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NFL-best Cardinals continue to evolve, prepare for Panthers
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By DAVID BRANDT
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Vance Joseph thinks it's great the Arizona Cardinals have an 8-1 record, which is tops in the NFL.
The defensive coordinator has also been around long enough to know it doesn't mean much as the calendar moves to November and December.
"The good teams in this league in the second half of the year, they don't stay the same," Joseph said. "They adjust before they have to adjust. Does that make sense? Because the good teams understand that it's going to get harder every week. Teams have two months of film on you."
That film will show that the Cardinals have been one of the NFL's best through nine games on both offense and defense. They'll try to continue those trends against the Carolina Panthers (4-5) on Sunday.
The Cardinals have continued their winning ways despite injuries to key personnel, especially on offense. Quarterback Kyler Murray (ankle) and receiver DeAndre Hopkins (hamstring) missed last week's game against the 49ers, which Arizona still won 31-17.
Those two haven't practiced this week either, calling into question their status against the Panthers. If Murray can't play, veteran backup Colt McCoy showed he can handle the offense, completing 22 of 26 passes for 247 yards and a touchdown in his first start of the season.
The Panthers are desperately trying to stay in the playoff hunt after losing five of their past six games. Carolina made big news Thursday by signing veteran quarterback Cam Newton to a one-year deal, but it's unclear if the 2015 Most Valuable Player will be able to help by Sunday.
WALKER'S OPPORTUNITY
Second-year quarterback P.J. Walker will likely get a chance to lead the Panthers on Sunday with Sam Darnold out at least four weeks with a shoulder injury.
It might be Walker's only opportunity to make a good impression: The Panthers probably aren't paying Newton up to $10 million to sit on the sideline.
Walker was 1-0 as a fill-in starter last season, but threw two interceptions in the red zone.
Walker played for Panthers coach Matt Rhule at Temple and then signed with the Panthers after a successful stint in the XFL, where he was the league's top player before it was shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"I'm going to just revert back to when I played in the XFL, to be honest," Walker said. "I had a lot of fun, enjoyed the moment. I'm extremely excited, but when I go out there, I want to stay extremely excited, because the guys around me need that energy, need that juice, and I want to bring it on Sunday. That's the most important thing - I want to bring that juice."
He may need more than juice. Walker inherits an offense that has scored just one touchdown in its last 36 possessions.
Linebacker Markus Golden has emerged as arguably the best player on the Cardinals defense and his blue-collar personality is widely respected by teammates.
The 30-year-old veteran - known by the nickname "Junk" - leads the team with nine sacks this season. He has helped the Cardinals keep a consistent pass rush despite losing three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt, who is likely done for the season with a shoulder injury.
Golden has spent 5 1/2 of his seven NFL seasons with Arizona. He signed with the New York Giants in 2019, but by the middle of 2020, the Cardinals wanted him back enough that they traded for him.
McCAFFREY'S ROLE
The Panthers wanted to ease Christian McCaffrey back into the game last Sunday after he missed five weeks with a hamstring injury. The team did just that with McCaffrey playing just 49% of the team's offensive plays. He normally plays upward of 90% of the team's offensive plays.
McCaffrey still managed to gain 106 yards from scrimmage despite his limited role. But expect his number of snaps to increase as the weeks go on, beginning on Sunday.
TOUCHDOWN JAMES
The best offseason acquisition by the Cardinals might have been signing running back James Conner, who is tied for the NFL's lead in rushing touchdowns with 10.
Conner has consistently found the end zone despite splitting time in the backfield with Chase Edmonds. The 26-year-old has scored his 10 TDs despite running for a relatively modest 454 yards.
That might change against the Panthers: Edmonds (ankle) doesn't look like he'll play Sunday, which means Conner will likely get the majority of the carries. Some of the workload could also go to Eno Benjamin, who scored his first career touchdown last weekend against the 49ers on a spectacular 21-yard run.
NEW-LOOK OFFENSIVE LINE
The Panthers' already subpar offensive line lost starting center Matt Paradis to a season-ending torn ACL injury last Sunday and left tackle Cam Erving to short-term injured reserve with a strained calf.
The Panthers tried right tackle Taylor Moton at left tackle earlier this season, but they don't like the idea of weakening two positions by moving him to that side. Instead, Rhule is expected to start Dennis Daley at left tackle and Pat Elflein at center. Carolina has surrendered 25 sacks this season and the Cardinals will likely be looking to bring the pressure.
AP Sports Writer Steve Reed in Charlotte, North Carolina, contributed.
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Sonnenstrahlung oder Solarstrahlung ist die von der Sonne ausgesandte Strahlung, die auf verschiedene physikalische Effekte zurückgeht. Der Teil des elektromagnetischen Spektrums der Sonne, der durch die Wärmeabstrahlung der heißen Sonnenoberfläche produziert wird, hat die größte Intensität im Bereich des sichtbaren Lichts (Sonnenlicht). Abhängig von der Wellenlänge wird die Sonnenstrahlung von der Atmosphäre mehr oder weniger stark absorbiert. Die an der Erdoberfläche eintreffende Intensität hängt zudem stark vom Wetter und vom Sonnenstand ab.

Neben der elektromagnetischen Strahlung wird von der Sonne auch massebehaftete Teilchenstrahlung emittiert, die aber meist nicht zur Sonnenstrahlung gerechnet wird. Sie besteht aus den geladenen Teilchen des Sonnenwinds und den Neutrinos, die bei der Kernfusion und Folgereaktionen im Innern der Sonne entstehen.

Sonnenspektrum

Das Spektrum der elektromagnetischen Strahlung der Sonne hat ihr Maximum bei etwa 500 nm Wellenlänge (blau-grünes Licht), reicht aber von harter Röntgenstrahlung mit weniger als 0,1 nm bis zu langen Radiowellen. Das kontinuierliche Spektrum ist von etwa 140 nm (UVC) bis etwa 10 cm (Mikrowelle) näherungsweise das eines Schwarzen Strahlers mit einer Temperatur von knapp 6000 K, was der Temperatur der Photosphäre entspricht. Dieses Lichtspektrum unterteilt sich mit den Grenzen unserer Augenwahrnehmung in Ultraviolettes Licht (UV: 100–380 nm), sichtbares Licht (VIS (engl.: visible): 380–780 nm) und Infrarotes Licht (IR: 780 nm – 1 mm).

Im Bereich von naher Infrarotstrahlung (NIR) bis ins UV enthält das Spektrum eine Vielzahl von Absorptionslinien, die sogenannten Fraunhoferlinien. Sie entstehen durch Strahlungsabsorption in der Photosphäre der Sonne.

Sonneneruptionen, deren Häufigkeit von der Sonnenaktivität abhängt, erhöhen die Strahlung im Röntgenbereich kurzfristig um mehrere Größenordnungen, tragen aber nur wenig zur Gesamtstrahlung bei. Oft werden sie von langwelliger Radiostrahlung begleitet (), die abhängig vom Intensitätsverlauf als Typ I bis Typ V kategorisiert wird.

Radiostrahlung
Die ruhige Sonne strahlt nicht nur im Lichtbereich, sondern im gesamten Radiofenster. Dort ist ihr Spektrum nicht mehr das eines schwarzen Körpers, vielmehr steigt die effektive Temperatur von ca. 6000 K bei 1 cm Wellenlänge auf 1.000.000 K bei 10 m an. Ebenfalls mit der Wellenlänge wächst der scheinbare Durchmesser der Sonne, die Strahlung wird zunehmend von der äußeren Atmosphäre dominiert. Bei der ruhigen Sonne handelt es sich um thermische Bremsstrahlung freier Elektronen. Die wichtigsten Strahlungsanteile einer gestörten Sonne sind:
 Langsame Strahlungsänderung proportional zur Sonnenfleckenanzahl, dazu auch Solarer Radioflussindex.
 Rauschstürme oberhalb 100 MHz, Dauer mehrere Tage.
 Strahlungsausbrüche oft in Verbindung mit Flares und CME, Dauer Sekunden bis Tage. Sie werden unterteilt in Kategorien I bis V in Meter- und Dezimeterwellen und Mikrowellenbursts in Zentimeterwellen, Synchrotronstrahlung, supra-thermischer Elektronen, die um Magnetfeldlinien spiralen.

Sonneneinstrahlung auf die Erde

Solarkonstante

Die bei der Kernfusion im Innern der Sonne entstehenden Neutrinos tragen 2 % der Fusionsleistung fort. Die gesamte elektromagnetische Strahlungsleistung der Sonne wird durch die thermische Strahlung der Photosphäre dominiert, die um weniger als 0,1 % schwankt.

Die auf die Erde fallende Leistung schwankt wegen der Exzentrizität der Erdbahn im Jahreslauf um knapp 7 %. Die mittlere Leistung pro Fläche wird Solarkonstante genannt. Sie wird außerhalb der Erdatmosphäre betrachtet und beträgt
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Dämpfung durch die Atmosphäre

Die Intensität der Sonnenstrahlung ist am Boden geringer als außerhalb der Atmosphäre, deren Absorption und Streuung stark wellenlängenabhängig ist: Der vom menschlichen Auge wahrnehmbare Anteil, welcher knapp die Hälfte der solaren Strahlung ausmacht, erreicht bei klarem Wetter und hohem Sonnenstand zum größten Teil die Erdoberfläche. Die nicht sichtbare Strahlung ist ganz überwiegend nahe Infrarotstrahlung (NIR), die ca. 46 % der Strahlungsleistung ausmacht und zu etwa einem Viertel in der Atmosphäre absorbiert wird, hauptsächlich durch Wassermoleküle. Von der Ultraviolettstrahlung, welche weniger als 10 % der Strahlung ausmacht, dringt UVA weitgehend durch, hauptsächlich geschwächt durch Rayleigh-Streuung, die auch dafür verantwortlich ist, dass der Himmel blau ist und man im Halbschatten braun wird. UVB wird von der Ozonschicht stark absorbiert, UVC von Luftsauerstoff.

Die genaue Berechnung des Strahlungsflusses in Abhängigkeit von Sonnenstand und Höhe über dem Meeresspiegel ist schwierig. Näherungsweise berücksichtigt man lediglich die zu durchdringende Schichtdicke der Atmosphäre in Air Mass-Einheiten (Luftmasse) und die Sonnenscheindauer. Wolken vermindern die Direktstrahlung, Dunst erhöht die Diffusstrahlung. Diffusstrahlung und Direktstrahlung an einem Ort ergeben zusammen die Globalstrahlung.

Bestrahlungsstärke

Fällt die Sonnenstrahlung schräg ein, verteilt sie sich über eine größere Erdoberfläche, die Bestrahlungsstärke sinkt. Dieser Effekt verläuft mit dem Sinus des Höhenwinkels. Der Einfluss der Jahreszeiten in den Tropen ist kaum merklich. Da der Sonnenstand dort am Mittag immer steil ist, herrscht ein Tageszeitenklima. Außerhalb der Wendekreise besteht ein polwärts zunehmender Unterschied zwischen Sommer und Winter und zwar sowohl durch den Einstrahlungswinkel als auch durch die polwärts immer größeren Unterschiede bei den Tageslängen.

In Mitteleuropa steht die sommerliche Mittagssonne 60° bis 65° hoch und strahlt bei idealen wolkenfreien Wetterbedingungen mit einer Direktstrahlungsstärke in der Regel von etwa 700–900 W/m². Im Winter sind es nur 13° bis 18° und bei kalter trockener Luft können zu Mittag durchaus auch Werte über 800 W/m² erreicht werden. Die Sonnenscheindauer wird für Einstrahlzeiten gezählt, in denen die Direktstrahlung Werte von über 150 W/m² erreicht und der Schattenwurf anfängt Kontrast zu zeigen.

Die Erwärmung der Erdoberfläche hängt von der Dauer des hellen Tages ab. Ende Juni beträgt die Dauer in Mitteleuropa etwa 16 Stunden, im Dezember 8 Stunden. Das Verhältnis der gesamten eingestrahlten Sonnenenergie beträgt zwischen diesen Monaten etwa 5:1 bis 10:1, wird aber durch Wärmespeicherung vor allem durch die Meere gemildert (Seeklima). Im Gegenzug strahlt die Erdoberfläche Wärme(strahlung) ab, Tag und Nacht. In den längeren Nächten im Dezember länger als in den kürzeren Nächten Ende Juni, was ebenso die gesamte resultierende Erwärmung oder Abkühlung der Erdoberfläche beeinflusst.

Beim Mikroklima hängt die Bestrahlungsstärke sowohl vom Einstrahlungswinkel ab als auch von der Sonnenexposition.

Strahlungsbilanz

Die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche wird global von der Strahlungsbilanz, dem Strahlungshaushalt bestimmt. Damit wird das Zusammenwirken von Absorption und Reflexion sowie Reemission und Streuung erfasst.

Messung

Die Messung der Sonnenstrahlung erfolgt über Pyranometer (parallel zum Boden platziert), Pyrheliometer (der Sonne nachgeführt) oder Sonnenscheinautographen. Letztere sind in der modernen Messtechnik inzwischen veraltet und wurden vor allem zur Bestimmung der Sonnenscheindauer benutzt. Die Solarkonstante wird hingegen außerhalb der Atmosphäre über Radiometer gemessen.

Siehe auch
 Strahlenbüschel

Literatur

Weblinks

 Detailliertes Sonnenspektrum bei Astronomy Picture of the Day vom 27. Juni 2010.

Einzelnachweise

Solarenergie

Meteorologische Größe
Belichtung (Architektur)

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jay-Z released a music video on Friday that features the rapper addressing the pain of infidelity as he appears in a confessional booth opposite his wife Beyonce.
Set partly in a church and also featuring the couple's 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, the "Family Feud" video pays tribute to family ties and female empowerment.
"We all lose when the family feuds," Jay-Z sings. "A man that don't take care of his family can't be rich."
The video is the latest from Jay-Z's hit album "4:44," in which he responds to allegations of cheating revealed by Beyonce in her 2016 Grammy-winning album "Lemonade." It briefly shows an unidentified couple having sex, until the woman stabs the man in the back.
Within an hour of its release, the video was the top trending item on Twitter.
Jay-Z, 48, confirmed in a New York Times interview in November that he had been unfaithful to Beyonce earlier in their nine-year marriage.
The rapper's soul-baring "4:44" album on love, life and social issues was widely seen as an apology to his wife.
The couple, one of the richest and most influential in the music industry, have reconciled and Beyonce gave birth to their twins in June. [nL4N1K52AJ]
Heavy on symbolism, the eight-minute-long "Family Feud" video shows the musician walking into a church holding the hand of a white-clad Blue Ivy and taking a seat in the confessional booth.
Beyonce, dressed in a black, priestess-like robe, watches silently from a pulpit and later sits listening on the other side of the confessional screen.
Directed by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, the video also envisions a future in which a grown-up Blue Ivy and other women of colour, portrayed by actresses Mindy Kaling, Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Thandie Newton and Niecy Nash, appear to rule the world.
Jay-Z has a leading eight nominations for the Grammy Awards in January, including the top prizes of best album, song and record of the year. [nL1N1NX1LQ]
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Chinese smartphone maker Huawei registered the single biggest gains in the smartphone market last year. Data released by research firm IDC shows that Huawei, which shipped over 100 million smartphones last year as it opened a wide gap over compatriots Lenovo and Xiaomi who are fourth and fifth respectively in the pecking order. Traditional market leaders Samsung and Apple are still first and second respectively in what was a mixed year for them.
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The top two, Apple and Samsung will have to re-strategize in order to keep their shipment volumes up and sales figures impressive. A radical iPhone redesign could bring back the masses while analysts also believe another wow Apple product will be enough to keep everyone happy. Will the second generation Apple Watch do exactly that? Will the new large iPad Pro prove to be a success when tablet sales are still on a free fall? Apple's focus is also likely to turn to new markets. The company's smartphone sales were up by 76% in India, which is seen as the next battleground now that China, its current cash cow, has joined Europe and North America in the saturation charts.
No one has experienced the contraction of the Chinese market more than homegrown startup Xiaomi whose three-year meteoric rise to the top was stopped in its track as its growth slowed for the first time. Xiaomi's customer base is 90% Chinese and it has only recently started expanding to markets outside its Asian home turf. Brazil, India and several African countries starting with South Africa are now on its radar.
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La Sagra dei Pomi 2015 is now History. Already this morning, a few of the more able-bodied ragazzi del villaggio have started to dismantle what all from the three-day festival. Seemed a great success…. from the Friday START to the Sunday FINISH. Lots and lots of people. And, Thank God, too!!! Everyone here worked their proverbial cullos off setting up. Food & drink mostly and the tents & decor.
Il Poggiolo was nightly illuminated with candle-lit lanterns in all the windows and the outside lights turned on. Felt proud of our small contribution. Otherwise, the village was dark. Dead. All lights & life were on full blast over at the sagra on the other side of the river.
The high point of the festival weekend was the Sunday Apple Cake Competition, the Float Parade and La Dansa delle Fanciulle. The last is an exercise in bad make-up and hair-dos. A Codiponte signora won for the best apple cake, though practically, she wins every other year. The boys dressed as can-can girls won the Float Parade… petticoats & wigs include. In the middle of the Float Parade, a woman fainted and was carried off in an ambulance. Very efficiently. Too much food & drink is suspected. But what else WAS there to do? No games, no sports, no tests of strength, beauty or intelligence. What was offered and in abundance was lifting fork to mouth with a luscious mouthful of asado meat or downing plastic cups of the local wine or domestic beer. Occasionally, you could dance or bop to the canned tunes of the moment. Not that I am complaining. I ate asado three times so good was it. And, I enjoyed touring the festivities, from the improvised piazza HQ to the frantoio… the olive press… saying Ciao! to those whom I met and knew while sipping a chilly white wine… in a plastic cup. Il pezzo di genialita' was the Sunday evening concert given by a Lunigiana musician… Bugelli… nearly a cult figure backed with a small accompaniment of a banjo strummer and a guitar player. Hippie hair. Had Bugelli sung in English, I would have thought to be in the Tennessee mountains. Packed crowd of all ages too and right up to the Midnight hour.
Now, like all the previous years, the little community of Codiponte is thrown into the netherland between the August vacations and the return to work or school. I miss Summer already, hot though it was. Gads.
Our Little Man has been busy. Twice a day, early morning and late afternoon, he works on his beans. Erecting the bean architecture adds an element of excitement! Gads.
Early morning w-a-l-k with The Dogs on a dimly lit Saturday before the Nice Big Man comes to pick 'n fix the earthquake damage from 2013 in La Casetta. I am thoroughly amazed with myself that I could get up, be dressed and out the door BEFORE 7AM!!!
By the way… we are coming upon Our Two-year Earthquake Anniversary next Sunday, June 21st at 12:33PM. I may go out to lunch with My English Friends at the Spino Fiorito to mark the occasion. Pro-secco for starters.
Our Little Man has been diligently tending to his Bean Patch since the half-efforts of his June 2nd Holiday Hiatus. Can't miss an episode of this, can we? Gads.
A Saturday on the cusp of May & June and during a long holiday weekend for Italy's 4th of July… La Festa della Repubblica! For a lucky few, like Dr. You, it means five days of working around the house, in the garden or, how about in the bean patch? Gads.


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The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Tuesday upheld the fine of over Rs 2,423 crore levied by markets regulator Sebi on four directors of PACL Ltd for illegal fund mobilisation through various schemes from the public.
The order comes following appeals filed by the company and its directors against an order passed by Sebi in September 2017, which imposed a penalty of Rs 2,423.16 crore on them.
The company and its directors had mobilised funds to the tune of over Rs 2,686 crore by running unregistered collective investment schemes between 2013 and 2014.
Passing the order, the tribunal said "in our view, the collection so made by the appellants and the other entities was wholly illegal and the decision of the AO (adjudicating officer) that the amount so collected under the collective investment scheme is the illegal profit earned by the appellants and other entities does not suffer from any manifest error of law. The total amount of realisation made by the company and its directors amounts to illegal profits made by them."
"We are of the opinion that it is no longer open to the appellants to agitate the matter as the same has been decided by Sebi which order has been affirmed by this tribunal," it added.
The tribunal further noted that the amount mobilised during the period from September 2013 to June 2014 has not been refunded to the investors.
The regulator in September 2017 slapped a penalty of over Rs 2,423 crore to be paid jointly and severally by the directors of the firm -- Tarlochan Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Gurmeet Singh and Subrata Bhattacharya -- for violating provisions of the Prevention of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices (PFUTP) Regulations.
PACL was engaged in mobilising funds from the general public by sponsoring various schemes which were none other than collective investment schemes and which were being carried out without obtaining registration from Sebi as required under the regulatory norms.
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The sound of Austen
Posted on March 1, 2016 by Jennifer Petkus • 16 Comments
I wonder what Jane Austen sounds like, and by that I don't mean just what her voice sounded like, but the entirety of her world. As I sit here and write I can hear the hum of the refrigerator and the high-pitched whine of the space heater when I crank it to eleven, competing with the high-pitched whine of the tinnitus in my right ear. A little earlier I could hear my neighbor playing the piano and sometimes I hear one of the mysterious electronic beeps that comes from some unidentifiable piece of technology. And occasionally I hear a car pass by and a plane fly overhead.
I'm also proofing my book and to do that I instruct my computer to speak the text aloud, using a digitized voice called Serena, which has a very decent Received Pronunciation accent, aka BBC narrator voice. (You should hear Serena speak Welsh, and if you have a Mac, you can.) Yesterday I was cleaning house and to multitask I was listening to a Librivox recording of Emma, narrated by the very popular Elizabeth Klett, who has recorded a lot of Jane Austen fan fiction. I like Klett's voice, especially her flat American Midwest narrator voice, the closest we have to RP.
What is RP? Well I don't want to tempt you down that rabbit hole, but broadly speaking it's the voice we imagine we hear when we listen to the BBC World Service, even though I most associate the voices of Neil Nunes, Bola Mosuro and Alan Kasujja with the BBC because those are the Newsday presenters I hear when I listen to the BBC at 10 pm. Nevertheless, Received Pronunciation is the voice that's supposed to represent generic, educated British, even though only 2% of the UK population speaks it.
It's based on the accents found in the southeast of England among those who attended posh boarding schools and went to Oxford or Cambridge, and I think it's more an aspirational voice than an actual one. In fact it was originally called Public School Pronunciation, although there's some debate how far back the term Received Pronunciation was coined or popularized.
When I did a not very rigorous search of English accents on YouTube, I found a lot of examples of Cockney, Yorkshire, Welsh and Scottish; and Liverpool and Birmingham and Bristol, but relatively few examples of Hampshire speech, where of course Austen was born and spent the majority of her life. I guess it's not considered very remarkable.
Back in 2013 many people answered an accent tag challenge that required them to read a list of words and answer questions about common words, like what is a generic term for a carbonated beverage? The Hampshire respondents sound to my ear like generic Brits and I have an image of Jane Austen speaking this way. Interestingly, if you listen to Derbyshire respondents to the accent tag, you will have a completely different impression of Darcy.
There's a fallacy, however, in thinking that present-day accents are representative of what people sounded like two hundred years previous. Most people understandably believe that at the time of the American Revolution, we Americans sounded like the British and over time we rebelled against the Received Pronunciation of our oppressors and started pronouncing the "R" in "hard." But again a not very rigorous Google search finds lots of people maintaining that it was the British who diverged, that we Americans stayed true, with the implication that the British accent of 1800 was much closer to the American accent of today. I can never really find any source that I consider authoritative, however, most of the articles being attributed to "a linguist."
I find this speculation to be suspect for several reasons. British immigrants to the US would have come from all over the British Isles and the experience of the New World, the contribution of indigenous languages and the rapid expansion and consequent isolation of people in the vastness of America of course altered our speech. I think the American accent at the time of the revolution must have been all over the map.
Nevertheless this does make me wonder how rhotic Austen would have sounded. Would she have pronounced the "R" in "hard" and would she have said the "A" in "bath" with a broad "A"?
Beyond accent, I also wonder if Austen herself would have really spoken the complex, well thought out sentences she gave to her characters. Would her speech patterns have resembled Darcy's when responding to needling from Caroline Bingley: "Have you anything else to propose for my domestic felicity?" Or later when Elizabeth refuses to join the group of Darcy, Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst: "You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth."
Did people really talk like that back then? Today we'd say: "No, you go on. You don't need me to be a third [or fifth] wheel." But how much wittier what Austen writes—unless everyone talked like that. Were they so verbally skilled they could come up with clever bon mots like that on the spur of the moment, or did people actually pause to stop and consider what to say before they said it? I like to think of Elizabeth exchanging quips with Darcy like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, but maybe their conversation would have been interspersed with pauses for thought.
(Of course I've read enough examples of speech from Austen's day to know that people really did talk that way. As clever as Austen is, it's dangerous to credit her with too much, like those list of words and phrases she invented, when I'm sure in many cases hers are just the first recorded uses of those phrases.)
Another thing that divides us from the aural experiences of the Regency is that no one would have known how their voice sounds to others. Austen would have never heard her recorded voice or the voice of anyone else. She could have never played the guess the narrator game, when you're listening to a documentary and your husband asks, "Who's that?" and you condescendingly reply, "Peter Coyote."
She would have never heard the 60 hertz (or 50 hertz in the UK) whine of mains electricity. She could have heard recorded music, however, in the form of a music box, but not in the sense we know it. In general, I think she would also be largely unfamiliar with the repetitive sound of machinery, unless she should visit something like a mill.
And this aural landscape would have extended to her word choices. Nothing would have ever beeped or buzzed (except for bees) and she would never have complained of static or feedback. I sometimes wonder if it was a quiet world, like what a city dweller imagines the countryside must be like. But then I remember when being in the country of awakening to the sound of chickens and ducks and I think of those Regency servants who woke early to get the fires started or the sound of passing carriages and the realization Chawton Cottage wouldn't have had double-glazing. And there would have been more songbirds. So maybe it wasn't a silent world.
And finally there's just the actual quality of Austen's voice. Would it have been nasally, deep or musical? And here we come to the one thing I almost sure of—her voice would have sounded sarcastic, arch and dry. I would not have it any other way.
Or maybe I'm not sure. The issue of what Austen sounds like has proven to be difficult to pin down. I asked my friend Chris Sandrawich, who is with the Midlands chapter of the Jane Austen Society in the UK, if he had any thoughts on the matter. As usual he replied with his usual very learned and entertaining opinions, but then he would reply again and again with qualifications and elucidations. Finally I received this:
"What little I have read so far in research throws a shadow of doubt over everything I had suggested in my first e-mails to you. Do not rely on them. It is also likely that my views about Dear Jane will have to undergo quite a sea change. I'm not sure I will like it. Meddling with things and digging up the past, they say no good comes of it and I'm being humbled into agreement."
So apparently I've blundered into deep water and all I have resolved is that it's impossible to know what Austen sounded like. If I want to continue imagining Austen with her perfect Received Pronunciation, I should feel free to do so.
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16 Responses to The sound of Austen
Jeanne Garrett says:
I loved the audio clips…what a hoot. We lived in Kansas for a while and I could never detect an accent, yet they made fun of my being from and sounding Kentucky. In early training as a telephone representative, they tried to white-bread our voices so as to not have an accent. At the beginning of my training, I had to work really hard on my voice after I was accused of sounding like a hillbilly operator. Yeah…well…I could pick out a Yankee at ten paces. It is all what you are used to.
Our homes are full of noise and you don't notice it until you lose electricity. Then the house is dead quiet…and with no light, unless there is an outside source…moon or approaching daylight. I didn't realize the sound absorbing effects of snow on cushioning outside street noise. Thanks for the post.
Intriguing. I've given a great deal of thought to some of your topics having taken a few linguistics courses myself. In the introduction it was indeed posited that there was a "great vowel shift" in England and other shifts that didn't happen in the U.S. Unfortunately I sold back my textbook many years ago and couldn't tell you their sources.
The thoughts have come up because I've noticed that several times Austen uses the abbreviation "a'nt." It sounds like they did drop the R in some cases. I wonder if this means not all of her characters spoke that way…
On an even less scholarly note I've heard that the closest we can get to Shakespeare's English is spoken in the Appalachians, in very isolated communities.
And I'm with you on wanting Jane Austen's tone to be dry and sarcastic. xD
Now here's some food for thought on ambient noise… the industrial revolution is upon them. What a wild change of soundscape that must be!
Jennifer Petkus says:
Summer, my husband who is the real history buff of the family, told me the same thing about the Appalachian accent, although he said "hillbillies sound like the Tudors," but he also couldn't remember any source. The problem with highly educated people is that they know too much. Anyway, I think the Tudors sounding the Clampetts would be a hoot, like Susan Kaye's southern-fried Austen. Personally I've always thought of the Tudors sounding like Mafia (not Oxford) dons. "You want I should whack Thomas More, boss?"
*know too much and don't remember where it all came from. Especially in the day of the internet, where you can get bad information and the brain is an imperfect filing system.
I about lost my tea at the idea of the Tudors sounding like Mafia dons! I love it.
Rose Fairbanks says:
Tudors as Mafia dons! ROFL! You're officially the coolest person on this blog. 🙂
This was such a great post! Fascinating and humorous! And I read it while hearing a sound maker over a baby monitor, my fingers click on the keyboard, dings from facebook, an airplane go by and my stomach growl. Oops. I forgot lunch! I am also having some tinnitus. It sucks.
Sigh. The second comment was supposed to be a new comment thread.
Hi Jennifer. Like Joana, I hail from This Sceptred Isle and find accents are a fascinating subject, so thanks so much for this post. The way that they can change within such short distances never ceases to amaze me. I've lived in Yorkshire most of my life now but was born and brought up in Leicester in the East Midlands, the next county south from Derbyshire. I've been told that my accent has migrated north over the years but no-one will ever mistake me for a natural born Yorkshirewoman. Our son is totally Yorkshire in speech, having been born here and lived just about all of his life here too.
From where we live, the Lancashire border is only about 30 miles away and I sometimes travel over there to work. The local accent is so different to around home. It's still obviously Northern English but with with totally different inflections.
I've always assumed that Darcy's accent would be a lot more RP than Derbyshire because of his education at boarding school (Eton?) and Cambridge. Children always want to "fit in" with their peers and would change their accents fairly quickly I imagine, even if they didn't have formal teaching or practice.
If you're wanting another example of a Hampshire accent, I'll put a link in at the end of this comment. It's of the late journalist and sports commentator John Arlott, who was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire. He was famous for his commentaries on cricket, a sport which I believe is somewhat alien to my friends in the US!
When it comes to ambient sounds where I'm sitting, typing this on my iPad, I can hear the ticking on the clock on the mantlepiece, my husband and son talking and the occasional bark from our dogs. We live in a very quiet area, with no passing traffic, but we do have double glazing, so although I can see the trees in our garden blowing in the wind, I can hardly hear that wind right now. I would imagine that the sounds Jane Austen would have been familiar with would have been mainly natural in origin, apart from things like carriages and carts, certainly in Steventon and Chawton. Southampton and Bath may have been somewhat different, as would have been her trips to London.
Here's the link to the YouTube clip:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmCGACjhI4
Thanks for that link to Arlott. And my friend Chris, who's also a Yorkshireman, regaled me with lots of strange little words from up there, with this entertaining clip of American's trying to figure out some expressions: https://youtu.be/Ds5HUO08ysU
For the most part, my impression is that Austen didn't indulge in too many regional expressions and I wonder whether that's an attempt to be RP.
Sociolinguistics at work. People not only emulate the people they want to fit in with, they change their language when they're trying to distance themselves from some people as well. Darcy frequently wanted nothing to do with certain people (or wanted to pretend that he wanted nothing to do with certain people) and now I can just imagine him code-switching back and forth between RP and Derbyshire depending on his mood.
carylkane says:
Such a fun post! 🙂
Jennifer Redlarczyk says:
Now that was fun! I loved the video and hearing all of the different accents. I would love to go to the UK and hear them in person, needless to say. Thanks for this post! Jen Red
You're very welcome, Jen Red.
Jen Pet
I also imagine she would have heard the sounds of everyone else in her house. There would have been no forced air heating or air conditioning to mask the sound of others and I imagine there would have been no conscious soundproofing beyond what is provided by brick, wood, plaster and lath. I also wonder if Brits at that time were as loud as Americans are now, because when you travel to the UK, you realize we really are a noisy bunch.
Debbie Fortin says:
Thanks for this informative post. To me the sounds of Jane Austen's era vwould've been the clop of horse hooves, rattling of carriages and wagons over gravel or cobblestone, pianoforte playing, playing children, birds singing, dogs barking, horses neighing….It would've been noisy in its own way. Love the vidoe/audio clips….I like how Jane's speech might have been.
Joana Starnes says:
Thanks, Jennifer, I really loved this post, what a fun topic you've chosen! Loved the audio clips too, so nice to hear all those accents put together, linked to characters and real people!
I've never thought about how Jane Austen's accent might have sounded like, just assumed she would have spoken pretty much in the same way as people do in the southern counties, or as a friend from Lancashire would say, "like a sothern Jesse 😀 ". I do have a soft spot for the Lancashire accent btw, I think it sounds very warm and welcoming, but that might just be because I have many friends there. Love the Derbyshire accent too (how couldn't I?) and I think Darcy's speak must have been a very pleasant mix of Derbyshire lilt and cultured Etonian. But the rest of the household would have sounded a bit closer to Mrs Patmore than to Mrs Hill 😉
Thanks again, loved it!


Thank you for everyone who has responded to the survey so far. I have just short of 500 responses, it would be really great to double that before the survey closes, so please share with your friends.
The survey has generated a lot of comments and I think I owe it to those who have bothered to comment to collect together some of their questions and address them here. Unfortunately I can't discuss the thinking behind the questions - otherwise I might bias the answer - and so I won't talk about specific questions.
There are a lot of interesting areas that I have left unexplored. That is deliberate. In order to keep the survey reasonably short and within various technical constraints I had to pare down the range of things I explored considerably.
For example: does the status of the creator of the work make a difference? Some people do seem to think that a very wealthy rock star has less right to complain about copying of their work than a penniless artist: others disagree. It would be very interesting to know what difference that made and I considered asking questions to explore that distinction. Unfortunately those questions had to be cut.
... if the artist gets paid 0.02p out of a £15.99 product, or is dead, then it's a little difficult to argue that copying the CD counts as stealing from them.
It is often asserted that people who illegally download music (in particular) are more likely to buy music than people who do not. I have no idea whether that is true, but there is clearly a view that it is OK to circumvent a publisher and download something without paying if you are "testing" the work out. Provided you actually buy a copy if you keep it, then you have done nothing wrong.
in the situation where [someone] wants to listen to an album but doesn't want to pay for it, while I marked that I thought it was OK, there needs to be a little nuance there. If he wants an album so he can hear it and decide whether or not he likes it and is willing to spend money, that's totally fine. If he wants it specifically so he doesn't ever have to pay for it, that's a problem.
This was another of the questions I wanted to ask but fell on the cutting room floor.
One of the main aims of this survey is to find out what people think is acceptable not what people think is legal. But that causes a problem for some people who believe there is inherent value in obeying the law whatever their own morality might be.
James's position is to give what philosophers call "deontological value" to the law. His concern is that the survey doesn't capture that distinction.
The answer to James is that I am aware that the law affects people's views on right and wrong and I will try to take that into account. If I have sufficient responses from different jurisdictions world-wide (I am hopeful) then I may be able to analyse whether the jurisdiction in which someone lives affects their views.
Gervase Markham also wonders why I don't ask people "do you think this should be legal so you could do this". That would be a fascinating. In fact my first plan for the project was to find out what people thought was or was not legal. I think it would be really interesting to know what people think the law actually is and that seems to me logically prior to asking them whether they want the law to be changed (you can't want to change the law if you don't know what it is).
All I can say is that what my supervisor and I ended up thrashing out was different. However if anyone wants to help out with a survey of that or something else of interest later in the year, I would be very interested in suggestions (see my remarks at the end).
Another problem with the survey is that, assuming the changes go through, UK copyright law will permit some of the actions outlined in the survey that are currently illegal.
That may be right (there's a lot of "it depends") and if people would like me to I would be happy to produce an analysis of all the questions and their legality once I am finished with the dissertation.
Reuben Thomas is unhappy that his answers may not reflect his true belief.
I said "yes" to almost every part of every question, but that does not mean that I think that it's good if everyone copies and shares everything; it's rather that the current situation is bad in so many ways.
He then goes on to give a number of situations where (to paraphrase) the market is distorted, which in turn may justify behaviour that would not be justified if those distortions were not present. Origami Girl and Saxon Christopher raise similar points.
My hope was that people would understand the survey to be about the world as it is with all its perfections and oddities. I wanted to avoid being overly abstract. I thought that concrete "real world" situations might bring clearer answers. Whether I am right about that remains to be seen. However the point is taken and, if I had more space, would be something worth exploring.
Paul and Gervase both suggest asking a question along the lines of "would you do this?". That would be a logical since I ask what other people would do, why don't I ask what the person answering the survey would do. The simple answer is that I am constrained by university rules on ethics. If I ask whether someone would do something that may be unlawful (or in some places and cases criminal) that is very much more intrusive than asking them what they think is OK. It is also very close to asking them "have you ever done this?", which would be an even more intrusive question.
Much as I would like to know, I have had to avoid questions like this altogether.
I considered allowing free text comments in the survey (either for each question or for the survey as a whole). Maybe I should have allowed them as an option. I was keen to keep things short and simple and I thought the value of adding free text might be less than the cost in additional cognitive load on people answering the survey.
Given the very interesting questions and comments from people on completion, maybe that was a mistake and I should have added something to let people express their frustration at the narrowness of the categories offered (something I struggle with in surveys) and to offer me the benefit of their wisdom. I am grateful that so many have bothered to add their comments to the survey.
Thank you for all your comments. I am sorry if I haven't (yet) addressed something you have said. I am really grateful for all the feedback.
One of the main themes seems to be that I didn't answer questions people wanted answering. I hope to have this dissertation done and dusted by May / June, but I will still have some time left on my surveymonkey subscription so if anyone wanted to do the hard work of canvassing people to answer another more detailed survey, or a survey about other things (eg what you think the law should be) I would be more than happy to offer legal, technical and statistical advice and support.
I think we know far too little about what the general population thinks about copying and the law, so the more the merrier. Maybe a kickstarter to raise funds to buy a properly sampled audience is something to try.
I hope to be able to publish the data in open data format and some commentary on the final results later in the year, but for now please keep sharing and let's see if we can hit 1,000 respondents.
A Question that was not asked is the term of copyright too long. After all some of the more vexing aspects of copyright, such as orphan works (and the problems they create for indexing public library books) often largely go down to the problems created by life plus 70 years . The very long term of copyright has created a lot more 'things' that are still in copyright that are simply a cost to society with little or no benefit to creators (and associated value adding industries) that have mostly gone to god decades ago. Surely 50 years from publication would be enough- a 'book' published when you were twenty would still be in copyright until you are 90.
a 'book' published when you were twenty would still be in copyright until you are 70.


Could you help me? I would like to make a navigation with this blue button at the corner of master page to full Page. How can I do it?
And another question is it possible to make kind of side navigatoin with my app? It would be perfect if I could make my detail page as full page.
If I'm not wrong you might have created a parent view for split view, similarly you have to create a view and in it return the instance of sap.m.App with a id associated to it. This id(idMainAppControl)is key, which would be used in Component.js router configuration.
In Component.js router configuration define a routing rule/patter by passing Id for targetControl and for targetAggeration as pages.
Thank you! But I have one more problem which I don't know how to solve. That's why I have a problem with Side Navigatoin. My applicaton loades first of all Master Page and only when I click on the list appers Detail page. How can I change this?


Summary: Rhino for OS X is shipping as of June 2015.
For more information on Rhino for the Mac go here.
… many months of work are still left to do.
Since developing for the Mac is completely different from developing for Windows, we need to rewrite major portions of Rhino.
Some of the 3rd-party libraries we use are not available for the Mac. We have to write libraries, buy a different one (with potentially different features), or leave out those features. This is not all sorted out yet.
Testing on two different operating systems could delay release. We have not started final field testing yet, so we do not know how difficult this will end up being.
Rhino takes advantage of Windows and will take more advantage with each new release. As time goes on, it will become more and more difficult to have the same functionality on both platforms. For example, Windows includes VBScript, so we need to write only a few lines of code to provide robust scripting in Rhino (RhinoScript). I'm sure that Mac has something like that, but it would likely have completely different functionality, requiring a rewrite of RhinoScript, and new documentation and examples. This is not sorted out yet.
To feel like a real OS X application, the Rhino user interface will need to be completely rewritten. We don't know how to make sure that it feels right. We are hoping that Apple will help with this.
Tech support could be crazy challenging with two different feature sets, scripting languages, 3rd-party developer tools, and 3rd-party plug-ins.
Some 3rd party developers are using the Windows .NET SDK. _Many these products will likely not be ported to OS X.
Porting to the Mac requires a substantial up-front expense and three years of work just to find out what the real difficulties are.


Of all the pieces and parts I have added and played with in LMCE, nothing has been more stable and to me a sort of "token" of the system than my little tablet orbiter. Web Orbiter 2.0 looks amazing on my PS Vita screen, if I was a Dianemo user I would surely get the Red Line skin for my iPhone, and Qorbiter is looking pretty amazing as well for android users. The little black box that could is however looking dated I am afraid. Today on a much needed break from breaking my install I took some time to give my favorite device a makeover.
I can't seem to get Designer working on either of my main computers so decided to edit/replace/reload until I figured out where all the various pieces went. The results so far are linked below. They are pretty large images in order to see the detail in the icons so I am posting links.
iOS themed skin, based on Titanium.
**Edit, the security mode icons were changed as well, I noticed most skins use the default ones. At-home-secure = a cup of coffee, Do-Not-Disturb = a Do Not Disturb sign, Armed = a more detailed house with locks and chains. The rest of the modes I will update when I get ideas.
Nicely done. If you have a completed skin folder at some point, you can work with us to fold it in.
It will take me a while longer to redo these in a format that is usable outside of 800 x 600. I employed a few 'cheats' to make things line up that would be called lazy programming at best lol. The bottom left button for example is actually drawn onto the mainmenu.png so that it would render in-line with the category buttons on the left. I also want to play around with and figure out some mysteries on font color and why some skins pull icon files for specific buttons while others do not. An example of this would be Blue Crystal puts the 3 different media icons on the TV, Video and Audio buttons. Titanium pulls a single icon for all phone buttons that uita, basic and slate do not. These are all probably explained on those web instruction videos you did a few years ago and would require Designer working.
Could I steal 10 minutes of your time on IRC for some assistance if I cant get Designer working?
Yes. If I am available, I will help.
In there you can see the column 'MainFileName' which shows you the icon's name and path.
BlueCrystal was really nice, and is something I miss about my old 8.10 install. I tried to keep the files saved to a thumb drive when I reinstalled with 10.04 but misplaced them and wrote over them. After all the work I am doing on my orbiter skins I would love to find a way to get BlueCrystal back to use as my on-screen skin.
So far, no I havent used any tools at all to redo my skins as I cant seem to get that working. I am taking each image from the <secret place they are kept> folder and editing them with Inkscape and Gimp. I then reload the UI after each edit to make sure it went into the place I thought it was supposed to. Lots of pen and paper notes to keep track of images that are reused multiple times.
I selected Titanium as a base because, wherever the database lives or whatever configuration file exists for that skin tells it to put the icon into the comm. icons as you explained below. Other than that I am tinkering with rendering tricks to place icons in various places that I know a button will be. Its horrible and it will only work on the screen I am developing it for at the resolution and offsets I use but until I get QuickDesigner, HA Designer or MySQL Workbench it's the best I can do.
An example of this is the main background image is A x B pixels in resolution. The B resolution is 6 times the draw resolution of a button file ( 266x266 ) or 6 buttons tall, though the user and room buttons seem larger. My TV button will always be second row down, and 3 buttons in from the left. Starting from that dot, I can draw any button I want onto the background image and leave my button file completely transparent. The touchscreen is looking for an input in that grid, it doesn't know I am clicking an invisible overlay button on a pretty background. Again this works fine for my use but to share this with lmce and eventually have it be a selectable skin I will need to keep a clean "non-cheating" copy of my image files and do this the correct way using the configurations you mentioned.
**Edit. I found that pesky gray square. It pulls the area surrounding the photos as they are displayed on the "locations" and "users" page. A gray background on that page = a gray background around the image when it displays it on the main page. I suppose I am stuck mapping my mainbackground image and custom coloring the button away from transparent and back to colored to overlay and seem transparent.
Wanted to post an update on this as I have made some pretty drastic changes. With the possibility of having something I create folded into future releases, available to others to use I could not continue putting energy into an iOS look alike. As I worked on recreating Apple's interface I kept thinking to myself, "this is not an Apple."
I still have the skin mods I did to get as far as the screenshots posted if anybody wants them to continue on their own.
My focus of late has been the dramatic re-skining of the current UI. These images will load onto any resolution as they don't alter any placement or UI instructions, they just replace the images it would load.
Conceptually I am continually impressed each time I load a sample onto my orbiter. It's an organic design where the buttons connect via living cells that stretch out across the screen. This takes advantage of the way buttons populate from left to right as if they are growing from the main category buttons to the far left. The bottom left menu button has been replaced with a cyborg face who controls the expansion of the cells and appears to control the system/house. I am pushing up against the limitations of the orbiters ability to render fine lines and cheating pixels to stretch that limit.
Replacement for the Media buttons that populate based on adding devices such as TV, Videos, etc.
Replacement for the Light Category button that goes in the far left column and is always visable.
Keep in mind that photobucket didnt upload the transparency. These are the actual squareb.png files and the black areas are transparent.
I have read and re-read both the wiki articles on HA Designer and QuickDesigner. In them it says something along the lines of "It will now ask you information about your database files." Where are these files? In the HA Designer wiki there is a clue about what those files may be when it says "make sure to backup your pluto_home file. I am going to guess that pluto_home.(something) is my database file?
I am looking at a few different programs that could reverse engineer the UI and give me the functionality of QuickDesigner on another machine but to use them I am going to need something to open up. Where on my hybrid would such a file or database exist? I understand nothing about sql but again from wiki articles it appears that there is an externally hosted "master database" and there is a version of that somewhere on my core. I have started hunting for it folder by folder but haven't bumped into it yet. Several of these directories have a thousand or more subdirectories so I am very much looking for a needle in a haystack when I don't know what a needle looks like.


Here is a look at what Real Estate activity has been going on this week in West Vancouver. There were 13 new detached listings ranging between $939,000 - $9,980,000. There was 1 sale, 1 price change, and 5 listings that were cancelled, terminated, or expired.
In the Attached market there were 3 new listings ranging from $739,000 to $1,148,000. There was 0 sales, 2 price changes and 2 listings that were cancelled, terminated, or expired.


text:
import json
import requests
import sys
import time

import bluemix

#Set the desired language, Classifier name, and the location of the training CSV file
data = {
    'training_metadata': ('{"language":"en","name":"My Personal Assistant Classifier"}'),
}

files = {
    'training_data': ('training.csv', open('training.csv').read()),
}

#Send the request to create the classifier
try:
	r = requests.post(bluemix.url, files=files, data=data, auth=(bluemix.user, bluemix.pwd))
	print r.status_code
	try:
		data = json.loads(r.text)
		newClassifier = data['classifier_id']
		print "New Classifier was created with ID: %s" % newClassifier
	except:
		print r.text
		sys.exit(1)
except Exception, e:
	print e
	sys.exit(1)

#Keep checking the status of the classifier until the training is done
status = "Training"
s = requests.session()
while status == "Training":
	r = s.request(method='GET', url=bluemix.url + '/' + newClassifier, auth=(bluemix.user, bluemix.pwd))
    #If the serviice returns a 200 OK, let's process the json payload
	if r.status_code == 200:
		try:
			data = json.loads(r.text)
			status = data['status']
			print data['status_description']
		except Exception, e:
			print e
			status = "ERROR"
			sys.exit(1)

		#If we are still training, let's wait 60 seconds
        if status == "Training":
			time.sleep(60)
        else:
			print "Done training"

#We are done training, was the training successful?
if status == "Available":
	print "The classifier %s is now available and ready to accept Classify requests" % newClassifier
else:
	print "The classifier %s is NOT ready, please delete it, resolve the issue and re-submit a new classifier for training" % newClassifier

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Astrid Synnøve Gunnestad (19 August 1938 – 18 May 2016) was a Norwegian journalist and radio presenter.

She was born in Asker. She started her journalistic career in Morgenbladet in 1971, and was hired by Norsk Ukeblad in 1972. From 1987 to 2007 she was their editorial manager, then, from 2007 to her death in 2016 she presented her own radio show for P4. The Association of Norwegian Editors' Honorary Award was bestowed upon her in 2015.

References

1938 births
2016 deaths
People from Asker
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian radio personalities
Norwegian women writers
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Explore the transits of September 2022
Shantamo · August 29, 2022 ·
In September all big planets are retrograde. They are like actors standing against the light. A good time to look at our role in the society, and at the feelings and thought patterns the global situation brings up.
A Time for Intimacy
On the fifth Venus enters in the sign of Virgo, in the Gene Keys this position corresponds to Gate 59, Intimacy. The New Moon on August 27 introduced this theme, which will be with us until the Full Moon on Sept 10. Whatever comes up in our relationships asks for our attention now. When we can look honestly at our own contribution to the situation and take full responsibility for it, Venus generously rewards us.
On Sept 10 Mercury goes retrograde, until Oct 2nd. Since this is a personal planet, we feel the effects directly in our life. Make sure to communicate clearly, double-check business deals, exercise patience with malfunctioning devices (and blabbering people).
The Dilemma of Judgment
A side effect of the retrograde movement is that Mercury is most of the month in Gene Key 18, with its keynotes of Judgment, Integrity, Perfection. In this Gene Key, we collectively use mental energy to judge ourselves and others. Nothing is ever good enough. The potential of the Gift of Integrity is to heal our mind from these patterns, which have developed as reactions to emotional wounds in the past.
When we can look at our judgments objectively, we discover that they are not personal. They are like bumps, or creases in the mental field, of which we are a contributing and receiving part. Our thoughts are not our own, they vibrate on the mental plane, constantly interacting there with a collective in space and time. What we heal in ourselves contributes to the healing of the field, thereby loosening the identification with judgment for everybody. The essential quality of Perfection arrives when all judgment has fallen away. Those who live within this quality wish that everyone can experience the same. Even if their own work is over, they stay around to support others. This Gene Key is connected to the tradition of the Bodhisattvas.
Power of Imagination
From Sept 10 to 22, Mars and Neptune activate Human Design Channel 35-36, Transitoriness. Be prepared for a rich and varies bouquet of experiences, with a common thread of the power of imagination to lighten up times of crisis. That comes from Neptune in Gate 36, whereas it serves Mars well to move forward gently. These are treacherous waters to cross.
The Channel of Money
The last ten days of the month bring gentler energies. On the 23rd, the autumn equinox, make sure you are in a place and with people that feel right to you. On this day Mars changes Gate and activates the Channel of Money with Chiron. Now there is a beneficial influence to advance your material circumstances. Be clear about your boundaries, so that Mars' energy does not feel held back or used. Then your initiatives are not only good for you, but can also benefit other people. Because the deeper purpose of this Channel is to create prosperous communities, you will feel fulfilled when that happens. The material flow may also increase, especially when Earth joins this Channel in the first week of October.
The Dance of Covid and the Planets
Shantamo · November 5, 2020 ·
My dear colleague Marga has mapped the development of Covid-19 with the planetary transits. In this guest blog she presents her conclusions.
These are astrological notes that I took during the months of lock-downs and unlockings, originally published in June as facebook posts, in reference to the main facts and tendencies of Covid-19 pandemic all over the world. I also inserted links of relevant information excerpted from the media. I am now editing and integrating information for people who are not so acquainted with the HD system and also adding more references to facts and events.
It all started when, while reading an article, I realized that the beginning of the outbreak in Italy happened during the so called Incarnation Cross of Contagion, last February 14th.
Incarnation Crosses in Human Design are fixed configurations of the Sun/Earth binomial on the HD Zodiac wheel during the solar year. They're calculated at the actual position of the Sun on a given day and at 88° of Solar arc – roughly 3 months before. Considering the Zodiac wheel, the Earth is always organically opposite to the Sun. So we have basically points in space-time that make a specific configuration for each moment of the solar year. The Crosses always occur more or less at the same time in the year, lasting 2 hours to 4 days (according to a fixed structure), and they bring a special climate, imprinting life with their peculiar energies. Each Cross happens 1, 2 or 4 times in a year, in the different seasons, with shifting of the reciprocal positions of the Sun and the Earth and following a predetermined pattern ruled by the motion of the Sun.
Another important observation I made it's that on February 13th, one day before the Contagion Cross, planet Saturn had entered Gate 60, Limitation (26°22′ Capricorn to 02°00′ Aquarius), after 30 years, and it seemed particularly relevant in a moment in time when all the world was basically locked, limited, restricted… And even if I am not an expert of transits, I decided to go deeper into planetary positions, to see if they could really explain, or describe, what was – and still is – going on.
Marga Eleonora Scroppo is a Human Design reader, Life Coach, musician, and former professional poker player. She currently lives in India.
Marga on the web
So here is the timeline more or less as I originally presented it, with some clarifying notes.
Phase 1: China
17 November 2019: first case tracked down in Wuhan
We all know that word about a new disease, that was killing people in China, spread all over the world around December 2019, but of course it is pretty obvious that it often takes a while before a new virus gets isolated and identified. I did some research and from an article on The Guardian I learnt that, "The first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 can be traced back to 17 November, according to media reports on unpublished Chinese government data. The report, in the South China Morning Post, said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance, and the earliest case was 17 November – weeks before authorities announced the emergence of the new virus". (excerpted from Https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report )
Emblematically, on this very date, we entered the Incarnation Cross of Contagion (17/11 to 20/11).
As of course a virus does not come out of the blue, I have been wondering if the previous Cross of Contagion – 18/8-21/8 2019 – could have been relevant, even though it was really impossible for me to retrieve such information. But, while looking for something else, I came across this headline:
"Virus might have emerged in august"
Https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/virus-may-have-emerged-in-august/article31798472.ece
So, there it was! Another little piece in the planetary puzzle, even though hypothetical…
We have 4 crosses of Contagion every year: February, May, August and November. They probably beat the clock of seasonal flues in different geographical areas with no much fuss, but this time something went differently. Maybe the interplay of Neptune in Pisces (63 cusp 22) and Mars surfing from Virgo (47) to Sagittarius (5 cusp 26)? Or the transit of Mars in Leo (29) during the August 2019 Cross of Contagion (29-30; 8-14), followed a few weeks later by the opposition to Neptune? Neptune, according to traditional astrology, is connected to viral and bacterial infections. And Mars is connected to immunity. Some astrologers do say that Neptune/Mars relationship (opposition in September 2019, square in January 2020) has played a role into it.
Another interesting event: on the 20th of January we had the Fixed Cross of Restriction (a fixed cross happens only once in a year), in Gate 60.4 and, 2 days later, the Chinese government enforced the lock-down in Hubei region.
Phase 2: Italy and the rest of the world
14 February 2020: first Italian (and European) cluster and acknowledgement of possible community transmission in Codogno, Lombardia. The rest is history, we all know what happened. Literally something that will be remembered in history books…
And on the very same day we entered the Incarnation Cross of Contagion (14/2 to 17/2) again… The day before, 13/2, Saturn had entered Gate 60, the Limitation or Restriction, reinforcing the climate set up by the Cross of Restriction on the 20th of January. Around this time restrictions started to take place everywhere, culminating in lock-downs and travel bans all over the world a few weeks later. On the 12th of March WHO declared Covid-19 a worldwide pandemic.
The thing that really struck me about this planetary position is what the traditional I-Ching hexagrams narrative – on which HD Gates are based – has to say about it:
Line 1: don't go out of your home, not even to the courtyard.
Line 2: don't go out of the door of your home: danger!
Line 3: the one who cannot restraint himself will complain.
Line 4: restriction fulfilled.
Line 5: better to sweeten up the restriction.
Line 6: bitter restriction: perseverance will bring disgrace.
Saturn slowly moved through these lines, pacing the different phases and moods of the lock-down, and became retrograde on the 11th of May. Then it lingered on the 6th line, "bitter restriction: perseverance will bring disgrace" with all the problems and conflicts that everywhere people were facing, tired and exhausted of being quarantined. Jupiter had entered Gate 60 on the 20th of April, complicating a situation that was already becoming very tense. While Saturn is at home in 60, because it has itself an energy of restriction and limitation, Jupiter is at total unease, because it wants to expand and freaks out in restraint. It also gives a sense of confidence and optimism, that in this case can translate in the idea that it's ok to let go of any kind of restraint, including mask and social distancing, creating a false sense of being safe, especially since it also turned retrograde on 15th of May, at the same time when we entered the next Cross of Contagion (15/5-18/5), starting a "phase 3" of openings and increasing infections in the states of India who had, up to that point, limited the spreading of the virus, and of exacerbation of the situation in the Americas and in Russia.
Phase 3: India, Brazil, US, Russia
Between the Cross of Contagion of May and the following one in August (17/8-20/08) the countries who were very affected in Phase 2 saw less infections and restrictions. While US, Brazil, Russia and India took the stage with massive rates of infections, with different problems to face and different attitude of the people towards the issue of restraint (self-quarantine, mask, SD etc.)
This phase saw a temporary relief of Gate 60 with Jupiter moving out on the 6th of June, retrograding in 61, and Saturn slowly stationing and retrograding on the 6th line of the Gate, detached and distracted enough not to take anything seriously about Limitations… with Jupiter, Pluto and Uranus screaming from the Channel of Awareness (61-24), and Neptune in Pisces stirring the waters of Information/Misinformation from gate 22. It was indeed a tough battle…
Phase 4: The Second Wave
Soon after the Cross of Contagion in August, on the 24th of the same month, Saturn too regressed to 61, leaving a long moment of interregnum, till it turned direct again on the 29th of September, indicating that the climate of Limitation would return by the time it entered 60 again on the 4th of November, pacing through 60 again and aligning with the last Cross of Contagion of 2020 on 16/11-19/11 and bound to make its final exit from 60 on the 3rd of January 2021. Also Jupiter is bound to return to 60 on 2nd of December and complete its tour of the Gate on the 28th of the same month.
So I guess we will not be really free of restrictions and limitation – and of the virus – until the beginning of the new year, but if the dance of Saturn and Jupiter in and out of 60 and around the Crosses of Contagion provides indeed a description of what has happened, we can say it is likely that we will be free of it by the beginning of the new year, with a wake to the Cross of Contagion of February 2021 (13/2-16-2). Neptune will be lingering in Pisces for a long time, but it has made peace with Mars during the June conjunction and the fact that the sextile will be during the Cross of Contagion on February 13th makes us hope for the best. The next square from Gemini will be in April 2021, but it will be a wading square, probably just the wake of Covid-19… I am not a champion at predictions, but it all makes sense to me and we will all see how it will actually play out very soon…
Till then, the call is to caution, patience and wisdom… other strong Saturn themes…
After that, Saturn will move to 41.1, the start codon Gate, marking a completely new phase. The last time this shift from 60 to 41 happened was December 1991 that saw the end of the USSR after a whole 30 years of Restrictions that affected the whole world and that became so symbolically evident in 1961 with the building of Berlin Wall with Jupiter in 60 (barbed wire phase), soon followed by Saturn (cement and concrete phase). And the story of human Limitation can surely be traced back, analyzing all the 29-30 years cycles of Saturn starting in 60 and ending in… 60. But that's, maybe, for another article…
Marga Eleonora Scroppo
Disclaimer: these are just notes and not an exhaustive analysis of the whole Human Design astrological picture during this time. I hope that someone more expert than me will take on the task and fill in the blanks.


My husband is not a minimalist.
I repeat, my husband is not a minimalist.
So how on earth do I navigate my minimalist lifestyle around his non-minimalist self?
And these are all very good questions. I've shared with you that my husband uses minimalism as a tool during certain seasons of life, but he is in no way an actual minimalist. So if you are wondering how that works out, well, I have three things that help.
The first thing that helps with a non-minimalist significant other is love. I believe that love is a verb, meaning it is something you do. We feel all kinds of things, but love takes action.
As I go about my decluttering/minimizing process, and as I seek to reduce the amount of things brought into my home, I try to remember to love my husband. I make it a priority to show him I care. I make sure that he always knows that despite his desire for stuff, I will always love him for who he is. I don't want to change him. I don't work to control what he does. Rather, I choose to love him right where he is at, piles of junk or not.
To honor someone means to respect them. The second thing that helps with a non-minimalist significant other is to honor them. We all have our reasons for doing what we do, believing what we believe, and living how we live.
Honoring my husband means that I will respect his choices. I don't have to agree with him (no two people will always agree), but I do need to appreciate him for who he is. I need to regard his feelings in both our marriage and household. And I need to show him that his opinions matter. It is never ok to just start throwing out his things because I want to downsize an area. That would be completely disrespectful and rude. I need to ask him how he feels, talk to him about how I feel, and listen to how he responds.
And the third thing that helps with a non-minimalist significant other is to stop nagging them. Nagging a person is that constant telling them what they need to do or what they should be doing. Nagging is a really great way to cause anger, division, and hurt in a relationship. It's not a good thing.
I have a certain way I have chosen to live. I am working to minimize my life. And there is nothing wrong with that. But I can't expect my husband to just automatically conform to my way of living simply because he lives here too. When I decide to let go of something, as I did this past weekend, it is not something I push on my husband. If I tell him over and over to go through his things and get rid of stuff, he will stop listening. He might get angry. And he most certainly will begin to tune me out.
So, I don't nag. My approach to minimalism is to go through my things, change my way of living, and stop my excess waste. Believe it or not, sometimes just focusing on your own way of living is all the impact a spouse needs.
I was doing an end of year purge. I decided to go through some bins that had been shoved into a closet and ignored. As I went through the bins, I shared some of my thoughts with my husband. I told him why I was letting go of certain items and why I felt better about the result of it. He listened and watched, but I never once told him that he needed to do the same. A short time later, he came up to me and said that he was going to go through the garage. The garage is an area that I don't touch because it really is his area. Usually, when he says he is going to go through it, that just means he will move piles around and sweep the floor. I smiled and said ok.
I left him alone for a bit while I finished my own project.
After a while, I went to the garage. And what I found was my husband creating a pile of things to actually get rid of. No prompting by me necessary! We joked around a bit about it all and just laughed, but the fact was that he was decluttering his space.
I could think of a lot more to get rid of in our garage, but I kept those thoughts to myself. The last thing my husband needed was me nagging him about what else to let go of. As it happened, he filled an entire bag of stuff. And that is huge for him!
And when he came back into the house, I continued to tell him what a great job he did, I gave him a kiss, and I let him know that I love him.
He didn't do it my way, and he didn't do as much as I would do. But he did it. And because I love and honor him, that's enough for me.
It's ok if your significant other isn't on board with minimalism. Being in a relationship doesn't mean that two people need to be exactly the same. It is the differences we have that keep things fresh and exciting. Always remember why you chose to be with that person to begin with. I really doubt it was because you felt you could turn them into a minimalist. Choose to love them where they are at, respect who they are, and allow that to be enough. They rest eventually falls into place. Maybe it won't be Pinterest perfect, but it will be your life and it will be well lived.
Agree, focusing on your own stuff is the way to go. Actions definitely speak louder than words.


The Nigerian Insider News reported earlier that Immigration rescues baby and nine minors in Katsina, and the suspects were handed over to the police for further investigations.
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Katsina State command intercepted the women suspected to be human traffickers and rescued 10 victims on their way to Europe through the Nigeria-Niger border.
The suspects, Deborah Adewunmi and Moriliya Ibrahim both from Ogun State, were apprehended without passports and other travel documents.
The Comptroller of NIS in the state, Ajisafe Olusola, in a statement, yesterday, said the rescued victims were minors and their ages ranged from 9 months to 11 years and that all of them were also from Ogun State.
According to him, an intelligence report by the command's provost led to the arrest, noting that "they started their journey from Lagos to Kano and Katsina with the mission to travel to Libya through Niger Republic without travel documents.
"It has been established that Mrs Deborah Adewunmi and Moriliya Ibrahim, accompanied by the nine minors and one man confessed that they were going to meet Deborah's husband (Mustapha Ibrahim) who is residing in Agadez, Niger Republic to facilitate their journey to Libya.


August 09, 2017 07:00 ET | Source: Versus Systems Inc.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Versus Systems, Inc. (CSE:VS) (OTCQB:VRSSF) (FRA:BMVA) today announced that the company has partnered with 704Games to provide in-game prizing in their upcoming titles.
704Games is working with Versus System's prizing and promotions platform to provide players with opportunities for in-game prizing and real-world rewards in their upcoming titles on mobile and console. In spring 2017, 704Games released NASCAR Heat Mobile, the first authentic NASCAR racing game on mobile to feature 40 stock cars racing simultaneously. 704Games also recently announced the upcoming release of NASCAR Heat 2, which will be available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC.
Versus Systems, Inc. has developed a proprietary in-game conditional prizing and promotions engine that enables players to compete for and win real prizes from brands that they care about while playing their favorite games. Versus allows game developers and publishers to provide players with prizes that players can win inside their favorite games, adding a new dimension to gameplay, as well as engagement never before experienced. Versus prizing includes gear, apparel, tickets, energy drinks, and downloadable content from brands like Tier 1, Han Cholo, Rockstar Energy Drink and others. Learn more at https://www.versussystems.com.


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