It was Sunday October 14th, 2012. I was happy. My eldest daughter was being baptized that day. I was so thrilled for that, and so glad to be part of Jubilee Church that day. I was listening to my pastor, Tope Koleoso, preaching on the Pharisee and the Prostitute. Suddenly, out of the blue it hit me, "this needs to be a book" and not just that sermon, although it became the first chapter, but other things we had been teaching at Jubilee Church for years.
Next Steps: What Do I Do Now?
Growing in Your Faith: Reading the Bible.
The original target was people who were at the brink of becoming a Christian, perhaps having responded to the gospel on a Sunday morning. For years now, we have been so blessed at Jubilee to have people responding in this way week after week. But often they don't fully understand why they put up their hand. As Terry Virgo says, "people often get saved on a fragment of truth." We simply wanted to help people start their Christian life on a stable foundation.
In fact for some while we had been looking for a good book to give out to people who were precisely in that position: becoming a Christian, or coming back to Jesus after a period of backsliding. All the books that we could find that were in any way similar to ours focused on one of two things that made them different to ours. Firstly apologetics, which definitely has its place for those not yet ready to become a Christian. Secondly, there were others that assumed someone was already a Chrsitian and needed help to be discipled. We wanted to write a book that didn't assume anything and could take someone from little to no knowledge of the Bible or the gospel, to taking their first steps as a Christian.
We also realized as we wrote that in fact the book will be of great help to any Christian. We found ourselves that as we explored the foundation all over again it did us both a lot of good. I keep saying "we" because, as I co-authored Hope Reborn with my pastor, Tope Koleoso which was a real pleasure.
I would encourage all of you to get ahold of a copy of this book, read it for yourself, to help be absolutely sure you are really a Christian, better understand the gospel, and find new ways of expressing it to others. We hope and pray that many will decide to give this book to their friends, also. To that end we have arranged a good deal with two partners, in the UK, 10ofthose.com and in the USA, Christianbook.com who can both offer Hope Reborn cheaper than Amazon at the moment.
It may be coming up for 40 years after I first heard the gospel from my father as a young boy. It remains my only hope, my only foundation, and the only message that can save. I will never move beyond it, and nor should you.
This is my testimony. This is my story. If I could sing, I would sing it. Jesus really does keep the best wine till last and the longer I walk with him, the more grateful I am that he saved me all those years ago.


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Rodovi i broj vrsta
 Austrobryonia H.Schaef., 4 vrste
 Bryonia L., 10 vrsta
 Ecballium A.Rich., 1 vrsta

Izvori

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What are you doing? they ask in earnest, curious unison.
Writing, I reply, answering automatically even though they ask the same question every day and they often sit directly on the typewriter so it should be rather obvious.
Writing what? they chorus with their typical giddiness.
There should be a bear! one suggests.
No, bears are scary! the other insists.
That's why they make a good story, the first argues, because scary stories are exciting stories and exciting stories are good stories!
You're not helping, I tell them, but they don't listen. They never listen to me.
They argue about bears and relative levels of scariness (digressing into a lengthy debate as to whether dragons could be scarier than bears and who would win in a dragon versus bear situation, including caveats as to age of dragon, type of bear, landscape the fight is taking place on and both competitors psychological motivations) and what makes a story properly good while I continue to type.
in lieu of post, bunnies.
I was going to write an epic post-NYC blog post and then this week got away from me, lost in two straight days of phone interviews followed by credit card fraud shenanigans and deadlines and also I'm still not sure how it managed to be almost-August already.
Also, on Monday July 30th at 5pm eastern I will be doing a live video chat on GoodReads. I imagine it will be something like all the phone interviews only people will actually be able to see how much I talk with my hands.
We reach the bridge on the third day, in the late afternoon with the sun just starting to sag into the trees. We are tired and hungry, having eaten the last of the almost-stale scones with honey hours before, and overjoyed to have finally reached our next landmark.
We whoop and shout enough to scare the nearby birds but we fall silent when we notice the sign.
No one warned us of this part, though few had set down this path before and returned to share the particulars. We did not expect the bridge, this fabled bridge we had heard about that seemed solid and eternal in our imaginations, to be so narrow and flimsy and have formally posted restrictions.
"Do Not Run" seems understandable given the rickety construction, but "Limited To Three Pedestrians" gives us pause, leaving us shuffling our formerly eager feet in the dirt with four pairs of eyes refusing to make contact.
We decide, after some debate, that it is likely not an enforceable restriction and we should all cross, but one at a time so that there are never more than three of us at once.
No one wants to be last, just in case, so we break a stick and draw straws and I am only slightly surprised to find the short one in my hand when I open my eyes.
My companions cross slowly, it seems an eternity before the third begins to walk, and when she is almost halfway with the other two safely on the far side and watching nervously, I shift my pack on my shoulders and prepare to step forward.
Before I even lift my foot the bridge has vanished, leaving me standing alone next to another sign that instructs me to continue west to the other bridge, and beneath the sign is a warm honeyed scone.
quick post with books & socks!
and the New England Mobile Book Fair in Newton Highlands.
And I imagine most if not all of these stores would be willing to ship them if you called & ordered.
I of course did not get through all of those stores without a bit of book shopping, even though my to-read pile is absurd at this point. Also, socks.
And this evening I shall be at McNally Jackson Books in conversation with Lev Grossman. I am not entirely sure what we will be conversing about. Possibly books or writing and very likely Harry Potter. Actually probably mostly Harry Potter.
I found the lamppost in the middle of the woods, half-hidden in branches and vines.
I confess, the first thing I thought about was Narnia even though it was summer-warm with green leaves instead of wardrobe snow and I'm too old to be thinking such things in serious wishful ways.
I untangled what I could to get a better look at the lamppost itself, which was set securely in the ground even though the nearest road was half a mile away.
I'm not sure when I stopped being in my woods and started being in Everglynn, but it was probably somewhere around dusk when the lamp flickered on and the chipmunk sitting by my feet asked if I happened to have the time.
It's not Narnia, not by a long shot. No icy queens or wise enigmatic lions, just a messy, run-down land of squabbling creatures who argue over everything from what to farm and how to form a proper army—though I'm not sure who the army would be fighting, there aren't any other lands as far as I can tell—to what books to keep in the expansive hollow-tree library and whether or not to legalize gambling.
They think I'm their savior, a strange beast sent from another land to fix their unruly society and their failing economy and bring peace to their vine-tangled forest.
I try to help. I untangle what I can. I worry what would happen if I were to leave.
Today is my birthday! I am thirty-four years old, which also means that this blog is four years old and flax-golden tales are three years old, and three is of course the magic number. My continued & eternal thanks to the multi-talented Carey Farrell for allowing me to make things up to accompany her fantastic photos.
We celebrate all of these things with the meta-wonderment that is a balloon covered with balloons.
Also there is wrapping paper featuring a very dapper cat.
And my favorite part, the birthday pony.
Thank you for all the birthday wishes both in person and via Twitter and comments, my day so far has been balloon and kitten and pony and pancake-filled, and later there shall be ice cream cake. Thirty-three was a strange, wondrous, roller coaster of a year. I'm curious to see what thirty-four will bring, and I'm going to assume a balloon covered in balloons is a good birthday omen.
We moved the table to the back of the store years ago but once in a while interested customers still come in and my dad points them toward the end of the long polished oak counter and around the corner and then he presses the button that lights up the fading fancy-lettered Lapins sign and dings a bell by my desk so I can unlock the case.
I sometimes wish we could just leave the sign on and the case unlocked so I could do something productive, since most of the time the potential customers are only browsing and they get grumpy when I inform them that they can't handle the merchandise without displaying what they have for trade.
No one has lapins for trade anymore. Not nice enough ones to trade for our stock since all our lapins are in prime condition for their age, still shiny and mostly in the pale green the official catalog calls "celery" and silver, which is just called "silver." Once we had a pink ("amaranth") one but a woman I'd never seen in the store before swooped in with a wide-brimmed straw hat and a huge purse the day after we got it in stock and traded three green ones and a still-wrapped cerulean for the single pink. After she left my dad grumbled and suggested that we could have held out for a better deal, but there was no way I wasn't letting that lady have that pink bunny, not with the look in her eyes under the shadow of that hat.
But most of the interested customers we get aren't as serious, even though we're the only store in this part of the country that deals in lapins anymore. I've mastered the headshake of disapproval when people produce lapins for trade that have clearly been tampered with, serial numbers illegible and ears crudely reattached.
"The lapin business is still a noble trade, son," my dad says, even though I'm a girl (he always calls me son anyway) and both of us refer to it as "the bunny business" on a regular basis.
Sometimes I suggest we crack them all open and be done with it, but I never really mean it and I'm always relieved when my dad shakes his head and pats the display case, aiming a tiny smile down at the lapins safely locked under glass.
Thank you all for joining in the fantabulousness! Endless gratitude to everyone at Brookline Booksmith, especially the wonderful and dapper Evan, and everyone from the Huffington Post Books team, particularly the dashing and becaped (which is not a word, but he did have a cape) Andrew, and of course, the incomparable Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys.


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Q: Could not read JSON: Can not construct instance of java.util.Date from String value I'm using REST SHARP and creating data using c# code
my service is of Java service.
and i'm getting follwing convertion error
when I pass CreatedDate = DateTime.Now
Json
{"id":123,"createdDate":"2015-08-06T12:18:32.8405195+05:30"}

C# RestSharp code
  Customer cust = new Customer()
  cust.id=123;
  cust.createdDate = DateTime.Now;

  string jsonObject = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cust , new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore });

  var restClient = new RestClient("http://myurl/");
  var restRequest = new RestRequest("rest/", Method.POST);
  restRequest.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
  restRequest.AddParameter("application/json", jsonObject, ParameterType.RequestBody);
  restRequest.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
  // execute the request
  RestSharp.IRestResponse restResponse = restClient.Execute(restRequest);

Could not read JSON: Can not construct instance of java.util.Date from
  String value '2015-08-06T12:13:01.8564244+05:30': not a valid
  representation (error: Failed to parse Date value
  '2015-08-06T12:13:01.8564244+05:30': Can not parse date
  \"2015-08-06T12:13:01.8564244+05:30\": not compatible with any of
  standard forms (\"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ\",
  \"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'\", \"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz\",
  \"yyyy-MM-dd\"))\n at [Source:
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  column: 69]

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Reputedly, Mozart's Magic Flute is the most popular of all operas, with a new production opening every week in some country around the world.
As each has a different spin, you'd think it would be difficult to come up with something really fresh, lively and witty. But Charles Court Opera has managed to do just this with its new Flute being staged at the King's Head Theatre until June 3.
The production is located in the depths of the Amazon jungle in South America, verdant foliage covering the walls and ceilings. And the tone is set at the very opening. Explorer Prince Tamino has lost his way and stumbled into an animal rope trap. The three ladies fall for him as they release him from the trap, only for Papageno to arrive, playing his magical flute. Then Monostatos arrives, wielding a double-barrel gun.
Visually, it's a treat throughout, flamboyant jungle costumes complemented by clever use of jungle bird puppies and masks.
A particularly strong scene is Papageno's trial by the old woman. She's got up as a monster with a huge head held up by the three ladies inside an enveloping cape – and poor Papageno has to pledge his love for her before Papagena emerges from inside the monster.
Most other scenes are equally well done delivering a cascade of fun having the audience in stitches.
Although Mozart's wonderful orchestra score is missed woefully, the dynamic piano accompaniment keeps the piece rolling on apace.
Fine singing is blessed by good diction, Robin Bailey as Tamino, Matthew Kellet as Papageno and Emily Jane Thomas as Pamina being outstanding.
A fun evening for Flute aficionados up to speed with the plot – but also for novices out for a wacky time away from their phones.


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Q: errors calling two actionFunctions in apex I'm trying to call 2 methods from my controller within the VF apex code. Having no end of issues.
Here's my code:
<apex:page standardController="Account" extensions="AccountController" action="{!SendEnvelope}">
    <apex:form >

        <apex:actionFunction action="{!SendEnvelope}" name="SendEnvelope" oncomplete="EmbeddedSign();" />
        <apex:actionFunction action="{!EmbeddedSign}" name="EmbeddedSign"/>
        <apex:pageMessages />
    </apex:form>
           <script>
              EmbeddedSign();   //oncomplete="EmbeddedSign();"
        </script>
</apex:page>

I get that having action="{!SendEnvelope}" in the root page level will negate my actionFunction, but that's the only way i could get it working.
I've tried the following and failed:
ERROR: 'Attempt to de-reference a null object'
<script>
      SendEnvelope();
      EmbeddedSign();
</script>

Or simply having a 'main' function within my controller that in call in apex.
ERROR: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out
public PageReference Main() {
SendEnvelope();
EmbeddedSign();
}

So my assumption based on researching is that i need two separate transactions (callout ordering issues). That's why i have two functions that i need to call separately.
The above code actually gets it working, but it just keeps on reloading and reloading. i'm guessing it's because i'm missing 'rerender', but i couldn't get them working.
I briefly tried @future - that could be my solution, but i needed to return PageReference for the redirect to work in the second function (EmbeddedSign). Although am open to alternatives for sure.
I've hit a wall here, been trying to debug this for way too long. If anyone can please take a look at my code and provide suggestions that would be amazing. Thanks!


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Told from the narration of her diary, 12-year-old Cuban-American Elena navigates the ups and downs of middle school and begins her journey to become the future president of the United States.
Genre: Family , Comedy
Actor: Tess Romero , Carmina Garay , Nathan Arenas , Selenis Leyva , Sanai Victoria , Michael Weaver , Brandon Severs , Charlie Bushnell , Harmeet K. Pandey , Avantika Vandanapu , Tiernan Jones
Season 1 - Diary of a Future President
7 "Foreign Relations"
"Elena desperately wants to go to her first middle school dance with Joey, only to find out that he would rather go with an eighth-grade girl. Bobby and Liam go to Jupiter to compete in a tennis tournament, but find their plans thwarted. Gabi is finally ready to donate the last of her late husband's belongings, but her feelings change when she finds an old memento. English"
6 "Habeas Corpus"
"When Elena gets detention, she discovers a new group of kids who are so much more than their reputation. Bobby is psyched to watch a cult classic with his buddies, but is surprised when the movie forces him to reveal an aspect of his life that he wasn't prepared to share. Meanwhile, Gabi is bummed to have lost an important case to a bigger firm, only to be significantly cheered up by Sam."
5 "Whistleblower"
"When Elena learns her school mascot honors a man with a horrific past, she makes it her mission to have the mascot changed. Bobby grapples with his heritage when an opposing team member makes fun of him for the way his name is spelled. Gabi tries to find the work-life balance between a case she's thrilled to be working on and a boss who doesn't have boundaries."
4 "The National Mall"
"In an effort to stop waiting for womanhood to come to them, Elena and Sasha stray from their usual mall stores to the forbidden Intimates & More – which leads Elena to become an accidental criminal. Bobby's friends throw a kickback to try to help Bobby get more alone time with Monyca. Gabi tries to prove to her boss that she's perfect for the new case at work."
3 "Disaster Relief"
"In an attempt to find her "reason for being," Elena tries to become Orange Bay Middle's Hurricane Watch Captain. Bobby prepares to go to "Miami Second Base" with new crush Monyca-with-a-Y. Gabi is excited to have her first real date with Sam, but family obligations keep getting in the way."
2 "The New Deal"
"After learning Gabi has a new boyfriend, Elena worries about maintaining her role in the family. Bobby meets his match on the tennis court, and Sam helps Gabi deal with the loss of her favorite sandwich when it's abruptly taken off the lunch menu."
1 "Hello World"
"Elena battles a series of curve balls at school, as she forgets to do a homework assignment for the first time ever and struggles with whether or not to keep a secret about her former best friend. Meanwhile her mom, Gabi, struggles to tell her kids about her new boyfriend, Sam."
Trailer: Diary of a Future President

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Sit in the dust, O daughter of Babylon. You showed no mercy. You trusted in sorcery. Evil shall fall upon you. No one shall save you.
Posted on 2 Aug 2012 to 24,811 followers, with 10 retweets.
Read Isaiah 47 in full.
Verse 4 Our Redeemer � the Lord Almighty is his name � is the Holy One of Israel.
sums up this chapter about Babylon ... Their trust was to be in God alone, not by their own strength or sourcers or astrologers but by God and God alone. Today Babylon lay in ruins.


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Урицк может означать:
Урицк — город в Ленинградской области в 1925—1963 годах
Урицк — муниципальный округ в Санкт-Петербурге


Cash position suggests Synergy Pharma needs to raise more money before next $100 million loan tranche.
New CEO has an opportunity to end financing risks to new investors.
The company is near an inflection point in sales and costs that will reduce cash burn going forward.
Synergy Pharmaceuticals (SGYP) continues to wade through a volatile drug launch due to questionable internal decisions. The company botched the drug launch financing, but the investment thesis isn't altered with the recent replacement of the CEO.
Is Amazon A Legitimate Advertising Play?


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Q: how to filter multiple source file with maven? i'm trying to filter many source file with maven.
my code work perfectly when i specify the files name.
<files>
  <file>
    <source>src/main/default/toto.txt</source>
    <outputDirectory>/default</outputDirectory>
    <filtered>true</filtered>
  </file>
</files>

if i have 30 or more files within default directory how can i add the filter?
i tried something like that :
<source>src/main/default/*.txt</source>

but maven return error
anybody have a solution?

A: You can actually use the wildcard as mentioned in the Maven doc, and in the example below (taken from the afored mentioned website):
<resources>
   ....
  <resource>
    <directory>src/my-resources</directory>
    <includes>
      <include>**/*.txt</include>
      <include>**/*.rtf</include>
    </includes>
  </resource>
  ...
</resources>


19 Things Kids Born After the Year 2000 Will Never Understand. The Struggle Was Real!
If you were old enough to remember New Year's Eve in 1999, you'll remember that Y2K was a hot topic. Most people didn't know whether that elusive computer bug would cause problems since computers only used the last 2 digits of the year. There were fears that computers wouldn't recognize the year 2000 from the year 1900.
Well, we know that nothing happened but there are so many other things that have happened since the year 2000. It doesn't seem long ago but here are 19 things that kids born after the year 2000 will never understand.
1) Not only was it bulky but your CD would skip even with anti-skip features.
2) When you could use your ghetto blaster to get your girlfriend's attention.
3) When you had to look for your favorite song to play during the car ride home.
4) Unfortunately, today's kids will never understand the link between the two.
5) When you had to disconnect from the internet because your mom needed to use the phone.
Why? Because when the internet started in the early 90s, we had to use dial-up which meant computers had to share the same phone line when connecting to the internet (unless you were lucky enough to have a dedicated phone line just for your computer).
6) Trying to put your VHS tape back together because your VHS player ate it for lunch.
7) When your brother or sister borrowed your CD and returned it like this.
8) Programming your VCR to record your favorite TV show and seeing this when you later pressed play.
10) When you had to go through 30 floppy disks just to install Microsoft Office.
11) When Friday rolled around and you'd know it was movie night when your dad or mom showed you this.
12) No wonder we had to wear baggy jeans!
13) When your GPS looked like this.
14) Experiencing the rise and fall of the original Napster.
15) Having to blow in the cartridges, I remember!
16) Today, batteries barely last a day and you're lucky if they don't blow up in your face.
17) When you had to remove knots from the phone cord.
18) When playing a game on your computer meant scrolling through endless menus.
19) How life in class was before texting.
It's amazing to think how many changes the next 10 years will provide. Please share these things that kids born after the year 2000 will never understand with your friends and family.
Adorable Flower Girl Walks down the Aisle. Her Reaction When She Sees Daddy Is Priceless!
His Wife Gives Birth to Their 6th Baby. When Dad Looks Down, He Starts Screaming!


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Humans 40,000 years ago – The beginning of Reason
When you read the books inspired by Andre Luiz, and psychographed by Francisco (Chico) C. Xavier, there are references to interesting information divulged to us during conversations or lectures recorded by Andre. In the book, Liberation, first published in Portuguese in 1949, Andre tells us of a lecture, about the need to assist spirits in the Lower Zones and the Abyss, in which the following statement is made:
"We know today that the human spirit, taken as a whole, has had the ability to reason for exactly forty thousand years … Nonetheless, with the same furious impetus with which Neanderthals killed one another with hatchet blows, humans of modern times – regarded as the glorious era of world powers – exterminate their brothers and sisters with firearms."[1]
This didn't sound right, we have been told that humans have been on earth for around 350,000 to 400,000 years. But then I looked up modern humans in Wikipedia and this is what I found.
"Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago.[15] The transition to behavioral modernity with the development of symbolic culture, language, and specialized lithic technology happened around 50,000 years ago according to many anthropologists[16] although some suggest a gradual change in behavior over a longer time span."[2]
Hence, our brains must have evolved to a state around 40,000 years ago to where the spirit realm determined was the minimum level of reason. Then I looked up more information:
"Loren Cordain contrasts the anatomical and behavioral perspectives on this question: 'for two million years until … the agricultural revolution of roughly 10 000 years ago our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, so the adaptive pressures inherent in that environmental niche have exerted a defining influence on human genetic makeup. The portion of our genome that determines basic anatomy and physiology has remained relatively unchanged over the past 40,000 years … Although anatomically modern humans first appeared perhaps 100,000 years ago, modern human behavior first becomes recognizable in the fossil record of about 50,000 years ago … between 50,000 and 40,000 years ago their creative and technological innovation increased dramatically … During this period skeletal robusticity decreased somewhat suggesting that less muscular force was required for daily tasks."[3]
Here is the key sentence, "The portion of our genome that determines basic anatomy and physiology has remained relatively unchanged over the past 40,000 years." A book that was published in 1949, before carbon dating, before DNA sequencing, before computers were anything other than used by governments, pegged the beginning of our ascent into the world of reasoning and increased use of technology in the same time period as our modern science.
One more little piece of evidence that we are being guided along a path. The spirit realm created the conditions so that basic humans could evolve and then, most probably, subtlety modified our DNA to give us that next mental boost. A physical brain which could be powerful enough to connect to our perispirits and process the exchange of information between our spirit and our bodies. Forty thousand years ago, one of us started our first reincarnation on earth. Beginning the long climb from primitive to civilized behavior. Even now we have a long way to travel.
Learn about how our earth is guided by the spirit realm and how it affects you in my book – Explore Your Destiny.
EVFIT. (2014, December 22). 40,000 Years. Retrieved from evfit.com: http://www.evfit.com/40,000ya.htm
Wikipedia. (2014, December 22). Human Evolution. Retrieved from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution
Xavier, F. C. (2013). Liberation. Brasilia (DF), Brazil: International Spiritist Council.
[1] Xavier, Francisco C., Liberation, EDICEI, p. 17
[2] Wikipedia, "Human Evolution", n.d., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution, (accessed December 22, 2014)
[3] Wikipedia, "EVFIT", n.d., evfit.com: http://www.evfit.com/40,000ya.htm, (accessed December 22, 2014)


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Around The World: This Generation Can Be the One to End Legal Abortion- Mike Pence
by motivatedandfree Mar 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018
In as much am not a Trump fan, and also not supporting some of his policies, for this to be a concern in their administration stand as a positive policy in their administration. I pray the bill is passed and the abolition is active.
According to the source, Vice President of U.S Mike Pence told a luncheon group this week that legal abortion would end in the U.S. "in our time."
"I know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America," Pence said at a Nashville luncheon hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Institute, an anti-abortion organization.
"If all of us do all we can, we can once again, in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law," he added.
He said in President Donald Trump's first year in office, Pence has already seen "great" moves to eliminating legal abortion.
"I see more progress in the last year in the cause of life than I have seen in public policy in all of my years," Pence said.
Trump has signed legislation that reverses a law from Obama's term that blocks states from defunding Planned Parenthood.
He reinstated a ban on international federal funds for global health organizations that cover or provide education on abortions.
"Let me admonish you as we go forward in this cause in 2018 to understand while we have made great progress, we have much work left to do," Pence said.
The Trump administration has not been able to pass a law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The proposal passed in the House, but the Senate failed to approve it in January.
In his speech, Pence called Trump the "most pro-life president in American history."
" … Younger Americans, are choosing and embracing the sanctity of LIFE more and more every day, and we have to be their voice," Pence tweeted after his speech.
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The 2008 election offers the most diverse array of presidential candidates in history. But this rainbow campaign will hinge on the most durable reality of American politics: White men matter most.
Every election cycle, a new slice of the electorate — suburban mothers, churchgoing Hispanics, bicycling Norwegians — comes into vogue as reporters and analysts study the polls and try to divine new secrets about who wins and why in American politics.
The truth is that the most important factor shaping the 2008 election will almost certainly be the same one that has been the most important in presidential elections for the past 40 years: the flight of white male voters away from the Democratic Party.
The hostility of this group to Democrats and their perceived values is so pervasive that even many people who make their living in politics scarcely remark on it. But it is the main reason the election 13 months from now is virtually certain to be close — even though on issues from the war to health care, Democrats likely will be competing with more favorable tail winds than they have enjoyed for years.
The "gender gap" has been a fixture in discussions about American politics since the early Reagan years. But it is usually cast as a matter of women being turned off by Republicans. By far the greater part of this gap, however, comes from the high number of white men — who make up about 36 percent of the electorate — who refuse to even consider voting Democratic.
In 2000, exit polling showed white women backed George W. Bush over Al Gore by 3 percentage points, but white men backed him by 27 percentage points. Four years later, with John F. Kerry carrying the Democratic banner, the margin was 26 points.


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MMC Travel Advisory and Policies Regarding Coronavirus
UPDATED: March 1, 2020
Out of an abundance of caution, the College is implementing the following travel guidelines based upon guidance from the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak:
*These guidelines are subject to change pending updated/revised guidance and/or travel restrictions from federal, state, and/or local health agencies*
Travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, or South Korea:
The CDC has issued a level 3 travel alert for China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, and Japan citing coronavirus and recommending travelers "avoid all non-essential travel" to the countries.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices
Consistent with these advisories, only essential College-affiliated travel to these countries will be permitted, and travel should be delayed if possible.
The College strongly recommends that all students currently studying abroad in any of these impacted regions return to the US and suspend their study abroad.
The College also strongly recommends that all students, faculty, and staff members avoid all non-essential personal travel to any of the countries outlined above.
Any member of the College community who travels to Italy, Japan, Iran, or South Korea, whether for College-affiliated or personal travel, is required to self-identify immediately upon return and may be required to self-isolate for 14 days. Students, faculty, or staff returning from these countries should email safety@mmm.edu with the details of their travel.
Pursuant to guidance from the CDC, any U.S. citizen returning to the United States who has been to any of these impacted regions within the previous 14 days will undergo health screening at select ports of entry and up to 14 days of monitored self-quarantine and/or self-monitoring.
The College study abroad trip to Italy for spring break has been cancelled.
Travel to China:
Consistent with a State Department Level 4 Travel Advisory, the College has suspended all College-affiliated travel to China, effective Jan. 31.
All College study abroad programs to China for the 2020 spring and summer semesters have been postponed.
Consistent with both State Department and CDC guidance, the College also recommends that all students, staff, and faculty members avoid all nonessential personal travel to China.
Any member of the College community returning from China, whether for business or personal travel, is required to self-identify immediately upon return. Students, faculty, or staff returning from these countries should email safety@mmm.edu with the details of their travel.
Beginning February 2, any U.S. citizen returning to the United States who has been in Hubei Province in the previous 14 days will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine.
Pursuant to guidance from the CDC, any U.S. citizen returning to the United States who has been in other parts of mainland China within the previous 14 days will undergo health screening at select ports of entry and up to 14 days of monitored self-quarantine and/or self-monitoring.
Travel to Iran:
Consistent with a State Department Level 4 Travel Advisory, the College has suspended all College-affiliated travel to Iran, effective February 26, 2020.
Consistent with both State Department and CDC guidance, the College also recommends that all students, staff, and faculty members avoid all non-essential personal travel to Iran.
Any member of the College community returning from Iran, whether for business or personal travel, is required to self-identify immediately upon return. Students, faculty, or staff returning from these countries should email safety@mmm.edu with the details of their travel.
Pursuant to guidance from the CDC, any U.S. citizen returning to the United States from Iran within the previous 14 days will undergo health screening at select ports of entry and may be subject to up to 14 days of monitored self-quarantine and/or self-monitoring.
Public health advisories and health precautions can change with little notice. Anyone planning international travel should check the status of COVID-19 alerts and precautions at all destinations, including layovers, and continue to do so until their return to the U.S.
Students, faculty, or staff who have questions about their return from countries affected by COVID-19 should contact safety@mmm.edu.
The College continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation and is following guidelines from the State Department, CDC, and WHO. As the situation evolves, additional travel restrictions may be implemented. Please continue to monitor updates from the College and public health agencies.
Official communications from the College regarding the COVID-19 outbreak can be found at www.mmm.edu/coronavirus.
Additional information about novel coronavirus:
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Scalability has become synonymous with Blockchain technologies as it is often regarded as the next big hurdle, at least technically, that these technologies must overcome in order to be able to disrupt a wider set of industries more effectively. The scalability trilemma described by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states that you can only have two out of either decentralization, scalability or security so trade-offs are almost inevitable.
As it is evident that most robust projects will never compromise on security, it leaves decentralization and scalability itself as the only two viable options. Some projects increase throughput by being partially decentralized where consensus is handled by supernodes cutting out ordinary users as is the case with EOS. On the other hand, we are seeing several projects that are taking on the scalability aspect head-on without compromising on centralization which can either be via off-chain scaling, which create specialized transaction channels outside the main blockchain as is the case with the Lightning Network, or on-chain scaling which includes sharding – which effectively breaks up the blockchain into sub-networks – something currently being pushed for by Ethereum, or Directed Acyclic Graphs as in the case of IOTA that are completely different data structures than traditional Blockchains. In certain areas, supernodes sacrifice decentralization to achieve these results. Additionally, it appears that none of these options have appeared to be effective ways to solve the scalability trilemma.
One project that is trying to effectively tackle this problem head-on, is MultiVAC.
The team describes it as "A high-throughput flexible public blockchain based on trusted sharding" and they outline their intentions to provide an innovative solution to the problem through their proposal of a trusted sharding model for transactions, computation as well as storage on a Blockchain. In contrast to traditional blockchain systems in which typically the processing power of a miner is going to be a major bottleneck, MultiVAC's model allows nodes to accumulate their transaction power to give, what they claim to be "scalability without limit".
One of the unique features about MultiVAC is the flexibility it provides. This allows the DApp designers to decide on their own about the tradeoff between decentralization, scalability and secure rather than them having to stick to whatever the underlying platform provides. This is unique because each DApp will have different requirements based on the use-case and rather than the developers having to support multiple separate platforms, MultiVAC can be their one-stop shop.
Secondly, the sharding solution proposed by MultiVAC is unique in that it considers the three "dimensions" of smart contract computation, storage, as well as the transmission of data on a blockchain, holistically. In practice, this will give a significantly greater degree of scalability compared to the other solutions out there at the moment.
Other key features include Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs), its Proof of Instruction Execution (PoIE) and Data Storage. VRFs bring a probabilistic model with which the network can randomly select aspects such as which node gets to sign a block and which shard is selected, PoIE eliminates the need for every line of code in a smart contract to have to execute on all nodes and uses the physical discrepancy between computation and storage in modern computers to penalize malicious behavior and ensure security and efficiency.
We asked MultiVAC's CEO Frank Lyu why he believes MultiVAC will stand out among its competitors.
Prospective users may also join MultiVAC's testnet by applying on http://va.mikecrm.com/JJTowUw.
As with all projects in this space only time will tell which solution (or maybe, solutions?) will be the most successful when it comes to tackling scalability, but what is clear is that the MultiVAC project is proposing a particularly interesting way of going about solving the scalability trilemma by leaving it up to the DApp developers to prioritize on what's best for their needs.


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#include "vision_sim.hpp"

#include <cv.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cerrno>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <highgui.h>		// for cvSaveImage. GUI doesn't exist

VisionSim::VisionSim (libconfig::Config* conf) :
	Vision(conf),
	timpl(new ThreadImpl),
	pool(4, false, 1000)
{
    conf->lookupValue("vision.height", height);
    conf->lookupValue("vision.width", width);
    conf->lookupValue("vision.snapshot_enable", snapshotEnable);
    conf->lookupValue("vision.snapshot_time", snapshotTime);
	conf->lookupValue("visionsim.camera_filename", camera_filename);

	timpl->m_thread = std::thread(std::bind(&Vision::visionProcess, this));
}
void VisionSim::storeImage(HARDWARE cam)
{
	cv::Mat img;

	while(!((img.rows > 0) && (img.cols > 0)))
	{
		try
		{
			img = cv::imread(camera_filename, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);
		}
		catch(std::exception &e) {}
	}

	// crop image to get either the front or down camera
	cv::Rect crop_view;
	if (cam == CAM_FRONT)
	{
		crop_view = cv::Rect(0, 0, img.cols, img.rows/2);
	}
	else
	{
		crop_view = cv::Rect(0, img.rows/2, img.cols, img.rows/2);
	}
	cv::Mat cropped;
	cv::Mat(img, crop_view).copyTo(img);

	unsigned char r_table[256], b_table[256], g_table[256], colors[6], colorsOut[6];
	scaleColors(img, r_table, g_table, b_table);

	((cam == CAM_FRONT)?raw_front:raw_down) = img;

	cv::Mat enhanced(img.size(), CV_8UC3);

	auto enhance_colors = [](int start, int end, unsigned char* ip, unsigned char* op, unsigned char* red_table, unsigned char* green_table, unsigned char* blue_table)
		{
			for (int i = start; i < end; i++)
			{
				op[3*i  ] = blue_table[ip[3*i]];
				op[3*i+1] = green_table[ip[3*i+1]];
				op[3*i+2] = red_table[ip[3*i+2]];
			}
		};

	int num_pixels = img.cols*img.rows;

	pool.add_task(enhance_colors,              0,   num_pixels/4, img.ptr(), enhanced.ptr(), r_table, g_table, b_table);
	pool.add_task(enhance_colors,   num_pixels/4,   num_pixels/2, img.ptr(), enhanced.ptr(), r_table, g_table, b_table);
	pool.add_task(enhance_colors,   num_pixels/2, 3*num_pixels/4, img.ptr(), enhanced.ptr(), r_table, g_table, b_table);
	pool.add_task(enhance_colors, 3*num_pixels/4,     num_pixels, img.ptr(), enhanced.ptr(), r_table, g_table, b_table);

	pool.wait();

	((cam == CAM_FRONT)?i_front:i_down) = enhanced;
}

void VisionSim::scaleColors(cv::Mat src, unsigned char* red_table, unsigned char* green_table, unsigned char* blue_table)
{
	auto getColorExtremes = [](int width, int height, unsigned char* data, int offset, int interval, unsigned char* table)
		{
			int numSamples = (width/interval)*(height/interval);
			unsigned char sample[numSamples];

			int p005 = numSamples*.005f;
			int p995 = numSamples*.995f;

			int k = 0;
			int l = offset;
			// sampling every nth row and column
			for (int i = 0; i < height; i+=interval)
			{
				for (int j = 0; j < width; j+=interval)
				{
					sample[k] = data[3*(i*width+j)+offset];
					k++;
				}
			}

			int c005 = selectKth(sample, 0, numSamples - 1, p005);
			int c995 = selectKth(sample, 0, numSamples - 1, p995);

			int range = c995 - c005, min = 0, max = 255;
			int out_range;

			// we want to scale the out range so that we dont always go from 0 to 255
			out_range = range * ((255.0f/range - 1)/(1+exp(-(range-20)/2.0f)) + 1) + 0.5f;

			max = (c005+c995)/2 + out_range/2;
			min = (c005+c995)/2 - out_range/2;

			if (max > 255)
			{
				min -= (max - 255);
				max = 255;
			}
			else if (min < 0)
			{
				max += -min;
				min = 0;
			}

			if (range == 0)
			{
				for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
				{
					table[i] = i;
				}
			}

			else
			{
				for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
				{
					table[i] = THRESHOLD(0, (i - c005) * (max-min) / (c995-c005) + min, 255);
				}
			}

		};

	pool.add_task(getColorExtremes, src.cols, src.rows, src.ptr(), 0, 10,  blue_table);
	pool.add_task(getColorExtremes, src.cols, src.rows, src.ptr(), 1, 10, green_table);
	pool.add_task(getColorExtremes, src.cols, src.rows, src.ptr(), 2, 10,   red_table);

	pool.wait();

	return;
}

VisionSim::~VisionSim()
{
	timpl->stop_requested = true;
	timpl->m_thread.join();
	lprintf("Vision has stopped\n");
}

void VisionSim::visionProcess()
{
	while (!timpl->stop_requested)
	{
		std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(timpl->m_mutex);	// we want to unlock this asap because it will block the main thread
		if (imagesToSave.empty())
		{
			lock.unlock();
			Timer::sleep(3);
		}
		else
		{
			// save one image
			std::tuple<std::string, cv::Mat> str_img = imagesToSave.front();
			imagesToSave.pop();
			lock.unlock();
			cv::imwrite(std::get<0>(str_img).c_str(), std::get<1>(str_img));
		}

		if (requestImage & CAM_FRONT)
		{
			storeImage(CAM_FRONT);
			requestImage &= ~CAM_FRONT;
		}
		if (requestImage & CAM_DOWN)
		{
			storeImage(CAM_DOWN);
			requestImage &= ~CAM_DOWN;
		}
	}

	while (!imagesToSave.empty())
	{
		std::tuple<std::string, cv::Mat> str_img = imagesToSave.front();
		cv::imwrite(std::get<0>(str_img).c_str(), std::get<1>(str_img));
		imagesToSave.pop();
	}
}

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– Oct. 6. (Wed.) Josh Nelson. The Music of the 60s' Blue Note Albums. Pianist Nelson takes on some of the classic themes from the great Blue Note catalog. Vitello's. (818) 769-0905.
– Oct. 6. (Wed.) Carol Robbins Quartet. It's an evening with many strings attached – from the rare jazz sounds of Robbins' harp to the always swinging guitar of Larry Koonse. Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc. (310) 474-9400.
– Oct. 6. (Wed.) Emil Richards-Joe Porcaro Quartet. The jazz heat gets turned up high whenever vibist Richards and drummer Porcaro get together with dynamic pianist Mike Lang and the rhythmic drive of bassist Abraham Laboriel. Charlie O's. (81) 994-3058.
Elaine Miles
– Oct. 6. (Wed.) Elaine Miles. A warm embracing voice and an intuitive way with a song are Miles' special gifts. She sings with guitarist John Chiodini, bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Kendall Kay. Steamers. (714) 871-8800.
– Oct. 7. (Thurs.) Disney Hall Opening Night Concert and Gala. Gustavo Dudamel kicks off the new season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the bel canto singing of Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, the music of Rossini and a selection of works by South American composers. Disney Hall. (323) 8502000.
– Oct. 8. (Fri.) Ernie Watts Quartet. The Southland's saxophone player for all seasons steps into the spotlight to display his extraordinary musical versatility. LACMA. (323) 857-6000.
– Oct. 8. (Fri.) An Evening with Judy Collins. One of the great songbirds of pop and folk music, At 71, she's an honored icon and a persistent social activist. But her latest album, Paradise, affirms that she can also sing a song with the same mesmerizing intensity of her work in the '60s and '70s. Broad Stage. (310) 434-3200.
– Oct. 8. (Fri.) The Trio. If any three musicians deserve the all embracing title of "The Trio," its Terry Trotter, Chuck Berghofer and Peter Erskine, whose togetherness defines what can happen when three gifted players get together to make music. Vitello's. (818) 769-0905.
– Oct. 8. (Fri.) The Canadian Tenors with Due Voci. The four Canadian tenors each bring a unique quality to the colorful mixture of classical and pop songs that is making them one of the concert world's hottest acts. Opening for them – the equally dynamic voices of Due Voci – Kelly Levesque and Tyler Hamilton. Club Nokia. (213) 765-7000.
Roslyn Kind
– Oct. 8 & 9. (Fr. & Sat.) Roslyn Kind. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Roslyn Kind may be Barbra Streisand's kid sister, but she's a stunning talent in her own right. Expect to be completely captivated by the stories she tells with her songs. Catalina Bar & Grill. (323) 466-2210.
– Oct. 8 – 10. (Fri. – Sun.) The Color Purple. It's called "The Musical about Love," and both the music and the script bring Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to vivid life. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. (562) 916-8501.
– Oct. 9. (Sat.) Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band. Here's a troupe that reaches way back, redolent with echoes of the folk sounds that preceded the rock revolution of the '60s. McCabe's. (310) 828-4497.
– Oct. 9. (Sat.) Gary Foster. In an era of busy-fingered saxophonists, altoist Foster sustains the tradition of finding the music inside the line, the swing inside the rhythm. He performs with the Pat Senatore Trio. Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc. (310) 474-9400.
– Oct. 9. (Sat.) Divas Simply Singing. Sheryl Lee Ralph's annual presentation of the latest stars of diva-dom returns with a stirring line up of talent. Among this year's divas: Teena Marie, Ledisi, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Gloria Loring, Jody Watley, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin and much more. The Saban Theatre. (323) 655-0111.
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– Oct. 9. (Sat.) George Kahumoku, Jr. and the Masters of Hawai'ian Music. Slack key guitarist Kahumoku celebrates the vibrant history of Hawaiian music in the company of guitarist Dennis Kamakahi, singer Uncle Richard Ho'opi'i and steel guitarist Bobby Ingano. Irvine Barclay Theatre. (914) 854-4646.
– Oct. 9. (Sat.) John Abercrombie Quartet. Breakout contemporary jazz guitarist Abercrombie is joined by violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron as the Angel City Jazz Festival wraps its 2010 series with a Jazz Bakery Movable Feast. The Musicians Institute Theatre.
– Oct. 9. (Sat.) Shake, Rattle & Roll. Greatest Hits of Fifties and Sixties Celebration. The Cruisin' Oldies Show Band, fronted by Mark Curran and Tom Haney revive memories reaching from Elvis Presley to Chubby Checker, songs embracing "Rock 'Round the Clock," "All Shook Up," "The Twist" and much more. Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Forum Theatre. (805) 449-2787.
– Oct. 9 & 10. (Sat. & Sun.) Peter Smith's Live Recording Project. Pianist Smith leads the fine ensemble of Allen Mezquida, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, vibist Nick Mancini, singer Patrice Quinn, guitarist Jacques Lesure, bassist Trevor Ware, and drummer Clayton Cameron in a pair of intimate, live recording performances. Alvas Showroom. (800) 403-3447.
Nikki Yanofsky
– Oct. 10. (Sun.) Nikki Yanofsky. Teen-aged Canadian jazz vocalist Yanofksy has been attracting attention wherever she performs. Her musicality, charisma and jazz intuition display all the characteristics of a potentially major talent. Catalina Bar & Grill. (323) 466-2210.
– Oct. 5. (Tues.) Mel Martin Big Band. Saxophonist Martin, one of the Bay area's most adventurous resident jazz artists, fronts a large ensemble performing his envelope-stretching music. Yoshi's Oakland. = (510) 238-9200.
– Oct. 5 & 6. (Tues. & Wed.) Renee Rosnes. Canadian-born pianist has thoroughly established herself as one of the innovative artists of her generation, performing with everyone from Wayne Shorter to James Moody. Yoshi's San Francisco. (415) 655-5600.
Oct. 10. (Sun.) Third SF Filipino American Jazz Festival. The surprising compatibility between jazz and Fililpino musical culture is on full display in this annual event. Headliners include singer/pianist Primo Kim, vocalists Jo Canion, Charito and Sandra Lim Viray. Yoshi's San Francisco. = (415) 655-5600.
– Oct. 5 – 10. (Tues. – Sun.) Jason Moran and the Bandwagon. Pianist Moran showcases the skills that made him one of this week's recipients of a McArthur "genius" award. Village Vanguard. (212) 929-4589.
– Oct. 5 – 10. (Tues. – Sun.) Kenny Barron Quintet. Everyone's A-list jazz pianist steps out with his own ensemble. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. (212) 258-9595.
– Oct. 8 – 10. (Fri. – Sun.) Gato Barbieri. Tenor saxophonist Barbieri's long, checkered career has reached from the avant-garde years of the '60s through his Grammy-winning score for The Last Tango In Paris to more recent smooth jazz outings. But whichever of his musical persona's turn up for this appearance, the results will be compelling.The Blue Note. (212) 475-8592.
– Oct. 7 – 9. (Thurs. – Sat.) Kenny Garrett Band. Versatile, musically probing alto saxophonist Garrett follows up on his live album, Sketches of MD with a performance at the venue where the CD was recorded. Iridium. (212) 582-2121.
– Oct. 10. (Sun.) Lionel Loueke Trio. Benin's gift to contemporary jazz guitar matches his singular sound and style with an equally intriguing approach to jazz vocals. Iridium. (212) 582-2121.
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TR/ST has announced the new LP entitled The Destroyer on Billboard. Along with the LP announcement, he shared a new single "Gone". Releasing in two parts, Destroyer – 1 and Destroyer – 2, the first LP will be out 4/19 with the second 8 track installment coming in November 2019 both on Grouch via House Arrest. Together the The Destroyer LP's are one piece but will be distributed as two stand-alone albums, different sides of the same coin. The Destroyer will be TR/ST's much anticipated third album. It follows the two previous records, 2012's self-titled release and 2014's Joyland. TR/ST will also be embarking on U.S. and EU tours.
Maya Postepski, Alfons's collaborator on the 2012 Juno Award-nominated debut TRST, co-wrote and co-produced six of the album's songs, and Alfons worked with co-producers Lars Stalfors and Damian Taylor to refine the album's sound. But he found the key ingredient to creating the driving, anthemic songs on the album—which will be released in two parts; the first on April 19, 2019 and the second in November, 2019—was patience.
Indeed, the first part of The Destroyer, which is comprised of eight songs, highlights industrial and dream pop influences on songs like "Colossal" and "Gone," where Alfons' knack for shimmering sounds and powerful vocals are on display. The second part reveals a more mellow, intimate side of the artist. however TR/ST's trademark sound, which has been lauded in outlets including Pitchfork, FADER, and NME, is present throughout.


The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, revised and up-to-date version, is the main whole, up to date, and available advisor for the research of the Bible on hand this present day. With greater than 4,000 vigorous, informative, and reader-friendly entries, this crucial reference publication offers the entire details you must comprehend the Bible.
This quantity explores the legacy of the Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper for modern Christian ecotheology. a vital challenge in ecotheology is how you can do justice to either construction and salvation as acts of God, given the influence of the environmental drawback and the worry for production (as creatura).
This publication describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a instructor of theology, targeting his time as Regius Professor of Divinity on the college of Cambridge among 1549 and 1551. The e-book is situated on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them of their ancient context, exploring what kind of a theologian Bucer was once.
Violence has been a significant characteristic of America's historical past, tradition, and position on this planet. It has taken many types: from state-sponsored makes use of of strength corresponding to battle or legislation enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and different activities with very important political and cultural implications. faith additionally holds an important position within the American adventure of violence, fairly if you happen to have discovered order and which means of their worlds via non secular texts, symbols, rituals, and concepts.
He, too, has his bodily characteristics, his lakshanas, each of them gained through a deep experience in which he accumulated karmic merit. It is not the same as Levine's tattoos, but the idea is related: it bears witness to this. Levine's second book, Against the Stream, is quite different. 23 As such it is of less interest from a literary point of view. His father, Stephen Levine, comments as follows in the introduction: AGAINST THE STREAM is a navigational chart for the journey upstream. The normal currents lull us to sleep and leave us groggy downstream on a concrete shore or at a loss on our deathbed.
If one persists in inquiring what 'spiritual' means, the modern practitioner's focus often becomes somewhat blurred, his/her eyes are fixed on the horizon or a nearby wall, the speech becomes hesitant and he/she tries to define what he/she is actually practicing, feeling, experiencing. I think this selfdefinition, clumsy and uncertain though it sometimes seems in its word choice, is of great importance. C. Giacobbe, How to Become a Buddha in Five Weeks (Milano: Ponte alle Grazie srl, 2005). 32 C.
My chapter concludes with a proposal for a three-dimensional model that would enable us to reflect on the literature about present-day spiritualities in Western Christianity. 1. 2 They do not reach fullness through their own human strength but through the grace of God. This does not mean, however, that Christians passively accept their fate. They believe they can cooperate with divine grace by opening themselves up to God's presence and preparing themselves for receiving divine gifts. What is more, they immerse themselves in divine nearness.


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The Cloud Wars Have A New Warrior
Oracle Enters Battle Field Against AWS, Azure and GCP
Cloud computing hit the market in 2006 and things haven't been the same since. Between the top three platforms – AWS, Azure and GCP – the cloud has been the landscape of a never-ending battle. Now comes Oracle with plans to disrupt the wars.
As the longtime data management leader, Oracle is not accustomed to following. This time is no exception. The new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) may not register for many enterprise shoppers. But Oracle has big plans to take over on two customer priorities: speed and price.
How does the second-gen Oracle Cloud measure up?
Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO, puts it this way: "You come to our cloud, you get Exadata infrastructure, autonomous database, everything is automated, and you get really, really low cost. More importantly, there's no labor, there's no human labor or error, there's no downtime. Your developers are more productive. They get more projects to market. If you want all of those benefits, you've got to be willing to pay less. We are infinitely faster and infinitely cheaper."
Oracle has spent some time watching the cloud mature as the adoption rate has slowed bit – from over 20 percent until this year to a healthy and steady 17 percent. This new pace is giving enterprises a chance to think about what they learned and what they need from cloud-based services.
Comparing Cloud Providers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the undisputed leader with 43% of the public cloud market share. It is valued for its flexibility, scalability and reliability. AWS allows enterprises to choose the geographic region in which most of its customers work and play and live. It also gives enterprises the ability to select two availability zones or datacenters. All of this makes the system more responsive in terms of computing times
AWS advantages: Dominant market position; extensive and mature offerings; support for large organizations; extensive training; global Reach. However, it has its disadvantages, too: Difficult to use; cost management; overwhelming number of options.
Microsoft Azure was designed to be easily integrated and synced with existing omnipresent Microsoft products like MS Office. This synchronization is useful in services like Cloud Migration.
It's understandable that many experts say Azure is a good choice for companies using a lot of Microsoft products. Azure's advantages include second largest provider; integration with Microsoft tools and software; broad feature set; hybrid cloud; support for Open Source.
Its disadvantages are described as less "enterprise-ready" than other computing cloud platforms and incomplete management tooling.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)is, arguably, best for companies that need to compute and process huge amounts of data frequently. It specializes in big data and networking speed. Google offers services like G Suite, Google Map, Gmail, YouTube and of course the search engine service. These are among the best such services available and have users in the billions.
But for Google that's not been enough. In last 15 years, Google has worked on its infrastructure. Today, it boasts a huge and secure network.
Google Cloud advantages include designed for cloud-native businesses; commitment to open source and portability; deep discounts and flexible contracts; DevOps expertise. Its disadvantages include late entrant to laaS market; fewer features and services; fewer worldwide data centers.
Back to Oracle where the company says their cloud offerings come from experience.
Oracle Sharpens its Tools for Battle
This past decade of watching public cloud growth, and all these benefits and challenges, has in many ways enabled Oracle, an acknowledged latecomer to the cloud market, to devise a battle plan for a new era of cloud.
A long-time leader in databases and applications, Oracle jumps into the cloud market with an enterprise-grade solution that addresses many of the challenges on the cloud.
Oracle considers itself a disrupter in the much the same way iPod was to the Walkman and the CD was to the floppy disk. In addition to its progressive new autonomous and AI-features, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also has a library of practical tools that simplify cloud migration for the largest enterprises, especially those already running Oracle business applications.


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Q: IntelliJ: find file name with regex IntelliJ have multiple ways to find things.
What I need is to find a file by name. It seems easy by pressing two times Shift.
The problem is, in the window that opens

that is seems to be no way to use regexp!
If a try to use a very simple one, to find files that not contains solr

Same for all kind of regex... does it exists a solution/workaround to this?

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The concert project initiated and commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and designed by US architect Daniel Libeskind, reaches far beyond the conventional framework of the concert hall. "One Day in Life" is made up of individual concert events at various locations in Frankfurt. Each programme will be performed several times at each location in two-hour intervals. This allows the audience to make their way through the musical day, going from station to station. It is up to each individual how many locations and concerts they visit (minimum number of bookings: three concerts). And anyone who wishes to can even turn night into day with night-time (musical) events.