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La paraphrase, du grec παράφρασις : développement, de para (à côté) et frasein (parler, dire) est une figure de style qui consiste à développer un thème majeur, un argument essentiel, une information générale, en déclinant toutes les qualités d'une réalité que l'on veut évoquer, en la décrivant aussi exhaustivement que possible.

La paraphrase s'attache à rendre le sens par des équivalents pour mieux le faire comprendre et est très utilisée en littérature. Les philologues la distinguent de la glose qui explique le mot et du commentaire qui réunit autour d'une difficulté les faits et renseignements de toute origine propres à l'éclaircir. C'est surtout pour l'Écriture sainte, et plus particulièrement pour les psaumes, qu'on a usé de la paraphrase. Pratiquée systématiquement dans ce cadre religieux, la paraphrase devient alors un genre littéraire.

Exemples
Un grand nombre de poètes français ont composé des Paraphrases de psaumes. Malherbe notamment en a produit de nombreux comme celle par exemple du psaume CXLV commençant par ces vers :
N'espérons plus, mon âme, aux promesses du monde ;Sa lumière est un verre, et sa faveur une onde…

Plusieurs odes de Rousseau et de Lefranc de Pompignan sont des Paraphrases. L'ode fameuse de Gilbert :
j'ai révélé mon cœur au Dieu de l'innocence…
est une paraphrase de passages empruntés à divers psaumes.

La traduction de l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ par Corneille n'en est que la paraphrase. On cite comme un précieux monument de littérature anglophone la paraphrase poétique de la Genèse, de Cædmon. Parmi les paraphrases en prose, celles d'Érasme sur le Nouveau Testament, et celles de Massillon sur les Psaumes méritent un souvenir littéraire.On appelle aussi paraphrases certaines versions de la Bible, comme le Targum.

Certaines œuvres entières sont dites des paraphrases, et alors les synonymes sont: la reprise, la parodie et le pastiche en fonction du ton adopté. Par exemple, L'Opéra de quat'sous de Kurt Weil est une paraphrase d'un opéra du , une reprise quasi intégrale.

Définition

Définition linguistique
Étymologiquement, la paraphrase est une « explication suivant le texte » : paraphraser (verbe dérivé du mot paraphrase ; on dit aussi faire des paraphrases), c'est donc reprendre les éléments d'un texte, dans l'ordre d'origine mais en les formulant différemment, afin d'éclairer, d'expliciter, ou pour développer certains points, comme l'exprime Pierre Corneille :

Au cours de l'Histoire, la paraphrase est venue au contraire à définir un développement volontairement obscur d'idées originelles.

La paraphrase est une figure d'amplification qui concerne la phrase dans son extension : elle vise l'exhaustivité des qualités d'une idée ou d'un argument. Peu à peu, le terme définit en littérature la copie quasi intégrale d'œuvres antérieures. Elle met en jeu un nombre important de moyens linguistiques comme la ponctuation, des groupes propositionnels, des adjectifs, des appositions, etc., pour développer l'idée principale. Elle peut aussi reposer, dans le cas des descriptions notamment, sur des progressions thématiques.

Attention de ne pas confondre les paronymes : périphrase et paraphrase, figures tout à fait différentes même si leur mode opératoire reste l'accumulation d'éléments pour viser l'exhaustivité.

Enfin, il faut distinguer le mécanisme figural de la paraphrase étudié ici et la paraphrase dans sa définition en grammaire transformationnelle qui est une relation entre deux phrases fondée sur une nature de reformulation. Le passif notamment est une paraphrase de l'actif ; la nominalisation est un cas avéré de paraphrase en grammaire :  est paraphrasé par .

Définition stylistique
Depuis quelques siècles la paraphrase est perçue comme une maladresse de style, donner le même mot de nature différente sans pour autant expliquer; acception vulgarisée par l'enseignement des Lettres et du Français au collège et lycée lorsque le professeur reproche à l'élève d'avoir paraphrasé au lieu dexpliquer le texte donné.

La frontière est floue entre la paraphrase comme figure esthétique et la paraphrase comme dégradation de l'identité d'une œuvre antérieure, qui s'apparente alors au plagiat ou au détournement. La figure devient dès lors macrostructurale (au niveau des œuvres entières et non des phrases). Gérard Genette a notamment contribué à étudier les mécanismes de la paraphrase au sein de l'histoire littéraire, dans les phénomènes de reprises ou de forgerie.

Genres concernés

En littérature
La paraphrase est une figure employée dans tous les genres littéraires et tous les types de textes.
Au théâtre, le personnage de Cyrano de Bergerac d'Edmond Rostand compose la plus célèbre paraphrase dramatique dans sa tirade du nez.

En poésie
La poésie moderne fonde en grande partie sa vision esthétique sur la reprise de thèmes antérieurs, développés à la lumière des libertés contemporaines. Le surréalisme notamment fait de la parodie et de la paraphrase des figures fondamentales de déconstruction du langage. Raymond Queneau le premier dans son ouvrage Exercices de style tourne de 99 manières différentes une seule et même histoire. Il développe là près de cent paraphrases différentes.

En musique

En musique, le mot paraphrase désigne le développement dans de larges proportions d'un thème musical  mais élaboré antérieurement par un compositeur. Franz Liszt, par exemple, a composé de grandes paraphrases au piano comme la Paraphrase de concert sur l'Ouverture de Tannhäuser ; ce qu'il nomme des transcriptions. Les variations musicales comme celle de Bach sont également des sortes de paraphrases, parfois emprunté à un autre compositeur. On retrouve ce sens de la paraphrase comme reprise d'un auteur à l'autre d'un même thème développé dans le domaine littéraire.

La paraphrase se caractérise toutefois par sa fonction de vulgarisation. En ce sens, comme la paraphrase littéraire, la paraphrase musicale constitue une forme de substitution au profit d'un destinataire autre que l'original.

Au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, ce procédé était principalement appliqué à la musique liturgique, car il était basé sur des mélodies codifiées.

Dans le domaine de la musique sacrée, ce terme est utilisé pour désigner la réécriture de psaumes et d'autres passages de la Bible. Au , les œuvres polyphoniques (messes et motets) étaient souvent appelées paraphrase et exploitaient un thème connu servant de cantus firmus. On citera les nombreuses messes L'Homme armé, les messes de Josquin (Pange lingua... ) et les messes-paraphrases de Palestrina (Messe du pape Marcel... ). Les cantiques de cette période sont souvent des paraphrases de textes bibliques ou de l'ancien testament. C'est le cas par exemple de Muss nicht der Mensch de Nicolaus Bruhns, qui est une paraphrase de Job 7,1 LUT. Ces réécritures peuvent à leur tour devenir la base de nouvelles paraphrases, comme par exemple les récitatifs et les arias de Jean-Sébastien Bach, eux-mêmes basés sur des chants de Martin Luther. La cantate Aus tiefer Not BWV 38 en est un exemple. Elle est basée sur le chant de Luther Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Evangelisches Gesangbuch 299), qui est lui-même basé sur le psaume 130 LUT. La paraphrase des chorals luthériens a rencontré de grandes réussites.

Dans la musique instrumentale du , ce terme désigne une fantaisie sur des mélodies populaires, généralement tirées de chansons et d'opéras, auxquelles l'arrangeur ajoute souvent des éléments virtuoses et qui peuvent être librement arrangées, transcrites ou modifiées d'une autre manière. Le genre de la paraphrase de compositions célèbres s'est développé en deux sous-genres, tous deux destinés à un grand succès, la paraphrase de chambre, généralement pour instrument solo, et la paraphrase pour orchestre. La valeur artistique de ces fantaisies de concert pour instrument soliste, généralement écrites pour le piano et appartenant au domaine de la musique de chambre, était très élevée et servait à promouvoir les créations en dehors des grands centres artistiques vers les petites villes de province. Ces compositions mettaient en valeur les solistes. Les paraphrases de chambre les plus connues sont celles pour piano composées par Franz Liszt sur des motifs d'opéras. Tout aussi célèbres au 19e siècle, les paraphrases pour piano de Sigismund Thalberg. Presque tous les grands virtuoses de l'époque ont composé des paraphrases pour leurs instruments : du violoniste Niccolò Paganini au contrebassiste Giovanni Bottesini.

La paraphrase pour orchestre a rencontré de grands succès en Italie et en France, où elle a permis de populariser la musique en dehors des théâtres et des salles. La forme généralement utilisée était celle du pot-pourri, bien que les compositions puissent porter des titres divers (fantasia, ricordanza, réminiscence). L'un des auteurs les plus prolifiques de paraphrases pour orchestre était Amilcare Ponchielli. Bien qu'à contrecœur, poussé par la nécessité économique, des compositeurs majeurs comme Wagner ont dû se consacrer aux paraphrases d'opéra, adaptant La Favorita de Donizetti pour divers ensembles instrumentaux et vocaux sur commande de l'éditeur Maurice Schlesinger.

Au , la tradition de la paraphrase ne s'est pas éteinte avec des pianistes virtuoses comme Vladimir Horowitz et Arcadi Volodos qui l'ont modernisée (apport du jazz, emploi de l'atonalité, influence de la musique de Debussy ou de Prokofiev).

En art plastique
La paraphrase est la transposition d'une œuvre d'art plastique existante par un autre artiste.

Historique de la notion
En rhétorique classique, la paraphrase était un exercice préparatoire pour les futurs orateurs qui consistait à reformuler un texte d'auteur ou une sentence et incluse dans tous les progymnasta (en latin : les primordia, « exercices incontournables de l'enseignement lettré ») aux côtés de la fable, de la narration, de la chreia (formulation de lieux communs) et de la maxime. À cette époque les élèves avaient le choix entre trois exercices d'éloquence, trois types de reformulation par conséquent : la traduction des rhéteurs grecs, la mise en prose de poésie latine et la reformulation de ses propres textes. Cette dimension liée à l'apprentissage se retrouve de nos jours dans les exercices scolaires du résumé et de l'exercice de réécriture qui constituent des points clés de l'enseignement de la langue. Elle a fait l'objet d'un des débats rhétoriques les plus animés de l'Antiquité ; elle fut critiquée par Cicéron dans son De oratore, et défendue par Théon et Quintilien pour ses vertus pédagogiques. Ce dernier la définit comme l'opération  (livre I).

L'exégèse religieuse fonde ensuite sur la paraphrase toute l'activité intellectuelle de la théologie ; il s'agissait de reprendre les textes sacrés et de les développer afin d'éclairer leur sens. Les paraphrases d'Érasme sur les Épîtres et les Évangiles sont parmi les plus connues. Ce n'est que vers la Renaissance que la paraphrase prend un sens péjoratif, synonyme de commentaire verbeux et sans ajout d'information supplémentaire ; il désigne alors des « traductions libres ». C'est en 1525 que le mot paraphrase apparaît, créé par Lefèvre d'Etaples.

Pourtant la paraphrase est une figure d'amplification puissante et créatrice, on parle même pour certains orateurs ou écrivains d'un style paraphrastique dans lequel, notamment, Charles Péguy excelle. Il en donne même une définition mystique :

Pour C.Fuchs : . La paraphrase ne se comprend donc qu'en situation de communication réelle faisant intervenir un contexte commun et identifié. Fuchs identifie la paraphrase comme un acte énonciatif tenant de la pratique langagière.

Très récemment, Bertrand Daunay tente dans son essai Éloge de la paraphrase de réhabiliter la figure ; il montre qu'elle ne confine pas seulement à la redite, mais qu'elle permet une créativité sur laquelle la littérature tout entière, comme Gérard Genette l'avait déjà montré pour l'intertextualité, se fonde. Il prouve donc sa légitimité historique et son intérêt didactique dans l'enseignement scolaire.

Figures proches
 Figure « mère » : amplification
 Figures « filles » : aucune

 Paronymes : périphrase
 Synonymes : reformulation (acception stricte fidèle à son étymologie), traduction (acception large synonyme de reprise exacte)
 Antonymes : concision

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes
 Technique de la paraphrase
 Paraphrase en ligne pour la langue française

Bibliographie
 Michel Jeanneret, Poésie et tradition biblique au XVIe siècle, recherches stylistiques sur les paraphrases des psaumes de Marot à Malherbe, José Corti, 1969.
 Catherine Fuchs, La Paraphrase, PUF, Linguistique nouvelle, 1982.
 Bertrand Daunay, Éloge de la paraphrase, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. Essais et savoirs, 2002,

 Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1535-6.

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Animal Crossing brings in the bells, tops UK games chart
Nintendo Switch exclusive Animal Crossing: New Horizons takes residence at the top of the UK video games chart.
Nintendo Switch exclusive Animal Crossing: New Horizons takes residence at the top of the UK video games chart with huge first-week sales.
The critically acclaimed Animal Crossing: New Horizons has topped the Ukie/GfK UK games chart in its first week. According to GamesIndustry.biz the game's launch is 3.5 times bigger than 2012's Animal Crossing: New Leaf on Nintendo 3DS, which went on to sell over 12 million copies.
Entering the chart at No. 2 is the reasonable return of Doomguy, sorry, Doom Slayer. Doom Eternal – which is available on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 – posted slightly lower sales than the 2016 franchise reboot.
It's worth noting that the chart only tracks physical software sales. When digital purchases are taken into account, sales of both games are likely to be much higher. Animal Crossing: New Horizons, for example, has been rooted to the top of the Nintendo eShop best-sellers list for some time,
The rest of the chart is full of familiar faces, with the likes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Grand Theft Auto V, and Forza Horizon 4 all jostling for position.
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Q: Action Script 3. How to add stroke on button's label via AS3? I need to add stroke on button's label useing Action Script 3.
For now I use this:
var stroke:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter(0x86564e, 1, 2, 2, 10, 1);
myButton.filters = [stroke];

But this add stroke (glow) on the button, not on the button's label. Also I've tried myButton.label.filters = [stroke]; but unsuccessfully.
It return me following error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property filters through a reference with static type String.

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Q: Use datatool to create circuitikz IC documentation from external file I'm hoping to store data for N number of integrated circuits in simple CSV files and have the corresponding file drive the LaTeX document upon compile. See my MWE below and you see what I like to accomplish. The whole idea is to have "a single source of information" and not have to edit more than these CSV files in order to update the document.
MWE:
\documentclass[]{book}

\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage[siunitx]{circuitikz}
\usepackage{currfile}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotstableset{col sep=semicolon, string type}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{filecontents*}{\currfilebase_pinout.csv}
1;Q1;Output 1
2;Q2;Output 2
3;Q3;Output 3
4;Q4;Output 4
5;Q5;Output 5
6;Q6;Output 6
7;Q7;Output 7
8;GND;Ground
9;Q7S;bla
10;/MR;bla
11;SHCP;bla
12;STCP;bla
13;/OE;bla
14;DS;bla
15;Q0;Output 8
16;VCC;2-6V
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
    \begin{circuitikz}
        \draw (0,0) node[dipchip, num pins=16 ](C){\rotatebox{90}{\currfilebase}}; %num pins=... here I would be happy if datatool could give me the number of entries in the source file
    % ------------------- FROM HERE  -------------------
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 1) {Q1};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 2) {Q2};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 3) {Q3};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 4) {Q4};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 5) {Q5};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 6) {Q6};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 7) {Q7};
    \node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 8) {GND};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 9) {Q7S};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 10) {/MR};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 11) {SHCP};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 12) {STCP};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 13) {/OE};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 14) {DS};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 15) {Q0};
    \node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin 16) {VCC};
    % ------------------- TO HERE  -------------------  i would be happy if a macro could populate these data from the source file
    \end{circuitikz}
\caption{\currfilebase\ pinout}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
    \pgfplotstabletypeset{\currfilebase_pinout.csv}
    \caption{\currfilebase\ pinout explanation}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Example output:

A: Ok, I figured it out using datatool:
\documentclass[]{book}

\usepackage[siunitx]{circuitikz}
\usepackage{currfile}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotstableset{col sep=semicolon, string type}
\usepackage{datatool}
\DTLsetseparator{;}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{filecontents*}{\currfilebase_pinout.csv}
1;Q1;Output 1
2;Q2;Output 2
3;Q3;Output 3
4;Q4;Output 4
5;Q5;Output 5
6;Q6;Output 6
7;Q7;Output 7
8;GND;Ground
9;Q7S;bla
10;/MR;bla
11;SHCP;bla
12;STCP;bla
13;/OE;bla
14;DS;bla
15;Q0;Output 8
16;VCC;2-6V
\end{filecontents*}

\DTLloaddb[noheader,keys={Pin,Label,Info}]{csvData}{\currfilebase_pinout.csv}
\DTLmaxforcolumn{csvData}{Pin}{\numberOfPins}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
    \begin{circuitikz}
        \draw (0,0) node[dipchip, num pins=\numberOfPins ](C){\rotatebox{90}{\currfilebase}};
        \DTLforeach{csvData}{\pinNumber=Pin, \label=Label}{
            \DTLdiv{\checkValue}{\pinNumber}{\numberOfPins}
            \ifthenelse{\DTLisgt{\checkValue}{0.5}}
                {\node [right, font=\tiny] at (C.pin \pinNumber) {\label};}
                {\node [left, font=\tiny] at (C.pin \pinNumber) {\label};}
        }
    \end{circuitikz}
\caption{\currfilebase\ pinout}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
    \pgfplotstabletypeset{\currfilebase_pinout.csv}
    \caption{\currfilebase\ pinout explanation}
\end{table}

\end{document}


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Palestine Country Quiz
Can you guess these facts about the region known as Palestine?
Quiz by kalbahamut
Featured Quiz
First submitted May 7, 2014
Times taken 10,907
Enter answer here
The two territories of the area commonly referred to as Palestine today
Party which leads the government of territory #1
Party which rules territory #2
Countries which border these territories
Current de-facto capital of Palestine
Proposed capital of a future Palestinian state
Country which had a "mandate" to rule Palestine from 1922–1947
Empire which controlled Palestine from 1516–1922
Ancient kingdom in the area ruled by King Herod
Name for the area during the Bronze Age (starts with C)
Birthplace of Jesus according to the Bible
Name of the mosque built on the Temple Mount around 700 A.D.
Al Aqsa
Chairman of the PLO from 1969–2004
Yasser Arafat
Current President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
Most populous city in the territory controlled by the PNA
Biblical patriarch said to be buried in the above city
Term for the violent Palestinian uprisings which occured in 1987–1993 and 2000–2005
Oldest city in Palestine, and possibly the entire world
kalbahamut
This quiz may be of some use to some commenters below. Enjoy.
OfficerDibble
Very interesting quiz, I like it. Don't mind in the least that it's not eligible for points, because I doubt I'd have scored any.
RobinZwaard
Well, it has points now!
Conservatopia
Well done Kalbahamut! Stand up for Israel! THE greatest country on Earth.
I'm not trying to stand up for anyone, really. I'm not a nationalist. But.. there is historical fact... and then there are the myths woven by all sides about this region that often cloud historical fact.
emerald1120
As an Israeli we are NOT the greatest country on earth the title would probably go to Switzerland or one in Scandinavia we have a lot of problems that we need to solve and as Jewish people, we are pretty split on everything
jmellor13
New Zealand would get my vote. Japan is great too, but the honor code seems to lead to a disproportionate number of suicides, which is...not great. South Korea seems pretty boss too, especially when compared what it could have been...
SeaNomad
The very existence of the state of Israel in Palestine is a crime against humanity!
Do you feel the same way about other ethno-states like Germany or Pakistan? If not, why not?
JackintheBox
Germany is an ethno-state?
Yes. Of course. A state founded on the idea of German nationhood, uniting many different kingdoms, principalities, etc that contained "Germanic" people, with the idea that these people form a cogent ethnic group that should be unified and self-governed on land they consider their ethnicity's historic homeland. Same as Italy. Similar to France, and Greece, and England, and Turkey, and China, and Egypt, and Syria, and Armenia, and Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and Iran, and Albania, and Macedonia, and Yugoslavia, and Serbia, and so on... same basic idea behind the creation of the ethno-nation-state of Israel.
JahSupporter
Germany, nor many European states which were formed under a national unity, arent ethnostates. Ethnostates are selective and only allow the entrance of permitted ethnicities or nationalities, Germany was unified to provide them with strength against the French
Pretty much every country in Europe is an ethnostate, excluding San Marino, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Monaco, Switzerland, Malta and the Vatican. (and maybe Montenegro, Kosovo, and Moldova... those are iffy. Plus the United Kingdom which is the union of four ethno-states) They are states formed around the idea of ethnic nationhood: that there exist "nations" (i.e. large groups) of people connected by common language, culture, or history that should be entitled to have their own country and be self-governed. You're using a peculiar definition.
And anyway if an ethnostate is a state where only one ethnicity is allowed to enter or gain citizenship, then there are zero such states in the world today. Certainly Israel does not fit that description.
If by weird definition you mean the first definition that comes up when you google to term. Germany can hardly be considered a country that restricted it citizenship based on ethnic grounds today, when it, and most European countries are some of the most welcoming places for immigrants today. Even by other definitions online, which argue that an ethnostate is a state which serves the purposes of only one ethnicity, Germany can definitely not be labelled as an ethnostate, as like I said, it's willingness to accept immigrants, same with England and by extention the UK, France, etc.
That is an ideology. Still does not change the stance modern countries have on foreign ethnicities.
I'm sorry you're having trouble understanding this.
Its less a problem of me not being able to understand this, and more you not willing to accept that many Europeans countries which you call ethnostates have policies and attitudes which do not align with the common definition of ethnostates.
Again, my apologies. Take care.
thelastvestige
It would be far more accurate to describe the countries you mentioned ( Germany, France, Pakistan etc.) as nationstates rather than ethnostates.
ethnostate and nationstate are almost exactly the same thing. A "nation" and an "ethnicity" are very similar. Ethnostates can also be nation-states. Ethnicities can be groups of people connected by common racial heritage, common history, common language, common religion, common ideology, etc. So can "nations." Nationalist rhetoric can and has been used to talk about concepts such as "White nationalism," "Black nationalism," "Arab nationalism," "Islamic nationalism," etc in addition to "Jewish Nationalism," "Palestinian nationalism," "Greek nationalism," and "German nationalism." Google any of these terms and you'll find pages devoted to them. Except that when you google Jewish nationalism you get redirected to the page on Zionism - same thing except that Jewish nationalism has been made into a bad word by those opposed to it.
I'd say that the only significant difference between the concept of a "nation" and an "ethnicity," in fact, is that ethnicity is defined as a group one can choose to belong to; it's a label that people self-ascribe if they want to identify with it. "Nations," on the other hand, according to the nationalist theory, exist independent of whether or not people choose to belong to them. Ethnic groups are, by definition, entirely socially constructed. Nations of people are not. Thus my position that ethnicity is a valid concept, while nationality is almost entirely bogus mythological bullshit. It gets confusing talking about this, though, as since nation-states have become the almost universal default way that states around the world have been organized since the 19th century, the words "nation" and "state" have become synonymous in common usage, and "nationality" has become a synonym for "state citizenship." Being imprecise about what you mean can thus lead to confusion.
Put aside the quibbling over what is an ethnostate and what is a nation-state and my question remains the same: someone who claims that the existence of Israel (a state organized around the precepts of ideas of Nationalism - created as a homeland for the Jewish people where they had lived for thousands of years with the notion that they ought to have sovereignty over their own homeland and be entitled to self rule - the same philosophy that led to the creation of almost all modern nation-states around the world) is a crime against humanity... do they feel the same about other nation-states. And if not, why not? Would be nice to get an answer to that question rather than this pointless discussion above.
Constantinos
Why is it so difficult for you to understand that the creation of Israel is totally different story than any other nation state? Israelis had to be brought from abroad, populate the area and then expand in the expense of the local population in the name of what...religious extremism (Zionism)!. Not quite the same as many other countries. Germans lived in Germany, French in France, and so on.
Hermionearya
well Germany and Pakistan didn't decide that they needed a home in the 20th century and went to kick out the natives and occasionally killed them.and destroyed their homes and now even refuse to recognize the country they took.
maybe you should have taken a land from Europe since they're the ones that committed the holocaust against Jews.
KingEureka
Pakistan totally did. Millions of non-Islamic families including mine were forcibly evicted, thrown out and even murdered.
tshalla
Constantinos - not the same as many other countries, true. That said, there is much that is invented and imagined in the traditions and communities we are quick to recognize as nations and ethnicities. Germans, Italians, and French people had to be created as such - through political processes, universal elementary education, the standardization of languages. Much of that goes back to the second half of the nineteenth century. But there are lots of similarities between Israel and other settler colonial states, including my own - Canada - on very much the terms you lay out.
Earliest Jewish Settlement in Israel judea 1200bc
Earliest arab settlement in Israel Judea 600ad.
Palistinians are the decendents of colonists who conqured the region from the roman (byzintine) empire as part off the Jihad of the prophet Mohammad. And empire that extened from modern day mauritania to indonesia and spain to tanzania.
So No the existance of the state of Israel is not a crime against humanity.
But the constant terrorism and attempted genocide of Palistinian terrorists is.
Oh and the first recorded terrorist attacks by palistinians on Jews in the region occured in 1922, 37 years before the state of Israel was created
Constantinos: you are believing in a completely false narrative. I'd encourage you to read more about the history of the region.
Hermione: You might want to look up the history of population exchanges which took place between Pakistan and India. Or something about the Danes, Frisians, Sinti, Roma, and Sorbs of Germany.
tshalla: once in a while we agree on something. But I imagine if we had a deeper conversation about this we'd disagree on a lot, especially on what a settler colonial state is. Or even if such a thing realistically exists. People are people. We all have equal claim to the planet. Nobody has any special claim to geography by virtue of ancestry, religious affiliation, or anything else in my opinion. But it's the unfortunate reality of all human history that we are prone to fight over things and to think selfishly, tribally, and territorially.
Is New Jersey an ethnostate? What the hell is going on over there? Everyone is descended from Springsteen.
:) maybe by accident. You should look up the interview Conan did about his DNA results and the small in-bred town his ancestors came from. Pretty funny.
More serious answer: the 13 original United States were organized as mercantilist British colonies. There were cultural and ethnic differences between each state but none that adopted statehood with these differences in mind as an organizing principle. Later states added to the Union sometimes had something like that, but only rarely, and never in any lasting way. The original petitions for Oklahoma statehood were often about creating a state for Native Americans; and Oregon was at first created as a "whites-only" state. But even in these cases, it's not the same thing as ethnic nationalism. Most of the tribes in Oklahoma, and most of the "white" families in Oregon, at the time of statehood, were not originally from there, nor did they share any particular cultural similarities with their neighbors.
KingEureka- well then they suck too. sorry you suffered.
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Jacktheguy
Please. Everyone knows Freedonia is the greatest country on Earth.
Congratulations on the feature, Kalbahamut!
Thanks. QM seems to have wiped out most of the comments here, which referred to the original much longer version of this quiz and included questions on the various Arab-Israeli wars, the Skyes-Picot agreement, Grand Mufti Husayni, Umar bin-Khatib, the Hasmoneans, Hadrian, and the long list of empires who have conquered and controlled this region at various times. Always been fascinated with this place. Glad I got to live there for a while.
Goodness... it sounds as if your original was a bit more meaty than some other area quizzes for which the answers are mostly "agriculture" and the name of the place itself.
QM likes the featured quizzes to for the most part be brisk and accessible.
I'm on a documentary kick. Any recommendations?
About Jersualem and Palestine? Or just in general?
I can't think of any documentaries on the region that I would particularly recommend. I highly recommend the book Jerusalem: A Biography by Simon Montefiore, if you want something to read. Would love to see a 10-part Ken Burns documentary produced from that.
As for documentaries in general... um... some of my favorites include:
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Precious Life (which does take place in Israel/Palestine)
Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
White Light/Black Rain
The Fog of War
and Idiocracy
those are the first ones that come to mind.
Recently have watched a lot on serial killers. But none that were particularly memorable. Maybe the Unabomber in his own words one...
Ken Burns' Vietnam was also good.
EytanMelech
Please change the title. Palestine is not a country and I recommend it be renamed "Palestine Quiz".
That was the original title, and the original quiz was intended to be about both the historical region and the modern-day loosely defined semi-sovereign nation state that go by the same name. Dan wanted to use this in a series of countries quizzes, though, so I guess he wanted the titles to be consistent. Get over it.
Moos1005
Can you please give me a definition of a "country" that excludes Palestine, but includes Taiwan, Kosovo and the Vatican?
Quincyz
Somaliland is much more sovereign than vatican.
What part of the Vatican's territory do they not control or is in dispute?
Sparkxmkw
You say that those countries do not have disputes, but both Taiwan and Kosovo are entirely disputed. Palestine is more of a country than both as it has UN observer status, which the others don't.
I said no such thing. I asked which part of the Vatican's territory was not under the Vatican's control or disputed?
As to Kosovo and Taiwan, which I didn't mention in the last comment, what are the validity of those disputes? How much territory in Kosovo does Serbia exert control over? How much of Taiwan does the PRC control?
TheLastFish
Sovereign is indeed a good definition (take this, England! :-D ). And according to that very definition Palestine is a country, right?
what about northern cyprus then?
Northern Cyprus has a far greater claim to sovereignty than Palestine does. However... unlike Palestine... they are not such a popular cause du jour around the world. They only have recognition from one country: Turkey. Most definitions of sovereign include some international recognition. Palestine has more international recognition than TRNC, but less of everything else that is part of being sovereign. In my opinion, though, TRNC is more of a country than Palestine.
Taiwan, Kosovo, and the Vatican all have broad (though not universal; politics) international recognition in addition to control over their own territory. Vatican's territorial claims are not in dispute. All three enjoy greater sovereignty than either Palestine or Northern Cyprus.
taiwan has little recognition and is only recognized by small unimportant countries(from an economic and diplomatic perspective)
btw, yemen is considered a country on this website, although it isnt really sovereign right now
GrandOldMan
Hmmm...a country overrun by rebel groups isn't a country? Makes sense.
@GrandOldMan who are you replying to?
Mr. Appleseed: Most major countries in the world do not have an official embassy in Taipei because they wish to do business with the People's Republic of China and Beijing, and their not having formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan is a condition of that. However, most major countries of the world DO have consulates in Taipei that function essentially the same as embassies, and a lot of commerce and diplomacy goes back and forth.
Yemen has or at least had been a sovereign country for a long time, currently facing a violent well-armed and foreign-supported insurrection. The Houthi rebels were in control of the capital city last I checked though so you may have a point. Perhaps the country will be divided in the future, or the civil war will end and one side or the other will reestablish control over the whole country. I think the difference is that this is seen as a temporary setback in the country's history; unlike Palestine which was never sovereign.
the un recognizes it
Palestine has observer status at the UN. It's not a member nation. And the UN is not itself a country, so it's not quite the same as the other countries that recognize the PNA as the government of Palestine.
the UN is the organisation of countries tho. member or not, a country recognized by the UN is a country by their definition.
Tomasmental
Would you remove the "Country" word?
Djilas
Jacob and Isaac are also correct answers to the patriarch question.
YashShelar
For the Bethlehem clue, birthplace is misspelled. Great quiz!
Fun fact about Mahmoud Abbas's presidency: he's currently in the 16th year of his 4-year term.
With Trump it only SEEMS like that.
I think you should accept Abu Mazen as an alternative for Abbas. It's how he's referred to most often there.
By the way, birthplace isn't spelled correctly in the Bethlehem question.
Quizmaster
Level ∞
lvtharrison
Could you accept Abu Mazen? Actually, thinking about it, Hamas have never accepted Abu Mazen so I don't see why you should.
lukefan
From the river to the sea, Falasteen will be free
Free from? Jews?
and what about the west bank of the river? Under Jordanian occupation again?
NobodyImportant
I was incredibly disappointed by the lack of controversy in the Kosovo Quiz. This one made up for it!
perhaps the country with a mandate question could come after the empire question, or even both moved to after the biblical ones, to get some nice chronology?
I think that's how the original quiz was organized. Left column as all pre-modern times.. from Canaan up through the Ottomans. Right column started with the British Mandate and Skyes-Picot and ended with questions about cities in the present-day territory. Blame QuizMaster.
Ouch... with the feature of QM in the series of Country Quizzes, we spicy the discussion!
Geografen
The temple mount is in Israel, so a question about that should not be in a "palestine country" quiz.
Because it's not in "palestine".
Sure it is. Unless you are of the opinion that Palestine is a well-defined sovereign state with clearly delineated borders. I don't feel that this is the correct view to take. And on the older version of the quiz there were many more questions about the greater region of Palestine, which has gone by that name since the Bar Kokhba revolt which ended in 135 AD.
As question 1 say: The two territories commonly refered to as palestine today are west bank and gaza strip, not Israel
Yes. And? You act as if I didn't write that question.
And the temple mount is neither in west bank or gaza strip, but in Israel.
Look... "Palestine" is the name of a region that includes all of present-day Israel and that name goes back 2000 years. It's also the name applied to a partially recognized semi-sovereign nation state, the borders of which are not set or agreed upon but that are often described as including the territories of "the Gaza strip" and "the West Bank." However, even the borders of those territories are not agreed upon. Most proposals for a fully sovereign Palestinian state include East Jerusalem as its capital. The Temple Mount is in East Jerusalem. Nowhere on this quiz does it say that Jerusalem is not under the control of Israel, or even that it shouldn't be. The quiz doesn't even assert that Palestine exists as a sovereign country, or that it should. You can believe whatever you want about these questions, it doesn't make the quiz wrong regardless what you believe. The answers are what the answers are. Believe what you want and get over it.
But this quiz is named Palestine "country" quiz. Then it should not include an other country. East-Jerusalem has been part of Israel since 1980. Jetpunk even recognise Crimea as part of Russia.
PowerQuizizz
Palestine is not a country. it a hold-out of israel not conforming to israeli rule
That's a novel opinion, even amongst those who deny Palestinian statehood.
LuigiDood227
Lol guess this isn't the end of the series
AlexThirkell
Day 296: Bandiaterra
Day 297: Minas Gerais!
Rambajstago
when Atlantis country quiz
HeyItsMeJJ
Day 1032: Sealand?
That would be fun. I've been hoping for a quiz to which the answer is just "Steve."
day 1802: dave's house
OwenProGolfer
What a civil comment section
JohnnyYeet
Oh, I think we've all seen worse
I don't think he was being sarcastic.
Yeah, compared to the normal tenor of an Israel/Palestine discussion, this is pretty great. I didn't take it as sarcasm.
Antoniaa
I grabbed some pop corn and pressed the comments button.
cdguy24
Can we get a country quiz about Western Sahara?
Aaron197 made one already.
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Q: Moving a font awesome icon here's my first post on stackoverflow :)
I'm a web-design student, pretty noob but so enthusiastic. I was trying to make a website using bootstrap and font-awesome icons, but i don't know how to move "a little bit" one of those icons. My code is:

Lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Minima maxime quam architecto quo inventore harum ex magni, dicta impedit.

As you see here http://imgur.com/zWwXnN2 would be nice if i can move a the pencil icon, a little bit to the right. Is it possible?
Thank you so much
Alessandro

A: Edit the font-awesome.css file to give it more style instructions. In this case, you're looking for the line in that file that controls the pencil icon. You can do something like this:
.fa-edit:before,
.fa-pencil-square-o:before {
  content: "\f044";
  *margin-left: 8px;*
}

Play around with the margin value to get exactly what you're looking for.


We have all been there. Stuck in conversation with the zany great Aunt (N.B not a direct link to any of my family members), the slightly over-friendly work colleague, the 'friend' who won't stop talking about themselves. It is 'unheard of' to frown, and to show our true emotions, despite how much pain and frustration we are feeling, unless we are Gordon Ramsay and reply with the ever famous 'F….', well you fill in the blanks.
So how do we avoid the situations where you stand…and stand…and keep on smiling before the feeble 'oh, I think someone is calling me' excuse comes out to play. What action should we take to ensure awkward conversations and situations don't keep on happening? Can we ever avoid them? Is it just me who gets myself into these things?
5. The distant family/family friend member.
Having sociable parents often means you have equally sociable (or not so in worse cases) acquaintances that you have to converse with at the annual New Years Eve celebrations. You find yourself stuck in the callously repetitive 'yes I'm a student, no I am not drunk all the time (depending on who you're addressing), the course is average-when I make it in (if you're addressing a 'cool' younger cousin or acquaintance), no I do not have any life plans aside from spending the Summer basking in the sun with copious amounts of cider with my friends…and what?' When in fact you could save everyone the hassle, create a tape consisting of 'I am in my third and final year at…(enclose University here), it is English I am studying (because you never have and never will remember) and no I do not have a boyfriend, because 'courting' is not the same these days and I am not engaged by 19. Though this may sound incredibly bitter, I actually have pleasant conversations with family friends…albeit a bit too often and a bit too samey each time I see them. There's nothing wrong with small talk and curiosity, but sometimes my toothy smile begins to hurt as I hear you propel familiar and painful questions at me year after year.
The problem scenario. These people are your work friends, your co-workers, and more importantly the man or woman who is writing your monthly pay-check. Smiling tip? Even if the boss or annoying colleague Jim cracks an awful joke, smile pleasantly and laugh a little, whilst a smile won't necessarily give you friends in hand, it can potentially lose you your 'sparkly' reputation, believe me, a teacher said she was 'scared and concerned' when I stopped smiling for a second in class…a good workout for the cheek muscles, but a little soul-destroying when your heart is a little low for whatever reason. However, no pain no gain, and sometimes even smiling can create better feeling of optimism? Are you trying it now? How is that working out for you?
Being cornered after a lecture always feels a little disconcerting, where my impression of rabbit-in-headlights comes into play. Nodding along to 'yes, the topic of religion in Victorian literature is fascinating' accompanied by a smile, may not seem totally convincing to you, but could affirm the tutor's hard work was not done in vein and could always convince you to believe it yourself…provoking some 'interesting' essay ideas. Tutors and lecturers are paid for their efforts, granted, however being rude and dismissive could leave a bad impression, and smiling and pleasantry could equally leave an impression, but a more positive, if a little creepy (depending on how you smile) one.
Ever been caught talking to someone you don't have much interest in, but have run out of 'i'm popping to the ladies' get out of jail free cards? Being at university for three years can undoubtedly provide you with situations where you aren't necessarily interested in the city's town hall, or colour scheme of the house in which you are supposedly meant to be 'partying'. Smiling sweetly whilst thinking 'YOU'RE BORING ME TO TEARS' can be a difficult facial expression to perfect. I am certain I have at least once in my life (each week probably) been the notorious conversation starter, dragger, and murderer but it does not mean I am exempt from being on the other end either. Smiling nicely and nodding with a vacant expression= they think you're interested and continue. Perhaps in this situation a simple 'sorry, I must go and say hello to my friend over there quickly, i'll be right back' will suffice, and save you any boredom tears.
Whilst this guide is not condoning two-faced behaviour, think of it as a little boost to keep your polite, friendly nature up the way it should be. If you find yourself on the receiving end of this a lot then perhaps you are too nice, patient and smiley? Try folding your arms, looking at the floor and picking your conversations wisely. A smile won't lose you friends, but it could always gain potential connections, and maintain your reputation as 'mr/mrs nice guy', if you've got the patience to read to the end of this article then I am certain you have the patience to keep up that smile in dire situations…after all, we all do it.


I developed this short list of biblical names for God for our youth ministry at church. The idea was to first lead our Sunday school students through God's identity and then eventually lead them into God's identity for them.
Of course, there are two potential sources for our gleaning our identity in this life. We can believe what the world says about us, or we can believe what God says about us; these are two wildly different things.
Since we were made in His image, there is great merit in growing in understanding our Holy Father.
I hope you can use this free PDF handout for your church's next Sunday school!
Being that the scanned copy of the 1815 edition was rough, smudged and cut off in places, I felt compelled to send it out for transcription into this cleaner, digitized format. When the transcription came back, it too needed work, and so I was blessed with the opportunity to groom this edition line by line. An intimate process, to be sure!
Through this effort, I have come across several typographical errors and places where modern spelling conventions scream for correction, however I have chosen to leave most of these events untouched. These errors were not a result of the transcription process, but were actually found in the 1815 edition itself. My desire is to leave you with a very true copy of that edition, right down to the page separations and Roman numerals.
Having invested time into studying the work of A.B. Simpson, I recognize him as being a man who understood the character of our Creator better than most. If Simpson points to "A Guide to True Peace" as one of the most influential writings in his spiritual walk, you can be sure it offers priceless insight for you as well.
Our holy Father calls us back from the Fall into deeper relationship with Him. As in our natural relationships, part of growing in relationship with someone is gaining clear understanding into who they are; their character.
There are favorite tactics the Enemy employs to lead us astray. In the garden, He attacked God's Word (Genesis 3:4, "You will surely not die..") In Job 1:11, the Accuser admonishes God and accuses Job of fair-weather faith ("But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.") Here, Satan attacks the character of both God and mankind.
This completely refutes the common, errant belief that God is in control of everything. Indeed, the powers of darkness were given jurisdiction over this world through the lie of Satan and the selfishness of Adam and Eve when they took their eyes off God and placed them upon the fruit of this world (Genesis 3:16-19).
there would be no reason for you to be given authority (Matthew 28:18), a sword or the armor of God (Ephesians 6:13).
Did God give Satan permission to attack Job?
Some pastors preach if you believe God gave Satan permission to attack Job, you will believe God ordains all sickness, death and loss. Jesus clearly stated the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy and that He came to give life and life abundant (John 10:10). Believing God ordained all your sickness, the untimely death of a loved one, or other loss is certainly error. It sets you up for an estranged relationship with your Heavenly Father and a walk with no authority; just what the Enemy wants. However, the Bible teaches us the storms come to the wise and the foolish alike (Matthew 7:24-27). Your walk as a believer will not be trouble-free. Christ's promise to us is for a peace that transcends all understanding if we keep our minds and hearts on Him (Philippians 4:7).
Yes, God lifted the hedge of protection around Job after drawing Satan's attention to Job in the first place.
If Satan rules this world and God is not to blame for our disease, losses and calamity, how do we reconcile the following verses?
God held divine intention for Job's example to be immortalized in Scripture for the development of future believers.
Here, "temptation" is the same word as "test" in the Greek. If read with this understanding, it is not simply the test of temptation to our fleshly desires, but also the tests of a distracting and corrupting natural world, false understanding and tests through physical adversity and loss.
Are all tests and trials from Satan? No. This brings us back to reaping and sowing and false thinking. So not all tribulation is from the devil, but still, what about protection and Satan's agency? Does God lower the hedge to test our hearts?
Doesn't God promise to protect us?
So, how does this work? Does God actually employ or allow Satan to test us through trials? Does He remove protection around us to allow in these attacks? Yes, God even has made a covenant of protection with those who walk with him in Psalm 91. Surely this protection is not completely removed all at once, just as Job's account illustrates (Job 1:10). Otherwise, Satan would sweep us all to the grave before we could grow one more moment in the Lord!
Do our chances for testing rise and fall with the righteousness of our walk? Adam and Eve were seduced in the garden. They possibly walked in the closest proximity with God of anyone until Christ and still fell to their own desires through a simple lie. If you live for the flesh, you will set your heart upon the flesh (Romans 8:5-17).
During his ordeal, Job did not see why God allowed his misfortune, however if we look at the result, he and his friends grew in their knowledge of God's character as a result of Job's trials. God is much more interested in your spiritual development than He is your material well-being.
Wasn't it God that struck Job?
Was it "the fire of God" (Job 1:16) that burned up Job's flocks and servants? No, God did not stretch forth His hand and burn up Job's flocks in a lightning storm; Satan did. Well then, what about in Job 2:3 where God says Satan moved God against Job to "destroy him without cause." Does Satan have influence over our Father? No. Just as with the crucifixion of our Lord, Satan blindly plays right into God's plan here in Job. As God says, "Have you considered my servant, Job?" God draws Satan's attention onto the subject of the next test. In Satan's rabid distaste for humanity, he charges headlong after the bait and by the end of the story, Job has been magnified.
Is Satan a fool to participate in our downfall then?
Unfortunately not. If his fiery darts often derail and distract the most dedicated Christians, imagine his success with those who are in the world and have not sought to be set apart from it. As illustrated in 1 Peter 5:8, Satan prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Every now and again, a Christian may resist the Enemy and win a victory, but as the Accuser, suffice it to say Satan already has a low opinion of our character. This is why it is so important for us to grow in our identity as sons and daughters, made in His image!
Consider the butterfly for a moment. In the cocoon, the caterpillar dies, its insides literally turning to soup. Over the next few weeks, a new creature is established. This new life is a completely different design, even down to what it will consume for fuel. During the butterfly's birth, the cocoon itself serves a final purpose. If a butterfly is freed from its cocoon thereby avoiding the struggle to emerge, the fluid in its body will never be pushed into its wings to straighten them. Without the use of its wings, the butterfly cannot take flight and will die.
Could this not be an eye-catching clue from the Divine Artist who spoke the cosmos into existence and who paints in light and sound and consciousness? How are we to learn to live in faith if we never have our faith tested? If Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He met with adversity (from Satan, nature and mankind,) can't we expect to as well? Does not a seed have to die in order for a great tree to be born? Are we not called to die to self daily, in order to be grown up in Him?
Often we are guilty of thinking of ourselves and others as the bodies we wear, but Genesis is very clear: we were created in His image. We know from John 4:24, God is spirit. Then so we are too. The Father restores us to the full realization of our true, pre-Fallen identity through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Without tests and adversity in our lives, what reason would we have to grow? With trial, we have the chance to press into Him and His Word (which He honors above all, Psalm 138:2,) through faith and belief in love. When faced with trial then, we keep our eyes on Him and His promises. Our natural minds will want to argue as we bump our heads on the ceiling of our faith but we are called to a higher faith. That faith works miracles, heals all sickness and overcomes death itself. As the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45,) Jesus has come to show us our true identity in the Father. He calls us away from the lies and distraction of the natural world and into life through union with the Holy Spirit.
This is about where I'm landing for now on the sovereignty of God. I think there are still some holes in my understanding on this topic, so if you can help fill them in, I encourage you to comment below.
Okay, wow. It's been a couple months. Where do I start? It has been such an amazing journey at this point. I would say I can't even tell you, but I'm going to try to do it anyways.
There's this weight bench, right? It's kind of a big thing.. pulleys.. and it's got 200 lbs worth of plates over here.. you've got the bench press.. you've got a leg press. It's one BIG unit. It's been down in our basement. Well, we had our basement flood last summer. That ended up with us getting all new flooring, all across the entire basement which was—thank you Lord—that was fantastic. It was a little bit of work on our part, little bit of money on our part, but essentially, we got our basement re-floored and painted.
As all of that was happening, we ended up trying to get rid of this weight bench. I hadn't used it in over a year (since I began my meditation practice, really, and then I was doing free-weights prior to that.) The thing sat there in the basement, in pieces, for months. I had put out a couple ads on Craigslist, and—nothing.
A couple days go by. I finally get the text saying, "Yeah, I think there are bolts missing." I'm like, "All right. Where are the bolts missing?" The husband described the place that we thought maybe bolts were missing. I looked up the operations manual, found the size of the bolts, went to Home Depot, bought the bolts, and then coordinated with him to drive out during a weekday, and help him put this thing together.
What ends up happening next? We have this great sharing of spiritual journeys, and he's got an amazing story. I'll let him tell it at some point in the future. I'm not going to steal that thunder.
It was amazing to me.
Oh, but there's more. I'm going to stop here though. I have more to tell you about. This story gets even deeper. In my next post, I'll be talking about regeneration, salvation—all sorts of stuff—you know, like renouncing yoga. Stay tuned.


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Q: Plotting two graphs that share an x-axis in matplotlib I have to plot 2 graphs in a single screen. The x-axis remains the same but the y-axis should be different.
How can I do that in 'matplotlib'?

A: subplot will let you plot more than one figure on the same canvas. See the example on the linked documentation page.
There is an example of a shared axis plot in the examples directory, called shared_axis_demo.py:
from pylab import *

t = arange(0.01, 5.0, 0.01)
s1 = sin(2*pi*t)
s2 = exp(-t)
s3 = sin(4*pi*t)
ax1 = subplot(311)
plot(t,s1)
setp( ax1.get_xticklabels(), fontsize=6)

## share x only
ax2 = subplot(312, sharex=ax1)
plot(t, s2)
# make these tick labels invisible
setp( ax2.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)

# share x and y
ax3 = subplot(313,  sharex=ax1, sharey=ax1)
plot(t, s3)
xlim(0.01,5.0)
show()

A: twinx is the function you're looking for; here's an example of how to use it.


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Articles from the June 7, 2020 edition
By Peter Stein - Staff writer News June 7, 2020
Protesters: 'Too much racism'
CLOVIS - The chants and the signs and the honking car horns will not magically bring George Floyd back to life. The purpose was to keep his memory alive. Hundreds of area residents on Friday came out...
By Kevin Wilson - Staff News June 7, 2020
Only one contested incumbent gets chance to retain seat
With only four contested Republican races overall, the primary season was not that difficult for most of the incumbents in Curry and Roosevelt counties. The ones in contested primaries, however, saw a slightly different story in the Tuesday...
Events calendar - June 7
Monday • Virtual Town Hall — Resources for Reopening New Mexico Businesses — 2-3 p.m., via Zoom. Hosted by Economic Development Department, New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, New Mexico Environment Department, and New Mexico Small...
Meetings calendar - June 7
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Monday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Attendance is strictly limited due to Covid-19 restrictions....
Unofficial primary election results
Election results From Curry, Roosevelt counties Votes indicate Curry County votes, followed by Roosevelt County votes. Totals marked with a * indicate the race was not on that county's ballot. If a contested race involves counties other than Curry...
By David Stevens - Staff Voices June 7, 2020
Opinion: Restrictions lifted; virus decisions ours
Let us make our own decisions, we said. We can be responsible, we said. And so, just in time for Memorial Day weekend, after two months with much of the state, as well as the nation, in government lockdown, we were essentially freed to do what we...
By Rich Lowry Voices June 7, 2020
Opinion: Burning, looting never defensible
Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn't had since the late 1960s or early 1970s. Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty...
By Michael Reagan Voices June 7, 2020
Opinion: Dems have failed to police the police
OK, protesters, we get it. You were angry, sickened and sad about the cold-blooded killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Who do you know who wasn't? Tens of thousands...
Voices June 7, 2020
Opinion: Babbitt's river plan doesn't go far enough
Each spring, the acequias in New Mexico carry cold, clear snowmelt to freshly furrowed fields on small farms. The centuries-old irrigation culture is recognized in state law and supported by strong communities. These farms often come to mind when we...
Letter to the editor - June 7
Wear masks for others' sakes My wife and I are business owners in Tucumcari and are in a higher risk category for the virus. We have not ventured out for shopping other than our local grocery store since mid-March. But we like to frequent Clovis...
Opinion: Listen to the voices of black Americans
I recently wrote about the importance of really listening to what black and brown Americans are trying to tell us as they've taken to the streets — propelled by generations of anger and sadness — to call for the same treatment and access to...
By Carlsbad Current-Argus News June 7, 2020
Former state rep wins GOP bid for 2nd Congressional District
The New Mexico Republican Party hoped to unite behind former-State Rep. Yvette Herrell in her bid to take back the state's 2nd Congressional District for the GOP, after Herrell decisively won the nomination in Tuesday's primary election. The...
By Albuquerque Journal News June 7, 2020
Former meteorologist wins primary race for U.S. Senate seat
SANTA FE — Former television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti of Albuquerque won the three-way Republican primary race for an open U.S. Senate seat, based on unofficial results. Ronchetti received more than 60% of the votes cast by GOP voters, easily...
By the Staff of The News News June 7, 2020
Roosevelt changing text alert service
PORTALES — Roosevelt County is switching to a new service for emergency mass notification alerts, according to a message from the city of Portales. Hyper-Reach will replace CodeRED on July 25 for voice calls, texts and email notifications. Anybody...
Three lanes of traffic to be closed
CLOVIS — Three lanes of traffic at the intersection of Seventh Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will be closed Monday to allow for fiber optic installation, according to a city news release. Elite Communications of Los Lunas plans to...
Pages past - June 7
On this date ... 1985: Clovis zoo Director Chuck Longo withdrew his resignation from three days earlier. Longo had been unhappy with funding for the city zoo, but said he decided to stay because so many people in the community had rallied to support...
By Karl Terry Lifestyles June 7, 2020
Opinion: Keeping an eye on my lawn
Normally this time of year I'm scrambling to get a Chamber event put together on the grass in the park. Instead I'm trying to make grass grow back in my front yard. A few years ago we had severe...
By Sheryl Borden Lifestyles June 7, 2020
Opinion: Tote bags, pet health ahead on show
Information on making totebags, improving pet health and making gazpacho will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Hilarie Dayton...
Lifestyles June 7, 2020
Senior menus - June 7
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 Monday: Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, seasoned green beans, dinner roll, w/margarine, spiced apples Tuesday: BBQ riblet, mac and cheese, seasoned peas,...
On the shelves - June 7
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: "Overcoming Obstacles: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Beating Adversity and Finding Success" by Don Mann features practical advice, inspirational quotes, engaging...
By David Stevens - Staff News June 7, 2020
Group says mission to defend citizens and their property
CLOVIS - They call themselves the New Mexico Civil Guard for Curry County. Their stated mission: Defend citizens and their private property. "We will not allow businesses in our community to be put...
'Boogaloo' supporter: It's about freedom for all
The Hawaiian shirt O'Rion Petty wears as a member of the New Mexico Civil Guard is not a coincidence. He supports the "boogaloo," an anti-government movement that Fox News and others have described as "on the verge of a second civil war....
Clovis notified of award for final phase of effluent pipeline
CLOVIS — When it comes to effluent water, the city of Clovis may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel — or rather, pipeline. City Manager Justin Howalt notified the Clovis City Commission of a $4.371 million award from the New Mexico...
By Peter Stein News June 7, 2020
New order: Mourners permitted to gather in churches
A new public health order has allowed mourners to come inside houses of worships for funeral services. But social distancing is still imperative. Churches in general are mandated to go no higher than 25 percent capacity. "Funerals are pretty much...
Curry to discuss fate of fair entertainment
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will look at what could be considered the entertainment portion of the Curry County Fair during its Wednesday morning meeting. The 9 a.m. meeting at the Curry County Administrative Complex was primarily schedule...
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Leeds and Watford call off Stephen's Day fixtures due to Covid outbreaks
Date: December 24, 2021, 20:00
Coronavirus has accounted for two Premier League games on St Stephen's Day as the football schedule continues to be affected by the pandemic.
Just four of the scheduled 10 games were possible in the top flight last weekend as cases rise, with Liverpool's clash with Leeds and Watford's trip to Wolves now washed off the Boxing Day schedule.
With a meeting of Premier League managers and players to discuss coronavirus issues planned for Thursday, the league met earlier in the day and approved the requests from Leeds and Watford to postpone the games.
In a statement, the Premier League said: "The League aims to provide as much clarity as possible but unfortunately postponements sometimes have to be made at short notice, as safety is the priority.
"The League will endeavour to keep supporters updated if games become at risk on a matchday.
"The board concluded that Leeds United will not be able to fulfil their fixture this weekend due to the number of players with Covid-19, injuries and illness.
"The club's training ground has also been closed after consultation with the UK Health Security Agency and the Premier League."
The statement continued: "Watford FC continue to have an insufficient number of players to field a team after their game against Crystal Palace FC last Saturday was postponed following a Covid-19 outbreak.
"Due to players coming out of isolation, it is fully expected Watford will be available for their fixture on Tuesday 28 December against West Ham United."
The PA news agency understands Leeds' game with Aston Villa on December 28th is likely to be under review.
Postponements are not limited to the Premier League, with Preston's game with Sheffield United in the Championship the latest in a growing line of EFL games to fall.
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Meninga says Fifita still in RLWC plans
Critics believe Andrew Fifita has not done enough since State of Origin but Australia coach Mal Meninga believes the maligned NSW prop is trying too hard.
Meninga says Fifita is still in his 2017 World Cup plans despite a perceived form lapse since his match-winning heroics in NSW's record Origin I win in May.
Fifita will hope to regain his NRL spark in defending premiers Cronulla's clash with an injury-hit North Queensland in Townsville on Saturday.
Cronulla have lost four of their past seven games, leaving their top-four hopes in limbo with three rounds to play.
Meninga says Fifita is not the only NSW player to suffer a post-Origin slump and denies the barnstorming prop had played himself out of World Cup favour.
"Not at all. I think a lot of players have struggled after Origin to be honest with you," he told Fox Sports' Queenslanders Only.
"Andrew might be trying too hard. You see footage of him dropping the footy and he is just dirty with himself and that is a good sign in my opinion.
"But there was a lull after Origin particularly for the NSW players. That self-belief and confidence has been damaged a little bit.
"Leading into finals they will find a way to get back into form.
"They are not playing poorly but they are not where they should be, but Andrew is a great player."
Fifita was confident the looming finals would bring out his best.
"It's about leading my team now," he said.
"It's time for myself and a few of the other boys in this team to start standing up.
"It's the best time of year. I missed out one year (2014) in a finals series ... It was the worst. I never want to miss a finals series ever again."
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