Most studies put the percentage of the American public in a church on Sunday morning at around 20%. Which means 80% of the population in our country—and likely it's the same in our community—are not in a gathering like this this morning.
Most studies that have talked to people to get at that statistic have also found that it is likely that those who are not in a gathering like this (and even some of those who are) are not followers of Jesus. They don't believe in him, are not saved by him, and are living apart from him. It's the reason they are not in a church.
Here's something that you don't need a study for: all people will one day die. Every single one of us.
This is why, historically, churches were always built surrounded by cemeteries. Every time that followers of Jesus gathered, they were reminded of the inevitability of the curse of sin, namely, death. They walked past gravestones on their way into the worship service, where they would hear of their only hope. They would be reminded of what all people need to wrestle with before they themselves would be put in the dirt, and the headstone would be placed.
Namely—do you know Christ? Have your sins been forgiven? Are you sealed in the Spirit? Do you have confidence that instead of entering into the fiery furnace for all of eternity, you will instead "enter into the joy of your Master" (Mt. 25:21, ESV)?
Friend, this is why Jesus came. It is what we learned in Luke's first installment of his magisterial two-part story.
There he painted a vivid portrait of "the Son of Adam" (Lk. 3:38) as the Savior for all of humanity stained by sin and in such danger; of the One who is the very Son of God (Lk. 3:38); of the One who was anointed by the Spirit of God that he might minister in the power of God (Lk. 3:22); of the One who constantly entered into prayer—sometimes lasting all night long—in dependance upon his Father for all of life and ministry (Lk. 3:21; 5:16; 6:12; 9:18; 9:28, 29; 11:1; 22:32; 22:41, 44, 45); of the One who called other men and women into service with him as fellow workers for the fields of sinners that were white for harvest (Lk. 10:2), doing so because, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance…the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Lk. 5:31; 19:10). And Jesus did this by proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God (Lk. 8:1ff; 9:1ff), in the face of opposition, persecution, and rejection at almost every turn, but fiercely setting his sights on his mission because he knew what was, what is, at stake. People who are living, and dying, without him. And because of love, because of the "joy set before him" (Heb 12:2) of souls to be saved, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and laid down his life to give life.
I invite you now to watch or listen to the sermon on Acts, where we will discover together the four common things that every disciple and follower of Jesus did in the book of Acts in obedience to Jesus, as part of the church, for the hope of the world.


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Culture Hussein Kesvani July 15, 2018
The Cult of Gareth Southgate Has Changed the Way Men (And Everyone Else) Thinks About Sports
Such is the power of the waistcoat
When Evan Smith, a 54-year-old electrician and dad of two, watches the World Cup Final later today from his home in Leicester, he'll wear his navy blue-and-white pin-striped waistcoat in honor of England football manager Gareth Southgate.
He purchased it when the British football team scraped into the semi-finals after an arduous game against Colombia that was eventually decided on penalties. Like most Brits watching the game, Smith didn't think England would get through. No English football team in modern times had ever won a game through penalties. In fact, the team had the worst record of any major nation in the world when it came to penalty shootouts. In 2014, The Telegraph reported that in a major world tournament, England only had a 14 percent chance of winning if the game came down to a shootout.
Yet to everyone's surprise, England won. Some attributed it to a uniquely talented team of young, diverse players that included midfielder Raheem Sterling, captain Harry Kane and goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, whose saves were so extraordinary that he gained a cult following over the course of the tournament. But to Smith, his friends and a good percentage of the country, the team's uncharacteristic success was mostly due to Southgate.
The 47-year-old former English midfielder, considered to be one of the best players of all-time at a national level and who played on the world stage in the 1990s (a period that many still consider the "golden age" of football), is now known as England's hot dad, instantly recognizable in his trademark navy blue suit and perfectly tailored waistcoat. His dress is certainly a giant improvement over a standard football manager's cheaply made suit, or on rainy days, dull parka jackets. The legacy of Southgate's waistcoat is already such that British department store Marks & Spencer reportedly sold out of them last week, while online searches have more than doubled since the start of the World Cup. Meanwhile, in the run-up to England's semi-final match against Croatia, British fans took to Twitter to post selfies of themselves wearing a Southgate-esque waistcoat.
It's #WaistcoatWednesday and our very own dream team are getting in on the action! #itscomimghome #GarethSouthgate #ComeOnEngland #WorldCup #ENG pic.twitter.com/pbaVACiDTr
— ICG Brandbuilders (@ICGBrandbuilder) July 11, 2018
"He's a legend!" Smith exclaims when we talk about Southgate. (Smith and his friends all wore the same black-and-white striped waistcoat over their shorts and polo shirts when they watched the England-Croatia game at their local pub.) "It's his manner, the way he carries himself — he's confident, but he's also humble. He won't show off, and he won't bring any arrogance on or off the pitch. He just gets on with it, even though he's got the biggest job in the world. He wants to do his best by his players and by the country. That's admirable. Because there aren't a lot of men like that nowadays."
This is as much the national narrative as it is Smith's. "[Southgate] has created an environment in which the players feel relaxed and free to express themselves; he believes in them so they believe in him. And their relentless positivity, their obvious enjoyment of life — so different to toxic masculinity that is responsible for so many of the world's ills — has transmitted to the wider public," writes Daniel Harris in the New Statesman magazine. Similarly, Lou Stoppard, who referred to Southgate as "England's waistcoat clad hope" in GQ, says of Southgate, "He's brought emotional intelligence to the beautiful game — tenderness, compassion, empathy. Maybe that's the root of the crush, a man who listens and understands, a man who isn't afraid to care."
Following England's match against Colombia, British fans shared a photograph of Southgate, wrapped in his famous waistcoat, hugging Colombian midfielder Mateus Uribe after Uribe missed a penalty — an act of compassion rare in any level of professional sport. The image was particularly powerful considering that it mirrored Southgate's own experiences at the 1996 European Championships, when the media blamed his missed penalty against Germany as the cause of England's departure from the tournament — a memory that Southgate says still haunts him today. Then, when England narrowly lost to Croatia, another photo of Southgate went viral — this time, he was being consoled by his wife in an empty football stadium.
When Smith saw the latter photo, which one of his friends shared in a WhatsApp group, he says he was reminded of painful moments in his own life, like arguments he'd had with his wife or when his 8-year-old son had been admitted to the hospital for a life-threatening allergy. It was pain, he says, he had "ignored and tried to bury." When he returned from work that evening, he immediately hugged his wife, kissed her on the cheek and "apologized for everything I had done wrong to her."
"Southgate was always open in press conferences, refreshingly open and realistic, not talking in hyperbole and cliche, not talking as a 'Proper Football Man,' but as someone who knows his players, who understands pressure, who isn't afraid of accepting (and introducing) new ways of interaction," Sam Diss, an editor at Mundial, a U.K.-based quarterly football lifestyle magazine, writes over email. "He felt like a good bloke who knew what he was doing and was there to teach and protect his young side."
Diss believes Southgate's appeal might represent a wider cultural change in football that has resulted from players being seen as more human by the public, especially in the way that so many footballers have spoken out about their struggles with mental health and depression while competing on a global stage (e.g., Everton winger Aaron Lennon and former England goalkeeper Chris Kirkland). Former Liverpool goalkeeper Clarke Carlisle even set up his own charity to help footballers manage their mental health, describing it as an "endemic" in the sport.
"The England team can't help but harken back to the Bad Old Days of Real Men who drink Real Ale and Who Have Really Strong Feelings About The Commonwealth," Diss explains. "Being a manager isn't a job that encourages emotion besides anger or vulnerability. That Southgate faced the very worst of the press after his penalty miss in 1996 means that he understands lows and how to overcome them: He talks openly about his own experiences, and you can't help but feel like that's a positive for others."
Maybe most powerfully, all of this transcends sport. "I don't watch football, and I had no intention of watching this World Cup," Amira Khan, a 24-year-old female student based in London tells me over Twitter. "My dad has been trying to get me to watch it with him for years, but I wasn't into it. I found it all a bit too macho. Gareth Southgate, however, did what my dad couldn't!"
Khan first heard of Southgate on the news during a pre-World Cup press conference, and was "immediately taken aback with how humble he was. There wasn't any ego. There wasn't any technical mumbo jumbo. He just said he believed in his players, and he wanted to make the country proud. That was really admirable. Overall, he seemed like a sweet guy who you'd want to talk to about your problems. Because it's obvious that he cares about his players and that he wants to do right by everyone. That's what makes him a guy who would appeal to anyone regardless of who they are or where they're from."
Over the course of the tournament, Khan's admiration for Southgate has become large enough that she's participated in #garethsouthgatewould, a Twitter hashtag where users imagined Southgate paying for everyone's round at the bar or earnestly doing chores so you could relax.
#GarethSouthgateWould pay for drinks at Club Tropicana even though they're free as he wouldn't want to see the owners out of pocket.
— Andrew Greenfield (@GreenfieldAndy) July 6, 2018
#GarethSouthgateWould say 'I've done the hoovering' and not add 'for you'.
— Sheena (@quirksofothers) July 6, 2018
Even though England didn't win the World Cup, it's hard to imagine the Cult of Gareth Southgate evaporating anytime soon. Smith tells me that, like himself, there will be plenty of people in the U.K. proudly watching the France-Croatia final in their Southgate-inspired waistcoats. "It's likely that the England team will come home and find that the whole nation is really proud of them," Smith predicts.
Plus, Southgate's influence already extends far beyond the pitch. Smith, for instance, is currently teaching his son how to play football, in the hopes that he'll play for a recreational Sunday League team, or maybe come to a few Leicester City games with him. "Lots of dads try to force their sons to play. I was like that for a long time, too," Smith says. "But I now know that patience and respect is the key — that goes no matter how old the player is."
Hussein Kesvani
Hussein Kesvani is the UK and Europe editor of MEL and writes features on technology, subcultures and identity

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After 40 days of our son birthday, for Christening I went to Udupi. On the way my elder Brother house comes, and I was going with my younger Brother he said we will visit brothers son also who was born one month before my son; so we went there 1st then we went to see my son.
She and her parents were angry because I did`t came directly to their house.
As a custom, 1st Devilry expenses bared by her parents, still I asked her how much they spent for delivery, at that time her father denied to take any money from me; but later she started to tell I did not gave them money of delivery.
After 3 months she said, she also wanted to come to Bombay; I said stay 2 more months till she can take care of baby, coz there was no one at Bombay to look after 3 months baby. Still she came to Bombay, and said she will manage.
She completely stopped breast feed; in 3 months because at my home my mother used to say breast feed only till one year, and she was suffocating with that as she was thinking she will be disfigured if she breast feed for one year.
She stopped breast feed in 3 months; to save her Beauty.


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Q: Laravel Livewire pagination with bootstrap links not displaying I'm using Laravel Livewire with bootstrap 4. I'm trying to use pagination but the links aren't displaying at the bottom of the table. I don't think the issue is in my blade file or in the livewire component itself, as I can see in the response that there's no pagination links() method available by doing this:
$x = User::paginate(5);
dd($x);

Which yields this result, and contains no reference to links

In my livewire component I'm including the trait: use WithPagination;, and I'm also including the protected $paginationTheme = 'bootstrap'; line as well.
At the bottom of my div just after the table element I have included:
{{ $users->links() }}
Everything I'm doing seems to be "by the book" in terms of what the docs say, but the links just don't display. It's limiting the number of rows on the page as well, just no links.

A: On your Livewire component:
use Livewire\WithPagination;

Inside class use the trait:
use WithPagination;

Then set the pagination theme:
protected $paginationTheme = 'bootstrap';

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Gillian Welch to play Peace Center in April
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings to perform April 9
Gillian Welch to play Peace Center in April Gillian Welch and David Rawlings to perform April 9 Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/entertainment/2018/01/22/evening-gillian-welch-coming-peace-center/1053462001/
Donna Isbell Walker, diwalker@greenvillenews.com Published 10:31 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2018 | Updated 10:34 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2018
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will perform at the Peace Center April 9.(Photo: Henry Diltz)
Grammy Award-winning folk/Americana artist Gillian Welch will play the Peace Center April 9. An Evening With Gillian Welch, with her musical partner David Rawlings, will feature two sets of music without an opening act.
Tickets are $35, and go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 26.
Welch is nominated for a Grammy this year for Best American Roots Song for "Cumberland Gap," She was also featured on the Grammy-winning soundtrack to the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou."
Welch and Rawlings' latest album is the 2017 release "Poor David's Almanack."
For more info, go to www.peacecenter.org.
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Q: Paypal adaptive payment : payment chained / Error 550001 feespayer How do i set feespayer in my live app?
What i want in the chained payment is for the secondary receiver to pay the paypal fee. But when ever i set the feespayer property when calling the API, i got 550001 error.
From what i read my live app doesn't have the permission to use this feature. How can i get this feature in? It was already requested when i submit the app.
Also, does anybody has any idea where do paypal/x.com developer should post their tickets/problems?
It seems like the x.com developer forums is a deserted place where no questions are being answered. The amount is worrying me that paypal will ignore mine as well.

A: You have to make sure of two things.
1) Make sure that your PayPal account used as the API caller is verified (ie, you have a bank account linked to it) and is a premier account, or a business account.  Personal accounts won't work for this.
2) When you submitted your application, you had to check the field for Secondary Receiver paying fees. The problem is that even though you might have checked it, sometimes the form reviewers will miss it. To make sure that you have the permission you'll need to file a support ticket for it.
Merchant Technical Services is the place to do this: http://www.paypal.com/mts
Good luck!


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About the time retired Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel famously declared Japan as "No. 1" in 1979, I was a small-time entrepreneur in the provincial capital of Maebashi, in Gunma Prefecture. Business was good, and I was implementing plans to construct a small building along a national road, Route 17. To begin construction, I needed to get permission to remove a guardrail in front of the property so I could move equipment into the site.
Because Route 17 is a national road, the local office of the Construction Ministry had jurisdiction over the guardrail. This was not to be my first instance dealing with Japan's generally inscrutable bureaucracy, but it was a memorable one. My contractor applied for the permit, and the application was almost immediately rejected. I wondered how all the much larger buildings along Route 17 had managed to get similar permits, and mentioned my dilemma to friends.
Fortunately, I had well-connected friends. They made calls to the governor, the district's lower house representative, and the city mayor, who in turn called the Construction Ministry officials. I reapplied for the permit, and it was granted as fast as it had been disapproved.
When the contractor went to pick up the permit, though, he got a mouthful of push-back. The bureaucrats were incensed that they had been called by three different politicians. One call, they said in a fit of transparency, was sufficient.
The bureaucrats got their revenge. The contractor was permitted to remove the guardrail. But we were not allowed to use equipment on the sidewalk, even if we provided a protected pedestrian walkway and pledged to restore the sidewalk to its original condition.
The contractor, who had to live with the bureaucrats long after my job was completed, undertook the excavation in two phases. The rear of the property was excavated, half of the foundation constructed and covered back up, and the process repeated for the front of the property.
The result was additional expense, time and lost revenue. Although this episode took place 30 years ago, Japan operates exactly the same way today. Things are done by the rules, but the rules don't work.
Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, says he can change the bureaucracy. Like me, Japanese business is hoping he's right, and sitting back for the show as Japan approaches the end of a second lost decade. The 62-year-old prime minister, who is president of the left-leaning Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led his party to a landslide victory last month riding a wave of voter frustration that felled three Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) prime ministers in rapid succession.
Mr. Hatoyama knows he faces a similar fate if he doesn't deliver on his campaign promises. Those promises — to tame and shrink the bureaucracy, provide financial incentives for families with children, and redefine security ties with the United States — have only been articulated in vague campaign rhetoric.
As a result, Mr. Hatoyama is attempting to buy time. "We may have to repeat trial and error because we will be traveling in uncharted waters in politics," he told lawmakers earlier this week.
That's not entirely the case. Former LDP reformist Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi navigated those same waters with decidedly mixed results. It's not that they are unknown; rather, they are treacherous. That's true in no small part because of the power Japan's bureaucracy wields, especially the powerful Finance Ministry, which has seen many previous challenges come and go.
The fact that a former official of the Finance Ministry, the 77-year-old Hirohisa Fujii has been named to head and tame it, doesn't instill confidence that Japan is on the cusp of bureaucratic reform.
Another appointment, that of 72-year-old Shizuka Kamei, as Postal and Financial Affairs minister illustrates the scope of Mr. Hatoyama's challenge. Mr. Kamei deserted the LDP when Mr. Koizumi moved to privatize Japan's sprawling and troubled post office network, which also competes with private-sector financial institutions by acting as a bank and insurance provider.
The presence of an outspoken opponent of privatization in a key Cabinet post suggests the DPJ's idea of bureaucratic reform is, ironically, more bureaucracy.
What of Mr. Hatoyama's other promises? The DPJ says it intends to increase subsidies for child-related expenses and education and drop highway tolls.
It hasn't said how it will pay for these programs, other than wresting control of the budget from the bureaucracy. As for relations with the United States, Japan is a short missile flight away from nuclear-armed North Korea, and animosity towards Japan remains high in China despite significant Japanese investment there. Not surprisingly, Mr. Hatoyama now says he will build a better relationship with the United States.
Fixing Japan will require bold economic and bureaucratic reform. So far, it's clear that Mr. Hatoyama has no real idea how to make that happen. Until he does, Japan will continue to operate the way it has, and the politics of frustration will endure.
Michael Alan Hamlin is the managing director of Team-Asia, a Manila-based business consultancy, a columnist for the Manila Bulletin newspaper and author of numerous books.


Saturday my husband and I went on a ride with some of out best friends.
We started out in South Republic, Michigan near the Pine Grove.
The day was just right. Perfect temperature's, blue sky with few clouds.
The trail right between republic and trail 18 my husband got the rhino stuck.
a strap and 4 pulls later we got it unstuck.
Then off we went. Finally making it to our destination in Amasa.
Tuesday my sister inlaw and I took the kids on a long walk and then to the park.
Wednesday was SO nice we did again.
The little ones passed out in the strollers. They're just presious .
Thursday I went on a walk over around my sister inlaws place, after we let the kids play with the bubble machine. They had a ball.
Friday is a work day, I will be with the preschool and loving it. That evening my other sister in law should be up for the weekend. Then a weekend full of highschool graduation 🎓 will begin.
I hope you all had an amazing week.
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Q: ¿Por qué un if [[ ]] no me funciona en este script de Bash? Estoy trabajando es rapberry pi 3B y tengo este bash con el que intento buscar el puerto de comunicaciones correspondiente a un determinado dispositivo.
    #!/bin/bash
   for sysdevpath in $(find /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*/ -name dev); do
 (
   syspath="${sysdevpath%/dev}"
   devname="$(udevadm info -q name -p $syspath)"
   eval "$(udevadm info -q property --export -p $syspath)"
  # if [[ "${ID_SERIAL}" == *"STM32_Virtual_ComPort"* ]] ;then
  #  if [[ "${ID_SERIAL}" =~ "STM32_Virtual_ComPort" ]] ;then
  #  if [[ "${ID_SERIAL}" == *"STM32_Virtual_ComPort"* ]] ;then
  #  if [[ "$(echo "$ID_SERIAL" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" == *"STM32_Virtual_ComPort"* ]] ;then
    if [[ "${ID_SERIAL,,}" == *"STM32_Virtual_ComPort"* ]] ;then
   #if [ $ID_SERIAL = *'STM32_Virtual_ComPort'* ]; then
       echo "/dev/$devname - $ID_SERIAL"
   fi
)
done

Esta es la lista puerto->dispositivo sin filtrar:
/dev/bus/usb/001/001 - Linux_4.19.58-v7+_dwc_otg_hcd_DWC_OTG_Controller_3f980000.usb
/dev/hidraw1 -
/dev/input/event1 - CHICONY_Asus_Keyboard
/dev/bus/usb/001/005 - CHICONY_Asus_Keyboard
/dev/hidraw2 -
/dev/input/event2 - CHICONY_Asus_Keyboard
/dev/usb/hiddev0 -
/dev/bus/usb/001/003 - 0424_ec00
/dev/bus/usb/001/002 - 0424_9514
/dev/bus/usb/001/011 - 0424_2517
/dev/bus/usb/001/020 - STMicroelectronics_STM32_Virtual_ComPort_00000000001A
/dev/ttyACM0 - STMicroelectronics_STM32_Virtual_ComPort_00000000001A
/dev/hidraw0 -
/dev/input/mouse0 - Logitech_USB_Optical_Mouse
/dev/input/event0 - Logitech_USB_Optical_Mouse
/dev/bus/usb/001/004 - Logitech_USB_Optical_Mouse

El problema esta en el if (como se puede ver por las lineas comentadas, que son las diferentes pruebas que he hecho), que no se realiza correctamente.
Si se ejecutase correctamente deveria darme la siguiente salida:
/dev/bus/usb/001/020 - STMicroelectronics_STM32_Virtual_ComPort_00000000001A
/dev/ttyACM0 - STMicroelectronics_STM32_Virtual_ComPort_00000000001A

A: Lo puedes simplificar a:
find /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*/ -name dev |
    while IFS= read -r sysdevpath; do
        syspath="${sysdevpath%/dev}";
        devname="$(udevadm info -q name -p $syspath)";
        ID_SERIAL=$(udevadm info -q property --export -p $syspath |
                    grep -oP "ID_SERIAL='[^']+");
        grep -q STM32_Virtual_ComPort<<<"$ID_SERIAL" &&
            echo "/dev/$devname - $ID_SERIAL";
    done

Es siempre mejor evitar el eval con datos que no controlas a 100% ya que no se sabe que vas a ejecutar.
Dicho eso, tus if deberían funcionar. Y si que funcionen:
$ ID_SERIAL="STMicroelectronics_STM32_Virtual_ComPort_00000000001A"
$ if [[ "${ID_SERIAL}" == *"STM32_Virtual_ComPort"* ]]; then echo si; fi
si
$ if [[ "${ID_SERIAL}" =~ "STM32_Virtual_ComPort" ]] ;then echo si; fi
si

Si no te funcionen a ti, será que el eval no esta funcionando exactamente como esperas y el valor que tienes en el ${ID_SERIAL} no es lo que crees y nos muestres.
Pero fíjate que lo tienes que ejecutar con bash y no con sh. Si lo haces con sh, no funcionarán tus if ya que el [[ ]] no existe en sh y tampoco el =~.

A: Cuando se habla de bash existen múltiples formas de conseguir el mismo objetivo, dependiendo de las circunstancias. La razón principal por lo que la mayoría de los códigos de bash, suelen fallar cuando se "mueven de un sitio a otro" es por falta de contexto. Saber como se está ejecutando ese script y que "necesidades tiene", ya que esto trae ciertas ventajas o inconvenientes como compatibilidad, seguridad, formas de uso..
Existe diferencia en ejecutar sh miscript.sh, . miscript.sh y ./miscript.sh, por otro lado, el uso correcto del hasbang https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16365130/what-is-the-difference-between-usr-bin-env-bash-and-usr-bin-bash
Mi respuesta falla en tu caso por que haces uso de "sh" para ejecutar el script, esto provoca que se ejecute en un nuevo proceso del shell
Existen otras dos formas que dan otro comportamiento a la ejecución:

*

*. script.sh,(nótese un punto al comienzo) ejecuta el archivo en el proceso actual del shell.

*./script.sh ejecutará el archivo en el directorio actual. El archivo puede ser un ejecutable binario, o puede comenzar con una línea denominada "hashbang" #!/bin/bash o #!/usr/bin/env bash y debe presentar el indicador ejecutable.
Sabiendo esto, analizaría si realmente estoy ejecutando el script de la forma adecuada y que es lo que mas me conviene según sea nuestro caso, projecto y circunstancias.
SOLUCIÓN.

Lo he comprobado simulando el data output en un data.txt y haciendo una lectura del archivo linea a linea.
cat ./data.txt | while read fileLine
do
   matchValue="STM32_Virtual_ComPort"
   if [[ $fileLine == *$matchValue* ]]; then
       echo "$fileLine"
   fi
done

por lo que dentro de tu for
quedaría así
   syspath="${sysdevpath%/dev}"
   devname="$(udevadm info -q name -p $syspath)"
   eval "$(udevadm info -q property --export -p $syspath)"
   matchValue="STM32_Virtual_ComPort"

   if [[ $ID_SERIAL == *$matchValue* ]]; then
       echo "/dev/$devname - $ID_SERIAL"
   fi

Saludos!

A: no me gusta mucho la solucion pero he conseguido que se ejecute adecuadamente el filtro utilizando grep,de este modo.
    if echo "$ID_SERIAL" | grep -q "STM32_Virtual_ComPort"; then


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Home Health Meet 80-year-old woman who eats sand and gravel for good health
Meet 80-year-old woman who eats sand and gravel for good health
An 80-year-old woman in India stunned the world when she admitted that she has been eating sand and gravel for the last 65 years.
Kusma Vati from Varanasi, India, first ate sand to ease an upset stomach. She was 15 at the time. Since then, sand and gravel have become a part of her diet.
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While many, her grandchildren included, question the side effects this addition to her diet may have on her overall health, Vati claims that it's the reason why she has is healthy and strong and has managed to live a long life.
"I haven't seen a doctor," she said, in a report by Yahoo News. "For as long as I can remember, I've felt perfectly fine.
Abuja female doctor stripped naked over death of patient
"I feel as though the minerals in the sand give me the energy to work in the crop fields."
Vati first gathers the sand and gravel, stores it in a clay pot and allows it to dry completely before consuming it. When she is unable to get sand she opts for stones which she gets from the walls of her house.
She chews the sand and gravel and attributes this to her strong teeth which she claims can bite into the "hardest stone".
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An introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called Mandarin, which is the official language of China and is the most widely used variety of Chinese in the world. This course is for beginners. The emphases will include pronunciation, acquiring core vocabulary in both spoken and written forms, and beginning conversation skills. There will also be an introduction to the lifelong process of learning the Chinese writing system.


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Schloss Gripenberg  (schwedisch: Gripenbergs slott) liegt bei Tranås in der historischen Provinz Småland. Es ist das größte Holzschloss Schwedens und wurde 1663 als Jagdschloss von Carl Gustav Wrangel erbaut.

Den Namen wählte Wrangel vermutlich, um die Erinnerung an seine Mutter Margareta Grip zu pflegen. Der Architekt ist unbekannt, man nimmt jedoch an, dass es sich um Nicodemus Tessin den Älteren handelt. Es ist auch ein zeitgenössisches Holzmodell des Schlosses, welches wohl zu Planung und Entwurf verwandt wurde, erhalten geblieben. Dieses Modell befindet sich heute auf Schloss Skokloster. Bereits Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts wurde Schloss Gripenberg von dem Kommerzienrat Samuel von Söderling gekauft. Es befindet sich noch heute im Besitz seiner Erben und ist der Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglich. Das Gebäude steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Literatur
Lars Olof Larsson, Adrian von Buttlar, Ulrich Kuder, Hans-Dieter Nägelke: Wege nach Süden, Wege nach Norden: Aufsätze zu Kunst und Architektur. Ludwig Verlag 1998, ISBN 9783980548090, S. 54

Weblinks

Gripenbergs slott auf slottsguiden.info(schwedisch)

Gripenberg
Gripenberg
Gemeinde Tranås
Bauwerk in Jönköpings län
Byggnadsminne
Gripenberg

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to find it had all gone Pete Wong.
she'd lost her seagull song.
Nor 'all reet me lover' calls.
she didn't like it at all.
East, further than even Exeter!
Way, way up the line.
Her tongue had gone all oriental.
It wasn't a very good sign.
now it was what made her stay in.
her flat-lined sentences and vowels.
but a cure, they didn't know how.
a look of regret in her eyes.
Check wags in the mags for the looks.
And janner-bird's had the last laugh.
and the pages of the Telegraph.


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Philosophers' Carnival #24: an eternal golden braid (posted 9 January 2006, 11pm / revised 8pm 8 March 2007)
The Ministry of Enlightenment for this secessionist republic of one is proud to bring you the 24th installment of the Philosophers' Carnival in the pages of the Rad Geek People's Daily. The Philosophers' Carnival has two primary purposes: (1) To provide lesser-known philosophy bloggers with the opportunity to gain some exposure and attract a wider audience, and (2) to showcase the best that a wide range of philosophy blogs have to offer, in one convenient location, for the benefit of philosophically-inclined readers. Some of the past carnivals have had a unifying theme; others have chosen to group related posts together by subject-heading. We here prefer to link each post in a chain by means of thin justifications for the transition, tenuous topical connections, and frequent red herrings. If you're the type who likes to avoid that sort of thing (you probably hate candy and laughing babies, too), here's the precis of what's in the Carnival this time around:
Henry Sidgwick @ Mind (April 1895): The Philosophy of Common Sense
Jason Stanley @ Leiter Reports (2005-12-03): Scientific vs. Humanist Philosophy
Will Wilkinson @ Happiness and Public Policy (2005-12-30): Is the Flat Trend in Self-reported Happiness a Problem?
Roderick Long @ Austro-Athenian Empire (2006-01-06): The Value in Friendship
Jerry Monaco (2005-12-18): The Break Between Sartre and Camus: Gossip, Invective, and the Meaning of History
Aspazia @ Mad Melancholic Feminsta (2005-12-29): On Tolerance: Just Be Polite and Pass the Yams
The Cynic Librarian (2005-12-15): Britian as New Islam Laboratory?
Francois Tremblay @ Goosing the Antithesis (2005-11-14): Miracles and materialism
Kenny Pearce (2005-12-22): Let's Make Creation Science Not Suck
Clayton @ Think Tonk (2005-12-31): Evolutionary naturalism undefeated?
Chris @ The Uncredible Hallq (2006-01-02) in A Gambler's Epistemology
Richard Chappell @ Philosophy, et cetera (2006-01-06): Transcendental Arguments
Doctor Logic (2006-01-03): More on explanation
Ellis Seagh @ Consciousness and Culture (2005-12-21): Light and darkness: consciousness and reflex
David Shoemaker @ PEA Soup (2006-01-02): Carnivores on the Run
Rad Geek @ Philosophy, et cetera (2005-12-05): Freak intelligence, marginal cases, and the argument for ethical vegetarianism and Rad Geek @ Philosophy, et cetera (2005-12-07): The ends in the world as we know it
Patrick @ Tiberius and Gaius Speaking… (2006-01-06): Capability and Potentiality
Fun challenge for the reader: try to guess what each post is about, and how I linked each one to the preceding post, before you scroll down and read the abstracts for yourself.
Ready? On, then, with the show:
Philosophers' Carnival #24
We begin with post that's been sitting in the queue for a little while: Henry Sidgwick @ Mind (April 1895): The Philosophy of Common Sense, recently brought to us courtesy of the Fair Use Repository. Sidgwick wants the Glasgow Philosophical Society (and, I suppose, us also) to consider how philosophy may be related to common sense, and how we should best understand philosophers such as Thomas Reid, who methodically and emphatically make appeals to the deliverances of common sense in order to do philosophical work. Far from being intellectual laziness in the name of unreflective gut feelings, Sidgwick notes how Reid refers to Hume's account of the manner in which, after solitary reflection has environed him with the clouds and darkness of doubt, the genial influence of dinner, backgammon, and social talk dispels these doubts and restores his belief in the world without and the self within: and Reid takes his stand with those who are so weak as to imagine that they ought to have the same belief in solitude and in company. His essential demand, therefore, on the philosopher, is not primarily that he should make his beliefs consistent with those of the vulgar, but that he should make them consistent with his own; and the legitimacy of the demand becomes, I think, more apparent, when we regard it as made in the name of Philosophy rather than in the name of Common Sense.
Following on the theme of philosophy and common sense, Jason Stanley @ Leiter Reports (2005-12-03): Scientific vs. Humanist Philosophy offers a metaphilosophical guest post. Much of my blogging, he writes, has been devoted to trying to figure out which distinctions between kinds of philosophical approaches are merely sociological (e.g. reflections of the personal connections and academic credentials of particular philosophers) and which are genuinely substantive. I do think there are rather fundamental distinctions between kinds of philosophers, but (as I've been arguing this week) I don't think they correspond to any kind of division between departments or nexuses that clearly divide two or three kinds of departments (such nexuses exist, but they are considerably more sociological in character). Nevertheless, I think that Brian Leiter has been on to something by his division of naturalistic vs. humanist philosophy. I just don't think that this division explains anything about the sociology of department relations. I just haven't been able to put my finger on what it is. He thinks that his finger has been moved somewhat closer to the mark, though, by Michael Strevens' suggestion that the division is centrally concerned with the relationship that the philosopher sees between philosophy and our ordinary, common-sense self-understanding. Fodor, we are told, is a humanist insofar as his work on the mind is an attempt to vindicate our self-understanding, our human picture of the mind , but Stich, by contrast, uses the tools of philosophy to undermine our conception of ourselves, to alienate us from our own minds. Stanley goes on to consider some more typical points of contrast (such as the use of technical apparatus in logic or the appeal to the history of philosophy) that simply cut across the humanistic-scientific divide, and considers the points at which this division connects with Strawson's division between descriptive and revisionary metaphysicians.
Reflections on our ordinary self-understanding, and of alienation from or comfort with that, easily bring us to questions about satisfaction, happiness, and our ordinary understanding of how happy or how satisfied we happen to be (or fail to be). Will Wilkinson @ Happiness and Public Policy (2005-12-30): Is the Flat Trend in Self-reported Happiness a Problem? looks at that, and specifically at studies of happiness based on self-reports. Wilkinson challenges a couple of presumptions that seem to be universal in the reports on, and analysis of, this kind of happiness study: (1) presuming that a flat trend in self-reports of happiness reliably indicates a flat trend in how happy people in fact are, and (2) presuming that a flat trend in how happy people in fact are would constitute some sort of deep problem that demands policy solutions. Why prefer we are getting no happier over we have been, and remain, extremely successful at creating happiness? The main reason why, I take it, is that it's impossible to use the happiness data to drum up demand for one's favorite unpopular policies without framing it in a way that makes it look like there's some kind of problem that needs to be fixed. If you say that data show that we're just as happy as our grandparents in America's nuclear family, bowling together, Leave it to Beaver golden age, we'll never socialize medicine! Anyway, the point is: at the very least, you need to at least try to eliminate the most plausible competing interpretations of the data before you move on to try to use happiness data to mount your favorite policy hobby horse. No. At the very least, you need to acknowledge that there are alternative interpretations. Until they do that, people trying to sell policy on the basis of happiness research don't deserve to be taken very seriously.
Speaking of happiness, one of the many things — perhaps one of the most important things — that we're inclined to connect — in some sense or another — with happiness — in some sense or another — is friendship — in some sense or another. But all three of those in some sense or anothers are tricky philosophical terrain. Roderick Long @ Austro-Athenian Empire (2006-01-06) recently posted an online copy of his essay from a roundtable on friendship, The Value in Friendship, which sets itself to learning how to ask the questions we need to ask about happiness, friendship, and the connection between them. The purpose of this essay is to ask a question. The question is: What is it that we value in friendship? The purpose of this essay is not to answer the question. That's a more daunting task than I intend to tackle here. Rather, my purpose is simply to ask the question. You may think I've already asked the question; so my essay has achieved its purpose and I should stop right now. After all, didn't I just say that my question was: what do we value in friendship? But I haven't really succeeded in asking that question yet, because I haven't yet clarified what question I am asking. That is, I haven't yet distinguished the question I want to ask from other questions that are easily confused with it. So we're not yet at the point of being able to ask my question. We need to wander about in the wilderness a little bit–though hopefully not for forty years–before we can get to the promised land of my question. As we get closer to the question, we see that there's quite a bit of explaining that we need to do about what you value inside a friendship once you've got it, and what you value outside friendship that leads you to become friends in the first place, and the relation of both of these questions to happiness, to pleasure, and to satisfaction. Along the way, we also see how friendship (in both of the separate questions we've just posed) exposes thorny problems for two of the perennial candidates for theoretical understandings of how we should value people: strictly partial concern for yourself (represented by egoism) and strictly impartial universality (represented by utilitarianism, among others).
One of the reasons you might want to know better what it is that we value, in becoming friends and in being friends — or at least to know better how to start asking those questions — is to get a better grasp on the limits of friendship, on what it can (or should) survive, and when it can (or should) end. To take a very public example, Jerry Monaco (2005-12-18): The Break Between Sartre and Camus: Gossip, Invective, and the Meaning of History nicely takes us through the causes, the effects, and the historical and cultural context of the bitter end Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre's friendship (as it proceeded from Francois Jensen's fusillade-review on Camus's The Rebel in Sartre's journal Les Temps Moderns ). Aside from the (very real, and very damaging) effects of an overheated intellectual culture of invenctive and literary celebrity in post-war Paris, Monaco also draws out some underlying differences of deep moral and philosophical principles, which were expressed in the feud and which ultimately made friendly engagement not only difficult but intolerable for Sartre and Camus: If one remembers that, at this time (1952), France was actively trying to recover its empire in Indochina and Africa, and that Sartre was actively opposing French colonialism, whereas Camus believed that the anti-colonialists had no moral legitimacy , then one can get a sense of what the feud was really about from Sartre's point of view. If one remembers that Sartre was trying to existentialize Marxism and therefore not offering very acute criticism of the political acts of the Stalinists, then one can get a sense of what the feud was really about from Camus' point of view. For both writers the basic principle was how to oppose oppression. For Camus collective resistance to oppression only leads to more oppression. For Sartre Camus' quietism could only lead to the triumph of the oppressors. Camus believed that Sartre had become an ideologue giving cover to Stalinist domination, while he, Camus, was the advocate of individual human dignity. Sartre believed, that Camus was an apologist for French Imperialism, while he, Sartre was simply choosing to be in history and Camus was choosing in bad faith. Monaco argues that there are important senses in which they were both right and both confused; what he suggests is most important is the way in which the end of their friendship and the limitations of each's thought came from an inability to work out a common understanding of what questions to ask, how to ask them, and thus what the debate between them was really about in the first place. For us, then The question of who was correct in this argument is not the correct question. The question is how can we come to an historical understanding of the moral issues presented by Camus and how can we come to a moral understanding of the historical issues presented by Sartre. In many ways, in 1952, each represented the missing center in each other's thought.
These considerations on friendship, and how clash of deep philosophical and moral principle shattered the friendship of Sartre and Camus, brings us to the question of friendship, toleration, and the limits of each. We normally think that tolerance, especially amongst your friends and family, is a virtue–but also a virtue with limits, a virtue that must give way to confrontations with the intolerable. But how do we conceive of the virtue, and where do the limits come from? Aspazia @ Mad Melancholic Feminsta (2005-12-29): On Tolerance: Just Be Polite and Pass the Yams asks what we should make of tolerance: A few years ago I challenged my students to take tolerance seriously as a concept. I was witnessing wacky folks use this concept to push their questionable hypotheses, practices, and policies. In particular, I was concerned with the religious right's determination to infiltrate school boards in order to bully well-meaning folks to be open-minded and teach Intelligent Design (aka Creationism). She investigates two different (even antagonistic) notions of tolerance — tolerance as respect and tolerance as politeness — and the role that appeals to tolerance played in her students' linguistic practice: For them tolerance meant that you sort of put up with someone you didn't like, you know, like your annoying great-Aunt who spouts utter nonsense and lives with 8 cats. My students taught me that most people understand tolerance to mean being polite. Perhaps, it's a WASPy sort of relic. Don't ruffle feathers, just smile and pass the yams. Thus, she wonders whether tolerance can be rehabilitated as a virtue, or whether We might be better served by a more robust notion than tolerance.
Of course, one of the original cases for which the question of tolerance arose was religious toleration within civil society. The Cynic Librarian (2005-12-15): Britian as New Islam Laboratory? takes issue with those rabid anti-Moslems who would say that a moderate, modern Islam is a contradiction in terms, but (with the help of an essay by Tahir Abbas) wants to take a hard look at the genuinely hard problems about the relationship between Islam, Muslims and modernity: not only how far modernity can tolerate Islam, but how far Islam can tolerate modernity. [T]he larger question, as I see it, [is the question] of what will happen to Islam as secularism and consumerist values seep slowly into the bones of the young. They will face the question of either rejecting the faith outright, watering the faith down to a shell of its former self, or reacting in fundamentalist rage at the surrounding profane society. Does the solution lie in politics? In civil society? In religion? Or in rethinking all of the above?
And from the debate over religious faith and modernity, where else could you go but a discussion of natural science and the concept of a miracle? Francois Tremblay @ Goosing the Antithesis (2005-11-14): Miracles and materialism reviews the Humean epistemological argument against believing in miracles, and then offers a metaphysical argument that the concept of a miracle (as something that contravenes materialistic natural causation) entails the non-existence of God, by virtue of the (materialistic) form of causal explanation that theists need to identify with natural law in order to make sense of the concept of a miracle: For a miracle to be a miracle, it must be miraculous, that is to say, it must break natural law. And natural law is the result of materialist causation. So the definition of a miracle itself implies that materialism is true ! For it includes both material causation and its break for a specific event. If there is no material causation, then the concept of miracle is meaningless. An embarassing predicament for the theist, if the argument works.
Meanwhile, Kenny Pearce (2005-12-22): Let's Make Creation Science Not Suck offers a Christian attack on the notion of contra-causal miracles, drawing on arguments from Leibniz. He argues that both naturalist opposition to Christianity, and Christian opposition to natural science, are the result of bad theology and bad science; specifically the mistaken belief in a conflict between the scientific understanding of the world and the reality of miracles — as embodied in the very concept of a miracle as a contravention of natural law. Thus, with Leibniz, Pearce says, I continue to hold that it would essentially amount to God making a mistake if he had to break his own physical laws in order to bring about his will miraculously. Rather, the perfect wisdom and infinite power of God should lead us to conclude that he made a world in which his laws hold always, and that he is able to bring about his will, even in those things we consider miraculous, without breaking physical laws. If I am right about this, then the enterprise of science seen as the attempt to explain everything in the physical world by efficient causes is theologically legitimate. If Creation Science is not to suck, Pearce suggests, it has to give up the idea that it is confronting natural science with a conflicting (miraculous, revealed) explanation of worldly happenings, and instead return to a Leibnizian program of theology of nature , in which theists should make use of final causes in their investigations of nature as a means both to scientific discovery and a better understanding of the ways of God. As an example of how this might work, he points out Leibniz's example of Snell (whose development of optics, Leibniz claims, depended in part on reasoning from God's perfection), and also asks us to lee[ am eye on the aesthetic criteria which mathematicians and physicists increasingly make heuristic use of .
But even if the use of God-inspired heuristic principles produces good results, does having once made use of them require us to continue to take them seriously in order to avail ourselves of the results? Along these lines, Clayton @ Think Tonk (2005-12-31): Evolutionary naturalism undefeated? closed out the year by trying to kick the ladder out from under Plantinga's argument that evolutionary naturalism (E&N) is epistemologically self-defeating; his response is to argue that even if Plantinga's argument initially works, it gives us no lasting reason to insist on the hypothesis of an Intelligent Designer. Once we've reasonably determined that having reliable cognitive capacities (R) supervenes on a particular constitution (C), even if we have to begin with the hypothesis that God created us so that R is true in order to reasonably make that discovery, Clayton argues that, since Plantinga is not claiming that God makes it the case that the conditional probability of R on C is high, [but] that by accepting T, we learn that R on C is high , then if we take him at his word in this claim, the conditional probability of R on C is high enough that we can rationally believe R and can rationally believe that R would be true so long as C is true even if E&N were true, too. But if that's so, it seems we've climbed the ladder and are ready to kick it away. And once we've done that, we have no reason to think E&N cannot be accepted. Thus, it may be Plantinga's justification for theism, and not naturalism, that contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Questions about self-defeating hypotheses, intelligent design and the chances that our world would turn out to be the way it is tangentially inspired Chris @ The Uncredible Hallq (2006-01-02) in A Gambler's Epistemology, where he considers how far a common response to radical skepticism can be rationally sustained. A common response to radically skeptical thesis (we can't know if the sun will rise tomorrow, we can't know whether we're living in a Matrix-type world or not) is, well, true, but if the sun won't rise tomorrow, there's nothing we can do about it. [I've] toyed with a broader form of that idea in a previous post on proof. The broad form is reject possibilities that cannot be evaluated on the evidence, because if they're true, there's nothing we can do about it. For example, if there's some evidence that we do in fact live in a Matrix-world, we could consider the evidence, but we must reject the idea of a Matrix-world that is impossible to identify as such. But, Chris worries, discarding a hypothesis just because it defeats our epistemological hopes seems shaky; it seems to rely on a postulate to the effect that a world without undiscoverable secrets are more likely to be the world we live in than a world with undiscoverable secrets. And if ID theorists don't have a right to the apriori determinations of probabilities that they often lay claim to in order to justify their arguments against naturalism in general or evolution specifically, then it seems that anti-skeptics don't have a right to apriori determinations of probabilities in order to defeat skepticism, either.
Meanwhile, Richard Chappell @ Philosophy, et cetera (2006-01-06): Transcendental Arguments also considers a form of argument from self-defeat, which he calls Transcendental Arguments , or Practical Arguments. (It's unclear to me whether what Richard has in mind is identical with what Kant famously had in mind when he talked about transcendental arguments. I expect that it has a lot to do with how you spell out the details.) What I have in mind, he says, are those assumptions that we must make as a precondition to any sort of intellectual progress. Or, more generally, those things that we ought to believe because we've got nothing to lose by doing so. If they're false then we're screwed anyway, so we might as well just believe them and hope for the best …. it's not as if the arguments do anything to establish the truth of the belief in question; they merely show that we might as well believe it. As an example, he offers arguments for believing in free will and the laws of thought based on the principle that if we can choose to believe anything, or if we can rationally demonstrate any belief, then there must be free will and the laws of logic must apply; and if we can't, then we didn't make the wrong choice or else we couldn't gain a justified belief by believing otherwise (since without the laws of logic there is no rational justification at all). Wagering against them is in some important respect self-defeating (since at best it is no better justified than the competing view), so go ahead and place your bets on free will and logic. Richard closes by asking whether this sort of reasoning is in fact any good, and where else it might be applied if it is. This may be a good reply to Hallq's worries as to where the evidential force of the nothing to lose comes from when we dismiss undiscoverable secrets (including radical skepticism) from consideration in looking for good explanations of the world; or it may be subject to exactly the objection to that strategy that Hallq raises. Beware: dialogue may be close at hand!
On the topic of good explanations and undiscoverable secrets, Doctor Logic (2006-01-03): More on explanation offers an attempt to work out just what explanation is, and how a good explanation might or might not relate to explainers that are beyond our ken. The good Doctor suggests that the essential feature of an explanation is a predictive function from causes to effects; he suggests that as long as the predictive function is there, the cause could be either visible or secret, but that purported explanations where the purported cause is such that it leaves no evidential trace, then what we have is not even a bad explanation or an unscientific one, but simply fails to give an explanation of the phenomena at all. If this account of explanation works, it would mean (among other things) that radically skeptical hypotheses fail to even offer an alternative explanation of our experiences for us to consider.
Thinking about explanation and the limits thereof naturally brings us to the explanation of thinking, and whether those limits can encompass explanations of conscious mental states by means of natural facts. Ellis Seagh @ Consciousness and Culture (2005-12-21): Light and darkness: consciousness and reflex takes issue with Chalmers' claim of an inevitable explanatory gap between natural (neurochemical) properties and first-person phenomenal properties. Why is the performance of these functions [that are in the vicinity of experience ] accompanied by experience? Chalmers asks, in the paper that re-introduced the idea of an explanatory gap in all attempts to construct an explanation of consciousness. A little later he puts the same question a bit differently: Why doesn't all this information-processing go on in the dark , free of any inner feel? It was, presumably, his inability to find an answer to such questions that lay behind his use of the zombie thought-experiment to argue against a materialist, and in favor of a dualist, approach to comprehending consciousness as a phenomenon. My argument here, however, is that he gave up too quickly. Specifically, Seagh argues, there seem to be obvious differences between typical examples of unconscious mental functions and typical examples of conscious mental functions, and these differences seem to have a natural explanation: conscious experience. But if phenomenal properties play an explanatory role in natural processes, then Chalmer's claim of a systematic explanatory gap seems to be premature.
From one sort of explanatory gap to another: we've looked at the purported gap between the natural and the phenomenal; now let's look at the purported gap between the natural and the normative. It's common enough to note cases in which an is fails to completely account for an ought; but David Shoemaker @ PEA Soup (2006-01-02): Carnivores on the Run looks at a case in which an ought fails to determine an is, even though it seems that it should — I'm a carnivore. Yes, I said it. But I'm finding there to be less and less of a rational justification for this position. (That's probably an inaccurate way of putting it, for it may be that there just is no rational justification for it, and never has been, in which case the scalar dimension of this comment refers literally to the degree of scales that have fallen from my eyes, rather than to the degree of justification itself.) Nevertheless, I also find myself utterly unmotivated to change my ways. And I know I'm not alone here (I know for a fact that there's at least one other PEA brain, for example, who is in the same situation). So what's going on? David goes on to briefly outline the standard marginal case arguments for ethical vegetarianism, and then asks: if you find the arguments for ethical vegetarianism convincing, but keep on eating meat anyway, what sort of ethical and cognitive position might you be in? Broadly speaking, what do we say about everyday habits that go against the ethical principles we find intellectually convincing?
Marginal cases and meat-eating brings us to a couple of guest posts I recently contributed. There's Rad Geek @ Philosophy, et cetera (2005-12-05): Freak intelligence, marginal cases, and the argument for ethical vegetarianism and Rad Geek @ Philosophy, et cetera (2005-12-07): The ends in the world as we know it. The first concerns the argument itself: I think that we have some pretty substantial ethical obligations toward non-human animals (hereafter: "animals"; sorry, taxonomic correctness). In fact, I think those obligations are substantial enough that we're ethically bound, among other things, to stop slaughtering cattle, pigs, chickens, etc. for food. I can't say, though, that I'm particularly thrilled with the state of the philosophical debate, and in particular I'm not particularly thrilled with a lot of the arguments that try to defend something like my conclusion. Part of the problem is a problem that's general in a lot of applied ethics: the desire to make arguments that seem to be compatible with a lot of very different philosophical or meta-ethical views tends to end up with arguments that are actually compatible with only a very narrow view of what the world contains. (That's because, by design, anything that looks too philosophically murky or controversial is pared away in order to make the argument's appeal broad enough. But what if the world really does have philosophically murky or controversial features?) As a chief example, take the argument over so-called marginal cases and the ethical significance of belonging to a particular species. I go over marginal case arguments more closely and try to set out a response making use of Michael Thompson's work in The Representation of Life on aristotelian categoricals (which are explored at greater length in the second guest post) and the natural properties of living creatures; the upshot is that carnivores might be able to defend themselves by an appeal to the natural capacity for rationality (of some kind or other) that humans have. (I don't think the defense is convincing, but showing why requires detail work on the relation between moral standing and rationality, rather than a schematic marginal cases argument.)
The question of marginal cases and natural capacities brings us to Patrick @ Tiberius and Gaius Speaking… (2006-01-06): Capability and Potentiality: The philosophical debates over abortion and the rights of animals are beset by a common question: what characteristic(s), if any, can be listed and described to correctly pick out members of our moral community? In the abortion debates, the worry is that all the arguments that demonstrate the permissibility of abortion also establish the permissibility of infanticide. And since infanticide is pretty roundly condemned, that's a problem. Similarly, many have argued that no account of what constitutes humanity will include marginal cases like infants or the cognitively disabled but exclude more sophisticated animals. Patrick suggests that a distinction among different kinds of natural capacity — specifically, between potentiality and capability, and then between physical capability and what he calls actual capability, may make some progress toward a solution. If the moral standing of human beings is connected with rationality (as is often suggested in both abortion and animal rights debates), then you'll get different rules depending on whether you are citing the actual capability for minimal rationality (which would allow for killing fetuses, infants, adults with severe cognitive disabilities, and beasts), bare potentiality for minimal rationality (which would prohibit killing not only fetuses and infants, but perhaps even sperm, eggs, or skin cells under the right conditions), or physical capability for minimal rationality (which might–pending further results from developmental physiology, anyway–allow for killing beasts and aborting early pregnancies, but draw the line somewhere fairly late in pregnancy). Patrick favors physical capability for minimal rationality as drawing the line in something like the intuitive place.
As always, you really should read the whole thing.
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Chad Johnson lawyer asks for cut in 30-day jail term
Published: Jun 11, 2013 at 09:58 AM
MIAMI -- The lawyer for former NFL star Chad Johnson says the backside pat Johnson gave him in court was not meant as disrespectful to a judge -- and not enough to warrant 30 days in jail.
Attorney Adam Swickle asked Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh on Tuesday to reconsider the sentence. Johnson had reached a deal for community service and counseling to resolve a probation violation.
The Pro Bowl player formerly known as Chad Ochocinco is on probation after pleading no contest to battery on his then-wife, reality TV star Evelyn Lozada.
McHugh seemed ready to approve the plea deal Monday until Johnson's backside pat caused laughter in the court. The judge then said she wouldn't sign off and tossed Johnson in jail.
A hearing is set for next Monday.
Cardinals star CB Patrick Peterson set to play out contract
Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson is set to play out the final year of his contract, but things could get interesting for the eight-time Pro Bowler after this season.
Bears, Saints loomed under the radar in pursuit of Tom Brady
It seems the Bucs and Chargers weren't the only teams interested in acquiring Tom Brady this offseason. NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport sheds additional light on the courting of the star QB, who also drew interest from the Bears and Saints.
49ers to split $1 million among 9 groups in fight for equality
Jim Trotter reveals the details of the 49ers' decision to split $1 million in grants among nine organizations to further the movement for social justice.
Howard Mudd, former All-Pro OL and longtime NFL assistant coach, passes away at 78
Howard Mudd, a former NFL lineman who coached in the league for 38 seasons, passed away Wednesday, his family announced. Mudd was surrounded by family after suffering multiple injuries from a motorcycle accident in late July. He was 78.
Maryland's Michael Locksley forms group for minority football coaches
Frustrated by the slow pace of minority hiring in college and professional football, Maryland's Michael Locksley has created the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches. The nonprofit will seek to groom coaches of color for upward mobility.
Phil Krueger, first GM of the Buccaneers, passes away
Phil Krueger, who helped build a dominant defense as an assistant for 1967 national champion Southern California and later became part of the first coaching staff in Tampa Bay Buccaneers' history, has died. He was 90.
Panthers HC Matt Rhule considers kneeling during national anthem
Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule said he's considering kneeling alongside his players during the national anthem this season in support of the movement against racial injustice.
Miss State RB: I won't represent 'this State' until flag is changed
Mississippi State's Kylin Hill announced via social media on Monday that he will not be "representing this State" until the Mississippi state flag, which features the Confederate battle emblem, is changed.
Mike Gundy meets with OK State players, commits to changes
Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard expressed unity with head coach Mike Gundy in a video on Monday after threatening a boycott earlier in the day when he took exception to an OAN T-shirt worn by the coach.
Attorneys for Baker, Dunbar claim clients' innocence
The attorneys for New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar have issued statements claiming the innocence of their clients following an arrest warrant issued on Thursday.
Owners to vote on resolution to incentivize minority HC, GM hires
The NFL will present a pair of resolutions to increase coaching and GM opportunities for minorities this coming Tuesday during the owners' virtual meeting, Jim Trotter reports.
Warrant out for Baker, Dunbar on robbery charges
New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar have been charged with four counts of armed robbery with a firearm stemming from a May 13 incident, according to an arrest warrant issued Thursday by the Miramar (Fla.) Police Department.


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This year's holiday card is special because it marks my first foray into HTML 5 animation. It was great fun to do and, best of all, renders on mobile devices (unlike our sad, dead friend Flash). So, join me for a quick peek at some photo highlights from 2012 and say hello to my new puppy, Mochi.


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Tor Could Help Power a Super Private Browsing Mode in Firefox
May 9, 2019 in Software News
Mozilla positions privacy at the core of its Firefox browser, and the company wants to continue investments in this area on the long term.
In the report covering the research grants for the first half of the year, Mozilla discusses the privacy and security improvements that it wants to make happen in Firefox.
One of the priorities, Mozilla says, is to "integrate more of TOR in Firefox," as the company wants to enhance privacy with what it calls a Super Private Browsing (SPB) for users.
Mozilla already has a program to bring Tor features to Firefox. Called Tor Uplift, this effort helped implement fingerprinting protection in the browser, and as per GHacks, Mozilla could further enhance it for the creation of the aforementioned SPB mode too.
Tor Browser itself also runs on the Firefox ESR version, providing users with privacy options that aren't available, or at least not yet, in Mozilla's browser.The challengesBut as Mozilla itself puts it, implementing more of Tor in Firefox browser isn't necessarily an easy project, and the purpose of the research grant is to help deal with the challenges such an idea could bring.
"Enabling a large number of additional users to make use of the Tor network requires solving for inefficiencies currently present in Tor so as to make the protocol optimal to deploy at scale. Academic research is just getting started with regards to investigating alternative protocol architectures and route selection protocols, such as Tor-over-QUIC, employing DTLS, and Walking Onions," Mozilla says.
Needless to say, this is something that Mozilla is only considering in the long-term and not a feature that is currently under development. The research grants offered by the company are specifically supposed to help pursue such ideas, albeit it goes without saying that not every little project comes to fruition.
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Firefox might get a Super Private Browsing mode in the future
Mozilla published the organization's Research Grants for the first half of 2019 yesterday. The 2019H1 funding series seeks answers to 12 research questions in the categories "Growing the Web", "New Interaction Modes", and "Privacy & Security".
The Privacy & Security group seeks answers and new solutions in two areas: Data, and Privacy & Security in Firefox.
In the latter, Mozilla states that it has an "interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox" and that this could lead to a "Super Private Browsing (SPB) mode" for Firefox users.
Tor Browser, a web browser based on Firefox ESR code that integrates Tor connectivity, is already available. Mozilla started to implement certain Tor features in Firefox as part of the Tor Uplift project.
Designed to make life easier for developers of Tor and to integrate privacy features in Firefox, Tor Uplift introduced new features in Firefox including a new fingerprinting resisting option.
The Mozilla Research Grant question goes beyond the Tor Uplift program as it suggests that Tor could be integrated in the Firefox web browser to power the browser's Super Private Browsing mode.
The following questions are asked:
What alternative protocol architectures and route selection protocols would offer acceptable gains in Tor performance? And would they preserve Tor properties?
Is it truly possible to deploy Tor at scale? And what would the full integration of Tor and Firefox look like?
Firefox has hundreds of millions of users; if only a fraction of those would start using an integrated version of Tor in Firefox, it would have to be ensured that the user experience would be acceptable or better.
Scaling is one issue, and Mozilla would like to know if new protocols would improve Tor performance to address the potential bottleneck. Ultimately, it would come down to finding efficient options to run Tor at a very large scale without compromising anonymity or privacy.
Closing Words
Tor integration in Firefox could potentially lead to the retiring of Tor Browser. The Tor development team could continue to work on Tor, this time directly integrated in Firefox. The solution would offer several advantages but also potential issues.
Tor Browser is based on Firefox ESR. Integrating Tor in Firefox (Stable), would lead to faster development cycles and more issues the team would have to address. Firefox ESR does not get all the new features that Mozilla implements in Firefox directly.
Source: Firefox might get a Super Private Browsing mode in the future (gHacks - Martin Brinkmann)


Women's and junior soccer will be among the major beneficiaries of a $2.5 million redevelopment of the Adelaide Shores playing fields, West Beach.
Almost $1.4 million will be invested by the State Government in the next 12 months to improve cycle safety across South Australia.
Port Augusta residents are a step closer to enjoying a new, state-of-the-art sporting, recreation and entertainment precinct with construction contracts for the Central Oval Redevelopment signed this week.
The VACSWIM SA program will receive more funding from the State Government as it popularity continues to grow.
Hindmarsh Stadium will be known as Coopers Stadium from today after Coopers Brewery signed a naming rights agreement with the new operators, Adelaide Entertainments Corporation.


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Over the past few weeks I have noticed a big increase in the amount of spa chemicals being sold. I think most people use their spas all yearlong, but I know from personal experience that the number of times I use my spa each week definitely goes up as the temperatures start to go down. Recently I had a day off and I worked out in the yard getting the grass cut, leaves picked up, and dead flowers and plants removed from the beds. It was a cold and overcast day, and despite the physical activity, I just felt cold all day long.I could never really warm up. Shortly after diner I had enough of feeling cold and out to the spa I went. Problem solved not to mention that the sore arms,back and knees from working outside all day received some much-needed relief. So,while I would encourage spa owners to use their spas all year, I so get it that fall is probably the very best time to enjoy a spa, and that explains the increased traffic in the spa chemical and accessory area.
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The spin transition is an example of transition between two electronic states in molecular chemistry. The ability of an electron to transit from a stable to another stable (or metastable) electronic state in a reversible and detectable fashion, makes these molecular systems appealing in the field of molecular electronics.

In octahedral surroundings
When a transition metal ion of configuration ,  to , is in octahedral surroundings, its ground state may be low spin (LS) or high spin (HS), depending to a first approximation on the magnitude of the  energy gap between  and  metal orbitals relative to the mean spin pairing energy  (see Crystal field theory). More precisely, for , the ground state arises from the configuration where the  electrons occupy first the  orbitals of lower energy, and if there are more than six electrons, the  orbitals of higher energy. The ground state is then LS. On the other hand, for , Hund's rule is obeyed. The HS ground state has got the same multiplicity as the free metal ion. If the values of  and  are comparable, a LS↔HS transition may occur.

configurations
Between all the possible  configurations of the metal ion,  and  are by far the most important. The spin transition phenomenon, in fact, was first observed in 1930 for tris (dithiocarbamato) iron(III) compounds. On the other hand, the iron(II) spin transition complexes were the most extensively studied: among these two of them may be considered as archetypes of spin transition systems, namely Fe(NCS)2(bipy)2 and Fe(NCS)2(phen)2 (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine and phen = 1,10-phenanthroline).

Iron(II) complexes
We discuss the mechanism of the spin transition by focusing on the specific case of iron(II) complexes. At the molecular scale the spin transition corresponds to an interionic electron transfer with spin flip of the transferred electrons. For an iron(II) compound this transfer involves two electrons and the spin variations is . The occupancy of the  orbitals is higher in the HS state than in the LS state and these orbitals are more antibonding than the . It follows that the average metal-ligand bond length is longer in the HS state than in the LS state. This difference is in the range 1.4–2.4 pm for iron(II) compounds.

To induce a spin transition
The most common way to induce a spin transition is to change the temperature of the system: the transition will be then characterized by a , where  is the molar fraction of molecules in high-spin state. Several techniques are currently used to obtain such curves. The simplest method consists of measuring the temperature dependence of molar susceptibility. Any other technique that provides different responses according to whether the state is LS or HS may also be used to determine . Among these techniques, Mössbauer spectroscopy has been particularly useful in the case of iron compounds, showing two well resolved quadrupole doublets. One of these is associated with LS molecules, the other with HS molecules: the high-spin molar fraction then may be deduced from the relative intensities of the doublets.

Types of transition
Various types of transition have been observed. This may be abrupt, occurring within a few kelvins range, or smooth, occurring within a large temperature range. It could also be incomplete both at low temperature and at high temperature, even if the latter is more often observed. Moreover, the  curves may be strictly identical in the cooling or heating modes, or exhibit a hysteresis: in this case the system could assume two different electronic states in a certain range of temperature. Finally the transition may occur in two steps.

See also
 Spin crossover

Quantum chemistry


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Alencier Ley Lopez is one among the well-known stars of the Malayalam film industry. He has also showcased his talent as a theatre artist.
Alencier was born on 11 December 1965 to a Latin Catholic family hailing from Puthenthope, a coastal village in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram.
He is married to Suseela George, who is a mathematics teacher by profession. This couple has two sons namely Alen Savio Lopez and Alen Steve Lopez.
He is a graduate from the University College of Thiruvananthapuram.
Being a native of Puthenthope, Alencier was fond of theatre as many others were. His passion for acting began after he witnessed the Leyon Lopez Nadakaolsavam. He made a theatre debut at the age of five and later on, when in eighth standard, he and his friends started their own troupe called the Netaji Theatre. It was through this that they did acting and directing. During his college years he was associated with various theatre groups like C.P.Krishnakumar's troupe, Kavalam Narayana Panicker's Sopanam and K. Raghu's Natakayogam. He began his film career with the 1998 movie titled Daya. After this he had acted in many other movies like Shayanam (2000), Margham (2003), Pakal Nakshathrangal (2008), Raamanam (2009), Annayum Rasoolum (2013), Kanyaka Talkies (2013), Vedivazhipadu (2013), Njan Steve Lopez (2014), Love 24x7 (2015), Monsoon Mangoes (2016), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016), Kali (2016), Kammatipaadam (2016), Kasaba (2016), Kismath (2016), Guppy (2016), Thoppil Joppan (2016), Mundrothuruth (2016), Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol (2017), Ezra(2017), Take Off(2017), Rakshadhikari Baiju Oppu (2017), Comrade In America(2017), Thondi Muthalum Driksakshiyum (2017), Sarvopari Palakkaran (2017), Tarangam (2017), Udaharanam Sujatha (2017), Velipadinte Pusthakam (2017), Parava (2017), Goodalochana (2017), Hadiya (2017), Y(2017), Mayanadhi (2017), Randuper (2017), Vimaanam (2017), Eeda (film) (2018), Ira (2018), Ee.Ma.Yau (2018), Oru Kuprasidha Payyan (2018), Aabhasam (2018).
He also has two untitled movies of directors Anwar Rasheed and Dileesh Pothan which are yet to release.
Alencier had gained 2017-18 Kerala State Film Award for the Second Best Actor for the super hit movie of 2017 Thondi Muthalum Driksakshiyum, in which he donned the role of A.S.I Chandran. He had also won the Flowers Indian Film Awards Best Supporting Actor for the same.
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12-22-19 – Homestead National Monument
Homestead National Monument
Homestead National Monument of America, a unit of the National Park System, commemorates passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed any qualified person to claim up to 160 acres (0.65 km2) of federally owned land in exchange for five years of residence and the cultivation and improvement of the property. The Act eventually transferred 270,000,000 acres (1,100,000 km2) from public to private ownership.
The national monument is five miles west of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska on a site that includes some of the first acres successfully claimed under the Homestead Act. The national monument was first included in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966 (ID 66000115).
The Homestead Heritage Center, dedicated in 2007, contains exhibits that treat the effect of the Homestead Act on immigration, agriculture, native tribes, the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, and federal land policy. The roof line of the center resembles a "single bottom plow moving through the sod," and the parking lot measures exactly 1-acre (4,000 m2). A separate Education Center features science and social science presentations that can be shared with classrooms anywhere in the United States through distance-learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_National_Monument_of_America
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