Aliases in the Urantia Book

It was mentioned that it's difficult to pick out an alias of a Urantia personality as the user had to search through an entire list to find the personality that you want to  see the alias of. So, if you wanted the aliases of "Creator Son", you couldn't select by "Michael Sons"

So I changed the aliases in the personality form where, when you select "Aliases" at the top of the form, the screen fills with all the names of the beings in the Urantia Book that have aliases, in their current language, When you click on one, then a new dialog box appears, in their current language, that shows all the aliases for that current personality. 

Translation inaccuracies

 I was asked why I didnt use the Foundation translations instead of using Google's translation system. Its obvious that a lot of effort was used to create accurate translations. My response was this:

Thats easy. I live in a litiginous society. Ive already went through suits in court and its no fun. Monetarily and mentally. Also synchronization is the 2nd issue.

I once scanned 42 papers at the time Cristin Maheera was sued by the Urantia Foundation, for typing the entire Urantia  book in. When they sued her,  it went all the way to the Supreme Court. 

At the time, I flew back to their headquarters and asked for permission. They told me to cease and desist and I did. Im not willing to face that kind of scrutiny. 

At the time, I was the first person to automate the loose leaf publication of the  maintenance manual on the Md11 aircraft at McDonald Douglas. So i had access to a $40,000 scanner. You can buy one now for less than 100.00.

The Urantia Foundation legally owns the translations and have paid for them, so they have the right, by law, to those translations and I would lose in court and it would cost me a lot more that 150.00 for each translation. Lawyers are costly and time consuming. Also I would have to redo all those translations again using the same technique I am currently using.

As a Urantian society, we went through a terrible breakup where the Brotherhood separated from the Foundation, it is now called the Fellowship. It caused a separation into different factions. It was an awful time where brother was pitted against brother. I am unwilling to place myself in a weak legal position. Id rather put up with accuracy issues and create something that can be used  by different language speaking nations.

If there is a Hebrew translation, which I haven't checked, if there is, any user can read it from there, if they wish. Maybe, the Google translations i used, are good enough to create a spark where someone wants to listen to the book in 2 languages.

There is also the problem with human translations in that they aren't sentence to sentence, so i would need to meticulously go through the various translations to see if they synchronized,  which the different human translations are not synchronized . This way, i am guaranteed sentence to sentence synchronization as I feed each language separately into the Google translator.  That way, im guaranteed synchronization. 

That was my second issue. I dont speak Swahili or Chinese. How could I guarantee that, if I used the Foundation's translation,  even if they gave me permission, that the sentence that I separated out of a translation was the sentence that was the same that was being read in the other language. 

The AI warned me that I would be out of synchronization and I would have no way of checking. I would have to hire translators that would read through the entire book to guarantee no mismatch. This way I am guaranteed synchronization at the expense of having, every so often,  inaccurate translation issues.

Once again. The Google translator is good enough. The whole idea is to make it so that a person can listen to two languages to learn another language. And by reading the concepts of the revelation.

Im not that concerned with accuracy like the foundation is. I started this with the idea of relearning my French and it worked really well for that purpose.

 

Also, the Urantia Foundation is missing translations like Swahili, I believe. I'm not sure they did Swahili and I dont really care if they do as the problem of synchronization is a real issue.

There is 3rd issue. When the breakup of the movement occured, it amplified the difference between the philosophy of getting the book to more people and the opposite of keeping of the copyright and the keeping of the book inviolate.

 The Foundation worried that they would lose the ability to keep the book in its original form. They worried about inaccuracies forming. They spent a large sum of the reader donations on fighting Maheera in court. 

The Foundation lost the copyright as the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that the book's authors were not Foundation authors and could not own the copyright. Which brings me back to ownership of translations. The Foundation owns their translated texts. And with the knowledge that someone in the Foundation could, for whatever reason, decide that they dont like me using their translations. I could be the brunt of the same thing that caused the original breakup of the movement into several factions.

Pierre

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Trip to Paradise Tanslations

 The trip to Paradise was basically done in one language, English. 

So now, most of the trip can be viewed in 12 languages. 

Having the sentence by sentence database opens so many possibilities. The translations arent perfect. They are, though, good enough to use.

The trip won't be done for quite a while but each day will bring it closer.

Pierre

Arabian Translations done

 The Arabian translation is live.

So I've transferred the 600,000 mp3s to my VPS computer on the Internet. I won't erase the mp3 audio folder on my website till I'm sure everyone have cleared their cache. 

If you arent aware of cache, thats where the stuff you've been looking at is saved temporarily on your machine so its faster and you dont have to download everything on the Internet from websites.

So if I've made a lot of changes to my website programs, you may be still using a cached program which is expecting the mp3s in the audio folder while the changes are using the VPS audio folder. So if I remove the folder on my website and the cache hasn't renewed, if I've removed the audio folder where the local cached programs expect it then your cached program will fail. Yuk

So yeah,  eventually you get to understand this stuff. Sometimes, if youre lucky, the AI will let you know.

Pierre

Arabian Translation and vps

 So by tomorrow or the next day, I'll have the Arabic translation finished.

But... I ran into a big problem. I have 3 websites. Using my 3 websites, I'm limited to 600,000 files. So 51,000 x 12 translations thats 612,000 mp3 files needed to use all of them. 600,000, thats my limit and thats with all my other files from all 3 of my websites. 

So yeah. My limit was reached. How to get around the limitation. Well it happens to be I needed a VPS relay for something else. I forgot why. Anyway, thats an actual (VPS), that stands for virtual private server. That's a full on computer on the net that runs Linux Ubuntu. And it has no limitations to the amount of files I have on it. Its just limited by the memory, which happens to be 50 gigabytes. Since my mp3 sound  files take just above 40 gigabytes, I've got room to play with. 

Now I'll need to set it up to use those mp3s from my website when the user needs them for the language reader. Very doable. The catch: It will take me 34 hours of non stop uploading to the VPS to get all the files copied.

So there it is, tomorrow, after I play music with my band, I'll finish the transfer and then remove all the audio files off of my Hostinger website system. Since I might do some more translations later on, I'll have room to spare.

Pierre

Hindi Translation Complete

 I'm uploading the mp3s for Hindi. It'll be done within the hour. The rest of the programs are ready for Hindi. The characters for Hindi are interesting. They take up more room than most languages.

Anyway, it's done. Now someone who speaks Hindi can learn 10 other languages while listening to the Urantia book, sentence by sentence.

When I go on my bike ride, I listen to the English/French sentence by sentence and I gotta say, it works really well. I understand most of what they are saying in French.

The Urantia book has a very sophisticated vocabulary, so it's a really good way to learn another language and at the same time, listening to the Urantia book.

Pierre

Polish translation finished

 Its done

 Last translation for a while. Spent 500.00 creating 10 translations using Google's translation system. 50.00 a translation. Pretty good deal.

Its not perfect but its good enough to learn 9 languages while reading the Urantia Book. Your own and 9 more.

I listen to it on my bike ride. Obviously I cant see the text while riding but its good enough to learn by.

Ive refreshed my French to the point where i understand most of what's being said. So it works. Hopefully I'll have other people using it.

Fixed a few problems throughout the Urantia world site.

Im taking a break now. Almost forgot, I have a few hours left on the personality tree.

Pierre