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Q: How do I check if a cell only contains characters from a specific list? I'm trying to do a check on a data column to see if its rows only contain specific characters. The characters in question are 0-9 and /. If only those are present, an OK should be returned, otherwise an error (or 1 and 0, anything distinguishable is fine). It should basically look like this (bold column):

I had limited success with MATCH and VLOOKUP but nothing that employs a range. A formula would be preferred but VBA's cool too. Any ideas?

A: With a formula (in B1 and copied down if 12 is in A1):
=IF(ISNUMBER(VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",""))),"OK","ERROR")

Adding in exclusion of . makes it a bit longer:
=IF(AND(ISERROR(FIND(".",A1)),ISNUMBER(VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/","")))),"OK","ERROR")

A: For a  formula approach, the following array-entered formula will return TRUE or FALSE depending on the presence of non-allowed characters.  To confirm the formula, hold down ctrl-shift while hitting enter and Excel will place braces {...} around the formula.
=AND(CODE(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1))>=47,CODE(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1))<=57)

You can use this as logical_test in an IF function to return whatever you want.

A: Give this UDF() a try:
Public Function CellTest(sIn As Variant) As String
    Dim L As Long, i As Long, CH As String
    L = Len(sIn)

    For i = 1 To L
        CH = Mid(sIn, i, 1)
        If IsNumeric(CH) Or CH = "/" Then
        Else
            CellTest = "No Good"
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next i

    CellTest = "Good"
End Function

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19 year old Ellie McKeating from Milngavie, near Glasgow was crowned Miss Scotland 2014 on May 1. She wowed the judges, celebrities and crowd at the glitzy ceremony in Glasgow.
Ellie will represent Scotland in the Miss World 2014 in November.
Nathalie Hill was the 1st run-up and Claire Louis Fergus was the 2nd run-up.


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There are two other circumstances in which the Special Counsel may refer a case to the head of an agency.
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In these exceptional cases, the Special Counsel has the discretion to transmit the information provided by the whistleblower to the head of the relevant agency. In such a case, the whistleblower would be informed of this action by the Special Counsel. The agency head is then required to inform OSC in writing, within a reasonable time, what action has been or will be taken, and when such action will be completed.


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Nato forces bolster Afghan troops against Taleban in Kunduz
Afghan security personnel keeping watch as heavy fighting erupted near the airport on the outskirts of Kunduz. Heavy fighting erupted near the airport on the city's outskirts as the insurgents closed in late on Sept 29, highlighting the potent challenge the militants represent after their lightning capture of Kunduz the previous day.PHOTO: AFP
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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AFP) - Nato said on Wednesday (Sept 30) its special forces have reached Kunduz to support Afghan troops after the Taleban seized the northern city, repelled a counter-attack and advanced on the airport to shore up their biggest victory in 14 years.
Heavy fighting was underway near the outlying airport as the insurgents closed in on it, highlighting the potent challenge they represent after their lightning capture of Kunduz.
The Taleban's occupation of Kunduz - now in its third day - raises troubling questions about the capabilities of Afghan forces as they battle militants largely on their own after Nato's combat mission ended last December.
The Afghan army was supposed to be bolstered by its own reinforcements for the campaign to retake Kunduz, but attacks on convoys making their way to the city meant that back-up troops were only trickling in.
"The Taleban have laid landmines and booby traps around Kunduz, slowing the movement of convoys of Afghan army reinforcements driving to the city," an Afghan security official told AFP.
Nato said the foreign special forces have reached Kunduz and US forces have conducted three air strikes around the city since Tuesday to support the Afghan troops.
The forces are comprised of US, British and German troops, a Western military source told AFP on condition of anonymity, without specifying the number.
The Afghan spy agency said the overnight strikes killed Mawlawi Salam, the Taleban's "shadow governor" for the province, along with his deputy and 15 other fighters.
But the fall of the provincial capital, which sent panicked residents fleeing, has dealt a major blow to the Afghan military and highlighted the insurgency's potential to expand beyond its rural strongholds.
The Afghan security official said the militants had slowly infiltrated Kunduz during the recent Eid festival, launching a Trojan horse attack that enabled them to capture the city within hours.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the fall of the city on Monday - achieved by a militant force significantly smaller than the army contingent - was "obviously" a setback but that the US believed Afghan authorities would be able to regain control.
Cook added he was "not sure it reflects any new assessment of the Taleban at this point", but many analysts view the events as a game-changer for a group which many had believed was fraying.
Precise losses in the fighting were not known, but the Afghan health ministry said hospitals in Kunduz had so far received 30 bodies and more than 200 wounded people.
Despite the counter-strike Kunduz remained largely under Taleban control - the first major urban centre in their grip since they were toppled from national power in 2001.
Insurgents showed off seized tanks and armoured cars, chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and promising to enforce Islamic sharia law, a Taleban video showed.
The defence ministry said the police headquarters and city prison had been retaken, after marauding insurgents freed hundreds of prisoners, including some Taleban commanders.
But several other government facilities, including a 200-bed local hospital, were still under Taleban control.
President Ashraf Ghani in a televised speech said the Taleban were using civilians as human shields.
Amnesty International said the Taleban were exposing civilians to grave danger by "hiding in people's houses and conducting door-to-door searches for Afghan security personnel or government staff".
"We are scared of leaving our homes, scared of being beaten by the Taleban," said Sadiqa Sherza, head of Roshani Radio, a Kunduz media network focused on women's issues.
"There's no electricity, no water, and ration shops are all closed," she said, adding that insurgents had burned down the radio station.
Afghan military forces, "despite their many improvements in recent years, remain a work in progress", said Michael Kugelman, Afghanistan expert at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
"And given the extent of the Taleban threat, work in progress isn't good enough."
The fall of the city coincides with the first anniversary of President Ghani's national unity government coming to power.
It will boost the image of new Taleban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour as he tries to distract attention from internal rifts over his leadership.
Kunduz province, which borders Tajikistan and is a major transport hub for the north of the country, could offer the Taleban an important new base of operations beyond their traditional southern strongholds.
"In the long run, we may not be able to retain control but this victory will dispel the Afghan government's belief that we are strong only in areas bordering Pakistan," a prominent Taleban commander told AFP on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.
The Islamist group has been largely absent from cities since being driven from power by the US and its allies, but has maintained an often brutal rule over swathes of the countryside.
It has stepped up attacks during a summer offensive launched in late April against the Western-backed government in Kabul.
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Q: Boost interprocess lib lib performance issue with named mutex Is there a konwn issue with boost interprocess lib with named mutex, boost version 1.36.
Basically we do:
#define BT_MY_LOCK "XX_BT_MY_LOCK_XX"
#define WAIT_LOCK named_mutex myLock(open_or_create, BT_TICKET_LIB_LOCK);   \
boost::posix_time::ptime expire_time = microsec_clock::universal_time() + boost::posix_time::seconds(2);    \
scoped_lock<named_mutex> lock(ticketLock, expire_time); \
if (!lock.owns()) throw mutex_failure();

Then we use this macro whenever we need.
But this seems to have caused the a lot uncessary C:\ folder open & close activity whenever boost try to create the XX_BT_MY_LOCK_XX file under temp folder under C:\ drive. It seems like for each useufl XX_BT_MY_LOCK_XX file acess, there are about 25ish C:\ Open , Close.
So it looks like from promon:
XX_BT_MY_LOCK_XX access 1
XX_BT_MY_LOCK_XX access 2
C:\ open
C:\ close
C:\ open
C:\ close
...
repeat 25 times
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I am just wondering is the a known boost issue ?


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Morgan Stanley's 16,000 Human Brokers Get Algorithmic Makeover
The best hope human advisers have against robots is to harness the same technologies that threaten their disruption: algorithms combined with big data and machine learning.
By Hugh Son
(Bloomberg) --Call them cyborgs. Morgan Stanley is about to augment its 16,000 financial advisers with machine-learning algorithms that suggest trades, take over routine tasks and send reminders when your birthday is near.
The project, known internally as "next best action," shows how one of the world's biggest brokerages aims to upgrade its workforce while a growing number of firms roll out fully automated platforms called robo-advisers. The thinking is that humans with algorithmic assistants will be a better solution for wealthy families than mere software allocating assets for the masses.
At Morgan Stanley, algorithms will send employees multiple-choice recommendations based on things like market changes and events in a client's life, according to Jeff McMillan, chief analytics and data officer for the bank's wealth-management division. Phone, email and website interactions will be cataloged so machine-learning programs can track and improve their suggestions over time to generate more business with customers, he said.
"We're desperately trying to pattern you and your behavior to delight you with something you may not have even been asking for, but based on what you have been doing, that you might find of value," McMillan said in an interview. "We're not trying to sell you, we're trying to find the things you want and need."
Faced with competition from cheaper automated wealth-management services and higher expectations set by pioneering firms like Uber Technologies Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., traditional brokerages are starting to chart out their digital future. It turns out that the best hope human advisers have against robots is to harness the same technologies that threaten their disruption: algorithms combined with big data and machine learning.
The idea is that advisers, who typically build relationships with hundreds of clients over decades, face an overwhelming amount of information about markets and the lives of their wealthy wards. New York-based Morgan Stanley is seeking to give humans an edge by prodding them to engage at just the right moments.
"Technology can help them understand what's happening in their book of business and what's happening with their clients, whether it be considering a mortgage, to dealing with the death of a parent, to buying IBM," McMillan said. "We take all of that and score them on the benefit that will accrue to the client and the likelihood they will transact."
Morgan Stanley will pilot the program with 500 advisers in July and expects to roll it out to all of them by year-end.
Additional high-tech tools are coming: McMillan and others are working on an artificial intelligence assistant -- think Siri for brokers -- that can answer questions by sifting the firm's mountain of research. (The bank produces 80,000 research reports a year.) The brokerage also is automating paper-heavy processes like wire transfers and creating a digital repository of client documents, such as wills and tax returns. Established advisers tend to be older, so Morgan Stanley is hiring associates to train those who need help.
The technology means that for the first time in decades, the balance of power between financial advisers and their employers may shift. For years, top advisers could command multimillion-dollar bonuses by jumping to a competitor. That slowed to a crawl this year because of regulatory changes, and now the technological push will further the trend, according to Kendra Thompson, a managing director at Accenture Plc.
Bonuses Obsolete
Backed by a firm's algorithms, "advisers are going to be part of a value proposition, rather than the service conduit for the industry," Thompson said. "The cutting of the bonus check, it's nearly over."
Morgan Stanley isn't swearing off robo-advisers, either. It plans to release one in coming months, along with rivals Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. The technology was pioneered by startups Wealthfront Inc. and Betterment LLC and went mainstream at discount brokers Charles Schwab Corp. and Vanguard Group Inc. Robos could have $6.5 trillion under management by 2025, from about $100 billion in 2016, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.
An in-house robo-adviser and a learning machine that acquaints itself with rich clients might alarm advisers who plan to keep working for decades. McMillan is adamant that the flesh-and-blood broker will be needed for years to come because the wealthy have complicated financial planning needs that are best met by human experts.
"When I talk to financial advisers, they're always like, 'Is this going to put me out of business?'" he said. "That's always the big elephant in the room. I can tell you factually that we are a long ways away from that."
To contact the reporter on this story: Hugh Son in New York at [email protected] To contact the editors responsible for this story: Peter Eichenbaum at [email protected] David Scheer, Dan Reichl
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Bikya consists of three members. Mahmoud Refat, Maurice Louca and Mahmoud Waly.
their music consists of a mixture of acoustic\electronic instruments. The mixture of different musical backgrounds of the three members has created a concrete vision of electronic music of their age.
This fall will also see the release of an eight-track compilation album created by seven Egyptian females working the sonic field of experimental and noise music. For years now, Asmaa Azzouz, Shorouk El Zomor, Hala Abu Shady, Jakqueline George, Nina El Gebarly, Ola Saad, and Yara Mekawi have been collectively and individually intertwined within the world of sound art, noise, and experimental music.
Hassan Khan works with image, music, sound, text and concept. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.
Refat is a sound artist, musician, producer whose work has been released on CD, performed live and installed in spaces.
Refat is the founder of 100COPIES MUCIS / Cairo record company & 100LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL that is based and located in Cairo/Egypt.
Maurice Louca was born in Cairo were he lives and works as a musician.
Maurice co-founded and is part of the band Bikya . He has composed and preformed live the original sound track for Sherif el Azma's Video/Lecture, Psycho Geography of Loose Associations, part of Meeting Points 5 . Over the last couple of years he has performed his live sets Passage 35 and Flood lights, leading him up to his latest studio work Garraya which is due for release January 2011 by the music label 100copies.
Nermine El ansari was born in 1975. She lives and works as a visual artist in Cairo, Egypt. In 1998 she received her diploma from the fine art school of Versailles ( France ) in painting. In 2002 she graduated from "Ecole Nationale Sup\'8erieure des Beaux Arts"in Paris, in multimedia. She got a scholarship for an exchange in the"Instituto Superior de Arte"in Havana,Cuba(2001). She participated in workshops, in the Ivory Coast, in Lebanon, in Taiwan and in Germany.
Her work has been presented in various exhibitions.
ReTune Studio is a sub-label of 100Copies specializing in alternative, urban music in with special emphasis in the genres of hip-hop, sha'bi, and electronic or digital music. Make sure to check the Facebook or website for more information about upcoming album releases and events.
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since 2000 he works as a sound, visual and acoustic artist.
zimoun's works range from visual arts to installations, performance, music, compositions and areas related to all of the above. he focusses on research of space, structure, form and empty space, but also on the cautious handling of materials, working with day-to-day phenomena and occurrences.
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This will be Leo's 6th season and Lizzie's 3rd in the nest box. They have successfully fledged all 8 of their owlets together!
The Eastern Screech-Owl is found wherever trees are, and they're even willing to nest in backyard nest boxes. These supremely camouflaged birds hide out in nooks and tree crannies through the day, so train your ears and listen for them at night.
Smaller birds can help you find screech-owls during the day. Listen for a commotion of Blue Jays, chickadees, and titmice—they may be mobbing a screech-owl (or other raptor), swooping around it with noisy calls. This can be enough of a nuisance to make the owl move on, and it alerts other birds to the predator's presence and teaches younger members of the flock about the danger.
Screech-owls regurgitate the bones, fur, and feathers of their prey in an oval pellet, usually once or twice a day. The ground beneath habitual owl roosts can be littered with pellets, and you can learn a lot from them about the owl's diet. However, data from pellets may underestimate the number of soft-bodied animals, like worms and insects, the owl has eaten.
Eastern Screech-Owls of the suburbs may fledge more young than their rural counterparts, probably because their predators are scarcer in the suburbs.
The Eastern Screech-Owl is known to eat a variety of songbirds, including the European Starling. Despite this fact, the starling regularly displaces the owl from nesting sites and takes over the hole to raise its own brood.
Nestling screech-owls fight fiercely among themselves for food, and sometimes even kill their smallest sibling. This behavior, known as siblicide, is not uncommon among birds such as hawks, owls, and herons, and is often a result of poor breeding conditions in a given year.
April 3, 2019 - First & Second hatch: "Wonder Woman" & "Bruce Wayne"
April 4, 2019 - Third hatch: "Shazam"
April 5, 2019 - Fourth hatch: "Groot"
April 10, 2019 - Fifth hatch: "Ant Man"
April 13, 2019 - Sixth hatch: "Storm"
The egg appears to have been laid during the late hours between the 7th and 8th.


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La Repubblica di Staryj Bujan () fu un movimento separatista di breve durata nel governatorato di Samara, nella Russia imperiale durante la rivoluzione del 1905.

Origini
La culla della rivolta fu il villaggio di Novaja Čarevščina, che era stato infiltrato dai populisti sin dagli anni 1880; molti di essi sarebbero poi divenuti i leader della futura repubblica. Nel 1902, i maestri ed il dottore del villaggio formarono un club rivoluzionario dei contadini, che cominciò ad essere specialmente attivo nel tardo 1904; circa nello stesso periodo giunse a Samara il rivoluzionario S.I. Akramovskij, che vi organizzò l'"Unione dei contadini".

Agli inizi del 1905 cominciarono ad arrivare nel governatorato di Samara membri del Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario e poco dopo, in estate, cominciarono ad incitare i contadini a radunarsi e dimostrare. Verso l'autunno queste manifestazioni si accrebbero notevolmente, con i contadini che arrivarono persino a formare una propria milizia alla fine di ottobre. Presto dimostrazioni simili, con slogan come "via dall'autocrazia" (in russo: Долой самодержавие) avvennero a Staryj Buyan, dove la polizia locale si rifiutò di ristabilire l'ordine.

Rivolta ed indipendenza
Ai primi di novembre, le autorità del governatorato mandarono i loro rappresentanti a Staryj Burjan per scegliere i nuovi anziani del villaggio ma, al posto della cerimonia di routine, vennero accolti da circa 200 abitanti armati provenienti da Novaja Čarevščina. Nell'assemblea conseguentemente indetta, essi votarono per espellere i rappresentanti imperiali, formare una milizia popolare al fine di sorvegliare le foreste (che erano un'importante fonte di reddito) ed instaurare una repubblica di contadini, separandosi dall'Impero. Il nuovo governo emise una "legge provvisoria" e cominciò a confiscare la terra ai padroni terrieri ed a redistribuirla equamente tra i contadini.

Soppressione della rivolta e conseguenze
I primi tentativi della polizia e delle guardie di soffocare la rivolta furono respinti, le autorità quindi decisero di dispiegare una speciale spedizione punitiva guidata dal vice governatore, composta da cosacchi e gendarmi.
Il 26 novembre 1905 la repubblica di Staryj Bujan venne annientata ed i suoi leader e partecipanti attivi vennero arrestati e condannati, ma gli effetti della ribellione furono di vasta portata, visto che la "legge provvisoria" si sparse tra le comunità di contadini dell'impero e contribuì ad incoraggiare ulteriori violenze.

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Rivoluzione russa

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Security Council resolution 1461 (2003) The situation in the Middle East
Security Council resolution 1460 (2003) Children and armed conflict
Security Council resolution 1459 (2003) Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
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Q: Deep Clone of List with out, where T is IClonable I have the below class for generating Hierarchy Tree structure
public class DynaTreeNode
{
    #region---Property---
    public string title { get; set; }
    public string key { get; set; }
    public object icon { get; set; }
    List<DynaTreeNode> _children = new List<DynaTreeNode>();
    public List<DynaTreeNode> children
    {
        get { return _children; }
        set { _children = value; }
    }
}

Also i have a list of DynaTreeNode
List<DynaTreeNode> wholeTree = new List<DynaTreeNode>();//originally from DB

Now i want to clone this List collection into a new List
Todo this I am thinking to use
wholeTree.Select(i => i.Clone()).ToList();

In this case i need to implement IClonable Interface to DynaTreeNode. But the problem is IClonable will not do a deep copy. From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/04/09/49935.aspx
Referred How do I clone a generic list in C#?
This answer also use IClonable.
How can I clone my List with deep copy?.
Note: I want all the children (List) also should get cloned.

A: If performance is not too much of an issue, you can use serialization to implement an general deep cloning approach (e.g., see this question, this question, this question, or have a look at this article).
If this is not an option (e.g., due to performance concerns), you'll have to implement a dedicated method to clone your nodes. For instance, your approach
wholeTree.Select(i => i.Clone()).ToList();

is perfectly valid. Your own implementation of the Clone method may of course return a deep clone (ICloneable does not specify whether deep or shallow; this is the reason why many people consider ICloneable harmful)

A: My answer is simple (sorry, i have bad english for hard-answer :))
You may use recursion for select subelements.
You need write function which will be call self and return subelements


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from Dundee to the world
My back pages…..
The other day, challenged by a friend, I looked through a file of prayers and hymns which I had written years back and forgotten to throw out. Amongst much dross, I found a few items that said things I still wanted to say, and that were therefore worth revising.
One of the repeated experiences of my minstries has been the way people treasure the presence of Jesus in their darkest, weakest, most doubtful and most sinful times. This seems to me a treasure specific to faith in Jesus who left a record of his friendship with sick people and sinners and never pretended he could face suffering with a smile. The hymn which I revised and presented here arose from these experiences.
Christ as man of sorrows: Dürer
LORD OF THE SICK AND BROKEN (Tune Moville, CH4: 450)
Lord of the sick and broken
Who shared disabling pain,
Your suffering has spoken:
No cross is borne in vain.
For every wasted body
And every tossed and scattered self
Is planted in your Passion
And harvested for health.
Lord of the dead and dying
Who prayed that you might live
You show us by your crying
What God's love cannot give.
But those who on their journey
In faith and fear walk into night
Are partnered by your passing
And lifted into light.
Lord of the poor and powerless
Who loved the little ones,
You still defy the sourness
Of arrogance and guns.
And all who trust the Servant
Whose wealth was poured put for the least
Are paradised through patience
And share the Father's feast.
Lord of the strong and the evil
Who loved in spite of hate,
You struggled with the Devil
And plundered his estate.
So even Satan's legions
May hide their steel within your side
And pierced by your perfection
Desire what they denied.
Lord of the daft disciples
Who found his friends untrue
Forgive our weak denials
Of comradeship with you.
May all whose trust has faltered
And let your life be sacrificed
Be repossessed by pardon
And recognise the Christ.
If anyone reading this wants to use it for public worship, please do so, simply noting its authorship.l
on October 30, 2018 October 30, 2018 by emmock	2 Comments
terrible parables….
José Saramago who died a few years back, was one of the great modern masters of the parable. Both parables and allegories are stories designed to be recognised as fictional pointers to some greater story, such as the story of a whole society, or the story of God; but whereas an allegory provides a very complete mapping of the greater story – think of Pilgrim's Progress or Animal Farm- a parable only connects with its counterpart as whole story to whole story – think of the Prodigal Son, where Jesus sugggests only the most general likeness to the story of God and humanity (God and the father in the story are both embarrassingly fond of children who mess up). The details of the parable do not need to map on to the details of the bigger story, so Jesus can have fun with a broke Jewish boy surviving by feeding pigs. This freedom to invent novelistic detail does not detract from the parable's function of making at least one bold point about the greater story.
Most of Saramago's novels are parables although they are much longer than any told by Jesus. He uses the freedom of this form to create characters that arouse and retain his readers' sympathy, and plots which are complex enough to keep them turning the pages, while suggesting by means of his narrator's ironic voice, that they should recognise similarities with the story of their own lives in society; for he is above all a social critic, exposing the follies and brutalities of capitalist society.
Take for example "Blindness" his most famous and probably most violent story, which starts off from the absurd premise that everyone in a given society goes blind successively, except one woman. Almost immediately, blind citizens are herded into concentration camps by those who have not yet gone blind. Once all but one are blind, the stronger prey on the weaker as they have learned to do. Those who cannot defend themselves, especially women, are treated with sickening cruelty. The single person with sight finds that her only "benefit" is being able to see what's happening, as she continues to be in a minority of, well, one. Eventually some victims begin to show solidarity with each other, and to think of opposition. Through equally violent actions, rebellion takes place, after which people begin to regain their sight. It is a parable about the blindness of capitalist societies to humanity and justice, and about the necessity of rebellion.
An equally dissident partner parable called "Seeing" explores the chaos which results from all election papers in a General Election being returned blank. It does not present an optimistic picture of democracy.
I have just finished reading his final parable, called The Cave, which of course rests on the famous parable by Plato, according to which prisoners bound in a cave, and unable to turn their heads, can see, on the cave wall, shadows cast by puppet showmen, lit by the flames of a fire, which they accept as reality. Someone escapes amd returns to tell the others that what they think is reality is only shadows, and that real life requires them to throw off their bonds and go up to the real world. His fellow prisoners treat him as an idiot, and it is said, would kill him if they could. In this way Plato describes the plight of most of humanity, who cannot rise to the philosophic vision of goodness, and mistake deceptive shadows for reality.
Saramago's story involves a potter who works in a desolate rural region near The Centre, a huge industrial/ commercial/ social complex which offers accomodation, work and leisure to its inhabitants, while controlling most aspects of their lives, and isolating them from nature, even to the extent of providing artificial nature parks within the complex. The potter, who has been dependent on the Centre which buys his crockery, is told that his produce is not needed any more. He tries along with his daughter to diversify into art, by making figurines, but finds that Centre dwelllers have no interest in them. He and his daughter, who is pregnant, prepare to move into the Centre with his son-in-law who is a security guard there and has been allocated a flat. This involves leaving behind a rescued dog which they have befriended, with a widow woman nearby, for whom the widowed potter has an affection. One night the potter investigates a very secret archeological dig underneath the Centre and comes upon a cave where dead human beings, bound head and foot are placed in front of a wall. Behind them is a walkway, and behind it, the marks of a fire. When he asks himself who they are, he answers, "they are us." He decides to leave, and returns to his pottery, his dog and it turns out, the widow who loves him. Shortly they are joined by his daughter and son-in-law who do not want their child born in the Centre. Together they pack their stuff on the potter's aged van, and set off into the unknown.
The Centre is not shown as exercising any brutality. It provides wisely, "like God" someone says, for its inhabitants, while excluding anything natural or anybody who might have an independent mind. People are not forced to live there, but choose to do so, because it is the future. The characters of the potter, his daughter and son-in-law and the dog, are quietly but tellingly developed, so that the readers can imagine themselves in their shoes. Equally quietly but firmly Saramago makes his point: this modern, capitalist paradise is Plato's Cave, where willing prisoners are sheltered from reality, including the reality of their own exploitation, and give up any desire to face it. The only hope for humanity lies with those who are unwilling.
The parable does not argue, anymore than Jesus argued with the lawyer who wanted him to define the meaning of "neighbour". Saramago's parable is longer than the "Good Samaritan" or "Plato's Cave" but should not be embarrassed by their company.
on October 26, 2018 November 1, 2018 by emmock
Heavenly holidays…..
As the year dips into late autumn, as the leaves fall and the early frosts nip the ungathered apples still on the tree, my mind, like that of a large proportion of my fellow citizens, turns towards the next holiday with its promise of warmth, leisure and self-indulgence. Brochures are scanned, websites inspected, and we know that even if the search is unsuccessful or simply premature because we haven't begun to set aside the necessary moola, the act of looking is itself therapeutic: our dreams of other times and places help us deal with this time and this place. If I can imagine myself climbing through vineyards on a Spanish hillside, I can cope with Dundee on a wet Sunday.
I wonder if the thought of heaven plays a similar role in the lives of believers? Burdened with our own wrongs and those of the world at large, do we take comfort in the thought that one day we shall be elsewhere? Yes, the comfort may be diminished by the fact that we have to die first, but when we are sore and weary that may not bother us overmuch. When the earthly city is oppressive, the city of God is ever more inviting.
Indeed, it seems relevant to enquire whether heaven may not have been invented by human beings precisely for this comfort. Of course, even if we reject that specific reasoning, we have to accept, that like all religious concepts, including gods, heaven has been invented by human beings. I mean that even if religious concepts point towards something real, they have in sober truth been invented by us: our human concerns and prejudices are all over our creations.
In the case of the Christian heaven, much of it was invented by the early and medieval churches, incorporating the Jewish inheritance of Jesus and the Pharisees (who were unique amongst Jewish believers in developing the idea of heaven) together with a pre- modern cosmology according to which heaven is above the earth and hell below. Clearly the resurrection of Jesus had a huge influence on the making of heaven, but the belief in heaven as the rescue of mortal life predates Jesus and his disciples.
In spite of modern cosmology, the popular imagination still holds on to the "Man Upstairs" and the picture of the dear departed "looking down" on the grieving family. But there is often no serious belief in the after-life or in the soul's meeting with its maker: the scenario is pure kitsch, a lighthearted drama that evades the issue of mortality. This heaven is a shallow vision, like a week in Ibiza, that helps people endure what Shakepeare called, "the whips and scorns of time."
The serious believer will rightly protest that I am describing a parody of the Christian hope that trusts in God's grace in Jesus to forgive our sins and save us from death, so that we may glorify God forever. But did serious believers not invent this serious theology in order to depict a serious salvation? It's notable that although Jesus himself believed in resurrection, his language about the kingdom of heaven refers not to an extra- terrestrial realm but rather to the rule of God on earth. He appears, like some of his contemporaries, to have believed in a "world to come" which was a transformation of earth rather than a separate dimension. The "heaven" of Church doctrine, certainly, emerges from Christian reflection on the death and resurrection of Jesus, rather than from his teaching.
Should it therefore be dismissed as a wish- fullfilment that keeps believers walking purposefully on the pilgrimage of life, while preventing them from enjoying the goodness of earthly existence with a whole heart? Intelligent atheists like Bertrand Russell criticise faith as evading both the sorrows and the joys of life, by not understanding how even our dearest joys are based on our mortality. The great American poet, Wallace Stevens in his poem, "Sunday Morning" ridicules the notion of a realm that has no death:
Is there no change of death in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang?
Why set the pear upon those river-banks
Or spice the shores with odors of the plum?
Alas, that they should wear our colors there,
The silken weavings of our afternoons,
And pick the strings of our insipid lutes!
Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
He depicts the conventional heaven as illogical and insipid, while asserting that death is the mother of beauty: the loveliness of a rose or a person arises from our perception that it will not last, nor will we. The beauty of our mothers is that their characterful lives go from us into the realm of death.
I happen to agree with what Stevens says, namely that death is a great and devastating reality which structures all that we think and feel and do. Death is not an enemy to those who have failed to cherish life in themselves and others. In a sense they have always been allies of death. But for those who have truly lived and shared their lives with others, death is an enemy. Robert Graves got it right in a fine poem:
We looked and loved; and therewithal instantly
Death became terrible to you and me
The insult of death is felt most keenly by those who lived most fully:
Wild men, who caught and sang the sun in flight
and learned too late they grieved it on its way,
because their words had forked no lightning, they
Dylan Thomas disagrees with those, like Stevens, who accept death stoically, as just the human condition. Beauty may depend on mortality but we don't need to like this arrangement. Even as an atheist Thomas protests the finality of death:
Though they be mad and dead as nails
heads of the characters hammer through daisies,
break in the sun till the sun breaks down;
and death shall have no dominion.
The New Testament shares some of these attitudes to death:
1.Death is not neglegible; rather it is the real dissolution of human life.
2.It is seen as a destructive "power" IN human life, as for example, in disease and violence.
3.It is nevertheless defeated by Jesus' faithfulness unto death to God and humanity, and God's faithfulness to Jesus in death, by which he is made alive with the living God.
You may ask how point 1 relates to point 3. If God offers resurrection, how can death still be seen as a real dissolution of life?
The answer is that particularly for those who live in this world in the power of Jesus' resurrection, and know even in their sorrows how splendid life can be, death remains a bitter ending. Nothing of their human selves survives death, as life beyond death is a new life with God, an unimaginable transformation, which leaves even the dearest of their relationships behind. Jesus taught that there was no marriage in heaven as "they will be like angels." Death therefore continues to be a a dark conclusion, even when it is believed to be the portal of eternity. Any evasion of the finality of death is not a Christian attitude.
In fact it is only those who trust in the promise of resurrection and live in its truth, who see clearly the human acceptance of the power of death and resolve to fight against it. Rather than heaven diminishing their outrage at worldly evils, it calls them to battle against everything that denies the dignity of the human children of God.
For me the vision of heaven remains an encouragement to believe that God's will can be done here as well as there; and to do it as well as I can; to hope for those who suffer here that if, as Jesus said, they endure to the end, they will be saved; and that the earthly beauty of which death is the mother, although very dear to me, is only a foretaste of a greater beauty to come. The wild visions of the book of Revelation and the eloquent riffs of Paul and the book of Hebrews are not tourist brochures for the afterlife, but the excitable reports of those whose faith has pushed them to peek through the chinks opened up by Jesus in the walls of death.
Now that villa in Spain…
on October 19, 2018 October 25, 2018 by emmock
Call me by my true name….
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.;
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Teacher.
Thich Hat Hanh is the Teacher of the Plum Village Community in France, although I first heard of him when he came to the USA from his native Vietnam to speak against war. He is a man of profund courage and wisdom. In his poem above he wipes out the distinctions we so easily make between ourselves and others, insisting that true being is what he calls "interbeing" in which we recognise our unity with the universe: we are not all the same, as if our particular being did not matter, but in our innumerable differences we are one community. I would want to add that in my faith, this encompassing unity is God in whom, as St Paul said, we live and move and have our being. Whenever we realise our shared life, we realise God: in friendship, in partnership, in churches, in neighbourhood, in charity, in the fight for justice and peace in the world. When we do so we add to the names by which we call ourselves.
MSF in action
Of course we would all like to be called only by nice names: few of us want to be called Donald Trump, but when we remember our own denials of truth and our outbursts of rage, we may find it difficult to refuse that name. One of the categories of names I most want to refuse, are those of my fallen idols. Once I was delighted by the slightest connection with them, now, since they have displayed their feet of clay, I want nothing to do with them. This is especially true of Aung San Ssu Kyi, whom I revered in her long battle with the military junta of Myanmar for a measure of freedom and democracy. Her calm courage was an inspiring example. Now, however, she has chosen to ignore the evidence against her nation's army, of a genocidal attack on Rohingya people, who live on Myanmar's border with Bangladesh. She has refused to admit any wrongdoing and parroted descredited myths about the Rohingyas being foreign settlers. I would be happy to identify with the Rohingyas but surely not now with Aung San Ssu Kyi?
Well, when I think of her blindness to an uncomfortable truth, I can remember my own similar blindness in the past. When I think of her failure of courage in this instance, I can remember my many such failures over the years. When I recognise that she is dodging responsibility for an atrocity, I can remember my own shiftiness when faced with the hurts I had caused. So, maybe, even if it gives me no joy, I have to admit that Aung San Ssu Kyi is a fitting enough name for me.
Mind you, if I'm happy to be called Rohyngya, I'm even happier to be called Médicins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders, who have been providing skilled medical attention for the Rohyngya refugess in Bangladesh. As always, many of their staff are locals whom they have trained and paid; as always they have remained impartial while bearing truthful witness to the facts of what they are dealing with. They refuse government and multinational company funding because they want to intervene as they see fit and not at the behest of others. They are efficient, modern, well- equipped, multi-national and brave. If we need boots on the ground in areas of conflict, theirs are the most effective. Through them I can make my identity with Rohingya victims more than a prayer. Although they don't know my name, they do know the reality of the care given in my name and the names of millions of others.
The Hebrew people saw the name of God as holy and therefore not to be spoken. Even today many of them refer to God simply as Hashem, the name. The ten commandments and numerous other passages warn people against dishonouring the name of God by word or action. If we want to honour the name of God whose shared life unites us all, we could do worse than follow the teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh by recognising with sorrow our identity with wrongdoers while activating our identity with those who do good.
on October 11, 2018 October 11, 2018 by emmock	1 Comment
Transfiguration….
The notion of transfiguration may suggest something seen in an enhanced mode, as in many of the techniques offered by apps for photography, whereby a photo of my aged self can be transfigured to portray me in the prime of life. But the transfiguration which most interests me is that by which something or someone is seen as they really are.
Broughty Ferry is a prosperous suburb of Dundee, which seems wonderfully separate from the problems of the city, although its increasing use by wealthier young people as a weekend playground has reminded me of the famous couplet by Hilaire Belloc:
Like many of the upper class
he liked the sound of broken glass.
Its housing is a mixture of Victorian fantasy by Jute barons, solid respectability by successful professionals, seaside terraces by B and B landladies, modern retirement flats by the douce elderly, and also this:
A cluster of older houses connected with the original fishing village and ferry port, expressing decency, usefulness and a modest elegance. In this morning's autumn sunshine and from this viewpoint, the suburb was transfigured into its true self.
I have seen this happen to people. I remember at university a lecturer in Old Testament who was a little bent and wasted in his middle years, and not too rivetting as a lecturer, but when he turned out for the college football team with students twenty years younger than himself, he was transformed into a version of Stanley Matthews with a magical dribbling ability and a devastating left foot shot. In fact his guile at football was matched with a guileful interpretation of the Bible which led to his masterwork on the book of Proverbs.
Marilyn Munroe was subjected to many transformations as an actress, but her husband, the writer Arthur Miller, noted particularly the change that came over her when she was in the company of vulnerable or troubled people: then she was at home, in sympathy and entirely herself. That transfiguration revealed her character.
Always, of course, the change is not just a special state of the person or object which is seen, but also the readiness of the viewer to see with open eyes. If I had been in a dull mood this morning I would not have seen Broughty Ferry transformed. If Arthur Miller had been self-absorbed, he would never have seen the real Marilyn.
In the story of David and Goliath in the Bible, the boy David is just a daft boy until his stone knocks the giant to the ground. Then we see that of course he is already a cunning and dangerous warrior, who is happy to cut his opponents head off. The story reveals that a clanking berserker is no match for an intelligent youth who can kill at a distance. Goliath never had a chance. David is transfigured in action.
All this perhaps helps the intrpretation of the story of Jesus' transfiguration.
The Transfiguration Mark 9
2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no oneb]">[b] on earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5 Then Peter said to Jesus, 'Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings,c]">[c] one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.' 6 He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, 'This is my Son, the Beloved;d]">[d]listen to him!' 8 Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.
This passage is not factual history. For example how did the disciples know that the figures appearing with Jesus were Moses and Elijah? (a primary schoolboy once answered this question perfectly, "They had their names on their shirts like Messi") But it conforms to my model of transfiguration:
1 Jesus is changed – into himself! What shines is his own nature.
2 The disciples' understanding is first of all that Jesus belongs with the greatest heroes of their faith, and is even greater.
3 Secondly they understand that Jesus is confirmed by God as his child.
4 At the end of the revelation what they see is simply Jesus as he truly is.
In Mark's Gospel the readers realise that what happens when people encounter Jesus with trust is that they are transfigured and become their true selves even as they become like Jesus. To be like Jesus is not to lose your identity in his, but to find it in his. St Paul expressed this clearly in his letter to the Corinthians:
"Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit."
When people are united with Jesus, they shine with the glory which comes from him, but they are truly themselves, with unveiled faces. The Spirit of which St. Paul speaks is the "interbeing", the realm in which there are no barriers between person and person, or between a person and God. Living beings become translucent to each other and to their maker. Their transfiguration into shared life is also their deepest identity.
on October 5, 2018 October 5, 2018 by emmock	2 Comments
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Robert Edward Sommers (January 3, 1911 – October 28, 2000) was a Canadian elementary school principal and a politician. Sommers served as a Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1958, representing the riding of Rossland-Trail in the province of British Columbia. He served as Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines until his resignation February 27, 1956.  He was tried and in 1958 was convicted of bribery and conspiracy making him the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to serve a term of imprisonment for accepting bribes in connection with his office.

Early life
Born in Leduc, Alberta in 1911, Sommers was the son of J. L. Sommers and Elsie Armonies, both natives of Germany who came to Canada in 1889.

Before entering politics, Sommers was an elementary school principal in Castlegar, BC.  He was a trumpet player, a local band leader, a part-time insurance broker, a Kiwanis club president and a volunteer firefighter.

He was married twice: first to Marion Henry in 1930 and then to Nona Samson in 1940.

Political career
He was first elected as an MLA under the banner of the British Columbia Social Credit League as the member for Rossland-Trail in 1952.  He was re-elected in 1953, and 1956.  In each election, against several opponents, his popular vote exceeded 50% of the votes cast including his last after he lost his cabinet position.

Sommers resigned his seat automatically upon his conviction on November 7, 1958, for bribery and conspiracy.

Scandal and trial
Sommers downfall began when the Liberal opposition, particularly MLA Gordon Gibson accused Sommers of impropriety in the granting of a forest management licence to E. P. Taylor's British Columbia Forest Products (BCFP).

These licences were a new form of tenure in the forests of British Columbia introduced in 1948 based on the 1944 recommendations of the Sloan Commission.  Large companies were given cutting rights over Crown land in perpetuity and in exchange were responsible for forest management, construction of access roads and fire fighting.  The goal was to provide a sustained yield to supply mills over the long term by giving the licence holder a long-term interest in the productivity of the land.  Forest management licences were extremely valuable.  There were accusations that companies made huge profits selling shares issued after a licence was granted before a single tree had been cut. E. P. Taylor's Argus Corporation, which incorporated British Columbia Forest Products to run its BC forest operations in 1946, had been turned down for a forest management licence in 1948.  After he became the cabinet minister in charge of granting forest management licences, Sommers, who was then in awkward financial circumstances personally, had meetings with Taylor and the management of Argus at which BCFP sought a licence.  Taylor, BC premier W. A. C. Bennett and Sommers met at the Empress Hotel in January 1955.  Afterwards, Bennett directed Sommers to make the deal. The result was that BCFP was granted FML #22 which covered  between Port Renfrew and Estevan Point along the west coast of Vancouver Island.

A commission led by Justice Arthur Lord found no basis for the charges and Sommers responded to the accusations by suing Vancouver lawyer David Sturdy for libel.  The Bennett government stonewalled in the legislature on the basis that the matter was before the courts until Sommers was dropped from cabinet in 1956.  In November 1957 he was arrested and charged with bribery.  The next year, he and Wick Gray were convicted.  BCFP was acquitted. Sommers was sentenced to 5 years in prison but was released after 28 months.  While imprisoned, he learned the piano tuning trade.  He established a piano business on Vancouver Island after his release in 1961. Sommers was convicted on five of seven charges of receiving bribes.  He was found to have received $607 worth of rugs, $3,000 in bonds, $1,000 in cash and $2,500 sent by telegraph making him the first person in the Commonwealth found guilty of conspiring to accept bribes while serving as a Minister.

Aftermath
During his time in prison, Sommers learned the trade of piano tuning and restoration from a fellow inmate.  He took up residence on Vancouver Island after his release and established a business in that field.  Sommers died at the age of 89 at a hospital in Nanaimo, British Columbia on October 28, 2000.

References

Further reading
 Sommers and Gray v. The Queen. - Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, 25 June 1959 - [1959] Supreme Court Reports, pages 678–690.
 Paddy Sherman, Bennett, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1966
 Internet Archive Donald Gutstein, Vancouver Ltd. mentions the Sommers defence in an article about Vancouver lawyer Jack Nicholson
The Baroud Gibbs paper of The International Cooperation Group is also available at the Department of Justice website.
The Sommers scandal was the subject of a play by David Ross

1911 births
2000 deaths
British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs
People from Leduc, Alberta
Canadian people of German descent
Corruption in Canada
Canadian politicians convicted of crimes


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To accommodate the availability of special award winners, the Society has added Saturday, August 1, to kick off the weekend celebrations. Chelo's restaurant on Post Road in Warwick will be the venue for a 7 PM dinner/dance and special award presentations.
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Q: Torsion points in elliptic curve I was going through a research paper based on elliptic divisibility sequences. In that paper the author has taken an elliptic curve over the rational field and a non-torsion point in it, for example the curve is given by $y^{2} = x^{3} + 80$ and the non-torsion point is $P=(4,12)$. By looking at the point and the curve how can we claim the point to be torsion or non-torsion point? What are some methods of determining a point to be torsion/ non-torsion can you explain with some examples.

A: One way to check that a rational point $P$ on an elliptic curve $E$ defined over $\Bbb Q$ is not torsion is to apply the famous theorem of B. Mazur that lists all the possible torsion groups for $E$, namely $E_{\rm tors}$ must be one of the following:

*

*${\Bbb Z}/n{\Bbb Z}$ with $1\leq n\leq 10$ or $n=12$,

*${\Bbb Z}/2{\Bbb Z}\times{\Bbb Z}/n{\Bbb Z}$ with $2\leq n\leq4$.

This reduces the checking to a finite number of computations.

A: *

*Mazur famously classified all possible torsion subgroups of $E(\mathbb{Q})$, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_conjecture. In particular, he showed that the order of a point can not exceed 12. Therefore, to check if a point is non-torsion, one can compute the points $P,2P,\dots, 12P$. If they are distinct, then $P$ has infinite order.

*The canonical height is a function $\hat{h}:E(\bar{\mathbb{Q}})\to [0,\infty)$ which vanishes precisely at the torsion points. Therefore, to check if a point is non-torsion, one can compute $\hat{h}(P)$. If it is non-zero, the point is of infinite order. There are algorithms for computing $\hat{h}$. For example, Magma has the function CanonicalHeight, http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/.

A: Yet an other answer, some explicit computations in sage are also added as illustration. (In my opinion, if not using a computer not only life gets shorter, but it is also hard to tell a story.)
Below, when examples are discussed, $E$ is given elliptic curve with affine equation
$$y^2=x^3+80\ ,$$ and $P=(4,12)$, a rational point of it.
Some other example is the curve $E'$ with equation
$$
y^2 = x^3 - 611582427x + 5820864379254 \ ,
$$
where the R.H.S. can be factored as
$(x^2 + 14394x - 404395191)(x - 14394)$,
and we consider the points $Q=(1758, 2179710)$ and $T=(14043, 42120)$.
What can be done in the above cases, to check / decide if $P,Q,T$
are torsion or non-torsion points?!

$(1)$ As mentioned also in the other answers, a theorem of Mazur for elliptic curves over $\Bbb Q$ insures that the order of the torsion part  $E(\Bbb Q)_{\text{tors}}$
of $E(\Bbb Q)$
is from the list $1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12$. (We have even a structural characterization, the torsion part is either cyclic, or a has two generators, one of them of order two.)
So it is enough to compute this multiples. Computations are easily done with compute algebra systems (CAS) like pari/gp, sage, magma.

$(2)$ This is the same as computing the global canonical height $\hat h$ of the points.
This is by (Tate's) definition for a point $P=(x_P,y_P)\in E(\Bbb Q)$
$$
\begin{aligned}
\hat h(P)
&=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac 1{4^n}h(2^n\cdot P)\ ,\\
&\qquad\text{ where $h$ is the naive height:}\\
h(P)
&=\log \max( \ |\text{numerator}(x_P)|\ ,\ |\text{denomiantor}(x_P)|\ )\ .
\end{aligned}
$$
Of course, for a torsion point, the few (maximal $12$) values of the naive height of the involved multiples repeat themselves, so $\hat h(P)=0$.
But we have also conversely, for a non-torsion point the limit (exists and) is $>0$. Using this criterion, we have to compute again in a tunnel the multiples...

$(3)$ Observe that $P=(4,12)$ is an integral point on $E$. So are also $Q,T$ on $E'$. And the equations of $E,E'$ are also involving coefficients in $\Bbb Z$. A theorem of Nagell-Lutz insures in such cases that if a point is a torsion point, then its components are integers, and the $y$-component is either zero, or else it divides (even squared) the discriminant of the curve. This can be used in our cases as follows.
If $P$ is torsion (point), then any multiple of $P$ is torsion. So it is enough to compute $P,2P,3P,4P,\dots$  and/or alternatively
$P,2P,4P,8P,16P$
till we obtain $O$, or a point involving denominators.
(Note that a "guessed converse" does not hold, in the sense that there are non-torsion points, points with infinite order with integral coefficients. But building multiples of such points, e.g. by successively doubling points, leads quickly to the appearance of denominators, showing that the order is infinite.)

$(4)$ Since the order of a torsion point $P$ is maximally $12$, in case $E$ has "big integral coefficients" it may be easier to compute the first powers / the order of $P$ modulo some "small" prime $p$, i.e. the order of $P$ seen as element in the finite group $E(\Bbb F_p)$. If the order is not among $1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12$, then it is not in this list also for $P\in E(\Bbb Q)$.

Let's see these possibilities at work in the mentioned explicit examples.
$(1)$ We initialize the curve $E$ in sage, the point $P$, and ask for the first few multiples. In a dialog in the sage / ipython console:
sage: E = EllipticCurve([0, 80])
sage: E
Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 = x^3 + 80 over Rational Field

sage: P = E(4, 12)
sage: P in E
True

sage: for k in [1..12]:
....:     print(f'{k}*P = {(k*P).xy()}')
1*P = (4, 12)
2*P = (-4, 4)
3*P = (1, -9)
4*P = (44, -292)
5*P = (244/25, 3972/125)
6*P = (-71/36, 1837/216)
7*P = (-3116/1849, -689532/79507)
8*P = (58124/5329, -14438588/389017)
9*P = (408241/11449, 261070479/1225043)
10*P = (1917596/2739025, 40632020644/4533086375)
11*P = (-429617756/111492481, -5619437613492/1177249106879)
12*P = (2145460321/485937936, -138041068304879/10712015861184)

Similarly, for the other sample curve, $E'$ denoted by EE in the code,
and the points $Q,T$:
sage: EE = EllipticCurve([-611582427, 5820864379254])
sage: EE
Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 = x^3 - 611582427*x + 5820864379254 over Rational Field
sage: Q = EE(1758, 2179710)
sage: T = EE(14043, 42120)

sage: Q
(1758 : 2179710 : 1)
sage: 2*Q
(131810097/8464 : -211011896745/778688 : 1)

sage: for k in [1..12]:
....:     print(f'{k}*T = {k*T}')
1*T = (14043 : 42120 : 1)
2*T = (28083 : 3285360 : 1)
3*T = (11235 : 606528 : 1)
4*T = (15123 : 174960 : 1)
5*T = (-14037 : 3411720 : 1)
6*T = (14394 : 0 : 1)
7*T = (-14037 : -3411720 : 1)
8*T = (15123 : -174960 : 1)
9*T = (11235 : -606528 : 1)
10*T = (28083 : -3285360 : 1)
11*T = (14043 : -42120 : 1)
12*T = (0 : 1 : 0)

So $T$ is indeed a torsion point. Its order is $12$. As seen,
we can already decide that $T$ is torsion (of order $12$) when knowing $6T$, which is obviously $2$-torsion. For the point $Q$ we use Nagell-Lutz.
As seen above, $2Q$ shows (non-trivial) denominators, so it is not a torsion point.

$(2)$ Sage gives us the heights:
sage: P.xy()
(4, 12)
sage: P.height()
0.153640035013294

sage: Q.xy(), T.xy()
((1758, 2179710), (14043, 42120))
sage: Q.height(), T.height()
(2.14520524222471, 0)

$T$ has height zero. To illustrate numerically the convergent sequence defining $\hat h(P)$, let us implement the naive height, and show some
values:
def height_naive(P):
    if not P or not P[0]:
        return 0.0
    return RR( log( max( P[0].numerator(), P[0].denominator() ) ) )

for n in [1..6]:
    print(f'h( {2**n}P ) / {4**n} ~ {height_naive((2**n)*P) / (4**n)}')

After a copy+paste into the sage interpreter, we get:
h( 2P ) / 4 ~ 0.000000000000000
h( 4P ) / 16 ~ 0.236511852119891
h( 8P ) / 64 ~ 0.171411467788134
h( 16P ) / 256 ~ 0.152510750096969
h( 32P ) / 1024 ~ 0.153079363840485
h( 64P ) / 4096 ~ 0.153873678827322

$(3)$ Nagell-Lutz makes it simple to see that $P,Q$ are on (the two different curves) points of infinite order.
We compute for instance by doubling:
sage: 2*P
(-4 : 4 : 1)
sage: 4*P
(44 : -292 : 1)
sage: 8*P
(58124/5329 : -14438588/389017 : 1)

$8P$ "shows denominators", so $P$ has infinite order.
For $Q$, $2Q$ had already "ugly denominators", as seen in $(1)$.
An other way to use Nagell-Lutz is as follows. We need the more complicated curve $E'$ to illustrate.
We compute the discriminant and its factorization. Then also consider the factorization of the $y$-component of the given integral points.
sage: EE.discriminant().factor()
2^18 * 3^24 * 5^3 * 11 * 13^4
sage: Q
(1758 : 2179710 : 1)
sage: Q[1]
2179710
sage: Q[1].factor()
2 * 3^6 * 5 * 13 * 23

$23$ is a prime dividing $y_Q$, which does no show up in the discriminant.
So this is not a torsion point.

$(4)$ We consider $E$ over some prime field $F=\Bbb F_q$. Then $E(F)$
has roughly so many points as the projective line over $F$, plus/minus Hasse term. To show that some points do not have order up to $12$, we may try a prime like $p=41$. Let's see:
sage: E41 = E.base_extend(GF(41))
sage: P
(4 : 12 : 1)
sage: E41(P)  # same point, but now seen modulo 41
(4 : 12 : 1)

sage: for k in [1..12]:
....:     print(f'{k}P on E mod 41 is {(k*E41(P)).xy()}')
1P on E mod 41 is (4, 12)
2P on E mod 41 is (37, 4)
3P on E mod 41 is (1, 32)
4P on E mod 41 is (3, 36)
5P on E mod 41 is (36, 18)
6P on E mod 41 is (6, 3)
7P on E mod 41 is (0, 11)
8P on E mod 41 is (14, 6)
9P on E mod 41 is (25, 17)
10P on E mod 41 is (30, 15)
11P on E mod 41 is (30, 26)
12P on E mod 41 is (25, 24)

In fact,
sage: E41(P).order()
21

As seen, computations are done with "human" numbers. For the more complicated second curve, and the point $Q$:
sage: EE41 = EE.base_extend(GF(41))
sage: for k in [1..12]:
....:     print(f'{k}Q on EE mod 41 is {(k*EE41(Q)).xy()}')
1Q on EE mod 41 is (36, 27)
2Q on EE mod 41 is (26, 13)
3Q on EE mod 41 is (40, 33)
4Q on EE mod 41 is (39, 30)
5Q on EE mod 41 is (8, 1)
6Q on EE mod 41 is (1, 26)
7Q on EE mod 41 is (12, 10)
8Q on EE mod 41 is (35, 13)
9Q on EE mod 41 is (2, 39)
10Q on EE mod 41 is (21, 28)
11Q on EE mod 41 is (23, 35)
12Q on EE mod 41 is (3, 0)

Again, no vanishing. There is of course a question of luck when $p$ is chosen, since...
sage: EE41(Q).order()
24

A: There are answers here which invoke Mazur's theorem, but there are effective methods for computing torsion subgroups of elliptic curves over any number field (where we have Merel's generalisation of Mazur's result, but it is not so kind as to list all possible subgroup structures).
First we have a theorem of Nagell-Lutz which (over $\mathbb{Q}$) says that if your Weierstrass equation
$$y^2 = f(x)$$
has integer coefficients, then torsion points have $y$-coordinate either $0$ (i.e., $2$-torsion) or the $y$-coordinate is an integer and divides the discriminant of $f(x)$. This gives one a finite list of polynomials for which one needs to compute roots. (This result has a generalisation over arbitrary number fields, see Silverman The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves Theorem VIII.7.1). In particular, if there are any denominators, you know that the point is not torsion.
Another trick which is often extremely useful is to note that if a finite place $v$ of $K$ at which $E$ has good reduction does not divide $n$ then the $n$-torsion subgroup of $E$ must embed in $E(\mathbb{F}_v)$. Computing the points on our curve over a few finite fields is then often enough to disprove the existence of $K$-rational torsion points.
Your example $E : y^2 = x^3 + 80$ is a clear candidate for both of these approaches. Note that your point $P = (4,12)$ has $5P = (244/25 , 3972/125)$, so can't be torsion.
The second approach, computing $\#E(\mathbb{F}_7)$ and $\#E(\mathbb{F}_{11})$ are $13$ and $12$ respectively. The first implies (by the above) that $\#E(\mathbb{Q})_{tors} = 7^a \cdot 13$ and the second implies $\#E(\mathbb{Q})_{tors} = 11^b \cdot 12$ for some $a,b$. But then clearly $a = b = 0$ so $E$ has trivial torsion over $\mathbb{Q}$.
Note that this second calculation involves only local calculations and no reference to Mazur's theorem - it was known before Mazur how one can compute torsion subgroups.


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