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Learn how the Bible defines sin and get answers to other questions on this challenging topic. Is Gambling a Sin Will It Jeopardize Your Faith? What the Bible Says.Even those that do win big on occasion statistics have proven that within two years most winners have totally spent the money they won.First of all, I lot of people use the fact that people in the Bible cast "lots", as a means to support gambling. "Lots" were cast to make decisions, not to.Enjoy Inspirational Audio Bible Verses Enjoy 374 selections of the best Inspirational Audio Bible Verses from the King James Version Bible.
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A Climate of Revenge by Tom Riley - Book Blitz + Giveaway
By Jasmine J 3:00 AM Book Blitz, Books, excerpt, giveaway, mystery, science fiction
A Climate of Revenge
by Tom Riley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GENRE: Mystery, Science Fiction
Sarah and JanetM, are a human/Artificial Intelligence pair who do private investigations in the near future where our climate crisis has hit and hit hard. A man with a long dark history tries to hire them but is then killed. His family hires the team to find who killed this man with a thousand enemies in a land with a million problems.
The United Nations IPCC report, "Climate Change 2022, Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability contains:
C5.3 Enhancing knowledge
A wide range of … processes … can deepen climate knowledge and sharing, including … using the arts … (high confidence).
This can only be read as a clarion call for writers to produce the works that will help our people cope.
"I think we still have time for a few questions and answers," said the chairperson, "You will find a microphone over to the side. Please say who your question is for."
Most of the audience were still there and people quickly queued up.
"Question time, question time, question time," sang JanetM in Sarah's ear.
"This one is for Sarah. Why did you not take the case when you were first asked?"
"It was clear to me that Mr. Winestead had a hidden agenda," said Sarah. "The story he gave me struck me as a complete fabrication. To work for someone you have to have some level of trust. We had not established that trust. He really did think he was in danger and was interviewing investigators to choose one to have available if he were attacked. Had he said that clearly, then things might have turned out quite differently, but that was not the story he chose to tell. He was a paranoid man who had made detailed plans all his life and he was making another, just in case something bad happened."
"This one is for you both. How do you like being a human/AI pair?"
"We are way past liking," said Sarah. "We now are who we are and who we are is who you see. I would not change our relationship for the world, but that does not matter, we cannot go back in time, and I would not if I could."
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
After an extensive career at NASA as an Instrument Engineer, Tom Riley started a people-based space program, The Big Moon Dig, compatible with the needs of our climate crisis. Our climate crisis clearly must now come first, and that effort needed positive stories of people in action.
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Taipei City, Chinese Taipei - (Nov. 18, 2018) - Team USA finished strong with four medals on the last day of competition, adding three silver and a bronze to its medal tally bringing its total medal count to two gold, five silver and 10 bronze for the 2018 World Poomsae Championships. The medal total was the third highest of the tournament, bringing Team USA to 5th place in the gold medal standing. The top five countries were Korea, Chinese Taipei, Mexico, Iran and USA.
USA athlete Adalis "AJ" Munoz was also awarded Female Freestyle Athlete of the Year, having won her third consecutive title in that division.
Said head coach Dan Chuang, "Team USA showed that after two successful world championships in the Pan Am region, that we could travel to the heart of Asia and be dangerous in every division, even in the back yard of so many powerhouse poomsae nations. We demonstrated that team culture is winning culture, with the entire team of 57 athletes having each team member's back in the ring for four long days."
Team Leader Ron Southwick added, "The World Poomsae Championships is now over and as I travel home, I will be able to reflect on a wonderful moment. Not only did we come together as athletes, teammates and ambassadors, we created magic, and it is such an honor to serve them as Head of Team."
In the Cadet Individual Male division, Shawn Seo earned a silver medal at his first World Poomsae Championships. Seo advanced through large preliminary and semifinal cut-off rounds to the finals, where he bested Great Britain and Chinese Taipei in single elimination before being just barely edged out by Korea with a margin of just 0.04 in a dramatic finish. Said Seo, "I practiced a lot with my grandmaster and weekend camps for this tournament. It felt amazing ... I couldn't believe that I would go so far and almost beat Korea."
In the Under 17 Individual Freestyle Division, Hannah Noble earned a silver medal. In the preliminary round, she hit all of her impressive acrobatics and finished in a strong first place. In the finals, she again executed a flawless performance, but was edged out by just a few hundredths by Mexico. At just 13 years old, it was an impressive debut at the World Poomsae Championships. Said Noble, who is also a gymnast, "[My gymnastics background] balances me out and helps me feel confident. It was amazing [to be out there], the energy from the crowd was so good, it gave me energy too which was an awesome experience."
In the Over 65 Individual Female Division, defending world champion Erica Linthorst earned a silver medal. Linthorst advanced in the first round by bye, then over Russia to reach the finals against a strong player from Portugal. In a battle of nerves and will, the two competitors faced off - Linthorst was leading by 0.1 after the first round performance of Chonkwon, but her opponent came back with a strong Hansu to earn the win. Said Linthorst, "It was great to stand on the podium flanked by female 4th Master newly-arrived youngest member (Portugal, 65) and oldest participant (Colombia, 72). The final match provided a.challenge especially in focus and the lesson once again that each step and every detail counts. I am grateful to every Team USA athlete and our many supporters for their energy, enthusiasm, and thoughtful care/consideration throughout the entire championships!"
In the Over 17 Freestyle Mixed Team division, Aleena Duong, Kody Han, Eddie Jeong, Kelsey Ha, Chrixy Lam, and Alexander Twu earned a bronze medal after a single final round filled with impressive choreography, jumping, spinning and acrobatic techniques. Said Twu, who was at his 5th World Poomsae Championship and earned his third world medal, "I had a feeling of accomplishment as a group. During past years, injuries were a factor ... coming together and accomplishing this competition is a great feeling. Thanks to everyone for supporting us - friends, family, teammates, everyone."
Cadet Female Individual Chiara Flotildes was competing at her first world championships. She advanced from the preliminary cutoff round to the semifinal round, where she was able to elevate her scores significantly from the first round. While she just missed the cut for the final eight in this very deep division, she certainly has a bright future ahead of her.
The Junior Pair of Karyn Real and Ethan Sun advanced through competitive preliminary and semifinal cut-off rounds to enter the final eight single elimination rounds. In a tough battle, they were stopped by Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals.
Also competing on day 4 was the Under 17 Freestyle Pair of Sharlene Duong and Jacob Gonzaga. The pair had an exceptionally strong performance in the semifinal round that put them in third place. Unfortunately in the finals, they didn't finish in the medals but they showed an impressive caliber of execution.
Under 40 Individual Male Kwangjin Ha competed as well. Ha advanced by convincing margins over the Netherlands and Serbia in the rounds of 32 and 16 before being stopped by Spain in the quarterfinals in a close result.
The head of the team for the trip was Ronald Southwick.The head coach was Daniel Chuang, and the other coaches included Barbara Brand, Jung Jin, Long Nguyen, Huy Nguyen, and David Turgeon. Anh Nguyen served as assistant coach. The manager was Tara Zielenski, and the assistant manager was Yea Real. The head doctor was Sherri Lashomb, and Buddy Ramsey and Thomas Wido also served as doctors.


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You play as Jason Brody who is on vacation with his two brothers and a few friends and take a skydiving trip onto an island where they're told you can do "anything." Shortly after they've landed they're captured and imprisoned by a pirate and human trafficking lord named Vaas that intends to sell them back to their parents for a large sum of money. You manage to break free from your captors and take solace in a small camp run by Dennis who is associated with the islands' natives called the Rakyat. Dennis sees you as a symbol that they can defeat the pirates and teaches you how to survive on the island. Since you play an 'everyman' who has never killed before in his life, you are forced into this bad situation as you pick up a weapon and you know it won't end well. The emotional change Jason Brody goes through is riveting as he does whatever it takes to survive.
The island in Far Cry 3 is huge and populated with a bunch of pirates and viscous animals. The island is quite beautiful with its lush trees, foliage, and a variety of plants. Fire has a significant effect on the world and spreads out in a realistic fashion consuming large areas of land. Wooden buildings can also be set aflame but will not break apart or be destroyed afterwards. The island is also filled with dangerous species so make sure to watch your step. Komodo dragons, snakes, crocodiles, sharks and more can get the jump on you and have you feverously mashing buttons to break free. As an FPS game you tend to see parts of your body more when you are ambushed by animals and they're gnawing on your limbs. You can heal your wounds by injecting yourself with health syringes, but if you don't have any you can still bandage yourself up. This healing mechanic changes based on the damage you've taken. If you were to fall from a great height, the heal mechanic will have you relocating you wrist; if you were bitten by an animal you will bandage up your arm, or if you've taken lots of gunfire you'll be digging bullets out of your arm with your trusty knife. It can be a bit jarring seeing yourself patch up your own wounds, but it also adds to the game's immersion.
As you've come to expect from every Far Cry game, the world is a huge open sandbox filled with tasks for you to complete. You progress through the game by adding tattoo's to your left arm which unlock skills as you level up. Some skills will improve your gunplay while others give you stealth kill options. Improvements to your health, movement and interactions with the world are also unlocked through the use of these skills.
You start off the game pretty much naked with only a knife and a pistol available. You can hunt and skin animals around the island and use their pelts to upgrade your carrying capacity for various things such as weapons, grenades and inventory slots. There are also a variety of plants around the world that you can use to craft syringes with various effects that improve your health, heighten your senses so you can see enemies and animals easier, and even improve you combat effectiveness!
We're also glad to see a huge variety of weapons that you can purchase that ranges from pistols to sniper rifles and even throwing in a few specialty ones such as a flamethrower or a reflex bow. Most of these weapons can be unlocked for free as you activate the radio towers around the island, but you can purchase them anytime if you so desire. There are also a bunch of upgrades to the weapons that improve their ammo capacity, upgrades to the weapons sights and even attach a sound suppressor for those silent types. Specialty ammo can also be crafted for your reflex bow to turn your arrows into explosive projectiles or even light things on fire.
If gunplay isn't really your style and you prefer a stealthy approach, Far Cry 3 doesn't disappoint. There are a bunch of stealth assassination techniques that you can learn that increase your deadliness. Sneaking up on an enemy and stabbing them in the neck with a knife is one thing. Performing aerial or underwater assassinations is another. But taking an enemy's weapons and using it against their friends is so much more satisfying. Why wouldn't you want to pull the pins on their grenade belt and push them into a group of their buddies? Well it's because you want to stab them, use their body as a human shield while you take their pistol and shoot their buddies in the face. Or if you want to be creative you can shoot the lock off that caged tiger and have him maul all those pesky pirates to death. Far Cry 3 gives you these options so you can play by your rules, your way. Except for that one stealth mission where you can't kill anyone or be spotted either. That was annoying, but the rest of the game lets you play the way you love to play.
Far Cry 3 hosts a persistent multiplayer leveling system and map editor. There are only a few different game types but one of the most unique is Firestorm. It takes the game's fire mechanics and implements them into a multiplayer match. The goal is to set fire to two objectives in the enemy base and retreat back to a radar dish. The longer it takes for you to get to the radar dish, the more the fire will spread, eventually blocking off routes to the radar dish. Oh and did we mention that you're fighting the other team while the flames are raging out of control?
The persistent leveling is what you've come to expect nowadays. You unlock weapons and skills as you rank up and weapon attachments are unlocked the more you use the weapon. There is also something called battle cry that lets you buff your ally units abilities and health within a given radius. This ability alone is enough to make you want to fight with your teammates instead of going solo as your battle cry does not buff yourself.
Death does not mean that you're out of the game yet either. You can mash the A button to fight to stay alive while your teammates can come and pick you up. In Team Deathmatch this feature comes in handy as you can deny your enemies the kill if you are revived. This however only happens once, and as soon as you are killed after being revived you must respawn. This also draws enemies in as they will want to revive their teammates, so you can use their dying comrade as bait.
Another feature of Far Cry 3 is the 'Final Move.' When a match is over the winning team votes on how to punish the losing team's MVP. You can choose to be merciful and let them go or be vengeful and fart in their face or beat them up. Survival of the Sickest is Far Cry 3's new motto it seems.
A kill cam is also featured and gives some tactical information based on where your enemy was and how they killed you. A screenshot of the event is taken and shows the bullet trajectories and contact hits that killed you. It also showcases the enemy's weapon used, their health and other useful tidbits of information that may change your tactical approach.
Daily and weekly challenges are also present. They can range from killing enemies with certain weapons or in certain game types or by performing specific actions such as tagging enemies. These challenges unlock extra XP so you level up faster and to give players something to work towards.
You can definitely tell that Far Cry 3 was made by Ubisoft Montreal as there are a ton of elements from previous games. There are radio towers spread throughout the island that you must climb to reveal that portion of the map similar to Viewpoints found in Assassin's Creed. They even have the same camera pan around the tower to reveal that area of the map but with a few highlights on certain portions of the area that may hold some secrets.
There is a marking system that allows you to mark enemies so that you can track them more easily which is also found in Splinter Cell: Conviction. There is no instant execute button, but with all the fancy weapons you pick up on the island there are plenty of ways to dispatch groups of foes.
About halfway through the game you are tasked to retrieve an ancient dagger that holds power to the Rakyat people. The dagger is beautifully crafted and has some visual similarities to the dagger in Prince of Persia.
Hunting and skinning are also included in the game, which has ties to the more recent Assassin's Creed 3.
Far Cry 3 is big open sandbox that lets you play however you want to play. There are plenty of weapons, upgrades, and stealth options to fight off those pesky pirates on your own terms. The storyline is gripping with emotional turns around every corner. If you're looking for an immersive, open world FPS with solid gunplay that's not based on war, then look no further.


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Poinsettias are easy. Request your free order forms anytime, take orders in October/November, place your order before Thanksgiving, and have beautiful Poinsettias delivered in December. I have attached a pdf copy of our Fall brochure.
Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Poinsettia Fundraising Season for fundraisewithflowers.com. Our Poinsettias provide color throughout the Winter Holidays. All of our plants are grown on site in North Carolina in the best conditions, producing the most spectacular and highest quality Poinsettias! We offer 4 varieties in 6" or 10" pots. Profit is $4 on the 6" and $10 on the 10". This is a simple process. Just let me know how many in your group and I will send the free fundraising materials. Your group takes orders. You keep your profit and send us the balance. Delivery fees are determined by order size. If your group sells $500.00 or more (not including profit) we will give you free delivery. Less than $500.00 mandates a $60.00 delivery charge.
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Q: Create rule in makefile for just a set of files I am writing a Makefile, and I want to use a generic rule with wildcards, like
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A: Of course, 5 minutes later I found the answer myself... :)
What we need is a static pattern rule.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Static-Pattern
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A: You want a static pattern rule:
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Beware of VA Bearing Gifts – VA's Shulkin calls for new, strategic approach to veterans benefits programs
https://federalnewsradio.com/veterans-affairs/2017/11/vas-shulkin-calls-for-new-strategic-approach-to-veterans-benefits-programs/
"Today … I call for a new way of thinking about benefits, I want to see an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders about rationalizing veterans benefits — a veterans benefit advisory board that can bring clarity to what we're trying to do for veterans and what's best and how we can do that in the best way." – Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Monday 11/06/2017 National Press Club.
Beware the VA bearing gifts, the talk will be about "enabling independence" which could be read as a longer period of time before you would be eligible to be rated permanent.
Focus on "service-connected" disabilities so that they won't have to pay for age related issues, not sure anyone is getting compensation for age related diseases unrelated to their service connected disability, but VA secretary says there are, heres the quote:
We have to emphasize service-connection for disabilities so we aren't compensating veterans for age-related issues. – Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Monday 11/06/2017 National Press Club.
The Veterans Affairs Secretary says this is not about taking away benefits, and then later laments the costs of compensation, concurrent recent from DOD and SSDI.
Before 2004, military veterans couldn't receive Defense Department retirement benefits and VA disability compensation at the same time. But by 2013, 59,000 DoD retirees received concurrent benefits, along with Social Security, which totaled more than $3.5 billion, Shulkin said.
Some of you may remember earlier this year when Veterans Affairs Secretary Shulkin equated Unemployability with "unemployment insurance" VA unemployability is based on the inability of the veteran to hold substantial gainful employment, "unemployment insurance" is for workers who can work but can't find work. So I think that gives us an insight into his thinking about compensation benefits.
Here's my bottom line on this – In my opinion this is more about cutting costs and less about improving veterans lives. I hope I am wrong.
One least thing to remember, Secretary Shulkin is not a veteran…
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The Fabulous Johnny Cash – trzecia płyta muzyka country Johnny'ego Casha. Została wydana w styczniu 1959 przez wytwórnię Columbia Records po odejściu Casha z Sun Records. Album został ponownie wydany w 2002. Drugie wydanie zawiera 6 dodatkowych piosenek.

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Bonusowe piosenki

Twórcy
 Johnny Cash - gitara, główny wykonawca, wokal
 Al Casey - gitara
 Luther Perkins - gitara
 Don Helms - gitara (stalowa)
 Marshall Grant - gitara basowa
 The Jordanaires - wokal wspierający
 Marvin Hughes - pianino
 Buddy Harman - bębny
 Morris Palmer - bębny
Dodatkowi twórcy
 Al Quaglieri - producent
 Don Law - producent
 Billy Altman - zapis nutowy
 Don Hunstein - fotografika
 Howard Fritzson - kierownictwo artystyczne
 Hal Adams - okładka
 Seth Foster
 Mark Wilder
 Stacey Boyle
 Kay Smith
 Matt Kelly
 Geoff Gillette
 Steven Berkowitz
 Darren Salmieri
 Patti Matheny
 Nick Shaffran

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Album - Billboard (Ameryka Północna)

Single - Billboard (Ameryka Północna)

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Albumy Johnny'ego Casha
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The treatment of Paget's: Available specific therapies part 2
Alendronate. Alendronate is available for the treatment of Paget's disease in most western countries (Fosamax 40). The recommended dose is 40 mg daily for 6 months to be taken with a large glass of water (>200 ml) on getting up in the morning after an overnight fast. The patient is instructed not to take anything else orally (except more water) and not to lie down for at least 30 minutes after ingesting the dose. With this dosing schedule, a single course of alendronate was found to normalise bALP in over 63% of patients with biochemical remission lasting for more than 12 months. Biopsy specimens from patients treated with alendronate revealed normal patterns of deposition of new bone and radiological improvement. The overall tolerability profile is good, although upper gastrointestinal discomfort, nausea, or the less common but more serious complication of oesophageal ulceration, are not rare.
Risedronate. Risedronate 30 mg (Actonel 30) was approved by both FDA and EMEA in 1998 for the treatment of Paget's disease. Studies of risedronate have described the efficacy of a 30-mg dose given for 2 or 3 months to patients with moderately active disease. These short courses of therapy led to a nearly 80% reduction in bALP and normalisation of bone turnover markers in 50-70% of patients. The 30-mg risedronate dose is taken with 200 ml of water on getting up in the morning after an overnight fast, with no other oral intake (except water) and no lying down for 30 minutes after the dose. Gastrointestinal side effects of varying degrees of severity are expected in a minority of patients.
Figure 2 – Percent changes (means and standard errors) in N-telopep- tide of collagen type I (dotted line) and in serum alkaline phosphatase (continuous line) after a single i.v. infusion of 100 mg neridronate at time zero in 15 patients with active Paget's disease of bone.
Other bisphosphonates. Other bisphosphonates have been registered or used off-label in some countries. Clodronate has been extensively investigated in the past and it is often used in several European countries. It is most commonly administered intravenously. The highest daily dose that can be safely infused is 300 mg dissolved in 500 ml saline solution. The rate of infusion should not exceed 200 mg/hour, in order to avoid nephrotoxic effects. In the moderate-severe cases, 5 to 10 infusions are usually required to achieve a 70% remission rate. Olpadronate is available only in the Netherlands and in some countries in South America. Neridronate is available only in Italy. Its potency is similar to that of pamidronate and the recommended dose is 100 mg in 100 ml saline solution i.v. for one or two days. In several European countries iban- dronate and zoledronate are used off-label with a single i.v. bolus of 2 and 4 mg respectively. Don't suffer without medication. Buy cialis 200mg online
Figure 3 – Time changes (means and standard errors) in serum osteocalcin (dotted line) and in serum alkaline phosphatase (continuous line) after 5 i.v. infusions of 300 mg clodronate (arrow) in 11 patients with very active Paget's disease of bone.
Monitoring treatment
Treatment with bisphosphonates is associated with a rapid decrease in bone resorption markers. However, these markers are seldom used to assess treatment efficacy because they also reflect the suppression of normal bone turnover and their variance is too high (Figure 2). The markers of bone formation decline more slowly and the nadir is reached only after 6 months. It is worth noting that serum osteocalcin is only marginally increased in pagetic patients and should not be used for monitoring treatment (Figure 3).
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After an evening of rain, the morning saw the rain clear on a warm, overcast day. The surface was wet and a strong wind meant that the game would have to played in the right way.
Yeovil started the game quickly. Pressed high up the field, won the ball back early and starting creating chances. A couple of good saves from the keeper early on followed by the home teams first goal, through the keepers legs. This was shortly followed by a second for Yeovil which came from some good movement and a good finish, albeit deflected.
Taunton responded well and started to battle back. The second quarter saw the away team push a few bodies higher up the field and at times left Yeovil quite exposed. The away team were able to use the ball slightly higher up the pitch and did create one or two threatening situations for themselves.
The third quarter saw the game level out when Yeovil found some shape again, but Taunton restricted space and made the home team work. Yeovil were not deterred though, kept probing and found the net a third time. Hat trick for the striker.
The fourth quarter saw th home side come out with purpose again, pressing high and moving the ball quickly again. Quick fire goals saw the game move to 6-0 and the combination play by the home side deserved nothing less.
A well spirited game where both teams tried to play in the right way. Good luck to Taunton for the rest of the season.


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Tag Archives | speakers
How Did JBL Get Its Name?
By Cathy Satin on February 3, 2014 in Blog, Speaker History
James Bullough Lansing, an obsessed and depressed genius, invented everything he could including his name. In Illinois he was born as James Martini in 1902. At some point he added the middle name Bullough and for some unknown reason, later changed his last name to Lansing. He moved to Salt Lake City, worked as an engineer, and then began to build radio loudspeakers as the Lansing Manufacturing Company. He moved to California when sound was being added to movies and became known as the best man to improve movie sound. The company floundered until 1941 when it partnered with Altec Service Corporation- which did movie sound maintenance and repair. Parts became a problem so in 1946, Lansing left Altec and founded Lansing Sound, Incorporated. Altec Lansing complained that using Lansing impinged on Altec Lansing's rights so a new identity was created: JBL -James B. Lansing Sound, Incorporated.
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May 2012: Take a look at this new video JBL made detailing their history.
Ohm Model "F" Speaker Design
By Cathy Satin on January 17, 2014 in Blog, Speaker Repair Info
The Ohm model "F" speakers invented by Lincoln Walsh feature a single driver mounted vertically as though it were firing downwards into the top of the cabinet, but instead of the normal almost flat cone, having a very-much extended cone entirely exposed at the top of the speaker. This turned normal speaker driver design problems on their head; whereas the normal problem with designing a driver is how to keep the cone as stiff as possible (without adding mass), so that it moved as a unit and did not become subject to traveling waves on its surface, the Ohm drivers were designed so that the entire purpose of the electromagnetic driver was to generate traveling waves that traversed the cone from the electromagnet at the top downwards to the bottom. As the waves moved down the truncated cone, the effect was to reproduce the omnidirectional soundwave, as with a cylinder that changed diameter. This created a very effective omnidirectional radiator (although it suffered the same "planarity" effect as ribbon tweeters for higher-frequency sounds) and eliminated all problems of multiple drivers, such as crossover design, phase anomalies between drivers, etc. However, in practice it was found necessary to use a very complex cone made up of various materials at different points along its length, in order to maintain the waveform traveling evenly.
Cerwin-Vega Historical Perspective
By Cathy Satin on November 30, 2013 in Blog, Speaker History
Cerwin-Vega – From the Beginning
In the last 50 years, Cerwin-Vega has grown from a small group of engineers headed by the legendary Gene Czerwinski into one of the foremost loudspeaker companies. Cerwin-Vega speakers have been used by Pro Audio professionals, Hi-Fi enthusiasts and Mobile Audio fans and has earned an almost cult-like devotion of customer loyalty.
In 1954, Gene Czerwinski, an aerospace engineer, founded Cerwin-Vega. Gene's goal was to reproduce the live musical experience based on high-efficiency drivers, durability, and a "value for money products." CV began as Vega Associates and grew when it introduced 18" sound systems that could produce 130dB at 30 Hz. In 1957 Vega introduced the world's first solid state amplifier, rated at 125 RMS. The amplifier's circuit was influenced by a 10,000-watt sonar amp Gene designed for Bendix Corp. In the 60's Cerwin-Vega became a supplier of loudspeakers and system designs to many major manufacturers including; Fender, Acoustic, Sunn and Vox. In 1974, the movie "Earthquake" premiered with the innovative "Sensurround". It was the first time audio was integrated into the movie experience through special effects. The concept required large powerful bass cabinets, which would provide very low frequencies in order to shake the movie theater, thus simulating a real earthquake. For this purpose, the "E" bass horns and woofers were developed. These woofers were 18" versions that were folded into a horn configuration. The internal path length of the horn was 6 feet with a cutoff frequency of 33 Hz. Sensitivity of the system was an incredible 106 dB at 1 watt / 1 meter. "Sensurround" technology and Cerwin-Vega were honored an Academy Award for Special Technical Achievement.
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How do Speakers Work?
By Cathy Satin on October 19, 2013 in Blog, Technically Speaking
A speaker converts electrical energy to mechanical/acoustical energy. It uses a coil of wire, which acts as an electromagnet, set inside of a magnetic gap of a permanent magnet. The following demo shows the main components of a woofer. Holding your cursor over the individual buttons will highlight the respective component. Clicking on the button will bring up a brief description.
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How to Measure Your Foam
By Cathy Satin on September 29, 2013 in Blog, How TO DO It, Speaker Repair Info
To determine which foam is the right one, Measure the inside diameter (ID) and outside diameter (OD) of your original foam. Imagine your speaker is a clock. OD- measure the outside edge of the original foam at 9:00, across the center of the speaker to the other outside edge of the foam at 3:00 (remove gaskets if they block your view). If the foam is completely disintegrated, you can still see a line where it has been. ID, measure the same way from the inside edge of the foam, across the center of the speaker, to the other inside foam edge. Remember the inside edge of the foam must overlap the outside edge of the cone by approximately 1/4″ (0.250). Do not measure the speaker frame or cone. (multiply by 25.4 to convert standard to millimeter)


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Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat
The True Impacts of Growth Toward an Awakening?
A condensed look at what you should know to understand what is at stake in the current debate on growth
Pascal Salin
True Liberalism A Critical History of Economic and Fiscal Policies
A notable figure of liberalism in France, Pascal Salin is former president of the Société du Mont-Pèlerin, and is the author of many seminal works on liberalism.
Jacques Lesourne
The Truth About Monetary Currencies
Edward N. Luttwak
Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy
Henri Lepage, Patrick Wajsman
Twenty Economists Confront the Crisis
Understanding Our Interactions
A book at the crossroads of economics and philosophy that attempts to understand interaction between individuals, and the consequences this may have on economics and finance.
Paul Jorion
Understanding Our Times
A brilliant, iconoclastic work by the anthropologist and sociologist Paul Jorion
Bernard Walliser
Understanding the Economy
Charles Goldfinger
The Useful and the Futile: The Immaterial Economy
Alain Peyrefitte, Raymond Boudon, Pierre Chaunu
Values and Modernity Expanding on Alain Peyrefitte
With The Society of Confidence, and Of the Economic Miracle, Alain Peyrefitte has illustrated that growth is not primarily founded on the material wealth of a nation, capital, or even on work. Development is intrinsically linked to mentalities and values, which are the essential elements of economic, political and social modernity. Using this thesis as a starting point, the Institute of France organised a conference which brought together economic and technological historians, sociologists, criminologists, and experts from across the world, amongst which were R.Boudon, S.Eisenstadt, D.Landes, and S.Lipset. The wide spectrum of debate runs from the history of religious mentalities (P. Chaunu, J.Delumeau), to penal philosophy (D. Szabo). The comparative outlook of this book allows the reader an insight into the hidden depths of confidence, from Switzerland (J.-F. Bergier), to Japan (Terushi Hara), right through to the Third World (P. Moussa).
Université de tous les savoirs
Volume 3: The Economy, Work, Businesses
Michel Drancourt
The Voluntary Economy The Example of Japan
The Japanese economic success inspires both fascination and irritation abroad. It is high time for the Western world to put feelings aside and to learn from its Eastern partner. M. Drancourt, economist and head of the French Institut de l Entreprise, believes that Japanese success is due to one predominant social trait: willpower.
Georges Ugeux
Wall Street Attacks Democracy How Financial Markets Increase Inequality
Concrete solutions are proposed: the taxing of financial transactions, the creation of an independent agency to supervise central banks, discontinuing the remuneration of those who direct share prices.
Ivar Ekeland, Jean-Charles Rochet
We Must Tax Financial Speculation Against widespread speculation – a universal tax
Financial speculation goes back to ancient times. Its history sheds light on many aspects of the current situation.
Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi
The Wealth of Nations and the Well-Being of Individuals Economic Performance and Social Progress
"If we do not want our future, our children's future and that of succeeding generations to be strewn with financial, economic, social, ecological and, consequently, human catastrophes, we must change our way of life, how we consume and how we produce...
West and the rebirth of China
It is the first time in history that a country/continent, with such a large population, is in a position to impose its supremacy on the rest of the planet. The stakes are enormous!
Observatoire des cadres
What Use Is Management? Questioning management tactics
What is management's future role in a rapidly changing business world?
Pascal Lamy
when France will wake
A new view of France by Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organisation and an expert on international trade issues
Pauline Schnapper, Emmanuelle Avril
Where is the United Kingdom Headed Brexit and Beyond
A burning reality. Brexit, which was supposed to take effect officially on 29 March 2019, has been postponed to October, but already its effects are being felt, and this is only the beginning!
Jean-Marie Chevalier, Olivier Pastré
Where is the World Economy Headed? Scenarios and Emergency Measures
Pascal Lamy, Nicole Gnesotto
where is the world going? Trump with Us
Fascinating and accessible analyses to better understand today's world and its upheavals...
Pascal Lamy, Jean-Michel Baer, Nicole Gnesotto
where is the world going? Two views of the world and of globalization
Pascal Picq
Who will take power? Great apes, Politicians or Robots
Like Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind… with a dash of humour and a knowledge of prehistory too! Transhumanism, which is at the core of this book, is the subject of the moment.
Why intellectual peoples don't like liberalism
Given the intellectual force of liberalism, its political appeal, its economic effectiveness and its historical significance, why is it so unpopular among French intellectuals? Why does it elicit so little serious discussion? And why is it the object of so much confusion, so many clichés and misunderstandings? Is it simply out of resentment, because intellectuals feel that the market does not afford them the material and symbolic rewards that they believe they deserve? Is it just because they prefer to play a critical role in a society where capitalism is triumphant? Perhaps, but these reasons do not explain everything — and they certainly don't explain the systematic rejection of liberal thought in France. A sociologist of knowledge rather than of social determinism, and a specialist in belief systems, Raymond Boudon ruthlessly analyses the cognitive mechanisms that make liberalism so hateful in the eyes of French intellectuals. The result is a keen, detailed review of the clichés that have encumbered discussions for more than thirty years. Raymond Boudon, a professor at the University of Paris-IV, is a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He us the author of numerous works, most notably L'Inégalité des chances, La logique du social, L'Idéologie ou l'origine des idées reçues, L'Art de se persuader, Le Sens des valeurs and Déclin de la morale? Déclin des valeurs. He is the co-author, with R. Leroux, of Y a-t-il encore une sociologie?
Gilbert Cette, Jacques Barthélémy
Work and Technological Changes From the Civilization of Factories to That of the Digital
Recent mutations in the world of work are an opportunity to seize in order to adapt the law to the most unprecedented situations.
Working and Not Working Toward a Fluid Society
Jacques Barthélémy, Gilbert Cette
Working in the 21st Century The Uberization of the Economy
New labour laws for a new economy. Inevitable, but difficult to put into place, for the past year, labour-law reform has been at the heart of many key economic and political debates. Supported and co-published by two major think-tanks, Terra Nova and L'Institut de l'entreprise, this book will be heavily promoted.
Michel Aglietta, Laurent Berrebi
World Capitalism in Confusion
Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy
Patrick Artus, Marie-Paule Virard
Your Father's Macroeconomics Is No Longer the Answer! Proposals for the Coming Five Years
Innovative analyses of the economic mechanisms that we struggle to understand regarding the debt, the rise of inequalities, monetary policy, etc.
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January 16, 2023 Issue
Visual thinkers and verbal thinkers may represent points on a continuum.Illustration by Miguel Porlan
I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing "For Whom the Bell Tolls," or possibly "The Waves." I raised my hand to say something and suddenly realized that I had no idea what I planned to say. For a moment, I panicked. Then the teacher called on me, I opened my mouth, and words emerged. Where had they come from? Evidently, I'd had a thought—that was why I'd raised my hand. But I hadn't known what the thought would be until I spoke it. How weird was that?
Later, describing the moment to a friend, I recalled how, when I was a kid, my mother had often asked my father, "What are you thinking?" He'd shrug and say, "Nothing"—a response that irritated her to no end. ("How can he be thinking about nothing?" she'd ask me.) I've always been on Team Dad; I spend a lot of time thoughtless, just living life. At the same time, whenever I speak, ideas condense out of the mental cloud. It was happening even then, as I talked with my friend: I was articulating thoughts that had been unspecified yet present in my mind.
My head isn't entirely word-free; like many people, I occasionally talk to myself in an inner monologue. (Remember the milk! Ten more reps!) On the whole, though, silence reigns. Blankness, too: I see hardly any visual images, rarely picturing things, people, or places. Thinking happens as a kind of pressure behind my eyes, but I need to talk out loud in order to complete most of my thoughts. My wife, consequently, is the other half of my brain. If no interlocutor is available, I write. When that fails, I pace my empty house, muttering. I sometimes go for a swim just to talk to myself far from shore, where no one can hear me. My minimalist mental theatre has shaped my life. I'm an inveterate talker, a professional writer, and a lifelong photographer—a heady person who's determined to get things out of my head, to a place where I can apprehend them.
I'm scarcely alone in having a mental "style," or believing I do. Ask someone how she thinks and you might learn that she talks to herself silently, or cogitates visually, or moves through mental space by traversing physical space. I have a friend who thinks during yoga, and another who browses and compares mental photographs. I know a scientist who plays interior Tetris, rearranging proteins in his dreams. My wife often wears a familiar faraway look; when I see it, I know that she's rehearsing a complex drama in her head, running all the lines. She sometimes pronounces an entire sentence silently before speaking it out loud.
In the recent book "Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions," Temple Grandin explains that her mind is filled with detailed images, which she can juxtapose, combine, and revise with verve and precision. Grandin, an animal behaviorist and an agricultural engineer at Colorado State University, has worked designing elements of slaughterhouses and other farm structures; when tasked with estimating the cost of a new building, she looks at her plans, then compares them in her mind with remembered images of past projects. Just by thinking visually, she can accurately estimate that the new building will be twice or three-quarters the cost of one that's come before. After the pandemic began, she read a lot about how medications can help our bodies fight COVID-19; as she read, she developed a detailed visual analogy in which the body was a military base under siege. When she thought about cytokine storms—events in which the immune system becomes over-activated, causing out-of-control inflammation—she didn't conceptualize the idea in words. Instead, she writes, "I see the soldiers in my immune system going berserk. They become confused and start attacking the base and lighting it on fire."
Reading Grandin's book, I often found myself wishing that I were more visual. My mental snapshots of growing up are flimsy—I'm never quite sure whether I'm recalling or imagining them. But Grandin easily accesses "clear pictorial memories" of her childhood, complete with "three-dimensional pictures and videos." She vividly recalls "coasting down snow-covered hills on toboggans or flying saucers," and can even feel the lift and dip of the sled as it bumps down the slope; she effortlessly pictures the delicate three-stranded silk she held between her fingers in embroidery class, in elementary school. If her mind is an IMAX theatre, mine is a fax machine.
In the early twentieth century, novels like "Ulysses," "Mrs. Dalloway," and "In Search of Lost Time" asked us to look inside ourselves, at our own minds. Grandin's book, similarly, directs our attention to what William James called "the stream of consciousness"—the ongoing flow of thoughts in our heads. "Our mental life, like a bird's life, seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings," James wrote. His aquatic and avian metaphors have a decorous quality; they decline to over-specify what's going on in our minds. Grandin's writing does the opposite, describing with striking concreteness what's happening in her head and, possibly, yours. Her precise descriptions accentuate differences between minds. In a 1974 essay titled "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?," the philosopher Thomas Nagel argued that we'd never know, because "bat sonar" differs so profoundly from human vision as to make it unimaginable. Grandin and I aren't that far apart, but I struggle to imagine having a mind as extraordinarily visual as hers.
At the same time, Grandin and I have many of the same ideas. We both understand cost overruns and cytokine storms; we arrive, by divergent routes, at the same destinations. How different do our minds really make us? And what should we make of our differences?
Grandin, who is on the autism spectrum, came to prominence in 1995, when she published "Thinking in Pictures," a memoir that chronicled her years-long search for a way to put her visual and perceptual gifts to use. She found a home in agricultural engineering, where she was capable of visualizing farm buildings from the animals' perspective. Visiting a slaughterhouse where animals were often panicked, she could instantly see how small visual elements, such as a hanging chain or a reflection in a puddle, were distracting them and causing confusion. "Thinking in Pictures" made the case for the value of neurodiversity: Grandin's unusual mind succeeded where others couldn't. In "Visual Thinking," she sharpens her argument, proposing that word-centric people have sidelined other kinds of thinkers. Verbal minds, she argues, run our boardrooms, newsrooms, legislatures, and schools, which have cut back on shop class and the arts, while subjecting students to a daunting array of written standardized tests. The result is a crisis in American ingenuity. "Imagine a world with no artists, industrial designers, or inventors," Grandin writes. "No electricians, mechanics, architects, plumbers, or builders. These are our visual thinkers, many hiding in plain sight, and we have failed to understand, encourage, or appreciate their specific contributions."
In "Thinking in Pictures," Grandin suggested that the world was divided between visual and verbal thinkers. "Visual Thinking" gently revises the idea, identifying a continuum of thought styles that's roughly divisible into three sections. On one end are verbal thinkers, who often solve problems by talking about them in their heads or, more generally, by proceeding in the linear, representational fashion typical of language. (Estimating the cost of a building project, a verbal thinker might price out all the components, then sum them using a spreadsheet—an ordered, symbol-based approach.) On the other end of the continuum are "object visualizers": they come to conclusions through the use of concrete, photograph-like mental images, as Grandin does when she compares building plans in her mind. In between those poles, Grandin writes, is a second group of visual thinkers—"spatial visualizers," who seem to combine language and image, thinking in terms of visual patterns and abstractions.
Grandin proposes imagining a church steeple. Verbal people, she finds, often make a hash of this task, conjuring something like "two vague lines in an inverted V," almost as though they've never seen a steeple before. Object visualizers, by contrast, describe specific steeples that they've observed on actual churches: they "might as well be staring at a photograph or photorealistic drawing" in their minds. Meanwhile, the spatial visualizers picture a kind of perfect but abstract steeple—"a generic New England-style steeple, an image they piece together from churches they've seen." They have noticed patterns among church steeples, and they imagine the pattern, rather than any particular instance of it.
Grandin likes the idea that there are two kinds of visual thinkers, because it helps make sense of differences between like-minded people. It takes visual skill to engineer a machine and to repair it; the engineer and the mechanic are both visual thinkers, and yet they differ. In Grandin's account, an engineer is likely to be a spatial visualizer who can picture, in the abstract, how all the parts of the engine will work, while the mechanic is likely to be an object visualizer, who can at a glance understand whether a ding on an engine cylinder is functionally consequential or just cosmetic. Artists and artisans, Grandin suggests, tend to be object visualizers: they can picture exactly how this painting should look, how this finial should flow, how this incision should be sewn up. Scientists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers tend to be spatial visualizers: they can imagine, in general, how gears will mesh and molecules will interact. Grandin describes an exercise, conducted by the Marine Corps, in which engineers and scientists with advanced degrees were pitted against radio repairmen and truck mechanics in performing technical tasks under pressure, such as "making a rudimentary vehicle out of a pile of junk." The engineers, with their abstract visual minds, tended to "overthink" in this highly practical scenario; they lost to the mechanics, who, in Grandin's telling, were likely to be "object visualizers whose abilities to see it, build it, and repair it were fused."
In seventh grade, I won the egg-drop competition in shop class, constructing a basket-and-parachute contraption that enabled my egg to survive being thrown off the second-story roof of my school. But I'm quite sure that I am not a visual thinker. Grandin's book includes excerpts from the Visual-Spatial Identifier, a yes-or-no test designed by the psychologist Linda Silverman to divide verbal people from visual ones:
Do you think mainly in pictures instead of words?
Do you know things without being able to explain how or why?
Do you remember what you see and forget what you hear?
Can you visualize objects from different perspectives?
Would you rather read a map than follow verbal directions?
Visual people tend to answer yes to more of these questions; I answer no to almost all of them. Other tests in the book make it even clearer how much mental distance separates someone like me from someone like Grandin. Maria Kozhevnikov, a cognitive neuroscientist, has created tests to distinguish object visualizers from spatial visualizers; in one of them, the Grain Resolution Test, subjects are asked to judge in their minds the relative size and density of different objects. Imagine a pile of grapes. Are the grapes bigger than the spaces between the strings on a tennis racquet? Grandin reports that, when she took this test, she clearly saw, in her mind's eye, "the grapes being squashed because they were too big to fit through the spaces between the racquet strings." I came to the conclusion that the grapes were bigger—but my mind isn't clear-eyed enough to picture the grapes actually being squashed.
The imagistic minds in "Visual Thinking" can seem glamorous compared with the verbal ones depicted in "Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It," by Ethan Kross, a psychologist and neuroscientist who teaches at the University of Michigan. Kross is interested in what's known as the phonological loop—a neural system, consisting of an "inner ear" and an "inner voice," that serves as a "clearinghouse for everything related to words that occurs around us in the present." If Grandin's visual thinkers are attending Cirque du Soleil, then Kross's verbal thinkers are stuck at an Off Broadway one-man show. It's just one long monologue.
"Would you relax? They never look up."
Cartoon by Kim Warp
Psychologists who ask people about their phonological loops find that they're used for all kinds of things. Loops are a kind of memory scratch pad; they're where we store a phone number before we write it down. They're also tools for self-management. Young children learn to direct their emotions by talking to themselves, at first out loud and then silently, often channelling the admonishments or encouragements of their parents. ("Don't break it, Peter!" my four-year-old son said recently, as he tried to connect some Legos.) We use our inner voices to monitor our progress toward our goals—"almost like a tracking app on a phone," Kross writes. Researchers have found that goal-talk is pervasive in inner speech, with objectives popping up out of nowhere, like notifications on a screen. "Come on," we might tell ourselves, while trying to unstick a kitchen drawer. "You can do it! Also—remember that doctor's appointment. Now, back to the drawer!"
In the early twenty-tens, a British anthropologist named Andrew Irving went up to about a hundred random New Yorkers and asked them if they'd spend some time saying everything they were thinking into a small voice recorder. "An element of performance might have come into play," Kross concedes. Still, Irving's transcripts have the ring of truth. People used their inner voices to muse on attractive strangers and curse the traffic; often, they "dealt with negative 'content,' much of which sprang up through associative connections." One woman says, "I wonder if there's a Staples around here," before thinking suddenly about a friend's cancer diagnosis; she talks to herself about the bad news and then, just as suddenly, gets back on track: "Now, is there a Staples down there? I think there is." A man reflects on a broken relationship and gives himself encouragement: "Clear, totally clear. Move forward." It's easy to get stuck in your loop: monologues can be insistent, and some people succumb to circular, negative inner talk—what Kross calls "chatter"—and end up "desperate to escape their inner voice because of how bad it makes them feel." One of Irving's subjects can't stop wondering if her boyfriend, who is out of town, has died in a bus accident or run off with someone else. Kross tells the story of Rick Ankiel, a baseball player who had to leave pitching for the outfield because his inner voice wouldn't stop talking about "the individual physical components of his pitching motion."
People with inner monologues, Kross reports, often spend "a considerable amount of time thinking about themselves, their minds gravitating toward their own experiences, emotions, desires, and needs." This self-centeredness can spill over into our out-loud conversation. In the nineteen-eighties, the psychologist Bernard Rimé investigated what we'd now call venting—the compulsive sharing of negative thoughts with other people. Rimé found that bad experiences can inspire not only interior rumination but the urge to broadcast it. The more we share our unhappiness with others, the more we alienate them: studies of middle schoolers have shown that kids who think more about their bad experiences also vent more to their peers, and that this, in turn, leads to them "being socially excluded and rejected." Maybe there's another reason my dad, when asked what he was thinking, said, "Nothing." It can pay to keep your thoughts to yourself.
Kross's bottom line is that our inner voices are powerful tools that must be tamed. He ends his book with several dozen techniques for controlling our chatter. He advises trying "distanced self-talk": by using "your name and the second-person 'you' to refer to yourself," he writes, you can gain more command over your thinking. You might use your inner voice to pretend that you're advising a friend about his problems; you might redirect your thoughts toward how universal your experiences are (It's normal to feel this way), or contemplate how every new experience is a challenge you can overcome (I have to learn to trust my partner). The idea is to manage the voice that you use for self-management. Take advantage of the suppleness of dialogue. Don't just rehearse the same old scripts; send some notes to the writers' room.
Thinking in pictures, thinking in patterns, thinking in words—these are quite different experiences. But do thinkers themselves fall into such neat categories? In the nineteen-seventies, Russell T. Hurlburt, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, came up with the idea of giving people devices that would beep at certain times and asking them to record what was going on in their heads at the sound of the beep. In theory, if they responded quickly enough, they'd offer an unvarnished look at what he called "pristine inner experience"—thought as it happens spontaneously. After spending decades working with hundreds of subjects, Hurlburt concluded that, broadly speaking, inner experience is made of five elements, which each of us mix in different proportions. Some thoughts are rendered in "inner speech," and others appear through "inner seeing"; some make themselves felt through our emotions (I've got a bad feeling about this!), while others manifest as a kind of "sensory awareness" (The hairs on my neck stood on end!). Finally, some people make use of "unsymbolized thinking." They often have "an explicit, differentiated thought that does not include the experience of words, images, or any other symbols."
Reading this description a few years ago, I felt at last that I had a term that described my mind: it's not "empty"; my thoughts are just unsymbolized. But Hurlburt's work suggests that it's a mistake to ascribe to oneself a definitive cast of thought. Most people, he's found, don't actually know how they think; asked to describe their minds pre-beeper, they are often wildly off the mark about what they'll report post-beeper. They're prone to make "faux generalizations"—groundless assertions about how they think. It's easy for me to assume that most of my thinking is unsymbolized. But how closely have I examined it? In truth, the textures of our minds are subtle and variable. There's a reason James Joyce needed eighteen chapters to describe the mind in "Ulysses." Even within a single head, thinking takes many forms.
Quantum physicists confront a problem with observation. Whenever they look at a particle, they alter and fix its quantum state, which otherwise would have remained indeterminate. A similar issue afflicts our attempts to understand how we think; thinking about our thinking risks forcing it into a form it does not have. In 2002, at an academic conference about the study of consciousness held in Tucson, Hurlburt debated this problem with Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher who is a well-known skeptic about our ability to describe what's in our minds. In a book called "Perplexities of Consciousness," Schwitzgebel points out that, during the nineteen-fifties, most people said that they dreamed in black-and-white, while in the nineteen-sixties they started saying that they dreamed in color. Surely, he argues, the colors of our dreams didn't change; what changed was the ubiquity of color film. It's tempting to say that, in reality, people dream in color—to suggest that people in the fifties were wrong about their dreams, and that people in the sixties were right about them. But Schwitzgebel thinks it's a mistake to categorize dreams one way or the other. "We should also consider the possibility that our dreams are neither color nor black-and-white," he writes. Dreams are unreal, and might not lend themselves to being described during waking life. In describing them, we give them a fixity they may not have.
After the Tucson conference, Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel published a book together, "Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic." The book is a dialogue built around eighteen moments in the mind of a beeper-wearing recent college graduate named Melanie. Hurlburt believes that it's possible to figure out what's happened in Melanie's head. Schwitzgebel thinks that a lot of what we say about what happens in our minds is intrinsically untrustworthy, because, in a sense, thinking is too dreamlike to be described. Ultimately, he suspects that "we may be fairly similar inside, though we answer questions about our experience differently."
The book is open-ended: it's up to us to judge who's right. Take Beep 2.3—the third beep on the second day that Melanie wore her beeper. Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel recount Melanie's experience:
Melanie was standing in the bathroom and looking around, trying to make up a shopping list in her head. At the moment of the beep she had a mental image of a white pad of paper (the same writing tablet that she uses to write shopping lists) and of her hand writing the word "conditioner." Her hand in the image was in motion, and she could see the letters coming out from the tip of the pen. At the precise moment of the beep, the letter "d" (the fourth letter in "conditioner") was coming out.
At the same time, Melanie was saying in her inner voice "con-di-tion-er," slowly, in sync with the word as she was writing it in the image.
Also at the same time, she was aware that her toes were cold. This was a noticing or sensory awareness of the coldness that was present in her awareness at the last undisturbed moment before the beep. It did not seem to involve an explicit thought process.
There was, evidently, quite a lot going on in Melanie's mind at Beep 2.3. Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel debate what she has reported. Could she truly have been aware of all these things at the same time? Schwitzgebel has doubts. And yet in the nineteen-nineties Hurlburt used his method to interview Fran, a bank teller who described her mind as frequently filled with "as many as five or ten" visual images, all overlaid and occurring simultaneously, as in a multiple-exposure photograph. A battery of tests suggested that Fran might be right about her unusual experience: at the bank where she worked, Hurlburt writes, the tellers were always counting stacks of bills, and "Fran irritated her coworkers by repeatedly initiating conversations while counting, causing them to lose count. The simultaneous tasks of counting and conversing were impossible for her coworkers but simple for Fran."
Melanie's thought stream is funny, unsettling, layered, and rich. At Beep 3.1, we learn that "Melanie's boyfriend was asking a question about insurance letters." Her focus, however, "was not on what he was saying but on trying to remember the word 'periodontist.' She was thinking 'peri-, peri-,' to herself," in an inner voice that might also have been "slightly visual." Later that day, at Beep 3.2, Melanie was walking toward her car, "sensing, roughly, its big black shape" but mainly experiencing "a feeling of 'fogginess' and worry," of being "unable to think with her accustomed speed." At the moment of the beep, Melanie "was in the act of observing this fogginess," which seemed to exist "behind the eyes, involving a heaviness around the brow line." Just before Beep 6.4, she was throwing out some dried-up flowers. "I was thinking that those flowers had lasted for a nice long time," she tells Hurlburt. "It was just kind of an idle thought that was inner speech." She notes that at the exact moment of the beep she was hearing not the words themselves—"They lasted for a nice long time"—but "the echoes" of the words in her head.
Melanie's careful attention to her mind is inspiring; it's as though she's her own Molly Bloom. After reading Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel's book, I tried to emulate her by attending even more closely to my pristine inner experience. Did I, too, hear my thoughts—Get back to work! Put down your phone!—echoing in my head? Was I observing my feelings even as I felt them? How much could happen in my mind at the same time? I knew with certainty that I never wrote down anything on a visualized mental shopping list. But it remained difficult to say exactly what I did—perhaps because my thoughts are so often "unsymbolized," or because I didn't have a psychologist guiding me, or because, as soon as you start to think about your inner experience, it's no longer so pristine. Hurlburt would say that describing one's inner life is hard. Schwitzgebel would say that our inner lives are not necessarily describable. On a deep level, he contends, our own thinking is a little like bat sonar. We'll never know what it's really like.
Our thinking is mysterious to us. I ask my wife my mother's question—"What are you thinking?"—all the time, and on one level it's easy to answer: we can spend all day talking to each other, sharing our thoughts. But on another it's unanswerable. Simply by expressing our thoughts, we change them. To describe our thinking is to domesticate it. This is why communicating with other people is both hard and interesting, and why knowing your own mind can be such a difficult, diverting task.
If we can't say exactly how we think, then how well do we know ourselves? In an essay titled "The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity," the philosopher Daniel Dennett argued that a layer of fiction is woven into what it is to be human. In a sense, fiction is flawed: it's not true. But, when we open a novel, we don't hurl it to the ground in disgust, declaring that it's all made-up nonsense; we understand that being made up is actually the point. Fiction, Dennett writes, has a deliberately "indeterminate" status: it's true, but only on its own terms. The same goes for our minds. We have all sorts of inner experiences, and we live through and describe them in different ways—telling one another about our dreams, recalling our thoughts, and so on. Are our descriptions and experiences true or fictionalized? Does it matter? It's all part of the story.
Stories aren't real, and yet they're meaningful; we tell different stories about our minds, as we should, because our minds are different. The story I tell myself about my own thinking is useful to me. It helps me think, by giving me a handle on my mind when thinking gets slippery. The other day, I got stuck on a problem that troubled me. So I went for a swim, hoping to think it through. I wore a wetsuit against the cold water, and at first focussed only on the sensation of cold, and on steadying my breathing. But eventually I warmed up and relaxed. I treaded water a little way out from shore, buoyed by the waves, and prepared to think about my problem; I turned my mind toward it while I watched a seabird float nearby. Nothing happened for a while. I watched the bird, the clouds, the silver water. Then I sensed a thought in need of expression, as I'd known I would. I cleared my throat while the bird flew away. ♦
Published in the print edition of the January 16, 2023, issue, with the headline "Thought Process."
Joshua Rothman, the ideas editor of newyorker.com, has been at The New Yorker since 2012.
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In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an élite family offered a feeling of impunity. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraud—and then kill his wife and son?
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Caernarfon Castle Photo - Herbert Ortner - Wikipedia - lic. under CC BY 3.0
Location: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales.
Condition: Intact.
Notes: Caernarfon Castle (Welsh: Castell Caernarfon) is a medieval fortress in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, north-west Wales cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. There was a motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Caernarfon from the late 11th century until 1283 when King Edward I of England began replacing it with the current stone structure. The Edwardian town and castle acted as the administrative centre of north Wales and as a result the defences were built on a grand scale. There was a deliberate link with Caernarfon's Roman past and the Roman fort of Segontium is nearby. While the castle was under construction, town walls were built around Caernarfon. The work cost between £20,000 and £25,000 from the start until the end of work in 1330. Despite Caernarfon Castle's external appearance of being mostly complete, the interior buildings no longer survive and many of the building plans were never finished. The town and castle were sacked in 1294 when Madog ap Llywelyn led a rebellion against the English. Caernarfon was recaptured the following year. During the Glyndwr Rising of 1400-1415, the castle was besieged. When the Tudor dynasty ascended to the English throne in 1485, tensions between the Welsh and English began to diminish and castles were considered less important. As a result, Caernarfon Castle was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair. Despite its dilapidated condition, during the English Civil War Caernarfon Castle was held by Royalists, and was besieged three times by Parliamentarian forces. This was the last time the castle was used in war. Caernarfon Castle was neglected until the 19th century when the state funded repairs. In 1911, Caernarfon Castle was used for the investiture of the Prince of Wales, and again in 1969. It is part of the World Heritage Site "Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd".
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Lando Calrissian: How I Helped Build a Scoundrel's Backstory
I used to write a lot for Lucasfilm's various Star Wars licensees, from feature articles and interviews to columns and some fiction. (I still write blogs for starwars.com from time to time, but that's about it these days.) This included wok for Star Wars Insider, Topps' Star Wars Galaxy Collector, Star Wars Gamer, Star Wars Fact Files, Dungeon/Polyhedron and more. Among the fiction were two tales about Lando Calrissian, one a comic book for Dark Horse Comics (co-written with Darko Macan), the other a short story picking up where the comic left off.
I thought I'd share the pages of the comic in this blog, for those interested. The story was called "Lady Luck," from Star Wars Tales #3, and it chronicled how Lando Calrissian (my favorite of the film characters) won Cloud City. Some time back, Brian Cronin, over at Comic Book Resources, offered a fun write-up about it here. (My great thanks to both Darko and editor Pete Janes, for allowing me to be a part what turned out to be a great gig.)
The sequel, "Idiot's Array," was originally published at starwars.com and is now archived at Random House's Web site (you can read it here), with artwork by the amazingly talented and prolific Joe Corroney. "Idiot's Array" was also a followup to "Crimson Bounty," a prior short story I'd co-written with my friend Charlene Newcomb for West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal #14 several years prior, in that it brought back a character from that tale, a bounty hunter named Thune. Oh, and for Marvel fans, it also served as a prequel to that comic series, by showing why Lando and Barpotomous Drebble were such longstanding rivals.
And now, without further ado, here's "Lady Luck." Keep an eye out for cameos by Marilyn Monroe, as well as Al Pacino's Michael Corleone character from The Godfather Part III. The artist, Chris Brunner, clearly got what Darko and I were doing—namely, offering an homage to Ian Fleming's wonderful Casino Royale, the very first James Bond novel—and peppered the comic with the looks of characters that would help lend a film noir feel. I hope we did Mr. Fleming proud.
Curious what happens next? Why, then head on over to the Random House Web site and read the next chapter, "Idiot's Array." Tell 'em a scoundrel sent ya'.
Labels: comics, Dark Horse, Darko Macan, fiction, Lady Luck, Star Wars
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ASTM International - ASTM G217-16
Standard Guide for Corrosion Monitoring in Laboratories and Plants with Coupled Multielectrode Array Sensor Method
ICS Code (Environmental testing): 19.040
4.1 Guide G96 describes a linear-polarization method and an electrical resistance method for online monitoring of corrosion in plant equipment without the need to enter the system physically to... View More
4.1 Guide G96 describes a linear-polarization method and an electrical resistance method for online monitoring of corrosion in plant equipment without the need to enter the system physically to withdraw coupons. These two online monitoring techniques are useful in systems in which process upsets or other problems can create corrosive conditions. An early warning of corrosive attack can permit remedial action before significant damage occurs to process equipment. The two methods described in Guide G96 are suitable for uniform corrosion, but may not be sensitive enough for non-uniform corrosion, especially localized corrosion. This guide describes a new method for monitoring non-uniform corrosion, especially localized corrosion.
4.2 The CMAS technique measures the net anodic current or net cathodic current from each of the individual electrodes (Iaex or Icex in Fig. 1), which is the characteristic of non-uniform corrosion such as localized corrosion and uneven general corrosion. Therefore, the CMAS technique can be used to estimate the rate of uneven general corrosion and localized corrosion (see Section 5).
Note 1: The upper section shows the electron flows from the corroding area to the less corroding areas inside a metal when localized corrosion takes place; the lower section shows the electron flows after the anodic and cathodic areas are separated into individual small electrodes and coupled through an external circuit that measures the anodic current (Iaex) and cathodic current (Icex) through each of the individual electrodes (4).
4.3 Unlike uniform corrosion, the rate of non-uniform corrosion, especially localized corrosion, can vary significantly from one area to another area of the same metal exposed to the same environment. Allowance shall be made for such variations when the measured non-uniform corrosion rate is used to estimate the penetration of the actual metal structure or the actual wall of process equipment. This variability is less critical when relative changes in corrosion rate are to be detected, for example, to track the effectiveness of corrosion inhibitors in an inhibited system.
4.4 The same as the method described in Guide G96, the CMAS technique described in this guide provides a technique for determining corrosion rates without the need to enter the system physically to withdraw coupons as required by the methods described in Guide G4.
4.5 The same as the methods described in Guide G96, the CMAS technique is useful in systems in which process upsets or other problems can create corrosive conditions. An early warning of corrosive attack can permit remedial action before significant damage occurs to process equipment.
4.6 The CMAS technique provides the instantaneous corrosion rate within 10 to 40 s making it suitable for automatic corrosion inhibitor dosing control.
4.7 The CMAS technique is an online technique and may be used to provide real-time measurements for internal corrosion of pipelines and process vessels, external corrosion of buried pipes and structures, and atmospheric corrosion of metal structures.
1.1 This guide outlines the procedure for conducting corrosion monitoring in laboratories and plants by use of the coupled multielectrode array sensor (CMAS) technique.
1.2 For plant applications, this technique can be used to assess the instantaneous non-uniform corrosion rate, including localized corrosion rate, on a continuous basis, without removal of the monitoring probes, from the plant.
1.3 For laboratory applications, this technique can be used to study the effects of various testing conditions and inhibitors on non-uniform corrosion, including pitting corrosion and crevice corrosion.
1.4 Units-The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
ASTM G217-16
4.1 Guide G96 describes a linear-polarization method and an electrical resistance method for online monitoring of corrosion in plant equipment without the need to enter the system physically to...


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Powrót martwej armii (tyt. oryg. Kthimi e ushtrisë se vdekur) – albański film fabularny z roku 1989 w reżyserii Dhimitra Anagnostiego, na podstawie powieści Ismaila Kadare – Generał martwej armii.

Opis fabuły
Do Albanii w okresie rządów Envera Hodży przyjeżdża generał włoskiej armii i ksiądz katolicki, którzy mają nadzorować ekshumację szczątków żołnierzy włoskich, poległych w czasie II wojny światowej, a pochowanych na terenie Albanii. Ksiądz przyjeżdża ze szczególnie delikatną misją odnalezienia na prośbę jego znajomej Beti zwłok jej byłego męża, pułkownika. W czasie pobytu w Albanii dowiaduje się, że ów pułkownik próbował zgwałcić małoletnią Albankę i zginął z ręki jej matki.

Obsada
 Bujar Lako jako generał włoski
 Guljelm Radoja jako ksiądz
 Roza Anagnosti jako Nice
 Rajmonda Bulku jako żona pułkownika
 Liza Vorfi jako księżna Dizeta
 Ndriçim Xhepa jako generał niemiecki
 Teli Stefani jako psychopata
 Petraq Xhillari jako Vaso Guri
 Andon Qesari jako minister wojny
 Ilia Shyti jako generał
 Birçe Hasko jako dostawca
 Kastriot Ahmetaj
 Vasillaq Godo
 Niko Kanxheri
 Liza Laska
 Aristotel Stefani
 Xhemil Tagani

Linki zewnętrzne

 Archiwum filmu albańskiego

Albańskie dramaty filmowe
Albańskie filmy o II wojnie światowej
Albańskie filmy z 1989 roku
Filmowe adaptacje utworów Ismaila Kadare
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Q: Asignar un formato a números Tengo un formulario simple donde un campo input se ingresa un monto en dinero, que se multiplica por 365 para entregar un resultado en otro input que muestra la variable del resultado, el input del resultado tiene formato de miles solo si doy click en él. Es posible que esté formateado automáticamente.
¿Es posible que vaya formateando automáticamente? soy novato en este lenguaje y quisiera de su ayuda, espero me puedan orientar. Cabe destacar que los códigos o gran parte de ellos fueron rescatados de este misma web en otras preguntas.
Gracias.
Código de Ejemplo

<form action="">

 Cuadro 1

  Si ahorras: $<input id="box1" type="text" oninput="cuadro1();format(this)" /> pesos todos los días.

  En un año ahorras: <input id="result" oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)" type="text" id="result" />

</form>

 Cuadro 2

 Si llevas desayuno/almuerzo <input id="box11" type="text" oninput="cuadro2()"  oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)"/> a la semana.

 En un año ahorras: <input type="text" id="result2" oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)" />

 Cuadro 3

 Si vas a la farmacia al mes <input id="box12" type="text" oninput="cuadro3()"  oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)"/> veces y gastas $<input id="box22" type="text" oninput="cuadro3()"  oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)"/>.

 En un año ahorras: <input oninput="format(this)" onkeyup="format(this)" onchange="format(this)" type="text" id="result3"   /> aproximadamente.

A: Si entendí bien lo que puedes hacer es guardar la variable como número por un lado y usar toLocaleString("de-DE") por otro, es-ES no respeta el primer punto de miles:

const input1 = document.getElementById("input1");
const input2 = document.getElementById("input2");

input1.addEventListener("input", (e) => {

  let valorNumerico = (+e.target.value.replace(/[^\d]/g, "").replace(/\./g, "") || "");

  input1.value = (valorNumerico).toLocaleString("de-DE");

  input2.value = (valorNumerico * 2).toLocaleString("de-DE");

});
<input id="input1" type="text" placeholder="escribir numero" />
<input id="input2" type="text" />


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Avamore names Philip Gould as new principal
Beth Fisher | 09:00 Friday 29th January 2021 | 25
Philip Gould, head of underwriting at Avamore Capital (featured in the video, above), has been made a principal at the specialist lender, the first outside of the existing four founders.
Philip was promoted to head of underwriting in April 2020, after joining the business in March 2019 as senior underwriter.
The announcement comes shortly after the news that Avamore had reached £250m in lending, which equates to 189 loans provided.
"Inevitably, my role will change slightly in terms of managing the business alongside the other principals," Philip told B&C in an exclusive filmed interview.
When asked how he was aiming to further strengthen the company this year in his new position, he said that he is looking to expand the underwriting team and continue to enhance the lender's processes and systems.
Last year, Avamore started conducting virtual site visits and borrower meetings.
This has meant that the specialist lender has been able to increase its geographical footprint to include Leeds and Manchester.
It also brought on different KYC procedures to simplify the lending process, such as integrating Nivo's ID verification and messaging technology.
"You can be human-resource intensive or technologically-intensive, and I prefer to be the latter," he said, explaining that work can be done more efficiently as a result.
B&C probed whether Philip thought the role of a bridging underwriter has changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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"In terms of the core role, not so much," he answered.
"There's probably a little bit more credit analysis around what you actually think the impact of Covid will be . . . is the exit still there? Are valuations holding up?"
However, he said that, inherently, it is still the same job.
He added that Avamore saw its volumes pick up towards the back end of the year when the market felt more comfortable — "I think it will continue that way going forward."
The specialist lender closed more transactions by number in 2020 compared to 2019 and saw enquiry volumes increase by approximately £1.2bn to £5.1bn.
What key changes and challenges does he expect to see in the market this year?
"I suppose exit is always the biggest one, realistically," he said — especially when it's on to development finance.
"There are headwinds coming which could cause delays in terms of finishing projects and, if we start to see [this], we're going to want to push out terms for development financing which will then stretch people's ability to refinance because, as the term increases, you're going to have to have lower day ones, or lower build facilities.
"Those deals which were previously on the margins in terms of LTV may find it more difficult to refinance out into development loans, if you were at the higher end of those LTV spectrums."
The interview can be viewed in full, below.


Darren Fletcher praised an accomplished tactical display by Manchester United that helped them claim victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley.
The only goal came from Marcus Rashford after a stunning pass by French teammate Paul Pogba and it granted United three points to draw level on points with Arsenal (5th) in the Premier League.
Former United midfielder and Scotland midfielder, Fletcher, praised the tactical performance which was notable mostly in the first-half as the Reds began to tire out after the hour mark, becoming more reliant on Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea.
On Match Of The Day 2, Fletcher said: "The game plan worked to perfection. They [Manchester United] also stayed forward.
The win saw caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer take his winning run to six games since taking charge following José Mourinho dismissal.
Still playing for Stoke City, Fletcher, who came through the academy at United, watch on as United put in a really impressive performance against the London title challengers. The result also opens up the race for a top four finish, with Arsenal dropping points against West Ham on Saturday.