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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51409 | A History of Horror
1950 - 1960.
Sci-Fi horrors and the House of Hammer.
The 1940's had seen the birth of the horror comedy, but it was the 1950's that saw the introduction of science fiction horror pictures. The rising demand for science fiction resulted in very few dedicated horror movies being released at first, although many film makers still tailored their Sci-Fi pic's towards the horror market to appeal to the drive-in movie couples, who liked getting better acquainted over the popcorn. Most of these films where low-budget black-and-white B-movies, which would precede the main "colour" feature, now that black-and-white was quickly being replaced in the movie industry, although many of these B-movies still managed to achieve huge cult status in later years. However, mainstream horrors popularity returned in a big way towards the end of the decade, as Hammer film studios turned their productions towards the horror market with astounding results!
The Thing (from another world)The earliest notable sci-fi/horror combination came in 1951 with "The Thing from Another World" (The Thing), about a group at an Antarctic research station, who discover an alien body entombed in ice, only to find the being is still very much alive and unfriendly after they thaw it out.
The War of the WorldsThe film "The Day the Earth Stood Still", also released this year, was one of the first examples of cinema dealing in threat of alien invasion. A theme picked up on again in 1953's "The War of the Worlds", which was one of the first colour sci-fi pics. This was based on the novel by H.G. Wells, but updated the storyline from Victorian England, to 50's America.
The horror film "House Of Wax", which was also released in this year, was one of the few notable dedicated horrors of this decade. Not only did this take a refreshing break from the predominantly sci-fi orientated films released at this time, but it was also one of the first horror movies to be filmed in 3-D and also made Vincent Price a star in this genre.
ThemAbbot and Costello got up to more satirical horror nonsense with Boris Karloff in this year in the film "Abbot and Costello meet Jekyll and Hyde", with Karloff playing the title role.
"Them!" which appeared in 1954 was one of many examples of horror/sci-fi films influenced by the nuclear threat imposed by the Cuba missile crisis in fifties USA. Telling the tale of giant, radiation spawned, ants running amok in the deserts of Arizona.
Similarly, 1955's "Tarantula", about a giant spider terrorising small desert communities, continued the theme of nature mutating and turning unfriendly, with Clint Eastwood turning up as a fighter pilot captain who destroys the giant arachnid at the films climax.
The Curse of Frankenstein1956 however, saw the most notable horror film of the decade being released. Whilst American audiences were being thrilled by invading aliens and oversized creepy crawlies, British company Hammer studio's released their own version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein entitled "The Curse of Frankenstein". The popularity of this movie brought the productions of Hammer studios into mainstream popularity and led to a resurgence in interest of dedicated horror films. It also made instant stars of genre actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
(The Horror of) Dracula Hammer studios followed up the success of their Frankenstein picture in 1958, with their own version of "Dracula", starring Messer's Cushing and Lee in the respective roles of Van Helsing and the Count. A sequel to Frankenstein also followed that year entitled "The Revenge of Frankenstein", in which Cushing creates a new monster, played by Michael Gwynne.
Steve McQueen battled "The Blob" in this year, in what was to be the last notable sci-fi/horror pic of the decade, the following year in 1959, Hammer released their own version of "The Mummy" which once again starred Peter Cushing, with Christopher Lee playing the part of the Mummy in what he described as "The most gruelling part he had ever played".
1900 - 1930 Silent Fear.
1930 - 1940 Classic Creations.
1940 - 1950 Chills and Chuckles...
1950 - 1960 Sci-fi, B-Movies and Hammer Horror.
1960 - 1970 Psycho's and Zombies.
1970 - 1980 The Birth of the Slasher.
1980 - 1990 Modern Horror Begins.
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Plato is hard, so let’s shitpost about art.
relatedThe Guardian’s Inferno and Notes on Values
Plato is hard, so let’s shitpost about art.
SSC writes a response to The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth by Catherine Nichols. Nichols’ piece claims that good vs. evil stories are distinctly modern, older tales were more ambiguous, this was a causal factor for modern nationalism and subsequent atrocities.
On one hand, I don’t want to look a gift-horse in the mouth. I’m in favor of Old Books, they are indeed complex, thanks for the backup. Nichols’ underlying premise is worthwhile: a) Myths and epics and fairy-tales have a moral complexity and ambiguity we casually ignore; b) There has been a genuine shift in values, and while Christianity was part of it, the after-effects of the industrial revolution are much more relevant for our current society.
On the other, I agree with Scott’s criticisms. The historical argument presented is wild. The Spanish conquered most of the Americas between the 16th and 17th centuries under the pretense of moral ineptitude and evil among the natives. They had to be forced into enlightenment, which meant murder, torture, and slavery. Bartoleme de las Casas is considered more rhetorical than accurate, but he says some true things. Here’s his book A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies: there’s a lot about feeding people to dogs and slaughtering children for fun, sometimes both at once.
Then again, maybe the Spanish were just early adopters. Pierre Menard (PDF) or Miguel Cervantes wrote a book about simplistic values in literature causing illusory political actions way back in 1604:
And so, having completed these preparations, he did not wish to wait any longer to put his thought into effect, impelled by the great need in the world that he believed was caused by his delay, for there were evils to undo, wrongs to right, injustices to correct, abuses to ameliorate, and offenses to rectify. And one morning before dawn on a hot day in July, without informing a single person of his intentions, and without anyone seeing him, he armed himself with all his armor and mounted Rocinante, wearing his poorly constructed helmet, and he grasped his shield and took up his lance and through the side door of a corral he rode out into the countryside with great joy and delight at seeing how easily he had given a beginning to his virtuous desire.
The Aeon piece is factually incorrect, its timing is screwy, fine. That’s not my problem. The essay set off a very particular panic point for me.
In making the case that we have a simplistic good/evil binary, it set up its own – nationalist/liberal, politically bad/politically good, whatever you want to call it. Nazi references rule everything, it was not subtle. It argues against art as a tool for training moral values – which I happen to agree with – but makes it, instead, a political tool. Not that she wants that, because she doesn’t, but that it can do that, and thus that art which does such a thing is bad art.
In other words: it uses a political reason to brand certain types of art as “bad.”
Nichols is making a very specific argument, which is that art was politicized. It’s a complaint you hear left and right, hers is from the left, but you’ll find a similar thing on [literally any subreddit].
Now, I’ve argued similar things to Nichols before, but there’s a difference in cause: I don’t think art was politicized, I think our values changed around it. Nichols says: “Good vs. evil narratives are bad because they lead to fascism,” but fascism is how we talk about good and evil. She uses superheroes as an example, so will I: Hellboy is quite literally a demon, and the baddies he fights are nazis. Sure, they summoned him, but playing with the forces of darkness is neutral, it’s a tool. We only know they’re bad because nazis. Politics > earlier moral distinctions.
Where value=good/bad distinctions (roughly), a whole bunch of those got thrown out the window. There were many reasons for this, most of them material, that’s going to take the rest of this blog’s life to try and get at. The upshot of this is that the only things that can pierce our thick hides anymore are political values, as in: good and evil don’t work, they don’t frighten us the same way, something else has to fill in for them, so you no longer reductio to absurdism and Satan but to Hitler and Stalin. “Smartphone obsession is bad, but saying why sounds moralistic, judgmental, old; must be Trump.” Nichols may not intend this, but she’s reifying it: You need to make an analogy, to explain why Hollywood sucks, there is no aesthetic judgment appropriate because “aesthetics are subjective”, and it’s classist and pompous to call comic books uncouth. Must be nationalism (also Trump).
We’re left making arguments that are – on their face – insane, ridiculous slippery-slope arguments about morality and art and [whatever], weird ossified formulations about democracy or socialism or capitalism to express aesthetic preferences. They’re stupid but they work, in roughly the same way that playing Eroica on a kazoo is stupid but will perk the ears of a musicologist. They connect with that dumb fucking panic that used to include Superbowl nipples and pentagrams. Within smaller groups you’ll drop different references: “The narrator of this book… well, he sounds like Greg.” “Oooooh.” Outside of that you need to appeal to broader values. “The narrator of this book… well, he sounds like a commie.” Yes, this is hyperbole, no, I will not back down.
That Eroica thing isn’t a joke: we are all musicologists now, carefully listening to or ferreting out political content to express non-political feelings because we have no other way to do that. Ten bucks says a school-hating tween can still perform a killer Marxist takedown of [literally anything]. It’s easy as breathing gogurt. We have to have learned this. See: all of earth in our age.
Adding to my suspicion that it’s an aesthetic judgment using political language: 1) If there’s an easy reason for modern films to simplify language and theme, it’s not nationalism but internationalism. That’s not a swipe at other nations nor at globalism, it’s just an economic fact: Shakespeare doesn’t translate as well as explosions do, and starting in the 80s to 90s the international market overtook the domestic (stats). Here’s a list of top-grossing films by year, watch what happens. Also: China. I’m not putting China on blast (Soul Mountain is great, but it wasn’t written with you in mind) nor am I saying “nationalist art is the complex one.” I’m saying that these factual inaccuracies are results of the critique, because the use of politics is a circumlocution and saying “international audiences are simplifying art” is , contextually, the opposite of “bad.”
2) “Complexity” is the metric for good, Hollywood is the example of bad, but am I supposed to buy that critically adored indie films are always thematically complex? “Discrimination is bad.” I fully agree, but that’s not a complex theme. It may be handled with powerful aesthetics – not the same as moral complexity – and it’s a good message, but even Superman agrees with it.
3) The two above will be taken as the “real” criticism – “This blogger’s clearly a reactionary, right, Leo?” – because they’re political signifiers. My criticism isn’t of Nichols’ politics, we probably agree about most things, that will not matter.
I’ve made this argument before. A more cautious version of myself would wait for the necessary framework, but I’m going to keep at it until it sticks:
1) Nichols’ article is a perfect example of what I’m talking about, and it appeared now.
2) When I made that critique, I said we have (properly) two values: facts/information/”truth” and politics. Our estimation of art happens to combine that perfectly.
3) It’s dangerous. As in: Nietzsche is terribly mishandled when he’s read too literally (uncritically), and I tend to avoid discussing him for that reason. But if there’s any one line of his to take literally and seriously, it’s the following: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Fail to grasp this and proceed to make a hellscape.
4) I have great interest in The Olds, but if I had to choose one single value that separated modernity from the ancient world, it would be the peculiar way we evaluate aesthetics.
(1) is above. In order:
We’re bad at understanding art. I mean really bad. The instinct is always to abstract from the form, to ignore the things that make it art, and focus on everything reproducible in the wikipedia summary. This explains most of it.
I hate jump scares, they’re obnoxious and easy and boring, here’s 30 minutes of them. Enjoy:
Consider the aspect of sound. Watch them with the volume off and you’ll know what I mean. I get it, this is obvious, blah blah.
Let’s say you’ve just watched a particularly frightening movie, and you’re recommending it to a friend. Horror films have a job, presumably it involves causing horror, so how would you express that this one is good at that job? What would it involve? I assume that the answer is something like “the plot is x“, but that really doesn’t tell you much. “There’s ghosts” describes half the targeted area. Try to replicate the sound of a jump-scare: “It’s like that, movie’s scary as hell.” You’re worse than the chump with the kazoo.
The point of the exercise isn’t “sound designers deserve more credit” – although true – it’s that a whole lot of what makes up the aesthetic experience of art is not capable of expression outside of its own terms. If you try to do so, you will fail, and if you trick yourself into thinking that they are, you will quadruple fail. I’m using horror films here because they’re the most blatantly obvious example, but they’re not unique.
What makes art good?
Good art makes us think more deeply and has a moral vision. Bad art gets people to sign up for armies and fight in wars. First: Those aren’t descriptions of pieces of art, they’re descriptions of non-fiction masquerading as art. They’re the horror film’s plot, what it’s about (moral complexity vs. good/evil) rather than what it is. Second: Those are descriptions of utility, art is (presumably) important because it makes us think deeply. Third: All political. Why not exchange it for philosophy, essays, oped columns?
When we talk about “art”, and especially “good art”, we tend to fall into discussing themes. “It’s interesting because it explores x, it’s valuable because it represents y.” Those are analogies. “Why is Invisible Man good?” It’s about existentialism, if you’re white and in a library. It’s about race relations, if you’re white and on a date. Neither is right, it’s about both, it’s not because of both that it’s good, I get this is obvious, it must be said. Aesthetics are hard and this is hasty, but if I wanted to jerry-rig a definition for “good art” it would be “art for which all philosophical analysis can only be an analogy.” That includes metaphysics, religion, politics, all of it. Not that it doesn’t contain those, but for which a list of themes, purpose, intent, biography, etc. would fail to exhaust why it is good. Try to describe what makes Hamlet good. “It’s mellifluous.” Sounds stupid, completely accurate.
Those analogies serve distinct functions, they’re necessary, they’re good. Good art criticism serves a distinct purpose, not the least of which is better appreciation of the piece of art itself. The problem is when you misunderstand the analogy, reinterpret the purpose of the art as information and content. “Why is this a good piece of art?” Its [political content]. Fine, then why is it a piece of art and not an tract? What is its purpose in that format? “Art is important because it trains us to think things about things.” So it’s like better rhetoric, got it. Can’t wait for the Wes Anderson knock-off about an academy brat using Pointillist debate to win the regionals.
I can hear the screams and I know you’re not watching the jump scares video anymore. Ask: why does “thematic complexity” track so well with a high art/low art distinction? We’re judging quality of art based on “amount of information”, which is nonsense, and we’re lying to ourselves. There’s nothing thematically or morally or politcally more complex about high-art, it’s an aesthetic difference. That dude Greg hates French movies because they’re boring. Greg’s more on the money than the critic who praises them for their themes. Sure, you don’t think they’re boring. And? Pacing, style, flow – those differentiate auteur/pleb better than anything else.
I know, that distinction collapsed, it was probably the reds. Same argument: why did that happen? What argument are you going to get from the average scholar? “[Low status art] has just as much – if not more – complexity and philosophical thought than… Thematically they are the same…” I agree, and? The defense still has an inherent valuation of complexity, theme and information. Run as fast as you can, you are upholding the same structure.
Listen to me now: that quality of work = complexity is not a mistake, nor is it a mistake that we interpret that as the “purpose” of art. We have a faith in the efficacy of information and that alone. “People act based on facts” and art’s purpose is thus making them know the facts. Hence art which discusses [theme] and [such other theme] is no longer good art plus those, it’s good because of those.
Add section (II) to this one and you have it. We turn art into information: “political” or “philosophical” or [whatever], but the bit that strikes us most is political, because we use political values are how we coordinate and determine good and bad.
The effect of this – when we take those metaphors literally, when we fail to recognize them as a lack of diction rather than the introduction of a political one – is the politicization of art. [Artwork] gets associated with [political group], which means it’s bad, tribe it up, etc. But it’s not causal in itself. There was no conspiracy to make art highly political. I mean, there were groups that wanted to, but if they succeeded (which I doubt) it was only because we already had this lack, there was already a mostly-all-politics sublayer to exploit in the exact same way that there had to be a Christian sublayer before a painting could be declared blasphemous.
Also, sure, why not, unscrupulous companies use that to drive sales. Who cares, related.
There is no cabal. We have a poverty of values. You can identify themes and plots and [whatever], but the ultimate experience of beauty is primary, it’s trying to describe qualia, which we have no respect for.
Themes and plots are great for teaching things and examples. I use them all the time, I’m a hypocrite, you caught me. Mythos is useful, but it’s not what makes art important, and judging it on that principle will lead to a nightmare world.
“Does art produce values?” No, yes, not really.
What art does is affirm, and its method of affirmation is beauty. Beauty is a value. It’s not one we care about. “So art says nothing about culture.” What? It says plenty about culture, but the culture within the art is not the purpose of art. Art is how we affirm, it’s how we make beautiful, it’s the only that we have that can do that. It hallows human existence. If aesthetics is first philosophy, it comes from that: What do I find beautiful, not what pre-approved theme is being made beautiful?
I get that I’m splitting hairs here, but they’re hairs you must split. We do not value beauty, and reducing art to utility – to gussied up scraps of information – is how you destroy it.
“Good art has deep themes” but bad art is only deep themes. People who make bad art tend to be people who are bad at art, both the creating and the understanding aspects. They know that Good Art Says Important Things, where important things=Stuff About The Poor or perhaps The Evanescent Sadness Of Human Existence, and then they set out to write about that.
Yeah. “There’s ghosts.”
It’s pretty common to refer to obscure philosophers as bad poets, and I think that’s accurate and just. It’s equally accurate and just to refer to a whole lot of modern artists as bad philosophers.
Briana Rennix and Nathan Robinson’s Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture comes closest here, quite possibly because Architecture was wrecked before anything else. (Note that before making the case for beauty they have to make the “this is why it’s undemocratic” argument. I don’t blame them – I do the same thing. You work with the values you have.)
But more than just abolishing skyscrapers, we must create a world of everyday wonder, a world in which every last thing is a beautiful thing. If this sounds impossible, it isn’t; for thousands of years, nearly every buildings humans made was beautiful. It is simply a matter of recovering old habits. We should ask ourselves: why is it that we can’t build another Prague or Florence? Why can’t we build like the ancient mosques in Persia or the temples in India? Well, there’s no reason why we can’t. There’s nothing stopping us except the prison of our ideas and our horrible economic system. We must break out of the prison and destroy the economic system.
There’s an easy test for whether a building is beautiful or not. Ask yourself: if this building could speak, would it sound like the Rubaiyat or the works of Shakespeare, or would it make a noise like “Blorp”? For nearly 100 years, we have been stuck in the Age of Blorp. It is time to learn to speak again.
What they do not say: we are well on our way to a world where that last paragraph makes no sense.
There’s a lot of debate about censorship in the arts these days, so unsurprisingly artists and museums are capitalizing on it for attention. I won’t say that “political correctness gone mad” isn’t a fear of mine, but it’s much less pressing than the fear that, as a society, we have lost the ability to produce anything of value. It will come when we train our artists that their non-fiction is more valuable than their fiction.
It will also probably lead to mass political rage, that’s bad too, it won’t destroy us. It will just be… bad, bleak, empty. You don’t get apocalypse, you get last men, human existence reduced to Very Action 5. Without qualia worth a damn, nor the tools to complain about it:
“I don’t like this emptiness and vapidity. It’s undemocratic.”
Top still from Ishirō Honda’s All Monsters Attack
Author: Lou Keep
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1. This is my third attempt at writing this comment. The first one was just the words “holy shit” over and over again, and the second one was boring. But I finally get what you have been saying about everyone losing the ability to judge things in terms of any value asides from politics and the sorts of values we share with badgers (meaning economics).
I think it was because this had bugged me recently somewhere else. There is a Youtube series on video games called extra credits (which is excellent, and they make an even better series called extra history), and they were describing what makes a good video game. And they did almost exactly what you described in the second half of section IV. It bugged me, but now I know why.
I want to make an irresponsible guess as to why politics and complexity have both been mistaken for beauty in artwork. Art is supposed to excite emotions, and make you learn (sort of) about your own internal structure. “Good” art does this particularly well, and “deep” or “important” art is supposed to make feel the parts of yourself that are important.
Sometimes art can be “good” by bringing more parts of yourself into play at once. The emotions can interact in different ways. This is how “complexity” gets mistaken for “good”. This can work well, provided all the different parts of your inner being are brought out in a symphony, and not a checklist.
“Political” also has an easy time being mistaken for “Good”. Things you are willing to fight or argue over are usually a powerful thing for art to elicit, and can thus be quite aesthetic. The soviet anthem is beautiful. But of course [the whole article].
Okay, I got that off my chest, and I feel better now.
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1. Speaking with respect to complexity, the creation of art is nothing more than a series of decisions, an endless tree of reductions from infinite possibilities to a very specific presentation (think word choice in a poem, frame composition in a photograph or film). One of the more easily understood criterion for what makes a “brilliant” artist is the number of conscious decisions present in a work (Stanley Kubrick, obsessing over what color and model of telephone to use in the Shining, but more importantly spending four hours lighting every scene first). Hence the affirmation you will hear in any literary studies class to never attribute anything in a work to a mere “accident.” Its bullshit, of course, but it gets at the point. What people forget is that it is entirely possible to make a large number of specific decisions arbitrarily and in pursuit of no particular vision whatsoever (think any of a hundred forgettable Baroque composers (but not Bach!)). Often, simplicity in the service of a more unified conciet can redefine a field of art much more effectively than a myriad of staid, micromanaged moves we have all seen before (think Mozart, or to use my favorite example, Tarkovsky, whose films are infinitely complicated in their philosophical implications, but which unfold mostly as long, clean, wide shots with minimal cutting or camera movement).
2. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about, and as much as I love Extra Credits, they have that tendency to be just a little overbearing on their desire for games to put on “big boy pants”. It’s a tendency at I in general super support, but I had (just like you) this gawing feeling at the back at my head that complexity doesn’t immediately equal good art. Or that superficial “maturity”, like those David Cage games, does not a deep game make. But I forgave it for the longest time, simply because they were some of the few developers out there willing to try something more artistic in their sensibilities.
But I digress. I actually find that games might be one of those few remaining bastions of “low-brow” culture that can actually make stupendous art that simultaneously is not overbearing and pretentious. Perhaps it’s because they have to ship eventually, and that they have to make a product that will actually appeal to an audience larger than a few artsy groupies. But then again, I digress.
2. ‘Art’ is that which expresses things that are higher dimensional than can be easily spoken of. Good art aligns a complex, high dimensional shape (sound, pace, lighting, plot, characterisation, connotation, etc etc.) to produce a coherent whole, that is, the parts all make sense in light of the whole.
3. What exactly do you mean by calling beauty a “primary” experience? My initial impression was that you were saying it can’t / shouldn’t be explained or analyzed in terms of other mental categories. But I suspect that’s a stronger claim than you’d want to make. Surely it’s possible to make meaningful statements about what kinds of things produce the impression of beauty? And to describe beauty’s psychological / sociological / anthropological role? What are the practical implications of identifying beauty as a primary experience?
1. You’re correct, of course.
I was partially thinking of qualia, although “primary experience” is not really a great way to put that, and in retrospect I’m unsure quite why I did. Stream of consciousness qualia->colors->color wheel, perhaps. One can certainly describe what produces colors – light waves, human anatomy, etc.; more symbolically, we can discuss emotional responses (red is frightening, blue is soothing?), sociological and anthropological ones, linguistic differences, etc. None of that, in a Hard Problem way, get at the phenomenological “color.” I suppose I was also trying to get at the way experiencing something as beautiful is normally a judgment that exists before conscious thought. That it might be influenced by conscious thought (for example: there are poems and songs I now have an immediate reaction to but one informed by previous analysis and etc.) still doesn’t quite get at the sudden moment of recognition.
Practically, I was making the case that the experience of beauty is an end-in-itself, and that we no longer value – or, more likely, no longer know or express that we value this experience – in the way previous cultures did. Without the words (or value) to express that, we analogize from the experience of beauty to things we do explicitly value: politics, morality, politics, politics. I definitely don’t deny that art plays a huge role in formation of culture and values, etc. and I should have been more careful with my language here. I just don’t think that’s its primary purpose. Beauty might be vaguely filler language at least until I can properly define it (later essay). More more practically, I think art is one of the few things (probably the only secular thing) that defends against nihilism.
I’m working on a piece to clear up some of this one, let me know if it makes more sense later. You might get quoted.
1. It already makes more sense. Mostly what I was looking for was what you said about “a judgment that exists before conscious thought”. Thanks!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51494 | # of VMs= 4, each with an instance of Tomcat 8.5.* in cluster Apps = 5 war applications- 2 UI applications and 3 Webservices. Java Version = java 1.8.* Configuratin = 2 LTMS and 2 Apache Webservers - 1 LTM on top of tomcat clusters which processes Webservice requests (200K+ a day during weekdays). Another LTM on top of Webserver which is also on top on Tomcat instances which handles the UI application requests (10K+ requests a day). JVM parameters: all default with -Xms3072m -Xmx3072
Tomcat configuration:
Connector port="xxxx"
Connector port="yyyy"
Connector port="zzzz"
Issue: We are having to recycle tomcat every once a week, and we do it during the weekend. IF not recycled, on the 7th or 8th day of uptime, minor GC time goes up to anywhere from 5 sec to 30 sec, if still not restarted then whenever major GC happens it takes a minute atleast causing several failed transactions. Up on checking the VM status on all 4 nodes, during this time, we see a lot of swapping happening. Memory utilization is under 55% the whole time, also cpu utilization is below 25%. Surprisingly, this happens during the weekend when there is very little to no load. We have not ever seen any OOM errors, so far it appears that heap tuning is a non-issue (I may be wrong). We also have same configuration in a production simulation environment where the load is not as much as production servers, and there is no such swapping/GC problems in that environment. Any insight or any advice on this would be great help. Please let me know if any other info is needed.
Swapping is due to inactive memory pages, objects that not used for a while but not subject to GC, try decrease system swapiness to 10%.
Also check code cache utilization before recycling tomcat it may cause slowness with time.
Try to change GC to g1gc and check, it should have less STW pauses.
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• I have swappiness at 1. Code cache utilization is around 40%. I don't think changing the GC to g1gc would do anything, because while the system is not swapping the GCs are completely fine. Minor GC takes less than 100ms and Full GC only happens once which takes less than 1 sec. As per my understanding, GC going haywire because heap is being swapped. – prashma May 8 '18 at 17:09
• While I was still researching this I noticed one thing, swap utilization and memory utilization go crazy approximately around every Saturday evening PST time ( midnight UTC), and that is when our cronjob for log rotation starts. Compressing and archiving the logs which are over 7GB in size, do you think this might be eating the memory? – prashma May 8 '18 at 17:11
• It not related to memory swap because if it was oom will kick in and kill java, it is possible that the cpu is the issue since compression is cpu-intensive task. Check cpu during GC peak and try lower log rotat task priority. – hoshoh May 8 '18 at 18:26
• I understand compression could be cpu intensive task, but could it cache the data read by the tar command? And since it is taking few minutes to compress all the logs, during that process the system might kick in swapping? Sorry, I am not arguing, just brainstorming, to see if that is a possibility. – prashma May 8 '18 at 21:43
• The system will use only 1% of swap, as swapiness is set to 1, that mean that swapping would not be problem (please submit swap usage and space). System will favor hot file cache over lru inactive anonymous pages this could be the JVM heap.I need syslogs to verify. – hoshoh May 8 '18 at 21:52
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1. Mar 18, · Diamonds And Other Gems: August Main Theme (from The Man with the Golden Arm) b/w Some People Decca F 12 Diamonds And Other Gems: January Diamonds (With Tony Meehan) b/w Footstomp Decca F 1 Diamonds And Other Gems: April Scarlet O'Hara (With Tony Meehan) b/w (Doing the) Hully Gully Decca F 2.
2. Feb 10, · Jet Harris and Tony Meehan began playing together as members of the Shadows backing Cliff Richard. Despite the success of the group in its own right, both of them decided to quit. Meehan had left the group at the end of with plans to .
3. Then, as part of a duo with former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan, he topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in early with “Diamonds”. Harris and Meehan followed this with two further hit singles, “Scarlett O’Hara” (also written by Jerry Lordan) a UK #2, and “Applejack” (composed by Les Vandyke) reaching UK #4 also in
4. Within a few months (), Tony Meehan (drums) and Jet Harris (bass) quit the original line-up of Britain's greatest instrumental group, the Shadows. When they teamed up afterwards, the results were three enormous instrumental hits on the British charts--"Diamonds", "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Applejack"/5(55).
5. This release differs from Jet Harris & Tony Meehan* - Diamonds And Other Gems in that the the disc face is different. "Diamonds & Other Gems" is printed on one line, the label code is printed at the six o'clock position, "BIEM/STEMRA" is not printed inside a box, and "Made in 4/5(1).
6. Watch the video for Diamonds from Jet Harris & Tony Meehan's Diamonds and Other Gems for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
7. Listen free to Jet Harris & Tony Meehan – Diamonds and Other Gems (Diamonds, Hully Gully and more). 20 tracks (). Discover more music, concerts, videos, .
8. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan both ex-members of the Shadows (the best UK instrumental group ever), only had three UK chart hits together, (all in ). The A & B-Sides of those three hits are here plus the A & B-Side of the one Tony Meehan Combo chart hit. The rest of the tracks are by Jet Harris and include his two UK chart hits/5(23).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51522 | Left-wing? Got your Conference delegates through? SKWAWKBOX wants to hear from you
This blog has received various messages about last night’s article on Bristol West CLP (Constituency Labour Party) sending 19 delegates to this year’s Labour Conference in Brighton – a fact that got mightily up the nose of the right-wing, not that they’ll admit the real reason for it.
A lot of those messages are to the effect of how encouraging it is to see members wanting to get involved and organising to get the right, pro-Corbyn delegates to the Conference to support vital measures like the McDonnell Amendment. – and to defeat an anti-democratic attempt by Labour’s right-wing faction to go back to the days when a few MPs had as much voting power in leadership elections as the entire membership.
When the right-wing Labour Establishment is conducting a war of attrition against the party’s leader and most of its members, it’s easy to get bogged down in all the negative, infuriating things being done – but there are more reasons to be positive.
And members getting involved and organised to democratise the party is definitely one.
So the SKWAWKBOX wants to publish a series of articles about successes by the Left in overcoming the cynical attempts by the right to control delegate selections – so we all have a ‘big picture’ overview of the good things that are going on and of what works.
So if…
• you’re a Labour member and your CLP has selected good, left-wing Conference delegates or
• you’re in a union branch and your branch is sending good, left-wing delegates to Conference
please drop a note to SKWAWKBOXCLP@outlook.com with the details – how many delegates and how you organised to get them selected, along with your location.
Don’t post them in the comments, although by all means put a note there to say you’ve sent the email. Locations will be made approximate before publication, as we don’t want to hand the right-wingers a handy list of CLPs to suspend – would any of us put that past them? – and then the articles will be published to help others motivate and organise their members for similar success.
Thank you.
1. The secretary of my Unite branch (not a right winger!) says the union cannot send delegates to conference. Is he wrong?
1. All unions can send delegates to Conference based on the number of members in the branch: From Labour Rules Chapter 3: Party Conference:-
Delegates duly appointed by each affiliated
trade union or other affiliated organisation to
the number of one delegate for each 5,000
members or part thereof on whom affiliation
fees, by-election insurance premiums and any
levies due were paid for the year ending 31
December prior to the Party conference. A
requirement is placed on affiliated organisations
that their delegation should include women at
least in the proportions in which they are
represented in that organisation’s membership.
Where the membership of an affiliated trade
union or other organisation is less than 5,000
members, an additional woman delegate may be
appointed if the women’s membership is 400 or
2. I’m afraid that I can’t give you the information you have requested because I haven’t heard anything from my CLP, since before Christmas.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51525 | Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM
I just got a new album – oh, pardon me, 21st century; I mean to say “a new cd”; no, really I mean “a new download” – by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck, called IRM. So far, I’m liking it a lot. It was written after she had brain surgery, and a lot of it has to do with that and her recovery. Here is one of the lyrics:
Leave my head demagnetized/
Tell me where the trauma lies/
In the scan of pathogen/
Or the shadow of my sin…
Cool, huh?
NOTE: Beck = yummy
Glenn Beck= dummy
Jeff Beck= strummy |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51530 | The boundaries between the digital and physical world around us are fading. Traditionally passive objects like mirrors, windows, coffee tables, clothes and even plants are now becoming interactive. One of the innovations in this area is Luminous Carpets. It is a carpet with embedded LED lights. The product is a collaboration between Philips and Dutch carpet maker Desso.
Making it interactive
Although the carpet itself does not contain sensors to detect who is standing where, it is possible to add external sensors to detect the presence of people. I was invited by Luminous Carpets to setup an experiment to see if their demo floor could become interactive by adding a Kinect sensor. Here’s a video that shows some of the results of the singe day trial.
The Kinect was positioned at the front of the floor at a relatively large distance (> 3 meters) to be able to see all of the floor area. After setting up the equipment a calibration had to be applied for lining up the Kinect coordinate frame with the coordinate frame of the Luminous Carpet demo floor. The demo application was a WPF based application that generated a small grayscale image in the top left corner of the screen with a size of 112 x 56 pixels. The floor controller could then use this as a HDMI input for controlling the pixels of the luminous carpet.
By using Kinect in a frontal view body tracking can be used to build interactivity that understands joint positions. Individual joints can be projected to the floor taking into account their height above the floor. This can for instance be used to give the user a feeling that he is holding a lantern that lights up the floor. This positioning of the Kinect also implies looking into the direction of the sensor for best tracking results. For interaction with a floor however there is no direct directional preference for interaction other than suggested by the walls surrounding it.
Using the Kinect in a frontal setup may also cause that multiple users can occlude each other. Typically this is prevented by using a sensor that looks down from a large height and using blob detection and tracking for building the interactivity.
Natural surface interactions
Blending the digital and the real world can go beyond using hand-held devices like iPad or head-mounted devices like HoloLens. Any surface that surrounds us in our everyday lives can be made interactive by combining sensors and visual, tactile or auditive feedback. The surfaces that have the highest potential for natural interaction are those that we are already used to interact with on a daily basis. And if we don’t have to equip ourselves with wearables it can feel even more natural. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51535 | How to win with ‘Total Football: the Movie’ (2009)
Total Football: the Movie (2009) also known as Offside (2009)
There are things to like about Total Football: the Movie, and largely those occur in the last 30 minutes of the film. What the team does to win made me enjoy this Australian film.
Two brothers lead their recreational team to the Grand Final. Charlie is the Mel Gibson-like star player who gets the girls, and Frank is the Oliver Platt-like non-playing coach preaching Total Football at halftime.
My favorite line is when coach Frank suffers tragic remorse for having flooded the field in order to defeat an Argentinian team:
Frank: “I love south American football. I love the Joga Bonita. It has inspired millions of people world wide. And today, I threw mud in their face. Today, I killed my own mother.”
Mark: “Frank, it’s okay. We won!”
Soccer that is a metaphor for soccer
Other than a penalty shootout, the soccer action is to be perceived, not watched, as it is a lot of split-second frames stitched together to convey fouls and goals. The team’s success parallels the Socceroos’ run at WC 2006, but that action is conveyed by the fan reactions to an off-screen TV.
The main problem with Writer-Director Carlo Petraccaro’s first feature film is that it’s hard to find a character to care about. The women are one-dimensional sex objects disdainful of soccer. A bunch of 30ish guys are still talking about high school.
It is comical that star Charlie removes his shirt at a rate that recalls William Shatner in Star Trek or maybe Magic Mike (without the abs). And towards the end, the only way Charlie demonstrates the depth of his character is when he lists the women he didn’t shag out of respect for his brother and best friend.
A hometown production with controversy
Shot in 2008 in Petraccaro’s hometown of Adelaide with local actors, a local production company (Urtext), and local community financial support, the film has a low-budget look and comes with controversy. It had 2 local showings in 2009 under the title of Offside. But after a few years, Petraccaro re-edited the film to its current title, and it is now available for free on the web. Urtext has gone on to focus on being a 2-person production company of commercials and short documentaries.
Note: This is the first Australian soccer movie that I have reviewed, which probably added a lot to my enjoyment. I once watched Broken Hill, but it turned out that was about footy Australian rules football.
6 Soccer Movie Mom Rating = 6 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51540 | At Solace we are always on the lookout for innovative products and tools related to messaging. We love open source and contribute where we can. We were delighted to discover JMSToolBox, a very useful JMS client. When we first discovered it, JMSToolBox had the capability to connect with more than a dozen JMS providers, but not Solace. Now we are happy to say that you can use JMSToolBox to perform a variety of tasks with our PubSub+ event brokers via the JMS API.
Why We Love JMSToolBox
The features JMSToolBox provides are well documented on its website, so we will not repeat them all here. But the features we find really useful are:
• Automated discovery of queues and topics
• The ability to browse and view the contents of messages
• The ability to generate messages using a templating scheme
• The ability to script message generation, both within the application and through its own REST API
Let us imagine we are developing an event-driven application for a burger joint, Zoe’s Burgers. They have a couple of order takers at the front and a few cooks at the back. When they take an order, their POS system sends a message to a topic named “orders” on the JMS provider. We need the messages to go to two places: the cooks in the kitchen and a back office for record keeping purposes. Therefore, we will create two queues, one called “kitchen” and one called “office.” Both queues subscribe to the “orders” topic.
Zoe’s picked Solace because although our free standard edition of PubSub+ Event Broker gives them more than enough performance and reliability, once they grow to the point where they are selling tens of millions of burgers per second, our enterprise products will be able to keep up without breaking a sweat.
Connecting JMSToolBox with Solace
In order to test if the message broker is set up properly, we want to send messages to the “orders” topic and confirm that the messages appear on both queues. This is the kind of job that JMSToolBox is great for. We will start by creating a new Solace session by double clicking the Solace entry from the list of queue managers:
Then we enter the connection properties. Note that “User id” is the client username.
We also have to enter the Message VPN name and management credentials. The latter are necessary for retrieving the list of queues (this might become unnecessary in a later release.) You can see that there are fields to enter SSL properties if required, though you don’t need to do that if you are simply using the secure connection properties provided by Solace PubSub+ Event Broker: Cloud.
Once we are connected, we see the queues and the topic in the session view. Note that we also have an ActiveMQ session. Later we will use it to show how to share messages between JMS providers.
Generating Messages with Templates
JMSToolBox provides a feature that lets you create templates for creating messages. If you look at the Templates pane, you will see that we have created a couple of templates called “order” and “order-csv”:
If you open up the “order” template, you can see that it is a text format message with a JSON payload:
The payload contains a variable for the value of the first field. JMSToolBox has some predefined variables, including currentTimestamp which we use here. It provides other ones that can generate random numbers and strings.
To use this template, we right-click the topic and select “Send Message from Template”. Once we have done that, we should be able to see the message on both of our queues. We can double-click the “kitchen” queue and we will see the following:
If we select the message, we can see the payload:
You can see that the first field has been replaced by an actual timestamp, and we can verify that the office queue also has this message by double-clicking on that queue. Text format messages can be viewed directly in JMSToolBox, but when you have messages in proprietary binary formats, you can plug in a ‘message visualizer’ to get JMSToolBox to run an external program that knows how to display your message.
Managing Scripts with JMSToolBox
What if we want to send lots of messages each with different data? JMSToolBox has a scripting feature that can do that.
First, we create a comma-separated-value file. We will call our template “orders.csv” and it will have the following contents:
Each line contains one order. To keep things simple, we will assume each order only has one item. The first field is the order id, the second is the item, and the third is the total cost.
Here we have opened the JMSToolBox Script Manager window and selected the “orders” script we created earlier:
A script can have several steps, but this “orders” script has just one step, which is to iterate over the csv file and send a message for each line. As you can see, it specifies the template to use (order-csv), the session (solace), the destination (orders), and the data file. If you click the Data Files tab, you will see the following:
Here we have specified one data file. We can use the Variable Prefix and Variable Names entries in our message template to refer to the data in the csv file. The variable names refer to the fields on each line, in order, so “id” is the first value on a line, “item” is the second value, and “total” is the third.
We have created a second template for this purpose that looks like this:
This shows how to refer to data in the csv file in the template. Now we go back to the Scripts window and hit the Execute button. If we view the messages in the queues, we will see there are four (three new ones and the one we created earlier), and the last one looks like this:
Multiple Sessions
Suppose we want to copy the messages to a different JMS provider or to another queue within the same provider. Here I have opened the ActiveMQ session and selected the orders queue. It is currently empty:
We can simply drag and drop the messages from our “kitchen” queue to the ActiveMQ “orders” queue, and JMSToolBox will send them over:
We can use the same procedure to copy messages from one queue to another within the same provider.
REST Interface
The final feature we will discuss is its REST interface. The REST interface can be used to list the destinations of a session, to send or retrieve messages, empty queues, and so on. This opens the door for all kinds of automation use cases. For example, one could write a script that:
1. Runs a script that generates messages and sends them to a queue.
2. Retrieves the messages to verify that they all ended up at the expected queue.
3. Empties the queue.
JMSToolBox is a tremendously useful tool especially for its scripting and automation capabilities. At Solace we are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the project and we hope to continue collaborating with the developer and the community.
Watch the “JMSToolBox Now Supports Solace PubSub+” video to learn more about JMSToolBox and Solace. Have questions? Post them to the Solace Developer Community.
Michael Davis
Mr Michael Davis is a software developer with over 25 years of experience. He has worked in the finance industry and in various Canadian government departments as a contractor. Currently he works at Solace on various projects including cloud integration.
He holds a B.A. in Computer Science (Honours) from York University, and was in the top 5% of his year. He is ITIL certified, and is proficient in several programming languages.
Event Portal for Kafka is now GA. Try it today! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51558 | Human Nature Quotes: Explaining Human Nature & Behavior
Human nature is a subject of intense debate, however few disagree that such a thing exists. Understanding human nature helps us to understand human history, ourselves and others we interact with far better.
Are human beings good or not? And does this question even make sense? These are the main questions ultimately explored when one tackles the sticky and difficult topic of human nature.
Indeed, human nature is a tricky thing. We are, after all, the only species who can reflect on our own nature, thus providing both the capacity to transcend it in the individual sense and change it in the collective sense. Viewing human nature as something in constant flux provides another layer to human nature — part of our nature is the ability to change that nature.
Perhaps the competing viewpoints of human nature are each true in their own way, providing an overlapping picture of the lot the human race is consigned to. That is why we have dug up so many quotes about human nature that seem to contradict one another: Because we believe that each provides a shard of the truth about the broader picture of human nature.
Read these quotes and attempt to see the overlapping wisdom contained in each. It will provide you with a multi-faceted insight into what human nature truly is.
Quotes About Human Flaws and Humanity’s Errors
“We mute the realization of malevolence – which is too threatening to bear – by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.”
Anna C. Salter
When asked what surprised him most about humanity, the Dalai Lama answered,
Dalai Lama
“You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung
“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
Sigmund Freud
Albert Camus
“There runs a strange law through the length of human history – that men are continually tending to undervalue their environment, to undervalue their happiness, to undervalue themselves. The great sin of mankind, the sin typified by the fall of Adam, is the tendency, not towards pride, but towards this weird and horrible humility.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
Edgar Allen Poe
“The optimist was the man who did not mind what happened so long as it did not happen to him. The pessimist was the man who lived with the optimist.”
Winston Churchill
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1918-1956)
Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
George Orwell, All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Albert Einstein
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking, great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.”
Eric Hoffer
Quotes About the Goodness of Human Beings and Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Kurt Vonnegut
“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”
Bertrand Russell
Alexander Hamilton
“We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton’s intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence”
Isaac Asimov
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51568 | Tutorial: Generating QR codes
Apps and stickies
To understand the best way to create QR codes, you should understand the Sticky architecture.
In Sticky, there are applications and stickies. For the purposes of this guide, a sticky is a QR code.
Apps are like units of behaviour: they do things. In the QR code use case, the application will return the URL that you would like the QR scanner to be redirected to.
Stickers are the physical instances, or implementations of your application. There relationship between stickies and applications is many-to-one; that is, you can have many stickies that connect to one application (and so do the same thing), but you will know which specific sticky was tapped in the wild.
This architecture is useful for hospitality: every sticky in a pub should show the same food and drink menu, but the pub needs to know which sticky was tapped so the food and drink can be brought to the right table. The days of choosing a venue and choosing a table number are over!
The same architecture is useful for QR codes too. Say you want QR codes to redirect to a kid-safe game. You have three outlets for these QR codes: a retail store, product packaging and a magazine. Understanding the performance of these channels separately is important, yet it's also important there is a single source of truth on what all of the QR codes do.
One application, many stickies.
Creating an application
In the dashboard, choose the Applications tab, then click the 'plus' button.
Choose Applications, then click the plus button.
A new application will appear in the list with the name 'New application'. Click 'New application'.
Configuring an application
The important settings are shown at the top left. In the QR code use case, 'Public name', 'Internal name' and the logo will never be visible to the public. Choose a name which represents the content that the QR code will redirect to. Use the same name for both 'Public name' and 'Internal name' fields.
Click 'Save'.
On the 'Logic' tab, choose the 'Routing tab'. In the large box, type:
return "https://jada.io";
Where https://jada.io is the URL you would like the QR code to redirect to.
Click 'Save'.
Connecting a sticky to an app
Click the 'home' button at the top left, then choose the 'Stickers' tab.
Click the 'plus' button.
A new sticky will appear in the list. Click it.
Connect the sticky to the app
Choose a name which reflects both the content that the QR code will redirect to, and where the QR code will be deployed, for example, "Space warrior game packaging".
Click the 'Safe for kids' switch if this is important to you.
Under the 'Application' heading, make sure the app you created is selected.
Click 'Save'.
Click 'Copy link', then copy the URL shown in the dialog that appears. This is the URL that will be 'written' to the QR code.
Visit the URL in a new browser tab.
If your browser redirects you to the URL you chose in 'Configuring an app', congratulations. You are now the QR code whisperer.
Getting the QR code
The QR code is visible for each sticky.
This is what a QR code looks like |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51587 | Only Human ~ Mofe Philip Atie
Stuck in a moment, a moment that brought with it peace; an acceptance of fate. In this moment the confusion was over, he accepted a fate that was never his. The people that poured reviling vomit on him were gone and the echoes of their puke dried off. He had a series of wishes, wishes he had hoped would come through but was too sure would not.
He had wished to be saved by someone, anyone. He had wished he wasn’t caught, that they knew of his innocence. He had wished the moon did not bow to the majesty of the sun that day, and then, in that moment, he wished he was never involved in the mosque funbbery.
He and his two best friends Oki and Mosco had been robbing kettles, caps and footwear of Muslims while they prayed and made faces at their inactions, though they returned the stolen items almost immediately before the Muslims were done with their prayers. It was fun to them and robbery to the Muslims, so he called it funbbery.
He remembered his mother’s warning on her sickbed eight months ago, she died the week after. He remembered the smile on her face as she gave up the ghost. She called it joy and told him it can only be found in Christ as she urged him to seek salvation, her death only made him hate the word more. Still, in his moment of surrender, he did not want to die like that, he wanted to die like his mother, with a smile on his face but he was convinced God would not accept him.
He rode down the situations and circumstances that had led to his present state. How on their way home from school after the day’s paper they’d decided to go through a minor street off the road, “it’s a short cut” Mosco had emphasized. He recalled how he had fixed the tyre of a little boy’s toy car that broke right in front of him, how the boy released a “Nagode” from his parted lips, grinning sheepishly.
And finally, he slowly reminisced the actions that immersed him in that moment of surrender. How Oki had at the sight of a mosque suggested they funbbed, how he had smiled on hearing the word.
“My invention is going places” he’d thought, yet objected. He wanted to pass his exams even though he had chances of failing, “no evil acts” he had muttered.
“Who go pass go pass” Oki had replied after a long appalling look at him.
Still, he refused. He stood at the entrance of the mosque and watched Mosco follow Oki in.
He remembered how surprised he had been when he saw Oki and Mosco rush out fearfully.
“Run!” Mosco had shouted as they swiftly passed him.
He was paralyzed in his confusion as the men had come at them with farm tools in hands, and mouths that revealed teeth of different shapes and sizes.
“They left their mats” he’d thought. Quickly, he had taken to his toes, but it was too late. He could only watch his friends escape.
Back in his moment, beaten and bruised, he thought of his mom. A figure stood before him. It was the little boy with the toy car. Just when he thought someone still cared, the boy loosened the tyre he had fixed and threw it at his face, muttering words in Hausa as his mother came to take him away. Abandoned by all, even his so-called friends, he gave in.
He opened his eyes to see his mother in white apparel, everywhere burned bright, bright enough to give sight to the blind. His mother came before him and gave him a kiss on the forehead.
“But I didn’t ask for mercy,” he said
“No, you didn’t” she replied “and that was the mistake”
“Then what am I doing here… with you?”
“You’re not here”
“What do you mean?”
His mother turned away, morose. He knew something was not right, it could not be so easy. He felt water on his face, dragged by the wind, suddenly, he woke to reality. He saw the little boy again in front of him, holding an empty bowl. The boy was shirtless this time around with a protruding belly that lightened his grimace.
“Mai ke saka dariya” the boy said.
Not understanding a word, he asked: “What is your name?”
“Ahmed” the boy replied. “zo…zo da sauri” the boy continued, bidding him come with his right hand.
He was too tired, and Ahmed understood. Finally, Ahmed helped him up after several futile attempts. He was surprised at the little boy’s persistence, he didn’t know what Ahmed was trying to do, but he knew whatever the boy was doing was stealthy.
“How old are you?” he asked as they got to the back of a house which he suspected to be Ahmed’s. There was thick bush behind and it made him wonder where they were headed.
“Yi shuru” Ahmed replied in a mild rage.
“I’m innocent you know?” he said
Ahmed released a heavy sigh. “I know… I see you. Bor your frens bad, they tiff, and you suffer for them…”
Turning to him, Ahmed continued, “They kill you sis o’clock… ten minis more”.
He was not surprised death had been his conclusion. But on hearing those words, fear engrossed him. He then knew Ahmed was his salvation. They walked to the bush.
“Now go… run fas… they come” Ahmed whispered loudly.
Into the bush, he ran with every strength and muscle that could do his bidding. He turned back and saw the little figure, his fussed demeanor like he had done the abominable. But Ahmed could not help but save him, he was only human.
Mofe philip Atie, a creative writer and lover of music, hails from the cloudy borders of the Niger-Delta. His writing is influenced by the society and a strong desire to give a voice to it. His work has appeared on Zango Review and he tweets @Mophilos16
Photo Credit: Photo by Daniel Oluwamuyiwa Edeke from Pexels
7 thoughts on “Only Human ~ Mofe Philip Atie
1. So amazing that u can’t help but undoubtedly get absorbed by each word of the writer. The writer is such a language- master who knows the words that are best captivating on readers. In deed, this work is a fetched fruit from the sole tree of creativity.well done, sir!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51593 | I use the PDF Optimizer feature in Acrobat Pro (v8) to reduce the file size of DTP-generated PDFs by downsampling the embedded images to a lower resolution. This normally works fine.
However today I've tried the usual profile on another image-heavy document. The PDF size is 350MB and according to the Audit Space Usage the images make up 99.64% of that. But when I try running PDF Optimizer the file size just does not change.
I've tried with Optimizer settings to get the images down to 72dpi but the file size stays (almost) exactly the same. I say almost because the size does reduce by a couple of MBs but that's from other settings in the PDF Optimizer.
Could this be because the images embedded in the PDF are PNGs rather than JPG?
This particular PDF has come from an Inkscape SVG which I'm pretty sure used high-res embedded PNGs. I could understand if the JPEG compression settings were ignored for embedded PNGs but surely they should still be downsampled. Also I've got hidden images set to discard, layers flattened and images merged, none of which make any difference.
Anyone had this before and knows of a way to convert the embedded PNGs to JPEG in Acrobat?
I'm thinking my best option might be to convert each page of the document to EPS, then convert all those back to PDF and then optimize. Hardly ideal. And the output doesn't exactly match the original PDF, with vector elements and text occasionally chopped around.
• Maybe your file is already optimized ?? – Searush Nov 7 '12 at 14:45
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I read that sometimes sending it through the Adobe PDF Printer works to make it smaller? – j_bombay Nov 7 '12 at 14:47
• Aha. It took an age to print it through but that brought the size down to what I would expect! But it rasterized the text. The Adobe PDF Printer seems to use the settings from Distiller but Distiller doesn't support converting PDFs directly. It might be time for me to upgrade to a newer version of Acrobat as this seems to be a known issue with PNGs embedded in PDFs. – batfastad Nov 7 '12 at 18:21
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51595 | Maybe the FIRST site you moved to new DC should have been the Support site?
Discussion in 'Suggestions and Feedback' started by zardiw, Jun 22, 2017.
1. zardiw
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Or maybe it did?
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2. Stephen
Stephen US Operations Staff Member
The support site has been moved for weeks Hans.
We're finalizing the moves all today, there are some increase in issues due to this we are well aware and working to get it resolved ASAP. We've moved one subnet and seen an improvement already, but a lot of traffic still coming in via the Waco side so we're checking things out.
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Well, the support site is one of the slowest sites I've ever seen. It's like it's on Dial up. Been that way for weeks also. Not to mention I have 2 tickets in. One of em hasn't even got a response since 9 oclock this morning.......the other one I responded that all the EMails I'm getting are being marked as SPAM......about 10 hours ago with no resolution.......z[IMG]
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How'd you like all your EMails to be turned into Undeliverable Spam messages.....even the ones you send to yourself?
5. zardiw
zardiw Perch
OH.....and they tell you they fixed
6. zardiw
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Day 2 of NO RESPONSE to Support may as well not even
7. zardiw
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#120/month for a Dedicated Server and NO SUPPORT
8. Stephen
Stephen US Operations Staff Member
Hans, We do provide support, we have provided many hours of support to you, this is just wrong. Sorry that some issue is taking longer that we'd like to answer, but there is a ton of support provided to you, above and beyond what is supposed to be provided as you don't even have a managed server, but self managed.
9. zardiw
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This is NOT an issue with my Dedicated Server account.
This pertains to my RESELLER Account and the EMail being received FROM an EMail Address at my Dedicated Server...
This is not a complicated thing...........and it is New.......probably a result of the DS move.
10. zardiw
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PS. The VAST issues that occurred before, that I needed Support on were from a Managed VPS Linux server that I Had......
You did not resolve my issues, so I moved the domain to my Dedicated Server, where they are now running fine..........
Now I have a new issue with EMail being flagged as Spam by you on the Reseller account.
ALL Spam checking was turned off there, yet the messagas are still being flagged as Spam.
Here is a sample message..........maybe somebody can tell me what is wrong:
This EMail was sent from a legitimate account on the Dedicated Server
It was sent TO an EMail account on a domain on my Reseller account
Spam detection software, running on the system "", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details.
Content preview: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Content analysis details: (10.2 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
4.4 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr
4.2 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (Split
11. zardiw
zardiw Perch
The Bottom Line is this. Mail from an EMail account on my Dedicated server is being interpreted as SPAM on one of my Reseller account's EMail.......
Even if I send the EMail from WEBMAIL, it still gets interpreted as Spam......
I've posted the message/content numerous times, but nobody seems to be able to figure out how to fix it.
Response to Support tickets is Glacial. I almost get quicker response here on the forums.
Now. You say you have spent hours giving me support.
I have been programming all my life. I host numerous websites. I know a LOT about all this stuff.........
SO, when I have a problem it's on YOUR end.
And I have NO control over you guys fixing it.
Why does it take Hours/Days?
Maybe you need better support personell?
And the support ticket system itself is flawed.
For one thing it's slow as hell.
And half the time they don't even read the ticket closely to figure out what the problem is.
And then it's back and forth back and forth.
You need some kind of VOICE where we can talk to a tech (who knows what he's doing) to figure out what's wrong.
You say you have Chat. ........Well, I've never gotten it to work.......Never. And that send us a message is broken as well as you can see from the screenshot above.
So don't blame me if after hours/days, I lose my shit about stuff that's broken on YOUR END.
I don't expect anything extra on my Dedicated Server. I can figure it out. But when something isn't working right......that's SUPPOSED to work.......then you can't expect me to be able to fix it...
Eventually I just get depressed and shut down..........It's way too frustrating............
PS. This just started happening a few days ago (sigh)......and I've made no changes........
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12. zardiw
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Day FOUR and it's still not
13. zardiw
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Day FIVE and still screwed up...............Any bets on how many days it will teke them to solve a simple EMail Spam Screwup problem?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51614 | Ese Infierno
By Claudia Ahumada
Ese infierno is based on the experiences of five women who survived “La Escuela de Suboficiales de Mecánica de la Armada” (ESMA) Munú Actis, Cristina Aldini, Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin, and Elisa Tokar. ESMA is a clandestine detention center located in Buenos Aires where those who opposed the dictatorship were interrogated, tortured, and eventually killed. ESMA is divided in several sections known as “capucha” “la pecera” and “el sótano” which was the last station before being trasladado (transferred). Everyone who was detained eventually learned that being transferred meant death.
Miriam described her captivity this way: “tenía una luz sobre la cara, estaba sin ropa, tenia, los ojos vendados, las manos atadas y había no menos de diez personas gritándome. ‘Hija de puta!’, me decían tienes que colaborar’. En un momento uno de los tipos me levanto el antifaz y otro se bajo los pantalones. Yo estaba desnuda y atada. Me acerco el pene, mientras los demás me amenazaban: ‘Te vamos a pasar uno por uno, hija de puta’. La verdad es que yo hubiera preferido una violación, la hubiese sentido como algo más humano y comprensible que la tortura.”
Some of the torture methods described consisted of birthday celebrations, Independence day celebrations, “El día de los Reyes”, attending the World Cup, and by taking them to the outside world to dance and have fun for awhile, but then bringing them back to what they described as hell. It sometimes seemed as if the guards and torturers had human feelings because they would do “kind things”, like passing messages along or holding the hand of a woman as she is being tortured so she wouldn’t feel alone. These women also spoke of their lack of trust in people and continued suffering long after the dictatorship had ended. Some had an extremely difficult time hearing a baby cry, going to the dentist, giving birth, or even going to sleep because of the nightmares that were to come. Officers at ESMA also took new born babies away from their mothers, to later put them into the arms of families with military ties or were loyal to the regime. There were, however, rare and special occasions in which the new born babies were actually given to the families of the abducted mothers. These mothers were kept in a special section of ESMA and they had a specific room for deliveries as well. After giving birth they usually had fifteen to twenty days with their babies before they were taken away. The fate of these mothers was death. They were injected with Sodium Pentothal, a powerful form of anesthesia, and thrown into the River Plate. Their personal testimonies are extremely significant because they are the crude unbelievable reality of what they experienced; without them, we would not be able to realize the magnitude of violence committed during the dictatorship. This also serves as evidence for trials that sadly continue to this day in the search for justice.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51615 | Story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
Lament for horses
Taupō chief Hōhepa Tamamutu wrote a letter to the Māori-language newspaper Te Wānanga in 1875, and included a lament by a Ngāti Raukawa visitor to Taupō, Parāone Taupiri. Taupiri’s horses had died, and he requested horses from the Taupō chiefs in a waiata (song). The letter and waiata are translated below.
Ōruanui, Taupō.
September 16, 1875.
To the writer of Te Wānanga,
Greetings, and thank you for taking on board this waiata I am sending. It is about the death of the horses that belonged to Parāone Taupiri, of Ngāti Tahu and Ngāti Raukawa.
This man had no horses on the day Ngāti Raukawa started out for Taupō, so he set out—he and his wife—carrying their packs on their backs. There were seventy people from Ngāti Raukawa, all on horseback, while that man and his wife were struggling along down on the ground. All the other people’s horses were galloping along, and when his eyes beheld this he expressed the sorrow he felt for himself and his old lady. And he composed this lament that is given below.
Grieving in the evening, I lie on my bed
With troubled thoughts, my horses gone
From Ngāti Raukawa’s expedition.
Perhaps you are in the sounding tussock
By the Takawha Lakes,
Passing along the roads that lie open at Ātiamuri.
Perhaps you are on the winding paths at Whakaheke,
Where Ngāti Whetū will see you.
Who will make good your deaths in this world?
Te Hemopō will do so, and Hōhepa Tamamutu,
Te Papanui, Te Heuheu,
Paurini Karamu and Kīngi—O Tongariro!—
And you will return to me!
And the men named in this waiata gave horses to that man. They gave him seven horses.
That is all.
This was sent by Hōhepa Tamamutu.
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How to cite this page:
Basil Keane, 'Hōiho – horses and iwi - Introduction of horses', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, (accessed 5 December 2020)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51627 | Quick Answer: What Languages Did Jesus Speak?
Did Jesus have a last name?
Christ is a title, not a last name.
Christ is the English form of the Greek word, which means “Anointed One.” …
Therefore, the apostles called Jesus the Messiah, or Christ, to proclaim that he was the King that the Hebrew Scriptures prophesied would come to restore Israel..
What is the phone number of Jesus?
What was Jesus last name?
What day is Jesus birthday?
What religion was the Virgin Mary?
Mary was a first-century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Jesus, according to the canonical gospels and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin. In Matthew and Luke she is betrothed to Joseph.
Is Hebrew and Aramaic the same language?
Aramaic and Hebrew are from the same family; the former’s script likely informed both written Hebrew and Arabic. Like most languages, Aramaic spread through centuries of conquest, spurred by the invasions of the Assyrian and later Persian empires.
What language did Jesus speak to Pilate?
Since there is little likelihood that Pilate, a Roman, would have been able to speak either Aramaic or Hebrew, the obvious answer is that Jesus spoke Greek at his trial before Pilate.”
What is God’s number?
What language did Mary and Joseph speak?
AramaicBut when they arrived in Bethlehem, they most likely spoke the same language that Joseph and Mary were using with the local villagers, namely, Aramaic.
How old was Jesus when died?
What Zodiac is Jesus?
PiscesPisces (astrology)PiscesZodiac elementWaterZodiac qualityMutableSign rulerJupiter and NeptuneDetrimentMercury8 more rows
Why do we call him Jesus?
What is the oldest living language?
Modern GreekModern Greek evolved from Ancient Greek around 11th century AD and though it has evolved considerably from its earliest version, it holds the record for being the world’s oldest living language.
What language does God speak?
But since God is portrayed as using speech during creation, and as addressing Adam before Gen 2:19, some authorities assumed that the language of God was different from the language of Paradise invented by Adam, while most medieval Jewish authorities maintained that the Hebrew language was the language of God, which …
What was Jesus real name?
What is God’s true name?
What is God’s phone number?
What is the language spoken by Adam and Eve?
Hebrew languageMiddle Ages. Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash (Genesis Rabbah 38) says that Adam spoke the Hebrew language because the names he gives Eve – Isha (Book of Genesis 2:23) and Chava (Genesis 3:20) – only make sense in Hebrew. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51629 | Windows 10 v1709 Deployment
***UPDATE*** Microsoft have also released MDT v8450 for Windows 10 v1709 deployment. Get the latest installer here:
It’s been a while since I’ve played with Windows 10 Deployment…
One of the problems you may come across when upgrading your images to Windows 10 v1709 (fall creators update) is that to capture the gold master image, you’ll need to update your ADK installation.
On your deployment server, head to Control Panel, Programs and Features – then remove the old ADK program.
Download and install the new build of WDS from here:
Once installed; open the deployment workbench, right click on MDT Deployment Share and select update. This can take some time.
When complete; open Windows Deployment Services; replace the boot image with one you’ve just generated.
Finally, head over to your gold master image; make sure its fully patched (and you’ve performed a disk clean up); and run the litetouch.vbs script (\\deploymentserver\deploymentshare$\scripts\litetouch.vbs).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51665 | Repost :Why Friends Abandon Grievers
It’s been a long year.
And an even longer last three months.
I can tell the stress is easing, the burden lifting and the clouds parting. But carrying the load for so long has caught up to me.
And I think I’ve finally reached the end of any reserve energy I may have had.
I try hard to write original material most days and there’s a backlog of over 1000 blog post drafts I can draw from but I just don’t have it in me today.
So here’s another repost of a popular blog from earlier this year:
“It happens in all kinds of ways. One friend just slowly backs off from liking posts on Facebook, waves at a distance from across the sanctuary, stops texting to check up on me.
Another observes complete radio silence as soon as she walks away from the graveside.
Still another hangs in for a few weeks-calls, texts, even invites me to lunch until I can see in her eyes that my lack of “progress” is making her uneasy. Then she, too, falls off the grid.
Why do people do that?
Why is it, when we need them most, many friends-and I mean really, truly FRIENDSjust can’t hang in and hold on?”
Read the rest here: Why Friends Abandon Grievers
Author: Melanie
5 thoughts on “Repost :Why Friends Abandon Grievers”
1. I am in deep grief and I relate to your oats so well. They are full of honestly and expression and reading your experiences do make me feel I am not alone facing these challenges in my grief journey.
2. You know, Melanie, I am right where you are … out of reserve energy … today, thanks to your words, I am going to sit down, put up my feet and recharge a bit. It has been a hurricane of hard stress this last 2 years and we are again approaching Brandon’s sonrise into heaven. Love slips out my eyes and down my cheek. Those around me want to see cheerful smiles that I am just not up to today. Thank you for sharing and lighting my path to see that real grieving looks different than what is expected of me by others. Know that your repost was the perfect balm for my heart today. Prayers to you Melanie, and thank you for sharing God’s gift of insightful words with all of us, both new posts and reposts💙. Valerie
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3. You are so authentic and I cannot tell you how much your words mean. Each morning , I begin my day with your post— it always helps me get through the day.
You have lifted me and countless orders. What service. What a gift.
So much gratitude and my ongoing prayers for your graciousness. Your words matter. Deeply.
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1. Thank you so much for that encouragement! I am sorry for your pain. This is a long and hard road where the tiniest flicker of hope can help a heart hold on. May the Lord meet you where you are, give you what you need and whisper courage to your heart. ❤
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51668 | Why Do We Continue to Sin After Being Saved? Can We Enter the Heavenly Kingdom?
The Bible says, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). “For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation” (Romans 10:10). Based on these, many brothers and sisters believe that the Lord Jesus was crucified and took on all of our sins, that we have gained righteousness through our faith in Him and we are forever saved, and that when the Lord comes, we will be directly raptured into the kingdom of heaven.
However, the situation is unfavorable. Many believers live lives of sinning by day and confessing by night, are bound and depressed by sin. And many are confused about the following, “Since the Lord is holy, are people like us who are still living in sin truly qualified to enter the heavenly kingdom?” Brother Jin Xianzhe was once confused by this as well. However, after a period of seeking, finally he not only found the way to be free from sin and enter the kingdom of heaven but also welcomed the Lord’s return.
Brother Jin Xianzhe recalled that at that time he often felt tormented because of living in sin. One day, he read these Bible verses, “What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? … Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone” (James 2:14–17).
He felt very conflicted, thinking, “The pastors and elders often say that we can be saved and get into the kingdom of heaven just by being justified by faith. But here these verses say that people who have faith yet do no good deeds still cannot be saved. Could it be that being justified by faith doesn’t mean that people can get into the kingdom of heaven?” He could not understand it at all, so all he could do was pray to the Lord and ask for the Lord to guide him to understand the mystery in this and break free from the constraints of sin as soon as possible. Plus, he decided to go to other churches to seek answers.
Disappointed, he shook his head and said that he had attended many churches, but he had seen that their conditions had been all pretty much the same: The preachers competed with and attacked each other, and their sermons were completely unilluminating, much less could they talk about the path to freedom from sin. Slowly, he had lost faith in finding the path to cast off sin and begun to follow the worldly trends and fight with others for personal benefit. He had been living in sin, powerless to free himself.
3. Coming Across Several Sisters Preaching of the Lord’s Return
Brother Jin Xianzhe continued saying that one day, when he was waiting for a bus near a park, he saw several sisters from The Church of Almighty God spreading the gospel by pitching it on the street, and a big sign saying, “The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a ‘White Cloud.’” At that time, he paid no attention to that because he thought there were so many churches where the sermons were all lacking in illumination, and that this church might be the same. Then, a sister went up to him and greeted him, saying, “The Lord Jesus has returned. I hope you can pay heed to our gospel flyers. The words on them aren’t ordinary words but are words that can allow us to have the roots of our sin expunged and to gain life. I hope you read them.” He, however, did not really listen to her and directly left by bus.
While he was sitting on the bus, the sister’s words kept finding their way into his head and he could not help but recall his utterly miserable life of sin. He thought, “Haven’t I been longing to rid myself of sin and thereby earn the Lord’s praise? Why didn’t I seek diligently when hearing about the issue of freedom from sin today?” Thinking of this, he started to have a bit of regret about leaving without listening well to that sister’s explanations. So, on his way of returning after running some errands, he specially got off to ask the sister for a copy of God’s Sheep Hear the Voice of God and a flyer. He wanted to see what they were about.
4. The Lord Has Returned
Brother Jin Xianzhe said that after arriving home, he could not wait to open the book and started to read it. But because there were many unfamiliar spiritual terms and many words that he could not understand, he no longer wanted to continue reading it. In the following week, he was absent-minded no matter what he did and always thought about what the sister had said about the Lord already having returned. Besides, he vaguely remembered a passage of words he read in that book, “You may have opened this book for the purpose of research, or with the intention of accepting; whatever your attitude, I hope that you will read it to the end, and will not put it aside easily” (“Only He Who Experiences the Work of God Truly Believes in God”). He felt reproached and realized that for such a big deal as the Lord’s coming, he should treat it with great caution and read all those words with patience. However, he just read few words and then gave up before understanding the matter clearly — he was being so negligent. Therefore, he began to read the words in that book again. What was different from the first time was that his heart was much calmer and that he had a dictionary beside him to look up the words that he did not understand.
In the following ten days, he read the book from start to finish. The content opened his eyes. Several chapters of words such as “God Is the Source of Man’s Life,” “God Presides Over the Fate of All Mankind,” “The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a ‘White Cloud,’” “The Mystery of the Incarnation (1)” to “The Mystery of the Incarnation (4),” “Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life,” and so on, clearly state how God rules man’s fate, allowing people to see God’s authority and power. They also reveal the mysteries of God’s names and God’s work. After reading them, he truly felt that those words carried authority and might, and that not just anyone could speak them. He thought of this verse in the Bible, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). He felt the words in that book were just as what was described in these lines. He felt overjoyed and thought that Almighty God could very well be the returned Lord Jesus.
5. Confusions Are Resolved
1) Why Being Saved Does Not Mean Being Able to Enter the Heavenly Kingdom
After that, he dialed the gospel hotline of The Church of Almighty God and went to the church to investigate. He opened up his heart and told the brothers and sisters there about how things had been in his years of faith in the Lord.
Then Brother Zheng from The Church of Almighty God said to him, smiling, “All believers in the Lord may think that the Lord Jesus was crucified to redeem us and forgive all of our sins, that we are saved by faith and once saved always saved, and that when the Lord comes, we will be directly raptured into the heavenly kingdom. Is this way of thinking correct? The truth is that our sins being forgiven through our faith just means that we are no longer executed under the law, but doesn’t mean that our sins are thoroughly cleansed. About this, we can recall that the effect of God’s work in the Age of Law was making people aware of sin. Later in the Age of Law, mankind did not keep the law and so risked being executed by the law — this was not the outcome God wanted. Thus, according to the needs of man at that time, God became flesh for the first time and came to work among man, bestowed upon them the way of repentance, and was crucified in order to redeem mankind. As long as people accepted the Lord Jesus’ gospel and confessed and repented to the Lord, He would forgive their sins and not see them as being of sin. That is to say, the sins people committed under the law were forgiven because of the Lord Jesus’ salvation. This is the true meaning of being saved that we speak of. But being saved doesn’t mean that we can directly enter the heavenly kingdom, because our sinful nature is firmly rooted within us. Let’s read two passages of Almighty God’s words, and it will be more clear.
“We understand when we read God’s words, don’t we? The Lord Jesus’ work of redemption in the Age of Grace just made people have tolerance and patience, love enemies, and have good behavior, and it didn’t involve changing people’s sinful nature. Corrupt dispositions such as arrogance, selfishness, craftiness, evil, and greed still remain within us. If these corrupt dispositions that resist God aren’t resolved, we can still sin and resist God and betray God. For example, we often lie and cheat for the sake of fame, fortune and status. When God’s work is not in line with our notions, we can deny and judge God. When we have positions, we exalt and bear witness to ourselves, just like the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees. We act like we are God and try to make people revere and admire us. We even steal and take for ourselves the sacrificial offerings to God. Sometimes we envy those who are good and able, form factions and cliques, and engage in intrigues. These are all clear facts. It can be seen that because we have satanic nature, we are still of the filth and cannot enter the heavenly kingdom. In fact, our belief that people can enter the kingdom of heaven just by being saved through faith is based on the words of Paul and the other apostles, as written in the Bible. Their words cannot be equated to the Lord Jesus’ words. If we regard people’s words as God’s words, keep them, and use them as a basis for entering the kingdom of heaven — isn’t this too foolish? By doing this we are very likely to resist God and go down the wrong path.”
Brother Jin Xianzhe said that after hearing the fellowship of Brother Zheng, he finally understood that the work of absolving man of their sins done by the Lord Jesus just allows man to no longer be condemned by the law; that is, people are saved by faith in the Lord. But being saved once doesn’t mean that one has been saved forever or can get into the heavenly kingdom. He thought back on how, when hearing the pastors say that being saved by faith could get people into the kingdom of heaven, at first he considered it to be correct, but then he felt conflicted and could not clearly explain it when he read in Scripture that people had to do good deeds. His heart became clear after hearing the fellowship of Brother Zheng.
2) The Path to Being Free From Sin
He said that afterward Brother Zheng continued to fellowship with him. Brother Zheng said, “As for how to be free from sin and enter the kingdom of heaven, the Lord Jesus has told us, ‘Not every one that said to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of My Father which is in heaven’ (Matthew 7:21). And in Leviticus 11:45, it says, ‘[Y]ou shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.’ From these we can see that those who enter the kingdom of heaven must be people who adhere to God’s way; that is, who are able to live out God’s words, cast off sin, and achieve purification. That’s because God’s essence is holy and God’s kingdom is also holy and without impurities; so since we are not cleansed, we are unqualified to enter God’s kingdom. This is why the Lord Jesus said He must return. It is so He will perform His work of judgment and chastisement in the last days to thoroughly cleanse and save mankind. This fulfills the prophecies in the Bible, ‘For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God’ (1 Peter 4:17). ‘He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day’ (John 12:48). And, ‘So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin to salvation’ (Hebrews 9:28). Thus, only by accepting God’s work of judging and purifying mankind in the last days can we have our satanic nature completely cleansed.”
Brother Jin Xianzhe said that he could not help but nod his head in agreement after hearing the fellowship of Brother Zheng, and felt that it was entirely correct. He came to know that the Lord Jesus had clearly told people that only those who do the will of the heavenly Father can enter the kingdom of heaven, and that He had never said people could enter the kingdom of heaven just by being saved through faith. In addition, Brother Jin Xianzhe also understood that if people want to escape the bondage of sin, they must accept the judgment work of the second coming of God and that people are simply incapable of freeing themselves from sin through their own power. God’s words and the fellowship of Brother Zheng made him feel much brighter and he found the answer to the question that had been perplexing him for years.
3) How to Cast Off Sin
After reading that, a sister fellowshiped this, “God does the work of judging and purifying mankind in the last days, and to do this He mainly uses a variety of truths to judge and expose our various satanic dispositions which are the things that make us rebel against and resist God. For example, God exposed that when we encounter difficulties in our duties and our fleshly interests are involved, we care about the flesh and are unwilling to suffer; in our interactions with others, we are very arrogant, self-righteous, and opinionated, and so are unable to coordinate with others; due to our lack of knowledge of God, when faced with God’s work and words that don’t fit with our notions and imagination, we do not submit but reason with and blame God; we frequently lie and deceive for our own interests. There are many such examples. God revealed that behind all this is nothing but the control of satanic natures that cause us to constantly sin, such as selfishness, arrogance, maliciousness, craftiness, and so on. God’s words have revealed all those manifestations to allow us to know, so that we see clearly the truth of our corruption by Satan. Yet sometimes, although we have read God’s words, we don’t think we are so deeply corrupted. At this time, God arranges real circumstances and events to reveal, judge, chastise, prune, and deal with us, and point out the problems that lie within us. Through the comparison between God’s words and the facts, we cannot help but be utterly convinced and have a clearer understanding of our corrupt dispositions. At first, we think we are very good, yet later when we see that whatever corruption God reveals all exists in us, we lower our haughty heads, acknowledge that we are the embodiment of Satan, thus starting to detest and hate ourselves and become unwilling to resist God by relying on our satanic corrupt dispositions anymore, and at the same time we come to a real understanding of God’s righteous disposition and holy essence. This way, through repeated experiences of the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, our corrupt dispositions can change bit by bit. This is God’s work of judgment and chastisement.”
Through God’s words and the fellowship of the sister, Brother Jin Xianzhe came to understand that only by accepting the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, trials and refinement, pruning and dealing, can we gradually be rid of our corrupt dispositions such as arrogance, conceit, selfishness, craftiness, etc., and will our resistance and rebellion against God gradually be reduced. The more he thought about this, the more he felt that God performing the work of judgment and chastisement this way to purify our corrupt dispositions is very practical. At that moment, Brother Jin Xianzhe felt incredibly excited and said that he finally found the way to cleanse his sins and welcomed the Lord’s return. He also said that seeing God’s words, gaining the provision of God’s words, and being able to be face to face with God gave him an indescribable joy in his heart. Plus, he had the resolution to seek to be one of the kingdom’s people during the Age of Kingdom.
6. Knowing the Effect Achieved by the Work of Judgment
At last, he said that from then on, every time he had the chance, he would read God’s words. He saw these words from God, “The essential purpose of God’s work of chastisement and judgment is to purify humanity and to prepare them for their ultimate rest; without such cleansing, none of humanity could be classified in different categories according to kind, or enter into rest. This work is humanity’s only path to enter into rest.” “During the last days, only righteous judgment can separate man according to their kind and bring man into a new realm. In this way, the entire age is brought to an end through God’s righteous disposition of judgment and chastisement.” God’s words gave him further understanding of God’s work of judgment and chastisement in the last days. He realized that God’s work of judgment and chastisement in the last days is the final stage of work of bringing the age to an end. God’s purpose is to expose all kinds of people, separate the true believers from the false believers, the wheat from the tares, the wise virgins from the foolish virgins, and in the end, separate all people according to their kind. The people who sincerely believe in God and gain purification will enter God’s kingdom, and the rest will suffer God’s righteous punishment. Brother Jin Xianzhe felt very excited and rejoiced in the fact that he finally followed God’s steps and had the chance to receive God’s cleansing and salvation.
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Hey, there’s no pre-credits gag again! The fuck’s goin’ on ’round here?
The episode begins with Michelle’s Flintstones-themed birthday party in full effect. Damn, when they said they had to get the decorations together at the end of part 1, they were not fucking around. This shit is elaborate! The best part is when it’s explained that Danny got all of the props and costumes from the tv station where he works. Well, alright. I would never have assumed that he bought all that shit from a party store, but a tv station having an elaborate collection of real-life Flintstones sets and costumes makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
Jesse skulks around upstairs in his Fred Flintstone costume, resentful of the fact that his daily routine of laying down and plinking away at his guitar should be interrupted by a little girl’s birthday party. Becky comes out from the bathroom and very calmly and cheerfully announces that she’s going into labor, which sends Jesse into a spiral of confusion and ineptitude.
Struggling to help him wrap his head around the situation, Becky explains that the indigestion she thought she was having was actually labor pains, which leaves Jesse concerned about why he himself is experiencing similar discomfort. Ever willing to put his own troubles before anything else, even the birth of his children, Jesse declares that she can’t be in labor because he’s not ready to deal with it yet, but Becky explains that their children are about to burst forth from her loins whether he’s ready or not. After exclaiming “Have mercy!” he flails around in a pathetic attempt to put an overnight bag together until Becky explains that she’s already taken care of it. I bet she ends up having to drive, too.
The kids at Michelle’s party all beat Danny with clubs, which actually makes it seem like a pretty great time. I’ve had that fantasy so many times and, although it never involved a Dino costume, I’ll take what I can get.
Jesse and Becky come downstairs and tell everyone that Becky’s gotta go to the hospital because the babies are being born. Everyone flails around buffoonishly and then Kimmie Gibbler shows up all of a sudden, I guess because we haven’t seen her for a while.
And then everyone except Michelle and her party guests leave for the hospital, straight up abandoning the children. I was kind of hoping that the moments that followed would quickly devolve into a Lord of the Flies scenario, with casualties and everything, but instead the kids all just do that Home Alone scream and eat cake. What is it with this show and young children shoving cake into their faces? Eventually, Joey and Stephanie remember that they’ve left over a dozen 4-year-olds unsupervised and come back.
Jesse runs around the hospital in his Fred Flintstone outfit, being a total dick to all of the hospital staff, while Becky calmly stands around, not appearing to be in any pain or discomfort. Danny runs in, still dressed as Dino, and Kimmie Gibbler, who is there for no discernible reason, gives him a hard time about it. Becky’s doctor shows up but before she can offer Becky any real help, Jesse starts complaining about the discomfort he’s been having. After a 2 second examination, the doctor makes the diagnoses that Jesse needs his appendix removed which, naturally, has to happen that very second. It’s amazing how quickly and efficiently the hospital staff comes to his aid. It really makes me miss having health insurance. But who cares about that, the real issue is that Jesse being a terrible, terrible, unbelievably shitty husband has just reached a new height, to such a startling degree that it could have never been foreseen. This fucking guy just could not let his wife have a baby without causing a bunch of problems and making it all about himself. He couldn’t just stand in a room. That’s all he had to do. Just stand in the room, you greasy, unemployed fuck.
Before they’re wheeled off to their separate hospital rooms, Jesse asks Becky to try to wait until he recovers to have the twins, because he had to ask her for one last thing before she went off to give birth without any help from him at all. I’m surprised he didn’t ask her to make him a sandwich, or to listen to a song he just wrote, or for money. This shit is just unbelievable. This show is not a comedy anymore. I mean, I know it was never funny, but this shit makes me want to cry. How could this poor woman’s marriage get any worse than this? Is he going to eat the children in the next season? Or is he going to start choking her all the time or set her on fire or something? I just don’t see where else this could all be leading.
Meanwhile, back at the full house, Joey and the girls scramble to send all the party guests home so they can attempt to fill the cavernous pit of non-support that Jesse has created at the hospital. The children are all instructed to open up the present they’ve brought and present it to Michelle and then she walks down the line and ranks each gift. And that, my friends, is the end of Michelle’s birthday party.
Danny provides an appropriate surrogate for Jesse by singing “We Will Rock You” along with Becky’s lamaze breathing and then talking at length about all the pain she must be in. Joey and the girls come in so that they can stare at Becky and make lame jokes and then Kimmie Gibbler comes in because I guess anyone who wants to is allowed to just walk right into the delivery room. The only people who aren’t there are Jesse and anyone on the medical staff. Proving this point in the most hyperbolic way possible, Danny bring in the fucking film crew of Wake Up, San Francisco so they can document the birth for their audience. The only saving grace is that Becky finally advocates for herself by kicking them out. Up until this point I thought that her character put the women’s rights movement back by a million years, but now I’d push it up to around a hundred thousand.
After a scene where Danny complains to Becky about how difficult the birthing process is for him, Jesse is wheeled into the delivery room, so doped up on pain meds that he doesn’t even know what’s going on.
Again, the tragedy here is just unbearable. Maybe next week I’ll review that footage of the Hindenburg disaster instead of the next episode, just to give myself a little break. Adding to the unyielding humanity is about 30 straight seconds of Becky straining to push out the babies while Jesse sings to himself. Damn, you guys, this has got to be the most intense moment of the whole series. I actually thought that I had gone mentally insane while I was watching it.
After the babies are born, someone is lacking enough in common sense to let Jesse hold one of them, and then Becky thanks him for making this the happiest day of her life. WHAT!??! I’m astounded! This woman is totally hot and has an amazing job. Why does she hate herself so much? He’d have been more help if he was dead and “there in spirit.”
You guys, I can’t stand it anymore. This is like a fucking Greek tragedy. Anyway, the family comes in, Joey talks in a little baby voice and then the twins are named Nicky and Alex. Everyone sings Happy Birthday and I guess we’re not supposed to feel like we’re watching 2 new members of the worst family in the world beginning a new era of shameless baby exploitation. Oh, the humanity!
Firsts: The twins: Nicky and Alex
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75 Responses to Season 5, Episode 10, “Happy Birthday, Babies-Part 2”
1. Hebrewersfan says:
I just have to say, this may be one of your best reviews yet.
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2. Paddles says:
I bet right after the episode ends, Jess tells everyone to clear the room so he can “have rough sex with a skinny chick again”. Becky would have probably tried to explain that they’d have to wait at least six weeks, but quickly given up and just endured the agonizing pain. But she WOULD tell him he needed to wear a condom because, you know, give me a fucking break, but he’d make doe eyes and be like “I’ve always hated not just going bareback because it makes me feel like I’m not enjoying myself as much as I want to” and Becky would feel bad and reassure him that he is great and then let him plow her raw until the nurses get called in and declare code blue due to the inevitable blood loss, and they’d ask Jesse “what the fuck’s wrong with you?” and he’d just sort of shrug and wander off to go grab a burger with the ten-spot he snagged from Becky’s purse.
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3. carinthekitchen says:
I have a very important question here: throughout Becky’s pregnancy (which seemed pretty short but that just could be me. It was really short in TV time; maybe that’s the problem.) did she ever just attack an entire bucket of fried chicken? That’s what this show used to be about. I hate how far they’ve strayed from their core values of white hatred and Joey not having a job.
• Zozo says:
I distinctly remember that she did. By the way, this is one of the episodes I remember the most. Mainly because it was hella funny to see Danny the Dorky Dino get the crap beat out of him by a bunch of toddlers. Mega lulz.
4. Joe says:
I’m surprised no one else was uncomfortable with the fact that Steph and Joey were dressed as Betty and Barney, respectably. None of the writers thought that was a little weird?
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5. I second Hebrewersfan – this might be your best post yet. Great stuff.
So, they had all that flinstones crap at the TV studio, fine. But the Dino suit is beg enough for a lanky-ass mother fucker like Danny? He’s tall! It seems very unlikely.
And why was Kimmy Gibbler there? Was al she did in this episode was walk into a couple of rooms? Or did you leave some things out?
Anyway, great post as usual.
6. Bri says:
My god, Hermes totally wins the douchebag award. I can’t believe the show didn’t turn into a depressing drama about a hot wealthy chick who’s been sucked into a family cult and forced to marry a complete asshole and two ugly aliens she was forced to pop out.
7. Wilkins says:
Oh, Becky. That poor, poor woman. *shakes head* What did she ever do to deserve all of the ignominy that befalls her in this episode? – And the nightmare begins…
“What is it with this show and young children shoving cake into their faces?” Yeah, seriously, what is up with that?
“and then Becky thanks him for making this the happiest day of her life.” Clearly, she’s suffering from severe Stockholm syndrome at this point. – And the real nightmare begins…
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8. Megan says:
If only that birthday party would have turned into a Hunger Games theme with Teddy being the last one standing.
Also, I just wanted to point out that I share a birthday with the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster.
9. Cylinsier says:
I only discovered this blog a couple weeks ago and yet I can’t remember what I did with my life in the nearly 30 years before then. I have fond memories of watching this show as a kid, but I never realized what selfish bastards the Tanners all were until I found this. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
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10. Junior says:
Your posts are always pretty funny but this one is fucking gold.
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11. Teebore says:
Aw man, already? I thought we had a little more time before the monstrosities that are Nicky and Alex showed up. Poor, poor Rebecca Donaldson. You’ve fallen so far.
It’s funny, I had little recollection of this episode until I saw the picture of Jermsey as Fred, and suddenly it all came flooding back….
Just stand in the room, you greasy, unemployed fuck.
That might just be your best line yet.
Pain meds. Gotta be the pain meds.
Doesn’t Michelle throw a hissy fit about sharing her birthday with the Twins? Because
A. I vaguely remember that
B. It would seem wildly out of character for her not to.
Maybe in the next episode?
• Billy Superstar says:
She seems pretty ambivalent about sharing her birthday. They tell her that they’ll get 3 birthday cakes and then she’s fine with it. I was surprised by her lack of protest, too (like maybe she would have tried to push the babies back in or something), but I guess they’re purposely trying to shift the focus from the old ugly baby to the new ones.
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12. CerebralPaulZ says:
Well, this is it. The demon monsters have been set free to make this show 100% unwatchable over the usual 99%. Luckily they’re still babies. When I was a kid, I would turn off the TV and play outside when the insufferable toddlers came on. I hate Nicky and Alex so much! It’s hard to describe, they ruined a already horrible show.
How long until the “Forever” music video? Maybe next episode?
Billysuperstar: No one will blame you for walking away. You’ve had a good run – but no one is strong enough to weather the coming storm of cheese covered shit.
13. Sully says:
November 12, 1991 – the “birthday” (aka: air date) of Michelle and the twins… Yup, 20 years later, and I still remember that. Sad, really, REALLY sad…
14. Amy C says:
She very well may not have been feeling uncomfortable, if he took Lamaze (as suggested by her breathing) then she probably was handling it just fine.
And totally normal for staff to be absent most of the time. It’s even worse today.
15. Lauren says:
Ugh, this show was bad before, but this is where it REALLY goes downhill. You thought the plots were stupid before, but now they’re about to get even worse. I think they even made a whole episode about how Jesse couldn’t tell his kids apart.
• Laura says:
Oh yeah, they did. I almost forgot about it, but now the memory is flooding in. He can’t tell them apart, so what does he do? Try to compare their footprints, of course. I distinctly remember him hiding one of the babies’ feet in his pocket. How did I think this stuff was plausible/funny when I was a kid????
16. Kayla says:
Two things: 1. Finally got to see Bob Saget receiving a deserved beating. 2. How would Jesse have amnesia from being under anesthesia? Does that really happen? I know it makes you do and say silly things but never heard of people forgetting family members’ names and that they have a wife, etc, etc.
• jonny says:
It absolutely can. Eventually long term memories come back, but most people remember nothing about the time while they are delerius
17. Bridget Hainline says:
Anybody else notice the murderous looks the kids are giving Michelle? Yes, Jesse does confuse the identities of the twins.
18. Sean says:
Mark your calender, you have just witnessed the, “jump the shark” point of this series.. From this moment on, the full house starts a pattern of sit-com regurgitation ala’ Three’s Company. [Sans sexual innuendo or culturally acceptable homophobia ]. Gonna be rough and tough watching the rest of this shit.
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19. Navarro says:
I bet she ends up having to drive, too.
20. Ashley says:
This blog gives me life. I love it so much. I’m a long time reader, first time commenting- and this post was worth it. “This fucking guy just could not let his wife have a baby without causing a bunch of problems and making it all about himself. He couldn’t just stand in a room. That’s all he had to do. Just stand in the room, you greasy, unemployed fuck.” had me in stitches.
I can’t wait until the Season 6 Disney World trip. It aired right around the time my parents took me to Disney for the first time and I remember my expectations being so ridiculously high because Michelle got to be a “Princess For The Day” and cut the lines or some shit (and I vaguely remember Stephanie being pissed about it)- only to end up being disappointed that my experience was not at all like the Tanner Family’s (my vacation included a lot more sibling rivalry, more violence, and less “deep talks and life lessons” set to comforting background music).
Fuck Full House.
And Alex & Nicky were the fucking worst.
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• RoxyHelen says:
The Disney trip episode was one of the worst episodes.I think the second most insufferable episode of Bratty Michelle(the first being the one from season 7 finale when nobody moves from the full house cause Michelle says so).
It was plain awful, I doubt any parent would have handled Michelle that way.I know if I had a child and it went wondering around Disney while I crazily looked for her I would not have been as kind as Danny, who basically said “It’s no big deal”.Also, if Michelle was my sister, no way would I have let her in front of me, no matter how much she whined.I still can’t believe it ended up almost being Steph’s fault for the whole situation.
But yeah, I can’t wait for you to recap the epi, Billy.
21. taffy says:
In the next episode of Full House: Jesse isn’t sure which twin is which! UH OH! And Aunt Becky has mood swings and if she found out, it would mean the end of her marriage to Jesse! In the meantime, Danny investigates the rape of his new co-host Vicki Larson, only to discover that Joey is the culprit! Will this ruin their friendship forever? We’ll find out next week! Same FullHouseReviewed time, same FullHouseReviewed website!
22. Joel says:
I’ve given some thought to Rebecca and Jesse’s relationship and the only logical conclusion I can come up with is, Jesse must have the most amazing perfect dick and know how to use it to perfection and always satisfy her. It’s the ONLY thing my mind can think of for why she would put up with so much shit from him!
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• Megret says:
As a lady who has been privy to a lot of girl talk over the years, I can confirm that there are ladies out there who would put up with a classic Jesse if the guy cleaned her pipes all the time, every time.
23. Sally says:
Yeah, its true, this marks the beginning of a whole new level of crappy television. It was hard enough to watch the Olsen twins deliver their lines blankly and straight into the camera, so they decided to try a new approach with the boys and give them one word lines that they just yell repeatedly and beat their fists. I wish I were exaggerating….they’re unbearable!
• Katie says:
No kidding. I remember the preschool episode, they could barely talk and still got accepted to some amazing school for gifted children? I think the most I ever heard them say was “mean daddy” or “I love you”
The Olsen twins were hired because they didn’t cry at the auditions. I’d assume they took the same approach with these kids.
• Hebrewersfan says:
For some reason, I found this comment hilarious. So true.
• JohnMo says:
Mean Daddy! Mean Daddy! Mean Daddy!
24. Bridget Hainline says:
Megan, my older brother Burke will have his 42nd birthday on the anniversary of the Hindenburg crash. I do hope that Billy Superstar doesn’t talk about the tragedy but instead focuses on how Jesse mixes up his twins.
25. Louis says:
This is awsome i can’t believe I just discoverer this, Great stuff..
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26. Cam Farr says:
There was no pre-credits gag, but I remember on the only airing as a double episode, Part 1 ended with Becky having a contraction three weeks early and asks her tummy if the little ones are trying to tell her something. Commercial, then the episode continues as planned. I wonder why it was never used here or in the repeat of Part One?
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27. Colin Sean says:
Danny’s arms are super freckled. I don’t know what’s going on there. Anyway, these two kids are going to be a nightmare. I look forward to the moment when they suddenly age two years during the summer hiatus. Maybe the writers were starting to grow weary of Michelle’s shit so their solution was… to make…. two of her so they could…. do it all over again? I don’t know. They’ve never been more concerned with painting her to be a massive cunt (yeah. I said it. Oh well.) as they were in this episode, actually having her rate her friend’s presents right in front of them. “Love it love it love it…. like it” and Teddy is all “bitch, back the fuck off.”
28. Emily says:
How come your doing a review on full house if you don’t even like it???
29. Emily says:
how come your doing a review if you don’t even like it
30. Emily says:
how come you are doing a review on full house if you don’t like it
31. Stacy says:
The whole Flintstones + husband freaking out over the wife going into labor thing reminds me of the actual Flintstones episode where Fred freaks the hell out when Wilma goes into labor with Pebbles.
I VIVIDLY remember seeing that episode when I was a kid. I was at home recuperating from having my tonsils out. I was watching a bunch of cartoons via VHS tape and that episode of the Flintstones came on.
Fred keeping driving off and either forgetting Wilma or leaving behind her suitcase or some crazy shit. Finally he seems to get his shit together but Wilma’s a bit exasperated and says, “Fred, the baby will be in college by the time we get to the hospital!”
I found that hilarious – and laughed out loud, which led to immediate crying because when I laughed it felt like my throat was being shredded.
Seeing Jersey dressed as Fred Flintstone on the day his wife goes into labor reminded me of that.
PS – Thankfully I have spent relatively little time in hospitals but is there really a double/queen sized hospital bed in an actual hospital? I know you can get those adjustable beds in various sizes for your home. I thought all hospital beds were more twin sized.
32. I’m very sad that you overlooked the greatest moment of the episode: when they arrive at the hospital, Jesse yanks a wheelchair from an orderly, who walks placidly away while *scratching his butt on camera.* I couldn’t believe my own eyes.
33. Billy Superstar,
I am sorry you had to endure that piece of shit Jersey’s lame attempt at being a husband. Thank you for all you do just to keep us entertained!
34. cassparilla says:
Where the crap did they get such a gigantic, plush hospital bed from??
Also, I never realized what a total douche Jesse is. Ugh. You are so right. He’s the suckiest husband on the planet.
35. Kate says:
I’ve been reading my way through from your VERY FIRST entry, and I was going to hold all comments until I caught up with you, because I wanted to publicly congratulate myself. But I had to comment here. I’ve laughed and laughed so far, but this particular post had tears streaming down my face. Hilarious. Masterful. You win the internetz.
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36. sara says:
So, I’ve read all of your reviews up to this point I’m pretty sure. Every one of them is spectacular. I just had to take a minute to tell you this is your best and funniest one of all, I think! Love it!!
37. Rachel says:
I enjoy that, while Becky is telling Jesse she’s going into labor as he dons a Fred Flintstone costume, there is between them in the background the framed pink rabbit, the last piece of evidence left behind that the children of the full house once had a mother. A mother, a wife, a sister. A woman who could have saved this family from the failure they have become.
But now, all that remains is the single pink rabbit.
38. Maddy says:
This is a romantic moment when Rebecca has her babies and also funny because when Becky does uuu Jesse starts to sing
39. Maddy says:
Jesse is so dumb
40. The Duke says:
Has there ever, in the history of television, been a woman who has gone into labor without the husband turning into a total mongoloid?
41. Corannhena says:
Oh, my gods, the Lord of the Flies reference. I was watching this ep earlier (I’ve now come full circle to when I started re-watching them a few months ago on Nick at Nite, I think I started with the ep right after this one) and right after they’d left all the kids behind I was basically thinking “so is this gonna be like a Lord of the Flies thing now?” And I hadn’t read this review yet, either.
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42. hope says:
You should not bad mouth full house how would u like it if i called you a you a sick
• Emma says:
I like Full House very much, the cast and the vibes are just perfect.
I like this blog very much too, because Billy’s posts and jokes are genius. You don’t have to take them so seriously. Full House happens to be the kind of show that people make fun of.
While liking it I realise how bad and corny it truly is, but at the same time it’s an iconic and heartwarming family show.
43. Wiley207 says:
I wonder if this is the reason why Dave Coulier sometimes voices Barney Rubble on “Robot Chicken,” just as he does with Popeye on the same show?
44. Lauren says:
Haha this show has always been my fave sitcom with Friends and Family Matters. I can see you hate it but this blog is hella awesome! Thank you ❤
45. Jenna says:
Am I the only one who noticed that the blue silk dress was the same dress what Danny’s girlfriend wore at the New Year’s party?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51681 | What Will Heaven Be Like? Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote briefly about how there is no sin or death in heaven. Today I want to talk about some of the implications of this reality. How does the absence of sin affect the nature of our eternity in heaven? What does this look like exactly? Here is part 2:
There is so suffering or pain in heaven.
While there is much we don’t know about the reality of heaven, we do know that it is a place of eternal happiness. According to this verse, there are no saints in heaven crying about anything. There are no saints dealing with back pain or emotional trauma from their past. Furthermore, there is no indication that the saints of God will be haunted by their sins for all eternity either. Truly, the former things have passed away. In heaven, every wrong will be made right. Every sickness and pain will be healed. That is why it is important that we set our minds upon the things that are above (Colossians 3:1-2). Perhaps the Lord will heal us of some physical ailment here on earth. Even if He does, we could get sick again. And eventually we will die. But, when when we “wake up” in heaven we will never have to worry about pain, sickness, or sorrow ever again.
Have you ever stopped to think about the unemployment rate of heaven? There won’t be any work for nurses or doctors because we will be completely healed by the Great Physician. Counselors won’t have any clients because every saint will talking with the Wonderful Counselor. Even florists will be out of a job because there will be no headstones to put flowers on. We will be alive forever singing praises to the Resurrected Savior.
In other words, there will be no hindrances to our eternal worship of God. In fact, we will have even more to thank God for once He wipes away every tear from our eyes. The wiping of our tears won’t be His dismissal of our pain and suffering experienced in this fallen world, it will be the comforting touch of our Father who says, “Come here, my child. Everything is going to be alright.” What an incredible promise Revelation 21:4 is for those who are in Christ Jesus. Amen? I will leave you with the words of Charles Wesley in his hymn entitled, “Away with our sorrow and fear.”
Our mourning is all at an end,
When, raised by the life-giving Word,
We see the new city descend,
Adorned as a bride for her Lord;
The city so holy and clean,
No sorrow can breathe in the air;
No gloom of affliction or sin,
No shadow of evil is there.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51712 | Sticks and Noodles
Working on our fine motor skills and patterns!
Put a little play-doh ball the counter and stick a wooden stick or spaghetti noodle into it. Then give your child a bowl of dry noodles. I used two different kinds so we could work on patterns also.
Babs loved making patterns and I loved the easy clean up!
Materials Needed:
Wooden stick or spaghetti noodles
Two types of noodles to thread
One eager to learn toddler 🙂 |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51718 | Noodlebar: Das Ding + Mono-Poly + Colloid + Osc1899
Noodlebar: Das Ding + Mono-Poly + Colloid + Osc1899
27 September 9/19/14 12:00 - 15:30
Container - Stage
Noodlebar, a collective of experts in modular systems and analogue synths and a monthly evening at Roodkapje in Rotterdam, presents Das Ding - Modular, Mono-Poly, Colloid and Osc1899.
Mono-Poly, the founder of Noodlebar, started collecting synthesizers in the late 90s and is modular crazy nowadays. Expect some fly patching from this noodle chef: from luscious spacious sounds to rhythmical dance music. Das Ding makes quite addictive powerful dark electro and he will do something cool with his modular. Colloid will create deep drones with uplifting arpeggios and cut up beats. Osc1899 melts modular soundscapes with classic 808 grooves. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51719 | Future choices
Sometimes I become afraid of the choices I have to make in my life. I feel insecure of what the future holds for me. I’m terrified of how I will change other lives, mostly in a bad way, cause let’s accept it if it was in a positive way I wouldn’t hesitate. I cannot stop thinking of the consequences that may come from those choices, how they can affect me and the people surrounding me, how it will change our roles in this drama called life with lots of laughter, tears, adventures, secrets, opportunities, failure and more.
I wish I could stop time, so that I could take it slower and calmer but I know two truths to that statement.
• Number one, if I could stop time, I would probably stop time forever. Make it mine and savour it in my palms as much as I want.
• Number two, it is not possible to do that, so I shall not think about it. I should not waste my energy on irrational thinking.
I stand on my knees pleading the Lord to guide me. He can stop time and he has more knowledge than anyone, he the all mighty that is looking and protecting me all the time. I ask you humilated to take my life and do with it whatever you want, and give me the strength and confidence I need in order to cope with the life you have given me. Cause we both know I cannot do this alone, but with you I can move foward. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51731 | Fedex Tracking API
About Fedex
FedEx Corporation is an American multinational delivery services company and it's known for its overnight shipping service and pioneering a system that could track packages and provide real-time updates on package location, a feature that has now been implemented by most other carrier services
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51732 | Hermes Tracking API
About Hermes
Hermes provides a delivery and collection service, formally known as myHermes for small and medium-sized enterprises and members of the public via doorstep collection and its "Hermes ParcelShops". The myHermes brand was launched in May 2009, and retired in October 2018.
Shipping Services:
• Hermes World
• Hermes Germany
Hermes Tracking number Instructions:
The most common tracking number format is a combination of 16 numeric characters, following by 16 digits (e.g. 1234567890121456). Some other less common formats may also exist.
Auto-Track Hermes Shipments
Our Multi-Carrier Tracking API will auto-track your Hermes shipments
Hermes Post-Shipping Automation
Fully integrate Hermes tracking into your WooCommerce or Shopify store admin
Hermes Delivery Notifications
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Hermes Tracking on Your Store
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51758 | Like a lot of other people, Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott has given some thought to the songs he'd like playing at his funeral — and his picks probably won't come as much of a surprise to longtime fans familiar with Elliott's main musical influences.
"I've already written it into my will," Elliott told Kylie Olsson during his appearance on the premiere episode of her Music and Me podcast. "I want 'Anthem' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 'All the Young Dudes,' of course, by Mott the Hoople — and probably 'Rest in Peace' by Mott the Hoople. An obvious choice, but it's just a great song."
Joking that he might just record his own cover of the latter song and "play my own funeral" by having his version used during the service, Elliott added that he definitely doesn't plan to make the event an entirely somber affair. While he mentioned not wanting to have the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" playing — "It's been done" — Elliott said he'd eventually settle on something meant to bring a few smiles to those in attendance.
"I will probably throw in some ironic song that will make the ones that are sniffling burst into laughter. I've got to throw something mad in there; I don't know what it is yet," said Elliott. "But 'Dudes' and 'Anthem,' because they're grand and they sound like … Well, 'Dudes' doesn't sound like a death march, but 'Anthem' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band has got the drum roll and the piano and then the bagpipes come in and take you out. It's almost like a New Year's Eve song; it's very Scottish. And it sounds like a great song to see my ashes blow off into the distance — hopefully in quite a few years' time." |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51762 | The Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:4 ff
June 30, 2019
Union University Church
Reverend Laurie DeMott
How would you define Paradise? And I don’t mean a dictionary definition; I mean, if you were suddenly handed a ticket that said, “Destination Paradise,” what would you expect to see when you arrived? In a book of children’s letters to God, (1) a little girl writes, “God of the earth, Hi. I want to say what a pretty world you made. The hills are great and so are the ocean waters. I like to swim. You did a good thing when you made beaches. Luv, Emily.”
Obviously, Emily would expect to see beaches when she arrived at Paradise, an expectation a lot of us might share. What is more beautiful than a wave swept shore, sandpipers skittering across the sand, and the possibility of whales spouting in the distance? Even the shore of a land locked lake has a paradisiacal quality because most human beings are drawn to water so I’m guessing that almost all of us would include an ocean beach, a lake shore, or at least a nice fountain or other water feature in our description of Paradise.
Another girl in this same book writes, “Dear God, I want to visit you in Paradise,” and then she gets practical: “Is there a big jet that goes there? Is it safe to travel? We just had a big crash around Detroit and I am afraid to fly. But I would be full of joy if I could see you. Love, Anita.”
While Emily is thinking primarily of what Paradise looks like, Anita is thinking more about what the quality of life in Paradise. Paradise for here is a place of safety, a description that we might be likely to include in our vision of Paradise as well.
What do you imagine when you hear the word Paradise? And what do you think it would be like to live in Paradise?
This morning’s scripture is from Genesis 2, the second of the creation stories in the book of Genesis. In this familiar story of Adam and Eve, God creates Adam out of the dust of the earth and then plants a garden in Eden in which Adam can live. The Bible doesn’t go into much detail in its description of Eden except to say that there are numerous trees in the garden bearing healthy fruit and it is bounded by four great rivers, thus fulfilling our desire for a water feature. Although the book of Genesis never uses the word “paradise” to describe the Garden of Eden, the biblical people obviously thought of Eden as a description of what the world would like if it had remained as God intended it to be before human beings messed it up. When the Bible was translated into Greek from Hebrew, then, the translators used the Greek word parádeisos for the Garden of Eden. By that period, the concept of Paradise had taken on political and social overtones: Jewish writers had begun to imagine a world in which the Jews were free from Roman rule, where their oppression had ended, and God had restored them to land of their own flowing with milk and honey. The book of Esdras, which you can find in the Apocrypha, (those extra biblical books that Martin Luther called helpful but not sacred) takes this even a step further and promises that if the readers don’t live long enough to see God restore Israel on earth, they will be restored to Paradise when God remakes the world at the end of time. It is this association between the Eden of Genesis and God’s new creation in the last days that leads the writer of the book of Revelation to say, “To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.”
The association between our concept of paradise, of the last days, and even then of heaven has long become tangled up with this story of the Garden of Eden but I’d like us to take a moment to go back and try to understand what this story actually says about God’s original intent for human life.
First of all, the Bible describes the Garden of Eden as a place where all of creation is healthy and in balance. Here in Eden, the animals live at peace with Adam and Eve and with one another; there are no factory farms in Eden where animals are treated like industrial products, no pesticides killing the honey bees, no chemical discharge polluting the rivers flowing into the Eden. The Bible even suggests that Adam and Eve are vegetarians since it says that God gives them the plants to eat but makes no mention of whether they are allowed to eat that deer that Adam just named, presumably calling it “Bambi!” Though the biblical writers knew nothing of the kinds of pollution and ecological destruction that we have come to experience in our 21st century world, they still knew times of environmental stress and disease when cattle could die unexpectedly and drought could turn the earth to rock, and so it is no surprise that their vision of Eden was the same as ours: a land which yield its bounty easily and where people can walk in harmony and peace with the earth.
A less noticed but just as important aspect of Eden is that for the biblical writers, paradise included work. We sometimes imagine Paradise as a perpetual vacation where all we have to do is lie around in the sun working on our tans, but this is clearly foreign to the original concept of Paradise. When God creates Eden, God doesn’t include lounge chairs but instead tells Adam that it is his job to tend this garden because God knew that work is a way of connecting ourselves to earth and to others. Work gives us a reason for being and for many of us, a sense of identity. Now obviously, not every job for which we draw a paycheck gives us a sense of meaning and for many, work can be life draining rather than life giving, but the story of Genesis tells us that the problem is not be in the fact of work itself but in the type of work we are doing. We may not be well matched to our job, or as we mature and change, what first gave us passion may no longer touch our spirits in the same way. And of course, many people don’t have the luxury of choosing jobs that feed their need for meaning because they simply literally need to feed their families. Nevertheless, when our job isn’t giving us a sense of purpose we can still find meaning in other types of work, whether it be volunteer work, or the work of raising a family, or gardening, or the work of caring for a family member of neighbor. The main teaching of the story of Eden is that human beings need some sort of work to connect us to others and to the world around us, and if we really were to win the lottery and have nothing to do but sit around and drink martinis by the pool, our spirits would wither and our lives would be diminished. Any work that brings us a sense of usefulness and joy is work that brings us closer to Eden.
So far, the description of Eden is one which we can find in our own lives at times: a time when our life is in balance, our work gives us satisfaction and delight, and when we can feel God walking closely by our side. It is evident that in Genesis, Paradise does not even require immortality because Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat from the tree of life, and thus we see that death was always to be an assumed part of their existence. In our own lives, then, we can experience moments when everything is truly Eden-like when everything comes very close to being just as God had intended for us, except for one thing that makes Eden no longer wholly possible. Perhaps it was possible still when we were children, if we were lucky enough to grow up in a good home with enough to eat and knew nothing outside of the protection of family; perhaps in those innocent times we were able to experience the joy of a world in which the worst thing that could happen was that our ice cream would melt because we couldn’t lick it fast enough, but as we grew older and developed understanding and empathy for others, we could no longer live in a perfect paradise because our eyes were opened to the possibility of moral failure and the reality of suffering, or as Genesis puts it, the knowledge of good and evil.
Adam and Even ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and at that moment, paradise was lost. It is difficult for us in English to understand what happens to Adam and Eve when they eat that fruit because our language isn’t nuanced enough. We think, “Why would knowing right from wrong be a bad thing? And of course, there is that favorite conundrum: “If Adam and Eve had yet to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, then why did God expect them to know that it was wrong to disobey God’s command?”
The story of Genesis, however, is referring not to the cognitive knowledge of good and evil but to experiential knowledge, to a personal understanding of the capacities and failings of the human heart. One scholar has suggested that this passage could better be translated if we think of the French words for knowledge. In French, both savoir and connaitre can be translated, “to know,” making them sound alike in English but they are actually very different. Savoir means to know with your mind. It is a cognitive knowledge like the knowledge of math while connaitre means to become personally acquainted with, to know in your heart and soul. I think that this story of Adam and Eve is telling us that what drove Adam and Eve from the garden was the sudden very personal experience of good and evil. Before they ate of that forbidden fruit, they had known in their heads the difference between right and wrong and understood about the moral order of the world, but when they gave into their temptation, suddenly they experienced the suffering, the pain, the guilt, and the shame of the consequences of ignoring our moral obligations. Good and bad were no longer abstract intellectual concepts to be discussed in a classroom but were matters of personal import. They suddenly knew in their hearts that they themselves had the power to hurt others, that their decisions could have terrible consequences for themselves and for those they loved, and that as weak and flawed human beings, there was a good chance their choices would not always be the right ones. How much it hurts our hearts to know that no matter how hard we try, we are likely to blunder in this life and cause others pain? How can paradise even be possible for us, the Bible asks, once our eyes are opened to the power we have to not only bless but also curse others through our own mistakes?
When God saw that Adam and Eve had experienced good and evil firsthand, when God saw now that God could not save them from acquaintance with grief, from the selfishness of others and their own failings, from the suffering of the world, God drove them from the garden so that they would not they eat from the tree of life and have to live forever with those experiences. And in the most important detail of this story, too often neglected in our Sunday School re-tellings, before God closes the door of Eden, God sits down and sews some clothes for Adam and Eve to keep them warm and safe in the harsh world they are about to enter.
The story of the Garden of Eden is a poignant love story. It describes a God who wanted only the best for us and who gave us a world of beauty and bounty, who directs us toward meaningful work and shows us how to live in harmony with nature and with one another. And it describes the weakness of we human beings who, even when we have everything we could possibly need to make our lives into a paradise, manage to hurt others and make the wrong choices and generally muck things up over and over again. It shows us the profound heartache of God’s realization that God cannot protect us from ourselves, and from the suffering that results from our imperfections. Most importantly, however, it also reminds us that God’s grace towards us endure, even in our sin. God clothes us in the warmth of God’s continuing love, and though Adam and Eve were forced from Paradise, we discover that God says, “You cannot remain in Paradise with me, but I can go out into the world with you.” God doesn’t stay back there shut up in that perfect Eden but goes instead with the people as they journey into the world. God remains with us in all of our trials, leads us in our wilderness, takes our suffering upon God’s self; and hold our broken hearts in God’s loving hands.
The perfection of Eden is no longer available to us in a battered and sin soiled world, but the perfection of God’s love remains still and when we rest our lives in God, we once again can know the peace of paradise.
1. Dear God, What Religion Were the Dinosaurs? by David Heller |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51766 | I know how to change the timestamp of a regular file:
touch -t 201301291810 myfile.txt
I was not able to do the same with a symlink. Is it possible?
Distro: RHEL 5.8
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What is the problem you are trying to solve? – mdpc Feb 6 '13 at 17:45
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But why....what more global problem are you trying to address? Is this just asthetics, or does it have a real purpose? – mdpc Feb 6 '13 at 17:57
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that is irrelevant. i am not going into my business logic – amphibient Feb 6 '13 at 18:16
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This type of information helps us all to get to a solution that would work for you. Its not irreleveant. Sorry you are so sensitive, I'm just trying to help. – mdpc Feb 6 '13 at 18:30
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dude, it is irrelevant. just go with the need for changing the timestamp as a given constant, invariable. you can question it all you want but it is not changing on my end. which makes the questioning pretty much useless, effectively. good luck – amphibient Feb 6 '13 at 18:33
add switch -h
touch -h -t 201301291810 myfile.txt
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create do not create any files
-f (ignored)
-h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced
file (useful only on systems that can change the
timestamps of a symlink)
-m change only the modification time
-t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
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• > touch -h -t 201301291810 mysymlink -> touch: invalid option -- h Try `touch --help' for more information. – amphibient Feb 6 '13 at 15:42
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look at the quote "useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink". – mdpc Feb 6 '13 at 17:44
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It was also only added recently (it's not in this manpage from 2010). Maybe he needs to just get the latest version of coreutils. Here's the diff of when it was added in 2009 – Random832 Feb 6 '13 at 17:49
• If this is the correct answer, please mark it as such. – qodeninja Aug 18 '19 at 20:58
• @qodeninja After over six years, I don't really expect the OP to mark it one way or the other. – Stephan Aug 19 '19 at 21:02
You may need a more recent version of touch. If this is not an option, and if you know C, you could write a small program to do it yourself using the lutimes function.
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A brute force way is as follows:
0. delete the old symlink you wish to change
1. change the system date to whatever date you want the symlink to be
2. remake the symlink
3. return the system date to current.
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• made me curious, what system requires this? btw, any file created while you have not yet fixed the sytem date will have that timestamp too – Aquarius Power Jun 3 '14 at 21:49
• Because one is unable to modify the symlink inode once created. – mdpc Jun 3 '14 at 22:20
The atime and mtime of a symbolic link can be changed using the lutimes function. The following program works for me on MacOSX and Linux to copy both times from an arbitrary file to a symbolic link:
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
main(int argc, char **argv)
struct timeval times[2];
struct stat info;
int rc;
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s source target\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
rc = lstat(argv[1], &info);
if (rc != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: cannot stat %s, %s\n", argv[1],
return 1;
times[0].tv_sec = info.st_atime;
times[0].tv_usec = 0;
times[1].tv_sec = info.st_mtime;
times[1].tv_usec = 0;
rc = lutimes(argv[2], times);
if (rc != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: cannot set times on %s, %s\n", argv[2],
return 1;
return 0;
If you call the compiled file copytime, then the command copytime file link can be used to make link have the same atime and mtime as file does. It shouldn't be too difficult to modify the program to use times specified on the command line instead of copying the times from another file.
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A Haemonculus
Haemonculi are Dark Eldar masters of pain, agony, and biological manipulation.[1]
They proclaim that the infliction of this is one of the highest arts, if not the highest, and gleefully create choruses of screams and wails of agony whilst taking delight in every aspect of the discomfort of anyone unfortunate enough to fall under their blades. Haemonculi are also known as master manipulators of flesh, able to create horrific monstrosities and regenerate Dark Eldar slain in battle, provided enough of the body remains. Because of this, dark eldar of status will often make pacts with haemonculi, promising them fresh captives for their cruel art in exchange for medical treatment, biological enhancements, and even being brought back from the dead.[1] Like most Dark Eldar groups they form into factions, known as Haemonculi Covens.
The first Haemonculi were originally the masters of the ancient Eldar Empire.[2b]
Equipment and Abilities
Haemonculi are known for carrying strange but lethal wargear unique to them. Some of this wargear is impossible to obtain even by Archons.
Some Haemonculi prefer close combat over ranged combat. These Haemonculi might equip themselves with scissorhands, Animus Vitae, or with more common weapons such as Venom Blades, power weapons, Agonisers, Electrocorrosive Whips, Husk Blades, or Mindphase Gauntlets, and might be accompanied by their own nightmarish creations known as Wracks or bulky Grotesques as a retinue. Haemonculi who prefer ranged combat over close combat (as it may be a too ordinary way to generate pain) can be equipped with Liquifier Guns, Ossefactors, Hexrifles, or Stinger Pistols.
As every Haemonculus is old, perverse, and cunning, they carry some "dirty tricks" in their tainted sleeves. Having access to arcane wargear of the Dark Eldar, they might possess some truly dreadful weapons, such as:[4]
Haemonculi also employ many gruesome machines and minions in battle. Though often Wracks and Grotesques do much of their dirty work, Haemonculi consider Engines of Pain to be the pinnacle of their art.[1]
Perhaps most dangerously, the Haemonculi of the Dark City are able to transcend death entirely. By means of their twisted soul-science, they often leave a small part of their essence in rune-carved caskets and extradimensional pockets, so that even should their corporeal form be vaporised, they can inhabit new flesh. For a Haemonculus to be truly extinguished they must be utterly destroyed, both corporeally and spiritually.[2]
Haemonculi Covens
Main article: Haemonculi Covens
Haemonculi form themselves into factions known as Haemonculi Covens. There are ten Covens known by name at the moment. Perhaps the most notable Haemonculi Coven is The Prophets of Flesh which was recently sighted in the Tau Empire during the War of Dark Revelations.
Disciplines and Factions
Viewing themselves as artists and master craftsmen, Haemonculi have developed many disciplines and specialties to their twisted work. These include:[2a]
• Nemesines: These Haemonculi seek the best ways to kill every creature in the material world and beyond. The 'Ever-Nemesines' (or Ilynneadhs in Eldar) take this art a step further, seeking to kill off ephemeral concepts such as hope and joy across entire sectors, erase knowledge or enlightenment from the galaxy, or slay great visionaries and leaders.[2a]
• Black Cornucopians: This discipline revolves around the concept that all of reality is theirs for the taking. As such, they are expert plunderers and are often architects of large-scale raids. Like Urien Rakarth, they often stock their own private pocket dimensions with enough victims to see them through centuries of isolation.[2a]
• Nadirists: These Haemonculi embrace sin and corruption more so than even their brother Covens. For them, depravity is an aim in and of itself. They seek to become gods not by the creation of malefic angels but by becoming the embodiment of pure evil.[2a]
• Phoenex: A hidden offshoot of the Ever-Nemesines. They seek to forge the Eldar race anew by the means of exterminating their own kind, be they Commorragh, Craftworlders, Harlequins, or Exodites. They believe that should the Eldar become extinct, Ynnead will be awakaned and the spiritual malaise of the Eldar lifted forever. They are the most secret of all brotherhoods, for their eagerness to see their brethren slain could see them undone. It is rumored that their philosophy is not limited to Commorragh, and that the Harlequins and even Craftworld leaders may share their goal.[2a]
• Scarlet Epicureans: Perhaps the closest spiritual descendants of the old Eldar Empire that led to the birth of Slaanesh. They revel in ever iota of sensation. Some of these maniacal orgiasts attack the military forces of realspace in order to invite unusual varieties of death, savouring the sublime moment when their lives are snuffed out. After drinking in their own last moments like a vintage draught, they will be regrown in the depths of Commorragh.[2a]
• Apparitians: Make their lairs in mirrors and delight in the capture of the vain.[2a]
• Vilethi: Named for the Dark Muse Vileth, they take part in Realspace raids purely to showcase their own superiority.[2a]
• Repugnomancers: Noted for their love of lethal traps and hidden surprises.[2a]
Notable Haemonculi
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Dreams are nothing but feeble whims on the devil’s tongue.
“Tea?” Sun’s smile evaporated as fast as it had emerged. The dark circles beneath her eyes darkened. “You need to drink something … eat something.”
I looked at the steaming mug she shoved toward me. My fingers felt numb.
“My grandmother used to say that tea makes everything better.” Sun gave a half laugh. When I stared back at her, she bit her bottom lip and looked away as she sat down on the sofa next to me. “Take it. You’re going to need your strength.”
I took the mug and pondered the hot milky broth. My grandmother used to say the same thing about tea. It was a lie. No amount of tea could ease the constant stabbing sensation crippling my stomach, nor could it erase the evil that took my lover and claimed my daughter. Tea wouldn’t make everything alright.
I tentatively took a sip and forced the liquid down my throat, grimacing. It hurt to swallow. It hurt to breathe. My skin was chilled from the inside out and it was guilt that weighed heavy on my heart. I was alive. Avila was not. I had forsaken her for a future hung on false dreams and unfounded myths. I’d failed my daughter.
Dreams have no place in this new reality. Dreams are nothing but feeble whims on the devil’s tongue. They mean nothing.
I set the mug down on the coffee table and stood up, running my fingers through my dark hair and sighing. Dead. Everything inside me felt bloodless. I barely glanced at Sun as I paced the cottage sitting room.
“You should go. The hawkers will be here before long.”
“I already told you, I’m not going anywhere. There’s nothing left for me.”
There’s nothing left for anyone.
I stopped at the window and peeled back the curtain, scanning the cottage porch and yard. My gaze settled on the dense twisted trunks bordering the gravel clearing as I contemplated her sudden appearance in my life. She had said she knew where to find me in the city the day before; that she’d followed us before discovering her daughter’s remains perishing on the floor of her living room. She said she had guns.
I spun around to see her bottom lip trembling, but her azure eyes blazed. I sighed.
“Stay with me and you’ll probably die before the end of this day.”
She gave a rueful laugh and rubbed her palms over her jeans. Her eyes moistened.
“You are the kindest person left in this world. You helped me when nobody else would.” She shook her head, her stringy golden hair clinging to her cheekbones. Her voice lowered. “I’ll die with you today, Jett.”
Her words were delivered with simplicity, yet they struck hard against my heart. I shook my head. I barely knew this woman and didn’t understand her reasoning, but there was no need to. In a world overrun by vampires, swindlers and criminals, nothing made sense anymore. She was a ray of light in an eternal darkness. She was like the sun.
“Your parents named you well.”
She smiled as our eyes briefly locked before I looked away and walked to where her guns lay on the floor. I picked up a long-barrelled firearm. My hands were clammy against the cold metal, but I felt a sense of comfort as I drew back the hammer and cocked the rifle before propping it by the cottage door. I’d never been overly fond of guns, nor had I owned one. Things were different now.
Sun stood and came up beside me. She selected a Glock 9mm handgun from the small stash of weapons and started inspecting the dull black short-barrelled pistol. Quick fingers ejected and reinserted the magazine before expertly gripping the handle and stuffing it in the pocket of her jeans. My curiosity was aroused but I said nothing.
“Where do you want me?” She flicked her chin toward the front door. “You want me to hide out in the trees?”
“No, they use the forest grounds as their cover. Stay by the window and keep out of sight. Train your gun on whoever has Scarla. If it goes to shit, kill as many of them as you can.”
“With pleasure.”
Just saying her name caused the shadow in my heart to deepen. I turned away and headed back to the window as my thoughts swirled with a thousand questions. Had I done the right thing by leaving Avila at the mercy of vampires for the sake of preventing further mayhem and horror? Had I made the right decision? Was she dead already?
Whether she was dead or not didn’t matter in that moment – or even if I’d made the right decision. The choice had already killed me on the inside, and I knew I would never forgive myself whatever the outcome.
The only thing that mattered now was Scarla and her safety. Rare blood and super-powerful vampires be damned. One of my girls had to survive this ordeal. Whatever became of the blood would be out of my hands once I traded it to the hawkers for Scarla’s return. I had to believe their hatred for the kindred would be enough to keep it from falling into their clawed hands. At least until I could realign and plan to retrieve it.
I was thinking all these things when a movement in the yard caught my eye. I instantly stiffened as a dozen hawkers slinked from the shadowy trees into the clearing. I motioned to Sun who nodded and dashed toward the other window facing the porch. She meshed her slim body against the wall and stole a glance through the curtains, gripping her gun close to her chest as the sound of boots thumped on the porch stairs.
My heart thundered. Sweat pooled across my brow as I scanned the group of hawkers and spotted the tall nasty looking one that had delivered their ransom conditions forty-eight hours ago. He was clad in the same get-up – faded leather and dirty boots. His teeth were like rust between ginger whiskers as he grinned, and he fingered his switchblade as he bounded up the stairs.
He banged on the flimsy door and at the same time, I saw Scarla. My eyes widened as she emerged from the trees with her feet dragging between two male hawkers who gripped her arms. Her pale hair hung over her face that was blotched with angry welts. Her swollen lips fell apart above a bruised jaw while her shredded clothes barely concealed her body.
What the fuck?
Rage took hold. Death was my friend. It was hot steel that claimed my blood and drowned out any coherent thoughts as I grabbed my machete before stomping toward the door and flinging it open to face my enemies. A sinister smile greeted me.
“Right on time.” The gingered hawker gave a wry laugh. His weathered eyes dropped to the machete I gripped at my side. He twirled the switchblade. “What ya think you’re gonna do with that, eh?”
Cut you all to pieces.
“Touch my woman again and you’ll find out, asshole.”
He growled and his eyes flashed at me before he glanced over his shoulder toward his mob. I braced myself and followed his gaze, taking in the leathered men carrying an array of weapons. Some carried swords in worn scabbards that swaddled their waists while others held blades and chains. Two hawkers stood at the foot of the forest doused in the shadows and pointing rifles at me. But it was the gangly looking man holding a hunting knife at Scarla’s throat that really caught my attention.
Dizziness threatened to overtake me when she lifted her chin long enough to blink at me through bloated eyes. Her head lulled forward, the afternoon sun catching the blood staining her scalp.
“Scarla.” Her name clung on my lips and panic seized me. I stepped across the threshold but ginger-beard sidestepped closer, blocking my way to the stairs.
A thick layer of grime crammed the wrinkles around his eyes as laughter erupted among the group. He cocked his head. His voice was gruff.
“Let’s start over, shall we? If you’d like to avoid watching the tart bleed like a dirty pig today, I suggest you give me what I came here for.”
My eyes stung as I glared at him and slowly reached into my pocket to retrieve the vial of blood that represented my daughter’s death and Scarla’s torture. The same drops of blood I knew would forever represent the death inside of me. Things were different now; everything felt bloodless.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51850 | I am a bit new to wp-cron job.
I think i understand the concept but lack the implementation. i read a lot of tutorials on how to implement including this post: Run function at specific time but still cant figure where (in which files) is best practice.
The above link describes kind of well my issue. i want each day on a specific hour to run test.php file which is in my root folder of wordpress(where the wp-content and include and etc).
i am well aware for the disadvantages of wp-cron (no traffic no cron) and i am fine with it. i dont want to workaround with unix cron.
I want the test.php file to be called not earlier then a specific time each day. please help and specify the file in which the implementation should be made.
It depends what you mean by "I want the test.php file to be called not earlier then a specific time each day".
Setting up a cron job is very straightforward, you just need to simply do:
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'prefix_activation' );
* On activation, set a time, frequency and name of an action hook to be scheduled.
function prefix_activation() {
// Schedule job for 3pm every day
wp_schedule_event( mktime(15, 0, 0, date("n"), date("j"), date("Y")), 'daily', 'prefix_daily_event_hook' );
add_action( 'prefix_daily_event_hook', 'prefix_do_this_daily' );
* On the scheduled action hook, run the function.
function prefix_do_this_daily() {
// do something every day
What it is you decide to do inside prefix_do_this_daily is up to you.
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• thank you, on which file this should be? should it be in function.php? or independent file which will be included in function? i want to http get the test.php file – Meschiany Jul 22 '14 at 12:47
• Yes, inside your functions.php file – mikemike Jul 22 '14 at 12:48
• thank you, i dont manage to find a way to fire a php file from root, i tried:wp_remote_get( "/test.php"); – Meschiany Jul 23 '14 at 10:47
You can run WP cron manually by calling: http://example.com/wp-cron.php?doing_cron
If you don't want the automatic cron to run while you're debugging, then add this to your /wp-config.php file:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true); If you're on a development environment and want to output debug information, calling it manually like that will show you your debug output.
Alternatively you can use PHP's built-in error_log function to log message strings to the error log for debugging. You'd need to use this in conjunction with WP_DEBUG settings.
Also Here are some links which may help you for setting up a cron
Working Example
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• thank you, i dont mind it to be fire on the next user page view after my specific time, my issue is more on where should i implement @mikemike 's code – Meschiany Jul 22 '14 at 12:49
I am using crony now and it works very well.
With this cron one can easily set php file to fire or custom code on your own intervals. this instead of other plugins which helps you with setting the custom intervals rather the code and schedule itself. (plug and play - no code changes is required)
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Sorry, but this is not an answer. Please add an explanation. – fuxia Sep 14 '14 at 9:53
• You are right, sorry for that. hope that is better – Meschiany Sep 14 '14 at 11:16
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/51851 | ‘Design your Dream’ ?
“It is illegal in Australia to mislead consumers regarding country of origin, if the label says ‘Made in Australia’ when it is Made in Israel then that is illegal.
CaesarStone have a retail outlet in Yatala between Brisbane and the Gold Coast
CaesarStone Kitchen Benches
Kibbutz Sdot-Yam has one of the CaesarStone manufacturing plants – – situated on Palestine’s Mediterranean coast.
Zionist immigrants arrived in Sdot-Yam during the early 20th century, and populated the region with many settlements.[1]
By 2008, it was the most densely populated region of Israel.
Kibbutz Sdot-Yam is on the plain of Sharon near the ancient Roman colonial citadel of Ceasarea was opened up at the urging of David BenGurion and populated by zionist expansion into British Mandated Palestine in 1936.
This was not a national liberation struggle, it was the Stern gang, a terrorist group led by Ben-Gurion, it was part of an expansionist project that in 21st century has its tentacles just off the highway on the way to the Gold Coast in SE Qld.
The BDS movement campaign seeks to out the economic benefits of the settler state, a project of colonial zionism, in historical Palestine and to campaign for true democratic rights of all people who live in palestine regardless of religion or ethnic origin.
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Dear Wildpossum,
Someone recently posted to our Main Page the claim that
"You need to be aware that certain licencing may curtail you from commericalizing or using your development in the market. The GNU General Public License is one such licence,"
That seems to contradict the GPL FAQ, which says
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
The GNU people go on to say
We encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on. -- "Selling Free Software"
The GPL doesn't seem to curtail Linksys from commercializing their Linksys WRT54G series routers.
What can we do about this apparent contradiction?
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The email in question was sent to Jeremy Rowley, an executive Vice President at DigiCert. The catalyst that prompted the fateful email was that officials at Trustico notified DigiCert that 50,000 certificates originally issued by Symantec and resold by Trustico had been compromised and should be mass revoked due to security concerns.
Mr. Rowley, not wanting to take such drastic action without proof, asked for it. In response, Trustico's CEO emailed the private keys of 23,000 certificates, an action which drew shocked reactions from security professionals around the world when news of the email became public.
If you're not familiar with the inner workings of browser-trusted certificates, there are a few problems here. First, there's no good reason why a reseller should have a copy of the private keys to begin with. Second, even if that were the norm, to simply email them to a third party shows incredibly poor judgement, especially given that there's no evidence the email in question was encrypted. Third, customers used Trustico's website to generate their private keys, which is a service that should never even have been offered.
To make matters even worse, not long after news of the email hit the internet, Trustico's website went dark, when a security expert posted details about a critical vulnerability on the company's website. The flaw resides in a site feature that allows customers to confirm that certificates are properly installed. Unfortunately, Trustico's website had been compromised and any time a user would use the feature, the hackers could use the opportunity to run malicious code. It's a tangled web, and it paints everyone involved in a very bad light.
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Alternative Treatment For Infective Endocarditis (Bacterial Endocarditis) - Ayurvedic Treatment
Infective Endocarditis is an infection of the inner lining of the heart chambers and heart valves. It occurs when bacteria or fungi from another part of the body such as mouth spread through the bloodstream and attached to the damaged areas of the heart. This condition should be treated quickly as it may destroy the valves of the heart and can lead to life-threatening complications.
Infective Endocarditis, Bacterial Endocarditis
It may develop suddenly or slowly depending upon the type of bacteria or fungi that are causing infection and also depends on any underlying heart problem.
The signs and symptoms of infective endocarditis may vary from person to person.
Common Signs And Symptoms Are:-
• There is flu like symptoms such as chills and fever.
• Fatigue
• Aching in muscles and joints
• Change in a heart murmur, which is the heart sounds made by blood rushing through the heart.
• Chest pain while breathing
• Shortness of breath
• Swelling in legs, feet or abdomen
Usually the immune system destroys the harmful bacteria that enter into the bloodstream. Even if bacteria reach the heart, it may pass through without causing any infection. But, sometimes bacteria that live in mouth, throat, gut, skin can cause serious infections such as endocarditis. They can enter the blood stream through:
• Medical conditions such as gum disease, sexually transmitted infection, inflammatory bowel disease, skin sore etc. can give an opportunity to enter the blood stream.
• Certain dental procedures that can cut the gums may allow the bacteria to enter the bloodstream.
• Every day oral activities such as brushing teeth, bleeding from the gums allow the bacteria to enter the bloodstream especially when the teeth and gums are not healthy.
• Use of contaminated needles and syringes is also the cause of concern for people who use intravenous (IV) drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
• People with faulty, damaged or diseased valves are more likely to develop infective endocarditis.
• If the endocardium (lining of the heart) is rough, then bacteria can more easily attach to the lining of the heart.
Master Charak has described that due to the intake of ushna, tikshana, kshara, vidahi, amal, lavan ras, alcoholic beverages, spicy and oily foods, there is a vitiation of Pitta dosha. The vitiated Pitta dosha ultimately causes Raktadushti. Due to this, there are symptoms such as fever, excessive thirst, heartburn, giddiness, burning sensation, perspiration etc. all over the body. It is known as Pittaj Hridroga in Ayurveda.
We can co-relate this condition with infective endocarditis and other inflammatory conditions of the heart.
The diagnosis of infective endocarditis is done on the basis of the medical history of the patient and several tests that include blood tests, echocardiogram, electrocardiogram (ECG), X-ray of the chest etc.
Modern medicine prescribes antibiotics for this condition. Sometimes, surgery is also recommended to fix the damaged heart valves and to clean up any remaining signs of the infection.
Planet Ayurveda offers various herbal remedies which are effective in repairing the damaged heart valves and therefore reduces the chances of infection.
Herbal Remedies For Infective Endocarditis By Planet Ayurveda Include:-
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Herbal Remedies For Infective Endocarditis
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1. Total Heart Support
The prime ingredient of total heart support capsules is arjuna along with the extracts of other herbs. These capsules improve the overall heart functions and balance the disturbed Vata and Pitta dosha.
Ingredients Of Total Heart Support Capsules Are:-
Sr. No.
Herb Used
Botanical Name
Terminalia arjuna
200 mg
Withania somnifera
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Bacopa monnieri
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Convolvulus pluricaulis
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Dose: Take 2 capsules twice daily with plain water after meals.
2. Kaishore Guggul
Kaishore Guggul is an Ayurvedic guggul formulation useful in inflammatory conditions, blood infections etc. It has anti-biotic, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties. These properties make it a good remedy for treating infections. Therefore, these tablets are quite useful in the treatment of infective endocarditis.
Dose: Take 2 tablets twice daily with plain water after taking meals.
3. Arjuna Capsules
Planet Ayurveda's Arjun Capsules are prepared using the standardized extract of the bark of Terminalia arjuna tree. This tree is a blessing to mankind due its role in cardiovascular disorders. The bark of arjuna reduces ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR), improves E/A ratio and reduces anginal frequency. It makes the heart muscles stronger and as a result, heart can pump better.
Dose: Take 2 capsules twice daily with plain water after taking meals.
Bhav Prakash Nighantu, Vatadi Varg, Shlok No. 27
Reference: Bhav Prakash Nighantu, Vatadi Varg, Shlok No. 27
Meaning: According to this shloka, arjuna herb is astringent in taste with cool potency. It is a boon for heart disorders. It is used to heal injuries, improves general weakness and works as an antidote. It is also useful in blood and lymph disorders, diabetes or wounds related to diabetes. It pacifies kapha and pitta doshas.
4. Brahmi Capsules
Planet Ayurveda's Brahmi Capsules contain the standardized extract of the herb Bacopa monnieri. Mostly, arjuna is combined with brahmi for heart disorders as it acts as a heart tonic and reduces the day to day stress on the brain, heart and overall health. Therefore, these capsules act as adaptogen. It is also useful in high blood pressure and improve the heart's health.
Dose: 1 capsule twice daily after taking meals.
These Ayurvedic preparations are helpful in treating, preventing and relieving the symptoms and protecting the valves from further damage.
• Seek medical help if there are symptoms such as unexplained fatigue, fever that won't go away.
• If there is any skin infection, cuts or open sores that don't heal properly, take medical advice.
• Avoid procedures that lead to skin infections such as tattoos, body piercing etc.
• Go for regular dental check-ups and pay special attention to dental health such as brushing and flossing the teeth and gums often.
• Eliminate foods that cause allergies such as wheat (gluten), soy, preservatives, chemical food additives etc.
• Include foods that are rich in B-vitamins and iron such as dark leafy greens.
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The majority of organisms in the ocean are tiny invertebrates, protists, and algae. Although the ocean is vast in size, living space for these small organisms is limited to coastal areas and to surface waters where light penetrates—areas where food is plentiful and where there are surfaces on which to fasten and grow. Barnacles and bryozoa, for example, survive by attaching themselves to something larger, and then filter food from the water as it washes over them. Some organisms will find homes on larger moving animals, such as horseshoe crabs and whales. Still others may attach themselves to rocks, the pylons of a dock, or on seaweed.
Have you ever noticed the "necklace" of marine remnants left along the seashore at low tide? With careful observation this assortment of shells and algae, like jewels on a necklace, can reveal a wealth of tiny marine creatures.
In this activity students will collect and closely observe specimens that have washed ashore to recognize different kinds of small ocean organisms. Some organisms will leave parts of their bodies behind, such as shells, while others may leave behind clues such as holes.
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• magnifying glass
• seashore guide - [Recommended: Seashore Life: A Guide to Animals and Plants Along the Beach. Golden Field Guide Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002.]
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1. "How long, roughly, has" the specimen been on shore? Is the specimen sharp or does is have round edges? (Broken edges that are now rounded may mean that it has been in the water for a long time.)
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6. Ask students to calculate the biodiversity and abundance found in the total sample.
1. Is it possible to figure out a sequence of events from the evidence on the specimen? What organisms may have attached first? Which may have come later? What evidence supports this?
7. Ask students to consider the body designs of the different organisms they have identified. How does the structure of these organisms support their survival?
The June 2002 article in Natural History magazine, "Hitchin' a Ride" contains vivid illustrations of the many organisms that "piggyback" on the horseshoe crab.
Grant, Dave. "Hitchin' a Ride." Natural History, June 2002.
Source: Amy O'Donnell, AMNH
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Time editor at large, Anand Giridharadas, discusses whether billionaires can put an end to global poverty if they had the will to do so, and talks about his recent book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Ch. 5: Rob Reich on whether philanthropy is bad for democracy - Rationally Speaking - Air Date 11-12-18
This episode features political scientist Rob Reich, author of "Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy, and How it Can Do Better". Does it deserve to be tax-deductible? And do philanthropists have too much power in society?
Ch. 6: Anand Giridharadas: Winners take all Part 2 - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 9-27-18
Ch. 7: Inequality is the #1 issue - James from Sacramento, CA
Ch. 8: Final comments on covering inequality and presenting a bonus clip on two manifestations of racism
BONUS CLIP: Myths of the ruling class with Anand Giridharadas - Why is this happening? - Air Date 10-8-18
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The original parts catalog above contains each part of the Kawasaki GPZ1100 ABS from 1996.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52093 | Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Release Blitz: Cheeky Christmas - Aria Cole
Everly Grayson is sick of her small life in a small town. She dreams of bigger things, so when an opportunity for something bigger comes along, she grabs it with both hands. Now she’s on her way to a sprawling country estate in rural England to work as an au pair.
This holiday season, prepare to lose more than your Christmas stockings and light up brighter than your tree when you fall in love with Mason Kingsley.
A friendly-looking guy, probably a few years older than Mason, thrust a hand at me. “Hi, I’m Michael.”
“Hi.” I smiled kindly. “I’m Everly.”
“Pretty name. That an American accent I hear?”
“It is.”
“What brought you here of all places? Pretty girl like you should be drinking cosmos in London.” He leaned in closer and took a sip of his beer, eyes trained on my lips.
I felt Mason shift closer to me. His low voice was still deep in conversation with Toby, but his body clearly sensed something was up.
“I’m here for a job actually. Only for a few months.” I turned back to my pint and took a sip, wishing Mason would cut in and save me from any more probing questions.
“Well, there isn’t much to see, but if you ever need a friend, let me give you my number—”
“Everly, can I have a word?” Mason butted in, looping his hand at my elbow and pulling him against his chest.
My heart dropped instantly and my knees went weak as I felt every hard inch of his solid body behind me. Jesus, what was he doing and why did I like this?
“Sure,” I whispered, smiling at the stranger before Mason shuttled me away from the bar and down a short corridor.
“Bloody tosser.” He growled, shoving through a door and pulling me in behind him. Flicking on the light, he spun me, hands caging me against the wooden panels.
“What’s wrong?” I asked, chest heaving. My every single breath was consumed with him. His scent, the primal, beast-like energy radiating from him. Everything about him turned me on.
“I don't like his eyes on you.” His hands were at my waist, sliding over the curve of my ass. His fingers found the hem of my dress, inching it up my thighs to land at the curve of my ass. “I don’t like him looking at what’s mine.”
“Mason, I don't think he was—”
“Don’t tell me what he was thinking. I know men, and I’ve known that one longer than I’ve known just about anyone. He wants you.” His teeth edged the shell of my ear.
“So what if he does?” I offered lamely.
“You made me cum in my trousers, Everly. I’ve never done that before. I love you shuddering beneath me. My lips on every inch of your skin...feeling you so deeply it shatters your soul. That makes you mine. Do you need me to remind you why, kitten?”
Mason’s fingers hooked in my panties and pulled them just down my thighs.
“Please…” I whispered, my hands wrapping around his neck.
“My sweet little pussy cat is soaked.” His fingers ran through my slit and sent me arching up onto my tiptoes.
“I’m always wet around you,” I confessed, unable to stop the words.
“I know, I love it.” He pushed his thumb into his mouth, sucking off my arousal before his grin tipped up. “Show me how you touch yourself.”
I waited breathlessly, hardly comprehending his words.
“Do it, Everly. Touch that pretty pussy.” He guided my hand between my thighs, groaning when my fingertips made contact with the slick skin. “That’s it, sweetheart.”
I heard the swift sound of his zipper, then I watched, riveted, as he pulled his thick erection from his pants. Fisting it at the root, he ran his hand in slow strokes up to the tip and back down again.
“Oh my god.”
“That's it, kitten. Let him hear you now.”
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52143 | Simplifying Peptide Bioanalysis
March 2, 2010
Diane M. Diehl
Waters Corporation
Jessalynn Wheaton
Erin E. Chambers
The Application Notebook
The Application Notebook, The Application Notebook-03-02-2010, Volume 0, Issue 0
Page Number: 9
Streamlined sample prep, LC and MS method development.
Erin E. Chambers, Jessalynn Wheaton and Diane M. Diehl, Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts, USA.
• Streamlined sample prep, LC and MS method development.
• Complete LC and SPE screening protocols provided.
• 15× sample concentration without evaporation.
Analytical Challenges
• Losses due to poor solubility and adsorption make sample concentration without evaporation highly desirable.
• Obtaining selectivity for peptide therapeutics in complex biological matrices is crucial in order to minimize matrix effects and reduce variability associated with incurred samples.
• Sensitivity by mass spectrometry is often lower for biomolecules than typical small molecules, necessitating sample concentration and use of the highest sensitivity LC and MS methodologies.
• An MS system with an adequate mass range is required for detection of higher m/z precursors and fragments.
Key Aspects of the Solution
A Peptide Separation Technology (PST) method development kit was was developed and is available for ACQUITY UPLC (part#176001835) or HPLC (part#176001836.) The kit contains a chromatographic column, the Oasis μElution PST method development extraction plate and simple, logical SPE and LC screening protocols. ACQUITY UPLC technology was used to increase sensitivity, resolution and separation speed. Representative LC–MS performance using the UPLC screening protocol from the kit is shown in Figure 1. It should be noted that a critical pair, vasopressin and desmopressin (differing only by an amino group), are well separated using the generic ACQUITY UPLC method.
Figure 1
Samples were extracted using the Oasis μElution PST method development extraction plate according to the generic screening protocol included in the kit. SPE results are shown in Figure 2. The Xevo TQ MS was chosen for this application because the mass range on both quadrupoles is m/z 2048, a key requirement for bioanalysis of a wide range of peptides. Figure 3 demonstrates a representative LLOQ for angiotensin I extracted from human plasma using the generic LC and SPE screening protocols without optimization.
Figure 2
The Oasis PST μElution method development plate and protocol can greatly simplify extraction method development and rapidly identifies an appropriate SPE sorbent and selective starting protocol for peptide bioanalysis. The combination of ACQUITY UPLC coupled with the mass range, speed and sensitivity of Xevo TQ MS provides the LC–MS performance required for peptide bioanalysis.
Figure 3
©2010 Waters Corporation. Waters, The Science of What's Possible, ACQUITY UPLC, UPLC, Oasis, Xevo are trademarks of Waters Corporation.
For the complete UPLC application note, visit
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52162 | Republican Debate GOP Debate 2011
Perry: And The Third Agency I Would Cut Is...
An awkward moment during tonight's appearance on CNBC's GOP Debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry couldn't recall the third agency he would cut in his budget plan if he were elected President.
Perry: Forgets His Plan |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52164 |
Mercedes-AMG GLE53 brings 429 horsepower to the Geneva Motor Show
The new GLE-Class' first AMG variant will arrive in the US in late 2020.
Whenever Mercedes-Benz launches a new model, it's only a brief matter of time before we see the inevitable AMG variants. To that point, meet the new Mercedes-AMG GLE53: the higher-power version of the 2020 GLE-Class we first tested late last year.
Performance wise, the GLE gets the same upgrades as Mercedes' other AMG 53 models, the E53 and CLS53. Power comes from a 3.0-liter, turbocharged I6 engine, which on its own produces 429 horsepower and 384 pound-feet of torque. Mercedes' mild-hybrid EQ Boost starter generator provides an additional 21 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque for small bursts, and powers the 48-volt onboard electrical system.
With a nine-speed automatic transmission sending power to all four wheels, Mercedes claims the AMG GLE53 will sprint to 60 miles per hour in 5.2 seconds. That isn't a huge increase over the 5.5-second 0-60 time of the GLE450, mind you, which uses a less-powerful version of this 3.0-liter engine. But hey, every tenth of a second counts, right?
Fender flares and big exhaust outlets are a dead giveaway that this GLE means business.
The GLE53 gets Mercedes' Active Ride Control system, which uses the four-corner air suspension for continuously adjustable suspension damping. The variable-ratio power steering gets a different tune for this sportier GLE, and the brakes are upgraded to provide the necessary stopping power this AMG can throw down.
Visually, you'll be able to spot the AMG GLE53 thanks to its 15-strip "Panamericana" grille, standard 20-inch wheels, fat fender flares and quad-tip exhaust. Inside, the GLE53 gets the same high-quality, super-lux interior as the rest of the GLE range, right down to the dual-screen MBUX infotainment system, with natural-speech voice commands (just say, "Hey, Mercedes...").
Pricing isn't available just yet, but expect the AMG GLE53 to command a hefty sum over the GLE450's $61,150 starting price. Following its debut at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show next week, the Mercedes-AMG GLE53 will arrive in US showrooms in late 2020. In the meantime, onto the next AMG. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52167 | Hadoop tutorial
Hadoop tutorial
First, before beginning this Hadoop Tutorial, let's explain some terms.
What is Big Data?
Big Data is the reality of to do business for most organizations. Big data is a collection of large data sets which can not be processed using routine data processing techniques. Big Data is no longer a given, it became a complete subject which involves various tools, techniques and frameworks. Big data involves data produced by applications and devices. Some areas that are under the Big Data roof
Some examples of Big Data
Social Media data such as Facebook and Twitter capture information and views displayed by millions of people worldwide. Currency Exchange data contains information on the "buy" decisions and "sell" on the one hand made from different companies by clients. Power Grid data contains information used by a particular node with respect to a base station. Transport Data includes model, capacity, availability and distance of a vehicle. Search Engine Data recover much data from different databases.
Big Data types
The data will be of three types:
• structured data is relational data.
• semi-structured data are XML data.
• unstructured data are documents like Word, PDF, Text, Media Newspapers
Technologies used in Big Data
There are various technologies in the market from different vendors, including Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, etc. to manage large volumes of data. In this article we will examine the two following classes of technologies:
Operational Big Data
It includes a system like MongoDB operational capabilities that provide real-time, interactive workloads where data is mainly captured and stores. NoSQL big data systems are designed to take advantage of new architectures of cloud, it makes operational workloads of large data much more manageable, cheaper and faster to implement.
Big Data Analytics
It includes systems such as Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems and database MapReduce analytic capabilities that provide complex analysis to show which can affect most or all of the data. MapReduce provide a new method of data analysis that is corresponding to the capabilities of SQL and MapReduce-based system that can be scaled from single servers to thousands of high-end devices and low.
Difficulties encountered by Big Data
The main challenges related to large volumes of data are:
• Data Capture
• Conservation
• Storage
• Research
• Share
• Transfer
• Analysis
• Presentation
Hadoop Big Data Solution
Old traditional approach
In traditional business old approach will have a computer to store and process large data. In these data will be stored in an RDBMS such as Oracle Database, MS SQL Server or DB2 and complicated software can be written to interact with the database process the required data and present users for purposes of analysis.
Limitation of the traditional approach
We use this approach where we have less volume of data that can be accommodated by the database servers or standard data to the processor limit that is currently processing the data. But when it comes to trade with huge amounts of data traditional approach is really a tedious task to process the data via a traditional database server.
The Google solution
MapReduce algorithm is Google's solution for this problem. In this algorithm, we split the task into smaller parts and assign the parts to many computers on the network and collect the results to form the final result dataset.
Where the Apache Hadoop fits in? Let's first begin in this Hadoop tutorial what the Apache Hadoop actually is. Hadoop is basically an open framework of software that can store data and process data through hardware clusters. Hadoop is designed to grow from a single server to thousands of machines offering to each local storage and computer. Hadoop gives a massive storage for any data type with enormous processing power and the ability to handle tasks or virtually unlimited parallel jobs.
Hadoop Big Data Solution and history Doug Cutting, Mike Cafarella and his team took the solution provided by Google and started an open source project called Hadoop. Hadoop in 2005 is a trademark of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework written in Java that allows processing of large data sets on distributed computer clusters using simple programming models. Hadoop runs applications using the MapReduce algorithm, where the data are processed in parallel on various processor nodes. Hadoop framework is capable enough to develop applications that run on computer clusters and they could do a full statistical analysis to huge amounts of data.
Hadoop architecture framework
Hadoop Framework consists of four modules:
1) Common Hadoop 2) Hadoop Yarn 3) Hadoop Distributed File System 4) Hadoop MapReduce
Hadoop Tutorial
Discussing in detail the four hadoop modules
1) Common Hadoop is Java libraries and utilities required by other Hadoop modules. These libraries provide files and OS level abstractions system to contain the Java files and scripts needed to start Hadoop.
2) Yarn Hadoop is a framework for task scheduling and managing cluster resources.
3) Hadoop distributed file system that provides broadband access to the application data.
4) Hadoop MapReduce is Yarn based system for parallel processing of large data sets.
Working with Hadoop
There are 3 steps in Hadoop can discuss in detail in this Hadoop tutorial: 1st step: the user submits a job / Application to Hadoop for the necessary process by specifying the following:
1. Define the locations of the input and output files in the distributed file system.
2. Define the Java classes as a jar file containing the implementation of the plan and reduce functions.
3. Definition of the configuration of the job by defining different parameters specific to the job.
2nd Step: Hadoop (A Hadoop job client) then submits the job (jar / executable etc.) and configuring the Job Tracker which then assumes responsibility for distributing the software / configuration to the slaves, scheduling tasks and monitoring of granting status as diagnosis information to the job client. 3rd Step: Task Trackers on different nodes perform the task by the implementation and output of the function to reduce MapReduce is stored in the output files on the file system.
Hadoop Tutorial
Benefits of Hadoop
Top reasons to choose Hadoop is its ability to store and process huge amount of data quickly. Other benefits of Hadoop are:
• Computing power - Hadoop distributed computing data module quickly process any amount of data. The increase in processing power using several computing nodes. • Flexibility - information you should pretreatment before storing. You can store as much information as you require and choose how to use it later. • Fault Tolerance - Information and handling of the application are insured against hardware failures. Incase a node goes down task are automatically redirected to other nodes to ensure that distributed computing is not lacking. Hadoop automatically store multiple copies of data. • Low Cost - Hadoop is open source Hadoop software framework is free & used good material to store large amount of data. • Hadoop is scalable - With little administration, we can easily increase our system simply by adding new nodes.
Hadoop MapReduce
It is a software framework for easily writing applications that process large amounts of data in parallel on large clusters working on thousands of basic hardware nodes reliably and fault tolerance.
The two different following tasks that programs perform MapReduce Hadoop actually refer the term:
1) Task Map: This is the first task that takes the input data and converts it into a data set, where individual elements are decomposed into tuples (key / value pairs).
2) Reduce Group: The reduction task is always executed after the task map. Out of a task card is taken as input and combines these data tuples in a small set of tuples.
Hadoop Tutorial
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52176 | A powerful deity has been added to the pantheon of gods. It is as if a star has appeared in the heavens to guide its worshipers through the maze of modern-day life. Though relatively new to the world stage, this deity now commands enormous respect, especially in the western hemisphere, and particularly in the United States. It is worshipped by untold millions — the great god Career.
People will go to almost any length for the sake of Career. They will leave friends and family, forsake their church, forego leisure and play. In the name of Career, they will sacrifice their marriage, interests, and even morals. They will do whatever it takes to experience the blessing of Career.
A generation ago, at least in some circles, Education ruled supreme. Since then there has been a shakeup in the heavenly pantheon. Education, once sought as an end in itself, now exists for the sake of Career. Today, its acolytes, professional educators, must frame the rituals and sacrifices of education as service to Career. Education has become a satellite deity that is only important if it revolves around Career.
Children, particularly children from affluent families, are often educated for the sole purpose of dedicating their lives to Career. Parents take advantage of school choice laws to send their kids to the best schools in their district or they go out of district to expensive private schools. They do this in the hope that their children will be accepted into top-tier colleges where they will learn to be Career-driven, Career-minded, and Career-wise.
When my children were young, I coached little league baseball for a couple of summers, including tee-Ball. The tee-ballers would swing and miss repeatedly, or swing and hit the tee, knocking the ball to the ground. Some parents would shout at them from the stands: “Keep your eye on the ball! Swing harder! Run faster!” For these parents, even tee-ball was an initiation rite for 5-year-old into the good graces of Career. So, of course, failure was unacceptable.
That is because they believed Career has power to bestow happiness, fulfillment, and material goods on their children. But children who miss out on its blessing because of laziness, deficiency in intellect or appearance, or societal injustice are destined to eke out a meaningless existence in humble circumstances.
As faith in the power of Career has spread, priests and prophets have emerged to serve the deity. These priests go by various titles: Career coach, certified career counselor, success guru, and career blogger, among others. Career also has major and minor prophets, whose writings impart vision, provide inspiration, and instruct neophytes in the ways of their god.
The idolization of Career is dangerous on many fronts. People who are willing to pay any price to secure the blessing of Career will always be at the mercy of people who have the power to bestow it. This is one of the principal truths the #MeToo movement can teach us, but few realize it and even fewer dare to speak it, perhaps from fear of committing Career heresy and offending Career worshipers everywhere.
In an explosive expose in The New Yorker, six women told Ronan Farrow that sexual harassment from CBS chairman Les Moonves had damaged their careers. One, a former child star hoping to make a comeback, said: “I’d been taught that powerful people can hurt you, they can ruin you, they can ruin your career … I thought, ‘Wow, is this the way the world works and I just don’t get it?’”
Farrow’s story portrays Moonves as a bad man, but it also reminds us that “Career First” is a bad policy. The women in Farrow’s piece acquitted themselves well, but think of the women who didn’t, who placed Career above integrity. To do so virtually guarantees dissatisfaction, either now because of failure or later because of success. It takes some people a lifetime to realize it, but what each person has in the end is not a Career but a self, which has been formed by the choices it has made. Career can be changed or abandoned, the self cannot. We are stuck with it. |
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move you up one directory quickly
Alias a single character 'b' to move to parent directory. Put it into your .bashrc or .profile file. Using "cd .." is one of the most repetitive sequence of characters you'll in the command line. Bring it down to two keys 'b' and 'enter'. It stands for "back" Also useful to have multiple: alias b='cd ../' alias bb='cd ../../' alias bbb='cd ../../../' alias bbbb='cd ../../../../'
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52190 | Transparent PVC Drawstring Bag
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52192 | In most cases a child will not tell an adult that they are being bullied and the school may not be aware of any subtle changes in a child’s behaviour. Therefore it is crucial for parents to identify when their child is experiencing a problem. If you have noticed that your child’s attitude, behaviour or emotional responses have changed recently, the issue of bullying should be considered.
Children and adolescents respond to difficulties growing up. As they develop their behaviour and personality will change. This is natural. However some behaviours are not natural signs of healthy development and should be identified and linked to specific problems.
In the event of a child/adolescent being bullied there are a number of ways that this will be expressed. The following list is some the most reported signs of bullying:
1. Coming home with cuts and bruises
2. Torn clothes
3. Asking for stolen possessions to be replaced
4. ‘Losing’ lunch money
5. Asking for money or starting to steal (to pay the bully)
6. Falling out with previously good friends
7. An unwillingness or refusal to go to school
8. Feeling ill in the mornings
9. Being moody and bad tempered
10. Being quiet and withdrawn
11. Starting to stammer, lacking confidence
12. Bed wetting
13. Crying themselves to sleep, having nightmares
14. Insomnia
15. Anxiety
16. Wanting to avoid leaving the house
17. Aggressive with brothers and sisters
18. Wagging school
19. Doing poorly in their schoolwork
20. Refusing to talk about what’s wrong |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52214 | How shareholder resolutions spur ethical business practices
It's that time of year when shareholders get their say - by asking a question at a corporation's annual meeting or voting on resolutions. But resolutions don't appear out of thin air. Corporate officials and activist shareholders can spend months hashing over an issue such as pollution or labor practices. For a peek at that process, the Monitor's Laurent Belsie talked with Shelley Alpern, director of social research and advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, and Meredith Benton, research associate with Walden Asset Management. Here are excerpts from their conversation.
What trends are you seeing in shareholder resolutions?
Benton: One of the most exciting trends we're seeing right now is the level of responsiveness from the companies. They've gone from being resistant or unaware ... to working with us.
Alpern: There's a lot of activity around climate change. Ten years ago, companies could treat you like you were a little bit crazy for bringing up the issue. But now, it's taken very seriously as an economic issue.
Any other trends?
Alpern: Political contributions have become a real issue over the last couple of years.
There's an outfit in Washington called the Center for Political Accountability that has worked very closely with a shareholder coalition to put resolutions on company ballots that ask companies to disclose the kinds of contributions they're making. Although there's some kind of public disclosure already required by government, it doesn't tell the whole story.
Are you telling companies whom to contribute to?
Alpern: No. At this point, we just want to know what they are doing and how they are handling the risks associated with political giving - the reputation risks when they might find out that some of their money has been diverted to some candidate or political independent 527 [group] whose views would alienate their employees, their customers, or their shareholders.
How do you work with a company to persuade it to do something?
Benton: The process begins when there's an issue of concern for our clients. We look at what the issue is and how it may impact the companies in our portfolio. Once we've determined what that impact might be and believe there's a long-term business case for why one of our companies should be concerned about the issue, we approach the company. We say, as an example, "We're concerned that your nondiscrimination policy doesn't include sexual orientation. We believe that this is something you should pay attention to because you're not going to be able to attract the best employees. You may be alienating your customer base. You may be breaking local laws depending on where your operations are."
Then what happens?
Benton: They have a couple of different ways they can respond to us. They can ignore us, which happens sometimes. They can constructively engage with us, and sit down with us. If they're ignoring us or strongly disagreeing with our viewpoint, we have one more option, which is the shareholder resolution.
So you'd prefer not to get to the resolution stage.
Benton: The resolution process is the most public aspect of what we do. But far more often, we're having constructive conversations with companies. The first one that's coming to mind is TJX, a local Massachusetts-based retailer [which operates T.J. Maxx and other chains]. We filed resolutions with them two or three years ago on vendor standards and how they were [monitoring labor and other practices of] their supply chain. Over time, we've built a relationship with them and they've ramped up their understanding of our concerns to such an extent that we check in two or three times a year and they report back to us on what they're doing. And so this year, there was no resolution on the ballot.
Most resolutions fail, right?
Benton: No resolution is binding. So we could get a 99 percent vote and the company's under no obligation to make the suggested change. [But] a 30 percent vote is extraordinarily high. It represents a very strong upswell of investor support for an issue.
Does minority support - say, 30 percent - have an impact?
Alpern: In the last couple of years, we've had discussions with a mid-range gas company called Anadarko Petroleum. When we first started talking with them, they weren't doing a lot of public disclosure about what their policies were on greenhouse-gas emissions - and what they were doing internally to reduce them or to move some of their investments into cleaner types of fuels. After one shareholder vote [in which] we got upwards of 30 percent support, the company really moved along incrementally toward tracking its own greenhouse gases more thoroughly and reporting them to the public and to investors.
Meredith, an SBC/AT&T official called you from the dentist's chair?
Benton: It was the day before they were to put the proxy to print. They needed us to withdraw [a resolution on sustainability reporting] very quickly. We did withdraw. They have agreed to an interim report in the summer and, going forward, looking at something a little more hefty.
Why are companies more proactive about such issues?
Benton: There are a number of reasons. We're getting better at expressing our concerns with a strong business case. What's also happening is that businesses are understanding those arguments in a way that they didn't used to. And they're beginning to see the results of not taking action - of what happens when you can't get your store sited in a community because they're looking at your labor practices. A third large aspect of why we are able to work more constructively with companies is that there are more investors coming to the table. You're seeing state pension plans, you're seeing labor, you're seeing SRI [socially responsible investors], and you're seeing religious investors all working together.
Do you foresee a time when shareholder resolutions won't be needed?
Alpern: Not in my lifetime, I think. I don't see it anytime soon. I think you need this give-and-take between investors [and companies].
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A device or apparatus that consists of a metal strip and connectors or screws that allow termination and connection of wires or conductors from various components of an electrostatic discharge protected workstation.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52362 | book cover of Dewitt\'s Pack, Volume 2
Dewitt's Pack, Volume 2
(A book in the DeWitt's Pack series)
An omnibus of novels by
Handcuffed to the Werewolf [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, werewolves, HEA] Jason Snowe woke up in a nightmare. Kidnapped and thrown into a cement hole, he is chained to a werewolf, and is to be used for food when the wolf becomes too hungry to go without! Mick Stewart despises the fact that he was caught by a bunch of lowbrow hunters, but there is always a silver lining. The human they chained him to is his mate, and though Jason is wary of him, they both agree that working together is their only chance of escape. For Mick, traveling whilst chained to a human only slows him down, and though Jason tries to keep the silver in the chain from affecting him, he soon comes down with a case of silver poisoning. For Jason, finding out that he has a mate is surreal enough, but now he is faced with the possibility of losing Mick to the hunters before they even have the chance to really know each other. ** The Blind Werewolf Assassin [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, werewolves, HEA] Nick Larosa is not pleased about going to DeWitt's pack, especially since Adam Trenton, his first love from ten years ago, will be there. Things didn't end well when Nick broke off their relationship after discovering he was going blind. Those old feelings of anger and lust are clearly still there for both of them. Adam always knew Nick's eyesight was bad, but never thought he would go blind. Seeing Nick's once-clear eyes so cloudy and sightless is a shock. Nick, however, doesn't let that stand in the way of proving he is a skilled warrior, capable of teaching the other alphas how to better use their senses. When Adam discovers that Nick left him for just that reason, the old anger resurfaces. Both will have to learn to trust the other if they are to defeat the pack of wild werewolves coming to DeWitt's pack, and stay alive long enough to admit they still love each other. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
Paperback Editions
October 2012 : USA Paperback
Title: DeWitt's Pack, Volume 2 [Handcuffed to the Werewolf: The Blind Werewolf Assassin] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic Manlove)
Author(s): Marcy Jacks
ISBN: 1-62242-140-X / 978-1-62242-140-4 (USA edition)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52391 | Ring bearer, Flower girl wed 17 years later
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A Gastonia, North Carolina couple wed 17 years after they walked down the aisle.
In 1998, when Adrian and Brooke were both 5, they served as ring bearer and flower girl in their parents' friends' wedding at South Gastonia Church of God. On September 19, 2015, the two walked down the same aisle at the same church, but this time as bride and groom.
Brooke Franklin said she went to church and daycare with Adrian, and she's been interested in him ever since they were children. She said in school, she would try to play with Adrian, but he wasn't interested in her at the time.
Adrian said he wasn't enthused about being a ring bearer in his family friends' wedding, and the pictures from the day show it, but his feelings have changed about Brooke since their early days together! The couple began dating in 2011. He asked her to be his girlfriend by writing "Will you be my girlfriend" on her back with his finger. She guessed each word, but wasn't sure if he was serious because he left off the question mark.
Adrian said when he proposed, he had his family hold up signs that popped the big question, and he made sure he asked her with a question mark!
The couple just returned from their honeymoon cruise, and bought a home in Gastonia. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52392 | NewsUniquely Utah
Uniquely Utah: Joe’s Cafe in Orem
Uniquely Utah: Joe’s Cafe in Orem
Posted at 9:55 PM, Feb 18, 2018
and last updated 2018-02-18 23:55:19-05
In this week’s Uniquely Utah, Fox 13’s Todd Tanner takes us to Joe's Cafe, where the grits are great and so is the atmosphere.
Check out the video, and if you’d like to check out Joe’s in person, the cafe is located at 1126 South State Street in Orem.
Joe’s is open for breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Saturday.
You can also follow Joe on Facebook. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52393 | President Donald Trump starts tweeting after swearing in
Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and he's already making his voice heard on his favorite platform: Twitter.
During the swearing in, President Trump officially received the handle of @Potus on Twitter. Former President Barack Obama will now be on Twitter as @Potus44.
Around 12:50 ET, President Trump tweeted his first message as President and it came in two parts: "Today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another - but we are transferring...power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People. #InaugurationDay"
If any of that that sounds familiar, it is. It was pulled directly from his speech during his inauguration as President.
President Trump continued to tweet out snippets of his speech. CLICK HERE to read them. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52395 | An improved cyan fluorescent protein variant useful for FRET
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(2004). Nature Biotechnology, 22(4) , 445-449. doi: 10.1038/nbt945. Article Pubmed
Primary Proteins:
1. Cerulean
2. D10
3. ECFP H148D
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1. Citrine,
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52407 | Fuel Cell Technology
Better performing fuel cells with Freudenberg
Freudenberg is always at the cutting edge of technology research and strives for new ways to make mobility even more efficient, safe and affordable.
In addition to previous achievements in fuel cell research, Freudenberg has recently made many important breakthroughs that benefit current and future products.
How a fuel cell works
Fuel cells work in a similar way to batteries. A chemical reaction between anode and cathode produces energy. Hydrogen and oxygen are the necessary substances for the chemical reaction in the fuel cell.
The idea is simple: A separating layer - a membrane - separates two electrodes into two half spaces. Hydrogen flows into one; oxygen into the other.
The hydrogen is split into its components: two electrons and two protons. The protons are channeled through the membrane into the other half space into which oxygen flows. The electrons are diverted through an electric circuit to reach the oxygen on the other side where there is a shortage of electrons. Water is then produced from the protons, electrons and oxygen.
The circuit’s voltage is around 1.2 volts - about as much as in a small torch battery. Just as torch batteries can be connected in series to generate higher voltages, so it is possible with fuel cells. They need to be stacked on top of each other, which is called a “fuel cell stack”. Some 4,000 single cells are needed for a fuel cell drive of 80 KW; for 1 KW of energy for a house, around 10 to 50 single cells are required.
There are no waste products such as CO2, nitrogen oxide or fine particles. The only by-product is water. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52435 | Showing posts from November, 2018
How To Use Beauty Formulas Products
After a friend introduced me to beauty formulas range of skin care products, I've not looked back. I love them so much that I've stocked up some in my shop ( First, I use the Beauty Formulas Micellar water to remove my make up. Then, I use the charcoal cleanser to wash the face and then the charcoal scrub. For toner, we have the facial tonic and then follow up with day cream. At night, I follow up with either acne pimple medication or lemonvate to fade away the acne scars. I, recently, added a fade out cream. I usually prefer night creams as that's the time the skin gets well nourished. There's no exposure to the rays nor natural elements. During the day, I try to use a sunscreen before leaving the room and at work. When you want a routine for your skin, get products suitable. My routine will change during the harmattan so stay tuned for that.
How To Prepare Your Skin For Harmattan
Dry lips, ashy feet and skin as well as constant struggle to keep the skin hydrated all battle with is during Harmattan. To begin with, focus on Hyaluronic acid. This will certainly be the time to use the HA to the maximum potential! I've also realized that my skin absolutely loves the vitamin C Suspension 23% from The Ordinary too. Thi serum has squalene oil and in this harmattan, the oil keeps the face soft and supple! I'm definitely going to get squalene oil soon to take me through the coming weeks. In addition to the light weight oils, my skin seems to be dryer with chemical exfoliation so I've slowed down the frequency. I'm going to rather do more face mask treatments to infuse moisture into the skin. The last thing about the harmattan tran is that my skin isn't breaking out. Probably because my face uses up the extra sebum to keep it moisturized against the dry weather. This is the reason squalene oil and other light oils like Argan oil will be of great be
Clearing Dark Spots
I've been doing a double moisturizing routine to speed up the process of clearing Dark spots as the acne is under control now. The main area of concerns are the cheeks so I use the Brightening Anti wrinkle cream on just the forehead, nose and chin areas. For the rest of the face, I use Nadinola This has 3% hydroquinone and that makes it extra strength. I began just 2 days ago so we will have an update in some weeks time.
Salicyc Acid For Scalp Issues
Aside being an amazing ingredient for our skin, salicyc acid can also help exfoliate your scalp. How? There are shampoos formulated with salicyc acid and they exfoliate the dead skin cells. You'll find the SA in anti dandruff and anti itch products too. As part of keeping my scalp clean and healthy, I'll be investing in these products to enable my scalp detox itself too. When you exfoliate the dead skin cells from the face your products get aborted better and are able to get deeper into the pores. This is the same principle behind the Salicyc acid in the shampoos.. In addition, scalp scrubs are also awesome for healthy scalp and I've invested in that too. As I do each treatment, I'll give you a review. To shop for your hair and skin care products, check out my shop at You can also reach me on 0541458372. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52441 | Rituon (seasons ) Meaning In Hindi
seasons meaning in Hindi
seasons = ऋतुओं (Rituon)
Synonyms of seasons
Tags: Rituon meaning in Hindi. seasons meaning in hindi. seasons in hindi language. What is meaning of seasons in Hindi dictionary? seasons ka matalab hindi me kya hai (seasons का हिन्दी में मतलब ). Rituon in hindi. Hindi meaning of seasons , seasons ka matalab hindi me, seasons का मतलब (मीनिंग) हिन्दी में जाने। What is seasons ? Who is seasons ? Where is seasons English to Hindi dictionary(शब्दकोश).
ये शब्द भी देखें: Rituon(ऋतुओं),
पिछला शब्द अगला शब्द |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52454 | How Talented Are You?
Do you have a talent or are you unsure of what lies beneath your heart? You don't have to be smart to be talented. Talents come in all shapes and sizes, and it doesn't matter whether or not there is a club that supports it, if you have it use it.
How talented are YOU? Are you super talented, going to clubs and playing a variety of musial instruments? Or are you in the middle, having a group of talents? Or, do you have an individual talent up your sleeve? Find out with this quiz!
Created by: Ruby
Are you ready for...
Our "When Will I Die" Quiz?
1. What is your age?
2. What is your gender?
1. What type of clubs do you do?
2. What job do you want to do when you grow up?
3. What sports do you like doing?
4. What grades do you get at school?
5. How old were you when you first rode a horse/two-wheeled bike?
6. What author do you read most?
7. What film genre do you like?
8. What is you favourite animal out of this choice?
9. What chocolate bar do you like best out of these?
10. Do you like music?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52472 | Living the Warrior Life D-Day + 78
Welcome back! If you started on June 6 when we kicked this off, you are now on D-Day plus 78. This will complete our journey together serving you as you strive to live the Warrior Life. I welcome your feedback and encourage you to contact me and let me coach you toward greater success.
Part 1: Be the Leader:
The warrior takes the small things seriously
The warrior must be a student of history.
The warrior must live by a code.
Part 3 Be the Storm
Take Action:
Resolve to never give up:
Every run, every project gets to a moment where you feel like throwing in the towel. The warrior does not quit at that point. My experience is that if in that moment, you push through, and you will start to feel different. In that moment you will cross some line and what once seemed dark will suddenly come alive and you will win. But only if you don’t give up.
You, my friend, are called to change the world. You may not be destined to change the whole world but maybe your piece of it. The real problem is that the world does not want to change. They know the pain and fear that your might introduce them to a pain that they don’t know. Men and women work diligently to avoid change in their lives. The good news is that if they can feel the pain, and keep from medicating it, they might hear you.
As you propose the change initially they will call you insane. They will break out all science and human wisdom they can find to discourage you. Some will do this out of spite. Ignore them.
Others will do this out of love. They will fear for your pain or more often they fear that they will be required to do and be more if you bring the change. These love you. Be gentle with them but resolve to continue on the journey. Explain your reasons. Share the journey. Invite them to come along. When possible fill them in on the details.
Even Jesus had family and friends that thought that he had lost his mind. His teachings are difficult. Yet many try to teach these things as if they are simple. I believe they are doing a great disservice to the Kingdom of God. I cannot explain everything. Most of the time, this God that I love, makes no sense to me. Yet I have resolved to follow Him to the ends of the Earth if needed. I choose to live for Him and if called up on to die for Him. I have resolved to never give up.
You, warriors, what will you die for? You might say family or friends. Make your God given purpose a mountain where you can take your stand. Discipline yourself to know your purpose intimately. Envision it. Breathe it in. Study yourself and anything connected with your purpose. Look for answers to your problems in unusual places. Just do not give up! Do not give in! Just keep plodding toward your dreams. Live for your purpose.
This week’s challenge: Don’t give up!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52483 | Citation(s) from the literature library
South Sudan. 2016 ‘Validity of Firearm Licence.’ Firearms Bill 2016; Chapter II (Section 12), p. 10. Juba: Republic of South Sudan. 1 January
Relevant contents
Section 12. Validity of Firearm Licence
(1) Any licence issued in accordance with section 17 of this Bill shall be valid for a period of one year and may be renewed annually.
(2) The regulations shall specify contents of firearms licence issued in accordance with provisions of this Bill.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52494 | Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, develops when the forearm muscles that connect to the outside of your elbow become irritated. This can cause pain and tenderness that’s usually located on the outside (lateral) part of the elbow. Oftentimes, there’s also pain when gripping and carrying objects.
The condition often occurs due to overuse or improper form during athletic activities. Using your arm or wrist for vigorous repetitive movements or heavy lifting can cause tennis elbow.
There are several simple tests you can do to determine if you have tennis elbow. You can do most of these tests on your own, but a few do require the assistance of a doctor or medical professional.
Read on to learn more about tests for tennis elbow, as well as treatment options.
The bony bump on the outside of your elbow is known as the lateral epicondyle. If you experience pain, tenderness, or discomfort in this area during any of these tests, you may have tennis elbow.
Use your affected arm to perform these tests. If you want to feel the difference between your arms, you can perform each test on both sides.
1. Palpating
1. Sit with your forearm extended out in front of you on a table.
2. Apply gentle pressure to examine your lateral epicondyle and the area above it.
3. Note any areas of pain, tenderness, or swelling.
2. The coffee cup test
1. For this test, simply rate your level of pain while grasping a cup of coffee or a carton of milk.
3. Resistance
1. Extend your affected arm straight out in front of you with your palm facing down.
2. Place your opposite hand on the back of your extended hand.
3. Press your top hand into your bottom hand and attempt to bend the bottom wrist backward.
4. Create resistance by pressing the top hand against the bottom one.
4. Middle finger resistance
1. Extend your affected arm straight out in front of you with your palm facing upward.
2. Use your opposite hand to pull your middle finger back toward your forearm.
3. At the same time, use your middle finger to resist this movement.
4. Next, turn your palm to face downward.
5. Press your middle finger down while at the same time resisting this movement.
5. Chair pickup test
1. You’ll need a light chair with a high back for this test.
2. Stand with a chair in front of you.
3. Extend your affected arm straight out in front of you.
4. Bend your wrist so your fingers face downward.
5. Use your thumb, first finger, and middle finger to grasp the back of the chair and lift it.
6. Keep your arm straight as you raise the chair.
6. Mill’s test
Do this test with a doctor.
1. While seated, straighten your affected arm.
2. The doctor will fully flex your wrist to bend it forward.
3. Then they’ll rotate your forearm inward while examining your lateral epicondyle.
7. Cozen’s test
Do this test with a doctor. Cozen’s test is sometimes referred to as the resisted wrist extension test or the resistive tennis elbow test.
1. Extend your affected arm in front of you and make a fist.
2. Rotate your forearm inward and bend your wrist toward your forearm.
3. The doctor will examine your lateral epicondyle while resisting the movement of your hand.
If any of the preliminary tests indicate that you have tennis elbow, you may require further testing to see if there are additional causes for any of your symptoms.
Your doctor may order an X-ray to rule out other potential sources of elbow pain such as arthritis. Sometimes, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is also done to look at the anatomic structures about the elbow in greater detail.
Electromyography (EMG) is a test that’s done if your doctor is concerned there’s a nerve problem responsible for your elbow pain.
Lateral epicondylitis affects athletes such as tennis and badminton players, golfers, and swimmers. It can also occur in people who use their hand, wrist, and elbow for repetitive motions during work or daily activities, such as painters, carpenters, and musicians.
In some cases, tennis elbow occurs without an obvious cause.
There are several ways to manage tennis elbow on your own. It’s most important to rest and take a break from any activity that requires the use of your arm.
Things to try first
Once you try and return to activity, go slowly and build up the duration and intensity of your exercise and workout to see how your body responds. Examine your form and technique during any athletic activity or repetitive type of motion.
If possible, use a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) such as aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen to manage pain, swelling, and inflammation. For more severe cases, your doctor may consider the use of different types of injections.
In some cases, surgery may be necessary.
Other things to try
• Take herbs and spices such as turmeric, cayenne pepper, and ginger to manage inflammation.
• Use an ice pack for 15 minutes at a time.
• Undergo an acupuncture session, or apply a muscle rub to manage pain naturally.
• Apply a CBD salve or diluted essential oil blend topically.
• Wear a strap or brace on your forearm to help reduce stress on your elbow. A brace can also help to prevent your muscles and tendons from working too hard.
Alternative options
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy is a treatment modality that transmits sound waves to the affected area. This causes micro trauma to the region that it’s applied to and is thought to stimulate healing.
Research from 2020 points to its safety and effectiveness in reducing pain and improving function in the short and middle term. However, more in-depth research is needed to expand upon these findings.
Once the pain and inflammation subside, perform exercises that target your elbow, forearm, and wrist. These exercises may promote healing and reduce future injury by improving strength and flexibility.
Symptoms of tennis elbow can usually be treated and managed on your own at home. Your recovery will depend on the severity of your condition and the degree to which you follow your treatment plan.
This includes whether you’re able to modify, or avoid altogether, the activity that caused your symptoms. Usually, you’ll start to see an improvement after a few weeks of rest and treatment.
Once you make a full recovery and return to your usual routine, carefully note if any of your symptoms start to creep back in and then adjust accordingly.
If you suspect you have a severe case of tennis elbow or there’s noticeable swelling about your elbow, you should seek medical attention. Your doctor can then determine if there’s a more serious explanation for your symptoms.
An occupational or physical therapist can show you exercises, make sure you’re doing them correctly, and teach you correct movement patterns. They may also use ultrasound, ice massage, or muscle stimulation.
Surgery may be necessary if your condition doesn’t improve despite a trial of nonsurgical treatment. Surgery for tennis elbow can be performed either through an open incision or arthroscopically through several very small incisions. After surgery, you’ll do exercises to rebuild your strength, flexibility, and mobility.
You can do some of these tests for tennis elbow on your own. Usually, you can ease your symptoms and improve your condition on your own by sticking to a treatment plan that includes plenty of rest.
Change your form or technique if your daily or athletic movements are causing pain. Continue to do exercises to improve strength, flexibility, and mobility in your arms even if you’ve made a full recovery.
Talk to your doctor if your condition doesn’t improve, gets worse, or is coupled with other symptoms. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52531 | A chiasm is a literary structure where the words of the first section of a passage are repeated in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Matthew 25:31-46, the center is the parallel accounts of the judgment of the sheep and the goats (Matt 25:34-45). |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52534 | Hueman Blog
How to Improve Your Job Candidates' Online Experience
Posted by Joe Marino
Even if you attract a qualified job applicant to your online job application, that doesn't mean they're going to follow through and complete it. Then, uh oh -- you could've just lost your best new hire.
Why wouldn't they complete your job application? Believe it or not, 60 percent of job seekers quit in the middle of filling out online job applications due to length or complexity. Plus, job applications with 20 screener questions lose 40 percent of job candidates.
Another element that could thwart your potential job candidate online is your company's reputation. If they're going to apply for a job with you, before they do so, they'll likely research your company whether it's through Glassdoor or other company review websites. If they see poor reviews, or sometimes if they see nothing at all, they could be discouraged to follow through with a job application.
How do you ensure your have an effective job application process and a strong representation of your company's reputation online? Keep reading for ways you can improve your job candidates' online experience.
Your Company's Job Application Process—And How to Strengthen It
You're at the point where you got someone to apply for one of your jobs (woohoo!). What does that application process look like for them? Put yourself in your job applicant's shoes. On the other side of the computer screen, what does applying for a job with your company look like-—technically?
Ask yourself:
• Is your jobs/career section easy to find on your company's website?
• Is your job application mobile optimized? (Can someone easily apply on their smartphone?)
• Is the job search function easy to use?
• Does your job search function have filters?
• Does the job applicant have to create a username and password?
• Can the job applicant automatically import their resume from LinkedIn?
Why is all of this important? As we said, more than half of job applicants exit a job application due to length or complexity. Just improving a small element mentioned above could make a big difference.
For example, 50 percent of job seekers complete a job application on their phone. If your job application isn't easily accessed on an iPhone, you've lost half of potentially qualified candidates.
You want the best candidate for the position but that won't happen if the candidate is quitting halfway through the application is even finished Complete a few “test" job applications on your company's website and make note of the above. Where did you become frustrated with the user experience? What would've made it easier? Strive to implement these changes.
The Less Time, The Better.
Think of Amazon's 1-click ordering. Fast, easy, convenient. The move, which allows customers to buy things with a single click without re-entering their checkout information, caused a “one-click" phenomenon. It's even carried over into the job world. You can enable functions on Indeed and other job websites such as the Indeed Quick Apply or the “Apply via LinkedIn," functions. These relieve job seekers of punching in their work history and resume info over and over again.
Candidates filling job application form
Remember, efficiency is key. It's a job seeker's market. You have to work to keep their attention and the easier (and shorter!) you can make the job application process for them, the better.
Your Company's Online Reputation
Say you're doing everything right with your job promotions and recruitment marketing. You're marketing your jobs in the right places and you're reaching the right people. And now, your job application process is improved and optimized! But... your online reputation stinks.
Have you ever searched for your company on Google, Facebook, Glassdoor or any other review sites? If you haven't, best get to searchin'. Because your job applicants are doing this regularly. Even if your company's brand and reputation is not your direct responsibility, you will be representing it once you start your job promotions.
According to Glassdoor, the average job seeker reads at least six reviews in the process of forming an opinion on a company; and 69 percent of job seekers will not accept a job with a company if that company has a bad reputation.
What you do after you discover how your company looks online depends on the results.
"I love where I work!"
If your company's online reviews are overall positive, then give yourself and your peers a pat on the back.
Facebook is an example of a company with positive online reviews. The Global Giant holds the No. 1 spot on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work List. Facebook has now ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor's annual list three times and has made the list for eight consecutive years over the past decade. Their EVP is prevalent, and their company review pages not only exist, but they are also overwhelmingly positive.
“I hate where I work!"
If you identify consistent negative comments, analyze them to identify potential themes or consistencies. From there, share the findings with either the head of your department, the head of HR or whichever leader may be most impacted and have the most influence in this area. Work with them to devise a plan for managing the negative comments. This may involve marketing, HR or other company leaders.
There are numerous reports available to help you navigate through the intricate world of social media management; so start with some research and then devise a game plan from there.
Make Your Mark
You can't necessarily control what people are saying about your company online. But you must know what's out there. Understand what potential job candidates may be seeing when they research you. This can arm your recruiters with information to help overcome hesitations during interviews or you could post information that helps combat negative statements. If you can't find anything on your company at all, that's not good, either. Build company pages on sites such as Glassdoor, LinkedIn and Facebook to give job seekers an inside look into what the experience may be working for your company.
There are many things to consider online when it comes to becoming a world-class recruiter. Providing a solid job application process and fostering a strong company reputation are only a few elements you must consider. To learn about more ways to become a world-class recruiter, download our World-Class Recruitment Guide: The Best Recruitment Strategies & Tips to Attract Top Talent.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52536 | 'Wasn't He Gay?': A Revealing Question About Mister Rogers
UNDATED FILE PHOTO: Fred Rogers, the host of the children's television series, 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood,' sits for a promot
UNDATED FILE PHOTO: Fred Rogers, the host of the children's television series, 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood,' sits for a promotional portrait in this picture from the 1980's. 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' will broadcast its last new episode August 31, 2001 it was announced August 30 in a statement by Rogers from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Rogers died at the age of 74 February 27, 2003 at his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home. He had been suffering from stomach cancer. (Photo by Family Communications Inc./Getty Images)
"Wasn't he gay?" That's what people often ask me when they learn that I'm working on a book about Fred Rogers -- the beloved creator, writer, and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. I've come to believe that the question, however intended, reveals just as much about the questioners as it does about Rogers.
Sure, the question makes complete sense if a lack of machismo means that a man is gay. After all, Fred Rogers was the opposite of macho. He showed no hint of physical brawn; his chin was weak, his muscles underdeveloped, and his face smooth. Nor was he aggressive. He talked softly and carried no stick; his spirit was gentle and tender, patient and trustworthy, and receptive and loving. A model of male softness and sensitivity, Rogers cut a striking figure on and off television.
But wait a second: Lots of gay men are tough guys -- muscular, aggressive, and downright rough. So the mere fact that Rogers was the opposite of macho really proves nothing about his sexual orientation.
The question is also reasonable if gay men prefer that their friends and social groups be gay or at least gay-friendly. After all, Fred Rogers knowingly hired gays to appear on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, even counting two of them, John Reardon and Francois Clemmons, among his closest personal friends. Rogers also attended a Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh that remains well known for welcoming the LGBT community and supporting its full inclusion at all denominational levels.
But wait another second: Isn't it true that some gay men don't use sexual orientation as the major criterion when selecting their best friends, and that others even closely identify with institutions and movements that are historically and vehemently anti-gay, like the Catholic Church, conservative Protestant churches, and the Boy Scouts of America? If this is indeed true, Rogers' choice of friends and church also doesn't give us any firm evidence about his sexual orientation.
The nagging question is also understandable if we acknowledge that gay men of Rogers' generation (and discretion) often hid their gay sexuality by marrying women and having children, all the while engaging in gay sex on the sly. Rogers was married to one woman, Joanne, for almost all his adult life, and their relationship, by all accounts a loving and devoted one, resulted in the birth of two sons. But there's a significant point to add here: There's no publicly available evidence that Rogers ever engaged in gay sex.
Nothing there.
OK, but don't we also have to concede that some (heterosexually married or single) gay men, for a wide variety of reasons, don't engage in gay sex? I can easily think of a famous name or two I'd rather not mention here. And if this is the case, we're still left unsure about Rogers' sexual orientation -- much, I suspect, as others are about, well, our orientations.
Everything becomes a bit more complicated when we consider that in the late 1960s Rogers encouraged Francois Clemmons, who played the role of Officer Clemmons, to remain in the closet, marry a woman, and focus on his singing career as ways to rein in and channel his gay sexual orientation. Rogers evidently believed Clemmons would tank his career had he come out as a gay man in the late 1960s.
But -- and this is a crucial point -- Rogers later revised his counsel to his younger friend. As countless gays came out more publicly following the Stonewall uprising, Rogers even urged Clemmons to enter into a long-term and stable gay relationship. And he always warmly welcomed Clemmons' gay friends whenever they visited the television set in Pittsburgh.
Nevertheless, Rogers was never a public advocate of gay rights, even in the post-Stonewall era, and he told colleagues that a public stance on the issue would alienate many of the viewers he wanted to reach with his message.
And what was that message?
"I like you just the way you are."
Unconditional acceptance, arguably the most positive and compassionate message that any gay child, youth, or adult could find anywhere on television during Rogers' tenure.
Perhaps it's this queer- and straight-friendly message that we would do well to recall as we wonder about Rogers' sexual orientation, revealing so many of our prejudices along the way, deep-seated prejudices about the lives of gays and straights and about our own uneasiness with sexual orientations and behaviors.
At last, perhaps we should turn the camera lens toward ourselves and assure Fred Rogers that we like him just as he was: the opposite of machismo, a loving husband and father, a close friend and employer of gays, a man who grew to support at least one friend's desire for an openly gay relationship and, above all else, a compassionate human being who assured each of us that, no matter who we are or what we do, we are always and everywhere lovable and capable of loving...
Just as they are.
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25:32 before him. The description of this judgment does not correlate at all with that of the judgment seat of Christ, where only believers are present to be judged for rewards (I Corinthians 3:12-15); neither can it be the great white throne judgment, where only the lost are judged and cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15). At this judgment appear both “sheep” and “goats,” and the criterion by which they are examined is their treatment of a group called “my brethren” (Matthew 25:40). No mention at all is made of a resurrection, the implication being that only those living at this time are being judged. The context has been the second coming (this is the terminating section of Christ’s Olivet discourse) and the great tribulation that precedes its final phase. Although multitudes will have been slain during this period—believers by the Antichrist and unbelievers by the great plagues and by Christ at Armageddon—some will survive, and these must be the ones appearing before the Lord for judgment.
25:32 all nations. The word “nations” is also the word for “Gentiles” and can be rendered either way, depending on context. It will be Gentiles who are judged because the Jews finally will all have recognized and accepted Christ as Savior when they see Him at His second coming (Zechariah 12:10–13:1; Romans 11:26). The nations (the Gentiles) will obviously be judged individually, not as national units.
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Semantic Web, RDF, and Portals
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In existing literature, Semantic Web portals (SWPs) are sometimes known as semantic portals or semantically enhanced portals. It is the next generation Web portal which publishes contents and information readable both by machines and humans. A SWP has all the generic functionalities of a Web portal but is developed using semantic Web technologies. However, it has several enhanced capabilities such as semantics- based search, browse, navigation, automation processes, extraction, and integration of information (Lausen, Stollberg, Hernandez, Ding, Han & Fensel, 2004; Perry & Stiles, 2004). To date the only available resources on SWPs are isolated published Web resources and research or working papers. There is a need to pool these resources together in a coherent way so as to provide the readers a comprehensive idea of what SWPs are, and how they could be built, and these will be supported by some appropriate examples. Additionally, this article will provide useful Web links for more extensive as well as intensive reading on the subject.
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Dashboarding Requirements: Getting Past the "I Want it All" Mindset
The "I Want it All" Problem: an issue that comes up when developing a new dashboard where the audience requests the visualization of every data point available, which disregards best practices and results in uninformative dashboards.
The two solutions to the "I want it all" problem in dashboarding is to give it all (somewhere else) or make the discussion about business problems, not data. Yeah, it can be that simple.
Problem Scenario
Whenever you're designing a new dashboard or report you'll inevitably try to decide what the most important points are to emphasize to the end user and it may come out similar to the following questions:
"Do you want to see this over time?"
"Do you want to compare one period to another?"
"Do you want to see all the categories combined or one versus another?"
"Do you want to see this as a map?
Ultimately, the response you're most likely to get is "Yes, yes, yes, yes, and anything else you can add". This is the kitchen sink approach and it's not because the end user hates design. It's because they're scared that there's a question they might miss and if they miss it now they'll never be able to ask it again. This fear is another reason why companies will often stick with their wall of numbers than to work towards visualizations.
There are two ways to get past this problem:
1. Support any dashboard with detail or
2. Change the way you talk about data and reporting.
#1 fixes the problem once you run into it and #2 attempts to bypass the issue entirely.
Support with Detail
Most dashboarding and reporting platforms provide an ability to drill in. This means that if the audience sees something in a visual they want to know more about, they have the ability to look at the data behind it. For instances where this isn't built in, I will normally build "Detail Dashboards" which act as a view of the lowest granularity of the data.
What's even more important than providing this detail is how you communicate its availability. If you just casually mention it, the user is more likely to just bypass what you've built and go straight to what they know. An approach that's more likely to work for you is to communicate the benefits of the dashboarding process (e.g. faster and deeper insight), while providing the relief that the data is all still there. I will normally say something along the lines of:
"I don't have any interest in taking information away from you. In fact, just the opposite. When were done the data will still be there, but what I hope we can do is help you identify what you're looking for so you don't have to dig through piles of numbers. If you find yourself digging, we'll revisit the purpose of the dashboard."
Remember, dashboarding is an additive process. We do it because it helps the way we approach business.
Change Your Process Approach
One of the most popular reasons you'll find yourself looking at the kitchen sink is because you started with the kitchen sink. Insight from data is rarely gained from throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. It starts with questions, business questions.
When you start a new dashboarding project, the first requirements gathering session you have with your end users (formal or informal) will dictate the remainder of the process. I always start with a basic outline of what I want to accomplish:
I want to know the business questions that you need answered every day and how you would rank them by importance.
That's it! By looking at the dashboarding process as the creation of a business solution, instead of a data organization exercise you can change the way the process is viewed by everyone involved, including yourself(!). It will be important to caveat this discussion by saying that you can only provide answers where the data is available, but now you have your audience thinking about the future as well. What other data should we collect? How can we answer a new business question tomorrow?
So, make sure you give them detail somewhere and try to solve problems instead of just reorganizing there data.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/52627 | setofthesailAs a pastor, I preach on any given Sunday to an incredible range of people. How does one person study, prepare, and speak to such diversity? Consider the challenge that A.W. Tozer identifies in a collection of his writings called The Set of the Sail:
…the [preacher] is often forced to work at what would appear to be cross purposes with himself. For instance, he must encourage the timid and warn the self-confident; and these may at any given time be present in his congregation in almost equal numbers. His effort tot encourage those who need encouragement may actually confirm presumptuous souls in their carelessness. Conversely, his much needed warnings and reproofs may drive timorous and doubting Christians to the borders of despair.
Another problem he faces is the presence in the normal Christian assembly of believers in every stage of development, from the newly converted who knows almost nothing about the Christian life to the wise and experienced Christian who seems to know almost everything.
Again, the Christian minister must have a word from God for the teen-aged, the middle-aged and the very aged. He must speak to the scholar as well as to the ignorant; he must bring the living Word to the cultured man and woman and to the vulgarian who reads nothing but the sports page and the comic strip. He must speak to the sad and to the happy, to the tender-minded and to the tough-minded, to those eager to live and to some who secretly wish they could die. And he must do all this in one sermon and in a period of time not exceeding 45 minutes.
To add to the pastor’s burden is the knowledge that in each service there will likely be a few lost sons [and daughters] who should come home, some who never loved God at all and “some how lost the love they had.” So he must call sinners to repentance, warn the unruly, comfort the feebleminded, instruct, reprove, rebuke, encourage, console and exhort all at the same time, or at least on the same day.
Have you ever considered the immense challenge, calling and responsibility laid before a preacher? I am so deeply humbled by the privilege and joy of declaring God’s Word to people week-in and week-out; however, there are times that the weight of it “in one sermon” and “on the same day” as I gaze out across a sea of faces becomes almost overwhelming.
It’s on those days that I breathe a prayer that goes something like this, “Father… You love these people a lot more than I do. You desire them to know You, to enjoy their salvation, and to bring You glory more than I. So, will you step in, by Your Spirit, and speak through me to these precious people yet again?”
Tozer’s article is titled Why We Must Depend on the Holy Spirit, and that is the only way one person at one time in one gathering to a diversity of needs and souls can attempt to proclaim one message. Dependence. It’s God’s work, not ours. Through a confidence in God’s Word and His enabling Spirit, one preacher can see the One True God accomplish won-ders.
It is one of the wonders and delights of preaching that the same message will often affect people differently, producing in one repentance, in another hope, in still others courage, humility or faith, according as the particular soul has need. Without this mighty, skillful working of the Spirit, preaching would be futile; with it the ministry of the Word can be easy and delightful as well as marvelously effective.
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3D Name Drawing
Learn a simple way to understand drawing in perspective by writing your name in 3D!
What's going on?
You've just used a common artistic technique, called "one point perspective," to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional piece of paper. By drawing lines from your original letters back to the perspective point, you're setting up boundaries that show how much smaller your block letters would look if you slid them into the distance. Connecting the lines between your original and distant block letters makes it look like the letters are taking up 3D space. This technique can be used to draw even more complicated 3D objects and scenes - experiment with it and see what happens! You can also use a second perspective point, or shadows, to add even more depth to your drawings.
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1. pencil
2. ruler
3. markers - colored
4. eraser
1. Draw your name in block letters in pencil. Then, trace each of the letters in marker.
2. Make a small mark in pencil anywhere on your paper. This mark will be the vanishing point of your perspective drawing.
What is a vanishing point?
A vanishing point is the point where all parallel lines in a perspective drawing intersect.
3. Draw a line in pencil connecting every point of every letter to the vanishing point. Make sure these lines are light as you will erase them when you have finished your drawing.
4. Trace these lines with marker any distance. Keep in mind that these lines will dictate how long your letters are.
5. When you have finished, connect each of these lines with a horizontal or vertical line. Notice that these lines run parallel to the original letter you drew.
Notes: Some letters, like B and Y, have lines where it doesn't make sense to draw horizontal lines. In these instances, draw a line that is parallel to the line in the original letter you drew.
6. Erase the pencil lines and then color in your name! If you want more of a challenge, try making your name into a cityscape. |
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Ephesians 5:1-5
A1 Scripture
B1 Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma. But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints); nor any obscenity, nor foolish talk or coarse joking (that do not belong), but rather thanksgiving. Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience. Therefore do not be participants with them—even though you were once darkness, you are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:1-8, WPNT)
B2 Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God. (Ephesians 5:1-5, HCSB)
A2 Outline
B1 A command—be imitators of God
B2 A respect—as dearly beloved children
B3 Walk in love
C1 As Messiah did
C2 As Messiah died
D1 A sacrifice to God
D2 An offering to God
B4 Avoid
C1 Sexual immorality
C2 Impurity
C3 Greed
C4 Irreligious talk
C5 Crude jokes
B5 Do
C1 Give thanks
C2 Know and recognize
D1 Sexually immoral, impure, or greedy (an idolater)
D2 Has no inheritance in the Kingdom of Messiah and of God
A3 Notes
B1 Imitators
C1 Not of God doing miracles, like the present days Pentecostal, word of faith, or heretics.
C2 Not willing something into existence, or any of those things that only God can do.
C3 It is referring to have the same desires, goals, attitudes as God does, and the way God deals with people, etc. This is best seen in the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
C4 Is of living a certain kind of life. This is seen in the context here of Jesus' example. Ephesians 4:32 HCSB And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. We don't compare ourselves to other Christians. We are to compare ourselves to God.
C5 Imitators
D1 Therefore I urge you, imitate me. (1 Corinthians 4:16, NKJV)
D2 Imitate me, just as I also [imitate] Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:1, NKJV)
D3 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 1:6, HCSB)
D4 For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews (1 Thessalonians 2:14, HCSB)
D5 So that you won't become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance. (Hebrews 6:12, HCSB)
D6 In holiness: Leviticus 11:44-45 NRSV For I am the LORD your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth. 45 For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.
D7 The Lord Jesus is our perfect example: Colossians 3:9-10 NKJV Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
D8 Plus, a warning NOT to imitate the wicked: 2 Peter 3:17 NKJV You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked.
C6 Temptation for the Ephesians would still be great. They had been living and practicing life in a very evil culture. To avoid and help overcome temptation, they were encouraged to not even talk about the sinful practices of the culture they lived in. So Wilbur Pickering translates verse 3: "But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints)." (Ephesians 5:3, WPNT).
B2 Beloved children—God loves us, so we are beloved children. Because God loves us, we want to imitate Him.
B3 Walk in love. Walk has the idea of living our life, our lifestyle, our thoughts, desires, words, and deeds. All this must be done in love. Truth is essential, and telling the truth is for the good of someone’s soul. It is the soul that we are concerned for. John 3:19-22 WEL This is [the reason for] the judgment, because light is come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light, because their actions were evil. 20 "Everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, so that his actions may be discovered and reproved [discovered and reproved is one word in Greek]. 21 "But the one who does the truth comes to the light, so that his actions may be plainly seen that they are done for God.
B4 The love of God and His giving of Himself, for love is a choice. We understand this because:
C1 God did not have to do this.
C2 He choose to do this.
C3 He wanted to do this.
C4 Thoughts and desires are not enough. He demonstrated His love.
C5 A sacrifice was needed to atone.
D1 Good works are meaningless, because even one breaking of God's Law sends to hell. No matter how much we do the rest of our lives, it cannot make up for the evil we have done.
D2 Jesus never sinned.
D3 An everlasting death was required.
D4 This death is an separation from God.
D5 Jesus died and was forsaken by the Father.
D6 This was the full payment needed.
D7 The condition now, is to repent and trust into Jesus.
C6 The offering was a sin offering.
D1 "...just like the Son of the Man—He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28, WPNT)
D2 "By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (Hebrews 10:10, WPNT)
D3 Dr Chafer writes: Substitution
Substitution is not a Biblical term (cf. Trinity, incarnation, etc.), but a Biblical doctrine nonetheless.
1. Old Testament Type.
a. In general, every animal sacrifice offered during Old Testament times substituted for the offender. All this was accordingly a type of Christ dying in the room and stead of the sinner.
b. The sweet savor and non-sweet savor offerings of Leviticus, chapters 1–5, indicate that two accomplishments are to be noticed in Christ's substitution:
(1) The non-sweet savor oblations were, first, the sin offering and, second, the trespass offering. In these the perfection of the offering itself had to be insisted upon since Christ the Antitype is perfect in Himself, but of course, at the same time, the offering is invested with the sin of the offerer. They are called non-sweet savor offerings since God cannot look upon sin with allowance whatsoever. In fulfilling this type of sacrifice Christ cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46).
(2) Sweet savor offerings were three in number: first, the burnt offering, second, the meal offering, and third, the peace offering. In these were depicted an aspect of Christ's death which was a delight to His Father, as it has been suggested in Hebrews 9:14: He “offered himself without spot to God.” Here is substitution in the sense that God requires of the believer, not merely that he should have no sins (as typified by the non-sweet savor offerings), but that he indeed should have done all good. These three offerings, consequently, suggest how the perfection of Christ may be accepted of God for a Christian. They are sweet to God since only Christ's perfections are in view, and manifestly as such they could apply to the elect alone.
2. New Testament Doctrine. Again the same twofold conception obtains. The Scriptures state the doctrine fully.
a. Sweet savor (Phil. 2:8; Hebrews 9:11–14; 10:5–7).
b. Non-sweet savor (Romans 3:23–26; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; cf. Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46)."
(Systematic Theology by Lewis Sperry Chafer Copyright ©1948, 1976 by Dallas Theological Seminary Published by Kregel Publications, a division of Kregel, Inc., P.O. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501, with special permission of Dallas Theological Seminary. All rights reserved.
B5 Fornication—any sexual activity not approved by God.
B6 Uncleanness—everything not addressed by fornication or covetousness. Finding pleasure in thoughts, desires, words, and deeds that God does not approve.
B7 Covetousness—wanting what someone else has. It can be the love of money, things, persons, or fame. It is wrong, ungodlike desire.
B8 Our speech
C1 Good speech is talk that edifies another. Bad speech is talk that destroys another. One teaches and encourages, the other abuses. Abusive speech is evil, but truth is good.
C2 Proverbs has a lot of passages teaching about this.
D2 Proverbs 15:2 CEV Words of wisdom come from the wise, but fools speak foolishness.
D3 Ecclesiastes 10:12-14 NKJV The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up; (13) The words of his mouth begin with foolishness, And the end of his talk is raving madness. (14) A fool also multiplies words. No man knows what is to be; Who can tell him what will be after him?
D4 Proverbs 4:24 GNB Never say anything that isn't true. Have nothing to do with lies and misleading words.
D5 Proverbs 10:32 GNB Righteous people know the kind thing to say, but the wicked are always saying things that hurt.
B9 The inheritance
C1 Who is included or excluded?
C2 What is the inheritance?
C3 Why do we get this inheritance?
A4 Applications
B1 God has set the standard, the routine, for living a Christian life.
B2 God has defined what love is. He shows true love. We need to imitate that love.
B3 God has set the standards for sexual behavior. His rules are the only and the best.
B4 God has set the standard for our speech. Let us be careful.
B5 Greed is not to be found in God’s people.
B6 Humans don’t like God’s standard, so we and they attempt to redefine, minimize, or dismiss in some way. Let us be aware.
B7 Giving thanks is very important. We should give thanks to God and also our fellow humans.
22 November 2018
Why Am I Thankful
As I was thinking about this topic, I wondered, “Why?”
What is thankfulness?
The opposite is entitled. But, what am I entitled to. Nothing really.
Choices do have consequences.
We are not necessarily thankful for things we deserve. We are thankful for good things that we do not deserve.
It is an attitude for things we do not deserve. It is a humbleness of, “Why me, Lord”?
My wife doesn’t need to make my breakfast, but she wants to. I don’t have to wash the dishes, but I want to. So, we thank each other.
This could be applied to many, many things.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 NLT - As for us, we can't help but thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are always thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation--a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and through your belief in the truth.
I’m certainly not among the first to believe, more likely one of the last.
But for this, I’m very thankful.
I have no physical brothers and sisters, but in Messiah, we are a very big family. We are not together because of a common interest. We are FAMILY having fellowship with God and each other. 1 John 1:3 WEL That which we have seen and heard, we announce to you so that you also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.
I do not deserve God’s love, yet He does love me. Galatians 2:20 WEL "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live. Yet, it is not I but Christ living in me, and the life I now am living in the flesh, I live in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
I do not have anything worthy to know forgiveness of my sins, the times I broke God’s laws. 2 Timothy 1:9 NLT - For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time--to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.
I do not deserve grace, but I have received grace. Romans 5:21 WEL That just as sin has ruled in death, even so might grace rule through righteousness into eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I am not entitled to anything of these things. I do not deserve them.
So now, I have fellowship with God, wife, children, brothers, sisters, an eternal home after death, many and many blessings more that I do not deserve.
I am humbled.
I am thankful.
Bad things do happen to us. But, as the preacher said, “We do not thank God FOR everything; we are thankful IN everything.”
A friend of ours had her husband brutally murdered. One night she could not sleep. As she lay there awake, she thought of 500 things she was thankful to God for. What about me? Am I thankful? How about you?
21 November 2018
Ephesians 4:24-32
A1 Scriptures
Ephesians 4:24-32 NKJV And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. 25 Therefore, putting away lying, "LET EACH ONE OF YOU SPEAK TRUTH WITH HIS NEIGHBOR," for we are members of one another. 26 "BE ANGRY, AND DO NOT SIN": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
A2 Outline
B1 The New Man
C1 To be put on.
C2 Which was created in God's image.
D1 In true righteousness
D2 In true holiness
B2 Practice Instructions for the Church
C1 Do not lie anymore.
C2 Do not be angry anymore.
C3 Do not steal any more.
C4 Do not be lazy anymore.
C5 Do not be selfish anymore.
C6 Do not speak stupid stuff any more.
C7 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit any more.
C8 Do not be bitter anymore.
C9 Do not have wrath any more.
C10 Do not have anger any more.
C11 Do not be loud, insistent, and demanding any more.
C12 Do not speak evil any more.
C13 Do not have malice any more.
C14 Do not be unkind any more.
C15 Do not be hard hearted any more.
C16 Do not refuse to forgive any more.
A3 Notes
B1 Put on = as in clothes. What we wear often reflects on our lifestyle, habits, personality, tastes, etc. As in (The night is nearly over, and the day is near; so let us get rid of the works of the darkness, and let us put on the weapons of the light—Romans 13:12 WPNT) we are to take off evil and wear the armor of light. What we wear should be consistent to who we are and believe. If we are evil, we should look evil. If we are not evil, we should not look evil. Here we are to put on something. That something is the new man. We have a new attitude. This is renewed as the old attitude, desires, views, standards are to be discarded. The new here is all that is contained in the New Testament. Mind here stands for the part of a human that reasons, thinks, makes decisions, etc.
B2 New man = the new creation. The work of rebirth done by God himself without any works from us. The old flesh is still present with us, gets sick, and eventually dies.
B3 The new man is in God's image. The first, of Adam, was lost, damaged, corrupted because of sin.
B4 True righteousness = not a fake righteousness, facade, or hypocrisy. Many have an outward, religious appearing holiness which is not truth. Righteousness is defined by God's character and His thoughts, desires, words, and deeds. True righteousness is found in the inner self.
B5 True holiness = not a fake holiness of someone parading around pretending to be a holy man/woman. "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward." (Matthew 6:2 NRSV)
B6 The Greek in verse 24 reads "righteousness and true holiness."
B7 A list of 16 rules from God for the way that we are to live.
C1 No lies—little lies, big lies, medium lies. God does not lie, therefore we should not either. If caught in a lie, confess it. "I just caught myself in a lie; please forgive me. Here is the truth."
C2 No anger. Anger is "the strong feeling you get when you think someone has treated you badly or unfairly, that makes you want to hurt them or shout at them—Macmillan Dictionary. Consider—But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Numskull!’ will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ‘You absolute idiot!’ will be liable to hell fire." (Matthew 5:22 WPNT). Pickering notes, "God hates injustice and will judge it. Less than 2% of the Greek manuscripts, of inferior quality, omit “without cause” (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.). NIV, NASB and LB favor us with a footnote informing us that “some manuscripts” add ‘without cause—by “some” they mean 98% of them!! More serious, the shorter text has the effect of forbidding anger, which would contradict other Scriptures ("Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah"—Psalms 4:4 NKJV) and the Lord's own example ("After looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” So he stretched, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other!"—Mark 3:5 WPNT) The point anger will be experienced, but we must not let the sun go down before we have cooled off. Holding on to anger causes many problems.
C3 No stealing—taking what is not ours. It is due to covetousness. It can be taking people, time, property, affections, keeping what we should be giving.
C4 No laziness—Work instead. If for some reason you cannot find a job, look for one say maybe once a week. In the meantime study something, volunteer for something or someone. Do something valuable for God, His church, or society.
C5 No selfishness
C6 No stupid talking—teasing is OK for a little well, but then it becomes verbal abuse. What we are to talk about is for edifying, not destroying someone. People die from bullying. It is serious.
C7 No grieving the Holy Spirit—What is grieving the Holy Spirit? When I was young, maybe 9 or 10, my Grandma Gane hired a paper hanger. He was a professional. She had bought a dozen donuts for all of us to enjoy at break time. While he was papering, I was sneaking donuts. When break time arrived, Grandma got the donuts out and saw only 1 donut in the box. She looked at me and said, "O, Lenny." That is right I had eaten 11 donuts. I felt bad but I had caused Grandma grief. So it is with the Holy Spirit. He has plans for us and when we disobey, we grieve Him—not a smart thing to do. "How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert."—Psalms 78:40, HCSB). "But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy and fought against them."—Isaiah 63:10, HCSB)
C8 No bitterness—bitterness is what happens in prolonged disappointment of any type. Have you or I ever made a promise and did not keep it? That type of action can lead to bitterness in the person who was promised something. What you don't listen—really listen—to your spouse when he/she wants to talk? You are causing bitterness. Bitterness leads to abuse and acting out from pent up anger.
C9 No wrath—the type of anger when one is out of control. Go talk a walk. Don't drive just walk.
C10 No anger.
C11 No clamoring—loud, insistent, and demanding. This is one way of expressing anger.
C12 No speaking evil—as in slander, blasphemy, lies, verbal abuse of any kind.
C13 No malice—is deep hatred with action as in "When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than he loved them, they hated their brother so much that they would not speak to him in a friendly manner—Genesis 37:4, GNB92.
C14 No unkindness—think of being kind to animals. Therefore no ill will, causing pain or discomfort to any, being aware of people's needs. Do be a narcissist.
C15 No hard heartedness—stubborn to cause and retain ill feelings towards others. "he told us to ask you, ‘Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged you.' Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father's God, have done.” Joseph cried when he received this message. (Genesis 50:17, GNB92).
C16 No more refusing to forgive—forgiveness is not letting someone get away with punishment but is turning that punishment over to God, who judges perfectly. When I forgive some, God may or may not forgive.
B8 Verse 25: Who is our neighbor? It is any one we meet. In this verse it is especially referring to members of the church. We are members of one another. Jesus Christ is the head, and all the believers (the saints) are the body.
B9 Verse 26: Anger held on to is unhealthy.
Healthy and Unhealthy Anger (This link is dead as of 10 Dec 14)
Showing the difference between healthy and unhealthy anger.
Introduction, anger is a natural and necessary emotion. Anger is anger, it is in itself neither right nor wrong, healthy nor unhealthy. It is the expression of anger that makes it healthy or unhealthy. When it is expressed appropriately within the context of a situation it is a necessary emotion. Feeling anger is different from expressing anger, and it is the inappropriate expression of anger that makes it unhealthy.
Not feeling any anger in a situation is just as unhealthy as expressing anger in a cageful, vengeful manner. e.g.: when we see a child being beaten cruelly, it is natural to feel anger, however this does NOT justify the inappropriate expression by yelling, screaming or beating the abuser. This is healthy anger.
Healthy Anger:
Healthy anger is appropriate to the situation that evokes it. Healthy expression of anger involves facing what makes you angry and an effort to set boundaries for yourself by determining what you will do in response to what makes you angry.
e.g.: When you do ________, I feel ______ , and to protect myself I will _________.
Healthy anger is not used to punish, is not violent, and is not used to intimidate, control or manipulate the other person. It is expressed, discussed and moved through.
Healthy anger is not stuffed down and ignored. Stuffed anger creates resentment and a myriad of physical, mental and emotional problems. Healthy anger is not expressed in passive-aggressive and manipulative ways.
Unhealthy Anger:
Unhealthy Anger is a component of abusive relationships. This kind of anger or rage is experienced with great intensity and expressed likewise by screaming and yelling, physical expressions of anger, violence or threats of violence, sulking, manipulation, emotional blackmail, silent smoldering, and anger used to punish.
Rage is a shame-based expression of anger.
Rage is by definition abuse. They react to strong emotions with rage, i.e. feelings of fear, sadness, shame, inadequacy, guilt or loss convert to rage.
They were typically shamed or punished by their caretakers for expressing emotion when they were young; i.e.: "Be a man and don't cry", "Nice girls don't get angry" or "I'll give you something to cry about".
Raging gives the angry person a feeling of power - offsetting their shame and feelings of inadequacy.
Unexpressed anger related to childhood abuses often results in addictive problems later in life. To stuff down the feelings of shame, anger, isolation, fear, sadness and loss the abuse creates.
By pushing feelings down it is impossible to work through feelings and move past them, keeping the person trapped in a downward spiral.
B10 Verse 27: Give no opportunity to the devil. From Handfuls on Purpose: "Give No Place to the Devil (Ephesians 4:27). The Devil is always in search of a place in our lives. He knows that if he can but get his poison into the blood, that the whole man will be affected. Paul forgave others, "lest Satan should get an advantage of us" (2Co 2:10-11). The hasty temper and the unforgiving mood gives Satan a great advantage. "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you."
B11 Verse 29: What is evil speech? How do we know? The context states that what we say is to be for edification. Sometimes truth hurts but must be told.
B12 God does have emotions. He can be grieved, that is, become sad. What makes God sad? A lack of faith, disobedience, rebellion, etc.
B13 Verses 31 and 32 are to be taken together. Verse 31 contains a list of what NOT to do, and verse 32 what we MUST do. God's laws/rules are like that. Somethings please God and we are to do. The list in verse 31 are things not to do to one another, instead we are to do the list in verse 32.
A4 Applications
B1 God does define a righteous life.
B2 God requires us to live a righteous life.
B3 God gives us specifics about a righteous life.
B4 By our thinking, doing, and talking in private and public will reveal our character: Matthew 7:15-20 NRSV "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.
B5 God requires, so He will assist by His grace: Romans 12:1-2 NRSV I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.
16 November 2018
Why We Must Not be in a Passive State
1 Peter 5:6-11 WEL So, let yourselves be humbled under God's mighty hand, so he may lift you up at the right time. 7 Cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you. 8 Be clear headed. Be alert, because your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks around seeking whom he can devour. 9 Resist him, [be] immovable in the faith, realizing that the same kind of afflictions are being faced by your brothers who are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who has called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, will mend you, make you resolute, give you strength, and support you. 11 To him [be] glory and supremacy forever and ever. Amen.
A1 Passivity
B1 Defined
C1 My definition of passivity is a person being in a passive state instead of active state. It is the shutting out mental thought and activity. It is termed “by-passing the brain,” “not using your brain,” “quietness,” “stillness,” “silence,” etc.
C2 It is different than a trance.
D2 Wikipedia: Trance is an abnormal state of wakefulness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli but is nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim, or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person who has induced the trance. Compare: Altered States of Consciousness.
C3 Passive mind: Free Dictionary: Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return: the mind viewed as a passive receptacle for sensory experience.
B2 Passivity (some more)
C1 Defined: Definition of passive (Source)
1a(1): acted upon by an external agency
(2): receptive to outside impressions or influences
C2 In the spiritual sense: Different than finding a quiet place away from noise and distractions, the silence is referring to a stillness of the mind. (Source) [More information can be found in the pdf: The Silence Quotes by LHTrails]
C3 It goes by various names as contemplative prayer, etc. See here and search for passivity, passive, mysticism, etc.
B3 Dangers
C1 Being deceived
C2 Drifting away from true faith
C3 A change in lifestyle from a Christian to a mystical lifestyle
C4 Direct disobedience to the Holy Spirit:
D1 1 Peter 5:8 WEL Be clear headed. Be alert, because your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks around seeking whom he can devour.
D2 Luke 21:36 GW Be alert at all times. Pray so that you have the power to escape everything that is about to happen and to stand in front of the Son of Man.
D3 Romans 13:11-14 GW You know the times in which we are living. It's time for you to wake up. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first became believers. 12 The night is almost over, and the day is near. So we should get rid of the things that belong to the dark and take up the weapons that belong to the light. 13 We should live decently, as people who live in the light of day. Wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, rivalry, and jealousy cannot be part of our lives. 14 Instead, live like the Lord Jesus Christ did, and forget about satisfying the desires of your sinful nature.
B4 The Scriptures instructions
C1 Verses on being alert, having an active mind, not bypassing the brain or using any form of contemplative prayer
D1 Bible words showing alertness and vigilance is a must.
E1 H4929 מִשׁמָר mishmar diligence
F1 It means diligence.
F2 It is used 22 times in the OT and usually translated as prison.
G1 Proverbs 4:23 NKJV Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it [spring] the issues of life.
G2 Proverbs 4:23 GW Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.
G3 Proverbs 4:23 NLT - Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
G4 Comment from JFB commentary on this verse: with all diligence—or, "above," or "more than all," custody (compare Margin), all that is kept (compare Eze 38:7), because the heart is the depository of all wisdom and the source of whatever affects life and character.
G5 Comment from Adam Clarke's commentary on this verse: Keep thy heart with all diligence] "Above all keeping," guard thy heart. He who knows any thing of himself, knows how apt his affections are to go astray.
G6 Comment from Albert Barnes commentary on this verse: Better, as in the margin, i. e., with more vigilance than men use over anything else. The words that follow carry on the same similitude. The fountains and wells of the East were watched over with special care. The heart is such a fountain, out of it flow the “issues” of life. Shall men let those streams be tainted at the fountain-head?
G7 We have to be alert to be able to guard.
E2 H5341 נָצַר natsar
F1 Keep
F2 It is used 63 times in the OT and as keep as in observe carefully and guard. One must be alert to do these things.
G1 Proverbs 4:6 NRSV Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
G2 Proverbs 23:26 NRSV My child, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
G3 Jeremiah 31:6 NRSV For there shall be a day when sentinels will call in the hill country of G3 Ephraim: "Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God."
E3 G1127 - γρηγορεύω grēgoreúō (info below is Strongs).
F1 To keep awake, i.e. watch (literally or figuratively):—be vigilant, wake, (be) watch(-ful).
F2 It is used 23 times in the NT.
G1 Matthew 24:42 Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know what day your Lord is coming!
G2 Matthew 25:13 Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know the day or the hour!
G3 Mark 13:33 Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is!
G6 Mark 13:37 And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be on the alert!
G7 Luke 12:37 Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by and 19 serve them.
G8 Luke 21:36 But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.
G9 Acts 20:31 Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
G10 1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong.
C11 Ephesians 6:18 with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this end being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
G12 Colossians 4:2 Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,
G13 1 Thessalonians 5:6 So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.
G14 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
G15 Revelation 3:2 Be on the alert and strengthen the remaining things that are about to die, for I have not found your works completed before my God.
G16 Revelation 3:3 Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe it, and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
G17 Revelation 16:15 (Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is on the alert and who keeps his clothing, so that he does not walk around naked and they see his shamefulness!)
E4 νήφω nḗphō, G3525
F1 Thayer’s: to be sober; in the N. T. everywhere tropically, to be calm and collected in spirit; to be temperate, dispassionate, circumspect.
F2 It is used 6 times in the NT.
G1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 WEL Therefore, let us not sleep like others do, but let us be alert and be clear headed. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, are drunk at night, 8 But let us who are of the day, be clear headed, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
G2 2 Timothy 4:5 WEL Instead, you need to clear headed in everything, endure troubles, do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry.
G3 1 Peter 1:13 WEL Therefore, have your minds constantly ready for action, be clear headed, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.
G4 1 Peter 4:7 WEL But the end of everything is near. Therefore be clear headed and attentive in prayer.
F3 In summary: the Greek word for be clear headed is G3525 νήφω. Of uncertain affinity; to abstain from wine (keep sober), that is, (figuratively) be discreet: - be sober, watch. It is used 6 times in the NT. One example: 1 Peter 5:8 WEL Be clear headed. Be alert, because your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks around seeking whom he can devour.
E5 G1864 ἐπαγωνίζομαι epagonizomai
F1 It means to fight for.
F2 It is used one time in the NT.
G2 A person needs to be alert in order to fight.
E6 The Greek word for watch is G991 (Strong’s) βλέπω. A primary verb; to look at (literally or figuratively): - behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed. It is used 135 times in the NT. One example: Mark 13:32-33 WEL 32 "But, concerning that day and hour, no one knows, no, not even the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, only the Father. 33 "Watch, be alert and pray, for you do not know when that time is.
E7 The Greek word for watch is G69 (Strong’s) ἀγρυπνέω: To be sleepless, that is, keep awake: - watch. It is used 4 times in the NT. One example: Mark 13:32-33 WEL 32 "But, concerning that day and hour, no one knows, no, not even the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, only the Father. 33 "Watch, be alert and pray, for you do not know when that time is.
C2 In summary: All the above clear instruct Christians to be alert, watchful, awake, having your eyes open, etc. These words do not teach an used mind, silence, contemplative prayer, passive states, etc.
A2 Demons Or Unclean Spirits
B1 Hebrew words
C1 Devil (H7700): שֵׁד shêd shade From H7736; a daemon (as malignant): - devil. (Strong’s). It is used 2 times in the OT.
D1 Deuteronomy 32:17 NRSV They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
D2 Psalms 106:37 NRSV They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
C2 H8163:שָׂעִר שָׂעִיר śâ‛ı̂yr śâ‛ir saw-eer', saw-eer'
From H8175; shaggy; as noun, a he goat; by analogy a faun: - devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr. (Strong’s). It is used 59 times in the OT.
D1 Leviticus 17:7 NKJV They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
D2 2 Chronicles 11:15 NRSV And had appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the goat-demons, and for the calves that he had made.
C3 אוֹב 'Ôb obe From the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father’s name); properly a mumble, that is, a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar): - bottle, familiar spirit. (Strong’s). It is used 17 times in the OT.
D1 Leviticus 19:31 NKJV 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
D2 1 Samuel 28:7 NKJV Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “In fact, [there is] a woman who is a medium at En Dor.”
B2 Greek words
C1 G1139 δαιμονίζομαι daimonizomai Middle voice from G1142; to be exercised by a daemon: - have a (be vexed with, be possessed with) devil (-s). (Strong’s). It is used 13 times in the NT. Verse: Matthew 4:24 GW The news about Jesus spread throughout Syria. People brought him everyone who was sick, those who suffered from any kind of disease or pain. They also brought epileptics, those who were paralyzed, and people possessed by demons, and he cured them all.
C2 G1140 δαιμόνιον Daimonion Neuter of a derivative of G1142; a daemonic being; by extension a deity: - devil, god. (Strong’s). It is used 60 times in the NT. Verse: 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 GW Hardly! What I am saying is that these sacrifices which people make are made to demons and not to God. I don't want you to be partners with demons. 21 You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons. You cannot participate at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
C3 G1142 δαίμων Daimōn From δαίω daiō (to distribute fortunes); a demon or super natural spirit (of a bad nature): - devil. (Strong’s). It is used 5 times in the NT. Verse: Revelation 16:14 GW They are spirits of demons that do miracles. These spirits go to the kings of the whole world and gather them for the war on the frightening day of God Almighty.
C2 G1228 διάβολος Diabolos From G1225; a traducer; specifically Satan (compare [H7854]): - false accuser, devil, slanderer. (Strong’s). It is used 38 times in the NT. Verse: Revelation 20:2 GW He overpowered the serpent, that ancient snake, named Devil and Satan. The angel chained up the serpent for 1,000 years.
B3 See 4132 malevolence of demons.
B4 See 4133 possession by demons
B5 See 4135 Jesus Christ’s authority over demons
B6 Some character traits
C1 Evil (Judges 9:23; 1 Samuel 18:9-10).
C2 Intelligent and wise (1 Kings 22:22-24; Acts 16:16).
C3 Powerful (Mark 5:1-18).
C4 They have knowledge (Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:41; Acts 19:15).
C5 They have feelings (Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7).
C6 They have emotions (Acts 8:7).
C5 Seducing spirits (1 Timothy 4:1).
A3 4 Conditions of Escape
B1 Not sleeping: 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 NRSV So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; 7 for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
B2 Being alert: Matthew 24:42-51 NRSV Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. 45 "Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked slave says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' 49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. 51 He will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
B3 Be clear headed: 1 Peter 5:8-9 WEL Be clear headed. Be alert, because your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks around seeking whom he can devour. 9 Resist him, [be] immovable in the faith, realizing that the same kind of afflictions are being faced by your brothers who are in the world.
B4 God’s armor:
Ephesians 6:12-18 WEL For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the highest spiritual forces, powers, rulers of darkness of the world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies. 13 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to resist on that evil day, and after doing everything possible to still stand. 14 Therefore, stand having truth fastened around your loins and having the breastplate of righteousness on, 15 And your feet shod, prepared by the Gospel of peace. 16 Most importantly taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts from the wicked. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. 18 Always be praying in the spirit with all prayer and requests, and be alert in the same with full perseverance and request for all the saints.
C1 Resist
D2 To resist is to stand for the Christian faith in thoughts, desires, words, and deeds. 1 Corinthians 15:58 WEL Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch, as you know that your labor in the Lord is not futile.
D3 God gives grace. 2 Timothy 2:1 NRSV You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
D4 God gives wisdom. James 1:5 WEL If any of you lack wisdom, then ask the God, who gives to all profusely and doesn't scold, and it will be given to him.
D5 God gives the strength we need. 2 Corinthians 12:9 WEL He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I would rather gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ might rest in me.
D6 God forewarned us this would happen. 2 Timothy 3:12 WEL Indeed, all who choose to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
D7 God promises us that He will not leave us. Hebrews 13:5 WEL Let your conduct be without covetousness. Be satisfied with what you have, because he has said, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
C2 Stand
D1 Stand has the idea of not just walking around but to stand in the face of opposition, whether mild or fierce.
D2 1 Corinthians 16:13 WEL Be on the alert; be firmly standing in the faith; don't be cowardly; be strong.
C3 Truth
D1 The Bible understands truth to be according to the correspondence theory, that is, reality. An example: John 4:17-18 WEL The woman answered and says, "I have no husband." 18 Jesus says to her, "You answered honestly that you have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the present one you have is not your husband, you have told the truth in this.
D2 The importance of truth is God wants us to know, so He tells the truth. Otherwise, we will not know what to believe or how to live.
D3 Safety in truth
E1 John 17:17 WEL Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.
E2 Truth keeps us from being deceived.
C4 Righteousness
D1 Righteousness is thoughts, desires, words, and deeds according to God’s thoughts, desires, words, and deeds. It is God’s standard. 1 John 2:29 WEL If you know that he is righteous, then know that everyone who is doing righteousness is born of him.
D2 Our Christian life should be a righteous life: 1 Peter 2:24 NRSV He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
D3 We learn this from the NT Scriptures: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NRSV All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
C5 Gospel
D1 There is only one Gospel from Genesis to Revelation.
D2 We must personally belief God’s Gospel or we will go to eternal conscious torment.
D3 A link to know the Gospel: Are You a Good Person?
C6 Faith
D1 Faith is believing God.
D2 Believing God from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21
D3 Believing God is more important than believing ANY teacher.
C7 Salvation
D1 This is related to the Gospel above.
D2 Ephesians 1:13-14 WEL In whom you also trusted, after you had heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation. In whom, after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of [God's] purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.
C8 Scripture
D1 We must know it.
D2 To know it we must study it.
D3 In studying it, we must believe it.
D4 If we really believe it, we will live it.
C9 Prayer
D1 Prayer is talking to God.
D2 No one can manipulate God. There are no special words, chants, actions that can guarantee the answer we want.
D3 Answers are according to God’s will. 1 John 5:14 WEL This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
D4 Known, unconfessed sin, continuing in sin, etc. will cause prayers to NOT be answered. Psalms 66:18 GNB If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.
A4 Other verses
B2 2 Corinthians 2:11 11 WEL Fearing that Satan would take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his plans.
B3 Ephesians 4:27 WEL 27 Don't give an opportunity to the devil.
B4 James 4:7-8 WEL 7 Therefore, place yourselves under God’s authority. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, double minded.
A5 Days of Praise
October 28, 2018
The magnificent book of Genesis sets the foundation for Scripture, revealing the “Roman numerals” upon which the rest of the Bible’s message is built. Apart from the actual events of the creation week, the fall of Adam and Eve, and the subsequent horrific growth of sin and the awful judgment of the Flood, the gospel message would make little sense.
Paul’s warning showcases the importance of Satan’s strategy to ensnare humanity in the same trap. The Devil’s tactics change with time and culture, but the strategy remains the same.
First, Satan always attempts to make us doubt the Word of God (Genesis 3:1). If we question the accuracy, the meaning, the authenticity, the historicity, or any other shade of “all scripture” (2 Timothy 3:16), then we begin edging onto a slippery slope that will only lead to the next stage.
Second, Satan always confronts the doubter with a denial of the Word of God (Genesis 3:4). When one begins to deny the authority, the capability, or the will of God to carry out His Word, the slide into the final phase is inevitable.
Third, Satan ultimately heaps denigration on the Person of God Himself (Genesis 3:5). Once one embraces the thought that the Word of God is not trustworthy and that God either will not or cannot do what He says, it absolutely follows that God is either a liar, a hypocrite, or a capricious and whimsical ogre.
May God protect us from the “wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11). HMM III |
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International Conference organised by Linguapax International, in cooperation with the Public Administration School of Catalonia (EAPC), with the support of the Language Policy Department of the Catalan Governement and the Barcelona City Council.
The regulation of languages in constitutional and legal norms, and the implementation by public authorities and social actors of policies aimed at safeguarding and promoting the use of languages in different areas is now a world-wide phenomenon.
Most countries include language clauses in their constitutions. The concept of official language is the most widely used in legal and constitutional texts when regulating the status of languages, but this notion does not mean exactly the same in the various legal and political contexts. Some countries choose other formulae to lay down the legal status of the languages present in their territory.
The action of public authorities and social actors in the field of languages, from a given legal framework, can be articulated around principles, tools or forms of intervention of variable content and intensity according to each context, though they usually share the aim of safeguarding and protecting their own local languages.
In accordance with Linguapax’s mission of preserving linguistic diversity as a value to be promoted through different means, we intend to open the debate on the contribution of the legal framework and resulting language policies to the protection of local languages, in the light of the analysis of plural yet comparable experiences.
Updating this debate is necessary due to developments in the regulation of linguistic realities across the world, in the new forms adopted in language policies, as well as in their theoretical study. And it is oriented to examining the foundations of public decisions concerning the status of languages and to exploring the legal and political elements that influence their materialisation or implementation, always with a view to identifying practical solutions applicable to the protection of linguistic diversity.
For this reason, we shall analyse the experiences of countries that exemplify this diversity across the world and that, from different perspectives, can provide elements of interest in the debate focused on issues such as:
• How can consensus in determining the status of languages be forged?
• What is the meaning and content of the official or other legal status of languages provided for in constitutions or legislation?
• What is the real or practical impact of the official legal framework, or of the recognition of other forms of status, on languages in shaping linguistic reality?
• What kind of interaction or forms of collaboration between public authorities and social actors can contribute to the objectives of language preservation?
• On the basis of what principles, including those not provided by law, and through what forms of intervention, are the linguistic policies of public authorities expressed?
• What distance is there, if any, between the legal framework of language protection and the practices of political and social actors involved in the protection of languages, and what reasons may help to explain the distance?
In order to obtain rich and accurate information and to be able to discuss the implications of the different political and legal models and options, we shall bring together legal experts, sociolinguists and activists from or familiar with the following countries: Finland, India, Malta, Paraguay, Slovenia, South Africa and Switzerland.
1. Markku Suksi (Finland)/session moderated by Eva Pons
2. Nicolas Schmitt (Switzerland) /session moderated by Emili Boix
3. Miguel Ángel Verón (Paraguay) / session moderated by Antoni Milian
4. Matthias Brenzinger (South Africa) / session moderated by Francesc Xavier Vila
5. Ganesh Devy (India) / session moderated by Elvira Riera
6. Albina Nećak Lük (Slovenia) / session moderated by Pere Comellas
7. Albert Bord and Thomas Pace (Malta) / session moderated by Miquel Strubell
Speakers short bios
(All videos in original versions)
The status of languages /programme update 3
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Muthuswami Dikshitar, distinguished classical singer was one of the three Trinities of Carnatic Music in South India. He was born on March 24, 1774 to a musician family in Tamil Nadu. He started training under his father Ramaswami Dikshitar, who was an eminent scholar and creator of Hamsadhwani, the famous raga in Indian Music. His father taught him ancient shastras, music and different Indian languages. Muthuswami Dikshitar was the most dedicated saint of the Bhakti [...] |
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Donation this year is for Wikipedia.
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