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Another Blow to the NWO: "The Irish People have Spoken": Lisbon is Dead"
by : Emily
Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 07:51
> Edito > Europe > European Constitution referendum > Referendum
Source: us.i1.yimg.com
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly . . . All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.
V.Giscard D'Estaing, Le Monde, June 14, 2007
Irish voters delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists last Friday by rejecting plans for an EU Superstate. The so-called Lisbon Treaty was nothing more than a dolled-up version of the failed European Constitution that was defeated by French and Dutch voters in 2005. The treaty was loaded with the typical "democratic" gobbledygook to conceal the vicious neoliberal policies at its heart. If it had passed, the treaty would have paved the way for greater privatization of public services, diminished workers rights, less state control over trade policies and civil liberties, and an aggressive plan to militarize Europe. Ireland's entire political and corporate class stood solidly behind the treaty, but the Irish people shrugged off the fear-mongering and bogus promises of prosperity and voted No. The referendum results showed 53.4% voted No, while 46.6% voted Yes. Despite the massive public relations campaign; the vote was not even that close.
A spokesperson for the No campaign put it like this:
"The Irish people have spoken. Contrary to the predictions of social and political turmoil, we believe that hundreds of millions of people across Europe will welcome the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. This vote shows the gulf that exists between the politicians and the elites of Europe, and the opinions of the people. As in France and the Netherlands, the political leaders and the establishment have done everything they could to push this through — and they have failed. The proposals to further reduce democracy, to militarize the EU and to let private business take over public services have been rejected. Lisbon is dead. Along with the EU Constitution from which it came, it should now be buried." (Socialist Worker online)
Europe's political class tried to ratify the treaty via a stealth campaign which intentionally obscured the implications of the new regime that would be put in place. Former Irish Taoiseach, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, summed it up like this in the Irish Times on June 30, 2007:
"The most striklng change (between the EU Constitution in its older and newer version) is perhaps that in order to enable some governments to reassure their electorates that the changes will have no constitutional implications, the idea of a new and simpler treaty containing all the provisions governing the Union has now been dropped in favour of a huge series of individual amendments to two existing treaties. Virtual incomprehensibilty has thus replaced simplicity as the key approach to EU reform. As for the changes now proposed to be made to the constitutional treaty, most are presentational changes that have no practical effect. They have simply been designed to enable certain heads of government to sell to their people the idea of ratification by parliamentary action rather than by referendum."
Hmmm. In other words, European policymakers figured the only way they could pass the pro-business treaty was to make it as unreadable as possible. It's no wonder, too. According to multiple sources, the treaty contains language that would restore the death penalty and override national decision-making on critical issues. So much for sovereignty!
The observations of blogger Paul from Dublin seemed to epitomize the feelings of a great number of people who expressed deep suspicions over the agenda behind the treaty:
"I am also deeply concerned at the direction the EU is going. Whereas it seemed originally to be an idealistic and benevolent project for Europe, accentuating all that was best about Europe, in recent times it seems to have fallen into the hands of the globalist gangster capitalist cabal of neo liberals, following the US philosophy of everyman for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
I also discovered some very sinister organisations none of which the mainstream media informed us about. Organisations such as the Transatlantic Economic Council, the Transatlintic Policy Network & the Streit Council, which seeks a union between the US and Europe, and whose agenda is clearly a political as well as an economic union. In the fall 2007 journal of that body, a world bank economist said that you could not have economic integration without political integration."
Whether Paul is right to be skeptical or not is beside the point. The truth is that many Europeans think that the EU no longer operates in the best interests of the people. Clearly, this had a dramatic affect on the election's results.
News of the defeat has not been well received in England where the neoliberal government of Gordon Brown has already indicated that it will reject the election results and "press ahead" in an effort to ratify the treaty. Neither Brown nor his friends in Brussels are likely to be deterred by anything as trivial as the will of the people. Labour MP and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane summed it up like this:
"I personally think that a vote in a foreign country should not determine the democratic decisions taken in the British Parliament."
MacShane's view is apparently shared by EC President Jose Manuel Barroso who said that EU member states should continue ratifying the Lisbon treaty even though more than half of Ireland's 43 constituencies rejected it outright. So much for democracy.
Also, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a joint statement Friday saying they hoped the remaining countries would continue the ratification process:
"We are convinced that the reforms contained in the treaty of Lisbon are necessary to make Europe more democratic and more efficient."
The No vote makes matters particularly difficult for Sarkozy who is scheduled to take over the EU's rotating presidency next month and was hoping to beef up Europe's military capability while making big changes to the EU's immigration policies. The failed referendum will derail the French president's plans to play a bigger role in the war on terror or to help out in security operations in Afghanistan, Africa or Asia. In the final analysis, the No vote will hurt Washington as much as Euro-elites who were hoping for a blank check for more "free market" looting and foreign adventurism.
Brussels Plan: "Quarantine the Irish"
According to the UK Guardian: "Germany and France moved to isolate Ireland in the European Union yesterday, scrambling for ways to resuscitate the Lisbon Treaty a day after the Irish dealt the architects of the EU's new regime a crushing blow.Refusing to take Ireland's 'no' for an answer, politicians in Berlin and Paris prepared for a crucial EU summit in Brussels this week by trying to ringfence the Irish while demanding that the treaty be ratified by the rest of the EU.
The Franco-German plan is to get all 27 EU states to ratify the treaty as soon as possible, to quarantine the Irish and then come up with some legal maneuver enabling the treaty to go ahead.
"We're sticking firmly to our goal of putting this treaty into effect," said German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "So the process of ratification must continue." Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who devoted most of last year to getting the EU' members to agree on the Lisbon Treaty after the failure of the EU's proposed new constitution in 2005, said: 'We must carry on.'" ("EU tries to isolate Irish after Treaty rejection," UK Guardian)
The Luck of the Irish
The Irish have plenty to celebrate today. They've thrown a spanner in the plans of the bankers and corporate mandarins who want to replace representative government and national sovereignty with their own skewed vision of Capitalist Valhalla; a Euro-Utopia where short-term profits always take priority over the needs of ordinary people.
Bravo, Ireland.
* Quotes from here.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/...
http://internationalnews.over-blog....
Hurray to the Irish!
Monday June 23 - 21:09 - Posted by d10a879165caa724...
The vampire elite want to enslave us all. They are pushing the new serfdom. Thank you Ireland for saving the world (EU was just the first step). Of course now we will have to figure out how to put a wooden stake through their hearts or they'll be back.
Sunday June 29 - 16:27 - Posted by Phil - 534095503a2d0292...
Thanks Ireland! You saw right through the downside of the corporate short-term profit agenda, and most importantly, the danger of becoming a part of the greater militarization of Europe.
Now to figure out a way of intercepting future legal maneuvers that Brussels will think up to force the Treaty through...
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Q: What is the best metal to use for lead acid battery cables? I purchased an AGM lead acid deep cycle battery, inverter and solar panels. All of the provided cables connecting these devices were made of thick copper.
I also have Goal Zero Yeti 400 lead acid battery which has a built-in inverter. I wanted to chain this to another AGM battery using its mini Anderson plug port. I went to an electrical shop and they gave me what I needed to chain the batteries and it's all working fine. The cables that they gave me for connecting the chaining port to the terminals on the second battery were much thinner cables made of a silver coloured metal. What metal is this likely to be? The copper cables are a lot more expensive per metre and look much more robust. Are the thinner cables satisfactory or should I be using the thick copper cables for this purpose?
UPDATE:
I can confirm that the wire is tinned copper 5x3.2mm (WxH), PVC insulated, maximum temperature 80°, rated current 7.5A, stranding 24x0.2mm, diameter 1.9mm, AWG 18. It chains the 2 batteries via a 45A Anderson powerpole connector set. The length of cable between the 2 batteries is 2m.
The purpose of my question is to prevent a catastrophe (such as a fire) and I am trying to quantify the capability of this setup. What are the quantitative limitations? Am I on the edge or well within safety limits based on the information I have provided? It's working well so far but want to avoid any surprises later on.

A: The metal is likely to be tinned copper.
If the wires that the electrical shop (sic) gave you is satisfactory or not, is up to you, according to what current you expect to go in the wires, and what voltage drop you accept over the cable (and secondary, max temperature of the insulation material on the wires)

EDIT: According to new information;
If what you want to avoid is heat buildup and fire, what you need to do is choose heavier gauge wire. The heavier the gauge, the less heat is built up. If the wire is rated for 7.5A max, then that is what I suggest you stick to, unless you are comfortable with making the appropriate calculations and following criticality evaluation yourself.

Anyway, the answer to your question regarding material is still: Copper - tinned or not. For more info on choosing the correct gauge, see Here and here

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Norwegian born producer Matoma first began gaining traction with remixes on Soundcloud and found success with his remix of the Notorious B.I.G. track "Want That Old Thing Back". Since then he has released an album, titled "Hakuna Matoma", a new take on artists releasing tracks. Instead of dropping an album and going to work on the next one Matoma has decided to grace us with an album of the tracks he currently has done and constantly adding more music as he is finished with it. Matoma's original track "Running Out" peaked at number 14 on Billboard's Hot Electronic/Dance Songs.
Fresh off his first Coachella playing a packed Sahara tent, Matoma releases his ID track with Sean Paul that closed out his set. "Paradise" gives us a fresh take on tropical house, a genre that feels stagnant at times. Matoma changes it up by pairing the typical typical flutes and plucks of tropical house with Sean Paul's distinctive dancehall vocals and a heavier trap influenced bass line. It conjures an image of a sweaty house party taking shots of rum on a beach, an odd combination that makes you want to dance. UK vocalist KStewart lends her talents for the chorus rounding out this track and earning it a definite spot in the must have songs for summer party playlists. If you like this track be sure to check out his constantly updating album "Hakuna Matoma" on your favorite streaming service.


… and blogged about them once already. I had totally forgotten.
From time to time I like to send snail mail or packages to people. There are of course the expected occasions – Christmas, birthdays, graduations – but my favorites are more spontaneous in nature. Often times the mail I send is impulsive – spurred by the fact that I just happened upon something small and mailable that made me think of the person in question. I call it 'Serendipitous Dispatch'. It should come as no surprise then that most packages sent from my home are en route to my nephews and nieces whose age and enthusiasm make cheap, little surprises so easy to succeed with.
Sometimes I'll save a growing collection of things for a while and then bundle it all up and ship it. Other times, I've gathered the components quickly. In either case, I usually try to keep the items light and cheap spending the most on shipping OR cram everything I can into a small or medium priority box. I learned my lesson at Christmas on that one. Shipping is f*ing CRAZY otherwise. Truly it has gotten out of control – – $40+ to ship a 7lb box?!
I learned long ago that to do this is to create happiness in a vacuum. Rarely do I hear back afterwards. In fact, I likely wouldn't know if it never got delivered. But as someone guilty of such receipt myself I understand and accept that it comes with the territory. It doesn't mean the mail isn't appreciated or enjoyed just that they're busy living. And in the end I enjoy sending them.
i've got damn good cookies.
1. Chop up 2-3 celery stalks (really small) and 2-3 big peeled carrots.
2. Put them in a soup pot with a whole carton of chicken stock and a box of pasta noodles (we like these elbow noodles best but these are damn tasty too).*If you like your soup more soup-y, or you're trying to save a little money, only add a half to three quarters of the noodles. If you're feeling wild and crazy (and you happen to have a cut-up rotisserie chicken) you can add a little chicken meat too.
3. Turn the burner on high.
4. Add 1 tsp of ground pepper and 1/2tsp of each of the following: chili powder, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder. *If you're sensitive to spice, cut the seasoning in half for a nice non-spicy flavor.
5. Once the soup begins to boil, reduce the temperature to medium and let it cook for, eh, 8-10 minutes-ish.
6. A minute or so before you're going to serve up add a big serving spoon full of corn and navy beans.
7. Divide soup into bowls and *this is crucial* add a heaping spoonful of sour cream and a small handful of shredded cheese to each bowl.
8. Top with diced avocado.
The first time. And the second.
Apparently I only take photos of myself in the car.


As mentioned in the last article on urban hive moving, some of us in the city are forced to keep bees in locations that would cause our forebears to do a spit-take.
You have your bees WHERE!?
Our urban community is uniquely creative when it comes to hive placement, and places the importance of keeping bees far above the relative convenience of doing so. I've seen urban apiaries that can only be accessed by climbing a 20 foot ladder leading up to unwalled, open air attic with roof access through a double paned window barely large enough to fit a hive through, let alone a person.
Getting bees in to these locations is hard enough, often requiring the hive to be brought through the access point piece by piece, but what about getting them back out? Once the bees have made themselves at home, you can't really remove the hive piecemeal... or can you?
In fact, this is exactly what is done to move hives out of a limited-access location. Split the hive(s) up into manageable pieces, and they are much easier to move. Obviously, this has its downsides and limitations. In order to divide a colony into manageable bits, it has to be warm enough outside to open and manipulate the bees without chilling the brood or breaking up a winter cluster. On top of that, splitting a hive means you'll have to have enough small (4-5 frame) nuc boxes to split the hives into. Cardboard and plastic nuc boxes are both commonly available and cheap.
Itty-bitty hive, itty-bitty hatch, still a pain.
For the most part, moving a hive through a hatch follows most of the procedures outlined previously, but with a few modifications.
The first change is to compress the colony as much as possible the day before the move. The smaller the number of frames occupied by the bees, the smaller the number of nuc boxes needed to move them. The easiest way to do this is to evacuate and remove any and all honey supers, reducing the hive down to the broodnest. Attempting to compress the hive any further or for any length of time risks triggering swarm preparations, particularly in spring or summer.
Once the hive has been compressed down to the broodnest, it can be split into nucs. This should be done in the evening, after most of the foragers have returned home, and with heavy smoke to limit the number of flying bees. Ideally, the arrangement and orientation of the brood frames should be maintained as much as possible. The entrances of the nucs should be sealed and ventilation provided so that the bees can get plenty of air. Most of the cheap cardboard/plastic nucs are perfect for this purpose, as they have pluggable entrances and plenty of ventilation. Make sure to carefully secure the lid and entrances of the nucs to prevent any escapes.
After the hive has been divided into small, discrete pieces, it can be easily carried down a hatch, while making sure to keep them level. When moved to the new location, the nucs can be recombined and treated as any other newly moved hive.
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Here is Obama's prescription to resolve the intractable Israel-Palestine dispute.
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"For the Palestinians, efforts to de-legitimise Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won't create an independent state. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.
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"So while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear: a viable Palestine, and a secure Israel. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine.
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So what was the pre-1967 border position like? In other words, what happened in 1967 that altered the Middle East map?
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(c) the strategic Golan Heights (lost by Syria; annexed in 1981).
Also, the Israelis took complete control of the city of Jerusalem (which they annexed in 1980).
The UN asked Israel to withdraw from occupied territories (Resolution 242), but the latter turned a blind eye stating that doing so would endanger its own security.
said that his country should not be asked to withdraw to the borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War.
In fact, he told Obama that Israel will confirm it would adhere to "assurances" given to Israel by former American president George W. Bush in 2004. "Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines, which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centres in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) beyond those lines," Netyanyahu said.
He said that a "full and complete return" to the 1967 borders would be "unrealistic" and would make Israel "indefensible". Over 3 lakh Israelis have built Jewish settlements across the areas gained in the Six-Day War.
All in all, the shift in the American policy is a massive win for the Palestinians while the powerful pro-Israeli lobby is crying wolf.
Obama's intentions are good; however, given the region's history, it would take more than a miracle for these intentions to become a reality. The road to peace in the Middle East will be long and full of obstacles - religious, strategic, economic, and political.
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The situation in the Gaza strip and the West bank can never come to an amiable conclusion unless and until the Hamas stops it's extremist ways of tackling the situation.This only goes to heighten the conflict with the Israel's all-too-powerful military on one side and the terror factions led by the Al-Qaeda and Hamas.Not to mention the Mossad with the backing of the CIA. What this calls for is the initiation of a dialogue process by the Quartet between Mr.Netanyahu and Mr.Mahmoud abbas.Because this conflict has been used as an excuse way too long by the Al-Qaeda to justify it's inexcusable terrorist actions(it's referred to in almost every video tape released by the now deceased OBL).But the speech by President Obama does mark a remarkable shift in The US policy on the Middle-East.And I'm sure the powerful 'pro-Isreal Jewish block' in the Senate and the Congress and even in the power circles of Washington will give Obama a hard time.But hope he sticks to his guns and brings about a final and just conclusion to the conflict,there by making the lives of the children of both Israel and Palestine better and safe.


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Q: Why are there only two 496-dim. gauge groups $E_8\times E_8$ and $SO(32)$ allowed in string theory? Why not $E_8\times U(1)^{248}$ or $U(1)^{496}$? While constructing anomaly-free string theories with $\mathcal N=1$ supersymmetry (16 supercharges constituting a Majorana-Weyl spinor), we learn that the gauge group must be 496-dimensional in order to cancel some terms (like $\mathrm{tr} R^6$) in the anomaly polynomial, which is a 12-form characteristic class. There are also some other more involved conditions that I will not reproduce here.
This is satisfied by the groups $E_8\times E_8$ and $\mathrm{SO}(32)$, for which the corresponding heterotic string theories are very well-known. However, the groups $E_8\times U(1)^{248}$ and $U(1)^{496}$ are also anomaly-free since they satisfy the above constraints (at least at face level), but there is no string theory with these gauge groups!
Why is this the case? Have there been any modern developments in a rigorous proof of their absence?


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Nanri (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Japanese-language surnames

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 ein Gemälde von Carl Spitzweg aus dem Jahr 1850, siehe Der Bücherwurm

Siehe auch:
 Bibliomanie
 Bücherwürmer
 Leseratte
 Lesesucht


The disciples and those who followed Jesus in the early days of the Church thought that the end was near, that their Lord would return at any moment. They believed those days were literally the last days. There must have been some confusion in those first few years of the Church when the man they knew didn't come back to them.
Fast forward 2000 years and theses times feel like the last days, don't they? War and earthquakes shake the earth. Social upheaval seems to be everywhere. Old institutions are being torn down, both for better and for worse. Our climate is changing – I think this past summer is proof of that. Divides between us deepen. And in these last days, God speaks to us by a Son.
One of the ways that God speaks to us, of course, is through scripture. And what does Jesus speak to us about this morning? Divorce? Not exactly a topic I imagine when I think about the Good News.
This might be a morning when preachers choose to talk about liturgical colors, or why we process, what the significance of incense is or the virtues of prayer. But the same question about this text keeps coming back to me. Why is it there?
Divorce was, and is, a relevant issue. It was a matter of Jewish law, so it makes sense that the Pharisees would have tested Jesus on it. They were looking for a way to dispatch of him, and catching him on a legal technicality would have been the perfect way to do this. So, they ask Jesus whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife.
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In answering the Pharisees questions, Jesus interprets scripture in a way that makes sense for his time. He takes texts that would have been know to those around him and uses them to answer the question presented to him. Like Jesus, we also interpret scripture in a way that makes sense for our time. In doing so, we have come to understand that God is big enough for all forms of relationships, and there is no reality in which one human is superior to another if God created everyone in this church, in this town, in this state, in this country, on this earth – in God's image.
Scripture is a living thing. It speaks to us, as a living thing would, and not as something written in stone. It speaks to our moment, it speaks to our individual lives. So what is it saying today? What is going on in these readings, on a deeper level? What are these readings about?
Like Jesus, how can we interpret our readings this morning for our current moment? For these days that feel like the last days? What deeper theme can be found in them?
What about community? What about love?
The Bible is a long story about community. It is a story of God's relationship with us. From its beginning, when God created man and women, to the end when he sent his Son Jesus to us in these last days, the bible is a story of God and us. It is story where we fall out of relationship with God – we become divorced, separated from him. But more than this, it is a story of God's love.
Community is also at the core of our reading from Hebrews. That in these last days God sent his Son Jesus to us, to speak to us, to be in community with us, is a communal act. God sent God's self in the form of a human to become closer with God's creation. God came to live with us, for a little while!
And this Son speaks to us. He speaks to us about love. About love of neighbor, love of enemy. About love that is radical, that sees no boundaries, that defies the powers and principalities of this world. Love that forgives, that reconciles, that redeems. Love that is risky, vulnerable. Divine love, that cannot be dimmed by any power of darkness. This love might be the love that bind two together in marriage. But it's also the love that can binds us together as the body of Christ manifest in the world.
What has God joined together? Perhaps two in marriage, yes. But God has also joined himself together with us since the first days of creation when we were made in God's image. He joined himself to humanity through the covenants with Abraham and David. And he joined himself to the world through Jesus. What God has joined – himself with us – can never be separated.
In these last days, where truth sometimes seems impossible to find, when some truths are believed and others are not, one truth reigns. The truth that the love of God is with us always. That love is the glue which binds this breaking world together. That when we live in community, and show this love to each other, we are embodying the love of Christ to each other.


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#pragma once

#include <QtWidgets/QItemDelegate>

class Property;
class QTreeWidgetItem;
class TreePropertyBrowserPrivate;
class PropertyEditorDelegate : public QItemDelegate
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit PropertyEditorDelegate(QObject* parent = nullptr);

    void setEditorPrivate(TreePropertyBrowserPrivate* editorPrivate);

    QWidget *createEditor(QWidget* parent, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option,
        const QModelIndex &index) const;

    void updateEditorGeometry(QWidget* editor, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option,
        const QModelIndex& index) const;

    void paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option,
        const QModelIndex& index) const;

    QSize sizeHint(const QStyleOptionViewItem& option, const QModelIndex& index) const;

    void setModelData(QWidget*, QAbstractItemModel*, const QModelIndex&) const;

    void setEditorData(QWidget*, const QModelIndex&) const;

    bool eventFilter(QObject* object, QEvent* event);
    void closeEditor(Property* property);

    QTreeWidgetItem* editedItem() const;

private slots:
    void slotEditorDestroyed(QObject* object);

private:
    int indentation(const QModelIndex&index) const;

    typedef QMap<QWidget*, Property*> EditorToPropertyMap;
    mutable EditorToPropertyMap editorToProperty_;

    typedef QMap<Property*, QWidget*> PropertyToEditorMap;
    mutable PropertyToEditorMap propertyToEditor_;
    TreePropertyBrowserPrivate* editorPrivate_;
    mutable QTreeWidgetItem* editedItem_;
    mutable QWidget* editedWidget_;
};

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Built-in plotting methods for Raw objects¶

This tutorial shows how to plot continuous data as a time series, how to plot
the spectral density of continuous data, and how to plot the sensor locations
and projectors stored in Raw objects.

Page contents

Interactive data browsing with Raw.plot()

Plotting spectral density of continuous data

Plotting sensor locations from Raw objects

Plotting projectors from Raw objects

As usual we'll start by importing the modules we need, loading some
example data, and cropping the Raw
object to just 60 seconds before loading it into RAM to save memory:

import os
import mne

sample_data_folder = mne.datasets.sample.data_path()
sample_data_raw_file = os.path.join(sample_data_folder, 'MEG', 'sample',
                                    'sample_audvis_raw.fif')
raw = mne.io.read_raw_fif(sample_data_raw_file)
raw.crop(tmax=60).load_data()

Out:

Opening raw data file /home/circleci/mne_data/MNE-sample-data/MEG/sample/sample_audvis_raw.fif...
    Read a total of 3 projection items:
        PCA-v1 (1 x 102)  idle
        PCA-v2 (1 x 102)  idle
        PCA-v3 (1 x 102)  idle
    Range : 25800 ... 192599 =     42.956 ...   320.670 secs
Ready.
Current compensation grade : 0
Reading 0 ... 36037  =      0.000 ...    60.000 secs...

We've seen in a previous tutorial how to plot data
from a Raw object using matplotlib, but Raw objects also have several
built-in plotting methods:

plot()

plot_psd()

plot_psd_topo()

plot_sensors()

plot_projs_topomap()

The first three are discussed here in detail; the last two are shown briefly
and covered in-depth in other tutorials.

Interactive data browsing with Raw.plot()¶

The plot() method of Raw objects provides
a versatile interface for exploring continuous data. For interactive viewing
and data quality checking, it can be called with no additional parameters:

raw.plot()

It may not be obvious when viewing this tutorial online, but by default, the
plot() method generates an interactive plot window with
several useful features:

It spaces the channels equally along the y-axis.

20 channels are shown by default; you can scroll through the channels
using the ↑ and ↓ arrow keys, or by clicking on the
colored scroll bar on the right edge of the plot.

The number of visible channels can be adjusted by the n_channels
parameter, or changed interactively using page up and page
down keys.

You can toggle the display to "butterfly" mode (superimposing all
channels of the same type on top of one another) by pressing b,
or start in butterfly mode by passing the butterfly=True parameter.

It shows the first 10 seconds of the Raw object.

You can shorten or lengthen the window length using home and
end keys, or start with a specific window duration by passing the
duration parameter.

You can scroll in the time domain using the ← and
→ arrow keys, or start at a specific point by passing the
start parameter. Scrolling using shift→ or
shift← scrolls a full window width at a time.

It allows clicking on channels to mark/unmark as "bad".

When the plot window is closed, the Raw object's
info attribute will be updated, adding or removing the newly
(un)marked channels to/from the Info object's bads
field (AKA raw.info['bads']).

It allows interactive annotation of the raw data.

This allows you to mark time spans that should be excluded from future
computations due to large movement artifacts, line noise, or other
distortions of the signal. Annotation mode is entered by pressing
a. See Basic annotation for details.

It automatically applies any projectors before plotting
the data.

These can be enabled/disabled interactively by clicking the Proj
button at the lower right corner of the plot window, or disabled by
default by passing the proj=False parameter. See
Background on projectors and projections for more info on projectors.

These and other keyboard shortcuts are listed in the Help window, accessed
through the Help button at the lower left corner of the plot window.
Other plot properties (such as color of the channel traces, channel order and
grouping, simultaneous plotting of events, scaling, clipping,
filtering, etc.) can also be adjusted through parameters passed to the
plot() method; see the docstring for details.

Plotting spectral density of continuous data¶

To visualize the frequency content of continuous data, the
Raw object provides a plot_psd() to plot
the spectral density of the data.

raw.plot_psd(average=True)

Out:

Effective window size : 3.410 (s)
Effective window size : 3.410 (s)
Effective window size : 3.410 (s)

If the data have been filtered, vertical dashed lines will automatically
indicate filter boundaries. The spectrum for each channel type is drawn in
its own subplot; here we've passed the average=True parameter to get a
summary for each channel type, but it is also possible to plot each channel
individually, with options for how the spectrum should be computed,
color-coding the channels by location, and more. For example, here is a plot
of just a few sensors (specified with the picks parameter), color-coded
by spatial location (via the spatial_colors parameter, see the
documentation of plot_psd() for full details):

midline = ['EEG 002', 'EEG 012', 'EEG 030', 'EEG 048', 'EEG 058', 'EEG 060']
raw.plot_psd(picks=midline)

Out:

Effective window size : 3.410 (s)

Alternatively, you can plot the PSD for every sensor on its own axes, with
the axes arranged spatially to correspond to sensor locations in space, using
plot_psd_topo():

raw.plot_psd_topo()

Out:

Effective window size : 3.410 (s)

This plot is also interactive; hovering over each "thumbnail" plot will
display the channel name in the bottom left of the plot window, and clicking
on a thumbnail plot will create a second figure showing a larger version of
the selected channel's spectral density (as if you had called
plot_psd() on that channel).

By default, plot_psd_topo() will show only the MEG
channels if MEG channels are present; if only EEG channels are found, they
will be plotted instead:

raw.copy().pick_types(meg=False, eeg=True).plot_psd_topo()

Out:

Effective window size : 3.410 (s)

Plotting sensor locations from Raw objects¶

The channel locations in a Raw object can be easily plotted
with the plot_sensors() method. A brief example is shown
here; notice that channels in raw.info['bads'] are plotted in red. More
details and additional examples are given in the tutorial
Working with sensor locations.

raw.plot_sensors(ch_type='eeg')

Plotting projectors from Raw objects¶

As seen in the output of mne.io.read_raw_fif() above, there are
projectors included in the example Raw
file (representing environmental noise in the signal, so it can later be
"projected out" during preprocessing). You can visualize these projectors
using the plot_projs_topomap() method. By default it will
show one figure per channel type for which projectors are present, and each
figure will have one subplot per projector. The three projectors in this file
were only computed for magnetometers, so one figure with three subplots is
generated. More details on working with and plotting projectors are given in
Background on projectors and projections and Repairing artifacts with SSP.

raw.plot_projs_topomap()

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Estimated memory usage:  405 MB

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More than 200 retired generals and admirals urge Congress to reject Iran deal
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, as they walk in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of the next round of nuclear discussions. ... more >
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Thursday, August 27, 2015
The number of retired generals and admirals signing on to a letter to Congress rejecting the Iran nuclear deal continued to swell Thursday, with some 214 of the former high-level U.S. military officers putting their stamp on the document that asserts the "agreement will enable Iran to become far more dangerous" and "introduce new threats to American interests."
The letter was initially sent to House and Senate leaders from both parties on Tuesday with 190 signatures — among them several individuals who've held high-level positions in past administrations, including former Navy Vice Admiral John Poindexter, who served as President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, who held various defense advisory positions during President Bill Clinton's administration, is also a signatory.
The letter outlines a litany of complaints about the nuclear deal that Congress is slated to vote on whether to support or reject next month. "The agreement as constructed does not 'cut off every pathway' for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons," the letter states. "To the contrary, it actually provides Iran with a legitimate path to doing that simply by abiding by the deal."
The former military officials also assert that the deal is "unverifiable," lamenting that the agreement allowed for a "secret side deal" between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency that will ultimately prevent U.N. weapons inspectors "from reliably detecting Iranian cheating."
There was no immediate reaction from Congressional leaders to the letter, which marks the latest in a growing list of memos sent to Capitol Hill by opponents — as well as proponents — of the nuclear accord in hopes of swaying lawmakers to support or reject the deal.
More than 120 wealthy Democratic donors, including Hollywood producer Norman Lear and former Clinton-Gore campaign chair Mickey Kantor, wrote to Democratic leaders on the hill in early August, urging them to express support for the nuclear accord.
That letter, reported at the time by Politico, was signed by members of the Democracy Alliance donor network and warned lawmakers that scuttling the deal "would put us back on a path to a nuclear-armed Iran, another costly military campaign — or both."
While Republican leaders have vowed to fight the nuclear accord, on Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid became the highest-profile Democrat on Capitol Hill to endorse the deal, assuring in a posting on his website that he will attempt to sway other members of his party.
Congress is expected to vote in the coming weeks on whether to try and block the Obama administration from carrying through with broad sanctions relief provided for Iran under the terms of the accord, which several world leaders reached with the Islamic republic in July.
But even if there is strong bipartisan disapproval of the accord by Congress it won't stop President Obama from implementing the agreement, according to analysts, who say the president will still have broad executive authority to ease many sanctions on Iran by himself.
Such factors have done little to stop former officials, lobbyists and others from calling on lawmakers to take a stand one way or another on the issue.
This week's letter was signed by retired generals and admirals who served in both Democrat and Republican administrations over the past 40 years.
Mr. Poindexter is among the more famous. While he later served at the Pentagon under President George W. Bush, the former Reagan administration official is perhaps best known for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair of the mid-1980s.


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Starting investment for the pension fund is one of the problems that are mostly ignored by most employers. As a result, many of them lose assets when retired from the company. It such as rental properties for a business place will continue to provide profits for you. You can also get doubled advantage as the time going. Simply because the value of real estate investment and property investment is almost always increased annually. If you start the real estate investment now, can you imagine how much will you get later?
In some countries, the benefits you get from the real estate investments is not a subject to tax. To put it simply, if you lease a building as a place for business or for student dormitory, you will only be taxed for the buildings and income tax.
The development of the piece of land into a vacant lot or even houses or shophouse could give any profits to the investor. The rate of property or real estate investment will increase gradually because of the lack of land. As long as the economy in a country is growing up, the real estate investment will also continue to grow.
Compare to the gold deposits or other investment, real estate investment has a longer durable term. Starting a real estate investment means you will get an investment feedback at least 3 years or 5 years. After 3-5 years of development, it is enough to get a capital gain.
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By Alastair Reid
The New Yorker, April 18, 1983 P. 40
Talk story about British philosopher A.J. Ayer. His first and crucial book, "Language, Truth, and Logic," was published in 1936, when he was just 25. When the writer learned that he was a visiting Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, he went to the Montgomery House in Hanover, N.H., to speak to him. Prof. Ayer had been knighted in 1970, and was now Prof. Sir Alfred Ayer. When asked about his first book, he said"Look here, since then I've written more than 15 books, and I've never stopped lecturing and thinking." He's in the current "Who's Who" and has entries in the Baker Library at Dartmouth. He retired from the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford in 1978, and from New College. He said that the Dartmouth appointment was a surprise. Ed Lathem, once dean of libraries, rang his bell in London and asked if he wanted the Montgomery Fellowship. He'd lectured at many American universities, but thought he was too old for teaching. Talks about the difference between American and British philosophers, like Quine, saying how they meet on the level of language. Mentions a new English tendency in philosophy. At the University of Surrey, the Philosophy Department has been abolished for a Society of Applied Philosophy instead. This deals with questions of euthanasia, education, abortion, and other living matters. "I like to see philosophers get out into the world and be asked proper questions... I've never liked the idea of philosophers' being looked on as kind of secret society... I feel our presence has always served as a clarification and I still remain dedicated to clearing the air, however dense it grows.O
Published in the print edition of the April 18, 1983, issue.
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Deal Island (Tasmania) facts for kids
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The Deal Island is the largest of the Kent Group.
Bass Strait
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Kent Group
The Deal Island, the largest island of the Kent Group, is a 1,576-hectare (3,890-acre) granite island, located in northern Bass Strait, that lies between the Furneaux Group, north-east of Tasmania and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia.
Location and features
The island is contained entirely within the 2,374-hectare (5,870-acre) Kent Group National Park, Tasmania's northernmost national park, gazetted in 2002. In 2004 the national park was extended to include the state waters of the three major islands of the Kent Group marine waters, encapsulating 29,000 hectares (72,000 acres) of marine reserve.
The Deal Island is located at the southern end of the 292,800-hectare (724,000-acre) Beagle Commonwealth Marine Reserve, that encloses the Kent Group Marine Reserve and the Hogan and Curtis Island groups.
Deal Island has been extensively modified in the past by human activity in the construction of facilities and the vegetation clearance and regular firing associated with grazing livestock. It has a lighthouse, airstrip (closed), roads, jetty, two houses, a dam and a museum.
Deal Island Lighthouse
Main page: Deal Island Lighthouse
Deal Island has the highest lighthouse in the Southern Hemisphere, standing 305 metres (1,001 ft) above sea level and was sometimes visible at night from Wilson's Promontory, 80 kilometres (50 mi) away. The lighthouse was built in 1848 and deactivated in 1992. While active, the height caused problems with visibility in low cloud conditions. Management and conservation is under the control of the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service.
On 26 April 1943 during World War II an RAAF A25 Airspeed Oxford aircraft crashed killing all four crewmen. The aircraft wreck and their graves are about 15 metres (49 ft) apart at the bottom of the cliff. The bodies have since been disinterred and buried at Template:VICcity/core, Victoria. Eyewitness accounts say the plane flew low over a ship which was actually a wreck, and then failed to regain enough height before hitting the cliff.
Recorded breeding seabird and wader species include little penguin, Pacific gull, and sooty oystercatcher. Mammals found on the island are the red-necked wallaby, common brushtail possum, southern brown bandicoot, fur seals and the introduced European rabbit. Reptiles present include the metallic skink, Bougainville's skink, White's skink and the white-lipped snake.
Climate data for Deal Island (1871-present)
Record high °C (°F)
Average high °C (°F)
Average low °C (°F)
Record low °C (°F)
(32.7) -0.5
(41) -4.0
Precipitation mm (inches)
(1.602) 38.7
(1.953) 718.8
Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm)
8.2 7.4 9.7 12.4 14.8 16.0 16.9 16.4 14.5 13.3 11.5 10.0 151.1
Source: Bureau of Meteorology
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