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Alistair Brown to leave STV
It is announced that Alistair Brown, Chief Technology & Platforms Officer, has decided to leave STV at the end of June after ten successful years leading the Company's digital and technology strategy. This decision was taken by Alistair Brown having elected not to put himself forward for a new role of Managing Director of a newly formed digital business.
As a result of the introduction of a new divisional structure, confirmed as part of the Company's strategic review announced today, the technology function will be embedded into divisional operating businesses.
Alistair joined the Company in 2008 to lead an emerging digital strategy. This included the launch of the successful STV Player. Later in 2011, Alistair was also assigned responsibility for the Company's broadcast technology and IT functions in an enhanced role of Chief Technology & Platforms Officer.
Latterly, Alistair has led the delivery of a new broadcast playout infrastructure and the deployment of state of the art media management infrastructure to service digital and broadcast platforms, providing the business with future proofed technology platforms.
Simon Pitts, Chief Executive Officer, said: "Alistair has done a terrific job at STV and leaves a positive legacy of progress across digital and technology delivered throughout his successful tenure. He leaves the Company with our thanks and best wishes for continued success in the future."
Alistair Brown, Chief Technology & Platforms Officer, said: "I am extremely proud to have worked at STV for the last 10 years and to have contributed to our many successes during this period. STV is a fantastic place to work and I count myself very lucky to have worked with such a talented, innovative and committed group of people. I wish the team and STV all the very best for the future."
For more information, please contact the STV press office:
Ellen Drummond
ellen.drummond@stv.tv

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Q: Is the multiplicative group on the complex numbers isomorphic to the multiplicative group on the complex numbers mod all the roots of unity? As the title suggests, I am trying to figure out if $$\mathbb{C}^\times/\mu_\infty \simeq \mathbb{C}^\times$$
My intuition suggests that these two groups are not isomorphic, but I cannot find any contradiction when attempting to construct such an isomorphism. I am aware that $\mathbb{C}^\times \simeq \mathbb{C}^\times / \mu_n$ for finite n, but sensibly the same isomorphism cannot be used. Where do I even start to find such a contradiction, or am I off entirely and these are indeed isomorphic?
To clear up any possible confusion $\mu_\infty = \bigcup_{n=1}^\infty \mu_n$ where $\mu_n = \{z \in \mathbb{C}^\times : z^n =1 \}$.

A: Apparently,  $\Bbb C^×/\mu_{\infty}$ doesn't have any elements of finite order greater than $1$.  So they can't be isomorphic.

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Delfest 2018 Review: Delfest Bluegrass Festival
by Dark City StringsJun 7, 2018Reviews
Delfest 2018 Review, courtesy of Dark City Strings
(Featured Photo courtesy of The Lot Scene)
When the fine folks at FestyGoNuts asked us to cover this year's Delfest, we happily obliged!
The Delfest lineup is always ridiculous (overwhelming really), and the setting is quite literally magical. It's so magical, that in 2012, it turned a bunch of brooding rugby players into a semi-competent bluegrass band!
Yes, indeed, that's exactly how Dark City Strings formed.
The cliff notes version goes like this: I grew up around bluegrass my whole life (My first festival was Winterhawk 94', now known as the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival– you should go!). I always wanted to be a picker growing up, but was too busy running into other kids and chasing various balls around parks. That led me to Rugby and the guys who are now in Dark City Strings. Believe it or not, Rugby and Bluegrass have a lot of similarities, none more important than drinking copious amounts of alcohol until all hours of the night.
Fast forward to 2012 where I "convinced" my rugby mates to join me at Delfest that year. Most of them had no idea what to expect. Lucky for them, their introduction to the bluegrass world was consecutive sets of Yonder Mountain String Band, Greensky Bluegrass, & Railroad Earth. All three bands CRUSHED us. When we returned home, we drew straws after rugby practice as to who would play which instrument (poor Joe got the bass!), and the rest, as they say, is history.
Let the DelFest-ivities Begin
Driving that last tent stake into the soft soil of the beautiful Alleghany County fairgrounds felt a little more rewarding this year (Del7 for the squad), this being the latest we've started our festival season in some time. The greens and blues of the Delfest festival grounds absolutely amaze and set a picturesque backdrop for what's become one of our favorite gatherings of the season.
Having arrived to Delfest earlier than expected on Thursday morning (and been pleasantly surprised by the boys from Serene Green picking at the County College for the folks in line!), we were prepped for soundcheck at 4:00 to kick-off what would be an incredible first day/night/morning! A soundcheck from Del McCoury in the afternoon followed by performances from California HoneyDrops and Rhiannon Giddens set the stage for our first headliner.
The Infamous Stringdusters headlined the mainstage for the first time ever this year and, as they've been known to do, completely blew the doors down.
We've dubbed this crew "the smile guys" because you'd be hard-pressed to find a frown or a stagnant set of feet at a Dusters show! (Seriously, take a look. It's just not possible to keep a grin off your face.) Thursday night was no different, and there was a healthy dose of originals, traditionals, and covers on offer. Most notably "Possum" which had all the Phish Phans dancing and grinning from ear to ear. The boys closed their epic show with a nod to the Grateful Dead, and their endearing crowd clapped and sang to "Not Fade Away" as the boys walked off.
Having caught The Lil Smokies in action in Asheville a few weeks ago, we knew what we were walking into; but, WOW, did these boys deliver AGAIN. The Lil Smokies remind us a lot of early Greensky Bluegrass. Much like GSBG, they've been at it for a long time, both bands winning the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition and gaining fans one show at a time. They've also both had a few lineup changes, most notably Anders Beck joining Greensky and Jake Simpson joining The Lil Smokies just over a year ago.
Let me tell you something folks, Jake Simpson is an absolute ANIMAL on stage. There were several times I thought his fiddle was going to spontaneously combust. Frontman and Dobroist, Andy Dunnigan was another highlight, often finding himself in a "call-and-response" sonic battle with Simpson.
After The Lil Smokies finished a rousing rendition of "Paint it Black", Fruition took the stage and played through a number of tunes off their new album. A bit slower than the blistering pace the Smokies displayed, Fruition showed off their amazing three-part harmonies that left everyone tugging at their heartstrings.
Mountain Ride and breakfast burritos (of which there were many choices this year) was the way we greeted the day Friday.
Mountain Ride worked hard all weekend and made fans everywhere they went. They had big performances on the Potomac stage and in the dance hall before taking it to the streets and busking well into the night for those of us wandering the camp. Well done, team!
The Jon Stickley Trio took the stage in front of an eager and a bit sweaty Potomac stage crowd. The Trio is absolutely firing right now and new(ish) drummer Hunter Deacon is air-tight. After the uber-talented Linsday Pruett dazzled the crowd with a display of technique that left most jaws on the floor, Jon Stickley took a minute (during the stunned quiet after applause ha) to speak to the crowd.
Jon is a devout Tony Rice fan, and it was amazing to see him take the time to honor someone he considers such an influence with his version of the Rice classic "Manzanita". This practice of honoring the craft and craftsmen/women that came before you is somewhat of a theme of this festival in particular, always rooted in the celebration of tradition while showcasing and promoting the new and the next. After watching their performances both Friday and Saturday, JS3 could be a bit of both.
Mandolin Orange took the main stage at Delfest for the first time to a crowd that couldn't be bothered by the heat. This was too urgent a message to spend your time anywhere else but attentively glued to this group, and their music just seems to get more resonant with every listen.
Greensky Bluegrass has graced the Delfest stage in Alleghany it seems like countless times, but it never gets less exciting and they never fail to bring the goods. The band is finding a new stride right now as they transition once again in front of our eyes. (big to bigger?) (huge to huge-r?) The versatility required to span from the single mic with Del McCoury to Allman Brothers in a single set is mind-blowing. Jason Carter sat in for a monster "All-Four" and Jon Stickley rejoined Broke Mountain Bluegrass colleague Anders Beck to close with "Broke-Mountain Breakdown" and a classic "One-Way Out" cover.
Late-night started with The Dustbowl Revival, quickly climbing our personal lists for favorite bands to catch in the dance hall. California Honeydrops brought swagger to the stage, but a long day in the sun was a little too much for these correspondents and we took David Bowie back to camp (white pizza bacon teriyaki? jalapeño-sought after but recommended) and called it a night.
Read the Festy GoNuts Ronnie McCoury Interview HERE!
Saturday morning started with a campsite pick with our neighbors' banjo & dobro, but the weather was expected to get sketchy by the time The Lil Smokies were set to hit the Potomac stage. As happens so frequently in the valley, the weather was exactly the opposite of the forecast wind and rain and we had another gorgeous day on our hands. The Smokies brought it again, and the crowd was on every beat with them.
Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton were expected to be an incredible performance from the moment we saw it on the bill, but I'm not sure I can express the gratitude of the crowd and the enjoyment of all involved (including another surprise sit-in from our friends Jon Stickley and Mimi Naja!). It's obvious that not only do both Bryan and Billy have an immense amount of respect for their craft and those who honored it before them, but for one another as well. It was a special thing to witness – when Billy plays a Doc tune, you can close your eyes, and it's REALLY HARD to notice any difference.
Only in his mid-twenties, Billy Strings will be a headlining act for years to come. Of course, this is no surprise to pretty much anyone reading this article.
Sam Bush played to a jumping crowd as expected, and songs like the Robert Palmer tune "Sneakin' Sally through the Alley" rocked.
After a delay and some heavy rain, the Bluegrass Congress was in session. All who stuck it out were rewarded. Watching legends like this share the stage is one of those truly magical experiences only a festival the caliber of Delfest can create. Richard Thompson joined Del for the first time ever for "1952 Vincent Black Lightning, " which Thompson originally penned, to top it off.
The late-night brought two welcome sights – dry shelter and a Brothers Comatose-Billy Strings bill that was set to be absolute fire.
The Brothers Comatose made it very clear from the beginning they were going to leave everything they had on the stage, and man did they! After hours in the driving rain, the crowd was firing in the dance hall and the Brothers Comatose lit the place up. It takes a special type of bluegrass band to hit a crowd with covers ranging from the Violent Femmes to Jazzy Jeff and still be able to deliver on foot-stomping tunes like "Knoxville Foxhole" and "Trippin On Down the Mountain".
Billy Strings opened his set with a "Meet Me at the Creek" that turned the dance hall on its head and might have been 15 minutes long! The whole band charges start to finish and people could not stop grooving. Personal highlights include New Grass Revival's "This Heart of Mine" and a killer version of the Dillard's "There Is A Time".
After a long rainy Saturday, we woke up a bit damp but grateful to still be at Delfest. Ironically, after begging for shade the first two days, we found ourselves praying for sun to help dry the mud. One thing is for certain, when it rains at Delfest, the rain falls and STAYS! I feel for my shire dwelling folks in the woods… if you've been, you know what I mean.
We were lucky to get enough sunshine Sunday morning to semi-dry out our camp before the big bolts came back. We were in the middle of a jam before getting stuck under a pop-up clutching to the poles so the weather wouldn't take our instruments! After about 30 minutes of super heavy rain, and some necessary tequila drinks, the clouds broke, and we would be clear of rain for the remainder of the festival.
Speaking of thunder & lightning, the first set of the day for us was Billy Strings. We've had several friends, after seeing Billy for the first-time, joke about how he looks "possessed" when he plays. Today was no different, as he came firing out the gates with the title track of his debut album, "Turmoil & Tinfoil".
Most jamgrass bands mix it up between psychedelic exploratory jams, choice covers, and traditional grass tunes, but few can match the raw power that Billy brings to the stage. Billy Strings left us wondering whether we were at a bluegrass or heavy metal show, often times within the same song.
Next up – The Wood Brothers. Is there anyone out there that doesn't like The Wood Brothers?! They certainly brighten up any rainy day. Of all the bands we saw that weekend, none had Delfest moving like The Wood Brothers. It was a borderline spiritual experience. One thing that stuck out to us was the number of artists who were in the photo pit checking out the show. It seemed like every main stage act was there, and they were singing those signature Wood Bros. choruses as loud as everyone else. "I got loadeddddd" "Keep me arounnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndd!" "Honey drippinnnn offf of your spoon"!
Next up was the man himself, Del McCoury. As I mentioned earlier, Delfest lineups are so great, it's almost impossible to catch everyone you want to see. Very rarely do we see an entire Del set, as we typically set aside at least 15 minutes to grab some food before the rest of the night settles in. However, on this Sunday, we were determined to see Del's final set without any distractions. In typical Del McCoury fashion, he had us guessing on whether or not he actually wrote a setlist or if he was really going by audience call-outs. In either case, he always delivers a heartwarming set that makes us all think, "If I could only be that cool when I'm a Grandpa."
Most iconic vocalists see some degradation in their voice as their careers go on, but not Del. He still hits every tenor note as if he was still playing with Bill Monroe, which was on full display during "Cold Rain & Snow."
After an inspiring closing set from Del, Joe Craven (the best bluegrass hype man!) delivered a heartfelt introduction for the main stage festival closer, Old Crow Medicine Show. When you see OCMS, you are certainly in for a SHOW. Led by the charismatic Ketch Secor, you won't find a more animated band at a bluegrass festival.
At one point, Ketch was in the middle of fiery fiddle solo, spinning around-and-around on one leg, and just as he'd finished his last rotation (still spinning!), he was greeted by a stagehand who traded his fiddle for a harmonica, which then led to a perfectly executed harmonica solo. It was one of those moments where you had to turn to a friend to say, "Did you just see that shit?!" This was just one taste of the endless theatrics that went on during their electric 90-minute set. The boys closed with an uplifting cover of "Spirit in the Sky" that left us all beaming as we started to say goodbye to what was another terrific Delfest.
The spirit that permeates this festival every year is pure magic. From the kindness of the "strangers" around you to next level lineups and once in a lifetime collaboration, Delfest is a special place.
Now to catch up on some sleep!!!
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jim lilly on June 12, 2018 at 6:39 am
Nice review. I think we attended most of the same performances. The people that attend DelFest are what makes this such a magical event. DelYeah!


"The Octopus Ring" is the 22nd Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Mandrake is asked by the government to track down a vast spy-ring, ruled by a mysterious leader. The spy-ring leader, The Octopus, kidnaps Narda, and on the threat of killing her he forced Mandrake to join him.
The title for the story is taken from the strip of May 6, 1940 (Beginning - The Octopus Ring !).
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Q: Determining Threshold Voltage and Plateau from experimental data I've been trying to figure out how to interpret the following data from the Geiger muller tube

There are only seven data points. Where does the plateau begin? Has the data collection begun after the number of counts has reached the plateau? What does this say and the threshold voltage. I feel like it's ambiguous.

A: Short answer: You can't tell, it is indeed ambiguous.
Slightly longer answer: This is a typical example of the discrepancy between theory and experiment. I don't know whether this is your data or someone else's data but apparently, there is some deviation from the theory due to an unknown influence in the experimental set-up. Another possibility is that the theory is so highly idealized that it is not applicable to you case. You would need more data points to make a statement about the plateau or even better, you should identify why the curve is not like in theory. If you absolutely have to estimate the boundaries of the plateau, I'd say it lies between data points 1 and 5. The uncertainty of this estimation is very high though. The fact that the data doesn't have any error bars makes it even more difficult.


I've run 'finder games longer than I've played them now, and I always encourage my players to try their hand at GMing. Partly because they have good ideas of their own, ideas that I would never have, but also because I want to play just as much! Each GM runs the game their own way and has their own set of priorities when it comes to running a game. So as someone who's writing a column on being a GM I think I should put forward my key attributes when running games.
It's flexibility. Nothing is more important than being able to respond to your players, and re-wrap the world around them, suddenly warp the dungeon they're in so that little key you forgot doesn't actually lock them inside, forever, to die a horribly boring death. Without flexibility, the second your players aren't following the story you've written you're no longer playing the game, because you're directly steering the PCs instead of them steering you.
Fun and rules knowledge also come into it, as does confidence, but flexibility is above all of them. Fun is a simple enough concept: Are you interested in what you're hoping to put the PCs through? Is a rampaging elephant a challenge? And is it MORE of a challenge when the evil necromancer appears and reanimates the elephant, just as the PCs thought they were in the clear? Or was it fun for the mayor's daughter to get lost, and find her way into the burly fighter's room? Or is that just mean to your players? Isn't the mayor's daughter idea already done to death? That all depends and is where you must be flexible.
For a brand new group of players, both ideas are amazing. "We just fought the elephant and nearly died!" they shout. "Now it's a zombie and we haven't had one second to rest!" And of course who doesn't want to seduce the mayoral family? Who knows what kind of boons we can get from that? Maybe the key to the city, literally!
For an experienced group though I'm less certain. The mayor idea is very well trodden and fun but perhaps has already been seen enough. But the undead elephant? That's novel, but why wait until after it's dead? Why not have the confrontation IN an elephant graveyard – a great setting – and mid-fight the necromancer shows up and animates 3 more elephants before disappearing, as a guitar solo plays and the words "To be continued…" flash across the screen?
It all depends. When I run the game I want to be confident, and I find that confidence through great rules knowledge. Where I don't know the rules, I make an ad hoc ruling, and a mental note to chase the answer up later, so before the next session starts I can tell everyone what the correct ruling was, and how things will work from the current session onwards. With a consistent application of the rules I feel I can present a consistent set of rulings when I GM, and therefore players can rely on my style of play. Consistency leads to integrity. And sure they can decide they don't like my style of play and opt out of the campaign, but if they come back in a year I want to present the same level of confidence and ability.
The storyline is also very important but similar to fun. If you wouldn't read a book based on the story you're GMing, why are you running it? Is it truly that interesting that yet another goblin hoard is attacking the town the PCs are in? What if the PCs won a space cruise on the Lady of the Star cruise-ships, and it's an interdimensional trip that takes 3 months – and they're the only non-goblins on board. The cooks, the ship doctor, the casino lounge – all Goblins, all the time. Suddenly the PCs have to keep their wits about them, finding food that won't poison them (goblins can eat anything, right?), a pilot who's NOT going to drive straight into a black hole, someone who actually knows the rules of poker, etc. Now we've got a much-loved part of roleplaying but in a new situation – you're utterly stuck with them, yet living alongside them will kill you.
Without flexibility in your game, session, and rules, you're stifling the creativity and fun, rather than enabling it. If you want things to run Just So, then by all means – write a book. Starfinder and Pathfinder are organic games, and they need flexibility to be run properly.
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Should Britain be ashamed of Brexit? or see it as an opportunity? Mr Nozomu Takaoka, Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh, gives his personal view on this turbulent period of change.
Should Britain be ashamed of Brexit? or see it as an opportunity?
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Nozomu Takaoka graduated from the University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts. Later, he studied International Relations at Oxford University. An experienced diplomat, Mr Takaoka has worked around the world including two years as Consul General in Houston, USA, and official postings in New York, Egypt, Italy, Sweden and Iran. He became Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh in 2018. He is the author of four books (in Japanese) on world affairs.
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Github, accounts, and ease of contribution
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At the moment we're making plans to move OSTree to Github (from GNOME), and while there are a few reasons for this, one thing I want to talk about is the "account problem" and specifically how it relates to free and open source software.
The "account problem" is simply that requiring users to create them is a barrier to contribution. It's problematic to require people to have a Sourceforge account, a GNOME account, a Github account, an Apache Bugzilla account, a Fedora/CentOS account, etc. People who are committed to making a larger contribution can obviously easily overcome this, but for smaller contributions it hurts.
Particularly for projects like GNOME that have distinct accounts for bugzilla and commit. Having to create an account just to file a bug is bad. Yes, there's OpenID, but still.
I'll note at this point that software freedom is quite important to me, and the fact that Github is proprietary software is a problem. But – making it easy for people to contribute to Free Software is also a major benefit.
I wonder how things would have turned out if Sourceforge had been…well, let's say "less crappy". Anyways, now we have Github.
And when we move OSTree, I'd like to avoid becoming too dependent on it. Particularly for things that aren't actually git, like the issue tracker. Hopefully if GNOME doesn't disagree, we'll maintain our mailing list and bugzilla there so that people who prefer that can use it.
But allowing people to create Github PRs easily is really critical in my mind. (On this topic, we are also planning to use the Homu bot, which I really like)
Thoughts on unikernels/rump kernels
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I spend most of my time working on Project Atomic to further Linux containers deriving from a traditional upstream Linux distribution model, but the space of software delivery/runtime mechanisms is vast, and in particular, I have thought Unikernels were an interesting development. While I do like writing C, the thought of an OS/library in a high level language is an interesting one (particularly interesting to me for a long time is how garbage collection could be better if integrated with the OS).
That was before Docker, Inc. acquired a unikernel company – now, I'm certainly curious where they're going to go with it.
My thoughts before this were that the Unikernel model might make sense in the scenario where you have a "large" application and your sole deployment target is required to be virtualized (e.g. AWS, GCE, etc.).
In this case, it's not really possible to share anything between virtual machines directly (modulo KSM and similar ad-hoc techniques which cost CPU and aren't always predictable) – and so because you can't share anything between these apps, it could gain you efficiency to dump the parts of the OS and userspace that you aren't using in that VM, which could be a lot.
But, if you have any smaller microservice applications, it seems to me that having a shared kernel and userspace (as we provide with the Project Atomic and OpenShift 3 models) is going to be a lot more efficient than doing a VM-per-microservice, even if your VMs are unikernels.
And even with the "large app only for virt" scenario, what about debugging? Ah yes, I just found a blog from Bryan Cantrill on this topic, and I have to say I agree.
Still though, there's lots of middle ground here. We can do far better at helping application authors to produce smaller apps (and host images) than we are with Docker normally right now, for example.
New Atomic Host verb: rpm-ostree deploy
Colin Walters December 15, 2015 2
TL;DR: We've improved the host version management in Fedora Atomic Host, and you can now use atomic host deploy $version to atomically switch to a well-known version.
The awesome Cockpit project has been working on a UI for managing Atomic Host/OSTree updates. See this page for some background on their design.
If you download the most recent Fedora Atomic Host release, then atomic host upgrade, you'll get a new rpm-ostree release which in turn has a new "deploy" verb. This was created to help implement the above Cockpit design; it's a command line talking to code equivalent to what the Cockpit UI pull request will use.
This is noteworthy for several reasons. First, it really unlocks the "server side history" aspect of OSTree for the host tree. This is similar to tagged builds in a Docker repository for a container.
In order to explain this, one needs to understand that currently in Fedora, there is at most one content release per day. This is true of the traditional single "big repository of RPMs", and also the OSTree commits derived from that used for Atomic Host.
OSTree has support for a metadata key per commit called ostree.version which is what you see when you type atomic host status. At present, we're implementing a model where the version numbers are of the form "$major.$increment", and at the time of this writing the version is 23.33, or 33 commits from release.
With that background out of the way, the interesting thing about the new rpm-ostree deploy (mapped via atomic host deploy) command is it allows you atomically switch one or more in a cluster of machines to a pre-determined version you have tested and validated.
For example, if you're trying the current Fedora Atomic Host build, you can invoke:
# atomic host deploy 23.32
Transaction complete; bootconfig swap: no deployment count change: 0
Freed objects: 2.1 kB
krb5-libs 1.14-3.fc23 -> 1.14-2.fc23
lua 5.3.2-2.fc23 -> 5.3.0-4.fc23
Run "systemctl reboot" to start a reboot
If you contrast this with the traditional yum update or atomic host upgrade – these commands will both by default pick the latest versions of the components. If the OS vendor is providing updates while you're in the middle of an upgrade, you could get hosts with a mix of updated or not, with changes you haven't validated.
Now of course, there are several projects which help in implementing versioning on top of the OS vendor content. The Pulp project is an example which allows importing upstream RPM (or other) content, and managing well-known snapshots of it. Then you configure your client machines to pull from those immutable snapshots, rather than directly from upstream.
Doing this sort of downstream repository management makes a lot of sense for greater than small scales – among other things one often wants local mirroring as well. But even with a local versioned content mirror, it can be very convenient to have the intelligence to traverse the repository history built into the client. It also helps the repository management case as it can reuse the upstream versions, rather than trying to synthesize them downstream.
There's a lot more work to do on top of this of course. I just posted a proposal for reworking the commit stream which I think would make this nicer. And the above linked Cockpit pull request will be very cool to see!
The bash vulnerability and Docker containers
Colin Walters September 25, 2014 5
In a previous post about Docker, I happened to randomly pick bash as a package shared between the host and containers. I had thought of it as a relatively innocent package, but the choice turned out to be prescient. The bash vulnerability announced today shows just how important even those apparently innocent packages can be.
The truth is that whenever you run code, you need to have an understanding of who's responsible for it over time. With the Project Atomic model for software delivery, we are also responsible for providing a base image from the upstream distribution, and that base image includes security updates. Are your application vendors on top of bash security updates? It will be interesting to see how rapidly public application containers are updated.
To me, a key goal of Atomic is making use of the flexibility and power of containers – while retaining the benefits of the maintenance model of trusted distributions, and this bash vulnerability shows why that's important.
Project Atomic + Docker: A post-package world?
Colin Walters July 10, 2014 2
I recently was talking with a friend over lunch about Project Atomic and Docker, and he asked: are we entering a "post-package" world?
My short answer: No. The slightly longer answer is that we're seeing an evolution of delivery coupled with a lot of innovation in management and orchestration.
Evolution of delivery
As part of Project Atomic, we're evolving from the context of a "traditional" distribution, where distribution is a set of packages. The Project Atomic pattern is introducing two new higher order delivery vehicles: Docker, and rpm-ostree (also nicknamed via symlink atomic). The theme behind the name Atomic is that both of these technologies group software into indivisible units of management.
Let's look at two artifacts from Project Atomic we're working on in the Fedora distribution that are shipped in this way: the Atomic Cloud Image and the Docker Container Image. An essential fact to note is that both artifacts are composed of RPM packages.
For example, both the host system and container share a set of essentials such as the bash package. In fact, the idea is, at release they will have the same binary version. Both the Docker base image and the Atomic tree are reflecting the upstream RPM content. This is quite crucial for a distribution such as Fedora; both from the perspective of the maintainers as well as the downstream consumers. If you want to check whether an Atomic host or a container is affected by a security vulnerability, you can use the regular rpm -q, or any of the many higher order tools and frameworks built upon that core concept of an inventory of versioned component parts.
Runtime management power
So what's the value, then, in boxing up the same old packages in new ways? For Docker base images (and derived images), there's a massive increase in flexibility – it makes Linux containers very, very easy to use. A simple example is that the host system can now be decoupled from the applications; when the Fedora 22 release of Atomic comes out, your Fedora 21 base image containers can function effectively unchanged, except they will have a newer kernel. You can take advantage of newer hardware support in the kernel or other host features, and stage a migration of applications to newer base images.
It's much easier now to take those same RPM packages for services and multi-instantiate. For example, you can have a Docker base image that contains a mariadb-server RPM, and instantiate multiple writable containers from that, each with their own copy of /etc/my.cnf.
Things get even more interesting with projects like geard, which make it easy to spin up and configure many containers across multiple host systems. This sort of orchestration is much more complex and expensive with virtual machines.
The continuing need for packages
Whenever a single organization starts to produce multiple products, there comes a very strong pull to define a common shared base. And the Project Atomic artifacts are not the only product of Fedora! It still needs to deliver traditional products, such as the Server and Workstation.
In the Server case, for example, there will obviously be a strong continuing demand for a virtualization host system, manifesting as projects such as oVirt. There's also a case for a system capable of both virtualization and Linux containers.
And I think the Workstation case still makes sense. I use Linux and other Free Software on my desktop for real work – with Docker, it's quite nice to be able to test server containers locally before pushing them. I can have the same Docker version on my workstation and servers, or decouple them. The distribution mechanism should continue to cover this. For that matter, the desktop system I'm writing from of course has virtual machines running Atomic, thus bringing four deliverables together.
One might ask: does it even make sense to do this many products within the context of a single organization? I think it does. There are a lot of powerful benefits to still receiving atomic host system updates and Docker base images from the same organization. A lot of userspace is shared, and it allows crossover for things like management tooling.
Now, one can of course find sub-groups within the (large) Docker community that are farther down the "post-package" spectrum, but I just don't think it's a realistic viewpoint. As an example, look at the upstream docker-registry README.md. While it tells you how to pull the binary Docker from the upstream registry, it also documents how to acquire the individual pieces and run it directly. And there's real reasons for that, such as being able to build the registry from source code and improve it. To do that, you need the build dependencies, distinct from the runtime. Yes, the README uses pip instead of dpkg/rpm, but the concept is the same.
To be clear then, it's not about Docker replacing packages: the realistic endpoint is blending the strengths of the two technologies. One example of that some people have been looking at is using Docker as a buildroot construction system for RPM packages.
Finally, on the OSTree side, things are quite a bit simpler. Conceptually, it's just a way to compose packages on a server (instead of per client), providing each with atomic upgrades. Then rpm-ostree is a tool bridging the world of RPM and OSTree; it's very much oriented around being a complement to RPM. The rpm-ostree tool also links to hawkey to allow it to inspect and operate on the RPM database inside the trees. More information about that here.
With Project Atomic, we're not just introducing new software; we're attempting to change how we deliver software, something deeply fundamental to a distribution project like Fedora. And furthermore, we're changing how it's deployed and managed, which impacts application authors and systems administrators. That said, I believe the benefits of Linux containers and Docker are very real.
Want to get involved? Jump in on the Project Atomic community, or see active SIGs and discussions in targeted distributions such as CentOS and the Fedora Cloud group which is hosting the Changes/Atomic Cloud Image. There's plenty to do in infrastructure and release engineering. Check out fedora-dockerfiles for lots of example Dockerfiles, and try building your own apps. And don't hesitate to ask questions!
GNOME West Coast Summit end
Colin Walters April 12, 2014 0
The West Coast Summit 2014 is over now, and I'm glad I was able to attend. There's absolutely no substitute for getting a distributed group of people together for face to face conversations about their common interest in GNOME. Thanks to Endless Mobile for providing their office as a venue and sponsoring the event!
It was really great to see familiar faces like Germán, Giovanni, and Kristian (among many others!). Breakout sessions on topics like GNOME on Wayland and Gjs were very successful. It was cool to see GNOME on Wayland (well, it looked the same actually which was the goal 😉 ). Giovanni did an amazing amount of work on investigating the Spidermonkey GC. Christian wowed people with a demo of Builder. I worked on Continuous and OSTree. In particular, on the OSTree branch for static deltas, which should significantly speed up downloads.
See also posts from Sri and Matthias.
OSTree: rigorous and reliable deployment
Colin Walters February 26, 2014 1
I sometimes describe OSTree as being even more rigorous than traditional dpkg/rpm type package systems. Now, there are some of you out there who probably can't imagine how that's possible. You found packaging so tedious and painful that you gave up, and you now write Go code (because Google wrote it, it must be good, right?) and you hack on your MacBook from a coffee shop, and when you're ready scp your statically linked binary to staging and then to production. Maybe you don't even have staging. It's so simple! Look how fast it is!
If you are one of those people, just think about what happens when you forgot to "git push" for a while, or you had "origin" be a local mirror or something, and then you lose your MacBook, and now you have a big statically linked blob running in production to which you no longer have the source.
In contrast to this developer, packaging is pretty rigorous. Production build systems ensure that all the source to particular artifacts are tracked, have a distinct, clean, and (mostly) reproducible build environment. For example, that your build system isn't downloading stuff from the Internet in the middle.
On the deployment side, with packaging you can always log into your server and see what is installed, with version numbers. There's a lot of advantages to that over a developer deploying binaries with scp.
Knowing what's running
So how is OSTree more rigorous than traditional packaging? It's very simple – when you run ostree admin status – you are also getting a description of what is running, not merely installed. At the moment, the simple implementation of that is that you must reboot to have a change take effect. On the plus side, you have fully atomic upgrades. But – we definitely can do partial live upgrades, which is the subject of this post.
With dpkg/rpm and friends, there isn't a reliable link between the package system and the init system (today, systemd or historically one of the sysvinit implementations). For example, whether or not a service gets restarted on package change is up to the packager of the daemon, and furthermore it's just a shell script called out from a %post. There's nothing in the system to audit whether or not the daemon has been successfully restarted, and how that relates to the package change.
Conversely, it's a pretty sad state of affairs that systemd is totally unaware of packaging. Now most existing administrators understand this, and know the technological/organizational/political[1] reasons this is the case.
Whether or not a daemon got restarted is only one of the obvious ways in which installed and running become distinct. A much more common case is upgrading a shared library such as libc.so.6. If we understand that not all daemons or code may be instantly restarted, then we have a situation where the package system is recording merely what's installed – an administrator later logging in and debugging a failure may have to reconstruct that this system was live upgraded via noting the (deleted) suffix on the shared library in /proc/pid/maps. If they know to look there of course…
So how do I plan to preserve the present property that OSTree has in that it describes what's running and not merely installed? Let's be honest, it's a hard problem. But take a simple case – we are running a tree with checksum ac81df, and we live-apply a subset of the files from the new tree 59da1a as an overlay on top of the running tree. Then ostree admin status might say something like this:
* fedora-atomic ccc6ff1d1d6fdfcb7309700af8fec5de61511767b6ed43f77feb549f7afcaefb.0
origin refspec: local:fedora-atomic/rawhide/x86_64/buildmaster/base/core
Dynamic overlays:
e211ced8ab16c6e7eba1730b58b7d9fc4f6c8d285be9fcec01ffff4dfccd5cbf.0
/usr/bin/bash
/lib64/libc.so.6
Here we'd be seeing the case where our new tree pulled in an updated bash binary, and a new libc. Furthermore, we can backreference from the (device, inode) pair in any running processes /proc/pid/maps to the originating tree – because it won't be physically deleted as long as it's still referenced. Also, for any live-upgrade system via OSTree, I plan for it to be fully aware of systemd, and carefully audit the return values from service restarts, correlating it with the state of the filesystem.
This is still a relatively simple case. Think about the situation where you upgrade two or three times, and do partial live updates from each of them. OSTree would carefully maintain the precise manner in which you upgraded – it would be reproducible by others. You'd be able to backreference from any code in memory to the originating tree, which contains the manifest of binary versions, which finally link to source code.
Now with yum history, one could theoretically reconstruct a lot of this, but again yum (really rpm) suffers from being so generic that the core operation of interacting with things like systemd is just a callout to an un-audited shell script. Your current desktop and servers are probably a messy blend what I call "partial live updates".
[1] And when I say political, let's imagine what happens when someone posts the first patch to show the package name from systemctl status…
Giving a *name* to your root filesystem
First, OSTree v2014.1 is out! Nothing earthshaking, but I'm happy with some of the fixes and features there.
One thing that's absolutely fundamental about OSTree is that it forces one to name complete filesystem trees. While the system does not mandate any convention (they're just strings), you have seen some examples in previous posts, like gnome-continuous/buildmaster/x86_64-devel-debug and fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal. Here the "OS" name starts first, and after that, you can choose whatever format you want. Now, traditional dpkg/rpm packages are names for partial filesystem trees (plus some metadata and scripts that run as root). When they're assembled via a package manager onto the root partition of your drive, that collection is not normally named – what you have is an anonymous, and very often unique, custom set of packages.
There are of course efforts in various package systems and GNU/Linux distributions to attempt higher level management of software beyond "set of packages". In Debian, metapackages are common. In Fedora, there is comps.
I could talk for quite a while about the management differences between the metapackage vs comps approaches, particularly after YumGroupsAsObjects. But suffice to say that I think both suffer badly from being glued on top of the "set of packages" model. In many cases they end up making things more complex, not less. Here is a blog entry that describes how Debian's metapackages clash badly with another tool which tries to remove "unused" packages. From my observations in the Fedora context, comps groups are mainly used for initial system installation (in Anaconda) and early set up perhaps you do yum install @virtualization after installing a workstation.
How OSTree is less flexible, but more rigorous
With OSTree, you can say something like "I'm running fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal". This is a name for a filesystem that was replicated from the rpm-ostree build server – and it is immutable. OSTree itself comes with no application mechanism, or even the ability to layer trees. So this is a far stronger and more rigorous description of the contents of your (visible) root filesystem.
For example, with the current rpm-ostree, if I remove a package from products.json, then it drops out of the filesystem tree composed on the server side, and thus will also disappear when clients upgrade. It's really quite simple. The problem of removing old, unused packages is a messy subject in package systems like dpkg/rpm – it's painful at the distribution level with things like Obsoletes, and if you are a downstream consumer of the distribution, if you installed a package at some point on your servers that you want no longer installed, your best bet is to use something like Puppet to assert that packages are removed.
Now, you still may be thinking "OSTree sounds cool, but I want to be able to install things!".
Downstream tree construction and naming custom trees
I mentioned in the previous post that I plan to implement a feature like yum-ostree install strace, which would assemble a new filesystem tree from packages (just like rpm-ostree does the server side), and set it up for the next boot. But an interesting question arises – how should I name this filesystem tree? We could represent "install" by appending the string "+strace" to our current tree; so we might end up with a tree named "fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal+strace". Now obviously this doesn't scale really far – and perhaps leads us back towards wanting e.g. a "tracing-and-debugging-tools" metapackage (or comps group); if you care to install strace, why not also perf? With Fedora's comps, it's actually quite nice that we have a reserved symbol "@" and a distinct namespace from the normal package set. So we could synthesize a name like "fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal+@tracing".
What I'm going for here really is that I'd like to cut down on the combinatoric complexity of packages by emphasizing layering over arbitrary additions and removals. This doesn't mean that we need to completely restrict the system to layering – one could clearly implement yum-ostree remove X (for naming, append e.g. "-X" to the tree name). The lowest OSTree level lets you put whatever filesystem trees you want in it. But for many cases where people want to do this kind of thing, we can turn it into configuration instead of system manipulation. For example, using systemctl mask firewalld.service over yum remove firewalld. If something is supported via system configuration, we should prefer doing that rather than creating new filesystem trees; it's more efficient and safe to replicate a pre-built tree that's been tested and known to work, then add configuration.
Why OSTree requires "/usr/etc"
While I often lump "dpkg/rpm" together since they're very similar architecturally, their implementation of configuration file management is a small but nontrivial difference. This is because dpkg allows interactivity, rpm does not.
With dpkg, in the case where a file is modified locally by the user (say /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf), dpkg will prompt the admin interactively. It only has at this time the modified config file, and the new file. Now, personally I think dpkg prompting in the middle of open heart surgery on your root file system is completely insane. You really must use screen or equivalent if doing remote administration. But being able to see what files changed is useful.
RPM is quite opposite. While it also does open heart surgery, you might see one or two messages related to config files go by in the output spam. At the end, it's up to you to search for .rpmnew and such in /etc. Of course there does exist tooling on top to detect this after – I'm just talking about the out-of-the-box experience. Furthermore, allowing packagers to create a distinction between %config and %config(noreplace) makes the whole thing very inconsistent from a total system perspective. It's hard to know what will happen on an upgrade unless you know beforehand what the packager chose.
The handling of /etc for OSTree took me a while of thought. The executive summary is that OSTree requires the existence of /usr/etc which is read-only defaults. Whenever you do an upgrade (more generally, switching trees), OSTree does a basic 3-way merge. It doesn't attempt to understand the contents of files – if you have modified a config file in any way, that wins. Unlike the simplistic "split partitions" approaches out there, this does mean that you get new default config files, and also any config files that were removed in the new tree also vanish.
Unlike the rpm and dpkg model, OSTree is fully atomic. The /etc I'm talking about on upgrades is a separate copy from your running /etc. That allows you to do interactively run whatever scripts or programs you want to ensure the system is correctly set up for the next boot, with total safety.
Another cool feature enabled by the existence of /usr/etc is ostree admin config-diff. This is something I always wanted from Unix – it can give you, at any time, all of the files you modified in /etc. This makes it easier to replicate and reproduce system state after the fact. Your OS can have a "reset all configuration" button, and revert back to a pristine /etc at any time.
There are of course other systems out there you can layer on top of dpkg/rpm to improve the situation. etckeeper is a popular one. See also this proposal for /etc/defaults in Ubuntu. etckeeper suffers from being glued on after the fact. Furthermore, you don't really need to keep a history of the upstream defaults in git – the main feature is having a 3 way merge. And /usr/etc is a simple way to implement it – and helps OSTree preserve the "feel" of the traditional Unix. You can just vi /etc/some/configfile.ini any time you want. The config state isn't stored in a separate partition (e.g. CoreOS mounts theirs at /media/state). But OSTree still provides atomic upgrades as the many image-based upgrade systems out there do.
OSTree in action: "rpm-ostree" and switching trees
I've released rpm-ostree 2014.3. Up until now, the main public consumer of OSTree has been gnome-continuous, which has operated as a live research project in CI/CD. But I very intentionally from the start split out OSTree as a potentially sharable project with other build systems (such as dpkg/rpm).
Now that rpm-ostree is a functioning demo, it will help explain the vision and technology behind OSTree much better. Before I do that, let me talk about Continuous briefly. It has two trees that it ships, the refnames are gnome-continuous/buildmaster/x86_64-runtime and gnome-continuous/buildmaster/x86_64-devel-debug. I often just use the terms -runtime and -devel-debug for short since the other bits are usually implicit. -runtime is a basic install, comparable to what one might get from a default Debian or Fedora type live CD desktop install. -devel-debug is that plus *all* of the developer tools (gcc, automake), plus developer apps (glade, anjuta).
I suspect however that nearly all of the Continuous users (GNOME developers and testers) use -devel-debug. So-runtime is there basically just to demonstrate that we can have multiple trees.
With rpm-ostree though, the set of software in Fedora is much, much larger. And it can be assembled in many, many, many different ways. rpm-ostree only captures at the moment a very tiny subset of those; these refnames look like this:
fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal
fedostree/rawhide/x86_64/base/minimal
Note that the single OSTree repository contains both 20 and rawhide versions of the trees. Here are some more refname examples; I've ommitted "rawhide" from the list for brevity:
fedostree/20/x86_64/server/docker-io
fedostree/20/x86_64/server/freeipa-server
fedostree/20/x86_64/workstation/gnome/core
fedostree/20/x86_64/workstation/gnome/default
For the actual content of these, take a look at the current products.json which generates these trees. It might also be illuminating to look at some build logs from today.
As I've said in a few places, this "medium" level of flexibility puts OSTree between the ultimate flexibility of packages, and the "Here is our OS, enjoy!" model of ChromeOS. Up until now, in my discussions with people about OSTree, I can often see them mentally trying trying to slot OSTree into either the "yet another package system" box, or the "yet another image update system" box. But it's certainly not a package system (rather it complements existing ones), and it's definitely more flexible than Chromium Autoupdate (but less efficient in some ways). For more details, see OSTree/RelatedProjects.
Okay, so we see now that OSTree allows storing multiple trees (with history). I only very recently landed this commit to OSTree to make switching between trees easier on client machines. Let's try it; say you've installed the "fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal" ref. Now you want to change to the tree containing @standard along with docker-io. With the latest OSTree, this is just
# ostree admin switch fedostree/20/x86_64/server/docker-io
Semantically, this is somewhat like doing yum install @standard docker-io – except the transition is fully atomic. Furthermore, we get an exact replication of the tree from the build server; if for example we were transitioning from say the fedostree/20/workstation/gnome/core tree, then we wouldn't get a mix of GNOME packages and docker-io. Our running GNOME tree would be untouched, still on disk, still running – when we reboot, then we'd be in the new server/docker-io tree. If we then did from inside the booted docker-io tree:
# ostree admin switch fedostree/20/workstation/gnome/core
Nothing would be downloaded (unless the ref was updated), and we'd be back to GNOME (again, atomically). All along this process, our changes to /etc will have a 3 way merge applied, and our data in /var will be carried along. So like image-based updates, OSTree is reliable and safe. But it has a bit of the flexibility of packages – I think OSTree could scale easily to 100 or more trees (with history!) being shipped by a vendor such as Fedora.
And of course, I'm not suggesting removing the packages as raw material – you can still compute your own filesystem trees locally. It needs some work to be made efficient – I'll talk about that in a future post.


What is the New Relationship Trust (NRT)?
How does NRT achieve it's mandate of Nation building?
What types of initiatives are supported by NRT?
What is meant by governance "capacity"?
How are funding priorities determined?
Where does initiative funding come from?
How is the $16 million in funding being allocated?
What organizations has NRT partnered with to date?
Does NRT provide funding to answer referrals?
How can I contact NRT?
The New Relationship Trust (NRT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building strong, healthy, prosperous, independent First Nations within BC.
How does NRT achieve its mandate of Nation Building?
NRT supports initiatives in five priority areas, as follows: education, capacity, economic development, youth & Elders, and culture & language. Read more about NRT initiatives.
Governance capacity includes the tools, training, and resources First Nations need to participate in land and resource management and planning processes, and to develop social, cultural and economic programs in their communities.
Priorities for funding are based on stakeholder feedback. NRT's current five priority areas were identified in 2006, when NRT held a province-wide 'regional engagement process' consulting with First Nation communities across BC. In late 2007, NRT surveyed stakeholders to determine if priorities had shifted, and regional engagements were again held in 2009 to receive community input. Based on the comments and surveys that were completed in 2007 and 2009 the priorities remained the same.
A Fund of $100 million was set aside by the Province of BC in early 2006 to help First Nations realize the vision of a new relationship. That fund is managed by NRT. Of the initial $100 million, just over $20 million was earmarked for programs over the first three years, and an addition $16 million has been earmarked for the next three years (2016 -2019). The remaining dollars have been invested to allow the fund to continue to grow.
The current NRT Strategic Plan envisions spending $16 million during the next three fiscal years (2016-2017 through 2018-2019).
Funding eligibility depends on the specific initiative. Some funds are available to First Nation individuals (such as the Scholarship Initiative) while other funding is only available to communities. Some funding is granted directly to First Nation service organizations to support existing programs. Check the Funding area of this web site frequently for details about funding eligibility and application guidelines.
No. In 2007/08, NRT supported a Land Referrals workshop that was offered by one of our partner organizations, the National Centre for First Nations Governance (NCFNG). However, we do not provide direct support to First Nations for referrals.
NRT is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors and operates independently of government. Board members are appointed to a two-year term. Appointments are made by the Province of BC, the First Nations Leadership Council, the First Nations Summit, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the BC Assembly of First Nations. Visit the Board page to read about the current Board Members.


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It's been a while since we had a post on Christian evidences.
I've recently been led to reflect on the fact that there remains a Christian subculture that is somewhat uneasy with Christian evidences. Here I'm not referring to modernists or even postmodernists. I'm not referring to the unorthodox who don't like evidence because they like to keep Christianity hazy so that they don't really have to believe anything. I'm thinking of the fervent and utterly sincere, orthodox, Bible-believing Christians who nonetheless feel a bit…worried, somehow, if their young people start asking questions about the evidences for Christianity. Worried even if the young people are studying and reading and getting answers. Why might that be?
The reasons why that occurs (and if you aren't familiar with the phenomenon, just take my word for it that it does occur) are varied, and some are better than others.
2) The rather vaguer idea that one will be distracted from a "real relationship with Jesus Christ" if one is focusing on intellectual matters such as evidence. Now, the Devil is real, and he can, of course, use any good thing for a bad end. C.S. Lewis once wrote that he never felt less convinced of a Christian doctrine than when he had just finished defending it. (Words to that effect.) It is no doubt true that, for certain personality types, the intensity of one's feeling of commitment to God will be lessened if one is thinking of God more prosaically–whether in terms of systematic theology, natural theology, or historical evidence.
My point here is that God Himself doesn't seem to be too worried about our thinking about Him in a sober and unemotional fashion. Apparently He thinks that our having a good grounding and understanding of meatier matters is worth the danger that some of us might find intellectual thought a bit dampening to our emotions. Emotions, even the emotional part of our love for Jesus Christ, come and go. Facts and theology, once understood and grasped, remain and can tide one over dry periods. And emotionally dry periods in one's spiritual life will come, from one cause or another, even if one is as uneducated as a rock when it comes to either theology or Christian evidence.
So what does that mean? It means that, if one is going to read atheist apologists, one should read them with guidance from people who really do know how to answer them.
Nor should one think of teaching young people Christian evidences as being primarily about reading "the other guys." The highest priority should be showing how much good evidence there is for Christianity. There is a wealth of material available. See this post for a tiny sample. More material in the posts tagged here and here (these tags were mentioned above). See also this page at Apologetics315.
4) The idea that, if a young person gets deeply interested in Christian evidence, he will go out on the Internet (or at his public high school or secular college) seeking giants to slay and will get overwhelmed. Again, this worry has merit as a sociological matter. That can certainly happen.
That is why we should say loud and clear to Christians interested in this topic: Don't do that! What do I mean? Just this: Being committed to investigating the evidence for Christianity does not mean that one has to find out every possible thing that anyone has ever said about or against Christianity and know the answer to it. That would be impossible because of the sheer bulk of (ultimately unpersuasive) objections which skeptics can bring up as though they were real problems.
In the thirty sections of their pamphlet, they have produced a list of difficulties to be met with in reading the Old and New Testament. Had I been aware of their design, I could have enriched the collection with many more, at least as good, if not a little better. But they have compiled, I dare say, what they deemed the best, and, in their own opinion, presented us with the essence of infidelity in a thumb-phial, the very fumes of which, on drawing the cork, are to strike the bench of bishops dead at once. Let not the unlearned Christian be alarmed, "as though some strange thing had happened to him," and modern philosophy had discovered arguments to demolish religion, never heard of before. The old ornaments of deism have been "broken off" upon this occasion, "and cast into the fire, and there came out this calf." These same difficulties have been again and again urged and discussed in public; again and again weighed and considered by learned and sensible men, of the laity as well as the clergy, who have by no means been induced by them to renounce their faith.
Many and painful are the researches sometimes necessary to be made, for settling points of that kind. Pertness and ignorance may ask a question in three lines, which it will cost learning and ingenuity thirty pages to answer. When this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written upon the subject.
The Internet is in some ways antithetical to the well-balanced operation of man's mind. The man with a well-balanced mind gets firmly in place the bulk of the evidence on some subject and then realizes that everything does not hinge on whether he can, right now, answer this or that objection which he happens not to have heard before.
So if I tell you that Christianity is faith founded on fact and that you should find out those facts and ground your faith in them, I am not suggesting that you trawl Internet Infidel sites to test your evidentialist biceps by trying to answer every objection that atheist "pertness and ignorance" have raised, often have raised repeatedly over the centuries. Far from it.
5) The unspoken fear that Christianity cannot stand up to scrutiny and doesn't really have good evidential support.
Here I do not blame the parents, but not because I share the unspoken fear. I do not blame them, because in most cases no one has ever taught them otherwise. How many pastors and priests have really taught apologetics to their congregations, or even offered such studies as an option? Too few. How many courses on sharing your faith have explicitly taught people not to get involved in responding to questions and objections but just to "share their experience" because "no one can argue with that"? Too many. It's no wonder then that the congregation comes away with the sneaking suspicion that our Christian faith is no better grounded than Mormonism and that we, like they, must depend chiefly on the burning in the bosom.
And one can always push the blame further back. Perhaps the pastors weren't taught Christian evidences at their seminaries.
In fact, I would not be surprised if all too many theologians who give high-falutin' rationalizations for being anti-evidentialist are actually making a virtue out of what they deem to be a necessity. Since they don't think Christian faith is founded on fact, they might as well make up some profound-sounding theological theory that tells us that it shouldn't be.


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Amazon-Exclusive Miyazaki Blu-ray Set Announced
On November 17, in time for the holiday shopping season, Disney will be releasing The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki, a 12-disc collection exclusively available for purchase on Amazon.com. Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, has become a brand name for excellent, imaginative anime fantasy films.
The collection consists of these 11 movies, which he wrote and directed.
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ponyo (2008/2009)
The Wind Rises (2013)
(Films such as The Secret World of Arrietty or From Up on Poppy Hill which he wrote and produced aren't included.)
A bonus 12th disc includes the following extras:
"Yuki no Taiyo" (Yuki's Sun) – A 1972 TV pilot based on an original manga by Tetsuya Chiba and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who was also in charge of storyboards and key animation.
"Akado Suzunosuke" (Little Samurai) – Three episodes (26, 27, and 41) of the hit 1972 anime series with storyboarding and more by Hayao Miyazaki.
Director Hayao Miyazaki Retirement Press Conference, Uncut Version.
A collector's edition booklet featuring "The Great Dichotomy: Looking at the Works of Hayao Miyazaki" by Tomohiro Machiyama, which explores the themes and techniques of this revered Japanese filmmaker, and selected text from Hayao Miyazaki's initial notes and creative proposals for the production of each film.
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I'm seriously tempted by this, but it's a big price tag, especially since I already own copies of several of them.
It's actually a really good price on
Argh, I managed to hit tab by accident, and then space, which submitted the comment early. Reminder to self: Wait until I'm done to fill out the CAPTCHA.
Anyway, I was starting to say it's actually a really good price on a per-movie basis, but it's a lot to drop all at once.
I agree, and I think it's not likely that someone interested in this set wouldn't have at least a couple of the movies already. Still, very desirable for the nice package and book.


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Winner of Ely Standard's La Hogue Hamper Competition Is Delighted
THE winner of the Ely Standard s La Hogue hamper competition said she was delighted with her prize. Stephanie Rushbrook, of Old School Close, Littleport, said: It is wonderful. When I saw it I couldn t believe my eyes. I was so excited when I was told th
THE winner of the Ely Standard's La Hogue hamper competition said she was delighted with her prize.
Stephanie Rushbrook, of Old School Close, Littleport, said: "It is wonderful. When I saw it I couldn't believe my eyes. I was so excited when I was told that I had won. You couldn't describe the hamper, it's so lovely. The basket is beautiful. We shall share it with our friends. Winning was a wonderful surprise."
Mrs Rushbrook's husband, Peter, collected her prize from La Hogue's Chris Reeks at the Ely Standard's office in Market Street as she is unwell.
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Michael Bellamy (born October 16, 1991) is a former American football running back. He spent time in college with Fort Valley State. He played the Clemson Tigers football team in 2011, but was ruled academically ineligible for the 2012 fall semester. He then enrolled at East Mississippi Community College, where he took part in off-season practice but was eventually dismissed for an undisclosed violation of team policy. He subsequently enrolled at Eastern Arizona College, where he played for the 2012 season, before transferring to the historically black Fort Valley State.

He attended Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Florida, where he was named Sporting News High School Athlete of the Year in 2010.

Professional career
On March 11, 2014 Bellamy signed a contract with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was subsequently released May 9, 2014.

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L'Instinct est un film français réalisé par André Liabel et Léon Mathot d'après l'œuvre d'Henry Kistemaeckers fils, sorti en 1930.

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 Réalisation : André Liabel et Léon Mathot
 Scénario : Pierre Maudru d'après une pièce d'Henry Kistemaeckers fils
 Production :  Franco Films, Paris International Film
 Photographie : René Gaveau, Paul Briquet
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Distribution
 Léon Mathot
 Madeleine Carroll
 André Marnay
 Irène Brillant
 Gil Roland

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Film français sorti en 1930
Film français en noir et blanc
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Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre française au cinéma
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NASDAQ OMX Announces Election of Nine Directors To Its Board
NASDAX OMX has today announced the structure of its board, appointing nine directors to its group of companies. The NASDAQ
Andrew Saks McLeod | Exchanges ( Institutional FX ) | Wednesday, 17/07/2013 | 13:55 GMT+1 2013-07-17 12:55:41
NASDAX OMX has today announced the structure of its board, appointing nine directors to its group of companies.
The NASDAQ OMX Group is an American multinational conglomerate which, among other venues and institutions, owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market along with eight further venues in Europe and Eurasia.
The nine appointed directors, each of whom will serve a one-year term, are to serve on the board of three entities: The NASDAQ Stock Market, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, and NASDAQ OMX BX.
The board members are as follows:
• Leonard J. Amoruso, Executive Vice President of KCG Holdings, Inc
• Daniel Bigelow, President and Managing Partner of Monadnock Capital Management L.P
• Michael J. Curran, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Stock Exchange
• Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
• William M. Lyons, retired President and Chief Executive Officer, American Century Companies, Inc.
• John D. Markese, Vice Chairman, American Association of Individual Investors
• A. Douglas Melamed, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Intel Corporation
• Eric W. Noll, Executive Vice President, Transaction Services, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
• Wendy S. White, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, University of Pennsylvania
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Speaking during India Rivers Day- 2015 Kapil Misra said that Delhi does not require any more water from external sources such as the Renuka Dam or Sharda Yamuna River link. The minister also assured that the Yamuna's water will be improved within three years to make it good enough to bathe in. He raised doubts over expensive sewerage projects and felt need building of smaller and decentralised sewerage management system. The India Rivers Day brought together several individuals and organisations who have been working on the issues of river conservation in the country.


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Bad Sex and Consent
Elise Woodard
In David Boonin (ed.), Handbook of Sexual Ethics. Palgrave. pp. 301--324 (2022)
Social constraints on sexual consent.Tom Dougherty - 2022 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 21 (4):393-414.details
Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 393-414, November 2022. Sometimes, people consent to sex because they face social constraints. For example, someone may agree to sex because they believe that it would be rude to refuse. I defend a consent-centric analysis of these encounters. This analysis connects constraints from social contexts with constraints imposed by persons e.g. coercion. It results in my endorsing what I call the "Constraint Principle." According to this principle, someone's consent to a sexual (...) encounter lacks justificatory force if they are consenting because withholding consent has an adverse feature, they are entitled to withhold consent without it being the case that withholding consent has this adverse feature; and it is not the case that the consent-giver has sincerely expressed that, out of the options that are available to their sexual partner, they most prefer to go through with the sexual encounter in the circumstances. (shrink)
Rethinking the wrong of rape1.Karyn L. Freedman - 2021 - Philosophical Issues 31 (1):104-127.details
In their well-known paper, John Gardner and Stephen Shute (2000) propose a pure case of rape, in which a woman is raped while unconscious and the rape, for a variety of stipulated reasons, never comes to light. This makes the pure case a harmless case of rape, or so they argue. In this paper I show that their argument hinges on an outdated conception of trauma, one which conflates evaluative responses that arise in the aftermath of rape with the non-deliberative (...) somatic responses of a central nervous system to a threatening event. In the first part of this paper, I elaborate this objection by drawing on the neurobiological model of trauma. This gives me an opportunity to illustrate the different ways that rape harms its victims, including the central way, what I call 'threat-circuitry harm.' This discussion of trauma invites us to rethink the wrong of rape, and sets the groundwork for my argument, in the second part of the paper, that the wrong of rape consists in its central harm. (shrink)


I recently changed my title description in my Facebook page HERE to "Self – Love and empowerment mentor" and the Universe keeps pushing mw to really own it, because that's one of the biggest reasons I have come to this planet.
I will be the first one to share you, to cheer you up and be in the front role of your fan team and I know I am SO GOOD at it, I can give you the steps to how to deeply fall in love with yourself, but many times (Thank God, nowadays, I'm extremely aware of it) I forget to be my very own biggest cheerleader (in Portuguese we have a proverb that says "blacksmith's house, wooden skewer"). As my ego go from "you are not good enough", "who do you think you are" to "you can't do this", I must lift myself up many times from the place of not "being perfect", because I am not! to a place where I am the only one who exist, as you, them, us, individually, because there are no competition, we are all unique, what I can do, no one else can do, in the whole planet, isn't that amazing? YOU ARE the ONLY!! I will repeat that… YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO WHAT YOU CAME HERE TO DO!
Yes! I'm so enough, capable and have so much experience on what I do that I wouldn't be here if I had no purpose in life.
Give me five, Liz, you are AWESOME, either in fear or light, you are complete! We need both side of you girl!!!


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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health All of Us
Dessie Levy, PhD, RN, MS, APNP Director, Community Engagement, Medical College of Wisconsin pauses with Edwin Maldonado, Community Program Coordinator, ALL OF US Research, and Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin
Your opportunity to leave a health legacy for generations of family members to come
Dr. Zeno Franco, Clinical Psychologist
Research is relevant when ALL OF US are included. The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities reports that only 10 to 16 percent of minorities currently participate in clinical health studies. In contrast, white men represent the pool from which most medical data is collected. Since the genetics of African Americans are different, they may react differently to treatments/medications prescribed to whites or need other types of treatments altogether. Family history is one of the strongest risk factors for life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and autoimmune disorders. Management and treatment of illness is based on medical research, and clinical trials developed to identify best practices and medications for prevention, treatment, and management of illness.
Describing precautions established to ensure the safety of volunteer health information Dr. Levy said, "The All of Us Program is governed by the Federal Information Security Management Act, PMI Privacy and Trust Principles and the PMI Data Security Policy Principles and Framework. Teams of experts will conduct security testing and set-up safeguards against the unintended release of data. A database of the information collected will be available to researchers. Volunteer recruits will also have access to the database to make discoveries about their health. Patient navigators will educate and empower volunteers to make informed consent about their involvement. Information covering all facets of the program, i.e., program operations, expectations, benefits/rights, and expected outcomes will be shared."
"I'm Hispanic, explained," Dr. Zeno Franco, a clinical psychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and co-prime investigator and assistant director of research for this program. I know that the All Of Us program symbolizes a new day in medical investigation. Genetic testing of family members revealed that 20% of our genome comes from Mexican native Indian tribes. We didn't understand this information until genetic tests were completed. We're regaining information about our family that was lost."
Continuing, he said, "By launching a study of this size and scope, we hope to accelerate our understanding of disease onset and progression, treatment response, and health outcomes. As a result of genetically driven precision medicine for, minorities will be included in future medical advances. If minorities, however, are not part of the sample, consideration for our specific health profiles will not be addressed. This will only compound the level of inequities and outcomes in health care."
Just as Henry Ford altered the core of America's economy and lifestyles, the emerging field of precision medicine will also increase the success of medical professionals.
"This research will not focus on specific diseases but will be an asset for researchers working on a variety of important health questions. Data collected will be used to develop measures for risk of multiple diseases based on environmental exposure, genetic considerations, and interactions between the two. Researchers will also be able to — identify causes of individual differences in response to commonly used drugs; reveal biological markers that signal increased or decreased risk of developing common diseases; develop new disease classifications and relationships; and create a platform to enable trials of targeted therapies.
Blood samples requested only once from volunteers will be maintained at Mayo Clinic for analysis. This is part of the way that we keep volunteer identity secure. Given the current immigration dilemma, a concern expressed by the Latino community is being required to submit social security numbers. As a result, social security information is not required as part of the data collected from participants," explained Dr. Franco.
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