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Q: Prevent existing execution due to obtaining "NaN" result from Gnuplot's fit command My gnuplot script contains series of fitting:
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fit f(x) "$data" via a, r
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fit f(x) "$data" via a, r
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fit f(x) "$data" via a, r
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which I wish it to run till the end of the script but sometimes, when the fit command return "NaN" result with error message:
Function evaluation yields NaN ("not a number")

The program will be dead and the rest of lines will never be executed. My question is how to handle this problem nicely?

A: There is not yet an option in gp to keep a script running after an error like this. https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/feature-requests/382/
What you can do is pipe your script into gnuplot via STDIN. Then it simply doesn't matter.
cat test.gp | gnuplot

A: I had the same problem trying to fit f(x) = a*exp(b*x)+c.
I solved it by asigning initial values to variables a,b and c. (1,1,0).

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  module Models
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    # Inbound NAT rule of the load balancer.
    #
    class InboundNatRule < SubResource

      include MsRestAzure

      # @return [SubResource] A reference to frontend IP addresses.
      attr_accessor :frontend_ipconfiguration

      # @return [NetworkInterfaceIPConfiguration] A reference to a private IP
      # address defined on a network interface of a VM. Traffic sent to the
      # frontend port of each of the frontend IP configurations is forwarded to
      # the backend IP.
      attr_accessor :backend_ipconfiguration

      # @return [TransportProtocol] Possible values include: 'Udp', 'Tcp',
      # 'All'
      attr_accessor :protocol

      # @return [Integer] The port for the external endpoint. Port numbers for
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      attr_accessor :frontend_port

      # @return [Integer] The port used for the internal endpoint. Acceptable
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      attr_accessor :idle_timeout_in_minutes

      # @return [Boolean] Configures a virtual machine's endpoint for the
      # floating IP capability required to configure a SQL AlwaysOn
      # Availability Group. This setting is required when using the SQL
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      # changed after you create the endpoint.
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      # @return [String] Gets the provisioning state of the public IP resource.
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      # @return [String] Gets name of the resource that is unique within a
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      # @return [String] A unique read-only string that changes whenever the
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      #
      # Mapper for InboundNatRule class as Ruby Hash.
      # This will be used for serialization/deserialization.
      #
      def self.mapper()
        {
          client_side_validation: true,
          required: false,
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          type: {
            name: 'Composite',
            class_name: 'InboundNatRule',
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                client_side_validation: true,
                required: false,
                read_only: true,
                serialized_name: 'properties.backendIPConfiguration',
                type: {
                  name: 'Composite',
                  class_name: 'NetworkInterfaceIPConfiguration'
                }
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                required: false,
                serialized_name: 'properties.protocol',
                type: {
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                serialized_name: 'properties.backendPort',
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              idle_timeout_in_minutes: {
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                required: false,
                serialized_name: 'properties.idleTimeoutInMinutes',
                type: {
                  name: 'Number'
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                client_side_validation: true,
                required: false,
                serialized_name: 'properties.enableFloatingIP',
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Shock cancer diagnosis stats revealed
Scandal over town's 2,600 empty homes
Miners' lives remembered at annual memorial event
£2m active travel hub approved
Lidl to re-submit plan
Alcohol abuse time bomb revealed
ALCOHOL-RELATED hospital admissions have rocketed to record-breaking levels in Barnsley with more than 6,000 of the town's residents requiring urgent treatment in just a year, the Chronicle can reveal.
According to new data from the government's Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Barnsley's rates have dramatically increased.
A total of 6,080 residents required hospital treatment - the fourth year-on-year rise in a row - and 1,000 more people than figures from 2016/17.
The data takes into account Barnsley Hospital's admissions where either the primary diagnosis or one of the secondary diagnoses is an alcohol-related condition, painting a picture of how impactful alcohol is on determining whether the patient has to actually be admitted into hospital.
UK Addiction Treatment Centres (UKAT) analysis shows that in 2019/20, 370 people were admitted for alcoholic liver disease, up 8 per cent on the previous year.
A staggering 1,474 people were admitted for mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol in 2019/20, while 2,676 people were admitted for alcohol-related cardiovascular disease, up 12 per cent on the previous year.
The remaining admissions are for alcohol-related unintentional injuries and intentional self-poisoning from exposure to alcohol.
UKAT's Nuno Albuquerque, which operates treatment centre Linwood House in Barnsley, said: "Barnsley Hospital was hit with more than 6,000 alcohol-related admissions in 2019/20, the highest on record and the highest annual rise across the whole of Yorkshire.
"The problem is worsening and is putting a lot of strain on the NHS.
"We'd hope that leaders in the town will now look at these figures and take real, effective action.
"We're also calling on the government to reinstate ringfenced budgets for awareness, education and treatment of alcohol-related problems which will force the council into spending the money on these services.
"If they don't, the problem with alcohol in Barnsley could become a much bigger beast to tame in the next couple of years than anyone could imagine.
"People here are seemingly struggling with their alcohol consumption, drinking so much that it is leading to hospitalisation and the diagnosis of further, debilitating conditions, yet the government continues to have their heads buried in the sand.
"It is a huge problem and one that needs immediately addressed as a matter of urgency."
The youngest person seeking treatment was just 13, while 11 others were between the ages of 15 and 17, which will result in council bosses working closer with the hospital to reduce incidents.
Combined rates for under-18 admissions for boys and girls are now the second-highest in the Yorkshire and Humber region, but under-18 girls' statistics are the highest.
A steering group has been established between council and hospital leaders, whose members now meet fortnightly, to provide early help to people admitted to hospital for alcohol misuse.
A council report said: "The public health team are working towards gaining a better understanding of the under-18 alcohol-specific admission data, exploring the context and circumstances behind admissions.
"Working with colleagues from Barnsley Hospital, a review of under-18 admission data has been completed and work is ongoing in this area.
"It is hoped that by working closely with the A and E department at the hospital, we can identify any emerging risk factors, patterns and alcohol sale trends to then be able to implement targeted effective intervention."
Cabinet spokesperson for public health Coun Jim Andrews added: "Research has shown that levels of drinking increased in 2020 due to the well-documented stresses caused by the pandemic.
"If people do feel like they have a problem with alcohol, or are becoming alcohol dependent, help is available from Barnsley Recovery Steps, our commissioned support service."
Brave woman speaks out against abuser
GP surgery asks residents to wear face coverings
'Heartbroken' nurses walk out of hospital
Reds look at Shaw with days remaining in transfer window
Grave digger sentenced
Popular route reopened by mayor
Oakwell stewards injured after 'unacceptable' incident
Dad's trial set to end 'mid-January'
Payments set to be made to town's worst-off

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Q: Image to fit container on Rotate When a image is rotated via javascript, the image doesn't readjust fill the parent container.
How can the image be made to readjust to the parent container?
I understand the height now controls the width and the width the height. Although readjusting the height and width still seems to squash the image.
I've create a bootstrap demo to show the issue.
http://www.bootply.com/9ClazvIz6x

A: You need to add max-width: initial; So it will override bootstrap's style
image.css({
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Ultra-Wideband Swarm Ranging
2021-06-21 | Feng Shan | Leave a comment
This week we have a guest blog post from Dr Feng Shan at School of Computer Science and Engineering
Southeast University, China. Enjoy!
It is possible to utilize tens and thousands of Crazyflies to form a swarm to complete complicated cooperative tasks, such as searching and mapping. These Crazyflies are in short distance to each other and may move dynamically, so we study the dynamic and dense swarms. The ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is proposed to serve as the fundamental technique for both networking and localization, because UWB is so time sensitive that an accurate distance can be calculated using the transmission and receive timestamps of data packets. We have therefore designed a UWB Swarm Ranging Protocol with key features: simple yet efficient, adaptive and robust, scalable and supportive. It is implemented on Crazyflie 2.1 with onboard UWB wireless transceiver chips DW1000.
Fig.1. Nine Crazyflies are in a compact space ranging the distance with each other.
The Basic Idea
The basic idea of the swarm ranging protocol was inspired by Double Sided-Two Way Ranging (DS-TWR), as shown below.
Fig.2. The exsiting Double Sided-Two Way Ranging (DS-TWR) protocol.
There are four types of message in DS-TWR, i.e., poll, response, final and report message, exchanging between the two sides, A and B. We define their transmission and receive timestamps are Tp, Rp, Tr, Rr, Tf, and Rf, respectively. We define the reply and round time duration for the two sides as follows.
Let tp be the time of flight (ToF), namely radio signal propagation time. ToF can be calculated as Eq. (2).
Then, the distance can be estimated by the ToF.
In our proposed Swarm Ranging Protocol, instead of four types of messages, we use only one type of message, which we call the ranging message.
Fig.3. The basic idea of the proposed Swarm Ranging Protocol.
Three sides A, B and C take turns to transmit six messages, namely A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, and C2. Each message can be received by the other two sides because of the broadcast nature of wireless communication. Then every message generates three timestamps, i.e., one transmission and two receive timestamps, as shown in Fig.3(a). We can see that each pair has two rounds of message exchange as shown in Fig.3(b). Hence, there are sufficient timestamps to calculate the ToF for each pair, that means all three pairs can be ranged with each side transmitting only two messages. This observation inspires us to design our ranging protocol.
Protocol Design
The formal definition of the i-th ranging message that broadcasted by Crazyflie X is as follows.
Xi is the message identification, e.g., sender and sequence number; Txi-1 is the transmission timestamp of Xi-1, i.e., the last sent message; RxM is the set of receive timestamps and their message identification, e.g., RxM = {(A2, RA2), (B2, RB2)}; v is the velocity of X when it generates message Xi.
As mentioned above, six timestamps (Tp, Rp, Tr, Rr, Tf, Rf,) are needed to calculate the ToF. Therefore, for each neighbor, an additional data structure is designed to store these timestamps which we named it the ranging table, as shown in Fig.4. Each device maintains one ranging table for each known neighbor to store the timestamps required for ranging.
Fig.4. The ranging table, one for each neighbor.
Let's focus on a simple scenario where there are a number of Crazyflies, A, B, C, etc, in a short distance. Each one of them transmit a message that can be heard by all others, and they broadcast ranging messages at the same pace. As a result, between any two consecutive message transmission, a Crazyflie can hear messages from all others. The message exchange between A and Y is as follows.
Fig.5. Message exchange between A and Y.
The following steps show how the ranging messages are generated and the ranging tables are updated to correctly compute the distance between A and Y.
Fig.6. How the ranging message and ranging table works to compute distance.
The message exchange between A and Y could be also A and B, A and C, etc, because they are equal, that's means A could perform the ranging process above with all of it's neighbors at the same time.
To handle dense and dynamic swarm, we improved the data structure of ranging table.
Fig.7. The improved ranging table for dense and dynamic swarm.
There are three new notations P, tn, ts, denoting the newest ranging period, the next (expected) delivery time and the expiration time, respectively.
For any Crazyflie, we allow it to have different ranging period for different neighbors, instead of setting a constant period for all neighbors. So, not all neighbors' timestamps are required to be carried in every ranging message, e.g., the receive timestamp to a far apart and motionless neighbor is required less often. tn is used to measure the priority of neighbors. Also, when a neighbor is not heard for a certain duration, we set it as expired and will remove its ranging table.
If you are interested in our protocol, you can find much more details in our paper, that has just been published on IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2021. Please refer the links at the bottom of this article for our paper.
We have implemented our swarm ranging protocol for Crazyflie and it is now open-source. Note that we have also implemented the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol, and the ranging messages are one of the OLSR messages type. So the "Timestamp Message" in the source file is the ranging message introduced in this article.
The procedure that handles the ranging messages is triggered by the hardware interruption of DW1000. During such procedure, timestamps in ranging tables are updated accordingly. Once a neighbor's ranging table is complete, the distance is calculated and then the ranging table is rearranged.
All our codes are stored in the folder crazyflie-firmware/src/deck/drivers/src/swarming.
The following figure is a ranging performance comparison between our ranging protocol and token-ring based TWR protocol. It's clear that our protocol handles the large number of drones smoothly.
Fig.8. performance comparison.
We also conduct a collision avoidance experiment to test the real time ranging accuracy. In this experiment, 8 Crazyflie drones hover at the height 70cm in a compact area less than 3m by 3m. While a ninth Crazyflie drone is manually controlled to fly into this area. Thanks to the swarm ranging protocol, a drone detects the coming drone by ranging distance, and lower its height to avoid collision once the distance is small than a threshold, 30cm.
Build & Run
Clone our repository
git clone --recursive https://github.com/SEU-NetSI/crazyflie-firmware.git
Go to the swarming folder.
cd crazyflie-firmware/src/deck/drivers/src/swarming
Then build the firmware.
make clean
Flash the cf2.bin.
cfloader flash path/to/cf2.bin stm32-fw
Open the client, connect to one of the drones and add log variables. (We use radio channel as the address of the drone) Our swarm ranging protocol allows the drones to ranging with multiple targets at the same time. The following shows that our swarm ranging protocol works very efficiently.
We designed a ranging protocol specially for dense and dynamic swarms. Only a single type of message is used in our protocol which is broadcasted periodically. Timestamps are carried by this message so that the distance can be calculated. Also, we implemented our proposed ranging protocol on Crazyflie drones. Experiment shows that our protocol works very efficiently.
Code: https://github.com/SEU-NetSI/crazyflie-firmware
Paper: http://twinhorse.net/papers/SZLLW-INFOCOM21p.pdf
Our research group website: https://seu-netsi.net
Feng Shan, Jiaxin Zeng, Zengbao Li, Junzhou Luo and Weiwei Wu, "Ultra-Wideband Swarm Ranging," IEEE INFOCOM 2021, Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021.
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Iconic Hallandale Beach Water Tower Demolished
By Bobby Brooks	• Published at 5:46 am on December 12, 2013
After more than 60 years of service, a Hallandale Beach landmark was torn down Thursday.
The 140-foot, 200-thousand gallon water tower at Bluesten Park has been in service since 1951 but on Thursday it was demolished.
The water tower was shut down shortly before Thanksgiving and is being replaced with high capacity water pipes. It was built to accommodate the city and Gulfstream Park, which explains the iconic race horse mural painted on its side.
Festivus Pole Goes Up at the Florida Capitol
"It's outlived its usefulness, city spokesman Peter Dobens said. "It's 62 years old and it would cost more money to keep it up than to tear it down."
According to city officials, the company selected for the project gave them a deal, and was willing to do the job for almost $20,000 less than the next closest bid at $49,900.
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Why isn't everyone doing this already?!
Sadly the main reason is it simply costs too much to buy the buses – as the technology is still young it costs roughly twice as much for an electric bus as it would for a diesel bus.
In today's money that's roughly a quarter of a million pounds.
Shouldn't we wait till the technology becomes cheaper?
The Big Lemon has always been about trying new things, harnessing pioneering spirit and blazing a trail. We were the first bus company to run all our vehicles on locally-sourced waste cooking oil, and we have been watching the electric bus market with interest in its formative years.
We feel that now is the right time to go for it. We're not the first; this is now proven technology: it has improved a great deal and also become more affordable since it first came on the market just a few years ago. The Government is also keen to encourage take-up of this technology and there is a grant scheme to help with the costs, which we have applied for. If successful, it provides funding for 90% of the extra cost on top of that of a regular diesel bus of the same specification.
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The Investment Migration Council (IMC), the worldwide association for Investor Migration and Citizenship-by-Investment, has today announced the appointment of additional members to serve on its Governing Board and Advisory Committee.
The new appointees include:
Nadine Goldfoot, Partner, Fragomen LLP, UK (Governing Board)
Ronald Klasko, Managing Partner, Klasko Immigration Law Partners, USA (Governing Board)
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Inigo Lecanda Crooke, Attorney-at-Law, Lecanda Immigration & Nationality Law, Spain (Advisory Committee)
Michael Frendo, Managing Director, Frendo Advisory, Malta (Advisory Committee)
Edward Beshara, Founder & Managing Partner, Beshara Global Migration Law Firm, USA (Advisory Committee)
In welcoming the new members, Bruno L'ecuyer, IMC Chief Executive, commented "The IMC continues to focus on setting the global standard for the industry and as a result, has attracted the most respected industry experts to provide un-paralleled guidance." He goes on to say "These key additions will further strengthen the organisation's mission to establish the highest international best practice levels of professionalism in relation to Residency and Citizenship-by-Investment worldwide."
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- You've won today. Did you feel the fans' support?
- This is a really special day for Young Boys. We managed to make the impossible possible. Of course, we felt the support of all the spectators, who attended the match. Shakhtar were strong enough tactically, but I am really happy that we've managed to win today.
- Was it anything special for you that Kubo did not go to the Olympics?
- We are very pleased that Kubo stayed in our team squad for now. Today we really have done the impossible. In the second half, we tried to take the game under control. During the match, we had to take risks. And all this story was fulfilled owing to Kubo among other things, who gave his all both tactically and emotionally, and physically.
- What could mean those exclamations that you have celebrated today's victory with?
- I, as a coach, am very delighted at the fact that we managed to beat a top-notch side. We will make every effort and try to win the following games. At the same time, it is important to maintain a balance between the domestic encounters and the European competition fixtures. We will try to play to the same standard as we did today, and as early as this coming Saturday we are facing Thun.
- This recent weekend, you lost to Lugano. What should you do to prevent the same outcome against Thun?
- In recent weeks, the players have practically had no days off. We will try to give them a day off, which they could spend with their families to gain mental and physical strength.
- You've succeeded with an incredible comeback today. What was key in this match, which helped you to win it and advance further? And second, last week you had your deal with the club extended. Maybe after today's game you will have your contract extended again?
- I'll start with the second question. About the contract ... With Kubo? Of course, he is a very talented and promising player, but this is only up to the club's sporting director to decide. As for the winning formula, I think, Shakhtar were somewhat too confident of their winning before the match in Bern. While Young Boys believed in their victory. And we can't underestimate the support that we had from the audience.
- But the question was about your deal extended, not Kubo's. Maybe now it will be extended for an even longer period of time? Maybe they will offer you a permanent contract?
- I am glad and proud of the fact that my contract was extended. This was done early just because we produce the results. And, unfortunately, I do not know what a permanent deal is like.
- You are saying that you enjoyed a great support today. However, the 32-thousand capacity ground saw just about 9,000 spectators. Don't you feel hurt that such a victory was witnessed by so few people?
- Of course, it's a pity that only about 9,000 spectators were present given the capacity figure. The game was very emotional. Just understand that those are still a little bit different things – sitting in front of your TV and at the pitch side. Of course, we are responsible for the fact that not so many fans attend the clash of international level. And we will try to improve this situation.


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Dimensional Shift: Take the 5D Elevator
Archaic hieroglyph inscribed on circumference of newest dimensional crop circle at Cherhill, Wiltshire
"Miracles start to happen when another unseen world intersects with our own."
—C. S. Lewis, 1947
Ever since Einstein, mathematicians, sacred geometers, astrophysicists and scientists of all disciplines have struggled to explain the fabric of space.
Lisi's Theory of Everything (ToE)--note similarity to Jubilee Plantation form
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
One of the latest in a long line of contenders (including charismatic Nassim Haramein, whose theory of 'Resonance' is constantly expanding) is the E8 Group. Garrett Lisi's E8 'Theory of Everything' (subatomic) strives to explain –on the back of Einstein's relativity, and assuming gravity as the dominant force — how all things fit together. It is a nice idea. But many quantum physicists and mathematicians disagree. "…[E8]'s biggest flaw is probably its starting point, because gravity is not a fundamental force, but an emergent one, as postulated by Dutch theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde." David Deutsch, author of The Fabric of Reality: towards a Theory of Everything (1998) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011) says 'one of the most valuable, significant and useful attributes of human thought is its ability to reveal and explain the fabric of reality.'
Cherhill 5D cube --'penteract'-- at Jubilee Plantation: connections made by physicists to E8 theory; or is it Max Planck's 'Divine Matrix'?
Milo Wolff's Wave Structure of Matter, describes how waves in quantum space form all the matter of the Universe. His simple, elegant explanation of how matter forms at a point/node, answers some of the basic questions in physics, e.g. WHY gravity exists. Previously physics taught that particles were the "stuff," and the rest is empty space. It seems the opposite may be true. Space now looks like a multidimensional fabric with nodes where particles of reality form and reform where waves cross, as they move through this fabric. Wave patterns, vibration and sound play a huge role in the illusion we call matter.
Deutsch disagrees with Stephen Hawking that the human race is 'typical' in the Universe, merely 'chemical scum' on the surface of a 'typical' planet. He thinks we are an exceptional species, our knowledge accelerating at a phenomenal rate. He agrees with Nobel prizewinning physicist Richard Feynmann that the 'Multiverse' is our quantum medium and we sentient beings are the most important entities in it. His work in the field of quantum computers makes him an optimist. Like Terence McKenna, he believes, all (human) knowledge is without boundaries, constantly evolving. McKenna said in 2000 before he died that humanity is headed for a world made out of Mind:
'Mind instead of "stuff"…a hologrammatic disk, part bio, part machine, part think tank, part Mind'
Deutsch, working in 2011 to create the ultimate quantum computer environment, is making McKenna's prophecy a reality.
Other physicists, Quantum or otherwise, converse in terms of the Multiverse. Sabine Hossenfelder and Rob Bryanton, author of Imagining the Tenth Dimension say we have only scratched the surface. In this realm of multiple dimensions and parallel universes, gravity seems to have taken a back seat to a simpler field of energy where waves interlock and form 'nodes' of matter. Just like crop circles do!
Sabine (Bee) is, like fellow physicist Bryanton, besotted with additional dimensions. They are true disciples of Max Planck, known as the 'father of quantum physics'. He believed all reality was contained within a Matrix, which he called divine because it displayed a field of energy which appears intelligent. Planck shocked contemporaries in 1947 by confirming what the Ancients believed — on all continents — that the Universe is being run by a Divine Being with our interests at heart. He also said 'Mind is the Matrix of all Matter.'
"All matter (from the birth of stars, to human DNA and everything in between) originates and exists by virtue of a Force. We must assume behind this force a conscious, intelligent Matrix." Max Planck, 1947
Gregg Braden, a former aerospace computer systems designer, transitioned into his life's work of trying to understand this matrix. He sees this 'container of the Universe' as the bridge between our imagination and reality, as well as being the mirror in our world for what we believe: a reciprocal process. 'To unleash the power of this matrix in our lives we must understand how it works and speak the language that it recognizes.'
Perhaps the Jubilee crop circle is saying just that: getting us to read the code; opening our minds to interpreting symbols other than words on a page.
So, if Space has the underlying predetermined form of the 'golden decagon' which the Jubilee Plantation crop circle portrays — with specific lines absent so that it looks like a 5D cube (penteract) — its internal structure seems based on the Golden Mean/Ratio, Phi (Greek letter uppercase Φ, lowercase φ, or written mathematically ϕ); that magical balance of beauty, harmony and form that gives us shivers to contemplate.
Just as previous crop circles have given us clues, little coincidences, double entendre allusions to inside knowledge, names, nearby features, and particularly sacred form and meaning, this season's finale seems filled with meaning. It is simultaneously seen in the physics community as ToE (above), to sacred geometers it is a 5D hypercube, and a spider web. (Native American mother arachnid warns us to be mindful of the web we weave in our lives; to focus on our choices). The crop circle's perimeter webbing is indeed masterful — a tapestry of careful precision, photo below. Looks as if we're being given some good advice.
A tesseract looks simple when conceived from fifth dimensional perspective, courtesy Rob Bryanton
Once again ET/our human-Oversoul reminds us we are part of something divine and, even more exciting, communally about to transition into — the Fifth Dimension.
Carl Sagan, in describing a Tesseract (4D cube), carefully talked us through an understanding of seeing the fourth dimension as 'another form of measure at right angles to the ones we are familiar with' or, more simply, to look at its shadow. Many of last year's (2010) crop circles presented hypercubes and allusions to the fourth dimension. Now we are being presented with a progression into the fifth.
How does our imagination picture a further dimension at right angles to time?
In the fields of Wiltshire, harvest is almost over. Only a few acres remain to be cut and stored. Another season has come and gone.
Cherhill Pentaract, a hypercube in 5D, resolves into form once your eyes accustom you to the illusion of movement,
image courtesy Steve Alexander
But our dimensional brothers from another time-space-reality have been sending us messages nonetheless. They continue contact with our subliminal consciousness so that, if we allow the communication to root, it will add another notch to that strand of human DNA that is consistently expanding, upgrading, enlightening us to understand a newer, all-encompassing reality — one we've never encountered before.
The crop circle at Jubilee Plantation may be the last of the season. It is ostensibly a simple decagon surrounded by woven grain and etched in the center with slim lines of apparent intricacy — only one footprint wide on the ground — and probably the most important crop circle which has been imprinted this year. Like last season's finale, when seen from above *as with all designs inspired by our Oversoul [*see Nazca lines], it serves to click an unbidden trigger in our synapses and unleash our dimensional observer: the one who sees multiple cubes rising and descending in the elevator of our mind.
The Pentaract is, in animation, a constantly imploding and exploding hypercube extruding itself from its own cone of squares like a rectangular telescope. In shadow in the field, its 2D shape is merely a mass of thin lines. But this field imprint is a masterpiece of dimensionality that only our human consciousness [in its expanded version] could devise to send back to us through time/space and via the elevator of understanding which we croppies hope we project in our willingness to receive, before the season is out.
Deutsch, an innovator like his gurus, Richard Feynmann and quantum cosmologist Leonard Susskind, likes to simplify. The beauty of a formation (in the field or in mathematical formulae) betrays for him a simple truth. Susskind believes we are having an intelligent conversation with the Universe. Physicist Deutsch, an Oxford don, appears to be honing that into sharp focus, by bringing ecology, natural selection, physics, mathematics and evolution into the conversation via computer technology. He points out the shocking fact that the earth's natural ecosystem is almost incapable now of supporting human beings, certainly in any numbers. We have created our own life-support system of food, energy, transport, shelter and communications. He is fond of using his own territory of Oxfordshire as an example. Take away the farms and modern infrastructure and, in the woods and downs, little of the vegetation that is left now is edible. He, like Stephen Hawking (but for different reasons) advocates upgrading our planetary exploration capability and getting 'out there'. His Beginning of Infinity is a great treatise on Life, the Universe and Everything, a book for our time where the answer is not 42: it is infinity.
The Significance of Venus
Woven 'fabric' of Jubilee plantation, image Frank Laumen. The August 15th crop circle is a masterpiece of wordplay, timing, sacred geometry and cultural prompting. Its decagon (double pentagram) appeared on the day planet Venus (pentagonal orbit) reached superior conjunction
This season's shapes have constantly encouraged us to leave our myopic cultural concerns and look to the heavens. Earlier in the season, crop designs focused on orbits of the solar system's inner planets, cometary 'intruders', reminding us of knowledge known to our ancestors but apparently 'lost' to modern civilization. Few knew, for instance, that the day of the Jubilee plantation appearance was astronomically significant (particularly to ancient skywatchers) as the moment Venus reached its farthest elongation from Earth in direct line on the other side of the sun from us — known as superior conjunction — when all three bodies line up, but when Venus becomes 'invisible'. As the ancient Babylonians described her, Ishtar/Venus the dual-phased (Sumerian double countenanced Inanna) morning star of war and wrath now enters the Underworld, where she transitions from being goddess of war in the Eastern sky and emerges 60 days later as evening star in the West: Ishtar/Aphrodite, goddess of love. What a great pity our modern prosaic preoccupations with money and status no longer allow us to look at love and war with that cosmic perspective.
'When beggars die there are no comets seen
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes'
Calphurnia, Julius Caesar II ii 30 Wm Shakespeare
Hurricane Irene making landfall on the East coast of the USA, August 28th, 2011
Much of the eastern United States is at present having to contemplate the power of the planet, in a frightening double dose of earthquake and hurricane. This electromagnetically-sealed planetary body is suddenly seen, not merely as the mothership that guides us through those remote reaches of interstellar space, but as herself a biosphere of living, moving, reacting interplay of elements: fire, water, air, earth. Suddenly what the Ancients believed takes on meaning few in formerly powerful Wall Street or choppy Chesapeake could have imagined.
Our place in the Universe is constantly changing and ancestral societies DID know more about this reality than we, shadow people of 21stC society, do. We wake up one morning and everything has changed. Power is for a moment seen, not in the symbolic dollar or in terrestrial exploitation to squeeze every last ounce of energy out of an exhausted source; but in a living, breathing rotating body in the heavens responding to electromagnetic pressures being thrust upon her.
To the Ancients (Maya, Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Hindu, Aztec and Inca) Venus's elongation was symbolic of (sacred) periodicity — an amazing calculable phenomenon which ties the two planets forever locked in celestial embrace as they orbit their parent Sun. There is no more potent symbolism seen in the heavens than the exact cyclical rhythm that Venus dances with Earth: Venus travels faster than Earth, orbiting the sun 2.6 times to Earth's 1.6 orbits. This means that five Venus cycles of 548 days exactly equal eight Earth cycles of 365 days. Five Venus years equal eight Earth years. Exactly. The beauty of that synchronicity was not lost on formative societies. It was the stuff of which their gods were made. The Venus rotational cycle formed a perfect sacred pentagram. This is also contained in the Jubilee crop design.
Ninth Wave of Calendar of Consciousness for 2011: split into seven 'days' and six 'nights'. We entered the fifth 'night' August 18th
Currently the Long Count calendar of the Maya is gaining popularity, thanks to the willingness of Maya Elders to share sacred handed-down knowledge, to scholars who have gone before, like Ian Xel Lungold, José Argüelles, and to current teachers of the 5124-year calendar cycles like Carl Johan Calleman.
What is gradually surfacing — not through television or newspaper reportage, but through that McKenna/Deutsch miracle of quantum computing, the Internet — is that the Ancients knew a thing or two and we would be well-served to pay attention. The Thunderbolts Project, mentioned earlier in our Siderealview blog, a consortium of physicists, mythologists, astronomers, authors and plasma technicians, has now published intriguing proof that ancient mythology, cave and rock art and petroglyphs from Mesopotamia to Russia and Tibet, from North and South America to Northern Europe all described Earth's volatile beginnings as a planet surrounded by other heavenly bodies — a little too close for comfort. That, before the Age of Reason and the vision of heavenly stability we see in our skies now — nine impeccable planets circling an orderly star — there was an Age of Chaos. And that these unruly planets gave their names to archaic deities: that the gods WERE planets; fiery dragons and thunderbolts were comets, the stuff of the stars.
Saturn/Kronos as Creator
Saturn appears regularly as the oldest god: before the Sun, Saturn ruled [Saturnia Regna = Golden Age].
Ancient belief systems from both Old World and New have often featured in our Siderealview. And, while we continue to extol the virtues of that bible of myth by Giorgio de Santillana and Herta von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill (1969-2002), an 'Essay investigating Origins of Human Knowledge & its Transmission through Myth', with its huge databank of archaeoastronomical research on which world myths are founded, the Inca pantheon — the Inca celestial myth has similarities to all world cultural branches — seems to have escaped their notice.
The mythology and chronology of the Maya is currently in vogue and getting a lot of attention. But it helps to look at pre-Columbian belief generally — Inca peoples in particular — as the picture painted there is one of pure untainted primitivism: something lost in other cultures where transmission has been heavily edited, influenced or interpreted.
Chandra telescope image of Saturn's rings emitting X-rays; below 1913 Birkeland lab experiment on electrical 'sun-like' behavior of Saturn
Roman naturalist Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny, AD23-79) wrote erudite work based on scientific observation:
"Heavenly fire is spit forth by the planet as crackling charcoal flies from a burning log." He was speaking of 'comet-Venus' but he recorded interplanetary 'thunderbolts', in his time and in Roman history thrown by each of the three 'upper planets', Mars, Mercury and Saturn. He actually died during the eruption of Vesuvius, poor man.
Rome may have had its master observers whose documentation is beyond question, but such references are scanty in the Americas.
"The natives of this country say that in the beginning, before the world was created, there was one whom they called Viracocha. And he created the world dark and without the Sun, nor Moon, nor stars."
Inca (preColumbian) creation myth
INCA EMPIRE: Quechua 'TAWANTISUYU'
Tawantisuyu stretched from Ecuador in the north through the Andean kingdoms of Peru, west and south-central Bolivia, through northwest Argentina, Chile and southern Pacific coast; the European equivalent of a huge kingdom lying between the coast of Portugal and inland Caucasus.
Altar tablet from Coricancha temple to Viracocha in Cuzco before it was destroyed: 'gods' Sun (l), Moon (r) flank Viracocha's central gold disk with Mars, Venus and thunderbolt below
The language of Quechua survives. It straddles this last millennium, offering insight into their elusive yet strong belief in heavenly deities, rather than –as seen in vestigial effigies dedicated by the Maya to their gods– a religion dominated by statues. The only exception in worship of a planetary pantheon was their use of gold to simulate LIGHT. The Maya, on the other hand, had a fully functional 'alphabet' of symbols inherent in their multi-functional Tzolkin calendar and an amazing history, Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel which retold their history (and that of their ancestors, the Olmec) going back at least to 4200BC. Maya culture, while not totally continuous, has survived. The Inca belief system has not.
However, both cultures, along with all the oldest mythologies in the Old World, shared the belief that the original sky god (before the sun) was the equivalent of Greek Kronos (Father Time), Mesopotamian Shamash/Ninurta, Babylonian Sakkuth, Sumerian Anu, Etruscan Satres (from whom the Romans borrowed Saturnus) — the first planet/god who created order out of primeval chaos. This was Saturnia Regna, (trans. rule of Saturn), the 'Golden Age'.
In the Chilam Balam, Saturn is the nameless one — known only as Oxlahun-ti-ku, (trans. the 'Thirteen', perhaps referring to his moons; Cuzcoan Viracocha) — one of two gods ruling the heavens. Venus was 'born' in 3147BC, when Longcount began. In the Inca creation legend, Viracocha is the Great God (Saturn, temple disk above), worshipped by the sun, moon and planets.
One last teaser: before we return to our preoccupation with culture, conformity and crisis. Where thunderbolts and lightning struck terror into the hearts of primitive peoples — not unlike the terror being felt in the eastern US states right now as Earth tears her hair and sheds her shackles — the power of light, plasma discharge, electricity and magnetic storm had a hold over our ancestors. They viewed the heavens as a place from where gods came to wield instruments of light not known on Earth. Similarly, light orbs (balls of light, ultrasonic/electric crackling) have been witnessed in association with crop circle formation.
So many eye-witness accounts now attest to the creation of authentic crop circles — sometimes literally in minutes — by means of hovering plasma balls of light, that their elusive nature was this year one of the serious discussions at the annual CircleChasers gathering July 27th at Alton Barnes. Perhaps the most genuine, enduring — and authenticated — footage capturing the orbs is that of Steve Alexander's Milk Hill video (1990).
Thunderbolts, light orbs, gods in the sky. The seasonal finale seems also to signal symbolic change (N. hemisphere) from summer (Leo full moon August 13) to fall (Virgo new moon August 29) — always a deep psychological shift. It also marked Maya 5th 'night'(of world chaos) August 18th-September 4th.
That elusive 'signature', shown top, next to the Jubilee crop circle harks back to several 'dragon' designs of earlier years. It may even be the meteorologist's symbol for a 'weather-feather'. But it surely connects us through age-old wisdom to ancient beasts of prophecy — dragon, serpent and crow. It now appears with intriguing regularity each season.
Jubilee plantation's choice location may also signal reason for jubilation: transition to higher, more noble principles, unbelievably even entry into the fifth dimension.
Suspending our disbelief, we are capable of creating new miracles, events which are not part of commonplace experience. We are becoming a one-world consciousness. Together we are beginning to resonate as OneMind. The Elevator doors are open. What are we waiting for?
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Texas Dems flee to D.C. on private jets to stop Republicans from passing election security bill
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Texas Democrats are reportedly planning to flee the state in an effort to block the legislature from passing an election security bill supported by the Republican majorities and Gov. Greg Abbott (R).This would be the second time the Democrats have used a a walkout strategy to delay the bill's passage.
According to NBC News, at least 58 Democratic members of the state House of Representatives will leave Austin on Monday to block House Bill 3 from passing. By leaving, they will deny the legislature the required quorum of two-thirds of lawmakers present to conduct state business, effectively shutting the chamber down until they return to the state or the session ends.
Most of the Democrats will fly on two private jets chartered to take them to Washington D.C., where they will reportedly lobby federal lawmakers for national voting legislation. Other lawmakers will make their own way to the nation's capital.
The Republican-backed bill was blocked once before in May when Democrats staged a walkout from the state House chamber. Without a quorum present, Republicans were forced to end the legislative session without passing the bill. But Abbott, who considers the bill a priority, called a for special session of the legislature to take it up again in June.
Democrats say House Bill 3 and its companion Senate Bill 1, which implement new voter identification requirements for people voting by mail and ban election officials from sending unsolicited mail ballot applications to voters, would make it harder for minorities to vote. The bills would also end pandemic innovations like drive-through voting and extended hours during early voting, reforms Republicans say are needed to mitigate the risk of voter fraud.
Republican lawmakers worked over the weekend to advance the bills, holding overnight hearings and passing the bills out of their respective House and Senate committees to bring them to the floor this week.
To keep the legislature from considering the House bill, Democrats would have to remain out of state until the end of the special session, which could last up to 30 days. The Texas Constitution empowers the Republican majority to compel the return of absent lawmakers to the state Capitol, and Democrats expect GOP lawmakers to send the state Department of Public Safety to force them to return.
Democrats have apparently been planning their flight for weeks. "Initially, they considered decamping to West Virginia and Arizona, because Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., have opposed abolishing the filibuster to pass the For the People Act, federal voting legislation the state Democrats support," NBC News reports. "But they feared the states' Republican governors would aid in their arrest and return them to Texas."
Gov. Abbott: Yes, Texas really can ARREST House Democrats when they return. Here's how. - TheBlaze ›


The effective separation and analysis of pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites is essential to researchers that develop new, more effective, safer, and economical medicines. Novel types of biologically derived drug compounds (biologics) are becoming more important and prevalent as they match and sometimes exceed the importance of traditional small synthetic molecules. However, long-established high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques often do not provide a means to effectively separate these biologics, which are typically highly polar molecules. Recently, hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) has emerged as the analytical technique of choice to analyze highly polar drugs. HILIC is perhaps the fastest growing HPLC technique, but the commercially available stationary phases may not always be able to perform all the desired/needed separations.
The aim of this Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to show feasibility in using/developing a new HILIC HPLC stationary phase based on native cyclofructan. It is proposed that the cyclofructan HILIC phase may be ideal in meeting the increasing need to separate highly polar compounds of biological relevance. Initial results indicate cyclofructan in its native form may perform critical separation that existing HILIC phases cannot. It is envisioned that the unique structural features of cyclofructan (crown ether core with pendent fructofuranose units) will afford a HILIC separating agent that can perform unique separations compared to commercial HILIC columns. Further, judicious mobile phase selection may allow for the cyclofructan HILIC column to be used in different ways to separate neutral polars through cyclofructan's hydrophilic sugar moieties, cations though ion interactions with cyclofructan's crown ether, and anions by using high concentrations of cations in the mobile phase to create a cation adsorbed stationary phase that can undergo unique anion interactions. Phase II of this research will then be used to develop this technology by scaling-up column production capabilities, evaluating column and batch reproducibility, and performing beta testing with prototype columns. Ultimately, this innovative technology will be brought to market and will offer researchers the ability to achieve improved retention and selectivity of highly polar biologically relevant compounds, which is a necessity in the development of new pharmaceuticals.
Perhaps one of the most promising avenues for the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, needed to maintain/improve the quality of public health, is the use of biologically derived drugs (biologics), which have the potential to be cheaper, safer, and more effective than traditional synthetic medicines. Unfortunately, new research on highly polar biologics often is impeded because conventional analytical instrumentation and techniques are most effective for analyzing traditional, less polar synthetic drugs. The focus of this work is to prove the feasibility in using a newly discovered, highly polar macrocyclic molecule, called cyclofructan, as a separation agent for the analysis of biologically relevant analytes and to affor researchers a new technique to perform critical chemical separations that are currently not possible or very difficult.


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Cornell University Graduate School
Cornell Theses and Dissertations
Aggressive And Sexual Motivation In Male Hamsters: Behavioral And Neural Perspectives
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Richards, Tal
The purpose of this work was to test the social behavior network theory, suggesting that different social behaviors share overlapping neural mechanisms. This was done by focusing on aggressive and sexual motivations, which share many features, foremost among which is that both are stimulus-driven. These two motivations were evaluated using the same novel method, where subjects could push a heavy door towards a conspecific stimulus, with increased pushing reflecting higher motivation. Behaviorally, males tested for aggressive motivation showed increased desire to fight following a winning experience and decreased desire to fight following a losing experience, supporting the validity of the method for quantifying this motivation. Males tested for sexual motivation with diestrous females showed very high levels of pushing, despite these females being aggressive, but similar to the aggression study, motivation was reduced in males who had lost a fight with a female. Neurally, we first compared aggressive and sexual motivation by looking at the neural activation of males that lost a fight with another male and comparing it to that of males that lost a fight with a diestrous female. This analysis found that although the overall activation levels in all SBN regions were not different between the two conditions, evaluating the correlations with measures from the fights showed very different patterns for the two conditions. Males that lost to a male exhibited negative correlations between fight measures and the activation in the various measures, while males that lost to a female showed a much weaker pattern involving mostly positive correlations. Exploring the neural mechanism of aggressive motivation in the motivation apparatus revealed a similar pattern involving only negative correlations despite the wide variety of regions investigated, suggesting that this motivation may simply reflect the lack of inhibition of reaction to a provoking stimulus. The pattern corresponding to sexual motivation in the apparatus was once again entirely different from that of aggressive motivation, although similar to the pattern seen in males that lost to a female. These findings cast doubt on some central assertions of the SBN theory.
Johnston, Robert Elliott
Regan, Elizabeth; Depue, Richard Allen
Ph. D., Psychology
dissertation or thesis