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YouTube slaps partial ban on 5G conspiracy videos amid arson attacks
By Hilary Lamb
Published Monday, April 6, 2020
Following attacks on telecoms infrastructure by conspiracy theorists in the UK, YouTube has announced plans to crack down on content promoting unsubstantiated claims relating the 5G rollout to the coronavirus pandemic, although it will not remove all content promoting 5G conspiracy theories.
At least seven mobile masts have been targeted with arson attacks in the past week, including in Melling, Liverpool, Belfast, and Birmingham (the Birmingham-based mast did not have 5G capability). Videos of the attacks were posted on social media platforms afterwards. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said that he had been threatened after he dismissed the conspiracy theories as "bizarre".
Telecoms engineers (including employees of broadband companies) have also reported verbal and physical threats motivated by conspiracy theories linking 5G technology with Covid-19.
Many conspiracy theories have sprung up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far resulted in over a million confirmed infections and more than 70,000 deaths. Some of these conspiracy theories claim that 5G technology is causing or aggravating the pandemic, such as by weakening human immune systems or "sucking oxygen out of [the] lungs". This notion has been promoted by television presenter Amanda Holden, singer Anne-Marie, American actor Woody Harrelson, celebrity choreographer Jason Gardiner, and athlete Amir Khan.
Covid-19 breakouts have no correlation with 5G rollouts, with countries such as Iran struggling with high infection rates despite having no 5G service. Mobile operators design and build telecoms infrastructure in compliance with the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection's evidence-based exposure guidelines, which ensure that there is no adverse health effect associated with normal exposure.
Despite the conspiracy theories having no scientific basis whatsoever, the real-life attacks on telecoms infrastructure and harassment of engineers has prompted lawmakers, business leaders, and internet platforms to speak out against them.
Vodafone UK CEO Nick Jeffrey commented: "It beggars belief that some people should want to harm the very networks that are providing essential connectivity to the emergency services, the NHS, and the rest of the country during this lockdown period." Of the seven masts confirmed to have been set on fire, two were Vodafone masts and two were shared between Vodafone and O2.
BT CEO Marc Allera wrote on Twitter: "Phone masts keep us all connected at this extraordinary time. And yet we're seeing reports of masts vandalised because of a conspiracy theory linking 5G tech to the spread of Covid-19. This claim is baseless. We must look after the infrastructure and people keeping us in touch."
The international communications trade body, the GSMA, also spoke out against the attacks, with director general Mats Granryd describing the attacks on infrastructure and people keeping vital services running as "deplorable" and based on "outright mistruths".
Stephen Powis, national medical director at NHS England, said that the conspiracy theories are "complete and utter rubbish". He added: "The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us, particularly in a time when we are asking people to stay home and not see relatives and friends. But, in particular, those are also the phone networks used by our emergency services and our health workers and I am absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted, that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency."
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove decried the idea as "dangerous nonsense", and the Guardian reported that Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet with representatives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter to discuss the issue and make it clear that disinformation about 5G must be countered.
YouTube told the Guardian that it will remove videos that connect Covid-19 with 5G due to violation of policies forbidding "medically unsubstantiated methods" of protecting against the infection which may discourage viewers from seeking medical treatment. One of the videos which was removed by YouTube (though not before it had gained serious traction) featured a man who claimed to be a former Vodafone "executive" – who appeared to not understand the distinction between wired and wireless connections – stating that the pandemic was being used to mask deaths caused by 5G technology. The video was later reuploaded by different channels.
The platform will not remove all 5G conspiracy theory videos. It may take action to suppress "borderline" videos – which may sow doubt about the safety of 5G, for instance – such as by reducing recommendations, removing them from search results, and demonetising them.


Tom Dixon opened his first flagship store in Hong Kong. The duplex store takes a prime location on Hollywood Road, Central Hong Kong, and comprises of the brand's latest furniture, lighting and home accessories.
"With an acceleration of interest for our work in this region, 52 Hollywood Road emerges as the new epicentre of our latest expansion in Asia," Dixon commented. "The two-storey showroom showcases a curated collection of our core products where charred timber cladding and grey marble fixtures complement the concrete floor and walls, and serve as a fitting backdrop to our metallic tones of copper, brass and chrome."
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We are super excited our new short film "Earth Is Not Room Enough" is making it's Canadian Premiere at the 2016 Fantasia Fest in Montreal. It's a great festival if you're into Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror films.
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Halo will fail until a 1-50 system is out.
The_UnLuckiest November 25, 2012, 8:39pm #1
People don't play Halo to grind XP, they play it to get their skill level to 50, or as close as they can.
Until 1-50 is out, inside the game… every Halo will lose population shortly after release regardless of how good the game is.
I feel there is no reason to play Halo 4, I didn't get to play much day one so my rank is a little behind and I've already beaten Solo Legendary.
Like what is the motivation behind me playing it anymore?
AnonONIagent November 25, 2012, 8:42pm #2
> People don't play Halo to grind XP, they play it to get their skill level to 50, or as close as they can.
> Until 1-50 is out, inside the game… every Halo will lose population shortly after release regardless of how good the game is.
> I feel there is no reason to play Halo 4, I didn't get to play much day one so my rank is a little behind and I've already beaten Solo Legendary.
> Like what is the motivation behind me playing it anymore?
Wait, what? First off, I think people play Halo to have fun, and second, winning is supposed to be intrinsically motivating, so why do you need encouragement to play well outside of not losing?
BlatantFoolie November 25, 2012, 8:43pm #3
Halo 4 was actually a success commercially.
> > People don't play Halo to grind XP, they play it to get their skill level to 50, or as close as they can.
> > Until 1-50 is out, inside the game… every Halo will lose population shortly after release regardless of how good the game is.
> > I feel there is no reason to play Halo 4, I didn't get to play much day one so my rank is a little behind and I've already beaten Solo Legendary.
> > Like what is the motivation behind me playing it anymore?
> Wait, what? First off, I think people play Halo to have fun, and second, winning is supposed to be intrinsically motivating, so why do you need encouragement to play well outside of not losing?
What is the point of winning in this game? 400 more XP?
Shamona220 November 25, 2012, 8:44pm #5
I really don't think a ranking system is needed for a game to be a success and there a plenty of games that prove this like CoD. Besides we are getting one in January.
Inb4 "That's only on Waypoint!".
It's only confirmed for Waypoint. Frankie said it could end up being visible in game.
Apothyc_Shogun November 25, 2012, 8:46pm #6
Halo 3's true skill ranking system sucked though. If lower leveled people beat you you go down, you could only increase by beating higher levels and if you lose you could not increase in the next round. Also it was not transparent enough so half the time you didn't know what was going on to your rank. All these things would add up and your rank would not change for 15 rounds either way regardless of how well you played.
I agree we need a ranking system, but it needs to be a good one.
> > > People don't play Halo to grind XP, they play it to get their skill level to 50, or as close as they can.
> > > Until 1-50 is out, inside the game… every Halo will lose population shortly after release regardless of how good the game is.
> > > I feel there is no reason to play Halo 4, I didn't get to play much day one so my rank is a little behind and I've already beaten Solo Legendary.
> > > Like what is the motivation behind me playing it anymore?
> > Wait, what? First off, I think people play Halo to have fun, and second, winning is supposed to be intrinsically motivating, so why do you need encouragement to play well outside of not losing?
> What is the point of winning in this game? 400 more XP?
The point of winning is to win.
> Halo 4 was actually a success commercially.
Anything with a Halo name will be a "success commercially". However I am talking about population counter after the game has been out. It is down to 200k, which was where Halo 3 was at a month before Reach.
Diem November 25, 2012, 8:47pm #9
If you need a number on your profile to make the game fun, then there's something seriously wrong with you.
mackan_e_jag November 25, 2012, 8:48pm #10
To an extent I agree to the post…
If we had the ranking system from start almost no one would be worried about the rank 70 cap since they could still be ranking up in certain playlists. Since we now have no rank system and 70 cap there's a possibility these players will simply stop playing
And no people don't play Halo simply because of a ranking system but it sure is nice to have.
BlatantFoolie November 25, 2012, 8:48pm #11
> > Halo 4 was actually a success commercially.
> Anything with a Halo name will be a "success commercially". However I am talking about population counter after the game has been out. It is down to 200k, which was where Halo 3 was at a month before Reach.
That doesn't really matter. There are other more serious problems for the competitive community that haven't been answered to aside from a 1-50 pacifier.
Lack of Fileshare support effects the competitive guys a hell of a lot more then the number being attached to their name. I think there should be a 1-50 ranking eventually, absolutely. But it isn't really THAT bad. It isn't hard to tell a good player from a poor one. All you need to do is peak at the W/L and K/D on an account and you can make a pretty good guess. Anyone could look at my stats and immediately guess that I'd be a middle-grounder somewhere between 30-35 in a 1-50 system.
The_UnLuckiest November 25, 2012, 8:49pm #12
> I really don't think a ranking system is needed for a game to be a success and there a plenty of games that prove this like CoD. Besides we are getting one in January.
> Inb4 "That's only on Waypoint!".
> It's only confirmed for Waypoint. Frankie said it could end up being visible in game.
Problem is, if I want to play Call of Duty, I would play Call of Duty. Just becuase it works for CoD it doesn't mean it should be on every multiplayer FPS game for a decade.
Also, I know H4 is getting 1-50. Hopefully it works out well
> If you need a number on your profile to make the game fun, then there's something seriously wrong with you.
If I was going to play a game for the solely purpose of fun, I would be playing Halo: PC right now.
But everything gets boring if there is no motivation behind it.
AnonONIagent November 25, 2012, 8:52pm #14
> > > Halo 4 was actually a success commercially.
> > Anything with a Halo name will be a "success commercially". However I am talking about population counter after the game has been out. It is down to 200k, which was where Halo 3 was at a month before Reach.
> That doesn't really matter. There are other more serious problems for the competitive community that haven't been answered to aside from a 1-50 pacifier.
> Lack of Fileshare support effects the competitive guys a hell of a lot more then the number being attached to their name.
The lack of proper File Share support is probably the single greatest issue with Halo 4, as it negatively impacts every corner of the Halo community. Thankfully 343 is working on the File Sharing issue.
DSight November 25, 2012, 8:53pm #15
Hey OP,
Define how Halo 4 will "fail".
Will the population drop to 0?
Will DLC not sell?
Will Halo 5 not get made?
How will Halo 4 "fail" if 343i doesn't cater to you and your need for 1-50?
JackArseFace November 25, 2012, 8:57pm #16
Oh, I dunno, fun? People DO NOT play to get a 50, they play to level up and have a good time. The skill based leveling is an elitist concept. Not only is it unfair for players that aren't of professional skill, but it promotes cheating. You had to grind XP in Halo 3, too. It actually took LONGER, because it was based on games won rather than how well you did.
Herbert_Herbhit November 25, 2012, 8:58pm #17
There are plenty of us who play because we enjoy the game.
A visible 1-50 system was responsible for the shattered state the community finds itself in today.
I'd rather not see the dramatic increase in griefing, quitting and cheating that a 1-50 would create.
> Oh, I dunno, fun? People DO NOT play to get a 50, they play to level up and have a good time. The skill based leveling is an elitist concept. Not only is it unfair for players that aren't of professional skill, but it promotes cheating. You had to grind XP in Halo 3, too. It actually took LONGER, because it was based on games won rather than how well you did.
Progressive ranks are actually more balanced than skill-based ranks, as the former is less easily exploited.
> > If you need a number on your profile to make the game fun, then there's something seriously wrong with you.
> If I was going to play a game for the solely purpose of fun, I would be playing Halo: PC right now.
> But everything gets boring if there is no motivation behind it.
Fun isn't a strong enough incentive? You could always play something else, too. Maybe MLG is more your style.
Mr_Fever November 25, 2012, 9:02pm #20
> > I really don't think a ranking system is needed for a game to be a success and there a plenty of games that prove this like CoD. Besides we are getting one in January.
> > Inb4 "That's only on Waypoint!".
> > It's only confirmed for Waypoint. Frankie said it could end up being visible in game.
> Problem is, if I want to play Call of Duty, I would play Call of Duty. Just becuase it works for CoD it doesn't mean it should be on every multiplayer FPS game for a decade.
> Also, I know H4 is getting 1-50. Hopefully it works out well
We need to fight for the 1-50 true skill ranking system to be implemented IN game. The CSR update they are adding is ONLY web based meaning only seen on waypoint and does not effect rank. Basically has no purpose and is pointless. For more info and to support a full skilled ranking system check out this thread- https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst135168_1-50-Competitive-Skill-Rank-Official-Thread.aspx


Logic Programming: is a type of programming paradigm which is largely based on formal logic. Any program written in a logic programming language is a set of sentences in logical form, expressing facts and rules about some problem domain.
H :- B1, …, Bn.
The declarative reading of logic programs can be used by a programmer to verify their correctness. Moreover, logic-based program transformation techniques can also be used to transform logic programs into logically equivalent programs that are more efficient. In the Prolog family of logic programming languages, the programmer can also use the known problem-solving behavior of the execution mechanism to improve the efficiency of programs.
Datalog is a truly declarative logic programming language that syntactically is a subset of Prolog. It is often used as a query language for deductive databases. Datalog has found new applications in data integration, information extraction, networking, program analysis, security, and cloud computing. Unlike in Prolog, statements of a Datalog program can be stated in any order. Furthermore, Datalog queries on finite sets are guaranteed to terminate, so Datalog does not have Prologs cut operator. This makes Datalog a truly declarative language. Query evaluation with Datalog is based on first order logic. Some widely used database systems include ideas and algorithms developed for Datalog.
It is also used in many fields that require logic programming including networking, cloud computing, deductive database design, information extraction, and program analysis. Datalog is usually implemented in, or interpreted using, other programming languages. Open source Datalog implementations exist for Java, C++, Lua, Python, Prolog, Clojure, and Racket, and commercial Datalog implementations are also available.
Database programmers like Datalog for its simplicity. As a simple declarative logic-based language, Datalog relies on a conventional clause format. In a declarative language, the user enters the items that they want to find and then the system takes over, finding values that comply with the user's request.
Like other types of query systems, a Datalog query involves setting up a command-based premise. For example, many simpler Datalog queries consist of an object and a set of modifiers or constraints in parentheses. The simple syntax allows administrators to quickly learn how to get the results they need from the database. However, as with other systems, Datalog users have to deal with the emergence of raw or unstructured data sets in a database technology. In other words, whereas databases of the past tended to have strict "table" data formats, today's databases may have much more abstracted information that has to be queried and handled in a different way.
These two lines define two facts, i.e. things that always hold. They can be intuitively understood as: the parent of mary is bill and the parent of john is mary.
These two lines describe the rules that define the ancestor relationship. A rule consists of two main parts separated by the :- symbol. The part to the left of this symbol is the head of the rule, the part to the right is the body. A rule is read (and can be intuitively understood) as <head> if it is known that <body>. Uppercase letters stand for variables. Hence in the example, the first rule can be read as X is the ancestor of Y, if it is known that X is the parent of Y. The second rule can be read as X is the ancestor of Y, if it is known that X is the parent of some Z, and Z is the ancestor of Y. The ordering of the clauses is irrelevant in Datalog in contrast to Prolog which depends on the ordering of clauses for computing the result of the query call.
Datalog distinguishes between extensional predicate symbols (defined by facts) and intensional predicate symbols (defined by rules). In the example above, ancestor is an intensional predicate symbol, and parent is extensional. Predicates may also be defined by facts and rules, and therefore neither can be purely extensional nor intensional. Any Datalog program can be rewritten into an equivalent program without such predicate symbols with duplicate roles.
The query above asks for all that bill is ancestor of, and would return mary and john when posed against a Datalog system containing the facts and rules described above.
IRIS<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> yes<ref>IRIS demo</ref> IRIS extends Datalog with function symbols, built-in predicates, locally stratified or un-stratified logic programs (using the well-founded semantics), unsafe rules and XML schema data types (GNU LGPL v2.1).
XSB A logic programming and deductive database system for Unix and MS Windows with tabling giving Datalog-like termination and efficiency, including incremental evaluation<ref>The XSB System, Version 3.7.x, Template:Citation.</ref> (GNU LGPL).
Coral<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> A deductive database system written in C++ with semi-naïve datalog evaluation. Developed 1988-1997. (custom licence, free for non-commercial use).
Inter4QL<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> an open-source command-line interpreter of Datalog-like 4QL query language implemented in C++ for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Negation is allowed in heads and bodies of rules as well as in recursion (GNU GPL v3).
DES<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> an open-source implementation to be used for teaching Datalog in courses (GNU LGPL).
Cascalog Hadoop a Clojure library for querying data stored on Hadoop clusters (Apache).
Clojure Datalog a contributed library implementing aspects of Datalog (Eclipse Public License 1.0).
Datascript in-memory Immutable database and Datalog query engine that runs in the browser (Eclipse Public License 1.0).
Datalog for Racket<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> (GNU LGPL).
Datafun<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> Generalized Datalog on Semilattices (GNU LGPL).
tclbdd<ref>Template:Cite conferenceTemplate:Dead link</ref> Implementation based on binary decision diagrams. Built to support development of an optimizing compiler for Tcl. (BSD).
Dyna<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> Dyna is a declarative programming language for statistical AI programming. The language is based on Datalog, supports both forward and backward chaining, and incremental evaluation. (GNU AGPLv3).
bddbddb<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> an implementation of Datalog done at Stanford University. It is mainly used to query Java bytecode including points-to analysis on large Java programs (GNU LGPL).
ConceptBase<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> a deductive and object-oriented database system based on a Datalog query evaluator. It is mainly used for conceptual modeling and metamodeling (FreeBSD-style license). Prolog, Java.
Datomic is a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications, running on new cloud architectures. It uses Datalog as the query language.
DLV is a commercial Datalog extension that supports disjunctive head clauses.
FoundationDB provides a free-of-charge database binding for pyDatalog, with a tutorial on its use.
Leapsight Semantic Dataspace (LSD) is a distributed deductive database that offers high availability, fault tolerance, operational simplicity, and scalability. LSD uses Leaplog (a Datalog implementation) for querying and reasoning and was create by Leapsight.
LogicBlox, a commercial implementation of Datalog used for web-based retail planning and insurance applications.
.QL, a commercial object-oriented variant of Datalog created by Semmle.
SecPAL a security policy language developed by Microsoft Research.
Stardog is a graph database, implemented in Java. It provides support for RDF and all OWL 2 profiles providing extensive reasoning capabilities, including datalog evaluation.
StrixDB: a commercial RDF graph store, SPARQL compliant with Lua API and Datalog inference capabilities. Could be used as httpd (Apache HTTP Server) module or standalone (although beta versions are under the Perl Artistic License 2.0).
The language we will focus on and give examples for will be "Prolog".
Is a general-purpose logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.
The language was first conceived by a group around Alain Colmerauer in Marseille, France, in the early 1970's and the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel.
Prolog was one of the first logic programming languages, and remains the most popular among such languages today, with several free and commercial implementations available. The language has been used for theorem proving, expert systems, type inference systems, and automated planning, as well as its original intended field of use, natural language processing.
Modern Prolog environments support creating graphical user interfaces, as well as administrative and networked applications.
From these examples, we understand that the general form of a Prolog fact is: relation(object1, object2, ..., objectn).
Symbols or names representing objects, such as ulysses and penelope, are called atoms. Atoms are normally strings of letters, digits, or underscores "_", and begin with a lowercase letter.
An atom can also be a string beginning with an uppercase letter or including white spaces, but it must be enclosed between quotes.
Thus 'Ulysses' or 'Pallas Athena' are legal atoms. In logic, the name of the symbolic relation is the predicate, the objects object1, object2, ..., objectn involved in the relation are the arguments, and the number n of the arguments is the arity. Traditionally, a Prolog predicate is indicated by its name and arity: predicate/arity, for example, character/2, king/3.
Where the arguments of the predicate character/3 are two atoms and a compound term. It is common to use trees to represent compound terms. The nodes of a tree are then equivalent to the factors of a term.
Figure below shows examples of this.
Syntactically, a compound term consists of a functor – the name of the relation – and arguments. The leftmost functor of a term is the principal functor. A same principal functor with a different arty corresponds to different predicates: character/3 is thus different from character/2. A constant is a special case of a compound term with no arguments and an arity of 0.
The constant abc can thus be referred to as abc/0.
?- male(menelaus), king(menelaus, sparta, achaean).
?- G1, G2, G3, ..., Gn.
Prolog proves the whole query by proving that all the goals G1 ...Gn are true.
The logical variables are the last kind of Prolog terms. Syntactically, variables begin with an uppercase letter, for example, X, Xyz, or an underscore "_". Logical variables stand for any term; constants, compound terms, and other variables.
A term containing variables such as character(X, Y) can unify with a compatible fact, such as character(penelope, odyssey), with the substitutions X = penelope and Y = odyssey. When a query term contains variables, the Prolog resolution algorithm searches terms in the database that unify with it. It then substitutes the variables to the matching arguments.
Variables enable users to ask questions such as What are the characters of the Odyssey?
Or What is the city and the party of king Menelaus? etc.
?- king(X, ithaca, Y), father(X, Z).
?- king(X, ithaca, _), father(X, _).
To sum up, every data object in Prolog is a term. Terms divide into atomic terms, variables, and compound terms (see Figure below).
Syntax of terms may vary according to Prolog implementations. You should consult reference manuals for their specific details.
Atoms are sequences of letters, numbers, and/or underscores beginning with a lowercase letter, as ulysses, iSLanD3, king_of_Ithaca.
Any sequence of characters enclosed between single quotes is also an atom, as 'king of Ithaca'.
Numbers are either decimal integers, as -19, 1960, octal integers when preceded by 0o, as 0o56, hexadecimal integers when preceded by 0x, as 0xF4, or binary integers when preceded by 0b, as 0b101.
Floating-point numbers are digits with a decimal point, as 3.14, -1.5. They may contain an exponent, as 23E-5 (23 10−5) or -2.3e5 (2.3 10−5).
The ASCII numeric value of a character x is denoted 0'x, as 0'a (97), 0'b (98), etc.
Variables are sequences of letters, numbers, and/or underscores beginning with an uppercase letter or the underscore character.
Compound terms consist of a functor, which must be an atom, followed immediately by an opening parenthesis, a sequence of terms separated by commas, and a closing parenthesis.
son(X, Y) :- father(Y, X), male(X).
son(X, Y) :- mother(Y, X), male(X).
HEAD :- G1, G2, G3, ... Gn.
parent(X, Y) :- mother(X, Y).
parent(X, Y) :- father(X, Y).
grandparent(X, Y) :- parent(X, Z), parent(Z, Y).
ancestor(X, Y) :- parent(X, Y).
ancestor(X, Y) :- parent(X, Z), ancestor(Z, Y).
This latter pattern is quite common of Prolog rules. One or more rules express a general case using recursion. Another set of rules or facts describes simpler conditions without recursion. They correspond to boundary cases and enable the recursion to terminate.
Facts and rules are also called clauses. A predicate is defined by a set of clauses with the same principal functor and arity. Facts are indeed special cases of rules: rules that are always true and relation(X, Y) is equivalent to relation(X, Y) :- true, where true/0 is a built-in predicate that always succeeds. Most Prolog implementations require clauses of the same name and arity to be grouped together.
However, ";" should be used scarcely because it impairs somewhat the legibility of clauses and programs. The latter form is generally better.
The set of facts and rules of a file makes up a Prolog text or program. To run it and use the information it contains, a Prolog system has to load the text and add it to the current database in memory. Once Prolog is launched, it displays a prompt symbol "?-" and accepts commands from the user. Ways to load a program are specific to each Prolog implementation. A user should look them up in the reference manual because the current standard does not define them. There are, however, two commands drawn from the Edinburgh Prolog tradition (Pereira 1984) implemented in most systems: consult/1 and reconsult/1.
The predicate reconsult/1 is a variation of consult. Usually, a programmer writes a program, loads it using consult, runs it, debugs it, modifies the program, and reloads the modified program until it is correct. While consult adds the modified clauses to the old ones in the database, reconsult updates the database instead. It loads the modified file and replaces clauses of existing predicates in the database by new clauses contained in the file. If a predicate is in the file and not in the database, reconsult simply adds its clauses. In some Prolog systems, reconsult does not exist, and consult discards existing clauses to replace them by the new definition from the loaded file. Once a file is loaded, the user can run queries.
The listing/0 built-in predicate displays all the clauses in the database, and listing/1, the definition of a specific predicate.
A program can also include directives, i.e., predicates to run at load time.
Directives are run immediately as they are encountered. If a directive is to be executed once the program is completely loaded, it must occur at the end of the file. Finally, halt/0 quits Prolog.
In Prolog, loading code is referred to as consulting. Prolog can be used interactively by entering queries at the Prolog prompt ?-. If there is no solution, Prolog writes no. If a solution exists then it is printed. If there are multiple solutions to the query, then these can be requested by entering a semicolon ;. There are guidelines on good programming practice to improve code efficiency, readability and maintainability.
The following queries yield the specified answers.
How do you add the following facts?
Don't add in any extra spaces or punctuation with the commands.
Don't use any capital letters - not even for people's names.
Make sure there's at least one fully blank line at the end of the program.
Don't forget the full-stops (the period at the end of each line): these are very important to Prolog.
Once you have typed this in, save it as intro.pl (Prolog files usually end with ".pl", just as Java files end with ".java" and python end with ".py").
Prolog is now running and waiting for you to type in some commands.
We've done the first two of these, so now we need to load the program into Prolog.
you should do this every time you change your program in the text editor.
At this point you should hit the semicolon key.
This tells the computer you wish to see any additional facts pertaining to your query.
Since there aren't any, it quits and returns "false." Indicating that there is no more information to report..
Repeat this process for each of the following.
Notice that predicates and objects in Prolog are both done in lowercase letters. For objects, this is the opposite of what we were to do in Predicate Logic. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true for variables. Variables must begin with capital letters in prolog. Type in the following. Remember to hit the ; key after each response until you see no more responses.
Notice three things that will mess you up with prolog.
We reverse the antecedent and the consequent. The consequent always comes first in prolog.
The capitalization is also "backwards." Objects start with lowercase and variables start with upper case.
I did two things differently here. First, I took the rule and divided it out over several lines for ease of reading. Prolog has no problems with this. It knows that as long as it hasn't seen the period yet that the rule isn't over. The second is that this rule has two parts to the antecedent (remember, that we are backwards from what we are use to and those are things to the "right" of the implication symbol) that are conjoined together. In prolog the conjunction symbol (AND) is a comma.
The first couple probably make sense, but in the middle you suddenly see that john likes himself (and more than once).
Resave this, rerun prolog and reload intro and you should get much better results.
1. Slightly more complicated family tree.
Was George I the parent of Charles I?
Who was Charles I's parent?
Who were the children of Charles I?
X is a sibling of Y if they both have the same parent.
Here is what happens when Prolog solves the case N=3.
size([H|T],N) :- size(T,N1), N is N1+1.
% or size([_|T],N) :- size(T,N1), N is N1+1.
| ?- size([a, [b, c, d], e, [f | g], h], N).
ssumlist([H|T],N) :- sumlist(T,N1), N is N1+H.
reverse/3 probably should be called reverseHelper or something else for clarity.
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Cartomancy's Sneak Peek at the EU Repeal Bill
Late on Monday evening Il Matrimonio reminded me that the vote for the EU Repeal Bill was due to take place that night, and I reached for my playing cards. It was already 10.00 PM, just hours to go as I drew the cards illustrated below, asking, would the Bill be passed? I left the cards out on the table, made my initial assessment which was that it was a yes answer, then went to bed and tried to forget about it till morning.
These were the cards left out overnight. The top line contained the yes answer, but on what basis did I arrive at that interpretation?
To get at a yes/no answer, you lay out a row of cards using an odd number, 3, 5 or 7.
It's a question of preference. On such a weighty and hugely multi-factorial question, 3 might seem too few, and by now I've trained myself to read in fives. That's what this stuff is about. You learn your chosen system of divination, whether that's playing cards, Tarot, runes or whatever. You study it. You learn and you practise, practise, practise until you internalise the code, the programme, or whatever you like to call it, until, if you persist, it feels like second nature.
You activate your internal oracular programme on request. The most psychic psychic in the world – whoever that is, and it isn't me, doesn't go round being psychic all the time. Do they heck. They wouldn't be able to function. Prescience isn't omniscience, with tools, you learn to manage, instruct and direct that innate human capability. So, how do you direct it?
If it's cards you're reading, you do it simply by stating your question aloud as you shuffle. Not for the purpose of enlisting any rogue, random spirits in the room (or, wait… no, are they…are they… aaaggghhh…imps of Satan come to steal your soul?)
No. It is just so that you will hear yourself say it. Then stop shuffling when you feel ready. That's it. You just stop shuffling when you feel ready, then you take off the top five cards and lay them out from left to right, creating a story-board moving forward in time.
The red card suits are Hearts and Diamonds, simplistically read as supportive or positive.
The black card suits are Clubs and Spades, simplistically read as challenging or negative.
5 red suit cards represents a definite yes
4 red suit cards represents a probable yes
3 red cards represent a likely yes
2 red cards represent a likely no
1 red card represents a probable no
0 red cards says forget it. The answer is no.
So what did we have here? 3 red cards and 2 black cards, suggesting that it was more likely than not, that yes, the Repeal Bill would pass. But we had those 2 black suit cards. What else could be gleaned?
The first card out, the 10 of Clubs, is a card of business and far-flung travel and clearly represents the bottom line. Additionally, the 10 Clubs also represents the idea of a body of water. It might be a sink or a bathtub, or it might be a sea or a channel. For the first card out to say 'The Channel! La Manche!' provides quite a benchmark.
The second card out, the 8 of Hearts, speaks of a gathering, a convocation. It looks surprisingly cheerful here, there would appear to be more goodwill than so much other evidence suggests. It is strongly suggestive of togetherness (huh? eh? really?) It is suggestive of total sincerity at least, on both sides, whichever side of the argument you personally happen to support.
The third and central card, the pivot or hinge card here, is the 3 of Clubs: a card of confrontation but also collaboration. Three way deals. My goodness, there have been some mighty interesting conversations behind the scenes both sides of the House.
The fourth card here represents a male figure, highly significant in this debate. It might be David Davis, Jeremy Corbyn, or both. Any one card may have multiple meanings. My initial impression was that while David Davis was, despite everything, within his personal comfort zone, while Jeremy Corbyn was faced with a perplexity; needing not to alienate Labour voters who voted to leave, whilst needing to reconcile opposing elements within his party.
The final outcome card, the 4 of Hearts, is traditionally a card of a settled home, indicative of a solid, foursquare outcome. Because this card falls in the final position, this swung the cards more strongly towards a yes answer, denoting a solid but hardly sweeping result, and we now know there was a majority of 36 votes, with 126 challenges and amendments already tabled.
And if you got this far, you might be wondering about those other cards. What were they about?
When a question is so heavily loaded, supra-personal and complex, I cross- reference, coming at the question from different directions, looking for repetition, pattern and breaks in pattern.
The second row is talking about Theresa May herself. I had asked, would she achieve the result she was looking for? Again, we had 3 red suit cards and 2 black translating as, yes, more likely than not. The 2 black suit cards here however, were spades, which are to do with intellect, focus, strategy, loss – and stress, suggesting that while Theresa May will hold her nerve going forward, she is acutely aware of past mistakes and errors of calculation (the jack of spades is bad news, tricky in the extreme.)
The 9 of Spades together with the Queen of Diamonds, speaks of stress and strain, loss, attack and grief, concerning a reserved, pragmatic woman of quick instincts and warmth. It also seems, interestingly, to have foreshadowed the challenge of the 9 Conservative MP's now tabling amendments
There is no doubt the Prime Minister has felt the sad and terrible events of 2017 no less profoundly on the personal, human level than the rest of the general population, and if anything, more intensely because some of her responses were criticised, and, wherever the culpability lay, because these things happened on her watch.
See it here below. The black dog.
Below: the Nine of Swords(Spades) from The Golden Tarot by Kat Black, by kind permission of US Games Systems
The third row of cards was looking at those opposed to the passing of the Repeal Bill. Would they be happy with the outcome? We see here 4 black suit cards and only 1 is red. The King of Spades here is Jeremy Corbyn again, or Keir Starmer, but those who were disappointed can be assured that some concessions will be negotiated or obtained, especially and broadly pertaining to business affairs, as suggested by the outcome card on this line; the lively, mercantile Jack of Diamonds.
In laying out the final row, I had no specific question but was looking for a general sense of how things seem set to progress. The indications here are that the UK will leave the EU more or less according to the scheduled deadline. If there had been a spades card at the end of this row, it would have suggested delays, perhaps even significant delays, and if it had been the Ace of Spades, may even have detected an aborted exit process. The only spade card here however, is at the commencement of this row and it is the 6 of Spades; a positive if solemn card, denoting a departure; charting a new course. It represents progress, though of course, not without effort, cost or struggle.
Below: The Six of Swords (Spades) from The Gilded Tarot by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti
The outcome card, the 2 of Hearts, suggests a 2 year time-frame, possibly accelerated by whatever is being flagged up here by the 9 of Diamonds sitting just in front of it. It looks as though, because of the electricity of the diamonds suit, that certain significant dealings in respect of transport or travel, and possibly also power stations, may be settled somewhat more advantageously to the UK than many fear. Let's all hope so.
This is not about politics, promoting any political viewpoint. This is about learning how to read the cards in respect of public affairs, reading cold, developing skill of interpretation via benefit of hindsight.
The lessons of hindsight facilitate wider, deeper future foresight. Reading practitioners develop intuitive muscle by tackling questions. All kinds of questions. Exposition builds the reader's vocabulary, and with it, the capacity for more in-depth precision of card interpretation, and context is king.
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The Well of Wyrd
My readings include forecasts not predictions. What's the difference? Mainly presentation. Otherwise, very little. Forecasts are associated with technically based weather and economic predicting, nowadays largely based upon the interpretation of masses of computerised data, plus educated guesswork. A prediction is based on knowledge, experience, intuition or guesswork, and may be made in any context but is generally understood as being presented as almost a done deal, whereas a forecast deals in estimations of probabilities. I deal in probabilities.
Polls and other forecasts not infrequently get it wrong of course, as do fortune-tellers, no doubt.
When I talk to you about your present and past, as sensed and expressed through my Tarot or playing cards, you are in a position to evaluate what I am saying, and to validate it. When I address your question to do with likely future developments, no validation is possible; only time will tell; the future both exists and does not exist. You will die and so will I, the only things in life that are certain, so the saying goes, are death and taxes, and the taxes were only included as a joke.
But in-between, there are things within your direct personal control and things that are not, and a prediction may interfere, distract, block or stymie you, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy, while a forecast allows for the possibility of alternative outcomes depending on whether you do this next, or that next. This job or that job? This house or that house? This person or that person?
This freedom of choice may also be an illusion of course, just as 'true' objectivity is an impossibility, because we are always likely to do, and default to what is in our nature to do, regardless of advice, even when that advice is directly solicited. It is a wise and also essentially confident person who can, without instantly dismissing it, no knee-jerks, coolly pay out enough rope to listen to advice that is contrary to what they want or expect, or that challenges their own preferred version of events and vision of themselves and their past choices.
"What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh", first recorded in England (in Latin) circa 1290, widespread in various versions since the 15th cent.
The version I am used to says that what is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh…meaning, it will unavoidably manifest itself.
Norse mythology took a subtle view on prediction and the nature of destiny. Their Norns were not as absolutist as the Fates of Ancient Greece.
'Wyrd' is the Old English variant of the Norse word, 'Urd', referring to the destiny of each living thing, cast for them at birth by the three Norns. The Saxon variant is 'wurd.' The Well represents the Norse concept of the past – what we might now term birth memory, ancestral memory or the collective unconscious. The Norse view of destiny was that yes, it is written, but unlike the Fates of ancient Greek mythology, the destinies carved by the Norns can be overwritten…though does this pre-suppose that the hero on his or her life quest is aware of the existence and nature of that destiny and decides to challenge it?
She scrys alone; she is casting stones,
Disposing glyphs on graven runes,
No even numbers speak the Norns,
Wyrd runs water; she must deal,
In whisperings and Fates unsealed,
Winds of fortune shape and shatter,
Time, disposing of all matters,
Is Serpentine, the ouroboros,
Endless, rolling, still coils sinuous.
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine
Circe by Waterhouse: Public Domain
"The Well of Urd corresponds to the past tense. It is the reservoir of completed or ongoing actions that nourish the tree and influence its growth. Yggdrasil, in turn, corresponds to the present tense, that which is being actualised here and now.
What of intention and necessity, then? This is the water that permeates the image, flowing up from the well into the tree, dripping from the leaves of the tree as dew, and returning to the well, where it then seeps back up into the tree.[5]
Here, time is cyclical rather than linear. The present returns to the past, where it retroactively changes the past. The new past, in turn, is reabsorbed into a new present, whose originality is an outgrowth of the give-and-take between the waters of the well and the the waters of the tree." Source and Further Reading:
One can see the flexibility of the Norns arising in the sphere of genetics.
It is not clear why blue eyes spread among ancient Europeans. One theory is that the gene could have helped to prevent eye disorders due to low light levels found in European winters, or that the trait spread because it was deemed sexually attractive.
Source The Independent
Reading re: Retrogenes
Was Darwin Wrong? Letter from the author of Lamarck's Signature
Till next time 🙂
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Psychic Scratching in the Cartomancy Sandbox
Recently I added to my reading mix, a deck of ordinary playing cards. These have been in use for cartomancy; divination and fortune telling, for at least 400 years longer than the Tarot, and neither one of them began as fortune telling tools. They were both invented for gaming purposes. In the case of playing cards, it's thought they first came to Europe from the Middle East, arriving there in turn from the Far East.
Fully illustrated Tarot cards contain pictorial ingredients offering unlimited possibilities of translation via associative thinking, but playing cards, while less interesting pictorially, and somewhat prosaic, will do the job.
I thought I'd try them out in a recent face to face reading for a new client, reserving them for getting at a few yes or no answers if required.
Asking for the Tarot's insight into my client's recent significant past I drew The Fool and The Ace of Pentacles from The Gilded Tarot, images by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti.
The Fool is about opportunity, enthusiasm, a gamble, a birth. The Ace of Pentacles suggests a windfall, a new job or business, a new home, a garden or a new, precious object.
These following The Emperor prompted me to ask the client, had there been a recent major change or opportunity to do with a new job or new kind of work, and also maybe a new home?
And was it possible this new home might be in the countryside or else have a big garden or some land?
He said he had bought a house with land, and was planning to build on that land, and he wanted to know, what were the prospects for successful completion?
Yee-haa! Time to put my ordinary playing cards to the test and I drew these.
My first observation was that I had drawn two red cards and one black. Learning to do psychic readings is all about self-programming, and like learning anything, involves rote and repetition. I've decided a red card mean yes, whether it's a diamond or a heart, and a black card means no, whether it's a spade or a club card. And then I go for best of three, and the numbers might swing my thinking.
You could decide that a black card means yes, if you wanted, and a red card means no, and it might work splendidly reliably if you are consistent, though it might prove counter-intuitive as the most challenging cards in a playing deck – most, not all, are contained within the suits of spades and clubs.
Once decided on your own system, you need to stick to it. There's no right or wrong with these things. There's what works subject to proof. This is where there can arise a problem with going to classes 'to be taught' how to read. You are your own best teacher. Learning to 'see' in this way is solitary. Even lonely. It is not gregarious at source. Study adds skill and there is a vast library here to study, but in the end, while rendered articulate by skill, the oracular spirit, to be true to itself, remains a cat who walks alone.
The short answer to the client's question therefore was yes, but I was struck by the appearance of two diamonds cards, equating to the Tarot's suit of Pentacles; the suit of earth.
I was additionally struck by the fact that the middle card was twice the number value of the first card. a 4 and an 8. It made me think of foundations, and plumb-lines; four walls, and then four walls, doubled.
It didn't seem random, it felt as if it might be significant and I said to the client, 'are there going to be TWO buildings, by any chance? And one is twice the size of the other? But this black card, the 3 of Clubs, suggests there's a bit of stress already?'
Notice, I was asking him. That's because I did not know if this was correct. I only knew that's what I was being shown, and wanted to check.
'There ARE going to be two buildings' he said, nodding surprised, 'log cabins and one is going to be exactly twice the size of the other one. And yes, it's fair to say there's a fair bit of stress…'
And so the discussion moved forward.
Well done, my little £1.99 fortune-telling friends. Although I don't tell fortunes, you've clearly got my number, and I think you and I need to get better acquainted.
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Tarot Guesses The Birthday Pressie
Or tries to and almost does, but not quite.
A friend came to stay recently and brought a present for my birthday. We thought it might be fun for me to try and guess what was inside the packaging using my pendulum and cards. It was roughly cylindrical, not too heavy, rolled in bubble wrap and brown paper.
I held my pendulum over it.
'Are the contents of this package edible?' The pendulum span anticlockwise. No.(sob)
'Are the contents of this package paper?' No. 'Ceramic?' No.' Wood?' Yes.
I drew the Three of Pentacles, a card signifying progress in business and pride in one's work, and from The Gilded Tarot by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti.
'Is it a craft item? I asked my friend.
'Yes.' she said, smiling from ear to ear, as ducks suddenly quacked outside on the pond and Il Matrimonio ran to the balcony to see there if there was a fox. There sometimes is. Then I drew the Six of Swords, a card of personal progress, solemn journeys and quests for learning.
Was it something to do with a river or riverbank, I wondered. Was it a little wooden boat? Or a frog? I like frogs.
'No'. My friend said, smiling, 'But you are warm. Now open it!
And inside it was – this! A wooden Indian Runner Duck. What a little character.
Well, I never. No wonder she'd been laughing to herself every time we'd fed the ducks, knowing what she had in store to give me.
Now, that is what I call a friend. And psychically, here was that darn Jungian synchronicity thing at work again.
Good try, Tarot my friend. Not a bull's eye this time, but a respectable attempt, and this often is how Tarot works in a reading, too, regardless of the classical card meanings, sparking ideas directly off the imagery.
This is how, while Tarot presents a great academic study, anyone can read it, who likes to use associative thinking.
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Tarot Synchronicity: The Lucky Guess
Carl Jung speculated that the Tarot works according to the principle of 'synchronicity'- that psychic insights are triggered by apparently random and yet meaningful co-incidence, which he thought might be explained by Quantum Mechanics.
Further Reading HERE
In a recent reading, the focus was the clients job, and I drew the King of Pentacles or Coins.
Image below is from The Gilded Tarot by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti.
This Tarot king represents a man who is patient, kind, industrious. He is the salt of the earth. I said to the client that I thought he was a manager, and the work was practical in nature but also involved communication. It demanded precision or the 'thing' wouldn't work but I didn't 'see' as yet see what his job might actually be.
'I might get at it though,' I said, 'now that my computer is talking directly to your computer.'
What I meant by that was, I felt we were on the same wavelength.
His reply?
'But that IS my job! I work for the government. That's what I do…I make computers talk to other computers.'
Now that is typical of the Tarot.
Just typical.
Synchronicity.
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Tarot Sees Flooding, More Moon Madness
Last time here on True Tarot Tales, the Moon card caused me to enquire about whether there had been a recent instance close by, of an upset tummy, possibly food poisoning, and it turned out, just as the Moon card classically depicts two dogs barking at the moon, two of the client's dogs had been unwell after retrieving a ball from a dirty ditch.
Infection and disease may be flagged up by an appearance by the Moon card.
And so can flooding. I first saw this manifesting in my own cards during a Skype reading of 2010 for a client whose father lives in Pakistan, and her father had had to move house after flooding.
Image from The Gilded Tarot by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti.
November 13, reading for someone in respect of a property in Hawick and the prospects for sale, I felt it might sell in August/September 2016, but, having drawn the Moon card, I asked the client, was there a river close to the property, and if there was, did it flood? Because I sensed flooding as a barrier to sale.
I was told the property is a top floor apartment, and is close to The Teviot but it had not flooded during the time the client had lived there (not many years) Nor had the client been aware or deterred by the proximity of the river when buying.
But, and very unfortunately for all affected, and by no means for the first time in its history Hawick flooded badly in early December.
Read here: BBC News Article: Hawick Floods
I still sense my client may move home in 2016, I draw the Six of Swords which indicates progress and very often a domestic relocation, and certainly within the next two years, but the pathway may be more complex than anticipated when the property went on the market, and may, suggests the strategic Seven of Swords, involve the unwanted complication of a letting arrangement.
And, let us hope this is unduly doomful, no reader is infallible; I see signs we may well not be done with this Moon business yet. I draw the Moon card again, when asking about UK weather into February. Greater accuracy would demand a regional or even more break down, but there seems to be more 'warm air' coming where we don't want it; the King of Wands Reversed.
A skeptical friend, who lives in Cumbria joked recently, that of all the religions he doesn't believe in, the one he could perhaps go for is the Norse gods, and he may perhaps, even ask Freyr for help. Maybe it's not such a crazy idea, and this morning, there is snow lying here on the Lancashire coast. But whatever you do, ask politely.
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Tarot Talks To The Police…Highly Suspicious :)
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I recommend inquirers to visit my website before booking. This is for their benefit, to make sure I'm the right kind of reader for them. Not every reader offers the same kind of service, and I would far rather lose a booking than disappoint a client's expectation.
I once took an enquiry over the telephone from an unusually cagey enquirer. He had heard a colleague talking about a recent reading with me, and he wanted a reading, too. I later realized, putting two and two together, this new enquirer had been a police officer. I recommended that he also check out my website, and he did not book at that point, but called again some weeks later, and was startled that I remembered him, greeting him by the first name he had given (which was not, I sensed, his real name)
The client arrived and was polite but continued cagey to the point where it threatened to become counter-productive. I drew The Emperor card confirming what I had already suspected, and asked if he worked for the Government, was he is the civil service, Armed Forces or Police? He replied with some reluctance that he was in the Police, while a further card, the Seven of Swords, elicited that he worked in Fraud investigating.
I've read for a few police officers (purely off-duty) and had no problems. This was like pulling teeth, except I've never pulled a tooth. It was like pulling up a dandelion, or getting Il Matrimonio to tidy his clothes away.
The Emperor from The Gilded Tarot, by kind permission of Ciro Marchetti
I asked if he had visited the website, as I had suggested, to know how I conducted readings. He had not had time, he said, and I reminded him of what I had said on the phone, that I start readings cold, and expect to deliver 'psychic' insights but thereafter, a reading works as a dialogue, and this is how I am able to deliver a useful reading, drilling down on precise particulars.
'You're doing OK. Carry on,' he said smiling, then stonewalled me, leaning back on his chair with his arms folded, letting me know he was alert to my 'techniques.'
Please do not do this to your reader. Of course any reader with half a brain will tap into social cues when doing readings. Why ever is this considered the sign of a charlatan? A reader with poor observation skills is a social munchkin and unlikely to deliver a meaningful psychic reading either.
I sensed he was hoping for a bit of help, but would not value whatever was not delivered cold. I had already sensed disquiet attached to his marital situation, and said so, but he had so far declined to verify this.
Now I drew the Page of Swords Reversed and said, 'I sense a legal issue. An unwelcome communication. A letter, an email. Have you received it or are you sending it?
He smiled. 'Suppose you tell me?'
There was a pause while I drew more cards. I was not at ease. Stonewalling is socially hostile and I needed to make sure my own discomfort did not skew my impressions about the card.
The Page of Swords Reversed may indicate a minor stress as well as a legal document, potentially. (It can also mean a minor surgical procedure, a minor injury with acute pain, a spy or a young person born under an Air sign: Aquarius Gemini or Libra)
From the Universal Waite, by kind permission of US Games
I pulled The Hierophant reversed (marriage problem) and the Seven of Swords Reversed (a card of plain speaking or alternatively; surveillance and covert research)
I had a 'ping' moment, took a deep breath and said, 'Yes or No? Have you, or have you not, recently visited a solicitor with a view to asking about a divorce, but without telling your wife?'
'Yes,' he said, and the Tarot proceeded to share its insights surrounding this event and its ramifications past, present and possible future.
That might seem a reasonably specific psychic hit for someone who does not advertise as a clairvoyant (though I am sometimes, and sometimes clairaudient) but he remained unresponsive, politely thanking me for my time when we finished.
It is your time and money, and the reader's time and energy. Research their service.
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Joe's Ark
Lancashire Writer, Business Intuitive & Tarot Practitioner, Katie-Ellen Hazeldine
The rain beat down on the garage roof, washing August away, just as it had washed July away and most of June before that. The British Isles, like most of northern Europe, was losing its summer. It was coming soon, Joe thought, and fear gripped his belly.
He held Suzette, stroking her to calm himself while he considered the situation. Deciding when to put to sea was tricky. Too late would be…too late, but if he embarked too soon, he'd be eating into provisions unnecessarily. Noah had provisioned for a voyage lasting ten months, but then, he'd had the benefit of inside information.
'We'll be all right, Suzy, hinny,' he told his pet, 'I'll make sure of that. But what am I going to do about the wife?'
Suzette cocked her head as if considering, her beady gaze held his, unblinking. Joe had tried to explain to Linda about the bird's intelligence, but Linda detested Suzette, and said pigeons were thick, and they were vermin, and good for nothing but a pie. Joe knew better, and that that was just Linda's jealousy talking. Suzette's plumage was the colour of heather on the moors, or the hills at twilight, and with the little bird's plump warmth in his hand, he always felt better, somehow.
He tidied away and she followed, pecking at wood shavings, picking them up and dropping them again until he was done and scooped her up, dropping a kiss on the top of the small head, hard as a nut, placing her in the cage he had built for her.
'Sweet dreams, little hen. See you in the morning.' The cage had everything he could think of; a nest box, a perch, toys, even a mirror. She had everything but the company of her own kind and the open sky, but Joe didn't think she minded. He had reared her from a chick, hatching the egg in his beanie; she had never known anything else.
It was after five. Time to get the tea on before Linda came home from work. Joe went through into the house, there was a connecting door – straight into the hallway and no need to get wet.
Joe was an unemployed shipwright, nearly twenty years at Swan Hunter until the day came when they all got the chop and he had come home, stumbling with shock, his leaving cards in his hands, and walked in to find Linda, his wife, on the sofa on top of one of his friends. He'd never forget the look on her face as she ground her hips, looking down avid at the man on the sofa. Then she turned and saw him, and the look changed. Joe's love for his wife died on the spot, snuffed out by the shock, though later when he calmed down, he understood why she'd done it.
They were childless. Joe was sad about it, but for Linda it was a sporadic madness, a devouring need she could not leave alone. I want more tests, she'd said. I want IVF. But Joe wouldn't agree, and it wasn't the money, though they had little enough of that to spare. No, it wasn't that. But forcing gates just broke things in his experience, starting with the gate itself and now, he decided that Linda's betrayal was not only a desperate attempt at a solution, but revenge.
Resisting his first terrible, desperate desire to punch her into the middle of next week – though he caught his friend later in an alley and gave him a kicking that left the other man retching on hands and knees, Joe mulled it over and decided he'd accept whatever blameless little cuckoo came as a result of this betrayal. He was even, secretly and not without a sense of shame, a little excited at the prospect and caught himself waiting, counting, watching for signs. But Linda's plan, if that's what it had been, came to nothing. Joe realised with the dullness of grief, there was not going to be any nestling. Not even a cuckoo. They talked about divorce but neither made the first move, and so they carried on, together but apart.
It was one night soon after this, that Joe had had The Dream. Had not God told Noah, hadn't He solemnly promised, he would never do it again? But look what He was up to now! Flooding was never out of the news, rescue boats plying high streets the length and breadth of Britain and the price of everything going up. Lying as if paralysed in his solitary bed, staring sightless at the wall, Joe saw a land drowned by rain and river, sea and sky, and a wave that came as if from nowhere, the water cycle violently seeking new stasis as the ice caps melted.
He watched helpless, as a torrent came down the Tyne, bent bridges like hair grips and shoved them out to sea. People were swept away or crushed as they ran with their screeching children for the high places, and were overtaken. The Angel of the North looked on as buildings, bridges, roads were pulled apart like Lego, chewed and spat out. Afterwards came a hush, and the smell of rot, and the thriving of flies as the terrible silence and the empty days stretched on.
Everyone had nightmares and usually it was little more than a case of cheese at bedtime, Joe understood that perfectly well. But he also knew it could be something altogether different, something so much more. He'd foreseen his mother's death in a dream and ignored it…it was only a dream, wasn't it, and then, three days later they'd found her, dead on her bed, arm outstretched for the pills she'd been trying to reach, just as he'd seen in his dream.
There was indigestion, and there was prophecy, it wasn't easy deciding which was which. Joe hadn't forgiven himself for not going to his mother, he could not, and now, waking with a headache and needing to be sick, he decided this time, he would not turn away, to betray his vision. He would trust himself and carry out his own shipbuilding project. He did not tell anyone. Who would have believed him, and there was no-one he cared to confide in. But if a shipwright wasn't up to the challenge, who was?
His decision made, Joe now had a plan, and was in oddly high spirits, negotiating the purchase of a little boat and two dinghies, spending every penny of his redundancy money. Linda spat fury. She even threw things, but Joe did not explain, didn't make any attempt at trying to enlighten her, just stayed out of her way in the garage, customizing the boat, a seventeen-foot Arran, adding an outboard motor, a petrol tank and an automatic pump. He extended the tiny day cabin, and carpentered drop-down stabilizers, enabling the boat to function as a trimaran.
He applied himself, learning to use a compass and maps, he followed the shipping news. He took to hanging around the trawlers at Tynemouth until a skipper agreed to take him out as an unpaid pair of hands and he threw up all the way out and back again. Meteorology classes came next, and geography field trips with the Workers Education Institute.
Joe became a man of singular education, and though he had few certificates to show for it, he knew he was going to be put to the ultimate test, and he didn't know when, but it would be soon. Meanwhile, he stopped seeing the few friends he'd kept in touch with after the thing with Linda, and kept his own counsel – the thing was too big, anyway, he wouldn't have known how to set about telling people. He avoided Linda and he made the evening meal without fail every evening, his tribute for the uneasy peace between them, and was mixing a vinaigrette for a salad when the slam of the front door said Linda was home, and not in a good humour.
Linda Steel had one of those upside-down mouths that said she rarely smiled, and she was almost entirely sure she hated her husband with a passion. She would look at his lean, rangy body, and then his soft eyes, his soft mouth, almost flower-like in its softness, and think how deceptive were appearances. Joe was hard and cold, merciless and unyielding. He'd never touched her since that day. He barely ever even looked at her, never mind talked to her but he'd driven her to it, not listening to her about the baby. They ate in silence, rain oozing down the window panes, thick as dog slobber.
'You do know it's the Great Flood again, Linda?' Joe said suddenly, over a forkful of tomato. She goggled at him, 'You what?'
'The Great Flood,' he said, and took another mouthful. He had debated whether to say anything and had decided not to, but it seemed something within him had a different idea, some vestige of a love long dead, or just pity, 'coming soon to a town near you. Want to ride it out with me, come with me on the boat? I'll be taking it down to Tynemouth day after tomorrow.'
Linda spluttered and began to choke. Joe watched impassively. Her eyes were like gooseberries and he didn't like gooseberries. Why did he used to think she was so pretty? It wasn't until Linda's face began to go purple that he scraped back his chair and slapped her back for her. Slap, slap, SLAP.
'Water,' she croaked, flapping her hand. He fetched it and sat down again. 'You know,' he went on as if nothing had happened, 'we'll need to be well out to sea when that wave comes in, not to get caught between it and the river. Then if we make it, if we can get clear, we'll sail up to Hexham. Or mebbes the Cheviots. Whatever – Noah used the dove, Suzette'll help us find the best place.'
'I'd laugh,' she said, still wheezing, 'Except I'm not sure you're joking? What have you been up to, Joe? Been at the wacky baccy, have we, out there in the garage? This isn't Bangladesh or Japan. We don't get tsunamis here.'
She drained the tumbler of water. 'Aye, well,' he said, clearing the plates. 'We do actually. Ever heard of the Bristol tsunami, 1607? Ever heard there was a time once, you could walk from here to Denmark, till a tsunami drowned the land bridge? But never mind. Cassandra couldn't tell them either."
'Eh?'
'The wooden horse,' Joe explained. 'She knew it was bad news, but you can't tell people, can you? But I had to try. You're still my wife, for what it's worth.'
'Oh, I see,' she said, not seeing at all. 'Well, thank you, kind sir, you bloody loony. I'm very grateful, I'm sure.''
The Dream came to Joe again that night. Linda heard his whimpers through the wall, and thought, serves him right, turning over and pulling the duvet past her ears. Many a night she had cried herself to sleep.
Next day the boat was ready. One of the dinghies held provisions, while the other was for Linda, kitted with a week's iron rations. Suzette perched on the rim preening, while Joe checked the inventories. Next evening he led Linda into the garage for instructions. She listened, arms folded, tapping her foot. 'And how long may we expect this little jaunt to last?' she said bitingly, 'may one venture to ask when your lordship will be coming home?'
He sighed. 'You don't get it, do you, Linda?'
It was sausages and mash for tea, and Linda found sausages a lot easier to swallow than Joe's prophecy, but watching the evening news, she was bound to agree things were getting alarming. 'But it was as bad as this, almost, last year,' she fretted, sitting alone with her coffee. 'Nothing but rain and everyone ranting and raving about global warming. But August wasn't too bad, and September, well, it was pretty good.'
Next morning they exchanged the barest of farewells. Linda spent the day at work dodging dripping ceilings and strategically positioned buckets, and came home to find he'd gone, the crackpot, just as he'd said, and so had the boat and that bloody useless bird. The silence boomed as she peeled off her sopping tights, and looked in the fridge. She couldn't be bothered to cook. She made a cup of tea and cheese sandwiches instead, eating on the prowl, uneasy and unexpectedly lonely without her old enemy in range.
'Well, pardon me for pointing this out', she said to the empty room and the invisible Joe. 'I'd hate to contradict you, Joe, but the world still appears to be here.'
But then in the small hours, something woke her. Strange noises in the street. She dashed to the window and looked out but the street was dark, the street lights were all out. A power cut again! She flung up the window and shrieked. Her car – everybody's car – was heading down the street, borne on a rising tide. Other heads came poking out of windows, voices ascended, shrill with alarm. The street was a river. The river was growing. The rain was stabbing the earth to death.
Linda flew down the stairs and was met by water. She dragged the garage door open; a cold rill flowed round her thighs. Wading to the dinghy, her effort was impeded by the dark, and the ballooning of her pyjama bottoms. Linda sobbed, teeth chattering, as she flopped in bottom first, and fumbled to untie the mooring rope. Thank God she'd left the outer garage doors open as per Joe's instructions. You'll be trapped like a rat otherwise, he had warned her, and despite herself, despite everything, she had listened. Thank God.
'Oh, Joe,' she whimpered, and remembered all the ways she'd ever loved him, and he had loved her. And Joe had wanted her to make it, he had, sincerely, but she did not, all the same.
His vision was both correct and not. It was a point of technicality. Not the dam. The monstrous wave that came racing across the North Sea from Norway, the fatal collapse of a fjord wall, would have scuppered Linda's frail chances for sure, but Joe's pet had already secured the ultimate negative outcome. Rubber might not be tasty, but shredding it was a small amusement for a little bird in a moment of boredom, and now the idle activity of Suzette's tiny beak slowly but surely laid waste Joe's careful planning for his wife's separate survival. Linda's dead body went spinning down Church Street to St Peters, where her ankle got hooked in railings, and she was trapped there, a dancer graceful in eternal pilgrimage.
Joe came sailing in over her head some days later, coming in from the sea, following Suzette as they headed west under clear and sunny skies. The sea was blue again after the months of grey, and sparkling in the sun, but there were things in the water that did not bear looking at and Joe was careful not to look. What good would it do? The past was dead and gone. His new life started now.
First Published in 'More Tonto Short Stories,' by Tonto Press, 2007 . Performed at The Durham Book Fair, 2008 and & later, revised and published on-line with 'Litro' Magazine, 2014
Author Katie-EllenPosted on June 12, 2015 November 15, 2015 Categories art, climate, dreams, esp, Fortean, future, ghosts, Intuition, Katie-Ellen Hazeldine, Lancashire, Litro, Lytham St Annes, Man, Noah's Ark, North West, novelist, prediction, prophecy, psychic, psychic agony aunt, real life stories, relationships, tarot reader, women, writer, ZodiacTags Angel of the North, animal communication, animal psychic, ark, Attune, Canaries, Cartomancy, climate, Divinatory esoteric and occult tarot, dowsing, dreams, Durham Book Festival, ESP, Fjord, flood, ghost stories, Golden Tarot, infidelity, katie-ellen hazeldine, Lancashire, Lancashire writer, literary agent, literature, Litopia, Litro, Love, marriage, Noah, novel, pigeon, prophecy, sailing, short story, stage32, Tales of Our Times, tarot, Tinder Press, True Tarot Tales, tsunami, Tyneside, visionsLeave a comment on Joe's Ark


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Q: Key Down Event Lag I have been recently working on a game using VB.net 2008 and everything is going well.
In my game the application listen for left arrow keys to move the character to the left and listen to right arrow key to move the character to the right but if i hold down the right key and then rapidly moved up my hand on left arrow and clicked on the left key the character just stop moving for about approximately 0.75 second. This lag is making the feeling of using my application really bad. What can I do?
CODE:
Private Sub eb7chimie_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
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Private Sub switcher(ByVal keycode As String)

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                'Left Arrow
                leftarrow()
            Case keycode.Equals(String.Format(Keys.Up))
                'UpArrow
            Case keycode.Equals(String.Format(Keys.Right))
                'RightArrow
                RightArrow()
            Case keycode.Equals(String.Format(Keys.Down))
                'DownArrow
            Case keycode.Equals(String.Format(Keys.Escape))
                'Escape
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        End Select

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*the select case might look odd previuosly I was using a normal switch by i followed this advice:
VB.NET How give best performance "Select case" or IF... ELSEIF ... ELSE... END IF
What I did try and do:
I searched for the problem and tried to turn on KeyPreview proprety of my form and tried to open and Application.DoEvents() but none worked.

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