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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7132 | Pocket magic – spiked coin
Spiked Coin – pocket magic trick
One of my favorite pocket tricks is the Spiked Coin. I actually bought mine at a local dollar store. The basic idea is that you place a coin (I threw away the cheap plastic “coin” that comes with it and use a fifty cent piece in its’ place) inside the little chamber. And one by one you drive little swords (likewise, I threw away the plastic swords and use toothpicks or wooden matches), making it appear that the coin has disappeared. Until you rattle the little box, and the audience can hear the coin still in the box. One by one, the swords (or toothpicks, or wooden matches) are removed, and the little case is opened. And the coin is revealed, as good as new.
Spiked Coin pocket magic trick
It’s more effective with the use of normal materials and works well for comedy or clown magic as well. For example, if the clown is working with an assistant (or a volunteer from the audience), he can have the assistant put the swords/toothpicks/etc in, one at a time, gloating to the audience how the coin has “magically” vanished. Only to be visibly shocked and upset when the assistant shakes the box to “prove” that it’s gone. With the toothpicks removed, the clown is proved a fraud, since the coin is still there.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7136 | Robotium in Action
Be patient from 00:10 to 00:24 as I run the program.
Here I wrote a small Robotium project to test Skype apk I got from Google Play after properly processing it. No source code is needed. I clear previous user name and enter new username/ password, go to contact, call Echo / Sound Service, turn on speaker to make it louder, take a screenshot at exact 5 seconds (or any time you want), then end call, go back and log out.
The screen shot is in Robotium-Screenshot folder on sdcard. You can add time stamp to the file name in Robotium so you can take a lot of screenshots.
The only drawback is that the password will show up on device, whether you use enterText() or typeText(). I think I might have a solution but I haven’t try it out. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7166 | Heraldry is my niche in the SCA (along with research, all things Italian, and persona development). I am a mundane scientist with a graduate degree in social and environmental science. I work in my field, where I love researching pertinent topics and connecting ideas. This carries over nicely to my hobby, where members of the SCA are searching for information on their favorite time periods and places, plus attempting to document what their name and/or device would be if they lived then. Enter, this herald. Remember, “I’m here to help” 🙂
First, we should cover what Heraldry is. From what I’ve learned so far it is a system developed before 1600, in order to visually identify people, their places, and their things. Heralds in the SCA help members with their identity in the Society (i.e. their persona du jour, their persona name, or their “coat-of-arms” which we call a “device”). Anyway, on a field of battle the easiest way to know who was on your side was to see them “bearing arms”, or holding a shield painted with colors and symbols. Everyone holding a shield with the same color and symbol (stemma in Italian) as you was your friend in battle. Those holding something different were the enemy (or perhaps your ally, so you had to know!). In the beginning a person, not a family, had a stemma, or what we call a device in the SCA. Once you receive your Award of Arms, your device is known as your arms.
My favorite arms, my own:
achievement 2014
Argento, un giglio e su un capo rosso tre soli oro (illustrated by Bill Knight)
A word about the “achievement” you see around my arms. In general, amongst kingdoms which regulate Achievements: Supporters are granted to Peers (single) or Royal Peers (double). Crests are granted to Peers or holders of Grants of Arms. Helms, torses and mantling are allowed for those who have received an Award of Arms. Mottoes and compartments are allowed for anyone. Here I only have designed mantling, which is that name for the red and silver acanthus leaves around my arms.
The words one uses to describe what is on a device is called a blazon. It’s a language of sorts, based on the terms for the colors and symbols used in the middle ages. Blazon is important because in absence of photocopy, the only way you know how to reproduce a device is by the language of the blazon. My device is blazoned; Argent, a fleur-de-lis, and on a chief gules, three suns-in-splendor Or. Using that, any herald in the known world would be able to draw or reproduce what is shown as my device above. My device is on my pavilion, to show that “this is me!”. My badge (shown below and used on my belongings to show “this is mine!”) is blazoned; Per bend gules and or, a fleur-de-lis countercharged. To learn more about blazons, arms, and armory click here for a quick visual introduction to heraldry or here for the SCA Heraldry Primer.
Giata Alberti's Badge
Back to my first real love, the ‘araldica’ of Italy. Click here to take a heraldic tour of Venice, Tuscany, and Rome. On the same site there are also links to a Blasonario Piemontese (Piedmontese Roll of Arms) and an essay on the characteristics of early Italian heraldry. For your persona remember, simple is best. For more ideas, just peruse different armory from the time and place of choice (My favorite herald has a long list of many different rolls here … or see like this page from a roll of arms in Florence circa 1555 … or look at examples of SCA heraldic display.)
College of Heralds Submissions Process
If you are interested in learning about book heraldry, feel free to read this handout for my class entitled Name Consult 101 by Fleurtyherald, the links in the handout take you to the Heraldry Site for the SCA.
Some reputable sites for use in consulting on names or arms are (some listed in the handout above):
To download the most recent version of a Gleann Abhann submission form, visit the heraldic library on the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann website. For consulting heralds elsewhere, here is a Generic_name-i_Form and a Generic_device_Form to download for submission in any kingdom 🙂
SCA submission rules, known as the Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory can be found here: SENA
Speaking of ‘standards’, this is me holding a standard for Master Charles de Bourbon during his elevation ceremony.
Giata holding a standard at the elevation of Master Charles de Bourbon
Giata holding a standard at the elevation of Master Charles de Bourbon
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// Major Version
// Minor Version
// Build Number
// Revision
// by using the '*' as shown below:
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
But what do these automatically generated numbers mean ? Well, chances are you don’t care. But one day after using this features for years I decided that I would.
So… To get the compilation date of an assembly from its version, you would have to do :
var version = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
var date = new DateTime( 2000, 01, 01 ).AddDays( version.Build ).AddSeconds( version.Revision * 2 );
This feature is great if your need some atomic versionning of a particular library for instance. Each program using your library has its own version and you don’t risk to break working feature in future release of your library. And if you want to force the use of a newer version of a library within a particular application, you can use some assembly redirection.
But you should also note that if you deploy your assembly in the GAC (like it’s required to do with Sharepoint), you will have tons of “garbage” versions of your assembly. And there’s not “easy fix” for that. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7169 |
My point here is that C# can actually be considered as a very fast language. It allows automatic hardware-specific optimization. The only real drawback you have in the .Net framework is the garbage collector. It prevents the C# .Net it from being a realtime language/framework. But does it really matter for you ?
The purpose of the following test is to show that C++ isn’t faster than C# “as is”. I KNOW C# can not be faster than C++ because C# can do few hardware specific optimizations when you can do all of them in C++, because all the systems calls have to be done in C/C++ and because there’s no such thing like Template and forced inlining in C#.
But if you’re searching for arguments to choose C# .Net over native C++, you should also consider these :
I put some link so that you can learn about these really interesting optimization. This is like design patterns, you should really know these things.
peepholePeephole postpass
branchBranch optimizations
inlineInline method calls
cfoldConstant folding
conspropConstant propagation
copypropCopy propagation
deadceDead code elimination
linearsLinear scan global reg allocation
cmovConditional moves
sharedEmit per-domain code
schedInstruction scheduling
intrinsIntrinsic method implementations
tailcTail recursion and tail calls
loopLoop related optimizations
fcmovFast x86 FP compares
leafLeaf procedures optimizations
precompPrecompile all methods before executing Main
aotUsage of Ahead Of Time compiled code
abcremArray bound checks removal
ssapreSSA based Partial Redundancy Elimination
exceptionOptimize exception catch blocks
ssaUse plain SSA form
sse2SSE2 instructions on x86
gsharedShare generics
simdSimd intrinsics
SO ! Here is the test
I wrote these two sample programs :
One in C++ :
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
long stupidThing( long nb ) {
long out = 1;
while( nb > )
out *= nb--;
return out;
int main() {
long total = ;
for( int i = ; i < 1000000; ++i )
for( long l = ; l < 100; ++l )
total += stupidThing( l );
cout << "Total : " << total << endl;
return ;
One in C#:
using System;
namespace test {
class Program {
static long stupidThing( long nb ) {
long ret = 1;
while ( nb > )
ret *= nb--;
return ret;
static void Main( string[] args ) {
long total = ;
total += stupidThing( l );
Console.WriteLine( "Total : {0}", total );
First of all, I open a shell in real-time priority, because I don’t want my other processses to mess with my tests :
$ rtprio 99 bash
Then I compile the two programs :
$ gmcs test.cs
$ g++ -O4 test.cpp -o test
And then I launch my test :
On a 64 bits host :
Kernel : 2.6.9-023stab051.3-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 18:36:34 MSK 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# time ./test ; time ./test ; time ./test ; time mono test.exe ; time mono test.exe ; time mono test.exe
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m12.433s
user 0m12.394s
sys 0m0.049s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m12.415s
user 0m12.411s
sys 0m0.014s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m12.430s
user 0m12.411s
sys 0m0.026s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m10.311s
user 0m10.287s
sys 0m0.029s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m10.254s
user 0m10.247s
sys 0m0.011s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 0m10.250s
user 0m10.255s
sys 0m0.012s
C# clearly beats C++ here. Well
On a 32 bits host :
Kernel : 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Total : 100461056
real 1m10.927s
user 1m7.376s
sys 0m0.056s
Total : 100461056
real 1m12.590s
user 1m8.976s
sys 0m0.020s
Total : 100461056
real 1m13.279s
user 1m9.532s
sys 0m0.056s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 2m22.492s
user 2m15.260s
sys 0m0.136s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 2m23.002s
user 2m15.760s
sys 0m0.104s
Total : -6192109806162068864
real 2m25.102s
user 2m17.709s
sys 0m0.144s
C++ beats C# here, but in 32 bits C++ use other types whereas C# use the same. In C# long is always 64 bits, in C++ it can be 64 bits or 32 bits (depending on the current architecture). |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7179 | God Doesn’t Change
“Thou art the same,
and Thy years will not come to an end.”
Psalm 102:27
God never changes, so He can be trusted to do what He says.
God alone is unchanging (or as the theologians say, immutable). The psalmist says, “Even [the heavens and earth] will perish, but Thou dost endure. . . . Thou art the same, and Thy years will not come to an end” (Ps. 102:26-27). Though Israel deserved destruction for its sin, God was faithful to His covenant with Abraham, saying, “I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed” (Mal. 3:6). James calls God “the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow” (1:17).
What about those verses that say God changed His mind (e.g., Amos 7:3, 6; Jonah 3:10)? Let’s look at an example. Jonah warned the wicked city of Nineveh of impending judgment. The city immediately repented, and “when God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it” (3:10). Who changed? The people of Nineveh! God’s nature to punish evil and reward good remained the same, but the object changed.
You can’t blame the sun for melting the wax and hardening the clay. The problem is in the substance of the wax and clay, not in the sun. In a similar way, our standing before God determines how God acts toward us. What does God’s unchanging character mean? To unbelievers, it means judgment. When God says, “The person who sins will die” (Ezek. 18:20) and “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23), He means it. When He says Hell is eternal (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 20:10, 13-15), then it is.
To Christians, His immutability means comfort. If He loved me in the past, He loves me now and forever. If He forgave and saved me, He did so forever. If He promised me anything, His promise stands forever. If the Bible says, “My God shall supply all your needs” (Phil. 4:19), we know the power that supplied Paul’s needs is the same power that will supply ours. God told Israel, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31:3), and His love for us is the same.
Suggestions for Prayer:
Praise God for His immutability, and thank Him for the comfort that brings you.
For Further Study:
Find some promises God makes to His children in Scripture, and ask for faith to believe them, even when belief is difficult.
Source : http://www.gty.org/Resources/Devotionals/strength
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Intel May Take On Microsoft With Its Own Augmented-Reality Headset
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Intel(INTC) is reportedly working on its own augmented-reality headset, which would make use of the company’s RealSense technology. It appears this would be a reference design for other manufacturers, rather than an end product in itself.
RealSense is the tech that Intel is putting into its latest webcams, giving them depth-sensing capabilities alongside high-resolution image capturing. It’s the key to the chip firm’s imagined future of gesture-based computing interfaces and, according to the Wall Street Journal, it’s going to give the firm its answer to the likes of Google(GOOG) Glass and Microsoft’s(MSFT) HoloLens.
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Augmented reality (or, as Microsoft calls it, “mixed reality”) differs from virtual reality in that it involves superimposing virtual elements onto the real world — think Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Space Jam as opposed to a regular cartoon.
Camera technology and speedy image processing are central to this effort, because augmented reality requires constant measurements of the real world, in order to make those virtual elements look as in-place as possible.
The first applications for augmented reality involved holding smartphones over magazine pages while using a special app, in order to see advertisements “come to life.” However, we are now starting to see more useful applications of the technology, such as smart bike helmets that put key information into the visor.
For more on Microsoft HoloLens, watch:
Indeed, Intel’s RealSense is already making it into some of these new products. At CES in January, Daqri announced a smart helmet, using RealSense, for workers in factories and on building sites.
According to the Journal, “people briefed on the company’s plans” said Intel’s own headset design is coming, and it will try to license it to other manufacturers rather than commercialize it itself. The firm has spent between $300 million and $500 million on augmented-reality companies in recent years, and seems to be looking to build a complete system rather than just selling parts. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7184 | [All About Switches] Q&A: How Can I Change the BootROM Menu Password of S Series Switches?
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A: The BootROM main menu password is Admin@huawei.com by default and possibly huawei on a device running earlier versions. You are advised to change the password to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the BootROM.
Step 1: In the BootROM main menu, select 6 to enter the password submenu.
Step 2: In the password submenu, select 1 to enter the page for changing the BootROM password.
For details, see the S Series Switches Configuration Guide - Basic Configuration.
Step 2: Click Switches.
Step 3: Click the name of the product to be queried, for example, S7700.
Step 4: Choose Documentation> S7700 V200R010C00 Configuration Guide
Step 5: Click S7700&S9700 V200R010C00 Configuration Guide - Basic Configuration.
Step 6: Open the Configuration Guide - Basic Configuration. Choose BootROM Menu Operation (Non-SRUH/Non-SRUE Main Control Card)> Submenu for Changing the Password of the BootROM Menu in the navigation tree on the left, and follow the instructions.
S7700&S9700 V200R010C00 Configuration Guide - Basic Configuration
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1. 2017 and it's still happening to me regularly. I'm on a Galaxy S7 edge. Stock, never fiddled with anything in it. Especially annoying since I bought the app specifically so I could listen to music when I'm NOT online. On long drives, flights etc. I'm in a country with poor wifi infrastructure and I only use data rarely, which means I only connect through my home wifi exactly when I DON'T need Poweramp to listen to music. So... why?! It stops playing around an hour or two after losing connection. Then insists I don't have a license. I've been forced to install other (free) music players as backups because I never know when Poweramp decides to eff my day up. Sure it starts up fine once I get home and connect or find a connection, but the main point why I bought the app is so I could USE IT WHEN I'M OFFLINE. Jeez. Is there seriously still no action taken on this issue? That page where it says "no internet connection is needed" is pretty much a lie at this point. It doesn't help at all when the solution to fix the issue is to "find a connection." How exactly does that translate to "no internet" when you need internet to fix an issue that happens ONLY when there's no internet? An issue that renders the app just a pretty wallpaper. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7187 | Deploy and upgrade quasar app
• Hi all !
I want to know what is the best way to upgrade my quasar application (SPA) in production.
When I finished my dev with “quasar dev” I use “quasar build” to pack my application in dist folder.
1. Do I need to delete old dist folder before build ?
2. How can be sure my users have the latest version of my app in the cache ?
Wich process do you use guys for your apps ?
I use quasar 0.13
• The old dist folder is automatically deleted when a new build is started.
Also, the generated webpack bundle uses cache busting techniques, like appending a hash value to the filename, so you shouldn’t have to worry too much about caching issues.
So when it comes to deploying your app, there are different ways a achieve this. Because Quasar/Vue.js projects are just static files most of the time, you can just replace the old files with the new files on your server.
• You could use Github hooks to receive new commits, build them on your build server and then deploy them to your server,
• You could use a continuous integration service
• You could have a little script on your local machine, that runs the build command, and then transmits the new build files to your server via SSH
Most of the times, you do not want to build your files on your production server, because then you need to install the whole toolchain, make sure, only authorized users could use the tools, protect your source, you have additional load on your server, find a way to deploy without downtime when building.
Here is an older blog post that gives an overview over some of the solutions I mentioned above:
• Thanks @a47ae for this complete and usefull reply !!
• Hi!
Are you shure about point 2, browser cache is taked into account, so user can see changes just pressing F5 (not ctrl+F5)?
• Avoid to ask your users to refresh manually by F5 or CTRL+F5 …
See webpack longterm caching, you just have one or two lines to change in webpack config and all is good 😉
• I can give you an example, but sorry I’m not on my computer, it’s a screenshot from my phone…
Look at chunk and chunkFilename.
Webpack will add hash code in the name of all your packed files. The hash code correspond to the file content, so if you change something in your sources, the hash will change also and the browser will reload automagically 😉
*As you can see it will add hash only for prod (quasar build)
• Thank you!
I never used webpack but it worked without ctrl+F5, but is F5 or other reload method avoidable?
Also index.html needs a <meta> or something to turn off browser cache, isn’t it?
• @mzamateo Why do you want to avoid the reload?
Just for development or in production?
• In production, i think must reload.
Now i see damosse31 said “avoid ask user press F5…”, shure, you can ask kindly to finish current work and then reload, with a popup or so…
Thank you!
• @mzamateo said in Deploy and upgrade quasar app:
Exactly !
On my side, I put app version in localstorage (or cookie) and I check if the current version is different (ex: 9.0.10 -> 9.0.11) then I open dialog to inform the user that a new version is available since his last visit and if he want to see the changelog or not.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7192 | Source code for demo app @ CB Connection 2017
Great presentation over at — cheesy enough for execs to be interested and still a little technical content for devs.
I assume the YouTube channel comments arn’t monitored so I’m cross posting here.
Is the source code from this demo availiable at all? I had a good look though the CB github and blog but I couldn’t find anything.
It’s not yet publicly available. Tagging @hod.greeley
Thanks! Glad you found it valuable.
We’ll be making the repo available, but it needs some clean up. I’d estimate maybe mid to late December.
Is there a particular piece you’re interested in? We may consider releasing or blogging about some topics earlier than that.
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I’ve been working on a few frontend and node server projects — which use CB + CB sync gateway + node SDK + PouchDB — so I’ve become very interested to see other developers implementations. There isn’t anything particular I’m looking for but I thought it would be a great way to get ideas or inspiration.
So far my projects are working great but perhaps there are some usage scenarios I’ve missed or opportunities for performance/stability improvement, so they’re the main things I’d be seeking out.
Thanks :slight_smile:
Hi Max, I didn’t use PouchDB in the demo. Do you need local offline storage for browsers?
It’s a bit much to go into the full architecture here, but basically the node server supplies REST endpoints that correspond to the various data/query requests. So, for example, there’s an endpoint to get the geolocation of a group of patients. I use bluebird promises for async operation to keep everything non-blocking.
The mobile side is quite straight-forward. Changes made by the web client automatically feed out to the mobile side based on channels.
Maybe the less obvious parts, to give some idea of usage scenarios, are the full-text search and the geolocation query parts. One nice piece is the use of the built-in cURL capabilities. It allows you to use a cURL-style api to retrieve data from an external source and treat it just like data from the database (meaning you can do joins and other complex N1QL actions with it directly).
@hod.greeley thank you for your answer.
I would have been shocked if you used PouchDB — there’s quite a number of issues with CBSG + PouchDB but it does work. Yes, I use it for offline storage. I’m aiming for an “offline first” PWA experience.
If you do publish the source, please do reply here :slight_smile: |
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First development update - There's a lot to mention
As you can see it's finally possible for us to post news updates about the project! The news site apparently had some problems, and with our web developer busy there was no way to write news here. That doesn't mean nothing happened though, if you have been reading GIT log there's been a lot going on "behind the scenes" if you want to call it that Smile The project has been going forward at a fast pace thanks to the great community of contributors that we have.
I'll start out in a little bit of a rush, trying to sum up the most important development that has been going on in the project, from the view of a busy developer who is just getting back into contributing actively Smile
Player models
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Ignis, Female Version
The player models are finally getting the update they deserve. Dib and tZork (hope I didn't miss anyone) are working on getting Oblivion's awesome player models working and looking fine in the game. Dib is also working on fixing the weapon scale, which previously was too big.
More screenshots in the <a href="http://xonotic.org/media">image gallery</a>.
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WIP screenshot of Glowarena remake by tZork
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WIP screenshot of Space Elevator by FruitieX
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WIP screenshot of Dance by FruitieX
Most of the Nexuiz maps weren't really up to today's quality standards, so the old favorites are being remade by mappers like tZork, Cortez, sev, FruitieX (me), Cuinnton and others. Currently it looks like at least the following maps will have remakes: Glowarena (tZork), Dance (FruitieX), Space elevator/Gasolinepowered (Cuinnton/FruitieX), Aggressor (FruitieX) Stormkeep (FruitieX), Runningmanctf (FruitieX, I'm promising much here Big Grin), Downer (Cortez), Evilspace (Cortez), Soylent (sev), Castles (Cuinnton), Space CTF aka cb_ctf1 (C. Brutail) and probably more that I've missed Smile. Aside from remakes, I'm also seeing brand new maps appearing in the forum, and even in the repo (condemned_castles by MooKow). Which of these that appear in the initial release is something I have no idea about yet Smile
There's quite a lot going on code-wise. This is probably the part that's the most invisible to people in the community that do not hang around irc channels all the time, or read git log. We have been seeing big and important changes taking place, made possible much thanks to the switch to git: The developers aren't all tied to work in one place, in the stable "branch" anymore as they pretty much were in svn, now they can simply create a branch even for their most experimental changes. This enabled huge changes such as CSQC players to be possible to develop in parallel to other smaller things: that (as of today) still experimental stuff does not interfere with the rest of the development. When finished that should give us better animations, better prediction code, better compatibility to future versions (new physics code can simply be sent by the server, as opposed to now when you need an engine update) among other things. Also, Taoki has been working on adding more natural animations for the 1st person weapon models when moving the view around, similar to what most other modern fps engines are doing.
Another immediately visible thing in the initial Xonotic release should be the completely new HUD system, developed and initially brainstormed by me and Dib: the "Panel HUD". It takes each HUD element and divides them into rectangular panels, each panel freely movable and resizeable with the mouse cursor, similar to how you manipulate your windows on your computer. Thus you'll be able to create your own HUD layout easily, and with some extra effort and image editing skills, your entirely own skin. The default layout/skin has not been decided on yet, it's up to the community to provide the best!
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WIP Panel HUD skin by sev
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WickedX menu theme, also by sev
We've also had a menu uplift, with new animation code by esteel and the new default menu theme looking like this:
Other interesting changes include an update to the physics config, which now allows for circlejumps and more controlled strafe turning. divVerent has also tweaked them to remove exploits such as strafebots from being used. Doublejumps are an option still discussed, but before they are enabled by default "the code has to be more mature".
A subject that's currently discussed a lot about is the weapon balance, with many contributors having their own set of weapon settings. There's not much to say about any kind of "official" balance yet, but it seems like it is going to differ from the Nexuiz balance a bit. Personally I hope that we'll get as unique weapons as possible, with each weapon having it's own uses that differ from the others as much as possible, which was a little bit of a problem in the Nexuiz balance.
Links to my: SoundCloud and bandcamp accounts
oh yeah, I need to fix that parsing part...
e: going to require manual conversion to bbcode for now.
finally, thanks for the update Smile
Three cheers for the dev team and all the contributors! Hip hip, Hooray!
This is my laser, this is my gun,
This is for plinking, this is for FUN!
BrFJ: wtf with the jumpad
BrFJ: rofl
vael: oh, you'll wtf with the... a few more times don't worry
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now it just needs to be spreaded to all the networks like facebook or moddb
I'll need to get back to mapping. I have the free time now at least for a while.
Good to see progress being made!
Still working on the social integration, it posts to http://twitter.com/xonotic automatically when news is published a lot share links are available at the bottom of posts on the news page. Need people to help with PR as well.
looking good : )
Yikes those images are indeed huge Smile
Links to my: SoundCloud and bandcamp accounts
(05-31-2010, 03:49 PM)Vael Wrote: Three cheers for the dev team and all the contributors! Hip hip, Hooray!
+1 yew
Thanks to all the people putting time and effort into make this game epic, and also for taking the time to write this development update.
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oh wow, the new gasoline powered and dance look sexy, are there going to be many completely new default maps? some new ctf and duel maps would be epic. I'd also like to see more maps that are designed specifically for 2v2 (since 2v2 is often played on duel maps and ends up being spammy/lame)
totally epic work guys, this game is going to make me fail uni so hard
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This is looking great. We've done more quality work here than has been done in the last year or two at nexuiz.
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The character models look fantastic. It's definitely taking care of what's been a huge shortcoming of Nexuiz for years now. I'm curious, though, how many new character models is the dev team looking at for the initial release?
yes! they really look great! Big Grin
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I'm late, but this looks awesome. When can we expect a release?
Xonotic Assasins!
Quote:<tChr^nsb> home
* pughar gives tChr^nsb a cookie
<Liquid-Sin> no cookies for me?
<pughar> gave the last one to him Smile
<Liquid-Sin> my luck...
not today Big Grin
I don't think that there's a release date, yet!
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oops i pressed caps...
may we/i have an update on that too please?
also sound effects?
all things sound?
(chooky's gettin nervous)
someone WRITE ONE. (whoops I pressed caps)
Links to my: SoundCloud and bandcamp accounts
ok I WILL ,
well yes , there are sum awesome music makers out there (not me) they are all doing a great job (not me)
sound effects for the new game are going great , i have made some for fun , and ... er...
the main tune for the game is by....... er..
lots of tunes made for maps!
check the all music thread thingo in the dev thingo
IM THERE! (all crap)
please , if you make tunes , then go for it!
(they just laugh at mine)
(makes me cry)
(and drink)
p.s , i did make this: http://omploader.org/vNGFtNA/spacecraft1.wav
(sux ay?)
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Species thinking
Posted on June 9, 2014 by admin
Dipesh Chakrabarty uses the phrase species thinking to characterize a major twist in social theory. This is a
mode of thinking that takes humanity-as-species for its object: a shift from the condition of species being as
invoked by Marx, towards an analytic awareness based on a recognition of boundary parameters of human
existence.[i] For an historian and critic of globalizationthat earth-encompassing phenomena, feeding on
and reproducing inequality wherever it travelsthis is a notable shift in focus for Chakrabarty, because it
entails thinking humanity in universal terms. He elaborates: These parameters are independent of
capitalismThey have been stable for much longer than the histories of [its] institutions . These parameters
come into view out of a breach between the present historiography of globalization and the historiography
demanded by anthropogenic theories of climate change.
Species, he acknowledges, is a word that will never occur in any standard history or political-economic
analysis of globalization. In contrast, species thinking is connected to the enterprise of deep history (213) or
the Anthropocenethe idea that humanity has impacted the planet in such a thoroughgoing manner as to
constitute a distinct, new geological era. Revoicing Walter Benjamin, he suggests, species may indeed be the
danger that is climate change. In this precarious moment, the power/history frame of social theory proves
singularly inadequate: The critique that sees humanity as an effect of power is insufficient in dealing with
the crisis of global warming (221). In this view, a cultural analysis limited to assessing the social conditions
of possibility of an idea or life formprivileging capital and politics (e.g., neoliberalism), reinscribing or
delimiting the social as a uniquely humanreproduces anthropocentrism and is insufficient for grasping our
species predicament.
For a species that has given a good deal of thought to species, Chakrabarty concept is a notable development.
The fact that species are good to think provided the basis for articulating sociality for perhaps as long as
humans formed into durable group arrangements. As well, this theoretical formulation crucially opened an
enormous intellectual capacity to recognize logical or analytical thought operating on and through a variety of
nonhumans, while leveling the hierarchical contrast between civilized and primitive thought. Strikingly, the
recognition of species being was also central for the transformation of social theorizing with Marx. In the
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx declared, In the mode of life activity lies the entire character
of a species, its species character, and free conscious activity is the species-character of man that odd
species that bears the history making capacity to transform life itself.
Markedly underscoring the fundamentally social orientation of this concept, species thinking arises out of an
analytical intuition, rather than a phenomenological sensibility. Thats because, in Chakrabartys formulation,
it is not possible to grasp species thinking experientially: We humans never experience ourselves as a
species.There could be no phenomenology of us as a speciesno one ever experiences being a concept. This
arguably matches the central tenet of biological thought: that natural selection works on the individual, rather
than the species; the phenomenological experience of species being is continually forestalled by the operation
of selective pressures on individual, competitive, reproductive units. But if not phenomenologically, then
through our capacity to recognize both culture, generally, and its similar operations amongst other species. For
the very recognition of this moment of peril is linked to the transformative efficacy of the Anthropocene to
raise artificial selection onto a competitive plain with its natural counterpart.
Aesop's Anthropology
Theorizing culture across species lines
[i] Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2009. The Climate of History: Four Theses. Critical Inquiry 35 (2): 197222.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7228 | That Java Thing, Part 8: Source Bundles
Nov 10, 2015 7:46 AM
Tags: java xpages
2. That Java Thing, Part 2: Intro to OSGi
3. That Java Thing, Part 3: Eclipse Prep
4. That Java Thing, Part 4: Creating the Plugin
5. That Java Thing, Part 5: Expanding the Plugin
8. That Java Thing, Part 8: Source Bundles
11. That Java Thing, Interlude: Effective Java
12. That Java Thing, Part 11: Diagnostics
14. That Java Thing, Part 13: Introduction to Maven
15. That Java Thing, Part 14: Maven Environment Setup
16. That Java Thing, Part 15: Converting the Projects
17. That Java Thing, Part 16: Maven Fallout
19. Java Hiccups
20. Bitwise Operators
21. Java Grab Bag 2
Before anything else today, Eric McCormick reminding that yesterday's post missed the final step: committing the changes. So, let's take care of that right now. On my side, since my Windows VM is also being accessed from the Mac side, it's worthwhile to add a .gitignore file to the root of the repo to keep out all the .DS_Store nonsense. GitHub's Java gitignore is a good start, though skipping the part about ignoring Jar files. In your text editor of choice, create a new file named ".gitignore" in the root directory of the Git repository, with this content:
# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
# Package Files #
# virtual machine crash logs, see
Then commit the files:
Now, on to today's topic: adding a source bundle. This is a small topic, but will be very useful as you work down the line. As it stands right now, even though you have access to the source code of your plugin, Designer doesn't, and that means that you don't have nice parameter names, inline Javadoc, or viewable source when working with your classes in an actual XPages application. Since XSP libraries are almost always open-source or internal-use-only, including a source bundle is the fastest way to achieve all of these.
The way to do this is pretty non-obvious, but not complex once you know what to do. The work will be done with a new feature project, so go to File → New → Other and then "Feature Project" within "Plug-in Development". This should be set up very similarly to the original feature:
• Set the project name to "com.example.xsp.source.feature"
• Override the location with a folder inside the Git repository
• Pick a variant on your original feature name, so "Example XSP Library Source Feature"
Unlike before, however, we don't want to select any plugins on the next pane - instead, just hit "Finish". This feature is going to use some Eclipse trickery to automatically generate a "source" version of the existing feature. Once the project is created, open its feature.xml file and go to the "feature.xml" tab. On there, add a bit of XML to manually specify the non-existent source plugin (I've left out the "description", "copyright", and "license" blocks, which are required even if just stubs):
label="Example XSP Library Source Feature"
<!-- *snip* -->
Then, go to the "" tab and add a second line to tell Eclipse's builder to generate the source plugin:
bin.includes = feature.xml
generate.feature@com.example.xsp.plugin.source = com.example.xsp.feature
Next, open the site.xml file in the update site project and add the new feature to the "Managing the Site" section:
Now, save and "Build All". Then, go back to Designer and install the latest version from the update site, which should now have a second feature listed:
When you install that and relaunch Notes/Designer, you'll be able to access the source of your plugin. To see this in action, open your application in Designer and then go to the "Package Explorer" view (you may have to add it via Window → Show Eclipse Views → Package Explorer). Find your NSF's project and expand the "Plug-in Dependencies" category. Towards the bottom, you should see the example plugin Jar file - expand that and double-click on one of the classes:
If all went well, you should see the source to the original class, instead of Eclipse's incomprehensible bytecode dump. Additionally, now, when you access these classes from Java code inside your NSF, you'll get improved inline help, with correct parameter names and Javadoc (if you actually write the Javadoc).
The next step will be another small but useful topic: adding some third-party Jars to your plugin, either to use internally or to expose to your XPages applications.
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Georg Kastenhofer - Feb 2, 2016 9:05 AM
Hi Jesse,
thanks a lot for your perfect workup of these topics Lächelnd
One Hint: In the feature.xml description above you have posted a wrong include:
<includes id="com.example.xsp.plugin.sourceversion="0.0.0"/>
<includes id="com.example.xsp.feature" version="0.0.0"/>
Best regards
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Georg Kastenhofer - Feb 2, 2016 9:25 AM
Hi Jesse,
sorry I was wrong, forget the hint of my previous comment.
Thank you again
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7262 | • Jonas Termansen's avatar
Fix <fcntl.h> including <sys/stat.h> namespace pollution. · 29555d72
Jonas Termansen authored
POSIX allows <fcntl.h> to include <sys/stat.h>, but doesn't require it.
There's little reason to do that, since they are separate headers, and
<fcntl.h> just needs the mode_t constants. Fix the code accidentally
relying on <fcntl.h> including <sys/stat.h>. The mode_t constants are now
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Additionally fix <sys/stat.h> pulling in all of <sys/types.h>, which is not
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Finally fix <dirent.h> pulling in <stdint.h> through <sortix/dirent.h>.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7275 | Lacy Hunt: What Are the Global Macro Forces Driving the 21st Century? ( Original )
NOV 28, 2017
Lacy Hunt On Debt Deflation, Structural Demographics, and Financialization
Please click on the image below to hear the audio;
How Are The Global Macro Forces of Financialization, Debt Deflation, and Structural Demographics Driving The Outlook For The Global Economy? Demetri Kofinas Speaks With Lacy Hunt For The Hour.
In this episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Lacy Hunt, Executive Vice President of Hoisington Investment Management Company. For nearly 14 years, Dr. Lacy Hunt was Chief U.S. Economist for HSBC Group, one of the world’s largest banks. He was also Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Fidelity and held the position of Senior Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Global Macro is an investment strategy based on the interpretation and prediction of large-scale events related to national economies, history, and international relations. Many of these are chronic conditions, include debt deflation, structural demographics, a historically low savings rate, rising inequality, falling productivity, and the financialization of the global economy. How do all of these global macro phenomena derive from a single economic force? What role have governments played in amplifying and perpetuating their impact by bailing out financial markets and flooding the banking system with cheap money?
This is a conversation full of data, statistics, and econometrics – bank lending, money velocity, monetary aggregates, disposable income, liquidity coverage ratios, and credit spreads – but it is also a story about how we managed, despite the warnings of history, to repeat the blunders of economies past, by replacing credit for capital, and liability for effort. How will we navigate the next recession, having wasted the last 8 years chasing the shadows of wealth through buy-backs, stock appreciation, and financialization? Where will the demand come from in a consumer-led economy still fighting the forces of debt-deflation with diminishing savings rates and rising interest expenses? How will we manage our unfunded liabilities, mortgage payments, rents, and college tuitions, with such poor structural demographics? And how does all of this tie back to the resurgence of populism and the escalation of geopolitical tension in a world tied together by our liabilities but torn apart by the specter of conflict, the failures of diplomacy, and the expediency of war? |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7299 | V Systems — Decentralized Blockchain Databse and DApp Platform for the New Digital Economy
Bitcoin was originally ideated as a peer-to-peer electronic decentralized payment system, based on a public ledger or blockchain. Developers soon realized that the scope of blockchain extended much beyond a modest payment service. Vitalik Buterin viewed it as a platform on which decentralized applications (DApps) could be written using smart contracts, and brought Ethereum to life, which ushered in a new era of blockchain projects. Another application of blockchain technology that has gained ground recently is as distributed data systems. Just like we use centralized data systems like Google Cloud and Amazon AWS, with some optimization, blockchain can be used as a decentralized database. V Systems is a blockchain database cloud project and DApp platform, that aims to create a general purpose distributed database for a new digital economy. The project is based on a brand-new consensus method called Supernode Proof of Stake (SPoS), developed by none other than Sunny King, the brain behind the well-known PoS algorithm.
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V Systems whitepaper: Read here
SPoS whitepaper: Read here
Bitcoin as Decentralized Database?
The obvious question that comes to mind is why can’t the Bitcoin blockchain itself serve as a decentralized database? Well, Bitcoin wasn’t originally created to serve as a database! The data used per transaction is about 100 bytes, and the maximum block size was limited to 1 MB by Nakamotohimself, with new blocks produced every 10 minutes or so. This limitation was deliberately introduced since the increase in data usage would conflict with the system performance. There have been attempts to increase the maximum block size, but all such efforts have led to a lot of heart burns and hard forks!
Another problem here is that in its current form, Bitcoin it is not scalable. Today, the Bitcoin network processes less than 10 transactions per second (TPS). With every transaction, each node in the network has to validate the new blockchain state in its entirety. If data usage is increased, it would either require an upgrade of all the nodes, or result in a heavy decrease in the already-low system throughput. Scaling efforts such a Lightning Network and SegWit, unfortunately, have had little impact.
The Problem of PoW
Bitcoin’s chosen consensus algorithm is Proof of Work, or PoW. Nodes in the Bitcoin blockchain (called miners) solve cryptographic puzzles to validate transactions and create new blocks, keeping the network secure in the process. Computation power is expended during this process, and the miner who solves the puzzle first is rewarded with newly mined Bitcoin. The puzzle solving difficulty increases with time; in other words, more computation power (or hash rate) is required, leading to more electricity being consumed. While 10 years ago one could mine Bitcoins using literally the cheapest laptop available, today special Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) processors are needed. In fact, the hash rate of a single ASIC processor is also insufficient today, forcing miners to combine their hardware’s hash rates and form what are called mining pools.
This power-consumption is an ever-increasing headache. Currently, the annual energy consumed by Bitcoin miners is around 22 TWh, which is almost the same as Ireland’s power consumption. And with bitcoin mining difficulty increasing with time, this number will only grow. Moreover, the tendency to form mining pools tends to centralize the whole ecosystem, which attacks the fundamental value on which Bitcoin was built. Any mining pool that accumulates over 51% of hash power can end up modifying the Bitcoin blockchain as per its fancy!
Enter Sunny King
The high energy cost of PoW is a necessary evil, as the huge hash power required to mount a 51% attack is what potentially discourages attackers. However, there have always been voices of dissent against PoW’s wasteful nature. One such voice belongs to Sunny King. Many people might not be familiar with this name, specially since the person behind this pseudonym maintains a reclusive persona, communicating mainly through public forums. King is the developer of the Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. He is considered to be one of the legends in the blockchain space. In fact, Buterin even referred to him as “the single most original altcoin developer”Peercoin, launched in 2012, was the first digital currency to adopt PoS. Today, Neo, EOS, Cardano and a bunch of other crypto-currencies use PoS. And Ethereum is also implementing a move to PoS through the Casper upgrade.
In PoS, nodes (called minters) deposit (or stake) coins to the network, and earn minting fees when they create new blocks. The creator of the next block is chosen in a pseudo-random manner, which depends on the quantity of tokens staked. This randomization prevents centralization; otherwise the node with the most tokens would always end up being the block creator. The general notion is that greater a node’s stake, more the likelihood that the node would want the network to remain secure. In case a node behaves fraudulently, all the tokens staked by that node are confiscated.
51% attacks in a PoS system would require 51% of all blockchain coins. This would be an extremely costly affair, as any such purchasing activity would pump up the token price. Moreover, since the minting fees earned is proportional to the number of coins staked, there is no added incentive of joining mining pools. And finally, as no energy-extensive hardware is required, PoS is much more energy efficient than PoW. PoS also had had its fair share of issues, such as stake grinding and the nothing-at-stake problem, but these have been resolved through updates in the algorithm.
SPoS — the Next Generation of PoS
Problems related to code updates are easy to resolve, but when it comes to hardware issues, it becomes a major contention. And that is the nemesis PoS faces today. The increased performance demand from blockchain networks requires nodes with improved hardware. However, all nodes might not have enough incentive to upgrade. This causes the entire network to suffer. Another problem is that although the average block generation time is fixed, an individual block might actually take much longer. It is preferable to keep the block generation constant to ensure steady system performance.
These issues motivated Sunny King to develop the SPoS algorithm. While PoS allows any computer to mint coins, SPoS requires supernodes with much higher memory, bandwidth and processing capacity. Supernodes can process transactions much faster than ordinary nodes, making SPoS much more scalable. Ordinary nodes can lease their coins to a supernode, which in turn stakes these coins to earn minting rewards. The rewards are then proportionately distributed among the stake owners. Since minting is done only by supernodes, a constant minting interval can be maintained here. Typically, 60 minting slots are provided each minute, and a supernode has to own a minting slot before minting a new block. Contention of minting slot by challenger supernodes is also allowed. This redundancy ensures that system performance is not hampered if some of the supernodes suddenly malfunction.
This idea of leasing coins (also called cold minting or cold staking) originally came from the Peercoin days, and involved 2 separate keys — a minting key and a spending key. The minting key remains online, allowing the minter to sign the newly block minted; the spending key, which actually ‘owns’ the stake, is kept offline safely. This allows nodes to lease their coins without giving up on ownership, but this also encourages the creation of mining pools. This is actually one of the biggest arguments against SPoS today as well.
King’s solution to this plight involves providing equal minting rights to all supernodes. Stake owners will tend to lease coins to supernodes which pay more, and this additional lease will lower that particular supernode’s lease rate due to its constant minting output. This mechanism maintains a balance between the lease rates of all supernodes. The hardware requirement of all supernodes is also standardized through community effort, which ensures that no supernode ends up being more powerful than others.
SPoS also implements what is known as stake liquidity, where both minters and stake owners can spend or transfer the staked coins whenever they want to. This encourages more nodes to participate in the network, increasing overall security. On the downside, this can lead to the busy contention attack, where a stake owner might try to move the stake around rapidly to claim multiple minting slots. To counter this, an average minting balance of the account is used when bidding for minting slots, forcing the stake to stay in the account for a certain minimum amount of time.
Introducing V Systems
On 11th Jan, 2019, Sunny King introduced V Systems as the first project to implement SPoS. King has been associated with this project for over a year now, in the capacity of Chief Architect. Their primary goal is to be a distributed database infrastructure on which new blockchains and blockchain applications can be developed at a low cost. They believe that the future of blockchain entails multiple application-specific blockchains, instead of a single blockchain to rule them all. A single blockchain will suffer from scalability limitation, provide no application-wise isolation, and hinder the proper utilization of resources when sharing resources over multiple applications. V Systems will provide custom blockchain solutions for organizations through their decentralized cloud platform, and user-friendly modular development platforms for developers to create blockchains and DApps instantly, without worrying about complicated time-consuming codes.
Thanks to SPoS, their platform is highly scalable and low-cost. Supernodes will be provided enough incentive to constantly upgrade hardware as required, to support large scale growth of DApps. V Systems is also working on next generation smart contracts, as the current breed is difficult to scale and lack security. Their main-net will launch the smart contract and DApps development platform functions later this year. For now, they will support Ethereum and EOS smart contracts. Enterprise DApps will also be supported on their decentralized database platform, with a full privacy protection layer for smart contracts, ensuring that the blockchain is transparent but data remains private. Finally, V Systems’ long term vision also includes a decentralized mobile internet network, which will include browser support for mobile phone users.
(VSYS Function Roadmap)
The V Systems blockchain explorer shows that new blocks are minted every 4 seconds. VSYS is the native currency of their blockchain. The total coin supply is around 5.14 billion. They are used for paying transaction fees on the network, as well as for leasing and minting. Each transaction on the blockchain leads to burning of VSYS and a subsequent deflation. Payments for accessing DApps on the V Systems network, and utilizing resources on the decentralized cloud database, will also be done through VSYS coins. On 27th March, 2019, Hong Kong based ZB/BW/ZBG exchanges co-launched the sale of VSYS on their project launchpad platforms. Over 300,000 KYC users participated in the sale, which got over in less than 10 seconds. VSYS is trading at ~6x of the launchpad price in exchanges worldwide, as on 18th April, 2019. EOS, whose current market cap is nearly 5b USD, is probably their biggest competitor in the blockchain space.
Minting on V Systems Supernode Network
V Systems has 15 supernodes in operation now, and a handful of backup supernodes. New supernodes get listed in the backup section, and if they manage to get a large amount of leased coins, they get promoted to active supernodes. As explained earlier, when users lease their coins to supernodes, their average minting balance (AMB) increases, such that they can contend for minting slots and earn minting rewards. The supernodes keep a certain portion of the rewards as hardware maintenance fees, and distribute the rest to the users. A point to note here is that supernodes with 100% capacity will not provide users with minting rewards.
VSYS Economy Model
In order to lease coins to a supernode, users will first have to create a V Wallet. Once a wallet is created, copy the address of the supernode of your choice, go the ‘Leasing’ section of your wallet webpage, and enter the details as required. This section is extremely easy and intuitive to navigate, and even first time users should have no difficulty at all.
VSYS Wallet Interface
In case additional help is here, some explainer videos can be found in their official Youtube channel. Cancelling of lease can also be done through the same page. Most supernodes actually start giving out rewards once coin age duration is complete. In simple words, users will start getting rewards after roughly 4 days (or 86,400 blocks to be precise) from the time the lease transaction was completed.
Parting Thoughts
After more than a year in crypto exile, Sunny King is leading a team of blockchain developers to reduce the technical barriers and entry cost of blockchain technology. Centrally hosted databases have high communication costs, are prone to hacking, and are susceptible to single-point failures. On the other hand, distributed database systems have high concurrency, are customizable, have high data security, and other added advantages. The main roadblock to blockchain based database systems today is the low network throughput. With their SPoS consensus algorithm, V Systems promises to change that, and make blockchain technology more accessible to developers.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7315 | Genital itchiness
Reasons and prevention of genital itchiness
Genital itching can happen to anybody and in either sex. Generally it is caused by allergies and skin irritation. Diabetes, cancer are other conditions that can cause severe itching and visible rashes. In women vaginal infection and in men jock itch is common.
Itching in the genital region can result from a wide range of things, including:
1. It can be due to allergic reactions to various microbes or chemicals or surgery
2. Due to Bacterial vaginosis caused by bacteria
3. Skin or tissue cancer in private parts
4. Due to diabetes condition
5. Certain chemicals present in detergents, fabric softeners, soaps, creams, ointments and lubricants, topical contraceptives, body wash, feminine sprays.
6. Drop in estrogen hormone during menopause causes dryness and itchiness
7. Sometimes parasites – public lice, crabs, that typically live in pubic hair can cause itchiness
8. Contagious, extremely itchy skin disease caused by tiny mites known as scabies
9. Genital herpes and trichomoniasis – sexually transmitting disease
10. Psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and eczema – skin conditions
11. Fungal skin infection like Tinea cruris (jack itch)
12. Yeast infection in vagina, urinary infection
13. Inflammation in tissues Vaginitis
14. Shaving- When pubic hair grows back after a clean, smooth shave it causes problem of irritation and itchiness.
15. Certain sanitary pads can lead to reaction and allergy
1. Do not wear synthetic or nylon underwear
2. Do not wear tight fitting
3. While using scented body sprays, soaps be careful. Do not apply scented soap around private parts. Don’t spray perfumes, deodorants, scented creams etc. Do not use scented toilet paper.
4. Rinse well in shower to avoid leaving residues
5. Allow skin to dry before wearing clothes, let there be no moisture.
6. Wipe from front to back to prevent bacteria from the anus getting into the vagina after bowel or urination.
7. Men should also wash private part well including are under the foreskin.
8. Use unscented or mild laundry detergent to wash underwear.
9. Do not wear wet clothes for longtime. Daily change your gym clothes and wash them.
Itching in private area can be painful, burning and lead to rashes all the time. Sometimes over the counter medicines will help. If you feel that the condition is worsening, and does not go away in 2 weeks of time even after application of medicines, ointment, cream it is better to see doctor to avoid any serious complications.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7316 | Cold sores are caused by the oral herpes virus, HSV-1. The itchy, tingly, painful blisters that appear on the lips or surrounding areas usually last about seven to 10 days, according to the Mayo Clinic. There are several over-the-counter medications, home remedies and prescription drugs that can alleviate these unpleasant symptoms. All are functional alternatives to Abreva. As with any other ailment, it may take a few different approaches to find the product that is right for you.
Aveeno Advanced Relief Cold Sore Treatment, Zenmed AvaCare, Valtrex, Viroxyn, Zilactin and Denavir are just some of the prescription and over-the-counter products out there. Consult your doctor or a pharmacist for a recommendation. Topical lidocaine or benzyl alcohol may also provide some relief.
Natural Remedies
Natural remedies can be used, as well. Lemon balm, peppermint oil, tea tree oil and echinacea have been used to alleviate symptoms and duration times.
Lifestyle Changes
Identify triggers and sources of stress that cause the cold-sore episodes, and avoid these situations as much as you can. Avoiding peas, peanuts, gelatin, chocolate, beer and cola drinks is also helpful in reducing the number of episodes.
Apply ice when you first feel the pain and tingling sensation that accompanies cold sores to lessen the severity of the sore.
Apply zinc directly to the area to prevent the virus from reproducing and lessen the symptoms.
Lysine in the form of foods, supplements or ointments can lessen the duration and severity of symptoms. Potatoes and dairy products fall into this category. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7324 | Service Manager
Setting the Database Properties for DSM
The following procedure only applies to on-premise implementations.
You can change a property for the Service Manager database to prevent an intermittent error when you open or refresh the Managed Software tab of the CI Computer business object.
To view or change the database setting, do the following:
1.On the database server, launch Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
2.In the Object Explorer area, under Databases, right-click HEATSM and choose Properties from the drop-down list.
Selecting Properties
3.In the Database Properties dialog box, under Select a page, choose Options.
4.In the Other list, scroll down to Is Read Committed Snapshot On.
If the value is "False", change it to "True" and click OK.
If the value is "True", click Cancel.
Database Properties
5.Click OK.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7329 | Delphine is a major supporting character in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. She is a Breton who runs the Sleeping Giant Inn. Her main role is to help discover the mystery behind the dragons and their re-emergence, and to help revive the Blades.
Delphine is one of the last remaining members of the Blades faction, alongside Esbern.
She is first seen in Dragonsreach after the Dovahkiin has explored Bleak Falls Burrow and uncovered the Dragonstone for the court wizard Farengar, playing in as his apprentice.
Later, while the Dragonborn is searching for the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, the Dragonborn finds the horn missing, and in its place a Mysterious Note telling them to head to the Sleeping Giant in Riverwood and rent the attic room.
At the inn, Delphine approaches them and reveals then that she is a member of the Blades, seeking the Dragonborn's assistance in slaying a dragon at Kynesgrove. There, they find Alduin, the black dragon that attacked Helgen at the beginning of the game, resurrecting another dragon.
After defeating the revived dragon and absorbing their soul, she comes to believe that the Thalmor may be involved with the re-emergence of dragons in Skyrim, and sends the Dragonborn to infiltrate the Embassy located just north of Solitude. There, the Dragonborn comes across evidence not of their involvement in the re-emergence of the dragons, but that they are search for a Blades member named Esbern, and with this, she sends the Dragonborn to fetch the surviving blade.
Once Esbern is notified, the three of them begin searching for a ruin called Sky Haven Temple. Once located, they discover Alduin's Wall, and learn that the Dragonborn is the "One they fear".
Delphine then tells the Dragonborn to seek a peace treaty with the Greybeards, While an argument stirs up between the Blades and Greybeards at first, Arngeir reluctantly agrees to let them participate in the meeting.
After the meeting, Delphine will become aware that Paarthurnax, the leader of the Greybeards, is alive, and demands the Dragonborn to kill him, telling them he is either with the Blades or against them; from here the Dragonborn must make a choice...
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Wake Up Call
The phone rings. It's darker than usual. Who would be calling now? You stumble to find the source of the ring. That's not even what your phone sounds like. You pick up the receiver. No one's there. It's your wake up call.
Now you remember: you're away from home. There's work to be done, and you did ask for this reminder to rise up early and to get started on your goals.
Wake up calls are sometimes disorienting. They can take us by surprise, even when we expect them. How does that make sense? Examine your history of wake up calls and look for patterns. The patterns are likely there.
What is your wake up call? What have you put in place to get you going, to get you oving in a strange place, at an unusual time?
We live in unusual times but hasn't that always been the case? What do we have to prevent us from slipping into a muddled routine accepting everything and leaving our own assumptions untested? What can rattle our cage?
We need wake up calls -- ways to …
Constant Learning
High performance leaders remain vital by continuing to learn.
They learn by taking training, continuing their education, reading, exercising their creativity, exploring what makes them curious, helping social agencies...countless ways to continue learning.
What are you doing to keep your learning active?
What have you learned today?
-- Douglas Brent Smith
Taking Charge
Leadership is not being in charge -- it is taking charge when help is needed.
When you find yourself in a situation where you are wondering who's in charge -- that's the universe telling you that it's up to you...
Are you ready to lead when you're needed?
What are you doing to improve your leadership skills so that you WILL be ready?
-- Douglas Brent Smith |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7343 | 2013 in review
Here’s an excerpt:
Here’s some images:
Crunchy numbers
Crunchy numbers
Attractions in 2013
Attractions in 2013
How did they find you?
How did they find you?
Where did they come from?
Where did they come from?
1. My post comparing free/open source BPM tools of 2011 is still the most visited. Think I should update it.
2. My post on Private Cloud “lowcost” with Proxmox was the most visited in 2013 per day. I will continue writing about IaaS and PaaS, and specially on WSO2 AppFactory, WSO2 Private PaaS (Apache Stratos) and RedHat OpenShift.
3. The referring site were: soapUI.org (my swiss-army-knife, although Mac OS X has an unfriendly UI), bonitasoft.org (my posts are used as marketing material, I think I should charge them for that :D ), konakart.com (an Java eCommerce platform to build small and big Shots, a tool really impressive because it is easily integrable and suitable for any requirement).
4. Total visitors of the countries of South America (ca. 4800) is higher than the U.S., Europe and India. For this reason, the next year I will write more in Spanish.
5. What about of WSO2 ?. Nothing, because It is necessary more diffusion and more content oriented to beginners.
Just some keywords for this 2014:
• Service Oriented Integration (SOI) and terms related as SOA, API, ESB, etc.
• Platform as an Service (PaaS) and usecases as BigData, DevOps, Productivity, etc.
• Security of Information and over Business Transactions
• And ECM, Portal, BPM, ERP, CRM, eCommerce free/open source and WSO2 Cloud Connectors (for cloud-cloud and cloud-enterprise integration)
And finally, here two links to predictions for 2014:
Forrester Top Technology Trends for 2014 And Beyond (by Peter High)
Las 10 tendencias tecnológicas para la empresa en 2014, según Gartner (by Esther Macías, in Spanish)
Las 10 tendencias tecnológicas para la empresa en 2014, según Gartner
In conclusion the keywords are: Mobile and Apps, Cloud Architecture, API (APIs become digital glue, before was SOA/SOI), Business Intelligence Platforms, “Trust” and “identity” get a rethink and IT becomes an agile service broker (or fades away).
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ICD-10-CM Code P74
Other transitory neonatal electrolyte and metabolic disturbances
Non-Billable Code
| ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
ICD Code P74 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the nine child codes of P74 that describes the diagnosis 'oth transitory neonatal electrolyte and metabolic disturb' in more detail.
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Source: http://icd.codes/icd10cm/P74 |
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It’s a lovely Sunday afternoon: The sun is out and it’s perfect picnic weather, or maybe you’re curled up on the couch watching your favorite TV show. Either way, you’re happy—until you remember that tomorrow, you have to go back to work. That dreaded feeling that comes over you every Sunday can be a tell-tale […]
Not Qualified for the Job or Not Confident? How to Tell the Difference
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We’ve all been there. You find the perfect job only to realize you’re missing one of the preferred qualifications. Your excitement deflates as you wonder how many other applicants have that magical thing you lack. So, do you apply anyway and hope for the best, or do you move on and stay in your lane? While […]
Jobs Roundup: Jobs for Introverts!
This week’s jobs roundup is for all the introverts who want to make a difference in their world, but find work dependent on everyday interactions with people energetically draining. Moreover, you might even find the job search process daunting as it requires more reaching out, networking, and self-promotion than you may be comfortable with. There […]
HR Insider: How I Hire at Re:Gender
For our next installment of HR Insider, I interviewed Andrea Greenblatt, VP of Operations at Re:Gender. Formerly known as the National Council for Research on Women, the organization was established in 1981 and became Re:Gender in March 2014. The organization works to end gender inequity and discrimination by exposing root causes and advancing research-informed action. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7371 | Research and development of new medications
R&D Costs & Drug Pricing
R&D Costs & Drug Pricing
An article from Kenneth Kaitin, PhD, Professor and Director at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
This article was originally published by Tufts CSDD Insider.
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by a National Public Radio affiliate for a segment to be aired in the coming days on whether high drug development costs justify the high prices of many new pharmaceutical products. As many of our readers are aware, Tufts CSDD is known internationally for its series of studies estimating the true cost of pharmaceutical R&D. Our latest study (DiMasi et al, J Health Econ 2016;47:20-33) determined that the fully-capitalized cost to bring a new drug to market, including the cost of failures, is $2.6 billion, a 145% increase in constant dollars over our previous report published in 2003.
At more and more public and professional forums these days, I find myself addressing a common misconception about the relationship between R&D costs and drug prices. Much of this misunderstanding, I believe, comes from confusing messaging by the pharmaceutical industry. For example, when asked to explain why drugs are so expensive, the response is often, because it costs so much to develop new drugs (“The Tufts Center says it costs $2.6 billion to develop a new drug!”). On the other hand, when asked to provide the actual cost data for a specific drug, the response is often, “The cost to develop a drug has no bearing on the price of that drug.” A sane individual might ask, “How can both of these responses be correct?” The bottom line is that they both ARE correct.
As I explain it, average R&D costs represent the cost to maintain R&D operations. In other words, across a company’s marketed drug portfolio, average prices must be high enough for the company to generate sufficient revenue to maintain its R&D operations and (hopefully) develop tomorrow’s breakthrough drug. An individual drug’s price, however, typically reflects that drug’s perceived therapeutic and economic value, the competitive landscape, and the ability to obtain reimbursement. In other words, drug pricing is not unlike pricing of any other product.
The public debate over drug prices and the cost of healthcare in general is certain to continue into the foreseeable future. Greater transparency on how companies determine drug prices and how that relates to R&D costs would go a long way toward improving public understanding and furthering the discussion. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7393 | Choi Joon-ho, CEO of the Elsol Company, signed an MOU with Kim Doh-jin, CEO of ATFS Lab in order to strengthen INFLEUM Project and ICO.
INFLEUM is a blockchain-based brand publishing platform for micro-influencers that aims to create a transparent trading structure in which an individual’s small ideas or actions may translate into profit. ATFS Lab had already successfully completed its own ICO with the blockchain-integrated smart farm business model.
With this MOU, the two parties agreed to mutual cooperation in establishing INFLEUM ecosystem and marketing.
Kim Doh-jin, CEO of ATFS Lab, revealed his expectation on this MOU, “ATFS is introducing a decentralized blockchain technology into agriculture through ‘Smart Farm 2.0’ to increase agricultural productivity. And now we are expecting this MOU with INFLEUM to start an innovative business system based on advanced revenue base and supply model in which agricultural products can become a brand.”
“MOU with ATFS Lab will provide diversity to the INFLEUM’s blockchain-based brand publishing ecosystem. INFLEUM will provide solutions for marketing challenges that many farms and local governments are facing and serve as a bridgehead between promising agricultural brands in Korea and the global market,” said Choi Joon-ho, founder and CEO of Elsol Company.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7395 | Weekly Digest: Niche Careers, Whole Brain Ads, Getting Cozier
November 16, 2011
We’re in the midst of Global Entrepreneurship Week!
The latest from Astrid Baumgardner, on discovering what makes you as a musician unique
From Music Career Juice, an insightful look at why now is the time for musicians to build niche careers and businesses
And check out from the New York Times a look at why small businesses are today’s ideal social form
Whole Brain Ads: What can we learn from them?
And, where is Music Memory in the Brain?
Seth Godin on doing your best
Get cozier in classical concerts
Ten tips for ongoing creativity
Course Correction and Making Connections from the NEC Entrepreneurial Musicianship Blog
Read more on Dudamel and his youth orchestra work and then check out Classicool Kids
See what one clarinetist in Portland, Oregon is doing to support music education there
Some ideas on Arts Survival in the 21st century from Horn Insights
And some tips on when to think, and when not to from the Talent Code
And finally, Calvin and Hobbes on creativity….(thanks to New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department for passing this on!)
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7421 | Confluence 3.0.1 アップグレード ノート
アトラシアン コミュニティをご利用ください。
Below are some important notes on upgrading to Confluence 3.0.1. Confluence 3.0.1 is a recommended upgrade which fixes some security flaws as well as other bugs. For more details, please read the Confluence 3.0.1 Release Notes.
アップグレード ノート
If you have customized the cache settings in your installation of Confluence (e.g. for performance reasons), then please read ALL information on this page before upgrading to Confluence 3.0.1 or to a 'standard edition' of Confluence. This page also contains important information for customers who are upgrading their installation of Confluence to version 2.6 or later from September 2009.
ClusterManager for Non-Clustered Licenses causes Critical Errors
Introduction of 'Standard' and 'Clustered' editions
Confluence 3.0.1 is the first Confluence version to be released in two editions 'standard' and 'clustered'.
Also, from September 2009:
• Standard editions will be released for each previous major version of Confluence back to 2.6. These will be:
• Available as Confluence versions 2.10.4, 2.9.3, 2.8.3, 2.7.4 and 2.6.3.
• Available to customers with non-clustered Confluence licenses.
• The remaining previous versions of Confluence currently available from our download page (from 2.6 to 3.0 inclusively), will be re-released as clustered editions and will only be available to customers with Confluence clustered licenses.
• 2.6 以前の (サポート終了済みの) すべての Confluence バージョンのインストール ファイルはアトラシアンの Web サイトから削除され、ダウンロードおよびインストールできなくなります。
Confluence Caching Layer Changes
Due to the caching layer changes in the 'standard editions' of Confluence, you will need to reapply any cache customizations made to your cache sizes and/or cache configuration file, if all three of the following points are applicable:
• You have implemented cache customizations to your Confluence installation's cache sizes (either via the Administration Console or cache configuration file).
• You have an existing installation of Confluence 3.0 or earlier (excluding the 'standard edition' versions) and will be upgrading to Confluence 3.0.1 or later (or one of the earlier standard editions).
• Your Confluence installation is using a non-clustered Confluence license.
If you customized your Confluence instance's cache settings via the Administration Console, please refer to the Reapplying Cache Size Modifications via the Administration Console section below.
If you customized your Confluence instance's cache settings by modifying the cache configuration file, please refer to the Reapplying Cache Configuration File Modifications section below.
Reapplying Cache Size Modifications via the Administration Console
To reapply your cache size modifications via the administration console:
1. Before you upgrade, use the procedure described on the Cache Statistics page to open the 'Cache Statistics' section of the Administration Console in the 'Advanced' view.
2. Print out this view or save a copy of the web page for later reference. (This contains your existing individual cache settings.)
3. After upgrading Confluence, view the 'Cache Statistics' section of your upgraded Confluence installation in the 'Advanced' view.
4. Use the same procedure describe on the Cache Statistics page to re-adjust the size of each cache based on the previous settings that you had printed out (or saved).
Reapplying Cache Configuration File Modifications
2. If your version of Confluence is earlier than 3.0.1, read the release notes and upgrade guides for all releases between your version and the latest version. In particular:
3. Download the latest version of Confluence.
4. Follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide.
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A convinced voice to debunk false allegations
When looking at the internet we see in it a very handy tool but also can find a very dangerous tool spreading lots of fake news and spreading false accusations.
It is a well-known fact that in Christendom there are some Christians who say the Jews killed Jesus and should be punished for this. Today we do find a lot of such extreme hateful voices in the United States of America, but in West and East Europe voices against Jews are also raising.
But not only Jews are under attack in the so called ‘Christian world‘. Lots of Christians do hate the persons who do not want to take Jesus as their god. For Jews it is evident that Jesus never can be The God, but with Christians there is a lot of discussion or debate concerning the position of Jesus, of which many Christians even do not want to accept that he would have been a Jew. Several Christians claiming that Jesus was a Christian and opposed the Jews.
In the world of Christendom the majority loves to worship a Trinity, but we may not forget that there are enough real Christians who really do their utmost best to keep to the same God as the God Jesus Christ worshipped, namely the God of Abraham, though not many Trinitarians want to accept that Eternal Singular Supreme Spirit Being Who is the God of Israel. Therefore they like to break off and pressure such believers down by spreading false allegations on the internet.
On that world wide web we can find loads of sites who bow down over the non-Trinitarians to ridicule them. They find pleasure in finding enough ex-members of such religious groups to give them their say so that as much negative news can be spread.
We must know that by every religious group there can be found apostates or members who have turned their backs on the religious community. Be it in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Shamanism or any other spiritual community. Always shall you be able to find some people saying pro’s but also contras for or against one or another group.
There are people who seem to find pleasure in spreading untruths about groups so that they can avoid people even becoming interested in such or similar groups. 2017 seemed to be the capital year of fake news on all fronts, though it looked like there was already a propaganda war going on since 2014/2015.
Coming closer to the end-times we can see that more people get agitated about those who love God. This should not surprise us, because it is one of the many signs notated in Scriptures to mankind, so that people would know when the time would be at hand. The Bible warns us for the increase of division and hatred amongst people, but does not say we should have to let it happen without reacting.
Therefore the Belgian Bible students have taken up the Sword of God, willing to go fight the spiritual battle against the adversary of God who feels that he becomes more enclosed and as such gets more aggressive.
The Belgian Bible Students do find it time to react against those who use words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding worshippers of the Only One True God, be it Jews, Jeshuaists or Messianic Jews, real Christians or Non-Trinitarians or Muslims. There are too many who like to mock, taunt or deride such groups and who have no ethic values are honesty about spreading many untruths (falsifications), speaking or writing evasively (with prevarication), about those religious people who love God and only want to worship That Only One True God.
To expose those falsehood of people who call themselves Christian the site is not only going to look at those particular groups individually, but is also shedding light onto the Biblical sayings and what they are claiming what the bible would say according to their faith or better according to their theologians.
Wanting to show the world why and how the Non-Trinitarians would not be so far from truth the site shall first offer an insight about the credibility of the Holy or set apart Scriptures, which they and we take to be the infallible Word of God. For this reason it shall look at the Bible a a library of books man can trust, in which man might find a background book for debate. Considering the Bible to be a Book of Truth the site aiming at unmasking those who are against us and other true believers of the One God it shall try to show how we are all part of the Creation and how believer as unbeliever we all are a creation of the Divine Creator Who is Cause of Being and Truth.
The site with the title Unmasking anti Jehovah sites and people has the intention to showing pepole that there is only One True God and that He Himself offered the Right Way to That God of gods. To show the purpose of the God of order the site shall regularly try to show how man can find Words directed to create order Which are given by that True God and true words.
Many of the adversaries of God love to ad human theories because they think the Word of God cannot be clear for people who have not done special studies to understand the Word of God, as if God would withhold some information or knowledge to the unlettered. They shall show how the Heavenly Father is not withholding knowledge, but is willing that everybody comes to know that the Father of the universe wants His creatures to know Him.
Sharing God’s Word and showing what the Plan of God is, the site shall show how in our world we can find many signs of the existence of God and how God used and guided people to make Him known to mankind. They shall show how archaeology would be confirming or denying claims of the Bible. They also have the intention to show people how the Bible is the Real Source to educate us and able to give all answers.
By offering additional reading to its readers it hopes to show that there are many more people who did find a community willing to honour and worship that only one God. Presenting and showing the world that there are many more groups which have other attitudes than those adversaries want the world to believe, they want to give the people the opportunity to compare for themselves by presenting the false sayings of the different groups working against the variety of Non-Trinitarian groups.
One of the many anti-unitarian websites telling a lot of nonsense about many other Christian denominations the author Dave Norris clearly has a grudge against
Already soon after the opening of the site several anti-Unitarian groups reacted and showed clearly how they do not have enough knowledge about the working of such groups like the Christadelphians or other non-trinitarian denominations. One person (Dave Norris) with his site Exposing Christian Error first even thought one Christadelphian was a Mormon and later showed how he does not have any clue about the position of the founder of the Christadelphians and how he is not considered a prophet by the Brethren in Christ as well not some one of whom all his writings should be taken as to be so and to be followed. It are such people not knowing the essence of such Non-Trinitarian groups which present a lot of rubbish or sell a lot of Heresy about Unitarian groups on their sites but have a lot of popularity by their extensive fantasies about groups that they do not like. Those who resent unitarians love it to spend most of their time going in against the many groups who try to spread the Word of God, wiling to bring Good News instead of their bad news.
Hoping that several Non-Trinitarian groups and individuals shall dare to come in the open and shall let them be known, we can only hope the initiative of the Belgian Bible Students shall succeed and shall give people more strength to dare to look for the Biblical Truth and to look for a denomination around their habitat where they can find like-minded people willing to serve God.
Please do find: Unmasking anti Jehovah sites and people
Jewish millennials between 2013 and 2017
Additional reading
1. God’s forgotten Word 6 Lost Lawbook 5 Heretics
2. False teachers and false prophets still around
3. Beware that you do not fall or be carried away by false teachings
4. Propaganda war and ISIS
5. 25 Orthodox rabbis issued a statement on Christianity
6. A busy 2017 #3 Fake, gossip and real news
8. Looking for a biblically sound church
9. Negative views of immigrants, Muslims and Jews
10. Gates to different belief systems in this world
11. Today’s thought “Be aware of what went on” (August 15) He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.
12. Immanuel looking at Jewish and Christian visions
1. Argument in my Head
2. Apostate
3. Annals of faith: How Great Is That Darkness
4. Muslims Kill Non-Muslims in The Name of Jihad
5. Vilify the Truth Seeker
6. Epistle of Jude 10-11: Woe to Them! and Their Lifestyle
7. Epistle of Jude 12-19: Dead Fruitless Trees
8. Epistle of Jude 17-25: Keep Yourself in the Love of God, Contending for the Faith
9. Are we apostates?
10. Woe to the Apostates
11. Naked Kings in the Information Age
12. Can Apostates Be Christians?
13. Freedom of religion and apostasy in Islam
14. We weren’t Idiots. We were just Manipulated
15. Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 164
16. 3 Things That Happen When you Renounce Religion in Nigeria
17. Deadly Tale: Christian Converts from Islam
18. Let Us Now Praise Muslim Apostates
19. “Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good” 1Thess 5:21
20. Faith Trap
21. The Greatest Betrayal
22. Gods Morals versus Humanist Morals
23. No Fear Of False Cults
24. Celestial Hell. Heaven can Wait
25. What to buy next?
26. Salam aleikum ustaz, please why did islamic law support the killing of whoever abandon islam for any other religion???
27. Keeping Friendships with Jehovah’s Witness Alive
28. The truth is, I’m not OK
29. Dreams, Visions, Revelations, and Crazy King Nebuchadnezzar!
30. New Focus
31. True Worship
32. Spiritual Battle
33. What must I do to be saved
34. Sharing the “gospel”
35. Time of the End
36. How to Save Your Life from Nature Catastrophe at End-Time
37. End-time Racism
38. The Sources of New Testament Textual Criticism
39. Who are the Unitarians?
40. Christadelphians, Unitarians, and JW’s ALL Follow the Doctrines of Man- 2
41. Unitarian Nonsense- 1
42. Unitarian Nonsense- 2
43. The Patriarch of Christadelphians
44. The All Seeing Eye: Biblical?
45. What Is Biblical Meditation?
46. Members of Old Dissent: an introduction
47. Silly Suffolk, Dissenters and Unitarians
48. The Trojan Horse of Christianity Pt. 2
49. The Trojan Horse of Christianity Pt. 3
50. Why I couldn’t Sign the Online Petition for Inerrancy
51. Friday Jummah Prayers
7 gedachten over “A convinced voice to debunk false allegations”
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7445 | Jambukeswarar Temple, Thirvanaikaval
Kochenganan was an ardent Shiva devotee, and has built many Shiva temple, where Thiruvanaikaval is one of them. The sanctum of Jambukeswara has an underground water stream, that is always filled with water despite it’s pumping water out.
The legend says, that 2 Shiva Gana’s were cursed to be born as an elephant and a spider. Both the elephant and the spider were worshipping lord Shiva in the place Jambukeswaram (the place where Goddess Parvathi once worshipped lord Shiva as Appu Lingam, in a forest of jambu trees on the Island of Ponni – Kaveri River). Though, one day the elephant found spider web on the lingam, and thought it was dirt. It therefore removed the web, poured water and worshipped the lingam daily. The spider became angry, and cravled into the elephant’s trunk and bit the elephant to death, also killing itself. Lord Shiva was moved by this, and relieved them from the curse.
As an elephant worshipped here, the places is therefore named Thiru-Aanai-Kaa (Holy Elephant Forest), now becoming “Thiruvanaikaval”/”Thiruvanaikoil”. It is believed, that the elephant was born as king Kochenganan in its next birth. By the way, Kochenganan means “the king with red eyes”.
Thiruvanaikaval is another very beautiful, peaceful temple. I’ll deifinitely go to this temple again, if I ever get back to Tamil Nadu 😉
~ AJ
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7455 | The Time in Maggie’s Room
Maggie knew her father hadn’t meant her to fall. When he pushed her into the room to pull her door closed she had stumbled over the rug, hitting her head against the corner of the oak armoire. The sound of his own heavy boots must have covered the noise of her fall, for why else would he have locked the door and walked away without first determining that she was unhurt?
Weak and wobbly, she pulled herself up by the massive knobbed handles on the doors of the armoire, then stumbled to her bed, more falling than sitting. Her head didn’t hurt, but the spinning wouldn’t stop. Closing her eyes helped. She rubbed her temples, which didn’t.
Her stomach reminded her that she was stuck here until supper. It seemed hours since she’d fallen, but since supper was promptly at six and her father’s quite unreasonable burst of anger had befallen her at five, she had not long to wait.
Normally comfortable, her boots pinched, as if she’d had them on too long. She drew her feet up on the bed one at a time to unlace them, dropping them on the floor. Another wave of dizziness lurched through her stomach. She rubbed her temples, eyes closed.
As the dizziness passed, she stopped rubbing and opened her eyes. Surely it must be near six.
Her clock read 4:15.
She must have forgotten to wind it this morning. It was her habit to wind it each day, but as is the case with habits, it had become unconscious, automatic, and so she didn’t remember winding it. May as well wind it now, estimating the correct time, and set it properly from the hall clock downstairs before bed tonight.
It was ticking. The clock was ticking when she picked it up. She had indeed wound it this morning. But why was the time wrong? It was not old. Her father had given it to her in the spring upon his return from the city. Surely it would keep better time than this.
Yet something was amiss. The ticking of the clock was clear in her ears and her fingers.
And now it pointed most definitely at 4:14.
Maggie returned the clock to its place on the table and felt behind her for the bed, climbing up to sit crosslegged, head bowed, face in her hands. She rubbed her temples, rubbed her eyes, shook her head, pinched her cheeks, tugged at the shorter hair in front of her ears.
Wiping her eyes, she looked again at the clock.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7481 | NKY Racial Justice Meeting | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
NKY Racial Justice Meeting
Join KFTC members for a discussion around ongoing work around racial justice! Ban the Box, voting rights, education inequity, immigrant rights, and more!
Come plug in to the work we are doing, and help us build a Kentucky we all can call home - regardless of what you earn, what you look like, or who you love.
July 17, 2019 - 9:45am
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7521 | Podcasts: List for 2016
Updated since January 15, 2016
Time to add some other podcasts I’m listening to!
Ever since I heard about The Thrilling Adventure Hour, I have been a fan of podcasts. Currently, I have quite a list that I follow, some more frequently than others. These podcasts are an ideal way each day to wind down, when I travel back from work on public transport. I will simply start a new episode of one of the following podcasts:
On my To Listen list for 2016:
Finished, but worth to hear again:
Somehow, I did not manage to get into Serial1, but there are so many podcasts out there, I do not feel as if I’m missing out!
1. Neither season 1 or 2 appeals to me. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7523 | This Plankton lesson plan also includes:
Plankton: so much more than just a SpongeBob character. Three different activities have kids looking at both phytoplankton and zooplankton in pictures, as well as collecting their own samples (depending on your access to a saltwater system) and examining them under a microscope, then creating and testing plankton models. At the end of each instructional activity, your mini microbiologists discuss and analyze what they've learned.
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• Reaches many different learning styles
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7540 |
Re: deb==ar compatability
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously bug1 wrote:
> > Hi, im implementing a mini ar command for boot-floppies to enable debs
> > to be unpacked by busybox alone.
> Out of curiosity, why do you need that on boot-floppies? I know someone
> already implemented ar as an awk script for a boot floppy btw.
I didnt realise there was an awk script to do it, i guess i should have
looked around harder before i started, ill have to check it out.
I thought it would be a handy to be able to extract debs on the floppies
without requiring the full functionality of dpkg-deb.
e.g. instead of having a big pre-prepared base.tgz some base files could
be just extracted from their regular debs.
Ive passed on what i have to debian-boot, but havent discussed this
particular idea yet, they are trying to focus on potato. I think the
next generation of boot floppies could change quite a bit.
Busybox already has tar and gz support, and ive found that tar and ar
can share some functions, it currently compiles to a 3KB object file, so
it doesnt add a very significant size cost to busybox. I guess the awk
script would be small as well, as long as you have awk.
Anyway, to late to stop now, it already works, i just have to clean it
up a bit, and my c skills needed work anyway.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7542 | LibreOffice Core Development build Issue
Regina Henschel rb.henschel at
Tue Oct 3 09:01:33 UTC 2017
Hi Koushik Sekhar,
do you have checked, that your installation of Visual Studio is OK? Try
to run Visual Studio. Run "devenv.exe", it is in folder Common7/IDE.
Kind regards
koushik.sekhar at schrieb:
> Hi Shinnok,
> I have setup the basic environment for LibreOffice Document Project. I am
> facing issues while running the build for libo core. I have also
> explicitly specified the JDK and the Microsoft Visual Studio versions when
> I run the \ file but I am still getting errors. I have attached
> the screenshot of the error for your reference. Could you please provide
> your suggestion as how to rectify the same.
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Koushik Sekhar
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7543 | [XESAM] Search API Update Proposals
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 23:29:51 PDT 2007
2007/8/6, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com>:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 21:31:35 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > I've been collecting comments on the Xesam spec lately, and I think we
> have
> > enough now to do an update round of the spec proposal.
> >
> > Proposed changes can be found here:
> > http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/XesamSearchUpdates
> > 2. Type Attribute in Query Language
> I agree with Jamie that usually people will just enumerate categories in
> which
> to search, without any complex criterias.
> My concern with <query category="xesam:Audio"> is that it may not play
> nicely
> with services, which may use a different class structure/trees. It would
> be
> nice to also have a more generic way to specify categories, by treating
> them
> as regular fields.
> One of possible ways here is to treat query attrs as a shortcut, while
> letting
> implementations also support(at their discretion) the more generic
> approach.
Ok, here's my take - I think it should match your concerns too. Let cat/src
attrs be the official and blessed way of selecting cat/srcs to query. Both
cat and src attr is a list of comma separated cats/srcs, fx:
<query source="xesam:ArchiveItem, xesam:File" category="xesam:Audio">
<field name="xesam:title"/>
<string>purple rain</string>
Then add, as query language extensions, a category- and a source selector.
You would have to check for them through the session property
vendor.extensions, like you have to do with proximity- and regexp selectors
The source and category extensions could be selectors for maximum
flexibility, so that they are used like:
<category name="xesam:Audio"/>
<source name="xesam:File"/>
<source name="xesam:ArchiveItem"/>
<field name="xesam:title"/>
<string>purple rain</string>
But let me stress that category and source selectors would be *optional*
extensions. This means that they should not cause parse errors, just be
ignored if you do not support them (and people should never use them unless
they query them via the vendor.extensions property).
It appears to me that it might be a good idea to prefix all extensions with
"x-" . That way people grapping code snippets of the web should be able to
clearly see if there are query extensions involved. Ie this would mean that
the cat and source elements above should be called <x-category> and
Also, if no category is specified, there must be some defaults, however I
> feel
> they are hard to establish:
> One user might by default want to search files only. Other user might
> prefer
> to search both files and archives. Typical case is extensive musical
> library
> in archives, stored this way for easy P2P sharing, while user uses
> plug-ins
> to listen to music directly in archives.
> Defaults for categories should be probably user-configurable and/or
> implementation-specific. Client apps are best off stating categories
> explicitly.
Yes I agree. I think the defaults should be up to the search engine, but it
should be advised to just be "everything that makes sense". The default
values should not be for users, more for devs wanting to hack together a
quick search-enabled-UI.
> 4. Problems With Hit Data
> We have the following potential solutions:
> aas] works except for ambiguity in strings
> aav] have to use a workaround, like treating one of unused
> datatypes as a
> null value
> aa(bv)] b is a null flag. v is the value if applicable
> I'd prefer unambiguous ones for the sake of completeness.
> Cases where this may be important:
> 1) password: none or unknown
> 2) software flags: none or unknown
> Also empty value is often used to specify default, which is not unknown.
I think we should stick with "aav" and say that the value is null if it
contains a zero byte. Ie NULL == V(b=0).
Additionally, we might want to consider blob streaming interface as per
> Jamie's suggestion.
> Also, I'd like to eventually revisit thumbnail stuff. I don't think
> current
> thumbnail spec and vfs/kio can e.g. provide thumbnails for stuff embedded
> into documents. At least our solution is going to be more generic and also
> easier to use for clients. But this is not top priority.
I agree that these are things we will eventually need. Can you put a note on
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/XesamIteration2 ?
> 5. Session Properties search.blocking and search.live
> It's good if bindings actually make it easy to go async.
Yes. It is easy to handle this in the bindings as I know for a fact with
my work on libxesam-glib. The way I will do it is to make everything async
by default. If the client tries something that forces and synchronous
operation over the wire I will log a warning (which can be suppresed via a
> 6. Introduce search.readonce
> Not clear just how sizable is the benefit. At least introducing it won't
> hurt.
Right, I will try and punk some devs to get the estimates.
> 7. Rename CountHits to GetHitCount
> No problem.
> > 8. search.maxhits
> Proposed by Jos, so I don't interfere.
> > 9. Split out vendor.fieldnames
> Could be hard to implement. I'm not sure it's always easy to enumerate all
> supported fields and classes due to plug-in architecture of most
> analyzers.
I would suspect that it is not that hard to get this info. In most cases it
should amount to reading the field defs in a Lucene index or scanning the
table names in a DB. But some impls might be special, I will investigate.
> 10. Use uint Instead of Int Where Applicable
> Ok.
> Agreed to install both via convertors.
I think this is a really bad idea if the only reason for this is that we
couldn't agree. If it is because it makes life easier for everybody else too
then I'm more positive, but I do not think this is the case.
I was actually pro-rdf/xml until I tried writing a sax parser for rdf/xml...
Does anybody know of an expat based parser for rdf/xml?
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7545 | Daniel44 wrote:
>Hei Andreas,
>Hyvatko? (How are you?)
>You are absolutely correct to say that quantifying a language's relative
>difficulty is very hard indeed. That said, you are also correct to point
>that Finnish is understood by non-Finns to be an extremely difficult
>language to master.
Actually, I didn't say the later. It's probably true, tho'.
>Lapsi, however, is different to Finnish. No consonant gradation, no strict
>vowel harmony rules, no myriad (and often obscure) cases and case usage.
>Adjectives have a prescribed ending (mostly -inen), as do abstract nouns
>(-jan), tools (-oje), diminutive (-een), verb infinitive (-taa) etc. Tense
>is also very regular in Lapsi, even more so than Finnish (for example, even
>the verb 'ontaa' - to be is regular in Lapsi).
Well, that's what one'd expect from an IAL, isn't it?
But I wasn't commenting on the relative virtues of Lapsi (I don't believe
much in the idea of IALs actually, but let's not get down into that
discussion again). I questioned the relevancy of the swift competense
acquisition of Finnish schoolchildren, and I tried to point out that what
makes the written form of your native lang easy to learn (eg good
orthography and little difference between spoken and written language)
aren't the same as those that make an IAL easy to learn for people who have
another native language (eg regular grammar and unexotic phonemic
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7563 | William Oldham and Phillippa Sowter
Elder William Brewster and Mary Wentworth
Born in 1560 in the town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, England, William Brewster married Mary Wentworth, and studied briefly at the college of Cambridge before becoming active in the movement to reform the Anglican church. His congregation eventually emigrated to the more religiously tolerant environment of Leyden, Holland, where he began publishing religious tracts that were circulated … Continue reading Elder William Brewster and Mary Wentworth |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7572 | Saturday, June 25, 2016
macOS Sierra and CryptoTokenKit API
macOS Sierra
Apple presented macOS Sierra 10.12 during the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2016 in June 13, 2016.
I could not find information about smart cards or CryptoTokenKit API in Apple Sierra preview page or Wikipedia Sierra page. I am not surprised. Smart cards are far less used than Siri for example :-)
I already wrote about the CryptoTokenKit API when this API has been introduced in "OS X Yosemite BETA and smart cards status" in July 2014, 2 years ago.
It looks like the CryptoTokenKit API is more mature now since the documentation is available as web pages (and not just .h header files).
The API documentation web page is "CryptoTokenKit Access Smart Cards and manage user interactions."
A lot of functions are marked as Beta. So I would expect some/many changes between the beta version(s) of Sierra and the official Sierra release planned for fall 2016.
Beta Software
Only Apple developers have access to this first Sierra beta version. Because of the Apple NDA I can't write about information not already public.
A new beta version of macOS Sierra should be available in July 2016. This time it will be a public beta for everyone. More information to come...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
UEFI Smart Card Reader Protocol implementation
Last year (May 2015) I presented the new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification) protocol called "Smart Card Reader Protocol" in the article "UEFI Smart Card Reader Protocol".
I also presented a sample Hello World application in "PCSC sample in C for UEFI".
Source code
The source code of my implementation of the protocol is available in my github edk2 project. Be sure to use the SmartCard branch.
The source code of the Hello World application and some other test/debug tools is available in my github UEFI-SmartCardReader-Samples project.
Integration in TianoCore
My "Smart Card Reader Protocol" implementation is a port of my CCID driver. So the core of the driver uses the same GNU LGPL v2+ license.
I proposed my implementation on the edk2-devel mailing list in "[edk2] [PATCH 0/4] Add an implementation of EFI_SMART_CARD_READER_PROTOCOL".
Unfortunately the copyleft license GNU LGPL v2+ is a problem for some TianoCore members. So my code was not integrated in TianoCore (a reference implementation of UEFI) and I moved to something else.
You can use my implementation of the "Smart Card Reader Protocol". Be careful the GNU LGPL v2+ license is fine with your project. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7573 | Project Online: OData–refreshing reports when changing languages
Thanks to Alex Silva for suggesting this posting – following hot on the heels of the reserved word post
This relates to the differences seen when retrieving reports with OData in different languages. In the previous post I showed how you could get different results by inserting the [LCID String] such as [pt-BR] to get Brazilian Portuguese – but you can also get local language results if your browser language and Office 365 language settings are set. For example a user set for Portuguese Brazilian will see their local language (Projetos rather than Projects) even when not including [pt-BR]. This then gives an issue when an administrator sets up a report that uses a ‘generic’ Url to the _api/ProjectData endpoint – that if different users try to refresh the report it may be trying to select different data. If I as a pt-BR user try and refresh a report that is looking for ‘Projects’ then I will get an error. In English the error would be Resource not found for the segment 'Projects'.
The solution to this is that the reports should always be set with an explicit language so that the various endpoints, filters and selections will always work as they would be using the matching local language version of the field names. So setting the Url to be[en-US]/Projects">https://<yourdomain>[en-US]/Projects would correctly refresh whatever the local language of the user. Obviously it does not have to be en-US – just choose the language most of the users of this report will be using – or alternatively create a set of reports in the different languages your users wish to consume. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7595 | Day 3 — Your favorite quote!
Day 3 – Your favorite quote
Oh Dear– I LOVE quotes. Quotes of all kinds. Quotes about love, happiness, life, inspiration, strength, fear, etc I don’t think that I could ever narrow it down to just one. So I will list 5 of my favorites (in no particular order)– and even that will be hard:
1. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or won. It is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, & gratitude.” ~~Denis Waitley
2. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” ~~ Elizabeth Gilbert
3. “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.” ~~Charlie Chaplin
4. “Be the type of person that makes everyone you come across feel perfectly okay with being exactly who they are”
5. “Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you”
Day 3— DONE!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7598 | The Truth: Poetry
Here is another try at some poetry, hope you like!
The Truth
The Truth is like a pearl,
polished and genuine,
gleaming in the waters still.
Deep beneath where the
light dances and shimmies the waters surface.
It is something taken for granted, something I gave up.
It became this hole inside my heart burning, seething,
twisted and warped beyond recognition.
An evil formed out of something so pure.
A repulsive ugliness that strangles me.
Let it adorn a jewelled neck, a sign of hope on a beauties breast.
But I lied and I took our security away, I lashed myself tight to
seaweed strands of purple haze, watery worries.
For I am a broken soul now and I cannot turn around.
The soot of my pain, as I lie to you again, yes I came…
The scent of those ashes, that burning acrid smell,
reminds me of churches, of a place purer than pearls.
hear my heart beat, find forgiveness relief.
As I cry in my soul, it’s forgiven but torn.
While you pray to Mecca it separates us more.
I speak of a heart beat between you and me.
A quiet place we rest, but you make me ache in pain.
Wound me, complete me, and I bite my tongue as my wry wit replies,
to the pain on my peaches and cream, the bruises the aches in my legs.
To find no relief, in that there is nothing but the trapping of my lies,
the seaweed grief come to strangle my reprieve.
A word of love, taken back, a thought perhaps I care to much.
But when I am skin to skin and feel as close as to anyone that I’ve ever been,
when I would give to you what I’d give to no one else, you turn your back.
You leash me, stop my attempts to train you that way.
The one plashless, hopeless because she cannot take back time and thinks
had she not minced words and told you, I feel nothing, this hurts.
I enjoy the closeness but you are no shiny glimmering pearl of truth yourself.
And I see the future unravel, unruly, uninvited coming near,
ending because you refuse to believe in the significance of ashes and churches.
Because I refuse to live in the world the woman with pearl around her neck.
It’s chocking me, the truth, it slides, a warm gold chain that clasps the pearl in place,
tightens the pearl around me neck until lost breath is imminent.
When will I say it those impending words?
When will I say it I cannot trust you!?
I cannot tell the truth,
You choose to do works when faith is needed.
You hurt me, and care little to understand my body, to explore.
My lips seal the words, close them in a box, turn the key,
Pandora’s box ready to unleash a pearl of wisdom.
Wise words, there are no wisemen here. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7601 | media literacy
Lego Men and Perspective
Last night I was searching for a fun way to teach my kids “story boarding”to work on our digital stories. I wanted them to really select the images carefully and have them add to their story from an emotional point of view. I had remembered reading/learning about camera shots and angles and how they can affect the way our brains interpret the message. So I went to the internet. After a few webpages that were much to technical for Grade 4, I found some great pictures of Lego Men from different perspectives on the Official Class Blog of “I590: Interaction Culture” (Indiana University School of Informatics). I also found a good video titled “Using Camera Angles and Movement to Evoke Emotion“, although the guy in the video talks very quickly so you have to really stop to discus!
The first image we looked at is the top image on the left. The kids talked a little bit about how the focus was at the front and you really couldn’t tell what the group in the back was doing. It was interesting as soon as we looked a the second image the comments that I began to hear.
Student A – They are “bullying” him.
Teacher – Why do you say that?
Student B – Well, he is being left out of the group and they all have mean looks on their faces, and weapons.
Teacher – Could you tell that from the first picture?
Student C – No because you cannot tell the distance between the Lego Men from the eye level shot.
Student D – The Lego Man also looks smaller. I feel sorry for him.
This discussion continued for a good few minutes and it was so interesting to listen to the kids talk about how the picture angle changed the perspective.
It was interesting to combine something that my kids love (Lego!) and something very technical. The kids were so into this and I hope that it will help them to select better pictures to add emotion to their digital stories! |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7611 | Google Voice Apps Return to the iOS App Store
After banning all Google Voice-related apps from the App Store, Apple's Google Voice moratorium appears to be over.
Apple has just approved GV Connect [iTunes link], a $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone.
This comes fourteen months after Apple removed all Google Voice apps from its App Store — including fan favorites GV Mobile and VoiceCentral — and refused to approve Google's official app. That ban led to an FCC inquiry and the creation of an HTML5-specific web app to sate iPhone users.
As recently as last month, Google told us that nothing had changed in regards to the status of its native iPhone app, but since that conversation, Apple has made some significant changes to its developer policies.
In light of those changes, a number of developers have either re-submitted their apps or received communication from Apple indicating re-submission and approval could be possible.
With the release of GV Connect, it seems like only a matter of time before other apps (like GV Mobile+) will make their way back to the App Store.
Why a Native App Matters
Both Google's official Google Voice web app and the well-made BlackSwan VoiceCentral web app bring Google Voice to the iPhone. However, because these are web apps and not native apps, the system address book isn't the same. Other features like push notifications and masked calling are also unavailable, although it's unclear if anything short of an official app will bring some of those features.
For that reason, many users who jailbreak their iPhone devices have used various Google Voice apps from Cydia.
For users who rely on Google Voice as a central number, having a dialer that can directly access your address book is a pretty big deal. Now that iOS supports multi-tasking, doing things like sending SMS messages and switching between a call and a web browser should be easier too.
We haven't downloaded GV Connect (we're waiting for GV Mobile) but are excited that Apple's more lenient policies seem to mean bringing back useful apps to users. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7618 | Go to content
The display shows the graph of y = (x-a)(x-b)(x-c) , where a, b and c are constants. Graphs like these are called cubic graphs.
Investigate the effect of changing a, b and c.
Make sure that you are clear about these aspects of a cubic graph:
• its basic shape
• its symmetry
• the number of places where the curve crosses the x-axis
Software/Applets used on this page
This page uses JSXGraph
A diagram showing a relationship between two variables.
To mark a point on a graph accurately by using its coordinates.
Full Glossary List
This question appears in the following syllabi:
SyllabusModuleSectionTopicExam Year
AQA GCSE (9-1) Foundation (UK)A: GraphsA12: Sketching Graphs of FunctionsGraphs of Cubics-
CBSE IX (India)AlgebraPolynomialsConstant, linear, quadratic and cubic-
CIE IGCSE (9-1) Maths (0626 UK)2 Algebra and GraphsB2.10 Further GraphingGraphs of Cubics-
GCSE Higher (UK)AlgebraGraphsCubic curves-
OCR GCSE (9-1) Foundation (UK)7: Graphs of Equations and Functions7.01c: Polynomials and Exponential FunctionsGraphs of Cubics-
Universal (all site questions)GGraphsCubic curves- |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7627 | Kawaii Trump is the Candidate/Anime Character You Deserve
Single topic blog Kawaii Trump is bringing you the candidate that could make anime great again. No word on what Kawaii Trump could do for America, but he's certainly giving Harajuku girls, pastel goths, and anime babes a run for their money. Which makes me wonder what Trump's waifu looks like ? Something I think that is best left to the imagination.
But Trump has been making his mark on Asia. Just looking at the Summit with Kim Jong Un, clearly people are taking notice of his diplomatic efforts, though it might not be in the way he hoped.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7631 | Suppose I put up a question in Ask Ubuntu. Now somebody posted an answer. But that answer seems difficult to be carried out for me. That doesn't mean that the answer provided is wrong. So, now I want a more easier and better answer. What can I do other than just waiting for someone to post a better answer? Maybe I can put up a bounty but anyone who sees the bountied question with an answer that has the potential to work right might not try to give a better answer. So there is every chance of my bounty being wasted(I maybe wrong on this but I dunno if the bounty would come back to me if its purpose is unsolved as I have never placed a bounty before). What do you suggest I do in this situation?
• You can try asking the person who answered for more clarifications in a comment. – Dan Apr 21 '14 at 20:26
You get to add a message to the bounty when you add it, explaining what exactly you need:
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There are also several different bounty reasons to pick from.
Bounties never come back to you, unless a moderator refunds them for moderation purposes (i.e. to close the question, etc).
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7638 | Falcon’s Grudge
by Himanshu Shukla
Yessica Garcia - Untitled
Yessica Garcia – Untitled
“Why can’t I do anything? Why am I always so powerless?”
Bill Snider sat in his large comfortable desk at an accountants’ firm and thought to himself.
“Who am I kidding? I didn’t want to be an accountant. I don’t deserve this job; my uncle gave it to me and told me to look cute in my suit.”
Bill looked down and adjusted his tie as he spoke to himself.
“I didn’t want to sign papers, drink coffee and laugh with greedy people for 10 years; I wanted to be a dancer. That’s what I wanted to do.”
Bill’s assistant opened the door.
“Mr. Snider, some customers are here to file a report. They’re down stairs. Also central campus sent us a letter about your consistently good results. They’d like you to RSVP.”
The women sat a thin stack of papers on Bill’s huge desk.
“Thanks Jacqueline.”
And she left.
Bill looked at the stack, took out a pencil and some paper from his drawer, and began to write. He spoke as he wrote.
“My wife left me a few years ago. She told me the money wasn’t enough. ‘It’s over Bill. I don’t love you anymore. You’re a loser. I’m taking Richie and going to go live with my aunt in Virginia.’ She told me over the phone, so I couldn’t cry and apologize before she hung up. Julie-Ann…”
His pencil lead snapped. He opened up the drawer and got a new one, and continued writing.
“I know exactly what I’d like to say to these money hungry bastards: buy me a new heart.”
He chuckled.
“No matter what I do… No matter what’s given to me, I’m still a loser.”
His pencil snapped again.
“Even with these damn powers…”
His hands began to glow orange.
“I’m powerless, I can’t do anything right! I can’t hold on to anything I care about!”
The Falcon opened his eyes. He kneeled on top of some rubble, next to a bloody teenage kid who lay on the ground, breathing weakly and watching steadily.
“I am a loser. Why am I so powerless??!!”
He screamed and punched the rubble with his fist. His fist sank deep into the rubble.
The kid’s eyebrows furrowed and he tried to get up but couldn’t.
“You aren’t powerless Mr. Falcon, you’re not a loser.”
The Falcon closest his eyes and began to cry again, heavily. He tried to say something cool to encourage the kid but couldn’t control his quivering mouth to form a word. He just sobbed.
“Why are you crying Mr. Falcon? You have to save everyone….”
The kids consciousness waned, but then he continued.
“Because you’re the hero…”
The Falcon looked hard at the fading kid through his tearful eyes, then picked him up and carried him into a nearby building. He laid him down, wiped the boys tears from his sleeping face, and then dried his tears on his outfit. He stood up, and looked out.
“The girl said I still have until 9:30PM to find the last two bombs before they detonate. It’s 9:12 now, that gives me 20 minutes.”
He push his fist above him into the air.
“I swear on my life…”
Clouds began to spiral in the sky, glowing an intense orange color near the center of them.
“On my weak pathetic life…”
The glowing grew brighter, and four heavy streams of light burst through the clouds. Two of them went into the windows of two small houses on opposite sides of city, one shone on him, and the other shone on the 20th floor of a building a few yards away from him. He looked at it.
“The enemy…”
Then he looked to the light to his right, and he leapt, hard, leaving two small craters where his feet left the ground. He came down on top of small donut shop, and looked back at the light in the skyscraper. He saw the eyes of a man with dark red hair and a sniper rifle. He chuckled to himself, before leaping again towards the light to the right.
He arrived at the house and peaked inside the window. He saw a family eating dinner.
“My God…”
He began to weep. He saw a boy, a woman, and a man. They were all happy.
Suddenly something quick and small whizzed past his head, breaching his costume, and broke the glass. The family inside began to panic.
“Oh no!”
The Falcon leapt into the window and desperately began speaking.
“Please stay calm. There is a bomb in this house and I’m trying to find it.”
The women stood up harshly, knocking her chair and her plate of macaroni to the ground.
“Bill is that you?! What are you doing?! Why are you dressed like that?! What’s going on?!?!”
The Falcon looked at her with his knees wobbling. He found the strength to pull his trembling arms to his face, and slowly remove his mask. His tears had been flattened upon his cheeks.
“I don’t have time to explain Jan…” He said weakly.
“But I’ve got a job to do. The bomb is in the master bedroom tied up beneath the bed.”
The women’s eyes penetrated the Falcon’s.
Right then, the man sitting stunned at the table was shot in his right shoulder. He was blasted onto the ground. The glass he still had near his hand fell and shattered.
The women and boy screamed as the father writhed in pain. The Falcon looked over and cursed.
“Everyone move away from the windows!! Go take him into another room now!!”
The Falcon ran into the living room, up the stairs, down the hall, into the master bedroom and flipped over the mattress. He found a small bundle of dynamite explosives taped to its bottom with a screen that read 5:05. He cursed again, ripped off the bombs, jumped out of the window towards the other light and forced each one of the cylindrical explosives still connected to the screen into his throat and swallowed them. He bit off the wires to the screen, and the inside of his eyes lit up as his body spread out wide. He was still in the air, roaring in agony, and smashed into a nearby house. The boy came outside, and watched the smoke leave his dumbly opened mouth. He thought The Falcon looked like a cartoon character.
“Hey!!! That was amazing!! That was amazing man!! You’re a real life super hero!!!!”
The Falcon opened his eyes, and saw his ex wife, and his child, standing outside of the house, watching him. The woman was crying. She was smiling and crying.
“Please… Please go back inside.”
As The Falcon got up to his feet, an immense force struck his left arm behind his bicep. It forced him to the ground again. It made him bleed profusely. The woman gasped. The child yelled.
“No!! You’ve got to get up!! Get up!! Get the bad guy!!”
The Falcon used his left hand to sit up, and he watched the boy with his tired eyes.
“Hey you! Kid!!”
The boy looked surprised. He looked at his mother, and then back at The Falcon, shyly asking, “who me?”
The Falcon smiled.
“Yea you! Listen, always protect your mommy, okay? Protect her and be strong like me okay?? If you be strong, then you can do this!”
The Falcon jumped up into the air, a bullet whizzed past his feet and harpooned deep into the dirt. He landed on the building he was beside, and smiled at the child and mother.
“Wow that was coooooool!!!” yelled the kid.
The mother’s face looked worried. She wanted to talk but didn’t know what to say.
She finally called out to him.
“Be careful out there Mister! We believe in you! I believe in you!!”
The Falcon smiled at them both, and his eyes intensified. His irises glowed with a red passion. He looked towards the 20th story of the skyscraper with the sniper lurking inside. A bullet whizzed towards his head, but he dodged it with only a move of the neck. His line of sight stayed intact.
“I don’t have time for this…”
The Falcon then jumped towards the light to the left.
Minghan Chen, Untitled
Minghan Chen, Untitled
The bloody teenager struggled to his feet. Both of his eyes were soaked in blood, which made it hard for him to see so late at night. He used the beams of light from the sky as a compass, and walked towards the light on the left.
“Damn it, where is Nevaeh?” the boy asked himself as he walked.
He looked down at his watch, which said 9:15PM, and caught a glimpse of the tattoo on his forearm that Nevaeh gave him before they were split up. It read “Uh Oh!” and had a double underline. The boy chuckled.
“Haha, ‘Uh Oh!’ That girl is so weird.”
The boy kept walking until he arrived at the house engulfed in The Falcon’s orange light. A family of cats was nestled up underneath the house. The boy knocked on the door and waited for an answer. He didn’t get one. He peered into the window of the house and saw the lights were off.
“Do normal people really go to sleep this early? But it’s a Saturday!”
He went around the back of the house, climbing the fence on the house’s side. There, he noticed a small bundle of explosives connected to a screen that read 10:03, attached to the power switch box behind the house. He began trying to un-knot the wiring from the box. He heard a small, inhuman voice.
“So you’re the one she calls Rocket…”
The injured boy whipped his head back in surprise, feeling nauseous at the speed of his turn.
“ugh…” the boy groaned at the dizziness. “Who’s there?”
The little voice continued, this time accompanied by other little voices chuckling and chattering delightfully, “You have the tattoo! You really ARE Rocket!! And you’re here to save us from our fate!”
The boy searched the darkness for the source of the voice to no avail.
“I need something to cut the wires of this bomb. If you mean peace, please bring me something to cut with.”
The boy heard a bunch of rustling coming from all sides, he wasn’t sure how this person, or people, could move so fast and have such an odd voice.
“Use this tool friend.”
The boy looked around confused and tired.
“Look down here friend, at your feet.”
The boy gasped.
“You’re a cat! And you can talk!! You’re all talking cats!!”
The cat he saw beneath the house was holding some old gardening scissors in it’s mouth near the boy’s feet, and many other cats of different colors and sizes were scattered amongst the yard as well, hugging and laughing victoriously. The boy picked the scissors from the cat’s mouth.
The cat that’d given him the scissors backed up a bit, and began to speak.
“We used to live in this house. My memories are still fragmented, but I’ve pieced together most of the important details. I was the father, and these two here were my children.”
The two kittens beside him squee’d when they were mentioned.
“All of these cats here used to live with their families on this street. We weren’t born this way. We were forced to live like this!”
The boy’s eyes narrowed with knowing.
“Nevaeh was here?”
The father cat’s whiskers rose.
“Yes, the clever girl! She arrived here with some men who planted that bomb. They were policemen!!”
The cat looked out in the distance, as if remembering a fond memory.
“While the policemen worked on the bomb, she told us she had a friend named Rocket who would help her save all of us. She said you were trustworthy!”
Rocket looked at his feet.
“She said that about me…? If she only knew how beat up I was now”
He chuckled.
“Alright cats, I mean guys…”
He began cutting the wires attaching the bomb to the power switch box. The cat’s watched him and speculated about his personality as he worked. Once he freed the bomb, he held it in his hands and thought. It read 5:04. A small brown cat with a white stripe on the bridge of its nose walked over to Rocket.
“Rocket, I used to be a doctor… before the government changed us.”
Rocket looked down at the white nosed cat.
“I can tell by your bleeding that you’ll die if you don’t get some rest soon.”
Rocket wiped the bloody sweat from his forehead and smiled brightly. The cat continued.
“I have a boy at home who looks just like you. Thank God he was living with my sister when they came… I haven’t seen him in two years Rocket.”
Rocket stared at the cat, and then at the others. He felt anger.
“Listen to me. The people you and your friend are about to face are evil. They don’t care about things like family and humanity, and what’s worse is that they may be the people we’ve come to trust the most.”
Rocket looked back at the bomb’s timer, it still read 5:04.
“It’ll be impossible to turn us back, I know that…”
Rocket kept looking at the clock.
“But that doesn’t mean I’ve given up on life. My wife and I still want to see my boy achieve his dreams Rocket! I still want him to be the best Goddamn dancer he can be… Even if it’s never what I wanted for him. I just want him to know that it doesn’t matter, that I’ll still love him, right here, forever.”
The small cat stopped talking, and released a soft meow, a sad one it seemed.
Right then, a large human figure walked out from behind one of the trees. His right hand covered his mouth intensely, as his left arm dangled to his side.
“I just want him to know…”
The figure petted the cat on the head, stopping it from saying anything else. He picked it up, held it to his chest with his right arm, and cried hard into its forehead. Rocket was near tears himself, and gave the bomb to the man to hold. The man put down the white-nosed cat.
“Thanks kid.”
At that moment one of the cats began to scream out in horror. A bullet had pierced through a kitten’s thigh and the surrounding exploded into a panic.
“Ok, give me the bomb, I’ve got to get out of here. Moves these people somewhere safe kid!”
The kid gave him the bomb, and as The Falcon grabbed it with his right arm, a bullet hit him in his right shoulder, throwing out his right arm too.
“Damn it!!” The falcon screamed out in pain. The cats howled and panicked at the scene. The white-nosed cat looked wide-eyed at The Falcon, and then turned to Rocket.
“Please! You’ve got to get him out of here! Go as far as you can! Go now!!!!”
Rocket hesitated.
“But what about the bomb!! It’s going to explode in a few minutes!!”
The white-nosed cat looked back at the panicking clowder.
“Don’t worry about the bomb, we’ll move it into an empty house. We couldn’t touch it before because it was too high up. Drop the bomb and run Rocket! Run with my life in your hands!!”
Rocket dropped the bomb near the white-nosed cat, and took The Falcon by the arm.
“Let’s go Falcon!!”
But The Falcon didn’t move. His left leg stepped forward but wobbled, and he feel to his knee. He touched his chest and felt the bloody wound where a bullet had just penetrated his lungs. He laid backwards onto the ground, and the white-nosed cat and Rocket got in close to him.
“…I’m sorry guys. But I… I couldn’t do it…”
Rocket screamed.
“You’ve gotta get up Falcon!!! YOU CAN’T DIE LIKE THIS!!!”
The white-nosed cat looked at the wound, and then at his son’s face, at his eyes, and he said,
“Billy, I don’t know what you’ve done in your life, and I don’t care…”
The Falcon began to cry, he was trying to say something, but he couldn’t articulate it while bawling like he was.
“Everyday of my life I’ve wished that I could tell you just once… just once how much your life means to me Billy.”
The Falcon looked at the building that housed his killer, with sheer terror in his eyes. Rocket followed his eyes to that same building, and he felt something like pure hatred. The white-nosed cat laid his head on The Falcon’s body, pushing his face into his stomach, and meowed. The Falcon swallowed his misery, and looked at Rocket.
“Boy… Listen to me…”
Rocket turned from the building and bent his back lower to hear Falcon’s last breaths.
“I’m not a hero Rocket… I’m a coward.”
The Falcon strained to bring his right arm up to his chest, above where his father’s head lay on his stomach. He did.
“These evil people will stop at nothing to get what they want. And I’d never be able to stop them… not in a billion years…”
Bill’s father meowed harder, and his back shuttered. Rocket’s face was contorted in pain. The Falcon clenched his chest tightly, and he roared out a bellow that could be heard for miles. He pulled something from his chest, a glowing orange orb, and almost instantly his fingers, toes, hair, and every part of him too far from the orb began to petrify. He looked deep into Rocket’s eyes, as his own eyes began turning to stone.
“Take this Rocket! Take this and point your fist towards the sky so I can see it in heaven!”
The Falcon slammed his arm firmly into Rocket’s chest. Rocket began convulsing on the ground beside The Falcon’s statue. Rocket rolled over in agony, and looked up at the sky. He saw Bill dancing on stage, in front of his wife and his child. He was a good dancer.
Rocket sighed.
“I get it Mr. Falcon. I get it.”
He turned to the white-nosed cat.
“Before he died, Billy told me to tell you that it’s okay, that you don’t have to live in regret anymore. He said seeing you cry this one time was good enough for him. He was happy Mr. Snider.”
The white-nosed cat’s spine slumped, and he looked toward the sky.
“It was good enough for him… I see… Thank you Rocket.”
Rocket took the bomb, which now read 00:33, and threw it high into the air. The force of the throw ignited the bomb when it reached the peak of its climb. The explosion reminded him of a T.V. show he watched once. He snickered at the silliness of the thought.
Rocket stood up, with his eyes glowing orange like the sun, and looked at the building holding The Falcon’s killer. He looked at it, and he smiled.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7640 | Rogue drones, do airports have a contingency plan? mindFly
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United Kingdom’s second largest airport, Gatwick has been closed for the second day due to the presence of a rogue drone flying in the vicinity of the airport. Do the Indian airports have a contingency plan? Busy airports like Mumbai and Delhi with a vast geographical area and airspace do not have the capability to detect and capture rogue drones. The impact of an airport closure on thousands of traveling public and economy is unimaginable.
Remotely piloted aircraft system, also called as drone is now very common and is classified as per the weight category, from nano(<250gms) to large(<150kgs). Birds also habitat the skies and pose a safety risk to aircrafts sharing their skies. Indian airports have recorded 4.97 bird strikes per 10,000 aircraft movements in 2017 as per DGCA data. The US airforce suffers about USD 33 million losses per year due to bird strikes. Birds strike hazard is one of the top aviation safety concern for India and other countries.
The reason why drones have a higher level of risk is because, unlike birds which have a flight safety concern from the collision and damage, drones can also pose a potential security hazard. Drones in the large category can carry payloads which can be unsettling for the security agencies.
Impact of drone colliding with an aircraft wing
Photo credit: University of Dayton
The regulations do not permit drone flights within 5 miles of the airport perimeter and the operator manning the drones can be prosecuted under sections of IPC 287, 336, 337, 338 and other sections. The main issue is of detection, capture and enforcement.
It’s the second day of the busy season at Gatwick airport and neither the drone which has caused the shut down has still not been captured nor the operator. As seen in the past, the promulgation of a rule is the first step and may be a deterrent but it alone cannot control the activity.
We need to understand that rogue drone activity is a world wide menace. It takes away the contributions of the technology to the society. There is a need to sensitise the citizens to act responsibly and show them the repercussions of their actions of operating the drones in violation of the rules. A behaviour change is the best and long lasting means of compliance with regulations and towards other citizens who have plans and invested in travel. The sheer size of India and the airspace is impossible to manage for drone activity.
Detection of drones is the second step. There has to be a means of detecting and expeditious reporting of the presence of a rogue drone. An example, if a student living under the approach path of the aircraft in Vasant Kunj or Dwarka in New Delhi sights a drone flying, whom does the student call, needless to sat that the student must be educated regarding the rules. Within the airport, unexpected objects will not be detected due to human bias, because we are not actively looking for it. There are no radars deployed at the airports, like the avian bird radar, which have the capability of detecting objects as small as drones.
If a drones is sighted, the next step would be to capture it or the operator. Some countries have deployed birds like the eagle which has been trained to use their superior sight and attack capability to capture drones. Other means are drones attached with nets and shooting the down with weapons made for that purpose. In fact airports like Singapore Changi have been using Eagles to scare other birds to keep the airport and vicinity bird free.
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Drone dome is an effective system to provide defense to the airspace from the risks associated with rogue drones. It is used to detect, track and neutralize drones 24X7 and all weather.
If a drone is captured, no enforcement action can be taken against an unregistered drone. We comeback to the beginning where I had emphasised that we need to invest in behaviour modification, which pays back in the long run.
I would urge the regulator, operator and general public to talk about this issue through media and public interaction to generate an awareness of the seriousness of the issue and the repercussion in terms of damage to aircraft and other safety/security issues associated with it. A human behaviour modification is the long term solution for enhancing safety and security.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7642 | Adventures in Perimenopause
Season-of-Life Messages
Who Cares?!
A lot of you don’t care about this and have no reason to. There is an off chance that despite being under 40 years old you have a mild interest in biology whereas if you are over 60 this falls under “been there; done that” material along with “what to do when you have your first baby” let alone, “how to not panic because you’re sprouting pubic hair”.
Perimenopause is to menopause as adolescence is to adulthood
Women in this stage of life, are really heading in the direction of menopause. From my brief survey’s of real women about this: it can be a brief period or can go on for some months or even years. It ends when a woman’s body achieves the “done with reproduction” state of being. This transition means neither more nor less than that. “No more baby-making forthcoming”.
The effect of this truth is not necessarily less than the onset of menstruation and all the hormonal and size and shape changes that mean entirely and only, “Baby making is now a real possibility”.
Struggling with Change?
There are women, perhaps especially fit, married women, who may suffer from kinds of shock or dismay that this change-in-life actually changes what they are and are not interested in, including sex.
Studies have indicated that while adults past the menopause stage of life do often retain some interest in sexual activity but at least half the time, its more a matter of habituation to the pleasure of it than the same intense mating instinct “make babies” biological advice their hormones were screaming for 20 to 40 years.
Case Studies: My own Case
Every woman is different and the range of normal is fairly large. It may well be a good idea to check in with a physician but my advice is to try to find ones who accept change-of-life rather than trying to treat you as if something is wrong with you when nothing is.
Recently, I chatted with 2 women about this. One reported having only had a few months of perimenopause and then she was done. I likened this to the girls who really turned physically into grown women over Summer Vacation one year between grades of school whereas some of the other girls took years to make the same transformation.
There are women who have hot flashes, and others who don’t. I spoke with one woman who stopped menstruating but still has hot flashes which have slowly been diminishing over the years following her menopause.
In my own case, my sexual desires dropped by about 50% for way longer than the 2 months, twice a year that they had before and stayed much less for longer periods of time. I can neither confirm nor deny that one element of this has been that over age 40 years more of the men my age are much less attractive than they were 10 and 20 years younger. Men may suffer from feeling the same way about the women in the same group but also about the reality of themselves by comparison.
Along with that type of ‘barometric’ perception, my menstrual periods lightened up a great deal of the time, but not consistently. Two years into it, I just didn’t menstruate for a few months in a row and then right after I thought, “My God I’m reaching menopause 9 years early but at least I know I’m not pregnant,” my periods resumed, but again, 8 or 9 months of the year they were only half as intense as they had been 10 years earlier.
How long does this goes on?
In truth, in my own experience, I have just entered Year 6 of perimenopause. The general ambiance is nice, regular cycles in terms of the ebb and flow of hormones but totally unpredictable in that one month I menstruate nearly as much as I did when I was 40 but some other month I don’t even bother to menstruate….and there is no obvious rhyme or reason regarding what determines whether or not I only menstruate a tea spoon of blood across 7 days, or what feels and looks more like a cup every 2 hours for 3 days. Often, during the past 3 years, the amount of m. blood is really the same amount in 7 days as what happened in 2 or 3 days 10 years earlier.
But then, just to keep the air of unpredictability, when I went so far as to expect that I might not have any periods during 3 months of the year after that happened 2 years in a row, I just did even though it was Year 3 of Perimenopause.
The bottom line: Because of that, I’m not sure.
I do carry around menstrual products much of the time but know they might go unused. Just to add to the subjective sense of the whole thing, I was always the kind of person who felt, within 5 days after my period ended that: It was like it never happened. Like, if someone brought it up, I almost had no idea what they were even talking about. I’m not totally insane, so I did remember, but it was like remembering rainy weather on a sunny day or vice versa.
Purpose of this?
Aside from going on about myself, I mainly just want to write enough about it so that if other ladies find this happening to them, they don’t worry.
I do also think if male entities are curious about women, they could learn about this without being disgusting just to find out…but if they don’t want to know, I don’t want to make them know about weird nasty women stuff.
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Visiting Authors December 2013
The following is a new edit of a post originally drafted back in 2013. It shows some of what I went through as I attempted to develop a ‘strong online presence’ that included a good blog. Part of what happened was that I began to get a higher level of structure for my blogging, only to have the proverbial rug pulled out from under me and my ideas for my blog.
Blog Schedule
Saturday nights are becoming ‘guest blog’ evenings here. As I am new at it, I am not sure how smoothly it will go. Sometimes authors will reply to real interview questions with me, but in other situations I may do, what I am doing this first time. Below is a link to an author of 10+ science fiction novels with Baen books.
Interview of MZWilliamson
Personal Experience
I have actually met Mike enough times in person that I think he might willingly acknowledge that he knows me as long as I don’t embarrass him in front of his wife or a TV reporter. In person he is so approachable as to seem close enough to normal to not be intimidating but also has enough flare to stand out as an individual.
Next week I will hopefully be able to post a real interview with Jesi Lea Ryan about her and her novels.
Hypergrid Business
Tech Magazines
One of the many types of magazines around nowadays are tech magazines. Some of these are off line and on, some only on. To my pleasant astonishment, a few years ago now, I discovered that a woman from my math class our Senior year of high school was managing editor of an online tech magazine called Hypergrid Business. As I was seeking more professional writing work, I reached out to her.
She let me try a few articles. As some of you know “writing” is a very general category. This was tech article journalism rather than creating website content for small businesses, or ghostwriting parts of or entire drafts of nonfiction books, or novel writing, all of which I have tried my hand at.
Despite our limited success working together, I am posting links to some of these. I learned more about Second Life and other online methods for having group meetings and exploring visual environments ….by writing for Hypergrid Business.
Startled Cat: Story Immersion
Virtual Avatars & Real Life
Was that you or the editor?
For those of you who are not professional writers, I want to disclose to you that although I am the real author of both of these articles, Maria Korolov was the editor of them both. The changes that she made, did cause me to have a strong reaction. My first emotion was “Wow, this is so changed I feel confused about whether or not I am even the author of this article.” That emotion is commonplace amongst inexperienced professional journalists, novelists, and all kinds of writers.
Much ghostwriting creates emotions more like what editors sometimes experience: I wrote so much of this, and yet, my name is not likely to be mentioned in association with it. Sometimes I would be hired by a business start up to write them website content. They would give me the word #, the topic of the article, the theme and all of that. Then I would do all of the writing of the piece. In some cases, the business would then have an editor make whatever other changes…I have seen works I wrote that were barely changed by the editor and other pieces that left me feeling like….Well, if it were making a pie here’s the story:
I put together the crust and the filling and baked it and my friend checked it and gouged out most of the filling and re-baked the thing. Somehow she managed to not burn my crust….In the end all that I felt was “my work” was the pie crust, but my friend told me not to worry and still gave me the full credit for the pie.
Ghostwriting: using the same analogy. I was hired by someone who told me what type of pie they wanted and when. I agreed to take care of it by a deadline for a preset fee. They left me alone and I made the pie and they checked it over. They paid me. The rest was out of my hands.
I told me what to write and I did. Then I went and edited the thing a lot, quite possibly more than once. Then I went around trying to sell it.
To this day in 2019 I still get weirded out about how different it is to make a work, and go around trying to sell it compared to being hired to write something and told what to write…then doing that and not having all kinds of weirdness about being paid for my work.
Pleading forgiveness
I ask that you, random readers, forgive me if you need to, for how I have casually rambled on about the over arching picture for professional authors, writers, copywriting, journalism instead of just neatly posting the tech articles and not writing anything else.
Time Since Then
In truth, my main published items since back then have been review articles and entire novels of my own, which I am still trying to earn money for having written.
During the past few months as well as blogging, I have bid on some contracts to do freelance and applied for some staff writing jobs; some from home and others that would involve going to an office and including work colleagues.
Strange is the world of professional writers.
Valentine’s Day
Exclusivity in Love
Despite all the talk against the sanctity of exclusive marriages between only one man and only one woman…St. Valentine continued to encourage this type of Christian behavior in the 200 A.D. amongst the Romans.
Imagine: how it must be or must have been when it really was having to buck the system if you love someone and actually want to be able to have only one another….and for it to be considered an act of rebellion, not religiously, but socially.
Wow, even will all of my own tendencies and issues and liberality, even I see the sense of one-man with one-woman marriages; the safety for child rearing etc…but also thanks to at least remembering pure loves….people who really don’t want “a bunch of lovers” but just a real love, a real spouse, just one.
Really Radical?!
Believe it or not, St. Valentine was a real person, a man who lived as a Priest of the Christian church in the 200s when the Roman Empire was still going. In truth, all he did was perform marriage ceremonies for young soldiers, and he would marry people into exclusive couplings despite the Roman Imperial Government being against both at the time when he did it.
Take a breathe and enjoy how internationally common place: one man with one woman marriages really are nowadays in early 2019.
From this perspective it really almost seems crazy that St. Valentine ran into trouble for marrying people like that, but in fact he ran into such severe difficulty that he ended up being martyred: he was politically assassinated for marrying people that way.
Freaky, or what?!
I don’t know about you, but from my perspective that is freaky. He should not have been killed for such a small gesture of religious freedom and sanctity.
Evolution of a Holiday
Well, like so much in the Protestant realms, the Catholics have ‘slipped us another Catholic Saint Day’ as a cultural holiday. The holiday has evolved into a day to honor and revere love.
Many people focus on the romantic or sexual aspect of love at the Holy Day, but like so many millions of others, even though I just turned 51 years old I still also really like all the other kinds of love, and enjoy celebrating the holiday regardless of whether or not I get to celebrate with a hubby.
My personal height of heights for Valentine’s Day is that I received my first accepted wedding proposal on Valentine’s Day in 1991. I said yes and we wed the first day of Spring, both of which are gloriously romantic. What punctures this balloon of joy is that the man who I married has barely spoken to me in years and we were divorced just as our marriage was getting started in 1993 after some of the worst first 2 years imaginable but not because he was a deployed soldier in the American or ancient Roman military. I strongly feel it would be way more romantic if we were looking forward to our 28th wedding anniversary this year.
Despite that, both my mother and my son often get Valentine’s from me, as have a number of others…Some profoundly sexual and romantic in nature, others as most definitely not as the pets or other same gendered children in an elementary school class.
Here’s to hoping that you have some kind of wondrous and blessed Valentine’s Day; may you all experience God’s love in both the distinctively personal and in the abstract today.
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Watch the rapid increase in U.S. diversity over three decades
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Since (im)migration policy is no longer based on race, the U.S. gets real diversity. @MxUSlife
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Interracial Brooklyn
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New York, however, was one of the states that had never had laws against interracial marriage.
…What explains the rise of Intermarriage?
The US had a big immigration reform in 1965, which led to a sharp rise in immigration from Asia and Latin America. As the US population became more racially diverse, there was more opportunity for Americans to meet (and fall in love with) people from other races. Immigrant destinations like New York City tend to have more intermarriage as a result of having more racial diversity.
…In order to figure out how many interracial couples there are, one must first divide people into separate and mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories. In dividing people into mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories, one immediately confronts a series of definition problems that have no unique solution.
The fact is that race exists in America only because we Americans believe in race and invest the categories with meaning…”
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How Immigrants Helped Give Rick Perry His ‘Texas Miracle’
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For much of his tenure as governor of Texas, Rick Perry’s record on immigration made him a darling of Latino Republicans.
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1. If a cereal contains more than 6 grams of sugar at the Advanced level, or 9 grams of sugar at the Intermediate level, can it still be served and count as a sweet item?
2. Can sugar be added to hot cereal, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat, if the amount of sugar added fits within the sugar limit for cereals in the Eat Smart Guidelines, without counting as a sweet item?
3. If a canned fruit contains added sugars, such as sweetened applesauce or mandarin oranges in light syrup, can it still be served and count as a sweet item?
4. If syrup or jelly is served, is it required that they are "lite" or "no added sugar" products?
5. Do French toast sticks count as a sweet breakfast item?
6. If a center switches from pancakes with syrup to pancakes with thawed frozen fruit, is it no longer considered a sweet breakfast item? There is no sugar added, just the fruit.
7. If a regular muffin were switched to a whole grain muffin, would it still be considered a sweet item?
8. Jell-o with fruit would still be considered a sweet item, right?
9. Can Jell-o be served at lunch?
10. Are graham crackers, vanilla wafers, or animal crackers considered a "sweet snack"?
11. Are honey teddy grahams considered a sweet item?
12. In regards to the sweet item/croissant/grain-based snack chip guideline at snack, does the guideline address each of these items separately, or is it addressed as a whole?
13. What are some examples of grain-based chips? Would this include wheat thins and Cheez-its?
14. If a grain-based snack chip is a whole grain, will it still count as a sweet item/grain-based snack chip?
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Jim Harding is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer for MultiScale. As CTO, Mr. Harding is working to modernize how caregivers use patient data by enhancing EMR data to create on-demand, operational intelligence that drives collaboration and decision making. Mr. Harding previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer of MultiScale.
Prior to founding MultiScale, Mr. Harding was Vice President of Technology at Amazon.com, where he led the business unit that developed the technology platform and marketing channel for all 3rd-party resellers to manage inventory and sell products through the Amazon website. His earlier career included founding ServerWare, which developed InfoModeler and later became part of Visio and Microsoft, as well as running Cartia, an award-winning pioneer in early, big data machine learning techniques, through a Battelle Labs tech transfer program.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7674 | OK. I have seen Guitar Fetish pickups at prices that seem insane compared to what most pickups cost - and they have things like humbucker sized P90s that are hard to find in any case. Their stuff looks great and they actually seem to know what they're talking about.
But I've never heard one. I don't have any friends who've taken the plunge and bought one. I'm reluctant to take a risk on any of these without a real human being reporting on it.
• Based on your experience, are these pickups well-built, or are they noisy pickups that won't last?
• How do they compare to, say, units built by Gibson or Seymour Duncan?
• Can anyone describe the kind of tone they get, compared to other pickups?
• I have the tele pickups from gfs and the active eq. I am very pleased with the tonal variation I can achieve with this setup. Much more variation then a passive system. The tone is clear and can sound like a stock Tele but with the mids cranked you get a gutsy blues/rock tone and you can add more treble as well, on a separate control. Don't forget that an active system can boost not just take away frequencies. – user2077 Dec 20 '12 at 4:59
• I have these and put them in a Japanese Jaguar Special. I personally really like them, as I can get a lot of different tones from them. That being said, they sound like large single coils and not too hot. I actually put a switch on the shielding, so I can turn it on and off. Off, they sound like a single coil, and on they sound a little chimey, which I like. The difference is subtle, though. Overall a great pickup. One thing is that I think it lacks a wide response, but most pickups do IMHO, even expensive ones. I really like the sound I get from these, though I wanted the Brooklyns. – JFA Jun 25 '14 at 2:05
I bought one of the tele style hollow body guitars from guitar fetish with the P90 pickups. In my opinion they sound great for rock and blues. I can plug the guitar straight in to all of my amps except the solid state practice amp and get a good sound.
Through my Fender tube amp, cranked, they sound a lot like the tone from "I Fought The Law". I am debating purchasing a set of the Dream 180s but I've been procrastinating. Some people on Harmony Central and The Gear page have posted samples of the pickups, if you're interested in listening.
• This is the personal experience with GFS products that I am looking for, thank you. What is wrong with the sound through your practice amp? Does this guitar sound any worse than others on that same amp? Or is it just that your practice amp doesn't sound that great in and of itself? – gomad Mar 16 '11 at 1:28
• @gomad: Very few things sound good through the practice amp, so that's probably not a knock on the pickups. All the other amps around here are tubes and its the only solid state. Everything but my strat sounds harsh through it. – Anonymous Mar 16 '11 at 5:36
• They sound great through my Vox Pathfinder-10, which is a tiny practice amp. – JFA Jun 25 '14 at 2:09
Although I have no qualms with Guitar Fetish, I would only purchase pickups from reputable dealers that I know to be of high quality. Since the pickups lend so much to the tone of your instrument--they are essentially the microphones to your guitars voice, in my opinion you should be very picky about ensuring that you get quality components. There are many other manufacturers that sell any pickup your heart desires, but at a little more scratch than what GF wants for them. In my experience it will be worth it, however. There's a good chance that if you bought a set from GF it would have Made in China stamped somewhere on it, and although I have nothing against the Chinese that usually doesn't point to a quality product when it comes to electronics. I have upgraded every guitar I own from stock manufacturer's pickups to sets wound by my favorite pickup guy for a couple hundred bucks a pop--and I am absolutely never disappointed by the tonal upgrade.
Call me picky, but pickups are one place where I would never consider skimping. Would you buy a guitar made out of plywood? I'd venture a guess: no.
• Well, yes and no. I took my #1 electric, a 1988 MIJ top-loader Fender Tele to Sweetwater for last year's Gearfest and plugged it in to a nice amp. I believe a Mesa/Boogie. Anyway, after that I pulled a few other Teles off the wall, including a few Custom Shop Teles and a Baja, and I compared them. Remember that within 2 years, the MIJ Tele was a Squier model, so not great electronics, not great pickups, but I didn't think my #1 sounded that much worse than the US-made US-pickup'd Teles at the store. – Dave Jacoby Mar 16 '11 at 3:34
• In my defense I'm not preaching boutique mumbo-jumbo here :D. I'm just as broke as you guys, but I really do hear a very large difference between my stock MIM Telecaster pups and my Lollar Tele specials. That difference may be small to some folks, but to me it's huge and worth the investment. Totally subjective though I understand. – Jduv Mar 16 '11 at 3:55
Guitar Fetish or GFS is a reputable business and has a very good return policy if you follow the rules. I have had good luck with their products - best practices: the really inexpensive pickups are going to be a bit better than the ones sold with low end guitars. Note: sometimes the clearance sales are for products they bought on a volume deal and are not their own products. I bought a set of clearance Tele PU's for $21 and they sound pretty good, much better than the stock Squier Affinity PuP's. I've also purchased a set of the Strat Texas style at $50 and they are pretty good but I understand the $70 set is smoother (from a guy on another forum who has tried both). Thrir products are decent and might be comparable to higher end parts (Seymor Duncan, etc..) but there is no guarantee of that. Personally I have been very pleased with their products and the prices and service have been excellent.
Guitar Fetish don't build their own pickups. Several of their models are identical to those offered by the Artec brand, so it seems likely that Artec are the OEM (as they are for Wilkinson, Tone Rider, Iron Gear, Giovanni, Warman and several other brands). To widen the net slightly you could simply find the corresponding Artec model to the pickup you fancy and see if anybody has reviewed that pickup. For example Artec build a Dimarzio X2N copy that is sold under various brand names (Crunchy Rails in GFS parlance). In general if a cheap pickup looks very similar to another cheap pickup then it is likely from the same OEM. The GFS Crunchy Rails pickup looks pretty identical to the Entwistle Pickups X3 model.
The only issue I can foresee is that because Guitar Fetish can buy in bulk they might specify differences in the pickup specs. For example they may request an overwound cream-coloured PAF-type humbucker with hex-bolt pole pieces. Visually this would look like an Iron Gear Steam Hammer humbucker (and the Dimarzio Super Distortion of course) but may sound different if GFS request a different magnet or output rating.
My biggest concern would be that Artec simply build one style of humbucker, and adjust one attribute without worrying about the others. When Seymour Duncan, Dimarzio, the boutique winders et al decide to build a hot humbucker they don't simply take their standard PAF humbucker flatwork and magnet set and stick a couple of thousand extra turns on each coil. They might have done this in the '70s (back in the bad old days when some guitarists took two original Gibson PAF pickups, stacked them vertically and wired them in series to get a hotter signal), but builders tend to consider ever element of a pickup when it comes to adjusting an element of the design. A cheaper builder will probably not do this, simply swap a magnet or set the winder to a different count number without due consideration for the impact this will have on the pickup's tone.
I would warn that cheaper pickups might be microphonic, but the most loyal PAF clones come without any wax potting, and authentic Strat pickups get a perfunctory dip in lacquer by way of potting. Some people claim the microphonics enhance the tone... but usually only when they've spent considerably more than GFS prices for their pickups.
Have been playing since '62 and owned a lot of guitars. Few years ago started restoring some of my older and cheaper instruments and tried Guitar Fetish pickups. Was amazed by the sound. Now have their 'lil killers' (I think) on a nice recent US Strat, 2 sets of their humbuckers on good Ibanez gtrs, set of their 'red actives' on a Japan Strat, and a set of their humbucking p90 replacements on a Tele. All these pups sound (imho) very good indeed. On other guitars I have most of the big name active and passive pups. The Guitar Fetish pups hold their own with anything else in my collection. I use expensive amps and am particular about tone. I am in absolutely no way associated with Guitar Fetish and have no idea what their guitars are like. Their pickups are damn good.
little late to the conversation!!have guitar fetish p 90,s on a loaded scratch plate,fitted to a project guitar,mostly ebay!.superb sound,plenty of range,every body here loves it!at a cost of £43.00 sterling,including shipping to UK.no hesitation in buying their products.puts my USA strat to shame tonewise!both played thro valve marshall amp.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7679 | Truth…if you still want to know
What is freedom…real freedom? Is it the ability to do whatever you want? Is it the condition that allows you think & believe anything you want, the way you want? What if I believe it is okay to rob banks? What makes that action wrong, but I digress?
Baruck Spinoza (1632-1677), stoic philosopher, a heterodox thinker focusing on rationalism, is much praised in academia. He decided God was no longer the creator of the universe, ruling by His divine providence. How convenient for him! This sets the stage to allow his view that a person has the right to interpret Scripture as they wished. Thus, our current state of subjectivism is born and still running wild.
Unfortunately, many Protestants, rejecting subjectivism, filled the void with a scientific approach…this is just a different name for escaping from God’s Holy Word. Now a person can do what they want, believe what they want, and define right & wrong away they chose to do.
Look around, this is where we are today!
As humans get rid of God, they must fill the void…with themselves. It is an old problem, now being regenerated. Days of old, things moved slowly; today, information (good or bad) is around the world in seconds. Now, we see this “God doesn’t exist” void is being filled with pride…the same pride of Lucifer before he was cast out of Heaven, or the pride of Adam & Eve wanting the knowledge of God. The pride that people are as powerful as God; the pride the arrogance that humans can actually manipulate world-wide climate. I wrote a whole chapter on the “climate change” hoax in my new book, “Trying to be God“. World climate has always been changing since creation, as part of God’s providence; however, today’s movement is actually about controlling people, not climates.
Follow your subjective agenda, follow science (actually, I like science, much is in my first book, “I Am, the Great Creator God“)…but neither will provide you truth. Only the Holy Bible will provide you real Truth…if you still want to know.
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Q10Liar’s Dice has been updated in BlackBerry World to version 2.1 in order to add support for the BlackBerry Q10 which is launching this weekend.
About Liar’s Dice
The game has two main game modes. The “High Score” mode is the default mode, points are awarded for each round, and the first to gain a given number of points wins. The number of points required to win a game can be configured on the options page in order to allow for shorter or longer games.
IMG_00000017The other option is for an “Elimination” mode in which the loser of each round loses one dice for the following rounds, and the last player with any dice left is the winner. This game is more dynamic as there are a different number of dice in play each round. Additionally games in this mode typically play faster than high score games.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7731 | While sitting at my table I noticed how each piece of wood in it looks different. Every tree has it’s own pattern. No two trees share the same pattern.
The same holds with our own fingerprints. There may be someone who looks almost exactly like you, but your fingerprints make you unique. Look at each if your fingers. Go on, take a look. :) There are different patterns on each pair of fingers. Psalm 139:16 says,
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the day fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”
You weren’t just born with the fingerprints you have. God, who created the stars and planets, designed each of your fingers. (Of course, He designed all of you, but we’re talking about fingerprints right now.)
He has a plan for your life. He designed it with as much care and detail as your fingerprints. Never forget that you are not an accident. God has plan for your life and He loves you!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7745 | Hebrews 1-5
Good morning! Today we begin reading through the book of Hebrews, which is called a letter in its title but is much closer to a sermon in form. Its writer (not Paul) uses highly developed rhetoric and quotes from many parts of scripture, as though he has a concordance at his fingertips. This writer thinks nothing of taking passages out of their original context (like the Psalms, for instance) and putting them to different uses. The main emphasis here is on the power of faith to lead to salvation throughout biblical history, and especially in Jesus Christ. Hebrews contends that Jewish spirituality and theology lends itself to Christian belief, such that Jesus is the “great high priest” whose once-for-all-time sacrifice satisfies the need to atone for sins and please God.
The book opens with a highly exalted vision of Jesus as so close to God that he is superior even to angels. Moses too is less than Christ, because while Moses is the best “house” (meaning a faithful servant for God), Christ was faithful as the master and creator of the house itself—that is, humankind. In a move similar to the “Christ hymn” in Philippians, the writer here emphasizes Jesus’ “descent” into human form, temporarily surrendering supernatural powers to become a God-man veiled in flesh. (This has much more in common with the gospel-writer John’s depiction of Jesus. Contrast this with the very-human Jesus depicted in Mark and the other synoptic gospels.) Christ’s death Christ liberates those who believe from their own death, and from living perpetually afraid of death.
Therefore, Hebrews exhorts is readers to be faithful, unlike the Hebrews in the wilderness who doubted and tested God in many ways. Through scriptural wordplay, the book suggests that God’s essentially holding the door of “today” open for those who believe to slip into eternal rest, and not be left out in the cold. Those who have heard about this possibility mustn’t neglect obedience to Jesus, because knowledge of his salvation entails culpability for the failure to follow.
The metaphor of Jesus as a “great high priest” comes near the end of today’s reading. The writer plays on the idea of a high priest like those described in Leviticus and Numbers, who once a year enters the “holy of holies” and makes an atonement offering for the whole nation’s sins. Christ is a human like us, but unlike us in the respect that he doesn’t sin. Jesus can show mercy and kindness like human high priests because he can relate to humanity, yet needs to make no sacrifice for his own shortcomings. This means that he was the perfect intermediary between God and humanity, satisfying the former’s call for blamelessness and the latter’s need for merciful compassion. This metaphor makes little sense to Jews or Christians today without a temple or tabernacle mentality, but I suspect that our reading at the beginning of the year will help us make more sense in this part of the Bible. Happy reading!
Read Hebrews 1-5.
Please join discussion of this passage at the Daily Bible Facebook group, or comment below. The passage for tomorrow is Hebrews 6-10. Thanks for reading!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7762 | Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 — Vanilla Forums Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:45:38 +0000 en Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 — Vanilla Forums Basic Pages - Recent Discussions shown next page Thu, 16 May 2019 20:32:27 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 Kaspar 37294@/discussions Love the Basic Pages application! :-)
I wonder why 'Recent Discussions' are shown next to my page - instead of 'Categories'(as when in discussions view) or nothing is shown in the side(as in categories view)?
What did I miss / do wrong or how can I change it?
Thanks in advance.
Registration: Connect only results in 404 Fri, 31 May 2019 07:45:40 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 Krisstoffer 37332@/discussions Greetings all,
I opened a ticket on the official GitHub but due to the nature of the issue I was advised to post my issue here as it may not indeed a bug (tho not sure I did anything wrong.)
Anyhow for the curious the original issue can be found here
I am using the 3.0 RC1 release and cannot confirm the issue exists in previous releases, per the GitHub link (above) this is my first go around with Vanilla so as such my knowledge on it's inner workings is not quite the best.
In a nutshell I have Facebook, Twitter, Google Auth (the new one not the G+ one) all up and running, these work fine. However when I enable Connect under Membership -> Registration users clicking the Registration link are now presented with a 404 which per again GitHub (still above) sends the user (again 404) to entry/register?Target=discussions rather than a modal box with social sign-ins or a page that does likewise.
1. normal registration (Basic) works fine
2. all SSO options appear to be working fine under all other modes
3. pretty urls are enabled (configured)
I was unsure if I should have posted this in Development on here in 2.8 since no 3.0 category exists as of yet #showmercy
Redirector plugin: Not work on clean 2.6.3 installation with imported vbulletin 3.8 forum Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:57:13 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 zaja 36769@/discussions Hi,
I'm not sure do I have any extra step to do after plugin installation?
It seems that not work for me, clean 2.6.3 installation with imported vbulletin 3.8 forum (about 1 million posts and 500k private messages.)
Old links, such as showthread.php?p=1290045 or forumdisplay.php?f=117 open Page not found.
Rich Editor does not work on fresh Vanilla 2.8 install Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:04:36 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 P3ter 36997@/discussions Hello,
I just installed Vanilla 2.8 to do some tests. It's a fresh install, not an update. It seems that Rich Editor doesn't work, the textarea simply disappear :
I have tried to upload video but dont know how to show player any player HTML 5 Fri, 24 May 2019 03:55:04 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 jack_joe 37314@/discussions Hello , Please help me out.
I have tried to upload video but dont know how to show player ; any player HTML to play my video.
I want to customize the single discussion page, if there is video, it will play there only.
Do not suggest for embedding videos. I am successful in uploading video to server.
Moved: Edit Role - Purpose of "Default Type" dropdown? Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:37:37 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 charrondev 37427@/discussions moved.]]> Passwords no longer work after update from 2.2 Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:59:54 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 DaveV 36831@/discussions I've upgraded an old 2.2 installation to 2.5.6 and all the user passowrds no longer work 🙁.
After a bit of research and looking at the database I see that the passwords are all hashed with the Vanilla method, which in 2.2 uses $P$ (phpass). However in 2.5 the Vanilla method has changed and uses $2y$ (crypt), and it seems it can't automatically rehash the passwords. I've tried instead upgrading to 2.3 first and this works - the passwords are re-hashed to $2a$ on login. However, I really need to update to at least 2.5, so can't upgrade to 2.3 first and wait for all the users (over 2000) to login before then upgrading to 2.5...
Therefore, I think my only option is to change the hash method to 'reset' and force all the users to reset their passwords on their next login.
Has anyone else experienced this, or know of a work-around?
SQL error: Data truncated for column 'Score' at row 1 Mon, 17 Apr 2017 03:03:21 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 nick92 33380@/discussions When I try to enable the addon it's displays an error:
"Data truncated for column 'Score' at row 1"
I have version 2.3
Q&A Plugin not working? Thu, 08 May 2014 10:51:32 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 JanHoos 26809@/discussions Hi guys!
I've just installed the Q&A plugin and I can't see where I can start questions. Reading other questions about this plugin, it seems that you should be able to create either a discussion or a question but I don't have those options presented to me! :o
Upgrade to MySQL 5.7 Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:11:43 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 jhsim 37342@/discussions Does anyone know of a guide or tutorial for moving a Vanilla database to a new version of MySQL?
Currently running Vanilla 2.8 on MySQL 5.5.
MySQL 5.7 is now available with my ISP, but a first attempt to simply export and import the existing sql file failed miserably.
Can't install Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:44:21 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 arturocivit 37351@/discussions Hi guys, trying to install the version 2.8.4, i filled all the database and admin fields and when I hit continue it returns me back to the same installation page, any idea what's wrong?
Moved: The wordpress plugin integration doesnt work Thu, 20 Jun 2019 07:25:17 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 charrondev 37436@/discussions moved.]]> Issue with Locale api - translations.js 404 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:21:38 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 Aolee 37359@/discussions Hi Guys,
Appreciate if you can help me on my issue, I tried to do a fresh 2.8 install. however i noticed there's a 404 on the api for translations.js
upon checking the api list from my dashboard, i don't seem to have the api endpoint for it (api for getting the translations.js)
I've crossed compare it with the vanilla documentation here =>
there's an extra api url for the .js file
May I know if there's anything i missed from the fresh install.
I actually don't need a translation as im using English for my forum. Is it possible or advisable to isable this api call (to retrieve the translations.js)
Some other infos that might be useful
a. /public_html/locales/ <empty>
b. inside the /conf folder, I only got these
c. I have this in my conf/config.php => $Configuration['Garden']['Locale'] = 'en';
Moved: Attachments not working Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:55:45 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 charrondev 37373@/discussions moved.]]> Plugin module not found. Sun, 09 Jun 2019 18:08:02 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 LenSoft 37358@/discussions Hi!
After uploading the Theme to my themes folder, I tried to equip it, but an error message pop-ups every time:
The addon could not be enabled because it generated a fatal error: Plugin not found.
Do I need some plugin?
Double line breaks Wed, 08 May 2019 11:31:41 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 asleulv 37276@/discussions Hi.
Any solution yet? I notice it's the same on here. Enter = new paragraph instead of the expected <br>.
Upgrading From Version Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:29:54 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 StaticCory 36346@/discussions I'm planning on migrating my forum over to a new host very soon, and figured that while I'm at it, I should look into upgrading it. I'm wondering if it's even possible to upgrade to the newest version (2.6) or not, considering mine is very old. As of now, I have everything setup perfectly, in the sense that plugins work cohesively and error-free, and i'm sure most of these plugins won't be able to be transferred over, but that's fine, and I'll work around it. Also, since I'm not having any errors at all, maybe it's just best to keep it the way it is? Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!
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I just want to know if a "like" plugin exists and works with Vanilla 2.8.3?
I found this one, but it's updated until 2015, not after...
Thank you 😉
Is vanilla forums Free to use? Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:12:01 +0000 Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8 usachithauk 37354@/discussions can i download & use this free? or should i pay monthly?
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Issue with passer state and machine operation on CNC Xpro v3
Discussion in 'Controller Boards' started by Sean.I, Sep 30, 2018.
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Hello fellow open builders,
I am having an issue with my OX Router and getting it to run with UGS.
This system was working fine around 2 months ago when I used it last.
I stopped using it due to work and an issue I was having with the X axis causing oval holes and it needing an upgrade. Now that I have done the upgrade which was just adding a second belt to the X axis so nothing to do with the board or changes to the controller board. I am now having an issue with UGS connecting to the machine.
I have changed cables and done fresh installs of UGS on a second laptop reset the controller using the hard reset button and reset the GRBL settings using $RST=* to make sure that there wasn't a setting that has been corrupt but for the life of me I cannot figure what the issue is.
It does seem to be sending signals to the machine but not executing them correctly.
This is what I get when I first connect to the machine.
>>> $$
$0 = 10 (Step pulse time, microseconds)
$1 = 25 (Step idle delay, milliseconds)
$2 = 0 (Step pulse invert, mask)
$3 = 0 (Step direction invert, mask)
$4 = 0 (Invert step enable pin, boolean)
$5 = 0 (Invert limit pins, boolean)
$6 = 0 (Invert probe pin, boolean)
$10 = 1 (Status report options, mask)
$11 = 0.010 (Junction deviation, millimeters)
$12 = 0.002 (Arc tolerance, millimeters)
$13 = 0 (Report in inches, boolean)
$20 = 0 (Soft limits enable, boolean)
$21 = 0 (Hard limits enable, boolean)
$22 = 1 (Homing cycle enable, boolean)
$23 = 0 (Homing direction invert, mask)
$24 = 25.000 (Homing locate feed rate, mm/min)
$25 = 500.000 (Homing search seek rate, mm/min)
$26 = 250 (Homing switch debounce delay, milliseconds)
$30 = 1000 (Maximum spindle speed, RPM)
$31 = 0 (Minimum spindle speed, RPM)
$32 = 0 (Laser-mode enable, boolean)
$100 = 250.000 (X-axis travel resolution, step/mm)
$101 = 250.000 (Y-axis travel resolution, step/mm)
$102 = 250.000 (Z-axis travel resolution, step/mm)
$110 = 500.000 (X-axis maximum rate, mm/min)
$111 = 500.000 (Y-axis maximum rate, mm/min)
$112 = 500.000 (Z-axis maximum rate, mm/min)
$120 = 10.000 (X-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2)
$121 = 10.000 (Y-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2)
$122 = 10.000 (Z-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2)
$130 = 200.000 (X-axis maximum travel, millimeters)
$131 = 200.000 (Y-axis maximum travel, millimeters)
>>> $G
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0ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
54ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
17ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
21ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
90ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
94ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
5ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
9ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
0ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
0ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ? ctrl-x]
Ignoring that the GRBL settings are incorrect as I have reset them back to what they should be to the installation manual, its the passer state that I believe is causing the issue. And I cannot seem to find anything on it. I am hoping somebody has an idea I haven't tried yet to get me back up and running.
I have also gone through the process of resetting he $N state as well and that seems to set and recall fine but as soon as a I do a $G I get the passer state above.
Thanks in advance
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Offtopic / Another Classic Game Got Reverse Engineered
« on: April 06, 2019, 10:23:44 pm »
This time it is Magic Carpet:
Like most games of its time it was way ahead of its time :D
Offtopic / XCOM Inspired Fantasy Game
« on: January 03, 2019, 12:37:07 am »
Hi, folks! I'm working on an XCOM inspired fantasy game. It is not a carbon copy, and the most striking difference is that I don't use RNG, leading to numerous different design decisions. For example, instead of chance to hit, to penetrate high defense armor, attacker has to spend action points. This allows for example using some at first glance useless unit, with a lot of action points, like say bird, to distract defender, while slow heavy hitter does the damage. The next difference is the shift towards spellcasting and terraforming map. For example, if player has imp worker, it can dig underground passage into a prison under castle, free inmates there and then attack the castle from underneath. The other way would be flying over moat (with flight spell or flying creatures), teleport there, pass through walls with wraiths (which also see through walls), create elevation to reach castle wall. Obviously, player can just storm the heavy guarded front gate.
The game engine also supports portals and large doors (you cant have a proper castle with puny little door). And AI uses them too.
Still the game borrows a lot of elements from Gollop's games, especially Lords of Chaos and XCOM. I.e. there is chryssalid style monsters and a raise dead spell producing undead units, which are very resistant to non-enhanced attacks. The game has a world map, invasion threat and randomly generated maps (cities, dungeons, etc...), but I also plan adding ability to play as bad guys instead.
Do you have any suggestions or wishes for such a game? For example, what do you think should happen if two units teleport into the same place or if unit tries to teleport into the fog of war ends up teleporting into a wall? For now, just strongest unit survives (i.e. the wall).
Offtopic / Open Source Fallout Tactics
« on: December 06, 2015, 12:55:39 pm »
Did you knew about ???
Fallout Tactics was basically an X-Com clone, with evil AI instead of aliens.
Programming / Field of Vision
« on: December 06, 2015, 11:32:11 am »
How did the original X-Com managed to calculated field of vision back in 1994? The only way I know is spherecasting - an expensive calculation to do in realtime.
Programming / Magic & Mayhem Engine Open Source Clone
« on: August 30, 2015, 04:07:37 pm »
Hi, folks!
Besides X-COM, there is another game using very similar and powerful isometric engine (among the most advanced to my knowledge) by the same designer (Julian Gollop). The game is Magic & Mayhem, based of Lords of Chaos - an old Amiga game.
The game has a lot of issues, due to the publisher interfering with developers and enforcing the usual christmas deadline (November release date speaks for itself). Running the game modern computer is pain too (although I've succeeded running it on OSX with PlayOnMac, after disabling opengl). Maybe now is the time to fix it and bring back to life as an open source project?
Most game data resides as open text in *.cfg files, but a some things are hidden under binary and few *.cfgs are encrypted, which is solved with waiting for the engine to decrypt them and then just dumping them from memory.
Tinkered a little with Magic & Mayhem engine (without using any debugger) gets some knowledge on how to decode binary data (I've successfully decoded all sprites), but unfortunately not the most interesting thing, which is the map encryption algorithm, required to get factual knowledge of how maps are stored and rendered.
Algorithm decoding CFG files would be nice too, because distributing decoded files would be copyright infringement.
Does anybody know how to decode *.map files?
I'll share with you my Magic & Mayhem engine facts and guesses:
- All map tiles are 64x48 (with light source coming from the southwest), where 16 pixels are used for height. There are no wall or floor tiles, like in X-Com style engines.
- Map is drawn in layers, using either priority queue or zbuffer.
- Water is procedurally generated between layers, as specified by `WaterLevel` variable in level files.
- Creatures have width/height size (TileSizeXY) and TileHeight, which determine their blocking profile and when they drown (water level gets past their height).
- Creatures move on grid lattice (directly using mapping to 64x32 tiles tops), like in older RTS games (Warcraft and Starcraft). Creatures can move only 8 directions, which is especially noticeable with flyers, where bat flies in zig-zag.
- Non-creature game objects (like trees and doors) are made completely out of tiles. Quote from doors.cfg "Terrain tiles need to be assigned a door number, the tile numbers that make up the door are listed [...] along with the animations for the door opening and closing"
- Game maps files (*.map) inside ./Realms appear to be compressed using the same algorithm as the txt files inside of ./CFG/Encrypted folder. The *.nod files are not compressed, but I guess they hold something like precomputed movement maps for AI.
- Due to the rhomboidal minimap shape, the map format appears to be rhomboidal too. So the Y-axis is diagonal to the viewport (like in X-com), as opposed to the vertical successive Y's, in games like Civilization II. The map is also toroidal, meaning that its west edge transitions into it's east edge, Pacman-style ( )
- The map drawing algorithm can be copied from: which should give correct occlusion for a world made of arbitrary bounding boxes. I.e. projectiles and spells like tornado will render correctly.
- the lightmaps are implemented by simply altering the tile and creature brightness. Fog of war appears to be more complex.
- The sprite format used for creatures and tilesets is described in
- "It was designed first as a multiplayer game and we sort of retrofitted the single-player experience, so it didn’t work so well unfortunately, for me." -- Julian Gollop
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In this paper, the possibility and necessity of multistep trajectory planning in Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based SLAM is investigated. The objective of the trajectory planning here is to minimize the estimation error of the robot and landmark locations subject to a given time horizon. We show that the problem can be regarded as an optimization problem for a gradually identified model. A numerical method is proposed for trajectory planning using a variant of the nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC). The proposed method is optimal in the sense that the control action is computed using all the information available at the time of decision making. Simulation results are included to compare the results from the one-step look-ahead trajectory planning and the proposed multi-step lookahead technique
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7796 | The God of Restoration
Job reminds us that God never leaves his people. The hardest trials and the most desperate seasons of life are not proof that God has abandoned us. On the contrary! It is in these trying times that our trust in God’s keeping grace deepens and matures as He proves Himself faithful to keep His children even through the fiery trials of life. Job had everything taken from him by God. Then, Job had everything restored to Him by God. Should God exalt a man, let that man praise the Lord. Should God bring a man down to his knees, let that man praise the Lord.
Fear Not, For I Am With Thee: The Believer’s Confidence
Redeemed, called personally, eternally kept by the power of God: We are God’s purchased possession, loved of the Lord so much that He sent Christ to fulfill all righteousness for us by His death on the cross. We are exhorted to testify to the truth of the Gospel of God’s free and Sovereign Grace. We have a commission to carry forth as Christians, to share Christ’s finished work in the proclamation of the Gospel. Far and wide, we must spread the Gospel. Let it be our labor of love!
A Place Where Righteousness Dwells
Though scoffers mock and ridicule the truth of our Lord’s coming judgment, God’s people trust in the promise that one day, God will finally judge the wicked and dwell with His children eternally. This place, a new heaven and earth where righteousness dwells, will serve as the eternal home of God’s redeemed children. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7816 | welcome covers
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Beyond Physics No More?
by Rick Lewis
Let’s get meta-physical! Metaphysics is philosophy’s oldest and most central strand. When Greek philosophy first kicked off in the port of Miletus on the coast of Anatolia 2,500 years ago, the biggest question pondered by the likes of Thales and Anaximander was this: what is the underlying reality of the universe, beneath the surface appearances of our everyday world? Thales thought that everything was, deep down, made of water. Squeeze something hard enough and juice runs out – see? Anaximander disagreed; the underlying reality, he said, was an unobservable element called apeiron. And so Western philosophy began, with speculations that could not be directly checked but which might with greater or lesser success explain those phenomena that we can directly observe. Democritus (460-370BC) hypothesised that simplicity of explanation could be combined with the diversity of the observed world if we assume everything to be made up of arrangements of tiny indivisible articles he called atoms. Epicurus a century later agreed but added that rather than just bouncing around in a mathematically predicatable fashion, sometimes the atoms swerve unpredictably as they fall through the void – and this swerve (called a clinamen), by defeating determinism, is the source of our free will. You can read much more in this issue about Epicurus and his theories and we have a great cartoon strip about him too.
Such speculations didn’t have a specific label until Aristotle’s editors gathered together his notes about them into a volume they called ‘Metaphysics’, meaning ‘Beyond Physics’, perhaps because Physics was the title of the previous volume.
Our metaphysics articles in this issue includes a feature on Bishop Berkeley; so you can find out why he believed in ideas, but not in matter, and also why he made the surprising claim that his colourful ideas were a philosophy of common sense. Berkeley’s idealism is well known, but it’s often forgotten he too, like Democritus and Epicurus, believed in atoms – though naturally he had his own unique take on what they were. The article on Spinoza explores his reasons for thinking that God and Nature were one and the same – but the author goes on to argue that in the process, Spinoza gives us valuable clues as to how to understand some perplexing puzzles in science today. Nick Inman asks about the nature of human identity and asks where, exactly, it is located, and Jon David wonders whether rocks have awareness. And there you see a sample of the themes that have preoccupied metaphysicians for centuries.
For a couple of thousand years, metaphysics was such a central, essential part of philosophy that for many people, it was the real story. The majority of the great philosophical theories and debates down the ages were in one way or another part of metaphysics. Metaphysics is about the deep structure of the universe, about how things really are, as opposed to how they look. But this question directly connects with others which are part of metaphysics too. Does God exist, and if so, what’s He (or She) like? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How does the mind or soul connect with the body? Free will is another perennial problem in metaphysics, and should not be confused with Free Willy, which was a movie about a whale.
Relatively recently, in the last three centuries or so, the invention of new scientific instruments has revealed things about the universe which were previously hidden from our perceptions by scale or distance. Philosophers used to hypothesise about everything being made of atoms – a recurring subject of discussion in metaphysics for two thousand years. Yet over the last one hundred years the structure of atoms has become very well understood through both theoretical and experimental physics and we can even take photographs of them, using powerful electron microscopes. Does this mean that the whole discussion of atomic theory has moved from the realm of metaphysics into the realm of physics? If so, might other discussions in metaphysics follow suit in the future? The mind-body problem has already done so, if you believe physicalists like Daniel Dennett, but very much hasn’t if you agree with dualists like David Chalmers. The jury is still out on that one, but perhaps there are other metaphysical questions which can be solved by science. So, might metaphysics soon become a quaint historical footnote like alchemy?
Clearly some metaphysical questions – like the existence of atoms – have indeed crossed into the realm of experimental science, into a space where they can actually, finally be answered. But there may be movement in the other direction too. Some philosophers have recently been scrapping with scientists like Stephen Hawking about whether the world still needs philosophy. Hawking claimed that “philosophy is dead”, as physics now does all the work that philosophy used to do. Yes, retort philosophy’s defenders – that is because you astrophysicists have all become amateur metaphysicians yourselves, theorising about supersymmetric strings and dark energy and parallel universes and other matters way beyond the reach of your telescopes! So from that perspective, metaphysics is not old-fashioned – on the contrary, it is the new black. And as we stare out into the blackness still seeking answers about the nature of the cosmos and the place of consciousness within it, mere labels, such as ‘scientist’ and ‘philosopher’ may come to seem less important than the questions themselves.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7819 | Nuclear Physics Experiments
The experimental group is presently led by faculty members Prof. William Zajc and Prof. Brian Cole and senior research scientist Cheng-Yi Chi. Our present work focuses on the PHENIX experiment which is running at BNL's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). This machine will provide colliding beams of Au nuclei at 100 A GeV, a factor of 100 higher energy than previously available in the AGS fixed target program. Our group at Columbia is playing a major role in the design, construction, and management of PHENIX, one of the two large detectors to be built at RHIC.
A large part of our PHENIX effort at Nevis involves the PHENIX DAQ and Trigger system. Specifically, we are working on the Data Collection Module (DCM) electronics board, its software, the PHENIX Event Builder and the Level-2 Trigger.
One specific physics focus of part of our group on PHENIX is on
anti-nuclei production (at low luminosity) and Heavy Flavor production (at high luminosity). Check out the Heavy Flavor Physics Working group page.
Over the last several years many members of the group have also been involved in experiments at lower energy studying fixed-target heavy-ion collisions at the Brookhaven AGS.
Students Xihong Yang, David Winter, and Hiro Hiejima, with Prof. Brian Cole have worked on experiment E910 (shown above) to study proton + nucleus collisions. The experiment focuses on hadron particle production and in particular mechanisms for strangeness enhancement. |
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To provide the participant with the practical skill and knowledge to effectively set-up and operate the OSR equipment
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The first responder to an oil spill site, who is hands-on operating and maintaining the equipment.
· Introduction to PIMMAG
· Introduction to oil spill response
· Operator's roles & responsibilities in OSR
· Fate of oil and its impact
· Types of oil spill response equipment, its use & limitations
· Shoreline and offshore response - operation of equipment, containment & recovery techniques
· Practical deployment exercise
· Application of dispersant
· Waste management
· HSE in OSR operations
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7827 | Beware the Christians!
The fact that someone is a Republican and differs with their view on tax policies means to them that that person is evil and probably eats babies. They believe that the religious are responsible for all the problems in the world and that everything would be perfect if they could just get rid of them -- much like Iranian mullahs think everything would be perfect if they could make the whole world Islamic. They had many misconceptions about Republicans that only come from being isolated from them -- much like mullahs isolate themselves from the West. And there wasn't any thoughtful contemplation of whether they could possibly be wrong about any of this -- much like the certainty mullahs get by claiming inspiration from God.
With this unquestioned certainty that people with different views than theirs are extremely evil and dangerous, what do you think they'd do to Christians and conservatives if they ever got into power? They were already plotting in the comments on how to eliminate and marginalize millions of Americans, and how do you think that would go? I'd say look to Iran and the violence and execution and oppression of anyone who dares go against them and then you'll see exactly what we'd have if these people who think the religious right are just like Iranian mullahs ever seized control of the country.
So do we need to work to stop these people?
I mean, yeah, they'd make Nazis blush with their actions if they ever seized power and struck out against those they hate, but how in the multi-verse could that ever conceivably happen? They're nitwits who like to think they're saving the world by being rude to Christians so as not to come to face with how utterly useless they all are. I can't even imagine a scenario where they could seize power even if I include sci-fi elements like alien technology and time travel. I mean, it would be horrible if three-year-olds controlled all our nuclear weapons -- one tantrum and millions would die -- but that doesn't mean we go around fearing three-year-olds, because why in the world would we ever put them in charge of nuclear weapons? The closest any of these paranoid losers have come to power is Obama, and how is he going to round up right-wing Christians if he already can't even get the Democrats to line up behind him?
So why point these people out if we don't need to do anything about them? So we can laugh at them, as laughter is fun. Then if you see someone hanging out at Whole Foods ranting about Christians and neocons, pat him on the back and tell him how he gives you good cheer. He'll feel good about himself for finally doing something useful in his life. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7831 | Applying Algorithms to Land-Use Decision Making
Zoning Practice — March 2019
By Norman Wright, AICP
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Every planner has a set of variables and values that they consider when judging a land-use proposal. Informally, we think of these as our expert intuitions, the sort of thinking that we developed through years of experience and training. In a formal sense, these are known as algorithms, and they create a formula for how we make decisions. When we deliberately write this formula as an explicit algorithm, we can combine it with data and create a more transparent, consistent, and adaptable approach to decision making.
This edition of Zoning Practice reviews simple methods for defining and applying a decision algorithm for land-use cases and briefly explores methods that improve the approach.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7835 | Of Fire and Flame
Although we at a distance stand, if great
A fire be, the body through1 will heat.
Yet those sharp atomes we do not perceive,
How they fly out, nor how to us they cleave.2
Nor do they3 flame, nor shine they clear and bright 5
When they fly out and on our bodies strike.4
The reason is they loose and scattered fly,
And not in troops, nor do they on heaps lie.
Like small dust rais’d, which,5 scatter’d all about,
We see it not, nor doth it light keep6 out. 10
But gathered up thick7 to a mountain high,
We then see they in solid earth do8 lie.
Just so do atoms sharp look, clear and bright,
When in heaps lie,9 or in a streaming flight.
Of Fire in the Flint
The reason fire lies1 in flint unseen
Is other figured atoms lie2 between.
For being bound and overpowered by
A multitude, they do in prison lie.
Unless motion do come and let3 them out 5
With a strong power, which make them4 fly about.
But if that flint be beat to powder small,
To separate the grossest,5 released are all.
And6 when they once are out, they ne’er come back,7
But seek about another form to make.8 10
What Atoms Make Fire Burn, and What Flame
What makes a spark of fire to burn more quick
Than a great flame? Because ’tis small to stick.
For fire itself is in its nature dry,2
Falls into parts as crowds of atoms lie.
The sharpest atoms keep the body hot; 5
To give out heat some atoms forth are shot.
Sometimes the sparks for anger fly about,3
Or, wanting room, do thrust the weakest4out.
They are so sharp, that what they meet, devour56
If other atoms them not overpower:7 10
As ants, though8 small, will eat up a dead horse,
So atoms sharp use9 bodies of less force.
Thus atoms sharp grow10 sharper by degrees,
As stings in flies are not so sharp as bees’.
And when they meet a body solid, flat, 15
The weakest fly; the sharpest work on that.
Those that are not so sharp do fly about
To seek some lighter matter to eat11 out.
Thus12 lighter atoms do turn air13 to flame,
Because more thin and porous is the same. 20
Thus flame is not so hot as burning coal:14
The atoms are too weak to take fast hold.15
The sharpest into firmest bodies fly,
But if their strength be small, they quickly die.
Or if their number be not great, but small, 25
The blunter atoms beat and quench out all.
What Atoms Make the Sun and the Sea Go Round
The1 pointed atoms all to fire do2 turn,
But by their dryness they become so light4
As they do get above the rest in flight,5
Where6 by consent a wheel of fire they make,7 5
Which being spherical, doth round motion take.8
This motion makes round9 atoms turn about,
Which atoms round are water, without doubt,
And10 makes the sea go round, like11 watermill,
For as the sun, so water turns round12 still. 10
Of the Motion of the Sea
If as we see the sea1 doth run about
The earth, it leaves a space where’t first came out.2
For if the water were as much as land,34
The water5 would not stir, but still would6 stand.
Which shows that though the water doth go7 round, 5
Yet is there still more land than8 water9 found.
But say the air that’s moveable without,
And10 thin, doth give it11 leave to run about,
Or like a wheel which water makes to go:12
So air may cause the sea to move and13 flow.14 10
But if that air hath15 not room to move,
It cannot16 any other body shove.
Besides, what drives must needs be stronger far17
Than what it drives, or else it would not stir.18
If so, then infinites of strengths must be19 15
In motion’s power, to move eternally.
But say all things run in a circle-line,20
And every part doth to another21 join:
They cannot in each other’s places stir,22
Unless23 some places be24 left empty bare.25 20
For stop a wheel’s circumference26 without,
Its27 center too, it cannot turn about.
If breadth and depth were full, leaving no space,
Nothing could stir nor move out of its28 place.29
Of Vapor
Loose and sharp atoms,12 which do rove3 about,
To porous atoms stick and draw them4 out
From those5 more close, for these67 do highest lie:
Thus vapor’s drawn toward8 the region high.
But since they of an equal weight are all,9 5
For want of strength they cause them back to fall.10
Of Dews and Mists Coming from the Earth
Some atoms sharp thrust from the Earth some round,
And then a pearlèd dew lies on the ground.
But if on their sharp points they bear them2 high,
They,3 being raised, a mist make in the sky.4
On the circumference of the5 Earth there lies 5
The loosest atoms, which are6 apt to rise;
Though not so high as them the sun may burn,7
For being dull, they back to Earth return.
As water, which is shoved with force of strength
Is not so apt to move, as run at length. 10
Of the Sound of Water, Air and Flame
When crowds of atoms meet, not joinèd close,
By Motion quick they2 give each other blows.3
So atoms hollow, which are long and round,
When they do strike, do make the greatest sound.
Not that there’s anything that moves therein 5
To make rebounds, but that their form’s more thin.4
For being thin, they larger are, and wide,
Which make them apt to strike each other’s side.
In larger bulks, encounters are more fierce
When they do5 strike, though not so quick to pierce. 10
This is the reason water, air, and flame
Do make most noise when motions move the same.
For atoms loose are like to people rude,
And make great6 noise when in a multitude. |
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Cloud & The Opposite
by CloudLine64
CloudLine64 A short little series about Cloud meeting her male counterpart,Storm,wait for part 2!
Cloud walked an old path that lead to a grassy,dew-filled,meadow.Trees shrouded around it,making it her "Alone Place".This is where she would go if her life became too chaotic.She laid down in the dew and sighed,clouds above her shaped themselves into pokemon as she listed them off.
"Shaymin,Helioptile,Bulbasaur,blah,blah,blah...What next?"she sat up,looking around the sparkling domain.An exotic forest was spotted in the distance,Cloud got up and strolled along the prairie grass.She wondered what would be there,maybe a Mew was there,or a Scyther!As Cloud trekked a rocky area,she felt like she was being watched by something.
She grabbed some vines and wound them together,she then put it on her belt.Cloud looked around for the danger she seemed to be watched by,being as cautious as possible.Her hand levitated on top of the hand-made whip,waiting for it to slash the thing that came close.Cloud scowled as a shadow came in front of her,blocking the sun.She growled,imitating a lost Houndoom.The shadow turned into the thing it was,which Cloud quickly reacted to.
A slash hit the thing,then another one!The hand-made whip flung rapidly at the object,making it soon enough fall to the ground.Cloud,placing the vine whip back to her belt,went over to the entity,which she saw was a man.She observed the male,noticing touches of herself in there.The man had dirty blonde hair like her's,he also had a thin face like her's,and he had a pokemon kind of like her's.The shirt was black and red,instead of white and green,she saw he had jeans to go with it.
But the man's eyes were mostly covered by his bangs,unlike her's.She thought of what Darken said to her one day,
"Cloud! I went to another universe! It-It had everyone you knew,but different!Come on,I'll explain it!"and he pulled her to the meadow.Was this Cloud's opposite?Was he from the world Darken encountered?Her thoughts made her curious about the man,studying him more.The man woke up,sliding back a few inches,putting one of his arms in front of him.
"Ah!The lady that whipped me!St-Stay back!Wait...the,the f****?!"he yelled.He looked at the woman,she looked like him,was she the opposite at him?The one Darkness told him about?Well...to him,this was a bad start.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7840 | Iridium satellite destroyed in collision
“Your call cannot be completed as dialed”
An Iridium telecommunications satellite was destroyed in a high-speed collision with a defunct Russian military satellite, Aviation Week reports.
The Russian Cosmos 2251 comms sat collided with the Iridium bird, a member of the Big LEO constellation, at a closing speed of 7 miles per second.
“It was a hefty clip,” Nicholas Johnson of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, told Aviation Leak.
US Strategic Air Command told New Scientist that it has already detected more than 500 pieces of debris resulting from the space prang.
The debris cloud poses a “very small [but] elevated risk” to the International Space Station, which lies 271 miles below the orbit of the collision. The ISS is capable of performing “debris avoidance maneuver[s]” should this become necessary.
The shower of space junk further clutters an already hazardous orbital environment, coming two years after China smashed one of its Fengyun weather satellites to smithereens with an earth-launched missile.
Iridium’s communications network will not be permanently affected, as the company plans to deploy one of its hot spares, which it keeps in other orbits, within 30 days. Now that’s resilience through redundancy.
New Scientist has a handy Q&A about satellite traffic control (or lack thereof), plus a simulation of the crash and resultant debris clouds.
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SDI Redux within the next decade?
2. […] Orbital Accident? Posted in ubiwar by Tim Stevens on February 12th, 2009 My good friend Porcospino originally alerted me to the news of what he refers to as a ’space prang’, as an […]
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Following on from yesterday’s honourable mentions, today I bring you my ten favourite reads from 2018.
Skin Deep
Paranormal Detectives Series Book Six
by Lily Luchesi
Skin Deep
The animal inside wants to come out and play.
Skin changers are able to look like anyone of any race and gender, which makes them the most dangerous criminals in the paranormal community. Only one person in modern history has ever successfully captured and executed one.
When a skin changer starts attacking government workers in Chicago, they have no choice but to call in their last resort. However, their solution might create even more danger for the city and its people. What does the skin changer want, and how does it fit into a possible Undead uprising?
The Coven Princess
by Lily Luchesi
The Coven Princess
Your blood does not define you.
She’s not human, she’s a witch.
Winter Trials
Northern Witch #1
by K.S. Marsden
Winter Trials
Before Death
A Dead Normal Novel
by D M Singh
Before Death
I am young, in love and dead.
It’s hard to imagine that people or things like me come from somewhere, but just like every superhero or villain, we all have an origin story.
This is mine.
My name is Derek but you can call me Death.
In the Presence of Knowing
Secrets of Windy Springs
by Valarie Savage Kinney
In the Presence of Knowing
The Divine Conflict #1
by C.J. Rutherford
The worst nightmares come from below!
Warning. This book contains graphic violence, profanity, and scenes of a sexual nature.
He encounters Jennifer, a 19-year-old waitress hiding in her dad’s roadside diner, and together they begin a desperate dash to the desolation of North Dakota, as far away from the slaughterhouses of the cities as they can get.
Their imagined safety doesn’t last long, as Jaz and Jennifer realize the attack was just the first strike in a battle that has raged since the dawn of time.
Angel: The Mithista Incident
Aetherian Chronicles, #1
by Scott A. Borgman
Angel The Mithista IncidentTwenty-three year old Dani Taylor has a job, an apartment, and bills. She’s single. She loves pizza, ice cream, and hanging out with her two best friends. At the end of the week, she likes to go out with them both to unwind and have a night of fun at their favorite dance club. She has a typical, normal life.
That’s about to change.
What starts as a headache becomes an image burning in her mind that she discovers is no figment of her imagination. It’s a repressed memory. And there’s a reason why it’s suddenly been recalled.
What do you do when a repressed memory isn’t all that comes back? When there’s a deadly Haragan alien hunting for you, and a mysterious, shadowy organization also wants you dead?
When you’re Earth’s only hope for survival, do you hide who you are? Or do you choose to fight, to embrace your true self…
And be the superhero the world needs you to be?
Blood and Bile
Legacy #1
by J.C. Boyd & Joshua Robertson
Blood and Bile“Before the world came to be, there was nary beginning nor end, nary sky-shield nor night-wheel, nary war-garb nor shield-foe, nary fate-heeder nor fate-weaver, nor any thing living or dying or dead.”
Ranvir ripped meat from bone, the dew of deep wounds dribbling between his fingers. He packed the flesh into his teeth-house, chewing happily.
His wife gaped at him, word-land soundless, forehead-stones devoured long ago, and wound-necklace torn from ear to ear.
She had never looked more beautiful.
His hands probed into her blood’s-seat for another bite, nails scraping against cartilage, fingers squeezing organ and fat, seeking a tasty morsel.
Ranvir heard the rasping of his tent flap open, but did not turn from his meal. Snaer’s brisk breath briefly touched his back. and then he felt it no more. He swallowed another mouthful and pulled at his wife’s skin to gaze at the glossy remains.
A voice, light and feminine, spoke.
Ashes to Ashes
Undead Unit Book 5
by Markie Madden
Ashes to Ashes
With the success of Undead Units spreading through law enforcement agencies around the world, Lacey, Colton, and Kazz are sent to Egypt to teach Lacey’s friend, Chantay, how to form and manage an Undead Unit of her own.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian government is preparing to unveil a startling secret: the resurrection of ancient Pharaoh, Akhenaten, using DNA from this unpopular leader’s mummy to clone a new body for him. Egypt’s people despise Akhenaten; this King once tried to force monotheism across the land.
Long thought dead, an ancient religious cult still lives on in the form of an Immortal Phoenix, who does everything in his power to prevent the reanimation of Egypt’s most infamous king. Can Lacey’s team, along with local authorities stop him before he sabotages this fantastic scientific breakthrough?
Barnacle Brat
a Dark Comedy for Grown-Ups
by Adrian Baldwin
Barnacle BratLosing your grip on reality is a real bummer.
Just ask Leon Blank. Not that he’d know.
Seems those losing their marbles are always the last to find out.
Until recently, Leon would have argued that a tendency to become
easily sidetracked on a regular basis wasn’t that odd.
And what’s so unusual about hearing a voice inside your head?
Doesn’t everyone? Isn’t that just thinking?
But his recent visions aren’t so freely dismissed; especially the angry-
looking clown who’s following him around with a baseball bat.
Time to act, Leon decides: perhaps keeping a log
will shed light on the mystery.
Then again, could ‘seeing-things’ just be sexual frustration?
It’s been a while! If only he had a girlfriend to take his mind off stuff.
Prepare to enter the normally hidden world of delusions,
paranoia, and … ahem … ‘unusual interests’:
Voyeurism; Feederism; Shoes – that kind of thing.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7900 | Essay by Kim Mahood
The death
On the morning of November 19th, 2004, an Aboriginal man named Cameron Doomadgee died in a prison cell on Palm Island, off the coast of North Queensland. He had been arrested less than an hour earlier by Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, for being drunk and causing a public nuisance. A post mortem revealed that he died as a result of a burst portal vein and a split liver; injuries of the sort that normally occur only in high impact accidents. Throughout the inquest and trial that followed, Chris Hurley maintained that he had not assaulted Cameron Doomadgee. Through a controversial series of legal processes he was found to have a case to answer and charged with assault and manslaughter — the first time in Australia that a police officer had been charged over an Aboriginal death in custody. He stood trial and was acquitted by a Townsville jury in June of 2007.
This event and its consequences brought into harsh focus the fault lines that run through Australian society — between the police and Aboriginal people, between the north and the south, between those who believe that all human lives have equal value and those who do not.
The island
Palm Island is the largest of a group of islands sixty kilometres north of Townsville. In 1918 it was deemed suitable for use as a penitentiary, and until the late 1960s it was the site of a mission and penal settlement. Aboriginal people from many different language and kinship groups were sent to the island for various crimes and misdemeanours, sometimes simply for being of mixed European and Aboriginal descent (this being the era of forced removal of children from parents).
The island’s history provides us with a dark mirror of the values that selected Australia for the same purpose more than a century earlier, a place in which to consign society’s discards, ruled by a punitive and paternalistic authority. Statistics compiled between 1977 and 1984 indicate that the rates of homicide and violent crime on Palm Island were considerably higher than those of other remote Aboriginal communities, which were already considerably higher than the broad population (Wilson page 49). For many years Palm Island has been synonymous with the most extreme Indigenous dysfunction, alcoholism and violence.
The police
Between 1987 and 1989 the Queensland Police Department came under the scrutiny of the Fitzgerald Enquiry into police corruption. The findings of that enquiry identified an embedded culture of high level and systemic corruption, and resulted in the ousting of the Bjelke-Petersen Government and the jailing of the Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. Although many of the Fitzgerald recommendations were implemented, the police culture of loyalty and solidarity among its members remained entrenched. Indeed studies suggest that the nature of policing requires and reinforces these qualities, and that the unwritten rules of police culture promote conformity and solidarity (Lawson 2011).
The author
About two months after the Palm Island incident Chloe Hooper chanced to meet the lawyer Andrew Boe. Boe was representing the Palm Island Aboriginal Council pro bono in the investigation into Cameron Doomadgee’s death, and wanted somebody to write about the case. Hooper was in her early thirties, and had spent most of the preceding decade overseas. She knew almost nothing about Indigenous Australian culture, had never met an Aboriginal person, and had published a single work of fiction, A Child’s Book of True Crime. This proved to be an ideal combination. Having no pre-conceptions, Hooper brought a non-judgmental but forensic eye for detail and a novelist’s sense of structure and dramatic tension to the case.
The genre
In the best tradition of a form of writing that has come to be called creative non-fiction, Hooper uses the techniques more commonly used in fiction to create a suspenseful and powerful story. Since the form became popular, most notably with the publication of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in 1966, this kind of writing has been criticised for allowing literary structure and technique to distort the truth. In the interests of a compelling narrative, devices such as metaphor, coincidence, historic precedence and suspense may imply significance where none exists. The irony may be that the greater the literary merit the greater the risk of misrepresenting actual events.
Whether The Tall Man warrants this sort of criticism is a question that could be introduced into discussion based on a close reading of the text, along with a discussion on the merits of enticing readers to pay attention to issues they might otherwise avoid.
The story is structured around a chronological sequence of dramatic events — The Death, The Riot, The Inquest, The Funeral, The Rally, The Trial, The Verdict — interspersed with discursive chapters — The Island, The Family, Belief, Burketown, Amazing Grace — through which Hooper teases out the back story of her protagonists, and provides the context in which the events occur.
She builds character and narrative through precise observation, detail and dialogue, revealing the complexities and contradictions of individuals, the cultures they inhabit and the events that overtake them, so that the reader becomes both witness and participant in the unfolding story. She is mistress of the telling detail. For example she observes that when the Aboriginal mayor of Palm Island calls in to the hospital, the white nurses don’t know who she is; an indication of how segregated the two groups are from each other. And she notes that only the lawyers and journalists use the traditional term ‘Mulrunji’ to refer to the dead man, while everyone else continues to call him Cameron. This speaks volumes about the mismatch between the desire to respect cultural sensitivities and where those sensitivities actually reside.
Always present but never intrusive, Hooper is a guide one is predisposed to trust, a moral compass to lead us through the story. We are witness to her feeling ‘incandescently white’ on her first visit to Palm Island, we experience the events, the people and the places through her ever-observant, questioning, compassionate scrutiny, and share her dilemmas and discomforts as she attempts to assemble the puzzle of the Tall Man.
* * *
In the northeast tropics of Queensland the Tall Man is a malevolent being who comes out at night from the cracks in the rocks or the shadows of the rainforest and does bad things. A creature of nightmare, he is to be avoided at all costs, especially if you are Aboriginal. That November morning on Palm Island Cameron Doomadgee encountered him in broad daylight, in the shape of the two metre tall Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley.
The Tall Man is a tale of parallel tragedies. At the centre of it are two men, both thirty-six years old, representing two tribal cultures historically enmeshed and at odds with each other. Indeed the book opens with a description of a painting on the wall of a Cape York rock art gallery, of two policemen lying prone with guns trained on two Aboriginal men, also prone, also with guns. Painted in colonial times, one of the policemen is two metres long, his half- naked lower body cross-hatched to resemble the skin of a crocodile. A painted snake four metres long bites his foot; a piece of sorcery designed to activate a curse on this particular Tall Man. Did it work? We will never know, but probably not. Even with the enlistment of sorcery it was always an unequal contest.
The active power resides with the Police. It is the enforcement arm of the Law, disciplined, educated, well-fed, salaried. It shares a code of solidarity, it is endorsed and paid for by the government, it represents the bulwark of law and order against crime and disorder. Its adversary is the lost tribe, castaways on an island microcosm of concentrated dysfunction and collective damage. Deracinated, detached from the old Law that still holds some sway on the mainland, their power is the power of endurance and of survival.
To begin with the tragedy seems restricted to the Aboriginal community, framed by the legacy of historic disenfranchisement. A man dies in custody. His family are shattered. The verdict of accidental death triggers a riot in which the police station is burned, for which people are charged and imprisoned. Two young men commit suicide as a direct result of Doomadgee’s death.
But as the story progresses the moral ground tilts. Whatever happened in the corridor of the Palm Island police station on November 19th 2004, there is enough evidence for the Deputy Coroner to find Chris Hurley responsible for Cameron Doomadgee’s death. Hurley’s insistence that he did not assault Doomadgee shifts the moral centre of the story to an examination of his character, and the way in which his colleagues rally behind him even though, in the words of one of them ‘”We acknowledge that he could have, there’s no two ways about it. I haven’t heard one person say, ‘Look, Chris is innocent,’ no one’s saying that”‘ (Hooper page198). The Queensland police force supports Hurley not because they believe he is innocent but because they know it could have been any one of them. From a man who had faced down his own racism, and appeared to be making a genuine difference at the coalface of Aboriginal and police interaction, he became the vehicle of divisiveness.
No-one suggests that Hurley is a racist, and the closing of police ranks to protect him is not racist but tribal. But the circuitry for racism is ready-wired, and it is along these pathways that the message travels, fuelled on both sides by a sense of injustice. The Aboriginal population believes that Cameron Doomadgee’s death is accorded less value because he is Aboriginal. The police believe that Chris Hurley has been made a scapegoat out of political correctness. Sides are taken. The Urban South excoriates the Deep North. In Townsville, where the trial is held, the line of demarcation is drawn between white and black.
Chris Hurley is the absence at the heart of the story. Because he refused to be interviewed by Hooper, she visited the towns and communities where he had worked, talking to people who knew him, building a picture of his family background, his Catholic education and upbringing, and his relation to the people with whom he worked, both Aboriginal and white. It is through the voices of Aboriginal activist Murandoo Yanner and his brothers that the contradictions that are Chris Hurley come through most clearly. Murandoo Yanner is himself a contradiction, a charismatic powerbroker with his own political agendas. The Yanners describe a man who was genuinely engaged with Aboriginal people, who worked enthusiastically with the kids, who made the sort of pragmatic arrangements that short-circuited the need for criminal charges over minor offences. It’s clear that they hold him in high regard, and that they consider him guilty of the assault. It’s also clear that it is not the assault they condemn but the refusal to admit that it took place. In that world everyone understands how easily the undertow of violence comes to the surface.
Place is as powerful a protagonist in this story as any of the human characters. Heat and humidity seep through the pages, claustrophobic and stupefying. The landscape is omnipresent, whether in the crocodile-infested estuaries or the heat-stunned towns or the landforms created by the activities and natural functions of ancestral beings. The north of Australia is a different country. People are proud of their ability to live there. Along with the toughness goes a certain simplification that can have its own appeal; ‘the proximity to sex and death and beauty and horror; to songlines that are badly frayed but still give off some charge; to what is ancient, our deepest fear that good and evil spirits make sport with us’ (Hooper page 119).
Hooper is scrupulous in her portrayal of the visceral, dangerous environment in which Chris Hurley was vested with carrying out society’s dirty work. At the trial she watches him in the dock and frames the questions she would like to ask him.
Do you ever dream you are falling?
Do you ever dream of Cameron Doomadgee?
What do you think of the places you once chose to live, where good and bad are blurred, and where you thought you were good?
Do you still think you were?
(page 237)
When she realises he is looking at her she can’t hold his stare. ‘He was a man trying to save his life and he seemed to be saying, How dare you judge me?’ (page 238).
Hooper takes us on a compelling quest into one of our deepest cultural fault lines, a place that most Australians would never enter by choice. One of the strengths of this book is her ability to make the Palm Island people real, in their tough, provisional, often violent lives, and to make us care about them without overlooking the reality of the way they live. She gives a voice to people who are rarely heard, makes us care about people who are usually invisible, and she makes us understand that we are all implicated in Chris Hurley’s actions and in Cameron Doomadgee’s death. Although she does not conceal where her sympathies lie, neither does she condemn Hurley. Instead she suggests that the trajectory of two lives towards the fatal encounter that left one of them dead and the other terminally compromised was inscribed in their cultural DNA.
It is in this fatalistic representation of events that The Tall Man has attracted criticism for its suggestion of historic and cultural inevitability. Hooper’s literary references, (for example Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with Hurley cast as Kurtz, and Palm Island as the dark heart of Queensland), and her linking of Hurley with archetypal and mythic characters, leave little possibility for change or agency. It is here, once again, that the conflict between literature and journalism arises, since it is in the use of these mythic tropes that much of the book’s imaginative power resides. It is a cross-cultural parable and a morality play, conflating the malevolent demon of the indigenous north with the fatally flawed protagonist of Shakespearian tragedy. Its language is distilled and without ornamentation, its structure unobtrusive, its people complex, flawed and sympathetic. It goes to the heart of one of our most intransigent cultural dilemmas and reveals the fears, resentments and prejudices that run beneath the surface, and the institutions that both reinforce and interrogate them.
The Tall Man is testimony that although the Palm Islanders lost the legal fight they won the moral battle. Like all great works of literature it tells a story that is both local and universal. ‘I am not my brother’s keeper,’ Cain tells God after he has killed his brother Abel. A parable of the conflict between the settler and the nomad, the biblical fratricide of Genesis is a blueprint for the ancient distrust between different kinds of order. What The Tall Man makes us understand is that if we fail to be our brother’s keeper, we fail ourselves.
In 2010 the Queensland police attempted to have the deputy coroner’s findings expunged from the records, allowing the acquittal to stand as the evidence of Senior Sergeant Hurley’s innocence. In agreeing that the findings were flawed, the magistrate found enough grounds to warrant a second inquest, in which it was found that the police colluded to protect Hurley. This meant that the initial evidence was contaminated, and while it was not possible to prove Hurley guilty through the courts, it showed that the legal system could be flexible enough to bring the contradictions and inconsistencies into the light.
Doomadgee’s family continued to pursue a civil claim and were awarded compensation in 2011 under the Victims of Crime Compensation Scheme, effectively acknowledging that a crime had been committed.
Referenced works
Hooper, C. The Tall Man: Death and life on Palm Island. Penguin: Melbourne, Victoria, 2008.
Lawson, C. ‘Police Culture: Changing the Unacceptable.’ SCAN Journal of Media Arts and Culture8.1 (2011).
Wilson, P. ‘Black Death White Hands Revisited: The Case of Palm Island.’ Australian & NewZealand Journal of Criminology 18 (1985): 49–57.
Suggested reading:
Creative non-fiction
Helen Garner Joe Cinque’s Consolation
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
Janet Malcolm The Silent Woman
Indigenous references
Henry Reynolds Aborigines and settlers: the Australian experience, 1788–1939
W.E.H. Stanner The Dreaming & Other Essays
Other material
The Tall Man DVD
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7925 | Flamboyant cuttlefish displays its magenta and yellow arms on the seafloor
Metasepia's mesmerizing colors. (Photo by q_phia/CC BY 2.0)
GIF of a flamboyant cuttlefish "walking" on its arms
Common name: Flamboyant cuttlefish
Scientific name: Metasepia spp.
Size: Up to 3.1 in (8 cm)
Distribution: Australia to southern Japan
IUCN Red List status: Data Deficient
Is it animal or digital? With its pulsating color displays and unusual habit of "walking" on its arms, the flamboyant cuttlefish is one of the aquarium's most captivating species—and a hot commodity among collectors. By breeding these cephalopods at the Academy, we're helping reduce the demand for specimens taken from the wild.
Why Breed Flamboyant Cuttlefish?
While its Red List status is murky, one thing is clear: The Coral Triangle region—the flamboyant cuttlefish's stomping grounds—is in hot water. Plastic pollution, bottom trawling, ocean acidification, and overcollecting all pose serious threats to this species’ long-term survival. Luckily, breeding programs like ours “take the pressure off wild populations, resulting in less collecting of wild cuttlefish,” says Steinhart Aquarium Curator J. Charles Delbeek.
By mastering Metasepia's life cycle, we’re also contributing vital data to the scholarship around this mysterious species—which may help sustain it in the future.
How Do We (Get Them To) Do It?
Tiny flamboyant cuttlefish photographed under a microscope
Aquarium Senior Biologist Rich Ross had a breeding breakthrough in July 2017 after a discouraging dry spell. Since then, Rich and his team have successfully hatched many broods of healthy Metasepia.
What's the recipe for reproduction? It starts with setting the mood.
Building a love nest. If water quality, light, and available food aren't perfectly tuned, cuttlefish won't make a move. Once conditions are stable, males and females are introduced, and cuttlefish canoodling usually ensues.
Mating is a meeting of minds. Almost literally: Metasepia mate by joining head to head. The male uses a special tentacle to slip a sperm packet under the female’s mantle, where she stores it until she's ready to fertilize her eggs.
Harvest, hatch, and repeat. The female will lay 5-25 fertilized eggs, which are carefully collected by a biologist and transferred to an egg tumbler, where they will hatch after about a month. This sequence allows the female to continue breeding rather than guard her eggs—an arduous effort for a species that usually only lives for about 16 months.
From hatchlings to hunters. As soon as it hatches, a flamboyant cuttlefish's killer instincts kick in—and biologists' jobs get trickier. If too many mysid shrimp (their preferred prey) are introduced, the cuttlefish become stressed trying to choose their victims; too few, and they expend precious energy trying to find them. Biologists closely monitor hatchlings for their first three weeks—a critical milestone that, once surpassed, generally bodes well for the cuttlefish's future.
After about three weeks, the baby cuttles graduate to larger prey and are ready to go on exhibit—and practice the art of cephalopod seduction.
Where Can I See It?
Our flamboyant cuttlefish are tucked away in the "Hidden Reef" exhibit in the Steinhart Aquarium. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7934 | Let’s Talk About Isaac: A Sermon
*Originally preached for Central Presbyterian Church, June 29, 2014 – my church home for the last 4 years in Austin, TX.
Genesis 22:1-14
The Command to Sacrifice Isaac
Gracious God, startle us with your truth and make us bold to know you. Amen.
These are indeed startling words. This is one of those passages in the Bible that I
feel uncomfortable describing as “holy wisdom” or as “the word of the Lord.” How could we not feel uncomfortable about a story in which God commands God’s most faithful follower—the father of three major faith traditions today—to kill his beloved son, the embodiment of the very covenant he and God so recently made together?
Week after week in this sanctuary we talk about and worship a God of love and
justice and grace and endless mercy. We praise and seek to emulate a God who lifts up the most vulnerable in this world, who willingly entered into human vulnerability just to be reunited with us. And this story of near child sacrifice dares me to question: how can that God also be this God?
I know I’m not alone in my struggles with this text. Many have attempted to make
sense of this story and the vision of God it presents us with. We comfort ourselves that this command is merely a test. We tell ourselves that God never planned to follow through with it. We focus on Abraham instead and his unquestioning obedience. As the forebear of our faith, we instinctively look to Abraham as a paragon of faithfulness. And so we praise his silent obedience to God’s cruel command.
In fact, philosopher and theologian Soren Keirkegaard writes extensively about the
value of Abraham’s obedience. He calls him a Knight of Faith, one whose faithfulness to God moves beyond human ethics and even sanity in its steadfastness. Kierkegaard suggests that this is precisely the kind of faithfulness we should seek to embody.
All due respect to Kierkegaard, but I disagree. I disagree with our traditional
emphasis on the virtue of silent obedience in this story and I disagree with our glorification of Abraham in this text. In fact, if there is one thing in this story that disturbs me more than God’s startling words… it’s Abraham’s silence in response.
The covenant God establishes with Abraham earlier in Genesis represents a
paradigmatic shift in the interactions between God and humanity. Prior to this ceremony, God offers command and mercy, but with the covenant, God offers truly intimate relationship, partnership. We see this shift played out when Abraham argues and bargains with God to spare the cities of Sodom. Not only does God allow this challenge from Abraham, God responds to it!
And that makes Abraham’s silent, unquestioning obedience when asked to sacrifice
his son even more disturbing. Though God calls on “Abraham,” it seems that the man who responds is Abram, the man who had not yet encountered the relational, conversational God of the covenant. In refusing to speak, Abraham essentially denies his sacred relationship with God. Shouldn’t Abraham know God better than this? Shouldn’t we?
After all, we know a much larger story of God than this episode. Isaac may be the
first son laid on the altar but he won’t be the last. We know that long after Abraham raises the knife and the angel intervenes, the son of God will hang dying on a cross. And his death and resurrection reveal—not a God who would blindly sacrifice his own son—but rather the holy parent of us all who will not sacrifice or abandon a single one of us—not ever—though the journey to gather us up lead beyond the boundaries of death itself. Such is the desire of our God to be known by us.
It makes me wonder if just maybe what God is testing in this story is not Abraham’s
obedience, but his trust in their relationship. Maybe God wants to see that Abraham knows God well enough to challenge such an uncharacteristic demand. Maybe God wants Abraham to say no. No, I will not sacrifice this child whom I and you love. Instead, Abraham chooses silent submission to a command that singularly contradicts what he knows of God.
If we want to find an exemplar of true faithfulness in this story, then let’s talk about
Isaac. It is, after all, Isaac who questions Abraham about the lamb for sacrifice, whose knowledge of God allows no room to conceive of inhuman cruelty or abandonment. It’s Isaac who calls on his father’s conscience and draws attention to the relational stakes of the situation. And it is Isaac who—having been spared—climbs down off the altar where he was laid in the name of faith and proclaims faith in that same God. Who can claim a more powerful faith than that?
We have much to learn from Isaac. I wonder why we spend so much time on
Abraham and so little on him. Some scholars suggest that the disproportionately small amount of attention paid to Isaac in the Bible might be because he suffered from mental illness or mental disability. In other words, he has been silenced and diminished because he did not fit the normative ideal, even though it is his devotion to God that allows the faith to continue and to flourish in the wake of this trauma.
When we talk about Isaac, when we listen to Isaac—this story can speak to us in a
powerfully different way. It suggests a God for whom intimate relational dialogue and true knowing are the cornerstones of faithfulness. It suggests a God who stakes everything on the vulnerable, marginalized, and discounted and on our capacity to speak for justice and mercy. And it challenges us to consider that, perhaps, if we are looking for leaders in faithfulness—we might just be looking in the wrong place.
Isaac’s story might be ancient, but it is also very present. There are many Isaacs in
our midst. Those whom we have bound and laid on the altar in the name of blind faith, those whose suffering we have silently enabled and perpetuated in exchange for an easy faith rooted in lifeless obedience rather than dynamic engagement. We diminish their stories as uncommon outliers, but their resilient faithfulness has much to teach us.
This has been a big month for equality in our church. And on this Sunday—
celebrated as Pride Sunday in many cities, I think especially of those Christians who are Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, and Queer. The faith of LGBTQ Christians speaks louder than the shouting condemnations of centuries of hate speech disguised as dogma and doctrine. Like Isaac long ago, queer Christians have dared to know God deeply, they have done so even when the church has rejected them and told them that they are dirty, and wrong, and unwelcome. On my own journey of coming out as bisexual during seminary, I have looked to the example of those faithful LGBTQ Christians who have come before me, and I have learned from them in ways that no one else could teach me that God’s love is boundless and reflected in a diverse and expansive multitude of ways. That God’s grace can be found—not merely in spite of—but in the very heart of intimate, mutual vulnerability.
Indeed the church can learn much from such faithfulness, if it is willing to notice and
listen. Like Isaac before them, queer Christians and others who have been bound upon the altar of faith draw our attention to where our conscience has faltered. Their stories, their questions, their challenges, offer us a chance to remember that we know God too well to ever settle for an idol image of faith that contradicts God’s very nature of mercy and justice and love. They dare us to trust deeply enough in that love to challenge and be challenged when our faith falls short of embodying God’s own radical inclusivity.
When we acknowledge that there are still Isaacs in this world—when we see and
hear them and learn to hear the story through their perspective, we must also confront the ways in which we are still the silently obedient Abraham. But just as God was far from done with Isaac on that altar, God is far from done with us. When God told Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son, the living embodiment of the covenant, I think God was waiting for an answer. Abraham gave silent obedience, but I think God wanted something different—something more—from him, and I think God wants something more and different from us.
Several years ago, Mark Ferrari wrote a novel called The Book of Joby—a modern
spin on the book of Job that incorporates elements of fantasy and Christian tradition. In the story, God and Lucifer have been making bets since the beginning of time, starting with Adam and Eve, and culminating in the present day when they bet on the righteousness of young boy named Joby Peterson. The stakes of the bet are high: if Lucifer wins God must wipe out all of existence. When the terms have been established and agreed upon, God tells his angels and other agents of Heaven that they must not intervene on God’s behalf to help Joby, lest the wager’s terms be violated and Lucifer win by default.
As Joby’s life progresses, he is subject to an increasingly terrible string of
misfortunes and cruelties that shake the very foundations of his faith and shatter his innocence. One by one the angels defy God’s command and help the boy. When the day of the wager’s reckoning arrives, the heavenly host gathers to witness the outcome. Those who went against the divine command guiltily await their anticipated damnation, but God surprises them.
When Lucifer insists that they be damned for disobeying God’s will, God says, “Did
they?” and then continues, “It was only my command they violated. Not my will… I will concede that, had they disappointed me by doing otherwise, I doubt you could have lost the wager, Lucifer.” When Lucifer protests in fury, God reveals exactly what he was betting on. “I was betting that, at the core, My creation was so soundly imbued with the laws of love and faith, compassion and real justice, that even if I, Myself, should command it to ignore those laws, it would still not do so.”
In Ferrari’s book, the angels are guided by their love for God and for what God loves.
They are driven to risk damnation to defy a command that contradicts their experience of who God is. The Abraham of this story, by contrast, blindly and silently upholds a singular divine command, though it seems to contradict the very nature of God, which Abraham has encountered intimately through their ongoing relationship.
Like Abraham and like Isaac, we have been invited to know God intimately. We are
invited to know that God is merciful and just and boundlessly loving and that that God wants more for us and from us than silent obedience. We can learn from Isaac not to be silent. We can learn to trust our deep relationship with God instead and cry out against anything in this world that contradicts the God that we truly know—a God of mercy and justice who will not abandon any of God’s children, who wants us to fight for each other and love one another.
10 days ago, I sat in a creaky chair in the COBO Convention Center in downtown
Detroit. I watched as the Committee on Marriages and Civil Unions presented each overture regarding marriage equality to the General Assembly of the PCUSA. I held hands with fellow queer Christians and held my breath as each vote was tallied. We wept together as again and again the votes came overwhelmingly in favor of our full inclusion and the celebration of our relationships.
Through my tears, I saw a church of Abrahams ready to give God a different answer.
Ready to say “No! We will not sacrifice these children. We know you too well to believe that you could want that.” I saw a church beginning to glimpse that its long-neglected Isaacs are not merely deserving of inclusion and embrace and voice, that they may even be the future of our faith.
This is a season of celebration. It is one of reconciliation and renewed closeness with
God and one another. It is a season of hope.
But let that hope compel our hearts toward other Isaacs, other communities whom
we too often sacrifice, neglect, or fail to recognize as the gift that they are. They are many and they are still waiting to be seen and heard. They are transgender and genderqueer. They are those experiencing poverty. They are those struggling with mental illness. They are those with disabilities. They are those who occupy multiple, intersecting spaces of marginalization. And they have much to teach us about faith and about God.
May we listen and respond and learn and grow. May we dare to trust. May we
rejoice in the God that does not abandon, who welcomes dialogue and challenge, who cultivates hope in unexpected places, and who calls us all into sacred relationship with God and one another.
A Testimony For Marriage Equality in the PCUSA
I am currently at the General Assembly of the PCUSA–our national denominational meeting. This morning I testified before the committee that is discerning whether to pursue marriage equality in the church. I offered my story. I had to give an abbreviated version due to time constraints, but here is the full version of what I wrote.
I am Layton Williams, incoming pastoral resident at Fourth Pres Chicago.
Baptism, confirmation, family weddings and funerals, inquirer, candidate, certified ready, and soon ordained as a teaching elder.
At every major moment in my life of faith, I have stood before the church–heart in my hands–and been received with love and welcome.
I hope my marriage is another such moment in which I can stand before the church that I love and, with my spouse, be fully welcomed and celebrated. As a single, bisexual woman, I don’t yet know if my marriage will be one that the church recognizes. I hold both possibilities in my heart, and the inequality of it all hurts. But I hope for a church where all faithful love is embraced and enacted.
My ordination is proof that this church is growing in its embodiment of the fully inclusive love of Christ. Today, I want the church to grow more so that as a pastor I can tell every person and couple that they are at home in this church just as I have always found myself to be, and that the fullness of their person and their relationships will be embraced.
My mom once asked me if LGBTQ Christians could be satisfied with full civil rights but no church recognition of marriage. I told her no because, like her and all of you, we love the church too much to bear the thought of making such a significant covenant anywhere but at home–in the faith to which we have pledged our whole lives. And what I know of the love of God tells me we shouldn’t have to.
Thank you.
Love and Justice: Mirror Images (A Poem of Reflection)
I wrote this a few weeks ago in the midst of a huge debate regarding LGBTQ equality in the church. It always astounds me when people talk about love and justice as if they are two different approaches. Here is my reflection on that.
Said the reflector to the reflection:
You do not know me.
Vision distorted
by a world contorted
with brokenness.
They can no longer see,
That their noses align
with precisely the same misalignment
Mark of a childhood recklessness
Their mouth—left side—upturned
with the same automatic response
to some just-out-of-reach,
half-remembered tenderness.
They’ve always had that habit.
In the other, each sees a sneer,
And sucks in the same
painful breath.
She is superficial.
Thinks the one.
She’s lost her substance.
She tries too hard for the image.
Sculpting beauty
at the expense of reality,
Promoting false truth
in the name of empty peace.
She forgives
what cannot be forgiven.
She is heartless.
Thinks the other.
Too rigid in her understanding
of what should be.
She drapes herself
in hard-edged truth
And paints ugliness
that shares its wounds
with the seer, shares the hurt,
and calls the sharing of it
She does not truly care.
They think.
If only she could care like I do.
Think they both.
They size each other up
through the glass
Image shaped by their own
And they cannot see
They cannot hear
That all the while
their heartbeats
are in rhythm
As they beat each other up
Within the same aching chest. |
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Temple will be built, just after the Seven Year Tribulation Begins
Abbas said that the Palestinians would not allow any Israeli “scheme” to divide the Aksa Mosque compound.
“There will be no Palestinian state without Jerusalem, We are in Jerusalem and we will stay in it to defend our Islamic and Christian holy sites. We’re not going to leave our country.”
The prophecies of Daniel chapter 9, are very specific to Israel and the Jews. God has determined seventy-weeks for the nation, in order to accomplish His final plans for the salvation of all those in Israel who will believe in the Messiah that God has already sent to them.
Daniel’s prophecy of 70 weeks, begins with a “command,” for Israel
Daniel’s prophecy is fulfilled on the day that Jesus enters Jerusalem
In Daniel 9:25, the Lord is giving Israel the precise day that the Messiah will come to Jerusalem. First, a command will be given. Then “seven weeks” and “sixty two weeks…until the Messiah the Prince will come.”
In the first seven weeks (49 years), the Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem.
In the second sixty-two weeks (434 years), the Messiah will arrive.
The trigger for the countdown of this prophecy is the command to restore and build Jerusalem. A detailed discussion on the seventy weeks is explored in Prophecy 307.
The purpose of this prophecy from Daniel chapter 9, verse 25, is to understand the complete details of the angel Gabriel’s words to Daniel, in comparison with the actual events of history.
This section of Daniel’s prophecy, describes a total of 69 times 7 years, or a total of 483 years. Encyclopedia Britannica records that Artaxerxes Longimanus issued the command to release the captives of Israel in Babylon, on March 14, 445 B.C.[1]
The Babylonian calendar was based upon a 360 days per year cycle. 360 days per year times 483 years, equals 173,880 days. Taking into account the calendar year change over from 1 B.C. To 1 A.D. because there is no “0” year. Adding 116 days for leap years.
483 X 360 days = 173,880
173,880 days plus 116 years for leap years, added to March 14, 445 B.C. We come to the date of April 6th, the year 32 A.D.
How we know the command came in 445 B.C?
The reign of Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) is computed from 465 B.C., according to the history of the Persians.[2] Xerxes I, was murdered by Artabanus the commander of the royal bodyguard of the king. He was the most powerful of the officials in the court of the Persian king. With the help of Aspamitres, a eunuch, Artabanus assassinated Xerxes I, bringing Artaxerxes Longimanus to the throne in 465 B.C.[3]
According to Nehemiah 2:1, Artaxerxes wrote the command for the Jews to return to Jerusalem in the 20th year of his reign.
Computing 20 years from Artaxerxes ascension to the throne in 465 B.C., we come to 445 B.C.
Hebrew months were not calculated in the same way that our current calendar months are determined. The first day of a Hebrew calendar month begins immediately following a new moon (when no moon is visible).
The way in which the first day of the month was determined in Israel during their ancient history was by observation. When at least two witnesses noticed that a new moon had occurred, they would notify the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. Upon verification of the beginning of the new moon, the leaders of Israel would declare the “rosh chodesh,” the first of the month. Messengers would then be dispatched over the land to notify the people that the new month had began.[4]
In the year 445 B.C., the new moon occurred on the 13th day of March at 7:09 a.m.[5] This would place the 1st day of April, the Hebrew month of Nissan, on March 14, 445 B.C. This was also the day that the Passover Lamb was offered.
Ezra and Nehemiah traveled together from Babylon, back to Jerusalem after Artaxerxes issued to command to return and rebuild the city. We know from Ezra’s account that they left Babylon on the first day of the first month, which is Nissan 1, or our calendar, the 14th of March, 445 B.C. Ezra says that he arrived back in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, Av by the Jewish calendar.
This verifies from the secular, historical, record and the Bible, that the date of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, from Artaxerxes, was in fact issued on March 14, 445, B.C.
According to Nehemiah 6:15, the walls of Jerusalem were completed after just 52 days on the 25th day of September. Counting backwards for 52 days, we come to the 3rd of Av. This confirms that Nehemiah would have arrived with Ezra on Av 1, according to Nehemiah 2:11.
So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days. —Nehemiah 2:11
From the historical records of the Persians, the Jews, and the Hebrew scriptures, we can accurately compute the date of Artaxerxes command to return to Jerusalem as March 14, 445 B.C.
The Jews who had been held captive in Babylon for 70 years, were allowed by Artaxerxes command, to return to Jerusalem and begin building the city. This is the object of the first seven weeks, or 49 years of Daniel’s prophecy, which was precisely fulfilled according to the Book of Nehemiah, Chapters 3-6.
United Nations Resolution; 2178 and the seven year peace plan
During the beginning of 70th week of Daniel, the Temple must be built. We know that this is true, because Daniel describes the antichrist bringing to an end, the sacrifices and offering that have begun once again at this new Temple
U.N Resolution 2178, signed in 2014, is not specific to Israel, nor does it grant the nation a firm peace treaty for seven years. The antichrist cannot appear on the scene until this specific agreement is signed, nor can the Jews receive permission to rebuild their third temple on the Temple Mount, until this covenant is signed.
The temple must be built during the beginning of the first year, as it takes three years to complete.
At the 3 1/2 year mark of the seven year Tribulation, according to Jesus in Matthew 24:15, and 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the antichrist will enter the Holy Place and command the world to worship him as God. This is the “Abomination of Desolation.” This event begins the last 3 1/2 year, called “The Great Tribulation,” marked by the Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 3, the opening of the second seal.
This resolution that is asserted as the seven year covenant of Daniel, began a year ago, yet the Temple still has not been started.
For this reason, resolution 2178, cannot be the “covenant” that is described by Daniel 9.
When the prophetic time clock of the last days began
From the day that Israel became a nation once again, the prophetic time clock began a countdown to the return of the Messiah. Until the Jews were back in their own land, the temple could not be rebuilt and there could be no sacrifices offered. Until there were sacrifices offered in the temple, the antichrist could not make his entrance into history.
Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica and described the coming of the antichrist, during a time when Israel will build the third temple. We know that this is true because this new world ruler will enter the newly built temple and sit in the Holy of Holies—proclaiming that He is God and commanding the world to worship Him.
This act will take place at the mid-way point of the seven year tribulation period. Jesus and Daniel called this moment; “The Abomination of Desolation.”[6] It is this specific event that begins the 21 separate judgments described in the Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 3, through chapter 19.
The third Temple will be built in three years
It is interesting that when the seven year peace plan is signed by Israel and the surrounding Arab nations at the beginning of the seven year Tribulation, the antichrist will allow Israel to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem on the original site. This entire construction project will take just 3 years. We know this because at 3 1/2 years, the antichrist will go into the new temple and command the world that they should worship him as their God. This will begin the 21 judgements in which nearly two-thirds of the people of earth will die.
The second Temple also took just three years to build
The 70 year period of Judah’s captivity is broken down into three specific parts. First, Israel began their servitude of the King of Babylon. Next the captivity took place. Finally, the desolations of the nation as the temple is destroyed.
The Servitude of Israel: In 605 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, took the city of Jerusalem captive.[7]
The Captivity of Israel: In 598 B.C., 11,000 young men were taken captive to Babylon.[8]
The Desolations of Israel: In 589 B.C., Zedekiah rebels against Nebuchadnezzar in his 19th year. The King of Babylon dispatches troops to burn the second temple on August 7th.
The “Servitude” began in 605 B.C., and ended in 536 B.C., after 70 years. This was the date that Cyrus gave the command to rebuild the second temple at Jerusalem.
The “Captivity” began in 598 B.C., and ended in 536 B.C., after 70 years, seven years after the Servitude began.
The “Desolations” began in 589 B.C., and ended in 520 B.C. According to the word of the Lord (Jeremiah 25), seventy years were determined for Israel. Therefore, when Cyrus made his command to rebuild the temple in 536 B.C, there were still 17 more years remaining to complete the 70 years God required. The word of God is more powerful than the words of even the greatest king of the world…
According to Haggai 2:18-19, on December 17, 520 B.C., the foundation to the temple was laid. The original command came by Cyrus 17 years before in 536 B.C. Although the words of a Persian king were considered the words of a living god and could not be ignored or changed once he spoke them, it took 17 years before the foundation of the temple was actually laid in Jerusalem. This is because God had determined that the Temple could not begin until the 70 years of the “Desolations of Israel” were concluded (see the chart in Prophecy 309). The “Desolations” began in 589 B.C, and 70 years later, ended on December 17, 520 B.C. (See the charts above for a graphic illustration of this point)
Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month (December*), from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid—consider it: Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ” —Haggai 2:18
*April is the first month in the Hebrew calendar, the ninth month is December.
It was after Nebuchadnezzar took Judah captive and destroyed the temple, the nation began The “Desolation’s of Israel.” This period described by God, ended on December 17, 520 B.C. According to Haggai 2:18-19—seven days later on the 24th day of the 9th month (December), of the 2nd year of Darius the King of Persia, the Temple Foundation was Laid.[9]
Just three years later, the second temple was finished, in 517 B.C.
When the antichrist orchestrates the signing of a seven-year peace plan between Israel and the surrounding nations, the rebuilding of the third temple will be a great priority. The Temple will be completed in just 3 years, just as the second temple was built so quickly from 517 to 520 B.C. At the three and one half-year mark of the newly built temple, the antichrist will command the world to worship him as God. Jesus warned the Jews living in Jerusalem that during the time of this event—which is called by Jesus and the prophet Daniel: the “abomination of desolation” —they should flee Jerusalem to the mountains.
The “Great Tribulation” is distinguished by the last three and one half years of the seven-year Tribulation. The events described by the Book of Revelation Chapters 6:3-chapter 18, will occur during this brief period of time. Jesus said that unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The elect, describes the Jews who will be living in Jerusalem during the time of the seven-year Tribulation. The Lord will supernaturally deliver those who flee Jerusalem from the grasp of the antichrist, as they make their way into the mountains.
let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains…
Many of those who study these events believe that the place of refuge from where the Lord will protect Israel during the final three and one half years of the Great Tribulation will be the rock city of Petra in the present-day nation of Jordan. Through all of the conflicts that have occurred between Israel and the Palestinians, Jordan has consistently stayed out of these conflicts and has remained neutral.
There is an interesting statement by Daniel in chapter 11 of his prophecies: When the antichrist returns to the glorious Land (Israel), he will overthrow all the nations in his path, except one: Jordan which contains Edom, Moab, and Ammon—the ancient cities of Jordan where the fortress of Petra is located.
He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon (cities inside the nation of Jordan). —Daniel 11:41
There is an obscure verse of scripture located in Isaiah in which the Lord requests that the nation of Jordan, specifically Moab, near the location of Petra—that they would be a shelter to His outcasts until the devastation of the spoiler is at an end.
When the Jews living in Jerusalem see the abomination of desolation occur, they will flee to Petra, where the Lord will shelter His outcasts for the final 1,260 days of the Great Tribulation. During this time, the 21 horrible judgments of the wrath of the Lamb will be poured out on the inhabitants of the earth. Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, and Seven Bowl-judgements will grow in intensity and severity, until two-thirds of the people who dwell on the earth at that time will perish.
The Book of Revelation gives us a striking description of the antichrist’s response to the mass exodus of the Jews from Jerusalem to Petra. The language of this section of the scripture is very colorful and almost poetic in its description of how God will supernaturally protect the Jews who obey Jesus’ instructions to flee Jerusalem.
Then the woman (Israel) fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. —Revelation 12:6
Now when the dragon (satan) saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman (Israel) who gave birth to the male Child (the Messiah). 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle (protection by God), that she might fly into the wilderness (Petra) to her place, where she is nourished for a time (1 year) and times (two years) and half a time (1/2 year), from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood (a great army) after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. —Revelation 12:13-16
Time, times, and a half time, are defined by the book of Daniel as years. A time is 1 year, times—two years, half time—one-half of a year.[10]
It will be during these three and one-half years, as God supernaturally delivers the Jews who are fleeing Jerusalem for Petra, that their eyes will be opened and they will understand that Jesus is their long-awaited Messiah.
At the end of the seven years, the final 1,260 days or “time, times and half time,” as they are variously described in the prophecies of the last days, Jesus will return to the earth with His church at the Mount of Olives. He will fight and destroy the antichrist and his waiting armies who are assembled at the Valley of Megiddo. The beast (antichrist) and the false prophet will be cast into the Lake of fire.
Jesus will begin His one thousand-year reign—promised to David’s Son, the Messiah. All of the Jews who come out of the Great Tribulation, as they are sheltered by God at Petra, who have received Jesus as their Messiah, will be permitted to enter the one-thousand year kingdom. Then will come to pass the scripture that says: And all Israel will be saved.
And so all Israel will be saved… —Romans 11:26
Israel will once again have a King ruling from Jerusalem and a brand new Temple built by the Messiah.
The second temple must be rebuilt when Messiah comes the first time. The third Temple must be rebuilt before Messiah comes the second time.
According to the prophecy of Psalm 118, which is a vivid description of the day the Messiah arrives in Jerusalem, the temple will be standing. This will be the second temple, built under the orders of Cyrus. According to Psalm 118, on the specific day that God has chosen for His revealing of the Messiah, the people will cry out: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”
After Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah and condemned Him to death, He told these men that Israel would not see Him again until they said these words.
See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ ” —Luke 13:35
David predicted that the second temple would be standing when the Messiah arrived, as the people will recite the words to his Psalm,
Old Testament Prediction:
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD. —Psalms 118:26
New Testament Fulfillment:
The certainty that Psalm 118:26 is Messianic, is understood by David as he writes these words to the Messiah: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!”
When we see the term: “LORD” in the Old Testament, it is the designation for “Jehovah,” or “Yahweh.” Not that the Messiah is coming in the name of God, as His representative, but that He will be: Jehovah or Yahweh, the Eternal God.
David is making it clear that this Messiah who is coming to His temple at Jerusalem, is also God.
By David’s words from Psalm 118:26, we understand that the second temple will be standing:
We have blessed you from the house of the LORD,” which will be recited by those who see Him, at His arrival, during the time of the second temple.
As David describes the coming of the Messiah, Malachi adds: He will come suddenly to His temple.
“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple —Malachi 3:1
Detailed History of Israel’s Temple:
The first temple in Jerusalem was built in 957 B.C. by king Solomon, who reigned from 970 B.C. to 930 B.C.[11]
The Second temple in Jerusalem was ordered rebuilt in 537 B.C. by Cyrus. However, it was not until the passage of an additional 17 years, that his command was followed and the actual construction began in 520 B.C.[12] The “Desolations of Israel” ended on December 17, 520 B.C., seven days later on the 24th day of the 9th month (December) of the 2nd year of Darius, the King of Persia, according to Haggai 2:18-19, the Temple Foundation was laid. Three years later, in 517 B.C., the second temple was completed. See the chart in Prophecy 309 for the specific details.
In 175 B.C., Antiochus Epiphanes became the king, replacing his older brother who ruled for just one year.[13] The Jews rebelled against his strict laws, outlawing the Sabbath and the rite of circumcision. In 167 B.C., Antiochus Epiphanes erected a statue of the Greek God, Zeus, in the Holy place of the temple and thereby committed the first incidence of the abomination of desolation (Prophecy 312).[14]
According to 2 Maccabees:
This defilement of the temple in Jerusalem was an earlier fulfillment from Daniel’s prophecy of the final seven years, when the antichrist will also erect a statue of himself in the newly rebuilt—third temple at Jerusalem and command all the world to worship him as God.[17] In 167 B.C., the Jews rose up in rebellion against Antiochus Epiphanes and the Seleucid rule, with Mattathias and his five sons, winning the freedom of the Jews. Judas Maccabeus—the son of Mattathias—called The Hammer, rededicated the temple in 165 B.C.[18] The Jews began the celebration of Hanukkah as a result of this victory, and continue this celebration to the present day.
In 54 B.C., the temple was again desecrated by Crassus.[19]
In 20 B.C., Herod the Great renovated the temple, which was known at the time of Jesus as “Herod’s Temple.”[20]
It is this second Temple that the Messiah would come, in fulfillment of this 150th Prophecy, from Psalms 118:26.
After Jesus was rejected by Israel as the Messiah, He predicted the total destruction of the second Temple, within one generation. Only 38 years later, in 70 B.C., Jesus’ prediction was fulfilled.[21]
In 70 A.D., the Roman army under Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the temple, fulfilling the 12th prophecy of Jesus that not one stone will be left upon another.[22]
One of the amazing facts concerning both the first and second Temples: both were destroyed on the exact same day of the month.
1. The first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians on August 9th of 586 B.C.
2. The second Temple was also destroyed on August 9th of 70 A.D (called Tisha B’Av)
The Bible reveals that there are still two remaining Temples that will be built on the Temple Mount site at Jerusalem:
The Third Temple will be built by the antichrist in the first three years of the seven-year Tribulation, the exact amount of time that it took to build the second temple.[23]
The Fourth Temple, the Millennial Temple, will be built by Jesus during His one thousand-year reign over the earth. It is this temple that is the subject of Prophecy 326 and Prophecy 332.
Prophecy 332 is an incredible and detailed description of how the Tabernacle in the desert and the Temple are illustrations of the work and ministry of Jesus as the Messiah.
Psalm 118 was unmistakably written in expectation of the coming Messiah. Contained within this Psalm is the language that is predictive of the Messiah’s arrival. The very expression described in this Psalm—Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord—were the actual words spoken by the people in response to Jesus’ arrival at Jerusalem. When Jesus was rejected a Jerusalem as the Messiah, He told the people that they would not see Him again until they said these words to Him again:
Jesus is saying that He will not return the second time until the Jews are ready to receive Him as their Messiah, and recognize Him as Jehovah, the eternal God. Their understanding of who He is, at His second coming, is observed by their statement: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
This will take place upon Jesus return to the earth, at the end of the seven year Tribulation.[24]
The Messiah’s first arrival, occurred on Nissan 10, the first Palm Sunday before His crucifixion on Nissan 14, 32 A.D.
There is a second possible meaning of Psalms 118 verse 26: those who will receive the Messiah at His first arrival—will be blessed, because the Messiah is coming as their God, to be the Savior of all who will believe. When Jesus returns the second time, at the end of the seven year Tribulation, Israel will finally understand who Jesus is and “mourn for Him, whom they had pierced.”
The final detail of Psalm 118, verse 26: this blessing at the time of the Messiah’s second arrival will come from the third Temple at Jerusalem.
Malachi’s prediction that the Messiah will come suddenly to His Temple, also appears to have an earlier fulfillment by Jesus, at his first appearance on the earth as the Messiah, and will be fulfilled a second time: at His appearance on the earth—at the end of the seven year Tribulation.
This second Temple—where Jesus appeared during His first coming to earth, was destroyed 32 years after His Crucifixion and Resurrection, in 70 A.D., by Titus and the Roman army.
This second temple was not rebuilt until the Jews returned from their 70 years of exile in Babylon. The laying of the foundation for the second temple took place on the original site of the first temple, in the seventh month of Tishri (September), which was the second year of the Jews’ return to Jerusalem in 537 B.C.
And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. —Ezra 3:1-2
The temple was completed in the month of Adar (February-March), the last month of the year in the Jewish calendar. This happened in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the king of the Medes, in 517 B.C., twenty-two years after the foundation was laid (See the chart in Prophecy 309).
And may the God who causes His name to dwell there destroy any king or people who put their hand to alter it, or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius issue a decree; let it be done diligently. Then Tattenai, governor of the region beyond the River, Shethar-boznai, and their companions diligently did according to what King Darius had sent. So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. Now the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. —Ezra 6:12-15
537 B.C., Command to rebuild the second temple.
32 A.D., Jesus predicts the destruction of the second temple.
537 B.C
32 A.D.
+1 for the change from B.C., to A.D.
70 Years
70 years after the command to rebuild the second temple, Jesus predicts the destruction of the second temple. The second temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.
It was 70 years that God ordered Israel to go into captivity in Babylon. See the charts and details of Prophecy 309.
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. —Jeremiah 25:11
A Remarkable prophecy—a remarkable Messiah
Jesus came to Jerusalem as the promised Messiah and is proclaimed the King of the Jews during the time when the second Temple was standing, in direct fulfillment of Psalms 118:26. The fact that Jesus completed the complex requirements of this stunning prophecy is truly incredible. The likelihood that He could have done these things unaided by advanced knowledge of the events and the sovereign control of God, is mathematically impossible.
We are likely living in the days of the third temple. The Dead in Christ are about to be raised; the living, transported to meet the Lord in the air. The seven year tribulation will begin and the construction of the third temple will take place. These are, perhaps, the most exciting times of human history. We will be the generation that sees the coming of Jesus for His church and the completion of all things which God has determined.
[1] Encyclopedia Britannica, 1990 Edition.
[2] R. Schmitt. of Iran “Art”axerxes. Encyclopædia Iranica. 15 December 1986. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
[3] 1.Iran-e-Bastan/Pirnia Book, 1 page 873, 2. Dandamayev 3. History of Persian Empire-Olmstead pages 289-90
[4] From Judaism 101,
[5] From a letter sent to Sir Robert Anderson: To the Royal Obseervatory, Greewich, June 26th, I877. “SIR, – I have had the moon’s place calculated from Largeteau’s Tables in Additions to the Connaisance des Tems 1846, by one of my assistants, and have no doubt of its correctness. The place being calculated for – 444, March 12d. 20h., French reckoning, or March 12d. 8h. P. M., it appears that the said time was short of New Moon by about 8h. 47m., and therefore the New Moon occurred at 4h. 47m. A. M., March 13th, Paris time.” I am, etc (the 13th day of March at 7:09 a.m)., ” (Signed,) G. B. AIRY.” Anderson, Sir Robert (2010-05-27). The Coming Prince (Kindle Locations 1737-1748). . Kindle Edition.
[6] And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation. Daniel 11:31
[7] 2 Kings 24:1, Jeremiah 25:1, Daniel 1:1-2
[8] 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Chronicles 36:18-19
[9] The Desolations End: George Pytlik, Author of Daniel, God’s Messenger to our times.
[10] 1. The definition of “time, times, and a half time,” is understood by the book of Daniel where king Nebuchadnezzar was driven mad for “seven times,” a period of seven years. A time therefore, is a year. Daniel 4:25 They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.
2.“In the excavation of Qumran Cave 4 in 1952, an Aramaic fragment of a prayer of thanksgiving attributed to Nabonidus was discovered. The translation by Milik into French is approximately as follows: “The words of the prayer which Nabunai (d), king of Assyria and Babylon, the great king, prayed when he was smitten with an unpleasant skin- disease by the ordinance of God Most High in the city of Teima: I was smitten with an unpleasant skin- disease for seven years… But when I confessed my sins and my faults, he granted me a (favorable) verdict. And there was a Jew from…, and he wrote and told (me) to give honor… to the name of God Most High ‘” (this conjectural translation, dependent on several restorations of missing letters, was published by J. T. Milik in Revue Biblique, 63 (1956): 408; cf. Saggs, Babylon, p. 154, for the English version above). When this fragment was first published, many critics assumed that it represented an earlier form of the story of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4, which by a later tradition mistakenly attributed the experience to the most famous of the Chaldean kings rather than the last of them. On the contrary a careful examination of the Nabonidus fragment shows that it is far more likely to have been a late, garbled tradition of the illness of Nebuchadnezzar himself.” From The Expositor’s Bible Commentary on The Book of Daniel, chapter 7.
[11] 1. New American Heritage Dictionary, entry: ‘Temple’
2”. Temple, the.” Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.
[12] 2 Chronicles 36:22-23, Ezra 5:13. 536.4 B.C., see the chart at Prophecy 309 for details.
[13] Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Antiochus IV Epiphanes
[14] Josephus, Wars of the Jews 1:1:1–2
[15] 2 Maccabees 5:11–14
[16] 2 Maccabees 6:1–11
[17] Daniel 11:31, 12:11, Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14, Luke 16:15
[19] 1. Josephus, The New Complete Works, translated by William Whiston, Kregel Publications, 1999, “Antiquites” Book 14:7, p.463
[20] Secrets of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Leen Ritmeyer, Kathleen Ritmeyer, 1998
[21] 1.This verse of scripture has erroneously applied to the days prior to the Rapture and the beginning of the seven year Tribulation. It appears from the context of this verse, and by the eventual fulfillment of Jesus words in 70 A.D., that He was predicting the generation immediately before the total destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, in 70 A.D
[22] Josephus, The War of the Jews VI.4.3, Josephus, The Wars of the Jews VI.4.5
[23] Although Cyrus ordered the temple in Jerusalem rebuilt, in 536 B.C., this order was not carried out for 17 years, until the 24th day of December, 520 B.C. The Lord would not allow the foundation of the second temple to be laid until He had completed the 70 years of “The Desolation’s of Israel”, as He had spoken.
[24] Revelation chapter 19
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To paraphrase the philosophy of the Free Software Foundation, this book is free like free speech, but not necessarily free like free pizza. It came about because of a collaboration that would not have been possible without the GNU Free Documentation License. So we would like to thank the Free Software Foundation for developing this license and, of course, making it available to us.
We would also like to thank the more than 100 sharp-eyed and thoughtful readers who have sent us suggestions and corrections over the past few years. In the spirit of free software, we decided to express our gratitude in the form of a contributor list. Unfortunately, this list is not complete, but we are doing our best to keep it up to date. It was also getting too large to include everyone who sends in a typo or two. You have our gratitude, and you have the personal satisfaction of making a book you found useful better for you and everyone else who uses it. New additions to the list for the 2nd edition will be those who have made on-going contributions.
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Holden would like to remind you that the ZB Commodore was launched a year ago, and it has nothing to do with the fact that sales numbers are not meeting predictions…
So, I ended up going to what was essentially a soft reboot of the car with a ‘launch’ drive to generate some media buzz. Of course I went because the media were promised laps around the Pukekohe race track, well known as a venue for the V8 Supercars New Zealand rounds.
2019 Holden ZB Commodore Black Edition
As usual the ZB commodore impressed on normal roads with good ride and sharp handling, as well as punchy performance from the 235kW V6 engine. The seats are comfy and it’s generally a good large car in which to devour a serious amount of miles.
Predictably the high end VXR Commodores handled the track the best, with sports tuned adjustable suspension, but what impressed was the 2.0-litre turbo front wheel drive car which, while rolling and pitching in the corners, had good traction and generally managed to keep up with the more punchy V6 cars. On normal roads, and at normal speeds, most drivers would not notice much of a difference between 2.0 and 3.2-litre cars, and you’d get better fuel consumption. Pity hardly any 2.0-litre cars ever get sold.
There was a new model announced and driven at the ‘launch’ and this is the ‘Black Edition’ limited to 40 cars. The name essentially says it all, as much of the chromeware on the car is replaced by black trim. Taking away the shiny bits does change the look of the car, creating a menacing aggressive look that really suits the car’s shape.
At the end of the day, the decision to name the new car ‘Commodore’ even though it has nothing to do with the discontinued Aussie icon, plus the shift away from large sedans to smaller cars and SUV’s means that the ZB Commodore will never reach the sales numbers of the old car. That doesn’t change the fact that the ZB Commodore is a very good vehicle in it’s own right, but it feels like the time is passing for this sort of car.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/7984 | Scientists Discover New Species of Early Human in the Philippines
New Species of Early Human Discovered in the Philippines
Professor Philip Piper from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology inspects the cast of a hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007. The bone is from a new species of hominin. Credit: ANU
“The fossil remains included adult finger and toe bones, as well as teeth. We also recovered a child’s femur. There are some really interesting features – for example, the teeth are really small,” Professor Piper said.
“The size of the teeth generally, though not always, reflect the overall body-size of a mammal, so we think Homo luzonensis was probably relatively small. Exactly how small we don’t know yet. We would need to find some skeletal elements from which we could measure body-size more precisely.”
“It’s quite incredible. The extremities, that is the hand and feet bones, are remarkably Australopithecine-like. The Australopithecines last walked the earth in Africa about 2 million years ago and are considered to be the ancestors of the Homo group, which includes modern humans.
“So, the question is whether some of these features evolved as adaptations to island life, or whether they are anatomical traits passed down to Homo luzonensis from their ancestors over the preceding two million years.”
“No hominin fossils were recovered, but this does provide a timeframe for a hominin presence on Luzon. Whether it was Homo luzonensis butchering and eating the rhinoceros remains to be seen,” Professor Piper said.
“It makes the whole region really significant. The Philippines is made up of a group of large islands that have been separated long enough to have potentially facilitated archipelago speciation. There is no reason why archaeological research in the Philippines couldn’t discover several species of hominin. It’s probably just a matter of time.”
Homo luzonensis shares some unique skeletal features with the famous Homo floresiensis or ‘the hobbit’, discovered on the island of Flores to the south east of the Philippine archipelago.
In addition, stone tools dating to around 200,000 years ago have been found on the island of Sulawesi, meaning that ancient hominins potentially inhabited many of the large islands of Southeast Asia.
Publication: Florent Détroit, et al., “A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines,” Nature volume 568, pages 181–186 (2019)
1 Comment on "Scientists Discover New Species of Early Human in the Philippines"
1. Clinton Stanley Bumpurs | April 15, 2019 at 4:38 pm | Reply
Amazing how much they can determine with so little evidence.
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A Slice Of Time
14 Jun
woollies pigeons
This screenprint represents a very specific slice of time. Some years ago, there was a Woolworths store opposite the Waterstones bookshop in Swansea. I used to sit in the window of the bookshop cafe up on the first floor, with a pot of tea, and scribble the pigeons that sat on the Woolworths signage opposite. It was large and red and stood out from the wall, giving the pigeons enough space to sit and groom themselves comfortably. It was also lit up day and night, which gave them warmth.
I found the pigeons hard to draw because they constantly fidget so I had to develop a quick impressionistic style to capture them. I wrote down my thoughts and combined them with some of the drawings to create the photographic silkscreen.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8011 | Rhetoric can break bricks is a version of Tetris played with a vintage phone where you can use speech commands to move pieces. Basic commands are Left, Right, Turn and Fall, but since every command can only be used once, you’ll need to use every synonyms, antonyms or figures of speech the language has to offer. Commands are written in an address book for those who want to cheat.
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Silva Fennica 1926-1997
Acta Forestalia Fennica
Articles by Gunnar Köhlin
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article id 632, category Review article
William F. Hyde, Gunnar Köhlin. (2000). Social forestry reconsidered. Silva Fennica vol. 34 no. 3 article id 632.
This paper reviews the expectations for forestry’s contribution to rural development – and for its special contributions to the most disadvantaged, to women and the landless users of the forest commons. A growing literature challenges some of these expectations; in particular, certain expectations about cultural differences and physical stocks as explanatory factors for patterns of household behavior. This literature could also be used to support a call for sharper definitions of deforestation, improved indicators of the effects of forest resources on the rural poor, and improved design of forest policy interventions. Our paper reviews the literature, suggests some unifying themes, and identifies the critical issues that remain unanswered. The primary contention arising from this literature is that households follow systematic patterns of economic behavior in their consumption and production of forest resources, and that policy interventions in social forestry should be analyzed with regard to markets, policies, and institutions. Markets for forest resources generally exist in some form – although they may be thin. Successful forestry projects and policies require careful identification of the target populations and careful estimation of market and market-related effects on the household behavior of these populations. Institutional structures that assure secure rights for scarce forest resources are uniquely important in a forest enviornment often characterized by open access resources and weak government administration. Social and community forestry, improved stoves, improved strains of multi-purpose trees, and even private commercial forest operations can all improve local welfare, but only where scarcity is correctly identified and the appropriate institutions are in place. An increasing number of observations of afforestation from developing countries around the world is evidence that forestry activities do satisfy these conditions in selective important cases. The critical point for policy is to identify the characteristics of these successful cases that are predictive of other cases where new forestry activities can be welfare enhancing.
• Hyde, Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia ORCID ID:E-mail: (email)
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A mono amplifier is used to deliver power to a single channel speaker, such as a subwoofer. The mono amp produces a single power signal which is ideally suited to the low frequency design of a subwoofer.
Mono-blocks are not full range amps, but they do provide optimum power output and efficiency. These car amps have a single channel with no differentiation of right or left. They can power more than one subwoofer. There are different types of monoblock amps available in the market.
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John F. Kennedy was seen along with his son, John F. Kennedy Jr., as a resident of Hell during the song, "Christmas Time in Hell", in "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics". His brother, Ted Kennedy, later appeared in "Dead Celebrities". Kennedy's assassination was parodied in the episode, "Weight Gain 4000", in which Mr. Garrison attempts to shoot Kathie Lee Gifford from the book depository window in the same fashion as Oswald.
He appeared with a photo-realistic head, much like Saddam Hussein. His skin was gray due to his head being taken from a black and white photo. He wore a gray, long-sleeve shirt and brown pants.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8082 | Default method in java 8
Till Java 7, we have learned a lot of things about interfaces. All those things have been in our mind whenever we have written code or designed applications. Some of these concepts are going to change drastically from Java 8 onward, after introduction of default method in java.
First of all, from Java 8 we can have method implementations in interface called as Default methods in contrast to Java 7.
What is default method in java?
Default method in java is the default implementation of method. This methods will work as method implementation if implementing class doesn’t override or satisfy default behavior of method.
It is not mandatory to override the default method in implementing class
This feature therefore helps us in extending interfaces with additional methods, without requiring to change the existing implementing classes, which until Java 7 used to break the functionality.
public interface Interface1 {
default void print(String string){
System.out.println(“Printing in interface : “+ string);
Difference Between Default and Regular Method
Default MethodRegular Method
Comes with “default” modifierUnlike default methods, these cannot have “default” modifier
Cannot access class variablesCan access class variables
When we extend an interface that contains a default method, we can perform following
• Override the default method similar to other methods we override in subclass.
• Re declare default method as abstract, which consequently forces the subclass to override it.
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Frisbee War by Désirée Matlock
For Brandon –
“My father, if you’ll believe it, was killed by a frisbee.”
“Not just any Frisbee, neither, the original. And definitely not in the way you’d think. Not conked in the brain bin or nothing.” Jack rubbed absently at his overalls, years of habit from keeping the grease at bay, while he watched my eyes. “So?”
“Sounds like it might make a good story,” I chewed my lip and considered, “but I’m not sure it’ll get you an invite.”
“Don’t you worry, mister. I didn’t come out here to fix studio cars forever. I’ll make it a good one.”
“Great. I didn’t say so, but there’s a writer’s room job for whoever wins this. But it’s no shoo in you’ll win it.”
“Now, that’s just you haven’t heard it yet. I’ll tell you the whole yarn, mind you, then you’ll decide.”
Now, my grandfather Clyde, he was a big fan of pie. When he married Bessie, he wore out her interested in baking within the first few years, long before they got sick and tired of eachother, so Clyde would pack the whole brood, himself, grandma Bessie, the boys – who would grow up into my uncle CJ and my dad but were just squealing balls of puppy dog tails and pepper at that point – into their Woody and they’d travel everywhere that good pie was made. Now, since there weren’t no Yelp yet, nor any freeways for that matter, one depended on the authority of strangers.”
“You mean kindness of strangers?” I blurted out, interrupting without thinking, while scratching notes onto an index card.
“No sir. Kind of unkind, what he depended on was that they knew their neck of the woods well enough to firstly indicate a good pie location, and secondly, know how to get there. Don’t look at me so funny. The authority of strangers is what y’all depend entirely too much upon now. Even more than then. Except now they call it ‘aggregate, anonymized data’ and so people trust it, because it looks pretty. But once, it was a guy who looked a lot like me, stepping out of a small repair shop a lot like this one to pump your gas, and he was expected to be a one man Encyclopedia, Atlas and Zagat’s guide all in one. Your GoogleWikiYelpMap all rolled into one. And he did a damn fine job. He could tell you the best place in five counties to get a shoe shine, or where the closest decent hoagie was on a weekday. It gave the corner mechanic as much clout as city councilman. It evened the field a bit. Now you’re lucky if the guy manning the pumps exists, and if he does, luckier still if he can find his own ass with two hands.
“Anyhow, I digress,” he continued, pulling a red cloth out of his pocket, wiping his lip, and putting it back. Faint smudges of grease marred his already decent five o’clock shadow, but I didn’t feel like it was right to stop Jack any more than I already had.
“So, one day, Jack and CJ get it into their heads they can get their dad to stay home for a vacation instead, and they buy a huge stack of ready-made pies, asking their dad to stay at home with them. They bring him one, all cooked up and pretty, and they all eat it together, right down to the inscription on the bottom of the time, before their dad still loads them up into the car, and makes them all go on yet another one of these little excursions. This time, one of these random mechanics somewhere in the desert leads Clyde and his kin to a little out of the way pie shop in a little one stoplight town that barely showed on the map, and Clyde was so impressed with the pies, he up and bought the place on the spot, for next to nothing. They were glad to be rid of it, seeing as no one else saw the virtue in that particular corner of nowhere.
Now, Bessie wasn’t having none of that. She left Clyde there to manage his pie shop, and went home to Galveston. Now, they might not have had much, but what they had was in Galveston, as was her family. It almost broke them up, but he stayed there almost all of that year. But, boy what a year. He bought up all the billboard space that suddenly became available alongside a new kind of road that was getting cut through that particular patch of nowhere. And so, when the freeway came through, Clyde became suddenly rich. That pie shop went from a little known nothing, to a short swoop off the road, a quick slice, and you’re back on your way to California, or Florida, or what have you.
Clyde brought his money home to Bessie and the boys, meanwhile, buying up neighboring space and turning that pie shop into a whole truck stop with curiosities, amenities, a motel and of course, pies. Clyde made himself quite the little empire in the sand.
By the time old Clyde died, that pie money had been funneled into two college degrees for my father and my uncle, nice houses all around, and steady, good lives for his boys. But, Bessie had wanted more kids, but hadn’t much of a husband left to father them. So, the boys had been her only children, grown up barely knowing their father, but spoiled and rich. The woody had become a towncar, which had then become sleek luxury sedans.
After Clyde’s funeral, the boys, now grown with wives and kids of their own, and who had idolized Clyde as one can only manage with an absentee father, decided to take a trip out to the pie stand their father had devoted his life to. When they got there, they were both stunned to learn that he hadn’t left it to them. No part of it. Not the pie stand, not the truck stop, not the motel. Hadn’t left any of it to Bessie neither. He’d left it to the gal behind the counter who’d been baking the pies since before Clyde had walked in to try his first pie. They’d never thought to find out, but learned right then and there that her name was Sadie.
Now, on the wall of Clyde’s office, which Sadie was busy moving her things into, was a pie plate that was mounted to a board, and it said, “THIS TERRIBLE PIE INSPIRED THE TRIP THAT LED CLYDE HERE.” And on it was the pie plate from the pie the boys had made their father so many years earlier, the inscription on the bottom reading “FRISBEE’S PIES.”
A’course, CJ and Jack were both fuming, and with no outlet for their anger. Couldn’t rightly be angry with their dead father, nor with the waitress who’d worked so hard, couldn’t even be angry with each other. They stared up at the pie they’d made their father and realized that nothing else in that office could rightfully be claimed by them as theirs. Sadie nodded and told them politely that they could keep it, and CJ impolitely told her to stuff it.
CJ stormed off, came back with a sturdy chair, and Jack climbed on it and reached to pull down the plaque commemorating their childhood failure. At this point, as he grabbed hold of the plaque, it made him top heavy enough that the chair toppled, but he landed safely on his feet. It was a close call. CJ pulled the tin off the backboard, and they played frisbee with it in the desert beside the pie shop, between the truck stop and the hotel, and then, pressure released, they tromped home in a state.
Every year after that, on the anniversary of their father’s death, they got together for a game of frisbee. Eventually, the kids got involved, and myself and my cousins would all get together for a reunion on that date, without really knowing why, and we’d all head out to a park somewhere outside of Galveston and we’d have us a little frisbee war. The tin got battered up something awful, so eventually plastic ones were bought, and the pie association was lost.
“Anyhow, just recently, my father died holding that tin frisbee.”
“…But, how did it kill him?”
“It got him with old age. He died clutching it because it reminded him that there was no way he and my uncle would have stayed in touch so long if they hadn’t decided to turn their dad’s shit inheritance into a game of frisbee. It kept them both alive longer, and the whole family better connected but that’s a double edged sword. What keeps you alive is also a little bit responsible when you do eventually die.”
I laughed.
“All right, fine.” I handed him a back door pass to the exclusive club. “It’s up in the hills, at that address on the back. Feel free to embellish and improve that story by another, um, hundred and thirty percent before then. Especially a few more close calls for your doomed father. Like when he fell off the chair. But more.”
“But they didn’t really happen.”
I stared incredulously, “Jack, if a good yarn ever had to try to stretch to fit the truth into it, it’d lose all shape.”
Jack looked down at his pass, rubbed it thoughtfully, getting a bit of grease on it. “See you tonight, Mister,” he turned and shuffled back into the shop to finish up his day’s work.
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Cake-Roof by Désirée Matlock
Laura Williams
He walked in right as the cake fell from the roof; I’ve never been more embarrassed in my life.
The man – no, the asshat – who had jilted me at the altar, whom I hadn’t seen in six years, finally showed up. Did he show up while my sister was peeling me off the bathroom floor, having cried myself into stay-puft marshmallow man status? No. Did he show up while I tried to reach him to find out where he’d run off to? No. Did he show up when our lease expired and I had nowhere to move to? No. Did he show up when scary people came to find him? No. Not once.
No, the asshat showed up at my wedding. At my fucking wedding.
On top of that, he showed up when everything was falling apart. Had he shown up while the vows were being exchanged? As my beautiful dress flowed serenely around me and a choir sang “Ave Maria” softly, the morning light shining in through the cathedral windows? Had he shown up while the most amazing man in the world stared straight into my eyes and vowed to love me forever? No.
No, he hadn’t.
He showed up while my sister’s toddler was hiding under my skirts from the panther in the middle of the dance floor, while the caterer and the cake were sliding off the gazebo roof, while guests were running screaming.
Somewhere in the back of my head, I knew I should be scared of the damn panther, but that animal’s wrath had nothing on the bride whose wedding was ruined.
My new husband was under the stage, ostensibly guarding our double set of parents, but factually leaving me completely exposed. Sure, I loved my parents. And his were pretty great, too, but dammit, this wasn’t boding well for future chivalry, that he’d left me out here, facing down a rampaging beast.
The panther slid out from under a table, trailing a silk tablecloth, slinking closer. More cake slid from the roof, making a sad plopping noise. There goes ten grand. Dammit! This panther was ruining my wedding. My rage was overtaking my common sense. I wanted to slap this wild animal. I unthinkingly started walking into the middle of the room.
The asshat walked powerfully into the middle of the yard, commanding the animal’s attention. I’d always felt he had a rugged, dangerous animal sense, and the panther certainly agreed. Asshat and the panther slinking in circles around one another had all the guests, and myself, dammit, utterly rapt. No one’s eyes moved from the pair sizing one another up. Asshat stopped, standing directly between me and the panther. Oh God, I was not going to be thankful for the help. No fucking way. My husband whispered to me from under the stage, probably to join him, just exactly as the asshat started growling lightly. Oh my god, that might be the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. Shut up, I told myself. That’s the adrenaline talking.
The toddler niece wiggled and clung to my left leg. I stood stock still, mortified at the first impression asshat was getting of my husband as he squealed lightly from under the stage, but to be fair, so did everyone else, as asshat lunged lightly toward the panther.
The panther yowled as if bit and ran suddenly back into the fields beyond the park.
As the dozens of guests broke out into cheers, asshat sat down on an abandoned white deck chair and, ignoring a champagne glass beside him, pulled a flask from his breast pocket. I walked up to him.
“Hello lovey,” he said, looking every bit the international man of mystery, and as sexy as ever.
“Fuck you,” I said and turned on my heel. I stormed over to the stage and got down on my knees to help my husband crawl back out of his hidey-hole.
Fuck sexy, I told myself. I wanted someone who didn’t disappear for six years. Right?
My husband, with his gorgeous good looks, was more than enough man for me. So what if he wasn’t as commando as asshat. Right?
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Hitchhiker by Désirée Matlock
For Diana Rosenfield
When he looked up, he saw only branches; he knew better than to look down.
He’d woken up a few seconds ago, confused. Where was he? In Jessie’s car, which was upside down. Upside down is never good. What had happened? He tried to remember, but nothing came. Strange. Well, he could certainly fill in the blanks well enough. They’d started on the trip from Pacific Palisades up toward the bay area, and Jessie’d been goofing around on social media.
It had taken everything he had to get Jessie to stop going live. Like anyone cared about their commute. “No one wants to see you drive back to school on Facebook LIVE!” he’d yelled at her, while Jessie held a phone out the window, swooping and turning and looking for a good angle.
“Hey, seriously, KNOCK IT OFF!” he had yelled for all to see, before Jesse had turned the phone’s tiny black eye back, saying, “Live, from California… it’s Saturday Night DRIVE!!!!”
“Seriously, Jessie, focus on driving!” the wheel jerked, and he snapped the phone away from her. “Do I need to drive so you can do that?”
“Chill out, psycho,” she whispered loudly at him, eyes buggy. He shook his head in disbelief, and muttered a small prayer for them both. He turned away, shoving the phone under his seat.
Not much else happened for an hour or two. The commute droned on, winding roads, gorgeous shimmering seas, smatterings of beach towns, shitty ancient bridges, and he was lulled into semi-consciousness. But then they’d pulled over, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and Jessie had picked up a hitchhiker. Seriously, this girl had a dead wish!
Jessie had made it worse picking up a hitchhiker. Seriously. She had seen him on the side of the road, looking lost, and the car had come to a crunchy stop in the side of the road gravel. She’d peeled down his window, leaning over him, arm churning the universal sign for “get over here.” The hitchhiker had climbed in the backseat behind him as if the stranger had been depending on the kindness of others for cars forever. Who knows. Maybe they don’t have the same stigma on hitchhiking where ever he’s from.
Jesse had turned toward the back seat somewhat, finding it hard to turn far enough to see, but the guy looked short, skinny, harmless. Serial killers don’t wear jeans and a tee, do they? He smiled and his teeth popped white. That’s when he noticed that the stranger was dark-ish skinned, maybe Middle Eastern? Or South American? Or mixed? Whatever. Who cares. A hitchhiker is a bad idea. But, the guy smiled a lot and as Jessie got back on the road, he tried asking questions, but the guy apparently didn’t speak any English.
Eventually he thought maybe he’d fallen asleep. And now look. Upside down. Trees outside, also upside down, from his perspective. Near darkness, it must be around dusk. He looked down at the little bit of sky he could see and realized that was ocean, not sky. Great.
Dusk, and he was going to die hanging over a cliff along the grapevine. He was never getting in a car with her again. He tried to turn around enough to look at the backseat, where he knew Jessie’s hitchhiker was sitting, but couldn’t. No noise arose from behind him, and he was barely able to turn enough to see that Jessie was a barely recognizable mess. Piercing pain flooded his head when he tried to turn farther, so he stopped. He groped in his pocket for his phone, pulling it in front of his eyes, which were blurring alarmingly. Damn.
He tried to dial 911, but realized the screen was too shattered. The phone dropped out of his hands and fell upward, somehow it felt oddly majestic and beautiful, watching it collide with a branch and then plop into the seafoam above his head. His field of vision darkened. Was that the sky?
His thoughts grew blurry, and he remembered something else about a phone. That’s right, Jessie’s phone. He jerked himself more awake, forcing himself to think, another small prayer forming on his lips.
He forced his body to bend over – upwards? Downwards? – some, to check under his seat. But then he saw it. Jessie’s phone was lodged firmly in the dashboard, right in front of the unconscious girl beside him. Oh my God, had she done this by going live again, at dusk and on the fucking grape vine? He did NOT want to be in this year’s Darwin Awards. Fuck.
The air felt increasingly like thick molasses as he breathed, and his vision blurred further. Moving any part of himself was incredibly difficult. Damn. He realized he was probably going to die, and then a surge of energy coursed through him. He remembered Lana, the girl he’d done Habitat for Humanity with last year. She was ridiculously beautiful and utterly disinterested in herself. She hadn’t even gotten a smart phone yet, for the love of all things holy, he wanted to see her again. Wanted to hand her tools and chat with her in her broken English and his broken Spanish. He suddenly wanted it more than anything in the world. He tried to free himself from his seatbelt, and the pain intensified, then faded.
His field of vision started spiraling inward, his peripheral vision now totally black, and the world going entirely fuzzy as his head fell upward, toward the reaching fingers of branches and the yawning sea beyond the broken window. Please God, I don’t want to die, he’d thought. Not before I get to kiss Lana.
A bright, incandescent, peachy pink light similar to sunset suddenly filled the car, and he felt two arms grasp him under his shoulders. Impossible, since he was firmly stuck upside down in a car’s bucket seat. But it still happened. The light grew brighter, gold followed by brilliant white like the dentist’s light. Too strong, he shut his eyes, and felt his body go weightless, and he drifted beyond the car. Must have been through the front window, but he didn’t feel it touch him. He knew because he felt a fresh cool breeze. Am I falling into the water? He idly thought, then he’d passed out.
When he woke, he was lying with sharp gravel pressing into his cheek, face down with arm draped over something soft. What? He lifted his head, and found he could. His neck had stopped hurting. He cracked an eye open, but bright blue and red flashing lights made it hard to see. Oh, Jessie was beside him, crumpled and still out cold, but no longer in the car. He could have sworn he’d seen her chest caved in and an arm broken, but he couldn’t even find anything wrong, except that she was still out.
How had they gotten out of the car? His ears were still ringing, and as that faded, he realized he could hear sirens. They’d been found. That must have been who pulled them from the car.
Two paramedics arrived, one started checking Jessie, and another turned toward him.
The paramedic leaned over him, patting and looking for issues, trying to talk to him. He woke up better and better every second. It was a minute before he realized he had forgotten someone. He turned and sat up suddenly.
“Where is our hitchhiker? Still in the car?”
“What do you mean?” the paramedic looked alarmed.
“There’s a guy still trapped in the car! He’s brownish, short, skinny, jeans and a grey tee shirt.”
“You mean that guy?” the paramedic asked, pointing toward where three police cars blocked the road while the paramedics worked. A guy was leaning on the hood of one of the police cars, chatting and laughing with one of the cops. It sure looked like their hitchhiker.
“No, I mean yes. He looks the same, but there was a guy in the car with us!”
“Are you sure, sir? I mean, that’s the guy who spotted you guys, while he was just walking along. Are you sure there was another person in the car?”
He nodded, and that started a long, drawn out process of checking the car, with search and rescue running lines down the cliff to where their car was.
He explained what had happened a few times, though, and the paramedic had left, muttering with the fire and rescue guys, and then everyone had looked at him sympathetically. An EMT had checked him for a head wound.
Jessie was lying quietly on a gurney in the next ambulance. He didn’t even know whether she would make it. No one did at this point. She hadn’t woken up.
They ran two guys down the cliffside on ropes to check the car, but it turned out no one was in the car. There was no sign of a seat belt fastened in the back seat, and that meant their hitchhiker was probably thrown, too, but not onto the road, into the sea.
They started arranging for a chopper to spotlight the sea below, but weren’t hopeful… As time rolled onward into the wee hours, he drifted slowly into a lulled state. The ambulance had already left with Jessie, and his was getting ready to leave.
A few minutes later, he was sitting up in the back of an ambulance, getting ready to be transported to the hospital, for an overnight concussion watch, since they hadn’t found anything wrong with him, but he had been acting strangely, seeing things, and had obviously been thrown from a car moments before it fell over the cliff. They suspected mild head trauma, but he was doing fine.
The guy chatting with the cops walked over, in a street-wide gait. “Hey man, tough break.” The stranger reached over to give a fistbump, then rethought it, seeing that he was wrapped in a blanket. “Dude, you lived through that? You can live through anything.”
The guy sure looked like their hitchhiker. Except this guy spoke English, and didn’t smile… So confused, he closed his eyes.
“Yeah, I guess you need some R and R. You know what I recommend? Chill, head down south for a while, find your head, you know, man?”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“Hopefully, I don’t have to see you around again man, but anyway. Hey, have a nice life. Do good shit and all that, man.” A smokey laugh, a surfer type laugh. He opened his eyes just in time to see the same bright white smile from before. The same guy, he was certain now. Had to be. What were the chances? Maybe he really had been conked on the head.
The stranger waved, shuffled on the spot, and then started walking off down the gravel on the side of the road, headed south, the opposite way they’d been driving, and he swore to God, just a second there, it was like he glowed a little around the head. What was that called? Golden light? Halo. That’s right, a fucking halo. He knew how ridiculous his thoughts were.
He closed his eyes and tried to be patient with himself. It was just the head wound talking. He was seeing halos. He cracked his eyes open again to peer over toward one of the EMTs. No halo there.
He tried to look back at the stranger again to see if he still saw it, but he just saw a jeaned pantleg and a sneaker as the dude rounded a curve out of sight.
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Filcher’s Heist by Désirée Matlock
For Phil Jones
The snow was crisp and firm underfoot as I strode steadily through the looming darkness, pierced only by the yellow eyes of a dozen wolves pacing me easily in the trees to the right.
I light-footed my way as quickly as I could in my winter moccasins through the treacherous terrain alongside the creek, following the water as we all made our way silently toward the stronghold of our enemy. I knew my friends would have no issues keeping stride with me. Their patience knew no bounds. We had all waited enough.
I saw a candle’s light flickering ahead, and signaled with an owl’s hoot that we were now extremely close, and to use caution. I slowed further, and came in toward the road, keeping to the shadows. I thanked my lucky stars that the darkened fortress was upwind of me tonight.
The thirteen of us continued to creep quietly, a small whimper escaped the muzzle of the youngest, who was still nursing the wounds of yesterday’s defeat. He didn’t heal as quickly as the others.
My eyes lit upon the window with the candle, and I crept toward it. The fortress was protected against the wolves, and they stopped approaching from a safe distance. This was now entirely up to me. There was little the pack could do if I was hurt within those walls.
First things first. Could I approach? Was the fortress protected from humans? I’d found, in my long career, that magical creatures tended to discount humans as capable enough to worry about. I shuffled my feet carefully in the snow, trying not to make a sound as I tested the perimeter of the spells protecting the keep.
Bingo. Leave it to blood suckers to not bother to keep me out. I ran as quickly as I could to the wall, scaled it, and scrabbled in the window faster than a squirrel, if I do say so myself.
They had said she was in this room, but there were no people here. Just a crown, a pillow, and a broom. Well, who knows. I grabbed all three items and leapt out the window, falling thirty feet or so, but also catapulting myself beyond the perimeter while still in the air. I landed with all three items, hoping none broke as I rolled off the force of the landing.
I rose, showed the wolves the items, and the leader huffed excitedly. He started running, but not back toward camp. Well, if I wanted to get paid, I needed to go with them, or I might not ever find the same pack again. I assumed that the job was not quite finished, so I followed. Once they got a safe distance from the fortress, they started running without fear of being overheard, and I really had to push myself to keep up. My shoes were water-tight and freshly oiled, so my feet were still not wet, but this was truly a difficult run. Night turned into early morning, and early morning turned into day. At dawn, we heard the deep booming thrum of the guard being called into action at the fortress. Let them hunt. They would never find us now. We had traveled much too far too fast.
I almost lost sight of the wolves as we rounded a bend along the creek, and then almost ran by. They all stood, encircling a cabin built along the creek, in a seated position. The house seemed very old, but that was impossible. It was right where seasonal flooding would wash it away. Somehow this creek must not swell in the spring, although, by the ravine walls around us, it was obvious it had in the past.
Looking at the cabin made my eyes ache, oddly, and I could feel the tell tale signs of magic, the kind aimed at me.
I signaled the young wolf, who had finished healing, and he approached. I shook my head at him, and placed the items on the ground. I held my palm out, the obvious sign of needing payment. The young wolf huffed, and all the wolves stirred, padding from foot to foot. They whined at me, and snuffled in the direction of the cabin.
“Ho there!” I yelled toward the cabin. “Friends approach.”
A young woman with luminous skin and blond hair peered out the window. “Friend? I see wolves and a thief.”
“Aye, you do, but this thief is your servant today, and these wolves are your friends, I assure you.”
“You assure me? Hmph. Anything happens, it’s your neck. Deal?” I nodded.
A bubble of shimmer popped from around the cabin, and she came stepping out the door.
In perfect bare feet, she stood on the rounded polished stones of the creek beside her home, arms akimbo, fantastically beautiful eyes flashing at me, “What gives?”
Then her eyes spotted the items in my arms, and she crooned to herself. Both hands came rushing out. She knocked the broom off to the side and started peering through the jewels on the crown. “Ho ho, real. Real!” she crowed. She picked up the pillow and squinted at it.
“What’s this?” she looked at me suspiciously.
“I think it’s the job,” I answered simply, shrugging, “Or the other items.”
She squinted again at the broom. She was beautiful even when making faces. She grimaced, and my heart pounded. Foolish human heart, had I. I shut the thoughts down, before her obvious witchcraft made me her slave.
She looked right at me as I thought that, almost as though she heard me. Looking into my eyes, she waved her hand at the pillow and it turned into a young wolf pup, squirming in her hands. “Oh! Ew!” She threw it toward the pack, and its mother leapt out, grabbing it up gently in her jaws. She grabbed up the crown, and turned on her heel, heading back into her cabin. The bubble flashed back into place around the cabin, and my head cleared the rest of the way. Ugh, magic was such a pain. Almost got me falling in love with her. Not this particular Jack-o-the night.
All the wolves transformed into their human selves, long black hair dancing in the breeze, nostrils flaring, yellow eyes still cautious.
“Thank you. You’ve done us a kindness. Your payment will be lying upon the bed we found you in when you return.”
I sighed. Damn. Another payment in trust. What the heck. You couldn’t trust the magical folk.
“And if it’s not there?” I asked, lightly. You did not want to piss off the wolf pack.
“It will be.”
“But if it’s not?” I repeated. The pack leader looked at me, and answered with a straight face.
“If your money was not placed on your bed, you may come kill me. Hurry home, though. I believe that whore of yours may be losing patience with wanting to know what’s in the bag you left on your bed…” He huffed in what was probably a chuckle.
“Thanks!” I turned in a circle and pinched a touch of the magical salts that “that whore” had retrieved for me on our last outing, and was suddenly back home, in my comfortably musty-smelling room above the pub. I flopped onto my bed, and heard the jingle of a fat sack of coin as my head hit the pillow. A real down pillow, no less.
I checked the sack. The wolves had been true to their word. “Janine! Get in here! You’re not going to believe it, but I found us another witch!”
“Oh! You’re home.” Janine rounded the newel post at the entry and swung herself into my arms.
“Did you hear me?” I said, catching her up and holding her to me, laughing.
“Yes, she purred, as she nuzzled into my neck, bright eyes peering up from my collar. “Ooh, goodie, you brought me a new heist!”
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