Walking into a room of your house, or climbing or descending the stairs, only to have to pause in complete forgetfulness of what you intended to do there, is generally considered to be a sign of encroaching old age or simple-mindedness; or both. It suggests a level of distraction that's humourous to watch but puzzling and sometimes upsetting to endure. And while watching someone dither so can be entertaining, being watched while you yourself dither is just embarrassing. So you can imagine how foolish someone might feel if they wrote a whole novel in a similarly aimless manner.
The Crimson Petal and the White, an 800-page doorstop of a novel, is Michel Faber's grand compendium of narrative senior moments. Ostensibly its faux-Victorian trudge through an excessively factual nineteenth-century England aims at the genre of Dickensian morality tale, but hoping to encompass the full range of human interaction at that time, not baulking at examining the very lowest levels of society and intercourse that Dickens—for all his portrayals of street-sweepers—could only ever allude to. Ultimately, though, Faber's novel only shares one aspect with Dickens' work—its length—an aspect unwarranted by the quality of the subject matter under discussion.
Faber begins with a chummy, garrulous narrator that seems to sit on the shoulder of the prostitute Sugar as she begins to lift herself out of her profession. This voice is probably intended to expose with sympathy and ironic moral excoriation the misery of every sexual detail, but it ends up sounding like the sinister, pawing uncle of every whore mentioned in the novel. But he quickly abandons this oddly leering interlocutor, occasionally lapsing back into it accident, when the action flags and Faber needs an omniscient presence to relate the characters' thoughts. Only when Uncle Leery returns for good to tell us about the fall of the house of Rackham do we realize that it's a standard bookending device, and we're on the home stretch.
In between we get all the cloacal, genital and medical details of the surprisingly few main characters: only half a dozen core personalities, with perhaps two dozen hangers-on; a lack of complexity put to shame by the very genre Faber wants to pastiche. The information is relentless, until we're quite fed up of what becomes crashingly dull and nauseating honesty, meant to convince us that this is a no-holds barred exploration of humanity in all of its gritty etcetera.
  It's a shame the publishers never did the same.


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Interleukin-7 can induce the activation of Jak 1, Jak 3 and STAT 5 proteins in murine T cells.
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The activation of Janus protein tyrosine kinases (Jak) and STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins has recently been linked to the signal transduction mechanism of several cytokines. IL-7 was observed to induce a rapid and dose-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of Jak 1 and Jak 3 and concomitantly, the tyrosine phosphorylation and DNA binding activity of multiple STAT proteins. The STAT proteins utilized by IL-7 were identical to those induced by IL-2 and could be identified as various STAT 5 isoforms. Moreover, the induction of both Jak 1 and 3, and STAT 5 activity strongly correlated with the growth-promoting effects of IL-7, suggesting that this signal transduction mechanism may play a key role in IL-7 -induced proliferation.


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w00t : Building a new app from the ground up : setting up the environment
This is one of the articles in our series; the parts are:
- Methodology, technology & tools used
- Setting up the environment
- First specs and getting started
- IOC, database and other stuff; a real framework
Happy reading !
Ok, here are the steps to setup the development environment for my new project :
Prerequisites
- MSysGit
- Visual Studio pro or express - web developer & c#
- Asp.net MVC 2 preview 2
The steps
1. Create a project folder
2. Start Git bash on this folder (right click in windows explorer)
3. Get MSpec : type in git bash :
git clone git://github.com/machine/machine.specifications.git
4. Get Subsonic : type in git bash :
git clone git://github.com/subsonic/SubSonic-3.0.git
5. Search for Subsonic.Core.csproj and build it
6. Search for Machine.specifications.sln and build it
7. Make a folder Tools in the project folder
8. Make a folder Lib in the project folder
9. Make a folder Source in the project folder
10. In the folder Tools create a file named "CopyDependenciesAndTools.cmd" with the following content:
@echo off echo. echo Copying all tools & dependencies echo. copy ..\machine.Specifications\Build\Release\*.dll copy ..\machine.Specifications\Build\Release\*.exe copy ..\machine.Specifications\Build\Release\*.dll ..\lib\*.* copy ..\machine.Specifications\Build\Release\*.dll ..\lib\*.* copy ..\subsonic-3.0\lib\*.dll ..\lib\*.* copy ..\subsonic-3.0\subsonic.core\bin\release\*.dll ..\lib\*.* pause
11. Execute this cmd-file
12. Make another cmd file in the tools-folder : "CleanUp.cmd" with the following content:
@Echo off echo. echo Cleaning up echo. dir /ad /b /s ..\bin > folderstodelete.txt dir /ad /b /s ..\obj >> folderstodelete.txt dir /ad /b /s ..\build >> folderstodelete.txt for /f %%i in (folderstodelete.txt) do rd %%i /s /q pause
13. Execute it
14. Start up Visual studio and create a new ASP.NET MVC 2 application in the src folder (make sure the checkbox create directory for this solution is off)
15. Once the project is created choose File/New project / Windows/Class library, name it "Specs", and make sure you choose the option "Add to solution"
16. Save and close visual studio
17. Execute "Tools\CleanUp.Cmd"
15.  In the next post we'll get started writing specs !!


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MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS A film review by Christopher Null Copyright 1995 Christopher Null
Out-and-out begging for an Oscar might have been more dignified than the brazen performance by Richard Dreyfuss in the title role of MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS. Here, Dreyfuss makes his bid for Oscar number two (he won in 1977 for THE GOODBYE GIRL), and given the fare Hollywood has seen fit to throw us this year, I'll be surprised if he doesn't win.
Mr. Holland is, of all things, a lowly high school band teacher, and the film follows 30 years of his life, from 1965 to the present. Mr. Holland, in his first year of teaching, finds himself turning into that very thing which he detests, a dry and boring instructor who isn't getting through to the kids, so he decides to make a few changes in his teaching style to get the students involved and interested. Using all manner of unorthodox teaching methods, Mr. Holland eventually breaks through and becomes the darling of John F. Kennedy High School, and we see the profound effect he really does have on a number of his students.
The film is something akin to a series of vignettes, each profiling Mr. Holland's relationship with one student or another, most notably the driven yet apparently talentless Gertrude (Alicia Witt, who appears all too briefly) and vocal ingenue Rowena. All the while, Mr. Holland's own life seems to play second chair to his teaching. His own symphony goes virtually ignored, as does his family: his wife, Iris (Glenne Headly), and his deaf son, Cole.
MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS treats us to the transformation of the students without relying too much on the corny antics that similar films tend toward. Rather, the movie is filled with genuine, tearjerking emotion despite its often rambling 2 1/2 hour length, and we are constantly entertained by a number of moving performances of classic tunes and modern ones. The one over-the-top element of the picture is, of course, Dreyfuss, whose performance culminates in the singing of a heartfelt yet nearly unbearable rendition of John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy," dedicated to his estranged son. But you've gotta give him points for trying.
The integration of political messages and stock footage into the film is a bit distracting, as it is used to set the time frame and little more. But if you can get past this and let yourself slip into the web that Dreyfuss manages to weave, you'll find a heart of sincerity in this lazy, free-flowing, and only sometimes obvious picture. Be sure to bring a hanky.
RATING: ****
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Here's how you can win a real Christmas tree courtesy of Edelweiss Christmas Tree Company
We've teamed up with the North East's premier Christmas tree retailer to offer five lucky readers a real Christmas tree up to the value of £70
by Adam GrayThere's nothing that says Christmas quite like the scent you smell walking into a room where there's a real Christmas tree.
Not only does a real Christmas tree smell divine, it looks great, and choosing the perfect one should be as much a part of the festive tradition as pulling crackers and singing carols.
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We've teamed up with the North East's premier Christmas tree retailer to offer five lucky readers a real Christmas tree up to the value of £70.
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Come and choose from close to 5,000 trees at Edelweiss's purpose-built premises in Seaton Delaval near Whitley Bay, including:
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Jerry Cantrell says Alice in Chains' new album will drop "sometime this summer"
On the heels of announcing even more dates to their robust summer tour—which includes stops at festivals such as Rock On the Range, Mad Cool, Rock Werchter—grunge mainstays Alice in Chains just revealed some major details about their upcoming record, their first since 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.


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--- title: "The rise of the Lionesses: Analysing Women's EURO 2022 performances using StatsBomb data" author: Jacquie Tran date: '2022-08-13' slug: analysing-womens-euro-2022-performances categories: - On-field analyses tags: - football - r stats - soccer - sports analytics - women's sport ---
Like the shameless bandwagon-er that I am, I set aside my usual allegiances as an Australian, voluntarily woke up at an unmentionable hour in NZ time, and found myself cheering loudly for England as they brought home the Euros.
Shortly after this momentous occasion, StatsBomb released a treasure trove of free data from the Euros tournament!
Here are a few different ways I explored the data:
Code here: https://github.com/jacquietran/womens_euro_2022/blob/main/R/eda.R
Code here: https://github.com/jacquietran/womens_euro_2022/blob/main/R/bronze_pass_map.R
Code here: https://github.com/jacquietran/womens_euro_2022/blob/main/R/williamson_pass_networks.R
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Liam Payne shows off cooking skills as he treats Maya Henry to Sunday roast
Liam Payne is clearly a man of many talents, as he revealed his surprise cooking skills this weekend while making Sunday lunch for his girlfriend, Maya Henry, and a group of friends.
The Strip That Down singer invited his pals over to his mansion this afternoon for a pool party, and while he has the means to hire an expensive chef and catering company, Liam decided to DIY the Sunday roast.
And we have to admit, it looked pretty tasty.
In an Instagram video, Liam is seen chopping carrots and boiling a large pot of potatoes while explaining his cooking process.
‘We are having a little cheeky pool party at the house,’ he revealed.

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With the carrots and potatoes cooking nicely on the hob, it was time to crack open the champagne and it’s safe to say, Liam doesn’t do things by halves.
In his glass wine store, the popstar brings out a magnum-sized champagne bottle and joked to his friend: ‘It’s medium sized.’
If that’s what he drinks for a casual Sunday roast, we’d love to see what Liam brings out for a real party.
‘I reckon I can open it without it going anywhere actually,’ he boasted before impressively managing only a little spill after popping the cork.
Offering more pearls of wisdom, he then quipped: ‘You’re only as good as your last meal in cooking, I think.’
Watch out Gordon Ramsay, ‘Chef P’ is in the house.
In photos from the meal, Maya, 19, is seen sweetly cupping Liam’s face at the dinner table before the group pose for a snap.
Our Sunday lunch wasn’t nearly as fun.
Liam and Maya are pretty much inseparable these days, and he recently praised the model for putting a smile on his face.
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| 016:066 Khan | : |
And verily! In the cattle, there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies, from between excretions and blood, pure milk; palatable to the drinkers. |
| 016:066 Maulana | : |
And surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle: We give you to drink of what is in their bellies -- from betwixt the faeces and the blood -- pure milk, agreeable to the drinkers. |
| 016:066 Pickthal | : |
And lo! in the cattle there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies, from betwixt the refuse and the blood, pure milk palatable to the drinkers. |
| 016:066 Rashad | : |
And in the livestock there is a lesson for you: we provide you with a drink from their bellies. From the midst of digested food and blood, you get pure milk, delicious for the drinkers. |
| 016:066 Sarwar | : |
There is a lesson for you to learn concerning cattle. We provide pleasant milk for you to drink within the delicate system of their veins and arteries. |
| 016:066 Shakir | : |
And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle; We give you to drink of what is in their bellies-- from betwixt the feces and the blood-- pure milk, easy and agreeable to swallow for those who drink. |
| 016:066 Sherali | : |
And surely in the cattle too there is a lesson for you. WE provide for you drink out of that which is in their bellies -from betwixt the faeces and the blood - milk pure and pleasant for those who drink it. |
| 016:066 Yusufali | : |
And verily in cattle (too) will ye find an instructive sign. From what is within their bodies between excretions and blood, We produce, for your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it. |
Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > توحيد الله تعالي > وحدانيته Pillars of Islam> Islamic> Oneness of Allah> Singularity and Being Unique أركان الإسلام > الصيام > الطعام والأغذية Pillars of Islam> Fasting> Food and Nourishments الإنسان والعلاقات الاجتماعية > الإنسان > تسخير الحيوانات له Man and The Social Relations>Man>Exploiting the Animals for him الإنسان والعلاقات الاجتماعية > الإنسان > شرفه ودنوه Man and The Social Relations>Man>When Honourable and When Unhonourable الإنسان والعلاقات الاجتماعية > الرجل والمرأة Man and The Social Relations>Man and Woman
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Mushrooms & P. harmala (Syrian Rue)
After asking for and receiving a rather potent sign, I knew it was time to journey once more into the realm of the mushroom. My room mates had conveniently vacated for the evening, I had been fasting in expectation of the sign I had asked for and when I received it, I was ready.
I started by smoking some unextracted Syrian Rue. No measurements, I just smoked it until I felt 'stoned' from it. I followed this by invocations to the 'spirits' to be kind, and not hurt me more than necessary. I wrote a quick note to my roomies, cleaned up the living room, and chewed up my caps, quickly following them with my prepowdered stems. Total mushroom weight, ~5.5 grams, dry.
I sat back to await the first effects. Within twenty minutes, I felt the first mental twinges, quickly followed by rumblings in my stomach. I sat on the couch, in the dark, watching lightning play on the walls. I began to get 'the twitches' which is usual for me on high dose mushroom/harmala combinations. These feel like colossal bolts of electricity flowing through me. If I go with them they are not unpleasant. At the one hour point, I was taking off, and decided to retire to the bathroom. The bathroom is my usual location to spend shroom trips for two reasons. First, the toilet is handy if I should need to puke (shrooms always make me nauseous) and second, it is pitch black, which I find makes my psilocybin visuals incredible.
I entered the inky darkness of the bathroom, and was immediately struck with an urge to lie down. The bathtub provides a convenient place for this I have found in the past, so into the bathtub I went. The body load was getting really heavy, and I didn't feel too hot physically. I started panting, which seemed to relieve some of my discomfort. About this time I slipped into a trance state, and things got really incredible.
From here on, temporality is merely a guess. This is all reconstruction based on the notes I wrote the next day and things I have remembered since. I probably will not be able to express more than a small percentage of this incredible experience.
Almost immediately after slipping into this trance state, I had what I think was an entity contact. I remember a distinct sense of other, and it began speaking to me, or projecting thoughts and images into my head, or both. The one distinct thing I remember is this thing telling me 'We are pleased with this agents progress' (referring to me) 'You will continue'. It made me feel good to know I had it's approval.
My visuals were beyond visuals. They truly crossed the line into visions. I know what people mean when they refer to 'vegetable TV' now. The things I saw convinced me that reality was nothing but an elaborate OEV. The things I saw had as much substance, and more beauty than the things I encountered in my day to day terrestrial existence. Everything I saw seemed to made of pure energy, or information. The closest approximation I can come up would be looking at the world under a black light, only EVERYTHING is fluorescent. I saw myself, my friends and family, the mushroom, the universe in this manner.
I had some incredible body distortions. One I remember vividly is a vision of myself as merely a head, with a single hand on top and a single foot underneath, with no body to speak of. I imagined myself twisted up, stretched out and rebuilt in a number of bizarre ways. None of these images was in any way frightening or unpleasant. They were all rather fun and amusing, in fact.
My memory seemed to be laser sharp, and also to work both forwards and backwards. I could remember events from my past and future with perfect clarity. I also experienced the Eleusisian mysteries, it seemed, which I found quite impressive. Simply by thinking about it, I could hear any piece of music I had ever heard, like I was listening to the CD. Underworld's 'Dirty Epic' was featured. I thought about trying to relive my birth, but never got around to it.
My ego death was profound, but not exactly easy. I had the usual 'I'm dying' moments, as well as what I can only describe as a few moments of existential terror. Once I got past that, I left my body on the floor, became everything and nothing, and soared through space (and time, as I mentioned). I felt like I had broken through into DM Turner's CydelikSpace, a realm of pure existence as information/energy.
Throughout most of this I felt extreme bodily discomfort. This was alleviated by panting and/or holding my body in certain positions. I got the feeling that I could alleviate this discomfort entirely with a little work, which is something I plan to explore in later trips. Sometime after the peak, my bodily discomfort disappeared entirely, and after that I felt great the rest of the night and into the next day. As I write this, four days later, I'm still glowing.
I felt a lot of very positive, loving female energy. It was personified as three women who are very important to me, and it gave me a chance to explore my feelings for them and be thankful for knowing them.
I was (and am) awed, keeled over, knocked flat by the majesty, beauty and power of this trip. The experience was magical and wonderful. I feel as though I were given a unique and priceless gift. I felt the utter joy of the universe creating itself every second. My overall feeling about the trip is entirely positive. This was my most profound psychedelic journey yet. The feeling was almost entirely religious, in a way that is head and shoulders above my other experiences. I truly manifested the divine within.
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JUST IN: Osinbajo presides over NEC meeting in Aso Rock - The Nation Newspaper
by https://www.facebook.com/CheerfulpraiseAugustine Ehikioya, Abuja
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday presided over the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting.
The meeting was held at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
At the meeting are State Governors who are members of NEC and some Deputy Governors.
Ministers in charge of the economy and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele were also in attendance.
The meeting was still in progress as at the time of filing in this report.


Intro
The government wants to reduce financial pressure on the public hospital system, so they levy a charge on people who don’t have private hospital insurance to encourage them to take it out.
If the Medicare Levy Surcharge isn’t enough to persuade you to take out hospital insurance, the Government also offers a rebate to make your insurance premiums cheaper.
 It’s an expensive incentive - the rebates and incentives are expected to cost the Government $6.3 billion in 2018-19.
You might have heard that there’s a penalty for not taking out health insurance when you turn 30.
The point of the Lifetime Health Cover Loading (LHCL) is to get people to take out health insurance early in life and keep it.
In other words, the Government does not want people to wait until they are older, and more likely to need care in hospital, before they take out insurance.
The rule is that you need to take out hospital insurance before July 1 after your 31st birthday, or by July 1, 2000, whichever is later.
For every year you don’t have hospital cover past those dates, you pay an extra two per cent on top of your annual premium for 10 years.
The loading lasts for 10 years and then goes back to zero.
But there’s lots of rules around what happens if you leave the country and come back, if you’re in a couple, and when you have breaks from insurance. You should check whether any of the special circumstances apply to you.
If any of those situations apply to you, your loading will be different.
The chart below shows how much extra someone your age with no cover will need to pay over the next 10 years, and how much they saved by not having cover.
The calculation is based on medium singles hospital cover and assumes inflation of 5% a year.
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But there’s lots of rules around what happens if you leave the country and come back, if you’re in a couple, and when you have breaks from insurance. You should check whether any of the special circumstances apply to you.
If any of those situations apply to you, your loading will be different.
The chart below shows how much extra someone your age with no cover will need to pay over the next 10 years, and how much they saved by not having cover.
The calculation is based on medium singles hospital cover and assumes inflation of 5% a year.
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The chart below shows how much extra you pay for each year after your 31st birthday you don’t take out cover, and how much you save by not having cover.
The calculation is based on medium singles hospital cover and assumes inflation of 5% a year.
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You were born before July 1, 1934 and so you are exempt from Lifetime Health Cover loading. You can take out hospital insurance and pay the base premium with no loading.
For some people, a trip in an ambulance is free - it is covered by their State Government. But with the typical cost of an ambulance ranging from around $600 to $1,200, it's worth knowing whether you are covered or not.
You have ambulance cover if you have a health care or pensioner concession card or a Department of Veterans Affairs Gold Card. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund.
The cost of an emergency trip in an ambulance in the ACT is $669 (+$12/km for every km travelled outside the ACT).
You have ambulance cover if you have a health care or pensioner concession card or a Department of Veterans Affairs Gold Card or Commonwealth Seniors health card. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund.
The cost of an emergency ambulance call-out in NSW is $372 plus an additional charge of $3.35 per kilometre. You will need to pay 51 per cent of this cost.
You have ambulance cover if you have a pensioner concession card or a Department of Veterans Affairs Gold Card or Commonwealth Seniors health card. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund or by subscribing to the Territory ambulance service.
The cost of a life-threatening emergency ambulance call-out in the NT is $790 for the first 10 km and then $5.10 per km after that.

You have ambulance cover if you have a Department of Veterans Affairs Gold Card. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund or by subscribing to the State ambulance service.
The cost of an emergency ambulance call-out in SA is $955 plus an additional charge of $5.50 per kilometre.

You have ambulance cover if you have a health care or pensioner concession card or a Department of Veterans Affairs Gold Card. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund or by subscribing to your State ambulance service.
The cost of an emergency ambulance call-out in Victoria is $1,204 in the metro area, and $1,776 in regional and rural areas.
You have ambulance cover if you are aged over 65 and get the pension, or 50 per cent of the cost is covered if you are aged over 65 and don’t get the pension. If not, you can get ambulance cover from a private health fund.
The cost of an emergency life-threatening ambulance call-out in the Western Australian metro area is $949.
When a patient goes to hospital, they are either admitted as an emergency case, where they need to be admitted within 24 hours, or an elective case, where the trip to hospital could be delayed by at least 24 hours. These categories don’t include giving birth or planned surgery, like dialysis.
The waiting times reflect the median number of days patients spent on the public hospital waiting list for particular types of surgery. If you do not have private health insurance and need one of these operations in a public hospital, you will have to wait.
The vast majority, nearly 70 per cent, of hospital visits paid for by private health insurance are for non-emergency operations. Only about 10 per cent are for emergencies, and nearly all of those are visits to public hospitals where patients use their private health insurance to pay the cost.
One of the operations with the longest waiting time is a septoplasty - an operation to straighten the septum in the nose. More than 5,000 people were admitted for that operation in 2016-17 and the median waiting time was seven months. One of the most common elective operations is cataract surgery, with more than 70,000 people admitted, after waiting for a median of nearly three months.
But these are median waiting times. That means they represent the time it took for 50 per cent of the waiting list to be admitted. You could wait for less time, or a lot longer, particularly in rural and remote areas where waiting times are longer.
Around 46 per cent of the population currently have private health insurance covering hospital treatment.


CHAPTER VI
(Delivered in London, 1896)
The one question that is most difficult to grasp in
understanding the Advaita philosophy, and the one question that will be
asked again and again and that will always remain is: How has the
Infinite, the Absolute, become the finite? I will now take up this
question, and, in order to illustrate it, I will use a figure. Here is
the Absolute (a), and this is the universe (b).
The Absolute has
A stone falls and we ask, why? This question is possible only on the supposition that nothing happens without a cause. I request you to make this very clear in your minds, for whenever we ask why anything happens, we are taking for granted that everything that happens must have a why, that is to say, it must have been preceded by something else which acted as the cause. This precedence and succession are what we call the law of causation. It means that everything in the universe is by turn a cause and an effect. It is the cause of certain things which come after it, and is itself the effect of something else which has preceded it. This is called the law of causation and is a necessary condition of all our thinking. We believe that every particle in the universe, whatever it be, is in relation to every other particle. There has been much discussion as to how this idea arose. In Europe, there have been intuitive philosophers who believed that it was constitutional in humanity, others have believed it came from experience, but the question has never been settled. We shall see later on what the Vedanta has to say about it. But first we have to understand this that the very asking of the question "why" presupposes that everything round us has been preceded by certain things and will be succeeded by certain other things. The other belief involved in this question is that nothing in the universe is independent, that everything is acted upon by something outside itself. Interdependence is the law of the whole universe. In asking what caused the Absolute, what an error we are making! To ask this question we have to suppose that the Absolute also is bound by something, that It is dependent on something; and in making this supposition, we drag the Absolute down to the level of the universe. For in the Absolute there is neither time, space, nor causation; It is all one. That which exists by itself alone cannot have any cause. That which is free cannot have any cause; else it would not be free, but bound. That which has relativity cannot be free. Thus we see the very question, why the Infinite became the finite, is an impossible one, for it is self-contradictory. Coming from subtleties to the logic of our common plane, to common sense, we can see this from another side, when we seek to know how the Absolute has become the relative. Supposing we knew the answer, would the Absolute remain the Absolute? It would have become relative. What is meant by knowledge in our common-sense idea? It is only something that has become limited by our mind, that we know, and when it is beyond our mind, it is not knowledge. Now if the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. Everything limited by the mind becomes finite. Therefore to know the Absolute is again a contradiction in terms. That is why this question has never been answered, because if it were answered, there would no more be an Absolute. A God known is no more God; He has become finite like one of us. He cannot be known He is always the Unknowable One.
But what Advaita says is that God is more than knowable. This is a great fact to learn. You must not go home with the idea that God is unknowable in the sense in which agnostics put it. For instance, here is a chair, it is known to us. But what is beyond ether or whether people exist there or not is possibly unknowable. But God is neither known nor unknowable in this sense. He is something still higher than known; that is what is meant by God being unknown and unknowable. The expression is not used in the sense in which it may be said that some questions are unknown ant unknowable. God is more than known. This chair is known, but God is intensely more than that because in and through Him we have to know this chair itself. He is the Witness, the eternal Witness of all knowledge. Whatever we know we have to know in and through Him. He is the Essence of our own Self. He is the Essence of this ego, this I and we cannot know anything excepting in and through that I. Therefore you have to know everything in and through the Brahman. To know the chair you have to know it in and through God.  Neither known, nor unknown, but something infinitely higher than either. He is your Self.  Because in and through Him we breathe, in and through Him we exist. Not the He is standing somewhere and making my blood circulate. What is meant is that He is the Essence of all this, the Soul of my soul. You cannot by any possibility say you know Him; it would be degrading Him. You cannot get out of yourself, so you cannot know Him. Knowledge is objectification. For instance, in memory you are objectifying many things, projecting them out of yourself. All memory, all the things which I have seen and which I know are in my mind. The pictures, the impressions of all these things, are in my mind, and when I would try to think of them, to know them, the first act of knowledge would be to project them outside. This cannot be done with God, because He is the Essence of our souls, we cannot project Him outside ourselves. Here is one of the profoundest passages in Vedanta: "He that is the Essence of your soul, He is the Truth, He is the Self, thou art That, O Shvetaketu." This is what is meant by "Thou art God." You cannot describe Him by any other language. All attempts of language, calling Him father, or brother, or our dearest friend, are attempts to objectify God, which cannot be done. He is the Eternal Subject of everything. I am the subject of this chair; I see the chair; so God is the Eternal Subject of my soul. How can you objectify Him, the Essence of your souls, the Reality of everything? Thus, I would repeat to you once more, God is neither knowable nor unknowable, but something infinitely higher than either. He is one with us, and that which is one with us is neither knowable nor unknowable, as our own self. You cannot know your own self; you cannot move it out and make it an object to look at, because you are that and cannot separate yourself from it. Neither is it unknowable, for what is better known than yourself? It is really the centre of our knowledge. In exactly the same sense, God is neither unknowable nor known, but infinitely higher than both; for He is our real Self.
First, we see then that the question, "What caused the Absolute?" is a contradiction in terms; and secondly, we find that the idea of God in the Advaita is this Oneness; and, therefore, we cannot objectify Him, for we are always living and moving in Him, whether we know it or not. Whatever we do is always through Him. Now the question is: What are time, space, and causation? Advaita means non-duality; there are no two, but one. Yet we see that here is a proposition that the Absolute is manifesting Itself as many, through the veil of time, space, and causation. Therefore it seems that here are two, the Absolute and Mâyâ (the sum total of time, space, and causation). It seems apparently very convincing that there are two. To this the Advaitist replies that it cannot be called two. To have two, we must have two absolute independent existences which cannot be caused. In the first place time, space, and causation cannot be said to be independent existences. Time is entirely a dependent existence; it changes with every change of our mind. Sometimes in dream one imagines that one has lived several years, at other times several months were passed as one second. So, time is entirely dependent on our state of mind. Secondly, the idea of time vanishes altogether, sometimes. So with space. We cannot know what space is. Yet it is there, indefinable, and cannot exist separate from anything else. So with causation.
The one peculiar attribute we find in time, space, and causation is that they cannot exist separate from other things. Try to think of space without colour, or limits, or any connection with the things around — just abstract space. You cannot; you have to think of it as the space between two limits or between three objects. It has to be connected with some object to have any existence. So with time; you cannot have any idea of abstract time, but you have to take two events, one preceding and the other succeeding, and join the two events by the idea of succession. Time depends on two events, just as space has to be related to outside objects. And the idea of causation is inseparable from time and space. This is the peculiar thing about them that they have no independent existence. They have not even the existence which the chair or the wall has. They are as shadows around everything which you cannot catch. They have no real existence; yet they are not non-existent, seeing that through them all things are manifesting as this universe. Thus we see, first, that the combination of time, space, and causation has neither existence nor non-existence. Secondly, it sometimes vanishes. To give an illustration, there is a wave on the ocean. The wave is the same as the ocean certainly, and yet we know it is a wave, and as such different from the ocean. What makes this difference? The name and the form, that is, the idea in the mind and the form. Now, can we think of a wave-form as something separate from the ocean? Certainly not. It is always associated with the ocean idea. If the wave subsides, the form vanishes in a moment, and yet the form was not a delusion. So long as the wave existed the form was there, and you were bound to see the form. This is Maya.
The whole of this universe, therefore, is, as it were, a peculiar form; the Absolute is that ocean while you and I, and suns and stars, and everything else are various waves of that ocean. And what makes the waves different? Only the form, and that form is time, space, and causation, all entirely dependent on the wave. As soon as the wave goes, they vanish.  The whole struggle is to get rid of this clinging on to time, space, and causation, which are always obstacles in our way. What is the theory of evolution? What are the two factors? A tremendous potential power which is trying to express itself, and circumstances which are holding it down, the environments not allowing it to express itself. So, in order to fight with these environments, the power is taking new bodies again and again. An amoeba, in the struggle, gets another body and conquers some obstacles, then gets another body and so on, until it becomes man. Now, if you carry this idea to its logical conclusion, there must come a time when that power that was in the amoeba and which evolved as man will have conquered all the obstructions that nature can bring before it and will thus escape from all its environments. This idea expressed in metaphysics will take this form; there are two components in every action, the one the subject, the other the object and the one aim of life is to make the subject master of the object. For instance, I feel unhappy because a man scolds me. My struggle will be to make myself strong enough to conquer the environment, so that he may scold and I shall not feel. That is how we are all trying to conquer. What is meant by morality? Making the subject strong by attuning it to the Absolute, so that finite nature ceases to have control over us. It is a logical conclusion of our philosophy that there must come a time when we shall have conquered all the environments, because nature is finite.
Here is another thing to learn. How do you know that nature is finite? You can only know this through metaphysics. Nature is that Infinite under limitations. Therefore it is finite. So, there must come a time when we shall have conquered all environments. And how are we to conquer them? We cannot possibly conquer all the objective environments. We cannot. The little fish wants to fly from its enemies in the water. How does it do so? By evolving wings and becoming a bird. The fish did not change the water or the air; the change was in itself. Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaita system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry. If I am proof against all hatred, I never feel hatred.
This is, therefore, the process by which to achieve that conquest — through the subjective, by perfecting the subjective. I may make bold to say that the only religion which agrees with, and even goes a little further than modern researches, both on physical and moral lines is the Advaita, and that is why it appeals to modern scientists so much. They find that the old dualistic theories are not enough for them, do not satisfy their necessities. A man must have not only faith, but intellectual faith too. Now, in this later part of the nineteenth century, such an idea as that religion coming from any other source than one's own hereditary religion must be false shows that there is still weakness left, and such ideas must be given up. I do not mean that such is the case in this country alone, it is in every country, and nowhere more than in my own. This Advaita was never allowed to come to the people. At first some monks got hold of it and took it to the forests, and so it came to be called the "Forest Philosophy". By the mercy of the Lord, the Buddha came and preached it to the masses, and the whole nation became Buddhists. Long after that, when atheists and agnostics had destroyed the nation again, it was found out that Advaita was the only way to save India from materialism.
Thus has Advaita twice saved India from materialism Before the Buddha came, materialism had spread to a fearful extent, and it was of a most hideous kind, not like that of the present day, but of a far worse nature. I am a materialist in a certain sense, because I believe that there is only One.  The materialists admit that out of this matter all hope, and religion, and everything have come. I say, all these have come out of Brahman. But the materialism that prevailed before Buddha was that crude sort of materialism which taught, "Eat, drink, and be merry; there is no God, soul or heaven; religion is a concoction of wicked priests." It taught the morality that so long as you live, you must try to live happily; eat, though you have to borrow money for the food, and never mind about repaying it. That was the old materialism, and that kind of philosophy spread so much that even today it has got the name of "popular philosophy". Buddha brought the Vedanta to light, gave it to the people, and saved India. A thousand years after his death a similar state of things again prevailed. The mobs, the masses, and various races, had been converted to Buddhism; naturally the teachings of the Buddha became in time degenerated, because most of the people were very ignorant. Buddhism taught no God, no Ruler of the universe, so gradually the masses brought their gods, and devils, and hobgoblins out again, and a tremendous hotchpotch was made of Buddhism in India. Again materialism came to the fore, taking the form of licence with the higher classes and superstition with the lower. Then Shankaracharya arose and once more revivified the Vedanta philosophy. He made it a rationalistic philosophy. In the Upanishads the arguments are often very obscure. By Buddha the moral side of the philosophy was laid stress upon, and by Shankaracharya, the intellectual side. He worked out, rationalised, and placed before men the wonderful coherent system of Advaita.
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. The salvation of Europe depends on a rationalistic religion, and Advaita — the non-duality, the Oneness, the idea of the Impersonal God — is the only religion that can have any hold on any intellectual people. It comes whenever religion seems to disappear and irreligion seems to prevail, and that is why it has taken ground in Europe and America.
I would say one thing more in connection with this philosophy. In the old Upanishads we find sublime poetry; their authors were poets. Plato says, inspiration comes to people through poetry, and it seems as if these ancient Rishis, seers of Truth, were raised above humanity to show these truths through poetry. They never preached, nor philosophised, nor wrote. Music came out of their hearts. In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy will become friends. This will be the religion of the future, and if we can work it out, we may be sure that it will be for all times and peoples. This is the one way that will prove acceptable to modern science, for it has almost come to it. When the scientific teacher asserts that all things are the manifestation of one force, does it not remind you of the God of whom you hear in the Upanishads: "As the one fire entering into the universe expresses itself in various forms, even so that One Soul is expressing Itself in every soul and yet is infinitely more besides?" Do you not see whither science is tending? The Hindu nation proceeded through the study of the mind, through metaphysics and logic. The European nations start from external nature, and now they too are coming to the same results. We find that searching through the mind we at last come to that Oneness, that Universal One, the Internal Soul of everything, the Essence and Reality of everything, the Ever-Free, the Ever-blissful, the Ever-Existing. Through material science we come to the same Oneness. Science today is telling us that all things are but the manifestation of one energy which is the sum total of everything which exists, and the trend of humanity is towards freedom and not towards bondage. Why should men be moral? Because through morality is the path towards freedom, and immorality leads to bondage.
Another peculiarity of the Advaita system is that from its very start it is non-destructive. This is another glory, the boldness to preach, "Do not disturb the faith of any, even of those who through ignorance have attached themselves to lower forms of worship." That is what it says, do not disturb, but help everyone to get higher and higher; include all humanity. This philosophy preaches a God who is a sum total. If you seek a universal religion which can apply to everyone, that religion must not be composed of only the parts, but it must always be their sum total and include all degrees of religious development.
This idea is not clearly found in any other religious system. They are all parts equally struggling to attain to the whole. The existence of the part is only for this. So, from the very first, Advaita had no antagonism with the various sects existing in India. There are dualists existing today, and their number is by far the largest in India, because dualism naturally appeals to less educated minds. It is a very convenient, natural, common-sense explanation of the universe. But with these dualists, Advaita has no quarrel. The one thinks that God is outside the universe, somewhere in heaven, and the other, that He is his own Soul, and that it will be a blasphemy to call Him anything more distant. Any idea of separation would be terrible. He is the nearest of the near. There is no word in any language to express this nearness except the word Oneness. With any other idea the Advaitist is not satisfied just as the dualist is shocked with the concept of the Advaita, and thinks it blasphemous. At the same time the Advaitist knows that these other ideas must be, and so has no quarrel with the dualist who is on the right road. From his standpoint, the dualist will have to see many. It is a constitutional necessity of his standpoint. Let him have it. The Advaitist knows that whatever may be his theories, he is going to the same goal as he himself. There he differs entirely from dualist who is forced by his point of view to believe that all differing views are wrong. The dualists all the world over naturally believe in a Personal God who is purely anthropomorphic, who like a great potentate in this world is pleased with some and displeased with others. He is arbitrarily pleased with some people or races and showers blessing upon them. Naturally the dualist comes to the conclusion that God has favourites, and he hopes to be one of them. You will find that in almost every religion is the idea: "We are the favourites of our God, and only by believing as we do, can you be taken into favour with Him." Some dualists are so narrow as to insist that only the few that have been predestined to the favour of God can be saved; the rest may try ever so hard, but they cannot be accepted. I challenge you to show me one dualistic religion which has not more or less of this exclusiveness. And, therefore, in the nature of things, dualistic religions are bound to fight and quarrel with each other, and this they have ever been doing. Again, these dualists win the popular favour by appealing to the vanity of the uneducated. They like to feel that they enjoy exclusive privileges. The dualist thinks you cannot be moral until you have a God with a rod in His hand, ready to punish you. The unthinking masses are generally dualists, and they, poor fellows, have been persecuted for thousands of years in every country; and their idea of salvation is, therefore, freedom from the fear of punishment. I was asked by a clergyman in America, "What! you have no Devil in your religion? How can that be?" But we find that the best and the greatest men that have been born in the world have worked with that high impersonal idea. It is the Man who said, "I and my Father are One", whose power has descended unto millions. For thousands of years it has worked for good. And we know that the same Man, because he was a nondualist, was merciful to others. To the masses who could not conceive of anything higher than a Personal God, he said, "Pray to your Father in heaven." To others who could grasp a higher idea, he said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches," but to his disciples to whom he revealed himself more fully, he proclaimed the highest truth, "I and my Father are One."
It was the great Buddha, who never cared for the dualist gods, and who has been called an atheist and materialist, who yet was ready to give up his body for a poor goat. That Man set in motion the highest moral ideas any nation can have. Whenever there is a moral code, it is ray of light from that Man. We cannot force the great hearts of the world into narrow limits, and keep them there, especially at this time in the history of humanity when there is a degree of intellectual development such as was never dreamed of even a hundred years ago, when a wave of scientific knowledge has arisen which nobody, even fifty years ago, would have dreamed of. By trying to force people into narrow limits you degrade them into animals and unthinking masses.  What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge. The Vedantist gives no other attributes to God except these three — that He is Infinite Existence, Infinite Knowledge, and Infinite Bliss, and he regards these three as One. Existence without knowledge and love cannot be; knowledge without love and love without knowledge cannot be. What we want is the harmony of Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss Infinite. For that is our goal. We want harmony, not one-sided development. And it is possible to have the intellect of a Shankara with the heart of a Buddha. I hope we shall all struggle to attain to that blessed combination.


.NET Core Middleware Demo
Appveyor Build status:
This is an app meant to demonstrate the power and implementation of .NET Core Middleware. It features the following technologies:
Getting started from here is pretty simple:
- Navigate to "Route Testing"
- Click around on the line items on this page to trigger sample POST requests to the server
- Navigate to the "Results" page
- Here we can view all of the logged requests since the application fired up and some details on each request


[1]
Like Twin View and using home there will be purchased.
[2]
information gathered from various repair men have the audio out signal distorts badly.


Drug concentration vs time
Terminal half-life (t
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Time of peak concentration (t
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Dose quantities
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Dose time offsets
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Duration:
hours
Created by
Katherine Crowson
. This project‘s
source code
is available on GitHub.


<propdesc>
The <propdesc> element is used to provide a short description of the property type and its listed values.
Category: Reference elements


{% extends "swot/base.html" %} {% load static %} {% block addHead %} {% endblock %} {% block content %}
Which SWOT Analysis Form should be loaded?
Load from Share ID


--- layout: content-page-play title: Explore options icon: door-open label: Discovery --- {% include play-section-start.md section-title="introduction" %}
Generate genuine alternate solutions to your business problem – including innovative approaches that may not be readily apparent.
{% include play-section-end.md section-title="introduction" %} {% include play-section-start.md section-title="playDescription" %}Identify potential solutions that could address the business problem. There are many methods you can use for developing options, such as brainstorming or scenario planning. You might conduct a design sprint or hackathon to quickly prototype potential solutions. Each option needs to be viable and achievable, and meaningfully different from the other options you might be presenting. It is unhelpful to propose options that you cannot practically implement— due to limitations in your organisation or in your country’s strategic context, such as funding constraints or government policy.
Make sure you understand and can describe the current service. This is your baseline. It provides the basis from which you can measure the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of other options you consider. It is also your ‘No change’ option.
{% include play-section-end.md section-title="playDescription" %} {% include play-section-start.md section-title="keyActivities" %}This is the ‘No Change’ option. It provides the basis from which you can measure the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of other options. It may be that the most sensible solution, at least for the time being, is not to make a major change.
Try to identify all the options that could achieve the desired outcomes in the current context. Consider any constraints, such as policy or technology, that might limit what options are practically feasible and achievable.
Hold workshops where stakeholders can collaborate to solve problems and share perspectives. You might like to think about options in terms of changes to people, process and technology.
Establish the criteria against which you will evaluate the options. These should suit the needs of your organisation and government. Your analysis should include a comparison of costs, benefits and risks as a minimum. Refer to Define options for further detail.
Assess each option against the desired outcomes to identify strengths and weaknesses. It is important to note that different options may deliver different measurable benefits against the proposed outcomes.
{% include play-section-end.md section-title="keyActivities" %} {% include play-section-start.md section-title="questionsToConsider" %}Business Case Options Framework (NZ) – The options framework provides a structured approach to identifying and filtering a broad range of options for delivering policies, strategies, programmes and projects.
Service design and delivery process (Australia) – A guide to what to do in Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live stages of service design and delivery.
{% include play-section-end.md section-title="resources" %}


'Justice must be swift' - Life terms for Uyinene Mrwetyana's killer welcomed
by Jenna EtheridgeThe three life terms handed to Luyanda Botha after he pleaded guilty to raping and murdering UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana has been welcomed by many in civil society.
Botha, 42, was handed three life terms on Friday in terms of a plea and sentencing agreement and will only qualify for parole after serving 25 years.
"We welcome the swift action by law enforcement agencies and judiciary for the arrest of the perpetrator leading up to his sentencing," said Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who oversees the South African Post Office (SAPO).
"While the life sentence will not bring Uyinene back, we hope that it will serve as a deterrent to perpetrators of violence against women."
After Mrwetyana's death at the Clareinch post office in Claremont in August, Ndabeni-Abrahams ordered a probe into how he was employed at the SAPO despite having previous criminal convictions.
The probe revealed the State Security Agency had previously flagged 300 SAPO employees of which 174, including Botha, had criminal records.
The post office was expected to brief Ndabeni-Abrahams by the end of the month on the comprehensive findings and recommendations of the internal investigation.
Speaking outside court, prosecutor advocate Rodney de Kock thanked the investigating officer and police officials who diligently searched for Mrwetyana's body.
"Had it not been for that intervention and for the diligent work, this case would not have been solved," De Kock said.
He believed that collecting evidence speedily and working collectively with key departments was the key to getting results like this.
"I am convinced if that is the approach we follow, we will deter criminals from committing crime in our country."
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola said the speed at which the case was solved should serve as a deterrent.
The EFF applauded the justice system for a speedy resolution of the case.
"This must mark the manner in which all cases related to rape, femicide and general abuse of women should be resolved. Justice must be swift, sharp and definitely biting because justice delayed is justice denied," said its national spokesperson, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
"There are still many Luyanda Botha's out there; continuing to proceed with their lives after causing unspeakable pain to the lives of women and girls. Society must work even harder to rid itself of such horrors."
Ndlozi said the EFF stood in solidarity with the slain 19-year-old's family, friends and loved ones.
"May she finally rest from the horror and pain that visited her when she was among the living."
UDM Youth Vanguard Gauteng secretary Yongama Zigebe welcomed the sentence, calling on the justice and police departments to continue working in unison on these cases.
"The suffering of young people at the hands of their peers, brothers and fathers … is barbaric. There must be consequences. This sentence should be a warning to all perpetrators out there, that the law will find them and they too shall be punished."


1.How to easily get the index & value from sequences
my_list = [5,2,3,7,9,1,0,3,8]
for i,ele in enumerate(my_list):
print "index",i,"element",ele;
for i,ele in enumerate(li[::-1]);
print "index",i, "element", ele
#dic is different
my_dic = {'emp_id':'007','emp_name': 'coop', 'city':'bos'}
for i, ele in my_dic.iteritems():
print i, ":", ele
2.Differences among deleting elements from list
- del: according to the given index without returning the values.
- pop: according to the given index with returning the values, otherwise directly wipe out the last element and return its value.
- remove: according the value of the elements with returning None.
3.(Easier way)counting in the sequence
What if I have to count out the duplicates from the sequence?
The common code might be:
def get_counts(sequence):
counts = {}
for x in sequence:
if x in counts:
counts[x] += 1
else:
counts[x] = 1
return counts
def top_counts(counts,n=10):
value_key_pairs = [(number, name) for name, number in counts.items()]
value_key_pairs.sort()
return value_key_pairs[-n:]
There is a class called collections.Counter in Python Collections Library which can definitely simplify the code:
from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(sequence)
counts.most_common(15)
More is on the way….
Record my faults and results for help others.
Jeremy


To compete at a high level, a disc golfer needs to have a large variety of lines that they can consistently throw. When a new player starts off, their form and arm speed will limit how their discs fly, but it's still possible to make smart disc choices that make the most basic flight paths attainable.
In general, there are three types of discs:
To slightly complicate things, all discs fall on a spectrum of overstable to understable. Assuming you are right-handed and throwing the disc with a standard backhand motion:
Disc manufacturers provide ratings for their discs based on how overstable or understable they are. It's also important to note that every disc receives a "speed" rating.
-----A speed rating does not mean "This disc will fly this fast."-----
This is where most beginners go horribly wrong. They want to throw farther, and they assume a higher speed disc will make this happen. However, the speed rating actually means something more along the lines of this is approximately how fast you need to throw this disc to make it fly the way it's supposed to, so they'll usually end up with a disc that flies super overstable. This is why you'll see so many players at your local course throwing extremely ugly shots that come out of the hand and almost immediately crash to the left with no glide.
The following discs have been selected to eliminate the frustration of trying to throw "too much disc." These will be the proper tools to learn how to play; if something with your throw is going wrong, it will not be the disc's fault, which is a super important variable to elimiate. Click the disc name to view it on the Infinite disc golf website. (If the recommended weight isn't in-stock, there are heaps of other disc golf stores on the internet.)
| Name | Type | Plastic | Ideal Weight | Stability | Proper Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innova Aviar | Putter | DX | 175-gram | Stable | Putting, Short Drives |
| Discraft Comet | Mid-Range | ESP | 170-gram | Understable | Left-to-Right and Straight Approaches |
| Innova Roc | Mid-Range | DX | 170-gram | Overstable | Right-to-Left Approaches |
| Innova Leopard | Fairway Driver | GStar | 165-gram | Understable | Easily Controlled Drives |
| Innova Valkyrie | Distance Driver | GStar | 165-gram | Stable | Max Distance Drives |


The happy sound of bluegrass and brass filled the air as the sun set over the horizon, reminding us of how beautiful life could be. [G|D]
She was embarrassed to her core when her crass language was overheard by the wrong person, making the moment even more mortifying. [G|D]
The bullies harassed their victim, kicking up the grass and mocking their naive innocence, until a brave bystander stepped in to protect them. [G|D]
He had gotten himself caught in a moral morass, with no way out except to become a supergrass, betraying his friends and family for the sake of his own survival. [G|D]


Class to read Kaldi ark format.
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Class to read Kaldi ark format.
Each time, it reads one line of the .scp file and reads in the corresponding features into a numpy matrix. It only supports binary-formatted .ark files. Text and compressed .ark files are not supported. The inspiration for this class came from pdnn toolkit (see licence at the top of this file)(https://github.com/yajiemiao/pdnn)
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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:


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Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) SDK
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Macromedia Flash (SWF) supports a variety of bitmap formats. One JPEG format has a JPEG header that is shared between multiple JPEG images in a single Macromedia Flash (SWF) file to minimize file size. Another JPEG format lets each image have it's own header, allowing each image its own compression settings. The zlib format is similar to an embedded PNG file and is used when you need lossless image compression. This is best for images that would compress well as a GIF file like screen shots or diagrams, while JPEG is best for photographs.
Bitmaps in Macromedia Flash (SWF) can also contain alpha channel information. For lossless compression, there can be alpha channel information in a color table of an 8-bit image or there can be full alpha channel information for a 32-bit image. For JPEG images, alpha channels are stored using lossless zlib compression.
Note that when a bitmap in a Macromedia Flash (SWF) file is rendered, the full transform operation is applied to the image including the matrix transformation and the color transform operation.
Defines a bitmap character with JPEG compression. This tag contains only the JPEG compressed image data (as defined by the Independent JPEG Group). JPEGTables contains the JPEG encoding data used to encode this image. (SWF 1.0)
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Note: The JPEG encoding data and image data contained within this record are in two separate JPEG streams. Each JPEG stream has a beginning of stream tag (0xFF, 0xD8) and an end of stream tag (0xFF, 0xD9). This differs from a standard JPEG image which combines the encoding data and image data into a single stream. (SWF 2.0)
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Defines a loss-less bitmap character that contains raw ZLIB compressed image data. The data format used by the ZLIB library is described by Request for Comments (RFCs) documents 1950 to 1952. (SWF 2.0)
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BitmapId |
UI16 |
Bitmap ID for this
character |
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BitmapFormat |
bmFormat = UI8 |
Format of compressed data |
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BitmapWidth |
UI16 |
Width of bitmap image |
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BitmapHeight |
UI16 |
Height of bitmap image |
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BitmapColorTableSize |
if BitmapFormat == 3 UI8 if BitmapFormat == 4 UI16 if BitmapFormat == 5 UI32 |
This value is one less than
the actual size of the color table. |
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ZLIBBITMAPDATA2 |
ZLIB compressed bitmap data |
The ZlibBitmapData2 field contains both colormap and pixel data. The ZLIBBITMAPDATA2 structure is compressed as a single unit. Before being compressed the ZLIBBITMAPDATA2 structure looks like this:
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ZLIBBITMAPDATA2 |
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Field |
Type |
Comment |
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ColorTableRGBA |
RGBA[color table size] |
Defines the mapping from
color indices to RGBA values. Color
table size is BitmapColorTableSize + 1. |
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BitmapPixelData |
UI8[image data size] |
Array of color
indices. Image data size is
BitmapWidth * BitmapHeight * BytesPerPixel.
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Note: Scan lengths must be rounded up to the next 32-bit word boundary. For example, an 8 bit image that is 253 pixels wide, must be padded out to 256 bytes per line.
Defines the JPEG encoding table (as defined by the Independent JPEG Group) for the JPEG images defined using the DefineBits records. There should only be one record of this type in a SWF file. (SWF 1.0)
(See class FDTJPEGTables in the Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) SDK)
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JPEGTables |
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Field |
Type |
Comment |
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Header |
RECORDHEADER |
Tag ID = 8 |
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BitmapJPEGEncoding |
UI8[encoding data size] |
JPEG encoding table |
The Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) SDK contains C++ examples that demonstrate how to define bitmaps in SWF:
· FExampleBitsLossless.cpp generates an 8-bit indexed bitmap in a memory buffer, and uses the low-level manager to create a FDTDefineBitsLossless image object. A rectangle the same size as the bitmap is defined, and filled with the bitmap.
· FExampleBitsJpeg.cpp reads a 24-bit RGB JPEG file into memory, and uses the low-level manager to create a FDTDefineBitsJpeg2 image object. A rectangle the same size as the bitmap is defined, and filled with the bitmap.


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