A result of this visit was that John Lewis gave Spedan more cash to put into Peter Jones and also brought him back into Oxford Street with a formal one third of the business. This, Spedan eventually converted into two thirds by buying his brother's share,who wanted to try other avenues. However John Lewis was never told.
In effect Spedan now ran John Lewis and Peter Jones.
In 1928, another property was purchased by Spedan Lewis on Oxford Street. TJ Harries, previously a competitor of John Lewis, was absorbed into the existing department store. This building became known as John Lewis East House, whilst the original department store was cleverly labelled the West House. The more traditional stocks of fabrics and furniture remained in the West House whilst newer merchandise like ready made clothing and electrical goods were housed in the Eash House. The Oxford Street shops would remain like this until the Second World War.
Of perhaps greater importance to the future of the John Lewis Partnership was the fact that old John Lewis eventually passed away at the age of 92 in 1928. He refusing to let his shop go, he never fully retired. Although he had made peace with his son, it is clear that his father's passing left the door open for Spedan to implement his ideas of Partnership.
Finally, after years of work and preparation Spedan could put his plan to create a new type of business into action. In 1929, the initial formal document known as the First Trust Settlement was created putting the Partnership scheme into practice. The John Lewis Partnership was born.


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State leaders say they'll end violent demonstrations at Minnesota Capitol: 'We will stop you'
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After gaining some steam in 2020, legislation returns to remove shotgun-only zone for Minnesota deer hunters
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DAPL backs off statement suggesting it would defy order to shut down
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Construction equipment sits near a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site off County Road 135 near the town of Cannon Ball, N.D., on Oct. 30, 2016. (REUTERS / Josh Morgan)
BISMARCK — Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company to the Dakota Access Pipeline, issued a statement Wednesday, suggesting it would disregard a federal ruling to halt its pipeline operations by Aug. 5, but later put out a clarification tempering its stance.
"To be clear, we have not suggested that we would defy a court order," Lisa Coleman, an Energy Transfer Partners representative, told The Forum by email. "Rather, DAPL is seeking appropriate relief from that order thru the established legal process."
Coleman's clarification came as a quick follow-up to a more brazen initial statement. "We are not shutting in the line," Coleman first told The Forum, also by email. "As we stated on Monday, we believe Judge Boasberg exceeded his authority and does not have the jurisdiction to shut down the pipeline or stop the flow of crude oil. Additionally, we are accepting nominations from our shippers for August."
These statements follow Monday's decision by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg who ruled that Energy Transfer Partners must empty the pipeline and halt its operation by early next month, pending a thorough environmental review by the Army Corps of Engineers.
DAPL has become a national flashpoint since its construction in 2017 due to strong opposition and high-profile protests against the pipeline that crosses under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Jan Hasselman, an Earthjustice lawyer who represents the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, responded to Energy Transfer's initial position in a statement to Bloomberg on Wednesday afternoon, arguing that the pipeline company is "playing a very dangerous game" and adding that "they don't get to ignore a federal court order just because they disagree with it."
The Lakota People's Law Project also called Energy Transfer's initial announcement "unacceptable" in a statement Wednesday evening, writing that "Judge Boasberg's scope of authority is not something ETP has the discretion to interpret."
The DAPL ruling was the subject of frequent discussion at the North Dakota Industrial Commission's meeting on Tuesday, where Gov. Doug Burgum and other commissioners grappled for fixes for a state oil industry already limping out of the pandemic.
Burgum grew stern when the DAPL ruling came up at his weekly press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
"This is a blow specifically damaging to North Dakota," he said. "I mean, not South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana. This is a direct hit on our state. And it hits jobs locally, local communities, the hotels, the restaurants, the bars, the schools, everybody who supports this industry."
Energy Transfer has appealed Boasberg's ruling to a higher court and requested a stay on his decision.
Forum readers can reach Adam Willis, a Report for America corps member, at awillis@forumcomm.com.
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Priests from the Church of England copied Martin Luther's means of protest against the Church during the past week.
They stuck a copy of their complaints to the doors of five cathedrals.
The priests' actions mimic the fable that Luther nailed his 95 theses against the Catholic Church to the door of a chapel in Wittenberg, Germany, 500 years ago.
Luther's action marked the beginning of the Reformation.
Given the international commemorations marking the 500th anniversary of Luther's protest, the current protest aimed for maximum publicity.
The priests' complaints are encapsulated in the Southwark Declaration.
The declaration focuses on the priests' concerns that the Anglican Church is corrupt by allowing gay couples to marry.
The Southwark Declaration, which contains five statements, was first published in 2015.
It affirms the "supreme authority" of the scriptures and calls on Church leaders to uphold the doctrine that marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman.
Last week's complaints were accompanied by the following statement, which accuses the Church of "revisionism".
"The Church of England claims it has not changed its doctrine, but its practice on the ground has already changed: clergy are already adopting lifestyles which are not biblical and teaching that such lifestyles are holy in the sight of God.
"This revisionism is causing a crisis not only in Southwark Diocese but across the Church of England.
"It is weakening and destroying the Church as it has done in the United States and Canada.
Bishops have "a narrow window" until the next General Synod in February, it says, to "regain the confidence of Bible-believing Anglicans" and avoid "rupturing" the Anglican Communion.
In response, the Archbishop of Canterbury called for "unity in our diversity" during his sermon at the Reformation anniversary service at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday.
"Luther set the Gospel free, and as human beings we seek continually to imprison it behind ritual and authority — or to make it serve politics or causes.


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Repository–Mirror
In 1969 a blow-out of an oil rig off Santa Barbara, California, outraged the public with its visible effects on shorelines up and down the coast and on seabirds and marine mammals. Coming just two years after the oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon wrecked off the western coast of England, the spill helped promote environmental concern in the US and Europe. Despite continuing worry about coastal oil spills and fear over radioactive waste disposal at sea, most marine scientists for decades after the spill adhered to the traditional dictum that the solution to pollution is dilution, continuing to view the open ocean as an appropriate repository for waste. Unknown photographer, n.d.
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Seascape showing female Ama divers from the Japanese coastal city of Ise harvesting abalone, a culturally and economically important fishery developed between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Before that, both men and women practiced breath-hold diving for subsistence gathering, and in the late nineteenth century the cultured pearl industry continued to employ Ama divers for an emerging tourist market. Woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞, c. 1830.
Courtesy of Cleveland Art Museum. Click here to view source.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.
Evidence in shell middens and elsewhere tells archaeologists that early Homo sapiens and their hominid ancestors used aquatic resources whenever they were available. Commercial fisheries for herring, tuna, cod, and whales date back centuries or more. Many fisheries exerted profound effects on fish populations even before industrialization and mechanization. Fisheries sparked exploration of near and distant waters and contributed to the development of regional, then global economies. Yet subsistence fishing continued, and remains important today, in many places around the globe. People have not only viewed the ocean as a storehouse of raw materials and commodities but equally as a sink for waste. Despite this, many people through the twentieth century continued to see the ocean as a source of virtually limitless resources as well as a dumpsite of endless capacity. For some, this perception remains unchanged in the present, as reflected in oil and natural gas drilling, bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals, plans for seafloor mining, and the continued introduction of plastic and carbon into the oceans. Regardless of its use as storehouse or dump, the ocean as repository is experienced by users as volumetric space rather than a flat surface.
This strikingly unusual example of the Hudson River style of American landscape art, Edward Moran's Valley in the Sea (1862), depicts an imagined panoramic view of the Atlantic seafloor. Probably commissioned in honor of the first successful transatlantic cable laying of 1858, this painting reflects the mid-century cultural discovery of the deep ocean that was also manifested by the popularity of marine natural history, beach holidays, yachting, maritime novels, and other ways that ordinary people engaged experientially and imaginatively with the sea.
Edward Moran, The Valley in the Sea, 1862. Oil on canvas.
Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Click here to view source.
The Hawaiian double-hulled voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa, launched in 1975, is shown here arriving in Tahiti the following year after a transit using Polynesian navigation techniques. Subsequent voyages around the Pacific have contributed to cultural revival in Hawaii and in islands throughout Polynesia. Traditional voyaging reflects islanders' identification of home as "seas of islands" in which the ocean forms part of their cultural and social space. In 2017, Hōkūleʻa completed a three-year circumnavigation blending traditional and modern technologies to promote Mālama Honua, which translates to "caring for our island Earth." Photograph by Phil Uhl, 1976.
Accessed via Wikimedia on 7 April 2021. Click here to view source.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Whether we view the ocean optimistically as full of resources or fearfully as full of pollution, its opacity guarantees that we see reflected back from its surface in part what we bring to it: our fears, desires, ambitions, and preconceptions. Perceptions of the ocean depend on human assumptions, beliefs, and ideas as much as they derive from experiences with salt water and things that live in it. Different cultures with unique relationships to the sea generate distinctive notions of it. European immigrants to the New World viewed the ocean as a frightening wilderness. In contrast, the anthropologist Epeli Hau'ofa explains that people in Oceania view the same element as "seas of islands." For them, the ocean forms part of their social and cultural space. Post–World War II embrace of the ocean as a "frontier" akin to the nineteenth-century United States West contributed to the tenaciously held view of the ocean as endlessly resilient in the face of human use. More recent media images of plastics in the sea or whales stranded, perhaps due to noise or other pollution, are reshaping perceptions of the human relationship with the ocean. The ocean as mirror helps explain how apparently contrasting uses, such as bridge or moat, can exist simultaneously. The repository–mirror pairing functions as a microcosm reflecting the cultural complexity of multiple, coexisting views of the world's oceans.
The original virtual exhibition features an interactive gallery of images. View the images on the following pages.
Illustration of the Persian Gulf pearl fishery, carried out by descendants of enslaved East Africans whom British salvagers purchased because of their diving skills. In the sixteenth century Spanish colonists on the so-called "Pearl Coast" of northern Venezuela and nearby islands began the practice of using African diving expertise when they brought enslaved Senegambian and Gold Coast divers to replace indigenous Guaiquerí Indians whose numbers were declining drastically. The undersea appeared to European enslavers and colonists an inaccessible source of wealth, yet indigenous and transplanted African divers who swam and dove regularly viewed the undersea realm as familiar.
Originally published in The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 1 October 1881: 356. Public domain.
Cartoon by British naturalist Edward Forbes playfully suggesting that sea floor creatures, not scientists, might control what entered the dredges of the first generation of zoologists who studied marine fauna. Appearing as the frontispiece of his 1859 book, The Natural History of the European Seas, this sketch reflects the new mid-century understanding of the ocean as a site for science and the object of scientific scrutiny.
Frontispiece to Edward Forbes, The Natural History of the European Seas (London: John van Voorst, 1859). Public domain.
John Williamson, the first person to take photographs underwater, captured this image of an underwater actress from a submarine device called a Photosphere that extended beneath a ship down to the seafloor. His first film, Thirty Leagues Under the Sea, appeared in 1914 and featured Williamson himself fighting a shark. More successful at the box office was his 1916 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, popular with audiences who followed news of submarine warfare. In addition to a career of making films about pirates, sunken treasure, mermaids, and sea monsters, Williamson also helped natural history museums collect specimens and create dioramas of undersea scenes in New York and Chicago. His work began a robust tradition of cinematographic representation of the undersea that would introduce the depths to a wide public.
Photograph by John Williamson, n.d. Public domain.
Originally published in J. E. Williamson, Twenty Years Under the Sea (Boston and New York: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1936).
Cod drying onshore in Lofoten, Norway, in 1913 in a fishery using traditional methods that dated back centuries, including harvesting the fish with hook and line, then splitting, gutting, and drying them on wooden racks. Long before the mechanization of fisheries, fleets were able to decimate fish stocks. Between 1852 and 1859, for instance, schooners from Massachusetts fishing off Nova Scotia experienced a 50 percent decline in seasonal landings. A fishery prosecuted using dories launched from schooners to enable fishers to lay long lines with hooks attached to them over the ocean floor rendered the northwest Atlantic halibut population, first intentionally fished for market in the 1840s, commercially extinct in just fifty years.
Photograph by Cl. Boulanger, 1913. Public domain.
Courtesy of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank and the Washington Unversity Libraries. Click here to view source.
The 1945 short film Down to the Sea Again chronicles the use of fishing vessels during the Second World War for minesweeping, cargo carrying, and attacking submarines and airplanes, followed by their refit to fish again in peacetime. Postwar food shortages and hunger in Europe, and also in Japan, made the resumption of fishing a high priority, while record catches fueled optimism that modern science and technology would enable ever-growing use of the ocean's resources. Many nations on both sides of the Cold War divide, viewing the oceans not only as a source of food and economic wealth but also as a politically strategic arena, subsidized the construction of fishing vessels such that the global fleet increased by 75 percent from the war's end to the present. This fleet has overfished three-quarters of the world's wild fish stocks and must cover increasingly large portions of the ocean to maintain global catches at a consistent level.
The short film Science in Fishing, released in 1958, features the Cornwall pilchard fishing vessel, The Chichester Lass, to demonstrate how fishers could use echo sounding technology, developed for anti-submarine warfare, to locate schools of fish hidden underwater. A large midwater trawl with a nylon net was deployed, capturing far more fish compared with the driftnets formerly used. This particular vessel was not fitted with an engine to haul the full net aboard, but power blocks came into increasing use in postwar fisheries for schooling species such as tuna, salmon, sardines, anchovies, and menhaden, paired with seine nets that could be set to surround a school found by sonar, making it easier to catch virtually every individual.
The original virtual exhibition features the short film Down to the Sea Again (1945). 3 min. 32. View the film online here.
The original virtual exhibition features the short film Science in Fishing (1958). 2 min. 42. View the film online here.
Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities
What can the humanities reveal about people's interconnections with the ocean, past and present? In 1975, the maritime historian Benjamin Labaree offered an influential argument that the Atlantic acted simultaneously as bridge and moat for European settlers of North America. The paradox of these overlapping functions provided a touchstone for understanding the maritime realm, but it is time to recognize the ocean as more than the flat surface implied by it. Two further pairings, repository–mirror and destination–home, testify to the duration of the human connections with the sea, including its depths, and also to the distinct ocean relationships forged by different cultures. The blue humanities provide a mooring for considering not only the ocean's past and present but its future as well.
Helen M. Rozwadowski
Rozwadowski, Helen M.
University of Connecticut, USA
Helen M. Rozwadowski is a professor of history and founder of the University of Connecticut's Maritime Studies program. Her award-winning book, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, chronicles the nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discovery of the depths. Her recent book, Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion Books, 2018), which won the Sharon Harris Book Award from UCHI in 2019, came out in a Korean edition in 2019 and a Chinese edition in 2020. She is co-editor of the new University of Chicago Oceans in Depth book series.
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Elk Creek will provide a Chromebook for every child in grades third, fourth and fifth grade. First and second grade will have access to shared Chromebooks and kindergarten will have access to shared IPads. All students will have access to the computer lab. All school-owned devices will stay at school.
Families at Elk Creek may purchase a Chromebook for their child if they would like to have a device at home for the school year. This Chromebook is an optional fee and can be purchased through student fees. Please see below for specs on the optional Lenovo Chromebook.
Lenovo Chromebook 100e comes with a 1 year warranty. Please contact Mrs. Liz in the front office for further questions on payments. Please allow time for device to be ordered and processed.
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823rd Week: Beginnings, Intentions, Probabilities
ByNancy Napier January 2, 2021 January 2, 2021
I write this practice on the first weekend of the new year. The year just passed brought many challenges, not the least of which has been our global, collective experience with Covid 19. Other challenges arose, as well, bringing with them an inescapable awareness of cultural beliefs and norms that need to be updated, changed, eliminated, or transformed depending on what they represent and what they support in our social consciousness and behavior.
I've also been thinking about the intersection between deeply held intentions and what has been called the "quantum foam"—the arena in which an infinite array of probabilities may be found. In quantum research and theory, it has become apparent that probabilities dance in and out of reality all the time, responding in part to the "observer effect". For me, this equates with how our deep choices interact outside our conscious awareness with the emergence of particular probabilities and I find this a much more dynamic and creative idea than our usual "New Year's resolutions" type of activity.
In my work with the optimal future self over the last almost 40 years, I've explored the ways in which our felt-sense—that ability we have to experience in the body new states of being, new awarenesses, new possibilities—can access and draw into our present-day life more positive, healing options. The idea of an optimal future self can actually be misleading, since the process intends to affect the present, to access and bring into this time and this place more positive probabilities or, at least, to jumpstart them in the present.
In my work with subtle activism—drawing on inner practices such as a focus on using imagery and intention to support positive change and healing in our collective reality—I have also wondered about drawing on optimal futures which, again, aren't really about the future. One of the activities I've suggested to many people is to call on the alternative reality (another idea drawn from quantum theories as translated by people who work with healing and personal transformation) where there is a human family that has learned to live gently on the earth and with each other. The idea here is that our current reality could then absorb the state of being that reflects this gentler version of our human family.
If you are interested in delving more deeply into how dynamics from quantum realities can be a resource in your life, I recommend "The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality", by Paul Levy. It's available as a book and also recorded on Audible.com.
For this week's practice, I invite you to take some time to check in with whatever deeply held intentions you may have for this new cycle. Notice the felt-sense that arises in you when you access your intention. Notice what sensations arise in your body. Become aware of the emotional tone you feel and also the quality and nature of your thoughts. Bring the intention alive in you so that you can feel its reality. Your intention doesn't need to be concrete or completely clear. For example, you may hold the intention that the coming year will be filled with more kindness, from you and from the world around you. Then, you would notice what this intention touches in you. Or, you may hold a very specific intention that, for example, you would like to have more work come your way this year. Notice how that feels in you and what quality of experience you have when you hold that intention in your conscious awareness.
You may find, as you go more deeply into your intentions, that mixed feelings arise. I always consider an awareness of mixed feelings to be a true gift, as it points the way to something that needs to be resolved so that you are freed up to move forward into what your intention embodies and offers.
There's no right or proper kind of intention to hold. The key is to recognize that whatever you hold within your awareness that feels alive to you intersects with certain probabilities that can bring your intention to life.
Remember to bring along curiosity as your constant companion and to pat gently on the head any judgments that arise, allowing them to move on through without your having to do anything with or about them.
2021 January Audio Meditation
824th Week: Returning to Steadiness Revisited
756th Week: A Subtle Activism Request
ByNancy Napier June 16, 2019 June 16, 2019
This week, I have a request to make of those who read these practices and are willing to engage in a subtle activism activity on behalf of our collective human family. I'd like to ask everyone to take five minutes each day—it doesn't matter when—to do the practice of Tonglen. The specific focus of the Tonglen practice in this subtle activism activity is on breathing in our collective fear and hatred and breathing out compassion, peace, love, ease, or whatever quality you would like to offer to our human family. If this practice resonates with you, I would ask you to consider making it a daily practice on a regular basis, not just for this week.
I've written about Tonglen many times and there are links to the practice on my website under Written Meditations – https://www.nancynapier.com/category/meditations/. For this week's activity, I'd like to write a brief version of a Tonglen-like practice for this subtle activism activity. Because many people may not have done Tonglen before, and may not be thrilled with the idea of breathing fear and hatred into their heart, I've written up a "derivation" of Tonglen drawn from my early spiritual upbringing.
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Week 661: Finding Breathing Space
ByNancy Napier February 5, 2017 April 26, 2017
Walking across Central Park after a light snow, I noticed that the dogs were energetically jumping into the snow, running in it at full tilt, and generally having an enthusiastically delightful time. It got me to thinking about how important it is to remember that Read More "Week 661: Finding Breathing Space"
2022 October Audio Meditation
ByNancy Napier October 8, 2022 January 14, 2023
We continue with our exploration of frequencies. This month, the focus is on curiosity and how curiosity tends to open us up more fully to experiences that come our way…
Here's a YouTube version of the meditation, if you'd like to see images of nature.
2023 January Meditation
ByNancy Napier December 31, 2022 January 14, 2023
This year's theme is reciprocal relationships–that we are in relationship with the world around us in every moment. For this month, we focus on the relationship we have with the community of collaborative organisms that comprise our body, offering gratitude and blessings to all of them.
The fidelity on this January meditation isn't great, but it improves starting in February.
Here's the audio version of the meditation. Please remember never to listen to these audio meditations when driving or operating dangerous machinery…
Here's the YouTube version if you'd prefer to see images of nature as you move through the meditation.
June 2018 Audio Meditation
ByNancy Napier June 2, 2018 August 31, 2018
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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.procedure;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
import java.util.Random;

import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HRegionInfo;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.Procedure;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureTestingUtility.TestProcedure;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.util.StringUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.AbstractHBaseTool;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

/**
 * Tool to test performance of locks and queues in procedure scheduler independently from other
 * framework components.
 * Inserts table and region operations in the scheduler, then polls them and exercises their locks
 * Number of tables, regions and operations can be set using cli args.
 */
public class MasterProcedureSchedulerPerformanceEvaluation extends AbstractHBaseTool {
  protected static final HBaseTestingUtility UTIL = new HBaseTestingUtility();

  // Command line options and defaults.
  public static final int DEFAULT_NUM_TABLES = 5;
  public static final Option NUM_TABLES_OPTION = new Option("num_table", true,
      "Number of tables to use for table operations. Default: " + DEFAULT_NUM_TABLES);
  public static final int DEFAULT_REGIONS_PER_TABLE = 10;
  public static final Option REGIONS_PER_TABLE_OPTION = new Option("regions_per_table", true,
      "Total number of regions per table. Default: " + DEFAULT_REGIONS_PER_TABLE);
  public static final int DEFAULT_NUM_OPERATIONS = 10000000;  // 10M
  public static final Option NUM_OPERATIONS_OPTION = new Option("num_ops", true,
      "Total number of operations to schedule. Default: " + DEFAULT_NUM_OPERATIONS);
  public static final int DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS = 10;
  public static final Option NUM_THREADS_OPTION = new Option("threads", true,
      "Number of procedure executor threads. Default: " + DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS);
  public static final String DEFAULT_OPS_TYPE = "both";
  public static final Option OPS_TYPE_OPTION = new Option("ops_type", true,
      "Type of operations to run. Value can be table/region/both. In case of 'both', "
          + "proportion of table:region ops is 1:regions_per_table. Default: "
          + DEFAULT_OPS_TYPE);

  private int numTables = DEFAULT_NUM_TABLES;
  private int regionsPerTable = DEFAULT_REGIONS_PER_TABLE;
  private int numOps = DEFAULT_NUM_OPERATIONS;
  private int numThreads = DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS;
  private String opsType = DEFAULT_OPS_TYPE;

  private MasterProcedureScheduler procedureScheduler;
  // List of table/region procedures to schedule.
  ProcedureFactory[] ops;

  // Using factory pattern to build a collection of operations which can be executed in an
  // abstract manner by worker threads.
  private interface ProcedureFactory {
    Procedure newProcedure(long procId);
  }

  private class RegionProcedure extends TestMasterProcedureScheduler.TestRegionProcedure {
    RegionProcedure(long procId, HRegionInfo hri) {
      super(procId, hri.getTable(), TableOperationType.REGION_UNASSIGN, hri);
    }

    @Override
    public LockState acquireLock(Void env) {
      return procedureScheduler.waitRegions(this, getTableName(), getRegionInfo())?
        LockState.LOCK_EVENT_WAIT: LockState.LOCK_ACQUIRED;
    }

    @Override
    public void releaseLock(Void env) {
      procedureScheduler.wakeRegions(this, getTableName(), getRegionInfo());
    }
  }

  private class RegionProcedureFactory implements ProcedureFactory {
    final HRegionInfo hri;

    RegionProcedureFactory(HRegionInfo hri) {
      this.hri = hri;
    }

    public Procedure newProcedure(long procId) {
      return new RegionProcedure(procId, hri);
    }
  }

  private class TableProcedure extends TestMasterProcedureScheduler.TestTableProcedure {

    TableProcedure(long procId, TableName tableName) {
      super(procId, tableName, TableOperationType.EDIT);
    }

    @Override
    public LockState acquireLock(Void env) {
      return procedureScheduler.waitTableExclusiveLock(this, getTableName())?
        LockState.LOCK_EVENT_WAIT: LockState.LOCK_ACQUIRED;
    }

    @Override
    public void releaseLock(Void env) {
      procedureScheduler.wakeTableExclusiveLock(this, getTableName());
    }
  }

  private class TableProcedureFactory implements ProcedureFactory {
    final TableName tableName;

    TableProcedureFactory(TableName tableName) {
      this.tableName = tableName;
    }

    public Procedure newProcedure(long procId) {
      return new TableProcedure(procId, tableName);
    }
  }

  private void setupOperations() throws Exception {
    // Create set of operations based on --ops_type command line argument.
    final ProcedureFactory[] tableOps = new ProcedureFactory[numTables];
    for (int i = 0; i < numTables; ++i) {
      tableOps[i] = new TableProcedureFactory(TableName.valueOf("testTableLock-" + i));
    }

    final ProcedureFactory[] regionOps = new ProcedureFactory[numTables * regionsPerTable];
    for (int i = 0; i < numTables; ++i) {
      for (int j = 0; j < regionsPerTable; ++j) {
        regionOps[i * regionsPerTable + j] = new RegionProcedureFactory(
            new HRegionInfo(((TableProcedureFactory)tableOps[i]).tableName, Bytes.toBytes(j),
                Bytes.toBytes(j + 1)));
      }
    }

    if (opsType.equals("table")) {
      System.out.println("Operations: table only");
      ops = tableOps;
    } else if (opsType.equals("region")) {
      System.out.println("Operations: region only");
      ops = regionOps;
    } else if (opsType.equals("both")) {
      System.out.println("Operations: both (table + region)");
      ops = (ProcedureFactory[])ArrayUtils.addAll(tableOps, regionOps);
    } else {
      throw new Exception("-ops_type should be one of table/region/both.");
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected void addOptions() {
    addOption(NUM_TABLES_OPTION);
    addOption(REGIONS_PER_TABLE_OPTION);
    addOption(NUM_OPERATIONS_OPTION);
    addOption(NUM_THREADS_OPTION);
    addOption(OPS_TYPE_OPTION);
  }

  @Override
  protected void processOptions(CommandLine cmd) {
    numTables = getOptionAsInt(cmd, NUM_TABLES_OPTION.getOpt(), DEFAULT_NUM_TABLES);
    regionsPerTable = getOptionAsInt(cmd, REGIONS_PER_TABLE_OPTION.getOpt(),
        DEFAULT_REGIONS_PER_TABLE);
    numOps = getOptionAsInt(cmd, NUM_OPERATIONS_OPTION.getOpt(),
        DEFAULT_NUM_OPERATIONS);
    numThreads = getOptionAsInt(cmd, NUM_THREADS_OPTION.getOpt(), DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS);
    opsType = cmd.getOptionValue(OPS_TYPE_OPTION.getOpt(), DEFAULT_OPS_TYPE);
  }

  /*******************
   * WORKERS
   *******************/

  private final AtomicLong procIds = new AtomicLong(0);
  private final AtomicLong yield = new AtomicLong(0);
  private final AtomicLong completed = new AtomicLong(0);

  private class AddProcsWorker extends Thread {
    public void run() {
      final Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
      long procId = procIds.incrementAndGet();
      int index;
      while (procId <= numOps) {
        index = rand.nextInt(ops.length);
        procedureScheduler.addBack(ops[index].newProcedure(procId));
        procId = procIds.incrementAndGet();
      }
    }
  }

  private class PollAndLockWorker extends Thread {
    public void run() {
      while (completed.get() < numOps) {
        // With lock/unlock being ~100ns, and no other workload, 1000ns wait seams reasonable.
        TestProcedure proc = (TestProcedure)procedureScheduler.poll(1000);
        if (proc == null) {
          yield.incrementAndGet();
          continue;
        }

        switch (proc.acquireLock(null)) {
          case LOCK_ACQUIRED:
            completed.incrementAndGet();
            proc.releaseLock(null);
            break;
          case LOCK_YIELD_WAIT:
            break;
          case LOCK_EVENT_WAIT:
            break;
        }
        if (completed.get() % 100000 == 0) {
          System.out.println("Completed " + completed.get() + " procedures.");
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Starts the threads and waits for them to finish.
   * @return time taken by threads to complete, in milliseconds.
   */
  long runThreads(Thread[] threads) throws Exception {
    final long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    for (Thread t : threads) {
      t.start();
    }
    for (Thread t : threads) {
      t.join();
    }
    return System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
  }

  @Override
  protected int doWork() throws Exception {
    procedureScheduler = new MasterProcedureScheduler(UTIL.getConfiguration());
    procedureScheduler.start();
    setupOperations();

    final Thread[] threads = new Thread[numThreads];
    for (int i = 0; i < numThreads; ++i) {
      threads[i] = new AddProcsWorker();
    }
    final long addBackTime = runThreads(threads);
    System.out.println("Added " + numOps + " procedures to scheduler.");

    for (int i = 0; i < numThreads; ++i) {
      threads[i] = new PollAndLockWorker();
    }
    final long pollTime = runThreads(threads);
    procedureScheduler.stop();

    final float pollTimeSec = pollTime / 1000.0f;
    final float addBackTimeSec = addBackTime / 1000.0f;
    System.out.println("******************************************");
    System.out.println("Time - addBack     : " + StringUtils.humanTimeDiff(addBackTime));
    System.out.println("Ops/sec - addBack  : " + StringUtils.humanSize(numOps / addBackTimeSec));
    System.out.println("Time - poll        : " + StringUtils.humanTimeDiff(pollTime));
    System.out.println("Ops/sec - poll     : " + StringUtils.humanSize(numOps / pollTimeSec));
    System.out.println("Num Operations     : " + numOps);
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Completed          : " + completed.get());
    System.out.println("Yield              : " + yield.get());
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Num Tables         : " + numTables);
    System.out.println("Regions per table  : " + regionsPerTable);
    System.out.println("Operations type    : " + opsType);
    System.out.println("Threads            : " + numThreads);
    System.out.println("******************************************");
    System.out.println("Raw format for scripts");
    System.out.println(String.format("RESULT [%s=%s, %s=%s, %s=%s, %s=%s, %s=%s, "
            + "num_yield=%s, time_addback_ms=%s, time_poll_ms=%s]",
        NUM_OPERATIONS_OPTION.getOpt(), numOps, OPS_TYPE_OPTION.getOpt(), opsType,
        NUM_TABLES_OPTION.getOpt(), numTables, REGIONS_PER_TABLE_OPTION.getOpt(), regionsPerTable,
        NUM_THREADS_OPTION.getOpt(), numThreads, yield.get(), addBackTime, pollTime));
    return 0;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    MasterProcedureSchedulerPerformanceEvaluation tool =
        new MasterProcedureSchedulerPerformanceEvaluation();
    tool.setConf(UTIL.getConfiguration());
    tool.run(args);
  }
}

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Homeless Seniors to Get Affordable Housing Complex in San Ysidro
by Ken Stone July 17, 2018
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The San Diego City Council approved a $5.5 million loan Tuesday for construction of an affordable-housing complex for homeless seniors in San Ysidro.
Funds for the loan will come from the city's $25 million Affordable Rental Housing Development Program pool, which is intended to leverage money from other public and private funding sources to spur development of mixed- income housing.
Nonprofit developer National Community Renaissance will build the three-story, 29,610 square-foot San Ysidro Senior Village Apartments building on a 1.25-acre plot at 517 W. San Ysidro Blvd.
Fifty studio units will provide permanent supportive housing to individuals who earn 30 percent to 50 percent of the area median income.
The complex will have a community room, supportive service counseling offices, laundry facilities, storage lockers and bike storage.
"This is how we solve the homelessness problem," said City Councilman David Alvarez. "These are going to be units for people who are in shelters, who need support systems in order to be successful to get out of homelessness."
Father Joe's Villages, the San Ysidro Health Center and Casa Familiar have been contracted to offer case management services at the complex. Each of the nonprofits has an office near the building's presumptive location, which also provides easy access to transit and other public resources.
The estimated project cost is $17.8 million, including $2.75 million for land purchasing.
Apart from the affordable housing loan, other funding includes roughly $10.65 million in state developer's tax credits, a $700,000 San Diego Housing Commission loan, a $310,000 private loan and a $114,000 Regional Transportation Congestion Management Improvement Program waiver.
— City News Service
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The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today II (Part 2/2) Rewatch
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Scully, Doggett, and Reyes are led to a ship where they find evidence of experimentation on human embryos.
posted by orange swan (3 comments total)
The decoded message is a bit curious. That it was decoded by hand suggests an old school one time pad (totally legit), but the formatting isn't consistent nor is the header and footer. Anyone know if that was just a gibberish prop or actually based on something?
Cool scene between McMahon and Doggett, but entirely implausible due to autonomic reflexes after he had already passed out.
Reyes talks to Scully on a first name basis, Doggett remains all "Agent Scully." But Reyes did deliver William. But she's all Brad, when talking to Brad too.
Not sure what Brad was trying to accomplish emphasizing Mister Doggett, in the elevator conversation.
I wonder who Scully has to babysit William on such short notice. I guess there's her mom. Does one even let kids that young get babysat?
This particular kind of lab in a ship makes absolutely no sense. When doing single cell microinjections (by mouth! to create the gigaohm seal between the needle and the cell), without an air table (none in sight), even a fridge with a wonky compressor kicking in at the wrong time can ruin the procedure.
posted by porpoise at 5:13 PM on August 30, 2020
The AV Club review for this two-parter has some interesting thoughts on how this show lost much of its appeal after 9/11. I'd have to agree. This show could never have been launched after 2001 or since, because no one would have the stomach for crazy conspiracies in a world where the people buying into conspiracy threats are the reactionaries looking for an excuse not to vote for qualified, non-white supremacist leaders who believe in science and evidence-based planning.
It's an effort to undermine/unsettle him by emphasizing his status as a disgraced agent who had had to hand in his badge and gun.
Brad clearly sees Doggett as a rival for Monica's affections, which makes him extra antagonistic. He's the kind of dick who would act that way (dude, it's not about defeating another man, it's about respecting what Monica chooses), while Doggett, who has probably also picked up on the fact that Brad and Monica have a past, would be maybe a little wary around him but otherwise treat him professionally.
Eerie moment with the mobile turning by itself. They had the squeaking playing over the credits.
posted by orange swan at 12:23 PM on September 2, 2020
I thought that the mobile setup and payoff worked well; Scully was suspicious that William might be controlling the mobile, but the episode ends with a similar shot only the mobile isn't so mobile - but then the audience gets teased aurally after the fade to black.
posted by porpoise at 2:39 PM on September 2, 2020
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Q: Adding a JMS Queue to Jboss 7 I want to try and get an understanding of how JMS works. I am going through a tutorial and have created the Producer/Consumer java classes but not sure how to create the JMS queue. I downloaded jboss-as-web-7.0.2.Final which i believe has HornetQ. I have not got anywhere so far as i just cant figure out how to add a Queue.
According to this document https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Messaging+configuration , a queue can be added by using the add-jms-queue command. I tried it but it generates an error.
[standalone@localhost:9999 /] add-jms-queue --name=sampleQueue --entries=queue/sampleQueue

The command is not available in the current context (e.g. required subsystems or connection to the controller might be unavailable).

I also cant find an option to add the queue via the admin console on the GUI.
Any ideas?
Thanks

A: If you have JBoss 7 web (Java EE6 Certified), It doesn't contain JMS implementation (HornetQ) as it has not been approved yet. JBoss 7 Everything (NOT Java EE6 Certified) contains JMS implementation.

A: For other people which have the same message while using JBoss 7.1.x:
You should add the in the file standalone/configuration/standalone.xml a new subsystem for JMS (<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:messaging:1.1">). You can look into the standalone/configuration/standalone-full.xml for that subsystem or simple use the standalone-full.xml.
And you should use the following command:
jms-queue add --queue-address=MyQueue --entries=queue/MyQueue,java:/jms/myApp/MyQueue
EDIT:
On WildFly you need may be also to add
<server xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:3.0">
  <extensions>
      ...
      <extension module="org.jboss.as.messaging"/>
  </extensions>
</server>

A: Although the JMS configurations are now in standalone-full.xml, we can configure standalone.xml to get JMS queue support. You can follow the steps mentioned in  CONFIGURE A JMS QUEUE IN STANDALONE.XML OF JBOSS AS7
. After configuring this, you can start JBoss server with standalone.xml configurations.

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Assembla tags itself as "inspired by open-source". Behind assembla seems to be a lean-mean global consulting firm. Assembla offers project hosting packed with features such us project management (via Trac), source code management (via Subversion), wikis, dicussion boards, releases. Registering to the services entitles you the privilege to manage and join projects, open-source or private. These features come free and standard.
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This is a little old, let me just ask you: How was/is it, is it still as you wrote it then?
Yes, I am still actively using my Assembla account for my private projects. I don't actually have something mission-critical on them but I am mostly utilizing the subversion hosting service. I do this to have one central repository across different development machines. Even my production apps update directly from their svn server.
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The Mosaic Pavement
by GABRIEL VASILE OLTEAN
Expert Inspector of NGLR for Western Region; Past Worshipful Master, ZAMOLXIS Lodge, no. 182, Deva
"The interior decoration of a masonic lodge comprises ornaments, accessories and insignia. The ornaments are: the mosaic on the floor - respresenting spirt and matter, the shining star and the laced edge, which remind us always the first of the presence of God and the second of the protective wall" - cites Charles W Leadbeater from the ritual of mixed masonry in his work "Freemasonry - Rites and Initiations."
In the center of the Temple, on the ground, there is a rectangular floor, with black and white tiles, called the mosaic pavement (theoretically, cubes seen perspectivally), where a relgaion obtains between the sides, either 2:1 (the long square) or 1.618.../1 (the golden number), thus coming up with a surface proportional to the total area of the Lodge. Thus we see that practically the moasica, placed in the center of the Lodge is a microcosmic representation of the whole of creation and is by itself a sacred central area - whence the interdiction to ever step on the mosaic when the work of the Lodge is underway. The pavement symbolizes the indisociable operative complementarity of the two cosmic principles: the initiate must know how no longer let himself be dominated by the confrontation between positive and negative forces, to know (it is indispensable) how to use it, to master it so as to work constructively.
In Ancient Egypt, the mosaic was never stepped on except by a candidate and the masters of ceremony, and only at precise moments (by the Past Worshipful Master for the fulfilment of his tasks, by the First Expert when he took the light of the sacred fire, or by the sexton when he spread frankincense on the altar of the Temple. An extremely important aspect of the mosaic pavement is that, being placed in the middle of the Temple, framed by the three colonettes (which represent the Worshipful Master, the Senior and Junior Wardens), must be avoided by walking in a square, in a symbolic sense. The current of energy cross the floor, some along the length, some along the width, in lines that remind of the warp of a canvas.
Upon opening the work, the Trestle Board is depicted on this pavement, which varies with the first three degrees. The mosaic pavement signifies different things according to the traditional mode of work in the lodge, or the masonic rite employed.
The French Rite specifies that the pavement adorned the threshold of the geat porch of the Temple and showed that this is one of the ornaments of the Lodge, being the emblem of the intimate union among masons. Here it was explained to the Apprentice that he "could not stand on the mosaic pavement to contemplate the interior of the edifice". This started above from the seventh step, as we can well conclude by an attentive research of the Trestle Boards of the first two degrees.
The Rectified Scottish Rite speaks too little of this pavement, noting that "the mosaic pavement adorns the threshold of the great veranda of the Temple. It covers the entry to the subterranean part of the Temple between the two columns, to a crypt that held holy idols and especially the pledge of the alliance between the chosen people and the Creator: the Royal Ark (Ark of the Covenant).
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite does not describe in any way this ornament. As to the decoration of the Lodge, it is said however "the floor of the lodge is the pavement in alternative black and white squares. When it is thus decorated, a pavement is achieved wit the shape of a long square, placed in the center of the Lodge, decorated on the model of the latter".
The York Rite affirms that "the mosaic pavement represents the floor of the Temple of Solomon", having the added laced edge. It is obvious enough that it is about a symbolic contribution in what regards the floor of the Lodge, because in the Bible the floor of the Temple isn't described as an series of black and white squares: "and the floor of the Temple was made from cypress planks" (3 Kings 6:15).
Whereas in the Emulation Rite (the Anglo-Saxon Rites are more precise in their descriptions) specifies that "the mosaic pavement may rightly be considered the wondrous tiling of a freemason Lodge due to its diversity and regularity. Thus the diversity of beings and objects in the world surfaces, as well the ensouled ones as those that are not". In the complementary course of the Rite of Emulation (in the fifth part) it is specified: "our lodge is adorned with mosaic pavement to mark the uncertainty of all terrestrial vanities... as we step on this mosaic, our thought must return to the original idea that we imitate and act as honorable men and masons". Mosaic pavement is presented as an image of faith, harmony, understanding..
Outside the definitions offered by different masonic rites, the mosaic pavement may be approached under many aspect, two of which seem edifying to us:
• The floor of the Lodge,
• The route of squares for the tracing of planes,
When we approach the mosaic pavement as floor of the Lodge, we are forced to distinguish between the pavement of operative and speculative Lodges.
In the first case, we specify that Lodges were usually annexes to the construction site, attached to the construction on the Southern side of the Work (to receive more light and to have the wall of the edifice for protection. It is extremely clear and evident that in this case no floor was imposed (nor would any be functional). The tiling that constitutes the mosaic is fragile in contradiction with the dimensions (weight) of the tools of freemasons (sledgehammers were very heavy). If we are talking about a surface for permanent cutting and polishing of rock, we can easily imagine that the floor of such a place was permanently covered by fragments, remains, abrasive dust. Not in the last place, we must note the fact that mosaic was principally fixed in especially prepared mortar in which designs were first marked that etched the image or drawing that was the purpose of the mosaic.
In the other approach, that of the speculative Lodges, a symbolic rug laid in squares may be laid on the floor, or it may be build from alternating black and white tiles, the decision being that of the Lodge. The notionc of mosaic pavement cannot be discussed before the appearance of Grand Lodges.
As a route of squares - as network of right angles - to trace planes is another mode of approach specific to operative lodges, which must distinguish:
A directory route of the edifice that must be understood after we describe the Medieval constructin site at the beginning of the work: on a leveled and cleared surface (treated with charcoal), a scheme of the main lines of the edifice was traced with the help of a rope covered in chalk. There
are documents to this effect that attest the describe practice, which reminds of certain answers from the masonic catechism. To the question: "how do you serve your Master?", there is the answer: "with charcoal, chalk and clay".
A technical assistance set of squares would be another variant of this approach. An amenably arranged surface, spread in regular squares through lines traced for inumerable uses, the first and most important being that of assembly table. It also served to establish easily a series of angles, in an approximate way that was sufficient for a mason (taking four divisions on a line, and on the perpendicular seven at one extremity, a reasaonbly 60° angle is obtained). In fact, we can imagine the banal math copybook paper that has helped us trace with more facility (and more precision) the geometrical shapes that tortured (or didn't) us in the geometry problems in elementary school.
The black and white, chessboard-like pavement is thus the mosaic pavement. In what pertains to the term "mosaic", there are two different opinions, one refering to Moses and one to the technique of decoration. Each school has its pros and cons, more or less logical and valid.
"The canvas of ours lives is a mixed thread, the good together with the bad" wrote Shakespeare. Anything is characterized by a combination of good and bad, light and shadow, joy and sadness, positive and negative, yin and yang. What is good for me may be bad for you, pleasure is generated by pain, etc.
Following the thread of the current Paper, we may say with certainty that the mosaic is not mart of the elements of Judaic architecture and that the mosaic pavement is a contribution of modern speculative Masonry, operative lodges never having been squared this way. It is obvious that the current exposition is not and does not wish to be an exhaustive work. It is a somewhat complex approach of an important symbol in the decoration of the masonic Temple and it wishes in fact to the a paper addressing an open question:
- The mosaic pavement is the floor of the Lodge (as the rituals consider it) or is it the space limited by the three pillars Power, Wisdom, and Beauty?
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A suspended 'G' in the centre of the lodge above the Masonic Altar.
The Masonic letter G
Source: Masonic Vibes
by Paul Foster Case
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. St. John 1:1.
All in all that is all there is to the letter G. But I have found that if you make things to simple people tend to take them as unimportant.
I have not been able to determine when the letter G was introduced into Speculative Masonry as a symbol.
The letter G is not derived from the Operative Masons of the Middle Ages, and formed no part of the architectural decoration of old cathedrals.
Whether it entered the symbolism under the influence of those Rosicrucian's and Qabalists who joined the Order during the last half of the 17th century, or whether it was introduced at some time subsequent to 1717, when the first Grand Lodge was established at the Apple-tree Tavern in London, is impossible to tell.
The letter G is the initial of Geometry. This makes it a symbolic summary of the entire Masonic system. The heart of Freemasonry is a doctrine founded on the science of geometry. In the old Masonic Constitutions it is specifically stated that Masonry and Geometry are one and the same.
It is no secret that the letter G is a symbol for the Deity. It so happens that God is the English name of the Grand Architect of the Universe. The fact that G is the first letter of God is not the only connection between the symbol and the Deity.
Its Greek equivalent is the initial of Gaia, the earth Mother, eldest born of Chases, whose name is the root of the noun geometria, geometry.
Gimel, the Hebrew correspondence to G, is the initial of gadol, majesty, and of gebur, strong, words used to designate the Deity throughout the Hebrew sacred writings. Gimel itself is regarded by the wise men of Israel as being the alphabetical sign of the sacred wisdom which is founded on the science of geometry.
So basically we are back to St. John 1:1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
When I was raised to a Master Mason, I was told to learn the following lesions:
The Pot Of Incense Symbolizes man, the pot being the physical body, the Incense being the mind of man, and when they are lit, the heat given off being the spirit of man as given to him by God.
The Beehive Symbolizes unity of purpose, with just one leader, for life and just one goal, the betterment of the hive.
The Anchor And Ark The Anchor is an emblem of Jesus Christ who gave his life to ensure us a safe harbor to find rest in. The Ark is an emblem of God, that divine ark that carries us through a lifetime of trials and tribulations, and finally to our Heavenly home.
The 47th Problem of Euclid Is commonly excepted to represent the physical body, the psyche, and the spiritual, and this figure being the complete man. Let us just suppose the 47th problem of Euclid represented the life spirit, the human spirit, and the divine spirit. The life spirit being Friendship, the human spirit being Morality, and the divine spirit being Brotherly Love. This figure could represent the perfect man.
The Hour Glass Is an emblem of human life. Like the hour glass, when the first grain of sand falls it is a fact that the last grain of sand will fall too. When man is born it is a fact that he will also die. The difference being that man has control over how he lives his life and the sand only falls down.
The Sword Reminds us that we should be ever watchful and guarded in our thoughts, words, and actions, because all of these will be recorded in the Great Book of Life, that all men are judged by when" they die.
The Scythe Is used as an emblem of Death but it is in reality an emblem of transition from one life to another. Because as this mortal life comes to an end it brings with it the beginning of a spiritual life.
When I went through York Rite Masonry, it was explained to me the meaning of all these lesions.
When I went through my reception into Scottish Rite Masonry, even more lesions were taught and explained to me.
When I was admitted to the Thirty-Third Degree, came the Surprise of my life. No more lesions, no more explanations, I was only told to remember a few simple facts and to do one thing, which changed my whole outlook on life.
1. Any man who fails, in his duties to God, fails mankind and himself.
2. While you live, you should work to secure for all people their rights and voice in its government.
3. You must labor to enlighten and teach mankind.
4. To teach the people their power and their rights.
5. To let the enemies of mankind be your enemies.
6. Come to no terms with them, but complete surrender of their ways.
7. That even though I been exalted to the Thirty-Third Degree, I would still be among my equals in every Blue Lodge and that all "worthy" Master Masons are my Brothers.
Now the one thing that changed my life was, I was informed that it was not enough to just know or just understand the lessons of Masonry, I had to live the lessons of Masonry.
Believing this I feel that I will be "A life time Apprentice" my whole life. When the time comes to return this physical body back to the ground from wince it came.
The sprit that lived in this body will be returned to God as a "Fellow Craft" and then at the feet of God the labors of my sprit will be judged by God.
Then and only then, if God finds the work of my sprit as "true work, good work", will my sprit be raised from a dead level to a living perpendicular on the angle of a square by God.
In this belief, I will live my life as "A life time Apprentice", always trying to subdue my passions and learning to improve myself.
The Masonic letter G reminds us that our every act is done in the sight of the Great Architect of the Universe.
"By letters four and science five, this "G" aright doth stand, in due Art and Proportion; you have your answer, friend."
What are the "letters four"? It is believed that they stand for "YHWH", the name of the Great Architect of the Universe (pronounced "Yahway". (sometimes pronounced Jehovah) in the ancient Hebrew language, from which the Bible was translated:
Which is the 5th science? Geometry.
The Letter G stands for "Geometry", which is the mathematical science upon which Architecture and Masonry were founded.
When did the letter G become part of the Square and Compass? No one knows exactly, but it is believed to be somewhere between 1730 and 1768, here in the United States. The "G" is not used in the center of the square and compasses in all jurisdictions around the world.
In Hebrew, the language our Bible was originally written in, it is called Gheemel (or Gimel) and has a numerical value of 3.
Throughout history, we see reference to the number 3 when we speak of the Supreme Architect of the Universe... no matter which language we speak!
Gimel (in slightly different forms) is the 3rd letter of many Semitic languages including Phoenician, Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Syriac.
Phonecian: Gimel (11th century BCE)
Greek: Gamma (9th century BCE)
Aramaic: Gamal (800 BCE to 600 CE) (800 years Before Common Era
to 600 years after Common Era)
Hebrew: Gimel (3rd century BCE)
Syriac: Gomal / Gamal (2nd century BCE)
G Throughout the Centuries
B.C.E. means "Before Common Era". The Common Era (C.E.), also known as the Christian Era and sometimes as the Current Era, is the period beginning with the year 1 onwards.
The term is used for a system of reckoning years that is chronologically equivalent to the Anno Domini (A.D.), which is Latin for "In the year of our Lord".
Therefore, the 3rd letter of the Phonecian alphabet, "gimel", was in use 11 centuries Before the Common Era, which is 8 centuries before the Hebrew language...give or take a few hundred years.
Why give or take a few hundred years? While scholars who study languages are very thorough; we have to remember that they have very little from which to study.
Much of our knowledge of ancient languages comes from the study of hieroglyphics carved into stone and the subsequent attempt to determine which time frame they were carved; from mummies and their accompanying sarcophagi (carved wooden coffins), etc.
Note, however that while the letter G is the 7th letter in the English, Latin and Romanic alphabets, in Russian, and some others, it is 4th; in the Arabic the 5th, and in the Ethiopian language, the 20th.
These languages are much "younger" than the "ancient" languages and most, therefore, are propagations (changes that occurred) to the ancient languages throughout the centuries due to many factors.
The letter G in Freemasonry stands for both the Great Architect of the Universe and Geometry....or, to be more technically correct, it stands for Geometry under the Great Architect of the Universe.
Just as the Supreme Architect of the Universe watches the revolutions of the planets and stars in the sky, so does HE, who placed each of us here, watch each of our movements, hears not only our words, but our thoughts, as well ...and it is to HIM that we are ultimately responsible.
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Wednesday September 22nd 2010.
Tsukimi (moon watching fest) is at the beginning of autumn, when the September moon is full. It's a celebration of harvest.
All round forms are honouring the moon & completeness. Of course the rabbit belongs to the moon myth – the Chinese believe it is harvesting, the Japanese that it is making mochi (hence the green tea mochi in my bento. There's some fennel 'pampas grass' as well, a corn 'moon' (+ shiitake mushroom 'dark side of the moon') and earthly veggies like carrot and potato (patty) noodles with leek and Swiss chard. All seasonal veggies and one of the first apples of the year!
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Fairview Mountain and Snowcapped Peaks of the Bow Range. I captured the original image a few years ago while on a hike one day in May to Lake Agnes Tea House. It was a view overlooking this glacial mountain valley around the Lake Louise area with peaks of the Continental Divide and Bow Range that seemed to stretch on and on to the southeast. It was truly a sight to see with those peaks seemingly rising from the evergreen forest with blue skies and clouds to complete the setting for this part of Banff National Park! That's the story behind a similar black & white image I posted here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/23740183284/in/album-7...).
Now to the digital painting I finished up here...this was a continuation of a few techniques I practiced from my last painting with the use of a rake style brush to paint trees and add what I'd call texture, especially across the landscape. Some of this was also re-watching and more practice of a tree painting technique I observed with a Bob Ross painting video here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlucWfTUo1A). I used more of that brush rake to add trees going up the mountainside, feeling it gave a more realistic look then a simple brushstroke. For the clouds, I practiced more with an oil type brush to build up different shades to add texture and depth. That started with a darker tone on certain edges and then a whiter shade on other portions. I could then use a blend to mix the brushstrokes with areas in between. With the sky, I continued the practice of adding a watercolor brush with a slight hue to match the placement in the sky: near the mountains would have more of an earth tone while higher up would have more sunnier tones.
In the right foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Canadian Rockies and Banff National Park
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Unlike at other points in American history, racism in the post-racial twenty-first century is marked by subtlety. Racism is a multi-sited system of legal, economic, and social practices that promotes inequalities and that is built on a history of institutional and individual actions. At the individual level, racism is a discriminatory attitude based on racial and cultural assumptions and employed to place as much social and psychological distance between one's own group and perceived inferior groups. Although overt racism has decreased since the 1960s, it has been supplemented (some say, supplanted) by "colorblind racism," which refers to "contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics" (Bonilla-Silva, 2010, p. 2). Racism is difficult or even impossible to track since the ways in which people articulate racial ideologies are indirect and somewhat obscure (Essed, 1990). The lower socioeconomic status of racialized minority groups is explained not through biological racial difference but by way of cultural inferiority (e.g. "they just don't like to work hard," or "they don't have the same family values as us").
Far more destructive and fundamental, however, is the structural framework of racism which serves to distribute wealth and advantage to some but not to others. Unequal access to education, housing, employment, and health care are among the many manifestations of structural racism. A 2005 article in the Washington Post cites three separate studies detailing persistent health care disparities between whites and blacks. Advantaged groups hold that we should collectively move beyond race by disallowing preferential treatment to minority groups (e.g. "opportunity is available to all who work hard enough") rather than recognizing the prevalence of structural discrimination such as targeted arrests in African American neighborhoods (Alexander, 2010), unbalanced political representation for minority neighborhoods (Bonilla-Silva, 2010), and the redlining of African American businesses and home mortgages (Oliver and Shapiro, 1995).
As an historian, I examine immigrants' perceptions of racialized groups in the southernUnited States in the post-Civil Rights era. My work investigates the ways in which immigrants migrating fromSouth Asia (in particular,India andPakistan) toHouston,Texasbetween 1965 and 1980 positioned themselves in increasingly obscured racial hierarchies. As a result of passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, large numbers of immigrants from all overAsiaandLatin Americabegan to settle in theUS. A relatively select group of Indians and Pakistanis applied for admission to theUSeither as university students or under the 1965 act's third or sixth preference—that of professionals or skilled labor currently in short supply. Many of these students remained in the country to fill the demands of the labor market. Unlike recent South Asian immigrants, this group was highly professional and highly educated or seeking advanced degrees, allowing these "elite" communities to achieve socioeconomic success with unanticipated speed.
My research uncovers how immigrants became racialized citizens and how this experience evolved over time. It is important to note that for the immigrants I examine, race entailed more than just attitude or ideology; it was the strategic choices made as a result of those attitudes. In particular, race informed major life decisions including location of residence, marital partners, and schooling for children. Upwardly mobile immigrants eventually settled in affluent, largely white suburbs and enrolled their children in majority white schools. In accordance with the theory of segmented assimilation, the "sector of American society [into which] a particular immigrant group assimilates," determines an ethnic group's adaptation (Portes and Zhou, 1993, p. 82). Newcomers to American society construct a racial system predicated on their socio-economic status. Several other immigrant groups during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Irish and Koreans, have similarly used racial hierarchies to advance their own group interests.
Although South Asian immigrants were perceived as racial Others, foreigners, and immigrants, their class standing enabled them to imagine themselves as part of the dominant group, those with power, those who accrued the most benefits from an economic system. In fact, immigrants used their own success to demonstrate that anyone could overcome the strictures of race but that African Americans did not share the same values of education and hard work that South Asian immigrants espoused. This construction of dichotomous value systems bolstered immigrant social status by placing greater social distance between themselves and those historically held at the bottom of the American racial hierarchies.
Seemingly neutral decisions such schooling and housing for immigrants were mitigated by race, whether or not they intended to promote segregation and inequality. South Asian immigrants aimed to enhance their children's life chances, economically and socially through the accumulation of forms of capital such as status based on education and professionalization or power derived from wealth. Yet, acceptance as full, unhyphenated Americans was not possible for South Asian immigrants—or their children, for that matter—due to a process that racialized them as foreigners while it obliged them to racialize others. Through residential self-segregation and school choice, materially privileged Americans strategized to ensure optimal positioning in class and race hierarchies. Thus, the dismantling of legal racist structures through Brown v Board in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act in 1964 among other legislation necessitated not the wholesale reconceptualization of racial ideology but the reframing of its articulation.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2006. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and Racial Inequality in Contemporary America. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Essed, Philomena. 1990. Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures. Translation by Cynthia Jaffe.Alameda, CA: Hunter House.
Oliver, Melvin L.and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1995. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality.New York: Routledge.
Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 1993. "The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 530: 74-96.
Sullivan, Shannon. 2006. Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Privilege. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Bio: Uzma Quraishi is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Rice University. She studies the construction of race by South Asian immigrants migrating to the US between 1965 and 1980.
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Kim chi is an ace up the sleeve, delivering instant, intense flavour to bland ingredients like rice, flour, and eggs. And unlike most condiments that pack that kind of punch – things like hot sauce or fish sauce – kim chi is quite wholesome.
Kim chi fascinates me because it is simultaneously very similar to and wildly different from a preparation that I am much more familiar with: sauerkraut. Both are ostensibly fermented cabbage, but where sauerkraut is thinly sliced and acidic, with an almost floral, yeasty aroma, kim chi is chunky, salty, often burn-your-face-off spicy, with something of a fishy aroma. Sometimes, amazingly, it is also effervescent.
Sauerkraut is made with European-type cabbages like savoy. The relatively low salt content (I use 1.89% salt) and the relatively warm fermentation temperature (15-20°C) favour both the acid-producing bacteria as well as the aroma-producing yeasts that give sauerkraut its characteristic flavours.
Kimchi can be made with any vegetable, though nappa cabbage is by far the most common. It almost always has other vegetables mixed in, things like daikon, green onion, and carrot. A relatively high salt content (~3%) and relatively cool fermentation temperature (4-10°C) favour gas-producing bacteria that give kim chi its subtle effervescence.
While every crock of sauerkraut is a little different, there are really only a few ways that styles of sauerkraut differ from one another. Kim chi is a much more complicated and variable preparation, and when I first undertook its production it made my head swim.
Like many white kids my age, I owe a lot of my knowledge and appreciation of many Asian preparations to David Chang. The kim chi recipe in his Momofuku Cookbook is the first I ever made. It is a frustrating recipe as it uses very imprecise measures ("one small to medium head cabbage") and so can have quite inconsistent outcomes. My other beef with the recipe is that it is incredibly sweet, with sugar being the most important ingredient after cabbage, about 12% of the weight of the cabbage by my measurement.
So starting with the Chang recipe I made several iterations week after week as my mother-in-law continued to bring me heads of nappa cabbage from her garden. By the fifth iteration I had a pickle I was quite happy with. This is how I answered some of the many questions that came up.
What vegetables to use in kim chi?
I came to realize that a major contributor to the flavour that I expect from kim chi, the funky part, is more from daikon than it is from fermentation. So in addition to nappa cabbage I use daikon. Green onion is essential for the flavour I was seeking, plus it's a good pop of green in the sea of fiery red. I also appreciate the visual contrast and crunch provided by carrot.
How to achieve 3% salt content?
One of the most important things I wanted to do with my recipe is dial in the salt content so that I knew exactly how many grams of salt to add per kilo of vegetables. In On Food and Cooking Harold McGee says kim chi should be about 3% salt by weight. The tricky bit is that we're using kosher salt and fish sauce, which is extremely salty. I decided to take the kosher salt quantity from my sauerkraut recipe, then add the fish sauce on top of that.
Should l use sugar in kim chi?
My main problem with the Chang recipe is that it's way too sweet. I plan to eat large amounts of kim chi, and want to feel good about it, so I entirely removed white sugar from my recipe. There is some sugar in the fish sauce, so the kim chi is not entirely devoid of sweetness.
Do you really need to use gochugaru, Korean chili?
In a word: yes.
I was extremely skeptical of the websites that say you absolutely must use gochugaru to make kim chi. I figured it was a bit like a website telling you that you need to use Italian olive oil to make proper pasta: just a bit of pretension. Turns out they are more or less correct.
Gochugaru is quite different than North American chili flakes, mainly in that all the seeds of the pepper have been removed. The flavour is very fruity, and a touch smoky. As the seeds and surrounding membrane are a major source of capsaicin, Korean gochugaru is actually not as hot as chili flakes, which means you can add a lot of it before the mixture gets too spicy. This is good because it gives the kim chi a vibrant red colour. The other important difference is that gochugaru is ground to a consistency finer than chili flakes, but coarser than chili powder.
I made several batches with standard North American chili flakes. They were all tasty, but did not have the real flavour and red-stained brilliance of true kim chi.
What fish sauce to use?
This is one component that I haven't played around with yet. I had a bottle of Squid Brand Fish Sauce in my fridge, so that's what I used in all my experiments. It's likely that different brands have different concentrations of salt and sugar and may require adjustments to the recipe.
Kim Chi Recipe
I chose to write my kim chi recipe as a baker's formula. I distinguish between two types of ingredient: the vegetables and the flavouring agents. When added up the vegetables total 100%, like the flour in a baker's formula.
Crispy kim chi pancakes with sesame and green onion.
87.89% nappa cabbage, cut into strips about 1″ broad and 2-3″ long
7.29% daikon, cut into thin half moons
3.30% green onion, sliced into 2″ lengths
1.52% carrot, julienne
1.89% kosher salt
7.12% fish sauce
3.43% fresh garlic, finely minced in a food processor
3.43% fresh ginger, finely minced in a food processor
1.36% gochugaru
Combine cabbage, daikon, green onion, and carrot. Toss with salt. Cover and let stand at a cool room temperature overnight.
Meanwhile, combine the fish sauce, garlic, ginger, and gochugaru.
The next morning, press the vegetables and strain off the liquid that has pooled at the bottom of the container.
Add the chili mixture to the vegetables and mix thoroughly. Cover and let stand at a cool room temperature for 48-72 hours.
Transfer to the refrigerator. After about two weeks a tanginess will have developed.
Store tightly covered in the fridge.
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const db = require('APP/db')
const User = require('../models/user')
const {expect} = require('chai')

describe('User', () => {
  before('wait for the db', () => db.didSync)

  describe('authenticate(plaintext: String) ~> Boolean', () => {
    it('resolves true if the password matches', () =>
      User.create({ password: 'ok' })
        .then(user => user.authenticate('ok'))
        .then(result => expect(result).to.be.true))

    it("resolves false if the password doesn't match", () =>
      User.create({ password: 'ok' })
        .then(user => user.authenticate('not ok'))
        .then(result => expect(result).to.be.false))
  })
})


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Police arrest 5 persons for allegedly impersonating as Journalists
Moshood listed items recovered from the suspects to include 13 cell phones, fake Journalist identity cards purportedly issued by non-existing media outfits.
Five suspects impersonating as journalists
The Nigeria Police Force on Friday announced the arrest of five persons who had allegedly specialised in impersonating as Journalists to gain access to important occasions so as to steal from important personalities.
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A statement signed by Mr Jimoh Moshood, the Force's spokesman, said that those arrested included the gang leader, one Musa Auwalu, 43, from Kano, Kolawole Akinbode, 50, from Ogun and Umar Abba, 53, from Adamawa.
Also arrested was Abdullahi Muhammed, 55, from Bauchi, and Muhammad Sale, 60, from Kano.
The statement said that the suspects were arrested in Ogun, Edo, Abuja and Kano.
Moshood listed items recovered from the suspects to include 13 cell phones, fake Journalist identity cards purportedly issued by non-existing media outfits, and a house in Kano built by Auwalu.
"The Inspector-General's Intelligence Response Team trailed and arrested the suspects after complaints of stolen phones from important personalities, who attended a wedding in Abeokuta, Ogun on July 8.
"The house built by Auwalu in Kano, with proceeds of such thefts, has been identified," he said.
Moshood said that the suspects had confessed to the crime and also admitted to the various roles they played in the commission of such crimes over time," he said.
The spokesman said that the suspects had also confessed that they specialised in impersonating as Journalists to gain access into venues of important occasions to steal.
"Investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects still at large. All the suspects will be arraigned on completion of investigation," he said.


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Thyroid profiles in a patient with resistance to thyroid hormone and episodes of thyrotoxicosis, including repeated painless thyroiditis.
Matsuo Taniyama Fumiko Otsuka Teruaki Tozaki Yoshiyuki Ban
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association
Taniyama M, Otsuka F, Tozaki T, Ban Y. Thyroid profiles in a patient with resistance to thyroid hormone and episodes of thyrotoxicosis, including repeated painless thyroiditis. Thyroid. 2013;23(7):898-901.
Thyrotoxic disease can be difficult to recognize in patients with resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) because the clinical symptoms of thyrotoxicosis cannot be observed, and thyrotropin (TSH) may not be suppressed because of hormone resistance. Painless thyroiditis is a relatively common cause of thyrotoxicosis, but its occurrence in RTH has not been reported. We assessed the thyroid profile in a patient with RTH and episodes of thyrotoxicosis who experienced repeated painless thyroiditis.
PATIENT FINDINGS
A 44-year-old Japanese woman with RTH, which was confirmed by the presence of a P453A mutation in the thyroid hormone receptor ß (TRß) gene, showed a slight elevation of the basal levels of thyroid hormones, which indicated that her pituitary RTH was mild. She experienced a slight exacerbation of hyperthyroxinemia concomitant with TSH suppression. A diagnosis of painless thyroiditis was made because of the absence of TSH receptor antibodies, low Tc-99m pertechnetate uptake by the thyroid gland, and transient suppression followed by a slight elevation of TSH following the elevation of thyroid hormones. The patient's complaints of general malaise and occasional palpitations did not change throughout the course of painless thyroiditis. Three years later, painless thyroiditis occurred again without any deterioration of the clinical manifestations.
Mild pituitary RTH can be overcome by slight exacerbation of hyperthyroxinemia during mild thyrotoxicosis. When pituitary resistance is severe and TSH is not suppressed, thyrotoxicosis may be overlooked.


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