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Q: How do I find a CGPoint on a circle by reducing its radius? I'm looking for help with finding the coordinates (CGPoint) of the green dot given a circle like on the picture below.
I know the radius, theta, the coordinates of the red point and that I'd like the distance between the red and green points to be 25.
I'd appreciate any help - thank you!

A: What you need is:
Polar to Cartesian conversion
To find the coordinates of a point given the radius & angle, we can use the following:
x = r × cos(θ)
y = r × sin(θ)

Important Note: iOS & macOS calculate angles clock-wise, starting from the right hand side (well, AppKit uses a coordinate system that's flipped in the Y axis, but that is a different story). To compensate for this, our whole canvas is rotated by 90° and flipped in the X axis (to make it counter clock-wise and match your requirements):

Calculate the existing point:
struct ContentView: View {
    let radius: Double = 100
    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            Circle()
                .stroke()
                .frame(width: radius * 2, height: radius * 2)

            Circle()
                .frame(width: 10, height: 10)
                .offset(x: cos(Angle(degrees: 45).radians) * radius,
                        y: sin(Angle(degrees: 45).radians) * radius)
        }
        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
        .rotationEffect(.radians(.pi / 2))
        .scaleEffect(x: -1, y: 1)
    }
}

now, given that you want a 25 points smaller circle, the new radius is 75 (100 - 25).
Just so we can visualize it, here it is:
Circle()
    .stroke()
    .frame(width: (radius - 25) * 2, height: (radius - 25) * 2)

so it's now quite trivial to calculate any other point. In our case we want a point at 45° at a radius of 75:
Circle()
    .frame(width: 10, height: 10)
    .offset(x: cos(Angle(degrees: 45).radians) * 75,
            y: sin(Angle(degrees: 45).radians) * 75)

The code of course is just for visualization purposes, the main point is the Polar to Cartesian conversion.
I hope that this makes sense.

A: Assuming theta is between 0 and 90 degrees (and is in the bottom right quarter) -- with theta defined how you have on that picture.
import UIKit

let redDot = CGPoint(x:70, y:71)
let theta = 45 * CGFloat.pi / 180.0
let redGreenDist: CGFloat = 25

let greenDot = CGPoint(x: redDot.x - sin(theta)*redGreenDist, y: redDot.y - cos(theta)*redGreenDist)

Note that you need to use radians and that the radius of the circle doesn't matter (or even that there is a circle).  All that matters is the distance between the points and the angle.


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Q: Android twitter tweet share with the default tweet box I am working in an android application and I want to post tweets to twitter from my android application. I got the a good sample from the link https://github.com/ddewaele/AndroidTwitterSample and I integrated it and it worked successfully. But my requirement is to bring the default tweet box from the original twitter website and post the tweet from it. Is it possible to bring that default tweet box to our application in android.
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

A: When the user press button to share tweet you can open a link in WebView(Your Own WebView in your Application) or Default browser.
"http://www.twitter.com?status="

or to pass any static message,
"http://www.twitter.com?status=MyMessageHere"

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This module prints the amount of money that Lakshmi has remaining
after the stock transactions

"""

__author__ = 'Susan Sim'
__email__ = "ses@drsusansim.org"
__copyright__ = "2015 Susan Sim"
__license__ = "MIT License"

#calculations for purchasing stock
number_shares_bought = 2000
shares_purchase_price = 900
stock_purchase_price = (number_shares_bought*shares_purchase_price)
commission_bought = (stock_purchase_price*0.03)
total_stock_purchase_price = (stock_purchase_price+commission_bought)

#calculations for selling stock
number_shares_sold = 2000
shares_sold_price = 942.75
stock_sold_price = (number_shares_sold*shares_sold_price)
commission_sold = (stock_sold_price*0.03)
total_stock_sold_price = (stock_sold_price-commission_sold)

#calculation for total profit from processes
Profit = (total_stock_sold_price-total_stock_purchase_price)
print("Lakshmi has " + str(Profit) + " dollars left.")

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One of our advisors was on the call with us and suggested we use a certain scarcity strategy.
If you're not sure what "scarcity" is, let me explain.
In marketing, it is used as leverage to create leverage to sell a product or service because of the shortage of something.
And if you know Roberto, if he is ever silent something is WRONG!
I asked him, "Why are you so quite?"
He explained he felt that it would come off too salesy and too much like the hype-driven internet marketers.
I started laughing for two reasons.
And secondly because when I exclaimed, "THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE DO!!"
He said, "yah, but with US it's true!"
My reply was, "how does the customer know that? What makes the scarcity that we use any more authentic in the eyes of the customer than the stereo-typical hype man?"
His answer: "it's because of the trust that our list has with us. They know that we do what we say we are going to do. We have only done things that build our credibility with our clients — not destroy it."
He was right. Trust is earned and we have been earning yours for years. Actions speak louder than words and our past actions are good indicators of our future actions.
On the flip-side, I have a local furniture store that seems to be going out of business and "liquidating everything" every 6 months?!
This has been happening for years, yet they never seem to be going out of business.
That's fine and dandy in the short term, they may get some un-informed consumers (apparently a lot in San Diego), but overtime they will lose credibility in the market place. People will eventually realize that they are full of it.
But there is no debating if scarcity works.
Ebay was build on scarcity.
Groupon is predicated on scarcity.
The reason it works is because it forces action. You can't sit on the fence if the product is disappearing tomorrow. You have to make a decision now. Humans in general like to take the easiest path of resistance. And NOT buying now or not making that decision now, is the easiest route. Scarcity to can eliminate this procrastination.
The key is to use it in an authentic way. Creating an illusion of scarcity can come off as a form of trickery. The world is a skeptical one already and once you abuse their trust and ruin your reputation, it is VERY hard to get it back.
So the challenge for you, is in your next promotion figure out how you can include some element of scarcity in your offer. Once you have come up with some ideas return to this article and post your ideas in the comments section. You may be able to help someone else.
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I'm printing it out and posting it at our company, especially in the Customer Service Department. What a great reminder to have!
We are currently experiencing just that at our company: How to prove and validate trust with our customers!
I'm even working through this with our CEO. It's all about delivering on promises you make – AND only making promises you know (or are realistically certain) that you can deliver.
Customer is king. Always. Bottom line. Proving you are trustworthy by standing behind your product (and promises) is crucial.
I coudn't agree with you more!! A happy customer will tell their friends, an angry one will tell the world.


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Saint Kentigern
St. Kentigern
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Bishop, founder of the See of Glasgow, b. about 518; d. at Glasgow, 13 January, 603. His mother Thenaw was daughter of a British prince, Lothus (from whom the province of Lothian was called); his father's name is unknown. According to Jocelyn's life of Kentigern, the saint was born at Culross in Fife, and brought up until manhood by St. Serf (or Servanus) at his monastery there; but Skene shows that this connection between the two saints involves an anachronism, as St. Serf really belongs to the following century. At the age of twenty-five we find Kentigern (the name means "head chief", but he was popularly known as Mungo — in Cymric, Mwyn-gu, or "dear one"), beginning his missionary labours at Cathures, on the Clyde, the site of modern Glasgow. The Christian King of Strathclyde, Roderick Hael, welcomed the saint, and procured his consecration as bishop, which took place about 540. For some thirteen years he laboured in the district, living a most austere life in a cell at the confluence of the Clyde and the Molendinar, and making many converts by his holy example and his preaching. A large community grew up around him, became known as "Clasgu" (meaning the "dear family") and ultimately grew into the town and city of Glasgow.
About 553 a strong anti-Christian movement in Strathclyde compelled Kentigern to leave the district, and he retired to Wales, staying for a time with St. David at Menevia, and afterwards founding a large monastery at Llanelwy, now St. Asaph's, of which he appointed the holy monk Asaph superior in succession to himself. In 573 the battle of Arthuret secured the triumph of the Christian cause in Cumbria, and Kentigern, at the earnest appeal of King Roderick, returned thither, accompanied by many of his Welsh disciples. For eight years he fixed his see at Hoddam in Dumfriesshire, evangelizing thence the districts of Galloway and Cumberland. About 581 he finally returned to Glasgow, and here, a year or two later, he was visited by St. Columba, who was at that time labouring in Strathtay. The two saints embraced, held long converse, and exchanged their pastoral staves.
Kentigern was buried on the spot where now stands the beautiful cathedral dedicated in his honour. His remains are said still to rest in the crypt. His festival is kept throughout Scotland on 13 January. The Bollandists have printed a special mass for this feast, dating from the thirteenth century.
JOCELYN OF FURNESS, Life of Kentigern, c. 1185, printed, with English translation, in PINKERTON, Lives of the Scottish Saints (Paisley, 1889-95), is the only ancient authority, except a fragment of c. 1164; see FORBES, St. Ninian and St. Kentigern in Historians of Scotland, V (Edinburgh, 1874); see also STACK, Life of St. Mungo (Glasgow); FORBES, Kalendars of Scottish Saints (Edinburgh, 1872), 373-82; EDMONDS, The Early Scottish Church (Edinburgh, 1906), lx; BELLESHEIM, Hist. of Cath. Ch. of Scotl., I (Edinburgh, 1887), 149-157; Acta SS. (Brussels, 1863), II, 97-103.
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Earlier this year, it was announced that the Tirupati Airport will start international operations by the end of June. While the interim terminal building was originally scheduled to be completed by October, the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has asked the contractors to finish it by August in time for the Krishna Pushkarams. The Runway is also being extended to allow bigger aircrafts like A320 to land.
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Phil Haney, DHS whistleblower honored at AFA Heroes of Courage Awards Dinner in California
Phil Haney, DHS whistleblower at AFA Awards Dinner, Universal City, California, May 21, 2017
"Amigo," Phil Haney, DHS Whistleblower extraordinaire was honored by the American Freedom Alliance, Heroes of Conscience Award last night in Universal City, California. Chaver, Geert Wilders was the keynote speaker. David Horowitz, former leftist, long time conservative activitist and publisher of FrontPage Magazine also received a Heroes of Conscience Award.
Haney called me last Friday, while on the road to California with stops in Dallas and Phoenix, the latter to lunch with my former colleague Lisa Benson and entourage.
We were trying to make arrangements to send both Haney and Wilders copies of an important and timely new book published this week by the New English Review Press written by former Muslim and Islamic scholar, Ibn Warraq, The Islam in Islamic Terrorism- the importance of Beliefs, Ideas and Ideology. In view of President Trump's Riyadh speech we also are sending one to Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President.
Through the auspices of a mutual long term Connecticut friend, Jeffrey Epstein, a noted counter-Jihad warrior, we were introduced to Haney. We reviewed his book, See Something; Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad, for the New English Review and interviewed him on the former Lisa Benson Show.
The News Blaster wrote about the stellar occasion in an article published today, "DHS whistleblower honored with freedom award:"
As a Department of Homeland Security specialist on Islam and terrorism, Philip Haney understood his job was to follow the evidence where it led.
When it led to subversive organizations under the protection of a beholden, politically correct Obama administration, he didn't back down, valuing the security of the United States above his career and personal well-being. His agency's response was to punish him nine times, eliminate intelligence and shut down cases, including one that might have prevented the San Bernardino attack.
In sharp contrast, the American Freedom Alliance awarded Haney its American Freedom Award at its annual Heroes of Conscience Dinner here Sunday night.
Longtime conservative activist David Horowitz was awarded AFA's Hero of Conscience Award, followed by a keynote speech by Dutch politician and Islam critic Geert Wilders, whose party finished second in the country's most recent elections.
Before presenting the award to Haney, AFA Vice President Michael Greer said: "We'd all like to think that we'd do the right thing, but when faced with dire consequences for doing so, I wonder how many would have the courage. And it's my honor to share a stage with such a man."
Note what Haney said upon receiving his AFA Hero of Conscience Award:
None of the cases that I discuss in the book have been resolved to this very day," he said to the more than 270 AFA supporters in attendance.
"But it is my intention to remedy that. Those of you who believe in prayer, do pray for us, for me and my wife, because we do intend to see this through to the end."
Haney said it's important to remember not only what America is fighting against, but what it's fighting for: the U.S. Constitution.
"I would like to call for a constitutional revival, so that we really know the values that we live by, those freedoms and liberties that our Creator endowed us with," he said.
Geert Wilders keynote speaker at AFA Heroes of Conscience Awards Dinner, May 21, 2017
Wilders noted this about Haney:
"The political correctness of the left in our countries is costing lives," he said. "If anybody deserves to get this award it it Mr. Haney."
Wilders made the following points in his address at the AFA awards ceremony pointing out the extraordinary security:
He said the extra security is "unfortunately necessary."
"They are our last line of defense against the consequences of Islam," Wilders said.
"Yes, it is Islam that is causing this extraordinary situation where ordinary citizens like you and me need police protection to safely enjoy a fundamental right, which the American Founding Fathers have bestowed on us in the First Amendment. The right to free speech."
The U.S. Constitution, he said, establishes "the right to discuss every issue in freedom, including Islam."
Wilders cited a Ronald Reagan quote: "I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers."
The Dutch politician said that "28 years after [Reagan] left office, here in this room, his question looms larger than ever."
"And the reason is the stronghold which Islam has gained, not only in Europe, but also here in America during the past three decades," Wilders continued.
"Yes, my friends, listen carefully. I'm talking about Islam. Not about 'radical Islam. Not about 'Islamism.'"
He said it "might be uncomfortable to the left, or the politically correct elite, but it is Islam, pure and simple."
"For the truth is that Islam is not a peace-loving religion. It's an evil, totalitarian ideology," Wilders declared.
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Q: XPages - Dojo Accordion Container with Panes Autohieght I have Dojo Accordion with Panes. Whatever i did, i couldn't  solve my problem.
Accordion Pane's height is always the same as which Accordion Pane has maximum height.
I just want it to be high enough according to it's content. I mean automatically high.

A: Add this CSS to your XPage or theme:
.dijitSelected .dijitAccordionContainer-child {
    height: auto !important;
}

Dojo accordion's pane open with the correct height then.

Use theme "Bootstrap3.2.0" alternatively as accordeon works with this theme out of the box as expected.

A: I have done some investigations and in my opinion the issue could be solved by setting the CSS height property height:auto !important; on every xe:basicContainerNode BUT if you open/close an accordion pane then the height property will be overwritten :(
XPage Source:
<xe:accordion id="accordion1">
    <xe:this.treeNodes>
        <xe:basicContainerNode label="Container one">
            <xe:this.children>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container one, choice one" label="Choice one"></xe:basicLeafNode>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container one, choice two" label="Choice two"></xe:basicLeafNode>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container one, choice three" label="Choice three"></xe:basicLeafNode>
            </xe:this.children>
        </xe:basicContainerNode>
        <xe:basicContainerNode label="Container two" style="height:auto !important;">
            <xe:this.children>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container two, choice one" label="Choice one"></xe:basicLeafNode>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container two, choice two" label="Choice two"></xe:basicLeafNode>
                <xe:basicLeafNode submitValue="Container two, choice three" label="Choice three"></xe:basicLeafNode>
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Over the years there have been many interesting reports of people who have filled out Mcdonalds application online and having their story go viral.
One such story comes from Australia where one over-qualified individual filled out a Mcdonalds job application and got rejected.
Normally, this wouldn't be breaking news, however in this case it made headlines.
Why? Because this applicant was a multimillionaire.
He wasn't trying to get the job to make money, he wasn't trying to get the job so he could learn more about Mcdonalds corporation and how they ran their successful business.
Read the story below as reported by news.com.au.
MOST young Australians dream of owning their own company instead of having to work at a fast food joint. And then there's Ruslan Kogan.
Mr Kogan, the 27-year-old founder of online electronics retailer Kogan Technologies, says he wants exactly the opposite.
The entrepreneur, who made his fortune selling cut-price TVs and gadgets on the web, recently applied for a job at McDonald's.
It wasn't because he was after a new career. It was because he wanted to know what made the fast food giant tick.
(McDonald's) is one of the organisations that I respect the most in the world. The things they do are incredible, and also it's a process driven business, he told news.com.au.
What makes a business so good is all of the processes and the way they can get people working there from all walks of life.
But it seems you really can't always get what you want – no matter who you are.
After filling out a nine-page application form to work at an around-the-clock McDonald's restaurant in Elsternwick in Melbourne, Mr Kogan was knocked back.
Thank you for your application, read an email sent from the company to Mr Kogan, seen by news.com.au.
Unfortunately at this time your application to McDonald's Elsternwick has been unsuccessful.
Mr Kogan, who last year made BRW's Young Rich list with an estimated worth of $15 million, said the rejection was quite a blow.
It was a bit heartbreaking … it's the first job I've applied for in five years, since I quit the corporate world, he said.
I wouldn't have stayed there for a five-year stint, but I definitely would have taken the job, and worked my hardest, and complied with all their rules and processes.
Mr Kogan said there was a risk, had he been given the job, that McDonald's may have caught him studying their processes – but he wasn't fazed.
I think that they're such a professional organisation that, you know, any huge secrets they have wouldn't be available to staff at that level, he said.
And I have no intention of starting a fast food chain.
Mr Kogan said the idea of going undercover came during a recent late-night trip to the restaurant.
It was last Saturday night. It was about 3am, he said.
I was coming home with a few mates from a big night out. We stopped at McDonald's in Elsternwick here in Melbourne (and) it was packed.
It was just so hectic, I thought there was no chance that they were going to get my order right.
(But) seconds later: 'Here you go sir.' They got it spot on.
And his order? A Mega Mac Meal with extra cheese on the burger and sweet mustard sauce for the fries.
Mr Kogan said he had no financial or other associations with the multi-billion dollar food chain, aside from a previous application to work there when he was 14. He was offered the job then, but turned it down.
When asked if he may have been rejected because McDonald's was aware of who he was, Mr Kogan said it was unlikely but would be impressive.
If that is what they did, then it shows the level at which their processes are so great if they go and Google every single person who does an application and read about them, he said.
It's more likely the rejection was a case of bad timing.
McDonald's Australia said Mr Kogan was turned down simply because its Elsternwick restaurant already had enough employees.
This store is fully staffed at the moment and with school holidays coming up they have existing staff also looking for extra shifts, said corporate communications manager Bronwyn Stubbs.
Usually when this is the case the applicant will be returned to the talent pool for other restaurants to consider, however as we are currently adopting a new recruiting platform for the company, this service is temporarily unavailable.
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The suspended National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)
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The suspended National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the ransacking of the party's national headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra on Monday morning. Mr. Afoko's statement comes despite attempts by some persons to link him to the incident. Reports indicate that some six persons believed to be loyalists of Mr. Afoko dressed in military attire, carried out the act.
The men reportedly searched the offices after locking up the security guards. A security guard confirmed that he knows one of the men who invaded the office as a member of the NPP. Meanwhile the police so far has arrested some 11 people in relation to the incident. But the details of those arrested are unknown for now. It is also unclear yet what items have been taken away from the office as police personnel have been dispatched to the scene to investigate the matter and also to maintain law and order. Citi News' Fred Djabanor who reported from the scene said the party's private security firm known as the 'invincible forces' that had been guarding the office in recent times were not present.
But Mr. Paul Afoko in a statement released on Monday in which he still describes himself as the Chairman, condemned the incident and asked the police to investigate it. The statement signed by his Spokesperson Nana Yaw Osei, also described as worrying reports that some weapons were found at the party headquarters. Below is the statement
INCIDENTS AT PARTY HEADQUARTERS UNFORTUNATE
Mr. Paul A. Afoko, the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has learnt with dismay the incidents at the party headquarters, and on the party's parliamentary candidate for the Klottey Korley Constituency, Nii Noi Nortey. These unfortunate incidents happened last night. Mr. Afoko condemns in no uncertain terms these incidents and describes same as dents on the party's image. Reports of weapons having been found at the party headquarters is even more worrying. These developments are distasteful especially at a time Mr. Afoko is challenging the constitutional breaches some party members have persistently engaged in. The security agencies must thoroughly investigate these incidents and get to the bottom of the matter. Thank you. Nana Yaw Osei, Spokesperson for National Chairman, NPP.
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Damning Michelle Obama Photos Leak – She's Just Been Exposed
Melania Trump rushed to Texas on Tuesday to help with the relief efforts from Hurricane Harvey. Now, Michelle Obama has found herself humiliated when an image leaked that exposes the very different way she handled Hurricane Sandy.
Back in 2012, Michelle asked for money for her husband's re-election campaign as Hurricane Sandy was wrecking havoc on the East Coast. Michelle reportedly sent out an email on October 29 requesting campaign donations from supporters in North Carolina and Virginia.
President Obama also cancelled campaign events and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Air Force one that this 'wasn't a time for politics' and that people should focus on responding to the storm," Katie Pavlich wrote for Townhall.
"But, Hurricane Sandy wasn't going to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from playing politics yesterday. She sent the following email to supporters in North Carolina and Virginia."
This shows how different a First Lady Melania is than her predecessor. When her country needed her most, Michelle was only worried about herself. Meanwhile, Melania is putting the American people first and has just shown that she will drop everything to help Americans in need.
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Simultaneous infection with human herpesvirus‐6 and measles virus in infants
Sadao Suga, Tetsushi Yoshikawa, Yoshizo Asano, Takehiko Yazaki, Shigeru Yoshida
Two infants (4 and 5 months of age) with a febrile episode for 3 and 5 days, respectively, developed skin rashes after the fever subsided and were diagnosed as exanthem subitum. The rash continued for 5 days followed by mild‐to‐moderate pigmentation. Human herpesvirus‐6 and measles virus, which were confirmed by a specific immunofluorescence assay and by electron microscopy, were isolated simultaneously from blood in the acute stage of the disease but not from the convalescent stage. The titer of the herpesvirus‐6 in blood was greater then that of measels. Specific serologic assays showed marked seroconversion against human herpesvirus‐6 but not to measles virus. The results suggest that dual infection with human herpesvirus‐6 and measles virus results in atypical exanthem subitum or modified measels with unique immunologic responses.
Journal of Medical Virology
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.1890310412
Published - 08-1990
Measles virus
Exanthema
Suga, S., Yoshikawa, T., Asano, Y., Yazaki, T., & Yoshida, S. (1990). Simultaneous infection with human herpesvirus‐6 and measles virus in infants. Journal of Medical Virology, 31(4), 306-311. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.1890310412
Suga, Sadao ; Yoshikawa, Tetsushi ; Asano, Yoshizo ; Yazaki, Takehiko ; Yoshida, Shigeru. / Simultaneous infection with human herpesvirus‐6 and measles virus in infants. In: Journal of Medical Virology. 1990 ; Vol. 31, No. 4. pp. 306-311.
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Need a primer on the Kingdom Hearts story before heading into Kingdom Hearts 3? Series director Tetsuya Nomura has got you covered, promising a five-episode long story recap that will last for at least a few hours, according to a fan translation of a recent Famitsu interview. God help us all.
For those who (foolishly) skipped from Kingdom Hearts 1 to Kingdom Hearts 2 know only too well the confusion that awaits those preparing to play the series for the first time. There are so many overlapping narratives, double (and triple) crosses, plus time travel for some reason, that you're going to need several chalkboards and a whole lot of free time just to work out the basic outline of the Kingdom Hearts story.
Thankfully, Kingdom Hearts 3 is getting a brief (of sorts) recap included in the game, as well as the Japanese version of the story summary going up online later this month, should you want to be confused even further.
Seemingly having no sort of self-awareness, or a dictionary definition of recap, Nomura says that the Kingdom Hearts story round-up will be presented in five parts. So, if you're desperate to get your hands on playing Kingdom Hearts 3 before trying out any of the others, you should at least have some idea of what's going on.
Honestly, after the whole Dream Drop Distance ending, my brain has sorta given up trying to decipher anything to do with the story. Xehanort = bad and Mickey = Mouse is about as far as I've got with the series.


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Q: matplotlib in second window pyqt5 I wish to plot a matplotlib graph in a second window when a button is clicked in the main window. Using https://matplotlib.org/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_qt4.html , which plots a graph in the main window, I wrote the code below. The matplotlib graph is indeed plotted in a second window, but it has a very small size and I don't understand how to adjust the size of the graph to the window. May I have some help?
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QPushButton, QApplication, QLabel, QWidget
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
import numpy as np

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
     def __init__(self):
          super(MainWindow, self).__init__()
          btn = QPushButton('Click me!', self)
          btn.clicked.connect(self.onClick)

     def onClick(self):
          self.SW = SecondWindow()
          self.SW.resize(300,300)
          self.SW.show()

class SecondWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
         super(SecondWindow, self).__init__()
         self.main_widget = QtWidgets.QWidget(self)

         layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self.main_widget)
         sc = MyMplCanvas(self.main_widget, width = 300, height = 300)
         layout.addWidget(sc)

class MyMplCanvas(FigureCanvas):

    def __init__(self, parent=None, width= 300, height= 300):
        fig = Figure(figsize=(width, height))
        self.axes = fig.add_subplot(111)

        self.compute_figure()

        FigureCanvas.__init__(self, fig)
        self.setParent(parent)

        FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy(self, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
        FigureCanvas.updateGeometry(self)

    def compute_figure(self):
        t = np.arange(0.0, 3.0, 0.01)
        s = np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
        self.axes.plot(t, s)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    MW = MainWindow()
    MW.resize(500, 500)
    MW.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: In your case the main_widget does not have the same size as the QMainWindow so if you change the size with self.SW.resize(300,300) it will not change the size of self.main_widget, the solution would be to use a layout but in the case of QMainWindow it is not correct to do so since this has a custom layout that should not be modified:

The solution in the case of QMainWindow is always to establish a centralwidget, in your case it could be using the self.main_widget:
class SecondWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
         super(SecondWindow, self).__init__()
         self.main_widget = QtWidgets.QWidget()
         self.setCentralWidget(self.main_widget)

         layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self.main_widget)
         sc = MyMplCanvas(self.main_widget, width = 300, height = 300)
         layout.addWidget(sc)


Nissan Motor Co. will remove Carlos Ghosn as chairman after he was arrested in Tokyo for violations of financial law, throwing the auto industry's largest global alliance into turmoil.
Ghosn, a towering figure who saved Nissan from collapse and brought it together with Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., was detained Monday in Tokyo over a suspected breach of Japanese financial laws, Nissan Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa told reporters in Yokohama, Japan. Ghosn and Director Greg Kelly have been under investigation at Nissan for several months, and the board is set to meet Thursday to remove them both.
Both Ghosn and Kelly were reporting compensation to securities regulators in Tokyo that was less than the actual amount, Nissan said, adding that they did this to reduce Ghosn's disclosed compensation. Regarding Ghosn, "numerous other significant acts of misconduct have been uncovered -- such as personal use of company assets -- and Kelly's deep involvement has also been confirmed," the carmaker said in a statement.
Saikawa said the company can't disclose further details of the suspected wrongdoing.
The bombshell allegations threaten to bring down one of the auto industry's most powerful executives, who turned Nissan and Renault into a global challenger to giants Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp. They also cast doubt over the future of the alliance, a three-way pact that has sought to go deeper under the steady hand of Ghosn, 64. While no longer Nissan's chief executive officer, he's been laying the groundwork as chairman to make the alliance permanent after his departure -- including the possibility of a merger.
The news rattled the European equity market, with shares of Renault falling as much as 15 percent in Paris, while Nissan's global depository receipts sank more than 11 percent.
Nissan said it has been providing information to Japanese prosecutors and is cooperating fully with their investigation. Ghosn went voluntarily with prosecutors, the Asahi newspaper reported earlier. A representative for the Tokyo prosecutors' office said they don't comment on individual cases and a spokesman for Renault also declined to comment.
Among the best paid executives in both Japan and France for several years, Ghosn's compensation has regularly drawn criticism. Ghosn receives numerous paychecks in his multiple roles as chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, CEO of Renault, and chairman of both Nissan and Mitsubishi.
A spokesman for France's finance ministry declined to comment on the news. The country owns about 15 percent of Renault and supported Ghosn's renewal at the helm of the French automaker.
Ghosn has been contemplating his next career step as the companies look to change the pact's structure, possibly through a merger. Ghosn gave up his role as CEO of Nissan last year and has said that he may step down as CEO of Renault before his four-year term ends in 2022, fueling speculation the alliance could lose its architect and main leader for the past two decades.
The carmakers have given themselves two years to decide on a possible merger between them or find an alternative mechanism to enhance their partnership, Bloomberg News reported in July. Ghosn said in September that the companies will "clarify everything" within the first half of his current term as Renault CEO.
A Brazilian-born French national, Ghosn revived Renault as executive vice president from 1996 to 1999. He then was assigned to turn around Nissan, where he reduced the company's purchasing costs, shut five factories, eliminated 21,000 jobs and invested the savings back into 22 car and truck models in three years.
The latest developments add to a string of crises in the Japanese auto industry, from scandals involving product quality to falsification of records. Nissan found itself in the midst of a controversy last year, when Japan's regulators discovered uncertified inspectors were approving vehicles, leading to a recall of more than 1.2 million cars.


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TUCSON, Ariz. – USC never had much of a chance to complete its first road sweep of the Arizona schools in 26 years.
The Trojans couldn't stop Arizona sophomore Derrick Williams and his wrapped hand – or any of the other Wildcats.
Fighting through pinky pain and foul trouble most of the night, Williams put on an impressive shooting display against the Trojans, scoring 17 of his 20 points in the second half and hitting all of his shot attempts to lead the Wildcats to an 82-73 win on Saturday.
USC managed to rally late, scoring the game's final 11 points, but had dug too big of a hole to make it all the way back.
Nikola Vucevic had 18 points and Donte Smith added 14 for USC (12-10, 4-5), which made just 13 of 25 free throws and was 3-for-15 from 3-point range until making a few late.
USC completed the first leg of the desert twosome on Thursday, bumping off Arizona State by getting the ball inside to Vucevic. The 6-foot-10 junior had his way with the smaller Sun Devils, scoring 26 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. He also was good at kicking out of double-teams, setting up teammates for open shots.
The Wildcats, for one, are bigger and better inside, led by Williams. They had also won all 12 of their games at the McKale Center this season, the latest an 11-point win over UCLA.
Vucevic did have some trouble finding room inside – five points in the first half – but the rest of the Trojans were able to knock some shots down, shooting 14-for-28 in the first half.
Even with Williams a nonfactor – three points in eight minutes – Arizona had its way with USC offensively in the first half, getting to the rim and dropping in shots from the perimeter. Led by Lamont Jones and Kyle Fogg, who combined for 18 points, the Wildcats hit 15 of 25 shots to build a 40-31 lead by halftime.
Arizona didn't let up, either. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Williams and Jones (who finished with 17 points) put the Wildcats up, 48-33, in the first two minutes of the second half. Williams added an acrobatic, two-handed reverse dunk before picking up his fourth foul and heading to the bench with 12<MD+,%30,%55,%70>1/<MD-,%0,%55,%70>2 minutes left.
He returned to hit a couple of more shots, giving the Wildcats the cushion they needed to withstand USC's late surge.


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Perth TBMs stopped due to screw conveyor issue
On Friday January 18, workers operating TBM Grace on Perth's 8km long, 7m diameter twin Forrestfield to Airport Link Tunnels, reported a potential mechanical issue with the machine just short of the tunnel 4km mark. Since then tunnelling experts from Salini Impregilo-NRW JV and TBM manufacturer Herrenknecht have identified and isolated the issue – damage to the screw conveyor – and repair works have started.
According to a statement released from the SI-NRW, "Repairs include replacing a 3m section of the 16m-long screw conveyor and repairing cracks that have a been identified. At this stage, it is estimated repair works will be completed in March. TBM Grace will remain stationary during this time.
"On Monday February 4, the second machine operating on the project, TBM Sandy was stopped as a precaution so that the machine's screw conveyor could be proactively inspected for similar faults. Inspections have confirmed the presence of cracks. A damage assessment has taken place and the machine will remain stopped while repairs are completed."
The project has stressed that the mechanical issues pose no risk to worker safety, and no ground disturbance issues are expected.
Two new screw conveyors will be manufactured by Herrenknecht and will be installed while the TBMs are at Redcliffe Station later this year.
As of Tuesday February 5, TBM Grace had tunnelled 3944m and installed 2363 rings, and is currently stopped underneath a car park at the corner of Snook and Taplin roads for screw conveyor repairs. TBM Sandy had tunnelled 3839m and installed 2297 rings and has been stopped underneath Woods Road for screw conveyor repairs.
The $1.86bn Forrestfield-Airport Link is jointly funded by the Australian and Western Australian governments and will deliver a new rail service to the eastern suburbs of Perth – with three new stations at Redcliffe, Airport Central and Forrestfield via the 8km long twin tunnels.
In April 2016 the PTA awarded the $1.176bn single-package, lump sum design, construct and maintenance contract to Salini Impregilo – NRW Joint Venture.
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - Ha...
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - Hardcover (2021)
"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.
By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa's tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.
In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa--like so many of her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
The Four Winds a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it--the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation."


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It shows full video control when i remove this line [self.view addSubview:playerViewController.view];
But i have another issue: how to force landscape mode in iPad, so i have a way is subclass AVPlayerViewController and overriding method supportedInterfaceOrientations but i see in Apple Doc

Do not subclass AVPlayerViewController. Overriding this class's methods is unsupported and results in undefined behavior.

So we have another way to force landscape mode in iPad?
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The Computational Mechanics Lab (LabMecC) operates in the field of the Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures. LabMecC activities are devoted to the development of mathematical and numerical models for the stress analysis of structures and the analysis of materials behavior, to their verification and validation on the basis of experimental evidences, and to their application to real life engineering problems.
The LabMecC exploits state of the art competences for the formulation of models and numerical methods aimed at the solution of complex problems in all fields of structural and materials engineering, with the goal to contribute to the transfer of research results from academia to industry. To this purpose, the LabMecC promotes continuing education initiatives for the training of experts in the field of computational mechanics.
The LabMecC makes use of computing facilities available at consociated computing centers, such as Cineca, in addition to in-house computing resources such as workstation clusters for parallel computing.


The simple laws of economics threaten to doom America's remaining coal power plants.
Wind and solar costs have plunged so rapidly that 74% of the US coal fleet could be phased out for renewable energy — and still save customers money, according to a report released on Monday by Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan think tank.
The research demonstrates how it's increasingly more expensive to operate existing coal plants than build clean energy alternatives.
That's despite President Donald Trump's promise to revive the beleaguered coal industry. Trump declared the end of the "war on coal" and slashed regulations that clamped down on the emissions from coal-fired power plants.
"Trump administration efforts to cut environmental regulations are too little, too late to save coal," O'Boyle said.
The Energy Innovation report found that in 2018, 211 gigawatts of existing US coal capacity — or 74% of America's fleet — was at risk from local wind or solar that could more cheaply churn out just as much electricity.
Of course, just because it may be economically feasible to shut down a coal plant and replace it with wind or solar, doesn't mean it will happen right away. State regulators must sign off on such decisions. And many power plants will decide to pass the extra costs on to customers.
Coal was the longtime king of the power industry before it encountered fierce competition last decade from natural gas. Not only is natural gas a cleaner burning fossil fuel, but it's in abundance in the United States thanks to the shale revolution. In 2016, natural gas surpassed coal for the first time as America's leading power source.
And the rise of renewables means that the economics have once again swung against coal. Aided by a surge of investment in clean energy, solar prices have plummeted 90% since 2009 — and they're projected to continue declining, according to Energy Innovation.
"Coal's biggest threat is now economics, not regulations," O'Boyle said.
Pressured by voters, US states are adopting ambitious clean energy targets — and they're framing them as job creators.
Last week, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a bold plan that aims to source half the state's power from renewable energy by 2030. And by 2045, New Mexico plans to be 100% carbon-free.
Future generations "will benefit from both a cleaner environment and a more robust energy economy with exciting career and job opportunities," Lujan Grisham said in a statement.
Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based power company that serves western and Midwestern states, recently pledged to deliver 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050. The plan calls for doubling Xcel's wind power while slashing its dependence on coal.


Since moving to Minnesota in 1995, I have learned to cope with the distance I have from my immediate family who all have remain in California. While visiting with my mother on the phone the other night, she shared with me that she had just received a phone call from Missouri. Her younger sister, my aunt (who also lives in Missouri) had quite suddenly been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I have not seen my aunt in 15 years and instantly all kinds of thoughts went through my head. Where had the time gone, how long does she have, is it cancer, what happens next, and then the epiphany. My aunt doesn't know Christ.
In all the years I have had a relationship with Christ, I have been convicted of many things, but for the first time I was faced with contemplating the eternity of a family member. So much goes through your head when you are trying to justify your position to yourself. All the reasons why it was not my problem, not to mention the typical everyday legitimate excuses, for why traveling to Missouri to see someone I had not been in contact with for 15 years was ridiculous. And the worst one of all…..What if she doesn't want to see me?
But the thing is, when God asks you to do something He doesn't really have to give you a reason. I believe He always has one, but that doesn't mean you get to know what it is. That is faith. Faith, you see, is paved with steps of obedience. And if we choose obedience we have an opportunity not only to exercise our faith, but to strengthen it as well.
As more and more information came in about my aunts condition it became brutally apparent to me that I was not getting out of this trip. My husband was ever supportive in all the ways needed. He changed the oil in the suburban, check all the fluids and offered to hold down the fort while I was away. I left for New Haven, Missouri on Friday, February 11 at 4pm. My oldest son graciously offered to chaperone and I am so thankful for his obedience and committment to his mother. We arrived in New Haven on Saturday, February 12 at 12:30pm.
Due to unforseen circumstances the time I spent with my aunt was one hour. I had the opportunity to sit by her bedside, reminisce about time gone by and show her all that has been happening in my life for the last 15 years. As I reached out to say good-bye I took that opportunity to pray for her and make sure she knew that it would continue. No grand miracle occurred in those few moments of time but, as I prepared to leave she reached out, took my hand and expressed sincere gratitude for my willingness to come and see her. In that moment I knew that I had done the right thing.
My son and I left as quickly as we came and by Sunday, February 13, 2pm we pulled into our home in Minnesota. As I have had time to reflect on this trip many things have been laid upon my heart. It is said that as Christians we all have different roles to play and some are there for planting while others are there for the harvest. I know I planted seeds that day. I also know that God will send someone to tend them. Additionally, I realized that not only did my faith grow and increase through my obedience but so did that of my children as they witnessed their mother's journey.
My son an I traveled 1400 miles in less that 48 hours. And we did it for a one hour opportunity. And I am here to say, it was worth every second.
Amen!!! I know God will use that act of obedience in your traveling to pray with her. Each act of obedience allows God to trust us even more. What an awesome time of one on one with you and your son…that is priceless too!
Marytina and Wyatt you both did an amazing blessing to yourselves and your Aunt God bless you!! I LOVE you both more and more everyday! Amen!!!
Thank you for such kind words of encouragement.
Thank you for your courage and kindness. Love you both.
Knowing your aunt appreciated you visiting her God gives you a blessing also knowing you listened and obeyed. This is the peace that surpasses all understanding.


All dogs have different rates of nail growth, and how they exercise may help determine if they actually need a trim or not. Many dogs exercise on softer surfaces like grass fields, dirt paths or even indoors. Those surfaces don't provide a great deal of friction for nails to file down as they play. Dogs that get a lot of exercise on hard surfaces such as concrete sidewalks or rough asphalt roads may get enough filing that their nails wear down naturally, but they may still need them trimmed on occasion.
You may notice that their nails are getting too long when they jump on you or up on a favorite resting spot, or when their excessively long nails are scratching the floor. Long nails can cut skin and rip furniture. They can cause pain and injury to your dog as well.
Different breeds of dogs have different nail growth patterns. Some have higher knuckles and some are more flat to the ground. That can determine how often or when they need their nails trimmed. You will learn with your own dog what their speed and type of nail growth is and how to deal with it.
When a dog's nails are too long, it can hamper their ability to walk and run correctly. To put it in human terms, imagine your own toenails growing so long that they curl under your toes or constantly rub against the ground, or make your shoes painful to wear by jamming back against the base of your nails from pressure against the tips. It would definitely make the actual process of ambulation more difficult for you. Sure, you would adapt, but you prevent the problems to begin with by keeping your nails trimmed. You can do the same thing for your dog.
Untrimmed nails can curl under and become very painful for a dog. Adapting their walking and running to deal with the discomfort of overly long nails can make their legs or feet sore. Excessively long nails can also catch on things and cause the nail to break to a painful level or even rip off, causing a different kind of injury.
In extreme cases, constantly adapting to the discomfort of long nails can cause stress on the dog's joints and can lead to joint pain or even arthritis.
Walking in a way that adjusts to relieve some of the pain from overly long nails might also cause your dog's natural gait and movement to be out of alignment. This can cause other pain or injuries as they try to find a solution for their discomfort.
Check the length of your dog's nails periodically. If you notice odd limping or a lot of licking of their feet, they may be telling you they are hurting. It could be something as simple as trimming their nails.
Because the dog's nails may be different colors, it is sometimes difficult to tell where the quick is on their nails. You do not want to cut below the quick and cause an injury or bleeding. Clear or light colored nails are easy to distinguish the cutting point. Use a bright light if you are having difficulty. Dark nails are particularly difficult to gauge where the nail ends and the quick dividing lines are. If you have doubts, take your dog to a vet or grooming professional and have them do the trimming.
Many dogs do not like having their nails touched. In extreme cases, the vet will know how to calm them enough so they can get the job done. They also have the appropriate tools.
You may find that one tool works better than others with your dog. There are clippers designed to cut through thick dog nails. Human clippers usually won't work on a dog's nails. There are also files that grind the nail down quickly which may be less stressful for your dog.
All nails, including the dew claw, need to be trimmed. The dew claw can grow and curl back in causing pain, even though it isn't used the same way as the rest of the nails.
Trim your dog's nails in a well-lit spot. If you have a puppy, start young so they get used to the idea of having their nails trimmed. Make it a more soothing experience by giving your dog a foot massage or periodically just rubbing their feet so they get used to their feet and nails being touched. Use the appropriate tools specifically designed for trimming dog's nails.
Try giving your dog some CANIDAE treats as an incentive to sit still or as a reward for behaving while they are getting their nails trimmed. Be calm and gentle while you are trimming their nails. If they sense anxiety in you, your dog will react accordingly. Have someone assist you during the trimming process. Two sets of hands can make it much easier.
Grooming your dog is part of responsible pet ownership. Trimming their nails when needed is part of their overall grooming. It is another step in maintaining their overall health.
i APPRECIATE the info. It is very helpful to be clear about what I need to do for my dog to be comfortable. BUT It doesnt give any specific "how to" pictures or instructions. I hope I find them here but if not can you say where. I am old & my dog is very big. I cannot take him to a vet for regular things like trims & ear cleanings & all the stuff he needs. Especially now that he is older also.
Thank you! We have our first dog and already have an appointment to take care of his nails! What is the difference between the nail trimming and grinding? Seems that nail grinding comes with the luxury packages at grooming places. Is this a necessary thing?
Thanks for sharing this helpful information on why dogs need their nails trimmed. I always trim my dog's nail from the time that he was still young and right now he is already used to it.


Through VITUAL BORSCHT thru Sytheic Zero.
Nick land is an interesting character. I like him Only because of his definition of dark enlightenment on his infamous essay that I can't seem to find a link to but it's there. That being said, I think his character and politics is reactionary and childish, pretty much a 'Self Half-claimed mysterious child who poses as a mature and sophisticated intellectual'. If feel like his whole purpose in this world is to make money while inflating his thinker-ego, which is nothing new really. While his essays is interesting, it does mark a classifiable type. Remember Nine Inch Nails (great band), Insane Clown Posse (lame), White Zombie (ok) came out of the 90s. Nick Land is a type.
He is noted for coining the term "dark enlightenment". I like that idea, but because I like that idea I think Nick land is caught in a enchanted fantasy. Now, I don't mean this to discredit him or to say that he's wrong or anything like that; this is not a point to indicate his incorrect ideas (though they are inflated; he's a church of Nick) I say that because given the facts, the fact that I am able to understand where he is coming from, often even more than I can understand what he is saying about some world or something like that — somehow I seem to intuitively understand what he saying also — It must mean that the position from which he gains his perspective, that we might generalize into calling "the dark enlightened state", is itself a function of consciousness that comes about under certain conditions. Like certain Atari games of the 80s or Intelevsion, there are certain conditions that must be met in the order of thinking to thereby be able to even come upon an idea such as the dark and lighten meant, a position as well as an object of consideration. It's like someone's playing video game and then they happen to cook some buttons and move the joystick in a certain order in a particular part of the game and then a secret room opens up or some sort of secret message appears out of nowhere, A message or chamber that is completely irrelevant to the playing of the game itself, the kind of secret knowledge by which the rest of the game takes on a new quality, a different quality than I had before.
The condition is not a generalized condition; it does not include all human beings in potential but is actually a particular type of understanding, what I call a particular orientation upon objects. The strange thing about it is if I've entered this other chamber or I have found the secret little instance of activity that allows me to get the secret message in the video game, if I go to other players then who have not encountered it and try to tell them where this instance is in the game it is very difficult for them to find that exact instance, that single bit on the screen but more than the screen, that single bit that single position in the whole map and layout of the video game where in one must also do a series of button pushes in joystick manoeuvres. In fact it is so difficult to communicate this to a person that for all purposes that are effective in our world of reality in which Nick land might be enlightened to some darkness, that we might call it incommunicatable. And this is what Nick relies upon for all the other derivatives (accelerationalism, etc..), that the secret will not be exposed. Great for religion.
So foreign and almost impossible to re-create for another person in the game, that we got a call it a fantasy, and indeed a product of enchantment with reality.
The feature of this 'manner ' as I see it, is that it 'sees thru' facades. Badiou appropriates this manner and comes to a similar conclusion to withdraw from political action, that to withdraw from party politics of the only rational response to our situations, but is in itself a radical political act. Zizek also speaks similarly.
So Land 'occupies' this 'view-from-manner' by rejecting democracy. It really is the same impetus. Like the Buddhist enlightenment, the 7-fold path (? 7 fold. How many folds is it? I don't remember: I am total dork) is a kind of 'real-recourse' to the situation of necessary-and-cannot be-chosen withdraw. The impetus toward want to suture together two mutually exclusive orders accounts for this 'occupation of manner'. But truth, so to speak, is a necessary-already withdrawn; so in many cases, cases that stop short, the axiomatic 'reason' (enlightened reason/intuition) compels one toward a 'real' meaning of the withdraw, that the already withdraw demands a correspondent 'Real-act', which is most often understood as political.
In a way, at least philosophically, we end up with at minimum a discussion of a group of blind boddhisatvas touching an elephant, one saying reality is like an alligator, another saying, it is like a snake …but at the other end, a battle of who is most correct, and who can call forth and wield the most power to his discourse.
We have the outlines, a beginning to be able to expose such chicanery, of both good and bad. And no one is going to like it.
He did coin "dark enlightenment". And from what little I've read of him . He seems quite 'dark' in his estimations. From what i gather. He was a 90s writer. Everyone loved conspiracies in the 90s. Lol. His stuff is a little too paranoid for me, yeah. Schztzo.
From my understanding, Nick was way too arrogant to do Philosophy and so never wrote a book or anything. Only wrote some essays and the went to work for some capitalist think tank in Asia.
The Only reason I like him is because of his definition. I think he is a typical fucked up 90s schmoe. Of the kind I guess you'd have to have been there to understand. Lol.
Oh. Wiki doesn't say anything about working for an Asian think tank. Idk where I heard that. Perhaps he is making enough money being a cool dark hip dude. Lol All those categories. Accelerationism, cybernetics, and all those other attributes I'm not really into. My use for them (mostly) They function as manners to describe how religion how consciousness works.
I think also. He is another example of a person who misunderstands his own ideas; that's how accelerationalsim is constructed: on a deliberate misapplication of a basic premise . From this mistake, consciousness is able to 'roll with' meaning. And due to consciousnesses ability to behave as separate from the universe, such 'detached' kind of meaning 'accelerates' itself.
A lot going on. Too much really to get into here I suppose.
I think I should change the summary of my book. I like the idea of 'dark' enlightenment because it indicates that whereas before it was out in the open, talked about and questioned into, now it resides in the shadows. Well, in the 90s and 2000s it did. Now it has so far receeded it must be propped up by propaganda, fear, the past, fixed views. One realizes that it is really bs. So it has to use tactics to stay meaningful, purposefully maintaining its relevancy though it knows it is already out; it has to milk it's worth.
Dark takes in a new meaning.
He struck me as a sort of Deluezian extrapolator philosophically. I haven't read much of him honestly. Like those papers. I didn't read too far into them because I could already see Kinda where he was headed (no where I'd want to go lol). I tried a couple times but some authors are just too…I don't know …But i read enough to see… we'll I am in process of uncovering, so to speak, this 'philosophical -enlightenment' Manner. Land takes it into the most fear-based ideological areas though, seems to me. Indeed, the Dark is kind of a double-entendres. Thanks for the info.
This 'enlightenment' thing has brought up issues of the 'sovereign' (i forget who exactly) . And this aspect of this manner could elicit an attitude that would make alt right sense. So I don't doubt what your saying.
He's so 90's. I'm around his age. And he strikes me of a certain kind of 90s. So 90s. It's like a certain scent. Or odour. 😝 to me it's just so stuck in the past and a childish fear that has to hold on and not move cuz it's so afraid: it casts on everyone a sort of stylized darkness, like a fashion that takes itself very seriously all the while being too cool to actually 'admit' that it is so serious. Lol.
haha that is funny about the 90s odor. I kind of get that sense from him too.
It definitely is a double entendre. Its deliberate.
As Zizek talks about, there are always those kind of critiques of the Enlightenment that spur from a kind of Romanticism (and thus reactionary spirit)- people that adore poets and the like, and authors. Beware of those people in general I feel, because they often hold backwards political philosophies. Like the poet Friedrich Schiller Zizek talks about in his new book Disparities (which I read about 3/4 of).
Thanks. Often in order to write, I need a prompt that signals which discursive path to follow. Sometimes. Just a topic like 'disparities' is not enough; sometimes I need a specific situation. A motivator, so to speak..
You know, I was just thinking of the schizophrenia thing and like Delueze.
I think the 80s and 90s and 2000's like this 30 year. Marks a kind of "ending" and I don't think it's a coincidence that people started considering the end of philosophy and the end of history in such things like that recently. like Zizek's living in the end times.
But the schizophrenia thing: the schizophrenia I think marks a sort of Disjuncture, maybe a kind of moment where in the ideology, the functioning mythology pass to divide upon itself. Where as "before" we could call it the dialectic, now the dialectic is being used in such a way that it hides A part of it self. Before both sides of the dialectic were a parent in sort of a kind of universal historical motion, perhaps of the Hegel type. But because of its failure, and yet it's persistence, it had to hide. I think it is this disjuncture that reveals something significant about certain modes; in particular I would say that if we can categorize a certain instance or certain moments involving a dialectic that hides part of itself (The manner of hiding is different than what they used to talk about 100 years ago) that we can now call schizophrenic, it is because of the presumption that goes along with the very feet of schizophrenia that imposes itself upon reality in a devious manner. It cannot admit that his way is incorrect and so moves to argue a common humanity is still involved with some sort of general human being. It thereby realizes that it has a certain advantage because of its mode of manipulation, as it sees that most people do not have this kind of "alternate" view, if there by uses discourse and meaning deceptively for a kind of "unholy" manner. Innoway we could probably make an analogy to the housing bubble that we had like 10 years ago. It is a kind of artificial inflation of meaning.
Just kind of going on a little thought that came to mind there.
Yeah its no longer possible to view history as this kind of dialectical movement, we know now its at best a kind of heuristic device for looking at how the pendulum swings back and forth.
I see what you are trying to say, Land means something in the cultural milieu, in the landscape of things. I think he reads the signs on the walls so to speak, but misinterprets them. And isn't that the definition of schizophrenia in a way? Seeing conspiracies where there are none, looking at some random pattern in the clouds and seeing a message from aliens or something. Maybe Land should stick to fiction, because it sounds like when he tries applying real concepts to the world, he ends up using too much "enchantment". First of all, he has an idealistic view of monarchic Europe, which is funny. Second, he seems to have a fascination with HP Lovecraft. If you start analyzing the world in a way that makes sense to HP Lovecraft (who was an avid anti-Semite and conspiracy nut) you've probably gone wrong.
As Zizek would say, its fantasy and ideology at its purest.
Pt. 3 I found out that the same philosopher we talked about earlier, the alt-right guy who believes in aliens, is Nick Land's friend. It all made sense.
This is how people are able to bash postmodernism, first of all, being associated with these people.
Second, they aren't really postmodernists as much as they are interested in things like the occult, etc. Land keeps mentioning Aleister Crowley in that interview.
Hmmm… where have I heard that before? Idolizing pre-democratic societies? Thinking democracy is the problem? Occult beliefs?
Yeah. He's just going More and more crazy. But unfortunately, people are not keen in general. Kinda the discussion you put about common folk and philosophers theorists. And kind the Golden Bough kind of a Frazier argument that 'prophets' and 'magicians' were purposefully lying for the sake of the ignorant group. But now people just lie for the fun of manipulation.
Hmmm yeah who knows? It could be manipulative. That view of religion- I should be more familiar with what Frazier says in the Golden Bough, I've never read the full thing. He makes a whole host of Victorian arguments about religion like that though, about how organized religious ceremonies derive how we want to explain the universe, magic -> religion -> science. Frazier probably wasn't the first to say that, I associate that with earlier Enlightenment thinkers, I forget which one. But yeah I see what you are saying.
I don't think he is an alt right. I don't keep up on him tho.
Now, this seems like he's saying you should get out of your comfort zone and talk to actual fascists, but in reality he's saying you have to keep an open *mind* to what they are saying, maybe they are half right, etc.