Congrats to Judge Rosenberg, who will be filling Judge Jordan's seat but likely sitting in Ft. Pierce. Our previous coverage is here.
Rumpole has an interesting post about the Luis Alvarez trial from 30 years ago. Check it out.
Money is not speech," he reportedly said. "Overturn 'Citizens United!'" referring to a 2010 high court decision loosening a century of federal restrictions on corporate spending by "independent" groups like businesses and unions.
He was only able say a few words before police escorted him from the courtroom, and did not resist.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg identified the man as Noah Newkirk of Los Angeles.
Newkirk has been charged with violating federal law that makes it a crime to "harangue" or utter "loud threatening or abusive language in the Supreme Court Building."
The justices ignored the incident.
The court's official written transcript of the argument made no mention of the remarks.
Court officials say the last time it happened was eight years ago, during an oral argument over a federal law restricting a certain type of later-term abortion procedure.
A similar interruption occurred about two decades ago.
The courtroom has about 330 seats available to the public. Court security instructs spectators before each public session to remain seated, not to speak, or demonstrate.
The Eleventh Circuit is affirmed. The case is remanded; Justice Kagan writes for the Court. Vote is six to three. Roberts dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Breyer. Very interesting lineup.
When challenging the legality of a §853(e)(1) pre-trial asset seizure, a criminal defendant who has been indicted is not constitutionally entitled to contest a grand jury's determination of probable causeto believe the defendant committed the crimes charged.
UPDATED -- well, thanks to the comments, it looks like the pictures are not from El Chapo's home, but from a variety of cases. They're still cool though.
"Even though they threw me under the bus … There's a certain sense of unease about acquiring a house in this fashion."
Patrick Coulton's lawyers ripped him off to the tune of $275,000 and left him to rot in prison.
But Coulton is getting payback: He now lives in his former lawyer's home — a three-bedroom house in Miramar that he will eventually own as part of a court-ordered punishment of the two misbehaving attorneys.
"Even though they threw me under the bus … There's a certain sense of unease about acquiring a house in this fashion," Coulton said after moving in last week. "I almost feel sorry for them."
The way Coulton and two federal judges tell it, this is the story of two very bad lawyers — Emmanuel Roy and Peter Mayas — and one very good one, Paul Petruzzi.
"Guys like them are the reason people hate lawyers," Petruzzi said. "They took everything from him and his family … I took it personally because this is what I do for a living. Lawyers are supposed to help people."
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers today sued the U.S. Department of Justice over public access to a criminal discovery "blue book" that was written after the collapse of the case against Ted Stevens.
The Justice Department last year turned down a request from the NACDL for a copy of the Federal Criminal Discovery Blue Book. The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Justice Department officials, according to the complaint, cited the book as an example of why federal legislation was unnecessary to prevent future discovery abuses among prosecutors.
During a hearing on Capitol Hill, in 2012, the Justice Department said the blue book was "distributed to prosecutors nationwide in 2011" and "is now electronically available on the desktop of every federal prosecutor and paralegal," according to the NACDL complaint.
"The due process rights of the American people, and how powerful federal prosecutors have been instructed as relates to the safeguarding of those rights, is a matter of utmost Constitutional concern to the public," NACDL President Jerry Cox said in a written statement. "The 'trust us' approach is simply unacceptable. And it is certainly an insufficient basis upon which to resist bipartisan congressional interest in codifying prosecutors' duty to disclose."
NACDL is represented by the excellent Kerri Ruttenberg.
Douglas Bates, 55, a Plantation lawyer who lives in Parkland, was indicted in August on the conspiracy charge and three separate wire fraud counts. His trial was scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in West Palm Beach.
But prosecutors filed updated court records on Wednesday charging Bates with the lone conspiracy count and U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks scheduled a change-of-plea hearing for 11 a.m. Thursday, a sign that Bates has reached a plea agreement with the government.
The charge carries a maximum punishment of five years in federal prison and significant fines. A felony conviction would also lead to Bates' disbarment from practicing law.
His decision to plead guilty comes a week after a jury found Christina Kitterman, an attorney who formerly worked for Rothstein, guilty of three counts of wire fraud. She could face nine years or more in prison when she is sentenced later this year, prosecutors said.
Fane Lozman won a U.S. Supreme Court decision finding his floating home was a house and not boat, but he said he's still not getting justice after a federal magistrate valued his loss at $7,500.
Lozman offered advertisements of comparable floating homes in the Florida Keys priced from $185,000 to $265,000 in a motion filed Tuesday to vacate U.S. Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow's report.
The West Palm Beach judge used a 5-year-old report ordered by a federal judge when Lozman's floating home, which had no engine, was originally seized as a maritime vessel by the U.S. Marshals Service in Riviera Beach.
"Are they pissed off I got them reversed? Now I'm being punished for winning this," Lozman told the Daily Business Review. "This is pathetic."
The 57-foot, two-story structure was towed to the Miami River by the city and set aflame in 2009 in a legal dispute that filled state and federal court files. Riviera Beach and federal authorities contended they had the right to seize the property under maritime law.
U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas in Fort Lauderdale sided with the city, but Lozman appealed. He had retired after making millions of dollars during the tech boom as a stock trader and made his floating home a cause celebre.
The government's star witness and "insider" is Dr. Sidney Gilman, an 81 year old drug researcher who long sought a cure for Alzheimer's and had published nine books and 240 articles during a highly distinguished career. Gilman testified that he at first "accidentally" passed confidential information to Martoma. He claimed he "slipped" in telling him about the deleterious side effects of an experimental Alzheimer's drug. He admitted that after his slip he knowingly gave further detailed data on the drug's failed clinical trial.
Gilman appears grandfatherly, vulnerable and fragile and has been taking anti-cancer drugs. A defense lawyer's worst nightmare. And the government did their best to elevate Gilman while casting Martoma in an ugly light. Gilman testified that Martoma reminded him of his eldest son who had committed suicide, and suggested that Martoma used this to seduce Gilman, squarely placing most of the blame on their target Martoma. The government's theme was that Martoma took advantage of a befuddled sick old man.
Despite the government's efforts to paint him in a good light, Gilman came to the witness stand toting a lot of baggage. The government needed his testimony and gave Gilman a sweet deal. He received a non-prosecution agreement, a settlement with regulators requiring only repaying his consulting fees and retirement from the University of Michigan Medical Center in lieu of being fired. A pretty good global resolution of his myriad problems. All superior benefits the defense lawyer must explore on cross.
There are high stakes in this cross examination for Martoma because a month earlier, another former SAC employee, Michael S. Steinberg, was convicted of insider trading. Matoma's lawyers are well aware that caution must be abandoned. This cross could go either way and maybe the difference between going home and 20 years in a federal facility.
Rice asked the judge not to take her age into consideration when handing out the sentence.
"To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest honor," the nun said in court. "I hope that happens."
The three were convicted by a federal jury last May of damaging national defense premises under the sabotage act, which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years, and of causing more than $1,000 of damage to U.S. government property.
Prosecutors contended the break-in at the primary U.S. site for processing and storage of enriched uranium disrupted operations, endangered U.S. national security and caused physical damage.
Dozens of supporters held a prayer vigil for the group outside the courthouse.
Federal sentencing guidelines called for Rice to receive up to a little more than seven years in prison; Walli, 65, more than nine years; and Boertje-Obed, 58, more than eight years. The defendants have been in custody since their convictions.
Here's the video of the guy breaking the vase.
Should there be cameras in the Supreme Court?
A coalition of media, public interest and open-government organizations today launched an unprecedented advertising and petition campaign to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to open its doors to cameras.
The Coalition for Court Transparency was created to generate momentum for a change in the high court's long-standing resistance toward allowing broadcast access to its proceedings, even as the demands of the Information Age have brought greater transparency to other government institutions.
For decades, the news media have politely asked the court to change its policy, and bills have been introduced in Congress to require it to do so. But with congressional leaders reluctant to intrude on the justices' turf and prerogatives, the bills have withered on the way to passage.
The news media in recent years have taken a largely passive approach, waiting for younger, more media-comfortable justices to join the court. But that strategy has failed as new justices, most recently including Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, "go native" and suddenly oppose cameras, even though they favored the idea before.
The court has taken some steps toward transparency over recent years, including quick online posting of its opinions and oral argument transcripts. The audio of arguments is available sooner than decades ago, but not same-day, except in rare circumstances. Televising proceedings, however, have been a bridge too far, with past justices Warren Burger and David Souter famously vowing cameras would roll into the court chamber only over their dead bodies.
The new campaign coalesced out of frustration with the court's resistance, as well as a feeling that the court would benefit, not suffer, from greater public exposure.
"There's nothing the government does that's more impressive than the high-quality debates that take place before the Supreme Court," said Doug Kendall, founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a member of the coalition.
In his early days as a justice, Stevens recalled, Brennan persuaded him to attend the exclusive Gridiron Club dinner put on by Washington journalists. Brennan insisted on loaning Stevens his suit with tails for the occasion.
The problem, Stevens said, was that "Brennan was a good deal heavier than I was." As a result, Stevens worried all evening that the suit "would not protect my dignity." But it all turned out well. Stevens was seated next to the famed dancer and actress Ginger Rogers. "It was one of the best evenings I ever had, and I owe that to Bill Brennan."
As on other occasions since retiring in 2010, Stevens was critical of some of the decisions the court has handed down since he left. Both Snyder v. Phelps and United States v. Alvarez, he said, were too protective of false speech. The Snyder case went in favor of virulent protesters at military funerals, and Alvarez struck down a federal law that made it a crime to falsely claim to have won a military Medal of Honor.
The Alvarez ruling, Stevens said, "sends a terrible message to the youth of our nation and to the general public as well" by announcing a constitutional right to lie.
Neither Snyder nor Alvarez were 5-4 decisions, so the fact that Stevens would have voted differently than his successor Elena Kagan would not have made a difference in the outcome.
Still, Stevens' remarks underscored what a difference a single justice can make, even on a nine-member court. He recounted how, in Harte-Hanks Communications v. Connaughton, a libel decision he authored in 1989, he was first assigned to write a propress majority opinion. When he read the record, however, he changed his mind, deciding it was a rare instance when the press should be held liable for defaming a political candidate. The rest of the court followed Stevens' lead.
The behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the court's long line of libel cases is the focus of a powerful new book that was discussed at the conference. Written by court scholar Steve Wermiel and Lee Levine, partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, "The Progeny: Justice William J. Brennan's Fight to Preserve the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan" makes it clear that court opinions can be the product of months — and sometimes years — of negotiations and rewrites.
Congratulations to Judge Seitz on her portrait hanging yesterday on the 13th Floor of the Wilkie Ferguson Courthouse. Although I wasn't able to attend, I heard it was a lovely event and a huge turnout.
Rumpole has all of the details on the case and execution, which occurred yesterday.
Chavez tried to get a stay from the 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court, both of which were denied. The 11th Circuit opinion, written by Carnes, with a concurrence from Martin is here.
Her attorney, Valentin Rodriguez Jr., said Kitterman and he were "deeply disappointed" but had no regrets about their trial strategy.
"We felt he was essential to our defense … the jury needed to see him and how manipulative he was and is," Rodriguez said.
Juror Susan Schweiger, of West Palm Beach, said she thought Rothstein was "pretty much" a credible witness and jurors believed most of what he said.
"I don't understand why he was called by the defense because he did not help her," Schweiger said. "I think he was, for the most part, telling the truth. I think he lied about some stuff because you don't change your nature totally like that but we believed him."
She said jurors did not hold Kitterman's battle with drug and alcohol addiction against her at all, but believed she was guilty of the crimes prosecutors accused her of committing.
UPDATE -- Judge Rosenbaum was just excused (9:31). She did great.
Kitterman testified when she joined the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm in 2003, she immediately had to ward off Rothstein's sexual advances. She said he threatened to fire her numerous times and called her names like "idiot." Rothstein also had a knack for showing up at the same public place as Kitterman, such as restaurants."Mr. Rothstein had a temper. He was one of those people who had two sides," Kitterman said. "He was a very scary person, but he could be a very kind."Kitterman faces three counts of wire fraud conspiracy. Closing statements before Senior U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley in West Palm Beach were expected Tuesday.Rothstein's mistreatment of women in his firm has been a key component to Kitterman's defense. The 12-member jury has 11 women on it.Kitterman said she never thought about filing a sexual harassment complaint against Rothstein with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."I was a new lawyer," she said. "I was scared. I just couldn't do something like that."Kitterman testified Rothstein's harassment of her ended when she went to the firm's only other equity partner, Stuart Rosenfeldt, in 2006 and asked to be reassigned so she didn't work directly with the firm's chairman.
But federal prosecutor Paul Schwartz's cross-examination cut directly to what prosecutors say was one of many motives Kitterman had to commit crimes at Rothstein's behest.
"You were addicted to alcohol and cocaine," Schwartz said to Kitterman.
Kitterman acknowledged she is a recovering addict and said that after "partying" on Aug. 7, 2007, she realized she had hit rock bottom and called her mother for help. Her mother called Rothstein, and he helped them find a four-week rehab program called "Challenges," Kitterman said.
When she returned to work a month later, Rothstein agreed to pay her salary for the time she had been absent, she said.
And when she told Rothstein that there was negative talk going around about her stint in rehab, Rothstein dispatched an email to the entire firm telling anyone who judged her poorly to resign by the next day.
Every year after that, she said, she thanked him on the anniversary of her gaining sobriety.
Prosecutors read aloud from an August 2009 email she sent Rothstein — just four months after the conference call and two months before the law firm imploded.
In it, she thanked him for his "friendship, love and support" and wrote that "words cannot express" the debt of gratitude she and her family owed to him.
Kitterman testified that she has remained clean and sober to this day. She said she is proud of her continued sobriety but embarrassed that she was in rehab and didn't raise the issue herself in court because she did not think it was relevant.
Senior U.S. District Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley told jurors he was allowing them to hear about Kitterman's drug and alcohol abuse because prosecutors believe it shows some of the reasons they say she was willing to commit crimes for Rothstein.
Will be interesting to see what the jury does.
Should the Kitterman defense have called Scott Rothstein?
West Palm Beach attorney Valentin Rodriguez looked exhausted after verbally sparring with Scott Rothstein.
The disbarred law firm chairman and the mastermind of Florida's largest Ponzi scheme was called as a defense witness for Rodriguez's client, Boca Raton attorney Christina Kitterman.
"Scott Rothstein is not going to win this battle," Rodriguez said defiantly outside the West Palm Beach federal courthouse after the first day of Rothstein's testimony Wednesday. "But he can absolutely pick up on what you are trying to do."
Rothstein's well-documented arrogance made its inevitable appearance during questioning by Rodriguez, a polite-almost-to-a-fault attorney with a knack for quietly getting under the skin of witnesses.
...West Palm Beach attorney Peter Feldman, Rodriguez's co-counsel in Kitterman's case, said, "We knew the risk of calling him as he is unpredictable. I think that risk was outweighed by the jury being able to see him—live and in color—conducting his rock-star lifestyle."
Rodriguez called Rothstein over prosecution objections, bringing one of South Florida's most notorious figures into the public eye for the first time in four years in the first criminal trial centered on his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
With a white goatee and closely cut hair that was grayer than the last time he was seen publicly some three-and-a-half years ago, Rothstein, 51, took the witness stand handcuffed and shackled, wearing a bright blue, collared T-shirt and jeans.
Rothstein — who was subpoenaed by defense attorney Valentin Rodriguez Jr. to testify in the wire fraud trial of Christina Kitterman, a former attorney who worked at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm — appeared in court much earlier than expected because of security concerns.
Additionally, Rothstein testified he had a sexual relationship with Kitterman.
"We were two friends who fooled around from time to time, Rothstein testified, alleging Kitterman "pulled me into a bathroom stall to make out with me" at Runway 84 in Fort Lauderdale.
"I am NOT happy about being here," Rothstein said, saying he wished he didn't have to testify about someone he cares about.
"What ended up happening ... My ego and, at that particular time, my desire for power and money and some of my partners' desire for power and money" led to Rothstein starting his fraud to try to keep his failing law firm afloat, he testified.
"At that time, I had an ego that was out of control," he continued.
He said he told her, during a phone conversation after he briefly fled to Morocco in late 2009, to hide some expensive watches from the government.
Was Rothstein upset about the length of the sentence imposed by Cohn, Kitterman's lawyer Valentin Rodriguez Jr. asked.
"That would be an understatement, yes sir," Rothstein replied.
Prosecutors filed a court document on June 8, 2011, saying Rothstein should qualify for a sentence reduction for his cooperation. The final decision would lie with Cohn.
No further action has been taken on the request, Rothstein said, because his cooperation is not complete yet.
A second hitch, he testified, is: "I understand there's been an issue pertaining to my failure to tell" the truth to federal authorities about the fact he knew and was involved in Kim Rothstein's efforts to criminally hide some of their assets.
He still hopes he will get a sentence reduction because he hopes prosecutors and the judge will accept he only lied about hiding jewelry with his wife Kim and that it was a mistake he made under duress, he said.
"It's fine if we are not all that popular," Alito told an audience of more than 1,100 lawyers and business people. "There is a reason why the Constitution gives federal judges life tenure. We are supposed to do our jobs without worrying whether our decisions are pleasing to anybody."
Alito spoke to a joint meeting of the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches and the Palm Beach County Bar Association, drawing the largest audience ever for such an event, organizers said. His staff did not permit the speech to be videotaped or audio recorded, and Alito noted that the justices remain somewhat behind the times in terms of using such common technologies as email.
The court also does not permit oral arguments to be televised. All the arguments are released on audio by the end of the week they occur, and on rare occasions, a recording is released the same day.
"We are an old-fashioned institution, and in my opinion that is a good thing. We are not exactly on the cutting edge of technology," Alito said.
Do the readers out there agree that it's a good thing not to be on the cutting edge of technology?
In other news, Dean Alex Acosta (a former Alito clerk) has made the short list of 3 for the UF Dean slot. Good luck Alex!
So, Judge Robin Rosenbaum's confirmation hearing for the 11th Circuit is coming up, and John Pacenti has a nice, informative piece covering it. But the DBR has posted a picture of Richard Rosenbaum (unrelated) with the article.
That is not a very good picture of Judge Rosenbaum. She is much more attractive and does not have a mustache.
And Frank Caliendo's bit was also fantastic.
Better yet, Howard Stern's birthday bash was a blast.


Yesterday, the 2008 Batmobile DLC debuted for Batman: Arkham Knight, bringing with it the fan-favorite Tumbler from The Dark Knight and two tracks themed after the trilogy of Christopher Nolan films. A notable thing missing from the pack, however, was the inclusion of a skin of Christian Bale's Batman suit from the film, but game director Sefton Hill has taken to Twitter (via IGN) to reveal that due to fan demand, it's coming!
Bale's Batsuit famously went through a change between 2005's Batman Begins and 2008's The Dark Knight because of restrictions to the mobility of his head and neck, which was in turn written into the script. Which of the two costumes do you prefer? Sound off below!
Batman: Arkham Knight brings the award-winning "Arkham" trilogy from Rocksteady Studios to its epic conclusion. Developed exclusively for new-gen platforms, Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile. The highly-anticipated addition of this legendary vehicle, combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the Arkham series, offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City. In this explosive finale, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city that he is sworn to protect, as Scarecrow returns to unite the super criminals of Gotham and destroy the Batman forever.
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Go Behind-the-Scenes of Windstar Cruises' Latest Cruise Ship Enhancements
There's nothing quite as fascinating as witnessing the stretching of a cruise ship, and Windstar Cruises' Star Plus Initiative has been a remarkable process to see firsthand from start to finish. In its simplest form, the lengthening of Star Breeze, Star Legend, and Star Pride is not unlike the crafting of a limousine. Each ship is cut in two down the center and pulled apart, then a prefabricated midsection is inserted and fastened into place. But the enormous scale of it all is just astonishing, and being able to experience each stage — from personally sailing on one of the motor yachts prior to its stretching; visiting the shipyard for the initial cut, separation, and insertion; and now seeing the completed product — has a wonder worth sharing.
Windstar Cruises' Prep Work
Even before a penny of the initiative's $250 million was spent, a vessel like Star Legend was already a beauty, impressing guests with understated elegance, spacious suites, classic venues, delicious cuisine, and exceptional service. As I experienced on a September 2019 sailing for its final Alaskan cruise of the summer season, perhaps the finest element was the ship's intimate capacity of 212 passengers, which has since undramatically increased to only 312. It never took (and still doesn't take) a hike to get from one's suite to the Yacht Club Café & Library, or from the Compass Rose to the Veranda. Meanwhile, Windstar's ace amenities stood out, including the James Beard Foundation partnership enjoyed at the Amphora Restaurant, Candles, and beyond.
Even then, the refurbishment had begun as contractors were replacing old glass panels in the Yacht Club during our cruise. However, for posterity, the mission was predominantly to explore and document the areas of Star Legend that were set to change.
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As I started clearing out my closet last month, I did some thinking about how my closet got to be such a mass of clothes in the first place!
I've already admitted here in the blog that I have a Thing for Fashion. I don't mean to say that I adhere to Fashion. (Because I don't.) But I do follow along. I appreciate Fashion . . . as an art form. I appreciate the juxtaposition of . . .
when it comes to wearable statements of art.
And, really, I always have!
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite pastimes was playing with paper dolls. I loved collecting the cut-out sets you could buy at the dime store most of all, but I was also really happy just cutting people out of catalogs and collecting them in folders. It was all about choosing outfits and figuring out what clothes I liked best of all. I had the most fun dressing the paper dolls up to . . . go somewhere and do something!
The fashion-bug stayed with me as I grew older. When I was in junior high and high school, I learned to sew and made most of my own clothes. I got great pleasure in choosing patterns and matching up fabrics to create unique and one-of-a-kind pieces for myself. For awhile, I even dreamed of some sort of career in fashion. One of my friends in high school was also an excellent seamstress. Together, we took our high school elective classes in the home ec department -- courses in tailoring and creating your own patterns and fashion design. It was fun (and a nice alternative to biology and algebra!), even though we both gave up on the dream of fashion design careers.
What happens when a young fashion junkie grows up and gets a walk-in closet?
As I emptied my closet, I came to the realization that . . . I'm too old for paper dolls and Barbies now, so I've collected life-size clothes . . . to dress myself up!
And that, my friends, is how my closet became the MESS that it was.
Oh yes, I traveled that very same road. My closet was stuffed full of good quality clothing (some tailor made) and styles I rarely wore. I couldn't fit on more things into my closet or drawers. Then something snapped and I went through with a vengeance. It is wonderful to see light between my garments and it's now easy to find something to wear, something I want to wear, every day. Looking forward to hearing more of your journey!
The throwing...it's hard isn't it? I did the switch yesterday and did some tossing. I've got some pretty old stuff in the rotation still!
I never played with dolls. My mom tried hard to get me interested in paper dolls but - meh. And Barbie dolls? Nope. I wasn't a tomboy by any stretch, I was a girlie girl but just didn't like dolls. Hannah, on the other hand, loved dolls when she was little.
And sometimes clothes have sentimental associations and so they are saved for those reasons and are just hard to get rid of...but...happy closet downsizing!!
I feel an epiphany coming!!
What a trip down memory lane--paper dolls were so much fun, even the improvised ones. I quit sewing after making a Simplicity Stuff 'n Sew couch!
I have heard that clothes wearing is one of those ubiquitous 20/80 things. You wear 20% of your clothes 80% of the time. It's hard to analyze whether that's true or not, but there are sure a lot of seldom worn items cluttering my closet! Good luck with the reorganization!


essay) should probably be skipped over. Don't Be Confrontational, although you are trying to prove a point, you are not trying to force your will on the reader. Not only does this tell the reader what to expect in the paragraphs to come but it also gives them a clearer understanding of what the essay is about. Most weekly newspapers are only obsessed with making a profit that they are a disgrace to the general public. Html, pDF, taking an Essay Exam, learn some strategies for crafting strong essays under pressure. First Body Paragraph Topic sentence which states the first subtopic and opens with a transition Supporting details or examples An explanation of how this example proves your thesis Second Body Paragraph Topic sentence which states the second subtopic and opens with a transition Supporting details. Although we have endeavored to explain everything that goes into effective essay writing in as clear and concise a way as possible, it is much easier in theory than it is in practice. Colonies as little more than a source of revenue and limiting colonists' political rights, British indifference contributed to the start of the American Revolution. Html, pDF, using Evidence, learn strategies for supporting your claims and persuading your reader with evidence.
While it does not need to be too long four well-crafted sentence should be enough it can make or break and essay. Unfortunately newspapers have forfeited their honor in order to gain a profit. To further illustrate this, consider the second body paragraph of our example essay: In a similar way, we are all like Edison in our own way. Transitional phrases are useful for showing the reader where one section ends and another begins. The newspaper is only the mouth of the community in the sense that they are distributed community wide.


woodrow lived in a wood house. Gypsy and her parents lived in a one story brick branch. Granny and grandpa lived in those big old white green shuttered two story house.
Grandma is in the big breezy yellow kitchen finishing up a birthday cake for gypsy stepfather. Later then grandpa and woodrow were out buying clothes. last grandma sighed and wiped her hands on her apron and sat down on the table talking to gypsy.
After a while gypsy helped woodrow unload woodrows clothes on grannys wine colored horsehair couch.
Gypsy is getting ready to wash her hair which she didnt like she had to wash it took hours for it to dry she had to brush it one hundred strokes every night to make it strong and shiny.
After a hour mama and gypsy were in front of a mirror as mama rolled up gypsy hair.
Next morning woodrow saw gypsy all dressed up for sunday school. He was on grannys front porch reading the sunday paper,which he dropped when he saw gypsy coming. Gypsy was wearing those little bitty pieces of a hat It was pink like her new dress she also had pink shoes. woodrow was wearing a pair of new pants and a nice blue shirt.


Beillen AB Type (Gold mount) camera plate is used for mounting AB type batteries to the camera. Additionally this product is equipped with a two-pin female Power Tap connector located on the top of the mount, so on-camera lights can be powered directly from the V-Mount.
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The Glen Rock Community School Winter Session has ended and I would like to show a sample of the progress that was made by two students during the five-week course.
It is so rewarding to know that I have made a significant impact in their perceptual growth and that I have introduced them to the tools they need to begin creating their own works of art.
Beginner, Sofiya Rakitina, has just completed her first still life from observation using charcoal. You are off to a great start, Sofiya, nice work!
Advanced student, Hannah Greenwald, has just completed this life-like, full color portrait in pastel. Portraits are definitely a favorite subject for Hannah!


We think we know what love is, but in Love and a Map to the Unaltered Soul, we are challenged to broaden our definition and free ourselves from constraints we never realized we had. In these pages, you will learn that love is a process of climbing your ladder of consciousness. Through Tina Louise Spalding, Ananda, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene give practical instruction and examples on how to find and keep love at the center of your life.


A food program has been established in the Baguia Orphanage for over 10 years. Each month money is sent to facilitate the purchasing of fresh fruit, vegetables and meat for the children residing in the centre. There has also been emergency food supplies given to Baguia Orphanage when there is a particular shortage of food in the area. As a result there is a high need for supplementary support.
This program stimulates the local economy with local markets increasing their sales while at the same time the young people have better health and nutrition, allowing them to concentrate more on their studies and contributing to their overall wellbeing.


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Spinning Egyptian Statue: The Physics Behind Object Walking In Museums
By Roxanne Palmer @rpalmerscience
It seems truly ominous: Seemingly by its own power, an Egyptian relic rotates on a shelf.
This time-lapse video shows a nearly 4,000-year-old, 10-inch-high statue of a man named Neb-Sanu slowly turning around inside its display case at England's Manchester Museum:
But before you start entertaining thoughts of a mummy's curse, consider the alternatives. In this day and age, when some inexplicable phenomenon crops up on a viral video, it's hard not to immediately presume the invisible hand of some marketer or advertiser could be involved. However, assuming that the rotating statue isn't a viral ad, there is a perfectly natural explanation for the object's movement: vibration.
When you look at the rotating statue, you may notice that the statue moves only as people are walking by. Vibration, which can be caused merely by the foot traffic of passersby, is a well-known problem in museums, especially on wooden floors -- the kind that are in the room that houses the Egyptian statue. Objects on glass shelves, like the Neb-Sanu statue, have been known to "walk" short distances.
David Thickett, a conservationist at the British Museum, investigated vibration damages to museum objects in a paper presented at a 2002 meeting of the International Committee for Conservation in Rio de Janeiro. He noted that in various galleries of the British Museum instruments recorded background vibration levels of anywhere between .006 and .15 g-force.
"In order for an object to walk, the vibration must overcome the friction between the object base and the shelf," Thickett wrote. "The friction forces depend on three factors: the weight of the object, the contact area between the object or its support and the shelf, and the shelf and object or object support materials."
In the British Museum, ambient vibrations loosened tiles from Aztec artifacts and worked the tails of two African ivory leopard sculptures from the holes in a wall that kept them affixed. Thickett also found instances of object-walking on glass shelves, with vibration levels as low as .02 g-force. A 1-pound bronze statue walked along a Lucite base while a neighboring sculpture weighing .7 pounds stayed put on a glass shelf.
One remedy for object walking is to put a bit of wax on the base of an object. But conservators have to consider whether the wax might damage a fragile artifact.
At Metabunk.org, a user named Mick set up his own experiment to show that an object can be moved around by vibration. With a glass tabletop standing in for the museum's glass shelf and a container of garlic salt sitting atop a wood plank standing in for the statue, vibrations of the table are enough to create rotation:
But why is the statue moving now? Wouldn't someone have noticed the movement before? The Neb-Sanu figure is actually resting in a relatively new home -- the Ancient Worlds gallery only opened this past October.
Plus, Mick wrote, his "experiments show the motion is dependent on circumstances. So something must have changed, but only very slightly -- the slope of the shelf, the position of the statue on the shelf, even the position of other objects can affect the vibration. Even a very slight shift in the frame of the building could be responsible."
The other statues on the shelf don't move because of their individual features -- they're shorter, giving them a lower center of gravity, and are made of different materials. Metabunk's Mick also stated that the statue is pivoting on a point in its base and spinning exactly 180 degrees because the shelf slopes down toward the front of the display, so once the statue gets to the point where its center of gravity is lowest it stops.
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Q: Extract domain name from a host name Is there a programatic way to find the domain name from a given hostname?
given -> www.yahoo.co.jp
return -> yahoo.co.jp
The approach that works but is very slow is:
split on "." and remove 1 group from the left, join and query an SOA record using dnspython
when a valid SOA record is returned, consider that a domain
Is there a cleaner/faster way to do this without using regexps?

A: You can use partition instead of split:
>>> 'www.yahoo.co.jp'.partition('.')[2]
'yahoo.co.jp'

This will help with the parsing but obviously won't check if the returned string is a valid domain.

A: There's no trivial definition of which "domain name" is the parent of any particular "host name".
Your current method of traversing up the tree until you see an SOA record is actually the most correct.
Technically, what you're doing there is finding a "zone cut", and in the vast majority of cases that will correspond to the point at which the domain was delegated from its TLD.
Any method that relies on mere text parsing of the host name without reference to the DNS is doomed to failure.
Alternatively, make use of the centrally maintained lists of delegation-centric domains from http://publicsuffix.org/, but beware that these lists can be incomplete and/or out of date.
See also this question where all of this has been gone over before...

A: Your algorithm is the right one. Since zone cuts are not reflected in the domain name (you see domain cuts - the dots - but not zone cuts), it is the only correct one.
An approximate algorithm is to use a list of zones, like the one mentioned by Alnitak. Remember that these static lists are not authoritative, they lack many registries, they are stale, etc.

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Why Science Can't Be Silent: In Depth
What It Takes to Change Hearts and Minds
Photo by juripozzi / iStock.
To get someone's support, you need more than just facts.
Why Science Can't Be Silent
Science Isn't Just for Scientists—We Can All Take Part
To My Fellow Climate Scientists: Be Human, Be Brave, Speak Truth
A Small Act of Scientific Civil Disobedience
What DNA Ancestry Testing Can (and Can't) Tell You
Wildfires Are Essential: The Forest Service Embraces a Tribal Tradition
How Public Money Supports Big Pharma
6 Ways to Put Public Interest Ahead of Big Pharma Profits
6 Ways Citizens Across the U.S. Are Using Science to Build a Better World
A Woman in Trump's America: 5 Simple Ways to Support Your Sisters
How Chicago Became the First City to Make Reparations to Victims of Police Violence
The Woman Giving Refugee Kids Free Lawyers
How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State
None of Texas' Members of Congress Support Trump's Wall
An Outside-the-Doctor's-Office Approach to Health Care
How to Reinflate the Dream of College-for-All
Why You Should Be Saving Seeds (Even If You Don't Have a Garden)
Incarcerating US: The Failings of America's Prison System
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By Colin Beavan
Some years ago, the communications psychologist John Marshall Roberts said at a talk I attended that there are three ways of converting people to a cause: by threat of force, by intellectual argument, and by inspiration.
The most effective of these methods, Roberts said, is aligning communication about your cause with the most deeply-held values and aspirations of your friends, relatives, neighbors, and fellow citizens. To get people's total, lasting, and unwavering support, in other words, we should try neither to cajole them judgmentally nor convince them forcefully. We should inspire them toward a vision that they—not we—can really care about.
Which points to the potential problem of blindly using facts and science—be it climate science or demographic science—to "prove" the righteousness of our causes. Research shows that people tend to embrace data that support their life views and reject data that refute them. Whether we like this or not, it is a truth about how humans evaluate and make decisions. Having the "facts on our side" to make an argument more forcefully may not help if those facts and arguments refute someone's view of life and the values that are precious to them.
The communication challenge, then, is to use our facts and science to skillfully and compellingly connect our causes not to what we think our friends, relatives, and fellow citizens should care about, but what they already do care about.
During the Vietnam War, a dairy farmer told a friend of mine the story of how he got recruited into the anti-war movement. The farmer happened to sit on a plane next to an anti-war activist. They got talking, and the activist said that he was campaigning against the U.S. use of fire-bombing.
We should inspire them toward a vision that they—not we—can really care about.
The cow farmer said, "I know it's awful, but we surely wouldn't use that weapon if we didn't need it to win the war." The activist told him that crops were being burned and villagers were starving. The dairy farmer felt sympathetic but said the weapons might ultimately bring a faster end to the war. The activist mentioned children getting burned, forests turned to cinder. The farmer felt awful about the suffering, but his view remained unchanged. Finally, in frustration, the activist said, "Even the cattle are dying!" The dairy farmer said, "Wait! What?! They are killing the cows?!"
We may think the cow farmer should have cared about the crops, villagers, children, and forests. Yet trying to force more information—science and data—about them down his throat might have risked alienating him. Instead, finding his true soft spot—the cows—and being willing to enter into his life view was what eventually recruited him into the anti-war movement.
In another example, when activists with the California-based Leadership Lab knock on voters' doors in its efforts to defeat anti-LGBTQ prejudice, they don't start by talking about homophobia—they start by asking what personal experience of prejudice and bigotry the voter has had. Then, Leadership Lab volunteers tell a story of an LGBTQ person experiencing homophobia. They ask a question: "Do you see a connection between the prejudice you experienced and homophobia?" Recognizing that prejudice is the same wherever it is found, many voters are inspired to combat it.
In converting friends and fellow citizens to our causes, we should not blindly attempt to use facts and science to bolster the arguments and stories that appeal to our own values and experiences. Instead, we are challenged to listen to and understand the people we are trying to convince. Then, we can marshal the facts and figures that prove that our cause can help support their values.
Facts and figures are wonderful tools, but they are not a communications strategy.
In the case of renewable energy, for example, our friends may care more about national security than climate change. We can tell them about the security advantages of generating energy at home; trying to force them to believe in climate change by explaining the scientific details of the greenhouse effect, on the other hand, may not help. The point is to begin by asking questions in order to understand the values we need to appeal to, and then to use our facts to build a story that inspires the people we are talking to—rather than trying to force our own inspirations on them.
Facts and figures are wonderful tools, but they are not a communications strategy. Let's not let our convictions blind us to the fact that other people have theirs. We need to hear our audiences' stories and then retell ours in a way that mirrors their challenges and aspirations. We need to be empathetic and know that our stories are their stories. And that the challenges we face in being human are one.
Colin Beavan is a writer, speaker, activist, and consultant. He is the author of No Impact Man and the executive director of the No Impact Project. Colin is a YES! contributing editor.


Chronic yeast infections now affect 5% of women worldwide. Having just one yeast infection is not very nice but to get them continually when you expect them to be cured, does ruin your life.
All chronic/recurrent yeast infection sufferers are finding out that OTC treatments are not curing their yeast infection. What makes it worse is the OTC treatment is still being used in the hope that the next time the course is finished the yeast infection won't come back.
This is not what happens, and while you keep on applying the treatment you are creating a super yeast that is resistant to the treatment, and it is continually mutating into a stronger fungus.
Unless you want to visit your doctor for even more powerful anti fungal cream, and/or oral drugs, you will have to cure yourself naturally. There is a reason your yeast infection has become chronic and you have to find that out before any treatment will work.
If it's an underlying illness you have you will never cure yourself if you don't see to the illness first. Your doctor can check you over for any illnesses that could be causing your chronic yeast infections.
If you haven't already been to see your doctor it is a good idea to. If you haven't been properly diagnosed yet you may have diagnosed it wrong yourself, and you could be treating another vaginal infection, and not a yeast infection.
I've been a sufferer of chronic candida infections, and I knew deep down that there had to be a reason that I was getting recurrent yeast infections. There was, I had Candida overgrowth in my intestines which I didn't know existed until I looked on the internet, and then I purchased Sarah Summer's Natural Cure For Yeast Infections. What I found out about the mutating Candida made me feel sick. Whatever part of your body is infected this fungus will continue to feed off of the cells of your body until you rid yourself of it.
I went out and started curing myself the day I got Sarah's ebook. If you're suffering from chronic/recurrent yeast infections you can cure yourself, but it must be from the cause of the infection. Keep applying cream and suppositories to the symptoms is not going to cure you.
You can read more information about the product that cured me here – Sarah Summer's Natural Cure For Yeast Infections.
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Home Point of the Week A Brief History Of The Mumbai Ranji Team, That's Losing Its Way...
A Brief History Of The Mumbai Ranji Team, That's Losing Its Way Unless We Really Have It Wrong
Shantanu Kulkarni
source: Hindustan Times (www.hindustantimes.com)
First, a loss to the Railways side. Next up, a big defeat to the Karnataka side. What has gone wrong with the Mumbai Ranji team? A few months back, you may have thought that the team would appear strong to lift its 42nd Ranji title- right? After all, the vastly-famous unit has made winning such an essential habit. As fans, we've grown to admire a consistently performing and truly passionate side that has given a lot to Indian cricket. But you don't need to be a judge even moderately harsh like some weirdly popular reality TV personality- who often exercises judgment left, right, and center on things they can't dare to do- to know that the Mumbai Ranji team is struggling.
As a die-hard fan of the Ranji format, to me, this is sad. Imagine what might be the plight of those for whom the cricket team epitomizes all that Mumbai- the city of dreams- stands for?
Mumbai Ranji team, after all, is not just any random unit, a cautious word to those who may be keen to cast them aside; it represents the city of dreams as we know it: MUMBAI". Common cricket-loving culture including those who've been a witness to its juggernaut in the past few decades- if it must be said- lovingly address this team as a "King of Indian Cricket". After all, Mumbai is the most successful team in the Indian domestic cricket competition.
Make no mistake. For that is very much the truth for a team that has had 6 major players from its ranks currently in the service of the country's top-most cricket annals: the Indian Men's national side.
It's not so hard to remember too, truth be told. When you think of the Mumbai Ranji team, a unit that has against its name, a fantastic tally of 41 Ranji titles- the most by any team in this competition- today you immediately think of the likes of Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Prithvi Shaw, and last but not the least- Shivam Dube- all of whom are involved with the national side- the ultimate goal for any cricketer.
What hasn't helped the Mumbai Ranji team one bit is that a series of injuries- that too, to the "golden boy" if one may put it that way – Prithvi Shaw- led the team to the edge of the downfall. Next up, the lack of form of the others despite playing in familiar home conditions.
The berth to the semi-finals, also a coveted stage- obviously- was lost way back. One can only imagine the current side- led by Aditya Tare- wishing that somehow, only if they had a magic wand that would've taken them to where the following four are already booked (for the semis): Gujarat, Saurashtra, Karnataka, and Bengal?
But nothing about the downhill of the Mumbai Ranji team can be completely understood without knowing when they'd last won a title, this, it ought to be reminded again, is the unit that's won most Ranji titles.
Their last title came in 2015-16. There you go. For a side so accustomed to winning, can there be anything more disappointing that dealing with a complete vacuum of wins for a period of nearly half a decade?
Such has been the class of this unit that everyone said the Mumbai Ranji team is often the frontrunner for each season of Ranji Trophy.
Here's something you'd love to recollect particularly if you've followed their game and journey.
From the onset of 1958-59 to 1972-73 Mumbai won 15 consecutive seasons.
Beat that? So in some ways, we could tell while world cricket had the invincible Australian side under "Steven Waugh" during the nineties, somewhere in the past, there was Mumbai: clearly the Ranji team to beat.
Those numbers show Mumbai's command on the Indian domestic season. At present, Mumbai is the only team that won the Ranji trophy on three consecutive occasions. Under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar Mumbai, the famous unit won on 4 occasions (1968-69, 69-70, 71-72 & 72-73).
Also important to know that the Mumbai Ranji team have made as many as 14 Irani Cup titles their own, the most by any team in the history of the competition.
What's more? And this will pinch the fan particularly distraught with the current form.
Mumbai is the first team to play 500 Ranji matches. How big an achievement is that- can you imagine?
source: DNA India
At one point, there were no less than 5-6 players from this glorious Mumbai Ranji team that formed a part of the Indian team. Sachin, undoubtedly, among them, was the biggest. And perhaps shall be.
And it's not that post the Sachin- retirement era, there weren't others.
Today, the "Hitman of Indian Cricket" Rohit Sharma, and one who was touted to be the next "Wall" Ajinkya Rahane have formed vital parts of the Indian team set-up. Their tales of success are something we've all been familiar with from the last 6-7 years.
Moving on, the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Shardul Thakur are hand-in-glove with a playing eleven from India. Looking at them, you cannot be doubted for feeling that their success may in some way put extra pressure on Mumbai's current youngsters. In a positive light, who knows, they may lift their game higher.
In the absence of key players, the Mumbai team failed in the domestic competitions as the last title triumph came in the 2015-16 season.
But let's not forget that the same Mumbai Ranji team that are often described as "Khadoos," or snobs in the colloquial expression has served India in the form of a factory of batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Ashok Mankad, Farokh Engineer, Dilip Sardesai, Ajit Wadekar, Eknath Solkar, Sandip Patil, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Vinod Kambli, Wasim Jaffer, Amol Muzumdar, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Prithvi Shaw, and the current buzzword in Indian cricket: Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Then, there are some priceless all-rounders that the Mumbai Ranji team birthed for the country- Bapu Nadkarni, Chandu Borde, Ravi Shastri.
In the current season, it hurts to know that the Mumbai Ranji team are out of the competition as they won only a single contest match and currently find themselves placed at the 12 positions in the elite group.
Most say and aren't wrong too that the key player absences have hurt the team big time.
Source: Indian Express
Therefore, you've got to submit that core of the Mumbai players such as Jay Bisht, Aditya Tare, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Shams Mulani, Tushar Deshpande, and Sarfaraz Khan, the latter being in red-hot form as indicated by his sizzling triple century, should take fresh responsibility so that Mumbai Ranji team retains its famous tag; that of being the "King of Indian Cricket."
One hopes, it remains that way.
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Q: How to compare two unequal nested lists based on the first and second item of the first list and get value or false I am very new to python and I am trying to compare two nested lists based on the first two values of the lists. If the values match each other, then I want to get as an output the third value of the second list:
for example:
list_1 =[[600,700], [500,200], [100,250], [300,100]]
list_2 = [[600,700,"A"], [500,600,"B"], [100,250,"C"]]

I want to get:
list_new = ["A", false, "C", false]

I want to iterate through list_1 having as criteria the first two values of list_2. If the values match the I want the output to be the third value of list_2, otherwise false.
My thoughts on it (logic behind it):
for i in list_2
for m in list_1

if i[0]==m[0] and i[1]==m[1], then give me i[2]
else false

It would be great to get some help!

A: With itertools.zip_longest function:
import itertools

list_1 =[[600,700], [500,200], [100,250], [300,100]]
list_2 = [[600,700,"A"], [500,600,"B"], [100,250,"C"]]
res = [l2[2] if (l1 and l2 and l1[:2] == l2[:2]) else False
       for l1, l2 in itertools.zip_longest(list_1, list_2)]
print(res)    # ['A', False, 'C', False]

A: Another way:
list_1 =[[600,700], [500,200], [100,250], [300,100]]
list_2 = [[600,700,"A"], [500,600,"B"], [100,250,"C"]]
list(map(lambda x, y: y[2] if y[:2]==x[:2] else False, list_1, list_2))
 + list(itertools.repeat(False, len(list_1) - len(list_2)))
Out[12]: ['A', False, 'C', False]

A: list_1 =[[600,700], [500,200], [100,250], [300,100]]
list_2 = [[600,700,"A"], [500,600,"B"], [100,250,"C"]]

list_im_1 = {}
for x in list_2:
    list_im_1[(x[0],x[1])] = x[2]
result = []
for x in list_1:
    y = []
    y.extend(x)
    if tuple(x) in list_im_1:
        y.extend(list_im_1[tuple(x)])
    else:
        y.extend('False')
    result.append(y)


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What is makerdao protocol
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MakerDAO is an Ethereum-based platform that creates the Dai algorithmic stablecoin, which is soft-pegged to the USD. The Maker Protocol allows you to redeem Dai in exchange for collateral in the form of Ethereum-based tokens. The company was founded in 2015, and it was one of the first to forego ICO investment in favour of concentrating on long-term product development. MakerDAO has grown into a foundational component of decentralized finance as an early adopter and pioneer in the Ethereum ecosystem (DeFi). Dai is now available on over 400 platforms, and the protocol has approximately $2 billion in value locked in as of October 2020. The establishment of a fully decentralized stable store of wealth with which to transact is MakerDAO's innovative contribution to DeFi. DeFi customers can choose from a variety of stablecoins, such as Bitfinex's Tether (USDT), Gemini's Gemini Dollar (GUSD), and Coinbase's USD Coin (USDC). These stablecoins, on the other hand, are issued and regulated by a centralized authority in charge of asset reserves and issuance.
In asset-backed stablecoins, MakerDAO provides a totally decentralized alternative. No single entity controls the protocol's issuance, and anybody may use it to redeem or loan Dai. Holders of the MKR governance token, who vote on protocol management via the Maker decentralized autonomous organization, rule the protocol instead (DAO). The DAO votes on system improvements such as fee adjustments and the addition of loans with different types of collateral. Dai is far from the only decentralized stablecoin alternative, but it is by far the most liquid and widely used.
Since its inception in 2017, MakerDAO has suffered market conditions that have caused its value to diverge from the US dollar at times. In March 2020, for example, Dai's price soared to $1.10 during a period of high market volatility. Demand for Dai and other stablecoins has also increased as a result of the popularity of yield farming. For the majority of cryptocurrencies, increasing asset value is always a good thing. It's a clue that the protocol isn't working correctly for an algorithmic stablecoin like Dai. MakerDAO has since built a monetary lever system in order to reduce future risk. Nonetheless, Dai is an important part of DeFi's infrastructure, and MakerDAO is a mainstay of Ethereum development.
Any discussion of MakerDAO and its capabilities would undoubtedly conclude with a discussion of its applications. Crypto lending functionality is one of Maker protocol's most obvious use applications. The Maker system, as well as its stablecoin DAI, provide a useful foundation for the creation of alternative DeFi protocols. DAI stablecoin is used by global organizations like UNICEF to raise funds for blockchain-based open-source initiatives in social projects. Uniswap and Outlet are two other significant practical DeFi applications supported by the Maker ecosystem. Furthermore, the gaming industry applications of MakerDAO can aid in the generation of tokenized in-game assets.
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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returns to Earth
Soyuz TMA-13M
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, Russian commander Maxim Suraev and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman returned to Earth today, landing in the Kazakh steppe.
Their return, landing at 03:58 GMT (04:58 CET), was in the same Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station on 28 May.
ESA's astronaut centre seen from Space Station
Alexander is now flying straight to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), the home base of all ESA astronauts in Cologne, Germany. ESA's medical team will monitor how he readapts to gravity after spending more than five months in weightlessness.
Media are invited to EAC on 13 November for his first public appearance. The one-hour event includes Alexander's first-hand report and covers the science experiments he ran in space.
Alexander during spacewalk
Alexander performed over 50 experiments during his flight on the weightless research centre as it circled our planet 400 km up. In just two weeks, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will continue many of the experiments and begin new ones when she is launched on her 'Futura' mission.
Highlights of Alexander's 'Blue Dot' mission included installing ESA's furnace that can suspend and cool molten metal in mid-air, a spacewalk to maintain and improve the Space Station, and the docking of Europe's last Automated Transfer Vehicle – the largest spacecraft to supply the research centre.
A large selection of photographs from Blue Dot, most taken by Alexander himself, is available on the Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_alex
The press conference at the European Astronaut Centre starts at 11:00 CET and will last for one hour, with a panel consisting of:
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Brigitte Zypries,
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst,
Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations and former ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter,
Chairman of the Executive Board of the DLR German Aerospace Centre Johann Dietrich Wörner,
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
The head of the European Astronaut Centre and ESA astronaut Frank De Winne as well as Johann Wörner, Thomas Reiter, and ESA experts will be available for interviews. For operational reasons, there will be no interviews with Alexander.
Media representatives can register for the event here:http://www.amiando.com/AlexanderGerst.html
About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe's gateway to space.
ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, of whom 18 are Member States of the EU. Two other Member States of the EU, Hungary and Estonia, are likely soon to become new ESA Member States.
ESA has Cooperation Agreements with six other Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
ESA is also working with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.
Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.
Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int
ESA Media Relations Office
Email: media@esa.int
All about Blue Dot
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Blue_dot
Horizons blog
http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/
Connect with Alexander Gerst
http://alexandergerst.esa.int/
German Aerospace Center DLR
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10002/
Where is the International Space Station?
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/International_Space_Station/Where_is_the_International_Space_Station
Space Station live
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream
Alexander Gerst's personal homepage
http://planet3.de/
Space Station crew timeline
http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov/timeline/index.html


Our Work - Redwood N.S.
The children in the senior room created their own visual responses to the poem.
Theme: The estate agents - The children used their imaginations to build farms, barns, offices, homes and towns! All from recycled materials!! They really love Junk Art!!
Senior room - Making their own bobble hats!!
Our Work in Prezi: We have started learning to present our work using Prezi. This is a newer more dynamic version of PowerPoint. We were learning about native Irish animals and put the information we researched into a Prezi presentation.
Colette presented her work on foxes and Emily presented on hares.


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permalink-checker
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permalink-checker takes an atom feed and check that every article
linked still exists. It helps check that the urls of your blog are not
broken after you migrate to another engine.

To use it, create a checklist file like this:

    $ permalink-checker atom http://compiletoi.net/feeds/all.atom.xml > checklist.yml

Then you can check the links whenever you want:

    $ permalink-checker check checklist.yml
    Checking http://compiletoi.net
    ✓ Atom file (/feeds/all.atom.xml)
    ✓ API wrappers: Danaïdes writing specifications (/api-wrappers-danaides-writing-specifications.html)
    ✓ This last few weeks in NixOS (/this-week-in-nixos-5.html)
    ✓ This couple of weeks in NixOS (/this-week-in-nixos-4.html)
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Features
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- Works with atom feed (RSS support could easily be added)
- Check the links of the article
- Check that the titles of the articles are actually in the page
- Color output!

Installation
------------

Install permalink-checker using ![stack](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack#readme) by running cloning the repo and running:

    stack install

License
-------

The project is licensed under the BSD3 license.

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Christian Huemer studied art history at the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne in Paris, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His dissertation Paris-Vienna: Modern Art Markets and the Transmission of Culture (1873-1937) earned him fellowships at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Although trained as an art historian, he is interested in exploring methodological models derived from the social and natural sciences. The focus of his research, lectures, and publications is: history of art markets, Central European modernism, and more recently digital humanities.
Since 2008 Huemer has been heading the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. At the heart of the department's operations are the Getty Provenance Index® databases, which contain 1.1 million records extracted from primary source material such as archival inventories, auction catalogs, and dealer stock books, covering roughly the late 16th to the early 20th century. In collaboration with Maximilian Schich, Lev Manovich, and Piotr Adamczyk he is currently exploring how larger data sets from the Provenance Index can be used to visualize relationships, patterns, and trends. For the 2012 CAA conference in Los Angeles Huemer and Manovich organized a panel on Information Visualization as a Research Method in Art History.
Presentation: "Patterns of Collecting: InfoViz for Art History"


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Imginn: Everything you need to know
Published by Mark Simons on 8:39 am 8:39 am
Imginn Insights
There is no cost or registration necessary to use Imginn. There are, however, a few drawbacks to using this service. Read this article to find out whether using Imginn is secure.
In addition, you will find out your options and why they are the ideal ones for you. Moreover, we will let you know whether you may access Imginn without a subscription. We hope that this post has helped you narrow down your options for a suitable picture hosting service.
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Once your Instagram account has been confirmed, you may safely download media from user stories without raising suspicion. You'll also have no trouble checking out Instagram accounts.
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The only downfall is that you can't add your own photographs, like other users', or comment on postings. Despite this drawback, Imginn's popularity is rising since it's free.
In addition, you are unable to provide feedback on the posts of other users, such as photos or narratives. Profiles may be viewed anonymously, which is another added security measure.
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It's also worth noting that using Imginn won't cost you a dime. Consequently, there is no need for membership in order to see the profiles of other users. It's convenient for those who value their anonymity since there's no need to sign up beforehand.
Users may see public profiles on Imginn without creating an account, and the service is completely free of charge. Users, however, are unable to provide feedback or "like" photographs. But imginn has more options than Instagram does.
Without revealing any personal information, users may see hidden-mode articles, direct messages, and a person's GPS position. Users concerned about their privacy may find this tool very helpful.
There are alternatives to creating an Instagram account if you don't want to. The first option is to utilise the highlights function in Imginn. Users have the option of saving pictures, videos, and narratives.
Not having an email account is not a prerequisite. Second, these updates may be sent to your social networks through Twitter or Facebook. There is no need to sign up for any social networking service to use Imginn, and it supports numerous social media accounts.
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Imginn is one of the safest websites out there, despite the fact that there are a lot of sketchy ones. The imginn logo and name are straightforward and basic, yet neither the website's owner nor its privacy policies are visible.
Users may also share and download media (such as images and movies) via the site. What about the safety of Imginn, though? The only way to know is to investigate.
This is a risk-free website since there is no signup process and no cost to use it. Users may remain anonymous and secure by not entering personal information or payment details.
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Similarly to Instagram, Imginn has a photo sharing app with a similar user experience. There is no backdrop it doesn't look well on. It also has functions for accessing direct messages and hidden mode tales.
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The Instagram downloader Imginn is free to use. The service is able to download files without requiring users to sign up for an account since it makes use of a publicly accessible API. Friends' usernames won't be out, so users will have to do their own searching to get what they want.
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This tool is simple to use and will rapidly increase your fan base. It is a third-party app that provides access to public Instagram profiles, and is also widely used.
Imginn's accessibility across the most used platforms makes it a convenient and useful tool. It has several useful functions, one of which is the ability to search Instagram's public profile and see photographs without revealing your identity.
When compared to Imginn, this software will reveal an Instagram user's actual GPS position. You may use it without worrying about spying on your loved ones for free, and it comes with a handful of useful functions.
Imginn's ability to download Instagram stories is also quite useful. Instagram is available for no cost and without the need for registration.
It's private and secure, unlike any other Instagram feature. You may also save the best moments from Instagram stories.Getting your hands on the tales you can't wait to tell your pals is a breeze.
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It has a straightforward design and is simple to use. You should consider these caveats before deciding whether or not to use it. Believe me, you won't regret it. Now the question is, what are some good substitutes for Imginn?
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Use Google or your preferred search browser to look for "ImgInn."
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Anna Maria Silfverstråle, född 15 april 1797 på Grängshammar, Silvbergs socken, Kopparbergs län, död 24 oktober 1867 i Stockholm, var en svensk målare.

Hon var dotter till majoren Carl Silfverstråle och Beata Charlotta Rosenborg samt brorsdotter till Gustaf Silfverstråhle. Hon var huvudsakligen verksam som porträttmålare i akvarell. Bland annat utförde hon ett litet porträtt av friherrinnan Beata Aurora Gyllenhaal.

Tryckta källor
Svenskt konstnärslexikon del V sid 147, Allhems Förlag, Malmö.

Svenska målare under 1800-talet
Kvinnor
Födda 1797
Avlidna 1867
Personer från Silvbergs socken

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text:
Q: How do I fix the code in Javascript to avoid repetitive elements in HTML? index.html

Add

Rs. --

--

--

Add

Rs. --

--

--

pizzas.json
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Tandoori Paneer",
    "img": "/images/pizza.png",
    "price": 200,
    "sizes": [0, 100, 200],
    "description": "Spiced paneer, Onion, Green Capsicum & Red Paprika in Tandoori Sauce",
    "cheese": [0, 100, 0]
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Veggie Supreme",
    "img": "images/pizza.png",
    "price": 250,
    "sizes": [0, 100, 200],
    "description": "Black Olives, Green Capsicum, Mushroom, Onion, Red Paprika, Sweet Corn",
    "cheese": [0, 100, 0]
  }
]

index.js
//FIRST PIZZA - loading json data and showing it on index.html page
fetch("pizzas.json").then((response) =>
  response.json().then((data) => {
    //console.log(data[0].name);
    document.querySelector("#pizza-img-1").src = data[0].img;
    document.querySelector("#pizza-name-1").innerHTML = data[0].name;
    document.querySelector(
      "#pizza-price-1"
    ).innerHTML = `Rs ${data[0].price.toFixed(2)}`;
    document.querySelector("#pizza-desc-1").innerHTML = data[0].description;
  })
);
//SECOND PIZZA
fetch("pizzas.json").then((response) =>
  response.json().then((data) => {
    //console.log(data[0].name);
    document.querySelector("#pizza-img-2").src = data[1].img;
    document.querySelector("#pizza-name-2").innerHTML = data[1].name;
    document.querySelector(
      "#pizza-price-2"
    ).innerHTML = `Rs ${data[1].price.toFixed(2)}`;
    document.querySelector("#pizza-desc-2").innerHTML = data[1].description;
  })
);

MY DOUBT:
As you can see in the above code, I want to display details of two pizza items whose details are stored in json file and I'm using vanilla javascript to load data from json to HTML. And for each each of the pizzas, I have created element in index.html which is not good. Let's suppose in future I want to display details of 50 pizzas, so that would mean creating 50 chunks of code in html.
Can someone please tell me how can I use only one chunk of the HTML code and use it multiple times to create as many pizza items using vanilla javascript.

MY TAKE ON:
I was thinking to store the json data as a global variable and then use onload() and ready() to load data but I'm not sure about how to do it.

A: You can create an HTML template in JavaScript and use it over to generate your multiple
 based on data in JSON file.
Using Template Literals you can easily use with the loops

fetch("https://api.jsonbin.io/b/605b2c5aaee69516ee8a8866/2").then((response) =>
  response.json().then((data) => {

    let jsonSize = data.length;

    let htmlContent = '';
    for (let i = 0; i < jsonSize; i++) {
      let id = data[i].id;
      let name = data[i].name;
      let img = data[i].img;
      let price = data[i].price;
      let sizes = data[i].sizes;
      let description = data[i].description;
      let cheese = data[i].cheese;

      htmlContent += `

Add

₹${price}

${name}

${description}

`;
    }
    document.querySelector("#root").innerHTML = htmlContent;

  })
);
.column-pizza {
  height: auto;
  width: 50vv;
}

.pizza-item--add,
.pizza-item--price {
  border: none;
  color: white;
  padding: 15px 32px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 16px;
}

.pizza-item--add {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  /* Green */
}

.pizza-item--price {
  background-color: #333;
  /* Gray */
}

PS- Don't have pizza image placeholder, thus using some random  and   images.

A: Here is a demo

*

*you can use async/await to fetch json

*use map to transform the array to tags

*use innerHTML to append a bunch of html contents

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', async ev => {
  const res = await fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/photos')
  const data = await res.json()
  const photos = data.slice(0, 100)

  const appEl = document.querySelector('#app')
  appEl.innerHTML = photos.map((photo, index) => {
    return `

                    ${photo.title}

`
  }).join('')
  setTimeout(() => {
    appEl.classList.add('loaded')
  }, 0)
}, false)
#app {
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row wrap;
  justify-content: space-evenly;
  align-items: center;
  position: relative;
}

.photo {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  transform: translate(-100vw, -100vh);
}

#app.loaded .photo {
  position: static;
  transition: all ease 1s;
  transform: translate(0, 0);
}

.image {
  text-align: center;
  transition: transform ease 1s;
}

.image:hover {
  transform: scale(1.1);
}

.title a {
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
  width: 100%;
  display: inline-block;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: 'Gill Sans', 'Gill Sans MT', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
  color: midnightblue;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.title a:hover {
  color: dodgerblue;
}


The word hypocrisy means "under a mask." Greek actors (called, in Greek, hypocrites) held masks over their faces to let the audience know the emotion they wanted to portray. Everybody knew what they were doing, so there was no actual deceit involved. The actor may have had a bad morning, but for the matinee he could simply hold a happy mask over his anger or his tears. Alternatively, he might be ecstatic about the birth of his first child, but at that evening's performance had to put a sad mask over his joyful heart.
Hypocrisy is acting like who you aren't, just like the biblical Pharisees. Jesus called them hypocrites because they faked looking good and hid their evil hearts. Their act may have been purposely deceitful or they may have actually believed they were good, but Jesus knew better. Whitewashed tombs, He called them – nice on the outside but rotten within. They pasted good acts over evil intentions. God tells us not to imitate the Pharisees. We're not supposed to do phony things like pretend kindness when we're really trying to take advantage of someone.
But there's a deeper hypocrisy that most Christians never recognize: for a Christian, sin is hypocrisy. Why? Because when Christians sin they are acting like who they aren't. Let me explain.
God says that when we join to Jesus He gives us a new identity: He transforms our very self, making us glorious at the depths of our being. Most Christians don't believe any such change has occurred. Most think they're still rotten to the core. But Christians are not sinners – not any longer. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying we don't ever sin; I'm saying that we no longer should identify with our sin. This is important. Sin doesn't describe who we are, but who we were. Paul's repeated "no longer I" statements (Romans 7:17, 20) make that abundantly clear.
Hypocrisy is acting like who we aren't. For a Christian, sin is hypocrisy.
Do we need to recognize when we sin? Yes, we do. Do we need to turn from our sinful acts? Of course. Must we sorrow for our sin? Yes, we must. But should we believe that our acts of disobedience prove that we still are shameful beings? Absolutely not. Our sin no longer defines who we are. God defines who we are. And He says He has made us new and clean and holy. Even if we believe we are still sinners, Jesus knows better. He knows that sin contradicts our new selves. Sin, for a Christian, is a hypocritical act: it pastes evil over a newly good heart.
Salvation makes us so radically new that God calls us "new creations" (2 Corinthians 5:17). But when we sin? Then we're acting like we're still our old, pre-Christian selves. Each time we sin, we (like the Pharisees) are acting like who we aren't; we're hiding our new hearts behind an ugly mask. The Bible doesn't specifically call this "hypocrisy" … but is it so different a phenomenon?
Are you convinced that God has made you a new creation – that you, the real you, resemble Jesus?
Have you ever considered that each time you sin you're committing "Christian hypocrisy"?
How would your behavior towards others change if you accepted the fact that God has given you a new and glorious self?
I'd like to explore how we Christians can avoid being hypocrites? God has made us new; the old is gone and we are new creations. If the truth about us is that we are clean and new through Christ, how do we reconcile that with the truth of our sin? Well, when we confess our sin to other people, there is no hypocrisy occurring.
Lynne, you point out that Romans 7:17 says, "So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me." Hallelujah! My spirit has been made clean and that is the most real part of myself. My spirit, made clean through the blood of Jesus Christ, is the most real part of myself, which will live with God forever. Yet it is at war with my flesh, a flesh that I am stuck in while on this earth, a flesh which stubbornly persists in sinning. Thank you, Jesus, for the abundant and sufficient forgiveness You earned for us!.
Still, HOW can I avoid hypocrisy? How can I proclaim my spirit is clean while the sin of my flesh is easily observed by a world who needs Jesus but doesn't want Him?
There is a way! John 3:20-21 says "(20)For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. (21) But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." The difference between the two people described here is the willingness to have sin exposed to others by the light of Jesus! Both groups described here have sin. But the first group hates the light, preferring to continue practicing evil, choosing to keep that evil hidden by staying away from Jesus. They are still enslaved to sin, to the flesh, to worldly desires. The Pharisees managed to keep good reputations with people while lying about their sin and rotting hearts; they hated the Light of Jesus.
But the second group, described in verse 21, chooses to stand with Jesus because they are willing to expose their sin so that others will see the truth. Jesus is light. We can't stand with Him without having His light shine on our sin, so that everyone sees it. Therefore, every time we step into Jesus' Light, we expose our sin. In an everyday practical sense, that means others can see our sin, because we confessed it. We hold up our sin to the light and tell our neighbor, "Do you see this sin of mine? That behavior is not how God wants me to live, because that behavior separates me from God and leads me to death. I can tell you so because I have Jesus' forgiveness and new life. Therefore I confess and repent." This is the practical truth choice that we are called to practice.
1 John 1:7-9 explains again "If we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This promise that God will forgive us comes in the context of being in the Light with other believers. In this context, we must confess our sins. When we confess our sins to each other, He will forgive us!
Confession of sins is a proof of our faith, evidence that our new life in Jesus is real, and we have rejected the old fleshly life which will suffer spiritual death. Because we believe there is no condemnation for sins, Romans 8:1, we are free to confess in the Light of Jesus, according to God's ways, that we may receive God's power to repent, to turn away from sin. James 5:14-16 exhorts us to confess to each other in the church, that we may be healed. Matthew 5:21-24 emphasizes the importance of confession and forgiveness with someone whom I have offended. So every time we confess our sins to someone, we are a testimony in action of the reality of Jesus' forgiveness and new life.
When we practice exposing the truth, we show we do not seek to glorify ourselves, but we live to glorify the God who has saved us. And God's grace provides the miracle we need, that when we step into the light, God gives us grace and truth, which removes our shame and condemnation, and changes our heart to want His righteousness. And the fruit of our transformation, real acts of love through Christ, will be seen as "wrought by God," produced through His redemptive work in us. In the Light of Jesus, the truth of new holy life and of the war with sin is reconciled by His grace. In this there is no hypocrisy.
Dear Lord, Please help me practice truth, by confessing my sins to others, so that I am not a hypocrite, but wholly devoted to pursuing my new life in Jesus, the Light of the world!
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I wrote this to encourage freedom from feeling we have to try and hide our sins because they no longer define who we are. And, of course, people can usually see our sins even if we don't acknowledge them. Confession is commanded, but there's the question of whether confession is always to people or sometimes just to God. I think that it may at times be helpful to confess to other people, but sometimes it's wiser to keep it between us and God (who always wants us to agree with Him.) Guess I'll have to write another post on the subject!
I admit I've been wrestling with the subject of to whom we must direct our confessions, can't you tell! 🙂 I appreciate the distinction you make! I am so very glad my sin does not define me. I am so very glad that God has made clean, a new creation! Thanks, Lynne.
You're welcome. And, as you can probably tell, I've struggled with this myself.
Reading this post was such a good and bracing reminder of the truth. I love the way that you have expressed the reality of who we are and our changed relationship to sin in an understandable way. Thank you!!
Glad it was understandable. To think that we don't have to hide our sin – what a freedom!


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