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Well that's different
"As needed"
Win win
Well. Something has clearly changed since my dentist appointment.
I ate a banana, an avocado, a bag of popchips, and got midway through a box of ice-cream sandwiches before I lost interest.
That’s never happened before.
I’m not even sure I’m hungry.
Did I enter a parallel universe? O_o
*checks mirror*
Nope. No facial hair. I’m not evil Zero.
Good Spock. Evil Spock.
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This blog accompanies a book co-authored with the medium, Paul Hamden, entitled "A primer of the Zeta race". Interviews with the non-terrestrial Zeta beings are discussed, and interested readers are invited to download the book at no cost.
Monday, 28 September 2015
Interviewer: I have a number of questions related to previous things that we have discussed.
Zeta: Continue.
Interviewer: One thing that I have wondered about is the purpose of our physical existence here. It occurred to me that the creative process is not the same here as it is in the energetic realm, and I think that freewill is more easily obstructed in our physical existence than elsewhere. Is that the reason why people incarnate in physical form, so they can interfere with each other’s desires.
Zeta: Amusing question, to interfere you say, why?
Interviewer: Well, we often do that, one person wants to do one thing, and another person we know thinks we should be doing something else, and we can’t just wave a wand and each have our own way.
Zeta: Much simpler for you, yes. For the spirit people that come into the human form, they desire experience to leave the energetic realm and to move to physical is much excitement for them, to go on a journey.
Interviewer: Is the excitement because they have to deal with other people’s wishes and desires in conflict with theirs?
Zeta: There is a dynamic environment within the physical, yes, and of course the spirit people do not have the potential to experience the physical within the spirit realm.
Interviewer: In a related thing, in the energetic realm where the creative process is more straightforward, to my way of thinking, how are conflicts resolved between two beings at the same level of consciousness? If one wishes to have an environment one way and the other wishes to have the environment a different way.
Zeta: Then they split off and both environments exist.
Interviewer: So then those two beings will not be associated with each other any longer?
Zeta: If it is a spirit realm entity, yes. Then what is to take place is the imagery of the two beings integrated into each other’s reality.
Interviewer: So multiple versions of each …
Zeta: Correct function, ah… speaker has changed.
(A different Zeta has arrived…)
Interviewer: I understand that in the energetic realms that experience is very similar to what we have here in terms of our sensory processes. We cannot really tell the difference. I wondered if the sense of touch was the same in the energetic realms as it is in the physical.
Zeta: For spirit people, yes.
Interviewer: Just for spirit people?
Zeta: No, a clarification is for spirit people.
Interviewer: all right.
Zeta: What are you asking, for what race?
Interviewer: So sensory experiences are different for different races is what you seem to be saying.
Zeta: Of course it depends on the transitional process, not to have one common theme.
Interviewer: Can I ask a different question now? Someone in another sitting asked if a human could touch a physical Zeta being, and they were told that the human would be burned. What precisely does that mean? There are several ways of being burned and I wonder if you could elaborate on that. Is it a chemical burn?
Zeta: No, etheric body of Zeta, every entity has etheric template, frequency of etheric template to interact with human etheric template, increase in frequency for the human then translates to physical changes in the cellular structure, and cellular structure representation of burnt skin.
Interviewer: I see, I understand that.
Zeta: Good.
Interviewer: There was another question related to the method of propulsion you described for your craft. There is what you call the cylinder method where 3-dimensional space is rolled up into a cylinder form, and the craft moves from one point to another, across what I interpreted as the seam of the cylinder, and then the movement would be through this higher dimensional space and the craft would then appear instantaneously at some distant location in three-dimensional space. Do I understand that correctly?
Zeta: Yes, correct, the craft is to create a distortion, but continue on.
Interviewer: Well I was wondering how three-dimensional space could be rolled up.
Zeta: A craft is to create distortion.
Interviewer: Yes, but that space may contain other objects which have an etheric body form.
Zeta: Now, other objects exist yes, so can only jump. A craft to create a distortion to pull one into an infinitesimal point towards self. Of course other etheric fabric-like sheet, if you pick up you have point in fingers but of course sheet attached, not to occur near matter objects such as planets, in empty space. Irrelevant if other matter, fine matter is distortion. Also much more safe to travel.
Interviewer: So the cylinder method of travel is only used in empty space?
Zeta: Because as explained to you before, must travel before time to a point, create jump space, and then travel and continue on. Never to create a point of connection near a planet, too dangerous, yes.
Interviewer: I see. I interpreted some features in photographs of the craft as a property of this method of travel, and I guess that must be incorrect then. I noticed near the craft a kind of toroidal shape in the atmosphere.
Zeta: Etheric representation of physical capacity of propulsion system, yes.
Interviewer: But I’m not correct in believing that this is a consequence of the cylinder method of travel then?
Zeta: No, because too close to planet, yes.
Interviewer: Yes, can you explain what this shape is associated with?
Zeta: The shape is a distortion in the energetic fabric of the environment, because it is multidimensional, it is able to make craft move in all directions.
Interviewer: So its the etheric form of the craft?
Zeta: Part of the craft, yes.
Interviewer: I see, so it moves and the craft follows? Would that be how it works?
Zeta: Both happening at the same time.
Interviewer: Yes.
Zeta: No separation, not either or. To instruct craft via telepathic process, instantaneous, go there, yes, straight away.
Interviewer: In the photographs it appears that this etheric form then is separated in space from the craft itself,
Zeta: There is no separation, it is imagery.
Interviewer: Both exactly one and the same object.
Zeta: Yes. Your physical body has etheric template, yes. They are the same, but in separation both occurring at the same time.
Interviewer: But my etheric body can be spatially separated from my physical body at times.
Zeta: Always connected, never to be completely disconnected.
Interviewer: So that’s the same as with the craft.
Zeta: All things, yes.
Interviewer: All right, thank you, that’s good.
Interviewer: You said at one point that the astral realm is an intermediary process in the transition to the spirit realm. Do you recall someone saying that? I wonder if you could explain how the astral realm is used for people to transition.
Zeta: Because the physical body of a human contains consciousness which is thought. All thought is connected to the whole of the human mind. To transition, you must transition through the thought process of your own mind, instantaneous, but still you must include the process.
Interviewer: So does the spirit disconnect from the astral realm on its way to the spirit realm?
Zeta: Yes of course.
Interviewer: Ok so that’s why it has to go through the astral realm.
Zeta: Because you are in it, you must go through it.
Interviewer: Yes we are in it now.
Zeta: Correct function. One more question then I leave.
Interviewer: There are what we call etheric symbols on the medium’s arm, and I was wondering how they perform their function. Do they behave like conscious entities? How would you activate them? Or why would they perform a function?
Zeta: Firstly, why do you ask?
Interviewer: Because other people have suggested in other contexts that artifacts, supposedly extraterrestrial, have been discovered that are sort of like our computer code except that the code and the function are the same thing. Its hard to explain.
Zeta: You know the human container also has a completed programming. You call it programming to arrange symbology to provide functionality to computers. I will talk at that level for you. We can interchange in discussion. The technology is functions, you understand functions.
Interviewer: Yes, an action performed.
Zeta: Yes. So in computer code, a function provides a response. Now a function, many functions, each function has according to its structure a symbol. Now, I can perform multiple functions within one category. Symbology related to race, our race, but not to be used by a human. It would cause chaos as seen by the removal of the pulse.
Interviewer: So the invocation of the symbol on the medium’s arm is the way the function is performed.
Zeta: Yes, provides technology, activation of function, function produces outcome.
Interviewer: This reminded me of the creative process, and I wondered if the symbol itself is a conscious entity or conscious being executes a creation.
Zeta: All levels have consciousness, nothing is void of consciousness.
Interviewer: But would the symbol have an intent?
Zeta: An intention, yes, to connect telepathically to… A symbology must illuminate symbols through consciousness.
Interviewer: All right, that is the limit of my understanding so I think we should leave it there for now.
Zeta: But still an interesting conversation to be able to talk to you about this. And now to take it one step further for you. Now, of course, multidimensional matrix like a, have you seen a honeycomb?
Interviewer: Yes.
Zeta: Same process, a function interact and bind together to perform functions of interdimensional nature, to close portals, yes. Portals are a difficult process, so must combine function because portals are a point of origin must be calculated, also point of entry into physical realm, then of course a potential amplitude of portal, a calculation function, yes, and then how to close must be calculated and then to present a portal with solution once calculated to place arm out and present portal with solution, and then portal close.
Interviewer: So all these functions are performed sequentially?
Zeta: Instantly together yes.
Interviewer: They are combined into one function.
Zeta: Yes, because has technology has capability to draw information from etheric realm in regards to many things so, but must have technology because to support humans and this container in function must have technology, yes. Finished now.
Interviewer: Thank you very much.
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Scientists Have Figured Out Why You Get Hangry
June 13, 2018
Next time you're HANGRY, just know this: It's not your fault. Your lack of food is just messing around with your sweet, innocent brain. A new study out of the University of North Carolina figured out the reason why we get so ANGRY when we're hungry. They found that when people were hungry, little things could quickly put them in a bad mood . . . and then, from that point, they started viewing EVERYTHING more negatively. People who had just eaten didn't do that.
Quote, "So there seems to be something special about unpleasant situations that makes people draw on their hunger feelings." In other words: Your hunger isn't MAKING you angry . . . your hunger is just messing with your head and making it easier for you to get angry about everything else.
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Diary of Unknown Symptoms
Mystery of the Internal Vibration
Entry for April 01, 2007
No vibration again last night or this morning.
The human body is an incredible, complex machine. Today I discover that the adrenals and thyroid are linked with an imbalance with the autonomic nervous system. Now there’s a clue for sure. No wonder the herbal complex included other herbs for calming the nervous system. So it probably doesn’t matter what I take for the adrenals or the thyroid unless I take care of the nervous exhaustion first.
Autonomic Response, Stress and Hypothyroidism
The thyroid is activated by the sympathetic nervous system as part of the fight-or-flight response to stress. If the autonomic nervous system is excessively sensitive or overstimulated, overstimulation of the thyroid occurs. The first effect is an increased thyroid and adrenal response. This may continue for several hours, days or years, depending upon its intensity. Then the thyroid weakens and can no longer maintain its response. Hypothyroidism then results.
This chain of events is labeled the General Adaptation Syndrome by Dr. Hans Selye, M.D. The alarm response, including excessive thyroid activity, is the first stage of adaptation. During the resistance and exhaustion stages, the thyroid weakens and hypothyroidism occurs.
This type of hypothyroidism can be caused by any type of stress. Eventually the thyroid becomes nutritionally depleted and cannot function properly. If the autonomic nervous system is out of balance, the thyroid is not properly stimulated by the pituitary to produce adequate amounts of thyroid hormone.
Correction Of Hypothyroidism
The common treatment of hypothyroidism involves hormone replacement with either natural bovine thyroid hormone (Armour thyroid) or with synthetic hormones (Synthroid, Cytomel, etc.). In some cases, this corrects the symptoms. This treatment, however, does not correct the cause of the problem. The patient usually is told he or she must remain on the hormones for life.
In many cases, hormone replacement does not clear up all the symptoms. This occurs for several reasons:
• Symptoms may be caused by adrenal as well as thyroid underactivity. Both the adrenal and thyroid imbalances must be corrected.
• The cause of symptoms is an autonomic nervous system imbalance, which affects far more than just the thyroid gland.
• Thyroid hormones are adequate, but do not reach the cells, the target site for the hormone. This may be due to low tissue potassium, elevated tissue calcium and magnesium, or the presence of toxic metals.
• An improper diet can offset the effects of the hormones.
• Overwhelming stress or nutritional deficiencies prevent a satisfactory response
Adrenal Exhaustion and Hypothyroidism
The adrenal and thyroid glands work in close harmony. The adrenal hormones cause the conversion and release of sugars. Thyroid hormone is needed for oxidation or combustion of the sugars. Often hypothyroidism is accompanied by reduced adrenal gland activity. Blood tests are not always accurate for detecting adrenal insufficiency.
The symptoms of adrenal insufficiency are similar to hypothyroidism. In some instances, the thyroid gland attempts to compensate for reduced adrenal activity. This may work for a time, but eventually the thyroid becomes exhausted as well.
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Master Gardener Videos
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AILDAs I Lay Dying (novel/band)
AILDAngioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy with Dysproteinaemia
AILDAlcohol-Induced Liver Disease
AILDAngioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy with Dysgammaglobulinemia
AILDAmiodarone-Induced Lung Disease
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But it is the dead fish, 'all cut up into not-fish now' AILD, 49 (9) that mainly substitutes for Vardaman's dead mother, and through which he attempts to grasp the meaning of her death, and of his own identity.
AILD articulates Faulkner's debt to the traditional convention of inheritance not only by the book's title, which has its source in 'The Book of the Dead" in the Odyssey (10), and by his deployment of the traditional conventions of the genre.
The band crafted a monstrous sound that in some regards pushed AILD into the heaviest turf yet (credit there goes to drummer Jordan Mancino) and likewise opened passages for Lambesis to chime in on occasion with vocal parts far more melodic than he has delivered in the past.
Yet within the maelstrom, AILD holds some provocative subjects, and challenges the listener to take the next step beyond rage.
For example, Faulkner's narratives (including SF, AILD, S, H, LA, WP, and AA) enclose a maternal subtext beneath the patriarchal structure at the surface of his fiction, and it is this tension within his texts that challenges paternal order in his fictional world, whether or not a "mother" is literally present in the story.
Suggests a move away from traditional readings of Temple Drake as a whore and a liar to a reading which recreates the most satisfying reading of SF and AILD, i.
Ted Atkinson's recent and original approach to AILD in Faulkner and The Great Depression suggests that Darl is penalized because he represents the threat of social upheaval on the rural community due to his destruction of and disregard for private property (187).
2) However, the clear contrast between AILD and the rest of Faulkner's body of work draws attention to the novel's lack of racial conflict or the burden of Southern history.
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Can Bearded Dragons Get Hiccups?
By Jacob Reis
BananaStock/BananaStock/Getty Images
Hiccups are uncontrollable spasms that occur in the diaphragm muscle in humans and other mammals. The closing of a part of the vocal cords causes the characteristic "hic" sound. In most cases, hiccups are not serious medical concerns and they eventually go away on their own. That said, hiccuplike behavior in companion animals can be troubling for an owner. Bearded dragons are captive pets who do not possess movable diaphragm muscles and, as such, cannot hiccup. Other behaviors of the bearded dragon, though, such as mating calls and threat displays, can appear to be hiccups.
Head Bobbing
The behavior of the bearded dragon most similar to the mammal hiccup is known as head bobbing or head jerking. This behavior involves the beardy lowering his head and jerking it upward. This action can be subtle or it can be violent enough to jerk the entire front part of the lizard's body upward. Head bobbing is an extremely common courtship behavior among male bearded dragons, even when no females are present.
Panting During Basking
Reptiles like the bearded dragon are cold-blooded; they require periods of basking in a warm place to raise their body temperatures. Beardies have been known to hold their mouths open while basking to help fine-tune their temperatures, occasionally also panting. This panting may be quick and may be mistaken for hiccups. A healthy bearded dragon must be offered a temperature gradient in his enclosure, so they he can self-thermoregulate freely. A dragon who lacks the gradient and is overheated may pant constantly.
Open Mouth Display
The bearded dragon is named for the flap of skin on the underside of the jaw that he can inflate with air to appear larger and scare off incoming predators and other threats. When inflated, it looks like the dragon has a large, dark beard. The open mouth display is a common defense that most beardies who aren't used to being handled or being around humans will initiate. They open their mouth and rapidly inflate their beards. If done in succession, this behavior can resemble hiccuping.
Respiratory Infection Behaviors
Like all reptiles, proper care and housing is essential to maintaining a happy and healthy bearded dragon. Even with the best care, beardies will sometimes get sick. Respiratory infections are not uncommon. Mouth gaping and forced exhalation are signs of respiratory infection that should be immediately followed up with a veterinarian visit if the reptile displays any other symptoms, as reptiles are usually very good at hiding illnesses until they are severe.
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BlackFacts Details
By September, 1863 African American men were entering their ninth month of service in the United States Army. They had already shown their valor at Fort Wagner in South Carolina and Port Hudson in Louisiana as well as dozens of other battle sites from Virginia to the Indian Territory. Hundreds of them had already died in battle or in other war-related service.
On September 8, 1863, the Young Men"s Literary Association together with the citizens of Chicago gathered at Bethel Church to pay respect to a former member, Sergeant Joseph Wilson, of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment of Colored Volunteers, who had lost his life in the charge on Fort Wagner, "manfully fighting "to uphold his country"s banner."" J. Stanley delivered a tribute to Sergeant Wilson. That tribute appeared in the Christian Recorder on September 23, 1863 and is reprinted below.
THREE YEARS AGO, Joseph Wilson came among us an entire stranger, an obscure young man. At the formation of the Y.M.L. Association he became one of its first members. We found him modest and unpresuming. Wherever he was called upon to serve the Association, either as an officer or committeeman, he cheerfully assented. Feeling the want of early advantages, he ever manifested a strong desire for all useful information and instruction. The deceased, prior to the breaking-out of the rebellion, interested himself in a corps of citizen soldiery. Here the genius of the man developed itself; he excelled his companions in the healthy exercise of drilling; on this subject his mind was clear and comprehensive; in a word, he was a natural soldier.
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sent her agents to Illinois to recruit men for her colored regiments, Joseph Wilson was the first to enroll his name for the gallant Fifty-fourth. Need I tell you, fellow citizens, that the Fifty-fourth have won for themselves and their race imperishable honor? Need I tell you they have forever settled the question that colored men can and will fight? Yes, through God they have proved their
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
A Treat for Your Sweet
Happy Thursday!
Jennifer from Scrapping Under the Influence back again! This week we are showcasing Valentine's treats. Today I have a little hanging cone filled with Hershey Kisses.
This is actually a free file from SVG Cuts. This is their Christmas Cone Hanging Ornament. I used paper from October Afternoon's Woodland Park collection. I added the circle charm with A Jillian Vance Design's {die}lightfully Charming Circle Die and stamped it with her Sending My Love Stamp Set. I attached it to my crinkle ribbon with a Pear Pin.
Please visit my blog, Scrapping Under the Influence for more details, including how I "repeated" my stamped sentiment on the tag!
A Jillian Vance Design Sending My Love Stamp Set
A Jillian Vance Design {die}lightfully Charming Circle Die
A Jillian Vance Design Pear Pins
SVG Cuts Christmas Cone Ornament
October Afternoon Woodland Park Paper- 8x8
Red Sparkle Gel Pen
Crinkle Ribbon
Tim Holtz Tattered Rose Distress Ink
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What Does Shaving Have To Do With Hair Growth?
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Your friends suggest it. Fashion magazines recommend it. People say it helps your hair regrow faster and darker. But what is the truth? Does shaving even affect hair growth, let alone positively? What about waxing? To answer these questions, let’s first take a brief look at the structure of the human hair:
The skin consists of two layers: epidermis (the thin upper layer) and dermis (the thick lower layer). A hair follicle is a modified part of the epidermis that extends into the dermis. Hair grows from inside the hair follicle i.e. below the skin’s surface while hair cells are formed inside the hair follicle, which die out and form the hair shaft (the body of a single hair strand). The cellular composition provides the structure to form the hair strand. Of course, the epidermis, dermis and hair follicle are much more complicated. But we’ll focus on the hair shaft!
The hair shaft has three concentric parts in its cross-section: The outermost cuticle, the middle cortex and the innermost, hollow medulla. The cortex is usually thickly pigmented and holds the colour of the hair. The cuticle is layers upon layers of dead cells! In conclusion, the hair cells are generated fairly below the hair’s surface, and the hair shaft is constituted only of dead cells.
So what happens when you shave hair? Shaving is simply the trimming of the hair shaft, a removal of the dead hair cells. It does not affect the generation of hair cells below the epidermis at all - even if you plow through your arm with a steel beam. If hair generation is not affected at all, then it is scientifically impossible for shaving to stimulate hair growth in any way. This hypothesis has been proven by hundreds of clinical trials, some dating back to almost a century ago.
Hair growth and type depend only on your genetics, health and diet or some kinds of medication. You’d wonder how this myth has lasted so long - it refuses to die. In the following section we talk about the three main parts to this myth:
• Faster Regrowth: Typically hair grows at the rate of half an inch a month if you’re getting all the necessary nutrients. It is untrue that hair grows faster after shaving. When you shave your hair to see if it grows back faster - but you have no actual record of how fast it grew before, then, it might create a psychological effect making you feel that your hair in fact has grown back faster. Moreover, hair follicles go into a fake hibernation period once your hair length reaches a certain length (a few feet for most people, might be longer if growth abnormalities happen). At this length if you trim or shave your hair, the resumed growth of your hair will definitely feel very fast.
• Darker: Hair colour is stored as pigmentation in the cortex (middle layer) of the hair shaft. Your natural hair colour depends on your genetics, age and diet (or some growth abnormalities in some conditions). However, over time the hair colour of the shaft tends to fade because of exposure to sunlight and chemicals. When you shave your hair, the new hair that grows out may look darker because it has all of the natural pigmentation that old hair does not. This darkness too will fade out over time - which works great for some people!
• Coarser/Thicker: Hair is thicker at the base and gets thinner as it reaches the end, forming a pointed end at the final point. Hair thickness varies for everyone, and it depends on your age, hair type (genetics) and the hair colour (black is thicker than red). Even weather; diameter of hair strand increases as it gets warmer. So when you cut your hair it doesn’t have the thin and tapered lower part of a normal strand. Hence appearing thicker and coarser as it is also missing the pointed end.
Most of these myths related to shaving are simply untrue and have been busted by clinical trials. One thing to keep in mind however is that shaving your facial hair may cause stretching of skin. If you shave too often and with forceful motions, it causes some stretching of skin over time.
One question still remains how does waxing affect hair growth, if at all? Sadly unlike in the case of shaving, waxing does affect hair growth. Negatively even, though some women would not agree. Waxing pulls out the hair from inside the hair follicle. Such repeated trauma may reduce growth from some hair follicles. It also reverses the natural direction the hair grows out of the follicle in, due to the upward motion made during waxing.
While trimming or shaving your hair has no such magical effects, it does have a few positive effects other than making you look groomed. There are effects such as:
• You can trim off the lowest part of your hair. This will make your hair appear thicker as the hair is much thinner at the end.
• Sometimes a hair strand splits into two endings, which gives it an unhealthy look. Trimming an inch or two off the end gets rid of these split ends.
• Shaving scrubs away dead skin cells, although it shouldn’t be confused with full-on exfoliating. Shaving and exfoliating are different processes and it is advised to keep them separate.
• Shaving daily lets you know of ingrown hairs earlier before they get too big and too ugly. This lets you dismantle the situation early.
• Pubic and facial hair holds a lot of bacteria. The same bacteria as human waste matter is found in beards - sorry for that graphic detail. If you find this fact revolting, it might be a good idea to shave and keep it all clean.
This myth pervades normal hygiene and grooming knowledge everywhere. After reading this post, we hope you find yourself free from the notion that shaving helps hair growth in any way.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2013
: December, 2013
December Read Pile
“Wanted: Santa Claus – Dead or Alive!” by Frank Miller
So Whats Up With “X-Men” These Days?
As a longtime reader of comics I have a good idea whats been happening with most of the well known characters/teams in comics. But I know that there are many people who may not, are curious but afraid
Christmas Comic Calvacade
Coming up with today’s post topic was a tough one for me to do. My initial thought was to try and find story lines that revolved around Christmas and the holidays that have been published by the
Y: The Last Man (complete series review)
Batman: The Animated Series (complete series review)
My Favorite Web Comics – Part 1
I am not sure if any readers are into web comics but here are a few that everyone should check out for a fun and enjoyable reading experience. I will be posting more web comics in the future. If
How Eventful are Events?
For both Marvel and DC, “Event” comics are what drive the business. This would be defined as a Crossover between multiple monthly titles with an ongoing story or theme. For example, Marvel just
“Violent Cases” by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
There’s a lot more to comic books than tights ‘n fights, and probably two of the best creators to prove this are Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Though I don’t consider myself a fan of the
November Read Pile
November was a decent reading month for me once I finished Grant Morrison’s book SUPERGODS Publisher: DC Comics Title(s): Action Comics, Superman, Superboy, Supergirl Format: Print ongoing I run hot
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Thom Gruhler
Former CMO
Thom Gruhler - Fjuri
Thom Gruhler is the CEO of Fjuri, a marketing strategy firm focused on helping clients tap into big data in a more powerful way. Prior to founding Fjuri, Thom acted as the Global CMO of the apps & services group at Microsoft, and previously served as the President of McCann Erickson in New York.
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Field Notes from the Single Lady Pilgrimage Trip: Part 2
Sometimes I find myself comparing a trip to other travelers’ experiences. Meeting someone in a hostel some night who has biked a hundred miles and gotten back from their yarn factory tour just in time to go whale watching can make you feel like you’re just not making the most of your days. Trying to shake the feeling that I was missing out on something, I took myself on a last-minute horse-ride tour.
All alone with my guide, Pitla and Baelur the horses, the cold wind on my face, tugging at the collar of my jacket. Saddle jouncing between my thighs. We didn’t talk much, just breathed air in the shadow of the mountains, listening to the animals sigh and trot, closing my eyes.
On a cold, clear night in Akureyri, I went aurora hunting. Three women and myself, strangers, freezing under the stars, wind so sharp we could barely keep our eyes open. We never did see any auroras, but we laughed until we cried, until it was time to give up and head back. I went dancing that night with another group of just-met pals, some Belgian boys on holiday from school. I danced until I was done and left without saying goodbye.
There are moments
in moist love
when heaven
is jealous of what
we on earth
can do.
Before this trip was a reality, when it was an unformed lump of travel lust, I already knew I wanted to get to Mývatn, a lake in the Northern part of the country with a small, beautiful, less-touristed hot spring.
This day’s weather was predicted to be the best for the next week in Mývatn and so in the morning, I made a snap decision to go there immediately. I didn’t tell anyone. I packed my bag and got into my car and sat for a moment, wondering at all that, feeling like I was getting away with something.
I think I was.
I had about six hours of daylight and a lot of stops to make, my teeny tiny car bouncing dutifully down gravel roads, up mountain roads, and over crusty lava fields.
I went first to a hot spring inside a tiny cave, steamy and breathy and dark and damp. Its water was so clear and glassy I had to throw a pinch of sand to see where the surface of the water began before my eyes adjusted to the lack of light, a shocking little ripple of sparkles right at my feet.
There was a sulfur field at the base of a low mountain range, with burping pools of blue-grey mud, teal and copper and ochre earth split with rivulets of hot water, steam vents screaming their constant hffahhhhhhh of release, the chokingly present stink of earth’s breath.
Down the road, a turquoise floodwater lake in the crater of an ancient volcano. I ran up to the edge, breathless, scrabbled around the ridge circling the caldera.
Nearby, a recent volcanic eruption (the year before I was born) left still-hot earth, steaming vulvar fissures in the mountainside, black rock like brain synapses.
I made a little list in my notebook:
1. I never realized I was so afraid of volcanoes.
2. I believe in magic.
Folded over earth with decades-past drips under the overhang and milky blue water in unexpected pools.
Light waning, I drove to the last stop of the night, a lake on a farm spiked with with bonelike lava pillars, surly sheep and shocked ducks. Midge flies hovering around my mouth and nostrils, I tried to breathe through the down collar of my jacket.
IMG_3880The entire day was so secret-feeling and wild and gorgeous; frantic and rewarding at the same time.
And in then, it began to snow, light, nearly imperceptible…..and I had no idea what terrible weather was coming the next day.
4 thoughts on “Field Notes from the Single Lady Pilgrimage Trip: Part 2
1. Love the sky blue lake and frosty mountain as seen over the head of your “My Little Pony” mount. What an odd and magical place. “I danced until I was done and left without saying goodbye.” (favorite line.)
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Archive for August 2nd, 2009|Daily archive page
Paid Pundits Should Be the First Off The Lifeboat
Back in College one of the popular metaphors a Professor of mine was fond of using was the lifeboat analogy, which postulates the world is like a lifeboat that can only hold so many people before capsizing. If you let additional people onto the lifeboat it will capsize and doom everyone. The lifeboat analogy is pretty much a catch all for asserting that compassion to humanity is irrational and wrongheaded.
And while my professor felt pretty comfortable throwing around this harsh logic in the classroom while discussing aid to Africa, it was rarely applied in a domestic context by columnists, etc. Nobody says America can’t provide for Americans. Well until CBO started scoring the cost Health care reform. Suddenly every Sunday morning show is full of people complaining about the cost of insuring more Americans.
In the past it had always been that we shouldn’t intervene to insure American that can’t afford insurance, not we couldn’t. But today the heart of moderation is a commitment to balancing the budget which, since cutting the military budget or raising taxes is somehow always not an option, means cutting social programs. So the height of political of wisdom is go on Meet The Press and channel Malthus.
This is frustrating on a number of levels, 1) The existing health insurance system is a huge drain of American resources, 2) Unlike the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war health care isn’t being paid for by borrowing more money, 3) Americans clearly want health care reform.
A more rational, if also wrong, critique would be that they should be doing it all in one bill. You have some things they are doing as part of a long term strategy to reduce health care spending and other things which would increase short term costs. However, the problems with passing reform would only multiply as you increased the vehicles to address those problems.
The basic issue that’s being denied is that failure to pass reform to contain costs, bring people into the system, and fundamentally alter the legal structure of insurance is a greater threat then passing a bad bill or increasing the deficit. The American health insurance system is economically inefficient and at it’s core destructive to basic human needs. The need for reform couldn’t be more stark.
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Things to Do With Mom
Things to Do With Mom
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You'll never be bored again!
This guide is full of fun and creative ways to spend time with mom, indoors and out. You'll learn how to:
Treat Mom to a spa day Make a miniature garden together Plan a perfect picnic Create a haunted house
...and much more!
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, c2008.
ISBN: 9780545134019
Characteristics: 135 p. :,ill. ;,21 cm.
Additional Contributors: Donnelly, Karen
Pilkington, Sally
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Firefly Demonstration
Firefly is a portable web-based 3d visualization software developed in partnership between the Northwestern University Galaxy Formation and Visualization groups. It was developed with the data output of the FIRE simulations in mind but can visualize any 3d dataset (in coordinate or phase space). In this video I demonstrate some of the key features of Firefly and how to use them using a snapshot of a Milky Way-like galaxy from the FIRE-2 set of simulations. This Firefly scene is the result of loading the JSON files produced by the jupyter notebook found at Firefly is currently in active development and can be found at A demo of the current build can be found at
Credit: Aaron Geller / Alex Gurvich / Northwestern
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Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun connection
9 senses of connection
Sense 1
connection, connexion, connectedness -- (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare")
=> relation -- (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Sense 2
connection, link, connectedness -- (the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable")
=> union, unification -- (the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union")
Sense 3
connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective -- (an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers")
Sense 4
connection -- ((usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); "he has powerful connections")
=> acquaintance, friend -- (a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family")
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion -- (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association")
=> memory, remembering -- (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father")
Sense 6
connection, connexion, link -- (a connecting shape)
=> shape, form -- (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape")
Sense 7
connection -- (a supplier (especially of narcotics))
=> supplier, provider -- (someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity)
Sense 8
connection, connexion -- (shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta")
=> transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance -- (the act of moving something from one location to another)
Sense 9
=> change of integrity -- (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)
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Coaster Toy Idea
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:55 AM
I made up a coaster toy idea a few moments ago, so here goes:
What if lego started to make rollercoaster sets using the best designs of B&M's inverted, hyper, floorless, stand-up, and sit down coasters. The peices can be reliable, and it would be easy to put together. ACE could help out, etc.
They can use designs like Nitro, Talon, Riddler's Revenge, and others. If they made this would you buy it?
Let the bears pay the Bear Tax, I pay the Homer Tax.
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:00 AM
no question about it i would though it would be hard to do this.this will definetly be expensive
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:24 AM
I would buy it, but it would be expensive, and take a long time to build and a lot of space.
------------- I`ve riden Son of Beast 37 times!
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:25 AM
They would need to get copyrights and pay royaltys to park and manufacturers if they copied rides. Lego could make coaster sets, but unfortunantly I dont think they will because there are too many variables and elements in coasters, and the sets would be really expensive.
I don not think that lego ever had a set over
$300. And if they did one tiny detail wrong, us coaster enthuseists would just complain and say that LEGO does not know what they are doing.
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:28 AM
sum 1 has came up with the idea alreasdy, there was a web site for it and they should the model, it was pretty cool
Friday, June 15, 2001 2:23 PM
It'd be easier to make Arrow style cars.
Scale model coasters and rides.....
Friday, June 15, 2001 2:26 PM
At least you would have worry about the cost to build one.
Friday, June 15, 2001 3:11 PM
They would have to be a pretty sad kid to want to buy lego kits of specific coaster designs. On it's own, a rollercoaster lego brand would be ok, but it WOULD NOT SELL Period. Kid's want to buy the lego brand sthat exist at the moment. You are kid's arnt you? I really hope you don't spend your adulthood placing lego bricks together!!
Sedcondly, MOST people have never heard of MOST coasters. I'll do it again and quote Jeff:
People only care about the stuff in their local parks and are not interested in a coaster hundreds of miles away, no matter how good it is.
With this in mind, quite frankly, most people wouldnt give the lego sets a second look. *** This post was edited by Iron Wolf on 6/15/2001. ***
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For Apache Tomcat Performance Monitoring
(S Patel) #1
Is there any beats available for Apache Tomcat ? Or Is there any other way for it? Please guide me for it. I need to monitor like, currently running java threads, etc...
(ruflin) #2
For tomcat you should be able to use the Jolokia Metricbeat module with jmx:
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"from and size" for ES-5.0.0 aggregation
(Hilal) #1
I want to dofrom and size for aggregation. I looked at this link (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html)
There is only the size part here. Notfrom and size.
Code below brings up 10 records starting from 0:
GET abc/def/_search
{ "query": {
"match": {
"id": "11340073"
} },
"field": "code",
"size": "10"
} } } }
It works but I want to do "from": "5","size": "10"
How can I do?
Thanks advance.
(David Pilato) #2
Look at this issue and the ending answer by Mark:
(Hilal) #3
Thank yo for your response.
It is not possible to do this with as much as I understand.
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Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health. It is used most frequently to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches.
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I teach a short module on Liquid Crystals as part of the Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces Centre of Doctoral Training Program (SOFI CDT).
For 2016-2017, I am currently supervising two MPhys projects. One with Fraser MacKay on ‘Advanced Coating Technology’ for which he is exploring ways to influence microstructure to improve the drying behaviour of coatings. The second project is with Charles Clegg who is exploring colloid behaviour in Chromonic Liquid Crystals and seeking gel transitions.
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German Billionaires for a ‘Rich Tax’
Via, I came across the following article:
A group of 51 German millionaires and billionaires founded a Club of the Wealthy and wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel proposing to give up 10 percent of their income in the form of a “Rich Tax” for 10 years to consolidate the budget.
It’s a noble proposal, I suppose, and one that would be welcome here in the States. In fact a number of American states have tried to get residents to plug government budget holes through voluntary donations. Even the United States Treasury accepts such charity. (Although, for linguistic reasons, national debt may weigh more heavily on the consciences of the German upper-crust than its American counterpart.)
Still, ultimately, as’s David Brunori notes, these fiscal troubles cannot be fixed by donations from rich people alone. They probably can’t even be fixed by new, mandatory taxes on rich people alone — which is why a broader-based tax like a value-added tax may be in the country’s future.
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[OS X TeX] Author Index
Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sun Jun 19 15:15:32 EDT 2016
> On Jun 19, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2016, at 12:59 PM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> If the book is passed on to Production, do they need a Mac?
>> GG
> Howdy,
> I'm not familiar with this. What `Perl Script' are you talking about? What is its input file and output file? Does you (pdf)latex run produce that file for input? Depending upon what is going on here it may be possible to simply write a platexmkrc file for the project (that's what the `p' in the file name means) for the pdflatexmk (or any of the other latexmk engines) engine if that's what you're using.
> Good Luck,
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
Here's a simple, dumb, first pass assuming you need only a simple run of
authorindex file
after the .aux file is created from the first run. I have no idea if this will work but it shouldn't hurt anything either. It sort of depends upon how the authorindex package puts information in the log file so latexmk can tell it's needed.
First: put all your project files into a folder by themselves since platexmkrc will be read by the latexmk engines for any processing of tex files in that folder.
Second: add the enclosed platexmkrc file to that folder. It tells latexmk how to process the aux->ain file (I think).
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Third: make sure you are typesetting the document with the pdflatexmk (or xelatexmk, or latexmk, or ...) engine.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. It evolves from discriminatory grounds, and has an effect of nullifying or impairing a person from benefiting their rights. When this behaviors become repetitive it is defined as bullying. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances even after gently refusing, typically in the workplace, where the consequences are potentially very disadvantageous to the victim if there is a power imbalance between the perpetuator.
Although the French origin of the word 'harassment' is beyond all question in the Oxford English Dictionary and those dictionaries basing on it, a supposed Old French verb harer should be the origin of the French verb harasser, despite the fact that this verb cannot be found in French etymologic dictionaries like that of the Centre national de resources textuelles et lexicales or the Trésor de la langue française informatisé (see also their corresponding websites as indicated in the interlinks); since the entry further alleges a derivation from hare, like in the mentioned German etymological dictionary of the French language a possible misprint of harer = har/ass/er = harasser is plausible or cannot be excluded. In those dictionaries the relationship with harassment were an interpretation of the interjection hare as to urge a dog to attack', despite the fact that it should indicate a shout to come and not to go (hare = hara = here; cf. above).[9][10][11] The American Heritage Dictionary prudently indicates this origin only as possible.
Electronic harassment is the unproven belief of the use of electromagnetic waves to harass a victim. Psychologists have identified evidence of auditory hallucinations, delusional disorders,[12] or other mental disorders in online communities supporting those who claim to be targeted.[13][14]
Mobile harassment refers to the sending of any type of text message, photo message, video message, or voicemail from a mobile phone that threatens, torments, or humiliates the recipient of these messages. It is a form of cyber bullying.
Distribution of cyberbullying venues[15] used by young people in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control[16]
Harassment directs multiple repeating obscenities and derogatory comments at specific individuals focusing, for example, on the targets' race, religion, gender, nationality, disability, or sexual orientation. This often occurs in chat rooms, through newsgroups, and by sending hate e-mail to interested parties. This may also include stealing photos of the victim and their families, doctoring these photos in offensive ways, and then posting them on social media with the aim of causing emotional distress (see cyberbullying, cyberstalking, hate crime, online predator, and stalking).
This is humiliating, intimidating or abusive behavior which is often difficult to detect, leaving no evidence other than victim reports or complaints. This characteristically lowers a person’s self-esteem or causes one to have overwhelming torment.[17] This can take the form of verbal comments, engineered episodes of intimidation, aggressive actions or repeated gestures. Falling into this category is workplace harassment by individuals or groups mobbing.
Community-based psychological harassment, meanwhile, is stalking by a group[18] against an individual using repeated distractions that the individual is sensitized to. Media reports of large numbers of coordinated groups stalking individual stalking victims, including a press interview given by an active duty police lieutenant, have described this community-based harassment as gang stalking.[19][20]
Sexual harassment is an offensive or humiliating behaviour that is related to a person's sex. It can be an subtle and overt sexual nature of a person (sexual annoyance), implied sexual conditions of a job (sexual coercion), etc. It can happen anywhere, but is most common in the workplace, schools, and the military. It involves unwanted and unwelcome words, deeds, actions, gestures, symbols, or behaviours of a sexual nature that make the target feel uncomfortable. Women are substantially more likely to be affected than men.[22][23] The main focus of groups working against sexual harassment has been the protection of women, but in recent years awareness has grown of the need to protect LGBTQ, men and transgender people also.[24][additional citation(s) needed]
Workplace harassment is the offensive, belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers.[25]
Recently, matters of workplace harassment have gained interest among practitioners and researchers as it is becoming one of the most sensitive areas of effective workplace management. In Oriental countries, it attracted lots of attention from researchers and governments since the 1980s, because a significant source of work stress is associated with aggressive behaviors in the workplace.[26] Under occupational health and safety laws around the world,[27] workplace harassment and workplace bullying are identified as being core psychosocial hazards.[28]
United StatesEdit
Harassment, under the laws of the United States, is defined as any repeated or continuing un-consented contact that serves no useful purpose beyond creating alarm, annoyance, or emotional distress. In 1964, the United States Congress passed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act which prohibited discrimination at work on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin and sex. This later became the legal basis for early harassment law. The practice of developing workplace guidelines prohibiting harassment was pioneered in 1969, when the U.S. Department of Defense drafted a Human Goals Charter, establishing a policy of equal respect for both sexes. In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986): the U.S. Supreme Court recognized harassment suits against employers for promoting a sexually hostile work environment. In 2006, President George W. Bush signed a law which prohibited the transmission of annoying messages over the Internet (aka spamming) without disclosing the sender's true identity.[29]
New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination ("LAD")Edit
The LAD prohibits employers from discriminating in any job-related action, including recruitment, interviewing, hiring, promotions, discharge, compensation and the terms, conditions and privileges of employment on the basis of any of the law's specified protected categories. These protected categories are race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), marital status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for military service, or mental or physical disability, including HIV/AIDS and related illnesses. The LAD prohibits intentional discrimination based on any of these characteristics. Intentional discrimination may take the form of differential treatment or statements and conduct that reflect discriminatory animus or bias.
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See alsoEdit
4. ^ The original text of the chant
6. ^ "Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales". Retrieved 2013-07-22.
7. ^ Etymology of haro
8. ^ Etymology of haras
9. ^ "Harassment - Define Harassment at".
10. ^ "Online Etymology Dictionary".
12. ^ Monroe, Angela (November 12, 2012). "Electronic Harassment: Voices in My Mind". KMIR News. Archived from the original on February 13, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
15. ^ Hertz, M. F.; David-Ferdon, C. (2008). Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers (PDF). Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control. p. 9. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
16. ^ Ybarra, Michele L.; Diener-West, Marie; Leaf, Philip J. (December 2007). "Examining the overlap in internet harassment and school bullying: implications for school intervention". Journal of Adolescent Health. 41 (6 Suppl 1): S42–S50. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.09.004.
17. ^ Annette B. Roter (26 June 2017). Understanding and Recognizing Dysfunctional Leadership: The Impact of Dysfunctional Leadership on Organizations and Followers. Taylor & Francis. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-317-00517-9.
19. ^ Candice Nguyen, Central Coast News (January 29, 2011). "Gang Stalking, "Bullying on Steroids"". Central Coast News, KION 46, FOX 35, California. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
20. ^ Joe Conger (February 17, 2010). "Stalked, drugged and raped: Is it happening in San Antonio?". KENS 5, San Antonio, TX. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
21. ^ Religious terrorism
22. ^ Maeve Duggan. PEW Research Center. 2014. "Online Harassment". "".
23. ^ "EEOC Home Page". Retrieved 2016-04-29.
24. ^ Baugher, Amy R.; Gazmararian, Julie A. "Masculine gender role stress and violence: A literature review and future directions". Aggression and Violent Behavior. 24: 107–112. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2015.04.002.
25. ^
28. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
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(G)I-dle in May 2018
(G)I-dle at a showcase for "LATATA" in May 2018
From left to right: Soojin, Miyeon, Yuqi, Soyeon, Minnie, and Shuhua
Background information
OriginSeoul, South Korea
Years active2018 (2018)–present
LabelsCube Entertainment
Associated actsUnited Cube
• Miyeon
• Minnie
• Soojin
• Soyeon
• Yuqi
• Shuhua
(G)I-dle (Hangul(여자)아이들; RRYeoja Aideul; lit. Young Girls / Individual Girls; short for Girl-Idle), stylized as (G)I-DLE, is a South Korean girl group formed by Cube Entertainment in 2018. The group consists of six members: Miyeon, Minnie, Soojin, Soyeon, Yuqi, and Shuhua. The group debuted on May 2, 2018, with their first extended play titled I Am.
Soyeon was previously introduced as one of the female trainees to represent Cube Entertainment on the Mnet survival show, Produce 101.[1] She remained as a popular contestant throughout the show's run, peaking at 10th place on the fifth episode.[2] However, she was ranked at 20th place in the final episode and failed to become a member of the winning girl group, I.O.I.[3] Soyeon also competed in the third season of the rap competition show Unpretty Rapstar, where she finished as the second runner-up.[4] She later debuted as a soloist, releasing two digital singles: "Jelly" and "Idle Song".[5]
Miyeon had previously trained under YG Entertainment between 2010 and 2015.[6] Soojin was a former trainee under DN Entertainment in 2015. She trained as a member of girl group VIVIDIVA, but left before the group's official debut. Her stage name was N.Na.[7][8][9] Minnie, Yuqi and Shuhua appeared in a promotional video for Rising Star Cosmetic in June 2017.[10][11] Shuhua made an appearance with labelmate Yu Seon-ho in 10cm's "Pet" music video in September 2017.[12] Minnie was featured in Line Friends' album Dance Party, which was released in November 2017.[13][14] From April 2018, Miyeon and Minnie made four cover videos uploaded under the Dingo Music YouTube channel.[15] Yuqi also appeared in a short video for Dingo Music.[15]
On March 22, 2018, Cube Entertainment announced that Soyeon would debut with an upcoming girl group in the first half of 2018.[16][17] On April 5, they unveiled the name of their upcoming girl group to be "(G)I-dle". Cube Entertainment began revealing the members of (G)I-dle with the release of individual photos of Miyeon and Yuqi on April 8.[18] Photos of Soojin and Shuhua were released on April 10, and followed by Minnie and Soyeon on April 12.[19][20]
2018: Debut and rising popularity[edit]
(G)I-dle officially released their debut mini-album I Am on May 2 with the lead single "Latata".[21] Their debut showcase was held at the Blue Square iMarket Hall on the same day as the album's release.[22] They made their official debut stage on the music program Mnet's M Countdown on the next day.[23]
(G)I-dle achieved combined views of 2.2 million for the "Latata" music video within two days of its release and exceeded 5.9 million views within the first week.[24][25] The mini-album debuted at number 13 on the Gaon Album Chart issued on May 10, 2018.[26] I Am also debuted at number seven and has since peaked at number five on Billboard's World Albums chart on May 9, 2018.[27] "Latata" debuted at number thirty-five on the Gaon Digital Chart on May 17, 2018.[28] (G)I-dle received their first-ever music show win on SBS MTV's The Show on May 22, twenty days after their debut.[29] Two days later, on May 24, the group received their second music show win for "Latata" on Mnet's M Countdown[30] and followed by their third win on The Show. After a month after debut, they made their debut on Billboard's Social 50 Chart by charting at number 36 on June 5.[31] They received their first award, Female Rookie Idol of the Year, at the Brand of the Year Korea 2018 awards.[32]
On August 6, (G)I-dle performed a small concert and record a flash-mob performance of their hit single "Latata" in Times Square and Washington Square Park.[33][34][35]
On August 14, (G)I-dle's first digital single, "Hann (Alone)", was released.[36][37] The music video was released alongside the single on August 14. Within 24 hours, the video surpassed 4.9 millions views on YouTube.[15] "Hann" topped domestic music charts including Bugs, Genie and Olleh Music on August 16[38] and hits a new peak on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart where they debut at No. 2.[39] They received their first music show win on Show Champion on August 29 for "Hann".[40]
Adapted from their Naver profile.[41]
• Miyeon (미연)
• Minnie (민니)
• Soojin (수진)
• Soyeon (소연)
• Yuqi (우기)
• Shuhua (슈화)
Extended plays[edit]
Title Details Peak chart positions Sales
US World
I am 6 6 5
Title Year Peak chart positions Sales
NZ Hot
US World
"Latata" 2018 12 12 4 I am
"Hann (Alone)" (한(一)) 8 10 58 39 2 Non-album single
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that region.
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US World
"Follow Your Dreams" (한걸음) 2018 ONE
(with United Cube[A])
"Young & One"
(with Madison Beer and Jaira Burns as K/DA)
39 30 30 6 82 4 75 1 Non-album single[59]
Soundtrack appearances[edit]
Title Year Member(s) Album Ref.
"Run! (Relay)" 2018 All Running Man: Pululu's Counterattack OST [60]
• (G)I-dle: I-TALK (2018)
Concert participation[edit]
Music videos[edit]
Year Title Director Ref.
2018 "Latata" Hong Won-ki (Zanybros) [62]
"Hann (Alone)" [63]
Seoul Metropolitan City appointed (G)I-dle as the city's goodwill ambassadors alongside Yura, Park Jin-Hee and eight other nominees. They will hold the title "City Ambassadors" for two years.[64]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year Award Nominated work Result Ref.
Asia Artist Awards
2018 Most Popular Artists (Singer) – Top 50 (G)I-dle Nominated [65]
Rookie of the Year – Music Won
Golden Disc Awards
2019 Digital Daesang "Latata" Pending
Best New Artist (G)I-dle Pending
Popularity Award Pending
Korea First Brand Awards
2018 Female Rookie Idol of the Year (G)I-dle Won [32]
Korea Popular Music Awards
2018 Rookie of the Year (G)I-dle Pending [66]
MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards
2018 Artist of the Year (G)I-dle Nominated [67][68]
Best New Female Artist Won
Genie Music Popularity Award Nominated
Melon Music Awards
2018 Best New Artist (Female) (G)I-dle Won [69]
Mnet Asian Music Awards
2018 Best New Female Artist (G)I-dle Nominated [70]
Best of Next Won
Artist of the Year Pending
Seoul Music Awards
2019 New Artist Award (G)I-dle Pending
Popularity Award Pending
Hallyu Special Award Pending
Year Award Nominated work Result Ref.
MTV Europe Music Awards
2018 Best Korean Act (G)I-dle Nominated [71]
Music programs[edit]
The Show[edit]
Year Date Song
2018 May 22 "Latata"[72]
May 29
September 4 "Hann (Alone)"[73]
M Countdown[edit]
Year Date Song
2018 May 24 "Latata"[30]
September 6 "Hann (Alone)"[74]
Show Champion[edit]
Year Date Song
2018 August 29 "Hann (Alone)"[40]
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Charles Waterstreet
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Charles Christian Waterstreet (born 17 July 1950) is an Australian barrister, author, and theatre and film producer. He has written two memoirs and produced two films,[1] and he is now a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.[2] He is known as one of the co-creators of the ABC Television series Rake.[3] However, co-creator and actor Richard Roxburgh asserted in 2017 that Waterstreet had only contributed one idea to a single episode.[4]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Albury, New South Wales, to publican parents, Waterstreet was educated at Waverley College[citation needed] and the University of Sydney where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, History and Political Science in 1971, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1974.[5] During his time at university, he resided at St John's College and later at St Andrew's College.[6]
Legal career[edit]
Waterstreet began his career teaching public law at the University of New South Wales from 1974 to 1978.[5] In 1974, he was admitted to the bar and practised part-time, defending people charged with protest and homosexuality offences.[7] He practised as a barrister, mainly in criminal law, at Forbes Chambers in Sydney until July 2016.[8][9]
Waterstreet has appeared in many criminal and civil cases in all courts in New South Wales and in the High Court of Australia. His first major trial came in 1978 when he left academia to appear as junior counsel to Edward St John QC and Marcus Einfeld in R v Barton. He successfully defended Thomas and Alexander Barton, two company directors charged with a series of alleged offences in which Barton company shareholders lost millions of dollars.[7] He then appeared as counsel in the infamous Greek social security fraud case, and a number of murder and other serious criminal trials.
He has appeared in many difficult trials involving complex social and factual issues. In R v English, he won a rare acquittal in respect of a solicitor in the "bottom of the harbour" prosecutions. He appeared regularly in a number of alleged sexual abuse cases including false memory syndrome. He spends most of his courtroom career at the criminal bar, in jury trials on behalf of the defence. He has argued successfully in the High Court on equity and criminal law. In recent years, he has appeared as defence counsel in a number of high-profile terrorism and murder trials.
Arts career[edit]
Waterstreet is a theatre and film producer. In 1986, he produced Howling III and in 1990 he produced Blood Oath. Along with Richard Roxburgh and Peter Duncan, he is a co-creator of the ABC TV series Rake.[10]
He began a theatrical career in producing the hit Boys Own McBeth with Grahame Bond (Aunty Jack) from 1979 which ran for nearly three years; it played in Los Angeles with an all-Australian cast.[11] In film he co-produced The Marsupials – The Howling III with director Philippe Mora. In 1990 he produced the highly respected Blood Oath which starred Bryan Brown, Russell Crowe and Deborah Kara Unger. The film was successfully released in Japanese theatres in April 1991 and in the United States in June of that year. It was shown at the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention on 12 August 1999 in Moscow to highlight aspects of international humanitarian law.[citation needed]
Waterstreet has been a member of the Aspen FilmFest Advisory Committee since 1993. In 1996, he produced Next to Nothing with TCN9 and Mushroom Pictures.
He is the author of Precious Bodily Fluids: A Larrikin's Memoir (Hodder Headline Australia and UK, 1998), which was re-issued by Hachette in 2008 as an Australian classic, and its sequel, Repeating the Leaving (Hodder Headline Australia, 2001). He is currently writing his third autobiography, Rake Man.[7]
Waterstreet's legal publications include:
• Tricks of Memory – for the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales, 12 June 1996
• Inner child is at the mercy of the memory 'therapists' – review of Richard Guilliatt's book, Talk of the DevilThe Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 1996
• Down False Memory Lane – Aspects of Current Law in New South Wales – Crown Prosecutor's Annual Conference, 15 April 1998
• "Recovered Memory Syndrome – Remembrance of Things Past" – LAAMS Seminar: States of Mind: Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology for Family & Criminal Lawyers, 1 July 1998
• Law for the Public (contributor) – published by Penguin
He is also a regular columnist for The Sun-Herald where he has a weekly feature article in the "Extra" section named "Waterstreetlife".[5]
Newcastle artist Nigel Milsom won his first Archibald Prize in 2015 for his portrait of Charles Waterstreet, the artist's former defence lawyer.[12]
Personal life[edit]
Waterstreet was married to a woman called Fiona and they had a son, Harry. Both now live in the US and Waterstreet maintains contact with them.[3] Waterstreet had been romantically linked to actress Kate Fitzpatrick.[3] He also dated journalist Gretel Killeen for a short time, and the two remain close friends.[13]
In October 2017, Watersheet was accused of sexually harassing law student Tina Ni Huang during a job interview in August 2017.[14] He has since denied these accusations.[15]
Notable cases[edit]
Over the course of his career, Waterstreet has appeared as counsel in many high-profile criminal and civil cases in all courts in New South Wales, as well as the High Court of Australia, including social security, murder, drug, sexual assault, false memory and terrorism trials. He has also appeared in cases in Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and Vanuatu at various times in his career. Some of his more prominent cases include:
• R v Barton (1978)
• The Greek Social Security Case (1978–1982)
• R v Miller (1983) (prosecutor)
• R v English (1987)
• R v Adam (1999)
• O'Halloran v The Queen (2001, HCA)
• Chung v The Queen (2001, HCA)
• Glossop v The Queen (2002, HCA)
• R v El-Azzi (2004)
• R v Baladjam & Ors (2008–09)
• Lange v Back & Schwartz (2009)
• Jedah Jodeh v The Queen (2011)
• R v Michael Anthony Ryan (2012)
• R v Khazaal (2012, HCA)
• R v Rogerson & McNamara (2015)[16][17][18]
• R v Murphy (aka The Wolf) (2016-18)[19]
• R v Amati (2018)[20]
1. ^ Marx, Jack "Bad Old Days" by Jack Marx, The Monthly, November 2010. Retrieved on 3 October 2012
2. ^ "Charles Waterstreet", profile at The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 3 October 2012[dead link]
3. ^ a b c "Nothing But The Truth – Transcript", Australian Story presented by Rachel Ward, 3 March 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2013[dead link]
4. ^ Gary Maddox (27 October 2017). "Richard Roxburgh: 'Any day I don't hear the name Charles Waterstreet is good'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
5. ^ a b c "Panellist Charles Waterstreet – flamboyant barrister". Q&A. ABC. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
6. ^ Waterstreet, Charles (15 November 2009). "Animal rites". The Age. Retrieved 19 August 2015.[dead link]
7. ^ a b c Charles Waterstreet: Live profile with Erik Jensen (Byron Writers Festival 2016) on YouTube, The Monthly, 7 December 2016
8. ^ Our Barristers – Junior Counsel, Forbes Chambers[not in citation given]
9. ^ "The difficulty of moving office, when your phone doesn't contain your life" by Charles Waterstreet, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2016[not in citation given]
10. ^ "Rake – Creative Team", ABC Television. Retrieved on 3 October 2012
11. ^ "Ripper of a lifelong Bond" by Charles Waterstreet, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2011
12. ^ "Portrait of barrister Charles Waterstreet wins 2015 Archibald Prize", Nine News, 17 July 2015
13. ^ "A real character" by Charles Waterstreet, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2009
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16. ^ "Supreme Court New South Wales: R v Rogerson; R v McNamara (No 14) [2015] NSWSC 1157". New South Wales Caselaw. Retrieved 19 August 2015.[permanent dead link]
17. ^ "How barrister Charles Waterstreet caused Rogerson, McNamara trial to be aborted". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
18. ^ "What the jury didn't hear during the murder trial of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
19. ^ "Liam Gordon Murphy, The Wolf, faces fresh sexual assault charge". The Sydney Morning Herald.
20. ^ Ford, Mazoe. "Evie Amati trial: Lawyer says alleged axe attacker possessed by a 'voice in her head'". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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Jovito Palparan
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Jovito Palparan
Member of the House of Representatives from Bantay Party-list
In office
April 24, 2009 – June 30, 2010
Personal details
Jovito Salvaña Palparan Jr.
(1950-09-11) September 11, 1950 (age 68)
Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
Political partyBantay
Spouse(s)Ma. Evangelina Gamad Flores Palparan
Alma materUniversity of the East
AwardsDistinguished Service Stars
Gold Cross Medal
Gawad sa Kaunlaran
Bronze Cross
Wounded Personnel Medals
Military Merit Medals
Campaign Medals
Military service
Nickname(s)Berdugo ng mga komunista ("The Butcher of Communists")
AllegianceRepublic of the Philippines
Service/branchPhilippine Army
Years of service1973–2007
RankMajor General
Commands7th Infantry Division
8th Infantry Division
Battles/warsCommunist insurgencies
Islamic insurgencies
Iraq War
Jovito Salvaña Palparan Jr. (born September 11, 1950) is a retired Army general, anti-communist personnel, and a convicted kidnaper.[1][2] From July 2003 to July 2004, he was the commander of the Philippine Humanitarian Contingent in the Iraq War. He also served as a Congressman representing the Bantay party-list group in the 14th Congress of the Philippines.
He earned the nickname "Berdugo" ("The Executioner") for his proven[3] involvement in numerous human rights violations, such as the Murder of Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy and the Disappearance of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno. He was arrested in Manila in 2014 after three years of hiding.
On September 17, 2018, Palparan was sentenced to life imprisonment, after being convicted of kidnapping and serious illegal detention over the enforced disappearances of Cadapan and Empeno in 2006.[4]
Early life[edit]
Jovito Salavana Palparan, Jr. was born on September 11, 1950 in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental. He earned a degree in business administration from the University of the East in Manila in 1971.[5]
Palparan later earned a master's degree in management from the Philippine Christian University in 1994, and a master's degree in national security administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines in 1999.[5]
Military career[edit]
Palparan was called to active duty in the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1973.[5] As a lieutenant, he served in Basilan and Sulu for eight years.[5] Palparan's first combat duty was in the island of Siasi, Sulu with the 24th Infantry Battalion in January 1974 but his first encounter was in Indanan, Sulu when MNLF fighters attacked the 24th Inf Bn after the burning of Jolo, Sulu in February 1974 where he earned his first combat medal. He was almost dismissed from the service when he led 12 soldiers of 24IB known as Wildcats in the rescue of a fellow Wildcat who was attacked by Marine soldiers leading to one of the biggest mis-encounter among AFP units that took place in the Pier of Zamboaga City in August 1974. While pursuing Uzman Sali's Group that massacred BGen Teodulfo Bautista, Palparan and his Delta Company, 24IB encountered the group of about 150 rebels in Mt Sinumaan, Patikul, Sulu on 24 February 1978. He lost 13 soldiers and many others were wounded in a day long encounter. The MNLF suffered 21 killed in action. 2Lt Palparan was awarded a Gold Cross Medal. He retired from his military career on September 11, 2006, his 56th birthday.[6]
Palparan was assigned in Mindoro and Romblon from May 2001 to April 2003 as commander of the 204th Brigade.
From February to August 2005, Palparan was the Commanding General of the 8th Infantry (Storm Troopers) Division in Eastern Visayas.[7] He has been credited with reducing the rebel presence in Samar by 80 percent, and claims he could have eliminated the rebel presence completely had he been given an extension of duty.[5] From September 2005 until his retirement in September 2006, Palparan was the Commanding General of the 7th Infantry (Kaugnay) Division in Central Luzon.[5]
In the 2006 State of the Nation Address, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo acknowledged Palparan's successes in offenses against members of the New People's Army.[5]
Human rights abuses[edit]
Palparan has been accused of having a role in extrajudicial abductions and killings of government critics during his military service. He has denied any link to any such killings, and has been cleared of rights abuses by the military through an internal, informal investigation in which no records were kept.[7][8] A probe by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights has also found that there is no direct evidence indicating that Palparan is the mastermind, but there is circumstantial evidence linking some members of the military, to the killings.[9] The Melo Report stated that, "there is certainly evidence pointing the finger of suspicion at some elements and personalities in the armed forces, in particular General Palparan, as responsible for an undetermined number of killings, by allowing, tolerating, and even encouraging the killings."[8]
Iraq War[edit]
Palparan was commander of the Philippine Humanitarian Contingent in Iraq, a force of 51 troops deployed in Iraq from July 2003 to July 2004. Following the withdrawal of Philippine troops from Iraq, Palparan was promoted to the rank of Major General in October 2004.
Political career[edit]
Following his retirement from the military, Palparan has become the figurehead of Bantay, a political party that advocates anti-communism. In the 2007 congressional elections, Bantay garnered 169,869 votes and ranked 32nd among party-list groups, which was insufficient to allow it to send any representative to congress under the formula used at the time.[10] However, in April 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that the number of seats in the House of Representatives be increased by 55, adopting a new formula for allotting seats to party list representatives. The ruling allowed Bantay to send Palparan as its representative to the House, and he was proclaimed on April 24, 2009.[11]
He ran as an independent candidate for the Senate of the Philippines in the Philippine Senate election, 2016, sending his son, JC Palparan, to file his certificate for candidacy.[12] He subsequently lost and placed 39th (out of 50 candidates) in the race for Senate, where he received only 1.87% of votes.[13]
The Disappearance of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno[edit]
On June 26, 2006 Cadapan and Empeño who were both alumni of the University of the Philippines Diliman were abducted by suspected military men in Hagonoy, Bulacan, during the tenure of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,[14] and were accused of being members of the Communist Party of the Philippines. This incident took place at a time when Central Luzon was being driven by a fierce conflict between the government and the communist New People's Army.[15] According to the official investigation, eyewitness Raymond Manolo stated that Palparan tortured Sherlyn by hitting her mouth and punching her breasts and stomach area until they bled. Palparan also slammed wooden planks against the victim so that Sherlyn would admit she is a communist, while Sherlyn kept on saying that she wanted to go home to her parents. Manolo also noted that he saw the military stealing from nearby villagers, burning down dead bodies using gasoline, and shooting a man who was riding a carabao due to farm work. Manolo's account also noted that on April 2007, he saw Sherlyn lying naked on a chair that had fallen on the floor, her wrist tied together, one leg tied down, while being hit by wooden planks, electrocuted, and afterwards being half-drowned. The military also played with her body, poking wooden objects inside Sherlyn's vagina, after finding out that Sherlyn was going to write a letter to somebody. Sherlyn, due to intense torture, blurted out that the letter was Karen's idea. The military then dragged Karen out from her cell, stripped her naked, tied her wrists and ankles, beaten, water-tortured, burned with cigarettes, and raped with pieces of wood. Manolo afterwards washed the two women's clothes, including their panties drenched with blood. Manolo also noted that the bucket of piss of the two women were filled with 'chunks of blood'.[16][17]
On December 15, 2011, Palparan was indicted for 2 counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention in connection with the abduction of still missing UP student activists Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño in 2006.
Despite claims that he will face all charges,[18] the following day he was caught trying to leave the country[19] on December 20, 2011, stopped by a hold departure order. He was not detained since warrant was only released that afternoon and has then since disappeared. A manhunt [1] is now on to find Palparan. A reward of P500,000 (approximately US$10,000) has been posted for info in capturing Palparan.[20][21] Also charged were Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado, Master Sgt. Rizal Hilario and Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio and Marine Major Philippe Nicolas, a Labor Union lawyer. On January 5, 2012 the reward has been raised to P1,000,000 (approximately US$20,000).[22] On Aug. 16, 2012 palace offers P2M reward for info leading to arrest of Jovito Palparan.
He was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after being indicted for kidnapping and serious illegal detention until his arrest in 2014.[23][24][25]
After years of hiding, Palparan was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila. The retired general was arrested at about 3 a.m. in a neighborhood of Santa Mesa, Manila. Palparan did not resist arrest.[26]
On December 14, 2015, the Malolos Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 15 rejected Palparan's bid to be released on bail despite his plea that he is running for Senate.[27]
On September 17, 2018, Palparan and his associates, former lieutenant colonel Felipe Anotado and former staff sergeant Edgardo Osorio were sentenced to life imprisonment, after being convicted of kidnapping and serious illegal detention over the enforced disappearances of Cadapan and Empeno in 2006. Along with his co-accused, the court ordered are each ordered to pay PHP 100,000 in civil indemnities and P200,000 for moral damages.[28] Palparan appealed against his conviction the following day. In November 15, 2018, the Malolos City Regional Trial Court Branch 15 ultimately denied Palparan's plea, stating that Palparan failed to present new arguments in his motion of reconsideration filed September 18 to convince the court to reverse its decision.[29]
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6. ^ Mananghaya, James (2006-09-12). "Tearful Palparan Ends Military Career". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
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The Bisexual
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The Bisexual
GenreComedy, Drama
Created byDesiree Akhavan, Rowan Riley
Directed byDesiree Akhavan
StarringDesiree Akhavan
Maxine Peake
Brian Gleeson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Executive producer(s)Naomi De Pear
Producer(s)Katie Carpenter
Editor(s)Selina Macarthur
Running time30 minutes
Original networkChannel 4
Original release10 October 2018 (2018-10-10)
The Bisexual is a 2018 British television series on Channel 4 written and directed by Desiree Akhavan.[1] Akhavan named the show to explore her own discomfort with bisexuality as a label and identity, as well as the broader cultural attitude towards the term.[2]
Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality, though struggles to come out to her friends.[3]
Clarisse Loughrey at The Independent gave the show four stars out of five, opining that the show is "what British comedy needs to break through the stereotypes and move forward".[4] Lucy Mangan of The Guardian described the show as "neither funny nor dramatic", giving it only two stars out of five.[5]
No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [6]
1"Episode 1"Desiree AkhavanDesiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele10 October 2018 (2018-10-10)
2"Episode 2"Desiree AkhavanRowan Riley & Cecilia Frugiuele17 October 2018 (2018-10-17)
3"Episode 3"Desiree AkhavanDesiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele24 October 2018 (2018-10-24)
4"Episode 4"Desiree AkhavanDesiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele31 October 2018 (2018-10-31)
5"Episode 5"Desiree AkhavanDesiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele7 November 2018 (2018-11-07)
6"Episode 6"Desiree AkhavanDesiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele14 November 2018 (2018-11-14)
1. ^ "The Bisexual Press Pack". Channel 4. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
2. ^ Nicholson, Rebecca (2018-10-07). "From duplicitous villains to fleshed out characters: is TV finally getting bisexuality right?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. ^ "When does The Bisexual air on Channel 4, and who's in the cast? Everything you need to know about the new comedy drama". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
4. ^ Loughrey, Clarisse (2018-10-10). "The Bisexual review: What British comedy needs to break through the stereotypes and move forward". Independent. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
5. ^ Mangan, Lucy (2018-10-10). "The Bisexual review – a comedy-drama that is neither funny nor dramatic 2 / 5 stars 2 out of 5 stars". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
6. ^ "The Bisexual - Episodes Guide and Summaries". Next Episode. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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Net vs. Gross pay
Wages and salaries are always advertised gross and in negotiations between employers and employers it is the gross wage which us usually regerred to. From the employees viewpoint one of the first things he considers when he receive a pay rise or if he has a new job is “How much money will I bring home?”, or `what will be my take home pay`, this is his net pay.
Groos pay
Gross pay represents wages earned before taxes or other deductions are taken, it includes basic pay plus overtime pay, holiday pay and bonuses. Basic pay is the agreed rate discussed between employer and employee it does not include overtime or any other forms of extra compensation. If an employee has worked overtime or been the recipient of a bonus, the amounts will be added to his gross pay.
Net pay
Net pay is the residual amount of earnings after all deductions have been taken from gross pay, including PAYE, national insurance, attachment of earning, student loans and pension play contributions. Net pay is the take home paid received by the employee and paid to him either in cach or transferred to the employee’s bank account.
Gross Employed Net pay
Gross refers to the total amount before anything is deducted.
Many important accounting statistics use this methid, such as gross earning and gross profit.
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I scanned through my podcast queue in Overcast yesterday and got a little thrill to see a new Hardcore History episode.
If ever there were an artisanal, hand-crafted podcast it’s Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.
Who knows how much time he puts into crafting the multi-hour series that covers expansive topics such as all of World War I?
Each episode plays as a single seamless, intricately detailed narrative with Carlin holding forth in his uniquely captivating style.
Three-and-a-half hours fly by. I seek out reasons to drive so I can listen some more.
When it’s over, I’m left waiting weeks until the next installment, waiting patiently until my comfortably familiar podcast queue is interrupted with that little thrill once more.
Carlin is, in essence, performing a sort of extemporaneous yet exhaustively plotted audio book with each series. And his work is remarkably compelling. He shines a light on the tragic foibles of our species.
Seeing terrible headlines today seems less shocking when you consider the even more awful things humans have been doing to each other since history has been recorded.
Carlin is a craftsman who clearly cares deeply about what he makes. He goes deep and creates work that adds real value to my life.
Care deeply. Go deep. Make something worth talking about, something that might cause even a little thrill for someone, somewhere.
(If you want to get started with Carlin’s work, my favorite series are his World War I deep dive, Blueprint for Armageddon, and his take on the fall of the Roman Republic, Death Throes of the Republic.)
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Baker, Bradley and Wurgler (FAJ 2011) find that low-volatility stocks in the US outperform high-volatility stocks and attribute this apparent anomaly to investor behavioral biases as well as limits to arbitrage. What do you make of their argument?
EFF/KRF: It is just that, an argument. We have known since the '70s that the relation between beta and average return is much flatter than predicted by the CAPM. Their measure of total volatility is highly correlated with beta. They give a behavioral story, but other stories are consistent with their results. In any case, the CAPM has other more serious problems, and we think a multifactor model is necessary to capture, for example, the value premium in average returns, which shows little relation to beta.
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Is semi-variance a more useful measure of downside risk than standard deviation? My clients aren't worried about market surges, they're worried about market crashes.
EFF/KRF: In his classic 1959 book that defined modern portfolio theory, Markowitz considers the semi-variance as a potential measure of risk. Interest in the semi-variance fell by the wayside among academics because, at least for short holding periods (e.g., monthly), distributions of returns are rather symmetric. For symmetric distributions, the true variance and semi-variance are interchangeable, but because all the data are used to estimate the variance but only negative returns are used to estimate the semi-variance, estimates of variance are more accurate than estimates of semi-variance. For longer holding periods (e.g., a year or more), distributions of returns are right skewed, and no single measure of dispersion (e.g., the variance or the semi-variance) summarizes the overall risk of the distribution.
Let's now examine whether you really believe what you say about your client's tastes. In our (academic) terms, your statements imply that your clients are risk neutral on the upside but risk averse on the downside. If this is the case, the semi-variance, which ignores upside risk, is probably a better single measure of risk than the variance, but the conclusion is subject to the caveats above about the skewness of return distributions for longer return horizons.
Risk neutrality on the upside has a strong implication that we don't think characterizes most investors. Specifically, if such a client is faced with a choice between (i) engaging in a gamble with only positive possible payoffs, or (ii) getting the expected (mean) payoff from the gamble for certain, the client is indifferent between engaging in the gamble or taking the sure payoff, regardless of the variance of the uncertain payoffs on the gamble. If the client is indeed indifferent, you have accurately characterized the upside. But if the client says that for extreme gambles of this sort, he/she prefers to have the expected payoff for certain, the client has some amount of risk aversion on the upside.
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Kids Sleep: 15 Hilarious Things Kids Have Said While Falling Asleep
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All kids fight sleep like it's nobodies business, and sometimes as parents we are lucky enough to catch some of the interesting things our kids say as they are falling into their trance like state. Here are 15 sayings from mom Ariel Rivera about her 4 year old.
1. "Is the moon sleeping?"
5. "Do bumble bees sting each other?"
7. "Can I have my ukulele?" (We don't have one.)
8. "Sometimes I wish I could poop in your bedroom."
9. "I didn't tackle him."
11. "Don't make us eat the corn, the corn has gone bad!"
12. "I remember when I was the daddy and you were the baby."
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Pre-order question
1. Is it possible to cancel a pre-order from BalNY? I ordered a blue-grey city but i'm scared it may be rather light for me (I prefer darker bags). I'm assuming that the s/s colors will be more vibrant, and perhaps I should wait til then. :huh:
2. yeppers, i'm pretty sure it's fine to cancel a pre-order :yes:
3. As long as you cancel before they call you it's ok.
4. You can cancel a pre-order, just make sure you get a cancellation confirmation number and write it down in case they ship the bag anyway. I don't think the blue-grey is going to be really light, since it is a fall is supposed to be a sort of dusty teal color. Maybe between teal and Dolma green. But if you are worried, you might want to wait until you see them in person (although I have a feeling the blue-grey will go FAST in the City size...I have had one on pre-order since the swatches came out). There is also a blueberry color which is a darker blue, but not as dark as the ink from spring 06. After speaking to Joseph, the bag should be really close to this photo:
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5. They didn't give me a cancellation number. However it was probably because Kim told me they weren't getting any parttimes in blue-grey and took my name off the list for me (for the bag and the wallet).
6. This is true and spot on advice from ETenebris.
7. I also just pre-ordered a Blue-Grey City! Leslie at BalNY told me that she ordered only 20 Blue-Grey Cities - far fewer than she ordered in the Grenat.
I have also been having doubts about the Blue-Grey color for the same reason you are. I think I'm going to keep my preorder, though, because they are ordering so few & it might be a long wait for the next batch. If I don't like it, I will probably be able to exchange it for a Grenat or a Blueberry.
8. They only ordered 20??? WOW. I am glad I got on the list first thing! Definitely NOT cancelling my order! (Now I just wish they would get here!!!)
9. Yeah - I was shocked at that number too, but I guess they think it won't be as popular a color. I didn't ask her what number I was on the list, but the assumption underlying our conversation seemed to be that I would be getting a bag from this first batch. Hmmm...I better call to find out what number I actually am!!! :smile:
I think she said they would be getting here in mid-July -- did you get an ETA?
10. When I spoke to Daphne yesterday, she told me they had a scheduled delivery time of August, but they usually get their stock in earlier(like this recent shipment of Pre Fall 06 wasn't supposed to arrive until July). She said they'd probably get the Main collection in next month.
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iPad My iPhone is my Mini
Discussion in 'iPad' started by Markgnyc2, Nov 17, 2013.
1. Markgnyc2 macrumors regular
Nov 17, 2013
I have been reading these forums for quite some time and I thought it was time to chime in.
Here is my thinking in choosing an iPad Air over the mini. I already own an iphone 5. It's got a beautiful display. That is my mini, my portable device that goes everywhere I go.
The Air is the perfect compliment when I need or want the larger screen. It's small enough to bring anywhere if I want to bring it. It's large enough to do work.
Those are my thoughts on the subject.....
2. Amplelink macrumors 6502a
Oct 8, 2012
I think that's about right. There just isn't a big enough difference in experience between the iPhone and the mini. The mini still feels a little cramped.
3. iSayuSay macrumors 68040
Feb 6, 2011
So true .. iPad is supposed to be an "mid sized device" between a smartphone (very portable but screen size can be too limiting) and a real computer (desktop, laptop to do real work but portability can be a problem)
The 9.7" display is the right answer to me. Not too big, not too small. Just right. I admit I cringed my eyes a little when iPad Mini released although I admit I love the design.
In my book iPad Mini is just another confusing option. What is it? In between for an in between device?
The Mini is between smartphone and iPad. In which case that iPad is another in between smartphone and computer. Doh.
4. KylePowers macrumors 68000
Mar 5, 2011
Replace Air with Mini and you still get the same issue everyone is debating over.
EDIT: What I'm saying is that it just depends on what you plan to use your iPad for and what interests you the most. No one on these boards can particularly tell you what you want or what you need. I, myself, have a 13in MBA and iPhone 5S. I think the Air would be too redundant in already owning an MBA, so the rMini fits the bill.
5. keatth macrumors 6502
Aug 24, 2013
Exactly, everyone has different needs. For example i got an iPad mini for work, there is a lot of downtime on productions, I feel like an ******* pulling out a9.7 inch ipad and a lot more comfortable with the ipad mini, it sucks to sit there and use your phone for entertainment for hours on end, iPad mini is a much better experience. The air is just too big for my needs and I also don't need everyone who walks by being able to see better what I'm doing.
6. nostresshere macrumors 68030
Dec 30, 2010
Though you point is well taken and I agree - somewhat.
My wife and I have the 5 and 5s.
Just replaced our one and only ipad from Ipad1 to Ipad Air.
Decided to get her an Ipad Mini-r. Love it.
Now she has a reader, better device for email, facebook etc vs phone screen. Maybe more than we need, but we love it. And it was a great choice.
Again, different people want/need different things.
7. HankHowdy, Nov 17, 2013
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HankHowdy macrumors 68040
Dec 2, 2012
Victorville CA
My iPhone is my Mini
I don't know man, every time I pick up my iPhone the screen looks so small. It's crazy that would I do all my web browsing on it. But no longer. :)
8. Patriot24 macrumors 68030
Dec 29, 2010
I guess I better return my Mini now that this has come to light.
9. g35 macrumors 6502a
Dec 13, 2007
Counterpoint: a mini does everything an Air does, at the same speed, at greater DPI, for $100 less and in a lighter device
Neither is a bad choice. If you're going out and about, a mini holds some advantages. If you're staying home, an Air holds some advantages. If you're doing both, choose whichever you like better!
Since I need it to fit in my coat pocket, it's down to choices like the mini, nexus 7, kindle fire, etc.
10. mcdj macrumors G3
Jul 10, 2007
Someone should make a thread about which they chose; Mini or Air.
11. 3rdiguy macrumors 65816
Sep 17, 2012
Thank you for this post. I realize that there really isn't that much of a drastic leap from iPhone 5 to rMini as it is from 5 to Air. I do my on the go with iPhone and then tether and follow up and/or watch vids and play games at home on wifi Air.
12. chasemac macrumors 6502a
Jan 30, 2005
In a house.
Right. And I don't understand why someone would buy both and return one over the other when the iPad mini has been out for a year already. The screen size has been there as a choice all along. Just saying.
13. THE JUICEMAN macrumors 68020
Oct 3, 2007
I actually returned my air for the mini retina. I felt that holding it up while reading books or browsing and even playing games it was still too big and heavy. It's also a great size for meetings and church. 9.7 inch screen seems too big and distracting for my uses.
14. mcdj macrumors G3
Jul 10, 2007
Well to be fair, retina changes the game quite a bit.
15. AppleRobert macrumors 603
Nov 12, 2012
Especially with the 1st gen Mini there were much cheaper options on the market and if one wanted something light and portable one could go that route unless IOS was an absolute necessity. With retina available now and the upgraded processor, not so much.
IMHO and with my experiences as I have been through plenty, no tablets on the market the size or thereabouts of the larger ipads even come close.
16. wxman2003 Suspended
Apr 12, 2011
Use google voice, and you can use an ipad mini as your phone for 1/3 your monthly bill.
17. THE JUICEMAN macrumors 68020
Oct 3, 2007
I'd like to add that typing on my mini with the split keyboard feels great. It was a stretch on the air. Now I only use my iPhone for regular SMS and phone calls. But who even uses those anymore anyway? ;-)
18. AudiA3 macrumors member
Nov 15, 2013
not quite... well, at least not until appe releases that phablet iPhone next year :rolleyes:
19. haruhiko macrumors 601
Sep 29, 2009
which will be unlikely.
20. bkribbs macrumors 65816
Jan 15, 2012
The mini is different enough from my 5s for me.
Basically it comes to:
-I can soon out all the way on macrumors in portrait mode and read everything
-I can read a full page in a textbook without zooming
-I can use iPad apps that I cannot use on my phone
It's also a great size for me and cheaper than the air, so no reason to buy the air personally.
21. gotluck macrumors 603
Dec 8, 2011
East Central Florida
Mini was too close in size to my 5" phone.
Larger screened iPhone will sway more to the air IMO.
22. WilliamLondon macrumors 68000
Dec 8, 2006
Why is it incredibly difficult to utterly impossible for people to understand that not everyone has the same criteria with these devices, and more importantly, that it's okay to have different criteria, possessing one set doesn't make you any better than anyone else and other people's decisions aren't stupid and don't make them stupid because of what they wanted and how they chose their device?!
23. bnekic macrumors 6502a
Sep 19, 2013
Cleveland, OH
I agree, this becomes even more the case when we get a 4.7"-5.0" iPhone next year.
24. Infinitewisdom macrumors 6502a
Sep 23, 2012
You're dealing with emotional and not rational responses, that's why. It'll never change so long as we remain as human as we are.
25. mariotr87 macrumors regular
Aug 12, 2011
iPad Mini has a much bigger screen than the iPhone one. It's like night and day when it comes to browsing, reading, watching movies and gaming. Yet it's light enough to take it almost everywhere without too much effort (of course I wouldn't take it with me everywhere, that's what the phone is for, but you get the point, commuting, traveling etc).
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NBA Live 2005-08 Generic Face List
Resources for NBA Live 08.
NBA Live 2005-08 Generic Face List
Postby Andrew on Fri May 04, 2018 3:48 am
I've posted a list of the generic faces included in NBA Live 2005-08 for generated players, complete with the PLAYERPKG, skin tone values, and an example screenshot, here in the Wiki:
NBA Live 2005-08 Generic Face List
Basically, it can be used as a reference if you want to use any of the generic faces for fictional rosters, placeholders until you've got a proper player face, or edit a generated rookie. Feel free to suggest any edits if you find mismatches with the skin tone, though I believe they're all accurate. A couple of the white player faces could possibly fit better with skin tone 1 rather than skin tone 0, so let me know what you think.
Please note that from PLYR076 onwards in NBA Live 07 and NBA Live 08, the faces don't have an alpha layer, which will cause them to be very shiny. If you want to use them, I'd suggest extracting them first and adding an alpha layer. You can find a guide to that here. Note that this isn't an issue in NBA Live 2005 or NBA Live 06.
For placeholder faces, I'd recommend extracting the face and headshape files from plyrface.viv and plyrlodb.viv respectively, and renaming them to the PLAYERPKG you intend to use. That way, they can be easily overwritten by the proper faces when you have them. As mentioned above, you'll also need to extract them if you want to add an alpha layer. The easiest way to export .fsh and .ebo files from .viv archives is to use the EA Graphics Editor. Just open the .viv file, locate the file you want to extract, click the Extract button (or choose it from the File menu) and follow the prompts.
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Lost the source code of a .net executable file? What will you do? Instead of searching for the missing piece which was not documented and not hosted in the version control, instead of searching for it in windows explorers for hours when you already know it cant be found, instead of blaming someone for not making a backup of it, go move and use a tool from red gate called the reflector and its add-in called reflexil.
My case was like the above, where someone forgot to make a backup of a running program, which will run forever. Its a windows application where members of a certain promotion are going to swipe their cards to the application and if they are entitled, the standalone application will print a voucher stating that they can claim these and those. The application needs to be updated by certain people monthly, and my boss asked me if there is a way to automate it? I said YES, but the problem is i dont have the source code, only the executable. I said, there has to be a way, and here is how I did it.
First, download these tools:
1. Reflector – http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/
2. Reflexil – http://sebastien.lebreton.free.fr/reflexil/
Lets setup reflector first.
1. Open reflector.
2. Add reflexil in the add-ins. Just go to View->AddIns and add Reflexil.Reflector.dll.
3. Load the executable file that you need to patch.
4. Now select the function or method that you want to patch. Right-click on the reflexil pane and select Replace all with code.
5. Now lets make our changes.
Once you did the change, Right-click your loaded assembly and select save as from the context menu.
Now see the lesson? “Next time, host your code in your version control!.”
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Hi all, here’s the recap for this week.
New Release
In 1st week of February 2016, we release new plugin f(x) Editor. A long time ago, I create several editor plugin to easily create boxes, buttons, and columns. This plugins even get featured on WP Tavern.
I still actively use these plugins in my sites and several client sites. So, I decided to merge all 3 plugins into one plugin and I also add several other features. This new approach hopefully will make it easier for me to update this plugin and add more feature in the future.
Plugins Updates
f(x) Private Site
Whitelist BuddyPress registration and activation page.
Themes Updates
Fix bug found in icon font CSS.
Press Start
Upgrade to new framework.
Add Custom CSS feature.
Penny theme will get a major overhaul, schedule release next week. You can check the new version live in the demo.
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Codebase for DIVE backend (server, worker, and ORM)
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DIVE Backend
The Data Integration and Visualization Engine (DIVE) is a platform for semi-automatically generating web-based, interactive visualizations of structured data sets. Data visualization is a useful method for understanding complex phenomena, communicating information, and informing inquiry. However, available tools for data visualization are difficult to learn and use, require a priori knowledge of what visualizations to create. See for more information.
Development setup involves the following steps:
1. Installing system dependencies
2. Setting up postgres
3. Setting up rabbitMQ
4. Starting and entering virtual environment
5. Installing python dependencies
6. Migrating database
7. Starting celery worker
8. Starting server
Install System Dependencies (Linux / apt)
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y postgresql git python2.7 python-pip build-essential python-dev libpq-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev liblapack-dev gfortran libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev rabbitmq-server
Install System Dependencies (Mac / brew)
Install Homebrew if you don't already have it. Then, run the following code:
$ brew install postgres
$ brew install rabbitmq
OR Install
Install by following the instructions here: (
Download and open the app to start postgres.
Setup postgres
Make sure that you have a postgres server instance running:
sudo -u postgres -i
Create the dive database by running:
$ createuser admin -P
$ createdb dive -O admin
Start RabbitMQ AMQP Server
1. Add rabbitmq-server executable to path (add PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile)
2. Run the server as a background process sudo rabbitmq-server -detached
3. Create a RabbitMQ user and virtual host:
$ sudo rabbitmqctl add_user admin password
$ sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost dive
$ sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p dive admin ".*" ".*" ".*"
Install and Enter Virtual Python Environment
1. Installation: See this fine tutorial.
2. Starting virtual env: source venv/bin/activate.
Install Python Dependencies
Within a virtual environment, install dependencies in requirements.txt. But due to a dependency issue in numexpr, we need to install numpy first.
$ pip install -U numpy && pip install -r requirements.txt
Start Celery Worker
1. Start celery worker: ./
2. Start celery monitor (flower): celery -A base.core flower
Database Migrations
Follow the docs. The first time, run the migration script.
python db init
Then, review and edit the migration script. Finally, each time models are changed, run the following:
$ python db migrate
$ python db upgrade
1. To run development Flask server, run python
2. To run production Gunicorn server, run ./
1. Set environment variable before running any command:
$ source production_env
Building Docker Images
conda env export > environment.yml
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda list -e > conda-requirements.txt
conda create --name dive --file conda-requirements.txt
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Of all the teen comedies made in the 90s/early 00s, Election is often overshadowed by bigger hits like Clueless and Mean Girls. But the Alexander Payne-helmed high school election movie has clawed out a pop culture legacy through its maniacally driven female lead, Tracy Flick, the type-A striver epitomized. Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is a new type of high school mean girl: The wholesome-looking overachiever, uninterested in social climbing but ruthlessly fixated on success.
Flick is all chin-out grit, a querulous, hyper-competent terror, the ultimate Ambitious Girl. Don't get me wrong: She is a sociopath in this movie. Election is a fizzy, bitter comedy about bad people. But like any good anti-hero, her pathos and misdeeds are compelling:
Flick has become a sort of cultural shorthand for ambitious female politicians, something Flavorwire pointed out last year. Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were both compared to Flick during the 2008 elections, besides being polar opposites as political opponents. Even in his original review, Robert Ebert compared Flick to Elizabeth Dole.
These are not overt compliments: Flick, as I said before, is a sociopath. But they're also not overt insults. There are so few cultural touchstones for unbridled female ambition that Flick's clawed political ascent is probably the best example we have of a woman who will do whatever it takes to win. And she is always, always competent, more so than her male rivals. So yes, calling a female pol a "Tracy Flick" type is not saying nice things about her personality, but it's certainly paying tribute to her ability and drive.
"Who the fuck does she think she is?" her former teacher muses at the end of the film. While Tracy's striving machinations are never forgiven in the film, it's clear that the implicit follow-up question is "Who the fuck do you think you are?"
Flick is a character near-and-dear to my pestilent heart. Election came out when I was in 7th grade. That year, I ran for student council president. I was the first candidate and running uncontested, but still insistent on printing candidacy posters and practicing a speech where I meticulously outlined my campaign promises. I had been on student council since 4th grade, and this would be my third election. I had glasses, braces, a forehead devoted to excreting oil, and a well-earned reputation for being a dork.
I lost the election to a late-entry candidate: A popular basketball player named Luke who wore a tie ironically. Shortly after the election, I was at a charity car wash with people in my grade and their families. Some parents were talking about the student council election. "That Knibbs kid is like that Tracy Flick," one of the dads said to another dad. (Fuck you, that dad! But also, much respect to your taste in movies.) They dad-chuckled at my earnest ambition while I pretended to wash a tire that was already clean just so I could keep crouching.
Now I take that as a retroactive compliment. Plus, to be fair, he could've just been talking about my chin and not my latent sociopathy. While completely side-stepping sentimentality with a script committed to portraying viciousness, Election still manages to find empathy and admiration for Flick. Plus, beyond the fascinating main character's lasting role in pop culture, it's simply a dark, funny film, and it's available on Netflix.
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Image: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo
The Switch has been having a rough launch so far, with claims of bad connectivity, scratched screens, dead pixels, and miserable frame rates. Today’s freakout involves the Nintendo store no longer offering the much-maligned dock for sale, with claims it’s evidence of a recall or redesign—but the theory might not hold much water.
Beginning early this morning on Reddit’s r/NintendoSwitch, user Dystopiq claimed the Switch’s dock had been removed from Nintendo of America’s online store, providing a dead link as evidence. Dystopiq also wrote that they, “did some more testing on my dock and it turns out this bastard is bent inward,” further fanning the flames of this theory. From there the dock recall rumors hit Neogaf, Escapist, BGR, and Forbes. Dystopiq did not respond to a request for comment, and Nintendo claims the rumors aren’t true.
“The dock wasn’t ‘pulled’ from the replacement/refurbishment store—it’s out of stock,” a Nintendo of America spokesperson told Gizmodo in an email. “As previously announced, the Nintendo Switch dock set (which includes the dock, a HDMI cable, and an AC adapter) will be released Spring 2017.”
Image: Nintendo of America online store
True enough, the replace/refurbish store does still list the dock, though a follow-up question asking about the dead link to new docks went unanswered by Nintendo by press time. Docks also appear unavailable on Amazon, though Nintendo Japan’s site still has a functioning pre-order link for this overpriced hunk of plastic, which suggests rumors of a redesign are false, unfortunately.
As pointed out by a tinkerer on YouTube, the dock appears to be little more than a USB-C to HDMI adapter with a few authentication components thrown in to keep enterprising Switch owners from simply buying a $15 generic part instead of a $90 proprietary one. Maybe these trumped-up rumors provide just the right circumstances for Nintendo to do a bit of soul-searching.
Update 3/7/17 2:53pm: Dystopiq responded shortly after press time. When asked over Reddit private message if he or she was aware if the dead link had ever worked, Dystopiq responded: “I never tried to purchase so I’ve no clue. All I know is the dock without cables was listed on the site under one product number, pulled last night, and then it was relisted under a new product number.” We’ve reached out (again) to Nintendo and will update if we hear back.
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Nahrain Al-Mousawi published an essay about “Aesthetics of Migration” on featuring the Yesckas piece in Tarifa.
In Grenada, stencilled street art by Yescka shows two figures running toward each other, one white and holding a surfboard and the other black and holding a life preserver, presumably to identify the African and the European runner. The art again evokes the notion of ‘collision of worlds’ between migrant and tourist in the same contact zone, but where one experiences the same site as holiday space and the other experiences it as prison or cemetery.
Read the essay here:
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Amorphis - Privilege of Evil LP (Black vinyl)
"Privilege of Evil"... I sort of like that idea. Evil is not a right, but a cherished privilege. Incidently, I think Amorphis had their Evil licenses revoked before their second full length.
But let us not think of that at the moment, for on this EP lies what is surely some of the greatest and darkest death metal that it has been my particular evil privilege to hear. Though clearly Scandinavian in origin, this is quite a far cry from the syncopated drunken bounciness of "Left Hand Path" et al. Evidently, Satan granted Amorphis the power to perfectly transcribe the sound of darkness into simple guitar melodies on the condition that all of their music must suck after the first album. It was probably worth the deal. With no disrespect intended to the crushing tremolo riffing, the best parts of the album are the slower, doomier segments, where the lead guitar sings its terrifying tales over a backdrop of low pitched chords. Check the song "Misery Path" to see what I mean.
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39: MMA with Sam Kemmis
Mixed martial arts is a classic example of something we do NOT LIKE. Meryl Streep was damn right they ain't "ARTS!" We've watched a clip or two of it, and it flat-out scares and disturbs us. A no-holds barred fight between two people couldn't be a worse idea! And have you seen that documentary "Tickled?!" Well, you should! It's a great documentary that sort of touches on the subject of MMA!
Our friend Sam Kemmis loves MMA and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He continually invites us to watch fights on TV at his house even though he knows we aren't even the slightest bit interested and that I'm allergic to his damn cats. Sam is a tall, smart man and the head writer at Onion Studios. Some would call him a budding “silver fox.” I would, at least. And he can also be a little scheming troll. There are many angles to this Sam fellow.
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4 Descriptive Pieces (Coerne, Louis Adolphe)
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Work Title 4 Descriptive Pieces
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ILC 8
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 4 pieces
1. At the Court of Louis XV (Op.89, No.3)
2. Æolian Harp (Op.90, No.4)
3. Mardi gras (Op.89, No.1)
4. Daffodils (Op.90, No.3)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation Piano
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At least part of Op.90, the waltz Op.90 No.1 Happy Valley, was published by Presser in 1917.
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03-04 Oct, 2015 Proposal submission closed
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»The Real PC History Deal
White Russian (pro-Czarist) poster depicting the Red Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky (Jewish name Lev Davidovich Bronstein). Trotsky is most often credited, with good reason, with coining the term “racist” as a derogatory term for his political enemies: White, non-Jewish Gentiles. Note the Christian cross broken in the upper left and the White Russian being threatened by Mongolians in the lower right — even then Marxist Jewish extremists jacked-up the other races to do their violent bidding. Some things never change!
TROTSKY SILOTrotsky, born of wealthy parents, was the principal Marxist intellectual, second only to V. I. Lenin (proven to be at least partly Jewish, married to a Jewess and who spoke Yiddish) and the frontman of the Russian Bolshevik revolution in 1917. The wealthy New York Banker and Rothschild associate, Jacob H. Schiff, was the conduit of International Jewry’s funding of the Red revolution to the tune of 20 million dollars in gold bullion (well over 200 million in today’s money). Trotsky deposited this into a Warburg bank (later marrying a Warburg daughter) for transfer to a Jew bank in Sweden and soon into Russia to finance the Jewish takeover.
Read this from the New York Times:*
“Six or eight weeks ago the Jews would have heeded the call to arms as a duty, but with heavy hearts, as they would have known they would be fighting to perpetuate Russian autocracy. But now all that has changed. Russian democracy has become victorious, and thanks are due to the Jew that the Russian revolution succeeded.” — Jacob H. Schiff, called the “greatest Jew in America” in this NY Times article, May 1917 (PDF of original here)
When Trotsky and about 100 commie Jews from Brooklyn, New York, accompanied the gold aboard a ship (chartered by Schiff and Warburg), the Canadians intercepted the vessel and arrested them all. But soon they were all released after special efforts by the British Intelligence Jew Sir William Wiseman, who would later be rewarded with an extremely lucrative position in the NY Banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and Company (this company is still around).
Wiseman’s buddy, Colonel Edward House (possibly a big crypto-Jew), was the enigmatic adviser to president Woodrow Wilson, who hounded Wilson behind the scenes into signing the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913 which, more or less, owns this country to this very day and who you pony-up to with every single lousy paycheck.
The hidden history of Jewish Bolshevism. Just spend a few minutes watching this.
So, we can clearly see all the direct connections between the International Jewish Agenda, International Jew/Zionist Bankers, the Federal Reserve (the Rothschild people who own your butt) and historical, global efforts to bring down the Gentile nations, such as Russia, to advance the cause of Jewry.
But just who came up with that word “Racist,” now being used constantly to slur White people? And how about the cult of minority victimhood that currently plagues the US? You know, all the business with everyone being “so oppressed” all the time. You’ve surely noticed it — every group in the US has some kind of beef and gripe: Blacks, Jews (professional, full-time victims), Hispanics, Mestizos, Native Americans, Homosexuals, Bisexuals, Transgenders (Drag Queens), Radical Feminists (some really hate White men with a passion), any non-Christian Religious believer, Midget S&M Fetishists!
Notice that it’s ALWAYS “Evil Whitey” (usually White, heterosexual males) who are at fault and the eternal “oppressor” of everyone. But who started all this mess and why? Go to the end of this article and definitely watch the three short videos on the subject. The whole lying mess will become crystal clear!
One modern-day dictionary defines racist as:
— Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Make note how this author blithely ascribes it to French descriptions of “Nazi theory,” when this is clearly in error. Ironically, it was a German Jew is most often given credit for the word; he had gone into exile in France after the Nazis came to power and, being sick of his Jew “intellectual” activities, gave him the big boot. It was certainly his writings in France that spawned the above French source.
Magnus Hirschfeld — one curious Jew:
[my notes in brackets]
It is fair to say that his works were intended to send a message – that traditional Christian and bourgeois sexual morality was repressive, irrational, and hypocritical, [make note people!] and that emancipation would be a major step forward. His admiring translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, in their introduction to Racism, write of his “unwearying championship of the cause of persons who, because their sexual hormonic functioning is of an unusual type, are persecuted by their more fortunate fellow-mortals.” Long before the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s, Magnus Hirschfeld was crusading for the “normalization” of homosexuality and other abnormal sexual behavior. [The Jews even today are at the forefront of Homosexual rights — see this long list to prove it]
Hirschfeld was the founder of an Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and helped organize “sexology” on an international scale. In 1922, he was physically attacked and almost killed by anti-Semites in Munich [wonder why?]. In May, 1933, the Nazis closed down his “Institute of Sexual Science” and Hirschfeld fled to France, where he lived until his death in 1935. From The Heretical Press — Read the rest here!
As a side note, Hirschfeld is sometimes called the “Einstein of Sex” (being a Jew and perverted). He co-wrote and acted in the 1919 German silent movie “Different from the Others” which had the first on-screen homo, Conrad Veidt (left). You can use that one in a bar bet!
In the years after WW I, the Marxist Jews and Khazar Jew illegal immigrants from Poland and Russia, were doing everything they could to buy-up or turn Germany commie — so recently prostrated by war. It’s little wonder whatsoever, that the German Whites flocked to Uncle Adolph in droves!
It’s also quite probable that Hirschfeld stole the term “Racist” from Trotsky at some point, but it was him who defined the skin color aspect of whites versus blacks to the issue. Clearly Trotsky was the first to use the word in a published document as far back as 1930, at the very least. Some say he used the term in speeches even further back.
Trotsky wasn’t using it in a black versus white way, but in an anti-Gentile fashion. That’s the key concept — it was a Jew versus White thing. He was attacking his political and eternal race enemies, the White Gentiles of Russia and Europe as something he called “Slavophiles” and later, the Fascists of Italy and Germany. Here are some of Trotsky’s use of the word; make note the underlying hatred toward Whites:
“The History of the Russian Revolution” 1930:
“Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great. Mark remarked upon this theme: “In the same way the Teutonic jackasses blamed the despotism of Frederick the Second upon the French, as though backward slaves were not always in need of civilised slaves to train them.” This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the ‘Racists.'” Read the Marxist’s own words here
“What is National Socialism?” 1933:
“On the plane of politics, racism is a vapid and bombastic variety of chauvinism in alliance with phrenology. As the ruined nobility sought solace in the gentility of its blood, so the pauperized petty bourgeoisie befuddles itself with fairy tales concerning the special superiorities of its race.” Read the Marxist’s own words here
The Racial Origins of Political Correctness (From Western Safeguards Initiative):
“Political Correctness” (PC) is, of course, the policing or censorship of certain language and ideas in the White, Western countries. An example of PC would be the banning of an essay which a Black, Mexican or female citizen might find “offensive.”
It appears that Jewish communist Georg Lukacs (1885-1971; in photo at right) probably created the first hands-on, working program in which PC was used to indoctrinate the citizenry of a White country. That occurred just a bit before the Jewish-led Frankfurt School began its own journey towards creating PC ideas with the help of the School’s Max Horkheimer (1895-1973; bottom photo at left), who was also a Jew and who invented the concept of “critical theory,” which amounted to criticizing White, Western culture and values (Lukacs himself was a fringe Frankfurt Schooler). “Critical theory” paved the way for modern PC by portraying White culture as something oppressive and foul. Interestingly, “critical theory” borrowed some ideas from yet another Jew: Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis.
However, sometimes several historical events happen at the same time. While Lukacs (as commissar of culture in Jewish communist Bela Kun’s Hungarian regime in 1919) was creating a Marxist-based PC program to indoctrinate Hungarian schoolchildren with using politically left-wing propaganda, other Jews, such as Franz Boas, were also creating ideology based wholly or partly on Marxism. Whether their creations were social, economic, racial or a combination of all three, they were all rooted in Marxism, or very similarly, egalitarianism/universalism (i.e., the historically-new idea that all humans and cultures are, or can be, “equal” in importance, and that White/Western/capitalist culture is oppressive and evil). Marxism and egalitarianism/universalism are very nearly the same thing, except one is based more on economics while the other is based more on social/cultural matters. (It can be argued that Marxism was an attempt to use economic ideas to transform the social, and, by default, racial features of society, so in that sense Marxism wasn’t only economics-based).
But no matter the type of Marxist/universalist programs that those men created, they all amounted to the same thing: cleverly-disguised Jewish attacks upon traditional, White culture. Their programs were designed to end White control of most of the world for the benefit of the Jewish people. Theirs were racial programs masquerading as mere political or social movements. Jews instinctively know that movements that “equalize” the cultures of White countries in one way or another are good for the Jews, since that equalizing helps to ensure that nationalist movements cannot rise up and “oppress” the Jews, such as happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. (Note that those disguised cultural attacks by the Jews often use confusing words and phrases, and are often made to appear scientific, in order to give the attacks an air of legitimacy and sophistication).
Marxism, feminism, socialism, leftism, egalitarianism, PC – they are all Jewish-created assaults upon White, Western culture. And they have all been embraced by many Westerners as legitimate, with few exceptions. All of those ideas employ “equality” as a main argument and main goal. All of them are unnatural and universalist, and all require governmental or bureaucratic force to make the public accept them.
Starting with Karl Marx, and moving on to Sigmund Freud, V. I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Georg Lukacs, Franz Boas, the Frankfurt School theorists, Ashley Montagu, and Stephen J. Gould, we can see the roots of the movement(s) that led directly to today’s PC movement. All of those men were racially-Jewish (Lenin was part-Jewish), all held non-traditional ideas that could be called anti-Western, all were socially and politically influential, and all played vital roles in first creating, and then paving the way for the acceptance of, PC.
Even though non-Jews push PC ideas today, they are actually only unwitting helpers of the Jews who created PC. Without the Jews, it is very likely that Political Correctness, as we know it today, wouldn’t exist. Source document here
See: The Frankfurt School and “Political Correctness” excerpt from “The New Dark Ages.”
Watch These Videos
History of Political Correctness Part I (9:30)
Learn exactly how all the BS was started, by whom and why. These people have an inner, atavistic hatred of the White race and have used pseudo-intellectual reasoning to justify it all. This has all been supported by the Globalist Foundations in our schools, universities and media for many decades.
History of Political Correctness Part II (8:30)
History of Political Correctness Part III (4:30)
Go bookmark and read this article from WorldNet Daily which backs up all this on the Marxist Frankfort school: Who stole our culture? In the article, WorldNet Daily obviously fails to note the Jews, since that would be “PC” inappropriate and risk attack by Jewry PC attack dogs. See how it works?
My blog post on this: The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt
So we can see that the whole business of Political Correctness has its origins with the Jewish supremacists going back to the early part of the last century with the efforts of Jewish Marxists and Intellectuals, privately financed by the so-called “Capitalist” Jews who massively bankroll educational foundations that support this very agenda to this day.
And the race targeted by this entire Social/Political movement? Obviously all of us White Gentiles and, in the last 40 years or so, any White American or any of his social institutions and affiliated culture. As such, we’re the ones being targeted and victimized by these Jew-inspired evils from the very beginning!
Take a look at radical Feminism like with the Jews Susan Sontag (Rosenblatt), Gloria Steinem and Betty Freidan. All of this kind of divisive sex politics has so totally screwed-up relationships in White America to such a degree that people can’t even get their heads around it. Read about it here
This Jew was all over the place back in the 1960s.
As seen in the videos, the Marxist Jew Herbert Marcuse (right), was welcomed into this country from Nazi Germany, but later turned around and stabbed America in the back with his subversive social theories. He created much of the victim group mentality politics and was highly influential with the “intelligentsia” of the sixties Baby Boomer Generation. All this was touted as “liberation” but in fact, was really an undermining, subversive program against non-Jewish White people that is still going on today.
During WWII, he was also part of the OSS — precursor to the CIA — and worked at creating anti-Nazi propaganda and later employed hunting down any supposed Nazis in occupied Germany. Who knows how many former German enemies received a little pay-back action from this devious Jew?
For that matter, just think how many relationships and lives he ruined in the US with the evils of his Jewish “liberation” philosophies in the sixties and since then? Give that some thought!
Her Jew BS has made her a nice bundle.
All of this never-ending “Politically Correct” nightmare stuff on America and all the other formerly White countries, was brought on by the Jews, the likes of Marcuse. It’s still going on in this country to this day and noticeably getting much, much worse. These modern day Marcuses are out there all over the place — such as the Jewess Paula Rothenberg (left), who invented the nonsense term “White Privilege,” “Stealth Racism” and so much more — this latter-day Trotskyite goes around to all our college campuses in the US, shamelessly infecting our young people with her anti-White agenda — all the while getting paid big bucks to do so!
Tim Wise on CNN
Tim Wise is another creepy little Jew punk working the anti-White racket all across the US. They are plenty more of this type running amok in America today.
Our universities and college social studies programs now openly denigrate White people as outright or “stealth” racists and are also starting to question the positives of the normal, heterosexual White Family structure. Ask any college kid just what is said in the books, classroom and lecture halls of today — be prepared to hear all kinds of shocking things that will surely piss you off.
Us White people are indeed in a bona fide race war with Jewish extremists and profiteers, in the open or behind the curtain, and have been for quite some time now. Most Whites don’t even have a clue exactly what’s going on. They suspect something is not right, but are programmed not to say the “J” word openly or get called a Nazi from everyone else.
Pretty diabolical system these Jews have going on.
— Phillip Marlowe
Here, read it all from the horse’s mouths: Revealing Quotes
*Note the blatant lie made here by Jacob Schiff about Jewish “loyalties.” He’s says the Jews of Russia would have supported the monarchy reluctantly six to eight weeks ago, but knows full well he already shipped Trotsky and the gold months before. He lies openly about it. His efforts, along other Jewish financial and Marxist cohorts, are what brought Communism into the world and the death and suffering of untold millions of Whites (far, far more than the giant hoax of the Holyco$t gassings); along with many other races (like Asians) since.
This gold transfer from rich American Jew Capitalists to bankroll the Bolshevik revolution is a little known, but verifiable historical fact.
At a Bolshevik celebration rally in New York’s Carnegie Hall on the night of 23 March 1917, a telegram of support from Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was read out. The telegram was reprinted in the next morning’s New York Times (PDF link above). Schiff tried to deny his involvement, but thirty years later his grandson John admitted in the New York Journal-American (3 February 1949) that the old man had sunk twenty million dollars into the Bolshevik cause.
Definitely go here and read: The Jews and the Communization of Russia
POLITICAL CENSORSHIP: If you happen to go to my OLD ADDRESS, you will see this: “This blog has been ‘archived or suspended’ due to Terms of Service Violations.” You can see how the Jews work to censor any talk about them since they can’t have Whites even start to think about these things.
UPDATE (Dec. 2010): My old blog address is now completely obliterated!
As a White person, you need to think seriously about where all this is going. And now. This is exactly why we have things the way they are anymore and is why things are soon going to be much, much worse for us unless we all do something!
33 Responses to »The Real PC History Deal
1. African Man says:
Political Correctness only works on White Americans because they don’t speak multiple languages. Being an African, I can be PC in english and racist in my native language.
Another thing, why do Whites adopt such terms as “caucasian, whites, etc” That is enemy terms. You should use European-Americans instead which is correct term! The jews are good at propaganda and art of language. That is why they use certain terms in the media when it comes to Arabs vs Israel.
Just watch the news on Israel and see the terms they use and contrast it with terms used for Arabs.(the enemy) Its only a matter of time before jews call every White person a terrorist. (they already use domestic terrorists for Whites)
2. Barney says:
Another good one Incogman, and African Man has a good point too.
The Khazars (identified in the bible as “those who say they are Jews, but are not”) pretend they are a different species to the rest of us. I say let them have it their way. I’m a human being, so if they aren’t the same species as me, they can’t be human.
The more polite ones call humans (meaning everybody who isn’t a Khazar) “gentiles”, very similar to the word “gentles” used by fishermen when referring to maggots.
I’m not a maggot, a gentile or a goy, and neither am I a Jew (whatever that means). I’m a human being. It’s the Khazars who are less than human, so why should we use their offensive terms when referring to other human beings like us?
Let’s have just two words, HUMANS and Jews as the two opposing species, not gentiles, maggots, goyim, amalek or any other of their insulting terms.
Just a thought.
3. Anonymous says:
Worrying about blacks and Jews, our real enemy is China. They are going to kick the whole world’s ass.
• Steve in TN says:
I doubt it. Now that we are not spending they will follow the rest into a depression.
• American says:
We love China, and all Goyim. Your Jew distraction tactics will not work here.
China is the only country with some money left in the bank. Surprisingly, they also have very few Jews. Imagine that.
4. Grumblingone says:
Luckily on the west coast there is a huge sea of hispanic fodder to wade through before china gets to real America, but east coast and off Florida will be problematic. These ports of entry COSCO owns need to be shut down.
Funny how communism isn’t a threat anymore. Very suspicious.
• Big Duke 6 says:
GrumblingOne…China physically OWNS the Panama Canal as you probably already know. http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/eng/index.htm
I study macroeconomic figures every so often, and if WALMART was considered to be a COUNTRY, they would be China’s 8th largest trading partner bud!!!
I call it “Economic Aikido” They use our own power against us. They also don’t want to underwrite our national debt anymore…hmm.
• American says:
Big Duke 6,
The plan for a Jew World Order is coming off the tracks. What do you think about the Euro, for example?
I’m hearing that is could collapse (and mostly due to Germany bailing out first-the biggest member of the EU). How just would that be!
The best days for Jews are right now, or just behind us, but it’s all downhill for them from here, for years to come, and all over the world.
They have whined about the need for a homeland forever, and now they “own” a stolen Palestine. True to their nature, they can’t just be satisfied, and keep pushing any Goyim they come in contact with. It’s a fatal character flaw.
Establishing Israel was a mistake for them. The world now has a place to send them, so they will no longer be allowed close enough to a host, which they need to survive.
5. The Populist says:
This is some outstanding work. I think some of the racial stuff on your site is disgusting, and that is a shame. It detracts from your excellent writing.
6. Bella says:
This PC BS has GOT to be stopped. Everyone should google up this pretend charity calling itself ‘COMMON PURPOSE’. Persons involved in this secretive group are communist maggots.
7. idrankthekoolaid says:
Ho hey Ho hey
Western culture has got to stay
8. jews give me PMS! says:
I love the picture at the top. I’ve been to Moscow and it is a city that looks like a pop up post card. Belgrade is nice too, it means “White City” in Serbian. Bela Rus is “White Russian”. My opinion is that Russia and Serbia now are the litmus test for the near future of white nations.
9. 30.06 says:
Never surrender to the terrorism of the Jew .
Counter it with a stronger will .
10. slap.happy says:
It might be hard to see how PC is related to Iran except that it is the only country left that is still trying to buck the Jews who are attempting to saddle their backs and break them in. But since no one usually reads comments I feel free to write pretty much anything I want, seeing that no one will notice I’m not on topic.
I never thought I would say this but I think Iran is the last best hope for mankind. How sad is that? They are the only country in the world that won’t kowtow their foreheads to the Zionist Pricks who are in the process of consolidating their power and tightening their grip on the economies and minds of the world. Iran is the only country in the world that won’t join the system that the Jews want to put in place – total control of media and film industries, control of news dissemination, art and culture not to mention infiltrating politicsal and economic decision-making bodies…yep, thats what they’ve been about since day one. It’s even in their scriptures: The Persians freeing the Jews from their Babylonian overlords after the Jews managed to secure important appointments in the king’s court and his administration and thereby influence Persia’s foreign policy. I hope Iran doesn’t make the same mistake twice. To do so would be costly. I don’t want to see the last domino fall.
11. American born says:
Iran is a far more peaceful nation than the US. Regurdless of what you hear. Iranian families have many children and the divorce rate over there is very, very low. The Iranians are racially proud, they dont let niggers or mexicans over their borders. Their borders are guarded by men with weapons.
They have ONE language there and they want to kick ass on the jew hardcore.
Americans could learn a thing or two from Iran.
12. Jo Jackson says:
Brilliant post Incog – only just seen this
13. Macaca says:
Wonderful article, and equally-wonderful comments. The term “Politically-Correct” actually was coined by the CPUSA as a movie-rating! Gospel. I saw articles on that in quite a few conservative publications. One article (in NR?) was extremely-well documented on this. It stated, by way of the CPUSA’s justification, that a Depression-era movie which showed people climbing out of stark poverty by their own intelligence and strenuous effort—-by their own bootstraps, in other words—-was utterly ANTIPODAL to the CPUSA’s dream that all people would be dependent on the government. Like its evil spawn, SDS, CPUSA has always been led by Jews.
We are at war with Jewish Termites. Period. For decades, especially since the FDR administration, this has been a losing war. Long ago, when people were actually allowed to see (and state) that income level had a lot to do with IQ, some diabolical political genius decided that, in a republic—or even better, a democracy—hitching
your political wagon to the largest segment of the population—-the Dummies—would work elective wonders. Undeniably, it has.
Most of the useful-idiot, white imbeciles who vote Democratic do so because they have undergone such class-based endogamy for eons, their IQs are usually in the “dull-normal” range. There aren’t too many “Love Story” scenarios out there. If you come from a professional, well-educated family, you are fairly locked into marrying among your own class. Vica versa. Moronic lower and middle-class “workers” marry among their own. As far as Republicans go—different clientele, but, due to the Jewish Neocons, and the equally-repugnant Fundamentalist Christians, that party, although, it usually has a more-intelligent base, has been almost as easily led down the AIPAC-Zionist path. There’s no place to hide in other words. Even brilliant people create and devour hypocrisy of the highest level: they vote for every tax which shows its head above water, yet spend thousands to avoid paying them. Their attitude on public schooling is equally stomach-turning.
But it was the Democratic political bosses who scored the first coup. They almost invented the fine art of “bribing people with their own money”, as George Will put it. Hence, the poor, the dumb and the lazy congregate in a vast, oceanic horde of fools who actually believe Democratic politicians’ statements. They see socialism (by any other name, for sure) as their salvation. They view it as anything but what it is—the Politics of Envy. Churchill’s take is a classic, but rarely uttered: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery…”. The politics of losers, but so much more eloquently put!
Talkosphere* dim-wits like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, et al, persist in yowling that “the American public is slowly waking up…….”, ad nauseum. Who the Hell do they think they’re dealing with? The truth is, they’re placing hope against hope on a terminally stupid, gullible, illiterate, ignorant and easily-distracted mass of Walmartians*. Good luck. If you wanted some visible symbols of this class, watch them go into toy stores, prior to Christmas, and fight over crate-loads of electronic/plastic crap, all for their darling, snarling chillen! Worse, look at us lionize the poor, patriotic buffoons who clamor over each other to get into the military, wherein they can lose limbs or their lives, fighting for a despicable little country founded by thieves and perverts who claim that they are the Chosen People. That is actually the perfect example, isn’t it: a second-generation Irish or Hispanic Catholic, hurrying off to Afghanistan to get himself maimed or killed so some Jewish boy in Israel doesn’t have to?
The American general public has had decades—nay, generations—-to extract its collective head from its collective anus. Never happened, never will. Every scintilla of its knowledge of its own history has been destroyed in its schools; most of its members do not even understand that one adult in each two-working-parent household is working to pay the taxes—for which they vote time and again; and re its foreign policy, they have yet to recognize what John Burnham stated unequivocally—that the Democrats are “the Party of Treason”; etc. etc. etc.
These Dumbocrats shreik in fear of the only sensible antidotes to their plight—e.g., a 10% flat tax rate for all taxes (town, state, Federal); at just about anything designed to change the status quo so as to increase their net income, be it recalls or initiatives, etc. Don’t give me a “not until they educate themselves better about the issues” tid-bit either—when, in the long and storied past of this country, have they done so?
And, speaking of education, as in that provided by schools, forget that. I worked as a secondary-school teacher for 32 years. I witnessed and fought against one of the most persistent and effective assaults on quality and truth ever, anywhere. Almost without fail, this rush to ignorance, mediocrity and willful illiteracy was led, forwarded or introduced by Jews.
Morons also assure their future servitude by breeding like Norway rats. If Africans steadfastly resist the use of condoms to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS, American morons surround themselves with clones of their hopeless selves.
Re the public slowly waking up to the Jews’ destruction of their country, as cited in “American’s” superb letter of February 2009 above, I’d be ecstatic were it to happen. Perhaps we could make it so uncomfortable for radical Zionists, they would voluntarily go to Israel, the land they stole by using gullibility and pity over their well-deserved fate in the 1940’s.
I’ll close with the pinnacle of all ironies: the Party of Treason, which votes to transfer all wealth to the political class, and which never saw a Jew or a black man it didn’t love has just elected a president, who, by dint of his upbringing, sees Jews and their abominable country for what it really is. Could it be that the Party of the Servile Moron will lead us out of the wilderness of the AIPAC/Zionist Evil Puppeteer?
Good Lord (and this from an atheist).
*these are my patented terms, but you can spread them around if you wish
14. Macaca says:
Visiting the vaunted Vanguard News Network site, I ran across an excerpted book by a gentleman and true race-patriot improbably named REVILO OLIVER (1908-1998?). He has quite a biography and he came to the conclusion that there was, indeed, a vile, relentless, conspirational campaign to undermine and destroy America. He was a leader of a super-secret part of the US Intelligence sphere during WW II and then went abroad to Italy until 1954 or so. This nine-year sabbatical took him away from the beginnings of our rush into decadence.
When he rearrived in his own country, he was shocked by the changes he saw, not the least of which was the denigration of American ideals, sewer-rat cultural icons and activities, and the decay of the national character. These he attributed to communists of course (he was a founder of both NR and the John Birch Society), and ultimately to the Jews and their ignorant puppets, the devout American public—which was programmed to look away from the obvious and speak not its name…..
Oliver did not shrink from calling out: the title of his book (available still!) is “The Jewish Strategy”. I myself suspected, when public education filled up (administrative down to classroom teachers) with the Politikikes from the 1960’s, that there was something rotten afoot. One look at the revisionist, openly anti-American “replacement” texts was enough for me! As an example of the termite takeover, we, in my history department (called “Social Studies”) elected by default, our newest member to be department head. None of us gentiles wanted to sit down for hours after school with the Jewish principal and his wife, the curriculum chief. So we picked him—a deformed little hunch-backed Zionist hysteric. He used to scream at me, in front of the troops, no less, because he wanted me to “teach the REAL Holocaust” while avoiding anything about the evils of genocidal communism.
All this is on the VNN site and it would profit this site were it condensed and made into a new thread.
15. Historybuff says:
African Man is right, multilingual others do use PC in mainstream talk vs other talk to their own kind. Most Jews are multilingual and know about “goy(im)” but hide it!…
Barney is WRONG about himself (if a true white man) when he says he is not a “goy.”
Actually, he is. And this is great!
Subverted commercial churching has hidden identities! Let’s get it straight!
The “Great Commission” in the Bible (Matthew 28:19) tells disciples to go to all nations and baptize them in the name [singular name a mystery!] of the Father, Son & Holy Ghost” and commercial churching says go to all races and invite them into your church.
Not so! this concept contradicts the works of Jesus that he and his disciples go ONLY to the “lost” sheep of the house of Israel. (Mat 10:6 & 15:24) Israelites. Not “Jews” often mistaken for Israel due to their incessant propaganda (more later*)
How do you resolve a contradiction? Study words and roots intensively. I John 2:20-24 tells us to KNOW ALL THINGS, we must know what was in the beginning (Genesis).
OK, where is “nations” first used? Gen 10:5, along with the English word “Gentiles” and both are translations of the same original word GOY (or gowy, plural goyim). Defined in this passage as being families of Noah. Gen 10 lists about 70 such clans or NATIONS
and Noah was perfect in his “generations” (Gen 6:9) a word meaning his genera, his LINEAGE from Adam. And “Adam” means to show blood in the face – a paleskin guy.
Therefore the “nations” are exclusively white people. NOT ALL HUMANS, including many made before Adam, pre-Adamites, the “living” over all of whom “man” had been given DOMINION right at the start, the Prime Directive in Gen 1:26-28, wherein the word we see printed as merely “man” is literally the original word Adam. Got it?
So “goyim” are Adamic, white people, given dominion over the rest. (!) And thus hated by the others, especially our chief protagonists who ring-lead groups against us.
Now churchy types hate this in PC churches (licensed for tax benefits by secular state, requiring they be non-racist and never push political matters – they’re neutered!) And these folks rant that my interpretation cannot be right. Here are two more proofs.
Daughters of “men” (Adams again) are said to be FAIR (Gen 6:2) and that word from bright means again – whitish, bright, not dark. “Fair” is used many times for us.
Those who say Adam has nothing to do with “nations” (gowy) hit a brick wall in “song of Moses” (Deut 31:30 into all chap 32) with lines explicitly speaking of SONS OF ADAM [32:8] and how their inheritance (land) was split up as they were “separated” (actually dispersed and divided is more exact for “separated.”) The earlier term “divided” is no word at all! What fits in there is a matter of interpretation. [Perhaps a key word got cut by rabbis? Something fishy.] It seems God gave in divisions the land as they dispersed.
And as for the word “Jews” it first appears quite late (2 Kings 16:6) for people in Judea who were on the point of being taken to captivity, so it referred to them later, notably in Babylon. (From Babylon later about 42,000 returned to Jerusalem, but most stayed to run businesses, many mixed with locals of all sorts, and after the Temple fell in 70 AD, most “Jews” returned to Babylon and bulit their Talmud religion and Kabala mystic cult, while others dispersed, mostly along north Africa to Spain.)
So Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon were never called “Jew” amazingly!
By 30 AD “Jew” was used three ways: referring to descendants of ones that had gone to Babylon, referring to any resident of Judea = JUDEAN RESIDENT (probably best def), and also anyone keeping Old Testament Law. In the last sense only was Jesus a “Jew” since he actually kept God’s Laws – he was sinless. He rejected the “Jew” oral tradition of Elders (Mark 7), later codified as the Babylonian Talmud (“Judaism” religion). And…
Jesus rejected the Jewish leaders and folks who rejected himself. Not only did he reject their attitude, but he rejected their lineage, saying they were NOT his/God’s people, since his own folks heard him & followed him (John 10:22-31) becoming CHRISTIANS
versus the rest who remained what they were (“Jews”)… (to this day, I might add.)
OK, if they were not God’s people or people of Jesus (clearly including real Israelites, who by lineage are all pure Adamites, shown by lineage lists), then who were they???
THIS IS THE KEY TRUTH ALWAYS TWISTED BY “pro-Jew” types of any lineage, even our own dummies who follow commercial, state-approved churching.
History: Around 126 BC the king of Judea (JOHN HYRCANUS) defeated Edomites also known as Idumeans (Esau descendants). See data onthem in Obadiah (all), Isaiah 34:5, Malachi 1, etc), also called Bozrah, “red” their color (Isa 63). Hyrcanus made them get circumcised and become “Jews.” Note in Bible lines! (Possibly some were cut???)
Read “Antiquities of Jews” (1st century) by (Jew historian) Flavius Josephus, Book 13, Chap 9, lines 257+. Also see “Edom” in Encyl. Judaica and other references. It tells us who became new residents of Judea, thus “Jews.” So two contrary groups of people were called Judeans or “Jews” before Jesus appeared on the scene. He was never an actual resident of Jerusalem but a Galilean or Naratite. (Galilee was mostly Benjamites who were actual Israelites.) Jerusalem’s heirarchy was largely Edomites and mixes. The chief man, Herod, had Edomitic male ancestry; his mother was Cyprus an Arab!
so he really was not Israelite, but lead Judea. Got it? Real Israelites (who became Christians) vs ones who rejected Jesus and remained just Judeans (ie “Jews.”)
Much later some other groups also adopted Judaism and joined the gang know as “Jew.”
Around 36o Himyarite mixed folks (modern Yemen, see them revolt on TV nightly!) became “Jews” but later Islamists took control of most in old “Raidan” kingdom. Small groups in SW India (Cochin “Jews”) and even China and Ethiopia mixed with Judaists.
By far the largest invasion into the “Jew” group was around 740 AD when mixed central Asian folks (Turk, Mongol, some escaped Edomites too, who moved west to occupy land northeast of Black Sea as Khazar Empire) became Judaists under Kagan (king) Bulan. Aftr the royal family changed, lesser folks did too.
Their major cities were Atil/Itil and Sarkel. [USSR covered one with a dam!] They claim to be “Ashkenazi” and are big in USA. Many had mixed with whites enough to resemble us a lot. Rabbis also adopted an idea lineage is dominantly via females. This is totally unbiblical! “Jew” identity now rests on your mothers. I think this is the method used by “Israel” state to admit folks, who can have any religion! It’s a race (mix) state.
So, if you have more dat on this let us know. (Famous Jewish author Arthur Koestler published data on the non-Jew Khazar “Jews” inhis book “The thirteenth Tribe” that is good as far as it goes, but there is a lot more strange mixing in the group as a whole.)
Critics of this viewpoint say that all folks are mixed. Yes, we Adamites recently have departed homelands and mixed a lot with each other, but an Adamite (goyim, nations, Gentiles) person of only these clans/nations is still a pure Adamite. Huge numbers exist!
16. Marshall says:
If “Jews” are God’s Chosen People, why are they always getting nose jobs to look just like the inferior Goyim? The answer is plain as the nose on your face (ahem) 🙂
17. david bender says:
you are right on the botton history buff did you ever here gene smith the bible truth man. from texas.
18. david says:
Hi, I belive that there is no man than can save America (white Israel), who, needs God the Father. Please read Genesis. This was written for the white race, from Adam til now. Cain, who was Satan’s seed, was spared by God, God stated he had a purpose. Read Genesis three. We have sinned against God, we don’t obey the Commandents and judgements God has set in stone. We want man’s government, read Samuel eight. Don’t tell me that the law and the prophets are done away with. Look around you, this is why America is falling and fast. Ron Paul and the like can’t help us, help comes only from God and obeying all of what is written in the Bible, the preachers of today don’t tell you all of the truth. I belive that the end of of this age is near and soon we will have justice, God’s laws again. Think of old Egypt.
19. david says:
In addition, God spared Cain, why? To make His word good. White Israel has sinned against God, his commandments. We are being puished for breaking His commandments, like living like the heathens, among them and accepting their customs. Open your eyes. You need to study the Bible not just read it.
20. Cannibal Rabbi says:
Get a grip.
GOD sees everything.
Say yer a kike, as an example.
Yer a filthy lump of shit.
A typical kike.
Hell will mend you.
No other side.
21. Puzzle Pieces says:
Cannibal Rabbi?
Are you a filthy stinking khazar supremacist anti white fuck? Or is that just sarcasm?
22. Don in Taiwan says:
They say Jews are intelligent. But what is so intelligent about destroying the world and making enemies everywhere?. Cunning yes, intelligent no.
Sometimes I wonder if the Jews in positions of influence and power conjure up demonic entities to get “coached”on how to destroy so effectively. Like using our own wealth to further enslave us. Very efficient.
Some may think this is nonsense. But the more I investigate, the more I see that the truth is the polar opposite of what is pushed in the dominant culture. Nothing surprise’s me anymore.
I just feel there is more to it than meets the eye.
23. Don in Taiwan says:
I saw a quote by Voltaire something like this: “if you want to know who rules over you, then look at who you are forbidden to speak out against ” . Or to that effect.
But more and more are realizing why the world is messed up and calling it what it is… jewry
24. DDDuane says:
Along with aforementioned jew Magnus Hirschfeld and his jew “sexology” was another vile jew Wilhelm Reich (of orgonomy fame) who was pushing his own brand of subvertive vile jew “sexology”in Berlin in the 1930’s…(no niggers there for a jew to inflame/foment nigger gang attacks on Whites…)
Wikipedia surprisingly gives a good account of what this disgusting jew Reich was up to before he was forced to flee Germany…(another poor oppressed innocent jew….) Of course Reich continued his jewness when he came to the U.S. ….
I once heard a jew radio host (Joe Frank, NPR) mention that Reich had a nude teen summer camp in New Jersey but I haven’t seen that info in print any where else…
25. Lre says:
Hey don’t know how to inbed link . but they got a black girl taking a selfie and in the back ground is a group of blacks with a gun to a black kids head while he is on his knees preforming oral .. well just thought I’d drop you a tip in caseit hasn’t came up on your radar yet might be good in your pictures .
26. dick fuld says:
who is the jews favourite ball player?
a.) whitey ford
b.) henry ford
c.) whitey ” the white rat” herzog
27. Jewish scribes have been Weaponizing History a long time before 1776. They have doctored up clay tablets for millennia.
As Europeans, our writings were very accurate and we have kept excellent records.
Jews are notorious for stealing texts and documents, claiming credit forgot, destroying, tampering with, mistranslating for disinfo purposes etc. Their whole history revolves around doing this with gentile writings.
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Jax NTP holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CSU Long Beach. They currently teach critical thinking, reading, and writing through literature and composition courses at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA. Jax reads fiction for The Offing Magazine and poetry for By&By Poetry Lit. Their words have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Apogee Journal, and 3:AM Magazine.
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Inside the Mind of Isadora
Friday Fictoneers – Institutionalized
Venom flowed through her veins. Hate was a mild word for what she felt for him.
She had him taken to an institution. He would be there for life.
Her mother died shortly before he was placed there. Doctors said her frail body was from malnutrition and improper medical care. At 88, she needed home health care. Instead, her mentally challenged son was her only caretaker.
Why was she angry at him?
It helped soothe her guilt.
Banned from his mothers funeral by her, he raged. The perfect storm for him to be taken away.
Lord grant her soul redemption.
2018©Isadora DeLaVega
Genre: Flash Fiction
Word Count: 100
Photo Prompt: Sandra Cook
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3. Such a tragic tale of this dysfunctional family. It’s always the most vulnerable who end up suffering. 😦
4. Wow! A lot going on here. A bit of sibling rivalry, a dying mother, trickery, guilt… Well done.
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• Hi Alicia,
Where does the time go? I’m just responding to last weeks challenge.
I’m running as fast as I can, but like a cartoon character, I’m running in place. 😁
I agree there’s a lot of harder in this one and a lot more to add. I guess I should write a longer version.
Thank you for always visiting and commenting. Have a beautiful weekend.
Isadora 😎
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6. Well written story, and a great description of an un-loving family. I felt sorry for the mom. Her daughter obviously didn’t care enough to check on Mom and entrusted that responsibility to her brother, whom she knew was lacking in mental capacity. Then when Mom died, she blamed her brother and had him institutionalized. I’m not seeing how it makes her feel less guilty to blame someone else. It sounds like something Donald Trump would do. 🙂
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• Hi RG,
Sorry about the late response. Things are a bit hectic.
I’m smiling at your comment. I appreciate your saying it’s well-written. My writing journey has been to improve my skills.
HA HA … I like the comparrison to the Donald. Yes, I think there’s a lot of blame everywhere in this family. I hope to write
a longer story. Can you lend me some time??? 😄
Isadora 😎
7. Though I found the animosity between the siblings to be really painful, especially since it became worse with a parent’s death and though I felt the brother deserved sympathy, even affection, rather than the flagrant hatred, the story felt very real.
Very well written story, Isadora.
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• Thank you, Moon. I’m very pleased you found it to be very real. It’s an observation of a dysfunctional family I’ve known.
That’s why I didn’t use names. Yes, it’s sad but the dynamics bring it about. I appreciate your visiting and leaving such a stellar comment for me.
I’m smiling as I reply. 😊
Isadora 😎
8. If he was put into an institution maybe he was too sick to be blamed… maybe hatred should be directed elsewhere… but at least he’s were he belong.
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• I’d say you are right about the need for him to be institutionalied. Perhaps, the mother couldn’t
do it; therefore, despite the anger, the sister did. Ahhh … the mysteries of dysfunctional family dynamics.
Thank you, Bjorn. It’s always a pleasure to see you here. Your comment was insightful.
Isadora 😎
9. Such complex emotions conveyed in so few words Issy! Brilliant! 🙂
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10. Your story made me stop and think. At first I thought the daughter was most to blame. The son, being mentally challenged, perhaps was less culpable. Society and care providers let the family down, so they deserve some blame.
And then I wondered about the mother. She has two children who hate each other and have shown over years – decades – that they can’t work together. How did she raise those kids? Maybe her death was chickens coming home to roost…
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• Oh … I love thinkers. I must say I had to read your comment twice. It’s very insightful.
It’s an observation of a dysfuctional family. The dynamics are complex. Far deeper than
100 hundred words can allow to write in detail. I’ve been toying with the idea of creating
a book just from this one observation. I’m getting more serious about it as I write more
vignettes about these people. Thank you for your great comment, Penny. I appreciate all who visit.
Isadora 😎
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11. Querida Issy,
Me gusta la frase, “venom flowed through her veins.” Such an evocative way to put it. Perfecto. Espero que un día escribiras má en este cuenta. (Feel free to correct my Spanish. 😉 ) Quite the family dynamic. You left me wanting to know more. ¡Muy bien, mi amiga!
Abrazos y Shalom,
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• Querida Rochelle,
After I wrote the line, I thought, “Wow where’d that come from?”
Soemitmes, my mind can regurgitate some interesting phrase. LOL
Su espanol es muy perfecto. Solamente creo que – ma … sea mas.
I’m working in vignette from the observer of this dysfunctional family.
I must get this all together one day. I’m starting to confuse myself.
Gracias por sus buenas palabras. Siempre me da mucho amor para seguir.
Muy amable mi amiga,
Isadora 😎
ps – do you have a program that adds the upside down ! and the other exclamations? : )
12. What a sad situation for the mother, to be neglected by her son. Her daughter feels such guilt and needs someone to punish. Sad situations. Nicely written, engaging story. =)
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13. Amazing story with so many years of pain and resentment behind. Well done.
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14. A complicated family situation!
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15. I have read that it is not the people who are bad or evil but the circumstances . But again some overcome bad circumstances and turn out to be angels.
A story of family feud and revenge wrecks the heart.
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16. So she took her guilt out on him, her father or brother?
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17. A family feud of the highest order. Sounds like the start of a revenge drama.
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18. But who is she? And how does she have the power to have him institutionalised?
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19. Revenge poisons not just the targets but also the perpetrators
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TCC-RT > File Selection > LFN File Searches
LFN File Searches
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LFN File Searches
There are some special considerations applicable to volumes which support long file names (including VFAT, FAT32, and NTFS volumes). All files on such volumes have a short (FAT-compatible 8.3) file name (SFN). A file which was created (or renamed to) a name which contains lower case letters or other characters not compatible with SFNs, or a name longer than 8 characters, or an extension longer than 3 characters, or more than one period (.) in its name will have both the long file name (LFN) specified, and an SFN automatically generated by the file system. The SFN associated with an LFN may change when the file is moved or copied even when the LFN is not changed.
When CMD performs a wildcard search, it searches for both forms of each file name. The long filenames are checked first, followed by the short file names. Matching files which have only a short filename will be found during the first search, because in that case the file system treats the SFN name as if it were a LFN.
For example, suppose you have two files in a directory with these names:
Long Name Short Name
Letter Home.DOC LETTER~1.DOC
Letter02.DOC LETTER02.DOC
A search for LETTER??.DOC will find both files. The second file (Letter02.DOC) will be found during the search of long filenames. The first file (Letter Home.DOC) will be found during the search of short filenames but will return LFN.
Because this dual search can result in some very unexpected or even disastrous results, TCC defaults to searching only for the LFN. You can change the default with the Search for SFNs option in the OPTION / Startup dialog.
Take extra care when you use wildcards to perform operations on LFN volumes if you have set Search for SFNs, because you may select more files than you intended. For example, Windows often generates short filenames that end with ~1, ~2, etc. If you use a command such as:
del *1.*
you will delete all such files, including most files with long filenames, which is probably not the result you intended!
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An Interview with cozy mystery author Amy Metz
Today I have the privilege to interview Amy Metz about her Goose Pimple Junction cozy mysteries.
Kayta: What does your writing process look like?
Amy: As soon as I have an idea of what I want the story to be, I sit down and get as much of it on paper/screen as fast as possible. I only worry about getting the bones down. Then I go back and add to the dialogue, scenery, and characters. At this point, I usually have some brave soul (or souls) read it and offer criticism. Then I go over it and edit and enhance again. The next step is to leave it alone for a few months and go back at it fresh. I edit and enhance some more, and then send it to a professional editor. When she’s done, I incorporate her suggestions, and send it to a proofreader. When I can’t stand to go over it one more time, I declare it ready to publish.
Katya: Do you have any strange writing habits?
Amy: Strange writing habits? No. Strange personality traits? Yes.
Katya: What is your favorite/least favorite part of the writing process?
Amy: I love the middle part, after the bones are down but before any real editing takes place. I love going back and adding layers—kind of the skin and clothing. I like developing the characters and making the story come alive. My least favorite part is in the beginning, when I get stuck on the plot.
Katya: Is there a subject you would never write about?
Amy: Lots of them! But I can’t write about them. Sorry, that was lame.
Katya: How important are names in your books? How do you select names?
Amy: Names in the South are extremely important, so they’re equally important in my books. I keep a running list of names I come across and like. Sometimes a character is born with a name. Other times, I refer to the list and choose one that I think matches him or her.
Katya: What literary character is most like you?
Amy: Eeyore on a bad day, Piglet on a good day.
Katya: What is something you want to accomplish before you die?
Amy: I’d like to be deeply, passionately in love and have that feeling returned. Is that an accomplishment?
Katya: Where is one place you want to visit that you haven’t?
Amy: The Redwood Forest.
Katya: What books/authors have inspired you?
Amy: Dennis Hart and Michael Lee West.
Katya: What are you working on now?
Amy: Rogues & Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction, the third book in the series.
Amy: Thank you so much for hosting me!
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Penis care for newborns
Should I have my baby boy circumcised?
The choice to circumcise a penis (that is surgically removing the foreskin (prepuce) that surrounds the head of the penis) is a personal one, often rooted in deep-set religious or cultural norms. Today New Zealand circumcision rates are estimated to sit around 10% of male babies. As mentioned, it is usually related to cultural significance, so circumcision rates in other countries can vary hugely – circumcision rates in the States sit around 60%.
The Australasian College of Physicians states that “there is no medical indication for routine neonatal circumcision.” However, it is up to individual parents, so it is important that the operation, it should be done by a competent surgeon, using appropriate anaesthetic in a safe, child-friendly environment.
Circumcised penises
Your baby will have petroleum jelly and gauze on his penis. You may soak off the gauze dressing after 24 hours or so, after a bath. Some caregivers then recommend putting petroleum jelly on the sensitive site for a few days, to help reduce any stinging from urination. When you change each nappy, gently wash around the penis with clean, warm water. Avoid rubbing. Some spotting of blood is normal for the first few nappy changes.
Infection is rare, but signs of an infection might include persistent redness, swelling at the tip, crusted sores, or odour. Call your doctor immediately if you notice any of these.
Once the wound heals, simply wash the penis with soap and water. Avoid bubble baths, which can be drying and cause irritation.
Uncircumcised penises
Until the foreskin is retractable (often not until puberty), don’t try to clean under it.
Change your son’s wet or dirty nappies as soon as possible to reduce the risk of infection.
This article has information from sources including City Med and Southern Cross
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Find your personal “Holiday Spice”
I love coffee. Inside this mug is a holiday blend french roast that I mixed up myself by grinding a cinnamon stick and some whole cloves and a chunk of whole nutmeg in the coffee grinder, then adding it to my coffee. I didn't have a vanilla bean to add in, so I dotted the … Continue reading Find your personal “Holiday Spice”
Hey Starbucks- ya got trouble…
If life worked like a Musical as I've so often wished, I'd just spell it out in song like The Music Man did. Trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "C" and that stands for CONNECTION. According to recently appointed Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson in this interview with Fast Company editor Bob Safian, Starbucks is "a consumer brand … Continue reading Hey Starbucks- ya got trouble…
Cold turkey is not the only way
Though cold turkey was my preferred method when giving up alcohol, this method wasn't always successful for me in other situations and it left me seeking another option. Of course there's other options! There is always another option because if you have not arrived at an option that works for you, it means it's still out there … Continue reading Cold turkey is not the only way
I really love coffee. It gives me a lift just seeing the word or looking at a picture of it, so here is today's gift to myself. 🙂
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Toward Making Humans Empathize with Artificial Agents by Means of Subtle Expressions
• Takanori Komatsu
Can we assign attitudes to a computer based on its represented subtle expressions, such as beep sounds and simple animations? If so, which kinds of beep sounds or simple animations are perceived as specific attitudes, such as “disagreement”, “hesitation” or “agreement”? To examine this issue, I carried out two experiments to observe and clarify how participants perceive or assign an attitude to a computer according to beep sounds of different durations and F0 contour’s slopes (Experiment 1) or simple animations of different durations and objects’ velocities (Experiment 2). The results of these two experiments revealed that 1) subtle expressions with increasing intonations (Experiment 1) or velocities (Experiment 2) were perceived by participants as “disagreement”, 2) flat intonations and velocities with longer duration were interpreted as “hesitation”, and 3) decreasing intonations and velocities with shorter duration were taken as “agreement.”
Humanoid Robot Transition Range Sound Stimulus Neutral Speech Beep Sound
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[OpenAFS] "reauth" code?
Russ Allbery [email protected]
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:56:09 -0700
Gary Gatling <[email protected]> writes:
> We have some c code lying around that won't work any longer under RHEL 6
> called runauth. I strongly suspect it is based off of the runauth that
> google tells me used to be at
> ftp://ftp.transarc.ibm.com/pub/afs-contrib/tools/reauth/ ?
> Does anyone know if there is a more modern version of this code that could
> work on RHEL 6 ?
The first question is are you still using the kaserver, or are you using
AFS with Kerberos 5? The answer is going to be very different depending
on what version of the problem you have.
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My name is Alessandra Gatti and I am 20 years old. I live in Treviso but studying in Verona, in the Veneto region, north-east of Italy.
I have never studied photography in my life. I didn't even know what was a Light Meter before somebody once told me. But there's something inside of me, and always has been, that pushes me to block some simple things in everyday life and give them back through pictures. I started taking photographs with a little compact digital camera, already using manual controls; then I got my first DLSR camera, a Nikon D3100 that I still have and use. Suddenly, almost three years ago, I felt like going back to analog photography and a whole world of possibilities and wonders jumped into my hands. I changed a lot of different cameras, from lomography to analog DLSR, but also many disposable cameras, either expired and not. I am always experimenting new devices and films.
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Crisis of conscience
Gripping doc follows one man's crusade to stop Darfur killings
Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern's scorching but heartfelt documentary The Devil Came on Horseback not only inspires me to upload my review copy to the Web (I wouldn't) but to also burn thousands of copies and hand them out at shopping malls and grocery stores. I want to send the film to anyone who's complained that Darfur — like the conflicts in Rwanda or Bosnia — is just too complicated to understand and say, "Here, now you have no excuse."
As the Bush administration twists itself into knots over what constitutes genocide — much as it has redefined "torture" — the facts remain the same: The Muslim-led government of Sudan has trained, sponsored and directed a nomadic militia group known as the Janjaweed (which translates to "devils on horses") to rape, murder and drive out black Africans in the region of Darfur. With nearly 400,000 dead and another 1.5 million displaced, the inaction of the West is as maddening as it is shocking.
No one knows this better than Brian Steidle, a former U.S. Marine captain who served as an official observer in Sudan after its 20-year civil war came to an end. Assigned for six months in 2004 to accompany an African Union peacekeeping force during the country's ceasefire, Steidle uncovered a Khartoum-sanctioned campaign by the Janjaweed to slaughter black Africans in the oil-rich territory of Darfur. Armed only with his camera, Steidle documented a seemingly endless string of brutal massacres, photographing murdered children and burnt-out villages.
Sundberg and Stern catch up with Steidle in 2006 as he turns what he's seen and photographed into a one-man mission to prod U.S. intervention. Coming from a long line of military men, the former Marine is a straight-talking activist who passionately takes his case to the media and Bush administration and finds shockingly little success. Even after The New York Times runs his photographs —including pictures of villagers chained together and burned alive — government officials (Condoleezza Rice et al.) display a sickening level of indifference. Worse, the U.S. State Department actually requests that Steidle stop circulating his photos. From impotent politicians to quickly fading celebrity events to creepy pro-Khartoum Arabs who stalk his lectures like Holocaust deniers, the former Marine encounters apathy, ignorance and inaction.
There is no disguising the film's agenda. It urgently seeks to provoke more than just empathy, it demands action. And though the filmmakers can be accused of juicing things up with showy camera angles, quick edits, computer-generated maps and cheesy sound effects, their sins are nothing compared to the nations that allow these atrocities to continue.
In a particularly moving moment near the end, the usually stoic Steidle is caught off guard during a car ride. As he struggles to keep from breaking down, the weary advocate rejects the compliments and thanks he's received for his photography. "Watching is nothing," he says, tearing up. "It's just watching." Steidle's comment could equally apply to audiences who attend movies like these and do nothing afterward. Spectatorship, no matter how empathetic and well-meaning, is wholly inadequate. The violence in Darfur continues unabated.
When asked what the biggest regret of his presidency was, Bill Clinton answered that he wished he had done more to prevent the flashflood of genocide that engulfed Rwanda. Well, Sudan is his chance to make up for it. Yours too. If watching Hotel Rwanda elicited pangs of guilt that you didn't pay more attention or write a letter to your congressman or donate something to someone somewhere, The Devil Came on Horseback is a devastating slap to the face that history, indeed, repeats and "never again" has been trumped by "ignorance is bliss."
Showing at the Detroit Film Theatre inside the DIA (5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-3237) at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12-13 and at 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14.
Jeff Meyers writes about film for Metro Times. Send comments to
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madclarinet (madclarinet) wrote,
• Mood:
Ever wondered why life feels so much like a battlefield?
You are opposed by people who want to drag you down and/or attack you (or such like). Your 'allies' are your friends and 'decent' work colleauges.
But, the problem with that 'idea' is that your Enemies and allies do tend to swap places and thus make you watch your back and sides - who do you have to fight (if you need to). Do you believe your allies are able to hold their lines, how many do you trust will do the job?
I think I need a nice castle next to the sea with a nice wide moat. Then again, staying cooped up in a castle isn't the best plan also - staying on the defensive (although defense is definatly my forte) is not a good mind set.
So... whats next, attack, defend - a single 'all out' assault or maybe my old favourites - flanks, deception, misdirection and plain old sneakyness (with insanity mixed in).
Anyone think I've been reading too many strategy and tactics books? I can't help it - I'd kill the author of the books I'm reading at the moment, but he died in 1946 (Sir Charles Oman).
Maybe I'm far too tired and I should retreat to my bed. The battle continues but new allies come from unexpected places. But again, do you trust them or do they go because you don't trust them enough.
Yes - thats it. I definatly need my bed.
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What’s the mild pain for?
Carrying forward a niggle?
Something that doesn’t stop you from performing, though?
However, something that nags?
Can’t stop to get it out of your system?
Momentum doesn’t allow you?
When you do stop to get it out, it doesn’t go away?
Is it more mental?
Or more physical?
Can’t decide?
Don’t know what to do?
Who to ask?
What if the hospitals grab you?
Make your wart into a cancer?
Are they then ever going to let you go?
Totally stumped?
We’ll, I’ve got something for you.
Are your ears standing up?
Can’t believe your luck?
Could Nath be bee/essing?
How does he know about all this stuff?
What makes him an authority?
Why should I trust him?
Well, don’t.
Is it costing you to listen?
Well, then listen. No harm.
So, as I said, I have something for you.
Are you ready?
Here goes.
Two words.
Embrace it.
Yeah, embrace the niggle.
Make it drive you on.
Make its mild pain give you quality output.
Milk it.
Make the niggle your advantage.
What if it goes away?
You’re pain-free.
What if it doesn’t?
It then becomes your secret weapon.
That’s like buttering your toast on both sides.
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DIY: Hanging Floral Garland (Kinda).
Before we start, I’d recommend for everyone to get acquainted with the paper flower tutorial I posted a while back. This tutorial is kind of a spark notes version of the garland featured in Olivia’s room.
PS. It took me nearly 7 hours to make the garland in the photo.
Tissue paper
Floral wire
The main difference from this and my original paper flower tutorial is that I added a layer of green tissue paper to each paper flower bud. I use one or two layers of green tissue paper per flower.
1. Cut the green tissue paper the same width as your paper flower (it’s okay if it’s a tad smaller too).
2. Fold it in half.
3. Halve it again.
4. Cut the loose end into a curved triangle.
5. Open up the fold and layer it over your paper flower like a taco.
6. Continue the same process featured in the paper flower tutorial. However, with this garland, I use 4-8 layers of tissue paper per flower (not including the green leaf layer).
7. Once you are done fluffing up your paper flowers, turn it around.
8. Holding the yarn knot, poke the floral wire through the opening between the knot and the paper flower.
9. Twist the floral wire to secure it.
Loose leaves
1. With two layers of tissue paper, free hand cut an offset pattern for the leaves. I usually cut it in one go. I use two colors of green and cut one color larger than the other to give a nice layering effect.
2. Twist the stem.
3. To secure the leaf stem and the floral wire, loop them together around the twine.
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Paradise is finite – a lesson a long time in the learning, and yet to be learnt by some
March 17, 2017
170px-RJCunninghamMy latest article. Published in The Daily Maverick in South Africa.
Interesting facts about the origins of African conservation that shows it was the British who brought the black rhino to the critically endangered levels from which they have never recovered.
The hunters recognising that game was becoming scarce, was the reason the British and Europeans took measures to conserve Africa’s wildlife – treating game as a treasure of the Empire.
Rhino horn trade was linked to the ivory trade and slave trade in the 19th century. The Ivory Trade was dominated in East Africa by Indians and Arabs with the tribes doing the hunting. Whether ivory was for Western or Eastern end-markets it was nearly always carved in China, but rhino horn was always for the Orient: for carving in Yemen or carving and medicine in China and parts of Asia. In the lead-up to the 20th century the British took over the trade from the Arabs and Indians and the tribal hunters who over 100 years had reduced rhino/elephant populations drastically. The Brits, Europeans and American industrialists claimed the rhinos and elephant for sport, for trophies, but still supplied the Asian trade for much needed cash. Africans were jammed out. While the Brits put regulations in place to try and stop the most bloodthirsty “sportsmen”, hunting didn’t become illegal till CITES in the 1970s and only certain aspects. The Asian brokers, middlemen and end-market have been continuous factors for over two centuries in the hunting of rhino whether legal or illegal. Now the hunting is done either legally as deigned by the conservation sector specifically CITES (which was formed in Washington) by sportsmen or pseudo-sportsmen (trophy hunting is not seen as trade) or illegally by rogue South Africans both black or white. But the Asian middlemen and end-markets have persisted. In my article I am suggesting that certain mindframes exist, particularly among indigenous South Africans and Africans and Asians, as a result of Western nations’ earlier role in reducing rhino populations to critical levels, then appearing to reserve hunting of rhinos for sportsmen.
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The 8 Effects of the Brain-Gut Connection (Gut-Brain Axis Part 2)
In my last post, we learned the basics about your gut, your microbiota, dysbiosis, and the how it all connects to your brain to have an effect on the rest of your body.
Today, I’m going to go into more detail first about the mental effects and then about the physical effects of your gut.
1. Gut-Brain Axis Part 1
2. Gut-Brain Axis Part 2
3. Gut-Brain Axis Part 3
4. Gut-Brain Axis Advanced
4 Mental Effects of the Brain-Gut Connection
Mental Health
The different microorganisms in your gut like lactobacillus, candida, streptococcus, and bifidobacterium strains produce different neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are important because they’re what allow your brain cells (or neurons) to communicate with one another. As I mentioned in the last article, these affect both your actual brain and your ENS or Second Brain.
There have been many studies about the effects of microorganisms (or lack thereof) on feelings of depression, anxiety, and stress. One study done on rats found that microbiota were required for feeling anxious. Another found that people with depression had increased levels of certain bacteria compared to those without depression.
On the flip side, to solve some of these mental issues, studies have given different kinds of bacteria to rats and have successfully reduced their occurrence.
Neurogenesis is the name for the creation of new brain cells. New brain cells are created throughout our entire lives—in fact, about 700 new neurons are created in the hippocampus (part of your brain responsible for memory) every day!
Studies have found that taking antibiotics can decrease neurogenesis which can limit your cognitive function. But, taking probiotics and exercising can increase neurogenesis and repair damage done by antibiotics.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Modern life is very different from that of our ancestors: our environment has become more hygienic, our diet has changed, and antibiotics are more widely used. As a result, we come in contact with fewer microorganisms. At the same time, the incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has increased. In experiments, mice living in sterile, germ-free environments had more ASD-like symptoms such as antisocial behavior towards other mice. When microorganisms were introduced to these “autistic” mice, their behavior changed to more normal, sociable patterns.
The gut of people with ASDs often have permeability problems (also called leaky gut) and an unbalance in their microbiota. Probiotics may help to rebalance that.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. For people with Parkinson's, instead of having the normal, healthy 700 new neurons a day, their brain cells begin to die. It most often affects older people.
Often, people with Parkinson's also suffer from gastrointestinal issues like constipation, weight lost, and acid reflux. Furthermore, when studying the stool samples of people with Parkinson's, doctors have found that they have a significant lack of a bacteria called Prevotella. Although treatments such as fecal matter transplant which introduce new microbes into a person’s gut may be a cure in the future, evidence is still inconclusive.
4 Physical Effects of the Brain-Gut Connection
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is caused by a biopsychosocial etiology. Let me break down those dense medical terms for you. First, “etiology” is a way of saying “cause” or “reason” and most often refers to what causes diseases. “Biopsychosocial” describes a theory that puts a disease’s reason as being biological (like your genetics), psychological (depending on your mood or behavior), and social (your culture, family, and socioeconomic background). This model broadens the possible causes of disease from the formerly accepted “biomedical” model that only takes the biological causes into consideration.
As a result, IBS alters aspects of the brain-gut axis. IBS lowers the number of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in the body. SCFAs are produced by microbes in the colon that the brain needs for metabolism. IBS is correlated with psychological issues like depression and anxiety and some studies suggest that childhood trauma may be a factor in its development.
Disrupt Metabolism
SCFAs are important for other parts of your body, too. They give you energy, make sure your skeleton stays strong, and maintain your metabolism. Your metabolism is responsible for converting food into fuel and nutrients and eliminating waste and toxins. As a result, negative changes to your microbiota can result in obesity and metabolic disorders by affecting your gut’s ability to properly carry out its job.
Immune System
As I discussed in my last article about PPIs, your digestive system is a vital part of your body’s defense against germs and disease. The immune system also helps the body stay in homeostasis—or functioning normally. If your normal gut flora is off balance, the rest of your body (including your immune system) can follow.
The microorganisms in your gut produce proteins called cytokines are that responsible for changing the behavior of cells. Autoimmune disorders are caused when these signals tell your immune system cells the wrong thing causing them to act abnormally. Some cytokines are known to cause depression when they travel to the brain through the bloodstream.
Increased Allergies
Allergies are also a type of autoimmune issue and like autism they are on the rise as a result of a more hygienic environment and increased use of antibiotics. Studies have shown that increased exposure to a diversity of microbes at a young age can prime the body and the immune system to know which substances are harmless and shouldn’t trigger an allergic response.
TLDR: When there are issues with your internal flora, it hurts your mental and physical health.
In My Next Post
In my next post, I’ll share what I’ve learned both from my research and from personal experience to keep my gut and my brain healthy.
For now, try some butyrate😉
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Top 10 Oils For Removing Warts And Killing The Virus That Causes Them
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Warts are an ugly, ugly business, aren’t they? They aren’t caused by any of the old wives’ tales about warts. Warts are caused by a virus, most times, the human papillomavirus or HPV. When the virus enters the skin through a tiny crack or cut, even just a scratch, it stimulates a rapid growth of cells on the outside of the skin- which is what gives you that lovely wart.
To truly get rid of warts once and for all, you need to not only remove the wart, but kill the virus that caused it in the first place.
This is where essential oils come in. There are many essential oils which first “burn” off the wart, then kill the virus.
Please, if you suffer from genital warts, do not try any of these methods. See your doctor for treatment.
By the way, you can spread the wart to others since it is a virus. If the wart should touch another person or an object, such as a touchpad, and someone else touches it and they have an open wound, you can pass this on so please keep the wart covered.
Most over the counter treatments involve salicylic acid or cryogenic kits that burn off the wart but do nothing to treat the virus, which means it can grow back.
If you have a wart, or worse, an annoying wart that keeps returning, try one of the following 10 essential oils which will kill the virus causing the problem.
1. Ginger Oil
Ginger has powerful antiviral compounds. It has been shown in several studies to work against viruses where even drugs are ineffective.
2. Thyme Oil
Like ginger, thyme oil is a very effective antiviral oil that works well against skin viruses.
3. Oregano Essential Oil
Oregano oil is one of the best oils for burning off warts as it is very “hot”. It also contains compounds called carvacrol, which is a known antiviral agent.
4. Tea Tree oil
This is one of the most amazing essential oils around. Keep some in your first aid kit at all times. Tea Tree oil has been tested over and over and found to be very effective against viruses. It has not one, but four powerful antiviral compounds. It is one of the best all-around oils for everything from acne to toenail fungus to healing scars.
5. Lemongrass Essential Oil
In one study involving the antiviral effects of 12 essential oils on the herpes simplex type 1 virus, (which is the typical cause of most cold sores), it was lemongrass essential oil which came out on top of the heap. Not only did this oil kill the cold sore but it also kills all infected cells. Whether this oil would work just as well with the virus that causes warts is unknown as it has yet to be scientifically tested but it does work wonders with shingles as well.
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A Guide To Getting Your Kids To Wear A Helmet
A Guide To Getting Your Kids To Wear A Helmet
Posted by: NJ Kids Team - July 25, 2014
Head injuries are no laughing matter. Trauma from bike riding, motorcycling, skating or football accidents can lead to neurological disease and behavioral issues. One study in Scientific American even shows prison inmates are seven times more likely to have suffered a traumatic brain injury in the past. Of course, getting your children to understand this danger is akin to convincing them candy is yucky. If your child will not listen to you, then try these simple demonstrations to get your point across:
Four Simple Demonstrations to Get Your Kids to Wear Helmet
1. Break An Egg
The brain is a mass of nerves floating in cerebrospinal fluid protected by the bones of the skull. The Brain Injury Association of New Zealand uses a raw egg as an illustration for the brain and skull. In this, the yolk is the brain, the whites are the brain fluid, and the shell is the skull. Shake the egg and ask your child what is happening on the inside. The egg whites are protecting the yolk, but if you are violent enough, the yolk will pop.
To get your point across, create an ovo-accident, and vary it depending on the type of activity that you child enjoys. If your kid is in football then take two eggs and slam them together. Be a little more aggressive than normal for effect, making sure to break both the shell and the yolk.
2. Use A Bruise
The next time you or a family member has a bruise, use it to your advantage. Cerebral contusions are a form of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is bruised. More than a million people in the United States suffer cerebral contusions annually. When one of your children has a bruise, use it as a prompt for a lesson on bruising your brain. In severe cases, bruising of the brain can require surgery to avoid damage that can cause mood changes, seizures and even death.
3. Blow Up A Balloon In A Bottle
Let your child know that a head accident without a helmet can lead to swelling of the brain. This condition, called cerebral edema, can get very bad, very rapidly. This is an extension of the lecture on bruising. When the brain bruises, it can fill with fluids and swell. As the brain expands, it runs out of room within the skull cavity and pressure is placed on the nerve matter. This condition can be fatal.
To illustrate the point, place a balloon inside a bottle and begin blowing it up. As the balloon inflates, it will run out of room in the bottle just like the brain inside the skull.
4. Wrap An Egg In Bubble Wrap
Now is the time to bring the lessons home. Take an egg and wrap it is some protective packaging. This is what a helmet does. To encourage them, start looking at cool riding helmets. This is the part where a good parent flips the script, making protective head gear a fun fashion statement as well as a lifesaving sports accessory.
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Clean Markdown Links in Riposte
One cool thing about most clients is their support for Markdown links. Wrap the title in brackets, followed by the link between parenthesis and you're good to go. What about sharing some links straight from Safari to Riposte as Markdown links?
The Easy Way
We'll dive into the world of bookmarklets again and, as you may guess, I have plenty of those in my Safari. This exercise will introduce you to Riposte's URL scheme and also refresh your mind on how to build a bookmarklet.
The url to create a new post in Riposte is as follows:
This will create a Hello World message, but what we really want is to grab the title and url of the current page we're visiting in Safari. For the title we use document.title, meanwhile for the url we go with location.href. We also must URL encode this content and add our Markdown link syntax. The outcome will look like this:
But what if we wanted to put Clean Links into the mix to remove all that crap people attach to links these days? Well, let's say things can get quite nasty.
The Hard Way
Remember when we discussed the retParam in 1Writer? Well, Clean Links has that as well, but turns out it doesn't help in our situation since we want to modify the output and the retParam doesn't allow that as far as I'm concerned. Yet, Clean Links has another kind of output: the clipboard. But how can I send the clipboard to Riposte? Using Drafts, of course! Now that I got your head all messed up, let's start this bookmarklet backwards:
You may be familiar with that URL, it is available in Drafts' Action Directory. Install it, the headache will get a lot easier by using Drafts' built-in action. Next we build the Markdown link using ||clipboard|| because we're power users.
Actually, I wanted to introduce you to the ||clipboard|| element in this article. From the official docs:
The /create action supports a special ||clipboard|| tag. If this tag is found in the "text" parameter, it will be replaced with the current contents of the device clipboard before creating the draft. This is particularly useful when used in x-success parameters when chaining URLs, when the clipboard might have changed while you were in another app.
Cool, right? If you skipped the quote, I'll let you know that [[clipboard]] wouldn't work in our case, it would send the tag, literally, to Riposte. To make use of it you'd need a custom action that creates the Markdown link using the [[draft]], which would be only the title, and then the clipboard, which wouldn't change since we triggered Clean Links. Confusing? Just stick to my example then.
After hours of trial and error, we're ready to include Clean Links, the first step is to encode everything we made so far and set it as the x-success parameter for Clean Links. The location.href must be encoded as well, so be careful with that.
We reviewed a few tricks for Riposte, the crew goes wild, and our bookmarklet skills. We also saw the recently added ||clipboard|| parameter in Drafts and learned that getting rid of those url shorteners is harder than it sounds. See you next time, I promise it will be sooner.
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1. Chronological Thinking
Chronological thinking is at the heart of historical reasoning. Without a strong sense of chronology–of when events occurred and in what temporal order–it is impossible for students to examine relationships among those events or to explain historical causality. Chronology provides the mental scaffolding for organizing historical thought.
In developing students’ chronological thinking, instructional time should be given to the use of well-constructed historical narratives: literary narratives including biographies and historical literature, and well-written narrative histories that have the quality of “stories well told.” Well-crafted narratives such as these have the power to grip and hold students’ attention. Thus engaged, the reader is able to focus on what the narrator discloses: the temporal structure of events unfolding over time, the actions and intentions of those who were there, the temporal connections between antecedents and their consequences.
In the middle and high school years, students should be able to use their mathematical skills to measure time by years, decades, centuries, and millennia; to calculate time from the fixed points of the calendar system (BC or BCE and AD or CE); and to interpret the data presented in time lines.
Students should be able to analyze patterns of historical duration, demonstrated, for example, by the more than two hundred years the United States Constitution and the government it created has endured.
Students should also be able to analyze patterns of historical succession illustrated, for example, in the development, over time, of ever larger systems of interaction, beginning with trade among settlements of the Neolithic world; continuing through the growth of the great land empires of Rome, Han China, the Islamic world, and the Mongols; expanding in the early modern era when Europeans crossed the Atlantic and Pacific, and established the first worldwide networks of trade and communication; and culminating with the global systems of trade and communication of the modern world.
The student thinks chronologically:
Therefore, the student is able to:
• Distinguish between past, present, and future time.
• Establish temporal order in constructing their [students’] own historical narratives: working forward from some beginning through its development, to some end or outcome; working backward from some issue, problem, or event to explain its origins and its development over time.
• Compare alternative models for periodization by identifying the organizing principles on which each is based.
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WOWWE! Words On Women Weekly Experience: A Time for Joyful tears
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Chosen vessels deliver a real-time message straight from the heart of God to the nations to encourage everyone, at the sound of her voice, to receive eternal life through Jesus Christ. Despite your past there is forgiveness in God through repentance. The mission is to introduce to some and remind others Jesus is Lord! There is nothing too hard for God. Are you struggling with sexual perversion, addictions, depression, suicidal thoughts, rage, sexual molestation, hatred, forgiveness, mental instability? God will deliver, transform and redefine your thoughts, behaviors and characteristics into His image. Tune in and listen and receive the gift of God! If you desire prayer or a special request you may contact us by phone call-in or E-mail your request to
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PMW 2018-037 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
One of the recurring images of the postmillennial advance of the kingdom in Scripture is of the joy exhibited by use of wine. We see this in Isaiah 25:6; 55:1; Joel 2:19; 2:24; 3:18; Amos 9:13; and Zechariah 10:7.
Unfortunately, there are Christians who oppose any consumption of alcohol (even in moderation) and who therefore miss the beauty of this image. And they have several Scriptures they bring to the debate. One frequently cited passage in Leviticus 10:8–11:
The LORD then spoke to Aaron, saying, “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you may not die — it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations — and so as to make a distinction between the holy and profane, and between the unclean and the clean, and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them through Moses.”
Original function
This passage clearly institutes as a “perpetual statute” that members of the Aaronic priesthood should not drink alcoholic beverages when they enter the tabernacle. Nevertheless, against those attempting to use this passage in the present debate, we must note two important qualifications.
(1) This prohibition applies only to the priest in the priesthood (Aaron and his sons). And (2) it only forbids the use of alcoholic beverages when actually engaging in the priestly function.
Josephus notes that “as for the priests, [Moses] prescribed to them a double degree of purity” (Ant. 3:12:1). This special purity includes the following: “nor are they permitted to drink wine so long as they wear those garments” (Ant. 3:12:2). The priests only wore their “sacerdotal garments” (Ant. 3:12:2) while ministering: “when he enters the holy place” (Exo. 28:2-4, 29), “when he goes in before the Lord” (Exo. 28:30), “when he ministers” (Exo. 28:35), “when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place” (Exo. 28:43).
God Gave Wine (by Ken Gentry)
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Apparently God provides this legislation as a safety valve for the priesthood, to prevent any accidental profanation of the tabernacle service. The context seems to demand such an interpretation, for in Leviticus 10:1 we read: “Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.”
Verses 2 and 3 give the result of such profaning of the priestly function, and God’s reason for such severe punishment:
Nadab and Abihu died because they offered things on the altar God did not command. Consequently, the priest must be extremely careful that he follow God’s stipulations in the holy service. Were the priest allowed to drink just before or during a priestly service, his mind might not carefully follow God’s order of service (cp. Hos 4:11).
Thus, this passage has nothing to do with us today, since we are not of the Aaronic priesthood, which has passed away (cf. Hebrews 9 and 10).
Contemporary employment
Despite these observations some argue that this prohibition remains incumbent upon New Testament era believers because we are “kings and priests” (cf. e.g., 1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Rev. 1:6). I will cite the arguments of two representatives of this strained but widespread position. One is prohibitionist Stephen Reynolds; the other is an abstentionist, Gleason L. Archer; both are evangelical scholars of great knowledge. In Reynolds’s case the focus is not on the present passage, but on Proverbs 31:4-5, which forbids kings to drink. The manner and assumptions of the arguments of both men are the same, however.
Referring to Revelation 1:6 (which teaches that believers are “kings and priests”), Stephen Reynolds states: “It follows, if we accept this reading [i.e., the Textus Receptus], that all Bible believers must be abstainers, since what was required of kings in the Old Testament is required of kings under the New.” In the next paragraph he adds: “If ancient kings were warned not to drink intoxicants lest they forget the law, modern believers who wish to keep God’s law in their heart, should accept this prohibition as binding on themselves.” [1]
In a similar vein, and with an identical spiritual non sequitur, Archer informs us that “this has implications for the New Testament priesthood of all believers (1 Peter 2:9) and suggests that they may be seriously handicapped in carrying on the work of soulwinning if they personally indulge in the use of alcohol.” [2]
God Gave Wine Lectures
By Ken Gentry
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Inappropriate method
This methodology is inappropriate due to a number of problems. A few brief observations will illustrate the spurious nature of such an application of Scripture:
First, if such methodology were proper, both of these provisions (relating to both priests and kings) would witness against our High Priest and King of kings, Jesus Christ. As I show in the preceding chapter, Jesus does partake of wine. This evidence alone exposes the argument’s reductio ad absurdum.
Second, even in the Old Testament this spiritual truth (that believers are kings and priests) is true. The Old Testament background for both 1 Peter 2:5, 9 and Revelation 1:6 is Exodus 19:6, which reads: “You shall be a kingdom of priests” (italics added). Yet the Old Testament clearly permits Israelites to manufacture, sell, and drink wine.
Third, both the priestly and kingly prohibitions have implied limitations: the prohibition is in effect during the actual exercise of official powers. Leviticus 10:9 particularly commands: “Do not drink wine or strong drink . . . when you come into the tent of meeting.” A similar limitation is strongly implied in the rationale for the prohibition upon kings in Proverbs 31:5: “Lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.” The perversion of rights could only come about with official sanction, i.e., while acting magisterially or judicially. God prohibits wine-drinking in these limited contexts in order to prevent the frequent corruption of justice brought about by kings who function magisterially while intoxicate (e.g., Isa. 28:7). Biblical law does not forbid wine to kings permanently and universally (cf. Gen. 14:18-20).
The most we can say of such an argument is that while in the process of carrying on the work of soul-winning, the believer as a priest to God should not drink. Or while elders are judicially pursuing church discipline, they are acting as kings and should not imbibe.
Fourth, if we allow such a hermeneutic, what sense could we make of Paul’s requirements for the eldership and diaconate? Earlier we saw how the prerequisites specifically exclude only those “addicted to much wine” (1 Tim. 3:8) and those “addicted to wine” (v. 3). Furthermore, how could we understand Paul’s “be not drunk with wine”? Why did he not say, “Do not drink wine”?
Leviticus 10 does not contain a prohibition of moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages by Christians. Thus, the biblical image of Christ’s kingdom being represented by wine is not a problem.
[1] Reynolds, Alcohol and the Bible, 34. 78. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982), 148.
[2] Archer, Encyclopedia, 148. See also: Jerry G. Dunn, The Christian in a Drinking Society (Lincoln, Neb.: Back to the Bible, 1974), 11-12.
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Elements of Design - Value
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Is the lightness or darkness of an object – Regardless of it’s color…
Create Movement
Having different values gives the
design a more dynamic appearance.
Lead the Eye
Color has the power to override the effects of value. In a high contrast black and white design, introducing a single, small bit of will change the focus and balance of the design.
Color over Value
Color over Value
High Contrast
Increase/Decrease Contrast
Increase/Decrease Contrast
Choose the value that creates the amount of contrast and effect that you want for your design.
Three Main Uses of Value in Design
Three Main Uses of Value in Design
Increase / Decrease Contrast
Create Movement
Lead the Eye
Elements of Design
Low Contrast
Objects of the same value gives a static design with all objects equal in visual importance.
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An open letter to the Tableau Public community about Iron Viz
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Veröffentlicht von Jenny Richardsam November 6, 2017
Dear Tableau Public Community,
We've heard you. We've seen the tweets, read the emails, and talked for hours with you.
We know your feelings about Iron Viz are complicated, and we feel the same way.
In the month since TC17, the conversation has reached fever pitch - but you've heard very little from us, from the Tableau Public team. You might have seen a message here and there from us individually, but we haven't responded - and it's given you the impression we're not doing anything.
That's not the case. We have had the same conversations internally too, much of it in response to what you're saying online. To your Twitter threads, to your surveys, to your blog posts. But that's as far as we've gone - we're not off making plans without you.
Over the next few weeks, we're assembling a panel to provide recommendations. We know we're not going to get it right the first time. Heck, we'll probably miss people who have a lot of great ideas. But we have to start somewhere. We'll do our best to be transparent and open about our progress, and we'll move as fast as is right.
Keep the ideas coming. If you see a survey and want to participate, please do. If you want to engage in an impassioned debate, please keep it civil. If you have ideas but want to share them privately, you can email me directly. If you just want to watch, we'll do our best to share updates on this blog, in the forums, on social media, and through other people.
We welcome all voices in this discussion.
- jenny
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Keeping Information Secure: The Federal Trade Commission’s Role in Data Security
By Brittany Wiegand
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Cybercrime damages are expected to be in the trillions by 2021. Law firms’ data security is only becoming more relevant and important, yet technological advancements far outpace governmental standards and frameworks to assist businesses in protecting clients’ security. This note argues that the Federal Trade Commission stands in a position to take the lead in regulation and security enforcement and that the FTC should promulgate regulations to prevent future security breaches.
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The Delusional Philanthropist
How donors with the best intentions get in everyone’s way. Everyone who gives away money or makes a social investment wants to feel like they are doing good. After all, that’s the basis of philanthropy. We want to help others, make lasting positive change and leave the world and its inhabitants better off because of our contributions. But too often, philanthropists delude themselves about their own effectiveness because they don’t see the myriad ways that they are adding needless complexity and complication to their work. They are blind to their own behaviors, policies and practices that can cause more harm than good. And they frequently get in their own way without realizing it. I call this delusional altruism. Here’s an example: … Continue reading The Delusional Philanthropist
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Publishing component with fmod to github
(Konstantin) #1
I wrote cordova wrapper for embedding FMod into ionic apps on both ios and android platforms.
Could I publish it into github?
Could I include fmod binaries into it?
Could I use MIT licence?
Also to make cordova plugin add usable I will need to push your binaries to repo
(Mathew Block) #2
Any third party wrappers can be uploaded to GitHub without our permission. However it is against our EULA to upload our binaries. We ask that you direct developers to our website to download the binaries and provide instructions for integrating them with the wrapper.
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Statement of Faith
We believe in the verbal and complete inspiration by God of the original writings of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is God, at work in the world to execute all divine activity and especially to reveal Jesus Christ and to glorify Him.
We believe that humanity was created in the image of God and is loved by Him but, through sinful inheritance and choice, is alienated, separated from God and under His righteous judgment.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a substitutionary and complete sacrifice, and that all who repent and believe in Him are justified, wholly apart from human merit and works, on the ground of His shed blood and resurrection.
We believe in the second, visible and personal coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to establish his worldwide Kingdom on the earth.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and the unsaved, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting separation from God of the unsaved.
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and members of the body of Christ, the one true Church, whose life is visibly expressed wherever even two or three are gathered together in Christ’s name.
We believe that the Christian life is not a reformation, but a transformation, in which Christ Himself relives His life through the believer’s whole being. Such a life will be preeminently characterized by love, truth and purity.
We believe the church is commissioned to evangelize Jesus Christ as Lord and by living as His servants among men. the world, both locally, and globally by proclaiming
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Delivering Dreams
The Giver of dreams,Delivering Dreams
our Lord God above;
true to His promise,
and faithful in love.
No matter how long,
we seemingly wait;
we’re not forgotten,
and God’s never late.
His timing’s perfect,
all things by His plan;
in faith, we must trust,
it’s all in His hands.
Rejoicing in Suffering
High priest, jealousy,
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wanting for center stage.
Apostles arrest,
reaction in their rage.
Though placed in prison,
the Lord unlocked the door.
He then brought them out,
leaving chains on the floor.
To the temple courts,
to tell of this new life.
Boldly they went,
despite the coming strife.
Puzzled officers,
chief priests who were confused;
cells still tightly locked,
yet here they preached the good news.
Again brought to court,
for truth, put on trial.
“We must obey God!
In Him, no denial.”
Furious though they were,
one spoke, a voice of reason.
Consider with care,
the time, place and season.
For if it’s from man,
it will surely die out.
But if it’s from God,
you might choose another route.
So they called them in,
and sentenced them a flogging.
The faithful rejoiced,
counted worthy such suffering.
(Responding to Acts 5:17-41)
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for the example of Your early church. Thank You that the very same Holy Spirit that equipped and empowered them to do all that they did in Your Name back then, is the very same Spirit that dwells in the hearts of us who invite You in today. Forgive us for taking too lightly, the significance of Your Spirit in us. Teach us to live boldly for You, so that we might see Your Kingdom come and Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Lead us Lord in the way we are to go, and teach us to listen and obey. May many come to know You as we walk in faithful obedience to Your calling. Thank You that You are always good. Amen.
Build Your House on the Rock
image by Nicole Egerer
image by Nicole Egerer
“I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my word and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.” – Luke 6:47-48
“Obeying God is like building a house on a strong, solid foundation that stands firm when storms come. When life is calm, our foundations don’t seem to matter. But when crisis comes, our foundations are tested. Be sure your life is built on the solid foundation of knowing and trusting Jesus Christ.” (NIV Study Bible footnotes)
An old song I learned in Sunday school when I was little, keeps going through my head:
Don’t build your house on the sandy land,
Don’t build it too near the shore.
It might be kind of nice but you’ll have to build it twice
Oh, you’ll have to build your house once more.
You better build your house upon the Rock,
Make a firm foundation on a solid spot.
Then the storms may come and go,
but the peace of God you’ll know.
( fun video of kids singing it as I learned it)
Our foundation matters. Are we deeply planted in Him, rooted in the truth of His hope, and watered by His word regularly?
Though storms are never fun, our endurance and eventual outcome, are determined by the foundation on which we stand. I have been through times when it felt as though I were starting to sink, and it was only by His grace that my feet were again guided to solid ground. In more recent years, and even months, it has been remarkable to see how solid His truth, when it is the foundation on which we stand, we live, and from which we draw our every breath. Not to say in any way that I have “arrived”,not by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a joy to know that I am quicker to turn to Him and trust His truth today, than I was before. As we seek Him, He grows us in His grace, and firms up our foundation in Him. He alone, is worthy of all of our trust!
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that You give us Your word and illustrations that we can hold onto – images that make sense to our souls. Teach us to further invest our hearts, souls and time in being with You and in Your word. Continue to establish in each of us a solid foundation that will withstand life’s most severe storms. Lead us in love to listen and learn, so that we might be even more securely rooted in You. May our foundation of faith in You, fuel the fire in others to seek Your face. Amen.
His Purpose Will Prevail
“For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish His purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God’s words are fulfilled.” – Revelation 17:17
Were it not for the footnotes, I fear I would still feel a little lost. The following are the accompanying footnotes in my NIV Study Bible:
“No matter what happens, we must trust that God is still in charge, that God overrules all the plans and intrigues of the evil one, and that God’s plans will happen just as He says. God even uses people opposed to Him as tools to execute His will. Although He allows evil to permeate this present world, the new earth will never know sin.”
I find much comfort and reassurance in the reminder that God’s ultimate purpose and plans will be accomplished, regardless of the ruin and wreckage the existing evil may cause. Sadly, we have seen so much of it with shootings and stabbings – both locally and globally. However, we have also see a nation grieve the losses of a small northern town, and rally behind them with a monumental outpouring of love and support. The goodness of God, supplied in the aftermath of inexplicable evil.
Yesterday, my mom, my boys and I, traveled a few hours south, to meet my sister and her boys at the very same mall that was the site of one of the recent shootings. Upon arrival, I anticipated a sense of fear or anxiousness within me, yet I felt neither. Instead, I felt joy in our happy reunion, and peace in the perfect protection provided by our Heavenly Father. People were kind to each other, and I was delighted to be in such wonderful company.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that Your purpose will always prevail, regardless of our present perception. Thank You that greater are You who is in us, than that which is in the world. Teach us to trust You and Your perfect plans, and forgive us for allowing fear a foothold. Lead us to listen well, so that we might love like You. Let our light shine brightly before all in need of Your loving light and life. Amen.
Truth be Told
“The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at Him. They said, ‘He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.” – Luke 23:35
photo by Angie Lawlar
Boy, what a loaded verse! People who did not know Him, yet despised Him, could not help but speak truth about Him. Even in their sneers and spoken mockery, truth was told. From their mouths: He saved, He is the Christ, He is the Chosen One.
Jesus, friend to sinners and physician to the broken, stood strong in His resolve to redeem us in our wreckage, despite the detestable display by those whose hands He allowed to beat His body and hang Him upon the cross. Jesus saw past the junk, and kept His eyes on His Heavenly Father, knowing his mockers and murderers would soon know just how true their words had been.
He saved others. You, me, and all who call on Him as our Savior and King, have been saved through the significance of His sacrifice for each of us, once and for all.
He is the Christ of God. Sent as a baby, raised as a Son, gifted as a man, and at last returned to His rightful throne, seated beside God, the Father.
He is the Chosen One. Set apart, yet among us, the only One to lead a blameless life, qualifying Him alone to be the Chosen One; the only One worthy to save our souls through His sacrifice on the cross.
Dear Heavenly Father, forgive us for our contributions that made the cross necessary. Thank You that You provided a path for our redemption, restoring us again to a right relationship with You. Teach us to treasure the gift of forgiveness that You have granted, and help each of us to hold You in the proper place in our lives and hearts. May Your majesty move our lights to burn brightly, so that others too, might see the significance of those spoken words. Amen.
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Her Midnight Ride
Her Midnight Ride
3, Decisions, Decisions : African American Erotic Romance
eBook - 2013
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Book 3 of 5Greg is shaping up to be the best boyfriend Janelle ever had, but then his bigoted father turns up and Greg doesn't have the guts to admit he's dating a black woman. Her sister sets her up on a blind date to help her put him firmly in the past, but it doesn't work out quite the way she planned. When Greg turns up and gives her a way to work through her anger, letting off steam leads to something even steamier. Can she forgive him? And what will she say to his shocking offer? This short story is roughly 9,400 words long and is not intended for readers under the age of eighteen. EXCERPTThen I looked across the road and stopped short. Greg was there waiting for me, sitting on his motorbike. Neither of us waved or said hello. We simply stared at each other while I wondered if I should run away. No. I wasn't some snivelling little girl. I could handle talking to him.I crossed over, trying to look brisk and purposeful. "Greg." I nodded hello."Here." He held out a helmet that matched the one perched next to him on the seat.I didn't take it."Go on. There's something I want to show you."Curiosity warred with my pride. In the end, I gave in and took the helmet. A quip fell onto the tip of my tongue, but I bit it back. I wasn't exactly speaking to him."Make sure you hold on tight," he said as I fastened the strap under my chin and climbed up behind him. Thank goodness I'd worn trousers to work that day.I did as he asked and got a noseful of leather jacket smell mixed in with his citrus cologne before I flipped down the visor. The scents went straight to the animal part of my brain and I couldn't resist holding him tighter than was strictly necessary. When he turned on the engine, the vibrations got me thinking about things that were best left alone. Especially when I had my arms around a man with a fondness for cunnilingus. I wished I hadn't thought of that. --Provided by publisher.
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ISBN: 9781301924523
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patchGNU Octave - Patches: patch #8918, fgridsearch as a gridsearch...
patch #8918: fgridsearch as a gridsearch alternative to fminsearch
Submitted by: Max Görner <maxg>
Submitted on: Fri 26 Feb 2016 09:49:36 AM UTC
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Thu 07 Jul 2016 05:31:52 AM UTC, comment #5:
Hi Kai,
I am not sure what you want to improve in Example III. The interval fminsearch function's focus is to find fval. If you are interested in the corresponding x values, you can find them with the interval fsolve function. Use optimset parameters on either function to improve accuracy.
I must agree that the function is not very useful as a generic tool, because it doesn't do much more than "min (f (meshgrid (...)))" would do. I would consider to use it in special cases where I know that my grid is good and not too big.
There is no bisection or heuristics of any kind, so all we have is a "brute force" attempt to traverse the grid.
Wed 01 Jun 2016 01:09:08 PM UTC, comment #4:
Please don't feel discouraged, but I really want to understand, what makes your function better than existing tools.
Looking at your examples, I don't like them, as they only reveal things I don't understand about your algorithm or need more documentation:
Example I - is in my opinion as elegant as writing the code of comment #1, and the results are only as good as choosing the grid.
Example II - has four equal minima on each edge of the grid! Here the code of comment #1 would even perform "better". This behavior of finding only one (and which one?) minimum must be clearly documented to be reliable.
Example III - My understanding of the example is a minimum near [-100 -100] with fval=-10. Maybe document this, it is tedious to find out.
Moreover I think this example just shows the feature of function handles and totally misleads, what fgridsearch should do.
fgridsearch does not (as I thought) search in this example for a minimum on the grid using fminsearch to help this. The returned params lies on the grid
but the function value for params is not the minimum!
It is just a point from the grid, that converged to the smallest local minimum MAYBE on the grid, as fminsearch embedded in @gh does not care about the given grid. In the following input, the starting point lies on the grid, but converges outside, and this is what fgridsearch would return without any warning for this example!
I think for global optimization the overloaded fminsearch for intervals
does a "better" job. I respects the boundaries and delivers rigorous inclusions. Using the interval package, I get:
Here I am sure to find the global minimum within these bounds. I added the package maintainer, maybe he can give a hint on how to improve Example III with his interval package.
Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Tue 31 May 2016 09:57:19 AM UTC, comment #3:
I improved the documentation a tiny bit. Most importantly, I added another example which demonstrates more clearly why I consider fgridsearch to be beneficial. I'll copy the example here for convenience:
I have to admit that this function only helps to hide loops, though.
If the new example makes the function interesting, I'll happily work on the other points.
(file #37315)
Max Görner <maxg>
Mon 14 Mar 2016 08:38:18 PM UTC, comment #2:
I want to address only the question about the need of this function now.
You're right when you note that the function in the example can be written as in your small listing. However, that's not the whole story. You can pass in any function taking any number of inputs and you'll get back the best value found by a gridsearch. Think of a complex model for which some meta parameters need to be found. This saves plenty of loops and can make more readable.
If this is considered interesting, I'll try to fix the other issues.
Max Görner <maxg>
Tue 08 Mar 2016 12:46:13 PM UTC, comment #1:
This function basically does something according to the following code:
Some points to consider:
1. This function is not MATLAB compatible. Is there a particular reason/scientific discipline, that needs this function and is not able to write code, like the small listing above?
2. The documentation is not very detailed, better document the input and output. See other Octave functions as guideline:
3. Does this function work for dimensions > 2?
4. How does this function perform for large scale problems?
5. I notice function crashes, without help for the user, for nonconforming input like
To sum up, I don't see the benefits of this function. If one needs to evaluate the whole optimization domain, like fgridsearch does, one will code something like in this post above. fminsearch addresses another use case, where only the optimum matters and from this point one can try to evaluate a local grid, to save lots of computational effort.
Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Fri 26 Feb 2016 09:49:36 AM UTC, original submission:
I wrote a small function performing a gridsearch on a function handle.
The benefit is mainly that one saves multiple nested loops, so code using this function gains readability. Furthermore, in an utopian future that function might be parallelised better than nested loops.
Another benefit is that one can get back all function evaluations, so an detailed analysis of the results can be done. This is not possible with fminsearch at the moment.
I would be glad for any criticism of that function. Furthermore I think that it would be a good alternative to have either in Octave itself or in the optim package.
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13 November 2011 by Published in: rants 1 comment
This is a story about checks and credit cards.
Once upon a time, you would pay people by paper check. You had little pieces of paper with a bank’s name on it. When somebody wanted to pay someone else, they would write on the piece of paper, and the recipient would use the reputation of the bank and/or other authenticating documents to determine whether to accept the payment.
Today people still carry the little pieces of paper around, but they are no longer really used as checks. Today, most checks are converted into an EFT transaction (electronic transfer) before deposit. The particular kind of EFT commonly in use in the US is called Automated Clearing House or ACH. There is a newer, better, Check21 standard, but the legacy ACH system will be around for the foreseeable future.
The first problem is that writing a check to cover the groceries triggers a whole flowchart of parties to get involved in the transaction. And whenever you have five parties, you have five computer systems, and your 95% uptime becomes 77% uptime, and it’s a minor miracle that transactions go through at all. Just forget about figuring out, while you’re still in the checkout line, whether or not there’s money in the account to pay the bill. It’s actually easier to build systems that guess whether or not the check is good than it is to call up the originating bank and find out.
And because there’s so much risk in the system, everyone wants to make sure they were paid by the previous party before forwarding along the money to the next party. As a result, what should be a row lookup in a database table served up at 300ms turns into a 5 business-day affair while everyone waits for funds to clear. Ponder that for a minute: automated systems keep business hours. This part of the Internet closes at 9. Not to mention how the 5-day delta of the transaction increases the risk for everyone involved, incentivizing every party individually to try to slow it down further, leading to more risk, leaving to longer clearing times. Round and round it goes.
Oh, and were you under the impression that the Automated Clearing House actually clears checks? Don’t be fooled. Checks can be dishonored months after being “cleared”. So much for that.
Second, because ACH was replacing the legacy paper check system, it carries around legacy baggage. In order to be adopted, there had to be an easy way to convert paper checks into ACH transactions. But all the security of a check was in the paper–watermarks and holograms and such. So by definition, a system that removed the paper would be removing all of the security inherent in the system.
Here’s how to collect payment via ACH: call up a bank, and give them the numbers at the bottom of any check and an amount. Five days later, the money will be in your account. That’s all it takes to rob someone via ACH. The numbers aren’t even a one-time-key: they’re the same on every check. The only security measure to any of this is that they passed a law to criminalize it.
The problem is so bad that people keep stealing money from Donald Knuth, who sadly no longer writes checks.
As if that’s not enough, somebody can go to the actual bank and get real, paper checks with your account number on them. No ID is required to do this. There are no safeguards. Not only is the ACH system broken, even the old paper system has been irreparably broken as a result of the addition of ACH numbers to the paper.
And if somebody does steal your money? Good luck getting it back. Protection laws are minimal, or nonexistent. Even if you close an account to stop someone from writing the 30th fraudulent check drawn on your account, the bank will re-open it if they receive a debit, and happily charge you overdraft fees.
Enter credit cards, which have a clearing time measured in seconds, and strong consumer protections against fraud. Everything’s good, right?
If this looks more complicated than the ACH flowchart, that’s because it is. There are two systems in play here: the “authorization” system that decides at the point of sale whether the transaction will go through, and the “settlement” system that actually transfers the money. The “authorization” stack for most credit cards runs on, and this is not a joke, IBM 390-series assembler, an architecture that not only predates Windows and DOS but even the Intel 8086. The “Settlement” stack is built atop–what else?–ACH transfers. We’ve certainly learned from our mistakes.
Credit cards, like ACH, run on a “pull” architecture. All I need is the information printed on your card, maybe a zipcode, and I can stick you with a bill. Transactions are considered valid by default. Maybe you can dispute a charge, but with most banks the merchant’s continued business is a lot more important to the powers-that-be than yours. AMEX is one of the few companies that actually holds merchants’ feet to the fire, and this is part of the reason why they are not universally accepted.
In fact, the only problem that this new-fangled system solves, from a transactional point of view, is the type of fraud where somebody pretends to have more money or credit than they actually do. That is, the type of fraud where the bank or the merchant is left holding the bag, covering lost funds. Those scams where a merchant is incorrectly billing a consumer: recurring billing scams, fitness centers, advance fee fraud, and any other consumer-oriented scam; as long as the bank can skim their 2% off the top, it’s just not a priority.
In fact, what we need is a “push” payment architecture. I carry a mobile phone in my pocket. When a merchant bills me, I should have to explicitly “approve” the transaction via voice or SMS while in the checkout line, or else the transaction will be rejected. That way, to cancel service X, I don’t have to call and beg some customer service rep to stop billing me. I just have to stop pressing OK on the dialog that appears once a month. We can code up the technology to do this kind of “push” payments in about ten minutes. It’s not that difficult. It’s not that much of a hassle. And it totally fixes our broken payment systems.
There is such a company that provides this “push” architecture. Unfortunately, they suck. They’re far too busy trying not to be regulated as a bank and who knows what other legal nonsense.
The fact is, there’s no money in advocating for consumers. As a consumer, you’re not the customer of a payment system, you’re the product. Visa and the banks are out there selling to the merchants–Walmart, Target, etc.,–and you are just a bullet point on the sales presentation. Look at our reach! 40 million customers! Now let us skim 2% off of your transactions.
1. David
Mon 21st Nov 2011 at 7:37 am
Some people are trying new things with regards to mobile payment networks. Dwolla, for example.
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OT Survey 113 Seminar 16 Josiah Hezekiah and the Last Kings of Judah
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Andrew Hodge 18th August 2006
Old Testament Survey OTE 113
Seminar 16
Josiah, Hezekiah and the last Kings of Judah
Jensen, Irving L. Jensen’s Survey of the Old Testament 1978, Moody Press, Chicago pp185-216; 2 Kings 18:1-20:21; 2 Chronicles 29:1-32:33; 2 Chronicles 34:1-35:27; 2 Kings 23:31-25:21; 2 Chronicles 36ff
Explain the differences between Kings and Chronicles. Why are there two accounts?:
According to Jensen, the writer of Kings is not clear and “most authorities prefer the viewpoint of anonymity” although “tradition has assigned Jeremiah as the author” (p 190). What is clear is that the books were likely to have been compiled between 562 BC (release of Jehoiachin from prison in Babylon) and 536 BC (return from Babylon) as there is no mention of the latter in Kings.
1 and 2 Kings reveal the straight secular history of the decline of the United Kingdom and the subsequent split, corruption and captivity of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms.
The writer of Chronicles is very likely Ezra whose Book included in the Canon continues the history of the world commenced in Chronicles, through the returns of the Babylonian exiles to the commissioning and rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem under the auspices of the Babylonian King Artaxerxes 1. Both books of Chronicles were therefore written between 450 and 425 BC between the second and third waves of exilic returns. They begin with the genealogy of the Messianic line starting with Adam and running through Abraham, the Patriarchs and Judah down to Ezra’s day, and in particular include the genealogies of the priests and Levites that were to minister in the rebuilt Temple - a line which established their qualification and right to do so.
The Temple itself is said to be the key to Chronicles (G. Campbell Morgan).1a
Equally important as the writer is the readers of these Books. Ezra was communicating much more than history to his returning compatriots. They were facing a major task - not just the physical restoration of their beloved city, the city that Jehovah had promised that He would reside at and provide a King on the throne of David for ever - but the only place where God was pleased to be worshipped, a place that they had deprived themselves of for 70 years on account of their own sin, a place where they had a new opportunity to re-establish the Godly worship of their own unique Jehovah on the basis of His selection of them as His Chosen Nation.
1aG. Campbell Morgan, Living Messages of the Books of the Bible p 210 quoted in Jensen,Irving L. Jensen’s Survey of the Old Testament 1978, Moody Press, Chicago p 212
It should be noted again that when God has a choice between His people and the Land, He chooses the Land - possibly because the Land cannot repent, and can only be defiled by the persistent rebelliousness of His people. The return from exile is a demonstration of the mercy and forgiveness of God who has intimate knowledge of the hearts of His people and is aware when repentance is real.
Archer expresses this well: Chronicles was composed “to remind the Jews of the Second Commonwealth of their great spiritual heritage and foster a deeper appreciation of the divinely ordained foundations of their theocracy as the covenant people of Jehovah”[1]b and “Always the emphasis is upon that which is sound and valid in Israel’s past, as furnishing a reliable basis for the task of national reconstruction which lay before them.” [2] As a consequence of this view it should be noted that Chronicles leaves out the spiritual weaknesses of the exiles’ forebears eg the sins which David committed.
There are therefore two accounts because although more than half of Chronicles is contained in Genesis, 2 Samuel and Kings, the emphasis is importantly different (see Tables below) because of the different approaches of their writers, their time of writing, their purposes and their audiences.
Explain why Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent of Moses:
The scriptural description of this is in 2 Kings 18:3-7 “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the imagesc, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. 6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth:”[3]
‘Nehushtan’ is ‘that little brazen serpent’ implying something contemptible. One reason why Hezekiah destroyed it may be that it represented worship of Satan as did the local Canaanite tribes and the Medes and Persians among many.
Of note, the fuller account in 2 Chronicles 29-31 does not mention this episode, possibly because it did not reflect well on the people’s idolatry or on the conduct of the kings and priests who kept an idol and allowed it to be worshipped for 700 years (although Scripture is silent on when this idolatry began).
This also has spiritual significance for NT believers. The brasen serpent made by Moses was perfectly effective in preventing inevitable death when the plague of serpents invaded the camp in the wilderness (Numbers 21:9 - all the dying had to do was look toward it), and is referred to by John as a type of Christ (John 3:14) but as in our day with idols such as crucifixes, especially those with Christ still hanging there as if He had never resurrected (or as if Moses’ serpent was still effective in preventing death), destruction of idols is necessary to turn worship toward God, Who is the effective agent in the healing/salvation in any case.
David was “a man after God’s own heart”. Know God’s evaluation of Hezekiah:
Hezekiah is described as doing all ‘that was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did” (2 Chronicles 29:2). This is high praise indeed and is a description given only to two other kings: Asa (1 Kings 15:11) and Josiah (2 Kings 22:2), all three Kings of Judah representing David as their spiritual forebear. It is unusual that all three Kings came of ungodly fathers; Hezekiah of Ahaz, who had made it his business to defile the Temple and to re-establish worship in the ‘high places’.
Hezekiah’s reign was favoured by the influence and interaction of the prophets Isaiah and Micah (Southern Kingdom) and possibly Hosea (Northern).
Hezekiah was very quick off the mark with his reforms, beginning with the restoration of the Temple on day one (2 Chronicles 29:3, 17). It still took a little time to achieve this and although he had resolved to hold a Passover feast as soon as possible, it had to be delayed by a month (30:2-3). He took care to invite any in the North who wanted to attend - the North at that time being in the last stages of apostasy under Hoshea, the Assyrian captivity being imminent (30:10-11, 18); some mocked, some responded.
Unlike Ahaz his father (2 Kings 16:7-10), Hezekiah discards trust in man in favour of trust in God and finds great favour with God eg his initial reign of 14 years is closed with a severe illness which God spares him from and gives him another 15 years (why did Hezekiah ask for an additional sign when God had already said he would cure him? And deliver him and the city out of the hands of the Assyrians “for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake”. God was protecting His reputation when Hezekiah was unable to do so. Why was three days too long to wait? Neither God nor Isaiah appear angry at this request).
Although Asa and Josiah have similar compliments paid to them, Hezekiah’s pre-eminence comes in terms of his trust in God (2 Kings 18:5). In addition, “and the LORD was with him” (2 Kings 18:7) is a phrase used only to describe two other Kings - David (1 Samuel 18:12, 14, 28; 2 Samuel 5:10; 1 Chronicles 11:9) and Solomon (2 Chronicles 1:1). However, it was fact the “the LORD was with them” for many of the Patriarchs, it was a promise made to Moses (Exodus 3:12) and repeated to Joshua (Joshua 1:5) and by implication to all those that would faithfully rule the Nation (2 Chronicles 15:2). It is an indictment of all the other Kings, particularly of Judah, that the same cannot be said of them.
God’s opinion of Hezekiah influenced Him to bless him greatly - materially (2 Chronicles 32:27-30) and politically (32:23). Militarily, Judah and Hezekiah are not strong; Sennacherib king of Assyria invades Judah in the process of his conquering the Northern Kingdom and besieges Jerusalem, along the way taking a number of Judean cities including Lachish. Hezekiah has to limit himself to fortifying his capital and depriving the invaders of a water supply. Sennacherib’s servants malign the LORD God of Israel in public in front of the city wall; and Hezekiah and Isaiah together beseech the LORD to help them (2 Chronicles 32:20). God intervenes. In the parallel passage of 2 Kings 18:17-19:37 (which contains a great deal more detail) 185,000 men of the invading army die in one night, and Sennacherib slinks back to Assyria where he is assassinated by his sons while worshipping his idol Nisroch.
Discuss Josiah’s obedience after the Book of the Law was discovered:
Josiah succeeds his evil grandfather Manasseh and his evil father Amon, and is only eight years old when the people of the land make him king, after the people had his father assassinated by his servants (2 Chronicles 33:24-25). Josiah innately does “that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father” without deviating to right or left (34:2). Josiah actively seeks after Jehovah at the age of 16 and by 20 he was actively purging the country of idol worship and their worshippers (34:3-7) including the corrupt priests.
By the age of 24 he turned himself to repairing and restoring the Temple and during the renovations Hilkiah the priest “found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses” (34:14). This Book may have been the whole Torah, but may also have been a part of it eg Deuteronomy. It had been preserved by God for this particular occasion, demonstrating how God blesses us in unexpected ways while we are about His business.
Although focused on God, Josiah is still spiritually immature and the finding of this book will cause him to grow rapidly. His immediate response to his hearing the book read by Shaphan the scribe (the normal practice in a King’s court?) was to allow the words to judge him personally; and finding himself wanting, he rends his clothes (34:19) in a sign of grief and acknowledgment of guilt.
He then seeks Godly advice from those he believes to be his spiritual superiors and asks them to get God’s opinion about the Book, because he has realised that what the Book has told him involves the whole nation with their recent apostasy and idolatrous sinning - he expects an imminent outpouring of the wrath of God (34:21). It is not that Josiah wonders whether the Book is authentic, but more that he needs to know how it applies to him and the Nation at the time.
The LORD tells him through the prophetess Huldah (contemporaries Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah not available?) that indeed judgment will be poured out on Judah, but that it will be postponed until after Josiah’s death on account of his humility and repentance (34:27-28).
Josiah’s response to this is to be even more ‘evangelical’ about following the Lord and he ropes in the whole of his kingdom, first by reading to them the Book, then by setting his own personal example of commitment to follow God’s commandments, and making everyone within Jerusalem and Benjamin do the same (34:31-32). The people responded as Josiah hoped they would, fundamentally rewriting the law of the kingdom to be God’s Law, and purging all known idolatry from the land. The wayward Temple priests were brought out of the cities back into Jerusalem to the Temple which was the only proper place for them to receive their dues. They were not permitted to serve at the altar (2 Kings 23:8-14).
Of some significance is that Josiah was the first of Judah’s kings to tear down the pagan palaces erected by Solomon for his idolatrous wives: “Josiah also destroyed the high places which Solomon had erected in the vicinity of Jerusalem for the benefit of his pagan wives. The entire ridge of hills on the east of the city came to be known as the “mount of corruption” because of the evil rites practiced there. These ancient shrines Josiah defiled by breaking their sacred pillars in pieces, cutting down the Asherim, and by filling these areas with human bones. From the earliest times bones were considered unclean (23:13–14).”[4]
He planned a special Passover feast run exactly along the lines recorded by David and Solomon, all the participants in their divisions making an enthusiastic contribution, “and there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet” (35:18).
Scripture declares God’s estimation of the obedience of Josiah: “2 Kings 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.” [5]
Explain the significance of the battle of Carchemish:
See below. As an aside:
During Josiah’s reign, the influence of the Assyrians was declining and that of the Babylonians slowly rising. Nineveh falls to the Medo-Babylonian coalition in 612 BC. Pharaoh Necho of Egypt fears for the inevitable upset to the Middle East balance of power and crosses Israel with a large army to support the Assyrians.[6] He travels unmolested up the coastal plain to the northern Valley of Megiddo in 609 BC and Josiah “went out against him”.
Necho specifically objects to this for God is using him as a mouthpiece to warn Josiah off. But Josiah “would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him” (2 Chronicles 35:20-22) in spite of the fact that Necho declares he has no fight with Judah. Josiah is mortally wounded in the unnecessary battle. The loss of fighting men to Judah is not recorded.
Why Josiah does this is not clear. One might suppose that because Necho was pro-Assyrian and that Assyria had taken the Northern Kingdom into captivity, that Josiah felt honour bound to do what he could against them, expecting God to prop him up even though it was a situation that common sense said was folly. Against this is that there is no mention that Josiah purged the Assyrian colonists out of the Northern Kingdom as unwanted idolaters long before this. There is no suspicion that Josiah was pro-Babylonian in any way. Even if he was it was still a very dumb thing to do.
The battle of Carchemish occurs in 605 BC, the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 46:2), the same year in which Jeremiah made Baruch write the judgments against the king (36:1). The king tears them up, even as Nebuchadnezzar advances into Israel (36:22-23).
The seventy years of exile in Babylon are calculated from the same date of this battle (because of Jehoiakim’s open revolt against God? Spurns God’s offer of a last chance to repent?). It is not clear to me why this is so. The date of Cyrus’ decree and the first wave of return from exile is reasonably well documented to be 535/6 BC. Working back 70 years gives ~605 BC ie the battle of Carchemish. The change in the balance of power caused by a battle between secular powers seems to have nothing to do with dating the Captivity, which God says is caused by the sins of the Nation and of Manasseh in particular. Manasseh had died ~640 BC ie this is too early to date the commencement of the 70 years. God raised up Cyrus from the now-victorious Babylonians but His arm is not shortened to raise up any deliverer from any nation that happened to be in power over the Israelites. So why the date which happens to be the same as the Battle? And why no special incident in Judah to mark this date?
Discuss the political and religious situation in the Middle East during the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah:
John Macarthur comments: “Religiously, King Josiah (ca. 640–609 b.c.) had instituted reforms in Judah (cf. 2 Chr. 34). Tragically, despite his effort, idolatry had so dulled the Judeans that their awakening was only “skin deep” overall. The Egyptian army killed Josiah as it crossed Palestine in 609 b.c., and the Jews plunged on in sin toward judgment under Jehoahaz (609 b.c.), Jehoiakim [Eliakim] (609–598 b.c.), Jehoiachin (598–597 b.c.), and Zedekiah (597–586 b.c.).”[7] The Lord allowed this on account of the gross and continual sinning of the king and the Nation under Manasseh (2 Kings 23:26-27).
On Josiah’s death, the “people of the land took Jehoahaz (Shallum) the son of Josiah and made him king” (2 Chronicles 36:1). I suspect that the people had some spiritual concept of what they felt would be right, for Jehoahaz was not the eldest of Josiah’s sons. After three months, Necho catches up with the situation, deposes Jehoahaz, deports him to Egypt where he dies, and places his elder brother Eliakim (renamed Jehoiakim by Necho) on the throne in Jerusalem.
Jehoiakim reigns eleven years and is evil, “the villain of the closing years of Judah’s history. He was everything that is despicable in a national leader. He was a spendthrift, a bigot, an arrogant and irreverent tyrant who brooked no criticism, not even when that criticism came from a man of God. A prophet named Uriah was too bold in his denunciation of the king, and paid for his boldness with his life (Jer 26:21). Jeremiah was in danger on more than one occasion during those eleven years”.[8]
“Jehoiakim carefully watched the political developments on the Euphrates River. From July 609 to June 605 b.c. the armies of the Babylonians and the Assyro-Egyptian coalition sparred. For the most part during those years the Babylonians were on the defensive. Finally, the Babylonian army under the brilliant young crown prince Nebuchadnezzar was able to launch a mighty offensive against the Egyptian stronghold at Carchemish (605 BC). The Babylonians won a crushing victory. The tattered Egyptian armies fled southward from Carchemish in disarray. Nebuchadnezzar was able to roam at will through Syria-Palestine, the Hatti-land as he calls it in his annals.”[9]
This success meant that Nebuchadnezzar was now the ruler of the known world and allowed him to besiege Jerusalem at will. The city was reduced and taken into captivity in three tranches - 605, 597 and 586 BC. Nebuchadnezzar binds Jehoiakim and had intended to carry him off to Babylon (2 Chronicles 36:6), but after three years he dies in Jerusalem (murdered?) and is buried ignominiously (Jeremiah 22:18-19; 36:30). Nebuchadnezzar places his son Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) on the throne in Jerusalem instead, but he only allows him three months and ten days on the throne (at the tender age of eight [18? - 2 Kings 24:8], but he does evil just the same [36:9]), before bringing him to Babylon (thus ensuring a continuous line of royal descendancy from David through Solomon to Joseph and the Messiah).
After Jehoiachin, Nebuchadnezzar puts the evil Zedekiah, Jehoiachin’s brother (36:10 - uncle? 2 Kings 24:17), on the throne and makes him promise under God to be a faithful Babylonian subject. After a few years he not only rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, but also against Jehovah in a big way with idolatry and pollution of the Temple, despising God’s messengers, abusing the prophets “till there was no remedy” (2 Chronicles 36:11-16). The final destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans (Babylonians) was complete and Zedekiah had his sons killed in front of him, his eyes put out and was deported to Babylon. He did not qualify to be in line of succession to Messiah.
All this had been prophesied by Jeremiah the prophet years before when he urged the Israelites to give in to the Babylonian Captivity as being not only the means of God’s righteous judgment on their sin, but also the means of preserving them until they were brought back to the land which had had an opportunity by then to lie fallow for 70 years.
Appreciate the value of Godly leadership in times of apostasy:
See above and await Seminar.
Appreciate the justice of God’s judgment in Israel’s wickedness:
See above
Understand how the wicked character of the last Kings brought on the exile of Judah:
See above.
[1]bGleason Leonard Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, 3rd. ed.]., 449 (Chicago: Moody Press, 1998, c1994).
3Jensen, Irving L. Jensen’s Survey of the Old Testament 1978, Moody Press, Chicago p 209
4ibid p 192
c images: Heb. statues
[4]James E. Smith, The Books of History (Joplin, Mo.: College Press, 1995).
[7]John Jr MacArthur, The MacArthur Study Bible, electronic ed., Eze 1:1 (Nashville: Word Pub., 1997, c1997).
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I randomly managed to answer my own question.
The correct code is:
The follow on question is what is the t_object query that is the equivalent to .PropertyTypeName?
Flow Property is an element in the SysML Block definition toolbox. You use the Flow Property along with an Interface Block to set a port to transfer whatever type of data you want on that port.
I can access the fields in a Flow Property using the dot operator except for that one 'Type' field.
What is the correct .property that points to that particular 'Type' field?
Here is a code snippet of what I am trying to accomplish.
dim theFlowProperty as EA.Element
dim message
message = "Type: " & theFlowProperty.thethingIwant
I am trying to access the Type field that is on the Properties -> Property section of a FlowProperty element.
The end usage is to put that piece of information into a document I am making.
How do I access this field and pull the data out using using queries or scripts?
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Below are 53 short stories written by D. Austin Nash between 1993 and 1995. D. Austin Nash wrote the forward for "Thing & Nothing", wrote fiction and editorials for "Lollipop" and "Paramour", and then stopped writing. These stories are sometimes about Dave's early twenties spent as a new Bostonian, others are just funny or interesting. As opposed to being in a proper, dramatic order, they are arranged in alphabetical order by title. Enjoy.
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A few blocks with love
I remember walking in downtown in Boston on a sunny afternoon. No job, few worries, and no lunch. I passed this old boy on the bum with a sign that said 'God Bless'. I told him it was probably best to leave God out of it and gave him a dollar and made him say to me that he was going to get a bottle. My favorites are the ones that already have a bottle and are still asking for more. It took a special kind of tough to drag it through the grueling times with only a glass crutch.. I figured he has probably seen a few favorite chairs, and some cold nights in and away from home; and several wars; not to mention the one he lived being close to 70 years gone.
I saw another guy who had apparently completely had it with the bull. He stomped between the pale bewildered faces that commonly populate the public, kicking a leg violently at some imaginary monster and yelling motherfucker. "I'LL GET YOU, MOTHERFUCKER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE MESSIN' WITH! SHIT!" If I threw a leg like that, I'd hurt myself and fall down.
Another block down, another crazy down. This one was big and black, and pissed. He yelled something similar to the first, only without the leg. When they become oblivious to the meandering crowds bobbing around them is when you know that they have really lost it. Social conventions are very strong, one does not merely decide to be stronger and leap them, but is driven by delusions, and is usually dangerous at the same time. Don't fuck with a wounded rat, they forget they are rats at all.
I headed for the Commons to watch the pretty girls with jobs slide it past in the noon day sun. More legs, dresses, and glowing orange trees swaying in the vibrating daylight than ever. Pigeons, crumbs, trash barrels, shit all over everything else. I sat and thought, or tried to think of what Stonewall Jackson would have done on a day like today? I wondered how long it took maggots and father time to reclaim the blood of Christ. I wondered where I might find what those crazies back there had lost. True creation climaxes with revelation, and I found neither.
No answers; and really no more questions; certainly no conclusions. Save that somebody named "Motherfucker" really had it coming to him today. It's about time. He didn't get that name for nothing.
182 from hell
Practicing the fine art of arranging
flowers, and drinking coffee that tastes of
soap and lavender and the fearing heat of the
sun in the morning in April
April you whore
you came and tore me down
you left me to myself, which may be the
worst that can happen to a tired dog in a
rainy courtyard
yipping and choking on miraculously dry
crusts of bone
April you whore I cannot repeat this
without more from your tender reservoirs
of thick green water and small pieces of new
life, hiding behind blue flowers
and steam trains
and in the underwear of bums lying for peace
on the steel beams under the bridge
over Red Cedar creek
April you are the stingiest and most sneaky
to have gotten past me for the price of less than
two hundred words and no work
of the mind or (more importantly) the body
what a poor whore you are
These words are for May, and may May
be warmer and softer and much less of a lie
and less
The Adventures of Billy Bonedance (Sweet Sister Madelin)
Billy strode onto the field behind the abandoned school alone at 6:00pm on a rainy Tuesday in October. It was almost dark, maybe another half hour before it would be too dark to see the ball and weeds had grown up around the backstop and any other permanent fixture. Billy Bonedance brushed the hair back from his wet face, rolled back the sleeves on his denim jacket, and picked up a good round one from his pile of stones he brought from the quarry on Alcott street. Two outs, 0 and 3 on the count, men at the corners, Yaz on deck swinging three bats, and a big tittied blond over the dugout showing it to everyone. How the hell was he going to pull this one off.
The catcher signaled, two fingers down, one right, adjust the mask, blow your wife a kiss. This meant a screwball. Strike. One for blondie big tits. She shuddered and screamed. The catcher signaled, two right, finger to the nose, slap the balls hard. Ahh, Billy realized, a fast ball. Show em' the heat kid, you know you got it. Down the pipe for strike two- caught the sucker looking. It looked like Billy might get some from the blond tonight. His pants got tight and he gave her a wave. The catcher signaled, and somebody blew one of those stupid plastic horns that only make one sound. The catcher undid his zipper and casually zipped back up and put a fist in the glove.
What? A slow ball! He must be crazy! Billy was not about to blow it now. The blond needed another one and so did he. He shook his head at the catcher, wiggled his ears,
and gave the finger. The catcher made a fist, kicked some dirt with his right foot still squatting down, and pointed to his ass. He fingered Billy back. Billy looked to the coach and the coach spit some chew on the ground, pointed at Billy, and open hand slapped Yaz standing next to him. Yaz was pissed. The crowed cheered and Yaz fingered Fenway Park. Billy fingered the coach. The coach threw his hat and fingered the mound with both hands. There they were, everybody fingering each other except the blond, and she had hers coming. Billy Bonedance, the greatest pitcher alive, would not be fooled by these morons. All through the centuries, it was left up to a hero to take the chance and be right, and win. Billy wound up for the steamer.
WILD PITCH! LOOK OUT!! The ball made a screw for the stands and donked the blond with the tits right in the forehead and she top-pled (literally) over the short wall and onto the field by the dugout. Billy stood and watched while the other players ran to her aid.
"God damnit," he said.
It had begun to rain harder and Billy came to and he was standing there in the deserted field, watching his last stone roll under the dilapidated silhouette of the bleachers. It came to rest against a dark lump that Billy didn't remember it being there before. He frequented this yard because almost nobody else would. It was almost dark now and Billy headed for the bleachers.
When he got around back, he made out the form of a young woman. She looked black, and then Billy noticed all of the blood and mud covering her naked body. Billy touched her arm and it was cold and stiff. He lit his cigarette lighter and saw how soft her blond hair must have been. Patches of it were missing and her skin was leathery like a mannequin. One of her eyes and her mouth were still open and she looked the farthest thing from peace Billy had ever seen. She was well endowed and lay there beautiful in the mud, yet so angry and sad at the same time. Her face had an odd shape to it, like something changed it and she forgot to tell anybody. She was missing a few teeth in the front and had many cuts and purple bruises around her eyes. She lay there beaten and wondering why, dead next to an endpost from the old chain link fence in front. Billy stood straight and stepped back. He was mesmerized for several moments and wasn't sure if he was really there. He spent much of his time somewhere else.
Billy examined the marks on the half dry ground under the bleachers. It looked like she had been dragged around a bit. What had she been doing there? She should have known better! This was a horrible place made so by the wicked for the insane. Billy sat down next to her on the ground, disbelieving and penitent, gently stroking the hair back from her rain stormed face, and after a while, the hallucinations and shadows began to arouse each other of their own volition, and Billy thought he saw the girl move a few times. He wanted her to move so damned badly. He made up a name for her. Madelin. Later, when he was singing a lullaby, he thought he saw her move again. He
was always wrong, but he didn't feel that it was too much for him to be of a little company, and a friend. Billy lit two cigarettes and sang quietly:
Take me out to the ball park,
Take me out to the game
Buy me a hot dog and cracker jacks
I don't care if.... . .. . . . . . . . .
On going crazy Monday afternoon
Somedays I go up to the roof, to the Allston beaches to give a good scream out over the dirty building tops, and then down one flight to Rebecca's door to knock to tell her I'd like to fuck her, but she's rarely at home a shame at last and I am once again maimed over tea with a blue and green peacock. Then down another floor, feet sliding over new taupe carpet to Sarah's door to knock and tell her I'd like to fuck her.
"Sarah, It's been a long time, and if you'd be so kind and open the door, I'd really like to fuck you!"
Nobody home. Yet another crime against love to be carried in a basket full of beautiful plastic flowers through a dead cemetary garden. Then down another floor to my own door to knock and ask me if I'd like to fuck. "Sure," I say "Come on in and bend over."
And today, for the first time, I poured a beer in a brand new mug (sticker still on, $2.95) and I read John Fante aloud to the power and grace of Wagners 'Flight of Valkaris' while balancing on a spalding basketball and finally I was smiling.
Sad Berlin
It's hot hot hot and steamy and
the sun has just broken through in time
for dusk to ride over the Atlantic behind us
and I sit sticking to this chair
sticking and bellowing like some angry
bee if a bee would bellow
sleeping with my eyes open for fear
of attack and
watching a very young girl pushing a baby carriage
down the side street
staring into it in wonder and horror at what
she has made and trapped herself into
If it were only fear to conquer, things would
be easy--but there's also laziness, and loneliness
along with the fear
Rarely does one of us break free enough to
do something great
Just ask the man who has not been laid
in a year what the meaning of victory really is
He'll tell you in fewer words than you may want
to hear
Lord have mercy on us in this sad Berlin
Blind Curve
I never found anything real
in journeys to the
between two lovers
hanging over on sex
and the blood of life
maybe that's why I don't
dream of her
when she
is not
The city where I sing
Here where I am
in the city of Boston
in the rain
I have a boner
and the grass is browner
how the end comes
to carry the dead away
carrot hat
It was the first cold night of winter in Boston, we had been lucky. It was the first Christmas party I had ever been invited to.
I sang and drank and showed everybody my ass in front of the tv they were watching, and she still came on.
This sexy thing in a tight black cable knit shirt, and a scottish red plaid wool skirt. The black heels were dangerously pointed, and the stockings almost melted on the thigh.
She set it down over me in a chair, I was on the floor, and turned on the fuck me eyes and started saying crazy sex things to me that I was afraid somebody would hear.
Five minutes later we were on the back porch in the cold with nobody else around. She was rubbing it all over me and I hadn't had a rod that strong since I was eighteen.
She was sexy and calm and in control and I could feel it. She sat back on the wet concrete step, leaned back on her elbows, crossed her legs high, and just smiled at me gently swinging one foot in the night. Classical lines, I thought. I was thanking the pussy gods by then, silently.
The power of a woman's body is greater than a lion tamer who can tread ocean for four days and live.Women are always on a stage and they will die dripping dime store jewelry at the nape of their neck, pulling stars from the sky and swirling gently with Cassiopeia and Fay Dunnaway in a sequined evening gown. Christmas tree lights on a Japanese maple in Boston Common in July.
I can't remember a word I said to her, and I can't remember a word she said to me, but I do remember her wanting to play the word game and she began talking dirty to me.
She came on and rubbed it on me again and I could feel her from shoulder to knee. She said, "You don't seem to have much confidence in yourself."
"No, very little in fact," I said. "But I'm long on courage. I'd really like to take you home and do things to you till daylight if you could see it that way."
"Maybe," she said, "Maybe."
Right then I decided that somewhere in this country there's still a secretary being banged on an oak desk in a plush office still thinking it's PC- pretty cool.
A head poked out the door to the porch and a blond dike looking girl said, "Come on! We have to go!" I never even saw her leave. She never said 'see you later'. She was gone from the house inside of a minute and a half.
I don't know if I was set up for the tease, if she really was a dike, or if her and the other girl had a conflict of interest, but catching me blithering drunk and using me for fun wasn't kind at all. Not kind to a sucker who doesn't get much.
My cock was so hard it stretched out an extra half inch. There I was laughing in the rain in an alley, on my knees splashing cold water from a puddle on my dick. I could have rode it home.
I fingered the pussy gods for putting the carrot hat on the ass again. What a sucker I am. I haven't had a good nights sleep since because I keep rolling over on a hard.
I don't hold it against her, it was fun for what it was worth. I would like to belt whip her sometime, feel some of that quivering supple flesh. I blame the pussy gods, for stringing me out a little longer to be subject to only more torture.
A whore and a waitress, no nobler a woman strides the earth. No sugar tonight in my coffee baby, I like it like my women- hot and bitter.
Damn, there's a beer cap in my spaghetti.
Cat on the corner
Her hands were tied behind her back
with my favorite black tie
and she cried out so loudly
that I thought I was hurting her
or scaring her
And I lost that tie to a knot
and a pair of scissors
and received ten of the most
painful fingernail marks down my
back--drawing blood
and she whispered:
Now you'll know to never let me go
so soon
The Pope's Got a Half Pint
"What will they do next daddy?" Grace asked.
"Well, next they go to the gas station, because they're running out of gas. They will never make it to the movies and home if they don't," answered Charley.
"Can they get licorice and soda pop too?" said Grace.
"Of course they can. Everybody can. We live in America."
"What movie will they see?"
"Why...I think they will go see 101 Dalmatians tonight. Would you like that Gracie?"
"Oh yes! That's what I wanted to go see. You are so funny daddy."
Charley sat crossed legged on the floor in front of the Fisher Price garage with the people with plastic hair and bodies that looked like a thumb. They were real sometimes. The carpet was a rust orange and stained with beer, and wine, and unidentifiable other substances. The four walls closed in and made him feel a little bit further away from the world.
"Daddy? When will mommy be home?" Grace asked.
"I don't know honey. Can you go get me another grape juice?"
"A grape juice!" she ran off to the kitchen with the glass.
Charley stared at the highway connecting the desert with the life. He drove the car up the ramp and parked it at the gas station. At the station, the people came alive. The woman went into the station and came out with two bottles of soda and a Twix candy bar.
The man said, "Do you think you need one of those? You're always complaining about your weight."
"I'm always complaining about your drinking, but you don't toss that bottle between your legs! Do you think we will even make it to the movies tonight?" She answered.
"Oh give it a rest! You know damn well I need this after a week of work! It's bad enough I work at a job I hate all week, and then I have to listen to all your bitching! Besides...you hit the bottle all week when your home with the kid. I know you do." Charley came back.
"Fuck you. I sit in the god damn house all week while you go out into the world and you think I have it good!?"
"The world is and ugly place. You could use to take up a hobby besides fucking and make a better one for yourself. But you just sit there and drink, and water the dumb flowers, and take baths. You could at least feed the kid once in a while."
She slapped him and he grabbed the steering wheel. Good thing he wasn't driving. She never took that into account.
"Here's the grape juice Daddy! How come it doesn't taste as good as mine?"
"Because you have the special grape juice sweetie. You deserve the better one."
Grace smiled and giggled and returned her attention to the game.
"What are the people doing now Daddy?" she asked.
"They're leaving the gas station now. The woman is mad at the man because he is usually doing something bad. Or so the woman says."
"What does he do?"
"Well...there's a lot of things. He smokes, and she gets mad at him for that. He drinks the bad grape juice and she thinks he should drink the good one. She doesn't understand that the good grape juice is for special people like you." Charley poked her in the belly and she laughed. He laughed with her, and then he farted.
"Hey! You farted! Ha ha ha ha."
"Yup. I farted. Your turn next!"
"I don't fart Daddy!"
"Of course you don't small one. I just forgot for a minute. Only big people do that...right?"
"Right. Are the people going to be late for the movie?"
"I hope not. The woman will be even more mad."
Charley drove down Commonwealth avenue at a leisurely pace, taking hits off of his pint of scotch. He looked at the clock on the dash. 8:26 it said. Plenty of time to catch the 8:45 show. The wind blew his hair and the woman and child were silent. He reveled in this moment of peace for as long as he could. A coal blew off of his cigar into the back seat. He knew this meant trouble, for another minute.
"Watch what your doing with that thing!" she yelled. "You're not the only one in this car. We'll be lucky if you don't burn it down tonight! Why the hell do you have to smoke that thing while you're driving!"
"Because they won't let me smoke them at work, and you won't let me smoke them at home. This is the only time I have. Don't you remember that that's why I bought a convertible? So you wouldn't have to smell it in the car? You and work are a lot the same, I've been noticing. Always telling me what to do and I'm always behind on the payments and smoking cigars behind the garage. Besides, you always try to slap me while I'm driving! Why the hell don't you just get the hell off me!" hollered Charley.
"I don't get on you very often!"
"I noticed that! I hear you've been getting on somebody else though!"
She tried at slapping him again. He swerved the car right and then left and she rocked against the passenger door and grabbed at the dash for stability. An excellent move. The power of machinery never went untold since the cotton gin. The horns went off around him and Charley gave the finger several times. They probably knew the same shit he did, and just didn't know the circumstance. There are too many who are not ignorant in the long run, but don't know shit about the short, or the immediate, as it may apply.
"O.k., O.k.! You've got to stop this trying to slap me when I'm driving. Not that it's a man thing or anything like that, but here you are trying to save our lives every day, and then you go doing shit like this. Good thing you're not married to an airplane pilot! You bitch." The woman stared straight ahead and was silent.
They pulled into the drive in and parked. Charley puffed a few times on his cigar, and the girl whimpered from the back seat. Oh god, Charley thought. He felt the need to put himself in his own place with his life, with the city, with the world and his wife. He never wanted to hurt his child. This was the only thing that they, he and Bambi, still had in common. But then who ever did have anything in common. Many people tried to, and said they did, but all things in common eventually become battle grounds. Two people will take classical music, common to nobody, and find a way to disagree on it. It was written while nobody who is alive now was alive, and they will find a way to turn their
interest into an interesting struggle. There are things that suffer in the interim. There are those near that become so far, realizing that they have their own problems to deal with, and would rather not include the problems of others in their own, and everybody ends up leaving each other thinking it better for themselves, when what they really need is companionship. Is it for the better? Charley had a puff on his cigar and thought about it while the popcorn man made his way. The speaker outside said:
"Another grape juice, dove?"
"Yes, yes! Another grape juice!" and Grace ran into the kitchen.
Charley sat and scratched his balls, in the leaning-to-one-side manor. Pinch and roll, pinch and roll was the only way that counted. He got a good one and stretched his leg out over the Fisher Price game. He watched the other people at the drive-in to see what they were doing. There was one young couple that got out of the car and laid on the grass on a blanket next to it. They ate popcorn and paid no attention to the movie. What was the movie? Oh yes, 101 Dalmatians. Sure. 101 assholes was more like it. Charlie remembered the time when he and Bambi had decided not to go to the movies, and no matter how much he hated the movies, he wished he had been there that night. The worst song ever came on the radio at the coastline where they were parked, and he had tried to turn the station. Bambi had insisted that he didn't, and got hot over it. Grace was breathing nine months later. Not that he didn't love her...he loved her more than anything, he just hated the consequences involved.
Grace came back with the grape juice and vibrated in her footied pajamas. She did a little dance, spilled some of the grape juice on herself, and sat down so as not to fall down laughing. She squirmed and held her elbows close together as she surveyed the terrain of the game. The game had not changed for Charley.
"Daddy! Daddy! There was a huge bug in the kitchen...no there was three! I thought they were mice! They ran so fast!" Grace exclaimed excitedly.
"Those were just geese! Haven't you ever seen a goose young one? One was named Christmas, one Thanks Giving, and one Easter. There just waiting in the kitchen to make you happy!"
"They sacred me so! I'm not sure they could ever make me happy."
"You've got worse to come teet tot. Much worse. The people are driving home after the movie now and are going to get ready to go to bed soon. What do you think of that?"
"Hey! You aren't going to make me go to bed are you?"
"Of course not. I said you could stay up until mommy got home, didn't I?"
"Yeah but...O.k. I believe you."
"How about a dance Gracie. May I have a dance? I would be honored to dance with a young lady so beautiful." Charley asked gently.
"Yes, a dance! Put on the favorite music. You know which one that is?" she said excitedly. Grace began to prance around in uncoordinated ballet, choreographed by her own dreamy goddesses. She led with one hand in the air and her eyes closed. Charley put the greatest hits album by Liszt on the turntable and moved the needle forward to Liebestraum (And Dream of Love).
Charley and Grace began to dance around the room like two injured swans. This dance was serious, and so it was taken. Every so often when they passed close enough they joined hands and swirled nervously for a moment on the tips of their toes, only to part again and control their own sides of the room. Times like this were worth more than a wedding ring lost down a bathroom drain, more than an old box of love letters destined to be left behind in a dirty motel room in Las Vegas. Gracie twirled into and pushed off of the record player and the tv stand, and Charley leapt over the Fisher Price world and both drifted into a lost and forgotten realm where they were completely free from everyone and everything, except the beauty inherent in their own madness. Gracies silvery hair swung over her small shoulders and Charley felt the sadness he always felt when he knew that she didn't know, and that she could never understand at her young age. It's always comes down to getting caught up in an impossible habit of pride and love.
The song came to an end and Charley and Gracie, breathing hard, sat on the couch and began to laugh, her silvery chime dominating over his own gray happiness. He tickled her and she laughed harder.
"Daddy...don't...don't! Haahahahahah. I have to go pee from drinking the grape juice!" she yelled.
"I have to go pee from the grape juice too! Who will get to go first?"
"Why me of course! I'm smaller and can't hold it as long!" she said matter-of-factly.
"O.k. little one, you go first. I'm going to go get another grape juice. Meet you back here in a few minutes."
"O.k." And she ran off to the bathroom.
Charley wandered into the kitchen and poured himself a port and had a hit off of the bottle. He placed his faith in the rights of humans, and he could hear Gracie through the newspaper thin walls, innocent and pristine, and so alive. There was a jingling of keys and the door pivoted into the living room where Liszt still played and the Fisher Price world lay in its ignorance. The little plastic people were home from the movies.
Bambi stepped into the room wearing a full length fox fur coat, and a man who Charley knew as Randy stepped nervously in behind her. Randy nodded a polite hello and headed
for the kitchen leaving Charley and Bambi alone in the living room with Franz Liszt. They stared at one another like usual, and Charley went to the closet for his coat. He had stopped blaming himself and others a long time ago. It made no sense. There was really nobody left to blame. Just victims riding the schicain of the wave of personal suffering.
"Why can't you leave him outside till I'm gone?" Charley asked her.
"He's as much a part of this as any, and it's time you stopped denying and acting like a child." `
"Well Jesus fucking Christ! Did rubbing the dog's nose in his own shit really ever help?"
"Charley! Why can't you just get over it? Gracie is the only thing that ever really tied us together and she's getting to be old enough to decide where and with whom she wants to be. You never loved me and I never loved you. We told each other that a long time ago." Bambi shrieked.
"Yeah, I know...we have this same conversation every fucking time. It was better when I still thought she came out of my dick. You could have saved dragging me through this and didn't have the guts! You whore." Charley hollered.
"Don't talk to her like that, please." said Randy from the doorway to the kitchen. He had a glass of grape juice, the good kind, and he stood with it at chest level, staring through his wire rim glasses.
"Just stay out of it four-eyes! I kicked your ass once already and I'll be glad to do it again if you push me!" Charley pointed out.
"Remember the promise you made to everybody and yourself after you got out of jail Charley." said Randy.
"Get fucked blow job."
Randy put the grape juice down by the turntable and bent in the middle of the room as if to pick up and put away the Fisher Price garage. He did and carried it to the closet near where Charley stood. He dropped it at the last minute and came at Charley hoping to gain the element of surprise. Charley took one step forward and punched Randy square between the eyes. It was a good one. The glasses broke and Randy went down hard. He lay there with his hands to his face, limp and moaning. Charlie's hand hurt. He heard screaming and applause and became dizzy with the adrenaline and the wine mixing and feuding in his blood. He came to with the image of his almost ex-wife beating at his chest and scratching at his face with her false red nails. Charley grabbed her arms and pushed her back onto the couch and she sat there in frustration and sobbed into her hands. Randy still lay on the floor. Charley stood alone in the middle of the room.
Charley heard more sobbing and looked into the darkened hallway. Gracie stood in her light green footied pajamas, wide eyed and lost for understanding. Charley smiled at her, and wiped some of the blood from his face.
"Daddy?" she said hesitantly.
"He's right there," Charley said pointing to Randy writhing on the floor. "But don't you worry teet tot. I'll be back for you. I'll be back for you."
"I want you to come back," she whimpered.
Charley put on his coat, opened the front door, and dove into a steady hand stand. He got his bearings, and walked out the door, upside down as usual, toward home with a cigarette in his mouth. From behind him, he heard an innocent silver laugh.
Almost a circle
We sat in a circle, a circle of laughter
forced into it by the same sadness that makes
a drunken clown dance for children
and wear a mask
no wonder clowns painted on a smile
She wanted me to love her
he wanted to love us both
and I wanted to love no one
needless to say, none of us ever got
or anywhere where the black sun gods
and the winds of warm smooth fire finally
where does the fire go when it rests?
Some would say it never does
Kill me, then crawl inside
you whore
A Sad Few In Neon, We
"This is probably the easiest job I've ever had. My Grandfather used to say 'Best to be a sewer man or a garbage man. Three dollars an hour and all you can eat. Ha ha" Said George.
"That's pretty gross," Ralph replied.
"Well you're new on the job. You'll get used to it. It helps to have a sick sense of humor around here. You'll see."
"What are all these bodies anyway?" asked George. "Where did they come from?"
"These are the latest development in the medical science of longevity my son. People who can afford to can have their bodies cloned. The bodies are incubated at an accelerated rate till adolescence passes, then kept in a state of suspension indefinitely. They're lobotomized of course. Any conscious thought or capability of movement is removed from their brains. We keep them alive here in this infirmary till the real person needs...say a liver transplant, or even a whole leg. They have an extra body just sitting here waiting! They can replace almost any part nowadays." George answered.
"What about the--"
"The cock? You bet. That one's popular among the fellows, and even with a few of the ladies. They can buy one you know. They can make them bigger through slight genetic mutations and conditioning during the incubation process. Pretty cool huh?" Said George.
"Amazing," replied Ralph. "So what do we do. It all seems kind of eerie to me," Ralph said with a shiver.
"We just keep an eye on things. Chase rats. Change the shit bags, provide them a little muscular therapy so they don't get too stiff." George answered.
The two of them pushed the cart to the first body. The ceiling of the Acme Innovations building was high and vaulted. The floor was cool cement and lined with space saving racks on hydraulic lifts for easy access. Ralph trotted along behind George a little stunned. He was thinking that maybe leaving home for the city
might not have been such a good idea after all. But this was only for a while, thought Ralph. Just to get his feet underneath him till he could find a job in a real morgue. The job that he had actually been trained for. It had really pissed Ralph off not to be able to jump right into his passion as a makeup artist.
"O.k." Said George rolling the first body over onto its stomach. "This is what you do. The first thing is to change the bag. Careful not to get any kek on ya'." George said lunging at Ralph with the dripping tube extended. "Ha, ha ha. Just kiddin. Change the bag, replace the tube...and that's that!" George said completing the job. "Once a week we give 'em a wipe. My least favorite night, but hey! It pays too well for me to complain. No sir, not me. The fringe benefits are mighty all right too! But don't let me catch you lickin' any! Ha ha ha." George bellowed slapping his ass and pulling at his suspender straps.
Ralph watched in slight disgust. It was, however, nothing he hadn't seen before in the hospital where he worked outside of Seattle. This wasn't going to be so bad. Nobody keeping an eye on you or giving out any shit, except for the tenants. A real people oriented job. Ralph watched as George began pumping the arms and legs of the body.
"This is what we call 'muscular therapy'. It helps keep limbs from loosing too much tissue to be of use when the time comes. Quick and easy like this." George pumped the arms and legs furiously. The body looked almost comical under his attention. Like a wooden doll with all the strings attached. They eyes were taped shut and the whole scene gave the illusion of a bad B movie with blow up dolls as the unfortunate actors. This, however, was far from any fifteen minutes of glory.
"The boss, Mr. Dumbody, usually stops in Wednesday nights around three am. He's a sick fuck. In this just for the money he says. But I see him standing over the bodies, some of them. He just looks and looks. He's particularly fond of the Norman Mailer one." George said. "I think he just has a sick affliction of envy for famous people. I can't really figure it out."
"Norman Mailer's in here?" Ralph asked impressed.
"Yup...you bet. Why not? Remember it's the rich who can afford this. There's quite a few famous people in here--so to speak I mean."
"Who else?"
"Well lets see...the former Governor of Maine, I forget his name; Larry Bird; Keith Richards--"
"Christ! Does he look any different?"
"No. Kurt Cobain's in here too...although I can't figure out why since he's dead. Oh--and I almost forgot, our glorious 'President of the United States' himself." George exclaimed proudly.
"You're not giving me any shit are you?!"
"I shit you not lad. In that room behind the steel door. It's locked but I have the key. It's not really that much of a security matter as it's not really him and all ya know."
"Yeah. It's weird being in the same room as the 'almost' president of the US of A. Fuck me runnin."
"I'll say. You get used to it after a while though." George said with a bit of head.
They pushed the cart along some more down the gray aisles amid the bubbling life support lines and whirring noises of respirators and anti-bacterial sterilizer machines Ralph had seen in his days at the hospitals where he had before, as now, wiped the asses of the helpless. That's what helped him land this job. His unchallangable experience.
"My ex-wife's in here too." George said breaking the silence as he replaced a tube with great skill seasoned over years of practice.
"No shit?"
"No shit again son. I was able to get her the opportunity to be here as part of my employment package. You'll get that option too after six months. Since I know you're goin' to ask, no I didn't do it. Not for me...no. I don't want to live any longer than I'm meant to." George exclaimed thoughtfully.
"When I was 26, I took a look at the 18-20 year old girls that I was soon going to be too old to peel the panties off of. It was then that I realized that I may spend the rest of my life chasing things that were running away. Of course at that time it didn't dawn on me that I wasn't getting to peel their panties off then either. I was already living that hell."
"I hear you on that. How do you feel about her being here George, if I may call you by your first name."
"Go right ahead. I don't really feel too much about it. I haven't seen her for some years now. Every so often I go and have a look to remember the way she was. It's kind of romantic in a way. To stroke her soft hair. To remember the good times. It's kind of sad sometimes. We were going to plant a garden last summer." George said laying out the scene.
"Jesus George. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Why did you and her split up if you don't mind."
"I don't mind. I worked nights, her days. A simple thing. We just grew apart as some folks do. And I stopped fucking her at some point. I didn't have too, I had her here. She bitched at me too much. I was really hoping you would start taking care of her soon so I didn't have to. Fella before you did...rest his soul. Died of loneliness here one night...right over there on the floor"
"I understand George. I'd be happy to." Ralph said with honor and conviction. "It would seem hard to be lonely here, what with all these folks around depending on you." Commented Ralph.
"Try getting a pickup basketball game going in here." George responded.
"I see your point," Ralph said observing the stillness. "Wait a fucking minute!" Ralph said jerking the cart to a halt. "What did you mean when you said you had her here?!" Ralph demanded with a look of fear in his eyes.
"That's what I said. I told you I get lonely."
"What do you do!? Do you--"
"Fuck her? Now and again I do," Ralph said nonchalantly, shrugging the question off and starting the cart rolling again.
"Now THAT's kinda sick if you ask me!"
"Not really. It's the same person without the conscience. It's not any different. She always was a dead fuck. Just laying there and shit. Women don't have to be good in bed, they just have to be there." Ralph stated with authority.
"You think so?" Plied Ralph.
"Sure I do. Listen, I have a simple theory on it. If man can have a good time with a blow up sex doll, then there's no such thing as a bad piece of ass." Said George.
"I can't argue with that, but it's still a little creepy and all."
George stopped the cart, walked around in a small circle a few times in a thoughtful daze. "Ralph...when was the last time you had a piece of ass?"
"Oh...I dunno--a year or two ago I guess." Well listen--being the generous and kind hearted individual that I am, I would be more than happy to let you have a go at my ex if you want."
"Jesus George! I don't know about that. I mean...it's my first night and all...and I--" Ralph stuttered nervously looking around as if he expected to see newspaper reporters and city officials, searching desperately for a way out.
"Come on! It'll do you a world of good, and she's right here in front of us too. Pretty isn't she? Got a good tight box on her ." George said beaming a huge smile.
Ralph stared down at the case in a state of mild shock. His brain was working furiously. It had been a long time since he had had some ass, and he was a little lonely. That was the main reason he had moved out of the desolate hills of Washington state. He began to shake his head in disbelief over the conclusion he was coming to. There seemed no way to avoid it. His brain was trying to kill him.
"You really think it'd be O.k.?" Ralph asked sheepishly.
"Sure! Go on...I done it hundreds of times, thousands! Good for the soul."
"Won't she get pregnant?" Ralph inquired seriously.
"Nope, stripped of their reproductive capabilities...all of em. Not a thing to worry about. Come on you candy ass! Give it a ride!"
"Well...O.k. If you're sure we wont get caught."
"Not we!"
Ralph stepped up to the case. She was awful pretty, and stacked too. She looked peaceful there in her state. Ralph swallowed a breath and undid his pants and climbed into the case. He tried to imagine she was just sleeping or drunk and he got it in quickly before he could loose his guts, literally. He began to work it up and down in an inexperienced manner. He jostled for better position into a good solid performance stance and raised one leg up into the crook of his elbow. It was a little stiff.
"She's a little stiff George." Ralph said concerned.
"Well you know--since that other fellow died and all."
"A little more cold than I was expecting too." Remarked Ralph.
"They're not all like that. Just my wife."
She kicked once and Ralph almost shit. "Jesus George?! He said in terror.
"Just nerves that refuse to give up. Makes it better I think."
Ralph finished in a panic with a good jolt and climbed quickly out of the case buttoning up his pants. He wasn't sure if he felt sickened or foolish. "You're right about the tight box." Ralph agreed straightening his shirt. He was shaking and trying to be cool.
"Would I steer you wrong?"
"I guess not. I feel a little weird though." Ralph said looking around and buckling his belt. The buckle said 'Born To Fuck' on it.
"Ahh--it's your first time. You'll learn to love it."
"I hope I don't."
"Wait'll you see number 69. She's a beaut I tell ya." George said in natural fondness and remembrance licking his lips. "She's right here," George said stepping up to a beautiful piece of woman lying like Snow White in her own ray of moonlight.
"But George? The case says number 78?"
George just gave a haunting smile and a wink and moved on.
They pushed the cart around the warehouse mostly in silence and continued changing the tubes and exercising the limbs and Ralph slowly fell into an inner peace with himself. His mind ceased the tug-of-war between morality and the punk youth inherent in his persona. George let him try the muscular therapy on a few and Ralph found himself enjoying it in a way. They worked the remaining cases with rhythm and grace till the last one, number 113 at the end of the bar.
"You know," said Ralph, "That really wasn't half bad at all."
"Right on my boy." George answered.
"And...I mean...I doesn't hurt anybody or anything." Ralph reasoned bobbing his head.
"Nobody at all. Fun for the whole family."
They finished the last body and stopped for a smoke outside the steel door in the hallway at the back of the warehouse. Ralph lit up two and passed one to George. George lit up a joint and passed it to Ralph who took it with a smile.
"You'll do good here Ralph." George stated with approval. "You'll go far, a natural."
"Why thanks George. What about Mr. President down the hall there?"
"I suppose we'll have to do that bastard too. I hate to do anything for old Uncle Sam. All that guy does is take our fuckin money and screw us in the ass." George said starting the cart rolling down the hallway.
"I'll say," Ralph agreed, "He's screwed me a good many times. Uncle Sam can fuck up a lot of stuff, but watch the cornholer collect the taxes."
George keyed into the steel door and pushed it open and there was the president laying in the middle of the room under bright lights with a red white and blue top hat on his head.
Ralph said "I'd sure like to take a few of those nickels and shove them up his ass. Watch him get screwed for a change."
George said stopping the cart with an evil gleam in his eye, staring into Ralph with the malice of a vengeful man. "Now's your chance son."
"WAIT! You're not serious!"
"Never been more. Been thinking about it for a long time, just been waiting for the right moment."
"I don't know if I could even do THAT George! You might have to count me out on this one." Ralph said solidly.
"Come on...wouldn't this be the ultimate revenge. Served up cold on a red white and blue platter?"
"Yeah...it would. But what would it all be for? I mean...nobody would ever know about it."
"Exactly! Give yourself a little present every day I always say. Today is Christmas!"
Ralph paced the floor counting to himself: There was 88' when it wasn't even my fault and they held out for eight months before telling me that I owed eight hundred dollars, one third of which was accumulated
interest. The form said 'See Note 9'. Note 9 said 'You didn't pay your taxes on time'; there was 92 when he forgot three weeks of income that overlapped into January when he worked weekends at a U-Haul in the snow. They checked his records back to 1985 when he was sixteen and washing dishes. The mother fuckers.
"RIGHT. Ralph stammered nervously gathering his guts."
George nodded with approval and strode defiantly to the case loosening his overalls and dropping them to the floor. He stood before the case, turned toward D.C. and bowed three times, took a deep breath and climbed on. George started working it like a madman, puffing and sweating, and said, "Goes in easy, I always knew he was a big asshole!"
"Bravo! Bravo!" Ralph applauded. George finished and climbed off, almost fell off, laughing. The President's hat had fallen off to the floor and Ralph readied himself for battle. "Here it comes Sam! You got this one comin from a long ways and a great height you cock sucker!" Ralph cried as he dove into the case and began thrashing about. He worked it. He worked it good. He threw himself clear of the aftermath with a proud and satisfied grin and bobbed his head up and down and felt the adrenaline course through his body.
George and Ralph slapped each other on the back and laughed till tears streamed down their crazed faces and they had to take a seat against the stainless steel wall of the chamber.
"Can't remember when I've had such a time!" hollered Ralph.
"Me too fuckin either!" George bellowed breathing heavily. "Lets get the jackass every night. I'll spend my whole damned paycheck in nickels!"
"Lets get the fuck out of here George!"
"Kay O fuck nut, were gone!"
They saddled the gear and headed for the door awash in the glory of triumph.
"WAIT." Yelled George digging into his pocket.
"What! What!"
George dug in his pocket and came up with two nickels. He handed one to Ralph, a worn 1976 Bicentennial, and held one back for himself. He walked up to the President and with a thumb, jammed the nickel in his holy ass. Ralph laughed and followed suite, and replaced the red white and blue top hat as an after thought.
"By the way George. What's the hat for?" Ralph asked.
"Oh...just a little joke. Doesn't he look silly?"
Three thousand miles away the President shuddered awake from a restless sleep and told his dirty hooking wife that he had a dream where he had a colon transplant and shit himself every time he got up at the podium.
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Working With Attachments in DocumentDB
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My Git Cheat-Sheet
Update list of remote branches:
git remote update origin --prune
Or set automatic pruning globally:
git config --global fetch.prune true
Delete local and remote branch:
git push origin --delete <branch_name>
git branch -d <branch_name>
Push all branches to remote:
git push --all -u
Push this new branch to remote:
git push origin branchB:branchB
Add annotated tag:
git tag -a v1.4 -m "my version 1.4"
And push tags to remote
git push --follow-tags
To kill all the local changes do
git reset --hard HEAD
To reset to a state of a commit
git reset --hard SHA
To make sure all the extra files are removed do
git clean -f -d
Publish to VSTS NuGet feed from CakeBuild
I’m on a roll today – second post in the day!
Some time last year I’ve blogged about pushing a NuGet package to VSTS package feed from Cake script. Turns out there is an easier way to do it that does not involve using your own personal access token and storing it in nuget.config file.
Turns out that VSTS exposes OAuth Token to build scripts. You just need to make it available to the scripts:
In you build definition go to Options and tick checkbox “Allow Sctips To Access OAuth Token”:
Then instead of creating a nuget.config in your repository you need to create a new NuGet source on the build agent machine that has this token as a password. And then you can push packages to that feed just by using name of the new feed. Luckily Cake already has all the commands you need to do that:
.WithCriteria(() => Context.TFBuild().IsRunningOnVSTS)
.Does(() =>
var package = ".\path\to\package.nupkg";
// get the access token
var accessToken = EnvironmentVariable("SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN");;
// add the NuGet source into the build agent sources list
NuGetAddSource("MyFeedName", "", new NuGetSourcesSettings()
UserName = "MyUsername",
Password = accessToken,
// Push the package.
NuGetPush(package, new NuGetPushSettings
Source ="MyFeedName",
ApiKey = "VSTS",
Verbosity = NuGetVerbosity.Detailed,
I like this a lot better than having to faf-about with personal access token and nuget.config file. Probably the same way you can restore nuget packages from private sources – have not tried it yet.
Nuget Version
If you have noticed I specify url for the feed in format of version 2 – i.e. ending v2. This is because default nuget.exe version provided by VSTS does not yet support v3. Yet packages can take v3. Right now if you try to push to url with “v3” in it you will get error:
System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to process request. 'Method Not Allowed'.
The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed.. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed.
So downgrade the url to v2 – as I’ve done int the example above. Most of the time v2 works just fine for pushing packages. But if you really need v3 you can check-in your own copy of nuget.exe and then specify where to find this file like this:
NuGetPush(package, new NuGetPushSettings
Source ="AMVSoftware",
ApiKey = "VSTS",
Verbosity = NuGetVerbosity.Detailed,
ToolPath = "./lib/nuget.exe",
VSTS vs NuGet vs CakeBuild – again!
System.Exception: Unexpected exit code 1 returned from tool Cake.exe
.Does(() =>
var settings = new NuGetRestoreSettings()
ToolPath = "./lib/nuget.exe",
Verbosity = NuGetVerbosity.Detailed,
NuGetRestore(".\MySolution.sln", settings);
NSaga – Lightweight Saga Management Framework For .Net
Ladies and gentlement, I’m glad to present you NSaga – lightweight saga management framework for .Net. This is something I’ve been working for the last few months and now can happily annonce the first public release. NSaga gives ability to create and manage sagas without having to write any plumbing code yourself.
Saga is a multi-step operation or activity that has persisted state and is operated by messages. Saga defines behaviour and state, but keeps them distinctly separated.
Saga classes are defined by ISaga<TSagaData> interface and take messages. Messages are directed by a SagaMediator. Comes with an internal DI container, but you can use your own. Comes with SQL server persistence, but others will follow shortly.
Basic saga will look like this:
public class ShoppingBasketSaga : ISaga<ShoppingBasketData>,
public Guid CorrelationId { get; set; }
public Dictionary<string, string> Headers { get; set; }
public ShoppingBasketData SagaData { get; set; }
private readonly IEmailService emailService;
private readonly ICustomerRepository customerRepository;
public ShoppingBasketSaga(IEmailService emailService, ICustomerRepository customerRepository)
this.emailService = emailService;
this.customerRepository = customerRepository;
public OperationResult Initiate(StartShopping message)
SagaData.CustomerId = message.CustomerId;
return new OperationResult(); // no errors to report
public OperationResult Consume(AddProductIntoBasket message)
SagaData.BasketProducts.Add(new BasketProducts()
ProductId = message.ProductId,
ProductName = message.ProductName,
ItemCount = message.ItemCount,
ItemPrice = message.ItemPrice,
return new OperationResult(); // no possibility to fail
public OperationResult Consume(NotifyCustomerAboutBasket message)
var customer = customerRepository.Find(SagaData.CustomerId);
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(customer.Email))
return new OperationResult("No email recorded for the customer - unable to send message");
var emailMessage = $"We see your basket is not checked-out. We offer you a 85% discount if you go ahead with the checkout. Please visit{CorrelationId}";
emailService.SendEmail(customer.Email, "Checkout not complete", emailMessage);
catch (Exception exception)
return new OperationResult($"Failed to send email: {exception}");
return new OperationResult(); // operation successful
And the saga usage will be
var correlationId = Guid.NewGuid();
// start the shopping.
mediator.Consume(new StartShopping()
CorrelationId = correlationId,
CustomerId = Guid.NewGuid(),
// add a product into the basket
mediator.Consume(new AddProductIntoBasket()
CorrelationId = correlationId,
ProductId = 1,
ProductName = "Magic Dust",
ItemCount = 42,
ItemPrice = 42.42M,
There is some documentation and all hosted on GitHub.
Have a look through samples, add a star to the repository and next time you need a multi-step operation, give it a go!
TFS vs Git
TFS is Horrible
• Workspaces. WTF?
Git is Horrible
Cheap Branching
Dump TFS, move to the dark side, use git.
Badly Written Software
Database Integration Tests in Visual Studio Team Services and Cake Build
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Active Directory Authentication with OWIN in MVC5. Part 2: Roles and Corrections
My first blog post about AD authentication proven to be very popular – amount of visits to this post in the last month have beaten the previous all-popular post about HTTPS in MVC and even about configuring Dependency Injection with Identity. So I decided to write a follow-up with clarifications and corrections.
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Tekmap Consulting has developed a number of programs that use GDAL including:
• mb_nav_ogr - A program that extracts multibeam navigation and saves it to any GDAL/OGR supported vector format.
• Several programs written in Python that use the PySeidon suite of tools for saving tidal model data to GDAL supported raster and vector files.
• Several custom GRASS modules for importing and exporting raster and vector data.
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GDAL is freely available for download with as the full source or as pre-compiled binaries
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API documentation and turtorial can be found on the GDAL site. Additional information can be found on the GDAL Wiki.
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Rhyshladlyn hissed sharply through clenched teeth as he stumbled sideways, right shoulder smacking hard against the stone wall of the alleyway he had woken up in. It wasn’t new for him to be found like this: stumbling around broken and bleeding and covered in things he’d rather not dwell on for overlong, disoriented and not entirely certain of where he was until he got somewhere where recognized some part of his surroundings.
What was new was that he had not started the night off outside in the City’s streets. No, he distinctly remembered knocking on the door to the audience chamber of the Royal Suite in the Palace three days from when the City sang after he spoke Xhi Ahnkder’s Deathbed Prophecy aloud and things went absolutely batshit sideways. He knew that he had been instructed to enter, saw Azhuri sitting across the modest table from his father, heard Anislanzir dismiss his wife from the rooms, watched as she walked past him with a look that he imagined someone who had watched the love of their life perish before them would have. Things got blurry after that.
Fuck, everything hurts. With a groan that sounded punched out of him rather than let go willingly, Rhyshladlyn pushed off the wall and tried not to scream as he felt the bones of his right leg from the knee down grind against each other, sending white hot flashes of sheer agony dancing up and down his nerve-endings. With another hiss, he collapsed against the wall without ever having advanced a step, back protesting the action loudly and he closed his eyes tightly as he felt the unnatural pull against his wings that meant they were stuck half out and half in and he was not ready to figure out what state they were in. They still functioned, they still were there, no pieces were missing, he could feel and sense that much. He wouldn’t have been left to wander alone and unguarded if aught had been done to them; Anislanzir was many things, but stupid enough to let him be seen after damaging or removing or attempting to remove his remaining set of wings was not one of them.
Gods surrounding, what in the innumerable names of the Nameless did he do to me this time? With his right leg absolutely useless to him, Rhyshladlyn couldn’t remain upright and sank slowly and gracelessly to the cobblestones below his feet wondering absently how he had even come to be standing in the first place if his leg was so messed up. Speaking of which…
Opening his eyes slowly, he looked down where his legs were stretched out in front of him, hands resting limp and purposeless in his lap. For a few heartbeats, Rhyshladlyn had trouble comprehending what his eyes were seeing as his psyche fought against him processing anything in an attempt to protect him. But that was a wasted effort; after seeing the bloodied, shredded remains of his wings after they’d been ripped from him slowly over the course of twelve horrific hours nothing truly fazed him anymore when it came to the dilapidated state of his body in the wake of one of Anislanzir’s assignations. He was promptly proven wrong when it finally clicked what he was seeing.
It wasn’t anything new to see his breeches a mess of blood and gore, not given that he regularly dispatched traitors and deserters and enemies of the throne, and especially not given that Anislanzir had left him in worse states. But he’d never been able to see the muscles and ligaments and tendons of his right leg where they connected to the cracked and separated bones of his right leg from just below his knee to above his ankle before. For a moment he wondered how it was possible that his skin was torn and ragged-edged but everything that existed below it seemed untouched until he realized that wasn’t his skin, it was what was left of his breeches because he no longer had any fuckin’ skin, oh my gods he skinned my leg!
Taking a shuddering breath that was the precursor to him hyperventilating, Rhyshladlyn dropped his head back against the wall behind him hard enough to keep him from breaking down into hysterics, forcing himself to focus on taking slow and even breaths. Staring unseeingly up at the sky above, breath still shuddering on each inhale and exhale but with less power than before, he tried desperately to reach that detachment that allowed him to compartmentalize; allowed him to take stock of his injuries, get them stabilized and treated, and get himself to safety. Only then, when he was safe and not in any danger of dying or turning septic or some other such unpleasantness would he allow himself to fall apart.
Nully? Shadi? He called and heard only silence. Which was odd and did not help him stave off his rising panic and he shut his eyes tightly. Where were they? Surely he’d have come to to them screaming at him or bringing down a barrage of Healers or City-people to help him get back to the Palace? Taking a deep breath and telling himself, one step at a time, come on, he let the breath out and opened his eyes needing to see what other injuries he had. If his leg was that bad things were either just as bad or worse and he needed to know like forty minutes ago just how bad off he was. He knew enough basic Healing to keep himself from dying immediately but not enough to patch himself up alone, not with injuries that excessive.
His left leg had all its skin, gods be thanked, but he could tell something was wrong about his foot. Speaking of, when in the fuck did I lose my boots? It didn’t sit right, half of it listing to one side as though it were boneless and that was definitely not normal and beyond worrisome. He attempted to wiggle his toes and a shocked sob bubbled out of him before he could stop it. The attempt showed he could move his toes but his skin shivered in such an incredibly disturbing way and he knocked his head back against the wall again to use that pain, created only by him, to ground himself again. Looking up at the darkened sky, fingers curling into fists he took a deep, trembling breath and let it out as slow and as steady as he could manage, I can do this, I can do this, before he looked back down. His left knee was untouched from what he could see and feel, which was a mercy given that it barely healed the last time Anislanzir had taken an interest in it. He could tell by the way his left hip throbbed, however, that it was probably dislocated at worst, strained at best. His right leg from knee to hip only had lacerations but otherwise was left untouched.
Nully? Shadi? Where are you two? I need you! He called out again as he gingerly twitched his fingers. When no pain bloomed in response he let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding and just as gingerly palmed his groin through his breeches, checking to make sure nothing there was missing, painful to touch, or otherwise messed with. Blessedly everything seemed fine though he wouldn’t trust that entirely until he could see it for himself but as there wasn’t any visible blood and accompanying discomfort of any shade he moved on.
The old adage that wounds won’t truly start hurting until you see them bleeding proved true the moment Rhyshladlyn saw the mess of his abdomen.
“Oh gods…fuck,” he moaned, drawing out the curse as his hands shakily lifted to the hole where his intestines were ever-so-slightly spilling out and gently pushed against them as though all he needed to do to fix the problem of his insides being on the outside was to put them back inside and just hold something over the hole. The stench reached him then and he realized something had been ruptured that had no business being that way, and he wailed softly under his breath as it hit him just how likely he was to die in this filthy back alley somewhere in the City.
*No! You are not going to die!* Shadiranamen’s voice spluttered across their connection, weak and fuzzy around the edges which let him know she was at the very limit of their consciousness’ ability to allow them to mentally communicate. *We’re getting help. Just stay calm and stop the bleeding where you can!* And then her presence was gone like a gust of wind blowing out a candle-flame.
Well, at least help was coming, provided he lived long enough for its arrival to mean anything.
Exhaustion rolled over him then and his head lolled back against the wall, eyelids drooping, the pressure of his hands pressing his intestines back inside his abdomen letting up somewhat as his strength began to fail him. He needed to rest, just for a moment. Then he would do as Shadiranamen advised and stop the bleeding that he could and keep checking himself over for injuries, cataloging the worst so when the Healers and other help arrived he could tell them which to focus on first.
But until then, he just needed a single moment’s rest. That was all.
“Your Majesty, you mustn’t fall asleep,” a soft voice spoke directly in front of him and he jerked back to full alertness, eyes flying open to stare into the slate grey ones of the Soul Healer that was squatted down in front of him, the jewel on his forehead pulsing faintly as his power swirled up and down the alleyway around them. “Do you remember me?” He asked.
Rhyshladlyn nodded. “Yes… you are,” he coughed and swallowed a cry as the action made his chest feel like it was on fire. Taking a few gulps of air he tried again, blatantly ignoring how wet his voice sounded. “Relyt… Greymend, the Grey Soul Healer.”
“Yes, your Majesty. May I lay hands upon you to try and aid in keeping you alive?”
Again, Rhyshladlyn nodded and then realized he should probably tell the Soul Healer what his worst injuries were.
“Intestines are… falling out. I was…wasn’t,” he groaned, eyes falling closed as another wave of exhaustion, stronger than the first, fell over him.
“Stay awake, your Majesty,” Relyt Greymend said, voice a terse command but never losing the softness it held. Rhyshladlyn nodded, opening his eyes with a concerted effort and meeting the slate grey ones of the Soul Healer who smiled with a sort of bemusement that made Rhyshladlyn return the gesture without thinking about it only to blink in confusion when his mouth didn’t move the way he wanted it to. Seeing his reaction, Relyt Greymend held up his hands slowly and spoke with that same soft command that only Healers seemed able to pull off. “Do not be alarmed, your face is badly damaged, your cheek is split open from your ear to the corner of your mouth on your right side but it does not appear to have gone through the muscle. I need you to focus on breathing for me and staying awake.”
Rhyshladlyn did his best to comply with that directive.
“I am going to lay my hands upon you, your Majesty,” Relyt Greymend said nonchalantly as though he were discussing the weather and not what he was going to do to keep Rhyshladlyn alive. “Once more, may I do my best to aid you until more proper help may arrive?” he asked, eyes flicking up to look at Rhyshladlyn who nodded yet again.
“Yes… please,” he said. Healers required verbal consent to work on any individual; without it, they could not touch anyone, no matter how injured, no matter how easily saved the Dhaoine may be. Provided, that was, that the individual was capable of speech.
With a curt nod, Relyt Greymend bent his head, eyes intense as he took stock of Rhyshladlyn’s injuries from head to toe, a frown pulling at his brows as he finished. With a deep breath in and out to ground himself, the Soul Healer looked up at him once again and Rhyshladlyn mimicked him as best he could.
“It’s… b-bad,” he stammered out. His voice sounded wetter than before and he wondered if it had sounded that way when he’d cursed upon realizing his intestines were attempting to escape his body.
*Rhys! We’re coming!* Nhulynolyn’s voice thundered across their connection making him jump with the suddenness of it which led to his entire body coming to life with one drawn out, keening note of pain that had him throwing his head back and swallowing thickly around the sob that threatened to crawl out of his throat.
“Yes, your Majesty, and I cannot promise that even stopping the bleeding will not cause you more torment,” Relyt Greymend replied.
“F-fuck it,” Rhyshladlyn said, hearing the attempt of dry humor creep into his voice but it didn’t color it correctly. Nevertheless Relyt Greymend gave him a shaky smile in return. “Do what… what you must. Healers are… are n-not… too far… off,” he added.
“As you wish, your Majesty.”
That was the only warning he had before power that felt like a cool summer breeze crashed over him, entwining with his own power that bucked and shrieked now that he was paying attention to it, calling out in distress to anyone who was able to hear it. He hadn’t even been aware he was sending out an endless cry for help until the Soul Healer in front of him had reached out to sooth him in such a way, to calm him enough that his magick would not attack him thinking this Dhaoine who meant only to render aid was an enemy. Is that how he knew where to find me?
“Prepare yourself,” Relyt Greymend warned and then his power shifted and focused on every injury he had and Rhyshladlyn threw back his head and howled as his world shattered at the edges and became nothing but one single note of agony the likes of which he had not felt since his father had ripped his wings from his back when he was eight namedays old. As Relyt Greymend’s power surged over every inch of him, stopped major bleeding and Healing what damage he could, Rhyshladlyn heard shouting but was unable to focus on it.
Because as every nerve added its voice to that singular note until there was an orchestra of pain echoing from his every pore, he felt his entire World shift on its axis.
“I know you’re a neodrach, ‘Adlyn,” the Lord King crooned into his ear, arms reaching around from behind him, the Lord King’s favorite obsidian-bladed dagger held in his right hand. “And I also know that you have other secrets you and that bitch mother of yours are not sharing with me. But that’s alright,” Rhyshladlyn clenched his jaw as the tip of that blade sank into his abdomen just a few inches above his navel, his head falling back of its own accord onto his father’s shoulder as the Lord King pressed his chest to Rhyshladlyn’s back, “one of you will spill those secrets to me. You always do. It’s just a matter of finding out which button to push.” Rhyshladlyn screamed then as Anislanzir sank his favorite knife to the hilt and pulled it slowly across his torso.
Resurfacing from the memory with a wet coughing sob like a drowning man struggling to breathe as he breaks the surface of the waves endeavoring to drown him, Rhyshladlyn turned his head to find Anis kneeling beside him, clear blue eyes wide and dark with fear and something Rhyshladlyn couldn’t put a name to. Beyond him Relyt Greymend worked in tandem with two other Healers to correct as much of the damage as they could, enough at least to be able to safely move him to somewhere far more sanitary than the filthy alleyway he was currently sprawled in.
Lil’it bròtr, what happened?” Anis said and Rhyshladlyn fought not to flinch at the sound of the him calling him ‘little brother’ in Tengú for the first time in over eight decades.
“Anny,” he gasped out, coughing and whimpering with the pain the action caused, licking the blood from his lips as he lifted a shaking hand to grip the side of his older brother’s neck. “He… he knows… neodrach… Azhuri is a… trai-traitor. She’s told… him…”
His voice failed him as a third wave of exhaustion hit him and he frowned, eyes fluttering as he fought to keep them open. A cry of alarm sounded from somewhere near his feet and Rhyshladlyn watched as his hand fell limply from Anis’ neck, the feeling of it smacking hard against the cobblestones beneath him muted. Above him Anis’s mouth fell open in a soundless scream that Rhyshladlyn felt reverberate along his bones and made him keen with the ache it caused.
Just as his consciousness gave into the mounting exhaustion lulling him to sleep, Rhyshladlyn felt more than heard a rich tenor voice roar his name and then there was only darkness and silence.
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1. My, my….once again you have out-done yourself! This chapter was so….graphic. I loved it, truly, but omgs I felt soooo bad for him! Oh, and I only found one error:
**”Yes, your Majesty, and I cannot promise that even stopping the bleeding with not cause you more torment,” Relyt Greymend replied.**
I think the “with” should be replaced with a “will” in order to flow better. Other than that, everything else seems perfect.
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2. My heart just goes out to Rhyshladlyn right now…
You always keep me on the edge of my seat, and I cannot wait to read more…
I found no errors… Although I did have to reread the last two paragraphs a few times to understand what was going on… It could be a flow issue or it could be just that I’m tired too…
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1. The Seven Worlds
Noted on the last two paragraphs. I’ll read over it tonight and see if, when I’m rested, I have the same issue and go from there if I do. Glad you enjoyed this entry. =)
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“What do you mean there’s nothing for me?” Relyt asked trying to keep the disappointment out of his tone but judging by the way the Druid frowned at him, the look not one of reproach but rather one of sympathy, he must have been unsuccessful.
“The Key didn’t send anything back with us, my apologies are many,” Eithyl said, reaching out a hand to slap it against Relyt’s arm, barely tall enough to hit his bicep. “Though I was there when he got what you sent with us. He was distraught aplenty and avowed that we would move on the Festival night, if not sooner hence.” The Druid smiled then and Relyt wondered if it was just his increased cynicism that made the action look forced or if the Druid was trying to appease him and failing miserably in the process. “Lose not faith, Soul Healer. By Fire and Stone, things shall get better.”
Would that that placated me as much as you intended it to do, friend, Relyt thought as he watched Eithyl and the rest walk off in different directions so as not to be picked up as a group as they left the area of the Great Temple where they always met up upon the unit’s return to the City.
Relyt sighed softly, turning his back on the departing group of warriors and trudging further into the Temple, past the Gardens that sat in the very heart of the enormous structure, back to where grass still grew and trees still towered and swayed, but it wasn’t as brightly lit in that section, not as open aired. It was here, halfway between the hallways that housed the Shadow Chambers of the Old Ones and the main areas that housed the newer gods, that the worshipers of the Many, the multi-faced god of the Soul Healers, came. It was here, in the thickly grown and carefully maintained grove of black-barked oak trees, that his fellow Soul Healers bent knee in supplication to a god that had left them in silence for generations.
It was a silence that the Ildir had told Relyt would be broken when a Gret’yinl stood as the leader of not just the Grey Soul Healers, but of all the Soul Healers. That him being Thrice Touched was a gift from the Many, a long awaited sign. He hadn’t believed them back then, thinking they were more than a little power hungry, wanting to control their cousins as a way of getting revenge for being forced into icy seclusion for thousands of years more than they wanted to reunite the sub-races of Soul Healers. And the day he had said he refused to be the Gret’yinl that did as they bid and stepped up to rule all Soul Healers? The Ildir had threatened to disown him entirely, to ban him from ever returning home, from laying claim to the race he hailed from. With his parents dead, no partner or children to his name, with no ties to the communities that spread across the frozen tundra of Ikunae Province in Txiwteb World, Relyt had had no one to fight for him. Neither did he have any real reason to stay.
So he had packed his bags and left, claiming that he felt the call of his Key elsewhere in the Worlds, that he would find them, unlock his full powers, refusing to return until then. He had called the Ildir‘s bluff and given that his gretluos and gretkewq still existed, still functioned, still fed him magick and strength as he needed it, he hadn’t been cut entirely from the Grey Soul Healer race and for that he was eternally grateful.
For he doubted highly that were he bereft of a race to lay claim to, if he lost the tie to his homeland that allowed him to access his magick, that he would be of no use to Rhyshladlyn and the Qishir desperately needed as many Dhaoine on his side as possible.
As many functioning Dhaoine as possible, rather.
He closed his eyes tightly against tears that rose unbidden to his eyes, fighting hard to keep his carefully crafted stoic mask in place. Even though he knew he was failing as he sank to his knees and bowed in the traditional pose of supplication to the Altar of the Many. But after over three months of lack of proper sleep, of being unable to keep down any food, of over a month of knowing of Alaïs’… ailment… and being unable to ease any of her suffering save to remind her daily that he would not be leaving her side, of being away from his Key and Qishir, of being the sole reason their one hope to take the City as swiftly as possible with as minimal bloodshed was even still alive and knowing that that wouldn’t be the case much longer no matter how hard he worked, he figured he could be forgiven for showing emotion. He figured the Many would understand that one could only handle so much before one broke apart, shaking and sobbing, before picking up the pieces, fitting them back together as best as possible, and continuing onward. But part of him wondered if he had been abandoned not just by the god he had worshiped his entire life but by the Qishir he had gained Acceptance from, by the ones he had come to call family.
Even though he knew that last part was grossly unfair of him to think. Just because he didn’t write back doesn’t mean he’s abandoned you. Neither does the equal lack of communication from Azriel and the rest mean the same. Get yourself together, Relyt!
But what else was he to think with everything else that had happened? He had never felt nor literally been so alone. Not even when he was travelling the Worlds to follow the call of his Key, not even when it was just him camping on the road or sleeping in a cold bed in inns and taverns whose owners saw his gretkewq and immediately scorned him. But there was a distinct difference between being alone and loneliness. And loneliness did horrible, horrible things to one’s psyche.
And given how long he had been subjected to feeling powerless and lonely in this losing bid to fight the Lord King back, to keep him off Alaïs, to keep them both alive long enough for Rhyshladlyn to tear open the front gates and raze the City to the ground? It was no wonder he was coming apart.
He felt like he was slowly losing his sanity with the only reason he had even the minuscule grasp on it that he did being the trips he made to the Temple to pray to the Many, to have clandestine meetings with Thayne’s unit. But Anislanzir only allowed him to go, not Alaïs. And Relyt was only granted permission because the Lord King couldn’t afford for Relyt to call him out on the harm he had been enacting against the Soul Healer mentally. For to do so would forfeit the Healer’s Contract and not even the Lord King was impudent enough to risk incurring the wrath of the gods Themselves. Yet his daily escapes to the Great Temple could only last so long because he could not risk leaving Alaïs alone for overlong lest the Lord King seek to “check her condition myself” and do something about it which would only worsen the situation entirely.
So he was caught in a constant cycle of damned if he did, damned if he didn’t, praying all the while with what little hope he had left, with a rapidly dwindling strength, that it would continue to be just enough to see him through to the next dawn all while fearing, knowing, that one day it wouldn’t be.
“Many, hear the Call of Your Child,” he intoned, leaning back so his buttocks rested on his heels with his legs bent beneath him, grey eyes looking up at the stone statue depicting the ten-headed figure of the Many draped in flowing robes that showed neither feminine or masculine features, each face having a different expression, each one a representation of the ten main emotions that he had been taught to have absolute control over while growing up.
“Emotion is weakness, Rel,” the deep voice of Zelít rumbled around him while they stood side-by-side staring into the long ceremonial mirror in the Altar room of their home.
“But, Father, how is it weakness?” he argued, still young enough that questioning his father’s word did not warrant punishment. “You always seem so much stronger when you show Mother your love for her.”
“That is different, Rel,” Zelít replied.
“How though?”
“You will understand when you are older, son. Emotion is weakness, Rel, this is an absolute, unchanging Truth. Now concentrate. This is very important. You cannot get your gretluos without mastering your emotions. And without your gretluos, you will not get your gretkewq and you will disgrace your mother and I.”
“You cannot have abandoned us, o’ Great One,” he pressed, knowing what he was about to say amounted to blasphemy, knowing that allowing his anger and his resentment and his fear and his love and his sadness to show here, in this most holy of places, was an act of blasphemy in and of itself but he was far too tired to care anymore. Hope had abandoned him as surely as his god had abandoned his people. “Not when we need You the most. You swore upon our creation that You would always guide us. Said that our gretluosi and gretkewqi would be the way You touched us always, but yet… we call upon You, beg for You to hear us, to show us the way, and You give us only silence in return. Have You lost all love of us? Have we done wrong by You somehow?”
He shook his head, reaching up to push the fringe dislodged from the ponytail he had pulled his hair into from his face and let out a deep breath, head tilting back to look up at the forest canopy far above him. His heart clenched at the sight, reminded far too keenly of the one that had stretched for leagues around the cabin he had shared with Azriel and Rhyshladlyn; reminded of the only place that had ever truly felt like home to him, of the place he had willingly walked away from.
Part of him wished more than anything he could go back, that he could say no, but he knew that he wouldn’t change his answer even if he knew what he would be facing when he said yes. The knowledge of what would come from his choice would not make him change it. If anything, it would cause him to want to make that decision sooner.
“I want to resent him for this, o’ Great One,” he whispered, closing his eyes to the sight that reminded him too much of a home that didn’t exist anymore. “I want to blame him for the pain I’m feeling, for the loss of my precious control, but I can’t. It isn’t his fault. I chose this. And now that it is proving difficult on a level I had not entirely prepared myself for, I wish to rebel against it, to blame anyone but myself. It’s a very childish thing to do. But I cannot stop myself.”
He laughed, the sound short, harsh, and full of derision. “I want to resent You, for ignoring not just me but all those in this City who have been crying out to You, who have needed You…. but what’s the point? You would not care about my resentment of You anymore than You care about our suffering.”
Rubbing at his face with hands that had begun to shake, he lowered his head and looked back at the statue and the Altar that encircled it, taking in the offerings that spilled across its surface and trying not to sneer. What was the point of giving offerings to a god that had abandoned its followers?
“I don’t know which of Your Aspects to pray to, I don’t know if there is even a point because I don’t think You even hear us anymore. And more than the knowledge that war is coming to this City soon, more than the knowledge that my charge is dying and that there is nothing I can do about it, more than the knowledge that while my Qishir has not abandoned me part of me truly believes he has? Believing even a tiny bit that You have stopped listening to us, that no matter how many offerings we give You, no matter how loud we scream, no matter how much we beg and plead, no matter how many sacrifices we lay at the feet of Your effigies, the idea You have truly left us sickens me. Because I used to think You would save us all, that we only had to be good enough for You to see us again.”
With a choked sob that he wasn’t able to swallow down before it escaped, Relyt rose to his feet, wobbling where he stood briefly as the exhaustion he was barely keeping at bay rose up in a tidal wave that nearly swallowed him back down to the grass beneath his feet. He swallowed hard, eyes closing tightly against the severe vertigo that washed over him as he fought to stay on his feet. Once the nausea and feeling that the Worlds were swaying violently underfoot had passed, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a single silver coin that was roughly two inches across. It was the last piece of his mother he had left to him, given to him before she left for work one day and came home on a funeral pyre.
Not a day had gone by since she had given it to him that he didn’t have it on him, able to reach out and touch it, to connect with the woman who had been the only one to see him not as a way to gain her status among their race, but simply as Relyt.
“Keep this for good luck, little ‘Lyt,” she said with a smile.
“Mother, a coin cannot bring luck,” he muttered, staring at the five pointed star that was embossed on one side, the words ‘to yield is to show strength’ engraved onto the other.
“Oh, my little ‘Lyt,” Ishè chuckled as she ruffled his hair affectionately. “You have so much to learn.”
Taking in a deep breath, he let it out slowly and lifted the coin to his lips to press a kiss to it.
“Who knew even gods could be cowards,” he bit out, flicking the coin towards the Altar table before turning on his heel and striding towards the entrance of the Temple, scarcely hearing the coin tink against the stone table behind him.
It wasn’t even an offering, more a dismissal. It was more him shedding the last of the chains that connected him to his past than anything else. Because it didn’t matter anymore whether his god had abandoned him and his people or not, it didn’t matter whether Rhyshladlyn was still coming to save him and Alaïs. All that mattered was that he finally understood what his parents had been trying to teach him:
Love was not weakness for it was not an emotion but rather a state of being. And objects did not bring one luck, merely convinced one to make one’s own.
So that was just what he was going to do. Accept that his love of Rhyshladlyn and the ragtag family he was a part of would help him to find the strength to make his own damn luck. And then he would use it to get both him and his charge the fuck out of Shiran City.
Even if it meant that every living soul besides them died in the process.
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1. He’s one of those I can’t develop too quickly. I have bigger plans for him later on. 😉 So he’s not going anywhere for a good while.
And I’m glad you enjoyed it. Kinda surprised you didn’t scream over the feels. lol but I guess by now you’re used to them.
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1. I’m actually kind of surprised with you right now. 2 semi-calm chapters in a row? Are you setting something horrible up, and you need us nice and buttered up for it?
My horrible suspensions aside, this chapter was extremely well written, I think you convey emotions in writing better than some of us do in real life. I do feel bad to Re he’s back in that Gods forsaken Palace while everyone else gets to chill at the campsite. Poor dude.
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1. I might be….or I might not. You’ll just have to wait and see. *Grins sweetly.*
And thank you. I learned to understand my own emotions to the degree that I have through writing ever since I first started when I was seven years old. So I’ve had *years* of practice.
2. Lady Athena
This entry was exactly what was needed – to be able to hear and feel exactly what Relyt is feeing. It’s not cowardice that he is feeling. It’s truly the gravity of the situation they are all in. And it’s shaken him to his core. Beautifully written. I absolutely cannot wait to read more.
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Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebellion against the armies of Rome in the 1st century BCE , commanding a fighting force that grew to an army of 90,000–120,000 strong. We explore his fight and the interesting history of Roman gladiatorial combat in today's Suck. Men (and women!) facing off against each other in arenas, forums, and coliseums in fights that often lasted until severe injury or the death. Insane emperors, trident-wielding warriors, spear-wielding elephants, and so much more in today's tale of Roman debauchery and the man who almost took down a Republic.
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What I learned about Engineering from Elon Musk and the Fluffer Machine
During an investor conference call earlier this year, electric car company Tesla shared insights into assembly line optimizations. One stand out story involves the fluffer machine.
Edited Transcript of TSLA earnings conference call or presentation 2-May-18
“Like so we had fluffer bot, which was really an incredibly difficult machine to make work. Machines are not good at picking up pieces of fluff, okay. Human hands are way better at doing that. And so we had a super complicated machine using a vision system to try to put a piece of fluff on the battery pack. That same — and one of the questions asked was, “Do we actually need that?” So we tested a car with and without and found that there was no change in the noise volume in the cabin, so we actually had a part that was unnecessary that was — of course, the line kept breaking down because fluffer bot would frequently just fail to pick up the fluff or put it in like a random location. So that was one of the silliest things I found.”
So, they had this crazy complicated fluff machine. And a bunch of really smart people spent days trying to make it work. But no one, at least initially, questioned whether the machine was needed at all.
When the question was finally raised, the engineers challenged their assumptions, tested the theory. And they concluded the whole step of the process was unnecessary.
They scrapped the step, and the machine. Avoided getting stuck in the sunk cost fallacy. And moved on without regret.
The Lesson
Optimizing steps in your routine matters less than removing unecessary steps. Don’t waste your time over-optimizing activities you can stop doing altogether.
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• Image of Dysrhythmia - No Interference Reissue CD
Dysrhythmia’s astounding progressive / instrumental rock masterpiece “No Interference” (originally released in 2001) is finally back in print! This “No Inference” reissue finds itself being the true genesis for Dysrhythmia’s signature sound and features live bonus material from the bands original lineup. Over the years Dysrhythmia have released 8 ground breaking records with the likes of Profound Lore and Relapse along side members joining the ranks of legendary Canadian technical death metal act Gorguts.
"Dysrhythmia is a band unplagued by any similar fear of genre-crossing, as they seek to prove that the door is capable of swinging at least one way." -Pitchfork
"You might hear vague shadows of Iron Maiden, Don Caballero, and Discipline-era King Crimson, but Dysrhythmia's sound is very much their own." -The Austin Chronicle
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A downloadable game for Windows
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Heading Towards is a mini game we developed during the Goethe game Jam in Greece. It's a minimalist puzzle platformer. You are going through a series of events - the challenges of life - your memories. You are called to confront these challenges and see what the resolution will be. The game will judge you...
The design of the game is very minimal and cryptic in purpose. Part of the game is interpret and decode the information provided however you like.
For the controls use the left and right arrows to move and space to jump and/or double jump.
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