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This Is What Your Sleeping Position Reveals About Your Personality
This Is What Your Sleeping Position Reveals About Your Personality
Imagine settling into bed after a long day. You got up early for a morning run, made a healthy breakfast, you rocked it out at work and got a “great job today!” from your boss, and you even made time to run a few errands after work. You were productive and just plain awesome, and now you are officially exhausted. Your bed feels comfy and fantastic and you find yourself dozing off to sleep in no time. How do you settle into those cozy sheets? Are you a side sleeper? Do you plop down on your stomach or back? Alternatively, do you curl up into the fetal position to stay snug and warm? Your sleep position can reveal a lot about your personality. Check out the diagram below and choose your go-to sleep position, then read on to find out what it says about you!
If you tend to fall asleep on your side while sticking your knees out, you are most likely a calm and reliable person who is not easily offended. You are unafraid of the future, you smile even on the worst of days, and you are able to adjust well to any changes occurring in your life.
If you like to curl up into the fetal position to fall asleep, you may want to feel protected, understood and sympathized with. This position allows you to feel like you are protecting yourself from the problems you face in the world around you. If you are looking for an outlet, try taking up a new hobby!
If you usually sleep on your stomach with your arms and legs sticking out, you are most likely a leader. You tend to be impulsive, but you always take the initiative to make sure things are going smoothly in both your personal and your professional lives. You probably aren’t a big fan of surprises, as you would rather plan things out in advance. You have the ability to achieve great success with your strong sense of responsibility.
If you prefer to sleep lying on your back, then you are probably a positive person who loves life and lives it to the fullest. You are used to being the center of attention, and you love hanging out with friends. You are rational but stubborn and persistent, and you always tell the truth. People who sleep in this position often have strong personalities.
If you sleep on your back with your arms at your sides like a soldier at attention, you are probably a well-adjusted person with specific goals in life and the drive to achieve them. You can be strict and demanding at times, but you always demand the most from yourself.
If you sleep with one leg raised, chances are you have an unpredictable personality and a hunger for adventure. Your mood can change quickly which can be confusing at times to those around you, and you often find it difficult to make choices. In general, you have a preference for peace, quiet and stability.
If your sleep position varies often, you most likely have a multifaceted personality. You may still be trying to find yourself, or your preferences may be a little more complex. Whatever position it is that ensures that you get a good night’s sleep, sweet dreams! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9580547213554382}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '110678', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:T2NSXLPJOCMGYHCNPYDJY4NVKBFPEVGM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:85393ae4-15f5-4617-ad57-f7c9175e4d13>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 11, 16, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.59.129.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2QP22XSKUDRZMPLNWBLWXZSZGOMEUSTM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e4af7bcd-5dfe-4b84-9f84-212c743598e8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://organicvirals.com/this-is-what-your-sleeping-position-reveals-about-your-personality/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9d9bb587-51e9-4de5-98d4-26ca21726502>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '577', 'url': 'https://organicvirals.com/this-is-what-your-sleeping-position-reveals-about-your-personality/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-30-193-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.6230708956718445', 'original_id': '9f4507eb036625613bda48f681e1b781b8a68f2fa5801a52d58d4b91f97b3316'} |
Infiltrator, The
The Infiltrator is a movie based on a true story about an American journalist infiltrating the third Reich movement in present day Germany. Yaron is a German born Jew living in America. He is sent to Germany to do a story about skinheads. However, after seeing the violence with the authorities not doing anything about it, he decides to further investigate. Yaron believes there is more to this story than just the skinheads. Why else would the police look away and ignore the violence and prejudice going on all around them. Yaron makes friends with the skinheads and tells them he is an American named Ron Furry, a journalist doing a story about the skinheads and the movement. In order to show support for the movement, there are many times when he must stand by watching innocent people beaten up and harassed. In one such instance Yaron is witness to Kadar, a Turk and friend, being blinded during a brawl at Kadar's coffee shop. Yaron can't do anything to help or he takes the chance of blowing his cover. After this, the skinheads really believe he is one of them and take him to meet Gunther, a German war veteran, that is still involved in the movement. After numerous visits with Gunther, Yaron is befriended by the older man and wins his trust. Through Gunther he meets some of the more important people involved in the movement at a rally held at a well to do gentleman's house. Yaron is so appalled by all of the prominent people he sees there, that he goes to the Jewish council and offers his support to help stop this insanity. With the help of the council, Yaron further infiltrates the organization and produces documents with names of people from all over the world, including the United States. The council takes its case to the United States and to the German government, in hopes of an investigation being started. They are disappointed by the German government's reaction. Unlike the United States, they don't believe it is as bad as the council states in their reports. Even with this damming evidence, they push it aside for what they believe to be more important issues. Yaron has done as much as he can. It is up to the council to pressure the officials into action. His work is done. However, at a time when he should feel wonderful, he has one regret. He had to implicate Gunther for his involvement in the Third Reich movement and now charges are being filed against him. Gunther had become a friend and trusted Yaron therefore he felt he must tell Gunther about the charges himself. After this is done Yaron can now return to the states and continue with his work.
• Starring: Oliver Platt
• Director(s): John MacKenzie
• Producer(s): Carnival Films
• Screenwriter(s): Guy Andrews
• Distributor: HBO Home Entertainment
• Release Date: Saturday, July 08, 1995
• Rating: Believed Acceptable
Featured Animal Action
In the scene when Yaron meets Gunther he is greeted at the door by a barking dog. The dog had been trained to bark when told to "speak" and was rewarded with food. Gunther and Yaron go for walks and the dog is walked on a leash. The trainer introduced the dog with the actor before the scenes in order for them to get acquainted. Other scenes consist of the dog lounging around the house. When Yaron goes to meet the big guys in charge at the rally, there are guard dogs being lead by soldiers. The dogs merely walked from A to B with the actor and were rewarded with food at completion. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9859335422515868}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39676', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AQUBCVSUGSQZVJMQSAYXYH3PQAWHYQY2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d9e11cdd-bbb6-4ace-9341-48a91e4a8a3c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 8, 24, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.16.204.57', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PIFVBR3GYVF5YGS7AOC65QWLV5BQZLWM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3e59776c-54f0-4ec8-bd44-8d4e58154e1c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/the-infiltrator', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:03ab9bc6-3dbc-48f5-baf0-8b2b1fcf900f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '605', 'url': 'http://humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/the-infiltrator', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-176-207.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': '0.07326316833496094', 'original_id': '10d25ff254eeddea28f19661a08003309a79d2d06ad327b9bf7e86b2becf5a9a'} |
Kubrick's "The Shining" further explored in new DOC
Stanley Kubrick's films are quite something aren't they? The more you watch them the more you start
noticing new things you hadn't seen at first hand. THAT my friends is what cinema is all about to me. The potential for revelation. The potential to explore the great beyond. Most movies are two and two is four. What are the movies that represent the most ADVANCED math? The far bounds of particle physics? The Einstein or Stephen Hawking notebooks that no one has quite figured out the squiggles of? The skullcrushing Advanced Calculus to the 99th Power? That was a question that was recently asked by a friend of mine on Facebook - to which I had to mention recent fare such as;
Terrence Malik's The Tree Of Life
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
Michael Haneke's Cache
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood & The Master
Joel Coen's No Country For Old Men
Alfonso Cuarron's Children Of Men
Let's face it. No brainers right? Films that will be undisputed film school staples for years to come. Just like Stanley Kubrick's films already are. 2001: A Space Oddysey is his visionary masterpiece, a film that cannot fit into the 2+2=4 category. One that needs a closer look to -at least try to- fully understand its vision and impact on your mind. These are the kind of movies I eat up. Films that don't give a fuck and aim for the beyond. Kubrick's The Shining -another masterpiece of his- deserves inclusion into this category. It is a film that doesn't play by any rules of the horror genre and decides to not explain to us the full gist of what's happening on screen. We know it is about a father that completely loses it on his family and tries to murder them but why the sudden murderous rage? Kubrick doesn't answer that question in a linear manner. The hotel at which the family is staying is filled with a haunted past that we -as the audience- need to figure out.
The images Kubrick conjures are indelibly puzzling but haunting. Too many scenes cannot be fully explained on the spot. Why does the wife walk in on a man in a bear suit giving a blowjob to a hotel clerk? What's the deal with the film's final image in which an eerily ancient painting features Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrence? Who was that creepy woman in room 237? Redrum? The "river of blood"? Those creepy twin girls? "all work and no play". Just so much stuff to dissect. Which brings me to this new documentary called Room 237 which will come out in the next few weeks and has gotten great buzz for its obsessive look at some of The Shining's most puzzling moments and the fans that eat this stuff up for breakfast.
The film does massively play with a sense of space and time - e.g. the blueprint of the Overlook doesn't add up. The doors beside room 237 make no sense (the interior of the apartement covers these doors, so they go nowhere). There is a corridor running behind Ullman's office, yet his office window shows the outside. There are windows on three sides of the Torrance's apartment, yet when Danny is dropped through the bathroom window, that whole side of the hotel is flat. All this leading to a final head-screw image, to twist your head off completely as the film finishes. The film should be looked at more in terms of its feelings and tones (like a David Lynch film) rather than logic. The subtext is about Jack being weak as an abusive alcoholic, Wendy being weak as a mother who ignores it, Danny being a kid who dissociates as a way of dealing with it - and how that dynamic breaks the family apart. Everything on the surface hints at those themes, but without a clear sense of logic.
The film cannot all be taken literally but this new documentary does try to attempt to solve some of the film's nuttiest mysteries. Which brings me back to the movies that represent "advanced math". If The Shining isn't one of those very movies, I don't know what is. I look forward to watching Room 237 but with a little hesitation. Some films don't need to explained but do in fact need to be dissected. Does that make sense? It sure does to me. Cinema is an art form and like all great art there doesn't need to necessarily be one answer. There can be many. Kubrick knows that. That's why The Shining is a full fledged masterpiece. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9671935439109802}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '89091', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NTH5UYGSVGPVSOTM2SMDVIY6YBIUIKNZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:be07a18e-71d3-47b4-95bf-f31fba35d109>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 15, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.179', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MUKWSL2GASOA27UY5KOIJFKB4I6HDJBZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fe32f201-7503-4097-ad3d-066d4657c5cb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.worldofreel.com/2013/03/kubricks-shining-further-explored-in.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2b1dcf2b-09b0-494a-8283-d0e94bbaf68c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '765', 'url': 'http://www.worldofreel.com/2013/03/kubricks-shining-further-explored-in.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-154-72-80.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5422879457473755', 'original_id': '3a75d5ffa0987c2df5731e0b7a616d1c780f2465df99e096b0af703bc1ef9bcb'} |
How to Speak Obish
Introduction: How to Speak Obish
Learn this easy language game that will allow you to speak to friends privately in front of almost anyone. They won't understand a word!
Step 1: Obish
Obish (or Obby Dobby, or Pig Greek) is a simple gibberish language game whos public knowledge seems to have faded. You can use this to your advantage, and have "private" conversations with people right in front of someone you wouldn't normally talk in front of.
Playing this "game" well will make your speech near-unintelligible to people who don't know the trick to understanding this method of speech. To people who understand, your speech will come in loud and clear!
Please, remember that this mode of speech isn't unknown, it's just not widely known. So conferring "privately" with someone in front of a car salesman (who will likely know all the secret languages) or involving truly serious matters is not recommended. There are some people know this language, so it's really just PGP (pretty good privacy), and a bit of fun for you and your friends or significant others.
Step 2: How to Speak Obish
Obish is extremely easy to learn, and with a little practice, and a few tricks, you'll be speaking quickly enough for people to be unable to decipher your conversations.
When pronouncing words, simply add "ob" before every vowel sound.
>Hoborse (hob-or-s)
>Stobore (ob before vowel SOUNDS; the E at the end is not pronounced)
>Frobeight (frob-eight)
The pronounciations included dashes for help pronouncing, they do not imply a pause. Quite conversely, you must try to pronounce the sounds as close together as you can. If you take your time and sound the sylables out, people may figure out the trick.
>This guy's boring, help me out of this!
>Thob-iss gob-eye's bob-o-robing, hob-elp mob-ee obout (like "about" with an "o") ob-of thobis!
I can't imagine there's much else to say, except that once you get used to speaking like this, you'll be able to speak it without even thinking.
Step 3: Tricks and Tips
This language isn't fool-proof, and people will endeavor to understand what you're saying. There are some problems with the language that can help people figure out the trick, but we're going to take care of them here!
Speed is the trick to this language. Do not use it seriously until you and the person(s) you're speaking it with are fast enough.
Once you're sure-tongued with the language, try to adjust the pitch and pronounciation of the word to make it sound even less like the original word.
Short and common words that start with vowels are your enemies. These words will help people decypher your language. Words like "of" or "as" should be pronounced so fast that they are almost implied to the listener, but to make them even harder for people to understand, use other words that don't follow the ob rules. Replace "of" with "olive" or make "as" into "asbee". Try to choose something that is fast so as not to slow down the conversation. Names are a real danger, since people certainly know their own names, and if you start talking about Rob-ojer, Roger is going to figure out that you just added "ob" to his name. Use replacement words for names to keep people from catching on to the trick. Roger becomes Raybo, John becomes Joe-boe. Try to keep ob out of the special name to make sure the person you're talking to doesn't try to interpret the special name, but try to keep a "b" in there to keep the name sounding like the rest of the conversation. Of course, these special names must be agreed upon with your co-linguist beforehand.
These are really only necessary when using Obish in front of the same people over and over. If you're only going to be using it every once in a while, you don't need to add any of these tricks to the language to keep from being understood by those who don't know it. Keep in mind that the speed is always good, since if you're not fast with the language, you won't speak it, and then what good is it? :)
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(Damn Roger, damn Roger to Hell)
or of course you could just say their name, since names aren't normally translated when you are speaking a different language, that wouldn't give it away either
What's the one where you insert "ma" and repeat syllables in short words?
"Tubamaba, Viomalin, Obomoboe- Saxamaphone"
I think it was favoured by Sara Cox...
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Back in about 1955 we called this "Double Dutch." Usually we learned it just after Pig Latin got too easy.
Close, but since it's only for vowel sounds, and not just vowels, you don't need the extra "ob" for the "u" in "yourself." It would be closer to "yob-or-sob-elf."
this is cool
11 years ago
excellent use of the fallout guy
Sobeems sobortoba usefobul, but you could easily substitute different sounds when talking in front of someone who knows this. For example, Ebish, or Abish.
My first thought was "Mushmouth" from "Fat Albert"... though he used "ba" as in "hebaloba howba arba youba?"
I used to speak Ubi-Dubbi. Its the same thing but you say ub instead of ob. It was on a TV show called Zoom. I was pretty good at it. Maybe I should re-learn it XD
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I got pretty good at that too. Zoom's been replaced by Dragonfly now though.
"Come on Zoom-a-zooma-zoom.... come on and zooma-zooma-zooma-zoom.... come on and give it a try......... we'll show you how and just why..........." (everybody sing with me!) could be the Instructables theme song.
11 years ago
My grandfather and I used to do this when I was a kid. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for reminding me.
In Spanish you can do this, but just by adding a letter instead of ob, "Hablar con la F", that is what i would call it when i spoke with F, i can speak faster in spanish and the letter F between every vowl sound, than i do normally in english (i am completely bi-lingual, but i speak spanish faster because after all, it is the fastest spoken langage in the world). the only objection that i have with this is that althought it tends to throw people off more, the b sound at the end makes it harder for the words to flow.
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That's the beauty of the language; the b sound forces a phonetic pause, so while it does make it harder to say fast, it breaks up words to throw people off more. "friday night" doesn't sound like "frobidobay nobight," It sounds like "frob idob aynob ite". It throws off the cadence. It's just one way to throw people off, high speed is another.
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Sunday, December 3, 2017
The Sensations of Labor: Epidurals! (part 1 in a series)
With the launch of The Flying Doula (my doula business, and my new website! Check it out!!!), I wanted to share a post about a topic that every pregnant person has on their minds: the sensations of labor! I soon realized that this is a huuuuge topic, so this is going to be a series! Yaaaay!!! Today we'll have a little overview, and we'll focus on a topic that could probably be a series in and of itself: the epidural!
When discussing the experience of labor with my clients, I favor words like, 'sensations', 'intensity', and 'power' because they leave room for your subjective experience of labor to be whatever it is! But let's be frank: the majority of people who have given birth in our culture (and there's a whooooooole conversations to be had about how our culture contributes to this) describe at least parts of it as being significantly painful, even extremely painful, to the point of being the most pain they've ever experienced in their lives.
And that's SCARY! How could it not be?? I don't like to talk about that much because if you're expecting something to be painful, if you're fearing something will be painful, if you're tensed up and closed off to something, there's just no question that your experience will be the worse for that negative anticipation, bodily tension, and catecholamines (fight or fight hormones). Catecholamines also work antagonistically with the primary hormone of labor: oxytocin. When they go up, oxytocin goes down, which can easily slow or even stall labor. (This is a survival adaption. If you're in danger, you need to get the hell out of there, not drop a vulnerable baby!)
AND, not everyone experiences labor that way! For some people, it may feel intense, and uncomfortable, but pain just isn't the word they would use to describe it. A small percentage of people orgasm at some point during labor and birth (don't look so surprised! All the same hormones, and body parts are at play here, and vaginas can accommodate very big things when warmed up and stretched adequately. Some people are into fisting!) For some people, it just never feels worse than mild cramping, and they're shocked to find out their baby is well on its way when someone finally decides they'd better get checked, just in case.
But of course, that can be scary in its own way! No one wants to be the subject of the headline: " BABY BORN ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE!!!"
Obviously fear surrounding labor is strongly tied to anticipating the sensations of labor, and also to the unknown. You just can't know how your brain will interpret the sensations of labor, or how fast, slow, intensely or gently, your body will go through labor. Some clients dilate several centimeters before they're even in labor. Others labor HARD for hours and hours just to achieve enough effacement to begin dilation! There is such a wide range of normal, and a really important aspect of labor preparation is working on getting comfortable with this not knowing, with taking your birth one moment at a time, as it comes. That shit is HARD, and it's one of the reasons why meditation work is part of the Flying Doula umbrella (and def the subject of another post in this series)
But, another important part of labor prep that can help you feel perhaps just a bit more ready for this adventure is to research your pain relief options in advance! So we'll be dealing with those options one post at a time in this series, and today's topic is...
The Epidural
The mystical, magical epidural if you're approaching birth from the point of view of our current birth culture, or perhaps the EVIL, INTERFERING, BIRTH-RUINING epidural if you've spent some time on natural birth message boards.
Well surprise-surprise: the truth is somewhere in the middle. Like every medical treatment ever, the epidural has pros and cons, and for some people and some labors, the pros will outweigh the cons, and for others, the cons will outweigh the pros. So lets talk a bit about what's entailed in getting an epidural, and what some of those pros and cons are.
An epidural is a tiny flexible tube that stays in your epidural space, allowing small amounts of a 'caine' pain reliever (think novocaine at the dentist), and an opiate/synthetic opiate-based pain reliever to be injected into this space, providing generally very effective pain relief and numbness to the entire lower body. It's put in place via a large needle, but the area is numbed via injections of a 'caine' pain reliever before hand, because that needle needs to be placed very slowly and carefully for the epidural to be safe, and effective.
Different anesthesiologists will position you differently, but the common thread is that you'll be asked to curl forward to make your lumber spine, and the space between your vertebrae where the doctor will be aiming, as big and accessible as possible. Every doctor, and every situation is different, so sometimes the epidural can be placed very quickly, and sometimes it takes some time. It's critical that you stay still while the process is going on, even if you have contractions. If you can't, the doctor will stop and wait for you to be able to stay still again, which of course makes the process longer. Once it's all set up, in most cases, you'll have a button you can press to get another dose of medication in your epidural so you're in control of how much pain relief you get. You'll be locked out from overdosing yourself, so no worries there.
Along with the epidural, you'll receive an iv so that meds to raise your blood pressure, or fluids to bolus your blood pressure, can be quickly administered, as the epidural sometimes causes a drop in blood pressure. You'll also have your blood pressure taken regularly, usually via an automatic cuff that stays on your arm, your blood oxygen level monitored via a clip on your finger, and two sensors held on your belly via stretchy belts to monitor your baby's heart rate, and your contractions. Since you can't get out of bed or walk because of the numbness, you'll have a catheter inserted into your bladder. Some or all of these interventions may have already been in place before the epidural, depending on your labor, your risk status, your choices, your hospital, and your doctor...but that's a whole other blog post!
Other potential side effects include a bad headache, and very, very, very rarely, pain that persists for weeks or longer. In a tiny, tiny percentage of women, the epidural is totally ineffective. Just does not work. We don't know why! Again, this is exceedingly rare, but it is a real thing to be aware of, especially if the epidural is the only pain relief/comfort measure you're considering. More commonly, the epidural can leave a 'window' of sensation where you can still feel the discomfort of contractions. There are ways of dealing with this though, and often it can be resolved.
This might sound scary, and obviously you should take all possibilities into account when considering your pain relief options, but statistically, the epidural is very safe, and very effective. So, lets talk pros and cons.
Pain relief! Obviously. But this isn't a matter of taking something for your headache or toughing it out. This isn't just about making the experience of labor and birth less unpleasant, though that is a very real and valid benefit of the epidural for some people. Because, you know what comes along with pain? Tension! And you know what makes it hard for a baby to descend and put good, even pressure on a cervix so it can dilate? Tension!
Relaxation! Some people in some labors are able to keep breathing and softening their bodies, and labor along just fine without an epidural. Others reach a point where that is just not possible anymore. They're unable to get back into a place where they can just let labor happen and not fight it. This is a miserable place to be. No one should ever feel like they have to continue at this point just because they technically could. But aside from that, their tension could slow dilation and/or descent of the baby, and their distress could trigger the catecholamines that slow labor. In instances like this, an epidural could speed up labor, and prevent the need for other interventions!
Sleep! This is no small potatoes, people. I always tell my clients who can't believe I'm sitting up all night with them, when this is all over, I go home and go to bed! You're going to have a newborn to care for! And even before that, you'll need to push this baby out. The pushing stage is a lot of work for most people, and if you've had a very long, hard labor, and are too exhausted to think straight, you may struggle to push your baby out. Nature helps us out here of course, by giving a burst of those catecholamines right when you need that surge of energy, and of course, if you don't have the epidural, you'll be able to move freely to find positions to help baby descend more easily...but we'll talk about that in the cons section. Sometimes rest is whats needed so refuel the uterus and get it back to a more consistent or effective contraction pattern as well. If you haven't been able to eat, sleep, or take in much fluids over the course of your labor due to your discomfort, an epidural could be a tool that would allow you to refuel your body, so your uterus can continue the hard work of opening, and expelling your baby.
Awareness! The intensity of labor will take you to some interesting places. You'll connect to your mammalian brain in a way you probably never have before. You'll find yourself rocking, tapping, chanting, grabbing, moaning, anything to help you ride these incredibly powerful waves! This can be a beautiful experience for many people, but for others, it's just scary, and not how they want to welcome their child. They want to be fully human, full themselves, talking to their partner, co-parent, and/or support person, waiting excitedly for their baby to arrive! The epidural can let you do that.
So many tubes! The epidural itself, and the different monitoring protocols it comes with, means you'll suddenly be tethered by many different tubes and machines. Few people would call this a comfortable situation. Of course, if all you want to do is lie still and sleep anyway, it may not seem like much of a sacrifice.
Stuck in bed! No sitting and hula-ing on your birth ball, no blessedly hot shower, no 'dancing your baby down'. You're grounded, missy/mister/mixter! If you had pictured yourself being an active participant in your labor, the epidural can be a bit of a let-down. You can still carefully change positions in bed with help, and in fact regularly switching sides will not only help promote descent and dilation, but can make your epidural more effective (see, 'window' of sensation), but a lot of options aren't available anymore, and that can be a bummer.
Slowing down labor! This potential side-effect of the epidural is much more likely to be an issue when the epidural is administered before labor is well-established. By blocking the sensations of labor, a kink gets thrown into the hormonal chain that keeps labor progressing. But as I like to say, at a certain point, there is just no stopping this train! If you've made it to a strong, active-labor contraction pattern, odds are good things aren't going to slow back down, but it is a possibility to be aware of, especially if you're less than three centimeters, and/or not meeting that 411 rule, or your labor has stalled out in the past.
You give me fever! (insert song clip here) A fever is a potential side effect of an epidural, particularly one that has been in place a long time. The fever itself isn't high enough to be dangerous to you and baby, the problem is, there's no way for your medical team to know if your high temperature is just a side effect of your epidural, or if it's a sign of infection that could be putting you and your baby at risk. They have to assume the latter, and that means wanting your baby born sooner rather than later, which can mean more interventions, and possibly even a c-section, possibly starting iv antibiotics immediately, and a potential work-up in the NICU, including a spinal tap, for your newborn. Not everyone who gets an epidural, even if they have it in place for a long time, will get a fever! And of course, getting or not getting the epidural does not change your likelihood of getting a fever caused by an infection (well, sometimes a catheter leads to a bladder infection, and without the epidural, you don't need one of those...but that's getting tangental.)
Pushing options get limited! So, pushing a baby out is hard work, and being able to listen to your instincts and move around, from all-fours, to squatting, or lying on your side, to sitting on the toilet, to walking around the room, can really help baby descend and save you some effort. But with an epidural in place, you need to stay in bed, and you can't support your weight on your legs. In theory, you can still push while lying on your side, but in practice, you'll almost certainly be advised (told) to lie on your back, grab onto your thighs, pull them toward you while you crunch around your baby, and hold your breath for a slow-count of ten while you push for all you're worth. Go on, pop a blood vessel! Now, this kind of pushing absolutely has its place. This position helps baby duck under your pubic bone, and if you pull your legs up enough, you'll even make space for your sacrum to move as necessary. It's not a bad position to push in! And sometimes it really takes three loooooong pushes per contraction to get baby moving...but that shit is HARD, and it will leave you out of breath and panting after every contraction. If you're out of breath, guess who else is, too? Yep! Baby! Between contractions you'll be advised to 'breathe for baby!' 'take long, slow, deep breaths!', and possibly even offered an oxygen mask to pump up your blood oxygen faster. If you had the freedom to push in whatever position you wanted, you'd be more likely to be able to follow your own body and push for as long as feels right with your contractions, and you'd almost certainly pause for a breathe before that ETERNAL ten count. With gravity helping, the pushing phase would likely go faster, so no one would be stressing about watching the clock, and needing your pushes to be more effective faster.
If you can't feel whats happening, its hard to call the shots! Relating to that previous point, if you don't have an epidural, or your epidural is turned down enough that you have some sensations, your care provider will likely wait to advise you on pushing until you...START PUSHING! Like, on your own, because your body's telling you to! Some doctors will tell you to let them know when you feel 'rectal pressure'. They mean to tell them when you feel like you need to poop. But if you just aren't feeling much of anything with your wonderfully effective epidural, what often happens is, your doctor checks, finds you fully dilated, and tells you to go ahead and push. Has your baby descended enough for you to be able to push effectively? Has your uterus built up the fundus enough to successfully eject the baby? Without knowing if your body would instinctively be pushing on its own, we can't know that. And now the clock is started. What clock? Well, most hospitals in the U.S. aren't going to let you push for more than two or three hours, even if baby is doing well, because despite little evidence to support this cultural idea, more than that is just too long to push. Time to give up, and roll on to c-section. And...
If you can't feel, it's tough to push effectively! Think about how weird it is to talk and eat after getting novocain at the dentist. Your motor control is a little wonky because you aren't getting sensory feedback from that part of your body. Without that feedback, pushing, and figuring out how to push effectively, takes longer, and if it takes too long, you could be looking at a c-section.
Now, I listed more cons than pros to the epidural, but I want to be really clear here: those pros are all really important and valid ones, and lot of those cons are interconnected enough that a different person may have combined them. Counting isn't going to tell you much. Your own values and wishes for your birth will tell you more, and at the end of the day, you just won't know until you get there. I've had clients who were certain they did not want an epidural wind up getting one, and having an excellent birth experience because of it. I've had clients who were having a very challenging labor, and they didn't get an epidural, and looking back, they're proud that they stuck to their guns, but wondering if it was really worth it. I've had clients not get one, and have an awe-inspiring, beautiful, 'natural' birth experience that they'll be drawing on for inspiration and confidence for the rest of their lives, and I've had clients who got an epidural, and then wondered if it was necessary/helpful. I have yet to have a client who wants one and ends up not getting one, but it absolutely happens!
So, whats my final say on the epidural? It reminds me of that old many doulas does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: we don't change the lightbulb! We help you decide how you want to that lightbulb changed, and we support you through the process. I think the epidural is a tool. Sometimes its the right tool for the job, and sometimes its not. It's as simple as that.
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Big Don'ts When Financing Your Film
Thumb Don’t wear this to a business meeting.
Finding the money to make your film is a real chore. Why make it harder on yourself?
Having gone through the process a few times (both successfully and unsuccessfully) for myself and others, I've learned the hard way to avoid these all-too-common mistakes.
Investors, agents, and producers want to believe in you. Show them that you're responsible. Don't wear something inappropriate to a meeting. You don't necessarily have to sport a tie, but you should look like you have a good command of your appearance. This is a visual art form, after all, so if you can't handle your wardrobe, why should I write you a check for your movie? This seems painfully obvious, but I've seen it happen.
Every ten years, a film comes along (El Mariachi, Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity) that turns into a cash register. But it's usually a bad idea to base your script or your financial projections on these films. They're outliers, and not just because they earned insane box office. The directors had tremendous skills and favors (to make up for lack of crew and money), and tight constraints (small cast, short scripts, few locations, cheap format, etc.). Also, you'll never know how much the distributor put in later to fix them up. Can you shoot and edit a whole film yourself? Do you have a mile of dependable favors to call in? Is your script really small enough? Chances are, especially if you're starting out, the answer to all the above is no. So be *somewhat* realistic about your costs and returns.
To get started, you'll need money for contracts, your production company, script copies, research, budgeting, web work, and travel. Some of these expenses can be recouped from the film's budget later. And sometimes you can make do with less. But you have to spend money to get money.
People flock to plenitude and flee from poverty. If you act like you need the money investors will shy away. Tell them you're giving them an opportunity. Show them an adventure, not desperation.
Financing takes time. Going out with a half-assed business plan or an unproofed script will only cost you. Patience now will be rewarded later. You don't want to scramble for money or a lead during preproduction, right?
It's good to be committed to your film, but you have to realize that it could stall at any point, often due to circumstances beyond your control. When that happens, have another script to show off and work on. It's also good preparation: when you do make your dream project, you should have your next one lined up, so you can translate buzz into action.
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Heraldic badge
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The Prince of Wales's feathers, which is the badge of the Prince of Wales as heir apparent to the crown of England.
A heraldic badge, emblem, impresa, device, or personal device worn as a badge indicates allegiance to, or the property of, an individual or family. Medieval forms are usually called a livery badge, and also a cognizance. They are para-heraldic, not necessarily using elements from the coat of arms of the person or family they represent, though many do, often taking the crest or supporters. Their use was more flexible than that of arms proper.
Badges worn on clothing were common in the late Middle Ages, particularly in England. They could be made of base metal, cloth or other materials and worn on the clothing of the followers of the person in question; grander forms would be worn by important persons, with the Dunstable Swan Jewel in enamelled gold a rare survivor. Livery collars were also given to important persons, often with the badge as a pendant. The badge would also be embroidered or appliqued on standards, horse trappings, livery uniforms, and other belongings. Many medieval badges survive in English pub names.
Medieval usage[edit]
Standard of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, about 1475, features the Stafford knot and Bohun swan badges.
In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, well-known badges were borne by the followers, retainers, dependants, and partisans of famous and powerful personages and houses, precisely because they were known and understood. (In contrast, the coat of arms was used exclusively by the individual to whom it belonged.)
Badges are occasionally taken from a charge in the bearer's coat of arms, or they have a more or less direct reference to those charges. More often, badges commemorated some remarkable exploit, illustrated a family or feudal alliance, or indicated some territorial rights or pretensions. Some badges are rebuses, making a pun or play-on-words of the owner's name. It was not uncommon for the same personage or family to use more than one badge; and, on the other hand, two or more badges were often borne in combination, to form a single compound device.
Livery badges in England[edit]
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, based on a livery badge of about 1400 AD, perhaps of Henry V as Prince of Wales. British Museum
Livery badges were especially common in England from the mid-fourteenth century until about the end of the fifteenth century, a period of intense factional conflict which saw the deposition of Richard II and the Wars of the Roses. A lavish badge like the Dunstable Swan Jewel would only have been worn by the person whose device was represented, members of his family or important supporters, and possibly servants who were in regular very close contact with him. However the jewel lacks the ultimate luxury of being set with gems, for example having ruby eyes, like the lion pendants worn by Sir John Donne and his wife[1] and several examples listed on the 1397 treasure roll of King Richard II. In the Wilton Diptych, Richard's own badge has pearls on the antler tips, which the angels' badges lack. The white hart in the badge on the Treasury Roll, which the painted one may have copied, had pearls and sat on a grass bed made of emeralds,[2] and a hart badge of Richard's inventoried in the possession of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in 1435 was set with 22 pearls, two spinels, two sapphires, a ruby and a huge diamond.[3]
Cheaper forms of badge were more widely distributed, sometimes very freely indeed, rather as modern political campaign buttons and tee-shirts are, though as in some modern countries wearing the wrong badge in the wrong place could lead to personal danger. In 1483 King Richard III ordered 13,000 badges in fustian cloth with his emblem of a white boar for the investiture of his son Edward as Prince of Wales,[4] a huge number given the population at the time. Other grades of boar badges that have survived are in lead, silver,[5] and gilded copper relief, the last found at Richard's home of Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, and very likely worn by one of his household when he was Duke of York.[6] The British Museum also has a swan badge in flat lead, typical of the cheap metal badges which were similar to the pilgrim badges that were also common in the period.[7]
The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–99), showing Richard II and the angels wearing livery badges.
In 1377, during a period when the young Richard's uncle John of Gaunt as Regent was highly unpopular in London, one of his more than 200 retainers, the Scottish knight Sir John Swinton, unwisely rode through London wearing Gaunt's badge on a livery collar (an innovation of Gaunt's, probably the Collar of Esses). The mob attacked him, pulling him off his horse and the badge off him, and he had to be rescued by the major from suffering serious harm.[8] Over twenty years later, after Gaunt's son Henry IV had deposed Richard, one of Richard's servants was imprisoned by Henry for continuing to wear Richard's livery badge. Many of the large number of badges of various liveries recovered from the Thames in London were perhaps discarded hurriedly by retainers who found themselves impoliticly dressed at various times.[9]
Apparently beginning relatively harmlessly under Edward III in a context of tournaments and courtly celebrations, by the reign of his successor Richard II the badges had become seen as a social menace, and were "one of the most protracted controversies of Richard's reign",[10] as they were used to denote the small private armies of retainers kept by lords, largely for the purpose of enforcing their lord's will on the less powerful in his area. Though they were surely a symptom rather than a cause of both local baronial bullying and the disputes between the king and his uncles and other lords, Parliament repeatedly tried to curb the use of livery badges.[11] The issuing of badges by lords was attacked in the Parliament of 1384, and in 1388 they made the startling request that "all liveries called badges [signes], as well of our lord the king as of other lords ... shall be abolished",[12] because "those who wear them are flown with such insolent arrogance that they do not shrink from practising with reckless effrontery various kinds of extortion in the surrounding countryside ... and it is certainly the boldness inspired by these badges that makes them unafraid to do these things".[13] Richard offered to give up his own badges, to the delight of the House of Commons of England, but the House of Lords refused to give up theirs, and the matter was put off. In 1390 it was ordered that no one below the rank of banneret should issue badges, and no one below the rank of esquire wear them.[14] The issue was apparently quiet for a few years, but from 1397 Richard issued increasingly large numbers of badges to retainers who misbehaved (his "Cheshire archers" being especially notorious), and in the Parliament of 1399, after his deposition, several of his leading supporters were forbidden from issuing "badges of signes" again, and a statute was passed allowing only the king (now Henry IV) to issue badges, and only to those ranking as esquires and above, who were only to wear them in his presence.[15]
The Tudor Rose badge of the House of Tudor.
In the end it took a determined campaign by Henry VII to largely stamp out the use of livery badges by others than the king, and reduce them to things normally worn only by household servants in the case of the aristocracy. Livery badges issues by guilds and corporations, and mayors, were exempt, and these continued in use until the 19th century in some cases. A particular concern in all the legislation was to forbid the issuing of liveries to those without a permanent contract with the lord; these groups assembled for a particular purpose were believed to be the most dangerous. The Statute of Liveries of 1506 finally forbade entirely the issuing of liveries to those of higher rank; they had to be domestic servants or persons experienced in the law, unless covered by a specific royal licence. A well-known story, first told by Francis Bacon but unsupported in the remaining records, has Henry visiting his principal military commander John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford at Hedingham Castle, who at his departure lined the king's exit route with liveried retainers, for which Henry fined him 15,000 marks.[16] In fact modern historical analysis of the court records shows few prosecutions, but by the end of Henry's reign liveried retainers do seem to have ceased to be a major problem.[17] While the badges of the nobility were carefully restricted, the royal badges of the Tudors, most famously the Tudor rose that signified the union of the Lancastrian and Yorkist dynasties, were used more widely than ever before, for example being added freely to King's College Chapel, Cambridge when the Tudors completed Henry VI's unfinished building. The Collar of Esses became in effect a badge of office, though of course still denoting allegiance to the monarch.
Renaissance and early modern personal device[edit]
The Château de Blois, with the porcupine of Louis XII
In the Renaissance, the badge, now more likely to be described as a "personal device", took an intellectual turn, and was usually combined with a short text or motto, which when read in combination were intended to convey a sense of the aspirations or character of the bearer. These impresas or emblems were used on the reverse of the portrait-medals that became fashionable in Italy, and used the vocabulary of Renaissance Neo-Platonism, often dropping links to the actual heraldry of the owner completely. Indeed, by the 16th century, emblems were adopted by intellectuals and merchants who had no heraldry of their own. Later emblem books contained large numbers of emblems, partly to allow people to choose one they thought suited them.
Imprese from Jacobus Typotius, Symbola Divina et Humana (Prague, 1601), engraved by Aegidius Sadeler II.
By the later sixteenth century, allegorical badges called impresa were adopted by individuals as part of an overall programme of theatrical disguise for a specific event or series of events, such as the fancy dress jousts of the Elizabethan era typified by the Accession Day tilts.
The device spread far beyond the aristocracy as part of the craze for wittily enigmatic constructions in which combinations of pictures and texts were intended to be read together to generate a meaning that could not be derived from either part alone. The device, to all intents and purposes identical to the Italian impresa, differs from the emblem in two principal ways. Structurally, the device normally consists of two parts while most emblems have three or more. As well, the device was highly personal, intimately attached to a single individual, while the emblem was constructed to convey a general moral lesson that any reader might apply in his or her own life.
Salamander badge of King Francis I of France, with letter "F", Château de Chambord
Particularly well-known examples of devices – so well known that the image could be understood as representing the bearer even without the motto – are those of several French kings, which were freely used to decorate their building projects. These include the porcupine of Louis XII with its motto "Eminus et cominus" or "De pres et de loin" (left, over a doorway at Blois) and the crowned salamander among flames of François Ier with the motto "Nutrisco et extinguo" (right, at Chambord). These and many more were collected by Claude Paradin and published in his Devises héroïques of 1551 and 1557, which gives the motto of Louis XII as "Ultos avos Troiae". Later the sun of Louis XIV was equally famous.
Badges of Earls of Stafford, 1720
Famous English badges[edit]
Badges of English royalty[edit]
Modern badge of the House of Windsor.
• William II: a flower of five foils
• Henry I: a flower of eight foils
• Stephen: a flower of seven foils; a Sagittarius; a Plume of Ostrich Feathers; Motto: Vi nulla invertitur ordo (No force alters their fashion)
• Henry II: the Planta-genista; an Escarbuncle; a Sword and Olive branch
• Richard I: a star of thirteen rays and a crescent; a star issuing from a crescent; a mailed arm grasping a broken lance, with the motto Christo Duce
• John and Henry III: a star issuing from a crescent
• Edward I: a heraldic rose or, stalked ppr
• Edward II: a castle of Castile
• Edward III: a Fleur-de-Lys; a Leopard, a Sword; a falcon; a Gryphon; a Stock (stump) of a tree; rays issuing from a cloud
• Richard II: a White Hart lodged; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a white falcon; a Sun in Splendor; a Sun Clouded
• Henry IV: the Monogram (cypher) SS; a crowned eagle; an eagle displayed; a white swan; a red rose; a Columbine flower; a fox’s tail; a crowned panther; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a Crescent
• Henry V: a fire-beacon; a white swan gorged and chained; a chained antelope
• Henry VI: two ostrich feathers in Saltire; a chained antelope; a panther
• Edward IV: a white rose en Soleil; a white wolf and white lion; a white Hart; a black dragon and black bull; a falcon and Fetter-lock; the Sun in Splendor
• Richard III: the White Boar, the Sun in Splendor
• Henry VII: a Rose of York and Lancaster ( a Tudor Rose); a Portcullis and a Fleur-de-Lis, all of them crowned; a red dragon; a white greyhound; a Hawthorn Bush and Crown, with the cypher H.R.
• Henry VIII: the same, without the Hawthorn Bush and with a White Cockerel
• Edward VI: a Tudor Rose; the sun in splendor
• Mary I: a Tudor Rose impaling a pomegranate, also impaling a Sheaf of Arrows, ensigned with a Crown, and surrounded with Rays; a pomegranate
• Elizabeth I: a Tudor Rose, with the motto, Rosa sine Spina (a Rose without a Thorn); a crowned falcon and sceptre; her motto, Semper Eadem (Always the same)
Royal badges of British monarchs[edit]
With the accession of the House of Hanover in 1714, British monarchs ceased to use personal badges (Royal Cyphers came into use instead), though historical badges continue to be used for various purposes as part of royal symbolism (such as the titles of pursuivants in the College of Arms), and there is now a general badge of the House of Windsor.
Heraldic badges were revived in 1906 by the College of Arms under Alfred Scott-Gatty, and have since then often been included in new grants of arms, in addition to the traditional grant of the coat of arms. Whether or not they are so granted is at the option of the grantee, who pays a higher fee if they are.[18] When granted, the badge is typically illustrated on the letters patent containing the grant of arms, and upon an heraldic standard (flag). The standard is not however granted automatically with the said achievement of arms and badge, but can be requested if a badge is granted and upon payment of a further fee.
See also[edit]
1. ^ in their portraits by Hans Memling, now in the National Gallery, London
2. ^ Stratford, Miscellaneous gold objects
3. ^ Campbell, Marian in Alexander & Binski, 524
4. ^ Cherry (2003), 204
5. ^ BBC article on silver boar badge, which it appears was originally silver-gilt
6. ^ Cherry (2003), 204; no. 69
7. ^ Cherry (2003), 203; no. 68a
8. ^ Given-Wilson, 124. Steane, 132 for Gaunt's retinue. See Stratford, Richard II's life and reign for a concise account of the upheavals of his reign.
9. ^ Steane, 132
10. ^ Given-Wilson, 123
11. ^ Given-Wilson, 126
12. ^ Brown, 117
13. ^ Given-Wilson, 125
14. ^ Brown, 117
15. ^ Given-Wilson, 126
16. ^ Bacon History of the Reign of King Henry VII.
17. ^ Chrimes, 187-192
18. ^ As of January 2010, the extra fee is £1,000.
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While searching for new ideas on bookstores and the digital world, I came across this article entitled, “Appetite for Risk: At the Intersection of Video Games and Literature.” In the article, author Maxwell Neely-Cohen addresses the idea that the world of video games and the world of literature are more similar than people would think, and that the two industries can benefit from shared ideas and influences. The author states that:
We should be making novels into video games, video games into novels. Publishers should collaborate with indie game developers, trading them a platform and content in exchange for labor and a new form of adaptation. Literary magazines and libraries should sponsor gamejams. The games industry should fully embrace the thousands of works of classic literature open to them in the public domain.”
As someone who enjoys both video games and books, the concept of these seemingly different forms of entertainment intermingling and helping each other is appealing. While I play all different types of video games, I am always more engaged in games that have strong, unique plots and well-written dialogue. While the game mechanics are important, I would rather play a game with sub-par controls and graphics as long as the plot is compelling. In terms of how literature could benefit from a partnership with the gaming industry, I think the author creates a strong argument. He says:
“The book publishing industry needs to carve out a more interesting, necessary space for itself in the digital world. All too frequently “technology” is considered one big amorphous blob, or worse, treated with indifference. Barely enhanced e-books, predictably executed apps, and promotional Twitter accounts for dead or Luddite authors seem to represent the extent of most publishers’ innovative efforts. Even in terms of pure content, contemporary fiction too often fails to fully evoke 21st-century life and contend with its burgeoning issues. We writers disproportionately focus on the past, or worse, replicate the form and structures of centuries gone without appetite for the risk, resistance, and failure innovation entails.”
So how does this article relate to bookstores in the digital age? Though the author is focused solely on the relationship between games and books, I think his suggestion that the book publishing industry doesn’t know how to handle the digital age is relevant to the struggle facing independent bookstores. The author suggests at the end of the article that applying gaming concepts and technology to literature could create a new, innovative form of art, however my question is if bookstores can also harness this innovation. Is there a way for independent bookstores to incorporate forms and functions of video games into their marketing and sales tactics? How could these tactics encourage consumers to purchase books? I’m not sure I have answers to these questions, but one thought would be perhaps making use of virtual reality gaming technology and enticing customers to come to in-store events where you could “live” in your favorite book. I would love to hear if anyone else has thoughts on this!
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Hacking options for a true debug PS3
Discussion in 'PS3 - Hacking & Homebrew' started by Myria, Mar 27, 2016.
1. Myria
Myria GBAtemp Fan
Jul 24, 2014
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What options exist for hacking a debug PS3? I have a backward-compatible actual Debugging Station (DECH-A00A).
I've heard that it's possible to play Blu-Ray movies on DEX firmware now, but I don't know whether that applies to Debugging Stations.
I can disable HDCP on this system, right?
2. DeViL303
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Apr 3, 2016
You would probably get more answers at PSX-Place, lots of DECH experts there.
3. DinohScene
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I'd honestly get a normal PS3 and hack that one.
Debug hardware is a bit to valuable to be fucked around with.
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4. nero99
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i know this is a old thread, please forgive me for replying to it. you can get quite a bit of money by selling the debug unit as long as everything works.
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I've created a few bookmarks in Google Earth which I use to show students where certain famous mathematicians were born, lived and died. I've found it useful for students to make connections and see that the mathematicians who invented the stuff they're learning were real people that really lived...
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Are Surge Protectors Worthwhile? UPS?
Do Surge Protectors really do anything? Summer’s a ways off and so are lightning and thunderstorms, but electrical surges can happen at anytime of the year. I recall after lightning storms I always got service calls for modems that stopped working. This is because an electrical surge moved through their phone line and toasted their modem (you’re lucky if the damage limited to just the modem and not the rest of the computer). Those were the days of dial-up when land-lines were more common, but it still applies today to cable and DSL modems and even apartment buildings. Many apartments, especially around the university, offer an ethernet jack and provide internet as an amenity. These lines are grounded according to building codes, but lightning strikes are hard to engineer protection for and any of these wires into your home are a path for an electrical surge that can damage your computer. I recommend a surge protector like this APC SurgeArrest. You sandwich it between your valuable gear and your wall outlets–electrical or otherwise be it cable, DSL, or ethernet. With ethernet jack, don’t forget to protect your WiFi router. A surge can also travel to your electrical outlet and damage your computer. This is the primary reason a surge protector is necessary. Note that power strips provide no protection at all.
If you need additional protection, the next step up from a surge protector is a UPS–uninterruptible power supply, usually used by businesses. The internal battery pack needs to be recycled about every two years, otherwise the UPS may actually cause a power outage. They not only protect against spikes and surges, but they also provide a battery to power your computer or wifi router through a brownout, short blackout, and provides time to shut down the machine safely. Software can automate this. UPS prices are usually a matter of the size of the battery, and the amperage the equipment needs to draw. Contact me if you have any questions and I’ll be glad to help you out. None of this means you can forgo a backup plan, which I will cover at a later time.
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It is impossible to look at the recent cases of mass-shootings around the country and not want to support measures to end such unspeakable violence. Living in Colorado, a state where two such tragedies occurred (Columbine High School and the Aurora movie theater), it was difficult to stomach the action as it unfolded live on local news stations. But, even though the list of mass shootings is long and fresh in our collective minds, such tragedies should not lead to bad legislation written without understanding the potential consequences for law-abiding citizens.
In Colorado, controversial gun control measures passed by the state's General Assembly Governor, sit on Governor John Hickenlooper's desk waiting to be signed. One of the most controversial bills limits the number of rounds in high capacity magazines to 15. The other bills deal with background checks for perspective gun buyers.
Supporters of the magazine ban say that because it will require shooters to slow down to reload, fewer lives may be lost in mass shootings. However, even the bills sponsor does not know how the broadly written legislation may be enforced.
Critics of the "magban" legislation cite problems with the bill, including the potential for making all gun magazines illegal. The language of the bill can be narrowly interpreted to outlaw all magazines as extensions can be added to most magazines, making such items illegal. County sheriffs have said they will not enforce the measures and may not be required to enforce the legislation. A local manufacturer of gun magazines, Magpul, has promised to leave the state taking with it over 600 jobs. The suppliers of Magpul have also said they would have to leave should the legislation pass. In a state still struggling to recover from the recession, the response to a potential loss of jobs has been bitter.
The other legislation for universal background checks makes a person who transfers a firearm to an individual "liable for any civil damages caused by that individual's subsequent use of a firearm." An example of a consequence of this legislation would be if a husband owns a gun, has gone through a background check but is out of his home when his wife uses the gun on an intruder the husband may get in trouble for the actions of the wife. The background check applies per gun, not per person. In a state with a strong tradition and history of recreational gun use this legislation was met with great resistance.
In spite of the fact that two mass shootings have occurred within the state, these gun control measures are not popular in recent polling. Efforts to recall legislators who have supported these gun control measures have already begun and petitions for ballot measures have been filed. Vigorous debate has happened both inside the statehouse and out; but the constant question is whether or not these measures will be effective in their target, or will cause law-abiding citizens, who obtained firearms legally to no longer be compliant with the law.
Governor Hickenlooper was correct when he said, "gun control legislation will not stop bad people from doing bad things." Adam Lanza did the unspeakable when he went to Sandy Hook Elementary and murdered children. It has recently come out that he also had years of research completed before he set off on his killing spree. James Holmes had also taken his time to plan his massacre at the Aurora movie theater. Unless governors in neighboring states sign similar legislation there is little to prevent a person so determined from going to Kansas, Nebraska or Wyoming where high capacity magazines are still legal. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9597519636154176}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '254998', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DBUJIUW3KWKTIUQ6ATYE5WEFCITPMTBN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:162d69f1-61de-4a25-82ee-40a1911047ef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 15, 52, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.192.52.248', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FW2OPE53BHY6K6AL2K5SGNJLLVINKLNN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fae7a4f1-f0c7-494a-86f9-ffb5a6ed92ed>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://mic.com/articles/30383/colorado-gun-control-why-governor-hickenlooper-shouldn-t-sign-it-into-law', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:83933c5a-1f4b-4084-9a6d-d8566b900cdd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '603', 'url': 'https://mic.com/articles/30383/colorado-gun-control-why-governor-hickenlooper-shouldn-t-sign-it-into-law', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-95-138.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 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': '0.05275094509124756', 'original_id': '3e9a71b6e86d1cf2976c09de648beb6690db6a172ba09c3a042875ae7c0b99ca'} |
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Mortgage Glossary
The term used for a standard residential mortgage application.
1031 Exchange
A tax strategy to postpone capital gains from sold property to new property.
2055 Exterior
A limited appraisal that gives an estimate of fair market value without inspecting inside the home.
2055 Interior
A limited appraisal that gives an estimate of fair market value.
Appraisal form that photographs the property but does place a value on the property. This can be ordered if a lender’s automated system accepts the value entered and allows for only a 2075. This type of appraisal costs less.
Repayment of a mortgage loan through monthly installments of principal and interest. The monthly payment amount is based on a schedule that will allow you to own your home at the end of a specific time period (for example, 15, 20, or 30 years).
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
Calculated by using a standard formula, the APR shows the cost of a loan. Expressed as a yearly interest rate, it includes the interest, points, mortgage insurance, and other fees associated with the loan.
The first step in the official loan approval process. This form is used to record important information about the potential borrower necessary to the underwriting process.
A document that gives an estimate of a property’s fair market value. An appraisal is generally required by a lender before loan approval to ensure that the mortgage loan amount is not more than the value of the property.
ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage)
A mortgage loan subject to changes in interest rates. When rates change, the the interest rate (and therefore the monthly payment) on an ARM loan can increase or decrease at intervals determined by the index and the margin . The change in the interest rate, however, is usually subject to a periodic and lifetime cap.
Assumable Mortgage
A mortgage that can be transferred from a seller to a buyer. Once the buyer assumes the loan, the seller is no longer responsible for repaying it. There may be a fee and/or a credit package involved in the transfer of an assumable mortgage.
Balloon Mortgage
A mortgage that typically offers low rates for an initial period of time (usually 3, 5, 7, or 10) years. After that time period elapses, the balance is due or is refinanced by the borrower.
Building Code
Cash Reserves
A cash amount is sometimes required to be held in reserve in addition to the down payment and closing costs. The amount is determined by the lender.
Certificate of Title
A document provided by a qualified source (such as a title company) that shows the property legally belongs to the current owner. Before the title is transferred at closing, it should be clear and free of all liens or other claims.
Also known as settlement, this is the time at which the property is formally sold and transferred from the seller to the buyer. It is at this time that the borrower takes on the loan obligation, pays all closing costs, and receives the certificate of title from the seller.
Closing Costs
Customary costs above and beyond the sale price of the property that must be paid to cover the transfer of ownership at closing. These costs generally vary by geographic location and are typically detailed to the borrower after submission of a loan application.
Conforming Limit
The loan limit set to receive the best rates from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Currently this limit is $417,000.
Conventional Loan
Cooperative (Co-op)
Residents purchase stock in a cooperative corporation that owns a structure. Each stockholder is then entitled to live in a specific unit of the structure and is responsible for paying a portion of the loan.
Credit History
History of an individual’s debt payment. Lenders use this information to gauge a potential borrower’s ability to repay a loan.
Credit Report
A record that lists all past and present debts and the timeliness of their repayment. It documents an individual’s credit history.
Credit Bureau Score
Debt-To-Income (DTI) Ratio
A comparison of gross income to housing and non-housing expenses. Traditionally, this ratio should not exceed 41%, but lenders offer much more liberal ratios to strong borrowers.
The document that transfers ownership of a property.
To avoid foreclosure (“in lieu” of foreclosure) A deed is given to the lender to fulfill the obligation to repay the debt. This process does not allow the borrower to remain in the house but helps avoid the costs, time, and effort associated with foreclosure.
Discount Point
Normally paid at closing and generally calculated as a percentage of the total loan amount. Discount points are paid to reduce the interest rate on a loan.
Down Payment
Earnest Money
Money put down by a potential buyer to show that he or she is serious about purchasing the home. It becomes part of the down payment if the offer is accepted, is returned if the offer is rejected, or is forfeited if the buyer pulls out of the deal after the deadline set in the real estate sales contract.
An owner’s financial interest in a property. Calculated by subtracting the amount still owed on the mortgage loan(s) from the fair market value of the property.
Escrow Account
Fair Housing Act
Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association)
FHA (Federal Housing Administration)
Established in 1934 to advance home ownership opportunities for all Americans. Assists homebuyers by providing mortgage insurance to lenders to cover most losses that may occur when a borrower defaults. This encourages lenders to make loans to borrowers who might not qualify for conventional mortgages.
Fixed-Rate Mortgage
A mortgage with principal and interest payments that remain the same throughout the life of the loan because the interest rate does not change.
Flood Insurance
Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)
A federally chartered corporation that purchases residential mortgages, securitizes them, and sells them to investors. This provides lenders with funds for new homebuyers.
Ginnie Mae (Government National Mortgage Association)
Good Faith Estimate
HELP (Homebuyer Education Learning Program)
Home Inspection
An examination of the structure and mechanical systems to determine a home’s safety. This makes the potential homebuyer aware of any repairs that may be needed.
Home Warranty
Offers protection for mechanical systems and attached appliances against unexpected repairs not covered by homeowner’s insurance. Coverage extends over a specific time period and does not cover the home’s structure.
Homeowner’s Insurance
Housing Counseling Agency
HUD (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
HUD 1 Statement
Also known as the “settlement statement,” it itemizes all closing costs. The statement must be given to the borrower at or before closing.
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, a home’s heating and cooling system.
The number of dollars in circulation exceeds the amount of goods and services available for purchase. Inflation results in a decrease in the dollar’s value.
A fee charged for the use of money.
Interest Rate
The amount of interest charged on a monthly loan payment, usually expressed as a percentage.
A legal decision. When requiring debt repayment, a judgment may include a property lien that secures the creditor’s claim by providing a collateral source.
Jumbo Limit
Loan limit above the conforming limit. Jumbo loans are subject to higher rates. Currently this applies to loan amounts over $417,000 or potentially higher if the property is in a designated high cost area.
Money borrowed that is usually repaid with interest.
Loan Fraud
Purposely giving incorrect information on a loan application in order to better qualify for a loan may result in civil liability or criminal penalties.
Loan-To-Value (LTV)
)A ratio representing the amount borrowed versus the agreed upon value of the property. A percentage calculated by dividing the amount borrowed by the lower of the price or appraised value on a purchase or the appraised value on a refinance. The higher the LTV, the less cash a borrower is required to pay as down payment.
Loss Mitigation
A process to avoid foreclosure. The lender tries to help a borrower who has been unable to make loan payments and is in danger of defaulting on his or her loan.
Mortgage Banker
A company that originates and funds loans internally and then sells them on the secondary market or to a selected investor.
Mortgage Broker
A firm that originates loans for mortgage lenders.
Mortgage Insurance
Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
A monthly payment — usually part of the mortgage payment — paid by a borrower for mortgage insurance.
Mortgage Modification
Indication by a potential buyer of a willingness to purchase a home at a specific price. The offer is usually presented in writing.
On Q Financial
A premier Mortgage Banker that provides expert counsel, competitive rates and fees. Client First service at the highest standard of integrity and performance.
The process of preparing, submitting, and evaluating a loan application. The process generally includes a credit check, verification of employment, and a property appraisal.
Origination Fee
The charge for originating a loan; which is usually calculated in the form of points and paid at closing.
PITI (Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance)
PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
Privately-owned companies that provide insurance to a lender on programs for qualified borrowers with down payments of less than 20% of a purchase price. The insurance is typically paid by the borrower either upfront in cash, or financed and may include a monthly payment.
Lender commits to lend to a potential borrower. The commitment remains as long as the borrower still meets the qualification requirements at the time of purchase.
Pre-foreclosure Sale
The amount paid on a regular schedule by a policyholder that maintains insurance coverage.
Payment of the mortgage loan before the scheduled due date. This may be subject to a prepayment penalty.
The amount borrowed from a lender; does not include interest or additional fees.
Real Estate Agent
An individual who is licensed to negotiate and arrange real estate sales. Works for a real estate broker.
Paying off one loan by obtaining another. Refinancing is generally done to secure better loan terms (like a lower interest rate).
RESPA (Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act)
Another name for closing.
Special Forbearance
To place in a rank of lesser importance or to make one claim secondary to another. Usually necessary if refinancing a first mortgage, while keeping an existing second mortgage in place.
Sweat Equity
FHA 203K
An FHA-insured loan that allows a borrower to make non-luxury improvements (like renovations or repairs) to their home. Title I loans less than $7,500 do not require a property lien.
Title Insurance
Insurance that protects the lender against any claims that arise from arguments about ownership of the property. This is also available to homebuyers.
Title Search
A federal law obligating a lender to give full written disclosure of all fees, terms, and conditions associated with a loan’s initial period and any adjustments to another rate that lasts for the term of the loan.
VA (Department of Veterans Affairs)
A federal agency which guarantees loans made to veterans. Similar to mortgage insurance, a loan guarantee protects lenders against loss that may result from a borrower default.
John MacAndrew, Mortgage Consultant
On Q Financial, Inc.
3400 188th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Direct: (425) 698-2921
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Getting Started
Before you add a camera:
• Please ensure your mobile phone is connected to the same internet you intend to connect your cameras to
• Please ensure you are connecting to a 2.4GHz WiFi as opposed to a 5GHz WiFi if you have a dual-band router
• Please make sure you are being case sensitive when entering your WiFi password or when re-adding a camera
• If you have a Penguin or Nighthawk camera make sure the antenna is attached before you follow the below steps
Steps to connect your camera:
1. Plug camera into power
2. Connect the ethernet cord from the camera to the router
3. Open the Cammy app and click "Add a camera"
4. Select your camera from the list
5. Scan the QR code on the back of the camera
If the QR code does not scan, make sure the camera is focused on the QR code and is not blurry. If that does not work, select 'Or select the camera from a list'. You will need to connect your ethernet cable to the camera. Match the MAC ID listed on your camera to one in the list. If you're re-setting up an existing camera you will be prompted by 'Existing Camera' message here, please press 'Yes' and continue
6. Enter your WiFi password (Important: please make sure your password is correct and case sensitive)
7. Wait - it could take up to 2mins to connect
8. Enter a name for your camera eg. Living Room
9. Once your camera has successfully connected, click done.
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“Pouring Out Some Liquor”
This is a “duet” poem that I was blessed to write, recite and perform with none other than Xero in Baton Rouge, LA. The guy is master with words and it was truly a pleasure. –Ms.KeepingItReal
Pouring Out Some Liquor
by Ms.KeepingItReal and Xero
Both: We dedicate this poem to all the lost poems
Xero: To the imagistic lines that bent
and swirled around in my preoccupied noggin
and got soaked up into
rusted pipe dreams and magnetic memories
Ms.KeepingItReal: To magnets on the fridge two lines long
That were pushed around with letters missing
Both: Yearning to release and roam
From isolation to liberty
Xero: To the half-free verse, half-prose rants
that found their way
under the stove
to escape my cold fury
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poem scribbled on homework
The teacher obliviously gave back
Both: Never saw us
Xero: To the seldom seen 1998 spoken word
crowd pleaser that only Jason or Keith
would ever request
Both: just to show how far back we go
Ms.KeepingItReal: Back to the poem that was to kill you softly
Eradicating your previous thoughts
Both: Beautiful had it not flown out of the window
Xero: To the sappy, cliché jumble
of doggerel that I handed to my ex-wife like…
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the words whispered in the dark
As he invaded my…
Xero: a barb-wire infection,
when neither of us were concerned
with line breaks or…
Ms.KeepingItReal: territory, made me an expert at freestyle
Words flowing like my love til it’s over
Xero: communication
Ms.KeepingItReal: To poems written in notebooks lost
Left on the seat of the bus
Xero: Left on a stool of the stage
Ms.KeepingItReal: Rushing to get off
Xero: To get out
Ms.KeepingItReal: and inside my house
Xero: my head
Ms.KeepingItReal: Took later to realize
Xero: To block it out
Ms.KeepingItReal: Hundreds of secret thoughts now gone
Xero: now murdered
Ms.KeepingItReal: I betrayed them
To the poems of only four lines
Both: Loitering on the pages
Ms.KeepingItReal: Incomplete due to my neglect
No urge to finish what was started
Xero: To that first poem I wrote
Ms.KeepingItReal: I wrestled with
Xero: inside the birthday card
Ms.KeepingItReal: love note
Xero: my fourth grade class gave to Mrs. Claverie
The one that made her say,
Ms.KeepingItReal: made her etch in marble
Xero: “Chancelier, never stop writing.
You have a gift.”
Ms.KeepingItReal: To answer present
Xero: To the lost inspiration
that I couldn’t have written
Both: better myself
Xero: that made me
Both: better myself
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems written on
scraps of paper, napkins, sticky notes
Both: long gone
Ms.KeepingItReal: Mixed with trash inside my purse
Never to grace my lips—your ears
Xero: Here’s to the poor poems that
never survived my hard drive
deleted from my laptop
Both: for my failure
Xero: to give them adequate electricity
Xero: To the poems that aren’t poems yet,
but will eventually be lost
because it’s taking me so long
to find a way to write them free
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems savagely
ripped from my journal
No words to tattoo minds
without permission
Xero: To the poems I printed out at work,
folded into thick rectangles,
Ms.KeepingItReal: slipped
Xero: into my back pocket,
Ms.KeepingItReal: carried
Xero: around all day,
Ms.KeepingItReal: placed
Xero: on my dresser, and
Ms.KeepingItReal: pushed
Xero: back behind the dresser
with other rectangular experiments
Ms.KeepingItReal: gone
Xero: awry
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems I rehearsed in my head
Desperately-over and over
No paper to record this
Pen pressed to my palm
Words staining my flesh
Carefree—I with errands to do
From here to and fro…where are you?
Smeared blue blur
Xero: I am here
attempting resurrections with recitation
over and over
no memories to remake you
palm pressed to paper
careful – I with errors to fix
from here, on and on…what are you?
Seared blue heart
Both: We are vessels of misplaced trust
learning only now
that waste is precious
and treasure can be stapled
to flesh
4.10.12 Bittersweet
1. Life is short. Maximize each moment. If it won’t matter a year from now, two months from now a minute from now—let it go. Easier said than done, but practice makes perfect.
2. Never think that anyone owes you anything, including the world. The world was here first.
3. Accept people for who they are—either you can deal with it or you can’t. Simple. As my mama always says, a leopard cannot change its spots.
4. Remember that everything is a test and someone is always watching.
5. Know thyself.
6. Appreciate the trials and tribulations that come with life. As the old adage goes, what doesn’t break you only makes you stronger. When life gives you lemons they say make lemonade. I say when life gives me lemons, “Is that all you got? I eat watermelons for lunch.” This too shall pass.
7. Trust your instincts. They will never fail you.
8. Take ownership for your actions. No one can make you do something. Either you want to—or you don’t.
9. Don’t wait for New Year’s to come to make a list of resolutions. Change now. What are you waiting for?
10. Lastly, remember to stop and be thankful. Everything that you have experienced up to this very moment has made you the person that you are today. You may not be defined by those things, but they have played an integral part in the molding of your mind, how you feel, and how you carry yourself. There is always room from growth and when there isn’t…well you know…you’re eternally resting.
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In the Battle Against Frac Hits, Shale Producers Go to New Extremes
Seeing quadruple: A shift in thinking has prompted a number of producers to move to drilling up to four wells in the same place, at the same time. Source: Getty Images.
A new plan has been put to work in the Permian Basin’s remote but resource-rich swath of land shared by Texas and New Mexico.
Its objective can be reduced to this simple idea: protect neighboring horizontal wells from each other by drilling and completing them at the same time.
Most in the shale business know these projects as “cube developments.” Their scope of work has moved operators away from developing wells one at a time to a half dozen or more at a time. Each cube project is done from supersized well pads that host four to six rigs, two pressure pumping fleets, and hundreds of people every day.
From the surface perspective, these onshore megaprojects are delivering much needed economies of scale on everything from sand and water to parts and labor. However, the bigger motivation lies deep in the ground.
That is where shale producers have been battling poor production results for years because of frac hits between older and newer wells, often referred to as “parent” and “child” wells. The root of this complex problem lies in the fact that a child well’s hydraulic fractures often follow the path of least resistance into a reservoir’s most resource-depleted zones, rather than to areas containing the best reserves.
In some parts of the Permian, the effect has caused child wells to deliver a 30% lower recovery rate than their parents (when factors such as well lengths are normalized). When such production shortfalls are felt fieldwide, the losses are measured in millions of dollars per day. The point of cube developments is to put an end to this cycle by creating only parent wells.
Thinking Inside the Cube
Occidental Petroleum began implementing its own version of the cube approach—called “optimized sequenced development”—last summer at its Greater Sand Dunes project in New Mexico. This year, the Permian stalwart says new wells brought on line there have turned in “basin-leading” peak 30-day rates that averaged around 3,100 BOE/D.
The Houston-based firm’s approach relies on a strong understanding of geomechanics to sequence the drilling, completion, and eventual flowback of multiple wells to mitigate frac hits. This allows some wells to be produced, while others nearby are still being drilled or hydraulically fractured, said Oscar Quintero, the president and general manager of Oxy’s Permian assets in New Mexico.
If done correctly, and critical rock properties are entered into the equation, then “you have vertical isolation, and you have horizontal isolation” of each well’s hydraulic fracture growth, said Quintero. “So, by design, we are avoiding the impact of frac hits.”
This succinct outline of the high-density approach boils down a long list of subsurface nuances, ones that remain an intense area of study for the shale sector. Understanding them helps explain why Oxy and a growing number of its peers would go to the lengths of drilling so many wells simultaneously.
Fellow Permian players Apache Corporation, Resolute Energy, and QEP Resources have adopted similar methods, according to company reports.
But the prize for coining the term cube development goes to Encana Corporation, which says the strategy has increased early well productivity in one of its Permian fields by 70% over the past 2 years. Despite the term’s growing popularity within engineering circles, some companies continue to use different terms such as QEP’s “tank-style completions” for what is seen as the same general practice.
Toward the horizon stand three drilling rigs carrying out what has come to be known as a “cube development,” or what QEP terms a “tank-style completion.” At the foreground is an example of the type of centralized processing facilities that operators are using to drive down costs. Source: QEP Resources.
“What Are We Draining?”
Success for cube developments depends on heavy-duty geoscience work that has changed the way petroleum engineers view how shale rocks and fluids interact. By maintaining pressure conditions, these efforts help some practitioners justify tight well spacing from 300 ft to 600 ft.
But in a stacked formation, explorers also want to take into account how far fractures may grow vertically to further ensure they are not drilling too many wells. Historically, such stacked pay zones within shale formations have been framed as relatively isolated layers of rock, or stratigraphic units. But years of analysis has shown wells drilled in a vertical orientation may see their producing areas connected by fractures.
Thinking of these layers as potentially interactive offers producers a new 3D-perspective of the target zone, representing a “geomechanical flow unit,” said Thaimar Ramirez, who leads a multidisciplinary team of geoscientists and engineers as the development director of Oxy’s New Mexico operations.
“When we have to go and stimulate this rock, then we go beyond the stratigraphic units in many cases,” she said. As a result, her team is now more concerned with “trying to understand what is that geomechanical flow unit, and what are we draining?”
Solving this question involves a database of geologic information that Oxy has obtained through years of exploration in the Permian—where it has long been the top oil producer thanks to its legacy conventional fields. The information drawn out of rock cores, well logs, seismic data, and fluid analysis helps the firm’s engineers build models that go through several iterations to define specific flow units.
Where two wells might have been placed close together in an older development scheme, the new workflow may show that it is more economic to drill one well in a certain zone. Or it could reveal a pair of flow units that are separated by a thin layer of a more resistant rock known as a “frac barrier,” and therefore two wells landed at different depths are necessary to capture more reserves (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1—Stick the Landing: This gun-barrel view of a stacked formation underlines the concept of a “flow unit.” In one scenario, two wells are needed for optimal recovery because of a rock barrier. In another, two wells lead to unwanted interference, or frac hits. And sometimes, just a single well is needed to capture reserves from multiple layers. Source: Occidental Petroleum.
Let the Sequence Begin
The typical cube scenario moves directionally, and for some operators may ultimately result in more than a dozen new wells.
Oxy says that each of its sequenced cube projects begin with an untapped reservoir unit, whereas others may be forced to involve a parent well. Two wells are drilled here and then zipper fractured. While the left-most well is brought on line after the zipper job is complete, the other well is kept shut in (Fig. 2).
By suppressing flow, this second well in the process becomes what Oxy calls a “completed barrier,” or what others refer to as a “pressure wall.” Its purpose at this stage is to protect the next set of wells from frac hits, and in some cases, companies will complete and shut in two of these wells to add more protection.
As the pressure wall is established, wells further to the right can continue to be zipper fractured, a process in which at least two wells undergo hydraulic fracturing in tandem. Zipper wells are needed in cube approaches for two key reasons: they generate temporary but beneficial stresses that are believed to better distribute new fractures; they also create meaningful cost efficiencies by using completions crews more effectively than in a single-well job.
To the far right of the assembly line, maybe a mile away, is a drilled-but-uncompleted well (DUC), renamed here a “buffer well.” Oxy and others report that these DUC wells are kept un-stimulated for a period to mitigate fracture interference between the wells being zipper fractured and the wells being drilled on the other side of the DUC.
Within each of these categories, well counts can be different depending on the size and characteristics of the target area.
Once all the heavy lifting is done, the last trick is to manage the production. In Oxy’s case, newly completed wells are brought on sequentially to accelerate and manage production peaks that could otherwise overextend its processing infrastructure on surface.
Fig. 2—The step-by-step sequencing of wells as outlined here could involve more than just six wells. And as a shallower zone is completed, the process can then continue with a deeper set of wells. Source: Occidental Petroleum.
Not Perfect, But Worth It
Ultimately, the driver of change here is the need to protect the profitability of the shale sector’s large inventory of tens of thousands of undrilled wells. There are few public data points covering the financial toll suffered from frac hits, but among them is a technical paper (SPE 189853) presented earlier this year at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference by a former completions engineer from Apache.
Its blunt opening line reads: “Millions of dollars in production losses are occurring from fracture-driven well-to-well interference (frac hits) in horizontal wells in unconventional play reservoirs.”
And last year, an executive with Range Resources was even more exacting when he told analysts that underperforming wells in the company’s Louisiana shale asset and “corresponding frac hits to offset production” amounted to a financial loss of $75 million per day.
While some experts see cube developments as one of the best ways to relieve these pains, they caution against seeing the simultaneous operations as a panacea.
Mohamed Soliman is the chair of the University of Houston’s petroleum engineering department and holds a patent for two of the earliest versions of zipper fracturing. He said the cube concept makes sense, in that avoiding the downsides of reservoir depletion moves the shale sector closer to its goal of production optimization.
“But there’s a catch,” he points out. “If you drill and complete all your wells, and you then produce them at one time, you may pay a massive price if the wells are not as productive as you think they will be.” In other words, these large-scale projects make it harder to run individual tests on new well designs to determine which are the best.
There is one more dose of reality to pour on: such massive onshore projects have been reported to cost from $120 million to $250 million, a price tag that for many smaller shale producers is simply out of reach.
Trent Jacobs, JPT Digital Editor
01 August 2018
Volume: 70 | Issue: 8
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Designing around BACnet compatible devices eases design and speeds implementation. BACnet simplifies the task of designing systems by providing a common language that various devices can understand. BACnet control devices may differ by application, manufacturer and vintage, but they share a common language that makes it possible to communicate and work together without the need for communication gateways and network bridges. Thus, real cost benefits are attained including:
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Parents! Teach Your Children – The Declaration Of Independence – July 4, 1776
God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood. May we never forget the details of 911.
No one should have more interest in the education of children, than should the parents of their children. In our nation, there is a great deal of discussion that is going on that relates to our country and its governing processes. In order for parents to be able to teach their children about the formation of our nation, and the government that represents its citizens, those parents need to have an understanding of such facts, themselves.
The thirteen colonies, which became the original thirteen states of the United States Of America declared their independence from the tyrannical government of Great Britain. The Declaration Of Independence states, in detail, the reasons for their exit from the oppressive British government. There are people in the United States Of America which say that those colonies were wrong in starting a nation that was abased on Divine Providence but, the case is made very clearly as to the reasons for declaring the United States Of America to be free from Great Britain, and its design being Divinely inspired and and established.
The Bill of Rights was written to establish individual rights of America’s citizens from the government that they had established, and was not a document that gave certain rights to the citizens of our country, “from our government.” The Bill of Rights came as a result of the horrible experiences that the writers of our Constitution had suffered at the hands of Great Britain. It was from those experiences of government overreach that the Bill of Rights, being the first ten amendments to our Constitution, was added to our Constitution. Stated again, the Bill of Rights provides freedoms for the citizens of the United States of America, “from the government” of the United States of America.
As a child, I was taught Civics, which explained the formation of our country. During the Carter administration, the Department of Education was established, which made education a political matter. Since then, Civics is no longer taught, without putting a presidential political spin on the subject of the greatness of our country, or lack thereof. Cursive writing and sentence diagramming are gone. The “Three Rs” of education (reading, writing, arithmetic) have suffered greatly, as have other subjects of instruction. Instead, with a liberal president’s cabinet, our children can be expected to receive an education that reflects a mindset of homosexuality and abortion on demand, with no emphasis being placed on the colonial formation of the United States of America, with the resulting greatness of the greatest nation that has ever been formed in our world.
The constitution of the United States of America is not a “living and breathing document,” to be changed “at whim.” There are steps that allow for changes to be made. The Supreme Court’s mission is to interpret the Constitution in cases that are brought before it, and is not to create laws. Prospective Supreme Court candidates should be judged on whether they have shown a history of interpreting the Constitution, as opposed to making judicial decisions that are based on their own personal opinions.
Consider the words of Max McLean in the following video on the Declaration Of Independence. Children need to know the facts of the forming of our country. It is up to parents to ensure that their children receive correct teaching on this subject.
The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean)
Consider the Bill of Rights, which are the rights of citizens to protect us from our government.
Amendment I
Amendment II
Amendment III
Amendment IV
Amendment V
Amendment VI
Amendment VII
Amendment VIII
Amendment IX
Amendment X
Consider the Supreme Court, and its mission of interpreting the Constitution.
Consider the following video which explains the makeup of our government.
How to Understand the 3 Branches of Government
Consider how the President of the United States is elected. The first thirteen states elected a president of those thirteen states; each state had a say in this process. No one state could be the sole determining state in this election process. The Electoral College prevents elections from being hacked and stolen. In the Presidential elections of 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton did not receive a majority of the popular vote in either of those elections. It was the Electoral College vote that decided the winner in each of those elections. The constitution was found to be sound in its design and purpose.
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
A final word, I am proud to be an American, and proud to be:
United States Air Force Retired
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Let's face it, the UK is not always ideal from a weather perspective to entertain the kids with outdoor activities and pursuits. It's either too cold or too wet. Or more to the point, when the weather is fabulous there is not always a plethera of destinations that are "kid friendly". Hence the emegence of the indoor activity centres. Usually located in out of town locations, these centres have perfected the combination keeping the kids entertained and allowing parents to socialise. Traditionally called indoor soft play areas, they allow kids of all ages to play alongside their friends or siblings in safe and vibrant environments. The indoor play centre has introduced the modern kids to rope play, to slides, to crawling through plastic tubes. And in most cases, has "forced" the parents to join them having fun in plastic ball pools!!
Newer centres are now including indoor climbing to both the kids and the adults.
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Every parent wants their kids to have fun, socialise with their friends and generally run off that excess energy. The advantage of doing this in a soft play centre is that the parents don't have to tidy up the house afterwards and cater for the hungry kids themselves. The huge variety of play equipment in the play centres means the kids can spend hours, playing and excersing, whilst the parents can watch from afar whilst drinking a coffee, eating a sandwich and socialising with other parents.
Perfect for Kid parties
With captive audiences enjoying themselves, the indoor play centres are perfect for kids parties. They have developed fenced off areas and rooms that can be booked for party guests, serving party food to all the hungry youngsters. Fresh baton carrots and cucumber are usually combined with pizza and chicken nuggets. The food is mostly simple in these parties, but that is only mostly due to the limitation of the kitchen facilities. The more modern centres have invested far more heavily in their kitchen and cooking staff, and now they can provide freshly made pizzas out of pizza ovens.
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Does orlistat cause cancer
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Our Xenical Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication. Other infectious agents, such as parasites or bacterial toxins, may exacerbate symptoms. It is only when the tumor grows enough to cause problems, do symptoms begin to appear. Zinc and childhood infectious disease morbidity and mortality”.
Squamous cells describe thin, flat cells that line the inner surface of the mid-portion of the esophagus. What Do Customers Say In Tonalin CLA Reviews? In people who take blood pressure medications, CLA can cause backaches, bloating, diarrhea and gas, among others. I have not changed any other meds or anything else.
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Yes, vitamin A supplements can interact or interfere with medicines you take. GBD 2015 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence, Collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015″. Electrical pacing may be done using electrodes implanted into the muscular wall of the colon.
Xerophthalmia is the inability to see in low light, and it can lead to blindness if it isn’t treated. This is why women who are going to a doctor’s office to consider keeping your genitals to break the UTI cycle. Follow-up care for monitoring and or additional treatments is usually required. Either CT scan of the chest and abdomen or PET scan is then used to determine the extent of tumor spread. Chronic HCV is usually treated with a combination of drugs.
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Open Defecation and Childhood Stunting in India: An Ecological Analysis of New Data from 112 Districts”. If you are vegan or vegetarian, it may be in your best interest to consume supplementary CLA, and the human body does not produce it. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease. For this procedure, a thick paste of barium is inserted into the rectum of a patient through the anus. How do you take Tonalin CLA?
Those with recurrent stones may be given medication to keep at home should symptoms recur. When gastric cancer is found very early, there is a better chance of recovery. Standard home solutions such as salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt can be given.
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For Obesity: “I weighed in at 97. And we try hard to provide you with complete medication profile giving you essential basic on medication widely used for replacement of thyroid hormone in the body. Evaluation for the cause of chronic constipation needs to be done if there is no response to the simple treatments. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. I too am in my 40’s and have interstingly found that Cheese is what makes me break out, horribly. For Obesity: “I start orlistat almost 2 weeks and did lose 6lbs but very very constipated.
Treating water with chlorine at point-of-use to improve water quality and reduce child diarrhea in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. The magnesium in magnesium-containing products is partially absorbed from the intestine and into the body. I was told by the lady at the vitamin shop that the combination of both will help use BROWN FAT and altough I’m average height and weight I should be able to loose the tire around my MIDSECTION! If you do not know whether you are allergic to Synthroid or not, then you should be checked for most typical allergic reactions at the clinic.
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14 users found this comment helpful. High intakes of preformed vitamin A in pregnant women can also cause birth defects in their babies. Alcohol abuse is also related to squamous cell carcinoma, especially when combined with tobacco product use. Symptoms of kidney stones in children are similar to those in an adult, although with very young children or infants, the symptoms may be harder to appreciate and understand.
Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. What Are Possible Complications of Kidney Stones? We’re also a bit skeptical about this one because customer comments are talking about negative side effects and lack of results.
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Among the symptoms of thyroid hormone deficiency there are excessive tiredness, muscle pain, rapid weight gain, dry skin, constipation, extreme sensitivity to cold. Xenical may reduce the absorption and blood levels of cyclosporine when both drugs are administered together. When I took CLA Tonalin, I combined it with Milk Thistle and saw incredible results. The infection can be passed through vaginal, anal, or oral sex.
There have been reports of hepatic failure observed with the use of XENICAL in postmarketing surveillance, with some of these cases resulting in liver transplant or death . Exudative diarrhea occurs with the presence of blood and pus in the stool. Drug-induced secretory diarrhea: A role for CFTR”.
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Green leafy vegetables and other green, orange, and yellow vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, and squash. Microscopic colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease where changes are only seen on histological examination of colonic biopsies. While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. The esophagus in adults is a muscular tube-like structure, about 10 inches long, that connects the mouth to the stomach and is the first part of the gastrointestinal tract. It typically start getting rid of fluids out of the bacteria in the lower pelvis but they take time to treat your local humane society. Click on the links above to read more about the specific conditions listed.
But if you stick to low fat things it’s brilliant. It is believed that Tonalin CLA is also responsible for stopping generation of new fat cells in the body. Ischemic bowel disease: This usually affects older people and can be due to blocked arteries.
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This is especially true of tap water enemas. The upper limits for preformed vitamin A in IU are listed below. Surprising Health Benefits of Sex How would you like a stronger immune system or better sleep? Effective treatment is available for most patients with GERD.
There is no cure for genetic diseases that affect the liver. The treating professionals will be important resources to relay understanding of the disease, the potential treatment options, and the expected outcomes. The pain is intense and comes on suddenly. If it is not responding to the simple measures discussed previously with the addition of hyper-osmolar products or milk of magnesia, it is time to consult a physician for an evaluation.
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Side effects are very rare with Synthroid as it is a synthetic T4 hormone which is completely identical to the hormone produced in our body naturally. This copyrighted material has been downloaded from a licensed data provider and is not for distribution, expect as may be authorized by the applicable terms of use. Some people may experience additional signs and symptoms, such as loss of appetite, dark-colored urine, or light-colored stools. Medically speaking, constipation usually is defined as fewer than three bowel movements per week.
The product contains several ingredients, with the main active one being CLA or Conjugated Linoleic Acid. The two main types of esophagus cancer are adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. See if the drugs can be discontinued or changed.
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These medications do have some side effects associated with their use. Vos T, Flaxman AD, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Michaud C, Ezzati M, Shibuya K, Salomon JA, Abdalla S, et al. But none of the experts denied the weight loss potential of Tonalin CLA or similar CLA products.
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. Where can I buy Tonalin CLA? No harm to body, which I also looked up as well. Amazing as it suppresses the appetite also. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '298', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9282330870628356}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '26438', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3SHW4FM6QLRIIVWWSUE5D6CY36YUZT2G', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6a34b2e1-b275-46ad-9347-76561637d7f3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 51, 21), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.254.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:W5IOZC75YFXB3MYCOCCFLUYZ64NCVPNW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4353e392-d6e9-4f96-91f5-a841b70cdef4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://orlistat.medinfoblog.com/does-orlistat-cause-cancer/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1dfef552-4bc7-4250-9716-b80438729e32>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1729', 'url': 'http://orlistat.medinfoblog.com/does-orlistat-cause-cancer/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-95-138.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 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': '0.07573902606964111', 'original_id': '31c7fc2a207b2eb99725820e5bbbf4a0b690b8706cb3ec437b5e3fdef6a2f4ad'} |
What I Learned About Small Business From "Mad Men"
How a story about a bygone era applies to today's high-tech world.
Enter Mad Men's 1960s New York office and you'll be greeted by clouds of smoke, fabulous wardrobes, and a secretary explaining that "the men who designed this typewriter made it easy enough for a woman to use".
Needless to say, our office at CodeRed is quite a bit different (although fun fact - the 55 Public Square building is a testament to design from the 50s and early 60s, including some original artwork and fixtures). But even amid the booze-fueled flaws and close-mindedness of Mad Men's bygone era, the show's excellent writing reveals some lessons that are especially applicable for today's "scrappy upstarts" (as Pete Campbell quips). These are just my own opinion, but have all been hugely helpful tactics in my own career and in the success of CodeRed.
1. "It's Toasted"
In a scene where Don Draper is trying to help the tobacco company advertise their product, he asks them how they make it. "We breed insect repellent tobacco seeds, plant them in the North Carolina sunshine, grow it, cut it, cure it, toast it..." the tobacco man replies. "There you go - IT'S TOASTED", Don writes on the board. "But everybody else's tobacco is toasted" the tobacco man bites back. Don calmly replies, "Everybody else's causes cancer. Yours is toasted".
Look at what you do, even though you may take it for granted.
The important takeaway I get from this is to look at what you do, even though you may take it for granted. I always point to cybersecurity for this one. Whether you're a high tech company, an independent consultant, or even a mom & pop store - everyone values their own security. Stating that you value security and take essential measure to protect customer information really means a lot to a customer. It's often the ordinary things you do every day that make your business unique. If security is part of your daily process - ADVERTISE IT! Let your customers know that you care.
2. The Carousel
One of the most tear-jerking scenes in the entire series is undisputedly "The Carousel" scene. Kodak's new invention flips through film slides on a wheel, projecting each picture onto the screen. Don tells a compelling story about memories, alluding to how the circular shape of the device is like a carousel, going round and round and always back home again.
Stories are an incredible tool for explaining technical concepts and abstract ideas.
The genius of this scene goes far beyond its emotional value. We learn the power of a story. Stories are an incredible tool for explaining technical concepts and abstract ideas. I find that telling stories, anecdotes, and metaphors are instrumental not only to good sales, but also improve project management and overall communication. Why not make business a little more entertaining while driving the point home at the same time?
3. The Letter
After the firm's reputation is in the gutter and business is at an all time low, Don pulls a crazy, subjectively heroic move. He pens a full page letter in the New York Times, basically saying "the tobacco client didn't dump us, we dumped the client - and here's why we'll never take a tobacco client again".
Change the conversation from defending your weaknesses to showcasing your strengths.
While I would never condone backstabbing a client, I think the lesson here is about changing the conversation. As a small business, larger clients are often afraid to work with you. And as an individual or a micro-sized business, it can sometimes be difficult to define exactly what you do and why that creates value. Change the conversation from defending your weaknesses to showcasing your strengths. It's partly a confidence problem - don't be afraid to tell the world that you really are the best at what you do. Small businesses are often diamonds in the rough because their team is SO GOOD at doing something but you'd never know it unless you happened to stumble upon them. We've all been to one of those incredible hole-in-the-wall restaurants, right? It's the same idea.
4. Draw Inspiration From Unlikely Sources
Towards the end of the series, Don goes AWOL from his firm, travelling around the country, experimenting with drugs and ideals of the young "hippie" generation. In one of the final scenes, when we all think Don is on the verge of a suicide or emotional collapse, he suddenly dreams up one of the most iconic Coca-Cola ads of all time.
Draw inspiration from unlikely sources.
Once again, the lesson here is not to disappear from reality for weeks on end (even though that would be nice sometimes!). The lesson is to draw inspiration from unlikely sources. Talk to the everyman, the youth, and to people who live in a world different from your own. One of our biggest secrets to success at CodeRed is that we openly talk to as many people as possible about our business ideas. Whether it's a service offering, a new product, or simply identifying trends. I love talking to non-technical folks about cybersecurity because their perspective is always so different and often unexpected. Compiling all this feedback together enables us to build a better product and have a stronger, more valuable impact on our community. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '17', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9477604031562804}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '18018', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2PTLLSRM25EQ3PIIZ4D3BUTVM5OP6VBQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2d51f43b-8484-43c5-9cd6-af7abd1443e3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 54, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.49.201', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:W4RW3ZRD3HNJCOGH4Q2KZC6I3OW2YDPU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7acbbbf5-01db-4f76-90d4-00a6bd3e75aa>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.coderedcorp.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-small-business-from-mad-men/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b41cfdc0-6ac1-48d3-bdad-14274ffa7c6f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '866', 'url': 'https://www.coderedcorp.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-small-business-from-mad-men/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-150-98-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11688697338104248', 'original_id': 'c85d4d025f331003ca76b9c9197ea7d6753581cc4e24b01f2de6a8951bb9b446'} |
How to do a research paper outline
Research Outlines While you are researching a topic, you can make a tentative outline—a plan for your paper based on what you are learning from your research.Minor points develop the nuances of your major points but may not be significant enough to warrant extended attention on their own.This goes over how to do an MLA style outline for the English Honors 9 research paper.Sample Conclusion: For this paper, a conclusion might restate the central argument (the link between lack of education and health issues) and go on to connect that discussion to a larger discussion of the U.S. healthcare or education systems.
Literature Review Outline: What You Need to Get Started
What is a Research Paper Outline?
The next step is to write a thorough outline to structure your paper.
Scigen research paper formatting. Ask for a research paper outline apa publication.The particular angle of vision of your thesis statement will automatically suggest and determine the.
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A Sample of Research Proposal Outlines and Papers. before you can even begin a research paper,. you will need to outline the exact process that you plan to use.Describe the general methodology you choose for your study, in order to.
Thesis Statements - The Writing Center
Learn How to do Research Paper before you commence Work on your Paper.Here, a student might discuss how dropping out of high school often leads to fewer employment opportunities, and those employment opportunities that are available tend to be correlated with poor work environments and low pay.Explain what significant differences you would need to find to confirm.
How to Write a Last Minute Research Paper: 7 Steps
Discuss several critical studies that have already been done in this area(cite.
How to Write an Outline for a Research Paper - IResearchNet
Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant.Explain how these research questions are related to the larger.
A Sample of Research Proposal Outlines and Papers
Major points build on each other, moving the paper forward and toward its conclusion.Explain what it will show about the psychology of language if your hypothesis.
Ten Steps for Writing Research Papers - American University
Describe how you can by your design rule out or control for apparent effects.
MLA Format Sample Paper, with Cover Page and Outline
Ive worked with our Online Librarian, BethMarie Gooding to prepare this tutorial that walks you through how to create an outline for a research paper using Microsoft Word and the key components of an outline.There are ten steps involved in writing a research paper: Step 1:.Creating an outline will help you to keep track of large amounts of information you want to include from your research and then additional notes from your own perspective and evaluation.Here is the complete information about the research paper writing.A good outline is the most important step in writing a good paper.Minor topics could include specific work environments, job satisfaction in various fields, and correlation between depression and chronic illness.
This handout provides detailed information about how to write research papers including discussing research papers as a. discussion see Developing an Outline.Describe the factors you would vary if you were presenting a person with.Creating an Outline Using Automatic Numbering in Microsoft Word.More Major and Minor Points: In this paper, more major points might include mental health of high school dropouts, healthcare access for dropouts, and correlation between mental and physical health.Explain how these research questions are related to the larger issues raised.Sample Background: A background section on a paper on education and health might include an overview of recent research in this area, such as research on depression or on decreasing high school graduation rates.
How to write a research paper outline - Research paper
A description of what has already known about this area and short discussion.
Rather than simply reiterating each major and minor point, quickly revisit your thesis statement and focus on ending the paper by tying your thesis into current research in your field, next steps for other researchers, your broader studies, or other future implications.
How to Write a Psychology Research Paper - Verywell
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Hard and Fast day
Today has probably been the hardest fast day since I started doing the 5:2 diet over seven months ago.
It comes a couple of days after my birthday, so I've been drinking beer and eating cake and doing other things that I'm well entitled to do 'because it's my fucking birthday'.
But for some reason it's been particularly hard fasting today - all I've had is a little tub of flavourless cous-cous and a soup that tasted like watery mushy peas. Ugh.
It's been unsatisfying to the point of starvation, and I literally feel hollow and empty. Bad times.
I feel like beer, burgers and chilli cheese fries that burn my mouth.
Basically, I feel like another visit to Lucky Chip burger now, having belatedly discovered their full gorgeousness on Tuesday night. God, that would really hit the spot right now.
Oh yes, sit down my children, and I shall tell you a tale. A tale of aged beefy goodness. And fries.
Damn Van
The Lucky Chip burger van probably showed up 18 months or so ago, possibly longer, and despite hearing good things I never got around to trying them.
Note the Lucky Chip menu on the wall...
They now boast a residency at the Sebright Arms, but again, I've been finding excuses not to bother. Too far away, don't know the pub, indifferent past experiences when pubs take on burger residencies and so on...
But, it turns out that it's actually a bloody good burger and a decent little pub as well.
Could it be? Could it be that this is the mecca I've been dreaming of for so long?!? A proper pub with good beer that also kicks some serious arse in the beef department?
The answer is: Yes. Yes, it is.
Well, probably.
Where the fuck?
The Sebright is a little backstreet boozer in a silly part of East London, sort of in betweeen Hoxton and Bethnal Green. And Cambridge Heath. And Shoreditch, come to that.
It's ironic that so many places for good food and drink are in silly parts of East London these days. I find myself constantly going to 'places I never go to', if that makes sense. Whether the exact location of this pub technically counts as Hoxton or Bethnal Green or whatever, it definitely falls into this category. It seems to draw in a few Hoxton Hipsters, but the fixtures and fittings look like they came from a 1990s Wetherspoons disposal.
But they have a modest but balanced line up of cask beers from the newer London breweries - including the East London Brewery 'Orchid Mild', which I'd not had before and, of course, they have lucky chip doing the food.
It's that menu again!
The menu is simple and the food comes served up messily on little polystyrene plates and cardboard baskets. And it comes up quickly too. Almost fast-food quickly. In terms of low-rent presentation, it almost out-MEATliquors MEATliquor. Almost. The traditional pub decor raises it above the sleazepit, I think.
My only menu-based criticism is that the menu itself (a rather cool retro diner design) is just pinned up on the wall by the bar rather than on the tables where you're sitting, so it's hard to take time to decide what to have without looking like a confused mong-hound.
I didn't realise until after we'd eaten, for example, that a range of rather nice looking dips and sauces were available. Oh well, there's always next time.
What we did eat - and there was a lot of it - was bloody fucking awesome though.
Nice to meat you, Mr. Chip
They do a range of burgers, reasonably priced and most of which include various combinations of cheese, sauce, bacon and salady bits and bobs. Various celebrity-themed specials come and go and we tried the 'Kevin Bacon' as well as the 'Royale wit Cheese'.
The single most important thing with a burger - and the thing that so many places just can't be arsed with - is the quality of the beef.
So many burgers are tired, dry, bland, leathery, gristly, overcooked, overseasoned, and too full of filler to be anything special. Indeed, most people in this country have probably never tried a really good quality burger.
A bite out of the Kevin Bacon
Lucky Chip is in the exclusive club of those who 'get it'. The meat is aged and full of flavour. It's juicy and unctious, with the texture of, well, proper beef. They serve it quite rare by default which is as it should be, and they pair it up with other good ingredients to deliver a huge shot of flavour.
The Kevin Bacon, on a plain brioche bun with minimal vegetation was my favourite of the two.
The beef is great, the bacon is great, and even the goopy 'American cheese' is rather nice.
The mustardy, ketchupy burger sauce mixes with the gherkin slices to create a flavour that's sort of reminiscent of childhood trips to McDonalds - where I haven't eaten for many years - but, crucially, much, much higher quality.
Imagine a Big Mac, but made with really good quality rare beef and condiments, and you're half way there. (Whoa-ho, living on a prayer!)
The Royale came with a lot of salad and sesame seeds on the bun, but was otherwise another bacon cheeseburger essentially. Why wasn't it quite as good? Possibly because the 'special sauce' didn't have quite the same tang as the mustard-ketchup combo in the Kevin Bacon.
Look at that! Just look at that!
But it was still - and I cannot emphasise this enough - astonishingly good. These are quite possibly the best burger in London and without a shadow of a doubt the best burgers I've ever had in a proper English pub. By a big fat well-hung mile.
It's on a par with the really good brewpub burgers on the other side of the Atlantic.
We also tried the cheese fries and chilli cheese fries, which do exactly what they say on the box and come up in hearty portions.
The chilli fries would be a decent meal in themselves and the chilli - made with beef and pork - is fairly hot and full of slices of green chilli. (Little tip: Eat your burger first before exposing your tastebuds to the heat!)
There's other shit on the menu I didn't try but definitely will in the future - a 'Filet Oh Fish', hot wings and hot dogs, not to mention the other burger options.
If you're in the Hoxton area, Lucky Chip is serving from 6 to 10 PM at the Sebright Monday-thru-Saturday, and between 1 and 6 PM on Sundays if you fancy going for some burgers after church.
It's not often I eat and drink somewhere that I genuinely consider a game changer, and if Lucky Chip were just a burger van on the mean streets of Hackney, or if the Sebright Arms didn't do great food, I might not be gushing on about how brilliant they are.
But in combination it's good quality burgers and great real beer which has long been something of a Holy Grail for me.
I'm starting to think about pubs for this years B-V Pub of the Year awards now, and the Sebright Arms has given me some hearty food for thought.
It might be that the Lucky Chip residency doesn't last long so get the fuck over there!
Where to find it
Lucky Chip @ The Sebright Arms
31-35 Coate Street,
Hoxton E2 9AG (map
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24 November 2007
So Much For Law and Order
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to kill your dog."
The officer told Leo Barboza there had been a complaint (his dog) had bitten someone. "I said, 'Do you have any proof or anything?' He says, 'I don't need any proof.'"So Leo got the dog while the deputy pulled out a rifle from his car. They walked a few feet from the Barboza's home where Leo's wife and his three year old son were inside.Leo and the officer tied the dog to a pole when the deputy fired three shots.
The ONLY ray of hope in this end of the world-grade story is that the shit-fer-brains deputy couldn't kill the dog, who was tied to a post, with 3 shots.
'Hey, the dog's alive!' I was like, 'What are you serious?' I was happy my dog
was alive.
Legal procedure? We don't need no stinkin' legal procedure; we're the cops!
Ever wonder where the Second Amendment came from? Not that you had forgotten, but it's been a year since Atlanta Police murdered 92 year-old Kathryn Johnston in her own home.
Shortly after the shooting, the police alleged that they had paid an informant to buy drugs from Ms. Johnston's home. They said she fired at them first, and wounded two officers. And they alleged they found marijuana in her home. We now know that these were all lies. In fact, everything about the Kathryn Johnston murder was corrupt. The initial arrest of the ex-con came via trumped-up charges. The police then invented an informant for the search warrant, and lied about overseeing a drug buy from Johnston's home.
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String Theory and Creation: How the Voice of God Upholds Reality
By Josh Peck| Could it be possible that modern string theory agrees with an ancient biblical principal? This was one of the many questions I asked myself in writing my book, Quantum Creation. In trying to find connections between quantum physics and biblical teachings concerning reality as we know it, I was brought to an interesting verse. Hebrews 11:3 states:
First, to understand what is being discussed, the word “worlds” was translated from the Greek word “aiōn” meaning “for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity; the worlds, universe; period of time, age” (1). This verse is talking about God’s creation, so it is reasonable that all three of these definitions are acceptable.
The term “word of God” is used many times throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible in reference to different things. As I show in Quantum Creation, there are times that the “word of God” is in direct reference to Jesus Himself (such as in the first chapter of the Gospel of John), or even, in a sense, the preincarnate Jesus in the Old Testament. There is much more that can be explored concerning the usage of “word of God” to refer to Jesus, but for our purposes here, we are going to look at a different usage.
In Hebrews 11:3, a different Greek word is used than in John chapter 1 for “word”. In Hebrews 11:3, the Greek word for “word” is “rhēma” meaning “that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word; subject matter of speech, thing spoken of” (2).
In John 1:1, “word” comes from the Greek “logos”, which as I explain in Quantum Creation, has deeper implications than a spoken word or voice. Hebrews 11:3 is referring to the literal voice of God; it is saying that everything in existence was created by the literal spoken word of God.
String Theory and how it relates to the Bible
Now that we have the first half of the verse defined, we can begin to look at the second half. First, it would be of great value to go over the basic idea of string theory in order to see if it might apply here. String theory conveys the idea that every particle of matter is actually the result of even smaller strings that vibrate.
“In essence, if you look deeply enough into any subatomic particle, you will find a string. Even more, string theory states that the strings within different particles are actually identical in nature but vibrate at different rates and in different patterns. The vibrations of the string is what determines what type of particle it is to be. For example, an electron is less massive than a quark. According to string theory, the electron’s string vibrates less than the quark’s string.” (3)
In other words, the vibrations of the string is what produces the particle. A particle is nothing more than the result of vibrations. As of today, it is not known what exactly causes the string to vibrate. One of the leading theories basically states that whatever it is, it must come from a higher dimension. This brings us to the last half of Hebrews 11:3.
In the English Standard Version, Hebrews 11:3 reads:
Notice specifically the text reads “what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” That is to say, everything in physical existence (what can be seen) was made by something invisible (something outside of what we can perceive from our three-spatial-dimensional perspective). If string theory is an accurate definition of reality, this can help explain what exactly is causing the strings to vibrate.
God is timeless, His spoken word is still in creation
When considering this, we should keep in mind that even time itself is a creation of God. This is important because it shows that God Himself is outside of time. Of course, He can inject Himself into time as He sees fit, but that does not mean He is bound by time like you and I. God is, by His very own nature, outside of time itself.
The reason this is important to realize goes back to the cause of the string’s vibrations. Hebrews 11:3 tells us that everything was created by the spoken word of God. In essence, God spoke everything into existence. We know this from Genesis from when God said “Let there be light”, etc. From our perspective, being bound by time, this initial creative act would have occurred in the past, hence the past tense language used in the verse.
However, God is outside of time, meaning there is no past, present, or future from His perspective (which also helps bring into clearer focus Isaiah 46:10, which says He can call out the end from the beginning and beginning from the end). For God, everything just is. Everything is known and seen just as clearly as everything else, regardless of where it falls on the timeline of our physical existence.
The ultimate conclusion, the truly amazing thing that can be considered by putting all of this together, is that we exist within the spoken word of God. From our perspective, that initial creative word from God is still forever emanating from Him. It is His eternal voice that is causing strings to vibrate, thereby resulting in the production of the physical particles that make up all of matter and energy.
We aren’t only created by God; our existence is maintained by God through His voice. As you read this, you are existing only because the voice of God is currently making it possible. You are a direct result of the timeless, ongoing, and never-ending spoken word of God Himself.
There are many other things that can be examined with this idea in mind. Even more exciting, there are many other ways modern quantum physics may have inadvertently touched on biblical principles. For more explanation of the idea presented here as well as many more, I would highly encourage you to check out my book, Quantum Creation, now available at
There are many things taught in the studies of quantum physics that may have a root in the Bible. Of course, there is a difference between observation and interpretation. Many times, the interpretation of the scientific observation will conflict with the Bible. However, if we can learn how to separate the faulty interpretation from the unbiased observation itself, we can use science as an aid to help understand and truly appreciate the majesty of God’s nature and creation.
Thank you for reading, and as always, take care and God bless!
1. “Greek Lexicon :: G165 (KJV).” Blue Letter Bible. Accessed 20 Jul, 2014.
2. “Greek Lexicon :: G4487 (KJV).” Blue Letter Bible. Accessed 20 Jul, 2014.
3. Quantum Creation by Josh Peck, page 128
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7 Reasons Why Your Emails Are Not Helping Your Practice
An email list of potential patients is one of the best marketing tools that you can use to market your services. Of course, if you want to actually grow your practice with the list that you have built, you need to approach your potential patients in the right way. Otherwise all your time and effort building your list will be wasted. There are some definite “Email Dos” and “Email Don’ts.” Here are seven of the biggest mistakes that you need to avoid.
1. Your Patients Do Not Care About Your Emails
Remember: The goal of every email is to help your patients. They come first. If the only thing you send out is news about your practice or sales pitches for your products, you’ll lose your audience in a hurry. Consider what it is that your patients actually want to know and how you can actually provide useful information and your patients will start reading more of your emails.
It’s important to remember that all-important 80/20 rule: 80% of your emails are meant to be helpful to your patients. 20% are meant to promote you and your services.
2. You Are Sending Way Too Many Messages
When you first build your list, you’re going to want to send out emails all the time. Don’t. Flooding your patientss with emails will kill your list. If you’ve made it clear to your patientss that your list is a daily subscription, it is okay to send one email a day. If you haven’t, you’ll want to back off to one, maybe two, per week. This way you stay on their radar but you’re not pummeling their inboxes.
3. Your Emails Are Full Of “Salesy” Hype
The best tone to strike with your email is one that is positive and conversational without going overboard into hype. Hype turns potential patients off. How do you tell the difference? Pay attention to how you feel when you read the letter. If you can picture it being read aloud on an infomercial at 2AM, it’s hypey. Tone it down. (Start by losing some of those exclamation points.)
4. You Are Not Spell Checking Your Emails
Always spell-check and grammar-check your emails. Always. Subject lines, too. There is nothing worse than a poorly written email full of errors.
5. Your Subject Lines Are Boring To Your Patients
How often do you delete an email simply because the subject line is cheesy or spammy? Don’t let this happen to the emails you send. It’s helpful to think of the subject line as a tweet: snappy, sweet, and less than 140 characters.
6. Your Email Is Not Formatted Correctly
7. Your Emails Are Way Too Long
Rambling emails are best left for grandmothers who are still trying to figure out how to operate the computer you bought them for Christmas and new parents talking about the daily accomplishments of their newborns. The purpose of staying in touch with your patients is to get in, capture their attentions, and get them to schedule and appointment when they need you. If you have more to say, write it up as an article or blog post instead and send a teaser for it in that day’s email blast.
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Battling Linfield will harbour mixed emotions following last night's 2-1 defeat to Spartak Trnava in the second qualifying round of the Europa League.
The Blues departed Slovakia with a crucial away goal and are very much in contention heading into next week's return leg at Windsor Park.
But the fact Spartak played the second-half with only 10 men after Milos Nikolic saw red on 44 minutes is bound to be a source of some frustration for Warren Feeney and his players.
All three goals were scored in a dramatic opening half; a spectacular David Kee free-kick cancelling out Erik Sabo's early penalty, before Martin Mikovic made it 2-1 to the hosts 10 minutes before the break.
Spartak were quickest out of the blocks and were unfortunate not to be ahead when Haris Harba's second minute header rattled off the top of the woodwork.
Aaron Burns went close at the other end just three minutes later, before the hosts took the lead from the penalty spot on the quarter hour mark.
Goalkeeper Ross Glendinning was penalised for a foul on Mikovic and skipper Sabo stepped up to fire home the resulting set-piece.
Linfield were back on level terms five minutes later when Kee, a summer signing from Ballinamallard United, curled an unstoppable free-kick past Jakubech for a memorable first competitive goal for the club.
Spartak regained the lead on 35 minutes when Mikovic capitalised to fire home from close range after the Blues failed to deal with a Harba cross.
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Glendinning produced a superb save to deny Halilovic before Linfield received an unexpected boost on the brink of half-time when Nikolic was sent off for a second bookable offence.
The Serbian defender, who had already been booked for a 19 minute foul on Andy Waterworth, received his marching orders when he picked up a second yellow after an altercation with Sproule.
Linfield pressed for an equaliser in the second period but despite their numerical advantage struggled to break Spartak down.
The closest the visitors came was when substitute Ross Clarke saw a goal bound shot blocked midway through the half.
Spartak almost made it 3-1 on 74 minutes, but substitute Tomas Mikinic's 12 yard shot fizzed narrowly wide of target.
Linfield then had the ball in the net five minutes later when Chris Hegarty headed home Ross Clarke's free kick, but the effort was ruled offside.
SPARTAK: Jakubech, Toth (Gressak 70), Conka, Godal, Baez, Mikovic, Casado (Mikinic 64), Nikolic, Sabo, Halilovic, Harba (Bortel 46).
LINFIELD: Glendinning, Hegarty, Haughey, M Clarke, Glendinning, Lowry, Burns (R Clarke 57), Kee, Sproule, Waterworth, Bates.
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I am a computer science student at Davidson College. You can find links to some of my personal projects and code here, as well as some information about me. I'm interested in virtual/augmented reality, human-computer interaction, computer animation, and computer vision.
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Jack & Sammy K
SCENE INFORMATION: Seeing as Sammy's solo film went down so well with all of you at home we got him back double quick... and seeing as he described his perfect man as being mixed race, older, fit and someone who fucks like a steam train piston there was only one man for the job! Yep, Jack fitted the bill perfectly and seeing as he loves guys with red hair and big, chunky cocks I simply knew these two would it hit off. And I wasn't wrong - this pairing is pure magic :-) As we set up the camera's the guys were getting to "know" each other in another room and when they walked in their hard dicks were already poking out of their jeans! I could only smile to myself... these two were absolutely ready for a damned fine fuck and so I let them loose on one another. They were so hungry for cock they didn't even make it to the bed at first - Sammy dropped to his knees and gulped down Jack's cock as he stood there fully clothed! They slowly stripped and swapped places before finally moving on to the bed for an epic 69 session - they were so damned greedy for each other's dicks that I thought they'd never stop ;-) But sure enough, Jack decided it was time for his tongue to work on Sammy's sweet young hole and he buried his face between Sammy's pale ass cheeks. Not to be outdone, Sammy eagerly returned the favour until Jack could hold off no longer - he goes for the goal and escorts Sammy off the bed and ploughs his ass up against the wardrobe! Panting and groaning, Sammy then moves Jack back on to the bed and rides his cock like a true champ... before Jack takes back control and flips him in to doggy and hammers his hot ass all over again! As if that wasn't enough, Jack flips him over again and fucks away so hard and fast that Sammy can't help but spill his load... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '77', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9760066866874696}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '29300', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZQYIES7QKOSWCICCMPFXNXT2PNGINDYT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5ee2d045-29b3-40cf-8cd0-885613357b83>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 20, 12), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.45.161.118', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HYANX35SJHXWG7F6E2JYJ3LCMWCPQNTF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a142ba5-a726-48f8-bf3e-30c97c07da07>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://tour.blakemason.com/video/BM0594_Jack_And_Sammy_K', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:43e7c333-c420-4832-b662-98571dcb9c34>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '463', 'url': 'http://tour.blakemason.com/video/BM0594_Jack_And_Sammy_K', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-170-165-224.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0189589262008667', 'original_id': 'e4b6db4006b8d382403523a6f6b2f02586f9b46caf716159178c475321f0584f'} |
Superbly thought-out lightweight packable jacket that you'll be glad to have in your back pocket
Gore Bike Wear Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket
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The catchily named Gore Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket is a lightweight, windproof and water-resistant jacket made from Gore's Windstopper Active Shell fabric.
When you don't need it the Xenon AS is airy light and packs down tight and small so it doesn't feel a burden in a rear pocket at all, happily taken along for just-in-case duties (so most rides then) without being a pain in the arse, literally, and when you suddenly do need it, it works.
The Gore Xenon jacket is not just a panic 'throw it on to get you home sort of dry' bin-bag style jacket seemingly made by someone that likes parachutes, it's designed for riding in, and to be comfortable when doing so.
The tailoring of the Xenon 2.0 AS is unashamedly cut for being on a bike, in the drops. The arms are plenty long enough and sewn on the curve to perfectly conform with your bent elbow, and the body fits high up the front and extra-long out the back for perfect coverage when you're chewing the stem.
The overall cut of the jacket is racer taught so there's no annoying flapping in the wind, despite the fabric being quite crinkly if you scrunch it in your hand. It's actually tight fitting enough to make it troublesome to fit over exuberantly stuffed rear pockets sometimes.
Those carrying a bit of a sportive tummy might want to look elsewhere, or admit it and go up a size.
The Xenon 2.0 AS isn't overburdened with unnecessary details - that helps it to be light you see - but what there are matter. The full-length zip has protective docks top and bottom to stop chin and lycra chaffage. The top is augmented further with a leatherette anti-rub tab, which is also handy for holding the jacket taut with teeth when pulling on the zip on the move.
The collar sits high to keep the chill off, but the rear is scalloped so it doesn't runkle up against the back of the neck, which is also why the hanging loop is offset to the right. Neat.
The ends of the arms are adorned with light neoprene cuffs, subtly tailored to extend further down the back of the hand, where they fit comfortably snug, stopping breezes from rushing up the wrist.
The sides are meshed internally, as are the arms, which makes the jacket comfortable against sweaty skin if worn with a short-sleeved jersey. Reflective piping slashes down the front over the shoulders help with low-light visibility and the patterns and logos spotted on the sides, along the arms and in the tail are also reflective.
The AS in the name stands for Active Shell, a Windstopper fabric that's designed for 'highly active people', it says here, being a membrane that offers a total windproof experience but with maximum breathability and added water resistance. Windproof it certainly is, and especially useful for those last few hills home when the temperature's dropped and the body's feeling the cold.
It's water resistant too, in fact it's a bit more than that. Is there a rating somewhere between water resistant and waterproof? Worn on those days that gently waft between depressing perma-drizzle and annoying light rain, the type that usually makes other water resistant jackets weep, the Gore shows a defiant two-fingers to wretched weather.
The AS jacket doesn't have any mesh panels or vents, zipped or otherwise, to help with ventilation All the breathing of the jacket is left solely down to the efficiency of the Active Shell. And it's a job it does very well - it can get a little warm inside but it doesn't get clammy or sweaty, which makes grey drizzly climbs a little less miserable.
The Gore Bike Wear Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket is a lightweight jacket that's a bit pricier than most, but then it's more water resistant and breathable than most too, and cut to be ridden in comfortably with thoughtful details that'll help defer the cost.
road.cc test report
Make and model: Gore Bike Wear Xenon 2.0 AS Jacket
Size tested: M
The blurb says WINDSTOPPER® Active Shells are the lightest, most packable products offering total windproofness, maximum breathability, and water resistance. Keeping you comfortable for enhanced performance during highly aerobic activities.
I'd agree with that, it's a very good cycling jacket, well fitted with what details it does have being very rider friendly. It's very windproof and better than merely water resistant.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
147 g, size L, partial mesh lining, zip pocket on back, long back, front zip with semi-lock slider, zip-underflap and zip-port, elastic sleeve cuff, snap-insert on collar for easy, one-handed opening of the front zip, ergonomically shaped collar, partially elastic hem, reflective print on sleeves and sides, reflective piping on back and sleeves, reflective logo on front and back. Colours; white, red or black.
Rate the product for quality of construction:
Rate the product for performance:
Rate the product for durability:
Rate the product for weight, if applicable:
Rate the product for comfort, if applicable:
Rate the product for value:
Lightweight, packable, water resistant, yes, it was all of them.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The light weight in the back pocket, the racer fit, the water resistance that veered towards actually being pretty waterproof.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Bit pricey.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes. I like a jacket that I don't know is there until I need it, when I need it to work.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Overall rating: 8/10
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
bendertherobot [1520 posts] 5 years ago
Up a size? I wear a Large top in most Gore stuff including the Xenon Softshell, jersey etc.
In this the large was, well, like a small childs one. I think even the XL would have been too small.
sling [7 posts] 5 years ago
I've got one of these. It's a really great jacket, well-fitting, and packs perfectly in a rear pocket. I think I've worn it most days since I got it earlier in the autumn; covers a range of temps from freezing upwards and feels breathable.
The only slight issue is the zip is small and pretty fiddly at the bottom join, I've got small hands and it's easy to not quite get it right when standing about and even harder when on the bike. It's a minor point though. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '163', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9520128965377808}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '123084', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VYSO3JGXHYHFU43G3LLR5VOBGQG3KVE5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d9a1a8df-4f09-4473-8492-7acc6956ce8b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 42, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.230.19.195', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZVBFFWSRWKK5CTIZZTX4WHV5PCUHQXH7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c9244b5b-4976-4891-84ec-5e4756b4398d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://road.cc/content/review/71753-gore-bike-wear-xenon-20-jacket', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d89b0817-18b5-4643-9328-842017544281>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1341', 'url': 'http://road.cc/content/review/71753-gore-bike-wear-xenon-20-jacket', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-37-226-241.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08673131465911865', 'original_id': 'aa54adb48406e7c23774f331192df99e9e51f7654307add9fbb2b7dc778a882f'} |
Wanted: Background, Context, and a Definition of Done
One of the biggest challenges a freelancer can face is getting air-dropped into a partially completed project and asked to finish it off. Most likely it is complicated—if not, it wouldn’t still be in progress. Usually, there is a deadline that is at best unrealistic, and at worst already missed. And frequently, the very first step is cleaning up someone else’s mess. That someone could be a current employee, former employee, or previous subcontractor, and each situation brings its own challenges. Which would you prefer: on-site egos, lost data, or burned bridges?
Newport bridge sunset
To be successful, freelancers need enough background on a project to avoid making the same mistakes all over again. But what one company shares to be helpful might seem like airing dirty laundry to another. And even when clients explain what went wrong before, they often blame specific people rather than systems that are still in place. After all, it’s hard to explain what the forest looks like when you’re living in the shadow of all those tall trees.
None of us wants to be the next ex-consultant. So how do we identify systemic issues that may doom us to failure as well? There are no easy answers, but here are a few general tips I’ve picked up in the past several years:
1. Ask where things went wrong before. Explain the need for context, so no one thinks you’re just digging for dirt.
2. When employees talk among themselves, listen in. (Yes, this could be called “eavesdropping.”) Once you tune out the chronic complainers, the tone, topics, and wording will tell you a lot about company culture. That will help add perspective to what you’re hearing through more official channels.
3. Demand an up-front Definition of Done. And if nobody can tell you what the “finished” version should look like, run away.
4. Don’t be afraid to speak up. Systemic problems are often a lot easier to see from the outside. Make sure you clearly communicate any concerns you have about deadlines, scope, or feasibility. Go first to the person who hired you—and then, if necessary, to the next person up the corporate ladder.
5. Watch out for mission creep—both your own, and the company’s. Even when asked, don’t try to tackle problems beyond the ones you’ve been specifically hired to solve.
As freelancers, we usually can’t see the whole forest any better than our clients can, because we don’t know enough about other issues the company may be facing. But we can help our clients see a different clump of trees within that dark forest. And maybe, just maybe, we can complete a project that has stymied others before us. If so, we’ve probably earned ourselves a happy customer who will hire us back again and again.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Asia must not fight to defend America’s aims
The Asian region, including India has an America problem. From Okinawa to Aceh and Assam to Abbottabad, Uncle Sam’s boot marks are discernable, reminding us of the wasteful wars that Asians have waged against each other at the behest of America - to be more precise, 1% of the American population. For the past six decades and more, the continent has been suffering from unsolicited advice and unnecessary interference by America.
Today, we stand at the cusp of change in international politics. The coming decade promises to offer Asia a window of opportunity to finally come out of the imperial yoke and chart its own destiny. The relative decline of America’s power and the concomitant increase in the Indian and Chinese potential gives an opportunity to shape the region based on Asian values and sensitivities - a willingness to pierce through the labyrinths of distrust and horror woven by America to keep the neighbors fearful of each other’s growth.
The Korean brothers are baying for each other’s blood; Afghanistan dislikes Pakistan; Pakistan hates India, China maligns Japan and Japan continues to remain in a state of stupor, unable to distinguish friends from foe. Japan’s case militates against all reasoning and logic. Japan is Buddhist enough to forgive its colonizer, America for the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. However, it refuses to give up its Samurai instincts against China, its erstwhile Colony.
All the Asian hatred is now pouring into the South China Sea. And nobody is more delighted than America to fish in troubled waters through political, financial and ideological interventions. Asia continues to suffer because regional relations remain mired in ‘territorial trap’. To understand this trap let us see how America exploited the Indian elite’s fear of communism to create an India-China border dispute leading up to 1962 war.
Just to have a convenient military base America played along with their British friends to divide the Indian sub-continent. In 1947, when millions were getting uprooted and killed in the partition of India, Uncle Sam was busy comprehending George Kennan’s telegram from Moscow on how to contain USSR by planting their former soldier in India, MO Mathai as a CIA agent in Jawaharlal Nehru’s office. That Mathai continued in the PM’s office till 1959, dutifully fulfilling his role as a mole tells us about the extent to which India can rely on America. If talking about Mathai is making a mountain out of a mole hill, then imagine what America was extracting from others including Morarji Desai -our Finance minster in 1957 and the Prime Minister in late 1970s - allegedly working for his masters in Washington.
Late forties was also the time when America was hobnobbing with Mao and Chiang Kai- Shek to form a national government in Beijing. When this plan did not succeed, Chiang Kai-Shek was pushed to a corner in Taiwan and Mao’s brand of Marxism was accorded a prime place in the US scheme of things to divide the communist world. Since Mao could not be left loose, therefore, Taiwan and Tibet wounds were allowed to fester.
Nehru understood this game and refused to play ball with the Americans on Tibet, though his colleagues like Patel was too eager to tow the American agenda in the 1950s. Nehru used the threat of Indian communism to make his deals with the America. Both Churchill and Truman encouraged Nehru to play the role of a Asian leader to obviate communist China from assuming command. Referring to her meeting with Churchill on 22 March 1955, Vijay Lakshmi Pandit had written:
“He was very conscious of past mistakes but he said that since the commonwealth conference he was convinced that ‘Asia is with us’. He said, ‘it is Nehru who is bringing this about. He can and will interpret the best we have given him to the Asian people. Nehru is the light of Asia…yes, and a greater light than Buddha.”(Nayantara Sahgal, Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing the Savage World, Penguin, 2010)
However, the imperial benevolence, as Nehru knew it better, could be enjoyed only for a limited period. Two years after the Bandung Conference of 1955, the Americans were there to clip Nehru’s wings. In 1957, when financial crisis hit India, America through the comprador bourgeois heading the financial and monetary policy institutions in India was able to ensure that enfeebled Nehru had to stop chanting Hindi-Chini bhai bhai and go with a begging bowl to Fund - Bank managers. Nehru sent a team consisting of Finance Minister Krishnamachari, and RBI governor H.V.R. Iyengar to World Bank in September 1957, to ask for $600 million aid package and to reassure the Bank President Eugene Black that
"The 'socialism' contemplated in India does not, by any stretch of imagination mean communism; it does not mean state capitalism......It is a system under which private competitive enterprise has and will continue to have a vital role to play; it is a system which respects private property and provides for the payment of compensation if such property is acquired by the State. I submit there is nothing in the system which should be repugnant to the social conscience of the USA".
Within ten days the US Aid started flowing in, thanks also to US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Since there are no free lunches, Nehru had no option but to change his stance on the Tibet issue in conformity with American wishes. Dalali Lama whom Nehru had sent back to China in 1956 was now welcomed with open arms, leaving the Panchsheel agreement in tatters. CIA was given much greater access to Indian territory to install nuclear devises and agents to keep constant pressure on China to break up with Soviet Union and cause deep fissures in communist parties across the globe. This was best achieved through the events leading up to 1962 war, where the Soviet Union was forced to choose between India and China. M.Y. Prozumenschikov, writing in the Cold War International History Project Bulletin, 251, says:
The fact that the USSR did not take a clear “class” position in a conflict between a socialist state and a bourgeois state provoked indignation in China. In a 13 September 1959 letter to the CC CPSU, the CC CCP accused the Soviet government (although in a veiled form) of “accommodation and compromise on important matters of principle” and noted that “the TASS statement showed to the whole world the different positions of China and the Soviet Union in regard to the incident on the Indian–Chinese border, which causes a virtual glee and jubilation among the Indian bourgeoisie and the American and English imperialists, who are in every way possible driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union.”
Nehru came under the US thumb and changed tack in 1957 to become more aggressive towards China. Nehru and Chou En-Lai had fully appreciated the futility of war, yet the war happened. Who initiated the war is irrelevant, but why the two great nations got sucked into it is more important.
For Americans India-China war was a part of their Soviet containment policy. America was hardly bothered or moved by Tibet. As Dalai Lama writing in his autobiography says,
America felt it was worthwhile to provide limited assistance to Tibetan freedom fighters, not because they cared about Tibetan independence, but as a part of world-wide efforts to destabilize all communist governments.”
For Washington, Tibet was just a strategic tool to keep the Communist party of China reminded of the reach of American power. In the American game plan Congress party, Swatantra party and the right wing political outfit of the RSS, Jan Sangh saw an opportunity to decimate once and for all, both Krishna Menon a potential heir to Nehru and communism from India. They all achieved their purpose.
In the end to fulfill America’s ideological imperatives - the Indian army sacrificed 3000 soldiers and also its pride - Nehru lay crestfallen, seeing the failure of his non-alignment policy writ large on those two letters that he wrote to Kennedy on 19 November 1962 asking for F-104 fighters and B-57 bombers. They kept him waiting for the help and also fed him wrong intelligence inputs and military advice through their ambassador in India, John Kenneth Galbraith.
Nehru was betrayed by none other than his friends in America who led him into dark alley and left him stranded. Once China had been distanced from Soviets, America too turned its back on India, knowing it fully well that Pakistan was enough to meet its strategic needs.
In 1971, India once again lost 10,000 of its brave men to help Bangladesh win independence. But the net result was that the Bangladesh government and its army under US tutelage banned India’s entry into their country. The strategists need to ask, after all, whom did the war eventually benefit? And the clear answer is America. Pakistan too was used by America to fight frivolous battles with India only to keep the entire region in rotation.
If in the 1950s, communist China’s expansionist designs were used to scare India, now it is the threat posed by Capitalist China that is being projected to woo India into falling into another trap. But this time India should be wise and tell the Americans that we will not let any of our soldiers shed its blood for Tibet, heavens will not fall if "Tibetan government-in-exile into further exile outside India..” India needs to be attached to a cause but only with a sense of detachment, just as the Chinese were when in the 1960s they reiterated their independence to the Soviets by informing them,
“If the international Communist movement collapsed, this will not cause the sky to fall down.”
For too long America has been playing like a systems administrator, making others dance to its tune. India must resolve not to lose even a single life to defend the American empire. Empires have come and gone. India is better prepared to deal with new empire. If India could enjoy Halloweens and Valentine, it will hardly be any effort to absorb a bit of Confucius for the sake of peace and development in Asia. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9607185125350952}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '79167', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TPS4N5LODBSENZAD2FJJDVMANVGQVYGX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6f3d9e88-a4c5-48e9-96b1-2ddbfcdd0d46>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 10, 36, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZMSXNODPXUZBQOVW6YIP2MYZSIZVRZEC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2ebc7c5e-fe97-42a7-b855-e4f933d69439>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://purpleberets.blogspot.com/2012/09/asia-must-not-fight-to-defend-americas.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9d9bb587-51e9-4de5-98d4-26ca21726502>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1673', 'url': 'http://purpleberets.blogspot.com/2012/09/asia-must-not-fight-to-defend-americas.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-30-193-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04207170009613037', 'original_id': 'fa9ad7e8007be6e2f2ed0f80766fe2966f5cae5c5cbcb23b150a1f28a64a06dc'} |
Wednesday, 22 February, 2012
Karma - The First Law
You may or may not believe in the Hindu concept of Karma. You do good things and good things will happen to you, you do bad things, bad things will happen to you. The traditional Hindu concept goes more like if you do bad deeds you will be born as a lesser creature in your next life (an earthworm maybe). And if you save up enough good deeds, you will be able to escape from the tedious cycle of rebirth and death and your soul will be free. Though the thought is tempting, I think we can safely assume most of us are not going to do enough good deeds to become freely floating souls. So the compact version of the concept works pretty well. What goes around, comes around. Good things happen to good people. Because without this assurance, without this insurance against the cruelties of fate, we would never tread the straight and narrow path of good. You know for every factor in your environment which is in your control, there are 17 which are not. So you do your time, and leave the those 17 to the powers that be, the justice of the universe, god, spirit, whatever you want to call it. You see,when Hindus started talking about karma, they were basically stating the law of conservation of energy. It as provable and as logical as that. Energy can neither be created, nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another. Karmic chips can neither be created nor destroyed, they can only be transformed, from one form to another. At the end of the day, when you do something good ( and by that I don't mean charity or selfless service only, I mean something constructive), you convert the energy of the food you've eaten, the sun you soaked, the water you drank ( the vodka too) into good karma chips, which can be later cashed in ( transformed) into positive results you want. Similarly, when you do some thing destructive, please note, its destructive only if it was done out of malicious intent*, you transform your body-mind energy into bad karma chips and you never know when the universe will want to cash in those. So karma is not a boomerang, its just a practical illustration of the good old First Law.
* If you didn't have bad intentions when you acted, you cant be held responsible for the universe having screwed it up.
P.S. The title of the post reminds of the era in Hindi movies where all titles were single words followed by an English definition- Duad-the run, Zurm-the crime, Mard-the man,Jaal-the trap,etc etc.
After putting up this post, I got similar reactions from two of my friends. Things were not going so well for them at that time and the question was " What did I do do to deserve this? If your theory holds, I must have dome something downright awful for this to happen to me". I know both of them are wonderful people and they wouldn't hurt any one on purpose. So I am telling you what I told them. Sometimes, you get sucked into someone else's karmic cycle. Look at Sita (yes from the Ramayan). She got kidnapped, got false accused of sleeping with the enemy and her husband left her. She didn't do anything bad to deserve this fate. But that is what happened. She got sucked into Ravan's tale of karmic retribution. Shit happens. But don't worry. I am sure the first law kicked in and she's in a very happy place right now sipping mocktails and enjoying the good life.
Sunday, 19 February, 2012
An arranged marriage is arranged madness
I can't believe my post is motivated by a no-brainer romcom, but it is. "Ek me aur ek tu" released last week and I was listening to Imran Khan's promotional interview on the radio and he was saying the story starts off with them getting married after an alcohol fueled night in Vegas and over time they get to know each other better. I realized that's what arranged marriages are. They are no better than an alcohol fueled bad decision to get married in Vegas. Its a gamble and the risk is the same. Now isn't that a sobering thought.
Lets see, two strangers meet, their cognitive powers hampered by powerful substances (alcohol in one case, maa ka pyaar in the other) and each person lies to a certain extent about his/her own qualities and the intensity with which he/she likes the other persons'. In both cases the decision is based on too little knowledge and too little reliance on the most important thing - the way it feels to be in love. So both situations are pretty much the same. Getting arrange-married to someone is the same as getting drunk and mistake-marrying in Vegas! How are you supposed to love someone and his/her parents, have children with them, clean after them, see them brush teeth, puke, have diarrhea, find their sleepy head look cute and do all this till the end of time if you are not in love with that person?!. You can grow to love a person over time, like you would with a friend or a pet or a house, but to truly be partners, man & wife, the halves, you need to be "in love" to start with. And it is the most beautiful feeling the world. Its not only when you can't live without them, its when you can but you don't want to. Love is not out of a compulsion you have no control over, its a choice. You are completely secure knowing that you are completely vulnerable,that's love that stays forever and that's the kind you need.
For the record, I didn't watch Ek me aur ek tu, but I have to admit I kinda wanted to.
Thursday, 9 February, 2012
Forget me not
I seem to be forgetting everything. I don't mean mundane things like where I put my keys or did i switch off the gas stove. Those I remember sadly. But things like the books I read long back. Ive forgotten the plot, sometimes even the names of the main characters. Ive even picked up a book, read a couple of chapters and then realized its not deja vu, I have read it before. (happened with the book 'The good earth' by pearl S. Buck). I was reading other peoples' blogs and came across several posts where readers admitted to having forgotten much of what they had read. Some were saying blogging is their way of archiving everything about the book so that they can look it up later. It gave me great comfort to see I wasn't alone and I wasn't particularly deficient in mental faculties.
This makes me go off on a tangent. Can I honestly, to the best of my knowledge say I know almost all there is to know about xyz? I realized I couldn't say this about anything. I couldn't say this about books (the authors Ive read), music (the bands I followed) , movies & TV ( the stuff I watched, in some cases repeated viewing of the reruns) and not even about what I studied in school or College. Even with the best of my efforts I cant convince myself that this is so because my interests and inputs are so varied and cover such a vast range that i cannot remember all, its like trying to squeeze 500 GB into a 250 GB hard disk. I know that's not true. Its just that in the period when this particular thing was occupying alot of my mind space I probably did know alot about it, but with time it has faded, and now I seem to remember only the broad outlines along a couple of interesting facts. So maybe I did know all about it, I just forgot.
Maybe its a multi-tasking problem, I am always so busy doing something else at the same time, that none of my activities get full attention, and thus none of them get registered properly. They just glide over the surface without penetrating.
Or maybe its a confidence problem or a humility problem. I cant make myself say I'm good, apparently not even to myself.
Whatever it is, I feel like my interests are defined by a Venn diagram, with multiple circles of different colors, which are fading over time, but the boundaries hold, the diagram is there. So even though i might not remember what Rebecca said to Maxim when he took her to Manderley for the first time, I do remember feeling like Rebecca, entering Manderley with her and feeling the magic. And maybe that's enough.
Tuesday, 7 February, 2012
The relationship equation
A relationship works when,
x - y >= 0
x = The happiness, support , motivation & inspiration given by the relationship
y = The tears, worry, self-loathing & doubting and helplessness caused by the relationship
As it can be seen from the equation, when the relationship gives you more than it takes away, i.e. the net is more than zero, its worth it. Otherwise all you get is a negative number which will always subtract something from you and will drain you over time. A special mention for"drama" based relations. Now some people like it hot! What i mean is, the peaceful routine existence gets too boring to keep their interest alive. A fight, a scare an ultimatum fires up the engine. But please note that the equation holds for them too. Because mostly the drama has only short term consequences and not sustained sadness. The small episodes of friction are like the sparks given by a spark plug. They ignite the passion.
Now what if the net is zero, nothing lost but nothing gained. Well then its a false positive. Because this zero doesn't account for the opportunity cost of having lost out on the potential of meeting someone who can tilt the balance of the equation. To slightly modify an analogy from the movie life in a metro - if someone's car is already parked in your garage, you cant let out your garage to someone new.
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about what makes a relationship work or not work. Its different for each couple. I reproduce here some wise words from "sex and the city" - "No one can possibly know what actually goes on between two people except for those two people".
This post is dedicated to my dear friend R. You deserve the world.
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How much with the angina the temperature of the child keeps, the causes and characteristics of the treatment
The first symptom of a baby getting sick is usuallyis the fever. Usually in this case, the mother begins to look for the cause, checks the throat, the presence of a cough or a cold. If there is a clear increase in the tonsils, redness and swelling of the throat, then, begins angina. In this case, you need not delaying to invite a doctor so that he or she appoints the optimal treatment. Parents must know how much temperature in the angina the child's temperature keeps, and also to be guided by the symptoms and causes of the disease in order to provide him with effective help. That's why today we decided to talk about this in more detail.
how much at angina the temperature at the child keeps
Normal performance
Sometimes doctors are faced with the fact that youngparents are so worried about their child that they forget what a normal temperature should be. If the measurement is made in the armpit, the norm will be 36-37 degrees. If the figures are significantly higher than the norm, then you must always invite a doctor and monitor the condition of the baby. The younger the child, the more often they can change. In infants, even the most minor pathologies can cause sudden fluctuations several times a day. In this case, the diagnosis is much more difficult. Most often, such jumps are observed in infectious infections. However, we deviated a little from the topic. Today we want to talk about how much the child's temperature in the angina is.
Clinical picture
If the flu or ARI can begin with a coldor cough, general weakness, then acute tonsillitis always develops the same way. This fever, swelling of the throat and purulent formations, which have different localization. Indicators of the thermometer column can be very high, but in most cases it is 38 degrees. And here, how much at an angina the temperature at the child keeps, will depend on the form of disease, immunity and correctly appointed treatment.
how much is the temperature with angina in children
Features of the child's body
What is often overlooked by parents? Estimating how much the angina is holding the child's temperature, they are guided by themselves. In an adult, the temperature usually passes within 2-3 days (with adequate treatment and no complications). In children, usually the recovery is delayed, which is the subject of experiences for the mother. In this case, the doctor who will observe the disease in the dynamics is best able to calm down and will be able to accurately say how much the temperature at the baby keeps the temperature. The acute phase can last up to a week, after which purulent formations begin to appear in the throat and the condition is normalized.
It is most important for the attending physician to installthe cause of tonsillitis. From this, it will directly depend on how much the temperature keeps in the angina in children. Both bacteria and viruses can provoke angina. Frequent pathogens are streptococci and other bacteria. And from viruses most often doctors diagnose adenovirus, herpes, influenza, rhinovirus. In addition, the causes of development can be hypothermia, caries.
angina how many days does the temperature in children
How high can the temperature rise
It depends on many factors, like that,how much the temperature at an angina at children keeps. Physicians share several types of tonsillitis, each of which manifests itself in different ways. In addition, the same form can occur with its own characteristics, depending on the protective forces of the body.
So, with angina it is common to divide the following gradation of temperatures:
• If the column does not rise above 38 degrees, thenyou can not worry much. To knock down it is not necessary, on the contrary, with its help the organism creates unbearable conditions for bacteria and viruses. This is an ideal response if the person has angina. How many days the temperature of children in this interval keeps, it is difficult to answer, but usually does not exceed 5 days, after which the condition is normalized.
• Febrile - when the thermometer's column rises to 39 degrees.
• The pyretic is a very dangerous threshold whenthe temperature rises to 40. Even if the doctor you had recently, call an ambulance. Such a temperature in a child's angina can very quickly lead to tragic consequences. While waiting for the ambulance team, strip the baby, compress from a wet towel over your head and wipe the body with water at room temperature.
• Hyperpyretic temperature - over 40 degrees. Here already the question is about life and death.
fever in a child's angina
Types of sore throat
Usually the doctor on examination can tell, with what wewe are dealing. Based on this, one can predict how many days the fever in angina lasts. Let's look at the main types, so that readers too have an idea:
• Catarrhal angina, accompanied by aThroat, painful sensations and weakness. The person has no appetite, there is a pain in the muscles and joints, as well as a headache. With this form of angina, subfebrile temperature is observed, up to 38 degrees. Usually it lasts for 3-4 days.
• Lacunar form is an acute purulent inflammationlacunae of palatine tonsils. The child completely refuses to eat, because swallowing is unbearably painful. The temperature rises to 39 degrees, and at this point holds up to 5 days.
• Follicular sore throat. The first symptoms are weakness and weakness. Then they are joined by aches in the body and a strong chill. Finally, the temperature rises with angina. How much can hold, as soon as the doctor only after the examination, but usually after 4-5 days comes relief.
• Herpes - the temperature rises in jumps, which are observed for several days.
• Phlegmous - the temperature and swelling of the throat persists until you uncover the purulent abscesses.
how many days does the fever stay with angina
Why this disease can not be neglected? Because it threatens with the most serious complications. We are used to think that typically children's diseases should go by themselves. But sore throat is the enemy with which only an experienced doctor should fight. Complications after angina can be both local (defeat of the nasopharynx), and common, when the entire body is under attack. Often, improper treatment leads to the fact that the disease becomes chronic. Among the local complications, common cases are otitis and phlegmon, puffiness of the larynx, abscess, almond bleeding and sinusitis.
Among the dangerous consequences that alsoarise against the backdrop of improper treatment, secrete bronchitis and pneumonia. But that's not all. The started tonsillitis leads to renal failure, rheumatism and meningitis, sepsis, infectious-toxic shock.
the temperature with angina can be as long as possible
We proceed to treatment
Self-medicationis inadmissible. Today, many pharmacies refuse to sell drugs without a doctor's prescription. This is correct, especially when it comes to children. At the first symptoms of angina, it is necessary to appoint the right treatment, which includes a variety of methods.
• Rinse throat - a mandatory appointment, withoutwhose recovery will be greatly delayed in time. To do this, you can use a variety of folk compositions, herbal tea, salt and soda. In pharmacies there is a huge amount of antiseptic solutions. The most famous is "Furacillin".
• Paswalks and tablets for resorption areA great way to reduce the soreness of the throat and remove the inflammatory process. The most popular drugs are Strepsils, Geksoral, Pharyngosept or Tabs.
• To date, well-provensprays. They act quickly, irrigate the entire throat cavity, small droplets penetrate wherever bacteria can hide. Children are often appointed "Ingalipt".
• It is very important to maintain the body's immunity, which means it will be extremely useful to take vitamin-mineral complexes.
• Immunomodulators are important in the treatment of angina, but they should be taken only at the first symptoms of the disease. These are "Viferon", "Groprinosin" and its analogues.
• Sometimes, doctors prescribe antihistamines to children to avoid edema. They are Finistil, Suprastin.
the temperature with angina is how much holds and how to bring down
Prescribing antibiotics
Often they are used if the child has a hightemperature with angina. How many holds and how to bring down, we have already talked, but if a week has passed and local preparations, rinses and cold compresses have not helped, then it is necessary to connect more serious medicines. Because the cause is most often bacteria, you have to resort to antibiotics. Pick up the right drug can only a doctor with extensive experience. In this case, the temperature should decrease on the second day. Children are prescribed drugs in the form of syrups or suspensions. If the temperature has dropped, this does not mean that the drug should be canceled. The course is not less than 7-10 days.
First aid
These are drugs for lowering the temperature. It is about them that we remember in the first place, although they have no therapeutic effect, but only temporarily lower the temperature of the body. Apply them only when the temperature has risen above 38 degrees. For this, candles, suspensions or syrups based on "Ibuprofen" or "Paracetamol" are most often used. Antipyretics do not eliminate the need for basic treatment of angina. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.948479950428009}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39261', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EC6Y5ATJVPOTU5H6QPJXM6C6NPOUXW2S', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3de24c89-6a8d-4371-b345-a453c11fff38>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 56, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.45.103', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3BFQDYF227BPYLZX7REFFPC7WGLE4AGJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:eba22571-d542-4f9a-911f-ef3ef12d3d84>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://ellas-cookies.com/zdorove/132017-skolko-pri-angine-derzhitsya-temperatura-u-rebenka-prichiny-i-osobennosti-lecheniya.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b41cfdc0-6ac1-48d3-bdad-14274ffa7c6f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1539', 'url': 'https://ellas-cookies.com/zdorove/132017-skolko-pri-angine-derzhitsya-temperatura-u-rebenka-prichiny-i-osobennosti-lecheniya.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-150-98-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.15906250476837158', 'original_id': 'b47988601a9df720cf0e118b6673e77b2aebb84809360596d8aa8a1dfffdc42a'} |
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Why the world needs pi
How accurately do we need to know the value of π?
while PI is _NOT_ 22/7... you do need an approximation that's useful from time to time.... so I proffer the following:
take the first 3 odd integers and write each twice: 11 33 55
break in the middle 113 355
divide in the (hopefully) obvious way: 355/113 for PI
that should be sufficiently accurate to within a foot/30cm/1 light nanosecond or so on the circumference of the earth
for a practical example, consider this: US Hat sizes are the diameter in 1/8ths of an inch.... all other hat sizes are circumferences in cms.... so what is the conversion factor.... I introduce a second approximation.... take the first two odd numbers and write each the number of times equal to the number...... so 1 333 split in the middle to get 13 inches = 33 cm
so the conversion factor for hat sizes is 355/113 * 33/13 or 11715 / 1469 or 7.97.....
so..... that's why we use 1/8th of an inch..... divide cms by 8 to get the US hat size diameter in inches (measured in 1/8ths).... and you can do it in your head... right there in the store :)
Out of admiration for its importance I memorized it to 100 decimal positions, and think that the most important equation in math is e**i(Pi)=-1 - But BTW I'm an EE so I had it every day in my studies.
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Threatened by Ji Hao's golden sun thunder bombs, all non-humankind being shut their mouths. After that, Ji Hao released one hundred thousand half-dragon warriors and a million blood pool ghosts.
Fierce-looking half-dragon warriors growled rumblingly as they released a strong power vibration, and caused a heavy pressure to shake the hearts of nearly everyone on the scene. Blood pool ghosts had hazy figures like real ghosts. They flickered through the air, giving people a sharp coldness with their frosty eyes.
Every half-dragon warrior was as strong as a high-level Divine Magus, while a blood-pool ghosts were as powerful as high-level Magus Kings.
They arrayed neatly beside the divine commanders in golden armors and divine warriors in silver armors. Seeing them, not only were the non-humankind beings shocked, the expressions of quite some marquises and earls turned strange as well.
Yao Mountain territory rose way less than a hundred years ago, but unknowingly, the force under Ji Hao's direct command had improved to such a terrifying level, hadn't it? Not to mention those divine warriors and commanders from the heaven, which ordinary human clan could ever afford one-hundred-thousand high-Divine-Magus-level half-dragon warriors? Furthermore, it was all added with Ji Hao's ridiculously great individual power. As a true Supreme Magus, his spirit star was actually a natural sun, which was thousands of times more powerful than any natural star in the world. In addition to that, Ji Hao's father, Ji Xia, had inherited the legacy from an ancestor, and could become a true Supreme Magus at any moment!
With two Supreme-level powerful beings, Ji Hao's Yao Mountain territory would still be slightly weaker than super families like the You Xiong Family, but it was already strong enough to be listed as a top-grade human clan.
Especially worth mentioning was the fact that Ji Hao received a world's edict. Same as Emperor Fuxi, he had actually become a divine emperor, from a human being. Based on this fact, the future of Yao Mountain territory was hard to predict, even to super families like the You Xiong Family and the High Cloud Family.
Treading on a fiery cloud, Ji Hao flew to the wall of Liang Zhu City and politely bowed to Emperor Shun and the other human leaders. Emperor Shun and the other four emperors hurriedly bowed back to him, as they were on equal footing now. As human emperors, they needed to carefully follow every etiquette. Even though Ji Hao was a young human being, since he succeeded to the divine throne, he had to be respected as a divine emperor.
But when Ji Hao bowed to Si Wen Ming, Si Wen Ming laughed out loud and punched on his chest.
They grinned at each other, just like before.
Emperor Shun grinned as well. At one tme, human emperors and divine emperors never stood on the same side, and intense conflicts happened frequently. Now, as a new divine emperor, Ji Hao had such a friendly relationship with Si Wen Ming, the next human emperor cut and dried. To the entire humankind, to the whole world…this was terrific.
An old Maguspriest took out some mugwort, which had been soaked in the spirit blood of a hundred types of poisonous creatures for countless years. He rubbed the mugwort into a ball, and sprayed a handful of powdered scorpions, spiders, centipedes and other poisonous bugs, then set fire to it. Dense black smoke rose from the mugwort ball and drilled into Red Mei's nostrils like living creatures.
Red Lei instantly made a sky-shaking sneeze, and couldn't stop sneezing after that. Because of the intense sneezing, his body was shaking, and his broken bones rubbed against each other, causing him a great pain that made him howl.
Ji Hao brought a few golden armored divine commanders onto the city wall. They looked down at Red Lei with cold faces. They were divine commanders, generated from the will of Pan Gu world. They were guardians of the natural laws, executors of the power of this world.
Earlier, their minds were sealed by Dishi Cha with an exotic treasure. Back then, they followed Dishi Cha and his people' order uncontrollably, but remembered everything they had done.
Specifically, they were not only the strongest war machines in this world, but also perfect recorders. Their skins, their hair, every cell of their bodies would keep a full record of every single thing they had been through. With a special divine magic, their memories could be pulled up by the heaven leaders to be analyzed, so that the leaders could make plans based on their experiences.
Even when they couldn't control their bodies and were forced to be under the wrong people's orders, their bodies had been instinctively recording all their experiences.
Under the powers of the natural will and the divine seal, the strong minds of these divine commanders and warriors broke the seals cast by Dishi Cha with the exotic treasure, freeing themselves. Afterward, they quickly looked back at the memories of their bodies and figured out the whole thing.
They glared at Red Lei in anger, staring at this unforgivable evil being, who dared to fake divine orders and control divine force.
At this point, Red Lei finally woke up. Before he clearly saw the things in the surroundingss, he had his eyes on the few divine commanders in golden armors, who stared at him in a cold, unfriendly way. Without much thinking, he yelled out, "You slaves, did you take out those people? Did you drive them away? Scums! Why don't you come help me? Don't you see that I'm injured? Dishi Cha is an idiot! Our Master gave him the 'spirit-confusing bottle', yet he used it to control you stupid things!"
The divine commanders remained motionless, but all surrounding leaders from both sides burst into loud shouts together.
Dishi Cha! It was him! He controlled the Divine Origin Pool and turned all divine beings from it into his tools.
"Piji Nu, and the other emperors, you all heard him. Regarding the fact that these divine warriors slaughtered the non-humankind landlords, Dishi Cha, one of your people, is the one to blame. And the one behind him is that so-called 'Blood Crown' you've mentioned before." Ji Hao looked at the twelve emperors' angry faces calmly and said.
"Therefore, I reject all your accusations towards these divine warriors. They didn't want to slaughter your people, and neither is this a scheme of our humankind." Ji Hao nodded to them smilingly and said, "Now, this is clear. I hope you can restrain your members. Don't do any stupid things to hurt your own people and please your enemies."
Piji Nu and the other emperors were lost in their thoughts. But, Yemo Luoye couldn't bear watching Ji Hao's proud face. She sneered and said, "No matter what, these so-called divine warriors have indeed killed many of our innocent people. Even if they're only weapons, they should be destroyed, shouldn't they?"
Yemo Luoye curved her lips upwards and looked at Ji Hao. Ji Hao humiliated her many times, and now, she attempted to cause him some trouble.
"Many… of your… innocent… people?" Ji Hao dropped his face. That face of his gradually turned cold and serious. He took two steps towards Yemo Luoye, put his mouth near her face, and responded with a frosty voice, word by word, "You… Are you saying that your people are innocent? If so, how will you clear the debt for so many human beings you have killed and enslaved all these years?"
"Perhaps, I should kill you right now and destroy all your weapons, shouldn't I?"
A dreadful sense of power entangled Yemo Luoye's soul like countless poisonous snakes. Her face paled, as she took a quick series of step backward instinctively.
At this very moment, she did not even dare to straighten her body in front of Ji Hao.
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[Marxism] Re: Milestones in Taiwanese History
Lueko Willms l.willms at jpberlin.de
Wed Mar 9 08:45:00 MST 2005
. On 08.03.05
wrote Brian_Shannon at verizon.net (Brian Shannon)
in aae34d1657feda481df779d3d93ae5a3 at verizon.net
about [Marxism] Milestones in Taiwanese History
BS> http://www.taiwandc.org/hst-1624.htm
I had a look at that site. The final paragraphs of that particular
document might be cited as the core of the authors' position:
The 1971 and 1972 events, and even more the December 1978 United
States switch in recognition from the Kuomintang regime to the Beijing
regime hit hard in Taiwan. At the same time, it gave impetus to the
growth and evolution of the democratic opposition movement in the late
1970s and early 1980s.
The Kaohsiung Incident of December 1979 galvanized the Taiwanese on
the island and overseas into political action. The tangwai ("outside-
the-party") democratic opposition started to question the KMT's
anachronistic claim to represent all of China, and began to work
towards ending the 40-years' old martial law. In September 1986, this
movement culminated in the formation of the Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP), which then began its growth into a full-fledged
opposition party.
The Martial Law was finally dropped in 1987, but replaced by a less-
stringent National Security Law. However, it wasn't until 1991 that
the KMT claim to rule all of China was dropped, and that aging
Nationalist Chinese legislators -- elected on the mainland in 1947 --
were sent into retirement. Since then the island has made major
strides in the direction of a fully democratic political system, but
the KMT and its "pan-blue" supporters continue to cling to this day to
their outdated claim that "Taiwan is part of China."
This is the history of Taiwan in a nutshell. Two conclusions: Taiwan
does have a history, and Taiwan has never been an integral part of
The "1971 and 1972 incidents" refer to the USA's recognition of
They also refer to two articles of a certain Li Thian-hok written in
1958 in the USA, when this person was a student in Minnesota. The
article was published in "Foreign Affairs" in its April 1958 issue,
"together with essays by such luminaries as Dean Acheson, Henry
Kissinger and Walt Rostow.". See http://www.taiwandc.org/hst-jloo.htm
Here are some extracts from that article:
"The China impasse, a Formosan view"
The establishment of a free, independent state of Formosa as a
solution has many advantages and justifications.
The strategic, political and psychological importance of Formosa is
such that the United States cannot lose the island to the Communists
without suffering a severe blow to its prestige and presumably to its
But if Formosa is to be kept in friendly hands permanently, rather
than until such time as it may be abandoned with a modicum of grace,
then a final settlement of the island s legal status appears
An independent Formosa can rid the United States of the dilemmas
arising out of its support of Chiang Kai-shek. The United States need
no longer commit itself to the all-or-nothing proposition that Formosa
must either conquer China or perish. There will be no problem of
sustaining the morale of the people and the armed forces, since the
Formosans have a healthy distaste for any Chinese rule, and will
eagerly defend their native soil against aggression.
By relieving the Chinese Communists of a constant threat of
counterattack by the Nationalist regime, and at the same time
depriving them of a legal pretext for the so-called liberation of
Taiwan, tension across the Formosa Strait may be materially relaxed.
Though in all likelihood Communist China will continue to claim
Formosa as Chinese territory, its case will be greatly weakened, for
it cannot oppose the principle of self-determination without
considerable embarrassment.
By separating Formosa from the issues of Chinese representation in
the United Nations and recognition of the Chinese Communist regime,
the United States can recover freedom of action.
If Formosa were independent and an ally, the United States would have
every legal and moral justification for defending the island, and
allies of the United States, the uncommitted nations of Asia and
countries which recognize Communist China would be able to support
such efforts.
Lete comrades judge for themselvs, and read more.
Lüko Willms http://www.mlwerke.de
"Es sind nicht die Generäle und Könige, die die Geschichte machen,
sondern die breiten Massen des Volkes" - Nelson Mandela
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Accuracy • Independence • Integrity
December 14, 2018 | Ithaca, NY
Professor turns bus into business
Photo Courtesy of Adam PerutaFrom left, Adam Peruta, assistant professor of strategic communication, works with partner Jesse Hixson aboard the StartupBus.
Peruta’s team of two eventually conceptualized, a rating system designed to harness the power of opinion with real-time ratings for live events. To present the idea, the team focused on evaluating college courses.
Contributing Writer Jamie Swinnerton spoke with Peruta regarding his business and personal experiences during his time on the StartupBus.
Jamie Swinnerton: What is the selection process for the StartupBus?
Adam Peruta: First, you have to be invited. You can only be invited by someone else who has been invited. I went to Twitter and asked other invitees to invite me. After you have been invited, then you can apply. The application was an open form that you used to your best advantage, so I did some writing, an infographic resume and redesigned my personal site. After that, it was a series of interviews. There were 10 buses, and I checked three that were in driving distance — New York, Boston and D.C. The people who drive the buses are called Conductors — they call you if they are interested, and you have a phone interview.
JS: What was your time like on the bus?
AP: It was one of the most unique experiences I’ve ever had. When you get on the bus, you are given a specific task. You become hyper-focused — sometimes you forget to eat.
JS: Could you expand on the idea you came up with? How does work?
AP: We made a video as part of the deliverables. Each team had to make one. The whole idea with RateMyClass, it’s a platform that allows students to give professors live feedback throughout the semester. Anything that the professors change after your end-of-the-semester evaluation does not impact you. I sent an email to students, asking them to answer some questions about their classes. What do you like about the ones you like? What do you not like about the ones you don’t? Does your end-of-the-semester feedback matter? Would you want something to allow you to give feedback throughout the year? I got some good clips to work into the pitch video.
JS: What was it like being in such cramped quarters with 25 other people?
AP: At the surface, it was very uncomfortable. It was a coach bus, with an arrangement of tables at the front, which kind of gave people room to spread out. It was very tight, very cramped. Everyone was nice enough to do a rotation because everyone wanted to use the tables. On the third day, with everyone plugged in, we blew the power on the bus. We were without power for about two hours. The bathroom — we all agreed to try not to use it and wait until we stopped.
JS: How often did you stop for breaks?
AP: About every six hours — it was pretty ambiguous. One of the stops that was pretty fun was Memphis, Graceland. We had three stops where we pitched our ideas.
JS: How much sleep did you get?
AP: The first night I got about three hours. The second and third nights I got about two hours. The last night, in Texas, I got a good five or six hours of sleep. We stopped at hotels each night for about five to six hours. Everyone was pretty much working throughout the night.
JS: Is there anything in particular you’ve taken away from the experience?
AP: The practice part is a very tight deadline, working under pressure. You’re in close quarters with a lot of different people — lots of personalities you have to manage. You look around at the other people on the bus and realize that no matter what kind of skills you have, there is someone out there who can do so much more. It’s a bit of an ego check. They are constantly making you pitch your idea — you have to get people to communicate. Get them sold.
JS: Would you do it again?
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Susquehana boom history Williamsport Sun Gazette Fri Mar 24 1876
Susquehanna Boom Company
The location of the boom at Williamsport attracted the attention of eastern capitalist. Already there had been an accession to our population of quite a number. New mills were in the course of erection and others contemplated. It was no usual circumstances even in the early days the watch of the departure of exploring parties in the quest of timberland. At that time there were no mill roads with their luxurious appliances to tempt the weary traveler. The old lumbering stagecoach and slow pokey packet were all that we had to transport these parties to the wilds of western and northern counties.
These indications of growth and prosperity were not without effect upon the minds of those early pioneers. Their business sagacity already discerned in the near future and necessity for expansion and enlargement of their works. Accordingly at the meeting of February 1852 they “resolved that the harbor now commenced below the main boom be completed this season. “ Also, that the capital stock increased to the sum of $20,000.
The drives of this and the succeeding three or four years were successfully made: and so far as concerned this working of the boom, nothing could've been more satisfactory. But for some time there had been secretly indulged by some of the patrons of the company a growing unfriendliness towards its management.
As the feeling finally developed into a positive opposition and in… assumed the attitude of a formidable rival it may be well at this point to introduce with some degree of XXX? The circumstances and conditions that brought it to life the “ Loyalsock Boom Company” and that
ultimately merge those two conflicting factions into one harmonious whole.
The origin of the Loyalsock Boom Company appears to been associated with the fact that in the early days, the large number of mills were located in the river below the borough of Williamsport. Also that the corporators of the Susquehanna boom had previously decided to locate their booms, as it has been shown on at a point in the river several miles above these mills. These lower mill proprietors anticipated additional expense and delay in getting the logs from the boom to their respective mills particularly as there was a dam across the river at an intermediate point and their logs would necessarily be broken loose from the fastening and scattered in the act of passing them over the dam. To gather them up again and re-raft the logs before they could be run to the mills, would occasion both delay and expense.
These anticipations work to some extent ultimately realized and provoked a feeling of unfriendliness and animosity between the two parties. There also appeared to be an unwillingness on their part to pay “tribute to Cesar.” In addition to the 50 cents per thousand feet charge by the Susquehanna boom Company as boomage for securing and rafting out their logs, there was charged an additional sum for “warp”.
It may be necessary to explain this item: warp, or rope, is is extensively used in the operation of rafting. The logs are secured together on long strings or floats by a small rope passing over them and hitched around a wooden pin driven into the center of each log. It formed a part of an expensive rafting and was included in the $.50 charge as boomage.
These floats during the operation of making them up (which seem to require several days) were secured to the platform or stretcher by means of stay lines. During high winds or a sudden rise in the river, it was frequently necessary to duplicate these lines. When the floats were cut loose from the stretches the party using the knife would not infrequently XXX the man who cut off the dog’s tail “back of his ears”They would make an incision at stretcher and thus the logs were gleefully received a long a long line of rope would very conveniently drop into and under the water, and this way they would secure a large quantity of rope by the simple process of making the “cut “ at the wrong place. Now it was for this wrap inadvertently removed as explained that the boom company proposed to charge.
This additional expense though, insignificant had a tendency to widen the breach between these early pioneers and to provoke a spirit of opposition and strife when unity and cooperation should have prevailed.
These grievances whether imaginary or real, together with bad counseling and advice from those who should have dis XXX all such independent efforts resulted in the organization of the “Loyalsock Boom Company”
The legislature of the state of Pennsylvania by an act of assembly passed the 11th day of April, 1849 and the supplement thereto approved the 9th day of April 1849. Incorporated and constituted Isaac Smith and William Woodman, and their associates and successors a body politic and corporate by the name and style of “The Loyalsock Boom Company “
It will be noticed that this act of incorporation was passed only two years subsequent to that of the Susquehanna boom Company.
Under the act of incorporation Isaac Smith, William Woodman, Jacob Brown, Daniel W Smith, Jerome G Kidder and Lyman Pray, in the month of June 1850 organize the said Loyalsock Boom Company by the adoption of the Constitution and bylaws.
Another noticeable fact is that the organization was only a few months subsequent to that of this Susquehanna Boom Company. These articles of association defined the objects of the company as follows; “To erect and maintain a boom or booms in the West branch of the Susquehanna River with piers as may be necessary to stop and secure logs, masts, spars and other lumber floating upon the river and erecting such piers, side branch or shear boom as may be necessary for that purpose etc.
The capital stock provided by the articles of association consisted of 50 shares apportioned as follows: Isaac Smith 22 shares; William Woodman, 7 shares; Jacob Brown, 1 share; Daniel W Smith, 1 share; Jerome G Kidder 24 shares; Lyman Pray 1 share.
The following board of managers was elected to wit: Lyman Pray, Daniel W Smith, Jacob Brown, Jerome G. Kidder and Isaac Smith. At subsequent meeting of the newly elected board, two wit July 13, 1850 Daniel W Smith was elected president, and Lyman Pray secretary and treasurer.
During the years 1851 and 1852, George White Esq. acted as the president of the company. The organization commenced as above in 1850 continued with some few changes and with no organized effort to carry on the provisions of the act of incorporation until the 29th day of August 1854 which time an agreement was entered into between Steven B Leonard for himself and John C. Davis and D.B. Taylor for the Pennsylvania lumber company, stockholders and owners of the charter of the Loyalsock Boom company of the one part and Samuel Caldwell and his associates of the other part, by which the party on the first part agreed to transfer a certain specified amount of the stock held between them to the party of the second part who also agreed.
At this same meeting the stockholders agreed to increase the capital stock from $5000 as originally prescribed $20,000 to be repeating represented by the 200 shares of $100 each. The old officers having resigned Steven Gold was elected President and Runyon Wolverton secretary XXX.
No active efforts were made, however towards direction the boom until May 1855 of which time the following resolution was adopted at the meeting of stockholders, to wit:
Resolved: that the company proceeded forthwith to build the boom as contemplated in their charter
Resolved: That John Branson , R. Wolverton, Steven Gould, Samuel Caldwell and John F. Grafius be appointed to the committee to examine and to locate a site for the boom and to report at the next meeting the comparative cost of the two sides of the river.
The report made by the committee favored the location of the proposed boom on the south side of the river, commencing at the lower end of Toney's Island. One large pier or crib to be erected at that point, two peers between Toney’s Island and Field’s island and one at the head of Field’s island, with the necessary number of sunken cribs for shear boom.
On 20th day of December 1855, a contract was entered into with Henry B Smith for the erection of the cribs above designated and for supplying the requisite number of XX and buoys.
At the annual meeting in July 1856 Steven Gould, Garrett Tinsman, Samuel Caldwell Jacob S Young and John S Graffin's were elected managers, who subsequently elected Steven Gould president and John S Graffins secretary and treasurer.
The above managers were re-elected in 1857 with the exception of Jacob S. Young , AA Winegardner having been elected president , And AA Winegardner secretary and treasurer.
In the meantime a changes had been necessarily inaugurated at the upper boom, regarding the logs of the three lower mill owners. They now had a boom of their own but as many of the logs would naturally go into the upper boom became necessary for them to notify the Susquehanna boom Company annually to XXX these logs through their boom and not to raft them as formally.
Under a provision of the chart of the Susquehanna boom Company charge them eight cents per log, for all such logs turned through their boom. This charge was stubbornly XXX and and provoked a perfect storm of opposition. The treasurer of the Susquehanna boom Company made out his bills daily for the logs that passed and upon payment being XXX suits were brought and judgments obtained. The next day new bills were presented in payment demanded, which being likewise refused, suits were brought and judgements obtained as on the previous day . These proceedings were operated daily for weeks, until there were scores of these suits entered upon the “Squires “docket.
It appears that these proceedings prompted the board of managers of the Loyalsock Boom Company to seek relief probably from the legislature from their charge of eight cents per log, for, at the meeting of their board held on 28 January 1858 the following was unanimously adopted to wit:
Rsoved: That the president of the LoyalSock Boom Company be authorized to expend $500 of the funds of the company for the purpose of getting an abatement of the eight cents per log charge by the Susquehanna Boom Company
This apparently hostile movement on the part of the Loyalsock Boom Company was really the harbinger of peace and goodwill and resulted in cementing together the two opposing elements into one harmonious whole. Subsequently at the instance of the two companies the general assembly passed an act authorizing them to unite and consolidate under the name, style and title of Susquehanna Boom Company
A meeting of the two companies called for the purpose of organizing under the provisions of said act. To affect this organization was deemed expedient that the officers of both company should resign and that the stockholders should unite electing the board of managers from the consolidated company.
At this time May, 1858 the following gentlemen comprise the board of the Susquehanna Boom Company to wit: Mahlon Fisher president; E.S. Lowe, secretary; and treasurer James H Perkins, JP Finley and Jacob S Young. Mr. Young in the meantime having resigned Garrett Tinsman was elected to fill the vacancy.A the same time the officers and some of the stockholders of the two companies met.
At same time the officers and some the stockholders of two companies met and adopted measures preparatory to the proposed consolidation. Commissioners were appointed to appraise the value of the properties of the two corporations which was done an amicable adjustment of their several interest was satisfactory arranged.
Upon the surrender of their stock to the Susquehanna Boom company there was issued to each stockholder in the Loyalsock Boom Company an equal number of shares of the stock of the Susquehanna Boom Company together with a certain number of shares apportioned stock to cover the amount agreed upon and then value of the boom property.
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Thursday, 12 June 2014
question one and two
explain two ways the extract fits the genre of lifestyle magazines. use examples from the extract.
this magazine fits with the genre of a lifestyle magazine because on the front it says 'easy living'.
below the title there is a small amount of writing that makes you read on in the magazine.'easy elegant summer dressing' this makes women read on in the magazine because they want to have the perfect summer clothing.
this magazine also fits the genre of lifestyle magazines because the contents show that the whole magazine consist of lifestyle such as real life, fashion, beauty and emotional intelligence.
explain how each of the following is used in the extract to create effect:
the layout of the magazine is very simple but effective to catch someone's eye, the magazine cover consists of a large picture of kylie Minogue filling the majority of the front cover, also small amounts of text surround her face and top half of her body.
the colour scheme is very bright and stands out, i think that they have chosen to do this because the magazine is called easy living, using the word easy suggests that this magazine is quite relaxed and informal.
the language in this magazine also suggests that it is very informal words such as summer's here and sexy also appear in the front cover in large stand out writing.
Thursday, 24 April 2014
mock essay
This magazine cover direct mode of address has been used on the picture where the land is looking directly into your eyes to show that this magazine is aimed at you. also direct address has been used in the text which has been enlarged, 'your PARTY dress code' this is also being directly aimed at you the reader.
In this image the whiting has the colour red which can be associated with women. Also the word RED has been highlighted so that it stands out on the page. The writing has been placed on the left hand side of the picture and the image is placed on theright hand side which balances it out.
In the text the more important words are enlarged or highlighted so that you know that this piece of text is important to read or it is a main story. The words that mean less are in white and are a lot smaller than the other highlighted words.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
colour connotation homework
in this magazine they have used the colour green because the colour green stands for acceptance, love harmony, communication and social these are all things to do with gaming.
in this magazine they have used the colour blue because the colour blue stands for calmness, kindness, emotional depth, inner peace and love this is what inspires you to follow the fashion
in this magazine they have used the colour pink because this colour means passion, stability, qualities, artistic and imagination it stands out on the page and looks energetic, this make it look appealing so that people will buy it.
Thursday, 23 January 2014
1. that the information was set out in a video format.
2. pictures and the videos where incorporated into the background as the information was shown
3. good amount of information in the work.
1. could have made the video in time with the text.
music videos
There are people dancing on strip poles, Rihanna is dancing on a chair in a bikini, they are also all in very revealing clothes. Rihanna is sat in a queens golden and red leathered throne. an avatar is dancing in water shaking her booty to make the water splash.
loads of the shots start zoomed out on Rihanna and slowly zoom in onto her face.
half way through the video the camera has three slit scenes showing two pole dancers either side of Rihanas shot of her dancing on her chair.
britney spears is singin on a driving motorbike.
Monday, 20 January 2014
titles for my magazine
titles for my magazine
• teen fashion
• style
• earlyTEEN
• inspiration
• aspire
• teenlife
• allTEENfashion-ATF
• Still at school-SAS
• GossipCHICZ
• SilkyShine
coverlines for my magazine
Coverlines on magazines:
• what and not to wear
• spice up your school wear
• become a fashion guru
• get slim quick
• know what to eat
• 10 facts on keeping fit
• super slim techniques
• boyfriend advice
• quick fashion tips
• how to look fabulous in under 30 seconds
Friday, 17 January 2014
1. How many different font styles do you see on the front cover? 24
2. How many different font sizes are used?26
3. How many different font colours are used?3
4. How many coverlines are there?5
5. Describe the font used for the magazine title. The font for the magazine title are bold and large with a bright colour so that it stands out.
6. How does the title communicate who the target audience are? Girly because it is pink and the colour pink is associated with women and girls.
7. What’s the main coverline and how do you know?real women sizes 6-16 naked because it is just below the title.
8. Explain how and why different colours are used on the cover. To make certain stories stand out such as the main coverline.
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Moena Alcanfor - the scent of the rainforest
The tiny flowers of Moena Alcanfor
The tiny flowers of Moena Alcanfor
If you're reading this you probably know that Camino Verde is a grassroots reforestation organization based in the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios. This departmento of Peru is roughly the size of South Carolina and is considered by some to be the largest remaining region of intact tropical forest left in the world. The Tambopata rainforest is one of the Earth's most bio-diverse places.
The region's historical isolation is now being undermined by the Interoceanic Highway which crosses Peru and Brazil, spanning South America coast to coast. Unprecedented rates of deforestation and population growth have snowballed in the past ten years. Camino Verde grew out of the need for more ecologically sound, longterm-minded solutions that could also provide economically. If people can make money off of planting trees, they will. And we need all the trees we can get.
After ten years of planting trees in the Peruvian Amazon, the result is the toolkit known as Camino Verde's Living Seed Bank, home to over 300 species of Amazonian trees as a source of seed for future planting campaigns. The over 20,000 trees that make up the reforestation center are planted in agro-forestry systems (tree-based agriculture) that demonstrate tangibly how planting trees can be economically viable for small farmers.
A key to the success of agro-forestry systems is the production of and connection to markets for non-timber forest products (NTFPs), a fancy term for things you can get from trees without killing them. Fruits, medicines, crafts materials and culturally significant species all provide possible economic motors to incentivize tree planting. Our highly bio-diverse polycultures imitate the structure and variety of natural forests and also provide resiliency – if one crop fails, other crops compliment a farmer's income. Cacao grows alongside açaí, alongside cat's claw, alongside rosewood and mahogany and brazil nut.
Distilling essential oil
Distilling essential oil
One of the most exciting NTFPs-as-economic motor we've found is essential oils. A surprising number of Amazonian hardwoods have striking aromas. The correspondence makes sense – aromatic compounds can make wood durable by deterring termite attack or rot. Many Amazonian tree resins are known for their powerful medicinal properties as well. This is what inspired us to grow Moena Alcanfor, the first essential oil we're producing.
But before I jump in about moena, let me backtrack in time by a few years.
Just after Camino Verde was founded, I first learned of Brazilian rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) from a friend of mine who distills essential oil in Peru. He mentioned rosewood's use in Chanel No. 5, its rapid deforestation for cash, how huge trees were dug up from the ground because the roots also contained high concentrations of the essential oil. He said it was next to impossible to find seeds.
I researched and asked around in Tambopata and discovered that many trees from the same family as rosewood (Lauraceae) are also known locally for their aromas. The local name moena is given to a whole subfamily noted in traditional plant knowledge for their aromas and fine timber. I started searching forests for seeds and had soon identified several aromatic species.
El Moenal - the Moena Alcanfor reforestation area
El Moenal - the Moena Alcanfor reforestation area
In 2010 Camino Verde planted 550 trees of Moena Alcanforada, which could be translated as "camphorated moena." Other moenas include cinnamon moena, yellow moena, avocado moena, anise moena. The name Moena Alcanforada refers to the camphor-like scent and therapeutic properties of this tree, identified botanically as Endlicheria krukovii.
Why this tree? In addition to its familial link to rosewood, Moena Alcanfor was a furniture wood I had seen and admired and a species whose aroma I found really evocative and wonderful when I crushed its leaves, or broke a twig, or squeezed one of its oily fruits like tiny avocados. I hoped that Moena Alcanfor, like rosewood, would contain essential oil rather than some other kind of aromatic compound.
Also, I knew that in traditional medicine this tree is seen as having cooling properties and is used to reduce inflammation, especially associated with fever and heat. One local moto-taxi driver swears by it for his prostate. Another farmer says that it helped his arthritic knee.
In 2013 those 550 trees were big enough to handle some light pruning of side branches to start distilling, and we did indeed find that this species contains essential oil. We use only lateral branches and leaves, pruned in benefit of tree growth and health. As far as we know, our small grove is the largest reforestation of this tree in the world and we are the only people in the world distilling this species.
Moena Alcanfor seedlings ready to be planted out with our partner farmers in 2017
This year we planted 1000 more of these trees on three of our partner farmers' land with the goal of providing them access to our distillation equipment (one has already been trained with us to distill) and a new, regenerative source of livelihood within 3 years. For this to work, we also need to develop markets for the oil, and we've been fortunate enough to partner with several forward thinking companies to gradually grow the market for a new scent.
Work with Moena Alcanfor is part of a broader strategy involving NTFPs from aromatic species. We've planted another 6 moenas and several other non-Lauraceae aromatic species, some of which will come online for first distillations in 2018. This will allow us to expand our work with more farmers and plant more aromatic trees, thus ensuring the survival of these species that have been decimated for timber. All of the species we've planted are one of a kind, planted and distilled nowhere else. Except for one which is also planted and sold elsewhere – Brazilian rosewood, which we've planted but haven't been able to start selling yet due to the (important) restrictions placed on cross-borders trade of species that are so severely endangered.
Moena Alcanfor is our flagship essence from the Peruvian Amazon, already enjoyed by perfumists, aromatherapists, and lovers of the rainforest around the world. Please contact us to place an order of or connect us with potential partners.
Wildlife abounds in our Moena forestry plantation in Tambopata, Peru
Wildlife abounds in our Moena forestry plantation in Tambopata, Peru
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Bi-fold Doors to French Doors Conversion
The picture really doesn't do this project justice. I really dislike bi-fold doors. They're loud, awkward, and a pinch-point risk. The bi-fold doors on our laundry/furnace room were so hard to open and close that they were often left open, leaving the junk behind them in plain sight. I went searching online for a solution and saw tutorials for converting bi-fold doors to French doors.
The process seemed easy enough, so I bought the hardware that I needed, dug out my cordless drill/screwdriver, and gave it a shot. It really was easy, and I couldn't be happier with the end result. No more squeaky, rough sliding, just smooth opening and closing. The doors also open almost completely out of the way now, allowing for the full doorway to be used for hauling things in and out.
I spent less than $20 to do this conversion and I'm already thinking about converting other bi-fold doors in our house this way. Different tutorials might tell you a bit different order to do things in - I did it in a way that was easiest for me, which was to leave the doors up while drilling and attaching hinges, then removing them one at a time. Read through my instructions and decide for yourself what works best for you.
- existing bi-fold doors
- three pairs of door hinges (size depends on the size and weight of your doors)
- one double magnetic catch
- second door handle, if your doors only have one
- drill
- screwdriver(s)
- pencil
- measuring tape
- sandpaper
- drywall putty or wood filler, trowel
- paint, paint brush
- step stool/ladder (optional)
1. If your existing doors only have a single handle, you'll have to add a second one to the other door. I had a handle that matched the existing one, so I only had to add. If you can't find a matching handle, you'll have to get two new ones and add one and replace the other.
Remove the existing handle so you can measure the placement of the hole. Measure and mark the mirror-image spot on the other door, so they are equally spaced from the center of the doorway. Drill through the door, using a bit that is big enough for the bolt for the handle to pass through smoothly. Attach both handles securely.
2. Measure and mark the center of the doors along the edges where the hinges will be attached. Hold a hinge against the door, with the folding edge against the outside edge of the door, centered on your mark, and trace inside both circles with a pencil.
Measure and mark down from the top of the doors and up from the bottom of the doors along the edges where the hinges will be attached. I made mine 5" from the top and from the bottom. Hold a hinge against the door, with the folding edge against the outside edge of the door, above or below your mark, and trace inside both circles with a pencil.
Do the same for both doors.
3. Use a drill bit that is slightly narrower than the screws that came with the hinges, so the threads will bit into the wood. Drill into the doors inside the circles that you marked. Drill in as far as the screw will be going in.
4. Attach 5 of the hinges to the doors, leaving one of the bottom hinges off so you can use it to trace the hole placement onto the door frame. Make sure that the hinges are folded so that they will open and close the way you want them to.
5. This is when I removed one door (the one that moved completely, not the one with the stationary side). I removed the hinges between the doors, then popped it off the track and removed the bi-fold hardware from the end.
Once I had that door attached to the door frame (see below), then I removed the second door, the bi-fold track, and the hardware from the door. This kept my work area less cluttered and prevented me from mixing up which door went where.
NOTE: You may want to do step 9 while the doors are down.
6. You may want a second person to help you with this part. I did it myself, by resting the bottom of the door on a narrow wedge (use a piece of wood, a book, a slipper, a folded towel, whatever works).
Position the door about 1/4" down from the top of the door frame, making sure that it will close (not all door frames are exactly "square") the way you want it. Once you have it where you want it, mark the top and bottom of where the hinge needs to be attached to the door frame.
Lean the door aside and use your 6th hinge to mark the hole positions. NOTE: The hinges need to be positioned so the folding part is outside of the door frame.
Drill holes into the door frame inside the circles you marked. Re-position the door and screw the hinge in place, keeping your wedge in place for now (or having your helper hold it) so the weight of the door isn't all on the one hinge.
7. Press the middle and bottom hinges against the door frame where they need to be attached and mark the hole positions. Move the hinges out of the way and drill into the holes. Screw the hinges to the door frame.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 on the second door, attaching the 6th hinge to the bottom of the door while you have it down. When positioning the second door, line up the tops of the doors as best as you can.
9. Open the package for the magnetic catch and hold one of the metal plates on the top corner of each door and mark the hole. Drill the hole. (You can do this earlier, when the doors are down, or now once they're up.)
10. Attach the metal plates to the doors.
11. Stand inside the room and pull the doors closed while holding the magnetic catch up against the top of the door frame. Let both doors stick to it and get it positioned where you want it. Mark the holes with a pencil. Open the doors. Drill the holes then screw the catch in place.
12. The last step is to wash, sand, fill, sand, and paint the areas where the previous hardware was attached to the doors and door frame. DONE!
Enjoy your quieter, handier doors!
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OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
Access rules are a feature new to administrators in the world of PaaS. But what are they and why do you need to know about them? Are these new “rules files” for Essbase Cloud? (Nope.) Regardless of which area of OAC you’re managing, you’ll need to become familiar with access rules. If you are having trouble talking across services and everything is up and running, access rules may be your answer.
This blog post is intended to give a very high level introduction to access rules and how they fit into the overall spectrum of PaaS security. Note that this post is skewed very much towards OAC and Essbase Cloud, as this is how I stumbled across them. However, the real-life usage is much broader and expands as you look across the entire Oracle PaaS suite of solutions.
What Access Rules Are
In simple terms, access rules control network access to the Cloud products. Because Oracle Cloud is forced to be so secure, many components are locked down by default. Therefore, access rules are an intuitive way (through a simple interface) to allow administrators a way to open up access. This is done by entering a series of required inputs: specifying the source, destination, destination port(s), the type of security protocol, etc.
Access rules may require slightly different fields depending on the PaaS product.
Some access rules are system rules and cannot be changed or disabled. They are configured by the system. Others can be managed by administrators.
Oracle has created at least one Oracle by Example (OBE) access rule tutorial to assist new PaaS customers.
Why You Need Access Rules
To quote my awesome friend Wayne Van Sluys (who has become quite fluent in PaaS security through trial by fire): “Companies need to think about the Cloud as an extension of their corporate network. Data security is paramount and needs serious consideration and planning when moving to the Cloud.”
This is where access rules come in. They are only one component of the overall security design in PaaS. Other design considerations include white listing, VPN access, and more. Administrators will encounter access rules at least once in their duties.
Our team has found it necessary to create and configure multiple access rules in OAC deployments. To help you get a feel for how and why they are used, I’ll walk through an instructional below regarding a practical use case for configuring access rules to Essbase Cloud. This is a common scenario if you plan to use Essbase Cloud with either DV Cloud or BI Cloud in OAC.
Practical Use Case
When you first license OAC, the initial setup and configuration creates a default security design. We quickly realized that this had to be modified in order to get Essbase Cloud to talk to DV/BI Cloud.
Here was how we discovered the issue. We tried creating a connection to Essbase Cloud through DV Cloud, DVD, and BI Cloud. OAC wasn’t having it and we got this not so descriptive error message:
OAC-DV Essbase Cloud connection Error
(If you can’t tell, I’m going to mask certain aspects of my screen shots, yet throw in some far-fetched examples to help set the scene. This is public cloud, folks. Don’t be caught displaying identifying information.)
Given the error, we tried every combination of DSN syntax that we could think of: with and without http://, with and without https://, and with and without random ports. We were eventually told that the correct syntax for the DSN is (IP address):(port). However, the ports we tried weren’t working.
So where to go from there? Naturally, I logged an SR. Luckily, the great folks in Oracle Support were able to get back to us quickly on a solution. They directed us to access rules. Since the servers were locked down by default, we were asked to open up some ports to the Essbase Cloud server which would allow the analytics and visualization tools to access it.
To navigate to access rules, go to My Services, the Oracle Analytics Cloud service, the action menu, and Open Service Console:
Navigation 01
Then click on your Essbase service:
Navigation 02
Now you need to copy down the Public IP address for your Essbase Cloud server. You’ll need this later when you go to setup your Essbase Cloud connection from another OAC tool.
Navigation 03
Then in the top action menu next to the Essbase service name, select Access Rules:
Navigation 04
This will open up the access rules list attached to this particular Essbase Cloud server (I had to hide a lot of details here).
To create a new access rule, press the Create Rule button:
Navigation 05
When you create an access rule for the Essbase Cloud server, you’ll need to populate the fields below prefixed with an asterisk. Oracle Support directed me to create 2 total access rules: one called “Agent” and one called “Server” (although the access rule names can be whatever you want). These open up specific ports to the Essbase Cloud server.
Create the first access rule. Refer to Cloud Support Doc ID 2265410.1 for more specific details. Note the port used for the “Agent” access rule (which is completely made up in the screen shot below):
Create Access Rule 01
When the access rule is being created (takes <1 minute), the icon at the top of the screen changes to indicate that an event is in progress:
Create Access Rule 02
The icon changes back once the access rule has finished:
Create Access Rule 04
Then create the second access rule, which requires a range of ports to be opened:
Create Access Rule 03
Finally, check the list of access rules to verify that they have been created correctly and with the appropriate properties:
Create Access Rule 05
If you mess up, you have to delete and recreate the access rule. Edits to existing access rules are currently not allowed. Note that you can also temporarily disable or enable existing “default” and “user” access rules.
Now that these access rules have been created, it’s time to recreate that connection to Essbase Cloud. This set of steps is for the OAC-DV Cloud product.
Once logged into DV Cloud, navigate to the Data Sources area. Choose to Create | Connection:
Create OAC Connection 01
Choose the Oracle Essbase (Beta) option:
Create OAC Connection 02a
Then fill in the connection details using the syntax rules described earlier for the DSN. The IP address is the public Essbase Cloud one noted earlier and the port is the one assigned to the “Agent” access rule.
Just like the access rule fields, the connection fields prefixed with an asterisk are required. An administrator ID should be used. It’s your preference if you wish the user credentials to be saved.
Create OAC Connection 02
Update August 18, 2016: As discovered by my buddy Ivan Agudelo, the recent 106 OAC patch allows you to enter the above DSN without the port number now. The access rules to open the ports are still required, however.
Once you connect successfully to Essbase Cloud, a confirmation will be received and the new connection will appear in the list:
Create OAC Connection 03
The PaaS world varies greatly from the SaaS world when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. Check out these great bloggers for more information about how to maintain OAC – more posts coming!
In addition, interRel’s free Play it Forward YouTube channel has some great OAC videos, with more arriving soon!
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Curation, curation, curation - sounds like a television show..
But no, it's an essential skill in today's modern learning environment. Creating everything you need is no longer possible, so the ability to draw in content from other sources is important.
But you need to bear the bigger picture in mind -- what are you trying to achieve? What does the content say? Is it appropriate? Is it pitched at the right level?
In this video, ex-TrainingZone editor Jon Kennard gives you some advice on how to curate content for learning. Enjoy!
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Claire Blackshaw's Forest of Fun
Progress 4
Programming Weekend of Code Contest
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It Wooooooooorks!!!!! After a day and a half of fighting with conflicting libraries my fuzzy memory nd just plain down stupidity I have all the required drawing and physics functions operating sufficiently.
So it is in a sate of bliss and happiness I retire to bed.
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Upstream O&G Glove Selector
The Upstream O&G Glove PPE App is the first of a kind dynamic tool that provides target industry education and product recommendations.This App is designed to accommodate the sales person to the end user wearing gloves. Product recommendations can be made by selecting required glove features, such as cut resistance, impact resistance, or by selecting your given application within your job function or work environment. Recommended products are not detailed like a traditional catalog outlining features/benefits and product specifications, but allows an user to print/email product data sheets, view product demos, request product sample, and add gloves to custom glove boards for future reference. As noted, the education component is useful for the new sales person that requires a brief tutorial on the upstream segment allowing them to feel confident to engage their customer when specifying work gloves that improve work place safety. If you desire an easy approach to learn more about the O&G industry and gloves while having confidence in product selections/recommendations, this App is for you.
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Rita Ora: Rising like a Phoenix
Rita Ora on her new album Phoenix, ‘it girl’ status, and her visit to Dubai
Best pop songs of 2018 (weekend playlist)
Cardi B and Beyoncé will start your Thursday night off righty
Childish Gambino just released two songs of the summer
Donald Glover does it again with “Summertime Magic”
Beyoncé and Jay-Z just dropped a surprise new album
'Everything is Love' was announced live on stage during their 'On the Run II' tour
John Mayer should do all his music videos on zero budget
'New Light's' music video is gloriously low-budget (and all the better for it)
Biffy Clyro bring stadium-like energy to Hard Rock Café
The leaders in anthemic arena rock go back to their roots in intimate Dubai gig
Let's count the famous cameos in Drake's new video
Olivia Wilde, Tiffany Haddish, Michelle Rodriguez, Rashida Jones, Emma Roberts…the list just goes on.
DJ Khaled on DJ Khaled - “It’s life for me. I was born Muslim, my family raised me Muslim.”
The things you don’t know, about the man who shares everything
Even if Taylor Swift did rip off the Kenzo ad, it doesn't matter (she's untouchable)
Taylor Swift's 'Delicate' clip looks a lot like Spike Jonze's Kenzo World advert
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And it helps that it's fresh from his Black Panther soundtrack
YouTube's most popular Middle Eastern music videos of 2017
From Saad Lamjarred to Elissa, this is a list of the best Arabic songs of the year.... Who else makes the list? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9218121767044068}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '101444', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TCBFIQYE4OIIPDZYACBGWDZT5U7GCY25', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fe336707-857b-4f17-aa8e-d4e3d7af9a5f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 13, 21, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.250.200', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PFRKJ4XQWULDCR3SMAB6WLG4NQTD57SK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a9a01602-6191-47e7-8229-f5d3e1b2b5e5>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.esquireme.com/category/culture/music', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eb3c0b6e-e152-45cf-9865-825a32010c04>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '250', 'url': 'https://www.esquireme.com/category/culture/music', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-232-130-137.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': '0.01876777410507202', 'original_id': '26306336e3d9a5df3e9317e4703324923e1a2d112658913ff69f058633aa0d66'} |
Jackson, Mississippi has never fully recovered from the Civil War
Jackson, Mississippi has a long and storied history. Having had its beginnings in the aggressive conquering of the Choctaw people of the region and subsequent treaty violations and violent removal of its people, it was built on the backs of slave labor. Named for Andrew Jackson prior to his presidency, the city’s beginnings were anything but noble. It’s location was chosen primarily as a compromise between interests in the state — being principal among them.
Choctaw leader Pushmataha wasn’t the last to be overrun in near Jackson
As a city, it remained very small due to its inconvenient location, but this positioning made it an ideal location for a command center for the confederacy, and later the union once it was conquered. Like many conquered cities of the south, it was mercilessly burned and ravaged by northern forces under the command of the notoriously brutal General William Tecumseh Sherman — the town was nicknamed “Chimneyville” for a time due to that vast plumes of smoke emanating from it during its razing.
Following the war, white nationalists and the militant arm of the Southern Democrat party, along with white supremacists groups, maintained and grew their political power in the state as a whole, and focused on keeping control of the capital city as well. They stoked feelings of resentment among the white population who were still licking their wounds from the war — and Sherman’s atrocities served as prime fodder for propaganda, true or otherwise.
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Jackson remained a stronghold for white supremacists well into the 1960s, when it became a major battleground for civil rights. Mississippi had some of the harshest segregation and Jim Crow Laws on the books, and African-Americans and their allies made protesting at the capitol buildings across the south a major part of their strategy for gaining equal rights and access.
At the time, Jackson was about two-thirds white, and the vast majority of the rest of the citizens were black — most of whom could trace lineage to the slave trade. But following the Civil Rights Movement and the party realignment that resulted, white flight and the rise of suburbs combined with their bitter defeat at the hands of equal rights activists led to the demographics reversing. In fact, Jackson’s population as a whole has completely flipped to being two-thirds black now, the second largest black majority city in the nation behind only Detroit. That the capital is majority black is fitting since Mississippi has the largest percentage of African-Americans among all states.
Given that black voters tend to favor Democrats by a nearly 9-1 margin, it may come as something of a surprise to learn that the GOP has controlled the state handily for the past 40 years. The reasons are myriad — low turnout among African-Americans, onerous voter ID laws reminiscent of the Jim Crow laws of the past, and general apathy among the mostly poor population in the state — Mississippi is also the poorest state in the union per capita.
Downtown Jackson doesn’t have enough new jobs for younger people
Jackson itself, however, is right at the border of the dividing line between the state between east and west. The eastern part of the state is much whiter and went red, while the blacker western half is a sea of blue. Hinds County, where most of Jackson lies, went for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a margin of nearly 3-1.
But racial barriers have been falling in Mississippi rapidly over the years. Much of the relative growth in the black population statewide has not been due to any major migration on either side of the racial marker, but rather due to intermarriage. In fact, Mississippi has the highest rate of interracial marriage of any other in the nation.
The population of the state as a whole, however, is growing at a very slow rate comparatively. Jackson is the state’s largest city by a wide margin, but with just over 170,000 and shrinking people it isn’t even in the top 130 nationwide. With the city’s poor location for modern industry like tech or transportation, this trend shows no signs of slowing and younger people are gravitating toward other cities in search of jobs.
Jackson from the ISS
It wasn’t always this way, however. Prior to the Civil War Mississippi was the fifth wealthiest state in the nation, though that wealth was built primarily on slave-farmed cotton. But Mississippi was slow to adapt to the new world and Reconstruction’s spectacular failure was felt here worse than virtually anywhere else.
While the racial lines have slowly been erased simply by being neighbors, friends, and family, the economic ones have been much slower. Mississippi has never really recovered from the war, and there are few signs it will anytime soon. Those who can leave the state are happy to do so at the first opportunity, while those who remain are determined to continue to repair what they can. Tourism fuels the economy in many areas, but natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina occur with enough regularity to make a travel economy difficult to rely on.
Resentment toward other states — especially the northern ones — is still felt here. Many feel that regardless of the reasons for the Civil War or the outcome Mississippi was so severely and unnecessarily ravaged and subsequently sabotaged politically that they were never allowed to even attempt a recovery. Putting racial politics aside and focusing just on the economics, this type of resentment and dissatisfaction is exactly the type that led to people voting for Trump both in Mississippi and beyond. Upturning the status quo — especially the old guard Democrats and the establishment Republicans — was the goal here more than anything else.
As Jackson continues to shrink and the economy continues to lag behind the rest of the nation, Mississippi as a whole will likely continue to internalize that resentment and feeling of being a conquered people rather than partners with the rest of the nation. And if the GOP continues to take them for granted, the state’s ever shrinking relative white population may join with their black friends and family in switching parties once more — only this time it may be to something other than the Democrats who they feel betrayed them decades ago.
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Jellyfish for Dinner
August 1, 2018
By Tara Haelle
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Adelie penguins eat jellyfish while hunting for other food. Credit: NOAA
It’s not just humans who enjoy a snack that jiggles and wiggles like gelatin does. To the surprise of scientists, it turns out several penguin species enjoy a bit of jellyfish in addition to their diet of fish, squid, krill and crustaceans. More than 350 hours of video footage from small “penguin cams” in the wild showed that Adélie, yellow-eyed, Magellanic and little penguins eat a wide range of gelatinous critters while hunting for other food.
Scientists in five countries attached small cameras about the size of strawberries to the backs of 106 penguins at breeding sites throughout the southern hemisphere. Each camera only recorded one trip out to sea per penguin, but the videos revealed penguins going after gelatinous prey almost 200 times, including 187 jellyfish.
Jellyfish are just one type of gelatinous marine animal, but other “gelata” species unrelated to the jellyfish ended up as penguin dinner too. Little and Magellanic penguins gobbled up 11 comb jellies. The penguins did not seem interested, however, in salps, which are gelatinous filter feeders that consume phytoplankton.
Despite the number of jellyfish consumed, they were not a big part of the penguins’ diet. They made up only about 1-2 percent of total calories the birds ate. Still, with jellyfish populations soaring in recent years, penguins’ affinity for jellyfish may offer an abundant alternative food source when other menu items are scarce. But scientists don’t know whether huge blooms of jellyfish alone would be enough for penguins to survive if other food sources disappeared. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9180310964584352}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20092', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AIWSUBMNG73OL3EOYXWHHLVCURC422FK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e079ca45-e48c-48a6-bc22-87d900efe1f5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 5, 34, 55), 'WARC-IP-Address': '128.83.21.174', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XMLV5HFSZ3EA74PCKPRX6RJZFGVL3YR4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:529fe37f-7c1f-473f-bb97-695f82716e7a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.scienceandthesea.org/articles/jellyfish-dinner', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:159efae8-70ef-41f2-a8e7-e78a4cd8280f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '273', 'url': 'https://www.scienceandthesea.org/articles/jellyfish-dinner', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-101-220-24.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05423635244369507', 'original_id': 'ed03b98bf2f9c457f880247080eb41d5a2bc7daae65b42c468365163469bc5a3'} |
Xun Zhou married clothing products fell no limit over Montenegro witch children cry-ekdv-273
Xun Zhou married clothing products fell no limit over Montenegro witch lead: Xun Zhou scared little friends since he got married on the fat, recently managed to slim down, but for a new hair style and clothing products, eye popping. But is that amazing dress or a handsome childe? There’s no sprite at all. Xun Zhou Xun Zhou recently, Xun Zhou Anthony Vaccarello2015 autumn and winter series black star skirt unveiled flying award red carpet. Nifty Star decoration, very design sense. Helpless strong eyeliner and exaggerated hairstyle make Xun Zhou like a ghost doll in general. Xun Zhou’s black stack made Xun Zhou grow old ten years old, just like an old lady. The Xun Zhou gradient long sleeved dress collocation small belt, originally a goddess fan children dress, but fat after Xun Zhou, is no longer a beautiful temperament, the Goddess Dress abruptly gives an aunt that visual sense. Xun Zhou at the National Opera Festival, Xun Zhou wearing Chanel jacket a bright dress, slim dress styles, Xun Zhou exposes the straight body, can not see the waist, the truth is fat what to wear are not good-looking. Xun Zhou, this is the most popular spring floral skirt, skirt, elastic waist, small slit skirt, but not at all clear, put on Xun Zhou’s old, especially in the long hair, more older. Zhou Xun’s sleeve piece shorts, tweed dress material, originally very texture, but body fat in a circle, even wearing dark lines is also difficult to hide ah, collocation black stockings and high-heeled shoes, the hair is also good, is a big mistake. Xun Zhou this collocation Pumianerlai aunt breath, take the white blouse stamp vest, wearing black pants and white high heels with nine points, Xun Zhou married dress collocation more casual, also do not pay attention to personal image. Xun Zhou Xun Zhou unveiled Chanel show, a printed suit is like just town village.
周迅婚后衣品大跌无下限 惨变黑山老妖吓哭小朋友 导语：周迅自从结婚后就发胖了，近日好不容易瘦下来，但换成最新的短发造型后，衣品让人大跌眼镜。可是那惊人的穿着打扮还是曾经帅气的周公子吗？一点都找不到精灵气儿。 周迅 周迅 近日，周迅一身Anthony Vaccarello2015秋冬系列黑色星星裙亮相飞天奖红毯。俏皮的星星装饰非常有设计感。无奈浓郁的眼线与夸张的发型让周迅宛如鬼娃娃一般。 周迅 这一身黑色叠搭让周迅一下子老了十岁，宛如一个老太太。 周迅 这款渐变色长袖长裙搭配小腰带，原本是很女神范儿的装扮，可惜发胖后的周迅，气质身材不再，一款漂亮的女神裙硬生生给人一种大妈的即视感。 周迅 在国剧盛典上，周迅穿着香奈儿短外套内搭亮面长裙，修身的长裙款式，暴露出周迅直筒身材，完全看不到腰身，真相就是胖了穿什么都不好看。 周迅 这件碎花裙，是春季最流行的裙子款式，松紧腰身，小小开叉的裙摆，可惜一点都不清爽，穿在身上周迅身上老气横秋，尤其是中分中长发，更加显老。 周迅 这件中袖连体短裤，粗花呢材质，穿在身上原本很有质感，无奈身材胖了一大圈，即使穿深色系也难以掩藏啊，搭配黑色丝袜和高跟鞋，整体还不错，发型是一大败笔。 周迅 这身搭配扑面而来的大妈气息，印花罩衫内搭白色背心，下穿黑色九分裤和白色高跟鞋，周迅婚后的穿衣搭配比较随性，也不注重个人形象了。 周迅 周迅亮相Chanel秀场，一身印花套装仿佛是刚刚进城的村姑。相关的主题文章： | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.6546300053596497}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '83788', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LECOE4QFKDO75ZXMR5X6U4XXNW5GLF5Z', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d73b2819-0d51-438c-bfaf-0deae9ef204f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 4, 16, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '79.143.178.87', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MTEYZVTTWIPYOWQIRTXEIRRYIAKC4XWJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:46708f98-8aa0-4747-8361-298f4b97dec0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://01626.net/xun-zhou-married-clothing-products-fell-no-limit-over-montenegro-witch-children-cry-ekdv-273/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:53a5f168-52c2-416a-bf15-74f28109966b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '342', 'url': 'http://01626.net/xun-zhou-married-clothing-products-fell-no-limit-over-montenegro-witch-children-cry-ekdv-273/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-81-203-254.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': '0.019190669059753418', 'original_id': '55124fca719733db1a5d73f93f426df578036b5b277d53d223e2ad5f1b995d11'} |
How Do You Teach Intercourse Education To Young Youngsters?
sex educationIntercourse schooling could possibly be defined as the publicity of teenagers to a planned and purposefully sex orientation in order to avert the dangers in premarital sex and make them to avoid being a sufferer of sexual abuse. Dad and mom nights are held to give mother and father tools to speak to their kids about sex. HB 596 Amends the expertise required for evaluate and acceptance of materials utilized in reproductive well being and security training and prohibits teaching about certain medicine as a part of reproductive well being and security schooling.
If I realized something from being a part of the relationship recommendation industry for eight years, it’s that most young individuals are woefully unprepared, both socially and emotionally, to handle the stress and confusion that comes with navigating a healthy sex life.
Sexuality Info and Training Council of the United States (SIECUS) provides training and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive well being. Requires that the state instructional materials fee shall seek the advice of with mother and father, teachers, school nurses, and neighborhood members in evaluating educational materials for comprehensive human sexuality curriculum that comply with this section.
Which means encouraging respect for all sexual preferences and serving to students develop expertise to guard in opposition to sexual coercion, intimidation and abuse. That’s why STI testing is super-vital for those who’re sexually active — yep, even should you’re being careful.
Once you get 15- and sixteen-12 months-old lads talking about their interests, hopes and struggles, then relationships and sexuality will hold getting mentioned. Within the Netherlands, colleges purpose to coach mother and father too. Authorizes college districts and charter schools to supply teen dating violence training as a part of the sexual well being and well being training program in grades seven by 12 and to determine a associated curriculum or supplies. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9538601636886596}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '37081', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:A6HR5ZNLWCQO22GR24MDQOQUY246PPBK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:212b2248-9f7d-42de-81d3-3fbd2a12ec86>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 13, 24, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.73.72', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F2ZYMKSZSGXTODM6WSGBWLCNRJEIZQDW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d6711c73-7632-40dd-a36f-1bfeba1214ef>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.genios64.com/how-do-you-teach-intercourse-education-to-young-youngsters.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b41cfdc0-6ac1-48d3-bdad-14274ffa7c6f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '315', 'url': 'https://www.genios64.com/how-do-you-teach-intercourse-education-to-young-youngsters.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-150-98-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03695499897003174', 'original_id': '249084d4c40ae97ac84c9343a2586329cf07350171efa215162bcdb6e83743ec'} |
Science is too slow
The pace at which scientific ideas are properly explored and accepted by the majority is often too slow. It is true that a sudden discovery can push our understanding forward rapidly, by producing incontrovertible evidence that something happens or happened. But many of the biggest and most important ideas take decades or centuries to become accepted. The hello-centric view of the solar system is a good example, but you could say that was before science got properly established.
Wegener's ideas about continental drift are perhaps a better example. The idea was proposed in 1912 but not accepted because geologists could not conceive of a mechanism to make it happen. It was not until the ideas of plate tectonics were proposed in 1968 that continental drift started to become accepted. The considerable evidence staring geologists in the face, from the matching coastlines of Africa and America, and the way the geology matched on the two sides of the Atlantic, was apparently not enough to make them take the idea seriously. If they had, plate tectonics ideas might have emerged much earlier.
This delay in taking new ideas seriously and putting effort into exploring them slows development of our understanding considerably. It demonstrates a lack of courage amongst our scientists, universities and research funding agencies. For those of us interested in making sense of the world, the pictures we can develop are left incomplete and very probably wrong. Or, if you espouse ideas that are considered outlandish by the mainstream academic communities, you can become considered to be one of the 'lunatic fringe', promoting ideas that have no scientific basis.
The current situation in physics shows the problem. For decades strong theory has held sway, with universities creating posts for scientists exploring string theory and not employing those who wish to explore alternative theories. This is despite the complete lack of experimental evidence to support string theory, or indeed suggestions as to the theories can be experimentally tested. It is only in the last few years that alternatives have slowly begun to be discussed.
In my areas of interest there are two big examples of the scientific community refusing to explore important ideas. The first is earth crust displacement. There is increasing interest in what human development happened in Siberia, before the last glacial maximum. This is centred on the discoveries in Denisova cave in the Altai mountains, that was occupied at different periods by Denisovans, Neanderthals and Humans. It is evident from this, and from the regular discoveries of frozen mammoths with undigested food in their stomachs - plants that could not grow if Siberia then had a climate anything like the climate it has today. The most straightforward answer to this conundrum is that Siberia was not as close to the North Pole then as it now is - an idea reinforced by our well researched knowledge of where Northern Hemisphere ice cover was during the last glacial maximum.
A second example in another area of my interests, though perhaps related to how cultural ideas spread in early human development, is Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance. Even though a considerable number of experiments have been done that strongly support that there is a real phenomenon here to be investigated, there is virtually no scientific investigation of his ideas happening.
At the rate science is going, it will take the academic community more than my lifetime to come round to taking these ideas seriously. This leaves me with alternative but to continue to develop my ideas on the basis that these and other 'outlandish' ideas are worthy of taking seriously, and hence worthy of being used to support my developing understanding of how the world works. Which I shall do without apology. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9681110978126526}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '11685', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DLWKECCRBHSUFLSRC7FSPL3PXRPLMDEO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d0d68e36-9ec1-4987-95ac-2c3b47b8024d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 17, 15, 33, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '82.71.204.15', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7LCPYCGHD4RUCN6OWHRB5YKM4JEZFUGF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c615859b-1bd4-43b3-856b-de0c0526a85d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://rogerbroadie.com/blog/files/44b12e81587b6bebe56d87f80b92e326-9.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:389be419-aca1-4175-b386-9df900c2ea17>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '622', 'url': 'http://rogerbroadie.com/blog/files/44b12e81587b6bebe56d87f80b92e326-9.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-101-219-50.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': '0.13157379627227783', 'original_id': '0cd1c40f8c8ee128b98a198417fe8bc562f884bf77d1f1c8f13f0167ceeed1f2'} |
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Developing Point in a Young Dog
It sounds like a contradiction, but the best way to develop a young dog’s point is to let him chase birds. Every time a young dog chases birds, he is learning to point. He is learning that his movements cause the birds to fly, which means he is unable to catch them. Once he realizes he cannot be successful, he begins to chase less. He becomes more cautious and learns to creep. This creeping is like a cat stalking a mouse, and eventually, he learns to freeze into a point.
Last month, a bird hunter came by with his dog. The dog was young, maybe eight months old, and the hunter was concerned because she didn’t point. I loaded a releaser with a homing pigeon and planted it in the training field. I suggested that he bring the dog cross-wind to the releaser; as soon as she smelled the bird, I would open the releaser. I explained that when she dove for the bird, he should restrain her just enough so she did not catch it, and then, once the bird was in the air, he should drop the check-cord and let her chase. He said he understood and brought her into the field.
As they approached the releaser, she caught scent and turned toward it. As she began to road in, I pressed the button on the transmitter and the releaser opened. Right then, the hunter tightened up on the check-cord and held the dog tight as the pigeon flew away. I asked him why he’d stopped her, and he explained that he was trying to help her point.
Now here’s an important truth: Birds teach dogs to point. If you try to help your dog, he will never point birds with intensity, much less learn how to handle them. Dogs that have been helped to point by their owners look as if they are indicating the presence of birds instead of freezing in a stance that sends quivers down your spine.
With the Bill West method, training is between the dog and the bird. By letting the dog run at birds until he decides to stop chasing on his own, the bird is teaching the dog to point. With a young pup, dropping the check-cord once the bird is in the air and letting him chase as far as he wants to run is fine. You may need to restrain him with the check-cord just enough so that he does not catch the bird on the ground before it flies, but once the bird is in the air, you can drop the check-cord.
As the pup gets older, or when the grounds are not suitable to let the dog run free, keep hold of the check-cord and let him chase to the end. Once he is stopped, let him watch the bird fly off. Pointing dogs love to watch birds fly; doing so is a reward. A small number of dogs live for the chase, and if, after a reasonable amount of bird exposure, your dog continues to chase without becoming stauncher on point, you may want to keep hold of the check-cord to limit his run.
Dogs are predators. They have better noses than humans, and they are superior hunters. Good trainers respect these natural abilities and allow dogs to make their own decisions. It’s foolish to think you know better when it comes to stopping a dog around birds. Instead, let your dog run at birds as long as he’s not catching them; eventually, he will teach himself to stop because he’ll realize it’s smarter to stand there, especially when you occasionally shoot a bird for him.
Anytime a dog learns something on his own, he learns it better than when you teach it. By respecting your dog’s abilities and setting up training situations where he can learn from the bird, you are developing him the natural way, which is the best way possible. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.983503520488739}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '67871', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JESXKGXCIF4SEPWET3TBCBHKLZ2S5GNX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5f4a16fb-c293-442f-8b2c-ec9300fa170f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 6, 34, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5T3WXM4MFBV5RHF3YVUS72ZKOE5K4MKN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:29df64bd-2b35-4e4c-acf5-39aa2a8f8b98>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://pineyrunkennel.blogspot.com/2011/11/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:aff8c745-d014-4691-ad86-d46e5a9b32ec>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '668', 'url': 'http://pineyrunkennel.blogspot.com/2011/11/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-157-176-71.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': '0.03391265869140625', 'original_id': '63e241ffb559cfb22275f25d68add8582547d1770ba2269479c9d3bc9f3b0dba'} |
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Therefore, the result of n mod m must be between 0 and m − 1 when n and m are positive integers. For example, 5 mod 3 = 2; 25 mod 3 = 1, 5 mod 7 = 5, and 5 mod 5 = 0. There is more than one way to assign values to q and r, depending on how integer division is interpreted. The most common mathematical definition computes the mod function as n mod m = n − m n/m . In this case, −3 mod 5 = 2. However, Java and C++ compilers typically use the underlying processor’s machine instruction for computing integer arithmetic.
We might render the objects in full detail. Or we might want a “rough draft” rendering that prints only the bounding boxes of the objects. If we come up with a new activity to apply to the collection of objects, we do not need to change any of the code that implements the existing activities. But adding new activities won’t happen often for this application. In contrast, there could be many object types, and we might frequently add new object types to our implementation. Unfortunately, adding a new object type requires that we modify each activity, and the subroutines implementing the activities get rather long switch statements to distinguish the behavior of the many subclasses.
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Weird Japan Penis Festival The Kanamara Matsuri -presented by Nina Minami a sexy Japanese nurse with glases cosplayer
Nina Minami is the hot beauty for todays update wearing our favorite Nurse Outfit. She is really hot with a fantastic pair of big doubles bumpering out of her . Not only does she have a good pair of breasts but her lips are something to marvel at. Thick full and full of the good of the good thing that makes them so juicy. No matter how you look at them, you know that they definently help with the good ole suck suckie suckie. The glasses that she is wearing also add to her beauty i dunno what it is but damn she looks pretty good with them on.
After the spread we will tackle some Tradition In Japan that is full of weirdness and out of this world written all over it. The Japanese Penis Festival LOL
The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) better known as the penis festival is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki
The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The exact dates vary, but the main festivities fall on a Sunday. The penis forms the central theme of the event that's reflected everywhere; in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decoration, a parade of mikoshis, etc. etc.
The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine, once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are divine protections also in business prosperity and the clan's prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony, etc. Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research. There's also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus that was used to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.
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AENEASmRoman Mythology
Latin form of the Greek name Αινειας (Aineias), derived from Greek αινη (aine) meaning "praise". In Greek legend he was a son of Aphrodite and was one of the chief heroes who defended Troy from the Greeks. The Roman poet Virgil continued his story in the 'Aeneid', in which Aeneas travels to Italy and founds the Roman state.
AISHAfArabic, Urdu, American
French form of ALFONSO.
BALDWINmEnglish, Ancient Germanic
Derived from the Germanic elements bald "bold, brave" and win "friend". In the Middle Ages this was a popular name in Flanders and among the Normans, who brought it to Britain. It was borne by one of the leaders of the First Crusade, an 11th-century nobleman from Flanders. After the crusaders conquered Jerusalem, he was crowned as the king of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
DAEDALUSmGreek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of the Greek Δαιδαλος (Daidalos) which was derived from δαιδαλλω (daidallo) meaning "to work cunningly". In Greek myth Daedalus was an Athenian inventor who was banished to Crete. There he designed the Labyrinth for King Minos, but he and his son Icarus were eventually imprisoned inside it because he had aided Theseus in his quest against the Minotaur. Daelalus and Icarus escaped using wings fashioned from wax, but Icarus fell from the sky to his death.
Derived from Arabic ذنب (dhanab) meaning "tail". This is the name of a star in the constellation Cygnus.
Possibly a shortened form of SANTIAGO. In medieval records Diego was Latinized as Didacus, and it has been suggested that it in fact derives from Greek διδαχη (didache) "teaching". Saint Didacus (or Diego) was a 15th-century Franciscan brother based in Alcalá, Spain. Other famous bearers of this name include Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona (1960-).
DIOMEDESmGreek Mythology
Derived from Greek Διος (Dios) meaning "of ZEUS" and μηδομαι (medomai) meaning "to think, to plan". In Greek legend Diomedes was one of the greatest heroes who fought against the Trojans. With Odysseus he entered Troy and stole the Palladium. After the Trojan War he founded the cities of Brindisi and Arpi in Italy.
FELICIAfEnglish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Late Roman
Feminine form of the Latin name Felicius, a derivative of FELIX. In England, it has occasionally been used since the Middle Ages.
GILBERTmEnglish, French, Dutch, German, Ancient Germanic
Ukrainian feminine form of IVAN.
JAN (1)mDutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Slovene, German, Catalan, Sorbian
Means "goodness, excellence", derived from Arabic جاد (jada) "to be excellent".
JUSTINmEnglish, French, Slovene
LARA (1)fRussian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian
LEIAfBiblical Greek, Popular Culture
MAGNUSmSwedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning "great". It was borne by a 7th-century saint who was a missionary in Germany. It became popular in Scandinavia after the time of the 11th-century Norwegian king Magnus I, who was said to have been named after Charlemagne, or Carolus Magnus in Latin (however there was also a Norse name Magni). The name was borne by six subsequent kings of Norway as well as three kings of Sweden. It was imported to Scotland and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
MARI (1)fWelsh, Breton, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Welsh, Breton, Estonian and Finnish form of MARIA, as well as a Hungarian diminutive of MÁRIA. It is also a Scandinavian form of MARIE.
OZ (1)mEnglish
Short form of OSWALD, OSBORN, and other names beginning with a similar sound.
PEYTONm & fEnglish
Variant of SHERRY.
TRISTANmWelsh, English, French, Arthurian Romance
Old French form of the Pictish name Drustan, a diminutive of DRUST. The spelling was altered by association with Latin tristis "sad". Tristan is a character in medieval French tales, probably inspired by older Celtic legends, and ultimately merged into Arthurian legend. According to the story Tristan was sent to Ireland in order to fetch Isolde, who was to be the bride of King Mark of Cornwall. On the way back, Tristan and Isolde accidentally drink a potion which makes them fall in love. Their tragic story was very popular in the Middle Ages, and the name has occasionally been used since that time.
From an English surname which was derived either from Norman French warrene meaning "animal enclosure", or else from the town of La Varenne in Normandy. This name was borne by the American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923). | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1197', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9631614685058594}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98653', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HBRQGZPXXSB23Z4OMC5PYY3GLY5NYHZ4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:407114c5-34a4-44e4-9adb-d7c1dbd7eb29>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 13, 56, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '107.167.83.34', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JCL2CDF3SCOCDEP3LM5OZ6O4OXE6KVD7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dbc1d0a3-a873-4611-b9d5-09430934e44e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.behindthename.com/names/tag/ogre_battle_characters', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6863f8b0-5212-4ff4-adbc-0dadd562daf0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1651', 'url': 'http://www.behindthename.com/names/tag/ogre_battle_characters', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-81-186-35.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': '0.04883003234863281', 'original_id': '6b6e2047bd89c3cb8f1ca0fd68d64047ea96385def104956c80d735b4c0b4d3b'} |
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THE ever-increasing cost of energy and the need to preserve the health of the planet are continuing to dominate the news agenda.
And people are constantly being asked to look at the impact their homes and lifestyles are having on the environment.
High-carbon living is no longer acceptable and there is a great need to reduce how much of the planet’s resources are used up by the way we live.
So where does a forward-thinking homeowner begin? Is it possible to reach that holy grail of a carbon-neutral footprint?
It’s not only charity that begins at home – it is the very place to start your quest to save the planet.
Renewable energy is where it’s at, and these days it’s not so hard to apply these new technologies to your own home.
Whether you live in a terraced town house or a large country estate, there are ways of heating your home that will cut both your carbon emissions and your energy bills.
Log Fires
Once upon a time, when climate change was just a twinkle in Mother Nature’s eye, honest folks would burn logs on an open fire.
Sure it was cosy, but most of the heat went straight up the chimney.
You’d be toasty warm sitting by the fire, but freeze as soon as you left the room.
Woodburning stoves are the contemporary way to burn wood.
They work very efficiently if they are correctly installed, using wood that has been properly seasoned and provide a cosy, welcoming focus to any room.
Wood is one of the cleanest energy sources available as it is renewable, with far lower carbon emissions than traditional solid fuels. And the beauty of wood is that it is all around us, with tree stocks on the increase in the UK.
It can be described as “carbon neutral” because the CO2 captured in the wood is simply released again, so the wood gives off the same amount of CO2 as if it were decomposing on the forest floor.
Burning wood in stoves is a good way of using the right resources as 8.5 million tonnes of wood are thrown into landfill each year, which is a total waste.
The Forestry Commission estimates that better management of Britain’s forests could produce an extra ten million tons of wood that could be used for heating homes throughout the UK every year.
What’s more, scientists believe the majority of harmful greenhouse gases which are pumped into the atmosphere year after year are emitted as a result of us heating our homes.
Opting for a woodburning stove rather than gas, oil or coal can dramatically reduce the harmful effect we have on the environment.
By burning wood in this way, the flue gases coming out of the chimney will be little more than water vapour.
Biomass boilers
Biomass is a renewable energy source made from organic material such as logs, wood pellets or chips.
While a wood burning stove can heat small homes efficiently running a central heating system that also provides hot water for a larger home might require a biomass boiler.
Biomass boilers are a carbon-neutral alternative to traditional heating systems which are run on fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels like coal take millions of years to make, whereas some biomass can be created in a matter of months, making it a great option for people wanting to reduce their impact on the planet.
When you consider that it can also save around £470 on the average family heating bill, it becomes an even more attractive option.
These systems are ideal for medium to large homes, especially larger properties with special requirements.
Be aware that biomass systems produce a lot of ash which needs to be disposed of, though many modern systems need emptying only occasionally.
Properties running a biomass system need plenty of storage space for the large amounts of biomass fuel required.
The power of the sun and wind has been harnessed on a large scale for many years, but it’s only recently that the technology has been adapted to work on a domestic scale, creating energy in people’s homes.
Solar thermal hot-water panels can be installed on domestic roofs to harvest the sun’s energy to provide free hot water.
A typical system of solar panels mounted onto a south-facing roof can provide up to 55 per cent of an average family’s hot water requirements.
With a properly installed system, hot water temperatures of 60°C are easily achievable, which is more than enough for showers and baths.
It is compatible with all boiler systems except combination boilers, and will cost between £3,500 and £4,000 for the most efficient (up to 70 per cent) evacuated tube system.
Because of the start-up costs, grants are sometimes available. Check what’s available grant-wise in your area at
Wind Power
Wind power is harnessed using turbines which rotate in the wind, turning a generator that produces electricity, which in turn is stored in batteries, or fed through a transformer, or fed into the mains electricity grid.
Although wind is a viable renewable energy source on a large scale, it’s harder to generate enough power to meet all the electricity needs of an average family.
The higher off the ground the turbine can be installed, the more consistent and reliable the wind will be.
The general wisdom on domestic wind power at the moment is that wind is ideal for providing clean, cheap top-up power, but unfortunately it can be expensive to buy and install.
Going Underground
Ground Source Heat Pumps are widely used in continental Europe and renowned for their energy-saving benefits.
On a smaller scale all of us already have a heat pump in our houses at the back of our fridges.
The compressor and hot coil give off heat while the evaporator and cold coil absorb heat inside the fridge.
This is a form of heat pump and the ground source heat system works in a similar way, but takes heat energy from the ground via a borehole or network of underground pipes and converts it, via the pump, into thermal energy for heating and water.
Heat pumps also work well with under floor heating to provide good, ambient heating throughout a property.
It is important to realise that installing a ground source heat pump will involve your garden being dug up to lay the heat-exchange pipes which absorb heat from the ground.
An ideal alternative source for extracting heat would be to use a lake or a stream.
If a ground source heat pump sounds like an appealing, greener alternative to your existing system, don’t forget to look into the various government grants available, as the installation costs are not cheap and it could cost between £6,500 and £11,000. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.950040638446808}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '191187', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MDQSQR5W62V6L5YMESYTM56VX6UKI5E6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c7ec2fff-e2ca-4ae9-94d7-dfd03a55c365>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 58, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.116.246.199', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:66NBMY3TZMBOFXCSVZJXA3QA2S5SZ6QM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f61d4ae9-38cf-4306-a158-465a63597d27>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/the-heat-is-on-to-save-the-planet-108873', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7b96e52b-9e60-40df-8c12-90416cce43a3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1115', 'url': 'https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/the-heat-is-on-to-save-the-planet-108873', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-81-186-35.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': '0.05334043502807617', 'original_id': 'c16de867cb1bafd8d7171a7b222dabefb4afa86999414c4a31cfed679105a644'} |
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Obama & The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Socialist President Pinocchio Obama is weak, naive and ineffective and we see the end result. Despite warnings by Obama that there would be "costs" if Russia invaded the Ukraine, a country in the middle of Europe, Vladamir Putin invaded the Ukraine to protect its interests in the Crimea. This has happened in the very week that Obama announced major cuts to the US Military, signaling further Obama's intention to pull back from the world in a way that is really dangerous.
Obama drew another line in the sand that has been crossed. It should be no surprise. Ronald Reagan's adage of "Peace through Strength" and even Richard Nixon's comment that the world needed to think that the President of the United States was just crazy enough to push the nuclear button is also true to insure that it will never be necessary. No one in the world believes that Obama will do anything in the face of aggression. The fact that Obama is a LIAR with no credibility in the United States does not help either.
It is time for Obama to act. That does not mean military action; but rather taking action that the Russians would hate even more. Obama should immediately announce that he will authorize placement of missile defense systems, that the Russians really hate, in Poland and the Czech Republic. Obama gave this away early in his first administration as part of his Reset Button with the Russians and got nothing in return from Putin. Reset obviously has failed. Russia is an enemy of the United States with nuclear missiles aimed at Europe and the US. Russia also supports our enemies in Iran and North Korea. While we don't need to restart the Cold War, we do need to recognize reality.
Further, since Putin is out to reconstruct the old Soviet Union, Obama should throw Russia out of the G-8. They are not there because of economic power anyway; but rather military power. Obama can also freeze Russian assets in the United States. Putin, like other Russian leaders, only understands raw power. While we don't need to wield it through the barrel of a gun, today economic power is even more lethal.
Finally, since the Syrians are not living up to the Russian deal to hand over their chemical weapons, Obama should act to destroy the Syrian Air Force to prevent them from using it against the rebels in Syria out to over throw Assad. Since Syria is Russia's satellite, this would send a clear message to Putin that the line has been crossed and that when the President of the United States speaks, there will be real consequences.
These are things Obama should do now; but don't count on it. Obama, the Liar In Chief, does not understand his role as Commander In Chief. Obama has created a vacuum in the world and when that happens thugs and dictators move in to fill that vacuum. Obama is a clear and present danger, not only to the United States; but to the world. The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is just one more dangerous example of Obama drawing lines in the sand and then doing nothing when they are crossed. The end of the incompetent Obama Presidency can't come soon enough.
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Jailed kidnapping suspect points police to 3rd body
Authorities say a woman reported being held captive, leading to the arrest of a kidnapping suspect, a murder confession and the discovery of three bodies.
The Mansfield News Journal says police went to an Ashland home after the woman called authorities Tuesday morning. They found remains of two people at the supposedly vacant property.
A 40-year-old man was jailed on a kidnapping charge.
Richland County's prosecutor tells the News Journal the man admitted he had killed a woman in June at a different property in nearby Madison Township. On Tuesday, investigators checked it and found a body in a wooded ravine behind that house, which was destroyed by fire.
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Gang member face tattoo central america An imprisoned member of the street gang Mara 18 posing for a photograph at the Izalco prison, about 40 miles from San Salvador, in 2013. REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez
Gangs like the Mara Salvatrucha have spread their influence all over the Western Hemisphere, and one of the clearest signs that you're dealing with their members is the garish tattoos that often adorn their bodies.
The designs of those tattoos can often vary, specified by individuals and their gangs, but there's an underlying reason that people get them, and it makes perfect business sense.
"There's a weird economic reason for these tattoos: It makes these employees much easier for the cartel or the gang to keep hold of," Tom Wainwright, author of "Narconomics" and former Economist reporter in Mexico City, told Business Insider.
"If you picture one of these gangs in El Salvador, where many of the members have tattoos, literally from head to toe, it's much much harder for those employees to go and find a job somewhere else," Wainwright added.
The Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is most closely associated with the head-to-toe tattoos.
Prisons in El Salvador and Honduras, where MS-13 is based, are full of current and former gang members coated with ink identifying their loyalties, whether to MS-13 or another Central American gang like Barrio 18, which is regarded as one of MS-13's main rivals.
Barrio 18 gang member tattoos A member of the 18th Street gang posing for a photo at the prison of Izalco in 2012. REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez
While the inkings are often inscrutable to outsiders, members of the gang world are familiar with their meanings. This helps them identify compatriots and prevents members from straying.
"These guys can't find work anywhere else," because the markings make it difficult for them to switch allegiances, Wainwright told Business Insider.
"They can't find work with a rival cartel, and so they have to stay working for the gang that they started off with. This makes them much cheaper and it means that the gang can treat them how they like."
MS-13 Salvador gang member tattoos A police officer detaining a suspected member of the MS-13 gang at a checkpoint during the second day of a suspension of public-transport services in Apopa, El Salvador, on July 28. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
As these gangs have spread to places were anti-gang law-enforcement efforts are more robust — like the suburbs of Washington, D.C. — the tattoos have become a less central part of gang life.
Tattoo-removal programs have also cropped up, as government and civil-society efforts to pull people away from gangs have ramped up.
But for MS-13 and other gangs, where proof of loyalty is vital, tattoos aren't going anywhere.
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douglas irving repetto
Nearly Human
(one billionth of a human brain)
branches, wire, glue,
birds, bells, motors
Nearly Human (one billionth of a human brain) is a deeply flawed physical metaphor for a human brain.
Like many brain (and other biological) metaphors, it is much too simple and mostly wrong. But it's also an attempt at being a little bit right in ways that are non-typical for popular representations of brains.
All metaphors are approximations; when a metaphor is used often enough we sometimes forget this, and start confusing the metaphor with the thing it is meant to represent. This is particularly true in complex subjects, like bio-medical research, where the full story tends to be messy and incompletely understood.
Popular accounts of research into human intelligence and the brain tend to over-use certain metaphors, in particular the idea of brain as a more complex version of an everyday technology. Depending on the era it might be brain as system of steam pipes, brain as telephone switching system, brain as digital computer, or most recently, brain as computer network. While none of these metaphors is completely wrong, and they do help illustrate a primary aspect of how brains function (lots of parts connected and communicating with one another), they also promote a much-too-simple idea of what is and isn't known about brains and intelligence.
Even research explicitly conceived as non-reductionist, when presented to the public, tends to use similar well worn, not particularly accurate metaphors and imagery. A particularly nice example is this 2007 article in SPIEGEL Magazine about the Blue Brain mouse brain simulation project:
Growing a Brain in Switzerland
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In particular, the image accompanying the article is full of misleading images and info:,1020,803871,00.jpg
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* Image is subtitled "How the supercomputer Blue Brain simulates human thought." Blue Brain does not simulate human, or any other kind of thought. It simulates a tiny slice of mouse brain.
* A drawing of a human brain, rather than a mouse brain (they look quite different!) is used to illustrate where the simulated brain cells come from.
* A visual analogy is attempted between a dense tangle of neurons and a set of square computer chips connected by red tubes.
* Implies that the "next step" simply involves building a faster computer so that they can simulate 100 million rather than 10,000 brain cells and synapses. To be fair to SPIEGEL, Blue Brain founder Henry Markram has claimed "We have achieved the ability to build a brain microcircuit, an elementary unit, and now it's just a matter of scaling up." So the text is an accurate representation of a questionable claim.
Meanwhile, the Blue Brain people are outraged that other researchers have misrepresented the scope and meaning of their own research projects:
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This dynamic -- results being overstated, press accounts making vast simplifications, researchers feuding over claims -- is, for better or worse, a normal part of how science works. The reason I'm interested in these kinds of stories (and there are many of them!) is not that I think there's something inherently wrong with this process (science has always worked this way), but rather that understanding that this is how science works is an essential part of making sense of what and how we're learning about the world.
Nearly Human (one billionth of a human brain) was commissioned by the Neuberger Museum and presented as part of New Media: Why in the spring of 2009.
glitchy movie with,
bad color, sorry!
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Workings of the Young Child’s Brain
We’ve all experienced it—our young child’s middle-of-the-mall meltdown, the faster-thanthe-speed-of-light hit, push or bite of the child next to her, or the ear splitting cries of “I hate you.” We question why demons have taken possession of our angelic child while girding ourselves for the possible judgment and unsolicited advice about what we are doing wrong as parents. But there’s good news, parents—it’s not always our fault! In fact, when we understand what’s going on in our young child’s brain, we realize that this is actually very normal behavior for their age and developmental stage. Each challenging parental experience can be an opportunity to connect with our child and help her integrate the parts of her brain to become a resilient, welladjusted human. There is hope.
Since young children function primarily from the part of the brain ruled by emotions, requiring them to use logical thinking when experiencing “Big Feelings” is a very unrealistic and unfair expectation. I have sometimes observed parents treating young children as if they were miniature adults, but they aren’t. They are works in progress, and to expect them to behave as though they were mature, self-controlled adults is not only unfair, but not in sync with their brain development. In fact, the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which governs impulse control, self-reflection and the regulation of emotions, is not fully functioning until around 25 years old. Knowing this should encourage more realistic expectations of our young children. Honestly, many of us probably know full-grown adults who don’t have fully functioning PFCs!
In The Whole-Brain Child, Dan Siegel and Tina Bryson write about how parents can help their child’s brain develop in an integrated manner. They offer strategies for turning “any outburst, argument or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth.” The authors relate that since the young child’s brain is governed by emotion, it’s “no wonder kids throw tantrums, fight or sulk in silence. [How reassuring to know our out-of-control kids are so normal, right?] The key here is that when your child is drowning in a right brain emotional flood, you’ll do yourself (and your child) a big favor if you connect before you redirect.” Example: When a child fell, skinned her knee and cried, I used to say, “Just a scrape—you’re okay,” and this use of logical thinking would immediately block my connection with the child. She didn’t feel understood, but felt dismissed by my remark and would turn away. Conversely, the times when I respond first with empathy, the child feels understood and we connect. When calm, she can then process her feelings using language and logic. Another whole-brain strategy is called “Name It to Tame It.” It involves the child retelling the story of a frightening or painful experience. Recently a family I know was in a car accident. I noticed that the almost three-year-old wanted to talk about what happened. Allowing the child to tell the story from her viewpoint and acknowledging that it must have been scary for her seemed to lessen her anxiety. When children are allowed to tell their stories, including expressing their feelings about what happened, their fears lessen and eventually go away. Why is this so effective? Telling the story helps the child integrate the emotional and logical parts of the brain to gain control over their nagging negative feelings. Putting the details in order, the experience into words, and then revisiting the difficult feelings enables a child to name her fears and emotions and then tame them. (The Whole-Brain Child contains 12 powerful parenting strategies.)
Of course, it helps if parents can restrain themselves from “flipping their lids” in times of intense emotion. (Watch the video below for an enlightening, humorous video illustrating this concept). This isn’t easy, but when we develop a personal strategy for mastering our own emotions—i.e., exercising, talking with a friend, mindful breathing, counseling, etc.—we don’t flip our lids and can stay in the moment to support our child. Modeling and sharing stress-reducing strategies with a young child can help her gain mastery over her own thoughts and emotions.
Ultimately, the parent’s job is to raise resilient, emotionally stable children who can face the challenges of life as independent, well-adjusted adults. Implementing wholebrain strategies can be very effective in helping parents achieve these positive outcomes.
Suggested Reading: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
Roberta Templeman is a preschool teacher at Bunker Hill Nursery School and a parent educator at Little Wonders Parent/Child Center in San Mateo. She is the mother of three adult children and “Grandy” to two boys and a new baby girl. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9433150291442872}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16874', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UOOHXEMMFQ4VITLWAJUUGFBEM5KXIK5L', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:29f3c9da-e586-4030-a3e7-2dc69e9137f7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 7, 23, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '208.113.212.105', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TQ5CWRD72WIM3YICZF6GY4UKGAOBMI6T', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a34a330-96cf-494d-a94e-063ea628e901>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://sanmateopreschools.org/workings-of-the-young-childs-brain/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:84ee0cd9-5cbe-443a-ad16-3020fc7f3031>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '764', 'url': 'http://sanmateopreschools.org/workings-of-the-young-childs-brain/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-228-146-196.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04801321029663086', 'original_id': '1ccf93d9c96ef4944eddca9fe77cb050733315087733f04eeba093bb67564f46'} |
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V. The Self
1. The Self
2. Factors of the “Self”
3. Identification-With
4. Ideal and Practical Concepts
5. Fallacious Criticisms of Selfhood
6. What “Emptiness” Might Be
1. The Self
According to our account, the ‘self’ is first noticed experientially, through a faculty of intuition. This same assumed faculty (of the self) is able to experience the self’s cognitions, volitions and affections (i.e. its ‘functions’), as well as the self itself. Neither the self nor its said immediate functions have any phenomenal characteristics, so they cannot be perceived. The fact that they cannot be perceived does not however imply that they do not exist; in their case, to repeat, another kind of experiential cognition is involved, that of ‘intuition.’ Cumulative experiences of self and its functions allow us to construct concepts of self, cognition, volition and valuation.
Additionally, we regard self and its functions as having mental and material effects. Imaginations and mental feelings, as well as bodily movements and sentiments, are considered (within our current world-view) as indirectly caused by the self, through its more immediate exercise of cognitive, volitional and emotional powers. What is caused by the self is not strictly speaking ‘part of’ the self, yet it still ‘belongs to’ the self in the sense of being its responsibility. This extended sense of self may be said to have phenomenal characteristics.
Moreover, apparently, the moment we but experience anything phenomenal, or think in abstract terms, or make choices or take action or feel emotions of any sort, a person as the grammatical subject seems logically required. That is, an ‘I’ doing these things seems to us implied. Every object appearing give rise to a parallel awareness of a Subject to whom it appears and a relation of consciousness between it and the object. Similarly, every act of volition or valuation, however devoid of phenomenal characteristics, arouses in us the conviction that an Agent (or author or actor) is involved. This is called ‘self-consciousness,’ but it is somewhat inaccurate to do so, because what is involved here is not only intuition of self, and eventual perceptual experiences, but also a logical insight, something abstract and conceptual.
We conceive the self, in its strict sense, as composed of a uniform substance that we label ‘spiritual’ (to distinguish it from matter and mind). We also conceive it as an entity that we call ‘soul,’ which underlies all events and changes relative to the self (i.e. its functions), constituting an abiding and unifying continuity[1].
Contrary to what some people presume and some philosophers (pro or con) suggest, to assume (whether intuitively or conceptually) a soul or spiritual entity underlying cognition, volition and valuation, does not logically necessitate that such entity be eternal. Constancy in the midst of variation does not imply that a soul has neither beginning nor end in time (or space). Just as a material or mental entity is conceived as something permanent relative to certain transient aspects of it, and yet as a whole transient relative to the universe, so in the case of a spiritual entity, it too may well have a limited world-line in space-time.
Intuition, perception and logical insight only necessitate the existence of one self – the Subject of these acts of consciousness. Solipsism remains conceivable. Our common belief that there are many souls like our own one in the world is a conceptual construct and hypothesis, which as such is perfectly legitimate and indeed helps to explain many experiences. Also not excluded is the belief that there is really only one big Soul (that perhaps pervades or transcends the universe of matter and mind), underlying the apparent small soul(s) – this is the belief of monotheism. That is, belief in a soul does not prejudge the issue of individuation. Just as material entities may, upon reflection, be considered as all mere ripples in a universal fabric, so possibly in the case of spiritual entities.
But such ripples might be permanent or transient. There is no logical necessity to assume that upon dying the soul lives on elsewhere (in a heaven or hell), or that it remains or is reborn on earth in some form, though such possibilities are not to be excluded offhand. The difficulty with any idea of transmigration is to experientially demonstrate some sort of transfer of spirit or energy (karmic reaction) from one incarnation to the next. To imagine some such transfer, to assert it to occur, is no proof. I cannot either think of any theory for which a ‘law of conservation of spirit’ might be a hypothetical necessity to explain certain empirical data.
Moreover, to posit the existence of a soul does not necessarily imply that this substance, anymore than the substance of imaginations, can exist outside and independently of the material substance. The spirit may be just an epiphenomenon of the peculiar cluster of matter which constitutes the biological entity of a living, animal, human body, coming into being when it is born (or a few months earlier) and ceasing to be when it dies.
(Notwithstanding, we may just as well posit that matter and mind are more complex arrangements of spiritual stuff, as claim that spirit and mind are finer forms of matter; ultimately, the distinctions may be verbal rather than substantial.)
The question as to where in relation to the body the soul is located, whether somewhere in the region of the brain or throughout the body, remains moot. Also, the soul might be extended in the space of matter or a mere point in it. But such issues are for most purposes irrelevant.
Many philosophical questions arise around the concept of self, and it is legitimate to try to answer them if possible. But one should not forget the central issue: who or what if anything is the Subject of consciousness? This question arises as soon as we are conscious, and cannot be bypassed by any sleight of hand.
As already mentioned, some Buddhist philosophers deny existence to the Subject, self, soul or spirit. Insofar as their argument is based on the impossibility of pinpointing perceptible qualities of the soul, it carries some conviction. In the West, David Hume presented a similar argument. But their attempt to explain away the common impression that we have a soul by making a distinction between relative/illusory existence and independent/real existence is confused[2].
Buddhist philosophers explain our belief that we have a self as an illusion to due the overlap of innumerable perceptual events (sensations and imaginations), called dharmas, which we mentally integrate together by projecting a self at their center. They have an ontological theory of ‘co-dependence’ or ‘interdependence,’ according to which not only the self but all assumed essences are mere projections arising in our minds, due to things having no existence by themselves (solitary and independent) but existing only in (causal and other) relations to all other things[3].
I want to here suggest in passing how the co-dependence theory itself may have erroneously arisen. Every theory has a kernel of truth, which gives it credence; the problem with some theories is that they have a husk of falsehood, which must be separated out. In the case of this theory, the error is a confusion between ontology and epistemology. I would agree that no item of knowledge is true independent of all others. Any appearance has by virtue of at all appearing (as an experience or as a claim in abstract discourse) a quantum of credibility. This basic minimum does not by itself definitively suffice to make that appearance ‘true.’ It merely grants the appearance consideration in the overall scheme of things. Only after each and every item has been confronted and weighed against all other items, may we terminally declare those that have passed all tests ‘true.’ Thus, the truth of anything is not only due to the initial drop of credibility in it, but to the final combined force of all drops of credibility in all available data.
Buddhist philosophers have, by imprecise thinking, turned this methodological fact into an idea that there is ‘real’ universal co-dependence. Moreover, their theory is that existents are apparent only because an infinity of ‘relations’ crisscross. These relations are claimed ‘empty’ of terms, i.e. they are relations relating ‘nothings’ to each other. It is not said what sort of existents these relations themselves are, and why they are exempt of being in turn mere products of yet other relations ad infinitum. It is not said how an infinity of zeros can add up to a non-zero. By way of contrast, note that in my epistemological version each item of appearance has an initial drop of ‘credibility,’ and the final product has a truth value that can be equated to the sum of all such initial quanta. It is not an interdependence of zeros.
As for consciousness, Buddhists regard it as directly accessible to itself, in high meditation at least. This is what they seem to intend by expressions like ‘no-mind,’ or consciousness ‘empty’ of any content, without object other than itself. They thus seem to posit the possibility of an instance of the relation of consciousness turned on itself (as against the ordinary view of ‘self-consciousness’ – which is ‘consciousness of consciousness of something other than consciousness’[4]). This could be interpreted as a tacit admission by them of the possibility of intuition. Observe also, they often use the terms Subject, consciousness and mind interchangeably, which gives rise to confusions and errors.
It is worth noting in passing that terms like ‘no-mind’ or ‘emptiness’ are negative – and, as earlier pointed out, negation is a rational act. Nevertheless, it would be unfair to regard these concepts as based on ideational construction. Buddhists who use them claim them to refer to a positive experience. The negative names are only intended to stress that the content of such experience is incomparable to any other.
The phenomenological approach to the above issues is different. To begin with, it is sufficient to stress the doctrinal aspect of Subject and consciousness. Whether we grasp them intuitively, through perception or conceptually, what matters most is the role they play in our arrangement of knowledge, in our view of the world. If their assumption enables us to propose a consistent and repeatedly confirmed explanation of the appearance of phenomena, i.e. that they appear (somehow, we do not know just how) primarily through senses or using memory and imagination, to an entity with a mind and a body surrounded by a physical world, and so forth – then their worth and truth is inductively proved.
The concepts of Subject and consciousness are not loose, arbitrary inserts in the puzzle of knowledge, but interdependent items in a complex structure. They are part and parcel of the collection of concepts through which our experiences are made to seem intelligible, that is all. They need only be claimed to be hypotheses; we need not reject alternatives offhand, if any credible alternatives are proposed. Our security is based not on an anxious attachment to one more dogma, but on the track record of these concepts together with others like them in putting certain issues to rest.
The ‘self’ could be considered as phenomenal, in the sense that phenomena are perceived as modified (refracted or somewhat shifted) by some presumed presence, which is assumed to be the self of the perceiver. The self is thus phenomenal indirectly, by virtue of being ‘inferable’ from phenomena. This is normal inductive procedure: some empirical event stands out and is explained by some hypothesis or other, which is found coherent and thereafter repeatedly confirmed (unless or until specifically refuted by logic or experience).
To illustrate the thinking involved: If I look at the surface of a body of water and see that the general pattern of the waves is broken someplace, I mentally outline the area that seems affected (i.e. which has a different ripple pattern) and also propose some reason for the modification (e.g. rocks below the surface, a gust of wind, the passage of a boat, and so forth). Similarly, if I see a shadow, I assume something to be casting it (i.e. to be blocking the light); and according to the shape of the shadow, I estimate what that thing might be.
Buddhism seems to intend to interdict this thought process. It tells us not to infer anything behind the perceived ‘modification’ in the phenomenal field, but take it as is. For Buddhism, to speak of ‘modification’ is already an artificial isolation and thus a distortion of fact; it is a projection of ‘form’ onto content, implying extraneous activities of comparison and contrast. Moreover, to seek a ‘cause’ that explains the modification is merely to add another layer of projection to an already eclipsed empirical reality. This is true not only with regard to assuming things have underlying ‘essences’, but also regarding the assumption of a ‘self’ perceiving and inferring. Better, we are told, to look upon phenomenal events (the visible ripples or shadow, for instances) and see them as they are, rather than see them as indicative of other things and get lost looking for such phantasms.
This argument may seem to carry conviction, but it is not consistent. Being itself a conceptual discourse of the kind it criticizes, it throws doubt upon itself. We may well admit the interferences involved in conceptual thought (as in the functions of isolation, projection of outline, comparison and contrast, causal reasoning, hypothesizing), without thereby having to deny its validity when properly carried out. Indeed, this is the only consistent position.
Furthermore, my own position is that our own soul (or self) is not only inferred from the appearance of phenomena, but also directly ‘intuited’ – or at least inferred from intuitions. Certainly, the soul’s non-phenomenal functions (consciousness, volitions, preferences) have to be directly intuited, as they cannot be fully explained with reference to mental and material phenomena. Possibly, the soul is in turn inferred from these intuitions; or equally possibly, it is itself directly intuited. To my knowledge, Buddhism does not take this phenomenological thesis into consideration, nor of course refute it.
2. Factors of the “Self”
With regard to the concept of self, we need to identify the various ways we develop belief in a self, i.e. the bases for such a concept in practice, i.e. what we rightly or wrongly identify ourselves with. The following are some examples to be expanded upon:
a) We personally identify with sensations of and in the body, including touch and other sensations that present us with its extension and delimit its boundaries in relation to a perceived more “outside” world, as well as visceral physical sensations and sentiments. Thus, we feel and see and hear and smell and taste our “own” body, or parts thereof, and identify with the sum of these perceptions. This is due largely to the enormous ‘presence’ of the body in our experience, its insistent and loud manifestation. It demands so much of our attention that we become focused on it almost exclusively.
Consider how (most) people confuse themselves (to a large extent) with their sensual urges and emotions. If they feel hunger pangs, they rush for food. If they feel a sex urge, they either grab a mate or masturbate. If they feel like alcohol, tobacco or a drug, they readily indulge. In search of sensations they engage in endless chatter, or watch movies or listen to music. People commonly think that when they feel pride or self-pity, or love or hate for someone, they are in contact with their innermost being[5]. We confuse every urge or sentimentality with ourselves, and therefore uncritically think that satisfying it is imperative to do ourselves good.
b) We identify with our perceptions of the world beyond our “own” body, the “outside” world. Although these experiences are considered external to us and transient, they serve to define us personally in that they are a specific range of actualities within the larger field of possibilities. That is, we identify with our life story, our personal context and history, our particular environment and fate. We forget that we are fallible, and ignore the role chance plays in our lives.
We learn a lot about ourselves, not only by introspection while alone, but also by observing one’s behavior in relation to the external world, the challenges of nature and interactions with other people. We also learn about ourselves through observing other people’s behavior, and recognizing our own similar patterns of behavior in them.
c) We identify with our memories and fantasies (including anticipations of the future, our ideals and plans, idle dreams, etc.) – our mental projections. We see our identities in terms of our specific past experiences and adventures, and our present desires and expectations for the future. Obviously, this aspect is not merely perceptual, but implies a conceptual framework, which generates certain thoughts and emotions. Even if these are gradually changing, we identify with their evolution and direction of change, as well as with their constant elements[6].
d) We identify with our past and present beliefs and choices. This aspect relates to Consciousness and the Will, which format our distinctiveness and identity, as well as our insights, thoughts, behavior, whims, values, pursuits and emotions. Implied here is what I have called the intuition of self – i.e. self-knowledge in a serious sense. We also identify with our presumed future choices, that is to say what we expect or intend or are resolved or plan to do.
e) Similarly, we identify with our verbal and pre-verbal discourse. As evident in meditation, not all thoughts are in fact generated by ourselves. We are passive recipients to many or most of them. They just pop up in our minds as non-stop mental noise, repetitive nonsense, compulsive chatter. But most of us usually assume possession of such internal events, regard ourselves as their authors, and therefore define our selves in relation to them.
f) A very important self-identification is that with our mental image of oneself, be it largely realistic or fanciful. This includes memories and fantasies – in all the sense-modalities – of our facial and bodily features and expressions, character traits, voice and handwriting, and other aspects of personality, as well as of our thoughts and actions. The memories and fantasies are based on reflections in mirrors and pictures and other visual and auditory recordings of oneself, as well as direct perceptions of parts of one’s body and its movements and of one’s inner world.
This self-image is what we would most readily refer to if asked to point to one’s self. The important thing to note about it is that it is a construct, a mental projection – it is not to be confused with the self that cognizes, wills or values. It is an effect, not a cause. It has no power of cognition, volition or emotion, but is only an image that may influence the real self.
Egotism or self-love is having an exaggerated opinion of one’s own worth (beauty, intelligence, etc.). One of the main attributes or behavior-patterns of the “ego” (in the colloquial pejorative sense) is its stupid conceit.[7]
g) In formulating our personal identity, we are also influenced (positively or negatively) by how other people see us or imagine us. Their perceptions or conceptions about us may, of course, be true or false. We must also be aware of the distinction between: how we know them to see us or imagine us – and how we imagine that they do.
These issues are further complicated by the fact of social projection: we often try to project images socially, through our discourse and behavior, in attempts to influence our own and other people’s judgments about us. Thus, we may deliberately subconsciously edit our self-image for ourselves – modifying, withholding or adding information – till we lose track of realities concerning ourselves. And even when we do it just to confuse or mislead other people (in order to gain material or social benefits from them), we may end up ourselves losing track.
This factor plays an important part in social bonding and regulation, but it can also become tyrannical. So many people pass all their lives trying to influence other people into seeing them in a certain way, so as to gain their love, respect or admiration. And if they cannot in fact fit in to assumed social demands, they will pretend to fit in.[8]
h) As the Buddhists rightly point out, our ego also defines itself with reference to its alleged external “possessions”. “Who am I? – I am the one who owns this and that… I am the husband of this woman, the father of these children, the descendant of these ancestors, the owner of this house and these riches, the leader of a corporation, the recipient of a literary prize, the winner of a competition, etc.” Note well, included here are not only material possessions, but also possession of people in whatever sense (sexual conquest, political domination, etc.) and abstract possessions (I wrote this essay, etc.).
To some extent, this identification of “me” with “mine” is an expression of the earlier listed more internal factors: “This is my shadow, because I have this body,” “I own these things or people, because I have certain character traits and made certain choices, thus developing a certain biography,” we tell ourselves. But additionally, as Buddhists stress, it serves as territorial expansion for the ego, solidifying its existence, further anchoring it to the world.
Egoism or selfishness is looking after one’s own (assumed) interests, exclusively or predominantly. One of the main attributes or behavior-patterns of the “ego” (in the colloquial pejorative sense) is its arrogant grabbing, irrespective of who is harmed thereby. ‘Looking after Number One,’ as the saying goes.
i) The fact that each of us may be referred to by a proper name (or pronouns that temporarily replace it) also, as Buddhism stresses, serves to impose and solidify in our minds the idea that we have a distinct self. Things referred to only by means of a common name (e.g. “a man”) have less identity for us.
We can include here all the conventional aspects of our identity: our ID card, for instance. This relates to considerations of group membership: membership in a family (family name, birth certificate), a nation (naturalization certificate, passport), a social class (rich or poor, commoner or ruler, different educational levels and professions), a religious denomination, an organization or a club. All these factors add to our “identity” largely[9] by mutual agreement, as does a name.
j) The theoretical concept of self or soul is also projected onto one’s self – “I am this abstract entity”. Whether this concept is true or false is irrelevant here; what matters is that there is such a theoretical projection for most educated people, i.e. we do identify with the self conceived by religions, philosophies and psychologies.
For religion, the focus is on the enduring substance of the self (soul, spirituality) and on its moral responsibility and perfectibility (freedom of the will). The main feature of the philosophical self is that it is reflexive: it points back to the person who is conscious and willful, it is both Subject and Object, both Agent and Patient. Psychology is more focused on the existential intricacies of the self, some of which are indicated herein.
As colloquial use of these terms makes clear, the concept of ego is not identical with that of self. The ego is a creature of the self. When we feel insecure, we may seek to reassure ourselves by engaging in ‘ego-trips.’ This refers to comparative and competitive tendencies, such as domination, pursuit of admiration, or acquisitiveness. Power, fame and/or fortune gives us the impression of having an advantage over other people, and thus of being better able than them to cope with life. What we call our ego, then, is the petty side or product of ourselves. By giving this a name, we can distance ourselves from it, and discuss it and hopefully cure it. This field of psychology of course deserves (and gets) much study and elaboration.
3. Identification-With
The recurring term in the above treatment is “identify with” – just what does it mean and indicate? It refers to some sort of epistemic and psychological mechanism, through which each of us assumes for a while himself or herself to have a certain identity described in imagination and verbally.
With regard to the mechanism through which we identify with each of these aspects of selfhood, consider how after meeting an impressive person, or reading a book on ethics or a novel, or hearing a song or seeing a movie, one may be susceptible to identifying for a while with the person or personality-type or protagonist encountered. One may go so far as to virtually become one with this role model for a while – not by conscious artifice, role-play or imitation, but by a sort of “personality induction”.
One’s thoughts, attitudes and actions echo the model’s, and one may even experience that one’s body feels like his[10]. The way the latter experience occurs is that one interprets one’s body sensations through the memory image one has of the model. More precisely, the touch sensations coming from one’s face or the rest of one’s body are mentally unified by means of that image (instead of one’s own). This integrative mechanism relates to the ‘correlation of modalities,’ and involves a visual projection (either internal or hallucinatory).
I[11] posit two senses of “self” – (a) the real self, a natural entity with some continuity while existing, perhaps a spiritual epiphenomenon emerging within living matter of some complexity, which self is the Subject of consciousness and Agent of Will; and (b) the imagined self or ego, a constructed presumed description of the self, which has no consciousness or will, but is itself a product of them. The former is our factual identity, the latter is what we delusively identify with, by confusing it with knowledge of our identity.
Initially, the ego is constructed as a legitimate attempt to summarize information directly or indirectly produced by the real self. But the project gets out of hand, in view of its extreme complexity and the superhuman demands of objectivity and honesty involved. So in contrast to our identity – or more precisely, knowledge of our identity – we find ourselves facing a partly or largely fanciful construct, which does not entirely correspond to the original. This falsely projected identity influences the real self negatively, causing it to lose touch with itself. The ego thus involves some self-awareness, plus a lot of bull. It is a half-truth, which interferes with proper cognition, volition and valuation, and so presents us with epistemological, psychological, behavioral, emotional and social problems to be solved. The best solution is regular meditation, which allows us to gradually sort out the grain from the chaff, and return to a healthy and realistic self-knowledge.
Thus, we have two concepts of self, logically distinguished as follows.
a) One concept is ideal, in that its object or content is the real self, the self as it really is however that be. This is a hypothetical, philosophical concept, because it points to something that we know somewhat but not really in detail; we need it to be able to say something about the assumed real self, so we have this separate, minimalist concept, which is by definition true, i.e. the receptacle of whatever happens to be true.
b) The other concept is the practical one, wherein we readily build up our knowledge and imagination concerning the self. This one is by definition flawed, because all knowledge is somewhat flawed since we are fallible, and all the more so knowledge of the self, because of the subjectivities and psychological and social pressures involved in its formulation. The object or content of this concept is partly the real self (basic knowledge) and largely the imagined self (some true propositions, some false). For this reason, we distinctively name the referent “ego,” to stress that for most of us the concept is bound to be considerably untrue.
Thus, it is correct to say, as the Buddhists do, that the self, in the sense of ego, does not exist. For it is the object or content of a concept known to be partly untrue for most people (all except the “Enlightened”, if they exist). In a strict sense, then, there is no ego, the concept is empty, has no real referent[12] – what it intends in practice does not in fact exist, but involves projections of the imagination and verbal constructions. Nevertheless, the self, in the minimalist sense, exists. The concept of it collects only our true and sure knowledge about the self, to the exclusion of any fanciful details.
The reader may have remarked that even while valiantly fighting the Buddhist doctrine of “no-self,” I remain intrigued and attracted by it[13]. Especially since that philosophy seems to claim that it is only by throwing off the idea that we have a self that we can achieve enlightenment and liberation. I do not want to make the proverbial mistake of throwing out the baby with the bath water. One possible interpretation of this doctrine, that would explain it while retaining the concept of soul (which to me still seems unavoidable), would be that it is intended to counteract our above described tendency to identify with some of the factors of self.
When we identify with some theoretical or fantastic idea of the self, we are merely projecting a phenomenal self and saying “that’s me!” A projected image is confused with the one projecting it. This is very different from being aware of one’s real self through direct intuition of it. Thus, we are effectively told, “if you want to find yourself, don’t look for yourself in different concepts or images, but simply look into your soul. Rather than thinking of yourself or worse still thinking up a self for yourself, just be yourself and you will thus naturally get to know yourself.” Perhaps it is that simple.
The self-ego distinction can be illustrated with reference to Figure 2.
The innermost concentric circle (called soul, and including the functions of cognition, volition and valuation) symbolizes the self in the most accurate sense of the term. This is sometimes called the real or true self, or higher or deeper self, to variously signify its relative position.
The circles labeled mind and body (including their stated functions) together constitute the ego, or ‘self’ in an inaccurate sense of the term. This is sometimes called the illusory or false self, or lower or shallower self, to variously signify its relative position. (To be sure, more materialistic people identify especially with their body, whereas more mental people identify especially with their mind. But mind and body are inextricably intertwined, in their sensory, motor, emotional and intellectual functions.)
The important thing to realize is that soul (the self) is of a different substance (spirit) than mind or matter (the ego). The former is the core of one’s existence; the latter are mere outer shells. When we identify with the ego instead of soul, we lose touch with our actual position as observer, doer and feeler.
4. Ideal and Practical Concepts
Now, the above insights concerning the concept of self can be generalized to all concepts. That is, the same logical analysis can be applied in relation to any predication. We have on the one hand an ideal concept of some established object, which by definition contains only truths, known or yet unknown, about the object. And on the other hand, we have the practical concept, which we know to be inductive, subject to change – development, correction and improvement – and therefore by definition to some knowable but unknown extent untrue. The ideal concept thus has a wholly real (though relatively bare) content, whereas the practical concept has a partly real and partly unreal (though much richer) content.
Strictly speaking, then, the practical concept intends a non-existent object, while the ideal concept allows us to intend the nevertheless existing object. We need both of them for our discourse; they are complementary. The ideal concept is one portion of the practical, which also includes more doubtful elements or aspects. Careful knowledge acquisition, which may be aided by meditation, consists in being at all times aware to the maximum extent of the epistemological status (true or false, or certain or uncertain to what degree) of each item of knowledge. That is, to know at any given time what part of each concept is the basic-ideal part and what remainder is the tentative-practical part. To remember at all times that knowledge is something always in flux, which it is our responsibility to evaluate repeatedly to remain in touch with reality.
Just as the Buddhists deny “selfhood” to people, they deny “essence” to all other things. For them, this is one and the same error; the former being just a special case of, or alternatively causing, the latter. Our explanation of their position would be that they are referring to what we have just called practical concepts: their contents are indeed unlikely to fully correspond to real essence or selfhood. As for ideal concepts, they are not “empty,” since their intention is by definition whatever happens to be real, whether or not it is known. Even in Buddhism, concepts like those of “mind ground” or “nirvana” must be admitted to be exceptions to the rule of emptiness, since they are effectively treated as the ultimate essence of things and people.
Notwithstanding, with a view to keeping an open mind in relation to this interesting Buddhist doctrine, we should at least experimentally attempt to construct a meditation and discourse gradually free from projections of self and the subject-predicate relation (predication).
For instance, in meditation, instead of thinking “I must become aware of my breath”, think “become aware of breath” (thus diverting attention away from self, though still with an injunction), then think “awareness of breath” (thus getting away from a sense of active willing, of intensifying awareness and directing it towards the breath), then think “breath” (thus removing the relation implied by “of”), then just be wordlessly aware of breath (a pure phenomenon).
Thus, without adhering to Nagarjuna’s fallacious discourse[14], gradually pursue wordless awareness, dropping the “I” (Subject), then instead of propositions (which use subjects and predicates) use only lone terms (verbalized concepts), then focus on the content of such terms (the event intended, without the word), then abandon the injunction to “think” of it and just experience such content inactively. All this merely goes back down the chain of conceptualization, and it is of course easier to learn not to go up it in the first place (at least not during such meditation).
5. Fallacious Criticisms of Selfhood
Since writing Buddhist Illogic, I have been reviewing Buddhist arguments against selfhood more carefully, and I must say that – while they continue to inspire deeper awareness of philosophical issues in me – I increasingly find them unconvincing, especially with regard to logical standards.
Buddhists conceive of the self as a non-entity, an illusion produced by a set of surrounding circumstances (‘causes and conditions’), like a hole in the middle of a framework (of matter or mind or whatever). But I have so far come across no convincing detailed formulation of this curious (but interesting) thesis, no clear statement that would explain how a vacuity can seemingly have consciousness, will and values. Until such a theory is presented, I continue to accept self as an entity (call it soul) of some substance (spirit, say). Such a self is apparently individual, but might well at a deeper level turn out to be universal. The individuation of soul might be an illusion due to narrow vision, just as the individuation of material bodies seems to be.
Criticisms of the idea of self are no substitute for a positive statement. It is admittedly hard to publicly (versus introspectively) and indubitably demonstrate the existence of a soul, with personal powers of cognition, volition and affection. But this theory remains the most credible, in that the abstract categories it uses (entity, substance, property, causality) are already familiar and functional in other contexts. In contrast, the impersonal thesis remains mysterious, however open-minded we try to be. It may be useful for meditation purposes, but as a philosophical proposition it seems wanting.
Generally speaking, I observe that those who attempt to rationalize the Buddhist no-self thesis indulge in too-vague formulations, unjustified generalizations and other non sequiturs. A case in point is the work Lotus in a Stream by Hsing Yun[15], which I have recently reread. The quotations given below as examples are from this work.
“Not only are all things impermanent, but they are also all devoid of self-nature. Having no self-nature means that all things depend on other things for their existence. Not one of them is independent and able to exist without other things” (pp. 86-87).
Here, the imprecision of the term “existence” or “to exist” allows for misrepresentation. Western thought would readily admit that all (or perhaps most) things come to be and continue to be and cease to be and continue to not-be as a result of the arrival, presence, departure or absence of a variety of other things. But that is very different from saying that their being itself is dependent: for us, facts are facts, i.e. once a thing is a past or present fact, nothing can change that fact, it is not “dependent” on anything. Yet, I contend, Buddhists seem to be trying to deny this, and cause confusion by blurring the distinction between change over different time and place, and change within identical time and place.
“The meaning of the word ‘things’ in these statements is all phenomena, both formed and formless, all events, all mental acts, all laws, and anything else you can think of.”
Here, the suggestion is that impermanence concerns not only phenomena, which strictly speaking are material or mental objects of perception, but also abstract objects. The terms “formless” and “laws” and “anything you can think of” suggest this. But of course such a statement surreptitiously slips in something we would not readily grant, though we would easily admit that phenomena are impermanent. The whole point of a “law” is that it is a constant in the midst of change, something we conceive through our rational faculty as the common character of a multitude of changing phenomenal events. The principle of Impermanence is not supposed to apply to abstracts. Indeed, it is itself an abstract, considered not to be impermanent!
“To say that nothing has a self-nature is to say that nothing has any attribute that endures over long periods of time. There is no ‘nature’ that always stays the same in anything anywhere. If the ‘nature’ of a thing cannot possibly stay the same, then how can it really be a nature? Eventually everything changes and therefore nothing can be said to have a ‘nature,’ much less a self-nature.”
Here, the author obscures the issue of how long a period of time is – or can be – involved. Even admitting that phenomena cannot possibly endure forever, it does not follow that they do not endure at all. Who then is to say that an attribute cannot last as long as the thing it is an attribute of lasts? They are both phenomena, therefore they are both impermanent – but nothing precludes them from enduring for the same amount of time. The empirical truth is: some attributes come and/or go within the life of a phenomenal thing, and some are equally extended in time. Also, rates of change vary; they are not all the same. The author is evidently trying to impose a vision of things that will comfort his extreme thesis.
We can, incidentally, conceive of different sorts of continuity of conjunctions of phenomena (see Figure 4). An essential attribute of a thing would coexist fully, like an underlying thread of equal time length. A weaker scenario of continuity would be a chaining of different events, such that the first shares some time with the second, which shares some with the third, and so forth, without the first and third, second and fourth and so on having time in common. In some cases, continuity may be completely illusory, in that events succeed each other contiguously in time without sharing any time.
Hsing Yun goes on arguing:
“the body… is a delusion caused by a brief congregation of the physical and mental components of existence Just as a house is made of many parts that create an appearance, so the body… When those parts are separated, no self-nature will be found anywhere.”
That a house or human body is an aggregate of many separable elements, does not prove that when these elements are together (in a certain appropriate way, of course) they do not collectively produce something new. The whole may be more than its constituent parts, because the whole is not just the sum of the parts but an effect of theirs. The bricks of a house do not just add up to a house, but together become a house when placed side by side in certain ways; if placed apart (or together in the wrong way) they do not constitute a house (but at best a pile of bricks). Similarly for the atoms forming a molecule, the molecules forming a living cell, the cells causing a human organism. At each level, there is a causal interplay of parts, which produces something new that is more than the parts, something we call the whole, with its own distinct attributes and properties.
It is thus quite legitimate to suppose that when matter comes together in a certain way we call a live human body, it produces a new thing called the self or soul or spirit, which thing we regard as the essence of being human because we attribute to it the powers of consciousness and volition that we evidently display (and which the constituent matter in us does not, as far as we can see, separately display). That this idea of self is a hypothesis may be readily admitted; but to anyone conscious of the inductive basis of most human knowledge that does not constitute a criticism (all science develops through hypotheses). The important point to note is that Buddhist commentators like this one give arguments that do not succeed in proving what they purport to prove.
Here are some more examples, relating to the notion of “emptiness”:
“Dependent origination means that everything is produced from conditions and that nothing has an independent existence of its own. Everything is connected to everything else and everything is conditioned by everything else. ‘Emptiness’ is the word used to describe the fact that nothing has an independent nature of its own” (p. 94).
Here, the reader should notice the vagueness of terms like “connection” or “conditioning”. They are here used without nuance, without remark that very many kinds and degrees of causal relation may be involved. The impression made on the reader is that everything is equally bound to everything else, however far or near in space and time. But that is not merely untrue – it is conceptually untenable! Concepts of causality arise with reference to a specific relation, which some things have with each other and some things lack with each other. If all things had the same causal relation to all other things, no concept of a causal relation would arise nor be needed. We can very loosely say that the cause of a cause of a thing is “causally related” to it, but causal logic teaches us that the cause of a cause of a thing is not always itself “a cause” of it in the strict sense. And even if it is, it may not be so in the same degree. It follows that Hsing Yun is here again misleading us.
“Emptiness does not mean nothingness… all things have being because they all do exist interdependently” (p.97).
Here, the image communicated to us is that each thing, although in itself empty of substance, acquires existence through its infinity of relations (dependencies) to all other things, each of which is itself empty of substance. We must ask, is this theoretical scenario credible? Does an infinity of zeros add up to a non-zero? What are those “relations” between “things”? Are they not also “things”? Are they not also empty, in which case what gives them existence? The concept of relation implies the pre-existence of things being related (terms); if all that exists are relations, is the concept still meaningful?
Furthermore, what does interdependence (a.k.a. co-dependence) mean, exactly? Is an embrace in mid-air between two or more people equivalent to a mutual support? If I cannot support myself, can I support you? The notion is unconscionable.
“Nothing is unchangeable or unchanging. All phenomena exist in succession. They are always changing, being born, and dying.”
Here, the author has simply dropped out the (previously acknowledged) and very relevant fact of enduring. To convince us that the world is nothing but flux, he mentions birth, change and death – but eclipses the fact of living, if only for a little while! The phrase “they are always” does not necessarily mean “each of them in every moment.”
“A cause (seed) becomes an effect (fruit), which itself contains the cause (seed) for another effect, and so on. The entire phenomenal world works just like this” (p. 98).
Here, we are hastily dragged into a doubtful generalization. The description of the cycle of life, with procreation from generation to generation, does not necessarily fit other causal successions. Causation in the world of inanimate matter obeys its own laws, like Newton’s Laws of Motion for example. There is nothing truly equivalent to reproduction in it, to my memory. To convince us, the author would have to be much more precise in his analogies. Philosophers have no literary license.
“If we were to break a body down into its constituent parts, the body would no longer exist as a body.”
So what? Is that meant to explain or prove “emptiness”? If you kill an animal and cut it up, of course you will not find the life in it, or the consciousness it had, or its “animal nature”. It does not follow that when the animal is alive and well, it lacks these things!
“The meanings of the words ‘above’ and ‘below’ depend on where we are. They do not have absolute meanings, It is like this with all words and all relationships between things” (p. 99).
Again, a hasty generalization – from specifically relative terms to all words. Every grammarian knows that relative terms are just one type of term among others. That the former exist does not imply that the latter have the same character or properties. Similarly, Hsing Yun argues that the relativity of a word like “brightness” (our characterization of the brightness of a light is subjective and variable) exemplifies the relativity of all terms. But here again, he is passing from an obvious case to all cases, although many qualifications are based on stricter, scientific measurement. Moreover, describing how a piece of cloth may have various uses, as a shirt or as a skirt, he argues:
“It is the same piece of cloth in all cases, but since it is used differently, we have different names for it. All words are like this; their meanings depend on how and where they are used.”
This is supposed to convince us that words are “false and wavering” and help us to better understand emptiness. But the truthfulness and accuracy of language are clearly not at stake here, so the implied negative conclusion is unwarranted. The proof is that we all understand precisely his description of the changing practical role of the piece of cloth. “Cloth can be used as shirt or as skirt” is a perfectly legitimate sentence involving the natural modality “can” and two predicates in disjunction for a single subject (A can be B or C). Of course, if one starts with the idea that language can only consist of sentences with two terms and one modality (A is B), then one will be confused by more complex situations. But if one’s understanding of human thought is more developed, one does not fall into foolish conclusions.
Lastly, Hsing Yun refers to “the relative natures of our perceptions” to justify the idea of emptiness. He describes two people watching a snowfall, one is a poet sitting in his warm house, the other a homeless man shivering outdoors. The first hopes the snow will continue to fall, so he can enjoy watching it; the second fears that if the snow continues to fall, he may freeze to death. The author concludes:
“Both are seeing the same scenery, but since their conditions are different they perceive it very differently.”
Thus, perceptions are “false” and emptiness “underlies” them. Here again, his interpretation of the situation is tendentious, designed to buttress his preconceived doctrines. To be precise, the two people correctly perceive the (more or less) same snowy scene; what differs is their evaluation of the biological consequences of what they are perceiving (or more precisely still, what they anticipate to further experience). There is no relativity of perception involved! We have two quite legitimate sentences, which are both probably true “I’ll enjoy further snow” and “I’ll be killed by further snow”. “I” being the poet in one case and the poor man in the other case, there is no contradiction between them.
By arguments like those we have analyzed, Hsing Yun arrives at the overall conclusion that:
“The universe can only exist because all phenomena are empty. If phenomena were not empty, nothing could change or come into being. Being and emptiness are two sides of the same thing” (p. 100).
But none of his premises or arguments permits us to infer or explicate such conclusion. It is a truism that if your cup is full, you cannot add to it; or if you have no room to move into, you cannot move. But this is not what the author is here talking about; the proposed thesis is of course much more radical, though still largely obscure. All we are offered are dogmatic statements, which repeat on and on what the Buddha is claimed to have said.
I am personally still quite willing to believe that the Buddha did say something enlightening about interdependence, impermanence, selflessness and emptiness, but the words used were apparently not very clear. I just hope that his difficulty was merely in finding the right words to express his insights, and that the reasoning behind those words was not as faulty as that I have encountered in the work of commentators so far!
Still, sentences like the following from the Flower Garland Sutra are deliciously pregnant with meaning, challenging us to keep digging[16]:
“When wind moves through emptiness, nothing really moves.”
6. What “Emptiness” Might Be[17]
The following is an attempt to eclectically merge the Western and Indian idea of a ‘soul’ with aspects of the Buddhist idea that we are “empty” of any such substance. What might the ‘soul’ be, what its place in ‘the world’, what its ‘mechanics’? Can we interpret and clarify the notion of “emptiness” intellectually?
The Buddhist notion of “emptiness” (in its more extremist versions) is, as far as I am concerned to date, unconvincing. If anything is empty, it is the very concept of emptiness as used by them – for they never clearly define it or explain it. Philosophy cannot judge ideas that remain forever vague and Kafkaesque accusations. The onus is on the philosophers of emptiness to learn to express their ideas more verbally.
6.1 Imagine the soul as an entity in the manifold, of (say) spiritual substance, a very fine energy form somewhat distinct from the substances of the mental domain (that of imaginations) and of the material domain (that of physical phenomena, regarded as one’s body and the world beyond one’s body).[18]
6.2 While solipsism is a logically acceptable proposition, equally conceivable is the notion that the soul may be one among many in a large population of souls scattered in the sea of existence, which includes also the coarser mental and material energies. These spiritual entities may well have common natures and behavior tendencies, and be able to impact on each other and become aware of each other.
Those many souls may conceivably be expressions of one and the same single Soul, and indeed mind and matter may also be expressions of that one Soul, which might perhaps be identified with (a rather Hindu viewpoint) or be a small emanation of (a more Jewish view) what we call God. Alternatively, the many souls may be interrelated more in the way of a network.
The latter view could be earmarked as more Buddhist, if we focus on its doctrine of “interdependence.” However, we can also consider Buddhism compatible with the idea of a collective or root Soul, if we focus on its doctrine of an “original, common ground of mind.” This refers to a mental ocean, whence all thoughts splash up momentarily (as seemingly evident in meditation). At first individual and psychological, this original substance is eventually regarded as universal and metaphysical, on the basis of a positivistic argument[19] that since even material sensations are known only through mind, we can only suppose that everything is mind. Thus, not only ‘thoughts,’ but all ‘things’ are mere turbulences in this primordial magma. Even individual ‘selves’ are merely drops of this mental sea water that momentarily have the illusion of separateness and personal identity.
6.3 For each individual soul (as for the greater Soul as a whole), the mind, the body, and the world beyond, of more matter, mind and spirit energies, may all be just projected ‘images’ (a viewpoint close to Bishop Berkeley’s in the West or Yogachara philosophers in Buddhism). This is not an affirmation by me, I am merely trying to demystify this theory and take it into consideration, note well.
The term image, here, does not signify image of anything else. Such images are perhaps media of self-expression and discourse of the soul (or Soul). That is, the ‘world around me’ may be a language the soul creates and uses to express itself and communicate with itself (and with other eventual souls).
Granting there are objectively are many souls, we can observe that these souls have many (perhaps most) of their images in common. This raises an important question, often asked in relation to such Idealism. If our worlds (including the physical aspects) are personal imaginations, how come so much of their contents agree, and how is it that they seem to be subject to the same ‘laws of nature’?
One possible answer is to assume the many souls to be emanations of a central Soul (animal, human or Divine). In that case, it is no wonder that they share experiences and laws.
Alternatively, we could answer that like images just happen to be (or are by force of their nature and habits) repeatedly projected by the many souls. In this way, they seemingly share a world (in part, at least), even though it is an imaginary one. Having delusions in common, they have perceptions in common. They can thus interact in regular ways in a single apparent ‘natural environment,’ and develop collective knowledge, society, culture, technology, ethics, politics and history. Thus, we are not forced to assume one common, objective world. It may well be that each soul projects for itself certain images that other souls likewise project for themselves, and these projected images happen to be the same upon comparison.
6.4 Viewed as a ball of subtle energy, the soul can well have its own spiritual ‘mechanics’ – its outer and inner shapes and motions, the creases and stirrings within it and at the interface with the mental and material (and spiritual) energies around it, the mathematics of the waves which traverse it and its environment, like a creature floating in the midst of the sea.
Consciousness and will, here viewed as different powers of projection, are the ways the soul interacts with itself and its supposed surrounds.
These wave-motion capacities of the soul, are naturally subject to some ‘laws’ – although the individual soul has some considerable leeway, it is not free to operate just any way it pleases, but tends to remain under most circumstances in certain fixed or repeated patterns. These (spiritual, psychological) ‘laws’ are often shared with other souls; but each of them may also have distinct constraints or habits – which gives each its individuality. Such common and individual ‘laws’ are their real underlying natures, as distinct from the image of ‘nature’ they may project.
In the event that the plurality of souls is explained by a single great Soul, there is even less difficulty in understanding how they may be subject to common laws. On the other hand, the individualities of the fragmentary souls require explanation. Here, we must suppose either an intentional, voluntary relinquishment of power on the part of the great Soul (so that little souls have some ignorance and some freedom of action) or an involuntary sleep or weakness (which latter thesis is less acceptable if we identify the larger soul with God).
With regard to the great Soul as a whole, it may either be subject to limitations and forces in its consciousness and volition – or it may be independent of any such natural restrictions or determinations, totally open and free. Our concept of God opts for the latter version, of course – whence the characterizations of omniscient and omnipotent (and all-good, granting that evil is an aberration due to ignorance and impotence).
6.5 The motive and end result of theses like the above is ethical. They aim and serve to convince people that the individual soul can find liberation from the constraints or habits it is subject to, by realizing its unity with other individual souls. ‘Realizing’ here means transcending one’s individuality by becoming aware of, identifying oneself with and espousing the cause of, other entities of the same substance, or the collective or root Soul. Thus, enlightenment and liberation are one and the same. Ultimately, the individuals are to abandon individuation and merge with all existence, melting back into the original source.
This doctrine presupposes that the individual soul self-constructs, and constructs the world around, in the sense that it defines (and thus effectively divides) itself out from the totality. This illusion of individuation is the sum of its creativity and activity, and also its crucial error. The individual soul does not of course create the world (which is its source); but it produces the virtual world of its particular world-view, which is its own prison and the basis of all its suffering, its “samsara.”
Realizing the emptiness of self would be full awareness in practice that the limited self is an expression of the ignorance and stupidity that the limited self is locked into because of various beliefs and acts. Realizing the emptiness of other entities (material, mental and spiritual) around one, would be full awareness in practice that they are projections of the limited self, in the sense that such projection fragments a whole into parts. Ultimately, too, the soul is advised to realize that Soul, souls and their respective projections are one continuum.
Those who make the above-implied promises of enlightenment and liberation claim justification through personal meditative experiences or prophetic revelations. I have no such first-hand experience or authority, but here merely try to report and elucidate such doctrines, to check their conceivability and understand them. To me, no one making philosophical utterances can claim special privileges; all philosophers are equally required to present clear ideas and convincing arguments.
6.6 The way to such realization is through meditation, as well as altruistic and sane action.
In the framework of the above-mentioned Buddhist philosophy of “original ground” (also called “Buddha mind”), meditation may be viewed as an attempt to return to that profound, natural, eternal calm. Those who attain this level of awareness are said to be in “nirvana.” The illusion of (particular, individual) selfhood arises from disturbances[20], and ceases with their quieting. The doctrine that the illusory self is “empty,” means that we must not identify with any superficial flashes of material or mental excitement, but remain grounded in the Buddha mind.
For example, the Tibetan work The Summary of Philosophical Systems[21] warns against the self being either differentiated from or identified with “the psycho-physical constituents.” I interpret this statement (deliberately ignoring its paradoxical intent[22]) to mean that there is nothing more to the illusory self than these phenomenal manifestations, and therefore that they cannot be the real self. Dogmatic Buddhists provocatively[23] insist that no real self exists, but moderates do seem to admit it as equivalent to the universal, original ground.
Buddhist philosophers generally admit of perception and conception, but ignore or deny direct self-awareness. Consistently enough, they reject any claim to a soul (spiritual substance), since they consider that we have no real experience thereof. For them, the “psycho-physical constituents” are all we ordinarily experience or think about, so that soul must be “empty” (of anything but these constituents) and illusory (since these are not enough to constitute a soul). But this theory does not specify or explain the type of consciousness involved in the Buddha mind, or through which “emptiness” is known!
Another way to view things is to admit that there are three sources of knowledge, the perceptual (which gives us material and mental phenomenal manifestations), the conceptual (which gives us abstracts), and thirdly the intuitive (which gives us self-knowledge, apperception of the self and its particular cognitions, volitions and valuations). Accordingly, we ought to acknowledge in addition to material and mental substances, a spiritual substance (of which souls are made, or the ultimate Soul). The latter mode of consciousness may explain not only our everyday intuitions of self, but perhaps also the higher levels of meditation.
What we ordinarily consider our “self” is, as we have seen earlier, an impression or concept, based on perception and conception, as well as on intuitive experience. In this perspective, so long as we are too absorbed in the perceptual and conceptual fields (physical sensations, imaginations, feelings and emotions, words and thoughts, etc.), we are confused and identify with an illusory self. To make contact with our real (individual, or eventually universal) self, we must concentrate more fully on the intuitive field. With patience, if we allow the more sensational and exciting presentations to pass away, we begin to become aware of the finer, spiritual aspects of experience. That is meditation.
(See also Appendix 2).
[1] The term ‘self’ might be defined (in a rather circular manner) as ‘other than everything else that is an object of consciousness.’ It of course refers to the same thing as ‘soul.’ The concept of soul refers to something very unitary, the ultimate Subject of cognition and Agent of valuation and volition. The concept of ego refers to a more superficial layer of the psyche, a complex of current and habitual attitudes and behaviors, bound together by certain ‘ruts’ of thinking. The former is relatively free and responsible; the latter functions under considerable compulsion. The ego is the passive expression of the soul’s history of experiences, thoughts and choices, whereas the soul is the active maker of that history. (See next section.)
[2] In Buddhist Illogic, I criticize this idea as based on dubious generalizations and infinities.
[3] In my not yet published work The Logic of Causation, I show how if everything is causally related to everything else (in the same sense of causation), then nothing is causally related to anything! For causation can only be distinguished out from the mass of appearances if some things have this relation while others do not. The notion of ‘everything causing everything’ is self-contradictory.
[4] That is, one instance of the cognitive relation has another instance of the relation as its term, which in turn has something other than an instance of the relation as its term.
[5] Of course, I do not mean that feelings are unrelated to the person experiencing them, but only that they may be more superficial than they seem, or have subconscious motives other than those pretended, and so forth. For example, apparent ‘love’ may turn out to be mere ‘infatuation,’ or be motivated by convention or duty, or even unadmitted hatred.
[6] This is stated to oppose the Buddhist idea that inconstancy implies that there is nothing to identify with. One may indeed identify with a changing set of things.
[7] Paradoxically, narcissists, vain persons who are wont to look excessively in mirrors, or seek to be photographed or filmed, are psychologically deeply insecure about their existence and identity. Big egos are really inflated balloons, fragile to a mere pinprick.
[8] This was identified by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden as a widespread affliction. They called such people, whose thoughts, values and actions are neurotically dependent on other’s, “second-handers.” Conformism or eccentricity, fear of loss of face and pursuit of prestige, are some of the expressions of this problem.
[9] Factual, as well as merely conventional aspects, may also of course be involved. Thus, family, nation or religion is usually based on one’s natural parents; educational level or profession, on actual studies and practice; and so forth.
[10] I personally immediately block such fantasies when I become aware of them, though in my youth I would on occasion indulge in them. Many people are evidently unable, or more precisely unwilling or untrained, to control such personality induction, and end up floating hither and thither in borrowed identities.
[11] Following Western tradition rather than the more radical Buddhist thesis, for now at least.
[12] Just as, say, the concept of a “unicorn” has no real referent (though horses and horns are real enough, separately).
[13] For me the idea that there is no self has the same fascination as the conclusion of Einstein’s Relativity theory that there is no ‘ether.’ This concept of a substance in empty space, or of existence as such, was (I believe) originally suggested by Descartes. I personally find it difficult to grasp how the waves of field theory can be waves of nothing. Yet I am well aware that Einstein’s conclusion is unavoidable, given the constancy of the speed of light whatever the observer’s direction of motion. Conversely, if a no-ether is conceivable, why not a no-self?
[14] See my work Buddhist Illogic with regard to Nagarjuna’s arguments.
[15] See in particular chapters 7-9. (The author is a Chinese Buddhist monk, b. 1928.)
[16] For instance, is there a state of consciousness in which one experiences space-time as a static whole?
[17] This essay was initially written for the book Buddhist Illogic, but at the time I decided that it was not sufficiently exhaustive and consistent and did not belong there. I have since then improved it somewhat.
[18] Note that animists regard even plants and stones as spiritual.
[19] As I make clear elsewhere, I am not personally convinced by this extreme argument.
[20] It is not clear to me how these disturbances are supposed by this theory to arise in the beginning. But this issue is not limited to Buddhism: for philosophers in general, the question is how did the one become many; for physicists, it is what started the Big Bang; for monotheists, it is why did God suddenly decide to create the universe? A deeper question still is how did the existence arise in the first place, or in Buddhism, where did the original ground come from?
[21] See Guenther, p. 67.
[22] Having dealt with the fallacy of the tetralemma in my Buddhist Illogic.
[23] Looking at the history of Indian philosophy, one cannot but notice the one-upmanship involved in its development. The concept of samsara (which I believe was originally intended as one of totality, albeit a cyclical one) was trumped by that of nirvana (again a totality, though beyond cycles), which was then in turn surpassed by that of “neither samsara nor nirvana, nor both” (the Middle Way version). Similarly, the concept of no-self is intended to outdo that of universal Self.
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22 September, 2018
5 Foods for a Restful Night’s Sleep
Getting some good quality shut eye is essential to everyone, so whether you need 4 hours of sleep a night or if you need your full 8 hours, you need good quality sleep to ensure you’re ready for the day of the head and for your overall health and well-being. Not only this, but good quality sleep can reduce the risks of chronic illnesses impeding on your health as-well-as keeping both your gut and your brain healthy and helping to give your immune system a much needed boost.
Also, gaming at places like www.cozino.com can help you to de-stress just like a good sleep. Also, did you know that what you eat has one of the biggest impacts on your sleep quality? Try to incorporate these foods into your bad to promote good quality sleep and see if you notice a difference.
1. Turkey
We aren’t talking about a full turkey roast dinner like you’d have at Christmas, but a turkey casserole or a refreshing turkey salad is a perfect way to incorporate turkey into your diet. The meat is very high in protein which is essential for keeping your muscles strong and keeping your appetite ticking over. Not only this, but turkey is full of sleep inducing vitamins such as amino acid tryptophan, a vitamin that increased the hormone melatonin which is great for good quality sleep.
2. Almonds
Not only are they delicious to snack on and very easily incorporated into your every day, they are a great source of vitamins and nutrients including magnesium, riboflavin and phosphorus which actively promote sleep.
Self-professed health and fitness addict Lisa from Cozino swear by almonds are their sleep-inducing qualities: “almonds give you 20% of your recommended daily intake of magnesium in just 1 ounce! After suffering from insomnia for many years, this really made a difference to my sleep quality and I would recommend it to anyone struggling with getting the sleep they need.”
3. Bananas
Jam packed with sleep regulating hormones, bananas are a great way to promote sleep. Try having some sliced banana on toast as a snack a few hours before bedtime, maybe with some walnut butter as walnuts are also acclaimed for great sleep. Bananas contain magnesium as-well-as tryptophan which will help you to drift off.
4. Rice and Oats
We live in a world where Carbs are seen as a dirty word and avoided like the plague, which could be part of the problem. Carbohydrates are essential to your body and also great for sleep regulation. Oats and rice are said to induce a satisfied, drowsy feeling which when eaten before bed will help you to drift off soundly and deeply. As-well-as this, oats especially are a great source of melatonin which also promotes sleep regulation.
5. Cottage Cheese
Great news, cheese is on the list! Albeit, it’s hardly a cheese toastie, but cheese nonetheless. Cottage cheese has a high casein content which is a protein found in milk which is known to help you muscles repair and rest overnight, so eating cottage cheese before bed could significantly help you to feel more rested when you wake.
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Symantec Acquires Javelin Networks to Thwart Growing Number of Active Directory-Based Attacks
Symantec Corp. announced the acquisition of Javelin Networks, a privately held company that offers advanced software technology to defend enterprises against Active Directory-based attacks.
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) services have become an increasingly popular target for attackers, who use AD reconnaissance to discover the users, servers and computers in an enterprise network and then move laterally across the network using this information to carry out multi-stage attacks. Recently, multiple major advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns have used AD credentials to move laterally in the network beginning with a single compromised endpoint. This challenge is pervasive, as a large number of enterprises worldwide use AD services to manage their users, applications, and computers.
To counter those threats, Javelin Networks was founded by Red Team post-exploitation experts with a mission to protect every machine in the world connected to Active Directory. They developed software to protect AD and commonly-used domain resources, including domain controllers, domain identities, and domain credentials. Javelin Networks' advanced technology can detect AD misconfigurations and backdoors and help prevent AD reconnaissance and credentials misuse by authorized devices and applications.
Starting today, the Javelin Networks team and its technology is part of Symantec's endpoint security business. The privately held company was founded in 2014 and has employees based in Israel and the U.S. The company's AD | Protect and AD | Assess products have won several industry awards from SC Magazine and others.
"In the cloud generation, identity management services, such as Active Directory, are a critical part of a user's interaction with their organization's applications and services. They are also a critical information repository that attackers regularly exploit," said Javed Hasan, senior vice president of endpoint and data center products, Symantec. "The addition of Javelin Networks technology to our industry-leading endpoint security portfolio gives Symantec customers a unique advantage in one of the most vulnerable and critical areas of IT infrastructure. Most importantly, it can help expose exploitable backdoors in AD and stop attacks at the point of breach while preventing lateral movement."
This acquisition further strengthens the industry's most comprehensive endpoint security stack in a single-agent architecture. As one of four critical control points of the company's Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) helps customers meet the challenges of the cloud generation by simplifying and optimizing their environments, helping to lower costs, and improving security.
Over the past two years, Symantec has made significant investments to bring innovation to its endpoint security portfolio, further enhancing the company's ability to protect the broadest spectrum of modern endpoints and operating systems (e.g. iOS, Android). Symantec furthered its commitment to endpoint innovation with the acquisition of Appthority , a privately held company that offers comprehensive Mobile Application Security Analysis. Recent product additions to Symantec's endpoint security portfolio include SEP Hardening Application Isolation, deception and Targeted Attack Analytics. Adding Javelin technology strengthens Symantec's endpoint controls offering, further enhancing the company's ability to protect modern and traditional endpoints (e.g. iOS, Android) from a single vendor and extending its leadership in endpoint security (Symantec is named a leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms and Forrester Wave for Endpoint Security Suites, and AV-Test Institute Best Protection Awards).
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Monday, February 15, 2016
A bored game to die for
To die, or Two Dice
Two dudes are playing a board game where A is losing
A: I want to die...
B: Actually its "I want two dice…"
A: So that means I’m gonna dice?
B: No, in that case its "I’m gonna die…"
A:Wait what???, I’m confused…
B: Me too… What were you talking about?
A: I’m saying that I’m about to lose and to me that is like dying…
B:Oh.. I thought that you wanted two dice to roll…
badumm tsss
I may be wrong, but at the moment,
I think I'm right ,
Monday, February 8, 2016
Pen-Ink-Update #9: Interim
Saja membuang habuk
Sebab banyak benda x menjadi
Fuuuuuuuuuh!!! (tiup habuk)
damnit! baru datang mood nak update blog,
tapi blogger ade problem pulak...
dah la cakap nak post pasal life kat USM dan pasal konvo...
minggu depan nak start master pun aku x buat apa2 lagi... *wink2
aku dah buat draft benda2 yg aku ckp,
tapi selagi masalah design ni x setel... mmg x ler...
ok la tu jer... hahaha
Edit 5 minit lepas post:
Komplen masalah>cari jalan penyelesaian>jumpa solution... k, hahaha...
I may be wrong, but at the moment,
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Monasterboice / Mainistir Bhuithe
Monasterboice / Mainistir Bhuithe (HMGCI)
Location: Manning, Louth 29102 Louth
Country: Ireland
N 53° 46.649', W 6° 25.025'
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Monasterboice — from Mainistir Bhuithe (the Monastery of Buithe)
This is the only early Irish monastery whose name incorporates the Irish word mainistir.
Monasterboice was founded by St Buite, who died around 520.
The monastery was an important centre of spirituality and learning for many centuries until the Cistercians arrived at nearby Mellifont in 1142.
The two churches which stand on the site today were probably built no earlier than the end of the 14th century. The round tower seems to have been the treasury as well as the belfry since the annals record that it was burned in 1097 along with the books and treasures of the monastery.
Monasterboice's great monuments are its high crosses which may have been used to tell the stories from the Bible to a congregation. Muiredach's Cross, one of the most perfect in Ireland, is named after an abbot, probably Muiredach mac Domhnaill who died in 923. It is 5.5m high and is decorated with figure sculpture from both the Old and New Testaments. The west face of the cross-head has a crucifixion.
A sundial was used to tell time in the monastery.
The elegant West Cross, located close to the round tower, is also early 10th century in date. On the east face of its cross-head is the Second Coming of Christ while on the opposite face is a crucifixion. A reconstructed third high cross with a crucifixion stands inside a railing at the north end of the site.
Monasterboice — from Mainistir Bhuithe (the Monastery of Buithe)
Is ? seo an t-aon [?]mhainistir amh?in ina bhfuil an focal mainistir mar chuid den airen.
Bhunaigh Naomh Buithe (a d'?ag thart ar 520) Mainistir Bhuithe.
Ionad t?bhachtach ab ea Mainistir Bhuithe i gc?rsa? spiorad?lta agus l?inn ar feadh na gc?adta bliain, go dt? gur th?inig na Cisteirsigh go dt? Mainistir Mh?r Dhroichead ?tha, in aice l?imhe, sa bhliain 1142.
Gach seans n?r t?gadh an d? eaglais at? ina seasamh san ?it inniu nios t?isce n? deireadh an 14? haois. T? an chuma ar an sc?al go raibh an cloigtheach in ?id mar thaisce i dteannta ? a bheith ina chlog, mar sna hann?la tuairisc?tear gur d?dh ? bhliain 1097 mar aon le leabhair agus taisc? na mainistreach.
Is iad na crosa arda na pr?omh-sh?adchomhartha? i Mainistir Bhuithe. Meastar gur ?ideadh iad chun sc?alta ?n mB?obla a l?iri? don phobal. Luaitear an chros is fearr in ?irinn, Cros Mhuireadhaigh, le hab darbh ainm Muireadhach Mac Domhnaill, a d'?ag sa bhliain 923.
T? s? 5.5m ar airde agus t? figi?ir? ?n Sean-agus ?n Nua-Thiomna greanta uirthi. T? dealbh na croiche greanta ar aghaidh thair cheann na croise.
D'?idt? clog gr??ne chun c?rsa? ama a shocr? sa mhainistir.
Luaitear d?ta i dt an 10? haois freisin leis an gcros mhaorga thiar, at? suite in aice leis an gcloigtheach. Ar aghaidh thoir cheann na croise t? Teacht Chriost an Athuair l?irithe, agus ar a ch?l sin t? deatbh na croiche. Laistigh de na r?ill? ar an taobh thuaidh den su?omh seo t? cros ard eile a bh? briste ach at? churtha le ch?ile aris.
[Gaelic version is a best effort but not exact]
Placed ByOffice of Public Works / Oifig na nOibreacha Poibl
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, October 26th, 2014 at 2:48pm PDT -07:00
Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)29U E 670193 N 5961860
Decimal Degrees53.77748333, -6.41708333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 53° 46.649', W 6° 25.025'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds53° 46' 38.94" N, 6° 25' 1.50" W
Driving DirectionsGoogle Maps
Area Code(s)803
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 32-98 Unnamed Road, Manning Louth 29102, IE
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Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey Phoenix New Times Authors
Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey are the co-founders and former owners of Phoenix New Times a newspaper company located in Phoenix, Arizona. They both dropped out of Arizona University and founded the newspaper in 1970.
The newspaper was founded as a counterculture response to the Kent State shootings that took place during the year. The New Times is best known for covering non-traditional events and discussing stories that are not covered by mainstream papers.
The sheriff of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio had Lacey and Larkin arrested in October 2007. They were arrested because they were accused of sharing confidential grand jury information about the sheriff.
The story revealed how the sheriff exploited the Arizona prison system and his shady business transactions. In response to the publication, the sheriff had the authors documents, computers, and IP addresses confiscated.
Larkin and Lacey exposed the sheriff’s corrupt and racist tactics to the public. Joe Arpaio was sheriff for 24 years and was the subject of controversy. He was accused of torture and mismanaging the Arizona prison system. The prisoners were kept in concentration camp like living conditions and some were beaten to death. He was also accused of sex crimes and poor follow through of investigations.
Since he had a history of discriminating against Latino’s, there was a lawsuit filed against him. During the Melendres v. Arpaio case, he was criminally convicted of racial profiling. He was an abusive sheriff and did not care for the welfare of others. Read more: Lacey and Larkin Frontera Fund and Village Voice Media | Wikipedia
Many people were killed, tortured and abused under his authority. Along with physically abusing the inmates, the sheriff was accused of making inmates wear pink underwear and striped jumpsuits.
Additionally, he would feed inmates rotten food and use them to perform favors. He allowed the prisons to become hot and overcrowded, shackled pregnant women to their beds, and refused to administer medications. There were many inmates killed by suffocation and hanging during his tenure. He destroyed peoples lives and careers and never answered to anyone.
Recently, President Trump has formally pardoned Joe Arpaio for any wrongdoing during his reign as sheriff. This decision has outraged the public and the families of his victims. The President has been accused of assisting Arpaio during his investigation by examining the judge handling the case and trying to have Melendres deported.
Larkin and Lacey did not hesitate to expose the sheriff’s racism and brutality against inmates. They allowed the public to know about his corrupt behavior and violent actions. Being arrested only caused the public to become angrier with the justice system. Due to the public outcry for justice, Larkin and Lacy were released quickly. Eventually, they sued Maricopa County.
Since President Trump, allowed Arpaio to go free, the story has gained the attention of the media and public. Arpaio’s targets were Mexicans, and their families want him to be held accountable for his actions. Unfortunately, due to his political connections and with Trump’s backing he may not have to pay for his crimes.
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Casey Kasem Was Not a Beloved Figure
There have been a lot of tributes to Casey Kasem in the wake of his death, but, really, they ignore the fact that he was not a beloved figure within his own radio community.
This outtake was leaked specifically because it was hilarious and showed the real man. He goes ballistic in the studio, yelling at his staffers, and they leaked it because he was a dick, plain and simple.
What will endure for Kasem is the voice work he did for animated shows. He will forever be the voice of Shaggy from the Scooby Doo cartoons, but no one will remember the various Top 40 programs in any substantive way. He was responsible for killing the franchise he created by leaving the program over money and then creating a rival show with the same format.
It was formula broadcasting--the host would record intros and bumpers and filler and then engineers would use the full three hour block to inject songs into the program wherever there weren't commercials. Radio stations were issued this program on vinyl records for decades, and I remember spinning them. The manner in which it airs now is irrelevant largely because it is in the hands of Ryan Seacrest and, because of that, it's all but dead in terms of cultural significance.
It was filler, and nothing more. Radio hosts like Kasem have gone the way of Arthur Godfrey.
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Cosby actor responds after being 'job-shamed' at Trader Joe's
Update'Cosby Show Actor Geoffrey Owens Quit Trader Joe's Over Attention
Geoffrey Owens on Trader Joe’s Job Shaming: ‘I Was Really Devastated’ But ‘More A Celebrity Now’ Than Ever
Richert, 40, took to Twitter on Tuesday to explain he now works as a janitor, maintenance man, and carpenter, highlighting how hard it is for actors to get regular work.
Here's what happened: In late August, a shopper in the Clifton, NJ store recognized Owens as he was working behind the register.
Owens, 57, played the boyfriend-turned-husband of Sondra Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" and was a regular character on the show's last five seasons. "I don't feel sorry for myself about that". I really enjoyed it! "I don't think that's right". But after an outpouring of support from fans and fellow actors, he says he's "doing fine". Justine Bateman, who also found fame as a sitcom actress in the 1980s when she starred in Family Ties, took to Twitter to express her views. "The people taking his picture and passing judgment are trash".
Owens shared a message for media outlets that, in his view, tried to "exploit" his experiences. Indeed, Owens is in fact still very much a working actor, making recent television appearances on series such as HBO's Divorce, Blue Bloods, Lucifer, Elementary, and so on.
Indeed, working several jobs to make ends meet is no rarity for actors and artists - as the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists highlighted in a tweet on Labor Day in support of Owens.
Trump Hits Back on Union Leader in Labor Day Tweets
Continetti said the key to Trump's recent trade negotiations was concentrating on Mexico and leaving Canada to one side. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard was more blunt, telling reporters that Trump is not a friend to Canada.
"They set out to exploit the thing in us, in the public, that wants to see stories about people who were once great or celebrated, now fallen". Appearing on Good Morning America on September 4, the actor explained his initial reaction to the leaked photos.
"This business of my being this "Cosby" guy who got shamed for working at Trader Joe's, that's going to pass". Owens revealed that he has quit his job at Trader Joe's over the unwanted attention, but the company said he's welcome back anytime.
Owens said, "the period of devastation was so short, because so shortly after that, the responses -my wife and I started to read these responses from literally all over the world of support and so, fortunately, the shame part didn't last very long".
Actors and celebrities rushed to defend the actor, which Owens told ABC was "really overwhelming, in a good way".
"I feel like I'm more of a celebrity now than I've ever been". "I really want to thank everybody out there: family, friends, Hollywood community and the general public for the incredible support, the awesome support and positivity that they've shown for me". The job-shaming story also described Owens as wearing an ID badge and a "Trader Joe's T-shirt with stain marks on the front as he weighed a bag of potatoes". "But actually, it's not better". But, actually, it's not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable, and if we have a kind of a rethinking about that because of what's happened to me, that would be great. But no one should feel sorry for me, either from a positive or negative perspective.
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The Beesnees, Solitary Bee Houses really do work! Here's a hasty snap from a local back garden. Solitary bees love these little houses and they have been coming and going and filling them up. The image here shows how an industrious bee (a Mason bee or a Leafcutter) has blocked the hole. We're not experts but it could be storing pollen or there might be a little baby bee inside, waiting to hatch? We'll know in 30 days?
Solitary bees don't produce honey or beeswax but they do pollinate so are great for the garden. What's more, these bees don't sting.
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Seeking two private pony stables and turnout in Preston and
This advert is located in and around Preston, Lancashire
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tough Girls
Stingray explains the process by which women conclude they can beat up men just like Buffy and Xena:
I think it's innate. We see a strong woman beating up a man (this means that she is inherently better than him) and then we think, "Yeah! She did it, I identify with her, so I can do that, too!" It's not coherent like that. It's just a feeling. But that is basically the process.
It's female solipsism.
This no doubt explains the otherwise mysterious popularity of all the incredible warrior women over the last 20 years. Although it doesn't come close to replacing the conventional romance model, in which two Alphas battle over the right to be chosen by the reader representative
Feminists, of course, would like to see that trope transformed, so that Bella stakes the vampire, has the werewolf put down at the pound, and runs off with a woman who looks like Pete Rose.
Joshua Sinistar said...
Oh come on Vox lighten up. Men like Buffy and Xena too. Did you ever see the Xena episode where she defeats both Caesar and Pompey to save a village? Oh how I laughed! That's good stuff!
Black Poison Soul said...
I never did get the whole Xena crapola. Even though it was made here in New Zealand.
JCclimber said...
Pete Rose? How about the new female bishop of the Church of England?
Old Harry said...
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Heir to the Throne said...
and runs off with Lena Dunham
AmyJ said...
My dad was more into Xena than I was. I preferred Hercules..for obvious reasons...
Vincent Castrillo said...
Interesting observation VD. I've found that while men aren't entirely immune, women have innumerable bubbles that must be popped before they can be truly healthy, graceful, even feminine women and mothers.
Take the above for example. Most women have never been in any kind of fight or even physical altercation beyond a slap fest or hair pull in their entire lives. Much less a fight with a boy or a man. Because of this lack of awareness, many honestly don't see the full inbalance of power. They see fantasy and think, that could possibly happen. They see female cage fighters laughably scrapping with each other and think "surely they could kill the average guy at least" and so erroneously make life-threatening assumptions and hierarchies of force in their minds.
At some point in the future they might run into a smaller man at a club and think, I can hold my own against him, why don't I run my mouth and maybe slap him? They are always amazed when they wake up in the hospital or so shocked and appalled that menz rapez despite their absolute right to do anything they want anywhere they want with impunity.
Bubble burst. But unfortunately they don't do cautionary tales well, so they have to individually experience each catastrophe to learn. Female narcissism and all....
What you find is that this applies to most of life for women. Hence why we are in the situation we are in and why it is impossible to overcome until men realize females must be kept.
This simple. A society with any female input above wife and mother subservient to her husband is doomed to be overrun or mortally crippled by societal momentum. Want to know why we can't deal with even the simplest of problems? Even the lethal obvious ones? It's because not enough women "have experienced" it personally, despite it even being right in front of their faces.
Clinton was a genius for "I feel your pain"
macengr said...
I think there is more to it than that. Many men see these kind of women in games or movies and think they're super hot say, Lara Croft. Maybe, it's because they are comparing them to today's average woman, whose body type is far from athletic, I dunno. In any case, it's not just woman that love the trope of a hot babe with a sword kicking butt, however unrealistic it is. And it's not just women that believe it could be real. See Scalzi and other gammas.
SarahsDaughter said...
And are clueless about how much it actually hurts. We just watched Alexander Gustafsson get pummeled by Anthony Johnson - seeing what Gustafsson went through puts the "women have a higher tolerance for pain 'cuz childbirth" theory into question.
Corvinus said...
Good points.
I don't think this Tough Girls thing is anything at all new, judging from the ancient Greek goddesses Athena and Artemis/Diana.
What bugs me about Xena/Buffy types is that they remind me too much of man-hating feminists. If they were the otherwise feminine sidekicks of a competent male leader, that would be better. Like in Burroughs' "A Fighting Man of Mars".
will said...
I always tell my girls that sports are separated to mens and womens because the women would never win. It's a fact and they know it. I also say it's not bad because women have other strengths, like making babies (up to 20 i tell them!)
Owen said...
Years ago, my 12 year old overpowered my ex, who was trying to put him in his place.
I don't know if it really sunk into her before, but she certainly had a wake-up call that day. For years, she could manipulate and use ultimatums and threatening language to get me to stay in line (pre-RP, very Churchian).
I'm sure she felt powerful...right up until she was pinned on the ground. She called me after and after sorting things out, I told her (away from him) that she was dumb to try to get physical with him and from that day forward he will only get bigger and stronger.
It is that false sense of "empowerment" that can get women into very dangerous situations. likewise, it's dangerous for men, or at least boys. I don't doubt if anything happens, even if she initiates, she'll call the police on him.
Natalie said...
This is why girls should grow up wrestling with their brothers/cousins/etc. When you're playing football in the backyard with your brothers you quickly realize that they are stronger and faster than you are. When you're the big sister that's an important piece of humble pie to swallow. As a result I never assume that I'm stronger than any guy I'm around and plan my activities accordingly. So moral of the story is that (in the proper context) wrestling with boys at a young age just might be a crucial ingredient in learning the truth about male/female relationships.
Laguna Beach Fogey said...
Nerds and geeks are surely also partly responsible for the rise of kick-ass warrior women.
Doom said...
I love when I meet such women. Just my raw size makes them question all of their heretofore surety. I'm old, mostly dead, but I still have a sense of being not only willing, but able, to take down any comers. Or at least give it a hell of a shot. These women realize that if they did something stupid, that I would punish them. If they have learned enough hand-to-hand combat to be dangerous, my response would most likely be lethal. And I honestly don't care. If not, they would merely get spanked, right on the spot.
Still, everyone needs fantasy. It's only when that fantasy puts them in danger that it might be called into question. The problem isn't with women's fantasies, or just with that, it's with guys who actually let them roll with it. Look such a woman right in the eyes and let her know she has not a chance in hell, if you are a guy and stumble on such. Even if she is bigger, she really doesn't stand a chance... unless you are a complete queer wienie who is completely adverse to any pain or confrontation. But you, if you are, don't count.
When families were larger, and parents had to let kids settle things up to a large point, girls learned early that they weren't equal. Through hard experience. Funny thing about the notion presented is that, as much as feminists neg physical capacity as a part of equality, they jump on it as soon as it seems as if they might be able to win, and include it. Not like we didn't know, just funny to see it exposed... if the author may be on the right side of the debate. Still, the observation is clear on the point, and is an observation of women so it counts.
Cataline Sergius said...
When you look at the great women warriors of history, you should ask what did they all have in common?
The answer is, they all died.
So we are not looking at a historical model here. We are looking at an entertainment trope.
Where did the tough girl fantasy start?
The answer is, with male writers. But I'm not sure why they invented the trope.
swiftfoxmark2 said...
My two year old nephew could probably take on his older step sister (she's 5). Fortunately, they haven't had a real fight yet, but I know that it's probably going to happen sooner or later. I just hope that my nephew shows some restraint.
And that my brother knows what to do in that situation.
swiftfoxmark2 said...
Also, my wife once told me how her older brother really punched her one time when they were younger. It was in the arm, but it really hurt her and she was shocked at just how strong he really was. She didn't hold it against him really because she had been punching him constantly before this in the arm after he told her to stop.
I guess that's a good rule of thumb for brothers and sisters. Always make sure your daughters know that men can easily overpower them, even if they are smaller or younger than them and make sure your sons know that girls and women are weaker and to show restraint or at least give them a fair warning.
mmaier2112 said...
I'm so glad my newest niece has two older brothers to pick on her. She should have no illusions by the time she's a teenager.
Cataline Sergius said...
Much as I hate to admit it. I know exactly where the tough girls trope started.
1980s Blue Science Fiction.
xandohsa said...
Joss Whedon has made a fortune with this tough girls schtick, and enjoyed an outsized influence in TV, film and comics. He's the leader of the pack on this effort to play up the girl power thing. Whedon is a self-professed believer in "womb envy", a theory that venerates women as superior to men, and he's a true believer, an activist. He would say that he is doing God's work on this, were he to believe in God, but he's an atheist and quite the activist on that front, too. What good little social justice warrior, this boy! His mission is to never let up on this, but rather to push this meme all day and all night long, torpedoes be damned.
Res Ipsa said...
Vincent Castrillo,
Good point. Most guys get into a fight with another guy, at least as boys. We have a generally good idea of how bad its going to hurt or what we can realistically do in a fight even if we aren't into martial arts. Women seem absolutely clueless about even the slightest use of force.
jimmy-jimbo said...
Women verbally beat up on men. They know intimidation. Then they wonder why no one will marry them.
Anonymous said...
Well currently looks like the secular Kurds are embroiled in that same delusion. They have women fighters in their ranks:
''When I ask if there are still women peshmerga in mountain bases, she says only with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the banned terrorist militia now fighting Isil and its Syrian offshoot, and the People’s Protection Units, which both have about 40 per cent female fighters. ''
And (with the help of US airstrikes and special ops) taking over ISIL territory.
Corvinus said...
In other news, short hair bites Jamaican beauty contestant in the a$$:
Kirk Parker said...
"Clinton was an evil genius for 'I feel your pain'."
Mastermind said...
Corvinus said...
I wasn't much into Xena but I don't understand how anyone could watch Buffy and have her remind them of any feminist, let alone man-hating ones considering one of the recurring themes of the show was that she just wanted to be a normal girl who does girly things and her fate as the vampire slayer was completely unwanted (and at one point abandoned). In fact Buffy is a pretty good analogy in general for what feminists put normal girls/women through. It also speaks to Whedon's talent as an artist that despite his being a feminist pussy he wound up creating an excellent show, and I am constantly amused that he sees no parallel between what he did to Buffy and what he does to the girls who watch his show in general.
totenhenchen said...
I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating a cracker...as long as that cracker was me.
JP said...
As far as warrior women in games go, it's not that I like them because they're women, it's because I like checking out a perfectly sculpted ass. Though given an everything-else-being-equal choice, I usually pick a dude (and play first-person mode because NO HOMO).
mmaier2112 said...
Dude... Miss Jamaica is not nearly as attractive as the winner. The dyke do doesn't help but come on here.
Dexter said...
The answer is, they all died.
They were there for their inspiring symbolic presence, not their actual combat ability.
Owen said...
Kurds use women because of numeric necessity. They simply don't have enough men to fight. Also, if captured, Kurdish women (regardless of combat status) are given no quarter. Might as well go down swinging.
Cataline Sergius said...
I suspect rather strongly, that the Kurds are using their women warriors simply as propaganda. They know perfectly well the western media will eat that shit up like it's candy.
YIH said...
Vox covered that already complete with Not Safe For Stomach pic.
Black Poison Soul:
I never did get the whole Xena crapola. Me neither, I ain't into bulldykes, and more often than not the show was simply dull.
Joshua Sinistar said...
Oh come on. This grrl power delusion doesn't come from Wonder Woman, she's half naked wearing a swimsuit. These femininnies wouldn't be caught dead in a Xena or Wonder Woman costume. These warrior women are the only girls on TV who are allowed to have boyfriends anymore. The other "normal" females are Dunham Horrors out of a Stephen King Lovecraft rip-off.
PhantomZodak said...
i remember ridiculing my younger brother for watching buffy having never watched it. but then i walked into his room one day & saw her fighting spike. "that dude just punched that girl in the face! what are you watching" buffy he said to me grinning. i started watching for the choreographed fight scenes.
LAZ said...
" They see female cage fighters laughably scrapping with each other and think "surely they could kill the average guy at least"..."
Everybody I know that watches MMA is gaga over the women and cant understand why I don't like watching them. I keep telling them that I'd watch if these "professionals" could actually KO somebody. On the other hand, virtually every man that steps into that ring has the power to knockout another man.
Anonymous said...
That's why all women should do both strength training and some sort of co-ed grappling. One may grow, with great difficulty and focus, to be stronger than some men, but one will quickly find it's very far from most men. And those men can pass right by with a minimum of the same training.
It's an excellent reality injection, and good for you, of course.
CarpeOro said...
Not from the original comic book Wonder Woman. I think there was even a discussion on VP in the past about the character being created by a male psychologist. She basically never won by physical prowess and would often get tied up with her own rope (which she could control, allowing her to get free). The current "equal of Superman" is a modern twist.
Rebecca Romijn seems caught up in the idea of playing the "tough grrl" since she was in the Xmen movies as a mutant. It is incredibly laughable seeing this once gorgeous woman defeating men on her last couple of tv shows.
Anonymous said...
A few months ago, I was DJing at a club when I encountered a FemBeast. This woman was as tall as I was (well north of 6 foot), and was something like 350-400 lbs. She was confrontational and wore an expression that oozed hatred and disdain for her fellow humans.
When I first saw her, I knew it was going to be a long night. She was wrecking the vibe in the club -- nobody wanted her around -- and her girlfriend (a moderately attractive 6 or 7) was getting frustrated, because she, at least, wanted to have a good time. Anyone who even LOOKED at the 7 was immediately confronted by the FemBeast. Now, as a DJ, it is my JOB to watch the crowd and keep the vibe going. I tried not to look at the 7, as I really didn't want to deal with a FemBeast, but, inevitably, I looked. And the 7 got a little flirty with me, giving me the eyefuck. I didn't want her -- I don't want any woman contaminated by a FemBeast. But it didn't matter. I had awoken the beast's wrath.
The FemBeast declared that she wanted to fight me. I believe her exact words were "it's going to be so easy beating you up, little boy, 'cause I'm bigger than you." That much was obvious, but I'm not fearful of a lard bucket. She had this shit-eating grin, because she knew she had me in a bind. Fighting her and losing would be bad for obvious reasons, though I considered the possibility highly unlikely. Fighting her and winning would result in her pulling out the "you hit a woman" trump card, possibly even getting me fired. So I called over the bouncers. But they, too, were in a similar bind.
So after some conversation, the FemBeast returned to the bar and generally left me alone for the remainder of the night. But she had ruined the vibe, chased people out of the club, put the bouncers in a bad mood and basically fucked up the whole night for everyone, just with her mere presence. I was told that receipts were down 30% over the previous weekend. This is why, people, you don't let ugly FemBeasts into your club.
She wasn't a warrior woman, she was just a fat chunk of lard bringing a dump truck full of drama wherever she went. That is the furthest extent of Girl Power.
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As the loud noise stops
I hear one voice
It's screaming out my name
Sound like someone i know
The voice surrounding me
But no one there
Who calling me?
As the sound gets closer and closer
I found myself looking at my reflection
Screaming out my own name
Wondering why me?
Why did i choose this?
Why do i make it so hard for myself?
I should have gave myself a chance
I could have been having my dreams
Watching as someone else take my place
The noise get softer
As i realize what i had
Suddenly a whisper says
Too late
But now it's all Silence
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• Q: What airlines regularly fly this route?
• A: Hawaiian Airlines and Korean Air fly regularly between this route.
• A: There are 3 daily non-stop flights between Oakland and Oahu, as well as 17 weekly non-stop flights.
• Q: Which airports serve Oakland and Oahu?
• A: Oakland Int'l Airport serve Oakland. Honolulu International Airport serve Oahu.
• Q: What is the total non-stop flight time between Oakland and Oahu?
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* Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.
* Russia also boasts the largest and longest river in Europe: the Volga flows 2,294 miles through the country.
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* One of the most active volcanoes in the world is Mount Etna in Italy. The volcano stands at 10,922 feet on the eastern coast of Sicily. Mount Etna is 2.5 times the size of Mount Vesuvius which is famous for burying the city of Pompeii.
* Iceland is famous for its incredible landscapes, in particular, Vatnajokull glacier is one of the largest in the world. The glacier covers 3,500 square miles.
* Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church is still in-process after over one hundred years of construction. The project began in 1882 and is not even near completion.
* Portugal is one of the oldest countries in Europe. The country was founded in the 12th century and its borders have not been altered.
* The Brussels Airport famously sells more chocolate than any other single retail location in the world. The airport sells more than 800 tons of chocolate each year.
* Europe contains 46 countries, the largest of which is the Russian Federation, the smallest is Vatican City.
* The longest place name in Europe belongs to, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a large village in Wales.
* One of the largest ant colony in the world is in Europe. This 6,000km long colony reaches from northern Italy to the Atlantic coast of Spain.
* Belgium holds an interesting world record: the longest time an established democracy has ever gone without an active government. Beginning in 2010 Belgium experienced 589 days during which the Walloons and Flemish were not able to form a government. During this time the daily affairs were addressed by a former prime minister.
* Germany is bordered by nine other European nations.
* Lisbon's Bertrand Bookstore claims to be the oldest bookstore in the world. The store opened in 1732.
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The survey of pre-election survey of Yangon Regional ward/village-tract election
PACE and its partner Generation Tree worked together to conduct a pre-election survey of Yangon Regional ward/village-tract elections. We recruited 51 enumerators and deployed them from December 7th to 10th in 100 sample locations to interview 1000 respondents (10 people in each sample location) and to collect the personal data of 500 electoral supervisory members (5 people in each sample location). The enumerators have successfully completed 797 interviews and collected the personal data of 450 electoral supervisory members.
PACE and Generation tree released the finding of the pre-election survey on December 16 and organized the press conference at Central Hotel and 11 people from 11 different media both printed and broadcast, were present and asked the questions of the findings. The survey found that women and youth participation in the local elections is extremely low, and most respondents want the universal suffrage for the kind of local elections that currently allow one vote for one household. Besides, the practices of election process differ from one village to another village and one ward to another ward according to interviews with super ivories team from different wards and villages. Therefore, PACE and generation tree gave the following specific recommendations for the reform process,
1. To change the law to guarantee the universal suffrage;
2. To promote public participation including women/youth participation in ward/village-tract elections removing the barriers from existing laws and conducting voter education;
3. To make the consistent regulations and laws for all ward/village-tract elections work together CSOs and relative stakeholders;
4. To allow the official citizens election observations;
5. To make the transparency of electoral process announcing the election days, detailed election calendar and voter list in advance publicly.
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Original Meaning: Wagon
A journey or change is indicated, perhaps spiritual, perhaps physicial. Progress is made. The time is right for trade. Unexpected news coming.
Raed symbolizes a journey, either a physical one or a spiritual one. The ancient Europeans saw the universe not as space but as action, for them where action was not taking place, there was a void where nothing existed. This action or movement is reflected in Rae. This action was also reflected in the metaphysical realm by the movement of the dew dripping down from the World Tree into Wyrd’s Well, only to become dew again. This action was symbolic of the flow of time itself. It is the rune of ordered movement and as such also is the rune of the dance and the rhythm to the dance. It is the rune of time keeping and travel. It is also symbolic of the sun’s course across the sky as well as that of the moon. This being so Raed is tied to the passage of the day, the months, and the seasons.
As can be seen by the “Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem” verse, any journey seems easy to the one not taking it. The ancient Northern Europeans saw action as necessary to the maintenance of the universe, non-action was seen as evil or detrimental. Therefore, it was desirable to take the long hard journey, to be constantly in movement. Yet, anything seems easy to one that does not do it. Raed is related to the other “journey” runes Lagu and Sigel, as well as Eh which also implies movement.
Raed can also represent the hard journey, the difficult road to travel in life. The “Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem” verse could refer to the refusal of the hero to take that journey, a part of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. Refusal indicates a loss of what could have been a great reward, while acceptance can mean great benefits will be received after a hard time of travel.
In divination Raed means a journey that should be or has been taken. In magic, it can be used to send one on a journey or to keep ordered movement.
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Writing a business letter in chinese
In this way, the writer attaches importance to the special offer to be made in the main clause: Fundamental changes took place in when the open-door policy was first implemented. The important concept to be coordinated with this genre approach is schemata.
In a similar way, Campbell found that some Chinese business letters tend to include personal information at the beginning, and use it as a politeness strategy for relationship building with the reader.
Examining the Sales Genres The change of social context and writing a business letter in chinese relationships has led to the change of communicative needs. However, it is suggested that further study in business communication be undertaken in other places such as Taiwan and Hong Kong to find if similar changes are taking place there.
The details are clearly expressed, with each feature of the product standing out in each line. Signature and date XXX, The major purpose of the above letter is to express an official reply to a subordinate, which is clearly indicated in the move of the approval.
It is therefore essential for business people to understand the dynamic nature of language in relation to the economic structure, and this can be a key factor to understanding how to communicate with Chinese business enterprises.
Although the Chinese market is progressing towards a market economy, it is still deeply rooted in its own cultural values of harmony and relationship building. For example, the contract system is quite prevalent throughout the country De Mente, The headquarters was the Central Commercial Ministry, the second level was the provincial bureau, the third level was the district bureau, and the fourth level consisted of the grassroots of the country and town bureaus.
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These purposes and writing conventions shape the structure of the discourse and constrain the choice of linguistic forms. How are the trends related to the changes in social context? Writing a business letter in chinese to Organize The structure of a letter in Chinese is not very different from what you know in English.
In Chinese culture, greetings can be used to indicate politeness, and help establish a friendly relationship with the reader, and this new relationship will help the promotion of the product. While today email is for many the preferred form of communication in China just as in the rest of the world, letters on paper are still written in very formal settings when you address the authorities or the tax collector, for example.
Greetings such as "How are you? Each of these levels reflects the cognitive structuring of the text, and the communicative purposes are the central ideas to guide the development of the text.
Secondly, this paper will give an introduction to two different periods in Chinese business communication, and to the position of sales genres in Chinese written discourse. After you address the recipient properly, you start with a simple, polite greeting.
Salutation Dear computer customers, Greeting How are you? The subordinate to main construction also serves to lighten the imposition of the request Kirkpatrick, As a result, four main streams of enterprises coexist side by side: The letter as a whole indicates that the superior organization has the control over stock supply.
A sales genre is used to achieve certain communicative purposes, and to reflect a certain kind of relationship between the writer and the reader. However it is still difficult to forecast what will happen to the use of sales genres in China in the future.
Move 3, offering incentives, is realized in a subordinate-main clause structure as shown below: The first relates to market mechanisms under socialism. In the first period, the subordinate level could only sell what the superior had supplied them. The present research represents an initial step to explore sales genres from a historical perspective.
Most of these moves fit in well with the AIDA model which stands for attention, interest, desire and action. However, the concept of schemata used in this paper will be further elaborated. From to the Present. Here the English translation is only an approximation, and the Chinese original signals that the view concerned is an agreement among a group of decision-makers.
Characterized by both marketing and relationship building, for the first time in Chinese business communication, the writers of sales letters have begun to compete in the market. Zhang, ; Liang, et al.During these two periods, business communication was conducted by means of very different sales genres.
Since changes in business practice may change the ways business letters are used, the discussion of business practice from to the present will provide some understanding of the position of Chinese business writings. Period 1: People write business letters and emails for a variety of reasons--to request information, to conduct transactions, to secure employment, and so on.
Effective business correspondence should be clear and concise, respectful in tone, and formatted properly. By breaking down a business letter into its. The structure of a letter in Chinese is not very different from what you know in English.
After you address the recipient properly, you start with a simple, polite greeting. This can be something like “Excuse us for bothering you at such a busy time”.
What is the formal/polite way to begin and end an email in Chinese? The traditional Chinese letter is very bsaconcordia.com has many honorifics that vary greatly for different receivers.
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But today,most people's traditional education is insufficient to write these letter. For email,people tend to write simply and practicably。. Sep 03, · Chinese writing letter format 1. A letter to a friend 亲爱的 ．．． 你好 Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Methods and examples of effective email writing. Just follow this guide and start writing amazing emails to your Chinese colleagues, friends and clients.
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Can You Bypass The Sheriff?
I am not a lawyer, I am a judgment broker. This article is only my opinion, about the (mostly California) laws I have read, and what I have learned. Nothing in any of my articles should ever be considered legal advice.
Many creditor's wish they could take money directly from the judgment debtor. That will not work, because a judgment is not cash. You cannot bring a judgment to a bank, and use it to get the judgment debtor's money. You cannot go to the debtor's house and take their wallet. (Well, you could - but you would later regret doing that.)
Many Sheriff departments are overworked, sometime because of the economy, and sometimes (in the summer months) because stopping a certain variety of plant from being grown, is occasionally a higher priority than performing levies.
Wouldn't it be great, if you could just bypass the Sheriff, and levy a debtor's wages or bank account yourself? You could simply ask that the payments go directly to you. There is no real harm in asking, however asking will be as effective and appropriate, as asking a dog to sing "Happy Birthday". doggy.jpg
Generally, in every state, assets must go from the debtor's asset location, to the Sheriff, and then from the Sheriff to you. There are very few exceptions to this. One exception is the turnover order of cash at a debtor exam. Another is in one or more states (E.g. Montana), where Registered Process Servers are bonded, and may levy on cash that the judgment debtor has in their possession, vehicles the creditor has arranged a sale for, and can also handle wage garnishments and bank levies directly. In California, a judgment debtor exam creates a one-year "silent lien" on all their personal property, which might make you a secured creditor if they later file for bankruptcy protection.
Even in Montana, Registered Process Servers cannot take non-liquid assets, even though the statutes say they can, because the laws have no provision for how the assets might be stored or sold by a Registered Process Server.
I assert, that in every state, one must get a writ of execution from the court, open a levy file with the Sheriff (except perhaps in Montana), and perhaps hire a registered process server or the Sheriff to levy banks and wages, or to seize the assets of their judgment debtor.
Every state's laws have mandated that a levying officer is required to seize the assets of a judgment debtor.
In California, CCP 701.010 states: "(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, when a levy is made by service of a copy of the writ of execution and a notice of levy on a third person, the third person at the time of levy or promptly thereafter shall comply with this section.
(b) Unless the third person has good cause for failure or refusal to do so: (1) The third person shall deliver to the levying officer any of the property levied upon that is in the possession or under the control of the third person at the time of levy unless the third person claims the right to possession of the property."
Chimp winking Attempting to bypass the Sheriff might be actionable as a misuse of legal process. Even if you could bypass the Sheriff, there would be problems. For instance, the writ will not get properly credited by the Sheriff, and the Sheriffs return to court would be incorrect, it would affect 3rd-party rights on possible claims of ownership, affect the debtor's ability to quash or claim exemptions, muddies 3rd-party liability about compliance with the levy, etc.
In California, another reason you cannot bypass the Sheriff, the judgment debtor has a right to reclaim their personal property within 30 days, before it is sold to satisfy the judgment. A vehicle (either seized or turned over) must be stored in a secure location for 30 days. This is why the Sheriff uses a tow truck to bring the vehicle to a tow yard. Things get expensive for the creditor, paying the storage fee for 30 days or more.
In California, the only exception to the Sheriff acting as the levying officer, would be if a coroner or an elisor was appointed, pursuant to CCP 262.8. That would require a court order, and will require persuading a judge a regular levy process would not be sufficient.
Only cash (or the equivalent to cash) can be seized by a Sheriff, and eventually delivered directly to a creditor. Any other debtor asset will have to be seized, stored, and later sold at a Sheriff's Auction.
What if an employer responds to a Sheriff levy by sending checks to you instead of the sheriff? Do not keep the check, notify the employer that the checks should be sent to the Sheriff, and notify the Sheriff, and send the check to the Sheriff. You will get a check soon and bypass any problems by taking the correct action.
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
My husband the robot
I think O might be a robot.
He sheds nuts and bolts randomly** all over our home.
Thankfully he isn't broken despite missing all these bits.
*I loved this book as a child
**I think they might come from his pockets but really why are his pockets so full of 'things'
1. Did you ever see the movie "The Iron Giant"? I think it's based on this book. If you haven't, you should. It's fantastic. Yes, it's a cartoon, but it makes me smile every time I see it.
2. ha ha, the five year old me would be super jealous that you married a robot! (the 27 year old is pretty jealous too! ha ha)
3. I love that book too.
Dave has pockets full of everything as well. it's a 'likes making/fixing stuff' man thing.
4. He he... this made me smile. I haven't read that book in years, must go dig out a copy :)
5. Not sure what I thought this post was going to be about when I first read the title! Ive never read that book.
Think thats a boy thing with all the stuff!
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Cigar City Tampa-Style Lager
This beer is for drinkin'. At least, that's what Cigar City says. Here's the thing about them - I may stop buying their stuff. It's not that it is bad, but none of it is all that great. This one should be a straight-shooting lager, and that means there aren't unrealistic expectations for it.
The pale yellow, misty beer appears almost neon in the right lighting. The head isn't copious to begin with, and it withers away to a few clumps of surprisingly small bubbles all huddled in a few little groups on top. The aroma is sweet grains and grasses blowing in the breeze. It's a simple smell, but that's the nature of a simple lager, right?
First sip is a little lemony, a bit acidic, some grains, and a whole heap of water. It's not an impressive start. It seems that (at least from the sip) this brewer intends on pretty much hitting the traditional macro-brew lager right on the head. I don't know why - the other guys do that at extreme volume and a lot cheaper.
Tip-in is kind of watery lemon with a bit of heavier malt adding sweetness to the drink. The middle opens into a very watery grains and grasses with the sweet malt still keeping any bitterness away. The finish is a bit tart with more grains and lemons.
Bottom Line: Better than the macro-brews, but nothing to get excited about.
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Cooking on Wood
Cooking on Wood
6th March 2017, Posted By: Martyn Mills
Cooking on Wood fires is nothing new, people have been doing it since they discovered fire thousands of years ago and it has worked well ever since, but with progress and the advent of electric and gas cookers in more recent times, cooking with wood fired ovens has almost died out in the developed world, apart from a few still left with old range cookers.
In the last few years though, we have seen an increased demand for wood fired range cookers, customers wanting to change from gas and electric to cooking on wood, fuel cost savings in many cases with access to cheaper wood fuel supplies, locally sourced and better for the environment with a lower carbon footprint. There is the additional benefit when Cooking on Wood fired range cookers with built-in boilers, heating the water for washing and central heating along with the room itself all at the same time as cooking your food, so the range becomes the heart at the centre of the house, and theres nothing better than coming home to a nice warm range in the kitchen, its not the same with a conventional electric or gas cooker.
They do say the food tastes nicer when Cooking on Wood and I can certainly vouch for that as mine is cooked on a wood fired range every day!
Cooking on Wood burning range cookers is completely different to conventional cookers, its much easier! You have the whole top of the cooker to use and not just the hot plate to cook, simmer and warm on, no need to worry about dials and switches, just move the pans to the right spot where the temperature is right, you soon get the hang of it. There is a main oven which you can cook a multitude of things in, it is ideal for baking bread, quiches and pizzas as the floor of the oven is heated as well as the sides, back and top. Roasting is second to non as the temperature can be pushed up past a conventional oven by control of the fire. Don't forget all the time you are Cooking on Wood you are accumulating masses of hot water without the meter moving!
At home we have been Cooking on Wood, using an Esse 990CH (pictured), it does all the above, we fuel it from wood we process ourselves. You can't beat a frosty winters day, chopping up firewood out in the woods, it makes you appreciate the food you cook on the Esse that much more. The first one home lights it, easier than a glass fronted stove as you don't have to worry about keeping the glass clean, just light the kindling, throw an couple of split dry logs on and shut the door, within minutes the fire is roaring away. Once you've started preparing your food the temperature is rising, add more wood and the cooking begins, much easier than people at first think. We are normally eating within about an hour or so of lighting it. The hot water is topped up by it every night and the room warmed.
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Why Technology Cannot Replace Teachers In Future Classrooms?
Friday March 13, 2015
A modern classroom is defined by technology these days. There is constant pressure on teachers and administrators to implement technology in classes. Though there are several advantages of making use of technology in teaching, the question remains – can technology replace teachers in Future Classrooms? Well, the answer is clearly no. Though beneficial, technologies can never replace a teacher.
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No matter how advanced or smart a computer program or a product is, it can never come close to the knowledge and life experience a teacher brings. Several researches have been conducted and it has been proven time and again that teachers bring about a change which no technology can. A teacher simply does not impart knowledge or information. And teaching is definitely not about facts and figures. A teacher leads, guides, facilitates and mentors a student. They are role models who set an example to students and drive them towards a brighter future. A good teacher encourages independent thoughts and independent learning. He/she can be a positive influence, can be an inspiration to set and achieve goals. The trust and bond between a teacher and student creates the perfect learning environment; which can never be achieved through virtual learning.
Having Said that,
In today’s age the old school method of books and notes will not work. Teachers have to stay updated with today’s trends and equip themselves with the latest in technology. They have to implement these technological innovations in their curriculum, without losing their control over the classroom. For example, there are several school apps and smart apps for preschoolers available that make the process of learning and teaching really simple. The future of education is clearly going to be personalized-tech infused learning.
The generation today loves technology. To connect with students and help them understand better, a teacher will have to come out of the comfort zone and explore new ways to engage them. And, technology will certainly play an important role in achieving just that. Technology has immense potential to upgrade today’s educational system. There are several students’ apps and smart apps for preschoolers that help teachers improvise and enrich the overall teaching experience. New educational technologies will not only energize the students, but teachers as well. Which means, even in a technology-infused learning environment, the role of the teacher will remain ever-important. Yes, it will become less traditional, but important nonetheless!
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So, where do we stand in this debate of teachers versus technology? Well, the answer will have to be the middle ground of the two. While classrooms cannot function without a teacher, the fact the remains that in the near future it will be the other way around too. Facilitating learning through technology presents tremendous opportunity for both the student and the teacher to deepen their knowledge and empower themselves. The teacher will have to become a facilitator of parting trustworthy information from electronic sources to the students. Teachers versus technology is an ongoing battle.
Technology plays a supporting role, but it’s the teacher who brings it all together. Technology is certainly changing the way students learn, but it cannot be termed as a replacement for teachers. High-quality teachers create a classroom culture that motivates students and leads them on the path of success. Technology cannot inspire, help them through their struggles, help them fight back and stand up. Yes! Technology can only be a helping factor to learn, but it cannot replace the knowledge and experience that come with a teacher. So, the future of education as believed by several institutes, including Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) will not be teachers versus technology, but it will be teachers plus technology. And as long as the balance is maintained we can expect an education system that not only promotes learning, but also opens doors to creative freedom and expression.
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Brie Larson, photographed in London: 'I won't do things for money. I can't.' Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer
'You're coming in at a very strange time for me," says Brie Larson. She has just arrived in London on the redeye from New York and is sitting on a steroidally plumped sofa in a Soho hotel suite. Her hair and makeup are freshly glammed and the late-afternoon light from the window catches the right side of her face with a cinematic radiance. She looks, in short, exactly as a 24-year-old Hollywood starlet should. We are here to talk about her new project, Short Term 12, a film about which US critics have been ravingly effusive. Some have compared Larson's performance to Jennifer Lawrence's breakthrough in Winter's Bone. Many have suggested that she and the film are strong contenders as the indie outsider at next year's Oscars.
Larson shakes her head. "Suddenly there's this weird spotlight on you and it's a vomit of gold coins," she says. "It's wonderful, but it doesn't feel real."
The actress is quick to undercut any impression of glamour. She's not staying at the hotel – just doing the interview here – and the makeup hides the jetlag. The novelty of flying business-class was so overwhelming she stayed up watching movies and eating ice-cream when she should have been sleeping.
Larson's been acting professionally since she was seven, and it's likely that you'll recognise the face – she was Michael Cera's terrifying ex-girlfriend Envy Adams in Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Jonah Hill's romantic interest in 21 Jump Street – but it's never been less than a struggle.
"I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been and how broke I was not even that long ago," Larson says. "I was freaking out around this time last year because I thought, 'This is it. I've really screwed myself because I did three independent films. I didn't do anything for money and now I don't have anything.' I was eBaying stuff for Christmas presents."
What about the Oscar buzz for Short Term 12? "The first time I heard that I laughed and said, 'That doesn't happen to real people!'" she snorts. "This is so grand: if we were talking about a multi-million-dollar movie, if I was in Les Mis, I'd know what I was signing up for. But I'm a frickin' child just knocking around, tripping as I get out of bed. So it's strange. It's," long pause, "generous."
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Short Term 12 is certainly not Les Misérables. Larson plays Grace, one of the supervisors in a foster home for volatile, at-risk children in California. The writer-director, Destin Daniel Cretton, worked in a similar institution for a couple of years in the early 2000s, and Short Term 12 is shot in a real facility, which was in use for 17 years before the authorities ran out of funds. These details lend the action a documentary feel: as the kids act up, and Grace attempts to exercise some control, it often makes uncomfortably real viewing, though Cretton throws in enough humour and hope for the film not to be overwhelmingly bleak.
"It was the best script I ever read," says Larson. "Most people think at least half of it is improvised or documentary. They don't realise that every word is exactly as it's written."
Larson is the emotional heart of the film, and her Grace is both tough and independent but also damaged and vulnerable – if there is a lesson in the film, it's that carers are often as fragile as the children they look after. In a stand-out scene, Grace takes out her frustrations on the windscreen of a car with a baseball bat. It is a cathartic moment to watch and it turns out to have been an empowering one to perform – albeit with the additional stress that, because of the film's micro-budget, Larson only had one opportunity to get it right.
"I had this weird, instinctual, animalistic thing come over me," she recalls. "I've never smashed anything in my life but that first crack of the windshield, it was like something turned in me: I was only supposed to hit it three times, but I must have hit it 20 or 30 times and it just felt better and better the more I kept going into it. It summed it all up for everybody: we were this small crew of people and we weren't there for our paycheck because there wasn't one. When they yelled 'Cut!' it was like, 'Yeah!' It was the Superbowl, it was so exciting."
Larson, who shadowed a care worker in Los Angeles before starting the film, admits that decompressing was problematic during the 20-day shoot. Her coping mechanism was an unexpected one: she would design typefaces. It's been a hobby since she was in her teens; her all-time favourite is a type she created where every letter resembles a 3D mouse hole.
"I made three or four different fonts during Short Term 12 – it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes," she says. "I have graph paper and gel pens and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'. I definitely look like a weirdo with scraps of paper everywhere and the alphabet over and over again. But I can't read a book and then jump into this character, so it ends up being the perfect thing for me: it's creative, it keeps my mind active and you get something at the end."
A love of typography, it turns out, is one of the less unusual things about Larson. Born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers in 1989 to a couple of chiropractors in Sacramento, California, she was shy as a child, but aged six she walked up to her mother as she was washing up and said, "Mom, I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor." Larson remembers her mother replying: "'Whoa! Where did you learn the word dharma? Where did you learn the word acting?' She thought I was just repeating something off the TV."
Her parents separated not long afterwards, and Larson – whose main credit at that time was playing a Native American turkey-hunter in her school's Thanksgiving play – moved to Los Angeles with her mother and younger sister. "We had a crappy one-room apartment where the bed came out of the wall and we each had three articles of clothing," says Larson. Her film tastes were precocious for an eight-year-old – Gone With the Wind and Fried Green Tomatoes were favourites – and she struggled to fit in at school.
"I didn't really have friends," she says. "I loved weird movies and I wore bowling shoes and I wanted to think outside of cultural norms even at that age. I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower, because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you. But my parents were very open because I wasn't interested in doing anything bad, I just wanted to do weird stuff."
Larson was home-schooled for much of her childhood and graduated from high school aged 15 – a year before she released her debut pop album, Finally Out of PE. She is a keen autodidact even now, spending much of her spare time watching online lectures on Coursera and iTunes U. At present, she is taking classes in poetry and Greek mythology and making a "half-assed attempt" at brushing up on French.
Meanwhile, a pattern was emerging with Larson's acting career: "I'd hit the point where I'd go, 'OK, that's it. That's the last dollar. I've got to quit or go to college or whatever.' But that day or the next day, something would happen that would make it strangely apparent I'm supposed to keep doing this a bit longer. It's never failed that the second I hit the last dollar, something turns around."
In recent times, Larson has been saved by the United States of Tara, an acclaimed Showtime TV drama starring Toni Collette, and Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim, which she describes as "a big life-changer for me". Still, Larson concedes that her own stubbornness may be part of the problem.
"I won't do things for money. I can't," she says. "So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house, they make really good pancakes, I'd be happy doing that. I'd certainly be happier doing that than I would be on a set trying to be, you know, a sexy football coach.' That means some really frugal years, but I don't have kids and I'm fine eating cereal if that's what it takes."
Such an uncompromising stance must make Larson's current success even more gratifying. Short Term 12 won the grand jury narrative feature award and the narrative audience award at the South by Southwest festival, and surpassed expectations at the US box office. She can also be seen in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's impressive directorial debut, Don Jon, which opens in the UK next month. Alongside this, Larson writes and directs her own short films: her first, The Arm, won the jury prize at Sundance, and she is almost finished with a feature draft. If there's time, she wants to release a new EP of music and play some live gigs this year, too.
ILarson is not getting carried away. "This is nice for a moment," she accepts. "Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell."
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Friday, December 24, 2010
[Ended] Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai: Refreshing
Having seen so much incestuous love in the typical anime, it's quite refreshing to see a story that is mainly based on hostile feeling between brother and sister.
The main plot of the story is based mainly upon the fact even though Japan is the home of Otaku, it is still considered mainly in the society as outcasts. What's interesting about this story in particular is the role reversal--instead of the brother, the little sister is the one being a closet Otaku. In a way, it kind of make sense, since female H-Game Otaku is probably amongst those that are deemed to be the most socially unacceptable of all.
Anyway, I digress, back to the anime itself. I've actually read some of the manga back when it was just starting to publish and thought it was an interesting yet very light topic. The anime, in my opinion, managed to render it into a much heavier subject. I think it's just that the anime always manage to dramatize things a lot more than manga could do (well, a well made anime that is). I haven't read much of the manga since the very early chapters, so I wouldn't know how well the anime actually followed the manga. The anime itself, in my opinion kind of neutered itself in the end for sequels, but if they do come up with a sequel, it'd be highly welcome.
One last word about the art, it wasn't nearly as apparent in the black/white manga as in the fully colored anime, but I can see some distinct similarities between this and GAINAX's Princess Maker 4.
Final scoreboard:
Drama: 90 (Its focal point)
Comedy: 88 (Some are quite brilliant)
Action: N/A
Art/Animation: 86 (Princess Maker 4?)
Sound/Music: 87 (Interesting)
Character: 93 (Intriguing)
Plot: 90 (Unique)
Ending: 82 (Wrapped up well)
Re-watch value: 60 (Could still be interesting)
Overall: 90 - Unique and Intriguing
Recommendation: I think this is probably one of the best comedy/drama of the year 2010. I'll soon be putting up my year in review post, but for the moment, it definitely will get award
Comedy/Drama of the Season for Fall 2010
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Why Are Sales Associates So Inept At Their Jobs?
"Hi! Can I Hinder You?"
One thing that never ceases to amaze me in the fragrance world is the army of sales associates tasked with "moving units." I encounter them whenever I step into a store.
We've all read the complaints, usually posted in forums after members meet snotty sales reps who hear very little and understand even less. Sometimes they're in stores, and sometimes these insane conversations happen on the telephone. There are a slew of reasons why these people wander department store fragrance floors, but people outwardly wonder why they're working in a field they know nothing about. How can someone whose job is selling perfumes be completely ignorant about perfume? Why don't department stores hire people with experience? People who actually know and love fragrance? What's wrong with them?
I'll bypass the lengthy editorializing and cut right to the answer: America's culture. Or, more specifically, America's "meritocracy." You think that department stores don't know what they're doing when they hire morons? You think they're oblivious to their customers' needs? Think again. Upper management, those invisible nobodies who do all the hiring, know exactly what they're doing.
In America, we have something called a "meritocracy." It's the fantasy idea that if a person gets an education, his "merits" in his field will grant him access to an upper middle-class lifestyle, making six figures by age forty. First you have to spend sixty thousand dollars of the government's money on an institution that dispenses the degree of your choosing. Then you have to take a high paying job that will make paying down your debt while living in your own place feasible, which is no easy task. Eventually, the thinking goes, you'll come out ahead, and become one of America's prized elite.
This, of course, is utter bullshit. If it were true, our economy wouldn't be in the toilet. The majority of jobs gained since 2009 would be white collar careers, not minimum-wage crap. The middle class, the largest customer base for degree-awarding institutions, would be growing, not shrinking. America would be on the rise, instead of in decline.
The truth is that the "meritocracy" is a good way to keep most of the population from ever becoming wealthy and truly successful. It's a terrific way to keep people down, so a select few can stay up. Most of the world's biggest successes never earned a degree - they didn't have that sort of time to waste. Think about it: if an education is being "bought" so that someone can "succeed," and it isn't being sought after for personal enlightenment or truly educational reasons, then the maxim "buyer beware" suddenly applies. Instead of gaining ground, an educated person in America loses years of his or her future to paying back incredible debt. The average college degree costs $35K. Most degrees are actually much higher than that, in the realm of $50K - $60K. A not insignificant number of young Americans attend Ivy League schools, or "big name" schools with religious affiliations that can land them $100K+ in the hole.
Great way to start your life.
What about those who can't afford an education? The single mothers who got knocked up at eighteen? The guys who simply lack the temperament for pointless lectures and filthy dorm life? The people who just aren't interested in going that deeply into debt for something so very far from a sure thing? What happens to those poor saps?
They wind up earning minimum wage, or around minimum wage, usually in the restaurant or retail sector. Waiters, busboys, sales clerks, cashiers, drivers. They won't rot away in a gutter, but they'll just barely get by. These are the folks working the fragrance counter at Bloomingdales and Macy's. They're kids off the street. They're women who wanted to bypass beauty school and work in "sales" instead. They make anywhere from $9.50 to $12 an hour. They work 37 hours a week, so the store doesn't have to give them full-time benefits. They work a "flex schedule," never knowing what the week will bring. They earn a 3% commission. They're not unionized.
They cost the stores very little.
This is how American companies want it to be. You see, if they actually required their employees to know something about the sector they're placed in, they'd tread dangerously close to needing people with "specialized skills." People who fall under that umbrella cost more, because they're usually educated. They're not looking to work for minimum wage. They want a salary.
So the stores decide to go the other way. They hire people with little to no knowledge of anything, and throw them on the floor. These people aren't there to know things. They're there to ring up sales. That's it.
And that's who we encounter when we have questions (and when we don't). That's who approaches us with samples and nonsensical comments about how much better some piece of garbage designer scent is than anything we've ever smelled before. These are the people waving coffee beans under our noses, as if that actually does anything. They're stupid because that's what keeps overhead low and profits high. That's Capitalism at its finest.
Of course, the job of selling perfume does require knowledge on the part of the SA, and it would be very good if SAs had an extensive background in fragrance, with intricate understandings of pyramids, families, and even a healthy dose of perfume history. It would be incredibly beneficial for every major department store in the USA to value knowledgable SAs, and hire based on how much they know. It would be helpful if they actually paid their SAs a competent living wage, but that's not how Capitalism works.
A Capitalist society values profit. You can only maximize profit by minimizing overhead and maximizing profit margins. You can only minimize overhead by hiring as few employees as physically possible, and paying them rock bottom wages. And that's only possible (and justifiable) if you can point to these employees and say, "Look, they're unskilled labor. That's why we pay them shit."
So the next time some little turd with a silver name badge and clip-on tie throws you a predatory grin and picks up a smelling strip, don't think of him as the problem. Remember how American society works these days, the miles of horseshit we've piled on ourselves with the "meritocracy" lie and the legion of twenty-somethings permanently damned to lower middle-class life because they're starting out with fifty times more debt than their parents or grandparents ever did. Remember the fact that Macy's can't afford to sell you a bottle of Bleu de Chanel if it can't afford to pay the SA to "move units." Remember the Alamo.
A Note To "Newbies"
If you're new to fragrance and interested in exploring all that the fragrance world has to offer, I suggest you secure a steady confidence in yourself first, because there are dangers.
One danger, perhaps the least of them, is the issue of finances. This is in every form a pricy pursuit. There are certainly a few thousand "cheap" scents that can be had by the bottle for anywhere from $5 to $25, and running through them won't necessarily break the bank. But bear in mind that there are literally thousands of these "cheapies" out there, and if you're set on amassing a thorough collection of all of them, $5 a bottle suddenly takes on a different meaning.
Which brings me to the next danger: addiction. Yes, you're smiling. You're thinking I'm being an alarmist. Take it from someone who felt as you do; entertaining my interest in olfactory exploration seemed entirely innocent at the outset, but before long I found myself needing to own things I wasn't completely prepared to buy. I couldn't help myself. If I liked something, I wanted it, and eventually bought it. The feeling is not unlike that of "needing" a cigarette. You think you're in control by abstaining, but all the while you can't get it out of your head.
Another danger is what I call "collection confirmation bias." You have a fully formed opinion of a certain type of fragrance, and only partially formed opinions of others, and your collection is limited to your bias, and you automatically assume you smell terrific. Chances are only 50/50 that you're right. I see this all the time on Badger & Blade. That community is full of guys who collect cheaper "wetshaver" fragrances. Their bias is typically for things that are inexpensive and old-school. Many of these fellows wear this stuff exclusively, and they think they smell terrific. But do others agree? With such a limited range in their collections, it's likely they appeal to other people half of the time, and the other half they're actually annoying everyone around them. They've stopped on the one kind of fragrance they enjoy, and failed to diversify. A stopped clock is only right twice a day.
This brings me to the final and most relevant danger that you face. As a "newbie," you're hungry for information, for guidance, and you're impressionable. You scour the boards for tips, and take advice from others seriously. Most people are out to help you, but some have their heads up their asses. These are the people who imply that there are "wrong" fragrances and "right" fragrances, and that wearing and liking the "wrongs" makes you "inexperienced" and/or "naive."
In the fragrance exploration business, the "rights" and "wrongs" come in groups, not as individual scents. For example, liking and wearing Tuscany by Aramis is automatically "right." If you like it, you should wear it and enjoy it. But only pursuing aromatic fougeres, and strictly wearing those kinds of compositions is not the most open-minded and enlightening approach. You're better off branching out into other realms also, because who knows what else you'll discover and come to love? There are some excellent chypres and orientals out there as well.
Don't let anyone tell you that liking something specific is "wrong." Don't let people attach any meaning to your preference that strays beyond "you like it, and that's all that matters." If you like a specific designer frag, and many in the community do not share the sentiment, you're still "right," because what your nose appreciates is all that matters - your nose is the only one you have! There are no external social forces, no ideologies or beliefs that can outweigh your own feelings. There is no cost-to-value ratio that supersedes the priceless sense of pleasure gleaned from something you enjoy.
Why should anyone else dictate what you like? Why should you have to explain yourself? There are no reasons to entertain that audience, because there are no authorities in the community. Don't let anyone tell you that they know more about fragrance because they've smelled thousands of fragrances. A man with five thousand reviews under his belt has still only experienced 1% of what's out there. In 2016 there are as many perfumes in the world as there are stars in the sky. No man has experienced enough of them to claim the title of "expert."
Now go forth, and enjoy your new passion. A brave new world stretches yonder.
The Rise Of Niche May Be A Curse
Painting By Bruce Pennington
In the last ten years, the world has seen a proliferation of niche perfumes unlike any in history, with literally tens of thousands of independent and luxury perfume makers flooding the market. I won't go on and on about the nature of the industry in this post (this will not be a long post), as I'd rather ponder the implications that this phenomenon holds for society. In my view, things look grim.
Perfume is without question a luxury item, an unnecessary accoutrement to one's grooming routine that usually costs more money than it's worth. Yes, it's wonderful stuff, and sure, we're all the better for having it, but personal fragrance is the sort of thing that enters dead last on the list of Shit You Must Have. Food, shelter, steady work, transportation, all are infinitely more important.
What do we know about the fragrance industry as it parallels the global economy? We have seen in the last decade the formation of an incredible economic divide. In America, the top one percent of the population holds almost forty percent of the nation's wealth, while the middle class flounders at less than a quarter percent. The average niche perfume costs about $140 per 100 ml bottle. Which demographic do you think is buying these fragrances? Clue: the majority of middle class American families aren't blowing their money on niche perfumes.
The middle class makes up the majority of the population.
With this basic knowledge in hand, we must heuristically conclude that the majority of niche buyers are people in the upper class. They are a small subset of the population, but they are the drivers of the burgeoning luxury market, which sees continuing growth.
This bodes ill for society as a whole. While the majority of the American people (and European people, for that matter) struggle on a day-to-day basis to make ends meet, and an astonishing 43% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, a tiny subset of anywhere from 5% to 15% of the population is making enough money to fuel an industry. Part of that industry is niche perfumery.
Of course there are outliers. Some who firmly inhabit the middle of the middle class will be tangential spenders who are either (a) bad with money, or (b) so obsessed, they don't care how they spend every last penny of disposable income. These people will buy niche at any cost and accumulate bottles as collectors, or as investors looking to re-sell. You can't tell me Dan "My Mickers" on Youtube is a one percenter - although he may be upper middle class for all I know. There are certainly many Dans out there.
But their numbers aren't enough to keep the insanely expensive niche perfume industry alive and well. Someone else is doing that. It's no coincidence that the niche market exploded after the crash of 2008. In the ensuing eight years, the economy stagnated for the majority of the population, but boomed at unprecedented levels for the already rich.
The chickens may be coming home to roost. The rise of niche may be a curse.
This election season has been many things to many people, but one thing I've noticed is that everybody is very, very scared. Everybody. Not just the lower and middle classes. Even the rich are terrified. The Koch brothers are scratching their heads, trying to fathom how we got to this point, with Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton the two major candidates. Two terrible choices. And if you know anything about the Koch brothers, you know they usually aren't scratching their heads during an election. They're usually rigging the shit out of our make-believe democracy. The fact that even they don't know what's going on has me, quite ironically, a little worried.
If Hillary wins, America's relationship with Russia will deteriorate further than it already has. A new Cold War will begin, which will be a gateway to WWIII. President Putin has already expressed rankling concern with America's missile defense system, stationed in Romania and several other remote outposts flanking his country. He astutely holds our "democracy" in low esteem, and considers anti-American foreign policy justifiable not only in bureaucratic terms, but also on moral grounds.
It's also reasonable to suppose that a Hillary victory would do little to stem the tide of ISIS attacks in Europe and the Middle East. And I'm a firm believer that we're headed for another catastrophic recession, possibly even a depression, with our fundamentally unsound stock market sitting a little too pretty.
A Trump presidency would guarantee a recession, triggered by evaporated investor confidence alone, and an emboldened Russia would simply go ahead with whatever plans it has to retake annexed Soviet territories, spurring all kinds of conflict. North Korea would grow the stones to act on its fantasies, our domestic economy would crater those tidy jobs numbers Obama's been bragging about, social politics would mudslide back to the fifties (in the last two years we've managed to make it as far back as the sixties), and the world would soon label America's vacationing travelers "refugees."
This all falls shy of being apocalyptic, but consider that at near negative interest rates on bonds, and certain commodities holding on by a thread, the Federal Reserve has no bullets left in its gun. Another crisis means we're on our own.
What does this have to do with perfume? Nothing and everything.
I'm not suggesting that these bad political choices are directly related to the world of niche fragrance. But I am suggesting that the burgeoning luxury market of niche is a symptom of a greater problem. It's nice that the wealthy have so much money that they can finance these start-ups and buy their overpriced compositions. It's wonderful that brands like Memo and Byredo and Clive Christian and Creed have sprung from the loins of Europe and found homes on the napes of lily-white necks across the continent. There's nothing wrong with it on an objective business level.
But the fact that there are so many of these niche fragrances, thousands of them priced at $250, $300, $500 a bottle (or more), signals danger on a social level. As Nick Hanauer said two years ago, "The pitchforks are coming." He couldn't be more right about that.
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