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At a time when the cyber crime rate is on the rise, a group of budding engineers of various colleges in the city, have come together to sensitise common people and students about the emerging trends in cyber crime and assisting them with tools regarding cyber safety.
Fifteen final year engineering students have established a startup 'RevEngg' to create awareness about various cyber crimes. The budding engineers are conducting workshops and hands-on training programmes on handling software, which help avert hacking.
The participants were explained about social media like facebook crimes, online banking fraud, smartphone offence, crime based on internet and computers. According to co-founder of RevEngg Sharath P Patil, a majority of the victims of cyber crime are youths and people who do shopping online. Awareness regarding cyber safety is less and people, including students, need more information about the dos and don'ts, he says.
D P Smithendu, a software engineer of a private company said, "Awareness programmes about cyber security are much needed as the future in technology has arrived, when physical things are controlled through internet from a remote place, making access easy as well as prone to internet hacking. A majority of the users of social sites are unaware about private security and thus upload personal details and photos, and walk into the trap set by fraudsters."
"Cyber security is necessary in today's ever changing digital world, where retrieval of digital data is important, loss of which can be of a serious concern, especially when it comes to solving criminal cases," she says.
The team members have conducted 17 awareness programmes in nine colleges across the state. The team has visited colleges in Hassan, Mandya, Shivamogga, Bengaluru, Tumakuru, Davangere and has provided hands-on training to the students. The team members also organise 'Cyber Security Hackathon'.
Samarth B Bhat, founder of RevEngg, is a certified hacker. There are three types of hackers – black hat (non-ethical), grey hat and white hat (ethical). While black and grey hackers are illegal and frauds, white hackers are ethical computer hackers, security experts, who ensure the security of information systems.
The most expensive information in the world today is personal information and it is necessary to educate people on how to stop misuse of their personal information. If one shares personal information online, it is no longer private and chances of hacking are high.
Sharath said, "To learn about cyber safety, one need not be an expert in computers or internet. Simple techniques can avert one from being a victim of cyber crime. Cyber security is the technique of protecting computers, networks, programmes, data and devices which can be accessed through internet from unauthorised access or attacks that are aimed for exploitation of data."
"The awareness programme serves two purposes — it gives a wide exposure to students on various methods of preventing hacking and also inform them how digital data can be accessed through internet or by any means, which serves the necessity for the person to know how to hack the digital data and prevent it," said a participant.


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2012 Easel Calendar
Hello there, happy weekend to you!
I started out my Saturday morning making this 2012 easel desk calendar. One of my stamping goals for this year is to step outside my comfort zone a bit and attempt more 3-d projects. There are so many resource available online, I don't know what has held me back! I followed the instructions for an Easel Card & replaced the card front with a calendar which I printed from the Resource section at SCS! Easy Peasy.
For today's project, I used products from the upcoming SAB catalog. I love the color palette. The stamp is from "Fresh Vintage" and was stamped first in Peach Parfait, then rolled in Pool Party
(Rock & Roll). The butterfly clothes pins are removeable, so you can attach notes etc as well.
I'll be back tomorrow with an Outlawz CAS challenge. See you then!
Posted by Maureen Merritt at 11:16 AM
4 comments:
- Donna Hanley said...
Maureen, This calendar is so sweet and convenient. You could place this just about anywhere in your home and it would look great. Hope we get to see the upcoming months also. Thanks for sharing.
- January 7, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Claudia said...
Awesome calendar. You did a great job on it. I love the look and love the way you get it to stand open. You never fail to amaze me.
- January 8, 2012 at 7:37 AM
I love this!!!
- January 10, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- Jennifer said...
I soo want to make one of these : ) I read the easy peasy steps and think I can take it on! These colors are so beautiful and refreshing and cheerful after the red and greens of Christmas. Great inspiration, Mo! Thank you!
- January 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM
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A newspaper-writin' reader sends this missive regarding his days living in Little Forest Hills:
When I moved to Dallas from Fort Worth in 1996, I landed in a tiny rent house on Daytonia Avenue smack in the middle of Little Forest Hills. Believe the hype: Little Forest Hills has a long history of funk I was glad to take part of for about two years, before I decided to buy a house of my own in the comparatively less funky Junius Heights.
My next-door neighbor Bob was a professional artist who specialized in shadow boxes. A guy down the street was a sculptor. Random musicians--most of them guitar players for struggling blues bands--lived all over the neighborhood. But those were the normal folks. The balance of the neighborhood was made up of elderly insane people. One old dude who lived across the street from me used to go outside every day and take measurements of his non-running Buick station wagon. The old dude's wife once walked into my house, unannounced, and started searching for her "drawings."
Then there was Otto, another old guy who lived two doors down from me. The day I moved in, Otto came to the door wearing a homemade crash helmet that made him look like a conehead and welcomed me to Little Forest Hills. Then he announced that it was his responsibility to mow my yard, the neighbor's yard and his yard, as it afforded him a break on his rent from the landlord. Otto did mow the yards for a while, then stopped for two months in the summer while the grass grew to knee height. Oddly, Otto put his mower up for sale for five dollars, leaving it out on his front yard with a sign. I went to his front door, paid his wife and then started mowing my yard the following weekend. As soon as I started up the mower on a Saturday morning and proceeded to mow the grass, Otto bolted out of his house and asked me, "Who told you could mow this yard?!?!" I don't remember what I said to calm Otto down or if reason worked with him, but I was in real fear of having my ass kicked by a 70-year-old man. Otto was a big guy.
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In Argo's (The Courage to Kill, 2013, etc.) novel, set at the dawn of the civil rights movement, an earnest white teenager tries to figure out what kind of man he will become.
Growing up fatherless in a cash-strapped Alabama family is hard enough on 16-year-old Sonny Poe. But when he and a buddy accidentally witness a lurid backwoods lynching, things become decidedly more complex. Suddenly, he's ducking members of the local Ku Klux Klan as he attempts to carry on more mundane pursuits, such as chasing girls, delivering newspapers and saving for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Into Sonny's hard-pressed life steps Joe Peach, a local dentist with a painful past and a crusading spirit. "Dr. Joe" takes Sonny under his wing, but Sonny's secret knowledge of backwoods violence plagues him. The budding friendship becomes more fraught when Dr. Joe is assigned a job to weed out local government corruption. Violence, and the threat of violence, continues to dog Sonny as he and Dr. Joe dig deeper into a police-sanctioned scam targeting the oppressed black community. Will Sonny rise to the challenge? Could any teen in his predicament prevail? In a style that's evocative of S.E. Hinton's classic works, with a dash of Daniel Woodrell's Southern grit, Argo successfully creates a profound, multilayered tapestry that's full of nuance. Sonny's first-person perspective creates a fragile aura around the unfolding events and makes them wholly unpredictable; although he's steadfast and true, Sonny is still a teenager, capable of wrecking his buddy's car. The authentic dialogue is especially effective; each restrained syllable conveys as much as a five-page soliloquy, as when Sonny, after receiving a horrific beating, says that he's "[g]ood. Been better, but good."
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Demand for smaller homes fuels new trend in central Indiana
There is a growing trend and demand for smaller homes. While condominiums have filled a void for empty nesters and first-time home buyers, one north side developer is using a decades-old idea to build neighborhoods, not subdivisions.
It is not the house or neighborhood for everyone, but according to the developer/builder of Inglenook neighborhood, it will bring the extrovert in you out.
"The neighbors will draw you out," said developer Casey Land. It is the neighborhood for those who don't want to be like everyone else.
Neighborhoods like Inglenook are not a new idea. "Pocket" neighborhood homes are built with the front porch facing a common green space. Driveways and garages are in back connected by a shared alleyway.
Decades ago, neighborhoods like this filled a void when land became scarce in big cities. But as the suburbs grew, neighborhoods like this became less fashionable. While home buyers opted for larger homes and yards, they also became more isolated from neighbors. The shared space encourages community, Land says.
Clare Grimonprez and her husband recently moved to Carmel from France. They choose this new neighborhood in Carmel for its charm, and they picked the house because it's easy to care for.
"It is similar in the way that we don't have huge houses," she said. "We are used to small spaces, and the space is well used.
Grimonprez says she didn't want a home where the garage dominated the front. "I like the garage in the back," she said.
With no driveway in the front of the home, "the kids can run. We just need more kids now!" she joked.
Grimonprez also likes the open floor plan and natural light, along with the porch.
Casey Land wanted to build a neighborhood that didn't use as much land and wanted it to be more than a subdivision.
"We are building a neighborhood, not just building a house," said Land.
By using the pocket neighborhood concept, along with homes designed by Seattle architect Ross Chapin, Land came up with Inglenook.
"I tell everybody to think form and function versus square footage," Land said.
According to Land, the homes are very energy efficient. They're also deceptive in size, which is the point of the design.
"You don't have the formal entry way. You don't have the formal dining room," said Land.
Unlike other developments that dot the north side landscape, this neighborhood doesn't have retention ponds. All of the parking areas and driveways are brick set on top of five feet of gravel which allows storm water to soak into the ground. Land says that makes it safer for children.
Another feature that makes Inglenook safer: since the homes all face each other, visitors are spotted right away.
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Resolving Quasi-Synonym Relationships in Automatic Thesaurus Construction using Fuzzy Rough Sets and an Inverse Term Frequency Similarity Function
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One of the problems associated with automatic thesaurus construction is with determining the semantic relationship between word pairs. Quasi-synonyms provide a type of equivalence relationship: words are similar only for purposes of information retrieval. Determining such relationships in a thesaurus is hard to achieve automatically. The term vector space model and an inverse term frequency similarity function can provide a way to automatically determine the similarity between words in thesaurus. A thesaurus constructed using this method can also improve precision and recall in information retrieval, when the thesaurus is constructed in conjunction with fuzzy rough set algorithms and used with tight upper approximation query expansion. This dissertation presents a method that combines fuzzy rough sets and a word weighting and inverse term frequency similarity function as a technique for automatic thesaurus construction.
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Julius Mack Davault III. 2009. Resolving Quasi-Synonym Relationships in Automatic Thesaurus Construction using Fuzzy Rough Sets and an Inverse Term Frequency Similarity Function. Doctoral dissertation. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences. (129)


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Ann and Ryan met at a College of Charleston Alumni event, but it wasn't until their second meeting that the sparks really started to fly! A friend, who happened to be Ann's boss at the time, decided to play matchmaker and prompted Ryan to get Ann's number to ask her out. He did, and the rest is history!
Ann and Ryan dated for exactly four years before Ryan proposed to his lovely bride-to-be on April Fools Day, the fourth anniversary of their very first date!


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MEYER WERFT was founded in 1795. The company is in its seventh generation of family ownership. Bernard Meyer is running the business since 1982.
After the era of timber ship construction, the company showed early pioneering spirit, which was the basis for the continuous development of the shipyard. The company began building iron ships with steam machines in 1872. In 1870, Papenburg was home to about 20 shipyards – but only MEYER WERFT has survived into the 21st century. Up to 400 seagoing ships were registered in Papenburg in the 19th century.
Between the two world wars, the shipyard concentrated on building fishing vessels, pilot boats and lightships together with coastal passenger ships. In 1960 the company started building gas tankers and 1964 the first RoRo-ferry, the MALMÖ, was delivered in Papenburg.
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If I had been cynical/skeptical/jaded about this Tour de France over the first two weeks, yesterday's stage with its double ascent of Alpe d'Huez cured me. With riders leaping off the front and dropping off the back, there was so much going on, so much chaos, that I found myself riveted. I have always been a fan of the epic climbing stages, and this one delivered enough thrills to qualify for the four-ticket bounty at the state fair.
And though Chris Froome and his Sky minions have controlled the race with well-calculated and muscular performances whenever and wherever it's been necessary, so too have his rivals taken ample opportunity to attack. The race has been anything but a stately promenade to Paris.
I was wrong in my initial belief that the green jersey competition would be more interesting than the GC. Peter Sagan is riding away with the points competition, despite not dominating either in the intermediate or finishing sprints. On the other hand, once you look past Froome, the next four GC riders are within 47 seconds of each other. With one last mountain stage to ride, podium spots are anything but assured.
The preeminence of Team Sky in three-week races seems confirmed now, though Bradley Wiggins failed to impress (or finish) the Giro. Still, the short reign of Alberto Contador is clearly over, and it remains to be seen whether racers like Vincenzo Nibali and Joaquim Rodriguez can translate Giro and Vuelta performances into French success.
Sagan has stolen Mark Cavendish's thunder, and even Andre Greipel is finding ways to win stages. The lack of real dominance is good for the sport, both from a fan's perspective and from a credibility standpoint. It says something powerful that Froome's ride in France has drawn so many questions, while the seeming parity of his rivals speaks volumes about the possible cleanliness of the top tier competitors. Maybe, just maybe, this has been a good Tour de France for cycling.
This week's Group Ride asks, what have you enjoyed about this 100th Tour de France? Did it live up to your expectations? What were the surprises? And what does it say about the current state of Grand Tour racing?
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Patrick O'Brien
I watched stage 18 with friends. We watch one stage together most every year, and most years it is the stage with the climb of Alpe d Huez. I am still losing interest in the grand tours, and watching yesterday didn't change that. If it wasn't for a DVR so we could skip commercials, I would have given up after 2 hours.
My strategy is working for me so far. I'd say I've watched half the Tour with captions so far. Especially on the mountains. I actually see more without the hype and crowd noise. My absolute favorite bit was a split screen with the faces of Froome and Contrador side by side — they were clearly wrecked and nearly identical in their suffering. I wanted to see people earn their places and I have by in large seen that. Sky hasn't crushed with super-human anything. Sky has been smart and gutsy. Froome is a strong rider but the teams had had to fight for it. The podium is _still_ in question. The green and white jerseys are sewed up pending a crash. But polka dot is still in question and they are fighting for it. And as always I root for the non-favorites who win stages against odds. All that said, I've taken advantage of my DVR and fast forwarded at times. But I did catch the guy on the Alp in some wild costume running along brandishing a huge potato! I swear it was clearly a potato. Someone made it all the way up specifically to threaten the peleton with a potato. Is there some European obscenity that I don't know about?
I just don't believe it anymore.
Guess I've got my head in the sand. I have watched most stages on DVR. I really enjoy it and marvel at the power those guys have to go the speeds they do. So sick of the doping accusations I just turn all that crap off!! Viva Le Tour.
I have enjoyed the gutsiness (sp?) of the rivals and the stage winners. Even if I do not fully believe in Froome and his team, it does not diminish the fight going on behind him and all the beautiful scenery.
Until next year.
I agree with Drago. I don't believe it any more. In fact even though I am a huge fan of cycling and the romance/ history of the sport, the current state of affairs is pushing me away. No longer do I sneak downstairs before anybody else is up to get the first hand account on tv and I rarely watch the primetime shows. Don't even get me started on those two bumbling buffoons. I'm not an idiot and I'm pissed that the industry takes me for one. The bullshit changes in technology "that make the bikes faster" or the 15 watts that a kamm tailed helmet will give me is utter crap. It is painfully obvious to see who doesn't dope any longer, who still does and who's on the next generation of stuff. To listen to broadcasters, industry insiders and the UCI who play dumb with whats truly going on is just a plain insult to me. I would never, ever teach or ever tolerate the values that these guys live by to my children. If the sport ultimately implodes they have only themselves to blame………. I'm going for a ride.
I like the tactics, subplots, gambles, attacks, blowups, recoveries, failures to live up to expectations, surprises. moral, ethical and legal implications of doping are a negligible fraction of my protour interest. And bikeporn?? They're just ads, just like all of the weight loss products and the super knives shown on tv.
My favourite stage was stage 13. The unexpected happening, the requirement for the teams to adapt to the conditions and those that could ultimately benefited
I've enjoyed:
Lauren Ten Dam- I know he's been getting shelled in the final week but his 'never surrender' riding style is still awesome to watch.
Dan Martin- An Irishman wins a stage!! I still haven't sobered up!
Tejay- I haven't sat on the edge of my seat and yelled at the t.v. in a long time.
Quintana- welcome to the New World climbing order.
Jens- The old dog still brings the wood!
It has been a great race. Funny how Contador is the challenger, but there are a lot of challengers. And I'm sorry for you guys thst only have the TV brodcast to see the race. The live feed from Eurosport has been fun, really fun! I like Sean Kelly's comentary, and the other guy Kirby cracks me up.
These guys are racing, try doing their training rides.
BMC backed the wrong horse. Seniority over talent is not smart.
Movistar may have picked the wrong horse also and it'a fantastic to see Quintana carrying the team now.
The first week was one of the best in recent history…loved it.
Things I didn't mention, but have loved:
Quintana's stone face – That dude is in the red, over the line, and he just sits there, just sits there, just sits there. I love it.
Rolland – A French climber. Who doesn't love a French climber.
The polka dot jersey – See previous re: climbing. Froome's lead in polka dots takes the shine off the would-be winner, but Quintana can take it from him today…maybe.
Garmin's swashbuckling clusterfuck of a raid in the Pyrenees to net Dan Martin that stage win.
Alpe d'Huez stadium riding.
Talansky top-10.
vive le tour, what a great 3 weeks!
I was shocked and sickened that Froome and Contador had to field questions about doping during the rest day but Quintana didn't suffer a single one. Forgive me but he is from Colombia one of the world's largest cocaine producers. Not that I want any of them to be doping. But my point is we put the underdog and Cinderella story on a pedestal because we love the ideal of racing really well and clean. No one's safe. I want the man to win big. But get him off the pedestal _and_ stop this crazy paparazzi harassment of everyone else.
On this rare occurrence here in the RKP comments section, I feel a duty to call out just how assinine your comment is SusanJane.
Instead of making blanket statements about a country how about you dig out your passport and visit it instead of painting with a wide brush stroke?
As an aside, if Columbia is one of the world's largest coca producers that is because the USA is the world's largest consumer. By using your logic that would make every single US athlete (and citizen) a potential drug user.
I am just going to say – wtf.
now on to a more entertaining comment – from now on, I think that every single time NAIRO QUINNNNNNNNTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAA! is introduced at rider sign-in, we need to have Michael Buffer on the microphone to do it.
Thank you Michael, SusanJane's comment was uncalled for. The passion for cycling in Columbia is very unique. Read "Kings of the Mountains".
Double d'Huez hands down best day of the last 4 tours.
As for Frooms "cleanliness", I think other riders are speaking for him. I have read a couple articles where riders, not team mates, are saying "ofcourse he's clean". Their opinions speak volumes.
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Watch Kittel over on Vimeo at How The Race Was Won. I missed it on the NBC feed, but somehow, on top of just being fast, he also showed some nifty handling skills and heads-up riding dodging lead-out guys. He races like a seasoned pro. Well, sprints, at least.
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Watch Kittel over on Vimeo at How The Race Was Won. I missed it on the NBC feed, but somehow, on top of just being fast, he also showed some nifty handling skills and heads-up riding dodging lead-out guys. He races like a seasoned pro. Well, sprints, at least.
Some sponsor will nab Tejay and Telansky, which totally sounds like a '70s buddy cop TV show. Picture them riffing The Beastie Boys' Sabotage on bikes.
Sagan pulling a wheelie as a salute to the cameraman and local crowd. Dude has fun on a bike, you can't deny that.
….."Forgive me but he is from Colombia one of the world's largest cocaine producers…." –Well it's clear that other countries are of the world's largest idiot propducers.
I've been to Colombia recently, and my survey says AWESOME! the people are awesome, the food is awesome, and the exotic diversity of the region is awesome. The majority of pro cyclists come from a region/state that has absolutely nothing to do with coca production.
As for the rest of it, I was entertained in a way that only le Tour is capable, what little I got to watch.
Look how many teams were so close together in their level of talent and competition, Sky excepted. As a cycling fan, there was a lot to be grateful for this year (I always watch the Giro and the Vuelta, too). Maybe next year, Nibali will shoot for the TdF and make it really interesting.
As for negative remarks about Columbia, SusanJane is a few years behind on current news regarding cocaine production, which was off topic to begin with. The Giro and TdF show that Columbia has a number of competitive riders in the fold over the next few years, which will make all of the grand tours even more entertaining.


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Four nurses step in to help a stranger at Oakland International Airport, then reunite with their families later (pictured above) and find they have Kaiser Permanente in common.
They were in the wrong place at the very right time.
On Feb. 27, Oliver Naca, Rainier Escanio, Marc Discipulo, and Armil Vertidez, 4 gastrointestinal nurses from the Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center, had just returned from a nursing conference. After they got turned around in the Oakland International Airport and were making their way to their car, they saw a man sprawled on the sidewalk, surrounded by a small group.
"His head was in his wife's lap," Oliver said. "It didn't look right, so we decided to check on him. He didn't have a pulse, so we asked his wife to step back and we began compressions."
"At first we thought he had fallen," Marc added. "But he was unconscious."
Just Felt Weird
Lafayette residents Steve and Susan Kirschner were planning a trip to visit Steve's elderly mother in Washington. But soon after arriving at Oakland's airport, Steve felt ill, so the pair decided to head back home and reschedule their trip.
"I just felt weird, from wrist to wrist, all the way across my chest," Steve recalled. "There were no sharp pains but just an uneasiness. I didn't put it together that I might be having a heart attack."
"Steve walks with a cane and is prone to falls, so when we were near the curb and he called out to me, I assumed he was falling," Susan said.
Steve did fall, bumping his head as he toppled to the curb.
Like a Ballet
"We started compressions," Oliver said. "Armil took care of the airway while others went to get an AED (automated external defibrillator)."
The friends switched off and did compressions on Steve's chest for nearly 7 minutes.
"Oliver sprang into action with the compressions and I applied the AED," Marc added. "Mr. Kirschner was pale and unconscious, but after that shock he looked better and his color came back."
"It was like a calm ballet," Susan said. "They knew what to do and worked so well together. I knew we would be in good hands."
"We wanted to make sure he had the appropriate care," Marc said. "We all played a part, just as we are all trained, and we have a level of trust with each other to do what is right."
Music to Their Ears
An ambulance arrived and whisked Steve to Highland Hospital, where he would code again before having a stent placed in his chest.
"We didn't know what had happened to him," Rainier said.
When the 4 discovered that Steve not only survived but he and his wife wanted to meet them, they were ecstatic.
"He is alive and he wanted to meet us. Not every day that we hear that," Armil said.
"It was music to our ears," Oliver said. "We don't often get to know the outcomes of those we treat."
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On May 18, the nurses and their families gathered at the Port of Oakland to officially meet Steve and Susan. The nurses were recognized by the port, the Oakland City Council, and Southwest Airlines.
After emotional hugs, the group recounted the day that brought them all together.
"You all literally did everything," Susan said to the group. "You made everything easy for me."
As it turns out, Steve and Susan are Kaiser Permanente members who receive their care at the Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center where the nurses work.
"My 4 angels! I am glad to know they are all so close!" Susan said.
Since their reunion, the Kirschners have had the nurses and their families over for dinner and they plan to keep in touch.
"You have made all the difference in the world," Steve told them. "I am extremely grateful for your being at the wrong place at the right time, as you have made this reunion and really, my life, possible."


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60.21 ▶ Questioner: Is the Earth solid all the way through from one side to the other?
Ra: I am Ra. You may say that your sphere is of an honey-comb nature. The center is, however, solid if you would so call that which is molten.
60.22 ▶ Questioner: And the honey-comb nature— are there third-density incarnate entities living in the honey-combed areas? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This was at one time correct. This is not correct at this present space/time.
69.0 ▶ Ra: I am Ra. I greet you in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator.
Before we proceed may we make a small request for future workings. At this particular working there is some slight interference with the contact due to the hair of the instrument. We may suggest the combing of this antenna-like material into a more orderly configuration prior to the working.
We communicate now.
3.10 ▶ Questioner: Then if an individual is totally informed with respect to the Law of One and lives, and is the Law of One, such things as the building of a pyramid by direct mental effort would be commonplace. Is that what I am to understand? Am I correct?
Ra: I am Ra. You are incorrect in that there is a distinction between the individual power through the Law of One and the combined, or societal memory complex mind/body/spirit understanding of the Law of One.
In the first case only the one individual, purified of all flaws, could move a mountain. In the case of mass understanding of unity, each individual may contain an acceptable amount of distortion and yet the mass mind could move mountains. The progress is normally from the understanding which you now seek to a dimension of understanding which is governed by the laws of love, and which seeks the laws of light. Those who are vibrating with the Law of Light seek the Law of One. Those who vibrate with the Law of One seek the Law of Foreverness.
We cannot say what is beyond this dissolution of the unified self with all that there is, for we still seek to become all that there is, and still are we Ra. Thus our paths go onward.
7.16 ▶ Questioner: Using as an example a fifth-density group or social memory complex of the Orion group, what was their previous density before they became fifth density?
Ra: I am Ra. The progress through densities is sequential. A fifth-density social memory complex would be comprised of mind/body/spirit complexes harvested from fourth density. Then the conglomerate or mass mind/body/spirit complex does its melding and the results are due to the infinitely various possibilities of combination of distortions.
9.7 ▶ Questioner: What race is that, and how did they get from Mars to here?
Ra: I am Ra. The race is a combination of the mind/body/spirit complexes of those of your so-called Red Planet and a careful series of genetical adjustments made by the guardians of that time. These entities arrived, or were preserved, for the experience upon your sphere by a type of birthing which is non-reproductive, but consists of preparing genetic material for the incarnation of the mind/body/spirit complexes of those entities from the Red Planet.
15.14 ▶ Questioner: Yesterday you stated "the harvest is now. There is not at this time any reason to include efforts upon these distortions toward longevity, but rather to encourage distortions towards the heart of self. For this which resides clearly in the violet-ray energy field will determine the harvest of each mind/body/spirit complex." Could you tell us how to seek or the best way to seek the heart of self?
Ra: I am Ra. We have given you this information in several wordings. However, we can only say the material for your understanding is the self: the mind/body/spirit complex. You have been given information upon healing, as you call this distortion. This information may be seen in a more general context as ways to understand the self. The understanding, experiencing, accepting, and merging of self with self and with other-self, and finally with the Creator, is the path to the heart of self. In each infinitesimal part of your self resides the One in all of Its power. Therefore, we can only encourage these lines of contemplation, always stating the prerequisite of meditation, contemplation, or prayer as a means of subjectively/objectively using or combining various understandings to enhance the seeking process. Without such a method of reversing the analytical process, one could not integrate into unity the many understandings gained in such seeking.
18.22 ▶ Questioner: Then the Orion group… I'm not quite sure that I understand this. Do you mean that the Orion group produced this larger body complex to create an elite so that the Law of One could be applied in what we call the negative sense?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The entities of Yahweh were responsible for this procedure in isolated cases as experiments in combating the Orion group.
However, the Orion group were able to use this distortion of mind/body complex to inculcate the thoughts of the elite rather than concentrations upon the learning/teaching of oneness.
19.11 ▶ Questioner: Can you tell me how this new bodily complex was suited to third-density lessons and what those lessons were?
Ra: I am Ra. There is one necessity for third density. That necessity is self-awareness, or self-consciousness. In order to be capable of such, this chemical complex of body must be capable of the abstract thought. Thus, the fundamental necessity is the combination of rational and intuitive thinking. This was transitory in the second-density forms operating largely upon intuition which proved through practice to yield results.
The third-density mind was capable of processing information in such a way as to think abstractly and in what could be termed "useless" ways, in the sense of survival. This is the primary requisite.
There are other important ingredients: the necessity for a weaker physical vehicle to encourage the use of the mind, the development of the already present awareness of the social complex. These also being necessary: the further development of physical dexterity in the sense of the hand, as you call this portion of your body complex.
27.3 ▶ Questioner: Thank you very much. I will now proceed with the process of starting the second book of The Law of One. This, I will assume, will be a much more difficult task than the first book because we want to focus on things that are not transient, and as questioner I may have difficulty at times.
When I do have this difficulty I may fall back on some partially transient questions simply because I will not be able to formulate what I really need to formulate, and I apologize for this, but I will try my best to stay on the track and eliminate things of no value from the book if they do occur during my questioning.*
The statement I will make to begin with I have written. It is: Most entities in this density focus their minds on some transient condition or activity with little regard to its value as a tool or an aid to their growth and understanding of the true or undistorted essence of the creation of which they are an integral part.
We will attempt, by starting at the beginning of creation, to establish an overview of ourselves in the creation, thereby arriving at a more informed point of inspection of what we consider to be reality. It is hoped that this process will allow us to participate more effectively in the process of evolution.
I would like to start with definitions of words that we have been using that possibly we have not— and possibly cannot— totally understand, but since the first words that we use are intelligent infinity, I would like for you to define each of these words and give me the definition of their combination.
Ra: I am Ra. Your vibrations of mind complex indicate a query. However, your vibrational sound complex indicate a preference. Please restate.
32.2 ▶ Questioner: Thank you very much. I will now continue with the material from day before yesterday. Our subject is how sexual polarity acts as a catalyst in evolution and how to best make use of this catalyst. Going back to that material, I will fill in a few gaps that we possibly don't understand at this point too well.
Can you tell me the difference between orange- and yellow-ray activation? I am going to work up from red ray right on through the violet, and we covered red ray, so what's the difference between orange- and yellow-ray activation?
Ra: I am Ra. The orange ray is that influence or vibratory pattern wherein the mind/body/spirit expresses its power on an individual basis. Thus power over individuals may be seen to be orange ray. This ray has been quite intense among your peoples on an individual basis. You may see in this ray the treating of other-selves as non-entities, slaves, or chattel, thus giving other-selves no status whatever.
The yellow ray is a focal and very powerful ray and concerns the entity in relation to, shall we say, groups, societies, or large numbers of mind/body/spirit complexes. This orange — we correct ourselves — this yellow-ray vibration is at the heart of bellicose actions in which one group of entities feel the necessity and right of dominating other groups of entities and bending their wills to the wills of the masters. The negative path, as you would call it, uses a combination of the yellow ray and the orange ray in its polarization patterns. These rays, used in a dedicated fashion, will bring about a contact with intelligent infinity. The usual nature of sexual interaction, if one is yellow or orange in primary vibratory patterns, is one of blockage and then insatiable hunger due to the blockage. When there are two selves vibrating in this area the potential for polarization through the sexual interaction is begun, one entity experiencing the pleasure of humiliation and slavery or bondage, the other experiencing the pleasure of mastery and control over another entity. In this way a sexual energy transfer of a negative polarity is experienced.
38.14 ▶ Questioner: All right, I'll just ask this one. I have here that— could you give me some idea of what conditions are like on a fourth-density negative or self-service planet? Can you do this?
Ra: I am Ra. The graduation into fourth-density negative is achieved by those beings who have consciously contacted intelligent infinity through the use of red, orange, and yellow rays of energy. Therefore, the planetary conditions of fourth-density negative include the constant alignment and realignment of entities in efforts to form the dominant patterns of combined energy.
The early fourth density is one of the most intensive struggle. When the order of authority has been established and all have fought until convinced that each is in the proper placement for power structure, the social memory complex begins. Always the fourth-density effects of telepathy and the transparency of thought are attempted to be used for the sake of those at the apex of the power structure.
This, as you may see, is often quite damaging to the further polarization of fourth-density negative entities, for the further negative polarization can only come about through group effort. As the fourth-density entities manage to combine, they then polarize through such services to self as those offered by the crusaders of Orion.
You may ask more specific questions in the next session of working. Are there any brief queries before we leave this instrument?
41.10 ▶ Questioner: When first density is formed, we have fire, air, earth, and water. There is at some time the first movement or individuation of life into a portion of consciousness that is self-mobile. Could you describe the process of the creation of this and what type of energy center that it has?
Ra: I am Ra. The first or red-ray density, though attracted towards growth, is not in the proper vibration for those conditions conducive to what you may call the spark of awareness. As the vibratory energies move from red to orange the vibratory environment is such as to stimulate those chemical substances which lately had been inert to combine in such a fashion that love and light begin the function of growth.
The supposition which you had earlier made concerning single-celled entities such as the polymorphous dinoflagellate is correct. The mechanism is one of the attraction of upward spiraling light. There is nothing random about this or any portion of evolution.
51.5 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. I would like to make a statement. I'm sure I'm somewhat off with this. It's a very difficult question to ask for me, because I don't really know what I'm talking about. But it seems to me, and you can tell me where I am going wrong with this statement, that we have seven bodies each corresponding to one of the seven colors of the spectrum and that energy that creates these seven bodies is a universal type of energy that streams into our planetary environment and comes in through seven energy centers that we have called chakras to develop and perfect these bodies, and this is…. Each of these bodies is in somehow related to the mental configuration that we have and the perfection of each of these bodies and the total instreaming, you might say, of this energy is a function of this mental configuration, and through this mental configuration we may block, to some extent, the instreamings of energy that create each of these seven bodies. Could you comment on where I am wrong and correct me in this that I have stated?
Ra: I am Ra. Your statement is substantially correct. To use the term "mental configuration" is to oversimplify the manners of blockage of instreaming which occur in your density. The mind complex has a relationship to the spirit and body complexes which is not fixed. Thus blockages may occur betwixt spirit and mind, or body and mind, upon many different levels. We reiterate that each energy center has seven sub-colors, let us say, for convenience. Thus spiritual/mental blockages combined with mental/bodily blockages may affect each of the energy centers in several differing ways. Thus you may see the subtle nature of the balancing and evolutionary process.
54.12 ▶ Questioner: This question may be no good, but I'll ask it. Can you give me an idea of the maximum percentage of this energy it's possible to block in any one color or does that make any sense?
Ra: I am Ra. There may be, in an entity's pattern of instreaming energy, a complete blockage in any energy or color or combination of energies or colors.
61.6 ▶ Questioner: I want to ask a few questions Jim had here about the healing exercises. The first is, in the healing exercise concerning the body, what do you mean by the disciplines of the body having to do with the balance between love and wisdom in the use of the body in its natural functions?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall speak more briefly than usual due to this instrument's use of the transferred energy. We, therefore, request further queries if our reply is not sufficient.
The body complex has natural functions. Many of these have to do with the unmanifested self and are normally not subject to the need for balancing. There are natural functions which have to do with other-self. Among these are touching, loving, the sexual life, and those times when the company of another is craved to combat the type of loneliness which is the natural function of the body as opposed to those types of loneliness which are of the mind/emotion complex or of the spirit.
When these natural functions may be observed in the daily life they may be examined in order that the love of self and love of other-self versus the wisdom regarding the use of natural functions may be observed. There are many fantasies and stray thoughts which may be examined in most of your peoples in this balancing process.
Equally to be balanced is the withdrawal from the need for these natural functions with regard to other-self. On the one hand there is an excess of love. It must be determined whether this is love of self or other-self or both. On the other hand there is an over-balance towards wisdom.
It is well to know the body complex so that it is an ally, balanced and ready to be clearly used as a tool, for each bodily function may be used in higher and higher, if you will, complexes of energy with other-self. No matter what the behavior, the important balancing is the understanding of each interaction on this level with other-selves so that whether the balance may be love/wisdom or wisdom/love, the other-self is seen by the self in a balanced configuration and the self is thus freed for further work.
63.14 ▶ Questioner: You are saying, then, that for the transition from third to fourth density for one of the entities with doubly activated bodies, in order to make the transition the third-density body will go through the process of what we call death. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. The third and fourth, combination, density's body will die according to the necessity of third-density mind/body/spirit complex distortions.
We may respond to the heart of your questioning by noting that the purpose of such combined activation of mind/body/spirit complexes is that such entities, to some extent, consciously are aware of those fourth-density understandings which third density is unable to remember due to the forgetting. Thus fourth-density experience may be begun with the added attraction, to an entity oriented towards service to others, of dwelling in a troubled third-density environment and offering its love and compassion.
64.4 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. Could you explain the basic principles behind the ritual which we perform to initiate the contact and what I would call the basic white magical rituals— principles of protection and other principles? Could you please do this?
Ra: I am Ra. Due to your avenue of question we perceive the appropriateness of inclusion of the cause of this instrument's transitory vital energy distortion. The cause is a bias towards the yearning for expression of devotion to the One Creator in group worship.
This entity was yearning for this protection both consciously in that it responds to the accoutrements of this expression, the ritual, the colors and their meanings as given by the distortion system of what you call the church, the song of praise, and the combined prayers of thanksgiving and, most of all, that which may be seen to be most centrally magical, the intake of that food which is not of this dimension but has been transmuted into metaphysical nourishment in what this distortion of expression calls the holy communion.
The subconscious reason, it being the stronger for this yearning was the awareness that such expression is, when appreciated by an entity as the transmutation into the presence of the One Creator, a great protection of the entity as it moves in the path of service to others.
The principle behind any ritual of the white magical nature is to so configure the stimuli which reach down into the trunk of mind that this arrangement causes the generation of disciplined and purified emotion or love which then may be both protection and the key to the gateway to intelligent infinity.
72.17 ▶ Questioner: Why is there no protection at the floor or bottom of the banishing ritual, and should there be?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full query of this working.
The development of the psychic greeting is possible only through the energy centers starting from a station which you might call within the violet ray moving through the adept's energy center and therefrom towards the target of opportunity. Depending upon the vibratory nature and purpose of greeting, be it positive or negative, the entity will be energized or blocked in the desired way.
We of Ra approach this instrument in narrow-band contact through violet ray. Others might pierce down through this ray to any energy center. We, for instance, make great use of this instrument's blue-ray energy center as we are attempting to communicate our distortion/understandings of the Law of One.
The entity of Orion pierces the same violet ray and moves to two places to attempt most of its non-physical opportunities. It activates the green-ray energy center while further blocking indigo-ray energy center. This combination causes confusion in the instrument and subsequent over-activity in unwise proportions in physical complex workings. It simply seeks out the distortions pre-incarnatively programmed and developed in incarnative state.
The energies of life itself, being the One Infinite Creator, flow from the south pole of the body seen in its magnetic form. Thus only the Creator may, through the feet, enter the energy shell of the body to any effect. The effects of the adept are those from the upper direction and thus the building of the wall of light is quite propitious.
May we ask if there are any shorter queries at this time?
73.17 ▶ Questioner: In the exercise of the fire then, I assume that the healer would be working with the same energy that we spoke of as entering through the crown chakra. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct with some additional notation necessary for your thought in continuing this line of study. When the magical personality has been seated in the green-ray energy center for healing work the energy then may be seen to be the crystalline center through which body energy is channeled. Thus this particular form of healing uses both the energy of the adept and the energy of the upward spiraling light. As the green-ray center becomes more brilliant, and we would note this brilliance does not imply over-activation but rather crystallization, the energy of the green-ray center of the body complex spirals twice; firstly, clockwise from the green-ray energy center to the right shoulder, through the head, the right elbow, down through the solar plexus, and to the left hand. This sweeps all the body complex energy into a channel which then rotates the great circle clockwise again from right — we correct this instrument — from the left to the feet, to the right hand, to the crown, to the left hand, and so forth.
Thus the in-coming body energy, crystallized, regularized, and channeled by the adept's personality reaching to the green-ray energy center, may then pour out the combined energies of the adept which is incarnate thus offering the service of healing to an entity requesting that service. This basic situation is accomplished as well when there is an entity which is working through a channel to heal.
73.22 ▶ Questioner: Could you define this statement "energy transfer between two mind/body/spirit complexes?"
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full query of this working. This entity still has transferred energy available, but we find rapidly increasing distortions towards pain in the neck, the dorsal area, and the wrists and manual appendages.
The physical energy transfer may be done numerous ways.
We shall give two examples. Each begins with some sense of the self as Creator or in some way the magical personality being invoked. This may be consciously or unconsciously done. Firstly, that exercise of which we have spoken called the exercise of fire: this is, though physical energy transfer, not that which is deeply involved in the body complex combinations. Thusly the transfer is subtle and each transfer unique in what is offered and what is accepted. At this point we may note that this is the cause for the infinite array of possible energy transfers.
The second energy transfer of which we would speak is the sexual energy transfer. This takes place upon a non-magical level by all those entities which vibrate green ray active. It is possible, as in the case of this instrument which dedicates itself to the service of the One Infinite Creator, to further refine this energy transfer. When the other-self also dedicates itself in service to the One Infinite Creator, the transfer is doubled. Then the amount of energy transferred is dependent only upon the amount of polarized sexual energy created and released. There are refinements from this point onward leading to the realm of the high sexual magic.
In the realm of the mental bodies there are variations of mental energy transferred. This is, again, dependent upon the knowledge sought and the knowledge offered. The most common mental energy transfer is that of the teacher and the pupil. The amount of energy is dependent upon the quality of this offering upon the part of the teacher as regards the purity of the desire to serve and the quality of information offered and, upon the part of the student, the purity of the desire to learn and the quality of the mind vibratory complex which receives knowledge.
Another form of mental energy transfer is that of the listener and the speaker. When the speaker is experiencing mental/emotional complex distortions towards anguish, sorrow, or other mental pain, from what we have said before, you may perhaps garner knowledge of the variations possible in this transfer.
The spiritual energy transfers are at the heart of all energy transfers as a knowledge of self and other-self as Creator is paramount, and this is spiritual work. The varieties of spiritual energy transfer include those things of which we have spoken this day as we spoke upon the subject of the adept.
Are there any brief queries before we leave this working?
74.8 ▶ Questioner: Would you answer it please?
Ra: I am Ra. We would be happy to answer this query. We understood the previous query as being of other import. The indigo ray is the ray of the adept. A great deal of the answer you seek is in this sentence. There is an identification between the crystallization of that energy center and the improvement of the working of the mind/body/spirit as it begins to transcend space/time balancing and to enter the combined realms of space/time and time/space.
75.28 ▶ Questioner: Would these sounds, then, be of a musical nature in that there would be a musical arrangement of many different sound vibrations, or would this apply to just one single note? Or which would it apply more to?
Ra: I am Ra. This query is not easily answered. In some cases only the intoned vowel has effect. In other cases, most notably Sanskrit combinations, the selection of harmonic intervals is also of resonant nature.
76.6 ▶ Questioner: Sorry we have had such a long delay between the last session and this one. It couldn't be helped I guess. Could you please tell me the origin of the tarot?
Ra: I am Ra. The origin of this system of study and divination is twofold: firstly, there is that influence which, coming in a distorted fashion from those who were priests attempting to teach the Law of One in Egypt, gave form to the understanding, if you will pardon the misnomer, which they had received. These forms were then made a regular portion of the learn/teachings of an initiate. The second influence is that of those entities in the lands you call Ur, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia who, from old, had received the, shall we say, data for which they called having to do with the heavens. Thusly we find two methods of divination being melded into one with uneven results; the, as you call it, astrology and the form being combined to suggest what you might call the correspondences which are typical of the distortions you may see as attempts to view archetypes.
88.4 ▶ Questioner: Is the censer we have provided all right? They do go out prior to the end of the session. Would it be better if it did not go out prior to the end of the session?
Ra: I am Ra. The new configuration of the censer is quite helpful to the more subtle patterns of energy surrounding these workings. It would be helpful to have a continuously burning amount of cense. However, the difficulty is in providing this without overpowering this enclosure with the amount of effluvium and physical product of combustion. Having to choose betwixt allowing the censer to finish its burning and having an overabundance of the smoke, we would suggest the former as being more helpful.
92.2 ▶ Questioner: Is there a specific cause for this and could you tell us what it is if so?
Ra: I am Ra. The effective cause of the increased physical distortions have to do with the press of continued substantial levels of the distortion you call pain. Various vehicular distortions other than the specifically arthritic have been accentuated by psychic greeting and the combined effect has been deleterious.
The continued slight but noticeable losses of the vital energies is due to the necessity for the instrument to call upon this resource in order to clear the, shall we say, way for a carefully purified service-to-others working. The use of the will in the absence of physical and, in this particular case, mental and mental/emotional energies requires vital energies.
17.26 ▶ Questioner: Is this the reason for what we call spontaneous combustion?
Ra: I am Ra. This is not correct.
48.2 ▶ Questioner: I have a question from the instrument that I will read. "You have suggested several times that sexual energy transfers aid the instrument's vital energy and this contact. It seems that this is not true for all people; that the sexual circuitry and the spiritual circuitry are not the same. Is this instrument an anomaly, or is the positive effect of sexual activity on spiritual energy normal for all third-density beings?"
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument, though not anomalous, is somewhat less distorted towards the separation of mind, body, and spirit than many of your third-density entities. The energies of sexual transfer would, if run through the undeveloped spiritual electrical or magnetic complex which you call circuitry, effectually blow out that particular circuit. Contrarily, the full spiritual energies run through bodily complex circuitry will also adversely affect the undeveloped circuit of the bodily complex. Some there are, such as this instrument, who have not in the particular incarnation chosen at any time to express sexual energy through the bodily circuitry. Thus from the beginning of such an entity's experience the body and spirit express together in any sexual action. Therefore, to transfer sexual energy for this instrument is to transfer spiritually as well as physically. This instrument's magnetic field, if scrutinized by one sensitive, will show these unusual configurations. This is not unique to one entity but is common to a reasonable number of entities who, having lost the desire for orange- and green-ray* sexual experiences, have strengthened the combined circuitry of spirit, mind, and body to express the totality of beingness in each action. It is for this reason also that the social intercourse and companionship is very beneficial to this instrument, it being sensitive to the more subtle energy transfers.
* Ra said "green-ray," but presumably they meant "yellow-ray."
49.2 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. I have a question here from Jim first. He says: "For the past nine years I have [had] what I call frontal lobes experiences in the pre-consciousness state of sleep just before I wake up in the morning. They are a combination of pleasure and pressure which begins in the frontal lobes and spreads in pulses through the whole brain and feels like an orgasm in my brain. I have had over 200 of these experiences and often they are accompanied by visions and voices which seldom make much sense to me. What is the source of these frontal lobes experiences?"
Ra: I am Ra. We scan the questioner and find some pertinent information already available which regards the physiological disposition of this particular part of the brain. The experiences described and experienced are those distillations which may be experienced after a concentration of effort upon the opening of the gateway, or indigo, mind complex so that experience of a sacramental, or violet, ray may occur. These experiences are the beginnings of that which, as the body, the mind, and the spirit become integrated at the gateway, or indigo, level, may then yield not only the experience of joy but the comprehension of intelligent infinity which accompanies it. Thus the body complex orgasm and mind complex orgasm becoming integrated may then set forth the proper gateway for the spiritual complex integration and its use as a shuttle for the sacrament of the fully experienced presence of the One Infinite Creator. Thus there is much to which the questioner may look forward.
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Great active support from the developer. On average, 3 updates per month.
The Documentation can be unbelievable. Besides have good documentation on their website, the subject has existed long enough that what I wholeheartedly during the setup process was found inside a couple of seconds from their forum.
Diving Into GeneratePress
Now it's Time to the fun part! I always test a brand new theme right from the box with no customizations to see how quickly the foundation is. This tells me a lot of what I could expect by the time I add everything for this. Running the stock GeneratePress WordPress theme on Kinsta hosting clocked in at a whopping 265 ms loading time. I was quite impressed.
One Thing I was worried about with GeneratePress was that the modular layout was going to produce a whole lot of big files, but this is not the case. You may tell that Tom literally worked hard on ensuring every file packed in GeneratePress is as little as possible. Together with HTTP/2, the amount of documents is not as significant. But the dimensions is! Have a look at some of the center GeneratePress files under:
/generatepress/css/unsemantic-grid. min.css 2.9 KB
/generatepress/style. css 7.1 KB
/generatepress/css/mobile. min.css 1.6 KB
/generatepress/js/navigation. min.js 1.1 KB
/generatepress/js/dropdown. min.js 1.5 KB
This is a programmer that cares about functionality! And I've Seen the same during each the premium add-ons. They're literally as small as possible get them. In fact, Font Awesome is probably the largest file contained. And that isn't even his. Together with Font Awesome 5 arriving round the cornerwe can anticipate this to secure smaller also.
The premium add-ons Are installation in what I'd call a modular layout. You can activate/deactivate anything you are not using to ensure they don't load on your site. Since the co-developer of this perfmatters plugin which has a script supervisor built-in, I felt right at home for this. Everything ought to be made this way.
If You are curious, I'm using the following add-ons on this website:
Page Header
No Child Theme Needed
One of The best features of GeneratePress is that I no more need to use a Child theme. This makes my life so much simpler. No more editing my functions.php or header.php documents. I can literally upgrade my GeneratePress motif this exact moment rather than shed a single customization. The hooks add-on definitely can help make it possible. It allows you to add custom code/PHP anywhere throughout your WordPress website. Make WordPress Theme
Other Things I Love About GeneratePress
On each Page/post you have a lot of options. You can alter the sidebar design and the footer widgets.
You Can quickly swap a page involving the default to a full width page, as well as disable components.
The WordPress customizer choices is where GeneratePress really shines! Bear in mind, a lot of these options are permitted by the premium add-ons. I can't show you everything, otherwise, we'd be here daily. However, allow me to show you couple which really come in handy.
Responsive Columns
Another Plugin I highly recommend grabbing is your free Lightweight Grid Columns. Not to my surprise, this is also created by precisely the same programmer as GeneratePress. It enables you a super simple way to incorporate responsive columns into any page or post. Features include:
Desktop grid thickness
Tablet grid width
Mobile grid width
Insert custom courses
Insert custom inline designs
Equal height columns
Here is An example under:
You May Want to Also grab his incredible WP Display Posts plugin also. View my featured posts on the sidebar of this site? That is using the WP Display Posts plugin. I have it set to show posts from a particular"featured" category. You might also get it show last modified/updated posts, recent posts, etc.. I'm using the free version and it works great.
To Get started, Click here to download GeneratePress.
Sections Add-on
The Segments add-in in the premium version of GeneratePress lets you do all kinds of things concerning design. Think of it like a page builder with no bloat. GeneratePress is certainly not only for blogs! I am in reality utilizing GeneratePress for our ecommerce site (perfmatters.io) which is running Easy Digital Downloads. Don't hesitate to check it out. However, as you can see below, it looks nothing like a blog.
Speed Tests
For those Of you that are regular readers, you probably didn't even notice I changed the whole motif that forces woorkup.com. It just took me about an hour to get GeneratePress to mimic my MyThemeShop theme which I had spent annually customizing. Here is a comparison below.
woorkup.com Old MyThemeShop Theme
My old MyThemeShop theme was already pretty quickly, but I spent a lot of time customizing it. In fact, I have gotten a lot of emails from you guys asking me to print all of my customizations. My advice today is, just get GeneratePress!
woorkup.com New GeneratePress Theme
Together with the New GeneratePress theme I was able to achieve faster speeds and 600 fewer lines of code! And keep in mind, I don't have a kid motif. All the customizations were made with the awesome GP hooks and snippets plugin (both CSS and PHP).
Like the WordPress theme I've working on woorkup? You're in luck. Tom asked if he could make a replica of woorkup to your new GeneratePress site library. I'm happy to allow you to know that you can now install my woorkup theme on your own GeneratePress website with just a click! It is known as the Marketer theme. Get started with a great blog layout instantly.
brianjackson.io Old Array Theme's Theme
I also Moved over my private website, brianjackson.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I had been using a theme from Array Themes. It is a fairly basic minimum site, as I do not use it to get much. As you can see it loaded pretty quickly.
brianjackson.io New GeneratePress Theme
I had been Able to replicate the whole appearance 100 percent in GeneratePress in under one hour. And as you can see it loads faster! Amazing. I was able to get rid of a couple plugins that weren't needed because of GP.
forgemedia.io Old Array Theme's Theme
I also Moved over our business site, forgemedia.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I was using a motif from Array Themes. It's a pretty basic minimal website, as we just use it for our LLC. As you can see it loaded pretty fast. Make WordPress Theme
forgemedia.io New GeneratePress Theme
I had been Able to move everything over and get it looking just how I wanted it in under one hour. And since you can see it loads faster! Amazing. I managed to get rid of a total of four plugins and it dropped my total page burden 2x!
I can't express my Excitement about finding GeneratePress and I am moving over all my websites to it (which comprises several EDD e-commerce websites ). After I've got my 9 sites all running in GP without any child themes, my entire life will be a breeze! The developer has restored my faith in multi-purpose subjects , and that when done the correct way, can actually perform faster.
And The best news isI finally have a billion more choices to choose from than I did before.
What GeneratePress Is Great For…
GeneratePress Is the perfect alternative for performance-focused users that want to have the ability to personalize and control precisely how their site looks.
You Can make GeneratePress perform pretty much anything. And since GeneratePress has a focus on functionality, the site that you build will have a fantastic foundation to make it load quickly.
Since Of that, those who build WordPress websites for a living love GeneratePress. They'll normally pair it with a WordPress site builder and use it for literally any type of website.
But GeneratePress Might Not Be A Good Fit If…
…you Want something that will instantly appear perfect from the box.
For Example, if you realize you want to produce a style blog, you might be happier choosing a niche theme that's developed exclusively for trend bloggers.
Even though GeneratePress is becoming a great deal simpler to use, thanks to its pre-built Website Library, GeneratePress still seems very barebones if you initially install it.
So To create GeneratePress look how you want it to, you'll most likely need to go in and personalize matters. And while the significant advantage of GeneratePress is how customizable it is, many users, particularly casual users, do not like having to make those changes .
GeneratePress Features That Make It Unique
Here Are some of the particular characteristics that clarify why GeneratePress is so common.
Lots Of Customization Options In The Real-Time WordPress Customizer
Beyond Performance, another place where GeneratePress does nicely is its customization choices.
GeneratePress Uses the WordPress Customizer for customization, and this is convenient as you'll have the ability to see all of the changes that you create in real time.
The Free variant of GeneratePress provides you decent options, but should you have GeneratePress Premium, you will be able to customize pretty much everything about your site.
For Example, if you go into the Layout region, you may configure detailed settings for your:
- Header — you can move your header around and alter its styling
- Navigation — GeneratePress gives you two different navigation options, including sticky menus
- Sidebar design — you can use a Couple of sidebars
- Blog post layout — like featured image size, metadata, etc..
- Footer layout — just like how many widgets to add
Similarly, That the Typography place lets you control the font for every single element on your website, such as buttons:
And You also receive a detailed region to control the colour of each and every element on your site.
All Whatsoever, GeneratePress will provide you a lot more customization options from the WordPress Customizer compared to most other themes. This level of detail might be a bit overwhelming if you are a newcomer. But once you understand the way the settings come together, you'll have full control on how your site appears.
Optimized Performance And Quick Page Load Times
Across All of its features, GeneratePress consistently includes a focus on excellent performance and clean code. The entire theme is less than 30 kB, and it is about as little as you are ever going to find for a WordPress theme. Even most other optimized WordPress themes are still 200+ kB. And some badly coded themes can even surpass 1 MB!
GeneratePress Also does not have any code dependencies, which will help you avoid the leave blocking error that Google Pagespeed Insights often mentions.
Place That collectively, and you get a superfast-loading motif. How fast? To give you a sense, I conducted a small test.
First, I put up an empty site utilizing a haphazard popular WordPress.org motif (Envo Magazine). After analyzing its functionality with Pingdom, it:
- Had a performance grade of 77
- Loaded in 1.05 moments
- Had a page size of 243.9 kB
- Had 15 requests
That's Not bad at all! However, GeneratePress can do better.
Next, I triggered GeneratePress on the exact same test website without altering anything else. Here is how GeneratePress failed:
- Had a performance grade of 87, 10 points better
- Loaded in 666 ms, ~37% faster
- Had a page size of 26.8 kB, ~90% smaller
- Had 9 requests, ~40% less
If You perform the exact same test with other topics, you'll continue to see that GeneratePress is one of the fastest-loading WordPress themes in existence. Make WordPress Theme
Other Helpful Premium Extensions, Plus Much Modular Approach
Beyond Giving you more design controls from the WordPress Customizer, GeneratePress Premium also comes with a lot of other helpful features like:
- Elements — a exceptional feature which lets you create customized hooks, page headers, or design templates.
- Page Header — allows you create a unique page header onto a per-page basis.
- Sections — this is kind of like lightweight page construction. It permits you to create different"sections" on a page, each with their own design and column settings.
To Remain lightweight, GeneratePress also provides you a modular interface where you can pick and choose what characteristics you would like to trigger.
That Way, you do not have to slow your site down for a feature which you'll never use.
Pre-Made Starter Sites Make It Easier To Design Your Website
In The last, you had to construct GeneratePress websites from a blank canvas no matter what, which made the theme difficult for casual users to install.
Earlier In 2018, though, the programmer added a new Website Library attribute for GeneratePress Premium users which allows you easily import any one of those 25+ pre-built demo sites.
You Can import them right from your WordPress dashboard.
Yes this Website still uses GeneratePress! All I did was click a few buttons to import a presentation site.
Page-Level Settings Provide You Comprehensive Control Over Each Bit Of Content
With Most topics, every page and post will use the very same settings for the most part. You may have some custom templates or formats — however you do not have very much control beyond that.
GeneratePress Changes that by providing you a brand new Layout meta box for every single post and page:
You Can utilize this meta box to:
- Change the number of sidebars your site uses, or the sidebar orientation (such as altering the sidebar from right to left)
- Choose the number of footer widgets to use
- Disable certain components, such as your header, navigation menu, post featured picture, post title, or footer
- Produce a special"container" to your page builder
Where These controls would be the most helpful is if you're using a WordPress site builder.
By Disabling certain components, you are able to create the correct baseline for your own page builder layout, which makes it easy to create custom content as needed. Make WordPress Theme
GeneratePress Pricing: Cheap And Works On Unlimited Sites
The Heart GeneratePress theme can be obtained for free at WordPress.org.
That said, If you're seriously interested in utilizing GeneratePress, I feel you should purchase the GeneratePress Premium plugin, as that is what produces the theme so flexible. The free version doesn't give you almost as numerous configurations in the WordPress Customizer. And you will also lose out on the premade Site Library.
GeneratePress Premium can be still fairly affordable. It costs just $39.95, and that gives you use on unlimited websites . You will also get a 40% discount if you want to renew to keep on receiving support and upgrades following the first year (you can, obviously, continue using GeneratePress after the first year without renewing — you just won't receive any more updates).
When You believe the normal premium WordPress theme will often cost around $60, GeneratePress provides a great value.
As I mentioned, I don't think GeneratePress is for everybody.
If You desire a niche-specific motif, you can probably save time by buying a theme that fits your requirements for your market from day one.
But If you are ready to spend time changing preferences, then GeneratePress' style controls give you the flexibility to turn it into any type of WordPress website. Or, you may even be able to find a starter site that fits your needs to save some time.
Additionally, It is one of those fastest-loading WordPress topics that you will locate. Therefore, if you're looking for the best performance possible, using GeneratePress as your WordPress site's foundation is a great choice.
If You combine it with fast-loading hosting, you should have no problem making your site load in under one minute. Make WordPress Theme
To Get started, Click here to download GeneratePress.


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Why am I so motivated at school, usually in the middle of a class, to change the world? But the minute I have free time, I am motivated to check my facebook and email? I rarely use my prep time to prep anything- it almost feels like an inconvenience (I have to spell check that world every time I write it) to have to use my prep time for actual school work. But boy howdy, do I have some great ideas for things I want to do while I'm teaching! Today, for example, in the middle of my first class, all I wanted to do was sit down and plan my entire curriculum for next year! I wished for nothing more than to run back to my office, grab out my drama books and get to work.
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