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This Is What Your Sleeping Position Reveals About Your Personality
This Is What Your Sleeping Position Reveals About Your Personality
Imagine settling into bed after a long day. You got up early for a morning run, made a healthy breakfast, you rocked it out at work and got a “great job today!” from your boss, and you even made time to run a few errands after work. You were productive and just plain awesome, and now you are officially exhausted. Your bed feels comfy and fantastic and you find yourself dozing off to sleep in no time. How do you settle into those cozy sheets? Are you a side sleeper? Do you plop down on your stomach or back? Alternatively, do you curl up into the fetal position to stay snug and warm? Your sleep position can reveal a lot about your personality. Check out the diagram below and choose your go-to sleep position, then read on to find out what it says about you!
If you tend to fall asleep on your side while sticking your knees out, you are most likely a calm and reliable person who is not easily offended. You are unafraid of the future, you smile even on the worst of days, and you are able to adjust well to any changes occurring in your life.
If you like to curl up into the fetal position to fall asleep, you may want to feel protected, understood and sympathized with. This position allows you to feel like you are protecting yourself from the problems you face in the world around you. If you are looking for an outlet, try taking up a new hobby!
If you usually sleep on your stomach with your arms and legs sticking out, you are most likely a leader. You tend to be impulsive, but you always take the initiative to make sure things are going smoothly in both your personal and your professional lives. You probably aren’t a big fan of surprises, as you would rather plan things out in advance. You have the ability to achieve great success with your strong sense of responsibility.
If you prefer to sleep lying on your back, then you are probably a positive person who loves life and lives it to the fullest. You are used to being the center of attention, and you love hanging out with friends. You are rational but stubborn and persistent, and you always tell the truth. People who sleep in this position often have strong personalities.
If you sleep on your back with your arms at your sides like a soldier at attention, you are probably a well-adjusted person with specific goals in life and the drive to achieve them. You can be strict and demanding at times, but you always demand the most from yourself.
If you sleep with one leg raised, chances are you have an unpredictable personality and a hunger for adventure. Your mood can change quickly which can be confusing at times to those around you, and you often find it difficult to make choices. In general, you have a preference for peace, quiet and stability.
If your sleep position varies often, you most likely have a multifaceted personality. You may still be trying to find yourself, or your preferences may be a little more complex. Whatever position it is that ensures that you get a good night’s sleep, sweet dreams! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9580547213554382}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '110678', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:T2NSXLPJOCMGYHCNPYDJY4NVKBFPEVGM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:85393ae4-15f5-4617-ad57-f7c9175e4d13>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 11, 16, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.59.129.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2QP22XSKUDRZMPLNWBLWXZSZGOMEUSTM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e4af7bcd-5dfe-4b84-9f84-212c743598e8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://organicvirals.com/this-is-what-your-sleeping-position-reveals-about-your-personality/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9d9bb587-51e9-4de5-98d4-26ca21726502>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '577', 'url': 'https://organicvirals.com/this-is-what-your-sleeping-position-reveals-about-your-personality/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-30-193-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.6230708956718445', 'original_id': '9f4507eb036625613bda48f681e1b781b8a68f2fa5801a52d58d4b91f97b3316'} |
Infiltrator, The
The Infiltrator is a movie based on a true story about an American journalist infiltrating the third Reich movement in present day Germany. Yaron is a German born Jew living in America. He is sent to Germany to do a story about skinheads. However, after seeing the violence with the authorities not doing anything about it, he decides to further investigate. Yaron believes there is more to this story than just the skinheads. Why else would the police look away and ignore the violence and prejudice going on all around them. Yaron makes friends with the skinheads and tells them he is an American named Ron Furry, a journalist doing a story about the skinheads and the movement. In order to show support for the movement, there are many times when he must stand by watching innocent people beaten up and harassed. In one such instance Yaron is witness to Kadar, a Turk and friend, being blinded during a brawl at Kadar's coffee shop. Yaron can't do anything to help or he takes the chance of blowing his cover. After this, the skinheads really believe he is one of them and take him to meet Gunther, a German war veteran, that is still involved in the movement. After numerous visits with Gunther, Yaron is befriended by the older man and wins his trust. Through Gunther he meets some of the more important people involved in the movement at a rally held at a well to do gentleman's house. Yaron is so appalled by all of the prominent people he sees there, that he goes to the Jewish council and offers his support to help stop this insanity. With the help of the council, Yaron further infiltrates the organization and produces documents with names of people from all over the world, including the United States. The council takes its case to the United States and to the German government, in hopes of an investigation being started. They are disappointed by the German government's reaction. Unlike the United States, they don't believe it is as bad as the council states in their reports. Even with this damming evidence, they push it aside for what they believe to be more important issues. Yaron has done as much as he can. It is up to the council to pressure the officials into action. His work is done. However, at a time when he should feel wonderful, he has one regret. He had to implicate Gunther for his involvement in the Third Reich movement and now charges are being filed against him. Gunther had become a friend and trusted Yaron therefore he felt he must tell Gunther about the charges himself. After this is done Yaron can now return to the states and continue with his work.
• Starring: Oliver Platt
• Director(s): John MacKenzie
• Producer(s): Carnival Films
• Screenwriter(s): Guy Andrews
• Distributor: HBO Home Entertainment
• Release Date: Saturday, July 08, 1995
• Rating: Believed Acceptable
Featured Animal Action
In the scene when Yaron meets Gunther he is greeted at the door by a barking dog. The dog had been trained to bark when told to "speak" and was rewarded with food. Gunther and Yaron go for walks and the dog is walked on a leash. The trainer introduced the dog with the actor before the scenes in order for them to get acquainted. Other scenes consist of the dog lounging around the house. When Yaron goes to meet the big guys in charge at the rally, there are guard dogs being lead by soldiers. The dogs merely walked from A to B with the actor and were rewarded with food at completion. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9859335422515868}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39676', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AQUBCVSUGSQZVJMQSAYXYH3PQAWHYQY2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d9e11cdd-bbb6-4ace-9341-48a91e4a8a3c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 19, 8, 24, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.16.204.57', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PIFVBR3GYVF5YGS7AOC65QWLV5BQZLWM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3e59776c-54f0-4ec8-bd44-8d4e58154e1c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/the-infiltrator', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:03ab9bc6-3dbc-48f5-baf0-8b2b1fcf900f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '605', 'url': 'http://humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/the-infiltrator', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-176-207.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07326316833496094', 'original_id': '10d25ff254eeddea28f19661a08003309a79d2d06ad327b9bf7e86b2becf5a9a'} |
Kubrick's "The Shining" further explored in new DOC
Stanley Kubrick's films are quite something aren't they? The more you watch them the more you start
noticing new things you hadn't seen at first hand. THAT my friends is what cinema is all about to me. The potential for revelation. The potential to explore the great beyond. Most movies are two and two is four. What are the movies that represent the most ADVANCED math? The far bounds of particle physics? The Einstein or Stephen Hawking notebooks that no one has quite figured out the squiggles of? The skullcrushing Advanced Calculus to the 99th Power? That was a question that was recently asked by a friend of mine on Facebook - to which I had to mention recent fare such as;
Terrence Malik's The Tree Of Life
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
Michael Haneke's Cache
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood & The Master
Joel Coen's No Country For Old Men
Alfonso Cuarron's Children Of Men
Let's face it. No brainers right? Films that will be undisputed film school staples for years to come. Just like Stanley Kubrick's films already are. 2001: A Space Oddysey is his visionary masterpiece, a film that cannot fit into the 2+2=4 category. One that needs a closer look to -at least try to- fully understand its vision and impact on your mind. These are the kind of movies I eat up. Films that don't give a fuck and aim for the beyond. Kubrick's The Shining -another masterpiece of his- deserves inclusion into this category. It is a film that doesn't play by any rules of the horror genre and decides to not explain to us the full gist of what's happening on screen. We know it is about a father that completely loses it on his family and tries to murder them but why the sudden murderous rage? Kubrick doesn't answer that question in a linear manner. The hotel at which the family is staying is filled with a haunted past that we -as the audience- need to figure out.
The images Kubrick conjures are indelibly puzzling but haunting. Too many scenes cannot be fully explained on the spot. Why does the wife walk in on a man in a bear suit giving a blowjob to a hotel clerk? What's the deal with the film's final image in which an eerily ancient painting features Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrence? Who was that creepy woman in room 237? Redrum? The "river of blood"? Those creepy twin girls? "all work and no play". Just so much stuff to dissect. Which brings me to this new documentary called Room 237 which will come out in the next few weeks and has gotten great buzz for its obsessive look at some of The Shining's most puzzling moments and the fans that eat this stuff up for breakfast.
The film does massively play with a sense of space and time - e.g. the blueprint of the Overlook doesn't add up. The doors beside room 237 make no sense (the interior of the apartement covers these doors, so they go nowhere). There is a corridor running behind Ullman's office, yet his office window shows the outside. There are windows on three sides of the Torrance's apartment, yet when Danny is dropped through the bathroom window, that whole side of the hotel is flat. All this leading to a final head-screw image, to twist your head off completely as the film finishes. The film should be looked at more in terms of its feelings and tones (like a David Lynch film) rather than logic. The subtext is about Jack being weak as an abusive alcoholic, Wendy being weak as a mother who ignores it, Danny being a kid who dissociates as a way of dealing with it - and how that dynamic breaks the family apart. Everything on the surface hints at those themes, but without a clear sense of logic.
The film cannot all be taken literally but this new documentary does try to attempt to solve some of the film's nuttiest mysteries. Which brings me back to the movies that represent "advanced math". If The Shining isn't one of those very movies, I don't know what is. I look forward to watching Room 237 but with a little hesitation. Some films don't need to explained but do in fact need to be dissected. Does that make sense? It sure does to me. Cinema is an art form and like all great art there doesn't need to necessarily be one answer. There can be many. Kubrick knows that. That's why The Shining is a full fledged masterpiece. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9671935439109802}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '89091', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NTH5UYGSVGPVSOTM2SMDVIY6YBIUIKNZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:be07a18e-71d3-47b4-95bf-f31fba35d109>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 15, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.179', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MUKWSL2GASOA27UY5KOIJFKB4I6HDJBZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fe32f201-7503-4097-ad3d-066d4657c5cb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.worldofreel.com/2013/03/kubricks-shining-further-explored-in.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2b1dcf2b-09b0-494a-8283-d0e94bbaf68c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '765', 'url': 'http://www.worldofreel.com/2013/03/kubricks-shining-further-explored-in.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-154-72-80.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5422879457473755', 'original_id': '3a75d5ffa0987c2df5731e0b7a616d1c780f2465df99e096b0af703bc1ef9bcb'} |
How to Speak Obish
Introduction: How to Speak Obish
Learn this easy language game that will allow you to speak to friends privately in front of almost anyone. They won't understand a word!
Step 1: Obish
Obish (or Obby Dobby, or Pig Greek) is a simple gibberish language game whos public knowledge seems to have faded. You can use this to your advantage, and have "private" conversations with people right in front of someone you wouldn't normally talk in front of.
Playing this "game" well will make your speech near-unintelligible to people who don't know the trick to understanding this method of speech. To people who understand, your speech will come in loud and clear!
Please, remember that this mode of speech isn't unknown, it's just not widely known. So conferring "privately" with someone in front of a car salesman (who will likely know all the secret languages) or involving truly serious matters is not recommended. There are some people know this language, so it's really just PGP (pretty good privacy), and a bit of fun for you and your friends or significant others.
Step 2: How to Speak Obish
Obish is extremely easy to learn, and with a little practice, and a few tricks, you'll be speaking quickly enough for people to be unable to decipher your conversations.
When pronouncing words, simply add "ob" before every vowel sound.
>Hoborse (hob-or-s)
>Stobore (ob before vowel SOUNDS; the E at the end is not pronounced)
>Frobeight (frob-eight)
The pronounciations included dashes for help pronouncing, they do not imply a pause. Quite conversely, you must try to pronounce the sounds as close together as you can. If you take your time and sound the sylables out, people may figure out the trick.
>This guy's boring, help me out of this!
>Thob-iss gob-eye's bob-o-robing, hob-elp mob-ee obout (like "about" with an "o") ob-of thobis!
I can't imagine there's much else to say, except that once you get used to speaking like this, you'll be able to speak it without even thinking.
Step 3: Tricks and Tips
This language isn't fool-proof, and people will endeavor to understand what you're saying. There are some problems with the language that can help people figure out the trick, but we're going to take care of them here!
Speed is the trick to this language. Do not use it seriously until you and the person(s) you're speaking it with are fast enough.
Once you're sure-tongued with the language, try to adjust the pitch and pronounciation of the word to make it sound even less like the original word.
Short and common words that start with vowels are your enemies. These words will help people decypher your language. Words like "of" or "as" should be pronounced so fast that they are almost implied to the listener, but to make them even harder for people to understand, use other words that don't follow the ob rules. Replace "of" with "olive" or make "as" into "asbee". Try to choose something that is fast so as not to slow down the conversation. Names are a real danger, since people certainly know their own names, and if you start talking about Rob-ojer, Roger is going to figure out that you just added "ob" to his name. Use replacement words for names to keep people from catching on to the trick. Roger becomes Raybo, John becomes Joe-boe. Try to keep ob out of the special name to make sure the person you're talking to doesn't try to interpret the special name, but try to keep a "b" in there to keep the name sounding like the rest of the conversation. Of course, these special names must be agreed upon with your co-linguist beforehand.
These are really only necessary when using Obish in front of the same people over and over. If you're only going to be using it every once in a while, you don't need to add any of these tricks to the language to keep from being understood by those who don't know it. Keep in mind that the speed is always good, since if you're not fast with the language, you won't speak it, and then what good is it? :)
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(Damn Roger, damn Roger to Hell)
or of course you could just say their name, since names aren't normally translated when you are speaking a different language, that wouldn't give it away either
What's the one where you insert "ma" and repeat syllables in short words?
"Tubamaba, Viomalin, Obomoboe- Saxamaphone"
I think it was favoured by Sara Cox...
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Back in about 1955 we called this "Double Dutch." Usually we learned it just after Pig Latin got too easy.
Close, but since it's only for vowel sounds, and not just vowels, you don't need the extra "ob" for the "u" in "yourself." It would be closer to "yob-or-sob-elf."
this is cool
11 years ago
excellent use of the fallout guy
Sobeems sobortoba usefobul, but you could easily substitute different sounds when talking in front of someone who knows this. For example, Ebish, or Abish.
My first thought was "Mushmouth" from "Fat Albert"... though he used "ba" as in "hebaloba howba arba youba?"
I used to speak Ubi-Dubbi. Its the same thing but you say ub instead of ob. It was on a TV show called Zoom. I was pretty good at it. Maybe I should re-learn it XD
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I got pretty good at that too. Zoom's been replaced by Dragonfly now though.
"Come on Zoom-a-zooma-zoom.... come on and zooma-zooma-zooma-zoom.... come on and give it a try......... we'll show you how and just why..........." (everybody sing with me!) could be the Instructables theme song.
11 years ago
My grandfather and I used to do this when I was a kid. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for reminding me.
In Spanish you can do this, but just by adding a letter instead of ob, "Hablar con la F", that is what i would call it when i spoke with F, i can speak faster in spanish and the letter F between every vowl sound, than i do normally in english (i am completely bi-lingual, but i speak spanish faster because after all, it is the fastest spoken langage in the world). the only objection that i have with this is that althought it tends to throw people off more, the b sound at the end makes it harder for the words to flow.
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That's the beauty of the language; the b sound forces a phonetic pause, so while it does make it harder to say fast, it breaks up words to throw people off more. "friday night" doesn't sound like "frobidobay nobight," It sounds like "frob idob aynob ite". It throws off the cadence. It's just one way to throw people off, high speed is another.
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Sunday, December 3, 2017
The Sensations of Labor: Epidurals! (part 1 in a series)
With the launch of The Flying Doula (my doula business, and my new website! Check it out!!!), I wanted to share a post about a topic that every pregnant person has on their minds: the sensations of labor! I soon realized that this is a huuuuge topic, so this is going to be a series! Yaaaay!!! Today we'll have a little overview, and we'll focus on a topic that could probably be a series in and of itself: the epidural!
When discussing the experience of labor with my clients, I favor words like, 'sensations', 'intensity', and 'power' because they leave room for your subjective experience of labor to be whatever it is! But let's be frank: the majority of people who have given birth in our culture (and there's a whooooooole conversations to be had about how our culture contributes to this) describe at least parts of it as being significantly painful, even extremely painful, to the point of being the most pain they've ever experienced in their lives.
And that's SCARY! How could it not be?? I don't like to talk about that much because if you're expecting something to be painful, if you're fearing something will be painful, if you're tensed up and closed off to something, there's just no question that your experience will be the worse for that negative anticipation, bodily tension, and catecholamines (fight or fight hormones). Catecholamines also work antagonistically with the primary hormone of labor: oxytocin. When they go up, oxytocin goes down, which can easily slow or even stall labor. (This is a survival adaption. If you're in danger, you need to get the hell out of there, not drop a vulnerable baby!)
AND, not everyone experiences labor that way! For some people, it may feel intense, and uncomfortable, but pain just isn't the word they would use to describe it. A small percentage of people orgasm at some point during labor and birth (don't look so surprised! All the same hormones, and body parts are at play here, and vaginas can accommodate very big things when warmed up and stretched adequately. Some people are into fisting!) For some people, it just never feels worse than mild cramping, and they're shocked to find out their baby is well on its way when someone finally decides they'd better get checked, just in case.
But of course, that can be scary in its own way! No one wants to be the subject of the headline: " BABY BORN ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE!!!"
Obviously fear surrounding labor is strongly tied to anticipating the sensations of labor, and also to the unknown. You just can't know how your brain will interpret the sensations of labor, or how fast, slow, intensely or gently, your body will go through labor. Some clients dilate several centimeters before they're even in labor. Others labor HARD for hours and hours just to achieve enough effacement to begin dilation! There is such a wide range of normal, and a really important aspect of labor preparation is working on getting comfortable with this not knowing, with taking your birth one moment at a time, as it comes. That shit is HARD, and it's one of the reasons why meditation work is part of the Flying Doula umbrella (and def the subject of another post in this series)
But, another important part of labor prep that can help you feel perhaps just a bit more ready for this adventure is to research your pain relief options in advance! So we'll be dealing with those options one post at a time in this series, and today's topic is...
The Epidural
The mystical, magical epidural if you're approaching birth from the point of view of our current birth culture, or perhaps the EVIL, INTERFERING, BIRTH-RUINING epidural if you've spent some time on natural birth message boards.
Well surprise-surprise: the truth is somewhere in the middle. Like every medical treatment ever, the epidural has pros and cons, and for some people and some labors, the pros will outweigh the cons, and for others, the cons will outweigh the pros. So lets talk a bit about what's entailed in getting an epidural, and what some of those pros and cons are.
An epidural is a tiny flexible tube that stays in your epidural space, allowing small amounts of a 'caine' pain reliever (think novocaine at the dentist), and an opiate/synthetic opiate-based pain reliever to be injected into this space, providing generally very effective pain relief and numbness to the entire lower body. It's put in place via a large needle, but the area is numbed via injections of a 'caine' pain reliever before hand, because that needle needs to be placed very slowly and carefully for the epidural to be safe, and effective.
Different anesthesiologists will position you differently, but the common thread is that you'll be asked to curl forward to make your lumber spine, and the space between your vertebrae where the doctor will be aiming, as big and accessible as possible. Every doctor, and every situation is different, so sometimes the epidural can be placed very quickly, and sometimes it takes some time. It's critical that you stay still while the process is going on, even if you have contractions. If you can't, the doctor will stop and wait for you to be able to stay still again, which of course makes the process longer. Once it's all set up, in most cases, you'll have a button you can press to get another dose of medication in your epidural so you're in control of how much pain relief you get. You'll be locked out from overdosing yourself, so no worries there.
Along with the epidural, you'll receive an iv so that meds to raise your blood pressure, or fluids to bolus your blood pressure, can be quickly administered, as the epidural sometimes causes a drop in blood pressure. You'll also have your blood pressure taken regularly, usually via an automatic cuff that stays on your arm, your blood oxygen level monitored via a clip on your finger, and two sensors held on your belly via stretchy belts to monitor your baby's heart rate, and your contractions. Since you can't get out of bed or walk because of the numbness, you'll have a catheter inserted into your bladder. Some or all of these interventions may have already been in place before the epidural, depending on your labor, your risk status, your choices, your hospital, and your doctor...but that's a whole other blog post!
Other potential side effects include a bad headache, and very, very, very rarely, pain that persists for weeks or longer. In a tiny, tiny percentage of women, the epidural is totally ineffective. Just does not work. We don't know why! Again, this is exceedingly rare, but it is a real thing to be aware of, especially if the epidural is the only pain relief/comfort measure you're considering. More commonly, the epidural can leave a 'window' of sensation where you can still feel the discomfort of contractions. There are ways of dealing with this though, and often it can be resolved.
This might sound scary, and obviously you should take all possibilities into account when considering your pain relief options, but statistically, the epidural is very safe, and very effective. So, lets talk pros and cons.
Pain relief! Obviously. But this isn't a matter of taking something for your headache or toughing it out. This isn't just about making the experience of labor and birth less unpleasant, though that is a very real and valid benefit of the epidural for some people. Because, you know what comes along with pain? Tension! And you know what makes it hard for a baby to descend and put good, even pressure on a cervix so it can dilate? Tension!
Relaxation! Some people in some labors are able to keep breathing and softening their bodies, and labor along just fine without an epidural. Others reach a point where that is just not possible anymore. They're unable to get back into a place where they can just let labor happen and not fight it. This is a miserable place to be. No one should ever feel like they have to continue at this point just because they technically could. But aside from that, their tension could slow dilation and/or descent of the baby, and their distress could trigger the catecholamines that slow labor. In instances like this, an epidural could speed up labor, and prevent the need for other interventions!
Sleep! This is no small potatoes, people. I always tell my clients who can't believe I'm sitting up all night with them, when this is all over, I go home and go to bed! You're going to have a newborn to care for! And even before that, you'll need to push this baby out. The pushing stage is a lot of work for most people, and if you've had a very long, hard labor, and are too exhausted to think straight, you may struggle to push your baby out. Nature helps us out here of course, by giving a burst of those catecholamines right when you need that surge of energy, and of course, if you don't have the epidural, you'll be able to move freely to find positions to help baby descend more easily...but we'll talk about that in the cons section. Sometimes rest is whats needed so refuel the uterus and get it back to a more consistent or effective contraction pattern as well. If you haven't been able to eat, sleep, or take in much fluids over the course of your labor due to your discomfort, an epidural could be a tool that would allow you to refuel your body, so your uterus can continue the hard work of opening, and expelling your baby.
Awareness! The intensity of labor will take you to some interesting places. You'll connect to your mammalian brain in a way you probably never have before. You'll find yourself rocking, tapping, chanting, grabbing, moaning, anything to help you ride these incredibly powerful waves! This can be a beautiful experience for many people, but for others, it's just scary, and not how they want to welcome their child. They want to be fully human, full themselves, talking to their partner, co-parent, and/or support person, waiting excitedly for their baby to arrive! The epidural can let you do that.
So many tubes! The epidural itself, and the different monitoring protocols it comes with, means you'll suddenly be tethered by many different tubes and machines. Few people would call this a comfortable situation. Of course, if all you want to do is lie still and sleep anyway, it may not seem like much of a sacrifice.
Stuck in bed! No sitting and hula-ing on your birth ball, no blessedly hot shower, no 'dancing your baby down'. You're grounded, missy/mister/mixter! If you had pictured yourself being an active participant in your labor, the epidural can be a bit of a let-down. You can still carefully change positions in bed with help, and in fact regularly switching sides will not only help promote descent and dilation, but can make your epidural more effective (see, 'window' of sensation), but a lot of options aren't available anymore, and that can be a bummer.
Slowing down labor! This potential side-effect of the epidural is much more likely to be an issue when the epidural is administered before labor is well-established. By blocking the sensations of labor, a kink gets thrown into the hormonal chain that keeps labor progressing. But as I like to say, at a certain point, there is just no stopping this train! If you've made it to a strong, active-labor contraction pattern, odds are good things aren't going to slow back down, but it is a possibility to be aware of, especially if you're less than three centimeters, and/or not meeting that 411 rule, or your labor has stalled out in the past.
You give me fever! (insert song clip here) A fever is a potential side effect of an epidural, particularly one that has been in place a long time. The fever itself isn't high enough to be dangerous to you and baby, the problem is, there's no way for your medical team to know if your high temperature is just a side effect of your epidural, or if it's a sign of infection that could be putting you and your baby at risk. They have to assume the latter, and that means wanting your baby born sooner rather than later, which can mean more interventions, and possibly even a c-section, possibly starting iv antibiotics immediately, and a potential work-up in the NICU, including a spinal tap, for your newborn. Not everyone who gets an epidural, even if they have it in place for a long time, will get a fever! And of course, getting or not getting the epidural does not change your likelihood of getting a fever caused by an infection (well, sometimes a catheter leads to a bladder infection, and without the epidural, you don't need one of those...but that's getting tangental.)
Pushing options get limited! So, pushing a baby out is hard work, and being able to listen to your instincts and move around, from all-fours, to squatting, or lying on your side, to sitting on the toilet, to walking around the room, can really help baby descend and save you some effort. But with an epidural in place, you need to stay in bed, and you can't support your weight on your legs. In theory, you can still push while lying on your side, but in practice, you'll almost certainly be advised (told) to lie on your back, grab onto your thighs, pull them toward you while you crunch around your baby, and hold your breath for a slow-count of ten while you push for all you're worth. Go on, pop a blood vessel! Now, this kind of pushing absolutely has its place. This position helps baby duck under your pubic bone, and if you pull your legs up enough, you'll even make space for your sacrum to move as necessary. It's not a bad position to push in! And sometimes it really takes three loooooong pushes per contraction to get baby moving...but that shit is HARD, and it will leave you out of breath and panting after every contraction. If you're out of breath, guess who else is, too? Yep! Baby! Between contractions you'll be advised to 'breathe for baby!' 'take long, slow, deep breaths!', and possibly even offered an oxygen mask to pump up your blood oxygen faster. If you had the freedom to push in whatever position you wanted, you'd be more likely to be able to follow your own body and push for as long as feels right with your contractions, and you'd almost certainly pause for a breathe before that ETERNAL ten count. With gravity helping, the pushing phase would likely go faster, so no one would be stressing about watching the clock, and needing your pushes to be more effective faster.
If you can't feel whats happening, its hard to call the shots! Relating to that previous point, if you don't have an epidural, or your epidural is turned down enough that you have some sensations, your care provider will likely wait to advise you on pushing until you...START PUSHING! Like, on your own, because your body's telling you to! Some doctors will tell you to let them know when you feel 'rectal pressure'. They mean to tell them when you feel like you need to poop. But if you just aren't feeling much of anything with your wonderfully effective epidural, what often happens is, your doctor checks, finds you fully dilated, and tells you to go ahead and push. Has your baby descended enough for you to be able to push effectively? Has your uterus built up the fundus enough to successfully eject the baby? Without knowing if your body would instinctively be pushing on its own, we can't know that. And now the clock is started. What clock? Well, most hospitals in the U.S. aren't going to let you push for more than two or three hours, even if baby is doing well, because despite little evidence to support this cultural idea, more than that is just too long to push. Time to give up, and roll on to c-section. And...
If you can't feel, it's tough to push effectively! Think about how weird it is to talk and eat after getting novocain at the dentist. Your motor control is a little wonky because you aren't getting sensory feedback from that part of your body. Without that feedback, pushing, and figuring out how to push effectively, takes longer, and if it takes too long, you could be looking at a c-section.
Now, I listed more cons than pros to the epidural, but I want to be really clear here: those pros are all really important and valid ones, and lot of those cons are interconnected enough that a different person may have combined them. Counting isn't going to tell you much. Your own values and wishes for your birth will tell you more, and at the end of the day, you just won't know until you get there. I've had clients who were certain they did not want an epidural wind up getting one, and having an excellent birth experience because of it. I've had clients who were having a very challenging labor, and they didn't get an epidural, and looking back, they're proud that they stuck to their guns, but wondering if it was really worth it. I've had clients not get one, and have an awe-inspiring, beautiful, 'natural' birth experience that they'll be drawing on for inspiration and confidence for the rest of their lives, and I've had clients who got an epidural, and then wondered if it was necessary/helpful. I have yet to have a client who wants one and ends up not getting one, but it absolutely happens!
So, whats my final say on the epidural? It reminds me of that old many doulas does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: we don't change the lightbulb! We help you decide how you want to that lightbulb changed, and we support you through the process. I think the epidural is a tool. Sometimes its the right tool for the job, and sometimes its not. It's as simple as that.
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Big Don'ts When Financing Your Film
Thumb Don’t wear this to a business meeting.
Finding the money to make your film is a real chore. Why make it harder on yourself?
Having gone through the process a few times (both successfully and unsuccessfully) for myself and others, I've learned the hard way to avoid these all-too-common mistakes.
Investors, agents, and producers want to believe in you. Show them that you're responsible. Don't wear something inappropriate to a meeting. You don't necessarily have to sport a tie, but you should look like you have a good command of your appearance. This is a visual art form, after all, so if you can't handle your wardrobe, why should I write you a check for your movie? This seems painfully obvious, but I've seen it happen.
Every ten years, a film comes along (El Mariachi, Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity) that turns into a cash register. But it's usually a bad idea to base your script or your financial projections on these films. They're outliers, and not just because they earned insane box office. The directors had tremendous skills and favors (to make up for lack of crew and money), and tight constraints (small cast, short scripts, few locations, cheap format, etc.). Also, you'll never know how much the distributor put in later to fix them up. Can you shoot and edit a whole film yourself? Do you have a mile of dependable favors to call in? Is your script really small enough? Chances are, especially if you're starting out, the answer to all the above is no. So be *somewhat* realistic about your costs and returns.
To get started, you'll need money for contracts, your production company, script copies, research, budgeting, web work, and travel. Some of these expenses can be recouped from the film's budget later. And sometimes you can make do with less. But you have to spend money to get money.
People flock to plenitude and flee from poverty. If you act like you need the money investors will shy away. Tell them you're giving them an opportunity. Show them an adventure, not desperation.
Financing takes time. Going out with a half-assed business plan or an unproofed script will only cost you. Patience now will be rewarded later. You don't want to scramble for money or a lead during preproduction, right?
It's good to be committed to your film, but you have to realize that it could stall at any point, often due to circumstances beyond your control. When that happens, have another script to show off and work on. It's also good preparation: when you do make your dream project, you should have your next one lined up, so you can translate buzz into action.
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Heraldic badge
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The Prince of Wales's feathers, which is the badge of the Prince of Wales as heir apparent to the crown of England.
A heraldic badge, emblem, impresa, device, or personal device worn as a badge indicates allegiance to, or the property of, an individual or family. Medieval forms are usually called a livery badge, and also a cognizance. They are para-heraldic, not necessarily using elements from the coat of arms of the person or family they represent, though many do, often taking the crest or supporters. Their use was more flexible than that of arms proper.
Badges worn on clothing were common in the late Middle Ages, particularly in England. They could be made of base metal, cloth or other materials and worn on the clothing of the followers of the person in question; grander forms would be worn by important persons, with the Dunstable Swan Jewel in enamelled gold a rare survivor. Livery collars were also given to important persons, often with the badge as a pendant. The badge would also be embroidered or appliqued on standards, horse trappings, livery uniforms, and other belongings. Many medieval badges survive in English pub names.
Medieval usage[edit]
Standard of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, about 1475, features the Stafford knot and Bohun swan badges.
In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, well-known badges were borne by the followers, retainers, dependants, and partisans of famous and powerful personages and houses, precisely because they were known and understood. (In contrast, the coat of arms was used exclusively by the individual to whom it belonged.)
Badges are occasionally taken from a charge in the bearer's coat of arms, or they have a more or less direct reference to those charges. More often, badges commemorated some remarkable exploit, illustrated a family or feudal alliance, or indicated some territorial rights or pretensions. Some badges are rebuses, making a pun or play-on-words of the owner's name. It was not uncommon for the same personage or family to use more than one badge; and, on the other hand, two or more badges were often borne in combination, to form a single compound device.
Livery badges in England[edit]
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, based on a livery badge of about 1400 AD, perhaps of Henry V as Prince of Wales. British Museum
Livery badges were especially common in England from the mid-fourteenth century until about the end of the fifteenth century, a period of intense factional conflict which saw the deposition of Richard II and the Wars of the Roses. A lavish badge like the Dunstable Swan Jewel would only have been worn by the person whose device was represented, members of his family or important supporters, and possibly servants who were in regular very close contact with him. However the jewel lacks the ultimate luxury of being set with gems, for example having ruby eyes, like the lion pendants worn by Sir John Donne and his wife[1] and several examples listed on the 1397 treasure roll of King Richard II. In the Wilton Diptych, Richard's own badge has pearls on the antler tips, which the angels' badges lack. The white hart in the badge on the Treasury Roll, which the painted one may have copied, had pearls and sat on a grass bed made of emeralds,[2] and a hart badge of Richard's inventoried in the possession of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in 1435 was set with 22 pearls, two spinels, two sapphires, a ruby and a huge diamond.[3]
Cheaper forms of badge were more widely distributed, sometimes very freely indeed, rather as modern political campaign buttons and tee-shirts are, though as in some modern countries wearing the wrong badge in the wrong place could lead to personal danger. In 1483 King Richard III ordered 13,000 badges in fustian cloth with his emblem of a white boar for the investiture of his son Edward as Prince of Wales,[4] a huge number given the population at the time. Other grades of boar badges that have survived are in lead, silver,[5] and gilded copper relief, the last found at Richard's home of Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, and very likely worn by one of his household when he was Duke of York.[6] The British Museum also has a swan badge in flat lead, typical of the cheap metal badges which were similar to the pilgrim badges that were also common in the period.[7]
The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–99), showing Richard II and the angels wearing livery badges.
In 1377, during a period when the young Richard's uncle John of Gaunt as Regent was highly unpopular in London, one of his more than 200 retainers, the Scottish knight Sir John Swinton, unwisely rode through London wearing Gaunt's badge on a livery collar (an innovation of Gaunt's, probably the Collar of Esses). The mob attacked him, pulling him off his horse and the badge off him, and he had to be rescued by the major from suffering serious harm.[8] Over twenty years later, after Gaunt's son Henry IV had deposed Richard, one of Richard's servants was imprisoned by Henry for continuing to wear Richard's livery badge. Many of the large number of badges of various liveries recovered from the Thames in London were perhaps discarded hurriedly by retainers who found themselves impoliticly dressed at various times.[9]
Apparently beginning relatively harmlessly under Edward III in a context of tournaments and courtly celebrations, by the reign of his successor Richard II the badges had become seen as a social menace, and were "one of the most protracted controversies of Richard's reign",[10] as they were used to denote the small private armies of retainers kept by lords, largely for the purpose of enforcing their lord's will on the less powerful in his area. Though they were surely a symptom rather than a cause of both local baronial bullying and the disputes between the king and his uncles and other lords, Parliament repeatedly tried to curb the use of livery badges.[11] The issuing of badges by lords was attacked in the Parliament of 1384, and in 1388 they made the startling request that "all liveries called badges [signes], as well of our lord the king as of other lords ... shall be abolished",[12] because "those who wear them are flown with such insolent arrogance that they do not shrink from practising with reckless effrontery various kinds of extortion in the surrounding countryside ... and it is certainly the boldness inspired by these badges that makes them unafraid to do these things".[13] Richard offered to give up his own badges, to the delight of the House of Commons of England, but the House of Lords refused to give up theirs, and the matter was put off. In 1390 it was ordered that no one below the rank of banneret should issue badges, and no one below the rank of esquire wear them.[14] The issue was apparently quiet for a few years, but from 1397 Richard issued increasingly large numbers of badges to retainers who misbehaved (his "Cheshire archers" being especially notorious), and in the Parliament of 1399, after his deposition, several of his leading supporters were forbidden from issuing "badges of signes" again, and a statute was passed allowing only the king (now Henry IV) to issue badges, and only to those ranking as esquires and above, who were only to wear them in his presence.[15]
The Tudor Rose badge of the House of Tudor.
In the end it took a determined campaign by Henry VII to largely stamp out the use of livery badges by others than the king, and reduce them to things normally worn only by household servants in the case of the aristocracy. Livery badges issues by guilds and corporations, and mayors, were exempt, and these continued in use until the 19th century in some cases. A particular concern in all the legislation was to forbid the issuing of liveries to those without a permanent contract with the lord; these groups assembled for a particular purpose were believed to be the most dangerous. The Statute of Liveries of 1506 finally forbade entirely the issuing of liveries to those of higher rank; they had to be domestic servants or persons experienced in the law, unless covered by a specific royal licence. A well-known story, first told by Francis Bacon but unsupported in the remaining records, has Henry visiting his principal military commander John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford at Hedingham Castle, who at his departure lined the king's exit route with liveried retainers, for which Henry fined him 15,000 marks.[16] In fact modern historical analysis of the court records shows few prosecutions, but by the end of Henry's reign liveried retainers do seem to have ceased to be a major problem.[17] While the badges of the nobility were carefully restricted, the royal badges of the Tudors, most famously the Tudor rose that signified the union of the Lancastrian and Yorkist dynasties, were used more widely than ever before, for example being added freely to King's College Chapel, Cambridge when the Tudors completed Henry VI's unfinished building. The Collar of Esses became in effect a badge of office, though of course still denoting allegiance to the monarch.
Renaissance and early modern personal device[edit]
The Château de Blois, with the porcupine of Louis XII
In the Renaissance, the badge, now more likely to be described as a "personal device", took an intellectual turn, and was usually combined with a short text or motto, which when read in combination were intended to convey a sense of the aspirations or character of the bearer. These impresas or emblems were used on the reverse of the portrait-medals that became fashionable in Italy, and used the vocabulary of Renaissance Neo-Platonism, often dropping links to the actual heraldry of the owner completely. Indeed, by the 16th century, emblems were adopted by intellectuals and merchants who had no heraldry of their own. Later emblem books contained large numbers of emblems, partly to allow people to choose one they thought suited them.
Imprese from Jacobus Typotius, Symbola Divina et Humana (Prague, 1601), engraved by Aegidius Sadeler II.
By the later sixteenth century, allegorical badges called impresa were adopted by individuals as part of an overall programme of theatrical disguise for a specific event or series of events, such as the fancy dress jousts of the Elizabethan era typified by the Accession Day tilts.
The device spread far beyond the aristocracy as part of the craze for wittily enigmatic constructions in which combinations of pictures and texts were intended to be read together to generate a meaning that could not be derived from either part alone. The device, to all intents and purposes identical to the Italian impresa, differs from the emblem in two principal ways. Structurally, the device normally consists of two parts while most emblems have three or more. As well, the device was highly personal, intimately attached to a single individual, while the emblem was constructed to convey a general moral lesson that any reader might apply in his or her own life.
Salamander badge of King Francis I of France, with letter "F", Château de Chambord
Particularly well-known examples of devices – so well known that the image could be understood as representing the bearer even without the motto – are those of several French kings, which were freely used to decorate their building projects. These include the porcupine of Louis XII with its motto "Eminus et cominus" or "De pres et de loin" (left, over a doorway at Blois) and the crowned salamander among flames of François Ier with the motto "Nutrisco et extinguo" (right, at Chambord). These and many more were collected by Claude Paradin and published in his Devises héroïques of 1551 and 1557, which gives the motto of Louis XII as "Ultos avos Troiae". Later the sun of Louis XIV was equally famous.
Badges of Earls of Stafford, 1720
Famous English badges[edit]
Badges of English royalty[edit]
Modern badge of the House of Windsor.
• William II: a flower of five foils
• Henry I: a flower of eight foils
• Stephen: a flower of seven foils; a Sagittarius; a Plume of Ostrich Feathers; Motto: Vi nulla invertitur ordo (No force alters their fashion)
• Henry II: the Planta-genista; an Escarbuncle; a Sword and Olive branch
• Richard I: a star of thirteen rays and a crescent; a star issuing from a crescent; a mailed arm grasping a broken lance, with the motto Christo Duce
• John and Henry III: a star issuing from a crescent
• Edward I: a heraldic rose or, stalked ppr
• Edward II: a castle of Castile
• Edward III: a Fleur-de-Lys; a Leopard, a Sword; a falcon; a Gryphon; a Stock (stump) of a tree; rays issuing from a cloud
• Richard II: a White Hart lodged; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a white falcon; a Sun in Splendor; a Sun Clouded
• Henry IV: the Monogram (cypher) SS; a crowned eagle; an eagle displayed; a white swan; a red rose; a Columbine flower; a fox’s tail; a crowned panther; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a Crescent
• Henry V: a fire-beacon; a white swan gorged and chained; a chained antelope
• Henry VI: two ostrich feathers in Saltire; a chained antelope; a panther
• Edward IV: a white rose en Soleil; a white wolf and white lion; a white Hart; a black dragon and black bull; a falcon and Fetter-lock; the Sun in Splendor
• Richard III: the White Boar, the Sun in Splendor
• Henry VII: a Rose of York and Lancaster ( a Tudor Rose); a Portcullis and a Fleur-de-Lis, all of them crowned; a red dragon; a white greyhound; a Hawthorn Bush and Crown, with the cypher H.R.
• Henry VIII: the same, without the Hawthorn Bush and with a White Cockerel
• Edward VI: a Tudor Rose; the sun in splendor
• Mary I: a Tudor Rose impaling a pomegranate, also impaling a Sheaf of Arrows, ensigned with a Crown, and surrounded with Rays; a pomegranate
• Elizabeth I: a Tudor Rose, with the motto, Rosa sine Spina (a Rose without a Thorn); a crowned falcon and sceptre; her motto, Semper Eadem (Always the same)
Royal badges of British monarchs[edit]
With the accession of the House of Hanover in 1714, British monarchs ceased to use personal badges (Royal Cyphers came into use instead), though historical badges continue to be used for various purposes as part of royal symbolism (such as the titles of pursuivants in the College of Arms), and there is now a general badge of the House of Windsor.
Heraldic badges were revived in 1906 by the College of Arms under Alfred Scott-Gatty, and have since then often been included in new grants of arms, in addition to the traditional grant of the coat of arms. Whether or not they are so granted is at the option of the grantee, who pays a higher fee if they are.[18] When granted, the badge is typically illustrated on the letters patent containing the grant of arms, and upon an heraldic standard (flag). The standard is not however granted automatically with the said achievement of arms and badge, but can be requested if a badge is granted and upon payment of a further fee.
See also[edit]
1. ^ in their portraits by Hans Memling, now in the National Gallery, London
2. ^ Stratford, Miscellaneous gold objects
3. ^ Campbell, Marian in Alexander & Binski, 524
4. ^ Cherry (2003), 204
5. ^ BBC article on silver boar badge, which it appears was originally silver-gilt
6. ^ Cherry (2003), 204; no. 69
7. ^ Cherry (2003), 203; no. 68a
8. ^ Given-Wilson, 124. Steane, 132 for Gaunt's retinue. See Stratford, Richard II's life and reign for a concise account of the upheavals of his reign.
9. ^ Steane, 132
10. ^ Given-Wilson, 123
11. ^ Given-Wilson, 126
12. ^ Brown, 117
13. ^ Given-Wilson, 125
14. ^ Brown, 117
15. ^ Given-Wilson, 126
16. ^ Bacon History of the Reign of King Henry VII.
17. ^ Chrimes, 187-192
18. ^ As of January 2010, the extra fee is £1,000.
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While searching for new ideas on bookstores and the digital world, I came across this article entitled, “Appetite for Risk: At the Intersection of Video Games and Literature.” In the article, author Maxwell Neely-Cohen addresses the idea that the world of video games and the world of literature are more similar than people would think, and that the two industries can benefit from shared ideas and influences. The author states that:
We should be making novels into video games, video games into novels. Publishers should collaborate with indie game developers, trading them a platform and content in exchange for labor and a new form of adaptation. Literary magazines and libraries should sponsor gamejams. The games industry should fully embrace the thousands of works of classic literature open to them in the public domain.”
As someone who enjoys both video games and books, the concept of these seemingly different forms of entertainment intermingling and helping each other is appealing. While I play all different types of video games, I am always more engaged in games that have strong, unique plots and well-written dialogue. While the game mechanics are important, I would rather play a game with sub-par controls and graphics as long as the plot is compelling. In terms of how literature could benefit from a partnership with the gaming industry, I think the author creates a strong argument. He says:
“The book publishing industry needs to carve out a more interesting, necessary space for itself in the digital world. All too frequently “technology” is considered one big amorphous blob, or worse, treated with indifference. Barely enhanced e-books, predictably executed apps, and promotional Twitter accounts for dead or Luddite authors seem to represent the extent of most publishers’ innovative efforts. Even in terms of pure content, contemporary fiction too often fails to fully evoke 21st-century life and contend with its burgeoning issues. We writers disproportionately focus on the past, or worse, replicate the form and structures of centuries gone without appetite for the risk, resistance, and failure innovation entails.”
So how does this article relate to bookstores in the digital age? Though the author is focused solely on the relationship between games and books, I think his suggestion that the book publishing industry doesn’t know how to handle the digital age is relevant to the struggle facing independent bookstores. The author suggests at the end of the article that applying gaming concepts and technology to literature could create a new, innovative form of art, however my question is if bookstores can also harness this innovation. Is there a way for independent bookstores to incorporate forms and functions of video games into their marketing and sales tactics? How could these tactics encourage consumers to purchase books? I’m not sure I have answers to these questions, but one thought would be perhaps making use of virtual reality gaming technology and enticing customers to come to in-store events where you could “live” in your favorite book. I would love to hear if anyone else has thoughts on this!
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Hacking options for a true debug PS3
Discussion in 'PS3 - Hacking & Homebrew' started by Myria, Mar 27, 2016.
1. Myria
Myria GBAtemp Fan
Jul 24, 2014
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What options exist for hacking a debug PS3? I have a backward-compatible actual Debugging Station (DECH-A00A).
I've heard that it's possible to play Blu-Ray movies on DEX firmware now, but I don't know whether that applies to Debugging Stations.
I can disable HDCP on this system, right?
2. DeViL303
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Apr 3, 2016
You would probably get more answers at PSX-Place, lots of DECH experts there.
3. DinohScene
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I'd honestly get a normal PS3 and hack that one.
Debug hardware is a bit to valuable to be fucked around with.
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4. nero99
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i know this is a old thread, please forgive me for replying to it. you can get quite a bit of money by selling the debug unit as long as everything works.
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I've created a few bookmarks in Google Earth which I use to show students where certain famous mathematicians were born, lived and died. I've found it useful for students to make connections and see that the mathematicians who invented the stuff they're learning were real people that really lived...
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Are Surge Protectors Worthwhile? UPS?
Do Surge Protectors really do anything? Summer’s a ways off and so are lightning and thunderstorms, but electrical surges can happen at anytime of the year. I recall after lightning storms I always got service calls for modems that stopped working. This is because an electrical surge moved through their phone line and toasted their modem (you’re lucky if the damage limited to just the modem and not the rest of the computer). Those were the days of dial-up when land-lines were more common, but it still applies today to cable and DSL modems and even apartment buildings. Many apartments, especially around the university, offer an ethernet jack and provide internet as an amenity. These lines are grounded according to building codes, but lightning strikes are hard to engineer protection for and any of these wires into your home are a path for an electrical surge that can damage your computer. I recommend a surge protector like this APC SurgeArrest. You sandwich it between your valuable gear and your wall outlets–electrical or otherwise be it cable, DSL, or ethernet. With ethernet jack, don’t forget to protect your WiFi router. A surge can also travel to your electrical outlet and damage your computer. This is the primary reason a surge protector is necessary. Note that power strips provide no protection at all.
If you need additional protection, the next step up from a surge protector is a UPS–uninterruptible power supply, usually used by businesses. The internal battery pack needs to be recycled about every two years, otherwise the UPS may actually cause a power outage. They not only protect against spikes and surges, but they also provide a battery to power your computer or wifi router through a brownout, short blackout, and provides time to shut down the machine safely. Software can automate this. UPS prices are usually a matter of the size of the battery, and the amperage the equipment needs to draw. Contact me if you have any questions and I’ll be glad to help you out. None of this means you can forgo a backup plan, which I will cover at a later time.
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It is impossible to look at the recent cases of mass-shootings around the country and not want to support measures to end such unspeakable violence. Living in Colorado, a state where two such tragedies occurred (Columbine High School and the Aurora movie theater), it was difficult to stomach the action as it unfolded live on local news stations. But, even though the list of mass shootings is long and fresh in our collective minds, such tragedies should not lead to bad legislation written without understanding the potential consequences for law-abiding citizens.
In Colorado, controversial gun control measures passed by the state's General Assembly Governor, sit on Governor John Hickenlooper's desk waiting to be signed. One of the most controversial bills limits the number of rounds in high capacity magazines to 15. The other bills deal with background checks for perspective gun buyers.
Supporters of the magazine ban say that because it will require shooters to slow down to reload, fewer lives may be lost in mass shootings. However, even the bills sponsor does not know how the broadly written legislation may be enforced.
Critics of the "magban" legislation cite problems with the bill, including the potential for making all gun magazines illegal. The language of the bill can be narrowly interpreted to outlaw all magazines as extensions can be added to most magazines, making such items illegal. County sheriffs have said they will not enforce the measures and may not be required to enforce the legislation. A local manufacturer of gun magazines, Magpul, has promised to leave the state taking with it over 600 jobs. The suppliers of Magpul have also said they would have to leave should the legislation pass. In a state still struggling to recover from the recession, the response to a potential loss of jobs has been bitter.
The other legislation for universal background checks makes a person who transfers a firearm to an individual "liable for any civil damages caused by that individual's subsequent use of a firearm." An example of a consequence of this legislation would be if a husband owns a gun, has gone through a background check but is out of his home when his wife uses the gun on an intruder the husband may get in trouble for the actions of the wife. The background check applies per gun, not per person. In a state with a strong tradition and history of recreational gun use this legislation was met with great resistance.
In spite of the fact that two mass shootings have occurred within the state, these gun control measures are not popular in recent polling. Efforts to recall legislators who have supported these gun control measures have already begun and petitions for ballot measures have been filed. Vigorous debate has happened both inside the statehouse and out; but the constant question is whether or not these measures will be effective in their target, or will cause law-abiding citizens, who obtained firearms legally to no longer be compliant with the law.
Governor Hickenlooper was correct when he said, "gun control legislation will not stop bad people from doing bad things." Adam Lanza did the unspeakable when he went to Sandy Hook Elementary and murdered children. It has recently come out that he also had years of research completed before he set off on his killing spree. James Holmes had also taken his time to plan his massacre at the Aurora movie theater. Unless governors in neighboring states sign similar legislation there is little to prevent a person so determined from going to Kansas, Nebraska or Wyoming where high capacity magazines are still legal. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9597519636154176}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '254998', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DBUJIUW3KWKTIUQ6ATYE5WEFCITPMTBN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:162d69f1-61de-4a25-82ee-40a1911047ef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 15, 52, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.192.52.248', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FW2OPE53BHY6K6AL2K5SGNJLLVINKLNN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fae7a4f1-f0c7-494a-86f9-ffb5a6ed92ed>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://mic.com/articles/30383/colorado-gun-control-why-governor-hickenlooper-shouldn-t-sign-it-into-law', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:83933c5a-1f4b-4084-9a6d-d8566b900cdd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '603', 'url': 'https://mic.com/articles/30383/colorado-gun-control-why-governor-hickenlooper-shouldn-t-sign-it-into-law', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-95-138.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05275094509124756', 'original_id': '3e9a71b6e86d1cf2976c09de648beb6690db6a172ba09c3a042875ae7c0b99ca'} |
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Mortgage Glossary
The term used for a standard residential mortgage application.
1031 Exchange
A tax strategy to postpone capital gains from sold property to new property.
2055 Exterior
A limited appraisal that gives an estimate of fair market value without inspecting inside the home.
2055 Interior
A limited appraisal that gives an estimate of fair market value.
Appraisal form that photographs the property but does place a value on the property. This can be ordered if a lender’s automated system accepts the value entered and allows for only a 2075. This type of appraisal costs less.
Repayment of a mortgage loan through monthly installments of principal and interest. The monthly payment amount is based on a schedule that will allow you to own your home at the end of a specific time period (for example, 15, 20, or 30 years).
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
Calculated by using a standard formula, the APR shows the cost of a loan. Expressed as a yearly interest rate, it includes the interest, points, mortgage insurance, and other fees associated with the loan.
The first step in the official loan approval process. This form is used to record important information about the potential borrower necessary to the underwriting process.
A document that gives an estimate of a property’s fair market value. An appraisal is generally required by a lender before loan approval to ensure that the mortgage loan amount is not more than the value of the property.
ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage)
A mortgage loan subject to changes in interest rates. When rates change, the the interest rate (and therefore the monthly payment) on an ARM loan can increase or decrease at intervals determined by the index and the margin . The change in the interest rate, however, is usually subject to a periodic and lifetime cap.
Assumable Mortgage
A mortgage that can be transferred from a seller to a buyer. Once the buyer assumes the loan, the seller is no longer responsible for repaying it. There may be a fee and/or a credit package involved in the transfer of an assumable mortgage.
Balloon Mortgage
A mortgage that typically offers low rates for an initial period of time (usually 3, 5, 7, or 10) years. After that time period elapses, the balance is due or is refinanced by the borrower.
Building Code
Cash Reserves
A cash amount is sometimes required to be held in reserve in addition to the down payment and closing costs. The amount is determined by the lender.
Certificate of Title
A document provided by a qualified source (such as a title company) that shows the property legally belongs to the current owner. Before the title is transferred at closing, it should be clear and free of all liens or other claims.
Also known as settlement, this is the time at which the property is formally sold and transferred from the seller to the buyer. It is at this time that the borrower takes on the loan obligation, pays all closing costs, and receives the certificate of title from the seller.
Closing Costs
Customary costs above and beyond the sale price of the property that must be paid to cover the transfer of ownership at closing. These costs generally vary by geographic location and are typically detailed to the borrower after submission of a loan application.
Conforming Limit
The loan limit set to receive the best rates from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Currently this limit is $417,000.
Conventional Loan
Cooperative (Co-op)
Residents purchase stock in a cooperative corporation that owns a structure. Each stockholder is then entitled to live in a specific unit of the structure and is responsible for paying a portion of the loan.
Credit History
History of an individual’s debt payment. Lenders use this information to gauge a potential borrower’s ability to repay a loan.
Credit Report
A record that lists all past and present debts and the timeliness of their repayment. It documents an individual’s credit history.
Credit Bureau Score
Debt-To-Income (DTI) Ratio
A comparison of gross income to housing and non-housing expenses. Traditionally, this ratio should not exceed 41%, but lenders offer much more liberal ratios to strong borrowers.
The document that transfers ownership of a property.
To avoid foreclosure (“in lieu” of foreclosure) A deed is given to the lender to fulfill the obligation to repay the debt. This process does not allow the borrower to remain in the house but helps avoid the costs, time, and effort associated with foreclosure.
Discount Point
Normally paid at closing and generally calculated as a percentage of the total loan amount. Discount points are paid to reduce the interest rate on a loan.
Down Payment
Earnest Money
Money put down by a potential buyer to show that he or she is serious about purchasing the home. It becomes part of the down payment if the offer is accepted, is returned if the offer is rejected, or is forfeited if the buyer pulls out of the deal after the deadline set in the real estate sales contract.
An owner’s financial interest in a property. Calculated by subtracting the amount still owed on the mortgage loan(s) from the fair market value of the property.
Escrow Account
Fair Housing Act
Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association)
FHA (Federal Housing Administration)
Established in 1934 to advance home ownership opportunities for all Americans. Assists homebuyers by providing mortgage insurance to lenders to cover most losses that may occur when a borrower defaults. This encourages lenders to make loans to borrowers who might not qualify for conventional mortgages.
Fixed-Rate Mortgage
A mortgage with principal and interest payments that remain the same throughout the life of the loan because the interest rate does not change.
Flood Insurance
Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)
A federally chartered corporation that purchases residential mortgages, securitizes them, and sells them to investors. This provides lenders with funds for new homebuyers.
Ginnie Mae (Government National Mortgage Association)
Good Faith Estimate
HELP (Homebuyer Education Learning Program)
Home Inspection
An examination of the structure and mechanical systems to determine a home’s safety. This makes the potential homebuyer aware of any repairs that may be needed.
Home Warranty
Offers protection for mechanical systems and attached appliances against unexpected repairs not covered by homeowner’s insurance. Coverage extends over a specific time period and does not cover the home’s structure.
Homeowner’s Insurance
Housing Counseling Agency
HUD (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
HUD 1 Statement
Also known as the “settlement statement,” it itemizes all closing costs. The statement must be given to the borrower at or before closing.
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, a home’s heating and cooling system.
The number of dollars in circulation exceeds the amount of goods and services available for purchase. Inflation results in a decrease in the dollar’s value.
A fee charged for the use of money.
Interest Rate
The amount of interest charged on a monthly loan payment, usually expressed as a percentage.
A legal decision. When requiring debt repayment, a judgment may include a property lien that secures the creditor’s claim by providing a collateral source.
Jumbo Limit
Loan limit above the conforming limit. Jumbo loans are subject to higher rates. Currently this applies to loan amounts over $417,000 or potentially higher if the property is in a designated high cost area.
Money borrowed that is usually repaid with interest.
Loan Fraud
Purposely giving incorrect information on a loan application in order to better qualify for a loan may result in civil liability or criminal penalties.
Loan-To-Value (LTV)
)A ratio representing the amount borrowed versus the agreed upon value of the property. A percentage calculated by dividing the amount borrowed by the lower of the price or appraised value on a purchase or the appraised value on a refinance. The higher the LTV, the less cash a borrower is required to pay as down payment.
Loss Mitigation
A process to avoid foreclosure. The lender tries to help a borrower who has been unable to make loan payments and is in danger of defaulting on his or her loan.
Mortgage Banker
A company that originates and funds loans internally and then sells them on the secondary market or to a selected investor.
Mortgage Broker
A firm that originates loans for mortgage lenders.
Mortgage Insurance
Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
A monthly payment — usually part of the mortgage payment — paid by a borrower for mortgage insurance.
Mortgage Modification
Indication by a potential buyer of a willingness to purchase a home at a specific price. The offer is usually presented in writing.
On Q Financial
A premier Mortgage Banker that provides expert counsel, competitive rates and fees. Client First service at the highest standard of integrity and performance.
The process of preparing, submitting, and evaluating a loan application. The process generally includes a credit check, verification of employment, and a property appraisal.
Origination Fee
The charge for originating a loan; which is usually calculated in the form of points and paid at closing.
PITI (Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance)
PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
Privately-owned companies that provide insurance to a lender on programs for qualified borrowers with down payments of less than 20% of a purchase price. The insurance is typically paid by the borrower either upfront in cash, or financed and may include a monthly payment.
Lender commits to lend to a potential borrower. The commitment remains as long as the borrower still meets the qualification requirements at the time of purchase.
Pre-foreclosure Sale
The amount paid on a regular schedule by a policyholder that maintains insurance coverage.
Payment of the mortgage loan before the scheduled due date. This may be subject to a prepayment penalty.
The amount borrowed from a lender; does not include interest or additional fees.
Real Estate Agent
An individual who is licensed to negotiate and arrange real estate sales. Works for a real estate broker.
Paying off one loan by obtaining another. Refinancing is generally done to secure better loan terms (like a lower interest rate).
RESPA (Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act)
Another name for closing.
Special Forbearance
To place in a rank of lesser importance or to make one claim secondary to another. Usually necessary if refinancing a first mortgage, while keeping an existing second mortgage in place.
Sweat Equity
FHA 203K
An FHA-insured loan that allows a borrower to make non-luxury improvements (like renovations or repairs) to their home. Title I loans less than $7,500 do not require a property lien.
Title Insurance
Insurance that protects the lender against any claims that arise from arguments about ownership of the property. This is also available to homebuyers.
Title Search
A federal law obligating a lender to give full written disclosure of all fees, terms, and conditions associated with a loan’s initial period and any adjustments to another rate that lasts for the term of the loan.
VA (Department of Veterans Affairs)
A federal agency which guarantees loans made to veterans. Similar to mortgage insurance, a loan guarantee protects lenders against loss that may result from a borrower default.
John MacAndrew, Mortgage Consultant
On Q Financial, Inc.
3400 188th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Direct: (425) 698-2921
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Getting Started
Before you add a camera:
• Please ensure your mobile phone is connected to the same internet you intend to connect your cameras to
• Please ensure you are connecting to a 2.4GHz WiFi as opposed to a 5GHz WiFi if you have a dual-band router
• Please make sure you are being case sensitive when entering your WiFi password or when re-adding a camera
• If you have a Penguin or Nighthawk camera make sure the antenna is attached before you follow the below steps
Steps to connect your camera:
1. Plug camera into power
2. Connect the ethernet cord from the camera to the router
3. Open the Cammy app and click "Add a camera"
4. Select your camera from the list
5. Scan the QR code on the back of the camera
If the QR code does not scan, make sure the camera is focused on the QR code and is not blurry. If that does not work, select 'Or select the camera from a list'. You will need to connect your ethernet cable to the camera. Match the MAC ID listed on your camera to one in the list. If you're re-setting up an existing camera you will be prompted by 'Existing Camera' message here, please press 'Yes' and continue
6. Enter your WiFi password (Important: please make sure your password is correct and case sensitive)
7. Wait - it could take up to 2mins to connect
8. Enter a name for your camera eg. Living Room
9. Once your camera has successfully connected, click done.
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“Pouring Out Some Liquor”
This is a “duet” poem that I was blessed to write, recite and perform with none other than Xero in Baton Rouge, LA. The guy is master with words and it was truly a pleasure. –Ms.KeepingItReal
Pouring Out Some Liquor
by Ms.KeepingItReal and Xero
Both: We dedicate this poem to all the lost poems
Xero: To the imagistic lines that bent
and swirled around in my preoccupied noggin
and got soaked up into
rusted pipe dreams and magnetic memories
Ms.KeepingItReal: To magnets on the fridge two lines long
That were pushed around with letters missing
Both: Yearning to release and roam
From isolation to liberty
Xero: To the half-free verse, half-prose rants
that found their way
under the stove
to escape my cold fury
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poem scribbled on homework
The teacher obliviously gave back
Both: Never saw us
Xero: To the seldom seen 1998 spoken word
crowd pleaser that only Jason or Keith
would ever request
Both: just to show how far back we go
Ms.KeepingItReal: Back to the poem that was to kill you softly
Eradicating your previous thoughts
Both: Beautiful had it not flown out of the window
Xero: To the sappy, cliché jumble
of doggerel that I handed to my ex-wife like…
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the words whispered in the dark
As he invaded my…
Xero: a barb-wire infection,
when neither of us were concerned
with line breaks or…
Ms.KeepingItReal: territory, made me an expert at freestyle
Words flowing like my love til it’s over
Xero: communication
Ms.KeepingItReal: To poems written in notebooks lost
Left on the seat of the bus
Xero: Left on a stool of the stage
Ms.KeepingItReal: Rushing to get off
Xero: To get out
Ms.KeepingItReal: and inside my house
Xero: my head
Ms.KeepingItReal: Took later to realize
Xero: To block it out
Ms.KeepingItReal: Hundreds of secret thoughts now gone
Xero: now murdered
Ms.KeepingItReal: I betrayed them
To the poems of only four lines
Both: Loitering on the pages
Ms.KeepingItReal: Incomplete due to my neglect
No urge to finish what was started
Xero: To that first poem I wrote
Ms.KeepingItReal: I wrestled with
Xero: inside the birthday card
Ms.KeepingItReal: love note
Xero: my fourth grade class gave to Mrs. Claverie
The one that made her say,
Ms.KeepingItReal: made her etch in marble
Xero: “Chancelier, never stop writing.
You have a gift.”
Ms.KeepingItReal: To answer present
Xero: To the lost inspiration
that I couldn’t have written
Both: better myself
Xero: that made me
Both: better myself
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems written on
scraps of paper, napkins, sticky notes
Both: long gone
Ms.KeepingItReal: Mixed with trash inside my purse
Never to grace my lips—your ears
Xero: Here’s to the poor poems that
never survived my hard drive
deleted from my laptop
Both: for my failure
Xero: to give them adequate electricity
Xero: To the poems that aren’t poems yet,
but will eventually be lost
because it’s taking me so long
to find a way to write them free
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems savagely
ripped from my journal
No words to tattoo minds
without permission
Xero: To the poems I printed out at work,
folded into thick rectangles,
Ms.KeepingItReal: slipped
Xero: into my back pocket,
Ms.KeepingItReal: carried
Xero: around all day,
Ms.KeepingItReal: placed
Xero: on my dresser, and
Ms.KeepingItReal: pushed
Xero: back behind the dresser
with other rectangular experiments
Ms.KeepingItReal: gone
Xero: awry
Ms.KeepingItReal: To the poems I rehearsed in my head
Desperately-over and over
No paper to record this
Pen pressed to my palm
Words staining my flesh
Carefree—I with errands to do
From here to and fro…where are you?
Smeared blue blur
Xero: I am here
attempting resurrections with recitation
over and over
no memories to remake you
palm pressed to paper
careful – I with errors to fix
from here, on and on…what are you?
Seared blue heart
Both: We are vessels of misplaced trust
learning only now
that waste is precious
and treasure can be stapled
to flesh
4.10.12 Bittersweet
1. Life is short. Maximize each moment. If it won’t matter a year from now, two months from now a minute from now—let it go. Easier said than done, but practice makes perfect.
2. Never think that anyone owes you anything, including the world. The world was here first.
3. Accept people for who they are—either you can deal with it or you can’t. Simple. As my mama always says, a leopard cannot change its spots.
4. Remember that everything is a test and someone is always watching.
5. Know thyself.
6. Appreciate the trials and tribulations that come with life. As the old adage goes, what doesn’t break you only makes you stronger. When life gives you lemons they say make lemonade. I say when life gives me lemons, “Is that all you got? I eat watermelons for lunch.” This too shall pass.
7. Trust your instincts. They will never fail you.
8. Take ownership for your actions. No one can make you do something. Either you want to—or you don’t.
9. Don’t wait for New Year’s to come to make a list of resolutions. Change now. What are you waiting for?
10. Lastly, remember to stop and be thankful. Everything that you have experienced up to this very moment has made you the person that you are today. You may not be defined by those things, but they have played an integral part in the molding of your mind, how you feel, and how you carry yourself. There is always room from growth and when there isn’t…well you know…you’re eternally resting.
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In the Battle Against Frac Hits, Shale Producers Go to New Extremes
Seeing quadruple: A shift in thinking has prompted a number of producers to move to drilling up to four wells in the same place, at the same time. Source: Getty Images.
A new plan has been put to work in the Permian Basin’s remote but resource-rich swath of land shared by Texas and New Mexico.
Its objective can be reduced to this simple idea: protect neighboring horizontal wells from each other by drilling and completing them at the same time.
Most in the shale business know these projects as “cube developments.” Their scope of work has moved operators away from developing wells one at a time to a half dozen or more at a time. Each cube project is done from supersized well pads that host four to six rigs, two pressure pumping fleets, and hundreds of people every day.
From the surface perspective, these onshore megaprojects are delivering much needed economies of scale on everything from sand and water to parts and labor. However, the bigger motivation lies deep in the ground.
That is where shale producers have been battling poor production results for years because of frac hits between older and newer wells, often referred to as “parent” and “child” wells. The root of this complex problem lies in the fact that a child well’s hydraulic fractures often follow the path of least resistance into a reservoir’s most resource-depleted zones, rather than to areas containing the best reserves.
In some parts of the Permian, the effect has caused child wells to deliver a 30% lower recovery rate than their parents (when factors such as well lengths are normalized). When such production shortfalls are felt fieldwide, the losses are measured in millions of dollars per day. The point of cube developments is to put an end to this cycle by creating only parent wells.
Thinking Inside the Cube
Occidental Petroleum began implementing its own version of the cube approach—called “optimized sequenced development”—last summer at its Greater Sand Dunes project in New Mexico. This year, the Permian stalwart says new wells brought on line there have turned in “basin-leading” peak 30-day rates that averaged around 3,100 BOE/D.
The Houston-based firm’s approach relies on a strong understanding of geomechanics to sequence the drilling, completion, and eventual flowback of multiple wells to mitigate frac hits. This allows some wells to be produced, while others nearby are still being drilled or hydraulically fractured, said Oscar Quintero, the president and general manager of Oxy’s Permian assets in New Mexico.
If done correctly, and critical rock properties are entered into the equation, then “you have vertical isolation, and you have horizontal isolation” of each well’s hydraulic fracture growth, said Quintero. “So, by design, we are avoiding the impact of frac hits.”
This succinct outline of the high-density approach boils down a long list of subsurface nuances, ones that remain an intense area of study for the shale sector. Understanding them helps explain why Oxy and a growing number of its peers would go to the lengths of drilling so many wells simultaneously.
Fellow Permian players Apache Corporation, Resolute Energy, and QEP Resources have adopted similar methods, according to company reports.
But the prize for coining the term cube development goes to Encana Corporation, which says the strategy has increased early well productivity in one of its Permian fields by 70% over the past 2 years. Despite the term’s growing popularity within engineering circles, some companies continue to use different terms such as QEP’s “tank-style completions” for what is seen as the same general practice.
Toward the horizon stand three drilling rigs carrying out what has come to be known as a “cube development,” or what QEP terms a “tank-style completion.” At the foreground is an example of the type of centralized processing facilities that operators are using to drive down costs. Source: QEP Resources.
“What Are We Draining?”
Success for cube developments depends on heavy-duty geoscience work that has changed the way petroleum engineers view how shale rocks and fluids interact. By maintaining pressure conditions, these efforts help some practitioners justify tight well spacing from 300 ft to 600 ft.
But in a stacked formation, explorers also want to take into account how far fractures may grow vertically to further ensure they are not drilling too many wells. Historically, such stacked pay zones within shale formations have been framed as relatively isolated layers of rock, or stratigraphic units. But years of analysis has shown wells drilled in a vertical orientation may see their producing areas connected by fractures.
Thinking of these layers as potentially interactive offers producers a new 3D-perspective of the target zone, representing a “geomechanical flow unit,” said Thaimar Ramirez, who leads a multidisciplinary team of geoscientists and engineers as the development director of Oxy’s New Mexico operations.
“When we have to go and stimulate this rock, then we go beyond the stratigraphic units in many cases,” she said. As a result, her team is now more concerned with “trying to understand what is that geomechanical flow unit, and what are we draining?”
Solving this question involves a database of geologic information that Oxy has obtained through years of exploration in the Permian—where it has long been the top oil producer thanks to its legacy conventional fields. The information drawn out of rock cores, well logs, seismic data, and fluid analysis helps the firm’s engineers build models that go through several iterations to define specific flow units.
Where two wells might have been placed close together in an older development scheme, the new workflow may show that it is more economic to drill one well in a certain zone. Or it could reveal a pair of flow units that are separated by a thin layer of a more resistant rock known as a “frac barrier,” and therefore two wells landed at different depths are necessary to capture more reserves (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1—Stick the Landing: This gun-barrel view of a stacked formation underlines the concept of a “flow unit.” In one scenario, two wells are needed for optimal recovery because of a rock barrier. In another, two wells lead to unwanted interference, or frac hits. And sometimes, just a single well is needed to capture reserves from multiple layers. Source: Occidental Petroleum.
Let the Sequence Begin
The typical cube scenario moves directionally, and for some operators may ultimately result in more than a dozen new wells.
Oxy says that each of its sequenced cube projects begin with an untapped reservoir unit, whereas others may be forced to involve a parent well. Two wells are drilled here and then zipper fractured. While the left-most well is brought on line after the zipper job is complete, the other well is kept shut in (Fig. 2).
By suppressing flow, this second well in the process becomes what Oxy calls a “completed barrier,” or what others refer to as a “pressure wall.” Its purpose at this stage is to protect the next set of wells from frac hits, and in some cases, companies will complete and shut in two of these wells to add more protection.
As the pressure wall is established, wells further to the right can continue to be zipper fractured, a process in which at least two wells undergo hydraulic fracturing in tandem. Zipper wells are needed in cube approaches for two key reasons: they generate temporary but beneficial stresses that are believed to better distribute new fractures; they also create meaningful cost efficiencies by using completions crews more effectively than in a single-well job.
To the far right of the assembly line, maybe a mile away, is a drilled-but-uncompleted well (DUC), renamed here a “buffer well.” Oxy and others report that these DUC wells are kept un-stimulated for a period to mitigate fracture interference between the wells being zipper fractured and the wells being drilled on the other side of the DUC.
Within each of these categories, well counts can be different depending on the size and characteristics of the target area.
Once all the heavy lifting is done, the last trick is to manage the production. In Oxy’s case, newly completed wells are brought on sequentially to accelerate and manage production peaks that could otherwise overextend its processing infrastructure on surface.
Fig. 2—The step-by-step sequencing of wells as outlined here could involve more than just six wells. And as a shallower zone is completed, the process can then continue with a deeper set of wells. Source: Occidental Petroleum.
Not Perfect, But Worth It
Ultimately, the driver of change here is the need to protect the profitability of the shale sector’s large inventory of tens of thousands of undrilled wells. There are few public data points covering the financial toll suffered from frac hits, but among them is a technical paper (SPE 189853) presented earlier this year at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference by a former completions engineer from Apache.
Its blunt opening line reads: “Millions of dollars in production losses are occurring from fracture-driven well-to-well interference (frac hits) in horizontal wells in unconventional play reservoirs.”
And last year, an executive with Range Resources was even more exacting when he told analysts that underperforming wells in the company’s Louisiana shale asset and “corresponding frac hits to offset production” amounted to a financial loss of $75 million per day.
While some experts see cube developments as one of the best ways to relieve these pains, they caution against seeing the simultaneous operations as a panacea.
Mohamed Soliman is the chair of the University of Houston’s petroleum engineering department and holds a patent for two of the earliest versions of zipper fracturing. He said the cube concept makes sense, in that avoiding the downsides of reservoir depletion moves the shale sector closer to its goal of production optimization.
“But there’s a catch,” he points out. “If you drill and complete all your wells, and you then produce them at one time, you may pay a massive price if the wells are not as productive as you think they will be.” In other words, these large-scale projects make it harder to run individual tests on new well designs to determine which are the best.
There is one more dose of reality to pour on: such massive onshore projects have been reported to cost from $120 million to $250 million, a price tag that for many smaller shale producers is simply out of reach.
Trent Jacobs, JPT Digital Editor
01 August 2018
Volume: 70 | Issue: 8
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Designing around BACnet compatible devices eases design and speeds implementation. BACnet simplifies the task of designing systems by providing a common language that various devices can understand. BACnet control devices may differ by application, manufacturer and vintage, but they share a common language that makes it possible to communicate and work together without the need for communication gateways and network bridges. Thus, real cost benefits are attained including:
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Parents! Teach Your Children – The Declaration Of Independence – July 4, 1776
God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood. May we never forget the details of 911.
No one should have more interest in the education of children, than should the parents of their children. In our nation, there is a great deal of discussion that is going on that relates to our country and its governing processes. In order for parents to be able to teach their children about the formation of our nation, and the government that represents its citizens, those parents need to have an understanding of such facts, themselves.
The thirteen colonies, which became the original thirteen states of the United States Of America declared their independence from the tyrannical government of Great Britain. The Declaration Of Independence states, in detail, the reasons for their exit from the oppressive British government. There are people in the United States Of America which say that those colonies were wrong in starting a nation that was abased on Divine Providence but, the case is made very clearly as to the reasons for declaring the United States Of America to be free from Great Britain, and its design being Divinely inspired and and established.
The Bill of Rights was written to establish individual rights of America’s citizens from the government that they had established, and was not a document that gave certain rights to the citizens of our country, “from our government.” The Bill of Rights came as a result of the horrible experiences that the writers of our Constitution had suffered at the hands of Great Britain. It was from those experiences of government overreach that the Bill of Rights, being the first ten amendments to our Constitution, was added to our Constitution. Stated again, the Bill of Rights provides freedoms for the citizens of the United States of America, “from the government” of the United States of America.
As a child, I was taught Civics, which explained the formation of our country. During the Carter administration, the Department of Education was established, which made education a political matter. Since then, Civics is no longer taught, without putting a presidential political spin on the subject of the greatness of our country, or lack thereof. Cursive writing and sentence diagramming are gone. The “Three Rs” of education (reading, writing, arithmetic) have suffered greatly, as have other subjects of instruction. Instead, with a liberal president’s cabinet, our children can be expected to receive an education that reflects a mindset of homosexuality and abortion on demand, with no emphasis being placed on the colonial formation of the United States of America, with the resulting greatness of the greatest nation that has ever been formed in our world.
The constitution of the United States of America is not a “living and breathing document,” to be changed “at whim.” There are steps that allow for changes to be made. The Supreme Court’s mission is to interpret the Constitution in cases that are brought before it, and is not to create laws. Prospective Supreme Court candidates should be judged on whether they have shown a history of interpreting the Constitution, as opposed to making judicial decisions that are based on their own personal opinions.
Consider the words of Max McLean in the following video on the Declaration Of Independence. Children need to know the facts of the forming of our country. It is up to parents to ensure that their children receive correct teaching on this subject.
The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean)
Consider the Bill of Rights, which are the rights of citizens to protect us from our government.
Amendment I
Amendment II
Amendment III
Amendment IV
Amendment V
Amendment VI
Amendment VII
Amendment VIII
Amendment IX
Amendment X
Consider the Supreme Court, and its mission of interpreting the Constitution.
Consider the following video which explains the makeup of our government.
How to Understand the 3 Branches of Government
Consider how the President of the United States is elected. The first thirteen states elected a president of those thirteen states; each state had a say in this process. No one state could be the sole determining state in this election process. The Electoral College prevents elections from being hacked and stolen. In the Presidential elections of 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton did not receive a majority of the popular vote in either of those elections. It was the Electoral College vote that decided the winner in each of those elections. The constitution was found to be sound in its design and purpose.
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
A final word, I am proud to be an American, and proud to be:
United States Air Force Retired
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Let's face it, the UK is not always ideal from a weather perspective to entertain the kids with outdoor activities and pursuits. It's either too cold or too wet. Or more to the point, when the weather is fabulous there is not always a plethera of destinations that are "kid friendly". Hence the emegence of the indoor activity centres. Usually located in out of town locations, these centres have perfected the combination keeping the kids entertained and allowing parents to socialise. Traditionally called indoor soft play areas, they allow kids of all ages to play alongside their friends or siblings in safe and vibrant environments. The indoor play centre has introduced the modern kids to rope play, to slides, to crawling through plastic tubes. And in most cases, has "forced" the parents to join them having fun in plastic ball pools!!
Newer centres are now including indoor climbing to both the kids and the adults.
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Every parent wants their kids to have fun, socialise with their friends and generally run off that excess energy. The advantage of doing this in a soft play centre is that the parents don't have to tidy up the house afterwards and cater for the hungry kids themselves. The huge variety of play equipment in the play centres means the kids can spend hours, playing and excersing, whilst the parents can watch from afar whilst drinking a coffee, eating a sandwich and socialising with other parents.
Perfect for Kid parties
With captive audiences enjoying themselves, the indoor play centres are perfect for kids parties. They have developed fenced off areas and rooms that can be booked for party guests, serving party food to all the hungry youngsters. Fresh baton carrots and cucumber are usually combined with pizza and chicken nuggets. The food is mostly simple in these parties, but that is only mostly due to the limitation of the kitchen facilities. The more modern centres have invested far more heavily in their kitchen and cooking staff, and now they can provide freshly made pizzas out of pizza ovens.
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Does orlistat cause cancer
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Our Xenical Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication. Other infectious agents, such as parasites or bacterial toxins, may exacerbate symptoms. It is only when the tumor grows enough to cause problems, do symptoms begin to appear. Zinc and childhood infectious disease morbidity and mortality”.
Squamous cells describe thin, flat cells that line the inner surface of the mid-portion of the esophagus. What Do Customers Say In Tonalin CLA Reviews? In people who take blood pressure medications, CLA can cause backaches, bloating, diarrhea and gas, among others. I have not changed any other meds or anything else.
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Yes, vitamin A supplements can interact or interfere with medicines you take. GBD 2015 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence, Collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015″. Electrical pacing may be done using electrodes implanted into the muscular wall of the colon.
Xerophthalmia is the inability to see in low light, and it can lead to blindness if it isn’t treated. This is why women who are going to a doctor’s office to consider keeping your genitals to break the UTI cycle. Follow-up care for monitoring and or additional treatments is usually required. Either CT scan of the chest and abdomen or PET scan is then used to determine the extent of tumor spread. Chronic HCV is usually treated with a combination of drugs.
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Open Defecation and Childhood Stunting in India: An Ecological Analysis of New Data from 112 Districts”. If you are vegan or vegetarian, it may be in your best interest to consume supplementary CLA, and the human body does not produce it. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease. For this procedure, a thick paste of barium is inserted into the rectum of a patient through the anus. How do you take Tonalin CLA?
Those with recurrent stones may be given medication to keep at home should symptoms recur. When gastric cancer is found very early, there is a better chance of recovery. Standard home solutions such as salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt can be given.
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For Obesity: “I weighed in at 97. And we try hard to provide you with complete medication profile giving you essential basic on medication widely used for replacement of thyroid hormone in the body. Evaluation for the cause of chronic constipation needs to be done if there is no response to the simple treatments. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. I too am in my 40’s and have interstingly found that Cheese is what makes me break out, horribly. For Obesity: “I start orlistat almost 2 weeks and did lose 6lbs but very very constipated.
Treating water with chlorine at point-of-use to improve water quality and reduce child diarrhea in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. The magnesium in magnesium-containing products is partially absorbed from the intestine and into the body. I was told by the lady at the vitamin shop that the combination of both will help use BROWN FAT and altough I’m average height and weight I should be able to loose the tire around my MIDSECTION! If you do not know whether you are allergic to Synthroid or not, then you should be checked for most typical allergic reactions at the clinic.
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14 users found this comment helpful. High intakes of preformed vitamin A in pregnant women can also cause birth defects in their babies. Alcohol abuse is also related to squamous cell carcinoma, especially when combined with tobacco product use. Symptoms of kidney stones in children are similar to those in an adult, although with very young children or infants, the symptoms may be harder to appreciate and understand.
Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. What Are Possible Complications of Kidney Stones? We’re also a bit skeptical about this one because customer comments are talking about negative side effects and lack of results.
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Among the symptoms of thyroid hormone deficiency there are excessive tiredness, muscle pain, rapid weight gain, dry skin, constipation, extreme sensitivity to cold. Xenical may reduce the absorption and blood levels of cyclosporine when both drugs are administered together. When I took CLA Tonalin, I combined it with Milk Thistle and saw incredible results. The infection can be passed through vaginal, anal, or oral sex.
There have been reports of hepatic failure observed with the use of XENICAL in postmarketing surveillance, with some of these cases resulting in liver transplant or death . Exudative diarrhea occurs with the presence of blood and pus in the stool. Drug-induced secretory diarrhea: A role for CFTR”.
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Green leafy vegetables and other green, orange, and yellow vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, and squash. Microscopic colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease where changes are only seen on histological examination of colonic biopsies. While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. The esophagus in adults is a muscular tube-like structure, about 10 inches long, that connects the mouth to the stomach and is the first part of the gastrointestinal tract. It typically start getting rid of fluids out of the bacteria in the lower pelvis but they take time to treat your local humane society. Click on the links above to read more about the specific conditions listed.
But if you stick to low fat things it’s brilliant. It is believed that Tonalin CLA is also responsible for stopping generation of new fat cells in the body. Ischemic bowel disease: This usually affects older people and can be due to blocked arteries.
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This is especially true of tap water enemas. The upper limits for preformed vitamin A in IU are listed below. Surprising Health Benefits of Sex How would you like a stronger immune system or better sleep? Effective treatment is available for most patients with GERD.
There is no cure for genetic diseases that affect the liver. The treating professionals will be important resources to relay understanding of the disease, the potential treatment options, and the expected outcomes. The pain is intense and comes on suddenly. If it is not responding to the simple measures discussed previously with the addition of hyper-osmolar products or milk of magnesia, it is time to consult a physician for an evaluation.
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Side effects are very rare with Synthroid as it is a synthetic T4 hormone which is completely identical to the hormone produced in our body naturally. This copyrighted material has been downloaded from a licensed data provider and is not for distribution, expect as may be authorized by the applicable terms of use. Some people may experience additional signs and symptoms, such as loss of appetite, dark-colored urine, or light-colored stools. Medically speaking, constipation usually is defined as fewer than three bowel movements per week.
The product contains several ingredients, with the main active one being CLA or Conjugated Linoleic Acid. The two main types of esophagus cancer are adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. See if the drugs can be discontinued or changed.
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These medications do have some side effects associated with their use. Vos T, Flaxman AD, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Michaud C, Ezzati M, Shibuya K, Salomon JA, Abdalla S, et al. But none of the experts denied the weight loss potential of Tonalin CLA or similar CLA products.
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. Where can I buy Tonalin CLA? No harm to body, which I also looked up as well. Amazing as it suppresses the appetite also. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '298', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9282330870628356}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '26438', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3SHW4FM6QLRIIVWWSUE5D6CY36YUZT2G', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6a34b2e1-b275-46ad-9347-76561637d7f3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 51, 21), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.254.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:W5IOZC75YFXB3MYCOCCFLUYZ64NCVPNW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4353e392-d6e9-4f96-91f5-a841b70cdef4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://orlistat.medinfoblog.com/does-orlistat-cause-cancer/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1dfef552-4bc7-4250-9716-b80438729e32>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1729', 'url': 'http://orlistat.medinfoblog.com/does-orlistat-cause-cancer/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-95-138.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07573902606964111', 'original_id': '31c7fc2a207b2eb99725820e5bbbf4a0b690b8706cb3ec437b5e3fdef6a2f4ad'} |
What I Learned About Small Business From "Mad Men"
How a story about a bygone era applies to today's high-tech world.
Enter Mad Men's 1960s New York office and you'll be greeted by clouds of smoke, fabulous wardrobes, and a secretary explaining that "the men who designed this typewriter made it easy enough for a woman to use".
Needless to say, our office at CodeRed is quite a bit different (although fun fact - the 55 Public Square building is a testament to design from the 50s and early 60s, including some original artwork and fixtures). But even amid the booze-fueled flaws and close-mindedness of Mad Men's bygone era, the show's excellent writing reveals some lessons that are especially applicable for today's "scrappy upstarts" (as Pete Campbell quips). These are just my own opinion, but have all been hugely helpful tactics in my own career and in the success of CodeRed.
1. "It's Toasted"
In a scene where Don Draper is trying to help the tobacco company advertise their product, he asks them how they make it. "We breed insect repellent tobacco seeds, plant them in the North Carolina sunshine, grow it, cut it, cure it, toast it..." the tobacco man replies. "There you go - IT'S TOASTED", Don writes on the board. "But everybody else's tobacco is toasted" the tobacco man bites back. Don calmly replies, "Everybody else's causes cancer. Yours is toasted".
Look at what you do, even though you may take it for granted.
The important takeaway I get from this is to look at what you do, even though you may take it for granted. I always point to cybersecurity for this one. Whether you're a high tech company, an independent consultant, or even a mom & pop store - everyone values their own security. Stating that you value security and take essential measure to protect customer information really means a lot to a customer. It's often the ordinary things you do every day that make your business unique. If security is part of your daily process - ADVERTISE IT! Let your customers know that you care.
2. The Carousel
One of the most tear-jerking scenes in the entire series is undisputedly "The Carousel" scene. Kodak's new invention flips through film slides on a wheel, projecting each picture onto the screen. Don tells a compelling story about memories, alluding to how the circular shape of the device is like a carousel, going round and round and always back home again.
Stories are an incredible tool for explaining technical concepts and abstract ideas.
The genius of this scene goes far beyond its emotional value. We learn the power of a story. Stories are an incredible tool for explaining technical concepts and abstract ideas. I find that telling stories, anecdotes, and metaphors are instrumental not only to good sales, but also improve project management and overall communication. Why not make business a little more entertaining while driving the point home at the same time?
3. The Letter
After the firm's reputation is in the gutter and business is at an all time low, Don pulls a crazy, subjectively heroic move. He pens a full page letter in the New York Times, basically saying "the tobacco client didn't dump us, we dumped the client - and here's why we'll never take a tobacco client again".
Change the conversation from defending your weaknesses to showcasing your strengths.
While I would never condone backstabbing a client, I think the lesson here is about changing the conversation. As a small business, larger clients are often afraid to work with you. And as an individual or a micro-sized business, it can sometimes be difficult to define exactly what you do and why that creates value. Change the conversation from defending your weaknesses to showcasing your strengths. It's partly a confidence problem - don't be afraid to tell the world that you really are the best at what you do. Small businesses are often diamonds in the rough because their team is SO GOOD at doing something but you'd never know it unless you happened to stumble upon them. We've all been to one of those incredible hole-in-the-wall restaurants, right? It's the same idea.
4. Draw Inspiration From Unlikely Sources
Towards the end of the series, Don goes AWOL from his firm, travelling around the country, experimenting with drugs and ideals of the young "hippie" generation. In one of the final scenes, when we all think Don is on the verge of a suicide or emotional collapse, he suddenly dreams up one of the most iconic Coca-Cola ads of all time.
Draw inspiration from unlikely sources.
Once again, the lesson here is not to disappear from reality for weeks on end (even though that would be nice sometimes!). The lesson is to draw inspiration from unlikely sources. Talk to the everyman, the youth, and to people who live in a world different from your own. One of our biggest secrets to success at CodeRed is that we openly talk to as many people as possible about our business ideas. Whether it's a service offering, a new product, or simply identifying trends. I love talking to non-technical folks about cybersecurity because their perspective is always so different and often unexpected. Compiling all this feedback together enables us to build a better product and have a stronger, more valuable impact on our community. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '17', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9477604031562804}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '18018', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2PTLLSRM25EQ3PIIZ4D3BUTVM5OP6VBQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2d51f43b-8484-43c5-9cd6-af7abd1443e3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 14, 12, 54, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.49.201', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:W4RW3ZRD3HNJCOGH4Q2KZC6I3OW2YDPU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7acbbbf5-01db-4f76-90d4-00a6bd3e75aa>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.coderedcorp.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-small-business-from-mad-men/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b41cfdc0-6ac1-48d3-bdad-14274ffa7c6f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '866', 'url': 'https://www.coderedcorp.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-small-business-from-mad-men/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-150-98-233.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11688697338104248', 'original_id': 'c85d4d025f331003ca76b9c9197ea7d6753581cc4e24b01f2de6a8951bb9b446'} |
How to do a research paper outline
Research Outlines While you are researching a topic, you can make a tentative outline—a plan for your paper based on what you are learning from your research.Minor points develop the nuances of your major points but may not be significant enough to warrant extended attention on their own.This goes over how to do an MLA style outline for the English Honors 9 research paper.Sample Conclusion: For this paper, a conclusion might restate the central argument (the link between lack of education and health issues) and go on to connect that discussion to a larger discussion of the U.S. healthcare or education systems.
Literature Review Outline: What You Need to Get Started
What is a Research Paper Outline?
The next step is to write a thorough outline to structure your paper.
Scigen research paper formatting. Ask for a research paper outline apa publication.The particular angle of vision of your thesis statement will automatically suggest and determine the.
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A Sample of Research Proposal Outlines and Papers. before you can even begin a research paper,. you will need to outline the exact process that you plan to use.Describe the general methodology you choose for your study, in order to.
Thesis Statements - The Writing Center
Learn How to do Research Paper before you commence Work on your Paper.Here, a student might discuss how dropping out of high school often leads to fewer employment opportunities, and those employment opportunities that are available tend to be correlated with poor work environments and low pay.Explain what significant differences you would need to find to confirm.
How to Write a Last Minute Research Paper: 7 Steps
Discuss several critical studies that have already been done in this area(cite.
How to Write an Outline for a Research Paper - IResearchNet
Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant.Explain how these research questions are related to the larger.
A Sample of Research Proposal Outlines and Papers
Major points build on each other, moving the paper forward and toward its conclusion.Explain what it will show about the psychology of language if your hypothesis.
Ten Steps for Writing Research Papers - American University
Describe how you can by your design rule out or control for apparent effects.
MLA Format Sample Paper, with Cover Page and Outline
Ive worked with our Online Librarian, BethMarie Gooding to prepare this tutorial that walks you through how to create an outline for a research paper using Microsoft Word and the key components of an outline.There are ten steps involved in writing a research paper: Step 1:.Creating an outline will help you to keep track of large amounts of information you want to include from your research and then additional notes from your own perspective and evaluation.Here is the complete information about the research paper writing.A good outline is the most important step in writing a good paper.Minor topics could include specific work environments, job satisfaction in various fields, and correlation between depression and chronic illness.
This handout provides detailed information about how to write research papers including discussing research papers as a. discussion see Developing an Outline.Describe the factors you would vary if you were presenting a person with.Creating an Outline Using Automatic Numbering in Microsoft Word.More Major and Minor Points: In this paper, more major points might include mental health of high school dropouts, healthcare access for dropouts, and correlation between mental and physical health.Explain how these research questions are related to the larger issues raised.Sample Background: A background section on a paper on education and health might include an overview of recent research in this area, such as research on depression or on decreasing high school graduation rates.
How to write a research paper outline - Research paper
A description of what has already known about this area and short discussion.
Rather than simply reiterating each major and minor point, quickly revisit your thesis statement and focus on ending the paper by tying your thesis into current research in your field, next steps for other researchers, your broader studies, or other future implications.
How to Write a Psychology Research Paper - Verywell
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Hard and Fast day
Today has probably been the hardest fast day since I started doing the 5:2 diet over seven months ago.
It comes a couple of days after my birthday, so I've been drinking beer and eating cake and doing other things that I'm well entitled to do 'because it's my fucking birthday'.
But for some reason it's been particularly hard fasting today - all I've had is a little tub of flavourless cous-cous and a soup that tasted like watery mushy peas. Ugh.
It's been unsatisfying to the point of starvation, and I literally feel hollow and empty. Bad times.
I feel like beer, burgers and chilli cheese fries that burn my mouth.
Basically, I feel like another visit to Lucky Chip burger now, having belatedly discovered their full gorgeousness on Tuesday night. God, that would really hit the spot right now.
Oh yes, sit down my children, and I shall tell you a tale. A tale of aged beefy goodness. And fries.
Damn Van
The Lucky Chip burger van probably showed up 18 months or so ago, possibly longer, and despite hearing good things I never got around to trying them.
Note the Lucky Chip menu on the wall...
They now boast a residency at the Sebright Arms, but again, I've been finding excuses not to bother. Too far away, don't know the pub, indifferent past experiences when pubs take on burger residencies and so on...
But, it turns out that it's actually a bloody good burger and a decent little pub as well.
Could it be? Could it be that this is the mecca I've been dreaming of for so long?!? A proper pub with good beer that also kicks some serious arse in the beef department?
The answer is: Yes. Yes, it is.
Well, probably.
Where the fuck?
The Sebright is a little backstreet boozer in a silly part of East London, sort of in betweeen Hoxton and Bethnal Green. And Cambridge Heath. And Shoreditch, come to that.
It's ironic that so many places for good food and drink are in silly parts of East London these days. I find myself constantly going to 'places I never go to', if that makes sense. Whether the exact location of this pub technically counts as Hoxton or Bethnal Green or whatever, it definitely falls into this category. It seems to draw in a few Hoxton Hipsters, but the fixtures and fittings look like they came from a 1990s Wetherspoons disposal.
But they have a modest but balanced line up of cask beers from the newer London breweries - including the East London Brewery 'Orchid Mild', which I'd not had before and, of course, they have lucky chip doing the food.
It's that menu again!
The menu is simple and the food comes served up messily on little polystyrene plates and cardboard baskets. And it comes up quickly too. Almost fast-food quickly. In terms of low-rent presentation, it almost out-MEATliquors MEATliquor. Almost. The traditional pub decor raises it above the sleazepit, I think.
My only menu-based criticism is that the menu itself (a rather cool retro diner design) is just pinned up on the wall by the bar rather than on the tables where you're sitting, so it's hard to take time to decide what to have without looking like a confused mong-hound.
I didn't realise until after we'd eaten, for example, that a range of rather nice looking dips and sauces were available. Oh well, there's always next time.
What we did eat - and there was a lot of it - was bloody fucking awesome though.
Nice to meat you, Mr. Chip
They do a range of burgers, reasonably priced and most of which include various combinations of cheese, sauce, bacon and salady bits and bobs. Various celebrity-themed specials come and go and we tried the 'Kevin Bacon' as well as the 'Royale wit Cheese'.
The single most important thing with a burger - and the thing that so many places just can't be arsed with - is the quality of the beef.
So many burgers are tired, dry, bland, leathery, gristly, overcooked, overseasoned, and too full of filler to be anything special. Indeed, most people in this country have probably never tried a really good quality burger.
A bite out of the Kevin Bacon
Lucky Chip is in the exclusive club of those who 'get it'. The meat is aged and full of flavour. It's juicy and unctious, with the texture of, well, proper beef. They serve it quite rare by default which is as it should be, and they pair it up with other good ingredients to deliver a huge shot of flavour.
The Kevin Bacon, on a plain brioche bun with minimal vegetation was my favourite of the two.
The beef is great, the bacon is great, and even the goopy 'American cheese' is rather nice.
The mustardy, ketchupy burger sauce mixes with the gherkin slices to create a flavour that's sort of reminiscent of childhood trips to McDonalds - where I haven't eaten for many years - but, crucially, much, much higher quality.
Imagine a Big Mac, but made with really good quality rare beef and condiments, and you're half way there. (Whoa-ho, living on a prayer!)
The Royale came with a lot of salad and sesame seeds on the bun, but was otherwise another bacon cheeseburger essentially. Why wasn't it quite as good? Possibly because the 'special sauce' didn't have quite the same tang as the mustard-ketchup combo in the Kevin Bacon.
Look at that! Just look at that!
But it was still - and I cannot emphasise this enough - astonishingly good. These are quite possibly the best burger in London and without a shadow of a doubt the best burgers I've ever had in a proper English pub. By a big fat well-hung mile.
It's on a par with the really good brewpub burgers on the other side of the Atlantic.
We also tried the cheese fries and chilli cheese fries, which do exactly what they say on the box and come up in hearty portions.
The chilli fries would be a decent meal in themselves and the chilli - made with beef and pork - is fairly hot and full of slices of green chilli. (Little tip: Eat your burger first before exposing your tastebuds to the heat!)
There's other shit on the menu I didn't try but definitely will in the future - a 'Filet Oh Fish', hot wings and hot dogs, not to mention the other burger options.
If you're in the Hoxton area, Lucky Chip is serving from 6 to 10 PM at the Sebright Monday-thru-Saturday, and between 1 and 6 PM on Sundays if you fancy going for some burgers after church.
It's not often I eat and drink somewhere that I genuinely consider a game changer, and if Lucky Chip were just a burger van on the mean streets of Hackney, or if the Sebright Arms didn't do great food, I might not be gushing on about how brilliant they are.
But in combination it's good quality burgers and great real beer which has long been something of a Holy Grail for me.
I'm starting to think about pubs for this years B-V Pub of the Year awards now, and the Sebright Arms has given me some hearty food for thought.
It might be that the Lucky Chip residency doesn't last long so get the fuck over there!
Where to find it
Lucky Chip @ The Sebright Arms
31-35 Coate Street,
Hoxton E2 9AG (map
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24 November 2007
So Much For Law and Order
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to kill your dog."
The officer told Leo Barboza there had been a complaint (his dog) had bitten someone. "I said, 'Do you have any proof or anything?' He says, 'I don't need any proof.'"So Leo got the dog while the deputy pulled out a rifle from his car. They walked a few feet from the Barboza's home where Leo's wife and his three year old son were inside.Leo and the officer tied the dog to a pole when the deputy fired three shots.
The ONLY ray of hope in this end of the world-grade story is that the shit-fer-brains deputy couldn't kill the dog, who was tied to a post, with 3 shots.
'Hey, the dog's alive!' I was like, 'What are you serious?' I was happy my dog
was alive.
Legal procedure? We don't need no stinkin' legal procedure; we're the cops!
Ever wonder where the Second Amendment came from? Not that you had forgotten, but it's been a year since Atlanta Police murdered 92 year-old Kathryn Johnston in her own home.
Shortly after the shooting, the police alleged that they had paid an informant to buy drugs from Ms. Johnston's home. They said she fired at them first, and wounded two officers. And they alleged they found marijuana in her home. We now know that these were all lies. In fact, everything about the Kathryn Johnston murder was corrupt. The initial arrest of the ex-con came via trumped-up charges. The police then invented an informant for the search warrant, and lied about overseeing a drug buy from Johnston's home.
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String Theory and Creation: How the Voice of God Upholds Reality
By Josh Peck| Could it be possible that modern string theory agrees with an ancient biblical principal? This was one of the many questions I asked myself in writing my book, Quantum Creation. In trying to find connections between quantum physics and biblical teachings concerning reality as we know it, I was brought to an interesting verse. Hebrews 11:3 states:
First, to understand what is being discussed, the word “worlds” was translated from the Greek word “aiōn” meaning “for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity; the worlds, universe; period of time, age” (1). This verse is talking about God’s creation, so it is reasonable that all three of these definitions are acceptable.
The term “word of God” is used many times throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible in reference to different things. As I show in Quantum Creation, there are times that the “word of God” is in direct reference to Jesus Himself (such as in the first chapter of the Gospel of John), or even, in a sense, the preincarnate Jesus in the Old Testament. There is much more that can be explored concerning the usage of “word of God” to refer to Jesus, but for our purposes here, we are going to look at a different usage.
In Hebrews 11:3, a different Greek word is used than in John chapter 1 for “word”. In Hebrews 11:3, the Greek word for “word” is “rhēma” meaning “that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word; subject matter of speech, thing spoken of” (2).
In John 1:1, “word” comes from the Greek “logos”, which as I explain in Quantum Creation, has deeper implications than a spoken word or voice. Hebrews 11:3 is referring to the literal voice of God; it is saying that everything in existence was created by the literal spoken word of God.
String Theory and how it relates to the Bible
Now that we have the first half of the verse defined, we can begin to look at the second half. First, it would be of great value to go over the basic idea of string theory in order to see if it might apply here. String theory conveys the idea that every particle of matter is actually the result of even smaller strings that vibrate.
“In essence, if you look deeply enough into any subatomic particle, you will find a string. Even more, string theory states that the strings within different particles are actually identical in nature but vibrate at different rates and in different patterns. The vibrations of the string is what determines what type of particle it is to be. For example, an electron is less massive than a quark. According to string theory, the electron’s string vibrates less than the quark’s string.” (3)
In other words, the vibrations of the string is what produces the particle. A particle is nothing more than the result of vibrations. As of today, it is not known what exactly causes the string to vibrate. One of the leading theories basically states that whatever it is, it must come from a higher dimension. This brings us to the last half of Hebrews 11:3.
In the English Standard Version, Hebrews 11:3 reads:
Notice specifically the text reads “what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” That is to say, everything in physical existence (what can be seen) was made by something invisible (something outside of what we can perceive from our three-spatial-dimensional perspective). If string theory is an accurate definition of reality, this can help explain what exactly is causing the strings to vibrate.
God is timeless, His spoken word is still in creation
When considering this, we should keep in mind that even time itself is a creation of God. This is important because it shows that God Himself is outside of time. Of course, He can inject Himself into time as He sees fit, but that does not mean He is bound by time like you and I. God is, by His very own nature, outside of time itself.
The reason this is important to realize goes back to the cause of the string’s vibrations. Hebrews 11:3 tells us that everything was created by the spoken word of God. In essence, God spoke everything into existence. We know this from Genesis from when God said “Let there be light”, etc. From our perspective, being bound by time, this initial creative act would have occurred in the past, hence the past tense language used in the verse.
However, God is outside of time, meaning there is no past, present, or future from His perspective (which also helps bring into clearer focus Isaiah 46:10, which says He can call out the end from the beginning and beginning from the end). For God, everything just is. Everything is known and seen just as clearly as everything else, regardless of where it falls on the timeline of our physical existence.
The ultimate conclusion, the truly amazing thing that can be considered by putting all of this together, is that we exist within the spoken word of God. From our perspective, that initial creative word from God is still forever emanating from Him. It is His eternal voice that is causing strings to vibrate, thereby resulting in the production of the physical particles that make up all of matter and energy.
We aren’t only created by God; our existence is maintained by God through His voice. As you read this, you are existing only because the voice of God is currently making it possible. You are a direct result of the timeless, ongoing, and never-ending spoken word of God Himself.
There are many other things that can be examined with this idea in mind. Even more exciting, there are many other ways modern quantum physics may have inadvertently touched on biblical principles. For more explanation of the idea presented here as well as many more, I would highly encourage you to check out my book, Quantum Creation, now available at
There are many things taught in the studies of quantum physics that may have a root in the Bible. Of course, there is a difference between observation and interpretation. Many times, the interpretation of the scientific observation will conflict with the Bible. However, if we can learn how to separate the faulty interpretation from the unbiased observation itself, we can use science as an aid to help understand and truly appreciate the majesty of God’s nature and creation.
Thank you for reading, and as always, take care and God bless!
1. “Greek Lexicon :: G165 (KJV).” Blue Letter Bible. Accessed 20 Jul, 2014.
2. “Greek Lexicon :: G4487 (KJV).” Blue Letter Bible. Accessed 20 Jul, 2014.
3. Quantum Creation by Josh Peck, page 128
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Qwen3-Inspired Pre-training Dataset
Overview
This is a demo version with sampled data from each source.
This dataset is a curated mixture of high-quality text data designed for large language model pre-training, inspired by the Qwen3 methodology.
Dataset Statistics
Total Size: 6.78 billion tokens
Data Sources
- dclm_baseline: 3.71B tokens (54.78%) - 2,981,871 documents
- mini_pile: 1.43B tokens (21.09%) - 998,100 documents
- the_stack: 0.82B tokens (12.09%) - 148,195 documents
- common_corpus: 0.82B tokens (12.04%) - 194,877 documents
Data Processing Pipeline
- Data Collection: Sourced from multiple high-quality datasets
- Standardization: All data transformed to consistent format with
text,info, andsource_datafields - Exact Deduplication: Removed identical documents
- Near Deduplication: Used MinHashLSH with Jaccard similarity threshold of 0.85
- Quality Filtering: Applied content-based filtering during processing
Data Format
Each example contains:
text: The main text contentinfo: Metadata from the original dataset (as string)source_data: Source dataset identifier
Tokenization
Token counts were computed using the Llama3 tokenizer (meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B).
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("bluelightai-dev/qwen_clt_pretrain_data")
Dataset Sources
The dataset combines data from the following sources:
- DCLM Baseline: High-quality web text from DataComp-LM
- Common Corpus: Curated common crawl data
- The Stack: Deduplicated source code
- Mini Pile: Academic and reference texts
License
Please refer to the individual source dataset licenses. This mixture is provided for research purposes.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite the original source datasets and this work.
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