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The horizon is a visible line dividing blue and brown.
Developed in 1987 by the physicist Steven Hawking, the horizon allowed people to know which way was up and which way was down. The invention of the horizon led onto many great discoveries including the discovery of gravity, the ability to stop floating and furthermore an interesting word which could be used if you're an artist. Further advancements came a year later when Sir Alan Partridge noticed that the horizon defined a boundary between Earth and sky, previously there had been a problem of figuring out where exactly the sky was and thus further development on the worlds first aircraft had been halted.
The horizon also gave a use to the mysterious spirit level which had been completely useless until then.
Suspect in the 1989 horizon bombings was sentenced to death after causing major confusion when part of the horizon was blown out of proportion thus causing large quantities of people to suffer from the affects of LSD.
Although many artists use the horizon to draw various landscapes it is most commonly used by rainbows as a place in which they can walk along. Before the invention of the horizon many rainbows ended up at inconvenient locations such as on major roads causing tailbacks.
In 2002 a formula was derived by William Wallace. In the spur of the moment he unified the horizon to brain damage. Many disregarded his formula as false but many many more agreed that this was the biggest discovery of all, only coming second to the discovery of the name of the meteor which caused the extinction to the galapougous child of 1200BC.
In the early 1990s Soviet Russia designed a new horizon which was more powerful than the first this was thought of as a declaration of war as both sides knew that the horizon could potentially be used as a means to launch a nuclear weapon from one side of the globe to the other in a matter of seconds. The war was forgotten about and the new soviet horizon was abandoned, it is now used as a means of travelling from one side of the globe to the other.
Unfortunately not all liked the existence of the horizon and in 1984 Eugene Victor Tombs acquired UN backing to take down the horizon. Eugene Victor Tombs is still currently in search for the horizon, equipped with a ladder he has currently circumnavigated the globe 12 times in a desperate search for the horizon. Most physicists agree now that the horizon CANNOT be taken down and that BEEF is the only substance which can be taken down.
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A British faggot named Oliver Sykes and his butt-buddies wanted the horizon for themselves for their own sick plans. Thus he posted a seven-million pound bounty on the horizon, clearly stating "Bring me the horizon". Most people know, however, that his request is impossible for reasons mentioned in the above paragraph. However, all 3 retards who actually listen to deathcore took them up on their offer and can be constantly seen jumping and grasping for the horizon while others point and laugh at them for falling for such a stupid joke.


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I have been trying to update the wiki but it now appears to require email confirmation for edit access. I tried requesting access and even changed my email address and tried requesting access again but I never get the confirmation email. Any idea how to resolve this issue? Thanks.
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I'm stopping back into this thread because I get the impression that JonBrave still hasn't learned what a wiki is, and why it can't just have static text.
A wiki is defined not just by user-generated content, but by the fact that content can be dynamically changed by anyone (depending on site-side restrictions).
This is why a wiki cannot simply have static text, or even plain .html
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Thanks for trying to enlighten me
I never suggested a wiki should have static content. All I ever said was, I was surprised no "snapshot" was available, when the site was down, which meant there would be no editing anyway. Read-only, of course; doesn't have to be perfect, all I want to do is read. I am now aware that I can try searching some archive sites, which is better than nothing.
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There is not because the amount of programming time (and interest) is limited. At least available to the dom3 community.
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I have been trying to update the wiki but it now appears to require email confirmation for edit access. I tried requesting access and even changed my email address and tried requesting access again but I never get the confirmation email. Any idea how to resolve this issue?
Hello all, long time no see - the site tells me that my last activity here was half a year ago. You all are probably aware that I am not active in this community anymore, the only reason being that I have no more time for that. I've kept the Wiki running, though I haven't looked at it much lately, and again I thank Soyweiser for his tireless work on the site.
I am aware that new users aren't activated anymore, but I have had no time to go in and fix that, sorry for the hassle. I won't have much time to care about this in the future, too, but I hope that I can address this at some point. What surprises me even more is that apparently even though users can't confirm their accounts anymore, now and then there are still spam bots slipping through which still manage to leave some spam on the Wiki. If they can confirm their accounts, why can't other users do that? Strange... In the meantime, I did ponder ways to prevent spam bots from registering. As there are a couple of them that can easily be identified (by a human) from their registered user name, looking like "
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Ideally, I want to disable user registration and have it replaced by an application system. I already did some research on this, probably half a year back, and found out that there exists a wondrous MediaWiki extension called ConfirmAccount which would allow just this. In order to get it installed, the Wiki software has to be updated to the latest version, though, before it isn't stable for the current one, and this always requires some amount of work by hand, there's no "install update" button that I can click. So, my ToDo list for the Wiki looks like this:
1. Upgrade to 1.17
2. Install and enable ConfirmEdit extension
3. Tidy up the old user accounts
Now, something else. There were two donations to the Wiki site, one at the start of the year and another one a week or two back or so, thank you to the donors. I am using the server that is running the Wiki at home for nothing else but hosting the Dom3Wiki and through some occurrence I have started pondering just how much this hosting costs me. The costs were zero when I still were able to host this at the university, but I am no longer able to do this since years. One factor of the costs would be the monthly costs for internet access, though we're running this from our home and can use the existing internet connection that we have, anyway, so we can ignore that. The other factor is power consumption and I have never looked into that, but I have now, and to be honest, it did surprise me. The Wiki is hosted on a laptop with a 72W power adaptor. The server is running all the time, electricity is about 25 cents/kWh as a ballpark number, I don't know exactly, but
according to Wikipedia
this is about right. Putting those values into an
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results in costs of about 157 EUR per year, and with a projected 28.5 cents/kWh for this year according to that Wikipedia table (power ain't cheap in Germany, folks!) this is trending towards 180 EUR per year. I was really surprised by those numbers, and after previously ignoring alternatives to hosting from home, I am now looking into having the Wiki hosted elsewhere. Professional solutions cost money, of course, and a first look into Wiki hosters showed me that I'll pay about the same for professional hosting - no longer for the electricity, but for the software etc. While the pledges that llamabeast's wonderful PBEM server has collected are exceptional, I don't expect that donations will cover the costs of that.
One Wiki hosting company called Wikkii.net stands out, as it is offering free Wiki hosting. Who knows for how long, but what I know right now is that what they ask for is very reasonable: Have their banner displayed, next to the unobtrusive default MediaWiki one on the bottom right of each page. It's no popup, nor will there ever be one according to their FAQ, so while the Wiki operated with zero advertisement so far, I'd be very willing to have the Wiki moved there for the prize of one small 88x31 pixels graphic being displayed on every page. The best thing is that disk space and bandwidth isn't limited and the hoster leaves a lot of options to configure the Wiki open to me, instead of having multiple levels of options to choose from, and having to pay more for the better ones. Providing solutions like that means that if there are lots of other users of this hosting then load times might increase for the Dom3Wiki, of course, but I expect that these people know how to deal with that. I've had a look into a site hosted by them, the
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history to it
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I'll be interested in getting some feedback from you guys what you think about that, feel free to respond here. If you want to contact me directly, then please
send me a PM here, but instead click on my name next to that red "offline" button and send me an email to the email address which is being displayed in the comments on my page. Thanks!
P.S.: Please don't think that I intend to pull the plug on the Wiki. I do plan to preserve the Dom3Wiki and I will continue to host this from home until I have found a viable new home for it. Glad that you like the Wiki!
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lch, thank you not only setting up the wiki but continuing to keep it running after you have moved on from Dom yourself (the same goes for everyone who keeps things running though they may no longer be active themselves). At first I didn't use it much because I was so used to using Edi's db as a reference but over time, as more things have been added, I've grown to appreciate it as a resource. It would definitely be a shame to lose it and I think your idea to move it to a hosting company is a good one.
What I'm wondering is, after the wiki has been migrated do you think it would be worthwhile to have a backup admin in case you no longer have the time to work on it in the future (though I think that the creator of something has the right to control it and if you would prefer to not to do so I can certainly respect that)? As you noted, Soy has put a lot of work into the wiki and comes to mind as a backup admin. Also Edi, as an unofficial representative of IW. The other thing is that you are among the most tech savvy of Dom players and I'm not sure just how important that factor is in being able to maintain the wiki.
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Important as the wiki is, I have to decline. I do not have the time or resources to put into it on top of running the Desura forums and moderating this place (light as the traffic is these days). If I add the wiki, there are simply too many things to keep an eye on and then all of them would suffer.
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There was one user who registered a while back using the normal channels, I think the registration issues have been cleared up.
Odly enough, I recently got an offer at a shared server, which I declined. At 5 bucks a month, I could get shared hosting at that server.
I have no clue how much traffic the wiki attracts. But I would be able to provide hosting for it.
Sadly this would mean two things, A, further decreasing the anonymity of my soyweiser handle, and B, recurring financial obligations of my part. (I'm a poor mofo atm).
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As has been standard, any Dom3 project can be hosted on the Dom3minions server. Longest running, most stable, full login server.
I can vouch for lch. He had full administrator privileges there for quite awhile. Not only is that full identity disclosure but he had access to all of the packet traffic passing from everyones computer on my home network and my emails going back to the 1980s. I had no problem with it.
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Sorry about necroing this, but has anybody heard anything from lch? I contacted him about hosting wiki about six months ago. He replied to my first email, but I haven't heard anything from him since then.
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This will be the last Sit-A-Long by me for a couple of weeks, as I am heading into retreat at Shogoji Zen Monastery in the mountains of Kumamoto, Japan ... no phones, no computers and barely any electricity ...
.. but lots and lots of Zazen, Bowing, Zazen, Chanting, Oryoki, Takuhatsu, more Zazen, Samu, more Zazen and all the rest. Shogoji is famous for holding a very traditional Soto Zen Sesshin with the intent of keeping many of the "old ways" and rituals alive, and passing them on to the next generation, particularly western Zen priests.
I will be completely out of touch with Treeleaf for a couple of weeks I think. Mongen, our priest-in-training, is joining me for the retreat, flying all the way from Germany. The retreat is part of a longer, 90 day Ango period, but Mongen and I can only stay for a short part. (I almost did not make it at all due to the earthquakes, nuclear reactors, a typhoon storm last night that did more damage to some of our buildings, wife & child & job, and some health concerns ... and any of that may yet pull me off the mountain a bit early).
But this place keeps going as always, in the lovely hands of Taigu as it always is, assisted by Fugen and Shohei. Taigu will continue the "sit-a-longs", and we also have our monthly 4-hour 'netcast' Zazenkai this weekend, as always, led by Taigu. The Forum will keep jumpin' too!
As well, all of you will be with Mongen and me, in our hearts, as we sit at Shogoji.
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Preston Larson, a research scientist in the Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma, is the 2013 recipient of the Regents' Award for Superior Staff.
The OU Board of Regents established the award in 1988 to recognize outstanding contributions made by OU staff members whose job performance, service activities and dedication have enhanced the mission of the university. The award was presented at the Norman campus staff awards ceremony April 23 in Oklahoma Memorial Union.
In his nomination letter, Scott Russell, George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Botany and director of the Samuel Roberts Noble Electron Microscopy Laboratory, said that Larson "excels in every regard and is a great asset to the research and educational missions of the University of Oklahoma."
Russell said that Larson has been responsible for all the scanning electron imaging on the university's Norman campus since starting work in the lab in 2005, while continuing to conduct research and publish his own scholarly work. He also teaches two graduate courses in electron microscopy each year, including Scanning Electron Microscopy, which Russell said has been "transformed from principally a biology-oriented course to one that increasingly has chemists, biochemists, bioengineers, nanoengineers, geologist and materials scientists," and has assumed a greater lead in acquiring grants to purchase microscopes and ancillary equipment for the lab.
He added that Larson also has become the lab's expert in component-by-component trouble-shooting, a move that has saved the university about $1 million so far in unrenewed service contracts." Russell said Larson often allows class members to observe how electronic problems are isolated, tested and repaired, instilling in students a clearer understanding of the equipment and the importance of properly maintaining them.
Russell added that Larson "is always busy; he gladly works through lunch and stays late to be able to meet researchers' needs in an uncomplaining and timely fashion. He is a great asset as an OU employee and is a great team builder."
In a letter of support, Matthew Johnson, Presidential Professor of Physics and director of the OU Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructure, wrote, "I have worked with electron microscopists at academic institutions as well as internationally leading industrial labs; Preston is as good as or even better than the microscopists at these premier institutions. We are lucky to have Preston here at OU."
In another letter of support, Andrew Elwood Madden, assistant professor of geology and geophysics, noted that OU recently acquired a nearly state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope which, while greatly benefitting the research programs across campus, would "just be an unusable, strange-looking box taking up space, perhaps accessible only to one or two individuals on campus, were it not for Larson's technical expertise and easy-going, welcoming personality." Madden also praised Larson for his "exceptional collegiality and professional demeanor."
The OU research scientist also was cited for assuming a leadership role in the Oklahoma Microscopy Society, a local affiliate of two national microscopy scientific organizations. As part of the society's educational outreach program, Larson annually participates in the annual Oklahoma Ugly Bug Contest, through which second- through sixth-grade school students from across the state can bring in an insect to be imaged using the high-tech microscopes. Winning schools receive an optical dissecting microscope. In 2007, the contest received national attention as part of a Nature documentary, "The Beauty of Ugly," that aired on PBS in the United States and the BBC in the United Kingdom.


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Octave's application for GSoC 2014.
Organization ID
Organization name
GNU Octave
GNU Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is a free numerical computing environment largely compatible with Matlab. John W. Eaton began the project in 1992 and remains the primary maintainer. Development is quite active with more than 20 volunteers currently involved. Octave is also widely used in teaching, industry, and research. It has gained attention as the recommended tool for a number of distributed online courses such as Stanford's machine learning course (https://www.coursera.org/course/ml).
GNU Octave has an extensive core of functions useful for computations in several fields, such as numerical analysis, optimisation, signal and image processing, and control theory. Its sister project, Octave Forge (http://octave.sourceforge.net/), helps in speeding up development, increasing user contributions, and testing code before it is included in GNU Octave's core set of functions.
Recent and ongoing improvements include a GUI and just-in-time compilation capabilities, both of which started as GSoC projects.
c++, mathematics, math, numerical, matlab, mercurial, scientific, computing
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Logo: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/raw-file/155d8e90ee1f/doc/icons/octave-logo.png
Blog: http://planet.octave.org/
Feed: http://planet.octave.org/atom.xml
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Backup admin
If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.
If you chose "new" in the dropdown above, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
Yes (2011-2013). In those 3 years, we were told that rather than a separate project, we would instead be accepted under the umbrella of the GNU project and in the post-session, advised to still apply for independent organization in upcoming years.
Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by participating?
Octave has participated during the last three years as part of the GNU project. Due to the success of those experiences, where many members of the Octave community helped mentor the students, we are trying again to enter GSoC as a participating organization.
We hope to establish collaborations with talented new contributors. We also want to raise awareness of Octave in the free software community.
Google Summer of Code represents a unique opportunity to bring new perspectives to the Octave community. As a somewhat older project, we benefit from having new and younger contributors among our developers. Our past record of retaining GSoC participants as contributors to the Octave project is mixed but we hope to improve in the future by engaging more effectively with students during both the application and mentoring processes, setting clear standards for what is required for acceptance, and maintaining those standards throughout the project.
Did your organization participate in past Google Summer of Codes? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.
Yes, we participated in GSoC each year since 2011 under GNU and in these last 3 years, 9 students have contributed to the Octave project through GSoC. Additionally, we have been a mentoring organization for the European Space Agency (ESA) Summer of Code in Space (http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/) through which we had 3 more other students. Students working with us have made valuable contributions all of which is live and in our main source tree. These contributions covered many different areas, improving Octave's usability in functionality, undertaking such tasks as adding just-in-time compilation support, geometric integration algorithms, and finite element modeling capabilities.
The challenges are managing very diverse problem domains and finding people who are competent in all of them. We have not had trouble keeping students interested, although we have seen lulls in their productive output a few times, which were always thankfully remedied with a little prodding.
Summarizing, we have previously mentored a total number of 12 students through different programs, all of them a successful experience which created useful code for the project and community. Because of this, we believe that Octave is a suitable project, capable to mentor students.
What is the URL for your Ideas page?
What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
email@example.com (https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/octave-maintainers)
What is the main IRC channel for your organization?
#octave in Freenode
How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them?
We have about 10 contributors have mentored previous summer projects and continue to be active participants in the Octave community
Each project will include at least one core Octave developer as mentor. These are proven, veteran members of the project, active in its development, and familiar with the code base.
GNU Octave is a project with applications in very diverse domains so each project also includes mentors with expertise in the related field. All of these have previously contributed with code, have commit access to either Octave or Octave Forge source tree, and are active in the mailing lists. Most also keep a constant presence in the IRC channel.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
First, make all reasonable efforts to accommodate the student and make them feel welcome. We will engage the students frequently by email and IRC, provide prompt response to student queries, and expect periodic status reports from mentors about the project status. We will also encourage the student to participate in the public mailing list and IRC channel, with or without the mentor. Their progress should be regularly applied to our source tree, if necessary in a feature branch. All of these have shown to be effective with students in previous years.
Should this fail and the student disappears for unforeseen reasons (which we hope will be very unlikely, since it has never happened before and nobody vanishes without good reason), make reasonable attempts to contact them via alternative channels up to a private phone number. If more than 2 weeks have passed without a response, we will analyse the code submitted thus far, and prepare it for integration into our source tree.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
Distribute the workload among the remaining mentors. The mailing list is active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to a backup mentor. In the worst case, the project admin can become a mentor for the student until another backup mentor is found.
This situation should be infrequent and we hope to prevent it by selecting mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free software projects. The vast majority of our mentors have been involved in Octave development for several years, and new mentors with be paired with more experienced ones.
What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program?
We will encourage them to join us on our IRC channel and mailing list. We will set clear expectations on the minimum frequency of email progress updates of every two to three days. Longer updates should be done on a blog and aggregated at http://planet.octave.org
Everything should be completely open. Almost all interactions with the student should be public, e.g. contacting the mentor should happen in the public IRC channel or CC the maintainers mailing list.
Our annual conference, OctConf, will be held in the summer. Students will be invited to attend and present on their work. Last year's OctConf had several such student presenters.
For some projects, there may be way to bridge them directly into industry projects. We hope that we can increase student participation this way.
What will you do to encourage that your accepted students stick with the project after Google Summer of Code concludes?
We will constantly merge their code into our codebase, and GNU Octave is a project with many test users that give constant feedback on new features and bug reports. As participants in the mailing lists and bug tracker, students get the feeling of doing something that is being used by others, and that is useful to the community from the very start.
In addition, many GSoC students will likely use Octave during their academic year and in during their professional careers. As such, they are prone to stay involved with its development, even if at a lower lever than during the summer.
Finally, we organize a developers' summit during the summer and have in previous years provided help for GSoC students to attend. This strengthens the relationships between community members and the new students. While only one of the previous GSoC students is currently a core developer, several continued with occasional contributions and most remain available to help us with any problems related to the code they wrote for the project.
Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here.
Yes, GNU can vouch for us.
Are you an established or larger organization who would like to vouch for a new organization applying this year? If so, please list their name(s) here.


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Jamieson leads by five in Durban
Scott Jamieson of Scotland had a 4-under-par 68 Saturday and took a five-shot lead in the Volvo Champions on Saturday as Louis Oosthuizen faded in the third round at Durban Country Club.
Jamieson began the day a stroke behind the former British Open champion in the European Tour event, but he finished with a 15-under total to lead Oosthuizen (74), Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand (73) and Julien Quesne of France (67).
Padraig Harrington (67) and Francesco Molinari (68) were another two strokes back in the event for European Tour winners.
Jamieson won his first European Tour title a month ago in the season-opening Nelson Mandela Championship. Now he's one round away from earning the ''Durban Double.
''It's been another great day. While I didn't play as well as I did the first two days, especially yesterday from tee to green, I managed to score well, which is the main thing,'' Jamieson said. ''So I'm delighted to be in the position I'm in.
''The experience of winning the Nelson Mandela in a playoff under the extreme pressure with a first European Tour title on the line gave me a lot of confidence that I've taken into this week.''
Jamieson had an eagle on the par-5 eighth hole after landing the ball 5 feet from the hole with a 5-iron for 198 yards. He also birdied three straight holes from the 11th.
For three days, Jamieson has competed against some of the bigger names in golf.
He played the first round with Harrington and finished a shot ahead of the Irishman. On day two, he was six shots better than Thomas Bjorn, and was six strokes better Saturday than crowd favorite Oosthuizen, who had four bogeys on the front nine.
''You always have your eye out, comparing yourself to them,'' Jamieson said. ''But, yeah, I managed to beat them through the week, so that was nice.''


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Yes, gang, today is Isaac Newton's 367th birthday! Celebrate by eating 367 apples.
Friday, December 25, 2009
A very special person was born on this day!
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Can I just drop one apple 367 times?ReplyDelete
Well, since Isaac Newton was not born from a virgin, I deny gravity, just like I deny the theories of Galileo and Darwin. Obviously, if any of them had to be right, they would have been born from a virgin, or would have got their writings all hot from a burning bush or something.ReplyDelete
Yay! Happy Newtonmas!ReplyDelete
otakursed: But then where will you get your fiber!?ReplyDelete
If you've been a good girl or boy, the ghost of Sir Isaac Newton might arise through the floor and leave calculus books under your tree!ReplyDelete
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So, you leave santa cookies and milk. What do you leave Sir Isaac's ghost, a pi?ReplyDelete
My Grandmother also turned 90 yesterday. Happy birthday, olde folks!ReplyDelete
Matt, please publish your rant on the historicity of Jesus on the last Non-prophets.ReplyDelete
Yeah, you know who else was born on Christmas?ReplyDelete
Boy was my brother pissed.
Actually, Newton was born in december 25 1642 of the OLD calendar. In the Gregorian Calendar (the current one) that date corresponds to january 4 1643.ReplyDelete
But I still celebrate Summer Solstice on the 25 and wait for Zombie Newton to bring us presents and apples.
The radio station I'm on does a nightly celebrity trivia bit. Early in the hours of Dec 25th, I chose Isaac Newton as my trivia question. Even better, the theist who is on air with me didn't get a chance to mention that it was allegedly Jesus' birthday, because I was hosting and choosing the questions (sneaky me!)Hooray for sticking some science and reason into the media!!ReplyDelete
I dropped an apple 367 millimeters. That will have to suffice, as I got sick after eating my 93rd apple.ReplyDelete
Today is Newton's birthday according to our calendar!ReplyDelete
Heh, if Newton were to see this blog, he'd freak out. He was a deeply religious man.
He was also into alchemy, as I understand it. Wild man.ReplyDelete
He would have considered alchemy a legtimate avenue of intellectual pursuit, one that would give the natural philosopher an opportunity to study the interface between the natural world (matter) and the supernatural one (spirit). It was, really, a way to keep his science from being too "atheistically" mechanical.ReplyDelete
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Last month I returned home from my second exploration of Egypt. My first visit was in 1986.
A few things really struck a chord with me. The first is just how vast the historic legacy of ancient Egypt is. The second is the incredible lack of tourists in Egypt at the moment.
I traveled with 3 family members, including my 10 year old niece. During our visit to the pyramids in Giza we had the grounds practically to ourselves. We walked through Tahrir square and talked openly with the friendly locals. On our journey to the oasis of Siwa we saw virtually no one. At the Valley of the Whales (UNESCO; 40 million year old whale fossils with 4 obsolete legs which theorizes that whales were once mammals which lived on land and returned to the sea) we explored the landscape and fossils without another person to be seen. We found tourism to still be alive from Luxor to Aswan but, even here, tourism was down 70 percent.
With the exception of some aggressive street vendors, I found everyone we met to be polite and welcoming. When talking to other travelers, they all expressed the same sentiment. "What a great time to come to Egypt!" No one we met had the slightest trepidation about being in a country which has been so inaccurately portrayed by news networks regarding current safety. Surprisingly, even the normally over-cautious US State Department does not have any travel warnings for Egypt. To put things in perspective, the only real concern for safety on our travels were crossing some streets and navigating through the congested and hectic Egyptian traffic. Granted, that's a common, courageous experience in many developing nations.
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At the newly constructed Musical Theatre in Nimbasa City, the opening ceremony is about to begin. Standing in the spotlight on stage, the Announcer welcomes everyone to this new hall of entertainment, and commences the show as an Emolga hovers onto the runway with a Maractus, Petilil and Throh, all of them dressed up with various Props. The four begin dancing to the music, and the Announcer states that this first cool number is known as 'Stardom'.
A silhouette soon comes out from an opening on the stage, and the Announcer wants everyone to welcome their special guest, someone who has reached stardom herself in Unova's entertainment world, a brilliant model and idol, the shining beauty, Elesa. The crowd begins to cheer and roar with excitement as Elesa steps into the light to strike her signature pose, and her dedicated fans immediately start chanting her name in unison.
The young woman greets the audience, and reaches out her hand to the Emolga that is performing. She reveals to the crowd that the marvelous Pokemon who just led 'Stardom' is her very own, and the electric squirrel takes off its mask to show its face with a grin. Elesa states that Emolga took part in the show to let everyone know what the Pokemon Musical is about, and elaborates that there are altogether four different numbers, each having a unique theme. One must dress up their Pokemon with matching Props, which she thinks is also part of the fun. Currently, her Emolga is equipped with the Pirate Hat, White Domino Mask, Striped Tie, and Red Parasol, but these are only a few examples of the 100 types of Props.
The young woman remarks that every Pokemon in the audience may become the star on the stage in the coming day, and urges everything to give Pokemon Musical a try and let their Pokemon shine in great styling. The Announcer steps up to thank Elesa, and introduces the next number, the cute 'Forest Stroll'. As Elesa bids the crowd goodbye with a blow kiss, a Panpour, Patrat and Pidove come on stage and start dancing to the tune.
Elesa returns to the backstage, where the staff greets her warmly, and she wonders what White thinks of her performance. The girl beams that it was impeccable, and says Elesa's explanation was right on the spot, not only capturing the audience but also making the stage dazzling. The young woman grins that White is too kind, and attributes it all to her perfect casting and script. White thanks Elesa for the compliment, and at that moment, the Mayor walks up to them.
The man feels glad that the show is going well, and the only thing left to do is to distribute the Prop Cases to the audience before the ceremony ends. However, he states that he is actually a little doubtful as to whether people will really start participating the next day, and White assures him that they will. She explains that each Prop Case will contain some basic Props, and after watching the show today, she is sure that everyone who love their Pokemon will want to try dressing them up, and as soon as they see the fun in it, they will decide to take part in the Musical.
The Mayor feels relieved after White's explanation, and Black is amazed that his president also thought about these details. Elesa grins that it is why she thinks the girl is a top class producer, and tells Black that it is time for them to go. Black wonders what she means, and Elesa hopes that Black hasn't forgotten she is the Nimbasa Gymleader. Black's face immediately lights up as he realizes that Elesa is offering him a Gym challenge, and knows that it is his turn to fulfill his dreams now that White is living out hers.
However, in that instant, White receives the shocking news from some of the staff that the Prop Cases may not been delivered in time. The staff in charge explains that although the 200 pieces are supposed to arrive before the end of the show, the Driftveil Drawbridge has been raised since that morning for some reason, and the truck that is carrying the Prop Cases is still stuck in traffic.
White quickly takes out the map to see if there are alternative routes, but the staff says the drawbridge is the only land route, while the sea route is way too far and the water route is not accessible by ships. Another staff relents that even if they count on Pokemon who could use Fly and Surf, it will not be possible to transport all 200 pieces.
The Mayor steps up to suggest they forget the Prop Cases, since the audience did not know about them and basically came to watch the show only. He thinks they could afford to distribute the goods later, but White states that it wouldn't do, because they can't simply focus on the success of the opening ceremony and must ensure that the event hall will start to fill with participants the next day. The Mayor realizes that she is right and gets into an anxiety mode, and White wonders what she should do now that there is also 30 minutes left before the show ends.
Black decides to help by calling upon Musha to munch on his head, but Elesa suddenly drags him away, and Musha crashes face-down on the floor. Black wants to know what she is doing, and the Nimbasa Gymleader remarks that outsiders would only get in the way at such troubled times. Black protests that his president may need help, but Elesa says if White cannot solve this, this will be as far as she could ever go. Black realizes that Elesa is right, and silently wishes White good luck as he leaves the room with the Nimbasa Gymleader.
Taking out her laptop, White tries her best to search online for possible solutions, and soon finds something which may be helpful. She asks the staff if it is feasible, but the staff, after taking a look at the screen, sighs that they have dropped the option because it would make them go over the budget. The Mayor checks on what they are talking about, and agrees that the delivery may still not make it in time anyway, but as soon as he sees White trembling with anger, he knows that it is better to keep silent.
The girl breaks into a fury, and cries that if they are going to be stingy now, the expenses on this extravagant theatre hall will go to waste. The Mayor thinks White is a genius to reach that conclusion, and White barks that if money is really an issue, the BW Agency will cover the cost. Wasting no time, she makes the call via her Xtransceiver, and tells the delivery company that they have an ultra urgent request to make.
A while later, on stage outside, the final number comes to an end. The curtain is gradually drawn together, and the Announcer thanks the audience once again for attending their opening ceremony. He concludes the performance of the day, and states that the ones watching will be the stars on stage the next day. With that, he vanishes behind the curtain, but the room remains in darkness. The crowd starts to wonder if there is some technical problem going on with the lights, but the curtain suddenly stirs again, and White emerges on stage.
Holding a Prop Case in hand, she apologizes for making everyone wait, and announces that every guest will receive a gift of appreciation today, which is a container to keep the Props used to dress up one's Pokemon. She steals a look at the staff behind the curtain, but the staff signals that the delivery still hasn't arrived, and she makes a quick decision. She requests that all guests exit the hall on the right side, and wants them to line up to receive the Prop Cases, which will all be identical.
The visitors get into queue as they are instructed while White goes outside to wait for their delivery, but after a while, the crowd starts to get unsettle and request to know why they have to wait for so long. The staff tells White that they won't be able to keep the guests in much longer, and in that instant, the sound of engines fill the area.
White beams with relief as she looks up into the sky, and sees a cargo plane hover above, bearing the logo 'Mistralton Cargo Services'. White tells the visitors to form a circle on the square outside the Musical Theatre, and the cargo plane soon drops the large parcel it is carrying by detaching its hinge strap. A parachute opens up as soon as the parcel begins to fall, and lands it safely right in the center of the square. The plane then does a flip in the air, and by expelling a special gas, skywrites the line 'Let's enjoy the Pokemon Musical'. Inside the plane, the Mistralton Gymleader Skyla, who is accompanied by her Swoobat, signals to White by putting up her thumb, and proceeds to drive off, having made her delivery successfully.
And so, every guest who attended the Pokemon Musical's opening ceremony receives a Prop Case, and nearly everyone opens theirs immediately to start dressing up their Pokemon. As the crowd disperses, they talk about how fabulous the air show was at the end, and almost all of them decide to come back and participate the next day.
Hearing all the positive comments, White and all the staff are grateful that their project was a success, and the girl feels her eyes welling up with tears. She encourages everyone to continue doing their best when the Musical opens to the public officially the next day, and all the staff believe that White should really let herself rest since she has been staying up all night. They tell the girl not to worry as they will handle the rest, and promise by the time she wakes up, they will all celebrate with a big party.
White makes no attempt to protest as she is truly exhausted, and picks up Gigi into her arms as she excuses herself from the group. She makes her way back towards her hotel on wobbly feet, and suddenly bumps into someone in front. She apologizes for not looking, and the young man she bumped into believes that she should take a seat since she is so tired. Not really aware of whom the young man is, White simply thanks him, and is placed on some kind of chair as Gigi widens her eyes in horror.
At that moment, White finds her seat moving, and only then realizes that she is inside a cart of the Rondez-View Ferris Wheel. However, what truly shocks her is that the young man whom she has bumped into, currently inside the cabin with her, is the green-haired trainer N she encountered at Accumula. The young man slams his palms onto the side windows of the cart, and towers over her and Gigi with a Servine…Thanks To Coronis For Writing this for us
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Goodbye Charlotte and 60 Days To Go
A Commentary By Kyle Kondik, Larry J. Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley
Whenever the Library of America -- the publisher that releases those elegant volumes with white, cursive writing on black covers -- comes up with its next book of classic political oratory, we've got a pretty good idea of two speeches that won't be included.
After Mitt Romney gave a bland, workmanlike speech stating the case for change in Tampa last Thursday, President Obama followed it up with a glorified stump speech last night in Charlotte. Neither address will stand the test of time. Rather, they were statements of both party's basic principles, setting up an election that is, in essence, Democratic base versus Republican base -- and thus, a battle of turnout.
Obama's speech was mainly a laundry-list recitation of Democratic positions, stressing familiar themes about the role of government with nods to liberal positions on social issues. It's been Obama's standard message since 2008, when his lofty, post-partisan dreams helped to propel him into the White House. Just because Obama's address inspired yawns among journalists, who have heard versions of it many times before, doesn't mean that it was bad. The speech drew a dividing line with Republicans on issue after issue, not unreasonable considering the nation is deeply divided along hard partisan lines. On both sides, this election is one of us vs. them. That's not pleasant, but it's reality.
The release of this morning's jobs report -- the unemployment rate decreased to 8.1% but only a weak 96,000 jobs were added -- gives both sides something to spin. But the basic outline of the election remains unchanged: The president is not in a strong position, but he's not doomed either. While he would love to see better jobs data, he has yet to pay a major political price for them. It is unclear whether he ever will.
Obama wrapped in Clintonian cloth
Reasonable people can disagree on who gave the best speeches at the two party conventions. It's easier to get consensus on a different question though. Who had the most fun giving his or her speech?
C'mon -- it's got to be the Big Dog.
Former President Bill Clinton's address was classic Clinton -- filled with one poll-tested notion after the next, animated by colorful facial contortions and off-script insertions ("Are you listening in Michigan and Ohio and across the country?" Clinton asked, when talking about Romney's opposition to the auto bailout). Clinton loved it not just because he loves politics and the grand stage, but also because he knew that Obama, who once downplayed his presidency, now needed him rather badly.
Obama's most notable criticism of Clinton during the 2008 primaries was that Clinton didn't pass the test of history, that great presidents transform the country and its politics. And yet here was Clinton, boiling Obama's presidency down to defensible, digestible little nuggets, just like Clinton liked to do in his own State of the Union addresses in the 1990s. Obama seemed to like Clinton's style so much that he borrowed a bit of it for his own speech, but his style is dramatically different than Clinton's -- less specific and more inspirational. But eloquence doesn't guarantee a real connection with the audience.
Clinton's performance as well as his support on the stump down the stretch comes with a big IOU. We have no idea whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will actually take the plunge again in 2016, but if she does, the current president would have a hard time standing in her way. Obama literally -- as Joe Biden would say, folks -- embraced Bill Clinton on the convention stage Wednesday night. In enlisting Bubba's aid, Obama has figuratively embraced the Clintons fully, at long last. Perhaps he won't actually endorse Hillary, but how could Obama back another Democratic presidential candidate without looking like a complete ingrate?
The road ahead
Now that a week has passed since Mitt Romney's convention, it seems he didn't get much, if any, of a poll bounce, at least in the horserace. According to Gallup, Romney actually had a negative bounce -- the race was 47% Romney, 46% Obama on Aug. 27, the first day of the Republican convention. By Tuesday -- several days after the end of the RNC -- Romney and Obama had flipped positions, 47% to 46% in favor of the incumbent (which is where it stood Thursday night as well). So at least according to Gallup, the convention didn't move the horserace needle at all. But the evidence is contradictory. Romney's convention appears to have improved his personal favorability ratings, for example; thus, the attempt to "warm him up" and let voters know him may have been partly successful. And Obama did drift down a bit in the all-poll averages. Since August 27, Obama has gone from a 1.1% lead in the RealClearPolitics average of polls to, as of last night, an exact tie. In sum, our guess is that Romney's "bounce" might have been about a point. The immediate start of the Democratic National Convention coverage after the GOP left Tampa may have also contributed to the squashing of the bounce.
About 30 million people watched Romney's final-night speech, down from about 39 million for John McCain in 2008. (Obama's ratings for his final night speech were not available as of Friday morning.) There's some truth to the press banter coming out of Tampa and Charlotte the past two weeks that the party pep rallies are becoming largely irrelevant. Take the ratings: conservative favorite Fox News led all networks in viewership during the RNC but finished last on both Day One and Day Two of the DNC, and liberal favorite MSNBC soared during the Democratic conclave. That's just one indicator that most of the people watching the conventions have been partisans, selectively cheering on their respective team. And compare the convention audience totals of 20-30 million each night to the likely total of voters in November, 130-140 million or so. The size of the convention audiences are about what you'd expect for the two party bases. Allowing for some overlap in the audiences (the political junkies out there), only about a third of general election voters watched much of either convention.
If Obama also doesn't get much of a bounce out of his convention, these will go down as two of the least impactful conventions in the modern era, along with 2004. In that year George W. Bush got a two-point bump out of his convention, and John Kerry got no bump (both according to Gallup). It's possible that Obama and Romney, collectively, won't even match that meager total. But this shouldn't be surprising in a polarized era when there are few actual swing, undecided voters.
It will take a week or two for the polls to settle down after the election. But given the lack of movement we've seen thus far during the two-week convention, it's likely this will remain a close, competitive race.
Some small swings -- with important implications -- in the swing states
Convention coverage is so all-encompassing that it can overwhelm nearly everything else in the campaign world. But there are a few things that happened during the conventions that might have more impact on the outcome in November than all of the speeches delivered over the past two weeks.
Last Friday, a federal judge in Ohio overruled a decision by the state legislature to end early voting on the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday before the Nov. 6 election. In 2008, 93,000 people voted on those three days before the election, and while of course those weren't all votes for Obama, expanded early voting is more a priority for Democrats than Republicans. It's impossible to precisely measure the impact, but if the decision stands (there is an appeal), the extra days of early voting are probably worth tens of thousands of net votes for President Obama.
In Virginia, former Rep. Virgil Goode has apparently made the state's presidential ballot. The Commonwealth's procedures for getting on the ballot are only mildly friendlier to candidates than Augusta National was, until recently, to women trying to join the course. Candidates must collect 10,000 legitimate signatures, including at least 400 apiece from each of the Old Dominion's 11 congressional districts. Republicans wanted to keep the Constitution Party nominee off the ballot because the conservative Democrat-turned Independent-turned Republican is likely to siphon more votes from Romney than Obama. Expect his total share of the vote in Virginia to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1% or so. Our Geoffrey Skelley has more on Goode's candidacy here. If Goode stays on the ballot, Romney will lose votes disproportionately to Goode, and those thousands could be critical if Virginia turns out to be very close.
Finally, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's decision to throw out the "none of the above" option that has historically appeared on the Nevada ballot. Provided the Supreme Court doesn't intervene (quickly), this is another small setback for Republicans, because the GOP fears that voters who might not like President Obama could choose "none of the above" as a protest vote, rather than voting for Romney.
Yes, these developments are minor, and they are not all necessarily set in stone. But in a very tight race, tiny shifts toward Obama in three of the Crystal Ball's eight toss-up presidential states could matter in November.
Tar Heel State boost from Charlotte convention?
Last week in Tampa we dismissed the prospect of Republicans seeing any tangible electoral benefit from holding their convention in the Sunshine State. So what about North Carolina and the Democrats?
Chart 1 examines electoral performance in states where Democrats have held their conventions since the end of World War II. The chart compares improvement (or decline) in presidential election performance based on the previous cycle's election. If there was improvement, we looked to see if the outcome in the convention state showed greater gain than the national outcome, and if there was decline, we looked to see if the loss was smaller in the convention state.
Note: Chart uses two-party vote (this eliminates all votes given to third-party candidates). Years shaded in blue indicate when the Democratic presidential candidate performed better in the state where they held their convention than they did nationally compared to the previous presidential election; years listed in gray indicate where they did not.
Since 1948, Democrats have performed better in their convention state in seven of 16 elections, but in half the cases, Democrats actually had comparably worse showings in their convention state than at the national level. (One other year was a tie.) So there is scant evidence showing that Democrats will gain electorally from their convention site.
In the instances where Democrats performed better, other factors might have been in play. In 1952 Adlai Stevenson made his first run for president from the governor's chair in Illinois, winning the nomination in Chicago. So really, Stevenson had a two-fold home-state convention advantage from having the convention in his home state as an elected official there. But it's hard to say that the impact of the convention site outweighed Stevenson's advantage as a home state governor. What makes it even harder to gauge is that in 1956, Stevenson was again nominated in Chicago as a native son. Yet his performance drop in Illinois was actually greater than his national dip that year.
The 1968 election also shows just how little the convention site affects voting. Democratic performance fell sharply from 1964, but the numbers in Illinois didn't fall off quite as much as they did nationally, despite the fact that the 1968 Democratic National Convention was a disaster of epic proportions. If there were any case where one would expect to see a greater decrease in performance in the state than nationally because of a convention, 1968 would be it.
It's possible that Democrats and Republicans are attempting to use their conventions as opportunities to boost voter registration and engagement in the areas around Charlotte and Tampa, as the Obama campaign did in Denver four years ago. However, the actual votes cast on Election Day 2008 didn't really show a spike in turnout in the Denver area compared to the rest of the state. As Chart 2 shows, the entire state of Colorado saw a 12.3% increase in its total two-party vote from 2004 to 2008 (nationally, the increase was 6.9%). Denver and the immediate surrounding counties (Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson) yielded a vote-total increase of 12.5% while the rest of the state increased 12.2%. That's not to say that the convention didn't help the Obama campaign's efforts in Colorado. It's just that if there was an effect related to the convention, it wasn't dramatic.
Moreover, even if Democrats tried to use the 2012 DNC as an opportunity to boost voter registration and contact efforts, it is questionable how much better President Obama could do in Charlotte. If we look at Mecklenburg County (which encompasses Charlotte), Obama increased the Democratic percentage there from Kerry's 51.6% to 61.8% in 2008, a 10.2 percentage point jump, the second largest increase of any county in the state. It's possible that Obama could do better than that in 2012, but if the general election is indeed as close nationally as we think it could be, it is hard to see Obama squeezing a higher share of the vote out of Mecklenburg County.
Waiting for a turning point (sarcasm alert)
Well, the verdict is in — and it's obvious that the Democrats had the better convention. How do we know this? One word: Twitter.
Last night, Obama's address reportedly generated 52,757 tweets per minute, while Romney's a week ago only generated 14,289. So much for the Democrats' enthusiasm gap!
In reality, the Twitter statistics are meaningless in projecting the actual election — by comparison, there were 10,000 tweets per second during the final three minutes of the Super Bowl. (Sorry, Twitterverse. We participate, too, but that doesn't mean we collectively matter all that much.) So are the reports that the crowd at the Democratic convention was more "energized" than the one at the Republican gathering. Yes, it appeared to be true to us, and we were on the ground in both Tampa and Charlotte. But does the excitement level of 20,000 or so partisans in a convention hall predict much about November? Doubtful.
Election-watchers are always inclined to look for some tiny signal in a close race that turns out to reveal the big picture. We want to identify the turning point in the election — not just before the historians figure it out, but before the election is over.
But so far, there has been no revelatory turning point, nor some magic number of tweets, balloon drops (or in the case of the DNC, confetti), gaffes or polls that can tell us with finality what the outcome will be. We'll keep looking, and keep you posted.
Larry J. Sabato is the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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Kyle Kondik is the House Editor at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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The Secret Beyond Matter
Allah keeps all features of a human being in DNA. Even before a person is aware of himself, all his features such as eye color, height, bone structure are present in DNA. Allah created DNA in a form that it can constantly reproduce and sustain its existence. Cells multiply out of the will of a person and thus the continuity of information is ensured. Millions of details regarding the human body are copied and thus transmitted to DNA without any flaw. Were a human being attempted to fulfill this operation himself, it would be extremely difficult not to err in this extraordinary complicated system. Surely such an error would mean the death of the cell. It is very obvious that DNA's existence and replication is one of the facts that prove Allah's superior intelligence to us. The flawless Creation of Allah is related in the following verses:
It is He Who gives Life and Death; and when He decides upon an affair, He says to it, "Be", and it is. (Surah Ghafir, 68)2010-03-08 23:23:15
Verily my Lord understands best the mysteries of all that He planned to do, for verily He is full of knowledge and wisdom. (Surah Yusuf, 100)


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This week on the io9 show, we speak to William Gibson, who tells us that the best way to write about the present is to write about the future — or the recent past. Gibson explains why he had to write three books about the present, before he could go back and create a super-weird future. He also tells us all about the Neuromancer movie — and drops some hints about his new, future-set novel.
This week, it's all about all things Gibson — including why he thought Neuromancer was a "ludicrously optimistic" movie.
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