-el Eader une éclatante vengeance. Il est accompagné du prince royal qui a demandé à partager les fatigues, les périls de nos soldats. Cependant il ne dispose encore que de moyens bien insuffisants : contre un peuple qui peut mettre sur pied quatre cent mille guerriers, il n'a que 25,000 soldats parmi lesquels le choléra-morbus exerce de terribles ravages ; on lui a enlevé la légion étrangère^ et le ministre de la guerre paralyse l'effet des renforts annoncés, en décla rant qu'ils ont un caractère temporaire, et que bientôt l'armée se trouvera de nouveau réduite. Mais le maréchal est homme de talent, d'énergie et de ressources; nul plus que lui n'est capable avec peu de faire beaucoup. Avantson arrivée, notre armée restait sur la défensive, dans une sorte d'état de siège, pressée entre l'émir qui a derrière lui les tribus arabes et maro caines, entre Achmet, be^ de Constantine, appuyé sur Tunis et la Turquie. Sa présence est un gage de victoire aux yeux de nos soldats, dont elle raffermit le moral. Avant de s'engager à fond contre Abd-el-Kader, le maréchal exécute une série de brillants coups de main dans la province d'Alger : au nombre de nos adversaires les plus acharnés figurent les Hadjoutes, peuplade turbulente et guerrière , avide de butin , refuge des aventuriers de toutes les tribus, vrais flibustiers à cheval, qui ne laissent ni repos ni trêve à nos avant postes, a Leur habileté à faire la guerre de partisans et leur adresse individuelle comme voleurs, tiennent à la r fois du cosaque, du gucrillero el du sauvage .n Ils for ment l'avanl^garde du bey nommé à Milianah par l'émir. Plusieurs fois le maréchal réussit à atteindre cet ennemi presque insaisissable ; puis il met en déroute la petite armée du bey de Milianah et ravage le pays des Had joutes. Alors il se retourne contre Abd-el-Kader : h la télé de dix mille hommes, il marche sur Mascara, capitale du prince des croyants. Avec la sagacité d'un vieux général. comme s'il eût connu par intuition la stratégie « cette partie divine » de l'art militaire, ce dernier a établi son armée dans une position formidable, protégée d'un côté par un bois, de l'autre parla montagne; il s'est ainsi assuré une retraite facile en cas d'échec, et a placé les quatre pièces de canon qui composent toute son artillerie au haut d'une colline escarpée, d'où elles pren dront en écharpe les bataillons chrétiens. C'est en vain : la furia francese et la tactique européenne ont bientôt raison du fanatisme musulman, et la victoire de l'Habra ouvre au maréchal le chemin et les portes de Mascara. Abd-el Kader a fait une cruelle épreuve de la mobilité et de l'ingratitude des Arabes. Rien n'est sacré pour ces barbares; dans leurbesoin d'assouvir la ragedeleur fana tisme trompé, ils rendent leur chef responsable d'un re vers dont ils n'osent accuser ni Dieu, ni le courage des chrétiens. La femme de l'émir n'échappe point aux ou trages de la populace; ses boucles d'oreilles lui sont arra chées, et lorsque Abd-el-Kader, insensible aux insultes dirigées contre sonautorité, s'émeutet s'irrite de l'affront fait à sa compagne unique, les Arabes, semblables à ces sauvages qui brisent, pour les punir de leur impuissance, les faux dieux qu'ils viennent d'adorer, les Arabes lui enlèvent le parasol doré,emblème de la souveraineté dont 182 l'algérie ils Vont revêtu, et lui disent insolemment : quand tu seras redevenu sultan, nous te le rendrons, d Lorsque les Français pénètrent à Mascara, ils trouvent une ville presque déserte et atrocement saccagée : Témir a emmené la population musulmane, puis il a abandonné Mascara aux troupes régulières et aux cavaliers qui lui sont demeurés fidèles; ceux-ci se sont vengés de leur défaite par Fincendie, par le vol et le meurtre des juifs. Le maréchal Glauzel ne peut songer à occuper Mascara, il faudrait venir la ravitailler sans cesse, consacrer à cette besogne une armée mobile; il décide qu*elle sera détruite. Après avoir anéanti les établissements, les ar senaux et fabriques d'armes, porté partout Tincendie, il reprend la route de Mostaganem. Cette fois on ne ren contre plus les Arabes, mais les troupes ont à lutter contre un autre ennemi aussi terrible : les maladies, la faim, des pluies diluviennes qui transforment les che mins en rivières de boue. La patience des soldats ne se démentit pas un seul instant; ils oublièrent leurs souf frances pour venir en aide aux juifs de Mascara échappés au massacre, qui avaient obtenu de rentrer à Oran avec la colonne expéditionnaire. L'émir domine le malheur par sa fermeté : il ne se montre ni abattu, ni découragé, repousse avec hau teur des ouvertures pacifiques qu'on lui •fait indi rectement. Après un pèlerinage au tombeau de ses pères, il revient au milieu des tribus qui déjà ne se souviennent plus de l'Habra, et accourent en foule sous ses drapeaux. C'est lui-même qui indique au général en chef le champ clos sur lequel il veut tenter une nouvelle épreuve; le premier il arrive devant le Méchouar de Tlemcen qu'il essaie d'enlever à nos fidèles et vaillants alliés les Koulouglis. Depuis six ans, ceux-ci ont combattu l'alcëuib 183 tous les jours, résisté & l'ennemi, au découragement, aux privations; ils ont gardé cotte place pour notts, sans nous et maltjré nous. Le maréchal Clauzel marche à leur secours avec 7,500 hommes, entre sans coup férir dans la ville; puis il va chercher rémir sur les rochers au milieu desquels il a planté son camp , tout près de TIemcen, Dans une furieuse attaque, nos soldats et les Koulouglis gravissent ce nid d'aigle, enfoncent tout ce qui se trouve devant eux, obligent Abd-el-Kader à prendre la fuite, en abandonnant ses tentes, ses bagages. Le prince des croyants ne doit son salut qu'à son fameux cheval noir, son buveur d'air, comme les Arabes appel lent leurs coursiers dans leur langage imagé. Trompé par de faux rapports, le maréchal eut la malencontreuse idée de frapper les habitants de Tlem cen d'une contribution de 500,000 francs, destinée à payer une partie des frais de l'expédition, et à donner une gratification aux soldats. Les agents chargés de la perception de celte somme s'acquittèrent de leur mis sion avec une déplorable rigueur, et les victimes de ces exactions furent pour la plupart ces Koulouglis qui nous avaient rendu de si grands services. On renonça à poursuivre le recouvrement de la contribution entière ; mais l'aiïaire eut beaucoup de retentissement; la presse française , l'opinion publique s'émurent, se répandi rent en commentaires malveillants. Le gouvernement condamna cette mesure bruUIe , impolilique, et les Chambres votèrent l'argent nécessaire pour indemniser les musulmans spoliés. Une faute pareille devait, aux yeux de ces derniers, affaiblir notre position morale et notre considération, tandis qu'elle devenait un argu ment pour les détracteurs du régime militaire en Al gérie. 184 l'algérie Après avoir pris ses mesures pour occuper Tlemcen d'une manière définitive, et laissé dans le Méchouar, avec les Koulouglis, 500 hommes sous le commandement du capitaine Cavaignac, le général en chef rentre à Oran, harcelé par Tinfatigable Abd-el-Kader. Celui-ci a déjà reformé ses goums dispersés, attiré à lui de nombreux volontaires du Maroc ; mais il ne peut mettre en dé faut la vigilance du maréchal, et se borne à Tinquiéter par des alertes de nuit et des agressions de détail, aisé ment réprimées. Durant cette absence, Tétat des choses ne s'est pas amélioré dans les provinces d'Alger et de Tittery ; les Hadjoutes, d'autres tribus de la plaine ont recommence leur guerre de rapines, d'embuscades, d'escarmouches. Il devient indispensable de mettre un terme à leurs bri gandages et de se hâter ; car les députés qui demandant des résultats à notre héroïque armée, lui refusent le temps et les moyens, et le siège périodique cC Alger va re commencer à la Chambre. La commission du budget a proposé de réduire de 23,000 à 19,000 le modeste effectif demandé pour l'année 1837, et le ministre de la guerre vient de désigner quatre régiments qui doivent s'embar quer pour la France. Le général en chef ne veut pas les laisser partir avant d'avoir franchi l'Atlas. A la tête d'une colonne de 6,000 hommes, il passe le col de Mouzaïa, ces Thermopyles de la Numidie, brise la résistance opiniâtre des Kabyles qu'il fait poursuivre et déloger de pic en pic, dans des positions inaccessibles. De leur côté, avec la sape et la mine, les ingénieurs entreprennent le siège de la montagne, et, sous les ordres du colonel Lemercier, à travers les masses rocheuses, le génie établit une voie praticable à l'artillerie, construit en cinq jours une route carrossable de 16,000 mètres, qui va de la plaine de la Mitidja & la ville de Médéah. C'est le résultat le plus précieux do l'expédition, cap notre apparition pas sagère ne peut produire une impression profonde sur les indigènes, déjà rendus méfiants par nos perpétuelles fluctuations, et portés par leurs sympathies vers Abd el-Kader, qai s'incruste partout au sol que nous ef/leurom àpeine. Arrêté dans l'exécution de ses projets par l'exi guïté de ses ressources et la défense formelle d'occuper aucun point nouveau, le maréchal dut renoncer à s'éta blir en permanence dans la province de Tittery. Cependant le général d'Arlanges , commandant à Cran, a reçu l'ordre d'installer à l'embouchure de la Tafna un camp fortifié qui permello de soutenir la garnison de Méchouar, d'ouvrir entre Ttemcen et la mer une ligne de communications régulières. H dis pose de 3,500 hommes à peine, mais il compte sur la fermeté de ses troupes, et parvient sans trop de diffi cultés à l'embouchure de la Tafna, en face de l'île de Rachgoun, où il fait commencer les travaux. Abd-el Kader n'a pas encore paru avec le gros de son armée, et cependant le général se sent bloqué sans le savoir et devine un ennemi invisible. Il veut chercher où est la garde de cette épée dont il rencontre partout la pointe, et part à la lète d'une colonne de 1,SOO hommes, pour opérer une reconnaissance dans la direction de TIemcen. A peine a-t-il fait deux lieues, il se trouve en face de 8,000 fantassins kabyles, de 5 ou 6,000 cavaliers arabes ou marocains, commandés par l'émir en per sonne. Une lutte désespérée s'engage, véritable combat de géants, où durant quatre heures nos soldats soutien nent le choc de cette nuée d'ennemis. Chrétiens et mu sulmans font des prodiges de valeur; en vain, nos canons sèment la mort dans les rangs des Kabyles, ces Vendéens 186 L'ALGÉRIE de FAfrique ceux-ci se précipitent sur Tartillerie avec la frénésie de fanatiques qui voient le paradis de Mahomet au bout de leurs fusils. Un instant nos batteries se trou vent compromises , mais les Français restent fermes comme un roc à la voix du colonel Combes, qui, par sa sombre énergie, domine ce terrible péril et parvient à regagner le camp, sans perdre un seul canon, une seule voiture, un seul blessé. Trois cents hommes tués ou blessés, et parmi ces derniers, le général avec son chef d'état-major, voilà le bilan de cette journée; les pertes de Tennemi sont bien plus considérables, mais Abd-el Kader est resté sur le champ de bataille, et ses nouvelles proclamations appellent aux armes les vrais croyants^ célèbrent cette affaire comme une victoire éclatante remportée sur les infidèles, a Le bruit du revers des Français bloqués à la Tafna vaut des armées à Témir. La nouvelle sur son chemin prend des villes et conquiert des provinces. A la nouvelle de l'échec du général d'Arlanges, le roi ordonne le départ immédiat d'une brigade de 6,000 hom mes d'infanterie sous les ordres du général Bugeaud. A peine débarqué, ce dernier a deviné le secret de cette guerre meurtrière dans laquelle s'épuisent depuis six ans nos soldats et nos chefs; il réunit ses officiers et leur dit : « Les Arabes sont vaillants, mais ils ne le sont pas plus que vous... Ayez le sentiment de votre incontestable l'algèhik TïipériorUé, et portez-le avec vous dans le combat, de manière à le faire passer dans rùme de vos adversaires. IlsvouscroientcorapromiSilivrés à l'abattement, réduits & une défensive sans remède et sans issue. Eh bien, noua allons les surprendre par une offensive si rapide, éner gique et imprévue, que par un revirement moral dont l'effet est immanquable, le trouble el l'incertitude rem plissant leurs esprits, nous frapperons un grand coup qui les abatte à leur tour. Mais comment, traînant avec vous tant de canons et tant de voilures dans un pays montagneux, très-difficile, sans routes, comment pren dre l'offensive sur un ennemi qui l'a toujours eue jusqu'à présent, qui va partout, qui est dégagé d'attirail et mo bile à ce point que vous le déclarez insaisissable? Il faut vous faire aussi légers que lui, il faut vous défaire do ces mi/jerfHH«i/(T, qui, bien loin d'êtro une force, sont pour voas une cause permanente de faiblesse et de péril. Vous êtes liés à leur existence ; vous les suivez péniblement là où ils peuvent passer, quand ils peuvent passer ; vous ne marchez jamais à l'ennemi quand il serait à propos, et votre temps s'use, tous vos efforts s'épuisent à défendre vos canons et vos voitures, alors que l'ennemi est habile à choisir le moment de vos embarras. Je vous déclare que j'ordonne l'embarquement de ce matériel do cam pagne et son renvoi à Oran, Nos soldats porteront plus de vivres. Une petite réserve sera chargée sur des che vaux et des mulels, avec lesquels nous organiserons aussi le transport de nos blessés et de nos malades; avec ces moyens sommairement constitués^ je vous promets do vous mener immédiatement à l'ennemi et de le battre, n , Le général Bugeaud ne craint pas la responsabilité, cet épouvant'iil des âmes pusillanimes ; ose, lui nouveau venu, 188 L'ALGÉRIE rompre en visière aux vétérans algériens qui répugnent à se séparer de Tartillerie de campagne ; il heurte dé front toutes les théories, tous les sophismes, toutes les rou tines de la guerre. Avec son système, on pourra pas ser de la défensive à TofTensive, s'écarter des routes battues, de celles qu'on nomme Trek-es-Soultane (les chemins du sultan); on pourra donner le combat au lieu de le recevoir, attaquer sérieusement les indigènes dans leurs intérêts matériels, en allant les chercher à droite, à gauche, dans les montagnes, dans le ravin, dans la vallée latérale , où sont cachés leurs femmes , leurs enfants, leurs richesses. La victoire du o juillet arrive deux ans trop tard; la puissance de l'émir a déjà assez de racines pour résister à une tempête passagère. Toujours supérieur à sa fortune, il demeure plein de conTianco dans le triomphe final de sa cause, refuse les présents du bey de Constan Une, déporte des tribus dont il redoute la trahison, fait tomber les têtus des chefs suspects, agit en un mot comme s'il était plus puissant que jamais. Les Arabes ont exagéré leurs avantages ; ils demeurent incrédules à leurs revers. Aussi bien, les défenseurs de l'Algérie ont remporté la victoire dans les Chambres, et le maréchal Clauzel s'est exagéré les conséquences de ce succès de tribune. Tandis que le vole du Parlement n'a été qu'une simple négation de l'abandon d'Alger, et n'implique aucunement la réso lution d'accroître l'effectif de l'armée, le gouverneur général a de nouveau rêve la conquête immédiate de toute la régence, soumis ses projets à M. Thiers, prési dent du conseil et au maréchal Maison, ministre de la guerre. Ceux-ci l'ont écouté avec complaisance; dans son ardeur aventureuse, il s'est cru autorisé à agir et a agi; ses ordres, fondés sur des espérances, ont de vancé même les promesses ; ses instructions au général Rapatel, son remplaçant intérimaire en Algérie, indi quent sa ferme volonté de tout préparer pour une expé dition surConstantine. Sur ces entrefaites, le ministère Molé-Guizot vient de se constituer, et se montre hostile au plan général de conquête, que, sous le cabinet précédent, le maréchal a tenté de faire adopter. Déjà, dans une dépêche du 30 août, le maréchal Maison lui a marqué son étonne 100 l'algêrie ment au sujet de sa précipitatioUy et prescrit de se res treindre dans les limites de Toccupation actuelle, dans celles de refîeotif disponible et des crédits législatifs. Un peu plus tard, le 27 septembre, il reçoit du général Bernard, nouveau ministre de la guerre, une lettre plus explicite encore. Le plan du gouverneur général paraît trop vaste au cabinet, et ne peut se réaliser sans un accroissement de dépenses qu'il n'est point permis de faire, au moins quant à présent. Il aurait désiré qu'il n'eût pas encore élé question de l'expédition de Constan tantine, mais il a été frappé des conséquences que pour rait présenter dans un pays comme l'Afrique et avec Tesprit des populations indigènes, l'ajournement d'une expédition annoncée... C'est donc parce qu'elle a été annoncée et par ce seul motifs que le gouvernement du roi l'autorise aujourd'hui, mais il ne l'autorise que comme une opération toute spéciale nécessitée par les événements, et sans que cela puisse tirer à conséquence pour l'exécution du plan général d'occupation. Il doit être bien entendu que cette expédition se fera avec les moyens (personnel et matériel) qui sont actuellement à la disposition du maréchal. Toutes les instances de ce dernier pour obtenir des ren forts demeurèrent infructueuses; le ministre répondit par un refus absolu, lui déclarant qu'il n'était qu'auto risé à exécuter l'expédition, et qu'il pouvait se dispenser de la tenter. Pour faire acte de prévoyance, il fit partir le général de Damrémont, avec l'ordre secret de prendre le gouvernement de l'Algérie, si le maréchal persistait dans ses intentions de retraite. Cette précaution est inutile : Yusouf, commandant des spahis, a été depuis six mois nommé bey de Constan tine m partibm par le général en chef. On croit facile ment ce qu'on désire, el Yusoiif n'a pas eu de peine à persuader au maréchal qu'il a un parti nombreux dans la province de Coiistantino, qu'il suflira de s'y présen ter avec quelques troupes pour amener la chute d'Ach met et la reddition presque spontanée de la place. En arrivant à Bone, le gouverneur général aurait pu se convaincre de l'inanité de ces assertions : par ses procé dés tyranniques el ses violences, Yusouf n'a réussi qu'à provoquer la défection de nombreuses tribus, et se trouve bloqué dans la ville. Au lieu des 1,500 mulets qu'il s'est engagé à fournir, il en a obtenu 450 à peine ;on manque de voitures,et le service de l'ambulance estmal organisé. Mais n l'ardeur d'imagination du maréchal, la force in flexible de sa volonté, elle besoin qu'il avait du succès lui Grent prendre pour des réalités, les espérances d'a bord, puis les illusions, enfin les impossibilités sur les quelles il reposa successivement son plan.» Fasciné par ce mirage, il communique sa confiance àses troupes; of tLciers et soldats, presque tous croient n'entreprendre qu'une partie de plaisir, une simple promenade militaire, et plusieuràse plaignent déjà de la perspectivequ'ils n'au ront pas k faire parler la poudre. Le 13 novembre, le maréchal part, emmenant 7,0û0 hommes d'infanterie, 1,500 de cavalerie, artillerie et gé nie ; il laisse 2,000 hommes malades des lièvres d'automne dans les hôpitaux de Bone ; l'artillerie se compose d'une batterie de huit el do deux batteries de montagne ayant en tout 1,380 coups àlirer, l'armée emporte pour quinze jours de vivres seulement. Il n'a pas fait reconnaître la route el dans son fatal aveuglement, s'imagine n'avoir que 25 lieues à parcourir en pays plat et par le beau temps, alors qu'il faut en faire près de 40, franchir des montagnes, des rivières, des terrains détrempés. 192 l'algébie ^. •4 f. Au bout de 24 heures, le temps devient aCbréux^ '*^ les ruisseaux se transforment en torrents, la. terre ea une boue liquide où attelages et soldats n*avanoQbt qu'avec une peine extrême ; on laisse, à chaque étape de ^4r nombreux malades, des hommes morts de froid, de fatigue. Un de ces bivouacs, où Tarmée campa une nuit, reçut le nom pittoresque et trop bien mérité de : camp de la boue. Nous fûmes exposés là, écrivit le maré chal, à toutes les rigueurs d'un hiver de Saint-Péters * bourg, en même temps que les terres entièrement dé foncées représentaient aux vieux ofQciers les boues de Varsovie. C'est une copie en miniature de t expédition de Russie. Le 21 novembre enfin, après sept jours de souffrances inouïes, Tarmée arrive en face de Gonstantine : les auxi liaires qui^ suivant les promesses de Yusouf , devaient accourir sous nos drapeaux, n'ont point paru. Cependant le maréchal n'est pas encore désabusé ; il espère toujours // voir s'ouvrir devant lui les portes de la ville. Avec le duc de Nemours et une faible escorte, il part en avant et se ^^ porte sur le plateau de Mansourah ; les musulmans le reçoivent à coups de canon ; la population et la garnison se précipitent aux remparts ; bientôt la cavalerie d'Ach tnet, l'infanterie de son intrépide lieutenant Ben-Âïssa attaquent de tous côtés la petite armée française qui réussit à les repousser. Cette fois, le doute n'est plus permis ; la réalité appa raît menaçante, inexorable. Le général en chef sort de son rêve fantastique, comprend toute l'étendue de la responsabilité qu'il a si légèrement assumée. Repartir sur le champ ou tenter un coup de main pour s'empa rer de la ville, tel est le dilemme redoutable qui se pose. C'est bien à juste titre qu'ona surnommé Conslantine ^ l'aloébie 193 fe Gibraltar du désert, la cilL' aérienne : suspendue sur un énorme rocher vertical, elle ne lient à la terre que ■ par un isthme étroil, Condiat-Aly, qui a 600 mèlres de développement, et se trouve percé de trois portes, Bab el-Djedid, Bab-el-Oued et Bub-el-Djebia. Une quatrième porte, Bab-el-Cantara, communique seule avec le Man sourah par un pont, ouvrage grandiose des Romains, jeté à 200 pieds au-dessus de l'abîme. Sur trois autres faces larges de 900 mètres chacune, Constantine est séparée du plateau de Mansourah par un ravin de ôO mètres de largeur, d'une profondeur effrayante, au fond duquel coule le Rummel, qui, faisant le tour de la ville, présente pour escarpe et contrescarpe un roc à pic inattaquable par la mine et par le boulet. La couleur des maisons, les toits couverts de tuiles donnent à Constantine l'aspect d'une ville espagnole, avec des mosquées à la place des églises. C'est la capitale d'Achmet : une arlillerie nom breuse , des troupes aguerries la protègent, et ses. 25,000 habitants fournissent encore plus de 2,000 fu sils pour la défense. Voilà l'ancienne Cirla des Nu mides el des Romains, la Constantine du Bas-Empire, des Vandales, des Arabes et des Turcs, et ce nid d'aigle n'a encore connu d'autre vainqueur que la famine. Le maréchal ne peut songer ni à assiéger la place, ni à l'investir : il n'en a ni le temps ni les moyens, mais il donne l'ordre de tenter un vigoureux assaut pour enle ver la ville de vive force. Cette manœuvre demeure inu tile et n'a d'autre résultat que de mettre hors de combat bon nombre de soldats et d'officiers. Le général Trézel est grièvement blessé ; le colonel Lemercier, le comman dant Hichepanse tombent pour ne plus se relever, u A trois heures de la nuit, écrit un témoin oculaire, la lutte avait 194 L*ALBÉAIB cessé» tout ét^iit rentré dans le silence; quand le signal accoutumé de la dernière prière nocturne partit da mi« naret de la principale mosquée de Constantine, de9 ver sets du Coran, lancés dans les airs, furent répétés sur les remparts par des milliers de voix fermes, calmes, as surées. Nos soldats ne refusèrent pas leur estime à de tels ennemis, d C'en est fait : il faut quitter Constantine au plus vite, avec une armée démoralisée par Vinsuccès, la maladie, la famine, décimée par la mort.Devant un péril si immi nent, devant la lugubre réalité, le général en chef a re trouvé tout son sang-froid et se montreplus grand que son malheur, «i II semble que Tarmée n'ait été si com promise que pour être sauvée avec plus d*éclat et d'ha bileté. if> Le maréchal va Tarracher à l'anéantissement presque certain sur lequel comptent les musulmans. C'est en effet l'assiégé qui prend l'offensive et les rô les se trouvent intervertis. Le 24 novembre au matin, l'armée française est en pleine retraite, tandis que la gar nison de Constanline, la population , les Arabes de la campagne se ruent à sa poursuite, menacent de l'enve lopper, et déjà s'emparent de plusieurs voitures pleines de blessés. Changarnier a reçu le commandement de Textrême arrière-garde, et c'est sur lui que pèse d'abord le flot des musulmans. Cet héroïque officier protège la retraite de Tarmée tout entière, et recule lentement, de position en position sur le plateau de Mansourah. Dans un moment des plus critiques , son bataillon va être écrasé po r la cavalerie d'Achmet qui se dispose à faire une charge générale. Alors Changarnier formé son bataillon en carré : a Mes amis, dit-il à ses soldats, regardez ces gens-là; ils sont six mille et vous êtes trois cents ; vous voyez bien que la partie est égale. Attention à mon com l'algërif: 195 mandemeot! Vive le roi! » Ces paroles éleclrisent les soldats, el à vingt-cinq pas la nuée des cavaliers arabes est reçue par un feu de deux rangs qui jonche le sol d'iiommes et de chevaux, Etonnés d'une pareille audace, les musulmans reculent sous les murs de Conslantine, et ralentissent leur poursuite, sans toutefois l'arrêter. 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Frequent Asked Questions.
What curriculum does Nobel offer?
Nobel International School offers the Cambridge Primary Programme and the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for young learners (6 to 11 years old) in Key Stages 1 and 2. Cambridge Primary presents a curriculum framework to develop skills in English, Mathematics and Science. It develops young learners to be confident, responsible, reflective, innovative and engaged. International Primary Curriculum (IPC) is a comprehensive, thematic, creative, hands-on curriculum that gears towards the development of international mindedness and encourages personal learning.
For Junior School, Nobel offers the Cambridge Secondary 1 Programme. The programme provides a seamless progression from Cambridge Primary by offering a curriculum framework for educational success. Students are typically 11 to 14 years old. The emphasis is on the development of ENQUIRY skills.
Students from Junior School will automatically progress to Senior School and will take the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14 – 16 years old, which leads to the globally recognised and valued Cambridge IGCSE qualifications.
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Orenburg Shawls
Usual natural color of the thin pautinka Orenburg shawls is white or gray (seldom brown) but modern fashion demands new color range of woman shawls so the crafters started to dye these delicate Russian knitted shawls into different colors - red, green, blue, black and combination of colors. In spite fact that these Orenburg shawls are very thin and very light they keep woman's shoulders warm. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8604893088340759}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '92269', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4VQ3BT5QBKBSNXYUHREG6BBDUOVC7HA3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:87a7ec46-922b-4688-950c-2a74dccfb05d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 12, 8, 10, 8, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.220.34.247', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZOLL4NT5UCVMX46EJTLXMVHC4PCB6QZV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bccd62ef-d475-44bf-8b4c-b26fa50b0d38>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://russian-crafts.com/russian-shawls/color-thin-shawls.html?currency=EUR&sort_by=product&sort_order=desc&layout=short_list&items_per_page=48', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:52ba4ef1-dcf7-4abc-b17d-61d34902dbf2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '66', 'url': 'https://russian-crafts.com/russian-shawls/color-thin-shawls.html?currency=EUR&sort_by=product&sort_order=desc&layout=short_list&items_per_page=48', '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-10-67-67-8\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': '0.44930458068847656', 'original_id': '4b21a120d2dcd35fc652ce63052559bcda4cdb768f7698a9224d6bd9420f094c'} |
Enough with the whiteboard coding during interviews
A part of my job is to interview people for software development positions.
Actually, I love interviewing people, my previous team was referring that as the "gbin's treatment".
The scary part they are referring to is when I try to push the candidate to the limits of what he knows on a specific subject. I do that to see if he has the "feeling" about how stuff is working when he actually doesn't know. It goes like this "It is ok not knowing this, but can you guess ? How would you implement it ?"
Beside testing the technical background/culture of the candidate, I also test there the attitude this person when he doesn't know something. I try to get some insights about him fitting or not the "Humility, Respect & Trust" values I want to build for the team.
Anyway, when it comes to test the coding abilities of this person, the last thing I would ever do is to put him in front of the dreaded whiteboard to code.
I mean by this, the practice probably condemned by Amnesty International to leave someone standing and thinking out live in front of a totally abstract problem with only one tool in his right shaking hand : the red marker. (*)
Let's take a Darwinian approach here and see which part of the programmer's "gene pool" is promoted by this.
The perfect whiteboard programmer will be :
1. smart as math-IQ-smart
2. self confident otherwise you panic and you cannot think
3. will think "out of the box" because the problem is never real and it is encouraged to find an original solution
Let's see how all this applies to a real programmer now.
1. interesting but is it the first trait you need ? How often in your daily developer life you really have to tackle a problem that needs this level ? And are you left alone thinking ?
2. bummer, usually good programmers are introverts and this is not by mistake. They could fail this miserably even with an IQ of 140.
3. This one is my personal favorite. You basically select people that generate strange solutions to never happening problems. This is exactly the opposite of a good team player for a software team. In the field, you need to produce code easily understandable by your colleagues so they can recognize which problem you wanted to solve and if a standard solution fits, which one you took. Ie. somebody that "think in the box" first !
So if you want to test the coding ability of someone, I would suggest to give him the chance to tackle quietly and alone a real mini project with :
- his favorite IDE
- google
... and enough time !
And make him use the whiteboard as you do within your team : to make him explain his architecture choices.
You will get a way better picture about how is it to work with this person.
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What is Rakhri?
Rakhri or Raksha Bandhan is celebrated by the Sikhs and Hindu’s in August, but the date and day changes each year.
Rakhri is where the sisters and cousin sisters tie a plain, pattern or pearled string on their brothers or cousin brothers’ wrist which is traditionally red but could be obtained now different colours.
By doing this, the tradition implies that they will give you money or some brothers or cousin brothers will take their sisters or cousin sisters out or give them a gift.
The word Rakhri in the Punjabi language dates back to the 18th Century when the Sikh Khalsa’s army introduced the term Rakhri. The army promised the farmers of the land to protect them from the Mughal and Afghan armies, and in exchange of that protection, demanded a small share in their produce.
Originally, this was a bond between groups of people to protect each other’s well-being. The practice eventually turned into the bond between brothers and sisters which is now called Rakhri or Raksha Bandhan.
The actual ceremony in tying the brothers Rakhri
The best thing of tying Rakhi around the wrist of the brother is its simplicity and minimalistic appeal. The house is all shiny and bright.
Normally the sisters and cousin sisters will go to the brothers’ house and tie the Rakhri. They all wear colourful clothes and fine jewellery while the sister prepares thali with Rakhi, fresh sweets, candle then ties the Rakhri.
Nowadays some people will go to each brothers’ place or will all meet at one person’s house and all of the brothers and sisters will get together.
Sisters will take it in turns and tie the Rakhri around the wrist of the brothers (either left or right) and some of them would like to take pictures during the ceremony.
Afterwards the brothers and sisters exchange traditional Punjabi sweets like Khajuria; dodha barfi; besan ki barfi; peanut chikki; pinni but nowadays people will give sweets, chocolate – depends on what the brothers likes.
Finally, the brothers then give the sisters gifts like cash or something else and promise to protect them throughout their lives.
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Introduction {#sec001}
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Poor health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) is a significant public health issue. For example, in the United States (US), the age-adjusted prevalence of adults 18 years of age and older who rated their health as fair or poor was estimated to be 16.1% \[[@pone.0129181.ref001]\]. Meditative movement therapies (MMT) such as yoga, tai chi and qigong have become increasingly popular and offer a potential approach for improving HRQOL in adults. In 2007, the age-adjusted prevalence of US adults ages 18 years and older who participated in yoga (12.8 million), tai chi (2.1 million), and qigong (1 million) totaled approximately 15.9 million, an increase of approximately 2 million when compared to 2002 data \[[@pone.0129181.ref002]\].
Systematic reviews with meta-analysis are considered to be the gold standard for determining the effects of an intervention on an outcome \[[@pone.0129181.ref003],[@pone.0129181.ref004]\]. However, a number of previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis now exist on the same topic \[[@pone.0129181.ref005],[@pone.0129181.ref006]\]. As a result, it becomes difficult to make confident decisions about the effectiveness of an intervention on a chosen outcome in the population of interest \[[@pone.0129181.ref005],[@pone.0129181.ref007]\]. Consequently, it is now necessary to systematically review these previous reviews in order to provide decision-makers and practitioners with the information needed to make evidence-based decisions and recommendations regarding the effects of an intervention on an outcome as well as provide investigators with suggestions for future inquiry \[[@pone.0129181.ref005],[@pone.0129181.ref007]\]. To the best of the investigative team's knowledge, no previous systematic review of systematic reviews with meta-analysis addressing the effects of MMT (yoga, tai chi and qigong) on HRQOL in adults has been conducted. The purpose of this study was to address this gap.
Methods {#sec002}
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Study Eligibility {#sec003}
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This systematic review of previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis is registered in the PROSPERO trial registry (CRD42014014576). Given that no guidelines currently exist for conducting systematic reviews of previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis, the general guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) Statement \[[@pone.0129181.ref008]\], where applicable, was followed. Finally, the methods described below have been previously reported in detail on a different topic addressing the effects of aerobic and strength training exercise on depressive symptoms in adults with arthritis and other rheumatic disease \[[@pone.0129181.ref007]\].
The *a priori* inclusion criteria for this study were as follows: (1) previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis of randomized controlled intervention trials or data reported separately for randomized controlled trials if the meta-analysis included other study designs, (2) adults 18 years of age and older, (3) yoga, tai chi or qigong as the intervention, (4) published and unpublished (dissertations and master's theses) studies in any language up through February of 2014, (5) intervention minus control group difference in HRQOL as a primary outcome in the original meta-analysis and reported as the standardized mean difference (SMD) effect size or calculable using the SMD with at least two pooled studies. Meta-analyses were limited to randomized controlled trials because they are the only way to control for unknown confounders as well as the fact that nonrandomized controlled trials tend to overestimate the effects of treatment in healthcare interventions \[[@pone.0129181.ref009],[@pone.0129181.ref010]\]. Given the different instruments used to assess HRQOL, the SMD was the metric of choice. Any studies that did not meet all of the above criteria were excluded. Ineligible studies were excluded based on one or more of the following: (1) inappropriate population (for example, children), (2) inappropriate intervention (for example, aerobic exercise), (3) inappropriate comparison (for example, yoga versus drug), (4) inappropriate outcome (for example, depression), (5) inappropriate study type (for example, systematic review without meta-analysis).
Data Sources {#sec004}
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The graphical-user interfaces of the following nine electronic databases were searched from their inception forward for potentially eligible studies: (1) PubMed (1966 to February 26, 2014), (2) Sport Discus (1975 to February 26, 2014), (3) Web of Science (1955 to February 26, 2014), (4) Scopus (1823 to February 27, 2014), (5) PsychInfo (1800's to February 27, 2014), (6) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1996 to February 26, 2014), (7) Physiotherapy Evidence Database \[(PEDRO) (1929 to March 20, 2014)\], (8) Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effects \[(DARE) (1991 to February 27, 2014\], (9) Proquest (1861 to February 28, 2014). Scopus was included in the database searches because it has been reported to provide coverage of EMBASE, a database that was not available to the investigators \[[@pone.0129181.ref011]\]. While the specific search strategies varied depending on the database searched, key terms or forms of key terms included yoga, tai chi, qigong, quality of life, randomized, systematic review and meta-analysis. A copy of the search strategies used for each database is shown in [S1 File](#pone.0129181.s001){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. After removing duplicates, the overall precision of the searches was calculated by dividing the number of studies that met the eligibility criteria by the total number of studies screened \[[@pone.0129181.ref012]\]. The number needed to read (NNR) was then calculated as the inverse of the precision \[[@pone.0129181.ref012]\]. In addition to electronic database searches, cross-referencing for potentially eligible meta-analyses from retrieved reviews was also conducted. All studies were stored in Reference Manager, version 12.0 \[[@pone.0129181.ref013]\].
Study Selection {#sec005}
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All studies were selected by both authors, independent of each other. They then met and reviewed their selections for agreement. Any disagreements were resolved by consensus.
Data Abstraction {#sec006}
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Prior to data abstraction, coding sheets were developed in Microsoft Excel 2010 \[[@pone.0129181.ref014]\]. The coding sheets could hold up to 180 items from each included meta-analysis. The major categories of variables coded included (1) study characteristics (source, year, etc.), (2) participant characteristics (age, gender, condition, etc.), (3) intervention characteristics (length, frequency, duration, setting, type of MMT, etc.), and (4) results for HRQOL (mean change, precision, z-scores, heterogeneity, inconsistency, publication bias, etc.) Data was abstracted by both authors, independent of each other. Upon completion of coding, all coding sheets were merged into one common codebook and reviewed by both authors for correctness. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. Using Cohen's kappa statistic \[[@pone.0129181.ref015]\], the overall agreement rate prior to correcting discrepancies was *k* = 0.95, considered to be "excellent" \[[@pone.0129181.ref016]\].
Methodological Quality {#sec007}
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The Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) Instrument was used to assess the methodological quality of each included meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref017]--[@pone.0129181.ref020]\]. The AMSTAR instrument was chosen over others \[[@pone.0129181.ref021],[@pone.0129181.ref022]\] because of its reported construct validity (intra-class correlation coefficient = 0.84), inter-rater reliability (*k* = 0.70) and feasibility (average of 15 minutes per study to complete) \[[@pone.0129181.ref019]\]. The 11-item questionnaire is designed to elicit responses of "Yes", "No", "Can't Answer", or "Not Applicable". The response "Can't Answer" is chosen when an item is relevant but not described. The response "Not Applicable" is chosen when an item is not relevant (for example, assessment of publication bias not possible because of the lack of studies) \[[@pone.0129181.ref017]--[@pone.0129181.ref020]\]. For consistency when summing responses, the following question was modified from "Was the status of publication (i.e. grey literature) used as an inclusion criterion?" to "Was the status of publication (i.e. grey literature) as an inclusion criterion avoided?" Both authors assessed the methodological quality of each study independent of each other. They then met and reviewed every item for agreement. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. The overall agreement rate prior to correcting discrepancies was *k* = 0.80, considered to be "excellent" \[[@pone.0129181.ref016]\]. The use of a strength of evidence instrument such as the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) tool \[[@pone.0129181.ref023]\] was avoided based on the belief that it may be too conservative, especially for an intervention such as MMT where the chance of adverse events is probably minimal.
To assess the impact of the included meta-analyses, the total number of times that each included meta-analysis was cited as well as the average number of citations per year was estimated. This was accomplished using version 4.4.6 of Publish or Perish (Google Scholar Citation mechanism) \[[@pone.0129181.ref024]\] on August 24, 2014.
Data Synthesis {#sec008}
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The main results from each meta-analysis were extracted with a focus on random-effects models because they incorporate between-study heterogeneity into the model \[[@pone.0129181.ref025],[@pone.0129181.ref026]\]. The SMD, 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and associated z and alpha value for z were abstracted or calculated if sufficient data were available to do so. Standardized mean differences were classified as trivial (\<0.20), small (0.20 to 0.49), medium (0.50 to 0.79) or large (≥0.80) \[[@pone.0129181.ref027]\]. Non-overlapping 95% CIs were considered statistically significant. The Q statistic, a measure of heterogeneity, was also extracted for each outcome. An alpha value ≤ 0.10 was considered to represent statistically significant heterogeneity \[[@pone.0129181.ref028]\]. Because of issues surrounding the power of the Q statistic, the *I* ^*2*^ statistic, a measure of inconsistency, was also reported if it was provided in the meta-analysis. If *I* ^*2*^ was not reported, it was calculated if sufficient data was available \[[@pone.0129181.ref028]\]. I-squared values were classified as low (0 to \<25%), moderate (25 to \<50%), large (50 to \<75%) or very large (≥ 75%) inconsistency \[[@pone.0129181.ref028]\]. An *a priori* decision was made to not pool results from the different meta-analyses because of the expectation that many of the same original studies would be included in the different meta-analyses, thus violating the assumption of independence.
An *a priori* assumption was made that none of the eligible meta-analyses would include 95% prediction intervals (PIs) \[[@pone.0129181.ref029]--[@pone.0129181.ref031]\]. Therefore, PIs were calculated if the findings were statistically significant and the necessary data from each study included in each meta-analysis were provided \[[@pone.0129181.ref029]--[@pone.0129181.ref031]\]. Prediction intervals are used to estimate the treatment effect in a new trial \[[@pone.0129181.ref029]--[@pone.0129181.ref031]\] and may be more appropriate for decision analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref032]\].
In order to reinforce practical application, the number-needed-to treat (NNT) was calculated for any overall findings that were reported as statistically significant. This was achieved using the method suggested by the Cochrane Collaboration and was based on a control group risk of 30% \[[@pone.0129181.ref003]\]. In addition, Cohen's U~3~ index was used to determine the percentile gain in the intervention group \[[@pone.0129181.ref033]\]. For example, a SMD of 0.25 suggests that on average, a person in the MMT group would be at approximately the 60^th^ percentile in terms of improving their HRQOL. This translates into being approximately 10 percentiles higher than the control group \[[@pone.0129181.ref034]\].
If not already provided and if sufficient data and number of effect sizes (N ≥ 10) were available to do so \[[@pone.0129181.ref035]\], small-study effects (publication bias, etc.) were assessed using the regression-intercept approach of Egger et al. \[[@pone.0129181.ref036]\]. Non-overlapping, one-tailed 95% CIs were considered to be representative of statistically significant small-study effects. Positive SMD's were indicative of improvements in HRQOL. Analyses were carried out using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (version 2.2) \[[@pone.0129181.ref037]\] and Microsoft Excel 2010 \[[@pone.0129181.ref014]\].
Finally, post-hoc descriptive analysis according to condition and type of MMT was conducted.
Results {#sec009}
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Characteristics of Included Meta-Analyses {#sec010}
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A total of 816 references were initially recognized. Post-duplicate removal, 510 (62.5%) remained. Of the 510 screened, 10 meta-analyses, all using the aggregate data approach, met all study eligibility criteria \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Search precision was 0.02 whilst the NNR was 51. Ineligible studies were excluded based on an inappropriate study design (81.6%) as well as inappropriate outcome (11.6%), intervention (5.0%), population (1.6%), and comparison (0.2%). Two meta-analyses in which results were reported using the original metric were converted to SMDs \[[@pone.0129181.ref043],[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]. [Fig 1](#pone.0129181.g001){ref-type="fig"} illustrates the search process while the references for the 500 excluded studies, including the reasons for rejection, can be found in [S2 File](#pone.0129181.s002){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. As can be seen in [Table 1](#pone.0129181.t001){ref-type="table"}, three studies were conducted in Germany, all by the same investigative team \[[@pone.0129181.ref039]--[@pone.0129181.ref041]\], three in China \[[@pone.0129181.ref043],[@pone.0129181.ref046],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], and one each in either the United States \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\], United Kingdom \[[@pone.0129181.ref044]\], Netherlands \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]\], or Taiwan \[[@pone.0129181.ref042]\]. Five of the 10 meta-analyses reported receiving funding for their work \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref040],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref045]\] while nine reported no competing interests \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref043]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Another study did not provide any information on competing interests \[[@pone.0129181.ref042]\]. All of the meta-analyses focused on participants with specific conditions \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. With respect to gender, four meta-analyses were limited to women with breast cancer \[[@pone.0129181.ref038],[@pone.0129181.ref039],[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\] while the remaining six included both men and women \[[@pone.0129181.ref040],[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref043]--[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]. A lack of data was provided for race and ethnicity. For MMT, seven of the 10 meta-analyses were limited to yoga \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], while one each was limited to either tai chi \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\], qigong \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\], or both \[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]. Based on the availability of data, the length of the interventions within each study included in the meta-analyses ranged from 1 to 24 weeks, frequency from 1 to 9 times per week and duration from 30 to 120 minutes per session. The mean length of the interventions for each meta-analysis ranged from 8 to 16 weeks ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 11.9 ± 2.6, Median = 12), frequency from 2 to 6 times per week ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 3.2 ± 1.5, Median = 3), and duration from 53 to 80 minutes per session ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 68.9 ± 10.3, Median = 71). Supervised as well unsupervised MMT sessions occurred at a facility and/or home. Data on compliance to the MMT sessions were lacking. For the four meta-analyses that provided information, no serious adverse events were identified from the studies that included the assessment of HRQOL \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041]\]. A total of 12 different instruments were used to assess HRQOL and included both generic and disease-specific questionnaires \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041]\].
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10.1371/journal.pone.0129181.t001
###### General characteristics of included meta-analyses.
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Reference Year Country Studies Participants Interventions HRQOL Assessment
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Buffart et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref038]\] 2012 Netherlands 7 528 women with breast cancer, 28--75 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 52.0 ± 4.5)[\*](#t001fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} Supervised/unsupervised yoga interventions lasting 6--24 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 10 ± 7), frequency of 3-9x week ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 6 ± 2), duration of 60--90 minutes per session ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 68 ± 13) SF-36, EORTC QLQ-C30, FACT G, FLIC
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref039]\] 2012 Germany 4 274 women with breast cancer (155 yoga, 119 control), age, $\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 57.1 ± 3.1) Yoga interventions lasting 10--24 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 15 [+]{.ul} 8), frequency of 1 to 4x week ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 2 ± 2), duration of 30--90 minutes per session,($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 71 ± 28) SF-12, FACT B, FACT G, FLIC, FACT-Sp
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\] 2013 Germany 2 98 men and women (48 yoga, 50 control), all with schizophrenia, age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 36.1 ± 9.5 years Yoga interventions lasting 8 weeks, frequency of 2-3x week ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 3 ± 2), duration of 45 to 60 minutes per session, ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 53 ± 11) GQOLI-74, WHO-QOL-BREF
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\] 2013 Germany 4 388 men and women with low back pain (187 yoga, 201 control), 44 to 49 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 46.0 ± 1.9) years) Supervised and unsupervised yoga interventions lasting 1--12 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 9 ± 6) frequency ≤ 7x week, duration of 30 to 75 minutes per session SF-12, SF-36, EQ5D, WHO-QOL-BREF
Lin et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref042]\] 2011 Taiwan 3 191 women with breast cancer (115 yoga, 76 control), 51 to 56 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 54.0 ± 2.0 years) Supervised and unsupervised yoga interventions lasting 7--12 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 10 ± 3), duration of 75--90 minutes per session,($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 80 ± 9) SF-12, FACT B, FACT G, EORTC QLQ-C30
Pan et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\] 2013 China 3 182 men and women with heart failure (90 tai chi, 92 control), 64 to 70 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 66.8 ± 3.0 years) Tai chi interventions lasting 12--16 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 13 ± 2), frequency of 2x week, duration of 55 to 60 minutes per session, ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 58 ± 3) MLHF
Shneerson et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref044]\] 2013 United Kingdom 3 153 men and women with cancer, primarily breast cancer (87 yoga, 66 control), 50 to 63 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 57.0 ± 5.0 years) Supervised yoga interventions lasting 7--24 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 12 ± 7), at least one session per week, duration of 60--90 minutes per session FACT B, FACT G, EORTC QLQ-C30
Wang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\] 2013 United States 2 172 men and women with diabetes, (120 qi gong, 52 control), 37 to 69 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 57.9 ± 0.1 years) qigong interventions lasting 16 weeks DSQL
Zeng et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\] 2014 China 5 405 men and women with cancer, (200 tai chi or qigong, 205 control), ≥ 18 years of age Supervised and unsupervised tai chi and qigong interventions lasting 6--24 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 12 [+]{.ul} 7), frequency of 2-7x week ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 4 [+]{.ul} 2), duration of 40--120 minutes per session ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 78 ± 46) SF-36^a^, FACT G
Zhang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref047]\] 2012 China 4 270 women with breast cancer, (154 yoga, 116 control), 53 to 59 years of age ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 55.6 ± 3.0 years) Yoga interventions lasting 6--24 weeks ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 13 ± 8), frequency of 1-5x week ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 2 ± 2), duration of 60--90 minutes per session ($\overline{X} \pm$ SD, 75 ± 12) FACT B, FACT G
Notes: $\overline{X} \pm$ SD, mean [+]{.ul} standard deviation; Description of meta-analyses limited to those studies nested within each meta-analysis that met all eligibility criteria for the current study; Data presented limited to what was reported or could be calculated from reported data; Number of participants limited to those in which a SMD was calculated; SF-36, Medical Outcomes Short-form Health Survey-36; EORTC QLQ-C30, European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer-Quality of Life; FACT G, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General; FLIC, Functional Living Index for Cancer; SF-12, Medical Outcomes Short-form Health Survey-12; FACT B, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast; FACT-Sp, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy--Spirituality; GQOLI-74, General Quality of Life Inventory; WHO-QOL-BREF, WHO Quality of Life-BREF quality of life assessment; EQ5D, EuroQol 5 Digit Questionnaire; MLHF, Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire; DSQL, Diabetes Specific Quality-of-Life Scale; SF-36^a^ results also reported but excluded because results were for 8 subdomains versus physical and mental component scores.
\*, separate sample sizes not available for yoga and control groups.
Methodological Quality and Impact {#sec011}
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[S1 Table](#pone.0129181.s003){ref-type="supplementary-material"} shows the results for each meta-analysis using the AMSTAR instrument. Across all categories, scores ranged from 50% to 70% ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 66.3% ± 6.6%, Median = 70%). All included meta-analyses were considered to have satisfied five of the 11 criteria: (1) "a priori" design, (2) characteristics of studies table, (3) quality/risk of bias assessment, (4) inclusion of quality/risk of bias assessment in formulating conclusions, and (5) methods used for pooling results \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. In contrast, none of the included meta-analyses adequately addressed the question regarding conflict of interest, all because they did not report information on potential sources of support from each of the studies included in their meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Similarly, none of the meta-analyses adequately addressed the two questions about including all eligible studies regardless of publication status as well as providing a reference list of eligible and ineligible studies, the latter because none provide a list of ineligible studies, including the reasons for exclusion \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Finally, because of the small number of studies included in each meta-analysis and based on current guidelines that at least 10 effect sizes be available to conduct tests for small-study effects (publication bas, etc.) \[[@pone.0129181.ref035]\], no "Yes" responses were recorded.
With respect to impact, the total number of times that each meta-analysis was cited ranged from 1 to 63 ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 20 ± 20, Median = 12). When adjusted for the number of years that each meta-analysis was available, the total number of times that each meta-analysis was cited ranged from 1 to 43 ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 12 ± 13, Median = 8).
Data Synthesis {#sec012}
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[Table 2](#pone.0129181.t002){ref-type="table"} and [Fig 2](#pone.0129181.g002){ref-type="fig"} show the overall results for the 10 included systematic reviews with meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. The number of SMDs for each HRQOL analysis ranged from 2 to 7 ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 3 ± 1, Median = 3) while the number of participants nested within each analysis ranged from 82 to 528 ($\overline{\text{X}}$ ± SD, 269 ± 131, Median = 270). Across all analyses, statistically significant improvements in HRQOL were observed for 15 of the 19 (78.9%) results. Changes in HRQOL ranged from a low of 0.18 (trivial effect) to a high of 2.28 (large effect). For the 15 results that were statistically significant, 10 (66.7%) yielded statistically significant results for heterogeneity based on the Q statistic. In contrast, only 6 of the 15 statistically significant results (46.7%) were considered to display very large inconsistency as indicated by the *I* ^*2*^ statistic. For the nine PI that could be calculated, all included zero (0), i.e., not statistically significant. Publication bias was not examined or calculated because all of the analyses included a sample size of less than 10.
{#pone.0129181.g002}
10.1371/journal.pone.0129181.t002
###### Overall post-treatment standardized mean difference (SMD) effect sizes for HRQOL from included meta-analyses.
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Reference ES/Participants
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Buffart et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref038]\]
-All studies 7/528 **0.88 (0.25, 1.50)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.75 (0.006) **44.4 (\<0.001)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 87
\- One outlier deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref059]\] 6/467 **0.61 (0.16, 1.06)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.50 (0.008) **16.55 (0.005)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 70
\- Two outliers deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref059],[@pone.0129181.ref060]\] 5/405 **0.37 (0.11, 0.62)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.85 (0.004) 3.40(0.49) 0 0.00 -0.04, 0.78
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref039]\]
-Short-term effects[^c^](#t002fn006){ref-type="table-fn"} 4/274 **0.62 (0.04, 1.21)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.08 (0.04) **14.48 (0.002)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 79 0.28 -1.99, 3.23
-Short-term effects (Y vs NT) 3/212 **0.29 (0.01, 0.57)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.08 (0.04) 0.75 (0.69) 0 0.00 -1.53, 2.11
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\] 2/98 **2.28 (0.42, 4.14)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.40 (0.02) **9.01 (0.003)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 89 1.62 ---
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\]
-Short-term effects[^c^](#t002fn006){ref-type="table-fn"} 4/388 0.41 (-0.10, 0.93) 1.54 (0.12) **10.7 (0.01)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 72 0.19 NA
-Short-term effects (Y vs E)[^c^](#t002fn006){ref-type="table-fn"} 3/308 **0.25 (0.02, 0.47)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.17 (0.03) 1.25 (0.54) 0 0.00 -1.21, 1.71
-Long-term effects (Y vs E)[^d^](#t002fn007){ref-type="table-fn"} 2/287 0.18 (-0.05, 0.41) 1.52 (0.13) 0.10 (0.76) 0 0.00 NA
Lin et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref042]\] 3/191 0.29 (-0.01, 0.58)[^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} 1.91 (0.06) 1.34 (0.51) 0 0.00 NA
Pan et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\]
-All studies 3/190 **1.03 (0.29, 1.76)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.75 (0.01) **9.64 (0.01)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 79 0.33 -7.69, 9.75
-One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref048]\] 2/130 1.12 (-0.29, 2.54) [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 1.55 (0.12) **8.95 (\<0.001)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 88 0.93 NA
-One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref049]\] 2/152 **0.70 (0.14, 1.27)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.43 (0.02) **2.66 (0.10)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 62 0.11 ---
-One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref050]\] 2/82 **1.41 (0.57, 2.25)[\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"}** ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 3.29 (0.001) **2.66 (0.10)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 62 0.23 ---
Shneerson et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref044]\] 3/153 **0.51 (0.18, 0.84)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 3.06 (0.002) 0.33 (0.85) 0 0.00 -1.63, 2.65
Wang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\] 2/172 **0.58 (0.25, 0.91)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} 3.40 (0.0007) 0.16 (0.69) 0 0.00 ---
Zeng et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]
-Tai chi & qigong 5/405 **1.94 (0.59, 3.38)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.80 (0.005) **116.9 (\<0.001)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 97 2.33 -3.42, 7.30
-Qigong only 4/395 **1.79 (0.26, 3.32)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**a**^](#t002fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} ^**,**^ [^**b**^](#t002fn005){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.29 (0.02) **114.4 (\<0.001)** [\*\*](#t002fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 97 2.38 -5.65, 9.23
Zhang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref047]\] 4/270 **0.27 (0.02, 0.52)** [\*](#t002fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} 2.15 (0.03) 0.88 (0.83) 0 0.00 -0.28, 0.82
Notes: No., Number; ES, effect size; SMD, standardized mean difference effect size; 95% CI, 95% confidence intervals; Z(p), Z-value and probability value for Z; Q(p), Cochran's Q statistic and associated alpha (p) value for Q; *I* ^*2*^, I-squared statistic for inconsistency; T^2^, tau-squared; PI, prediction intervals, based on a random-effects model; Y vs NT, yoga versus no treatment; Y vs E, yoga versus education;---, Data not provided or insufficient data to calculate; SMD (95% CI) based on random-effects model; NA, not applicable; **Boldfaced**
\***,** statistically significant non-overlapping confidence intervals
\*\*, statistically significant at an alpha level ≤ 0.10
^a^, Data reverse-scaled to be consistent with other studies in which a positive SMD was indicative of improvements in HRQOL
^b^, Data converted from original metric to standardized mean difference effect size for comparison purposes
^c^, short-term effects, HRQOL assessed closest to the end of the intervention
^d^, long-term effects, HRQOL assessed closest to 12 months after randomization
When examined according to condition, the six studies that focused on cancer participants, primarily breast cancer \[[@pone.0129181.ref038],[@pone.0129181.ref039],[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref046],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], yielded nine of 10 (90.0%) statistically significant findings for HRQOL. Across all 10 results, SMD effect sizes ranged from 0.27 (small effect) to 1.94 (large effect). Statistically significant heterogeneity (Q) was observed for five of the 10 (50%) findings while very large inconsistency was observed for four (40%). For schizophrenia, a large and statistically significant SMD along with statistically significant heterogeneity and very large inconsistency was observed for HRQOL \[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\]. For low back pain, a non-significant SMD was observed for short-term effects, regardless of comparison group, as well as long-term effects when the comparison group was limited to education \[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\]. In contrast, a small and statistically significant effect was observed for HRQOL along with no statistically significant heterogeneity and inconsistency when results were limited to short-term effects and an education comparison group. For heart failure patients, a large, statistically significant SMD effect size as well as statistically significant heterogeneity and very large amount of inconsistency was observed for HRQOL across all studies \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\]. Results were no longer statistically significant when one study was deleted \[[@pone.0129181.ref048]\] while improvements in HRQOL remained statistically significant along with statistically significant heterogeneity and large inconsistency when either of the other two studies were deleted \[[@pone.0129181.ref049],[@pone.0129181.ref050]\]. Finally, for the one study focused on participants with diabetes, a moderate and statistically significant improvement in HRQOL was observed along with no statistically significant heterogeneity or inconsistency \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\].
When examined according to type of intervention, 10 of 12 results (83.3%) from seven meta-analyses yielded statistically significant SMD improvements in HRQOL when yoga was used as the intervention \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Across all 12 results, SMDs for HRQOL ranged from a low of 0.18 (trivial effect) to a high of 2.28 (large effect). For those results that were statistically significant, five of 10 (50%) yielded statistically significant heterogeneity while three (30%) yielded very large inconsistency. The overall results for the meta-analysis that was limited to tai chi yielded a large and statistically significant improvement in HRQOL along with statistically significant heterogeneity and very large inconsistency \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\]. However, when each of the three included studies was deleted from the meta-analysis once \[[@pone.0129181.ref048]--[@pone.0129181.ref050]\], changes ranged from a non-significant SMD of 1.21 to a statistically significant improvement in HRQOL of 1.41 (large effect) that was accompanied by statistically significant heterogeneity and large inconsistency. For the meta-analysis that included qigong as the only intervention and was limited to two studies \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\], a statistically significant SMD improvement of 0.58 (moderate effect) was reported for HRQOL along with no statistically significant heterogeneity or inconsistency. Finally, the meta-analysis that included either tai chi or qigong resulted in a large, statistically significant improvement of 1.94 for HRQOL as well as statistically significant heterogeneity and very large inconsistency \[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]. When limited to qigong studies only, similar results were obtained.
Number needed-to-treat estimates for those results that were statistically significant can be found in [Table 3](#pone.0129181.t003){ref-type="table"}. As can be seen, the NNT for improving HRQOL ranged from 2 to 10 across all eligible meta-analyses \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref043]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. When limited to selected conditions, the six studies that focused on cancer participants, primarily breast cancer patients \[[@pone.0129181.ref038],[@pone.0129181.ref039],[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref046],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], yielded NNT estimates ranging from 2 to 10. For the remaining meta-analyses, NNT values were 2 (schizophrenia) \[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\], 10 (low back pain) \[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\], 2 to 3 (heart failure) \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\], and 4 (diabetes) \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\]. When partitioned according to type of intervention, the NNT ranged from 2 to 10 for yoga \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], 2 to 3 for tai chi only \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\], 2 and 4 for qigong only \[[@pone.0129181.ref045],[@pone.0129181.ref046]\], and 2 for tai chi and qigong combined \[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\].
Percentile improvements for statistically significant meta-analytic results are also shown in [Table 3](#pone.0129181.t003){ref-type="table"} and [Fig 3](#pone.0129181.g003){ref-type="fig"}. Across all eligible meta-analyses \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref043]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], percentile improvements in HRQOL ranged from 9.9 to 48.9. When limited to selected conditions, percentile improvements for the six studies that focused on cancer participants, primarily breast cancer patients \[[@pone.0129181.ref038],[@pone.0129181.ref039],[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref046],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], ranged from 10.6 to 46.3. For the remaining meta-analyses, percentile improvements were 48.9 for schizophrenia \[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\], 9.9 for low back pain \[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\], 25.8 to 42.1 for heart failure \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\] and 21.9 for diabetes \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\]. When examined according to type of intervention, percentile improvements ranged from 9.9 to 48.9 for yoga \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref041],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], 25.8 to 42.1 for tai chi only \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\], 21.9 and 46.3 for qigong only \[[@pone.0129181.ref045],[@pone.0129181.ref046]\], and 47.4 for tai chi and qigong combined \[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\].
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10.1371/journal.pone.0129181.t003
###### NNT and percentile improvement in HRQOL.
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Reference NNT (95% CI) U~3~ Index (95% CI)[^a^](#t003fn002){ref-type="table-fn"}
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Buffart et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref038]\]
\- All studies 3 (2, 10) 31.1 (9.9, 43.3)
\- One outlier deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref059]\] 4 (2, 16) 22.9 (6.4, 35.5)
\- Two outliers deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref059],[@pone.0129181.ref060]\] 6 (4, 23) 14.4 (4.4, 23.2)
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref039]\]
\- Short-term effects[^b^](#t003fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 4 (2, 65) 23.2 (1.6, 38.7)
\- Short-term effects (Y vs NT)[^b^](#t003fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 8 (4, 262) 11.4 (0.4, 21.6)
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\] 2 (1, 6) 48.9 (16.3, 50)
Cramer et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref041]\]
\- Short-term effects NA NA
\- Short-term effects (Y vs E)[^b^](#t003fn003){ref-type="table-fn"} 10 (5, 131) 9.9 (0.8, 18.1)
\- Long-term effects (Y vs E)[^c^](#t003fn004){ref-type="table-fn"} NA NA
Lin et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref042]\] NA NA
Pan et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\]
\- All studies 2 (2, 8) 34.8 (11.4, 46.1)
\- One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref048]\] NA NA
\- One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref049]\] 3 (2, 18) 25.8 (5.6, 39.8)
\- One study deleted\[[@pone.0129181.ref050]\] 2 (2, 4) 42.1 (21.6, 48.8)
Shneerson et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref044]\] 5 (3, 14) 19.5 (7.1, 30.0)
Wang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\] 4 (3, 10) 21.9 (9.9, 31.9)
Zeng et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref046]\]
-Tai chi & qigong 2 (1, 4) 47.4 (22.2, 50.0)
\- Qigong only 2 (1, 9) 46.3 (10.3, 50)
Zhang et al.\[[@pone.0129181.ref047]\] 9 (4, 131) 10.6 (0.8, 19.8)
Notes: NNT, number needed to-treat, calculated from SMD and 95% confidence intervals for SMD; 95% CI, 95% confidence intervals; Y vs NT, yoga versus no treatment; Y vs E, yoga versus education; NA, not applicable (overlapping 95% confidence intervals for pooled SMD).
^a^, Cohen's U~3~ Index\[[@pone.0129181.ref033]\]
^b^, short-term effects, HRQOL assessed closest to the end of the intervention
^c^, long-term effects, HRQOL assessed closest to 12 months after randomization
Discussion {#sec013}
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Findings {#sec014}
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The overall findings of the current study suggest that MMT may have the potential to improve HRQOL in adults with selected conditions. This observation is reinforced by (1) the non-overlapping confidence intervals for the majority (78.9%) of results, (2) low NNT (2 to 10), (3) percentile improvements as a result of MMT (9.9 to 48.9), and (3) good overall quality (median AMSTAR rating = 70%). In contrast, the potentially positive effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults with selected conditions may be weakened by (1) statistically significant heterogeneity for a majority (66.7%) of the positive findings, (2) large to very large inconsistency for more than half (52.6%) of the meta-analyses and (3) overlapping prediction intervals for all of the statistically significant findings.
While the majority of results yielded statistically significant improvements in HRQOL, the magnitude of change varied by 92% across the included conditions (breast cancer, schizophrenia, low back pain, heart failure, diabetes) and interventions (yoga, tai chi, qi gong) \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Consequently, the NNT and percentile changes also varied widely since they were based on the SMD change in HRQOL. However, whether these wide-ranging changes are the result of the condition, intervention, or some other factor(s), or combination of factors, is not known.
The overall results of the included studies are similar to the effects of traditional types of exercise (aerobic, strength training, etc.) in adults with similar conditions. For example, a meta-analysis of 12 randomized controlled trials of physical exercise (aerobic, strength training, etc.) which did not include any MMT, found a statistically significant SMD improvement of 0.30 (95% CI, 0.12 to 0.48) in HRQOL among breast cancer patients and survivors \[[@pone.0129181.ref051]\]. This compares to changes in HRQOL ranging from 0.27 to 1.94 for the six breast cancer MMT meta-analyses included in the current study \[[@pone.0129181.ref038],[@pone.0129181.ref039],[@pone.0129181.ref042],[@pone.0129181.ref044],[@pone.0129181.ref046],[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. For those with schizophrenia or symptoms of schizophrenia, a previous systematic review that was limited to one study found greater increases in HRQOL (SMD = 0.59) when yoga was compared directly to exercise (walking, jogging, etc,) \[[@pone.0129181.ref052]\]. In comparison, an intervention minus control SMD improvement of 2.28 was found for schizophrenic patients as a result of yoga in the current investigation \[[@pone.0129181.ref040]\]. Another previous meta-analysis of nine randomized controlled trials in 779 patients with heart failure reported a statistically significant SMD improvement of 0.63 in HRQOL as a result of aerobic and strength training exercise
\[[@pone.0129181.ref053]\]. For the current systematic review of previous meta-analyses, a SMD improvement of 1.03 was reported for HRQOL for the one meta-analysis that included heart failure patients \[[@pone.0129181.ref043]\]. Finally, while the investigative team is not aware of any previous meta-analytic research that has examined the effects of exercise on HRQOL in adults with low back pain, a meta-analysis among participants with type 2 diabetes found no statistically significant difference in HRQOL as a result of aerobic exercise for the one trial that was included in their systematic review \[[@pone.0129181.ref054]\]. In contrast, the one meta-analysis included in the current study found a statistically significant SMD improvement of 0.58 in HRQOL as a result of qigong in participants with diabetes \[[@pone.0129181.ref045]\].
Based on the previous information, it appears that improvements in HRQOL as a result of MMT are equal to or greater than traditional exercise interventions among adults with breast cancer, schizophrenia, heart failure and diabetes. However, the effects of traditional exercise interventions on HRQOL in adults with low back pain cannot be elucidated given the apparent absence of any previous meta-analytic work in this area. However, when examined irrespective of condition, the results for SMD changes in HRQOL as a result of MMT from the current study (yoga = 0.18 to 2.28, tai chi = 0.70 to 1.41, qigong = 1.79) were larger than those found for a previous meta-analysis of physical activity interventions (0.11) \[[@pone.0129181.ref055]\].
Implications for Research {#sec015}
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Based on the current study, conducted according to PRISMA guidelines relevant to systematic reviews of previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis ([S2 Table](#pone.0129181.s004){ref-type="supplementary-material"}), there are at least six inferences for future research using the meta-analytic approach. First, while the median quality of the 10 included meta-analyses was believed to be good \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], areas of improvement for future meta-analytic research were noted. These include (1) avoidance of publication status as a criterion for eligibility or providing a strong rationale for not doing so, (2) in addition to providing a reference list of included studies, providing a reference list of excluded studies along with reasons for exclusion, and (3) providing a description of potential conflicts of interest, including potential sources of support, for the studies included in each meta-analysis.
Second, the impact of the included meta-analyses based on citation rates appears to be small. One potential reason for this may be that this work is published in journals that do not have a large readership. A second potential reason may be the lack of universal acceptance of MMT over traditional types of activity such as aerobic exercise and strength training. However, the increasing use of MMT in the United States in recent years is promising \[[@pone.0129181.ref002]\].
Third, all 10 of the included studies were aggregate data meta-analyses \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. Since an individual-participant data meta-analysis (IPD) has been suggested to be superior to an aggregate data meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref056]\], the conduct of an IPD meta-analysis for determining the effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults may be warranted. However, such a decision needs to be made while considering factors such as (1) the ability to retrieve IPD from original study investigators, (2) the increased costs associated with conducting an IPD meta-analysis, and (3) any actual benefit that may be attained by conducting an IPD versus aggregate data meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref057]\].
Fourth, since it's important in meta-analysis to provide practical information for decision-makers (practitioners, policy-makers, etc.), it is suggested that future meta-analytic research on MMT and HRQOL include information such as NNT and/or percentile improvements. While it may also be important to assess the evidence using an instrument such as the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) tool \[[@pone.0129181.ref023]\], this instrument may be too conservative despite its flexibility, especially for an intervention such as MMT where the chance of adverse events is probably minimal. Thus, the use of an instrument such as GRADE may result in a potentially beneficial treatment being inappropriately withheld.
Fifth, it is suggested that PIs be included to enhance the interpretation of findings with respect to the effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults. The use of such cannot only help to determine outcome effects in a new study but also may be more valid for decision-making \[[@pone.0129181.ref031]\]. However, it's important to realize that as opposed to CIs, PIs are based on random mean effects \[[@pone.0129181.ref031]\].
Sixth, all of the meta-analyses included were limited to a small number of randomized controlled trials in participants with certain conditions (breast cancer, schizophrenia, low back pain, heart failure, diabetes), and with the exception of one study \[[@pone.0129181.ref058]\], a certain type of MMT (yoga, tai chi or qigong). From the investigative team's perspective, a more powerful and applicable study design would be to conduct a larger meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that is not limited to either the type of MMT or condition and which also includes healthy adults. One can then perform moderator and/or sensitivity analyses to examine for potential differences in HRQOL according to selected conditions and type of MMT.
Based on the results of the current study, two major recommendations for future randomized controlled trials are suggested. First, given that none of the meta-analyses reported data on the cost-effectiveness of the interventions from the included studies \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\], it is assumed that the original studies included in each of the meta-analyses did not provide this information. Assuming the former, future intervention studies addressing the effects of MMT on HRQOL should provide this data. Inclusion of this information is critically important to decision-makers when trying to decide which interventions should be prioritized over others.
Second, the dose-response effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults is not known, including what MMT, if any, may be more beneficial for improving HRQOL in adults. Related to this issue is a need to identify what specific types of yoga, tai chi and qigong may be most beneficial given that there are several different types of MMT nested within each of these three modalities. Knowledge of these factors should lead to better treatment in the population of interest.
Implications for Practice {#sec016}
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The results of the current investigation provide important information for practice. First, despite the lack of cost-effectiveness and adverse event data as well as considerable between-study heterogeneity and/or inconsistency for more than half of the reported results, MMT appear to improve HRQOL in the populations studied. While no definitive recommendations can be made and additional research is needed, it would appear both prudent and safe at this time to suggest that HRQOL may be improved by participating in MMT at least 3 times per week for about 71 minutes per session. However, it is important to note that these are general recommendations.
Strengths and Potential Limitations of Current Study {#sec017}
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At least two strengths of the current study were noted. First, the investigative team believes that this is the first systematic review of previous systematic reviews with meta-analysis aimed at determining the effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults, a recent and increasingly necessary method for not only determining the effects of different healthcare interventions, but also for making decisions about the prioritization and use of these interventions \[[@pone.0129181.ref005]\]. As a result, a summary of previous meta-analyses addressing the effects of MMT on HRQOL is now available to those interested in this topic and from which future research, practice and policy-making may be advanced. Second, the additional analyses conducted based on the available data (NNT, percentile improvement, PIs), aided in strengthening the evidence from which conclusions could be made from the included studies \[[@pone.0129181.ref038]--[@pone.0129181.ref047]\]. The inclusion of PIs also provides future researchers with data for assisting them in the planning and conduct of randomized controlled studies aimed at determining the effects of MMT on HRQOL in adults.
In addition to the strengths of the current study, at least three *possible* limitations were observed. First, the number of studies included in each meta-analysis was small and limited to very narrowly defined populations. Given the former, the strength of the evidence is less than ideal and may not be generalizable to other populations. The former notwithstanding, it's important to note that two is the minimum number of studies necessary for conducting a meta-analysis \[[@pone.0129181.ref003]\]. However, the ability to generalize findings based on such a small number of studies is limited.
Second, it is possible that the results of the included meta-analyses suffered from small-study effects (publication bias, etc.). Unfortunately, the assessment of such was not possible since all of the meta-analysis included less than 10 effect sizes and a minimum of 10 is recommended before any such analyses is performed \[[@pone.0129181.ref035]\].
Third, biases common to the original meta-analyses, for example, ecologic fallacy and Simpson's paradox, as well as the randomized controlled trials included in the meta-analyses, may have existed in the current investigation.
Conclusions {#sec018}
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The results of the current review suggest that MMT may improve HRQOL in adults with selected conditions. However, a need exists for a large meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that is not limited to either the type of MMT or condition, and which also includes healthy adults.
Supporting Information {#sec019}
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###### Search strategies used for each database.
This file includes the search strategies use for all of our electronic databases searches. These include PubMed, Sport Discus, Web of Science, Scopus, PsychInfo, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, Database of Abstract Reviews of Effects and Proquest.
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###### Studies excluded, including reasons for exclusion.
This file includes a list of all excluded studies, including the specific reasons for their exclusion.
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###### Item by item results using the AMSTAR assessment instrument.
This table includes the results of the AMSTAR assessment for each item from each study.
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###### PRISMA Checklist.
This table includes the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) checklist relevant to this systematic review of previous systematic reviews with meta-analyses.
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[^1]: **Competing Interests:**The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
[^2]: Conceived and designed the experiments: GAK KSK. Performed the experiments: GAK KSK. Analyzed the data: GAK KSK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAK KSK. Wrote the paper: GAK KSK.
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Disclaimer:
Do this at your own risk, Ultimately you are responsible for your actions and this will only serve as a guide to try to help you ROOT your Starmobile ASTRA.
To other Phone Users - Myphone 919, 898, 878, CM Titan or other China Androids with MT657* based chipsets. The same procedure for Astra can be used for your PHONES. infact I used the rooting procedure here to ROOT my Cherry Mobile Flare(and it has Qualcomm 8225 chipset)
Personal Requirements:
1. You must HAVE prior knowledge of how to root Android phones, either you have rooted a previous phone or have helped/seen one being rooted.
2. PC running windows 7 and connected to the INTERNET. (I haven't tested this on Windows XP but you can try and give feedback, the internet connection is required for any DRIVER download which might be required)
Software Requirements (Please download the following)
1. Root with Restore by Bin4ry (You can see links before reply)
Steps:
1. Driver Installation: Install the correct drivers for your phone. (Do any of the following)
A. Search and Install MTK6577 driver / MEDIATEK VCOM USB (You can see links before reply) Drivers
B. Install PDANet (You can see links before reply) (it will automatically install the drivers for your phone)
C. Download and install SuperOneClick (You can see links before reply) (it will automatically install the drivers for your phone)
D. If PC is connected to the internet, Windows 7 will automatically install drivers for you when you connect your phone.
(Driver Installation is used to open communication between your PC and Phone aside from the normal USB Storage Device)
2. Please ensure that USB DEBUGGING and INSTALL FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES are ON in your ASTRA. See SETTINGS. Connect your ASTRA to the PC using the provided USB cable.
3. Unzip the zip file Root with Restore from Bin4ry. Then RUN/START the Runme.bat file.
4. It will start the rooting process script, Choose 1 then ENTER (Device Type - NORMAL).
5. Wait a while, then look at your ASTRA and it should ask you to RESTORE, after which it will REBOOT.
6. The script will continue UNTIL you will see a message SUCCESSFUL.
7. Congratulations you have ROOTED your STARMOBILE ASTRA.
IF UNSUCESSFUL after completing the steps 1-9 above. Then you may have to WIPE/FACTORY RESET your phone first. go into RECOVERY by holding Volume up + Power button. The WIPE/FACTORY RESET phone (This will return the phone to its BOXED condition, WARNING: YOU WILL LOSE ANY PROGRAMS you MAY HAVE ALREADY INSTALLED) then Repeat STEPS 1-9.
CWM BASED RECOVERY
as usual proceed at your own risk.
1. Download Astra Recovery ZIP file (You can see links before reply), and UNZIP. Connect your phone to the PC and mount as USB drive.
2. Copy the mu7577.apk and recovery.img file to the root (or main folder or highest level folder) of your SDCARD.
3. Install the Mobileuncle Tools (mu7577.apk)
4. Run Mobileuncle Tools
5. Choose Recovery Update
6. Choose the recovery file in SDcard.
7. It will ask for root permission (GRANT it) the it will Flash the recovery image to your phone and reboot you to CMW recovery.
8. NOW YOU HAVE CMW Recovery for installing zip files/custom ROMs.
9. Use Volume up/down keys to navigate and Power button to choose/select. Be very careful, if you do not know what you are doing then do not select/change anything in recovery.
10. Choose Reboot System Now to exit recovery and reboot celphone.
Post any feedbacks if you hit a snag. Post your success stories too if successful to encourage others to try.
Other TUTORIALS:
SWAPPING PHONE STORAGE WITH SDCARD STORAGE
Link to instruction (You can see links before reply) as provided by BONDYING1977
This is applicable to all Mediatek 657* based phones.
This procedure assumes that your phone is already ROOTED.
1. Download and install ES File Explorer.
2. Run ES File Explorert, Go to Menu>Settings>Root Settings Check “Root Explorer” and accept both the ES prompt and SU prompt.
3. Check Mount File System as writable.
4. Return to ES Main screen, Press the first Favorites icon.
5. Go to the / directory.
6. Go to /system/etc and look for vold.fstab then edit it.
7. Find the following lines:
What you are really doing here is just REASSIGNMENT. Because your PHONE STORAGE is LIMITED to 1.58GB, it will fill up right away when you install a lot of BIG GAMES and APPS. SO to be able to make the space BIGGER. You fooled your phone into thinking that the SD CARD (8GB in our case) is the PHONE STORAGE where NOW you can install plenty of APPS and the 1.58GB that was previously PHONE STORAGE now becomes SDCARD. Hope the explanation HELPS.
IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
This is based on my PERSONAL experience with the ASTRA and I am just sharing this to you as I have noticed some users get in bootloops, almost soft bricks their ASTRA or find their ASTRA almost unusable because of tinkering with it.
A. After Rooting and CWM Recovery installation, ALWAYS PERFORM A COMPLETE BACKUP while you ASTRA is still running well and good. And to be sure!!! After restarting your Astra after performing a BACKUP, then do a 2nd BACKUP as well. This will reduce chances that your backups have MD5 Checksum Errors. IF youre on then paranoid side, do a 3RD Backup.
How to do a CWM Backup?
1. Power OFF your Astra
2. Boot into CWM Recovery (press and HOLD Volume UP + Power Button)
3. Release the Power button when the Starmobile Logo or Any Custom Logo appears while keep on pressing the Volume UP button.
4. Screen will change to CWM Based Recovery v.6.0.1.2.
5. Use the Vol keys as cursors and use Power button to select.
6. Go to Backup and Restore
7. Choose Backup
8. WAIT!!! (Very important) Wait for the device to finish backing up. This will take a long time and sometimes you might think that the device is not working or hangs up. Dont worry IT IS STILL WORKING.
9. When Astra displays backup completed, press SOFT BACK KEY or go back to Main Menu.
10. Choose REBOOT SYSTEM NOW. Congratulations YOU have made your first CWM Backup. It is now saved at your MicroSD under folder clockworkmod and under a date/time folder..
11. Just to be sure, do the previous STEPS again to have a 2nd Backup.
B. When CWM RECOVERY has been installed NEVER USE SETTINGS - BACKUP & RESET - FACTORY DATA RESET!!
The phone will try to CALL the OLD 3E Recovery and will USE THAT TO Perform a FACTORY RESET.
If you want to do a FACTORY RESET then use CWM RECOVERY to do it.
1. Boot to CWM Recovery (see instruction above on how to)
2. Choose Wipe Data/Factory Reset then Confirm by choosing Yes.
3. Though this is redundant I still do it. Choose Wipe Cache Partition then Confirm by choosing Yes.
4. Choose Advanced - Wipe Dalvik cache - Confirm by choosing Yes.
5. back to Main Menu then Reboot System Now.
6. Your Astra will take a longer time to boot, just wait. It is rebuilding the caches.
7. After boot, your ASTRA will be as it was when you first bought it.
Using and Buying HEADSET/EARPIECE with your ASTRA
You can USE ANY Headset or EARPIECE with your ASTRA and IT will work fine AS LONG as it is ONLY for listening to MUSIC. Meaning there is NO MICROPHONE on the HEADSET.
But if you want to USE a HEADSET/EARPIECE with A MICROPHONE, then be informed that the ASTRA follows the OLD NOKIA HEADSET STANDARD. For the enthusiast this means that the PinOut Sequence of the Headset MUST BE: LEFT - RIGHT - MIC - GROUND (LRMG) this is the NOKIA/SE Standard.
Whereas SAMSUNG and other manufacturers are now using the LRGM or LRGC standard M-Mic and C-Control.
What does this mean?
It means that Samsung/Iphone compatible Headsets with MIC will not work for calls on your ASTRA, some Headsets for some china phones like ZTE will work for your ASTRA. Most Nokia/SE 3.5mm jack Headsets will work with your Astra.
All Stereo Headsets (without MIC) will work with your ASTRA as it is only Left-Right-Ground standard.
Just for your information. Reference here. (You can see links before reply)
More Tutorials to follow.
Using SP Flash Tool
Modifying Boot_Logo and Logo.bin
Trying to revive a bricked Astra
Using Thai Imobile Istyle Q2 Duo ROM.
when i will have the time.
Disclaimer:
Do this at your own risk, do not blame me for your phone not waking you up because the alarm did not go off, or starting a thermonuclear war, or any else not mentioned here. Ultimately you are responsible for your actions and this will only serve as a guide to try to help you ROOT your Starmobile ASTRA.
Personal Requirements:
1. You must HAVE prior knowledge of how to root Android phones, either you have rooted a previous phone or have helped/seen one being rooted.
2. PC running windows 7 and connected to the INTERNET. (I haven't tested this on Windows XP but you can try and give feedback, the internet connection is required for any DRIVER download which might be required)
Software Requirements (Please download the following)
1. Root with Restore by Bin4ry (You can see links before reply)
2. SuperOneClick (You can see links before reply)
Steps:
1. Please ensure that USB DEBUGGING and INSTALL FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES are ON in your ASTRA. See SETTINGS. Connect your ASTRA to the PC using the provided USB cable.
2. Unzip the zip file from SuperOneCick and RUN/START the SuperOneClick program.
3. SuperOneClick will ask you to INSTALL drivers (click YES/OK) and install the drivers. (If it does not automatically ask you to install drivers, click ADVANCED - CHECK DRIVERS then install the drivers).
4. DO NOT CLICK ROOT on SupeOneClick!!! instead CLOSE SuperOneClick. It was just needed to install the DRIVERS.
5. Unzip the zip file Root with Restore from Bin4ry. Then RUN/START the Runme.bat file.
6. It will start the rooting process script, Choose 1 then ENTER (Device Type - NORMAL).
7. Wait a while, then look at your ASTRA and it should ask you to RESTORE, after which it will REBOOT.
8. The script will continue UNTIL you will see a message SUCCESSFUL.
9. Congratulations you have ROOTED your STARMOBILE ASTRA.
IF UNSUCESSFUL after completing the steps 1-9 above. Then you may have to WIPE/FACTORY RESET your phone first. go into RECOVERY by holding Volume up + Power button. The WIPE/FACTORY RESET phone (This will return the phone to its BOXED condition, WARNING: YOU WILL LOSE ANY PROGRAMS you MAY HAVE ALREADY INSTALLED) then Repeat STEPS 1-9.
Post any feedbacks if you hit a snag. Post your success stories too if successful to encourage others to try.
There is also successful steps for INSTALLING CUSTOM RECOVERY for installing CUSTOM ROMS. but I feel there is no need for that as of the moment since THERE IS NO CUSTOM ROM for the ASTRA yet.
HELP! It didn't worked for me. After plugging the USB to the computer it automatically installed the drivers and once its okay, I opened SUPERONECLICK and I click on advanced and clicked on check drivers and it does nothing. I resumed to steps 5-9 and it the restore option didn't appeared in my phone, ...I does nothing.. help, I really want to root my ASTRA.
UW po. Actually the rooting process for Astra is exactly the same for Myphone A898. Sana may papasok dito na myphone user and try my procedure. And will adopt this for their celphone. Astra and Myphone 898 have exactly the same chipset.
Astra has 3 types of storage. A 1gb internal storage. A 2.5gb phone storage and the 8gb micro sd. Even when phone is not rooted you can still transfer apps from internal storage to phone storage. However if you want to transfer it to the micro sd then you can using Link2SD or Simple2Ext or Apps2SD HOWEVER the Astra already has a combined capacity of 3.5Gb for apps so IMHO there is no need to transfer apps to SD. The rooting procedure here is for you to be able to install ALL APPS that would require root.
With regards to OVERCLOCKING. Rooting is not the main requirement for overclocking but it is needed. OVERCLOCKING can be done if your KERNEL supports it. But i doubt the stock kernel of the astra supports it. Although again there is NO NEED for me to overclock since Ive got dual core 1ghz processor and most apps run fast on it already even HD games.
The very important part of the instruction is to install the USB drivers, if you get that correctly then running the BAT file from root_with_restore_bin4ry will do the job for you. Actually the BAT file is a series of ADB commands that pushes the SU binary and SuperSU.apk as well as Busybox to your phone.
But without the correct USB drivers installed then ADB will not work.
Yeheyyyyyyy! found the FIRMWARE for imobile q2 duo - the ASTRA in thailand, I hope this is really the one, so we can REPACK the recovery.img with Clockwork or TWRP recovery. Hopefully!!!!
yung android na nakahiga with red triangle ba yun, that is the entrance to RECOVERY MODE. the recovery version that we have on ASTRA is 3E Recovery. When you see the android na nakahiga, just touch the HOME or the middle soft key in your ASTRA and you will see the recovery options. Although most of the rooted ASTRA here NEVER had to reset/wipe for rooting, I do not know why it wont work with yours.
Yup that could work for us. The one I tested from a FULL ROM EXTRACT from a Q2 DUO is exactly like that. I havr that in my astra now. I will post the instructions later as im still working. Although pag may masama mangyari HAHAHA ewan ko lang kung ma flash natin to Q2 DUO FULL ROM. Maging I-Mobile ka at di na STARMOBILE. HEHEHE. sana Happy Man sa starmobile would link us with the Starmobile Astra Full Rom so that may fall back tayo just in case.
Yup that could work for us. The one I tested from a FULL ROM EXTRACT from a Q2 DUO is exactly like that. I havr that in my astra now. I will post the instructions later as im still working. Although pag may masama mangyari HAHAHA ewan ko lang kung ma flash natin to Q2 DUO FULL ROM. Maging I-Mobile ka at di na STARMOBILE. HEHEHE. sana Happy Man sa starmobile would link us with the Starmobile Astra Full Rom so that may fall back tayo just in case.
1. Install the zip file.
2. Open the zip file and copy the recovery.img file on your sdcard.
3. Install Mobile Uncle Tool on your Astra
4. Open the app and select Recovery Update
5. the recovery.img file will appear on the choices, select and ok.
6. It will boot to recovery, when you see the cwm recovery, then it's done!
Enjoy your Rooted Astra folks. I just bought my CM Flare today. So off to testing how to root this phone. Seems like there is no root procedure for the Flare yet. Sorry OT. By the way, Antutu Benchmarks: Astra - 5840, Flare - 5688. Close fight. Not too bad for a 3999 phone.
Surprising the Flare is very light. The Astra is a lot heavier. Build quality is good iphone cases could probably fit this as its very rectangular in nature with rounded edges. No TV, no FM. Camera is comparable to Astra. Same bad earpiece and charger. No free micro SD. Speed of operation is similar as seen by Antutu benchmark result. Price is very good. Same good buy as the Astra.
- our stock phone storage is only more or less 1.58GB
- then you have a 16GB external micro-sd
if you apply the above procedure the phone will read the following (by verifying in the settings/storage):
- ang phone storage will become 16GB
- ang sd-card will be 1.58GB
meaning, the phone system will read the external micro sd-card as the phone storage, while original phone storage will be read as sd-card...
WARNING: Do this at your OWN RISK... thanks:salute:
paulpacs
20th Nov 2012, 21:57
@Bondying Thanks for the info.
@Androiddtank You can try the procedure above or you can use LINK2SD or DATA2EXT or even INT2EXT. But read up on those before you try them. It involves making another partition on your Micro SD. Lots of procedures now available to you. Wharts important is you can do any of them for you are already the SUPERUSER of your ASTRA.
hotdawg
21st Nov 2012, 05:54
@Bondying
thank you for sharing that sir, whoo thats nice.
rvpb
21st Nov 2012, 05:59
@paulpacs
my astra is rooted, thank you sir... :clap:
hotdawg
21st Nov 2012, 07:00
Guys ask lng,
what are the apps/system apps/ or anything na delete niyo after you rooted your astra?
androidddtank
21st Nov 2012, 08:25
thank u mga sir.. masubukan nga ito :thumbsup:
androidddtank
21st Nov 2012, 08:51
@Bondying Thanks for the info.
@Androiddtank You can try the procedure above or you can use LINK2SD or DATA2EXT or even INT2EXT. But read up on those before you try them. It involves making another partition on your Micro SD. Lots of procedures now available to you. Wharts important is you can do any of them for you are already the SUPERUSER of your ASTRA.
Actually when you PASS the ORIG ROM through the Kitchen, even without TWEAKING, t will automatically be: DEOXED, ZIPALIGNED, EXT.KO ON, some SPEED TEAKS applied, some BATTERY TWEAKS applied. After the kitchen even with the basic setup, you would certainly look like a CERTIFIED ASTRA ROM DEVELOPER, hehehe.
I read it from a post on XDA-DEVELOPERS after much searching but te link (history) is on my office PC. I am on 6-day out of office hiatus.
Good luck to whoever wants to DEVELOP a CUSTOM ROM.
OT: On my thread at XDA-DEVELOPERS, some are ranting that how come the ASTRA got a CWM recovery right away when the LG Optimus 7 doesn't even have a CWM Recovery yet, hahaha.
OT2: Devoting my time for the moment to ROOT CHERRY MOBILE FLARE, I am a little impressed with this SMALL WONDER.
once ma-install mo ang na download mo na HOLO launcher (or any launchers), just press the home button ng astra, and lalabas ang option to choose what launchers you want to use.
as of now bumalik ako sa stock launcher since same lang naman pala sila sa HOLO and disadvantage sa HOLO is di mag reflect sa messaging icon and call icon if you received a text message or missed call. malaman mo lang na may text or missed call ka thru the blue led notification and icon on the notification bar.
Yup. It has CWM Recovery so you can do backups although this is the advanced type of backups where there is a Blobs directory. New CWM recoveries use these type of new backups, this ia not similar to a nandroid backup. Although the boot.img and system.img are still saved. I havent tried to restore too as there is no need as of the moment.
OT: almost bricked my astra today as i messed with boot logo ang logo.bin. There could be a ROM available for the Astra but it is from i-mobile for the Q2 Duo. Saw that once but forgot where it was. Its thai so I had hard time understanding. But if the worst comes then surely ill look for that and flash it.
vanir29
23rd Nov 2012, 19:36
Yup. It has CWM Recovery so you can do backups although this is the advanced type of backups where there is a Blobs directory. New CWM recoveries use these type of new backups, this ia not similar to a nandroid backup. Although the boot.img and system.img are still saved. I havent tried to restore too as there is no need as of the moment.
OT: almost bricked my astra today as i messed with boot logo ang logo.bin. There could be a ROM available for the Astra but it is from i-mobile for the Q2 Duo. Saw that once but forgot where it was. Its thai so I had hard time understanding. But if the worst comes then surely ill look for that and flash it.
It is hard to dump this ROM from the Phone, meaning copy the ROM from the phone. And YES a FLASHABLE ZIP can be made but you would have to find a suitable KITCHEN for it. Rom Dumping can be done probably with SP FLASH TOOL, and there is already an available MT6577 ICS KITCHEN ready made.
However, I do not have time to do all those things, I am only concerned with ROOTING so I can install whatever APPS I like, and CWM to install whatever flashable zips I like for Customization.
But to cook a custom ROM? Nope, not this time. My GTAB7 and ZTE Blade already took MOST of my time. Im happy with the ROM this ASTRA has, and made some customizations for myself. So I dont really need a Custom ROM with this phone. But feel free to try though.
OT: Even just messing with the logo.bin to remove the Starmobile startup logo ALMOST bricked my TAB and made me lose my entire afternoon, LOL, so no more losing time over this, hehe. Although I am looking for one more customization, making the notification bar TRANSPARENT. after that I will be satisfied with my ASTRA.
just be careful and remember to backup, which i failed to do. hahahaha
hotdawg
24th Nov 2012, 06:21
Hi Guys,
I found something on XDA u might find useful for modding battery.
You can see links before reply
vanir29
24th Nov 2012, 07:40
To answer your question:
It is hard to dump this ROM from the Phone, meaning copy the ROM from the phone. And YES a FLASHABLE ZIP can be made but you would have to find a suitable KITCHEN for it. Rom Dumping can be done probably with SP FLASH TOOL, and there is already an available MT6577 ICS KITCHEN ready made.
However, I do not have time to do all those things, I am only concerned with ROOTING so I can install whatever APPS I like, and CWM to install whatever flashable zips I like for Customization.
But to cook a custom ROM? Nope, not this time. My GTAB7 and ZTE Blade already took MOST of my time. Im happy with the ROM this ASTRA has, and made some customizations for myself. So I dont really need a Custom ROM with this phone. But feel free to try though.
OT: Even just messing with the logo.bin to remove the Starmobile startup logo ALMOST bricked my TAB and made me lose my entire afternoon, LOL, so no more losing time over this, hehe. Although I am looking for one more customization, making the notification bar TRANSPARENT. after that I will be satisfied with my ASTRA.
Thanks for the enlightenment sir and sorry for bugging you, again thanks :salute:
androidddtank
24th Nov 2012, 10:07
can someone upload the flashable modded ICS battery? thanks
paulpacs
24th Nov 2012, 23:01
@Vanir29 No probs bro, glad to help and explain
@Hotdawg, Hahaha, I see you are fed up with the ANDROID battery indicator, well when you do those procedure and edit the SystemUi.Apk then you are on the road to developing CUSTOMIZATIONS!!! GO Hotdawg More Power To You. Seems like you're the one who was time to do these things.
I am very thankful for this post author/TS!
I finished rooting my MyPhone A898 Duo using this method as you said it will work on 898!
I rooted it this last midnight 1am haha, and dang I got scared because this rooting method really differs from my last phone SGY..
At first, i forgot to install the driver needed for rooting and i forgot to on the USB debugging that's why i waited and waited for nothing haha, how cool is that? XD
But i really want to thank you alot for making this thread, you helped so many kasymbianize here..
So now, i'm finding a guide on how to backup my phone so that if anything bad happens to it, i can revert it back..
I know i will be using TB to backup my installed apps but i want to backup the whole phone para isang balikan nlng..
Thank you again ng marami marami marami hahaha! :rofl:
@Bondying. Speedwise both Astra and Flare are almost the same. I say almost kasi slightly faster ang Astra. Pero HEAVIER ang Astra. If I were you. Id stick with the Astra. Although if the FLARE came out before the ASTRA then i wont even give the astra a second look because of the price difference. Cge lang binayaran mo nlang ng extra 3000 ang TV Tuner sa Astra. Hahaha. I stick with the Astra coz this is my first buy and i dont want to feel regret. Naks. Hahaha. Anyway hands down the Astra still beats the A919 at 7499. Hehe.
A result of SEARCHING for a CUSTOM ROM for the ASTRA (also imobile istyle q2 duo in Thailand)
Here it is:
You can see links before reply
From what I understand (google translate), it has these features and more:
1. Extended POWER Menu, meaning instead of having just POWER OFF when you press Power Button, you also get REBOOT and RECOVERY option.
2. Battery Icon in Status Bar has been changed.
3. Applied JellyBean Sounds (?!) and Camera and Gallery App ported from Jellybean.
4. Status Bar is now Jellybean Style.
5. Has init.d support
and more...
This is only for those WHO are willing to TEST and USE it, as I havent yet backed up the ENTIRE ASTRA ROM, so when you Flash This you MIGHT not be able to get back to the orig ASTRA ROM, but the purpose of flashing Custom ROM is to find improvements so why go back?
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Acid + a base
Acid + base = metal compound (salt) + water
Acids and Bases are chemical opposites i.e. they remove the effect of each other.
If an acid is added to a base or vice versa then Neutralisation is said to have occured. When equal amounts of a base is added to an acid you should obtain a pH of 7.
ph Scale
is a way we can measure how acidic or basic a substance is
ph of 7 is neutral. (green)
Acidic solutions will have a ph between 1 and 6. (red)
Basic solutions will have a ph between 8 and 14. (purple)
Test for hydrogen gas
The lighted match is put near the top of the test tube and it makes a squeaky pop.
Chemical Change
1) Temperature
2) Colour
3) Bubbles
4) New Solid
Change of state
1) melting (solid to liquid)
2) freezing (liquid to solid)
3) evaporatin (liquid to gas)
4) condensation (gas to
5) sublimation (solid to gas)
Chemical changes
Involve reactants becoming products. The products can easily be changed back into reactants
Physical Changes
1) Can easily be coverted
back to their original
2) Are still the same
substance but in a
different form
3) Often involving a change
of state
1) All substances that turned
blue litmus red are acidic.
2) All substances that turned
red litmus blue are basic.
3) The substances which had
no effect on the litmus
are said to be neutral
Basic substances
sodium hydroxide
ammonia solution
calcium hydroxide
Acids and metals
When metals react with acids they all produce HYDROGEN GAS
a metal + an acid = a metal compound + hydrogen gas
Tap water
distilled water
colgate toothpaste
Acidic substances
hydrochloric acid
acetic acid
lemon juice
sulfuric acid
sodium chloride
Acids + metal carbonates
Acid + metal carbonate = metal compound + carbon dioxide + water
Test for Carbon dioxide gas
The marble reacts with hydrochloric acid and the gas from those reactants enters the limewater which then goes milky if carbon dioxide is present.
Acids and metal carbonates
When acids react with metal carbonates they all produce carbon dioxide gas. The other product is called a salt or metal compound and cannot be seen as it is dissolved in the water. We could observe this product if we evaporated off the water. Water is also produce.
Test for oxygen gas
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Sunday Runday
This morning, all of Chicago paused for the determination of 45,000 disciplined runners. Thousands of people trotted along in the rain, and I spectated from our apartment, warm and comfortable and eating breakfast. A perk of watched the marathon from bird’s eye view is observing the cheerers (I may have sat at the window with binoculars in hand all morning. Nah, not weird at all).
I learned that there are actually quite a few categories of marathon-watchers:
The Hard-cores: For the past 7 years of living in Chicago, I’ve always had two signs it’s marathon Sunday. First, there’s no traffic noise starting at around 5:00 a.m. Second, at 7:00 a.m. (the race starts at 7:30, two or three miles away from us), there are a few dozen people scattered over a thousand yards all talking, clapping, and ringing bells. You know, practicing for when the runners arrive 45 minutes later.
The Emotionals: An elderly couple peered into the hundreds, wearing shirts that read, “roBquick” (“Rob be quick”, for those of you who, like me, might fixate on lack of consistency rather than the meaning). After fifteen fruitless minutes, a young-ish (it’s hard to tell exact ages from eight stories up) guy ran up to them. The woman reached out to pat his arm as the white-haired man gave him a high five. When Rob ran off, the woman leaned into the man and started crying.
The Political Statement-ers: I’m no expert on spreading political opinions, but I guess an audience of 45,000 sweaty people is a good place to start. Two particularly dedicated individuals had pressing messages: THE MOON LANDING WAS FAKE and YOU’RE RUNNING BETTER THAN THE GOVERNMENT.
The General Encouragers: Many wonderful people stand on one street corner out of 26.2 miles and cheer for an hour. They don’t know every person who passes, but they’re showing support for the struggling masses of humanity grinding out 26.1 miles more than anyone ever really wants to run.
The I’m-ONLY-here-for-my-friend-s: Exact opposites of The Encouragers, these folks stand with hands shoved in their pockets until they see their special someone. After cheering like crazy for roughly 45 seconds, they push fists back into coats and set off for the next marathon-watching stop.
The Police Man: Twenty-six miles equals a) a lot of street closures, and b) a police officer at many of them to make sure all the half-asleep drivers notice the barricades. The police man at our particular corner stood for four hours, three of them drizzle and mist, one of them pouring rain, and didn’t look completely miserable. Although he also only really smiled at the people with dogs (it’s a sign, people would like me more if I had a dog).
The Extravagants: One couple had a stroller, maybe a dog (another sign), and two gigantic (probably 5 feet tall) shiny blue helium balloons—one was an ‘M’ and the other a ‘G’, presumably a runner’s initials? Or maybe they just picked them up from Party City for a birthday party in the afternoon.
The Husbands and Wives: It takes serious grit to run a marathon—but not all the participants are serious-grit, 25-marathons-later runners. There are a lot of normal people too, such as the regular-looking guy holding signs drawn on free papers from Bank of America. The one he held up said, Go Babe, Goooooo! When (presumably) his wife ran past, she stopped and gave him a huge hug and kiss, and stood with him for a moment. She ran off and he accidentally dropped his signs on the ground. He picked them up and stuffed them in his backpack, proud and happy.
Featured: The Emotionals and The Police Man and maybe a few others
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Modified, what?
Google have unveiled a new keyword match type called Modified Broad. This new keyword matching option allows the average PPC boffin to gain a level of control in terms of their keyword targeting and scope.
The newly contrived match type closes the void that existed between Broad & Phrase match, and allows more control of your keywords.
Archery with the Pre-Teens
Creative Commons License photo credit: Scott Ableman
Tell me more!
Modified broad match is, in principle, phrase match with relative alternatives.
Your modified broad match uses misspellings, singular/plural forms, abbreviations and acronyms, and stemming to provide alternatives deviations to search terms. What it does not do is use the full broad match capabilities or limit you with the traditional phrase match types.
For example, your traditional broad match of ‘car’ could trigger the keyword ‘jeep’ in a users search. Your modified broad match of the keyword ‘+car’ would only link to relative alternatives to car such as ‘cars’.
Furthermore, Modified broad match works in relation to the specific keyword. For example, ‘+ford’ and ‘+car’ in one term (+ford +car) could generate the following options:
car ford, ford car, ford cars, cars ford ……
However, if you use only one keyword with modified broad match ‘+ford’ and the other with broad ‘car’ in one term (ford +car). You could end up with the following:
ford audi car, ford honda car . . . .
So, what are the benefits?
• Less reliance on extensive, and often labrious negative keyword lists
• Can be used in same way as phrase match but keywords no longer have to appear in the order you specify
• Reduce unncessary spend from irrelavent broad match terms
• Boost your traffic and sales from stagmatic Phrase match types
• Select between singular or multiple modified broad match keywords within a single list of keywords
This list is not extensive, just think about CTR and its almost never ending!
What’s next?
To enable your modified match types, simply put a (+) sign in front of your existing broad match keyword, and hey presto, you are now using modified match types.
The application of extending your keywords targeting potential, without compromising on unrelated terms, will please many in the world of PPC ( not least everyone at Attacat!). We have been pestering Google for ages to implement this idea, so we’re all in a cheery mood!
Creative Commons License photo credit: bfick
For more information on Modified Broad match please see Google adwords blog.
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BREAKING BAD 5.07 ‘Say My Name’
Walt gets a new set of partners as Jesse rebels and the DEA closes in on Mike.
Blair Marnellby Blair Marnell
Episode Title: "Say My Name"
Writer: Thomas Schnauz
Director: Thomas Schnauz
Previously on "Breaking Bad":
Episode 5.06 'Buyout'
After being outmaneuvered by Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) take him to the desert to meet with Declan (Louis Ferreira), the drug lord who wanted to buy their stolen methylamine. Declan is incredulous when Walt explains that the methylamine is worth more in his hands and he wants Declan to take over distribution of the product in exchange for 35% and a $5 million dollar finder's fee for Mike. Jesse silently notes that Walt neglects to insure a payout for him as well. To boost his credibility, Walt also introduces himself as the man who killed Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). Walt then basks in Declan's awe when he identifies him as "Heisenberg."
Soon after, Declan departs with his men, leaving the $5 million for Mike as agreed upon. Jesse tries to bring up the fact that he was supposed to get $5 million from the deal as well, but Walt blows off the talk until later and says that he still needs Jesse for the transition. Mike is grudgingly impressed by Walt's play, if not grateful for all of the hoops he had to go through to get his money. He tells Jesse to watch out for himself and he advises Walt to get the bug out of Hank's office. At the car wash, Walt's wife, Skyler White (Anna Gunn) follows Walt's instructions to let him and Jesse in so they can retrieve the methylamine.
Jesse has another awkward exchange with Skylar before Walt tells her to go back into the office. Meanwhile, Mike's lawyer, Dan Wachsberger (Chris Freihofer) sweet talks a female bank employee and plies her with cookies before she opens up several safe deposit boxes for him. Once she is out of the vault room, Dan fills each box with money from his brief case and he leaves an extra large box full of cash for Mike's granddaughter. Out in the parking lot, Dan tells Mike that the families of the nine men currently in custody have been picking their cash up like clockwork and he promises to keep the payments coming after Mike is gone.
In private, Mike uses the bug one last time to hear Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) speak about their increased surveillance of his activities. So, Mike gets rid of his laptop and several guns well ahead of a DEA raid. Both Hank and Gomez are perplexed when Mike shows no apprehension as agents search his home. Back at Vamonos Pest, Jesse tries to confront Walt again about the money that he is owed, but Walt suggests that Jesse should be running his own lab so that they can double their money. When Jesse is insistent about quitting the business, Walt starts to verbally tear him down.
This time, Jesse doesn't back down and he won't stay in the business even if Walt won't pay him what he is owed. Infuriated, Walt screams that Jesse will get nothing if he leaves, but it doesn't stop Jesse from walking out on him. During a DEA meeting, Hank zones out as he examines new surveillance photos of Mike that aren't incriminating at all. Hank is then chewed out by his superior for spending so much time and resources on Mike's investigation and he is ordered to pull the plug. Undeterred, Hank notices that Dan is representing all nine of Gus' former employees and he tells Gomez to have him followed.
At the next cook, Walt brings in "Ricky Hitler" himself, Todd (Jesse Plemons) as his new lab partner. He tells Todd to apply himself to the cook and Todd really seems to make the attempt, but it's clear pretty quickly that he is no Jesse. However, Todd impresses Walt by insisting that he get everything right before figuring out his cut of the cook. At the bank, Dan doesn't notice when the female bank employee is less than enthusiastic about his latest visit or his cake pops. And moments later, Gomez and the DEA agents catch Dan in the process of passing on Mike's illegal payments to his clients. At his home, Walt tries to make conversation with Skyler about his new partner, but she doesn't play along.
Walt returns to Hank's office and makes a big show of pouring out his emotions before giving Hank the cue to leave. This gives Walt the chance to retrieve his bugs without suspicion, but he still overhears Gomez telling Hank that Dan has flipped and that he will give up Mike. At the park, Mike watches his granddaughter play when he gets a frantic call from Dan, who says that he will see him soon. Walt then calls Mike and warns him that the DEA is coming. To escape, Mike is forced to leave his granddaughter behind. In an emergency meeting with their lawyer, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), Walt and Jesse realize that Mike won't flip on them… but his nine guys almost certainly will.
Mike then calls Saul and asks him to retrieve his emergency bag with cash and a passport so he can skip the country. Saul tries to get out of it and Jesse volunteers to bring it himself, but ultimately, Walt says that he will do it. At the airport parking lot, Walt finds Mike's car and opens the bag in the trunk to find the cash and passport as described, as well as a small gun. In a remote meeting place, Walt drives up with the bag. However, he refuses to give Mike the bag until he gives up the name of his nine guys. Mike takes the bag from Walter and turns to leave, but Walt just can't let Mike go and an argument ensues.
Mike tells Walt that they had a good thing with Gus, that was ruined by Walt's ego and Walt's refusal to know his place. As Mike gets in the car, he notes that his gun is missing right before Walt appears besides him and shoots him through the window. Mike drives off… and he quickly crashes the car. When Walt catches up to the car, Mike has already gotten out of the vehicle. Walt finds Mike gravely injured near the river and he disarms him before offering a self-serving apology. Walt also realizes that he can get the 9 names from Lydia. Mike tells Walt to shut the f*** up and let him die in peace. Moments later, Mike falls over, dead.
Before the current season of "Breaking Bad," series creator, Vince Gilligan said that Walt was going to do something that would erase all sympathy for him. If Walt killing Mike wasn't it, then I shudder to think what's in store for next week's mid-season finale. The truth is, I lost all sympathy for Walt last season when it was revealed that he poisoned Brock just to get Jesse back on his side. And Walt did plenty of things this season as well that made it clear that he no longer has any empathy for anyone. So, why should we have any for him?
Like the majority of "Breaking Bad" fans, I'd gotten attached to Mike. He may have been an outlaw, but Mike was still honorable in his own way. Textbook drama is the threat of bad things happening to characters that the audience cares about. However, I must have missed the chapter where the main character is the one killing his supporting characters. Walt's actions may have been inevitable, but it was still kind of heartbreaking to see Mike go out like that. Mike deserved better, but his death still worked on every conceivable level.
Jonathan Banks deserves one last shout out for his role, especially for the sadness that Mike showed as he abandoned his granddaughter in the park to make his escape. She was the one thing that Mike really loved and now her last memory of him will be that he left her behind… and she never saw him again. Mike couldn't even give his granddaughter the financial security that he worked so hard for. Walt may have lost sight of his original goals, but Mike seemingly never did. I'm curious as to how Walt plans to cover this up… not just from the cops, but from Jesse as well. Jesse and Mike had gotten to the point where they really cared about each other. And Jesse would definitely avenge Mike if he knew the truth.
Even in the midst of all of this darkness, Bryan Cranston's Walt still gets some truly hilarious moments. Walt's "apology" to Mike as he was dying gave that scene a much needed laugh, as did Mike's curt retort. The same goes for Walt's second meltdown in Hank's office, when he practically had to coach Hank into remembering his excuse to leave Walt alone with his crocodile tears. The last confrontation between Mike and Walt was also pretty riveting. Mike had a point that life was better under Gus Fring, but to Walt, that life was the equivalent of forced servitude. There was also a moment after Walt shot Mike that he almost seemed to regret what he had just done. But like everything else in Walt's recent history, it was too late to undo his actions.
Walt may have resisted trying out his own product, but he's clearly addicted to the rush of stepping into his Heisenberg persona. In the desert, Walt didn't even blink when Declan threatened him and his "Would you want to live in a world without Classic Coke?" line was one of the best of the season. I don't think we've seen Walt any happier than when this drug distributor whom he didn't even know said "Heisenberg" with a level of respect that Walt has been searching for most of his adult life. Finally, he's been recognized for his accomplishments. But as Jesse said last week, is a meth empire really something to be proud about?
Aside from Mike, no one was more screwed in this episode than Jesse. It was Jesse's intervention that kept Walt safe last week when Mike wanted to shoot him for moving the methylamine. And Walt betrays his long time partner by attempting to blackmail Jesse into staying in the business. Jesse at least had a good moment of character growth when he called Walt out on his bulls*** and still walked away from the business. But knowing Jesse, he'll end up back in Walt's orbit sooner rather than later. There is almost a gravitational pull between them, no matter how hard Jesse tries to break it.
Of course, Walt may be pining for Jesse himself after trying to make Todd his new assistant. Todd may not be a stupid as he appears, but it's pretty obvious that he just doesn't have Jesse's affinity for the meth cook. But Todd does have an amoral streak that Walt may value more than anything else. As for the remaining loose ends of Gus' operations, I expect that Walt and Lydia will have them killed, possibly as soon as the next episode. It also wouldn't surprise me if Walt and Lydia become lovers. They are both extremely selfish people who are sometimes deluded about their place in the world. It's almost as if they were meant for each other. As for Skyler, her current arrangement with Walt can't last forever. And she's already found a way to torture him by taking away any illusion he has about their future together.
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Intuition, Information and the Toyota Production System
There are quite a few things that are counterintuitive about the Lean management system known as TPS. They are all fairly simple things, but hard to do since they feel wrong to people who have not been swimming in the waters of TPS for years.
In fact, the whole TPS house is built out of counterintuitive (which is to say non-traditional) behaviors. The sketch below is a quick approximation of the TPS house.
Pillar #1: Jidoka. Stopping to fix problems is faster, cheaper, better than keeping the process running, to fix the defects later (or more often than not, keep running and not fix). There is more to jidoka than meets the eye, from the stand-point of built in quality. There is an emphasis on in-process quality checks (many of them) instead of end-of-line checks. There is the whole mentality of zero defects that is needed, starting with a blame-free culture that rewards rather than punishes exposing problems, as well as a system to back it up. It is not so hard to understand why jidoka is counterintuitive when you consider this.
Pillar #2: Just in time. One at a time is faster, cheaper, better than batch processing. And yet we batch. Just the other day I witnessed someone making egg & cheese croissant sandwiches at Phoenix airport, in a batch. About twenty croissants, one slice of cheese at a a time, then the egg… My vantage point: a long queue waiting for coffee while others in the line waited for their sandwiches. Why did he do this? Probably because the information he was given was to “make twenty sandwiches” and not when the first one was needed, or how often (takt time).
You wouldn’t push a rope if you wanted to make it move, but this is exactly what most systems force us to do. Why is it so counterintuitive to pull and comfortable to push? Push requires so much less information, for one thing. You can push right now. Just do some work, whether it is needed or not. That’s push. Pull, on the other hand, requires you to know who your customer is and to listen to them.
The cornerstone of kaizen, or continuous improvement, may seem intuitive at first glance. The idea of PDCA and the scientific method, while not followed as closely as they should be, are quite logical. Many if not most people believe in continuous improvement of one sort or another.
But the focus of kaizen on true root cause countermeasures through the 5 why process, as well as the insistence on ending each kaizen with a combination of celebration and dissatisfaction is deeply counterintuitive to most who want to declare victory and move on after corrective action has been taken at the superficial level. Here again, it is harder to do kaizen because it takes more information to do it properly at the root cause level, and with an understand of just how much better things can be (ideal).
Then there is the whole notion of educating, empowering and requiring everyone to solve problems, rather than simply entrusting this to a small group of experts, which can strike many as going against the grain. We have been taught to believe that heroes solve problems, and that fire-fighting is noble.
Traditionally, management attention goes toward the solving of big problems, rather than solving of small problems. At Toyota, leaders view problem solving at all levels as a key activity both in terms of improving safety, quality, deliver, cost and morale as well as developing people’s skills.
The TPS views people as assets rather than liabilities. People increase in value as you educate them, and as they gain experience and capability. Education is giving people information, while training is giving people the opportunity to use this information to build a skill. Everyone solving small problems every day in a standardize way is Lean management.
The cornerstone of Standard Work can be difficult for people because we are so used to standards being things that don’t change. Things that don’t change constrict us. In the Toyota Production System standards exist to be changed. In fact Standard Work which does not change is a sign that kaizen is not being done. Standards don’t limit creativity, but in fact unleash it. Standard Work is simply information, a measure against which we can view a process in order to look for further improvements.
The strongest protest to this idea typically comes from knowledge workers or professionals who need to be creative in their work of designing new things or solving new problems. Design engineers are a classic example. But what if you standardized the fasteners, and used your creativity instead for finding solutions to customer problems, rather than being creative in selecting bolts from a catalog? Albert Einstein said, “Never memorize something that you can look up.” We might have also say, “Never recreate something you can look up.” You just need the information – knowing where to look.
Or in healthcare terms, what if evidence-based, scientifically proven treatments could be used as a standard, so that the years of medical training and experience could be used to better diagnose and treat those parts of the illness that are unique to the patient? Standards allow you to make fewer decisions, and the fewer decisions you need to make the easier it is for these decisions to be the really important ones.
Most people resist standards because of a perceived or actual unfairness with the system that imposes the standard on people. The TPS standard is counterintuitive to the experience of most in that it is not only fair but empowering. This is because the process is observed and documented based on facts rather than imagined, calculated or engineered standards. The information you gather about the process enables Standard Work.
The foundation of heijunka or production smoothing aims to produce an average mix and average volume of products rather than having the schedule swing up and down. From a production standpoint this may seem rather obvious. A smoother schedule means being able to set up and run the same thing for weeks rather than needing to constantly change. But this is not heijunka. The idea of averaging mix and volume both requires small lot production and very frequent changeovers. This requires knowing what you need to deliver, in what quantity and sequence, as early as possible.
Of course it is much easier to just go ahead an take the order without complete information. Why delay the sale? From a leadership standpoint it is too often counterintuitive to instruct customers or star salesmen to change their behavior in ways that help production deliver the products and services more smoothly, and therefore provide it better, faster and cheaper. It is easier to say “yes” to almost any order and let operations figure out how to handle it. Once again, it take discipline to get the information you need before starting work.
If Lean management all made sense and was intuitive, we would all be doing TPS already. There’s something about the Lean management system, built out of counterintuitive principles, that makes it hard for many people to adopt these behaviors. Some say that learning TPS requires unlearning the traditional management system you already know. I’m not so sure. Another way of thinking about this is that TPS requires learning to seek more information about the work you are about to do and to deepen your understanding of what needs to be done, for whom and when. We need to slow down and get it right the first time.
The whole notion of “intuitive” is rather anti-Lean. It’s not scientific. When something is intuitive, a thought or understanding is obtained through instinct, impression, or sense rather than explicit observation or reasoning. It is nearly the very opposite of the scientific method. Yet intuition is a very valid way of knowing and understanding for many non-complex systems. If intuition is knowing from within, we simply need more information before we can intuit correctly and act upon a system as complex as Lean management.
1. Michelle
July 2, 2007 - 1:36 pm
Excellent post! Thank you.
2. Toyota Fan's Club
July 2, 2007 - 9:31 pm
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3. Jacqueline Wilson
July 5, 2007 - 5:15 am
That was excellent way of breaking it down!
4. mark
October 18, 2007 - 8:52 pm
I have been tasked to re-engineer our quality system at an aerospace machine shop. I am researching my best approach and your post is very helpful. Thanks.
5. Jon Miller
October 21, 2007 - 9:24 pm
You are welcome. Aerospace machine shops have a wealth of opportunities for pokayoke, in-process checks, standard work, statistical process control, 5 why / problem solving circles and other practical means of building in quality.
6. Harish
February 8, 2008 - 3:28 am
I read this only recently. But excellent post.
Thank you for valuable and sensible posts.
7. Kenneth
April 12, 2008 - 3:29 am
Excellent post. Been studying the TPS house in detail. In some of the articles, there is a stability element at the base of the house. This level serve as the foundation to support the 2 pillars.
For instance, Jidoka stands for automatic in Jap. It is common to see operators standing beside fully automatic machines doing quality checks and awaiting “just in case” stoppages. This is big waste from operation instability.
I have this group of fully automatic machines in my plant that require constant monitoring. This result in poor man- machine ratio and difficulty in standardize work. We focus on stability which surfaces the problem that we swept under the carpet. After 2 weeks of Gemba and fixing the problems mentality, we finally unchained the operators from the machines and able to perform uninterrupted standardize work. This result in 4 times the productivity, better quality performances and production output. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9582670331001282}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '40605', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:37N6AZP5PVTF2JKZFEPYRQHI7WKFRFVC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0e00a297-8102-4a3f-8f1b-d8f2c974b5f3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 22, 8, 11, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.16.197.86', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NDWEMZ5OMUGZOLOMEW5CZLKSA5I2T2OR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:739e9329-b0c0-4d69-9323-5532179e26be>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2007/07/01/intuition_information_and_the_toyota_production_sy/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5d01b361-4b96-4623-b47e-6448dd1664b0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1664', 'url': 'https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2007/07/01/intuition_information_and_the_toyota_production_sy/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-116-122.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08541399240493774', 'original_id': '166d4cb4f56d3cb558edb80573777a39f348d578cdaa7d94792236525089adad'} |
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Communities Ava Student Showcase Vera Cruz Study Trip
The following drawings and comments are examples from those produced by Ava 4th grade students as part of a study trip to the pioneer town of Vera Cruz on Hunter Creek, a tributary of Bryant Creek, east of Ava. The students were asked to draw a watershed, and write about what they learned on the study trip.
Sarah's drawing
Ashley's comment: I learned about the Bryant Creek watershed and also the watershed I live in.
I learned about how you could hurt a watershed.
Brittany's drawing
Ellie's comment: Watersheds look like trees or branches.
Sometimes they look like our bones or veins.
Autis' comment:
I learned that the Bryant Creek flows into the North Fork River.
I also learned that part of Ava is not in the Bryant Creek watershed.
Miranda's drawing
Tyler's drawing
Nichole's comment:
I learned there are a lot of different watersheds. I learned that insects can live in water.
Dustin's drawing
Kati's comment:
I learned what a watershed looked like. I learned what species eat each other.
I learned what atmosphere does.
Bradley's comment:
I learned you don't pour oil on land near a river, lake, stream or ocean because it may cause pollution.
Ann's drawing
Ann's comment
It goes on and on. Water needs to stay cleaner than it is now. The watershed travels.
Matthais' Comment
I learned that watersheds are like butterfly bones.
I also learned you can call them branching patterns.
Brian's drawing
Brian's comment
Almost all water that falls inside a watershed boundary flows into a river or a stream.
A watershed also can look very much like the body of a tree.
Alan's drawing
Alan's comment
I learned how watersheds were made. There are many different watersheds.
I live in the Beaver Creek watershed and at the end of the Bryant Creek watershed.
Heather's drawing
Heather's comment
I live in the Bryant Creek watershed. If you live in Ava you don't exactly live in the Bryant Creek Watershed. Some things like a watershed are trees, nerves and veins.
Tylor's drawing
Dusty's comment
All streams, rivers and creeks go to the same place. That's why oceans are so big.
Meagan's drawing
Meagan's comment
The watershed looks like a branch, or lots of rivers draining into one big river.
A river always runs downhill.
Ryan's drawing
Genevera's comment
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LA COUR DE CASSATION, CHAMBRE SOCIALE, a rendu l'arrêt suivant :<br/>
Sur le pourvoi formé par l'Union locale des syndicats CGT du 17ème arrondissement de Paris, dont le siège est ... (17e),<br/>
en cassation d'un jugement rendu le 28 février 1991 par le tribunal d'instance de Paris 17ème, au profit de la société Warner Bros Trans INC, société PECF, dont le siège est ... (17e),<br/>
défenderesse à la cassation ; LA COUR, en l'audience publique du 26 février 1992, où étaient présents :<br/>
M. Cochard, président, Mme Pams-Tatu, conseiller référendaire rapporteur, MM. I..., E..., K..., H..., A..., C..., Pierre, Boubli, conseillers, Mme Z..., M. B..., Mme G..., M. D..., Mme Kermina, conseillers référendaires, M. de Caigny, avocat général, Mme Ferré, greffier de chambre ; Sur le rapport de Mme le conseiller référendaire Pams-Tatu, les observations de la SCP Delaporte et Briard, avocat de la société Warner Bros et société PECF, les conclusions de M. De Caigny, avocat général, et après en avoir délibéré conformément à la loi ; Sur les cinq moyens réunis :<br/>
Attendu qu'il est fait grief au jugement attaqué (tribunal d'instance du 17ème arrondissement de Paris, 28 février 1991) d'avoir dénié l'existence d'une unité économique et sociale entre les sociétés Warner Bros Transatlantic Inc et PECF et en conséquence annulé la désignation de Mme F... en qualité de déléguée syndicale, alors, selon le pourvoi, d'une part, que le juge d'instance ne peut à la fois considérer qu'il existe un protocole d'accord aux termes duquel la société PECF, contre une participation au coût de ses services, assure le suivi administratif et financier courant de la société Warner Bros, à l'exclusion du domaine commercial et de la gestion du personnel, et ne pas répondre à l'argument non contesté par la partie adverse, développé dans les conclusions du syndicat, selon lesquelles d'un côté PECF ne développe pas une activité de cabinet comptable, de l'autre, c'est M. X..., gérant de PECF, qui a informé le personnel et négocié le protocole d'accord pré-électoral aux élections des délégués du personnel chez Warner Bros, et organisé l'arbre de Noël commun aux sociétés, ainsi que les départs en congés, admettre qu'un contrat de ce type puisse éviter la recherche d'une unité économique et sociale reviendrait à priver de recours tout demandeur à la reconnaissance d'une telle unité, d'autre part, de l'aveu même de la partie adverse, une partie du personnel de PECF, sans que le pourcentage n'ait été précisé, relève de la même convention collective, celle de la distribution de films, que le personnel de Warner Bros ; que l'affirmation du juge d'instance, selon laquelle "il est acquis que le personnel des 2 sociétés relève de conventions collectives différentes" est erronée, alors, d'autre part, que le juge d'instance relève, à juste titre, que Warner Bros est associée majoritaire de PECF, ce qui dénote une communauté d'intérêts constituant une des caractéristiques de l'unité économique ;<br/>
que refuser cette unité au motif que les dirigeants (actionnaires) sont différents n'est pas recevable, alors, au surplus, <br/>
que l'unité économique peut être caractérisée par l'exercice d'activités complémentaires que le juge d'instance ne peut rejeter cet élément au motif que les 2 sociétés n'oeuvrent pas dans la même sphère d'activité, sans rechercher l'activité précise développée par chacune des 2 sociétés et dire en quoi elles diffèrent, alors enfin, que l'interchangeabilité du personnel caractérisée par les cas de Mmes J..., Y..., et Desble, ressort clairement au vu des registres du personnel ; cet élément est, conformément à la jurisprudence de la Cour de Cassation régulièrement retenu comme caractérisant l'unité sociale ; Mais attendu que le tribunal d'instance a relevé que les sociétés n'oeuvraient pas dans la même sphère d'activité, que leurs dirigeants étaient différents et qu'il n'y existait pas des conditions de travail identiques ni de permutabilité du personnel ; qu'il a ainsi justifié sa décision sans encourir les griefs du pourvoi ; PAR CES MOTIFS :<br/>
REJETTE le pourvoi ; Ainsi fait et jugé par la Cour de Cassation, Chambre sociale, et prononcé par M. le président en son audience publique du premier avril mil neuf cent quatre vingt douze.<br/>
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The following light filters are available in HtoA:
Arnold "light filters" are arbitrary shaders that can modify a light's output based on distance, position, or other factors. This makes it easy to extend the built-in light sources with additional effects. There are 4 light filters:
Barndoors are opaque moving panels attached to the sides of the light's opening used for additional control over the shape of the light beam.
The gobo filter is used to break up the light beam into an irregular, more natural pattern such as tree leaves, etc.
The light_blocker filter will block out an arbitrary geometrically defined area of a connected light.
The light_decay filter specifies the attenuation ranges of where the light starts and ends.
Attaching Light Filters To Lights
Light filters are created within Arnold Shader Networks and must be connected to a light output node. The vopnet is then connected to Arnold Lights under the Light Filter tab.
By default, when you click on the filters tab of a light, a vopnet will be created already within the light. Clicking the 'Jump To' arrow will take you inside obj > arnold_light1 > shopnet > arnold_vopnet. This is created here for convenience. However, an Arnold Shader Network vopnet could be created in the SHOP and linked to the light using the operator chooser.
When choosing the operator from the shop either the vopnet or the output node can be selected. If the vopnet is chosen and it contains multiple Output nodes then Arnold will use the first one it finds.
Creating Light Filters
In your chosen vopnet Tab-type (Custom > Light Decay / Light Blocker / Gobo / Barndoor) to create a light filter node. Connect the output of the light filter node to the Light Filter # parameter of the light output node. As one is connected another empty input will be added. It is not possible to use more than one gobo or barndoor filter on the same light.
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The Official Supernatural: “Last Call” (15.07) Live Recap Thread
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Recap: Standard recap of the mytharc so far, focusing heavily on Sam and Eileen, and Castiel’s recent vacation.
Cut to Now outside a very rural roadside bar in Texhoma, TX. A responsible young brunette (Angela) is trying to get her very drunk blonde friend (named Sally) to her car. Sally has to go barf, so her friend waits for her in the car, checking her messages. However, it’s not slatternly Sally who gets grabbed by the MOTW. It’s Angela. Sally turns around the find the entire car gone, along with poor Angela. Our only clue is Angela’s phone waving as she’s grabbed by someone (or something) in the backseat while Sally’s back is turned.
Angela wakes up in a cellar, tied to a chair with an IV tube running her blood to something scaly and blue in a very secure cage nearby. When Angela gets a glimpse of it, she screams.
Cue title cards.
Cut to Dean in his room in the Bunker, drinking heavily and looking through the news on his phone for a hunt. The news is remarkably quiet until he comes across an article with Angela’s photo and a headline that reads “MY FRIEND WAS RAPTURED WHILE I WAS DRUNK.” This piques Dean’s interest but good.
Dean appears, fully dressed, in the kitchen, where Sam and Eileen are all giggly, and making pancakes and bacon (despite Sam claiming to hate bacon a few episodes ago). Dean immediately susses out that they are hungover and, despite a subsequent brotherly conversation in the corridor outside about Sam leaving “a sock on the door” if he “gets lucky,” it seems fairly obvious that “hungover” is a euphemism for “got jiggy, already.”
Sam and Eileen both become concerned when Dean turns down an offer of free bacon and says he’s heading out for a drive. Sam follows him out into the hallway to ask what’s wrong. Dean says nothing is wrong, so Sam, rather reluctantly, tells him, “Call me if you need me.”
Dean [as he turns away and heads out]: Always do!
The funny thing is that Dean never does. He may need Sam emotionally, but he’s pretty self-sufficient on hunts like this. Yes, there are times when Sam has had to rescue him, too. Dean’s not invincible. But Dean doesn’t do calling for help. Especially when it’s pretty clear he needs to get out on the road and get the hell away from Sam for a while. Which happens, too. For some reason, Sam never understands why Dean has the same urges he gets to put some distance between them, from time to time.
As Sam comes back into the kitchen, Eileen asks what’s wrong. Sam says he’s not sure. Recently, Dean was very depressed about the revelations involving Chuck, to the point where Sam didn’t think he’d come out of it (it irritates me so, so very much that we saw almost none of this for Dean, yet we had Sam’s moping banged home for multiple episodes). So, surely, Dean coming out of his room and going out for a drive is good … right?
Oh, come on, Sam. You know better. Really, you do.
Outside the Texhoma police department, Dean (in FBI mufti) introduces himself to Sheriff Dillon, who is very photogenic and kinda dumb. The sheriff is convinced Angela Sully took herself off to Hollywood to become a star, as she has spoken of doing, even before her parents died a few years before. He says many kids do this and he himself lasted a full month there (“I coulda been the next Denzel”). Dean is a little nonplussed by this, especially when the sheriff says he’s photogenic enough for Hollywood himself (never mind he was only an AD in season two’s “Hollywood Babylon” and couldn’t act a single line in season six’s “The French Mistake”).
The sheriff does give Dean a lead, though – Sally. And her favorite hang-out, the bar we saw in the teaser – Swayze’s. So, that night, Dean heads out there in the Impala and his usual clothes. On the soundtrack is guest star Christian Kane’s “The House Rules,” and everything is an unsubtly affectionate homage to Patrick Swayze’s 1989 cult classic Road House. Dean is bemused by the combination of pickups and motorcycles parked outside.
Road House Rules
Inside, Dean finds a wide variety of blue-collar cliches and encounters a flirty brunette barmaid who likes what she sees, but insists on Dean tossing his cell phone into the basket she’s carrying. Seems one of the house rules is No Cell Phones. He asks her about Sally Anderson. She assures him that Sally will be in; the night’s special is Two for Tuesday. She gives him a slap on the ass as she leaves that Dean rather appreciates.
As he turns around, he notices the singer on the bandstand (who is singing the soundtrack song). As the song ends, Dean recognizes him and mutters the name, “Lee Webb.” Lee, of course, is played by guest star Christian Kane, who is a major genre alumnus going back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
As Lee comes off the stage to engage with a female admirer, Dean approaches him. At first, there’s a glinty-eyed stare-down, but it’s just a fake-out. They then break it simultaneously and bear-hug. They know each other from way back. Lee says he owns the bar. Dean says he’s on a hunt, which surprises Lee (who apparently thought Dean was retired). After the barmaid gets a name (Lorna), they all go off to get drunk together.
Back at the Bunker, Sam and Eileen are doing research in the library (for real, that’s not a euphemism) and it looks very boring. They start eye-sexing and Eileen suggests they “take a break … do something ‘fun.'”
Eileen clearly thinks sex would be “fun,” but just as Sam is about to kiss the girl, Castiel shows up. Castiel says he’s there to help and is surprised to see Eileen alive. He asks where Dean is and looks disappointed when Sam says Dean “went out for a drive.” Sam explains they’re looking for signs of where to find Chuck or Lilith (another surprise resurrection for Castiel to digest).
Castiel says that “angel radio has been silent for months,” but has another idea. Maybe they can track Chuck via the wound he shares with Sam and the piece of Sam that is in Chuck. Well, aside from that sounding incredibly dangerous, it’s not a bad idea, so of course, Castiel wants to dive right into checking it out.
At the bar, Dean and Lee are reminiscing while Lorna plays a keen audience (I can’t get over how much this scenario resembles Dean’s dream bar that Michael locked him in). Lee is upset to hear about John’s death. Dean says John “always liked you … he said he’d never seen anybody better in a fight,” which Dean calls “high praise from the Old Man.”
Dean admits he hasn’t seen Lee since Sam went off to college (so over 15 years), that he thought Lee had been dead a while: “That’s usually how this ends, isn’t it?”
In answer, Lee references their last case together – “that cult thing in Arizona.” He says he did one more case near Texhoma and then hung it up. He got some money together, bought the bar, and retired. Dean asks him if he regrets leaving Hunting and Lee replies, “Not once.”
Back at the Bunker, Castiel’s cockamamie idea is to “probe” Sam’s wound using angel light. Sam, wisely, is skeptical about this (Eileen even more so), but lets Castiel do it, anyway. Because what could possibly go horribly wrong, amirite?
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Sam gets slammed into the wall of the Infirmary (where they’ve been conducting this little experiment) and ends up on a bed in a coma. Well, that’s convenient. They now don’t have to haul the Moose off to a bed.
Castiel calls Dean’s cell phone, but that, of course, is in a basket at the bar in Texhoma. In a flip on last week, Castiel is stuck leaving a frantic message of his own, while Dean is having shots with Lee and Lorna. Dean and Lee are sharing a story about a night with twins – no, triplets – whom they “split up fair and square.” For some reason, there are people in the fandom who believe this is confirmation that Dean had a sexual relationship with Lee. Um … no. Because according to Lee, they had sex with the women separately. Mind you, Dean did have a sexual relationship (which involved at least one orgy with triplets) with Crowley when he was a demon. But there’s no evidence in this episode that he and Lee ever did. In fact, Lorna keeps making cow eyes at Dean and he seems nonplussed. Guess it’s been a while since he got laid.
Back at the Bunker, Castiel calls Sergei, the Russian “shaman” from last season who was both treacherous and fairly useless in helping Jack. Sergei tries to beg off, saying he’s taking a favorite niece shopping, but Castiel calls in his favor to him, and threatens to find him and burn him alive if he doesn’t help. Then Castiel hangs up on him and calls someone else, whom he also asks for a favor.
Back at the bar, Dean is telling Lee about the events of season four episode “Yellow Fever.” Then he gets to why he’s there. When he shows Lee Angela’s photo, Lee claims he doesn’t know her (even though we saw her at the bar in the teaser), but backtracks when Lorna identifies her easily.
Lee then asks Dean why he’s still doing these hunts. Hasn’t he “moved on to something bigger and better by now”? Dean hedges on responding to that, just saying that “bigger doesn’t always mean better.” That someone needs to “look out for the little guy” since “God sure isn’t.”
Lee comments that this philosophy is pretty “dark” and Dean admits that “it’s been a rough decade, man.” But for now, he just wants to get back to admiring the bar and doing a little partying. While, of course, continuing the hunt. Lee suggests that Dean deserves a “break” from Hunting.
Lee’s idea is doing karaoke to a song John always used to put in the tapedeck when they were all going out on a hunt: the theme song to The Dukes of Hazzard (quite the ironic tune for two stone cold killers to sing along to). Lee gets the band going and wants Dean to come up on stage and do the song as a duet with him.
At first, Dean is very shy and unsure. There’s some nice Impostor Syndrome acting from Jensen Ackles here. But once he starts to get into it, he really cuts loose and the two of them have a good time while the audience cheers them on.
At the end of the set, they hear a woman shouting for help and go to her rescue (pretty literally leap off the stage to her defense with the motto “Roadhouse Rules”). Two roughnecks are harassing a young drunk blonde girl and refuse to leave. So, Dean and Lee “help” them out via the window and the saloon doors. Then Dean turns around and realizes the young woman is Sally, Angela’s drunk best friend, and it’s back to work on the hunt.
Back at the Bunker, Castiel is letting Sergei in through the front door. Let me reiterate this – instead of meeting him somewhere neutral, putting a bag over his head, driving him back to the Bunker, and taking the bag off only once they reached the infirmary (you know, the sensible thing), Castiel gives this guy he doesn’t like or trust directions to the Bunker and then just lets him in the front door. He then lets him walk through to the infirmary, getting a good eyeful (with running admiring commentary) all the freakin’ way.
Oh, Cas. Bless yer heart.
In the infirmary, Eileen is, I swear to Chuck, literally reduced to mopping Sam’s manly, comatose brow and begging Sergei to save his life. Ugh.
Sergei opens up an old-style physician’s bag, pulls out a crystal (where the hell did these writers get their ideas about Siberian shamans?!), and waves it over Sam as it glows. He then announces that Sam is dying.
Back at Swayze’s, Lee is fixing the window with a power drill while Dean interviews Sally. Sally is actually sober now (sort of), so that helps. She recounts her theory about Angela being raptured and how she wasn’t because she wasn’t worthy (Sally’s pretty dumb).
Lee gets sarcastic with her about the car being “raptured,” too, and has a quiet talk with Dean. He suggests they work the hunt together and Dean is game. Dean asks where one might dump a car. Lee suggests the lake, but Lorna (in passing) says if she were getting rid of a car, she’d do it in the local scrapyard, Merle’s. Dean tells an obviously stalling Lee to check the lake while he checks the scrapyard.
Back at the Bunker, Sergei says that Sam’s wound goes down to his soul, which is attached to something far away. If you probe it too hard, Sam’s soul will stretch like a rubber band and snap, killing him (well, except that we’ve seen people survive having no soul before). Can he cure it? He says he can.
In the scrapyard the next day, Dean is using a photo of Angela’s car to find it. Just when he’s about to give up, he turns and sees it. It’s been stripped of its doors, with its tires and bumpers piled on the roof. After looking in through the driver’s side, he pops the trunk. There’s Angela. She’s been dead a while (Dean’s recoil indicates decomp has set in). Then he hears the click of a gun behind him.
Alas, it’s Lee. He’s a bad guy. And I was just starting to like him. He bemoans Dean’s stubbornness in continuing the hunt then knocks him out.
Back at the Bunker, Sergei is putting some kind of dark paste on Sam’s Chuck wound. After a moment or two, Sam starts to convulse and he has a lot of flashbacks to Amara’s conversation with Chuck about Chuck not being “at full strength.”
Meanwhile, Sergei is coolly admitting that he gave Sam something that will kill him rather than cure him. He tries to blackmail Castiel, even when Eileen shoves him up against a wall out in the corridor. He tell her and Castiel that unless they give him “Death’s key,” he’ll let Sam die. And if he dies, so does Sam.
Death’s key (Sergei is happy to infodump) is a black key in the shape of a skeleton that opens Death’s library. You know … the one where Billie and Dean had their Very Interesting Conversation last year, before the whole season went down the Jack Sue tubes.
But Castiel is not playing along with the whole Being Blackmailed plan Sergei’s got going. Castiel just quietly, but firmly, tells Sergei that’s not how things are gonna roll. As his counter, he pulls out his phone and shows Sergei a surveillance photo of his niece, clearly taken without her knowing. He mentions alt-Bobby by name (probably not a good idea, but I guess we needed that dialogue to know) and that Bobby will kill Sergei’s niece if he doesn’t cooperate. Hence his previous phone call to that mysterious person.
It’s a ruthless tactic, but boy, does it work (and Eileen’s smile hints she was in on it). Sergei is forced to go back to Sam, wave his hands over him, and speak some mumbo-jumbo that sort of sounds like Greek. Et voilà, Sam is suddenly better.
When Sergei asks if everything’s “good” between them, Castiel just says coldly, “For now.” As he leaves, Sergei declares his admiration for Castiel acting so “Russian.” But of course, someone like Sergei will be looking for future opportunities for revenge and to get that key. And Castiel knows it.
Meanwhile, Dean is waking up in the same cellar, tied to the same chair, as poor Angela did in the teaser. And he gets a glimpse of the same monster across from him. Lee calls out from the top of the stairs if Dean is awake and comes down to stand, then crouch, in front of him.
Dean tries to talk to him, saying this isn’t like him. Lee says that maybe that used to be true, but that hunt in Arizona messed him up a lot more than he let on. It seems that unspecified monster destroyed an entire family, including children, and Lee became convinced that Hunters like him and Dean could never win in the end. So, he decided to “have a little fun” while he could, instead.
It turns out that his last hunt nera Texhoma was when he caught the creature in the stall. He calls it a marid (a type of Islamic demon). If you keep it fed, it gives you “money … good health … everything you dreamed of.”
When Dean points out that the price is innocent lives, Lee brushes this off. No one, he declares, is ever truly innocent. The world is a bleak place and no one truly cares about anybody.
“Well, I do!” Dean retorts.
Again, Lee shrugs this off, saying that’s why Dean is stuck in that chair. He starts up Dean’s IV conveying blood to the marid‘s cage (the gravity is a bit iffy on that one) and tells him that “after a few pints,” he’ll stop caring and just nod off. He insists that wasn’t what he wanted, but after Sally walked into the bar the night before, he knew Dean would just keep digging. ‘Cause that’s just the way Dean is. But if it’s going to be one of them who’s left standing, it’s going to be Lee. After patting Dean on the back, Lee returns upstairs, even as Dean calls his name after him.
The monster appears (there’s a sea monkey/Dagon theme going with it) and starts sucking on the blood from the IV. Realizing he doesn’t have a whole lot of time, Dean desperately starts rocking the chair until it comes apart and he falls to the side. As the marid starts banging on its cell door, he works frantically on the ropes and the IV. He gets loose just as the lock goes on the door. I love the look of “Oh, come on” on his face as he notices that.
Cut to Lee upstairs (the cellar is under the bar, behind a door that says, “PRIVATE. WE DON’T CALL 911,” with a drawing of a pistol aimed at the words), cleaning up. He shrugs off with a rather sad look the monster’s grunts downstairs until he hears a particularly loud roar that makes him realize it’s broken loose. He pull out the pistol he pulled on Dean at the scrapyard and starts to approach the door cautiously.
Loud, hard footsteps come up the stairs and the door creaks open. A head gets tossed through. Let’s just say it’s not Dean’s.
Lee looks pretty surprised. The door opens further and in comes Dean. Boy, does he look pissed. “Sorry about your friend,” he says.
Lee’s like, yeah, and then starts shooting. Dean dives behind the bar, where he finds a shotgun. “God bless Texas!” he mutters as he racks it. He fires back, startling Lee and forcing him to take cover. They exchange gunfire and both run out of ammunition. Lee is further surprised when Dean calls this out and has apparently been able to keep count of Lee’s shots.
Dean stands up and Lee comes out from behind the wall, and they ditch their guns. Lee tries to go back to the bromance with a “Hardcore, Brother.” But Dean’s having none of it: “Don’t act like we’re still friends. I don’t know you.”
Lee begs to differ. He says they’re the same. He just figured out the world was “broken.” Dean says that when it’s broken, you fix it.
Lee then tries the tactic of suggesting they just pretend this never happened. Dean could walk away. With clear reluctance, Dean says he can’t do that. Even though he really doesn’t want to take his old friend down, “I kill monsters.”
Lee: Want a shot at the title?
Dean: Don’t mind if I do.
There follows a vicious roundhouse fight, started by Dean ripping the table between them to one side and going after Lee. They trade some serious body punches and at one point, Dean flips Lee under a table. Lee gets a chair across his back. Dean gets both a beer bottle and a pool cue across the head (though he partially blocks both). Lee tries to stab Dean with the broken cue, but Dean manages to grab it, turn it, and stab Lee up against a doorjam instead. Lee has one final time to be surprised.
Lee: Why do you care so much?
Dean: Because someone has to.
Lee then says he’s “glad” Dean was the Hunter who got him and asks Dean to pull the cue out. Dean does and Lee falls down dead. Dean looks upset.
Cut to Dean hurrying back into the Bunker and finding Castiel. He says he got Castiel’s message and asks if Sam is okay. Castiel says yes, looking away with discomfort on his face, and then walks out. I guess that’s why he doesn’t notice how beat up Dean is, or ask why. Dean looks exasperated.
Cut to Sam in the infirmary, with Eileen at his side, telling Dean about his flashbacks. He says he was “inside Chuck’s head,” that “Chuck is weak” and “I think we can beat God.” Dean looks skeptical, but doesn’t contradict him.
After its mini-hiatus, the show rose in the demo back to a 0.3/2, but dropped again to 1.06 million in audience. Still something of a miracle in a season full of CW shows with demos and audience numbers well south of 0.3 and 1 million.
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Review: Woof, this turned out to be a long review. Well, some episodes have more to chew on than others.
Gotta love Dean. Sam was so pissy about Dean having a Mental Health Day that Dean took it on the road and killed some things. Those things included an old (human) friend who broke bad. You could say that Dean’s original estimation that Lee had been dead for years was not too far off. The old Lee, the Hunter who was fighting evil rather than feeding it, had been gone a long time.
This episode seemed to me half a classic and half a clips show version of the current season. Considering other bona fide classic episodes in other seasons like “First Born” or “The Vessel” have similarly lame B plots that most viewers choose not to remember, I’m comfortable with labeling “Last Call” a classic, at least for now (if it’s still memorable to me next year, it becomes a permanent classic).
It’s interesting that the B-story was, in fact, intended to keep the mytharc going because all it ended up doing was spin wheels. Sam went into a coma, had some flashbacks to previous episodes (hence the clip show element) while an anxious Eileen mopped his brow and Castiel made some calls, then woke up, declaring Chuck had been weakened and they could beat him. This was treated like some great revelation and I suppose that it was … to Team Free Will. The audience has already known this for weeks.
While this plot literally centered on Sam (because it was All About Saving Sam), it was actually Castiel’s arc. Castiel managed to get revenge on Sergei the Russian “shaman” who pulled a fast one on him a while ago. This was satisfying to watch (even if I wasn’t gagging to see Sergei back and it was pretty dumb for Castiel to let him into the Bunker like that). I was less impressed by his whining and raging at Dean’s voicemail and then stomping off in a huff as soon as Dean did show up, without even asking what happened (I don’t think Dean ever did fill anyone in on nearly getting killed on his hunt, but then, nobody asked, either). That was pretty childish. Kinda creeps me out that some fans saw romantic chemistry in that scene.
I don’t actually mind Castiel reverting to more of his old Asshole Angel of the Lord self. That can be fun to watch. I do, however, think there should be consequences for it in his relationships with others, especially humans. By no stretch of the imagination am I rooting for he and Dean to get into a romantic relationship that looks mighty unhealthy, abusive and dysfunctional. Castiel has often treated Dean very poorly in the past, using his greater angel strength and abilities to impose his will and ignore Dean’s consent to a lot of things. So, I’m gonna nope out of wanting any Destiel this season.
Eileen … oh, Lord. I want to like the return of Eileen, but the poor kid has already been reduced to the role of Sam’s Special Girlfriend. All she got to do was stand around and look anxious (though some of that appears to have been an act to back up Castiel’s clever double-cross). She didn’t even get to figure anything out regarding Sam’s situation. And both she and Castiel basically ignored the fact that Dean was uncharacteristically missing for most of the episode.
Dean’s storyline, on the other hand, was both a callback to old school Supernatural MOTWs and also a possible call forward. Last episode, Sam had to get rescued by Dean. This episode, Dean was betrayed by an old friend, nearly died (even ended up tied to a chair like Sam), and rescued himself. In the process, he killed a god.
Considering the mytharc, this was rather significant.
Yes, the marid was a very minor god (it’s a kind of djinn or ifrit in Islamic folklore), but it was still a god. It had a worshiper who fed it sacrifices and in return, it gave that worshiper good fortune, basically. In Supernatural terms, that’s a god.
It’s also a not-so-subtle parallel to Chuck. Chuck has been manipulating Sam and Dean to do certain things and make certain decisions, to the point where it seemed that they had no Free Will left and could not possibly win. But not only was Dean able to fight and kill the marid (which was an exceedingly formidable creature), but he was able to counteract the advantage it gave to Lee and also kill him. Keep in mind that even after all these years, Lee was fighting for his life and liable to be almost as, if not more, formidable a fighter as he reputably had been back in the day. So, a wounded, blood-drained, exhausted Dean being able to take him is a significant thing.
To get an idea of what advantage the marid had given Lee (and how this paralleled things with Chuck), look at the “Roadhouse Rules” scene. A great many electrons have been killed in the rather silly debate over whether Dean and Lee having a double-date with triplets makes Dean bi (um … no?), and whether or not Dean can sing canonically, to the point where a whole lot of fans seem to have missed some really obvious subtext.
Now, one could argue that Dean not being able to sing has never really been canon. He’s always sung around Sam (who is no Pavarotti and Chuck forbid Dean ever show Sam up), or as a demon (when he was drunk and intentionally singing poorly to piss off his unwilling audience). Jensen Ackles is, himself, quite a good singer (as is Christian Kane, who plays Lee). So, Kripke script notes aside, it’s never been settled one way or the other, despite how some fans choose to see it.
But here’s the thing – all that is completely irrelevant. The scene isn’t there just to indulge Jensen Ackles (or show off guest-star Kane’s singing chops) and help him sell his new album, as some have ungraciously suggested. It has a purpose – quite a major one, in fact – of foreshadowing the nature of the MOTW and quite-probably the mytharc (since such unsubtle MOTWs are usually intended as foreshadowing for the mytharc). And within that context, it makes perfect sense.
You see, in exchange for all those hapless human sacrifices, the marid is giving Lee luck. And charisma. And an almost-fairy tale life. His bar is wildly successful and always full. When he gets up onstage, he sings perfectly and the barflies cheer him on with no irony whatsoever. The ladies love him and he wins all bar fights (hence the comparison to the loop fantasy alt-Michael stuck Dean in last season).
So, when he mentions the song from their youth and that Dean deserves “a break,” he is briefly sharing that luck with Dean. That’s why Dean can sing so successfully. That’s why everyone cheers him on. That’s why the moment is followed by a “Roadhouse Rules” moment of bouncing the bad guys out the door. It has diddly-squat to do with any inherent talents Dean has.
And that’s why the fact that even though Dean thoroughly enjoys that moment, he immediately switches back to Hunter mode when he sees Sally, is so remarkable. Because Lee may be doing him a favor, but it’s one with secret strings, strings that Lee has used quite successfully for years (even a decade or two) to distract everyone else, including the dopey sheriff. Lee is trying to distract Dean, employing all of the magical luck the marid gives him. Failing that, he then tries to kill him (twice).
And in the end, none of it works. Lee, on a much smaller scale, is manipulating Dean in a way Dean can’t consciously see, just like Chuck. And it doesn’t work. So, the question becomes, What does that say and mean about Chuck’s influence on Dean?
Now, there’s an obvious question of whether Chuck sent Dean on this hunt (perhaps to break his spirit) and, since he doesn’t want Dean dead except at Sam’s hands, gave him the luck necessary to survive and prevail over Lee and the marid. That’s certainly possible. One could even argue that preternaturally helpful and lustful Lorna the barmaid was Chuck in disguise (though that never panned out and she appears to have been just a helpful Conflict and Exposition Fairy in the end).
And one wonders about Chuck’s possible motivation for that. Was it really to break Dean’s spirit? If so, it failed miserably and may have a sowed a seed Chuck wouldn’t want sprouting inside Dean’s mind. How would sending Dean against Lee make him more likely to kill, or get killed by, Sam? Is Chuck actually using reverse psychology to get Dean to go up against him and take him down? Is Chuck even Chuck? It’s easy to raise this possibility as a way to dismiss how much Free Will Dean exercised in this episode, but actually exploring Chuck’s motivations for such a scenario, especially regarding Dean, turns out to be a real rabbit hole. Dean definitely did not choose the blue pill this time round.
However (slight spoiler for the next few episodes here), so far, even that possibility hasn’t come up. Chuck’s been really obvious in the way he’s manipulated Sam and other characters, but not a peep about Dean and Lee and the marid. So, it really makes you wonder. We live in a society (sorry, Lindsay Ellis’ very informative media takes from a film school perspective on YouTube are a hoot. I highly recommend them).
Speaking of Lindsay Ellis, in her hot take of the Game of Thrones series finale that I just linked to (yes, it’s worth that hour and ten minutes of your time – hell, I’ve rewatched it at least twice), she starts off talking about theories regarding the nature of power and corruption. She cites biographer Robert Caro’s analysis of Lord Acton’s famous maxim: “All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Following his multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson and his classic 1974 biography of urban power broker Robert Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (which, dammit, Lindsay, I did not need yet another book on my must read list), Caro suggests rather that:
What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, you see what the guy always wanted to do [my bolding for emphasis].
Ellis then goes on, of course, to discuss how Game of Thrones addressed the concept of power in each of its characters, especially for season eight. She’s particularly scathing about season eight, which I think is deserved.
But a discussion of the nature of power is a pretty obvious one for a story whose basic plot is a bunch of One Percenters fighting so viciously and vociferously over a throne that they will kill each other, kill a bunch of innocents that they used as pawns, compromise all of their principles, and even ignore a potential apocalypse to attain their goal and then to keep it for however long they can. Power is the central theme for Game of Thrones.
“Power is power.”
Less obviously, power is also a central concept in Supernatural. The basic plot is one where human beings employ magic (usually black magic) to protect themselves and steal power from the greater beings of the universe – notably demons, angels and monsters (including pagan gods). The main plot revolves around a multigenerational use of necromancy and Faustian bargains by one family, for survival and revenge. And if there’s one thing necromancy and Faustian bargains have in common, it’s that they are all about the ultimate power – the power over life and death itself.
This explains why Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming’s OTT version of witches in later seasons doesn’t fit well with the rest of the show. Hunters already represent humans who practice magic to gain power, some with psychic powers, some not. Some are even monsters themselves. Witches were originally introduced with the idea that they fit in as civilians who practice black magic selfishly, for their own advancement – a subset of people who make deals with Crossroad Demons. But Lee is hardly the first or only Hunter to use magic for himself.
Where witches actually differ from Hunters in the show is that witches are urban or suburban and upper or at least upper-middle class, whereas Hunters are rural and blue collar, even straight-up poor and disenfranchised. Witches, at the end of the day, are hideous snobs.
Writers like Buckner and Ross-Leming, and Andrew Dabb, further put a moral spin on this (particularly against Dean) by presenting the witches (or, in the case of “Bloodlines,” rich, urban, One Percenter monster families) as more societally progressive than the blue collar Hunters like Dean in Flyover Country (who have actually be presented as societally progressive down-and-outers since the very start and are a hell of a lot more diverse than the witches).
This apparently tone-deaf attitude does make sense if you consider that Buckner and Ross-Leming’s idea of “progressive” was obsolete by the late-90s, at best, and that Dabb comes from writing comics, a genre that has long struggled with its own reactionary tendencies. It’s how Buckner and Ross-Leming can genuinely think a character set-up (a white warlock in a Southern city with a servile black female lover who also happens to be a dog) that would have been considered reactionary and offensive in 1850, let alone the 21st century, is more progressive than the marginal, impoverished, rural, blue collar, ethnically diverse culture Dean actually represents.
That right there, my droogs, is probably why “Bloodlines” went down in flames with the audience as a proposed spinoff pilot. The snobby, class-tone-deaf Downton Abbey With Vampires! attitude of other shows like the entire The Vampire Diaries franchise cannot, ever, be presented as good or root-able in the Supernatural franchise. This is simply due to fundamental audience investment in Hunter power dynamics and who’s the good guy underdog here. Mixing and matching these two incompatible views of how a supernatural society would work would not be acceptable even to the part of the audience that watches both (and yes, of course, there’s an overlap in fandom between the two).
So, of course, every single major character (and a lot of minor ones) has been tested in the crucible of power. They’ve all been given power and that has been used to reveal their true nature: When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, you see what the guy always wanted to do.
This theme is remarkably consistent throughout the entire series.
Here’s the other consistent theme. Every character in the series (even Death and now even God) has failed that test, has been corrupted by power, with only one exception: Dean Winchester.
Now, it’s not so much that Dean is a Reluctant Leader type along the lines of Jon Snow. Jon, bless his heart, was, in the end, just plain too incompetent to take up his Chosen One role (we’ll leave aside how Game of Thrones did all its female leaders dirty. That’s a depressing conversation for a whole other review). Dean is actually a natural leader and will step into any power vacuum to take over. He likes leading. It’s his natural default.
What Dean is reluctant to do is to see himself as somehow superior to others due to being a leader. The fact that he has power, even great power, never goes to his head. He is really consistent in perceiving himself as a servant leader. Hence all the Jesus parallels that I’ve talked about in the past: The last shall be the first and all that.
And that is why Dean is the only SPN character who can (and ever could) handle even absolute power without being corrupted. Unlike everyone else, Dean does not take power to heart. Even with the Mark, the most it did was drive him insane and then he tried to take himself off the board permanently to avoid harming anyone else. Dean at his lowest points is a Dean who stops fighting and stops caring (which every character around him has done at some point, but somehow with him, it’s catastrophic or something), not a Dean who uses power to screw over everyone else.
Every other character who goes dark, does so over power. Sam, Lucifer, Castiel, Jack, even the first Death and Billie while she was still a Reaper, all go power-mad. Amara, while her grudge against Chuck was just, threw a season-long tantrum against his innocent creations, while she herself has called out her brother’s arrogance.
For Dean, power is not an ego-boo thing. It’s just a tool to get stuff done. You give Dean power and then you see what Dean always wanted to do. And what Dean always wanted to do was … The Family Business. Just making the SPNverse a kinder, fairer place one hunt at a time. Imperfectly, of course, because paragons of virtue are boring to watch, but that’s always his true North.
There’s another important question (since Dean does mention Chuck being an asshole God to Lee, albeit very obliquely in a way that would be clear only to the audience) regarding Dean paralleling Chuck. When Lee repeatedly asks Dean why he still cares, why he still tries to save people, why he still hunts and fights and kills and … well … judges monsters, Dean replies, “Somebody has to.” The fact that he’s not God is not going to stop Dean from trying singlehandedly to make the SPNverse a better place, even if Chuck can’t be bothered. I mean, this is a character who was successful in using his mind as a cage for the most powerful archangel in the SPNverse. And yes, I know he had critical help from Sam and Castiel in creating that cage, but once alt-Michael was inside? That was all Dean.
Which makes you wonder if Dean might actually be a better God than Chuck and how long it’s going to be before that solution occurs to Dean. I’m not saying that Dean is arrogant enough to think he’s as big as God (because that’s so not Dean, even if it’s occurred to literally every other character who’s acquired that much power save maybe Amara and Death), but as a tactic? A way to defeat Chuck? Hell, yeah, Dean would step up.
I want to end with some stuff about Lee. Christian Kane deserves a shout-out for his performance. Yeah, he’s got decades of stagefighting experience. Yeah, he and Jensen Ackles are friends. Yeah, he could probably do growly, charismatic, blue collar dude in his sleep at this point. But there is a reason he’s been a fan favorite since Buffy the Vampire Slayer and he showed it in this episode.
The thing is that with his introduction and positioning in the episode, it’s pretty clear right off Lee is going to end up the antagonist. Lorna is a more puzzling character. If she doesn’t turn out to be Chuck in disguise, or manipulated by him down the road, I guess she was just there to be an Exposition Fairy and sexually harass Dean. But Lee? Not a lot of room for nuance in the plot twist of his Sudden Yet Inevitable Betrayal at the end of the second act.
Yet, Kane manages to introduce that ambiguity, not only by making Lee just so gosh-darned likeable, but also by giving us foreshadowing of his betrayal with some squirrely, paranoid subtext at the bar. Normally, Dean would notice (and subconsciously, he kinda does, since he keeps on with the hunt), but the magic of the marid was probably messing with his brain. So, you’re left guessing and hoping against hope that maybe Lee won’t be the bad guy, after all.
It takes the death of an innocent to show that he’s crossed a line. Dean finding Angela’s body is a bleak end to his search, but it also shows how and why Dean cannot simply walk away from what Lee had done after killing the marid. Lee targeted, not Sally who was a selfish, drunken idiot, but loyal, responsible Angela. And he probably targeted Angela because Angela was protecting Sally, watching over her. After taking out Angela, he could always get to Sally later, when it was much easier and there was no one left to care. In light of his speech about why Dean still cares, and his sticking Dean in the same chair as Angela just for caring, that is (as he himself had said earlier), “dark.” It’s also mighty cold. Lee had to go down.
Personally, I’d have liked to have seen more stories involving Dean and Lee. Ackles and Kane had great chemistry, and played off each other well, especially in their interplay of regretful-yet-resolved expressions in that tragic last scene. But alas, the structure of the story pretty much guaranteed that was never going to happen. RIP Lee.
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35 thoughts on “The Official Supernatural: “Last Call” (15.07) Live Recap Thread”
1. I just watched a few moments of The Young and the Restless and Christian Keyes (the actor who played AU Michael 2yr ago) is now playing a part on that show.
It interests me to see actors in different roles; he was so ‘majestic’ as Michael and here he is ‘just a guy.’
I ‘really’ liked him as Michael.
1. He was very charismatic as Michael. I mean, I loved Jensen Ackles in the role, too, but Keyes definitely brought the gravitas and charming menace necessary for it.
1. ALSO I watch The Magicians, Sera Gamble’s show on SYFY. And there was a scene between Eliot and Margo, two magicians who are ‘bonded’ (he is gay, she is straight but they are DOWN) and they were stuck in a time-loop together.
Then Margo was out of the time-loop and she was arguing with Eliot. And he said CREDENZA . And Margo said That means shut up and listen and do what you say. So it was their ‘Poughkeepsie’ and I found that amazing. Made me smile.
Then a character named Todd appeared and I saw it was Adam DiMarco, who played Aiden in Freaks and Geeks (2nd Krissie Chambers episode), was there. He has changed a bit physically (grew up) but I recognized his voice.
Again made me happy.
1. Gotta admit I gave up on The Magicians after the first one and a half episodes in season one. Couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on and hated the characters, so I bailed.
1. It’s weird but I felt that way about EVIL on ABC. I watched about 3/4 of an episode and just did not like it. Now The Exorcist I watched on your recommendation (I think) and stuck with that for the whole 2nd season.
I really ‘want’ a supernaturally-inclined show to watch but I don’t really ‘have’ anything right now other than The Magicians. I watch Nancy Drew which has ghosts galore but the only thing that is drawing me in is the pretty-pretty cast. It reminds me almost exactly of the first season of Riverdale (which is something I gave up on last year, I watched at least 2 seasons and then just did not give a hooey) when we were trying to figure out who killed Jason Blossom. They are trying to solve the Mystery of Dead Lucy and Who Killed Tiffany at the same time. It’s ok, I am curious, but not drawn in, you know what I mean.
What are YOU watching now, Paula?
1. Not a whole lot at the moment. Most of my shows are on hiatus. I’m caught up with SPN (though I still need to rewatch and recap the latest three). I finished watching The Good Place. I watched the season finale of Evil live, though I need to watch a few episodes in between. The Rookie isn’t back, yet. I’ve been watching the 1992 version of Much Ado about Nothing this week and I mostly watch the Science Channel and Smithsonian on Roku when I’m tired and spinning my wheels.
Oh, and I’ve been watching Picard.
2. Are we to assume that the threat against Sergei’s niece was a bluff? Indeed, the old Castiel would have gone through with it, but is he still that guy? Maybe Segei knew him from Castiel’s Angel of the Lord days, and still fears him. Also, does this incident illustrate a difference between prime-universe Bobby, and parallel-universe Bobby? I’m assuming the latter is considerably more ruthless than the former, as he’s been hardened by years at war.
Belated question: Now that we know that Rowena has become the Queen of Hell, do you still anticipate her having a role in defeating Chuck?
1. The first two are excellent questions the show did not bother to answer. I am inclined to believe, however, that yes, Castiel would have killed her (he’s been pretty ruthless as of late) and I certainly think alt-Bobby would have done it.
I have reservations about a Rowena return. On the one hand, I like that she’s now Queen of Hell. On the other, I really worry that if she comes back, they’ll ruin her and kill her off. But yes, she does likely have a role in defeating Chuck, but who even knows anymore with these chucklewits.
1. I also really hope they don’t kill off Rowena. (Fingers crossed.)
How about Amara? Will she play a big role? She should; she’s even more powerful than Rowena, or any of the other entities depicted, besides Chuck himself.
1. Well, since they claim to remember Dean’s connection to Amara, I do hope they don’t screw that up. Technically, she’s even more powerful than Chuck. But I dunno. This writing crew is really bad.
3. If “Last Call” was supposed to give Dean a taste of a charmed life, I guess this most recent offering was supposed to show the opposite. But I reject Garth’s premise. They weren’t made “ordinary.” Ordinary is a single bad tooth, not seventeen all at once, especially after ten years of angel healing. Ordinary is dropping the lock pick, not forgetting a lifetime of lock picking skills.
No, they were cursed. With incompetence. And the purpose was humiliation. Practically everything happened in such a way that someone was able to observe and to note the indignity. Not to mention that they had to be rescued by the most incompetent hunter out there. Chuck is messing with their heads.
Also what’s with Garth blowing up the whole fight club? True, it was a kind of shady operation, but his own brother-in-law admitted that he was there voluntarily. They didn’t appear to be involving humans, at least until the Winchesters, and from the point of view of a lot of monsters, the Winchesters are monsters. But the wholesale slaughter of his own kind without any investigation as to their innocence? He’ll be lucky if other monsters don’t come destroy his family out of revenge.
1. It all makes sense if you remember that this is a throwback to pre-Werewolf!Garth episodes, where the Brothers are dumbed down to make Garth look good, Garth is a Gary Stu Yoda figure to them, and there are no consequences (let alone realistic ones) for his frequently baffling and idiotic actions. This “normal” nonsense is just the latest excuse to dumb them down.
It’s kind of a shame because they were finally taking his character somewhere with the alt-Michael arc and then they just erased all of it for…this.
4. It’s actually interesting to see how Dean reacts to power given to him. And the fact it doesn’t corrupts him didn’t ocuure to me before .When I started watching SPN (the whole 11 years ago, my God)I had a thing about characters dabbling with “dark side” or supernatural powers, if they hadn’t them before. Hence why I was a Sam girl in s1-s3, because he was “the magical one”. And the fact that Dean was against them annoyed me a lot. But looking back, I see how hunger for power f**ked nearly everyone in this show except for him. “When you desire something really bad it consumes you” That’s why he’s actually a good candidate for Chuck’s place. It’s not his desire that’s why he won’t abuse it. Sam wants to save ,imho, because he likes to feel like a hero. Dean does it because he likes to save people.Buuuuut ,considering that we he a team of writers who doesn’t care a dawn about him(unless you need a crying scene), I still have doubts he’ll get the Chuck’s position,this place is, imho, prepared for Jack, Dabb is not gonna let his Mary Sue character not save the day and pass on becoming The Savior. Unless they want Dean completely out of the picture(in case Jensen won’t stick to CW) and I hope that’s not the case(I wrote about my Doomsday theory if Dean becoming God and wiping his existence outta everybody’s memories so others could live their lives and doesn’t try to “save” him and dare I say I don’t like it)
1. Sadly, you may be right, but I still can’t see how that would work. Jack would need a redemption storyline he hasn’t had yet and that there’s no time for now, and even then, I can’t see him being a good replacement for Chuck. And if his redemption has happened offscreen, that’ll be really unsatisfying.
1. From what I’ve seen, Dabb’s version of redemption is everyone forgiving him(they pretty much did it in 14×20) for the sake of “He’S OuR BoY,eVeRyBoDy MaKeS MiStAkEs” and then (!!spoilers for everyone who hasn’t seen 15×09!!)
mentally beating Dean into submission. I was mad watching Dean’s prayer in Purgatory. Man was crying and apologizing for his rightful anger and grief and saying how he has “anger he can’t control”. So, at this point I don’t see the need(from Dabb’s point of view) in any redemption ark. They probably reunite and maybe we’ll have couple more of Dean’s angry scenes. After all, we need to remind the audience who’s an a**hole in the block.
Our collective mistake is to judge Dabb using the standards for normal screenwriters. But his quality of writing deserves its own tier . I’m actually kinda tired constantly lowering my expectations. Sometimes I even ask myself, how guys like him even get this job in the first place. At this point I can safely say that I can write better than him
1. Nepotism. By far the most common way of getting a job in the industry is knowing someone, preferably someone directly related to you by genetics. I’d say you normally need to show some talent for or proficiency in the job (usually by being able to present a script and a decent pitch), but there are people who have gotten such jobs without demonstrating any competence whatsoever.
Yes, there are people who manage to get a foot in the door via contests and pitch slam sessions, but the majority are more like David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. This is why you get the White Guys Failing Upward pattern you see with them, Dabb and the Nepotism Duo, and why increasing diversity in the industry has been such a long, slow, frustrating road.
5. Do you think that there’s any possibility that what we are seeing has something to do with the Mirror Universe Company/time last season or that Chuck changed something when he proclaimed “Welcome to the end” and did the whole graveyard bit? So many things are hinky this season and yes, I understand Chuck is supposed to be doing the unknown fingers in the pie/possible puppet master interference but so much seems off. Dabb said something about steps (clues?) leading to the end of the season/show which will become obvious when we look back or something like that. This does not reassure me because I’ve seen his other season endings.
Dabb also said he is writing the series closed ended – as in no movies, no spinoffs. Jared and Jensen have left the door open for a possible movie (could be just soothing fandom and really have no intent-who knows?) so why does Dabb have to crap on the fandom like that? Is he really that bitter over his spin-off flops?
It’s truly sad that a final year should be so meh. Seriously it feels as if the first half was pretty much wasted. I am anxious more than eager over the remaining ten. And bored. So, so bored.
1. Remember that Dabb and Singer and the Nepotism Duo are, at the end of the day, just working for hire. They have no ownership of the show. The way Pedowitz has been vaguely warm and fuzzy about them, while demonstrating no concrete interest in hiring them for any other CW projects, tells me he just wants to get them out the door without their causing too much damage and then decide what to do next with the franchise. At this point in their last seasons, even Gamble was talking new projects with somebody and Carver already had a new series going with the CW, while Kripke was hopping over to Revolution. Sadly, we lost Carver *because* he was in so much demand and he’s now doing Doom Patrol (which he got *asked* to do). If you look at Dabb, nobody’s knocking down his door and he’s got two failed backdoor pilots for a very popular show. The Nepotism Duo hadn’t worked for years before they managed to latch on to Supernatural, thanks to Singer, and Singer already tried to retire once a few years ago.
Padalecki’s pretty clearly out. He’s got a new show. He’s gone. The fact that Ackles is playing his cards very close to the vest indicates to me he’s thinking about some kind of show continuation, but that he and the network are waiting until after the series finale to talk about it. Because I seriously doubt Ackles has had no offers and he commented at a con a few months ago that Danneel laughed at his idea of taking an extended family vacation. Jensen Ackles is a workhorse who loves to be on set, doing a job with a cast and crew that he knows, and his wife is probably more hip to that than anyone else. With Collins, it’s hard to say. He presents a persona of being open and oversharing, but when it comes to his acting projects, you don’t hear about them until they’re out.
In light of that and the network’s ongoing love for the show (which continues to do ridiculously well in syndication and streaming), I doubt the series ending will be a true ending, no matter how spitefully final Dabb tries to make it.
1. Do you think Walker is going to make it? A season, maybe two? Honestly I don’t see it. I’m not sure Jared can carry a show on his own. Yes I know he was lead on Supernatural but the magic is the two of them together. If either had left (or there had only been one Winchester written in the story) I don’t know that it would have gone on as long. Or if the J’s had left Supernatural I think it would have died a slow death. In spite of all the “fan favorites”. Or if Jensen split and it was just Sam left I think it would have met the same fate. Dean may have carried it a bit longer (I believe Jensen is the stronger actor) but without that driving dynamic of the brothers it would have ultimately sputtered out too. They are the sugar, spice and everything in between. I think of the Highlander episodes Duncan wasn’t in. Yawn. And the series spin-off for Amanda (Elizabeth). Equally yawn worthy. Adrian Paul carried the show. He was the Highlander. As Jensen is Dean Winchester. And even if it wasn’t Jared as lead Walker seems such a strange choice for CW. I just hope they choose a better hat for him than Supernatural did for Frontierland. 🙂
1. Funny you should mention Adrian Paul as the draw for Highlander. I watched from the beginning, but I never watched for him. I watched for the side characters–Richie and Tessa, then Joe, then Methos. I found Mac a pompous git. My favorite episode at this point is probably “Indiscretions.” I really wish they’d done a Joe and Methos spinoff.
As far as Walker, unless it really crashes and burns (and maybe even if it does), it will likely get four seasons. The CW’s standards for ratings are extremely low if there are bts reasons to continue (such as keeping a coveted showrunner or actor connected to the network) and its patience for shows of that type that crater in the ratings is just about four short seasons.
2. This weekend on which has an active SPN forum they were discussing that Jensen and Danneel got an all-expenses ‘everything’ to Bali paid for by Netflix.
Various persons were talking about how well SPN has done for Netflix. Others were speculating Jensen might be signing on for a Netflix series (which are generally 10-13 episodes, right? the issue for me with SPN for a while has been too many ‘filler’ episodes; AND I also like the way TWD is split into two 10-episode blocs).
Have you heard anything about this?
1. I am verrrry suspicious and cynical about that kind of rumor regarding Jensen Ackles, especially if it involves his wife. There are fans out there who hate his guts (and hers even more) who will make shit up about him without the tiniest blush.
SPN has done ridiculously well for Netflix, TNT, the CW, Warner Bros…it’s a steady and very lucrative market. Pedowitz’s recent comments aside, I’d be very surprised if they don’t at least try a spinoff after the show ends. It could be Ackles is in talks with Netflix, but whatever is going on, he’s keeping it all close to the vest.
I don’t think shorter seasons help control “filler” at all. TWD started off with a six-episode first season and its pacing could have been outrun by ice age era glaciers. When SPN cut down to 20-episode seasons last year, its quality plummeted. If you’re gonna have MOTWs, some of them just won’t land with the audience, but if you have a pure serial story, some episodes are still gonna be dogs. You can’t really get around that. You can’t bat a thousand.
1. I am sorry but I don’t understand your first paragraph. The gist of the comments on that site were that Jensen and Danneel and only two other people (couples?) were invited.
So I thought (and they seemed to as well) that it may be part of a Netflix ‘wooing’ so I don’t see anything ‘off’ about that.
But I have to say that some kind of Supernatural ‘sequel’ would sit fine with me. It can be a wonderful show when there is decent writing because it has a ‘good’ set of ‘bones’ for a plot.
For instance, last week we had Sam and Dean’s ‘end’ as engineered by Chuck when they were both werepires or something and they said they overacted the vampire move because they both thought that was stupid. THEY THOUGHT THE WHOLE THING WAS STUPID. As though IF they got ‘turned’ by vampires they would not take the cure OR if it was too late (and some vamp threw ‘live’ blood in their mouths) they would KILL THEMSELVES before turning into monsters.
And this week with the ‘normal’ thing going on, it would be MY opinion John would’ve made them practice lock-picking 500 times in a row until they could do it blindfolded upside-down underwater.
Somebody here just mentioned that Dean has been ‘healed’ at least 2doz times by Castiel. IF he was healed of all ‘imperfections’ HOW could he get 17 cavities.
1. Sorry, I meant that I’ve seen a lot of rumors about the Ackles doing this or that thing that turned out to be some fan being snide about how “privileged” they were. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he’s being wooed by Netflix (and I would check out a sequel series), but I’ll believe those things when the two of them confirm it and not when some random fan is claiming it’s happening. Been burned by that too many times.
I did get the impression they were intentionally hamming things up with the vampire stuff, especially Ackles. Did they talk about it at the latest con? By the way–Dean doesn’t die in that scenario. He’s taking down Jody while Bobby is beheading Sam. No way Bobby would survive what happened next.
6. Very curious to see what you thought of this weeks episode aka What Can’t Jensen Do. As well as last weeks. Aka Dean Slips Into A Hairshirt and mea culpas in Purgatory.
I don’t know what Dabb has planned but at this point I’ve slipped from curious to annoyed and bored. My guess is somethings going to give/happen by end of next weeks episode. He needs to seriously piss or get off the pot.
1. Yeah, there are a lot of problems with this season, but by far the biggest is the pacing with a the lazy sense of stakes. Allegedly, they’re up against God, here, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. The stakes felt *much* higher last year when alt-Michael was doing his thing (then they pancaked when we got Jack Sue back).
I saw this week as Yet Another Excuse To Prop Up A Recurring Guest Star By Dumbing The Brothers Down. Dabb probably didn’t even give a second thought to it (or that this is actually a huge step back in Garth’s characterization) and just saw trashing 15 seasons of mytharc as the latest way to try (lamely) to make Garth look awesome.
7. OTAY. I have been waiting for this recap/review.
I must’ve been the only person in America that thought the plot would be that Dean would see his successfully retired friend (I remember how he wanted Cesar and Jesse to get out of The Business) and that it would be Lorna would was the Baddie and Lee helping Dean got Lee killed. THAT would’ve depressed Dean more than the way it turned out.
I realized it was Lee not Lorna for SURE when Lee could not identify Sally (a ‘really’ good customer) and then Lorna said, go to the scrap yard. I KNEW at that part of the show. I was sorry btw, I ‘wanted’ Christian Kane to be a good guy.
The Marid reminded me of Goat Dude from The Memory Remains. Feed him, he’ll give you ‘good’ things in this life.
I think Man’s Best Friends With Benefits was set in Chicago (weirdly, like Bloodlines) and that it was set up as a backdoor pilot but maybe you meant a different episode? They set up the man-witch police detective and put a lot of effort into him and his ‘familiar’ (oh sweet JESUS, that was so offensive I am surprised corporate did not come down and FIRE everybody!)
And Castiel, Castiel, Asstiel: whenever you make a decision it’s the wrong one. The “only” time I remember him doing something smart was in Point of No Return when he put the angel vanishing spell on his own chest and blasted all the guardian angels far away.
Dean, who is feeling pressure to forgive Castiel for what happened with Mary, well, WHAT would Dean have done if he came back to the Bunker to find Sam dean? “I” would’ve angel-bladed Castiel just on GP. Well, I probably would’ve left him alive but just never dealt with him again. Just be-GONE, Castiel.
I find it hard to believe Sergey cares for anybody enough to give up a score, he did not portray any real caring in the situation.
I LIKED LORNA and I hope she inherit Swayze’s.
I also hope Sally never found out that Angela was murdered so horribly, Sally was happy to think her friend went to Heaven.
I was left curious how Stupid Sheriff handled what would be found at the bar after Dean left. THAT would’ve been hilarious.
1. I meant to type “Sam was dead” not “Sam was dean” because I am sure you are not here reviewing a Gilmore Girls episode.
2. “Man’s Best Friend with Benefits” was set in East St. Louis.
The Sergei thing was probably a call-back to a subplot in the movie Ronin. Good movie. Depressing subplot.
Not sure there was much of a bar left for Lorna to inherit. Not so much because of the mess from the fight (just another Saturday night), but because it likely failed with the marid’s luck gone. I did like her, though.
8. As an aside, your comment regarding witches explains why other witches never really cottoned to Rowena. I always thought it was just because she was powerful, and ruthless, and they were jealous of her.
Now I see, she was powerful, and ruthless, and an upstart who didn’t know her place. It’s a class thing. Also, they were jealous.
1. Yes, that is a very good point. Class snobbery is a huge part of her interaction with the witches in “Regarding Dean.” The show doesn’t even try to be subtle about it (although I doubt the current showrunners understood what that actually meant about all witches on the show except Rowena and how it was a major reason why the audience actually likes her).
1. So the witch family in Regarding Dean was the type of family which held witch-power (natural witches, I guess they run in families) but Rowena even ‘before’ her power-up due to the Book of the Damned was the most powerful natural witch ever?
1. I don’t recall the show saying much about their natural powers, but what we did see came from their family grimoire.
I don’t know if Rowena was the most powerful “natural” witch ever (though obviously, she became the most powerful witch, period), but she did seem to have enough natural power that the Grand Coven bound it (the spell she used from the book was to unbind what she naturally had).
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Debian/Ubuntu Tips and Tricks
Debian/Ubuntu Tips and Tricks
How-to: Autotune/ Pitch Correction Effect with Praat
Posted by chantra on April 4th, 2009
I have been looking around for a while for an autotune effect (pitch correction, or whatever name you care to call it) for linux. Unfortunately everything I have found either cost money or wasn't for linux, or required special setup (wine, or other nasty things). All I could find in terms of linux autotune was people also looking for autotune. However, all the answers were unsatisfactory, either because they required manual pitch recognition (Not so good for the tone-deaf among us), or people confused it with pitch shifting in general. I eventually did find that praat (it's in synaptic), a speech analysis tool, comes surprisingly close to autotune functionality. It will give you a T-pain like effect, but it requires you to manually place the notes (although it will detect the pitch for you). I am not very experienced with praat, although this is what I figured out how to do (some of it from the original mailing list post, other I read from the manual or figured out).
Although it's GUI isn't too nice, and it isn't designed for musical manipulation, it gets the job done.
1. Loading the sound
Start up praat, and go to the window labeled praat (rather than the one labeled praat picture). You can either record a sound, or load a .wav or .flac file (.ogg is not supported and I don't know about .mp3). One thing to note is that I got a slight background squeal when recording in praat (maybe just my setup) so you might want to record another way (Sound Recorder or Audacity).
A) Recording
Click the new menu bar at the top, and on the drop-down menu, click Record Mono Sound... (If you have a stereo mic I suppose you could try recording stereo, but I have not idea how that will work with pitch detection.) A window will come up titled "SoundRecorder". Try speaking into your microphone and seeing if the volume meter goes up. You can try changing the Input Source to fix it if it won't record. In the bottom right-hand corner you can give the recording a name. When you are ready, click record and say whatever you want, or sing or whatever, and when you are done, click stop. Then click Save to List & Close (Or just Save to List if you want record multiple sounds. You can close it when you are done)
B) Loading a file
On the menu bar, click Read, and from the dropdown menu click Read from File... You can try navigating to the file you want (wav or flac only as far as I can tell), or just type in it's absolute location on the bottom line and click "Ok" (Ex: /home/jeremybubs/Music/Mesinging.wav)
Now, weather you loaded the file, or recorded it, on the main praat window, on the left under the Objects: label, it should say 1. Sound Mesinging, or whatever, depending on the title of your sound. You can now test it by clicking the play button on the right (be careful, I haven't figured out a way to stop it, so be prepared to hear the whole recording.). Now, it is time to start manipulating the pitch.
2.) Creating a Pitch manipulation object
Select your sound on the left, and on the righthand side, under the Manipulate section, click To Manipulation... A little dialog will pop up. It's ok to just click OK, but you can change the maximum and minimum pitch if you know the sound is outside that range. When you click ok, it will take some time, depending on how long your sound is, to do some processing. When it is done, is should say 2. Manipulation Mesinging on the list directly under 1. Sound Mesinging. Note that pitches and sounds and everything you create in praat are all considered Objects and placed in the same list.
3.) Edit the Pitch
Click the Edit button on the right-hand side. A window should pop up which shows the sound waves on the top and a (hopefully accurate) graph of the pitch of the sound. Now, you could try and drag around each one of those pitch points, but there are too many, and you want to get a robotic voice anyway, so you don't need smooth contours. You will be dealing with only the bottom half now, the pitch countours. If you left click anywhere, to the left of the graph it will tell you the "pitch" of that hight (anything that height has that pitch.) and on the right, it will tell you the pitch of the note at that horizontal location (where the vertical line from your cursor intersects the pitch contour.) You can drag around the points, but you will have to move a lot of them to make an audible difference. You can also drag to select. If you have some selected, you can click the Pitch menu at the top, and then Shift Pitch Frequencies to change the pitch of the selected parts . (you can choose the units to be hertz or semitones, which I think are the same as half-steps in music) Press tab to start and stop playing from the last place you clicked (it will play the modified pitch)
4.) Get some auto-tuning!
Click the Pitch menu and then click Stylize pitch (2 st). Congratz, you have done the first step on your way to autotuning. Try playing it again (Tab), and if you have good ears, you will hear the flatter sound it has now. As you can clearly see, the number of pitch points has been drastically reduced. The other ones are just linearly interpolated between these now. For example, if one pitch point is higher than the previous one, for all the time in between them, the pitch will slowly be changing between the two pitches. Usually it does a pretty good job of fitting the sound.
5.) Tune away!
Now you can drag the points and set up the pitch. If you look to the sides of the window, it will tell you the exact pitch you have. Unfortunately, for those with no understanding of music, you can't just automatically make it "sound good" You have to choose a scale, and make the notes match to it. If you have no idea, just choose the C scale, and make all your notes be non-sharp or flat (CDEFGAB). You can look of the frequency of notes here Piano key frequencies Now, go through and make everything match the closes note in the scale you chose. (or match a predetermined melody if you are aiming for that.) Remember, you need two points at the pitch you want, and that will make everything in between be that pitch. To get the characteristic Autotune Sound (T-Pain like), you make the jumps between notes be sudden. If you want to zoom in or out for finer detailed editing, click the View menu on the top and select the appropriate option. (Remember, you can press Tab to hear your work at any time.)
6.) Saving
When you are satisfied, select Publish Resythesis Under the file menu. Now, under the main window (you can edit the Manipulation window if you want to) a Third object should have appeared on the list 3. Sound from ManipulationEditor. Select it and on the top click Write and then select Write To WAV File... You can then type in the location you want to save it, or navigate to the correct location.
7.) WOOHOO!!
Now you can load up that sound in whatever audio editor you choose.
Some bonus stuff: For an alternative resynthesis, before you click Publish Resynthesis , under the Synth menu on the Manipulation Window, click the last option, LPC -- Pitch. Now it will be the alternative whenever you play or save the file. You can always switch back by selecting sound and pulses on the same menu directly above it.
There is also a way to copy the exact pitch of one file and apply it to another, I don't feel like figuring it out again, but if you are interested, ask me.
LOOK AROUND. Seriously, explore praat, it is such a cool program, you can manipulate other things like pulses, etc have it hum the tune of your recording, or just the beats without pitch, or change the gender, as well as have it synthesize its own speech and other crazy stuff I don't understand.
So I guess it is more like "Manualtune", but at least the pitch recognition works correctly. I hope I didn't write too confusingly (or use to many parenthesis.) Either way, the effect is cool, and hardly found anything online aware of praat's capabilities, so I thought I would post it here to get people aware of it. If you have any corrections or questions, or know more about praat than me, please post!
NOTE: This tutorial applies to any operating system that can run praat, not just debian, ubuntu or even linux. (I also posted this tutorial to the Ubuntu Forums. This is not plagarism)
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President Joko Widodo confirms former President B.J. Habibie as a founder of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences in tribute to the latter's contributions to the academy. (Antara Photo/Prasetyo Utomo)
Commentary: Can Indonesia Produce Another Habibie?
AUGUST 26, 2016
People know he is a national hero when parents and teachers alike wish their children and students to be the next Rudy Habibie. Standard expectations goes along the line of "study hard so you can be [immensely successful] like Pak Habibie.”
I had had this routine when I was little. I don't get to be like him unfortunately, not even close.
In fact, along his 80 years of life, Habibie becomes the towering figure in science with little competition. An aeronautics engineer by study, he is the father of Indonesian aviation, shipbuilding and defence industries. Recognizing the importance of talent and superiority in science, he is also the patron of mass scholarship for Indonesian youth since the 1980's. He has collected 46 global patents and has engineering formulas named after himself.
In January 1974, when first summoned by then president Suharto, Habibie was told that he was chosen to lead the country “to advance for the century of Indonesian brilliance.” He was eventually assigned to 20 years of ministerial posts managing Research and Technology as well as Indonesia’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT). He started at 37-years-old.
Indeed, there were political shortcomings and his fierce critics often portray him as a scientist blinded by technological ambitions that eventually cost the nation heavily. Yet it is under his tutelage that Indonesian science and technology gained a new prominence it never acquired before.
His technologically heavy industry approach has prompted the birth of a new engineering generation. Habibie estimated the Indonesian aeronautics enterprises (PTDI) alone created 46,000 Indonesian engineers. If one Habibie could help us attain so much in technological advance — imagine what we can do with more. As naive as it may sound, will this country have other technological wizard of his calibre?
While many believe Habibie is a born genius, his life story shown that education is the defining factor to his journey. It was his departure to Germany that highlighted his intellectual superiority. The rigorous academic challenge in Germany had nurtured his intellect as well as his network. Habibie attained the title of a diplome-ingineur (an equivalent to Master’s) in airplane construction and stayed to conduct his research until he earned a doctoral degree summa cum-laude.
Germany also provided an opportunity to connect directly with the industry as he landed a coveted job at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), then a large German aerospace manufacturer producing helicopter, airlines components and fighter planes. Not only did it provide a stable source of income, an important factor for his young family with two children, it also allowed him to further challenged himself of technical issues on aeronautics manufacturing.
As he quickly climbed the structural management ladder of the MMB, he started to enlist more and more Indonesian engineers under his wings. A biography of his mentioned 40 Indonesians have enjoyed the opportunity to work, research and collaborate with other scientists while Habibie was an MMB executive.
Even before he resigned in 1978, his immediate concern was to build an airplane manufacturer in Indonesia — what later would be known as PTDI. The sheer audacity of this project and its notorious demand for funding were soon to be a major source of criticism and discontent: Indonesia has up to that point never built a bicycle from scratch, either several parts or the whole bike needs to be imported. And suddenly it constructed airplanes?
Yet we, or rather Habibie, did. While the project was highly controversial — the airplanes, and later helicopters too, do fly. All along the while President Suharto shielded him and his expensive endeavours from harsh criticism and political attack. The International Monetary Fund eventually got the job done while Indonesia was frantically looking for a financial lifeline after the crippling Asian monetary crisis in 1997. Heavy subsidies f0r Habibie’s projects stopped.
Habibie's reign over strategic industries was over in a flash, but not without proving that Indonesians are capable of manufacturing airplanes, trains, ships, tanks, artilleries and even a nuclear reactor. One could thus argue that his biggest legacy would be a vote of confidence among fellow Indonesians — that "we can [do it], too."
It is then clear that the taxonomy of a science leader in Habibie demands at least several conditions - those are to be met if our concern is to cultivate the next generation of Habibies.
Among those conditions are, one: the highest quality education. Habibie spent 10 years at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, one of the best institutes to study aerospace engineering in the world. The length of time is necessary to instil the knowledge and prepared his academics to be tested in industry. It is during this period that his famous crack propagation theory was devised and perfected — a theory that is still taught throughout aeronautics engineering classes today.
Secondly, scientific collaboration. Some scientists could be reclusive individuals and in fact, many Nobel laureates are avid lab workers who dedicate a lifetime to cracking one specific question. However, to be able to excel in their respective fields, collaboration is a far easier mode and indeed is warranted in any subject.
Indonesian scientists needed to plunge into collaborations and started to deliver scientific contribution. From RWTH to the years of MMB, this is what Habibie did. He scored more points by inviting Indonesian engineers to work at MMB and thus enlarged the base for an Indonesian technology diaspora. As studies have proven, diverse diaspora fosters a nation's scientific advancement — as is evident with the fast-paced science progress of Brazil, India and China.
Finally, the support of decent funding and infrastructure back home. One account of funding to Habibie's strategic industries in 1993 amounted to $2 billion, a giant amount even at the current standard. That era of science funding may be long gone and will never return, nonetheless one thing is certain: science is not cheap. Reducing funding means crippling science — Indonesia's slow progress in science the last couple of decades proved that.
So does Indonesia's current science structure support these demands? The arrival of the next Habibie may well depend on it.
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