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Principle of Least Astonishment
In designing a language or computer program, generally, you should ensure the effect of any command is the one that least astonishes the user.
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<h4> Reading and Writing Papers </h4>
<p><a href = https://www.notion.so/fe983e26a1b74b8994184f46d2e31ee7?v=572d47b7e8134a46b53f9dbc8a493282>Key Papers in Finance</a></p>
<p>: One-liner summaries of core papers in finance academia</p>
<p><a href = "https://www.notion.so/Model-Writing-in-Economics-bbe9effcf70e4c9b808e82641f5f1748">Model Writings in Economics</a></p>
<p>: Short tips on writing, list of good examples in empirical and theoretical economics</p>
<p><a href = "/Documents/reading_papers.pdf">How to Read Papers Critically</a></p>
<p>: Specific tips on how to critically assess an economics research paper, useful for discussions & referee reports</p>
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<h4> What I Learned in Grad School </h4>
<p><a href = "/Documents/year1_202108.pdf">Surviving Year One</a></p>
<p>: General takeaways on coursework and the core exam</p>
<p><a href = "/Documents/year2_202108.pdf">Surviving Year Two</a></p>
<p>: Thoughts on coursework and the curriculum paper</p>
<p><a href = "/Documents/year3_202108.pdf">Surviving Year Three</a></p>
<p>: Tips on TA, reading groups, and project management</p>
<p><a href = "/Documents/workflow_public.pdf">My Setup for Productive Research</a></p>
<p>: Presentation to Incoming Booth PhD Students on Workflow, Apps and Technology, Getting New Ideas</p>
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<h4> Code and Data </h4>
<p><a href = https://www.notion.so/1a897b8106ca44eeaf31dcd5ae5a61b1?v=ff7dc75862c6427eb4243e91836e077e>Plausibly Exogenous Galore </a></p>
<p>: Compilation of plausibly exogenous variation used in empirical economics work (updated daily through this <a href = https://sangminoh.substack.com/p/coming-soon>listserv)</a></p>
<p><a href = https://www.notion.so/03b2275cd4af43529415910105486280?v=063de7d46a8a44e889961e215f69ca77>Variables Construction in Finance</a></p>
<p>: Compilation of norms on constructing often-used variables in finance research</p>
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<h4> Discussions </h4>
<p>1. Estimating a Model of Decentralized Trade with Asymmetric Information [<a href = "/Documents/2020-11-06-BofE.pdf">Slides</a>]</p>
<p style="margin-left:10px;font-size:12px">• By Tristan Hennig / Bank of England, Modelling with Big Data & Machine Learning (Nov 2020)</p>
<p>2. Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering [<a href = "/Documents/2021-04-09-EFA.pdf">Slides</a>]</p>
<p style="margin-left:10px;font-size:12px">• By Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma / EFA (Apr 2021)</p>
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Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on his nomination for surgeon general. Charles Dharapak/AP
The White House is backing off its push for quick confirmation of President Barack Obama's pick to be surgeon general amid opposition from the National Rifle Association.
Democrats have been concerned that a vote on Dr. Vivek Murthy could hurt the party's vulnerable incumbents up for re-election in November.
Murthy is the latest nominee to be targeted for defeat by an outside group in the midst of the midterm election campaign. Murthy's support of gun control has drawn the ire of the NRA.
The NRA was the driving force behind the defeat of a push for stronger background checks before purchasing firearms, a move Obama had endorsed.
The White House has decided that, at least for now, it won't push for a vote for Murthy. It's an embarrassing setback for Obama, a week after the Senate blocked his nominee to be the government's chief civil rights attorney, Debo Adegbile.
Adegbile was targeted by the National Fraternal Order of Police for taking on the defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a police officer in Philadelphia. The nomination went to vote, but all Republicans and seven Democrats joined together to block it.
A White House official said the president's staff is "recalibrating" its strategy for Murthy after what happened with Adegbile.
Some Republican politicians saw the move as a victory against the Obama administration and said their doubts about Murthy went beyond gun control. They voiced concerns about Murthy's political advocacy and lack of experience as a practicing physician.
Murthy, 36, is backed by numerous medical groups and would be the first Indian-American surgeon general.
"The White House was terribly embarrassed that their nominee for the Justice Department failed," Barrasso said in a telephone interview Friday. "I don't think they saw it coming. They had (Vice President) Joe Biden in the chair to break a tie and it wasn't even close."
The White House argued that approval ratings for their nominees, at 76.6%, are virtually the same as former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, at 77.9%.
"This administration has adopted the highest ethical standards in history, and the caliber of our nominees and their preparedness to serve reflect that high bar," said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
"Similar to previous administrations, all appointments are thoroughly vetted. But current congressional Republicans have made no secret of the extraordinary lengths they will go to obstruct the confirmation process."
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Eurovision and politics: Harmony in discord?
According to the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest, “The performance and/or lyrics of a song “must not bring the Contest into disrepute”. No lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature are permitted.” While this rule is meant to keep the world’s biggest musical event free of politics, the reality is that the two go hand in hand. And I’m saying that as a huge Eurovision fan myself. With just two months before the 62nd edition of the contest kicks off in Kyiv, a controversy has made international headlines. On March 22, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that this year’s Russian representative had been banned from entering Ukraine for three years, effectively making her unable to compete in Kyiv. However, this is not the first time that politics have sneaked their way into the contest.
In 1968, Cliff Richards looked all but set for a Eurovision victory for the United Kingdom with “Congratulations”. That was until Massiel from Spain beat him to victory by one point with “La La La”. The victory was unexpected and controversial. Firstly, Massiel was brought in to replace Joan Manuel Serrat, whose request to sing in Catalan rather than Spanish was denied the Francoist regime. In May 2008, Spanish film-maker Montse Fernández Villa claimed in his documentary 1968. Yo viví el mayo español, that the contest was rigged by Franco, who would have sent state television officials all across Europe to buy television series and to contract unknown artists. This claim was based on a statement by José María Íñigo, a then employee at TVE (Spain’s public broadcaster) and current commentator for the Eurovision, although he later said that his words were taken out of context. Spain hosted the contest in 1969, from which Austria withdrew because of the fascist regime in power.
Believe it or not, one Eurovision song actually started a revolution! Portugal’s entry in 1974 “E Depois do Adeus” (And after the farewell) was used as one of the two signals to start the Carnation Revolution against the Estado Novo regime, which was ultimately successful in restoring democracy to Portugal. It failed to inspire the juries though, finishing in joint last place.
Israel v the Arab World
The original non-European country taking part in Eurovision before it was cool (sorry Australia!), Israel has been a regular fixture at the contest since 1973. However, their presence has often caused some diplomatic problems from time to time. Their first participation came a year after the murder of 12 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. Long-standing commentator for the BBC, Terry Wogan, noted that audience were asked not to stand when applauding songs, as they risked being shot by security forces.
The 1979 marked the first time that the contest was held in Israel. Turkey had selected the Marta Rita Epik to represent the country with the song “Seviyorum” (I Love You) However, many Arab countries expressed their disgust at a Muslim country competing in a contest held in a predominantly Jewish country and pressured Turkey into withdrawing. One of these countries was Jordan, who abruptly cut their transmission of the previous year’s contest short when it became apparent that Israel was going to win. Turkey gave into the pressure and skipped the contest. However, 20 years later, they did compete in the 1999 contest, held once again in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem.
Many Arab countries that are eligible to participate in the contest refuse because of Israel. Tunisia was due to participate in 1977, even being drawn to perform fourth. However, they withdrew giving no official reason, though it is widely speculated that Israel’s participation was to blame. Three years later, Israel had to withdraw because the contest date clashed with their Remembrance Day. In the same year, Morocco made their first, and so far only appearance at the contest, with Samira Said finishing second last with “Bitaqat Hub” (Love Card). Once Israel announced their return to the contest the following year, Morocco promptly withdrew.
For the contest’s 50th running, Lebanon announced that it would be making its debut at the contest. The Lebanese broadcaster, Télé-Liban internally selected Aline Lahoud to sing “Quand tout s’enfuit” (When everything flees). Unfortunately, there was the small problem of Israel. Lebanese law forbids any transmission of Israeli material and the rules of the contest state that all broadcasters must broadcast all competing songs in their entirety. Unable to promise broadcasting the Israeli entry, Lebanon were forced to withdraw and were banned for three years from competing. As of 2017, they have made no attempt to return. As for Israel, Shiri Maimon finished fourth in the final with “HaSheket She’Nishar” (The Silence That Remains), their best result since Dana International won with “Diva” in 1998.
Israel faced criticism not from without but from within in 2009. The selection of Noa (a Jewish Israeli) and Mira Awad (an Israeli Arab) caused backlash from both Israelis and Palestinians. Awad was the first Arab Israeli to represent Israel. On the Israeli side, some right-wing politicians deemed her unworthy to represent a Jewish and demanded she return her Israeli citizenship. A petition was circulated by Palestinian and Arab intellectuals calling on Awad not to take part, accusing her of being a fig leaf to cover up the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. This failed to deter Noa and Awad and they went to place 16th in the final with “There Must Be Another Way”, the first Israeli entry to feature Arabic lyrics.
Georgia v Russia
For the 2009 contest in Moscow, Georgia selected Stephane and 3G with “We Don’t Want to Put In”. Eyebrows were immediately raised at the song’s blatant dig at Russian president, Vladimir Putin, especially since Georgia and Russia had been at war the previous year over the South Ossetia region. Georgia withdraw after they refused to change their song. As luck would have it, one of the members of that group, Tamara Gachechiladze, will represent Georgia this year with the song “Keep the Faith”.
Armenia v Azerbaijan
Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in a bloody war between 1988 and 1994 over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway state within Azerbaijan that has a mostly Armenian population. A ceasefire was agreed but not a peace treaty, so the two countries are still technically at war. Their disputes often spill over to the Eurovision.
In 2009, the Armenian postcard shown before the entry had to be altered when the Azeri delegation complained that it featured the “We Are Our Mountains” monument, located in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia retaliated by having their spokesperson read out the Armenian votes in front of a giant billboard with the monument on it. There were also reports of the Armenian entry being censored by the Azeri broadcaster and of 43 Azeris that voted for Armenia being interrogated by the police.
When Ell & Nikki claimed the trophy for Azerbaijan in 2011, Armenia’s participation was cast into doubt. The Azeri government responded by guaranteeing the Armenian delegation’s safety and Armenia confirmed their participation in January 2012. However, a group of Armenian artists called for a boycott of the contest following the death of an Armenian soldier on the Azeri border in February 2012. The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, added fuel to the already blazing fire by stating that Azerbaijan’s “main enemies are the Armenians of the world” during a speech in the same month. In March, Armenia decided to withdraw, feeling that they could not compete in a country where they “will be greeted as an enemy”. Armenia later returned in 2013.
2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. Armenia used their Eurovision entry that year to commemorate this event by sending the supergroup Genealogy, a group consisting of five members from the Armenian diaspora and one from Armenia proper. Azerbaijan, who along with their close ally Turkey deny the genocide, objected to the song “Don’t Deny”, as it was perceived as a call for recognition of the genocide. The song was later changed to “Face the Shadow”, although the Armenian delegation continued to deny any political content.
Russia v Ukraine
Relations between Russia and Ukraine have been less than friendly ever since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and pro-Russian insurgency in Eastern Ukraine. For these reasons, Ukraine chose to withdraw from the 2015 contest. They returned with strength the following year, winning the contest and beating the pre-contest favourite, Sergey Lazarev of Russia. However, their win was controversial to say the least, not just because the song won neither the jury nor public vote. The Ukrainian entrant, Jamala, was a Crimean Tatar, a Turkic ethnic group native to the Crimean peninsula that were forcibly expelled from their homelands to Central Asia by Stalin. Her song “1944” references not only this event but also the situation of modern day Crimean Tatars fleeing to mainland Ukraine after the Russian annexation. Those who have remained have reported oppression under the new Russian government. Despite its heavily political message, the song was cleared to compete by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Russia was highly critical of this decision, especially after it ended up winning.
Fast forward to this year and for many people, it was unclear whether Russia would enter this year’s contest due to it being held in Ukraine. However, one day before the Head of Delegation meeting, in which the final versions of all competing songs are presented to the EBU, Russia announced that they had selected the song “Flame is Burning” sung by Yuliya Samoylova, a singer who was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy as a child. This resulted in her having to use a wheelchair since a young age. The selection of this singer sparked a lot of conversations, with some praising Russia for selecting a singer that fits the contest’s motto this year: “Celebrate Diversity” while others accused Russia of using a singer in a wheelchair to deflect any potential booing that they might face over the Crimea situation or their poor LGBT rights record. However, the banning of a contestant from a country in which the contest was due to take place is unprecedented. The ban is due to Yuliya performing in Crimea in 2015, while it was under Russian control. According to Ukrainian law, entry to Crimea is only allowed via Ukraine and with permission from the Ukrainian government. The EBU expressed their disappointment at the decision of UA:PBC (the host broadcaster of this year’s contest) and suggested that Yuliya could still perform via satellite from Russia, which was quickly refused by Channel One, the Russian broadcaster. At the moment, it looks increasingly unlikely that we will see Russia participating in Kyiv unless they pick another participant and fast.
Will we ever separate politics from the Eurovision?
In my opinion, no. Music has always been used to express our feelings and to make sense of the world around us. We use it to express love for one another, our frustration at our governments’ action or inaction, our darkest feelings and our most joyous moments. Also, since the Eurovision was founded to re-unite a war-torn Europe, Eurovision has been used as a way for countries to vent their frustrations at each other. I see it as like the sport boycotts of South Africa during the apartheid regime or the recent “Stop Israeli Apartheid the Red Card” protests when Maccabi Tel-Aviv played Dundalk in the Europa League last year. Sport is an easy target for people to protest against what was going on in faraway places, since they can’t do anything themselves to change the situation. Eurovision will stop having political incidents when governments stop fighting amongst each other. When will that happen? Who knows?
Confessions of a Statistically Improbable Gaeilgeoir
We have now reached March, which means Seachtain na Gaeilge is in full swing. From now until Saint Patrick’s Day, many events will be held all over the island of Ireland with the aim of getting people to use their cúpla focail as much as they can. Of course, not everyone will be happy to take part and may even hate Irish. You may be one of them. You may even have a mental image of a Gaeilgeoir; someone from the Gaeltacht with an unpronounceable name, who did all of their education through Irish, a TG4 employee, a hardcore Republican, someone who forces Irish down other people’s throats, someone who always chooses the Irish-language option just to make life harder for you, the list is endless. I am a fluent Irish speaker, although all the statistics say that I should not exist. Let me dispel a few myths for you.
“You must be a native speaker from the Gaeltacht”
The places with the highest number of Irish speakers are, of course, counties with designated Gaeltacht areas, such as Galway (49.8%), Mayo (47.2%) and Kerry (47.2%). I am from the opposite side of the country, County Louth and was raised through English. According to the 2006 Census, 36.7% of the population claim at least some command of Irish. This is the lowest figure in the Republic of Ireland. In addition, my hometown of Dundalk marked the most northerly point in the Pale, the area of Ireland that was under direct rule of the English government in the 15th century, in which all aspects of Irish culture were banned, including the language. Irish speakers are found all over the country and the world. There are even fluent Irish speakers that have no connections to Ireland nor have ever visited Ireland. I once came across a man from Zimbabwe, who lives in Belfast and is a fluent Irish speaker and a sean-nós dancer! The fact that someone was born outside a place where a particular language is spoken should not stop someone from being able to speak said language.
An tSean Chéibh in An Spidéal, County Galway
“But you must have gone to a Gaelscoil then!”
Wrong again. All of my primary and secondary education was through English. I missed out on going to the Gaeltacht during the summer, one of the quintessential experiences for any Irish teenager, because I was afraid of going places by myself (bit ironic now as I would now jump on a plane to anywhere in a heartbeat). In fact, I did not step foot in a Gaeltacht until last week, when I went to An Spidéal in County Galway. I did not study Irish for my undergraduate degree and I am currently not studying it for my Masters. Yet for some strange reason, I saw Irish as an actual language and not just a subject designed to put me through hell. My sisters all went to the Gaeltacht for at least one summer during their time in secondary school. Yet I am the one who can hold a fluent conversation with no problems.
“Why can’t you just use the English option and stop being so difficult?”
First of all, Irish is an official language of the Republic of Ireland. As an Irish citizen, I have a right to access services in Irish if I so wish. My phone, email and social media are all in Irish and as a Bank of Ireland customer, I always use the Irish-language option on ATM’s wherever possible. Yet that is always the “wrong option”. During Christmas, my sister was trying to take a picture on my phone and she got angry at me just because the lock screen displayed “Iontráil pasfhocal” instead of “Enter password”. It is my choice to use services in my country’s national language and my choice should be treated with the same respect that anyone who uses the same services through English. Anyone who accuses me of being “difficult” are actually the ones causing obstacles for me.
“You had Irish forced down your throat as a child and now you’re doing the same to me!”
If I really wanted to do that, this blog post would be completely as Gaeilge. Back to the point, I never remember having a negative attitude towards Irish, even when I was learning it in school. One of my earliest memories was watching Power Rangers dubbed into Irish on TG4, not knowing that it was originally in English. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t classify learning a new language from my favourite childhood show as having a language “forced down my throat”. People force English down the throat’s of Gaeilgeoirí by making them feel bad for speaking Irish. Hearing someone around you speaking a language that you don’t understand doesn’t automatically mean that they’re gossiping about you. Have a walk around any town in Ireland and you will hear a myriad of languages in the streets; Polish, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Hindi, Yoruba, Arabic etc. and no one pays any heed. Yet when someone walks around speaking Irish, heads turn and dirty looks are thrown. How can you not complain about other people speaking their languages to each other in public but berate Irish speakers for the same thing? I fail to see the logic there.
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Seachtain na Gaeilge 2016 with An Cumann Gaelach, DCU’s Best Society 2016
“Sinn Féin!!! IRA!!! Tiocfaidh ár lá!”
Before we get into this, I want to clear something up about “Tiocfaidh ár lá” that drives me up the wall. It is a literal translation of “Our day will come” into Irish and it isn’t how you would actually say it in Irish. “Beidh ár lá againn” would be a more correct translation. Now that that’s cleared up, I am not a hardcore Republican by virtue of the fact that I speak Irish. I am not particularly proud that Gerry Adams is one of my local TD’s but I guess it could be worse. *cough cough Healy-Rae’s cough cough* I don’t have a burning hatred for Protestants (I went to a Protestant secondary school) nor do I lament the fact that Ireland isn’t a 32-county republic. Personally, I don’t really care if the North decides to reunite with the South or not. Both parts of the island have developed into different places and if they were to reunite, a lot of work would have to be done into creating a new republic. Whatever happens, I won’t lose any sleep over it.
That’s everything I think. Oh wait…..
“But why do you speak Irish??!!”
One, because I have the right to use my country’s first official language and two, because I want to! My life would have turned out very differently if I wasn’t able to speak Irish. I wouldn’t have met some of my closest friends nor would I have been able to pursue some of my dream jobs. I am forever grateful that I will always have small piece of Ireland within me wherever I go. I, or anyone else who speaks Irish, should not have to constantly justify why we speak it. Irish does not solely belong to residents of the Gaeltacht, native speakers, Gaelscoil students or stereotypical hardcore Republicans. I am none of these things but yet I am a Gaeilgeoir. Irish belongs to everyone on this island and all who choose to give it a voice. I will continue to give it a voice until I no longer can.
Is liomsa í an Ghaeilge agus beidh sí go deo!
Toulouse Top Five
Ahh France, the country of wine, l’amour, cheese, baguettes and a pretty big tower. France has a lot to offer to visitors, which is no surprise seeing as it is the most visited country on Earth, with 85.7 million foreign visitors in 2013. While most people head to the capital Paris or the pristine beaches of the Côte d’Azur, the rest of the country should not be overlooked! In this post, I will guide you the wonders and secrets of Toulouse, a city I lived in during my Erasmus and somewhere that holds a special place in my heart.
How to Get There
Toulouse (Tolosa in Occitan, a minority language spoken in France,Italy and Spain) is France’s fourth city and is the capital of the Haute-Garonne department and the region of Occitanie. It is located in the southwest of the country on the confluence of the Garonne river and the Canal du Midi, which connects Toulouse to the Mediterranean. Toulouse-Blagnac airport has both domestic and European flights. Aer Lingus fly direct to Toulouse seasonally. A shuttle bus and tram link it the city. If you are already elsewhere in France or Mainland Europe, you can reach Toulouse by train or bus. Gare Matabiau is served by frequent TGV’s (train de grande vitesse, high-speed train) to other cities such as Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris and Carcassonne. Bus routes connect the city not only to the rest of France, but to Spain as well, particularly to the Basque Country and Catalonia.
How to Get Around
Tisséo runs an extensive bus, metro and tram throughout the city. 1-, 2- and 3-day passes (€5.50, €8.50 and €10.50) are available from Tisséo offices in the airport and from the Arenès, Balma-Gramont, Basso-Cambo, Jean-Jaurès and Marengo SNCF (the metro station that serves Gare Matabiau). You must scan tickets upon boarding the bus or tram or before getting on the metro. Tickets can be bought on the bus (for one or two journeys) or in ticket machines at metro and tram stations. Be warned though, ticket machines only accept coins. So unless you have buckets of change, I would suggest buying a travel pass at the airport and taking the tram into town.
Top 5 Places to See
Place du Capitole
The metaphorical and literal heart of Toulouse is the main square, Place du Capitole. It gets its name from the Capitole, the city’s hôtel de ville or municipal administration. Brazen in the centre with a giant Occitan cross, a symbol commonly associated with Toulouse, take a look around you and you will see the distinctive red bricked buildings that give Toulouse its nickname “la ville rose” (the pink city). People often like to take a stroll across the square or sit at one of the cafés which surround the square, watching life go by. But don’t be fooled, this place can get pretty vibrant as well! Flea markets are often held here on the weekends and during the Christmas season, the square is filled with many stalls selling food, drink, clothes, jewellery, musical instruments and much more. Within the Capitole building itself, you can find the Théâtre du Capitole, an opera house and ballet company and the Salle des Illustres, a room which houses works of art from the 19th century. If you head south of the square towards the river Garonne, you can stumble across all kinds of quirky cafés, restaurants and secondhand shops.
Saint-Sernin Basilicia
France has the fourth highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world. One of these sites can be found in Toulouse, the Saint-Sernin Basilicia (Basilique Saint-Sernin), and is listed as one of the World Heritage Sites of the Route of Santiago de Compostela in France in 1998. The construction of basilica began towards the end of 4th century and was completed sometime during the 11th century. The architect Eugène Violette-le-Duc restored the church in 1860. The basilica contains several relics donated King Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire which date from the 8th century, a bell tower, an alcove in which you can find the tombs of the four Counts of Toulouse, a crypt and the Cavaillé-Coll organ, built in 1888 and considered one of the most important organs in all of France. Entry into the main building is free and it costs €2.50 to go into the crypts (€2 each if you come in a group of more than 10 people). Right beside the museum, you can find the Musée Saint-Raymond, a museum with many antiques, especially from the Roman period.
Musée des Augustins
As you probably guessed, France loves preserving its cultural and historical heritage and you are sure to find at least one museum in even the tiniest village. Toulouse’s most famous museum is without a doubt the Musée des Augustins. As the name suggested, the building which houses the museum was formerly an Augustinian convent. It is one of the oldest museums in France, opening for the first time to the public in 1795, shortly after the Louvre in Paris. It contains collections of paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century and Romanesque sculptures, particularly those representing the Occitan culture of southern France. The cloister also contains a reconstructed medieval garden. Entry is €5 (€3 per person for large groups) and entry is free for the permanent collection on the first Sunday of every month (same applies to all museums around the city!)
Cité de l’Espace
Most of the things I have mentioned so far involve fine arts. If that’s not your thing, check out a museum focused on the future, the Cité de l’Espace (Space Town). Take the 16 bus to the very last stop and it’s a short walk from there. The “town” contains several space artefacts, a mini observatory and a space walk simulator. It might not look like much but it’s very easy to spend an entire day here!
Prairie des Filtres
Just along the south bank of the Garonne lies the Prairie des Filtres. This park gets its name from the sunlight that filters through the trees. It is particularly popular during the summer months, when you’ll see many inhabitants of this city having picnics, playing games, walking their dogs and forgetting about their worries. Another toulousain tradition you might see around here is people sitting by the river in the evening and having a few drinks, known as an apératif, or apéro for short. Another popular spot for this are the steps down from Place Saint-Pierre, a place famous for its bars full of university students.
Of course, this list is only a handful of things to do and places to go. There are many more gems to be discover in this place I got to call home for a year. Come see why I fell in love with la ville rose.
La Dolce Vita in Lugano
What comes to mind when you think of Switzerland? Yodelling? Fondue? Banks? Watches? Whatever you’re thinking about, Ticino probably didn’t cross your mind. Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland and is the only one in which Italian is the sole official language. Nicknamed “die Sonnentuche” (the sun pocket) by German-speaking Swiss people, it has the most hours of sunshine in all of Switzerland and is where Italian luxury meets Swiss efficiency. Over the summer, I visited the largest city in the canton, Lugano.
Getting There
While the city is served by an airport, Milan’s airports offer greater access to international destinations and are located 60 to 90 minutes away. By bus, you can get to Lugano by Flixbus if you’re coming from Milan, Turin or Munich or Postbus if you’re coming from somewhere else in Switzerland. Lugano rail station is served by Swiss Federal Railways that go to several northern Italian cities and elsewhere in Switzerland.
Getting Around
There is a bus service that goes all around the city and to several nearby towns but if you’re only planning to stay in the city, it is small enough to navigate on foot. Switzerland is an expensive place, so take any opportunity you can to save money!
Top Places to See
Lake Lugano (Lago di Lugano)
If you go to Lugano, this is pretty hard to miss. Lake Lugano is situated between two other well-known lakes (Lago Maggiore and Lago di Como) and straddles the Swiss-Italian border. The Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano (SNL) are one of a few companies that provide tourist boat services on the lake. You can visit other lakeside communities including the picturesque Gandria, home of the Swiss Customs Museum (Museo doganale svizzero) and the Italian excalve of Campione d’Italia, where you can find Europe’s largest casino. Many of these lakeside communes are only accessible by boat. The water temperatures in the lake can reach 24 degrees in the summer, which makes it perfect for a quick dip.
Old Town (Centro Storico)
Lugano’s Old Town is either a 10-minute walk downhill from the train station. You can walk down or take the funicular (CHF 10). The walk down is quite steep, so if you have trouble keeping control of your legs or if you’re carrying heavy luggage, I would suggest taking the funicular. Besides the numerous bars and cafés dotted around the place, the place (especially around the Piazza della Riforma) wandering around the maze of cobblestone streets is an adventure in itself. When you’re finished there, head down to the promenade along the lake, sit down and discover il dolce di far niente (the joy of doing nothing), something which the residents of Ticino are famous for.
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
The cathedral dates back to the 16th century and contains ornate frescoes and Baroque statues behind its Renaissance façade. Just outside it, you find some wonderful views of the Old Town and the lake.
Monte Brè
Located to the east of the city centre, Monte Brè is a small mountain that boasts a spectacular view of the bay of Lugano and the surrounding mountains. It is also one of the sunniest places in all of Switzerland. A funicular can get you up and down the mountain (CHF 16 one way, CHF 20 return). On the other side of mountain, you can find the village of Brè. The village is a fine example of traditional Ticinese architecture, even the traditional washing fountain, or “Lavatoio” is preserved to this day. From the top of the mountain, you can see some the most breathtaking views of Lake Lugano and the surrounding mountains.
Honourable Mentions
Lugano hosted the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. The venue in which it was held, Casino Lugano (formerly Teatro Kursaal), still stands today. The building today contains a casino and a restaurant.
Lugano also plays host to a number of festivals throughout the summer, including the LongLake Festival, one of the biggest open-air festivals in Switzerland. The festival runs from July to August and offers music, theatre, street art and street performance. More information can be found here:
Lugano and Ticino are often overlooked by tourists but it’s worth going. Even sitting down, taking it all in and enjoying il dolce di far niente is what it’s all about!
The beginning of the rest of this blog
See, I’m nice!
At the airport. Again
So much angst in one picture
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Passage Notes: Galápagos to Marquesas, Day 12
I'm on the early morning watch. It's about 4:30 a.m. My fingers smell like fish because as I was making a logbook entry down below, I heard another flying fish land in the cockpit. I went up and threw it overboard. I washed my hands but the fishy smell remains. We are currently sailing downwind, surfing quietly over the swells while clouds (of the non-threatening variety) scud overhead, illuminated by a three-quarters full moon.
The Trade Wind Reach
So far, this passage has been flying by. We have fallen into a rhythm of chores, naps, radio schedules, and watches, and one day flows seamlessly into the next. The sailing has required much less effort and concentration than on our passage from Mexico to the Galápagos, because the trade winds have kicked in and we found them immediately after leaving Isla Isabela. We were on a port tack for over a week after leaving Isabela! I wouldn't say we didn't touch the sails---like I've heard from other trade wind sailors---because we did have to reef and shake out reefs from the sails. However, we did not have to make sail changes and adjustments to the sail trim were minor. We are averaging 128 miles a day made good, with our lowest mileage being 107 miles; while our best day yet on Silhouette was 153 miles.
Time for Projects
Not having to work so hard at sailing has left us time for other projects, and we have accomplished some of the minor repairs and mini-boat projects on our ever-present list. And of course, there are the daily chores. I mentioned on our first passage that the reality of life at sea is different from what people imagine. "What do you do all day?" friends or family members might ask, picturing a lack of stimulation or boredom. "I'll bet you have a lot of time to read," they might suggest. People don't picture the endless daily tasks that life at sea actually involves: tasks like turning over three flats of unrefrigerated eggs every day or two in order to keep them fresh, or baking bread every few days so that you always have a supply; tasks like turning on the bilge pump on a daily basis to monitor the amount of water in the boat; tasks like inspecting the rigging for signs of chafe or towing a line against each side of the hull of the boat for an hour every day or so to discourage gooseneck barnacle growth. Doing the dishes, cooking, and maintaining the head all take longer than they do on land, due to the constant roll and heel of the boat. We do a limited amount of laundry at sea, but that also takes more time because it is done the old fashioned way: Wash and rinse cycles are done by hand in a bucket; then the laundry is hung with clothespins to dry on the boat's lifelines.
Boat Yoga
Now that I have lived on a boat for awhile, I have a good idea of how not to design a galley. While on a port tack, I frequently find myself in two positions in the galley due to poor design. One, I'll call the "mountaineer's stance;" the other, the "flamingo pose." I assume the mountaineer's stance when I am chopping or mixing things at the galley's small countertop above the refrigerator. I bend my forward knee into a lunge position and extend my other leg straight backwards in a brace. I lean into the counter like some big dogs lean into your legs. I do this to keep from falling backwards and losing all my work when the boat rolls. Our galley does have a cook's harness, but it's set up to secure the cook in front of the stove and not at the food preparation station. Another thing I've learned about living on a boat is that I seldom want to stand directly in front of a gimbaled (swinging) stove that often has boiling hot liquids on top of it. Go figure. Why don't we simply just move the cook's harness? It's on the list.
I assume the flamingo position while washing dishes. Silhouette's sink is to the port side as you come down the companionway and faces aft. On a port tack, I am constantly being thrown against the companionway bulkhead/rails. Facing the sink, I have to brace myself with my left leg; because that is the direction I am forced by the boat to lean. But guess what? The fresh water foot pump is also installed on the left side so that, in order to pump it (while continuing to brace myself with my left leg), I have to bend my right knee and cross it over my left leg, working the foot pump with the ball of my right foot. Fellow boat yoga enthusiasts, be advised that Flamingo Pose is for advanced practitioners!
Balancing Act
For his part, the maestro (Patrick) goes about his chores performing a delicate daily balancing act that keeps the boat going. He checks the output of the solar panels and decides when we need to run the engine to charge batteries and meet our power needs. For a sailboat, we use a surprising amount of energy. We use power to run laptops, lights (both cabin and running lights), a small refrigerator, fans, navigational instruments, the GPS chart plotter, the radar, camera and drill motor charging units, and even a coffee grinder. (We have a manual coffee grinder as a backup, but it takes up a lot of space and we have nowhere to leave it set up permanently.) We conserve by leaving these things switched off when not in use. If we were purists, we could do without a lot of these creature comforts altogether, but they make life easier, safer, and more comfortable out here, as well as provide us with a certain level of entertainment. We don't carry DVDs, but we do use our laptops to keep in touch with friends and family, as well as view navigational charts and download weather files, and we do occasionally listen to music with an i-Pod or use a Kindle to read on watch at night.
Patrick also checks the oil in the engine and decides when to add more, or when to transfer fuel from the jerry cans on deck or bilge fuel tank to the cockpit fuel tank. (That's not happening much on this leg because we're doing very little motoring; however, we used almost all our fuel on the way to the Galápagos.) We both keep an eye on the water tank gauges to determine when we need to use the water maker to make more fresh water from seawater in a process known as "reverse osmosis," a process which itself requires energy from our stores.
Part of the shipboard balancing act is keeping equipment from interfering with other equipment. The refrigerator interferes with the radio, so we turn the refrigerator off when sending or receiving information through the Pactor modem (and we're usually pretty good about turning it back on!) We've also learned that the electrical charge from the seawater pump in the galley interferes with the autopilot. If we have the autopilot on, we have to check it frequently if someone is rinsing or washing dishes---because it is likely to shut itself off---resulting in the boat veering off course.
Changes in Scenery
In my first post of this leg, I mentioned that this passage feels different without the land looming large to port. Other changes indicate that we are farther from land as well. We have completely lost the various species of boobies that accompanied us all the way from Mexico to the Galápagos. I saw one albatross shortly after leaving Isabela, but the only birds we see now are a variety of petrels and a white bird that looks like it's in the gull or tern family. After seeing no whales between Mexico and the Galápagos, we have seen several whale spouts, and I looked up from the cockpit the other day just in time to see a large fin or Sei whale traveling in the opposite direction as Silhouette. The whale was only about 300 feet from the boat, but I couldn't make a positive identification. All I could see was its long black back, falcate dorsal fin, and sizeable blow.
At night, new constellations appear in the sky. We have been seeing the Southern Cross since shortly before we crossed the Equator, but what surprises me about it is what a small constellation it is. I have always heard about seeing the Southern Cross when you reach the Southern hemisphere, and I was expecting a grand, sweeping constellation like Orion. The Southern Cross is demure; yet once you've identified it a single time, you cannot fail to spot it immediately the next, shining out from its berth in the night sky. The Southern Cross looks like the four points of a Christian cross without the cross-beams. To the west of it, an almost identical, yet larger constellation, "the false cross" appears. Not all of the Northern hemisphere constellations have disappeared, and on clear nights, Silhouette finds herself flanked by the mileposts of opposite hemispheres. On our current course, heading west, the Southern Cross, to the south, and the Big Dipper, to the north, shine above Silhouette's port and starboard sides, respectively, like silver medals on the shoulders of a highly decorated hero.
Fish Report
Polarized sunglasses are amazing. They help you see things more easily through the glare of the ocean's surface. Things like a piece of longline trailing behind your boat. Or like an entire school of fish swimming alongside your boat. What? That's right; I said an entire school of fish! One morning, I was staring at the mesmerizing blue of the water when I noticed a school of fish running along with the boat. From above the water, they appeared to be an iridescent purple with streaks of silver, although I'm sure their coloration probably looked much different out of the water. They had black fins. Their torpedo shape and forked tail probably placed them squarely within the tuna family. On this particular morning, Silhouette was moving very quickly---making 7 or 8 knots---with some help from the current, we suspected. The "torpedo fish" were simply rocketing alongside her.
We were already trolling at the time, but Patrick suggested I try my pole as well. I sprang into action and put the pole in the water. I tried every lure we had but did not get a single bite! The tuna feathers-and even a diving plug---were skipping maddeningly out of the water at Silhouette's high speed. It was so frustrating seeing dinner right there and not being able to catch it!
The fish stayed with the boat for an hour and a half and then suddenly, were gone. After a break for lunch, Patrick helped me add a weight to the trolling line, which still kept the tuna feather near---but just slightly below---the surface of the water. Late that afternoon, we were rewarded with our first Dorado! The Mahi mahi was a spectacular fish. As we brought it alongside, we noted its beautiful colors: an almost chartreuse yellow-green body and a royal blue fin dappled with specks of blue-green. Its brilliant colors faded sadly in death, like the courtesy flag of a sailboat that had stayed too long in a foreign country. Though no trophy fish in size, the edible portion of the Dorado was about two feet long from the back of its blunt, bulbous head to the beginning of the fork in its tail, and it provided us with two generous meals.
The next morning, the "torpedo fish" were back. But I was helping Patrick set up the spinnaker pole for a downwind run, and I couldn't take time out to put a trolling line in the water. Once the change in sail configuration was complete, the fish were gone.
We haven't seen them since, but we have caught three more Dorado, which appear to prefer the sunset bite. Our most recent catch was yesterday.
A Good Day at Sea
Yesterday was a good day at sea. Silhouette was rushing along in a deep aquamarine sea in an invigorating wind of 15-18 knots. White caps and white and gray puffy clouds accented the blues of sea and sky, while flying fish sprayed out to port and starboard sides. A ten foot swell lifted the boat, and from the top of a peak, you could see the lines of swells that had just passed under us, heading endlessly northwest. As the afternoon wore on, we were socked in by low clouds as the swells continued to march by.
I woke up from a nap at 5 p.m., ostensibly to cook dinner. "The wind's shifted more to the east," Patrick informed me from the cockpit. "We're heading almost dead downwind and we need to put up the pole." He had partially furled the headsail during my nap to quiet the wild roll on our port tack. We'd already been carrying a single reef in the main for two days and a night, so our speed had slowed considerably with the headsail now furled. I went up to help Patrick raise the spinnaker pole---which amounted to me standing by at the helm and handling the sheets, while he negotiated the unwieldy pole to the rail and raised it using the staysail halyard (we are having a chafe issue with the spinnaker halyard.) We sheeted out the headsail on the port side to sail wing and wing with the main. As I was heading down below to start dinner after the sail change had been squared away, I heard Patrick say, "What do you want to do about the fish?"
"We have a fish?" I turned to see him hauling in our trolling line. He handed the line over to me. It was our fourth Mahi mahi. Since the last two had "self-released" from the hook while we were debating whether or not to keep them (they were on the small side, though definitely big enough for dinner) ---and this one looked larger---I said decisively, "I want to keep it." I filleted the fish in the cockpit and put the cleaned fillets in a Tupperware for the next night. The sail change and fishing operation had delayed the start of dinner and night watches were approaching. I stuck to the quick taco menu I had in mind for that evening.
After dinner, the swell had gone down considerably, and the seas were smoothing out in the last of the sun's rays. As I stationed myself in the cockpit for my first watch, I was amazed by the panorama around me. To the east was a rainbow, set against the dark gray rain clouds that had helped create it. Off the starboard bow, a large school of dolphin was leaping high out of the waves in the sunset. Suddenly, to port, a behemoth of a fish flung itself six feet out of the water, somersaulting away from whatever was in pursuit of it like an expert in martial arts. It was a very good day at sea.
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1 comment:
1. Thanks, Kirsten. Again, beautifully written. I wonder what kind of fish the "behomoth" was? And, how big the fish behind it!?
I am always thrilled when I have my morning cup of coffee in hand, and I open your blog to find a new post. Keep them coming. I am going to forward your blog address to Holly. She requested it.
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Ian Fleming vs John le Carré
from Intelligence Squared
Dec 2, 2016
They are the titans of the spy novel, who have elevated thrillers to the level of literary fiction. Much imitated, much adapted by the big and small screens, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré have painted our picture of post-war espionage: Fleming through the dashing figure of James Bond, with his lush locations and Martinis as icy as his heart; Le Carré through his damning portrait of the British secret service drawn from his own time in MI5 and MI6. But which of the two novelists is the greater? ...more
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DoD tackles water scarcity
Jun. 26, 2013 - 06:00AM
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Scarcity of a resource as important as oil and as critical to military operations — fresh water — may be one of the most overlooked issues the Defense Department will face in coming years, DoD and outside experts say.
A Rand report commissioned by the Army and released this month identifies water scarcity as one of the key issues facing the Army in future years. The report said that the supply of water will continue to shrink around the world as population swell and climate change alters weather patterns and rainfall. This will lead to greater conflict as well as greater energy costs to transport and store water.
Since 1960, more than half of rivers and streams nationwide have shown significant volume changes and the report projects that in 2013 about 36 states will face water shortages because of drought, population growth and waste.
One recent example of the problem: On May 31, service members at Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii were reminded to restrict water use for activities such as showering, laundering and dishwashing because of a limited supply of water available on the island during the summer season. Two of the four deep wells that provide water to the installation are also in need of repair and may not work through the summer, according to the Army.
Water scarcity is also a big problem in the American Southwest where DoD has a substantial presence.
At the Army’s Fort Huachuca in Arizona, tight water restrictions mean that families can water their lawns only two months a year and only for two hours a day, two days a week. The installation has replaced grass with artificial turf in many areas to cut down on irrigation and has joined a 21-member organization made up of state and local partners to help manage water needs and maintain the supply of water to the area.
The frequency of prolonged droughts and water shortages only will continue to increase, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Droughts will proliferate in the American southwest as well, according to the study.
DoD says it has cut water use at its installations from 111 billion gallons in 2007 — about the annual water use of 1.1 million homes — to 90 billion gallons last year.
A 2009 executive order directs agencies to cut their potable water use by 26 percent by 2020 from a 2007 baseline. Agencies must also reduce industrial and irrigation water use by 20 percent by 2020 from a 2010 baseline.
DoD exceeded an interim target of a 16 percent reduction in potable water use by fiscal 2015 with a reduction of 18.6 percent in fiscal 2012.
Joseph Sikes, director of facilities energy and privatization at the Defense Department, said saving water also saves fuel needed to move water to facilities and personnel.
“If you are wasting water, you are wasting energy,” Sikes said.
“Water is a finite resource and, as there are more people, there will be greater demands for it,” said Beth Lachman, senior operations research analyst at Rand and lead author of the report.
The Army will need to analyze the water supply and political environment surrounding each of its installations in order to prepare for eventual water shortages, and it must direct greater attention to the problem of water scarcity, the report said. Lachman said the Army should work with local communities and state governments to carefully manage water resources and reduce water use as much as possible.
Sikes said DoD is tackling the issue through water-efficiency upgrades to its facilities, recycling existing water and promoting water-efficient technologies.
At Travis Air Force Base, Calif., officials are hoping to reduce their 748 million gallons of annual water use by 50 percent by 2020 by installing water-efficient fixtures and by reducing the amount of potable water available for landscaping. The installation will also train service members and civilians how to conserve water and energy throughout the installation.
Richard Kidd, the Army’s deputy assistant secretary for energy and sustainability, said reducing water use is not just about making the Army more effective, it is about establishing good relationships with local communities around its installations.
“If we consume water to the point that the local community has no access, then we are not establishing the proper relationship,” Kidd said.
Kidd said the Army also is targeting water use for irrigation — such as in its maintenance of golf courses — as areas where the Army can cut down potable water use. It is researching using “gray water” — or recycled water — that isn’t safe to drink but can be used to water plants or cool equipment. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd39247f5bcac366514b5d55c26173ada0ab8b7b74cfb6a1d61038d3380df200b'} |
Gopal Bhar
Gopal Bhand of Krishna Nagar was famous for his buffoonery act. He kept the people of Krishna Nagar laughter with his activities. This projects gets the maximum highlights on Bengali animation market. This project was awarded by ATN Kolkata in year 2003. Several news channels i,e Alfa Bangla, Etv, Akash Bangla, Taza khabar, CTVN etc. and news papers had reported on their media. It was telecasted On Akash Bangla for 230 episodes (22 mins. each). This was the highest G.R.P producing programme for that channel. Now it is showing on Sony Aath.
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The Tempest Act 5, Scene 1
The stage is reset. The curtain opens. Prospero and Ariel reenter the stage. Prospero says that his plans are coming to a climax. He asks Ariel how well the King and his followers are doing. Ariel recounts that they are distracted still by the earlier spectacle and that "If you now beheld them, your affections/ Would become tender." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 18 - 19. Prospero agrees with Ariel and continues to say that if he were a different kind of man, he would not be so forgiving of his transgressors:
"Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part. The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance."
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 25 - 28.
Prospero orders Ariel to retrieve the crew. Ariel exits the stage. Meanwhile, he calls out the spirits of the island to help him, pledging that with success he will give up magic. Solemn music starts playing and Ariel enters with Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian, Antonio, Adrian and Francisco. Prospero speaks, though he is not seen by them. He addresses each character, the noble Gonzalo, contriving Alonso and Alonso's brother Sebastian. Prospero commands Ariel to retrieve his hat and rapier. He returns singing and Prospero dresses. He promises Ariel his freedom again. The ship is still invisible with all its crew sleeping below the deck. Ariel exits and Prospero addresses the group, "Behold, sir King,/ The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero" Act 5, Scene 1, lines 107. He embraces Alonso and welcomes him. Alonso is amazed, but he does not quite believe that this is real. Nevertheless, he asks for forgiveness:
"I fear a madness held me. This must crave,
An if this be at all, a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
Be living, and be here?"
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 115 - 119.
Prospero embraces Gonzalo. Then he addresses Sebastian and Antonio as traitors. He calls his brother wicked and pledges to restore his own dukedom. Alonso asks him to tell the story of his survival on the island where he lost his own son. Prospero tells him that the loss of his son is not so grave because he, too, has lost his daughter. Alonso exclaims:
"A daughter?
O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
The King and Queen there! That they were, I wish
My self were mudded in that oozy bed
Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?"
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 148 - 152.
Prospero tells him that he lost his daughter in the last tempest. He tells the group that their senses must have been altered by the storm and he reveals Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess in a curtained-off part of the stage. The two have not been aware of what has been happening on the rest of the island. Ferdinand comes forward and kneels to his father, whom he assumed was dead. Alonso exclaims in joy and Miranda is also surprised by the spectacle:
"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!"
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 181 - 184.
Alonso asks his son who the girl is with whom he plays. Ferdinand tells his father that she is Prospero's daughter and that he has chosen her as his wife. Alonso says that this is all right. Gonzalo asks heaven for a blessing on the couple and asks "Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue/ Should become kings of Naples?" Act 5, Scene 1, lines 205 - 206. Alonso joins hands with the children and prays for their happiness. Ariel enters with the Master of the ship and the Boatswain. Gonzalo cries out:
"O look, sir, look, here is more of us!
I prophesied if a gallows were on land
This fellow could not drown. (To Boatswain) Now,
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on the shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?"
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 216 - 220.
The boatswain tells them that the ship is in fine condition. Ariel secretly tells Prospero that this is his doing. Alonso asks the Boatswain how this came to be. The boatswain recounts the events of the storm: they were all below deck thrashing about and suddenly they awoke to a clear sky and an ordered ship. Alonso is in disbelief. He questions Prospero, but Prospero admonishes him to not worry about it:
"Sir, my liege,
Do not infest your mind with beating on
The strangeness of this business. At picked leisure,
Which shall be shortly single, I'll resolve you,
Which to you shall seem probable, of every
These happened accidents; till then, be cheerful
And think of each thing well."
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 245 - 251
Prospero tells Ariel to set Caliban and the conspirators free. Ariel exits. The three enter the stage in their new found raiment. Sebastian and Antonio laugh at the scene and ask who these men are. Prospero explained that two of the men are from their ship. Alonso recognizes Stephano as his drunken butler. They poke fun at the trio and Prospero sends them away granting Caliban a pardon. Caliban accepts graciously:
"Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool!"
Act 5, Scene 1, lines 293 - 296
Prospero invites everyone back to his lodge for the night. He plans to leave in the morning and hold the wedding in Naples. He promises safe winds on the voyage home and tells Ariel that this is his last command. Prospero ends the play with his monologue. He says that his magic is over since he has his dukedom back. He asks for a soft wind to take him home and end his years of exile. The curtain falls on the final scene of the play.
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Challenge
Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) wanted to extend its innovative programs by providing students and teachers with easy-to-use online collaborative tools. Although the district already offered school-hosted email accounts and client productivity software, access to technology was limited, as was the use of online collaboration tools. Although students could connect to the district’s wireless network, they could not use software or tools without secure VPN access. Teachers were also struggling with different operating systems and software. They wanted to build a cohesive, collaborative learning community, so that students could work more easily with peers, and interact more productively with teachers.
"Several teachers have commented: Where has G Suite been all my career? And for many students, G Suite has resulted in improved learning and engagement."
Terry Korte, Technology integration planning coordinator
Solution
EPS ran a pilot program with G Suite for Education (formerly named Google Apps for Education), then slowly expanded the program. They found that it met and even exceeded their expectations, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Since moving to G Suite, collaboration has flourished across the district. Students and teachers are blogging about novels, working out math problems with Google Spreadsheets, sharing research projects and surveys using Google Docs, and creating sites with links, pictures, and videos with Google Sites. G Suite has also solved the issue of dealing with different operating systems and software across mobile devices. Sharing and collecting material is more seamless and efficient for teachers, who are also better able to track homework and assignments. Above all, G Suite has boosted student creativity and their enthusiasm for learning and collaborating.
Organization Profile
Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) in Alberta, Canada, is renowned for its innovations in education. The school district often hosts school district representatives from around the world who are hoping to learn from EPS as a model for success in public education. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '38e6294e05435bff560b5ebdd069b953082b376e4806aa10169258bf4dd18647'} |
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How to set flow variables from Process builder
I'm trying to launch one flow from process builder, but on selecting that flow from process builder I'm not able to set the flow variables.
Bascially set flow variable option is not coming for me in Process Builder.
A:
As dave said, make your variable as input or input/out.
As far as checking where the time-based processes are queued up for flows, on the flow page, where you view all your flows, go to the very bottom.
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\documentclass[12pt,reqno,alf-j-l]{article} \usepackage[usenames]{color} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{amscd} \usepackage{verbatim} %\usepackage{syntonly} %\usepackage{url} \urlstyle{sffont} \usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=webgreen, filecolor=webbrown, citecolor=webgreen]{hyperref} \definecolor{webgreen}{rgb}{0,.5,0} \definecolor{webbrown}{rgb}{.6,0,0} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{psfig} \usepackage{graphics,amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{latexsym} \usepackage{epsf} \usepackage{amsthm} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{.1in} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{.1in} \setlength{\topmargin}{-.5in} \setlength{\textheight}{8.9in} \newcommand{\seqnum}[1]{\href{http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/access.cgi/as/~njas/sequences/eisA.cgi?Anum=#1}{\underline{#1}}} \input AlfPreambleL \begin{document} \begin{center} \epsfxsize=4in \leavevmode\epsffile{logo129.eps} \end{center} \begin{center} \vskip 1cm{\LARGE\bf Elliptic Curves and Continued Fractions} \vskip 1cm \large Alfred J. van der Poorten\thanks{The author was supported in part by a grant from the Australian Research Council.} \\ Centre for Number Theory Research \\ 1 Bimbil Place \\ Killara, Sydney NSW 2071 \\ Australia\\ \href{mailto:alf@math.mq.edu.au}{\tt alf@math.mq.edu.au} \\ \end{center} \vskip .2 in \begin{abstract} We detail the continued fraction expansion of the square root of the general monic quartic polynomial, noting that each line of the expansion corresponds to addition of the divisor at infinity. We analyse the data yielded by the general expansion. In that way we obtain ``elliptic sequences'' satisfying Somos relations. I mention several new results on such sequences. The paper includes a detailed ``reminder exposition'' on continued fractions of quadratic irrationals in function fields. \end{abstract} %\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] %\newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}[section] %\newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[section] %\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}[section] % \documentclass{alf-j-l} %\usepackage{showkeys} %\syntaxonly % Comment out preceding line to produce output. %\input option_keys %\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\ensuremath{\fnsymbol{footnote}}} \def\ds{\displaystyle} %\theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} \newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition} %\newtheorem*{main}{Main Theorem} %\newtheorem*{theorem*}{Theorem} \newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary} %\newtheorem*{motivation}{Principal Motivation} %\theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition} \newtheorem{xca}[theorem]{Exercise} \newtheorem{Remark}{Remark} %\newtheorem*{Remark*}{Remark} %\newtheorem*{Remarks*}{Remarks} \newtheorem{Note}[Remark]{Note} \newtheorem{UsefulRemark}[theorem]{Useful Remark} \newtheorem{example}{Example} %\newtheorem*{example*}{Example} %\newtheorem*{guess*}{Guess} %\theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark} %\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example} %\newtheorem*{example*}{Example} %\newtheorem*{remark*}{Remark} %\newtheorem*{remarks*}{Remarks} %\theoremstyle{aside} %\newtheorem*{aside}{Aside} \newtheorem{note}{Note} %\newtheorem*{aside*}{Concluding Aside} \def\eqref#1{(\ref{#1})} %\def\ceNTRelogo{\relax} % Information for first author %\maketitle \section{Introduction} \noindent A delightful essay \cite{Za} by Don Zagier explains why the sequence $(B_h)_{h\in\Z}$, defined by $B_{-2}=1$, $B_{-1}=1$, $B_0=1$, $B_1=1$, $B_2=1$ and the recursion \begin{equation} \label{eq:Zagier} B_{h-2}B_{h+3}=B_{h+2} B_{h-1} + B_{h+1}B_{h}\,, \end{equation} consists only of integers. Zagier comments that ``the proof comes from the theory of elliptic curves, and can be expressed either in terms of the denominators of the co-ordinates of the multiples of a particular point on a particular elliptic curve, or in terms of special values of certain Jacobi theta functions.'' In the present note I study the \cfe\ of the square root of a quartic \poly, \emph{inter alia} obtaining sequences generated by recursions such as \eqref{eq:Zagier}. Here, however, it is clear that I have also constructed the co-ordinates of the shifted multiples of a point on a cubic curve and it is it fairly plain how to relate the surprising integer sequences and the curves from which they arise. A brief reminder exposition on \cf s in quadratic function fields appears as \S\ref{s:Rappels}, starting at page~\pageref{s:Rappels} below. It turns out that several of my results related to sequences \`a la \eqref{eq:Zagier} also appear in the recent thesis \cite{Sw} of Christine Swart; for further comment see \S\ref{s:Somos}. Michael Somos, see~\cite{Somos}, had \emph{inter~alia} asked for the inner meaning of the behaviour of the sequences $(B_h)$, above, and of $(C_h)$ defined by $C_{h-2}C_{h+2}=C_{h-1}C_{h+1}+C_{h}^2$ and $C_{-2}=1$, $C_{-1}=1$, $C_{0}=1$, $C_{1}=1$: of the sequences $5$-Somos \seqnum{A006720} and $4$-Somos \seqnum{A006721}. More generally, of course, one may both vary the initial values and coefficients and generalise the ``gap'' to $2m$ or $2m+1$ by studying Somos~$2m$ sequences, respectively Somos~$2m+1$ sequences, namely sequences satisfying the respective recursions $$ D_{h-m}D_{h+m}=\sum_{i=1}^m \kappa_iD_{h-m+i}D_{h+m-i} \text{\ or\ } D_{h-m}D_{h+m+1}=\sum_{i=1}^m \kappa_iD_{h-m+i}D_{h+m-i+1}\,. $$ I show in passing, a footnote on page~\pageref{page:satisfying}, that a Somos~$4$ is always a Somos~$6$, while Theorem~\ref{pr:2} points out it is always a Somos~$5$. After seeing~\cite{Sw}, I added a somewhat painful proof, Theorem~\ref{th:Somos8} on page~\pageref{th:Somos8}, that it is also always a Somos~$8$. For example, $4$-Somos satisfies all of \begin{align*} C_{h-3}C_{h+3}&=C_{h-1}C_{h+1}+5C_{h}^2\,,\\ C_{h-2}C_{h+3}&=-C_{h-1}C_{h+2}+5C_{h}C_{h+1}\,,\\ C_{h-4}C_{h+4}&=25C_{h-1}C_{h+1}-4C_{h}^2\,. \end{align*} In the light of such results one can be confident, see \S\ref{ss:singular}, page~\pageref{ss:singular}, that in general if $(A_h)$ is a Somos~$4$, equivalently an elliptic sequence satisfying $A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=W_2^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_1W_3A_{h}^2$, then for all $m$ both $$ W_1W_2A_{h-m}A_{h+m+1}=W_mW_{m+1}A_{h-1}A_{h+2}-W_{m-1}W_{m+2}A_{h}A_{h+1} $$ and $$ W_1^2A_{h-m}A_{h+m}=W_m^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_{m-1}W_{m+1}A_{h}^2\,. $$ \section{Continued Fraction Expansion of the Square Root of a Quartic} \label{s:cfe} \noindent We suppose the base field $\F$ is not of characteristic~$2$ because that case requires nontrivial changes throughout the exposition and not of characteristic~$3$ because that requires some trivial changes to parts of the exposition. We study the \cfe\ of a quartic \poly\ $D\in\F[X]$; where $D$ is not a square and for convenience suppose $D$ to be monic and with zero trace. Set \begin{equation} \label{eq:C} \mathcal C: Y^2=D(X):=(X^2+f)^2+4v(X-w), \end{equation} and for brevity write $A=X^2+f$ and $R=v(X-w)$. Set $\conj Y$ for the conjugate $-Y$ of $Y$. For $h=0$, $1$, $2$, $\ldots\,$ we denote the \cq s of $Y_0$ by \begin{equation} \label{eq:notation} Y_h=(Y+A+2e_h)/v_h(X-w_h)\,, \end{equation} noting that\footnote{Conditions apply. For instance we must choose the constants $e_0$ and $w_0$ so that $X-w_0$ divides the norm $(Y+A+2e_0)(\conj Y+A+2e_0)$ of its numerator. See page~\pageref{page:ideal} for more details.\endgraf Note also that I presume that the $v_h$, equivalently the $e_h$, all are nonzero. See comments in \S\ref{ss:singular}, page~\pageref{ss:singular} on the ``singular case''.} the $Y_h$ all are reduced, namely $\deg Y_h\gt0$ but $\deg \conj Y_h\lt0$. The upshot is that the $h$-th line of the \cfe\ of $Y_0$ satisfies $$ \frac{Y+A+2e_h}{v_h(X-w_h)}=\frac{2(X+w_h)}{v_h} - \frac{\conj Y+A+2e_{h+1}}{v_h(X-w_h)}\,. $$ Thus evident recursion formulas, see \eqref{eq:quadratic} at page~\pageref{eq:quadratic}, yield \begin{equation} \label{eq:e} f+e_h+e_{h+1}=-w_h^2 \end{equation} and $-v_hv_{h+1}(X-w_h)(X-w_{h+1})=(Y+A+2e_{h+1})(\conj Y+A+2e_{h+1})$. Hence \begin{equation} \label{eq:Q} v_hv_{h+1}(X-w_h)(X-w_{h+1})=-4(X^2+f+e_{h+1})e_{h+1}+4v(X-w). \end{equation} Equating coefficients in \eqref{eq:Q}, and then dividing by $-4e_{h+1}=v_hv_{h+1}$, we get \begin{align} \label{eq:X2} -4e_{h+1}&=v_hv_{h+1}\,; \tag*{$X^2$:} \\ \label{eq:X1} v/e_{h+1}&=w_h+w_{h+1}\,; \tag*{$X^1$:} \\ \label{eq:X0} f+e_{h+1}+vw/e_{h+1}&=w_hw_{h+1}\,. \tag*{$X^0$:} \end{align} The five displayed equations immediately above readily lead by several routes to \begin{equation}\label{eq:critical} e_he_{h+1}=v(w-w_h)\,. \end{equation} For example, apply the remainder theorem to the right hand side of \eqref{eq:Q} after noting it is divisible by $X-w_h$, and recall \eqref{eq:e}. \begin{theorem}\label{pr:1} Denote the two points at infinity on the quartic curve ~\eqref{eq:C} by $S$ and $O$, with $O$ the zero of its group law. The points $M_{h+1}:=(w_h,e_h-e_{h+1})$ all lie on~$\mathcal C$. Set $M_1=M$, and $M_{h+1}=:M+S_h$. Then $S_h=hS$. \end{theorem} \begin{proof} The points $M_{h+1}$ lie on the curve $\mathcal C:Y^2=D(X)$ because \begin{multline*} (e_h-e_{h+1})^2-(w_h^2+f)^2 =\bigl(e_h-(e_{h+1}+w_h^2+f)\bigr)\bigl((e_{h}+w_h^2+f)-e_{h+1}\bigr)\\ =-4e_{h}e_{h+1}=4v(w_h-w)\,. \end{multline*} The birational transformations \begin{equation}\label{eq:XY} X=\bigl(V-v\bigr)\big/U,\qquad Y=2U-(X^2+f)\,; \end{equation} conversely, \begin{equation}\label{eq:UV} 2U= Y+X^2+f\,,\qquad 2V= XY+X^3+fX+2v\,, \end{equation} move the point $S$ to $(0,0)$, leave $O$ at infinity, and change the quartic model to a Weierstrass\ model \begin{equation} \label{eq:Weierstrass} \mathcal W: V^2-vV=U^3-fU^2+vwU\,. \end{equation} Specifically, one sees that $U(M_{h+1})=-e_{h+1}$, and $V(M_{h+1})=v-w_he_{h+1}$. We also note that $U(-M_{h+1})=-e_{h+1}$, $V(-M_{h+1})=w_he_{h+1}$. To check $S+(M+S_{h-1})=M+S_{h}$ on $\mathcal W$ it suffices for us to show that the three points $(0,0)$, $(-e_{h}, v-w_{h-1}e_{h})$, and $(-e_{h+1}, w_{h}e_{h+1})$ lie on a straight line. But that is $(v-w_{h-1}e_{h})/e_{h}=w_{h}$. So $w_{h-1}+w_{h}=v/e_{h}$ proves the claim. \end{proof} One might view the preceding discussion culminating in Theorem~\ref{pr:1} as making explicit the argument of Adams and Razar \cite{AR}. \section{Elliptic sequences} \begin{theorem} \label{pr:2} Let $(A_h)$ be the sequence defined by the ``initial'' values $A_0$, $A_1$ and the recursive definition \begin{equation} \label{eq:elkies} A_{h-1}A_{h+1}=e_hA_h^2\,. \end{equation} Then, given $A_0$, $A_1$, $A_2$, $A_3$, $A_4$ satisfying \eqref{eq:elkies}, the recursive definition \begin{equation} \label{eq:even} A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=v^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}+v^2(f+w^2)A_h^2 \end{equation} defines the same sequence as does \eqref{eq:elkies}. Just so, also \begin{equation} \label{eq:odd} A_{h-2}A_{h+3}=-v^2(f+w^2)A_{h-1}A_{h+2}+v^3\bigl(v+2w(f+w^2)\bigr)A_{h}A_{h+1} \end{equation} defines that sequence. \end{theorem} \begin{proof} By \eqref{eq:critical} we obtain \begin{multline*} e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}=v^2(w-w_{h-1})(w-w_{h}) \\ =v^2(w_{h-1}w_h-w(w_{h-1}+w_h)+w^2)=v^2\left((f+e_h+vw/e_h)-w\cdot (v/e_h)+w^2\right). \end{multline*} Thus \begin{equation} \label{eq:vital} e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}=v^2\left(e_h+(f+w^2)\right). \end{equation} However, $A_{h-1}A_{h+1}=e_hA_h^2$ entails $$ A_{h-2}A_{h}A_{h-1}A_{h+1}A_{h}A_{h+2} =e_{h-1}e_he_{h+1}A_{h-1}^2A_{h}^2A_{h+1}^2\,, $$ and so $A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=e_{h-1}e_he_{h+1}A_{h-1}A_{h+1}$, which is \begin{equation} \label{eq:Aeven} A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}A_h^2\,. \end{equation} On multiplying \eqref{eq:vital} by $A_h^2$ we obtain \eqref{eq:even}. Similarly \eqref{eq:elkies} yields $A_{h-1}A_{h+1}A_{h}A_{h+2}=e_he_{h+1}A_h^2A_{h+1}^2$, and so \begin{equation} \label{eq:odd1} A_{h-1}A_{h+2}=e_he_{h+1}A_hA_{h+1}\,. \end{equation} It follows readily that \begin{equation} \label{eq:odd2} A_{h-2}A_{h+3}=e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}^2e_{h+2}A_hA_{h+1}\,. \end{equation} Moreover, \eqref{eq:vital} implies that \begin{equation*} e_{h-1}e_h^3e_{h+1}^3e_{h+2}=v^4\left(e_he_{h+1}+ (f+w^2)(e_h+e_{h+1})+(f+w^2)^2\right)\,. \end{equation*} However, by \eqref{eq:e} we know that $v^2\left(e_h+e_{h+1}+f+w^2\right)=v^2(w^2-w_h^2)$. Here $v(w-w_h)=e_he_{h+1}$ and $v(w+w_h)=-v(w-w_h)+2vw=-e_he_{h+1}+2vw$. So \begin{equation} \label{eq:odde} e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}^2e_{h+2}=v^2\left(-(f+w^2)e_he_{h+1}+v^2+2vw(f+w^2)\right), \end{equation} which immediately allows us to see that also \eqref{eq:odd} yields the sequence $(A_h)$. \end{proof} The extraordinary feature of the identities \eqref{eq:vital} and \eqref{eq:odde} is their independence of the translation $M$: thus of the initial data $v_0$, $w_0$, and $e_0$. \subsection{Two-sided infinite sequences} It is plain that the various definitions of the \emph{elliptic sequence} $(A_h)$ encourage one to think of it as bidirectional infinite. Indeed, albeit that one does feel a need to start a \cfe\ --- so one conventionally begins it at $Y_0$, one is not stopped from thinking of the tableau listing the lines of the \ex\ as being two-sided infinite; note the remark at the end of \S~\ref{ss:cfe}, page~\pageref{page:two-sided}. In summary: we may and should view the various sequences $(e_h)$, $\ldots\,$, defined above, as two-sided infinite sequences. \label{page:extraordinary} \subsection{Vanishing} If say $v_k=0$, then line~$k$ of the \cfe\ of $Y_0$ makes no sense both because the denominator $Q_k(X):=v_k(X-w_k)$ of the \cq\ $Y_k$ seems to vanish identically and because the alleged \pq\ $a_k:=2(X+w_k)/v_k$ blows up. The second difficulty is real. The vanishing of $v_k$ entails a \pq\ blowing up to higher degree. We deal with vanishing by refusing to look at it. We move the point of impact of the issue by dismissing most of the data we have obtained, including the \cf\ tableau, and keep only a part of the sequence $(e_h)$. That makes the first difficulty moot.\footnote{In any case, the first apparent difficulty is just an artifact of our notation. If, from the start, we had written $Q_h=v_hX+y_h$, as we might well have done at the cost of nasty fractions in our formulas, we would not have entertained the thought that $v_k=0$ entails $y_k=0$. Plainly, we must allow $v_k=0$ yet $v_kw_k\ne0$. Note, exercise, that $v_k(X-w_k)$ never does vanish identically.} \begin{remark} {\rm There is no loss of generality in taking $k=0$. Then, up to an otherwise irrelevant normalisation, $Y_0=Y+A$. If more than one of the $v_h$ vanish then it is a simple exercise to confirm that the \cfe\ of $Y+A$ necessarily is purely periodic, see the discussion at page~\pageref{page:quasiperiodic}. If $Y_0$ does not have a periodic \cfe\ then there is some $h_0$, namely $h_0=0$, so that, for all $h\gt h_0$, line~$h$ of the \ex\ of $Y_0$ does make sense.} \end{remark} Except of course when dealing explicitly with periodicity, we suppose in the sequel that if $v_k=0$ then $k=0$; we refer to this case as the \emph{singular} case. \subsection{The singular case} \label{ss:singular} We remark that in the singular case the sequence $(e_h)_{h\ge1}$ defines antisymmetric double-sided sequences $(W_h)$, that is with $W_{-h}=-W_h$, by $W_{h-1}W_{h+1}=e_hW_h^2$ and so that, for all integers $h$, $m$, and $n$, \begin{equation} \label{eq:redundant'} W_{h-m}W_{h+m}W_n^2+W_{n-h}W_{n+h}W_m^2 +W_{m-n}W_{m+n}W_h^2=0\,.\tag{\ref{eq:redundant}$'$} \end{equation} Actually, one may find it preferable to forego an insistence on antisymmetry in favour of rewriting \eqref{eq:redundant'} less elegantly as \begin{equation} \label{eq:redundant} W_{h-m}W_{h+m}W_n^2=W_{h-n}W_{h+n}W_m^2 - W_{m-n}W_{m+n}W_h^2\,, \end{equation} just for $h\ge m\ge n$. In any case, \eqref{eq:redundant} seems more dramatic than it is. An easy exercise confirms that, if $W_1=1$,~\eqref{eq:redundant} is equivalent to just \begin{equation} \label{eq:general} W_{h-m}W_{h+m}=W_m^2 W_{h-1}W_{h+1} -W_{m-1}W_{m+1}W_h^2 \end{equation} for all integers $h\ge m$. Indeed, \eqref{eq:general} is just a special case of \eqref{eq:redundant}. However, given~\eqref{eq:general}, obvious substitutions in \eqref{eq:redundant} quickly show one may return from \eqref{eq:general} to the apparently more general \eqref{eq:redundant}. But there is a drama here. As already remarked in a near identical situation, the recurrence relation $W_{h-2}W_{h+2}=W_2^2 W_{h-1}W_{h+1} -W_{1}W_{3}W_h^2$, and four nonzero initial values, already suffices to produce $(W_h)$. Thus \eqref{eq:general} for all $m$ is apparently entailed by its special case $m=2$. I can show this directly\label{page:Somos6}\footnote{Plainly $e_{h-2}e_{h-1}^2e_{h}^3e_{h+1}^2e_{h+2}\cdot e_{h}=v^4\bigl(e_{h-1}+(f+w^2)\bigr) \bigl(e_{h+1}+(f+w^2)\bigr)e_h^2$. Now notice that $(e_{h-1}e_{h}+e_{h}e_{h+1})e_{h}=v(w-w_{h-1}+w-w_h)e_h=2vwe_h-v^2$ and recall that $e_{h-1}e_{h}^2e_{h+1}=v^2\bigl(e_{h}+(f+w^2)\bigr)$. The upshot is a miraculous cancellation yielding $$ e_{h-2}e_{h-1}^2e_{h}^3e_{h+1}^2e_{h+2}\cdot e_{h}=v^4\bigl((f+w^2)^2e_h^2+v(v+2w(f+w^2))e_h\bigr) $$ and allowing us to divide by the auxiliary $e_h$. Thus the bottom line is $$ A_{h-3}A_{h+3}=v^4\bigl((f+w^2)^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}+v(v+2w(f+w^2))A_{h}^2\bigr), $$ which is $A_{h-3}A_{h+3}=W_3^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_2W_4A_{h}^2$.}, by way of new relations on the $e_h$, for $m=3$. But the case $m=4$ already did not seem worth the effort. Whatever, my approach gave me no hint as to how to concoct an inductive argument leading to general $m$. Plan B, to look it up, fared little better. In her thesis \cite{Shi}, Rachel Shipsey shyly refers the reader back to Morgan Ward's opus \cite{Wa}; but Ward does not comment on the matter at all, having \emph{defined} his sequences by \eqref{eq:general}. Well, perhaps Ward does comment. The issue is whether \eqref{eq:general} is coherent: do different $m$ yield the one sequence? Ward notes that if $\sigma$ is the Weierstra\ss\ $\sigma$-function then a sequence $\bigl(\sigma(hu)/\sigma(u)^{h^2}\,\bigr)$ satisfies \eqref{eq:general} for all $m$. Whatever, a much more direct argument would be much more satisfying.\footnote{For additional remarks, and a dissatisfying proof for the case $m=4$, see \S\ref{ss:Somos8} on page~\pageref{ss:Somos8}.\endgraf Note Added in Proof: Christine Swart and the author have recently succeeded in applying the ideas of her thesis and of this paper to obtain a succinct inductive proof (thus, a much more satisfying direct argument) of the conjectures hinted at in \S\ref{ss:singular}, and stated at the end of \S1.}\label{page:satisfying} Theorem~\ref{pr:2} shows that certainly $W_{h-2}W_{h+2}=W_2^2 W_{h-1}W_{h+1} -W_{1}W_{3}W_h^2$ for $h=1$, $2$, $\ldots\,$, in which case \eqref{eq:general} apparently follows by arguments in \cite{Wa} and anti-symmetry; \eqref{eq:redundant} is then just an easy exercise. Up to multiplying the \ex\ by a constant, the singular case is initiated by $v_1=4v$, $w_1=w$, $e_1=0$, $e_2=-(f+w^2)$. For temporary convenience set $x=v/(f+w^2)$. From the original \cfe\ of $Y+A$ or, better, the recursion formulas of page~\pageref{eq:e}, we fairly readily obtain $v_2=1/x$, $w_2=w-x$, $e_3=-x(x+2w)$, $e_4=v(x^2(x+2w)-v)/x^2(x+2w)^2$. We are now free to choose, say $W_1=1$, $W_2=v$, leading to $W_3=-v^2(f+w^2)$, $W_4=-v^4\bigl(v+2w(f+w^2)\bigr)$, $W_5=-v^6\bigl(v(v+2w(f+w^2))-(f+w^2)^3\bigr)$, $\ldots\,$. \label{page:oops} That allows us to notice that \eqref{eq:odd} apparently is $$ W_1W_2A_{h-2}A_{h+3}=W_2W_3A_{h-1}A_{h+2}-W_1W_4A_{h}A_{h+1} $$ and that \eqref{eq:even} of course is $$ A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=W_2^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_1W_3A_{h}^2\,. $$ Given that also $A_{h-3}A_{h+3}=W_3^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_2W_4A_{h}^2$, it is of course tempting to guess that more is true. Certainly, more \emph{is} true in the special case $(A_h)=(W_h)$, that's the point of the discussion above. Moreover, the same ``more'' is true, see for example \cite[Theorem~8.1.2, p.\,191]{Sw}, for sequence translates: thus $(A_h)=(W_{h+k})$.\label{page:more} \subsection{Elliptic divisibility sequences}\label{ss:eds} Recall that in the singular case and for $h=1$, $2$, $\ldots\,$ the $-e_h$ are in fact the $U$ co-ordinates of the multiples $hS$ of the point $S=(0,0)$ on the curve %\eqref{eq:Weierstrass}, $V^2-vV=U^3-fU^2+vwU$. Suppose we are working in the ring $Z=\Z[f, v, vw]$ of ``integers''. If $\gcd(v,vw)=1$, so the exact denominator of the ``rational'' $w$ is $v$, then our choices $W_1=1$, $W_2=v$ lead the definition $W_{h-1}W_{h+1}=e_hW_h^2$ to be such that $W_h^2$ is always the exact denominator of the ``rational'' $e_h$. It is this that is shown in detail by Rachel Shipsey \cite{Shi}. In particular it follows that $(W_h)$ is an elliptic divisibility sequence as described by Ward \cite{Wa}. A convenient recent introductory reference is Chapter~10 of the book \cite{EPSW}. Set $hS=(U_h/W_h^2, V_h/W_h^3)$, thus defining sequences $(U_h)$, $(V_h)$, and $(W_h)$ of integers, with $W_h$ chosen minimally. Shipsey notices, provided that indeed $\gcd(v,vw)=1$, that $\gcd(U_h,V_h)=W_{h-1}$ and $W_{h-1}W_{h+1}=-U_h$. Here, I have used this last fact to define the sequence $(W_h)$. Starting, in effect, from the definition \eqref{eq:redundant}, Ward \cite{Wa} shows that with $W_0=0$, $W_1=1$, and $W_2\Div W_4$, the sequence $(W_h)$ is a \emph{divisibility sequence}; that is, if $a\Div b$ then $W_a\Div W_b$. A little more is true. If also $\gcd(W_3,W_4)=1$ then in fact $\gcd(W_a,W_b)=W_{\gcd(a,b)}$. On the other hand, a prime dividing both $W_3$ and $W_4$ divides $W_h$ for all $h\ge3$. \subsection{Quasi-periodicity of the \cfe} Suppose now that the sequence $(W_h)$ has a zero additional to its zero $W_0=0$. From the \cfe\ and, say, \cite{163}, we find that $v=0$ (but $w'=vw\ne0$ if our curve is to be elliptic) is the case of the \cf\ having quasi-period $r=1$ and the divisor at infinity on the curve having torsion $m=2$. Just so, $f+w^2=0$, thus $W_3=0$, signals $r=2$ and $m=3$, and $x+2w=0$, or $W_4=0$, is $r=3$ and $m=4$. And so on; for more see \cite{163}. In summary, $m\gt0$ is minimal with $W_m=0$ if and only if the \cfe\ of, say, $Z=\frac12(Y+A)$ has a minimal quasi-period of length $r=m-1$. \begin{note}\label{a:aside} {\rm It has been suggested in my hearing that ``Mathematics is the study of degeneracy''. Given that slogan, it is equivalent to $W_m=0$ that the sequence $(e_h)$ be periodic with period~$m$. However, recall that $W_0=0$ and $W_{\pm1}=\pm1$ entails $e_0$ must be infinite. Just so then, $W_m=0$ entails $e_m$ infinite and $e_{m+1}=0$. It also follows, see \S\ref{s:Rappels}, that the word $\cCF{e_1\\e_2\\\cdots\\e_{m-1}}$ is a palindrome. Note that, in effect, we define $(W_h)$ by way of antisymmetry, its initial values $W_1=1$, $W_2$, $W_{1}W_{3}=e_2W_{2}^2$, $W_{2}W_{4}=e_3W_{3}^2$, and the recurrence relation $W_{h-2}W_{h+2}=W_{2}^2W_{h-1}W_{h+1}-W_1W_{3}W_{h}^2$ --- plainly that relation allows us to ``jump over'' zeros of the sequence. Note that, in contrast, Christine Swart~\cite{Sw} declares her elliptic sequences as undefined beyond a~$0$. As for the singular \cfe, our notation has us set $Z_1:=-Z/v(X-w)$. In consequence, we are committed to the line $Z=A-\conj Z$ in effect functioning as the \emph{pair of} lines~$m-1$ and $m$; just so then it must also be the pair of lines~$\ov 1$ and $0$. These matters are no great issue here; but they will matter in generalising the present work to hyperelliptic curves of higher genus. The periodicity of $(e_h)$ is necessary, but not at all sufficient for the periodicity of $(W_h)$. Indeed, Ward~\cite{Wa} shows and one fairly readily confirms that precisely the periods $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$, $8$, or $10$ are possible for an integral elliptic divisibility sequence defined by \eqref{eq:general}. \smallskip } \end{note} %\subsection{Generalised Somos sequences} \section{Examples} \subsection{}\label{ss:1} Consider the curve $\mathcal C:Y^2=(X^2-29)^2-4\cdot48(X+5)$; here a corresponding cubic model is $\mathcal E: V^2+48V=U^3+29U^2+240U$. Set $A=X^2-29$. The first several preceding and succeeding steps in the \cfe\ of $Y_0=(Y+A+16)/8(X+3)$ are\footnote{Here my choice of $v_0=8$ is arbitrary but not at random.} \begin{align} \frac{Y+A+18}{16(X+2)/3}&=\frac{X-2}{8/3}-\frac{\conj Y+A+32}{16(X+2)/3} \tag*{line $\conj3:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+32}{12(X+1)}&=\frac{X-1}{6}-\frac{\conj Y+A+24}{12(X+1)} \tag*{line $\conj2:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+24}{4(X+3)}&=\frac{X-3}{2}-\frac{\conj Y+A+16}{4(X+3)} \tag*{line $\conj1:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+16}{8(X+3)}&=\frac{X-3}{4}-\frac{\conj Y+A+24}{8(X+3)} \tag*{line $0:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+24}{6(X+1)}&=\frac{X-1}{3}-\frac{\conj Y+A+32}{6(X+1)} \tag*{line $1:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+32}{32(X+2)/3}&=\frac{X-2}{16/3}-\frac{\conj Y+A+18}{32(X+2)/3} \tag*{line $2:$}\\ \frac{Y+A+18}{9(3X+10)/8}&=\;\cdots \tag*{} \end{align} where elegance has suggested we write ``line $\conj h$'' as short for ``line $-h$''. The feature motivating this example is the six integral points $(-2,\pm7)$, $(-1,\pm4)$, and $(-3,\pm4)$ on $\mathcal C$. With $M_{\mathcal C}=(-3,4)$ and $S_{\mathcal C}$ the ``other'' point at infinity these are in fact the six points $M_{\mathcal C}+hS_{\mathcal C}$ for $h=-3$, $-2$, $-1$, $0$, $1$, and $2$. Correspondingly, on $\mathcal E$ we have the integral points $M+2S=(-16,-32)$ and $M-2S=(-16,-16)$, $M-S=(-12,-36)$ and $M+S=(-12,-12)$; here $M=M_{\mathcal E}=(-8,-24)$; $S=S_{\mathcal E}=(0,0)$. Of course $\mathcal E$ is not minimal; nor, for that matter was $\mathcal C$. In fact the replacements $X\leftarrow 2X+1$, $Y\leftarrow 4Y$ yield \begin{equation}\label{eq:min} Y^2=(X^2+X-7)^2-4\cdot6(X+3)\,, \end{equation} correctly suggesting we need a more general treatment than that presented in the discussion above. It turns out to be enough for present purposes to replace $e_h\leftarrow 4e_h$ obtaining $$\dots\,,\; e_{-3}=\tfrac{9}{4},\; e_{-2}=4,\; e_{-1}=3,\; e_{0}=2,\; e_{1}=3,\; e_{2}=4,\; e_{3}=\tfrac{9}{4},\;\ldots\;. $$ Then $A_0=1$, $A_1=1$ and $$A_{h-1}A_{h+1}=e_hA_h^2 $$ yields the sequence $\ldots\,$, $A_{-4}=2^53^5$, $A_{-3}=2^53^2$, $A_{-2}=2^33$, $A_{-1}=2$, $A_{0}=1$, $A_{1}=1$, $A_{2}=3$, $A_{3}=2^23^2$, $A_{4}=2^23^5$, $\ldots\,$. Notice that we're hit for six\footnote{My remark is guided by knowing that $V^2+UV+6V=U^3+7U^2+12U$ is a minimal model for $\mathcal E$, and noticing that $\gcd(6, 12)=6$. Notice too that $6^2$ divides the discriminant of this model.} by increasingly high powers of primes dividing $6$ appearing as factors of the $A_h$. However, we know that \eqref{eq:odd} derives from \eqref{eq:odde}. With the original $e_h$s divided by $4$ that yields \begin{equation*} A_{h-2}A_{h+3}=6^2A_{h-1}A_{h+2}+6^3A_{h}A_{h+1}\,. \end{equation*} Remarkably, one may remove the effect of the $6$ by renormalising to a sequence $(B_h)$ of integers satisfying $$ B_{h-2}B_{h+3}=B_{h-1}B_{h+2}+B_{h}B_{h+1}\,. $$ Specifically, $\ldots\,$, $B_{-4}=3$, $B_{-3}=2$, $B_{-2}=1$, $B_{-1}=1$, $B_{0}=1$, $B_{1}=1$, $B_{2}=1$, $B_{3}=2$, $B_{4}=3$, $B_{5}=5$, $B_{6}=11$, $B_{7}=37$, $B_{8}=83$, $\ldots\,$, and the sequence is symmetric about $B={0}$. Interestingly, the choice of each $B_h$ as a divisor of $A_h$ is forced, in the present case by the data $A_0=A_1=1$ and the decision that the coefficient of $B_hB_{h+1}$ be $1$. Of course it is straightforward to verify that $A_{h-2}A_{h+3}$ is always divisible by $6^3$ and $A_{h-1}A_{h+2}$ always by $6$. For a different treatment see \S\ref{ss:4} below. \subsection{} %Set $\mathcal C:Y^2=X^4+4(X+1)$. Take $v=\pm1$ and $f+w^2=1$. Thus, by \eqref{eq:vital}, $e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}=e_h+1$ and so $e_0=1$, $e_1=1$ yields the sequence $\ldots\,$, $2$, $1$, $1$, $2$, $3/4$, ${14}/{9}$, $\ldots\,$, of values of $e_h$. As explained above, with $C_0=1$ and $C_1=1$, the definition $C_{h-1}C_{h+1}=e_hC_h^2$ yields the symmetric sequence $\ldots\,$, $2$, $1$, $1$, $1$, $1$, $2$, $3$, $7$, $23$, $59$, $\ldots\,$, of values of $C_h$ satisfying the recursion $$C_{h-2}C_{h+2}=C_{h-1}C_{h+1}+C_h^2\,. $$ Set $Y^2=A^2+4v(X-w)$, where $A=X^2+f$. Then the recursion for $(C_h)$ entails $v^2=1$ and $f+w^2=1$. Plainly, one can get four consecutive values $1$ in a sequence $(C_h)$ only by having two consecutive values $1$ in the corresponding sequence $(e_h)$. Thus \eqref{eq:e} yields $f+2=-w_0^2$ and then $f+w^2=1$ entails $w^2-w_0^2=3$. Hence $w^2=4$ and $f=-3$. The identity \eqref{eq:critical} implies $vw$ is positive. So $v=\pm1$, $w=\pm2$, $f=-3$. Up to $X\gets -X$, the sequence $(C_h)$ is given by the curve $\mathcal C: Y^2=(X^2-3)^2+4(X-2)$ and its points $M_{\mathcal C}+hS_{\mathcal C}$, $M_{\mathcal C}=(1,0)$, $S_{\mathcal C}$ the ``other point'' at infinity; equivalently by $$\mathcal E:V^2-V=U^3+3U^2+2U \quad\text{with $M=(-1,1)$, $S=(0,0)$}. $$ Indeed, $M+S=(-1,0)$, $M+2S=(-2,1)$, $M+3S=(-3/4,3/8)$, $\ldots\,$. Note that it is impossible to have three consecutive values $1$ in the sequence $(e_h)$ if also $v=\pm1$, except for trivial periodic cases, so the hoo-ha of the example at \S\ref{ss:1} above is in a sense unavoidable. \subsection{Remarks}\label{ss:3} The two examples get a rather woolly treatment in \cite{Sp} and its preceding discussion; see \cite{Somos} for context. Before seeing \cite{Sw} I had also remarked that ``the observation that a twist $V^2-vV=dU^3-fU^2+vwU$ becomes $V^2-dvV=U^3-fU^2+dvwU$ by $U\gets dU$, $V\gets dV$ allows one to presume $v=\pm1$. A suitable choice of $e_0$, $e_1$ and $A_0$, $A_1$ should now allow one to duplicate the result claimed in \cite{Sp} in somewhat less brutal form." Namely, one wishes to obtain elliptic curves yielding a sequence $(A_h)$ with nominated $A_{-1}$, $A_0$, $A_1$, $A_2$ and such that $A_{h-2}A_{h+2}=\kappa A_{h-1}A_{h+1}+\lambda A_h^2$; only the cases $\kappa$ not a square are at issue. In fact, this issue is dealt with by Christine Swart at \cite[p.\,153\emph{ff}]{Sw} in more straightforward fashion than I had in mind. In very brief, if $A_{h-1}A_{h+1}=e_hA_h^2$, then $$B_h=\kappa^{\frac12h(h+1)}A_h \quad\text{entails}\quad B_{h-1}B_{h+1}= \kappa e_hB_h^2\,, $$ and so $B_{h-2}B_{h+2}=(1/\kappa)^2 B_{h-1}B_{h+1}+(\lambda/\kappa^4) B_h^2$. Yet more simply, one may remark that there always is an elliptic curve defined over the base field with $\sqrt{\kappa}$ adjoined; that is, over a quadratic twist --- exactly as I had mooted. \subsection{Reprise}\label{ss:4} It seems appropriate to return to the example of \S\ref{ss:1} so as to \emph{discover} the elliptic curve giving rise to $(B_h)=(\ldots, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, \ldots)$, given that $B_{h-2}B_{h+3}=B_{h-1}B_{h+2}+B_{h}B_{h+1}$. Recall we expect the squares of the integers $B_h$ to be the precise denominators of the points $M+hS$ on the minimal Weierstra\ss\ model ${\mathcal W}$ of the curve; here $M$ is some point on that model and $S=(0,0)$. Suppose $e_{-2}$, $e_{-1}$, $e_{0}$, $e_{1}$, $e_{2}$ supply the five integer co-ordinates yielding $B_{-2}$, $B_{-1}$, $B_{0}$, $B_{1}$, $B_{2}$. Because no more than two of these $e_i$ can be $1$ we must have $$e_0B_{-1}B_1=e_0B_0^2\,,\quad e_1B_{0}B_2=e_1B_1^2\,,\quad \tfrac12 e_2B_{1}B_3=e_2B_2^2\,, $$ since of course the recursion for $(B_h)$ entails $B_3=2$. Suppose in general that \begin{equation*} c_hB_{h-1}B_{h+1}=e_hB_h^2\,. \end{equation*} Then the identity \eqref{eq:odde}, \begin{equation*} e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}^2e_{h+2}=v^2\left(-(f+w^2)e_he_{h+1}+v^2+2vw(f+w^2)\right), \end{equation*} and $B_{h-2}B_{h+3}=B_{h-1}B_{h+2}+B_{h}B_{h+1}$ entail $$ c_{h-1}c_h^2c_{h+1}^2c_{h+2}=-v^2(f+w^2)c_hc_{h+1}=v^3\bigl(v+2w(f+w^2)\bigr). $$ Thus $c_hc_{h+1}=kv$, say, is independent of $h$ and we have \begin{equation*} k^2=-(f+w^2)\quad\text{and}\quad k^3+2wk^2-v=0\,. \end{equation*} Note that if $f+w^2$, or $2w$ and $v$, are integers, also $k$ must be an integer. Also, \begin{equation}\label{eq:vk} e_0e_1=vk\quad\text{and}\quad e_1e_2=2vk\,. \end{equation} \begin{Remark} {\rm However, $e_{h-1}e_h^2e_{h+1}=v^2e_h+v^2(f+w^2)$ implies \begin{equation*}%\label{eq:} k^2B_{h-2}B_{h+2}=c_hB_{h-1}B_{h+1}+(f+w^2)B_h^2\,, \end{equation*} without the coefficients necessarily being independent\footnote{Both Christine Swart and Andy Hone have pointed out to me that $c_hc_{h+1}$ constant, and thus both $c_{2h}$ and $c_{2h+1}$ constant, of course boils down to a Somos~$5$ corresponding to a pair of interlinked Somos~$4$.} of $h$. In particular, $k^2=-(f+w^2)$ entails $c_0=e_0=2k^2$ and $c_1=e_1=3k^2$. } \end{Remark} On the other hand, the identity \eqref{eq:critical} now reports that $k=w-w_0$ and $2k=w-w_1$. By \eqref{eq:Q} we then have \begin{equation*}%\label{eq:} w_0+w_1=v/e_1=2w-3k \end{equation*} whilst by \eqref{eq:e} we see that $f+e_0+e_1=-(w-k)^2$, $f+e_1+e_2=-(w-2k)^2$, so, recalling that $e_2=2e_0$, also $e_0=(2w-3k)k$. Hence \begin{equation}\label{eq:w} (2w-3k)k=2k^2 \quad\text{and so}\quad 2w=5k\,. \end{equation} In summary, we then can quickly conclude that also \begin{equation}\label{eq:f} v=6k^3\,,\quad 4f=-29k^2\,, \quad\text{and}\quad 2w_0=3k\,. \end{equation} The normalisation $k=-2$ retrieves the \cfe\ in \S\ref{ss:1} on page~\pageref{ss:1}. As shown in \S\ref{s:comments} on page~\pageref{s:comments} the corresponding minimal Weierstra\ss\ model is $V^2+UV+6V=U^3+7U^2+12U$; and $M=(-2,-2)$ is a point of order two. \section{Somos Sequences}\label{s:Somos} \subsection{Christine Swart's thesis \cite{Sw}}\label{ss:Chris} Much of the work reported by me here is {\it sui generis\/} with original intent to make explicit the ideas of Adams and Razar~\cite{AR} and to rediscover the rational elliptic torsion surfaces (thus, the ``pencils'' of rational elliptic curves with, say $(0,0)$, a torsion point of given order $m$) by a new method, see \cite{163} and its references. Eventually, I learned of Michael Somos's sequences, see~\cite{Somos}, and realised how they arise from my data. I had sort of heard of Christine Swart's work from Nelson Stephens in 2003 but, fortunately as it turned out\footnote{It was fun to puzzle out not just the answers to questions, but also to attempt to guess what the questions ought to be.}, did not have access to her thesis~\cite{Sw} until very recently when this paper was already essentially complete; see~\cite{169}. Christine Swart's discussion of the interrelationship between elliptic sequences and elliptic curves is more detailed and complete than mine. Among many other things, she is careful to recognise that the formulas neither know nor care whether the given elliptic curve is in fact elliptic: thus, for example, also my quartics may have multiple zeros. If so, extra comment --- mostly, quite straightforward --- is required at a number of points above; but is neglected by me. Further, Christine Swart reports \emph{inter alia} that Nelson Stephens (personal communication to her) had noticed, by completely different methods, identities equivalent to \eqref{eq:vital} and \eqref{eq:even}, see page~\pageref{eq:even}; these are her Theorems 3.5.1 and 7.1.2 \cite[p.\,29 and p.\,153]{Sw}. \subsection{Much more satisfying?}\label{ss:Somos8} I can in fact show that an elliptic sequence $(A_h)$ is also given by $A_{h-4}A_{h+4}=W_4^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_3W_5A_h^2$. However, I consider my argument as typical of the sort of thing that gives mathematics its bad name: and regret to have to admit that this sort of nonsense seemingly does generalise to proving that a Somos~4 also always is a three-term Somos~$(4+n)$. Specifically, we know that \begin{align} A_{h-2}A_{h+2}&=W_2^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_1W_3A_h^2\,, \quad\text{by definition;}\label{eq:Somos4}\\ A_{h-3}A_{h+3}&=W_3^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_2W_4A_h^2\,,\quad\text{see footnote page~\pageref{page:satisfying},}\label{eq:Somos6}\\ \intertext{and intend to show that} A_{h-4}A_{h+4}&=W_4^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_3W_5A_h^2\label{eq:Somos8}\,. \end{align} Notice that, in particular, $W_1W_5=W_2^2W_2W_4-W_1W_3W_3^2$; so because $W_1=1$, $W_3^4=W_2^3W_3W_4-W_3W_5$. Now observe that \begin{equation*}%\label{eq:} A_{h-4}A_{h+2}A_{h-2}A_{h+4} =(W_3^2A_{h-2}A_{h}-W_2W_4A_{h-1}^2)(W_3^2A_{h}A_{h+2}-W_2W_4A_{h+1}^2)\,. \end{equation*} In the product on the right, the first term is $$ (W_2^3W_3W_4A_h^2-W_3W_5A_h^2)A_{h-2}A_{h+2} $$ and half of it contributes half of \eqref{eq:Somos8}. Similarly, half the final term of the product, thus of $$W_4^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}\cdot W_2^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}= W_4^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}(A_{h-2}A_{h+2}+W_3A_h^2)\,, $$ provides the other half of \eqref{eq:Somos8}. Thus it's ugly but true that we have proved that \eqref{eq:Somos8} holds if and only if $W_3W_4=0$ or \begin{equation*}%\label{eq:} W_2^3A_{h-2}A_h^2A_{h+2}-W_2W_3(A_{h-2}A_hA_{h+1}^2 +A_{h-1}^2A_hA_{h+2})+W_4A_{h-1}A_h^2A_{h+1}=0\,. \end{equation*} I now compound this brutality by fiercely replacing the two occurrences of $A_{h-2}$ by the evident relation $$ A_{h-2}=(W_2^2A_{h-1}A_{h+1}-W_1W_3A_h^2)/A_{h+2}\,. $$ That necessitates our then multiplying by $A_{h+2}$. Fortunately, we can compensate for this cruelty by dividing by $A_h$. We are left with needing to show that \begin{multline}\label{eq:!} W_2^5A_{h-1}A_hA_{h+1}A_{h+2}-W_3^2W_3A_h^3A_{h+2}-W_2^3W_3A_{h-1}A_{h+1}^3\\ -W_2W_3A_{h-1}^2A_{h+2}^2+W_2W_3^2A_h^2A_{h+1}^2 +W_4A_{h-1}A_hA_{h+1}A_{h+2}=0\,. \end{multline} It's now natural to despair, and to start looking for a Plan B. However, one might notice, on page~\pageref{page:oops}, that $W_4=-v^4\bigl(v+2w(f+w^2)\bigr)$; and $W_2=v$. Moreover $W_3=-v^2(f+w^2)$. Thus, conveniently, \begin{equation*}%\label{eq:} W_2^5+W_4=-2v^4w(f+w^2)=W_2^2W_3\,. \end{equation*} Hence, just as our result is trivial if $W_3W_4=0$, so also it is trivial if $W_2=0$. All this is a sign that we may not as yet have made an error. We may divide \eqref{eq:!} by $W_2W_3$. Better yet, let's also divide by $A_h^2A_{h+1}^2$ by using the definitions $$ A_{h-1}A_{h+1}=e_hA_h^2\,, \quad\text{whence also}\quad A_{h-1}A_{h+2}=e_he_{h+1}A_hA_{h+1}\,. $$ Then all that remains is a confirmation that \begin{equation}\label{eq:quartic} 2vwe_he_{h+1}-v^2(e_h+e_{h+1})-e_h^2e_{h+1}^2-v^2(f+w^2)=0\,. \end{equation} However \eqref{eq:vital}, page~\pageref{eq:vital}, is $e_he_{h+1}=v(w-w_h)$, while $e_h+e_{h+1}=-f-w_h^2$ is \eqref{eq:e}, page~\pageref{eq:e}. Astonishingly, the claim \eqref{eq:quartic} follows immediately. \begin{theorem} If $(A_h)$ is a Somos~$4$ then it is a Somos~$8$ of the shape \label{th:Somos8} $$ A_{h-4}A_{h+4}=\kappa A_{h-1}A_{h+1}+\lambda A_h^2\,. $$ \end{theorem} \begin{proof} Given the argument above, it suffices to note that any Somos~4 is equivalent to an elliptic sequence. \end{proof} \section{Rappels}\label{s:Rappels} \subsection{Continued fraction expansion of a quadratic irrational} \label{ss:cfe} Let $Y=Y(X)$ be a quadratic irrational integral element of the field $\F((X^{-1}))$ of Laurent series \begin{equation} \label{eq:Laurent} \sum_{h=-d}^\infty f_{-h}X^{-h}, \quad\text{some $d\in\Z$}\quad \end{equation} defined over some given base field $\F$; that is, there are \poly s $T$ and $D$ defined over $\F$ so that \begin{equation} \label{eq:eq}Y^2=T(X)Y+D(X)\,. \end{equation} Plainly, by translating $Y$ by a \poly\ if necessary, we may suppose that $\deg D\ge 2\deg T+2$, with $\deg D=2g+2$, say, and $\deg T\le g$; then $\deg Y=g+1$. Recall here that a Laurent series \eqref{eq:Laurent} with $f_{d}\ne0$ has degree~$d$. Set $Y_0=(Y+P_0)/Q_0$ where $P_0$ and $Q_0$ are \poly s so that $Q_0$ divides the norm $(Y+P_0)(\conj Y+P_0)$; notice here that an $\F[X]$-module $\id{Q, Y+P}$ is an ideal in $\F[X,Y]$ if and only if $Q\Div (Y+P)(\conj Y+P)$. \label{page:ideal} Further, suppose that $\deg Y_0\gt0$ and $\deg \conj Y_0\lt 0$; that is, $Y_0$ is \emph{reduced}. Then the \cfe\ of $Y_0$ is given by a sequence of lines, of which the $h$-th is \begin{equation} \label{eq:lineh} Y_h:=(Y+P_h)/Q_h=a_h-(\overline Y+P_{h+1})/Q_h\,; \quad\text{in brief}\quad Y_h=a_h-\conj B_h \,. %\tag*{line $h$:} \end{equation} Here the \poly\ $a_h$ is a \emph{\pq}, and the next \emph{complete quotient} $Y_{h+1}$ is the reciprocal of the preceding \emph{remainder} $-(\overline Y+P_{h+1})/Q_h$\,. Plainly the sequences of \poly s $(P_h)$ and $(Q_h)$ are given by the recursion formulas \begin{equation} \label{eq:quadratic}P_h+P_{h+1}+(Y+\ov Y\,)=a_hQ_h \ \text{and}\ Y\conj Y+(Y+\conj Y)P_{h+1}+P_{h+1}^2=-Q_hQ_{h+1}\,. \end{equation} It is easy to see by induction on $h$ that $Q_h$ divides the norm $(Y+P_h)(\conj Y+P_h)$. We observe also that we have a conjugate expansion with $h$-th line \begin{equation} \label{eq:conjlineh} B_h:=(Y+P_{h+1})/Q_h=a_h-(\overline Y+P_{h})/Q_h\,, \quad\text{that is,}\quad B_h=a_h-\conj Y_h\,. %\tag*{line $h$:} \end{equation} Note that the next line of this expansion is the conjugate of the previous line of its conjugate \ex\,: conjugation reverses a \cf\ tableau. Because the conjugate of line~$0$ is the last line of its tableau we can extend the \ex\ forming the conjugate tableau, leading to lines $h=1$, $2$, $\ldots\,$ $$(Y+P_{-h+1})/Q_{-h}=a_{-h}-(Y+P_{-h})/Q_{-h}\,; \quad\text{that is,}\quad B_{-h}=a_{-h}-\conj Y_{-h}\,. $$ Plainly the original \cf\ tableau also is two-sided infinite and our thinking of it as ``starting'' at $Y_0$ is just convention. \label{page:two-sided} \subsection{Continued fractions} One writes $Y_0=\CF{a_0\\a_1\\a_2\\\ldots}$, where formally \begin{equation} \label{eq:definition} \CF{a_0\\a_1\\a_2\\\ldots\\a_h}=a_0+1/\,\CF{a_1\\a_2\\\ldots\\a_{h-1}} \quad\text{and}\quad \CF{\phantom{a}}=\infty\,. \end{equation} It follows, again by induction on $h$, that the definition %(for $h=0$, $1$, $2$, $\ldots\,$) $$\begin{pmatrix}a_0&1\\0&1\end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix}a_1&1\\0&1\end{pmatrix}\cdots \begin{pmatrix}a_h&1\\0&1\end{pmatrix}=: \begin{pmatrix}x_h&x_{h-1}\\y_h&y_{h-1}\end{pmatrix} $$ entails $\CF{a_0\\a_1\\a_2\\\ldots\\a_h}=x_h/y_h$. This provides a correspondence between the \emph{convergents} $x_h/y_h$ and certain products of $2\times2$ matrices (more precisely, between the sequences $(x_h)$, $(y_h)$ of \emph{continuants} and those matrices). It is a useful exercise to notice that $Y_0=\CF{a_0\\a_1\\\ldots\\a_h\\Y_{h+1}}$ implies that $$ Y_{h+1}=-(y_{h-1}Y-x_{h-1})/(y_{h}Y-x_{h}) $$ and that this immediately gives \begin{equation}\label{eq:distance} Y_1Y_2\cdots Y_{h+1}=(-1)^{h}(x_h-y_h Y)^{-1}. \end{equation} The quantity $-\deg(x_h-y_h Y)=\deg y_{h+1}$ is a weighted sum giving a measure of the ``distance'' traversed by the \cfe\ to its $(h+1)$-st complete quotient. Taking norms yields \begin{equation} \label{eq:norm} (x_h-y_h Y)(x_h-y_h\conj Y)=(-1)^{h+1}Q_{h+1}\,. \end{equation} \setcounter{footnote}{0} \subsection{Conjugation, symmetry, and periodicity}\label{ss:csp} Each \pq\ $a_h$ is the \poly\ part of its corresponding \cq\ $Y_h$. Note, however, that the assertions above are independent of that conventional selection rule. One readily shows that $Y_0$ being \emph{reduced}, to wit $ \deg Y_0\gt0$ and $\deg\ov Y_0\lt0$, implies that each complete quotient $Y_h$ is reduced. Indeed, it also follows that $\deg B_h \gt0$, while plainly $\deg\conj B_h\lt0$ since $-\conj B_h$ is a remainder; so the $B_h$ too are reduced. In particular $a_h$, the \poly\ part of $Y_h$, is also the \poly\ part of $B_h$. Plainly, at least the first two leading terms of each \poly\ $P_h$ must coincide with the leading terms of $Y-T$. It also follows that the \poly s $P_h$ and $Q_h$ satisfy the bounds \begin{equation}\label{eq:bounds} \deg P_h=g+1 \quad\text{and}\quad \deg Q_h\le g\,. \end{equation} Thus, if the base field $\F$ is finite the box principle entails the \cfe\ of $Y_0$ is periodic. If $\F$ is infinite, periodicity is just happenstance. Suppose, however, that the function field $\F(X,Y)$ is exceptional in that $Y_0$, say, \emph{does} have a periodic \cfe. If the \cfe\ of $Y_0$ is periodic then, by conjugation, also the \ex\ of $B_0$ is periodic. But conjugation reverses the order of the lines comprising a \cf\ tableau. Hence the conjugate of any preperiod is a ``postperiod'', an absurd notion. It follows that, if periodic, the two conjugate \ex s are purely periodic. Denote by $A$ the \poly\ part of $Y$, and recall that $Y+\conj Y=T$. It happens that line~$0$ of the \cfe\ of $Y+A-T$ is \begin{equation} \label{eq:line0} Y+A-T=2A-T-(\conj Y+A-T) \end{equation} and is symmetric. In general, if the \ex\ of $Y_0$ has a symmetry, and if the \cfe\ is periodic, its period must have a second symmetry\footnote{The case of period length $1$ is an exception unless we count its one line as having two symmetries; alternatively unless we deem it to have period $r=2$.}. So if $Y$ is exceptional in having a periodic \cfe\ then its period is of length $2s$ and has an additional symmetry of the first kind $P_s=P_{s+1}$, or its period is of length $2s+1$ and also has a symmetry of the second kind, $Q_s=Q_{s+1}$. Conversely, this is the point, if the \ex\ of $Y$ has a second symmetry then it must be periodic as just described. \label{page:periodic} \subsection{Units}\label{ss:units} It is easy to apply the Dirichlet box principle to prove that an order $\Q[\omega]$ of a quadratic number field $\Q(\omega)$ contains nontrivial units. Indeed, by that principle there are infinitely many pairs of integers $(p,q)$ so that $|q \omega-p|\lt1/q$, whence $|p^2-(\omega+\conj \omega)pq+ \omega\conj \omega q^2|\lt (\omega-\conj \omega)+1$. It follows, again by the box principle, that there is an integer $l$ with $0\lt |l|\lt (\omega-\conj \omega)+1$ so that the equation $p^2-(\omega+\conj \omega)pq+ \omega\conj \omega q^2=l$ has infinitely many pairs $(p,q)$ and $(p',q')$ of solutions with $p\equiv p'$ and $q\equiv q'\pmod l$. For each such distinct pair, $xl=pp'-\omega\conj \omega qq'\!$, $yl=pq'-p'q+(\omega+\conj \omega)qq'$, yields $(x-\omega y)(x-\conj \omega y)=1$. In the function field case, we cannot apply the the box principle for a second time if the base field $\F$ is infinite. So the existence of a nontrivial unit $x(X)-y(y)Y(X)$ is exceptional. This should not be a surprise. By the definition of the notion ``unit'', such a unit $u(X)$ say, has a divisor supported only at infinity. Moreover, $u$ is a function of the order $\F[X,Y]$, and is say of degree $m$, so the existence of $u$ implies that the class containing the divisor at infinity is a torsion divisor on the Jacobian of the curve~\eqref{eq:eq}. The existence of such a torsion divisor is of course exceptional. Suppose now that the function field $\F(X,Y)$ does contain a nontrivial unit $u$, say of norm $-\kappa$ and degree~$m$. Then $\deg(yY-x)=-m\lt-\deg y$, so $x/y$ is a convergent of $Y$ and so some $Q$ is $\pm \kappa$, say $Q_r=\kappa$ with $r$ odd. That is, line~$r$ of the \cfe\ of $Y+A-T$ is \begin{equation}\label{eq:liner} Y_r:=(Y+A-T)/\kappa=2A/\kappa-(\conj Y+A-T)/\kappa\,;\tag*{line~r:}\end{equation} here we have used the fact that $(Y+P_r)/\kappa$ is reduced to deduce that necessarily $P_r=P_{r+1}=A-T$. By conjugation of the $(r+1)$-line tableau commencing with \eqref{eq:line0} we see that \begin{equation}\label{eq:line2r} Y_{2r}:=Y+A-T=2A-T-(\conj Y+A-T)\,,\tag*{line~2r:}\end{equation} so that in any case if $Y+A-T$ has a quasi-periodic \cfe\ then it is periodic of period twice the quasi-period. This result of Tom~Berry \cite{Be} applies to arbitrary quadratic irrationals with \poly\ trace. Other elements $(Y+P)/Q$ of $\F(X,Y)$, with $Q$ dividing the norm $(Y+P)(\conj Y+P)$, may be honest-to-goodness quasi-periodic, that is, not also periodic. \label{page:quasiperiodic} Further, if $\kappa\ne-1$ then $r$ \emph{must} be odd. To see that, notice the identity \begin{equation}\label{eq:Schmidt} B\CF{Ca_0\\Ba_1\\Ca_2\\Ba_3\\\ldots}=C\CF{Ba_0\\Ca_1\\Ba_2\\Ca_3\\\ldots}, \end{equation} reminding one how to multiply a \cfe\ by some quantity; this cute formulation of the multiplication rule is due to Wolfgang Schmidt \cite{Schm}. The ``twisted symmetry'' occasioned by division by $\kappa$, equivalent to the existence of a non-trivial quasi-period, is noted by Christian Friesen \cite{Fr}. In summary, if the \cfe\ of $Y$ is quasi-periodic it is periodic, and the \ex\ has the symmetries of the more familiar number field case, as well as twisted symmetries occasioned by a nontrivial $\kappa$. One shows readily that if $x/y=\CF{A\\a_1\\\ldots\\a_{r-1}}$ and $x-Y y$ is a unit of the domain $\F[X, Y]$ then, with $a_{r-1}=\kappa a_1$, $a_{r-2}= a_2/\kappa$, $a_{r-3}=\kappa a_3$, $\ldots\,$, $$\CF{\overline{2A-T\\a_1\\\ldots\\a_{r-1}\\(2A-T)/\kappa\\a_{r-1}\\\ldots\\a_1}}$$ is the quadratic irrational Laurent series $Y+A-T$. Alternatively, given the \ex\ of $Y+A-T$, and noting that therefore $\deg Q_r=0$, the fact that the said \ex\ of $x/y$ yields a unit follows directly from \eqref{eq:norm}. \section{Comments}\label{s:comments} \subsection{} According to Gauss (\emph{Disquisitiones Arithmetic\ae}, Art. 76) \ldots\ \emph{veritates ex notionibus potius quam ex hauriri debebant}\footnote{[mathematical] truths flow from notions rather than from notations.}. Nonetheless, one should not underrate the importance of notation; good notation can decrease the viscosity of the flow to truth. From the foregoing it seems clear that, given $Y^2=A^2+4v(X-w)$, one should study the \cfe\ of $Z=\frac12(Y+A)$, as is done in~\cite{AR}. Moreover, it is a mistake to be frustrated by minimal models $V^2+UV-vV=U^3-fU+vwU$. Specifically, we understand that $V^2-8vV=U^3-(4f-1)U^2+8v(2w-1)U$ yields $Y^2=(X^2+4f-1)^2+4\cdot8v\bigl(X-(2w-1)\bigr)$ by way of $2U=X^2+Y+(4f-1)$ and $(V-8v)=XU$. Now $X\gets 2X+1$, $Y\gets 4Y$ means that, instead, we obtain $Y^2=(X^2+X+f)^2+4v\bigl(X-(w-1)\bigr)$. This derives from $V^2+UV-vV=U^3-fU+vwU$ by taking $2U=X^2+X+Y+f$ and $V-v=XU$. \subsection{} The discussion above may have some interest for its own sake, but my primary purpose is to test ideas for generalisation to higher genus~$g$. An important difficulty when $g\gt1$ is that \pq s may be of degree greater than one without that entailing periodicity, whence my eccentric aside on page~\pageref{a:aside}. 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Published in {\it Journal of Integer Sequences}, May 16 2005. \bigskip \hrule \bigskip \noindent Return to \htmladdnormallink{Journal of Integer Sequences home page}{http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/JIS/}. \vskip .1in \end{document} | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '12', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7171597480773926}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '55304', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BO5AGJZBMGPIPWR7QBU52GRDLT6XUHSO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e807f3a4-4e34-4a2e-8e08-40f3f5346562>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 4, 30, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '130.54.16.10', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PYAZFPJ2UJ2DBMID2QWLZT537XZMDYD6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:90dd87f9-5e5e-41da-9850-f161e67e3b3d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/EMIS/journals/JIS/VOL8/Poorten/vdp40.tex', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:66cc967a-904d-43e2-b94e-68346cab902c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '5081', 'url': 'http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/EMIS/journals/JIS/VOL8/Poorten/vdp40.tex', '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': '0.061867475509643555', 'original_id': 'a618471ec41e25e381c3d864f64ae2142bd7498cc31a4a1624c31a235345bf03'} |
// Copyright (c) 2019, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
import 'dart:io';
import 'package:_fe_analyzer_shared/src/testing/id.dart';
import 'package:_fe_analyzer_shared/src/testing/id_testing.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/dart/ast/ast.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/dart/element/element.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/dart/element/null_safety_understanding_flag.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/dart/element/type.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/error/error.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/src/dart/analysis/testing_data.dart';
import 'package:analyzer/src/util/ast_data_extractor.dart';
import '../util/id_testing_helper.dart';
main(List<String> args) async {
Directory dataDir = Directory.fromUri(Platform.script
.resolve('../../../_fe_analyzer_shared/test/inheritance/data'));
await NullSafetyUnderstandingFlag.enableNullSafetyTypes(() {
return runTests<String>(dataDir,
args: args,
createUriForFileName: createUriForFileName,
onFailure: onFailure,
runTest:
runTestFor(const _InheritanceDataComputer(), [analyzerNnbdConfig]),
skipMap: {
analyzerMarker: [
// These are CFE-centric tests for an opt-in/opt-out sdk.
'object_opt_in',
'object_opt_out',
]
});
});
}
class _InheritanceDataComputer extends DataComputer<String> {
const _InheritanceDataComputer();
@override
DataInterpreter<String> get dataValidator => const StringDataInterpreter();
@override
void computeUnitData(TestingData testingData, CompilationUnit unit,
Map<Id, ActualData<String>> actualMap) {
_InheritanceDataExtractor(unit.declaredElement.source.uri, actualMap)
.run(unit);
}
@override
bool get supportsErrors => true;
@override
String computeErrorData(TestConfig config, TestingData testingData, Id id,
List<AnalysisError> errors) {
return errors.map((e) => e.errorCode).join(',');
}
}
class _InheritanceDataExtractor extends AstDataExtractor<String> {
_InheritanceDataExtractor(Uri uri, Map<Id, ActualData<String>> actualMap)
: super(uri, actualMap);
@override
String computeElementValue(Id id, Element element) {
if (element is LibraryElement) {
return 'nnbd=${element.isNonNullableByDefault}';
}
return null;
}
@override
void computeForClass(Declaration node, Id id) {
super.computeForClass(node, id);
if (node is ClassDeclaration) {
var cls = node.declaredElement;
var getterNames = <Name>{};
var setterNames = <Name>{};
var methodNames = <Name>{};
void collectMembers(InterfaceType type) {
for (var element in type.accessors) {
if (element.isGetter) {
getterNames.add(Name(element));
}
if (element.isSetter) {
setterNames.add(Name(element, isSetter: true));
}
var getter = element.declaration.correspondingGetter != null
? element.correspondingGetter
: null;
if (getter != null) {
getterNames.add(Name(getter));
}
var setter = element.declaration.correspondingSetter != null
? element.correspondingSetter
: null;
if (setter != null) {
setterNames.add(Name(setter, isSetter: true));
}
}
for (var method in type.methods) {
methodNames.add(Name(method));
}
}
collectMembers(cls.thisType);
for (var supertype in cls.allSupertypes) {
collectMembers(supertype);
}
void registerMember(
MemberId id, int offset, Object object, DartType type) {
registerValue(uri, offset, id,
type.getDisplayString(withNullability: true), object);
}
for (var getterName in getterNames) {
var getter =
cls.thisType.lookUpGetter2(getterName.text, getterName.library);
if (getter != null) {
ClassElement enclosingClass = getter.enclosingElement;
if (enclosingClass.isDartCoreObject) continue;
var id = MemberId.internal(getterName.text, className: cls.name);
var offset =
enclosingClass == cls ? getter.nameOffset : cls.nameOffset;
registerMember(id, offset, getter, getter.returnType);
}
}
for (var setterName in setterNames) {
var setter =
cls.thisType.lookUpSetter2(setterName.text, setterName.library);
if (setter != null) {
ClassElement enclosingClass = setter.enclosingElement;
if (enclosingClass.isDartCoreObject) continue;
var id =
MemberId.internal('${setterName.text}=', className: cls.name);
var offset =
enclosingClass == cls ? setter.nameOffset : cls.nameOffset;
registerMember(id, offset, setter, setter.type.parameters.first.type);
}
}
for (var methodName in methodNames) {
var method =
cls.thisType.lookUpMethod2(methodName.text, methodName.library);
if (method != null) {
ClassElement enclosingClass = method.enclosingElement;
if (enclosingClass.isDartCoreObject) continue;
var id = MemberId.internal(methodName.text, className: cls.name);
var offset =
enclosingClass == cls ? method.nameOffset : cls.nameOffset;
registerMember(id, offset, method, method.type);
}
}
}
}
@override
String computeNodeValue(Id id, AstNode node) {
if (node is ClassDeclaration) {
var cls = node.declaredElement;
var supertypes = <String>[];
supertypes.add(supertypeToString(cls.thisType));
for (var supertype in cls.allSupertypes) {
supertypes.add(supertypeToString(supertype));
}
supertypes.sort();
return supertypes.join(',');
}
return null;
}
}
String supertypeToString(InterfaceType type) {
var sb = StringBuffer();
sb.write(type.element.name);
if (type.typeArguments.isNotEmpty) {
sb.write('<');
var comma = '';
for (var typeArgument in type.typeArguments) {
sb.write(comma);
sb.write(typeArgument.getDisplayString(withNullability: true));
comma = ', ';
}
sb.write('>');
}
return sb.toString();
}
class Name {
final String text;
final bool isPrivate;
final LibraryElement library;
Name.internal(this.text, this.isPrivate, this.library);
factory Name(Element element, {bool isSetter = false}) {
String name = element.name;
if (isSetter) {
if (!name.endsWith('=')) {
throw UnsupportedError("Unexpected setter name '$name'");
}
name = name.substring(0, name.length - 1);
}
return Name.internal(name, element.isPrivate, element.library);
}
@override
int get hashCode => isPrivate
? text.hashCode * 13 + library.hashCode * 17
: text.hashCode * 13;
@override
bool operator ==(Object other) {
if (identical(this, other)) return true;
return other is Name &&
text == other.text &&
isPrivate == other.isPrivate &&
(!isPrivate || library == other.library);
}
@override
String toString() => isPrivate ? '${library.name}::$text' : text;
}
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The Reluctant Cuckoo
ISBN 978 1776053650
FORMAT Portrait; 147mm x 210mm; Paperback
For Hannah, born from Nandi, and adopted by Patrick and Fiona, it is not so easy to work out who she really is.
Is she the privileged daughter of an upper middle class British couple or is she an unwanted South African child who needed an adoptive family?
How can she reconcile these two personas, especially when she looks so different from her adoptive parents?
In her questioning mind, she appears to be not white enough for Britain, but not black enough for Africa. As she grows older, her identity issues become greater until they threaten to engulf her.
Her parents, wanting to be faithful to a promise they made to her birth mother, but also desperately frightened of losing their child to her birth heritage, are not forthcoming when it comes to answering her questions. This makes her feel she can’t trust them and alienates her further. It is only when she re-established a connection with the country of her birth that Hannah starts to work through the issues that trouble her in her search to find the peace that appears to be so elusive.
Cathy Donald qualified as a medical doctor in 1984. She has practised Medicine in both rural communities and urban private practices, and presently has a practice in Somerset West. Through the years she has written scripts, as well as music and lyrics for amateur dramatic productions, mostly for schools and youth groups. The Relucant Cuckoo is her first novel. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9558311700820924}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '67769', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5HET74OJAGSDAAWUQJEWZALVTWXUVQAZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1caa8a20-ca17-4302-82b6-5452a31fc9b6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 12, 54, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '197.221.0.122', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VZ4QLOUBO52QUW5GO6MQUBPD4BZQI2PC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:714f42d8-96c3-4588-b5a9-97193bfb9a74>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://xaviernagelagencies.co.za/product/the-reluctant-cuckoo/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c7ba40e2-dbcb-4dd3-b320-380c7243f93b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '258', 'url': 'http://xaviernagelagencies.co.za/product/the-reluctant-cuckoo/', '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-10-97-181-44.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': '0.11729121208190918', 'original_id': '91dc3cca2e5238f4a75ba9c8c280bd53b1815f322ee92a6c6d58e9e6b910949c'} |
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Snoring occurs when certain things like your mouth, throat or tongue vibrate while sleeping, creating a loud noise which can be disruptive for people nearby. It is usually not caused by anything serious, but a lot of people seek remedies for snoring because of how annoying and problematic it can be. There are lifestyle changes which can reduce how often and how bad your snoring is, such as changing your sleeping position, losing weight and reducing alcohol intake. When such adjustments aren’t enough though, people can look towards certain products, including wearable devices and sprays, which are specially designed to reduce snoring by opening up your airways during sleep.
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"Snoring is very common and it’s usually not linked to anything serious, but it can make sleeping more difficult for people who live in the same household. In some cases, snoring can be related to a condition called sleep apnoea, but you should check with a doctor if you think you may have this. In most cases, snoring can be prevented by making some lifestyle changes. If they don’t seem to be helping, then there are anti-snoring devices and sprays you can also consider."
Why do people snore?
Snoring is a very common thing and it is usually not caused by anything serious. If you do snore though, then it can be an annoying distraction for anyone sleeping in the same household.
Snoring occurs when things like your mouth, tongue, throat or the airways in your nose vibrate as you are breathing. This happens because these parts of your body relax and narrow while you are sleeping (more specifically, when you progress from a light sleep to a deep sleep).
What makes snoring more likely?
There are numerous factors which can increase the likelihood of you snoring. These include the following:
• Being overweight
• Smoking
• Drinking too much alcohol before bedtime
• Sleeping position (snoring is typically at its most frequent and loudest when sleeping on the back)
• Sleep deprivation
• Nasal problems (for instance, having chronic nasal congestion or a crooked partition between your nostrils)
Snoring and sleep apnoea
In some cases, a person may be snoring while sleeping because of a condition they have called sleep apnoea. Having it means that your breathing stops and starts while you sleep. The most common form of this condition is known as obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).
Loud snoring is a common symptom of sleep apnoea. Other symptoms can include:
• Making gasping, snorting or choking noises during sleep
• Waking up a lot
• Sore throat upon waking up
• High blood pressure
• Excessive daytime sleepiness
• Difficulty concentrating
• Morning headaches
• Chest pain at night
If you think you may have sleep apnoea, then you should get this confirmed by seeing a doctor or your GP. They may refer you to a specialist sleep clinic for tests to confirm if you do indeed have the condition.
How to stop snoring
While there is no special snoring cure, certain lifestyle changes may be all that’s required to stop it from happening. If it does help to get treatment for your snoring, then there are certain products you can purchase for this goal. Options include anti snoring throat sprays, nasal strips, lozenges and devices which sit on the nose. Such remedies are used to help open up your airways and prevent snoring from occurring while sleep occurs.
Before choosing to order such treatments though, it is worth investigating first if lifestyle adjustments are enough to stop snoring. There are lots of changes which can be considered including the following:
• Try sleeping on your side. You are less likely to snore in this position, whereas if you lie on your back, this allows the tongue to fall backward into your throat and narrows your airway
• Raise the head of your bed. Raising it by about 4 inches may help make the difference.
• Avoid or reduce your intake of alcohol and sedatives. Doctors recommend that you should avoid drinking alcohol at least two hours before bedtime to stop snoring. Sedatives and alcohol both depress your central nervous system and can cause excessive relaxation of muscles, including the muscle tissues in your throat.
• If you are a smoker, then quitting smoking could reduce snoring (as well as provide numerous other health benefits).
• If you are overweight, then losing weight can help reduce your snoring. Being overweight can lead to having extra muscle tissues in your throat.
• Consider improving your sleeping habits. Adults should aim to get at least seven hours of sleep per night.
• If someone who snores is sleeping next or near to someone else, then those nearby may want to consider using ear plugs to help with their own sleeping. While it would of course be preferable to put a stop to the snoring, this could at least work as a temporary solution.
Anti snoring device
There are certain devices people can wear in or near their mouth to prevent themselves from snoring. The most suitable device depends on the exact cause of your snoring.
If, for instance, your tongue is partially blocking the back of your throat, then you may consider a device which you put in your mouth (worn sort of like a brace) to bring your tongue forward. This is known as a mandibular advancement device.
If you snore because your mouth falls open while you sleep, then you may want to get a chin strap designed to keep your mouth closed. Alternatively, you may want a device which makes you breathe through your nose rather than your mouth while sleeping. This is known as a vestibular shield.
Snoring caused by blocked or narrow airways in your nose may be addressed with a nasal dilator or nasal strips, which hold your nose open to achieve better breathing. Depending on the cause, you could also consider sprays which reduce swelling inside your nose. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.95511656999588}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '150942', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XA3CWNOXN6PPGJX5TPNMD5RZXN2SUSNC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:dd7e79d1-da8d-46eb-a72a-b3354217e7e6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 7, 16, 1, 3, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.11.187.60', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2ZYOWYK56FI3NDFZ4A73MH72RLMWVPIQ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:50a3dabd-9df4-4881-bc4a-4a6572cf9d0b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.doctor-4-u.co.uk/snoring', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:24941c87-c913-4937-aeb7-d358e8f8044a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1004', 'url': 'https://www.doctor-4-u.co.uk/snoring', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-211.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.44756150245666504', 'original_id': 'e4c8d66a2772a7a9a59fcebc593450f7947ac1567279145de0a6ee464888153e'} |
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Life
The freezing hands are clinging onto the wounds of the pastTears, moan, whine;Turning against the true meaning of the storyFor a cold heart, in the vein of yourselvesMelts with a warm hug, like a frost.
There will forever be sorrow and lonelinessWith man endures searching for a sanctuary to mendTo front days into the room of happiness
Fates playEven though it makes your heart acheAnd a ray of lightMay descend from darkness for us to graspTo feel the fierce painful touchTo discern a persons warmthAs beautiful as it is miserableFor the great time is ephemeral.
it's interesting that u used 'man' in "With man endures searching for a sanctuary to mend". not bad for a free-structure poem. i like poems that rhyme tho... much funner to read. u shud write a fun delightful poem nx time! looking forward to it.
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my heart pours out to you reader
thank you for reading my heart out and please feel free to share or comments on anything I've written. what i want in this life, is for you and for me, to be always reminded by what we will be in the life after. may He sees thru us, each day, each second. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd93a9c87d69d1d72c52dec2eee7152327cbadbb4b7c9f8a3d32634f634672049'} |
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I've got myself perched up on a gate next to Skyler. We're watching the kids do some mutton bustin' while they get ready for the second round of bull riding. Both of us are just caked in mud and dirt. Brian's seeded in this round somewhere. Brynn's off in the stands with one of her girlfriends.
This June breeze feels good. The sun's starting to go down a little, so it's not so damned hot. Once you get used to the livestock smell, you can kinda smell corn-dogs and funnel cakes being cooked somewhere.
"I get to see my boy in a few weeks." Skyler smiles at me. His kid is one of those things he lives for. You can see the light in his grin.
"They comin' over this way?"
"His mother wants to go to Deadwood and gamble for the weekend, for her birthday. Figured since they were going to be so close, I'd just take him for the weekend."
"That's cool. What all you guys gonna do?"
"I think we're gonna do what ever he wants to do." He grins. "Maybe I'll teach him how to fish. He's gettin' about that age, I think he'd really like it."
"I haven't taken off and just gone fishin' since the last time I went with Mattie. Just before I graduated High School."
"You should come with us! Hell, maybe we'll get everyone together. Do a barbeque and hang out by the lake or something."
I nod. "I'd be up for that."
Brian's about thirty feet away from us, getting up on the side of his chute. He's riding first, by the looks of things.
'Now back to the bull riding. Behind chute one there on the east side of the ring we have Brian Goodwell gettin' ready for a go at Scaredy Cat. We're just waitin' for the pull in the ring, there. We'd just like to remind you that our sponsor tonight is Spearfish Dodge, who invites you to come in for a test drive. Tell 'em Randy sent you, and they'll leave you with a parting gift just for takin' one of their brand new trucks for a spin. We're also being sponsored by Smokeless Tobacco this evening...'
Skyler chuckles. "That's a nice name for a bull."
"I wouldn't judge 'em too quickly."
"Yeah, I know. Who knows if he'll even stay on." He knocks me in the ribs. "He should be takin' lessons from you."
"He does pretty well for himself." I smile.
There's a loud crack that echoes against the grand stands. I think Brian's ride just slammed it's hoof into the chute wall.
"Shit, that didn't sound good."
Skyler nods. "Guess we'll see."
I hear Brian yell for the pull. As the gateman is yanking the chute open, his bull bucks in the chute. Knocks Brian forward, and he smacks his head into one of the rails in front of him. Knocks him out cold. The bull turns and bucks out of the chute. Brian rolls off the side. The rank stops bucking and runs after one of the clowns.
I don't even think twice. I hop off the fence and start running toward Brian with Skyler on my heels. I kneel down next to him.
He's got a gash above his eye that's gushing blood, probably an inch and a half long. I can see part of his skull. He opens his eyes and blinks a few times. Tries to sit up.
"Upp. Lay back. You're fine." I put a hand on his chest to keep him down.
He looks back and forth between Skyler and I.
An official kneels down and holds Brian's head between his hands, to keep it stabilized. There're two officials standing at his feet.
"He must'a rung my fuckin' bell pretty good. I still hear ringing." He chuckles and closes his eyes. Swallows.
"You'll be fine, man. We'll get Brynn and we'll meet you at the hospital. You need anything?" I squeeze his shoulder.
"I'm gonna need an aspirin." He smiles.
Skyler chuckles.
A paramedic kneels down next to us and starts putting on a neck brace. Another paramedic runs up beside Skyler with a back board. Skyler steps back to let him through, looks at me. "I'm gonna go get Brynn. We'll meet you there." He runs off.
Brian grabs the back of my arm. "Hey, bro, will you ride with me to the hospital?" He's bleedin' bad.
I nod. "Yeah, man." It's just part of this life, gettin hurt. It could have been a hell of a lot worse. We've all seen worse.
They get him strapped to the back board. I get one of the corners to help carry him to the ambulance.
"Okay, lift on three." The lady paramedic looks around to make sure everyone's ready. "One, two, three. Easy. Easy!"
As we're running off the arena, Brian holds his arm up and gives a thumbs-up.
'A good sign, Brian Goodwell is giving us a thumbs up. Let's give him a hand.'
The audience cheers.
I sit up next to him in the back of the ambulance. Guess all they can really do is keep pressure on his gash. Keep an eye on him and make sure he's not gonna slip under or something.
He tries to sound like he's Hispanic. "How do I look?" He pouts his lips.
I can only laugh. Get knocked out by a bull and the guy still has a sense of humor. "Other than the new hole in your head, you look fine."
"Oooooh. My beautiful face!"
"I'm beginning to think that bull knocked you for a loop."
He chuckles. "Got one hell of a headache, that's for sure."
It doesn't take us long to get there. As they're unloading Brian, the driver holds a bottle toward me that looks like hand soap.
"What is it?"
"Hand sanitizer. You've got blood all over your hands."
I look at my hands. Sure enough, they're covered in blood. I turn and crumple. Take a few clumbsy steps toward a trash can and barf. I don't know why it didn't bother me before. Maybe I just didn't think about it.
The driver walks up beside me. "You okay?"
I hurl again. Try to nod. I stand up, try not to think about it.
"Why don't you come in and let me check you out. Help you get cleaned up."
I nod.
He puts a hand around my shoulders and leads me in. Shows me to the bathroom. "I'm going to talk to one of the nurses. I'll be right back."
I walk in and start washing my hands. It's all over my sleeves, too. The red thins out, runs down the drain like ink. I dry-heave. That nasty, acidic taste at the back of my throat. I drop my head and throw up in the sink. It's yellow fluid.
I get the sudden urge to check in on Mattie. I'm worried sick about him. I need to be with him, but I feel like something happened to him. Something in my soul's just corroding me...
There's a knock at the door.
I look at my sleeves and heave again. I try to stare into my eyes through the mirror while I roll up my sleeves. "Just a minute." I lean down and put my head under the faucet so I can get some water in my mouth, rinse it out a little. I dry my hands on my jeans. Walk to the door and open it.
It's the paramedic. "You gonna be able to hold it in?" He guides me to a chair across the hall. Sits me down.
"I think I'm about over it."
He puts a blood pressure collar on my arm. Starts squeezin' the little bulb. "How's your stomach?"
"Like someone kicked me in the gut."
He puts the business end of a stethoscope on my arm. Feels my wrist and looks at his watch. Twists the knob on the bulb and lets the air out. "Think it might be a flu or something?"
"No. No. It's the blood. I tuned it out until you mentioned it."
"The sight of blood makes you sick?"
"Few years ago my best friend tried to kill himself. I saw the bathtub after he done it. Never been quite the same since." Makes me sick just thinking about it.
He nods. "Gotcha." He puts a finger under my chin. Holds a flashlight up with his other hand and shines it in my eyes. Moves it back and forth. "Well, your friend's going to be fine. Stitches and a concussion. They want to keep him over night for observation." He clicks the flashlight off and puts it in his front pocket. Slaps my knee and stands up. "As for you, everything seems normal. You think you need to see a doctor for any reason?"
"Okay." He holds a hand out for me. Helps me to my feet. "Don't feel dizzy or lightheaded?"
"Not really. A little weak, maybe."
"I think you should go to the cafeteria and try to eat some Jello or something light. Maybe one of those naked protein shakes they have. Just sip at it." He pulls one of his gloves off, then holds it in his other hand and pulls the other one over it. Throws it in the trash can just inside the bathroom.
"Where do I go?"
"I'll show you to the waiting room." He leads me to a set of double doors. "Around the corner. Immediate left. Okay?"
I nod. "Think his girlfriend's going to be able to come in and see him?"
"After they get done with the stitches. Have her check in with the front desk."
"Thanks, man." I walk through the doors.
Brynn springs up and almost tackles me. Throws her arms around my sides. She's shaking like a leaf. "Is he okay?"
I giggle. "Brynn, he's fine. Stitches and a concussion."
"Did you see him?"
"Not since they took him off the ambulance. I, uh, got a little sick. The paramedic wanted to check me out."
She stands back and blinks at me. She feels my cheek. "God, you're really pale."
"Blood really freaks me out. I was covered in it, and I didn't think nothin' about it until the paramedic said something." I squeeze her hand. "They said they'll let you see him when they're done sewing him up."
"Something's bothering you."
"I feel a little weak, that's all."
"You're worried about Matthew, aren't you?"
"It was the blood."
She squeezes my arm. "Why don't you go try to call him?"
"I'd rather make sure Brian's okay. I'll sit here and keep you company."
"I'm not going anywhere." She nods toward the door. "Go call him."
I sigh. Look over. I walk toward the entrance and stand outside. Fish my cellphone out of my pocket and dial Mattie's number.
It rings.
And rings.
And rings.
And rings.
"Hey. It's Matt. Leave me a message and I'll call you back."
# # #
There was this idea that 681 should be forced into retirement. He was off the circuit for a year, but somehow he ended up back in the chute. It started as a rematch show, like some boxing match you'd see in some fancy Vegas casino. The show sold out, bets were placed, the show went on.
The title rider didn't make it very far out of the chute before he was bucked off. They gave him a re-ride, but he only stayed on for five seconds.
# # #
Brynn drops me off at my truck a little past seven. I plug my phone into the charger because the battery died. I'm horrible at keeping the damn thing juiced up. I turn it on to see if I missed any calls from Mattie.
The phone beeps. 8 Missed Calls. I flip the phone open. They're all from Rook.
SHIT. I have a date with him tonight. After I spent some time with Shadow over Thanksgiving, I was about to come home and call it good with Rook. I tried to think about what I was gonna say for about a month. Just kept workin' out with him, we went on like friends, like there wasn't anything special going on. There wasn't any sex involved from then to now. I figured if we could keep going like that, things'd be peachy.
Last weekend he asked if we could go out on a date. Not just hang out and get some dinner or something. A fuckin' date. Like he had some middle-school crush or something. I said yes, just to see where it'll take me. If it doesn't go well, I can always bail ship.
I hit the redial button.
He answers after the first ring. "Hey."
"I am so sorry. Brian was thrown off his bull in the chute and he cut his head open. Knocked him clean out. I was with Brynn at the hospital. She just dropped me off at the truck."
"Damn. Is he okay?"
"Stitches and a concussion. I think he'll be fine, if his girlfriend doesn't kill him, first. She was pretty pissed when she saw him. I didn't know she hated him bull riding so much."
"Glad he's not seriously hurt."
"He's gonna have a hell of a scar. Hey, I'm gonna run home and clean up. I'm still filthy from my ride. You okay with a late movie?"
"That's cool. I'll see you in a bit." He hangs up.
I start for home. I'm still kinda zonked out from everything that happened. I wish Mattie would answer his damn phone. At least quit disappearing on me. Just for my own piece of mind, I try to call him again. I get the voicemail. I don't know why, but I'm starting to get pissed at him. If he doesn't want to talk to me, he could tell me and stop ignoring me. I'd feel better about things if he did. I could stop banging my fuckin' head against the wall.
I pull into the parking lot. Leg it to my apartment and start stripping down right as soon as I'm through the door. Throw my dirty jeans into the hamper with the other shit that needs to be washed. Jump in the shower and foam up the loufa. Scrub the dirty right off of me. I look down over my body. Got a few little chest hairs that decided to grow in over the last few weeks, just sitting there between my pecks. I think they look stupid. I'm almost tempted to shave them off. The only other hair on my torso is my love trail. I like that just the way it is. I can't even grow a goatee, yet. If I try, it looks all splotchy and thin. I get one of those skeezy hick mustaches. I think I'd like a little hair on my chin.
If Dad's any indication of things to come, I won't grow up to look like a fuckin' yeti.
Shit, guess it's time to trim the hedge, too.
I get done with myself in the bathroom. Dry myself off and go to my bedroom naked. Mattie took me shopping when we went down to Denver. He helped me pick out a pair of jeans like he wears. I don't wear them often because they cost me seventy-fuckin'-dollars, but they look good when I do wear them. I don't look so much like a Wrangler bumpkin. I find a tight tee-shirt to go with it. Put on some boxer-briefs, some long socks. Get my nice brown boots on. Think I'm gonna try to fix my hair up instead of wearing a hat.
Takes me some fidgeting, but I get it to look pretty decent. Not bad. This green shirt really makes the green in my eyes pop. Almost looks like I'm wearing colored contact lenses or something.
I hoof it to Rooks apartment, since he's just three buildings over. Knock on his door.
He answers, looks me over top to bottom. "Now, who left this hot cowboy on my doorstep?"
"The FedEx guy. He's in the parking lot, if you wanna catch him."
"I might just have to inspect the package for damage." He grins.
"Let me grab my keys." He backtracks into his apartment, comes back out. We walk to my truck.
"Where are we going?"
"Let's get something to eat, first. Outback okay with you?"
"I could go for that." I unlock the door.
Rook hops in before I even get around the truck. We get off the campus before Rook speaks. "Think you could give me another chance?"
I look over at him, then back to the road. "With what?"
"Well, with us. I think you have a lot to offer."
I laugh. "I do? Like what?"
"You're different. I like that."
"Well, let's take it a step at a time and see where it goes."
"So, maybe?"
I nod, shrug. "Maybe."
He sits quietly for a minute. "I got the painting done."
"Which one?"
"The one of you."
"Wow. That took you a while."
"It's the biggest canvas I've painted. You can't rush art."
"Shit. I ain't art."
"I'll have to show you later."
I nod. "I'd like to see it." I take a right off the road and pull into the parking lot outside the Outback. We go in and get seated pretty quick. It's not very busy for a Friday night.
The waitress steps up to the table. "Hi, I'm Becca. I'll be taking care of you this evening. What can I start you off with to drink?"
Rook looks over and smiles. "Guinness for me."
She looks at me.
"Just a coke." I scratch the back of my hand. She reminds me a little of Brooke.
She smiles at Rook. "Can I see an ID?"
Rook fishes out his wallet and hands her his license.
She takes it, squints, then hands it back. "I'll be right back, guys."
"A Guiness? Never figured you much for the beer type." I grin.
"Gotta have a nice dark beer with a steak. It's the only reason I ever come here, anyway. Get a little shrimp skewer with it. Nothing closer to heaven on earth. One of the simple things make life worth it."
I laugh. It's a different side to him. He might just be all right.
He smiles. "What?"
I look around. "Huh?"
"You've got this funny grin on your face."
"Just thinkin' bout some things."
"Like what?"
"I don't think I'm gonna tell you."
"Why not?"
"'Cuz I don't wanna." I stick my tongue out at him.
Out of nowhere, this chick sits down and slides in next to Rook. Hugs him. He looks about as surprised as I am. She's about our age, maybe a little younger.
"My god, Rob! It's so good to see you!"
I can't wait to see the look on her face when she realises it's not who she thinks it is.
There's something with Rook, though. He looks a little worried.
The girl sits back. "I never thought I'd just run into you like this! Your parrents totally freaked out when you left. Do they know you're here?"
He shakes his head. Looks down at the table, and a little to the side toward her. It's like he's looking at her through the corner of his eye. "I'd rather they didn't." He looks up at me. He can probably hear my thoughts right now, that my head is about to explode. "Jen, this is my friend Lem."
She nods at me. "It's nice to meet you." She squeezes Rook's bicep. "Did you know your parents called the cops? They were so mad when they came back and told them you were fine. They asked where you were, but the cops said you didn't want to be found." She puts her hands in her lap. "Your arms are huge. I almost didn't think it was you."
"The cops can't really do anything about it. I was eighteen when they tracked me down. I didn't want other people running my life anymore."
"Oh." She sounds a little disappointed. "Hang on, let me tell my mom I'm going to be a bit." She gets up and walks off.
I lean forward on my elbows. Chew on my bottom lip for a second. "Uh, what the hell was that about?"
He tears a packet of sugar open and dumps it on the table. Starts drawing in the sugar with his finger. "Hey, you have skeletons in your closet, I've got some in mine."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You try growing up under an abusive Mormon father. In front of everyone in the church, he was perfect. He could do no wrong. I was shit, and he wouldn't let me forget it. Everyone in the family was expected to take it. I was the only one who wouldn't."
I see Jen walking back over. She sits back down next to Rook. Kind of traps him against the wall.
Rook talks soft. "Hi."
"My mom wants you to come over and say hi."
He hisses quietly. "I guess she's going to tell my parents you guys ran into me, isn't she?"
"There isn't anything wrong with that. It's not to late to fix things up."
"You know nothing of what my life was, Jen."
"Everyone knew you had a really good life. Your family was perfect. You know how many guys wanted to be in your shoes?"
"Life was perfect? Was it? Well, where the hell was I?"
The waitress comes back. Sets the beer in front of him. Black abyss, inch of froth, a little dripping down the side of the glass. "I'll be right back to get your order."
Jen stares at the beer. "Are... are you going to drink that?"
He nods. "Jen, I'm not some LDS slave." He sounds a little irritated.
"God's watching you."
"Well, was he watching every time my dad raised a hand to me, or did he turn his back like everyone else?"
"It's a sin to lie."
He laughs. "If there's a party in hell, I'm sure I've made the guest list a long time ago." Says it smooth as water off a duck's back. He takes a long chug off his beer.
She looks stung. "I don't mean to be nosey, Rob, but what about everything you left behind? Doesn't it bother you could lose your family, or the support of the church?"
He slams his glass down on the table. Talks low. "You think I really care about them or the fucking church? It's a cult, Jen. All of it." He takes a sip. "Get out while you still have your sanity."
"I can't believe I just heard that come out of your mouth." She shakes her head.
He folds his hands on the table. "Can you let me out? I need to use the restroom."
"You're not mad at me, are you?"
"I could say I expected better from you, but for some reason, I think you'd say the same thing. I need to pee."
She slides off the bench and lets him out. Sits back down and looks up at him. "I want to catch up, if it's okay. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be in Spearfish."
He shrugs. "Give me a minute." He walks toward the back of the restaurant.
I totally feel like a fly on the wall right now. This is a strange feeling. I don't think I've ever really seen Rook this pissed off. Or Rob. Whoever he is. I'm thinking his license is a fake. Makes me wonder what else I don't know about him. Where the fuck do I find these people?
She's looking across the table at me, now.
I really don't know what to say.
"So, where do you know Rob from?"
I lean back, scratch my head. "I know Rook from school."
She blinks at me. "Rook?"
I shrug. "That's what his drivers license says."
"Is it?"
"So, I take it you knew him from a previous life?"
"We used to go to the same church. I was girlfriend's best friend before he flew the coop. There were all those rumors after he disappeared. People saying he went funny. I never really believed them until now."
She sighs. Sounds kind of cold when she tells me, like it's somehow my fault. "Yeah. When he was seventeen, he ran away. Nobody heard anything from him for several months. His parents had the police looking for him. From what I know they got into this pretty big fight because they were worried he was turning his back to the church. It's all he used to live for."
I chuckle. "I'm sorry for bein' skeptical, but it's hard for me to see him as a church mouse."
"He's not the same as he used to be. I think it was people like you that changed him."
"Heh. What, bull riders? I don't see him riding any livestock, sweet-pea."
"The bible says it's a sin. It says gay people like you are an abomination."
"What the hell gives you the idea I'm gay? Do you all go around accusing people of being queers?"
She smiles. It's almost rude. Slides out of the booth and gets ready to walk off. "I don't have to justify myself to you."
And she's gone.
I'll be glad when Rook gets back. I just want to get the hell out of here.
# # #
I waited for Rook at the restaurant last night. Sat there like a dip-shit for almost an hour.
He up and fuckin' left me. Just walked out. Didn't bother to tell me he was going. Didn't call my phone. Not a damn thing. I had dinner alone, payed the bill, and tried to call him when I left. No answer. I checked the bathroom, asked around to see if anyone saw him. One of the waitresses said he left.
I was so mad, I just went home and went to bed.
My clock alarm's been going for ten minutes, now. I figured if I ignored it, it would go fuck itself and shut itself off. I reckon I'll go over to Rook's and see if I can get an answer out of him. He better have a really good fuckin' explanation...
I jump in the shower. Jerk it, rinse, lather, repeat. Throw on some clothes and wander out the door. Walk over toward his apartment. I knock on the door pretty hard. Takes a few minutes for his roommate to answer. He just kind of stares at me.
"Rook here?"
He shakes his head. "Rook packed his shit and took off last night. Said he wasn't coming back."
"I think you're full of shit."
He shakes his head. "You can look in his room, if you want. All that's there is his mattress and a painting. Don't know what to tell you, man."
I walk past him, toward Rooks room. True enough, his stuff is gone.
The painting's leaning against the wall, back side facing out. There's a note taped to it that only says For Lem.
I turn it over and look at the front. It's a decent painting. He was being diplomatic - painted my dick bigger than it really is. You can't really tell it's me, unless you know me really well. I can't be seen with something like this. I set it up against the wall again.
"You going to take that?"
I turn around, face his roommate. "I don't even know what I would do with it." I walk past him, toward the front door. "I might come back for it later. I gotta think about a few things."
# # #
Mattie doesn't pick up his phone. Damn. I haven't heard a peep from him in almost four months, and I'm beginning to wonder what he's keeping from me. Rook's little stunt isn't setting that well with me, either. I'm beginning to wonder if it's me. If people just can't stand to be around me. Hell, I can't stand myself sometimes.
I figure I'll check online. See if maybe he left his AIM on. I could always send him an email and beg him to call me. I don't know which way's up anymore. Hurts when someone just up and takes off on you like that.
Takes my computer a few seconds to switch on. I click on the little AOL icon and wait for it. Nobody I know online except for Jarrod. I think he just leaves his computer on all the time.
A message window pops up.
InvertLineSky88: Hey.
I sit back and think. BullRiderLem: who is this?
InvertLineSky88: skyler.
BullRiderLem: i didn't no u had my aol
InvertLineSky88: Brynn gve it to me.
InvertLineSky88: ^gave
BullRiderLem: ok
InvertLineSky88: what you doing 2day?
BullRiderLem: should probably study for finals. nothing rite now.
InvertLineSky88: i should too. heh.
BullRiderLem: i dont feel like doing shit today
There's a long delay. I don't know why, but I open the internet browser. Pull up Google. Rook Corvus. Search. The top link is for an online dictionary. Most of this shit's on birds.
A gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face... Rook did have a few crow paintings around his house.
It all comes to me at once. That little shit!
AOL starts flashing in my program bar at the bottom. I click on it.
InvertLineSky88: you should let me suck your dick.
I lean forward. Squint at the screen. BullRiderLem: uh----pardon?
InvertLineSky88: want me to come over?
This isn't his brand of humor.
BullRiderLem: very funny. are you drunk?
InvertLineSky88: no. :) i'll do it. you should let me.
BullRiderLem: who the fuck is this?
InvertLineSky88: i told you, its skyler
BullRiderLem: seriously, stop yanking my chain.
InvertLineSky88: want me to yank your chain?
I laugh my ass off. BullRiderLem: what the fuck got into you?
InvertLineSky88: nothing yet. let me come over
BullRiderLem: you know you don't have to ask to come over
BullRiderLem: but bring whatever it is you are smoking!!1
InvertLineSky88: only thing i wanta smoke is your pole
BullRiderLem: skyler, dude, quit farting around and come over.
InvertLineSky88 signed off. 3:45:15 PM.
I wonder what the hell got into that kid. Something's up. I just know I'm going to be the butt of one of his and Brian's pranks. I bet Brian got bored, since Brynn ordered him to stay on the couch and rest.
What if that was Taylor? Shit, he could come over here with a gun or something. There's a warm feeling, like trouble, all over my body. I pick up my phone and call Skyler. If it wasn't Skyler, then he could come over and help me deal with whoever it was.
He picks up. "What, can't wait five minutes? I'm almost there."
"It was you..."
He laughs. "Yeah... you should trust me."
"I was just thinkin' it could have been Taylor or someone tryin' to pull some shit on me or something."
"Just me."
"Are... are you feeling okay? Sure you're safe to drive and everything?"
"I told you I'm not drunk."
"Could've fooled me." There's a knock on the door. I look through the peep-hole.
It's him with his phone up to his ear.
"You asshole. You're playin' a joke on me."
"Open the door. These're heavy."
I hang up and pull the door open.
He puts a twelve pack in my arms, walks in. "They're all in there, if you don't believe me."
"Dude, if you wanted to hang out, you didn't have to put on a show. How the hell did you get here so fast?"
He laughs. "I have AOL Messenger on my phone. It dinged at me when you came on. I was already on my way over. Help yourself to those." He nods at the beer carton.
"You want one, too?"
"Yeah." He smiles.
I rip open the carton and take two bottles out. Hand him a bottle and sit down on the other side of the couch. Enough room between us you could park a bus. I open the cap and take a swig.
We stare at each other for a minute.
I giggle. "What?"
"So?" He grins. Blushes.
"So what?"
"You gonna let me?"
I feel my dick jump. I need to adjust myself because it's starting to hurt, but I don't want to do it in front of Skyler. I figure he's still messin' around with me. I'm just waiting for the punchline. "Dude, stop jokin' around."
"I ain't jokin'. You should let me suck your dick."
We stare at each other for a while longer. This is so fuckin' weird, it's unbelievable. He takes a sip of his beer.
I take a sip of mine.
"Told you, you should trust me."
"I'm about to call Brynn, 'cuz I think someone hit you in the head with something heavy."
He laughs. "Why don't you beleive me?"
"Because this isn't like you." I try to smile.
"You don't think I'd do it, do you?"
I shake my head. "Quite frankly, no."
He nods back over his shoulder. "Stand up. Come over here."
I look at my feet, curl my toes into the carpet. Just think about this for a minute. With everything going on, it just beats the fox that much more. As Grandma would say, I'm flummoxed. I'm not nervous. Confused? Yeah, a little. I'm still waiting for the joke.
I sigh. Stand up and walk across the living room. Walk back to the couch and stand a little in front of him. "Seriously, what's the joke? You wouldn't suck cock."
"And you wouldn't just whip it out." He kind of nudges me on with his eyes.
I remember an old joke Jason used to play on Mattie, just for the shock value of showing Mattie his balls. Maybe I could one up Skyler, before he even pulls his prank. "By the way, you get those CD's?"
He looks at me funny. "Um, what CD's?"
"See deez nuts?!" I pull down the front of my pants and lift up the front of my underwear so my balls fall out.
He busts up laughing. Before I can fix myself, he reaches over and grabs me by the underwear band. Tries to pull me forward, and I almost end up falling on him. He leans forward and just takes one of my balls in his mouth. Starts sucking it.
"Shit. You weren't joking." I feel strange, now. This is just awkward. "Okay, okay. Wait a minute here."
He looks up at me.
I fix myself up right quick. Sit down next to him.
"What? I thought that's what you wanted."
I try not to chuckle. "Skyler, just because I've done it don't mean that's all I do. I'm... well... shit Skyler. This is just fuckin' weird."
"You have a kid. You ain't ever done anything that would even make me think you'd do something like this."
"You ever heard you ain't supposed to judge a book by it's cover?"
"Yeah, but this is just random."
"What, don't you think I'm sexy?"
"Well, not to put too fine a point on it, yeah. But..."
"I'll take it."
I sigh. "Skyler, you sure about this?"
"You know how long it took me to say that?"
"Well," I chuckle, "you could have taken me to dinner and a movie first."
It's the first time I think I've seen him blush.
"I just never saw this side of you."
"I keep myself in check." He leans back, sips his beer.
"Are you?"
"I tried once or twice back in high school. This guy I used to know." He smiles. "Then I messed around with my ex. Couldn't keep my dick to myself and I ended up with a kid and a child support payment."
"Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"Where would I even start?"
"Does anyone else know?"
He shakes his head. "Nope. Like to keep it that way."
"I understand."
We sit in quiet for a minute.
"So," he wiggles his eyebrows, "want me to suck you off?"
I throw my head back and laugh. We sit and stare at each other a little more. He's not far from a smile. There's something I find a little funny about this. I think of something to say...
"You're blushing." He grins.
I laugh again. "Show me yours. I might just show you mine."
He laughs. "Maybe later." He grabs at the front of my pants. Gets them undone before I can even blink. We keep staring each other in the eye while he rubs me through my underwear. "Can I?"
I blink at him. "I aint sayin' yes, I ain't sayin' no." I'm rock hard.
He leans over and puts his face in my lap. I can feel him kissing it through my underwear. Puts his hand through the leg hole and rubs my nuts.
This feeling... it reminds me of those times Mattie and I'd do this back in high school with Ronnie in the next room over. A complete fucking rush.
He pulls down the front of my undies. Licks from my nuts all the way to the head. Puts the head in his mouth and sucks it like he's trying to get a chrome shine.
God, I wish I'd known about him before I knew Rook.
He goes down on me. All the way down. I must be half way down his neck, the way he's going. Doesn't even choke. Just goes up and down slowly. I'd almost forgotten how much I like this. How good it feels. Those warm, wet lips. His tongue's a thief.
He's all the way down on me when I decide to cop a feel of my own. He kind of stops, stays down on me for a second, then goes back to business. I just squeeze the bulge. I could stand it, a taste of Skyler. I've thought about him before. A few times. In the shower, hosing the walls with my seed. In bed. On the couch. Never did I think he'd be here sucking me off.
I try to put my hand down the front of his jeans. He kind of scoots his hips away from me, keeps sucking. I get the front of his fly, get it unbuttoned an reach for it again. He gets up on the couch and lies on his belly, cock still in his mouth. I go around the back of the couch and try to get it under him, he just kind of rolls away. Try for the other side, but he just does the same thing. Is this what they mean by hard to get or what?
He lifts his head off me. "Donnn't." It's more of a whimper than anything. A tease. He just goes back to sucking me off. He goes for a few seconds and puts one of his knees out to the side of him for leverage. Opens him up a little. I try to grab him, but he collapses on my hand.
"Why not?"
He stops, looks up at my eyes. "Because." He jerks me slowly.
"But I wanna!"
He purrs, smiles at me with this cheshire grin. "Nooooo." He playfully bites my dick.
"Why not? I want to return the favor." I wink at him.
"Nothin' special down there."
"You're full'a shit."
He giggles.
I try to get at it again. He just keeps shifting, blocking. I start ticking his sides.
"Son of a bitch!" He tackles me over. We both take a trip over the side of the couch and start wrestling around on the carpet. He keeps trying to pin me down, but he doesn't realize I've got a lot more arm strength than he does. He squeezes his legs around my sides pretty hard.
Takes me some work, but I get ahold both his wrists with one hand. Try my damnedest to keep him put. Reach my hand right down and grab him square in the junk.
He smiles, squirms. "No. Don't do that!"
"Why not?"
"I'm modest!"
I guffaw. "Bull fuckin' shit you are!"
"I'm hung like a sprung gerbil."
I look up at him, in his eyes. Try to be serious for a second. "Think I care about something like that?"
He blushes deep red.
I move my hand to his underwear band. He grabs my wrist. "It's embarrassing."
"It's okay."
His smile fades a bit. He sighs, lightens his grip a little. He's not the tallest guy in the world. I wouldn't expect him to be hung like a Tijuana donkey or something. His eyes are sweet, pleading. Small or not, thank God for his good looks.
I pull the front of his undies down. His dick springs out and stands straight up. He's a little smaller than Rook, but not by much. A little thinner, maybe, but just as long. It's not as small as he makes it out to be. He's got some nice, big nuts, though.
I grip it and tug a few times. "Stand up."
He looks at me like he's confused.
I just nod him on.
When he stands up, I pull his pants and everything down. Get on my knees and start licking his balls. They're a little sweaty. Sweet but strong, like a hot summer day. He smells and tastes like a man. Oh, God!
He moans, bends his knees a little like he's gonna buckle.
I kiss the side of his cock. Catch a hint of piss. He smells like Jeff in a lot of ways, but his cologne's different. So's his taste. He rolls his hips, starts face-fucking me.
I keep sucking, work my pants off. Kick them off to the side. I lay back, guide him around so we're ready for a sixty-nine. Doesn't take much to get him where I want him.
He's got his knees around my ears. Works me like he's makin' up for lost time.
I might just surprise him yet. Put my hands around the back of his legs. Pretty smooth ass from where I'm sittin'. I pull apart a little at his thighs, below his butt. I think better of ot. He's not filthy or anything, but he could stand a little cleaning. Normal wear and tear. I'd still fuck him, though.
Mattie being a clean freak was a luxury. I wouldn't have thought twice about throwing my face in there, if this were him. Guess Skyler's a normal guy. Maybe we could take a shower together and I could scrub him up good. I'm good with this, for now.
My jaw starts getting sore after a few minutes, but he's workin' me quicker, breathing harder. Guess he's getting close. I've been trying my hardest to hold it in. My nuts are practically in my throat, now. I start moaning, to let him know I'm close.
He lets out this loud moan and shoots off in my mouth. It's throbbing like a jackhammer. Squirting down my throat. It's enough to make me go.
I have to swallow a lot. Throb after throb, this ain't stoppin'. I haven't ever seen a person cum as much as he is right now.
Finally, it sputters out. I feel him spitting mine out on my belly. He's not even sucking me any more. He's just got this look on his face. Looks down over his shoulder. "Could have warned me."
"I thought that's what you wanted."
He stands up. Looks me over. "Let me get you a paper towel or something." He goes into the kitchen and comes back out with the roll. Squats down and cleans me up. Puts the first napkin down on the floor and tears of another one. He looks over at my face and blushes.
I pull him over on top of me again and kiss him.
He jerks his head back, looks a little panicked.
"What's wrong?"
"I, um... no kissing. It don't feel right."
He puts his head down on my chest and hugs my sides. Just lies there and breathes.
"You okay?"
Takes him a minute. "I don't know. I swore to myself I'd never do this again."
"You feel guilty?"
"A little."
"There's nothing wrong with it once in a while. I can keep us a secret."
He mumbles. "Maybe."
I think for a second. "Wanna take a shower together?"
He shrugs. Looks up at me. Rests his chin on my sternum. "Okay." He smiles at me, wiggles his eyebrows.
I smile. He don't know what he just got himself into, and I don't plan on letting him go home without getting a chance to ride him around the bedroom first.
# # #
Things are pretty quiet for the start of Summer. Well, considering Skyler comes over to hang out every chance he gets. He still has to live with appearances; he calls it puttin' in his time with Brian. I don't even think he tells Brian that we've been hanging out so much this last week.
I ran out of condoms a few days ago.
When Skyler called to see if I wanted to do something, I asked him if he'd go to the pharmacy and get some. Told me he'd be right over with a fresh box of finger cots. Probably didn't help that I called his dick a cute little thing when we were joking around. It might not be big, but the guy can go like a fuckin' rabbit. I still haven't been able to talk him into letting me do him, though. Every time I do, it seems like he's a little closer to saying yes.
I'm trying to figure out how to tell my Dad and Momma something. And Mattie, too. I know Jason'd kick my ass if he was anywhere in the United States, and he probably will. I've been rehearsing it in the mirror. Think I'm going to start with Chase, see what she thinks. At least she'll keep quiet.
Mom, Dad, I'm dropping out of school for a while. I'm gonna come back and finish. It's not forever. I was thinking about some things, and I think I could really make it on the pro bull circuit. I want to try it until the end of the season and see how I do. If I don't do well, then I can come back for spring term and finish. It'd just be for the first part of the year. Momma always said maybe I should take a gap year.
I lean back and think about it. Look at the blinking line in Microsoft Word, read back over my little speech. Mom's gonna be the hard sell. I've already got a riding permit. I'm doing my first series ride in two weeks. I've already made up my mind. Most of my shit's packed and ready to be put in storage. If it goes well with Momma, I could probably just take it home and stash it there.
My email beeps at me. Probably some asshat trying to sell me Viagra.
It's Mattie.
I sigh, click on the email.
Things are okay here. Hope you are too. Been really busy with work and school. I'm working two jobs starting next week, and I won't really have a chance to take any time off for the summer. Maybe you could get down here sometime? There's this nightclub here that I think you would like. There are lots of people like us there. Two guys can kiss, or hold hands and nobody cares. Let me know if you're coming through. I want to see you.
I miss you.
Something doesn't feel right about it. I guess I should probably try calling him instead of emailing him back. No surprise, he doesn't pick up. I'll deal with him later. I got to wrap this up quick because Skyler's coming over later.
I dial home. Put the phone up to my ear and sigh. I just hope Chase picks up first.
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This African fish can start having babies at 17 days old
The catchily named Nothobranchius kadleci is the fastest-maturing vertebrate species known to science. In just over two weeks, this fish can reach sexual maturity and start laying eggs — and those eggs only need another 15 days before they are ready to hatch. So why does this species need to cram an entire generation… » 9/08/13 11:00am 9/08/13 11:00am | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9204295873641968}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '82720', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:K2ZNZGK2C7HHUBJE44KHB6DGU7ITQTP5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:42e550ad-ca28-4bb7-b1d4-678605642639>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 20, 4, 42, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.235.46.192', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HNXDUFCSMDORAXCC2SLAZMP23NAAWFMF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:cd26faa9-f1e3-48fa-ab81-8c23419e26b3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://io9.com/tag/extremophile', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b4472b35-f325-4d61-a077-7ff389de3925>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '68', 'url': 'http://io9.com/tag/extremophile', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5631251335144043', 'original_id': '84f965adaca2360fbe3a3bd9ab452f6f2770b33ad23c9f73f24c8e9cf3c8f3c9'} |
Activity of weekly paclitaxel in advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
We evaluated efficacy and toxicity of weekly paclitaxel in metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Patients received weekly paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 by 1-hour intravenous infusion. A course of therapy consisted of 6 weekly treatments and 2 weeks rest. PSA response was defined as a PSA decrease not less than 50%, maintained for 4 weeks with stable or improved performance status. The study enrolled 43 patients with metastatic HRPC diagnosed a median of 10.5 months before. Median age was 69 years (range, 58-86 years). Five had previous radioisotopes treatment for bone pain, 15 had previous treatment of metastatic hormone-refractory disease, mainly estramustine. The median number of weeks of therapy delivered each patient was 8 (range, 1-24 weeks; cumulative, 369 weeks). PSA response was registered in 13 patients of 36 evaluable for PSA response (36.1%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 20.8-53.8), with a median duration of 4.2 months. Among 16 patients evaluable for objective response, 5 partial responses (31.2%; 95% CI, 11.0-58.7) and 9 stable diseases were registered. Eleven (42.3%) of 26 patients presenting with cancer-related symptoms had improvement. Median survival time was 12.8 months (95% CI, 10.1-15.5) Therapy was associated with acceptable hematological toxicity (anemia grade 3, 16%; neutropenia grade 3-4, 12%) and moderate nonhematologic toxicities (thrombosis/embolism 10%; fatigue all grades, 60%). Docetaxel every 3 weeks is the standard of care for metastatic HRPC, but our results suggest some activity and an acceptable toxicity of weekly paclitaxel. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c6c0ed1a2c48a3152f0ea063cc059eb790b2400628484e39d75c65ab54f1489a'} |
A volunteer at a Devon Covid-19 vaccination centre has asked people to not turn up too early for their jab.
Paul Crabb, who is a councillor for Ilfracombe, is spending his spare time helping out at Barnstaple's North Devon Leisure Centre where the coronavirus vaccine is being administered.
Currently, the vaccine is being largely given to the elderly or those who are clinically vulnerable, with more than 9m across the country having been given their first jab.
Paul said the system at the leisure centre was working well, but he urged people not to show up significantly earlier than required.
He said that, although people meant well turning up early, it would simply mean more time waiting outside in the cold, while also potentially causing more confusion for those trying to organise and administer the jabs.
"It does help if people do not show up too early," said Paul, 57.
"It is mostly carers and the elderly who are being vaccinated at the moment and, while carers tend to show up at their allotted times, the elderly often arrive a fair bit earlier.
"It is actually a really nice and polite thing to do, but the problem is it is scheduled down to the minute so it actually helps if people turn up at the right time and no earlier.
"We have a chap on the door who shouts when it is time for people to come in, so there is no point arriving any earlier as you won't get in before then."
Paul added that the issue becomes particularly notable around easy-to-remember times. For example, if an appointment is at 4.15pm, it is not uncommon to have large numbers turning up at 4pm.
"The problem is that, if you are elderly or vulnerable, you don't want to be queuing outside in the cold for long. That way, you could end up with queues of people outside chatting and then you are creating more of a problem," he added.
"I would say wait in your car until literally a couple of minutes before your appointment, then get out of your car and come over."
Data from the NHS shows that almost 9.3m people have received their first jab, which is about 17.6 per cent of people aged 18 and over in the UK.
The Government needs to achieve around two million jabs per week to reach its target of 13m or so people having had their first injection by February - an aim which is looking increasingly likely to be met.
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Home / Remote Play
Outsmarted's Remote Play capabilities open up a new world of board game entertainment - play with friend and family wherever they are in the world!
There are three ways to play remotely, here is a run down of all three options:
1) You own the game, the remote players / teams also own the game
In this case all parties can use the physical board to move their genius characters around their board.
There only limitations are those of a standard game - you can have a maximum of 6 players or 6 teams (of up to 4 players per team). In other words with Remote Play you can play against six other players / teams, each in completely different locations if you wished.
The hosting party adds the players / teams and starts a normal game as if the players were all present in the same room. They then send the unique "join game" code that is generated to the remote players / teams. The remote players / teams can then join the game! It's as simple as that...
2) You own the game, the remote players / teams do not own the game
This works in the same way as above, except that that the remote players / teams do not have a physical board.
It is therefore necessary for the remote players / teams to have a Zoom or similar video connection to see the board and to ask the host to move their player character to their desired space when it is their turn.
They can even roll the dice using the virtual dice in the absence of a physical dice!
3) Use the Virtual Board
In February 2021 we will release a free update for all game owners that includes a virtual version of the board. With this version all players roll the dice, select their moves etc. using the app and the virtual board.
They can see the position of all remote / players teams within the app and the physical board is not utilised.
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"My Greatest Challenge was My Greatest Accomplishment"
Shuhei in power wheelchair next to community college sign board
At Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii, Shuhei Onishi broadened his own community.
While attending community college in Hawaii, international student Shuhei Onishi committed himself to meeting and helping people from all over the world.
MIUSA: How did you become interested in learning English?
What drew you to studying at a community college in Hawaii?
My family loves Hawaii, and we had been there several times. In fact, when I was in my first year of high school, I asked Make-A-Wish of Japan to visit Hawaii and make a study tour around Hawaii. So I decided to study abroad in Hawaii.
Did you receive any scholarships to fund your studies?
Fortunately, my parents funded everything while I was enrolled at Kapiolani Community College. In addition, I received a scholarship named the Financial Aid Pacific-Asian Scholarship through the University of Hawaii, which is given to students with high grades who demonstrate leadership, responsibility and service in the Pacific-Asian region.
As an international student, you volunteered over 100 hours of community service! What kinds of activities did you do?
I was a member of International Café, which is a service-learning center of Kapiolani Community College where you can meet and help people from all over the world. It is also a place for community service opportunities. I did lots of volunteer work for local people such as working at the Okinawan Festival, tutoring local students who wanted to learn Japanese, as well as participating in a charity fund drive, Izumo Shrine, cultural exchanges between the members and local elders in Leahi hospital, and beach clean-up.
All of those volunteer experiences were very valuable and great experiences for me. The reason why I volunteered is because I would like people in Hawaii and the Unites States to be happy. Actually, I do not know that all people I helped were comfortable, but if they smiled and were happy, and if something was changed by me, I felt fulfilled. Therefore, investing in those hours was not useless. In the future, I would like to make the most of my experience and make some social contribution. If there's something I can do for others, I would willingly like to do it!
What were some of the challenges of studying and living abroad?
My greatest challenge was also my greatest accomplishment, which was to enroll in Kapiolani Community College and graduate perfectly. I lacked enough sleep and was tired all the time from studying while I was a college student. In addition, I needed an assistant to provide care for me, and it took lots of time to find someone. I did not always feel at peace. However, every weekend, my housemates and my friends had a party and cheered me up.
What were the local attitudes towards disability?
In Hawaii, there were many people from other countries who had different diseases or abilities and had a similar background, so people in Hawaii were friendly to people with disabilities, and also those without disabilities. Also, most people understood my disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and were open-minded.
What did you learn from your experience?
First I'll share a story. When I was a college student and went to school for an exam without an umbrella on a heavy rainy day, my wet power wheelchair suddenly broke on the way and stopped. I was alone and did not know what to do, but I just said loudly, “Help me.” A person I never knew came to me to help, and he and a bus driver took me on a bus to my college. At my college, lots of my friends and student officers helped me; the problem was solved.
From this experience, I learned that it is important for me to claim what I need, what I should do, and what I would like to do. No one can understand what I feel without my claiming those desires.
What advice would you give to other people with disabilities considering study abroad?
It is very important to have your own firm will. Initially, I did not have any acquaintances and friends, but I had a strong will that “I will graduate from a college.” As a result, I was able to do it! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '30', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9898410439491272}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '33886', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:25GO2NDXIY33G2BBSLRIKW6DWHI4ETEC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0e1761ab-64cc-4230-b020-2760761a12e8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 18, 8, 32, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.185.0.3', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IGEPFM2F5WFBAG3BCGUWSJ7WIEALZA3E', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1d529c89-54d7-490a-af60-2f18c0ae6fc8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.miusa.org/resource/story/shuhei', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:70744c3c-9076-47f7-a4cb-b279acd95305>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '753', 'url': 'https://www.miusa.org/resource/story/shuhei', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-26\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-255-234.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': '0.028969943523406982', 'original_id': '7637917a70cba9fbd896b08db40004c49707e6ee29f1efa9a9aeec60fde43e51'} |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Portion Control
As I was flipping through M's copy of the latest issue of Cooking Light, I came across a short article about Brian Wansink (of "Mindless Eating" fame) and his quest to bring portion awareness to the masses. Included in the piece are ten useful tips to help us avoid unknowingly stuffing ourselves. They pretty much encapsulate the entirety of Wansink's book, so I thought I'd summarize them here for those of you who hate having to read anything longer than a blog post:
• Before eating, divide the plate. To ensure a properly balanced meal, fill one half of your plate with fruits or vegetables. Divide the remaining half equally between protein and starch/carbs.
• Pre-portion tempting treats. In other words, don't eat out of the bag or box; portion out the amount you're supposed to eat and set it aside, and put away the container before you turn off your brain and start popping stuff in your mouth.
• Head off the mindless munch. Have your restaurant server take away the basket of bread before you mindlessly down the contents.
• Downsize your dishes. Dinner plates are enormous compared to the ones used by our parents and grandparents. Trade them for smaller ones, or you'll end up overloading them with food (and eating all of it) just so your plates don't look so bare.
• Limit your choices. We tend to overeat if given more choices. Implement a no-buffet rule.
• Use your power for good. The person in your household who buys and prepares food is a "nutritional gatekeeper" who dictates the healthfulness of family meals and snacks. If that's you, wield this power responsibly.
• Avoid a "see-food" diet. Keep unhealthy snacks out of sight, and you'll be less likely to munch on them. Remember: Candy dishes are evil.
• Turn off the television. There's a direct correlation between time spent in front of the boob tube and amount of food that goes down your throat. Before you know it, that shitty episode of "CSI: Miami" is over and your bag of Cheetos is empty, leaving you with fluorescent artificial cheese flavoring smeared all over your gaping mouth.
• Think before you drink. Remember to choose zero-calorie beverages like water or tea. But when you do sip on something with calories (I'm talking juice, not soda), keep in mind that we're horrible at judging volumes and tend to drink more when using short, wide glasses.
• Serve good-for-you foods family style. Don't go family style when it comes to less-than-healthy foods -- we tend to pig out when a big-ass platter of deep fried anything is placed in front of us. But salads and vegetable sides can be an all-you-can-eat affair.
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Attitudes & Emotions
In many social situations, the main purpose of conversation is to establish/or reinforce the relationship between the speakers. The information conveyed in these conversations is often less important than the attitudes and emotions that are (mostly indirectly) expressed. People signal their attitudes and emotions in quite a few different ways, simultaneously. If you have trouble “reading” people, it may be that you’re focusing too much on the literal meanings of their words and ignoring all the other signals.
You may not always know what to say and when to say it, but if you can project a friendly, non-threatening “vibe,” people will enjoy communicating with you. (Think of young children and non-native speakers who may get the grammar wrong and may not have learned our arbitrary cultural conventions, yet still have successful and enjoyable social interactions.) On the other hand, no matter how valuable your information is, people will not attend to it if you are (even inadvertently) projecting hostility or creepiness.
Social initiation describes how to make initial contact and get a conversation going. This should always go hand-in-hand with expressing emotions, as it is vital to recognize whether the other person is expressing annoyance with you (telling you to back off) or trying to appear friendly, to encourage you to continue with the conversation. (There are, of course, quite a few other attitudes and emotions covered in this section, which are no less important to recognize.)
Showing interest via active listening is one of the most important skills involved in keeping conversations going. Power and solidarity is how we calculate how polite we need to be to avoid causing offense or hurting people’s feelings; we can look at how polite they are (and what forms that politeness takes) to decode how they see their relationship with us.
Indirect speech is one of our most common politeness strategies, and one that is often particularly difficult for people with social communication challenges to master. We hope to demystify both why people feel the need to be indirect so often and how they do this. Even if you wish to continue being very direct yourself, you will get a great deal more out of conversations if you can read between the lines. Sarcasm can be especially challenging for people with social communication difficulties, and so we have a learning module devoted specifically to this.
Finally, in addition to professional and friendly interactions, people also regularly change their speech style to signal romantic and/or sexual interest, i.e. flirting. It is not the goal of this website to facilitate hook-ups, but you can get into a great deal of social trouble with a lot of hurt feelings if you appear to be flirting when you have no such intention, or if you fail to recognize signs that someone is flirting with you.
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April 13, 2022
Libby Marks
How to Create a Staffing Plan Your Employees Will Approve
A staffing plan prepares your business for growth, productivity, and profitability. You'll understand what it is, why you need it, and exactly how to do it with our step-by-step guide to staff planning.
Your employees are your most valuable business resources. Their skills and commitment determine whether your organization is a high-performer hitting its strategic objectives - or an also-ran that under-delivers.
To secure the talent advantage in a competitive market, it's essential that you have a systematic process for recruiting and retaining the talent you need - both now and in the future.
That process is staff planning. And we're going to tell you EXACTLY how to do it.
Follow the five steps below and you'll be able to create a staffing plan that prepares your organization for future success - through the optimal use of strategically-aligned human resources.
What is a staffing plan?
A staffing plan is a strategic document that sets out the number - and type - of employees you need to achieve your business goals. The staff planning process is typically conducted by HR professionals and is one of the core human resource planning processes.
A staffing plan assesses your current personnel landscape and determines whether you have the staff and skills you need for future success. It's about ensuring you have the right people in the right place at the right time - to achieve both short and long-term strategic objectives.
An effective staffing plan informs:
• Which job roles to create or remove from your organizational structure
• What skills to recruit for, as well as develop internally
• Who needs promoting - and who needs succession planning
• How to retain your Most Valued Performers for the talent advantage
• Where opportunities exist for efficiencies and savings
A staffing plan asks and answers the following questions:
• What work will we need to deliver in the future, according to the strategic plan?
• What's the optimal number of people to achieve this - so we have enough people to deliver the work without any idle resources?
• What skills, experience, and competencies do those people need?
• Have we got those people and are they where they need to be?
• If not, how can we secure them and improve our chances of business success?
Why is a staffing plan important?
A strategic staffing plan is a framework for future success. It is an opportunity to systematically review the efficacy of your current staff structure - from skills supply to resource utilization - to ensure your human resources are optimally aligned to business objectives.
If you think it is just about recruitment and skillsets, prepare to discover differently. Staff planning covers the entire employee lifecycle, including:
• recruitment and retention
• onboarding
• training and development
• performance
• succession planning
• compensation and rewards
• employee engagement and EX
• capacity and utilization
• and more
It enables businesses to deliver their business objectives and scale efficiently, by ensuring they have the exact resources they need for anticipated growth. Too few resources and you might fail to deliver your business plan. Too many resources and you'll go over budget on staff costs.
It also mitigates against business risk associated with poorly planned staff resources. Such as failed projects, customer dissatisfaction, inflated staff costs, and missed opportunities.
What are the benefits of a staffing plan to business?
A thorough, research-informed staffing plan delivers significant benefits to an organization. These include financial benefits - like reduced staff costs - and operational benefits - like faster time to completion and higher customer satisfaction.
A good staffing plan...
Increases productivity - A staffing plan increases productivity by reviewing resource capacity and utilization - and adjusting these to optimize performance.
Reduces staff costs - By optimizing your staff structure to fully utilize capacity - and reducing redundancy and idle resources.
Reduces recruitment costs - Through proactive employee experience, satisfaction and retention strategies - saving the cost and disruption associated with higher staff churn
Improves customer outcomes - By ensuring your organization has the right people and skills to deliver client projects - and to do this on-time, on-budget, and on-brief
Unlocks opportunities - By ensuring you have the capacity to seize opportunities that come your way - without sacrificing existing projects.
How to determine your staffing needs
To determine your staffing needs, you'll need to complete the following five steps.
1. Identify business goals
2. Determine current staffing environment
3. Forecast future staffing needs
4. Conduct a gap analysis
5. Recommend actions to overcome gaps
If you're not sure what that entails, don't worry. We're going to take you through it step-by-step. So you've got everything you need to create a robust staffing plan that paves the way for business growth.
Step 1: Identify business goals
The very first step in staff planning is to consult your organization's strategic business plan for the next year. What are the company's objectives and what are the potential implications for staffing? Some key business factors to look for include:
Mergers and acquisitions
Merging with another business could mean you have too many staff or staff with duplicate skills. This will require careful consolidation to maintain an efficient staff structure.
Product launches
New products or services could create increased customer demand, which may require additional staff.
Strategic initiatives
For example, updating your software stack or launching a second office. These invariably need staff to be recruited, redeployed, or reskilled.
Technological investments
Investing in new technology might result in lower staff needs thanks to automation and efficiencies - as well as the need to train or recruit staff to use the tech.
Project pipeline
If your company is planning to expand its project portfolio - perhaps taking on more projects or serving a new industry - you'll need to resource plan for multiple projects. This might involve recruiting extra staff and managers or recruiting different technical skills and expertise.
Step 2: Determine current staffing environment
You'll need to start by looking for any data you have on your current employees. This is easier if you use human resources software that centralizes employee information - such as role, skills, demographics, and performance metrics.
Analyzing the information below will help you identify opportunities and risks in your current staffing environment - and provide a strong steer for skills gaps you need to fill.
Workforce demographics
How many employees do you have? How are they distributed across the organization? Are they nearing retirement age? What are your maternity/paternity leave trends like?
Job descriptions
Look at job descriptions to understand the current distribution of employees within teams, what duties people perform, the skills they were recruited for, and the experience they've had since joining your organization
Performance metrics
Look at performance information to identify high performers who might be ready and eager for promotion. Note low performers who may need extra training and support to realize their potential. Watch out for MVPs who might get headhunted by other businesses - or dissatisfied employees looking to leave - as you may need to put a succession plan in place.
Resource pool
Your resource pool is all of the staff you have available to you. In project-based businesses, the resource pool lets portfolio, program, and project managers plan resources effectively. In staff planning, it provides a ready overview of staff skills, resource availability, and current utilization.
Resource calendar
Look at your resource calendar to identify any over- or underbooking. If you have resources that are continually overbooked, they can become bottlenecks that delay project progress and undermine customer satisfaction. Overbooking is a red flag that needs addressing in your staffing plan.
Utilization rates
If you see high utilization rates for a particular type of resource, you know their skills and expertise are in high demand. You may need to recruit more employees with a similar skillset or job role. A low utilization rate means this resource is in lower demand and can indicate redundancy in your staff structure. Idle resources incur labor costs without contributing sufficiently to the bottom-line - so this situation needs to be addressed. Creating a utilization report is a good way to predict future demand for staff.
Confirmed workload vs capacity
Another key metric is to compare how much work a resource is doing compared to the capacity they have. If a resource is not being utilized to capacity, there may be scope to reassign them to additional tasks or to restructure the team to reduce staff overheads.
Step 3: Forecast future staffing needs
Forecasting future staff needs is always going to involve educated guesswork. However, there are proven techniques to help make your staffing forecast as accurate as possible.
Internal trend analysis
Trend analysis involves looking at your historical data to spot patterns in staffing over time. Look at trends in turnover, retirement levels, maternity and paternity leave... are these likely to remain steady or change?
Also look for past examples of when your business has undergone similar periods of growth or development. How has that impacted demand for staff? Have you taken on additional projects and needed more resources? Or have you introduced new technology that's streamlined your staff structure?
Ratio analysis
Ratio analysis predicts staffing demand and compares forecasts against industry standards. It doesn't rely on historical data, which makes it ideal for younger businesses. It involves establishing a ratio between two business factors - and then scaling it up according to your plans.
For example, imagine you establish a ratio between sales revenue and staffing. You currently make $200,000 a year and employ 10 staff. That's a ratio of 20:1, where one staff member equates to $20,000 of revenue. If one of your organizational goals is to increase your sales revenue to $500,000, you can predict you'll need 25 members of staff.
Competitor benchmarking
Consider the staffing levels of your competitors. How many staff do they have? Is that growing or shrinking? What are their job titles and roles? How do pay and perks compare to your business? This information can help you determine whether your staff levels and structure are in line with the industry - and predict how easily you'll be able to recruit and retain staff in the future.
Industry insights
There will be no shortage of reports predicting the future of your industry - from professional bodies and consulting firms alike. These reports can help you understand the direction of travel in your sector and the likely path your organization will follow.
Is demand for certain products soaring or slumping? Is new technology creating new job roles and skill requirements? Or is it making older roles obsolete? These insights and industry predictions can ensure you have the bigger picture when forecasting staffing demand.
Productivity ratio
The productivity ratio calculates how much work one employee produces and then extrapolates that to your future needs. For example, if you predict your organization needs to complete an extra 1,000 units of work - and you know each of your current employees completes 100 units of work - you know that you'll need an extra 10 employees.
Rule of thumb
The rule of thumb approach simply means you make assumptions based on your current staffing model. For example, imagine you need one project manager to effectively oversee every five project team members. If you plan to recruit fifteen new project staff, you'll need to make sure you recruit three more project managers too.
Delphi method
Finally, there's the Delphi method. This is an interactive process that iteratively develops ideas from a panel of experts. The experts submit their thoughts to a facilitator, who circulates an anonymized summary to all participants. The panel is then asked to revise their suggestions in light of insights from their peers.
In the case of staff planning, it may be that selected senior managers and external consultants are asked a series of questions about future trends in the industry. Their answers are then used to reach a consensus about the most likely impact on the organization and what that means for staff planning.
Step 4: Conduct a gap analysis
This step involves comparing your current staffing landscape and your future staff needs. Do they align?
• Will you need additional employees and - if so - where?
• What skills gaps do you need to fill? Through recruitment or internal training?
• Are any existing staff critical to business continuity? How can you retain them?
• Are any key staff leaving? What succession plans do you need to put in place?
• Can any roles or teams be consolidated?
• Do new teams or job roles need to be created?
This process can be complicated and it may help to use capacity planning software. This typically provides an overview of your resource pool, allows you to model different resource allocations, and surfaces capacity issues quickly.
Step 5: Recommend actions to overcome gaps
Once you've identified your resource gaps, you can develop a strategy to overcome them, to support business continuity and growth. There are numerous ways and models for bridging staffing gaps.
• Recruiting new permanent employees is the obvious solution to staff and skill shortages - it is a long-term solution best suited to addressing consistent and predictable staff demand
• Hiring contractors, freelancers and other on-demand employees is a good solution if you undercover short-term capacity issues (for example, a period of staff leave) or you're facing unpredictable staff demand (for example, business growth contingent on the success of a pilot project)
• Outsourcing is an option if you're no longer to deliver a particular element of your business - for example, because you can't get the resources you need or it is more cost-effective to outsource.
• Retaining existing staff is a strong strategy as retention is typically less expensive and disruptive than recruitment and onboarding. A retention strategy looks at ways to maximize employee satisfaction and build loyalty to their employer
• Promoting staff internally can be a way to plug gaps in management, using employees who are already familiar with your business. This is especially effective when accompanied by relevant training and mentoring.
• Upskilling existing staff to meet future skills needs can be more cost-effective than hiring new employees that already have those in-demand skills. You can plan to train internal candidates in emerging skills to steal the talent advantage in years to come.
• Restructuring can help create a more efficient organizational structure by eliminating idle resources and increasing resource utilization. This increases productivity by ensuring resources are in the right place, doing the right tasks, at the right level of challenge.
• Regrettably, you may need to be prepared for redundancies. However, retraining and redeploying staff should always be your Plan A.
Final thoughts
Follow these five steps and you'll create an effective staff plan that puts your organization on course for future success. Your business will benefit from highly skilled resources that are aligned to your strategy - and optimized to deliver it in the most effective way possible.
Resource and capacity planning software can be highly beneficial in the staffing plan process. Software like Runn provides intuitive tools and dashboards that make staff planning quicker, easier, and more accurate.
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Synthesis and pharmacological properties of some dipyrido[1,3]diazepinones.
The synthesis of two isomeric dipyrido[1,3]diazepinones (3a,4) and N-monosubstituted derivatives of 3a by cyclocondensation of corresponding bipyridinediamines (1, 2) with urea was described. The alkylation of 3a and 4 with alkyl halides 6 in K2CO3/DMF/TBAB system gave N,N'-disubstituted compounds 7 and 8. Dipyrido[1,3]diazepinones 8a and 3b-d showed a weak general depressive action on the central nervous system and they were also devoid of antidepressant, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and serotoninolytic or serotoninomimetic properties. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ac908400c7851ef6fac9725eac7dec162c9c4ec6e1c88eed47ab90f7b5de5df6'} |
A modest little room of one’s own
If they didn’t exist, you’d have to make them up. Christian and Nick Candy are (according to their company website) “exclusive interior designers and property development managers”. Nick is married to Aussie soap actress Holly Valance and lives in London, while Christian and his wife live in Monaco. These two caused something of a flutter in the excitable press recently when they named their newborn twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf – after all, “Evanthia” went out with the ark, and “Wolf” is just plain mean.
But when they are not condemning their offspring to a lifetime of nomenclature ridicule, the Candy brothers are building some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Closest to me, should I be shopping for a little bolt-hole in the capital, is One Hyde Park. I’ve seen it from the saddle of a Boris bike so I know it’s swanky, but I recently came across an article that really blows the lid on central London life for the super-rich. Not for them the tedium of parking a limousine – no, there is a lift to take your car down into the car-park. All mail is x-rayed before being delivered. And the guards are trained by the Special Forces – a bit like Cato in a bowler hat, it would seem. According to an observer of the London scene, “the vibe is junior Arab dictator”. (I wonder why no-one ever asks for that style on “DIY SOS”?) And why am I so interested (apart from really, REALLY wanting a car lift)? Well, as the VF article puts it, “we can conclude at least two things with certainty about the tenants of One Hyde Park: they are extremely wealthy, and most of them don’t want you to know who they are and how they got their money”. And if I mention that the article’s author is Nicholas Shaxson (he of “Treasure Islands”), you will very much get the picture.
It’s a long article but worth the time, so grab yourself a coffee and a biscuit (something expensive and showy, to match the subject – perhaps a Florentine from Fortnum’s or a lavender tea biscuits from Harrods) and settle down for a good read.
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2 Responses to A modest little room of one’s own
1. Claire says:
As I had two pieces of pie during pottery class this morning, I skipped the luxury biscuits, and just took a cup of coffee (you can never have enough coffee :). I must say, the Candy story is quite amazing, having started with a $9300 loan only 18 years ago. But then I keep on wondering: All that extravagant display of wealth, is it really necessary? And when I read an article like this: http://on.rt.com/bi9u4m- “World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over”, I know that something is seriously wrong in this world. Why are some people so greedy that they have to have more than they ever need, more than their children ever need, without wanting to share with the poor, improve life conditions of the very poorest? How cold hearted can one be?
2. Dear Claire
You are preaching to the converted here! Sadly, the concept of “enough” or “sufficient” is missing from many people’s financial planning – and as always I hope that stories like this will enrage people enough to make sure that they ask the right questions of their clients (why this structure, why here, why now, where is the money from, who is the real beneficiary,etc.).
Best wishes from Susan
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How to Get Rid of Mold on a Plaster Ceiling Above a Shower
The bathroom may be the easiest place in your home for mold to grow. Mold grows in moist and humid areas, and repeated use of hot water in the shower creates a prime breeding place for mold. Killing the mold on a bathroom ceiling and taking steps to prevent it from coming back will keep your bathroom safe, healthy and cleanly in the future.
Step 1
Combine materials for your cleaning solution in your spray bottle. A number of household items will effectively kill mold. Combine even parts vinegar and water or one part bleach to four parts water (or 1 cup of bleach for each gallon of water), for effective cleaning solutions. Pour your chosen solution into the spray bottle, and shake to mix.
Step 2
Remove any items from the bathroom that can be harmed by bleach or vinegar, such as toothbrushes or bath mats. Lay your drop cloth or old piece of clothing, such as an old towel or shirt, over anything in the bathroom that cannot be removed and that you do not want exposed to the cleaner. When cleaning the ceiling, the solution may drip onto surfaces below, so protect your items as best you can.
Step 3
Spray the affected area of your ceiling with your cleaning solution. Allow at least an hour for the solution to effectively kill the mold. Wipe away the remaining residue and mold with a scrub brush or rag and some hot water; add soap or detergent if you choose.
Step 4
Take steps to prevent mold from returning, thus ridding your ceiling of it completely. Mold grows in humid and damp places. Dry the walls and ceiling of your shower after you are finished with it to prevent the moisture from allowing mold to grow.
Step 5
Increase the ventilation in your bathroom to help prevent the mold from coming back. Turn on the bathroom's exhaust fan while you are in the shower. Open the bathroom door and windows after showering to allow the humidity and moisture to escape. Talk to a home professional about installing an exhaust fan or extra windows to increase ventilation.
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The Mother Dirt Bundle – Biome-friendly products for your family
The Mother Dirt Bundle
Biome-friendly products in a subscription bundle: the AO+ Mist, Shampoo, and Cleanser
Sometimes a sentence in an article stays with you and you want to try something out. “We kill it in the bathroom, but we drink it in yogurt.” If you want to know what is being discussed it is bacteria and I conveniently linked to the article if you want to read about all about the benefits of ‘good’ bacteria. I am known to read and write about my personal hippie-dippy nature of trying to live ‘more natural’ and I admit, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. I was raised in a family where recycling was required yet eating margarine (which at one time was considered healthier than butter! *Shudder*) was accepted. There was always a conflict between healthy vs. easy vs. expense. I grew up around farm land and little industry yet I lived in a house with a decent yet small yard and the convenience of fast-paced society became a reality when we moved to a city that had more than ten thousand people when I was 9. Was sugar bad? Why are expensive products I’d save up to purchase to ‘control’ my frizzy hair turning it to a straw-like consistency? Why do I feel better when I drink more water? Why is the air and water around me polluted and how is that affecting me? I would think about these things and as a newly minted teenager, I was introduced by a friend to all-natural living and aromatherapy and something clicked in me. Ahhhh, perhaps health and wellness were linked to everything I consumed even more than I realized! It made sense but didn’t always seem to be a practical approach when I was struggling to pay my bills. When everyone around you is doing something different, you are skeptical with trying something new, but I absorbed a lot of the all-natural tendencies as best as I could as I grew older.
My want of providing a more natural way to live for my family often clashes with the hectic daily grind of a busy schedule in a family with two young children. When your day begins at 5 in the morning, you may reach for something because it’s easy and we slacked off at times in 2016. When you are on a budget, it may seem more economical to grab whatever is on sale. It’s dinnertime, I’m tired, and I don’t want to prepare a meal from scratch. You get it, right? Yet, I know that when I cut down on toxic products, I feel better, and the truth of it is, it can be just as easy to make fresh whole foods than pick up a pre-packaged meal. You can get the more expensive products aimed at restoring or maintaining health because it cuts down on having to get other products you may purchase to keep remediate the issues that were caused by toxic products in the first place. See what I mean? When I read about Mother Dirt products towards the end of 2016, I wanted to try them out and it all started because I read the above article regarding bacteria.
Bacteria on your skin – ummm ewwww, right? Not exactly!
If you have balanced microbiome (AKA GOOD bacteria) on your skin, it can improve its hydration, oil production and even improve body odor and soothe skin ailments. Really?! Yes, really. The problem is that in our anti-bacterial lifestyle, we end up killing both bad and good bacteria on our bodies. Now, I get it (and know many people in the healthcare industry), we don’t want bad bacteria around us, but how do we get or keep good bacteria to get the maximum benefits from it?
It starts with restoring AOB on your body which stands for Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria. Most of our cleaning and body care products take actually takes away the AOBs in your body which causes an imbalance of microbiome. Mother Dirt products aim to restore skin’s microbiome “and potentially impact a wide variety of human health conditions”.
Mother Dirt AO+ Mist is at the heart of this company’s product (also the most expensive) and it is a live probiotic spray for the skin. The Mother Dirt shampoo and cleanser do not contain AOB but they are designed to be replacement cleansers and shampoos and maintain the good bacteria on your body. Users of Mother Dirt products were raving about how they were able to cut down (sometimes even cut out) cosmetic products in their life like soaps, deodorants, and moisturizers with Mother Earth’s body mist, shampoo, and cleanser because of the good bacteria. I personally could not cut back on deodorant or conditioner (I have extra dry, curly hair) but I did discover that my hair and my body felt better and more conditioned using Mother Dirt products, and I was able to cut back on how much I was using. I count that as nice baby steps to AOB living!
Mother Dirt Products Restore and Maintain Good Bacteria on Your Skin
Mother Dirt AO+ MIST (List Price: $49.00) 3.4 fluid ounce bottle containing 550 sprays, or about 20 sprays per day (one month supply)
Shake before each use. Focus on sweat prone areas. Mist twice a day or more (after showering, before workouts, and even before bed).
• Preservative-free. Fragrance-free. Kid-friendly. Sensitive skin-friendly
• Clinically researched & patented.
• Contains live AOB (Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria).
Strain: Nitrosomonas eutropha
md3Spray where you sweat!
The spray feels like you are misting water on your body but it does give my skin a very soft feeling after use. I keep the spray in the refrigerator as per Mother Dirt’s instructions since it can increase the shelf life to 6 months as opposed to 1 in room temperature, so the cold spray does feel refreshing. You feel clean, although not ‘shower’ clean, so I just began using it after my shower. As someone with very dry and sometimes itchy skin, I did notice a difference in enjoying higher moisture content and even clearer skin after using the product for a month. I did not expect the mist to help with acne, and I’m not sure if this was a combination of not using my usual moisturizer or just the spray, but my skin is clear after using it for the last few weeks. I don’t have problem acne, but certainly have prone acne areas and a clean and clear face was a happy side effect of using this mist for me.
Ingredients in AO+ Mist include: Water, live cultured ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), disodium phosphate, and magnesium chloride.
AOB is very sensitive to modern cleaning products and the company notes that a single use of convention soap is likely to wipe them out. Wow! Read more about the science behind AOM on Mother Dirt’s official science section here:
Mother Dirt Shampoo (List Price: $15.00)
Use on wet hair, lather up (yes, it does lather as stated!), and rinse. Mother Dirt has found that 20% of their users find they can skip conditioner altogether. Those with thicker or curlier hair typically still need it. Find what works for you.
The shampoo comes out in a foam with a pump and has a very mild clean scent and a watery feel. It is a very gentle formula and it helped to keep my scalp moisturized. I have curly, dry hair, so I haven’t stopped using conditioner, but I have been using less and less of it. Overall, I didn’t notice a major difference from the normal shampoos I use (which are mostly natural stuff I get at Whole Foods) and Mother Dirt, but I also don’t know how the other shampoos react with the good bacteria on my body. I decided I should continue using it for an additional month to see if I notice a bigger difference the longer I use it.
Mother Dirt Cleanser (List Price: $15.00)
Use on the face and body, just like you would any cleanser or body wash. Pump into your hands, lather onto wet skin, and rinse. Less is more – no need to lather up every square inch.
The cleanser comes out in a foam with a pump and the foam actually comes out quite thick. I actually enjoyed using this cleanser and I felt very clean after each use. While it doesn’t seem all that different than user other cleaners I get at natural food stores, the purpose of the cleanser is to maintain the good AOB bacteria on your skin, which is important when you are using the AO+ Mist.
Final Thoughts!
Overall, I learned a great deal from my bacteria experience and I was happy that I took the Mother Dirt challenge. One of my takeaways is that I like the ‘good’ bacteria movement, although it is almost impossible to go a day without wondering, “Is that public bathroom soap going to kill the AO+ Mist?” because the answer is almost always, “YES!” I even tried to look for a list on AOB-friendly products and I couldn’t find any information. For example, are the no-dye, scent-free, natural detergents we use helping or hurting? I realized there were too many variables in our modern lives and I call it a bacteria movement above because if AOB bacteria is needed in our lives, more AOB-friendly cosmetics and products need to be on the market and in use for it to stay (pun intended) ‘alive’. That, or get used to carrying the Mother Dirt cleanse with you wherever you go….
I did notice a difference in my skin with the AO+ Mist and the most notable difference this last month was my elbows. Yes, my elbows, which for whatever reason, are becoming two very dry patches of skin on my body and the oils I have been using only went so far to help it. The AO+ Mist made them almost sting the first few days I tried it and then, almost magically, the dryness started to *gasp* go away. My elbows now look and feel normal. I actually thought the dryness was just a sign of age and something I would live with, but apparently I just needed some good bacteria to fix the issue. They feel AWESOME and I don’t want it to go away!
Price is certainly a factor if you are considering the good bacteria lifestyle. $49 a month is a lot to spend to spray live bacteria on your body, even though I saw the benefit – and Mother Dirt seems to be the only like-product on the market. Is the expense in storage, shipping, or just capturing AOB for the spray? I don’t know. As much as I’d like to continue down the AOB road, I don’t know if my wallet can handle it. I’m not to the point where I can give up using deodorant or conditioner, but there are many people who claim they can and do, so the cost for them makes sense. Final Thoughts: If you see and feel the benefit of AOB from the AO+Mist and can handle the cost and diligence in keeping your good bacteria safe, Mother Dirt is certainly an awesome bundle. Here’s to good bacteria!
Mother Dirt Purchase Information and Price Breakdown:
Mother Dirt products are currently only available from the online store, where you’ll find the three products available at the prices listed below:
• AO+ Mist: $49
• Cleanser: $15
• Shampoo: $15
• Mother Dirt Bundle (includes all three products): $69
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Hi To all FEMALES (girls and women),
If at any time you no longer wish to receive email, please just hit return to sender with the word: REMOVE ME in the subject line. Thank you.
Please read and understand my observation. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Please forward to all your female friends and companions.
Menstruating females should know that their menstruation period should have regular number of days. They should also regularly check their BARNES BASAL TEMPERATURE TEST for HYPO/HYPER THYROIDISM.
If the period becomes irregular ( more or less than 26-30 days), either shorter or more than 30 days, it may mean hormonal imbalance. One should check their BARNES BASAL TEMPERATURE TEST for possible problems of HYPO / HYPER THYROIDISM. As per Dr. Broda Barnes, blood test (T3, T4 or TSH) is inaccurate. She develop the BARNES BASAL TEMP. TEST which is a better way to check the thyroid condition.
What happens if the menstruation period becomes irregular?
Then the shedding (cleansing) is incomplete. Incomplete shedding becomes toxic garbage inside the uterus. This toxic materials will accumulate and like a volcano, spew lava in the breast. Makes the breast hard, have lumps or worst breast cancer. Not to mention that the ovary may also become cancerous.
Why does menstruation become irregular?
This could be due to hormonal imbalance cause by hypo or hyperthyroidism. The thyroid produces the master hormone supplying the ovary, breast and prostate. If this hormone is lacking, then these 3 organs will malfunction. Then the menstruation period becomes irregular. Then the breast will manifest the consequences, such as, hard or lumpy breast. Then most doctor would gladly remove it. Expect in the near future, the other breast will also have this problem.
Why would the thyroid malfunction?
It will malfunction, become hypo or hyperthyroid, due to iodine deficiency. This maybe cause by eating refined flour based products like bread laced with preservative bromine, hormonized chicken, pork and rbgh (recombinant bovine growth hormones) contaminated milk or too much brassica species (brocolli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts) or junk foods. Or not eating seaweeds (WAKAME, KELP) or supplementing with iodine as IODORAL, LUGOL’s SOLUTION, NASCENT IODINE or SEA KELP.
What happens if thyroid malfunction when one is pregnant?
It may cause miscarriage or premature birth. I get the impression that women are not taught the importance of regularly checking for a normal thyroid with BARNES BASAL TEMPERATURE TEST.
What is the effect of iodine intake on irregular menstruation?
After taking iodine materials, the menstruation initially will discharge unusual darker colored blood. Once the toxic old uterine lining has been cleaned out, then the breast will return to normal soft consistency. Then one is save from the knife.
So ladies, know more about Barnes Basal Temperature test, cook and eat regularly seaweeds, take supplements sea kelps, Iodoral or Nascent iodine. Minimize eating hormone laced produce, bromine laced flour products – bread, noodles, spaghetti, etc. Pesticides, plastics (bisphenols) and anti-perspirant deodorants can become xenoestrogen (mimic as estrogen)
I would request for corrections to above information for any mistakes.
Help save the trauma of mastectomy. Forward to all your female friends. Education is the best anti cancer program.
manuel kiok
Ps. What about males?
Well, hormonal imbalance affects the prostate and may make boys gays. Observe the increase of gays on television?
Sorry, if you were expecting stories about the birds and the bees. Discussion about reproductive organ falls under sex education, in my opinion.
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HC Deb 20 April 1860 vol 157 cc2048-50
said, he rose to call the attention of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the operation of the Police Act, in reference to the imprisonment of young children for playing at games in the streets. By the provisions of the Act to which he alluded, it was enacted that all persons found playing in the streets should be sent to prison for not exceeding one month, unless they could pay a fine of not exceeding 40s. The House would be surprised to hear that under that Act, no fewer than forty-four children were sent to prison in the metropolis last year, and since the commencement of this year twenty-five had been sent to prison. He would mention particularly two or three of these cases. George Dunn, aged twelve years, was sent to gaol for five days for playing at a game called "rounders" in which the boys stood in a ring and knocked a hall from one to another. When the policeman saw them, he was hound by the Act to take them into custody. It generally happened that the smallest child of the number was the person taken and made prisoner, because the others were old enough and their legs were long enough to run away; but the little one, with the shortest legs, was captured. Another case was that of John Evans, aged twelve. He was sent to prison for seven days for playing at "tipcat." That was a game in which a short piece of stick was knocked with another stick, to throw it as far as possible. Cases of imprisonment for these offences occurred very frequently, and the prisons were really crowded with them. In almost every one of these cases the children had been guilty of no other offence than that of playing at these games; and although they might be good and honest children when they were sent to prison, they were almost sure to come out more or less contaminated by the society with which they had mixed. The right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary might ask him to point out a remedy for this, but it would be presumptuous in him (Mr. Miller) to point out the remedy when the right hon. Gentleman himself, with all the appliances of his office, was so well able to provide against the evil. He would rather rely on the well-known humanity and intelligence of the right hon. Gentleman himself. He believed that the necessity for imprisoning children for playing games in the street was not found to exist in any other county except Middlesex, and even in Middlesex children were never imprisoned from certain quarters of the metropolis, while multitudes of the children of other quarters were sent to prison. He had ascertained from the mayor of Manchester that to the honour of that populous city, that although since 1844 it had possessed an Act giving the police magistrates of that city the same powers as were given to those of London and Middlesex, they had never found it necessary in any one case to carry these powers into effect. Nevertheless the city had a population of 400,000 or 500,000 persons, and a vast number of poor, whose children played in the streets; but if any annoyance existed, a remedy was found for it without converting honest children into thieves. He believed the games for which these children were sent to prison had been invented since the Police Act was passed; at any rate, the Act never contemplated sending children to prison for playing those games. He would impress on the right hon. Gentleman and on the House the ruinous effects, both on society and on the children themselves, of sending them to prison for such a trivial cause. It created criminals, and inverted the intention of punishment. Instead of deterring from crime, it broke the heart of the child and stamped him as a criminal for life. He was locked up and became the associate of felons, and never got rid of the stain which was thus cast upon him. In this way the prospects of the child and of the man were ruined, and society was yearly supplied with a large number of criminals. The facts which he had stated were such as he could verify, and he hoped the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary would receive them in a fair spirit, and find some remedy for this disgrace to our criminal code.
said, he wished to say a few words in support of the remonstrances of his hon. Friend behind (Mr. Miller). He really thought there must have been some mistake as to the meaning of those provisions of the Metropolitan Police Act. There was no question upon which public opinion had been more completely agreed for the last few years than upon the impropriety of exposing children to the contaminations of a prison. This was held to be upon every ground most undesirable, and it was absoutely shocking that young children should be sent to prison and exposed to all this danger because they had carried on their little sports in the street, they having unhappily, no other place, in all probability, to resort to for the purpose. Some mode might surely be devised of checking any improper indulgence of this kind, without sending the children to prison, and he wished the right hon. Gentleman would consider the subject.
suggested that it would be a great public benefit if places were provided in large towns in which children could amuse themselves. It would conduce equally to their health, their comfort, and their morals. If the Government would set such a movement on foot he was sure that private benevolence would assist in carrying it out. He thought an impartial Committee should be appointed to consider the subject. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '88', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9917783141136168}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '12010', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RQLDUA3VARKCFSIFRST6DWXHKYML2JZI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b47814ca-20fc-425f-8b23-6baa57a75168>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 1, 22, 28, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '62.60.21.40', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:56I5KB3SK5MH77CYTNRHC535L5WQ7XYM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c89a1f1c-3ba2-4ddf-8663-1af8a5261440>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1860/apr/20/observations', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6f08aa27-a289-4645-9c36-c5a64e1c57c9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '987', 'url': 'http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1860/apr/20/observations', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03822338581085205', 'original_id': '4b7deec7f49e83941d66501ddc3d7f720500ca1b8f758f18aa4295f800791b01'} |
And now for the really long and random Friday night review!
The great concert rundown, that you have all been highly anticipating! Warning; very random self-taken photographs (with and without blur) included. ((I may also use too many brackets.))
By the way, I had to stretch the bloody pictures because Typepad was being a bitch. So we're not all as wide-faced as we look. Well, I am, but the other guys aren't.
So Friday the school day (heehee) started off really well. I was in a great mood, looking forward to the afternoon - although not a single person noticed my flippy new hair except for a little kindergarten girl who said "I like your hair Miss S!". That made my day. I don't think my kids have ever seen me quite so, well, cheerful for lack of a better word. I even enjoyed my Newcombeball training! Go figure!
Sped off just after school got out, nabbed Jen from the station - got home, took her to see the bunnies and the menagerie of animals I own in this house - and within about 10 minutes, the doorbell rang - Kirby had arrived! Heee. We spent an hour or so in my room with deep and meaningful conversations consisting of exchanges like "But I don't match. You guys match! I'm wearing black!", "Is it going to be cold? What if it's hot?", "Wow, that's a lot of makeup Jen, and why are your hands shaking so much?" Pretty intense stuff. Our chaueffer (otherwise known as my lovely momma) arrived to shuttle us to the train station in the limosuine (otherwise known as her red Mazda) - nothing too eventful here except for my internal panicking about missing the train, banging my head in a spectacular way as I was leaving the car, oh, and car photos!
We encountered the Ticketing Nazi at the train station - where I was forced to pay an extra $2 for my train ticket just because my Student ID didn't have some damn sticker. I even played dumb, but got nowhere. She hated Kirby too. Bitch! Jen got her cheap ticket, but a load of good that did her (as you'll find out later on.) We got to the station, waited a short while and took random station photos!
There's only so many things one can do on a train. One can sleep if they're brave. One can talk quietly amongst friends. One can observe the other passengers. We did all of those things (except for the sleeping bit) and plus, we had a camera!
Oh, and I must tell you some of our neighbours from the train visit. We had the strange man who was on for a couple stops, who would say the station name about five times every time we would pause. "Strathfield Strathfield Strathfield." Then we had the scary and possibly drugged out dude in the carriage downstairs who sounded like he was puking on the train (everyone else thought he was just coughing, but I thought puking, damnit) - which was even more suspicious when he moved seats halfway through the train voyage. And then there was the guy who came on the train near the end of the journey who sat there talking to himself and humming weird songs which had me inching as far away from him as I could.
After arriving in the city (here's where the pictures stopped for a while, boo - our starvation overruled our need to photograph everything!), there was a moment of mild panic when Jen lost her train ticket which had us all madly rifling through her wallet (and we still have no idea where it went either). A nice railworker just let us walk through after I told her what happened, and Jen bought a spare return ticket early to be safe. We headed out into Surry Hills, where I felt like the world's biggest tourist. Following Julia's wonderful instructions, we found the Gaelic Club pretty easily - and there was a queue an hour early to get in. We hunted around for somewhere to eat for a while (Pizza or Kebabs, anyone) and admired the sights of Surry Hills - Our favourite place? The Ding Dong Dang Karaoke Bar (Oh how I would like to visit there one day.)
The wind completely demolished my nice hair and after all that, we ended up walking back through the station to get to Broadway. Appetites filled, we headed back under the station AGAIN to get in the queue. Nothing eventful happened in said queue. Nada. Zilch. Got into the club, found a nice spot near the toilets but sort of left-angled to the stage where there weren't TOO many heads in front of us. Plenty of room. Jen even sat down for a while, since she had a bit of a stomach ache during the concert. See?
The support act was Kate Miller-Heidke (that's prounounced Hi-Kehhhh! to you and me, folks) who was this gorgeous little thing with a beautiful dress and cute hair who sat at a keyboard. I thought I was going to be expecting some nice keyboard mellow music - but instead?
She turned out to be this quirky freak who appeared as though she was suffering from Tourette's Syndrom crossed with some sort of psychotic personality reaction. She was a complete nutbag who made the worlds most hilarious faces as she was singing. And the songs! So lyrically genius! I like the one (that she wrote ALL BY HERSELF, omg!) about "That time I had the hots (her words) for this boy, but he didn't feel the same way - can you believe it?" I also liked the one about "That time I went on a date and the guy talked about himself all the time and I wished he would just shut up!" Yeah. These are some lyrics;
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ? Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ? Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ? blah blah dog diggity blah
Then there was the song about "That time I moved into my own apartment!" And who can forget that one about "That time I watched Australian Idol!" In fact, that one was so bad, I think I'll post some lyrics. Good grief. She turned demonic at one point, whispering "I love you.. I love you" and then ROARING "I LOVE YOU" in this completely terrifying way. I'm still disturbed.
I was having a bad week - I crashed the car and the cat carked it ? Weighed myself outside Woolies and I?d put on 4 kilos ? Arranged to meet an old friend for coffee ? I poured my heart out - told her all about ? Poor dead fluffy, and the bloody car, and did she think I should go on a diet? ? She studied my face, trying to frame the words to say ? Just the right blend of sympathy and advice ? She took a big breath. And looked into my eyes and she said: You should go on Australian Idol! ? Even if you don?t win, you?ll have a great time. ? Don?t worry that you don?t look like a supermodel ? They?re even letting fatties on there now so you should be fine.
What the fuck? If you should require some more of her insightful lyrics, you can go here. Why you'd want to, is another story.
It was at about this time that my personal space started to become a little bit squished. A whole gaggle of drunken American females (save us!) decided to squash in down the front to get a good spot for when the Fray would play - shoving like elephants to get to where they wanted. I was trying to take the above wobbly possessed Kate photo when this stupid blonde girl just appeared in front of me, completely knocking the camera away. Not so bluntly, I asked "Are you planning on moving?" to which she replied "Oh, am I in your way?" -coughs- "Yes, well, only when you stand straight like that." Thankfully they shoved their way further to the front.
But then along came rude hat boy (yes, another American, go figure!) He stood completely in front of me. And was probably over six feet tall. Couldn't see a bloody thing. I made several cranky faces to Kirby, seeing as Jen was still sitting on the floor at this point. Grr. And as soon as the techies and roadies came out? Goodbye, personal space. Hello, random strangers touching me.
I had Hat Boy blocking the front, more drunken Americans closing in from behind, and a hyper group of Asian kids going insanely camera crazy next to me, meaning every so often I'd be jabbed in the ribs by the guy trying to hold the camera out for self-taken pictures. Lovely! Jen was being squished by the drunken Americans in thongs. Kirby kept getting felt up by the people shoving past her (who knew boobs could also double for hand-rails?) and I kept getting my hair touched and ass squished up by the girls behind me. Ew.
I was very tempted to do some of the following;
a) Poke the Hat Boy in the ribs until he moved.
b) Shove the stupid American bimbo brigade (shall we call them SABB?) so they'd all topple over like dominoes and shutup with their drunken stupor already.
c) Start stomping.
d) Whinge.
I did whinge. Alot. And louder than I usually would have. But it made no difference to these rude people, who just kept trying to shove and push and close in. I've never been touched in so many places in my life. Blech.
You know, even at M-One a couple years back with those huge crowds and bajillions of people - I haven't ever been to a concert where people just didn't give a fuck as much as last night. The SABB had taken over the building, with the herd behind us as well as a batch down the front. Guys were just randomly shoving in (tall guys at that!) and not giving a crap about the people behind them. And then came the turbans. Tall Indians. Already blocking the view. But with turbans on that gave them another couple of inches to their height. A couple of rows in front. They blocked the view, and everytime they would bop one way, we'd have to quickly bop the other way to get a peep at the stage. Gaaaaaaaah. So, we took a photo of it.
I like how you can sort of artfully sort-of-see The Fray if you look to the right.
In the meantime, the Fray came on and started rocking out and were WONDERFUL. Absolutely perfect. Isaac (the lead singer) is fabulous, and I swear he was singing right to me. Yep. I'm sure of it. Even though he probably can't see a thing from the stage and sees only lights, haha, it sure LOOKED like he was singing right to me anyway! And that voice... wow. Jen still felt sick at that time, though. I knew nearly every song, which was awesome. What a fan, I am! Haha.
I think it was about now when one particularly blonde member of the SABB decided to jump on her man-whore's shoulders and be all WOW! I'm UP HIGH! Blocking people's views! ROCK ON! -random squeal noises here- And not a single person politely asked her to "Get the fuck down, so we can see!" Nice. She eventually disappeared but between that and the twin turbans, there wasn't much of a view. Somehow one of the Asian photography gang had also weasled his way in front of me, so I had a mixed view. Sometimes I'd catch glimpses of the band, sometimes I'd catch glimpses of the dude's spikes. Gah.
Spikes? Are so not fashionable. SHAVE 'EM.
We did manage to get some pictures (albeit blurry) of the Fray. Also, the SABB members behind me were making not-so-subtle plans (I suppose when you're drunk you don't realise how loud you're actually talking?) about how they wanted to get past me and squeeze closer to the front - to which I started my bodyguard pose, bracing myself and keeping them from moving past me. Hee. I took evil pleasure in that!
If I ever spy those SABB members again (the ones with cameras) I shall kick them hard up the ass.
They look much better in real life. Love!
The Fray rocked. Seriously. With the exception of the crowd, haha. I looooved it, and I'd go again (though not to that venue, unless I was wearing my "Anti Bimbo and Tall People" spray). After their encore, they came back and did my all-time favourite song. Look After You. Live. BEAUTIFUL. You are soooo beautiful. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it.
If I don't say this now I will surely break ? As I'm leaving the one I want to take. ? Forgive the urgency, but hurry up and wait ? My heart has started to separate ? Oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, Be my baby ? Oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, Be my baby ? I'll look after you ? There now, steady love, so few come and don't go ? Will you won't you, be the one I always know? ? When I'm losing my control, the city spins around ? You're the only one who knows, you slow it down..
If ever there was a doubt ? My love she leans into me ? This most assuredly counts ? She says most assuredly ? It's always have and never hold ? You've begun to feel like home ? What's mine is yours to leave or take ?What's mine is yours to make your own
Jen still felt sick, and after poking her a couple of times, I asked if she wanted to move - she said yep, she wanted air. We moved to the side but she still felt bad, so we left early. I'd heard all the songs I wanted to hear though, so it wasn't bad at all. Poor Jen! We have bad luck at concerts. Same thing happened a couple years back when we were at the Metro!
Afterwards we went looking for a coffee shop and found that nothing was open. Nothing! And it wasn't even 11pm. What the? I thought the city was supposed to actually be alive at nights, on Fridays? Everything on Broadway was closed. We grabbed a frozen drink at McDonalds, and while Kirby and I were in line, Jen disappeared all of a sudden. I thought she'd headed to the toilets, but er, no. You're lucky we stopped taking pictures right about now. Jen was making friends with a box on Broadway, showing it what she ate for dinner. Heehee! I shall forever be now making PukeBox jokes to my dearest Jen from now on. Hey, I wonder if I could re-do the words to that stupid Robbie Williams RudeBox song! OhOh! This could be good!
All in all, it was a good night minus all the bad points I pointed out. We also didn't have to catch the delayed train home though; lucked out big time, seeing as that dad offered to pick us up on his way home from the airport. Got home, blabbered away for a while, and crashed after 2am. Jen is home now. Kirby is home now. And we shall meet again in a few weeks for girly weekend number two, with the addition of Julie.
To finish up, some random Fray lyrics. Go and download as much music as you can. They really are amazing. This one is called Little House.
She doesn't look, she doesn't see ? Opens up for nobody ? Figures out, she figures out. ? Narrow line, she can't decide ? Everything short of suicide ? Never hurts, nearly works. ?Something is scratching its way out ? Something you want to forget about.
A part of you that'll never show ? You're the only one that'll ever know ?Take it back when it all began ? Take your time, would you understand ? What it's all about? ? What it's all about? ? Something is scratching its way out ? Something you want to forget about ? No one expects you to get up ? All on your own with no one around.
I had a ball. And loved spending time with these girls.
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LaLa said...
Glad my directions helped you get to the Club! I am still laighing at the "twin turbans" and that spiky haired guy? Is going bald.
LaLa said...
And I will learn to spell before my 30th at the end of the year (I think I have night cream in my eye)
Jen said...
Those stretched pictures make my mouth look even more massive.
I laughed muchly :D
kirby said...
Awesome. Yours had pictures. Mine didn't...
I don't think I like the stretched pictures... my head looks even more round. *tilts head to side and pulls face*
Still, such fun.
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Factors that might make someone drunk, you drunker
Have you ever been partying with friends or family, enjoying your favorite alcoholic concoctions, and wondered how the person next to you seems so drunk when you feel just fine? Or maybe you are the so-called "light-weight" who just can't keep up with your buddy's drinking pace.
Understanding your tolerance and what might impact your level of intoxication is important in order to try to avoid dangerous and legal situations. Your friend might be able to have three beers and legally drive. You, however, might not physically have that ability.
Science plays a role in how individuals react to alcohol. While maybe not understanding exactly how the science works, one can still think about the following factors and how they might specifically impact their level of intoxication:
Do you have food in your system? Food slows down your body's reaction to alcohol. One study even suggests that the sugar from a non-diet soda can reduce one's level of intoxication. So, have some peanuts with that beer, or some cheese with that glass of wine.
Are you older than your buddy? Research shows that age can impact levels of intoxication. Those who are younger show fewer signs of intoxication than older adults with the same BAC levels. You might understand this factor if you are an older adult who has tried to drink like when you were in college and woken up to feel even older than you did the night before.
In an upcoming post, we will talk about more individual factors that might impact one's level of impairment. Knowledge like this can help keep you from becoming too drunk to drive.
Still, someone who has been arrested for suspicion of drunk driving in Baltimore should not give in to the notion that they were drunk and the arrest is their fault. A DUI defense lawyer can discuss your legal options and talk you through the important aspects of your individual case.
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My daughter is always complaining about nightmares. I stopped her from watching any movies that might aggravate her situation but she would watch the animated movies and still say some parts of it is scary, like the shark in finding Nemo and parts of peter pan etc. My husband and I is separated for the last 4 years and we in a processes of divorce. I went through period of depression but had counseling and dealing with very well at the moment. My daughter had counseling and the phycologist said the nightmares will get better. she is generally a very sensitive child and can be over protective about me and her little brother, she is 7 years and brother is two (same father long story) She's always worried about her brother and me getting heard or dying.What should I do she sometimes wakes up crying, sit on her bed and when she get realy scared she waikes me up. They share my room with me but I would like to move her into her own room, seems impossible at the momment
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Yes, it's remarkable how much scary stuff there is within films and materials aimed at kids. The old fairy-tales are actually horrifically full of murders and mayhem and abuse. And it seems that enduring children's classics are not all fluffy but include real themes of love and loss, which echo within kids. They can be useful, as a basis for parents and kids to discuss such themes together. Most normal kids, though, go through a phase or two of having nightmares, which seem to arrive for no reason that's ever clear, and then go away again, just as mysteriously.
Sometimes when they hear of tragedies in other families ( the news is full of them ) or they hear of such things from other kids at school ( so you can't protect them from bad news ) they can grow excessively worried about their own loved ones, and over-protective of them. Discuss with your daughter what she's thinking of when the dreams frighten her, and this can be useful. Moving to her own room shouldn't be impossible. Emphasize her role in caring for her little brother then, and in comforting and not scaring him ; use a night-light for aded feelings of security. And check out the Archives of this Forum, as we've discussed Nightmares, and the issue of a child moving into her own room, quite often, with a range of good advice from a number of readers. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '48', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9752142429351808}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '76439', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4NKMRGB2VWGVRYULXWLP2EQWD2S7TPYK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2c46c617-eb4f-48a6-84cc-0818baef986d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 18, 5, 49, 5), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.16.251.81', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:T63OVGJ375RISKMIIVQMMQIXALDNFKAF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:80b81b20-fc95-402b-aeb7-f323696b7af7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.news24.com/health24/Experts/cybershrink/nightmares-20041117', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7b84f3e8-b27c-4b7f-8c61-115bb10620cc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '487', 'url': 'https://www.news24.com/health24/Experts/cybershrink/nightmares-20041117', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-74.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03548538684844971', 'original_id': '94c33f6e1453cc72a664b7e436c5ca01a16b59d19423070032cf1ac9303c9abb'} |
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Last Tuesday CREATE researchers Mascha van Nieuwkerk and Leonor Álvarez Francés attracted quite a crowd with their presentations on program data in the performing arts. In a basement in the PC Hoofthuis, jam-packed with historians, theatre experts, programmers and information specialists, they jointly presented their datasets on concert and theatre programs of the Amsterdamse Schouwburg 1638-1772 and concert hall Felix Meritis 1777-1888. Combining backgrounds in the history of theatre and music with learning-by-doing database construction as well as the broader cultural industries lense, Mascha & Leonor provided many valuable insights, grouped here in three topics:
1. Investing in digitizing cultural repertoires is important. The Schouwburg and Felix Meritis examples neatly illustrate how collecting serial data on programs can help to, for instance, trace the roots of new programming models, shifts in repertoires and geographical or institutional variation. Leonor demonstrated how quantifying and visualizing patterns in, for instance, the translations of plays triggers all kinds of new questions about the organization of early modern theatre productions and literary publishing. And Mascha explained how her data allows for testing assumptions about the great transformations that took place in nineteenth-century musical culture, such as homogenization of programming, the rise of symphonic music, or professionalization of orchestras (see also William Webber’s The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge, 2008).
2. Analyzing urban institutions such as the Schouwburg and Felix Meritis is of great value for study of cultural industries. In the act of programming, production, distribution, intermediation, and consumption intersect. These institutions are, therefore, an excellent unit of analysis for studying cultural content in its broader urban context. Programs are about repertoire and reception, as well as processes of mediation. About the interrelations between social networks, economic concerns, and artistic choices in cultural industries. And, about cross-overs between different cultural sectors, such as theatre, art, dance, music, and publishing. They are also interesting from a methodological point of view, since they contain disparate types of data, e.g. biographical, stylistic, and geographical.
3. Constructing a new dataset is not an easy task. As usual, digitizing data comes with challenges and concerns. Leonor and Mascha took us back to fundamental questions and concerns that come up when original (Mascha) or published (Leonor) sources have to be processed into structured data and imported in databases. What to include and what to leave out? How to deal with uncertainty? How detailed should annotation be? Which database model to use? Who will use it and for what purposes? Which data and concepts are already available in other datasets? How can the data best be linked to other datasets such as IMSLP and VIAF?
These and other questions were discussed during the last hour of the Salon, and will undoubtedly also feature in future CREATE Salons, so please join us next time, when we learn more about on historical geodata: Tuesday March 3rd.
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Mayor Briley pens open letter to Nashville ahead of MLS stadium vote: 'We just have to close the deal'
Joey Garrison | The Tennessean
Show Caption Hide Caption Nashville soccer stadium plans at the fairgrounds for the MLS team Nashville was awarded a MLS team in 2017 and now the city is pushing to build a stadium for the team to play in
Nashville Mayor David Briley delivered his most forceful pitch yet for approval of a $275 million Major League Soccer stadium project at the fairgrounds, declaring, "Now we just have to close the deal."
Briley issued an open letter to Nashville on Monday morning, hours before the Metro Council is set to a take up a controversial rezoning of 10 acres of fairgrounds land for a mixed-use private development planned next to the stadium.
"Make no mistake about it: Nashville is a soccer city," Briley said in the letter.
More: Nashville council advances MLS stadium, but project still in doubt
A public hearing, likely to be lengthy, will precede the second of three required votes on the rezoning. Final approval for four pieces of legislation needed for the MLS stadium project would occur on Sept. 4. if the rezoning is advanced Monday.
Briley, who is carrying the torch for a project first pushed by former Mayor Megan Barry, said the "deal has only gotten better and better" since Nashville was awarded an MLS expansion franchise in December.
He pointed to a reworked ground lease for the 10 acres that will result in $22.8 million in rent for the city over 99 years, a plan for a larger stadium with a capacity of 30,500 seats, and affordable housing promised for the redevelopment.
He also alluded to ongoing negotiations for a community benefits agreement between the MLS ownership led by John Ingram and a group of labor unions and community stakeholders who comprise Stand up Nashville. The agreement would guarantee things like affordable housing, wages levels for construction workers and other items.
"This deal is a new way of doing business in Nashville, one that will guarantee minority business opportunities, create affordable housing and provide for new cultural and community space.
"And none of it will harm the existing fairgrounds uses," he said, adding that the annual Tennessee State Fair, flea market and auto racing would continue under the plan. "This is a chance to make a significant investment in a growing area of town, and ensure the fairgrounds remains a treasure for decades to come."
More: Technicality could derail push for referendum on Nashville MLS stadium
Briley also addressed a push from At-large Councilman John Cooper to hold a referendum on financing the MLS stadium. It appears that effort is stalled over a technicality that Briley's administration is taking advantage of that says the city's finance director must sign off on the availability of funds for pending legislation.
"While some have made last-minute calls for a referendum on stadium construction, I know the Metro Council is ready to vote," Briley said. "Your elected representatives on the council make big decisions all the time — after all, that's what you elected them for — and they're ready to tackle this one after the long thorough process that led us to this point."
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world
world
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Consultations, Judicial review
Reform of judicial review consultation – a response
In July 2015, the Ministry of Justice opened a consultation on provision of financial information to the court, on applications for judicial review or when applying for a costs capping order. The background to the consultation, which closes on 15 September, can be seen here. In this blog post, Maurice Sunkin and Varda Bondy share their response.
Varda Bondy and Professor Maurice Sunkin, September 2015
1. This is as joint response by Varda Bondy and Professor Maurice Sunkin.
2. The response principally considers the proposal to set a threshold of £1,500 above which financial information about a third party contributing funding for judicial reviews will have to be disclosed.
3. Section 85 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 introduces a requirement for claimants to provide specified information concerning the funding for the judicial review proceedings before permission can be given. This is to be: ‘information about the source, nature and extent of financial resources available, or likely to be available, to the applicant to meet liabilities arising in connection with the application’.
1. The stated rationale of this requirement is: ‘to provide the court with a clear picture of the funding of a judicial review application, in order to inform decisions on costs’ (consultation para 22), i.e. to enable the court, under the existing rules, to make relevant non-party costs orders (orders against third parties).
2. Section 85 only requires third parties to provide this information where their financial support (direct or indirect) exceeds, or is likely to exceed a set level.
3. As is explained in paragraph 20 of the consultation before a court can make an order for costs against a third party case law requires that there be ‘a strong relationship between the party and the person who is funding their claim’ and that ‘doing no more than providing funding is insufficient’. The key point is that the third party ‘must be seeking to drive the litigation and to benefit from a potential remedy in the case’.
4. The consultation notes concerns that too low a threshold figure could have a chilling effect by deterring ‘small contributions made with no expectation of control of or benefit from the judicial review’ (para 24).
5. The government is of the view that a single threshold of £1,500 will ‘capture contributions which may be indicative of a degree of third party control of the claim, particularly in lower cost claims …without capturing small contributions made without any real expectation of creating a relationship of control (para 72).
A single threshold is arbitrary
1. A single threshold to cover all judicial reviews is inevitably arbitrary and may not provide a reliable indicator of whether third parties are likely to exercise control in particular cases.
2. That an arbitrary threshold may have a chilling effect on access to justice in judicial review cases is a matter of constitutional importance given that judicial review ‘can be characterised as the rule of law in action’(para 9).
Absence of sound evidence
1. If a single threshold is to be adopted that there must be confidence, based on the best evidence available: a) that the figure is high enough to avoid a chilling effect; and b) that figure will provide the court with a reliable indicator that third parties are likely to exercise control.
2. The proposed £1,500 threshold is said to have been ‘influenced by the data available on the costs of judicial reviews’. Reference is made to :
• An estimate by the Public Law Project dating back to 2007 suggesting claimant costs of a straight forward case as being between £10,000 and £20,000, which after being adjusted for inflation would be around £11,000 to £22,000
• A 2012 estimate by Guildhall Chambers suggesting claimant costs at £5,000 to £10,000 and
• An estimate by Leigh Day Solicitors of unspecified date of upwards of £30,000 including defendant and claimant costs.
1. The government says that ’In the light of … data, such as the Guildhall Chambers’ figure of £5,000 as the bottom of the range, £1,500 appears an appropriately significant sum…’ (para 66) .
2. In our view this is a wholly inadequate basis for arriving at a threshold figure that could have an adverse effect on the enforcement of the rule of law; lead to the court being inundating with unhelpful documentation; and place a disproportionate and unnecessary burden on claimants.
3. As the consultation recognises the data relied on ‘is not particularly substantial or quality assured’ (para 69). In our view the data referred to, while of interest, does not provide a reliable guide to the true cost of judicial review litigation and is not a sufficient or adequate basis for this important reform.
Further empirical data on costs
1. The government asks for empirical evidence on the: ‘costs associated with engaging in the judicial review process, the burden that these requirements would place on claimants and information on costs awards in judicial review cases (question 14, p 27)’.
2. While the current proposal relates to privately funded cases, the cost of publicly funded judicial reviews would be a potential helpful starting point and reliable figures may be available from the Legal Aid Authority which has access to the most comprehensive dataset of litigation costs, albeit for legal aid cases.
3. The Nuffield Foundation funded study of the effect and value of judicial review conducted by the Public Law Project and a team led by Maurice Sunkin also provides some evidence relating to costs in both legally aided and privately funded cases.[1]
4. This study contains data on 502 judicial reviews that reached final hearing during a 20 month period from July 2010 to February 2012 inclusive. Questionnaires asked solicitors who acted for claimants about the level of costs in their cases, how cases were funded, and what orders was made in relation to costs. Responses were received from claimant solicitors in respect of 198 of the 502 cases.
5. As to the level of costs, they were asked to identify whether the cost of their case was less than £14,999, between £15,000 and £24,999, between £25,000 and £49,999, or greater than £50,000.
6. The table below sets out the level of costs incurred by claimants according to mode of funding (i.e. legal aid or private) in the 198 cases.
<£14,999 £15,000-£24,999 £25,000-£49,999 >£50,000 Total
N Row % N Row % N Row % N Row % N Row %
Legal aid 34 24 43 31 40 28 24 17 141 100
Other source of funding 12 21 8 14 20 36 16 29 56 100
Total 46 23 51 26 60 31 40 20 197 100
Notes: All percentages rounded to nearest point.
1. It can be seen that a similar proportion of cases, around one-fifth, fell into the top and bottom bands, with slightly larger proportions (26% and 31%) falling in the middle bands.
2. It can also be seen that legally aided cases gave rise to lower costs than privately funded cases.
3. The figures show that in 21 per cent of privately funded cases the costs incurred by claimants were said to have been below £15,000 and in 79 per cent of the cases the costs incurred were said to have been £15,000 or above. In 29 per cent of the cases the costs were said to have been £50,000 or above.
4. The figures indicate the significant range of costs incurred by claimants in cases which went to final hearing. In so doing, they highlight the arbitrary nature of a single threshold. They also suggest that it would be inappropriate to base a threshold figure on a level of costs as low as £5,000 (see para 66).
5. In the light of our findings, and in particular that in nearly 80 per cent of judicial reviews claimants incurred costs of £15,000 or above, in our view the £1,500 is too low and cannot represent a reliable indication of the point at which third parties are likely to exercise a significant degree of control over claims. In our view it is more appropriate to calculate the threshold figure having regard to the likely costs of cases that go to full hearing rather than on the basis of the least costly matters that do not proceed beyond permission.
6. If the proposed threshold of £1,500 was arrived at having regard to the £5,000 estimate provided by Guildhall Chambers (ie approximately one third of this figure) our findings suggest that a more appropriate figure for the threshold should be one in the range £5,000 to £8,000.
7. We have no firm view on the relative benefits of using a percentage figure. While such a figure could be less arbitrary than a single threshold it would be significantly more complex and difficult to apply.
Cost benefit analysis
1. As well as empirical evidence relating costs, the consultation asks for empirical information relating to the burden that the proposed requirements would place on claimants and the equalities impacts on people with protected characteristics.
2. We have drawn attention to the costs data that we are aware of. In relation to equalities impacts we make the following observations: first, research that exists in relation to the matters raised by claimants in judicial review proceedings supports the view that reforms which limit access to judicial review are likely to have a disproportionate impact on those with protected characteristics (see para 119).
3. Second, however as yet there is no comprehensive data on the characteristics of claimants for judicial review or those who are likely to be directly affected by judicial review litigation. This would be extremely valuable information to have and we would welcome initiatives that would enable such data to be collected, analysed and made publicly available.
[1] Judicial Review: the nature of claims, their outcomes and consequences, V Bondy (Research Fellow, University of Essex), L Platt (Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, LSE), M Sunkin (Professor of Public Law and Socio Legal Studies, University of Essex) to be published October 2015
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Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown - Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements
Last year, the DoD's Minerva Initiative funded a project to determine 'Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?' which, however, conflates peaceful activists with "supporters of political violence" who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on "armed militancy" themselves. The project explicitly sets out to study non-violent activists:
"In every context we find many individuals who share the demographic, family, cultural, and/or socioeconomic background of those who decided to engage in terrorism, and yet refrained themselves from taking up armed militancy, even though they were sympathetic to the end goals of armed groups. The field of terrorism studies has not, until recently, attempted to look at this control group. This project is not about terrorists, but about supporters of political violence."
The project's 14 case studies each "involve extensive interviews with ten or more activists and militants in parties and NGOs who, though sympathetic to radical causes, have chosen a path of non-violence."
I contacted the project's principal investigator, Prof Maria Rasmussen of the US Naval Postgraduate School, asking why non-violent activists working for NGOs should be equated to supporters of political violence – and which "parties and NGOs" were being investigated – but received no response.
Similarly, Minerva programme staff refused to answer a series of similar questions I put to them, including asking how "radical causes" promoted by peaceful NGOs constituted a potential national security threat of interest to the DoD.
Among my questions, I asked:
"Does the US Department of Defense see protest movements and social activism in different parts of the world as a threat to US national security? If so, why? Does the US Department of Defense consider political movements aiming for large scale political and economic change as a national security matter? If so, why? Activism, protest, 'political movements' and of course NGOs are a vital element of a healthy civil society and democracy - why is it that the DoD is funding research to investigate such issues?"
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Q:
a function to count occurrences or frequency of an element and return an object but remove elements which occurs one and return the rest
so i have this function
function counting(arr) {
result = {};
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
if (!result[arr[i]]) result[arr[i]] = 0;
++result[arr[i]];
}
return result;
}
arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5, 2, 6, 1, 8]
console.log(counting(arr))
i get this result
{ '1': 2,
'2': 2,
'3': 1,
'4': 1,
'5': 1,
'6': 3,
'7': 1,
'8': 2,
'9': 1 }
But what i actually want is the function to delete every element has has only 1 occurrence and leave the others with more than one occurrence like below
{ '1': 2,
'2': 2,
'6': 3,
'8': 2}
A:
You can do it with one loop, by having two separate frequency maps.
function counting(arr) {
const [freq, result] = [{}, {}];
arr.forEach(i => {
freq[i] = (freq[i] || 0) + 1;
if (freq[i] > 1) result[i] = freq[i];
});
return result;
}
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Founding partner of Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island and Connecticut, Rockville Centre NY and Fairfield, CT. He is also associate professor of ophthalmology, New York University Medical Center. Co-director of the Cornea Department at Nassau Universit
New ketorolac solution optimized for safety and patient comfort
From a patient's perspective, using a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) before and after cataract or refractive surgery can help to ease pain, swelling, and irritation, and accelerate the return of visual acuity. From a surgeon's perspective, using an NSAID reduces surgical complications and makes surgery easier: it keeps the pupils larger, allowing for quicker and less traumatic procedures. It also prevents cystoid macular edema (CME) and reduces the incidence of striae because it suppresses pain and, therefore, the patient's tendency to squeeze/rub the eyes post-surgery. This article will examine the different classes of NSAIDs, compare their analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity, and determine the potency of different NSAIDs.
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Partnership between police and shelters credited with saving lives
For the last ten years a partnership between police and domestic violence shelters is being credited for reducing the number of domestic violence murders.
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import { OnDestroy, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { EvoModalService, EvoModalState } from './evo-modal.service';
export declare enum EvoModalTypes {
warning = "warning"
}
export declare class EvoModalComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
private modalService;
id: string;
acceptText: string;
declineText: string;
type: EvoModalTypes;
modalState: EvoModalState;
private _id;
constructor(modalService: EvoModalService);
ngOnInit(): void;
ngOnDestroy(): void;
handleOnClose(agreement: boolean): void;
private subscribeModalEvents;
}
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Follow these step-by-step instructions to learn how you can record audio in Premiere Pro using the Track Mixer, or directly record a voice-over in the Timeline.
You can record to an audio track in a new sequence or record to a new audio track in an existing sequence. Premiere Pro saves the recording as an audio clip and adds it to your project.
Before recording audio, make sure that your computer has sound inputs. Premiere Pro supports ASIO (Audio Stream Input Output) devices (Windows) and Core Audio devices (Mac OS). Many devices have connectors for connecting speaker, microphone cables, and breakout boxes.
If your computer has an ASIO or Core Audio device for connecting sound input devices, make sure that the sound device settings and input volume level options are properly set. Refer to your operating system’s Help for details.
In Premiere Pro, set the default device options in the Audio Hardware Preferences for specifying the input channel used when recording.
After you connect input devices and make all preliminary settings, you can use the Audio Track Mixer in Premiere Pro to record audio. Use controls in the Audio Track Mixer to adjust the monitoring levels.
You can also record voiceovers on audio tracks directly from the Timeline without using the Audio Track Mixer workflow.
An audio clip is created from the recording and is added to both the Timeline and Project panels.
Capture analog audio
If you want to use audio that isn’t yet in digital form (for example, from an analog cassette or a live microphone), you need to digitize it through an audio or audio/video digitizer/capture card.
Important points
• The quality of digitized audio and the size of the audio file depend on the sample rate (the number of samples per second) and bit depth (the number of bits per sample) of the digitized audio. Also, stereo audio requires twice as much disk space as mono audio.
• These parameters, controlled in the Capture section of the Project Settings dialog box, determine how precisely the analog audio signal is represented in digital form. Higher sample rates and bit depths reproduce sound at higher levels of quality, but with correspondingly larger file sizes.
• Capture audio at the highest quality settings your computer can handle, even if those settings are higher than the settings you’ll specify for final export or playback. This provides headroom, or extra data, that helps preserve quality when you adjust audio gain or apply audio effects such as equalization or dynamic range compression/expansion.
• Although the DV format can record two independent stereo audio pairs, Premiere Pro can capture only one stereo pair. It may be possible to select either stereo pair 1, stereo pair 2, or a mix of both, depending on the DV hardware you use. For details, see the documentation for the DV hardware.
Set the location for captured audio
1. Choose Project > Project Settings> Scratch Disks.
2. For Captured Audio, select a location and click OK.
Prepare the audio input channel for recording
When you enable recording for a track, the track can record from the Default Device channel specified in the Audio Hardware section of the Preferences dialog box. This dialog box includes the ASIO Settings button (Windows only), which you use to enable audio inputs connected to the computer. Submix and master tracks always receive audio from tracks within the sequence, so recording and track input options are unavailable for them.
Record audio from a microphone or another analog source
1. Make sure that you have specified the Input audio device. For more information, see Specify the default audio device.
2. Make sure that the input device (microphone or other audio device) is connected properly to the computer or sound card.
If recording from a microphone, check the documentation for your computer or sound card to determine whether the microphone jack is for a monaural or stereo microphone. Use the appropriate microphone for the jack. Noise, the loss of a channel, intermittent sound, and no sound all can result from plugging a mono microphone into a stereo jack or a stereo microphone into a mono jack.
3. If recording from a microphone, turn off your computer speakers to prevent feedback and echo.
You can record audio using the Audio Track Mixer, or you can record a voice-over directly from the Timeline on to an audio track.
Record audio using the Audio Track Mixer
1. (Optional) If necessary, add an audio track to a Timeline appropriate for the number of channels you will record. For example, if you’re recording voice with a single monaural microphone, record to a mono audio track. See Work with tracks. A track appears in the Audio Track Mixer for each track you add to a Timeline.
You will need to repeat this step if you’re recording to multiple tracks.
2. In the Audio Track Mixer, click the Enable Track For Recording icon (“R” icon) for the track you added for your audio device.
3. Choose the recording input channel from the Track Input Channel menu.
The Track Input Channel menu appears after you click the Enable Track For Recording icon.
4. (Optional) Create a new sequence.
It’s also possible to record to an existing sequence. Doing so is useful for recording voiceovers. You can record your voice while watching the playback of the sequence. When you record voiceovers to an existing sequence, it’s good practice to click the Solo Track icon (“S” icon) in the Audio Track Mixer for the track that you’re recording to. Clicking the icon mutes the other audio tracks.
5. (Optional) Select the audio track that you want to record to.
6. (Optional) Adjust the levels on the input device to achieve the proper recording level.
7. Select Meter Input(s) Only in the Audio Track Mixer panel menu to meter only the sound card’s inputs.
8. Click the Record button at the bottom of the Audio Track Mixer to enter Record mode.
9. Test the input levels by playing a selection from the analog source, or by having the narrator speak into the microphone. Watch the Audio Track Mixer level meters to ensure that the input levels for record-enabled tracks are high but not clipping.
10. (Optional) When you finish testing, deselect Meter Input(s) Only in the Audio Track Mixer panel menu to meter the project’s audio tracks also.
11. Click the Play-Stop toggle button to start recording.
12. If necessary, adjust the track volume slider up (louder) or down (quieter) as you record to maintain the monitor level you want.
The red indicators at the top of the VU meters light up if the audio is clipped. Make sure that the audio level isn’t loud enough to cause clipping. Generally, loud audio registers near 0 dB, and quiet audio registers around -18 dB.
13. Click the Stop icon to stop recording.
The recorded audio appears as a clip in the audio track and as a master clip in the Project panel. You can always select the clip in the Project panel and rename or delete it.
Record a voice-over on an audio track from the Timeline
Video: Record audio in the Timeline
Video: Record audio in the Timeline
Adobe's Colin Smith shows you how to set up Premiere Pro to record your voice-over directly in the Timeline.
Colin Smith
1. Display the Voice-over Record button
3. From the Button Editor dialog box that appears, drag-and-drop the Microphone button to the required audio track, and click OK.
2. Start the voice-over recording workflow
• Mark a specific In/Out range to insert the audio recording.
• Position the playhead at the starting point of inserting the voice-over.
3. Display pre-roll countdown
The pre-roll countdown is a visual cue to give you time to prepare and begin the recording. Recording begins after the countdown reaches zero. You can specify the duration of the pre-roll countdown in the Voice-Over Record Settings dialog box.
You can access voice-over record settings directly from the Timeline by selecting Voice-Over Record Settings from the context menu.
Voice-Over settings
Access Voice-Over settings from Timeline
You can specify the duration of the pre-roll and post-roll countdown. Select the Countdown Sound Cues check box to play an audible beep to indicate the status of recording. These beeps are not recorded in the voice-over.
4. Begin recording
Click the Voice-over Record button in the audio track's header to begin recording. A status message "Recording..." appears in the Program Monitor to indicate that recording is on.
5. Finish Recording
When using a predefined In/Out range, recording ends when the playhead reaches the Out point in the Timeline. The status message on the Program Monitor then changes to "Finishing...". If you're not using a predefined In/Out range, stop the recording manually by clicking the Voice-over Record button; again, or by pressing the Spacebar key.
Mute input during recording
Muting input can prevent feedback or echo when the computer is connected to speakers.
2. Select Mute Input During Timeline Recording.
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Tenkiller Ferry Lake
Tenkiller Ferry Lake, or more simply, "Lake Tenkiller," is a reservoir in eastern Oklahoma formed by the damming of the Illinois River. The earth-fill dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for purposes of flood control, hydroelectric power generation, water supply and recreation. It went into full operation in 1953. The lake and dam were named for the Tenkiller family, prominent Cherokees who owned the land and ferry that were bought for the project. This is 6th largest lake in Oklahoma, based on water capacity.
Geography
The lake covers 12,900 acres (52 km²) and has a shoreline of over in the Cookson Hills of the Ozark Mountains of Cherokee and Sequoyah counties, about northeast of the town of Gore and from the intersection of I-40 and the Muskogee Turnpike.
The distance from major cities include: northeast of Oklahoma City, west of Fort Smith, Arkansas, southeast of Tulsa and from Muskogee.
One of the townships bordering this lake is Paradise Hill, at the far southwestern edge of the lake. It is known for its violent drop-offs, some going from a grown man's waist level to over his head. This is the cause of many deaths in the lake.
Electric power generation
The hydroelectric power station is remotely controlled from the control center at Fort Gibson Lake. Two generators, each rated for 17 megawatts, provide a total capacity of 34 megawatts (MWe). The facility can handle 40 MWe for a short period of time. However, the amount of power that can actually be generated depends heavily on the lake elevation at any given time.
Water supply
Originally, the amount of water delivered by the project was considered incidental, although the quality of water was much higher than that of the Arkansas River (the closest alternative source). Much of this water was expected to be used by the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Fuel Plant. That plant closed years ago. The cities of Muskogee and Sallisaw are now major consumers.
Recreation
Attractions near the lake include scuba diving, camping, hiking, fishing, golfing, water sports, scenic nature, fishing, and hunting. In addition there are of trout fishing along the Illinois River. There are also ten marinas, fourteen parks, 24 boat launching ramps, five floating restaurants, and many islands including Goat Island which is famous for the goats that inhabit it. Scuba divers can even see the ruins of old communities that were flooded by the lake, such as the original town of Cookson.
Other than the goats, many other animals inhabit the area including Canada geese, white tail deer, ducks, monarch butterflies, warblers, otters, mink, beaver, bear, mountain lion, wild hogs, wild turkey and bald eagles.
Tenkiller State Park, Cherokee Landing State Park, and several Corps parks are among the parks bordering the lake.
Wildlife Management Area
The Tenkiller Wildlife Management Area consists of on the southwest shoreline of the lake, a mixture of upland and riparian habitat. The upland portion is covered with oak and hickory. The riparian portion contains mostly willow, sycamore, hackberry, elm, ash and birch.
Notes
References
External links
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Corps Lake Getaway
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake website
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake data
Lake Tenkiller Home Page
Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Warner, Larkin; Daniel D. Badger; and Gerald M. Lage. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District. "Impact Study of the Construction and Operation of the Tenkiller Ferry Lake, Oklahoma. August 1973.
Category:Protected areas of Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Category:Protected areas of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Category:Reservoirs in Oklahoma
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Category:Dams in Oklahoma
Category:United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Category:Bodies of water of Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Category:Bodies of water of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
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The development and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess patients' attitudes toward pain.
This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire designed to assess five attitudes considered important in the long-term adjustment of chronic pain patients. The specific subscales of the questionnaire were chosen to represent attitudes believed to influence the ways by which chronic pain patients manage their pain. Following the development of five reliable subscales, correlations of the subscales with self-reported pain behaviors and coping strategies were calculated, providing preliminary support for the concurrent validity of the instrument. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fe5c164e292cbc177cec3bef57c8c2cc9667082b35dc346fa47ed1b4438254e7'} |
Why Is Couch Street Couch Street?
A product of the Great Renaming of Portland streets, Couch has an unexpected vowel sound. There’s a reason, and it’s not just to play spot-the-tourist.
12/21/2018 By Daniel Couch
Use Your Words
Me Talk Portland One Day: How to Sound Like a Local
From Sauvie to Glisan, Willamette to Couch, this is how we pronounce those tricky words.
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You better swim by Motörhead heard on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie movie
Artist: Motörhead
Music By: Motörhead
TOP 20 Popular songs from films where this soundtrack is played
You better swim lyrics
I got no reason to be paranoid
What's on the hook that's what I avoid
I was born underwater without a sound
With my friends in the drink and the sea on the ground
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TAXI drivers should be made to use hands-free radios in
Huddersfield. That's the plea being made later today by a Kirklees Council Cabinet
member in the wake of tough curbs on mobile phones in cars. Clr Martyn Bolt believes it is wrong that taxi drivers can still use
hand-held radio microphones while driving when all other motorists are banned from using mobile phones while they are at the wheel. Now he is taking his case to a meeting of the full council.
He hopes to get all-party backing for his appeal to make Kirklees
the first area in the country to implement a full hands-free system for drivers. He wants the hands-free radio system to be fitted in all taxis and
private hire cars. He also wants it to be a condition of drivers being granted a
licence. A pilot scheme using the hands-free equipment was tested by Kirklees
Council's licensing department several years ago, but was not taken up by taxi firms. Clr Bolt said: "It would cost about £50 to fit the equipment to a
taxi. That is nothing compared to the cost of running a vehicle. "How much safer would it be for passengers if the taxi driver
ferrying them home was not fiddling with a microphone and the radio controls while at the wheel? "It needs only a discreet microphone, perhaps mounted on the sun
visor, to make things far safer. "There are at least 1,000 taxis and private hire vehicles in this
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Anyone running ads on Google knows that one of the most important metrics involved in your budget is cost per click, but what about your cost per acquisition or CPA?
This measure how much ad-spend it takes to get one conversion on a given campaign, ad group, or keyword, and Google just changed how we view this very important metric.
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Last Thursday, Google announced the availability of conversion-based bidding for display campaigns called “Pay Per Conversion.”
What this means is that instead of paying when a user sees or clicks on an ad, a company would only pay upon conversion on the following page.
In other words, you basically only pay when a user completes a desired action clicking an ad.
Here is the official announcement from Google.
So What Does This Mean for Your PPC Campaigns and Google Ad Accounts?
Marketers need to sit up and pay attention because this flips paid advertising on Google on its head.
With the new bidding options, advertisers are no longer paying for actions that don't always result in value for the company.
With PPC, regardless if a user bounces or not when they click an ad, the advertisers pay and we’ve been forced to have an “it is what it is” mentality.
However, now, advertisers won't feel like they're just throwing their money away.
This shift will force advertisers to focus on optimizing their user experience when someone clicks an ad.
This will not only make users happy, but give Google another source of ad revenue. It will also reward advertisers for providing the right users the right information.
How Do I Get Started?
The update went live last week, so you should see which of your ads are eligible to run CPA bidding.
In order to be eligible your account must have more than 100 conversions in the past 30 days. The time between initial click and conversion also has to be less than 7 days for greater than 90% of those conversions.
To see your account’s historical data on these measurements, you can segment data in Google Ads from the past 30 days or longer by Conversions > Days to Conversion.
Once you know if you are eligible or not, the bidding operates similarly to how search campaigns work now with advertisers setting a “Target CPA” under the bidding options of the display campaigns.
Google described how the new bidding options work:
It works in the same way that bidding on a cost per click does; You will never pay MORE than your set target cost per acquisition.
The goal here is to generate as many conversions possible at that target number.
And don’t be discouraged if you are ineligible right now!
Google says that eligibility is refreshed daily, so once your conversions increase you are free to participate.
Who Would This Work For?
Using a target CPA would work best for high volume campaigns, where the product or service sold is clear.
For example, if a conversion in your ads account means a purchase, use your average cart size to calculate a target CPA that gives you a big enough margin to remain profitable. The max bid on a CPA is around $200 right now.
There are some restrictions, too.
For example, advertisers cannot use pay for conversion and bid toward offline conversion types. These include import from clicks and store visits. Pay for conversions also does not work for conversions imported from calls or Salesforce or for cross-device conversions.
A More Level Playing Field
The entire idea is brand new, so we will keep an eye on how companies are using pay per conversion in the future, but we’re excited to see more options when it comes to paid advertising on Google.
In the long run, it seems that larger companies with more conversions will shift a lot of their budget towards CPA instead of PPC.
This will desaturate a lot of industries, allowing smaller companies with smaller ad budgets to get their ads in front of more potential customers, all for a lower cost per click. This is a huge move for accessibility and creating a more level online playing field.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has filed a petition with the Election Commission Pakistan (ECP) to conduct elections of NA-42 constituency, South Waziristan, at alternative places due to the deteriorating law and order situation, officials said.
Since the 2008 general elections, the NA-42 seat has been lying vacant owning to the law and order situation of the tribal areas. The people of the concerned constituency have lodged complaints with the ECP for holding the elections so that they can choose their representative.
PTI chairman along with Dost Muhammad Khan filed the petition before the ECP, seeking an order for holding the polling in the upcoming general elections of NA-42, South Waziristan, in the neighbouring areas and other areas like DI Khan, Tank, Tarnol (Islamabad), Rawalpindi, Taxila, Karachi (Sohrab Goth, Landhi, Sultanabad).
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Cheaper Vehicle Excise Duty for non-motorway users considered
A general view of traffic on a motorway Reforms to road tax follow concerns that increased fuel efficiency could lead to a fall in revenue
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A two-tier Vehicle Excise Duty, with a lower rate for those avoiding motorways and other main routes, is among options being considered by the government.
The plans would not necessarily mean those using motorways pay more than at present, a Treasury source said.
The government is currently looking at a number of different ways that roads could be owned and paid for.
The plan has yet to be considered by the prime minister, who had called for "innovative approaches" on the issue.
In March, David Cameron launched the review by saying there was a need for an "urgent" increase in private investment to improve England's road network.
Fresh ideas were needed, he said, to finance road improvements at a time of tight government finances and set the Treasury and Department for Transport to work on a feasibility study.
Under the two-tier plan, part of a driver's Vehicle Excise Duty payments would go to private companies managing and investing in the road network.
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Cameras using number plate recognition technology would be used to catch motorway users who had not paid the higher rate.
Reforms to the duty - often referred to as road tax - follow concerns that increased fuel efficiency could lead to a fall in revenue from it as motorists switch to more environmentally-friendly cars which qualify for lower rates.
Forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility show that while tax receipts for Vehicle Excise Duty are expected to remain broadly flat at about £6bn a year over the next five years, they could fall as a percentage of GDP from 0.4% in 2010-11 to 0.1% by 2029-30.
Under the current system, cars fall into 13 payment bands depending on their level of carbon emissions, with more polluting vehicles taxed more heavily.
The duty is paid annually, but a higher rate is payable in the first 12 months of the vehicle's registration.
Cars with the lowest levels of carbon emissions, such as hybrid cars registered in or after March 2001, are exempt from paying the duty.
European regulations aimed at reducing carbon emissions from new cars and improvements in technology are expected to lead to a higher proportion of cars qualifying for the lower bands of VED in the future.
The Daily Mail reported that other options being considered by the government include changes to the duty's payment bands or making the tax a one-off up-front charge on new vehicles, instead of charging annually.
However, linking how much motorists pay with how far they drive on motorways, or their use at peak times, has been ruled out, the newspaper said.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said: "The department and Treasury are currently carrying out a feasibility study to review new ownership and financing models for the strategic road network.
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Comment number 745.
Historically there was an argument for the Road tax in that it 'forced' car owners to get insurance and MOT's - now that both insurance and MOT's are directly available to the law enforcement bodies, why bother with the costs of having such a tax.
There is already enough taxation based on vehicle useage to pay for it's complete abolition.
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Comment number 563.
What a complete waste of monies, Millions would be spent on cameras, I.T and Admin....why?
Introduce road tolls full stop. You use you pay same as in France, Spain ect, ect.
This plan is a sneaky way to introduce big brother for motorists, because if done the Gov will have to have cameras that identify your vehicle and speed and everything else that goes with it. NO NO NO
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Comment number 548.
It is obvious how to deal with tax for road use. Every MOT take the mileage and charge for the number of miles a car is driven, so the tax disc and MOT are a single administrative job. Problem solved.
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Comment number 434.
So how much of the money that this daft scheme would raise will be wasted on installing the necessary big-brother-style cameras and computer systems to monitor and track where we drive? I can see how the plan benefits IT contractors, and how the surveillance-society lobby benefits - and of course how the rich benefit from less crowded motorways - but what is the benefit to the rest of us?
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Comment number 432.
PLEASE stop saying "Road Tax". There is NO SUCH THING and there hasn't been since the 1930s when Winston Churchill abolished it.
The payment is Vehicle Excise Duty and it does NOT get used for building or repairing roads any more than a shotgun licence pays for birds to be bred.
There are many classes of motor vehicles that quite legitimately pay NOTHING for various reasons.
It's a LICENCE.
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Sacramento State senior gymnast Annie Juarez, middle, celebrates after performing her uneven bars routine at the Nest on Friday, March 16, 2018. Juarez scored a 9.775 in the event and recorded a career-high 39.275 in all four events as an all-arounder on senior night.
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Sacramento State senior gymnast Annie Juarez, middle, celebrates after performing her uneven bars routine at the Nest on Friday, March 16, 2018. Juarez scored a 9.775 in the event and recorded a career-high 39.275 in all four events as an all-arounder on senior night.
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Sacramento State senior gymnast Annie Juarez, middle, celebrates after performing her uneven bars routine at the Nest on Friday, March 16, 2018. Juarez scored a 9.775 in the event and recorded a career-high 39.275 in all four events as an all-arounder on senior night.
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All that stood between a trip to the NCAA Regional in front of more than 15,000 fans and Sacramento State senior Annie Juarez’s career ending was a score of 9.150 or above on the uneven bars in her last routine of the regular season — and a 45-minute wait.
Juarez’s entire gymnastics career consumed her mind during the six-team meet, which meant that two teams sat out every rotation as four competed.
After the Hornets completed their vault event, they waited 45 minutes to finish. In the final rotation, Sac State would be competing on bars, the event Juarez said made her want to “hurl” before every meet.
But as long as Juarez — who said bars didn’t come naturally to her growing up — didn’t fall, she would easily eclipse the mark of 9.150. However, she said that bad thoughts kept creeping into her head as she remembered she had fallen during bars in four of 11 meets this season.
The 45-minute wait time was going more slowly for her than she thought it would go, and she thought about injuries that have prevented her from competing in a full season since she arrived on campus in 2015.
Thomas Frey – The State Hornet Sacramento State senior gymnast Annie Juarez competes on the uneven bars at the Nest on Friday, March 9, 2018. Juarez was one of three Hornets to qualify for an NCAA Regional.
Her mind also wandered to how, as a child, she would constantly watch and rewind her copy of the 2007 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship held at the very location — the University of Utah in Salt Lake City — that she had a chance to qualify for.
“I really did start to overthink it,” Juarez said. “I knew I was just one event away from going to regionals, and bars have been hit or miss all year. It got to me a little.
“If I continued to overthink, I knew I’d go down a dark path and my mind would not be in the right place, so I joked to my teammates and tried to stay moving as much as possible to keep my mind off of the pressure.”
The first half of her routine went as planned, and Juarez said she knew at that time her career would be extended until at least Saturday.
“I had to calm down and tell myself that my routine is not over,” Juarez said.
The senior from Westfield, Indiana landed her bars routine cleanly and qualified for an NCAA Regional for the first time in her career as an all-arounder.
“If you had told me a year ago I would be here, I would say you’re crazy,” Juarez said.
Juarez has endured injuries her entire life, but it was never enough to keep her out for extended periods of time as a youth. Growing up, she competed in top meets and at times even had higher scores than gymnasts who would go on to elite gymnastics schools such as UCLA and the University of Denver.
She continued that pace from the first time she stepped on the mat in her first meet as a freshman in 2015 after she scored a 9.825 on floor and a 9.750 on the vault against Stanford and Cal in the NorCal Challenge.
She then competed at a high level for the next five meets before her season ended after doctors were afraid her foot would fracture.
Juarez then missed her sophomore season due to her foot, which doctors had to put a screw in.
“She was very positive, and she always helped out with music and cheering,” said senior teammate Jennifer Brenner.
During her junior season, Juarez said she competed in six meets with what she thought was a major foot injury. After the season, her doctors confirmed that she had indeed fractured her foot. This left her considering an end to her collegiate career after missing 22 of 34 meets in her first three seasons at Sac State.
“I was nervous my foot would never heal,” Juarez said.
Juarez had the surgery, and still, she didn’t know whether she wanted to come back. She was on crutches for six weeks over the summer and then made the decision to come back and go through rehab.
“A lot of it was learning how to run properly and not put pressure on the wrong parts of my foot,” Juarez said. “Everything in rehab this year was basically for survival because my foot is so messed up.”
When the season began in the NorCal Classic at Stanford on Jan. 8, Juarez had been told by doctors that her foot wasn’t fully healed. However, she was in a position to compete in three events for the first time in her career and decided to not pass up the opportunity.
Juarez then competed in four events during the following meet as an all-arounder for the first time in her career. During her first three meets in that spot, she counted at least one fall and failed to score above a 38.
Everything changed as the calendar rolled from January to February and the Hornets took a trip to the University of Alaska Anchorage on Feb. 3. She started the meet with a career-high on the balance beam and then hit an even higher score on floor before hitting a solid score on vault to set herself up on bars.
Thomas Frey – The State Hornet Sacramento State senior Caitlin Soliwoda is awarded the “stick stick” by senior Annie Juarez after her balance beam routine at the Nest on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. This stick has been awarded to one member of the gymnastics team over the last four meets.
On bars, Juarez said everything clicked during her most challenging event and she nailed skill after skill before finishing with a perfect landing. After punching the air and jumping with excitement, she hugged and celebrated her teammates after earning a career-high score of 39.125 as an all-arounder.
“Those inconsistencies at the beginning of the season were growing pains,” said coach Randy Solorio. “With her patience and her perseverance, all of a sudden her confidence was, ‘Oh, I can do this.’ ”
She hit career highs in her next two meets and by the time the team reached its final meet of the season, Juarez had five meets with a score above 39. All she needed was a score of 38.575 to clinch a trip to an NCAA Regional.
Juarez experienced three strong routines on beam, floor and vault before qualifying for the postseason in the event she found the most difficult.
“For her to come back from all of her injuries is just an underdog story in itself,” said senior Caitlin Soliwoda. “I’ve watched her all four years struggle; most people would just quit with the pain she is still in.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1ec2e7d597ff0e7e3d4adae4660214a9ede1c2a66f22f52ca48a236123825ef8'} |
tem Jahre; E. Muͤnch, Geſchichte der alten und neuen Gortes; Mar- tignac, essai historique sur la revolution d’Espagne u. m. a. Der allgemeine Charakter der (aus 334 Artikeln beftehenden) Gortes-Berfaffung ift der einer dvurh Demokratie befhränften Monarchie oder auch, wenn man lieber will, einer duch Monars hie befhränften Demokratie, überhaupt alfo einer aus M os narhie und Demokratie gemifchten Verfaffung. Wenn nun die Beſchraͤnkung der Monarchie duch Ariftofratie unbefchadet dem monachifchen Princip flattfinden kann, fo muß bdaffelbe auch von ber Beſchraͤnkung duch Demokratie gelten, und die Cortes-Verfaſſung, wofern fie nur dem Könige fo viele Macht verleiht, als der Begriff des oberften Staatshauptes mit fich führt, kann nicht als jenem Prin— cip widerftreitend erfcheinen. Nur mit dem ariftofratifhen Prins cip ift fie unvertraͤglich; aber noch ift diefes niemals ald europäifches, d. h. für Europa’s Heil nothmwendig in allgemeiner Herrfchaft zu er- haltendes, Princip mit vollftändiger Autorität ausgerufen oder anerkannt worden, wenn fehon bie Ariftofratie ſich Liftig hinter dem vorgefchüsten monarhifchen Princip zu verbergen oder ihre eigenen Anmaßungen ‚mit dem Schilde des legten zu deden, d. h. unter der Firma berfelben in's europäifche Staatsrecht einzuſchwaͤrzen ftrebt. Freilich iſt — ohne Unterſchied, ob die Monarchie durch das ariſto— kratiſche oder demokratiſche oder durch ein aus beiden gemiſchtes Princip gemäßiget ſei — jedenfalls zur Erhaltung des monarchiſchen Charakters einer Verfaſſung nothwendig, daß dem König eine der Erhabenheit - ‚feiner Stellung entfprechende, zur Erhaltung der Würde und Selbſt— ftändigkeit des Thrones, fowie zur Handhabung der gefeglihen Ord⸗ nung, überhaupt zue Darftellung der oberften. Regierungsgemwalt hin reichende Macht zukomme, alfo nicht blos eine Schein- Macht oder eine in der Ausübung und Fortdauer von einer andern, wie immer perfonificirten, Autorität abhängige. Dagegen fordert aber das con- ftitutionelle Princip auch die gleiche Selbftftändigkeit und dem Zweck entfprechende Ausftattung der das Königthum befchränfenden Macht, überhaupt alfo ein bergeftalt geregeltes Verhaͤltniß der in die Staatsgewalt fich theilenden Perfönlichkeiten, daß durch ihre Zuſammenwirkung und Wechſelwirkung der wahre und lautere, d. h. vernünftige Gefammtmille zue möglichft gefiherten Herrfchaft gelange. Ein Mehreres laͤßt ſich im Allgemeinen nicht beflimmen, fon- dern ed muß das bier oder dort geeignete ober hinreichende Maaß der einerfeitd dem Thron und anderfeits der (fo oder anders perfonificirten) Bolks-Repräfentation zu verleihenden Gewalt. aus den hier oder dort vorhandenen concreten Umftänden und Lagen hervorgehen, wobei dann natürlih auch die Beurtheilung, je nach den fubjectiven Anfichten und Grundfägen des Beurtheilenden, eine fehr verfchiebene fein kann (f. d. Art. Conflitution). Ueberall jedoch wird billig benjenigen, welche die Sache zun aͤchſt angeht, d. h. welche die guten oder üblen Wirkungen einer Staatsform unmittelbar zu empfinden haben, mithin’ ’ Cortes. 69 dee Nation ſelbſt, von deren Verfaſſung jedesmal bie Mebe iſt, die vorzugsweiſe entſcheidende Stimme dabei zuzuerkennen ſein. Wir fuͤhren nach dieſer Vorbemerkung ſummariſch die durch die Cortes⸗Verfaſſung einerſeits dem Koͤnig und anderſeits der Nation oder ihren Repraͤſentanten verliehenen Rechte auf. Die allgemeinen Beſtimmungen über die Regierungsgewalt finden wir in den Artikeln 14 bis 17. Sie lauten alfo: „Die Res gierung des fpanifchen Volks ift eine erbliche, gemäßigte Mo— narchie. Die Cortes haben mit:dem Könige vereint die gefeggebende Gewalt. Die Gewalt, die Gefege in Ausübung bringen zu laffen, wohnt dem Könige bei. Die Gemalt, bie Gefege im Civil- und Criminalfahen anzumenden, fteht den durch das Geſetz aufgeftellten Zribunalen zu.” — Diefe Säge find offenbar in Uebereinflimmung mit den anerlannten Principien einer echten conftitutionellen Verfaſſung und bedürfen mithin einer mweitern Recht— fertigung nicht. Ihre nähere Anwendung ift fodann in den Artikeln 168 ff. enthalten. Wir entheben ihnen die nachitehenden Süße: „Die Perfon des Königs ift heilig und unverleglidh und niht verantwortlih. Der König hat ausſchließlich die Macht, bie Gefese in Vollziehung bringen zu laffen, und feine Gewalt erftredt ſich auf Alles, was fi) auf Erhaltung der Ordnung im Innern und auf die Sicherheit des Staats nad) außen bezieht, der Gonftitution und den Gefegen gemäß. Außer dem dem Könige. zuftehenden Vorrechte, die Gefege zu fanctioniren und bekannt zu machen, hat er nody fpls gende Hauptvorrechte: Die Decrete, Reglements und Verhaltungsbefehle auszufertigen, die er zur Vollziehung der Gefege für zutraͤglich hält. Dafür zu forgen, daß im ganzen Königreiche die Juſtiz fehnell und voll- fommen ausgelibt werde. Krieg zu erklären. oder Frieden zu fliegen und zu ratificiren, und bann ben Cortes eine mit Documenten belegte Rechenfchaft darüber abzuſtatten. Auf Vorfhlag. des Staatsraths die Beamten bei allen Civil» und Griminalgerichten zu ernennen. Alle Civil- und Militairftellen zu befegen. Auf Bow fchlag des Staatsrathe alle Biſchoͤfe zu ernennen und alle übrige geiſt— liche Aemter und Pfruͤnden, worüber der König das Patronatsrecht hat, zu vergeben. Ehrenzeichen und Auszeichnungen aller Art den Ge: fegen gemäß zu ertheilen. Die Armeen und Flotten zu commandiren und die Generale bei denfelben zu ernennen. Ueber die bewaffnete Macht zu verfügen und fie fo zu vertheilen, wie es am zuträglichiten ift.. Die Ddiplomatifchen und Handelsverhältniffe mit andern Mächten zu leiten und Botfchafter, Gefandte und Gonfuls zu ernennen. Für das Schlagen der Münzen zu forgen, worauf fein Bruftbild und fein Name geprägt ift. Ueber die Verwendung ber für alle Zweige ber Staatsverwaltung beftimmten Gelder zu entfcheiden. Den Gefegen gemäß Verbrecher zu begnadigen. Den Cortes ſolche Gefege und folche Verbefferungen vorzufchlagen, wie er fie für das Wohl des Volkes am zu: träglihften hält. Die Staatsminifter zu eımennen und frei zu wählen.’ — 60 | Gortes. Dem unbefangenen Urtheil bleibe anheimgeftellt, ob biefe Mechte zur Darftellung der Majeftät des Throns genügen oder nicht. Freilich fest die Conftitution bdenfelben auch mancherli Befhränfungen (Art. 172 u. 173) entgegen, welche jedoch größtentheild nur diejenigen find, die wir in allen conftitutignellen Charten antreffen, und deren Auf: zahlung mithin hier zwecklos wäre. Wir wollen alfo blos der unge: wöhnliheren Erwähnung thun. „Der König (alfo lautet Art. 172) kann unter keinem Vorwande die Abhaltung der Corte zu der in ber Conſtitution beftimmten Zeit und in den barin ange gebenen Fällen hindern, fie weder fuspendiren noch auf loͤ— fen, noch auf irgend eine MWeife ihren Sigungen und Berathſchlagun— gen Hindernifje in den Weg legen. Er kann fih ohne Eimmilligung der Cortes niht aus dem Königreich entfernen (ebenfo audy feine Eheverbindung fchließen), und wenn er es thut, fo wird es fo an gefehen, als ob er der Krone entfagt habe. Auch kann er ohne Ein= willigung der Corted mit feiner fremden Macht eine Offenſiv-Al— lianz oder einen Subfidien-Zractat fchließen.” Wem dieſe Beſchraͤnkungen als zu ftreng erfcheinen, der bedenke allernächft die Beitumftände, unter denen die Verfaffung errichtet ward, und ben Charakter des Königs (Ferbinands VIL), gegen deſſen defpotifche Meigungen fie allernächft die Schugmwehr bilden follte. Er bedenke auch die durch fie für jedes zweite Jahr auch ohne Auflöfung verord» nete Erneuerung ber Gorteswahlen und endlich. die unermeßliche Wichtigkeit der hier an die Einwilligung ber Cortes gebundenen, Eöniglichen Entfchlüffe. Wir gehen über zu den Rechten und zu ber Bilbungsmweife ber Cortes, fowie zu den dadurch verbürgten Freiheiten der Nas tion. „Das fpanifche Volk! — alfo befagt der Art. 2 und brüdt dadurch wohl nur den unleugbarften, jedem anderen Volke gleichfalls zuftehenden Rechtsanſpruch aus — „ift frei und unabhängig, und ift und kann nicht das Erxbtheil irgend einer Familie noch irgend eines einzelnen Menfchen fein.“ — Beftreitbarer, wenigftend verhaßter ift der Art. 3: „Die Souverainetät wohnt ihrem Weſen nah im Volke; eben beshalb fteht ihm ausſchließlich das Recht zu, feine Grundgefege auf zuſtellen.“ — (Ueber bie hier in Sprache ftehende Frage jedoch, bei deren Verhandlung man gemöhnlid in unfruchtbaren Wortftreit fi verliert, haben wir unfere Anfiht in den Art. Charte and Con— flitution bereits ausgefprochen und beziehen uns hier darauf.) Was die Bildung ber Cortesverfammlung betrifft, fo wird mwenigftens in Bezug auf die Wahlart von einer übertriebenen Herrſchaft des demokratiſchen Princips keine Rede ſein koͤnnen. Die Verfaſſungsurkunde ſchreibt dafuͤr eine ſehr complicirte, naͤmlich eine vierfache Wahloperation vor, wodurch die größtmögliche Sicher⸗ heit gewährt wird, daß, nur wahre Notabilitäten oder Perſonen von höherer Auszeihnung zu Deputirten ernannt werden können. Alle anfäffigen Bürger zwar find Urmähler in den Kirchfpiel- Wahlverfamm- Corte. 61 lungen; aber es werden in benfelben auf je zweihundert Einwohner blos eilf Commiſſaire, und von biefen fodann Ein Wahlmann ernannt. (Vierhundert Einwohner ernennen ein und zwanzig Sommiffaire, und diefe fodann zwei Wahlmänner, und auf fehshundert Einwohner kommen ein und dreißig Commiffaireund drei Wahlmänner.) Die Kirchſpiels-Wahlmaͤn⸗ ner eines Bezirkes bilden fi) fodann zu eineeBezirts:-Wahlverfamms » lung zum Behufder Ernennung von Bezirts-Wahlmännern, deren Zahl für ſaͤmmtliche Bezirke nur dreimal ftärker fein darf, als die der für die Provinz zu erwählenden Deputirten. Da nun für je 70,000 Seelen (nad) ber neueſten Beftimmung für 50,000) nur. Ein Depus tirter zu mählen ift, fo trifft e8 auf manche Bezirke nur Einen Wäh- fer und auf bie größern blos zwei oder, drei, und befchränft fich übers haupt die Gefammtzahl aller Wähler im ganzen Reiche auf beildufig 1000 Männer. Diefe Wähler (Bezirks-Wahlmaͤnner) verfammeln ſich zur Deputirtenwahl in ber Hauptſtadt der betreffenden Ptovinz und roählen alldort den Deputicten, oder die mehrern Deputitten, welche die Provinz nad) Verhaͤltniß ihrer Seelenzahl zu den Cortes zu fchiden hat, und neben denfelben auch die im Berhinderungsfall der Depus tirten. fatt ihrer eintreienden Stellvertreter. Zur Wahlfaͤhigkeit fuͤr die Deputirten:Stelle :ift neben andern Erforderniffen ein Alter von 25 Jahren und ein (dutch ein fpäteres Gefeg zu beſtimmendes) jaͤhr⸗ liches Einfommen von eigenthümlichen Gütern. nothiwendig; auch muß der zu Wählende in der betreffenden Provinz entweder geboren oder daſelbſt wohnhaft fein. Minifter, Staatsräthe und Hofdiener find nicht wählbar. Die dergeftalt gebildeten Gortes follen ſich alljährlich in Madrid zu einer dreimonatlichen ordentlichen Sitzung verfammeln, doc kann diefe Sigung auch verlängert und auch in Mothfällen eine auferors dentliche Berfammlung angeorbnet werden. Alle zwei Jahre wers den faͤmmtliche Deputirte ernewert, und feiner kann wieder erwählt werden, wenn nicht eine andere Deputation zwifchen den beis den, wozu fie gewählt wurden, ftattfand. (Eine unglüdfelige Bes flimmung, welche zum wiederholten Untergange der Gonftitution das Meifte beigetragen hat und daher eine Abänderung in ganz vorzüg: lihem Grade anfpriht.) Die Sisungen der Gortes find öffentlih und die Deputirten wegen ihrer Meinungs-Neußerungen burhaus uns verantwortlich. . Diefelben Eönnen während der Dauer ihrer Sen: dung Fein Amt vom Könige annehmen und nod ein weiteres Jahr lang weder eine Penfion noch irgend ein Ehrenzeichen, welche der König ertheilt, erhalten oder für einen-Andern darum anfuchen. Ihren Präfi- denten, Wicepräfidenten und die Secretairs wählen die Cortes felbft dutch Stimmenmehrheit und in geheimer Wahl. | Die Befugniffe der Gortes find, nach Art. 131, die nachſtehenden: „Die Gortes find ermächtigt: Gefege in Vorfchlag zu bringen und zu beſchließen, fie auszulegen und erforderlichen Falls abzufchaffen. Den Eid des Königs, des Prinzen von Afturien und der Regentfchaft, wie es gehörigen Orts vorgefchrieben ft, zu empfangen. Alle factifchen 62 Cortes. und rechtlichen Zweifel zu heben, welche in Hinſicht der Ordnung der Thronfolge entſtehen. In den Faͤllen, wo die Conſtitution es vor« ſchreibt, die Regentſchaft oder den Regenten des Reichs zu waͤhlen und die Grenzen, innerhalb welcher die Regentſchaft oder der Megent die koͤnigliche Gewalt ausüben kann, zu beftimmen. Den Prirzen von Afturien öffentlich anzuerkennen. In dem in ber Gonftitution anges gebenen Fall für den minderjährigen König eimen Vormund zu er» nennen. Die offenfiven Allianztractate, die Subfidien= und fpeciellen Handelstractate vor ihrer Ratification zu genehmigen. Die Bulaffung fremder Truppen in's Königreich zu geftatten oder zu verhindern. Die Errihtung oder Abfhaffung von Stellen bei den vermöge der Con⸗ ftitution errichteten Tribunalen, ebenfo wie die Errichtung und Abs fchaffung von Staatsämtern zu befchliefen. Alle Sahre auf den Vor—⸗ Schlag des Königs die Land» und Seemacht zu beftimmen, indem fie feftfegen, welche in Kriedenszeiten unterhalten werden und mie meit fie in Kriegszeiten vermehrt werden follen. Fuͤr die Armee, die Flotte und Natios nalmiliz, wie alle verſchiedene Zweige, woraus fie beftehen, Verordnun⸗ gen zu erlaffn. Die Ausgaben ber Staatsverwaltung feft- zufegen. Jaͤhrlich die Steuern und Auflagen zu bes» ftfimmen. Im Fall es nöthig ift, auf den Credit der Nation An⸗ leihen zu mahen. Die VBertheilung ber Steuern auf die Provinzen zu genehmigen. Die Rechnungen über bie Ber» wendung der Staatsgelder einzufehen und zu genehmi— gen. Die Zoͤlle und Zolltarife feſtzuſetzen. Die noͤthigen Verfuͤgun⸗ gen uͤber die Verwaltung, Erhaltung oder Veraͤußerung der National⸗ guͤter zu treffen. Werth, Gewicht, Gehalt, Gepraͤge und Namen der Münzen zu beſtimmen. Das Gewicht- und Maaßſyſtem anzunehmen, weiches fie für das bequemſte und vichtigfte halten... Jede Art; von Induſtrie zu befördern und anzuregen und Hinderniffe, welche diefelben lähmen, zu entfernen. Den allgemeinen Plan für den Volksunterricht in der ganzen Monarchie zu. entwerfen, und zu genehmigen, mas für die Erziehung des Prinzen von Aſturien gefchieht. Die allgemeinen Vorſchriften in Hinficht der Polizei und bes Gefundheitszuflandes des Reichs zu genehmigen. Die politifche Preßfreiheit zu ber fhüsen. Dafür zu forgen, daß die Minifter und andere Staatsbeamten wirklich zur Nehenfhaft gezogen wer» den. Endlich ſteht e8 den Gottes zu, im allen ben Faͤllen und bei allen. Acten,. wo der Conſtitution zufolge ihre Einwilligung noͤthig iſt, dieſelbe zu ertheilen oder zu verweigern.“ — —— In keiner von dieſen Beſtimmungen iſt wohl etwas Uebertriebe⸗ nes, etwas die Wuͤrde des Thrones oder das Gleichgewicht der Gewal⸗ ten oder gar das. Mir wollen uns jedoch in den theoretifchen Streit über das abfo- Inte oder bloße fuspenfive Veto hier nicht einlaffen, fondern blos be- merken, daß practifch oder faktiſch das Letzte auch in England und in Frankreich infofern ftattfindet, daß dem König zwar die un: befchränkte Befugniß der Sanctionsverweigerung gemäß gefchriebe- nen Rechtes zufteht, daß es ihm oder feinem Minifterium aber gleich— wohl factifhy unmöglich fein würde, einen dreimal wiederholten Ge— fegesvorfchlag (oder fonftige Bitte) beider Häufer odet Kammern zu verwwerfen. Die Natur der Dinge ift ftärker ald das gefchriebene Recht, und eine fortwährende Oppoſition des Thrones gegen das beharrliche Begehren der Volksrepräfentation (infofern wenigſtens diefe die Wünfche der Mation in Wahrheit ausfpricht) würde zulegt einen der Regie: rung falt nothwendig -verderblichen Krieg zwifchen ihr und dem Volke herbeiführen, Man würde ſich auch wirklich mit der fraglichen Beſtim⸗ mung ber Cortes-Gonftitution verföhnen, wenn es etwa ein abeliger Reichsrath (wie 3. DB. ehedeffen in Schweden) wäre, welchem die Macht ber Cortes zuftände, oder wenn mwenigftens neben der Volks: Kammer noc eine Adels: Kammer als ZTheilnehmerin der repräfens tativen Macht in der Gortes-Verfaffung angeordnet wäre. Aber bie Einheit des Repräfentativ- Körpers ift ein Gegenftand der Ungunft oder auch der Furcht und des Haffes. Die Cortes-Verfaſſung würde vielleicht Gnade gefunden haben vor den Mächten Europa’s, wenn fie neben ‘der Wahllammer noch ein adeliges Oberhaus errichtet hätte. Wir werden die Frage über die Nothwendigkeit oder Rärhlichkeit eines folhen Dberhaufes in einem eigenen Artikel (f. Zweitammern: Spyftem) erörtern. Hier bemerken wir nur foviel, daß wenigftens die Möglichkeit einer bona fide gefchehen: den Behauptung des Einkammer-Syſtems nicht geleugnet, daher auch nicht wohl ein gegen die Vertheidiger deffelben zu unternehmenber Krieg (es fei denn mit Waffen des Geiftes oder der Doctrin) ges rechtfertiget werden kann. Uebrigens finden mir den Eifer, womit man das Spftem ber zwei Kammern, d. h. die Forderung eines Ober» hauſes, in Ehug nimmt, allerdings begreiflich, indem einerfeit3 die Regierung in der Allianz mit dem Oberhaufe eine ſtets bereite Hülfe gegen die Zubdringlichkeit der Volkspartei, oder auch ein bequemes Werk: zeug zur Ablehnung der Volfswünfche zu finden hofft, und anderfeitg die Ariftofratie, die da ihrer auf dem Boden des hifforifchen Nechts gemurzelten Privilegien und Vorrechte aller Art ſich erfreut, nur durch die mit Entſcheidungskraft verfehene Stimme ihrer eigenen: Angehörigen fih gegen die verhaßte Reform zu vertheidigen vermag. Es handelt ſich alfo bei dem’ Streit um das Zweikammernſyſtem nicht eigentlic) um Rechtswaäahrheiten oder mit Beziehung aufs Gefammt: 64 | Corteb. wohl zu vertheidigende politifche Grundfäge, ſondern meiſt nue um Particularintereſſen von Parteien oder Staͤnden. Die endliche Entſcheidung des Streites wird daher nicht von der Schule ausgehen, fondern don dem großen Strome ber Ereigniffe. Zur Erhaltung einer ununterbrochenen Lebenskraͤftigkeit der Volks⸗ vepräfentation ordnet die Verfaſſung die jeweils vor dem Schluß einer Gortesverfammlung von ihr zu gefchehende Ernennung einer „beftäns digen Deputation” (von 7 Mitgliedern) an, deren Hauptverrich⸗ tungen darin beftehen: „auf bie Beobachtung der Conftitution und der Gefege zu fehen und bei den nächften Cortes Kunde von den Verleguns gen zu geben, welche fie wahrgenommen hatz fodann in den von ber Gonftitution vorgefchriebenen Fällen bie außerorbentlihen Cortes zufams zuberufen”. — Die Urheber der Cortes-Verfaſſung hielten für gut, neben ben allgemeiner Seftfegungen über bie Theilung und Perfonification der Staatsgewalten auch noch die über die Drganifation, allers nächft ‚der oberſten Regierungsbehärde, fodann ber Tribus nal: und endlih auch der Municipal: und Provinzial-Ver— waltungen, unter die conſtitutionellen Beſtimmungen aufzu⸗ nehmen. So wird die Zahl der Minifter auf fieben beflimmt, und jedem berfelben ein befonderes Departement angemwiefen. Sodann wird zum alleinigen Rathgeber de Königs ein Staatsrath ange ordnet (Art. 231 bis 241), aus 40 Perfonen beftehend (nämlid aus 4 Geiftlihen, 4 Granden und 32 andern, duch Berühmtheit, Kennts niffe und Zugenden ausgezeichneten Männem, morunter jedoch fein wirkliches Mitglied der Cortes fein darf), und die Ernennung ber Staatds raͤthe zwar dem Könige überlaffen, jedoch fo, daß er fie aus der von den Gortes ihm hiezu vorzufchlagenden dreifachen Zahl von Candidaten auswaͤhle. In allen wichtigen Regierungsangelegenheiten ſoll der König vorläufig bie Meinung bes Staatsraths einholen ;- jedoch ift nicht gefagt, daß er aud) darnach fid) richten muͤſſe. Mit großer Sorgfalt ift die Organifation ber Gerichte, überhaupt die Juftizverwaltung in bürgerlichen und peinlichen Sachen, geordnet, und für die Wahrung des Rechts und der perfönlichen Freiheit jede erwünfchte Bürgfchaft aufges ſtellt. Wir übergehen das Detail der hieher gehörigen Beſtimmungen (Axt. 242 bis 308), fowie auch. jenes der- die innere Verwaltung ber Gemeinden und Provinzen regelnden Bellimmungen (Art. 309 bis 337), und bemerken blos, daß auch die legten, den Intereſſen der wah⸗ ren Freiheit gemaͤß, namentlich auf das Princip der in der Sphaͤre der bloßen Local⸗ ober Provincialz Interefjen dem Volke. zu überlaffenden Selbftadminiftration mittelſt periodifch und frei zu waͤh⸗ lender Haͤupter und Repraͤſentanten gebaut ſind. Welcher Freund der Freiheit und einer volksthuͤmlichen Verfaſſung wird ſolche Beſtimmungen anders als preiswuͤrdig finden? — Zur Vervoliftändigung des großen Werkes kommen dann noch die über die Bildung einer National: Miliz neben dem fiehenden Heere (deffen Cortes. | 65 Stärke jeweils bie Cortes feftfegen follen) und bie über den oͤffentli—⸗ hen Unterricht getroffenen Verfügungen. Die legten (Art. 366 618371) ordnen in allen Gemeinden des Reihe Elementarfhulen (vom J. 1830 an foll [nady Art. 25], mer das Bürgerrecht antreten will, lefen und fchreiben können), fodann bie gehörige Zahl von hoͤhern Schulen und Univerfitäten an, wollen, daß wenigſtens auf allen höhern Anftalten neben den Wijfenfchaften auch die Con ftis tutionsurfunde erläutert, in den untern Schulen aber auch über die bürgerlfihen Pflichten Unterricht ertheilt werde, endlich daß alle Spanier ihre politifhen Meinungen frei von aller Erlaubnifs einholung oder Genfur fchreiben, und dem Drud follen übergeben dürfen.. Daß diefe Eonftitution — wie jedes menfhlihe Wert — auch ihre Unvolifommenheiten und Gebrechen habe, wird Niemand leugnen wollen. Mir felbft haben fchon oben ein nad) unferer Meinung daran zu erken⸗ nendes gerügt. Wir wollen noch em anderes (worüber jedoch gerade die heftigen Gegner diefer Conftitution hinausgehen) anführen. Der Art. 12 lautet: „Die Religion des fpanifchen Volkes ift und bleibt für immer die römifch=Fatholifhsapoftolifhe, einzig wahre, Religion. Das Volk ſchuͤtzt fie mittelft weifer und gerechter Gefege und unterfagt die Ausübung jeder andern.” Der als Folge der langen Moͤnchsherrſchaft und Inquifitionstyrannei zur Zeit noch vorherrfchende Geift der fpanifchen Nation erklärt freilich und entfchuldigt zum Theil diefe dem Inhalt nad) fo Auferft engherzige und rechtsverlegende Feftfegung. Dennoch muß fie jeden Verjtändigen und Mohldentenden mit Berrübnif erfüllen. " Uebrigens ift für die Verbefferung der Conftitution durch fie feibft ein Weg eröffnet. Die Art. 372 bis 384 enthalten darüber die fehr vorfichtig abgefaßten, gegen die Gefahr der Uebereilung fchirmenden, die Sorge für die Ausführbarkeit jeder guten Reform mit jener für die wünfchenswerthe Stätigkeit der Verfaffung weiſe vereinbarenden Bes ſtimmungen. | Möchte der fpanifchen Nation vergönnt fein, die Verbefferung ih- tee — ſchon ald Monument einer durch fo viele Großthaten der Spas nier bezeichneten und für ganz Europa heilbringenden Zeit die Theilnahme der Welt in Anfpruh nehmenden — Verfaffung nad) ihrer eigenen freien Ueberzeugung, entſprechend ihrem felbfteigenen Geiſt und ihren ſelbſtei— genen Bedürfniffen und Intereſſen, zu Stande zu bringen, ungehindert durch unlautere Einflüfterungen oder Zudringlichkeiten einer ſchlauen — md ganz andere ntereffen als die fpanifhen verfolgenden — Diplo: matie, fo wie durch egoiftifche Tendenzen einheimifcher Parteiung! Und mögen die zu Vollführung fo großen Werkes berufenen Cortes babei mit gleicher Standhaftigkeit dem etwa von Außen kommenden Madts wort entgegentreten wie den böfen Umtrieben von Innen. — Staats⸗Lexikon IV. 5 - 66 Corte. Cosmopolitismus. Meit minder michtig und bebeutfam als die fpanifche Cortes- PVerfaffung — mwiewohl dem Inhalt nad) derfelben verwandt — iſt jene der portugiefifhen Cortes von 1820. Die legte, übrigens nad) ihrem Urfprung bedenklichere und nad) einigen ihrer Beftimmuns gen dem monarchifchen Princip ungünftigere, wird füglicher, ald in eis nem eigenen Artikel, in dem der .neueften Gefhidte Portu— gals zu wibmenden allgemeinen Artikel ihre Darftellung und Beurtheilung finden. | Motted. GCosmopolitismus, Weltbürgerfinn. Der Cosmopo: litismus, d. h. die weltbürgerliche Gefinnung oder Richtung, ver: hält fi zur flaatsbürgerlihen oder vaterlandliebenden, -fo wie diefe zue gemeindebürgerlichen oder auch zur häuslichen, d. h. der Familie zugewandten. Won diefem nächftliegenden Stande punkt aus läßt der MWeltbürgerfinn ganz einfach. ſich wuͤrdigen, und ift die Hebung der Mifverftändniffe, melche oft bei folher Würdigung. ftattfinden, leicht. Wenn die Selbftliebe, wiewohl eine natürliche und — wofern in gehörigen Schranken ſich aͤußernd — aud eine ta= dellofe Empfindung, zur Quelle alles Böfen wird, fobald fie jene Schranken überfchreitet,' d. h. allzufehr vorherrfchend oder gar allein= herrfhend in dem Gemüthe des Menfchen ift, fo muß, mas von fol cher Richtung abführt, gut, und je weiter e8 davon abführt, defto mehr gut fein. Die — aus Liebe oder aus Pflichtgefühl — auf das Wohlſein Anderer gerichtete Beftrebung oder die zu ſolcher Beſtrebung antreibende Gefinnung nun iſt der eigentliche Gegenfaß jener Selbſtſucht, d.h. der ungebührlich vorherrfchenden oder alleinherrfchenden Selbftliebe ; fie ift diefes nämlich dem ferengen Begriffe nah, ob auch in der Wirklichkeit oder in concreten- Berhältniffen ihr oft mehr oder weniger nahe kommend, oft audy blos eine tüufhende Verfchleierung derſelben. Wir Haben hier natürlich nur den unmittelbaren Ge— genftand der — fei es blos gefühlten, fei es in That fich aus— fprechenden — Liebe vor Augen, und bliden alfo von der viel verhan- delten Streitfrage ab, ob wirklich Alles, was der Menfch thut und erftrebt, aus Eigennug oder Selbſtliebe — nur bald gtöberer, bald feinerer — entfpringe, oder ob auch abfolut uneigennügige, d. h. durchaus nicht auf die eigene Befriedigung (nicht einmal auf die mit der, Pflichterfüllung verbundene. Freude des Bemußtfeins) gehende Ge: ' finnung und freie Thätigkeit dem Menfchen möglich fei. Und nun fas gen wir: dee erfte Schritt aus dem engen Kreife der auf das eigene Selbſt ſich beziehenden Empfindung und Thätigkeit ift die Familien: liebe, die Liebe zu Frau, Kind, Gefchwifter u. f. m. "Diefelbe jedoch ift noch nicht weit vom Egoismus entfernt, indem ſchon das allgemeine Naturgefühl gewiſſermaßen inftinctartig zur Liebe wenigſtens der nächften Familienglieder antreibt, und Befriedigung des Inſtinets noch der Selbſt— liebe angehört. Erft wenn die Liebe der Angehörigen zum Opfer von ganz unmittelbarer Selbftbefriedigung beftimmt, hört fie auf, Egoismus. Kosmopolitismue. 67 zu fein. Ein etwas weiterer Kreis der Liebe öffnet. fich durch das gefeltf ch aftlihe Band zwifchen Perfonen oder Familien, die in was irgend für einer Genoffenfhaft gleichartiger Intereffen fich befinden und zu gemeinfamer Beförderung derfelben durch’ gefchloffenen Vertrag oder andere hiftorifhe Verhältniffe verbunden find. Hierher ge: hören die. verfchiedenen Corporationen, Innungen u. f. w.; und zumal die Gemeinden. Aber aud hier ift die den Genoffen der Verbin- dung oder ihrer Gefammtheit gewidmete Liebe noch verwandt mit dem “ Egoismus, weil aus der Erfirebung des gemeinfamen Wohles in ber Regel ein, fehr fühlbarer Vortheil auch für jeden Einzelnen ermächft, man alfo durch jene zugleich auch für fich felbft thätig ift. Auch hier wird daher der Gemeingeift, oder, da wir vorzugsweiſe nur die Ge— meimd e- Verbindung in’s Auge faffen wollen, die gemeindebürs gerlihe Richt ung erſt alsdann anfangen, dem Egoismus fremd zu fein, wenn fie zum Opfer unmittelbarer perſoͤnlicher Intereſſen oder je— ner der Samilie geneigt macht und führt. Es folgt nun der abermals weitere, ja hier um Vieles weitere Kreis der ſtaat sbuͤrgerli— hen Verbindung, alfo ber ftaatsbürgerlichen Liebe und Pflicht. Die Erfüllung der legten fordert gar häufig die Verzichtleiftung auf felbft- eigene Befriedigung und ebenfo auf den unmittelbaren Vortheil der eiges nen $amilie oder der Eleinern Gemeinde, welcher man angehört. Sins deſſen ift auch hier noch eine Ruͤckwirkung des öffentlichen Wohles auf das individuelle, wenigftens im Allgemeinen, wenn auch nidyt in jedem einzelnen Falle erkennbar, und es kann alfo felbft die ftaatsbürgerliche oder die Vaterlands-Liebe noch nicht als völlig befreit von jeder egoiftifchen Empfindung betrachtet werben. Auf höchfter Stufe endlich fteht, oder den weiteften Kreis der Liebe umfaßt — der Weltbürgerfinn, d. h. langſam, und daher auch bie davon zu erwartende Ruͤckwirkung auf Baterlands-, Gemeinde:, Familien: und felbfteigenes Gluͤck fo fehr - entfernt, baß, ber mweltbürgerlichen Richtung ein egoiftifhes Mo— tiv unterzufchieben, wenigſtens In der Regel durchaus nicht angeht. Und wollte man die fehon aus der lebendigen Idee des Voranſchrei— tens der Menfchheit und aus der Vorftellung des felbfteigenen, wenn auh nur entfernten Mitwirkens zu fo herrlihem Zweck fließende GSeelenfreude gleichfalls als einen den Egoismus lodenden Genuß betrachten, fo mürde man dabei überfehen, daß folher — allerdings wirftihe und edle — Genuß nur ald Folge der das eigene Selbft dem Ganzen nachfegenden — mithin den Gegenfag des Egoismus bil: denden — Gefinnung, keineswegs aber ald Erzeuger biefer Gefin: nung gedacht werden kann. Diefes iſt auch auf die Vaterlands-, Gemeinde: und Familien-Liebe anwendbar, nur herabfteigend in immer geringere Grade, fo wie das Verhältnig dem eigenen Selbſt immer näher rüdt. In fo weit alfo erfcheint der MWeltbürgerfinn ald wahre Tugend und als edle Charakterifirung der geiftig wie moralifh über die Ge». meinheit fihemporhebenden Menfhen. Denn nicht minder gehört fhon blos zum Erfaffen der Idee der Menfchheit, als eines in Ges fammtheit der Veredlung und dem Wohlfein ’entgegenzuführenden Ge= fchlechtes, ein erweiterter geiftiger Gefichtöfreis, ald zum Durchdruns genfein von Liebe für folhe große Gefammtheit ein den erhabenften Gefühlen geöffnetes Herz. Aber freilich kann der Cosmopolitismus — wie jede mit den übrigen Pflichten nicht in Harmonie erhaltene Zus gend — auch zur Untugend werden und wird es nicht felten wirk— ih. Es gefhieht diefes nicht nur alddann, wenn man bie Lieblofig- Eeit gegen uns näher Verbundene ober in näherer Berührung mit und Stehende zu bemänteln oder zu rechtfertigen fucht mit dem vor» -gefhügten Weltbürgerfinn, wenn man alfo denjenigen, wel—⸗ chen hülfreich oder mwohlthätig zu fein man allernähft — moralifch oder rechtlich — verpflichtet und auch (nad) Vermögen, Stellung u. f. mw.) geignet ift, bie thätige Kiebe verfagt oder von der Pflicht dazu fig entbunden glaubt, weil, angeblih das große Herz von Liebe zur ganzen Menfchheit ſchwillt, weil alfo die Zärtlichkeit für die Hotten- toten, Sapaner, Patagonier u. f. w. — melchen Gutes zu ermeifen man freilich außer Stand und darum aud der Unterlaffung wegen nicht anzuflagen ift — jene für den unbebeutenden Kreis ber ung un mittelbar Umgebenden und wirklich thätige Sorge in Anfpruh Nehe menden verfchlingt: fondern es gefchieht auch bei wirklich aufrichti— ger und thätiger Beftrebung für die Menfchheit im Ganzen, fobald man berfelben willen jene Pflichten hintanfegt oder unerfüllt läßt, mel- che thels neben jener des Weltbürgers, theild — je na Ver: hältniffen und. Umftänden — noch vor derfelben ihre Befriedigung fordern. Unter bie legten gehören zumal die Rechts- Pflichten. Wenn alfo 3. B. derjenige, welcher als Familienvater Frau und Cosmopolitismus. 69 Kinder zu ernähren und zu erziehen ſchuldig iſt, die von ſolcher Pflicht in Anfpruch genommene Kraft und Sorge auf unfruchtbare (jedenfalls nur geringe Frucht verheißende) Beftrebungen für das Wohl. der ges fammten Menfchheit verwenden, wenn er feine Kamilie verlaffen mollte, um als Miffionär den Wilden das Evangelium zu predigen oder Unter« richt in den Künften der Givilifation zu ertheilen: fo wäre folches Bes ginnen, ob aud an. und für. fi einen edlen Zweck verfolgend, bens noh für ihn des firengen Tadels werth. Ebenfo, wenn ber Ges meinde= oder Staatsbürger (ohne von dieſem Verband fich loszu⸗ fagen, was ihm. allerdings erlaubt fein muß und, wenn es gefchehen ift, ihn freilich aller. weitern Pflicht enthebt) ſich durch ausfchliegende — überhaupt unverhältnifmäßige — Verwendung feiner- perfönlichen und ' pecuniären Kräfte außer Stand feste, die näheren Pflichten gegen Ges meinde und Vaterland zu erfüllen, würde ihn gerechter Vorwurf trefs fen: Gewöhnlich betrachtet man- auch den Cosmopolitismus von fols hem zum Urtheil der Verwerfung führenden Standpunkt. Man betrachtet ihn al8 Gegenfag pflihtmäßiger Vaterlands⸗, Gefellfchafte: und Familien-Liebe oder menigftens als eine folche pflichtmäßige Liebe ungebührlih zurüddrängende oder ſchwaͤchende Richtung, und hat in fo weit alsdann Recht, wenn man ihn vermwirft. _ Hiermit behaupten wir jedoch keineswegs, daß alle Kraft und Thäs tigkeit, deren irgend die Familie, die Gemeinde, ber Staat zur Forbes ung ihre 8 Intereſſes bedürfen, .oder mofür zu folhem Zweck noch ir« gend eine Anmenbung könnte gefunden werden, aud) wirklich denſelben zugewandt werden müffe, d. h. alfo, daß erft, nahdem alles Moͤg— liche für, Familie, Gemeinde und Staat. gethan ſei, für cosmopolitiſche Intereſſen vorwurfsfrei Eönne gearbeitet werden. Vielmehr: gebührt, nachdem das, was — nad) der natürlichen und rechtlichen Eigenfchaft jener Verhaͤltniſſe — theils wirklihe Rehtsfhuldigkeit, theils Tri— but eines gefunden Naturgefühls ift, geleiftet worden, bei einer erfcheinenden oder vermeinten Gollifion von Pflichten für Welt, Staat, Gemeinde und Familie, der Vorzug immer der weiter rei- chenden oder höhern Verbindung, und ſoll — infofern man naͤm⸗ lich nach perfönlicher Eigenfhaft oder Stellung für den meitern Kreis zu wirken im Stande ift — das Intereſſe der engern Kreife jenem der weitern nachgefegt werden. Es verfteht ſich, daß wir hier. blos von denjenigen fpredhen, welchen (ober infofern ihmen) nad) erfüllter firenger Mechtspflicht und befriedigter vernünftigee Sentimentalität ges gen die oft genannten engern Verbindungen, auch noch Gelegenheit und Kraft zu weiter veichender Wirkfamkeit verliehen if. noch Weiteres für cosmopolitifche Sntereffen zu thun (obfhon aud) diefer mitunter — etwa durch Aeußerung einer theilncehmenden = 70° Cosmopolitismus. Empfindung, z. B. für Polen, Griechenland, Spanien u: f. w. — den Eindrud der von tauſend und taufend Andern gleichzeitig gethanen ähnlichen- Aeußerung verftärken und fonach in Verbindung. mit diefen wenigftens ein Atom auf die große Waagſchale der menfchlichen Gefchide legen kann). Wer aber aus der Glaffe der Thatkräftigern zund mit Mitteln des Mirkens Ausgerüfteten fich darauf befchränfen zu müffen glaubte, das Gluͤck (namentlich das materielle) feiner Familie zu, bauen, wer etwa gar, diefer vermeinten — oder vorgefhüsten — Pflicht wil— Ion, nicht nur aller Borge für Gemeinde=, Staats- und weltbürgerliche Intereffen fih entfhlüge, fondern vielleicht .gar wider. diefelben fpräche und handelte, wer z. B. als Mähler oder überhaupt bei öffentlichen Berathungen Stimmberechtigtee anders, ald nad feiner ‚Inneren Ueberzeugung dem gemeinen Wefen frommte, ftimmte, um da— durch für fich ‘oder feine Angehörigen. Gunft und Vortheil zu erringen oder Ungunft und Schaden abzumenden, der äft.ein Pflichtvergefner und der Verachtung werth. Er ift 8 * ae noch, wenn er, berufen, als Staatsbürger: wirkfam zu fein, d. br in flaatsbürgerlichen Angeles genheiten eine Stimme zu führen, diefelbe zwar ohne Nüdfiht auf - feine Familie, mithin uneigennügig, doch im Intereſſe feiner Ges meinde in einer andern Richtung als der gemein vaterlänbdis Then abgibt, meil ev dadurch ein Princip aufftellt, welches, wenn .allges mein befolgt > für's Vaterland notwendig verderblich iſt. Daffelbe waͤre zu ſagen von demjenigen, welcher, in einem Staaten-Bund lebend, gleichwohl ausſchließend nur für dag befondere Wohl des einzel nen Cantons oder. Bundesgliebes, welchem er unmittelbar angehört, thaͤ— tig fein, -oder-das währe Gefammtinteteffe des:B.um des dem particulär zen feines eigenen Staates nachfegen ober. aufopfern würde, Sollte nun nicht auch im Vethaͤltniß zur gefammiten Menfhheit die nämliche Erhöhung der Pflicht eintreten? Sollteninicht bei einer Colliſion der Suteveffen des einzelnen. Staates mit jenen der ganzen; Menfchheit ‚oder der- Geſammtheit der Staaten die erſten den letzten nachzuſetzen, der Cosmopolitismus alfo. in gewiſſen Fällen dem Patriotismus pflihtmäßig vorangehend fein? — Wir nehmen. feinen Anſtand, dieſes zit bejahen; ja, wir glauben, daß die entgegengefeste Marime ebenfo unheilvoll für die Menfchheit fein muß, als es der Particularismus der Familien, Gemeinden und Gtlieder-Staaten für die in ſolcher Stufenleiter jedesmal höhere oder meiter reichende Verbindung iſt. Wir würden es - daher allerdings als Tugend achten, wenn z. Bi; im Deutfcher den — übrigens von Frankreich muthwillig verſchuldeten — Franzoſ, en⸗-Hacß im cosmopolitiſchen Intereſſe maͤßigte. Aus diefen Beifpielen geht hervor, in wie weit wir die cosmo— politiſche Gefinnung und Richtung loben und forden Die Ge: finnung foll allen denfenden und fühlenden Menfchen einwohnen; die thatfräftige Neuerung jedoch, namentlich im Verhaͤltniß zu den jedem Einzelnen gegen Familie, Gemeinde und Vaterland -oblie- genden näheren Pflichten, muß ihre Negel und ihr Maaß finden in den perfönlichen Eigenfchaften, Lagen und Umftänden jedes Einzelnen und in der Befchaffenheit der Anforderungen, melde von einer oder ber andern Seite an ihn ergehen, oder der ihm zu Gebote ſtehenden Gele: genheiten und Ausſichten zu fruchtbringender Wirkſamkeit. Noch nie hat eine Zeit ſo viele und ſo maͤchtige Aufforderung jum cosmopolitifchen Denken und Wirken mit ſich geführt als die ge— genwaͤrtige. Nicht nur naͤmlich iſt der bittere Nationalhaf, welcher früher die Voͤlker von einander entfernt hielt oder ſich nur todfeindlich enfgegenftellte, in Folge der als Frucht der Eivilifation eingetretenen näheren gegenfeitigen Bekanntfchaft, geſchwunden oder weſentlich gemil- 72 Cosmopolitismus. dert worden, und hat dadurch die Vaterlandsliebe — ehedeſſen meiſt eine Tochter jenes blinden Haſſes oder auch des engherzigen Egoismus — ihre ausſchließende oder abſtoßende Eigenſchaft verloren; fons dern es find auch durch den allſeitig regern Wechſelverkehr der Nationen, insbeſondere der europaͤiſchen mit Einſchluß der durch Geſit— tung und Blut ihnen verwandten amerikaniſchen, ſo mancherlei Beruͤh— rungspunkte und Verbindungscanaͤle zwiſchen denſelben entſtanden, daß Wohl und Wehe, Fortſchritt und Ruͤckſchritt der einen immer auch von fuͤhlbarem, oft von entſcheidendem Einfluß iſt auf das Schickſal von mehreren andern oder gar von allen. Wir wollen davon ſchwei—⸗ gen, daf in gemiffen Staaten — meift, durch Mißgriffe der Gewalti- gen, namentlich durch mwillfürliche Zerftüdelung und Zufammenfoppelung der Völker oder durch Unterdrüdung ihrer Freiheiten und Rechte — die Anhänglichkeit an das (durch's Machtwort theils erſt ‚gefchaffene oder wenigſtens umgeftaltete) Vaterland Lauer und die Liebe weiterhin den Genoffen deſſelben Schidfales und derfelben Hoffnungen zugewen— bet worden ift. Aber es find heut zu Zage, und unter allen Natios nen von einiger Bildung wird diefes deutlich erkannt, cosmopolitifche Intereſſen von folher Wichtigkeit in Sprache, daß nur völlig Gedans £enlofe oder Gefühllofe dabei gleichgültig bleiben koͤnnen. Es handelt fiß um die großen Principien der gefeglichen, politifchen und bürger: lichen, Sreiheit, um die Perſoͤnlichkeit und Würde der Voͤl— fer, um conftitutionelle Garantien alles öffentlichen und Pri— vat-Rechts. Wo immer in der Welt ein diefen Principien Sieg ver— heifendes Ereigniß eintritt, fo erfüllt es, ohne Unterfchied der Nationas lität, billig alle MWohldenkenden mit Freude; mo immer ein Nüdfchritt gefchieht oder eine drohende Wolfe auffteigt, da ducchdringt der Schmerz oder die Furcht alle Länder der civilifirten Mel. So haben alle Völker, d. h. die unter allen zerftreuten Anhänger des neuen Zeite geiftes, die Schladht von Navarin als Retterin Griehenlands, die Julius-Tage in Frankreich, die Emancipation ber Ka— tholifen in England, bie Parlamentsreform bafelbft, den Triumph Don Pedro’s in Portugal, jenen des conftitutionels len, Syftems in Spanien u. f. mw. burdy innige Danfgebete ge= feiert; und fo haben alle getrauert über Ferdinands VII. und Don Miguels Tyrannei, über Cannings Tod, über die Eroberung MWarfhau’s und über gewiffe — für unfern Lefern ficherlicy Feiner näheren Andeutung bedürfende — Ordonnanzen und Gefege vom Ju— nius, Julius und September. | Die lebendige Theilnahme an allen für Verwirklihung oder Uns, terdruͤckung cosmopolitifcher Sdeen bedeutungsvollen Begebenheiten und Dingen ift für jeden Genoffen unferer Zeit die Probe feiner Wuͤrdig— keit. Gegen die unermeßliche Wichtigkeit der hier in Frage ſtehenden Sntereffen treten alle Eleineren, blos vaterländifchen — und dabei meift nur materiellen und vorübergehenden — billig zurüd, und nur Philiſter-Geiſt mag anftehen, die legten, wo.e8 Noth thut und frommt, Cosmopolitismus. 73 den erſten zu opfern. Die Voͤlker finden hier ein eindringliches, fie zur Nachahmung aufforderndes Borbild in der Nichtung der grefen Cabinette Europa’. Zur Erhaltung und Stärkung de8 monar— hifhen Princips, welches — wie der perfönliche Charakter ber Häupter zu bezweifeln unmoͤglich macht — durchaus nicht blos des Glanzes und der Machtfülle der regierenden Häyfer, fondern der Ruhe und Wohlfahrt de8 Erdtheils — mittelbar alfo der Welt — willen, behauptet werden foll, werden von ihnen alle particulären Intereſſen, ſo wichtig fie in früheren Zeiten gefchienen hätten, willig hintangefegt; die Gemeinfchaftlichkeit der energifhen Richtung nad einem Hauptziel, alfo die ungetrübte Eintracht der Häupter, erfcheint mit Recht ald ein die Bedeutſamkeit aller particulären Intereſſen un endlich überwiegendes Intereſſe; die cosmopolitifhe Tendenz ift demnad) die Lofung der Gabinette geworden. Warum folte fie es niht auh für die Völker fein und für jeden Einzelnen im Volke, infofern in ihm Geift und Gemüth Eräftig genug zur Erfaſſung folher Dinge find? — Wir reden hier natürlich nur von der innern Gefinnung und von folhen thatfüchlihen Aeußerungen bderfelben, welche innerhalb der durch das Gefeg gezeichneten Linie der Freiheit liegen. Auch koͤmmt in der Mefenheit hier nicht einmal viel darauf an, welche von beiden Richtungen, die freiheitliche oder die abfolutiftifche, in-Wahrheit die zum allgemeinen Heile führende fei. Wir ‘brauchen uns bei der Frage vom Gosmopolitismus gar nicht in den Streit darüber einzulaffen, und mögen Jedem gewähren, darin feiner eigenen, aufrichtigen und redlihen Ueberzeugung zu folgen. Nur das behaupten mir, daß, zu melder von beiden Fahnen man — verfteht fih im Sinne des Geſammtwohls der Menfchheit, nicht blos in jenem eines particulären oder gar nur egoiftifchen Intereſſes — ſchwoͤre, jeder geiftig und moraliſch höher Stehende die Aufforderung in fich em: pfinden werde, dem Vorfchritt oder Rüdfchritt feines Syſtems auf irgend einem Punkt der Welt eine lebhaftere Theilnahme zuzumenden, als irgend welhen blos auf (minder wichtige, d. h. nicht zu den Lebengfragen gehörige) vaterländifche Angelegenheiten ſich beziehenden Ereignif- fen; daß alfo 3. B. von Cumberland oder. Suffer-Efte, für den Deutfchen überhaupt der Tauſch des Landes Luremburg gegen Limburg u. f. w., ja - als für einen landftändifchen Abgeordneten irgend eine Ziffer im Bud- get find.. Der Cosmopolitismus in diefem Sinn und diefer Richtung ift freis lich zugleih auch Patriotismug, doch ein höherer als der ge— meine, und zugleich ein bedingter, nämlich auf die Uebereinftimmung der vaterländifhen mit den die gefammte Menfchheit umfaffenden Sn: teveffen bedingter, alfo in Gollifionsfällen jerie diefen nachfegender. Die— fer Cosmopolitismus — da das höcfle Menfchheits-Zutereffe in thun— lichft ausgebreiteter Herrfchaft von Licht und Recht, Tugend und Freiheit befteht — erhält eben duch die Gemeinfchaftlichfeit des Zieles alle feine Anhänger in freundfchaftliher Harmonie und friedli— her Wehfelwirfung, während der Particularismug der einfeiti= gen patriotifhen Richtung Völfer-Zerwürfniß ohne Zahl gebiert und der bloße Egoismus die natürlihe Quelle des Krieges Alter gegen Alle if. Rotteck. Cours. Der Preis, welchen beſtimmte Muͤnzſorten, Papiergel— ber, Banknoten, Wechſelbriefe, Staatspapiere und was ihnen gleich— fieht, auf einem beftimmten Marftplage haben, ift der Cours derfels ben und wird an wichtigen Börfenplägen durch die Gourszettel nach— richtlich bekannt gemacht. Wie über allen Verkehr, fo entfcheiden auch bier die allgemeinen Gefege der Guͤterwelt, fo vielartig auch die ver— fchiedenen, zufammenwirkenden Momente find, in denen fie hierbei walten. Der Preis, alſo der Cours, der Metallmünzen richtet fich auf dem MWeltmarkte allerdings im Allgemeinen nach dem Verhaͤltniß der Quantität und Qualität des in ihnen enthaltenen Mesalles zu dem Marktpreife deſſelben; mährend ihr Preis in einzelnen Ländern zumeis fen ein kuͤnſtlich erzwungener ift, 3. B. duch das Ge- oder Verbot ihrer Annahme in Staatskaffen. Aber auch auf dem Weltmarkte ent: fcheidet nicht immer lediglich der Marktpreis des Metalles, aus dem die Münzen beftehen, fondern es kommen oft noch brfondere, wech: feinde Umftände hinzu, die an einzelnen Pläben eine verhältnifmäßig große ober geringe Nachfrage nad)‘ gewiffen Miünsforten veranfaffen. Eine beftimmte, geringhaltige Münze ift vielleicht nicht wohl außer der Nähe ihres Heimathstandes anzybringen. Kommt fie daher an einen auswärtigen Plas, fo wird ihr Käufer nicht blos ihre Geringhaltigkeit, fondern audy die Koften in Anfchlag bringen, bie es ihm verurfacht, fie wieder an den Ort zurüdzufhaffen, wo fie noch am erften zu ver: werthen ift. Eine andere, die vielleicht durch befondere Bequemlichkeit für Berechnung und DVerfendung fich auszeichnet, wird an folhen Dr: ten und zu folchen Zeiten gefucht fein, wo große Handelsgefchäfte durch baare Geldzahlung . auszugleichen find. Hier kommt zu ihrem natürz lichen Preife noch ein Zufchlag, erzeugt durch ihre verhältnigmäßige Cours. E 75 Seltenheit, die Größe des Bedarfs, der Nachfrage. Oft ift dagegen der Marke mit einer Münzforte überfahren. Es iſt nicht zu viel klin— gendes Geld da, aber zu viel von einer beftimmten Sorte im Verhälts- nig zu der Verkehrsbranche, zu welcher diefe Sorte gerade befonders geeignet ift. Det Preis der Scheidemünze, bie in der Pegel nur einen räumlich begrenzten Wirfungsfreis hat, richtet fich weit weniger nach dem Meltpreife des in ihnen enthaltenen Metalles, ald nad dem Verhältnif ihrer Maffe zu dem Bedarf des Kleinen inneren Verkehrs. Der Preis des Goldes, was nun am meiften den Charakter der Weltmünze hat, wird doch gegen den MWeltpreis herabfinken, wenn Zufälle eine große Maſſe deffelben an einen Drt gebracht hatten, der wenig ausgebreites ten Handelsverkehr umfaßt. Denn das Gold ift-mwidder für den De: tailverfehr minder paffend. Es muß wieder fortgefchafft werden und die damit verbundene Mühe bedingt Entſchaͤdigung. Der Cours des Papiergeldes, auf welchen im Innern des Landes Eimftlihe, geſetzliche Mafregeln eine Zeit lang und fo lange die Saiten nicht zu hoch gefpannt werden, ihren Einfluß äußern koͤn— nen, hängt außerdem zunaͤchſt von der Leichtigkeit und ‚Sicherheit ab, mit welcher man daffelbe gegen. die Elingende Münze vertaufchen Eann, bie es rrpräfentirt und deren Werth außerdem auf den feinigen zurüd: wirft. Man will es vielleicht nicht umtaufchen, aber man muß ed - fönnen. Die Leichtigkeit und Sicherheit jenes Umtaufches aber wird theils durch das öffentliche WVertrauen,. dag der emittirende Staat’ ges nießt, theils durch das Verhältniß bedingt, in welchem die Maffe des vorhandenen Papiergeldes zu dem Bedarf an Zaufchmitteln, befonders für den inneren Verkehr, ſteht. Der erftere Umftand iſt mehr für den. Cours im Auslande, der legtere für den im Inlande von Wich— tigkeit. Beide wirken auf Nachfrage und Angebot. Für den Cours dieſes Papiergeldes im Auslande kommt aber noch die für die einzel nen Plage und Zeiten verfchiedene Leichtigkeit, e8 zu verwerthen, hinzu, während diefe im Inlande ‚in der. Neget überall gleich iſt. An dem ausmärtigen Plage hat ber Empfüngeg: des Papiergeldes zu ‚bedenken, daß daſſelbe für den inneren Verkehr feines Pages haͤufig nicht daſ— felbe Bertrauen genieft, wie Metallmüngen oder inländifches Papier: geld; daß es alfo darauf anfommt, es wieder in feine Heimath zurüdzu: fhaffen und dort zu verwerthen. : Es twird an eimem -folchen Plage _ bereitwillig. genommen werden, einen hohen Cours erlangen, wenn von dort aus bedeutende Zahlungen an Orte zu machen find, wo «3 einen hohen Cours hat. Hier kann es, wegen der geringeren Zransportko- fien, einen höheren Cours erreihen, als felbft die Metallmünze, die es repräfentiet. Sm, Gegenfalle dagegen und wenn die Empfänger fich in die Nothwendigkeit verfegt fehen, das Papiergeld in feine Heimath zuruͤckſenden, dort gegen Metallmünze umtäufchen und fich diefe zu: fhiden laffen zw muͤſſen, werden fie fi natürlich diefe Mühen und Koften erftatten laffen, und der Cours wird niedrig fein. Mehr bar: über wird bei Geld, Papiergeld zu fügen fein. 76 Cours. Der Cours der Banknoten geſtaltet ſich analog zu’ dem des Staatspapiergeldes. Nur ift bei jenen auch noch die Größe der Kräfte der Bank, das Vermögen, über welches fie zur Dedung der emittirten Banknoten gebieten kann, zu bedenken, fowie auf das Vertrauen, welches eine Bank und welches ein Staat genießt, verfchiedenartige Umstände einwirken. In ber Megel genießt der Staat ein größeres, aber ein weniger. ficheres Vertrauen, weil e8 weniger auf Elarer Kenntniß und Berehnung beruhen kann. Den Cours ber MWechfelbriefe anlangend, fo ift bier nicht von dem perfönfichen Gredite die Rede, welchen bie MWechfel des einen oder des andern Hanbdlungshaufes genießen, fondern es handelt fih um die Mobdification ihres Preifes, die an ben einzel- nen Plägen in Bezug auf alle aus einem beftimmten Handels— plage oder Lande herrührenden Wechfel eintritt und auf dem Courszet— tel durch den Stand des Discontos ausgebrüdt wird. Auf gleiche Summen ausgeftellte MWechfel eines und beffelben Haufes haben doch zu London einen andern Preis ald zu Amfterdam. Die Urfahhe liegt darin, daß die Leiftung an dem einen Orte erfolgt ift, bie Gegenlei- fung an dem andern erfolgen, babei der erfteren natürlich genau ent= fprechen foll, und nun alle die Ausfälle, welche die abweichenden Vers hältniffe des. andern Orts herbeiführen, ausgeglichen werden müffen. 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ReCAP Fermenter, 3 pack
ReCAP Fermenter, 3 pack
Introducing The reCAP® Fermenter
This is a set of 3 Fermenters that must be used with the reCAP POUR (not included)
The reCAP® Fermenter: the EASIEST waterless airlock set that ferments and stores culinary creations that are delicious and good for your health. For both regular mouth and wide mouth Mason jars. This tried and tested solution is simple to use, with less pieces and steps, and better results than traditional methods and current Mason jar fermenting tools that we’ve tested.
Utilizing the original reCAP POUR Mason jar lids, the Fermenter creates an air-tight seal with the one-way valve and stopper. During the ferment, the carbon dioxide releases through the valve as pressure builds up within the jar. When done, simply remove the Fermenter and the reCAP POUR Mason jar lid turns into a storage cap. It is the most multi-functional fermenter available!
The reCAP® Solution
Mason jars are considered the perfect vessel for fermentation. reCAP Mason Jars converts the already popular POUR mason jar lids into a fermenting tool with our reCAP Fermenter. It is a simple waterless airlock that fits into a stopper. Once the ferment is complete simply remove the stopper, press down the POUR mason jar lid and it's ready for storage! The reCAP Fermenter can then be used in another batch. No need to scramble for lids and rings.
EASY - Low profile, Waterless Airlock (no maintenance) & interchangeable between regular and wide mouth Mason jars. Quick Clean Up & Dishwasher safe.
SAFE - Rust-free, BPA-free, Food Safe Plastic. True One-way Valve (allow gases to escape and will not let air in)
DURABLE - An Economical, Multipurpose Solution that will last for many years.
NO maintenance or monitoring required.
How Does reCAP® Fermentation Work?
The reCAP Fermenter uses a legit one-way valve system. Just as it sounds, a one-way valve allows the flow of a gas or liquid in only one direction. This is the purpose of an airlock: to allow carbon dioxide gas to flow out of the jar, and prevent oxygen (or anything else) from flowing into the jar.
Cleaning Instructions:
Wash with warm/hot soapy water or put them in the dishwasher. We recommend letting the water stream through the valve to make sure it is clean.
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Tantra is not well understood in the western world, but is a key to healthy living and awareness that can transform you into the person you were meant to be.
The Sanskrit word Tantra is related to the concept of weaving and expansion- it derives from 'tan', meaning to expand, spin out, and weave. We weave the strands of our nature into a unified whole. Tantra takes the approach that one should not only not reject the body and its desires, but actually embrace them on the road to enlightenment. Tantra shares the view that sexual itercourse canbe a sacrament and a means of spiritual transformation. Tantra is the transformatin of vital energy in all its permutations ultimately toward the goal of spiritual attundement and enlightenment. In this context sexual relations become sacred.
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A proactive sexual practice of engaging in sacred sex with a partner or oneself can be your path to enlightenment and a focused life. There are many aspects to tantra beyond sex. It comes from yoga and meditation. You cannot go wrong with tantra. A part of tantra is the true art of sex and ecstasy.
The art of sex in American and other western societies has been lost. In discovering tantra you can regain the beauty of sex with another person and transform much of the negative effects of daily life.
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The word Kundalini is derived from a Sanskrit word `Kundal' meaning coiled up. It is the primordial dormant energy present in three-and-a-half, coils at the base of the spine in a triangular bone called the Sacrum. The Latin name `Os Sacrum' suggests that it is a holy or sacred part of the body. The ancient Greeks were aware of this and therefore they called it the `Hieron Osteon', noting that it was the last bone to be destroyed when the body is burnt, and also attributed supernatural powers to it. Egyptians also held this bone to be very
valuable and considered it the seat of special power.
coiled up like a serpent and therefore it has been called, `The
Serpent Power'. It has been described in great detail in the
Upanishads. Kundalini Yoga is supposed to be supreme in all the
Yogas. Guru Vashistha asserted that Kundalini is the seat of absolute
knowledge. The awareness of the presence of this primordial energy
Kundalini within the human body was considered by the sages and
saints to be the highest knowledge. The Kundalini and Chakras have
been vividly described in Vedic and Tantric texts.
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Case Study: Office Depot
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(1) What marketing orientation or approach does Office Depot appear to be using now? How does Office Depot create value for its customers? Describe two things it could do it move it more toward implementing the marketing concept.
After the situation has been addressed by Steve Haines, Office Depot appears to be using a societal marketing concept approach. A societal marketing approach is carried out by making good marketing decisions through considering consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests. This tactic focuses on delivering value to customers to improve the consumer and the society’s well-being.
Office Depot appears to be focusing on the building profitable customer relationships process of marketing to build value. They are taking their customer relationship management process into account to build their customer relations by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. They are also realizing that their customers are very important to the success of their firm and are striving to fix any problems associated with their actions. They are trying to create value for their customers by building strong relationships for more reasons than just the idea of profits. A business’s marketing aim is to build specific relationships with the “right” customers. It is essential to create value for these targeted customers and to obtain a higher customer equity.
Two things that Office Depot should do to move it more toward carrying out the marketing concept could include addressing the issues with their services directly to the employees and allowing their customers to realize that their feedback is greatly appreciated and that their ideas and opinions will b...
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...s customer service operation and learned of Steve's story, what steps would you take?
I would be very upset if I were in charge of Office Depot's customer service operation and learned of Steve's story. I would take several steps to try to resolve the situation. It would be a good idea to require my employees to take several courses that focus on stressing specific customer relations skills. I would also design a policy that each employee would be required to follow when dealing with customers. This would ensure that all employees were displaying good customer relation skills. I also think that it would be a good idea to individually address this specific situation to the employee involved. Maybe, for example, the employee is not aware of what he is doing wrong. Employees need to be individually and specially trained in their field of association with the company.
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<h1><u>Git Website Tutorial - Introduction</u></h1>
<p><i>Written by: <a href="https://torodean.github.io">Antonius Torode</a> - 1/9/2021</i></p>
<h2>Introduction And General Information</h2>
<p><i><b>Before beginning:</b> Make sure you don't get too much screen time before bed. It's much easier to stay productive and focused if you are well rested and it has been shown that it's easier to get a restful night of sleep without a lot of screen time the night before! I would also recommend some non-distracting music to play in the background. One of my favorites for things like this can be found at this link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4yog_svfw">super cool relaxing music</a> (the music changes for each article!).</i></p>
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<h3>The purpose of this website</h3>
<p>The purpose of this website is to go through the step by step process of creating a website while utilizing the free hosting service of Github (A github.io static web page). It will discuss the various steps to setting up and modifying web pages using git to control your workflow. This website and the articles here will continually evolve in format, look and feel as more articles come out. At the start, they may seem very basic, but that is only because I have limited time to dedicate to writing them, let alone making them fancy.</p>
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<li><b>HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)</b> is a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. This is the main language that websites are written in and tells a web browser what to display.</li>
<li><b>CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)</b> is a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. CSS describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media. CSS saves a lot of work by controlling the layout of multiple web pages simultaneously.</li>
<li><b>Git</b> is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. This is used to manage edits for your webpage and supply version controlling for all your files. Git is an industry standard version control system and experience with it looks great on a resume!</li>
<li><b>Github</b> is used by millions of developers and companies to build, ship, and maintain their software. It is the largest and most advanced development platform in the world. This is used to store all of our project files and host our github.io page for free!</li>
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<span class="w3-large"><u>Notepad++</u> - FREE - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/</span><br>
<span>This program is essentially notepad on windows except with a vast amount of added functionality. It supports code completion and other features that make editing files much simpler. This is something I install on every windows machine that I have because it is a great improvement on the normal notepad and great for editing any files that can be viewed as basic text.</span>
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<span>CLion is a cross-platform IDE for C and C++. It also has support for Python, Javascript, CSS, and HTML files (all of which are used by website designers). This program is free for all open source projects (which a github.io website generally is) and provides easy integration with git.</span>
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<span class="w3-large"><u>Adobe Photoshop</u> - PAID - https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html</span><br>
<span>Adobe Photoshop is one of the most well known among photo and graphic editing software. The biggest downfall is that it is not free. They do offer a free trial. If you have access to this program, it provides many easy to use features for graphic and photo manipulation that can greatly enhance your website. A free alternative can be seen below!</span>
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<span class="w3-large"><u>GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)</u> - FREE - https://www.gimp.org/</span><br>
<span>GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. It is a great free alternative to Adobe Photoshop and allows for graphic editing that can greatly enhance your websites look and feel!</span>
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Cru vs Stringfellow
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Premium Rates
There are moves afoot to address the TV show phone-in "quizzes" where the questions are stupidly easy and the cost of entering is sky high. Now of course if GCSE maths were just a little bit more of a hurdle in this country we wouldn't have to worry about there being people out there who don't know these things are a scam. However seems like a case of too little too late to me.
Apologies in advance for quoting chunks of the article but really...
'Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward said that, even if some channels were running scams, "it doesn't necessarily follow that they are all doing it". '
Depends what you mean by a scam. Are they making a profit from the phone lines far greater than the value of the prize they're giving away? Yes. And all the channels are doing that.
'The government would introduce more regulation if this was deemed "proportional" to the problem, but industry self-regulation would be "quicker, more flexible and more likely to work", he added. '
Industry self-regulation clearly doesn't work because that's what's going on right now. Industry self-regulation is just a euphimism for "I'll turn a blind eye and you make sure you get me a nice Christmas present".
'Mr Woodward said that "realistically, when we take part in these programmes, you know that the odds are stacked against you".'
We? I don't take part in these shows and judging by your shifting pronouns, nor do you Mr Woodward. If people taking part in these programmes are aware that they are paying far more for the call they are making than they are on average going to win then they are gambling, and that falls under much more restrictive gambling law. If they don't know then they're being scammed.
One of the responsible parties, David Brook from Optimistic Entertainment said 'We don't wish to encourage people to make multiple calls'. Now I can't say I watch a lot of these kinds of shows but I have noticed when I do watch them the never-ending urges to call and to call again if you don't get through.
And the proliferation of these shows tells us that people are falling for it and losing a lot of money.
We've also recently heard that victims of Farepak's collapse have been told to ring a premium rate number to register claims. And the same is true of the government's benefits hotline (reposted in Private Eye so no link).
What's needed is something much much stronger than what is being discussed. I suggest a major new piece of legislation to cover premium rate lines and text message services so that they can't be used for entering competitions or providing information which the company or body setting them up should reasonably be providing to it's customers or callers.
What do you think? Dial 0898 YES CRUELLA if you think premium rate numbers should be banned...
Thursday, November 23, 2006
All Shapes and Sizes of Plug
Yes here they come. Brace yourselves...
1) Mr Cru has finally succumbed to the blogging bug and started his own. He has a significant amount of experience as a military journalist so he will be sounding off about Iraq mostly I expect but check him out here.
2) Next Thursday - 30th Nov I am performing in a lovely Christmas singing show at John Lyon Hall, at the City Lit on Keeley Street, near Holborn. The bad news is it's 12.45pm - i.e. during the day so I know some people won't make it. The good news is that it's free so please come along and enjoy our tuneful singing (and the rest).
3) Upcoming gigs:
Mon 27th Nov Soho Comedy Club, Roundtable Pub, St Martin's Court, near Leicester Sqare, 8pm. £5 or free if you mention Cru-blog.
Wed 29th Nov This Week On Earth, topical panel show live at Cypress Grill, Fulham Palace Road (Hammersmith end, just after the hospital), 8.30pm, £5.
Mon 4th Dec Soho Comedy Club as above
Mon 11th Dec Soho Comedy Club Xmas party as above
Wed 13th Dec This Week On Earth as above
Mon 18th Dec Soho Comedy Club Comedy Star-In-Their-Eyes Special, as above except we all do cover versions of famous acts...
Wed 20th Dec Electric Mouse Golders Green
Thurs 21st Dec Larfin Lion King's Cross
Hope to see you all soon!
Comedy Tent
Just found this cool picture of me compering the comedy tent at Fringe Sunday in Edinburgh. My job is so much fun... (of course I say that now, those of you who were reading Cru-blog during August will remember me moaning about being knackered all the time, etc.)
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Spot the Slime-Ball
I'll give you a clue: HERE. Now what he superficially seems to be saying sounds emminently reasonable. That there is a difference between someone aged 17 having consensual sex with someone aged 15 and a half and someone aged 45 having sex with a 6 year old. I agree with that, of course there is. Three things though:
1) The law already recognises the difference between thse crimes. Both remain crimes but the latter incurs much more serious penalties under UK law.
2) He's suggesting the law should be changed for GIRLS from 13 up. Surely if a girl is capable of binding consent at age 13, so is a boy of the same age. There are countries in the world where the age of consent is different for boys and girls. I think that's a bad idea. I think that's sending out a message that the sexes should have different concepts of sex. And that's unhelpful.
3) He's talking about relaxing the law for men who have sex with girls from 13 up. If he means to relax the law for men and women who have sex with girls and boys from 13 up then I'm prepared to talk. However if he's relaxing the law the I think there a good case for allowing it to be applied up to a higher age limit. Say 15 to 18 year olds can have sex with someone up to five years older than them, no more. Personally I think the law is better as it is but there may be a case to be made there.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Bush's latest sneaky plan
If you can't change the law directly, there's got to be a sneaky way of having the same effect. Pass the bucket...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Operation Freedom and Love
The unsurprising news that some US soldiers in Iraq have murdered a group of people and raped a 14-year-old girl is discussed on the BBC. And to think how much of a struggle it continues to be for women who want to to get to the front lines...
Monday, November 13, 2006
Have some pity...
...for Katie Davis. On her way to prison after being convicted of making false claims of rape. Now I know it's wrong to make such claims, and of course it's traumatic for the guy who was tried for the crime, but:
(a) What kind of environment has she been brought up in to believe aged 18 that if she's accidentally pregnant her only option is to claim rape?
(b) Both parties had been drinking, neither remembered what happened fully. If someone is too drunk to remember what has happened I'm unconvinced that they can truly be said to have given consent.
(c) She was 16, only just over the age of consent, he was 24.
(d) The case was dropped because of "discrepancies and inconsistencies in Davis's accounts". Now if I was going to file a false rape claim I'd get my story straight and stick to it wouldn't you? On the other hand if I'd been raped, blocked half of the horror of it out and was trying to piece together the evidence I'm sure I would need to adjust my testamony as time went by.
(e) Even these inconsistencies only cast "serious doubt" on the verdict. No one has ever said that it was fully disproved.
(f) The guy spent 10 weeks in prison for whatever he did or didn't do. For just bringing the case against him she's been sentenced to six months.
And the police wonder why only a tiny percentage of rape victims report the crimes against them!
Sunday, November 12, 2006
The Fairer Sex and the Beautiful Game
Yet another misogynist idiot has for some unknown reason had his ludicrous ranting reported in the mainstream press. Mike Newell, whose expertise in the world of football has led him to the dizzying heights of being manager of Luton Town has decided that women shouldn't be allowed to work as referees and other officials. His comments come surprisingly shortly after his team lost 3-2 in a game where referees assistant Amy Rayner decided not to award his boys a penalty. Senior referee Andy D'Urso agreed with Ms Rayners decision but oddly Mr Newell hasn't been calling for men to be barred from refereeing...
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Baby, Bathwater, Bandwagon and Brown
As if any of us hoped that Gordon Brown might be any more honest a prime minister than Tony Blair. Witness this piece of less-than-joined-up government. Nick Griffin, the nasty little fascist at the head of the BNP has gotten off on charges of inciting racial hatred. Despite the fact that he clearly did (for instance when he said "lets show these ethnics the door in 2004"). To me the issue raised by the case it what's wrong with our law courts? The Times offers a good run-down of this guys offensive views so the failure to convict makes me want to know more about who was the judge, why were the jury not better screened to make sure they didn't hold racist opinions themselves and who was bringing the case and why didn't they get someone competent?
Instead of course Gordon Brown has waded in and said "Any preaching of religious or racial hatred will offend mainstream opinion in this country. We have got to do whatever we can to root it out from whatever quarter it comes. And if that means we have got to look at the laws again, we will have to do so".
Now firstly Nick Griffin's offences date from befor ethe incitement to religious hatred bill came in so we just don't know if the laws we have now would have been enough to get him. As I understand it even the old laws sound like enough to get him, but something went wrong in that process.
Secondly the issue of what should and shouldn't be allowed to be said in this country shouldn't in my view be a matter of what will "offend mainstream opinion". I have lots of opinions which some people may find offensive. For instance I believe that there is no God. Indeed I believe that the idea of cloud-dwelling fairies who can read everybody's minds and make notes and then use those to decide what happens to our eternal soul (I don't believe we have one of these either) such as being burnt in hell forever is absolute nonsense. I think those who believe it in the face of modern scientific understanding are delusional and as such should be barred from public office or going near children. I want the law to protect people from threat and intimidation - not criminalise debate.
But finally what Gordon Brown is calling for is a strengthening of the law on Racial and Religious hatred. And that's really the sneaky thing. More or less everyone I know thinks Nick Griffin should be locked up fr his offensive views on race issues. However religion and race are not the same issue. Saying it's bad to be black or Asian is wrong, because people don't choose their race. Saying it's bad to believe certain things is open to debate, people choose what to believe. Nick Griffin described Islam as a "wicked and evil" religion. Now I think many of it's modern adherents are very nice reasonable people, but looking at the history of Islam and the way it is still used in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and even in parts of the UK to justify treating women like goats, I think there are certainly aspects of it that are "wicked and evil", and believe me, I don't agree with Nick Griffin very often... But to read remarks from Gordon Brown you would think that race and religion were somehow equally weighted in terms of things you can't be judged on. I feel bad for those people genuinely trying to defeat racism that suddenly they're being co-opted onto a whole different movement. To me that feels like Brown doing exactly the sort of sneaky backhanded politics that we're very used to with Blair. Leaving me less than optimistic for the future.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Readers in the South-West?
Are cordially invited to come and see me tomorrow night (well tonight now since it's gone midnight) Sunday 5th Nov at Mirth Control, Havanas on the Quay in Exeter. Doors 8pm, show starts 9pm. Mr Cru (aka American comic David Mulholland) is also doing a short spot. It's a fiver to get in and please come say hello if you're there, I may even be buying beers!
The Red Carpet Treatment
Cru and Mr Cru were joined by Wufnik from BazzFazz (the guy who originally got me in to blogging!) on Friday night to attend the opening of Paul Sellar's latest play 2Graves at the Arts Theatre (it was also the re-opening of the Arts Theatre itself which has been closed for over a year). Paul is a stand-up comic I've worked with many times over the last few years so that was why we got to hang with the stars. Anyway I am really really not just saying this because he's a friend of mine but the play is really fantastic. Not just the writing but also the performance by Jonathan Moore is captivating. It's a one-man piece, all in verse, about a guy from the midlands in the underworld of darts, snooker and gangsters and it's very funny - largely because of the way that it rhymes - and very dramatic and meaningful too. I won';t say anymore as I don't want to spoil it but seriously recommended.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Porn again
Interesting article in The Guardian discussing views on the post-Jane Longhurst anti-violent porn bill. I agree with those in favour - we should prosecute the owners of this stuff. I seem, in this respect to come up against three key arguements:
1) (As voiced by Bonnie Greer) Once we start censoring, the censorship will spread to affect our rights to freedom of speech, etc and be a problem for artists/playwrites/etc.
Well we already have censorship in certain areas. Child pornography is banned in the UK. All we're suggesting is moving the line of what is and isn't censored. If we can't have that debate then we effectively are censored, the decision has to be open to discussion. And no doubt at some point there will be a play that shows an act of child rape which is then debated hotly by the censors and banned in some places amid critical outcry, etc. At the same time I think we have to protect against anyone who wishes to show violent horrific acts for the purpose of tittilation and then cover their backs by calling it art. Good art and good theatre can use symbolism to evoke the situation without having to be gratuitously graphic.
2) (As voiced by Holly Combe) The problem should be solved by stopping such material being produced in the first place.
Well yes that would be an ideal solution, I agree. But the internet is a global network, covering regions where we have no control over the legislation and covering a widely varying region in terms of economic power. If we allow the download and ownership of violent porn, we have to accept that we fund the production of it. Is our aim to end the production of it or just to announce that we don't want it produced. Is it not worth a small decrease in our freedoms to prevent thousands of rapes and murders around the world? Lets be realistic not idealistic. By the same token we might suggest illegalising the sale but not the purchase of drugs, which creates a totally unclear message: if you can get it, ok, but don't let us see you.
3) (As voiced by Mr Cru) But what if someone borrows your computer or you buy a second hand computer and there are files on there you don't know about.
Well sure, some people get wrongly accused of crimes. That's like saying some guy was framed for murder and that's not fair so lets legalise murder. We make the law and then we do our best to enforce it fairly.
As usual Jeremy Coutinho from Object has some great - and to my mind shocking - points to make on the subject, so here he is:
'Obviously these proposals are "a good news day" for women's human rights. They plug a legal loophole whereby the distribution and sale, but not the possession of violent material, was illegal.
Simply closing this loophole, though, does not in itself address society's attitudes towards women, which are still extraordinarily sexist and allow rape, sexual assault and discrimination to flourish. The mainstreaming of a porn aesthetic and outlook is now endemic.
So, for instance, in Virgin Airline's executive lounge at JFK, the introduction of urinals shaped like women's mouths was only abandoned after massive protest. Then there was Zoo magazine's "dictionary of porn" which described abusive porn such as "pink eye" (ejaculating on to a woman's eye ball). Zoo is sold without age restriction as a "lifestyle" magazine, often for as little as 60p.
Or take the Sport "newspaper", which described the sex life of Jane Longhurst's murderer as "an adventurous romp" on a page crammed with graphic adverts for sex chat lines and hardcore porn.
While I welcome this bill, the mainstream objectification of women has to be tackled too if the government is really serious about women's human rights.'
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Gigs tonight, etc
Doubling up tonight at 99 Club Angel (Camden Head Pub, 8.30pm, £3) and Electric Mouse Golders Green (see TO for info or something, I've only just said yes, someone must have dropped out last minute!).
Also the Soho Comedy Club is now running regularly Monday nights at the Roundtable Pub, St Martin's Court (along the side of the Wyndham's Theatre, 1 min from Leicester Square Tube). It's £7 but you can get in for £5 if you mention me. I MC it every week now. It's a dinky little place, seats 25-30 but it gets rammed sometimes, especially when there are good people on. Rich Brophy and Gareth Berliner next week and Nick Coppin, Rosie Wilby and Aaron Barshack on Nov 13th. Mr Cru aka American comic David Mulholland is usually on too. Hope to see you there. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '213', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9776910543441772}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '114427', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QWAXIZ6VP24NMLJIPXM3K53WBISHGKKW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:911dce38-4959-40f0-87d6-2b51a861c784>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 21, 13, 21, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KRDE3Q4CTDTX4EUHTPJSUQMRNJOVYBS7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:86d564f1-de40-4f04-87e7-46272bae34b6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://cruellablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c0790dc4-d298-4617-a432-1acde95d10e3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '3347', 'url': 'http://cruellablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-28.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': '0.05758941173553467', 'original_id': 'b1fe43142f18d78546d42a042946eabe22013ba8ec05fcc2aea8484cd9fe1417'} |
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Hate Group Atheism Has But One Argument
I am not speaking of all atheists, but the "Dawkies" the rude arrogant people who go on message boards to mock and ridicule, which has grown to be the big majority of atheists on message boards, they basically have but one argument. The only argument mot atheists on message boards make is argument from incredulity, "I refuse to believe therefore it can't be true. You can find all kinds of versions of this, from sophisticated arguments that appear to be real arguments, to foolish troll mockery. I present this as a lesson for the apologist becuase once you learn this fact and you start looking you find that most arguments atheist make on message boards (except for the minority good thinking type) are really just versions of this. I think it's becuase some people can't understand the distinction between real skepticism and incredulity. I think the cultist aspects of atheist ideology and hate group dynamics shape their thinking into a from of circular reasoning where they take basic skepticism and transform it into the refusal to ever believe no matter what.
Skepticism says "I don't know. I have a fishy feeling about this, if I dig deeper I bet I'll find a different story." I can't help but regard this attitude with some sympathy, having been an atheist myself and having been ripped off by numerous things in life. I think we all have a degree of skepticism in general and well we should. But we don't have to, and in fact can't afford to take it to the level that we say "nothing can be true, I refuse to believe no matter what." I think many atheists fall into this trap becuase the over all dynamics of the ideological movement pushes them in that direction. We see this in any number of ploys that they use. When you realize this is all they ever do you can see it in almost everything. That's sounds like an obsession but of cousre I mean almost everything they argue, and as I said, watch out for those exceptions because there are some bright one's out there who don't do this. An exampel of one who does not fall into this trap is Hermit, the loyal opposition reader of my blogs. I say that so he can't jump all over me about it ;=)
One of the major ploys in which they use it is the shift in argument. We see the shift all the time but don't' often catch it. We will be arguing about something let's say consciousness, and suddenly the other guy will say something like "O yea, but you have to admit the God of the OT is a blood thirsty tyrant and religion is based upon fairy tales." This is totally off topic and they slam it in there right out of the blue. what's going on at that point? It's a shift in argument not only because they can't answer your point, but also because your arguments are starting to get to them and they having cognitive dissonance. They don't what to say and go off script and most of them feel lost, so they start spouting propaganda lines in order to regain their equilibrium. We see fundamentalists do this too, where the other guy says something complex and they go "O I don't know about that but I do know Jesus loves you and has a plan for your life."
That ploy of the shift often invovles resorting to incredulity becasue it's a mainstay of their ideological world view. They want equilibrium since your arguemnts have set them off balance with cognitive dissonance so they seek equilibrium by reciting some tried and true slogans of tier ideology. A related ploy is the trollish answer. The trollish answer if mockery which they fall back upon when they have nothing left. there are times they employ mocking, for the real hateful ones who go there to bully they get a rush from bullying. For those the main objective is work things around so they can start their trollish answers. Other times they fall back on trollish mocking because they have no answer and they seek equilibrium and those are the sort of ideological slogans they know best.
here are several examples, all from CARM. Now remember, CARM has that new backwards board where the latest post is at the top of the que. So you have to number them and scroll to find the number. That means 34 will be further toward the bottom than 35:
Quote Originally Posted by Dr Pepper View Post 37
Things that were claimed 2000 years ago is not objective.
foolish. time doesn't make something subjective.
What verification that is subject to scientific investigation is around. Much history is not factual especially the supernatural.
you are using hasty generalizations. you can't write the evidence of Res off through guilty by association. You have to show specifically that each piece of evidence is unverified. you can't certainly can't dispute the finding of textual criticism on that basis.
All you have is more claims by people you never met who with the same biases that you have.
Texts are concrete. they last after the people who wrote them die the evdience textual critics turn up is objective and can be demonstrated scientifically. you are making hasty generalizations.
If your way of thinking about history were taken seriously there would be no history at all. No one would have a single history or book or class.
People want to believe and they want to convince others. This is all we get around here.
you are projecting your anti-religious mythology onto evidence you don't even know--you have no idea what I use as evidence, you are condemning it out of hand because you refuse to believe anything, evidence is irrelevant to you.
drop the smoke screen you don't care weather the evdience is objective or not, you refuse to believe it no matter what.
There is no way some will ever give up attempting to convince those of us here. I can imagine how the guys writing bible stories had the same agenda and motivation.
Your thinking about region is anything but scientific,. It's really quite emotional and filled hate and all sorts of unfounded assertions not in evidence.
you pride yourself on a being a scientist! You are just filled with hate.
Weak answer but I was fed up at that point. notice: (1) he does not deal with a single piece of evdience. (2) he doesn't show how any evidence for the Resurrection is invalid or uncritical. This is an example of incredulity because he's really arguing "I don't have to look at the evidence, I know some histoircal evidence is bad, therefore, you's is because it's religous and I hate religion and refuse to believe it therefore it has to be wrong, therefore, your evidence must be bad.
the proof? He has no evidence. he did not present one single argument about any specific evidence. It's sounds like he's trying to make real arguments because he's using words like "scientific verification" but look at what he really says he basically just argues "I refuse to believe therefore it can't be true."
Here he is again, same thread
Originally Posted by Dr Pepper View Post 39
I don't even know where to begin. How can you get I am filled with hate because I think supernatural stories were made up. Even you agree with that assessment when it comes to other religions and mythology.
Actually the truth is I do not argue that about other faiths. I never argue that. I have never argued on a message board "Christian miracles are true but other faith's miracles are made up." He's just asserting that I do because they thinks all Christians must do that.
Scheese. It isn't even worth replying. Please don't get the last word AGAIN! So far you are 100% in that department.
He said I always have to get the last word, I said "no I don't."
Your views on religion have no bearing on history, anthropology, theology, it's like you have not bothered to do anything more than read a bunch of atheist websites and regurgitate a bunch of atheist propaganda. Most of the stuff on those sites and their general view of religion is straw man based upon their hatred of fundies. Your views on religion are just silly stereo types.
the Scott Adams quote is a good example. It's not just stupid it' totally disproved by a huge body of empirical scientific work. The one thing those studies prove beyond the shadow of a doubt is that there nothing stupid about being religious.
I admit I was getting ticked at this guy. That answer is ok minus the personal tone but I could have made it a lost more devastating intellectually and less insulting if I had not been ticked off. Notice that his argument is still incredulity. what he says is ironic, "how do you get that I'm filled with hate just because I don't bleieve your idiotic fairy tales" that's essentially what he's saying. Again, no effort was made to analyze any evidence. It's all false becuase it has to be because he refuses to believe it.
same thread, different players.
Originally Posted by elwyn View Post 44
Ok but he did say he'd like to have a Christian's take on this. And if he feels as you do, about death, then both of you simply disagree with what Scripture says about Jesus' death and resurrection. I haven't seen any arguments yet, refuting what Scripture says about this. A denial isn't a refutation.
Nor do fairy tales that have been accepted without proof, "substance".
Atheist (don't remember who)
I can't refute that the jolly green giant doesn't exist somewhere.
what we have here is that shit argument ploy, no attempt to present any evidence or analysis of same, just shift to another point, but the point is a trollish answer of mocking so it's the combo I spoke of above, the shift to troll mode. That is incredulity becuase the basic motivation says "I refuse to believe no matter what the evidence says, so I don't need to give evidence, I will just mock you instead because your views are not worth a serious answer."
This kind of attitude is just replete throughout that thread. That is basically the only kind of answer they give in that thread. This is incredulity in action.
in his signature is a quote by Thomas Jefferson. That on the surface seems like it would be an intellectual answer and he probably has it there not only for the appeal to authority but also to dress up his post and make himself look smarter than he is. But examine the quote and we find, although Jefferson was not an atheist, he is making an argument from incredulity.
That is merely saying I refuse to believe it so it can't be true, it's a bit more sophisticated because it's pinned upon the deistic philosophies of the enlightenment. That's not to say that Jefferson didn't have loads of intellectual content all over his writings, but oddly enough the atheists chose to highlight the incredulous statement.
post 43
Originally Posted by Metacrock View Post
this quote early in the thread (backwards order) was about the orignial topic, the resurrection and the evidence for it. The atheists have argued it can't be true because they never see resurrections. That in itself is an incredulous answer, the evdience be damned it can't be true because I refuse to believe it.
that's a way of thinking that's designed to eliminate miracle a priori. so even if they happen you don't' care because you don't' want to be bothered with it. so really in a sense this is just admission that you can't come to terms with the have to rule them out a priori.
Atheist (anaynous)
Miracles are by definition a priori because if their functionality were susceptible to empirical proof they wouldn't be miracles.
He seems to be saying that miracles are necessary and must happen, makes me think he doesn't know what a prori means. Or else he's trying to say they can't happen a prori. Of course he can't give a reason. His whole reason is that they don't so they can't. That's sort of Hume's probelm too. sort of.
In the past when atheist try to give such a reason they assert laws of physics, then run slap dab into my God argument no. 3 "fire in the equations" which argues from the laws of physics to the existence of God. In this era atheists ear stuck with denying the existence of prescriptive laws of physics, otherwise they have to admit the universe needs a cause. Here the argument is incredulity because he doesn't even try to give a reason. He appears to be trying to nix miracles by logical fiat.
same thread post 42
Quote Originally Posted by Metacrock View Post
But what difference does it make. you think this is a circus trick? why does God have to entertain you? As I said it's a statement, you can't take it seriously you don't' think deeply to care what God is telling you, if you can only think about things if they razzel dazzel you then it's not for you ok?
On the other hand why do churches have to entertain the congregations their "theatre of the absurd"?
Argument against the res was soemthing like it's not spectacular enough.
Or why does one think that God condemned each fetus to death for the "sins" of ancestors hundreds of generations removed and allegedly left their salvation in the hands of a group of child abusing and buggering men and women Catholics, who have no fundamental "morality" and no remorse.
Here we have the first tactic of shifting that I spoke of above. I got all of these at random they are indicative of every argument on that thread given by atheists. Here he shifts from the lack of spectacular miracles to God is a big meanie. He's also got the situation backwards because the RCC is not condemning fetuses to death but trying to save them. That's why they don't want them aborted. I don't know what this guy was thinking, I suspect it was nothing. Literally.
Dave said...
Reminds me of when I once asked each person on a discussion forum to do their best to describe and defend what they thought was a proposition that would go against their assertion about the existence of God. Each person in a new thread. You know, to see what it was like from the other side. The idea that you could believe X yet actually know of at least one good reason not to believe X apparently sounded outrageous to many folks.
Metacrock said...
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Specialized substance abuse treatment for women and their children: an analysis of program design.
In the present study, 36 specialized substance abuse treatment programs for women and their children were identified and chosen for review. These programs provide a wide range of services including substance abuse, mental health and medical treatment, life skills training (i.e. vocational and parenting training), and social services (i.e. child care and transportation). A cluster analysis was conducted, and three distinct patterns of program design were identified. Results suggest that programs vary considerably regarding the extent to which comprehensive services are provided and to whom they are offered. Many programs that appear to be comprehensive fail to provide the full range of services to all those who need them. In particular, many programs for pregnant women seem to focus almost exclusively on pregnancy-related issues. As such, specialized substance abuse treatment for women may be at risk for becoming too specialized. Recommendations are made for future substance-related program planning for women and their children. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c92be36083648a176f4166edbc4b37f7d6146f6b091cabab0ff0ea28a4124936'} |
Expert: No, US Won't Save Money by Switching Fonts
Teen's math all wrong, writes Fast Company columnist
By Newser Editors, Newser Staff
Posted Apr 1, 2014 6:49 PM CDT
An example of Adobe's Garamond font. (Rbpolsen / Wikimedia Commons)
(Newser) – Looks like a teen's groundbreaking idea might have been too good to be true: Switching its chosen font to Garamond won't actually save the government hundreds of millions of dollars, writes John Brownlee at Fast Company. Suvir Mirchandani, 14, made headlines by arguing that Garamond uses less ink than other fonts and thus the US could save boatloads of money if it became the government's default font. But Brownlee, following up on a technical explanation by typography expert Thomas Phinney, agrees with Phinney that the teen is off base. His crucial mistake: He thought all 12-point fonts were the same size.
"Mirchandani is only 14, so he can be excused for not understanding this weirdo oddity of the way fonts are measured, but the biggest issue with his argument is that he measured Garamond at the wrong size," writes Brownlee. Garamond's letters are about 15% smaller on average than those of more common fonts—even when they're technically the same font size. If the government switched to Garamond, then, it would have to increase size to improve legibility, which would essentially erase any savings. "There's very little reason to believe that Garamond would save the government any money at all," writes Brownlee. Click for the full column, which gets into other problems with the teen's proposal.
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Typical prior control systems for this class of baler have relied upon mechanical sensors which activate a hydraulic control circuit for cylinders that control the size of the orifice, such sensors normally activating the circuits to either relieve or add fluid pressure depending upon the extent to which the sensors can penetrate the forming bale. In other words, the "tightness" or density of the forming bale results in the sensor being physically positioned in such a way that it performs an appropriate valving function so as to either further pressurize or depressurize the squeeze cylinders.
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// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
using System;
namespace Microsoft.Protocols.TestTools.StackSdk.FileAccessService.Fscc
{
/// <summary>
/// the response packet of FSCTL_CREATE_OR_GET_OBJECT_ID
/// </summary>
public class FsccFsctlCreateOrGetObjectIdResponsePacket : FsccStandardBytesPacket
{
#region Properties
/// <summary>
/// the command of fscc packet
/// </summary>
public override uint Command
{
get
{
return (uint)FsControlCommand.FSCTL_CREATE_OR_GET_OBJECT_ID;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// get the buffer type1 format payload
/// </summary>
public FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_1 FileObjectidBufferType1
{
get
{
return TypeMarshal.ToStruct<FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_1>(this.Payload);
}
set
{
this.Payload = TypeMarshal.ToBytes<FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_1>(value);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// get the buffer type1 format payload
/// </summary>
public FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_2 FileObjectidBufferType2
{
get
{
return TypeMarshal.ToStruct<FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_2>(this.Payload);
}
set
{
this.Payload = TypeMarshal.ToBytes<FILE_OBJECTID_BUFFER_Type_2>(value);
}
}
#endregion
#region Constructors
/// <summary>
/// default constructor
/// </summary>
public FsccFsctlCreateOrGetObjectIdResponsePacket()
: base()
{
}
#endregion
}
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Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling
Meathead Goldwyn. HMH/Martin, $35 (400p) ISBN 978-0-544-01846-4
Readers will be delighted to learn that a man who willingly calls himself Meathead can still be trusted with a collection that has science in the subtitle. Goldwyn, whose day job is running the website amazingribs.com, explores the complexity of heat, meat, and smoke in the first half of his book, with a sense of humor sharper than his nickname suggests and a stack of scientific research provided by physicist Greg Blonder. Then he offers more than 100 recipes to take to the grill. Much of the discussion involves myth busting widely practiced techniques such as letting meat rest after cooking and searing steaks to seal in their juices. There is also instruction on how to achieve the ultimate goal of “golden brown deliciousness,” which takes into account both caramelization and the process of how meat browns, known as the Maillard reaction. The recipe section begins with numerous sauces and rubs. One might think that Goldwyn combined parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme just so that he could call it Simon & Garfunkel Rub, except that he makes wide use of it in dishes as varied as stuffed pork loin roast, buffalo chicken wings, and grilled duck breasts. Instruction and technique permeate much of the recipe section. The specifics of simmering brats in beer are charted in the excellent guidebook, and there is an 18-page master class on dealing with a whole hog. Agent: Sally Ekus, Lisa Ekus Group. (May)
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544 P.2d 590 (1976)
STATE of Oregon, Respondent,
v.
Leroy M. HASTINGS, Appellant.
Court of Appeals of Oregon.
Argued and Submitted December 17, 1975.
Decided January 19, 1976.
Robert C. Cannon, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, Salem.
W. Michael Gillette, Solicitor Gen., Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Lee Johnson, Atty. Gen., Salem.
Before SCHWAB, C.J., and LANGTRY and FORT, JJ.
SCHWAB, Chief Judge.
Upon trial by jury defendant was convicted of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, ORS 164.135. The circuit court placed defendant on probation and as one of the conditions of probation, directed defendant to pay Washington County $378, $345 of this amount representing jurors' fees paid by the county and $33 representing state's witness fees. The only issue on appeal is whether the sentencing court had authority to order this payment.
The court in its discretion may require a convicted defendant to pay costs, ORS 161.665(1). ORS 161.665(2) specifically excludes the expenses of a jury trial as a cost which defendant may be required to pay.[1] As the state concedes, the portion of the circuit court's order covering jurors' fees cannot stand. State v. Leathers, 75 Or.Adv.Sh. 561, 531 P.2d 901 (1975).
The remaining $33 was the type of expense "specially incurred by the state in prosecuting the defendant," ORS 161.665(2), and is therefore properly assessable to defendant. This cost was incurred so the state could prove the indictment against the defendant in this particular case. Payment of witness fees in a particular case is not an expenditure made "irrespective *591 of specific violations of law." ORS 161.665(2). See, State v. Fuller, 12 Or. App. 152, 157-58, 504 P.2d 1393 (1973), aff'd 417 U.S. 40, 94 S.Ct. 2116, 40 L.Ed.2d 462 (1974).
Reversed and remanded for resentencing.
NOTES
[1] "Costs shall be limited to expenses specially incurred by the state in prosecuting the defendant. They cannot include expenses inherent in providing a constitutionally guaranteed jury trial or expenditures in connection with the maintenance and operation of government agencies that must be made by the public irrespective of specific violations of law." ORS 161.665(2).
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Frequently Asked Questions
NRECA Youth Tour Grants
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Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some frequently asked questions. Please feel free to email or call Elise Henson at 917-746-8161 with any other questions.
1. What are the NRECA Youth Tour Grants and when is the application period?
Grants of $500 to help Youth Tour participants complete a volunteer service project in your community. The application period is June 17 - July 17, 2015.
1. How many grants are you giving out?
One Youth Tour participant per state represented. You could be the one in your state!
1. Am I eligible?
In order to apply you must:
• Participate in the 2015 Youth Tour convened by the National Rural Electrical Cooperative Association in Washington, D.C.
• Be between the ages of 14 and 18 years old at the time of application.
• Have a U.S.-based nonprofit organizational partner (ex. school, community organization or local NRECA co-op) that will receive your grant funds and pass them on to you. Checks will be written to the organizational partner, NOT to individuals.
1. What can I use the grant money for?
To buy materials and/or services to complete your project. For example, you could use some of the money to print flyers, buy paint, or hire a DJ for a fundraiser. Please do not propose simply buying items to donate to others. Try to think of a hands-on project you can do.
2. What CAN'T I use grant money for?
You cannot use grant money to fund travel or anything else not included within your submitted budget.
3. What do I need to include in my application?
You need to answer all the required questions on the application form. The questions cover:
• Contact information for applicant and nonprofit partner (where we'll send the check).
• A description of your proposed service project and how it will make an impact.
• Budget for grant funds.
1. What makes a good application?
A strong application provides detailed, clear answers to all the questions and convinces us that you are organized, passionate and ready with a plan and budget for a specific service project.
1. Can the project I propose be based on a project listed on generationOn?
Sure - just adapt it to your own interests or the needs of your community.
1. Can the project I propose be an existing service opportunity?
Absolutely! This grant can be used to create a new service project or to futher your existing service work.
1. Why do we have to have a supporting nonprofit organization?
We can't make out grant checks to individuals, so you must have a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that can receive your grant check on your behalf. Students must partner with a non-profit 501(c)(3) in order to receive access to the grant funds. The 501(c)(3) will be responsible for disbursing the funds to the grantee for approved expenses related to their project.
1. What kind of nonprofit organization can we list?
You can list your school, community organization, volunteer center, co-op, etc. Just make sure they are aware that you listed them and are prepared to pass along the grant funds for you once they receive the check.
1. What do I need to include in my budget?
Your budget should include cost and quantity estimates for everything you propose buying with the grant money.
This might require doing a little research. For example, if you want to paint a mural but aren't sure how much a gallon of paint costs, check with your local hardware store or do some online research. That way, you can provide a detailed budget that lets us know you've put some thought into your project.
1. What do I have to do if I get a grant?
If you get a grant, you have to do a service project and submit a grant report and project report by the deadline. That means you have to take photos of your project and write up a short write-up on what you did.
More questions?
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New Delhi: In what may be a watershed moment for the global clean energy economy, SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son on Wednesday offered to supply free electricity to International Solar Alliance (ISA) member-countries including India, once its contracts to supply power in these countries expire after 25 years.
“I promise to provide free power to India as well as other ISA member countries after 25 years of PPA (power purchase agreement). This is my effort to provide equal opportunities to everyone," Son, who has written multi-billion dollar cheques in India, said at the second RE-Invest conference in Greater Noida.
With the life span of a solar power project extending over 80 years, Son added that after a decline in the capacity in the first five years, it generates electricity at 85% for the rest of its project life.
This comes against the backdrop of the first general assembly of ISA’s focus on ‘universalizing’ the membership of the first treaty-based international government organization headquartered in India and making all UN members eligible for ISA membership.
Such a move could help induct countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Nepal and Afghanistan, who have shown interest in becoming ISA members. While 70 countries are signatories to the ISA framework agreement, 44 have ratified it.
Initially, ISA envisaged 121 ‘sunshine countries’ situated between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn as its members.
SoftBank-owned SB Energy has been active in India’s emerging clean economy.
Son added that the cost of solar power generation is much cheaper in India as compared to the rest of the world.
India has registered a record low solar tariff of ₹ 2.44 per unit. Son’s announcement assumes importance given India’s clean energy push, with India’s ambitious target of 175 gigawatts (GW) by March 2022.
Of this 100GW is to come from solar. Also, cheap solar power has helped bringing electricity to the poor.
The National Democratic Alliance government has set a target to achieve universal household electrification by 31 March 2019.
The Japanese conglomerate, which started investing in India in 2011, has picked up stakes in several consumer internet companies in India and in the process, made unicorns out of several of them. SoftBank’s investment portfolio in India include companies such as Flipkart, Ola, Paytm, Snapdeal, Oyo Rooms, InMobi and others.
According to private equity tracker, Venture Intelligence, SoftBank has so far done 24 deals since 2011 in India, committing more than $7 billion.
In August 2017, SoftBank wrote its largest cheque in India till date, when it invested $2.5 billion in e-commerce major Flipkart.
It is also selling its entire 21% stake in Flipkart to Walmart Inc. in a deal that values the Indian e-commerce firm at $22 billion. India has emerged as the most favourable destination for renewable energy with around $42 billion invested in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.
Over the next four years, the green energy sector has a business potential of around $70-$80 billion, he said.
Son also spoke about battery storage becoming affordable. Solar power generated during the day needs to be stored in batteries.
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Q:
getting next 6 days from current day?
I try to store next 6 days from current day ,but I'm little stuck here how to store all next 6days in $weekOfdays .Is there any simple function to do that?
<?php
$weekOfdays = array();
$day = date('l');
$weekOfdays[] = $day;
$day = strtotime($day);
$next = strtotime("+6 day",$day);
$weekOfdays[] = date("l",$next);
var_dump($weekOfdays);
// output
// array (size=2)
// 0 => string 'Monday' (length=6)
// 1 => string 'Sunday' (length=6)
?>
I want to see array is like this
array (size=7)
0 => string 'Monday' (length=6)
1 => string 'Tuesday' (length=7)
2 => string 'Wednesday' (length=9)
3 => string 'Thursday' (length=8)
4 => string 'Friday' (length=6)
5 => string 'Saturday' (length=8)
6 => string 'Sunday' (length=6)
A:
Here's one that doesn't directly rely on doing the math on your own:
$days = [];
$period = new DatePeriod(
new DateTime(), // Start date of the period
new DateInterval('P1D'), // Define the intervals as Periods of 1 Day
6 // Apply the interval 6 times on top of the starting date
);
foreach ($period as $day)
{
$days[] = $day->format('l');
}
A:
There are many way some of sample are mentioned as below:
1) using strtotime function and temp $date variable in loop
$date = date('Y-m-d'); //today date
$weekOfdays = array();
for($i =1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day', strtotime($date)));
$weekOfdays[] = date('l : Y-m-d', strtotime($date));
}
print_r($weekOfdays);
2) using strtotime function and +$i days from current date
$date = date('Y-m-d'); //today date
$weekOfdays = array();
for($i =1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$weekOfdays[] = date('l : Y-m-d', strtotime("+$i day", strtotime($date)));
}
print_r($weekOfdays);
3) using DateTime class and modify method
$date = date('Y-m-d'); //today date
$weekOfdays = array();
$date = new DateTime($date);
for($i=1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$date->modify('+1 day');
$weekOfdays[] = $date->format('l : Y-m-d');
}
print_r($weekOfdays);
4) using DateTime class and DateInterval class
$date = date('Y-m-d'); //today date
$weekOfdays = array();
$date = new DateTime($date);
for($i=1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$date->add(new DateInterval('P1D'));
$weekOfdays[] = $date->format('l : Y-m-d');
}
print_r($weekOfdays);
5) using DatePeriod, DateInterval and DateTime class
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day')); //tomorrow date
$weekOfdays = array();
$begin = new DateTime($date);
$end = new DateTime($date);
$end = $end->add(new DateInterval('P7D'));
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$daterange = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval ,$end);
foreach($daterange as $dt){
$weekOfdays[] = $dt->format('l : Y-m-d');
}
print_r($weekOfdays);
Today is Tuesday, 12 April so output of all code will be:
Array
(
[0] => Wednesday : 2016-04-13
[1] => Thursday : 2016-04-14
[2] => Friday : 2016-04-15
[3] => Saturday : 2016-04-16
[4] => Sunday : 2016-04-17
[5] => Monday : 2016-04-18
[6] => Tuesday : 2016-04-19
)
For more detail have a look at:
strtotime
DateTime
DateInterval
DatePeriod
A:
I believe you need a for loop:
$weekOfdays = array();
$day = date('l');
$weekOfdays[] = $day;
$day = strtotime($day);
for($i = 1; $i <= 6; ++$i) {
$next = strtotime("+$i day",$day);
$weekOfdays[] = date("l",$next);
}
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$LOAD_PATH << File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
require 'slim_lint/constants'
require 'slim_lint/version'
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = 'slim_lint'
s.version = SlimLint::VERSION
s.license = 'MIT'
s.summary = 'Slim template linting tool'
s.description = 'Configurable tool for writing clean and consistent Slim templates'
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s.email = ['shane@dasilva.io']
s.homepage = SlimLint::REPO_URL
s.require_paths = ['lib']
s.executables = ['slim-lint']
s.files = Dir['config/**.yml'] +
Dir['lib/**/*.rb'] +
['LICENSE.md']
s.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.0.0'
s.add_dependency 'slim', '~> 3.0'
s.add_dependency 'rake', '>= 10', '< 12'
s.add_dependency 'rubocop', '>= 0.36.0'
s.add_dependency 'sysexits', '~> 1.1'
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end
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
BASK...365 Words of Well-Being for Women (day 14)
Bask in the warmth of the summer sun. When your friend finishes college after twenty years, bask in the glow of her joy. Bask in the moonlight. Bask in another woman's glory without needing to snatch any of it your yourself. Bask in the presence of a newborn child no matter whose it is. Walk into a well-tended garden and bask in the colors and the scents and the profusion of textures. Just drink it in. Let the crisp autumn air wash over you; let the serenity of a windswept grassy plain envelop you. When you walk into a room overflowing with a sacred hush, bask in it. When everyone in your family is in one room, bask in it. Don't talk, don't question, don't ask, just bask.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women, by Rachel Snyder (Day 13)
Don't ever consider paying retail. Offer five to start, and expect to pay three by the time you're done. All right, settle for four. Prowl through consignment shops and thrift shops and upscale second-hand shops. Ask for a 25 percen discount because the button is falling off. All right, settle for 15 percent. Offer ninety-nine cents for that last piece of pie, the one with the broken crust and the forlorn filling. When your boss offers you a raise, bargain for fewer hours instead. When your partner offers to watch the kids for an afternoon, bargain until you've got yourself a three-day weekend. Use your bargaining power to empower yourself. Come to the bargaining table with your eyes wide open--just in case you're hit with a lot more than you bargained for.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women By Rachel Snyder (Day 12)
When you find yourself teetering too far in one direction, bring some balance back into your life. Balance your work time with playtime. Balance your social butterflying with quiet, uninterrupted periods of solitude. If you've been giving too much, let everyone knwo you're ready to receive. Balance your diet. too much on any one thing--no matter how good--can never be good. If you've been running around at breakneck speed, slow down before an accident or injury does it for you. If you've been sitting in front of a screen (any screen!) for too long, get ukp from your chair and dance or walk or swim or stretch. WHen you feel like you've been balancing too many things for too long, put some down. Do it slowly and mindfully, so you don't lose your balance whild you do.
Monday, August 8, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women, By Rachel Snyder (day 11)
Bake bread the old-fashioned way. Bake muffins crammed full of blueberries. Bake exotic cakes with unpronounceable names and multicolored frosting. Bake tortillas, flatbreads, scones, cookies, biscotti. Make little people out of dough and bake them into life. Make them elves, hobbits, gremlins with vests and boots and long beards and braids, and hang them on trees or walls or shelves. Bake because it smells like the very best kitchen you ever remember, because it feels good to have flour on your hands and vanilla on your fingers. Bake because you want to lick the whole bowl yourself without asking anyone's permission. Bake because you really enjoy wearing an apron. Bake because women have always baked and always will, and only by baking will you understand why.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
365 Word of Well-Being for Women, by Rachel Snyder (Day 10)
Wake up! Refuse to sleepwalk through your life any longer. Wake up! Open your eyes and dare to see the world in a new and different way. Wake up! Awaken your passion for life and awaken it in those around you. Awaken yourself spiritually. Find something larger than yourself to believe in. Find a way to life youself above the mundane. Wake up! Smell the coffee! Take a long, hard look at all you've been missing, and decide not to miss any more. Awaken your senses, your intuition, your desires. Awaken the parts of yourself that have been sleeping: the lover, the trickster, the artist, the maiden, the crone. Wake up, and don't go back to sleep. Life is a dream and to live it, yo must be awake!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women, (Day 9)
Like a high-powered magnet, attract to yourself everything you desire. Attract the right job by being impeccably clear about what you want--and why. (Making some calls and sending a few letters won't hurt either!) Attract the mone you need by affirming your worthiness and your willingness to receive. (Taking an action step or two won't hurt either!) To attract loving relationships, be as kind as caring, as attractive as the people you want to meet. Anticipate the worst--and you're certain to attract it. To atract joy, embrace oy. To attract a spiritual teacher, quit whining and start accepting that you are one. To have friends, be one. To gain respect, respect yourself first and then move on to everyone around you. EVERYONE!
Friday, August 5, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women (Day 8)
Wishing doesn't make it so. Ask, and you at least have a chance. Ask anybody, ask everybody, ask God. Ask for help with the dishes. Ask for a ride because you don't have a car. Ask what it's going to take for you to get a promotion. Ask a friend for a loan. Ask a beloved to hold you just one luscious minute more. When a stranger asks how old you are, Ask Why does it matter? Ask someone over for breakfast, then ask wheter they want hot fudge or peanut butter on their ice cream. Ask yourself why it's so hard to ask. And even harder to receive. When the brownies are absolutely divine, ask for the recipe. When the seminar is terminally boring, ask to be excused.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women (Day 7)
Appreciate your friends. Appreciate the time they picked you up after your operation, even when it was snowing so hard. Appreciate that they listen when you need to talk. Needed to be heard. Needed to cry. Appreciate whoever mowed your lawn the day of the funeral. Appreciate whoever found your overdue video, returned it and paid the fine. When friends are in short supply, learn to appreciate being with yourself. Appreciate having a job whre you don't have to wear a dress. Appreciate having a job where you do. Appreciate that your body can take you where you want to go. If it can't, appreciate that your mind can take you there instead. Appreciate the good men in your life. Tell them you appreciate them and appreciate that they're learning to be well just like you.
Do you have 13 minutes to spare? Very thought provoking, inspiring video.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women (Day 6)
Allow yourself to ask for what you need. Allow yourself to need help, to need, love, to need other people. Give yourself permission to say This is what I need, to say it without shame, without guilt. Now allow yourself to receive what is offered. Allow yourself to be human. Allow yourself the luxury of screwing up now and then, of being less than perfect. Allow yourself to it all down and breathe. Now allow someone else to help you pick up the pieces. Give them permission to love you in the only way they know how. Every so often, allow yourself to forget about the bills and the phone calls and the deadlines. Allow yourself the freedom to feel exactly how you feel, to be exactly where you are in any given moment. Allow others the freedom to do the same.
Monday, August 1, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women by Rachel Snyder (Day 5)
Day 5
"Show the world the glorious goddess that lives within you. When everyone else is wearing shapeless T-shirts and running shoes, wear a sundress that ripples in the slightest breeze. If you like fingernail polish, wear it! Ditto for your toes. If you're the only woman on the crew, wear hot pink lipstick and thirteen earrings just to drive home the point. Take a hing from the women of India, from the Rom women of Eastern Europe, from the Native American elders and Mexican senoritas. Make every day a celebration by dressing the part. Let your body be a canvas for colorful creations. Add one bracelet this week and three the next. Wear as much makeup as you want. Get a tattoo or three or four. Wear flowers in your hair, ribbons at your throat, silk at your waist, and bells on your toes. If that's not your style, keep your adornments under wraps for select eyes only." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '52', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9041295647621156}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '158971', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RBE7GLKCFTUQTBLOYWZBWPWKIRBO64CN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5192e3c6-07a4-46ce-97b8-7db80f7c6b1e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 21, 8, 23, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.8.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WZDPOTAGFSHKB33JBA4J64NKHQICXCNX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0c05b29c-c368-42ac-b6a7-83534e6affa3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://rasbs-menancy.blogspot.com/2011/08/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eceb3032-b938-45ed-8d9d-2a19640161b9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1480', 'url': 'http://rasbs-menancy.blogspot.com/2011/08/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-229-75-92.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': '0.04894745349884033', 'original_id': '09af352b73e00b8fcff3d1aa10a4fa53736699a42673f40b118395fbd567ec42'} |
Danita rainbow recycled crayola crayon DIY project tutorial kids fun summer afternoon
My kids love to color with crayons. And when I mean love, I mean LOVE. We have a bucket full of any imaginable color and type, and they use them when they feel like drawing and coloring their own creations.
Danita Tutorial Handmade Custom Crayons Color Kids Melted
The problem with crayons is that as they get used up, they get stubby, and sometimes dirty, and the tips are not so usable any more and they get neglected because they do not color as they used to.
You can buy a new box, but then you end up accumulating more crayons and there’s the environmental cost of not recycling and reusing what we have.
Color crayons background tutorial recycle crayola Danita
So we decided to recycle our crayons and learn a few lessons about color mixing, doing things by yourself and being good to our planet. All in one afternoon!
First, let’s see what you need. It’s not a lot and probably you will find everything you need right at home.
List of materials.
Okay, you have everything you need? Let’s get started!
Step 1.
Pour the hot water into your plastic container. The water should be hot enough to peel off the paper from the crayons, but not too hot. Hot enough to take a warm bath should do the trick.
Danita Art Crayola Wax crayon custom handmade crayons tutorial by Danita
The paper will start coming off the crayons and they will be cleaner now. The idea is to get all the grime off of them so they are clean and ready for the next step.
Danita peel off paper crayon crayola tutorial DIY kids project handmade
Let the crayons dry up, and you can throw away the paper wrappings on the recycle bin.
Step 2.
Danita tutorial DIY crayons crayola recycle kids project
Start breaking up the crayons into small chunks so they fit in your silicone mold. Let your kids experiment with the colors that will mix on each try and get as many combinations as you can.
You can try different colors that will mix, or maybe different hues of the same color and encourage your kids to guess what will the final colors be.
Danita rainbow crayon crayola recycle DIY project kids children
Fill the trays and try to leave as little space as possible between the colors, but don’t overfill the tray. The idea here is that when the colors melt they will mix and they should not overfill the tray.
Step 3.
Take your silicone mold full of crayon chunks and put it in your oven. It’s time to see the magic start as you create your rainbow crayons!
The melting process took about about 30 minutes with the oven at 250F. , but keep an eye on the oven, the colors will start to melt and as soon as you see that they are melted and filling the molds, it’s time to get them out. They have a tendency to burn if you use a very high temperature so don’t leave your oven unattended.
Step 4.
Danita rainbow recycled crayola crayon DIY project tutorial kids fun summer afternoon
Let the mold cool down undisturbed so the different colors mix and harden as they get cooler. It should take an hour or so for the crayons to be ready to be taken out of the mold.
Carefully try to get one out. If it’s soft, leave it alone for a bit. Once they come out clean easily, it’s time to have fun!
DIY project Danita Rainbow recycled crayola crayons children fun activity tutorial after school
The crayon chunks mix and create very interesting patterns depending on the color combinations you chose. If you use lots of small chunks, you get a rainbow effect.
Bunny Rabbit handmade crayons DIY recycle crayola project tutorial by Danita for kids after school
If you use larger chunks, the crayons will have larger areas of color, and if you used the same hue, it will be a very nice solid color.
Step 5.
Kids fun proyect DIY tutorial recycled rainbow crayola crayons Danita Art
Time to enjoy your creations! My kids had a great time testing each one of the chunk crayons that turned up from this DIY recycled rainbow crayons!
They are perfect for kids. Their little hands have no trouble grabbing the colors, using and testing how they start changing colors as you use them. And adults love them too…. I had a blast making and using them too!!!!
Danita colorful DIY rainbow reused recycled crayons project tutorial kids
And they can be stacked and used for building too!
I had lots of fun while me and my kids worked on this DIY project, it’s perfect as a summer activity, or an after school project. give it a try at your home!
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Q:
Back mechanism in Fragment
I have One activity and the code in activity.xml is as below..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/normal_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/normal_margin"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/big_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/big_margin"
>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="@dimen/small_big_height"
android:layout_height="@dimen/small_big_height"
android:layout_alignTop="@+id/act_standing_area_add_transporter"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/act_standing_area_add_transporter"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="@mipmap/search" />
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="@+id/actv_location_select_city"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:hint="@string/search_location"
android:imeOptions="actionSearch"
android:lines="1"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/large_margin"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textSize="@dimen/normal_big_text"
android:completionThreshold="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:id="@+id/frame_container_select_city"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Now the question is..On the creation of my activity i add MyFragment1 in Frame layout. MyFragment1 contains recyclerView. On the selection of item in recyclerView i add MyFragment2. Now on back press i want to show MyFragment1..please give your suggestions.
A:
As you're asking for suggestion, I can give you one. I had this kind of flow implemented in some of my applications.
In your activity take a boolean flag isReturnedFromDetailFragment and set it true initially.
private boolean isReturnedFromDetailFragment = true;
When MyFragment2 is being replaced, set the boolean value to false.
Now in onBackPressed function in your Activity, check if isReturnedFromDetailFragment is true. If not, then replace MyFragment1 in the FrameLayout and the set the boolean value again to true.
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Possibly, but it is hard to tell. There is a large difference between a “bad result” and malpractice, and just because you had a bad result does not mean there was medical malpractice. A review of your medical situation would be necessary in order to tell if you have a case. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9721842408180236}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '111068', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XJBQF2VUR2DIGGSQJFPR4HLIYEWPQTOS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2628ba16-1929-4f71-a821-6671e4bbfa99>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 18, 52, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.44.220', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EZ6C53VSPYWOIYASPFIHOALTMHRAW7IB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4f84a5fc-f0d6-4222-8984-c7ff5e3dfe9a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.hsinjurylaw.com/faqs/i-had-a-surgery-that-didn-t-go-well-and-now-i-m-worse-than-i-was-before-the-surgery-do-i-have-a-.cfm', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b86853e4-e4ff-4939-8e4b-d2a510193f62>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '85', 'url': 'https://www.hsinjurylaw.com/faqs/i-had-a-surgery-that-didn-t-go-well-and-now-i-m-worse-than-i-was-before-the-surgery-do-i-have-a-.cfm', '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-10-69-73-156.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': '0.040126919746398926', 'original_id': 'f2b3be1afe4bfaf6a8898142bed87d37116c00ee8027f6e1c66e215b9aabda85'} |
[Factors influencing prevalence and clinical course of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in kidney transplant patients].
In the paper the authors tried to identify factors influencing prevalence and clinical course of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in kidney transplant patients. The study was performed in the group of 100 patients after cadaveric kidney transplant followed up in the Chair and Department of Nephrology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. CMV infection was demonstrated to occur more frequently and significantly earlier in the patients administered prednisone, cyclosporin A and mycophenolate mofetil, compared to the group treated with standard triple-drug-therapy (prednisone, cyclosporin A, azathioprine) or double-drug-therapy (prednisone, cyclosporin A). Higher serum levels of cyclosporin A did not increase prevalence of the infection but urged its onset. Risk for CMV infection was however higher in the group of patients treated for acute rejection episodes, especially with antilymphocyte preparations. No differences were shown in the immunological matching within HLA-A, -B and -DR antigens between the patients without features of CMV Infection and those treated for its active form. The infection occurred significantly more frequently in the recipients with HLA-A1 antigen than in those with HLA-A9 and -DR7. In patients with delayed transplanted kidney functioning, time of the infection onset and a number of its episodes were similar to the remaining population, however severity of the clinical course positively correlated with the duration of acute tubular necrosis (ATN). CMV infection occurred slightly more frequently in patients requiring transfusions compared to those not administered blood preparations. Among patients with AB blood type, active CMV infection occurred statistically less frequently, whereas in those with other blood types percentage of patients with/without CMV infection were comparable. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ebca20e211b9b7ebe2cb11fbeac2728bebefa7fc19cb4b75ccaec0ecd26105ae'} |
Of thriving bees…
Susan gets up early in the morning before her husband and teenage kids.
The wheater is nice, so she does her normal jogging routine. The fact today, like almost every day, she manages to be fresh and ready when she pushes the button on the coffee machine in the kitchen precisely at 7 o’clock promises a great day ahead.
She takes the coffee to the room next door, opens the windows and starts setting up her home office space. Like every day she stows away her keyboard and mouse in the evening when she’s done working. Or better: She is done working when she ritually stows away keyboard and mouse.
After a quick review of her To-Do list she starts with task #1. Her goal is to finish #4 right before lunch.
… and suffering butterflies
Peter gets back up to grab his second cup of coffee. He doesn’t understand why his boss is so keen on everybody being online this early. He wouldn’t mind working late, but that somehow was not received as a good idea.
As the coffee is pouring into his cup Peter is thinking about what he has actually done the last hour and which of the tasks he should probably start working on next. Yes, in their “daily” it was said that the copy texts should be reviewed until lunch, but there are a bunch of other things that also need to get done. Sure it gets chaotic sometimes but he never missed a deadline and clients were always impressed by his creativity and inspiration.
80/20 he thinks to himself as he sits back down in front of the computer. Oh look, an E-mail, let’s see…
Susan and Peter: Same Job, different mental models when working from home
Although their names are changed here Susan and Peter are characters that led us to the insight of thriving bees and suffering butterflies during the lockdown. Susan is a bee. Peter is a butterfly. Which one are you?
We found that insight in our project “Home? Office? Works!”. In a previous post, we explained that Vendbridge seized the opportunity of the lockdown to get an in-depth perspective on a very rare but insightful moment: Remote work was and still is everywhere due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Never has there been such a rare moment in which all the problems, issues, worries of all kinds of different people relating to working from home were possible to study.
Vendbridge started an open-source (accompanied by webinars) Jobs-to-be-done project “Home? Office? Works!” to study the newborn home office workers. Through the help of friends and the Jobs-to-be-done community, we were able to run 25 qualitative remote Jobs-to-be-done interviews during the lockdown, each lasting between 60-90 minutes.
One of the findings of these Jobs-to-be-done interviews, in short, is this: There are two mental models when thinking about the Job-to-be-done “To work from home”. We called them bees and butterflies. While bees are organized, systematic workers that move from task to task and know what to do next (or in the morning), butterflies are more free-floating. They move from task to task, are rather talkative and tend to be more easily distracted. They are more creative, that’s for sure, but they like to meet people and go from one place/flower to another. Often they work on several tasks simultaneously and switch between them.
This insight (of bees and butterflies) is a combination of two powerful methods: Jobs-to-be-done and mental models. But what is a mental model and Jobs-to-be-done and how do you combine them?
What is a mental model?
People are different. But some people are more similar to each other than to the rest. If you can tune your message, your offering, etc. to the different needs of these groups, you increase the likelihood that they will like the product, the service, or in general have a better user experience. That’s the basic idea of market segmentation, personas, and other ways of building groups of people.
A new way of segmenting people are mental models (for more, see: Mental Modeling). James Clear defines “mental model” as an “overarching term for any sort of concept, framework, or worldview” that people have (Mental Models). Young (2008) says that a mental model is a combination of “behaviors, feelings, and philosophies” of groups of people. In short: A mental model groups people by how that group perceives, experiences and thinks about things – mental models are ways people perceive reality.
They differ from Personas in various ways, if you are interested in that relationship check out this article.
Upgrading mental models with the power of Jobs-to-be-done
Jobs-to-be-done is way of thinking. It has applications in various fields, most prominently in innovation management. As we have proven it can greatly inform strategy, branding, UX and marketing as well. Its core idea is a radical change in perspective for businesses: Customers don’t want products or services, they want to achieve Jobs. Only as a function of that Job do customers pull solutions (products and services) into their lives. So, if organizations ask themselves how they should innovate their products and services they must first understand the Job their customer is trying to get done. Because customers judge the value of a new product or service, again, as a function of how well it helps them get their Job done.
There are many resources about Jobs-to-be-done around. If you’re new to it, we recommend Jim Kalbachs Jobs-to-be-done Playbook.
Jobs-to-be-done and mental models can be nicely combined. While mental models emphasize how people are different, Jobs-to-be-done gives you a framework of what all those people have in common.
Maps of mental models often are very complex and less actionable, but if you wrap mental models around a Job-to-be-done the power of both compounds. The result are mental models of people trying to get a Job done, i.e. how different people see, experience and think about what they commonly all are trying to achieve. Susan and Peter are examples of such mental models both trying to get the same Job done.
Mental Model and Jobs-to-be-done based on hard data
Susan the bee and Peter the butterfly are based on qualitative data. For some purposes and questions that might be good enough and there is nothing inherently wrong with qualitative data.
25 interviews is quite good, but still…For some decisions, however, you need to know more, you need to be much more certain and de-bias your views. Both mental models and Jobs-to-be-done can be quantified.
And yes, this exactly what we did in the last month. We now have the data to see how good our assumptions about the suffering butterflies and the thriving bees were. More on that later, though… | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9667187929153442}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '200520', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Z4QCFBJWDCMMDCYVOTEHY76ZXGVPZW5Q', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:21b4df64-ecbc-430b-9400-793e39d1bbcd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 21, 17, 39, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '178.77.104.184', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F4KRRVQ4JJN7HBVXEIMZPKWRDUXJJ3CU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4344eb60-8c1a-42ab-9903-92f1340e85d0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://vendbridge.com/en/2020/07/22/solution-agnostic-mental-models-through-jobs-to-be-done-bees-and-butterflies-during-the-covid-19-lockdown/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8ab0d992-ce00-421d-8bcd-a1aadb102ce3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1102', 'url': 'https://vendbridge.com/en/2020/07/22/solution-agnostic-mental-models-through-jobs-to-be-done-bees-and-butterflies-during-the-covid-19-lockdown/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-130\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.056356728076934814', 'original_id': '357eafa8ce27e3e6af6ae75df3578daa2d91b659612e5def20172688ee6a327e'} |
Arthroscopic cartilage debridement by excimer laser in chondromalacia of the knee joint. A prospective randomized clinical study.
A new operative technique in arthroscopic treatment of chondromalacia using ultraviolet laser systems is introduced. The postoperative results are evaluated in a prospective and randomized clinical trial. One hundred and forty patients stage II or III chondromalacia according to Outerbridge were randomly assigned to arthroscopic operation using either laser or mechanical instruments. After a 6-month follow-up period the clinical results were compared, guided by a specially designed modification of the Lysholm scoring scale. In the short-term follow-up laser surgery gave superior results in regard to reducing pain (P less than 0.05) and leading to a lower incidence of reactive synovitis (P less than 0.01). No difference was found in respect of disability and functional impairment. Our results lead to the conclusion that arthroscopic laser application seems to be a successful procedure in the treatment of degenerative cartilage disorders, providing precise ablation of tissue without significant thermal damage to the remaining cartilage. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5406685ebcf67f5ba55738fb8e30cb900a493cfe217dffb9293a08ddb7061830'} |
Q:
Re-validate input on radio button selection
I currently have a form that I use jquery validation on. The form contains a number of radio buttons ("yes", "no") and each corresponding group of yes/no radio buttons has a description textbox that is required if the user selects "Yes". Like this:
Here is the method that performs the validation:
$.validator.addMethod('conditionalrequired', function (value, element, params) {
var input = $(params);
var checked = input.prop('checked');
if (checked) {
return value != '' && value != "0";
}
return true;
});
$.validator.unobtrusive.adapters.add("conditionalrequired", ["boolpropertyname"], function (options) {
options.rules["conditionalrequired"] = "#" + options.params.boolpropertyname + 'Yes';
options.messages["conditionalrequired"] = options.message;
});
The validation works well. My only problem is when the validation is triggered and the error message is displayed, selecting the "No" option does not remove the error message (it doesn't prevent the form from being submitted though). What do I need to do to get the effect I'm looking for?
A:
On the change event of the radio input you can call the .valid() method to trigger a validation test, which would toggle the relevant error messages as appropriate.
Fires when any radio input is changed. Only re-evaluates the one radio being changed.
$('#myform input[type="radio"]').on('change', function() {
$(this).valid(); // <- re-validate this one radio input
});
Fires when any radio input is changed. Re-evaluates all radio inputs at once.
$('#myform input[type="radio"]').on('change', function() {
$('#myform input[type="radio"]').valid(); // <- re-validate every radio input
});
Fires when any radio input is changed. Re-evaluates the entire form at once.
$('#myform input[type="radio"]').on('change', function() {
$('#myform').valid(); // <- re-validate this entire form
});
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Trying to connect two databases to a php file and store user session
Ok, so what I'm trying to basically is connect two databases to my index.php file and then use one of the databases to log the user in and one of the other databases to store the session for the user.
What I cant figure out how to do is store the session of a user. What I want to do is have the users information to be shown such as email and username things like that and then when they logout I want that information to disappear with the session, but currently when a user logs-in the information stays the say from the old user and it doesnt change.
I've included my code below. In my code when I mention session like its a database thats because it is I created a database and table called session and my other database is called database and the table is called admin.
Index
<?php
session_start();
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "****";
$dbname = "database";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
// username and password sent from form
$myusername = mysqli_real_escape_string($db,$_POST['username']);
$mypassword = mysqli_real_escape_string($db,$_POST['password']);
$sql = "SELECT id FROM admin WHERE username = '$myusername' and passcode = '$mypassword'";
$result = mysqli_query($db,$sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result,MYSQLI_ASSOC);
$active = $row['active'];
$count = mysqli_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row
if($count == 1) {
$session_id = session_id();
$sql = "INSERT INTO session(session_id,username) VALUES('$session_id','$myusername')";
mysqli_query($db,$sql);
header("Location: test2.php");
}else {
$error = "";
}
}
?>
Config
<?php
define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '******');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'database');
$db = mysqli_connect(DB_SERVER,DB_USERNAME,DB_PASSWORD,DB_DATABASE);
?>
Session
<?php
include('config.php');
session_start();
$user_check = $_SESSION['myusername'];
$ses_sql = mysqli_query($db,"select username from admin where username = '$user_check' ");
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($ses_sql,MYSQLI_ASSOC);
$login_session = $row['username'];
?>
Test 2 Page (This is the page I want to login to so it displays user info.)
<?php
session_start();
include("config.php");
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "*****";
$dbname = "database";
$dbname2 = "session";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname, $dbname2);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$session_id = session_id();
$sql = "SELECT id, username, passcode, email, Address, City, Country, Zip, FirstName, LastName, About FROM admin WHERE username = (SELECT username FROM session WHERE session_id = '$session_id')";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
?>
For one thing, you didn't select the active row for your $sql = "SELECT id FROM admin query. mysqli_error($db) on the query would have told you about it. Edit: Doesn't seem to matter, you're not using that $active variable anyway. So scratch this comment.
WARNING: When using mysqli you should be using parameterized queries and bind_param to add user data to your query. DO NOT use manual escaping and string interpolation or concatenation to accomplish this because you will create severe SQL injection bugs if you ever forget to properly escape something.
Why do you need two separate databases?
I believe what your problem is, is that you are not destroying the session.
@tadman mysqli_real_escape_string is hardly manual escaping
A silly mistake I made I don't actually need to make two different databases. I'm sorry I'm a little new to all this and still learning. Is there a better alternative to creating user databases then using MySQL and php or are they the only option? Excuse my noobishness.
@Dagon That's the textbook definition of manual escaping. If that function call isn't made, tainted data is passed through.
Two tables is fine, and MySQL or any of the variants, like MariaDB, is a good place to start. It really depends on what kind of data you need to store.
we must read different textbooks\
@Dagon Automatic escaping is done by prepared statements. Everything else is manual. I'm not sure why this is controversial. If you must explicitly call the function, it's manual by definition since it involves programmer intervention.
TBH, I've never dealt with 2 different databases and sessions, but my guess is that sessions can't talk to each other on different databases, so it sounds like an out of scope issue here. I for one can't wrap my head around your code and logic here. Basically, what you need to do is assign a session array to a post array and then pass that session to other pages (and query in a WHERE clause), then destroy the session on logout.
WARNING: Writing your own access control layer is not easy and there are many opportunities to get it severely wrong. Please, do not write your own authentication system when any modern development framework like Laravel comes with a robust authentication system built-in. At the absolute least follow recommended security best practices and never store passwords as plain-text.
As I said in comments:
"Basically, what you need to do is assign a session array to a post array and then pass that session to other pages (and query in a WHERE clause), then destroy the session on logout."
So this is the logic you can use and as a basic example:
Sidenote:
It would most likely take me more time to go over your entire code to fix it. This was easier/faster.
<?php
session_start();
$_POST['user'] = "John"; // Take the POST array from your named input
if (!isset($_SESSION['var'])) {
$_SESSION['var'] = $_POST['user'];
} else {
echo "It seems the session is already set " . $_SESSION['var'];
}
$username = $_SESSION['var'];
echo $username;
...then check if the session is set in subsequent pages and apply the same logic.
Also heed the comments left under your question.
Reference to destroy the session:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-destroy.php
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Answers to Knot One
"A Knot," said Alice. "Oh, do let me help to undo it!"
Answer.--24 miles: half-past 6.
The two wrong answers are from Gerty Vernon and A Nihilist. The former makes the distance "23 miles", while her revolutionary companion puts it at "27" Gerty Vernon says, "they had to go 4 miles along the plain, and got to the foot of the hill at 4 o'clock." They might have done so, I grant; but you have no ground for saying they did so. "It was 7 1/2 miles to the top of the hill, and they reached that at 1/4 before 7 o'clock." Here you go wrong in your arithmetic, and I must, however reluctantly, bid you farewell. 7 1/2 miles, at 3 miles an hour, would not require 2 3/4 hours. A Nihilist says, " let x denote the whole number of miles; y the number of hours to hill-top; .'. 3 y=number of miles to hill-top, and x - 3y = number of miles on the other side." You bewilder me. The other side of what? "Of the hill," you say. But then, how did the y get home again? However, to accommodate your views we will build a new hostelry at the foot of the hill on the opposite side, and also assume (what I grant you is possible, though it is not necessarily true) that there was no level road at all. Even then you go wrong. You say:
"y = 6 * ((x-3y)/6) . . . . . (i).
(x/(9/2))-6 . . . . . (ii)."
I grant you (i), but I deny (ii): it rests on the assumption that to go part of the time at 3 miles an hour, and the rest at 6 miles an hour, comes to the same result as going the whole time at 4 1/2 miles an hour. But this would only be true if the "part" were in exact half, i.e. if they went up hill for 3 hours, and down hill for the other 3: which they certainly did not do.
The sixteen who are partially right, are Agnes Bailey, F. K. Fifee, G. E. B., H. P., Kit, M. E. T., Mysie, A Mother's Son, Nairam, A Redruthian, A Socialist, Spear Maiden, T. B. C., Vis Inertiae, and Yak. Of these, F. K., Fifee, T. B. C., and Vis Inertiae do not attempt the second part at all. F. K. and H. P. give no working. The rest make particular assumptions, such as that there was no level road--that there were 6 miles of level road-- and so on, all leading to particular times being fixed for reaching the hill-top. The most curious assumption is that of Agnes Bailey, who says, "Let x=number of hours occupied in ascent; then x/2 =hours occupied in descent; and 4x/3=hours occupied on the level." I suppose you were thinking of the relative rates, up hill and on the level; which we might express by saying that, if they went x miles up hill in a certain time, they would go 4x/3 miles on the level in the same time. You have, in fact, assumed that they took the same time on the level that they took in ascending the hill. Fifee assumed that, when the aged knight said they had gone "four miles in the hour" on the level, he meant that four miles was the distance gone, not merely the rate. This would have been--if Fifee will excuse the slang expression--a "sell", ill-suited to the dignity of the hero.
And now, "descend, ye classic Nine!" who have solved the whole problem, and let me sing your praises. Your names are Blithe, E. W., L. B., A Marlborough Boy, O. V. L., Putney Walker, Rose, Sea-Breeze, Simple Susan, and Money-Spinner. (These last two I count as one, as they send a joint answer.) Roe and Simple Susan and Co. do not actually state that the hill-top was reached sometime between 6 and 7, but, as they have clearly grasped the fact that a mile, ascended and descended, took the same time as two level miles, I mark them as "right". A Marlborough Boy and Putney Walker deserve honourable mention for their algebraic solutions, being the only two who have perceived that the question leads to art indeterminate equation. E. W. brings a charge of untruthfulness against the aged knight--a serious charge, for he was the very pink of chivalry! She says, "According to the data given, the time at the summit affords no clue to the total distance. It does not enable us to state precisely to an inch how much level and how much hill there was on the road." "Fair damsel," the aged knight replies, "--if, as I surmise, thy initials denote Early Womanhood--bethink thee that the word 'enable' is thine, not mine. I did but ask the time of reaching the hill-top as my condition for further parley. If now thou wilt not grant that I am a truth-loving man, then will I affirm that those same initials denote Envenomed Wickedness!"
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A Marlborough Boy. Putney Walker.
Blithe. Rose.
E.W. Sea-Breeze.
L.B. Simple Susan.
O. V. L. Money-Spinner.
Blithe has made so ingenious an addition to the problem, and Simple Susan and Co. have solved it in such tuneful verse, that I record both their answers in full. I have altered a word or two in Blithe's which I trust she will excuse; it did not seem quite clear as it stood.
"Very good," said the old man. "Twelve miles out and twelve miles in. And we reached the top sometime between six and seven of the clock. Now mark me! For every five minutes that had fled since six of the clock when we stoorl on yonder peak, so many miles had we toiled upwards on the dreary mountain-side!"
The youth moaned and rushed into the hostel.
The elder and the younger knight
They sallied forth at three;
How far they went on level ground
It matters not to me;
What time they reached the foot of hill,
When they began to mount,
Are problems which I hold to be
Of very small account.
The moment that each waved his hat
Upon the topmost peak--
To trivial query such as this
No answer will I seek.
Yet can I tell the distance well
They must have travelled o'er:
On hill and plain, Ywixt three and nine,
The miles were twenty-four.
Four miles an hour their steady pace
Along the level track,
Three when they climbed--but six when they
Came swiftly striding back
Adown the hill; and little skill
It needs, methinks, to show,
Up hill and down together told,
Four miles an hour they go.
For whether long or short the time
Upon the hill they spent,
Two thirds were passed in going up,
One third in the descent.
Two thirds at three, one third at six,
If rightly reckoned o'er,
Will make one whole at four--the tale
Is tangled now no more.
Simple Susan.
A remonstrance has reached me from Scrutator on the subject of Knot 1, which he declares was "no problem at all". "Two questions", he says, "are put. To solve one there is no data: the other answers itself." As to the first point, Scrutator is mistaken; there are (not "is") data sufficient to answer the question. As to the other, it is interesting to know that the question "answers itself", and I am sure it does the question great credit: still I fear I cannot enter it on the list of winners, as this competition is only open to human beings.
- L.C.
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Genetic aspects of the etiology and treatment of asthma.
This article provides a clinical review of the genetic aspects of the etiology and treatment of asthma for pediatric practitioners who are experienced in asthma diagnosis and management but lack expertise in genetics and immunology. Asthma is caused by the interaction of genetic susceptibility with environmental factors. The asthmatic response is characterized by elevated production of IgE, cytokines, and chemokines; mucus hypersecretion; airway obstruction; eosinophilia; and enhanced airway hyperreactivity to spasmogens. The genes most clearly associated with asthma include disintegrin and metalloprotease ADAM-33, dipeptidyl peptidase 10, PHD finger protein 11, and the prostanoid DP1 receptor. Within a few years, practitioners may apply sophisticated knowledge of cell and molecular biology to expand pharmacotherapeutic approaches and to personalize diagnosis and management. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ff80be40b20eafc173ef7fa062d952549191705a90c263c5bb721e05628b54e6'} |
The Curious Co-Mingling of Race, Genes, and Health
A new study shows how understanding the “shopping cart” of race and ethnicity may be crucial to finding the best way to treat patients.
By Nathan Collins
A digital representation of the human genome. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Although race remains a central issue in American politics, a growing number of scientists are abandoning race and ethnicity as social constructs, rather than hard biological facts. The alternative is genetic ancestry—that is, whether we got our genes from ancient Europeans, Africans, Asians, or some other group. Yet when it comes to treating disease, a new study suggests, genetic ancestry isn’t enough.
“Genetic ancestry isn’t the end-all be-all,” says senior author and University of California–San Francisco Professor Esteban Burchard. There’s a “shopping cart” of non-genetic factors including shared environment, diet, and even values that also affect health. The question is, how much does the shopping cart matter, and which items matter the most?
For Burchard and his collaborators, the desire to find answers runs deep. Burchard’s speciality, asthma, disproportionately affects African Americans and some Latino groups—about one in six Puerto Ricans have the disease, compared to only around one in 20 Mexican Americans.
“We went down the rabbit hole” trying to understand those results, Burchard says. But in addition to the results, there was an underlying question: What do race and ethnicity actually mean? (It can’t help that, even today, few studies focus on African Americans or Latinos, let alone their subgroups.)
Fortunately, the research team, which included Joshua Galanter and UCSF Assistant Professor Noah Zaitlen, had detailed information on 573 Latino kids from across the United States. That data, collected as part of a long-term asthma study, included socioeconomic status, tobacco exposure, and more—plus a host of genetic data. The researchers focused on methylation, one of the main chemical processes the body uses to deactivate specific genes and a contributor to a wide range of diseases, and how it varies between Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Latino subgroups.
Overall, the researchers report in the journal eLife, genetic ancestry explained about 75 percent of the differences between participants—a lot, in other words, but “we’ve got 25 percent more to go,” Burchard says.
A closer look at the data revealed that, among roughly 450,000 genetic sites the team examined, there were 916 where methylation patterns were reliably connected to ethnicity—that is, where the researchers could do a decent job telling Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans apart based on their DNA. That’s not entirely surprising, by the way, because of another finding: There’s a much higher proportion of Native American genetic ancestry in Mexican Americans compared to Puerto Ricans.
But genetic ancestry only goes so far—specifically, it only explains what’s going on at about two-thirds of the 916 sites. The rest—314 of them—couldn’t be connected to genetic ancestry. Intriguingly, many of those sites have previously been connected to environmental and social influences, such as smoking, air pollution, and stress.
In other words, both genetics and race matter for health.
That could ultimately prove pertinent at the doctor’s office, Zaitlen says. Doctors often screen for certain diseases—heart disease, for example—based on race categories such as non-white Hispanic, but “we know these categories are too coarse.” The latest results, Burchard and Zaitlen say, may pave the way for doctors to provide more personalized and effective care to their patients. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9393222332000732}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '195858', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RP5NZFNMB647I2NOOHHCO3YZJ5XYEP4I', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9b6d353c-8c32-451c-acb3-6f310f488c85>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 23, 14, 55, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.2.98', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UF2CGQ3KFF4GBYEIWMISURBOTNUEHITL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:31230710-49df-4635-923d-78e31d3b1d70>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://psmag.com/news/the-curious-co-mingling-of-race-genes-and-health', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:86539fcd-ec74-4f97-a487-3b3aa3f0dd59>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '562', 'url': 'https://psmag.com/news/the-curious-co-mingling-of-race-genes-and-health', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-90.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04091358184814453', 'original_id': '01e3d9df8781e430124e404ac3d7f74134364fd36642aa55e244b57c4a5ffc17'} |
Information That Can Change Your Life . . .
Discover the Electric Power Plants in Your Body
Dr. Martin
1) The Seven Power Plants Plus One
Dr. Joseph Waltz in New York puts electrodes down the spine and brings previously helpless Cerebral Palsy, MS, and Polio patients out of wheel chairs. All this electricity does is activate the lymphatic system. We can accomplish these same things without electrodes because the Creator supplied the body with it's own Power Source! We have now discovered how to use the electrical energy that is generated in the Brain and the Seven other Power Plants (Glands) to activate our lymphatic system in every organ and in every part of our body. By doing so, we can help overcome pain, loss of energy, and previously incurable diseases faster and easier than we have ever seen.
2) Why This New Concept & How This New Technology Works
If every cell in every organ and every part of your body were working properly, you would have a perfect body free of pain, loss of energy, and disease. Therefore, to solve all of our health problems, all we have to do is find out what causes cells not to work, and what we can do to get them to work again. However, if people obtain the knowledge of how to get cells to work again, and if they can do it by themselves, at home, without drugs, surgery, or medication of any kind—it would put most of those who treat out of business—true? That is what this new technology does!
It is basic biochemistry to know that if cells do not make Adenosine Tri-Phosphate, they don't work. In order to get them to work again, the cells must get Glucose and Oxygen from the blood stream to make Adenosine Tri-Phosphate. The mystery, up until now, has been how to get the Glucose along with the Oxygen and other nutrients the cells need, from the blood stream to the cells.
The International Academy of Lymphology (I.A.L.) is the only organization in the world that is teaching people how to do this.
Here is an illustration to help you understand what has to be done to get cells that are not working to work again. Think of a new car with a new engine, but no fuel in the gas tank. There is really nothing wrong with the car—right? Most of the time, when cells in the eyes, muscles, pancreas, joints, arteries or even when the white blood cells which have the ability to destroy cancer, etc. seem not to work, they are all like a new car with no fuel in the gas tank. There is nothing wrong with them, they just don't have the fuel they need to work. Isn't this a beautiful concept? It took 18 years of research to get it.
Now, when fuel is put in an empty gas tank, what do you have to do to get the engine to run? Prime it. To "Prime the Pump" so that it can bring Glucose and Oxygen from the blood stream to the cells, so they can in turn make the Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (the fuel that cells need to work), you must know how to activate your Lymphatic System. To our knowledge, the International Academy of Lymphology (I.A.L.) has developed the only program in the world to teach people how to do this and that this new technology works!
3) How To Magnify Your Thought Wave
To tap into the electrical energy that is available in these Power Plants and to provide the"currents" needed to allow the body to heal itself, we must know how to magnify our thought wave.
In 1976, Dr. C. Samuel West discovered how to use a lymphasizer (mini-trampoline) to magnify the thought wave, and miraculous healings have taken place. (See pages 189 and 207 in the book, The Golden Seven Plus One.) Although we have now learned four other ways to magnify the thought wave without using a lymphasizer, we still highly recommend using the trampoline whenever possible. Remember, always use a "gentle" bounce when on the trampoline. (See the last fifteen minutes of Dr. West's Video #6.)
We can now magnify our thought waves by:
1. deep breathing, without creating stress;
2. using a mini-trampoline (lymphasizer);
3. compression of tissue (isometrics), without creating stress;
4. stroking the body, light and fast, over the area of concern (you don't even need to touch the body);
5. tapping into an outside energy source such as:
• the human mind;
• a magnet (use only North pole magnets on the body);
• light/color therapy;
• an electrical device, such as a TENS unit (see first paragraph above re: Dr. Joseph Waltz);
• the Great Mystery, the Supreme Intelligence, "pure and perfect energy"—many refer to this "intelligence" or "energy" as God, Heavenly Father, Earthly Mother, Great Spirit, Allah, Yahweh, etc., or just use the word "activate."
4) The 3-Breath Lymphasizing Technique
Now, while using the above methods 1, 2, and/or 3 to magnify the thought wave, we can use the following 3-breath technique to increase the electrical energy throughout our bodies. We will use #1 from the chart below as an example.
Breath #1: Take a deep breath in through the nose, if possible. When the lungs are filled, say or think: "Heavenly Father (or your terminology), Bless and heal my right brain and left brain. Number 1." Blow out your air.
Breath #2: Inhale, and again say or think: "Heavenly Father, Bless and Heal my Right and Left Brain. Number 1." Blow out the air.
Breath #3: Inhale deeply. Hold the breath as long as you can without creating stress and either read or say out loud the wording below that follows number 1, that is, "The electric energy produced in the brain can now be directed to every gland, and to every part of my body from my head to my feet, Number 1."
Repeat this 3-breath process for each of the remaining numbers in the chart below. Do this at least once a day. Best if done in the morning to set the daily computer mind program. This only takes about 15 to 20 minutes a day. You're worth it!
Power Plant Read or Say Out Loud . . .
1) My Right Brain & Left Brain The electric energy produced in the brain can now be directed to every gland, and to every part of my body from my head to my feet, Number 1
2) My Pineal Gland The energy goes from this Power Plant to help all my glands, Number 2
3) My Pituitary Gland The energy goes from this Power Plant to help my mind and memory. It also goes from my head down through my body into my big toes, Number 3
4) My Thyroid Glands The energy from this Power Plant maintains metabolism in my cells, Number 4
5) My Thymus Glands This Power Plant goes to my heart, lungs, and bones. It brings white blood cells from my bone marrow to the Thymus Gland to make "T-Cells" that can kill bacteria, viruses and even cancer. (Where do I want these "T-Cells" to go? Mentally direct the "T-Cells" now!) Number 5
6) My Adrenal Glands This Power Plant sends energy to my skin and my kidneys, and it sends the electrical current from my tail bone to the base of my skull and up and down my spine, Number 6
7) My Pancreas The energy goes from this Power Plant to control my digestion, sugar level, and heat, Number 7
8) My Reproductive Glands [Male: prostate and testes; Female: ovaries, uterus and mammary glands.] These glands are responsible for my hormone secretions, sexual energy and responses and reproduction, Number 8
Now, all my Power Plants are on! Where does my body need special help and attention right now? This information is stored in my subconscious mind and can be accessed by adding the two steps below.
We give all the glory to the Great Mystery (God) for what happens from the electric energy produced by these Seven Power Plants Plus the Brain.
9) All Allergies From My Body What I have been allergic to has acted like a poison to my body, and all poisons have frequencies. The energy generated in these Power Plants can now Identify, Neutralize, and Eliminate all the energy incompatibility of any poison that is in my body or outside of my body—whether it be foods, chemicals, plants, animal or anything in the air—Right Now! Number 9
10) My Delicate Chemical and Emotional Balance All vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, amino acids, essential fatty acids, pro-zeranine, chondriana, seed of light, Breath of God, all elements known and unknown to my mind are made available for healing my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodiesRight Now! Number 10
Emotions. All emotions have frequencies. Obtain a chemical balance and apply "The Language of Friendship and Peace," then the electric energy produced from all of these power plants can help balance all emotions with peace, love, joy, and harmony.
5) Shortcut—Use Every Half Hour
To remove sufficient dead cells and poisons to allow the healing process to begin, it is necessary that you repeat this sequence as many times as you can for the first half-hour. To activate each one of the Power Plants (1-10) using the 3-Breath Technique every half-hour takes time. However, once you have used the 3-Breath Technique to activate each one, the subconscious mind already knows what each number stands for—right? Therefore, instead of saying what each number stands for, we can just say the number.
Therefore, to make this powerful process even faster and easier, all we have to do is:
1. Breathe deeply three times—in through the nose and out the mouth. While you hold the third breath, say or think: "Heavenly Father (or your terminology), Bless and Heal, number 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, Repeat, Repeat." Let your air out.
2. Breathe deep and hold your breath again and say: "Heavenly Father, Bless and Heal number 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, Repeat, Repeat. Activate 5 & 9 to send the T-cells into my [area you wish to heal] to Identify, Neutralize and Eliminate ALL the Energy Incompatibility of Anything in this area of my body that is interfering with my natural healing processes.
Repeat this sequence 7 times every half-hour or follow our guidelines.
When needed, use the "re-dial"system: Breathe deeply three times holding the 3rd breath as long as you are able to without creating any stress and say: "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10; repeat, repeat, repeat."
If you get dizzy, rest and give your body a chance to handle the poisons that are being removed. The important thing is Do Not Quit!
Read Next: Metabolism: Whole Body Health
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