Bernardo, in your book, "Why Materialism is Baloney [etc]", you provide various analogies for consciousness, including: flowing water and whirlpools, liquid mirrors of mercury, and vibrating membranes. These implicitly associate mind with dimensionality. Moreover, you explicitly associate mind with dimensionality on page 139 of your book, where you write that (emphasis in the original) "we need to imagine the medium of mind as a membrane with more than two dimensions vibrating in more than three dimensions of space". Would you acknowledge that this dimensionality (of, under your scheme, consciousness/mind) implies some sort of physicality [edit: on reflection, "substantiality" might be a better word than "physicality"] to that consciousness/mind, which might, per the question two below, be reconciled from stark physicality as "mind stuff"?
If you don't acknowledge this, then would you acknowledge that the notion that your analogies, which strongly entail dimensionality - along with your explicit admission of dimensionality, and thus some sort of physicality [edit: again, better is "substantiality"] - can ultimately be "cashed out" into a non-dimensional, non-physical reality is as promissory as the materialism that you seek to refute? If not, how would you "cash out" these analogies in a way that is both non-dimensional and non-physical? If you don't believe that your analogies need to be cashed out in this way, then why not, and how do you avoid the implication of the existence of some sort of "mind stuff" (see below question)?
Following on from the first question (and to some extent the second), and extending / elaborating on it: would you acknowledge with respect to your position, if not the implication of physicality [substantiality], at least the implication of the existence of some sort of "stuff", which might least disruptively be described as "mind stuff"? Admittedly, you explicitly deny the implication/existence of this "mind stuff" on page 67, where you write that "Idealism does not entail that the substrate of mind is the stuff of existence, insofar as we define 'stuff' as something that exists independently, and outside of, subjective perception": this denial, though, depends on a definition of "stuff" as "independent of, and outside of, subjective perception". What if instead we define this "stuff" as the contents of subjective perception? Would this not avoid your objection, as well as properly recognise that whatever it is that you define to be mind/consciousness is in some sense tangible [substantive]: that is, that it both has a dimensional structure as well as being some sort of "stuff"?
Following up on all of the questions so far: would you, in the end, allow that the distinction that you try to draw between idealism and panpsychism is illusory? To elaborate: on page 66, under the heading "Idealism is not panpsychism", you write that (emphasis in the original) "Idealism entails that all reality is in mind. One should not confuse the claim that all of reality is in consciousness with the idea that everything is conscious. Idealism does not entail that rocks and chairs experience things subjectively the way you and I do". The two primary claims of this assertion can be contested thus. Firstly, that panpsychism need not entail that everything "is" conscious any more than (your vision of) idealism need do: it can simply entail, as does (your vision of) idealism, that "mind is a fundamental feature of the world" (quote from this version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) article on panpsychism: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/panpsychism/). Secondly, that panpsychism need not entail "that rocks and chairs experience things subjectively" any more than idealism need entail that conclusion: both might adequately explain non-conscious entities as lacking the whirlpool-like self-reflective mechanisms that you propose as enabling consciousness in beings such as humans.
Following up even further: if your answer to the previous question is negative, then how would you respond to this quote from the same SEP article as referenced in the previous question: "Idealists are panpsychists by default, as it were, believing as they do that nothing exists except minds or mental attributes"?
Finally, this question is in the spirit of synthesis. Let's say that you do accept all of the (implications of the) preceding question-challenges, and that you acknowledge that (your vision of) idealism is - or could be reasonably conceived as being - panpsychism by another name: what do you think of the prospect of similarly embracing dualism as merely another aspect of this - perhaps universal - perspective on the mind-body problem?
Alex, I have composed all of this fairly rapidly because I don't know how much time you have left before your interview. I might post amendments/additions if time allows. Please feel free to share any/all of it with Bernardo prior to interviewing him, and to involve me in that communication if/as you see fit.
hi Laird... there is a lot of great stuff here. I particularly like to the idealism v. panpsychism critique... then again I wonder if all of this kinda falls under Mike's point about "recovering materialists."
do you think you could find a vid clip that hones in on the idealism v. panpsychism thing? I can then use that to get to yr question.
1) I don't think it is justified to use mathematical analogies to describe or explain consciousness because math is a product of consciousness. Mathematics describes the physical world well because the physical world is produced by consciousness using mathematics. But consciousness is fundamental, it is not physical, for example time and distance do not limit consciousness, and there are no grounds to assume mathematical analogies apply to consciousness. People will use mathematical analogies to theorize about consciousness because they have no other ideas about how to describe non-physical things, but that is like looking for your keys under the lamppost where the light is good when you have lost them in the shadows across the street.
hey Jim... great points re the spirits. I too have gone round-n-round with B on this. can you take a look for a quote from his blog, or books or vids that I could use to tee up this question.
It is amusing that we are having a discussion before the podcast, which is probably not dissimilar to the one we will have after the podcast! Since Bernardo is a member of the forum, it might be useful if he contributed here. After all, Alex clearly has conversations with his guests before the actual recording takes place, so it might make sense for us to join in, when the guest is someone we know.
the forum represents a tiny fraction of folks who listen to the show. contributions have been great so far.
I don't want to lose the spontaneity of the interview by inviting Bernardo... but I don't think we have to make the conversation private either.
I must admit, I see panpsychism as the refuge for people like Christof Koch, who feel forced by the facts to budge from materialism, but have no intention of doing anything with with the idea!
The idea of a consciousness that is extended across space, doesn't seem to correspond to some NDE's and OBE's, in which people outside their bodies can move long distances in very little time.
I agree, animism might well form an intermediate theory that would lead on to real Idealism (see my first post in this thread).
would you (or someone else) mind finding a Christof Koch clip... either from his skeptiko interview or on Closer to Truth.
I love love love Bernardo's work, but I feel like he's tilting at windmills everytime he goes after panpsychism. There's no conflict with his view and panpsychism; both can be true.
He loves the metaphor that a whirlpool in water is just the water -- it isn't anything different. BUT IT'S A WHIRLPOOL! We would point at it and say, "hey, there's a whirlpool!" It has it's own directional energy, it has it's own pressure and momentum. Yes, all is one, all is water, but there can be many distinct features within the water and that shouldn't be negated. Remove a drop and now it's a distinct drop, it is no longer the ocean.
I also believe that the universe is granting us free will as a type of gift so that we can also create. So we all may be chunks of god, but we have our own godliness that is allowing us to invoke novelty that wouldn't be possible in a completely interconnected system. He claims "there is no experience of what it's like to be a table." I disagree. I think if we are beyond the veil and wanted to experience what it's like to be a rock or a planet or a star we could do just that. Why would these bodies be any different? Are they not made up of carbon and iron and the same elements that everything else is? We are whirlpools, but whirlpools ARE something, albeit temporary.
thx KG... would you mind drilling into the "free will" thing a bit and see if we can find a question and vid clip.
I am not an expert on his writings and especially not on his recent stuff so I don't really know if this is still relevant.
In my post (above) I included links to the thread at mind energy.net where we discussed the spirit interacting in the physical.
I don't know if he discussed that anywhere else.
Maybe he is reading this thread and can comment?
I'm looking for a video clip (ideally) or a quote from his blog. this is a video interview, I would like to tee up the question by referring to something specific he has written.
I'm not going to ask him beforehand... I like the spontaneity of an interview.
I really like Mike's point: a new terminology independent of the prevailing materialistic terminology would indeed be very helpful.
Not sure whether I can find a video clip but I do know of a couple of blog posts. Would those be at all useful? I could offer a brief commentary as to how my questions apply to them.
I do know of a couple of blog posts. Would those be at all useful? I could offer a brief commentary as to how my questions apply to them.
I guess I'd like to hear about Bernardo's views on non-dualism (perhaps especially the non-dualistic A Course in Miracles (ACIM) if he knows anything about that) and its relationship to Idealism.
yes, the would be great. think in terms of a quote on the screen that B would then be asked to respond to.
OK, here are a few quotes which you might use, accompanied by my brief comments.
[T]he term 'panpsychism' has so many possible interpretations as to render it at best ambiguous and at worst useless.
Panpsychism Interpretation 2: consciousness is the intrinsic nature of matter, not just one more of its properties. However, consciousness is still considered fundamentally fragmented in exactly the same way matter is.
[T]o my horror [...] my ideas sometimes get conflated with the interpretations of panpsychism discussed above.
Panpsychism, according to the two interpretations of the term discussed in this essay, is fundamentally different from Idealism/Nondualism.
Constitutive Micropsychism—The view that all facts are grounded in/realized by/constituted of consciousness-involving facts at the micro-level.
However, as Bernardo acknowledges, these are not the only interpretations of panpsychism. What he doesn't acknowledge is that there are interpretations of pansychism that are compatible with idealism.
[According to] what may be called “idealist panpsychism” [...] the primary motivation for the ascription of mental attributes to matter is that matter is, in essence, a “form” of mind and thus panpsychism is a kind of theorem which follows from this more fundamental philosophical view. [R]eality [is] a “world self”, a conscious being that [comprises] absolutely everything and of which we, as well as everything else of course, [are] but parts.
The philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) is also worth mentioning here as an early and pure form of idealist panpsychism. Idealists are panpsychists by default, as it were, believing as they do that nothing exists except minds or mental attributes.
According to Meixner, the only appealing option for the panpsychist is idealistic holistic panpsychism. Meixner's approach is inspired by Edmund Husserl, George Berkeley, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
That's probably way too much, but I can provide more if you need it, or if it's too much you can pick and choose what you like. I hope this helps!
He is, of course, a member of the forum - so he may have viewed this discussion!
To answer this question properly, we must first bite an unavoidable bullet: it is incoherent to think of a free choice as a non-determined outcome that also isn't random. And a random choice is not intentional. An intentional choice must thus be determined by something; by some set of determining factors. The essential question here, which I think most people overlook, is: What factors? The core of our intuition about freewill is that the determining factors must be internal to us as subjective agents. Because nothing outside subjectivity can be internal to us in that sense, materialism immediately defeats true freewill. But my formulation of idealism again endorses it: according to the metaphysics in the book, our individual psyches are split-off complexes of the cosmic mind within which the entirety of existence unfolds as parallel streams of experience. Since there is nothing outside this cosmic mind, all determining factors of each stream can only be internal to our true selves. Freewill is thus true.
According to my formulation of idealism, choice is the outcome of mental processes. These mental processes may very well be 'mentally deterministic' insofar as they obey yet-unknown mental patterns and regularities that we may call the 'laws of mind.' But watch out: the 'laws of mind' are not necessarily reducible to the dynamics of subatomic particles.
Bbbbbut... why not? Why wouldn't they all be part of the same ocean? Are subatomic particles hard detritus in the ocean of mind? Wouldn't they be made up of mind too?
My formulation of idealism grants fundamental reality to things like feelings and emotions, and does not require them to be reducible to known physical laws. Since feelings and emotions are clearly valid determining factors in the making of a choice, the 'mental determinism' I am suggesting here is clearly of a very different order of complexity, richness, meaning and nuance than physical determinism. Moreover, the word 'law' must not be misinterpreted here: the 'laws of mind' are simply a metaphor for the observed patterns and regularities inherent to the natural flow of mind, not external constraints prohibiting mind from doing this or that.
Eh. Gobble gook. If god is elegant simplicity I think he could do better than this. I would think the 'laws of mind' even if they are variable and changing would be the causal factors in the resulting physical plane, no? If it's all consciousness that is. And nature being fractal why wouldn't it be that the tiniest particle, as a piece of thought, also has its own internal emotional struggle as we do?
In this sense, existence is 'mentally deterministic.' Finally, since all factors involved in this unfolding of experience in the cosmic mind are necessarily internal to it (there being nothing external to it), our intuitions about freewill are again endorsed: choice is fully determined by the internal subjective dynamics of our true selves.
He admits to a bit of word salad in the comments. Let's read the second article (2014) and see if that states it any better.
Freewill is the capacity of an agent to make an intentional choice unconstrained by any factor outside that which the agent identifies itself with.
Yes! Terminology we can agree on. Go on..
Except that you cannot choose B because it is not your perceived essential nature. So it isn't really a choice/exertion of will? Even if you tried to psyche yourself out and said, "My nature is A, so I choose B! Take that, universe!" ~ you would only do that if your perceived essential nature was of an anti-authoritarian who would try and subvert their own pre-determinism. That's pre-determined!
In this conscious universe do subatomic particles not alter their 'behavior' based on observation? True randomness is almost unheard of in this universe except for the 'probability patterns' of the subatomic world and we might even crack that one day - that is, unless they're truly making decisions and are ultimately the source of free will. Do virii (who we're not sure if we should classify as alive or dead) seek (desire) to reproduce or is it just a causal process? Why would the universe utilize carrot and stick for larger beings/forms/constructions, but keep the smaller ones a causal process? At what level of resolution does causality become free will? Do cells contain an internal motivation? Do they have little emotional lives? Do water drops seek to be back together again because they're family? Is gravity love? If you put my 'soul' into a squirrel wouldn't I be just like a squirrel in every possible way? I'm fairly certain that animals basically have internal emotional lives as we do, why would that stop at a certain level of development (e.g. the ant) and not be carried all the way through all of creation? That includes ideas and thoughts. They reproduce, they spread, they do all the same things as virii do. It seems to me that the nature of the universe is not built like a watch-maker who constructs different pieces and assembles them, it's more like a fractal creation where there is one idea (equation) and every inch of creation is reflective of it throughout.
We all accept that human-level is most likely where free will is occurring. Here's a silly Matrix video game where thousands of Agent Smiths combine into one giant robot.
Now imagine we have an actual building-sized robot in our world and we as a society determine that it is too powerful to put in the hands of one human being. Therefore we will allow any human being at any time log in to a 'game' where they can control one aspect of the robot (finger joint, knee, etc.) We establish a communication network so that we can work together to accomplish tasks that we never could as a tiny human being. We figure out a democratic way to establish motives. We now have a giant building-sized perspective - we can see farther, lift more, construct projects we never could before. The robot's behavior is far more causal than any individual human's is because all of the opposing minority wills would kind of cancel each other out, but it would still ultimately be free because it was controlled by free wills. We are still using an aggregate of all of our free wills (and you would inevitably get some random troll who f*'s with your knee cap, but then again you'd probably have a process to log him off and ban him just as quickly), but for the most part, an external viewer of the robot might concur that HE has free will -- and he does! His free will is the AGGREGATE of all the free wills that are controlling him. And creating an aggregate of free wills is obviously an important piece of universal technology that is extremely useful in navigating scale.
Still, I don't think you can ultimately lance Bernardo here. He will twist in wind as he does in the comments of that thread. I'm just typing to hear myself think. Sorry I'm wasting people's time.
Maybe someone can take my word salad and make it palatable.
One thought I have had is, does it matter if the physical universe is made up entirely of thought or if the matter universe is what contains thought and information (the way a hard drive contains the works of shakespeare) ~ isn't what really matters (with matter) is that both matter and thoughts are derivatives of the same thing? It seems to me that even a materialist could start to understand that a certain configuration of information (e.g. words stored on a hard drive) CAN influence behavior, words in the mind change the electro-chemical state of the brain's hard drive, so therefore quite obviously thoughts DO affect matter and matter DOES affect thoughts so we should stop pretending like they're these vastly different worlds. It always makes me laugh that (the majority of) religious people are basically materialists with God inserted onto the stage or as a magic dust imbued in everything, but with the same underlying premise.
Skeptics like to chastise 'believers' as believing in invisible pink unicorns, but if I believed in invisible pink unicorns (you believe in the unicorn, but you have faith in their pinkness) and convinced all of America that they exist and like to sleep in the threshold of a doorway then everyone will be stepping over thresholds and that is NOT an illusion. That is, behaviorally, a REAL thing. Totally, undeniably REAL. Belief is real with real-world effects. If you extrapolate that to the idea of tulpas and that sort of thing then you're really starting to see the big picture. Thoughts are real. Information is real. We're not talking steel balls versus fairy dust.
We might as well say both matter and thought are constructed of flim-flam rather than fighting over which one is dominant since they both seem to be elements on a sliding scale from causal to less-causal. It's the same as biology vs technology -- they're the same thing! The Earth creating us creating technology is the Earth evolving a greater technology. It's also us. Yes evolution is experimental and based on many attempts, but it is also free-WILFUL. That fish wanted to get up on land to escape predators and even if it wasn't his generation that made it, the idea carried through the day.
great suff... many thx. lots to use here, including "Eh. Gobble gook"... I gots some good ones for that... hint Moogi.
I think my biggest problem with Bernardo's approach, is that because it is totally consciousness based, it seems to permit anything - i.e. it is untestable.
Even though it is probably ultimately true, I can't see how it can be seen as a scientific theory. I have argued several times here that we really need some more modest theories to bridge the gap between materialism and materialism. For example, people really needed Newton's laws before they could eventually take the lep to General Relativity.
I agree completely. While I do love full blown idealism, it does fail to get to grips with a whole range of unusual human experience (ie. spirits/aliens/NDEs/reincarnation/etc.).
Weirdly, I think the traditional emanationist philosophies of Christian Hermeticism/Jewish Qabalah/Islamic Sufism (stripped of their baroque philosophical excesses) might provide a more usable conceptual framework than full blown idealism. They all hold that a unitive God splits into increasingly concrete levels of dualistic being, with all levels still being contained within the whole. At least this conceptually provides us with the room to fill in some gaps between here and infinity.
By the way, I think many eastern 'non-dual' religions admit the existence of these intermediate levels but consider them to be unimportant..... a distraction, even.
If you can see how idealism can produce the physical universe, then by a similar process the spiritual realms are produced as well.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.
I, for one, think these are pretty good questions that I'd love to discuss.
From show 158 Bernado says "We need a new language to talk about these things. Materialism has evolved a very sophisticated, very precise language. We need something of that nature for Idealism. We need time to develop that, I think."
Yeah. For the moment we are talking post-materialism using materialistic language. I am with Gordon in that preference for animism, however. Nevertheless I agree that we need a 'new language' - and by that a new way of thinking. I want to know how Bernardo envisions his transition from being a present 'recovering materialist' (I assume that is what he is in the sense of being 'anti-materialist' but still addicted -like the rest of us) to a full on post-materialist (whether an Idealist or whatever).
What is his transitional therapy for moving from the undesired to the desired state? What would be his 'ten step program'?
I have a fundamental problem with arguing for post-materialism using scientific language and terms. That is clunky and requires a lot of awkward fitting of ideas together (I hear a lot of bad theorising and rejecting stuff that shouldn't be rejected - because it fails some 'scientific' test of reasonableness or some such). I prefer using esoteric language, because it is far better suited - and its in its natural environment. Has Bernardo studied any esoteric disciplined - like Hermeticism or Kabbalah or Hindu metaphysics? If not, would he consider doing so - to condition his mind and language to a more post-materialistic frame?


Stress has been a constant companion in my life. Two years ago, despite being a fitness fanatic (via strength and cardio training), vegetarian, consumer of almost every anti-oxidant known, a person with no family history of heart disease and one with absolutely no cardiac risk factors or elevated cholesterol, I experienced a near-fatal heart attack while lecturing to about 100 of my engineering students back inS Africa.
I 'flatlined' for about 7 minutes and miraculously survived without brain damage, then later had a quadruple bypass.  I give constant thanks for this incredible second chance at life. BC (Before Coronary), my sports science lectures on cardio phenomena and exercise were just theoretical exercises, but my recent experience really taught me in a highly practical way about so many of the myths and facts about cardiac rehab and aerobic exercise.
For one thing, don't ever believe that years of fitness training is going to prevent a heart attack - there are so many other factors involved that it is vain and naive to think that any of us are even vaguely close to having all of the answers.
of your family, friends or clients in the USA afflicted or killed by heart disease - maybe even yourself.
Nobody is immune and it is vital that we be as educated as possible about cardiac health and disease. Even if you know CPR, something like 30% of those whom you try to save will die if you do not get them to an intensive care unit or good paramedics within minutes - and I mean minutes! - one minute I was lecturing animatedly, when, totally without warning, I went through a brief phase of dizziness and nausea and was soon flat on my back in total agony, rapidly expiring in front of all my students!
Chest pains? Radiating pain down the arms? None! One minute fine, the next minute, well on my way to the beyond!
Anyway, despite the extensive left ventricular damage resulting from that 7 minute deprivation of oxygen to heart and brain, I decided to apply the principles of our "Supertraining" book (Siff M C & Verkhoshansky Y V 1999 to cardiac rehabilitation, because I just could not find a single book on how to return a cardiac survivor to serious lifting or heavy sport again. I documented what I did, including all nutritional means and medical tests, to allow me to advise other serious athletes who may also suffer from heart disease.
In fact, modified martial arts regimes formed an important part of my early rehabilitation. Back, side back kicks or any form of kicking? What a joke! - after having those veins stripped surgically from your legs as bypass grafts? The leg surgery alone is one of the more persisently painful side-effects of coronary bypass surgery - this is very useful to know if you are trying to devise group classes for cardiac survivors.
The sawn-in-half sternum means that push ups or any arm adduction-adduction, arm swings and so forth are extremely painful, so one has to be very creativeif one wishes to devise a useable cardiac rehab program!
just as likely to precipitate a heart attack as a weights session, think again! Jim Fixx, the great running guru, sadly discovered this when he died on a run.
This discovery spurred me onto use a special regime of smaller modules of resistance and aerobic training that was much shorter than the average aerobics class, something like those used in Bulgarian weightlifting training. Exactly a year after my quadruple bypass, I competed in an Olympic weightliftingevent, which I believe is very unique in the annals of cardiac survival.
2. Progressing from an initial state of specific limitations (limitations of range of movement, planes of movement, speed, resistance, complexity, duration etc) to a progressively advancing state.
7. Use of intermittent sets or cluster methods of loading with brief rests (1-10 seconds) between single repetitions of strength exercises.
11. Never working to an emotional all-out maximum, but choosing to work to a relatively easy 3 RM which does not encourage too great a rise in intrathoracic pressure.
12. Avoidance of any prolonged loading, slow tempo training, heavy eccentrics, endurance training, HIT (Highly Intensive Training) or 'superslow' methods, because these all tend to cause large or sustained increase in intrathoracic and blood pressure.
13. Alternating easy and more strenuous days of training.
15. Prolific use of quicker Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting training variations over partial and full range, especially "hybrids" (aerobic, martial and strength types of combined movements) - over 250 examples are listed in "Supertraining".
17. Gradual introduction of more ballistic and 'plyometric' (powermetric) action in the form of very small sets over a limited range of action, with aqua-powermetrics indifferent depths of water.
18. Modification of loading according to the differential adaptation of each different part of the body to training.
21. Periodic use of PNF or Functional Neuromuscular Training methods of patterned, three dimensional movement to increase structural and functional capabilities.
In many ways, I am most grateful for the incredible learning experience that my cardiac event provided. It taught me even more strongly about what is really important in life and how to apply sports science in a far more practical way than ever before.


Explanation: A: The Windows Boot Manager invokes winload.exe-the operating system boot loader-to load the operating system kernel executive (ntoskrnl.exe) and core device drivers. In that respect, winload.exe is functionally equivalent to the operating system loader function of NTLDR in prior versions of Windows NT.
C: Windows Vista and later operating systems replaced the NTLDR with the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR). The BOOTMGR file is located in the 100 MB system partition automatically created during the Window 7 and Server 2008 R2 installation. In Windows Vista and Server 2008 the file is located in the System Partition. Once the computer is started the boot sector loads the BOOTMGR which in turn looks for an active partition.
Not B, not D: In legacy operating systems the boot sector (boot strap loader) loads the NTLDR that would then look for the BOOT.INI.
Explanation: In a default installation of an Active Directory domain, user accounts, computer accounts, and groups are put in CN=objectclass containers instead of being put in a more desirable organizational unit class container. Similarly, user accounts, computer accounts, and groups that were created by using earlier-version APIs are put in the CN=Users and CN=computers containers.
What is the minimum number of disks required for RAID 5?
Explanation: You would need two disks for data and one for parity.
Explanation: Some services have dependency services that do not start until their dependency services start first.
Which is used to verify that a secure Web site is legitimate?
Which type of folder permissions takes precedence?
quot;Denyquot; permissions generally take precedence over quot;allowquot; permissions. Permissions applied directly to an object (explicit permissions) take precedence over permissions inherited from a parent (for example from a group).
Permissions inherited from near relatives take precedence over permissions inherited from distant predecessors. So permissions inherited from the object#39;s parent folder take precedence over permissions inherited from the object#39;s quot;grandparentquot; folder, and so on.
directly-set or inherited, and in terms of being quot;denyquot; or quot;allowquot;) are cumulative. So if a user is a member of two groups, one of which has an quot;allowquot; permission of quot;Readquot; and the other has an quot;allowquot; of quot;Writequot;, the user will have both read and write permission-depending on the other rules above, of course.
Active Directory quot;Distribution groupsquot; can only be assigned permissions to resources within the same domain but can have members from other domains.
Which Hyper-V network type shares the host#39;s physical network adapter?
Explanation: For Hyper-V host networking, the most common option is to create an external access virtual switch. This allows VMs on the host to access other systems on a traditional VLAN or standard switched network.


The bread was warm, soft and tasty.
Learners of English often use single adjective to describe an object. In this grammar pattern, students should try to use two or more adjectives together at the end of each sentence. For many students, this is a question of pronunciation more than grammar. In any case, practice always makes perfect.
1. The air was clean, cool and fresh.
2. The car was fast and powerful.
3. My sister is intelligent, beautiful and charming.
4. We were hungry, thirsty and tired.
5. The weather was cold, windy and rainy.
1. How can you describe your family members?
2. What is your best friend like?
3. What is the weather like today?
4. What was the weather like yesterday?
5. Can you describe your favorite food?
6. What special food did you eat yesterday?


The requirements for the data science class that I'm taking include having access to R, Python, SQL and GitHub. As I'm already familiar with R, Python, and SQL, my goal tonight was to get started with GitHub. According to Wikipedia, "GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use theGit revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects. As of May 2011, GitHub was the most popular open source code repository site."
Obviously these "stats" are quite dynamic (what people use when it comes to computing changes at near light speed); however, it's at least a starting point for people who want to begin diving into the world of computer programming. Also, the sample base of users is not exactly random (the people who are involved with GitHub are likely more technical than your average user), but if you want to enter the world of Comp Sci and contribute your great mind to the open source community, the above languages are likely worth your perusal.


Q. What does the word 'Soma' mean? A. the experience of your body from within.
Q. Is Somatics painful? A. No it is not painful. You are always guided and encouraged to work within your comfort zone and to not push past into pain or discomfort. Somatics does not encourage the 'no pain, no gain' approach. If you keep doing something that gives your body a 'pain' message it gets really good at giving you pain. Whereas if you give your body a 'comfort ' message over and over, it gets good at that.
Q. Should I do the exercises every day? A. Yes it is advised to practice the exercises for 10- 20 minutes per day. If you only have a few minutes daily just pick one or two of the movements and do them well focusing on the quality of the movement and not on the number of repetitions.
Q. What do I wear to a private session? class? A. You will be fully clothed at all times for your one-on-one sessions. Wear stretchy comfortable clothing that you can move in for both private sessions and classes.
Q. What equipment is used? A. For a one-on-one session you will lie on a wide table similar to a massage table. For the classes you will primarily be lying down on a yoga mat on the floor. If you are unable to get down on the floor, the exercises can also be done while seated or standing.
Q. Is a private session of Somatics covered under my massage therapy benefits? A. Yes. A receipt will be provided for reimbursement.
Q. Is 'Clinical Somatics' similar to 'Somatic Experiencing'? A. No. The two disciplines are very different. 'Somatic Experiencing' focuses on the resolution of psychological trauma. 'Clinical Somatics' on the other hand is an active, movement based practice focused on building awareness of internal sensations in order to release habitually-overused tense muscles. 'Clinical Somatics' is education in movement.
Q. Who developed Clinical Somatics? A. Somatics was developed by Thomas Hanna in the 1970's. After studying neurology at the University of Miami Medical School, he spent many years studying movement with Moshe Feldenkrais (the Feldenkrais Method) before he went on to develop his own unique method of movement reeducation known as Hanna Somatic Education, also known as Clinical Somatic Education (CSE).


How much do Twelfth bonfires cost the Fire Service?
A SINN Féin MLA has hit out at statutory bodies' handling of anti-internment bonfires, saying they wouldn't be allowed "in the leafy suburbs of south Belfast".
Carál Ní Chuilín said residents in the New Lodge area of north Belfast had been "let down" by the response to the "illegal bonfires".
"These bonfires are unwanted. Would this be tolerated in the leafy suburbs of south Belfast? I don't think so," the North Belfast MLA said.
"I believe that we as ratepayers and as taxpayers deserve a better service than what we are getting, and the statutory bodies let us down.
"It wouldn't happen in south belfast. It wouldn't happen in the Malone Road, I don't think so. I think it would be removed and I think the council would find the resources."
Several bonfires were lit in republican areas of the city on Monday night to mark 45 years since the beginning of internment.
Tyres were used on a bonfire in the New Lodge, while a Union flag was placed on a pyre in west Belfast's Divis Street.
Speaking to the BBC yesterday, Ms Ní Chuilín said she had been regularly in touch with statutory bodies including Belfast City Council and the Housing Executive.
"Basically this is the fifth year of unwanted bonfires in the New Lodge and along with residents and representatives of communities we have been meeting with statutory bodies," she said.
"I've been speaking to them almost on a daily basis about getting the material removed.
"Despite repeated assurances to residents from the likes of Belfast City Council and Housing Executive that they would do their best to remove them – they failed."
Belfast City Council defended its handling of the matter, saying that securing contractors to remove bonfire materials is "challenging given the environments and community tensions which often exist".
"The council has been working with multi-agency partners and engaging with locally elected councillors as well as MLAs throughout July and August to address issues around bonfires," a spokeswoman said.
She said the council has been "actively working in the interests of communities to remove a considerable amount of materials" in recent weeks.
"Securing the necessary contractors to do this work is challenging given the environments and community tensions which often exist around bonfires," she said.
"Belfast City Council will continue to do all it can working with partners, and our politicians to address the issues around bonfires, and will continue to do so in the months ahead."
Alliance MLA for Lagan Valley Trevor Lunn also hit out at the pyres saying it was unacceptable that Union flags were placed on them.
"It is disrespectful to burn any national flag on a bonfire or anywhere else. It is a crime that does nothing but raise tension and promote division," he said.
"It is also not acceptable to burn tyres on a bonfire, as the dangerous toxins they contain could damage the health of those in the surrounding area."
Meanwhile, a teenage girl suffered a suspected broken leg following a hit-and-run at an east Belfast bonfire.
Police are investigating following the incident at about 2am yesterday on Mountpottinger Road where it was reported that a black car struck the girl.


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Corey Kluber was 9-3 with a 1.73 ERA after the All-Star break.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If you have a drop of underdog blood running through your veins, you should be happy for the Cleveland Indians' Corey Kluber.
Kluber edged Seattle's Felix Hernandez for the Cy Young Award. Hernandez had an excellent season, 15-6 with a 2.14 ERA. Baseball has become a swamp of stats, from basic to advanced to obscure to utterly irrelevant.
Had Hernandez won the voting, it would not have been an outrageous injustice. I love how Kluber said, "I would've been in no position to have any kind of argument if he would've won. He had such a great year."
He meant every word. Kluber takes his pitching very seriously, but not the fame that is a part of the game. He didn't even make the American League All-Star team in 2014 despite a solid 9-6 record with a 3.01 ERA at the midseason break.
He never complained. That's part of the reason he has emerged as the American League's best pitcher at the age of 28. He never, ever takes anything for granted -- nor does he expect much public attention.
He knows the game is hard. He knows as much about failure as success. He knows that a pitcher has to keep learning, keep working -- and most of all, keep his mind on what happens on the mound in order stay in the big leagues.
"I know it's harder to stay in the big leagues than it is to just get here," Kluber told me when spring training opened in 2014.
There were 30 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who voted on the Cy Young Award. There were 17 with Kluber rated No. 1, 13 had Hernandez.
Good for them, especially the 17 who looked closely at Kluber's 18-9 record and 2.44 ERA for the worst defensive team in baseball. They knew that all of those victories were earned, and several losses were not his fault. They saw past the hype around the pitcher with the nickname of King Felix ... and beyond the seven-year, $175 million contract that Hernandez signed in 2013.
They voted for a guy in only his second full big-league season, a pitcher whose career record was 13-10 with a 4.32 ERA when he took the mound for his first start of 2014.
Does anyone remember what happened on that day in Oakland? It was April 2, and Kluber was shelled for five earned runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings. That's how his season began.
It ended with Kluber winning his last five starts -- a 5-0 record with a 1.12 ERA, 54 strikeouts with only five walks in 40 1/3 innings. Those starts came with the Tribe desperately trying to grab a wild-card playoff berth. So he was at his best when it meant the most.
When the Indians traded for Kluber on July 31, 2010, it was one of those summer deadline deals. The Indians were limping to a 69-93 finish in the final season of manager Eric Wedge. They traded Jake Westbrook to the Cardinals, in what mostly appeared to be a salary dump. It was a three-way deal, Kluber coming to Cleveland via San Diego.
At the time, Kluber was 24. He had a 6-6 record with a 3.45 ERA at Class AA San Antonio. Tribe scouts liked that he was leading the Texas League in strikeouts.
San Diego made Kluber the 134th pick in the 2007 draft. He was pitching for Stetson University. In a long story near the end of the season, I wrote about how scouts were very lukewarm about Kluber. Many thought he'd be a bullpen guy, or perhaps a fifth starter.
Hey, in 2011, he was 7-11 with a 5.56 ERA for the Tribe's Class AAA Columbus team. So no one saw this coming. At that point, he had to feel frustrated and a bit forgotten. Would he ever figure it out and make the majors?
His career minor-league record? Try 44-50, a 4.42 ERA. Even in 2012, he was 11-7 with a 3.59 ERA at Columbus, 2-5 with a 5.14 ERA for the Tribe.
When the 2013 season opened, Kluber was in the minors -- again. But he received a quick promotion when Brett Myers had a bad elbow, and the Tribe was looking for another starter.
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It was big time. His curveball was a killer, especially to right-handed hitters. His curve could make Kluber special.
On the MLB awards show, there was a stat showing that opposing batters had a .095 batting average against Kluber's curve. That was in more than 200 plate appearances.
Kluber just stopped walking people. And he kept striking out people. Only two pitchers in Tribe history -- Bob Feller and Sam McDowell -- had more than the 269 strikeouts in a season that Kluber piled up in 2014.
On the mound, Kluber seems to glare at the world with a face that looked chiseled in stone, a beard that hides any emotion. His voice often is a monotone, as if he doesn't want anyone to know what he is feeling.
That led to the nickname, "Klubot." I never liked that very much. It implies that Kluber is a machine. At 28, Kluber is pure flesh and blood who needed four shots at the majors before finally sticking. He's a determined man who learned from rejection and losing and can tell any pitcher about the value of paying your dues at every level of the minors.
What Kluber has become is more than a Cy Young Award, he's a study in persistence -- and that may be the best compliment of all.


This is perhaps the question that some thought Grading scale: how to handle multiple choice questions with different number of choices really was. I'm of the opinion that multiple choice questions should not be used for summative assessment. However, I have no actual evidence to back up that view.
Has there been actual research on this, specifically with regards to mathematics?
I don't know if the use of multiple choice questions is different in mathematics to other subjects by dint of sheer ignorance in how other subjects are examined. I do know that often multiple choice questions in mathematics are not simply "Do you happen to know the answer?" questions where the route to the answer is irrelevant but the goal is more that by seeing the choice of answer one can deduce the route that they took and so there is no need to see the details (this assumes that they took a route and did not simply guess).
A sub-issue in this is the numerous schemes to discourage guessing. I'd happily also learn about any research as to the effectiveness of these. Again, my opinion is that they do not correct for the failings of the use of multiple choice questions but, again, I have no research-based evidence for this.
Let me conclude by re-emphasising that I am asking about summative assessment and not formative assessment and about actual research. I'm not interested in answers that are purely anecdotal or opinion-based (I'll happily hear those in another venue, though).
In thinking about MattF's comment about correlation, let me try to focus it more precisely. I have no doubt that multiple choice test scores are correlated with every other type of test. That doesn't speak to their efficacy and fairness though.
Multiple choice, where the options include "Some of the above" and "All of the above".
No partial credit, but credit only given for an answer with reasoning.
In both, it is an "all or nothing". I've posited the extra options for the "multiple choice" variant to make it so that it isn't just a closed list to choose between and so to know the answer then a student ought to have worked it out. In the first, a student can guess. In the second, they can't.
My question, then, could be phrased as: how much effect does the fact that students can guess an answer have on a multiple choice test's ability to report students' abilities when compared with a "no partial credit" test?
I've read your question a few times, plus the comments. As best I can determine, your gut feeling is that constructed response exams should be a much better indicator of student understanding than multiple choice exams in math, because a) students cannot guess and b) partial learning can be recognized by analyzing the worked problem.
Therefore, you want to see a comparison of student performance on multiple choice versus short-answer questions testing the same concepts within the same exam. If the average student's performance is similar on the two parts of the exam, this would disprove your hypothesis that short-answer is better. Is this correct?
This question is a month old, but I'll assume you as OP think this does state your question and I will continue. I've listed some research articles below. The short answer is that when the question stems are matched, there is little difference in student strategy or student performance. It is possible that very carefully written CR exams might produce more information about student learning, but it is also likely that this careful question-writing hardly ever happens. My 20-min review indicates there is surprisingly little evidence that CR exams are better than multiple choice.
Lukhele, R., Thissen, D., & Wainer, H. (1994). On the Relative Value of Multiple‐Choice, Constructed Response, and Examinee‐Selected Items on Two Achievement Tests. Journal of Educational Measurement, 31(3), 234-250. They found student answers for AP Chem and AP History did not differ significantly between MC and constructed response.
Katz, I. R., Friedman, D. E., Bennett, R. E., & Berger, A. E. (1996). Differences in Strategies Used to Solve Stem-Equivalent Constructed-Response and Multiple-Choice SAT [R]-Mathematics Items. RESEARCH REPORT-EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE PRINCETON RR. Found that matched-stem problems triggered similar student problem-solving and similar results.
Shepard, L. A. (2008). Commentary on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel recommendations on assessment. Educational Researcher, 37(9), 602-609. This is a short critique of research that matches MC vs CR question stems. They argue that CR allows for different sorts of testing and this should be taken into account.
I don't know of research on the use of multiple choice questions for summative assessment specifically in mathematics. However, what's important is the approach to construction of multiple choice questions, if they are to overcome challenges like the ones you list. Following course design basics from sources like Wiggins & McTighe, what we know about assessments are that they are most effective when they are aligned with your learning goals.
With this in mind, I did come across one article that looks promising, but at the moment I only have access to the abstract, so I can't guarantee its value. (Edit: The article is available in full here.) From the abstract it appears the authors are taking a somewhat nuanced look at assessment in mathematics, and considering connections between the types of things you might want to assess, and how different assessment tools (in particular MCQs) can be of value.
I prefer giving multiple choice exams. I can give frequent feedback to students, since the grading is easier. Below is a study the indicates no difference between multiple choice and short answer.
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How can PISA released questions be used to improve the mathematical competencies of students?


A private security company has been charged with failing to ensure the safety of a female employee who was raped while working alone two years ago.
Garda Canada Security Corp. has been charged with one count under the province's Occupational Health and Safety Act for not ensuring, as far as reasonable, the health and safety of a worker.
It is the first time a company has been charged because of a sexual assault, said Occupational Health spokesman Chris Chodan. Usually, the charge is connected to other workplace incidents, such as an accident.
"Usually, when it's violence, it's a straight-up criminal offence," he said. "In this case, it was a criminal act by the person who committed it and there was a work-related issue on top of that."
The charge was laid Oct. 31 -- just under the two-year time limit -- in connection to the Nov. 1, 2006, attack on a woman working overnight alone at a construction site on Macleod Trail.
The victim had only been on the job a few days when she was working at the site, which was secured by only a tarp.
She called 911 when she heard banging and shouting and police were dispatched to the site. Before they arrived, Renno Allen Lonechild attacked and raped the then-34-year-old woman.
During court proceedings, it was learned the woman -- a former teacher in an African country -- was new to Canada, had limited English, only one day of training and one week on the job.
Lonechild, 21, was sentenced to eight years in prison in September for sexual assault and unlawful confinement after pleading guilty in court.
Chodan said investigators often wait for any criminal proceedings to be completed before examining the incidents and forwarding the files to the Crown to determine if charges can be laid.
Joe Gavaghan, spokesman for Garda World Security Corp., confirmed the company's attorneys have received the documents outlining the charge, but would not say anything further.
"Because the matter is in litigation, we're not able to comment at this time," he said.
The president of the Alberta Federation of Labour said he was surprised to hear charges had been laid against an employer in this case, especially in light of the federation's ongoing fight to improve working-alone legislation.
"Given they've laid charges, it shows there is a recognition at some level in government that a problem exists," Gil McGowan said.
The essential problem in this case -- that an employee was harmed while working alone -- reinforces the need for more aggressive legislation to ensure it doesn't happen again, McGowan said.
Since it falls under Occupational Health legislation, the charge is vague, he said.
"What is the specific failure of the employer?"
The matter is expected to be heard in Calgary provincial court on Jan. 8.


TAMPA, Fla. - No one has led more late game-winning drives during the past five seasons than Matt Ryan, who has kept the Atlanta Falcons flying high with five fourth-quarter rallies this year alone.
Matty Ice did it again Sunday, throwing for 353 yards and overcoming two critical turnovers to stop Tampa Bay's four-game winning streak with a 24-23 victory.
The Falcons (10-1) kept pace with the Houston Texans for the NFL's best record, and Ryan had plenty of help in withstanding a challenge from the up-and-coming Buccaneers (6-5).
"They are playing with a lot of confidence," said Ryan, who has won seven of his past eight starts against the Bucs. "It's always been a tough place for us to come play. They play with great effort, and I think they have a good football team."
Ryan teamed with Julio Jones on an 80-yard TD midway through the third quarter, but the Falcons found themselves trailing 23-17 after the Bucs marched for a touchdown, then used a sack-fumble to set up a field goal that left Atlanta needing another strong finish from their quarterback.
Ryan obliged by a leading a six-play, 64-yard march that Michael Turner finished with a 3-yard TD run that put the NFC South leaders ahead for good with 7:55 remaining.
Connor Barth missed a 56-yard goal for Tampa Bay (6-5) in the closing minutes, and the winning streak that's helped the Bucs climb back into playoff contention following a slow start ended when Josh Freeman's desperation pass fell incomplete in the end zone on the final play.
"The last drive, that's something we've done before this season," Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez said. "I really think that's a positive for us to be able to come up with plays like that when we have to like that. ... I'm really happy with the way we responded."
It's getting to be a way of life. Ryan has also led late marches to beat Carolina, Washington, Oakland and Arizona this season and has put together game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime since entering the league in 2008 - four of them against the division rival Bucs.
The Falcons won't have long to celebrate this one. The host the New Orleans Saints Thursday night in a rematch of the only game they've lost.
"Ten-and-1 is great, but I'll tell you what I've said since the beginning of the season: We're just jockeying for position," Gonzalez said. "We just want to put ourselves in the best position, playing the best football. Right around this time is when you want to start gelling as a team and take it on into the playoffs because that's the most important thing."
The win stopped the Bucs, who've won five or seven following a 1-3 start, from tightening the NFC South standings. Turner also scored a fourth-quarter TD that helped the Falcons overcome six turnovers to beat Arizona 23-19 last week.
Doug Martin scored on a pair of 1-yard run for the Bucs, however the rookie who began the day leading the NFL in total yards from scrimmage was limited to 50 yards rushing on 21 carries.
Barth kicked field goals of 22, 42, and 48 yards, the latter giving the Bucs their six-point lead after cornerback E.J. Biggers sacked Ryan to force a fumble. Ryan threw a second-quarter interception - his sixth pick in two weeks - that led Barth's field goal that made it 10-10 at the half.
Ryan completed 26 of 32 passes, including four straight on the drive that Turner finished with his TD run. Jacquizz Rodgers had a 5-yard TD run in the first quarter, and Jones finished with six receptions for 147 yards despite playing on a sore right ankle that limited him in practice.
Ryan started the game with 10 straight completions before Ronde Barber's interception and 28-yard return to the Atlanta 31 led to Barth's first field goal.
The Falcons drove to the Tampa Bay 4 in the closing seconds of the half, but wasted an opportunity to regain the lead when Matt Bryant hooked a 22-yard field-goal attempt wide left as time expired. The Atlanta kicker missed a 48-yarder with 8 seconds left, giving the Bucs one more chance to pull out what would have been their first signature victory under first-year coach Greg Schiano.
"It was a hard-fought game by both teams, a very physical game," Schiano said. "But I do think missed opportunities were a big part of it. There were some chances both offensively and defensively, and in the kicking game."
Freeman finished 19 of 30 for 256 yards, and Vincent Jackson had five catches for 96 yards. A big factor in the loss, though, was Atlanta's held the Bucs to field goals after each of Ryan's turnovers, once after Tampa Bay had 1st-and-goal at the Atlanta 3.
"I thought our defense did an outstanding job again. They were put in some tough situations after turnovers," Falcons coach Mike Smith said, adding that slowing Martin was one of the keys to the game as well.
"We knew it was going to be one of our 'musts,' and I thought we did a nice job," Smith added. "I thought we played the run extremely well, controlled the line of scrimmage. That is an outstanding running back."
Notes: Falcons starting cornerbacks Asante Samuel (shoulder) and Dunta Robinson (head) left the game with injuries in the third quarter. ... Barber, who made his 210th straight start to tie Jim Otto for the seventh-most consecutive starts in NFL history, has 47 career interceptions. ... Martin has 1,050 yards rushing yards, eighth-most in a season by a Tampa Bay running back. ...Gonzalez had five receptions for 62 yards, and Roddy White had six for 57 yards for Atlanta.


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'You do make that look complicated,' the dad said to the youngest.
Youngest was on his bottom on the hard kitchen floor, struggling with a shoe. 'It's not easy,' he grunted as he pushed his heel into the shoe and faffed with the Velcro.
The dad dreaded laces. Middle and eldest had both snowflaked their way through laces training and the dad had no desire to repeat the shoe-tying tantrums of the past.
'Get your gloves,' he said.
'It really isn't.' The dad was starting to feel the heat of his Parker and hood, his cheeks were flushed a warm red.
The dad glanced out of the window, momentarily speechless as he was unable to argue that particular point. 'It's still cold,' he said.
'What about the trains?' the youngest asked, not laughing at the dad's silly voice and making the dad feel a just a little bit sad somewhere deep inside his too-hot, coat-covered chest.
'Nothing,' said the youngest in his surliest, most reluctant voice.
'I said I wished I'd taken gloves with me,' he mumbled, his eyes dropping to the hard floor of the kitchen.
'It wasn't sunny then though,' youngest pouted.
Youngest shook his head, refusing to say anything as if speech might somehow force him to admit the dad might have a point.
Youngest had to admit that that made sense but other than a small nod he didn't acknowledge the dad's reasoning. Instead, he went to the basket where the gloves were kept and slowly pulled them on. 'I suppose my hands might get cold when I'm on my scooter,' he admitted grudgingly.
Youngest pulled a face and slowed his progress. Finally, he had them on and flexed his fingers, making sure there were no worms at the ends. 'I'll get my scooter,' he said.
Youngest suddenly smiled as if a triumphant the thought that had just occurred to him was one of such triumphant proportions that the world would bend to his bidding. 'I don't need gloves then.' He pulled them off.
For the second 'finally', they were on. Determined to avoid a third, the dad, hot and desperate to get outside into the chill morning, utter a brisk 'Right!' and pulled open the back door for youngest to lead the way.
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1. How many channels of video are you looking to support?
2. Are you using IP cameras with Connect Pro or a supported video IO card?
3. If it is video IO card, what are you looking at? Using a laptop is difficult if you are looking for a multiple channel solution.
4. Do you know the specific module of the MacBook Pro? It appears to have a faster processor and better graphics.
Just for reference, my laptop has an Intel i7-5700HQ CPU running at 2.7GHz with a GeForce GTX 950M GPU. Trying to decode four H.264 streams into NDI uses up to 95% of the CPU power of my machine. I wouldn't recommend anything less if that is the workflow you are trying to do.
Here is a image grab of my laptop decoding the four H.264 streams into NDI.
Using a video IO card will probably need less CPU as you don't have all of the H.264 decoding overhead to deal with.
Hey Kane, thanks for your insight!
In ideal situations, we'd use Connect Pro to decode up to 4 H.264 IP camera streams to NDI, no IO cards involved. There is a spare MacBook Pro, which could possibly be used (Retina, 15-inch, mid-2014, tech specs: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp704?locale=en_US) but it sounds like the wisest route would be to make a custom-built PC with the necessary horsepower.


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Angel Di Maria struck twice inside the opening quarter-hour at the Parc des Princes before the Argentine provided the cross for Cavani to net his 156th PSG goal.
Neymar marked his return from a rib injury with the hosts' fourth just before half-time, and the Brazilian made it a hat-trick with two more second-half strikes as Dijon were mercilessly ripped apart.
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Argentine Di Maria, who grabbed the winner in Sunday's 1-0 victory at Nantes, needed just four minutes in Paris to put the home team ahead with a stunning left-footed strike into the top corner.
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Zeromaru said that Council of Wyrms got a minor reference in Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons over in Havard's List of Dragons.
How minor a reference was it?
Did they just namecheck Council of Wyrms or was there some sort of suggestion of doing something in Nentir Vale that was similar to something from Council of Wyrms canon?
Its just really minor. Its says that in the ancient past, when Io died during the Dawn War and Bahamut and Tiamat arose as gods, the first metallic dragons recognized the chromatics as an enemy of all the metallic dragon races. Those first metallics allied and vowed to aid each other regardless of personal motives and obsessions whenever chromatic dragons became a threat to the world. This alliance was called the Council of Wyrms.
In the Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons, the Council is not directly mentioned, but is stated that in time some chromatic dragons joined the metallic dragons when they created the dragonborn and draconic empire of Arkhosia.
So, its implied the Council ceased to be with the fall of Arkhosia.
I don't think there is a link to the Council of Wyrms setting, just a minor homage.
Zeromaru X wrote: Its just really minor. Its says that in the ancient past, when Io died during the Dawn War and Bahamut and Tiamat arose as gods, the first metallic dragons recognized the chromatics as an enemy of all the metallic dragon races. Those first metallics allied and vowed to aid each other regardless of personal motives and obsessions whenever chromatic dragons became a threat to the world. This alliance was called the Council of Wyrms.
I'm not too familiar with the in-character history in Council of Wyrms. I wonder how well the Dawn War story would fit as the ancient history of Council of Wyrms.
Zeromaru X wrote: In the Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons, the Council is not directly mentioned, but is stated that in time some chromatic dragons joined the metallic dragons when they created the dragonborn and draconic empire of Arkhosia.
Zeromaru X wrote: So, its implied the Council ceased to be with the fall of Arkhosia.
Someone said, elsewhere, that Council of Wyrms was said to be in the past of other D&D settings. I wonder how well Council of Wyrms would work as an Arcane Age-style version of Nentir Vale.
Zeromaru X wrote: I don't think there is a link to the Council of Wyrms setting, just a minor homage.
Yep. It sounds similar to the way that Nentir Vale raids various things from Greyhawk and Mystara.
Big Mac wrote: I'm not too familiar with the in-character history in Council of Wyrms. I wonder how well the Dawn War story would fit as the ancient history of Council of Wyrms.
In CoW dragons fought each other before the foundation of the council. And the council was made up by all the dragon species of 2e, not just metallics. So, the history in Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons, doesn't fit.
There is no timeline for those books. So, you can say that both books "happen at the same time". But the books are quite specific in their subjects. So, Draconomincon: Chromatic Dragons focus in the history of chromatics, mentioning other species of dragons just if needed. Same with Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons, it just focus in the stuff of metallic dragons, with a few mentions to other species if needed to comprehend the whole story of the metallic dragon race.
Big Mac wrote: Someone said, elsewhere, that Council of Wyrms was said to be in the past of other D&D settings. I wonder how well Council of Wyrms would work as an Arcane Age-style version of Nentir Vale.
With a few modifications, yeah. You can make Arkhosia look like the civilization described in CoW. In my Nentir Vale campaign, my version of Arkhosia is a mix of CoW, the dragons of Argonessen from Eberron, and Iomandra (the home campaing of Chris Perkins in 4e). Though, my dragonborn were more japanese than europeans in culture.
I guess this would need to be some sort of Points of Light reboot of the Council of Wyrms.
I was looking at the blurb for both books and it seemed to suggest that they feature new types of dragons. I don't know if they are ones that are not included in the Council of Wyrms campaign setting.
Perhaps Arkhosia could be another continent on the same world as Io's Blood Islands.
That way, they could both have the same themes. but Arkosia could be a dark version of Io's Blood Islands.


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