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Glossary
A NOTE ON DATES IN THIS GLOSSARY.
The Toman Calendar (devised by Toma dur Ahmid) was adopted
approximately two centuries after the death of the last male Aes
Sedai, recording years After the Breaking of the World (AB). So
many records were destroyed in the Trolloc Wars that at their end
there was argument about the exact year under the old system. A new
calendar, proposed by Tiam of Gazar, celebrated freedom from the
Trolloc threat and recorded each year as a Free Year (FY). The
Gazaran Calendar gained wide acceptance within twenty years after
the Wars’ end. Artur Hawkwing attempted to establish a new
calendar based on the founding of his empire (FF, From the
Founding), but only historians now refer to it. After the death and
destruction of the War of the Hundred Years, a third calendar was
devised by Uren din Jubai Soaring Gull, a scholar of the Sea Folk,
and promulgated by the Panarch Farede of Tarabon. The Farede
Calendar, dating from the arbitrarily decided end of the War of the
Hundred Years and recording years of the New Era (NE), is currently
in use.
- a’dam (AYE-dam):
- A device for controlling a woman who can channel, usable only
by either a woman who can channel or a woman who can be taught to
channel, and having no effect on any woman who cannot channel. It
creates a link between the two women. The Seanchan version consists
of a collar and bracelet connected by a leash, all of silvery
metal, but one example of a version without the leash has been
made, and another, unique, variant is believed to exist which
allows a woman to control a man who can channel. If such a man is
linked by an ordinary a’dam to a woman who can
channel, the likely result is death for both. When an
a’dam is worn by a woman who can channel, simply
touching the a’dam results in pain for a man who also
can. See also linking, Seanchan.
- Age of Legends:
- Age ended by the War of the Shadow and the Breaking of the
World. A time when Aes Sedai performed wonders now only dreamed
of.
- Aiel War (976-78 NE):
- When King Laman (LAY-mahn) of Cairhien cut down the
Avendoraldera tree, four clans of the Aiel crossed the
Spine of the World. They looted and burned the capital city of
Cairhien as well as many other cities and towns, and the conflict
extended into Andor and Tear. By the conventional view, the Aiel
were finally defeated at the Battle of the Shining Walls, before
Tar Valon; in fact, Laman was killed in that battle, and having
done what they came for, the Aiel recrossed the Spine. See
also Cairhien; Spine of the World.
- Ajah (AH-jah):
- Societies among the Aes Sedai, seven in number and designated
by colors: Blue, Red, White, Green, Brown, Yellow and Gray. All Aes
Sedai except the Amyrlin Seat belong to one. Each follows a
specific philosophy of the use of the One Power and the purposes of
the Aes Sedai. The Red Ajah bends its energies to finding men who
can channel, and to gentling them. The Brown forsakes the mundane
world and dedicates itself to seeking knowledge, while the White,
largely eschewing both the world and the value of worldly
knowledge, devotes itself to questions of philosophy and truth. The
Green Ajah (called the Battle Ajah during the Trolloc Wars) holds
itself ready for Tarmon Gai’don, the Yellow concentrates on
the study of Healing, and Blue sisters involve themselves with
causes and justice. The Gray are mediators, seeking harmony and
consensus. A Black Ajah, dedicated to serving the Dark One, is
officially and vehemently denied.
- algai’d’siswai:
- In the Old Tongue, “fighters of the spear,” or “spear
fighters.” The name given to those Aiel who carry the spear and
regularly take part in battle as opposed to those who follow
crafts.
- Altara (al-TAH-rah):
- A nation on the Sea of Storms, though in truth little unifies
it except a name. The people of Altara think of themselves as
inhabitants of a town or village, or as this lord’s or that
lady’s people, first, and only second if at all as Altaran.
Few nobles pay taxes to the crown or offer more than lip service,
and that often slight. The ruler of Altara (currently Queen Tylin
Quintara of House Mitsobar; TIE-lihn quin-TAHR-ah; MIHT-soh-bahr)
is seldom more than the most powerful noble in the land, and at
times has not even really been that. The Throne of the Winds holds
so little power that many powerful nobles have scorned to take it
when they could have. The banner of Altara is two golden leopards
on a field checked four-by-four in red and blue. The sigil of House
Mitsobar is a green anchor and sword, crossed. See also
Wise Woman.
- Amys (ah-MEESE):
- Wise One of Cold Rocks Hold, and a dreamwalker. An Aiel of the
Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad Aiel. Wife of Rhuarc (ROARK),
sister-wife to Lian (lee-AHN), who is roofmistress of Cold Rocks
Hold. Amys is sister-mother to Aviendha.
- angreal (ahn-gree-AHL):
- Remnants of the Age of Legends that allow anyone capable of
channeling to handle a greater amount of the Power than is safe or
even possible unaided. Some were made for use by women, others by
men. Rumors of angreal usable by both men and women have
never been confirmed. Their making is no longer known, and few are
known to remain in existence. See also
sa’angreal, ter’angreal.
- Asha’man (AH-shah-mahn):
- (1) In the Old Tongue, “Guardian” or “Defender,” with a strong
implication that this is a defender of truth and justice.
- (2) The name taken by followers of the Dragon Reborn, men who
have come to what is now being called the Black Tower in order to
learn how to channel. Some have dreamed of channeling despite all
the dire risks, while others remain only because passing the test
for the ability to learn has itself started them on the road to
channeling, and they now must learn to control it before it kills
them. They train not only in using the One Power, but in the use of
the sword and in fighting with hands and feet. The Asha’man,
who wear distinctive black coats, are divided according to the
level of knowledge they have achieved, the lowest being a Soldier.
The next level is a Dedicated, marked by a pin in the shape of a
silver sword worn on the coat collar. The highest level is called
simply an Asha’man, marked by a red-and-gold enameled pin in
the shape of a Dragon worn on the coat collar opposite the silver
sword. Unlike Aes Sedai, who go to great lengths to make sure that
those they train are not allowed to move dangerously fast, the
Asha’man are pushed hard from the beginning, most especially
in learning to use the Power as a weapon. As a result, where the
death or stilling of a novice of the White Tower during her
training would be something spoken of with horror for years, at the
Black Tower it is expected that a certain number of Asha’man
Soldiers will die or be burned out attempting to learn. The
existence of the Asha’man, and their connection to the Dragon
Reborn, has caused a reevaluation among some Aes Sedai of the
immediate necessity for gentling, but many have not changed their
view at all. See also gentling, stilling.
- Asunawa, Rhadam (ah-soo-NAH-wah,
RAH-dam):
- High Inquisitor of the Hand of the Light. In his eyes, meddling
with the One Power is usurping the Creator’s power and is the
cause of all the world’s ills. He wants more than anything
else to destroy anyone and everyone who can channel or even wishes
to; they must confess their sin under the ministrations of the Hand
of the Light, and then die. See also Questioners.
- Atha’an Miere (ah-thah-AHN mee-EHR):
- See Sea Folk.
-
- Band of the Red Hand:
- (1) A legendary band of heroes (Shen an Calhar) from
the Trolloc Wars who died at the Battle of Aemon’s Field, when
Manetheren fell.
- (2) A military formation which gathered to follow Mat Cauthon,
and which is currently shadowing the rebel Aes Sedai and their army
with orders to carry Egwene al’Vere to Rand al’Thor and
safety, should she express a wish to flee from her current
situation, and also any other sisters who might wish to join
her.
- Berelain sur Paendrag (BEH-reh-lain suhr
PAY-ehn-DRAG):
- First of Mayene, Blessed of the Light, Defender of the Waves,
High Seat of House Paeron (pay-eh-ROHN). A beautiful and willful
young woman, and a skillful ruler. See also Mayene.
- Birgitte (ber-GEET-teh):
- Warder to Elayne Trakand, believed to be possibly the first
female Warder ever, a fact that causes a number of difficulties,
few of them expected. Birgitte is in truth the legendary hero of
that name, who was one of those bound to be called back by the Horn
of Valere, but she was ripped out of
Tel’aran’rhiod into the world of the flesh
during a struggle with Moghedien and was only saved from death by
being bonded by Elayne. Except for her beauty and skill with a bow,
she is little like the stories of her. See also Forsaken;
Horn of Valere; Warder.
- Bryne, Gareth (BRIHN, GAH-rehth):
- Once Captain-General of the Queen’s Guards in Andor, now
commanding an army for those Aes Sedai in rebellion against the
authority of Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan. Considered one of the
greatest generals living. His relationship with Siuan Sanche
troubles him nearly as much as it does her. The sigil of House
Bryne is a wild bull, the rose crown of Andor around its neck.
Gareth Bryne’s personal sigil is three golden stars, each of
five rays.
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- cadin’sor (KAH-dihn-sohr):
- Garb of Aiel algai’d’siswai: coat and
breeches in browns and grays that fade into rock or shadow, along
with soft, laced knee-high boots. In the Old Tongue, “working
clothes,” though this is of course an imprecise translation.
See also algai’d’siswai.
- Cadsuane Melaidhrin (CAD-soo-ain
meh-LIE-drihn):
- An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who has approached legendary
status among Aes Sedai while still alive, though in truth most
sisters believe she must be years dead by now. Thought to have been
born around 705 NE in Ghealdan, which would make her the oldest
living Aes Sedai, she was also the strongest in the Power found for
a thousand years or more until the advent of Nynaeve, Elayne and
Egwene and even they do not far out-step her. Although a Green,
over the years she has confronted and captured more men who could
channel by far than any other living sister; a little-known oddity
is that the men she brought to the White Tower tended to live
markedly longer after being gentled than those brought by other
sisters.
- Cairhien (KEYE-ree-EHN):
- Both a nation along the Spine of the World and the capital city
of that nation. Savaged during the Aiel War, the nation of Cairhien
was in no way fully recovered when the assassination of King
Galldrian (998 NE) plunged the country into a war for the
succession which was itself interrupted by the invasion of the
Shaido Aiel in what many call the Second Aiel War, although the
city itself was saved by Aiel intervention under Rand al’Thor.
Subsequently most nobles of Cairhien, along with many from Tear,
swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, but in a land where the Game of
Houses has been raised to an art, it is hardly surprising that even
many who swore are ready to maneuver for whatever advantage they
can find. The banner of Cairhien is a many-rayed golden sun rising
on a field of sky blue.
- calendar:
- There are 10 days to the week, 28 days to the month and 13
months to the year. Several feastdays are not part of any month;
these include Sunday (the longest day of the year), the Feast of
Thanksgiving (once every four years at the spring equinox), and the
Feast of All Souls Salvation, also called All Souls Day (once every
ten years at the autumn equinox). While many feasts and festivals
are celebrated everywhere (such as the Feast of the Lights, which
ends the old year and begins the new), every land has its own as
well, and in many instances so do individual towns and villages. In
general, the Borderlands have the fewest festivals and feastdays,
while the cities of Illian and Ebou Dar have the most.
- Caraighan Maconar (kah-RYE-gihn
mah-CON-ahr):
- Legendary Green sister (212 AB-373 AB), the heroine of a
hundred adventures, credited with exploits that even some Aes Sedai
consider improbable despite their inclusion in the records of the
White Tower, such as single-handedly putting down a rebellion in
Mosadorin and quelling the Comaidin Riots at a time when she had no
Warders. Considered by the Green Ajah to be the archetype of a
Green sister. See also Ajah.
- Children of the Light:
- Society of strict ascetic beliefs, owing allegiance to no
nation and dedicated to the defeat of the Dark One and the
destruction of all Darkfriends. Founded during the War of the
Hundred Years to proselytize against an increase in Darkfriends,
they evolved during the war into a completely military society.
Extremely rigid in beliefs, and certain that only they know the
truth and the right. Consider Aes Sedai and any who support them to
be Darkfriends. Known disparagingly as Whitecloaks. Their sign is a
golden sunburst on a field of white. See also
Questioners.
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- Darkfriends:
- Adherents of the Dark One. They believe they will gain great
power and rewards, even immortality, when he is freed. Secretive of
necessity, they organize into groups called “circles,” with members
of one circle rarely if ever known to members of another. Rank in
the outside world has no bearing on rank with the circles; a king
or queen who was a Darkfriend would be expected to obey a beggar
who gave the proper signs. Among themselves, they sometimes use the
ancient name Friends of the Dark.
- Dragonsworn:
- General term used for supporters of the Dragon Reborn, usually
by those who either oppose him or at least think to remain neutral.
In fact, many given that name have never sworn any sort of oath,
and it is frequently applied to brigands as well, some of whom
claim the name in the hope that it will quell resistance. A great
many atrocities have been committed by people claiming to be
Dragonsworn.
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- Ebou Dar:
- The capital city of Altara. One of the great ports, and a city
with many odd customs for an outsider to assimilate. See
also Altara.
- Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan (eh-LY-da doh
AHV-rih-nee ah-ROY-han):
- An Aes Sedai, formerly of the Red Ajah, now raised to the
Amyrlin Seat, though opposed by another claiming that title. Once
advisor to Queen Morgase of Andor. She sometimes has the
Foretelling.
-
- Flame of Tar Valon:
- Symbol of Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat, and the Aes Sedai. A
stylized representation of a flame; a white teardrop, point
upward.
- Forsaken, the:
- Name given to thirteen of the most powerful Aes Sedai of the
Age of Legends, thus among the most powerful ever known, who went
over to the Dark One during the War of the Shadow in return for the
promise of immortality and were imprisoned along with the Dark One
when his prison was resealed. Their own name for themselves was “the Chosen.” The names given to them are still used to frighten
children. They were: Aginor (AGH-ih-nohr), Asmodean
(ahs-MOH-dee-an), Balthamel (BAAL-thah-mell), Be’lal
(BEH-lahl), Demandred (DEE-man-drehd), Graendal (GREHN-dahl),
Ishamael (ih-SHAH-may-EHL), Lan-fear (LAN-feer), Mesaana
(meh-SAH-nah), Moghedien (moh-GHEH-dee-ehn), Rahvin (RAAV-ihn),
Sam-mael (SAHM-may-EHL), and Semirhage (SEH-mih-RHAHG). It is
believed by those with some current knowledge that only Demandred
and Sammael survive among the men, and only Graendal, Mesaana,
Moghedien and Semirhage among the women. A number of strange
encounters, however, suggest the possibility either that several
new Chosen have been selected by the Dark One or that Lord of the
Grave has in some cases reached beyond death.
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- Gaidin (GYE-deen):
- In the Old Tongue, “Brother to Battles.” A title used by Aes
Sedai for the Warders. See also Warder.
- gai’shain (GYE-shain):
- In the Old Tongue, “Pledged to Peace in Battle” is as close a
translation as is possible. An Aiel taken prisoner by other Aiel
during raid or battle is required by ji’e’toh to
serve his or her captor humbly and obediently for one year and a
day, touching no weapon and doing no violence. A Wise One, a
blacksmith, a child, or a woman with a child under the age of ten
may not be made gai’shain. Since the revelation that
the ancestors of the Aiel were in fact pacifist followers of the
Way of the Leaf, a good many gai’shain refuse to put
off white when their time ends. Additionally, although by tradition
as strong as law no one who does not follow
ji’e’toh can be made gai’shain,
the Shaido Aiel have begun putting Cairhienin and other prisoners
into gai’shain robes, and many have come to believe
that since these people do not follow ji’e’toh,
there is no need to release them at the end of the year and a
day.
- Gawyn (GAH-wihn) of House Trakand
(trah-KAND):
- Queen Morgase’s son, and Elayne’s brother, who will
be First Prince of the Sword when Elayne ascends to the throne.
Half-brother to Galad Damodred. A man caught in more than one cleft
stick; he despises Aes Sedai yet has sworn to serve them, and he
hates Rand al’Thor yet has sworn not to raise a hand against
him, all because he loves Egwene al’Vere beyond reason. He
does not know that Egwene herself has not only become Aes Sedai,
but the Amyrlin Seat opposing the Amyrlin he recognizes. His sign
is a white boar.
- gentling:
- The removal of a man’s ability to channel. Considered
necessary by most people because any man who channels will go
insane from the taint on saidin and almost certainly
commit atrocities with the Power in his madness before the taint
kills him. One who has been gentled can still sense the True
Source, but cannot touch it. Whatever madness has come before
gentling is arrested but not cured, and if it is done soon enough,
the rotting death brought by the taint can be averted. A man who is
gentled, however, inevitably stops wanting to live; those who do
not succeed in committing suicide usually die anyway within a year
or two. Once believed permanent, gentling is now known by some to
be susceptible to a highly specialized form of Healing. See
also stilling.
- Great Lord of the Dark:
- Name by which Darkfriends refer to the Dark One, claiming that
to speak his true name would be blasphemous.
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- Hall of the Tower, the:
- The legislative body of the Aes Sedai, traditionally consisting
of three Sitters in the Hall from each of the seven Ajahs. At
present, there is a Hall sitting in the White Tower, which contains
no Sitters for the Blue, and a Hall among those Aes Sedai who
oppose Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan. This rebel Hall contains no
Red Sitters. While the Amyrlin Seat is by law the absolute power in
the White Tower, in fact her power has always depended on how well
she could lead, manage or intimidate the Hall, as there are many
ways that the Hall can balk any Amyrlin’s plans. There are two
levels of agreement that may be required for items to pass the
Hall, the lesser consensus and the greater consensus. The greater
consensus requires that every sister who is present must stand, and
that a minimum of eleven Sitters be present; the presence of at
least one Sitter from each Ajah is also required, except when the
matter before the Hall is the removal of an Amyrlin or Keeper, in
which case the Ajah from which she was raised will not be informed
of the vote until after it has been taken. The lesser consensus
also requires a quorum of eleven Sitters, but only two-thirds of
those present need stand for an item to pass. Another difference is
that there is no requirement for all Ajahs to be represented in the
lesser consensus except in the case of a declaration of war by the
White Tower, one of several matters left to the lesser consensus
which many might think would require the greater. The Amyrlin Seat
may call for any Sitter to resign her chair, or indeed for all to,
and that call must be heeded. This is seldom done, however, as
nothing stops an Ajah from returning the same Sitter or Sitters
except a custom that sisters not serve again in the Hall after
leaving it. As an indication of how serious such a call for a mass
resignation would be, it is reliably believed that it has happened
exactly four times in the more than three-thousand-year history of
the White Tower, and that while two of those resulted in the
selection of an entirely, or nearly, new Hall, the other two
resulted in the resignation and exile of the Amyrlin involved.
- Horn of Valere (vah-LEER):
- The legendary object of the Great Hunt of the Horn, it can call
back dead heroes from the grave to fight against the Shadow. A new
Hunt of the Horn has been called, and sworn Hunters for the Horn
can now be found in many nations. Few even among Aes Sedai know
that the Horn has actually been found and used, or that it is now
hidden in the White Tower.
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- Illian (IHL-lee-an):
- A great port on the Sea of Storms, capital city of the nation
of the same name. An ancient enemy of Tear. The banner of Illian is
nine golden bees on a field of green.
-
- Juilin Sandar (JUY-Iihn sahn-DAHR):
- A thief-catcher from Tear. A man in love with perhaps the very
last woman he would ever have thought he could be.
-
- length, units of:
- 10 inches =1 foot; 3 feet =1 pace; 2 paces =1 span; 1000 spans
=1 mile; 4 miles =1 league.
- Lini (LIHN-nee):
- Childhood nurse to the Lady Elayne, and before her to
Elayne’s mother, Morgase, as well as to Morgase’s mother.
A woman of vast inner strength, considerable perception, and a
great many sayings, who has never quite admitted that any of her
charges has grown up completely.
- linking:
- The ability of women who can channel to combine their flows of
the One Power. While the combined flow is not as great as the sum
total of the individual flows, it is directed by the person who
leads the link and can be used much more precisely and to far
greater effect than the individual flows could be. Men cannot link
their abilities without the presence of a woman or women in the
circle. Entering a link is normally a voluntary act, requiring at
least acquiesence, but under certain circumstances, a sufficient
circle already formed can bring another woman forcibly into the
circle as long as no man is part of it. Insofar as is known, a man
cannot be forced into a circle, no matter how large. Up to thirteen
women can link without the presence of a man. With the addition of
one man, the circle can increase to twenty-six women. Two men can
take the circle to include forty-three women, and so on until the
limit of six men and sixty-six women is reached. There are links
that include more men and fewer women, but except in the linking of
one man and one woman, two men and one woman or two men and two
women, there must always be at least one more woman in the circle
than there are men. In most circles, either a man or a woman can
control the link, but a man must control in the circle of
seventy-two as well in mixed circles of fewer than thirteen.
Although men are in general stronger in the Power than women, the
strongest circles are those which contain as near as possible to
equal numbers of men and women.
- Logain Ablar (loh-GAIN):
- Born 972 NE in Ghealdan, once claimed to be the Dragon Reborn.
Captured after carrying war across Ghealdan, Altara and Murandy, he
was taken to the White Tower and gentled, later escaping in the
confusion after Siuan Sanche was deposed. The accidental
restoration of his ability to channel was the first indication that
such a loss was not permanent. Confined after his Healing, he
escaped again, and his present whereabouts are unknown. See
also gentling; stilling.
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- Mayene (may-EHN):
- City-state on the Sea of Storms, hemmed in and historically
oppressed by Tear. The ruler of Mayene is styled the First, which
title was once the First Lord or Lady; Firsts claim to be
descendants of Artur Hawkwing. The banner of Mayene is a golden
hawk in flight on a field of blue.
- Mazrim Taim (MAHZ-rihm tah-EEM):
- A man who raised havoc in Saldaea until he was defeated and
captured, although he later escaped, apparently with the aid of
some of his followers. Not only able to channel, but of great
strength, he is now the M’Hael (MA’kHAIL; “leader,” in
the Old Tongue) of the Asha’man. See also
Asha’man.
- Melaine (meh-LAYN):
- A Wise One of the Jhirad sept of Goshien Aiel. A dreamwalker.
Moderately strong in the One Power. Married to Bael (BAYL), clan
chief of the Goshien. Sister-wife to Dorindha (dohr-IHN-dah),
roof-mistress of Smoke Springs Hold.
- Moiraine Damodred (mwah-RAIN
DAHM-oh-drehd):
- An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah, born into the then-reigning
House of Cairhien, who vanished into a ter’angreal in
Cairhien while battling Lanfear, apparently killing both herself
and the Forsaken. Since she had already located the Dragon Reborn
and killed the Forsaken Be’lal, she is already looked upon as
one of those near-mythical sisters who are held as legendary
heroes. See also Forsaken.
- Morgase (moor-GAYZ):
- By the Grace of the Light, Queen of Andor, Defender of the
Realm, Protector of the People, High Seat of House Trakand. Now in
exile and believed dead, murdered by the Dragon Reborn, or so many
think. Her sign is three golden keys. The sign of House Trakand is
a silver keystone.
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- near-sister; near-brother:
- Aiel kinship terms meaning friends as close as first-sisters or
first-brothers. Near-sisters often adopt one another formally as
first-sisters in an elaborate ceremony carried out before Wise
Ones, after which they are recognized by other Aiel as truly born
twins, though a pair of twins with two mothers. Near-brothers
almost never do this.
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- Oaths, Three:
- The oaths taken by an Accepted on being raised to Aes Sedai.
Spoken while holding the Oath Rod, a ter’angreal that
makes oaths binding. They are:
- (1) To speak no word that is not true.
- (2) To make no weapon with which one man may kill another.
- (3) Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against
Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme of defense of her own life, or
that of her Warder or another Aes Sedai.
- The second oath was the first adopted after the War of the
Shadow. The first oath, while held to the letter, is often
circumvented by careful speaking. It is believed that the last two
are inviolable.
- Old Tongue:
- The language spoken during the Age of Legends. It is generally
expected that nobles and the educated can speak it, but most
actually know only a few words. Translation is often difficult, as
it is a language capable of many subtly different meanings. See
also Age of Legends.
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- Padan Fain (PAD-an FAIN):
- Once a peddler trading into the Two Rivers, and a Darkfriend,
he was transformed at Shayol Ghul, not only to enable him to find
the young man who would become the Dragon Reborn as a hound finds
prey for the hunter, but to ingrain the need to find him. The pain
of this transformation induced in Fain a hatred both of the Dark
One and of Rand al’Thor. While following al’Thor, he
encountered the trapped soul of Mordeth in Shadar Logoth, and this
soul tried to take Pain’s body. Because of what had been made
of Fain, though, the result was an amalgamation that was mostly
Fain and that has abilities beyond what either man had originally,
though Fain does not understand them fully yet. Most men feel fear
at a Myrddraal’s eyeless gaze; Myrddraal feel fear at
Fain’s gaze.
- Prophet, the:
- More elaborately, the Prophet of the Lord Dragon. Title claimed
by Masema Dagar, a onetime Shienaran soldier, who preaches the
rebirth of the Dragon Reborn. He has achieved a great following in
Ghealdan and northern Amadicia, in part because of spreading
knowledge that the Dragon has indeed been Reborn and in part
because of the extreme brutality his followers visit not only on
anyone who refuses to acknowledge the Dragon Reborn, but on those
who refuse to acknowledge the authority of the Prophet as the hand
and voice of the Dragon Reborn.
-
- Questioners, the:
- An order within the Children of the Light. Avowed purposes are
to discover the truth in disputations and uncover Darkfriends. In
the search for truth and the Light, their normal method of inquiry
is torture; their normal manner that they know the truth already
and must only make their victim confess to it. They refer to
themselves as the Hand of the Light, the Hand that digs out truth,
and at times act as if they were entirely separate from the
Children and the Council of the Anointed, which commands the
Children. The head of the Questioners is the High Inquisitor, who
sits on the Council of the Anointed. Their sign is a blood-red
shepherd’s crook. See also Children of the
Light.
-
- Rhuidean (RHUY-dee-ahn):
- A great city, the only one in the Aiel Waste and totally
unknown to the outside world. Abandoned for nearly three thousand
years. Once men among the Aiel were allowed to enter Rhuidean only
once, in order to be tested inside a great
ter’angreal for fitness to become clan chief (only
one in three survived), and women only twice, for testing to become
Wise Ones, the second time in the same ter’angreal,
though with a considerably higher survival rate than the men. Now
the city is inhabited again, by Aiel, and a great lake occupies one
end of the valley of Rhuidean, fed by an underground ocean of fresh
water and in turn feeding the only river in the Waste.
-
- sa’angreal
(SAH-ahn-GREE-ahl):
- Remnants of the Age of Legends that allow channeling much more
of the One Power than is otherwise possible or safe. A
sa’angreal is similar to, but more powerful than, an
angreal. The amount of the Power that can be wielded with
a sa’angreal compares to the amount that can be
handled with an angreal as the Power wielded with the aid
of an angreal does to the amount that can be handled
unaided. The making of them is no longer known. As with
angreal, there are male and female
sa’angreal. Only a handful remain, far fewer even
than angreal.
- Sea Folk, the:
- More properly, the Atha’an Miere (AH-thah-AHN MEE-air),
the People of the Sea. They live most of their lives on their ships
and strongly dislike going any distance from the ocean. Relatively
little is known of their customs, giving rise to an air of exotic
mystery and often to fanciful tales. Most seaborne trade is carried
by Sea Folk ships, which include the fastest by far and most of the
largest, and they are considered by the inhabitants of port cities
to be bargainers who outstrip the more widely known Domani. As
survival at sea often depends on instant obedience, it should be no
surprise that the Atha’an Miere stick strictly to their
hierarchy, though there are surprising fluidities at some points.
The Atha’an Miere are divided into numerous clans, both large
and small, each headed by a Wavemistress. Below her are the
Sailmistresses, the ships’ captains of the clan. A
Wavemistress has vast authority, yet she is elected to that
position by the twelve senior clan Sailmistresses, who are referred
to as the First Twelve of that clan, and she can be removed by the
order of the Mistress of the Ships to the Atha’an Miere. The
Mistress of the Ships has a level of authority any shorebound king
or queen would envy, yet she also is elected, for life, by
unanimous vote of the twelve senior Wavemistresses, who are called
the First Twelve of the Atha’an Miere. (The term “the First
Twelve” is also used for the twelve senior Wavemistresses or
Sailmistresses present in any gathering.) The position of Master of
the Blades is held by a man who may or may not be the husband of
the Mistress of the Ships. His responsibilities are the defense and
the trade of the Sea Folk, and below him are the Swordmasters of
Wavemistresses and the Cargomasters of Sailmistresses, who hold
like positions and duties; for each of them, any authority outside
these areas is held only as delegated by the woman he serves. Where
any vessel sails and when is always up to the Sailmistress, but
since trade and finances are totally in the hands of the
Cargomaster (or, at higher levels, of the Swordmaster or the Master
of the Blades), a close degree of cooperation is required. Every
Sea Folk vessel, however small, and also every Wavemistress, has a
Windfinder, a woman who is almost always able to channel and
skilled in Weaving the Winds, as the Atha’an Miere call the
manipulation of weather. The Windfinder to the Mistress of the
Ships has authority over the Windfinders to the Wavemistresses, who
in turn have authority over Windfinders to the Sailmistresses of
their clans. One peculiarity of the Sea Folk is that all must begin
at the very lowest rank and work their way up, and that anyone
other than the Mistress of the Ships can be demoted by those above,
even to the very bottom again in extreme instances.
- Seanchan (SHAWN-CHAN):
- (1) Descendants of the armies Artur Hawkwing sent across the
Aryth Ocean, who conquered the lands there. They believe that any
woman who can channel must be controlled for the safety of everyone
else, and any man who can channel must be killed for the same
reason.
- (2) The land from which the Seanchan come.
- Shayol Ghul (SHAY-ol GHOOL):
- A mountain in the Blasted Lands, beyond the Great Blight. Site
of the Dark One’s prison.
- sister-wife:
- Aiel kinship term. Aiel women who are near-sisters or
first-sisters, and who discover they love the same man or simply do
not want a man to come between them, will both marry him, thus
becoming sister-wives. Women who love the same man will sometimes
try to find out whether they can become near-sisters and adopted
first-sisters, a first step to becoming sister-wives. An Aielman
faced with this situation has the choice of marrying both women or
neither; if he has a wife who decides to take a sister-wife, he
finds himself with a second wife.
- siswai’aman:
- In the Old Tongue: “spears of the dragon,” with a strong
implication of ownership. The name taken by a good many men among
the Aiel, but no women. These men do not actually acknowledge the
name—nor do any others, in fact—but they wear a strip
of red cloth wound around the forehead with a disc, half black and
half white, above the brows. Although gai’shain
normally are prohibited from wearing anything that would be worn by
an algai’d’siswai, a large number of
gai’shain have taken to wearing the headband. See
also gai’shain.
- Sorilea (soh-rih-LEE-ah):
- The Wise One of Shende Hold, a Jarra Chareen. Barely able to
channel, she is also the oldest living Wise One, though not by as
much as many think.
- Spine of the World:
- A towering mountain range, with few passes, which separates the
Aiel Waste from the lands to the west. Also called the
Dragonwall.
- stilling:
- The removal of a woman’s ability to channel. A woman who
has been stilled can sense but not touch the True Source.
Officially, stilling is the result of trial and sentence for a
crime, and was last carried out in 859 NE. Novices have always been
required to learn the name and crimes of all women who have
suffered judicial stilling. When the ability to channel is lost
accidentally, it is called being burned out, though “stilling” is
often used for that also. Women who are stilled, however it occurs,
seldom survive long; they seem to simply give up and die unless
they find something to replace the emptiness left by the One Power.
While it has always been believed that stilling was permanent,
lately a method of Healing it has been discovered, though there
appear to be limits to this which are yet to be explored.
- Stone of Tear:
- A great fortress in the city of Tear, said to have been made
with the One Power soon after the Breaking of the World. Attacked
and besieged unsuccessfully countless times, it fell in a single
night to the Dragon Reborn and a few hundred Aiel, thus fulfilling
two parts of the Prophecies of the Dragon.
-
- Talents:
- Abilities in the use of the One Power in specific areas.
Aptitude in various Talents varies widely from individual to
individual and is seldom related to the strength of the
individual’s ability to channel. There are major Talents, the
best-known and most widespread of which is Healing. Other examples
are Cloud Dancing, the control of weather, and Earth Singing, which
involves controlling movements of the earth, for example
preventing, or causing, earthquakes or avalanches. There are also
minor Talents, seldom given a name, such as the ability to see
ta’veren or to duplicate the chance-twisting effect
of ta’veren, though in a very small and localized
area rarely covering more than a few square feet. Many Talents are
now known only by their names and sometimes vague descriptions.
Some, such as Traveling (the ability to shift from one place to
another without crossing the intervening space) are only now being
rediscovered. Others, such as Foretelling (the ability to foretell
future events, but in a general way), and Delving (the location of
ores and possibly their removal from the ground, although the term
is now also used for the variant of Healing which is used to
examine someone’s health and physical condition) are found
rarely. Another Talent long thought lost is Dreaming, interpreting
the Dreamer’s dreams to foretell future events in more
specific fashion than Foretelling. Some Dreamers had the ability to
enter Tel’aran’rhiod, the World of Dreams, and
(it is said) even other people’s dreams. The last acknowledged
Dreamer previously was Corianin Nedeal (coh-ree-AHN-ihn
neh-dee-AHL), who died in 526 NE, but there is now another.
- Tallanvor, Martyn (TAL-lahn-vohr,
mahr-TEEN):
- Former Guardsman-Lieutenant of the Queen’s Guards, who
loves Morgase more than life or honor. See also
Morgase.
- ta’veren (tah-VEER-ehn):
- A person around whom the Wheel of Time weaves all surrounding
life-threads, perhaps ALL life-threads. This weaving is little
understood except that it seems in many ways an alteration of
chance; what might happen, but only rarely, does. The effect can at
times be quite localized. Someone influenced by a
ta’veren may say or do what they would only have said
or done one time in a million under those circumstances. Events
occur of seeming impossibility, such as a child falling a hundred
feet from a tower unharmed. At other times the effect seems to
extend to influencing history itself, though often by means of the
localized effects. This, it is believed, is the real reason that
ta’veren are born, in order to shift history and
restore a balance to the turning of the Wheel.
- Tear (TEER):
- A nation on the Sea of Storms. Also the capital city of that
nation, a great seaport. The banner of Tear is three white crescent
moons slanting across a field half red, half gold. See
also Stone of Tear.
- ter’angreal
(TEER-ahn-GREE-ahl):
- Remnants of the Age of Legends that use the One Power. Unlike
angreal and sa’angreal, each
ter’angreal was made to do a particular thing. Some
ter’angreal are used by Aes Sedai, but the original
purposes of many are unknown. Some require channeling, while others
may be used by anyone. Some will kill, or destroy the ability to
channel of any woman who uses them. Like angreal and
sa’angreal, the making of them has been lost since
the Breaking of the World. See also angreal;
sa’angreal.
- Thom Merrilin (TOM MER-rih-Iihn):
- A not-so-simple gleeman and traveler.
- Tinkers:
- Properly, the Tuatha’an (too-AH-thah-AHN), also called the
Traveling People. A wandering folk who follow a totally pacifist
philosophy called the Way of the Leaf, which allows no violence for
any reason. Tuatha’an who fall away from this belief are
called “the Lost,” and are no longer acknowledged by any
others.
- treekillers:
- Disparaging term used by the Aiel for Cairhienin, along with “oathbreakers.” Both refer to King Laman’s cutting down of
Avendoraldera, a gift from the Aiel, an act which violated
the oaths given at the time the gift was given. To the Aiel, both
terms rank with the worst that anyone can be called. See
also Aiel War.
-
- Valda, Eamon (VAHL-dah, AY-mon):
- An impatient Lord Captain of the Children of the Light, a man
who believes you can’t make dinner without breaking eggs and
sometimes it is necessary to burn down the barn to get rid of the
rats. He sees himself as a pragmatist, and will take whatever
advantage offers itself. He is sure that Rand al’Thor is only
a puppet of the White Tower and very likely cannot even channel.
Hatred of Darkfriends (which of course include Aes Sedai) is the
central pillar of his life. See also Children of the
Light.
-
- Warder:
- A warrior bonded to an Aes Sedai. The bonding is a thing of the
One Power: by it he gains such gifts as quick healing, the ability
to go long periods without food, water, or rest, and the ability to
sense the taint of the Dark One at a distance. Warder and Aes Sedai
share a certain physical and emotional knowledge of one another
through the bond.  While most
Ajahs believe an Aes Sedai may have one Warder bonded to her at a
time, the Red Ajah refuses to bond any Warders at all, and the
Green Ajah believes an Aes Sedai may bond as many as she wishes.
Ethically the Warder must accede to the bonding voluntarily, but it
has been known to happen against the Warder’s will. What the
Aes Sedai gain from the bonding is a closely held secret. By all
known historical records, Warders have always been men, but
recently a woman has been bonded, revealing certain differences in
the effects. See also Birgitte.
- weight, units of:
- 10 ounces =1 pound; 10 pounds =1 stone; 10 stone =1
hundredweight; 10 hundredweight = 1 ton.
- wilder:
- A woman who has learned to channel the One Power on her own;
only one in four survive this. Such women usually build barriers
against knowing what it is they are doing, but if these can be
broken down, wilders are frequently among the most powerful of
channelers. The term is often used in derogatory fashion.
- Wise One:
- Among the Aiel, Wise Ones are women chosen by other Wise Ones
and trained in healing, herbs and other things. They have great
authority and responsibility, as well as great influence with sept
and clan chiefs, though these men often accuse them of meddling. A
good many Wise Ones can channel to one degree or another; they find
every Aiel woman born with the spark in her and most of those who
can learn. The fact that Wise Ones can channel is not spoken of
among Aiel, by custom; as a result many Aiel do not know for sure
which Wise Ones can and which cannot. Also by custom, Wise Ones
avoid all contact with Aes Sedai, even more so than other Aiel.
Traditionally, Wise Ones have stood outside all feuds and battle,
but this custom has recently been shattered, perhaps beyond
mending. What this may do to the protections accorded Wise Ones
under the Aiel belief of ji’e’toh has yet to be
seen.
- Wise Woman:
- One of the fabled healers of Ebou Dar, distinguished by the
wearing of a red belt. Their abilities with herbs and their medical
knowledge are spoken of as far away as the Borderlands as being the
next best to actual Healing by an Aes Sedai. Although Ebou Dar is a
cosmopolitan city where outlanders frequently join the city’s
many guilds, the oddity has been noted that Wise Women who actually
are Ebou Dari are in truth quite rare.
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A
Chord diagram
allows to study flows between a set of entities. Entities (nodes) are
displayed all around a circle and connected with arcs (links). In
R
, the circlize
package is the best option
to build it.
circlize
The circlize
package allows to build all kinds of
circular chart. This first section introduces the way it works, step
by step. Chord diagram are described in the following section, but a
basic understanding of the library is necessary at first.
The circlize
package also offers functions to build chord
diagrams. Basically, it allows to add arcs between nodes to show
flows. The examples below will guide you through their usage. The
circos.links()
function builds connection one by one,
when chordDiagram()
plot a whole dataset in one shot.
The chorddiag
package is an htmlwidget: it automatically
builds interactive charts. On the chart below, hovering a group or a
connection will highlight the related flow and give additional
information.
Note: The example below comes directly from the
chorddiag
documentation.
Thanks to Mattflor for
developping such a nice package.


Try to answer the following code-related questions within the time limit. Keep in mind that incorrect answers will penalize your score time by ten seconds.


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@import cats.syntax.eq._
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@import uk.gov.hmrc.helptosavefrontend.views.html.helpers.link
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| DOSE: |
300 mg |
oral |
MDMA |
(capsule) |
| T+ 4:00 |
75 mg |
oral |
MDMA |
(capsule) |
We set the mood. Valentines Day weekend with some of our best friends, camping outdoors for a couple days and then home to the basement to roll. This would be my first experience with MDMA. We had pure stuff, fine white powder encapsulated in transparent gel.
When I was younger, I had experimented with mixing double doses of certain antidepressants and antianxiety drugs like Paxil and Prozac with low-core amphetamines like dexadrine and aderall. The effect was a mild rush combined with warm erotic itchiness. I was expecting this experience to be similar, just more potent. Boy was I ever off.
For a few months prior, I had been in a bit of a mental funk. Things were going well externally, no problems at home or with my job. We had recently closed on a new house and were very happy. However, I felt stifled, sort of stretched out. Almost a restless feeling similar to nicotine withdrawal, except constant. Laughter was difficult (except when libated with cannabis), and I seemed to be forgetting more and more every day that I had the potential to be content. The camping trip was what I needed, some time outdoors to regroup. It was to be a very cold weekend, so my initiated friends felt it best not to roll outdoors, but to wait until we got back home. They could not have been more correct.
After getting home and getting cleaned up, we started the gas heater in my basement and turned on some music. Then my friend W took out the favors. There were 21 capsules, split between the six of us. I stared at mine for a little while, not knowing exactly what to think.
Immediately I began to feel some hesitation. I'm a relatively anxious person to begin with, and I also have a daughter (under the care of my mother for the weekend). I wasn't sure if I had room in my life for a new drug. J, who can talk me into anything for which I am most thankful, showed me online information and layed out the initial effects. I'm the type of person who loves experience but hates surprises, so this allayed some of my concerns. After a little jostling, I took the pill, and waited.
Two of my friends hit first, about 30 minutes after ingesting, and immediately vomited. Initially, this concerned me, until I realized that W was having difficulty aiming his vomit because it was continually interrupted by short bursts of laughter and praise of the guy who sold the stuff to him. He seemed to be having a great time, fully embracing his nausea.
I was warned that I might start feeling a lightness in my stomach that might evolve into nausea, but this never happened. I did feel a rising lightness, I simply felt like I was less affected by gravity than I had been in the past, both physically and emotionally. Immediately I knew that I had nothing to fear, and waves of relief began to flow over me. This relief very quickly escalated into an overall unadulterated joy, a complete sense of emotional balance, and I hadn't even come close to peaking yet.
The first observation I made was that I could hear the Led Zeppelin playing in the background as if I was at a live show. Every note, every chord, every beat seemed not to be coming from my stereo, but just seemed to be hanging in the air, as if it had always been there but I had simply passed it by before now. I was beaming, a wide, warm, goofy grin. My fiance H looked at my eyes and let the rest of the room know that I was really feeling the effects.
Suddenly, it was as if I could never run out of things to say. Thoughts and ideas that had buried themselves were coming to mind left and right, my mind was racing with a kind of creative energy I hadn't felt since childhood. I knew that I was capable and had the potential to do anything that I felt passionate about, simply because of the passion, and I wanted everyone else to know what was going on in my mind. To my delight, everyone was wholly receptive of my ideas, and I took great joy in listening to their rebuttals, suggestions, and criticisms (something I could never deal well with in the past).
More than anything though, there was an underlying feeling that for once I was not alone in my vessel, I realized that my body, although important, was just a transciever for my soul, and that my soul was infinite and eternal and everywhere, I could see myself making connections with objects that may have had no value in the past. I suddenly wondered what my carpet felt like being a carpet, what my walls felt like being walls, if they were happy in their station, and if not, what would they seek to improve.
And then, the clincher. I looked at my current state and sense of self, the anger, the frustrations, the anxieties, and I realized that I didn't need them, that I could cast them off, that always having my opinion heard was not necessary, that everyone didn't always have to agree with what I said. It took looking backwards at myself in a complete state of enhancement, beauty, love, and peace to realize how badly I wanted to feel that way all the time, and how capable I was of doing so. So I vowed that I would cast these demons away, and to this day they have still not come back.
After about 4 hours of wonderful conversation, cohesion, and camraderie, I began to feel this awareness shrinking. I didn't want to let go of this feeling, but I knew that I would be bringing these newfound insights with me. Instead of letting myself go at that point, I decided to take another pill. The first dose had been 150 mg, so I split another pill with H, broke it open, and put the powder on the back of my tongue and slowly let it down.
 I had realized that I could mold my environment to suit my mood, vs changing my mood to suit my environment.
This is when I really began to transcend. The faces of my friends seemed warped, not just the facial disfiguration from the jaw clenching and pupil dilation, but they seemed to become higher beings. I felt as if I was sitting in the court of some upper echelon of Yoda's 'luminous beings', not really angels, but more like heavenly nobles. W had a look about him of pride, the metaphor I used at the time was that of a farmer observing his land from a mountaintop. The closest I can come to defining this part of the trip is discovering your spiritual avatar, what you might appear as on the astral plane. Not a power animal or a spirit guardian, but a personal, spiritual manifestation of self.
It was in this state that I began to make some of my most profound associations.
First, I realized that there is no such thing as individual consciousness. We are given the illusion of our own consciousness, because physically we can only percieve the world around us through our own eyes. However, all energies flow from a common fountain, and this stream makes its way through millions of beings, so its constantly shared and redistributed. I knew that words were nothing more than a debilitating facade, that there was really no need for spoken word, if people could only look inside and read from each other's shared energy.
Second, I realized that there were many things I could improve about myself. My weight, my behavior, my mood. I was able to self-criticize without any feelings of anger or bitterness, and self-criticism has been something I've done by absolute best to avoid in the past.
Finally, and most importantly, I realized just how much H and my daughter meant to me, that I did not want to ever have to live without them, and I spent hours after eating another half capsule explaining this to her from every angle, always reciprocated with discourse indicating that she felt the same way, and we were more tuned to each other in that night than we had been since our inception. We made love in the truest sense of the word, our bodies, souls, and energies encircling every aspect of each other, total and complete synchronicity and cohesion. Time was gone, there was no such thing as time, time was an invention by men too blind to see that everything is constantly happening at once, forever. Even as I'm writing this I am quite literally trembling in remembrance of it.
Sleep came quickly and without problems, dreams were lucid and vivid, I could control every one of them. The next day I was told that I would feel unpleasantly 'ate up,' but in all actuality I felt as if I was lying in the afterglow of an orgasm. I was cozy, warm, and benevolent.
Be careful, as I have heard that there are many fake pills out there with compounds which can really make you sick. Its quite unfortunate, these chemicals are giving a dangerous name to what is truly a gentle, effective, and peaceful substance. What amazed me most afterwards about this drug (and I've heard much different accounts from others) was my unwillingness to do this drug again for a while. For the first time, I truly did not want to abuse or disrespect a substance. I'm not that kind of person at all. Usually when I find a drug I like I milk it as long as I can and as frequently as possible. MDMA changed all of that, I donít want to abuse it in exactly the same way as I don't want to tear pages out of the Old Testament.
Kind of a long description but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, I could go on for hours about this substance that I've only tried once, it really is that powerful. I am a better person as a result of using it, and thatís not something I can say for most drugs.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


With all the readings, videos and discussions I've had for this semester in terms of communciation technology, the next logical step is, what is 'next' in terms of communication technology! Here are my two ideas for the future of communication technology!
Five Senses
One of the big problems of current online communication is the fact that only two of our senses are being used in communication. What this means is that when I do a call, I can physically see and hear the person I talk to, but not touch, taste, nor smell.
A new communication technology I propose is one that uses five senses in communication technology. This communication technology would allow a person to interact with a person using all five senses in order for the person to be able to see, hear, touch, taste and smell. This would involve for example, a mouthpiece that could help people taste things, or an odorizer which provides digital scent technology to be able to for people to smell.
This could be the future of communication where people all over the world will simply communicate with 5 senses through a mobile device that supports five sense communications.
Near Self
Imagine being able to see a person just right beside you as you talk to them online even if they are really a thousand miles away. It would be super cool, to for example, be able to see your mom physically right beside you, even if she is back home.
A new communication technology I propose is near self CommTech which tries to emulate the person you are trying to talk to using Lidar (laser) data and colors, and then reproject this through Virtual Reality. This way, you can 'see' your mom or a loved one simply right beside you with just a pair of VR goggles.
This could again be the future of communication and technology, where people are able to bring themselves and other people to talk with a more 'real' presence.
These are the two ideas I have for the 'next' communication technology paper. I think both are viable, and there might even be the possibility of putting both of these ideas together. From my research, I think these are two new communication technologies that can be adapted. What do you all think?


Below is a Mathematica module that solves the Riemann problem in the MHD case. Unlike the Riemann solver, which solves the solution in real time, here I calculated a grid of solutions and use interpolation for a fluid user interface experience. This does limit the user input a bit, but the user can modify the density, velocity, and transverse magnetic field of the left state, in addition to modifying the magnetic field across the shock (B_x) and the relative angle between the transverse magnetic fields (Psi) in the initial conditions. The adiabatic index is fixed at 5/3. The different shocks are color coded and labeled in the "key:" subplot. The evolution of the density, velocities, and magnetic field are plotted. In addition, the final subplot shows the rotation of the transverse magnetic field due to the shock, as one looks at the shock along the x-axis.


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An Oscillating Electron Around a Ring of Charge (Part 2)
Introduction
Last week we studied the motion of an electron (mass \(m\) and charge \(e\)) as it oscillates about the center of a ring with charge \(Q\) and radius \(R\). We found that the path of the electron is a simple sinusoidal wave with a constant angular frequency:
\[\begin{equation} z(t) = Asin \left (\sqrt{\frac{k Qe }{mR^3}} t \right ) + Bcos \left (\sqrt{\frac{k Qe }{mR^3}} t \right ) \end{equation}\]However, this isn’t the full story. We learned in an earlier blog post that an accelerating charged particle radiates according to the Larmor formula. Thus, we need to expand this solution to include the effect of the recoil force on the accelerating electron due to the emission of electromagnetic radiation. This force has many names - the radiation reaction force, the self force, and the Abraham-Lorentz force.
The Abraham-Lorentz Force
Let’s start our derivation of the Abraham-Lorentz force by writing the expression that we derived for the Larmor formula (again, see my earlier post).
\[\begin{equation} P = \frac{e^2 a^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \end{equation}\]We know that the work done on the electron by its radiation force is defined to be the negative integral of power with respect to time:
\[\begin{equation} -\int P dt = -\int \frac{e^2 a^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} dt \end{equation}\]Let’s integrate this expression over one period (starting at \(t_0\) and ending at \(t_1\)).
\[\begin{align} -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} P dt &= -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} \frac{e^2 a^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} dt\\[0.1cm] &= - \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} a^2 dt\\[0.1cm] &= - \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \left ( \frac{d\vec{v}}{dt} \right ) \cdot \left ( \frac{d\vec{v}}{dt} \right ) dt \end{align}\]We can solve this expression further by using integration by parts. Let \(u = dv/dt\) and \(dy = (dv/dt) dt\). Then:
\[\begin{equation} \int u dy = uy - \int y du \end{equation}\]We can rewrite our integral as:
\[\begin{align} -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} P dt &= - \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \left ( \frac{d\vec{v}}{dt} \right ) \cdot \left ( \frac{d\vec{v}}{dt} \right ) dt\\[0.1cm] &= - \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \left [ \left ( \frac{d\vec{v}}{dt} \right ) \cdot \vec{v} \right ]_{t_0}^{t_1} + \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \vec{v} \cdot \frac{d^2 \vec{v}}{dt^2} dt \end{align}\]This integral is over one period of motion. Thus, the first term in the expression above is zero because the velocity of the electron (\(\vec{v}\)) and the acceleration of the electron (\(d\vec{v}/dt\)) are the same at times \(t_0\) and \(t_1\).
\[\begin{equation} -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} P dt = \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \vec{v} \cdot \frac{d^2 \vec{v}}{dt^2} dt \end{equation}\]We note that the second derivative of velocity is just the first derivative of acceleration.
\[\begin{equation} -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} P dt = \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \vec{v} \cdot \frac{d\vec{a}}{dt} dt \end{equation}\]At this point, let’s look at work through a different lens. Instead of writing the integral for work using power and time, we can write an equivalent integral using force, velocity, and time. We will define this force to be our Abraham-Lorentz force.
\[\begin{equation} -\int P dt = \int \vec{F}_{AL} \cdot \vec{v} dt \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} -\int_{t_0}^{t_1} P dt = \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \vec{F}_{AL} \cdot \vec{v} dt = \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \int_{t_0}^{t_1} \vec{v} \cdot \frac{d\vec{a}}{dt} dt \end{equation}\]Thus, the expression for the Abraham-Lorentz force falls right out of the integral:
\[\begin{equation} \vec{F}_{AL} = \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \frac{d\vec{a}}{dt} \end{equation}\]This force is really quite strange. It is one of the few times that we see the use of jerk in physics (the third derivative of position).
Oscillatory Motion With Radiation
In our analysis last week, we said that the net force on the electron was simply the electric force due to the charged ring. Now, our analysis is a bit more sophisticated - the net force \(\vec{F}_{net}\) is the sum of the electric force \(\vec{F}_E\) and the Abraham-Lorentz force \(\vec{F}_{AL}\).
\[\begin{equation} \vec{F}_{net} = \vec{F}_E + \vec{F}_{AL} \end{equation}\]We can plug in the appropriate expressions for each of the forces. Like last week, I will use dot notation to keep everything nice and neat.
\[\begin{equation} m \ddot{z} = - \frac{kQez}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} + \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dddot{z} \end{equation}\]Moving everything to one side and simplifying the first coefficient yields:
\[\begin{equation} \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dddot{z} - m \ddot{z} - \frac{kQe z}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} = 0 \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \dddot{z} - \left ( \frac{6 m \pi \epsilon_o c^3}{e^2} \right ) \ddot{z} - \left ( \frac{6 kQ \pi \epsilon_o c^3}{e} \right ) \left ( \frac{z}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} \right ) = 0 \end{equation}\]This new differential equation takes the self-force of the electron into account. Notice how it is not just a simple oscillatory problem anymore!
Conclusion
In physics, we are used to seeing second order differential equations with constant coefficients. These equation pop up in a variety of places like the mass-spring oscillator, the driven RLC circuit, and the Schrodinger equation.
Next week we will wrap up our discussion of this problem by analyzing this differential equation. We need to add one more piece to this equation in order to get a reasonable answer.


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CSS: Classes vs. IDs
When do you choose class vs. identity?
2014.1.25
When you see things on a webpage, the aesthetic look is controlled by assigning those elements either a class or an ID.
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There will be elements that look similar to each other except for the content. For example, two buttons may look identical -- they are the same shade of color, have the same shadowing, are the same size, etc. but one says "back" and the other says "forward". Instead of the tedious process of styling each button, we will asign the two buttons the same class. We then edit that class in giving it specific characteristics for both buttons.
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June 20, 2002
Robots escaping
The Age | Submitted by: Jube
"Professor Noel Sharkey said he turned his back on the drone and returned
15 minutes later to find it had forced its way out of the small make-shift
paddock it was being kept in. He later found it had travelled down an
access slope, through the front door of the centre and was eventually
discovered at the main entrance to the car park when a visitor nearly
flattened it with his car."
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Aliens blamed for cattle mutilations in Argentina
MSNBC | Submitted by: george_lazenby
Argentina is sending scientists to the remote plains of Pamas to investigate farm animals found dissected, mutilated and drained of blood. At least 70 animals have been found killed with genitals and tongues pulled out with surgical precision and surrounded by charred grass with no signs of blood stains. The cattle's entrails are said to have been removed through a burn-like incision in the animal's rear.
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Australian censorship to be kept secret
Australian IT | Submitted by: Soylent
"Electronic Frontiers Australia had requested access under the Freedom
of Information Act to a number of Australian Broadcasting Authority documents
relating to censored websites." The ABA claims they are not releasing URL's
because it might let people find child porn more easily, but oddly they are
refusing to release URL's of material judged completely legal.
So nobody really knows what's being censored and what's not.
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Drunken scot in deep shit, again
BBC | Submitted by: george_lazenby
"A woman has been fined for leading her horse into a police station while she
was drunk... She then entered the police headquarters and led her elderly pony
Cheval across the foyer. However, it became frightened, reared up, and defecated on the floor. Police took away the horse and gave Duthie a bucket
and shovel to clean up the mess."
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Did NSA have 9-11 information on 9-10
Washington Post | Submitted by: Soylent
"Intelligence agencies aren't sure if a conversation in Arabic intercepted
Sept. 10 was a warning of the next day's attacks at the World Trade Center
and Pentagon, an intelligence source said Wednesday. The conversation
intercepted by the National Security Agency suggested that a big event was
to take place the next day. It was not translated until Sept. 12."
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Mother torched daughter who slept with boyfriend
Miami Herald | Submitted by: f00f
"[Tarrago] acknowledged pouring gasoline over her then-15-year-old daughter
on Dec. 6, 1999. The motive, according to prosecutors, was jealousy after the
teen had become romantically involved with Tarrago's 25-year-old boyfriend.
During Tarrago's trial, her attorney insisted she poured the gas on her
daughter merely to scare her. She never intended to ignite the fire, despite
brandishing and flicking the lighter, Soven argued."
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Going rate for Souls: $17
BBC | Submitted by: f00f
"The 26-year-old, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, posted an advert on the eBay
site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma in the US, for $16.95.
Mr Malham said the buyer wanted a new soul as he had lost his own in a
bet over a game of air hockey."
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Millionaire's dobermann rips off girl's arm
London Telegraph | Submitted by: Spookbabe
"A passing woman motorist stopped, beat the dog back with her
umbrella, grabbed the children and pushed them into her car.
By then the dog had bitten through the girl's arm below her
left elbow. Her brother was bitten on both arms and thighs."
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Man accused of making bioweapon
Wire Services | Submitted by: Spookbabe
"Olsen, 47, was allegedly making ricin, a deadly extract of castor beans.
Traces of ricin have been found by U.S. troops in Afghanistan at suspected
al-Qaida biological weapons sites, Brown said... Ricin is twice as deadly
as cobra venom. In very small doses, it causes the human digestive
tract to convulse."
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Felon poses as priest, is arrested
AZ Central | Submitted by: pyromaniac.net
"Freddrick Mark Brito, a convicted forger and thief, spent several weeks at
Immaculate Heart parish before U.S. marshals arrested him on June 11 on a
California warrant alleging grand theft and embezzlement."
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Fish-blender artist offers heroin as exhibit
Tiscali World Online | Submitted by: smacker
"First it was goldfish in a blender. Now Marco Evarista, a Danish artist,
has created 30 artworks using paint mixed with heroin - which he plans to
promote by giving the drug away to Danish addicts."
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Naked mermaid sues cops
New York Post | Submitted by: Phatlor
"Gunderson was wearing a sea-creature costume - consisting of a thong and
blue-green body paint - when she caught the attention of the cops before the
parade last June. She got a summons charging her with violating public
exposure laws and had to wear Band-Aids over her nipples."
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Monks evicted from temple
News Corporation | Submitted by: Mark Knipe
"Seventy Buddhist monks have been expelled from a Cambodian temple for
scandalous behaviour including embezzling money, visiting brothels, and
watching pornographic videos."
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Man blows up truck with Kool-Aid
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: ian m.
First Jim Jones, now this:
"A man who said he was experimenting with a Kool-Aid-containing explosive compound for homemade fireworks when his truck blew up will remain in jail
pending a federal grand jury investigation... "The U.S. military experimented
with it, and tried to stabilize it and couldn't," [said ATF Special Agent Eric Floyd]... At least one pyrotechnics Web site describes the compound as very
dangerous and notes it will explode if it sits in the sun. Webster, who has
been fired from his job at a Safeway store, was described by his boss and
co-workers as "moody" and "disgruntled," Floyd testified.
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Guilty! He chopped up the vicar!
BBC | Submitted by: Phatlor
"The jury at Lewes Crown Court found Christopher Hunnisett guilty of
killing the Reverend Ronald Glazebrook, 81, from St Leonards, East Sussex,
in April 2001. Mr Glazebrook's severed head and limbs were found in a bag
behind a leisure centre in Hastings and his torso was discovered
near Eastbourne."
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Northwest militiamen antics
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: ian m.
"Its leader, an unemployed ship painter-turned-commander-in-chief named John
Pitner, convinced ragtag followers that an invading army had picked state Route
9 through rural Whatcom and Skagit counties as the New World Order's path to
conquest... The deputy director of Alpha One, a contractor named Fred Fisher,
was once convicted of incest for molesting his stepdaughter. It didn't stop him
from standing up at the Rome Grange to extol family values and outline U.N.
plots to take children "from the moral authority of their parents." "Beware
parents! The U.N. wants your children for its world plantations."
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Alabama Manure Tea cures colds
Birmingham News | Submitted by: Mr. Ramon
"Veteran state Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma, whose mother served it to him when he was a boy in Baldwin County: 'It often tasted different, depending on what the cow had been eating. I can't recall a time it not working.'"
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Heads Up!
Wire Services | Submitted by: Son of Benway
"A fighter plane flew too low at a military airport in central Sweden on Thursday, burning six visitors on the ground, three of them seriously, an air force spokesman said. Radio reports said the Swedish-built "Viggen" - or "Thunderbolt" - jet swept just 10 yards above the group in the airport near Uppsala, 40 miles north of Stockholm."
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Republican perv suicides in bathroom
Johnson City Press | Submitted by: kaleidoskope
Tennessee Republican State Rep. Keith Westmoreland, charged with exposing
himself to children in a hotel hot tub in Florida (after a similar incident
in Tennessee in March) killed himself in his bathroom with a shotgun blast
to the chest. Update on earlier story.
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Retards use Get Out of Jail Free Card
CNN | Submitted by: LadyC
The Supreme Court ruled today that you cannot execute tards.  Approximately 3% of the
population has an IQ below this number, but estimates vary between 9% and 17%
when examining prisoners as a group.
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Chicks-with-dicks sue Toys R Us
Newsday | Submitted by: Waingro....who else?
"Wearing heels, a short skirt and her blond hair in a bun, McGrath told
the jury that she considers herself a woman. She said she has undergone
hormonal therapy, gotten breast implants and married a soft drink
delivery man." [our emphasis]
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Why We're At War
New York Times | Submitted by: Mr. Ramon
This is perhaps the most extensive written account of what people experienced in the upper floors of the World Trade Center's twin towers in the moments after they were hit by jets, as told by people who managed to get out and by family members who were contacted by those who did not in their last communications. "As Ms. Wein came to, she had her own battered body to deal with: her right arm was broken, three ribs were cracked and her right lung had been punctured. In other words, she was lucky. All around her were people with horrific injuries, dead or close to it. Ms. Wein yelled out for her boss, Mr. Kestenbaum. When she found him, she said, he was expressionless, motionless, silent. Ms. Hagerty, who had joked about the cats at home, showed no signs of life when a colleague, Ed Nicholls, saw her. And Richard Gabrielle, another Aon colleague, was pinned to the ground, his legs apparently broken by marble that had fallen on them. "
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Snoring juror causes mistrial
KMBC-TV 9 Kansas City | Submitted by: anonymous
"[Judge] McNally questioned the snoring juror after he and several others
in the courtroom noticed that she slept continually, sometimes emitting loud
snorts, as witnesses testified. 'The snorts made it difficult for others to
focus on the testimony,' claimed a fellow juror."
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Burglars torture goldfish
This is Brighton and Hove | Submitted by: Pyro
"A goldfish was cooked alive in a frying pan and another was flattened and
burnt with an iron. A third fish was thrown against a wall and killed.
Burglars ransacked a house in Brighton, trashing all the rooms before
torturing the pet fish. The owners, a couple and their two teenage boys,
were on holiday at the time."
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Turning your back on Leader Bush now illegal
Livejournal | Submitted by: CharlesO
Keep in mind that this is at a public school, Ohio State University:
"Graduating students were told that they would be expelled and arrested if
they turned their backs. They were alerted that dozens of staff members and
police officers would be watching the stands, as well as the Secret Service.
A few students asked for the definition of expulsion... did it mean removal
from the stadium or refusal of their diplomas, or both? One of the persons
at the front said "Both."
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Parents outraged at school sex survey of preteens
AZ Central | Submitted by: anonymous
"The survey had asked youngsters if they thought about having sex, if they
thought about "touching other people's private parts" and if they didn't
trust people because they might want sex.... By robbing the claimants of the
right to control their children's upbringing, the district simultaneously
robbed the students of their innocence and the claimants of their
status as parents." The survey has been stopped.
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This sample illustrates how a stream of HTML content can be flowed through a series of individual page templates, each of which is composed of one or more CSS regions. Each region will show a portion of the content stream, as described in other samples. Page templates will be created and removed depending on the size of the content stream and how much content fits into each individual page. To demonstrate this, please resize the program window or adjust the text size, and observe how new pages are created and removed as needed, so that there are never any empty pages and the complete content stream is always displayed. Furthermore, in snapped mode, pages are given a different layout so that text takes up the entire page, and the page navigation direction is changed from horizontal to vertical. The Javascript code in regionTemplatePage.js shows how developers can dynamically create and remove pages as needed, while the page templates in the "html" directory demonstrate how individual pages are designed, so that regions are laid out alongside other, static content specific to each page. In addition, this sample illustrates how to capture keyboard events on both CSS Regions and non-Regions within a page, thereby allowing simple navigation between pages. For a more complete look at how to handle element scrolling with gradual animations, please see the Input: Pan/scroll and zoom sample. In sum, the templates shown here, in combination with other HTML and CSS functionality, illustrate how a developer can create attractive content-driven apps, such as digital books, magazines, or newspapers, with the fluidity needed to paginate content across a wide variety of screen sizes, orientations, and resolutions.


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A BUG'S LIFE
**** (out of ****)
Rated G
(starring the vocal talents of) Flik: Dave Foley Hopper: Kevin Spacey Princess Atta: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Dot: Hayden Panettiere Slim: David Hyde Pierce Molt: Richard Kind Heimlich: Joe Ranft Francis: Denis Leary Gypsy: Madeline Kahn Rosie: Bonnie Hunt P.T. Flea: John Ratzenberger Mr. Soil: Roddy McDowall
Directed by John Lasseter. Co-directed by Andrew Stanton. Produced by Darla K. Anderson and Kevin Reher. Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw. Original story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Running time: 93 minutes. Release date: November 20, 1998 in NY/LA; November 25th nationwide.
(to read this review complete with pictures from the film, visit Jeffrey Huston's website at: http://www.impactprod.org/people/huston/abugslife.htm )
Great family entertainment is rare nowadays. Many films and TV shows like to present themselves under the guise of being entertaining for the whole family, but most are not. `Family Entertainment' is an abused expression by studio marketers that are trying to peddle films or videos that really only appeal to kids. They say their product is `for the whole family', but as the kids laugh and giggle, Mom and Dad find themselves nodding off.
As I define it, `Family Entertainment' is something that literally everyone in the family can enjoy, no matter how young or old they may be. "A Bug's Life" is family entertainment at its absolute best.
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation collaborated on one of this decade' s most revolutionary films, 1995's "Toy Story". It was the first film to be animated entirely by CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). This holiday season, Disney and Pixar give us their second effort, the energetic and highly entertaining "A Bug's Life". Also animated by CGI technology, "A Bug's Life" is a sumptuous visual treat that takes the look of "Toy Story" to another level. And whereas it may not have quite the level of character depth as its 1995 predecessor, "A Bug's Life" is a smart, fun adventure that is as pleasing to the sense of sight as it is to the sense of humor.
 Using their superior strength, the scary grasshoppers strike fear into the ants, threatening them with their very lives if they do not give the grasshoppers all of the food they have harvested through the summer and fall. Feeling powerless to do anything, the ants hopelessly give into this demand. Except one.
Flik, a simple worker ant with aspirations of being an inventor, is viewed by most of the colony as eccentric, high-minded and foolish. Yearning to redeem himself, Flik ventures out of the ant colony in the hopes of recruiting other insects as defenders of the ant harvest. Through a hilarious sequence of mistaken identity, Flik enlists a group of carnival insects for this battle, believing them to be warrior insects. This alliance-by-misunderstanding evolves into a fable which shows us that belief and faith in oneself and others enables us to achieve feats that reach beyond our perceived limitations. It is a wonderfully affirming morality tale in the grand tradition of Disney's best animated features.
The story for "A Bug's Life" succeeds where so many family-oriented movies fail. It tells an exciting story with interesting characters that is entertaining to adults while being fascinating to children. The story is very well structured; it displays excellent character development and legitimate dramatic tension that challenges the resolve of its characters, all building to an exciting climax. It also employs a sharp wit with quick barbs and observations that are uproariously funny. In today's sex obsessed culture, this is a shining example of truly great humor.  This is a smart, funny script with a positive, heartwarming message.
"A Bug's Life" may very well be the most perfectly cast film of the year. Boasting an impressive list of actors, the voices and characterizations simply could not have been better. Actors such as Dave Foley, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, David Hyde Pierce and John Ratzenberger could be classified as `Must See Voiceovers' as they are mostly known for their work on popular NBC sitcoms ("NewsRadio", "Seinfeld", "Frasier" and "Cheers", respectively). As familiar and perfect are the voices of Pierce and Ratzenberger for their characters, Dreyfus does well as Princess Atta in that she is appropriately straight-forward instead of being the overly extroverted Elaine, all the while maintaining her hallmark energy. And while Foley doesn't do anything that is necessarily spectacular, his performance of Flik is both exuberant and tender.
Kevin Spacey has one of the film's juiciest roles as the maniacal Hopper, leader of the oppressive grasshopper clan. While being aggressively angry at the appropriate moments, the greatness that Spacey brings to Hopper is a quiet, calm, but fear-inducing authority. He doesn't always explode with hot rantings. But rather, he pierces each ant with a cold look and a chilling whisper. Spin City's Richard Kind plays Molt, Hopper's hilarious suck-up of a sidekick. Kind's loud brashness provides much of the film's humor.
My favorite performance would have to be that of Joe Ranft. As well as being one of the film's screenwriters, Joe Ranft provides the voice for Heimlich, the shy and na´ve chubby caterpillar with the voice of a seven-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger. The combined talents of Ranft and the animators make Heimlich a funny and endearing character.
Kids and adults alike will gaze in awe at the artwork in this film. With its bright colors, three-dimensional textures, and smooth flow of movement, "A Bug's Life" is a visual marvel. There is a great deal of movement in this picture with so many things going on at once. It is a complex orchestration of moving images that is utterly impressive. The colors burst off of the screen with rich greens, blue hues, and even a foreboding sunset.
The array of insects in the story led to vastly different character designs and creations. It is a veritable smorgasbord of creativity, presenting us with little creatures that range from the stout and round to the tall and thin, and virtually everything imaginable in between. Perhaps the best character designs are the grasshoppers. With scaly, rough detail and precise nuances of movement, the grasshoppers really come to life. The multi-legged anatomy is clearly on display as the grasshoppers move around effortlessly. The grasshoppers are, in my opinion, the best creatures I've seen created using CGI technology.
Randy Newman, who delivered one of this year's best film scores with his compositions for "Pleasantville", has broken new personal ground with his work for "A Bug's Life". Newman hasn't broached full-fledged adventure territory before, but proves himself more than up for the task. Newman's score is a rousing one that captures and accentuates the action and excitement of the story. It's so good that I'm willing to forgive him for the annoyingly typical Randy Newman song that plays under the film's end credits.
It's hard to avoid comparisons with the DreamWorks CGI film "Antz" that was released less than two months prior to this movie's release. But I believe it is unfair and pointless to compare the two for it would be an `apples and oranges' scenario. "Antz" is a great film in its own right, as is "A Bug's Life". And although there are a few unavoidable similarities between them, they really are two different films at heart. Whereas "Antz" has an adult sophistication to it, "A Bug's Life" is a childlike magical adventure. In fact, I can't remember the last time a film has genuinely made me feel like a kid again as "A Bug's Life" did. Perhaps it is for this reason that I personally give an edge to "A Bug's Life", but not necessarily because it is (in technical cinematic terms) a better film.
As an added treat, last year's Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short Film, "Geri's Game", is shown in front of "A Bug's Life". Also made by Pixar Animation Studios, it is the oddly fun story of an old man playing chess-against himself. Thank Disney for this fun bonus, an Oscar winning film unseen by a wide audience until now. And on the other side of the spectrum, there's fun to be had after the conclusion of the film as well. Make sure to stick around for the end credit roll to enjoy some of the film' s funniest moments.
With films like "What Dreams May Come", "Antz", "Dark City", and "Pleasantville", 1998 has been a banner year for breathtaking cinematic imagery. Now you can add "A Bug's Life" to that list. Like those films, it is a true work of art that ultimately comes to life through its hilariously enchanting insects and adventurous story. And if you're not careful, the story may even eventually move you as its brave characters exemplify the story's moral of having faith in oneself and those around you. "A Bug's Life" is pure, unadulterated fun that is also spectacular filmmaking. For great family entertainment, the surefire bet presently in theaters is Disney 's "A Bug's Life", a rousing animated adventure that is destined to become a classic.
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I am a full stack web developer with 10+ years of experience in the IT industry. While much of my focus is on front-end programming, JavaScript, and user interface design, I also have strong background in LAMP-based development. I strive for perfection on every project, and in every line of code that I write.
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Gavant Software
Frontend Engineer
Jun 2016 - Present
Gavant Software is a full service provider of custom web and mobile technology solutions.
Cool Life CRM
Lead Developer
Jun 2009 - May 2016
Cool Life CRM is a SaaS based web development firm, specializing in cloud-based CRM, marketing and content managment web software.
- Full stack web development, extensively used PHP and MySQL back-end technologies, and HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript on the frontend
- Specialized in UI and user experience design, and focused on building client-centric applications with JavaScript
- Championed MVC based development, and worked with several MVC-style frameworks on both the backend (CodeIgniter), and frontend (Ember.js, backbone.js)
- Designed and lead development on a large CRM/marketing application suite capable of managing databases with millions of records
- Integrated many third party APIs and web services into various applications, including Authorize.net (credit card processing), SendGrid, Mandrill (bulk email), and Google Maps
- Created a fully WYSIWYG drag and drop website editor and content management system specifically targeted at bar and restaurant businesses
- Developed a fully responsive client support portal and account management solution that handles support requests, file sharing, and payment/subscription management
- Implemented an internal developer portal for installing and managing client systems and databases, and accessing code documentation and dev articles.
- Designed and implemented a web-based IMAP email client fully integrated into a CRM application.
DataPipe, Inc.
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Sep 2003 - Jun 2009
DataPipe is a web hosting and managed global IT services provider.
- Monitored and responded to network and server health issues
- Performed basic troubleshooting tasks on Microsoft Windows Server systems
- Coordinated issue resolution with datacenters and the various technical departments
- Handled customer phone support and incoming trouble tickets
- Managed SSL certificate purchasing, installation, and renewal
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Mount Saint Mary College
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
2005 - 2008
Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in IT with a dual focus in web technologies and networking. Finished with a cummulative GPA of 3.6, and was consistently on the Dean's List every semester.
Stevens Institute of Technology
2003 - 2005
Some college coursework completed (computer & information sciences).
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DOMPERIDONE
See also: substances that tend to induce torsades de pointes
See also: torsades de pointes inducing medications (except antiparasitics,
neuroleptics, methadone)
From the French ANSM drug interactions document of September 2016, p. 83
DOMPERIDONE RxNorm: 3626 ATC: A03FA03 |
FLUCONAZOLE RxNorm: 4450 ATC: D01AC15 J02AC01 |
Risk of problems with ventricular rhythm, especially of torsades de pointes |
CONTRAINDICATION |
DOMPERIDONE RxNorm: 3626 ATC: A03FA03 |
STRONG INHIBITORS OF CYP3A4 CLASS CODE: J02-J05 |
Increase of the plasma concentrations of domperidone due to decrease of its hepatic metabolism by the inhibitor |
CONTRAINDICATION |