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Subject: bureaucracy- and smtp-plugin - images are not send
I use the bureaucracy-plugin in combination with the smtp-plugin to send mails. On the machine where the webserver runs, no mailserver is configured. Instead, mails are sent over a seperate exchange-server in the network.
Now I encountered the problem, that sending contents from textboxes etc. works fine, but if I want to attach a file to the mail by using the file command in bureaucracy, the file is not in the mail.
There are no entrys in the error log of the webserver.
Maybe is it not possible to send mails with Attachements when using the smtp-plugin?
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Hi gurus,
we are facing some kind of strange errors with Field Transformation. We are doing some easy transformation and is failing with the following error:
Failed to preview function test: Failed to validate transform New Field transform transform: Error resolving component 'string'. It was detected that 'string' has no namespace, but components with no target namespace are not referenceable from schema document 'null'. If 'string' is intended to have a namespace, perhaps a prefix needs to be provided. If it is intended that 'string' has no namespace, then an 'import' without a "namespace" attribute should be added to 'null'.
Can someone help on this topic?
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Ultrasonic, tone etc disabled in live mode for Arduino Uno
The LIVE mode for ARDUINO UNO in mBlock 5 works very well! However I notice some blocks like READ ULTRASONIC SENSOR and PLAY PIN x WITH NOTE are turned off in LIVE mode. These blocks used to work in mBlock 3 LIVE mode.
Is there a plan to make them work in LIVE mode? If yes, when?
Thank you.
Hi, would you please send me a screenshot of PLAY PIN x WITH NOTE? I am not sure what this code is.
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1. Hello there,,, I just need a little help here... Could any of u tell me how to open a .jar file? Is it not enough when we have a java application on our system? Please tell me how its work... I really appreciate your help... Thanks
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3. I use Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1 (32-Bit) my Recuva version ist v1.27.419 hope that help you to fixed the problem on the version.
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How can I uninstall NVHardPage?
Discussion in 'nVHardPage' started by maverick6664, Dec 14, 2003.
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Since I installed NVHardPage, I have been having a trouble with RealOne player; when it plays video, it gets into full screen mode although I didn't set it so. Somehow TV-output is normally displayed. And when I quit RealOne player in the TV-output screen(not stop playing) the computer screen returns to normal. I think NVHardPage change my registry or something.
I am not sure this is due to my settings or NVHardPage, but anyway I want to test my system without NVHardPage. Even if I boot with cntrl button pressed, I have this symptom. So I want to test my system with NVHardPage *completely* uninstalled.
For reference, I use GeForce4 Ti4200 8x.
Any help I can get will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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You dont actually install NVH, so you cant uninstall it
I havent noticed any problems with Real, have you made sure you havent ticked somet in Real
Infact ive never noticed an option in NVH that alters teh Real registry
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At last, I reinstalled Windows from scratch! I don't know why I had the trouble, but anyway it's gone now.
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Is it possible? (Metal sharing for teams)
Discussion in 'Mod Discussions' started by liq3, August 30, 2015.
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Ok so, if anyone has played Zero-K is it possible to make a mod that would let us host games using that team resource sharing model?
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Only Uber could implement this.
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I can think of an interesting "hack" to do this: A new unit, a Supply Transporter. Slow, no Offense but plenty of HP, takes a bunch of metal to make but leaves a wreck with a similar amount of metal in salvage. Has an "Activate" button which only makes it do a self destruct "attack" for no damage. One unit per type: mech, air, land, sea, space, and perhaps upgraded/more metal versions of them in advanced. The Idea is one player makes them and sends them to another, activates them, they self destruct and the other player then salvages them. May as well add a corresponding unit , the "Salvager" which is cheap and does nothing but reclaim wrecks really fast. Pretty simple and seems doable, but I'm new to modding PA so not sure.
This would add an interesting dynamic to games with a bunch of players, requiring supply channels and staging areas to be set up and defended. If any old pros know if this is doable or not, let me know please!
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Live Tarot Readings/Channeler
• That's fine daliolite thank you.
• SagittariusGurl, I got several impressions w/you. It seems to center around child/children. It's vague to me if this is regarding a passing or in real time. There's also an indication to watch, watch for or be careful. If I said it had to do with family spirit is saying...You hit the bullseye. I'm getting a baptism as well. You'll have to let me know. I getting the feeling of being a teenager. Almost like seeing hearts or initials on a tree. All of this is separate and some is together. Let me know...
• I wonder if they were previos tenants in the town house we use to live? Hmmm.... I do need to investigate this.
• I mean previous tenants that once lived in that particular town house before we moved in. Candice was 5 months old when I lived there.
• Daliolite am surrounded by kids I have my daughter and I live with my 2 nephews and 1 niece so am always with them since I babysit them when everyone is working. Baptism well I baptize my daughter in February maybe is that. What do you mean I hit the bullseye? I can't relate to to the initial or hearts on the tree.
• SagittariusGurl, I actually saw a heart on a tree while I was on my exerciser. I also saw my symbol for children. Actually, saw many symbols for children. As with/ StandingTall I see love. the heart on the wood reminded me of young love. I really felt lilke this is in real time. I don't know who specifically you thought would come thru. It's harder for me to channel someone who passed yrs ago. There's been a presence of a dog that's very strong so it makes me wonder about this dog you have. Like I said before, spirit is saying be careful. You have the abiity to form solid relationships w/family.
• StandingTall, It's vague to me when this happened. I kept seeing baby birds everywhere I went w/their mouths open (pictures of this.)
• You know now that you say that you saw the wart symbol I remember a while back you told me you saw a wedding ring ir engagement ring can't quite remember but when you told me that I few day later my ex got married I think that's what that meant. You are the secon person that said that about the dog shuabby also mentioned a dog a while back buti don't know what's going with the dog I have since I don't like dog and don't interact with him. Ill be careful but just don't know about what. Ill just have to keep my eyes open.
• SagittariusGurl,
Sometimes an otherwise friendly dog will turn mean. Avoid situations where child's play may jeopardize safety.
• Thank you daliolite I will do that. My daughter when she's by herself at home she likes to go outside and play wit the dog she loves dogs her dad got like 3 dogs in his house. But the one I have if he doesn't know you he will bark till u leave and if u get close he will start jumping on you.
• Moonalisa, I'll start yours. Your dad's spirit is here. I hope I can communicate effectively for you. Give me a day or so.
• thanks:), will be waiting, he passed away some time ago, in two days it'll be 19 years, just wanted you to know in case it might be important.
• Hi daliolite, can i get a reading from you please. Thank you, elaine.
• Hello, Daliolite, thank you for being so generous! I watched your other thread but it was so full, and now I've found your new one. No hurry at all, but I'd like to receive in which ever way you feel moved an answer to why I can't make a clean break with my last relationship - even when I push him out of my concious mind, I'll wake up in tears sometimes. I am in a new, over four years relationship and feel happy and I want this previous one gone, done, over. I just don't understand why it isn't? Thank you so much for all you're doing for everyone here. Blessings, Jlina
• SmilerE, Did you want a tarot reading.
• jlinaangel, Yes. It'll be a few days ok.
• Hi Daliolite,
I am wondering if you can tell me if my brother or any of my guides have a message for me. I am told I am being sent signs and messages but that I am missing them....very frustrating.
Thanks for all you do for everyone here!
• I need help , I know your probably already so busy and I know Im not the only one with a desperate need.
If there is anything you could do I would be beyond grateful.
I cant see past the pain its suffocating and I dont know how to proceed in any direction.
I have to do something and considering that my choices effect my immediate life and my future I have become scared as well.
The circumstances requiring immediate decisions and actions are not in my control. Please help me, please.
Thank you
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• Yes, i would love a tarot reading please.:)
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As a beginner I found this word quite strange. Why is there an apostrophe in the middle of the word « aujourd'hui » ? Is this word constructed by au + jour + d'hui ?
Oh well, I should have googled "etymology aujourd'hui" myself. From Wiktionary I got this answer,
au + jour + de + hui, literally “on the day of today”; since hui comes from Latin hodie, the phrase literally means "on the day of this day".
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This etymology makes even uglier the expression sometimes used "Au jour d'aujourd'hui". – jlliagre Oct 22 '15 at 6:11
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I totally agree, this expression is ugly and is a kind of pleonasm ! – user5965 Oct 22 '15 at 7:54
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@Hipjea even a double one, "aujourd'hui" already being an etymological pleonasm. – jlliagre Oct 22 '15 at 9:06
To add to @grokus answer, we need to write that apostrophe because that is the rule with that préposition when it stands before the h which is muet.
You may be interested to read Comment distingue-t-on un "h" aspiré et un "h" muet ?
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Are there specific weapons that can headshot enemies, or can all attacks headshot enemies, including melee attacks? Can all hero abilities headshot enemies, such as Genji's Slash Dash if aimed correctly?
I would also like to know, besides what can headshot enemies, which of those weapons have the biggest leniency in terms of getting headshot. For example, with hanzo, you can aim close to the head and it will still count as a headshot; is his Storm Bow the most lenient in the game in terms of how far you can stray from a player's head and still get headshots, or are there other weapons that allow for even bigger cheesing?
• The second part of the question seems like a duplicate of the one you just asked about who has the biggest head hitbox. – DCShannon Jun 6 '16 at 22:16
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@DCShannon Projectiles have a hitbox, some projectiles I believe have bigger hitboxes than others. You're confusing the term hitbox with head hitbox, the two can factor with each other but are both separate entities (projectile hitbox and head hitbox) – senpai Jun 6 '16 at 22:21
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Ah okay, the other question is asking about the character's hitbox, here you're asking about the size of the projectile. Could be clearer, but I got ya. – DCShannon Jun 6 '16 at 22:25
All weapons with the exception of Pharah, McCree's secondary, Junkrat, Mei's primary, Reinhardt, Winston, Zarya, Ana (on friend or foe), and Symmetra can headshot. Damage reflected by Genji can headshot as well as the initial arrows for each Hanzo's abilities (though the scattered projectiles and dragon themselves cannot). Roadhog's Whole Hog ultimate can headshot. Other abilities and all melee attacks cannot headshot.
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Zarya's primary can't headshot? That's surprising and confusing. It's a tight beam. Why wouldn't it head shot? – DCShannon Jun 6 '16 at 22:26
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And Junkrat's grenades are small projectiles like Hanzo's arrows but also can't headshot. I imagine it has to do with game balance. With enough energy under her belt, Zarya can easily take apart most characters. Having double-damage headshots on top of that might make her too strong. – Yuuki Jun 6 '16 at 22:28
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@ApproachingDarknessFish Yes, Reaper and Roadhog can headshot. In fact, this is what makes Reaper such a good tank-killer, repeated headshots with his shotguns chews them up. – Yuuki Jun 6 '16 at 23:13
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@ApproachingDarknessFish One-shotting squishy heroes at close range is basically the entire reason for Roadhog to exist. – Chris Hayes Jun 7 '16 at 7:59
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I believe McCree's right click can't headshot either. – Dmiters Jun 7 '16 at 20:19
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So I'm studying discrete math and I have some questions:
1.For this question,in the answer we use inexclusive or,why is it wrong to use exclusive or?
p: You can use wireless network in the Airport
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To use the wireless network in the Airport you must pay the daily fees unless you are subscriber to the service
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The idea of colonialism has been marked through the history of modern Europe. The Industrial Revolution made sea travel more easier so people were able to travel further.The desire for power led to the desire for land.The more land a country had the more power and influence.The idea of trade was very influential in the progression of imperialism and colonialism. New markets were always needed so the possibility of many people to buy their products was attractive.All these and the love of adventure made the three areas irresistible.The terms colonialism and imperialism are sometimes used interchangeably, but scholars usually distinguish between the two, reserving colonialism for instances where one country assumes political control over another and using imperialism more broadly to refer to political or economic control exercised either formally or informally.European colonialism had a similar impact on South Asia, Africa, and North America in that it changed the regions' infrastructures, social systems, and their process of choosing an appropriate ruling body.
European colonialism affected the regions of South Asia, Africa, and the Americas in that it changed their infrastructures. Before the Europeans came, these three underdeveloped areas had primitive technology and infrastructure.The people of these regions used dirt roads to travel and bows and arrows to fight. The nations of the west introduced and built roads, canals, and railways in Africa to allow for faster transportation. The Europeans also introduced the telegraph, which ran from Egypt to South Africa, to make communications in Africa easier.Africa became a modern culture after this advancement of technology had occurred.Some colonial governments also introduced improved medical care through the building of hospitals, and better methods of sanitation.There were new crops, tools, and farming methods which helped increase food production.These cha…
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The first release of data from the GRAIL lunar mission is now online at the PDS Geosciences Node. This release includes raw and calibrated data from the Lunar Gravity and Ranging System (LGRS) on each of the two GRAIL spacecraft, and raw radio science data. The second and final release of GRAIL data, scheduled for October 2013, will include lunar gravitational field data derived from the raw and calibrated data. The GRAIL mission ended on December 17, 2012, with a controlled impact of both spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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Someone who witnessed the following (paraphrased) exchange on Facebook commented that she couldn’t honestly tell sometimes whether people are genuinely confused about the difference between description and prescription, “is” versus “ought,” or are just trolling.
I have trouble fathoming the former, but the latter is more disturbing.
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I have vector data of 3D City Model in PostgreSQL database. So from my data geometry column, which is a surface geometry. (These are geometries of all the surfaces of buildings). I had extracted the points through ST_DumpPoints query as follows:
SELECT (ST_x(geom)) AS X, ST_y(geom) AS Y FROM (
SELECT (St_DumpPoints(geometry)).geom from surface_geometry WHERE cityobject_id=95
) AS foo
Now I would like to calculate the azimuth from the origin (the below-created point) to all the points extracted with the above query from all the surface polygons. Considering this point created below as position, viewpoint or GPS position of an observer, I am building it with MakePoint as below. (So as observer position, I would be changing this point everytime or is there any way to automatise this?)
SELECT (ST_x(StandPoint)) AS X, ST_y(StandPoint) AS Y FROM (
SELECT ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(391139.27, 5821816.69), 25833) AS StandPoint) AS
I have seen in PostGIS that there is a way to calculate azimuth between two points. The function ST_Azimuth calculate between two points as in PostGIS manual. But how to calculate azimuth from one to many? Any tips on how to proceed?
Later I want to store that calculate the azimuth in a variable in python using PsyCopg 2 (This part is not difficult) for my further calculations.
• @ Cyril, That doesn't help me. I know how to calculate the azimuth if only two points. – FRQ Feb 12 '19 at 17:12
• It is not about a central point. I Want to calculate azimuth from one point coordinate to each coordinate of the surfaces. Plus I have seen I guess almost all the questions related to ST_Azimuth here. – FRQ Feb 12 '19 at 17:21
• but you can create one column in your table, where are the coordinates of one point (in accordance with the number of observed points), and another column where are the other points of type point?... – Cyril Feb 12 '19 at 17:23
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I think what you want to do is use ST_DumpPoints in a sub-query or CTE and then join this against the point you want to calculate the azimuths for. Your question is a little bit hard to understand, though. – John Powell Feb 13 '19 at 8:19
If I understand the question correctly, the solution is the following
1) Run the script:
create table azimuth_1_m as
select a.gid as gid, b.gid as id,
degrees(st_azimuth(a.geom,b.geom)) as azimuth
your_source_table as a, your_source_table as b
where a.gid=1
You can choose any point...a.gid=2,3,4, etc.
2) To get rid of empty lines, execute the following script
create table azimuth_1_many as
select * from azimuth_1_m
where azimuth::character varying IS NOT NULL
and azimuth::character varying <> ''
and gid IS NOT NULL
and id IS NOT NULL
• I have re-edited my question once again. Hope you understand it now. Because the above query is not relevant to my question. – FRQ Feb 13 '19 at 3:57
• Yeah but that's not I am trying to do. I don't want to duplicate the table either I want to store those duplicate points in a new table. I am trying to figure it out till someone has better expertise and thought or idea to guide me to proceed. – FRQ Feb 13 '19 at 15:07
A join is what you are looking for; ST_DumpPoints returns a record set that, when expanded, can be joined as a table to your StandPoint.
In this simple case however, you can even just expand the set and run ST_Azimuth with your explicit point generation within; the basic concept would be:
SELECT (dmp).path[1],
ST_Azimuth((dmp).geom, ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(391139.27, 5821816.69), 25833)) AS azm
FROM (
SELECT ST_DumpPoints(geometry) AS dmp
FROM surface_geometry
WHERE cityobject_id=95
) q
Or, which I find more elegant, with the use of LATERAL to expand the record set:
SELECT dmp.path[1] AS id,
ST_Azimuth(dmp.geom, ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(391139.27, 5821816.69), 25833)) AS azm
FROM surface_geometry,
LATERAL ST_DumpPoints(geom) AS dmp
WHERE cityobject_id=95
In both cases, I use the path[1] element to generate an id corresponding to the order of the vertices of the surface.
This is a simple use-case for a single point created at run-time and a filter on your surface table; you could set up this query string dynamically in Python, i.e replace the point coordinates and the filter id.
As you hinted at automation: it is also perfectly possible to use this as the core for a two-table join (possibly with a CTE) between all objects and a collection of observer positions; in that case you'd need to provide some sort of id filter between the two tables to limit one observer to one city object. As your question stands it's hard to predict your actual scenario.
• It seems that it may be something like that I want, but I am confused about how the query is working. Are you calculating the azimuth between 391139.27, 5821816.69? If so that is not my two different points instead those are the x and y coordinates in 25833. Nevertheless could you please explain your query about how it is working in steps, please. – FRQ Feb 13 '19 at 21:08
• @user24610 let's take the first query: ST_DumpPoints creates an own record for every point in the surface in the sub-select, quite but not exactly like a table. the outer query takes each row of that sub-select and expands the row type ((dmp).path & (dmp).geom, check the link and further docs) and uses each points geometry in ST_Azimuth, together with your observer point. both are geometry data type (go read about PostGIS standard geometry types before doing anything else...if that is new to you ,) ) that stores both coordinates with it. – ThingumaBob Feb 13 '19 at 21:27
• @user24610 or have I misunderstood you? anyway, ST_Area returns radians, use degrees(ST_Area(...)) AS azm to convert if you need. – ThingumaBob Feb 13 '19 at 21:36
• No, I don't need to know the area. I was dumping points to extract x and y as in Spatial reference ID 25833 unit is in meter, and I want all in the same Spatial reference. So at the end is it calculating the azimuth between all surface points and one observer point? That's what I want to do, setting up this query string dynamically in Python. Plus I don't know how with CTE this will work. I am a beginner on my way to learn more and new stuff. – FRQ Feb 13 '19 at 22:03
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oh, you meant probably ST_Azimuth and degrees(ST_Azimuth(...)) AS azm instead of ST_Area and degrees(ST_Area(...)) AS azm respectively... Got it – FRQ Feb 14 '19 at 1:34
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What is Yeast Infection?
Yeast infection specifically refers to Candida Albicans, a type of mold that typically lives harmlessly in our bodies. In fact, a lot of different harmful bacteria and fungi typically shares our body with us.
The reason why we don’t get killed by these harmful germs is because our body has good bacteria protecting us, along with our immune system. The good bacteria isn’t really protecting us, but it’s preventing bad germs from taking too much territory on our body and eating us alive.
That’s why for those who are overly obsessed with cleaning themselves or their babies too much will often find rashes or some other kinds of skin problems. What they are doing is simply cleaning out most of the good bacteria so that bad germs can literally freely terrorize the open areas on their bodies.
Babies have a naturally weak immune system, so if you use something that destroys good bacteria that protects her, then it will be possible for her to suffer yeast infection.
What are the types of imbalances?
Babies are barely being protected by their newly formed immune system along with the good bacteria that’s covering all over their body. If either of these are destroyed, then there will be a high possibility for your baby to develop a yeast infection or some other kind of problem.
One of the main culprits is antibiotics. Antibiotics is used to kill harmful bacteria when people get sick. It’s the medicine that your family doctor often prescribes to you when you are sick. However, antibiotics are often misused because most often colds are caused by viruses, which can not be destroyed by antibiotics.
If the mother was taking too many antibiotics during her pregnancy, then most of her baby’s good bacteria could’ve been destroyed, leaving her baby defenseless against yeast infection.
The other possibility is if the baby took too many antibiotics after she was born, which ends with exact same result. The last possibility is if the mother was taking a lot of antibiotics while breastfeeding her baby.
A mother’s breast milk contains some of her blood, so the antibiotics she took will transfer directly to her baby.
Where does yeast infection typically occur?
Typically yeast infection can occur in any place with plenty of warmth, and moisture. It typically lives in the mouth, intestines, folds of the skin, and vagina.
That’s why if your baby has thrush, a type of yeast infection in the mouth, which develops noticeably painful white patches, then it’s also possible for the yeast infection to develop on her butt.
The most important reason this happens is because yeast can stick to the food your baby eats or drinks, and travel all the way out of the butt as poop.If you don’t perform diapers changes frequent enough, the yeast in the poop will have plenty of time to develop painful diaper rashes.
Can Yeast Be Prevented?
No. It’s just like how you can’t prevent yourself from coming into contact with germs everyday, yeast can not be avoided. It’s practically everywhere.
However, most of the times, you can prevent it from causing damage by doing the right things like avoiding using too many antibiotics, and changing your baby’s diapers more often.
A lot of babies have yeast on them and never suffer from problems caused by yeast infection.
Is Yeast Infection Harmful?
No. It’s simply extremely painful. It usually goes away by itself after your baby is fully potty trained. The reason is because the diaper is no longer there to trap the moisture so the yeast will be less likely to live as long your baby has an intact immune system. In other words, air and dryness is your friend when it comes to fighting diaper rashes.
If your baby has diaper rashes caused by yeast infection, then let her go diaper free for a while so that her butt can breath some air, and the rashes should be less severe.
Potty training your baby early also does good for the environment while reducing the amount of disposable diapers in the landfills. As for those who use cloth diapers, it reduces the amount of water and electricity that you are wasting to wash the cloth diapers.
Is There Any Cream or Ointment that Can Be Used For Diaper Rashes?
There are antifungal cream available on the market, but then again, you should ask your doctor first before attempting to try anything.
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I think they should make a Half-Life 2 Resistance. You should be able to play as a person from the resistance. —Unsigned comment by (talk)
There are a lot of single player mods out there that do exactly that, but to be honest, they all annoy me. Gordon's H.E.V. suit is such a good explanation for all of the "gamey" elements, like the HUD and the ability to survive dozens of hits. Then comes along a single player mod where you're just a regular joe/jane yet you can still perform just as well as Gordon Freeman, despite lacking an H.E.V. suit.
That said, it could be good if it was done right. Like for example, having no HUD (some other way of telling your health status) and being a lot weaker than Gordon is with the suit. The emphasis could be on squad combat. --MattyDienhoff 10:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
What about a Half-Life strategy game, where you could play as the combine or resistance. —Unsigned comment by (talk)
One mod (Riot Act) did it well: they used a Combine vest and helmet to explain why you have a HUD etc. —Unsigned comment by (talk)
Hey, what's up with that part about Episode 4 in the expansion section? Isn't Episode 3 going to be the last in the trilogy? Mar. 22, 2010 Well, if it is a trilogy, then yes. A trilogy is three. Sorcerer123 23:23, April 8, 2010 (UTC)
Should it be mentioned?
I recently read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and noticed that there are many related themes between Half Life 2 and the novel; and by related theme, I mean that if one read One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, they'll know that Valve based several aspects off of the book. For example, the narrator of the novel explains that the world is ruled by a mechanized force called THE COMBINE-and it takes people and turns them into ROBOTS. There are several other analogies through out the two works, but that is the most evident of them all. So I was wondering if we should mention in the trivia that Valve was most likely inspired by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.--Whachamacallit 23:11, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
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Best and Worst Episodes
I was listening to an episode of the Plaidcast tonight - specifically the Bugs episode - and the hosts decided to list their top five worst episodes of Supernatural from S1-10, or possibly S1-9, I'm not sure. ANYWAY, it sounded like fun.
So, without further ado - here are, in my opinion, and in order of season...
The 5 Worst Episodes of Supernatural:
1. Swap Meat
2. Manniquin 3: The Reckoning
3. Season Seven, Time for a Wedding
4. Man's Best Friend with Benefits
5. Dog Dean Afternoon
Honourable Mention: Bloodlines (This only gets honourable mention, because it's really an episode of a crappy other show that never happened.)
And, equally fun, and because for every bad thing I say about the show on here, I have to say one good thing. Here are...
My Favourite Episodes from each season so far:
1. Home
2. Born Under a Bad Sign
3. Mystery Spot
4. On The Head of a Pin
5. Swan Song
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. Death's Door
8. Sacrifice
9. Alex Annie Alexis Ann
10. The Executioner's Song
If you're wondering why I picked "Home" as my favourite S1 episode, it's because that one was the episode that hooked me. That was the one where I became INVESTED in the show, rather than just watching it because my sister wanted to.
And yes, it was hard to pick between Mystery Spot and A Very Supernatural Christmas.
My favourite episode of all time remains On The Head of a Pin, super dark and depressing though it is, it's just far too gorgeous an episode not to love above all others. Not to mention that it has probably the clearest and best stated world view of the show summed up in a two line exchange:
"There is no Will. No Wrath. No God."
"Maybe. maybe not, but there's still me."
Mystery Spot, TMWKTM, and Sacrifice, are all pretty Sam centric episodes... or, I like them for Sam centric reasons. But, I see BUABS, Swan Song, and The Executioner's Song, as being Dean centric... or, I like them for Dean centric reasons. Then Death's Door, and Alex Annie Alexis Ann, I see as being excellent for showcasing the amazing supporting actors that Supernatural has, and how the show is able to populate it's world with really rich characters that could be the stars of their own shows easily.
Anyway, fun times... carry on as you were. I'll try to do another rewatch this weekend. :)
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I heard in a conversation I got with a friend of a friend before, that during World War II apparently Emperor Hirohito of Japan, gave an address to his people after a long time in which talked about permissions for suicide and measures taken for non-productive jobs. I don't remember very well actually, that's why I'm asking.
Can someone tell me when was this, and what was exactly this about?
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It's my understanding that the first time the people of Japan heard their Emperor speaking was when Hirohito broadcast his decision to end the war in August, 1945. – Barry May 3 '14 at 0:44
Hirohito didn't make a speech or address, but he sent out an official announcement to the military and to Tojo that Japanese civilians should commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner.
Before the eventual unconditional surrender of Japan after the dropping of the atomic bombs, the government was considering orders for mass-suicides "modeled on the 47-Ronin incident."
By the time Japan surrendered, 10,000 civilians are believed to have committed suicide. Many in the military also committed suicide by crashing planes into American ships. 3000 Japanese sailors were found aboard one ship who had all committed suicide rather than be taken prisoner.
The information sourced here is mostly from Wikipedia. I suggest the book "Girl with the White Flag" (white flag for surrender) for a personal historical account of the absolute terror Japanese civilians felt when American troops approached. They believed the soldiers would brutally murder them.
This wasn't the account of Japanese history I learned, so I read more up on this. The information can all also be found on Wikipedia. I learned that the Emperor had very little role in the war, but this is apparently was a fabrication by the US to exonerate him from war crimes. The best and newest evidence shows he was intimately involved. The US did this perhaps to make Japan easier to govern and occupy, as the emperor had an important symbolic role to the Japanese people; and also, the US put all blame on the military, therefore discrediting them. They told the Japanese that they and the Emperor had been tricked by the military. Hirohito offered to stand trial for war crimes and the US refused to allow him to do this.
• I need more information for the non productive jobs part of the question. I'm certain of its exact meaning in this context unfortunately. – Razie Mah May 3 '14 at 12:31
• Ok, what I heard is that apparently the emperor supported the idea to fund jobs for the japanese people that were otherwise non-productive (payments for artists, artisans, and other jobs that do not involve producing tools for practical use). Or so I heard. – Xanathos May 5 '14 at 16:04
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This answer appears to be sourced exclusively from a single, widely discredited, conspiracy theory whose "best and newest" evidence are more than 40 years old. – Semaphore Feb 16 '15 at 15:21
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Hashtag’s Birthday today – When lowly keyboard symbol became a celeb
Ten years ago, how did you refer to this # symbol? Most people I knew called it the ‘pound sign’ and we barely used it. Except for street addresses (it felt sleeker than the old-school abbreviation “No”) as in #33 Clifford Place.
Ten years ago, we had other things that grabbed our attention. FB had just bragged about 30 million users. Virginia Tech happened, the iPhone had been launched, and the global economy was teetering.
So what were you doing on Aug 23rd, 2007? Where were you working? How did you communicate? I am curious to see how my friends were doing when the hashtag emerged.
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How to Stop Water Leaks Under a Door Frame
Water can leak through gaps under exterior doors, damaging floors and carpets and causing dampness and mold growth. Install weatherstripping under the door to seal it from water leaks.
Waterproof under doors with reinforced weatherstripping.
The best form of weatherstripping for doors is made from reinforced, waterproof foam that will compress and stretch each time the door is opened or closed. Avoid felt or open-cell foam, as they may not provide adequate protection against weather, according to the United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
1. Calculate how much reinforced weatherstripping you will need to protect the bottom of the door. Open the door and measure the length of the threshold with a tape measure. Allow 5 percent to 10 percent extra as an error and waste margin. You will need to apply weatherstripping to both the bottom of the door and the frame threshold to form a watertight seal.
2. Clean the bottom of the door and the threshold by wiping them with a clean cloth dampened with water and a squeeze of dish detergent. Wait for the surfaces to dry.
3. Cut the correct lengths of reinforced weatherstripping from the roll with a sharp utility knife. Use a tape measure to get the right length. Cut two lengths – one for the bottom of the door and one for the threshold at the bottom of the doorframe.
4. Unpeel the backing tape from the weatherstripping. Push the weatherstripping along the center of the doorframe threshold and press it firmly into place. Apply the weatherstripping to the underside of the door in the same way. Cut away any excess weatherstripping with the utility knife.
Fit a door sweep to the bottom of exterior doors to help prevent drafts and water leaks. Buy reinforced weatherstripping from a home improvement or hardware store.
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What are some differences and simularities between Ninjas and Samurais?
1. Mentalist acer profile image60
Mentalist acerposted 9 years ago
What are some differences and simularities between Ninjas and Samurais?
2. John B Badd profile image60
John B Baddposted 9 years ago
A Samurai was a feudal warrior in service to a wealthy land owner (a lord). They had a code of honor they followed and after their masters death they were required to die by there own sword. A Samurai who refused to do this was known as a Ronin and walked the earth a disgraced warrior, often times becoming a mercenary.
A ninja is classically an assassin by trade. They use martial arts and subterfuge to eliminate the enemies they were hired to kill. Like a samurai they could also have been in the service of a master or they may have belonged to a guild of there own. Unlike a samurai a ninja was not beholden to a strict moral code.
In modern times many have begun to study the way of the ninja. These people are hopefully not assassins and many follow the moral codes of their belief systems.
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Hauntyposted 9 years ago
The Samurai were Japanese noblemen in the Middle Ages bound by the Samurai code of ethics that places justice and honor before all else in life. In practice, the Samurai interpreted their code quite freely as many of them became brigands and pirates when the prospect of riches reared its ugly head for them.
Ninja were born Samurai who became trained mercenaries for powerful Japanese warlords called Daimyo. They were infamous for their deadly skills in stealth, disguise and martial arts. They originated from Samurai families in the Iga and Koga Provinces of Japan.
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Tricia Barnesposted 9 years ago
Samurai were like the Knights of England only to Japan.They lived by the strict Code of the Samurai which is why they protected their counrty,gained knowledge, and protected and were polite to women.They fought mainly with a sword until the introduction of gunpowder, and were also known for their ability to create great poetry which may seem strange but they had strong morals about the society they fought to protect.They were also involved in politics.
Ninja were very steathly and prefered to avoid direct combat unlike the samurai.They were forced from their regular life of simple farming and such into warfare during their era.They prefered to take down enemy's when they let their guard down and used a variety of weapons like kanata and shuriken.They trained in stealth and blended in so they were very effective at sneaking up on their target.They were something like mercanaries and even some samurai were also ninja.
Most ninja and samurai ways were abandonded as Japan modernized, but some still hold on to their ways and customs.
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%0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence %D In Press %T Deep Neural Networks for Speech Enhancement in Complex-Noisy Environments %A Nasir Saleem %A Muhammad Irfan Khattak %K Deep Learning %K Ideal Binary Mask %K Intelligibility %K Speech Enhancement %K Time- Frequency Masking %N In Press %P 1-7 %R 10.9781/ijimai.2019.06.001 %U https://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2019/06/ip2019_06_01_pdf_20779.pdf %V In Press %X In this paper, we considered the problem of the speech enhancement similar to the real-world environments where several complex noise sources simultaneously degrade the quality and intelligibility of a target speech. The existing literature on the speech enhancement principally focuses on the presence of one noise source in mixture signals. However, in real-world situations, we generally face and attempt to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech where various complex stationary and nonstationary noise sources are simultaneously mixed with the target speech. Here, we have used deep learning for speech enhancement in complex-noisy environments and used ideal binary mask (IBM) as a binary classification function by using deep neural networks (DNNs). IBM is used as a target function during training and the trained DNNs are used to estimate IBM during enhancement stage. The estimated target function is then applied to the complex-noisy mixtures to obtain the target speech. The mean square error (MSE) is used as an objective cost function at various epochs. The experimental results at different input signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) showed that DNN-based complex-noisy speech enhancement outperformed the competing methods in terms of speech quality by using perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), segmental signal-to-noise ratio (SNRSeg), log-likelihood ratio (LLR), weighted spectral slope (WSS). Moreover, short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) reinforced the better speech intelligibility. %8 06/2019 %> https://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2019/06/ip2019_06_01_pdf_20779.pdf
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BBC News
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A Girls' Game
Big Men
Big Men tells the stories of East Africa's unlikely feminists: men in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya who are redefining masculinity and/or fighting for female empowerment.
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BBC Online
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BBC online service includes BBC News, Sport, Weather, CBBC, iPlayer and iPlayer Radio. BBC Online brings together our broad portfolio of websites including BBC News, Sport and Weather, our children’s sites CBBC and CBeebies, knowledge and learning as well as access to radio and TV programmes on-demand through BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio. Each website is available via a variety of internet-connected devices including tablets, smartphones and connected TVs – as well as computers. BBC Online is also the place where everyone can access our vast archive of radio and television programmes, which are being made available digitally and curated through iPlayer.
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This project explores how the opportunities arising from female-driven efforts in civil society, policy, and science are bringing about progress to reduce maternal mortality in three countries.
This project shows how West African women and doctors are determined to shatter taboos around infertility, offering women opportunities for treatment and support.
More than Chicken Sh*t
Phosphorus is essential for food production, but the global supplies are dwindling and the prices are rising. This project investigates the innovative solutions developed in Malawi to tap into its own local phosphorus resources.
A Girls' Game
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New business models with the intersection of IoT, AI and blockchain
Have you ever thought about how you could make money with the internet of things or artificial intelligence? Or with blockchain? What would happen if you could use the three of them in a new business model? Apparently, success, success and success.
IoT business models
As IoT moves past its infancy, certain trends and economic realities are becoming clear. Perhaps the most significant of those is the realization that traditional hardware business models just don’t work in IoT. Take a look at “The top five most successful IoT business models” that have emerged as particularly effective IoT applications.
And if any of you are building an IoT product, “IoT business models for monetizing your IoT product” shows how to make money with IoT.
Zack Supalla, founder and CEO of IoT startup Particle, suggests “Six ways to make money in IoT.”
Finally, in “How IoT is spawning better business models,” we can read three ways companies like Rolls-Royce, Peloton, MTailor and STYR Labs are rethinking their business models and creating a revolution in the marketplace.
Blockchain business models
It sounds repetitive, but yes, blockchain technology may disrupt existing business models. The authors’ findings concerning the implications of blockchain technology for business models are summarized in the following Figure 2.
Do you think blockchain will to cut into big-players’ revenues? Then “New blockchain-based business models set to disrupt Facebook and others” is for you.
If you are ambitious and planning to build a viable business on blockchain, then read “Building an international business model on blockchain.”
I am also an advocate of the coming era of decentralization — at least in my most optimistic version — and blockchain is a step to create value when the “end of all corporate business models” arrives.
AI business models
Companies from all industries, of all shapes and sizes, are thus faced with an important set of questions:
• Which AI business models and applications can I use?
• What technologies and infrastructures are required?
It seems that we all are convinced that artificial intelligence is now the most important general-purpose technology in the world, and that it can drive changes to existing business models. Not surprising, then, that “AI is revolutionizing business models.” The “data trap” strategy, in venture capitalist Matt Turck’s words, consists of offering — often for free — products that can initialize a data network effect. In addition, user experience and design are becoming tangibly relevant for AI, and this creates friction in early stage companies with limited resources to be allocated between engineers, business and design.
This article introduces some good examples of AI business models.
New business models with the intersection of IoT, AI and blockchain
With IoT, we are connecting the digital to the physical world. Connected objects offer a host of new opportunities for companies, especially in terms of creating new services. The amount of data generated by the billions of connected objects will be the perfect complementary feed to many AI applications. Finally, blockchain technology can be used to secure the internet of things and create smart contracts in a decentralized infrastructure that boost the democratization of technology and creation of sustainable communities.
You must remember that new business models that include IoT, AI and blockchain need, among other characteristics, volume and scalability. Volume of devices, volume of data, volume of customers, volume of developers and powerful ecosystems to escalate.
Good luck in your search and implementation of your new business model.
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On Why?
I am sitting at a wooden picnic table with few other people. The spring sun is warming my back as I take sips of coffee I have grabbed half an hour ago.
It is a hot day. I am rolling a tyre in the street of Layyah. A hard slap hits my face. The bicycle crashes into a rickshaw. My hand slips from hers. The mountains are full of snow, the river, of blood. “Remember, you are the son of a labourer!” I bury my head in the books. Someone drags me through the office by the hair. I give her a kiss on cheeks. A storm fills my mouth with the sand. I collapse on the ground coughing and vomit all my dreams one by one.
The ringing of a bicycle bell brings me back to the world. This is not the first time, I have been asked this question. I have been facing this question since my arrival in the US. And I feel lost.
Sitting among highly successful people inside the headquarters of world’s top tech companies, I try hard to come up with a profound answer, but nothing comes out. It is as if someone suddenly has wakened me up from a deep sleep and ordered me to dig for gold. My mind is shovelling desperately, but instead of striking gold, it is hitting hard rocks and creating sparks.
Would it make sense if I tell them I was overcome by emotions which made me set out on this journey even when I had no financial means for it? But that wouldn’t be enough. Why did I do my previous trip from Germany to Pakistan and the ones before? Why did I begin cycling at all?
I can connect the dots and go back in time when I got my first tricycle as a kid but the tautology wouldn’t give the explanation to why. Why does an apple fall to the earth? To say the gravitational force pulls an apple to the ground doesn’t answer the question. Why does the gravity exist? Because of gravitons? But why are there gravitons? Why do the mass bodies exist? We can keep on regressing forever. “Why is there a universe?” Eventually, we will run out of an explanation and will have to leave this question to the God. The why becomes God!
When seeking the motivation behind an experience the why question ultimately examines the purpose of life—why are we here? It questions our own existence in a way as if we had another option. When someone has no alternative path, there is no point in asking them why they chose it. Will we ask ourselves “why are we here?” if we were dead or had not existed in the first place? Besides, the life may have no purpose.
We may associate our motivation to internal factors like happiness or to external factors like social responsibility but sometimes the motivation behind life goals is so deeply rooted within us that we may not observe it yet involuntary respond to it. Many people refer to it as listening to the inner voice. There is no an explanation for that. We do what we must do. Don’t ask a moth why it flies into the flame. He may be truly overcome with love.
A better way to gain more insight into a subject would be if we turn the “why questions” into “how questions”. So, instead of asking “why do birds fly?” we should ask “how do birds fly?” While the why question complains, the how question seeks for an explanation. Just note the difference between “why is he rich?” and “how did he become rich?” The why question arrogantly puts a question mark at someone’s decision: “why do you cycle around the world?” On the other hand, the how question shows empathy and genuine curiosity: “how do you cycle around the world?” The how question also shows moral support: “how do you plan to cycle around the world?” The how seeks a path to enablement, the why blocks it.
But this is all too complicated. How should I convince professionals with a short answer? Over the past few days, I met with people who work at Google, Facebook, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Adobe, and Oracle. The products that I and billions of other people use every day. I am still in awe. After cycling in the wilderness for over two years, I feel like a caveman who suddenly finds himself in the 21st century. For the first time on this trip, I realise I have been away for a long time. All my university degrees and work experience were targeted towards tech industry. It would have been a dream come true for my family if I had been working here. The question “did I lose my potential?” still comes to my mind even if I no longer have a dream. Looking at the programmers coding behind their terminals, I do feel envious sometimes. “What a waste of life!” I think about myself.
My siblings aren’t happy either. They complain, “what should we tell others about you? ‘Keh cycle chalata hey? (That you cycle?)’” I wouldn’t blame them. Tour cycling is not a career. When people ask me, “why do you cycle?” maybe they want to know how a person can live without a career, or perhaps they are trying to understand the objective of my journey in the grand scheme of the universe. But again: why is there a universe?
Only after coming to the US I have realised why it dominates the rest of the world. The best of the best minds are here to work for tech companies which solve problems for the business profit. From the day one, everywhere I went, everyone I met, I have received tons of advice about how to turn my travel into a business. People are genuinely concerned about me and want to help me. They have shown a lot of love and I feel humbled that they spare time for me from their busy lives. We are talking about a fast-paced life. When the DJ is playing the dance song, everyone has to keep up with the beat. You cannot dance blues when the fast party music is on. Sometimes, I do realise I am late to the party and I am dancing at the tempo of a ghazal. I feel confused and have conflicting thoughts about what to do and what not to do. This is an indication that perhaps it is the time to get back to the wilderness and be alone for a while.
I also cannot blame myself. I want to solve some problems. In essence, we humans are problem solvers. As we solve one problem we involuntarily create a few more problems. Whenever we identify a problem we have a subconscious belief that we will be able to solve it. So the cycle continues and this is what fuels the modernisation. The industry is the perfect example of dealing with the question of how and not why. But, instead of solving every problem we face and creating a few new problems on the way, what if we do not consider the problem as a problem.
Coming back to the question of “why are you doing this?” This is a question no one else but we should ask ourselves and if this question keeps haunting us every day, there could be something wrong in our life. Perhaps, an indication of true fulfilment is when we don’t have to deal with the why question.
Now, it would be interesting to hear the response of professionals if I could direct the same question back to them: “so, why are you working?”
• Kaisi Guzar Rahi Hay Sabhi Poochte To Hain
Kaisay Guzaarta Hoon Koi Poochta Nahin
The why becomes God! ???
or same goes to God… Why or Who or How ?
• I’ve asked myself why and have come up with all imaginable answers as to why you’d be doing this.
The answers however, are for others whom I may end up explaining the ‘why’ part of your journey, as I myself know ‘why’. I hope one day I hit the same phase in my life where there is no choice but a ‘why not’. And I hope I follow your footsteps that day.
ps. It has been nearly 2 months. Please leave us an update.
• Nice convincing piece of writing, motivational on the subject to focus on how instead of why….
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Get A Complimentary Reserve Enamel Pin At Starbucks Now!
Coffee Lovers Must Have!
Guess what? We’re stepping into the last phase of January! If you feel like your new year just began, wake up ’cause the second phase of 2019 is about to starts. We hope your 2019 resolutions are still on track, Foodie! And if you need something refreshing, we guess you need to head to nearest Starbucks and grab a cup coffee!
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Astronomy Review 2:
1. What is the geocentric model?
2. Which scientist thought of the geocentric model?
3. What is the heliocentric model?
4. Which scientist wrote the first book and came up with the idea of the heliocentric model?
5. Which scientist used a telescope to prove that the heliocentric model was correct?
6. What model of the solar system did Galileo prove was correct, the geocentric or the heliocentric and how did he prove it?
7. What was the Big Bang?
8. What is Red Shift?
9. When did the Big Bang happen?
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Popular Feminism: Feminist Flashpoints
This is the fifth installment in a bi-monthly column that will explore some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the contemporary cultural awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace and in daily life. These essays are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to point up the ways the current environment is responding to gender dynamics, sex, and power.
AS I READ story after story about the sexual assault accusations against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, I find myself reflecting on what kind of work these stories, published on mainstream and social media and in the blogosphere, do for feminism and gender politics. How should we process this constant stream of updates and angles? The #MeToo movement has often been referred to as a “flashpoint” in gender politics, and here I’d like to think through what a “flashpoint” does — and doesn’t do — for the version of feminism I call popular feminism.
Merriam-Webster defines a flashpoint as: “[A] point at which someone or something bursts suddenly into action or being.” Dictionary.com offers a more sinister definition: “[A] place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up.” And still another more technical one: “[T]he lowest temperature at which a liquid will form a vapor in the air near its surface that will ‘flash,’ or briefly ignite, on exposure to open flame.”
The metaphor is useful: feminist flashpoints are media events that, at once, open up and constrain our thinking about feminist futures. They are about light and heat. They can light up an issue and show us the importance, the urgency, of feminist politics. They move feminism into the spotlight. They are also hot, in that gendered abuses of power can ignite and encourage a quick response and commentary. These quick responses, often written from a moralizing perspective, are “hot takes,” whose primary purpose is to attract attention. The hot take is uniquely suited for the digital domain, where, if successful, it goes viral, gets retweeted and memed. (I am, of course, acutely aware of the irony: I am writing a “hot take” on hot takes in this column.)
The hot take depends on the same capitalist circuits of media visibility that provide the light for a flashpoint. These capitalist conditions become the grounding for much of popular feminism, where it is easier to personalize than to critique structure, easier to moralize than to historicize. Like the vapor that ignites at a specific temperature, hot takes often radically, but only temporarily, transform the historical contexts of the situation to which they are responding.
Indeed, feminist flashpoints can obscure the issues they aim to illuminate, because their bright light necessarily pushes complexities into the shadows. Feminism is flattened out, made into something that erases history and neglects to acknowledge its debt to other conversations and other activisms. The focus shifts to individual cases and individuals, on whom it is easier to pass judgment.
There have been several flashpoints in feminism in the past few weeks, and hot takes abound. These stories — along with the Brett Kavanaugh nomination saga — shine an urgent light on the workings of gendered power; however, as flashpoints, they can only illuminate so much:
— Radio personalities Jian Ghomeshi and John Hockenberry, both accused of sexual harassment (and in Ghomeshi’s case, sexual assault), published long-form personal essays in two prestigious American publications, The New York Review of Books and Harper’s, in which they concentrated on their own victimhood;
— Les Moonves resigned as chairman and CEO of CBS, after being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and sexual assault;
— Serena Williams was the target of sexist officiating in the US Open, and then became the target of both racist and sexist responses to her reaction;
— Asia Argento, an actress who was one of the accusers of Harvey Weinstein, was herself accused of sexual assault by a fellow actor with whom she had sexual relations when he was 17 years old and she was 37;
— Avital Ronell, a professor at NYU, has been accused of on-going sexual harassment of a graduate student while she was his advisor.
Stories about these individuals have been published in mainstream media outlets, and have been commented on in blogs, on Twitter, on Facebook. Hot takes on these issues can raise public awareness, but they can also eclipse the complexities of power — and the fact that there are different kinds of power at play in all of these cases.
What, exactly, is obscured in these stories?
After being accused of sexual assault by multiple women, Ghomeshi received a platform in The New York Review of Books to discuss how difficult it is to be pilloried by the public. The journal’s editors did not, however, give the women he allegedly assaulted a similar space to discuss the lifelong trauma of being sexually assaulted. The piece sparked many hot takes, which concentrated on Ghomeshi and the editorial decision to publish his piece (in fact, the journal’s chief editor soon left the organization due to public outcry), but the personalizing of this case obscures the broader structure that enabled Ghomeshi’s attempt at a “comeback.” This was not a matter of a single editorial decision, and if it is treated as such, it leaves the system more or less unaffected; powerful men will still have the opportunity to control the narrative and historical memory. This is a misogyny problem, not the story of one accused and one unconscionable editorial decision.
When Serena Williams rightly objected to sexist officiating, there were multiple hot takes about her reaction, some of them, importantly, pointing out that she has been subject to this kind of officiating her entire career. Yet almost immediately, other hot takes obscured this history, and the history of black women in general, to opine on “respectability politics,” or how her conduct on the tennis court was unbecoming. This kind of “hot take,” when aimed at Williams, cannot help but carry racist connotations, only reinforcing, rather than illuminating, the long history of unequal treatment for black women.
A similar process of obfuscation occurred around the Asia Argento and Avital Ronell stories. Both were complex cases of abuses of power, of institutional hierarchies. Yet the media obscured these complexities, instead calling into question the fate of #MeToo with sensationalized headlines like “Do Claims Against Asia Argento Invalidate the #MeToo Movement?” In the light and heat of the flashpoint, harassment cases brought against women have been used to undermine the entire movement (and women’s trustworthiness in general); meanwhile, cases that are brought against men are usually treated in a highly individualized way, featuring careful considerations of the degree of each man’s culpability. This imbalance is itself indicative of a broader problem, and has yet to receive proper attention.
Illuminating feminism in the media is crucial, but we also need to think about the mechanisms of this visibility. How are feminist politics seen? Through what channels? The media economy in which feminism circulates the most efficiently, especially that of social media, often ends up warping and constraining its aims. We need to think about the kind of light and heat we give to popular feminism, and about which dimensions of feminist politics are sacrificed to the economy of visibility.
Not every hot take is based on simplistic moralizing. Many feminists — Roxane Gay, Rebecca Traister, Jessica Valenti, Laurie Penny, Moira Donegan, Rebecca Solnit, to name just a few — have offered deep and thoughtful analyses of the various gendered abuses of power that have been coming to light. But the temporality of the hot take incentivizes constant production over reflection. The hot take can be useful for feminism, but only when it supports a more sustained, nuanced form of feminist politics. We need to make sure that the flare of the flashpoint doesn’t end up burning women again.
Sarah Banet-Weiser is professor and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Some of the themes captured in this column are explored further in her book, Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (Duke University Press, 2018).
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Update from our intern
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So last time I explained a bit about what my project is going to be about. For those of you who have not yet read the previous post, I am doing my Bachelor Thesis project for Industrial Product Design at colorFabb. The idea is to print a chair with nGen_FLEX where the material properties are used to an advantage.
So to give an update on how it is going so far. I started researching how I could use metamaterials to make functional parts without having to assemble them. Metamaterials are materials that are engineered in such a way, that they have properties that they normally would not have. A good example are the colorFabb Pliers!
So I have experimented with different designs, and came up with a solution on how to apply it in my concept so far. In the sketches you can see the result.
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So now the real engineering and printing can begin. I still have to figure out how to connect all the parts of the chair together, but I already have some ideas on how it might work.
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It’s good to have a day when many turn their thoughts to love….if only for a moment. As much darkness surrounds us, I “Wait” for the Ultimate, for only “He” can make all things perfectly right again.
For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven…….1 Thessalonians 4
The verse goes on to say that we must encourage one another… we await that glorious day.
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Pick me! Pick me! Humbly asking for your (non-political) vote ;)
Greetings, my friend!! Wow, what a week... what a month... There has been quite a mix of glorious happenings, mixed with bittersweet as well as just plain sad happenings... and we've barely begun the year! I can tell this is going to be quite a packed year. There's even a solar storm going on right [...]
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Boost :
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-26 17:35:18
Stefan Slapeta <stefan_nospam__at_[hidden]> writes:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>I still don't see why? Aren't you (indirectly) returning a reference to a
>>> local object?
>> No.
> Thanks. This answer will make it much easier to submit a DR.
Don't waste your time; I've already done it. Intel will never accept
it because of its goal of "bug-compatibility" with VC++.
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[GRASS5] g51 v.build accelerated
Andrea Aime aaime at comune.modena.it
Mon Feb 18 02:18:53 EST 2002
Radim Blazek wrote:
> v.build accelerated now:
> grass50 grass51
> 270s 9s (with attributes)
> 124s 6s (without attributes)
> How boring. Somebody should check, seems to be too good.
Mmm, I haven't looked at the new code, but the old
version uses a hand made realloc that allocates a new
array and then copies the old array into the new
element by element, thus making
lots of works each time an array has to be enlarged
(according to the few comments available realloc was
buggy on Solaris at the time v.build was written) ...
maybe your new implementation uses the standard libc
realloc, which is much faster than this... just a guess
(maybe I am completely wrong)
Andrea Aime
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To Ponder:
“I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You!” Psalm 73:22-23. “Nevertheless”–as if notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance that David had just been confessing to God–not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God’s presence was undoubtedly his. Fully conscious of his own lost estate and of the deceitfulness and vileness of his nature–yet by a glorious outburst of faith, he sings, “Nevertheless I am continually with You!” Believer, endeavor in like spirit to say, “Nevertheless, since I belong to Christ, I am continually with God!” I am continually upon His mind–He is always thinking of me for my good. I am continually before His eye–the eye of the Lord never sleeps but is perpetually watching over my welfare. I am continually in His hand–so that none will be able to pluck me out from it. I am continually on His heart–worn there as a memorial, even as the high priest bore the names of the twelve tribes upon His heart forever. “You always think of me, O God. You are always making providence work for my good. You have set me as a signet upon Your arm. Your love is as strong as death–many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods drown it. You see me in Christ, and though in myself I am despised–You behold me as wearing Christ’s garments of salvation and washed in His blood; and thus I stand accepted in Your presence. I am thus continually in Your favor. I am continually with You!” (Charles Spurgeon)
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Why Live?
YouTube user Religious Fiction considers a question that she has heard from many believers: If there is no God, why live? The question itself puzzles her, and she suggests that YouTubers should have a big conversation about it:
She says that no theist has ever explained to her “why living with the assumption that there is a God is so great.” She finds it “hard to imagine that there are gobs of theists out there who would honestly think that they have no reason to live if their assumptions and their doctrine just slipped a bit or maybe even had a profound change.”
It’s true that quite a lot of people do talk as if belief in God were the only thing that made life tolerable, and that it is quite strange of them to do so. Few people, after all, commit suicide, and most of those who do exhibit one of a very small number of psychological disorders. The idea of suicide may have a compelling power over many imaginations, but in terms of actual practice suicide is an eccentricity. When Albert Camus opens his Myth of Sisyphus with the claim that the only serious philosophical question is whether life is worth living, therefore, it is as if he had said that the only serious philosophical question is whether one ought to ride a unicycle.
That much said, does the frequency with which believers suggest that life would not be tolerable without their beliefs show that they are mentally ill? I say not. I think Thomas Fleming’s “Five Good Reasons Not to Be an Atheist,” discussed below, explain why a happy, well-adjusted person could believe that a loss of religious faith would mean a loss of the will to live.
I would focus on the third and fourth of Fleming’s five reasons. “Atheists have no religious calendars” and “Poor atheists… have no sacred spots.” These points show, first, that it is not as propositions that the doctrines of a religion have power for its adherents, but as narratives. The doctrines of a faith are a story in which the believer is given roles to play; the calendar is set of occasions on which the believer will enact those roles one by one, and will join with others as they play their own roles in the same story. The sacred narrative consecrates particular places, places where key events in the narrative have taken place or will take place. People can bond with each other as they share a relationship to these places. Thus, the sacred narrative gives structure to a believer’s experience of both time and space. Discard the sacred narrative, and we may choose between a life with no sense of narrative structure or the acceptance of a new master narrative to create a new sense of structure. “Life with no sense of narrative structure” sounds like a definition of clinical depression. If we experience life as just one thing after another, we may very well wonder what the point is of living. “The acceptance of a new master narrative,” on the other hand, sounds less like the outgrowing of illusions for which atheists strive than like a conversion from one religion to another.
The most interesting reply to ReligiousFiction’s invitation that I’ve seen is from QualiaSoup.
QualiaSoup usually does an excellent job explaining where arguments against a secular interpretation of physical phenomena go wrong; there’s a fine example here. Addressing this question, he proposes a master narrative about knowledge vindicating ignorance. Scientific advances and antiracist action make life worth living because they both represent blows against ignorance. QualiaSoup in fact takes on something of the character of a prophet when laying out this narrative. Indeed, he presents himself as a prophet who brings not peace, but a sword; his image of a family is a group of people divided by various dark lines, such as “prejudice” and “hate”; these lines cannot be erased until all submit together to the liberating power of knowledge. Otherwise, our prophet will set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and the enemies shall be of one household. He makes this point at greater length here.
Many commenters on QualiaSoup’s video say that people should be hurt if their relatives say that life would be intolerable without religious faith. I disagree with this position, for two reasons. First, it is through narrative that family relationships are defined. Two people may have common ancestors within living memory, and yet feel no kinship at all. Meanwhile, many people quite seriously regard pets with whom they have no common ancestor in the last 100,000,000 years as family members. Change the narrative you accept, and your relationships with others will change in ways that cannot be predicted.
Second, let us assume that some person (say, a man named Bob) does live simply for the sake of his or her family. Let us assume further that Bob lives in a society where it is a great advantage to be classified as “white,” and that the people Bob recognizes as close kin are all classified that way. How could Bob justify working to abolish that advantage? Indeed, if Bob considers his life worth living solely or chiefly because he wants to serve the interests of his family, would it not seem natural to him to lay down his life for the sake of perpetuating discrimination in favor of whites? I certainly agree that Bob ought to find value in his family and enjoy sharing his life with them, but unless he adopts a narrative that can sometimes override that value in the name of a broader kinship he will be doomed to support white supremacy.
Need an unstructured life be dismal? Certainly there are experiences that are pleasurable whether or not we see them as connected to any other experience. The physical satisfaction that follows a vigorous workout is pleasurable even if we never give a thought to the benefits it might have for our health; a successful sexual encounter is enjoyable even if it does not strengthen the bond between the partners; solving a problem brings a thrill even if that problem is not part of an important research program. To keep those self-contained pleasures fresh, however, we must continually increase our level of activity. For example, when I was in graduate school I was a postmodernist. The first few years I worked happily, convinced that what I was doing was of value because it was part of the postmodernist contribution to the study of ancient Greek and Latin. There came a time when I decided that postmodernism was a dead end. Rather than give up, I began to work much harder. I found that if I put in 100 hours a week, each piece of work I did still gave me a thrill, even though I no longer believed in the overall project that had once justified it. I couldn’t sustain that frenzied pace, but many do. And isn’t frenzied activity one of the worst problems our world faces? What is behind war, what is behind the destruction of our natural environment, if not people who have thrown themselves into ever-more frenzied activity rather than taking pleasure in the traditional rewards of life?
Irving Babbitt used to say that peace was a religious virtue. This was a bit of a paradox, since Babbitt himself was not all religious and not at all warlike. I think the paradox is resolvable, however. A sacred narrative, with its religious calendar and its holy places, gives its believers something steady and finite. If the world around them is at peace, they can find meaning and satisfaction without disrupting it. On the other hand, those who try to live without a sacred narrative cannot be still, regardless of the conditions in which they find themselves.
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Grief is a vehicle
I drive his 1985 Mercedes SEL on Sundays.
“Your getting too old not to settle down.”
“That lifestyle isn’t one for a respectable Hispanic woman.”
“You’re out of your damn mind.”
With him, it was different.
Intentional, boring bravery
How did this become my life? I wondered the other day as I sat in standstill traffic on I-70, listening to NPR and staring at the miles of cars and the western, afternoon sun before me. How did I get here? I mean, how did my life go from flying bush planes in the Alaskan wilderness and teaching English in floating villages in Cambodia to this? To being a principal, a disciplinarian? The consistent one in my students’ lives? An afternoon traffic NPR listener? How did I end up in this space where my not so fleeting thoughts consist of mortgages and long-term plans to settle into a city when just a little over a year ago I sobbed at the thought of living in America long-term? How did we get here?
One morning last September as I walked into the quiet school hallway, I nearly audibly heard the Lord tell me that my time in the classroom was coming to an end and that I would be moving into administration. I scoffed at the thought and let out a little laugh. An end? But Lord, I’m just now coming back to teaching… (Full disclosure: I scoffed at the thought for other reasons too. The greatest of these being that never, ever, in a million years did I want to become an administrator. Funny how the Lord, works, eh?)
A week or so later, the theme of “rootedness” began popping up in everything I listened to and read, in every quiet time or moment of mediation I took. I noted this theme in my journal and to a few close girlfriends, but brushed it off as a coincidence, or my own confusion– maybe a combination of both. After all, as one of my favorite songs goes,
“I’ve got dreams that keep me up in the dead of night telling me I wasn’t made for the simple life” (NeedtoBreathe, “Happiness”).
I’ve always been a hungry person. I was made for new, for more, for adventure.
I feel nearest to the heart of God when I’m suspended thousands of feet in the air.
I’m energized by the idea of being able to step into change.
Heck, I once stood on my metaphorical soapbox and shouted to the masses that I don’t think I’m a woman created to pay a mortgage.
And yet, here I sit, staring at the afternoon sun day after day on my long commute home from work. With each day’s commute, I’m being pushed into this new, foreign season a bit more. One in which I know the Lord is calling me to be a stable, consistent, loving force for my students at DSS. I’m being called to be(come) a woman who keeps showing up in the hard places of my students’ lives at the Street School day after day, potentially year after year… and for some reason that’s more difficult for me than all of the jet lag, language barriers, transition and culture shock in my recent life experience combined.
Slowly, ohhhhh sooooo slowly, I am learning to be fully present here in Denver, where I’ve been re-planted.
I’m learning to give all of myself to the Lord in a place that really isn’t all that exciting or new. Even more slowly I’m realizing that doing so isn’t any less brave than the days where I was called to don my winter gear and hop into a plane to fly a few villages down and help mitigate domestic violence situations or assist with medical emergencies.
As the brilliant and wise Shauna Niequest says in her book Present Over Perfect,
Sometimes obedience means climbing a mountain. Sometimes obedience means staying home. Sometimes brave looks like building something big and shiny. Sometimes it means dismantling a machine that threatened to overshadow much more important things.
We’re addicted to big and sweeping and photo-ready– crossing oceans, changing it all, starting new things, dreams and visions and challenges, marathons and flights and ascending tall peaks.
Sometimes being brave is being quiet. Being brave is getting off the drug of performance. For me, being brave is trusting that what my God is asking of me, what my family and community is asking from me, is totally different than what our culture says I should do.
Sometimes, brave looks boring, and that’s totally, absolutely, okay” (p. 125-126).
Today bravery in my world looks a lot like this view. Bravery means trusting that I’m meant to sit at this desk and tend to transcripts and curriculum in between shepherding my students (read: “hearding my teenage cats”). IMG_0001
Bravery means trusting that Jesus truly is sovereign, and that He knew what He was doing when He called me out of my little Alaskan wilderness life and back to Denver on a (semi?) permanent basis, just as much as He knew what He was doing when He took me there. Bravery means trusting Jesus to do the work that seems impossible in my students’ hearts. Bravery means believing the resurrection and praying it over my loved ones when they still see it as folly. Bravery means responding in love when I’m cussed out at work, then cut off in rush hour traffic. Bravery means obedience to God in both place and perspective.
To my stay-at-home-momma friends, world-traveler-missionary friends, big-business-tycoon friends, in-the-trenches-judicial-department friends, full-time-ministry friends, Light-bringing-artist friends, and those of you whose vocation or occupation don’t fall into any of those categories– I beg you to look up, beyond this post.
I’m going to venture to guess that whatever is beyond the screen you’re reading this on is your larger sphere of influence. I simply want to remind you that being there, being a consistent, loving, embodiment of Christ where He put you today is brave. And I applaud you for the ways you are changing the world.
Because in a time where the news headlines are teeming with stories of genocide and mass shootings, the world needs Jesus’ brand of brave Love and Hope– the one which He is working in and through you right where he has planted you for this season.
So press on, brave soul. Brave may feel boring to you today, but even in the mundane, our labors of and for Love are not in vain.
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain” for death has been swallowed up in victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:58, 54)
When the only path through grieving is… through…
But that’s not where the Lord has me…
This season isn’t cute.
It’s rendered me a mess. One giant freaking paradox.
{To be continued}
(Psalm 27:13)
Fireweed and God’s Faithfulness
I didn’t sleep that night in May.
Books to ship to Colorado.
Clothes and gear to pack back into my suitcases.
Things that didn’t fit in my suitcases to burn.
Alaskan Fireweed
(Chamerion Angustifolium)
Photo credit: Anna Burrows
(Isaiah 43:18-20)
How WAS my day? [A call to prayer]
Nothing seemed right.
Good? Meh. I wouldn’t go that far.
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ABOUT RÉSUMÉ PRODUCTS ONE HOUR IDEA
CÎROC is an icon of celebration. The brand wanted to expand into new categories to recruit multicultural millennial consumers across new occasions - driving the next wave of growth.
It started with an invitation to pitch an already established spirit. I - along with my partner Jamie - began building and leading creative for CÎROC VS as the antithesis of it's family of brands.
At CÎROC VS, we celebrate the process and raise a glass to the results.
We are very smooth, very selective an very special.
The launch began with Diddy teasing
the bottle at the Met Gala 2018.
We continued with ad placement in both the New York and DC areas.
At the same time we seeded the liquid through intimate dinners with some of our favorite people.
One of our primary objectives was to educate and convert our consumers on this new dark liquid. We created mixology videos to help transform our brandy from the typical after dinner digestif to an anytime, anywhere drink.
We brought CÎROC VS around the country with a national roadshow in our target markets like Detroit, DC, LA, Miami and finally NYC.
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(1830 - 1902 / Edinburgh / Scotland)
The Wreck Of The Barque Lynton
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold,
About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold;
Who struggled hard in the midst of the hurricane wild,
To save herself from being drowned, and her darling child.
'Twas on the 8th of September, the Barque "Lynton" sailed for Aspinwall,
And the crew on board, numbered thirteen in all;
And the weather at the time, was really very fine,
And on the 19th of November, they hove in sight of Aspinwall,
When all on a sudden, the sea came rolling in,
And a sound was heard in the heavens, of a rather peculiar din.
Then the vivid lightning played around them, and the thunder did roar,
And the rain came pouring down, and lashed the barque all o'er;
Then the Captain's Wife and Children were ordered below,
And every one on board began to run to and fro.
Then the hurricane in all its fury, burst upon them,
And the sea in its madness, washed the deck from stem to stem;
And the rain poured in torrents, and the waves seemed mountains high,
Then all on board the barque, to God for help, did loudly cry.
And still the wind blew furiously, and the darkness was intense,
Which filled the hearts of the crew with great suspense,
Then the ill-fated vessel struck, and began to settle down,
Then the poor creatures cried. God save us, or else we'll drown!
Then Mrs Lingard snatched to her breast, her darling child,
While loudly roared the thunder, and the hurricane wild;
And she cried, oh! God of heaven, save me and my darling child,
Or else we'll perish in the hurricane wild.
'Twas then the vessel turned right over, and they were immersed in the sea,
Still the poor souls struggled hard to save their lives, most heroically;
And everyone succeeded in catching hold of the keel garboard streak,
While with cold and fright, their hearts were like to break.
Not a word or a shriek came from Mrs Lingard, the Captain's wife,
While she pressed her child to her bosom, as dear she loved her life;
Still the water dashed over them again and again,
And about one o'clock, the boy, Hall, began to complain.
Then Mrs Lingard put his cold hands into her bosom,
To warm them because with cold he was almost frozen,
And at the same time clasping her child Hilda to her breast,
While the poor boy Hall closely to her prest.
And there the poor creatures lay huddled together with fear,
And the weary night seemed to them more like a year,
And they saw the natives kindling fires on the shore,
To frighten wild animals away, that had begun to roar.
Still the big waves broke over them, which caused them to exclaim,
Oh! God, do thou save us for we are suffering pain;
But, alas, the prayers they uttered were all in vain,
Because the boy Hall and Jonson were swept from the wreck and never rose again.
Then bit by bit the vessel broke up, and Norberg was swept away,
Which filled the rest of the survivors hearts with great dismay;
But at length the longed for morning dawned at last,
Still with hair streaming in the wind, Mrs Lingard to the wreck held fast.
Then Captain Lingard still held on with Lucy in his arms,
Endeavouring to pacify the child from the storms alarms;
And at last the poor child's spirits began to sink,
And she cried in pitiful accents, papa! papa! give me a drink.
And in blank amazement the Captain looked all round about,
And he cried Lucy dear I cannot find you a drink I doubt,
Unless my child God sends it to you,
Then he sank crying Lucy, my dear child, and wife, adieu! adieu!
'Twas then a big wave swept Lucy and the Carpenter away,
Which filled Mrs Lingard's heart with great dismay,
And she cried Mr Jonson my dear husband and child are gone,
But still she held to the wreck while the big waves rolled on.
For about 38 hours they suffered on the wreck,
At length they saw a little boat which seemed like a speck,
Making towards them on the top of a wave,
Buffetting with the billows fearlessly and brave.
And when the boat to them drew near,
Poor souls they gave a feeble cheer,
While the hurricane blew loud and wild,
Yet the crew succeeded in saving Mrs Lingard and her child.
Also, the Steward and two sailors named Christophers and Eversen,
Able-bodied and expert brave seamen.
And they were all taken to a French Doctor's and attended to,
And they caught the yellow fever, but the Lord brought them through.
And on the 6th of December they embarked on board the ship Moselle,
All in high spirits, and in health very well,
And arrived at Southampton on the 29th of December,
A day which the survivors will long remember.
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MacMost Now 679: Creating Transparent Images With Pixelmator
Learn how to create transparent images for use in Pages, iMovie and other applications. You can cut out part of an image using the app Pixelmator and that part of the image becomes transparent and shows the items behind it.
Comments: 4 Responses to “MacMost Now 679: Creating Transparent Images With Pixelmator”
8 years ago
Thanks, very helpful. I have Pixelmator and have used it to cut out backgrounds before. But I was unaware of the feather option on refine selection.
Also, I haven’t used iMovie for several years (after they ripped out my heart, threw it on the floor, stomped on it, and laughed with that f%$k*^ing update). But maybe I’ll give it another try.
8 years ago
May I know how the update made you so miserable?
7 years ago
As always, find your videos very helpful. Wondering if you recommend Pixelmator over Aperture, and if so, why? Would also greatly appreciate your doing videos on Aperture. I could use some help in finding my way around that program.
7 years ago
They are very different programs. Pixelmator is an image editing tool, like Photoshop. Aperture is a photo management tool (storing and managing large collections of photos), like iPhoto. I may do videos on Aperture in the future. But most Mac users would be using iPhoto.
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After upgrade Magento 2.2.5 to Magento 2.3.1, Magento admin panel still display the old version that is 2.2.5 Updgration done successfully but admin does not display new version.
• Have you checked in your terminal what version does it say? – Raj Mohan R Apr 2 '19 at 14:40
• how exactly did you perform the upgrade? Updgration done successfully I doubt this. what leads you to this assumption? – Philipp Sander Apr 2 '19 at 15:04
• when run deploys command then I can see it is upgraded. I have upgrade version by the composer and follow the instruction from this link blog.magestore.com/upgrade-magento-2-3/#a3 – Mukesh Ojha Apr 3 '19 at 6:33
Check your composer.json file in the magento root, for some reason magento admin gets the version that is shown in the footer from the composer.json
• Yes, it was showing old version in composer.json then I have updated it but still admin display old version. – Mukesh Ojha Apr 3 '19 at 6:35
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I have discovered the universal key, the answer to every challenge you may encounter regarding your Nikken business. Such as: How can I get a bigger check? How can I win the trip to Italy? How can I get my group to be motivated? The list is endles …and this universal answer to everything is: [...]
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Configuring megaAVR® Interrupts
AVR® Interrupt operation must be carefully initialized by the application developer. This page summarizes the key initialization and usage steps required for using interrupts in an application.
Further information regarding interrupt usage is provided in the Interrupt Module section of the AVR-LIBC Library.
Step 1. #include Standard Headers
The application must include header files avr/io.h and avr/interrupt.h as shown below:
The avr/interrupt.h header file provides several macros intended to simplify the application of interrupts in an application, such as macros for globally enabling/disabling interrupts (I-bit in the Status Register), as well as a macro for assigning an interrupt function to a specific interrupt vector:
• sei( )
• cli( )
• ISR(vector_id, attributes)
The vector_id macros are defined in the processor-specific header file (included via avr/io.h), as well as in the device data sheet. Its construction is defined below.
Step 2. Provide Interrupt Service Routine
• The compiler has to be told to use an alternate form of return instruction (RETI vs. RET)
• The compiler has to be told about any specific additional options
• Enable nesting of interrupts
• Options for generation of prologue/epilogue code
• The function needs to be linked to a specific interrupt vector.
Several handler function attributes are provided to the application developer, enabling these options.
• The ISR( ) macro is provided to ease the definition of interrupt handler functions with attributes
For all interrupt vectors without specific handlers, a default interrupt handler will be installed: The default interrupt handler will reset the device.
An application may override the default handler and provide an application-specific default interrupt handler by using the BADISR_vect vector_id inside the ISR( ) macro.
ISR( ) Macro
The following code example shows how to use the ISR() macro to define an interrupt function:
The various parameters will now be more fully described.
This identifier is a concatenation of a Vector Source ID and _vect. Vector Source IDs are found in the device data sheet, as shown (partially) in the following example for ATmega328PB:
Misspelt vector_ids will still generate a function, however, it will not be wired into the interrupt vector table. The compiler will generate a warning if it detects a suspiciously looking name.
ISR( ) attributes provide further instruction to the compiler regarding how to setup the interrupt function.
Global interrupts are initially disabled by the AVR hardware when entering the ISR. This setting does not modify this state.
This attribute is identical to an ISR( ) macro with no attribute specified
ISR runs with global interrupts initially enabled. The interrupt enable flag is activated by the compiler as early as possible within the ISR to ensure minimal processing delay for nested interrupts.
This may be used to create nested ISRs, however care should be taken to avoid stack overflows, or to avoid infinitely entering the ISR for those cases where the AVR hardware does not clear the respective interrupt flag before entering the ISR.
ISR is created with no prologue or epilogue code. The user code is responsible for preservation of the machine state including the SREG register, as well as placing a reti() at the end of the interrupt routine.
This may be used to define additional vectors that share the same handler. The following example aliases the PCINT1 vector to the PCINT0 handler:
ISR( ) Example
In this code example, we highlight the required header files and correct ISR definition of a handler function for the Timer/Counter1 Clear-Timer-On-Compare (CTC) mode interrupt source. The handler toggles LED0 on the ATmega328PB Xplained Mini every 100 mS:
Step 3. Configure the Peripheral
For example, the ATmega328PB contains several Timer/Counter peripherals modules. Each module has a mode called Clear Timer on Compare (CTC) that, when properly initialized, will periodically trigger a Timer1 Output Compare Match Flag signal in the TC1 interrupt flag register (TIFR1) register as shown:
In this example, we will initialize Timer/Counter1 in CTC mode to generate interrupt requests every 100 mS, given a prescaled input of 250 kHz (16 MHz/64):
This is an example of a non-persistent interrupt. The TIFR1.OCFA flag is automatically cleared by hardware on entry to the handler.
The TIFR1.OCFA flag can also be cleared manually by writing a logic "1" to the bit location.
Step 4. Enable All Interrupts
Finally, we need to globally enable all enabled peripheral interrupts by setting the Global Interrupt Enable I-bit in the Status Register (SREG).
The AVR-LIBC interrupt library provides two handy macro functions for this:
• sei( ) to Enable interrupts globally
• cli( ) to Disable interrupts globally
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Inequality and CEO compensation are more important than the CBC suggests
January 5, 2012
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s senior correspondent Terry Milewski does a disservice in conveying the facts about inequality in his coverage of the now infamous report released earlier this week by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The report graphically documents the income gap between top earners and the rest of the population, the so-called average Joe, by pointing out that by noon on January 3rd—the first working day of the year—the top 100 CEOs in the country made as much as the average Canadian will during the entire year.
Milewski’s report on the national news broadcast can be viewed here along with a summary of his critique, which states:
In a feature for The National, senior correspondent Terry Milewski pointed out that zeroing in on the top 0.001 percent of Canadian earners does not give a representive picture of the income gap. The richest 20 percent of Canadian earners are making 39.2 percent of total national income, which is only slightly more than the 37 percent they were making in 1991.
The actual TV story the website is summarizing makes reference to “the top 0.01 percent”, not 0.001 percent. And I believe the intention was to use the word “representative”. But otherwise this summary is accurate, as suggested by Milewski himself in a tweet on Tuesday: “CCPA says income gap widens! But..the top 20%’s share of Cdn nat’l income is 39.2%. 10 yrs ago? 39%. 20 yrs ago? 37%. Inequality exploding!”
The suggestion seems to be that if we ignore top earners and focus on a more a “representative” group of Canadians then we would find that the gap in incomes is not so great, and that inequality is not increasing.
Milewski has thrown the baby out with the bath water. As a result he misses an opportunity to raise what is a terribly interesting and policy relevant issue.
First, it should be clear that inequality is on the rise. Milewski’s major disservice is to bring this fact into question.
Here is a graph from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the so-called OECD), which is a Paris based think-tank for the rich countries, funded by the governments of the rich countries.
Source: OECD, Divided We Stand, page 24
Using data representative of the entire population, the OECD found that between the mid 1980s and the late 2000s inequality rose in 17 of 22 countries, and fell in only two. Canada was one of the 17, with a level of inequality less than Mexico, the US, and Israel, but high enough to be part of a second tier group.
Second, the interesting thing is to understand why, and this is the sense in which Milewski misses an opportunity. The fact that increasing inequality is not due to the top 20% of the population is important.
Here is another graph from the same OECD report showing that the share of market income going to the top 1% increased across the board, and particularly in the US, the UK, and Canada.
Source: OECD, Divided We Stand, page 39
The implication is that increases in inequality are in large measure the result of increases in the income shares of top earners. It makes sense to document changes in the gap between top earners and the rest of us.
This matters because it changes our perspective on public policy.
Labour economists have been very quick to ascribe differences in earnings to differences in education. As a result they have suggested that inequality reflects the limited skills of low earners in an era of changing technology and globalization, changes that are of relatively more benefit to those with higher education.
So the traditional explanation for rising inequality, and the associated policy recommendations, involved the top 20% to which Milewski is drawing our attention.
For the most part this group of relatively high achievers in some sense “merit” their earnings, which are the result of having more education, and depending upon how you measure things, working more hours.
In the United States this group has actually made gains relative to those with just a high school diploma. But this is not enough to explain why inequality exploded in the US.
In Canada the top 20% has not pulled ahead because our education system has pumped out enough graduates to keep the supply of skilled workers in line with demand, because immigration has favoured the more skilled, and because a booming resource sector has cushioned the negative impact of globalization on the less skilled.
Yet inequality has still risen.
All this means that the traditional explanation does not justify the earning differentials between the top 1% and the average Joe. It is hard to justify the 189-fold earnings differential documented by the CCPA as the result of higher skills and education, or longer work hours.
CBC viewers would have better appreciated the implications of the CCPA report if Milewski had read a few paragraphs of the OECD report, which I offer as the last word:
Source: OECD, Divided We Stand, page 40
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Repost: Vayeishev & Mikeitz
Inside the Pantheon, Rome
Cathedra, St. Peter’s
Ark, Great Synagogue
Mikeitz & Vayeishev: A Narcissist in the Pit?
December 5, 2018 at 9:38 pm | Posted in Mikeitz, Vayeishev | 2 Comments
The Mayo Clinic definition continues by noting that the cause of this mental disorder is still unknown, but it may be linked to genetics, neurobiology, and/or environment, specifically “mismatches in parent-child relationships with either excessive adoration or excessive criticism that is poorly attuned to the child’s experience”.
The Joseph story in Genesis/Bereishit offers an example of some level of narcissism due to a parent’s “excessive adoration”. But narcissism in childhood and even adolescence can be outgrown if the narcissist learns a measure of humility, empathy, and appreciation for others. Does this happen with Joseph?
Joseph Reveals His Dream, by James Tissot
Jacob has twelve sons, but he showers attention on Joseph, and gives him an outrageously expensive garment. Joseph wears it even when he is in the fields with his jealous older brothers. He is a tattletale, and reports to their father when his brothers share unsavory gossip. And he tells his brothers two dreams of his in which they all bow down to him. (See last week’s post, Vayeishev: What Drove Them Crazy.)
These behaviors indicate that Joseph is a narcissist at age seventeen. If he notices his older brothers’ jealousy and hatred, he does not mind. When Jacob asks him to travel for several days to check up on his older brothers and report back, Joseph sets off in his fancy garment and walks right up to them as if he were invulnerable. They seize him and strip him.
And they took him and they cast him into the bor … (Genesis/Bereishit 37:24)
bor (בּוֹר) = a cistern with cemented walls, a pit, a prison, a grave.
They sit and eat lunch while they discuss whether to kill him. Then a caravan headed for Egypt approaches, and they pull him naked out of the bor and sell him as a slave.2 In Egypt, the Pharaoh’s captain of executioners, Potifar, buys Joseph.
The shock of being instantly demoted from the expensively-dressed favorite son to the naked slave of an executioner might lead some adolescents to wonder if they did something wrong. Does Joseph take his first steps from narcissism to empathy, from thinking only of his own importance to considering the feelings of others?
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, by Schnorr von Carolsfeld
At Potifar’s estate God blesses all of Joseph’s work with complete success, so his master makes him steward over his whole household.3 Then Joseph, who is beautiful as well as successful, encounters a potential moral dilemma.
After these things his master’s wife fixed her eyes on Joseph and said: “Lie with me.” And he refused. He said to his master’s wife: “With me here, my master does not know what is in the house; everything that he has, he has placed in my hands. He is no greater in this house than I, and he has not held back anything from me except you, since you are his wife. So would I do this great evil and be guilty before God?” (Genesis 39:7-8)
What is Joseph’s motivation for refusing to have sex with Potifar’s wife? Is his speech an example of narcissism, or empathy?
Narcissism: Narcissists treat higher-status people with respect, even as they dismiss everyone they consider inferior. If Joseph is a narcissist, he wants to keep his record clean with Potifar and God.
Empathy: People capable of empathy can feel gratitude and affection. If Joseph is not a narcissist, he is grateful to Potifar for giving him so much trust and authority, and does not want to hurt the man who is good to him.
When Joseph and Potifar’s wife are alone in the house she grabs him and he flees, leaving his garment in her hand. (See my post Vayeishev: Stripped Naked, which argues that Joseph learns humility.) She lies and says he attacked her, and Potifar throws him in prison. But God blesses Joseph’s work for the chief jailer with success, and he becomes the virtual head of the prison.4
Joseph in Prison, by James Tissot
God sent Joseph two significant dreams when he was seventeen, both indicating that someday his brothers would bow down to him. Now, when he is 28, the Pharaoh’s chief butler and chief baker wait in prison for their judgments, and each has a dream on the same night.
And they said to him: “A dream we dreamed and there is no interpreter.” And Joseph said to them: “Aren’t interpretations for God? Recount, please, to me.” (Genesis 40:8)
What does Joseph mean by that?
Narcissism: Joseph is either equating himself with God, or at least assuming that he has a God-given power to interpret dreams which will always work.
Empathy: Joseph implies that only God can interpret a dream. Awkwardness makes him sound peremptory rather than hopeful when he asks the prisoners to tell their dreams.
Two years later, in this week’s Torah portion, Mikeitz (“In the end”), the Pharaoh has two dreams that none of his soothsayers or wise men can interpret. The Pharaoh’s chief butler remembers Joseph’s correct interpretations of the two dreams in prison, and speaks up.
And Pharaoh sent and summoned Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the bor, and he shaved and he changed his clothing and he came to Pharaoh. (Genesis 41:14)
The first time Joseph is brought up from a bor is when his brothers sell him into slavery just to get rid of him. This time it is when a king needs his skill.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph: “A dream I dreamed, and no one could interpret it. And I have heard it said about you, that you [merely] hear a dream to interpret it.” And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: “Not I. God will answer for the welfare of Pharaoh.” (Genesis 41:15-16)
Narcissism: Joseph is cleverly pretending to be humble, while reminding the Pharaoh that he speaks for God.
Empathy: Joseph is deflecting admiration out of the humble knowledge that he is only a mouthpiece for God.
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dream, by Reginald Arthur, 1894
Joseph (correctly) interprets Pharaoh’s dreams as indicating God’s plan to give Egypt seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Then he adds gratuitous advice.
And now, may Pharaoh look for a man who is discerning and wise, and may he set him over the land of Egypt. (Genesis 41:33)
This man, Joseph continues, should oversee the collection and storage of grain during the years of plenty and its distribution during the years of famine. Why does Joseph suggest appointing one man, and imply that it should be a newcomer rather than the usual government administration?
Narcissism: Not only does he want the job himself, but he knows that only he could do it right.
Empathy: He has observed the Egyptian government bureaucracy and believes a strong hand is needed, but he expects someone else in Egypt may be a better candidate for the job.
The Pharaoh responds with a narcissist’s dream-come-true.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. You yourself shall be over my house and on your command all my people shall be ordered. Only by the throne will I be greater than you.” And Pharaoh said to Joseph: “See, I place you over all the land of Egypt.” And Pharaoh removed his ring from upon his hand and he placed it on the hand of Joseph, and he dressed him in clothes of fine linen, and he put a gold collar on his neck. And he had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command, and they called out before him “Avreikh!”; thus he appointed him over all the land of Egypt. (Genesis 41:39-43)
Avreikh, by James Tissot
Avreikh (אַבְרֵךְ) = either an unknown Egyptian word, or an invention meaning “I cause kneeling” in Hebrew.
Joseph says nothing.
Narcissism: He believes he is getting what he deserves.
Empathy: He recognizes that since he is a complete unknown in Egypt, a lot of pomp is required to convince the people that he now has authority.
After the seven years of plenty, famine spreads over not only Egypt, but all of Canaan.
And Joseph was the tyrant over the land; he was the grain-seller to all the people of the earth. And Joseph’s brothers came, and they bowed low to him, noses to the ground. (Genesis 42:6).
Apparently Joseph, who must have a large staff, prefers to personally greet foreigners who bow to him and ask for rations. He recognizes his ten older brothers, but they do not recognize him. Joseph was 17 when they sold him; now he is 38, wearing Egyptian garb, and accompanied by a translator. He accuses his brothers of being spies, causing them to babble defensively that they are ten of twelve brothers—“and hey! The youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.” (Genesis 42:13)
Joseph gives them a test, supposedly to prove they are not spies. He will keep one of the brothers hostage while the others go home with food; but they must return to Egypt with their youngest brother to prove their honesty.
The brothers then realize their own lack of empathy, twenty years before.
And they said, each to his brother: “Ah, we are guilty on account of our brother, because we saw his distress in pleading to us for pity, and we did not listen; therefore this distress came to us.” (Genesis 42:21)
Joseph hears this, although he is pretending he does not know Hebrew.
And he turned around from them, and he wept. Then he turned back to them and he spoke to them and he took from among them Shimon, and he fettered him before their eyes. (Genesis 42:24)
Narcissism: Joseph weeps for himself, remembering how he wept at age seventeen when he was in their power.
Empathy: Joseph weeps in sudden recognition that his brothers have feelings and know they are guilty.
Joseph is Governor, by Owen Jones, 1869
Joseph continues to carry out his elaborate charade and test. (See my post Mikeitz & Vayiggash: Testing.) Because their father, Jacob, is unwilling to let go of Rachel’s remaining son, the brothers wait until they have run out of food before returning to Egypt with Benjamin. Joseph has his steward bring them to his palace and return Shimon to them. Then Joseph comes and makes polite conversation, not neglecting to ask if their father is still alive. Finally he takes a good look at Benjamin, his only full brother, who was a small child when Joseph was sold into slavery. Now Benjamin is in his twenties.
And Joseph hurried out, because his rachamim was kindled toward his brother and he needed to weep; and he came to the inner room and he wept there. Then he washed his face and he went out and he pulled himself together and he said: “Serve food.” (Genesis 43:30-31)
rachamim (רַחֲמִים) = compassion, loving feelings, affection, mercy. (From rechem (רֶחֶם) = womb.)
Here the Torah finally states that Joseph feels compassion toward someone. He knows that his father, Jacob, would treat Rachel’s only remaining son with favoritism. Perhaps he assumes that Benjamin, too, has suffered at his half-brothers’ hands.
This is a form of empathy. Can Joseph take the next step, and become interested in Benjamin as an individual in his own right, or will Joseph always see his little brother as a reflection of himself? When his elaborate test is completed, will he be able to consider his older brothers’ feelings as well? Or will the story be all about him?
The answer is hidden in next week’s Torah portion, Vayiggash.
1. Only extreme cases of narcissism are classified as personality disorders, but the clinical definition applies to all levels of narcissism.
2. Genesis 37:25-28.
3. Genesis 39:1-6.
4. Why does God keep blessing Joseph with success? Maybe this is the Torah’s way of saying that Joseph is inherently intelligent and capable. (Some narcissists are, and their commitment to their own importance drives them to work hard.) On the other hand, maybe the anthropomorphic God-character portrayed in the book of Genesis is testing Joseph by repeatedly making him successful under difficult circumstances. Maybe God wants to find out whether his clan will be worthy of leading the Israelites in the future. Modern scholars date the original composition of the Joseph story to J and E sources recorded during 922 to 722 B.C.E., when the Israelites lived in two kingdoms, with the northern kingdom dominated by the Efraimites, descendants of Joseph, and the southern kingdom dominated by descendants of Judah. When the Assyrian Empire swallowed the northern kingdom in 722 B.C.E., it seemed like a vindication of the Judahite narrative.
Vayeishev: What Drove Them Crazy
November 29, 2018 at 7:41 pm | Posted in Vayeishev | 6 Comments
Why do Joseph’s ten older brothers hate him? Because they resent their father’s favoritism? Or because they resent Joseph’s behavior?
An Obnoxious Father
Jacob, a.k.a. Israel, has always played favorites. He has children with two official wives (Leah and Rachel) and their two female servants (Zilpah and Bilhah), but he loves only Rachel. After Rachel dies in childbirth, it is no surprise to learn in this week’s Torah portion, Vayeishev (“And he settled down”) that he loves Rachel’s son Joseph more than his ten older half-brothers.
Jacob Blesses Joseph and Gives Him the Coat, by Owen Jones, 1869
And Israel loved Joseph most out of all his sons, because he was a son of his old age, and he made him a ketonet passim. And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him and could not speak in peace. (Genesis 37:3-4)
ketonet (כְּתֺנֶת) = a long tunic/shirt/loose dress worn by both men and women, either alone or underneath a robe or cloak. It was belted with a sash, and removed at night.1
passim (פַּסִּים) = ? Translations include “multicolored” (as in the King James “coat of many colors”), “ornamented”, and “long-sleeved”.
The only other appearance of ketonet passim in the bible is in 2 Samuel 13:18-19, which notes that every unmarried daughter of King David wore one. Joseph is a shepherd like his brothers, but Jacob gives him a garment fit for a king’s child.
The opening of this week’s Torah portion says Jacob loves Joseph the most because he is a son of Jacob’s old age. But his love for Joseph’s deceased mother also affects his feelings. Besides giving Joseph the princely tunic in Vayeishev, Jacob refuses to be comforted when he believes his favorite son has been killed.2 In next week’s portion, Mikeitz, Jacob is not alarmed to learn that the vizier of Egypt has imprisoned Shimon, one of his sons with Leah. But he refuses to let Benjamin, his second son with Rachel, leave his side and go to Egypt.3
An Obnoxious Youth
Naturally Jacob’s ten older sons resent their father’s favoritism. But they have another reason to hate Joseph. When one child in a family is spoiled and the others neglected, the spoiled one can become a narcissist—either because he believes he truly is wonderful, or because he wants to believe it in order to justify all the attention. This week’s Torah portion does not say directly that Joseph is selfish at age seventeen, but the implication is there, beginning with the word na-ar.
These are the lineages of Jacob: Joseph, seventeen years old, tended the flock along with his brothers, and he was a na-ar … (Genesis/ Bereishit 37:2)
na-ar (נַעַר) = male slave, male assistant, boy, young marriageable man.
Although the Torah promises to give us the lineages4 of Jacob, it does not name any descendants but Joseph, the most important person in Jacob’s life once Rachel is gone.
What does na-ar mean in Joseph’s case? Joseph is certainly not a slave. At most he is an assistant to his brothers as he learns the shepherding business.
Kohl used by Egyptian men and women
Bereishit Rabbah 84.7, citing Joseph’s beauty, claims he acts like a vain youth, daubing kohl around his eyes, lifting his heels, and dressing his hair.5 (I assume that Joseph is not tripping through the sheep pastures all dolled up, but saves the show for when they stop at a village.)
Or perhaps he is a na-ar because he is immature for his age. Right after calling him a na-ar, the Torah says Joseph is a tattletale.
… and he was a na-ar with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, women of his father’s, and Joseph reported dibatam ra-ah to their father. (Genesis/Bereishit 37:2)
dibatam (דִּבָּתָם) = (noun) their slander, their gossip. (dibah (דִּבָּה) = gossip (usually malicious), slander + tam (תָם) = suffix for the third person masculine plural construct form.)
ra-ah (רָעָה) = (noun) intentional evil, wickedness, disaster.
Many translators rework the final clause into “Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father” or something similar. This translation fits the context, but it makes the word dibah superfluous. And although the suffix tam can be interpreted as meaning “of them”, it is usually used as the possessive “their”.
If we translate the clause as “Joseph reported their gossip evil to their father” we account for all the words in the original Hebrew. Since a noun following another noun often serves as an adjective in biblical Hebrew, a more accurate translation is “Joseph reported their malicious gossip to their father.
What are Zilpah and Bilhah’s sons gossiping about? And what does Joseph report? One possibility is that the four young men are slandering Joseph, drawing wicked conclusions about his beauty treatments or the way he wears his fancy tunic. If Joseph were six years old, like his little brother Benjamin, he might well run home and cry, “Daddy, Daddy, they said mean words about me!” But does he do this at age seventeen? If so, his father is too blind with devotion to notice his favorite’s immaturity.
Another possibility is that Zilpah and Bilhah’s sons are slandering Leah’s oldest sons, who would be likely to lord it over them because of their superior age, experience, and status. By reporting this malicious gossip to Jacob, Joseph would make all ten of his older brothers look bad. Joseph, who proves his intelligence later in the story,6 may even use these bad reports as a pre-emptive strike. If any brother subsequently tells Jacob about Joseph’s unworthy deeds, Jacob will not be inclined to believe him.
Of course by reporting his brothers’ malicious gossip, Joseph becomes guilty of malicious gossip himself. But he does not worry about that. He knows it will not occur to his doting father, and he himself is not yet concerned about ethics.7 Sure enough, later in this week’s Torah portion Jacob sends Joseph on a journey to check up on all his brothers and report back.8
When Joseph catches up with his brothers they throw him into a pit, sell him into slavery, and then convince their father that the boy was killed by wild beasts. (See my post Mikeitz: Forgetting a Father.) Thus Jacob suffers for his clueless favoritism.
And Joseph suffers for his own contribution to his brothers’ hatred: his youthful narcissism, which is expressed not only in his malicious reports, but also in his narration of his dreams.
Joseph dreamed a dream and he told his brothers, and it increased their hatred of him. He said to them: “Listen, please, to this dream that I dreamed. Hey, we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and hey, my sheaf stood up and was even standing firm, and hey, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheath.” (Genesis 37:5-7)
Joseph Reveals His Dream, by James Tissot
If the brothers were on friendly terms, they would merely tease him about this grandiose dream. Instead they hate him more—but although Joseph is intelligent, he does not change his behavior. He tells them a second dream in which his brothers are symbolically bowing down to him.9 This time Jacob also hears the dream, yet he still sends Joseph off to spy on his brothers.
Jacob and Joseph make the same mistake in this week’s Torah portion: they both fail to respect the feelings of others.
And what about Joseph’s older brothers? Their hatred is understandable; nobody likes being denigrated and treated as insignificant, especially by a parent or younger sibling. But they could choose a different reaction.
I have had a few young Josephs in my life, narcissists too wrapped up in their own dramas to wonder what I think, to have any interest in me as an individual. I have imagined how nice it would be if these people were dead, or banished to another country.
Over decades of suffering and reflection, I have realized that when I cannot speak to someone in peace, it is better to run away. And that when I am blessed enough to hold compassion in my heart and peace on my tongue, it is good to listen—even when I am not heard in return. When I do the right thing myself, I have peace inside, and I do not have to spend the rest of my life feeling guilty, like Joseph’s brothers.10 It helps to remind myself that the “young Josephs” in my life, however old they are in years, are not being narcissistic on purpose; they are themselves victims of their upbringing.
(I posted an earlier version of this essay in November 2010.)
1. A ketonet was belted with a sash: see Isaiah 22:21. It was taken off at night: see Song of Songs 5:3.
2. Genesis 37:34-35.
3. Genesis 42:38.
4. Toledot (תּוֹלֵדוֹת).
5. Bereishit Rabbah, a collection of commentary from 400- 600 C.E., extrapolates from Genesis 39:6, which mentions Joseph’s extraordinary good looks in order to explain why Potifar’s wife repeatedly tries to seduce him.
6. Joseph demonstrates his intelligence in Egypt both in his implementation of his 14-year plan for preventing famine in Egypt while increasing the power of the government (Genesis 41:33-36, 47:13-26) and in his complicated scheme for testing his brothers before revealing his identity to them (Genesis 42:6-45:3).
7. Joseph’s first ethical act reported in the Torah is after Potifar, who buys Joseph as a slave, makes him steward over his whole household. Then when Potifar’s wife attempts to seduce Joseph, he refuses her. (Genesis 39:4-12).
8. Genesis 37:12-14.
9. Genesis 37:9-11.
10. Genesis 42:21-22, 50:15-17.
Vayiggash & Vayechi: Forgiving?
December 26, 2017 at 12:07 pm | Posted in Vayechi, Vayeishev, Vayiggash | 4 Comments
Salachtikha; I forgive you.
Joseph never says that. But then, no form of the verb salach, סָלַח (forgave) appears in the book of Genesis/Bereishit. When the word shows up elsewhere in the Bible, it is always God, not a human being, who forgives.
Joseph in Prison,
by James Tissot
However, Joseph does know about pardoning, which men in command can do. In the Torah portion Vayeishev he interprets the dreams of two of his fellow inmates in an Egyptian prison. He tells one, the pharaoh’s chief cupbearer:
“In another three days the pharaoh yissa your head and he will restore you to your position and you will put the pharaoh’s cup on his palm…” (Genesis/Bereishit 40:13)
yissa (יִשָׂא) = he will lift. To lift up someone’s head is an idiom meaning “to pardon”. (A form of the root verb nasa, נָשָׂא = lifted, raised high, carried.)
Joseph then interprets the chief baker’s dream:
“In another three days the pharaoh yissa your head off you, and he will impale you on a pole and the birds will eat your flesh off you.” And it was the third day, the birthday of the pharaoh, and he made a banquet for all of his servants. Vayissa the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker from among his servants. And he restored the chief cupbearer to bearing cups, and he put the pharaoh’s cup on his palm. But the chief baker he impaled… (Genesis 40:19-22)
vayissa (וַיִּשָּׁא) = and he lifted. (From the root verb nasa.)
The pharaoh lifts up the cupbearer’s head, pardoning him; but he lifts off the baker’s head, executing him.
Two years later, Joseph is brought up from prison to interpret two dreams of the pharaoh, and by the end of their conversation the pharaoh has made Joseph the viceroy of Egypt.1
Joseph wants to forget his family back in Canaan, especially his ten older brothers, who hated him so much they were not able to speak to him in peace2, and his father, who was responsible both for creating the discord among his sons and for sending Joseph out alone to find and report back on his brothers. (See my post Mikeitz: Forgetting a Father.) The brothers seized him, threw him in a pit, then sold him as a slave to a caravan bound for Egypt.
When he sees his brothers again, Joseph is 37 years old and the viceroy of Egypt. He now has the power to execute his brothers or to pardon them.
He decides to test them first. He overhears them express remorse over how they treated their younger brother Joseph. Then the brothers undergo a series of tests, and Joseph concludes that they have changed. (See my post Mikeitz & Vayiggash: Testing.) The tests are mysterious to Joseph’s brothers because they do not recognize him; they assume their younger brother died as a slave, and the viceroy is an Egyptian.
The conditions are ripe for forgiveness; Joseph’s older brothers have expressed remorse, and he can now trust them not to harm him or his younger brother Benjamin. But does Joseph ever forgive—or at least pardon—his brothers? Does he forgive his father for putting him in danger?
Vayiggash: Does Joseph forgive his brothers?
Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers after they refuse to leave Egypt without Benjamin, the youngest of Jacob’s sons and the only one with the same mother as Joseph.
And Joseph said to his brothers: “I am Joseph. Is my father really still alive!” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were aghast before his face. (Genesis/Bereishit 45:3)
His brothers are too stunned, and perhaps terrified, to answer. The man who has absolute power over them is the man whom they once sold into slavery.
Meanwhile, Joseph realizes that events had to unfold this way, or his whole extended family would have starved to death during the famine. His brothers’ crime was necessary to get Joseph to Egypt, where God inspired him to interpret the pharaoh’s dreams and he became the viceroy in charge of the only food supply in the region.
“And now, don’t worry, and don’t be angry with yourselves that you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life. For this pair of years the famine has been in the land, and for another five years there will be no plowing nor harvest. So God sent me ahead of you to set up food for you in the land and to keep you alive as a large group of survivors.” (Genesis/Bereishit 45:5-7)
By telling his older brothers not to worry or be angry with themselves over their crime, Joseph is telling them that the concept of guilt does not apply in their case. They are not responsible for their bad deed; God made them do it.
So now, you did not send me here, but God! And He has set me up as a father-figure to the pharaoh, and as the master of all his household, and as the ruler of all the land of Egypt. (Genesis/Berishit 45:8)
Now, Joseph thinks, he can be a hero and save everyone—his brothers, his father, and the whole extended family.
“Hurry and go up to my father and say to him: Thus said your son Joseph: God placed me as master of all Egypt. Come down to me, don’t stand still. And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and the children of your children, and your flocks and your herds and everything that is yours. And I will provide for you there …” (Genesis 45:9-11)
Although Joseph starts off attributing everything to God, he ends up promising that he, Joseph, will be a father-figure to his own family, as well as to the pharaoh. He is in charge.3 And he wants his actual father, Jacob, to be impressed by his long-lost son’s power.
“And you must tell my father about all my honor in Egypt, and all that you have seen. And you must hurry and bring my father down here.” (Genesis 45:13)
Joseph Embraces Benjamin,
by Owen Jones, 1869
Having reduced his brothers to mere dependents, Joseph embraces Benjamin and weeps. Benjamin hugs him back, also weeping.
Then he kissed all his brothers and he wept upon them, and after that his brothers spoke to him. (Genesis 45:15)
Maybe now his older brothers can “speak to him in peace” because they no longer hate him. Or maybe their hatred has been replaced by fear. Benjamin, who was six years old and at home when the older brothers sold Joseph, can embrace his long-lost brother. But the ten older men merely speak; they neither cry, nor kiss Joseph, nor embrace him.
By denying that his brothers made a choice to sell him into slavery, Joseph shows that he does not respect them as adult human beings who are responsible for their own actions. Personally, I would rather admit a crime and apologize for it, than be silenced because my victim insists I had no freedom of choice.
As far as Joseph is concerned, he has absolved his older brothers of guilt and reconciled with him. But his brothers do not see it that way. Joseph’s speech allays their fear of retribution for a while, but it does not resolve their guilt.
Vayiggash: Does Joseph forgive his father?
Joseph sends his brothers back to Canaan with gifts, and his whole extended family moves to Egypt to live under Joseph’s protection.
Joseph and Jacob Reunited,
by Owen Jones 1869
Joseph hitched up his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet Israel [a.k.a. Jacob], his father. And he [Joseph] appeared to him, and he fell upon his neck, and he wept upon his neck a while. Then Israel said to Joseph: “I can die now, after seeing your face, [knowing] that you are still alive.” (Genesis 46:29-30)
Like many parents, Jacob does not know that he failed his son, so he does not apologize. Joseph could bring up what his father did 22 years before, and hope for an apology. (See my post Miketiz: Forgetting a Father.) Instead he treats Jacob the same way he treated the innocent Benjamin. There is no apology and no forgiveness; both father and son act as if their relationship is just fine.
This may be pragmatism on Joseph’s part. After all, Joseph has all the authority now, and he knows Jacob is not an insightful person. Why stir up old trouble?
Or Joseph may be thinking that if his father had not played favorites, then sent him alone into danger, he would never have been sold to the caravan headed for Egypt. Therefore God must have arranged Jacob’s behavior, too.
Vayechi: Does Joseph forgive his brothers after Jacob’s death?
Jacob dies in this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“and he lived”). Then his ten older sons become afraid that Joseph only restrained himself from executing them so as not to upset Jacob. In desperation, they invent a deathbed command.
And the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, and they said: “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and he indeed pays us back for all the evil that we rendered to him?” And they sent an order to Joseph saying: “Your father gave an order before he died, saying: Thus you shall say to Joseph: Please sa, please, the offense of your brothers and their guilt because of the evil they rendered to you. And now sa, please, the offense of the servants of the god of your father.” And Joseph wept over the words to him. (Genesis 50:15-17)
sa (שָׂא) = lift! (A form of the verb nasa.)
This communication proves that Joseph’s brothers did not feel pardoned or forgiven when he first told them that God arranged everything, including their crime.
And they do not feel safe with Joseph. Why should they? According to Joseph’s philosophy, anyone might become a puppet in God’s hands, deprived of free will. In such a universe, no one can be trusted.
On the other hand, if Joseph is wrong and humans do have a measure of free will, they still cannot trust Joseph.
by James Tissot
Then his brothers even went and threw themselves down before him, and they said: “Here we are, your slaves.” And Joseph said to them: “Don’t be afraid! Am I instead of God?4 And you, you planned evil for me, but God planned it for good, in order to bring about this time of keeping many people alive.” (Genesis 50:18-20)
Joseph implies that only God can decide whether to punish the brothers. He also continues to make God responsible for his brothers’ crime. And although their false deathbed order explicitly begs Joseph to pardon—sa!—his brothers, he does not do so. Instead he says:
“And now, don’t be afraid; I, myself, will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and he spoke upon their hearts. (Genesis 50:21)
In the Torah, to speak upon someone’s heart is an idiom for changing that person’s feelings. (See my post Vayishlach: Change of Heart, Part 1.) Joseph both comforts his brothers and persuades them that he will continue to be responsible for their well-being. Even without a pardon, they finally trust Joseph.
Forgiveness or pardon is not the only road to reconciliation.
It’s a tall order, but I try to do better than Joseph. When people offer me apologies, explicitly or implicitly, I remember Joseph, and I am careful to accept them. Instead of saying merely, “It’s okay,” I say: “It’s okay, I forgive you.” I do not want anyone to suffer lingering guilt or uncertainty on my account.
On the other hand, if people wrong me or those I love, and they never admit it nor apologize, I struggle to forgive them. Sometimes I can reach a working relationship with them, but I never feel safe. Any reconciliation is incomplete.
May we all be blessed with a greater ability to be responsible for our own actions, to apologize, to forgive, and to change.
1. Genesis 41:1-41.
2. Genesis 37:4.
3. Although Joseph is indeed second only to the pharaoh in power, he is not the absolute ruler he claims to be when he is bragging to his brothers. Later he has to ask the pharaoh for authorization for his family to settle in Goshen (Genesis 46:31-34) and for permission to leave Egypt to bury his father (Genesis 50:4-6).
4. Jacob protested “Am I instead of God?” when Rachel, his second wife, has not become pregnant and she demands that Jacob give her children (Genesis 30:2, Vayeitzei).
Mikeitz: Forgetting a Father
Joseph Reveals his Dream to his Brothers,
by James Tissot
Jacob Blesses Joseph and Gives him the Coat, by Owen Jones
Joseph is Governor,
by Owen Jones
Haftarat Vayeishev—Amos: No Prophecy Allowed
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Thus said God:
Because of three revolts of Israel,
And because of four, I will not accept it:
Because of selling the innocent for silver,
They stretch the path of the needy.
For the sake of profaning My holy name.
And on garments taken as security [for debts]
They stretch out beside every altar.
And wine from fines they charged
Drinking in Ancient Greece
Drinking in Ancient Greece
I raised up some of your children for neviyim,
And some of your youths for nezirim.
Is this also nothing, children of Israel?
—declares God.
But you made the nezirim drink wine,
If misfortune happens in a town,
Did not God make it? (Amos 3:6)
The Call of Amos, Petrus Comestor Bible Historiale, 1372
The Call of Amos,
Petrus Comestor Bible Historiale, 1372
Indeed, my lord God does not do a thing
Then Amos finishes his list:
A lion has roared;
Who will not be afraid?
My lord God has spoken;
Who will not prophesy? (Amos 3:8)
The Fall and Rise of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther—Part 3
December 17, 2015 at 9:06 am | Posted in Daniel, Esther, Vayeishev | 2 Comments
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by Melissa Carpenter, Maggidah
Someone tries to kill Joseph twice in the book of Genesis/Bereishit. When he is seventeen, his jealous older brothers throw him into a pit, then sit down and discuss killing him. This fits the first of seven themes that the stories of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther have in common: Resentful rivals conspire to kill the hero. (see Part 1.)
Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery instead of murdering him, but while he is a slave in Egypt a woman tries to get him executed for a different reason. This time, the theme is:
* The hero is punished for refusing to obey an order because of religious scruples, but God rescues the hero. *
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, by Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, by Schnorr von Carolsfeld
And it happened after these things, then the wife of his master raised her eyes to Joseph, and she said: Lie with me. And he mei-ein, and he said to the wife of his master: Hey, having me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and everything that belongs to him he has put into my hand. There is no one greater in his house than I am, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you are his wife, so how could I do this great evil and transgress against God? (Genesis/Bereishit 39:7-9)
mei-ein (מֵאֵן) = refused. (In Biblical Hebrew, this is not a polite demurral, but a stubborn refusal.)
For Joseph, an ethical transgressions is a transgression against God. He refuses, even though he knows it is dangerous to anger his master’s wife. But she keeps propositioning him day after day, until one day when the house is empty,
…she grabbed him by his garment, saying: Lie with me! But he abandoned his garment in her hand and he fled outside. (Genesis 39:12)
What difference does it make that the house is empty? Potifar’s wife seems unconcerned about whether they are caught in the act, since she propositions him many times when other people are nearby. But the lack of witnesses this time gives her an opportunity to get revenge and slander Joseph. She claims he tried to rape her, and left his garment behind when (she says) she screamed.
The few examples we have of ancient Egyptian law on sexual relations indicate that rape was punished by death (though the punishment might be commuted to exile in the case of a free foreigner). Potifar is the head of the royal executioners, and Joseph is his slave. But instead of arranging a summary execution, Potifar puts Joseph in the king’s prison indefinitely. He is alive, but stuck until God rescues him.
Joseph in Prison, by James Tissot
Joseph in Prison, by James Tissot
Then Pharaoh sends his chief cupbearer and chief baker to the prison (see Part 2),
and they said to him: a dream we dreamed, and there is no interpreter. Then Joseph said to them: Do not interpretations belong to God? Recount [your dreams] to me, please. (Genesis 40:8)
Inspired by God, Joseph reads the dreams as prophecies that the chief cupbearer will be restored to his post in three days, but the chief baker will be beheaded. This is exactly what happens.
When Pharaoh has two dreams that his magicians cannot interpret, the chief cupbearer tells him about Joseph, and God gives Joseph the correct interpretation of Pharaoh’s prophetic dreams. Joseph adds some advice on what to do about it, and Pharaoh elevates Joseph from imprisoned slave to viceroy of Egypt.
Thus God rescues Joseph from his punishment—presumably because he did the right thing by rejecting Potifar’s wife.
While Joseph escapes death twice, Daniel is threatened with death only once. In his case, resentful rivals conspire to kill the hero by using his well-known religious scruples against him, immediately bringing in the theme the hero is punished for refusing to obey an order because of religious scruples, but God rescues the hero.
Daniel and three other boys are taken as captives from Jerusalem when King Nebuchadnezzar conquers the city, and spend the rest of their lives in Babylon. Daniel becomes head of the king’s wise men and dream interpreters, and his friends, Shadrach, Meyshach, and Aveid-nego, become administrators of the province of Babylon. At one point, Daniel’s three friends are thrown into a furnace for refusing to bow to a golden idol of Nebuchadnezzar, and God prevents the flames from even singeing their hair. Daniel is not mentioned in the furnace story.
Many years later, when Persia conquers Babylon, Daniel is serving as one of three governors over the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The new king (whom the story identifies sometimes as Cyrus, sometimes as Darius) considers promoting Daniel to viceroy over the entire Persian empire.
Only then do resentful rivals—other high government officials—conspire to kill the hero. They know that Daniel adheres to a kosher diet and prays three times a day, bowing down in the direction of Jerusalem. There are no laws against this, so they persuade the king to decree that anyone who petitions any god or man other than the king during the next 30 days shall be thrown into a lion’s den. (See Part 1.) It does not occur to the king that this decree will affect Daniel.
Daniel's Prayer, by E.J. Poynter
Daniel’s Prayer, by E.J. Poynter
When Daniel learned that it had been put in writing, he went to his house, in whose upper chamber he had had windows made facing Jerusalem, and three times a day he knelt down, prayed, and made confession to his God as he had always done. Then those men came thronging in and found Daniel petitioning his God in supplication. (Daniel, 6:11-12, Jewish Publication Society translation of the Aramaic)
As in the book of Esther, the Persian king cannot countermand his own decree, and he cannot find any way around it. Thus the resentful rivals succeed in having Daniel punished for refusing to obey an order because of religious scruples.
By the king’s order, Daniel was then brought and thrown into the lions’ den. The king spoke to Daniel and said, ‘Your God, whom you serve so regularly, will deliver you’. (Daniel 6:17, JPS translation)
Daniel in the Lions' Den, by Briton Riviere
Daniel in the Lions’ Den, by Briton Riviere
The king worries all night and rushes back at dawn to unseal the den.
Daniel then talked with the king, ‘O King, live forever! My God sent His angel, who shut the mouths of the lions… Daniel was brought up out of the den, and no injury was found on him, for he had trusted in his God. (Daniel 6:22-24, JPS translation)
God rescues Daniel from death because of his dedication to God, expressed in his thrice-daily prayers.
The book of Esther also combines the themes of resentful rivals and refusing to obey an order because of religious scruples.
The story has two heroes, the young and beautiful Esther, and her older cousin and guardian Mordecai. When Esther becomes a captive in the king’s harem, she follows her cousin’s instruction and pretends she is not Jewish.
Mordecai, however, incites jealousy in the king’s new viceroy, Haman, by disobeying a royal order to bow down whenever Haman passes through the palace gate. (See Part 1.)
And the royal servants who were in the gate of the king said to Mordecai: Why are you oveir the command of the king? And they spoke to him day after day and he did not listen to them. Then they told Haman, to see if the matter of Mordecai would stand, for he had explained to them that he was a Jew. (Esther 3:3-4)
oveir (עוֹוֵר) = crossing, going through.
The Bible does not say that Mordecai refused (mei-ein) the king’s command, but rather that he ploughed right across it as if it did not exist. When his fellow royal servants in the gate question him, he says he ignores the order to bow to Haman because he is a Jew.
Nothing in the Bible forbids Jews to bow down to human beings. Esther Rabbah (a collection of midrash from 500-1050 C.E.) claimed Haman must have sewn a picture of a god on his clothing, so Mordecai was really refusing to bow down to an image of an alien god. Other commentary suggests that Mordecai would not bow because Haman was a descendant of King Agag of Amalek (so identified in Esther 3:1), and the Torah calls for eternal enmity between the Israelites and the Amalekites. But the text of Esther does not explain.
Mordecai never bows to Haman
Mordecai never bows to Haman
And Haman saw that Mordecai never knelt or bowed down to him, and Haman filled up with rage. And it seemed too contemptible in his eyes to send a hand against Mordecai alone, because they had told him the people of Mordecai, and Haman sought to exterminate all the Jews who were in all the kingdom of Achashveirosh, all the people of Mordecai. (Esther 3:5-6)
Haman talks the king into issuing an irrevocable decree that on a certain date (the 13th of Adar, now the holiday of Purim) every province of the Persian Empire must kill all its Jews. Haman personally erects a tall stake on which to impale Mordecai.
Does God rescue Mordecai and the rest of the Jews in Persia? Not really. Esther reveals that she and Mordecai are Jews, and Haman has arranged their death. She persuades the king to write a second decree (since the first one cannot be revoked) that on the 13th of Adar all Jews may strike down all their enemies, and on the big day nobody touches the Jews. The king impales Haman and promotes Mordecai to viceroy. But God is not mentioned here or anywhere else in the book of Esther.
Joseph risks death for a moral principle, and God rescues him. Daniel risks death for the right to pray, and God rescues him. Mordecai risks death to make a point about being Jewish, and Esther rescues him.
What are your religious scruples? Which ones would you refuse to cross, even at the risk of losing your job? Or even at the risk of death?
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Joseph is sold in Dotan, bought in Memphis
Joseph is sold in Dotan, bought in Memphis
The brothers believe Joseph will never return from slavery in Egypt.
King Nebuchadnezzar brings Daniel from Jerusalem to Babylon
King Nebuchadnezzar brings Daniel from Jerusalem to Babylon
map Persian Empire
*A court eunuch admires and helps the hero.*
Joseph in Prison, by James Tissot
Joseph in Prison, by James Tissot
Esther Present to Ahasuerus. detail by Rembrandt
The Fall and Rise of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther–Part 1
December 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm | Posted in Daniel, Esther, Vayeishev | 2 Comments
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Joseph is sold as a slave and becomes the viceroy of Egypt. Daniel is a war captive and becomes the viceroy of Persia. Esther is imprisoned in a harem and becomes the queen of Persia, while her cousin Mordecai escapes impalement and becomes the empire’s viceroy.
Each of these three rags-to-riches stories has a different plot and different characters. But many of the same themes emerge, appearing in a new light in each story.
The story of Joseph begins in this week’s Torah portion, Vayeishev (“and he stayed”), and continues through three more weekly portions. So this month I am writing a series of posts comparing seven dramatic themes in Joseph’s story, the book of Daniel, and the book of Esther:
Resentful rivals conspire to kill the hero.
The hero is taken away from home and held captive.
A court eunuch admires and helps the hero.
The hero gets a foreign name.
The hero gets revenge on the rivals who wanted him dead.
Thanks to the hero, the children of Israel prosper in a foreign land.
Vayeishev, the first Torah portion in the Joseph story, introduces the first theme:
*Resentful rivals conspire to kill the hero.*
Joseph’s story in Genesis/Bereishit begins with jealousy.
Israel loved Joseph most out of all his sons, because he was a child of old age to him, and he made him a special long-sleeved tunic. And his brothers saw that their father loved him most out of all his brothers, so they hated him, and they were not able to speak to him in peace. (Genesis/Bereishit 37:3-4)
Upright sheaves
Upright sheaves
Joseph has two dreams in which his brothers (symbolized first by sheaves of grain, then by stars) are bowing down to him, and he makes the mistake of telling them his dreams.
…we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and hey! My sheaf stood up and actually stayed [upright], and hey! Your sheaves circled around vatishtachavena my sheaf. (Genesis/Bereishit 37:6-7)
vatishtachavena (וַתִּשְׁתַּחֲוֶיןָ) = and prostrated themselves to, bowed down to the ground toward.
After hearing that, his brothers hate him even more.
When the ten older brothers take the family’s flocks far to the north, their father Israel (also known as Jacob) sends Joseph out to find his brothers and report back.
They saw him from afar, before he reached them, and they plotted against him, to kill him. And they said to each other: Hey! The master of dreams is coming! Now let’s go and kill him, and we will throw him down into one of the pits, and we will say a wild beast ate him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams! (Genesis 37:18-20)
They do throw Joseph into an empty cistern, though instead of killing him they sell him as a slave to a caravan heading for Egypt. Their intense jealousy causes Joseph’s downfall—down into a pit, down into slavery, and down to Egypt.
Daniel, on the other hand, rises from being a foreign captive to being the viceroy of the Babylonian empire without offending anyone’s pride. King Nebuchadnezzar makes Daniel his chief magician. A later Babylonian king, Belshazzar, appoints Daniel as one of three administrators over all the provinces in the empire. When Darius conquers the empire, he appoints the same three administrators as supervisors over the 120 district managers.
This man Daniel surpassed the other ministers and satraps by virtue of his extraordinary spirit, and the king considered setting him over the whole kingdom. The administrators and managers looked for some fault in Daniel’s conduct in matters of state, but they could find neither fault nor corruption…
Daniel's Prayer, by E.J. Poynter
Daniel’s Prayer, by E.J. Poynter
Then those men said: We are not going to find any fault with this Daniel unless we find something against him in connection with the laws of his god. (Daniel 6:4-6)
Daniel’s fellow administrators and managers are determined to bring him down. Like Joseph’s brothers, their resentment is so extreme, they want him dead. So they persuade King Darius to issue an edict that for the next 30 days, anyone who petitions any man or god other than Darius will be thrown into a den of lions. Daniel continues to kneel and pray to God three times a day in front of his windows. His rivals rush into his room, then go and inform the king, who reluctantly obeys his own written edict and throws Daniel into the lions’ den, placing a rock over the mouth of the cave so Daniel must spend the night inside.
The book of Esther has two Jewish heroes: Esther, and her cousin and guardian Mordecai. King Achashveirosh makes Esther his queen; Mordecai merely becomes one of the elders who sits in the gate of Shushan and judges minor cases. Meanwhile the king promotes Haman, one of his advisors, to viceroy.
Mordecai refuses to bow
Mordecai refuses to bow
And all the servants of the king who were in the gate of the king were kneeling umishtachavim to Haman, because that was what the king ordered. But Mordecai would not kneel and lo yishtachaveh. …Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling umishtachaveh to him, and Haman filled up with rage. (Esther 3:2, 3:5)
umishtachavim (וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוִים) = (plural) and bowing down to the ground.
lo yishtachaveh (לֹא יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה) = he would not bow down to the ground.
umishtachaveh (וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה) = (singular) and bowing down to the ground.
Haman learns that Mordecai is not bowing because he is a Jew. Commentators generally conclude that he refuses to bow—either because Haman expects the kind of full bow (kneeling, then touching one’s head to the ground) that is reserved for God; or because Haman is a descendant of Amalek, God’s enemy in every generation.
…Then Haman sought to exterminate all the Jews that were in all the kingdom of Achashveirosh—Mordecai’s people. (Esther 3:6)
He persuades Achashveirosh that “a certain people” in his empire do not obey the king’s laws, and should therefore be eliminated. The king (who is fairly brainless throughout the story, perhaps because of all his drinking feasts) does not question Haman, but immediately gives him permission to issue a royal edict.
So thanks to jealousy and wounded pride, Joseph is thrown into a pit, Daniel is sealed into a lions’ den, and all the Jews in Persia are threatened by an edict of destruction.
Is this theme a warning on the part of the Biblical authors that it is dangerous, even deadly, to threaten the pride of others?
If so, the Joseph story offers a lesson, since Joseph wounds his brothers’ pride further by telling them his dreams of overlordship. If he had considered his brothers’ feelings and kept silent, he would not have been enslaved—but his brothers would still have held a grudge against him because of their father’s favoritism.
In the Daniel story, Daniel is promoted only because of his own excellent work, not because he is lording it over anyone. Although he is caught praying and thrown into the lions’ den, he does not brag about his god, or try to convert anyone else. Sometimes nothing can be done about the jealousy and pride of others.
In the book of Esther, all the Jews in Persia are put under a death sentence because Mordecai insists on following a religious scruple to the letter. Haman is clearly the villain, yet Mordecai is also responsible for the threat to his people. Perhaps Mordecai is emulating Daniel, whose prayers affect only his own fate. He fails to take into account that when one member of a group offends a prideful person, that person is likely to consider everyone in the group offensive. Prejudice is always dangerous.
Sometimes it is better to be silent in the face of enemies. Sometimes it is even better to bow when everyone else is bowing.
The danger of wounding someone’s pride is only one of the themes that the stories of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther have in common. Watch for my upcoming blogs on the twists and turns of other themes!
Vayeishev & Mikeitz: Identity Crisis
December 11, 2014 at 1:22 pm | Posted in Mikeitz, Vayeishev, Vayiggash | Leave a comment
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by Melissa Carpenter, maggidah
The last four Torah portions in the book of Genesis/Bereishit tell the story of Jacob’s two most dynamic sons: Joseph, who changes from a foreign slave into a viceroy of Egypt; and Judah, who changes from an amoral egotist into a man of integrity. This double post looks at Judah’s transformation in the first half of the story: the Torah portions Vayeishev and Mikeitz, and Judah’s speech at the beginning of Vayiggash.
(My next post, on later events in the portion Vayiggash, will appear two weeks from now.)
Vayeishev (“And he stayed”)
The story begins when Joseph is seventeen. He tends the flocks with his ten older brothers, who are in their twenties, and brings his father bad reports about them. Jacob dotes on Joseph, since he and baby Benjamin are the sons of his second and most beloved wife, Rachel, who died when Benjamin was born. Jacob gives Joseph a fancy tunic or coat. Then Joseph has two dreams in which his brothers are bowing down to him, and he makes the mistake of telling them. Naturally, his older brothers hate him. As soon as they get a chance, they seize their obnoxious little brother and throw him into a pit.
Joseph's Coast Brought to Jacob, by Giovanni Andrea de Ferarri
Joseph’s Coast Brought to Jacob, by Giovanni Andrea de Ferarri
First they argue over whether to kill him. Then Judah persuades the others to sell Joseph to some slavers heading for Egypt. The brothers dip Joseph’s fancy tunic in goat blood and bring it to Jacob, saying: This we found; hakker na, is it your son’s tunic or not? (Genesis/Bereishit 37:32)
hakker (הַכֶּר) = recognize, identify.
na (נָא) = please.
The trick works; Jacob concludes a wild beast has killed his favorite son. He goes into inconsolable mourning. And Judah suddenly moves south.
Rashi (11th-century rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) wrote that Judah’s brothers blame him for selling Joseph and tricking their father, and claim that if Judah had proposed a better course of action, they would have listened to him. So Judah moves to get away from his father’s grief and his brothers’ resentment—the reminders of his own guilt.
Judah starts a new life by marrying a Canaanite woman and having three sons with her: Eir, Onan, and Shelah.
Judah took a wife for Eir, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. And Eir, the firstborn of Judah, was bad in God’s eyes, and God made him die. Then Judah said to Onan: Come into the wife of your brother and yabeim with her, and establish offspring for your brother. (Genesis/Bereishit 38:6-8)
yabeim (יַבֵּם) = impregnate the childless widow of one’s deceased brother or close male relative. (Yabeim is an imperative verb; the noun for the act is yibum, also called levirate “marriage”.)
According to the law of both Canaan and Israel, a son born from yibum receives the inheritance of the deceased man. Without a son from yibum, the inheritance goes to the man’s surviving brothers.
Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so when coming into the wife of his brother, he wasted his seed on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And it was bad in God’s eyes, what he did, and [God] made him die, also. (Genesis/Bereishit 38:9-10)
Judah’s remaining son, Shelah, is not yet old enough to impregnate Tamar. Judah uses this as an excuse to send her back to her father’s house.
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law: Return as a widow to your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up. For he said [to himself]: lest he dies, also, like his brothers. And Tamar went, and she sat in her father’s house. (Genesis 37:11)
Judah has no intention of letting Shelah yabeim with Tamar. He assumes that she, not God, somehow caused of the death of Eir and Onan. Determined to protect his remaining son, Judah dooms Tamar to the disgrace of returning to her father’s house, and to the limited life of a woman who is legally forbidden to remarry, have a child, or do anything without her father-in-law’s consent.
Shelah grows up, but Judah does not send him to Tamar. Judah’s wife dies, and after he has finished mourning for her, he heads to a sheep-shearing festival in Timnah to have a good time. Tamar decides to risk her life in an attempt to win a new life.
detail by John Singer Sargent
detail by John Singer Sargent
She took off her widow’s clothing and she covered herself in a shawl and she wrapped herself, and she sat at petach eynayim, which is on the road to Timnah… And Yehudah saw her and he considered her a prostitute, for she had covered her face. (Genesis 37:14-15)
petach eynayim (פֶּתַח עֵינַיִם) = the entrance to a pair of wells; the opening of the eyes.
Prostitutes in Canaan did not cover their faces; Tamar’s face-covering merely prevents Judah from recognizing her. He assumes she is a prostitute because she is sitting by a public road, where no woman except a prostitute would linger. She may also have wrapped herself in clothing typical for a prostitute.
At petach eynayim, Tamar’s eyes are open behind her shawl; she sees that Judah will never give her Shelah. Judah’s eyes are still closed. Not only does he fail to recognize his daughter-in-law; he cannot see his own past behavior clearly. He propositions the woman sitting by the road.
And she said: What will you give me if you come into me? And he said: I will give a goat kid from the flock. And she said: If you give an eiravon until you send it. (Genesis 37:16-17)
eiravon (עֵרָבוֹן) = guarantee, security deposit, pledge.
And he said: What is the eiravon that I shall give you? And she said: Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her, and he came into her, and she conceived. (Genesis 37:18)
453px-Babylonian_-_Cylinder_Seal_with_Three_Standing_Figures_and_Inscriptions_-_Walters_42692_-_Side_DImportant men in ancient Canaan wore seals on cords around their necks. A seal was a small (about an inch long) cylinder carved with a name or a design indicating the owner’s identity. At that time, documents were written in cuneiform on clay tablets. In order to sign a document, a man rolled his seal along one edge of the clay tablet while it was still wet.
A man’s staff was the emblem of his authority over his own household, clan, or tribe. Thus Judah hands Tamar the symbols of his personal and social identities. When he gets home, he sends his friend to find the prostitute and exchange a goat kid for the eiravon, but she cannot be found.
A few months later Judah learns that Tamar is pregnant, even though she is not allowed to have any sex outside of yibum. This flouting of society’s rules requires the man in charge of Tamar to take immediate action. Judah might be secretly relieved that now he can order Tamar’s death, and save Shelah for good.
Judah said: Take her out and she shall be burned. Taken out she was; and she sent to her father-in-law, saying: By the man to whom these belong I am pregnant. And she said: hakker na, whose are this seal and cord and staff? Judah recognized them, and he said: She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah. (Genesis 38:25-26)
Judah is shocked into facing the truth by the sight of his own guarantee. On a literal level, these objects prove he is the father, and Tamar’s sexual encounter with him was for the sake of the yibum he had denied her. On another level, the symbols of identity make him see who he really is: not the righteous ruler of his household, but a man who circumvented the law and ruined an innocent woman’s life.
Tamar’s expression hakker na (“Recognize please” or “Identify please”) surely reminds Judah of when he and his brothers showed Joseph’s bloody tunic to their father and said hakker na. So Judah must also face his identity as the ringleader who sold his little brother and tricked his father.
Recognizing your own bad behavior is painful; staying in denial is much more comfortable. In my own life, I have reacted to the realization that I did something wrong in two different ways: Either I feel irrevocably guilty and unable to change into the person I want to be; or I forgive myself for the past but know that I can, and therefore must, behave better from now on.
Judah starts down the second path, publicly admitting his wrongdoing and vindicating Tamar. She returns to Judah’s house, and gives birth to twin sons.
Mikeitz (“In the end”)
When we next see Judah, he has rejoined his father and brothers. There is a famine in Canaan, but Egypt has grain for sale—thanks to the advance preparations of Joseph, the Pharaoh’s new viceroy. He has risen from rags to riches due to his good attitude, management skills, and a God-given gift of dream interpretation.
Jacob sends his ten older sons to Egypt to buy grain, keeping only Benjamin at home. The loss of one of Rachel’s sons has made Jacob determined to keep the other one safe.
The ten more disposable sons of Jacob bow down to the viceroy of Egypt without recognizing him; Joseph was a teenager when they sold him, and during the last twenty years or so his face and voice have changed, he dresses like an Egyptian nobleman, and he speaks Egyptian. Joseph, however, recognizes the brothers who sold him into slavery. He accuses them of being spies, the first crime that comes into his mind. They protest that they are honest men, and all brothers. Joseph repeats his accusation, so they elaborate, saying they are twelve brothers, but one is gone and the youngest is home with their father. sack-of-grain
Joseph imprisons them for three days, keeps one of them (Simon) as a hostage, and sends the rest back to Canaan under orders to return to Egypt with their youngest brother. (See my earlier post, Mikeitz: Shock Therapy.) He also supplies them with grain, and hides the silver they paid inside their packs.
The nine brothers who return to Canaan explain the situation to Jacob, who responds: As for me, you have deprived me of children! Joseph is gone, and Simon is gone, and now Benjamin you would take! Upon me everything happens! (Genesis 42:36)
As Jacob complains that they have deprived him of children, Judah could not help but remember that for years he also deprived Tamar of children.
Jacob’s oldest son, Reuben, replies: My two sons you may kill if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will personally return him to you. (Genesis 42:37)
Jacob refuses the offer, perhaps because Reuben’s guarantee is so unappealing, and Reuben does not speak again in the Torah. The famine continues, and when the extended family has eaten the last of the grain from Egypt, Jacob tells his older sons to go back to Egypt to buy more food. Then Judah steps forward again as a leader.
The first time Judah speaks in the Torah, he arranges for the brothers to sell Joseph as a slave instead of killing him. He speaks often during the story of Tamar, giving orders, haggling with the woman he takes as a prostitute, and admitting his own wrongdoing.
Now Judah points out that the Pharaoh’s viceroy will not let them return to Egypt without their youngest brother, Benjamin. Then, after Jacob has complained, Judah takes another step down the path of transformation, saying:
Send the youth with me, and let us get up and go, so we will live and not die: we and also you and also our children! I, personally, ervenu; from my hand you may seek him; if I do not bring him to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you for all time. (Genesis 43:8-9)
ervenu (אֶעֶרְבֶנּוּ) = I will guarantee it. (From the same root as eiravon = a guarantee.)
Earlier in the story, Tamar asked Judah for a guarantee consisting of the physical emblems of his identity as the ruler of a household. Now Judah offers his father a guarantee based solely on his own commitment to do the right thing. And Jacob accepts it.
In Egypt, Joseph treats Benjamin better than his brothers. Then he plants a silver goblet in Benjamin’s pack, and has the brothers stopped on their way out. When the goblet is “discovered” in Benjamin’s pack, they all return to the viceroy’s house, and Joseph declares Benjamin must stay as his slave. This is his final test of his brothers; will they enslave Benjamin, as they once enslaved him?
Judah, the leader, speaks for his brothers. He acknowledges that they cannot defend themselves against the charge of theft, and therefore they are all slaves to the Pharaoh’s viceroy. But Joseph insists that only Benjamin will be his slave.
Vayiggash (“And he stepped forward”)
The next Torah portion opens with Judah stepping closer to the viceroy and delivering a passionate plea to let Benjamin go home with his brothers. Otherwise, he says, their father will die of grief. Judah concludes:
So now, please let your servant stay instead of the youth, as a slave to my lord, and let the youth go up with his brothers. For how could I go up to my father when the youth is not with me, and see the evil that would come upon my father? (Genesis 44:33-34)
Then Joseph finally breaks down and reveals his own identity. The whole family is reunited in Egypt.
Why did Judah volunteer to take the punishment for something he did not do? He guaranteed he would not return to Jacob without Benjamin, and he is determined to be true to his commitment— even if it means losing his position as a free man and household ruler, losing his seal and his staff for good. And although he is not guilty of theft, he knows he is guilty of other bad deeds: selling Joseph into slavery, tricking their father into thinking Joseph is dead, and abusing his power over Tamar.
Judah chooses to be an honest and compassionate slave, rather than an independent agent who is selfish and eternally guilty. By making that choice, he also becomes a man of integrity, and an impressive ancestor for the tribe of Judah and its eponymous kingdom.
We are all born into certain identities, and assigned others by our own society. Not everyone gets a seal and a staff. But we all make moral choices, even though we do not always know we are doing it.
May we all become able to recognize ourselves and identify our own behavior, good and bad. May we become able to consciously choose our moral identities, and may we be inspired to make the right choices.
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@article {2529, title = {Holocene climate and environmental history of East Greenland inferred from lake sediments}, journal = {Journal of Paleolimnology}, volume = {57}, year = {2017}, month = {Jan-04-2017}, pages = {321 - 341}, abstract = {Prediction of future Arctic climate and environmental changes, as well as associated ice-sheet behavior, requires placing present-day warming and reduced ice extent into a long-term context. Here we present a record of Holocene climate and glacier fluctuations inferred from the paleolimnology of small lakes near Istorvet ice cap in East Greenland. Calibrated radiocarbon dates of organic remains indicate deglaciation of the region before ~10,500 years BP, after which time the ice cap receded rapidly to a position similar to or less extensive than present, and lake sediments shifted from glacio-lacustrine clay to relatively organic-rich gyttja. The lack of glacio-lacustrine sediments throughout most of the record suggests that the ice cap was similar to or smaller than present throughout most of the Holocene. This restricted ice extent suggests that climate was similar to or warmer than present, in keeping with other records from Greenland that indicate a warm early and middle Holocene. Middle Holocene magnetic susceptibility oscillations, with a ~200-year frequency in one of the lakes, may relate to solar influence on local catchment processes. Following thousands of years of restricted extent, Istorvet ice cap advanced to within 365 m of its late Holocene limit at ~AD 1150. Variability in the timing of glacial and climate fluctuations, as well as of sediment organic content changes among East Greenland lacustrine records, may be a consequence of local factors, such as elevation, continentality, water depth, turbidity, and seabirds, and highlights the need for a detailed spatial array of datasets to address questions about Holocene climate change.}, keywords = {De Vries cycle, Glacially fed lakes, Greenland, Holocene, Paleoclimate}, issn = {0921-2728}, doi = {10.1007/s10933-017-9951-5}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10933-017-9951-5}, author = {Lusas, Amanda R. and Hall, Brenda L. and Lowell, Thomas V. and Kelly, Meredith A. and Bennike, Ole and Levy, Laura B. and Honsaker, William} } @article {2516, title = {Local glaciation in West Greenland linked to North Atlantic Ocean circulation during the Holocene}, journal = {Geology}, volume = {45}, year = {2017}, month = {Sep-03-2018}, pages = {195 - 198}, abstract = {Recent observations indicate that ice-ocean interaction drives much of the recent increase in mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet; however, the role of ocean forcing in driving past glacier change is poorly understood. To extend the observational record and our understanding of the ocean-cryosphere link, we used a multi-proxy approach that combines new data from proglacial lake sediments, C-14-dated in situ moss that recently emerged from beneath cold-based ice caps, and Be-10 ages to reconstruct centennial-scale records of mountain glacier activity for the past similar to 10 k. y. in West Greenland. Proglacial lake sediment records and C-14 dating of moss indicate the onset of Neoglaciation in West Greenland at ca. 5 ka with substantial snowline lowering and glacier expansion at ca. 3.7 ka followed by additional ice expansion phases at ca. 2.9, ca. 1.7, and ca. 1.4 ka and during the Little Ice Age. We find that widespread glacier growth at ca. 3.7 ka in West Greenland coincides with marked cooling and reduced strength of the West Greenland Current in Disko Bugt. The transition to cooler ocean conditions at ca. 3.7 ka identified in Disko Bugt is registered by marine proxy data farther afield in East Greenland and on the northwestern Icelandic shelf, implying large-scale paleoceanographic changes across the North Atlantic during this interval. The similarity between glacier change on West Greenland and multiple marine and terrestrial records across the North Atlantic suggests that glaciers are strongly influenced by changes in ocean circulation and consequently implies that the ocean-cryosphere teleconnection is a persistent feature of the Arctic system. }, issn = {0091-7613}, doi = {10.1130/G38114.1}, url = {http://geology.gsapubs.org/lookup/doi/10.1130/G38114}, author = {Schweinsberg, Avriel D. and Briner, Jason P. and Miller, Gifford H. and Bennike, Ole and Thomas, Elizabeth K.} } @article {2521, title = {The deglaciation and neoglaciation of Upernavik Isstr{\o}m, Greenland}, journal = {Quaternary Research}, volume = {80}, year = {2013}, month = {Jan-11-2013}, pages = {459 - 467}, abstract = {We constrain the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin during the Holocene at Upernavik Isstr{\o}m, a major ice stream in northwestern Greenland. Radiocarbon-dated sediment sequences from proglacial-threshold lakes adjacent to the present ice margin constrain deglaciation of the sites to older than 9.6 {\textpm} 0.1 ka. This age of deglaciation is confirmed with 10Be ages of 9.9 {\textpm} 0.1 ka from an island adjacent to the historical ice position. The lake sediment sequences also constrain the ice margin to have been less extensive than it is today for the remainder of the Holocene until ~ 1100 to ~ 700 yr ago, when it advanced into two lake catchments. The ice margin retreated back out of these lake catchments in the last decade. The early Holocene deglaciation in Melville Bugt, one of few locations around Greenland where a vast stretch of the current ice margin is marine-based, preceded deglaciation in most other parts of Greenland. Earlier deglaciation in this ice-sheet sector may have been caused by additional ablation mechanisms that apply to marine-based ice margins. Furthermore, despite ice-sheet models depicting this sector of Greenland as relatively stable throughout the Holocene, our data indicate a > 20 km advance-retreat cycle within the last millennium.}, issn = {0033-5894}, doi = {10.1016/j.yqres.2013.09.008}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.09.008}, author = {Briner, Jason P. and {\r a}kansson, Lena and Bennike, Ole} } @article {92, title = {Late Holocene expansion of Istorvet ice cap, Liverpool Land, east Greenland}, journal = {Quaternary Science Reviews}, volume = {63}, year = {2013}, note = {id: 2290}, pages = {128-140}, abstract = {The Greenland Ice Sheet is undergoing dynamic changes that will have global implications if they continue into the future. In this regard, an understanding of how the ice sheet responded to past climate changes affords a baseline for anticipating future behavior. Small, independent ice caps adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet (hereinafter called {\textquotedblleft}local ice caps{\textquotedblright}) are sensitive indicators of the response of Greenland ice-marginal zones to climate change. Therefore, we reconstructed late Holocene ice-marginal fluctuations of the local Istorvet ice cap in east Greenland, using radiocarbon dates of subfossil plants, 10Be dates of surface boulders, and analyses of sediment cores from both threshold and control lakes. During the last termination, the Istorvet ice cap had retreated close to its maximum Holocene position by \~{}11,730 cal yr BP. Radiocarbon dates of subfossil plants exposed by recent recession of the ice margin indicate that the Istorvet cap was smaller than at present from AD 200 to AD 1025. Sediments from a threshold lake show no glacial input until the ice cap advanced to within 365 m of its Holocene maximum position by \~{}AD 1150. Thereafter the ice cap remained at or close to this position until at least AD 1660. The timing of this, the most extensive of the Holocene, expansion is similar to that recorded at some glaciers in the Alps and in southern Alaska. However, in contrast to these other regions, the expansion in east Greenland at AD 1150 appears to have been very close to, if not at, a maximum Holocene value. Comparison of the Istorvet ice-cap fluctuations with Holocene glacier extents in Southern Hemisphere middle-to-high latitude locations on the Antarctic Peninsula and in the Andes and the Southern Alps suggests an out-of-phase relationship. If correct, this pattern supports the hypothesis that a bipolar see-saw of oceanic and/or atmospheric circulation during the Holocene produced asynchronous glacier response at some localities in the two polar hemispheres.}, issn = {0277-3791}, doi = {10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.012}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379112004830}, author = {Lowell, Thomas V. and Hall, Brenda L. and Kelly, Meredith A. and Bennike, Ole and Lusas, Amanda R. and Honsaker, William and Smith, Colby A. and Levy, Laura B. and Travis, Scott and Denton, George H.} }
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This application is now freeware for various reasons. I first wrote the core of the Phoenix Protector for a company when I was 19. That project didn’t work out for internal reasons not related to the quality of the product itself. I then wrote the Phoenix Protector, which was basically a new GUI for the now improved core. However, during the years (one has to consider that I was quite young when I developed the .NET obfuscator) I became ever more conscious that I didn’t want to spend my life writing protections and also that I was not convinced by protections for the .NET technology in the first place. That’s partly why I wrote Rebel.NET. By combining Rebel.NET with the DisasMSIL engine it is very easy to write a code obfuscator for .NET assemblies. The only thing which would be missing is name obfuscation and string encryption, which are even easier as protections. That’s why I’m releasing the Phoenix Protector for free: nowadays, writing a commercial obfuscator doesn’t make much sense to me. The code obfuscation provided by the Phoenix Protector is quite good when compared to other commercial obfuscators. I noticed that most obfuscators provide a very easy to reverse code obfuscation scheme. I’m not saying that the Phoenix Protector’s code obfuscation can’t be reversed. Every .NET code obfuscation scheme can be reversed somehow and the rebuilding task becomes very easy through Rebel.NET. Created by Erik Pistelli. The Phoenix Protector was created to protect .NET assemblies and it’s the ideal solution for every .NET developer, due to its support of every kind of project and compatibility with every version of the .NET framework. It has all common obfuscation features to secure your code. It provides obfuscation features like Name, String and Control Flow Obfuscation. The last feature is particularly important since it prevents the .NET assembly from being decompiled into an understandable language. The Name Obfuscation is provided with an exclusion list.
Using the Name Obfuscation feature all the original MetaData names in a .NET Assembly are renamed to ones that aren’t understandable. By simply obfuscating an assembly with this feature, the decompiled code will result uncompilable, since the obfuscated names can’t be used in any .NET supported programming language. Of course, exclusion of user defined classes, methods, fields and properties is supported, since some public names can’t be renamed to make certain assemblies work correctly.
Other features are the String and the Control Flow Obfuscation. The String Obfuscation makes strings invisible to decompilation and disassembling. It doesn’t give a strong protection but it’s a standard feature for .NET assemblies. The Control Flow Obfuscation is very important. In fact, it makes your code not decompilable by changing basic identification structures such as conditional blocks and loops in it. An attempt to analyze your code will cause the decompiler to crash or, at least, it won’t generate any useful code.
Also, merging your assemblies could make your code even more secure. That’s why the Phoenix Protector is shipped with an easy-to-use interface for Microsoft’s ILMerge utility.
• Projects Interface
• Name Obfuscation
• Exclusion List for the Name Obfuscation
• String Obfuscation
• Control Flow Obfuscation
• Assemblies Merge Utility
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8 Things Your Bingeing Behaviors Reveal About You
by Jarys Sibal
September 11, 2018
Do you have moments of compulsively eating large amounts of food, overdrinking, shopping ‘til you drop, or watching a whole series in one sitting and suddenly realize you don’t really need them?
When we do, we often feel desperate or frustrated if we let food, drinks, and shows that we call opportunities, slip through our hands. These scenarios reveal our tendencies to binge or simply called, our bingeing behaviors.
What is bingeing?
Bingeing is consuming things compulsively in large amounts or doing activities for longer periods while losing our control and capacity to stop.
Bingeing becomes a behavior because it doesn’t happen all at once. Our brain releases dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure and reward-seeking behaviors. This makes us more addicted to rewards and pleasures. Bingeing behaviors are also known as addictive behaviors, which can come from biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
Bingeing is more popular with food (binge eating), but it is also evident through binge watching, binge drinking, binge shopping, and binge gaming. Its main components include the things or activities we indulge in and the triggers or events that cause us to cope and deal with problems.
Bingeing becomes socially-acceptable when we indulge in food, shows, and social media. They are the lesser evil compared to the effects of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. However, bingeing in all forms is still is destructive and makes our situations more depressive.
Implications of Bingeing Behaviors
Based on experience and observation, bingeing behaviors tell more about our experiences and current situations. Each activity is different, but here are common implications of our behaviors:
Unsatisfied and Unmet Needs
fulfillment of needs
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows that human needs are made of physiological (water, food, rest, warmth), safety (security), belongingness and love (friends, intimate relationships), esteem (feelings of accomplishment and prestige), and self-actualization needs (reaching full potential).
We usually feel stressed, anxious, and depressed when we fail to meet these needs. According to a study, almost half of people with binge eating disorders struggle with anxiety. This becomes valid once we binge on different things, usually on physiological stuff, to get our love, esteem, and self-actualization needs. There is a mismatch between what we get and what we need, and this makes the cycle worse.
We also feel the need to try new things: eat every food available, watch every show, or buy every piece of clothing in the collection. However, the more we binge, the more we become unsatisfied.
Contentment Issues
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Based on experience and observation, we started binge eating when we struggle to avoid hunger and food is free and overflowing. We hate to be short-changed.
Survey results show that 61% of Netflix watchers view two to six episodes in a row because they feel better compared to viewing single episodes from time to time.
Bingeing behaviors show how discontented we are, even if we have more than what we need. We slowly adapt the practice of hoarding because we’re afraid to lack and lose something.
Impulsiveness, Lack of Mindfulness, and Lost of Control Over Emotions
Our genetics and hormonal changes can affect our behaviors, as dopamine increases our bingeing capacities. For ladies, we crave for more food before and during our monthly period. It’s difficult to control no matter how hard we try.
Escape from Reality
Escape from Reality
Bingers are usually the ones who struggle to avoid painful realities, control their own lives, live without problems, and do whatever they want. For example, completing our favorite series in our own favored time gives us an ideal sense of accomplishment. We may also find themselves in the place of the main characters.
Another example shows binge shopping, or the moment we can’t stop until we find the perfect product that suits our ideal expectations. But in reality, we fuel more disappointments and hopelessness because our false sense of accomplishment cannot solve our real problems.
Bingeing behaviors can also show a person’s impatience to feel good and satisfied.
For instance, binge watchers can’t wait for the next episodes of their favorite series because they want to have closures from the previous ones. Another one shows that binge eaters want to taste everything now because they can’t wait to feel satisfied.
Inability to Decide and Stand for Own Decisions
In some cases, we start to have a sense of belongingness once we eat together in larger amounts, drink or smoke frequently, watch shows to catch up and discuss with peers, and buy stuff to show class. We also binge because it’s already a habit and part of a lifestyle that’s difficult to break.
Lack of Trust, Resulting in Isolation From Human Connection
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Once we binge, we tend to isolate ourselves from people because we think ahead that others can’t understand what we’re going through. Instead of sharing negative feelings to another person, bingers eat more, use more vices, watch shows for longer hours, and buy stuff we don’t need. This is supported by a study, which found out that 56% of binge watchers view shows alone while 98% stream at home.
Secretive and Pretentious Because of Shame and Guilt from Bingeing
Bingeing is a cycle, and once we realize the negative consequences of our behavior, we begin to hide, feel deep shame, and indulge in those activities again. Sadly, it becomes a cycle we find hard to escape from.
How to Stop Your Bingeing Behaviors
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We can stop our bingeing behaviors first by identifying the root problem: your triggers and indulgences. For example, I’m usually triggered by stress and sweets has become my indulgence.
Gradually, we can start withdrawing from your indulgences by setting limits. Do things slowly and realistically. If I eat a bar of chocolate in a single sitting before, maybe I can eat a half or a quarter now. Or I can set a day where I can eat that chocolate.
We shouldn’t underestimate other people’s love and care for us. We must surround yourself with supportive and positive family and friends whom we can trust. If situation gets worse, seek professional help. I started telling my family about my binge eating tendencies and they helped me by limiting junk food storage in the house.
In the end, our lives shouldn’t revolve around food, shoes, vices, and stuff. Bingeing is just a part of life we might experience, but there’s always hope to overcome. When we lose that hope, always remember that the world still needs a being like you.
Jarys Sibal
By Jarys Sibal
Jarys Sibal is a Filipino freelance writer, blogger, and financial advisor. Aside from writing health topics, she also blogs about small matters that make life complicated. Away from her laptop, pen, and paper, she exercises, eats good food, and connects with people to help them. Writing is close to her heart because her life's mission is "making disciples and encouraging disciple-makers through writing", believing the cause and cost in Luke 9:23.
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Speed up your internet speed.
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Yes, you heard it correct! I am going to tell you the actual trick to speed up your internet speed.(read then browse)
The trick is based on DNS server.
DNS is the Internet’s master phone book. It turns human-readable domain names, such as CBS interactive, into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses such as For all practical purposes, every time you go anywhere on the internet, you start by interacting with DNS.
This takes time. A complex webpage can require multiple DNS lookups — one for the text, another for an image, another for an ad on the page, and so on — before your page loads. Each DNS lookup takes an average of 32milliseconds(ms). That really slows down many websites. So, when you speed up your DNS lookups, you’ll get faster internet performance.
There have been fast DNS services for years to help you. My favorites are Cisco OpenDNS and Google Public DNS. According to Olafur Gudmundsson, Cloudflare’s director of engineering, Cloudflare’s will be faster than the others because “they are already building data centers all over the globe to reduce the distance (i.e. latency) from users to content. Eventually, they want everyone to be within 10milliseconds(ms) of at least one of our locations”.
What is and how does it work?
What brings to the table, that the others haven’t, is a focus on user privacy.
To do this, Cloudflare has committed itself to never using DNS browsing data to target ads, The company has also committed to never recording your IP address and wiping all DNS logs within 24 hours. You don’t need to take its word for it. Cloudflare has contracted KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to annually audit its code and practices and publish a public report confirming it’s keeping its word.
So, do you want faster, more secure DNS? Here’s how to make work for you.
If you’re using a router for your office network DNS settings — and you probably are — log in and find your DNS server settings. Once there, note down your existing DNS records and replace them with the following:
• For IPv4: and
That’s it. The next time your computers look up a website, they’ll use the DNS services.
With Windows, click on the Start menu, then click on Control Panel, and do the following:
1. Click on Network and Internet.
2. Click on Change Adapter Settings.
3. Right-click on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, then click Properties.
4. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (or Version 6 if desired).
5. Click Properties.
6. Write down any existing DNS server entries for future reference.
7. Click Use The Following DNS Server Addresses.
8. Replace those addresses with the DNS addresses:
• For IPv4: and
For macOS, open System Preferences, and then do the following:
1. Search for DNS Servers and select it from the drop-down.
2. Click the + button to add a DNS Server and enter
3. And then Click + again and enter
4. Click Ok, then click Apply.
With Linux, use Network Manager. There, click the IPv4 or IPv6 tab to view your DNS settings, and then do the following steps:
1. Set the “Automatic” toggle on the DNS entry to Off.
2. Provide the DNS addresses in the DNS entries field: IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111,2606:4700:4700::1001
3. Click Apply, then restart your browser.
Here’s the instruction to speed up your internet speed in iPhone.
From your iPhone’s home screen, open the Settings app.
1. Tap Wi-Fi, then tap your preferred network in the list.
2. Tap Configure DNS, then tap Manual.
3. If there are any existing entries, tap the – button, and Delete next to each one.
4. Tap the + Add Server button, then type
5. Tap the + Add Server button again, then type This is for redundancy.
6. Tap the Save button on the top right.
Android(most users)
On Android, it’s far harder to set up DNS than with other operating systems.
The easiest way, which works across most Android devices, is to install DNS Changer. This works by creating a local VPN work on your device. This VPN only exists within your device and your mobile or Wi-Fi connection. To use it, you place and in as your DNS entries.
Voilla!!! Speed can go upto 11.2Mbps
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Eclipse IDE, variants and add-ons
As well as the (IBM) Eclipse IDE I especially like Aptana Studio and Easy Eclipse variants.
Aptana because of its video tutorials available at aptana.tv and Easy Eclipse because of its extensive range of pre-packaged add-ons, plug-ins & extensions :
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What is the difference between sourceforge and gforge ?
Put simply (?) gforge is a continuation / fork of the discontinued free libre open source source sourceforge 2.6 !
gforge says:
GForge is a fork of the 2.61 SourceForge code, which was only available via anonymous CVS from VA
(Research|Linux|Software). <gforge.org> is not a project hosting platform, it is merely an implementation
of the GForge code. We believe that the GForge functionality is important not only to the Open
Source community, but to the wider business community.
The GForge project was formed and is maintained by Tim Perdue, the original author of much of the
original SourceForge web code.
sourceforge says:
1. What is the state of the source code to SourceForge?
The source code powering SourceForge.net, SourceForge 2.6, was the last version of SourceForge source code publicly available as Open Source software. In November 2001, VA Software announced SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.0, a proprietary version of SourceForge.
2. Why has VA decided to close the SourceForge codebase?
Several factors have shaped this decision, including a change in our core business from systems and services to software, and repeated instances of use and extension of the Open Source codebase by companies who declined to share their improvements. How are companies able to do this without violating the GPL? Since they never release their changes outside the company, they are not compelled to give their code back to the community. Unfortunately, this impedes our ability to do business as the developer of the SourceForge application.
3. How does SourceForge 2.7 compare to the SourceForge 3.x codebase?
SourceForge 2.7 contains cleaned code and bug fixes, building on the SourceForge 2.6 release. It does not contain Oracle database support, pervasive search functionality, documentation management, user-configurable reporting, integrated source control-issue tracking and automatic installation capabilities available only with the commercial, SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.0 product offering.
4. What does this mean for OSDN?
This decision was made in close consultation with OSDN. OSDN continues to focus on supporting the development, distribution and discussion of Open Source software, and will continue to operate SourceForge.net as a service for the Open Source and Free Software communities.
5. What codebase will SourceForge.net run on?
Given the need to scale to support tens of thousands of development projects, SourceForge.net will be upgrading to the SourceForge 3.x codebase.
Does that make it all clear now ? But whats the difference between gforge.com, gforge.org, gforge express & gforgegroup.com ? "Now anyone can create a private project on GForge AS easily and instantly. No need to set up your own server or pay any fees. GForge Group is providing a free, 75MB GForge AS project space with up to 5 developers and a subversion tree at http://gforge.com/."
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and which platform should a true free libre open source developer actually use ? GoogleCode ?
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Oracle JDeveloper UML modeling tools
Oracle JDeveloper is not just for Java !
You can also use it for XML development and it also has the following UML modeling tools:
• Class Modeler
• Use Case Modeler
• Activity Modeler
• Sequence Modeler
Demos / Tutorials @ http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/viewlets/viewlet.html
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Why Gnome chose Subversion SCM ?
Subversion is an SCM designed to be an easy replacement for CVS, while addressing some of its shortcomings.
Here are some reasons why Gnome chose Subversion as a replacement for CVS after nearly 10 years:
• Directories, renames, and file meta-data are versioned
• Commits are truly atomic
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• Natively client/server, layered library design
• Client/server protocol sends diffs in both directions
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Stop Chrome Running in the Background on Windows [Easy Fix]
Google Chrome is an advance internet web browser that allows you to surf on internet. There are many other browsers available such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, etc. Google Chrome is designed and developed by Google LLC and available to install on Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS & Android. Chrome also measured as a fast and reliable browser. I am sure, sometimes, you may have noticed, when you finish work with chrome and close afterwards you got a message that Google Chrome in running in the background and you will notified for any notification. By default, Chrome is set to run in background on Windows. Now, you must be wondering how to stop chrome running in the background?
You might have used certain app extension installed on Chrome and they also work on the background if chrome is closed. This really not necessary to keep running Chrome on background and due to it uses system memory. For example; check task manager screenshot while Chrome is closed.
Stop Chrome Running in the Background
For the reason, if you have a laptop battery drain problem or your system is running slow, running chrome in the background could be one of the reasons.
Know Amazing Hidden Google Chrome Tricks & Secrets
Yes, there is way in Chrome settings itself, wherein you can stop Chrome running in the background on your Windows. The following steps given in this article are done on Chrome Version 78.0.3904.97 and hopefully, will work on later Chrome updates as well.
Step 1. Launch Chrome and from the top-right corner of the browser window, click three-point icons to expand options or press ALT + E key combination on your keyboard. Then, choose the Settings option from the given list.
Step 2. The Chrome settings page will come up on your screen. Navigate at the bottom of the windows by scrolling mouse and click Advanced option.
Step 3. Now, scroll down the page to the bottom and locate System. Underneath, turn off the option of “Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed”.
Finally, settings are made successfully to stop Chrome running in the background unless you turn it back on. To get settings in effect you need to close the Google Chrome browser and open it again. By doing this you will notice that your system performance is better than before.
If you will or require that Chrome notification and running in the background is important for you then, go back to the Step 3 and turn on the option which says “Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed”.
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Month: November 2019
Assembler Meetup #22, 2019/11/30
Jenny teach me code translate Not sure our method is unify or not Trying to make the grammar file shorter and uniform
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Assembler Meetup #21, 2019/11/23
Cityu is close, we change to meet in Moko
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Verilog syntax conflict
I guess syntax conflict or not is depend on how fpga vendor implement their verilog compile, nothing about the verilog language specification
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Hacking Lattice toolchain lesson 1
Lattice Diamond use these commands to compile my project into jed file Synthesize Design: synthesis -f ControlLed_impl1_lattice.synproj -gui -msgset C:/workspace/fpga/ControlLed/promote.xml Place & Route Design: par -w -l 5 -i 6 -t 1 -c 0 -e 0 -gui -msgset C:/workspace/fpga/ControlLed/promote.xml -exp parUseNBR=1:parCDP=0:parCDR=0:parPathBased=OFF ControlLed_impl1_map.ncd ControlLed_impl1.dir/5_1.ncd ControlLed_impl1.prf trce -v 10 -gt -sethld -sp 4 -sphld m -o ControlLed_impl1.twr…
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Simplest guide to config tomcat to use https with lets encrypt’s free cert
Support you have generate a standalone cert using certbot command, and your cert is in /etc/letsencrypt/live/ . If not, follow this Execute openssl command and remember your password Edit tomcat’s conf/server.xml, you just need one connector to serve 8443, no need other conntector Restart your tomcat, it is done. Below is the virtualhost to…
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2019/11/23 0
Simplest tutorial to read yammer message in SPfx
Step 1 : Browser create your app Step 2 : Make sure you fill in the Javascript Origins, otherwise you will get an cors error Step 3 : Generate the developer token, we need it to send get/post form spfx Result:
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PowerApps for PowerBI終於都來了
我們終於可以用PowerApps去加強PowerBI Dashboard的動性, 亦可以用PowerApps作為一個UI的接口去程現不同的外部資料
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My first notebook that can run SP2019 on-premises
I have to switch back to windows because almost all verilog toolchain only work in windows. And I bought MSI Prestige-15-A10X which has 32GB ram and 1TB nvms ssd, it is only $15300 HKD, super valueable. It is the first notebook which i can run a SharePoint 2019 VM locally.
2019/11/14 0
Netbeans in Mac vs Windows
Netbeans in windows is much more ugly than in Mac, here is my point of view: Font is not align and not beautiful The java swing L&F in mac match with OS, but not the one in windows Toolbar icon style not match with windows
2019/11/13 0
Gitlab CI + core
Add auto build and publish using gitlab ci/cd services and deploy to ubuntu.
2019/11/12 0
Assembler Meetup #20, 2019/11/09
Kelvin and Jenny heading to encode b* and c* instructions Desmond keep going to PE format Peter try to add assembler marco. I will think about our own linker format next week.
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Assembler Dev #19 2019/11/02
We think the encoding method is stable, asked Jenny to write a wiki, describe how we can encode each instruction
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Netbeans hangs in Mac since Netbeans 8.2 to now
I have a Netbeans module call “Maven Runner“, it was originally in Ant. When I install it into my local netbeans, it regularly cause the netbeans failed to start. When I was starting Netbeans, the splash came out, then it disappear, but the main screen never show up. Two months ago, i rewrite it into…
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Wikipedia/Wikimedia apps availability test: add event logging
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In order to test (and analyze) the Wikipedia/Wikimedia apps availablity links addition to the portal page, we'll need to update the event logging schema.
Event Timeline
debt created this task.Sep 27 2016, 7:33 PM
@Jdrewniak: @debt said that you're planning on adding the links in the "other projects" section? That's totally fine as long as the destination field contains the correct info (iTunes page URL, Play store page URL, Enwiki article URL) that we can then use in our event logging data processing.
If that's the case, this ticket is done & resolved because no changes would need to be made to the schema specification and implementation.
Moving this to be 'done' as there are no changes to event logging that we know of.
debt closed this task as Resolved.Oct 11 2016, 8:53 PM
debt moved this task from Backlog to Done on the Discovery-Portal-Sprint board.Mar 22 2017, 3:45 PM
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Neuropeptides acting on pre- and postsynaptic receptors are coreleased with GABA by interneurons including bistratified and O-LM cells, both expressing somatostatin but innervating segregated dendritic domains of pyramidal cells. Neuropeptide release requires high-frequency action potentials, but the firing patterns of most peptide/GABA-releasing interneurons during behavior are unknown. We show that behavioral and network states differentiate the activities of bistratified and O-LM cells in freely moving rats. Bistratified cells fire at higher rates during sleep than O-LM cells and, unlike O-LM cells, strongly increase spiking during sharp wave-associated ripples (SWRs). In contrast, O-LM interneurons decrease firing during sleep relative to awake states and are mostly inhibited during SWRs. During movement, both cell types fire cooperatively at the troughs of theta oscillations but with different frequencies. Somatostatin and GABA are differentially released to distinct dendritic zones of CA1 pyramidal cells during sleep and wakefulness to coordinate segregated glutamatergic inputs from entorhinal cortex and CA3.
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DIY: Colour Blocked Terra Cotta Mini Pots
June 03, 2013
I love having plants around all year long, but summer definitely puts me in the mood for gardening. Since I live in an apartment, most of gardening happens in pots, so when I had this idea, I was super excited to test it out. It's is an easy way to add a little flair to a plain and ultra affordable terra cotta pot.
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Behind the Edge by Luigi Bonaventura
May 29, 2013
This edition of 'Behind the Edge' features Jesolo Beach, Venice.
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July 11th, 2010
fic: Emergency (7/-)
Title: Emergency
Rating: R (Language + End of the Worldy-type stuff)
Pairing(s): Matt/Dom
Word Count: 3,481 (this chapter)
Warnings: Spoilers for all five seasons of Supernatural; graphic death/character death later in the story.
Summary: "Declare this an emergency, come on and spread a sense of urgency.... Its time we saw a miracle, come on its time for something Biblical... This is the end of the world."
Castiel managed to get the boys out of Teignmouth alive... all of them. But that is only the beginning of this battle. None of boys from Devon could ever have imagined how crucial their role would be in the end of the world.
A/N (if any): This was originally supposed to be a simple crack story, but it has taken on a life of its own. For that I would like to thank thevinegarworks , hopeandmemory , glitterati , and kaosspad for listening to me while I talked about this and worked things out in my mind.
Previous Chapters: 01 :: 02 :: 03 :: 04 :: 05 :: 06
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A Gentle Browserify Walkthrough
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CommonJS is a module format for JavaScript, widely adopted by the Node.js community and popularized by npm, the package manager that’s bundled with Node. In this article you’ll learn about CommonJS and how you can bring those same modules to your client-side code, using Browserify and maybe a build tool to automate your processes.
Browserify is one of those tools that the open-source community almost takes for granted, whereas it’s overlooked by the vast majority of companies, hardly making its way into projects in a professional setting. Not all is lost, sometimes big companies do the right thing and use it to develop their open-source projects.
I could name quite a few reasons why you should be using Browserify today. First, let’s talk about Common.JS.
CommonJS is the open module format specification behind the Node.js platform. That sounds overly complicated, but its not. CommonJS revolves around a few very straightforward rules.
Every file you use is a “module”. Modules are a 1-to-1 mapping to files
The above just means that in CommonJS you have a single entry point, which is a CommonJS module file, and everything is loaded from there. Implicitly, this signifies that module loading happens synchronously, but you could still use multiple entry points, placing each on its own <script> tag, and even have them interact with each other. This means that while CommonJS is easily bundled together you can also “partition” your bits into several modules and serve them progressively rather than offload everything to the browser at once.
As a quick example, here’s a module that prints numbers from 1 to 30 in your console. Let’s say the file is named app.js.
var i = 0;
for (; i++ < 30; ) {
If you wanted to try this module out, you could download and install Node.js, fire up a terminal, and type in the following command.
node app
One of the most important benefits of using CommonJS lies in how scoping behaves in its modules. Let’s compare it with typical behavior in browsers.
Differences in Scoping
In the browser, you might be used to an implicit global window scope. This typically forces us to wrap our code with functions on every JavaScript file, creating closures so that the implicit scope is no longer the global object.
For example, in the browser, you might be used to the following behavior.
<script src='foo.js'></script>
<script src='bar.js'></script>
// foo.js
var i = 0;
for (; i++ < 30; ) {
// bar.js
// <- 31
In order to work around that, you’d go ahead and create a closure in the foo module, preventing i to leak into the global object and spill information to the other camp_, …err, file.
// foo.js
void function () {
var i = 0;
for (; i++ < 30; ) {
// bar.js
// <- ReferenceError: i is not defined
CommonJS has implicit local scopes, meaning that variables declared at the top of a module’s scope won’t leak into the global object, but rather remain contained within the module where they’re declared. Of course, you could always publish properties on the global object, by being explicit about it.
global.warming = true;
While possible, it’s not recommended. CommonJS encourages us to establish inter-module communications through API declarations.
Modules can export an API by setting module.exports
Modules can publish a public API to module.exports. If they do so, other modules will be able to access this API. Consider it the public interface of the module.
var i = 1;
var max = 30;
module.exports = function () {
for (i -= 1; i++ < max; ) {
max *= 1.1;
In the example shown above, both i and max are only accessible internally by our module, while consumers will be able to access the function that we’re exporting, and invoke it as often as they please. You aren’t limited to exposing functions but you can actually expose any API you want, which is typically an object or an object factory method.
Note that the CommonJS exports specification didn’t originally allow exporting functions, but Node has allowed it since its early days with the module.exports alternative, for convenience.
The counterpart to exposing an API via module.exports is consuming another module’s API. Let’s look into that one.
Modules can consume the API exposed by other modules using the require(module) method, where module is the relative path from the file where the require statement is executed, to the location of the module we want to import is located
Again, it’s simpler than it sounds. Suppose you have a print.js file and a printer.js file in the same directory. You’d have printer.js expose the API we’ve been fiddling with.
var i = 1;
var max = 30;
module.exports = {
print: function () {
max *= 1.1;
Then there’s print.js which does the actual printing. Loading other modules happens synchronously and directly in your JavaScript code. You can omit the .js extension for brevity. You can also assign the results of requiring a module to a variable, or you can choose not to do that.
var printer = require('./printer');
Again, you could run this example with Node by entering the command below into a terminal.
node print
A required module will only be interpreted once. This means that calls to require('./printer') won’t reset i after the module has been interpreted once. In fact, the interface exported by the module is cached, and that is returned every time. You could fiddle with the caching behavior by removing entries from the cache, but it’s considered a bad practice unless you have a legitimate reason to go there.
But what about the browser?
So far, the CommonJS modules you’ve been looking at in this article work perfectly fine under a Node.js execution environment, but this article started out talking about the front-end. I wanted to first introduce you to the type of modules you’d be earning by making the switch to Browserify, so first I had to explain how CommonJS works.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s throw some questions at the discussion.
• Why is CommonJS “better” than “whatever”, or than using AMD?
• Doesn’t this cripple my development productivity?
• How do I bring these modules to the browser?
• What other benefits can I get from using CommonJS modules?
• What are some advanced use cases?
I’ll go through these in turn, hoping to answer your concerns when it comes to using CommonJS in the browser through Browserify.
Why CommonJS?
As I covered earlier, CommonJS gives you true modules contained in by individual files, but first let’s look at the reasons why you might want to ditch the alternatives.
Why not “whatever”?
The idea of using nothing, while appealing, poses no benefit other than feeling nostalgic about those Java Applets you used to adore.
• You are required to create a closure in every piece of code that you write, otherwise you risk leaks to the global object
• You need to figure out your own system to develop modular components, and be consistent about it too
• You need to “compute the dependency graph” by yourself, which is a nice way of saying you have to stack your <script> tag deck in order to make sure that parts of your application that depend on other pieces of code come after the pieces they depend upon
Note that, in this section, I’m not speaking about ES6 modules because they need a lot of work until we can use it natively in A-grade browsers and we can consider them “using nothing”. Everyone pretty much agrees on this one, though. Let’s move to RequireJS.
Why not RequireJS?
RequireJS is a module loader based on the AMD specification. While I personally dislike it, this way of approaching modularity is a popular alternative to CommonJS. It does provide a solution to modularity, dependency injection, and a built-in solution to the dependency graph issue, which is always a great thing.
That being said, there are some issues with RequireJS.
• Too verbose. It basically needs us to wrap our code in closures using define and require statements
• Overly complex. Have you seen the documentation on the RequireJS site? Jesus! Every little thing means you need to adjust and tweak your configuration to be just so for that specific corner-case. That’s not very high-quality of them
• Compatibility issues with libraries that don’t conform to their standards
• Wildly different development and production distributions
During development RequireJS provides a super-asynchronous API that enables modules to be loaded through AJAX as dependencies are resolved. For release, the recommended approach is to compile the modules into one or many bundles. As usual, RequireJS provides a boatload of documentation on the subject. Way more than you’d ever want to know about a module system.
To me, these are all just indicators of poor design.
Fine, I don’t like RequireJS. For the record, I would still prefer it over not doing anything. Currently, the reasons why I prefer CommonJS over ES6 has nothing to do with ES6 and everything to do with the features that CommonJS boasts.
• Straightforward, familiar syntax
• Code sharing with Node.js
• Access to all of npm
The syntax familiarity point is a minor one, but I’ll expand on these items later in the article.
Doesn’t this cripple my productivity?
You probably think that a build step which needs you to bundle your code together even during development is a nightmare from a day-to-day development productivity point of view. Thanks to the myriad of tools that are available to us, this is not that big of a deal when it comes to Continuous Development (the ability to rebuild the compiled bundle whenever your code changes). When it comes to productivity we take a speed hit because we have to wait for the build step to complete after we make changes to our code.
Then there’s also the fact that bundled-up pieces of code make debugging hard, because stack traces and logging statements end up referencing line numbers that don’t match your source code. Luckily Browserify has great support for source maps, which can point the browser to the sources of compiled assets. It’s just a matter of setting the --debug option on the command-line, or debug when using the programmatic API.
How do I bring these modules to the browser?
Using Browserify! It’s quite easy. Here’s what you need to know.
First off, you can run Browserify using its CLI, its API, the Grunt plugin, piping into gulp.dest, the Broccoli plugin, etc. Instead of documenting each and every one of these ways to run Browserify I’ll keep my examples to the CLI, which translates quite nicely to what the API and the plugins expect you to do.
In the printer example shown earlier, for example, compiling the code so that it works in the browser would just be a matter of using the command shown below.
browserify print.js > dist/app.js
You could also use the -o flag, indicating the destination file.
browserify print.js -o dist/app.js
This is most useful if you need to run the task whenever your code changes. To that end, you’ll use the specialized watchify tool. Then, when your code changes, watchify will make sure to recompile the bundle. Watchify has the same API as the regular browserify CLI does, which is super convenient for us.
npm install -g watchify
watchify print.js -o dist/app.js
If you wanted to generate a source map, you’d only have to add the -d option.
browserify print.js -do dist/app.js
watchify print.js -do dist/app.js
There’s also an extensive list of “transforms” that allow you to do neat things during compilation. For instance, if you love CoffeeScript like I do, you could use the coffeeify transform as shown below.
browserify print.coffee -t coffeeify -o dist/app.js
There’s tons of other transforms you could use. Make sure to consult the wiki page, you’ll probably find what you need in there. Another transform that you may find super helpful is brfs. That transform works by inlining calls to fs.readFileSync into your client-side bundles. This means that we could have a cool-sites.txt file and a piece of code like the one shown below, and compile it into something that works on the browser!
var fs = require('fs');
var sites = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/cool-sites.txt', { encoding: 'utf8' });
sites.split('\n').forEach(function (site, i) {
console.log('%s: %s is pretty cool', i, site);
Oh, __dirname is a special variable that’s local to every CommonJS module, and it contains the path to the directory for that module. Similarly, __filename is the module’s file name. The compiler will be smart enough to figure out the result of __dirname + '/cool-sites.txt' statically. The compiler isn’t able to handle most cases where you try to dynamically calculate the file path, so using path.join and the like won’t be possible. This is unfortunate because its a common scenario in Node.js, however, it rarely comes up in modules that are meant for the browser. You could compile the code above using the command below.
browserify sites.js -t brfs -o dist/app.js
Fortunately, there’s a way you could work around the static file path problem, but it takes a little bit of work.
Working around static file paths
When the static file-naming situation gets the best of you, you could work around it by doing something similar to what I did in Taunus, where I created a CLI that creates a static file containing route definitions and then requires that into the bundle, effectively annuling the limitation. I was able to do that because I had to require a ton of files defined in a server-side route definition file, but I didn’t want to have the consumer repeat that information in a very similar format for the client-side. Due to the limitation in Browserify, I couldn’t just create a for loop either, so I worked around it with a generator. This generator ends up unrolling the for loop, as shown in the example below, taken from Pony Foo’s redo branch.
var controllers = {
'author/compose': require('../../client/js/controllers/author/compose.js'),
'home/index': require('../../client/js/controllers/home/index.js')
var routes = {
'/': 'home/index',
'/account/login': 'account/login',
'/author/compose': 'author/compose'
module.exports = {
templates: templates,
controllers: controllers,
routes: routes
Problem solved! That’s a file Browserify does understand.
What other benefits can I get from using CommonJS modules?
Besides being “not as bad as the alternatives”, CommonJS has a few things going for it on its own. Earlier on, I mentioned a few benefits of using CommonJS. Time to go through them.
• Straightforward, familiar syntax
• Code sharing with Node.js
If you’re a Node developer, Browserify will feel like the Architect’s gift to you. Being able to leverage the CommonJS syntax in the client-side too opens your applications up to a world of opportunities. A big one of those is the ability to share an identical code base between the server and the client side. Quite a few libraries out there have some degree of cross-platform_ity_ built into them, perhaps using the UMD pattern. The twist in using Browserify is that you get to use CommonJS just like in Node, and you can avoid the UMD boilerplate, as well as any other boilerplate.
Access to all of npm
Perhaps the most significant of the benefits in using CommonJS modules is that there are so, so many modules written in CommonJS and published to npm. In my experience it has almost always been easy to find a module that did what I needed to do, and most of them work as expected. While there’s also Bower, Component and others out there, the module-mentality in Node.js camps is much stronger than in other areas.
Note that Component seems like it’s dying. The site has been down for a month now, and duo seems to be going to be its successor.
With a little work, you could also use modules that are written under other formats such as AMD or by publishing a global object. In order to make such modules work for us, we could use browserify-shim, which makes it quite easy.
There’s a StackOverflow answer that details the process. I’ve copied part of the answer below.
Install browserify-shim.
npm install browserify-shim --save-dev
Then tell browserify to use browserify-shim as a transform in package.json.
"browserify": {
"transform": [ "browserify-shim" ]
In package.json map jQuery to the jQuery object published on the global scope.
"browserify-shim": {
"jQuery": "global:jQuery"
Lastly, run browserify.
browserify mymodule.js > bundle.js
Let’s move on to our last topic of discussion!
What are some advanced use cases?
One of the most advantageous ways in which you could use Borwserify is to share code between the server and the browser. This enables you to communicate seamlessly, and to produce an API that’s consistent on both sides of the wire.
Take poser for example. It allows you to grab out-of-context prototypes such as clean Array or Object prototypes. On the server-side, it’ll use the vm core module provided by Node.js, while on the browser it’ll resort to <iframe> DOM elements to achieve the same goal.
Besides adjusting an API to the environment, Browserify can also help you connect the dots between both sides of a communication, as seen in frameworks like Socket.io, which handles realtime connections between the client and the server in a seamless manner, almost giving the consumer the feeling that both sides have the same capabilities.
In some other cases, it’s not so much about the underlying implementation changing according to the environment, but merely being able to consistently execute a piece of logic, without resorting to code duplication. Such is the case of ultramarked, which can produce consistent HTML from Markdown in any environment. The nice thing about Node.js being in JavaScript is that you don’t have to re-implement your server-side libraries in JavaScript, because they’re already in that language!
Browserify your front-end away!
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Carly wrote
There’s far too much anti-RequireJS bias in this article. How can you complain about too many docs for a tool and then recommend one which has pretty much NO docs whatsoever?! Not to mention quoting your own articles as evidence for why it has a bad API… Tut tut.
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162: Daredevil S3
Better a little late than never! Join us this week as we finally got around to discussing the latest (and maybe last?) installment in the Marvel/Netflix series, Daredevil!
Faith vs Doubt, the importance of objective moral standards, and the idea of evil as a means toward good (both from God’s plan, or from human decisions) — This one really gives you some things to chew on!
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• Offered by School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
• ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
• Classification Transitional
• Course subject Spanish
• Areas of interest European Languages
• Academic career PGRD
• Course convener
• Dr Mario Martin
• Mode of delivery In Person
• Co-taught Course
• Offered in First Semester 2019
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Learning Outcomes
1. Source and summarise relevant information from extended sequences of spoken Spanish (including radio programs, radio documentaries and lectures) using the correct grammatical structures and descriptive language.
2. Analyse news as cultural texts by using, integrating and applying the relevant ethnographic, political and sociological information contained in the course materials and other sources.
3. Present with clarity and confidence and discuss current affairs topics in oral and written form.
4. Examine different Spanish varieties as reflected in TV and radio programs, to differentiate the accent, vocabulary and grammar of those varieties.
5. Research, select, combine and integrate information relevant to a Spanish current affairs topic and its socio-historical context, and present it in a coherent fashion in both written and spoken form.
Indicative Assessment
Two examinations, 2 hours each (10% and 30% for a total of 40%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Written assignment, 750-1000 words (5%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Tutorial work (including online work), 750-1000 words [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
Two oral presentations, 20 min and 30-35 min (10% and 15% for a total of 25%) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
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To enrol in this course you must have successfully completed SPAN6504 or have equivalent level of language proficiency as demonstrated by placement test. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed SPAN3100. Alternatively you may gain permission of the Course Convener to enrol in this course.
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The story of Music (Part 2)
Before the developments of musical notation, Middle-Ages songs (e.g. chants, secular 1200px-Christian_and_Muslim_playing_ouds_Catinas_de_Santa_Maria_by_king_Alfonso_Xmonophony) were passed down from memory to the next generation. At the time, some composers and musicians were active outside the Church. Moreover, eight modes were recognized by medieval theorists which became a great source for later composers. Poet-composers such as Troubadours and Trouverès who lived in 12th and 13th century, wrote the most artful and outstanding songs. Music started to be written. Later on, Western Europe was culturally revived and the great concept of polyphony introduced and enriched.
Yet, the greatest source for the developments of western music was the chants produced in churches for religious services. Furthermore, Chant is considered as one of the greatest musical achievements of human history. It spread throughout the Europe and inspired many composers. The melodies of the chants were learned by oral transmission (viva voce), then, it could go through variations and changes. Since 9th century, notation of chants standardized their melody and boosted its development. Additionally, chants are still being used by many contemporary bands such as Enigma, Iced Earth and so forth. North of the Alps was the place that all important developments took place in until the close of the Middle-Ages.
Before 13th century, early chants didn’t contain any widespread harmony. According to the way chants were sung, they were classified into three groups: 1-Antiphonal (Chants that are sung by alternating choirs). 2- Responsorial chants (chants that alternate between a soloist and a full choir). 3- Direct chants (chant that are sung without alternation). Moreover, based on their melodies, chants were classified to syllabic, melismatic and neumatic.
A group of monks or nuns were responsible to produce manuscripts, they were known as scriptorium. Scriptoria copied text and music, decorated and illustrated pages, and bound books. The entire process was laborious and very expensive. Since during the early mediaeval period there was no method to notate rhythm, the rhythmical practice of this early music is subject to heated debate among scholars. The first kind of written rhythmic system developed during the 13th century and was based on a series of modes.This rhythmic plan was codified by the music theorist Johannes de Garlandia, author of the De Mensurabili Musica (c.1250), the treatise which defined and most completely elucidated these rhythmic modes.
Treatises in the later Middle-Ages addressed practical problems that Boethius did not, such as how to sing intervals, memorize chants, and read notes at sight.
Furthermore, eight modes were recognized by medieval theorists, each defined by the arrangement of whole tones and semitones in relation to a final and a range, these modes are known as church modes. Authentic modes have a range that runs up an octave from the final. The authentic modes were the odd-numbered modes, 1, 3, 5, 7, and this distinction was extended to the Aeolian and Ionian modes when they were added to the original eight Gregorian modes in 1547 by Glareanus . An authentic mode has its final as the lowest note of the scale, though in modes 1, 3, and 7 it may occasionally descend one note further, in which case this added scale degree is called the “subfinal” which, since it lies a whole tone below the final is also the “subtonium” of the mode.
Plagal modes run from a fourth below the final to a fifth above it. Each mode also has a tenor, or reciting tone.
Early forms of secular music (from the 11th and 12th centuries) in medieval era include goliard songs, songs with Latin texts celebrating the vagabond lives of students and wandering clerics called goliards. Although many of the poems have survived, very little of the music has. They were possibly influential, even decisively so on the troubadour-trouvère tradition which was to follow. In contrary, while some of the songs celebrate religious ideals, others are frankly profane, dealing with drunkenness, debauchery and lechery. Afterward, Jongleurs or minstrels, Troubadours and trouvères were the active musicians and poet-composers. Jongleurs were musicians and performers who were making a living by traveling to different countries or/and cities. Poet-composers known as Troubadours were active in south France in 12th century but Trouvères were active in north France and their activities continued in 13th century as well. Troubadours and Trouvères were coming from variety of social classes but they were flourished in castles and courts. The songs they wrote had different structures and topics. Refrain (a segment of text that returns in each stanza with the same melody) was a favorite device in Trouvères’ songs. The hottest lyrics of the time were about fine amour, a love in which a prudent, unattainable woman was loved from a distance. But war and chivalry were among the typical subjects as well.
The typical songs of the time had strophic poems and syllabic melodies with a range of an octave or less. Canso (love song) was another form of the songs at the time. Each line of a Canso receives its own melodic phrase, and some phrases use repetition to create formal patterns. It consisted of three parts. Exordium (intro) was a stanza, the purpose of the composer was revealed here. The main body of the song occurred in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium. The Canso could end with either a tornada or envoi. Usually, this part was bringing the piece to some form of resolution.
Another form of songs during this era was the Cantigas (Spanish monophonic songs with refrains). It is one of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs and is characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, while every tenth song is a hymn.
Furthermore, Western Europe was culturally revived during 11th and 12th centuries. This recovery took place on a series of societal fronts, include agriculture, economy, and town building. These were accompanied by the rise of middle class, and the creation of the modern state. the changes on all of these fronts in turn made the interregional exchange of scientific advances, commercial goods and religious ideas easier. In music, a great result of it was the growth of the revolutionary concept of polyphony (simultaneous sounding of two or more melodic line) in church music, although monotony remained the principal medium of performance and composition. Not much is known about origin of this practice, so it has brought forth several plausible theories. Anyhow, this dramatic departure from monotony to polyphony was first described in Musica enchiriadis (c. 900), a manual for singers and one of the major musical documents of the Middles-Ages. The next major source of information was the Micrologus, written in early 11th century by the Italian monk and musical theorist Guido of Arezzo. This work documented principles that were crucial to the further development of polyphony. Thus, western music distinguished by the introduction of the concepts such as counterpoint, harmony, the centrality of notation and composition. Correspondingly, organum and the motet became the two main types of polyphony.
Different techniques were used to write the early organums. Parallel, similar, oblique motion and contrary motion were among these techniques. In parallel organum for instance, an added voice (organal voice) appears below a chant melody (principal voice), moving in parallel fifths or fourths and making adjustments to avoid the tritone. Either or both voices may be doubled at the octave. The techniques are still helpful in counterpoint and practical for many composers, though they have been adapted.
For notating organums, manuscripts were notating one part above the other, so notes would sound together aligned vertically. Composing polyphony developed during 12th and 13th centuries at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris mostly.
Leoninus compiled the Magnus liber organi (“great book of polyphony”), containing two-voice settings of the solo portions of the responsorial chants for major feasts of the church year. Additionally, Leoninus’s organum (for soloists) is in two voices and alternates sections in organum style with sections in discant style. The sections for choir are plainchant and are sung in unison. The sections in discant style use the rhythmic modes in both voices and tend to appear where there are melismas in the original chant.
Importantly, a notation to indicate patterns of long and short notes was developed during the 12th and early 13th centuries. These patterns were codified as the six rhythmic modes and were adapted from the principles of classical poetic meter. Also, Perotinus, who was also associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral and his contemporaries, continued editing and updating Leoninus’s Magnus liber.
Perotinus and his colleagues also wrote works for three and four voices. Duplum, triplum, and quadruplum are the names of voices in ascending order above the tenor. Therefore, a three-voice organum was called an organum triplum, and a four-voice organum was called an organum quadruplum. Music from Notre Dame in the late 12th through early 13th centuries was most likely improvised or orally composed and written down later.
In early 13th century, the term motet was introduced. The root of the terms comes either from the Latin movere (to move) or a Latinized version of old French mot (word) or verbal utterance. A motet was a clausula (cadence) that could be taken from its original place in a larger polyphonic work and performed as an independent composition. The upper voices (motetus) was represented a strophic sequence in Latin or French. Mostly, motets had compound titles consisting of the first word/words (incipits). The upper voices of motets were moving faster than the lower voices in 13th century, meanwhile, motets were rhythmically independent yet coordinated.
After the introduction of the motet, the tenor chant lost its unique liturgical function. Yet, composers were still using them as raw materials for their compositions. For instance, they were changing the text of the duplum, adding a third voice or giving new voices their own text, which resulted in the classic Paris motet. Thus, the motets went through many changes in the 13th century.c
Philippe de Vitry was one of the earliest composers to use repeated rhythmic patterns in all voices not only the cantus firmus. His work evidently had an influence on that of Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most famous named composers of the late medieval motets.
At the same time, another polyphonic form known as the conductus was flourishing. It differed from a motet in that its basic part was not plainsong and that all parts sang the same Latin text in note-against-note style. The conductus gradually disappeared with the rise of the motet, which apparently served both liturgical and secular functions.
To be continued…
To listen to the music of this era and some analysis, click here.
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What is missing from this sequence?
Source: GCHQ Puzzle book
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$\begingroup$ Nice puzzle... curious to see some answers. I'm stumped! $\endgroup$ – grinch Sep 13 '18 at 18:52
My answer is:
The word sequence given contains in order the 12th (Mu), 13th (Nu), 14th (Xi), and 16th (Pi) letters of the Greek alphabet reversed with an added "S". The missing Greek letter in the order is the 15th letter of the alphabet (Omicron). Following the same naming convention gives you SNORCIMO:
Mu = SUM
Nu = SUN
Xi = SIX
Omicron = SNORCIMO
Pi = SIP
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$\begingroup$ Very nicely done! How did you spot it? $\endgroup$ – Anush Sep 13 '18 at 21:22
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$\begingroup$ Well, I was trying to find a pattern for a while. When nothing was working I flipped the words backwards and the Greek letter just popped out at me! Great puzzle, I had a lot of fun even though it drove me crazy for a bit 😊 $\endgroup$ – zeethreepio Sep 13 '18 at 21:29
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On-shell bosonic supersymmetric brane configuration
It has been, again, a long time, since I last wrote my blog-post! It is not that I don’t want to write, it is just that I have been having so much fun (doing my research) and somewhat busy (changing my apartment and doing similar non-productive chores). Now that I am within fewer steps away from my department, and that I have decided to spend rest of my PhD days in this new apartment, I can devote more time to writing.
This post is about kappa symmetry which is a tool to obtain the supersymmetric brane configurations. Now, Susy (the heart of my research), is not only the most beautiful and difficult 😉 symmetry but also the strongest symmetry that I have ever encountered. For some theories, it turns out that a supersymmetric configuration automatically implies the equations of motion (the on-shell configuration)! Therefore, supersymmetric theories without the Lagrangian formalism can be probed and studied! Furthermore, there are usually alluring geometrical interpretations associated with the configurations.
Currently I am working out the solutions of some supersymmetric brane embeddings on a curved supergravity spacetime geometry (with the topology AdS_5\times\mathcal{C}\leftarrow S^1\times S^2\times S^1), which, according to the AdS/CFT correspondence, represent line defects (analog of Wilson & t’Hooft lines) in the mysterious (2,0) super-conformal field theories in d=6.
Consider any SUGRA with bosonic (\mathcal{B}) and fermionic (\mathcal{F}) degrees of freedom. Now it turns out that one can set the \mathcal{F}=0 on-shell. I don’t clearly see that, but it seems that the supersymmetry constraints the theory to that extent that equations of motion render the \mathcal{F} non-dynamical! This also means setting \mathcal{F}=0 implies equations of motion. Now the question whether the \mathcal{B} configuration preserves supersymmetry reduces to the question that what transformation parameters \epsilon exist for on-shell bosonic configurations. Symbolically, \delta\mathcal{B}|_{\mathcal{F}=0}=0 while \delta\mathcal{F}|_{\mathcal{F}=0}=0. The structure of local supersymmetry in SUGRA is given by \delta\mathcal{B}\propto\mathcal{F} and \delta\mathcal{F}\propto\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B})\epsilon. Here \mathcal{P} is a Clifford valued operator with maximum first order derivatives.
The previous statements imply \mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B})\epsilon = 0. Now we note couple of points
• The equation constraints the \mathcal{B} degrees of freedom via first order (in some cases I know, linear) partial differential equations which are much simpler than the second order on-shell differential equations. Thus the complexity is greatly reduced!
• The equation also constraints the transformation parameter \epsilon in accordance with the bosonic configuration. For SUGRA geometry, we have what are known as Killing spinors which are solution of Killing equations corresponding to the bosonic degrees of freedom known as metric. For example, d=11, \mathcal{N}=1 supergravity, \mathcal{F} consists of gravitini \Psi_a, the supersymmetric partner of graviton (the metric). Then \delta\Psi_a=\left(\partial_a+\frac{1}{4}\omega_a^{bc}\Gamma_{bc}\right)\epsilon-\frac{1}{288}\left(\Gamma_a^{bcde}-8\delta_a^b\Gamma^{cde}\right)R_{bcde}\epsilon= \mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B})\epsilon. Thus the equation \delta\Psi_a=0 gives the solution of Killing spinor.
As of now, we don’t have the complete formulation of M-theory (a unification of five superstring theories). We have a good idea of how M-theory should look like at low energies. In other words, we know the dynamical degrees of freedom with large wavelengths and they make up supergravity theory (that we know and understand) + M branes. We even have a Lagrangian for the theory at that energy scale which is given by
S\approx S_{SUGRA} + S_{\text{Brane}}
The first term corresponds to \mathcal{N}=2 d=10 type II A/II B supergravity or \mathcal{N}=1 d=11 supergravity. The second term describes both the brane excitations (giving rise to field theories) and interactions with the gravity. The action here is known as brane effective action.
Now for my research purpose, I am supposed to find the placement of M2 brane in the SUGRA background (mentioned above) such that there is a supersymmetric bosonic configuration. The placement of brane is based on \mathcal{B}. Here again we set the \mathcal{F}=\theta=0 which is compatible with the on-shell configuration (brane equation of motion). To get the supersymmetric configuration
• \delta_\kappa\theta is the kappa symmetry
• \xi^\mu\partial_\mu\theta world volume diffeomorphism
• \Delta\theta is any other transformation besides supersymmetry generated by \epsilon.
Now again due to the reasons beyond me for now, the restriction of these transformations for the bosonic configuration
• \delta_\kappa\theta|_{\mathcal{B}}=(1+\Gamma_\kappa|_\mathcal{B})\kappa
• \Delta\theta|_\mathcal{B}=0 (makes sense since transformations by \epsilon are fermionic!)
Now it turns out that not all the fermionic degrees of freedom in this theory are dynamical. This forces us to work at the intersection of kappa symmetry gauge fixing conditions and \theta=0. So we follow a two step process
1. Kappa symmetry invariance: \mathcal{P}\theta=0 where \mathcal{P} is field independent gauge fixing projector such that \theta = \mathcal{P}\theta+(1-\mathcal{P})\theta. And now the restriction of supersymmetric variation to bosonic configuration is
\delta\mathcal{P}\theta|_{\mathcal{B}}=\mathcal{P}(1+\Gamma_{\kappa}|_\mathcal{B})_\kappa+\mathcal{P}\epsilonEquating this to 0 gives \kappa = \kappa(\epsilon) the compensating kappa transformation corresponding to the background spinor.
2. Now we have the dynamical set of fermionic configuration given by (1-\mathcal{P})\theta|_{\mathcal{B}} which we set to 0.
Now from the above equations and little bit of linear algebra, we finally have \Gamma_\kappa|_\mathcal{B}\epsilon=\epsilon which is known as the kappa symmetry constraint.
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Orphaned works, missing surplus
By Eric Crampton 20/03/2014
The ‘hump’ in Amazon availability of books first published just before the Copyright Wall suggests a pretty big reduction in surplus associated with orphaned works. But, it could be the case that there isn’t much demand for books from the 1930s and that the “me too” editions of older public domain works then don’t add much value. Paul Heald investigates in a rather nice new paper.*
First, here’s that “hump”:
Smith et al, 2012, matched out-of-print books that do and do not have Kindle versions and estimate $740 million in revenue were all out-of-print editions to be available as e-books. I’ve a few doubts about that number.**
But Heald’s most compelling evidence comes from NYTimes and library data.
Older music seems less affected by the copyright wall, likely because it’s generally simpler to produce a digital copy of a recorded work than of a print work. Heald explains that rights issues can be more complicated for books than for music: the music publisher does not need to seek permission from the artist’s estate to convert old vinyls to new formats while book publishers have to; the relevant court decisions were different for books than for music. Differences in licensing and rights helps explains the difference between post-wall music and post-wall books; differences in costs of digitisation explains the difference between pre-wall music and pre-wall book availability.
Can we please have Congress stop extending the duration of copyright?
* Caveat: at page 13, Heald says that David Lee Roth’s version of “Yankee Rose” is “what looks to be a heavy metal tune from the ’80’s.” This is clearly wrong. Van Halen under Roth was hard rock. But Roth’s later solo efforts, including Yankee Rose, were much closer to the hair rock offered by the likes of Poison and Warrant. It’s almost a genre self-parody. To call it metal, well, the boffins at the New Zealand Ministry of Culture sure know better
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FormationOctober 1, 1946; 73 years ago (1946-10-01)[1]
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PurposeHeich IQ society
HeidquartersSlate Barn, Church Lane, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, Ingland
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Mensa is the lairgest an auldest heich IQ society in the warld.[3][4][5]
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2. "About Mensa International". Mensa International. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
5. Sharma, Mukul (30 January 2007). "IQ tests are about innate intelligence". The Times of India. India. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
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i’m coming out
Ah, regrets.
Consequences be damned.
I am a moderate.
At last. I am out of the political closet.
I am a moderate.
Sometimes you win, and most times you lose.
I am a moderate. And I like kissing boys.
culture of victimhood (or, confessions of a lapsed liberal)
In the early 1990s I listened to a lot of conservative talk radio. It helped me to fall sleep. The angry voices calling out from my Sony clock radio were like waves on a beach. And everyone was angry: the hosts, the callers, the advertisers. We were on a one-way trip to hell and the liberal homosexuals were driving the bus. As I drifted off to dreamland I would laugh at these desperate fear-mongers and their doomsday declarations.
But still, I had to give them credit. These would-be Limbaughs knew just how to play to their base. They understood that their listeners were angry – not about the Democrats or the homosexuals or the abortionists – they were angry about simple things, like their marriage or their kid not doing well in school or their job. They were angry and they had no one to blame for their anger. And then just like that, faster than you could say manipulation, they suddenly did and conservative talk radio grew overnight into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Now I fancy myself a card-carrying progressive and all those years spent listening to conservative talk radio only served to tighten my grip on my liberal card. But now – twenty years later, twenty years older, twenty years wiser – I start to feel myself being pulled to the dark side…or at least the center. And for this tectonic shift I blame the more extreme members of my liberal party.
Five minutes on Twitter and I feel like I’ve been transported back to 1995. Everyone is so angry. Except this time it’s not the liberal homosexuals who are driving the bus, it’s the conservative cisgender heteronormative white privileged anti-Obama fuckers.
And the weird thing is there is no difference between 1995 conservative talk radio and 2015 Twitter. These parallel universes may be separated by twenty years and fundamentally oppositional belief systems but they are both desperate fear-mongers offering doomsday declarations. These twatters, in a reaching attempt to gain followers and rack up retweets, play to their base: the disenfranchised, the “different”, the persons who believe that every passing glance is a leering stare.
These rabble-rousers steal other people’s experiences. They collect vicarious tragedies the way you collect stamps or coins. Each morning they breathlessly scour the internet searching for the next big hashtag-able movement. They take the temperature on Reddit. They see how the wind is blowing on HuffPost. They use social media to tell them what to think and how to feel. They stand for nothing because they stand for everything.
This new generation of angry millennial white know-it-alls routinely lecture gay people on homophobia. They talk about trans rights because a celebrity told them to talk about trans rights. For the professional victim there is no injustice that cannot be erased by hitting shift+3.
The conservative talk radio listener and the liberal twatter are sworn enemies cut from the same cloth. Even their talking points are the same:
• You are the victim
• Everyone is out to get you
• Everyone wants to take away your rights
We have abdicated all personal responsibility. It’s not my fault, it’s your fault.
I have two kids. I teach them personal responsibility. I teach them to be accountable. I teach them that no one is going to give them anything. I teach them that no one is obligated to like them. I teach them that no one must respect them. Instead I say this:
• If you want something, work for it
• If you want people to like you, first like yourself
• If you want respect, earn it
My children will not be victims. My children will not blame other people for every perceived slight or imagined injustice. My children will not be defined by other people’s opinions. My children will take responsibility. Ultimately my children will be judged for who they are, not what they are.
As in all my blog posts, these are simply my opinions and you are welcome to disagree. You may choose to teach your children to embrace their inner hashtag and if you do, I respect that choice. I also thank you for making it easier for my children to succeed.
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Raising the TXT Generation
It was new years eve 2012 and we were having a few people over for the celebration. As always kids headed upstairs to play in their bedroom and parents hung downstairs enjoying a drink or two before midnight. 8 Months later I found out that a young boy had texted my daughter a picture of his penis on that night and changed my life forever. As a father I couldn’t imagine that the talk about boys would begin when an inappropriate text is sent at the age of 11. Malicious or not this careless act of sending a picture like this at such a young age shocked me as I thought I was monitoring everything my kids were doing. I felt I was technology-savvy enough to know if anything like this was happening. Turns out I much like many parents had not been watching close enough and had not had the conversation with my kids early enough.
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This event had been eating away at me for many months. I felt the meeting with the the boy’s parents was a good first step, but the knowing that I am not the only parent going through this or needs to have a tough conversation about this with their kids my first instinct was to create a film about the incident.
It is my goal with this film to bring awareness to parents about how much can happen to our children even when we are doing our very best to protect them. While my incident happened to my daughter it is clear that this can happen to boys and there is no clear cut answer to help protect our children other than have the conversation with your kids about acceptable behavior online and the potential consequences of sharing too much.
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Does anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get the SharePoint 2007 Yammer Web Part from? I appereciate that it's been retired but it's something that I'd like to make use off prior to my planned SharePoint upgrade. The previous links now redirect to the AppStore Yammer Application for SharePoint 2013.
Based on Yammer for SharePoint 2010 – FAQs (last update: 03.10.2013), the yammer web part should be unavailable for SharePoint 2007:
1. Is there support for MOSS 2007? As of July 1, 2013, support for MOSS 2007 ends. No support will be available after that date.
The link Yammer SharePoint 2007 Web Part is not valid anymore and official yammer web part for SharePoint 2007 is unavailable for download.
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• I appreciate that its out of support, that doesn't make my reason for wanting to use it invalid. I've seen the Spark utility but it's not really relevant for what I'm after. I'm just wondering / hoping if anyone in the community had a copy before it was taken down. – Steven D Andrews Dec 3 '13 at 15:33
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If it isn't supported anymore by Yammer, this is a valid answer even if it isn't what you want to hear. You should probably reach out to Yammer directly to see if it is available, they can probaly get it to you even if it isn't publicly available anymore, just don't expect support, by their own admission it isn't supported. – Eric Alexander Dec 3 '13 at 16:20
• MS (unless I'm mistaken) continue to have unsupported products within their various sites and communities available, stuff like MS Money, the Expression range and misc sunset release products. All I'm saying with the above is that I'm aware its out of support and has been intentionally removed but I'm wanting to ask if anyone within the SP community has a copy of it lying around. The SharePoint 2003 Page Capture Web Part (for example) got some mileage in later editions of SharePoint, I'm just after something similar. If no-one has a copy in the next week or so, I'll mark this accordingly. – Steven D Andrews Dec 3 '13 at 16:29
You can use Yammer Embed with a content editor web part to place yammer content into SharePoint 2007. See this: https://developer.yammer.com/connect/
• I've been doing this a while now but at the time I wanted to know if the 2007 Web Part was more elegant. – Steven D Andrews May 7 '14 at 8:45
• If you want to have better styling (and more coding), you can always fall back to using the REST interface to get json back and bind that via your favorite javascript library. – Peter Walke May 8 '14 at 1:41
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Foxes are found in the lake area, fields and swamps. They are both in Shelter, Shelter 2 and Paws Shelter 2.
In Shelter at one part you can eat a fox by hunting and pouncing on it. But they are tricky to catch.
In Shelter 2 you can eat the fox as well. They will stalk you and steal your cubs.
In Shelter 2 Paws, you are a lynx cub. When you come across a foggy area, you are forced to be separated from your bear friend and you're trying to find a way to help the bear cub get up. When go through a path you get attacked by a fox. You can jump on the ledges to evade it. If you get caught your bear friend helps you.
If you kill the fox your cubs can feast on it. And they will be full for a while.
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are you mentally exhausted
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Are You Mentally Exhausted?
We all know what being physically exhausted feels like. You’re tired down to your bones and feel like you could sleep for days. You’ve spent the entire day doing yardwork. You’ve painted three rooms of your house. You’ve walked for miles and miles through an amusement park with your five equally exhausted, sometimes whiney children. … Continue reading Are You Mentally Exhausted?
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It’s a vicious circle*. When you’re depressed and/or anxious you don’t make the effort to clean or declutter your spaces. But having cluttered and messy spaces can actually make you more depressed and/or anxious. In fact, there are studies that link clutter to an increase in the stress hormone, cortisol, along with other mental health… Continue reading Clutter and Your Mental Health
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Birdsong Monitoring
Automated Birdsong Monitoring at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
Researchers at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon have created a new computer technology to listen to multiple bird sounds at one time, to identify which species are present and how they may be changing as a result of habitat loss or climate change. The system, one of the first of its type, should provide an automated approach to ecological monitoring of bird species that is much more practical than a human sitting in the field, hours on end.
Much of the initial bird song recording and analysis for this project was performed by researchers at the Andrews Forest, including graduate students Forrest Briggs and Sarah Hadley, and Assistant Professor Matthew Betts.
The project was recently highlighted on KGW TV and through an OSU press release.
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[R] Generic Function
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com
Tue Nov 4 02:04:29 CET 2003
Here is a simple example using S3 classes. We define a generic
function myday. It dispaches, i.e. calls, a function whose name
is myday followed by a dot followed by the class of the
first argument to myday. After defining myday, define two
functions for it to dispatch: myday.POSIXct and myday.numeric.
# generic function
myday <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("myday")
# if first argument is of class POSIXct then UseMethod calls this:
myday.POSIXct <- function(dat) as.POSIXlt(dat)$mday
# if first argument is of class numeric then UseMethod calls this:
myday.numeric <- function(x) x
# Here is how it would be called:
myday(20) # causes myday.numeric to be dispached. Returns 20.
myday(Sys.time()) # myday.POSIXct dispatched. Returns 3 on Nov 3rd.
# We can also query what methods are available:
methods(myday) # returns vector c("myday.POSIXct","myday.numeric")
Date: 03 Nov 2003 17:28:22 -0500
From: Arend P. van der Veen <apv at capital.net>
To: <R-Help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: [R] Generic Function
How to I write a generate function that is "specific to the class of the
argument itself" ?
For example, I created a data.frame that contains results of an
analysis. I would like to write a special plot function with the
following usage
I have been looking through the documentation but have not found
anything to show me how to do this. Any help would be greatly
Thanks in advance,
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Lemon & Coconut Scones
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1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
2. In a bowl add: sifted plain flour, baking powder, desiccated coconut and sugar.
3. Cut up the butter in small cubes and add this to the dry mix. This will help you achieve an easy crumb texture.
4. With your hands crumb together the butter with the flour mix, until you achieve breadcrumb texture.
5. In a jug or another bowl add: milk, egg, zest, lemon juice and vanilla and whisk. Keep aside 2tbsp of liquid aside.
6. Make a well in the centre of the flour crumb and pour in the liquid mix.
7. Bring it altogether until it forms a rough dough. Dust a floured surface and add this sticky mix onto the surface.
8. Bring it altogether until you achieve a dough. Roll it out into approximately 4cm thick and use a cutter of your choice to cut out scones.
9. Do not twist. Gently lift each scone and pop it onto a grease proof lined baking tray. I made 12.
10. Brush each scone with the eggy milk mix and bake for 15 minutes, middle shelf until light golden brown.
11. Serve immediately with your favourite toppings.
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PictureThis! Activity Settings
PictureThis! activity settings give Leaders and Co-Leaders control over how Thinkers view or interact with a PictureThis! activity in a Session. The PictureThis! and Multi-Step PictureThis! activities contain similar settings.
To access the PictureThis! activity settings:
1. From the Navigation tab, select the appropriate PictureThis! activity. When selected, it highlights blue.
2. Click on the settings gear wheel at the bottom of the activity tile (shown below), which opens the PictureThis! Settings dialog.
3. Allow Thinkers to Navigate within this Activity enables Leaders to choose whether Thinkers can view different images within the activity. If this setting is not selected, Thinkers only see the image that the Leader is currently viewing in the Session.
Inherit Permissions when selected, means that the PictureThis! Activity maintains the permissions assigned in the Session Settings. The level of permissions inherited is shown in the slider. Click on the drop-down arrows to change permissions.
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Setting the permission level defines what all Thinkers can do in the PictureThis! activity.
Reviewers can view images, comments and documents, but they cannot add, edit, reorder, organize, or delete any of these.
Creators can view and add images, comments, and documents. Creators can also edit their own contributions. Creators cannot reorder contributions and can only delete their own contributions.
Editors can view, add, and edit images, comments or documents. They can also organize and reorder comments, but can only delete their own comments. They cannot remove other Thinkers' contributions made by others, but can edit them.
Custom settings are assigned by default, which allow Thinkers to view and comment on all images added to the activity. To allow Thinkers to add new images, change the Add Images permission to Yes.
Limits can be customized to help prevent activities from becoming too complex and degrading the performance of a Session or client devices.
1. Maximum Contributions in this Activity limits the total number of comments and images that all users can add to the activity. The default is 1,000.
3. Maximum Pictures per Activity limits the number of images that can be saved to each activity to 20.
4. Maximum COMMENTS per IMAGES limits the number of comments that can be entered for each slide in the Presentation. The default limit is 300.
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What types of neural network models built in R can I export in PMML?
You can basically export most of the Neural Network models you build using the R nnet package into PMML by using the PMML package is available from CRAN. With this package, a PMML representation can be obtained for Neural Networks implementing:
• multi-class classification
• binary classifcation
• regression
Details you should know:
1. Scaling of input variables: Since nnet does not automatically implement scaling of numerical inputs, you will need to add scaling via the pmmlTransformations package pass that computation to the pmml package together with the nnet object. You will need to do that if you are planning to use the model to compute scores/results from raw data.
2. The PMML exporter uses transformations to create dummy variables for categorical inputs. These are expressed in the NeuralInputs element of the resulting PMML file.
3. PMML does not support the censored variant of softmax.
4. Given that nnet uses a single output node to represent binary classification, the resulting PMML file contains a discretizer with a threshold set to 0.5.
BTW, any of the models you build in nnet and export using the pmml package can be uploaded directly into ADAPA for real-time scoring or UPPI for big data scoring.
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In today’ world, life without a cellular phone is almost unimaginable. It is very important to stay connected regardless of where you are in the world and what do you do-poltate with a friend, write an informative essay, fill out the report.
There are so many service providers that there are numerous choices to choose from. It is important to remember, however, that some service providers lock their cellular phone so that it only works with their service. This makes it impossible for a cellular phone user to change service providers. However, if you own the cellular phone you have a right to get it unlocked in order to use the service provider of your choice. By definition, an unlocked cellular phone is one that can be used with any service provider.
There are two types of cellular phones. The first is Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and the second is the Global System for Mobiles (GSM). These are two different cellular phone technologies. CDMA based cellular phones are provided by service providers are locked for life. This means that you can’t use them with any other service provider. Therefore CDMA phones cannot be unlocked.
GSM based phones offer you the ability to change service providers through the use of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. There are some service providers who lock GSM cellular phones through the use of a software that links the phone’s identity number with the SIM card, so that, it can’t be used with any other GSM service provider SIM.
The reason they do this is that they want you to use their service exclusively since they earn money through roaming charges when you travel into regions that are out of their service range. However, these cellular phones may also be unlocked. In fact, most GSM service providers will unlock your cellular phone upon request.
If you own a GSM cellular phone, there are ways to get it unlocked. The process of unlocking a cellular phone is dependent on the service provider and the cellular phone hand set model. The cellular phone can be unlocked by entering a specific code that can be supplied by the service provider, by the service provider, or on the air.
There are some cellular phone companies that will only unlock your cellular phone after the initial contract that you signed with them has expired. Usually, after your cellular phone is unlocked it will stay unlocked. The first thing you need to do is determine if your GSM cellular phone is locked. To do this, insert the SIM card from another service provider. If the cellular phone doesn’t work, then you need to contact your service provider and ask them to have it unlocked.
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Does God’s heavenly kingdom operate under socialism or capitalism?
The answer is both! However, to understand how this is possible, we need to look through non-physical lenses, since heaven is not in time and space. This will take a little setup.
The spiritual world consists not of physical matter but of spiritual substance. What is spiritual substance? It is disposition, endeavor, and intention. These spiritual qualities are the fundamental law-generating forces of the universe.
These primal dynamical essences are also all derivatives of Love. Heaven is not simply a “place” where people love, it is where love finds form, measure, and embodiment in the various spiritual qualities of the hearts and minds of those who inhabit this non-local and non-temporal realm.
Evidence for this claim is that the human heart and mind are not completely constrained by the laws that govern spacetime. For instance, we can share half of our knowledge with others yet still keep all of our knowledge (this cannot be done with physical possessions). Also, the human function of memory brings back things that already took place in time, and therefore, the reality of the event finds perpetuity beyond the physical duration of the event.
When we die and shed the constraints of our physical bodies, we live as spiritual beings with spiritual bodies and under spiritual laws. Not only are our spiritual bodies the measurement and morphogenetic expression of our loves, beliefs, and worldviews, so is the topological quality of our final spiritual abode.
God loves everyone equally. But there is differentiation in heaven because not everyone responds to Gods love equally—which is according to the measure of our love for others (for this is a primary spiritual precept and law).
Heaven is socialistic because everyone seeks the best for everyone else—from the principle of love. Heaven is also capitalistic because some aspire to this noble undertaking more than others—from the magnitude of their love.
“Currency” in the other world is truth—the measure of our love. The more sincere love we have for others the greater the richness of our lives. This richness is instantly reflected by the spiritual environment’s reciprocal response to mirror our inner qualities (everything there is living, spiritual substance). We see powerful examples of environments and habitats taking on the qualities of the human psyche in books and movies—like having evil people lurking in the shadows. Horror stories always depict monsters living in caves, swamps, or in dark, empty castles and mostly coming out at night. This creative story telling comes from our instinctive knowledge about the nature and reciprocal dynamics of the spiritual world.
To repeat, the spiritual world is a holographic feedback system that faithfully projects the qualities of our hearts and minds onto the topological features that make up our eternal environment. Since everything in this realm represents some expression of love, socialism (sharing our talents) and capitalism (increased worth to human society through our developed capacities and aspirations to be useful) are put into perfect harmony.
Only God’s heavenly government can bring about such harmony between what normally seems to us terrestrial humans like opposing values.
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1. thinkpoint says:
Heaven: Reserved for one group only
2. thegodguy says:
Dear thinkpoint,
What is your point? If it is that heaven is reserved for
only one religion or denomination you are wrong!
“Loving God” and “loving the neighbor” trumps all
doctrinal knowledge!
Spiritually yours,
3. Thank you for your article. I think it speaks the truth that God’ s kingdom is both socialistic and capitalistic.
As you well know it is very difficult to reveal such truth to spiritually immature people. I feel that most American voters are spiritually immature and therefore incapable of understanding the spiritual essence of socialism and capitalism. Because of this, the very idea of a government of the people, by the people and for the people is absurd. God must still reign in the affairs of mankind until the time that he matures us all and brings us all into the knowledge of the truth. At present the words socialism and capitalism cannot be fully understood by most and in most people’ s minds these words are simplistically understood as either bad or good. For example many Americans are easily led to believe that socialism is “bad” while Capitalism is mostly good.
I would like to talk with you more about this topic.
In His Majesty’ s Secret Service,
David Thompson
4. thegodguy says:
Dear david,
Socialism and capitalism both offer noble principles – much like the two (right and left) hemispheres of the human brain. When explored deeply, elements of both socialism and capitalism can be “harmonized” in such a way as to increase LOVE and human potentiality.
Feel free to continue this conversation!
Spiritually yours,
5. Francoir Dâusab says:
Please affirm or redirect me. I find from Genesis that elders were representing a geographical, certian portion of people (clans, tribes) based on their character. Moses maybe forgot the he was sent to elders and them must accompany to faraoh so he would know that Israel is with him. He tried to do things by himself, but thanks to Jethro he repented. In NT the apostles did the same, but came to their senses and ask the church to elect deacons.
The mandate given to 5-fold ministries is to equip saints, meaning schooling. Why are they in finances, social issues, authoritorian issues? If elders and deacons are supposed to work with the indivdual, family and community issues like widows, orphans, strangers deviding of wealth to the needy. Are the system of churchism killing God’s intent?
6. thegodguy says:
Dear Francoir,
God’s intent is to create a heaven from the human race. A church can interfere with this divine goal if it concentrates solely on EXTERNAL issues of social justice. We are victims of hell’s influence – which cannot be addressed simply by changing worldly systems or re-distributing wealth. We need to redistribute God’s teachings of love and goodness (and “clean the inside of the cup”). We spend little time preparing ourselves for eternal life.
Spiritually yours,
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Is the earth flat?
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I have a friend who swears it is. Many arguments have ensued. I said to him, "If the earth is flat, when the sun is shining, why doesn't it light up the whole of the flat earth?" His answer was it is more like a torch, so you don't see it from the other areas. Ahem.
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The ancient Greeks even knew the Earth was round by looking at the shape of the Earth's shadow during partial lunar eclipses. Eratosthenes computed the diameter from simple geometry and got within 10% of being right. But he did it 2300 years ago and he did the computation without using any kind of mechanical or electronic calculator!
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“I am he who lives” (Revelation 1:8)
Reading: Philippians 1:19-30
Dear gracious and eternal God, life comes from You. You are the sole source of life. Because You live, we also live in and through You. Even death could not overcome You. During this Lenten season we reflect on that very deep reality of life and death. Pain on the cross, persecution, false accusations, humiliation and death tried to stop and crush life in You.
Dear Jesus, throughout that dark season of pain You gently, humbly and silently went through all of those events. No matter how hard Satan and the world tried to kill You and end Your life, death could never overcome life. Thank You for allowing us to share that life with You. Please help us to grow deeper in our knowledge of that life and our commitment to share that life with others.
The Rev. Paull Spring, Bishop Emeritus
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2 Samuel 22:1–25 (ESV)
David’s Song of Deliverance
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold and my refuge,
my savior; you save me from violence.
and I am saved from my enemies.
“For the waves of death encompassed me,
the torrents of destruction assailed me;
the cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.
“In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry came to his ears.
“Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the foundations of the heavens trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.
Smoke went up from his nostrils,
and devouring fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
10 He bowed the heavens and came down;
thick darkness was under his feet.
11 He rode on a cherub and flew;
he was seen on the wings of the wind.
12 He made darkness around him his canopy,
thick clouds, a gathering of water.
13 Out of the brightness before him
coals of fire flamed forth.
14 The Lord thundered from heaven,
and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows and scattered them;
lightning, and routed them.
16 Then the channels of the sea were seen;
the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 “He sent from on high, he took me;
he drew me out of many waters.
18 He rescued me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
but the Lord was my support.
20 He brought me out into a broad place;
he rescued me, because he delighted in me.
21 “The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his rules were before me,
and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
24 I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
25 And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to my cleanness in his sight.
Psalm 91 (ESV)
My Refuge and My Fortress
91 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
my God, in whom I trust.”
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge—
10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
15 When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
Hebrews 2:10–18 (ESV)
“I will tell of your name to my brothers;
13 And again,
“I will put my trust in him.”
And again,
On Good Friday, March 29 of the same year, Luther had completed his well-deserved coarse answer to Emser. Here he called the Holy Ghost the most lucid writer and speaker whose writings do not need the help of church and tradition in order to be under-stood correctly if they are only taken in their literal sense. (18–19)
–Johann Michael Reu, Luther on the Scriptures
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Valentine’s Day the Chilean Way
February 14, 2011
I have never really thought about what other countries do for Valentine’s Day but apparently they celebrate it here in Chile. First thing this morning, we had breakfast in our hostel and people wished us congratulations for St. Valentine’s Day. Then as we walked around town we noticed that every restaurant had a special valentine’s menu.
And a lot of the stores had paper hearts and cupids taped inside the windows.
There were also several people selling flowers on the street…some real and some fake!
We just got back from walking around town and everyone has put out more decorations. Mostly red and white balloons and more paper hearts! Unfortunately I did not have my camera so I couldn’t get pictures.
I’ve been wanting some helado ever since we got to Pucon and we finally got some today! It did not disappoint.
Our typical Valentine’s Day in the past has included pizza (preferably from Ledo’s or Campisi’s), wine and a movie. We stuck to the tradition tonight with a $3 bottle of wine from the grocery store, pizza from the hostel downstairs and are about to watch an episode of Modern Family on the laptop.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Kenton Slash Demon – Tik-Tik
Back in 2016, Danish duo Kenton Slash Demon were threatening and ambling towards the top of my most played tracks that year. Tunes like Syko, Sun, Skydancer II were top drawer and heavy on the play button. Since, they haven’t been too prolific with their releases, they actually fell completely off the radar. This week they have made a welcome return with a new three part EP called ‘Oli’. The middle track ‘Tik-Tik’ is the pick of the new bunch. Always totally bizarre in their production – hence why I like them – Tik-Tik is a muddled melee of strange sounds ranging from distorted pan flute to metallic strings. Kenton are back, not quite in the same capacity as 2016, but it is a start. Keep it up!
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Category Archives: IT
HS2 is world class stupidity
This is the economics of the madhouse.
Optical computing
AI could use killer drone swarms to attack people while taking out networks
In 1987 I discovered a whole class of security attacks that could knock out networks, which I called correlated traffic attacks, creating particular patterns of data packet arrivals from particular sources at particular times or intervals. We simulated two examples to successfully verify the problem. One example was protocol resonance. I demonstrated that it was possible to push a system into a gross overload state with a single call, by spacing the packets precise intervals apart. Their arrival caused a strong resonance in the bandwidth allocation algorithms and the result was that network capacity was instantaneously reduced by around 70%. Another example was information waves, whereby a single piece of information appearing at a particular point could, by its interaction with particular apps on mobile devices (the assumption was financially relevant data that would trigger AI on the devices to start requesting voluminous data, triggering a highly correlated wave of responses, using up bandwidth and throwing the network into overload, very likely crashing due to initiation of rarely used software. When calls couldn’t get through, the devices would wait until the network recovered, then they would all simultaneously detect recovery and simultaneously try again, killing the net again, and again, until people were asked to turn their devices off and on again, thereby bringing randomness back into the system. Both of these examples could knock out certain kinds of networks, but they are just two of an infinite set of possibilities in the correlated traffic attack class.
Adversarial AI pits one AI against another, trying things at random or making small modifications until a particular situation is achieved, such as the second AI accepting an image is acceptable. It is possible, though I don’t believe it has been achieved yet, to use the technique to simulate a wide range of correlated traffic situations, seeing which ones achieve network resonance or overloads, which trigger particular desired responses from network management or control systems, via interactions with the network and its protocols, commonly resident apps on mobile devices or computer operating systems.
Activists and researchers are already well aware that adversarial AI can be used to find vulnerabilities in face recognition systems and thereby prevent recognition, or to deceive autonomous car AI into seeing fantasy objects or not seeing real ones. As Noel Sharkey, the robotics expert, has been tweeting today, it will be possible to use adversarial AI to corrupt recognition systems used by killer drones, potentially to cause them to attack their controllers or innocents instead of their intended targets. I have to agree with him. But linking that corruption to the whole extended field of correlated traffic attacks extends the range of mechanisms that can be used greatly. It will be possible to exploit highly obscured interactions between network physical architecture, protocols and operating systems, network management, app interactions, and the entire sensor/IoT ecosystem, as well as software and AI systems using it. It is impossible to check all possible interactions, so no absolute defence is possible, but adversarial AI with enough compute power could randomly explore across these multiple dimensions, stumble across regions of vulnerability and drill down until grand vulnerabilities are found.
This could further be linked to apps used as highly invisible Trojans, offering high attractiveness to users with no apparent side effects, quietly gathering data to help identify potential targets, and simply waiting for a particular situation or command before signalling to the attacking system.
A future activist or terrorist group or rogue state could use such tools to make a multidimensional attack. It could initiate an attack, using its own apps to identify and locate targets, control large swarms of killer drones or robots to attack them, simultaneously executing a cyberattack that knocks out selected parts of the network, crashing or killing computers and infrastructure. The vast bulk of this could be developed, tested and refined offline, using simulation and adversarial AI approaches to discover vulnerabilities and optimise exploits.
There is already debate about killer drones, mainly whether we should permit them and in what circumstances, but activists and rogue states won’t care about rules. Millions of engineers are technically able to build such things and some are not on your side. It is reasonable to expect that freely available AI tools will be used in such ways, using their intelligence to design, refine, initiate and control attacks using killer drones, robots and self-driving cars to harm us, while corrupting systems and infrastructure that protect us.
Worrying, especially since the capability is arriving just as everyone is starting to consider civil war.
Some trees just don’t get barked up
Now and then, someone asks me for an old document and as I search for it, I stumble across others I’d forgotten about. I’ve been rather frustrated that AI progress hasn’t kept up with its development rate in the 90s, so this was fun to rediscover, highlighting some future computing directions that offered serious but uncertain potential exactly 20 years ago, well 20 years ago 3 weeks ago. Here is the text, and the Schrodinger’s Computer was only ever intended to be silly (since renamed the Yonck Processor):
Herrings, a large subset of which are probably red
Computers in the future will use a wide range of techniques, not just conventional microprocessors. Problems should be decomposed and the various components streamed to the appropriate processing engines. One of the important requirements is therefore some means of identifying automatically which parts of a problem could best be tackled by which techniques, though sometimes it might be best to use several in parallel with some interaction between them.
We have a wider variety of components available to be used in analog computing today than we had when it effectively died out in the 80s. With much higher quality analog and mixed components, and additionally micro-sensors, MEMs, simple neural network components, and some imminent molecular capability, how can we rekindle the successes of the analog domain. Nature handles the infinite body problem with ease! Things just happen according to the laws of physics. How can we harness them too? Can we build environments with synthetic physics to achieve more effects? The whole field of non-algorithmic computation seems ripe for exploitation.
Neural networks
• Could we make neural microprocessor suspensions, using spherical chips suspended in gel in a reflective capsule and optical broadcasting. Couple this with growing wires across the electric field. This would give us both electrical and optical interconnection that could be ideal for neural networks with high connectivity. Could link this to gene chip technology to have chemical detection and synthesis on the chips too, so that we could have close high speed replicas of organic neural networks.
• If we can have quantum entanglement between particles, might this affect the way in which neurons in the brain work? Do we have neural entanglement and has this anything to do with how our brain works. Could we create neural entanglement or even virtual entanglement and would it have any use?
• Could we make molecular neurons (or similar) using ordinary chemistry? And then form them into networks. Might need nanomachines and bottom-up assembly.
• Could we use neurons as the first stage filters to narrow down the field to make problems tractable for other techniques
• Optical neurons
• Magnetic neurons
Electromechanical, MEMS etc
• Micromirror arrays as part of optical computers, perhaps either as data entry, or as part of the algorithm
• Carbon fullerene balls and tubes as MEM components
• External fullerene ‘décor’ as a form of information, cf antibodies in immune system
• Sensor suspensions and gels as analog computers for direct simulation
• Carbon fullerene tubes as on chip wires
• Could they act as electron pipes for ultra-high speed interconnect
• Optical or radio beacons on chip
• Transforms – create a transform of every logic component, spreading the functionality across a wide domain, and construct programs using them instead. Small perturbation is no longer fatal but just reduces accuracy
• Filters – nature works often using simple physical effects where humans design complex software. We need to look at hard problems to see how we might make simple filters to narrow the field before computing final details and stages conventionally.
• Interference – is there some form of representation that allows us to compute operations by means of allowing the input data to interact directly, i.e. interference, instead of using tedious linear computation. Obviously only suited to a subset of problems.
And finally, the frivolous
• Schrodinger’s computer – design of computer and software, if any, not determined until box is opened. The one constant is that it destroys itself if it doesn’t finding the solution. All possible computers and all possible programs exist and if there is a solution, the computer will pop out alive and well with the answer. Set it the problem of answering all possible questions too, working out which ones have the most valuable answers and using up all the available storage to write the best answers.
The future of reproductive choice
Demands by infertile and gay couples to have babies via genetic assembly
Future Surveillance
They used to say
“Don’t think it
If you must think it, don’t say it
If you must say it, don’t write it
If you must write it, don’t sign it”
Your phone is wasted on you
Between 1983 and 1985, the fastest computer on Earth was the Cray X-MP. Its two 105MHz processors and 16MB of memory provided a peak performance of 400MFLOPS. It cost around $15M + disks.
The Apple iPhone XS is 1500 times faster and 15000 times cheaper.
In 1985, our division of 50 people ran all of its word processing on a VAX 11- 780, that produced 0.5MIPS (32bit). On equivalent instructions per second basis, the iPhone XS is 2.5M times faster, so ought to be able to run word processing for a country of 125M people.
Think about that next time you’re typing a text.
The future for women, pdf version
Women and the Future
Augmented reality will objectify women
Microsoft Hololens 2 Visor
Future AI: Turing multiplexing, air gels, hyper-neural nets
Just in time to make 2018 a bit less unproductive, I managed to wake in the middle of the night with another few inventions. I’m finishing the year on only a third as many as 2016 and 2017, but better than some years. And I quite like these new ones.
Gel computing is a very old idea of mine, and I’m surprised no company has started doing it yet. Air gel is different. My original used a suspension of processing particles in gel, and the idea was that the gel would hold the particles in fixed locations with good free line of sight to neighbor devices for inter-device optical comms, while acting also as a coolant.
Air gel uses the same idea of suspending particles, but does so by using ultrasound, standing waves holding the particles aloft. They would form a semi-gel I suppose, much softer. The intention is that they will be more easily movable than in a gel, and maybe rotate. I imagine using rotating magnetic fields to rotate them, and use that mechanism to implement different configurations of inter-device nets. That would be the first pillar of running multiple neural nets in the same space at the same time, using spin-based TDM (time division multiplexing), or synchronized space multiplexing if you prefer. If a device uses on board processing that is fast compared to the signal transmission time to other devices (the speed of light may be fast but can still be severely limiting for processing and comms), then having the ability to deal with processing associated with several other networks while awaiting a response allows a processing network to be multiplied up several times. A neural net could become a hyper-neural net.
Given that this is intended for mid-century AI, I’m also making the assumption that true TDM can also be used on each net, my second pillar. Signals would carry a stream of slots holding bits for each processing instance. Since this allows a Turing machine to implement many different processes in parallel, I decided to call it Turing multiplexing. Again, it helps alleviate the potential gulf between processing and communication times. Combining Turing and spin multiplexing would allow a single neural net to be multiplied up potentially thousands or millions of times – hyper-neurons seems as good a term as any.
The third pillar of this system is that the processing particles (each could contain a large number of neurons or other IT objects) could be energized and clocked using very high speed alternating EM fields – radio, microwaves, light, even x-rays. I don’t have any suggestions for processing mechanisms that might operate at such frequencies, though Pauli switches might work at lower speeds, using Pauli exclusion principle to link electron spin states to make switches. I believe early versions of spin cubits use a similar principle. I’m agnostic whether conventional Turing machine or quantum processing would be used, or any combination. In any case, it isn’t my problem, I suspect that future AIs will figure out the physics and invent the appropriate IT.
Processing devices operating at high speed could use a lot of energy and generate a lot of heat, and encouraging the system to lase by design would be a good way to cool it as well as powering it.
A processor using such mechanisms need not be bulky. I always assumed a yogurt pot size for my gel computer before and an air gel processor could be the same, about 100ml. That is enough to suspend a trillion particles with good line of sight for optical interconnections, and each connection could utilise up to millions of alternative wavelengths. Each wavelength could support many TDM channels and spinning the particles multiplies that up again. A UV laser clock/power source driving processors at 10^16Hz would certainly need to use high density multiplexing to make use of such a volume, with transmission distances up to 10cm (but most sub-mm) otherwise being a strongly limiting performance factor, but 10 million-fold WDM/TDM is attainable.
A trillion of these hyper-neurons using that multiplexing would act very effectively as 10 million trillion neurons, each operating at 10^16Hz processing speed. That’s quite a lot of zeros, 35 of them, and yet each hyperneuron could have connections to thousands of others in each of many physical configurations. It would be an obvious platform for supporting a large population of electronically immortal people and AIs who each want a billion replicas, and if it only occupies 100ml of space, the environmental footprint isn’t an issue.
It’s hard to know how to talk to a computer that operates like a brain, but is 10^22 times faster, but I’d suggest ‘Yes Boss’.
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