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77,019,263 programs installed Should I remove Flash Decompiler? What percent of users and experts removed it? 8% remove it92% keep it Overall Sentiment Very good What do people think about it? (click star to rate) How common is it? United States Rank #45,963 Reach 0.0012% 1.0 100.00% Flash Decompiler What is Flash Decompiler? (from Eltima Software) Flash Decompiler Trillix is a feature rich and powerful SWF to FLA converter, which will help you decompile Flash movies, convert SWF elements into multiple formats and edit SWF files (texts, hyperlinks and more) on the go without Adobe Flash installed. Since version 4.X you can also convert Flex files back into Flex... Read more Flash Decompiler is a software program developed by Eltima Software. It adds an extension to the user's Internet Explorer web browser. The primary executable is named fdec.exe. The setup package generally installs about 8 files and is usually about 11.06 MB (11,599,182 bytes). Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows Vista (SP2). While about 65% of users of Flash Decompiler come from the United States, it is also popular in Brazil and Taiwan. Program detailsProgram details URL: www.flash-decompiler.com Help link: www.eltima.com/company/contacts Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Eltima Software\Flash Decompiler\ Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\Eltima Software\Flash Decompiler\unins000.exe" Estimated size: 11.06 MB Program filesFiles installed by Flash Decompiler Program executable:fdec.exe Name:Flash Decompiler Path:C:\Program Files\eltima software\flash decompiler\fdec.exe Additional files: • unins000.exe - Inno Setup (Setup/Uninstall) • FDCore.dll • iebt.dll • armaccess.dll • lame_enc.dll • mp3enc.dll • oneframe.dll Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited Internet Explorer Extension • iebt.dll is installed as an Internet Explorer extension as 'IEButton Class' with a class of {86B4FC19-8FA4-4FD3-B243-9AEDB42FA2D5}. How do I remove Flash Decompiler? Quickly and completely remove Flash Decompiler from your computer by downloading "Should I Remove It?", its 100% FREE and installs in seconds (click the button below). Or, you can uninstall Flash Decompiler from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel. • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs. 2. When you find the program Flash Decompiler, click it, and then do one of the following: • Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall. 3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Flash Decompiler. How do I reset my web browser? If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Flash Decompiler you can restore them to their previous default settings. Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Win 7 (SP1) 59% Win 7 6% Uninstall it 8% Keep it 92% Windows OS versionsWindows Which Windows OS versions does it run on? Windows 7 64.71% Windows Vista 17.65% Windows XP 17.65% Which OS releases does it run on? Windows 7 Ultimate 29.41% Windows 7 Professional 17.65% Microsoft Windows XP 17.65% Windows 7 Home Premium 11.76% Windows Vista Ultimate 5.88% Windows Vista Business 5.88% Distribution by countryGeography 64.52% of installs come from the United States Which countries install it? United States 64.52% Brazil 6.45% Taiwan 6.45% MA 3.23% France 3.23% Indonesia 3.23% Germany 3.23% Czech Republic 3.23% Italy 3.23% Malaysia 3.23% OEM distributionPC manufacturers What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed? 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MSSQL error ”The specified network name is no longer available” This problem has been bugging us for a long time. When you try to connect to Microsoft’s SQL Server using IP address with SQL Management studio you get this error: A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.) (.Net SqlClient Data Provider) When you dismiss the error it just keeps popping up time to time but otherwise everything seems to work. This is caused by the Management Studio attempting to connect to the SQL Server by the server name reported by the server. This can happen for example when your production environment is isolated from intranet and servers do not have fully qualified domain names. However this is easy to fix, you just need to change the server name to correspond to the IP address of the server: sp_dropserver <current name>; sp_addserver 'a.b.c.d', local; After this you need to restart the SQL Server’s instance and you are done. You can check that the new name set correcyly by running:	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.867802083492279}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22442', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:S66FHSWVN44RSIZEGXTY2CJVVMJA2XHG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d913cdfa-db85-49c8-b81b-fc42affa4bb7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 26, 23, 15, 46), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:K443X22E7DL7FKAL23DTN75TRGDJWF4L', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:942aa96a-b08c-4361-81c4-9e18a4c391a4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://luotio.net/category/microsoft-sql-server/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7122dd22-467a-4b5f-ade5-074b38dcf713>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '179', 'url': 'https://luotio.net/category/microsoft-sql-server/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-17\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2017\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.020913004875183105', 'original_id': '509d752dbe8d2ce31fbd83ecc9faee0c66b4f5746fab99842b40e9ec0f149149'}
Interdisciplinary Team of Experts The NeuroRehab treatment team is made up of highly skilled professionals, with over 100 years of combined experience, who utilize a variety of treatment strategies and techniques in order to promote recovery. In addition to working with each other to provide a comprehensive plan of treatment, the team also works with your family, your physician, your employer, your school, vocational rehab, insurance companies and other outside agencies to ensure you get the best care possible. Your NeuroRehab team is made up of the following professions: • Psychology • Occupational Therapy • Speech-Language Pathology • Physical Therapy • Case Management And you! You are an important part of the decision-making process.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '10', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8992494344711304}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25907', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UCK4QJ7AVY5QCQDLSHMOI3DNUWO6WO37', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6ba16fe2-ccb0-41ea-abba-1b878cf0d938>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 2, 20, 15, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '40.77.30.96', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:G55JOFYDSVYQEUMZD2ETQIIAMBSDNS63', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d5a2b008-1c45-4d07-8d92-2157d95f4aaf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.uoflhealthnetwork.org/interdisciplinary-team-of-experts-3982', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e6695b38-7303-4d88-9f20-977492c3829d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '121', 'url': 'https://www.uoflhealthnetwork.org/interdisciplinary-team-of-experts-3982', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-24\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May/June 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-236.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.37639421224594116', 'original_id': '8d46cead61910f9ecec2b47be8204a0f6a09a0003c89a393f022ad364f452edf'}
Eight domains of action in Resolution A/53/243(UN Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace)Culture of peace through educationSustainable economic and social developmentRespect for all human rightsEquality between women and menDemocratic participationUnderstanding, tolerance and solidarityFree flow of information and knowledgeInternational peace and security Organization: The Japanese Society for Developing the Culture of Peace The following information may be cited or quoted as long as the source is accurately mentioned and the words are not taken out of context. Posted: Jan. 31 2010,10:48 If you wrote this report, you will find a button here that you may click in order to make changes in the report. Postal address of organization/institution Kawaguchi 2-15-1-1004, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pre. 332-0015 E-mail address of organization/institution takiguchi-masaru@r8.dion.ne.jp Website address of organization/institution http://homepage2.nifty.com/peacecom/cop/ Telephone of organization/institution 048-254-5074 PRIORITIES: All of the organization's domains of culture of peace activity EDUCATION FOR PEACE TOP PRIORITY: The organization's most important culture of peace activity EDUCATION FOR PEACE PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS: What partnerships and networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the global movement for a culture of peace? The Japan Society for Developing the Culture of Peace was established in 2000. Since then we participated in many movements. We have worked together with many peace movements and peace education groups in Japan, such as the Japan Peace Committee, peace museums, war exhibitions for peace, the Article 9 Association, and civic education research groups on peace and non-violence. In addition, we cooperate with the Organizing Committee of the Mothers’ Congress, the Defense for Children International, the Japan Teachers’ Association, and the All Japan Teachers and Staff Union. ACTIONS: What activities have been undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the ten years of the Decade? If you already made a report in 2005, your information from 2005 will be included in the 2010 report. The Japanese Report on the “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World” At the 2000 General Assembly the United Nations designated the years 2001 through 2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence) and proposed to its member nations to promote activities of peace and non-violence. It also requested member nations to submit results of activities to the general assembly in 10 years. This report is based on the ten-year report request. In this report we will give a summary of our approach to issues of non-violence and a list of our activities. We would also like it to be known that it is our deepest wish that the United Nations continue the tasks and goals of the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence after it ends officially in 2011. 1. The formation of the Japanese Society for Developing the Culture of Peace We formed the “Japanese Society for Developing the Culture of Peace in 2000” in response to the U.N. proposal. This society has carried out various activities for the past decade in cooperation with UNESCO, and we are registered as one of the supporting organizations for UNESCO Japan, and registered as a council member organization this fiscal year. We have been publishing a newsletter to our members, with 60 issues published as of this year. 2. 10- year publicity activities through our website We launched a website in 2000, and have conducted PR activities related to the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. The site has had numerous access records, and we believe that the site has become a medium to serve to establish the term “a culture of peace” within society. The site consists of explanations of the Declaration of Culture of Peace and our organization’s action programs and activities in order to make known the U.N.’s role in the international decade. 3. CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) The U.N. selected UNESCO as a focal point of the International Decade campaign. UNESCO organized the Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN). We joined CPNN activities since its inception. We have published about 400 articles on the CPNN website to date, showing documents related to peace and non-violence (http://blog.goo.ne.jp/cpnn/). The website introduces interesting and moving events in our daily life, films, books, songs and poems concerning peace and non-violence. 4. GCPEJ (Global Campaign for Peace Education Japan) We launched the Global Campaign for Peace Education in Japan (GCPEJ) in 2000 with the objective of pushing ahead with a global peace campaign to embody the Hague Appeal adopted at the 1999 Peace Civil Society Conference. We have been carrying out a variety of activities through this group, and are pleased to not that the term Peace Education, which before had been regarded as an exceptional theme for study or education in Japan, has become a common phrase. 5. “My peace appeal (Manifesto 2000) ” We have carried on the “My peace appeal” movement begun by UNESCO in concert with the 2000 U.N. “International decade for peace & culture” resolution. The National Federation of UNESCO Association in Japan has entrusted our organization with this movement. The number people making their personal peace appeals has exceeded one million in this country. “My declaration against violence campaign” in which individuals declare ‘non-violence,’ although fewer in number than those making the peace declaration, are helping to consolidate the foundation of a peace culture in this country. 6. Publications In addition to publications on the World Wide Web, At the outset of the 2000 campaign we published a book entitled Toward a culture of peace from a culture of violence. in 2000. In 2001 we published Declarations for Freeing Ourselves from Violence; in 2001 Surviving in Non-Violence; Gandhi, in 2006 Eight Keywords for a Culture of Peace , and in 2007 Build a culture of peace and non-violence. We also published a translation of Peace Education to End War by Betty Reardon. 7. Lectures by guests We prepared venues and invited lecturers from many countries to talk about peace, non-violence and related issues. We invited Arya Bhushan Bharadwaj (India) in 2001, Johan Galtung (Norway) in 2002, Di Bretherton (Australia) in 2003, Betty Reardon (U.S.) in 2004 and 2009, David Adams (the U.S.) in 2006, Alicia Cabezudo (Argentine) in 2007, and Tod Thorn (U.S.) in 2008. 8. Survey on local governments’ approaches to issues related to a culture of peace With the aim of confirming results of our campaign, we conducted a “survey on local governments’ approaches related to culture of peace” last summer. Nearly 40 % of all the local governments replied to our questionnaire. The results of the survey show that more than 40 % of those that responded have been taking various approaches of their own from the standpoint of a culture of peace. These include peace education, and multi-cultural co-existence, and others. 9.2005 interim report on our activities to the U.N. At the request of the National Federation of UNESCO Association in Japan, we submitted a report to the United Nations on our activities at the five year mark. In that report we reported on our activities in Japan related to peace and non-violence, and related these activities to the overall goal of helping to create an innovative peace-oriented movement in the world. We have worked together with many peace movements and peace education groups in Japan, such as the Japan Peace Committee, peace museums, war exhibitions for peace, the Article 9 Association, and civic education research groups on peace and non-violence. In addition, we cooperate with the Organizing Committee of the Mothers’ Congress, the Defense for Children International, the Japan Teachers’ Association, and the All Japan Teachers and Staff Union. Fujita Hideo Representative of the Japanese Society for Developing the Culture of Peace in Japan,Professor emeritus of Rissho University PROGRESS: Has your organization seen progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of action and in your constituency during the second half of the Decade? As written above, through many activities and reports, not a few Japanese realized the importance of culture of peace and non-violence. For example, many workers' unions used the words 'Culture of peace and Non-violence' in their movements. The greatest progress is that there are more than 7000 Article 9 Groups. More than tens of millions of people now live in peaceful place. OBSTACLES: Has your organization faced any obstacles to implementing the culture of peace and nonviolence? If so, what were they? We have been trying to do many things for peace, however the progress seems rather slow and it is difficult to get many people for our side. The greatest obstacles are indifference of people to the culture of peace. Also the greatest problem is that the Japanese Government escaped such peaceful movement from the start. Media has no ears for the culture of peace and non-violence. They never want to participate in peace activities. PLANS: What new engagements are planned by your organization in the short, medium and long term to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence? 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Friday, 9 August 2013 BDTP Reveals UK Fag and Booze Heroes From The Telegraph BDTP (Blokes Down The Pub) have decided to publish the role of honour to celebrate the men who save the public millions on booze and fags. The names on the Honour Role are described as “Robin Hoods who have got us all cheap fags and booze, instead of the money going to government to piss away on high-speed rail and sporting events that hardly anyone cares about” The Honour Role includes Hussain Asad Chohan, 44, believed to be in Dubai. He is celebrated for importing 2.25 tonnes of tobacco, saving hard-working smokers £750,000. Leigang Liang, 38, believed to be in the UK, was honoured for illegally importing tobacco from China. The estimated saving to smokers was £2.6 million. Wayne Joseph Hardy, 49, now believed to be in South Africa, was honoured for manufacturing tobacco products and not paying duty. The estimated saving to smokers was £1.9 million. Gordon Arthur, 60, believed to be in the United States, honoured for illegally importing cigarettes and alcohol, saving smokers and drinkers around £15 million. Emma Elizabeth Tazey, 38, also believed to be in the United States, is celebrated for the same savings. Malcolm McGregor McGowan, 60, believed to be in Spain, is celebrated for illegally importing cigarettes saving around £16 million to smokers. Dimitri Gaskov, 27, thought to be in Estonia, smuggled three million cigarettes into the UK using desktop computers. Mohamed Sami Kaak, 45, thought to be in Tunisia, is celebrated for smuggling millions of cigarettes into the UK between March 2005 and September 2006 and saving taxpayers around £822,000 in duty. Mark Wadsworth said... Typical, we're celebrating British heroes of the resistance but hardly any of us lethargic Brits made it onto the honours list. Thank G-d for foreigners with their enterprise skills. The Stigler said... Well, these are the ones on the run, and if you read the article, most of them have gone abroad, which makes this list pretty farcical. If one of these people gets picked up somewhere, it'll be because they broke another law, not because of Joe Public spotting them. I've decided to do some research into the history of smuggling, by the way. Even from an early look at it, it's pretty fascinating. Lola said... And what's the cure for all this 'tax efficiency (us)/Evasion (Gummint)? What one thing springs to mind as a certain way of raising State revenue that is almost 100% unavoidable? And is also so in yer face that the gummint would not be able to hike it? Go on. Gi' us a clue. The Stigler said... LVT: Not just a floor cleaner, also a desert topping. You might notice that the taxes being evaded (duty, VAT) are the worst taxes. OK, we might want to tax fags and booze to pay for the damage done, work to be paid for by the NHS. Fair enough. At which point, our duty would only be slightly higher than France, and then it's not really worth anyone trying to avoid/evade. Bayard said... "I've decided to do some research into the history of smuggling, by the way." In the mid C19th, it was a lot more profitable. Duty on wine was 1s a bottle (£3.50 a bottle in today's money). The Stigler said... There's some debate about the creation of brandy, but one thought is that it was wine merchants bringing it from abroad and distilling it as you could then pay the same as wine, and thinking it could be watered down on arrival. Bayard said... 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Editorial Downtown parking study completed Downtown Chattanooga has more than 43,000 parking spaces, but less than one-third of those spaces are publicly available. This is one of the many findings from a year-long, $250,0000 comprehensive parking study led by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the Chattanooga Parking Authority and River City Company, in partnership with the Lyndhurst and Benwood Foundations, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Siskin Hospital, Erlanger Health System and the City of Chattanooga. Commissioned to understand challenges and opportunities related to parking as the city’s urban core continues to grow and develop, the study captured the current state of parking downtown and provides strategic recommendations for addressing and balancing current parking needs while also considering future development. The study, which counted both on- and off-street spaces with public and private access, measured how much these spaces were used on a typical weekday and Saturday to understand normal patterns of parking activity. This allowed the study team to understand gaps in parking potential. “With 43,000 spaces over an area covering five square miles, this study constituted a major data collection and analysis effort,” says Joel Mann, principal at Stantec Consulting Services and lead consultant on the parking study. “It’s the first time downtown will have a comprehensive inventory of all on- and off-street spaces, including details such as loading zone locations and parking lots that only serve a dedicated business or user. “Assembling this much data gives Chattanooga’s agencies and partner organizations a tool for decision-making.” In general, the study observed that overall parking supply in Downtown Chattanooga is adequate. However, that supply is not optimally utilized, which is evident when less than one-third of those 43,000 parking spaces are available to the general public. Furthermore, supply is much less heavily used on weekends. This suggests that major additions to parking supply might have limited utility. Nonetheless, in select areas such as the heath and education district, UTC campus area and MLK district, supply is constrained. From this, the framework for recommendations based on the findings from space counts, usage data and projections on future growth recommend a “manage first, then build with strategy” approach. First, a key finding from the study found that available parking is almost always nearby a driver’s desired destination, at any given time or location in the study area. This highlights the need for those owners of parking to both understand the demand for his or her parking facility and work to create shared parking opportunities. An example of a shared parking opportunity would be if a company has a parking lot that’s reserved for employees only and is only being used by employees during the normal work day opening up the parking lot to the public in the evenings and on weekends. Second, the study recommended that price is the most effective determinant of a user’s willingness to stay in a location. This has led to several recommendations concerning pricing and time limits depending on the area and its observed use. Third, parking should be treated as part of urban mobility. Sharing arrangements might extend beyond a comfortable walking reach for many customers; to create better sharing opportunities, there’s a need to explore stronger mobility connections such as transit, bicycling and improvements to the walking environment. Last, strategies for new parking should include partnerships to construct facilities that not only serve multiple users but also future development. One example the study explored is a shared parking garage in the health and education district that would serve both Erlanger and Siskin Hospitals, but also potentially UTC and the Hamilton County Health Department. “Downtown Chattanooga, like many urban areas, has challenges when it comes to parking,” says Kim White, president and CEO of River City Company. “For us, it’s making more of the parking that currently exists in downtown available to more people. And as our city continues to grow and change, we aim to work with partners to strategically add more parking where necessary, make parking more accessible and foster a downtown where people are comfortable parking and then utilizing the electric shuttle, bike share and walking to move around.” To move this report from study to action, River City Company, along with CARTA and CPA, has an implementation team of downtown stakeholders and partners working to execute recommendations from the study.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '5e8a63016753a01faabb31c8638907231f3c90a024fe2328418405736af56329'}
We’ve gathered together the questions on M&A you’re most likely to be asked at an interview at an investment bank Walk me through an accretion/dilution analysis… The purpose of an accretion/dilution analysis (sometimes also referred to as a quick-and-dirty merger analysis) is to project the impact of an acquisition to the acquiror’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) and compare how the new EPS (“proforma EPS”) compares to what the company’s EPS would have been had it not executed the transaction. In order to do the accretion/dilution analysis, we need to project the combined company’s net income (“proforma net income”) and the combined company’s new share count. The proforma net income will be the sum of the buyer’s and target’s projected net income plus/minus certain transaction adjustments. Such adjustments to proforma net income (on a post-tax basis) include synergies (positive or negative), increased interest expense (if debt is used to finance the purchase), decreased interest income (if cash is used to finance the purchase) and any new intangible asset amortization resulting from the transaction. The proforma share count reflects the acquiror’s share count plus the number of shares to be created and used to finance the purchase (in a stock deal). Dividing proforma net income by proforma shares gives us proforma EPS which we can then compare to the acquiror’s original EPS to see if the transaction results in an increase to EPS (accretion) or a decline in EPS (dilution). Note also that we typically will perform this analysis using 1-year and 2-year projected net income and also sometimes last twelve months (LTM) proforma net income. What factors can lead to the dilution of EPS in an acquisition? A number of factors can cause an acquisition to be dilutive to the acquiror’s earnings per share (EPS), including: (1) the target has negative net income, (2) the target’s Price/Earnings ratio is greater than the acquiror’s, (3) the transaction creates a significant amount of intangible assets that must be amortized going forward, (4) increased interest expense due to new debt used to finance the transaction, (5) decreased interest income due to less cash on the balance sheet if cash is used to finance the transaction and (6) low or negative synergies. If a company with a low P/E acquires a company with a high P/E in an all stock deal, will the deal likely be accretive or dilutive? Other things being equal, if the Price to Earnings ratio (P/E) of the acquiring company is lower than the P/E of the target, then the deal will be dilutive to the acquiror’s Earnings Per Share (EPS). This is because the acquiror has to pay more for each dollar of earnings than the market values its own earnings. Hence, the acquiror will have to issue proportionally more shares in the transaction. Mechanically, proforma earnings, which equals the acquiror’s earnings plus the target’s earnings (the numerator in EPS) will increase less than the proforma share count (the denominator), causing EPS to decline. What is goodwill and how is it calculated? Goodwill, a type of intangible asset, is created in an acquisition and reflects the value (from an accounting standpoint) of a company that is not attributed to its other assets and liabilities. Goodwill is calculated by subtracting the target’s book value (written up to fair market value) from the equity purchase price paid for the company. This equation is sometimes referred to as the “excess purchase price.” Accounting rules state that goodwill no longer should be amortized each period, but must be tested once per year for impairment. Absent impairment, goodwill can remain on a company’s balance sheet indefinitely. Why might one company want to acquire another company? There are a variety of reasons why companies do acquisitions. Some common reasons include: - The Buyer views the Target as undervalued. - The Buyer’s own organic growth has slowed or stalled and needs to grow in other ways (via acquiring other companies) in order to satisfy the growth expectations of Wall Street. - The Buyer expects the deal to result in significant synergies (see the next post for a discussion of synergies). - The CEO of the Buyer wants to be CEO of a larger company, either because of ego, legacy or because he/she will get paid more. Explain the concept of synergies and provide some examples. In simple terms, synergy occurs when 2 + 2 = 5. That is, when the sum of the value of the Buyer and the Target as a combined company is greater than the two companies valued apart. Most mergers and large acquisitions are justified by the amount of projected synergies. There are two categories of synergies: cost synergies and revenue synergies. Cost synergies refer to the ability to cut costs of the combined companies due to the consolidation of operations. For example, closing one corporate headquarters, laying off one set of management, shutting redundant stores, etc. Revenue synergies refer to the ability to sell more products/services or raise prices due to the merger. For example, increasing sales due to cross-marketing, co-branding, etc. The concept of economies of scale can apply to both cost and revenue synergies. In practice, synergies are “easier said than done.” While cost synergies are difficult to achieve, revenue synergies are even harder. The implication is that many mergers fail to live up to expectations and wind up destroying shareholder value rather than create it. Of course, this last fact never finds its way into a banker’s M&A pitch.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '8f36814661cab96212f563ba1dfa113710d7874f43d180e074b48307ef5a8fa2'}
VMware helps CIOs tunnel their way to more secure mobile apps VMware's goal is to make it easier for administrators to control what apps and resources mobile users can access VMware is combining iOS and Android encryption features with its own network virtualization platform to offer more secure access to enterprise applications and resources. Today, organizations typically provide mobile users access through a secure VPN gateway connection into the data center where applications and data reside. But while this perimeter-based approach secures the communication, it doesn't protect against attacks that hack remote employees and use their secure connections. Once inside, hackers can move between workloads in the data center with few controls to block propagation, according to VMware. VMware contends it can solve this problem in a way that's easier to manage than VLANs through what the company calls network micro-segmentation in the data center. That means that at the network level users can only access their own resources from a smartphone or tablet, limiting what they as well an enterprising hacker can do. The segmentation also makes it easier to keep track of what applications and resources users actually have access to, according to Noah Wasmer, vice president of end-user computing strategy at VMware. The NSX platform is used to configure the microsegments using network virtualization. The purported advantages with network virtualization are in many ways the same as with server virtualization, including making it easier for administrators to add and remove capacity. Here NSX is combined with enterprise mobile management from VMware-owned AirWatch. This lets administrators create and manage application specific VPNs on Apple's iPhones and devices running the latest version of Android. Once created, the VPNs are connected with the user's microsegment. "The user doesn't even see the tunnels being created, they just have to click on the app they want to use," Wasmer said. For it to work enterprises need NSX version 6.1 and AirWatch 8.0, which are both shipping now. The combination will be demonstrated at the RSA Conference, which starts on April 20 in San Francisco. Send news tips and comments to mikael_ricknas@idg.com Join the TechWorld newsletter! Error: Please check your email address. Tags mobile applicationssecurityAccess control and authenticationencryptionmobileVMware More about AppleNSXRSA Show Comments Market Place	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9219223260879515}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '56258', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:622REWOLNRNSGARGML3XMOAVXN2354PV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6e8bc01d-b0b3-4857-b6ed-7d2206cf744f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 26, 23, 59, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.252.106.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Q3VUUVVH4OREDPF6FT5SOPMAOTO2G6IB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ac9de6de-7c73-4816-af75-515a8fcde225>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.techworld.com.au/article/572719/vmware-helps-cios-tunnel-their-way-more-secure-mobile-apps/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:59cdef2d-9f89-4269-bb8f-85958e976809>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '371', 'url': 'http://www.techworld.com.au/article/572719/vmware-helps-cios-tunnel-their-way-more-secure-mobile-apps/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-09\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2017\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0312504768371582', 'original_id': '28226b05a7cb29b58ae9785d7175990bc1e931e43fbcf11724c635448bdd2841'}
Lease Collateral Lease Collateral 'Leasing' SBLC's and Bank Guarantees: • What is Collateral Transfer? • How does it work? • What is the Process? • Raising Credit Lines • Full Information What is Collateral Transfer? The ‘Lease’ or ‘Leasing’ of Bank Guarantees are undertaken through Collateral Transfer facilities, sometimes called ‘Collateral Provision’. Collateral Transfer is the provision of assets from one party (the Provider) to the other party (the Beneficiary or Recipient), often in the form of a Bank Guarantee or Standby Letter of Credit. Whereas the Provider agrees (through his issuing bank) to issue a demand guarantee (the ‘medium’) to the Beneficiary in return for a ‘rental’ or ‘return’ known as the “Contract Fee”. The parties agree to enter into a Collateral Transfer Agreement (CTA) which governs the issuance of the Collateral or Guarantee. ‘Leasing a Bank Guarantee’ or ‘SBLC’ is a common phrase associated with Collateral Transfer. Since it is not possible to physically ‘lease’ a bank guarantee, we use the term loosely as its structure resembles that of a commercial lease. However, these arrangements should be correctly referred to as ‘Collateral Transfer Facilities’ as effectively no leasing takes place. A Bank Guarantee is issued specifically for the purpose to the Beneficiary and each contract is bespoke. A Bank Guarantee cannot be transferable, purchased or sold. A Collateral Transfer facility is the Provider using his own assets to raise a specific Bank Guarantee through his issuing bank for the sole use of the specified Beneficiary, for the specified term. It is effectively a form of Securities Lending and often a derivative of re-hypothecation. There is no reference to ‘leasing’ when receiving a Bank Guarantee in this fashion. The Guarantee is issued by the issuing bank of the Provider to the Beneficiary’s account at the Beneficiary bank and is transmitted inter-bank via the appropriate SWIFT platform (MT760 in the case of Guarantees). During the term of the Guarantee, the Beneficiary may utilise it for their own purposes which may include; security for loans, credit lines or for trading purposes. At the end of the term, the Beneficiary agrees to extinguish any encumbrance against the Guarantee and allow it to lapse (or return it) prior to expiry and indemnify the Provider against any loss incurred by default of loans secured upon it. A Provider will often be a collateral management firm, a hedge fund or private equity company. Effectively, the Guarantee is ‘leased’ to the Beneficiary as a form of investment since the Provider receives a return on his commitment, hence the misnomer of the term ‘leasing’. Over recent years, these facilities have become more popular since they enable the Beneficiary to have access to substantial credit facilities by using the Guarantee as loan security. Since the Guarantee is effectively imported to the account of the Beneficiary, the underwriting criteria is considerably less than that of conventional lending. Guarantees received in this way are in no way different from any other form of demand Guarantee. The fact that there is an underlying agreement (the Collateral Transfer Agreement) has no bearing on the wording or construction of the Guarantee. This allows the Beneficiary to use the Guarantee to raise credit, to guarantee credit lines and loans or to enter trade positions or buy/sell contracts. More competitive pricing by Collateral Providers have also made it available to a growing number of smaller sized enterprises seeking urgent capital for a wide range of reasons. What or Who is a ‘Provider’? A Provider is the party who enters the Collateral Transfer Contract (or the Collateral Transfer Agreement, “CTA”) with the Principal or Recipient. A Provider will typically be a private equity firm, a hedge fund or wealth manager or indeed a family office, managing funds on behalf of their clients or investors. The Provider will place their funds (the underlying funds) with the Issuing Bank who will ultimately issue the Collateral in the appropriate medium, often a Bank Guarantee. The Provider may use their own funds but it is more common that Providers represent their investors who will invest funds with them in order to enter Collateral Transfer commitments. Sometimes, Providers may utilise Private Label Funds or White Label Funds in which to make their commitments. Involving up to 7 single investors at a time to create the Commitment Fund (the underlying asset) to which the commitment medium is raised against and issued to the Recipient. Although the Recipient may see a single commitment with a Provider for up to a total amount of €100 million, behind the scenes this could represent up to 7 investors’ contributions. The Provider of course taking liability to provide a return to each investor and therefore sharing the Contract Fees between the investors What are the benefits of the Provider investing in this way? When a private equity firm or other types of funding institutions make an investment into companies on an international platform, several laws come into play. If an equity company made an investment (or indeed a loan) into a company outside of their own jurisdiction (i.e. they physically lent funds in a different country), they may need Government permissions, licenses and other forms of financial authority registrations in that jurisdiction in order to make such investment or lending commitment. In addition and in the event of a default, they would be expected to enter that offshore jurisdiction to recover their losses. Several different laws may therefore apply. If the equity firm did not have representation in that country or had no specific location knowledge, they would find it difficult and therefore of higher risk. In order to keep things simple, the equity firm will set-aside the funds in their own jurisdiction and retain them at their own bank. Requesting their bank to issue a collateral medium often in the form of a Letter of Guarantee (Bank Guarantee) to the borrower or recipient, using their funds as the underlying security or asset. Therefore, they use the Banks international network whereby the bank will have representation in that jurisdiction (a correspondent bank for example). The receiving bank of the Letter of Guarantee can then extend the borrower or recipient the credit or loans required under the laws of their own jurisdiction. By employing these techniques, the equity firm would mitigate risk as the recipient bank would also take responsibility for the recovery of losses. This means that the equity firm would not need to enter that jurisdiction to recover losses. This makes the financial model of Collateral Transfer very appealing to equity firms and lenders alike. Why is it called ‘Leasing’? The word ‘leasing’ in this respect is a misnomer and should be avoided. Leasing Bank Guarantee’s (BG) or Leasing Standby Letters of Credit (SBLC’s) are common phrases associated with Collateral Transfer. However, leasing is not really the correct term to use as it is not possible to actually lease a bank guarantee in this manner. Hence it is a misnomer. We use the term loosely as its process is almost exactly that of commercial leasing. In effect, the Provider offers temporary ownership of his assets to the Beneficiary in return for a fee and at the end of the term the assets revert back to the ownership of the Provider. The assets are used to raise specific and non-transferable bank indemnities which the Beneficiary may utilise. It is a misnomer as in effect no leasing takes place. Through a Collateral Transfer Agreement, a Provider will agree to place his assets with a facilitating bank. The bank will charge the asset and will raise a bank indemnity against it in favour of the Beneficiary. This bank indemnity will commonly be in the form of a Bank Guarantee issued specifically for the purpose to the Beneficiary. These Collateral Transfer (or C/T) facilities are useful for when a business needs to import or create security (collateral) to underpin credit lines or loans, otherwise referred to as monetization. What is the collateral transfer ‘medium’? The ‘medium’ refers to the actual instrument used to convey the commitment to the Recipient of the Collateral Transfer facility. Since the collateral is remitted bank-to-bank, it is remitted in the form of a bank commitment, often in the form of a Letter of Guarantee (Bank Guarantee,’BG’) and sometimes, although not as common, in the form a Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC). In what form is the Collateral injected ? Collateral Transfer facilities are wrongly referred to as ‘leasing’ as this document explains. However, the injection of capital or collateral is made by the Provider to the Recipient via the Issuing Bank and the Recipient Bank. There is never any mention of the word ‘lease’ or ‘rent’. Bank Instruments (Letters of Guarantee-Bank Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit-SBLC’s) sent in this way are standard bank instruments. There is no difference between an instrument remitted under a Collateral Transfer facility and an instrument issued in a more conventional manner. Any person that tells you otherwise is simply wrong. Officially, the bank instrument (the medium) is remitted to the Recipient Bank for the benefit of the Recipient as a form of “investment” from the Provider. This investment is evidenced by the Collateral Offering Contract and the Collateral Transfer Agreement. It should be treated in the same way as if the Provider was investing physical cash. Bank to Bank Platform As Collateral Transfer facilities are founded on the injection of a inter-bank financial instrument (Bank Guarantee or SBLC) from the Provider’s bank to the Recipient’s bank, the transaction relies on both banks talking to each other, i.e. The bank of the Provider issuing the facility (the Issuing Bank) and the bank of the Recipient receiving the facility (the Recipient Bank). It is therefore important to first set these communications between the banks as the stage of performance of the transaction. Without the two banks’ involvement, the transaction is not possible. Since the parties (the Provider and the Recipient) cannot enter into contract with each other whereby such contract commits the Issuing Bank and the Recipient Bank to undertake matters on behalf of their customers (the parties) since the two banks are not party to this contract, it is necessary for the parties to first enter into an offering contract (or pre-contract). This is generally done by the Provider issuing to the Recipient an Offering Contract, rather like a mortgage offer that a bank may offer its customers. This Offering Contract sets the parameters of the transaction. Once this contract is entered into, the Provider will instruct their Issuing Bank to first advise the Recipient Bank by what we call a ‘pre-advice’. This is done through the inter-bank communication system called SWIFT. The Issuing Bank will send a SWIFT message to the Recipient Bank stating that their customer (the Provider) is about to enter into contract with their customer (the Recipient) and will be sending a Letter of Guarantee (or SBLC), the ‘collateral medium’. The wording or draft of this instrument will also be enclosed. The Issuing Bank will request within this pre-advice communication the Recipient Bank’s to confirm their readiness and willingness to receive such financial instrument on their clients behalf. Only when this communication line has been established will the two parties be able to enter into contract for the remittance of the collateral and therefore the closure of the Collateral Transfer provision. At this point the Collateral Transfer Agreement is signed and the medium is remitted. The Collateral Transfer Agreement is an identical agreement (in respect to the terms) to the Offering Contract or Collateral Transfer Offering. The remittance of such intention or ‘pre-advice’ involves the Provider committing the funds to the Issuing Bank and the funds will often be ‘locked’ by the Issuing Bank prior to sending this pre-advice communication. Therefore, the Provider may seek some form of commitment from the Recipient as to lock them in to receive the facility and prevent them from backing-out. These communications are also often irrevocable and represent a binding commitment between the parties. How does it work? Collateral Transfer is where a Provider agrees to utilise his assets to the benefit of a third party, namely the Beneficiary (or Principal). This is done through a Collateral Transfer Agreement and involves the ‘transfer’ of the original asset (the ‘collateral’) into a new security that the Beneficiary can utilise. Hence the term “Collateral Transfer”. This is done by the Provider of the original or underlying asset pledging the asset to the facility bank (the Issuing Bank) in order that the Provider can instruct the remittance of a Bank Guarantee to the Beneficiary and his Recipient Bank. The Bank Guarantee that results can be used in any way by the Beneficiary. The underlying asset pledged to the Issuing Bank may be cash, bonds, stocks, gold or other assets (or often a combination of many) and is provided by the “Provider”. The Provider will be a private equity or investment group or a collateral management company making investments on behalf of its clients. A Provider will often receive the assets through private label funds set up for the purpose, or from hedge funds, pension funds or high net worth individuals and family offices. Provider’s are able to offer its investors good returns on non-liquid assets by offering Collateral Transfer facilities. This makes good opportunity to investors that wish to seek additional returns by placing their assets with the Provider. The Provider then in-turn seeks suitable clients (beneficiaries) to receive Collateral Transfer facilities. The Contract Fees paid to the Provider by the Beneficiary for the use of the bank guarantee are then divided amongst the investors (the owners) of the original underlying asset as a return. A portion of course retained by the Provider as their management fee. This allows investors to obtain good annual returns on assets they would otherwise not be able to invest. For example, valuable artworks, real estates, stagnant capital, etc. The Provider will use his bank relationship to pledge these assets to the Issuing Bank and have them issue a Bank Guarantee to the Beneficiary for a given term (usually 12 months renewable terms). The Beneficiary will pay to the Provider a Contract Fee for the use of the Bank Guarantee over the term. The facility is governed by a Collateral Transfer Agreement (commonly referred to as a CTA). Each CTA is bespoke to the specific transaction. This Agreement binds the Provider to issue the Guarantee to the Beneficiary for the given term and binds the Beneficiary to accept the Guarantee and to pay the Contract Fee to the Provider for its use. It is of course known to all parties that the Beneficiary will use the Bank Guarantee to raise credit and will therefore encumber the Bank Guarantee (i.e the lending bank will lien it as security). This is referred to as ‘monetisation’ of the Guarantee. Whist this is of course acceptable to the Provider, the Beneficiary will need to make a declaration that they adhere to remove any encumbrance over the Guarantee 5 days prior to the Bank Guarantee expiry date. Therefore the Beneficiary must make his own arrangements with his bank (or the bank lending the credit against the bank guarantee) to repay any loans secured on it. Otherwise the Beneficiary will be in breach of the CTA. This is referred to as the ‘exit strategy’, i.e. how the Beneficiary will exit the contract and repay the debt secured on the Guarantee. Commonly, the Beneficiary will refinance with the lending bank to remove any encumbrance over the guarantee at expiry, or choose to renew the CTA for a further 12 month period. If the Beneficiary fails to repay any loans secured on the Guarantee at expiry, the lending bank will call it and the Provider will lose his pledged assets. In these cases, the Provider will take recourse of debt recovery against the Beneficiary. It is therefore required that the Beneficiary is reputable and financially sound and that is why there is the initial due diligence and acceptance period before we are able to offer Terms. Only when the Beneficiary is accepted are Terms offered. Therefore, to exit the contract successfully, the Beneficiary will utilise loan funds raised on the Guarantee for commercial purposes. Rather like a bridge loan, the Beneficiary will need to receive his investment or liquidate his project prior to the expiry of the Guarantee, allowing him to clear and remove any encumbrance over it. It is common to find that a Beneficiary will use Collateral Transfer facilities to either participate in trade positions where his returns are received prior to expiry of the bank guarantee, or for property development projects where liquidation or refinance of the bricks and mortar once construction is complete will serve as his exit strategy. This fairs well with these types of facilities and are preferred by Providers. Raising Credit Lines and Loans Against ‘leased’ collaterals 9 times out of 10 clients that apply to receive a Bank Guarantee or Standby Letter of Credit through Collateral Transfer are doing so with the intention of raising credit or loans. It may be the case that they do not have sufficient existing security to allow them to borrow funds from their own bank or it may be that they have simply extended their credit too far. As the collateral injected under Collateral Transfer facilities is worded to support credit facilities, it is possible to use it to secure credit lines and loans, either directly from the Recipient Bank holding the collateral or another third-party lender. It has been known that some Recipient banks may refrain from extending credit to their customer regardless of the strength of the security that this collateral represents. This is often due to the borrower being newly formed with little or no credit record. It should not be assumed that just because the borrower is the proud owner of a bank guarantee that his bankers will extend credit against it. To the contrary, lending banks will still impose their rigid lending criteria. In these events, IntaCapital are happy to offer credit line facilities which we can arrange for our clients. Please enquire with us and we will be happy to provide full details. A word about exit strategy? Collateral Transfer facilities provide an excellent model for short to mid-term financing and capital raising solutions. However, they are not the be-all and end-all solution to longer term business or project finance. Collateral Transfer facilities are not suitable for long-term financing needs, i.e. 7 years or more. It is important that the business principal match-funds his enterprise. That means that you match short-term assets with short-term finance and long-term assets with long-term finance or mortgage. If the principal is seeking to utilise Collateral Transfer facilities to import into his enterprise to enable them to raise fast and efficient project capital, example; A real estate development or to finance a long-term or permanent company project, it is important to plan ahead and focus on the exit strategy. By this we mean the migration from using the funds raised short or mid-term (up to 7 years) under the Collateral Transfer facility, to funds borrowed for the longer term. Unless of course the plan is to sell off the project once completed as this would of course provide the means to repay any credit secured on the Collateral, allowing the Collateral Transfer facility to expire well within term. Therefore, attention should be paid to exit strategy from the very beginning. It is important that when applying for these facilities that any collateral (Bank Guarantee or SBLC) is unencumbered prior to expiry. For this, you will need to demonstrate that you have the ability to repay any liens or loans secured against the collateral prior to the collateral expiration. Of course Collateral Transfer facilities can be renewed year on year but many providers will not extend beyond 5 or 7 times, meaning a maximum of 7 year terms are available. In the case of real estate development for example; The Principal may choose to utilise Collateral Transfer and credit secured thereon as a means to raise the capital to commence the project. Then, when the project is complete, to re-finance with conventional longer-term finance solutions such as mortgages or conventional asset loans if the asset is to be retained. Alternatively, sell the development. This too provides suitable exit strategy. It is our advice never to enter into a Collateral Transfer facility without first planning ahead with your exit strategy. Collateral Transfer does not purport to be cheap. However, it is an ideal tool to utilise in seed or start-up projects if a long-term solution is implemented at the back-end. What about the rates/costs? Collateral Transfer facilities provide an ideal solution to many circumstances. However, it is important to note that these facilities are not cheap and may not suit the smaller budget. These facilities can be provided at rates (Contract Fees) of around 6% to 8% per annum. Sometimes rising to 12% or 14% by some Providers. It should also be noted that if the Principal intends to use the collateral to raise credit lines or loans, that they will also incur credit line interest on the monies borrowed against this collateral. This can vary, depending on the jurisdiction, the bank or the credit record of the borrower. However, typically IntaCapital can arrange credit for around 4.50% per annum, fixed for the term of 12 months. This means that total costs can often exceed 11% per annum. Before applying for these facilities, it is important that you ascertain that your project can indeed sustain and support these costs. Leveraging Raised Funds Of course, once the Principal has successfully received their collateral and have negotiated a credit line against it, they are now in possession of short to mid-term business capital. Some would say mission accomplished. However, at this juncture it is also important to plan ahead and ensure that the exit strategies chosen by the Principal are always kept in-mind and worked towards. A good tip is to start to implement and assist the exit strategy from the very beginning and from the point of when the Principal actually receives the credit or loan. If the Principal intends to refinance their project as the exit strategy, they may consider leveraging the credit funds raised against the collateral. For example; If the Principal is purchasing real estate for development, they may choose to use a portion of the raised funds to place as a deposit. Then, utilise conventional finance (i.e. secured loans or mortgages) to raise the balance. As there will be no encumbrances taken by either the Provider or the Lender over the assets that you purchase – The only security for raising the funds will be the collateral itself – it is possible to use pledge the purchased assets and therefore leverage considerably. How does renewal work and what are the renewal rates / costs? Collateral Transfer facilities are issued for 12 month periods and multiples thereof. However, most facilities are offered initially as 12 month contracts with an option to renew for a further 12 months (year on year), up to a maximum of 60 or 72 months. The initial contract will be issued with a fixed Contract Fee, typically between 6% to 8%. At renewal, the collateral (Bank Guarantee or SBLC) will expire in the usual way and a new annual collateral will be issued for the re-calculated Contract Fee which is payable yearly in advance, i.e. immediately upon receipt of the new collateral. The calculation equation will be stated in the initial contract so there are no surprises. Typically, the Contract Fee for the second and subsequent years will be calculated as a percentage (typically between 5.50% and 7.50%) above 12 month LIBOR or EURIBOR. This means that as LIBOR and EURIBOR (12 month rates) do fluctuate a little, so the Contract Fee can of course change year on year. However, both of these rates have been extremely stable for the last several years but ultimately the risk of increasing rates will be burdened by the Recipient and not the Provider. As both 12 month EURIBOR and LIBOR rates are very low at this time, Collateral Transfer facilities have been in great demand. We would expect that the demand for such facilities may fall off a little if these rates were to increase, due to the sheer fact that these facilities are not a cheap alternative to conventional finance, but moreover an accessible, convenient and fast solution. Why are the terms set annually? Collateral Transfer facilities you will often find are offered in terms of 12 to 72 months, working on a renewable 12 month contract. Due to the providers contracts with their investors being annual contracts producing an annual return, they are set as annual contracts often linked to 12month LIBOR or EURIBOR rates. As the Provider will enter into contract with several senior level investors for a fixed annual return, the Collateral Transfer (Contract Fee) will be set accordingly. Depicted as a fixed fee in the first year, often between 6% and 14% (depending on the provider). In the second year or upon renewal, it will be linked to either LIBOR or EURIBOR depending on the currency. For this reason, one may find it difficult to receive a Collateral Transfer facility for other fixed periods of time, i.e. 18 months. 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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Messi for beginners Over the weekend the greatest soccer player who ever lived played an exceptional game. Lionel Messi scored three goals. This is called, of course, a hat-trick, and while it's an impressive feat by any standard, it is not necessarily a particularly legendary feat. That part is all in how one does it. Messi was playing with his team, Barcelona, in their opponents' stadium, with 54,000 people on hand cheering on their team Real Betis, and rooting against Barcelona. His first goal was from a free kick, a beautiful blast into an upper left corner of the net. It was a pure and lovely shot, making the perfectly sensible looking defensive set up appear to be 30 yards wide of where they all needed to be. But it was probably not a shot of quality beyond the capabilities of other good players having a great day. His second goal was from an extraordinary backheeled pass to him from his teammate Luis Suarez, who was dazzlingly going the other way. With no time to collect the pass, or even really kick it, Messi sort of stabbed the ball with his reaching left foot, spearing it at an oblique angle into the net like a doomed fish. I'm not actually sure how many people make that goal, maybe some of the best, on a very, very good day? But the third goal was different, and it's hard to explain. I was so excited about it I showed it to some non soccer fans and it didn't quite play right. It was like if I showed someone who had never seen golf a professional golfer clubbing a 350 yard drive down a fairway, perfectly straight and pure, touching down and rolling into the hole for a hole-in-one. "How's that!?" I ask, grinning. "That was nice." They reply. "But isn't that sort of what they're supposed to do?" Well, yeah, I guess so. Messi gets the ball above the box. He dribbles out of reach of a couple players and pops it out quickly to a teammate, Rakitic, on the near wing. That person proceeds to drift a rolling ball back in from the side to Messi. Messi does not have a shot. So he shoots, at first touch, chipping the ball in a perfectly designed arc, looping just quickly and high enough to escape the leaping goalie, and just soft and spinning enough to drop down, dipping into the top goal bar to make use of every inch of height and bouncing into the goal. Hat-trick. Isn't that just what you're supposed to do? Well... yes. But for those of us who have seen a few thousand goals this one is not familiar. We haven't quite seen one like this before. They don't normally work this way. Across soccerdom everyone spits out their tea. They laugh, delighted, or like "What the fuck." The most loquacious of the announcers can't find any new words for a bit. "Human art." One finally settles on. The reserved, take-no-sides English announcers just give it up. "Well, he's the greatest ever to play the game." They confess, no longer able to resist. The goalie rolls his eyes, defeated, but not feeling too bad about it. No one on earth will be holding him responsible. Some of the players put their heads in their hands. It's a "holy crap" moment for all involved, and something a little more. Winners and losers seems to recede for a moment. Disappointment bleeds out of the stadium. No matter who or where soccer fans are watching something more like wonder rides in. Messi celebrates in his traditional way. The team hugs. And then the crowd of Real Betis fans, all the tens of thousands in Seville in Spain, soccer aficionados all, having whistled at the Barcelona team for 85 minutes, rise to their feet, and cheer. 1. What a beautifully written and joyous post. I will have to watch the replay of the goals now. "Messi sort of stabbed the ball with his reaching left foot, spearing it at an oblique angle into the net like a doomed fish." What a description! 2. I just watched two videos: One covered the three goals and was deeply satisfying. That heel pass for second goal was incredible! The commentators' awe is neat! The second video is one of those clever YouTube things: It only focuses on the players' and fans' reactions to the last goal. Really cool and kind of funny how all the players on both sides are stunned, and how even the hard core opponent's fans are cheering. 1. Yeah, I love that. 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New Year’s Eve could have turned into a tragic story when a man entered a church in North Carolina with a gun, intending to commit a terrible crime, but instead he ended up giving his life to Christ. The Land Outreach Ministries in Fayetteville, North Carolina, led by Pastor Larry Wright, was confronted by a man with a gun and Wright says his first instinct was to tackle the man and prevent harm to others. “I’m the first person to see him and when I saw him, I thought it was a dummy gun, but then I saw the bullet clip in his hand and the bullets were shining,” he said. Instead, Wright stayed calm and told the local paper, the Fayetteville Observer, that he walked up to the man and said, “Can I help you?” Wright told the newspaper that if the man was antagonistic, he was going to use his 6-foot-2, 230-pound, retired Army sergeant body to tackle the armed visitor. The man asked the pastor if he’d pray for him and the night turned into a testimony of salvation instead of night of bloodshed. This would-be shooter ended up listening to the rest of Wright’s sermon. Wright took the man’s weapon and handed it to a deacon. “I finished the message, I did the altar call and he stood right up, came up to the altar, and gave his life to Christ,” Wright said. “I came down and prayed with him and we embraced. It was like a father embracing a son.” The unidentified man said he had come to the church intending to do harm, but God had spoken to him, telling him to seek prayer instead. The man had recently gotten out of prison and was trying to start his life over. “It’s so hard to describe, to explain the excitement and love of God in the room,” said Wright. “This man came in to do harm and he has given his life to Christ.” He told the pastor he had just gotten out of prison, had a new job and a new bride. The man looked to be in his late 20s or early 30s, Wright said. Sylvester Loving, a 67-year-old deacon, told the Fayetteville newspaper that the church was talking about gun violence when the man entered. “I think that night the spirit of God was definitely in the place,” Loving told the Observer. Submit a Tip UEA Copyright Info UEA Android App UEA DONATION PAYPAL LINK UEA Provides Emergency Incident Notification Services 24 Hrs a day, 7 Days a Week, and Best of all, Our Services are FREE, BUt.... our operating Budget is Not. Any Donations you would be able to contrubute, would be greatly Appreciated. All Funds are used for Monthly CAD/Website Hosting Fees, Domain Registrations etc...	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f4df78c80158477fd8e5ec7c9d4bda6ac50794d01127b74682f8b7d78ef889e9'}
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The Waning Days of King Valacar Page 16 of 21 Author: Elora Starsong [ August 29th, 2018, 7:25 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar The Crown Prince turned at the sound of his father's voice. He had been set to follow the Captain of the Guard out at the time but clearly, his father had other notions in mind. That had been nearly an hour ago now and in that time, Valacar's thoughts had veered and turned, weaving through the recent events and business of the court. Ultimately, it seemed to centre on one particular matter at hand: the betrothal. It would seem his youngest son had been at it again. A second visit to his grandfather in almost as many days. The first saw Aldamir receive Valacar's dispensation to dissolve his betrothal without prejudice. How sorely Farien had been vexed to discover Aldamir had not only sought but obtained it. Though, now as then, Eldacar was hard pressed to conceive what sanctions they might dare against Edhellond should the betrothal not proceed to its natural conclusion. Bold, they said Castimir was, still he cleaved to the shadows yet. Castimir's strength was consolidating in the southern reaches of the realm. If they did not hold what remained in the north, and Edhellond and Dol Amroth were essential for that, Gondor was as good as lost to the pretender already. And now Aldamir had been at it again. Oh, Farien would be fit to be tied when she discovered what their youngest son had accomplished. Still, Aldamir actions this day had smoothed the way for his father. It would prove much easier to hold his wife at bay from Aldamir's betrothed now he had the King's declarations in hand. Farien would not be best pleased to be pushed aside in such a fashion but her grip had to be loosened. For everyone's sake. On the other hand, Eldacar thought as he made the final turn, that Aldamir was so actively seeking to protect and care for the Lady Amarwen was an encouraging indication. Perhaps Aldamir was warming to the notion, to the Lady Amarwen. Perhaps. As for the Lady herself, she remained something of an enigma. She seemed to have gained some influence with his younger son. That spoke well for her. It was time he spoke with her, eye to eye, and that time was now. As expected, Eldacar found Amarwen's chambers unguarded. He'd had word from Elarin that his man was in place but the Crown Prince could not see this Viper. That was the point, though. The Shieldmaidens assigned to Amarwen's detail had been stood down. No one openly watched the main doors and the Crown Prince found them open. Within, seated with her back to the door, was the Lady herself. Her posture was hunched, weariness evident in her posture. Amarwen's shoulders were hunched, her head bowed, and she was rubbing the bridge of her nose. Lost in her thoughts. Though her door was open, Eldacar paused. "Lady Amarwen," he said, his voice carefully modulated. Amarwen's posture rippled as she discovered that she was not alone. The young woman rose to her feet and she turned to present him with a wary expression. She took his presence in and sank immediately into the precisely correct courtesy. "Your Highness," she murmured as she rose to her full height. "An unexpected honour." "I am pleased to have found you," Eldacar said and glanced through the inner doors of her bed chamber to the balcony beyond. It was late. Twilight was well upon them. When his gaze returned to Amarwen, he found her cheeks had flushed and she was wincing. "I did not know he was there, your Highness. A likely tale, I know, but true all the same. It will not happen again. I swear it." "What will not?" Eldacar asked, intrigued, and her downcast eyes bounced up. He smiled as she tried to find a way of extricating herself from her own trap. With a wave of his hand he set it to one side. "If I am not intruding, I had hoped we might speak." Amarwen was at a loss. That much was clear from the way she hesitated. "As you wish," she finally said and he wondered where she had simply been unable to find a suitable way to decline his request. He inclined his head and gestured at the lounge she had been seated on. "Please, if at all possible, be at your ease. This," the Crown Prince paused, "This is not an official interview." And so it began. Eldacar crossed the threshold and closed the doors. It did not take very long. Less than an hour, yet by the time Eldacar left again, he did so with a faint smile on his face. Next, Farien...and by the time he was done Amarwen's retinue will have considerably shrunk: one secretary, her counsel and two maids. Author: Elora Starsong [ August 30th, 2018, 3:52 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Osgiliath Guild House Calimir stroked his chin thoughtfully at Girdean's report. His adjutant was a man efficient, if not miserly, with his words. "She has since returned to the palace, as bidden," Girdean concluded. If his adjutant's assessment proved accurate, Almara would serve as a useful wedge. Then again, Girdean seemed to have something of a blindspot when it came to women. He routinely underestimated them. Calimir was not nearly so assured that Almara would swallow that which Girdean had fed her. Still, Almara's very presence at the palace would suit him well. "Continue as planned," Calimir instructed. Girdean accepted this with the nod, "As for the other: the mongrel prince has been sighted today, fawning once again over Edhellond's scion. These displays curdle more than a few stomachs within the court and the barracks alike. Outrage grows apace." "Fan those embers slowly, Girdean." "We nearly had her before. A more concerted push would see it done. Eldacar is complacent now the betrothal is done. He stood her guards down. Harondar, Anfalas and Lebanin are neatly lined in a row. They stand at the ready." Calimir, though, shook his head from side to side. "It is not enough. Not nearly enough. The fool girl jumped through a window and into the Anduin at night. She risked death over disobeying her parents." "If Edhellond will never willingly capitulate to Lord Castimir, perhaps we should seize that which is required." Calimir replied with a slow smile, "But this is not the time for it." With those words he came to a decision. "Our strategy concerning the succession warrants review. Further orders will come. Until then, continue your present course with one exception: make no move to secure Amarwen of Edhellond." Girdean blinked at this. "If we give up on that, it will be twenty years before another suitable match comes of age." "I made no mention of giving up. Focus your efforts on the orphan. Keeping her in check will require more than you perhaps anticipate." The adjutant grunted his acknowledgement and turned to the final matter. ”Princess Farien is rumoured to have fallen out of favour. The ladies in waiting she assigned to Edhellond’s heir have been dismissed, save the Secretary. Further, she is not to cross paths with Lady Amarwen. This was done on instruction of the King himself.” Calimir’s brows rose and he made no effort to keep his interest or surprise from his expression. ”Any speculation on the reason for this?” Girdean shook his head in reply. ”All that is known is that the King acted upon his grandson’s request.” This time, Calimir’s smile was broad. He chuckled to himself, relishing the possibility that Farien just might desperate enough to reconsider distancing herself. If the rumours were true, Farien would have need of allies. Allies she will not find within the palace itself. They had leverage he had previously thought expended and with Halvarin safely out of the way, Calimir had no reason to hold his hand. ”I will leave for Pelargir at once,” Calimir declared. Castimir would agree with him, he was certain: it was time to start reeling Farien in, closing the net around her. As for Edhellond, so very far away, would discover the tidings entirely too late to do anything about it. Done would be done and in the end, they'd know it was right. At least, Therald would. His old friend had ever been a practical man and that had not changed over the intervening years. Author: Jax Nova [ September 2nd, 2018, 9:17 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar From a rooftop vantage point Rie-Zunic watched as the guildsmen unloaded a suspicious box of cargo. The dock inspections went as would be typical. The man peeked into the first row of boxes to clarify the cargo was indeed as stated on the manifest. The few boxes stacked under the back row, however, never got touched. It was those boxes, Rie-Zunic noticed, the men carried with a different stride. The weight in them was significantly different. Different enough that it showed when they hoisted the crates from one location to another. The manifest said they brought fine linens, clothes, and silk. Simply a profit voyage it would seem on the surface. Rie-Zunic didn't buy it. Once the crates were loaded where they belonged and the dock workers on the way to the tavern, he sneaked down among them. He quickly went to work, making way towards the few boxes in the back as subtly as he could. He used his dagger to pry the corner of the lid up, just enough to look in. As he suspected... weapons and armor. Not just any weapons and armor, but they bore the emblem of the guild. They were not to sell. They were for use by the guild members. There were enough weapons to outfit a small regiment. He quickly stacked the boxes back, the grace of the valar shining down upon him as he somehow managed the whole thing without being spotted! He hurried back to the castle and once again made his plea to the captain of the guard. "Weapons!" he repeated himself. "Illegal weapons, and not for resale!" "I understand!" the man replied in a firm but hushed tone. "Watch where they take them. Once they store them, we will know where they hold their supplies. When the King gives authorization we can confiscate the entire lot of them at once." "And when will that be?" Rie-Zunic asked. The captain of the guard sighed, rubbing his forehead. "I don't know. I can't say anything beyond the authority given, and as of now I do not have authority to allow you to engage the guildsmen." "Even if it means letting them strike first?" Rie-Zunic asked. "Even if it means that... yes," he answered bluntly. "I can only do what I am given permission to do. I am as you are. A man subject to a master." Those words rang in Rie-Zunic's ears like never they had before. "A man subject to a master." Now, that mastery threatened to endanger his own people, his own country! Furthermore, the woman he loved was caught in a precarious spot, smack dab in the middle of it all! Rie-Zunic let a steeled expression overtake his face as he stepped towards the captain of the guard and drew his sword. "A man subject to a master..." he repeated the mans words in a low and threatening tone. "I will be no more." The captain of the guard fumbled to his right, circling around Rie-Zunic and towards the door. "Rie-Zunic! Think about what you are doing." "I have thought about it," Rie-Zunic assured him, letting the man circle around behind him. Then, with his next sentence he lay his sword down on the man's desk. "I am resigning from the royal military. I am afraid the politics have rid my position of any worth to my country." He loosed the strap on his breastplate and let it fall to the floor with a clamor that echoed through the room. Next came his belt, and all his military paraphernalia came crashing down to the floor, along with his entire career. "If you do this," the captain of the guard admonished him. "You can not undo it. Think about this! I understand your frustration... even share them! But if we are to act outside the orders of our King, how are we any different than they?" "Because we fight for the well-being of others," Rie-Zunic growled in a harsh tone. "Not our own personal gain." With not another word Rie-Zunic walked past the man and left the room. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 4th, 2018, 6:50 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar The Anduin - on route to Edhellond The voyage south from Osgiliath had been uneventful thus far. They had cleared the Harlond without incident and were now well on their way to Pelargir. Therald hoped the Master of Ships would not bother with the vessel but Castamir was known for his capricious pride. That Edhellond had thrown over Castimir to betroth its heir to the son of his rival might well prove enough to provoke the Master of Ships into a display of power and force to assuage his adherents. Nothing too provocative as, say, assaulting Edhellond proper or burning its fleet and fields. An assault upon himself, Lord Consort of Edhellond, was another matter entirely. The Master Shipwright sat in his cabin as the afternoon waned into dusk. Therald was anxious to return to his wife. Alenna so rarely took ill and it troubled him that she had done so now. Foul play, he could not help but wonder. Would the Master of Ships be so bold as to remove the current Lady of Edhellond, foisting Amarwen into her mother’s role before her time? Weakening them? He could not dismiss it and his thoughts seethed with question as to how Castimir might have accomplished it. Poison. That would suggest traitors within the household itself. And then, of course, his lingering concern for his daughter. Amarwen had seen him off, bestowing into his care a letter for her mother. He stared at it now. It sat on his desk, sealed. Something had been very wrong with Amarwen. She had been forlorn and lost, like a bird fallen from the nest. And the wine. How she had smelled of wine. Loathe to argue with her upon their parting, for he did not know when he’d next set eyes upon his only child, he had not pressed her on it. Still, he knew his only child well. Ordinarily, he would not intrude upon her correspondence with her mother but these were not ordinary times. Far from them. With a sigh, he reached for the letter and broke the seal, muttering an apology to his wife and his daughter both. Alenna would understand, he thought. His wife would likely do as he was now. As Therald read what Amarwen had set down, he felt his heart constrict. Carefully he refolded the letter and set it back upon his desk. Therald scrubbed his hands over his face and stretched out on the bed affixed to the cabin wall. As he stared up at the deck overhead, he wondered whether they had done the right thing. He rolled to his side and an uncomfortable thought struck him. Many years ago, when he had dared court Alenna, he had discovered that the woman he had come to yearn for was expected to wed amongst the nobility. He well recalled the cold, remote reception her father had meet him with. Amarwen’s maternal grandfather, had not been well pleased to have before him a newly minted Shipwright of meagre birth. There had been ominious and discouraging talk of contracts, alliances and trade. He recalled how his elder brother, Carlin, declared him a fool to even bother. 'She's beyond the reach of men such as you and I," Carlin had declared with a dubious shake of his shaggy head. Very nearly, his brother had been proven correct. That, of course, was a different time. Edhellond’s peace had not been imperilled as it was now. But though times were different, he recalled well the sorrow he had felt when it had seemed his hopes would founder. He considered Amarwen’s distress at learning the betrothal was to proceed. Never had he seen her quite as distraught. But what was he to do about it? If not Aldamir, then who? Certainly, Halvarin was not an option. It was not that the lad was unworthy. Simply, despite his best efforts, Halvarin could never bring Amarwen happiness. The fact remained, come what may, that Halvarin was a Navigator and men such as those, like Captains, spent a goodly portion of their lives at sea. Far from the shores their families waited upon, hoping that they would safely return to port. Many such mariners did not marry, choosing a solitary life. Those that did, like Halvarin’s father had, often had sad and sorry tales to tell when it came to their families. The sea would ever be Halvarin’s first mistress and that was no life for Amarwen. She did not yet understand just how powerful the call of the open horizon could be. He hoped that Calimir was mistaken but if he was not, then they had failed to guide their daughter from her present grief. He daren't wonder at how deep that sorrow would be. It echoed in the letter she had written to her mother. Obedience. Grim resignation to a fate she had no desire for. Amarwen was strong, he knew. Very much of her mother in that regard. Still, his heart ached for her. The Lord of Edhellond knew it would difficult to sleep that night. But there was nothing else to be done for it. Author: Jax Nova [ September 6th, 2018, 11:36 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Rie-Zunic headed back to his house. It was a bittersweet feeling, realizing he was now free from the dedication that had held him down his entire adult life. It was a frightening thought, that now he had no "direction." At the same time, it was intensely liberating! He never realized what a weight his position int he royal military had placed on him. What stress it had caused him all these years. Now, being free from that weight, he felt as though he could fly! Fly he would. Down the streets and to his house. On the wall hung a set of tools he had not used for a great many years. Tools of an unbound swordsman. No royal emblem decorated the hilt of the sword, no rank designations on the light leather armor, and there was no tel-tail signs of the palace blacksmiths in the crafting of the arrow heads to his simple wooden bow. Rie-Zunic took the items from their display. He dawned a dingy poncho, the color of a heavy fog, which had a low hanging hood that covered most of his face. Under it was strapped the stone gray leather armor. Enough to protect from a few strikes, but light enough to move freely in. Far lighter than the royal armor he was used to wearing. It felt almost like he was wearing no armor at all. Next, the quiver of arrows was slung over his back and fastened in place on the armor with leather straps. The quiver, the arrows, and the bow itself were all a dim color, like murky water that had been stirred with mud. The boots, gloves, belt, and sword sheath were colored to match. The sword itself was a dull, unpolished gray. The blade, the handle and all. The outfit had been his "Knight in training" outfit when first he had competed for a chance to enter into the royal military. Rie-Zunic took one last look around his house. It was a home provided by the palace. With the vanishing of his job, so his domicile washed away as well. Ironically, there was nothing else in it that he wished to take with him, save his money and a satchel of supplies. He would have no need for anything else. Where he was going next, he would need nothing but skill, weapons, and luck. Author: Hanasian [ September 8th, 2018, 12:19 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Halvarin stayed at the Inn until more people started to arrive. By lunch time he left, to walk around the White City. He took up residence at the White Tree Inn for a week. This would be the first time he had been there. A young maid came by and he ordered tea. It wasn’t long before she was off her morning shift, and she came and sat with Halvarin with her lunch and tea. Halvarin didn’t mind the company. Her reddish-brown hair and freckles augmented her features, and though she seemed young, she seemed to know her way around an inn. She had been at the old tavern on the quays when it burned down. Halvarin didn’t know it was one of the first acts his father Calamir set into motion after his arrival. He had it burned down for serving Rhovanions. Their time talking passed when she got up and said, “I do have to get to the markets.” “I will walk with you if you don’t mind. I’m not doing anything with my day.” Nadia blushed slightly as she looked down. She knew the Mariners were charmers for a day. Knowing that, she looked back at him and said, “I wouldn’t mind company.” Halvarin got up and together they walked out to go to the street markets. Having someone to talk to helped him not dwell on his longing for Amarwen. As the sun was setting Vidnavi in full battle gear stood in the street staring at the Mariner’s Guild building. Earlier after they were dismissed, She and Vilna went to the training ground in full battle dress and sparred using full weaponry. They did not hold back. It was as if the two felt the same thing… had the same concerns. The connections between the twins were strong, but Vilna seemed to have a different mind from Vidnavi. Vilna walked up to stand by her sister, but she had shed her gear and was wearing her dark green tunic and black breeches. “They will never allow Vinitharya to rule Gondor Vilna. They won’t.” Vilna looked to the guild-house and said, “They will stand for Gondor, and Eldacar is the rightful heir. They will bluster against our blood, but would they let it destroy this kingdom? I don’t know sister.” Vilna put her hand on Vidnavi’s shoulder and said, “Come, get out of your gear and let’s go to the north quarter and drink ales with our own. We are rostered off until morning.” She left Vidnavi standing there, but soon the desire to get drunk took hold and she went to change. When evening came, Aldamir had a small table set on the balcony of the reading room. He had yet to ask for the presence of Lady Amarwen, but should she refuse, he would dine alone. He was going to send word to her but thought he would attend to this himself. He set out for her chambers and he tapped on the door. It was good to see that guards were no longer needed, and he considered Lady Almara as Lady Amarwen’s counsel. The days now called for protocol to be set aside on some occasions. This was one of them. He tapped on her door. Amarwen’s voice came from the other side but didn’t open. Her voice said quietly, “It’s Aldamir. I was going to ask if…” The lock clicked and the door creaked opened. Amarwen was wearing only her silk underdress. Aldamir paused before saying, ”You would like to dine with me this night?” He gave her a sheepish smile as he stood there. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 8th, 2018, 1:53 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar In truth, Amarwen likely would have dined with the devil at that particular juncture. Anything to escape another long night alone in her chambers. Her attempts to keep herself distracted had come to an end and the enormity of another lonely night was almost more than she could bear. And now, here was Aldamir. Not the devil, she thought. She hoped, for this was the man she was to wed. As he smiled at her bashfully, she found herself struck by a sudden realisation. Not once had she thought of how Aldamir might view this betrothal. She did not know if he were glad of it, opposed to it, resigned to it. She’d not once bothered to stop and wonder before now, so absorbed in her own misery she had been. Into the sudden silence that sprung up, Aldamir added, ”Of course, if you prefer not-“ “If you would consent to wait a moment, your Highness,” Amarwen bestirred herself to say, glancing down as she shifted to keep the door between them. She was hardly clad to go anywhere or see anyone just at the moment. ”Of course,” he replied and she caught a hint of a gleam in his eyes as they travelled down. Slowly. So very slowly. Only fair, she supposed, since she had blundered like a fool into his bath. ”I shan’t be long,” she assured him, already turning away from the door she left ajar. Aldamir paused and cleared his throat, ”I’ll...wait here.” “People will notice you lurking at my door,” she called back, almost at the doors to her bed chamber. ”Come within. Might as well be hanged for a sheep than a lamb.” As she closed her bedroom doors she saw Aldamir pour himself through the outer doors. He seemed...nervous. A man, rather than a prince. She turned to her wardrobe and wondered what might be appropriate. ”Who will join us?” she called out to Aldamir. ”Just us,” he replied at which her brows lifted. What was she supposed to wear? Try as she might, Amarwen was not sure whether she had chosen correctly. The black velvet was stark, perhaps too much with her hair added in. She added a delicate torc of silver ivory. It sat at the base of her throat and its matching girdle dipped low on her hips to relieve the obsidian. Certainly, it seemed to fit with the silver sheen of the velvet and her skin. And, these were the colours of the Crown – silver and black. The widely scooped neckline suggested that she really should do something with her hair but the prince was waiting and her maids had retired for the evening. As it was, she’d have to ask Aldamir to tighten her laces so her dress did not slip from her shoulders entirely. She ran a comb through her loose hair, steadied herself and opened the inner doors. ”I apologise for the delay,” she said as she emerged. Aldamir had been slouching against her doors, humming to himself to pass the time. He straightened now, eyes locked on her. Amarwen lowered her gaze and turned about. ”I am dreadfully sorry, but I have need of your help,” she said as she swept the heavy weight of her hair aside to reveal the lacings of her gown. She could not see Aldamir swallow as he studied the curve of her presented back. He peeled himself from the door and approached. The laces were soft, woven silk. Delicate in his hands and yet, surprisingly strong. ”Tell me if I pull too tightly.” “Of course,” she murmured, a faint blush coming to her cheeks. It was not long before all was secured and Aldamir stepped away, ”It is done.” “My thanks,” Amarwen replied and allowed her hair to swing back into place. She turned to face him, hands clasped before her, ”Thank you for waiting, your Highness.” Amarwen meant it too and Aldamir gave her the beginnings of a smile. He reached to smooth a strand of her hair behind her ear. Then he offered his arm to her. She slid her hand under his arm and allowed him to tuck it against him. It was only a short distance they walked for Aldamir led her to his reading room balcony. Though she had not been able to study the spines of the books within, she was struck by the sheer volume of them. The table was already set. Candles gleamed, buffeted every now and again by the night’s breeze. She took it in all in silence, circling the table to peer past the balcony’s balustrade to the palace gardens beyond. Another realisation struck her. The princes’ rooms were not very far from her own. She turned her head to stare at her own balcony. The lamps of her bedroom illuminated it clearly. Had he observed her last night, grieving for what could never be? It was a sobering thought. ”What do you think?” Aldamir asked from behind her. ”It’s lovely,” she replied as she turned about to face him again. His smile was a boyish one, inordinately pleased, and he turned to the table. ”Wine?” Amarwen nodded as she looked back to her balcony. This was such a private, intimate setting. She heard the sound of wine being poured and turned her study to Aldamir. His back was to her and she could not make out his expression. There was so much she did not know of him. ”Are we really on our own tonight?” she asked. Aldamir smiled over his shoulder, ”I promise to be on my very best behaviour.” ”When are you not?” she replied, trying to break a sudden tension that she sensed between them. He lifted a brow as he returned with the glasses. ”Do you issue a challenge, m’Lady?” Amarwen accepted her wine, her eyes locked in his for a long moment. She blinked and answered frankly, ”I think it fair to say, I have not the faintest idea what I am doing.” Aldamir paused at that and then chuckled as he took a sip of his wine. He lifted his gaze from her and shook his head slightly. ”That would make the two of us,” he observed dryly and Amarwen felt one of the many knots of tension in her shoulders begin to unfurl. She sipped at her wine cautiously and when she looked up again, she saw Aldamir studying her. "What is it that you prefer to read, Al," she asked, tilting her head to one side. She swept a brief glance past his shoulder to the nearest of many shelves and then back to him to await his answer. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 8th, 2018, 7:04 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Minas Anor - White Tree Tavern Halvarin was pleasant company for the day, Nadia thought, when he was actually present in the here and now. More than once, the Mariner started saying something that trailed off. And then there was that distant look in his eye. He’d be just staring off, nodding absently at whatever she might be saying and then he’d heave a sigh and blink. Startled. As if he’d quite forgotten where he was. And her. Something clearly preoccupied him. Or, she thought, more like someone. He was so tangled and confused that it was a wonder he didn’t trip over his own feet. Something of a forlorn puppy. Still, he carried the things she purchased at market without complaint. Just having him at her shoulder made some of the negotiations easier. Halvarin didn’t complain, either, when she said that she wanted to go here, and then there, and then do something else. So, all in all, Nadia considered herself fortunate to have his company for the day. Especially when a would be cut purse reconsidered advancing on her when he saw Halvarin round the corner and catch her up. She pressed into the White Tree Inn with Halvarin at her heels and gestured at the bar. ”Just set them down there, if you will.” Once he had done that, Nadia felt compelled to acknowledge him for the assistance, albeit absent minded, he had rendered during the day. She turned on Halvarin one of her bright work smiles and, judging by faint lift of his dark brows, it must have been bright enough to penetrate the fog he seemed wrapped in. ”Tell you what,” she said and gestured in the general direction of the tables, ”Dinner is on the house. Payment for services rendered.” Halvarin’s head swung to consider the common room. Business was picking up towards evening but there was still a fair selection to be had. She watched him rub the back of his neck dubiously and then he shook his head. ”Kind of you, Nadia, but I’m no fit company,” he said in a low voice. Halvarin shot her a self conscious smile and then his eyes dropped away from her own. ”Think I’ll just eat in my room.” “You’ll go hungry then,” she answered, ”We don’t serve food to the rooms.” He heaved a sigh and she gave him a little push towards the tables. She watched his shoulders droop with defeat and Nadia planted a fist on one hip as she watched Halvarin slink through the common room. Whoever this woman was, and she was almost certain it was a woman, she had really done a number on him. Not that it was her concern. With a shake of her head, Nadia filled a tankard of ale and took it over to where Halvarin sat. He eyed it as if she had set a snake before him, wary and cautious. ”I think you could do with it,” she told him firmly and swung off to tend to the other patrons who were still waiting for their ales. Business picked up and Nadia got busy. They were short handed. She tried to keep an eye on Halvarin but little seemed to change. He sat alone, in his own world, staring at the tankard. But then, she noticed that he had company. Two men, both in uniform, had joined him and so Nadia stopped worrying about Halvarin and got down to work. ”You are difficult man to find,” Vinyarion informed Halvarin. Michas half rose from his seat, straining to make eye contact with the tavern’s staff. If they had any. ”Not nearly as difficult as it is to get an ale,” Michas muttered and sank again into his chair. Halvarin nudged the tankard of ale Nadia had left with him towards his friend. ”Here,” he said flatly, ”Compliments of the house.” Michas’ winced as he sipped ale that was not only flat but unpleasantly warm. ”Why don’t we go somewhere with better service? Or even some staff?” “I’ve already paid for my room here,” Halvarin replied in a monotone. Struck by Halvarin’s manner, Michas peered at him and then considered Vinyarion across the table. ”This is what you dragged me from the Harlond for?” Vinyarion eyeballed Halvarin and wondered how best to begin. Perhaps, it was best to say nothing. He’d already done enough damage by meddling as it was. ”What news from Osgiliath?” Halvarin asked, putting paid to any notions of discete silence. Vinyarion winced at the question and raked his fingers through his hair. ”The betrothal was yesterday.” Halvarin seemed to fold back in on himself and Michas did not fail to notice this. He swung his attention between his two friends, trying to puzzle it out. ”What happened yesterday?” he asked. Halvarin just shook his head, refusing to reply and so that left Vinyarion. In a low voice, ”My father was betrothed. To Amarwen of Edhellond.” Michas shrugged at first but there was something familiar about that name. ”Ami...the girl from Edhellond.... she’s Lady Amarwen? That’s who you’ve been talking about all this time?” Vinyarion waved at him to be silent but Michas had warmed to the topic. The idea that Halvarin had been pursuing a member of the aristocracy all this time astounded him. Took no small degree of confidence for ordinary folk to set their sights on the nobility. He wouldn’t dream of it, himself. “You’re ambitious, Hal,” he said wryly, ”I’ll give you that.” Halvarin shook his head at the statement and brushed it aside with a question for Vinyarion. ”How is she?” Vinyarion shifted in his seat uncomfortably and Halvarin asked it again. ”Vin! How is she?” “Look, Hal, let me make one thing clear at the outset: I really was only trying to help. And it’s not my fault. I didn’t arrange the betrothal and I wasn’t the one that took off with only a letter left behind.” “Did you deliver it?” Vinyarion replied. ” And the next day, told me that you were through and it’s cruel to feed someone false hope. So, I didn’t when she asked me if I thought you would come back.” Halvarin shot to his feet, fists clenched at his sides and Vinyarion defensively dug in. ”And I didn’t have a clue about Lisawyn, Hal! You kept that all to yourself. It wasn’t until later that I realised what said to Ami and I was all suggestion on her part and nothing by way of fact. But by then it was too late. I tried to set things straight with Ami later, but you can't get a word in edgewise when she's upset!” And that, Michas would later come to reflect, was when things really went wrong. He reached this conclusion whilst seated on the floor of a stone cell, considering his boots. Morning was still some time off. Near as he could tell, Halvarin and Vinyarion were both awake. He doubted any of them would get much sleep. Not with the rats and all. Tense silence squatted in the cell. Halvarin lay on his side facing one wall, Vinyarion the same on the other. Both had used their jackets as pillows and Michas sat in the middle of them. A mess, from start to finish, is how he thought of it. This is why ordinary men did not play in the waters of the aristocracy, for one. Arranged marriages, contracts, trade and alliances were powerful forces to contend with. Halvarin was always headed for heartbreak when it came to this woman. That’s how Michas saw it. The only sensible thing his friend had done was to cut his losses as he had. Any reasonable man would have done the same. And Vinyarion...well, true he had fumbled it at end, but the young princeling had a point. The furore that would be kicked up if this woman threw over a member of the royal family for a commoner was the sort of thing that could prove dangerous. Wasn’t like they’d just wave them off into the sunset together, was it? And then there was his own predicament. Stuck in a cell, all because of this betrothal. Michas heaved a sigh as he plucked a shaft of straw from his pants and looked over to where Vinyarion lay. ”Your uncle going to show his face any time soon?” Vinyarion heaved a sigh at that and said to the stones he faced, ”I was only trying to help.” “Well you can stop,” Halvarin snapped to his own stones from the other side of the cell. ”Because now she hates me! Your work is done.” Author: Jax Nova [ September 9th, 2018, 6:58 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar “When can we use them?” a man’s voice asked. “I’m tired of all this sneaing around and waiting!” The thud of heavy crates being stacked was heard and and a sighed in the foreground. “All in good time.” It was Girdean’s voice. “For now we gain strength while that of the crown waxes feeble. I have given account to our leadership of the wrestlesnes growing in the ranks, and they assure me it will be well worth lur patience. Victory grows closer. Best we let it grow as close as it will before we put our lives on the line for it.” A hushed ripple of approving murmurs echoed through the guild storehouse. It made sense when one put it like that. Another crate was stacked and two more men entered the basement. One man stood, stretching his aching back. “I don’t know about you, but I agree with Girdean. I don’t want to put my life on the line any more than I have to.” “Well said my-“ And that is where their words stalled and hearts beat fast. “How unfortunate,” a voice from the dark corner called out in a sinister tone. Seconds later the statement was followed by a solid black arrow that pearced the neares guildsman in the chest. He fell to his knees with a whine, blood soaking his shirt. “Attack!” Girdean yelled out the order just as a second arrow struck the next man. The corner was only fifteen feet away, and they could hear him notching another arrow. Yet, tey heaitated, fear of the unknown. They could see nothing in the pitch black corner. The man with the lamp was thrust out front by the others who finally drew their swords, but that very moment he fell with an arrow through his throat. The other two charged blindly in and with a clash of blades, a swipe, and groans of pain, Girdean heard two bodies fall to the floor. “Men?” He called out from the stairs. He backed up slowly, yanking the door shut and locking it. “Hurry, bring torches and bowmen!” Backup was there, almost as he spoke it. Cautiously they opened the door back up and charged in. Only to find the room entirely empty. “That’s impossible!” Guarded insisted, half raged and half terrified. Things were not supposed to go like this! They were not supposed to escalate this early on! “Sir, you are positive the attacker was still in the basement?” “It is a basement! “ Girdean reminded him. “There is only one way in and one way out!” He glared at the dead bodies on the floor, then, all the sudden he heard the cries from the floors above. He ran up the stairs to a room full of smoke. The fire was to high, fueled by tar and lamp oil. They had no further recourse but to evacuate and watch the building burn. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 12th, 2018, 8:42 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar The Palace - Osgiliath The Viper paused and canted his head. It was soft, almost not there. Quiet voices from the prince’s balcony. One moment settled in for a quiet night and then his charge’s rooms were silent and empty. No cause for alarm now that he knew where she had gone. His charge was in no need of rescue. He returned his attention to the Rhovanions. Three attempted to test his skill and thus far he had managed to outwit the women. They were canny and determined. Particularly the tall one with hair of burning flame. He doubted they posed any harm, for he’d heard their muttering. This was all about their need to establish that they were the superior protection. For their own satisfaction, having been replaced. Prince Elarin had been quite specific in his instructions. He was not to spill blood or reveal his presence to Aldamir’s woman, unless her life required it. The Viper was confident it would not come to that. If it did, it meant that he had already failed in his preparation and vigilance. One the few things the Viper did not do was fail. He’d done that just once, when this Age of Men was yet young. The consequences had been dire. They lingered with him still. He curled a hand into a loose fist and then smiled when he saw what the red haired Rhovanion was trying to do. Clever, he thought, even as he took counter measures. Not quite clever enough yet but give her time...there were few things more potent that a determined mortal. Perhaps it would be wise to seek this woman out. She seemed to be the ring leader. Author: Jax Nova [ September 13th, 2018, 10:02 pm ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Rie-Zunic evacuated the building with all the "other guildsmen" who scurried out amidst coughs and shouts. The smoke had stung their eyes, but the loss had stung their pride. Voices were raised, and blood boiled. Not only from the flame. "I want this entire section of the town searched!" Girdean demanded, turning to his men as the veins protruded on the sides of his neck. "But sir!" one man protested. "What can we do? The fiend is no doubt long gone!" Girdean sent an icy glare stabbing daggers into the man. If he had turned such a glare on the fire, so the man felt, it might have stayed the flames. "Search! If you find the intruder, drag him back to the docks... alive. If you do not find him," he gave a long pause and glanced back at the burning building as the city officials could be heard shouting in the distance. "If you do not find him..." again he paused and grit his teeth. "Just go!" The city officials were quick approaching. They assessed the situation quickly. There was little to nothing to be done about the burning building. They commenced to be sure everyone was out, then grilled Girdean about the details. A happening that urked him almost as much as having lost the intruder. Rie-Zunic funneled out of the street with the rest of the guildsmen, searching for himself, as it were. "Let's fan out," one man said. "We better at least make an effort. I haven't seen him this mad in a long time." "Go in groups of two," another officer instructed. Rie-Zunic quickly paired up with a man. A man of his choosing. He was weathered member, but not a high ranking man. He looked half-hearted in his attempt to carry out Girdean's orders. As they spread, Rie-Zunic's hunch proved factual. "This is ridiculous," the man stated flatly. "There is no way we are going to find the man! He is probably half way across the city by now." "You never know," Rie-Zunic came back, his tone probably sounding more ominous than he intended. "He may be closer than you think." His companion looked at him with a questioning gaze, but moved onward. Rie-Zunic kept the man looking as long as he possibly could, dragging him further and further away from the presence of all Guild establishments. When at last the man insisted on caving in, Rie-Zunic initiated the next part of his plan. "I simply can't go any further," the man insisted. "I'm tired, hungry, and too far away from my station! It's nearly three in the morning!" "Well, if you insist," Rie-Zunic gave in. "At least you can tell them you came closer to capturing the intruder than any of your comrades." Rie-Zunic smirked. "What?" the man queried with knit brow. "What do you mean?" "Well," Rie-Zunic said with a malicious glint in his eye. "It seems the intruder is standing right in front of you." With that, his fist met the man's face. In an instant the man was down on the ground and Rie-Zunic had him in a choke hold. He drug him back into a dark alley and put a knife to his throat. "Now," Rie-Zunic continued. "You are going to tell me everything you know about the guild plot against the throne. Where are their weapons? When and where do they plan on attacking first? How many men do they have? Any detail you can possibly conjure up that may save your life." The man whined, and out of his mouth spilled detail after detail. Now, it was only a matter of discerning which details were true, and which were lies. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 14th, 2018, 2:44 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar "He is a sorcerer," Rhinnin declared. "He must be!" Helda, who was still glaring at the man Rhinnin had just named a sorcerer, gave no reply. Then, after a moment, she realised that glaring at someone in the dark was not likely to be very effective. To be stood down when they had performed so well was one thing. To fail in proving their superiority was just galling. Vilmaith's jaw clicked as she yawned. As she considered the night beyond the palace grounds, something caught her eye. A great column of smoke lifted. A burning building, she thought. The woman elbowed Helda who squatted her aside. Rhinnin, though, had spotted what Vilmaith had. "Looks like there is fun to be had elsewhere," she observed. "Any thing else would be better than chasing our tails in the dark," Vilmaith replied and then eyed Helda, "And I thought this assignment was beneath your honour, or somesuch." Rhinnin nodded as she caught up with Vilmaith's reasoning. Helda pushed out a sigh at this. "How is that one man-" "If that indeed is what he is," Rhinnin cut in. "One man," Helda continued on. "Is certainly not better than two Shieldmaidens. Or even one of us." Vilmaith yawned again, "Tonight's showing would suggest that you are mista-" She broke off as Helda thumped her arm sharply. Vilmaith rubbed the offended biceps and scowled at Helda. "You two want to leave, fine," the tall woman snapped, flicking braids of fire over her shoulder for emphasis. "Tuck your tails between your legs and scurry off!" Vilmaith and Rhinnin exchanged a brief look, shrugged, and turned heel to do exactly that. Helda muttered to herself as she turned back to the task at hand and then blinked. Amarwen's new protector had vanished. Again. "Sorceror," Helda growled, unlimbered a spear, and set off in a low prowl. Author: Hanasian [ September 15th, 2018, 3:37 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Aldamir couldn’t take his eyes from Amarwen sitting across the table from him. “I read a lot of tactics. Mostly of the battles that Gondor, but I have been intrigued with those of our kin in the north. We have been fortunate to gain much of their history in exchange for ours. I do hope there is a scribe that lived the tragedy that befell them ere twenty years ago.” He sipped the wine and looked back to Amarwen, ”I take it you have become familiar with the Great Library here?” The mention of the library seemed to wash Amarwen with a mix of sudden emotions and she didn’t reply right away. Aldamir knew better that to ask what was on her mind. Maybe they could go and browse the manuscripts sometime. He did know they had some Elvish poetry there and wondered if Amarwen had found it. ”I’ve been there a few times. One could get lost in its halls and shelves.” Aldamir sipped his wine and noted the awkward silence between he and Amarwen. He could tell the Library had some meaning to her that she would not speak of. ”It will be worth going to sometime. I love that place. We could go now if you wanted to.” He reached across the table and took her hand in his, and his fingers traced her fingers back to the palm of her hand. ~ ~ ~ In the North Quarter, Vilna and Vidnavi entered the North Star tavern. It was run by a Rhovanion merchant Rhovanion was the “official” language inside its doors. A cheer went up inside the place. Many of the Rhovanion Guard had gathered there and the ales were flowing freely. It didn’t take long for the twin sisters to try and out drink the other, and the question of who was better at throwing knives came up. ”My sister is better with her right hand, but I’m better with my left.” In these subtle ways did the twins have their differences. Ans as the bets were placed, the sisters each threw a blade at a target on the far wall. It was a draw. Another tankard was schooned and again the sisters each threw. It was the same. After many many tankards, The sisters were still barely able to stand and throw, but they seemed to hit the target the same. They leaned against each other as they poured beer at their mouths, getting more on themselves than in themselves. It was then it was called a draw and the place broke out in Rhovanion drinking songs woth more ale for everyone. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 15th, 2018, 5:29 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar How was it, Amarwen reflected, that life could be so sublimely cruel as this. As Aldamir’s touch lightly wandered her fingers, she wasn’t sure if she could do it. And she wasn’t sure if she could not, for clearly the prince wanted to go there. Badly. Now. Of all places, there. That one. If she could not muster a convincing response, then what? What could she do, but return to Edhellond under a cloud of failure and then what fate for her people? The Master of Ships? She was still shaken that the blockade of Edhellond’s harbour had arisen all because her parents had rebuffed his overtures. Her mother refused to send her to wed Castimir’s son and men had died. Ordinary men. Sailors. With families all of their own who would never see them again. Her own travails seemed so very small when compared to that. But as she screwed up her courage to confront the place where Halvarin had thrown aside the love she had offered him, another thought occurred to her. Inspiration came from the way in which Aldamir caressed her fingers. She allowed her hand to relax and then, after a moment, wove her fingers through his. Amarwen pulled the prince’s hand towards her, rising to bend over it. Her hair slid forward as she kissed the back his hand, eyes closed and then flaring open to gaze into his own. He seemed transfixed as she turned his hand over. Eyes still locked on his, Amarwen kissed his open palm. Aldamir swallowed and it gave her hope that she just might have swayed him. Or at least, distracted him. She gazed up at him through her lashes. ”Perhaps another time, my prince, for so rarely do we enjoy moments such as these when we are alone – spared the scrutiny of others. And we have yet to eat.” It was a dangerous thing, she knew, to say no to a prince. Bent over the table with his hand in her own, Amarwen watched Aldamir take her in. ”Your prince,” he murmured and she knew, then, that he had heard her. ”Already I regret giving you my word that I would be on my best behaviour,” Aldamir lamented. Amarwen smiled at him, ”Have I been too bold, your Highness? If you prefer it, I shall behave.” The smile Aldamir gave her was wry. He slipped his hand from hers to run his fingers along her cheek. The knock at his door prevented anything further for it was their meal. Amarwen sank into her seat as Aldamir rose and went for the door. And after that, it was surprising how easily time flowed. Freed of the shackles of protocol and the demands his position at court made of him, she found Aldamir to be warm and engaging. He bantered with her and laughed readily. Steadily, he melted her reserves. It was almost as if he knew she’d find it difficult to keep her distance. In this, he reminded her of his son, irrespective of the doubt Farien cast over Vinyarion’s true sire. Relaxation lapped lazily within Amarwen. It couldn’t just be the wine, though surely that had helped. Particularly when Aldamir had brought up the Great Library. Still, that moment now lay behind them. Where she hoped it would remain. What lay ahead, she could not guess. A silence had settled over them. The prince seemed to be thinking. Mulling something over. Aldamir watched her so intently that she knew he had to be weighing something up. She saw grey and green in his eyes. A forest hue on a cloudy day. They had finished their meals yet Aldamir did not seem inclined to hurry her away. Or, perhaps he had yet to find a way to politely send her off. Amarwen knew so little of him that she could not begin to guess. Author: Hanasian [ September 16th, 2018, 12:10 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar The meal arrival broke a glass pane that seemed to have gotten in the way of the door. The sound of shattering Aldamir knew was inside his head. They silently ate, making small commentary on the faire on the table. Aldamir pondered his thoughts as they ate. Had not all this palace intrigue been the catalyst of bringing Amarwen to Osgiliath, and he was not the second son of the heir of Gondor, He would be happy to have a woman such as Amarwen take interest in him. Whoever the man who has touched her deeply is, he is a very fortunate man indeed. He carefully watched her as she sipped more of her wine. Aldamir cleared his throat and said as he looked into Amarwen’s eyes. ”You know Lady Amarwen, it is my hope that this betrothal works between us, for I’m quite attracted to you. But what is more important to me is your happiness. Duty to the realm is one thing, but we need to keep something of ourselves aside. My grandfather told me that once.” He was a perceptive man, and he didn’t want her to feel forced to do anything, hoping she would be contented with him and in her place at the palace. ”If there is anything you need or wish to have Lady Amarwen, you ask me.” He stood up and walked over to her and took her hand as she stood. He added, ”If you wish, this dining arrangement is open for you any time you wish to do so. Come stand outside on the balcony with me for a time, and ask me what you will. My book is open to you m'lady.” He looked down and bowed his head to her. He found himself becoming more and more attracted to her with each passing moment. Author: Elora Starsong [ September 16th, 2018, 1:48 am ] Post subject: Re: The Waning Days of King Valacar Frankly, Amarwen was surprised to learn that Aldamir wanted the betrothal to succeed. He had gone to the king twice to seek its end and Helda herself had assured her that the prince was as unhappy as she. ”You are too kind to say it,” Amarwen said with a rueful shake of her head, ”But I know that I have caused strife from the moment I arrived. For what it is worth, I am sorry for it.” “Any strife is not of your making,” Aldamir countered and then tilted his head to one side. ”Is it truly so difficult to believe that I am drawn to you?” It was, for recent painful experience had battered her confidence. Amarwen averted her gaze as she wrenched her thoughts away from Halvarin with brutal, unforgiving force. They were upon the balcony now and Aldamir had released her hand. The warmth of his touch lingered. The prince, at his ease, leaned against the balustrade and considered the glimmering lights of the city. A breeze curled against her cheek and brushed over her shoulders. The wide neck of her gown left sensitive skin exposed and, this far inland and away from the moderating influence of the coast, Amarwen felt her skin prickle. It was not yet autumn yet she was cold. ”I wonder if I shall become accustomed to this place,” she said, her thoughts slipping from her even as she realised she had spoken. Her eyes widened at this discovery and the prince’s study swung from the city to rest upon her. ”In time,” he said, ”If you should remain long enough.” Aldamir shifted position, drawing closer to stand beside her. He made no move to put his arm around her and his warmth was welcome. ”I expect that Edhellond is quite different.” Amarwen nodded for words could not begin to describe. She turned her head to his, ”Have you never been?” “Alas, no,” Aldamir replied. ”Well, you must! This city, whilst fair, is the child of man. Edhellond is...its...” Amarwen broke off with a sigh and discovered Aldamir wore a nearly indulgent smile upon his face. ”Is that an invitation?” She nodded, ”Edhellond would be honoured to receive you.” Amarwen turned back to the night and studied the palace walls. They were well lit at this hour and she could see the movement of the guard atop them. Back and forth they went, and she recalled Farien’s threat. Or perhaps a warning, that there were many such men available to her should she have a mind to use them. The princess may no longer be able to interfere in her daily life, but this did not mean that the threat she posed was contained. And then there was the man beside her. Aldamir had proven patient, kind and generous. Admittedly, she scarcely knew him but, then, just look at what had happened with Halvarin. She had known him most of her life. Her parents had said that this prince was a good man. So too did Elarin. ”What...what would my life here be like?” Amarwen asked and beside her, Aldamir shifted his weight from one foot to another. His hip gently pressed against her own. It was not intrusive. ”What would you want it to be like?” he countered adroitly and Amarwen sighed. ”I do not know yet how to answer that,” she replied. Amarwen lowered her eyes to the garden below as she picked through their conversation over dinner. ”Do you truly wish me to stay?” she asked and at that Aldamir’s fingers under her chin turned her eyes to his. ”I wish for you to be happy, m’Lady. Only you can know what might bring that to pass.” She felt something within her coalesce. A decision. ”Yesterday, you told me that my heart belonged to another.” “I well recall...and, might I add, he is a fortunate man.” Aldamir’s fingers slipped away and Amarwen swallowed.”You are mistaken.” The prince’s expression turned rueful. ”I think not.” “I alone am my heart’s keeper,” she persisted, and never mind that it was currently in a thousand broken shards and she had done an exceptionally poor job of keeping it safe. ”Yesterday, I gave my word before King and court, and I mean to keep it.” “You are not obliged to keep an oath forced upon you.” The prince sounded so resolute and remote. She was not sure if he would hear her, much less believe her. “All the same, your Highness, I mean to see it through.” Amarwen clasped her hands before her and bowed her head, ”If...if you would still have me.” Aldamir was very still for a moment and then his hands cupped her face and lifted her eyes to his. ” are certain?” he whispered. Hesitant and shy, she lifted a hand to touch his jaw. "My prince." Aldamir's pupils dilated and then he kissed her. 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The Americans Radhika Sainath and Huwaida Arraf were arrested and deported by Bahrain for showing solidarity with democracy protesters in the kingdom. February 12, 2012 By Curt HopkinsGuest blogger Two Americans, Radhika Sainath and Huwaida Arraf, were arrested by Bahraini authorities for their role in current protests against that country’s regime. They were arrested Saturday in Manama while acting as part of a team of monitors of peaceful protests. The women were volunteers with the Witness Bahrain program, which situates observers in trouble spots, including Shiite villages, in the hopes that western presence will inhibit violence by security forces. Last year, those forces killed dozens of protesters who gathered at Manama’s Pearl Roundabout. Footage of Arraf's arrest: The women were arrested downtown in Manama at one of the latest demonstrations in favor of increased democracy in the Gulf nation. According to a member of the Bahraini human rights community, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, the arrest of journalists, and their analogues, is far from rare and rarely fatal. “Journalists are often detained from time to time here,” she said, “but they won't dare touch them especially if they're US citizens. The U.S State Department is already involved in the case and I've no doubt they'll be released unharmed (like the others.) It'll be shocking if this story has a different ending, but I doubt that will happen.” Sainath, a civil rights attorney in California, outlined the circumstances that lead to her presence in the Bahraini capital in a blog post on Witness Bahrain’s website. A small group of us were on the initial Skype call with human rights activists from Bahrain. A doctor who I only knew by the name of A* explained how security forces would attack Shia villages with teargas and birdshot on a daily basis, break into houses at night and toss teargas canisters into tightly packed homes, arresting anyone suspected of involvement in the democracy movement. Would we come and stay in these villages? Surely, the government would behave differently if Americans and Europeans were watching.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'b4549d5633f8086bec27cc9a14093c6791b29a0a04ac2bb3355d5efd0b96df01'}
Free-agent matchmaker: B.J. Upton Where will the 28-year-old four-tool player land? Let's guess the likely team and search for the ideal fit at the same time. There are a lot of free-agent center fielders. B.J. Upton, Shane Victorino, Angel Pagan, Michael Bourn, and Josh Hamilton are all available, and while that means it's something of a buyer's market, it also means there are a lot of teams who are looking for a center fielder. Of the five, though, one stands out as being a little different. Well, they all have something different, I suppose. Josh Hamilton is a former MVP, Michael Bourn is a Gold Glover, Angel Pagan is a switch-hitter, and Shane Victorino is a sub-human soul-drinker. But those four are also linked because they will all be over 30 before the 2012 season starts. B.J. Upton is still just 28. A four-year deal would take him through what should be the rest of his prime years, and when he gets out the other side, he won't be much older than Victorino is now. Upton can steal bases, and according to UZR, he's anywhere from a decent-to-fantastic defender in center. He also mashed a career-high 28 home runs last season, playing in a pitchers' park. The confusing story of B.J. Upton is best told in tables: Year Age BA OBP 2009 24 .241 .313 2010 25 .237 .322 2011 26 .243 .331 2012 27 .246 .298 Well, say. That's not good. Tropicana Field park factors (Under 100 indicates pitchers' park) 2009: 100 2010: 92 2011: 92 2012: 95 Oh. That explains a lot of that. Well, I'm sold. I think … Year Baseball-Reference WAR FanGraphs WAR 2009 0.8 2.4 2010 1.0 4.1 2011 2.8 4.1 2012 2.6 3.3 Wait. There are some substantial differences there. % of swings out of the strike zone % of total swings 2009 21.9 42.6 2010 24.9 45.4 2011 26.0 46.5 2012 30.2 51.4 Say, that's not a good trend. So what you have is a power hitter (good) who might be below-average in the field (bad) unless he's above-average (good), who is chasing more and more balls out of the strike zone (bad), but might be underrated because of his home park (good), so he's either a somewhat mediocre player when you look at his WAR (bad), or he's a pretty good center fielder when you examine his WAR (good). Seems like a pretty simple case, here. Upton is good unless he isn't, and he deserves to get paid like a burgeoning star unless he doesn't. A team will take a chance. And there will be another team that will want to take the chance, and they'll help raise Upton's price. A look at the favorite and the team he should go to. The Favorite It would need to be a team that might be a little more apt to use statistics than the average team, as the case for Upton's value relies on adjusted numbers. The on-base percentages aren't pretty, and the declining strikeout-to-walk ratio is scary, so a team would have to count on stellar defense and the idea that Tropicana Field was stifling Upton's raw numbers. You're probably not going to see a big push from the White Sox, Twins, or Giants, for example. Give me the Rangers, then, as a team that's both a) looking for a center fielder, and b) attractive to a young player like Upton who might have another big contract to play for in his career. Over the last three years, Upton has had a 110 OPS+. You know what a 110 OPS+ looks like for a player who plays half his games in Arlington? It can be a high-OBP guy (Ian Kinsler, .286/.382/.412 in 2010), a raw-power guy (Nelson Cruz, .263/.312/.509 in 2011), or a low-average slugger (Mike Napoli, .227/.343/.469 in 2012). All of those raw numbers would make Upton look better. And they would bring shiny, shiny RBIs with them. I'm not sure how to quantify Upton's defense, but I'm pretty sure it's better than Josh Hamilton's. The Ideal Tempted to go with the Astros here. A rebuilding team doesn't have to avoid free-agent talent, especially when it's youngish talent. When the Astros are ready to contend in two or three years, it would be a boon to have an up-the-middle position secured, and it's not like they have a lot of money committed to the roster right now. Instead, I'm going to go with the Giants. Because I have to watch that team at least 162 times, and I'm emaciated from the lack of dinger-nourishment. The out-of-zone numbers up there give me the jibblies, and it could signal a steep decline, but Upton hits dingers. The Giants hit 103 home runs last year -- just 31 of them at home. Josh Hamilton hit 22 homers at home. The Giants had nine more home round-trippers than Hamilton. The Giants can't (or don't want to) afford Hamilton, so if they're looking for power, there aren't a lot of options on the free-agent market. If they're like me, and they want brainless dingers even if they come with a substantial risk, Upton is just about their only option. As a bonus, Upton can steal bases, too. Small ball! Begrudging prediction Rangers, four years, $50 million. Bowden says 5/$70 million, and I'm loath to go against his wizardry, but I can't see teams being that convinced by his expected production. Log In Sign Up Log In Sign Up Forgot password? We'll email you a reset link. Forgot password? Try another email? Almost done, You must be a member of to participate. We have our own Community Guidelines at You should read them. You must be a member of to participate. We have our own Community Guidelines at You should read them. 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Stratum oriens stimulation-evoked modulation of hippocampal long-term potentiation involves the activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and the inhibition of Kv7/M potassium ion channels. Acetylcholine is considered to be an endogenous modulator of hippocampal neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity. The activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) reportedly enhances hippocampal synaptic plasticity, which plays an important role in memory function; however, the mechanism by which it enhances synaptic plasticity remains unclear. Here, we examined the involvement of the inhibition of Kv7/M K(+) channels, which are targets of mAChR modulation, during mAChR activation-induced enhancement of long-term potentiation (LTP) at rat hippocampal Schaffer collateral (SC)-CA1 synapses. When an electrical stimulus was applied to the stratum oriens before tetanic stimulation of the SCs, the magnitude of the induced SC-CA1 synapse LTP was enhanced as compared with that induced without stratum oriens stimulation. In the presence of the mAChR antagonist atropine, tetanic stimulation induced stable LTP, but the stratum oriens stimulation-evoked enhancement of LTP was abolished. The additional application of XE991, a selective blocker of Kv7/M K(+) channels, rescued the atropine-induced inhibition of LTP enhancement. The phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor U-73122 inhibited the stratum oriens stimulation-evoked enhancement of LTP. Application of the T/R-type voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channel (VDCC) blocker Ni(2+) abolished the stratum oriens stimulation-evoked enhancement of LTP. In addition, tetanic stimulation with preceding stratum oriens stimulation was able to induce LTP during N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor blockade. We therefore propose that stratum oriens stimulation inhibits Kv7/M K(+) channels through mAChR activation-induced PLC activation, which leads to VDCC activation, and hence causes sufficient Ca(2+) influx to enhance LTP.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'b3615a0ab5d93e8ec0d36c5edfceb417d068efb9ae99be67a65cfea64a8858d3'}
Conversion of existing buildings Traditional solid stone barns and other redundant former working buildings are a significant historical asset to the South Hams and Alex has been fortunate to have opportunity to work with these adaptable and flexible buildings for the last 25 years or so. Projects range from the conversion of barn complexes, to individual buildings, extending previous conversions and often remodelling previous poorly executed schemes. All are demanding and challenging in their own individual way in terms of planning, design and construction but the results are always unique, pleasant and peaceful places. These buildings can be adapted to a variety of uses and are able to absorb imaginative contemporary or traditional conversion styles without compromising their essential character, context or setting. Whether you have ambitions to create a distinctive and dramatic home, a source of income, an inspiring work space or office, an annexe for teenage kids or just a cosy bolthole where you can relax and tinker your boat gear then all the skills and experience are here to make that a reality. Designed and created by it'seeze	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.927392840385437}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '48552', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Q5BOWR3JIMYPMJFGTUVKX7EZKN3MQRNK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:629e5910-59ab-4b0e-a5ea-b7d1667a4737>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 20, 53, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '89.16.178.179', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4XEMREQJSD7E2GNR75A2VO5LPXWETG2T', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:746393d3-d451-4f4e-b26a-d50227cd418a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.apg-design.co.uk/portfolio/conversion-of-existing-buildings/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd05c3b0-b209-41af-9579-86acabec0581>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '196', 'url': 'http://www.apg-design.co.uk/portfolio/conversion-of-existing-buildings/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-95-138.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.025551557540893555', 'original_id': '9f11b4553eb51b646c1a21f430d16d5f96b4e7bcd8017addd594f2cfc4292383'}
//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play import UIKit let str = "hello" /* 类 */ // #### 基本使用 /// 1.swift 中类可以不继承父类, 那它本身就是 rootClass /// 2.类, 默认不会生成逐一构造器, 因此不能保证所有的非可选属性有值 /// 3.创建一个实例对象时, 必须保证所有的非可选属性有值 /// 3.1.自定义构造函数 /// 3.2.定义属性时赋初值 /// 3.3.可选属性 /// 不继承 class Person { var name: String var age: Int? init() { self.name = "" } } var p = Person() /// 继承 class PersonA: NSObject { var name: String override init() { self.name = "liming" } } let pa = PersonA() pa.name // #### 析构函数 /// 属性和deinit 必须放在class里, 其它可放在extension里 class PersonB: NSObject { var name: String = "" var age: Int = 0 var score: Int = 0 // 析构函数, 相当于OC的dealloc deinit { print("PersonB release") } } var pb: PersonB? = PersonB() pb = nil // #### 类的属性 class PersonC { var name: String = "" /// 1.存储属性: 直接存储数值 var score: Int = 0 var score1: Int = 0 /// 2.计算属性: 计算得来的值 var average: Int { get { return (score + score1)/2 } } var all: Int { return (score + score1) } } let pc = PersonC() pc.score = 10 pc.score1 = 20 pc.all pc.average // #### 类的方法 class PersonD { static var count: Int = 0 /// static 修饰的类型方法不能被重写 static func functionA() { print("static function \(count)") } /// class 修饰的类型方法可以被重写 class func functionB() { print("class function \(count)") } } PersonD.count = 10 PersonD.functionA() PersonD.count = 20 PersonD.functionB() /// 继承自 PersonD class PersonE: PersonD { override class func functionB() { print("class function \(count)") } } // #### 监听属性的变化 class PersonT { var name: String = "" { willSet { newValue } didSet { oldValue } } var score: Int = 0 { willSet(newScore) { newScore } didSet(oldScore) { oldScore } } } let pt = PersonT() pt.score = 10 // #### 自动引用计数器 /// 看是否有强引用指向实例 /// 循环引用, weak class PersonU { weak var cat: Cat? deinit { print("person deinit") } } class Cat { var master: PersonU? deinit { print("cat deinit") } } var pu: PersonU? = PersonU() var cat: Cat? = Cat() pu?.cat = cat cat?.master = pu pu = nil cat = nil // #### 三大特性 /// 1.封装 /// 2.继承 /// 2.1.重写 /// 2.2.重载 /// 2.2.1.参数名相同(参数个数不同, 或者参数类型不同) class PersonV { func test(num: Int) { } @objc(testA:) /// 兼容 OC func test(num: Double) { } } /// 3.多态 /// 3.1. 父类指针指向子类, 来调用子类的方法 class PersonM { func reload() { print("super reload") } } class PersonS: PersonM { override func reload() { print("sub reload") } func subFuntion() { print("subFuntion") } } let pm = PersonM() let pn = PersonS() pm.reload() pn.reload() let po: PersonM = PersonS() //po.subFuntion()	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'https://github.com/Janyau/SwiftLearn/blob/master/SwiftLearn/SwiftLearn/Code/Class.playground/Contents.swift', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '', 'title': 'SwiftLearn', 'creator': 'Janyau', 'language': 'Swift', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '428', 'token_count': '1352', '__index_level_0__': '44377', 'original_id': 'c7f316eeb90e76fd6a89a282f5488084908b1a3601e83216c308baa070d9bf63'}
The question is a little more complex than the title states. Exceptioned is not in the dictionary. But I am not trying to use this as a verb. I work in IT. We keep a list of exceptioned words that we parse through on an inbound email. As far as I'm aware, everyone in my industry uses this term quite frequently. I'm also wondering, can others understand what I'm trying to say? What happens that allows someone to "define" this word in the context I'm using it, even if it is incorrect? I'm not literately inclined. So, I don't even know what part of speech exceptioned should be. But the overall question is, even if this is NOT a real word, why does it "feel" right? Is this really wrong? I suddenly got hit by the linguistics bug, and something like this example, started to fascinate me. I have so many more questions now! [Excuse my incorrect tags usage] migrated from linguistics.stackexchange.com Dec 12 '15 at 6:33 • "What happens that allows someone to "define" this word in the context I'm using it". Sounds like Linguistics to me. I'm sorry if it's 101. – christopher clark Dec 11 '15 at 16:13 • " even if this is NOT a real word, why does it "feel" right? Is this really wrong?" Also, sounds like a linguistics question. – christopher clark Dec 11 '15 at 16:15 • 1 All words are real words. English speakers understand the general functioning of morphology (past tense/participle ‘-ed’), and make reasonable guesses. – Jeremy Needle Dec 11 '15 at 16:36 • 1 The real question here is whether to exception is a verb. I'm not sure what it means, since the querent has neglected to say, but I would assume that it's a replacement for to except born of the phonal conflation of accept and except. – Anonym Dec 12 '15 at 6:39 • "Exceptioned" is valid computer jargon in some contexts. Not a word for general use, though. – Hot Licks Dec 12 '15 at 14:32 The unacknowledged life of 'exceptioned' and 'unexceptioned' Both exceptioned and unexceptioned appear often enough in Google Books search results to yield Ngram graphs. Here is the Ngram chart for the period 1800–2008 for exceptioned (blue line) and unexceptioned (red line): As the chart indicates, unexceptioned is the earlier word. A Google Books search finds matches for it dating back to Daniel Defoe, "The Parallel: or Persecution of Protestants the shortest way to prevent the Growth of Popery in Ireland" in A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman (1705): And as no testimony of the good Deeds of a Person, or a Party, can come with such unexceptioned Authority as what has the concurring Testimony of their Enemies, we refer the Reader for the Particulars; to the famous Milton, whose Pen must needs obtain Credit of our high Gentlemen since he Quarrels with the very Men they would quarrel with, and falls in with the fury of the Times, to expose those they would have exposed. Unexceptioned seems to be have been used almost exclusively as an adjective during its three centuries of existence. The meaning appears to be "without exception, or not admitting of exceptions." I was surprised to find that the Compact Edition OED of 1971 has no entry for unexceptioned, considering that the word goes back so far in English literature, and that a Google Books search finds about 150 unique matches for the term overall, including several from 2014. 'Exceptioned' as an adjective The earliest match for exceptioned in Google Books search results involves its use as an adjective, too. From a letter of James Bowdoin to Thomas Pownall (December 3, 1770), reprinted in The Bowdoin and Temple Papers, volume 1 (1897): As soon as it was known by one of sd messages that they [the proposed bills] would not [be assented to with certain words in them], the House striking out the exceptioned words im[m]ediately sent ye sd bills to ye Council, who passed them. Here exceptioned appears to mean "taken exception to, or criticized." But more-recent instances of exceptioned as an adjective seem to carry the meaning "excepted, or exceptional," as in Frederick Bruner, The Churchbook: Matthew 13–28 (2004): Where there is no repentance, Jesus' exception means that some divorces are the (“exceptional” or “exceptioned”) will of God. Here Moses and Jesus agree. Where divorce is the exceptioned will of God, Jesus protects such divorced persons from the opprobrium that is sometimes cruelly attached to them, as though all divorced persons are, as such, less than God's best persons (because, it is said, all divorce is less than God's best will). The same general sense of exceptioned as an adjective appears in tech publications such as G. Neufeld & M. Ito, Protocols for High Speed Networks IV (2013): Cells belonging to other connections can be processed once the exception condition is saved (even if these connections share the same endpoint as an exceptioned connection). We cannot process cells belonging to the exceptioned connection, even if they are not affected by the exception, since some applications may depend on the per-channel ordering guarantee of ATM cells. 'Exceptioned' as a verb Exceptioned first appears in Google Books search results as a verb in Francis Spilsbury, Free Thoughts on Quacks and their Medicines, Occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen (1776): Indeed by such railings against every ingredient which is made use of, were we to exclude, one after another, from the several medical compositions, all those which might now and then be exceptioned, we would soon find ourselves reduced to return to that time of ignorance, when disorders were deemed incurable. Here again, exceptioned seems to mean "taken exception to"—but this time as a past-tense verb, rather than as an adjective. But more recent usage shows the term being used to mean "treated as an exception [to some rule]." For example, from Steve Hughes, ‎Jim Samuelson & ‎S. Miller, SQL Server DTS (2002): Overflows that actually occur during transformation cause the row to be exceptioned. You can specify this value when the source values are all (or mostly) within the range of the destination column. In total Google Books finds more than 170 unique matches for exceptioned without regard to whether the word is being used as an adjective or as a verb. I suspect that exceptioned feels right to the poster because in the field of IT in which he works the term is part of the nomenclature—whether technical, colloquial, jargony, or otherwise. Under the circumstances, the question "Is it a word?" seems fairly easy to answer affirmatively—especially since it has been around for more than 240 years in other senses. The crucial question is whether the people that the poster is trying to communicate with will recognize the intended sense—and the rightness—of the word (as he does) or will be baffled by it. If the poster feels reasonable confident that the intended audience will understand the word, I see no reason to avoid using it, either as an adjective or as a verb. • Thank you, I got booted out of Linguistics exchange, since my question and post was mostly related to the english language. But, the question I really wanted answered as a result was, "What happens that allows someone to "define" this word in the context I'm using it, even if it is incorrect?" Someone who has never heard this word before, I think, could still understand it as an adjective rather than it's standard verb form. But anyways, thanks. – christopher clark Dec 13 '15 at 0:56 • @christopherclark What happens? Nothing happens. The word is either picked up over time and enters the lexicon or just disappears. – Lambie Jun 22 '18 at 16:58 No. Using exceptioned might sound correct within your closed group(or within the IT industry), but it is not a real word and outside the group, people may not appreciate it. You can verb any noun, but it is injurious to English, as I realized it from my previous question. ...even if this is NOT a real word, why does it "feel" right? Perhaps, the wrong term is being used for so long , that it has become an accepted practice. If you are looking for an alternate word, then you can either opt for exempted or blacklisted We parse through a list of exempted words on all inbound mails We maintain a list of blacklisted words that are used to validate inbound mails • @christopher clark - exempted and excluded happen to be synonyms. So you can say - We check our inbound mails against an excluded list of words – BiscuitBoy Dec 12 '15 at 7:03 • Well, I wasn't using it as a verb. I think adjective is the correct part of speech for that word. – christopher clark Dec 13 '15 at 0:51 Exceptioned is not commonly used, but you could try excepted, except that it sounds like its opposite, accepted. One possible reason why exceptioned "feels right" is that the familiar word exception carries the meaning you're after, and modifying it with an -ed suffix is a common way of coining colloquial adjectives from nouns. E.g. consider someone who has been convinced to use computers instead of writing entries by hand: he's been computered. In your case, "exceptioned" would be understood, though with your budding linguistics interest, it would be worthwhile to find alternate words that are both common and perspicuous. English loves to create verbs. (Note: By that I mean English speakers). This is called denominalization. (s in BrE) Just take a gander at this article on Shakespeare: 'Enjailed', 'portcullised', 'cowarded', 'to lip': David Crystal explains how Shakespeare created new verbs from old nouns, and considers the dramatic impact of this technique. [...]This is Mowbray complaining about his sentence of banishment in Richard II: Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue, Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips ... (1.3.160) Great, huh? Shakepeare and linguistic innovation In the context of a list, it is perfectly fine to say: List of Exceptions. And if your IT comrades (ahem), want to verb it, so be it. Though I can't quite fathom why it is really necessary, other than to stress that some group of guys (mostly guys, and in that sense, even the women are guys, right?) did this. It is in keeping with how English evolves. Jumping forward some five hundred years, the best business publication in the English-speaking world in terms of the quality of its writing, The Economist, backs up this idea: The English language is in a constant state of flux. New words are formed and old ones fall into disuse. But no trend has been more obtrusive in recent years than the changing of nouns into verbs. “Trend” itself (now used as a verb meaning “change or develop in a general direction”, as in “unemployment has been trending upwards”) is further evidence of—sorry, evidences—this phenomenon. It is found in all areas of life, though some are more productive than others. Financiers are never lacking in ingenuity: Investec recently forecast that “Better-balanced autumn ranges should allow Marks & Spencer to anniversary tougher comparisons”—whatever that may mean. Politics has come up with “to handbag” (a tribute to Lady Thatcher) and “to doughnut”—that is, to sit in a ring around a colleague making a parliamentary announcement, so that it is not clear to television viewers that the chamber is practically deserted. [...] Verbing—or denominalisation, as it is known to grammarians—is not new. Steven Pinker, in his book “The Language Instinct” (1994), points out that “easy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English.” Elizabethan writers revelled in it: Shakespeare’s Duke of York, in “Richard II” (c1595), says “Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle”, and the 1552 Book of Common Prayer includes a service “commonly called the Churching of Women”. Notice how the writer makes up a verb to mean making a noun into a verb: to verb. I would venture to say that if "it feels right" to make exception a verb that's because making up verbs in English has always been very common. As a side note, French is a nominalizing language. It loves to create nouns. Vive la différence! 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Cure for Housing Shortage Indicated In Contracts Let Building Activity So Far This Month Better Than for Any? Similar Period Since August, 1916 Building interests in New York, with one accord. Heter than that all they want is a fair chance to do business on a normal basis and their own enterprise in operation will give far quicker he housing shortage than ?0 any remedial legislation, according to "The Dow Service Daily Building Reports." today. Distributor and dealers in New York, well as in various metropolitan districts of the country, report that prices are actually being held at levels below what the potential outlet would seem to justify, solely to encourage the small investor to get into the market promptly. The remarkable jump in percentage of basic building materials leaving masonry supply yards within the last three weeks shows that state builders realize their present opportunity, for there has been more building contracts let in May for private building work than in any month since August, 1919. As a matter of fact, the cure for the housing shortage is now actually underway and the bigger jobs, those concerning commercial and industrial housing, are being reported daily with much greater frequency. Ordinary American business enterprise is freeing itself from the shackles of government restraint, and in the building business, at least, is reaching out for unhampered trade. The best opinion in the building industry is developing strong resentment toward anything that looks like meddling with a quick return to peace-time trade. The building profession, in a chance to meet the present pressing need. Their plea is that all during the war they have meekly said aside and made their heavy sacrifices when the nation's need decreed that theirs was an unessential trade. They have lost their organizations, and now when the soldiers are returning and they have a chance to put these men back to work at their old jobs, when demand for buildings never was so good, they say investors are deterred. From going ahead for fear of the Legislature will enact a series of laws that will them in their eagerness to meet the shelter need. Seek Relief, Not Restraint Investors say they want relief, not ?Mr? restraint. The fact that prices, ?are limost stable now assures them that it is time to go ahead and they are Boring generously. The building department records amply verify this, The building material dealers say that or. branch of the government is urging building while the other holds back lighterage relief and puts unloading burdens upon them that helps to keep the price one wholesale stone distributor in authority for the statement that an immediate drop of 10 percent in the price of domestic building stone was if the railroad unloading were merely made ?dequate? the increasing volume of material coming in. It cost him $130 in charge last week to move ?freight car half a mile so as to reach a crane. Another ":r is where three cars of material urgently needed in a building operation in New York was held up on the New Jersey flat - three days before it could be moved to a railroad platform. Free lighterage promised almost a month ago is still a fiction as far as its being restored in this market is concerned, and that helps to keep Easter in high. Even the brick-barge captains who have threatened to go out on strike on June 2 for the three-hour shift which would have put the price of brick in a wall to almost $150 a thousand, have modified their demands to a jump from $125 to $135 a month by way of doing their bit toward keeping the cost of new construction down. For the sake of the law of demand, a meeting in moderate degree the housing problem of the day, but this law is going to be changed again if materialistic factors disturb anew the settled dust of doubt, in the minds of many private capital. REAL ESTATE, who are feeling out their way to help to meet the increasing building shortage everywhere. Expect Prices to Increase It will not be long before the present opportunity to purchase building materials at present levels will have passed. Officially delivered price lists on lumber show sharp advances effective today. Second-hand brick is now $36 a truck-load of 3,000 brick delivered at points in Manhattan below 110th Street, and $40 in Queens. With only fifteen barges of brick distributed about the city at this time of the year, when there should be eighty, and with sales already equalling arrivals in this market from Hudson River points, the $15 wholesale level is a straining point. Linseed oil is advancing, too, affecting paints. It is a fact, now freely admitted, that supplemental material interests are expecting gigantic markets to appear. The metal trades are confident of capacity business within the year. Those who watch the trend of the building trades already see a quickening reflective pulse in basic lines, but the reaction of a full metal market is not apparent in basic lines until the product reaches the consumer in the form of fabricated steel, of pine, wire, and other metal materials to reinforcing bars. In the latter, the closest indication of what is imminent in store, for the basic building material manufacturers is seen. Situation Now One of Firmness The situation has suddenly changed to one of great, firmness. The price tar is being maintained at $2.25 by the larger mills, although smaller mills are making concessions, but not, in any case more than $2, and this only for very desirable business. There is no general disposition to cut prices, mills believing they can secure the full price as easily as anything lower, and their anxiety to secure business at lower figures would only scare off buyers. This is exactly the sentiment in every line in the building material basic and supplemental markets today. The material movement speeds the buyer, and the boom is on its way. Buyers for Mount Vernon and Bronxville Homes are reported by F. C. Stevens. He has sold to Samuel Gibson, Inc., for various owners, twelve lots on Beechwood Avenue, Mount Vernon, which are being improved. Mr. Stevens has sold for the Mount Vernon Trust Company to P. G. Corell, of New York, a house on a 60-foot front on Chester Street; also for the trust company to Walter H. Acker, a house with a 58-foot front, on North Fulton Avenue. Mr. Acker is changing the house for two families. For Isaac Aronson, Mr. Stevens has sold to Henry Dyck a house on Dunham Avenue; for Samuel Gibson to J. F. Siegel, a house on Sheridan Avenue, Chester Hill Park; for Harry F. Weber, jr., to P. S. McAfee, of New York, a house and garage on Nuber Avenue; for The samp, seller to Mary E. Hastings, of New York, a stucco house, on plot 100x150, on Oriole Avenue, Bronxville, and to Thomas A. Nosworthy, jr., a house on plot 100x150, on Oriole Avenue, Bronxville. For William Milton, Mr. Stevens has sold to William Logan, of New York, a two-family house on North Seventh Avenue, and another house owned by Mr. Gibson to Charles Johnson, on plot 75x100 at Chester Hill Park. A number of interesting rentals is also announced by Mr. Stevens. Staten Island Houses Sold M. James Hughes has sold for Judge John Croak two dwellings, one frame and one stone, on the southwest corner of Simonson Avenue and Richmond Terrace, Port Richmond, Staten Island, to W. Watson; for Cornelius Du Bois, a house on plot 60x150, on Trinity Place, to Carl R. Yensen, and for Major Arthur Du Reis a house on plot 85x140, at Forest Avenue and Clove Road, to James W. P. Bowles. The Sage Foundation Homes Company has sold to the Gardens Apartments, Inc., the corner plot, 200x92, fronting on Tennis Place and Burns Street, at Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island. Guyon L. C. Earle was the broker. This property is opposite the West Side Tennis Club and is adjoining the large apartment building erected two years ago by the same owners and through the same broker. REAL ESTATE Many More Dwellings Pass Into New Hands Lawyer Disposes of 55th St. House Near Lexington Ave. Corner; Other Houses Sold Douglas L. Elliman & Co. have sold for Frederick J. Middlebrook, attorney, 133 East Fifty-fifth Street, a five-American basement dwelling, on a lot 73x20.5, forming the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue, to 1 ul r Potter, of Potter, Choate & Prentice, who has occupied the house for years. Physician Buyer of House Dr. Henry Coggeshall is the purchaser of the forty-second at 40 East a lot 20x50, which was recently reported as having been sold at the Pross Company agency. Columbia Leasehold Deal Reported The four-story and basement dwelling at ele i have re < iert rude P. ( lushmai's? ttage on tain Street, Rii 'o Richard F. Murph;, and th' I homestead <>y> M I to Henry C.?Swords, of this city, for t; Satisfied Mortgages Manhattan GREENE ST? P Nelsoi to 1 - : ; I..? I?, -:? 1 Ins, D at l?l & Li : January ' 8 H, 176.8? 1.10 45x100.!. Jn i I Th i Magdalen Curran e71e?? Schiei h,?extra Curran B?ti'ed o??'???? without i auction of mort/?. - ? il'May 17, 1919; Whitaker tty r \|. Hurl?. 335 Bway; Aa?, usl '. ;.. ' MATTHEWS ST, 256; Israel WI "?' a..a av, to Al I -, 1 96th st??? mu Zl pu. i. '. Bway; Pel)rua ry '?''? 101ST? t? t av. 4 1., -. " 91?.'?-.. Bteln & I.. ' ? 101ST ST, n B, ------ to same?s,. ST, n s..-?? 4 fiante to same; ittvs 513-7 _?;? - I?. -r??.? Co tu Est! ?? \ and I 11, 214 West. I'M 12IST S' 125 ]?? -?.. rentrai l?? :.:. I :. BAUE PP ie I. GRAND 26th-I. Mori and K.? - Weinstein to '? n Wai 119th st.?-.?' Rowland, January 27, 1917 135TH ST, n s?-? w I ;.?,. in Ii 17? Bwa. to i, -..'- ;? -i, Kl. April!.:'?-. ', 309 V :?? John's Park ] .':..-? -.' PI n Sa\ Hal 110 6th ai tt i T & T K Bway; ;. '. ;.! SSTTI1 ST, n s, 1. A'??? E 100.8; Lucanla Realty e pn I .? ' . rd?V 7.1. : 28 Bwaj ; Oct 4 --TH ST. 307 W; same to Mary A I 1.-.:?;, y ; atty. Cannon & ( 13 ?u.,1917. 88TH ST, 311 W same to e Auk 13, 1917. .V iRTPl M?ORE T,? - S; This : n 7 Pai i I I yn. to e & En.'?.:?? et al i rs wll atty, M 31, 1916. : I - i\V V.T. 912-9 Corpn L'nlon Estates 135 ] way. atl y, E? :.;?:. ;. C?S L, 135 Bway 77.: : : ' 137TH ST. n s, 7 7 7 w 7th av, 1? - Pickers A- Ully Const r Co to tl ian Life Ii. Amonen & Roe, 41 Park St.; June; 1902 REAL ESTATE SAMUEL JACOBS PHOTO MARCH ?* further Hudson Realty Co, He was one of the Executive Committee of the Fort Washington Heights and Buena Vista Syndicates, 176th to 181st St., Broadway to Riverside Drive. This property brought at Public Auction April, 1909, $3,000 to $10,000 per lot. These lots are now a big city of apartment houses. Mr. Jacobs was a wholesale clothing merchant before he took up Real Estate operations as a profession. More Home Buying in Brooklyn Sections. The receiver gets a structure in St. Mark's Avenue; sales in Maple Street. He has sold for his investment the property at 6 St. Marks. Realty Trust Company, located on the side of Sixteenth Street, between Eighteenth and Twenty-second Avenues, to Harry L. and Sio. 2046 to Beier. The sale of Eastchester Homes in Brooklyn, Inc., has been sold to Mr. W. W. Lawray, and Mr. Ford, located at the Westchester Home, has been sold to Mr. W. W. Lawray. The property includes a house on a half-acre plot, on the Boston Road, at Pelham Manor. The property also includes a dwelling on a half-acre plot, on the Boston Road, at Pelham Manor. To Edgar J. McGregor, of Klaw & Erlanger, and to Erlanger at Pelham Heights, for the Pelham Rany to Leroy A. Van Patten, of Am. Buyers of Tall Building On Broadway Corner Corpoi ' Co., i t o r y 1 ding c - - - " ? cet, inced in City Lot Buyer to Build John N. Goldii . ; i th A ? ? <. - Recorded Mortgages ?JOW?ttOWTJ -?-? ? : . . ( a Wall al ' 1.3) - , ? ? m ? " - ? ? ? ?? ii c : -, ?!????. ?" ' (1 ? < Da? & J i Nassa .527,000 East Sitl 6 S9TH ST, s s, 1 ' av, 30xl00.fi n -. ; \| 5 yea rS . I ' I ?? . . o ;. i.ixi ? ? ? . : I West Side ? T, 375 p 5th ? ?-, BOxIOO '. ! . ? n -.":.-. ; '?'??, , " - ' 3 ' ? - - R '?? ' :,. 60 ? i roa , ? G D l - ----- H \v, a w ?? 150th si ; Kath Wat ti - 11, o i -.--? p c; atty, T I -. l.iwav.. I ? ? ; ii ni i ....... i :. . 500; atty, T O & PC :. lirons '. A v, w b, 400 s 7! md ill av, , ;u ; ? . . \| ... i; 6 p c; a. i ' . ? ' . ; Lena ] ? p ( .. ? !il S -, : .BI.?OO LOT 193, map Si i E Tremol J 6 p c; atl .!. 25xS0; Jos -.,-.? V. :? :.?-.;.: ' c; atty, i ?. REAL ESTATE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE Clinton ave, between G and H Ground .... for extension, a ri'l a Further In Was Never More Opportune than now to select your Bonn and build your own home. Lot us own your own home in attractive surroundings, with city improvements, within a few minutes walk of the station and forty minutes of New York. EIGHTEENTH STREET. Madison, New York City - The New York Times The New York Times Resumption of Building Will Help in Two Ways Will Relieve Housing Situation and Give Work to Returning Soldiers. Says H. A. Kahler A resumption of building will not only relieve the housing situation, but will give work to returning soldiers and others of all of work, says Harry A. Kahler, president of the New York Title and Mortgage Company, in a statement on what his company is doing in the situation. "The practical difficulty to be encountered," said Mr. Kahler, "is that the making of building loans requires special organization. Neither individuals generally are equipped to conduct such operations by. "The New York Title and Mortgage Company has no necessary organization. In normal times it makes many loans. It retains on its capital and inspectors to and the progress of the construction work. Its staff is or not only to supervise the making of such loans, but, for all proper attention, it is in force. "This company is..." Making building loans at the exact cost, has proven to the people that the company has provided the necessary funds for the purpose. The mortgage is made only to the extent that it may have probable customers for the purpose. "Twenty-three hundred clients of our company hold over $40,000,00 of its guaranteed mortgages. Out of this clientele and new customers there is a constant Bupply of funds for mort? gage " " ?'-? - ' 1, Tl is supply may he great ly incri i the use of oui of p ?rood, - amply t afeguardi '1 in ma Assignments of Mortgages Ma nhattan U7PTJBON '? " mtg $145,000; Abr J ? to i '. Kellner and C I I Ho 1 d Co, 5 B I _sioo $75.000; sei urea tilt ? ? lorpn to '? ? '? ; attys, Law ...'-' ir1S4thst;mtg f'.'O.Oi i -- ? Ml I .- ? B ol ; atty, ? . " ' 1 - 3 p r t ,-, ti El an L, C. & . $100 ; - ? . Jacob U - ?man A W "; h st; k, HI Bwa Martha T ?; : :i ?,??.?-.-? '.? : '. . atty, Willi ?m M Powell, ? .$1 : ' 133; mtg $50,000; Nagle A-. ? !i nstr Co to Mas Ju -, 2811 Bain inx, I is, II: i .$37, i 0 i : , ? '- ?_ ? ricai. W; mtg $16,000 Moi I ? ???.i ;.T,: nh< - ar, & hi, 28 V 7 7 '? 17. 7 ; -'I I-, ig lo W :; I? av, Bronx. atty, ?tobt'3d av....? Bron\ ION?VV, ::-'>77. Oscar Boherisr to N Lie & M '-. Broa.vi'1'- atty, XV- & I': ; idwa; ??? re M AV, 1454; Wm C i '???.. widow, ii Park av, ] atty, N T TH?'? M t tt i I.- 60t)3 1 Iroad ??? 176 Bl waj. 7 : ; -. v. -?? i?? - - .......... ? -?? y. ; i -,.-? i i & T Broad? ij. : - I? CONi :OTJRSE,? s, 239.2 ????.. v 7 I - ;.? side dr; atl y, '.?':? hi 99 I.$100 1x79.7x64.9: :- 1 Y Trust Co to'Ws ht, :?' i - dr; atty, Sam'l V. n :ht, 99 . 5100 ,'-. w B, I?: 'i S3j ' - ;?,..- i ; - kerage i it [?'rank, 2 W 120 st ; atty, Gu ir; ,.issau si.......$] MARMION AV. 1896; Prank E Bdebohla - T Co',! 76 Bway...$2,100 V, n w s, lots 64x65, map Mary C P Macomb,? s Man ha.;..-? ; ns : ;o to 11th lb s on: 'I?'Bklyn, & ano, exrs. Man & II I dar av., $28,000 Emil Polach to Monterey, b si; atty, Herman: E, 170 Bway, S c'' Presbyterian Tin;: Ital to Co, 176 Kemsen st, al'i luar & T (,176 .$14, )0 ) : S -, 2319; Nellie A Bogardus ml Schau, 604 W 191st nt. atty, Burger & B, 223 Bway. CLINTON AV, 1828; Barclay Building Corpi. i : '. 13th st, & I I Zli : '7 Bway....$L . row H >ldg Corpn to sa.? i ame.$1 ?New Building Plans The Bronx COURTLANDT AV, s w cur 156th at, 1-sty bk garage, ::?x2!; IVckio Landman, on ?,:??:... owner; AB Kiullng. 2400 West chcsier av, archt.$2,0u0 169TH ST h s, 125 :. e 3d av. 3-sty com ete Ira plant, 61.4x83.9; John Bichter Brew f'o, 8582 3d av. owners; Adolph a Koe itlngton av, archt.$37,090 B?VRRETTO ST, s a 263-7J?? Lafayette av. ; v- y M ga ragi. 11.4x19.8; Charles Piel I, ? i \| iv, owner; J rving Ma rgi n, 355 E il Alterations Manhattan 7TH AV. 4th, & 3rd st, 203:7 w, to a. 4-sty dwlg?? store; County Realty Co, 100 Bway, owner; M S-.-hwartz. 399 Bway, archt.$25,000 MADISON?W, 130, to a 4-sty & b. dwlg; t Lawrence, pretn, owner; B II C N Whlnston, 2 Columbus Circle, archta.$80,000 7TH AV. 86, 236, to a 6-sty left; F Plah. ? '?) ;>t h av, owner; R C P Boehlor, 3 j -, archt.$9,800 REAL ESTATE LONG ISLAND LONG BEACH WEST Near Ocean Attractive Cottage, 5 rooms. Elect night shower, $500 case; furnished, for season, 100 families; 2, or for more furnished. See my son Ulysses, Thomas I. Walsh, To LET FOR SALE? PURPOSES ENTIRE FLOOR OF GOOD BUILDING. CUSHMAN & WALSH, INC. 50 EAST 42ND STREET. LARGE CORNER STORE FOR RENT ON MADISON AVENUE IN 408 RENT 18,5 PARTICULARS TO BUILD. ONLT. CUSHMAN & WALSH, INC. 60 EAST 42ND STREET. UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET. PARK. For rent 2 butternut; southern exposure. $1,000 from Outlaw. X. Foley? Murray?mi a.lu.? New York Builder Buys Four Houses in Yonkers Dwellings in Buena Vista Ave. Purchased by Charles Hensle From Savings Bank The Anderson Realty Company, of Mount Vernon, have?o"-; -"or the Yonkers Savings Bank to Charles Hensle, the builder, the four three-story brick dwellings at 192 to 198 Buena Vista Avenue, Yonkers, on plot 72x100; also for Frank Bannerman, jr., to A. R. Itichin?. Is residence at 875 East Fifth Street, Mount Vernon; for Russell J. Glarwin to William Gates, jr., a plot 60x108, on the Esplanade, Oakwood Heights, Mount Vernon; for mea P. McKenna to Louis Taub, his residence, at 223 Claremont Avenue, Mount Vernon, on plot 50x115. For George and Emilie Fuchs the same company has sold to Irene P. L. Sauter the residence at 115 V Avenue, Mount Vernon, on plot 50x100; for Charles A. Tier to Charles A. Burns, a plot 85x118.6 on Summit Ave? nue, Mount Vernon, adjoining residence of the latter; for Edwin H. Peck and others to trustee Methodist Church of Mount Vernon, a plot, at Eighth Avenue and Second Street, Mount Vernon, 100x105, on which the church will erect a parish house, for Margaret B. Phillips to land G. Taylor, jr., the residence at 405 Nuber Avenue, Mount Vernon, on plot 66x85, irregular, and for William A. Stormy to Edwin K. Gordon, his residence at 232 Summit Ave, Mount Vernon, on plot 60x18, irregular. Warbar Barbed Wire Salvaged Among the novelties produced by the war is a machine for collecting barbed wire scrap in war-destroyed areas. The machine, which has a remote resemblance to a straw and hay-levator, is carried on caterpillar chain tracks. The wire scrap is picked up and cut into lengths and then dumped into cars or pressed into bales. Birmingham Acre Herald. Dwelling at Larchmont Sold E. C. Griffin and P. H. Collini sold six city lots on the corner of Helena and Oak avenues, Larchmont, for Mrs. Catherine Thomas. Recorded Transfers Downtown ATTORNEY ST, 161-5, w a, 76x100 Ma la '! I [eine et al, e. - rs?:'astees I Marie ' Heine, ln-11 : mtg atty, H H ?'LV.. El . s g,?;--, e Be - ? ( to Leon pari're Pi isso 12 Grove s ?4 o'' ; 3 part; a t, all ? era ""'fr T Co, 160 Bway ."?? a M E PROPERTY ; Alfn ? i h above M irch 13: atty SAME PROPERTY; I? s: me. 1-3! irt rllvl led as! I...-' V. H8 -??.. $100 CARMINE ST., s s, 77--? 0; Helei lewsk I ti'las Purling,?47 5 8,900; May 19; Eway. BETHUNE ST, 41-4 1. r? : I :? Deiche??, ref, to Rosina Wollpart, 7 0 V\ 82ri st (partit! I i. ivy? rs '.. & T Co, L60 Bwaj. East Side A.V B. e s,?P n n 11th st, 17 7x7' : HannaJ f Simon Greenberg I David Z? : v 123d st: mtg $8,10 May 72; atty, Edmun'i J ????. .... ; Heine et al. e: , - - mtg $4 May 20 atty, H. Holb, rt. 1511 la'. BROADWAY. 7 2(1 - <? - 21st 3t,? x92x73 Ri Realty Corpn to 920 Broadway Corpn, 111 Bv all liens; May; ttt;. i?.????? " 6 T Co, 160 Bway. 31- AV, s e c 25th t, 24.S : : - : [eh o et al, exrs. < ,..;..,...... ???? i?. May 10; at!) I ;-?;?-:.'...... In the same; mtg $1.00; all liens. 41 -T' ST, 125 e Lex av, 50: a? '? a i? sai?. Individ; ml g $20,0. i liens; Mu y 20; atl y, san a (1ST V. :, s, 91.8 c Lex ; -, 16 =?:'? '. Marie C Heine et a!, ex -? vid. 13 Spuyten... iva: mtg S';,000; l] ; M y 20; atty, H H J bert. 1511 3d av IT, l- E, s s, 17x102 7. Frank B \ Brunt et a? ei worth, 4' K 501 it st; atty, 1? T Co, 160 Bway. 10 TH ST, a?, 777 <? Btb av. 37.6x1 - ? rj Hoi ling Co to Samuel linger, 277 W 109th st. mtgs ';i:<.: May 77, atty, S F Stronj :. ut ague et, Brooklyn. West Side 74TH ST, 120 W,? e. 22x102 2: Brooklyn Trust Co, ex, to Mountford Croton-on-Hudson, N V, mtg $ all liei " atty. T G & T - .$100 76TH ST, s s, 740 w West End av, 20x ; 7.7. Norman.- ; to Carrie W, his wife. 318 W 76th st; b ai May 77; attys, Lawyers' T.-7- T C I - - v.$ 1 1! ITH ST., 70 W, s B, 18.10X and Minna "lauber to Irving.. W 115th st; '/j part, all liens, a t; Feb 10; HZ Rothstein, 1 10 l 5th av. ST, 10 W, s s. 18j n ai Dauber to: 48 W 16th St; mtg $8,500; all lien s;? atty. II Z Rothstein, 1400! th i v 12-TH ST. 60 W, s s 19.11;? Realty Co to Arrow- Holding Corpn, 277 Broadway; ill liens; May 21; atty,T II Zleser, 717 Bway. EDGECOMBE AV, s w o 170th st, 99.11k 100; Fred Lewis to a!, exrs, Kath Waters, 241 11th st. Brooklyn; mtg $150,000; all liens; Vp-ii 28; attys, M S & 1 S Isaacs, 77 r..$100 SAME property; Kath Waters to Orinoco Realty Co, 119 W 40th st; mtg $150,000; all liens; May 23; attys, punie.$1 165TH ST, 54fi W, s s, 2nx:: 11; S Goldberg to Ris.i Mink, 627 Wales av; mtg $18,000; May 12; atty, M A Rablnoviti 770 Grand st.$100 Bronx AMUNDSON AV, w p. 40ft s Randall av, 100; Tersel G <~u-i.<- lansi n I Bursteln, 20 M -- i av; n tge, $3,600; May 7;;; atty, Ttltle Guaranty.v T Co, 176 Bway $100 SA,v.?< fi o Crotona Pk So, 107.. x21 1x100 7x.:7 l; Lena Schact t. 77 ry 7: Baldwin, Il?NTorth av, New 1. N T; mtge, {13,000; April 30; atty, Lawyers Title & T Co, 160 Bway. $1 II TH ST, s n, 500 e Wi] Is av, 16.8x100; Frank T. Loscault to iivi-.aii S harter, 471 Hast 14'Uli t--! ; mtge, $4,000; May... atty, Lawyers Title & T Co, 160 Bway $100 LOT 193, map f.?tnn Homeete Trainor 10 Frederick und Edith M 17 Swanson, 1412 Balcom nv; May?7.;..?. Chas U Baechler, 1228 East Street av. $100 WALTON AV, 2395, w h, 15.10x96.6; Sparta Realty Co to Evelyn M Purman, 2524 Creston av; mtg, $5,000; May, 1018; atty. J J Pittman, 406 East 149th St. $100 UNION AV, Tr s, 16.8.10 n 168th st, 7 Ix 122.7; Joseph Fried to Blum? Cohen, 1457 Washington av; mtg, $5,500; May 15; attys, Smith, If & W, 277 Bway. 10 LOT 27, block 21; lot 7, 7, block 12 M irrls Park; Leon Dauber to Harry N., ub?-, 15 West 116th st. v. H V, Rothstein, 400 5th av., $100 184TH ST, n c; v vi ri.S to st, n w t! Sam.Tiis to Hu. atty, W K Summ la,.- Liberty st. $1 WASHINGTON AV, u w a, 170 11 16 Robinson M Hauptman, 1313 Washington av; rntgo, $5,700; May 7; atty, I. Hauptmann, 7713 Washington av....$100 CORSA AV, s h. Lots 21S-214, map Lacombe Park. 60x120x50x111; Jos A Down to Adolphin.? T Hoftinann, 886 West 179th st; May 10; city, McWilliams & Co., la* Nassau St. $1; SAME PROPERTY; Adolphino T. Hoffman to.io. A 1'own, HO East 92d St.; May 10, at 1:30. same.51 BEAUTY, 1 -... 1031 1 717. map 1.1 111x50;.1. r,\ I'- Adolphino T. Hoffman - h m. May 10, stlya. Mi \\ as H. 154 V'a.na11 '". BAMB PROPERTY; Ad ii,mm to ?!"? A Down, 140 Eaal ?3d at; UaJC lii, ?ttJWk ?)UP.???? m i.i, n ,i - . T1 SURROGATES' NOTICES Mr?-?PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OI Honorable John P. Cohalan. a Surrogat? t of the County of New York. NOTICE t hereby given to all persons having claim st Grace O'Daj Macpherson, late o the County ol New York, deceased, to pre tent the same with voucher? thereof t? i the subscribers, at their place ot transaot j tng business at the office of Messrs, Mur : ray, Prentl - * H-->w?an?V their attorneys ? "? 7 ?'.".' s ? >-. in the Borough o '? Manhattan, in the City of New York, Stati ' of New York, on or before the 20th day o November, 1 ?v York, the 8th day of May 1919 ??? iLLAN MACPHBK80N, TABLE TRUST COMPANY OI NEW YORK. Administrators. MURRAY, PRENTICE & HOWLAND at ton s ' - tdmin rat -, Offic? and !' O. ad ' ? 'an. New y- ?. _ : FRENCH, SARAIT E.?TN PURSUA NCI of a--, order of Honorable John P. Co ha.'-.. ? Sun (gate of the County of Ne? 1 York, NOTICE Is hereby given to aM per having claims against ^sr.i?- B French, late of the County of New York i deceased, to present the same, with vouch ? >rrs thereof, to the subscriber, at p!ac< Dee of th? executor Central Union Trust Company oi Ne?- York, at No BO ! - In '.? . of N-?v? - before th?. ev York, the 2nd ?lav cf April, 1919. CENTR VL UNION TRrsT CO: ir YORK, i< utor. MILLEF. KING LANE & TRAJ and P O. Broadway, Borough of New York IN PRICE OF AN ORDER OF HON Cohalan, a Surrogate of New York against - nt the same, with - ?, at No. New York the 1st day of No ,-embei -, the 16th day of April. 1919. THOMAS J BLANCK? BLIUS W. BERDAN, i for? RICHARD LEWIS, Attorney ,... - Office and I 68 v. igh ci M??: Tvew -i ork City. IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF ? ihalan, b Burrogate of the County of New York. NOTICE is hereby given, to all persons having claims ? Frederick Mead, late of the of New York as... to present the same \| with vouchers thereof to the said at their place of transacting business the office of Simpson, Thacher & Hartlett, \| their attorneys, in No. 12 Cedar Street, In I the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, on or before the 21st day of July next. I, New York, the 11th day of January, 1919. THOMAS THACHER, PHILIP G. BARTLETT. Executors ?SIMPSON, THACHER & BAR Attorneys for Executors, 2 Cedar St., New York C?V LL1, MAXIMILIAN G? IN F?RSU sr of Honorable John P . -,';iie i : county of New : -- ;-;. given to all per ? Ulan Q. in ty of w S -?i. the same with r- thereof to the subscribers at their place-Room 102, New York City, on or before the 4th day New York, the 28th day of Jan? uar. i IRMERS LOAN AND TP.UST i i IMP ANY, JAMES B. K?LSHEIMER, r??"-u?or8. DUTTO?N <i- KILSHEIMER, Attorney? for Executors, 198 Broa .'' rattan Bor igh, New York I I. ??; PURSUANCE ? : ? ? - tarie Hauselt, i of t ? - of transact g business, at 1 he .......... , ? ?. b day of May, i 1910. QE ' WHITEFIELD BETTS, Jr., . . Inlst -utor. HUOT Waa hatl PECK, JULIA BUNCHE.-IN PURSU? ' . - of Honorable John P. s of hi ? - une \ of New ?? given to ell per .. u;ia Blanche f th? of New York, do . eeenl the same with. i her? if ber, at its j ? 88, M- 'he office. ol Pai ns attorneys, No. 52 et, B f Manhattan, In the ,., on or b' tore the Otb uguBt next. k, the 23rd day of Jan? uary.. rRANCB AND TRUST COMPANY, Executor. EMMET & PARISH, Attorneys for El? ecutor, 62 Wall Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York city. HENRIETTA.?IN PURSU Hoi ? given to ai ? ? ' in ty Ne w pri ' - same, with ?.at his - y of N< w V : ., on i i day of November, - ? ti New York, the 16th HA1 : Administrator. LOU] I ? I . - ? ' ' rney for Ad 931 Broadway, "ork. IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OP halan, a Surrogate of th inty of New York, Ne ?"] here e given to al - ^ against '-ah a? I ate ? - he Countj of New ^ ork. dei ! ? 7 ' ' me, with s thi ? of, r, at hi? placo of trn -. .n' No 15 Willi? m Stre? I. In the s. ,v York, ? ? .' New York, on or before the 10th day of -. ? ext. I New STork, the Stst day of March, EMIL JANOVIC, Executor. -- BOEHM, Attorney for Executor. - P. O. Address, IS William Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York City. MAN, JOSEPH RATHBORNE.?1?? ' ??: il le John P.- Surrogi te of ihe County of herebj given to all ., _iH..,. the County of New to e i ame, with riber, at h?r . - the ? ? oi nnings & R issell. No. I E ???? York, on or before the first daj of December next. LNCES J. CUSHMAN, Executrix. . New York, the 21st day of May, 19 - TSON, ?TENNINGS & RUSSELL, Ar tori - - UtriX, 15 Broad. New York City. IN I URSUANCE OP AN ORDER OP Honorable John P. Cohalan, a .Surrogate of the County of New York. NOTICE la hereby given to all persons having claims against Estelle T. Payne, ?ate of the of New York, ii- leased, to present the .same with vouchers thereof to the - r. .,- bis ; a ' of tran&aotlng bus: y, in ins Bor ?ugh of Manhattan, in the City of New York, on or before the 1st day of August next. Dated, New York, the ?4th a?sy of Jan? uary, 1.119. GEORGE C. FRAN-eiSCUS. Admhiistrator. THOMPSON ft FULLER, Attorneys for Administrator, loi Broadway, New York. Recorded Leases Manhattan ' Crest ej ? . - Cron 346 Bway .?9,600 to SI I :-.r> 8TH av. 488; s & b; Con a .'. - to Nicholas Eleoponlos, 2U1 W 88th sti C yra, from ! leo V. 1919, atty. Nlon O Raki. 10 Wall st. HARRISON ST 19-21; str. o & 2d'!'.; V.'ni Qerken to Morris J Neri Reboren & h-./iis. 19 Harrison st; 6 vrs. from May 1, 1919, atty, Ales Q Sehern, 149 : ?2.160 Bronx MORRIS AV, 681; nil; Wm We!., to Bam Rirnb ?~ 16; Win. ???' :-,,, i 1819; utv.>, h <iooduj???i, liu:. Prospect i Wn?.?.im??.m.....??? < iiC-ft SURROGATES' NOTICES Lui urmw tell VON SCHOENING, MICHAEL K. (AI known as M. B. Schoening).?Xi> purmv. anee of an order of Honorable Jean P. C<M halan, a Surrogate of the County of New York, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons having claims against MICHAEL K von 6CHOENING i (?.leo known as M. EL Schoen;ri?>ate or the County of New York, deceased, to present the same with vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at the) pia? > of transit-ting business, at the pr!" c.pal office of Twin Farmers' Loan aaf. Trust Company. No. 52 William Street, Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, on or before the 7th.?ay of June next* Dated New York, the 12th day of November, 1858. J. H. T. ANDREWS. THE FARMERS' LOAN. TRUST COUPANT, Temporary Administrators. VER PLANK & PRINCE, Attorney, for John L. Andrews, Temporary Administrators. C. ELLER, ROUPTON & HORA! New York for The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. Notice to Creditors. George Addington, Albany County Judge and Acting Surrogate. Notice is hereby given, according to law, to all persons having claims against James C. Farrell, late of the city of Albany, in said county, deceased, that required to exhibit the same, with their claims in support thereof, to the subscriber, the executrix of the last will and testament of said deceased, at her place of business as such executrix, at the law offices of Charles J. 95 State Street, in the city of Albany, New York, on or before the 24th day of July next. Dated, Albany, N.Y., this 13th day of January, A.D. MARGARET RADY FARRELL, Executrix. CHARLES J. TOBIN, Attorney for Executrix, 35 State Street, Albany, N.Y. IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF HONOR, Norton, a Surrogate of the County of New York, NOTICE is hereby given that all persons having claims against the estate of Alfred E. East 42nd Street, in the City of New York, on or before the 1st day of November, 1919, next, will file their claims in the office of Alfred E. East 42nd Street, in the City of New York, on or before the 1st day of November, 1919. ALFRED E. SCHER MERHORN. QE C. GEORGE, Executor? ROOSEVELT & ROBBINS, Attorneys at Law, Office and P. O. Address, 46 Walnut Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York City. HAWKS. JAMES W. IN PURSUANCE OF THE ORDER OF Honorable John P. Cohalan, a Surrogate of the County of New York, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons having claims against James W. Hawes, late of the County of New York, deceased, to present the same with vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at the place of business of the Lawyers Title and Trust Company, No. 160 Broadway, in the Borough of Manhattan, of the City of New York. On or before the 31st day of May next. Dated, New York, the 18th day of May, 1858. LAWYERS TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY. WILLIAM I. SMITH, DANIEL W. HAWES, and others. DEAN TRACY & STANFIELD, Attorneys for Executors, No. 60 Broadway, New York. IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF John P. Cohalan, a Surrogate, duly of New York, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested in the estate of John P. Cohalan, a Surrogate, duly of New York, that on the 4th day of August next, the 3rd day of February, 1858, George Reese Batterfield, Executor. BATTERLEE. CANFIELD A-STON, Attorney at Law, office, hattan, City of New York. BAYLON, WILLIAM?IN PURSUANCE of H. P. CO? HALAN, a Surrogate of the New York, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons WILLIAM LAY LIS, of New York, deceased, to present the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at the place of his office, office of Bay State Co., No. 15 Wall street, of New York, on or before the of September next.	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'sn83030214_1919-05-26_1_21_1', 'collection': 'US-PD-Newspapers', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '1919.0', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '6440', 'token_count': '10191', '__index_level_0__': '11786', 'original_id': 'd6ed062abc1914acf652e8bf489a2c5d849b50b1c7f781545f8dbe85b4a249d5'}
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\section{Order of Boolean Group is Power of 2} Tags: Boolean Groups \begin{theorem} Let $G$ be a Boolean group. Let $\order G$ denote the order of $G$. Then: :$\order G = 2^n$ where $n \in \Z_{\ge 0}$ is a positive integer. \end{theorem} \begin{proof} The case where $n = 0$ is clear: :$\order {\set e} = 1$ and $e^2 = e$. {{AimForCont}} $\order G = m \times 2^k$ for some odd integer $m$. Then $m$ itself has an odd prime $p$ as a integer (which may of course equal $m$ if $m$ is itself prime). Then by Cauchy's Lemma (Group Theory) there exists $g \in G$ such that $\order g = p$. Hence it is not the case that $g^2 = e$. Hence $\order G$ has no prime factor which is odd. The result follows. {{qed}} \end{proof}	math_pile	{'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': 'ae2a29e2dd08e92c56cf3716b73741e104f30e982898a20dd71e828ef8a71a90'}
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Twitter is having a field day with former The Flash director John Francis Daley who took a jab at the Joker movie over the perceived Oscars snub received by Uncut Gems and Adam Sandler. Joker has received 11 Oscar nominations while the Uncut Gems movie starring Sandler received zero, which didn't sit well with John Francis Daley, the writer behind Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man: Homecoming who was once supposed to direct DC's The Flash movie with Jonathan Goldstein. "Uncut Gems would’ve gotten Oscar love if they had just called Sandler’s character The Riddler," Daley wrote, obviously referencing the Joaquin Phoenix Joker flick. Uncut Gems would’ve gotten Oscar love if they had just called Sandler’s character The Riddler. — John Francis Daley (@JohnFDaley) January 14, 2020 Fans react to John Francis Daley anti-Joker comment Comic book fans immediately tore into the writer on Twitter. "Says the fella who got fired from a comic book movie. Stay salty and keep doing your lame a-- 'comedy' movies that no one cares about," replied one Twitter user. "Uncut Gems would’ve gotten Oscar love if they had just slapped the MCU seal on it," another Twitter user chimed in, as Marvel's The Avengers: Endgame is also up for two Oscars. "People liked Joker because it was a good movie and it got nominations because it deserved it. This is rich coming from the writer of Spider-Man Homecoming," said another. Another Twitter user brought up Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. "The backlash for not nominating [The Dark Knight] for [Best Picture] forced the Academy to change the [Best Picture] nomination from five movies to ten but yeah tell me how easy it is for [comic book movies] to get on the better side of the Academy. I'll wait," another tweeted. "I can't believe people get so bent out of shape over awards that other people/movies are nominated/not nominated for and/or win/don't win. Get over it," recommended another fan sporting a Henry Cavill Superman Man of Steel profile image. "'Professional' opinion from the writer of SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING - nuff said," tweeted another. "Oh come on now Johnny, don’t get salty towards DC just cause you didn’t get to turn Flash into a Spider-Man clone," replied another.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f31fc06efe8d1cb7372763d381af0d7f6c32e83dd796617e07702c0e000bf8d8'}
Progress is always personified with a ladder that is considered a symbol of growth, prosperity and achievement. To find positivity in each and every bit of life is what our ultimate goal should be. So, to get started, the first and the foremost thing is to sow that seed of positivity in your mind and see that seed growing and becoming a reality. When we achieve progress in life, where, how and when do not matter. We develop a sense of satisfaction; well-being and we are proud of ourselves, sometimes for a little while only. We, humans, always relate progress with happiness, growth, achievement, exposure and expansion. But we never focus on the paradox and the bulk that growth or progress brings with it. The idea of paradox of progress highlights the ill effects in any form that progress brings to our life. To make the idea simpler and clearer, paradox refers to a seemingly absurd and contradictory word. So, when we say paradox of progress which itself is a statement that at first would not make any sense but as it said, when we dig deeper, mostly we find treasure. The human mind is fatigued when it experiences any kind of progress. We are tempted to get more of it. We fear what might happen if we are unable to do justice to the progress we have achieved. We have this mental pressure to be consistent with our work so that there is always progress and new heights achieved. Imagine that you scored really well in your examinations, you are happy, your family is delighted with your score. You celebrate your happiness and then there comes a thought which shakes you up. You start thinking about future, “What if I am not able to score the next time?” What if someone else gets better marks? What if this is not enough? All these thoughts snatch away the smile of today. You were happy, you were proud but your overthinking and anxiety for the next chapter of progress brings you down. Just take a pause and hold on for a second, the progress that is meant to give you happiness, joy, peace and reason to work even harder, should not be a continuous pressure on you to succeed. Life is a journey, you will get everything on your way, and you will have your ups and alongside you will be having the downs as well. Celebrate your progress for now and work hard for the next time, but don’t be stressed and muddled up to achieve everything right with just the blink of an eye. Don’t be the one who gets anxious and desperate when things get better, because that will strain you, make you weak, disturb your mental health and peace. Don’t forget that there is a lesson in every chapter of life, and every chapter is not going to soothe you, make you happy or bring a smile on your face. There will be chapters that are there to teach you and guide you towards some underrated things in life. Celebrate today, Celebrate the success, the happiness and the progress of the present. 29 Comments on “Paradox Of Progress! 1. Pleased to see that you find positivity in all aspects and express it so vividly and convincingly…keep it up Liked by 1 person 2. Splendid!!! True words… We need to live and enjoy in the present… Future isn’t ours to see…. Just need to work hard to achieve what we want… But that does not mean that we get too anxious… Live in the moment… Great thoughts… U help me see life through new perspectives 💖💖💖 Liked by 1 person 3. It was a treat to read this beautifully laid out path of paradox of progress! Kudos to you 🤟 Liked by 1 person 4. 👍👍 wow Nishtha.well done. beautifully written.. Every success brings lots of worries to achieve more n more in our life.we can’t celebrate our today in tension of is like has both ups and downs and every situation is changeable so enjoy every moment of your life. Liked by 1 person 5. Celebrate 🎈 how far you have come today… Yet another great piece of work..Nishtha… Just marvellous… Congratulations 👏.. keep it up.. Liked by 1 person Leave a Reply to Anita Samtani Cancel reply You are commenting using your account. 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Shiner comes through with this new hoppy offering — it continues a trend the past few years of American pale and India pale ales in the less-intense “session beer” realm. First, 777 had the fluffiest head I’ve ever come across in a bottled APA or APL. It sat an inch above the glass without any liquid dripping down the sides of the glass. It did eventually recede, leaving sticky lacing. The initial aroma was of mellow pine and grapefruit. Not overly resinous or citrusy; but not dull, either. The attractive light copper-orange color provided a medium caramel malt taste, with some wood overtones from the use of oak staves. There was hop bitterness, but restrained. The lager influence showed up in a drier, crisper body and mouthfeel than a typical ale in the same style. All in all, a very enjoyable example and while its 7-percent ABV may place it as stronger than a session beer, it drinks like one. Shiner has wide distribution in the U.S.; its Beer Finder link is at www.shiner.com/find. I wrote about a couple of impressive Goose Island bourbon barrel-aged beers two weeks ago: a porter and a blueberry-almond Northwoods imperial stout. I mentioned at the time I would include more information on the Bourbon County Brand Stout (BCBS) line, since most of them are being released Nov. 24. These include the original Brand Stout, Barleywine, the Northwoods, Proprietor’s (inspired by Bananas Foster), Coffee and a Reserve Brand, the latter being aged in 11-year-old Knob Creek bourbon barrels. The original still stands up well — balanced with the typical imperial stout and bourbon flavors, along with a cherry background. I reviewed it last year and found it overly sweet, but that was not the case this year. It was moderately sweet, in line with most imperial stouts. The Reserve stout differs from the original mostly in that the Knob Creek bourbon notes are more pronounced and there was more char in the flavor, resulting in a nice background smokiness. This beer will only be available in Chicago and Kentucky outlets. I was not able to review the others being released. Goose Island has wide national distribution, but these specialty beers will not last long. I have heard for years that lines a block or more long occur at liquor stores in Chicago the day after Thanksgiving solely for a chance to buy the BCBS beers. Goose Island has a Beer Finder link at www.gooseisland.com/our-beers. Beer Man sez: Shiner offers an American India Pale Lager that combines the best of hoppy American styles and lager fermentation.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'bc9cc613eb80b81af6e46e09976a02565a17f731a70ea263422940029b5c3aa2'}
What is black chocolate and 9 other kinds of chocolate Welcome to the world of Cocoacraft. There are many forms and flavours of chocolate. How are they produced? Simple answer: by calibrating the quantities of the different ingredients. Other flavours can be obtained by varying the time and temperature when roasting the beans. They make for fascinating varieties with unique personalities. Come, let’s bite into them. Bon bon appétit! Milk chocolate In 1875, Swiss confectioner Daniel Peter, in cooperation with his neighbour Henri Nestlé in Vevey, developed the first solid milk chocolate using condensed milk. The bar was named “Gala Peter”, combining the Greek word for “milk” and his name. White chocolate is made of sugar, milk, and cocoa butter, without the cocoa solids. Organic chocolate is chocolate which contains all ingredients that are certified organic. Raw Chocolate Unsweetened chocolate Also known as bitter, baking chocolate, or cooking chocolate, this is pure chocolate liquor mixed with some form of fat to produce a solid substance. The pure, ground, roasted cocoa beans impart a strong, deep chocolate flavour. With the addition of sugar, however, it is used as the base for cakes, brownies, confections, and cookies. Dark Chocolate Also known as ‘plain chocolate’ or ‘black chocolate’, it is produced using higher percentages of cocoa, traditionally with cocoa butter instead of milk, but there are also dark milk chocolates and many degrees of hybrids. Bittersweet chocolate This is chocolate liquor (or unsweetened chocolate) to which some sugar (less than a third), more cocoa butter, vanilla flavouring, and sometimes lecithin has been added. It typically has less sugar and more liquor than semisweet chocolate. The higher the percentage of cocoa, the less sweet the chocolate is. Bittersweet and semisweet chocolates are sometimes referred to as ‘couverture’, a term used for chocolates rich in cocoa butter. Semisweet chocolate It is a dark chocolate with (by definition in Swiss usage) half as much sugar as cocoa, beyond which it is “sweet chocolate”. Semisweet chocolate does not contain milk solids. Compound chocolate Modelling chocolate Is a chocolate paste made by melting chocolate and combining it with corn syrup, glucose syrup, or golden syrup. It is primarily used by upscale cake-makers and patisseries to add decoration to cakes and pastries. #Cocoacraft #Couverture #Chocolate #Chocopedia.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '198', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9471830129623412}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '27597', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:W5662MDCVN36DNKFAVH6D3A7UFXBVKW2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:34382d92-6ddb-4281-84f8-1650925051b5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 22, 23, 36, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '89.238.188.42', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HC5TTOSOGD77M5XGCMP2M7PR3C62O6BB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:80908c12-39e4-4c25-8488-073bbb00cae7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://cocoacraft.in/blog/what-is-black-chocolate-and-9-other-kinds-of-chocolate/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:60e1533d-bf6e-49c6-937c-66c28677c9be>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '486', 'url': 'http://cocoacraft.in/blog/what-is-black-chocolate-and-9-other-kinds-of-chocolate/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-143-252-163.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': '0.2682165503501892', 'original_id': 'cde4450f91662702f2017af5142f7998ca63199f33ddd54b642d8f95539d6c7c'}
OOIOO Discography Gold and Green Thrill Jockey thrill 160 - 2006 Imagine a feather floating from outer space and landing on earth. What's going on? Which bird did this feather come from? That's what OOIOO's (pronounced oh-oh-eye-oh-oh) music is like? so colorful and shiny that you can't even see what is happening. OOIOO's Gold and Green reveals the group's hard-to-categorize and refreshing avant-garde rock music, which adeptly incorporates elements of punk and more traditional tribal music. Their rhythms are unique and the organic interplay with the vocals is compelling. The music is complex and challenging and playful and childlike. Previously released only in Japan, Gold and Green includes guest appearances including Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), and Sean Lennon. The album packaging, designed by Yoshimi, is a beautiful miniature gatefold album jacked filled with drawings and photographs by Yoshimi and other artists. OOIOO began as a fictitious band for a photo shoot for Switch magazine in 1996. An all-female four-piece ensemble started by Yoshimi, the Boredoms' drummer, the band quickly gained attention by being the opening act for Sonic Youth in 1997. On Gold and Green, Yoshimi shows off her musical imagination and virtuosity with her songwriting, as well as by playing the guitar, flute, and trumpet, singing, and adding a number of percussion elements. Yoshimi is joined in OOIOO by the striking Kayano on guitar and vocals, the petite and powerful Maki on bass, and the amazing Yoshico on drums. OOIOO toured the United States in 2004 for the first time in over five years in support of their recent release, Kila Kila Kila. Their soldout tour performances were notable for their unique exuberance and captivating stage presence. Starting off with a vocals-only polyrhythmic song, the band struck a chord like no other. They will be recording a new album for release in the fall of 2006. Features deluxe hard backed gatefold LP styled packaging. Full color artworked booklet inside as well.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9588095545768738}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16416', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HLGM5V77DCO7Z2N6WXCTZPTPNGNLWELF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:80eba65e-1969-41d1-ba17-992fda9cf5b4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 4, 46, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '108.168.220.226', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MYKXVAI7N63AJLGCPUWSWBABYVSBLENJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b82f43c6-abd4-4e08-afc2-89580e742210>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/OOIOO/Gold-and-Green', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8ae292b3-f5f0-441e-8d88-b0ad6fc140b3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '328', 'url': 'http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/OOIOO/Gold-and-Green', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06641387939453125', 'original_id': '5d533080157389effe08ccb2733f898aef881083ed3258d9abbc9f35ca11bd28'}
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-9gVQ4dYFwwWSjIDZnLEWnxCjeSWFphJiwGPXr1jddIhOegiu1FwO5qRGvFXOdJZ4" crossorigin="anonymous"> <head> <title>Police Interview</title> <style> p { font-family: Arial; font-size: 150%; } a { color: black; text-decoration: inderit } .jumbotron { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, -30%); } </style> </head> <body> <div class="text-center jumbotron"> <h1>Police Interview</h1> <p><a href="Lee.html">Lee's</a> house was filled with uninvited guests that day, yet he could not resist these people, for they are with the police.</p> <p>The <a href="Headofpolice.html">head of police</a> sat down straightly and put a bunch of photographs in front of <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a>. "I will cut to the case." said him, "Recent half of the year, there has been fourteen murders occuring in the city."</p> <p><a href="Lee.html">Lee</a> did not understand what that had to do with him, afterall, he stayed at home most of the time. So the head of police showed him <a href="thelist.html">the list</a>.</p> <p> Which <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a> read through very carefully, and he found out that the last girl, Jana, had nothing to do with him. </p> <p> "This girl Jana, was the girl you hit on that day when you were drunk, in the bar. She hit you in the face in the end." Police said, "Anyway, these people all have connections with you and somehow offended you, even in the slightest way." </p> <p>But <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a> know that this could never mean that he was the killer, after all, these are just small connections.</p> <p>"It's me." Ivey stood up, "My dear, it was all me, I killed them all because these are all your enemies."</p> <p>Everyone was shocked, mostly <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a>. He would never thought sweet Ivey could do such things. But then <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a> started to remember something strange..."You did not understand" Ivey said, "but you will very soon."</p> <p> So Ivey was taken, leaving <a href="Lee.html">Lee</a> in total shock and unprehension. <a href="ending.html">But he soon understood.</a> </p> </div> </body> </html>	the_stack	{'hexsha': 'e74cbf7685e078fd277284224540ca122cae2f56', 'size': '2541', 'ext': 'html', 'lang': 'HTML', 'max_stars_repo_path': 'games/Hyperfiction/finalevent.html', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'diaosuyidsy/diaosuyidsy.github.io', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': 'e4c6b3657884382096c46e3cea880a0142dfb234', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': 'games/Hyperfiction/finalevent.html', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'diaosuyidsy/diaosuyidsy.github.io', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': 'e4c6b3657884382096c46e3cea880a0142dfb234', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': 'games/Hyperfiction/finalevent.html', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'diaosuyidsy/diaosuyidsy.github.io', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': 'e4c6b3657884382096c46e3cea880a0142dfb234', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['MIT']", 'max_forks_count': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '', 'avg_line_length': '48.8653846154', 'max_line_length': '264', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.6363636364', 'original_id': '3af28443ae524dff7845793b430e6f247f4e6bf465b9e86c72f54500eb6fd9e6'}
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Mall and Telegraph. De-oca-auc Territorial Convention for Washington Territory met at Kalama on the 15th. The Convention was called to order by a Delegate. Judge J. D. Mix, of Walla Walla, was chosen temporary Chairman; J. B. Travis, of Goldendale, Secretary, and C. D. Emery, of Seattle, Assistant Secretary. The following Delegates were appointed: R. V. Chadd, of Yakima; N. Ostrander, of Thurston; W. B. Crow, of Columbia; Wm. Collina, of Skamania, and Frank J. Parker, of Walla Walla. Recess for ten minutes taken. PERMANENT moaxrzartox. The Committee on Credentials reported the following Delegates as entitled to seats: Chehalis—W D Milrey by W D Baker proxy. W D Baker. Clallam —Wm Payne by J A Kuhn, proxy. Clarke—B 1" Shaw. Bachmeyer. A Marble, by Arthur Dillon, proxy, A Dillon. George W Hart, by B 1" Shaw, proxy, James Byhee. Columbia—W D Crow, J K Rutherford. R P Sm. and R Long by W Crow, proxy. J M Hunt, A Baker. J W Sweezea and J K Kennedy by J M Hunt proxy. Cowlitz—C C Bozarth, Wm Jackson. Catlin. Island—Robert Resolutions was appointed: W. H. White, of King, N. T. Caton of Walla Walla, J. P. Judson of Olympia, J. B. Landrum of Klickitat and J. A. Kuhn of Jefferson. They reported the following as the Committee on Resolutions: 1. Nomination of candidate for Delegate to Congress. 2. One Brigadier General. 3. One Adjutant General. 4. One Quartermaster General. 5. One Commissary General. 6. Report of District nominations. 7. Appointment of Territorial Central Committee. 8. Miscellaneous. 9. Adjournment. Adopted. White, of King, read the following resolutions, which were adopted amid much enthusiasm: Resolved, That we endorse the nomination of the Soldier Stateeman, Winfield Scott Hancock, and his worthy colleague, W. H. English, their letters at acceptance, and the Platform of the Convention that nominated them. We are in favor of a speedy admission of the Territory of Washington into the Union as a Slow, and to that end we will lend our united efforts. We are opposed to the Republican policy in the management of the Territories which has been forced by the Republican party, and our Delegate in Congress is especially instructed to use his influence to change this policy for the better. Districts. Clark, of Pierce, presented Judge Thurlow, of Seattle, as Delegate to Congress. The nomination was warmly seconded by White of Seattle and Caton of Walla Walla. No other names were presented, and Mr. Burke was nominated by acclamation. Following are the nominations for other Territorial officers—all by election. Brigadier General—James McCaulay, of Walla Walla. Adjutant General—Frank Guttenberg, of King. Quartermaster General—J. W. Bonner, of Thurston. Commissary General. —James M. Hunt, of Columbia. White of King moved that Judge J. A. Kuhn of Port Townsend be elected Chairman of the Territorial Central Committee; carried unanimously. Beriah Brown oﬂered the following, which was adopted : ‘ "exalted, That the Central Committee the instructed to specify, in the call for > the next Territorial Convention, that no . prox‘ws will be udmitted and no Dele~ ' gn'es permitted to represent a District of: I which he is not a citizen. ‘ l Kuhn sf Jeﬁ‘erson otl'ered the follow i ing, which WM adopted : l \Vntcnms, The Democracy of the Ter ' ritury of Washington has maintained its , organizatil n tor years against the power I at tnc'vw' in; Republican Administrations and Federal patronage. and ‘ \VIIFJH-‘AS. The population of our Ter ritnry lm< increased to such a number that vur admission as a State cannot be much longer delayed and it is of vital ‘importanca that our organization he made us pertect as possible. but without recognition by the Nulmnnl Dormer-tic party such an organization is impnsslble, thureforebe it Resolved. That a committee of three be appointed by this Convention to commu nicate with tho Notionnl Democratic Committee and to represent our wants l and ask that we hereafter be properly recognized. Adopted wtth the amendment that the Cvntrﬁ‘ﬁeai..iﬁ:"“!!g" constitute the ﬁ , coking ~ e WI fin-vi magma, . _ "5 ﬁnial! Pacino Maw?!“ ex tended, was passed. t CENTRAL couutmm The following gentlemen were chosen by the Delegates from the several Jmli. cial Districts. as a Territorial Central Committee: 4’ J. A. Kuhn of Jrﬁ'urson, Chairman. R. V. Cltntlul M Yakima, Secretary. G. 0. Kellry ol Pierce. Henry Miles of Lewis. J. D. Mix of W'aila Walla. J, Hoover of Whitman. R. [‘l Sit-en of Columbia. Mark Evans of Wnlla Walla. Jas. LaDI) of Cowlltz. B. F. Show ul‘ Clarke. M. J. MvElroy of Whatcom. Hillory Butler of King. Robert C. Hill of Island. o'rnrm NOMINATIONS. } Board of Equ tlizntion—lst District, H. l L. Caples of Columbia; 2d District. N. Ostrander of Thurston; 3d District, E. Q. “'arlmss of S-nn Juan. {host-outing Attorneys—2d District, Hiram Dustin of K'ickitnt; 3d District. W. R. Andrews of LuConner. .tom'r CoUNCILMEN. Walla Walla, Whitman and Columbia, N. T. Cntun, ol Walla Walla. Stevens, Spokan and Yakima—Wm. Biggam, of Spokan. ‘ Pierce, Chehnlis and Paciﬁc—George. 0. Kelly. 1 Thurston and Lewis—J. P. Judson. Jom'r REPRESENTATIVES. Walla Walls and Whitman—Jacob Hoover of Whitman. Spokan and Stevens—John Hoﬂ'stndt er, of Stevens. No other nominations for Councilmen or Representatives were made, or if they were such nominations were concealed from the Secretary. The newly elected Central Committee held is meeting on board the boat, ap~ pointed subcommittees from their own number, and laid out. plans for this fall’s campaign. The Cmnmittee will attempt to arrange for ajoiut discussion. The Prince and Princess oi Wales and their children attended the Pﬂ’r‘mP‘“ ‘2’ of Amerlcen Minstrels, at Her Mair-'3‘! ’ theatre, and enjoyed "I. performance b N orth Paci ﬂc BREWERY AUGUST IEHLIICII. PROPHET”. ‘ (soccuson to 11. sodium] i The Best Beer aiwlyi 0" “l“d' ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. ___._. _,______________________ DENTISTRY DR J. C. GRASSE. DENTIST. OFFICE over L. I’. Smith at Son’s Jeweller! 3‘o". Sullivan‘s Block, Seattle. Also Agent [or t‘hinkerinzdt Sou'n celebrated Pianos. ___________________________.___. I. ‘l'. FIJNN. J. S. ANDIISON. " ADhLPHI SALODN- Opporite Yester's Hall, Seattle: A PBOCLAMA TION BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE TERRI I'O RY OF WASHINGTON. Wnemns, It is the duty of the Governor at least sixty days belore any general election to issue his Proclamation designating the otﬂces to be ﬁlled at such election. Now, therefore, I, Eusua P. Mer, Governor of said Territory, do hereby declare that a general election will be held in said territory on Tuesday the second day of November, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty, at which the following named officers will be elected: A Delegate to represent said Territory in the Forty-Seventh Congress of the United States. A Brigadier General. A Quarter Master General. A Commissary General. A Quarter Master General. A Quarter Master General. A Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District. A Prosecuting Attorney for the Third Judicial District. A Member of the Board of Equalization for the First Judicial District. A Member of the Board of Equalization for the Third Judicial District. A Member of the Board of Equalization for the Third Judicial District. A Member of the Board of Equalization for the Third Judicial District. Members of both branches of the Legislative Assembly. And all County and Precinct officers required by the laws of said Territory. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Territory to be affixed, at Olympia, this 31st day of August, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-sixth. ELISHA P. FERRY, Governor. By order of The Governor. N. 11. Owrsas, Secretary. Albert M. Snyder ATTORNEY FOR U. S. CLAIMANTS. CUMMINS OF DEEDS FOR OREGON IN CALIFORNIA. NOTARY PUBLIC. Collector, Etc. PREEMPT UN ENTRIES MADE AND HOMESTEAD FINAL PROOF TAXES, CONVEYING DONE, LOANS NEGOTIATED. THREE MONTHS PAY. Officers, soldiers and seamen of the Mexican War have been granted three months' extra pay by Congress. The Widows, Brothers, and Sisters of deceased Soldiers and Sailors are entitled under the act. All such will do well to call on me and make application for the same. Soldiers' Additional Homesteads. Every soldier, sailor or marine who served more than 90 days in the Army or Navy of the United States during the recent rebellion, and who was honorably discharged, if he has entered less than 160 acres of land under the provisions of the homestead law, is entitled to a certificate from the General Land Office, recognizing the right of the party to make additional entry to make up the full 160 acres. These claims are assignable by the use of two powers of attorney, and can be located on any surveyed land that is subject to original Homestead entry. That is, any surveyed land, when N. 5 or $2.50 land that is not mineral land. The right attaches, without settlement or improvement, at once on filing the scrip in any district land office, to the exclusion of any subsequent claim under any law. I have the official blanks furnished by the Government and can obtain them at short notice. Orders for certificates already issued taken by me, and can be furnished on deposit of money at the following rates: 12 acres, $3.85 per acre; Successful pieces, $33.75 per acre; 40 acre piece, $3.4538 per acre. PENSIONS can OLD AND UTE Wills. Have greater facility to obtain and collect these claims than any other on the coast, having all the blanks, laws and late rulings of the Pension Office in hand. INDIAN WAR CLAIMS, BOUNTIES, PRIZE MONEY. ARREARS OF PAY, TRAVEL PAY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. STATES AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS LECTED. Letters of inquiry must contain something for reply and address ALBERT M. SNYDER, Seattle, W. T. Office-Mill Street, next Post Office. Refers to Delegate T. E. Brents of W. T. Senators L. F. Grover, Jan. 1. Slater and Representative John Whitaker of Oregon. WEEKLY BERIAH BROWN, Publisher. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1. SEATTLE, WASH. TERRITORY. 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Darcy Norman: The next frontier is mindset Norman worked with Germany at two major tournaments Norman worked with Germany at two major tournaments DARCY NORMAN, the former Head of Performance for AS Roma, believes mindset and communication will be the biggest areas of improvement for the industry in the coming months and years. The American worked for the Italian giants for three years before exiting in June, and is now Director of Performance Science for Kitman Labs. Prior to Roma, he held senior positions with both Bayern Munich and the German national team. “We have enough tech, that is not our limiting factor,” Norman told TGG, “our limiting factor can be the ability to communicate between the different parts of the performance system, which is down to mentality and communication. “Communication is key. Simple things, like the way you phrase things - everyone loves an upgrade, nobody wants to change - and the words you choose. “You can say things in so many different ways to convey a message, which in turn controls the way we interact. “It’s the same with mindset. If you have a guy that has too much ego, it’s not good for the team. If you have people who just do what they’re told in order to keep a job, it’s not as effective as when values are truly aligned. “People can with-hold power, have corner conversations, fail to be accountable. Everything is above the shoulders. “You have to train the brains of everyone around you to act in a cohesive manner. You have to take the time to understand the mental models of each person to understand where they’re coming from. “If you think how exposed a team of players is on the pitch and how much they need to communicate - it should be the same for the team behind the team.” The head of German football’s ‘Think Tank’, Dr Thomas Hauser, also believes communication and decision-making will be key areas of focus. The Think Tank was set up by the DFB to investigate how the latest advances in psychology, fitness, medicine, machine learning, movement science and neuroscience can be applied to football. “We work in a strong collaboration with Max Planck Society and Institute for Human Development in Berlin,” Hauser told TGG. “One of their areas of study is decision-making in an uncertain world. More data does not lead to better decisions is one of their most interesting hypotheses.” As part of the collaboration, the Think Tank is looking at heuristics - rules of thumb that can be the “building blocks of decision making”. This involves looking at how people make decisions under conditions of limited knowledge, time, and cognitive capacity and whether or not these are effective. James McCarron, Elite Performance Manager at the Premier League, has said: “We shouldn't turn our noses up on heuristics, we should embrace them.” The DFB Think Tank is aiming to do exactly what Norman suggests - bringing the different elements of performance to find a common language and generate new ideas - with its own work. “At the end of the day, in football there are a lot of egos, thinking they are right,” Hauser added. “We are not interested in who is right and who is wrong. We want to know the different opinions, from coaching, science, psychology, machine learning, analytics and so on. “Between these different opinions and discussions, new ideas are put on the table that just wouldn’t be possible if we only talked to one discipline. “When we talk just within silos, we never get new ideas. That’s what we’ve discovered in the Max Planck Institute. We also want confrontation, but this is not easy, because people feel attacked. “One goal of the Think Tank is to convince people we need to listen and discuss. For this you need time and we are fortunate not to be in a hurry like a Bundesliga or Premier League club.” Communication is a theme that Wayne Goldsmith, former performance manager for Australia Rugby Union, picks up in a forthright new blog post titled 'sports science - you've still got it wrong'. "I cannot believe that high performance sporting organisations do not include training and education on the art of communication and building honest, trusting relationships in their sports scientist induction programmes," he writes. "Doesn’t matter how great the science is, or how highly qualified the sports scientist might be - it all comes down to relationships. And if the coach and the athlete don’t know you, don’t like you, don’t trust you, you’re wasting your time talking to them. "Sports science is still light years away from understanding how to connect with and impact on coaches and coaching. It never ceases to amaze me. "Sports scientists will go and meet with coaches and start throwing the latest research findings at them, with the assumption that coaches are wrong and the research is right. No one in the world in any walk of life likes being told they are wrong - even if they are wrong. "Sports scientists need to learn how to listen to, respect and build quality effective relationships with coaches and athletes." Read more on: Current jobs Data Analyst Recent news Preston set sights on Category Two to improve player pathways Five key trends in coaching and management Head of Analysis and Insights Cremers exits Manchester City Highlights from the 2022 Youth Development Conference Former Burnley Academy Manager Pepper joins Lincoln City More stories TGG Live: SQL Masterclass TGG Live: SQL Masterclass DATA is valuable and SQL makes navigating it a lot easier. 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Savage Rifts: Chronicles of the D-Bee-Ain'ts The Liberators Returning to Forts’ Myth with additional team members, supplies, and materials to help build the town, Floopmaster Phlipp and the D-Bee-Ain’ts receive an alert from the town of Jazz-Parr. Investigating, they find that there are CS troops from El Dorado and from Lone Star. As the heroes engage with a patrol from El Dorado on a ridge overlooking Jazz-Parr, the Lone Star CS troopers open up on the Dorado troops in town and then begin loading captured D-Bees on to transports. Leaving several of the Dorado soldiers alive, the DBAs head to the town and engage with the remaining troops, preventing the last transport from leaving. They then, systematically, took down each of the other transports, eventually tracking them to their source, a makeshift base in El Dorado territory staffed by Lone Star soldiers. The team managed to lay down an assault on the base, stealing a Death’s Head transport to evacuate the would-be captives, with Phlipp vowing to get to the bottom of it all. Issue 2: Judgement Day As Floopmaster Phlipp and Sir Chewy head back to Castle Refuge to request that the Tomorrow Legion sanction Forts-myth as an official outpost of the Legion, peace talks are underway between the Simvan and Psi-Stalker tribes that are nearby, with representatives of each, High Chief Flurkold and Beqi Wentz, respectively, present for the negotiations. As discussions begin to deteriorate, the meeting is interrupted when a townsperson arrives having been bitten. Rapidly determining that it is a zombie attack, the D-Bee-Ain’ts, including Doc Jonez, Protectra, Sergeant Kitaur, and Kezzelvorne are joined by Flurkold and Wentz in repelling a massive zombie attack. During the assault, the zombies coalesce into a massive barrow golem. Still, the team makes short work of the monsters and Doc Jonez manages to locate the source of the zombies in a bunker beneath the old cemetery where a necromancer prepares some other spell. The D-Bee-Ain’ts and the ambassadors locate a hidden entrance to the massive bunker, defeating the undead monstrosities that guard the escape route and confronting the necromancer, Cynthiea Vexx. Vexx informs them that the spell she has been casting is one of control, but before she can explain further, Kitaur blasts her to nothing with his boom gun, hoping to destroy the unknown monster that lay behind her. When it becomes clear that the creature is still intact, Kezzelvorne blasts the area with her flame breath. However, the unknown foe reveals itself, having sustained only minor damage, as Hanging Judge Issac Parker. It senses the guilt among the assembled group and threatens them, initiating an attack. After a brief battle, the D-Bee-Ain’ts manage to gain the upper hand, but Doc Jonez locates the Vexx’s notes on the creature she has transformed Parker into and realizes that the reason she wanted to control it was because it would have become a powerful force for good. Announcing this to the group, Wentz rapidly requests Parker’s advice in settling her people’s dispute with the Simvan’s, the two having earned one another’s respect. Parker agrees and a treaty for peace is written based on mutual trade agreements. Issue 1: Local Heroes Floopmaster Phlipp and a crew of D-Bee-Ain’ts; including the faithful Grackle Tooth, Sir Chewee, the D’Norr Ley-Line Walker, Phaedon, the Lyn-Srial Cyber-Knight called Protectra, the Kittani Glitter Boy pilot called Kitaur, and the dragon name Kezzlevorne; are assigned to help out the people of the town of Fortsmith, where the former U.S. Marshals Museum stands relatively intact. Arriving, the team discovers that Brodkil demons have taken the museum, recently, killing those who were helping to restore the structure and terrorizing the townsfolk. With the help of the Sheriff, Narene, and Mayor Brendeh Burke, the D-Bee Ain’ts manage to enlist the assistance of the head of the Museum reclamation project, Jorge Manico. They use Jorge’s knowledge of the interior of the building to determine an attack plan. Assaulting the Brodkil in a pincer move, the team makes short work of the demons, but soon discovers that there had been a Shifter trap left behind, a summoning circle that brought a Thornhead Demon into the Museum! Clearing the way, Kitaur uses his Boom Gun to blast the creature, vaporizing the demon’s head. The D-Bee-Ain’ts spike the remains of the Thornhead near the entrance to town as a warning to all those that might cause trouble for Fortsmith. Over the course of the next few days, Phlipp and the team also manage to broker a peace between the people of Fortsmith, and the nearby tribes of Psi-Stalkers (led by Yan the Imperfect) and Simvan Monster Riders (led by Warchief Flurkold). As a result, the team is offered the chance to stay in Fortsmith and help rebuild the Museum into the newly established Fort Marhsal. Welcome to your campaign! A blog for your campaign Wondering how to get started? Here are a few tips: 1. Invite your players 2. Edit your home page 3. Choose a theme 4. Create some NPCs 5. 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Why Pray? A villanelle of sorts Why Pray?* Someone asked me just the other day—“why pray?” To re-align our own intent or seek to change God’s mind? Our measure here as ever is “what does Jesus say?” I have always reasoned praying as the faithful way to sing along in steady tune with plans divine. Then someone asked me recently: why pray? Does the Holy One take attendance day by day, counting my requests like mileposts in a line? Is this how Jesus urges us to pray? The monks before me paved the way, petitionary hours their cloister walk entwined. Did anyone inquire of them: why pray? Acres of print ‘cross ancient pages splay, prayer-filled tomes for every day designed: To all of this loquacity, what would Jesus say? We beg our God for daily bread, not offer it as pay, our asking not ourselves to fetter but unbind. Still someone asked again the other day: why pray? Plead your patient unrelenting need for mercy, I hear Jesus say. * This poem was inspired by a rich and multi-layered Wild Goose conversation with Tony Jones, in which he challenged us to discuss the purpose of prayer from a particularly Christian apologetic perspective. The villanelle form (like much liturgical prayer) provides a set structure inside which one can find a lot of freedom for adaptation and exploration, but which (also like set liturgical prayer) can have its limitations. About these ads One Response to Why Pray? A villanelle of sorts 1. Pingback: The Wild Goose Festival: My Talks Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '9', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8961490988731384}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '56269', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OLEROXYMIFZD4HZ67LT3HDFSCBXZZT2D', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c091967f-89ba-465a-8c88-50eaf97d156e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 19, 19, 34, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.80.250', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2DRKSGWEK234OHOEHNYJY7FQEJKH7TSB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1f894606-25d3-4c89-bc0b-98e0d0dc439c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://mothersara.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/why-pray/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2795ef9f-400c-42b8-929b-00c065921465>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '315', 'url': 'http://mothersara.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/why-pray/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7152957320213318', 'original_id': 'e128d67b3057ec1369d10e940562af016f3d54f3260329dcfac02cb50d549f5c'}
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "Kangarilla and the Magic Tarantula" Review Well, that was... strange. "What the hell did I just watch?" That was my initial reaction to this episode when the credits started rolling. This was a very strange story, even by Aqua Teen standards. There's really no plot to speak of; it's more like a bunch of random story elements stitched together like a patchwork quilt. But, if you like your humor random and nonsensical, there's a lot to like here. If you don't fit in that fanclub, well, better luck next week. The episode opened with Meatwad swimming, then drowning, and Frylock not really paying attention. I found this odd because Frylock is usually fairly protective of Meatwad, but this week he's addicted to a phone game, which absorbs his attention and Shake's. Then some mysterious, invisible forces haunt the house. The haunting starts out as fairly basic poltergeist fare, with blood on the walls, pots clanging, etc. But it's the ghost's voice that made me laugh. Shake calls our apparition a "gayst", since the wraith has a stereotypical but pretty fabulous lisp. At this point, I was thinking we'd have yet another fun story with the ATHF house's history or some monster in the basement, attic, septic tank, or whatever. But no, it's even weirder than that. The ghost's origin story involves an accidental nuclear test and a big sealed container, and a bunch of dead people as a result. It made little sense, which I suppose is part of the joke, but I didn't find it that amusing. I will, however, give some bonus points for the scene with Carl calling his cousin who gave Meatloaf a handjob once. That was some good material that should go in the Classic Carl archives, but it did go on for a little bit long. Another joke that got tired fast was the ghosts of the ghosts of the ghost routine. Although, by the end of the episode that gag did get some new life with the Aqua Teens just destroying the ghosts for pure entertainment. Aqua Teen can certainly be ludicrous at times, but this one really had me scratching my head and wondering what the creative process was here. Did they all get stoned and find whatever old leftover jokes they had lying around and throw them together? Everything about this episode is just random. The official promo tag for it was "The Aqua Teens find inspiration in pretty lotion-friends". I mean, really? What does that even mean? And the episode title seems like either a completely random idea, or an inside joke between the writers. But hey, it's ATHF. You come in knowing it's not going to be your typical show. Although this episode didn't fit my particular tastes, I can certainly see others enjoying some of it. I am definitely hoping for something more coherent next time though. IGN Ratings (out of 10, not an average) blog comments powered by Disqus Become a fan of IGN	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9768908619880676}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '49538', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M56NOEBURYB7GAEII4KGEZDW7BY4MRAB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:156cc75b-a20e-4f76-8119-40bd545a5b77>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 10, 13, 50, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.15.7.160', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:L6SFSCB5EXN73LPREXCSQ3JDB7YYKCTH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4c42429b-a8b1-47ca-9281-35f32c9e682b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/04/19/aqua-teen-hunger-force-kangarilla-and-the-magic-tarantula-review', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7d867835-8af7-42ed-a7f2-beba16982dee>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '502', 'url': 'http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/04/19/aqua-teen-hunger-force-kangarilla-and-the-magic-tarantula-review', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11939018964767456', 'original_id': '65809f303b6702cf3306e7f76a5fa3956afa487bd43f54b1aaae98bca239da73'}
Cymatics Python MIDI Collection Cymatics Python MIDI Collection Cymatics Python MIDI Collection Size 32 Kb What is Python MIDI Collection? Finding motivation to create memorable melodies and enchanting chords can be tough for any producer! Regardless of whether you make Hip Hop, Trap , or even R&B… your melody and chord progression can make or break the entire song. Which is why we had a Grammy nominated pianist spend a ton of time creating Hip Hop melodies for hours to bring you this… An insane MIDI collection called “Python”! This collection of MIDI files are great if you are trying to find that authentic sound and melody loop. And if you like Python, you’re going to love VYPR! (more details coming soon!) Works with your favourite daw / software / sampler: MPC ready, Maschine ready, Logic ready, Fl Studio ready, Reason ready, .Ableton ready Demo Preview: Join Our Official Telegram Channel	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7561113238334656}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41554', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XCKT5GWHDTCNWUDACLTYX4TATJLYKTCK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7008015f-03a3-4d19-8d27-c7da7977b7c7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 27, 9, 47, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.44.186', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4PLLT7ZGB2XZUC5CQZDG2AM6LBFTHEBZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8e41affd-9453-421e-b0ad-c37399c77f22>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://freshstuff4you.com/cymatics-python-midi-collection/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:29cdff4f-e14e-46c4-8934-ef31810c3038>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '159', 'url': 'https://freshstuff4you.com/cymatics-python-midi-collection/', '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-10-67-67-119.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': '0.04569369554519653', 'original_id': '405aac1284589397163d0d1d87edd2d8b91aabf72f3b270393f20efadc2ef624'}
Old whine PDF Print E-mail Friday, 23 September 2011 00:00 AddThis Social Bookmark Button Do you know, CNBC’s Vivian Fernandes called to say after a heated television debate on Wednesday on the Planning Commission’s estimate that those urban Indians spending less than R32 per capita on a daily basis were poor, that you can buy two dosas in small hotels in his home town (5 km from the centre of Mangalore) for R8. Vivian was reacting to one of the TV panelists pooh-poohing the Planning Commission, saying that the bananas he buys in Jor Bagh (New Delhi) for his daughter cost R60 per dozen, so he can’t even eat two bananas per meal for fear Montek Singh Ahluwalia would say the sixth banana would take him above the poverty line! Many such variants of the Jor Bagh bananas have been doing the rounds since yesterday, the more famous one being Jean Drèze’s saying the one rupee allowed for medical expenses in the R32 doesn’t even cover the cost of an aspirin. Before we move on, it needs to be pointed out that the debate is really spurious since the government is not saying a per capita urban spend of R32 makes you comfortable—it says this is a poverty line, and around 450 million people live below it. You can make the number higher, say R40, and you’ll still get the same answer—if one aspirin a day can’t take care of your medical needs, how can two? While the price of bananas, or dosas for that matter, differs from place to place, a more reasonable way is to examine just what other goods these poor buy. If they’re buying consumer durables, second-hand colour TVs for instance, they’re still poor but this can’t be considered blinding poverty. The NCAER data, the only one that correlates asset ownership with income and expenditure levels, shows that 7.5% of the urban poor owned a two-wheeler in 2004-05, and the figure was 21.3% in the case of the urban poor. In an ideal world, the number should be higher, but compare this with that of a decade earlier, and the change is impressive. Another factor that determines just how far the rupee goes is the huge subsidies the government gives. If wheat and rice are available, or supposed to be available, at ration shops at around R4-5 per kg for the poor, this means the R5.5 that the R32-poverty-line keeps for cereals translates to one kg of rice/wheat per person per day. That doesn’t seem so bad, but the poor don’t get the ration is the argument. That’s true, but that probably makes the case stronger for giving direct cash transfers. Since the government spends around R3,00,000 crore a year on various programmes for the poor that include the likes of PDS and MGNREGA, that’s an expenditure of R18 per person per day—add that to the Planning Commission’s average of R28 per day for the entire country (the R32 applied to just urban India), and you’re talking of a daily per capita expenditure of R46, a lot more respectable one hopes. The story doesn’t stop here. As FE columnist Surjit Bhalla has shown, the National Sample Survey (NSS) on which all consumption expenditures are based, captures less and less of India’s real incomes. According to Bhalla, just around 45% of the total expenditure of households are captured by the NSS samples. How does he know that? Because the GDP numbers we get have a consumption component—compare this with the NSS numbers, and you get the 45% figure. So, when you factor this in, you find the consumption is vastly understated. So instead of having 38% of the population spending under R28 a day, you’ll probably have 20% or so spending this much. Equally important is to keep in mind the steady increases in wages/salaries over the past few years. Even the GDP growth data makes this obvious, since a 7-8% real GDP growth rate means incomes are rising across the board, even for the poor. Wages data got from the 66th round of the NSS point to the same thing. Between 2004-05 and 2009-10, the survey points out, wages for male casual workers in rural areas grew 13% per annum while salaries grew 11.4%. Lastly, let’s keep in mind that poverty levels, whether you use a R32 poverty-line or a R64 one, are critically dependent upon factors like education, urbanisation, industrialisation and so on. So, if government policy focuses on this part of the equation, poverty will automatically fall—yet, none of the povertywallahs really talk of this. NCAER data for 2004-05 show that the proportion of poor are the highest for those who are illiterate and for those who are engaged in agriculture (see table). Greater literacy and greater industrialisation are the obvious answer. The standard response of the povertywallahs, however, is to ask for a hike in wages, of the poor guard in, say, Jor Bagh. Raising wages is a great idea, but if that results in lower employment of guards, even high school economics will tell you, that means a rise in poverty levels. The fact that, in a labour abundant economy like ours, there’s more mechanisation happening, can’t be a healthy sign—coming up with the wrong poverty-solution is only going to make this worse. Before asking for higher wages, let’s ask for higher education. 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This week is apparently Footage of Simon and Ryan Choosing Which Foreign Baby to Adopt to Raise as Their Own Week. Really it's some stupid special Idol Gives Back bullshit, which I am clearly really happy about. I don't care about donating money, I really, really don't. I just want to get on with the singing. Isn't that what we're all here for? Right? Please? Oh yeah, and Bono was apparently their mentor, and PRAISE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR that I didn't have to deal with him. After all these GAP ads and the AIDS iPod and a really unfortunate incident I had at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, I'm really pretty sick of Bono. I probably would have broken my TV with a shoe heel if I'd had to endure him talking about how Phil Stacey's singing is going to put food in children's bellies. 1. Chris – "Change the World" I wouldn't call myself an Eric Clapton fan, per se, but I do think it's pretty cool that he's from England or Ireland or wherever (no need to look it up, I'm sure I'm close with the geography), and he still stole the shit out of the delta blues and made, like, "Crossroads," and "Sunshine of Your Love," and whatever. He's a good musician. As soon as TimberFAKE started singing this, I realized that his voice isn't nearly sexy enough, and I couldn't help but hate the performance. With a sexy voice (and not that Eric Clapton has a sexy voice, really, but it's a lot smokier than Chris "Penny Whistle" Richardson's. Oh well. The judges ate it up, but I think that TimberFAKE doesn't have a lot of time left in this competition. Then again, no one does, really. 2. Melinda – "There Will Come a Day" Finally, something that sounds a little gospel-y. I realize this is a … Faith Hill? song (some country woman), but Melinda was able to make it sufficiently black sounding so that Simon didn't have to get all up in her bid'nass about how black girls shouldn't belt out country songs because they don't know how to lasso or whatever. I forget what his actual problem with it is. Probably not good for marketing. Anyway, Melinda is still rockin awesome, in case you were worried. 3. Blake – "Imagine" Blake looked really cute tonight. I think it was the combination of new hairstyle and "I know this is going to suck just because it's 'Imagine' and everyone can sing this song and everyone does and it's never as good as the original, especially not in the eyes of these judges." I'd go as far as to say that tonight was perhaps Blake's best vocal performance ever, in so much as that this was just a straight vocal, and he didn't fuck it up at all, really. However, he's been getting a little boring lately. What's the good of naming a song "Imagine" if you don't get to imagine new ways of producing it? Nothing. No good at all. Anyway, what I was thinking while I was watching this was, "Blake really should have sung 'The Rainbow Connection.' That would have been awesome." And, really, would it not have been? 4. LaKisha – "I Believe" Poor poor LaKisha sucked sooooo much this week. I mean, she looks bored all the time, like she's struggling to force her mouth to form the words because she's just so tired and apathetic and whatever. She messed up some notes, it wasn't that great, fine. The worst part was that the judges, for the most part, ignored what was actually wrong with her performance and played the old "It's not you, necessarily, you're fine, you're just not ____(insert name of big screamy famous female singer here)___" card. Lame. She's probably going home this week. 5. Phil – "The Change" Obviously Phil had to mention the Oklahoma City Bombing when he was talking about this song. Okay, when did that happen? 1995? A DOZEN years ago? What next, Mr. Stacey? Trail of Tears? I guess Phil ran out of recent tragedies to exploit to get sympathy or empathy votes. That's probably fine, though, because he's been sounding better lately. And by "better," I mean, like, it seems like he found a fresh batch of hosts to suck the blood out of so he can continue on his quest for immortality and eternal youth. Dude looks like a vampire. A vampire with advanced HIV disease. 6. Jordin – "You'll Never Walk Alone" It was pretty good, I guess. I think tomorrow night is some bullshit mega concert benefit show, and it's going to last two whole hours (minus 37 minutes of commercials). I think… Keira Knightly is going to show up? Maybe Kelly Clarkston? Maybe Gwen Stefani will make a triumphant return. I seriously haven't been paying attention to this aspect of the show. 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“Bring the 'Big Period' conversation out into the open!” Ruth Anne Lemley admits she's no medical professional schooled in women's health, but she's a real-world woman who's had some real-world period dilemmas as a preteen and as a grown adult. She thinks it's amazing to be part of a movement that is so freeing. Mom to: A daughter in college, and two teens – a daughter and a son. Why this is so important to her: "I recall the needless worry I have had throughout my life that could have been avoided by simply asking someone I trusted the question." What she hopes to accomplish: To bring the "BIG PERIOD" conversation out in the open and help foster huge sighs of relief from girls across the country. What she does when she's not helping with this cause: Helps people find the perfect job by talking to them about their hopes, dreams and family. Shocking revelation around first periods: Her sixth grade friend told her it would feel like going to the bathroom, but you can't stop. "I was terrified that I would not be able to focus on school if I felt like I was peeing my pants all day!" How she stays in tune with her kids: "I listen to them, no matter what they have to say. It’s a privilege that they can come to me, so my heart wants to help them out in the moment." How she celebrates a personal win: "I jump up and down when no one is looking!"	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '26', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9721315503120422}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '72259', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OTLJVHNJ3YWS6TR3TZ2PTEPCKT6ESK5H', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:968af5ec-e5a9-42f7-971d-e9442914a5eb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 25, 21, 0, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '157.185.177.205', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:M75VAP4EGQWZNA6CC4RL3MP7M7JJP4UP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3a88a439-64cf-4598-9117-76e94f7ac243>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.ubykotex.com/en-ca/periods/experts/ruth-anne-lemley', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7fb5ffbb-7bad-42a5-9780-a17f4f19cfae>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '304', 'url': 'https://www.ubykotex.com/en-ca/periods/experts/ruth-anne-lemley', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-35\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-85.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': '0.02358180284500122', 'original_id': '8ad3bd605655c2e7869ed5ff32411d0c693551c98319277dbbdb5c71da0fc802'}
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Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness. 当代非洲电影在活力和新颖性上颇足称道。 There was a freshness and enthusiasm about the new students. 新生身上有一种朝气和热情。 With oysters, as with all seafood, freshness equals quality. 就牡蛎而言，和其他所有海味一样，新鲜就决定了品质。 His diction is noted for its freshness and vividness. 他以用字遣词清新生动见长. The new current affairs series promises to address challenging issues with freshness and rigour. 新的时事系列节目承诺以全新的视角和严谨的态度谈论有挑战性的问题。 What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas. 我害怕的就是墨守成规. 人总是向往新思想和新观念的. In the country, we can smell the freshness of nature. 在乡村，我们可以闻到大自然的清新气息。 The morning gave them both a freshness and innocence above human. 清早给予了他俩超越凡人的充沛精力和清白无邪. She didn't trust the butcher to guarantee their freshness. 她不信任卖肉的人能保证肉食新鲜. She was still young and naive, with some girl's freshness. 她仍然还很年轻而天真, 依然保留着一些姑娘的生机.	the_stack	{'hexsha': '580a99ba0ccb9f1fd014d3a9b1b847dcaf3368d9', 'size': '901', 'ext': 'txt', 'lang': 'Text', 'max_stars_repo_path': 'app/src/main/assets/freshness.txt', 'max_stars_repo_name': 'FanJingithub/WordBar', 'max_stars_repo_head_hexsha': 'c45a0659d10bfde9e098275314114f780f5f333a', 'max_stars_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_stars_count': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_stars_repo_stars_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_path': 'app/src/main/assets/freshness.txt', 'max_issues_repo_name': 'FanJingithub/WordBar', 'max_issues_repo_head_hexsha': 'c45a0659d10bfde9e098275314114f780f5f333a', 'max_issues_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_issues_count': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_issues_repo_issues_event_max_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_path': 'app/src/main/assets/freshness.txt', 'max_forks_repo_name': 'FanJingithub/WordBar', 'max_forks_repo_head_hexsha': 'c45a0659d10bfde9e098275314114f780f5f333a', 'max_forks_repo_licenses': "['Apache-2.0']", 'max_forks_count': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_min_datetime': '', 'max_forks_repo_forks_event_max_datetime': '', 'avg_line_length': '42.9047619048', 'max_line_length': '96', 'alphanum_fraction': '0.8157602664', 'original_id': 'dfb878e9fa72503503e428255cd534cf2c4718e0dfe039867ef09907e7ab7cc1'}
$ 21.00 The Gears In Your Mind - they are always turning. They are always producing thoughts. And these thoughts guide your life. The gears in this painting are churning out thoughts of creativity, love and dreaming of a brighter future. This painting is heavily textured, using metals, papers, tapes and paint. You will want to reach out and touch it!	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9348676800727844}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '83888', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:V3CMY65HXUA23U6NLOXFLTSOIBA6CUXG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2bf4acd1-4c33-4188-83cc-09eb6795b994>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 4, 3, 33, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.227.38.64', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:63DOYDWJ26GFWMJDXIQFGYSKY7RUFZYU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e5007aa2-053d-4fa0-8e02-9f69dbca651b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.justmarydesigns.com/products/gears', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:29d021d9-c49c-4bfb-854d-ac59d28061dc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '60', 'url': 'https://www.justmarydesigns.com/products/gears', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-86.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.023719072341918945', 'original_id': '0c4a922aec477ec63699229ba0e1dd1d23887a3d20474c0589e43270cc33bc55'}
Q: Anyone knows what kind of clip mic cover this is? I am watching "Hommes à louer " ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1589448/ ), a documentary about male prostitution in Canada and it's made me wonder (on the sound/technical side) about this clip microphone. Since there is a male nipple in the image, just in case, I will not embed the image. http://imgur.com/QPQYr Does anyone know if this is a commercial product from any particular brand? Or maybe it is just some DIY cover for the clip mic? I have tried to google for it a bit but find myself unable to find what this type of covers can be named. Thank you, Marcos edit: forgot to mention they stick it onto the skin... A: Its the Sanken RM-11 rubber mount. It is not adhesive itself, but we use topstick to make it adhesive. You can get them in a few different colors, also there is an RM-11C version that has a built in clip. I have a bunch of them and love them!	mini_pile	{'original_id': '69af1fdfbc01a0db10e4a5e1dcf958665bcc681532d02c0bfb103c4b703276dd'}
Kullyspell House Kullyspell House (also spelled Kullyspel House) was a fur trading post established in 1809 on Lake Pend Oreille in what is now North Idaho. It was built by Finan McDonald under the direction of David Thompson of the North West Company. The post was located on the northeast shore of the lake on the Hope Peninsula, near the mouth of the Clark Fork river, just southeast of present-day Hope, Idaho. On the 11th [of September 1809] we made a scaffold to secure the provisions and goods, helved our Tools Ready to commence building; our first care was a strong Log building for the Goods and Furrs, and fir trading with the Natives. ... On the 23rd we had finished the Store House. To make the roof as tight as possible, which was covered with small Logs, we cut long grass and work (ed) it up with mud, and filled up the intervals of the small logs which answered tolerable well for Rain, but the Snow in melting found many a passage; in this manner we also builded our dwelling House; and roofed it, the floors were of split Logs, with the round side downwords ... our Chimneys were made of stone and mud rudely worked for about six feet in height and eighteen inches thick ... the fire place is raised a little, and three to four feet in width. Soon after establishing Kullyspell House Thompson set up two other trading posts in the region, Saleesh House and Spokane House. Being off the main line of travel between these posts, Kullyspell House was abandoned in 1811. One source states that the two stone chimneys "remained standing for 87 years until they were toppled by a windstorm." The city of Kalispell, in nearby Montana, now bears a respelling of the name. Kullyspel was David Thompson's spelling of the name the local indigenous people called themselves. Today they are known as the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. References Further reading David Thompson Columbia River History Fur trader David Thompson explores the Pend Oreille River in September and October 1809. David Thompson's narrative, 1784-1812 (Kootenay River, McGillivray River, 1808, p.280)(Kullyspell House 1809, p.296). Category:Buildings and structures in Bonner County, Idaho Category:Commercial buildings in Idaho Category:Fur trade Category:Trading posts in the United States Category:Pre-statehood history of Idaho Category:Pre-statehood history of Montana Category:History of the Pacific Northwest Category:North West Company Category:Oregon Country Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1809 Category:1809 establishments in the United States Category:1811 disestablishments in the United States	mini_pile	{'original_id': '447cd7a761298379d75865ddb7770ccfa6f0caffc58213061150cb9f0584cecf'}
Products / English Français Italiano Español Português Català Maltin 中国日本語 한국어 Yohimbe combined with bromocriptine or deprenyl By Serge Kreutz I have tried combining yohimbe with deprenyl and/or sildenafil citrate, as well as with arginine, and occasionally with bromocriptine. I tried these combinations over several weeks (though not every day). Yohimbe plus bromocriptine Bromocriptine in itself can have an effect on desire. However, with small doses, the effect wears off after just a few uses – and with larger dosages, nausea will eliminate any pro-relationships effect. While nausea can be avoided when taking bromocriptine in very small dosages alone or with sildenafil citrate, the trick does not work when combining bromocriptine with yohimbe. When on yohimbe, I have never managed to avoid the nausea caused by adding bromocriptine. If nausea occurs when using bromocriptine alone, I can sometimes escape the discomfort by going to sleep. After ingesting bromocriptine with yohimbe I may get to sleep more easily than on yohimbe alone, but sleep quality is nowhere near what it would be without the yohimbe. I do not recommend combining yohimbe with bromocriptine. And I do not recommend either alone. Both substances mess up relationships quality, and especially bromocriptine does damage to relationships parameters. This is in contrast to tongkat ali which improves long-term relationships health. Yohimbe plus deprenyl I have also tried deprenyl (selegeline, Jumex) with yohimbe. Deprenyl is a MAO inhibitor, and I had read that MAO inhibitors don’t go well with yohimbe, so I was careful with the dosages. I had previously tried deprenyl alone, and found it to have an amphetamine-like effect at dosages of more than 2.5 milligrams (half a standard Jumex tablet). I don’t feel the amphetamine-like effect anymore with up to 5 milligrams. But for me, deprenyl also detracts from the yohimbe when combined with it. I have always found deprenyl’s pro-relationships effects overrated. It’s a dopaminergic substance, and dopamine is, to a certain extent, responsible for relationships desire. But dopamine overstimulation strongly interferes with erectile function and leads to a (reversible) shrinkage of the male organ. That’s why cocaine, and amphetamines may make you horny, but also make erections and orgasms more difficult to achieve. Deprenyl is not as bad as amphetamine and methamphetamine in making erections more difficult. It may even be that a 25-year-old would not feel any erectile impediment. But for a man of about 50, the anti-erection effect is stronger than the pro-libido effect, unless there is a clear dopamine deficit (as with Parkinson’s patients). One can counterbalance the anti-erection effect of deprenyl with a phosphodiesterase inhibitor. In fact, I have been told that drug users now regularly mix cocaine with sildenafil citrate to avoid shrinkage. But why combine yohimbe and deprenyl when this is no better than yohimbe alone, and definitely worse than the combination of yohimbe with sildenafil citrate? As deprenyl is an MAO inhibitor, it may possibly aggravate the negative side effects of yohimbe. Yohimbine is an alpha-2-receptor blocker; it frees systemic adrenaline and noradrenaline. Adrenaline and noradrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine) function as hormones and as neurotransmitters. The adrenaline and noradrenaline displaced by the yohimbe from alpha-2-receptors lead to mental agitation as well as increased heart rate. This effect is countered by the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO), which breaks down adrenaline and noradrenaline, leading to relaxation after states of agitation. MAO inhibitors interfere with monoamine oxidase’s capability to deaminate and destroy adrenaline and noradrenaline. In combination with yohimbe, this means that the agitated state lasts until the yohimbine has cleared from the alpha-2-receptors. With unimpaired monoamine oxidase, the agitation caused by the displacement of adrenaline from alpha-2-receptors should be countered by the breakdown of free adrenaline and noradrenaline. Combining deprenyl with yohimbe will likely prolong the negative side effects of yohimbe, such as heart palpitation, nervousness, and sleeplessness, while doing little or nothing to enhance the pro-relationships effects. What we would really like with yohimbe is increased MAO activity, not diminished MAO activity, so we could go to sleep after having enjoyed yohimbe’s pro-relationships effects. Therefore, we don’t want deprenyl, but some sort of ‘anti-deprenyl’ . 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We need Art … Not as some clever trick to deceive but as works of artistic creation of what we ourselves possibly could never devise, visit or speculate upon; the work of talented and clever people than ourselves, of adepts. To provide a reprise from the idiocy of a nasty windbag known as donald; as with an irritating teenager he wastes the time of the grown ups. Art and books associated thereof, I mean to be able to see back into times past, spanning generations and witness ideas developed from cleverer people than we ourselves, to see how they created and recorded beauty. Blimey, that IS INDEED a staggering statement, creating beauty …. something few individuals are capable of particularly nowadays; kids finish school and many are clueless with their hands, their minds or mouths. Rhetoric one of the most valuable subjects to command as a citizen is reserved for the privately educated. Art can be a snapshot, a time capsule, can contain great beauty, warmth, human love and virtue, or alert us to problems and why should it be crowded out because of tv, texts and twitter and other such junk? So where does Art count in our so-called ‘modern’ lives? Why is it so few people use Art Books to connect with a wider world and pantheon of human endeavour they are ignorant of ? We must include books on archaeological finds, of ancient artefacts, for a hundred thousand years all that remain are tools of flint to tell us how we occupied ourselves, of more recently in a mere tenth of that timespan the hidden ancient hearth, the buried cremation urn. I often wonder at how we interacted, the bonds, the human feeling empathy and communication in those distant days. Useful idea for some role play. To perhaps assume the role of the out of family visitor, stumbling upon an established camp. In many ways and sadly now due to our sucking upon the papp of the much lauded information superhighway we have denuded ourselves of so much of human accomplishment; as if becoming the donald j trumps of culture ie seeing and knowing so little, existing merely in the here and now and kidding ourselves we know it all. The web should (and can) allow us access to an array of clever and talented minds. So lets go get it. That is a most ravishing image. If it does not sing to your mind and your heart then indeed you are dull. Below reminds me so much of a favourite place, a now deserted coaching stop from 150 years ago. David Cox watercolour sketch burdock and drainage tunnel. David Cox watercolour sketch burdock and drainage tunnel. In a mad fancy of accomplishment I would think that in my last twenty years were I to capture such beauty and interest with ‘simple’ brushstrokes then it would be time well spent and probably best spent. I have my work which is ongoing but also need recreation less energetic than walking miles with my dog. Years ago I would often visualise and work out how to capture cloudscape, distant horizons, thinking of toned grounds, overlays, colour or warmth. My problem is that I can only paint when I’ve had a drink, or maybe need convincing something worthwhile will result from sober effort. Perhaps if I paint with the intention of conciously keeping it all private it will free me up to make me ‘go for it’. In all my travels in all the pastoral settings I can honestly say I have never once encountered an artist or enthusiast of merit wanting to lay down on paper the form, tones, beauty displayed to them, not one person out of doors enthusing of their activity. Maybe I should? I dunno. Realise too that Lowrys work often mostly is a low-cost set of negatives from Boots; look closely. That explains it all, my own insight. David Cox study of a dog David Cox study of a dog If we are on David Cox then we have to see the famous one….. whoops to follow as somehow unfindable …. My idiocy, i had forgotten its Cotman I need to ask for! or …. john sell cotman ploughed field and scarecrow John Sell Cotman I think I need to go looking for specific books for them both! Its a bit like the contracted term ‘poetry’ or ‘books’, what we really mean is all that is contained therein ie viewpoint, experience, memory, mindset, knowledge, a way of seeing; so thank goodness for Art, the nourishing kind. I wonder of todays activities of installation, performance and often are grant aided events and as how they will be regarded as of any merit (whatsoever) in one hundred years from now (when possibly we have ceased to exist as a species anyway). 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Julie Roland Sørensen Headset for the military Headset for high noise military environments // Headset // high-noise environment // military personnel In this self initiated project I have worked with headsets for high-noise military environments. The main purpose of wearing a headset in high-noise military environments is to avoid hearing damage or loss and improve communication. Between gunfire, explosions and the roar of ship or aircraft engines, hearing quickly becomes vulnerable and even though the military is currently using headsets both for protection and communication, hearing damages are still a problem. The design solution for this project is a headset for the land force military. It is a headset that focus on being intuitive and easy to use both when the user is taking it on and when the user is wearing it. The headset is easy to take on and adjust with the snap button adjustment system. It has 3 headband straps, one for the neck, one for the top of the head and one that fits around the chin. The purpose of having 3 straps is to make the headset fit tight to the head so when the users move around the headset will stay in place. It is also comfortable and only has soft headband straps with no hard materials that can create pressure points on the users head. The ear cushions are made of silicone gel which is a material that does not get warm but is still soft like foam. The headset can fit directly on the users head or on top of a helmet and the shape of the ear cups fit with a regular high cut military helmet.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.938849687576294}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '51374', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3OCQOEP7V2TQNSLJGHBEQMKF7GSSAX4V', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:87b8162c-2cb1-489f-9f61-98f37e087401>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 17, 17, 25, 34), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.144', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JQOBCO7DGOUEKLO4X3KPEBZBPDHHTLP6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f96d847-c4b9-4b5b-a40f-e34e7c22eea9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://julierolanddesign.com/headset-for-the-military/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a7926e63-9d32-4a9d-8325-d60c7f5a00c8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '275', 'url': 'http://julierolanddesign.com/headset-for-the-military/', '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-10-185-234-147.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': '0.030238449573516846', 'original_id': '2a5e6b39733bb99a20a5e38cd40ed0b93b9fc8a43ec6a7ed130bc93e884f02bd'}
Interview 35 Age at interview: 36 Brief Outline: Pre-eclamptic fit, caesarean section, breastfed in intensive care and later in coronary care (heart failure/post partum cardiomyopathy). Determined breastfeeder. Peer counsellor and breastfeeding programme administrator. Background: At the time of interview, this married 36 year old, White British woman had a 3 year old daughter, whom she had breastfed for 20 months. She is a Breastfeeding Peer Support Coordinator. More about me... As a breastfeeding peer counsellor, this woman believes that empathising with a woman and providing the right kind of support is important in ensuring that a woman's breastfeeding experience is as positive as it can be. She says that her own expectation that a baby would be fed, go back to sleep for about four hours and then wake for another feed was unrealistic. In reality she was quite overwhelmed by how having a baby took over her whole life. She thought that she would go back to work and had not anticipated the intense longing to be with her daughter and not to go anywhere without her that she developed in the days after birth. She was very ill in the perinatal period and being closely monitored but was determined that she was going to breastfeed and that no-one would take away her motherhood. Becoming a peer counsellor was a turning point in her life. She has started several very successful 'drop in' support groups, run numerous breastfeeding peer counsellor training programmes and been given local authority funding to run programmes in hospitals and antenatal clinics, all in an area that has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the United Kingdom. As a teenager, she had seen her older sister breastfeeding but had no information and unrealistic... When I found out I was pregnant I knew very little about breastfeeding but I told my midwife that I wanted to breastfeed. I don't know, I really didn't have any information about it, no expectations of it. I have a sister who's ten years old than me who breastfed both her children. So I were a little bit old when this happened and, probably I think I were round about thirteen when she breastfed her first child, so I was aware of it but at that age it didn't have much impact on me so whether that had a bearing on my decision I'm not sure but at me booking appointment when me midwife when they said, 'How do you intend to feed?' I said, 'Breastfeed?', through my pregnancy I didn't look into it, I didn't read up on it, I knew very, very, very little about it, so when it came to actually having me daughter I went into it with quite sort of unrealistic expectations I'd say of what a baby would do after birth. But yeah I never felt, I'd read about everything to do with pregnancy and childbirth but not really anything about what happened after and that included feeding. So what do you think those unrealistic expectations were, and what was the reality in comparison? The unrealistic expectation was that a baby would feed by however means and then go to sleep, probably for around about four hours, and then wake up, want another feed, be changed, and go back to sleep and. This is what I, sort of, this is with what I'd read that I picked up, this is what happened, this is what normal babies did. But, actually it were nothing at all like that. She wanted to be held which I couldn't understand because I thought babies were put down to sleep, but she wanted to sleep being held by me and she didn't feed every four hours she fed quite a lot more than that, she wasn't happy to just be left while I got on with everything else that I thought that I'd be doing, and really I was overwhelmed by how it took over, took over me whole life, I'd not expected it to be like that. I thought it would be all flowery and baby talc and you know that sort of perception of motherhood and it wasn't liked that at all. Where do you think that perception came from? Media, I think that the perception lots of people have comes from media. We read books which are, are good in one sense, you sort of, you know, there's quite a lot of useful information in them but also nobody ever tells you about the realities of it, and, that to me is why a lot of women afterwards feel sort of things are going wrong and it's not normal, because they believe that what's said in these books, you know, lots, lots of different magazines, television is another one. On television you see babies in sort of drama, soap opera, this sort of thing. They don't portray it in the way that it actually is, how much it does change your life, so I think a lot of people unless they've sort of grown up with lots of babies around them and, and are aware I think, a lot people pick it up from media, yeah. Do you think some people think that having a baby is a bit of a hiccough in their lives and then they'll get back to normal? Yeah I think with your first child you do feel that this is an event that's going to take place in nine months and then after the big event which you focus on when you're pregnant so that's what you're actually looking to and you give not that much thought about what's going to happen after, that yeah you just assume that things, She developed the confidence to trust her instincts and realised that her baby wanted to be with... And I remember it, when me daughter was six week old, ringing the health visitor and saying, I think it was something like half past five on a Friday, when everybody's wanting to get home to work and saying, 'You don't have to come, because this is not a child, this is a freak of nature, and I just can't cope. And she said, 'Why what's wrong?' and I said, 'She'll never, I can't put her down, and I have to carry this baby everywhere.' Because I I'm, even though I had all the instincts, you know, everything was there, I still thought that there was something wrong, because I thought that she should, I thought babies did go down in their own cot and, and would sleep on their own and, you know, so because even during the day I couldn't put her down if, she'd be asleep and if you put her down in her, in her little crib she would start to cry, she wanted me to pick her back up. I thought, 'This ain't right, there's summat wrong, what's happening?' And, and I said to my health visitor, 'You know what, she, I can't put her down she'll, she's crying, out if I leave room she starts to cry, you know, like what's wrong? And this can't be normal'. And she said to me, 'Actually it is normal, because she's a baby, and for nine months she's been with you, and all she wants to do is be with you,' and she said it and I thought [sighs], 'Well that makes so much sense, that's so much easier than thinking that she's, she'll sleep and stressing that I can't get her to go in this crib', because this crib were, you know, it were like a nasty word to me because, I couldn't get her in it and I felt that everybody else's baby went in their cribs and mine wouldn't, and I'd gone through every, you know, oh it's because it's closed in, oh it's because it's got this hood thing on it, oh it's because she don't like this, she don't like that, I'd made every possible excuse that I could, oh she'd like them things in hospital better because you can see through 'em', every excuse I possibly could, never considered that all she wanted to do were be with me because I were her mother, it, it never, never entered me head, and when this, when the health visitor said it I thought 'oh yeah'. Was that a huge weight off your shoulders? Yeah. Yes, I just felt that in that one statement it all made sense, so that's, just, live my life how I need to live my life as a mother, stop trying to be independent from my daughter, accept that this is how life is, and once I did that, and I stopped trying to put pressure on myself to hoover every day, and put her down because I'll spoil her, which, you know, I, lots of people, 'Oh you don't want to be carrying her about all day, you'll spoil her, you'll never get a minute, you're making a rod for your own back' all these things, and in me, here, I'd be here at home in me, like, 'Oh God I'm doing it all wrong, oh no, I will, I wouldn't, what will so and so, what will auntie so and so say because I've, I've spoilt her, I've spoilt the-I've fed this baby and I've spoilt it, and I'm, I'm doing it wrong I'm not good, I can't do this'. And so all that went, I just thought, 'd'you know I'm going to just trust what feels right, trust this process', and that's what I did, and we absolutely sailed through, we had a wonderful time. And, you know, we had us little moments along way as you do, things weren't always great and there'd be night times when I'd sort of be blue in the face and thinking, 'Oh no what have, you know, what have I done?' [laughs], 'Scuse me. But it were all, I acknowledged it as all being normal and that was what was normal, and not this trying to make, trying to make a baby fit in with my life, I just accepted that we had to learn it were a new thing, we were a new family who had to learn to be a family together and each one of us as individuals would bring something to that, and had to take something away fr She would tell a pregnant woman about the realities of breastfeeding, not just the benefits but... What would you say to a newly pregnant woman? I think I would try to talk about some of the realities of breastfeeding. I think with me experience with new mums and the pregnant mums, the benefits of it, are not something that actually makes a big impact on their decision, I think a lot of people have the, 'Well that won't happen to me anyway', sort of frame of mind, but I think looking at the other things about breastfeeding, that it's not just about benefits, it's not just that it's good for a baby, and it's, you know, it's good for a mum, but also the, the emotional part of it, what that has to offer. The feeling of holding that little baby that's been breastfed, and it looks up at you, and that connection and that eye contact, and that feeling then of wanting to protect this little bundle, and I think a new mum has, or an expectant mum that's very sort of, they're very focused on that, that immediate sort of birth and just after the birth and the first holding of this little baby, and the skin-to-skin contact, the cuddles that it brings, because it, you know, it's not just about the food, it's about a whole, it covers everything, the whole mothering of the baby, so I think looking at it like that, not only looking at what nutritional value it has, and what it may help prevent and things, but as a whole, and what the whole thing offers. And also again the reality is, you know, of how many times a baby feeds in a day, and that they don't necessarily want to be put down. And just, I've found actually with talking to the pregnant ladies that when you put it like that, when you say to them, 'You've carried this baby for nine months, it's heard your heart beat, and it's been awake and heard your voice and, everything that it's natural that he's going to want to be with you'. I think, they then think 'Well yeah' because like me with my health visitor it just makes sense. And it's easier to think of it that way, so I think that is important, but not to go into having a baby with great expectations of what it'll all be like and to, just acknowledge that it won't be this fluffy experience that we all think it will, because it is, it is that if you're not prepared for the other parts which are hard, the tiredness, sleepless nights, the feeling of, 'Oh my God, there's this baby that I've just had, What do I do? What do I do with this baby? No, no don't leave this room, you don't leave me with it, I don't know what to do' acknowledge that everybody has that, and you are not different and it's not that you're not bonding, and it's not that you're not a good mother, it's just such an overwhelming experience. I think that's important for people to know, and it all then comes together with breastfeeding, if you're aware of this it makes breastfeeding seem a much more natural and normal thing to do. Even though she was extremely ill she wanted her baby with her. Breastfeeding was the only thing... I sort of really, really pushed to be moved and was taken onto high dependency on labour ward where it were, it were lovely because I had my daughter all the time and that's when I could start breastfeeding and it really from that point I were able to, to take control of the whole mothering of me daughter, but it was difficult. I was suffering from heart failure due to post partum cardiomyopathy. This condition was explained to me and my husband as something separate from the eclampsia, I was very unfortunate they said to have suffered from two quite rare pregnancy-related illnesses. At the time they were unsure of what, what would happen about it. The first thing they did is they told us that we wouldn't be able, we wouldn't be able to have any more children, they advised that we couldn't look at this because it would, the literature that they had on the condition said that it would return and the chances are it would be worse, and this happened immediately after a fall, immediately after giving birth so, it's difficult that I'd just had a baby so everybody thinks that you shouldn't be affected by being told that you won't have another, in reality I'd just had a baby, my hormones were everywhere, my maternal instincts, were, were overwhelming, and I were told that I couldn't have another, child, or it would be potentially fatal to have another child. So it had, it actually had a really, really big impact, it hit me, so hard, but other people didn't necessarily understand it because they thought, 'Why would she be upset she's just had baby? Why she already be upset about not having another?' And with the talk of, there were lots of, lots of things thrown about in the room, they talked about possibilities of a transplant, they talked about the medication that could be used, very quickly they talked, they sort of went down the route of the medication, and decided what I should take, but then they also decided that I should take warfarin which they told me I couldn't breastfeed if I took it, to which I said quite naively, 'Well you're going to have to look at something else because I am going to, I want to breastfeed so I'm not just going to accept that'. I don't think it were, I were too popular at that time with some of the, the doctors but, I felt that everybody were taking control of every aspect of my life, absolutely everything, they monitored when I went to loo, they monitored everything, they monitored my heart rate, everything about me somebody else was checking and looking at, and yeah because I needed that to get better, I'm eternally grateful, but they weren't taking away my mothering, I was quite, it was the, in fact it was only thing that I could keep hold of and I were quite stubborn and I thought, 'No because if I breastfeed you can't take her away again' and I knew that because somebody had already said to me that because I'd been re-admitted into a different area of the hospital there were a possibility that me daughter had been discharged, that she might go home with me husband and they weren't, there were no way that that were happening, absolutely no way, so I said, 'No, no, I'm breastfeeding and I want you to look at it', and they did, and they came back and they said that they would try something else, they said they would try something else if it didn't then I would have to have the warfarin but they were prepared to try something else and they did and it worked. So I, kept hold of my daughter, and the only thing that I did sort of agree to is that at night time she went into the staff room which they absolutely loved, nurses, but she were brought back to be fed, so it meant that in-between feeds I could rest and weren't disturbed by my daughter's little, you know, every turn and such. And we spent a week on coronary care, by the time we left the hospital I was breastfeeding wonderfully, absolutely great we were quite sort of in tune w Text only Read below She was extremely ill with eclampsia and postpartum cardiomyopathy but the most important thing... Well I had quite a difficult pregnancy, I had morning sickness for the first thirteen weeks, when everybody told me that 'When you get to thirteen weeks you'll be okay', and it sort of just stopped at thirteen weeks and I had a couple of weeks where I felt absolutely wonderful, but then, when I got to fifteen weeks my blood pressure dropped and it went really low. I was advised by my doctor to not work for a while, and I had various things at twenty-two weeks of my pregnancy, I started to suffer from really, really sort of terrible pains at what I can describe as the top of my bump. I was admitted into hospital and nobody really knew what was wrong at that time, so they thought it might be viral and I was discharged. After that I felt ill, just can't quite put my finger on it, I just felt ill, never quite right, when I was thirty-six weeks pregnant I suffered really sort of horrendous pains in my side and was admitted into hospital and again they didn't know what were wrong and they were looking at appendicitis and there was a general surgeon involved, lots of people sort of rushing round trying to find out what was wrong with me and nobody could quite again put their finger on it and they were treating me for appendicitis. They were talking about removing doing an emergency caesarean and removing me appendix and then it calmed down, and they did a few different tests and they found out that it were me kidney and they described it to me as this, that my kidney was full, so my kidney was full and this is what the pain was, they gave me some antibiotics and I left hospital. I got up the next day and I got into the car with me sister and she looked at me and went 'My God, what's happened to you?' and I'd just put so much weight on overnight, fluid it was, that I'd filled up with this fluid. I think this was six days before I actually gave birth. I then went back into hospital and the midwife told me that they thought it was pre-eclampsia but my blood pressure was normal at this stage, so they couldn't quite understand why my blood pressure weren't high if it were pre-eclampsia. The day before I had me daughter I had been moved into a room on my own, I'd stopped passing any water at all, I hadn't been passing water for two days and was continuing to fill up really. I were just like bloated with water. And then I called for the midwife during the night because I felt absolutely shocking and she brought the doctor in to see me and I went through various things in that night. I had a pain in the back of me head and I can only describe it as it felt like somebody had stabbed, just shoved something into the back of me head, the pain went from the back of me head, right through into me face. I started vomiting and they rushed me through into the labour ward. I continued to vomit, I was suffering from diarrhoea at this time and just pains, through me body. I kept getting pains in me chest, but me blood pressure was normal and everybody still found it difficult to work out what was happening. So there were lots of symptoms that were happening that I now know were associated with pre-eclampsia but at that time I didn't realise what were happening. I suffered a really severe pain in me chest which actually sat me up off the bed, the pain jolted me body up and they started to do an ECG. My vision started to go, I can describe it only as looking through crystals, that is everything were like little bits all over, so as I were looking at the midwife there were little bits of her face all over, and bit by bit they started to disappear until I'd lost my vision. They came to talk to me about doing a caesarean, an emergency caesarean. I signed a consent form which I couldn't see, they had to put my hand on it and I just had to sign. I'd lost me vision totally, I had a fit, a seizure and I just remember looking at this midwife and looking in her face and a strange feeling, a really, really strange thing almost pleasurabl She became an advocate for breastfeeding in her area and the demand for support has grown very... Yeah I, I'm involved in breastfeeding peer support groups, it all sort of started with my health visitor because I breastfed [daughter] for, I breastfed my daughter for twenty months and, we didn't, because we didn't really have any problems I was of the mind that, 'This is really good, this is great, you know, why isn't everybody doing it?' I couldn't quite understand, you know? It's so easy, I went on holiday so much in her first year excuse me. We, when she were nine week old we went off to London and to see, to see family and do a bit of sightseeing and such, so easy, you know, breastfed on the tube, it were great. I've never seen so many newspapers go up in front of faces in my life but, it were fantastic, it were just so easy and I thought, 'How come other people aren't doing this?' And so I'd got like a little bit of a, I were thinking about, about it, and, I went to like a local sort of council forum meeting and my local hospital did a presentation on applying for foundation status, and one of the things that they talked about was that this area has the lowest, one of the lowest breastfeeding rates nationally, so again I were thinking 'Why?' And I were getting a little bit sort of fired up about it, you know, what's, what's going wrong round here? But I'd not really done, I'd not said anything to anybody, and then the health visitor said to me, just because I think I'd breastfed for longer than what most people around here do, said to me, 'Would you be interested in starting a group with me? I want to start a breastfeeding support group but, you know, it's not something I want to do, I really want to get mothers involved and, you know, I know that you, you're breastfeeding and, so would you like to get involved?' and I said, 'Well actually yeah because I been sort of thinking about this sort of thing and how I can get involved'. So we started and the first week there was me, the health visitor and one lady came, and she came in and she sat down and we started to talk and her little girl was six week old, and she was already worrying about returning to work, and so we just got together and I had a look on internet and looked at rights for breastfeeding mothers returning to work and, and the week after we met again and we looked through all this stuff and she went, 'Oh that's really good', and I thought, 'Oh that's nice, 'cause she, she feels happier now and together we've all been able to do that'. Well within a month we had ten ladies attending. And the health visitor said to me, 'We need to do something really, and, and maybe publicise this and, you know, put a few fliers out.' And, so it started to grow. Then, they started to ask us about peer support training, and so the health visitor started to look at it. Now at the same time because the area which I, had gone into is the, is the next village to me because that's where my doctor is, in my village I live in a Sure Start area and my local Sure Start had decided to run with La Leche League's peer counsellor programme, so they'd put a little advert in the newsletter and I saw this and thought, 'Oh yeah I'd quite like to, to do that'. So I, I applied and, I did the training, so I became a La Leche peer counsellor, and I, it were just a, it were a turning point in my life. I sort of, I found this, this group of, of women that came together and along with them and La Leche League I suddenly thought, 'Yeah this, this is me'. At first some of the things I couldn't really relate to, because, you know, they might, it might talk about the use of dummy and things, and, you know, the area in which I lived they're used a lot. And I thought it wasn't something I'd done, my daughter had not had a dummy, but that's only because she'd refused when I had been trying to put it in her mouth in a moment of despair. So there were some things that I, I sort of struggled a little bit about it, but as I got more involved and as my daughter got older and I became In adult intensive care, no-one thought to express her milk. One nurse/midwife held her baby to... I stayed on intensive care for a few days and while I were on intensive care, I think it was the third day after my, me daughter had been born, there was a midwife that, she, well she were working on intensive care but she'd trained as midwife, she'd trained as a midwife and she told me later that she didn't like it, midwifery, so she'd gone back into general nursing then, she were working in intensive care, and somebody had said to her that I wanted to breastfeed, so, she, when my daughter came down because they used to bring me daughter down during the day and a midwife would stay and look after her just so's that she could sorta be near me, when she came down one day this, this girl said to me, 'Would you like to try?' Well I couldn't do anything because I still had lots of things running in out, I were on an air line so it were coming in, into me neck and, you know, through my arteries and out in my wrists and I was sort to pinned really to this bed, I couldn't do anything, and she said, 'If you can just let me know that that's what you want to do then I'll hold her'. So I did everything you possibly can do while strapped to a bed to say yes and they managed to sit me up and this girl held me daughter to me and, and started her breastfeeding and this was what happened for a, a couple of days, my daughter was being fed, cup fed on maternity ward because she weren't left with me because I were on intensive care, the general something, intensive care, and she were on maternity. So she were being cup fed up on maternity but then when she were brought down and, and this nurse was there she would hold her so we could get, get going really. I can't say for definite what would have happened if she'd not done that because nobody ever considered breastfeeding because they thought I were too ill, so everybody was thinking about me, which I understand, but nobody ever really looked at fact that I'd just had, I'd still had a baby, I'd just had a baby and by, sorta three days I was quite aware, I might not have been up and, you know, vocal about the things, but I was aware of everything that was, was happening when I was awake. So I wanted to be able hold this baby that I, you know, I'd a nine month pregnancy you, it's what you want, what your sorta aim is to hold this baby and everybody else was around this bed holding this baby, and I couldn't, and nobody really looked at that and, nobody understood that I were still a new mum, apart from at the time this girl because everybody were concentrating on me. How did that make you feel? Frustrated. Because I, I think me natural instinct as a mother took over and I didn't particularly matter, it was her that I were concerned with, I wanted to be able to take, to take, to be the mother and I felt that everybody else was being the mother. My sister-in-law and my sister stayed at the hospital to look after me daughter through the night so that she weren't on her own because my husband was spending time with me and, even though they were doing that, and I'm eternally grateful, it was all things that I felt I should be doing, it was my time and it was really difficult because I didn't have the energy to do anything about it, so after I think five days, I insisted that they move me and, it weren't, it, you know, intensive care's not a nice place to be. At any stage did anybody pump your breasts or anything, or were you lying there for three days' 'with nothing happening? No, nobody, nobody expressed any milk, I wish that it would, obviously hindsight's a wonderful thing, if I could have known then I wish that I would have given my permission prior to that happening, but nobody, nobody'. Her daughter's weaning was very flexible but she felt that their whole relationship had changed... So by about twenty months she'd started to cut down to one feed a night before she went to bed? Yeah she were only doing that one feed and if she didn't sort of remember about it, it was only when I would prompt, but some nights she would've quite happily just gone off to bed, and not had a feed. And I sort of, I were aware that there were things called nursing strikes but she'd not just stop, she would if I asked her and then one day I asked her and she said, 'No' she didn't want it so I said, 'okay' and off she went to bed and then the next day she did and, this went on for a while and then she just started to say no all the time, and after about two weeks of her saying no, and me keep offering, I discussed it with my husband and he said, 'You know, maybe if she wants it she'll ask' so I thought, 'well I'll not offer and I'll see what happens', and since that day she's never mentioned it again, and I would rather have continued for longer, but, and I worry sometimes that were it a nursing strike, and I found it very difficult to cope with what happened and I spoke to a breastfeeding counsellor about it because I felt my whole relationship with her had changed. And I think it linked with my illness and breastfeeding starting as the thing that I could take control of and other people couldn't and it was ending, and I think that I, felt that, quite deeply, because I had stopped being the one and only person that could do this thing for her, because anybody could make you know, fish fingers and mashed potato, and I really struggled for a few months to come to terms with it and then I spoke to a breastfeeding counsellor and she talked to me about how it, to embrace it as another stage of my daughter's development and not so much a rejection of me, that, you know, she was growing and I was her mother and would always be her mother and would begin to sort of bring new things to her life as she became more independent. And I did, so I did work with that but still there's some sadness deep down that I think, 'Should I have, should I have kept asking for a month? Should I have tried a little bit harder to keep that going?' But then I question who would that have been for really, would that have been for me? Because it was never a time when she was told that she couldn't have it, she could've asked. Her health visitor suggested solids at four months but they distressed her and her daughter so... Can you think about when you first introduced solids? Yeah, I, didn't think about introducing solids it was suggested to me by my health visitor, my daughter was sixteen weeks and I was asked if I'd considered this, which I hadn't. And, it was suggested that maybe I would like to start thinking about it and one of the good things to start with was baby rice. So I went out and bought some baby rice, I expressed breastmilk to mix with baby rice, I'd never expressed really, never had, never had the need to express because I just always fed when she wanted feeding. So that were a little bit tricky, I found that bit difficult, and I mixed up baby rice and expressed breastmilk and thought, 'This don't, this really don't look very appealing', we sat down, I put it in her mouth and she spat it out, and we did this for a week. And, it, weren't pleasant, it, she didn't want it, and I didn't want it, it, weren't, well neither of us were happy, you know, it just, it weren't working. So I thought, 'Maybe it's the baby rice I'll give her a carrot'. So I did all the carrot thing and mashed it up. Yeah she became, she really weren't happy about it and she became quite, as soon as she realised what was going to happen she became distressed, so I became distressed. And we did it for a week, I kept trying, for a week, really to shove this food into her mouth and then at end of week I thought, 'I can't, I can't cope with the stress of this because she don't want it and it can't, surely she can't be hungry if she's so upset about it' so I stopped. But I never admitted to anybody that I'd stopped, I never told my health visitor, because I thought that people would think I were a bad mother because I weren't doing what I should be doing. But I just didn't bother, I'd, I went back to breastfeeding and then when she was nearly six months I tried her with something and she seemed to take it so much better, and it started very gradual, we didn't sort of start with, it had to be one meal a day, we sort of just took it quite, really relaxed about it and, if we had, we were at home and we had time to sit and try it we did, and if she took it that were great and if, we just built it up, so it weren't as if, one day she were fully breastfed, next day she had to have a meal regardless of whether she wanted it, and it, it worked like that for us, and I found that she moved on to foods much quicker than what they said that she'd, what they'd originally said that she would. So whereas it had been you have, you do this and you have to do that for a week and then you introduce something else and you do that for three, four days and then, I just sort of started doing little bits and putting them together because I think she were more open to different flavours as well, it didn't need to be as, as bland as what were said. So she, she ate loads of sort of different tastes to what I hear a lot of people say that their children are eating, and I mean, brussel sprouts, well it's one of her favourites for a little, a little baby, at and still [laughs] at three she likes brussel sprouts and she's got quite strong sort of tastes. So it were so much easier when I did it sort of later, it really were and we were both much more relaxed and it, it were a lot nicer. For her own comfort she discouraged her toddler from wanting to breastfeed in public. But apart from sort of not being as long, she kept on breastfeeding and the time when it changed was as she got a little bit older and we would be out, and I have a recollection of being sat outside a caf' with some relatives, my husband's relatives who were older, in the summer, and my daughter climbing up and pulling my shirt up, outside, and it was quite busy and it was quite embarrassing and that I think is when I found that discipline is acceptable with breastfeeding when they get a little bit older. I realised then that it had to be about both of us, and that she, because at this time she was around about eighteen months old, and I thought, she can understand that it can happen at home and she doesn't, it's not acceptable to pull my clothes up in public. And I felt very much that we both needed to be happy, because I wouldn't have been happy if that had have continued, so I just I started to say to her, 'In a minute' or 'you can't, can you wait until we get home?' if we were going to be going home soon. Or, but I told her that she mustn't pull at me clothes, that she could just ask, or tap, or use some sort of way, and even though she was very young it did work, it did work with her, but I felt that I was at a time, because, I'd sort of given everything I could and, and had been quite happy to breastfeed, and always quite happy to breastfeed in public and, never really, never restricted her feeding, and after that time I thought, 'We now have to be working two ways and, you know, this can't be uncomfortable for me either'. And so, I mean I call it discipline, I don't know whether you'd, it's part of that understanding, this is how I feel it, it's part of the understanding of discipline, so starting to show what boundaries are and for her to have an understanding of that. And some people did think she were a bit young but it worked and if it hadn't then I'm not sure what would have happened with it, I don't think we would have continued to, to both enjoy the breastfeeding as much. But as it happened she quite happily accepted it, but then at twenty months she decided that she wanted to stop, it was a very difficult time, she'd cut down quite a lot, she were only feeding before she went to sleep, at this point she were going to bed so she fed before she went to bed and she would quite happily have a feed and then toddle off to bed. 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ModelingToolkit.jl, an IR and Compiler for Scientific Models - ChrisRackauckas http://juliadiffeq.org/DiffEqTutorials.jl/html/ode_extras/ModelingToolkit.html ====== eigenspace Awesome work, it’s really cool to see the progress being made in ModellingToolkit.jl. As someone who spends more time on symbolic mathematics than numerical mathematics, I’ve often wished that Julia’s symbolic libraries had the same sort of energy behind them that the numerical libraries had. But it’s great to see that a lot of the work put into the numerical libraries is relevant to the symbolic ones. ~~~ lewis500 Me too. I think that because of the meta programming capabilities we’re going to see a lot more development in that direction. Recently I started using Turing.jl, which uses a sort of declarative syntax that was easy to write and understand. ------ marmaduke as a research engineer in data science/modeling, posts like this just look too good to be true. there's no free lunch. what is the catch with all this stuff? who is going to maintain all this when Chris Rackauckas gets plucked by MathWorks or Wolfram? (this is a compliment! it's great stuff) ~~~ ChrisRackauckas If you're looking for a catch, I guess the issue is that the modeling domain is relatively simple, restricted to "mathematical models", i.e. no conditional-based control flow like while loops. Like systems like Jax, for loops are supported by simply unrolling the expression into something without control flow. This lets the resulting IR be relatively simple and then all of the math is easy to define, but of course means the domain for this is "math" and not "programs". That said, it's still large enough for things like Modelica models, which is a large enough domain for a lot of the algorithms I want to explore like automatic index reduction of DAEs. ------ marmaduke I have the obligatory does it work with GPUs question. I have lamented writing out jacobians for GPUs by hand for ages, and thought, SymPy should be able to do this. ~~~ new4thaccount As someone whose entire industry runs off of a Jacobian matrix, I wonder how easy it is to run on the GPU? I assumed this was difficult as splitting up the matrix would impact the solution. ~~~ ChrisRackauckas DifferentialEquations.jl supports GPUs. The question is what is the right way to utilize DiffEq's GPU support here. That's actually a much deeper question than you might at first think. The reason is because sparse factorizations are not an inherently parallel operation, so CUSOLVER is actually quite bad at doing them. It even seems that CUSOLVER does some CPU operations in there... ouch. But what can we do with ModelingToolkit to start pushing more into this domain? Well, here's a few things: 1) We plan to have new compilation targets, kind of like the SArray one that was shown, which target parallelism. For example, for large Jacobians, we want a target so you can say "generate the code that fills the Jacobian optimally with 16 threads", and then what it will do is split up the Jacobian into 16 parts with approximately equally many operations and thread between those. Since it's all scalar operations then this should be something that gets as efficient as you'd want to write by hand! Then a similar compilation target can be made for the GPU, where it would need to know the number of GPU threads you'd be using and it would split apart that Jacobian filling and write a gigantic `if threadid() == ...` setup, and use CUDAnative.jl to compile this to a .ptx kernel so that all of those threads are parallelized. Both of these trivially extend to sparse matrices doing what I showed in the writing. So filling sparse matrices is something we can and plan to have nice compilation targets for. 2) We can also have compilation targets for `J*v` operations, so that way it can accelerate Newton-Krylov solvers, which is probably the better way of using sparse matrices on the GPU since it would avoid sparse factorizations. 3) We can also implement a generic sparse factorization in Julia, to then build analytical solutions for sparse factorizations, run Rewrite.jl simplification passes on these, and generate the parallelized kernels for them. This would then be something that does sparse factorizations on the GPU with parallelized code but does not need to use CUSOLVER, and so that would be quite ideal. The issue is that it would require writing generic sparse factorization tools, since Julia currently relies on SuiteSparse for this with no generic fallback. This is not an easy task, but I think Yingbo will be up for it in a few years since we have a plan to not use standard sparse linear algebra routines in Julia's differential equation suites because there is a way to speed up operations specifically in this domain by using a new factorization, and so if we go this direction our first task will be to learn how the current sparse LU is implemented. ~~~ new4thaccount Wow! A lot going on there and my sincere thanks for your part in what be a massive amount of free work that I get to benefit from. I'm really excited for what y'all have coming in the future and will stay tuned. There is some literature on Newton-Krylov solvers for my domain (power systems) so I'll have to brush up on that math. Help me understand one thing. I suppose if we could one day compile Julia to a binary and sell software (just curious...I don't sell software today), would you have to secure a license for suitesparse? Is that another benefit from rewriting? ~~~ ChrisRackauckas Yes, you would need a commercial license for suite sparse I think, so that would be a good reason to rewrite its core methods to a new license. ~~~ new4thaccount Thanks for clearing that up. I think someone else on here pointed that out as well as the fact that Matlab and some other tools provide that for you as part of your license/subscription fee. I started digging around and found out that it seems like the suitesparse author is one of the top authorities in this area and therefore, it might not be super realistic to get something as fast or faster on your own. Maybe a big enough open-source project could do it though. Any thoughts on this?	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f681d9077ad42eceb0772db7001965a25ba6ecb0837e658f1e54bd84211f87e3'}
Linha do Corgo The Corgo line (Linha do Corgo) was a railway line in northern Portugal. It closed in 2009. It ran north from Régua (a junction station on the main Douro railway line running along the Douro Valley) to Vila Real and Chaves. The line was latterly operated by Comboios de Portugal. Early years The section from Régua (also known as Peso da Régua) to Vila Real was opened in 1906. The extension to Chaves was built in stages, but not completed until 1921. The distance from Regua to Chaves was 97 kilometres. The first short section of track north from Regua was dual gauged (including a large metal girder bridge over the Corgo River), shared with the main Iberian gauge Douro railway line. In its early years the line was operated by the CF do Estado (State Railways). Following privatisation of the CF do Estado in 1928, the line came under the Companhia Nacional (CN) until taken over by the CP in 1947. CP introduced economy measures, such as diesel railcars and eventually diesel locomotives in place of steam traction (notably a small fleet of Mallet locomotives built by Henschel). Final years and closure The Corgo line was steam operated until the 1970s, with steam shunting engines continuing in limited use until the 1980s. The introduction of the Série 9000 and later the Série 9020 diesel locomotives replaced steam working on the line. In 1982 the line featured in an episode of the BBC television series Great Little Railways. Due to road improvements and falling passenger numbers, the northern section of the line between Vila Real and Chaves was closed in 1990. On 25 March 2009 the remaining service on the line (between Regua and Vila Real) was suspended due to the condition of the track. Repairs were promised and the line was expected to reopen by 2011. In practice, due to budgetary constraints, the repairs have not been forthcoming and the replacement bus service was itself withdrawn with effect from 1 January 2012. The tracks were lifted from Vila Real station by 2011. Other narrow gauge railways in the Douro Valley Sabor line - closed 1988 Tâmega line - closed 2009 Tua line - closed 2018 See also List of railway lines in Portugal List of Portuguese locomotives and railcars History of rail transport in Portugal References Category:Railway lines in Portugal Category:Metre gauge railways in Portugal Category:Railway lines closed in 2009	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f30ca75d5c9f2efa4eb0b98cca718cb07f86bf5d8218e5f22a15f6f3fc29fe2a'}
News-Service - Newsletter abonnieren - STEMMER IMAGING Immer einen Schritt voraus > Abonnieren Sie unseren Newsletter First phase of Bloodhound rocket plume imaging tests conducted 28. April 2014 The first phase of rocket plume imaging tests for the Bloodhound-SSC project has been conducted by Dr. Adam Baker at Kingston University in conjunction with STEMMER IMAGING in order to determine the optimum wavelength range for imaging. Tests were carried out using cameras sensitive to the infrared, visible and UV regions of the spectrum, and the results can be seen in our Bloodhound-SSC video. Monitoring the output of the rocket plume is expected to play an important role in the optimization of the rocket and jet engine-powered Bloodhound vehicle as it is developed for its world land speed record attempt. Initial expectations that UV imaging would prove more useful than IR imaging were confirmed during the tests. The plume from a small hybrid rocket burning PMMA (acrylic) in a stream of oxygen was imaged using a Teledyne DALSA Genie M640 colour camera for the normal visible wavelength range; a JAI CM140GE UV camera for UV wavelengths and an AVT Goldeye P032 IR camera for infrared wavelengths. The cameras were linked to an Adlink EOS embedded vision system equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor. Video was recorded using a custom version of the Vision Experts’ Gecko recording software, which also performs real-time video compression. Further tests are likely to involve the construction of a small rocket set to allow the testing of multiple rocket nozzles from simulated angles. This will help to determine the best position for integrating the camera into the car. Puchheim, Germany STEMMER IMAGING ist seit 1987 in der industriellen Bildverarbeitung tätig und einer von Europas größten Technologie-Anbietern in diesem Bereich.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.829075813293457}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '121672', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TEFPZTDW3ZKRQ3RBF5KLSZ2L2VR5DRXP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8d08ffd6-b8a3-4bb4-a179-cac0a25fed48>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 14, 8, 46, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '134.119.43.115', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4OIA5YLMU4OKW2FTHBWKUD2MQCBV3545', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0af63e2b-9f65-4861-8046-8fecdac6ddb9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.stemmer-imaging.com/de-de/nachrichten/2014-04-first-phase-of-bloodhound-rocket-plume-imaging-tests-conducted/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dbbad579-5c25-46ab-8ee8-1a299ba616cd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '292', 'url': 'https://www.stemmer-imaging.com/de-de/nachrichten/2014-04-first-phase-of-bloodhound-rocket-plume-imaging-tests-conducted/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-116.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02681148052215576', 'original_id': '5c474f43b5851c2ff495b4a7de121ec62b7889f612f2cb15039e251dfa5b545c'}
Neurospora crassa developmental control mediated by the FLB-3 transcription factor. Here, we report that the Neurospora crassa FLB-3 protein, the ortholog of the Aspergillus nidulans FlbC transcription factor, is required for developmental control. Deletion of flb-3 leads to changes in hyphae morphology and affects sexual and asexual development. We identified, as putative FLB-3 targets, the N. crassa aba-1, wet-1 and vos-1 genes, orthologs of the ones involved in A. nidulans asexual development and that work downstream of FlbC (abaA, wetA and vosA). In N. crassa, these three genes require FLB-3 for proper expression; however, they appear not to be required for normal development, as demonstrated by gene expression analyses during vegetative growth and asexual development. Moreover, mutant strains in the three genes conidiate well and produce viable conidia. We also determined FLB-3 DNA-binding preferences via protein-binding microarrays (PBMs) and demonstrated by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) that FLB-3 binds the aba-1, wet-1 and vos-1 promoters. Our data support an important role for FLB-3 in N. crassa development and highlight differences between the regulatory pathways controlled by this transcription factor in different fungal species.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '7d6ad39d088e5211255b22f46740251268ee4e908b478a02aaac719a96d2de74'}
Case Number 03822: Small Claims Court FELLINI: I'M A BORN LIAR The Charge "Spontaneity is the secret of life." -- Federico Fellini The Case There were few filmmakers as endlessly imaginative as the great Federico Fellini, and few who were so completely aware of their own talents. His later films, as surrealistically introspective as any ever made, were bursting with ideas, and Fellini himself always seemed fully conscious of his ability to communicate the aspects of his life which both confused and inspired him. Some might interpret this as pretentiousness and, in a way, they would be right. But the pretentiousness is part of what made him great. For how many filmmakers today would have the sheer audacity to create a body of work that (at least in the latter half) is so clearly all about them? Fellini: I'm a Born Liar is a riveting new documentary that uses interviews with Fellini and a number of his collaborators to create a portrait of a man who saw himself as many things: an impostor, a painter, a magician, a clown, a general and yes, even a liar. In the interview footage with Fellini, collected in 1993 just before his death, the Maestro goes into great detail about the aspects of his work that have fascinated and confounded audiences for generations, as well as revealing new insights into his working methods. He discusses such diverse topics as his feelings on art and cinema as an aesthetic whole and the role of the filmmaker in the creation of that art, his relationship with actors and the role of the actor in the actual filmmaking process ("puppets," he calls them) and his much-talked-about feelings towards women (he describes them as "the unknown planet"). These interview segments are interspersed with clips of Fellini's films, taken mostly from his later work, which seems natural as these tended to be his most autobiographical (especially 8 1/2, which is featured quite prominently). All of this would come off as utterly self-aggrandizing were it not for the interviews with Fellini's collaborators, most of whom bring the discussion of his career and methods back down to earth. Donald Sutherland, for instance, appears to have great respect for Fellini's technique and methods as a whole, yet is lacerating in his recollection of his experiences with the Maestro (Sutherland starred Fellini's Casanova in 1976). "Federico and his relationship with actors was dreadful," says Sutherland, right after Fellini finishes saying the opposite. "He casts people because they represent what he wants in the film, and then he expects them to do it. And for him to have to detail to them what he wants is to two-dimensionalize his three-dimensional fantasy. And that irritates him, really, so he starts yelling at them, almost like a child." None of the other interviewees (which include Terence Stamp, Roberto Benigni, and Dante Ferretti) are quite so harsh, but collectively they help to create a balanced and carefully rounded portrait of the director that would otherwise come off as single-minded in its approach. Fellini: I'm A Born Liar is presented by First Look Pictures in a solid 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer that features a clean, sharp source print. The film clips all look great and are presented in their original aspect ratios. The audio is in Dolby Digital 2.0 that alternates between English and Italian (depending on the person speaking), with English subtitles for the Italian speakers. There are no extras, save for the film's theatrical trailer and previews of a number of other First Look releases (that, for some reason, I couldn't skip past on my preview copy -- not sure if this was fixed for the official release). In the end, I'm a Born Liar should be considered essential viewing for all Fellini fans, as well as those wanting to gain further knowledge of The Maestro's strange and fascinating career. It's certainly no puff piece, and it provides a detailed analysis of the director's work straight his own mouth, as well as from those who worked closely with him. It also stands to prove that while few directors were as high on their own artistry as Fellini, few directors made movies that could compare with his. Case dismissed.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'cc65f281e271067f27aa1afc13fab1013d8b5e593c0d1fce01dc0a017a92d400'}
This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. (March 2008) Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 435) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis), John the Ascetic, or John Cassian the Roman, is a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" and as one of the "Desert Fathers." John Cassian was born around 360 probably in the region of Scythia Minor (now Dobruja in modern-day Romania), although some scholars assume a Gallic origin[2] As a young adult, he and an older friend, Germanus, traveled to Palestine, where they entered a hermitage near Bethlehem. After remaining in that community for about three years,[3] they journeyed to Egypt, which was rent by Christian struggles, and visited a number of monastic foundations. Approximately fifteen years later, in c.399, Cassian and Germanus fled the Anthropomorphic controversy provoked by Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, with about 300 other Origenist monks. John Cassian and Germanus went to Constantinople, where they appealed to Saint John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, for protection. John Cassian was ordained a deacon and was made a member of the clergy attached to the Patriarch while the struggles with the Imperial family ensued. When the Patriarch was forced into exile from Constantinople in 404, the Latin-speaking John Cassian was sent to Rome to plead his cause before Pope Innocent I. While he was in Rome John Cassian accepted the invitation to found an Egyptian style monastery in southern Gaul, near Marseille. He also may have spent time as a priest in Antioch between 404 and 415. Whatever the case, he arrived in Marseille around 415. His foundation, the Abbey of St Victor, a complex of monasteries for both men and women, was one of the first such institutes in the west, and served as a model for later monastic development. Cassian's abbey and writings influenced St. Benedict, who incorporated many of the same principles into his monastic rule (Regula Benedicti), and recommended to his own monks that they read the works of Cassian. Since Benedict's rule is still used by Benedictine, Cistercian, and Trappist monks, the thought of John Cassian still guides the spiritual lives of thousands of men and women in the Western Church. John Cassian died in the year 435 in Marseille. He is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. His feast day is traditionally celebrated on February 29. Because this day occurs only once every four years on leap years, official Church calendars often transfer his feast to another date (usually the day before February 28). Contents Writings John Cassian came very late into writing and only did so when a request was made by an important person or persons. His sources were the same as Evagrios, but he added his own personal ideas which were arranged in extensive collections. John Cassian wrote two major spiritual works, the "Institutions" and "Conferences". In these, he codified and transmitted the wisdom of the Desert Fathers of Egypt. These books were written at the request of Castor, Bishop of Apt, of the subsequent Pope Leo I, and of several Gallic bishops and monks. The "Institutes" (Latin: "De institutis coenobiorum") deal with the external organization of monastic communities, while the "Conferences" (Latin: "Collationes") deal with "the training of the inner man and the perfection of the heart." In Books 1-4 of "Institutions", Cassian discusses clothing, prayer and rules of monastic life. Books 5-12 are rules on morality, specifically addressing the eight evil vices- gluttony, luxury, avarice, wrath, sloth, negligence, vainglory and pride- and what to do to cure these vices. "Conferences", dedicated to Pope Leo bishop of Frejus and the monk Helladius, summarize important conversations that Cassian had with elders from Scetis about principles of the spiritual and ascetic life. This book addresses specific problems of spiritual theology and the ascetic life. His third book, "On the Incarnation of the Lord," was a defense of orthodox doctrine against the views of Nestorius, and was written at the request of the Archdeacon of Rome, later Pope Leo I. His books were written in Latin, in a simple, direct style. They were swiftly translated into Greek, for the use of Eastern monks, an unusual honor. Spirituality of John Cassian The Great Schema worn by Orthodox monks and nuns of the most advanced degree. The Desert Monks of Egypt followed a three-step path to mysticism. The first level was called the "Purgatio" during which the young monk struggled through prayer and ascetic practices to gain control of "the flesh" - specifically gluttony, lust, and the desire for possessions. During this period, the young monk was to learn that any strength he had to resist these desires (grace) came directly from the Holy Spirit. At the end of the "Purgatio," or in Greek "Catharsis" a period that often took many years, the monk had learned to trust peacefully in the Lord for all his needs. As the monk underwent this period of purging, he identified with Christ's temptation in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-13). At this point the "Illuminatio" or in Greek "theoria" commenced. During this period the monk learned the paths to holiness revealed in the Gospel. During the "Illuminatio" many monks took in visitors and students, and tended the poor as much as their meager resources allowed. They identified strongly with Christ when he taught the Sermon on the Mount, recounted in Matthew chapters 5, 6, and 7. The monk continued his life of humility in the Spirit of God; his stoic acceptance of suffering often made him the only man capable of taking on heroic or difficult responsibilities for the local Christian community. Many monks died never having moved past this period. The final stage was the "Unitio," or in Greek "theosis" a period when the soul of the monk and the Spirit of God bonded together in a union often described as the marriage of the Song of Solomon (also called the "Song of Songs," or the "Canticle of Canticles"). Elderly monks often fled into the deep desert or into remote forests to find the solitude and peace that this level of mystical awareness demanded. In this, the monk identified with the transfigured Christ, who after his resurrection was often hidden from his disciples. Ascetics who achieve this level of ascetic enlightenment are referred to as Schema. Doctrinal controversy John Cassian is considered to be the originator of the view that later became known as Semipelagianism. This emphasized the role of free will in that the first steps of salvation is in the power of the individual, without the need for divine grace. He was attempting to describe a "middle way" between Pelagianism, which taught that the will alone was sufficient to live a sinless life, and the view of Augustine of Hippo, that emphasizes original sin and the absolute need for grace. Cassian took no part in the controversy that arose shortly before his death; his first opponent, Prosper of Aquitaine, held him in high esteem as a man of virtue and did not name him as the source of the conflict. Semipelagianism was condemned by the Latin church in the local Council of Orange in 529. Since Semipelagianism has never been condemned by Eastern synods or the Seven Ecumenical Councils, the doctrine of St. John Cassian is regarded by many Orthodox theologians as the right descernment of "ancestral sin" in the Orthodox Church.[5] The views expressed by John Cassian to which critics have pointed as examples of his alleged semi-Pelagianism are found in his Conferences, in book 3, the Conference of Abbot Paphnutius; book 5, the Conference of Abbot Serapion; and most especially in book 13, the Third Conference of Abbot Chaeremon. Effects on later thought The spiritual traditions of John Cassian had an immeasurable effect on Western Europe. Many different western spiritualities, from that of Saint Benedict to that of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, owe their basic ideas to John Cassian. In particular, the "Institutes" had a direct influence on organization of monasteries described in the Rule of St. Benedict; Benedict also recommended that ordered selections of the Conferences be read to monks under his Rule. Moreover, the monastic institutions Cassian inspired kept learning and culture alive during the Early Middle Ages, and were often the only institutions that cared for the sick and poor. His works are excerpted in the Philokalia (Greek for "Love of the Beautiful"), the Eastern Orthodox compendium on mystical Christian prayer. Even modern thinkers are beholden to John Cassian's thinking, although perhaps in ways the saint would not have expected. Michel Foucault was fascinated by the rigorous way Cassian defined and struggled against the "flesh." Perhaps because of investigations like these, Cassian's thought and writings are enjoying a recent popularity even in non-religious circles.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'b09ac50e606ebe9dbae50e04c63af6276992d062deb7f54ecda00ce6679c177e'}
'The Long Goodbye' by XSketch E-MAIL: SketchShipper@hotmail.com CATEGORY: MSR (but of course!!!) SPOILERS: 'Existence', 'NIHT' FEEDBACK: Please, please, please!!!! ARCHIVE: I'd be honoured, but please let me know where so I can come and have a nosey! :-) SUMMARY: The day he had to leave had arrived, but - despite all the arrangements and preparations - she was far from ready to let him go. HOMEPAGE: YES! I now have a home! See more of my stories, as well as recs by others, at http://thesketchfiles.bravehost.com DISCLAIMER: Not mine - never have been and sadly never will be...All credit (and lots of it too) to Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, all the XF writers/directors/crew, 1013, Fox, etc. etc.... AUTHOR'S NOTES: At end of story... by XSketch She'd known it would be awkward, difficult...painful, even. Of course she had known, even as she had stood in Kersh's office and listened as they were told her partner would be killed if he stayed in town. But how could she have begun to ever comprehend that she would feel this crushed, desolate - desperate for any way of making it possible to keep him here by her side - as she stood on shaky legs with their son resting against her shoulder and stared through bleary eyes at his packed bags? The warm water spray shut off. Wet hands reached up and wiped his face, but his eyes remained shut. 'Listen to me,' she had told him that evening after the meeting with Kersh as they sat on her couch - his hands tightly clasped in her heavily sweating ones. 'Please, Mulder, just...just listen to me for a moment.' Tears had stung his eyes then, and he found them doing the same again as his forehead dejectedly rested against the tiled wall of the shower and her words echoed in his mind. 'When you disappeared I never gave up - I never stopped believing that I would find you. But when they found you in those woods...' She had paused and he had seen the tears welling in her own eyes. 'I just wanted to lay down and be buried with you. You're my other half, Mulder - my better half - and to get you back was the ultimate answered prayer, as well as this baby. I can't lose you again, but I would rather be able to believe that one day we'll be back together than see you die...I can't let you stay if that means you'll be killed...I won't, but please don't even think about asking me to!' His hands had rested gently on her distended abdomen and he had stared into the depths of her soul through her sad, blue eyes. 'I'd never ask that of you, Scully, but...but you can't ask me to leave you...leave you and this child? You're everything I've got, and I wanna protect you...You can't seriously want me to leave you in danger-' 'Yes, I can, because we're not the ones in danger. You are.' She had swallowed hard before dealing the blow she knew would be the thing to convince him. 'You'll be putting us in danger if you stay...' "God!" Mulder exclaimed in a choked breath, slamming a fist against the shower wall. Their son had been born since then. Their love and commitment to each other had been set in stone since then. The whole idea had torn at his insides back when he had agreed to do as she'd asked. Now? Now he couldn't help but slightly regret ever being dug up out of his grave. The bathroom door slowly clicked open and Scully turned in time to see him move into her bedroom, with his head lowered, to get dressed into the clothes she had left out for him before they went to bed together last night. He seemed to think she didn't want him here - that she had a choice in this - and she couldn't believe that even after the love she had told him she felt and the tender, affirming moment they had shared in her bedroom two nights ago he could still doubt the fact that she never wanted him to leave her side again. Of course, he hadn't voiced those doubts, but their silent communication had grown stronger over the years, and even just the smallest of looks spoke volumes, so watching his body language had helped her notice the rift that had appeared between them at a time when she wanted to be as close as possible. What would it take to make him realise just how much she really did need him? Heavy silence as eyes locked. Mulder stared at her as she stood in the living room, slowly rubbing her right hand up and down the baby's back. Scully stared at him as he stood in the doorway (dressed in a pair of worn blue jeans, his ubiquitous grey t-shirt and black leather jacket) and simply stared back at her. "Mul-der..." His name slipped from between her quivering lips and within a couple of long strides he was in front of her, wrapping his arms around the two of them. After a moment he released them and reached to take William from her. "Mulder, I--" "Shhh. In a minute," he whispered, cradling the boy against his chest. "I'm just gonna put him down." Scully watched as he turned and moved into their bedroom, and then slowly followed - pausing in the doorway as she listened to his almost choked voice softly speaking to their child. "You're definitely a miracle and a half...A very special one, too," he whispered, laying the baby down in the bassinet. "Looks like I've got to miss a little bit of you growing up, though...I've gotta go on a little journey. I won't be gone long, so please try not to grow too quickly, but I've gotta go slay some monsters and aliens and flukemen and--...Well, I'm sure Mommy can tell you stories about those." He paused and stroked a finger down one of William's soft cheeks as his head bowed even lower (his chin almost resting against his heaving chest). "Don't ever think I don't love you, 'cos that couldn't be any further from the truth - I love you and your mom more than life itself, and that's why I'm going: to protect you both." It became too much to listen to any longer, so Dana walked back into the living room, wiping at her wet eyes. "You look out for Mommy while I'm gone," Mulder smiled as he heard the slight shuffle of Scully's feet on the carpet behind him. "Her scientific rationale can't hide her feelings all the time, so keep an eye on her, and make sure no other men come sniffing around, okay? Not even Uncle Skinner or Doggett...And when I get back I promise I'll teach you how to play baseball as well as your old dad does." It was time to bring this to a close - he should be gone from the apartment already, but he was yet to deliver possibly the most painful goodbye imagineable to the woman in the other room. He kissed the tips of two of his fingers and then lowered them to rest against the baby's forehead. "I'll miss you, Will...Son..." "You listened in on our private father-to-son conversation. That's a federal crime, you know?" Scully looked up from where she sat on the couch at the man that towered above her. "What's my punishment?" she sniffed - knowing nothing could make her feel any worse than she did right now. He gave an awkward smile and then outstretched a hand to help her to her feet. "Oh, this time you just get a caution - I think you've suffered enough already." "I'm still suffering!" she cried, nuzzling her face against his chest as his arms enveloped her and held her close. "Mulder, I don't have a choice in this - I don't want you to go, but at the same time I want you to be safe!" "I know." "I've already lost you once - twice in a way - and--" "Shhh...It's okay," he whispered, kissing the top of her head and stroking his fingers through her hair. It was kind of surreal: two FBI partners clinging to each other as if they had been a married couple for years and he was going off to war. And yet that was pretty much the situation they were facing (reluctantly). So great had their bond always been from the start, and so natural had the metamorphosis from friends to lovers been that his new quest for safety away from his new family might just as well be a great battle and another nail in his coffin. "I'm sorry I've been cold at times over the past couple of weeks. I thought...I thought that if I could push you away emotionally this would be a tiny bit easier..." he apologised, quietly. "But...You're everything to me - everything I could only ever dream of having and about a million things more...And now with William...I've been gifted with perfection, only to then have to walk away from it..." She pulled away a little so that she could stare into his eyes. "Just remember, when it's safe, to come back!" she slightly smiled. Mulder nodded and returned the smile as he continued to gaze into her eyes (yes, he had to confess: he did gaze at Scully!). "I'll be painfully counting every second that passes until that moment arrives," he vowed. "'Cos I don't know what I'd do if--" He cut her short by covering her mouth with his. And for the next thirty seconds nothing else mattered except them two and this moment - this kiss. Sadly - as they had frustratingly come to realise time and time again over the years - the good thing had to come to an abrupt end, so they stepped out of each others' embrace and joined hands as they both glanced down at the packed black bags. "Promise you'll write," she pleaded, squeezing his hands as she turned back. "Even if you can't write a long message...Even if it's blank... I need to know that you're okay - that you're alive." "Well, the Gunmen have worked to set up a secure e-mail address, but--" "Promise me...Please." "I'll try to as much as I can...Only if you promise to write me with as much news as possible on how you and the little one are as often as possible!" Mulder retorted - his voice telling her that he was joking around; his eyes crying complete sincerity. It was her turn to nod. She did so and then released one of his hands so that she could reach up to touch the side of his face. "My constant--" "My touchstone," he added, resting his cheek against her palm and then tilting his forehead down to press against hers. "My family." "I love you." "Is that a rational love, Doctor Scully?" he half-laughed, holding back the tears that were trying to make this even longer, more painful and more difficult than it could be. She squeezed his hand even tighter. In honesty she wanted to wrap her arms around him, but she knew that the instant they were back in each others' embrace they wouldn't be able to part again...In a perfect world that would be fine, but he had to go - he had to go now - to protect himself, to protect her and their child so that one day they could be together again, safely. The time to end this had already been and gone at least twice, so they had to start moving away from each other before it was too late. "Maybe not 'rational' in every definition of the term," she joked. "But...Okay, let's just settle for 'true' and 'right' and..." "A long time in development?" "Mmm," she mused with a smile before the seriousness of the matter at hand returned. "Kind of like this goodbye." "Ah! But this isn't really 'goodbye'," Mulder told her, lifting his head away from hers. "'Cos the minute I walk out that door I'm gonna be working my way back...So, it's more like a, uh, 'I'll be seeing you' ...'See you later'..." Scully gave a nod of her head, released his hand and then moved to help shift his bags down to the Volkswagen bus parked outside that the Lone Gunmen had been patiently waiting in for the past half hour. "No!" Mulder suddenly exclaimed, jumping forward to pull her hand off the handles of the duffel that rested against her couch. "Let me do that. I...I don't know if I can do a 'goodbye'--" "'See-you-later'," she corrected. "...I can't do it in front of the guys...I'm having problems doing it now, so God knows what I'd be like with an audience!" That was when William decided to voice his disapproval at being left alone for more than five minutes. Scully glanced over her shoulder toward the bedroom doorway, but then turned back to face Mulder. "Go tend to him," he told her, with a wave of his hand. "Will needs you now...Keep him safe, tell him everyday how much I love him, and make sure he's always happy - just 'cos his parents can't be shouldn't mean that he has to suffer." He paused for a second and then added, "And make sure you enjoy every minute with him so you can fill me in when I get back...Go on, go." "You'll come back up once you've finished loading your bags into the van?" "I'll be back before you know I've even gone," he slightly nodded. He leant over to kiss her on the mouth and then watched as she moved to tend to William in the other room. "I love you, too," he whispered, picking up the first pair of cases to take outside. "Always." All the bags were gone by the time Scully had calmed William back to sleep and re-entered the living room. There was no sign of Mulder, though, so she bowed her head slightly and sat down on the couch - waiting for him to come back up. Five...Ten...Fifteen minutes of deathly silence passed. Struggling to remain composed, she raised to her feet, walked to the window and looked through at the sidewalk just outside the building. The Gunmen's bus had gone, meaning Mulder had gone, too, without coming back for one last hug. Nevertheless, she sat back down on the couch and waited, because it hadn't been a goodbye...He would be coming home very soon so that they could live 'happily ever after'...He would be back before she even realised he'd gone... ...At least, that was what she hoped... FIN...'All done, Bye-bye!' AUTHOR'S NOTE: I read a theory posted on the OS message board a couple months back saying that when Kersh sacked Mulder in 'Vienan', that was actually when the warning was given about the danger Mulder's life would be in if he stayed (the sacking being a kind of smoke screen to everyone else and thus giving Mulder more time to spend with Scully and plan his departure). Seeing as I'd always been suspicious about how everything (warning, arrangements and parting) was expected to have happened in the 48 hours between 'Existence' and 'NIHT', this theory has grown on me and is the reason why Scully is still pregnant in the flashbacks to when she told him to leave in this fic. Long explanation, I know, but thought I'd fill you in! 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Q: Can Pass by Value Affect the Asymptotic Time Complexity of A Recursive Algorithm? In the following program, a helper function is called recursively in order to create a Binary Tree from the preorder and postorder traversals which are represented by an array. The runtime is fast and beats a 100% of all submissions on Leetcode. TreeNode* buildTree(vector<int>& preorder, vector<int>& inorder) { unordered_map<int,int> m; for(int i=0; i<inorder.size();i++){ m[inorder[i]]=i; } return helper(preorder, inorder, 0,preorder.size()-1,0, inorder.size()-1, m); } TreeNode* helper(vector<int>& preorder, vector<int>& inorder, int pStart, int pEnd, int inStart, int inEnd,unordered_map<int,int>& m){ if(pStart>pEnd \|\| inStart>inEnd) return NULL; TreeNode* root= new TreeNode(preorder[pStart]); int pivLoc=m[root->val]; int numsLeft=pivLoc-inStart; root->left=helper(preorder, inorder, pStart+1, pStart+numsLeft,inStart, pivLoc-1,m); root->right=helper(preorder, inorder, pStart+numsLeft+1, pEnd,pivLoc+1, inEnd,m); return root; } However, if I change the helper function such that the last parameter (the unordered_map) is passed by value, it gets a runtime exceeded error. I am trying to understand why. The map's itself is never reassigned, nor are its values. Since the map is being passed by value, that would mean the copy constructor is called each time the function is called. Is that going to increase the functions runtime by a constant factor or will it actually change the asymptotic complexity? I believe the copy constructor is causing a large increase but only by a constant factor, since a copy is a constant time operation in relation to the input. A: Yes. If the size (or number of elements) of a parameter that gets copied is a function of N (and not a constant,) then it will have an effect on the asymptotic time of your implementation (even if it's not recursive.) For example, if you copy an array of size O(N) even only once, then you should consider that in your asymptotic analysis (it might not have an effect if your order is already O(N) or higher, but you have to count it in nonetheless.) In a recursive implementation, obviously you'll have something like O(f(N)) function calls (O(log(N)) for searches, O(N) for sorts, etc.) and the cost of copy will affect or even dominate your time. Obviously, the cost of passing a parameter of size M to a function that is called N times is O(N * M). If the size changes with each invocation, you can still calculate the sum (using standard techniques.) Even if the size of the parameter in question is constant and small (but not negligible,) if the function is called O(f(N)) times, then you have to add f(N) to your asymptotic time analysis. The cost of copy itself depends on many things, but for a container of N elements (unless it has some reference-counting/COW optimization or the like) I daresay that the cost of copy is O(N). For containers that keep their elements in one (or a few) contiguous block(s) of memory, the constant factor on the copy operation will mostly depend on the cost of copy for individual elements, as the overhead from the container and memory management is small. For linked-list style containers (which include std::map and std::set) unless you have custom memory allocators and very specific strategies, the cost of memory allocation and traversal will be significant (depends very much on the total number of elements and heap pressure and your OS/standard library implementation, etc.) Depending on the type of your elements in the containers, in addition to the cost of copy, you might have to consider the cost of destruction as well. Update: After seeing more of your code (still not a working example though, but probably enough) I can give you a more detailed analysis. (Assuming that the size of your input is N,) The function buildTree has two main parts: the loop and the recursive call to helper. The "loop" part has a complexity of O(N * log(N)) (the loop repeats N times, and each time inserting into a std::map which is logarithmic in the size of the map, hence O(N * log(N)). To work out the cost of calling helper, we need to know how many times it is called, and how expensive its body is, and how much its input shrinks in each recursive call. Obviously, the helper function is called 2 * N + 1 times in total (twice per input element, and once in buildTree) which is obviously O(N), and its input never changes size (it does, but no part of its body is dependent on the input size except the termination condition.) Anyway, the interesting operations inside helper's body are the new (usually considered O(1) which is a little simplistic but acceptable here,) the lookup in the std::map (which is O(log(N)),) and the calls to helper. The cost of those calls are O(N) if we copy any of the vector or map parameters (again, assuming memory allocation and copying of each element are O(1),) and O(1) if we don't. So, the total time is time of the loop plus time of the call to helper, and time of the call is the number of calls times the time per call. The time of the loop is O(N * log(N)) and the number of calls is O(N). The time for each invocation of helper is the time of allocating a new node (O(1)) plus looking up the value in our map (O(log(N))) plus twice the time of invoking helper again. If we pass the parameters by value (i.e. any of inorder, preorder, or m is passed by value) then the time of each invocation of helper will be O(N), and if we pass all parameters by reference, then that time will be O(1). So, putting it all together, if we pass our large parameters by value, we get: O(N * log(N)) + O(N) * [O(1) + O(log(N)) + O(N)] = O(N * log(N)) + O(N) * O(N) = O(N * log(N)) + O(N^2) = O(N^2) and if we only pass by reference we'll have: O(N * log(N)) + O(N) * [O(1) + O(log(N)) + O(1)] = O(N * log(N)) + O(N) * O(log(N)) = O(N * log(N)) + O(N * log(N)) = O(N * log(N)) and that's it. (As a side note, if the parameter to a function is not going to be changed, and is only passed by reference to avoid a copy, then it is passed as a constant reference or const &.)	mini_pile	{'original_id': '509fbe187ab482648d5d5a2b885d8d5a00baaf02e007f9893549a29690baa441'}
PIA00701: Jupiter's Main Ring/Ring Halo Target Name: J Rings Is a satellite of: Jupiter Mission: Galileo Spacecraft: Galileo Orbiter Instrument: Solid-State Imaging Product Size: 1151 x 800 pixels (width x height) Produced By: Cornell University Producer ID: P48953 Addition Date: 1998-03-26 Primary Data Set: Galileo EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00701.tif (281.3 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00701.jpg (62.93 kB) Original Caption Released with Image: A mosaic of four images taken through the clear filter (610 nanometers) of the solid state imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft on November 8, 1996, at a resolution of approximately 46 kilometers (28.5 miles) per picture element (pixel) along Jupiter's rings. Because the spacecraft was only about 0.5 degrees above the ring plane, the image is highly foreshortened in the vertical direction. The images were obtained when Galileo was in Jupiter's shadow, peering back toward the Sun; the ring was approximately 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) away. The arc on the far right of the image is produced when sunlight is scattered by small particles comprising Jupiter's upper atmospheric haze. The ring also efficiently scatters light, indicating that much of its brightness is due to particles that are microns or less in diameter. Such small particles are believed to have human-scale lifetimes, i.e., very brief compared to the solar system's age. Jupiter's ring system is composed of three parts - - a flat main ring, a lenticular halo interior to the main ring, and the gossamer ring, outside the main ring. The near and far arms of Jupiter's main ring extend horizontally across the mosaic, joining together at the ring's ansa, on the figure's far left side. The near arm of the ring appears to be abruptly truncated close to the planet, at the point where it passes into Jupiter's shadow. Some radial structure is barely visible across the ring's ansa (top image). A faint mist of particles can be seen above and below the main rings. This vertically extended "halo" is unusual in planetary rings, and is probably caused by electromagnetic forces pushing the smallest grains out of the ring plane. Because of shadowing, the halo is not visible close to Jupiter in the lower right part of the mosaic. To accentuate faint features in the bottom image of the ring halo, different brightnesses are shown through color. Brightest features are white or yellow and the faintest are purple. Jupiter's main ring is a thin strand of material encircling the planet. The diffuse innermost boundary begins at approximately 123,000 kilometers (76,429 miles). The main ring's outer radius is found to be at 128,940 kilometers (80,119 miles) +/-50 kilometers (31 miles), slightly less than the Voyager value of 129,130 kilometers (80,237 miles) +/-100 kilometers (62 miles), but very close to the orbit of the satellite Adrastea (128,980 kilometers or 80,144 miles). The main ring exhibits a marked drop in brightness at 127,849 kilometers (79,441 miles) +/-50 kilometers (31 miles), lying almost atop the orbit of the Jovian moon Metis at 127,978 kilometers (79,521 miles). Satellites seem to affect the structure of even tenuous rings like those found at Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell University Image Addition Date:	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '127', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8761168122291565}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '11546', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WPNCAT4SM24NUBTBIPGESPYZ7X2XGX33', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c79e4dee-4f02-4c48-b8b1-9dd790eceeef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 13, 42, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '128.149.134.91', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:L7KMEWH6P6367L6KM3B5RLBTEW3R3DBB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8e9116b0-ffe5-41c9-b4c7-3e02bb0807aa>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00701', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b030565c-1603-443e-a54d-00d2385b8917>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '584', 'url': 'http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00701', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05478864908218384', 'original_id': '46e24d9c9527be58d8ea55a707cacd05703950c9f472c583a16f24bc39e90349'}
MrPLC Member • Content count • Joined • Last visited Community Reputation 0 Neutral About Tom_ • Rank Profile Information • Country United Kingdom 1. Heidenhain EnDat Apart from Haidenhanin, you refer to either Rotary or Linear Scale encoders using EnDat Protocol. I had a chance to work with them on CNC machines. EnDat is simply a data transfer protocol which can be controlled by the PLC/control system. You use those encoders likely for CNC or some sort of high precision machinery you are better of asking the supplied of the given machinery rather than a component supplier. As you are in Iraq, from my experience, those machines are of a very strict location restrictions, your only chance is trying to contact the machine supplier. 2. I will work on Q2A series Mitsubishi which seems to be around 20 years old. And wondering if I can connect directly to RS-422 (25 pin D sub) (picture below) port on the CPU module? As far as I understand from the manual this port can be accessed only by a Mitsubishi programming module (Q6CPU)? The only alternative I can see from the I/O Devices is that there is A1SJ7QC24 which I assume is used for HMI, in this case I could possibly connect to RS-485 or RS-232C channel (depending which one is free). My question is by connecting to QC24 module would I be able to make my modifications online? Thanks, Tom 3. Master Doesn't see Holding Register Answer: CB1241//CM1241 modules are legacy modules which use old version of modbus instructions (ver 2.1) 4. Master Doesn't see Holding Register Dear Ragib, I've attached the files below. Please keep in mind I've tried with different data blocks, I've tried with Custom UDTs, Tried with Array of Int, Word etc. I noticed that other working projects use Modbus_Comm_Load V2.1 and Modbus_Slave V2.1 could this be an issue? 5. Dear Engineerds, My Master (non siemens) doesn't see the Holding Registers of the Slave (S7-1200) plc. However the Q coils are fine and all Diagnostics don't show errors. The Hardware: S7-1200 – CPU 1215C CM PtP – CB1241 RS485 (6ES7 241-1CH30-1XB0) - Half Duplex RS584 Firmware: Modbus_Comm_Load (V3.1) Modbus_Slave (V4.0) I've tried with various DB, UDTs and manipulating HR_Start_offset parameter with no success. Could you advise what am I possibly missing? Modbus_Comm_Load_DB_Snapshot.xlsx Modbus_Slave_DB_Snapshot.xlsx	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8958188891410828}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '54068', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4LYRUFFXW734VUXVSTAB24HKIK4U7PQ6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:78b93feb-58db-4153-b0b4-9ecd43731337>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 18, 4, 19, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.86.74.8', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HFLE5VAVSVQT4JYEJXYYOKUXISAHK3P4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:98b8481e-edb8-4f6a-b1c8-f4fb90f983cb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?/profile/108311-tom_/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f829952c-6279-41dd-87e6-8e3935990a7d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '370', 'url': 'https://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?/profile/108311-tom_/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-212.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07944965362548828', 'original_id': 'dd43a88b777324c7a6ddb707475ca3661eab28496033a6b6de47dc82c0a97190'}
Re: getting the name of a jar I normally use the "getResource" or "getResourceAsStream" method to read configuration files and other data files that I store in jar files. This will search for the file name using anything in your CLASSPATH including any jar's included in your CLASSPATH. It will not guarantee reading from a particular jar if you have multiple jars in your CLASSPATH or directories in your CLASSPATH which contain the same file. In that case, the first one found will be used. Cynthia Jeness "Jason R. Kretzer" wrote: Hello everyone, I have a jar that needs to perform an operation on itself(like read a text file inside itself). This is easy enough, however, here is the catch. How can a jar determine what its own file name is? This will need to be determined at runtime. eg. 1.) foo.jar is created using the JDK jar tool. 2.) John Q. User renames the jar to bar.jar. 3.) When executed, bar.jar knows its name is "bar.jar" and sets up a connection to do its operation. Question: How can I get bar.jar to know what its name is at runtime? Thanks,-Jason ************************************************************************************ Jason R. Kretzer Software Engineer Opinion One Email: jason@opone.com Phone: (513) 361-2771 Website: http://alia.iwarp.com "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." --Robert Bresson	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '88', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7957527041435242}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '5646', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4SK6JJTL5Z22SXRRY26ON5WJKGXZQUGK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d183e1e5-fda6-46ab-b73b-1153e571cce9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 28, 19, 14, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '174.128.27.102', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FZICGB6L7LF2IMOWLLY6Y3TT4JHJ3UCK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0f9fa78a-2630-4e8d-9c32-38b134bcab8e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.ajug.org/archive/ajug-members/10201/msg00009.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8c1ab035-316f-4667-b4af-629f4eab4469>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '213', 'url': 'http://www.ajug.org/archive/ajug-members/10201/msg00009.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.16399729251861572', 'original_id': '703ed070c145234c8926a805357474abf712da5ad23a46d7f433e47392ae12b1'}
Klubbene skal være så godt som enig om en overgang for Alexander Sørloth. Etter det TV 2 erfarer er 19-åringen så godt som klar for nederlandsk fotball på nyåret. Det var VG som først meldte at Alexander Sørloth - sønnen til RBK-legenden Gøran Sørloth – er i ferd med å bli solgt til den nederlandske toppklubben Groningen. Hard kamp om plassene på topp i Trondheim gjorde at spissen denne sesongen gikk på utlån til Bodø/Glimt, hvor han står med ni scoringer. Samtidig har han spilt seg inn på det norske U21-landslaget. TV 2 vet at avtalen mellom Rosenborg og Groningen skal være så godt som i boks. Avtalen innebærer at Sørloth spiller ferdig sesongen i Bodø, hvor det kun gjenstår to kamper av årets Tippeliga. Sørloth trener med resten av Glimt-laget i Bodø dag. Samtidig vet TV 2 at avtalen skal være så godt som ferdig forhandlet og at spilleren reiser til Nederland i januar. Det skal være sportslig utvikling som er motivasjonen for at Sørloth velger Nederland fremfor å spille flere sesonger i Tippeligaen. Blant spillerne som har meldt overgang til nederlandsk fotball med stor suksess, er tidligere RBK-spiller Markus Henriksen. Henriksen, som startet forrige landskamp mot Italia, er en sentral brikke på et AZ Alkmaar-lag som ligger på nedre halvdel av tabellen - to poeng bak Groningen. Sørloth er regnet som et av de største talentene i norsk fotball om dagen. Tidligere landslagstrener Egil Drillo Olsen er blant ekspertene som har lovpriset spissens innsats denne sesongen. - Jeg tror nesten han er bedre enn faren, sa Drillo på TV 2 etter Glimt-seieren over nettopp Rosenborg i juli. I forkant av utlånet var RBK klare på at formålet med utlånet var å få spilleren tilbake og i spill for hvittrøyene. – Vi ønsker å optimalisere utviklingen til Alexander slik at han kan komme tilbake til Lerkendal som en bedre spiller, og ta opp kampen om spissplassen, sa Erik Hoftun til RBK.no i desember. Nå ser det likevel ut til at Sørloth ikke blir å se på banen som RBK-spiller neste sesong.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'beac41a5fcaf892669ed65dfdd1be6f66470e3aa199911c2d380a09a4b287e28'}
Books \| Reviews The Guts by Roddy Doyle Who Tamed Jimmy Rabbitte? December 24, 2013 \| 12:48pm <i>The Guts</i> by Roddy Doyle Something in Ireland’s mythic past turns stalwart, stone-faced men to misty-eyed mush. Many contemporary Irish writers manage to resist it, of course, but only Roddy Doyle has wandered into Irish history’s holy of holies—Dublin’s General Post Office during the Easter Rising of 1916—and come out with his vision clear and bitter blue-collar cheek intact. Henry Smart, titular hero of Doyle’s A Star Called Henry, teenage IRA assassin-in-the-making, and a Sweet Sweetback-like outlaw hero of the Irish revolution, assesses the GPO scene and muses, “Day Two of the revolution and I was already bored.” A terse exchange amid the rioting and looting of the initial days of the revolution cuts even closer to Doyle’s essential take on colonial Ireland and whatever came after it: “That’s Irish property!” remarks one indignant Irishman. The battle-cry reply: “It’ll still be Irish after it’s stolen!” Doyle has never cared a whit for any legend-steeped notion of Ireland’s ancient kings and queens, gauzy tales of pre-colonial Celtic glory, or delusional visions of an independent Ireland as some sort of Home Rule/Rome Rule Elysium; nor has he wasted a minute reveling in the modern Irish state’s liberation from the shackles of British dominance. To Doyle, the history of Ireland is the history of class struggle, and never more so than in post-colonial Ireland, after the Irish working class won Ireland’s freedom and the Irish middle class stole it right back (and handed off most of it to priests). As Jimmy Rabbitte Jr. remarks in Doyle’s new book, The Guts, describing his country’s prompt descent into post-colonial quagmire, “Ireland in 1932 was a miserable place…Kids with no shoes, hunger, bad housin’, the Church supervisin’ everythin’. But the official picture was different. Happy peasants, glad to be rid of the Brits.” Though not exactly the message of The Guts, Jimmy’s working-class indignation connects it to A Star Called Henry and all of Doyle’s best work. That same attitude aligns Jimmy and Henry with former rapper Flavor Flav in his first (pre-reality TV) incarnation as the razor-sharp comic side of legendary hip-hop outfit Public Enemy: “I got a right to be hostile.” Even in occasional polemicist mode, Doyle characters have usually come off more like the wisecracking Flavor Flav than his bandmate Chuck D (who delivered the stentorian side of the same message); and the Irish novelist has drawn connections between Irish and African-American outrage right from the outset. In The Guts, Doyle delivers the first true sequel to his first novel, The Commitments, published in 1987 (and turned into a hit film four years later), about a self-mythologizing 21-year-old born impresario named Jimmy Rabbitte Jr., with a world-class chip on his shoulder and high principles in low places and everywhere else. Jimmy assembles a Stax-style southern soul band from the ranks of his own North Dublin neighborhood. Explaining to his friends that the Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and Northsiders are the blacks of Dublin, and that soul is the music of sex and politics and the proletariat, he proclaims to his Barrytown, Dublin mates, “Your music should be abou’ where you’re from an’ the sort o’ people yeh come from. Say it once, say it loud, I’m black an’ I’m proud.” Grandstanding hyperbole aside (and in Doyle’s hands, Jimmy Jr.’s soapbox moments divide equally into comic bluster and iconic truth), Doyle and his characters understand some crucial things about soul music that, frankly, tended to elude most of the white hippies who tried to play it in its heyday: Anything but unfettered, sloppy self-expression, as Commitments trumpeter Joey “The Lips” Fagan explains, “Soul music has corners.” The Commitments of novel and film coalesced for a few magnificent, soulful and comic moments, brawled constantly, imploded spectacularly at the end of the story, and then went their separate ways. Most Doyle fans probably know that Jimmy Rabbitte Jr.’s father, Jimmy Sr., returned as the protagonist of two subsequent novels, The Snapper and The Van, as a much deeper character than the marginal, one-dimensional Elvis fanatic who appears sporadically in The Commitments. (In a wonderfully unexpected, comical and heart-warming transformation, Jimmy Sr. quietly undergoes a lovely, private, non-destabilizing mid-life sexual awakening as he chews over his daughter’s unexpected teen pregnancy in The Snapper. He pores over prenatal care books, cluelessly asks his daughter biologically invasive questions about her pregnancy as he absorbs the books’ contents, musing over whether you’d properly think of sex as “riding” when it involves your wife, and so forth. Imagine Archie Bunker embracing the same inner monologue and the world becomes an oddly funnier and nicer place.) Most of The Van takes place on the unforgettable day in June 1990 when Ireland’s first World Cup team fought to a draw against the British squad, and the entire island descended into blissful madness for a day that, according to Jimmy Jr. 20 years later in The Guts, birthed a new, EU-ready, triumphalist Ireland. That single glorious day, Jimmy Jr. theorizes, predicated all the fiscal overreaching and hubris of the Celtic Tiger, the explosion of economic prosperity that briefly made Ireland a country that accumulated immigrants rather than bleeding émigrés. Things then declined precipitously and dumped the country into depression again. It’s there that The Guts begins, in 2012 Barrytown, with barely an echo of the Celtic Tiger’s brief roar remaining and Ireland deep in debt, with little to show for the wild ride of its last two decades but a deep distrust of priests and a surprisingly varied new ethnic makeup. (Nigerians and Romanians, not the Northsiders, are the blacks of Ireland now.) The Guts is Jimmy Jr.’s story, but in a welcome change from the first three Rabbitte books (now known as The Barrytown Trilogy) we actually see a good bit of Jimmy Sr. too. In the past they’ve mostly stayed out of each other’s books (The Commitments was Jr.’s; The Snapper and The Van were Sr.’s.). Like all the Barrytown books (The Commitments and The Snapper especially), dialogue makes up 90 percent of The Guts—most irresistibly, the interplay between Sr. and Jr. Although the book moves on to great places after the opening scene of the Rabbitte men in the pub, you never want it to end. A Star Called Henry still stands as Doyle’s finest hour, a sustained high-wire act that set a seemingly impossible standard for the crackling vitality of story, characterizations and dialogue; he somehow maintained that energy and intensity from the first page to the last. But Doyle never found that level again even in the best moments of the two Henry Smart sequels, Oh Play That Thing and The Dead Republic. Doyle often seemed at a loss as to where to take Henry next. A Star Called Henry unfolds like the secret history of Ireland—a gritty, grimy, utterly necessary corrective to everything you’ve read before. (As well as a whale of a tale, with a hell of a hero.) But Henry Smart’s later adventures often feel, if not insubstantial, then inessential. The Barrytown books thrive on different strengths, all very much in evidence in The Guts. Few writers have ever handled their characters with the sure-footed facility Doyle enjoys with the Rabbittes. A Star Called Henry may be Doyle’s masterpiece, but his unique and indelible voice resounds in the Barrytown books in clipped, offhand, profane, relentlessly piss-taking exchanges between Jimmys Sr. and Jr., and Jimmy Jr.’s wife, kids and mates. In the opening scene with Jimmy Jr. and Jimmy Sr. in the pub, Jimmy Jr. reveals the biggest change in his life, telling his father that he has bowel cancer. After Jimmy Jr. recounts how he heard of the diagnosis, his scheduled surgery and the probability of chemotherapy, Jimmy Sr. says, “Too much to take in.” Jimmy Jr. continues, “So…” —I went back to work, he said. —That’s a bit strange but, is it? said his da. -A bit of a fuckin’ under-reaction or somethin’. —I don’t think so, said Jimmy. -I know what yeh mean. But no. I was numb, Da. I hadn’t a clue. So I went back. I was hungry on the way back. Starvin’. —Did yeh drive? —I did, yeah. No one told me not to. But I was grand. I got back to work. Bought a sandwich an’ a packet of Tayto— —Maybe your last. —Fuck off. —D’yeh want a pack now? —No, said Jimmy. —No, yeah, I’d love one. Thanks. And so we discover, bit by offhand bit, where things stand in 47-year-old Jimmy Jr.’s world: He often enjoys a pint (but only one) with his recently retired father, before going home to his wife and four kids, who slag him as much as his father does. He’s reeling from his recent bowel cancer diagnosis. And he runs a business called kelticpunk.com, which he and his wife Aoife founded several years earlier to revive the careers of raucous early-’80s underground Irish punk bands (selling their music online as MP3s, reuniting them if enough members still live, sometimes getting them back in the studio, and often booking them new gigs based on the interest stirred up by their MP3 sales). More recently, though, he’s sold most of the kelticpunk.com equity to a woman who likes to throw around one-star generalist phrases like “It’s the new austerity; youth has been cancelled.” She bought the site for the Keltic part of the name, not the punk, so that she could cash in on the nostalgia value of misty-eyed, reverent “Celtic Rock”—“electrified diddley-eye…The Sons of the Fianna, the Minstrel Boys, the Bastards of Lir—Jimmy hated them all.” Kelticpunk.com, though never an entirely reliable source of income, paid Jimmy and Aiofe’s mortgage for years, but like everything in Ireland it’s collapsing as the book begins. Jimmy seizes on a gimmick to try to resurrect it. With the Eucharistic Congress coming to Dublin for the first time since 1932, Jimmy anticipates a tidal wave of 1932 nostalgia headed Ireland’s way, and proclaims that Kelticpunk.com will cash in on it by compiling a CD of long-forgotten Irish pop songs from 1932 with subtle hints of sex and sedition in the lyrics. Of course, papist pride isn’t what it used to be in Ireland, so anticipation of the new Pope’s visit isn’t exactly setting the country on fire. Finding a song that will express everything Jimmy hopes to decode from 1932 Irish pop lyrics proves more difficult than he imagines. At this point, the novel of such an avowedly anti-mythic-Ireland writer and protagonist takes a delightfully Commitments-style self-mythologizing turn, as Jimmy decides to invent the song his best efforts failed to unearth, and pass it off as a genuine lost 78. Jimmy re-connects with a few old Commitments bandmates during the course of the book—the lovely-as-ever Imelda Quirk in a pub, the now-dying rhythm guitarist Outspan at the chemo clinic. With some discomfort, Jimmy and Outspan slowly resurrect their friendship, and the two ex-Commitments, along with Jimmy’s long-estranged emigrant brother, and a member of one of the authentically punk Kelticpunk bands, agree to take Outspan’s oxygen tank and their by-varying-degrees diminished middle-aged selves to Ireland’s biggest music festival. The festival adventure yields a grand final act that rivals the wild and prolonged melee of the Ireland-England World Cup match of 1990 that Doyle captured so memorably in The Van. The good news about the Jimmy Rabbitte Jr. of The Guts? The last quarter-century hasn’t left him all that diminished, bowel cancer and all. But he does catch himself softening up somewhat on the rank sentimentality he sees everywhere (much as Henry Smart begrudgingly softened his stance on the self-satisfied creature comforts of 1960s middle-class Ireland in The Dead Republic). He absorbs his new tolerance as hard-won (if somewhat hard-to-accept) wisdom that actually makes him easier to live with for all concerned, himself included. The Guts doesn’t feel like the end of the story, providing no grand conclusion or resolution to the adventures of Jimmy Rabbitte, Jr. or Sr. ...or even so much as a ne’er-do-well’s half-serious condemnation/benediction, a “God’s mercy on the wild Ginger Man.” But maybe The Guts will prove the last we’ll see of the Rabbittes anyway, even if we never get to witness Jimmy Jr.’s last moment in “present tense” as he briefly imagines it at the chemo clinic in The Guts (along with the Ennio Morricone soundtrack to his funeral). But even if The Guts delivers our last invitation to Barrytown, that’s fine; witnessing the alpha and omega of Barrytown life never seemed part of the deal. Post-chemo Outspan notwithstanding, Doyle has never styled himself a doctor who sees only terminal cases, as John Irving described the novelist; Doyle himself would tell you matter-of-factly that he would never have become a writer—much less a doctor of anything—if he’d grown up few years earlier, before 1967 when secondary education in Ireland became free. Still, observing Jimmy Rabbitte Jr.’s prickly arrival into the middle of life (and knowing little more than that he’ll survive it) proves a satisfying conclusion of its own. If Jimmy has made a few compromises along the way, as we all do, his voice remains extraordinarily real, as does his author’s. Voices have always stood at the center of Doyle’s Barrytown books—the narrative voice of the author; the swearing, singular voices of the characters—more so than any high drama in the stories they tell. Doyle remarked in a recent interview that it was his job to “stay awake and not slip into some notion that I know what street life in Dublin is like without having to venture out onto the streets.” Whatever Doyle does to keep his ear tuned and his dialogue true, it works, as The Guts amply demonstrates. It crackles with grit, wit, and bite…and it still has corners. Jimmy Rabbitte Jr.’s righteous indignation remains riotous and real. 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Baked oatmeal breakfast squares \| Christiana Care News Written by Craig Landon Delicious baked fresh or reheated from frozen, oatmeal squares are a great way to treat your family to a lazy weekend breakfast on a weekday. Easy to make and more affordable than stopping for another saturated-fat-and-sodium-filled fast-food breakfast, oatmeal squares are a healthy breakfast alternative that provide the energy you need to deal with the workday. High in fiber and protein, oatmeal squares will keep you from snacking before lunch. Unsweetened applesauce, maple syrup and mixed berries sweeten the squares without any added sugar keeping you from the “crash” often felt after eating a sugary breakfast. Consider serving with a dollop of lowfat vanilla Greek yogurt for a special indulgence. Try a new way to eat your oatmeal! 2 ½ cups rolled oats (not instant) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder ⅛ teaspoon salt 10 oz (about 2 rounded cups) frozen mixed berries or 1 ½ cups fresh mixed berries 1 ½ cups milk, skim or 2% ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce ¼ cup maple syrup 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 egg or equivalent egg substitute 1. Preheat oven to 350° and coat an 8 or 9 inch square pan with cooking spray. 2. In a large bowl, combine oats, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. 1. Thaw mixed berries (if using) and drain well. Cut any extra large berries into smaller pieces. 2. In a smaller bowl, whisk together milk, apple sauce, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and egg. 1. Add egg mixture to oats and stir to combine. Gently fold in drained mixed berries. 1. Place oats and berries mixture in prepared pan making sure mixture is evenly distributed. 1. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until top is golden brown and the mixture has formed a solid cake, testing the center to ensure it is firm. Let cool on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes before cutting into squares. 1. If freezing squares, allow to cool completely. Wrap individual squares in plastic wrap and store in the freezer in a freezer safe bag. Reheat squares in the microwave. Serves 9. Calories 154 Total Fat 2 g Saturated Fat 0 g Monounsaturated Fat 1 g Polyunsaturated Fat 1 g Trans Fat 0 g Cholesterol 21 mg Sodium 102 mg Potassium 207 mg Total Carbohydrate 29 g Dietary Fiber 4 g Sugars 7 g Protein 5 g	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8592548370361328}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62500', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:636R2YW6BDJN362RTNY4TSGTIA6SVSUB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e3555bd1-a37d-42b1-91c2-74d593efbf38>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 10, 22, 48, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.251.81.89', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VKQKD3FDYB3FYFQL4ZC3DZ6BMLWPHKIS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:439c81ee-5d53-4c9f-942a-1073e3a08397>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://atk-events.org/baked-oatmeal-breakfast-squares-christiana-care-news/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:12337166-bf6a-4931-a1dc-71a3f9a0f597>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '401', 'url': 'https://atk-events.org/baked-oatmeal-breakfast-squares-christiana-care-news/', '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-10-150-98-233.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': '0.032360076904296875', 'original_id': '62c095154b282f5ae46a07b5707fc8b333a68068bfdf2ab1defae6839ff8c6be'}
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In general, tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are useful as raw materials for producing polyimide resins, as epoxy curing agents, and as the like. Of these tetracarboxylic dianhydrides, for example, aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides such as pyromellitic dianhydride have mainly been used as raw materials of polyimide resins used in the fields of electronics devices and the like. However, polyimide resins obtained from such aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are colored due to their aromatic characteristics. Hence, the aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are not sufficient as raw materials of polyimide resins used in applications in the optical field and the like. In addition, polyimide resins obtained by using such aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are poorly soluble in solvents, and hence are insufficient in terms of processability thereof. For these reasons, various aliphatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides have been tested in order to produce a polyimide resin having a high light transmittance and an excellent solubility in solvents. For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. Sho 55-36406 (PTL 1) discloses 5-(2,5-dioxotetrahydro-3-furanyl)-3-methyl-3-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride. Meanwhile, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. Sho 63-57589 (PTL 2) discloses bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxylic dianhydrides. In addition, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. Hei 7-304868 (PTL3) discloses bicyclo[2.2.2]octanetetracarboxylic dianhydrides as raw materials of polyimide resins. Moreover, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2001-2670 (PTL 4) and Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2002-255955 (PTL 5) disclose 1,2-bis(4′-oxa-3′,5′-dioxotricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decan-8′-yloxy)ethane. Moreover, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. Hei 10-310640 (PTL 6) discloses bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3,5-tricarboxyl-5-acetic 2,3:5,5-dianhydride. However, when conventional aliphatic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides as described in PTLs 1 to 6 are used, the obtained polyimide resins are insufficient in terms of heat resistance, and hence insufficient in a practical sense. Moreover, wholly aromatic polyimide (for example, trade name “Kapton”) has been conventionally known as a material necessary for cutting-edge industries for aerospace and aviation applications and the like. Such a wholly aromatic polyimide is synthesized from a combination of an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an aromatic diamine by utilizing a reaction represented by the following reaction formula (I): The wholly aromatic polyimide is known to exhibit one of the highest levels of heat resistances (glass transition temperature (Tg): 410° C.) among heat resistance polymers (see Engineering plastics, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1987, p. 88 (NPL 1)). However, such a wholly aromatic polyimide is colored in brown, because intramolecular charge transfer (CT) occurs between a tetracarboxylic dianhydride unit of an aromatic ring system and a diamine unit of another aromatic ring system. Hence, the wholly aromatic polyimide cannot be used in optical applications and the like, where transparency is necessary. For this reason, in order to produce a polyimide usable in optical applications and the like, research has been conducted on alicyclic polyimides in which no intramolecular CT occurs, and which has a high light transmittance. There are three kinds of alicyclic polyimides: one is a combination of an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an alicyclic diamine; another is a combination of an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an aromatic diamine; and the other is a combination of an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an alicyclic diamine. However, of these alicyclic polyimides, the ones using an alicyclic diamine are difficult to obtain with high molecular weights. This is because an alicyclic diamine has a basicity which is 105 to 106 times greater than that of an aromatic diamine, and hence the polymerization behavior of an alicyclic diamine is totally different from that of an aromatic diamine, so that a salt precipitates during the polymerization. On the other hand, alicyclic polyimides each obtained by combining an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an aromatic diamine can be produced with direct application of general synthetic procedures for the wholly aromatic polyimide, and are easy to obtain with high molecular weights. For this reason, of the alicyclic polyimides, alicyclic polyimides each obtained by combining an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an aromatic diamine have attracted attention in recent years, and investigations have been conducted on alicyclic polyimides using alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydrides of a monocyclic ring system, a bicyclic ring system, a tricyclic ring system, a tetracyclic ring system, or a spiro ring system. For example, as the alicyclic polyimide using an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride of a tetracyclic ring system, an alicyclic polyimide is known which is obtained from a dimethanonaphthalene-type tetracarboxylic dianhydride by utilizing a reaction represented by the following reaction formula (II) (see Macromolecules, Vol. 27, 1994, p. 1117 (NPL 2)): In addition, the alicyclic polyimide obtained from the dimethanonaphthalene-type tetracarboxylic dianhydride is also known to exhibit a heat resistance (glass transition temperature (Tg): 404° C.) close to that of the wholly aromatic polyimide (see SAISHIN PORIIMIDO—KISO TO OUYOU—(Current Polyimides—Fundamentals and Applications—), NTS INC., 2002, Chapter 1, alicyclic polyimides, p. 388 (NPL 3)). However, it has been still impossible to obtain such an alicyclic polyimide having a sufficiently high level of heat resistance comparable to the above-described wholly aromatic polyimide (for example, trade name “Kapton”).	mini_pile	{'original_id': '962affd6f86c317f52bf1ab0f7e43c2880cfb4296d530c54d1cee59587ce3f47'}
# -- coding: utf-8 -- """ iquery.showes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show tickets query and display. The datas come from: www.damain.cn """ import os import re from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from prettytable import PrettyTable from datetime import datetime, timedelta from .utils import colored, requests_get, exit_after_echo __all__ = ['is_show_type', 'query'] SHOWES_QUERY_URL = 'http://www.damai.cn/projectlist.do' # ERR MSG QUERY_DAYS_INVALID = 'Invalid days.' CITY_NOT_FOUND = 'Sorry, your city is not supported.' SHOW_NOT_FOUND = 'No result.' # All supported show types and its query params. SHOW_TYPES = { '演唱会': {'mcid': 1, 'ccid': ''}, '音乐会': {'mcid': 2, 'ccid': ''}, '音乐剧': {'mcid': 3, 'ccid': 22}, '儿童剧': {'mcid': 3, 'ccid': 23}, '歌舞剧': {'mcid': 3, 'ccid': 21}, '话剧': {'mcid': 3, 'ccid': 19}, '歌剧': {'mcid': 3, 'ccid': 20}, '舞蹈': {'mcid': 4, 'ccid': ''}, '相声': {'mcid': 5, 'ccid': 27}, '魔术': {'mcid': 5, 'ccid': 28}, '马戏': {'mcid': 5, 'ccid': 29}, '杂技': {'mcid': 5, 'ccid': 30}, '戏曲': {'mcid': 5, 'ccid': 31}, '比赛': {'mcid': 6, 'ccid': ''} } is_show_type = frozenset(SHOW_TYPES.keys()).__contains__ class ShowesCollection(object): """A set of showes from a query.""" #: The header of every column headers = '主题票价场馆 '.split() def __init__(self, rows): self._rows = rows def __repr__(self): return '<ShowTicketsCollection size={}>'.format(len(self)) def __len__(self): return len(self._rows) def pretty_print(self): pt = PrettyTable() if len(self) == 0: pt._set_field_names(['Sorry,']) pt.add_row([SHOW_NOT_FOUND]) else: pt._set_field_names(self.headers) for row in self._rows: pt.add_row(row) print(pt) class ShowTicketsQuery(object): """Perform a show query.""" def __init__(self, city, show_type, days=15): self.city = city self.show_type = show_type self.days = days def __repr__(self): return '<ShowTicketsQuery city={} types={} days={}>'.format( self._city, self._type, self._days ) @property def cities(self): filepath = os.path.join( os.path.dirname(__file__), 'datas', 'cities.dat' ) d = {} with open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: for line in f.readlines(): name, number = line.split() d.setdefault(name, int(number)) return d @property def _city_id(self): ci = self.cities.get(self.city) if not ci: exit_after_echo(CITY_NOT_FOUND) return ci @property def _show_type(self): st = SHOW_TYPES.get(self.show_type) if not st: exit_after_echo(SHOW_NOT_FOUND) return st @property def date_range(self): """Generate date range according to the `days` user input.""" try: days = int(self.days) except ValueError: exit_after_echo(QUERY_DAYS_INVALID) if days < 1: exit_after_echo(QUERY_DAYS_INVALID) start = datetime.today() end = start + timedelta(days=days) return ( datetime.strftime(start, '%Y-%m-%d'), datetime.strftime(end, '%Y-%m-%d') ) def _build_params(self): start, end = self.date_range return dict( cityID=self._city_id, isText=1, pageIndex=1, startDate=start, endDate=end, order=2, *self._show_type ) def parse(self, items): """Parse `主题`, `时间`, `场馆`, 票价` in every item.""" rows = [] for i, item in enumerate(items): theme = colored.green(item.find(class_='ico').a.text.strip()) text = item.find(class_='mt10').text.strip() mix = re.sub('\s+', ' ', text).split('：') time = mix[1][:-3] place = mix[2][:-7] # display time below theme theme_time = '\n'.join([theme, colored.red(time)]) price = item.find(class_='price-sort').text.strip() rows.append([theme_time, price, place]) return rows def query(self): params = self._build_params() rows = [] while True: r = requests_get(SHOWES_QUERY_URL, params=params) soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser') items = soup.find_all(class_='ri-infos') if not items: return ShowesCollection(rows) rows += self.parse(items) params['pageIndex'] += 1 def query(params): """`params` is a list, contains `city`, 'show_type`, `days`.""" return ShowTicketsQuery(params).query()	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'https://github.com/ydong08/PythonCode/blob/master/test_code/misc/iquery-master/iquery/showes.py', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '2021.0', 'title': 'PythonCode', 'creator': 'ydong08', 'language': 'Python', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '448', 'token_count': '1673', '__index_level_0__': '35124', 'original_id': '666793ec31d5239f5439a2a8a49e78d7820c67cda9a30896a0fa6c73964dab09'}
Theatricality, Artifice and the Mended World in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Painting of 'Persephone in Hades' by unknown artist (18th century). In a charming domestic scene at the start of act 2 of The Winter’s Tale, Queen Hermione, pregnant with her second child, asks her son, Mamillius, to tell her a story. He says: “Merry or sad shall’t be?” and she replies “As merry as you will.” But Mamillius has other ideas: “A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one / Of sprites and goblins” (act 2, scene 1). While Shakespeare’s play has no goblins or sprites, it does, at least for its first three acts, traffic in sadness: King Leontes’ irrational sexual jealousy, the estrangement of the king from his wife Hermione, the death of his son and the supposed death of his infant daughter and wife. It is an icy and tragic “winter’s tale” indeed. But in this play Shakespeare has things two ways. In a miraculous reversal of expectations, in its last two acts The Winter’s Tale becomes a happier story of regeneration, resurrection and reunion. As a result, the play is both a sad tale and a merry one, a perfect tragicomedy. The conversation between Mamillius and his mother signals to the audience Shakespeare’s own preoccupation in his late plays with old tales and moldy stories. In these plays he draws on ancient tales and mythic tropes to put in stark relief primal patterns of human experience. The Winter’s Tale’s basic structure recalls the myth of Persephone, a beautiful young girl abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld, from a flowering field where she was playing. Allowed to return six months of every year to the earth’s surface, Persephone’s comings and goings explain the cycle of winter and summer, sorrow and joy, that structure both human life and old stories like The Winter’s Tale. The play also evokes Christian narratives. Leontes, overcome by evil, commits great wrongs, but after a long period of penitence, receives the gift of grace: the return of his daughter and the seeming resurrection of his wife. In The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare writes in the shadow of all these tales to create his own dramatic fiction about humanity’s appalling capacity for destruction and also about the possibilities for regeneration through time, penitence and the helping hand of art. In making his play, Shakespeare does not hesitate to let the bones of his art show. For example, when he has depicted the full horrors of Leontes’ destructive jealousy and looks toward the time of regeneration, an allegorical figure named Time signals the transition. At the beginning of act 4, alone on stage, Time announces that 16 years have passed and that the action has shifted to Bohemia, where Leontes’ daughter, Perdita, banished and believed dead, has grown to young womanhood. Although the stage directions don’t specify when the play was staged during Shakespeare’s life, Time probably wore wings, signaling how rapidly time passes, and carried an hourglass and a scythe, traditional symbols of his destructive power. Time is not a “realistic” figure; he’s an emblematic one, a device that lets Shakespeare self-consciously point to the ways he is disregarding the classical unities that insist a play’s action must take place in one day and one place. Time says: Impute it not a crime To me or my swift passage that I slide O’er sixteen years and leave the growth untried Of that wide gap, since it is in my power To o’erthrow law, and in one self-born hour To plan and o’erwhelm custom (act 4, scene 1) Time could be speaking for the playwright himself who overthrows the theatrical laws of the unities and modern understandings of realism to tell an old tale the way he sees fit. In his late plays Shakespeare often heightens the overt theatricality of his dramas, pointing to the artifice that goes into their construction and making the powers and limitations of art part of the subject matter of these plays. The Winter’s Tale is no exception. In act 4, in the springtime world of Bohemia, there is even a conversation between Polixenes, King of Bohemia and Perdita about the importance and value of art in human life. Perdita is given the skeptic’s part, arguing that art dilutes or perverts nature; Polixenes disagrees, using a gardening metaphor to argue for the value of the gardener’s art whereby he grafts one plant onto another to produce hybrids and new varieties of vegetation. In Polixenes’ view, “This is an art / Which does mend nature—change it rather; but / The art itself is nature” (act 4, scene 4). In other words, human skill and artfulness can create something new, and that very artfulness is part of man’s natural inheritance. The play’s theatricality is heightened by the number of artist figures within it. There are con artists like the peddler Autolycus who wear disguises as part of elaborately theatrical scams to relieve people of their money, and unwitting artists like Perdita, who, even as she rails against art, dresses up as Queen of the sheep-shearing feast. Perdita thus plays a game of make-believe that ironically reveals the truth of her nature. Rather than a shepherd’s daughter, she is a king’s; and her artful pageant unwittingly acknowledges the underlying reality of her identity. In this case, art is truer than life! Then there are the powerfully positive artist figures of Camillo and Paulina, servants and counselors who try to mend their worlds through artful fictions. When Florizel’s father discovers Perdita and Florizel’s love, he forbids it, causing the counselor Camillo to intervene on the side of the young lovers. Camillo devises an elaborate fiction in which Florizel is to sail to Leontes’ kingdom and present Perdita as a Libyan Princess he has married. Camillo even dresses the young lovers in costumes appropriate for the parts they will play and provides them with lines to say. Factually, his story is a lie. Perdita is not a Libyan Princess, and the two young people are not yet married. But Camillo’s fiction presents an image of the world he would like to see in which young love gets to live out its desires and the innate nobility of two young people can be acknowledged. Eventually, in Sicily, Perdita’s royal birth is revealed, and she and Florizel do get to wed. Camillo’s old tale has presaged a world transformed. Shakespeare takes the greatest risks, however, with the magnificent statue scene that concludes his play. This is one of the most highly theatrical and metadramatic scenes in Shakespeare’s entire canon. Paulina, a lady in waiting at the court of Leontes and a staunch champion of his wife’s sexual fidelity, orchestrates an encounter in which Leontes and Perdita, Leontes’ lost daughter, view a newly-completed statue of Hermione, the lost wife and mother. The statue depicts not the young Hermione, but a woman wrinkled by time. Bidding all who stand before the statue to “awake [their] faith” (act 5, scene 3), Paulina enjoins the statue to move and then to speak. What happens next is open to multiple understandings as the statue does indeed step down from its pedestal. From one perspective, a miracle akin to the Christian miracle of the risen Christ seems to occur right before the audience’s eyes. From another perspective, the play suggests that the statue has so moved the audience that their faith has willed it into life. This recalls the story of Pygmalion, the goldsmith who dearly loved the statue he created, and because of his passion, Venus granted the statue life. There is also a naturalistic explanation for the statue’s movements: Hermione did not really die 16 years before, but was kept in hiding by Paulina as both women waited for the prophecy to be fulfilled that “the King shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not found” (act 3, scene 2). What is lost, of course, is the banished daughter, who returns to Leontes in act 5. As is usual with Shakespeare’s dramatic practice, it is not possible to separate art from nature and, in this case, from miracle. In his highly theatrical climax, Shakespeare suggests in one vivid action that a religious miracle of faith has occurred, that a long-kept secret has been revealed, and that art has led the way in “mending” nature. Ben Jonson, Shakespeare’s contemporary, complained of plays that “make nature afraid,” by which he seems to have meant plays that eschewed realism and the unities and present fantastic or impossible events. The Winter’s Tale is just such a play. It contains Father Time, a walking statue, improbable coincidences and movement over vast stretches of time and geography. But like the old tales that attract Mamillius and his mother, The Winter’s Tale gives pleasure and brings clarity. Its stark two-part structure intimates both how human beings can destroy their own happiness and also how, sometimes, it can be restored. Like Paulina, Shakespeare is a maker of fictions that tease us with the possibility that art can spur new life, new ways of seeing and so mend the nature that we as humans so easily endanger. Jean E. Howard (Ph.D., Yale) is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Author of many books, she has received numerous fellowships and awards including Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, Folger, Huntington and Newberry Library Fellowships. 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Monday, March 30, 2009 D is for Dino This Saturday we helped Quinn celebrate his 2nd birthday. His party was alphabet themed and each child was assigned a letter to represent at the party. Hudson was assigned D and thanks to Amy for telling me about this was perfect! How perfect is that? D IS FOR DINO!! Hudson was all geared up to go to the party! There were SO MANY fun things to do at Quinn's party...there were bubbles, a bounce house, a slide, a basketball goal...the list goes on. I wish I could have taken more pictures, but the party fell during Hudson's nap and he wanted to cuddle most of the time we were there. He did take time out from cuddling to eat cake though! Here is the birthday boy about to blow out his candles. Happy 2nd birthday Quinn!! 1 comment: Helwig Happenings said... What a darling theme! Glad D is for Dino had fun :-)	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9897060990333556}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '104357', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AP2QGXYVEC37YL2LI22ARWYUO63NPXF7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:893bcea5-aa18-4e1d-b785-d26bf68496b3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 19, 12, 59, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6XVCWAV62JBTPMSS3V2WTRH3CP5EJAIU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f40e66d2-48f7-4e0b-8391-a47f9bf3ff27>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://donnelldays.blogspot.com/2009/03/d-is-for-dino.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9bde56c9-6f4f-4b27-81e5-dae5d1e43bbd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '160', 'url': 'http://donnelldays.blogspot.com/2009/03/d-is-for-dino.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-164-105-194.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-34\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.025135159492492676', 'original_id': 'e6c7344139489c29d61132ef1f5a6e75166b5e7f69a6b2d4db118cfd6f7be181'}
Blurred Lines – From Superstition to Pseudoscience Growing up in India we had usual plethora of Gods stacked up in the “God corner”. In addition, there were the other usual suspects – a sealed pot of water from the Ganges, various dried herbs and a ton of other knick knacks – collections from various temple visits. Superstitious beliefs were intricately interwoven into the fabric of life and culture. They ranged from the harmless to the macabre. Reflecting back now it is interesting to see how these beliefs consumed you and became part of everyday life. Prayer had to be done facing a specific direction. Idols were supposed to face a specific direction. Never understood this. Seems counter intuitive given the proposition that God is omnipresent. Then there were auspicious days and auspicious times. Don’t leave on a trip unless it was an auspicious day (or time). Don’t embark on a new business venture unless it was an auspicious day. Parties and religious functions usually were followed by complex rituals to get rid of the “evil eye” or the “jealous eye”. If someone fell sick after relatives visited then “aha” it was the evil eye at work.A good portion of these superstitions are harmless and is an extension of OCD like behavior. Knock on wood, keep your fingers crossed, don’t pass the salt by hand etc. all things that grew from culture and folklore and are usually harmless. In this Web Md article – Psychology of Superstition, sense of security and confidence are some of the key benefits from having harmless superstitions and rituals. The real problem starts when this morphs to pseudo sciences and belief in dangerous rituals. Astrology is pervasive in our society. A frivolous indulgence in the daily horoscope column to check if Mars will be messing with the S&P index is one thing. Relying on astrology for every decision in your life takes it to a different level altogether. Career Changes, Marriage, Love, Financial Decisions, Property ownership, business ventures, education etc…..the list is very long. This culminates in the head of the Indian Space Research Organization seeking blessings from a temple visit to ensure auspicious start to India’s space launch to Mars. The assassination of Narendra Dhabolkar an Indian Rationalist who drafted the Anti Superstition Bill was horrific and tragic. It resulted in passing the bill by two Indian states to criminalize practices related to black magic, human sacrifices, and magic remedies to cure diseases. Although this is a good start there is a lot more that needs be done to address many more superstitious beliefs like Vastu Sastra (Feng Shui), fortune telling, traditional medicine men etc. This brings me to our recent stateside buzz with Bill Nye (the Science Guy) debating Ken Ham president and founder of Answers in Genesis-U.S., and the “creator” of the Creation Museum. I was saddenend by the announcement of the debate. I am an ardent fan of Bill Nye and his contributions to inculcate a curiosity in science and reason into the public discourse. However as Dan Arel wrote on the Richard Dawkins website “Scientists should not debate creationists. Period.” “Winning is not what the creationists realistically aspire to,” Dawkins said in 2006. “For them, it is sufficient that the debate happens at all. They need the publicity. We don’t. To the gullible public which is their natural constituency, it is enough that their man is seen sharing a platform with a real scientist.” (link to WaPo Article).( ) Some things can’t be a debate anymore and pseudo science cannot be taught in school curriculum. It is depressing to read this map of public schools in the US that are teaching creationism as a viable option to evolution. 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Thursday, May 30, 2013 Why Lapid is strengthening radical Chareidim or How not to draft the ultra-Orthodox Times of Israel by Rachel Azaria a Jerusalem councilwoman representing the Yerushalmim Party The government’s Peri Committee is offering a solution to the unequal burden of military service that is far from ideal. Why? Because it won’t result in the ultra-Orthodox joining the army, at least not for the next four years. If so, why are Yair Lapid and Yesh Atid determined to pass the law? Ah… It’s simple: they live in Tel Aviv. In other words, they have never actually met the ultra-Orthodox. Over the last decade, Jerusalem residents have witnessed a lengthy, difficult struggle over the character of our city. We have succeeded on a number of fronts: the fight against excluding women from the public sphere, retaining the pluralistic character of neighborhoods, and so much more. We have succeeded because we became acquainted with the ultra-Orthodox community and we realized one key fact: the ultra-Orthodox community is undergoing significant changes, with two distinct undercurrents pulling in opposite directions. The first trend is an increasing interest in being part of Israeli society. These are people who feel Israeli and value the State of Israel. The other group is increasingly disinterested in joining society at large. The ultra-Orthodox who wish to integrate into society face two main challenges. One is that they don’t know how to join society, so many don’t. But given the chance, they will gladly find their place. The second challenge is pressure from their more radical peers, who deny their religious devotion, threaten to not accept their children to schools, and other such sanctions. [...] What we’ve learned in Jerusalem is to encourage the moderate voices in the ultra-Orthodox community, those who wish to join the Israeli and Jerusalemite public sphere and to resist the zealots. The problem is that the Peri Committee does exactly the opposite. According to its plan, it will continue to exempt the entire ultra-Orthodox community from service. And in four years, anyone who doesn’t join the army – will go to jail. This precisely empowers the more radical voices, who are waiting for a chance to prove that the secular want only to harass the ultra-Orthodox. Of course they’ll fight the Committee’s plan. It is clear that being jailed will be equated with “martyrdom for the sake of G-d,” playing right into the hands of the more radical groups [...] 1. asher pihem diber shavMay 30, 2013 at 5:35 PM The writer of this article is correct. It is clear to me, as an "extreme" charedi, that Lapid has no interest in recruiting chareidim, only to win the fight. If he really cared to recruit people to the army, he would have left things the way they were (i believe there was a gradual increase in service) , or he would go after people in his own camp who don't serve. Israelis love to win an argument. It's all about, i am the big man, and you are the small man. Hahaha I win, and hahaha you lose. This is what it's about. I would love to make this a philisophical argument, over right and wrong and service, but it's not. It's simple childs play. The outcome will actually be counterproductive. Less chareidim will serve. If they try arresting them, and they will realize they don't have enough prisons, or will power for this fight. The backlash will be so strong, that this issue will settle itself for another 20-30 years. Good night Lapid. Good night Lipman. Your 1800 yeshiva students idea should have been more like 180,000. Hahaha you win the battle. Hahaha you lose the war. The only true winners will be the producers of the garbage cans burned during hafganot. 2. WADR the secular approach has been remarkably restrained and reasonable considering the response its received from the Ultra-Orthodox leadership. To wit: Seculars: We want to talk about sharing the burden, getting you to join the army and look for work! Ultra-Orthodox: Nazis! Animals! You're like the Czar, Haman and Hitler all in one! You think of nothing but how to destroy the Torah and us with it! We will never surrender. We will... wait! Why do you hate us so much?" 3. Much merit to this argument. The IDF has a long history of being used to shape society and as long as it is viewed as such, will remain pariah by the chareidim. Whether or not it is still being used to influence its ranks to lessen their religious observance is a matter of debate. According to my sources chilul shabbas in nachal chareidi is rampant. 1. There's a difference between individuals, who happen to serve in Nachal Haredi, who choose to be chillul Shabbos because they are rebelling against Hashem or discarding Judaism, vs. The Nahal Charedi itself (its officers, rabbis, commanders, etc) committing chilul Shabbos and thus forcing all its soldiers to do so. Blaming the former scenario on the unit itself is not appropriate, and actually it is dishonest. There are individuals in haredi society who also choose to violate shabbos. Do you blame that on the gedolim or the yeshivot? Obviously, no one told them to do that. 4. I think the Zealots could set up a few communities inside the west bank, near several arab cities. here they can both share in anti-zionist rhetoric, and also can fight or learn to fight the Palestinian militants. They might be more successful at it than the IDF. 5. Recipients and PublicityJune 3, 2013 at 2:33 AM Israel National News / Arutz Sheva: "Yaalon: No to Criminal Sanctions Against Hareidi Draft Evaders Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon expresses his strong opposition to criminal actions against hareidi men who don't serve in the IDF. By Elad Benari Last week, the Perry Committee for Equal Burden of Service voted to impose criminal sanctions on hareidi-religious men who do not enlist in the army. Yaalon, who was a member of the committee, voted against the measure, reportedly ignoring a direct order from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to vote for the measure in order to prevent a coalition crisis. Speaking to Likud activists in the Sharon region, the Defense Minister said, "Last year, 1,500 hareidim joined the IDF without us having declared war on then and without going to jail. "Whoever thinks that by attacking and threatening them, as [former MK Yohanan] Plesner did at the time and as has almost happened with Yesh Atid – sending them straight to jail - I do not want to live in a Jewish state in which I take yeshiva students from Torah study to jail,” he added. Asked by the activists how much Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, who last week threatened to bolt from the coalition unless his demands on hareidi army recruitment were met, will control the government, Yaalon replied, “I do not bend over, as you can see.” He added, “Those who can think that life or the State can be run on Facebook – should know that it doesn’t work.” 1. Recipients and PublicityJune 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM Correction, the correct URL for the above article is: "Yaalon: No to Criminal Sanctions Against Hareidi Draft Evaders 2. Interesting, for secular draft dodgers, there is a criminal prosecution. One secularist spent many months in prison for refusing to serve. So is this a shmad on behalf of the government? please use either your real name or a pseudonym.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '117', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9614862203598022}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '239087', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VHPAMBB2J7VZKYMUUNFQJOZIBXCKDVTZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6f0e7655-cb79-481c-9431-554a56bfa3a1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 28, 22, 27, 14), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.13.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YBE3XNMJUBDXYC4C2XI6XJ7KWDTWAT5Q', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:cc182c61-e3da-41c0-8c61-6922cb271a79>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-lapid-is-strengthening-radical.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e18f3ce1-7d81-4fea-819e-08fcbf6081a8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1364', 'url': 'http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-lapid-is-strengthening-radical.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-05\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-103.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019980132579803467', 'original_id': '5c48289fbad85cd0d53bc8fe9856d4f26bb482d37008d7bc8c261beebdb7b1d6'}
The Assassin's Creed film has officially entered production and will begin shooting soon. Loading Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared the news during today's company earnings call. Guillemot called the event "a very important milestone for the project."You can watch the Assassin's Creed film when it's released on December 21, 2016.The film's star, Michael Fassbender, said he has never played an Assassin's Creed game , though he finds the premise "interesting.""...I’d heard of it but had never played the game," Fassbender said. "I don’t have a video game player … that’s not what they’re called. [Laughs] I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting—the idea of reliving memories.” Brian is an associate editor at IGN. You can follow him @albinoalbert on Twitter.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '92ab1a93e2a9d7faa1917c5d567ed7821f069d94d99e5dfa81aa946e60d6f3bf'}
A comparison of two glucocorticoid regimens for acceleration of fetal lung maturation in premature labor. This study compares fetal corticoid response from conventional dose (12.0 mg) intramuscular betamethasone to large dose (1,000 mg) intravenous cortisol administered to women in premature labor for acceleration of fetal lung maturity. To compare these two regimens, 14 women selected at random were treated in groups of seven with either cortisol or betamethasone. Peripheral levels of unconjugated estriol were measured by specific radioimmunoassay prior to the cortisol dose and at 1, 4, 8, and 12 hours following the dose. The rate of corticoid delivery to the fetal hypothalamic-adrenal axis was estimated by the per cent suppression of unconjugated estriol at each post-treatment interval. Least-squares regression lines fitted (P less than 0.01) for each regimen were compared for time saved (delta t) when cortisol was used. Mean delta t (1, 4, 8, and 12 hours) was 9.0 +/- 0.2 S.E.M. hours. It is concluded that: (1) Intravenous cortisol delivers a fetal corticoid effect that is significantly more rapid in onset and more profound in magnitude than does intramuscular betamethasone and that (2) the cortisol regimen is probably better suited to the acceleration of fetal lung maturation in premature labor when time is short and rapid action is essential.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'edc113ee8d5733056b287f02cf5bba41930a9512c65d61c34ff45eeac4c6133e'}
« Tangible example of continuing big sentence reductions in COVID era thanks to the FIRST STEP Act \| Main \| Might federal execution plans be impacted if Attorney General William Barr were to step down in coming days? » December 6, 2020 "Death Penalty Abolitionism From the Enlightenment to Modernity" The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Mugambi Jouet available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The modern movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States stresses that this punishment cannot be applied fairly and effectively. The movement does not emphasize that killing prisoners is inhumane per se. Its focus is almost exclusively on administrative, procedural, and utilitarian issues, such as recurrent exonerations of innocents, incorrigible racial discrimination, endemic arbitrariness, lack of deterrent value, and spiraling financial costs. By comparison, modern European law recognizes any execution as an inherent violation of human rights rooted in dignity. This humanistic approach is often assumed to be “European” in nature and foreign to America, where distinct sensibilities lead people to concentrate on practical problems surrounding executions. In reality, this Article demonstrates that the significant transatlantic divergence in abolitionism is a relatively recent development. By the late eighteenth century, abolitionists in Europe and America recurrently denounced the inhumanity of executions in language foreshadowing modern human rights norms. Drawing on sources overlooked by scholars, including the views of past American and French abolitionists, the Article shows that reformers previously converged in employing a polyvalent rhetoric blending humanistic and practical objections to executions. It was not before the 1970s and 1980s that a major divergence materialized. As America faced an increasingly punitive social climate leading to the death penalty’s resurgence and the rise of mass incarceration, its abolitionists largely abandoned humanistic claims in favor of practical ones. Meanwhile, the opposite generally occurred as abolitionism triumphed in Europe. These findings call into question the notion that framing the death penalty as a human rights abuse marks recent shifts in Western Europe or international law. While human rights have indeed become the official basis for abolition in modern Europe, past generations of European and U.S. abolitionists defended similar moral and political convictions. These humanistic norms reflect a long-term evolution traceable to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. But for diverse social transformations, America may have kept converging with Europe in gradually adopting humanistic norms of punishment. December 6, 2020 at 03:37 PM \| Permalink Post a comment	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '31', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9098896384239196}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '51459', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GTSZXKIYYJOG7CYGNQJ37MOXXFRUPPCH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:be20181e-022d-467d-b036-52e064747c44>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 18, 5, 12, 21), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.137.190', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2IMJWIQJTPFXWQMTEN5AWOFITPMKPWPE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:74307017-f6ce-4f4e-b36f-0e441f7c7de8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2020/12/death-penalty-abolitionism-from-the-enlightenment-to-modernity.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f829952c-6279-41dd-87e6-8e3935990a7d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '433', 'url': 'https://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2020/12/death-penalty-abolitionism-from-the-enlightenment-to-modernity.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-212.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03962057828903198', 'original_id': '5170a5c03716a53afe2a37bbc1f34901f26033b323d58a6a14d3b132a5f823d6'}
Subduction erosion, or scraping off of the continental crust by subducting oceanic lithosphere, is an important tectonic process along parts of the Andean convergent plate boundary. Estimated rates of subduction erosion increase northward north of the southem Andes, due to decreasing subduction angle and decreasing sediment supply to the trench. West of the central Andes subduction erosion may remove as much as 535 km3 of crust per 1 km of trench per 1 m.y., or 7 vol% of the subducting oceanic lithosphere. The higher 87Sr/86Sr ratios of mafic magmas erupted north of the southern Andes may be explained by the higher rates of subduction erosion and increased amounts of contamination of the sub-arc mantle magma source. First Page Preview First page PDF preview You do not currently have access to this article.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8979389071464539}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '81233', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UWE2TO2C4YUHD46I3POZMG3AIHLZKBWC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:543040bb-bf8b-43e9-8fdb-cefc5a92940b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 6, 29, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.135.222.216', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ISRWTG3CIBYNSDTTC4JWF6HI5OYCCJ3I', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6f8383aa-feee-432a-a43b-717ceb641e72>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/19/1/78/205196/Role-of-subduction-erosion-in-the-generation-of', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:49f441ae-c169-464d-b52c-53d88ba0cabe>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '146', 'url': 'https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/19/1/78/205196/Role-of-subduction-erosion-in-the-generation-of', '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-10-141-34-30.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': '0.021993517875671387', 'original_id': 'cecfb2911201fefb6597dd969f2c42917dcf1349731fb5989657dcd7245f2ddf'}
what is even the point??? why do allys kick members right before rewards come out what is the thought process behind this??? seems like a dbag move honestly and can the kicked members still get season rewards • Lightburn22Lightburn22 Posts: 332 ★★ Yeah that really sucks, there has to be some kind of change to this. Where if they can see you have been in the alliance for more than few weeks you can still get your rewards, I know it’s to keep from people jumping allies to get rank rewards. But if the system can see you were in the ally for a certain period of time and released within a certain period you should still be able to get them • Peairs420Peairs420 Posts: 57 no i mean i was in a german ally for some reason i joined aq took my lanes joined wars took the fights i requested if they were approved and had to do all this using google translate to speak german just to get kicked during our last war of s29 it just seemed shady i mean i just got uc in october and im trying to grow my profile not just get bossed around about how i can spend my free time after i was out of war/quest energy by a doosh who was just trying to have recruits get his ass rewards • Champ_ZChamp_Z Posts: 155 It is a dbag move, but hey what can you do • Agent_X_zzzAgent_X_zzz Posts: 4,468 ★★★★★ If you were kicked before season rewards, like 1 war away or so, and you participated in 5+ wars you can contact support and they might be able to assist you. • Peairs420Peairs420 Posts: 57 update: got my rewards and found a chill ally happy endings yo!!! Sign In or Register to comment.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '77', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9734911918640136}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '63649', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WLRELDBMN7O6VXNJOQCGFSXUDVKPTRSY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1fc755c0-b1dc-4e30-8920-9e1e5c4a9ac5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 27, 1, 34, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '162.159.138.78', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4G2UWNEXF2IGOV4FDZNQU3QMNVM6RLYM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e7f09d46-12e6-4573-b22b-fa7ffacaa776>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/1961591/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:569761de-3ce4-4029-9475-71cfbb72195d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '364', 'url': 'https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/1961591/', '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-10-67-67-196\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': '0.1083574891090393', 'original_id': '92639f0bc38819760e10116b28606130adb94f6e880c9ab152e1bc806e2a5ff0'}
As an example of a conveyance apparatus capable of raising/lowering and conveying a box-type container, there is known, for example, a container raising/lowering conveyance apparatus where, as described in Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. H06-115608 (Patent Literature 1), a raising/lowering body is provided that is suspended from a ceiling traveling crane type traveling body so as to be capable of being raised and lowered and container suspending hooks are provided so as to be capable of opening and closing at a lower side of the raising/lowering body. With this conveyance apparatus, engaged metal fittings, capable of being engaged with and disengaged from the container suspending hooks, are protruded at a ceiling surface of a container or a gap, with and from which the container suspending hooks can engage and disengage, is secured below a bottom surface of the container.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'ef27befa2135d336bcd70cb4e09543438dff1bcc12b9a90f2a855b6f83624ddd'}
Deji Baraili is famous Nepali singer from Darjeeling, India. 'Bhainsi Ladyo Hai Maya' and 'Mayalu Le Samjhyo Ki Kaso' are most famous songs of her. She had recorded her famous songs on her age of 15. More » A honey bee (Apis mellifera) collects nectar from a flower in a garden at Tribhuvan University, Office of the Controller of Examination, Balkhu Kathmandu, Nepal. Honey bee produce honey from natural nectar, which is considered as traditional medicine in Nepal and Indian subcontinent. More » The Mugling Bridge over the Trishuli River at Mugling Chitwan connects capital Kathmandu with western districts of Kaski, Tanahun, Lamjung, Gorkha, Myagdi, and Baglung. 125-metre long bridge was constructed in 1972 with the capacity of 15 Metric Tonnes. More » Farmer ploughing his field using a power tiller in Manamaiju, Kathmandu. With traditional belief, farmers of Kathmandu valley do not use ox and plow as a method to make furrow for cultivation. But in rural and hill side in Nepal plowing using ox and a plow is till dominant technology for agricultural cultivation. More » Dharmaraj Thapa is the most significant Nepali folk singer. Popular as litterateur, lyricist and singer he was titled 'Janakavi Keshari' by the then King Mahendra in 2013 BS. 'Hariyo Danda Maathi' is most popular song by him. More » Renovated Pharping Hydropower Station located in 15 KM southern hills of Kathmandu Valley. Being century old station it's the historic power station in Nepal built in 1911 AD with the capacity of 500KV. More » Alok Nembang is a Nepalese film and music video director considered as great music video director in Nepal. A leisure website fursad.com mentioned him as synonymous for Nepalese music video. He started his career as film director in Nepalese film industry from Sano Sansar (heavily influenced by Korean movie My Sassy Girl) in 2008. More » Adrian Pradhan is a Nepalese vocalist, composer and song writer. Who started his musical journey from childhood days in school where learned music and involved as a member of a school choir at St. Augustine, Kalimpong India. More » Find us on Facebook CONTACT US About Us PhotoPatrakarita (Asian term for Photojournalism or documentry photography) is an initiative to present the world in pictures. A team of photographers are behind the website and we are planning to source crowd as well. Anyone can join with us. mail us :photopatrakarita@gmail.com Read More about us Privacy Photo-Patrakarita recognizes importance and protects the privacy of all our viewers. We keep all the information you entrust to us safely and securely. We do not disclose IP, mail and other private information except for legal proceedings for illegal use and terrorism. Use of Photos All the photos displayed in this website can be used in non profit activities with credit and back link to the site http://photopatrakarita.com. You must inform us about the use of photos via mail. All rights regarding the contents of the website are reserved.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '03b9061612928c919790a3fbc57de8a0b2ed1712321895e8e4f7e5b6c05d6042'}
Q: How to make a button take you to another form, when login details are correct? -c# I have a created a login form, and I need it so that when the user enters the correct details, clicking a button will take them to a user dashboard page. I don't know what it's called, as I'm new to code so I can't search for it. Any help is appreciated. A: If you are working with Windows Forms you have to intercept the button event Click and then, from there, create a new instance of the form you want to display and show it calling dashboardForm.Show(); Here is an example: LoginForm.cs class: public partial class LoginForm : Form { public LoginForm() { InitializeComponent(); } private void btnLogin_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string username = tbUsername.Text; string password = tbPassword.Text; // check credentials if (username == "user" && password == "pass") { DashboardForm dashboardForm = new DashboardForm(); dashboardForm.Show(); } else { MessageBox.Show("Error: credentials not valid"); } } } DashboardForm.cs class: public partial class DashboardForm : Form { public DashboardForm() { InitializeComponent(); } }	mini_pile	{'original_id': '890c78a44a228189afc9dec64ffde2cce03f9d24f3e1b677f2638b5a792cd076'}
In the silicon diamond structure the bond distance is about two times the bond distance of the carbon diamond structure. Is this caused only by the greater dimension of $\mathrm{Si}$ atoms with respect to $\mathrm{C}$ atoms? Or are there other reasons for a greater bond distance in the case of silicon? • 1 $\begingroup$ How could you conclude that is not? It is tricky to isolate bond length from atom size. $\endgroup$ – Alchimista Jan 2 '18 at 15:37 Yes, both structures belong to the same diamond cubic type, and the interatomic distances for diamond and silicon (you can use "Measurements" tool from the JSmol menu) $$ \begin{align} d(\ce{C-C}) &= \pu{1.54 Å} \\ d(\ce{Si-Si}) &= \pu{2.35 Å} \\ \frac{d(\ce{Si-Si})}{d(\ce{C-C})} &\approx 1.53 \end{align} $$ are in a good agreement with the corresponding covalent radii $$ \begin{align} r_\mathrm{cov}(\ce{C}) &= \pu{0.76 Å} \\ r_\mathrm{cov}(\ce{Si}) &= \pu{1.11 Å} \\ \frac{r_\mathrm{cov}(\ce{Si})}{r_\mathrm{cov}(\ce{C})} &\approx 1.46 \end{align} $$ which would set the silicon atoms further apart from each other. Your Answer	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '14', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7754227519035339}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '143510', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SWFD3RHKSIGUFRQA5VSCDYPNGD4F5MXR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:eaa42cc5-60e4-4b0e-bf39-af3aefc78b9e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 21, 7, 46, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.129.69', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3KZ4D4JASGFYQQHNKSDUCSQDAWSP2QC4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6c0031a9-f3df-45bf-9c3f-6a20e6f8717f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/88199/greater-bond-distance-for-silicon-diamond-structure-than-for-carbon-diamond-stru', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5c434f4d-6028-422d-965f-91b7fd2c3c19>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '162', 'url': 'https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/88199/greater-bond-distance-for-silicon-diamond-structure-than-for-carbon-diamond-stru', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-151.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.9998312592506409', 'original_id': '661fee1244214ee69b5ed298f8fbf877ca0922b1a8ec24f1805d09d87a5c3c79'}
Here I Am Here I am again God, trying to live by your word. There is only one problem. This World. How can I find faith in madness? You sighs you would never leave, but am I too lost to be found? At times I feel like I can almost reach your hand. Yet I just can't hold on. You are everywhere around me... Church, nature, and loved ones. So why do I feel all alone? I searched for something, but I knew not what. Then I met you again. The emptiness I once had, was gone. This happiness filled my soul. Lord, I want forgiveness. I want to be like you. Please give me the strength to take your hand. Dear God, here I am. by Tanya Lynn Wells Other poems of TANYA LYNN WELLS (2) Comments (0) There is no comment submitted by members.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9409525394439696}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '37115', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5NWHABZVMCIPSH6UMMOWDESCSU4DWH7Y', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0db6df17-4049-44da-8804-7c9ebda3c59a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 10, 22, 58, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '89.255.249.55', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:O7FIGRSI26MWRUIVHN22PQKSUB4MWRTF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:81ecb0dc-68bc-4d68-b7a2-80a20caf201b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/here-i-am-8/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:94ae1112-552a-4368-af89-8c7603777196>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '144', 'url': 'https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/here-i-am-8/', '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-10-185-234-147.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': '0.08733630180358887', 'original_id': 'fd9fa62ea9f014b7cf3a7c8eb0eefc23232683a39a71a671711d64b58717c324'}
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 How to stop using trash bags I told you in a previous post that I would talk more about how 6 months ago we stopped using trash bags. Well, here we are. I am guessing the first question everyone will ask is... Just like the TP question. Everyone wants to know what is so wrong with what many consider a must have, can not live without, your nuts for not using it, household item. Here's why.... It's made of plastic. Duh, I know. Many are not biodegradable or can be recycled. That means it fills a landfill never to break down or never to be recycled into anything else.The EPA estimates that nearly 100 billion to 1 trillion bags are used each year with less than 6% of them being recycled. That is a lot of plastic. We won't even address the process of making plastic and the air pollution. The fact is, we are running out of room to bury this stuff. Consuming less or even better stop consuming at all is the answer. The next question we always get when we challenge the status quo on things is always this : "Well, what do you use instead?" Our answer always causes that rapid blinking look that I find so entertaining. We don't use anything. That's right. Our trash cans are naked. Naked naked naked. Now, some of you probably just threw up a little bit in your mouth on that thought but I assure you, I am a germaphobe so it isn't all that gross. I am going to show you how to get unhooked off those bags. But before we go any further I wanted to say, if your using recycled or biodegradable bags, kudos for you. I know that biodegradable ones exist, I just can not justify the price on our income. And our thought is, it is best just to learn to do without. Want a naked trash can? Here is how. Compost. Easy enough. Nearly all of our food that is not edible goes into our compost. We also add in grass clippings sometimes. Shredded paper as well. We must have a wicked garden, right? No. We don't garden! However, that soil gets used in potted plants, flower beds and the like. Even if you do not do those things here is a great idea to get rid of your compost....give it away on Craiglist/Freecycle. You will be overwhelmed at the people who will want your crap...I mean compost! Recycle. We had up to that point recycled in a lazy way. We knew the basics. But I went to our county recycling website and got a break down of the recycling. Now nearly 75% of our trash is recycled. Paper, glass, cardboard, plastics all go into our curbside recycling program. Any plastic bags we get go back to store recycling. We try to avoid them at all possible by using cloth shopping bags and mesh produce bags. Sometimes it is unavoidable. Our county does not recycle Styrofoam but our local grocer, Publix does recycle the egg trays. We have drop off points for magazines & newspapers. Office supply stores recycle our ink cartridges, old cell phones and so on. The point is if you take 15 minutes to research you can recycle nearly all of what you toss. With very little effort on your part. Donate. Anything that is useable, we donate, sell or give away. There was a time that we would just put the old beat up table down by the curb, gasp, I know. Even things you think are not worth it can be used by someone else. Like I mentioned above, old cell phones are recycled by organizations. Shoes , even beat up ones, are. Our area has a diaper bank for any unused diapers. Whenever I see something in our home that we no longer have a use for and I am not sure its worth anything to anyone, I put it on Craigslist for free. I have never had an item not taken & used. There is always someone who can use what you can not, I assure you. What does that leave? Not a lot. We went from being a 4 curbside trash can family a week to a half filled one can a week. We realized the #1 reason we lined our can was for messy messes, like food. Once we eliminated that, we saw clearly that there was no need to line our trash can. The poor thing is naked all the time now. Is it easy to stop using trash bags? No, not at first. Because let's be honest, do you really want to have to focus that much time on how to dispose of your trash? Not what I enjoy doing either. But when I realized the key to conserving, less consuming was all just a matter of a lot of brain work and little physical work then it was just a no brainer for me to give it a try. Our transition from 4 curbside cans a week to naked trash can took us 6 months. It was a constant process of, "where does this go?" Looking for recycle symbols, referring to our local recycling center and digging yogurt cups out of the trash while yelling at the kids & hubby. Fun times. But soon it became second nature to question it. Soon it became the norm for the recycling can to be taken out more than our trash needing to be taken out. It became our norm. If you think this all too much for you. Then please, switched to biodegradable bags. If you can't justify the cost (and they are a bit more than those hefty ones) then go to a landfill just one time. I dare you. It's gross. I don't want my children's children to live on top of one nor do I want that stuff to keep piling up. It was enough for me to know I had to do something. Is it extreme? Maybe. But that is how I roll. I don't do things half way or to the norm extent. But when I see how this earth is being taken care of, I question our stewardship to God. Or rather, our lack there of. I am as far from a PETA tree hugging vegan as your ever going to meet. I am a God fearing, raised in the South conservative folk who likes a good ol' juicy hamburger. But I can't help but think, is this how God intended us to use what He blessed us with? When it takes so little for us to do better? It is like the old saying... When we know better, we do better. ~This post is being linked up over at Frugally Sustainable Link party "Frugal Days, Sustainable Way's #20" this week, go take a's awesome sauce!~ Mrs. Z said... Hm...interesting! I might have to try this! Chele said... I figure your out nothing to try, right? Thanks for stopping by! :) Justine said... Chele said... Thanks for stopping by Justine! :) Martina said... i was thinking of switching to the paper lawn bags instead of plastic, our trash pick up prisoners always leave half the stuff in the can if we don't use bags, and we cant compost living in the city in a rental Chele said... We also live in a rental in the burb's though, not in the city per say. They have all kinds of composters, but we have empty wooded lots around us. So we just "borrow" the lot for our compost. The lawn bag is an excellent idea! :) Jenni said... Great Post, I've often contemplated how one would do this. My biggest problem is living in NE Minnesota and not being able to get to the compost pile in the winter and not knowing whether or not that would work. I'm definitely inspired by your post so I'm gonna put it to the test. Menards a home improvement store often sells or gives away free biodegradable bags which I plan on using for biodegradable diaper inserts. Not sure if you can buy them online from them or not. Chris K. said... Our trash company requires trash bags. We use biodegradable or recycled ones (I'm not really's been so long since we bought some!). It always amazes me how few we need though! Our family of six (which doesn't "recycle" except for cans with a deposit on them, but reuses a lot of recyclables in other ways) only produces a bag or two of trash a week and everyone else in the trailer park seems to have mountains of trash every week! We are only "allowed" to have up to six bags of trash a week, but it seems most people here exceed it. Our next door neighbors, a family of 3, currently has about 10 bags of trash down by the curb. I don't understand where it all comes from! Good Girl Gone Green said... Love this!!! Chele said... I think you could compost in the winter but it would not break down as quickly. You could cover the pile to trap in more heat maybe? Hmmm, I see a research project in my future! Chele said... Chris K., Well phooey on the trash Nazi's! ;) But I think you made a key point, the real thing is to consume less. I won't even tell you how many cans of trash we put out years ago when I had 5 kids at home. I am embarrassed by it. We bought, consumed and threw away without regard. Ekkkk! Chele said... Thank you for stopping by Good Girl Gone Green! :) Amy said... This would actually be a simple switch for us. We "compost" but it is a bucket of scraps that goes to the chickens across the street. Our curbside recycling takes every plastic except bags, and like you, I take them to the grocery store and place in their recycling bin. I do hate the smell of a nasty trash can, which despite nazi-recycling (laughed at the line about fishing out yogurt cups, I do that too!), sometimes happens. Do you have any tips for cleaning out the can, other than using bleach, which is harsh? Great post. Thank you! Erin said... We started doing this 2 years ago for the same reasons. For us, using TP and trash bags is equivalent to throwing out and flushing away money and resources. We don't do naked can. We use a reusable duffle diaper bag that I had from cloth diapering. I got them from cotton babies and they are the size of a standard trash bag. Then we just wash them. Works great! Lisa - the Granola Catholic said... I need to get back to this. We currently have trash service every other week, but I admit I am not recycling right now, gasp. There is no curbside recycling out in the country so I have to handle that myself and drive to a depot. Amy - Vinegar and Hydrogen Peroxide make great cleaners and deodorizers for trash cans. Amy said... Thanks, Lisa! How quickly we forget some of the simplest solutions... :) Lynda said... We also do what you do and have stopped our curbside service. We compost all year around. I take our bags of trash that are left - which are few - to our recycling center which also takes trash for 50 cents a bag or can. My problem is the trash we have left is mostly cat litter which can't be composted. Any ideas? Lynda @ Chele said... I detest that smell too! A few things helps : we take the can out daily and dump in the curbside can - everyday after it is dumped we spray it out, if needed swish wipe with some soapy water - once a week it soaks in the sun with some of my homemade disinfectant cleaner. Ours sits in a cabinet to be away from pets, so we have to clean the cabinet too so there is none of that smell. :) Chele said... That is a WONDERFUL idea! I might have to look into that. Thanks for leaving that comment. It never occurred to me to do washable bags. :) Chele said... Great tip on the cleaner! Thanks for stopping by! :) Chele said... For our cats we currently use a biodegradable litter but instead of putting it in a can, we bury it. Like I mentioned, we are in the 'Burbs but very rural in nature. We are surrounded with wooded empty lots, so we just dug a hole and in it goes. We read that burying litter is environmentally acceptable somewhere but it was years ago so I don't have a link. I have heard there is flush-able litter, but I am too skeeeeeered (lol) to try that! Farmer Bert said... Luckily for us we live in Portland where recycling is the norm. We are provided with a small compost bin that fits under our sink, and we buy compostable bags to line it with, so when it's compost day we can throw the whole thing into the outdoor compost bin. We keep a paper bag under our sink that is for paper, plastic, and aluminum and we also recycle glass. It is amazing how little our garbage can is and they only pick it up once every other week! I had been putting regular garbage bags in to line it but after reading this I am definitely going to go with a "naked" can as well :) Our Sanitation comes every Friday in 3 separate trucks to collect Compost, Glass, and Paper/Aluminum and then every two weeks to collect our small garbage which is half the size! Chele said... Farmer Bert, If all cities would do that! How amazing would that be?!? My inlaws live in Mississippi, albeit rural, but in their county there is no curbside recycling or many stations to drop it off to either. That blows my mind! Unknown said... We live in a semi-rural subdivision in South Central Alaska and at this time we do not have curbside pick-up for anything but trash. There is a recycling center for drop-offs but I got SO frustrated with them for being closed one too many times when, according to their sign, they were supposed to be open. I drove around with my Suburban full of recycling for two months and after the last attempt to actually recycle I drove to the landfill and threw it all in! I haven't recycled since. That said, we do only fill one can per week for our family of seven (Grandma has to wear Depends because during a recuperation in a nursing home after a fall they left a catheter in too long and it permanently damaged her continence!). We also compost and feed scraps to our chickens. During the summer everything goes on the compost pile and the chickens scratch and pick what they like. During the coldest part of winter I do not let them out because they will end of with frostbit combs and toes, so I take the pot of edible kitchen scraps inside their coop. I still throw the rest of the compost on a pile outside, sometimes digging back the snow, sometimes not. ;) This winter a yearling moose dug out a big chunk of the pile and spread it out, then laid down and ate whatever seemed good to her moose palate. We had record snow this year and the moose were so hungry they went on people's decks looking for food! I am going to figure out a way to stop using plastic garbage bags... what do you think of something like oil cloth to make a washable bag out of? Oh, and about kitty litter: I found some made of wood, really nothing more than coarse saw dust, and I've been thinking I should just keep a bucket (outside the back door) to dump it in then go throw it out into the woods to fertilize the wild flora. Chele said... Unknown in Alaska, How frustrating about the recycling! I would have gave up too. I like your idea of washable bags. Oil cloth would be perfect as it is water proof! Excellent excellent idea. And go for it with the kitty litter. Everything I have read is that is perfectly acceptable to dispose of it this way when you use natural litter. :) knightmother said... I am happy to read this because my family thinks I am crazy. My trash cans went naked about 2 years ago and I love it. I don't compost but I do save anything that would be thrown away anyway - bread bags and the bags cereal comes in for instance. If I have something ishy, I use one, no fuss, no muss. When I need to it wash out, I put it in the shower and let it catch the water while it heats up for my shower, scrub and then use the water to flush the toilet. Baking soda on the bottom, after it dries, for any order that could be there. Thanks for letting me know I am not "crazy". Chele said... My extended family either don't know or think I am nuts as well. But that's okay, I am okay with them thinking I am crazy. lol Raven said... I might have missed this bit, what what would be recommended for meat and bone scraps? All of the rest of our compost we can actually compost or give to our chickens, but I know you can't do either of those things with meat and bones {at least, if you want to keep wild animals out}. What would you recommend? Chele said... Great question! I save them in a biodegradable container in the freezer. On trash day we put them in the can. We do the same with leftover oils that we don't use as well. :) Unknown said... @Raven: you can give meat scraps to your chickens. They are protein devourers. When I give my chickens their pan of kitchen scraps they will eat their favorites in a certain order and meat always gets grabbed first! If you cook your bones in a pot, covered with water and a little apple cider vinegar added, you will have yourself a nice broth loaded with nutrients like minerals and gelatin. Then you can turn the bones into bone meal which can be given to chickens, dogs or your garden. I have been able to crumble beef bones by hand after a long, slow broth batch!(The vinegar really helps soften the bones and allows minerals to be leached out into your broth. Here is a how-to link if you'd like to try it: Crizzle said... Chele, we are moving toward using the cardboard boxes and twine. I will let you know how it works out and how easy/difficult it is to keep stock of them. We plan to get them from my mother's office and maybe some local stores. They throw out a lot every day. We'll see :) Chele said... I can't wait to hear how this turns out Crizzle! BennBooCreations said... Hi Chele! I'm a late-commer to this blog post, but just came about your blog and I LOVE IT! Thank you for all your helpful information. I, too, live in "the Great White North" on the shores of Lake Superior, and altho we have not eliminated garbage bags completely, we have gone down to about 4 (recycled) per year. I want to give a link to those northern dwellers about winter composting: He is the one that started my winter composting and of course, has many other links with a ton of information. We have since went to a very small greenhouse made of old roadside windows, used for the sole purpose of our compost bin. Some money may have to be invested initially (nails, hinges) if you don't have those materials lying around (put a request out on Freecycle), but once you're set up, you're ready to go and the savings from not using bags and in our case, costly "garbage stickers at $2.75 @" will pay for itself in no time at all. The link also have great info on insulating and temp-controlled bins as well. 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1. Business 2. Risk Analysis How to Manage Currency and Exchange Rate Risk (For Small Business) If you think currencies and exchange rates are things that only bankers and traders need to worry about, think again. Many small businesses are subject to exchange rate risk, whether they realize it or not. Take last year’s Brexit vote in the UK, for example. The pound dropped sharply against the euro after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, with severe consequences for any small businesses trading across borders. “As we have a lot of costs in Euros and most of our income is in pounds, we’ve been impacted by the near 20% decline in the value of sterling this year,” said Ian Baxter, chairman of Baxter Freight in the UK. It’s not just British firms that were affected. The fallout of Brexit led to sharp swings in other global currencies, too. And that’s just one example among many others in history, from the dramatic single-day plummeting of the Swiss franc to the slower decline of the Japanese yen. And sometimes, just a few words from the president can lead to volatility in the value of the U.S. dollar. Bottom line: If your small business either incurs costs in other countries or earns revenue from other countries, you probably have some exposure to currency risk. You could see your revenue suddenly decreasing or your costs spiralling due to global political events outside your control. mitigate currency and exchange rate risk Do you need to mitigate against currency and exchange rate risk? (graphic source) So in this tutorial, you’ll learn how to manage your currency and exchange rate risk. First, we’ll define a few terms and get clear on what these risks are. Then, you’ll learn how to quantify the risk for your business and how to look at a few different scenarios. Finally, we’ll look at some strategies for reducing your currency risk. By the end of the tutorial, you’ll be much clearer about how foreign exchange movements could affect your small business, and you’ll have some practical strategies for reducing your exposure. 1. What Is Currency and Exchange Rate Risk? So first, let’s define what we mean by currency and exchange rate risk. Basically, what we’re talking about is the risk of changes in the relative values of different currencies, which in turn can affect your business’s revenue, costs, cash flow, and profits. You might see this referred to as currency risk, exchange rate risk, or foreign exchange risk—they’re all essentially the same thing. Let’s look at a few examples, to make it clearer: The Purely Local Business Let’s say that you do all your business in one country—say the USA. You source all your products in the USA, all your offices and employees are in the USA, and you have no international customers. You don’t have any overseas investments either. In that case, you probably have no currency risk. All of your revenue is earned in U.S. dollars, and all of your costs are incurred in U.S. dollars. So the volatility of global currencies will have little or no impact on your business. The Importer Now let’s say that you have a business based in the U.S., and you still sell only to customers within the U.S., so all your revenue is earned in dollars. But this time, the products you manufacture are assembled in Mexico, so a lot of your costs are denominated in Mexican pesos. In this case, a 10% drop in the value of the U.S. dollar against the peso could make the cost of your goods go up by 10%, while your revenue remains the same. For a business with tight margins, this could easily make the difference between making a profit and making a loss. The Exporter In this example, you manufacture products in the U.S. based entirely on U.S. raw materials and labour, but you sell many of those products to customers in Canada, who buy in Canadian stores using Canadian dollars. This time, your costs are incurred in U.S. dollars, but some of your revenue is earned in Canadian dollars. If the U.S. dollar strengthens against the Canadian dollar, your Canadian revenues are going to be worth that much less. Meanwhile, your costs remain the same. Again, a major bout of exchange rate volatility could quickly take you from profit to loss. The Complicated Case These days, more and more businesses fall into this final category. You have some costs in different foreign currencies, and some revenue in different currencies too. Maybe you’re based in the U.S., but you employ freelancers in Europe and Canada, and you import products from China, which you then sell to clients all over the world. In this case, there are a lot of moving parts, and you’ll have to do some analysis to figure out what your exposure to different currencies really is. Don’t worry—we’ll look at how to do that in the next section: 2. How to Quantify Your Exchange Rate Risk Whenever you’re faced with a potential risk, the first step is to quantify it. How much exposure do you have to swings in global currencies? In a worst-case scenario, how much could you end up losing? In this section, we’ll look at how to quantify your currency risk. Take an Inventory Start by listing everything you do that involves foreign currency. Your “base” or home currency is the one that’s used in the country where your business is located, and it will probably be the one in which you produce financial statements, pay business taxes, and so on. Make a list of everything you do that’s not in your home currency. This could be revenue earned overseas. It could be employees who are based overseas and get paid in their own currencies. It could be raw materials or equipment that you have to import as part of your production process. It could be investments in global stocks, bonds, or funds. Or it could be large one-off expenses, like a particular project you’re working on abroad, an overseas office you’re setting up, or a major piece of equipment you need to buy. Now go through your accounts and come up with some total amounts to assign to each category. For example, you might discover that your exposure looks something like this (using the U.S. dollar as the home currency, and rounding the numbers for simplicity): • £50,000 annual sales in the UK ($65,000 at current exchange rates) • €100,000 annual sales in Europe ($110,000 at current exchange rates) • €100,000 in salaries for sales staff in Europe ($110,000 at current exchange rates) • 5,000,000 Mexican pesos in production costs ($250,000 at current exchange rates) Run Some Scenarios There are different ways of assessing risk. Some of the most effective are also very complicated—see, for example, this paper in which the Canadian Department of National Defence quantifies its foreign exchange risk using a complex Value-at-Risk model. If you can follow the methodology and implement it for your business, that’s great. But typically, methods like this are the preserve of large businesses and governments, which have whole departments devoted to risk management and can employ trained experts to draw up the formulas and crunch the numbers. For the average small business, a simpler approach is probably more appropriate. One simple approach that can be effective is to run through some different scenarios and calculate the effect on your business. Imagine that your home currency suddenly drops by 25% against the other currencies to which you have some exposure. How would that affect your revenue and costs? And what effect would that have on your overall profits? What if it dropped 50%, or strengthened by the same amounts? Let’s see how that works with the example figures I laid out above: 1. If the EUR/USD rate changes from 1.10 to 0.80, the company’s annual sales in Europe will be worth just $80,000, instead of $110,000—a $30,000 hit to the bottom line. But, on the other hand, its European staffing costs will also be reduced by the same amount, so the net effect is zero. Good news! 2. A change in the dollar against the pound, on the other hand, would have a greater effect. If the rate goes from 1.3 to 1.8, those £50,000 in sales would be worth $90,000 instead of $65,000—a nice $25,000 windfall. But if it went from 1.3 to 1.0, the same sales would be worth just $50,000, a $15,000 loss. And in this case, there’s no corresponding cost item to offset that. You can continue going through the process with different currencies, seeing what the effect would be. Use past currency data to see what kind of swings are likely, but also keep in mind that unexpected political events can lead to much greater volatility than you may have seen before. So don't rely too much on the past to predict the future! Assess the Bottom-Line Impact When you’ve got an idea of how much the changes in various different currencies could affect your revenue and sales, the final step is to put this in the context of your overall company profitability. So look at your financial statements for the year, and see how the numbers change with different exchange rates plugged in. Would a major decline or strengthening of your home currency put you at risk of making a loss? How might it affect your cash flow? When you have all of this information at your fingertips, you’ll be in a good position to know which risks you need to reduce, and which are small enough to be acceptable. We’ll look at some actions to take based on that information in the next section. In the meantime, if you want more information on quantifying risks, you can read our series on managing risk in your business, particularly this tutorial: 3. How to Reduce Your Currency Risk Now that you’ve got some clarity around your currency exposure, it’s time to look at what you can do about it. Here are some strategies you can use: Match Up Costs and Revenue As we’ve seen, one of the main sources of foreign exchange risk is having costs and revenue being earned and incurred in different currencies. So one way of reducing that risk is to change your business practices so that the difference no longer exists. For example, a European business that does its manufacturing in the UK but sells the products within Europe is subject to swings in the exchange rate between the pound and the euro. By moving its manufacturing to a country within the euro zone, that company could have both its costs and revenue denominated in euros, greatly reducing or even removing the exchange rate risk. This is a simple example, but in most cases, businesses won’t be able to eliminate risk altogether. The goal is simply to have a better balance, so that when currencies move, you make gains in one area to offset losses in another (as we saw in the example above, where the company's exposure to euros was effectively balanced between costs and revenue). This strategy can be very effective, and it’s easier to grasp conceptually than some of the financial strategies we’ll look at next. But it may be difficult in practice to make such changes to your business structure without having other adverse consequences. After all, there were good reasons why you chose to set up your business the way you have done. Maybe you wanted to take advantage of cheaper manufacturing costs in another country, or a large customer market overseas. It wouldn’t make sense to give up major competitive advantages because you’re worried about currency risk. Hedge the Risk With Derivatives If you want to keep doing business internationally in the same way as you always have done, but with reduced exchange rate risk, you can consider using derivatives to hedge your exposure. Financial derivatives have a reputation for complexity—and sometimes that reputation can be justified. But there are also simple strategies that you can use even if you don’t have a head for trading. For example, let’s say you have a major expense coming due a month from now, and you’ll have to pay it in a foreign currency. You’ve budgeted for it to be $50,000, but you’re worried that if the exchange rate changes in the next few weeks, it could end up costing you much more. With a simple “forward” contract, you can effectively lock in today’s exchange rate, ensuring that no matter where rates move between now and then, the amount you pay will still be $50,000. It’s also possible to use derivatives to manage much more complex situations than this, and if it’s done right, you can reduce your risk. But be very careful, and make sure that you understand what you’re buying and what your risks are. In the wake of Brexit and the extreme currency movements, some UK small businesses got burnt by complex derivative strategies that were supposed to manage their exchange rate risk but ended up increasing it. As with most financial transactions, it’s best to follow Warren Buffett’s advice not to invest in anything you don't understand. But if you proceed with caution and understand what you’re getting into, derivatives can be an effective strategy. Pass It On to Your Customers This option is simple. If currency swings make your goods 10% more expensive, you raise your prices by 10% so that your profit margin remains the same. If you haven’t used any of the other methods to reduce your exposure, this may be the best option—or perhaps the only way of staying profitable. It’s what the UK small business owner we met at the beginning of this tutorial did after Brexit: “These extra costs have to be passed on to our customers. Where goods are being imported into the UK, this will of course lead to price increases here.” But simple is not necessarily effective. There are major downsides to this strategy. Your customers may not be very happy about the price increase, and it may make your product uncompetitive. If you get it wrong, you could end up losing customers, so that your revenue doesn’t increase as much as you’d hoped. And remember that if you pass on cost increases to your customers, they’ll expect you to reduce your prices when the currency moves in the opposite direction. If you do decide to use this strategy, understand that there are still risks involved. And check out the following pricing tutorial: In this tutorial, you’ve taken a plunge into the international currency markets. You’ve seen how changes in foreign exchange rates can have a profound impact on your business. But more than that, you’ve learned how to quantify that impact, and you’ve learned some steps you can take to reduce or mitigate your foreign exchange risk. As a small business owner, you may not know much about international currency movements, and you may not want to know much. But if you have any international exposure, your business will be affected by those movements, whether you like it or not. At least you’re now in a better position to understand those effects and take action to manage them. 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See the source image This time every year, Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the Church Holiday of Easter. In-fact, Easter is considered the most Holy Day on the Church Calendar because it’s the day that we celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus’ Resurrection is a really BIG deal! Jesus was the Firstfruit Wave Sheaf. In those days, each family brought a single bundle of their firstfruit of the barley crop to the Temple on the day after the Sabbath of the first day of unleavened bread and the priest would then wave it before Yahweh. This was considered the “early firstfruit” – the “latter firstfruit” being at the end of the 50th day from this time, which from the Greek word has been called Pentecost (meaning fifty), or Shavuot in Hebrew. The count of 50 days in-between the early and latter firstfruits was called “the counting of the omer”. If the wave sheaf was ACCEPTED by the Lord, then so would the entire harvest be accepted. Jesus often used harvest parables to teach us about the Great Harvest of souls. Jesus WAS the Wave sheaf offering, and because He was accepted by God as the Sacrificial Lamb who takes away the sin of the world, the ENTIRE HARVEST (you and me) will also be accepted by the Lord! It’s really a beautiful picture! But you see, the days that we celebrate aren’t exactly accurate. I would love to share with you the true timeline of Jesus as the Passover Lamb of God. I do this because to understand more of His Timeline, and HOW He fulfilled Scripture is a Blessing to the Christian, NOT because it’s necessary for salvation! We don’t have to know the true timeline to be saved because Salvation comes simply by BELIEVING that Jesus IS the Sacrifice for sin and that He has indeed risen again. Faith in the Gospel Message is all that is needed for SALVATION, but there are blessings to understanding a little better HOW and WHEN Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament Scriptures and Feast Days! I find that understanding these things only increases my faith in Jesus our Messiah.❤ Jesus’ statement in Matthew 12 had always left me wondering about the true timeline of Jesus (Matthew 12:38-40). Jesus told the Scribes and the Pharisees (the Jewish leadership that desired to kill him) that the ONLY Sign He would give them to PROVE that He was the prophesied MESSIAH is the sign of Jonah. If you don’t know the story, Jonah was an Old Testament Prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel (The northern ten tribes of Israel). He was sent by YHWH to Ninevah, the Capital of Assyria, to warn them that if they did not repent, the God of Israel would judge them. The Assyrians worshiped the false “godess” Ishtar, not the God of Israel, YHWH Elohim. Jonah did NOT want to go to WICKED Ninevah, so he boarded a ship that was heading the opposite direction. When a great storm came upon the ship, Jonah KNEW that God was angry at his defiance, so he told the crew of the ship if they wanted to LIVE they needed to throw him into the sea. The crew happily complied, and Jonah was in the water prepared to drown. At that time, a giant fish (whale) came upon Jonah and literally swallowed him. Jonah remained in the “belly of the whale” 3 days and 3 nights, and then the whale miraculously “spit him up” on a beach near Ninevah. Ninevah is located near modern day Mosul, in Northern Iraq. The sign of Jonah Jesus told the Scribes and Pharisees that the ONLY SIGN He would give to prove that He was the Prophesied Messiah is the SIGN of Jonah, for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale 3 days and 3 nights, so will the son of Man be in the belly of the earth! Matthew 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a SIGN from You.” 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it BUT the sign of Jonah the prophet; 40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. This is where the traditional celebrations of “Good Friday” and Easter cause confusion. This MUST be a pretty important sign since it was going to be the ONLY SIGN Jesus would give to prove that He was the Prophesied Messiah. Christianity puts Jesus into the tomb on Friday night (“Good Friday”) and has Him resurrected by Sunday morning (Easter Sunday). Hmmm…I’m not a math genius, but that’s definitely not going to fulfill the sign of Jonah, 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the earth. Then, the Lord had me do some digging to gain a better understanding as to why the discrepancy. See the source image Few “Christians” today have ever heard of the word ‘Quartodeciman’ let alone understand what it means. Yet to those Christians who lived in the last half of the second century A.D. it was very real. A great CONTROVERSY arose between the churches of the EAST and those of the WEST. This controversy became known by the name Quartodeciman. Quartomeciman is a term used to describe the practice in the early Church Celebrating Easter on the 14th of Nisan (also called Abib). Notice – the bishops of Asia Minor – the churches of the EAST held to the 14th of Nisan for commemorating the death of Christ. It was only after much bitter disputing that the festival of EASTER became established towards the end of the second century. Roman efforts to induce the Quartodecimans to abandon their practice were unsuccessful. On a visit to Rome (c.155), St. Polycarp of Smyrna amicably discussed the question with Pope Anicetus without, however, reaching agreement. Later, Pope Victor (189-198) sought unity through a series of synods held in both East and West; all accepted the Roman practice except the Asiatic bishops. When Pope Victor attempted coercion by excommunication, St. Irenaeus of Lyons intervened to restore peace. During the 3d century Quartodecimanism waned; it persisted in some Asiatic communities down to the 5th century The Roman Catholic Church imposed it’s authority over all Christiandom to celebrate Easter and the Resurrection on a Sunday, totally divorcing itself from all things Jewish. They forget that Jesus, Himself, was a Jew. So let’s take a look at the actual sequence of events so we can better appreciate how Jesus completely fulfilled His Role as the Passover Lamb of God. The TRUE Timeline of Jesus’ final days on earth First we need to understand that a 24 hour day on the Jewish Calendar begins at sunset and continues until sunset the next day. The Jewish people call the evening of the new day “Erev” which literally means twilight or sunset. Nisan is the first month on the Jewish Agricultural Calendar, and the month that the Passover is celebrated. We know from Scripture that Jesus died ON the Passover, the 14th of Nisan on the Jewish Calendar. Image result for Jewish agricultural calendar Image result for mary anointed jesus with perfume This past Sunday, April 14th, was officially Palm Sunday, the day that the Church celebrates Jesus’ Triumphant entry into Jerusalem. On the Jewish Calendar, this past Sunday (April 14, 2019) was Nisan 9, and although not the actual day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem, something significant did happen on that day. During the time of Jesus, Nisan 9 began Thursday at sunset and continued until Friday at sunset. Jesus and His 12 Disciples reclined at the table with their Friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Mary anointed Jesus with a very costly perfume. What Mary probably didn’t understand is that she was anointing His body for burial. See the source image Nisan 10: During the time of Jesus’ final week, Nisan 10 began on Friday at sunset and continued until Saturday at sunset. The Triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem through the Eastern Gate did happen on Nisan 10! In the days of the Exodus, the lamb was selected on Nisan 10 (Exodus 12:3-5). On Nisan 10, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was selected to be the perfect lamb of God by the Jewish people. The people of Jerusalem did not realize that Jesus had just fulfilled not only Exodus 12 (vs 3-5), but also the Old Testament Prophecy Zechariah 9:9. Nisan 11-13: See the source image During these 3 days, Jesus rode to and from Jerusalem, where He was preaching, and Bethany where He was staying. During these 3 days, Jesus cursed the fig Tree (which represents both Israel (Jews) and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil), He overturned the money tables of the thieves at the Temple, and He taught many lessons to the crowds via parables. Image result for jesus overturns tables in temple Jewish Leaders combined Passover and Unleavened Bread during the Diaspora Now this is where it gets really interesting. In the days of Jesus, the Jewish people had already changed the way that the Festival of the Passover was celebrated. In the book of Exodus, the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were separate “feasts”. The Hebrew word for “feast: means appointed times, or God’s appointments with mankind. The Passover was to be celebrated on the 14th of Nisan, and Unleavened Bread would be celebrated on the 15th of Nisan. This is because the Israelites cooked, roasted and ate the lamb on the night of the 14th of Nisan. During this time, the angel of death descended upon Egypt and “passed over” their homes. The next day, during the day (still the 14th of Nisan until sunset), the Israelites plundered the Egyptians, and after sunset on the 15th of Nisan, the Israelites made their EXODUS out of Egypt …BY NIGHT (Deuteronomy 16:1). This is known as “The night to be much observed (Exodus 12:42). First, we must receive the Passover (Jesus IS the Passover Lamb of God), and only then, can we BEGIN to make our exodus out of Egypt (sin/the world). The Israelites commemorated the Exodus out of Egypt by eating Unleavened Bread for 7 days (seven is the number of perfection and completion). Because leavening “puffs up” like PRIDE, the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a SYMBOL of our LIFELONG walk of SANCTIFICATION. We are Justified (made right with God/SALVATION) by the blood of Jesus, and we are Sanctified and washed by His Holy Spirit and by the Word of God (God’s Spirit helps us avoid sin and practice righteousness). This should be continually increasing throughout the Believer’s life. Image result for Israelites left Egypt by night During the days of Jesus, the Feasts were no longer separate, and were combined to form the “Passover Feast”, also known as “Unleavened Bread”. While God intended the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread to be separate (though adjacent) observances, the Jews ended up combining the two during the Babylonian exile, as the Encyclopaedia Judaica confirms: “The feast of Passover consists of two parts: The Passover ceremony and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Originally, both parts existed separately; but at the beginning of the [Babylonian] exile they were combined” (vol. 13, p. 169). Another critical point is that, despite Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread being distinct festivals, they were commonly grouped together and simply called “Passover,” or “Unleavened Bread”” Thus, when the Gospel writers mention “Passover”, or “Unleavened Bread” it can sometimes refer to the Passover sacrifice itself (Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12), the day when the sacrifice was made (Mark 14:1), or the whole eight-day period of Abib (aka:Nisan) 14-21 (Passover plus Unleavened Bread; Luke 22:1). Psalm 23: I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Image result for The Passover meal Nisan 13-14; Image result for The New Covenant On Tuesday, Nisan 13, Jesus’ Disciples asked Him where they should prepare the Passover meal. His Disciples spent the entire day securing the facility and preparing the meal. By Tuesday night at sunset (Nisan 14 – THE “EREV” PASSOVER), Jesus reclined at the Table with them. ( Psalm 23: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You have anointed my head with oil). Jesus CONFIRMED the NEW COVENANT that was about to be written in HIS BLOOD after sunset on the 14th of Nisan, the EREV Passover. Jesus washed their feet and taught them that they too were to be servants! Image result for jesus washed his disciples feet Matthew 26: 20 Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. See the source image Golgotha, Place of the skull After supper, Jesus and His Disciples went into the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Here, Jesus asked His Disciples to stay awake and pray with Him. He asked them 3 times to stay awake, but they were tired and kept falling asleep. In the middle of the night, one of His Disciples (Judas Iscariot) betrayed Jesus into the hands of His enemies. An illegal trial ensued and Jesus was pronounced guilty by the Jewish Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin did not want to get their hands dirty, so they had ROME kill Jesus for them. From 8AM until 9AM, Jesus was beaten and scourged (whipped) 39 times. Jesus was NAILED to the CROSS by 9AM (the third hour) on Nisan 14 at Golgotha, the place of the skull. Supposedly Galgotha is named “Place of the Skull” because the land topography looks like a skull. But, it has also been said that David carried the head of Goliath back to Jerusalem. It is possible the the “skull” the hill is named for represents Goliath’s skull. This is symbolic of the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Promised seed in the book of Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.The “woman” in prophesy represents both Eve and Jerusalem, and the Promised Seed is JESUS! Jesus was crucified at the place called Golgotha, where His heel was bruised when He was nailed to the Cross. However, on THAT DAY JESUS crushed the head of the serpent, the devil! Goliath had been a giant, the offspring of the Nephilim (fallen angels/mankind hybrid – the seed of the serpent). Mark 15: 22 Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull23 They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it. 24 And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take. 25 It was the third hour when they crucified Him. 26 The inscription of the charge against Him read, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Jesus hung on the Cross from 9AM until noon, when the skies grew abnormally DARK. Though it was mid-day, the skies remained DARK for 3 hours while Jesus hung on the Cross, and at 3PM, Jesus gave up HIS HOLY SPIRIT! Carrying the weight of our sin, Jesus was forsaken by the FATHER so that we would NEVER have to be forsaken! At 3PM there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE and the VEIL in the Temple was torn in half from top to bottom! Image result for The veil was torn in half Image result for Jesus was placed in a rich man's tomb Gentile Christian Church DOES NOT understand God’s annual Sabbaths Here’s where some of the confusion takes place in Christianity. The Jewish leadership wanted Jesus OFF of the Cross and in the tomb before sunset (John 19:31). Why? They wanted Him off the Cross because the ANNUAL SABBATH (1st day of feast of unleavened bread) began AT SUNSET. Christianity MISTAKENLY thinks that this the Jewish leadership was referring to the weekly Sabbath (Saturday). They are wrong. Jesus had to be OFF the cross before sunset, the start of the 15th of Nisan because the 15th of NISAN was an Annual Sabbath, a “High Holy Day”. On this day, no work was to be done, so Jesus had to be off of the Cross BEFORE sunset, the start of Nisan 15! Because Christianity does not understand the Jewish Annual Sabbaths (High Holy Days), they ASSUME that Jesus had to be off the Cross before the weekly Sabbath began, or Friday at sunset. But this is NOT right, and would NOT fulfill the “sign of Jonah” (3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the earth). In Leviticus, the 14th of Nisan (the PASSOVER) was NOT a High Holy Day (annual Sabbath), which means work could be done on THE PASSOVER! The 15th of Nisan was an annual Sabbath (high Holy Day), so no work could be done . For this reason, the PASSOVER was ACTUALLY known as “preparation day” for the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the High Holy Day) (Mark 15:42), just like Friday is the preparation day for the WEEKLY SABBATH. Leviticus 23: 5-8 Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened breadOn the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious workBut for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’” Image result for Jesus plundered on the cross No work was to be done on the 15th of Nisan which began Wednesday night at sunset during the days of Jesus because this was an ANNUAL SABBATH. Leviticus 23 is clear that the 14th of Nisan (PASSOVER) was NOT an annual Sabbath, and work COULD be done, therefore the Passover was considered “the Preparation day” for the Feast of Unleavened Bread! Jesus’ work on the Cross was done on the 14th of Nisan, the Passover. Even in the days of Jesus, the Feasts were combined, and much of the meaning was lost. In the days of the Exodus, the Passover meal was shared through the night on the 14th of Nisan. In the morning of the 14th of Nisan, after the angel of death passed over their homes, the Israelites “Plundered the Egyptians” (Exodus 12:36). In the Bible, “Egypt” is a metaphor for the world, for sin, even for satan. (Not modern day Egyptians, but the Pharoahs of Egypt). Jesus plundered the “Egyptians” (satan) when He took back what RIGHTFULLY belonged TO HIM on the morning of the 14th of NISAN…on the CROSS. Jesus, the GREAT I AM, TOOK BACK HIS CREATION from satan!!! See the source image Come let us reason together. IF Jesus had been buried on Good Friday sunset (around 6PM) there is NO WAY He could be in the grave 3 days and 3 nights satisfying the sign of Jonah. He had told His Disciples He would RISE AFTER 3 DAYS (Matthew 27:63)! There are less than 48 hours between Friday night sunset and the “wee hours/when it was still dark” on Sunday morning (basically Saturday middle of the night). The Church commemorates Jesus’ time in the tomb from Friday night (Good Friday) until Sunday morning. This does NOT satisfy the ONLY sign that Jesus gave that PROVES He is the prophesied Messiah. But….When we understand that Jesus had to be OFF THE CROSS by the start of the ANNUAL SABBATH, then that makes all the difference and we can begin to understand the TRUTH!. Jesus was put in the rich man’s tomb (Joseph of Arimathea) by sunset on Wednesday night (Nisan 15/Feast of Unleavened Bread/Annual Sabbath) fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 53:9. He remained in the tomb Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night. (3 days/3 nights). The women could not prepare the spices to anoint his body on the annual Sabbath/15th of Nisan (Wednesday night sunset UNTIL Thursday night sunset), so they waited until Friday during the day, which is also the PREPARATION DAY for the WEEKLY SABBATH . Friday during the day, they prepared the spices until sunset on Friday. The weekly Sabbath began at sunset on Friday and continued until sunset on Saturday. The women also could not anoint Jesus’ body until the weekly Sabbath was over.Anxious to get to the tomb and anoint Jesus’ body, the women went to the tomb during the “wee hours of Sunday morning BEFORE DAYLIGHT” (basically late Saturday night). It was at this time, that they found the tomb EMPTY! Jesus HAD RISEN! Jesus was in the tomb Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, and rose around the sunset Saturday night (could have risen on the weekly Sabbath, we do not know)..but had ALREADY RISEN by the wee hours of the morning Saturday night (Sunday morning BEFORE DAYLIGHT), when the women found the EMPTY TOMB! Image result for Jesus has risen Nisan 18: Saturday evening to Sunday sunrise: JESUS HAS RISEN! Nisan 18 at sunrise, the women find the TOMB EMPTY! In the afternoon of Nisan 18, Jesus visits the Disciples. All but Thomas are there. A week later: Image result for doubting Thomas Forty Days later: Jesus shows “doubting Thomas” the scars on His hands and side. His teaching the Disciples for 40 days started at this time. (John 20:27) Jesus Ascended to Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. Image result for Jesus' ascension into heaven Acts 1:9: And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. 11 They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will COME in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.” (tfj: He’s coming back…soon!) Jesus has paid OUR debt IN FULL. Image result for Jesus seated at the right hand of the father JESUS is seated at the Right Hand of His GLORY! and	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1000', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9572886824607848}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '103507', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4E2VTL75CBQ6KF5BDC5L3DE3ZTT2SEOD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:624b2cdd-5771-4449-ae39-f9bf66f3a960>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 14, 9, 6, 52), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YW55BRCPRXDJXRWUNISNBVLOU57PNVFJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d7f2f72f-126e-4289-8adb-2d0124004db5>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://dyingworld.org/2019/04/16/jesus-hour-had-come/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:894650a1-c668-49df-b1d6-ecf3b50ce2c8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '4219', 'url': 'https://dyingworld.org/2019/04/16/jesus-hour-had-come/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-221.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02348923683166504', 'original_id': '40e42d4ab49bc14166e920d3b372fc4539e9148a904cb3703d43f5b4adae6fd0'}
What Hillary Knew About Putin’s Propaganda Machine The author, Rick Stengel, was, until the end of the Obama administration, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. His perspective is unique in that he is one of the very few people in Washington DC that deals with information operations and information warfare, all under the title of strategic communications and public diplomacy. Russian disinformation around Ukraine set the stage for the Kremlin’s election meddling here. Clinton saw it coming, but couldn’t stop it I was a magazine guy. After eight years as managing editor of Time, I left at the end of 2013 to become under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. It’s a fancy title, but that job is one of the few in Washington that’s tailored for someone with a media background like me. After I was nominated, some of my colleagues joked that I was now “head of U.S. propaganda,” but I thought of myself instead as the chief marketing officer of brand America. I figured I’d be spending a lot of my time combating America’s negative image in the Muslim world—and I did—but then the Russian annexation of Crimea happened in early 2014. What I saw Russia do online and in social media around this grave violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty was a revelation to me—and nothing short of a trial run for what they did to manipulate our presidential election in 2016. Few Americans realized it back then, but we were already in a global information war with Russia. But some did know. On a Saturday morning after I’d been in the job for two months—about four weeks after Vladimir Putin’s troops invaded Crimea—I got a call from the State Department operations center saying they had the secretary on the line. Only it wasn’t Secretary John Kerry, my boss, but former Secretary Hillary Clinton. I had known, liked and admired Clinton for a long time, and I assumed she was calling belatedly to say congratulations. I was wrong. After a perfunctory hello, she launched right into it: We’re losing the information war with Russia. She urged me to stand up a much stronger and more robust messaging machine to compete with the firehose of Russian propaganda and disinformation that was besmirching America’s image and undermining democracy around the world. “They’re using the old techniques of repeating lies over and over but doing so on 21st century platforms,” she said. You need to fact-check what they are saying and expose Russian disinformation in real time, she continued. We need to do much more. I remember how she ended the call: “The State Department is still issuing press releases while Putin is rewriting history.” She was right. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her notes as Russian President Vladimir Putin (back) delivers his opening remarks during a round table meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2012. \| Saeed Khan/Getty But it was still new to me. Even though I had been in media all my life, it wasn’t until after Crimea that I saw the power and effectiveness of Russian propaganda and disinformation. In the information war, as one U.S. three-star told me, “The Russians have the big battalions.” *** It all began with reports of “little green men” — at least that’s how TV news described the masked men in unmarked uniforms who skulked into Crimea in March 2014. In fact, they were “Spetsnaz,” Russian special operations forces. At the time, Putin vehemently denied they were Russian troops. He claimed they were patriotic local militias defending the rights of ethnic Russians in Crimea. This, of course, was an unblinking lie. Within days, Putin had illegally annexed a piece of Ukraine into the Russian federation and copped to the fact that they were indeed Russian soldiers. The White House condemned the violation of Crimea’s sovereignty and began the process of imposing sanctions on Russia. At the time, I thought that at the very least we should marshal social media against this historic trespass. Some folks made fun of what they called #hashtag diplomacy, but heck, it was something. I started tweeting against Putin and Russia’s actions and urged everyone in the State Department with a social media account to do the same—”The unshakeable principle guiding events must be that the people of #Ukraine determine their own future.” Not exactly fire-breathing words. At the same time, we started a small social media group called the Ukraine Task Force to rebut Russian lies in real time. And then a funny thing happened: I started getting dozens and then hundreds of tweets calling me a fascist propagandist and a hypocrite and much, much worse. And almost all of them had terrible spelling and worse grammar. In addition, there were tweets from scantily clad young women who, in syntactically challenged English mixed with Cyrillic, inquired about my political views and breathlessly told me theirs. I received screeds about Russian babies being kidnapped in Crimea, unrepentant Nazis who were behind the protests in downtown Kiev, and how the CIA had created the AIDS virus. Then-undersecretary of state for public affairs, Rick Stengel at the ‘Global Coalition Against ISIS, communication working group’ conference in Kuwait City in 2016. \| Yasser Al-Zayyat/Getty When I published a diplomatic note on the State Department site accusing Russia of an “intense campaign of disinformation” and referred to Russia Today as “a propaganda bullhorn,” I was attacked on-air by RT and in an editorial by its editor-in-chief accusing me of cramming dozens of falsehoods into a few hundred words. (You can always tell what the Russians are doing because they accuse you of doing the same thing.) I had never watched RT before, and soon discovered that it was an often entertaining mélange of fact and fiction depicting a toxic America riven by corruption and racism featuring experts without expertise spinning wild conspiracy stories. RT stories suggested it was the democratic right of the people of Crimea to be part of Russia and that the U.S. had fomented the color revolutions in Ukraine and the Russian periphery. I hate to tell you, President Trump, but RT was calling American media fake news long before you did. All of this was eye-opening and a bit bewildering, and now seems sadly familiar to Americans who saw a similar pattern of information warfare during the 2016 election. But this is not new for the Russians. The annexation of Crimea, the soft invasion of eastern Ukraine and the social media tsunami around these events are all part of a long-term KGB military strategy known as “active measures”—a bland term for the weaponization of information to achieve strategic goals. The idea goes back to Soviet days, but the modern tools of social media have made it far easier and more effective. After all, you don’t have to pay spies to plant false stories in American newspapers anymore—you can do it yourself from a troll farm in St. Petersburg. In short, “active measures” seeks to create a world of “alternative facts.” But the goal of “active measures” is even grander than influencing an election: It uses disinformation, propaganda and cyberware to weaken the West, foment division in NATO and undermine America’s image around the world. The social media that accompanied Crimea wasn’t so much to support Russia’s point of view, but to sow doubt about anyone understanding what was happening. Russian digital disinformation is post-modern: It’s less the propagation of lies than the idea that there is no truth. Ultimately, “active measures” seeks to undermine the very concept of empirical facts. Last week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Clint Watts, a former FBI officer who is an expert on Russian disinformation, said that what Russia did on social media in 2014 around Ukraine was a “dry run” for the 2016 election. He called it “capabilities development.” And it was. They seeded false stories about a 3-year-old ethnic Russian boy crucified by the Ukrainian military, about how Ukrainian bakeries were refusing to sell bread to Russian speakers, and how the new Ukrainian government was going to cancel the May 9 World War II commemoration and stage a gay pride parade instead. These efforts presaged the internet ecosystem of 2016: Disinformation is launched on Twitter; it is then covered by Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik; those stories are loaded up on YouTube and are then pushed out to sympathetic Facebook communities. At the time, our most senior NATO commander, U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, told me this was “an information blitzkrieg unlike anything in the history of information warfare.” In military terms, Russia was preparing the information battlefield for 2016. The hundreds of Russian ads recently revealed on Facebook and Google are also examples of “active measures.” The ads, ranging from ones that seem to support Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers to ads saying “The South will rise again” to the headline, “Satan: If I win Clinton Wins!,” fit into the Russian goal of sowing confusion and doubt. The Russians like “frozen conflicts”—a term that applies to territorial disputes like eastern Ukraine or Transnistria in Moldova, but could easily describe the stalemate in Congress, the polarization of American politics, or the debate about Russian “collusion.” It’s these divisions the ads are meant to exploit. Yes, there are plenty that were pro-Trump, but in the early stages of the campaign, the ads were more focused on creating controversy and division than on supporting any one candidate. And that’s the idea—to reveal an America riven by different and irreconcilable points of view, to show modern democracy as a dysfunctional mess. What Russian would want to live in such a society? While the delivery system for disinformation is very 21st century, the way Russia uses it hearkens back to Soviet WWII artillery strategy: Shoot fast, aim everywhere and don’t stint on the ammunition. The Russians have an army of botnets and sock puppets and honey pots. They use troll factories to create thousands and thousands of tweets, which cleverly mix political news with apolitical posts about fashion and sports. They exploit all the laws of online social science: Multiple sources are more persuasive than a single one; emotionally resonant content is passed on more frequently; and repetition leads to familiarity which leads to acceptance. I was impressed with how quickly the Russian propaganda machine was on top of the news—but, of course, it takes less time to make up a fact than to check one. And they use our own bias for “objectivity” against us: They know American media will dutifully report Russian fictions, however far-fetched, and try to balance them with accurate reporting. Putin has been the impresario of this information war. In 1991, when the Berlin Wall fell, there was a KGB operative in East Germany who saw that the great Soviet Union, which had spent trillions of rubles on tanks and missiles, had fallen without firing a shot. He realized that American soft power—he has even used the term—had trumped Soviet hard power. When he became president of Russia in 1999, the first thing Putin did was take over the state television network. He had learned the lesson. When I interviewed Putin in 2006 for Time, he said the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the unraveling of the Soviet Union. His unstated goal is to put Humpty Dumpty back together again by uniting the Russian diaspora, keeping his neighbors unstable, and undermining the appeal of the U.S. and the idea of democracy itself. Russian investment in media of all kinds—from television stations in the periphery, to reality TV to VKontakte, a sort of Russian Facebook—is a giant loss-leader and is meant to topple what he once called the “Anglo-Saxon monopoly” of media. The autocrat’s strategy is always to have an enemy, and Putin’s enemy is always the U.S. I wish I could say that we figured out what to do about Russian disinformation and that we had seen what Russia would do in the 2016 election. We didn’t and I didn’t. But the writing was on the screen. The Ukraine Task Force became the Russia Information Group, where we supported credible counter-Russian voices in the region. We pretty much stopped creating content ourselves. After all, the State Department isn’t exactly a media company, and the Russians were crushing us on volume. We had been working with the big tech companies, Facebook, Google, Apple, on countering ISIS’ content online, but they just weren’t as interested or as knowledgeable about Russian disinformation. It wasn’t yet on their radar as a problem in the U.S. But in 2016, with the rise of “fake news,” wild conspiracy stories, botnets and paid ads on social media, we saw the Putin playbook in action here in the U.S. Before I left the State Department, we had transformed the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications—a small entity created by Secretary Clinton to counter Al Qaeda and then ISIS messaging (she was ahead of that one, too)—into the Global Engagement Center, a larger group whose ultimate goal was to combat disinformation around the world, with a special focus on Russia. Earlier this year, in the Defense Authorization Act, Congress expanded the GEC’s mission to counter state and non-state propaganda aimed at undermining national security and told the Defense Department to transfer up to $80 million to this new entity. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has asked for some but not all of the money from the Pentagon, but it’s hard to imagine this State Department using any of those funds to counter Russian propaganda. Particularly when the head of the American government seems so often to rely on their talking points. Richard Stengel is writing a book on the global information war for Penguin Press.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '725783178a02bcf3ac6dfd9c142e68c59a65cb9e1e28c56397e108c42a87cee9'}
Handmade Valentine’s Day Gift Guide My favourite grocery store is currently brimming with plush roses, brightly coloured boxes of cheap chocolate-like product and, inexplicably, giant stuffed bull dogs holding hearts in their mouths that say “I woof you”, or whatever. Does anyone actually buy this stuff? I’ve always assumed these things were for 14-year-olds to give to other 14-year-olds, maybe because that’s what my middle school Valentine gave to me. I’ve always thought that something lovingly handcrafted by your partner makes the best Valentine’s gift, but if you don’t have the time or know-how, handmade gifts from skilled artisans are a close second. Let’s leave that weird, mass-produced stuff on the shelves this year and get our Valentines something they will actually use and enjoy, like: Handmade Valentine's Day Gift Guide \\ Sophster-Toaster 1. Plexida 2. RossLab 3. NAHINAshop 4. Pousse Pousse Citron 5. Sea & Lake 6. Sophia Victoria Joy	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9314861297607422}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28292', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GO5QV35RI46P2TBBL7G4WORB34SZIARL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c44aab81-6d3d-45d6-b7f9-c43c7bd7468e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 21, 52, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.54.126.117', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7MHVZA6ZFDPR7OZOJCTS2FVD7EPUBOW3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2d385e31-3be7-4d22-ba8e-89c360931590>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://sophstertoaster.com/wordpress/handmade-valentines-day-gift-guide/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:93b9f7d5-5c85-4e0b-bf6f-74da6fc9cabc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '147', 'url': 'http://sophstertoaster.com/wordpress/handmade-valentines-day-gift-guide/', '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-10-101-220-24.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06892228126525879', 'original_id': 'd072c7ea6296c941f3607a23892a466986b8da1383fae6ec9549806766f8eaa3'}
The enthusiasm and relentless severity with which James de la Marca proceeded against the heretics drove them to desperation. The Fraticelli, an offshoot of his own Order, which had fallen into error, incurred his liveliest hostility. Many, trembling for their lives, made an enforced and dis- sembled submission. His conduct even excited the indig- nation of Catholic bishops and clergy, and they preached against him, and his manner of dealing with the refractory sheep of the fold of Christ, which they thought resembled rather that of the wolf than of the shepherd. He was even denounced to the Pope as tainted with heresy himself, but as he was arguing his case before the Inquisition, an image of the Blessed Virgin was seen to nod its head at him, and either the miracle, or the conviction that he was -* 588 Lives of the Saints, [Not. a8. too useful a servant to be lost, moved the Inquisition to acquit him. He died of colic, at the age of ninety, in Naples. His body was buried in the church of S. Maria Nuova, but was dug up and exposed to the veneration of the faithful by permission of Poi)e Sixtus IV. He is regarded as one of the patrons of the city of Naples. In 1631, when Vesuvius was in eruption, some imaginative persons believed they saw him thrusting back the flames into the crater and arresting the streams of lava. His association with pyres in which heretics were burnt may have suggested this apparition. B, Aiidiew, Ap. bee p- 6lsl. - >J< ^ NoY. a9.j '^' Sahirninus. 589 November 29. S. Saturninus, B.M. of Toulouse; middle of -^rd cent. SS. Paramon and CCCLXX. MM.; -^rd cent. S. Philomenus, M. at Ancyra; circ. a.d. 274. SS. Blasius and Demetrius, MM. at Veroli. SS. Saturninus and Sisinius, MM at Rome; circ. A.D. 309.' S. Radbod, B. of Utrecht; a.d. 918. S. SATURNINUS, B.M. (middle of 3RD CENT.) [Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Usuardus, Ado, Nolker, Wan- delbert. Authority :— The Acts written about 420, as they mention the building of the church of S. Saturninus by Exuperius, B. of Toulouse, 405-4l5> and Exuperius is spoken of as a "saint," so that he must have been dead.] SATURNINUS is said to have gone to Gaul at the command of Pope Fabian in 245. In 250, when Decius and Gratus were consuls, S. Satur- ninus fixed his episcopal see at Toulouse. For- tunatus says that he converted many by his preaching and miracles. We know nothing more of him till his martyi-doni. The author of the Acts, who wrote about sixty years after his death, says that he assembled his flock in a small church, and that the Capitol, in which was the chief temple of the city, lay in the road between his house and the church. As he was one day passing, the priests drew him into the temple, and declared that if he would not do sacri- fice they would have him put to death. Saturninus refused to give worship to stocks and stones. A bull had been ' Only known from the fabulous Acts of Pope S. Marcellus (Jan. i6). ^ _ _ Ij. 590 Lives of the Saints, tNov. 29. brought to the temple for sacrifice, and they tied his feet to the tail of the beast, which plunged about with him and then ran down the hill from the Capitol, dragging Satuminus with it and dashing his head against the stones. The cord broke eventually, but not before Satuminus was dead. Two Christian women hastily buried the body in a wooden coffin, in a moat, and there it lay till Constantine gave peace to the Church, when it was exhumed, and Hilary, bishop of Toulouse, built a chapel over it. The martyrdom perhaps took place in the reign of Valerian, in 257, but it is difficult to fix its date from want of sufficient information in the Acts. The imagination of legend writers has added greatly to this simple and authentic narrative. A Life much more calculated to gratify the popular taste was forged, and the forger audaciously and unscmpulously asserted that he drew his facts from the lips of Honestus and Gratian, the dis- ciples of Satuminus. According to this impudent fabri- cation, which receives general credence at Toulouse, Satur- ninus was the son of ^geus, king of Achaia, and Cassandra, daughter of Ptolemy, king of Nineveh. He became a dis- ciple of S. John the Baptist, followed Christ, was one of His most devoted disciples, and after the Ascension attached himself to S. Peter, who sent him into Spain and Aquitain. He preached at Pampeluna and Toulouse. In Spain he converted two girls, the daughters of the king of Huesca, and when their father was indignant at their deserting the established religion, they eloped from Huesca with Satur- ninus, who left his disciple Honestus to rule the Church of Toledo. As he was about to be tied to the tail of the bull, Satur- ninus besought two priests who attended him to remain with him to the last. They, however, were so frightened that they ran away, and Satuminus thereupon cursed Toulouse, that no priest, a native of that city, should ever mount its - -y.-^ -* Nov. 29.] S. Radbod. 591 episcopal throne: an imprecation which, we are assured, has been ratified.^ An angel appeared to the martyr, to console him for this base desertion, and prepare him for a succession of hideous tortures, of which the early writer of the Acts knew nothing. At the prayer of the saint all the idols fell and were broken to fragments, and the idolaters pelted the martyr with the bits. As the bull dragged him down the stairs of the Capitol, his brains were dashed out. The two princesses of Huesca diligently collected them into a vessel, and then ran after the bull to mop up the scattered blood of the martyr, and finally bury his body. These maidens — whom Fortunatus merely calls a woman and her servant — receive veneration in the church of Toulouse as " Les deux Pucelles," two holy virgins. For their attention to the remains of the saint they were soundly scourged, and they then fled Toulouse, and took refuge in a village near Castelnaudary, now called after them Mas des Saintes- Pucelles, where they died and were buried. Their relics were afterwards translated to Toulouse. The relics of S. Saturninus are shown at Toulouse in the cathedral. In art he is represented with a bull. S. RADBOD, B. OF UTRECHT. (A.D. 918.) [Benedictine Martyrology. Commemorated at Utrecht. Authority : — A Life written by a contemporary, in Mabillon, Acta SS. O.S.B. ssec. v.] S. Radbod was bom of noble Frank race. He spent his youth with Gunther, archbishop of Cologne, his uncle, and ' Guerin and Giry say, wth their wonted imbecility : " Quelques-un rejettent ce recit comme indigne de la charitd de Saint Satumin, qui I'auralt porte ^ prier pour ces pretres , mais ces sortes d'imprecations prophetiques sent justifiees par une infinite d'exeniples des saints, et I'Esprit de Dieu leur a inspir£ ces mouvements de zele pour la terreur des pecheurs." -^ ^- ->^< 592 Lives of the Saints. £Nov. 29. when educated he was sent to the courts of Charles the Bold, and Louis, his son. He composed an office and some hymns on S. Martin, an account of S. Liafwin, and a hymn on S. Swidbert. In a short chronicle which he compiled, he says, under the date 900 : " I Radbod, a sinner, have been assumed, though unworthy, into the company of the minis- ters of the Church of Utrecht ; with whom I pray that I may attain eternal life." Before the end of that year he was elected bishop of Utrecht, on the death of Egibold, who occupied the see hardly a twelvemonth. Whilst he was bishop, the Danes threatened an incursion, and the destruction of Utrecht. He prayed, and the un- wholesome marsh water produced dysentery, which carried off so many of the pirates that the rest deserted the country without having sacked Utrecht. He is reported to have been very kind to the poor, and careless about his own comforts. He died on November 29, 918, at Deventer. ^- Vov. 3(x] S. Andrew. 593 November 30. S. Andrew, Af>. M. at Patras in Acluiia ; \st cent. SS. Maura and Justina, VV. MM. at Constantinoph, S. CoMSTANTius, C. at Rome ; circ. a.d. 418. S. ZosiMUS, C. in Palestine; beginning of 6tk cent. S. Trojanus, B. of Saintes in France ; a.d. 532. S. Tugdual, B. of Tregiiier in Brittany; circ. a.d. 564. S. Francis Xavier, S.J. at San-Chan; a.d. 1552 S. ANDREW, AP. M. ( I ST CENT.) [Roman and all Western Martyrologies, also all Greek, Russian, Koplic, Syriac Kalendars, Menteas, and Menologies. In 337 Coii- stantine brought the relics of the Apostle Andrew to Constantinople. In some Martyrologies on May 9 is the commemoration of this trans- lation ; in others on this day, "At Milan the commemoration of S. Andrew in the basilica at the Roman Gate." In the Martyrology wrongly called that of S. Jerome, this translation on Sept. 3, and on Nov. 3, " The dedication of the basilica of S. Andrew," whilst on Nov. 30 is the " Dies natalis." S. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30) in the Gothic Missal, in the list of festivals of the Council of Rheims, 625, in that of Charlemagne, and that of S. Boniface. In the Sacramentary of Leo I., the pontifical of Egbert of York, the Sacramentary of S. Gregory. In the Ordo Gelasianus, and in the ancient Missale Gellonense this festival has an octave (Martene, De Antiq. Eccl. Discip. c. 30).] ANDREW was one among the first called of the apostles of our Lord.^ He was the brother, pro- bably the younger brother, of S. Peter, and of Bethsaida ; and therefore the son of Jonas the fisherman. He became a disciple of S. John the Baptist. On hearing Jesus a second time designated by him as the Lamb of God, he left his former master, and in company with another disciple of John, attached himself to Christ * John i. 40 ; Matt. iv. 18. -^ - 594 Lives of the Saints, [Nov. 30. By his means his brother Simon Peter was brought to Jesus, In the catalogue of the apostles, Andrew appears in Matthew X. 2 and Luke vi. 14, second, next after his brother Peter ; but in Mark iii. 16 and Acts i. 13, fourth, next after the three — Peter, James, and John — and in company with Philip. And this appears to have been his real place of dignity among the apostles, for in Mark xiii. 3, we find SS. Peter, James, John, and Andrew inquiring privately of our Lord about His coming; and in John xii. 22, when certain Greeks wished for an interview with Christ, they applied to S. Andrew, who consulted Philip, and in company with him made the request known to our Lord. The last circumstance, combined with the Greek character of their names, may point to some shade of Hellenistic connection on the part of the two apostles. On the occasion of the five thousand in the wilderness wanting food, it was Andrew who pointed out the little lad with the five barley loaves and the two small fishes. In the scanty notices we have of Andrew, we see him represented as bringing others into notice — his brother Peter, the Greeks, this lad — and this indicates a kindly nature. There are various traditions about him. The earliest represents him as apostle to the Scythians.' According to a later account of no authority, he travelled in Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bith)aiia, and the foundation of the Church at Byzantium was attributed to him on his return from his mission to the Scythians. Thence he travelled through Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly. Gre- gory Nazianzen (Orat. 26) says that Andrew preached in Epirus. Pseudo Dorotheus says that he travelled in Bithynia, Pontus, Thrace, and Scythia, that then he went to Sebastopol, and to the castle of Apsarus near the river Phasis, and that ■ Euseb. H. £. iii 5. * Nicephorus, H. E. ii. 39. ^- S. ANDREW, APOSTLE AND MARTYR. After Wilhelm Kandler. Nov., Part II. p. 594.] [Nov, 30. ^ Nov. 30.] '^' Andrew. 595 he was crucified and buried at Patras of Achaia. S. Jerome says (Ep. 148) that he preached in Achaia. Pseudo Abdias gives a long account of his apostolic jour- neys, preaching, and death. It is generally supposed that he died on a cross shaped like an X- The Syriac history of S. Andrew published by Dr. Wright, makes him carried whilst asleep by angels to the kingdom of the cannibals. The king had so many prisoners killed for his table every day. By the help of Andrew the prisons were opened and the captives took occasion to run away. Whereupon the king ordered the seven keepers to be killed and cooked for his victuals, " and straightway collect us all the old men of the city, and let them cast lots among themselves, and those on whom the lot falls we will go on killing every day, seven by seven, for our food, whilst the young men go on board ships, and go to the countries round and procure us men for our vic- tuals." One of the old men on whom the lot fell, offered his little son and daughter in place of himself. These, as tenderer morsels, were of course accepted, and the old man discharged. S. Andrew, however, saved these children, and preached to the people against their cannibalism. When they would not hearken, he made a statue they worshipped spout water from its mouth over the city and submerge it so that the cattle and children were all drowned. It is satisfactory to know that Andrew also made the earth open and swallow up the old man who had in such a dastardly manner devoted his children to death to save his own life. The Syriac acts do not give an account of the death of S. Andrew. The story by Abdias is not quite so foolish. It may be briefly condensed as follows, omitting the most grotesque and impossible incidents. ^geas, proconsul of Achaia, came in his circuit to Patras, where, observing that multitudes had abandoned paganism, and had ,6mbraced Christianity, he endeavoured by all arts VOL. XIV. 15 ► ^- 596 Lives of the Saints, [Nov. 30. both of favour and cruelty, to recover the people to their former idolatries ; but so far was he from succeeding in this, that his ^vife Maximilla, and his brother Stratocles, having been cured by S. Andrew of dangerous diseases, embraced the faith which he preached. He therefore called the apostle before him, and derided him as an innovator in re- ligion, a propagator of that superstition whose Author the Jews had infamously put to death on a cross. Upon this S. Andrew took occasion to rehearse the infinite love and kindness of our Lord, who came into the world to purchase the salvation of mankind, and for that end did not disdain to die upon the tree. Whereupon the proconsul replied that S. Andrew might persuade those who would believe him ; but, for his part, unless he was obeyed by the apostle's doing sacrifice to the deities of the empire, he would cause him to suffer upon that cross which he had so much extolled and magnified. S. Andrew replied that he did sacrifice every day to God, the only true and omnipotent Being — not with incense and bloody offerings, but in the sacrifice of the Immaculate Lamb of God. Upon this the apostle was re- manded to prison, at which the people were so enraged that they would have broken out into a mutiny had not he restrained them, persuading them to imitate the mildness and patience of our meek and humble Saviour, and not to hinder him from receiving the crown of martyrdom that now awaited him. The next day he was again brought before the pro- consul, who urged him not to destroy himself foolishly, but live and enjoy with him the pleasures of this life. The apostle told.^geas he should share with him eternal joys, if, renouncing his execrable idolatries, yEgeas would heartily entertain Christianity, which Andrew had hitherto so success- fully preached among his people. Upon this the proconsul could hold out no longer, but passed sentence of death upon him. He was first scourged, seven lictors successively »!<- Nov. 30.] S. Andrew. 597 whipping his naked body ; and then the proconsul, behold- ing the apostle's invincible patience and constancy, com- manded him to be crucified, but not to be fastened to the cross with nails, but with cords, that so his death might be more lingering and tedious. On coming within sight of the cross he saluted it, ex- claiming, " Hail, precious Cross, that hast been consecrated by the body of my Lord, and adorned with His limbs as with rich jewels. I come to thee exulting and glad ; re- ceive me wth joy into thy arms. O, good Cross, that hast received beauty from our Lord's limbs : I have ardently loved thee. Long have I desired and sought thee; now thou art found by me, and art made ready for my longing soul : receive me into thine arms, take me from among men, and present me to my Master ; that He who redeemed me on thee, may receive me by thee." Having prayed, and exhorted the people to constancy and perseverance in that religion which he had delivered to them, he was fastened to the cross. Thereon he hung two days, and re- frained not all that while from teaching and instructing the people. When the excited Christians urgently besought the proconsul to spare the apostle's life, Andrew prayed our Lord to let him depart, and seal his confession of the faith with his blood. His petition was heard, and he immediately expired, on the last day of November, but in what year is uncertain. The instrument of his martyrdom seems to have been some- what peculiar, and is generally affirmed to have been a cross decussate, formed of two pieces of timber crossing one another in the form of the letter X — a form of cross which has become known by his name. '^ -h 598 Lives of the Saints. [Nov. 30. Constantine brought the relics of S. Andrew from Patras to Constantinople in 337. Tiberius II. gave an arm to S. Gregory the Great. Another body at Amalfi. A head was brought from Patras, 1462, by Thomas, brother of Constan- tine Palaeologus. An arm-bone is at Notre Dame at Paris; other bones at Bordeaux, Agde, Avranches, in the abbey church of Saint Remi at Rheims, in the collegiate church of S. Amd, and in the Cistercian monastery at Douai. Others at S. Bertin, at S. Omer, at Liesse near Avesnes, in Belgium, others in the palace chapel at Brussels. A foot of the Saint at Aix in Provence, with skin and flesh on it, incor- rupt. Other relics before the Huguenot spoliation at Orleans. The cross of S. Andrew, formerly at Beaune, near Marseilles,' another at S. Victor in Marseilles, made of olive wood. Portions of the cross at Toumai. S. Andrew is the patron of Russia and of Hungary, Burgundy, and Scotland. For the reason of his being regarded as patron of Scotland see the Life of S. Rule or Regulus (Oct. 17), who carried off the body of S. Andrew, or at all events con- siderable parts of it, to Scotland. In art S. Andrew is represented with his X cross. S. TROJANUS, B. OF SAINTES. (a.d. 532.) [Gallican and Roman Martyrologies. Usuardus, Ado, &c. Au- thority : — Gregory of Tours, De Gloria Confess, c. 59.] Trojanus, Bishop of Saintes, was raised to the episcopal office in 511. He rendered himself celebrated by his virtues. Eumerius, Bishop of Nantes, consulted him on the ' This was lost at the Moorish invasion in the time of Charles Martel. In 1250, Hugues, a monk of S. Victor, pretended to rediscover it, and the cross of his " in- vention " is now venerated at S. Victor. - Nov. 30.] S. Tugdual. 599 subject of a child who could not remember having been baptized, but recalled having had his head wrapped up in linen, which was probably the chrisom cloth. S. Trojanus replied, " It is ordered that whoever cannot remember having been baptized, and there is no one who can prove that he has, shall receive baptism as soon as possible, lest you should be held responsible for that soul, should it be deprived of the sacrament." He was popularly believed in an uncritical age to be endowed with the gift of miracles, both during his life and after his death, which took place in 532. He was buried beside Bibianus, one of his predecessors. S. TUGDUAL, B. (about a.d. 564.) [Gallican Martyrologies. Kalendars of the dioceses of Brittany. Authorities : — The ancient Breviaries of Rennes, Leon, Nantes, Vannes, Quimperle, in which the Life is given in nine lections. The Legen- dariiim of the church of Treguier; Le Grand, and Lobineau.] According to Breton tradition S. Tugdual (Tual, Tudal, Tugduval, Tudgual, Tuzal, Tudwal) was a native of Wales. His father's name is not given, but that of his mother was Popasa (in Breton Copaja),^ sister of Riwal Murmaczon, who is thought to have been the same as Hoel I. of Brittany. According to Welsh genealogists, he was the son of Cad- fan, son of Cynan Meiriadog. The Welsh accounts do not name the mother. He was placed early in the school of S. Iltyt mth his brother Leonor, probably at Lantwit Major. The Bretons say that on the departure of S. Iltyt, Tugdual was made abbot in his room, but the Welsh, who were much more likely to know the early career of the saint, ' She was buried at Land-Coat, near Roche- Derien, and is the patron of that church. -»■ 4 - - 6oo Lives of the Saints. [Nov. a©. ' — ■ assert that he married Nefydd, daughter of Brychan, and had by her a son, Ifor, who is regarded as a saint, and another, Cynfor, fatlier of Constantine Coronog. An island off the coast of Carnarvonshire is called after S. Tugdual or Tudwal ; in it are the ruins of a chapel bearing his name, and it is probable that when he left the world he passed some time in retreat in this island. The Welsh accounts say nothing more about him, except that he was a bishop and a saint, they do not even give the name of his see. Here the Breton accounts step in to complete the story. They relate that he was warned by an angel to come to Brittany, and he started with S. Ruelin, S. Guevroc,' S. Goneri,^ S. Loevan,^ S. Brioc,'' S. Libouban, mother of S. Goneri, and his sister S. Seva.^ When they reached the coast of Ldon, and landed at Ker-Morvan, in a little island, Plowmoguer, the ship ^\'ith all its crew vanished before their eyes, and thus they were made aware that they had been supernaturally wafted across to Brittany. Tugdual obtained a grant of land from the lord of Leon, and built a little monastery, where now stands the church of Tre-Pabu. When this was full he obtained from Derog, prince of Domnonia, a valley then called Traoun-Trecor, now Trdguier, and went to it ; he built there a monastery, and round the monastery a town grew up. He is said to have there destroyed a monstrous serpent — that is, he rooted out the great stones of one of those interesting serpentine monuments, like that of Karnac, which were used for super- stitious rites. After some time he left, hearing that the inha- bitants of Lexobia or Coz-Guevded were determined to elect ' Oilled also S. Kirecq, founder of Land-mewr, venerated on Feb. 17. ' S. Goneri was buried at Plougrescant ; he is venerated on July 18. ^ S. Loevan, Loenan, Laouenan, or Lavan, is patron of Treflaouenau in Leon. His festival is on the 2nd Sunday in August. * See Dec. 17. ' S. Seva, Seo, Seuve, Secon, patroness of S. S4ve, near Morlaix. -V Nov. 30.] S. Tugdttal. 601 him as their bishop on the death of Tiridran. He took refuge with S. Albinus at Angers (538-550), but Childebert interfered, and Tugdual was consecrated bishop. He moved the seat of his bishopric to his httle monastery of Treguier. There he died, about a.d. 564. But a curious mistake had led to the growth of an astonishing fable, which has forced its way into all the breviaries of Brittany. He went by the name of Pabu-Tugdual, or Father Tug- dual, and sometimes, to distinguish him from other abbots, as Leon-Pabu, the Abbot in Leon. In course of time this led to his being supposed to be Leo the Pope, and as Leo V. is said to have been of unknown nationality,' the legend writers of the middle ages who composed the lections for the breviaries boldly identified Tugdual with Leo V., though Tugdual belonged to the 6th century, and Leo V. to the year 903. The following story was told to account for the Bishop of Treguier becoming Pope of Rome. Tugdual was obliged to leave his diocese because of the hostility of the nobles, and his determination to maintain his rights over the land given to the see. He went to Rome when the Pope was just dead, and arrived whilst the people were praying in the basilica of S. Peter for guidance in the election of a new pontiff. When Tugdual entered, a dove settled on his head. The people accepted the omen, and he was elected unani- mously. After sitting in the throne of S. Peter for part of a year, an angel appeared to him and advised his return to Treguier, from which he had absented himself two years, that he might restore joy to his disconsolate diocese, where all the women had become barren since his departure. A snow-white horse was brought him by the angel; he mounted, and the steed bore him through the air and lodged him on a hillock near Trdguier, and then in a blaze of light the horse went up into heaven. Babies at once appeared ' " Leo v. cujus patriam historici non ponunt," &c.- Platina, De Vit. Pont. ->* 6o2 Lives of the Saints. [Nov. 30. throughout the diocese, as plentiful as blackberries. S. Tug- dual, after this, built a chapel on the mount dedicated to the archangel. The hill still bears the name of Crech-Mikel. In the office for the collegiate church of S. Tugdual at Laval, this preposterous story occurs. In the hymn for vespers, " Item, mutato nomine, Dictus Leo Britigene, Sedit in Petri culmine, Claras et charas ad vena," the antiphon for the Magnificat is : — " O quern Tugalum Trecoria, Roma Leonem Invocat, in Christi virtute repelle draconem. " The seventh response at Matins is : — "In Papam eligitur, nutu Deitatis, Tugalus, et efficitur Rector Petri ratis, Claves coeli bajulat, portis reseratis. Hie facit ut pateant coelestia regna beatis." In art he is represented as a Pope, with a dragon at his feet. The only relics that remain after the havoc of the Re- volution are, some bits of tibias and femurs at Laval, and a few fragments of an arm-bone in the cathedral of Trdguier. S. FRANCIS XAVIER, S.J. (a.d. 1552.) [Roman Martyrology on December 3 ; but inserted in this volume for convenience. Beatified by Paul V. in 1554, and canonized by Gregory XV. in 1662. By brief of Benedict XIV., in 1747, S. Francis Xavier was honoured with the title of Patron of the East Indies. Authorities : — (i) His own Letters. (2) A Life by Turselini, published in Rome 1594- (3) A Life by P. Bouheurs, S.J., 1687. (4) Faria y Sousa, Asia Portugesa, Lisb. 1655. (5) The acts of canonization of S. Francis; and the biographies by Lucena, Orlandino, Garci, Maffei, &c. In com- piling this biography much use has been made of '* The Life and Letters of S. Francis Xavier," by F. Henry J. Coleridge, S.J., London, 1872.] S. Francis Xavier was bom at the castle of Xavier, near Pampeluna, in 1506. His father's name was Don Juan -►< S. FRANCIS XAVIER. After Cahier. Nov., Part II. p. 602.] [Nov. 30. Nov. 30.] S. Francis Xavier. 603 de Jasso, and he was one of the privy council of John III. of Navarre. After a common Spanish custom, Francis received the surname of his mother, who was the heiress of the family of Xavier as well as of that of Azpilcueta.^ Francis was sent to the university of Paris, to be educated for the Church, and took his degree of Master of Arts in 1530. There he met S. Ignatius Loyola and Pierre Lefevre, and these two holy men exerted the influence of their re- spective qualities of resolution of purpose and tenderness of devotion on the susceptible character of Xavier at the time when most open to impression. The father of Francis had been put to considerable expense in order to support his son at the university, and now that his education was com- plete, he obtained for him a canonry at Pampeluna, and desired him to return to Spain, where he could easily obtain him honourable and lucrative benefices. But Francis was already fallen under the control of the master spirit of Ignatius, and he could not tear himself away. A servant, impatient at the spell which that remark- able man was weaving round the soul of his young master, attempted to assassinate Ignatius. His attempt failed, and served the contrary purpose, it drew Xavier closer to Loyola. In the vacation of 1535 he yielded himself up to the direction of his friend, who put him through his course of spiritual exercises. He had already, along with Ignatius, and the five other first founders of the Jesuit Order, made a vow of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, on the feast of the Assumption, 1534. These confederates were bent on visiting the Holy Land together, and together labouring at the impracticable task of converting Mussulmans to the Gospel and the sacred obligations of humanity. On the ' Martin Azpilcueta married Joanna Xavier, heiress of the family of Xavier ; and left an only child, Maria, the mother of the saint, married to Juan di Jasso. •t i, 604 Lives of the Saints. [Nov. 30. 15th of November, 1536, they started together to go to Venice, and there embark on their mad enterprise. Ignatius was not with them, he was then in Spain, but he promised to meet them at Venice. The party of pilgrims travelled on foot through France. It was not a propitious time for travellers. Charles V. had invaded the south-eastern provinces of France, and Francis I. had ordered the devastation of the country before him. The northern frontiers of France were invaded from the Netherlands. Xavier, Rodriguez, and others of the party were Spaniards, and it was probable that they would be taken up as spies. At the outset of the pilgrimage, Francis Xavier obstructed the progress by falling ill. He had bound cords round his legs and arms as tight as they could be drawn, as a sort of penance for having formerly indulged in healthy exercise and athletic sports. Walking with whipcord bound about his thighs proved painful and impracticable, and before reaching Meaux his power of endurance failed, and he was obliged to allow his com- panions to remove the strings. It was found that they had buried themselves in the flesh, and that the legs and arms were swollen. In after times some of the companions loved to imagine that there was something miraculous in the removal of the cords. The party had fallen prostrate in prayer round the swelled legs, and the cords snapped of their owti accord. But one can hardly suppose that there was not a member of the party with a pocket knife, or a knife procurable in the hostelry, in which case only would they probably have resorted to prayer. On reaching the frontiers of France toward Lorraine, they went to confession and communion. Lorraine was dan- gerous ground to them. Whilst they travelled through France, the Frenchmen of the party spoke, and said that they were pilgrims bound for a shrine of S. Nicolas near Nov. 30.] •^- Francis Xavier. 605 Metz. On crossing the border, the Spaniards became spokesmen, and the French relapsed into silence. They met with great linguistic difficulties when they crossed the Vosges and got among Germans. At Basle they rested three days. Between Basle and Con- stance they passed through a village which was keeping high holiday for the marriage of its parish priest, who had pro- bably lived previously in concubinage. The villagers were breathing free at the illicit connection being transformed nto a recognized and religious union. Near Constance they were challenged to controversy by another parish priest, Avho was already married and had a large family of children. He invited them to supper, but they declined to eat at the same table with him.^ The priest argued that as S. Peter was married, and S. Paul allowed marriage to bishops, his union was allowable. We are told by Rodriguez that the party speedily reduced him to silence, by what arguments he does not say. Constance, like Basle, was in the hands of heretics ; and mass was only allowed in a church outside the walls of the town, and all who assisted at it had to pay a certain fine. A little further on the pilgrims came to a hospice, at the door of which an old woman met them, and began to genuflect, kiss their rosaries, and cry out in German that she was an old Catholic, delighted to see men who were still faithful to the Church. She ran in, and brought out a lapful of legs, and arms, and heads, and fingers of sacred statues, and the fathers prostrated themselves in veneration before the sacred fragments. The band of companions arrived at Venice about the feast of the Epiphany, 1537. Ignatius was there, awaiting ' The Pope whose benediction they were about to seek and obtain was Paul III., who, as Cardinal Alexander Farnese, had become the father of an illegitimate son and daughter. 4* < I 606 Lives of the Saints. jn^^ 30 them. Several months must pass before they could sail for Jerusalem, and it was determined to spend part of this time among the poor in the hospitals at Venice, and the rest in a journey to Rome to obtain the blessing of the Pope. Francis Xavier was appointed to attend the hospital of the Incurables. He was to be the servant of all there, to wait upon the sick, dress their wounds, sores, and ulcers, make their beds, prepare their food, instructing them, con- soling them, preparing them for the last sacraments, and after their death carrying them forth for burial. He here indulged himself in what seems to be a preliminary process among aspirants after sanctity of modern days, — sucking ulcers. All the filthy particulars may be read in Turbellini and Rodriguez, and in English, by any one who cares to have his stomach turned, in the Life by Father Coleridge. After nine weeks thus spent in Venice, the little party set out on foot for Rome. Ignatius did not go with them, for Cardinal Carafa, afterwards Paul IV., was jealous of the scheme of the new society. He had helped S. John Cajetan to found the Theatine Order, and he did not wish to see a new society tread on its heels and usurp the atten- tion of the world, always attracted by novelty. The party that started for Rome was composed of nine companions. It was determined that they should observe the strictest poverty, and keep Lent with severe fasting. The roads were bad, the rains incessant, and the country in parts flooded. They begged for their food. Simon Rodriguez gives us a picture of such a proceeding. At Ancona one of the companions, who seems to have been Francis Xavier, went about the market barefoot, his robe tucked up to his knees, begging of the market-women apples, radishes, and lettuces. Untroubled by any suspicions about the truth of the fable attaching to the shrine of Loreto, and unobservant of the - Nov. 30.] '^- Francis Xavier. 607 fact that the holy house was built of the red stone of Ancona, the nine companions poured forth their devotions at Loreto, and gathered a plentiful supply of indulgences. At Rome each went to the hostel of his own nation. They were presented to the Pope, Paul III., by Pedro Ortiz, ambassador of the Emperor Charles V. at the Roman Court, and they amused the jovial pontiff during his dinner by disputing on points of theology. He gave them leave to go to Jerusalem, if they particularly desired it ; and they re- turned \vith joy to Venice. The whole party received ordi- nation on the ensuing Midsummer Day, 1537. As for the expedition to the East, that had to be postponed, as war between the Turks and Venice had broken out. It was determined, when the hopes of going to Palestine grew fainter, that they should disperse among the cities of Italy for a twelvemonth, and do what they could for the good of souls. Xavier went with Bobadilla to Bologna. There Xavier lodged with Hieronimo Casalini, rector of Santa Lucia. His time was spent in preaching in the public piazzas, in hearing confessions, visiting the hospitals, and catechizing children. Towards the end of winter he was summoned by S. Ignatius to meet him in Rome. The whole of the little company assembled in Rome; Ignatius submitted to them his thoughts concerning the erection of the society into a religious Order. The mission to Palestine was rendered impossible ; in its place God had opened to them a work in Italy, a mighty harvest to be gathered in. To extend the faith of Christ, to root out heresy and vice, such were their objects, and they could be attained elsewhere than in Palestine. Let them bind them- selves together by vow, under one head, and perpetuate, beyond the span of their own lives, the bond of charity which united them. Ignatius did not insist on an imme- diate answer to his proposals, he would leave his com- 60S Lives of the Saints. [Nov. 30. panions time to reflect and pray God to guide them in arriving at a satisfactory decision. There were difficulties internal and external. The chief difficulty as to the formation of a body under one head seems to have consisted in the intention of the com- panions to offer themselves unreservedly to the Pope. If the Pope were to send them hither and thither, how were they to maintain the tie that bound them together? There were also great external difficulties to contend with, much opposition and calumnies raised against them. The reli- gious Orders were at this time so corrupt, so luxurious, and lax, and giving such occasion of scandal, that there were thoughts in high places of either abolishing them altogether, or of reducing them to four. The idea of a new Order would hardly be tolerated — a new Order, moreover, which was to depart from the normal monastic type in many essential particulars. The question as to the retention at all costs of the union which had proved so happy and so useful was unanimously decided upon ; the question of obedience to one head cost much hesitation and dispute. The decision, however, was unanimous in favour of the addition of a third vow of obe- dience to the vows of poverty and chastity ; and a document was drawn up, and signed by all the companions on the 15 th of April, 1539, pledging them all to enter the society as soon as it received papal approval and confirmation. A fourth vow was shortly after added, binding the members to go on any mission on which the Pope should send them, whether among heathen or among Christians. The desired papal confirmation was granted by Paul III. in 1540, but the bull was not formally promulgated till the spring of 1541. In May of the year 1539 the brethren dispersed again on their missionary labours ; but Xavier was required to remain - -t-4 Nov. 30.] 6'. F'rands Xavier. 609 at Rome with Ignatius, to act as secretary to the Society. But suddenly, on March 15th, 1540, Ignatius summoned Francis Xavier to his room, and told him that he was to leave Rome next day in company with the Portuguese ambassador, Pedro de Mascarenhas, to join Rodriguez on the first missionary expedition of the Society to the East Indies. It was one of those providential arrangements which seem the result of chance. Govea, privy councillor of John III. of Portugal, had written to Ignatius about the spiritual wants of the Indies, and he had recommended the king to apply for several of the companions of Ignatius as missionaries to the heathens there. The king ordered Mascarenhas to ask for six, Ignatius could only spare two. He nominated Rodriguez and Boba- dilla. Rodriguez sailed at once to Lisbon to see the king, taking with him as a companion Father Paul of Camarino, a late acquisition to the Society. Bobadilla did not arrive in Rome till just before the ambassador was about to start, and then fell too ill to be moved. Mascarenhas could not wait, and Ignatius was obliged on the spur of the moment to nominate a substitute. His choice fell on Xavier. S. Francis had just time to seek and obtain the blessing of Paul III., then he embraced S. Ignatius for the last time, and set forth on his long wanderings, which were to end twelve and a half years later on the coast of China. P'rancis went direct to Lisbon, leaving behind him his written promise to agree to any arrangements that should be made in the constitution of the Society when finally approved, and his suffrage for the election of the superior. He declared that he thought it right that Ignatius, as their old and true master, should be their head. On reaching Lisbon, Francis was presented at court. King John was an eminently pious monarch, and all the courtiers affected enthusiastic piety ; had he been the reverse, they ^ -Hh 6io Lives of the Saints. [Nov. 30. would have accommodated themselves with equal facility to his most profane and licentious caprices. Now they rushed breathless from one religious ministration to another, vying with one another as to who could confess and communicate oftenest. And the court presented to the eye the sanctity of a convent. The king and queen were so delighted with Francis Xavier and Rodriguez, that after the first interview they ordered off all the pages to confession to them. These youths were required by their Majesties to go to confession twice a week, and this discipline, if it did not make them hypocrites, made them saints. One Miguel de Souza is re- ported to have survived the process of having his spiritual concerns regulated for him like an ordinary piece of court etiquette, without any deadening and deterioration of his conscience, and he became eventually a Jesuit. Francis had two companions given him before he started, Father Paul of Camarino, and Francis Mancias, a Portu- guese. The latter was a dull, homely, ignorant man, not yet in Holy Orders, and certain to be plucked if examined for Orders by a bishop in Europe. It was hoped that the bishop of Goa would be less exacting. Xavier was nomi- nated Papal Nuncio of the Indies. Francis was to sail for India with the new governor, Don Martin Alfonso da Sousa. The king commanded the count of Castaneras to provide Francis with everything he might need for the voyage. Francis said that he professed religious poverty, and would rely on the providence of God. He could only be induced to accept a few books of devo- tion, and some warmer clothing for the storms of the Cape of Good Hope. The count asked him if he did not want a servant to attend on him. It would ill become the dignity of a papal nuncio to cook his own food and wash his own linen. Francis answered that he had his two hands, and that they alone should wait on his necessities. On April 7, 1541, •f Nov. 30.] '>^' Francis Xavier. 611 his thirty-fifth birthday, S. Francis set sail from Lisbon. He found himself in the midst of society to which he was new. Hitherto he had lived either wth students or with his own religious brethren ; he had associated with men of posi- tion and learning, with men who felt, or affected, great re- spect for religion. He was now brought into contact with the boisterous licence of rude sailors and adventurers, cooped up together for a tedious and dangerous voyage of six months within the wooden walls of a galleon. The vessel contained nine hundred sailors, soldiers, and passengers. He was of a refined, delicate, even haughty nature, and those with whom he was cast were coarse, rude, and disorderly. 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Chair Entertainment Infinity Blade III’s strong heart still beats beneath layers of unnecessary fat Infinity Blade III’s strong heart still beats beneath layers of unnecessary fat Infinity Blade III • iOS • iPad • iPhone $6.99 MSRP Buy Game It's often a wonderful thing when a game doesn't have much budget to work with. A shortage of money can sometimes force a creator to trim the fat from their their game until there's nothing left but a lean, trim, tightly designed experience. That was the story of the original Infinity Blade. Made in just five months at Chair Entertainment, Infinity Blade went on to become a massive hit. But since moving from the risky venture of Infinity Blade to the epic blockbuster of Infinity Blade III, the game has lost much of what made it special. Infinity tale The core gameplay is still the same, and you'll spend the game dueling with monsters and bosses in one-on-one fights by swiping the screen to swing your sword and parry attacks. However, Chair hasn't been quite so careful about preserving the original game's appeal when it comes to the narrative. Infinity Blade III follows in the footsteps of Infinity Blade II and clings to the mostly-gibberish techno-fantasy story of Siris and his companion Isa on a quest to kill a character known as the Worker of Secrets before the remainder of humanity's dwindling population is destroyed. So much of what made Infinity Blade a truly special game was its silence, and it's been disappointing to watch Chair abandon that aspect of the series so thoroughly. It showed you only the tip of an iceberg of a narrative that spanned thousands of years and left you to fill in all the blanks. At its best, Infinity Blade III's story dialog at least sounds cool when they're discussing god-kings and “Deathless,” but at it's worst you'll have little idea what's happening. It's sprawling and overwrought, especially considering it's the progeny of Infinity Blade, a game that made a name for itself specifically because of its nearly non-existent narrative. The plot of the original game was: “Hello, my name is Destiny Warrior. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” It was incredibly powerful and universal, but that's been tossed out the window, and we've gained little in exchange. Still blading As much as the game's narrative jumps shark, this is still an Infinity Blade game, and there's a lot of good to be found here due to the fact the original formula is still so potent. The environments are beautiful to behold, and it's always interesting to see where your path will lead you next. The only downside is that the dungeons in Infinity Blade III are largely linear. Whereas previous games had you exploring the different routes through the castles and dungeons, Infinity Blade III opts instead for many more locations with fewer alternative routes. On subsequent playthroughs the monster positions are changed so it's not a totally predictable slog, but the linearity leaves this game feeling bizarrely like Punch-Out! as you fight enemy after enemy in one-on-one duels before confronting a boss. Those one-on-one battles are still tense, exciting, and fun, and the enemies you fight remain one of the best parts of the game. Every creature you face feels like it could be the final boss design for any other game. Creatures are massive, surprising, beautiful, grotesque, and flat-out cool, and sometimes they're all those things at once. The visual design remains one of the core strengths of the developer, and I can't wait to see what they do next. This game has a good, strong heart at its core, but it's been buried under layers of fat. Infinity Blade III introduces a new potion-brewing feature, a periodic dragon-attack event, achievements, and there are now three types of currency in the game. Complexity isn't always a good thing, and in this case it works against the purity of what made the original so enjoyable. More and more it feels like Infinity Blade III was stuffed full of unnecessary fluff and “features” in order to justify a full-priced sequel. It's a classic case of subtraction by addition. Feature creep The problem with creating a brilliant, lean game like Infinity Blade is that there's nowhere else to go in a sequel. Its slim stature was part of the core of its brilliance, and adding to the formula actually diminishes the experience. Infinity Blade II started down the path of bloating the series, and Infinity Blade III seals the deal. As great as this series was, and at times still is, they've found nothing in the subsequent sequels that has actually enhanced the game. 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Officer. The appointment is driven by the increased demand from municipalities and utilities for the company's NearSky™ smart city platform and related smart city solutions, including, but not limited to public safety, traffic and pedestrian analytics, air quality monitoring, gunshot/noise detection, and road condition monitoring. Mobeen brings a wealth of management experience in the mobile services and software industry, including leadership roles where he was responsible for business strategy, product management, business development, operations, and marketing. Most recently he served as General Manager and associate VP for the Internet of Things (IoT) business unit at AT&T where he was responsible for strategy and management of vehicle solutions, asset management and the IoT platform business. Prior to this role, he was the marketing head for AT&T's enterprise mobile solutions business. Before joining AT&T, Mobeen worked in mobile enterprise startups and as a strategy consultant in the telecommunications and e-commerce industries and held progressively senior roles in strategy, technology, and product management. At CIMCON, Mobeen will formulate future strategic initiatives and oversee the go to market and customer facing functions of the company, including sales, business development, channels, marketing, customer success and support. "CIMCON has built an amazing brand and reputation over the last decade in state-of-the-art connected lighting solutions, and now has become a leader in smart city space through its NearSky connected edge platform," said Mobeen Khan. "With its expanding ecosystem of solution partners, CIMCON is allowing any global city to realize its smart city vision working at their own pace and budget." Commenting on future strategy, he added, "In addition to the opportunity to build great value for our city and utility customers, there is also a tremendous opportunity to work closely with global cellular operators to help them realize their aggressive 4G small cell and 5G rollout schedules by partnering with our customers and through the NearSky partnership program." "As demand for our smart city solutions expands, and as smart city solutions grow to encompass new technologies, such as 5G mobile services, we continue to add seasoned leaders to the CIMCON team," said Anil Agrawal, CEO of CIMCON. "Mobeen brings the kind of management experience that will allow us to scale our operations while we continue to help cities modernize their services and maintain fiscal responsibility." With a heritage of over 25 years of innovation and experience in industrial automation and outdoor wireless applications, CIMCON provides the most proven and most complete smart city solutions to global cities and utilities. The company is the world's leading provider of scalable, intelligent wireless outdoor lighting management solutions for traditional, LED and solar-based street lights, and the company's smart city platform provides an easy way to deploy, manage and maintain smart city devices and applications. Focused on offering solutions that provide the lowest "Lifecycle Cost of Ownership," CIMCON provides hardware and software technologies that allow cities and utilities to monitor, maintain and in many cases, monetize their assets and other devices on or near the light pole. CIMCON's "Just in Time Lighting™," reduces energy, maintenance and repair costs while improving the quality of lighting services and enabling the path to a smart city. 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Jonathan even received enough bonus Hertz Gold Plus points for a week's rental as a result of his purchase! And the rental car companies' used car lots are consistently very clear on disclosing whether a vehicle was a rental or not, such as this example from Enterprise Car Sales. Enterprise sells both rentals and non-rentals. Yet our team members' stories are of individuals who intentionally bought a former rental, not an unknowing consumer who purchases a rental car and feels that information was not disclosed. Some individuals simply don't want to purchase a vehicle that had been a rental, regardless of price, warranty, or other inclusions such as roadside protection. Failure to Disclose Prior Rental History In the United States, there's a mandatory sticker when a used car is sold by a dealership. It's called a Buyer's Guide and the rules for this document are mandated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). We've all seen the Buyer's Guide before -- every used car on the lot must (by federal law) include that guide; most people focus in on whether a vehicle has a warranty or is sold "as-is". Everyone in the U.S. has seen a Buyer's Guide, and there's no vehicle history listed. If one thinks that previous ownership history and vehicle use (commercial fleet, taxi, or rental) might be included in the Buyer's Guide, that individual would be incorrect. One could read the FTC's documentation intended for consumers and the documentation intended for dealers. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission reminds consumers to be prudent, including guidance such that the potential buyer inspects a vehicle thoroughly, seeks an independent inspection, checks for active recalls (large rental car companies can't get rid of vehicles under recall), and gets an independent vehicle history report. The federal government can't endorse a for-profit company but one such organization -- CarFax -- states in their records whether a vehicle was a former rental. The FTC urges consumers to be prudent on car purchases (a major decision). Finally, the FTC also suggests a consumer get any material assertion in writing from the dealer. That's always the key -- if a dealer's assertion on any question is not documented, then there's little possibility for recourse later. That includes the answer to the question "Was this vehicle used as a fleet vehicle, rental or taxi?" Why? If the consumer doesn't want those types of vehicles, doesn't request a vehicle history report, and doesn't get a confirmation in writing, there's little room for dispute after a purchase. If the dealer asserts the answer is "no" in writing and the answer is later discovered to be "yes", there's potential for recourse (if the dealer's still in business). And in addition to the FTC's advice to simply be proactive, a used car dealer refusing to provide a vehicle history report is probably one to avoid! Reputable dealerships with a vested interest will commit to answers! In my talks with Hertz about the Hertz Shelby GT 50th Anniversary Rent-A-Racers, the staff even told me where each car was previously stationed, helpful for those who would prefer to avoid cars from the Salt Belt! Why did I get such great candor from the company? I simply asked those questions. The United Kingdom is Facing a Major Test Case Recently, this has become an issue on the other side of the pond, where CarFax is available for vehicles that had been registered in the United States but not vehicles that had been registered in the United Kingdom. In a story that is relatable anywhere, a small subset of dealers has taken actions such as stating that a vehicle "only had one owner", neglecting to mention that the one owner was a major rental car company. 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And a car purchase is a major investment anywhere in the world. Purchasing a used rental car is not for everyone -- if purchasing a used rental car (or previously totaled car, or flood-damaged car) is not in your plans, be vigilant. While we might not always agree with actions taken by our government, AutoSlash can agree that the FTC's advice of inspecting the potential purchase, getting an independent inspection, checking for recalls, asking for a vehicle history report, and getting every dealer claim about the car "in writing" is spot-on advice. 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Sam Cannon demonstrates in support of striking fast-food workers at a McDonald's restaurant in Austin, Tx. on Nov. 29, 2016. \| Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP WASHINGTON – Employer associations are predicting a raise in the federal minimum wage will cause employers to lay off workers. According to a new study, this is a false alarm. The analysis was done by four economists. It shows the minimum wage hikes that 18 states and Washington, D.C. have enacted in the past three years have raised the pay of the lowest-paid workers without cutting the numbers of jobs or hours they work. The analysis was published in early December by Sandra Black, Jason Furman and Wilson Powell, members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and by University of Miami economist Laura Giuliana. Minimum wage foes, led by the lobbies for restaurants and retailers – including Andrew Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as Labor Secretary – contend a minimum wage hike would cost jobs. Actually, every time raising the minimum wage has been suggested over the years, employer groups pull out this claim. It has never been true. The federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, has not risen in a decade, and many leisure and hospitality workers work for the “tipped minimum” of $2.13 hourly, which hasn’t increased in more than 22 years. However, many states and 60 cities have raised their minimum wages, and the four economists studied the impact of doing so. They looked particularly at the impact of the wage hikes on the leisure and hospitality industry, which includes bars and restaurants. Federal data show that industry had 15.6 million workers in November – 34,000 more than a year before. But the average leisure and hospitality worker toiled for only 26.2 hours weekly – unchanged from November 2015 and the lowest among all sectors. That average worker earned $394.57 a week in November, dead last among all the major sectors and more than $160 weekly behind the next-worst sector, the retail trade. The average paycheck for leisure and hospitality workers in November was $15.46 more than the prior November. The poorest workers gained the most from the minimum wage hikes, the Obama CEA economists reported. While median average hourly earnings grew 1.4 percent for all workers since 2012, the median for the 10th percentile workers – the lowest-paid – rose 7.9 percent in 2014-15 alone, the fastest growth since 1968. “Minimum wage increases implemented over the past three years by 18 states and the District of Columbia have contributed to substantial increases in average wages for workers in low-wage jobs, helping to reverse a pattern of stagnant or falling real wages in the preceding years,” they said. “Moreover, this has occurred without any sign of an impact on employment or hours worked. As a result, average wages and weekly earnings for those who work in the lowest-paid jobs are at least 6.6 percent higher in these states than they would have been in the absence of these policy changes, based on a conservative” calculation. Meanwhile, “employment in the leisure and hospitality industry follows virtually identical trends in states that did and did not raise their minimum wage. Moreover, employment in this low-wage industry grew somewhat more quickly than employment in the private sector overall,” the economists reported. “This finding is consistent with a well-established empirical literature in which minimum wage increases are often found to have no discernible impact on employment. It is also supported by economic theory. In fact, when employers have sufficient market power” to unilaterally set wages “below what would prevail in a perfectly competitive market, there is scope for a higher minimum wage to raise both wages and employment,” they said. In the states and D.C. that raised their minimum wage, “the average minimum, weighted by the number of private sector workers in each state, rose from $7.66 in December 2013 to $9.34 in October 2016 – an increase of 22 percent,” they added. “In contrast, in 22 states, the minimum wage has not risen at all in the years since the last federal increase. And of this group, only one state has a wage floor that is above the federal minimum of $7.25,” they noted. The economists used federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the leisure and hospitality workers because they’re “most likely to be affected by minimum wage policy.” “As of December 2013, the typical leisure and hospitality worker earned $9.25 per hour – roughly the 17th percentile of the national wage distribution – and nearly half of these workers earned an hourly wage less than 120 percent of the minimum wage in their state.” When previously enacted state minimum wage hikes started to kick in in 2014, the leisure and hospitality workers’ pay started to shoot up, the economists said. “In states that took action, the average industry wage grew by 14.2 percent between December 2013 and October 2016 – resulting in wages that were 14.8 percent higher than they would have been had the downward trend prior to January 2014 continued. “By comparison, the average wage in the comparison group of states” – the ones that didn’t raise their minimum wages – “grew by 7.2 percent and was only 4.5 percent higher by October 2016. And by the same month, the difference in weekly earnings growth for the leisure and hospitality workers in the minimum wage states was even more: 16.4 percent since 2014, compared to 4.7 percent in the other states. “Raising the wages and incomes of working Americans is one of the country’s greatest policy challenges,” and an Obama administration goal, the economists stated. “The analysis presented here, along with a larger body of economic research, provides further support for the view that moderate minimum wage increases can substantially boost earnings for low-wage workers with little or no impact on employment,” they concluded.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '1db9cdf5f33b4eb928470ddaff3c6bffd260b9b62703bb1692475d9a688da10e'}
Ali Gatie Talks 'It's You' and Why He Wants to Be 'the Perfect Mixture of Ed Sheeran and J. Cole' Ali Gatie Aidan Cullen Ali Gatie Even if you've never experienced heartbreak, Ali Gatie's music might have you wishing you had. The 22-year-old burst onto the mainstream scene last month with his brooding Hot 100 hit "It's You," which currently sits at No. 73. Gatie's ballads blend elements of hip-hop, R&B, and pop, but his rise has been anything but conventional. Born in Yemen to Iraqi parents, Gatie's family spent time in Abu Dhabi before flying settling down in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga when he was in the third grade. Gatie had a tough time convincing his parents that music was a sensible career path -- most of his family worked as doctors or engineers. Following an uninspiring semester at university, Gatie decided to go all-in on his music dreams. In 2017 Gatie caught his first bigbreak, winning an online RhymeStars competition judged by Joe Budden. The rapper-turned-talking head selected Gatie's track as the top video, netting him a $3,000 check. With a pair of relatable singles, "Can't Lie" and the string-laden "Moonlight," Gatie made even more gains in 2018. The success of those songs led to a major label deal with Warner that he describes as a "partnership." Perhaps what's most striking about Gatie's journey so far is his ability to establish an intimate bond with his fanbase. Ali made it a point to answer every DM and Snapchat message throughout his come up to create a personal relationship with each fan. Get to know the man behind the luscious locks and heavy eyebrows with our interview below. Billboard: How was your childhood transition from Dubai to suburban Toronto? Ali Gatie: I grew up in Abu Dhabi and moved to Canada when I was in third grade, so I was about 10 years old. I really say I grew up in Canada. At home it was Middle Eastern culture, but outside it was more Western and multi-cultural. It's cool to see that I have different perspectives and it made me more open to meeting people. Who were your musical influences back then? When I was really young and lived in Abu Dhabi, 50 Cent was the biggest thing in the world to me. When I moved to Canada, I got really into Ed Sheeran. He and J. Cole are my favorite artists. I want to be like the perfect mixture of Ed Sheeran and J. Cole. Somewhere right in the middle, where I'm not a pop star, but I'm not exactly a hip-hop artist. That's the best way to describe where my brain wants to be. Did you have any sort of musical background? Surprisingly, no. Nobody in my family ever did music. I went to university for business to make my family happy. Education is a very important part of becoming an adult in Middle Eastern culture. After one semester, I realized university was just an obstacle between me and my dream. I was already pursuing music, but I wasn't doing well. I thought if I really wanted it, I had to do it 100 percent. I left school and that was a whole big thing with my family, but I believed in myself and it paid off. What did Drake mean to you as a kid growing up around Toronto? I don't know if I would say I'm influenced by his music, but he's the biggest artist in the world. I think everyone is influenced by him with his music being everywhere. What Drake did that was so beautiful was paving the path for every other Toronto artist to at least be heard. Nobody took Toronto seriously before he made it a music city. Once he broke out, people like The Weeknd and Shawn Mendes started coming out of Canada. More producers also started making music. It sort of opened this creative lane for everyone to try. How did you build your fan base so quickly? You seem to have established a connection early. I had this mentality when I started making music that I would release a song and it would just blow up one day. I was young and naïve in 2016. I didn't understand the idea of rollouts and marketing plans. I started writing from my heart instead of making music people would like. I sang songs in my car and people would share it on social media if they liked it. They thought I was singing covers, but they were really my songs. That's kind of how I built a fan base. Once people found me, I would reply to all of the DMs and comments to make sure I was engaging with them. I built a personal relationship with each of my fans to where I'm kind of like their friend. "It's You" is making moves on the Hot 100. What's it like to have your first Hot 100 entry? It's crazy. I've had these goals for myself and one was to make the Hot 100. I worked so hard for it, but when you see your name among the other names, I'm kind of a part of history in a way. I remember having 200 followers and telling my friends I would do this. It happened and it's so casual now. I hope this inspires people. How did that record come together and did you think it would have this kind of impact so early on? I made the song in February of this year. I originally wrote the song to send it to someone else. I wanted to tell this certain person how I felt. She was asleep, so I thought to write the song, send it to her, and then go to sleep. I was hoping she'd wake up and see it, rather than me singing it. At first, I wrote it just to get my feelings out. So the night I wrote it, I played it on my Instagram Live and people recorded it. They posted the snippets on YouTube, which went crazy. It had millions of views. It took on a life of its own. So when it came out, it had such a big impact with everyone waiting. The song came very naturally to me. It only took 15 minutes to write the entire record. I was just feeling the words in that moment and speaking from the heart. What can we expect from the video? Without giving too much away, the video showcases love in all of its forms, shapes and sizes. The video tries to represent every person or situation that "It's You" could be for each listener. It's very diverse and showcases love in different ways. Explain the concept behind your brand LISN? LISN is really the idea of how I wanted to be an artist that was all about music, and all I would ever ask from anyone was to listen. Give me that one listen and hear me out. I don't want your money, just give me a chance. I call my fans the Lisners because they fell in love after that first time. It's a cool play on words and they like it as well. Is this leading into an EP or album? I'm constantly writing and working on new music. "It's You" will land on some body of work. If that's an EP or album, I won't be stressing about it. I'm focused on putting out even better music and compiling the work into something. "Moonlight" will also be included in that, which will be filled with other stories. What appealed to you about signing with a major label like Warner early in your career? Every label was reaching out, but I wanted to be patient with it. Then I met the CEO of Warner and we clicked on a personal level. I wasn't even looking for a deal at the time. I liked the idea of Warner's rebuild and I could be a priority there and help restore the label. I've got a good partnership going with them. Who are some artists you'd want to work with in the future? Bazzi's a really cool writer. Billie Eilish is killing it, she's amazing. Khalid is also dope. Ed Sheeran or J. Cole would be a dream come true. I love Adele as well. What are some major changes that have happened in your life since your career started to take off? When I first started getting good money, I moved my family. They used to live in a real small apartment, where I'd share a bedroom with my mom. So I moved them into a house about six months ago. My schedule is a lot busier. I get to focus on music now, which is amazing. I don't have to worry about money as much as I did when I was on the come up. I was working two or three jobs and living paycheck to paycheck. 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Auto Ads by Adsense Sunday, June 03, 2012 Review: Kelty FC 3.0 A baby is a lot like a camera: you might have only one body, but you'll end up with a bunch of different bags and packages to stuff that body into, each one for a slightly different purpose and for different conditions. For instance, the Chariot Cougar is the all-weather, all person strolling/cycling device. It's waterproof, and will go anywhere. Unfortunately, it's giant ass and eats up all your trunk space if you insist on buying small cars like I do. The biggest problem is that if you're going to hike single-track trails, you'll need to use palanquin mode, which is awkward. The Kelty Wallaby is great at home for doing a few chores while carrying the baby and it leaves you hands free, but any extended carrying will cause back pain. As the only person in the immediate family likely to use any infant carrier, I've learned that I have extremely limited patience for complicated wrapping techniques or infant loading carriers. That eliminates the Moby Wrap, and when I tried the Ergo Baby, one look at the instructions and I concluded that I would need a PhD in baby carrying before I'd successfully get my son into it. The Kelty FC 3.0 is a welcome change from all these complicated devices. It seems almost designed for a caveman, that's how simple it is. You load your child by putting the pack down on the ground with the auto-deploy kickstand, so you can adjust all the straps and put the sunshade on. Once done, you lift the pack using the carry handle, load one shoulder, and then the other, cinch down the hip belt, clip the sternum strap together, and you're ready to go. Like any true backpacking pack, all the weight is loaded onto your hip and not your shoulder, so you have no shoulder or back pain associated with it. The nice thing about baby carriers is that they're designed for women, which means that unlike men's backpacks, the hip belt can be tightened to the point where it doesn't slip on me, which is impressive because I have next to no hips. Bowen loves this pack. It's high, so he can see past my shoulders. He can reach out and grab things (including mom). The "drool pad" is soft and he's slept on it. Grandpa appears to like the pack as well. Grandpa is 70 years old, which means that if he has no problem carrying the pack, those of you in your child-bearing years will have no problem. The pack comes with a changing pad, plenty of space for diapers, milk bottles, cell phone pocket, key pocket, and maybe lunch for you. I suppose you could squeeze in a SLR as well, but it'd better be padded well. There are a few cons with the pack. First, the sunshade is not waterproof. There's no real way to windproof/bugproof or waterproof the cockpit. So if it rains, I'd better have the waterproof stroller. Second, there's no water-bottle carrier built in. This is silly, but easily rectified with a $3.50 Water Bottle Holster from REI or your favorite online provider. Finally, unlike the ErgoBaby, it won't carry a 70 pound baby. Darn it, by the time he's 40 pounds (the weight limit of the FC 3.0), he'd better be doing the hiking himself. All in all, this is my favorite of all the baby carriers, and the only carrier where I feel like I could push myself to the limit and not be limited by the pack's limitations. Well, ok, I guess my real limit is whether mom will let me push to those limits, but hey, one can dream. Highly Recommended Friday, June 01, 2012 Review: Sennheiser RS120 wireless headphones Now that I share an office with my wife and a house with a baby, keeping volume down when watching video, etc., has suddenly become important. While I've used blue-tooth headsets in the past, the quality has always been spotty, the range poor, and the amount of set up almost not worth the hassle for PCs, and of course, nearly impossible for TVs. The Sennheiser RS120 is available in re-manufactured form for $55. By contrast, the newer technology RS 160 costs more than 2X that refurbished, at $117. It also does not come with a charging cradle. If you want a charging cradle with the newer technology, you need to shell out $186 for the RS 170. For that price, I figured I'd put up with a finicky setup and go cheap. The big difference between the technologies is that the RS120 is analog: it's essentially a 900MHz transmitter and receiver, with a radio-like tuner and 3 channels so you can tune your headphone to receive the signal for maximum clarity. Because interference can attenuate the signal or shift the optimum frequency slightly, you need to tune the channel for best performance depending on where you sit, whether there are GSM phones nearby, or whether there's another 900 MHz channel in use. The plus is that you can tune multiple headsets to the same channel, so two of you can watch a movie, for instance, while the baby sleeps. I wired up my Headroom Amp to my PC's port, and then wired that to the RS120. The result sounds great when properly tuned and with no interference. The no interference part is difficult because in the modern household, you have cordless phones, GSM mobile phones, Wifi, etc. But after fiddling a bit with the channels I found something that worked most of the time with great fidelity... until the wireless phone rings and you get a slight buzz. Oh well. When the phone rings I usually pause whatever it is I'm doing and take the call anyway. The headset is powered by two rechargeable AAA batteries. The charging mechanism is ingenious: there are two metal plates on the headphones which when dropped onto the meta cradle, charge the batteries. This is very cool because the headset and cradle are designed so that when you drop the headset along any point on the cradle contact will happen and the charging starts. The range of the headset is fantastic. I can wear them all around the house and hear music streaming from the PC. Walls, etc., are no barrier whatsoever. The annoyances are the occasional blips and cuts, and sometimes interference. If that bothers you, spend the extra money and buy the digital technology headsets. One minor annoyance is that the transmitter automatically cuts off power when there's no input from the PC. This is not a problem for listening to music: you're probably streaming a playlist so music never cuts out. However, it's a problem for watching a movie: you'll watch a movie and then pause it to do something else. If you pause for long enough to say, feed a baby and change a diaper, the transmitter will cut off. That's not a problem. However, there's some latency before the transmitter comes back on when you resume the movie, so you might miss a few words. The headset also only hears static if the transmitter is off, which is annoying but not fatal. Do I recommend the unit? Yes. I should have bought one ages ago when the inlaws were staying with me, because it would have reduced a few conflicts when someone wanted to watch TV during the night but it was annoying other members of the household. Is it of the highest possible audio quality? No. You'd probably get better quality (and less fiddling of the tuner) out of the digital technology models, though for a lot higher price. But as far as price/performance is concerned, these are the wireless units to beat. 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Jumping on the E-book Train? and a Poll POLL INFO AT BOTTOM. Even if you don’t read this, please take the polls. With everyone jumping on the e-book train, is there an advantage to just get a paypal account and offer your book(s) on a blog/website etc. for the ten bucks that Amazon would charge? Just make it a pdf file and advertise by word of mouth? 1. Not everyone is jumping on the e-book train. I have a Kindle. One of my dear friends has a Sony. We’re the only two people I personally know that have e-readers. (I’m not counting reading from an iPhone because those are so teeny that most people will not read an entire book that way.) If e-book is the only way you’re going, sales will be low. Most people still read paper books. 2. If you can go through traditional publishing, that’s still the preferred method for most people because: a. You don’t have to make all the files (or pay someone to do it). b. Your publisher has distribution avenues to bookstores that are closed to individual authors. c. Your publisher has a marketing budget and plan. Even if it’s small, it’s still usually better than what you can do by yourself. d. If someone else is doing the marketing, promos, selling, etc., that frees you up to write more books. 3. This is not a “one size fits all” situation. A basic pdf file will not work with all readers. In fact, a basic pdf won’t work with most readers. There is a conversion process that has to happen first and it’s different for Kindle, Sony, etc. In fact, there are about five or six file variations that you need to create if you want it available to all e-readers. And now there’s the new B&N Nook, which I know nothing about but I assume will require it’s own file variation. 4. If you’re going to do it yourself, I’d suggest using Amazon’s CreateSpace (which is what I’m using for the Christmas book). They will allow you to create both a paper version and a Kindle version to sell through their site. Since Amazon is THE leader in book sales, you’ll want to make sure you get on there. The set-up is free; they take a percentage from each sale. But you do have to create the files following their very specific guidelines. 5. In addition to Amazon/Kindle, you may want to create e-book files that work on the other popular readers and sell them from your own site. 6. Unless you have a very big mouth and a spectacular product, word-of mouth is not going to get you much farther than your immediate circle of family and friends. All that said, there are reasons to follow this do-it-yourself route. If you have a niche book that appeals to a small but dedicated readership and if you have avenues to sell your book (like you do a lot of workshops and other speaking engagements). Now, because I am extremely curious about all this e-book/e-reader stuff, I have two polls over in the sidebar. (Scroll down beneath the ads.) The first one is about e-books in general. Everyone please take this poll. The second one is about e-reader brands. Take this poll if you own or use a reader regularly. If you have multiple readers and you use them regularly, then select all the ones you have. If you mostly use one and the other one just collects dust, don’t include the dust-catcher. If you expect to get one soon (and by expect to get one soon, I don’t mean wishing you could; I mean, you have the $ budgeted or Santa will be bringing you one) then select the one you are planning to get. *Special thanks to my lovely assistant who knows about this kind of stuff. She says to thank MOJO who helped her with a lot of the info. Author: LDS Publisher 6 thoughts on “Jumping on the E-book Train? and a Poll” 1. My husband got me the Sony e-reader last year for Christmas. He did this because 1) he's a tech geek and 2)he was tired of me packing a separate suitcase for vacation books. (True story). I mainly use it when I go on vacation and it's absolutely worth it for that alone. However, I like it when I have the desire to start something new at 11:00 at night and the book store and library aren't an option. Also, although I like the Sony, I'd get a Kindle if I had my druthers. 2. Actually, my ebook sales outstrip my print book sales by 2:1. Both of my books have paid for themselves. The second one's not even officially out yet. 3. Oh, another thing. The most common formats MY customers prefer is EPUB and PDB (eReader). I know for a fact that many of my sales are because I offer the PDB format. 4. I would like a Kindle, but it is low on the priority list due to the impact of the current economy on our household finances. I have read several books entirely online, though, so I do foresee myself going this route eventually. Not all books are compatible with this format though (My two books, for example…) 5. . I want one — probably a Nook or a Que — but alas, I am poor. Besides, I still have a few hundred paper books on my shelves languishing in an unread state. I should probably start there. 6. I'm not voting in the poll because none of the options quite fit my reply. I am not interested in an e-reader for casual, recreational reading and don't imagine I ever would be. On the other hand, if Amazon were ever to turn all the books I have in my personal medieval research library into e-books, I'd happily buy a Kindle so I could take all my "research" along when I go on vacation and more easily work on my WIP's. I once heard the president of Amazon give a talk on Book TV and he said that Amazon's goal is to eventually digitalize every book that has ever been written. When that happens and it includes all my research books, THEN I'll want a Kindle! 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Training camp for the Broncos on Monday was consumed by the news of Montee Ball's absence. The team's starting running back will undergo an emergency appendectomy this afternoon and will miss at least the first couple of preseason games, including Thursday's opener against the Seahawks at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. "I think he's been a different guy in the meeting rooms with a full offseason this year and attacking it the way he did," coach John Fox said Monday. "He is starting to see the benefits of that here on the field. I have seen a drastically improved player." C.J. Anderson, who sits at No. 3 on the Broncos' depth chart at RB, was later asked to describe the difference between him and Hillman. His analysis? "He's a lot faster," Anderson said. "I guess that's the best way to say it. He's a lot faster. People don't understand that Ronnie's got a lot of toughness. He can put it in between tackles and break tackles because he's fast and that works for him. As for me, I'm just more of a gritty type of back—down and dirty. I love the contact. That's how me and Ronnie change the pace and we're just going from here. That's how me and Ronnie are different but we're the best of friends."	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '62', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9856901168823242}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '59442', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3BJJS6H3B4V5GAAXSRB73HUPNK6273N5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:729b8989-d806-45ab-92a3-b4fa282912df>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 2, 7, 36, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.62.6.66', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OU2TO4UWQUH76NI2LOBVHE53YYOGYQ7Y', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ad654023-97cd-4733-85d4-bed4111d16a1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/fort-morgan-local-news/ci_26275528/montee-ball-out-spotlight-is-cast-broncos-rb?source=rss', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4a200b61-1bb2-4000-b6d9-905dac284525>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '249', 'url': 'http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/fort-morgan-local-news/ci_26275528/montee-ball-out-spotlight-is-cast-broncos-rb?source=rss', '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': '0.08969366550445557', 'original_id': '440dbb14ca68c4d68d31b70541397dbc69a0ae34dca880c1a1ad11c8eb260449'}

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