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Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, "These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day." Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ... Share Your Faith Products
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The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." ... Christian Canvas Art
He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains. He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz. Bible Scripture Art
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Share Your Faith Products
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge. ... Bible Scripture Art
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...
The Bible is full of encouraging scriptures that are such a blessing to read and memorize. Here are ten of my favorite scripture quotes for encouragement. Feel free to share these with others as these encouraging Bible verses will brighten anyone's day. The Scriptures used are filled with hope, comfort and inspiration. These famous Bible quotes are from the Old and New Testament.
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Share Your Faith Products
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He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Share Your Faith Products
"Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded." And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do." ...
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Bible Scripture Art
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. Christian Canvas Art
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." ... Christian Canvas Art
The Lord said to Moses, "See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ... Bible Scripture Art
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"You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand,
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.read more.
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"Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded." And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do." ... Bible Scripture Art

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1942 is een computerspel dat werd ontwikkeld en uitgegeven door de Japanse gameproducent Capcom. Het actiespel is van het type Vertical scrolling shooter. Het spel kwam in december 1984 uit als arcadespel en een jaar later voor de Nintendo Entertainment System. Later volgende ook andere populaire homecomputers van die tijd.

Het actiespel is een verticale scroller die door één of twee spelers tegelijkertijd gespeeld worden. Het spel speelt zich af in het jaar 1942. De speler speelt Super Ace een Amerikaanse gevechtspiloot van een P-38 Lightning, die over land en zee moet vechten tegen de vijand. Het doel is Tokio te bereiken en de volledige Japanse vloot te vernietigen. Na bepaalde formaties te vernietigen kan de speler zijn vuurkracht of overlevingskansen verhogen. De speler kan de vijand ontwijken via een looping.

Het spel werd in 1987 opgevolgd door 1943: The Battle of Midway.

Releases
 1984: Arcade
 1985: NES
 1986: Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, MSX2, ZX Spectrum
 1987: FM-7, PC-88,
 1998: PlayStation, Sega Saturn
 2000: Game Boy Color
 2001: Windows, Windows Mobiel
 2004: J2ME, BREW
 2005: PlayStation 2
 2006: PlayStationPortable
 2008: Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network
 2010: Wii Virtual Console

Stages
 Stages 32–29 : Midway
 Stages 28–25 : Marshall
 Stages 24–21 : Attu
 Stages 20–17 : Rabaul
 Stages 16–13 : Leyte
 Stages 12–09 : Saipan
 Stages 08–05 : Iwojima
 Stages 04–01 : Okinawa

In levels 2, 10, 18 en 26 moet een eindbaas vernietigd worden.

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Computerspel uit 1984
Computerspel van Capcom
Shoot 'em up
Arcadespel
Amstrad CPC-spel
Commodore 64-spel
Game Boy Color-spel
MSX-spel
Nintendo Entertainment System-spel
PlayStation-spel
PlayStation 2-spel
PlayStation 3-spel
PlayStation Network-spel
Sega Saturn-spel
Wii Virtual Console-spel
Windows-spel
Windows Mobile-spel
Xbox 360-spel
ZX Spectrum-spel

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Starwood Launches First Two TelePresence Sites In Chicago, Sydney
By Michael B. Baker / February 22, 2010 / Contact Reporter
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide today went live with its first two remote conferencing studios, with plans to bring two more studios online in the next few months.
The company today hosted its first in-hotel Cisco TelePresence meeting between participants at the W Chicago City Center and Sheraton on the Park Sydney. By the end of June, Starwood also plans to have remote conferencing suites operational at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers and Sheraton Centre Toronto. Later in the year, Starwood will launch its studio at the Westin Los Angeles Airport and plans ultimately to have the offering in Dallas, San Francisco, Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong and Frankfurt.
"With 2010 fully in gear, we're well on our way in bringing more public rooms in critical business hubs like Sydney and Chicago," said Peter Quinlan, director of managed TelePresence services at Tata Communications, the supplier of the suites for Starwood. "This opening is just the first step in that direction with many more in other key markets soon to follow this year."
Both Starwood and Marriott International separately announced plans last year to bring Cisco remote conferencing technology to their hotels (BTNonline, June 30, 2009). Marriott launched its first suites in New York and the Washington, D.C. area in January(BTNonline, Jan. 28).


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A Little Girl in Missouri Receives the Best Gift – A New Liver and a New Kidney
COTA Kid Vivian Lemire
December is the month when many focus on gifts. For one Missouri transplant family, December is the month to celebrate the ultimate gift — the gift of life. This family's beautiful girl will be celebrating her ninth birthday later this month right before this family celebrates Christmas. Then on December 31st the Lemires will ring in the New Year by remembering their post-transplant homecoming two years. These December celebrations are made possible by another family, complete strangers, who chose to donate their child's liver and kidney during the most difficult of circumstances.
Cara and Rich Lemire are no strangers to loss nor to big gifts — especially ones that are life-saving. When they found out in 2010 they were pregnant with a daughter they would name Vivian (which means full of life), they were excited and anxious. Four years earlier, they had lost their first child to Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD). The condition caused their first baby's kidneys and liver to swell and take up space the lungs needed to grow properly. Cara and Rich were completely unaware of her condition before her birth and they only had two days with their daughter, Renee, before she passed. They allowed themselves time to grieve before considering another pregnancy, but with support from their medical team they decided to try again.
According to Cara, "Once we were pregnant again we were thrilled, but we struggled to let ourselves feel we could 'get ready' for her. We had walked this journey before and worried it would lead to the same heartbreaking place. Vivian's early ultrasounds showed no sign of ARPKD and we felt encouraged about not experiencing a recurrence."
ARPKD is a rare inherited childhood condition where the development of the kidneys and liver is abnormal. Over time either of these organs may fail. Even though ARPKD is rare, it is one of the most common kidney problems to affect young children. It is estimated that 1 in 20,000 babies is born with ARPKD; both boys and girls are affected equally. The condition often causes serious problems after birth.
At Cara's 32-week pregnancy check, an ultrasound showed that Baby Vivian's kidneys were enlarged with cysts and her amniotic fluid was dangerously low. The Lemires were devastated when they were told the baby also had ARPKD. "It was a crushing moment, but we were determined to give Vivian the best chance we could at survival," Cara said.
When the baby's heart muscles began to show signs of hypertension, the doctors determined they could not wait any longer and Vivian was delivered a few days before Christmas 2010. The baby's lungs had some underdevelopment but she was able to breathe with minimal assistance. Vivian's next challenge was severe hypertension and renal failure with kidneys that were estimated to be the size of adult kidneys in her tiny body.
At two weeks old, Vivian had her first kidney removed and began dialysis 24 hours a day. Four weeks later Vivian had her second kidney removed. The Lemires had to travel 40 minutes from their O'Fallon, Missouri, home to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis four days a week for Vivian's hemodialysis. Each session was four hours long. Vivian spent 278 days of her first year of life inpatient enduring several surgeries, battling infections and treating complications of her compromised immune system. Vivian's medical care made it nearly impossible for both Cara and Rich to keep their full-time jobs; therefore, Rich decided to step back from his career to manage Vivian's medical schedule of appointments, treatments, specialists, back-and-forth commutes and many more of her complicated medical demands.
Cara and Rich knew Vivian would need a dual life-saving transplant (kidney and liver) for long-term survival. At the start of 2012, while in the midst of Vivian's hemodialysis sessions and appointments, a transplant social worker suggested Cara and Rich reach out to the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA) to learn more about fundraising for transplant-related expenses. On January 31st, Cara called COTA's 800 number and completed COTA's Patient Agreement the very next day.
COTA uniquely understands that parents who care for a child or young adult before, during and after a life-saving transplant have enough to deal with, so COTA's model shifts the responsibility for fundraising to a community team of trained volunteers. COTA is a 501(c)3 charity so all contributions to COTA are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law, and COTA funds are available for a lifetime of transplant-related expenses.
On March 8, 2012, a COTA fundraising specialist travelled to the Lemire's hometown to train the volunteers for the COTA campaign in honor of Vivian L. This group of family members and friends, i.e. COTA Miracle Makers, quickly got to work organizing fundraisers to help with mounting transplant-related expenses. Numerous COTA fundraisers were held and the team surpassed its $60,000 goal in a short amount of time.
When Vivian was 2½, the transplant team at Cardinal Glennon officially listed her for a dual kidney and liver transplant. Cara and Rich were anxious but were excited to continue their family's transplant journey. However the wait became lengthy and Vivian's case became more complicated as she grew. Cara and Rich were eventually told by the Cardinal Glennon transplant team they were no longer able to perform the life-saving dual transplant Vivian needed.
"We will never forget the moment our nephrologist, whose guidance we trusted, told us if Vivian were her child, she would take her to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford," Cara said. Soon after that recommendation, the Lemires flew to Palo Alto, California — more than 2,000 miles away from their Missouri home. Cara says at their very first meeting 'everything clicked.' The Lucile Packard transplant team agreed that, when the time came for Vivian's dual transplant, the Lemire family would need to temporarily relocate to California and start her transplant treatment plan.
In August 2017 after two years of being listed and a near match, the Lemires finally got The Call for both a kidney and liver match for Vivian in California. Cara remembers feeling like their bags were in their hands before they even hung up the phone. It was indeed the call they had been waiting for since the day Vivian was born. On August 9, 2017, Vivian received a kidney and liver transplant and her second chance at life. Cara and Rich received the greatest gift imaginable.
The dual organ transplant went well but required a longer recovery time for Vivian, which meant the family would be in California for an extended period of time. Cara took a leave from her job and the family was able to stay in the Ronald McDonald House very close to Lucile Packard. "With our home and jobs halfway across the country, COTA eased the financial burden and enabled us to be at Vivian's side during her transplant and lengthy recovery," they said.
On December 31st, four and a half months after her life-saving dual kidney and liver transplant, Vivian and her parents were able to return home to Missouri. It was indeed a positive way to step into the New Year and their new post-transplant life.
"Even before Vivian was born, we knew a transplant was likely in our family's future. When it became clear the best outcome of Vivian's transplant would be achieved at a transplant center more than 2,000 miles away from our home, we also knew we were going to need help to make everything work financially. With home and jobs halfway across the country, COTA eased the financial burden and enabled us to be at Vivian's side before and after transplant. It is a tremendous gift to know COTA is here for our family now and will be … for a lifetime," said Cara and Rich.
Today Vivian is enrolled in elementary school, which she loves and where she is thriving. She loves dancing, singing and participating in any type of music. Vivian is thrilled to be making new friends at school. This Christmas will likely be full of celebration and joy for the Lemires as they enjoy the holidays in their own home. Vivian is indeed a gift for Cara and Rich who went from wondering when The Call would come to now watching their beautiful daughter enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of the season. They will indeed remember their special donor angel this holiday season as well.
Merry Christmas Lemire Family from your COTA Family!
For more information about the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA), or to find a COTA family in your area, please email [email protected]
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Martin's Bar in downtown Jackson, MS. Photo by Trip Burns.
When people in Jackson talk about dive bars, one of the main names that comes up is Martin's Lounge. "We're a dive bar with more to offer, now," current owner Joseph Stodghill says. Since taking over the bar after his father, Calvin Stodghill, passed away in August 2012, Joseph has overseen several renovations to Martin's. The back room, used for entertainment, has been completely restored with new walls, flooring, bar tables and more. Martin's Lounge also has a new ventilation system and a new kitchen open Tuesday through Friday. With the help of booking agent and late-night general manager Chris Rybolt, the bar is now home to live music from mainly local acts each Tuesday evening.
After a long day, a good drink and something to eat while enjoying good company is a beautiful thing. At a good price, it's gorgeous. Add in a patio in nice weather, and it may stretch into more than just an hour. Babalu Tacos and Tapas in Fondren has all of these things, and in the spirit of sharing--which goes along with tapas--calls its daily food and drink specials from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. "Social Hour."
During that time, you can sip on a glass of wine for just $5 or signature sangria for $4 and enjoy some popular tacos--the carnitas (pulled pork) and fish of the day are among the most popular--for just $2.
My friends and I always recall our nights at Bottoms Up with smirks and giggles. On Saturday nights, the dance floor is filled with all types of people, from provocative dancers to buttoned-up business types to local college students just looking for a night out. Every person I've brought to Bottoms Up, gay or straight, has had a good time and can't wait to go back. The bar frequently has glow-paint and black lights, making you feel like you're living out a Ke$ha music video.
Voted Best Jazz Artist for the second year in a row, Pam Confer is a jazz singer by night and a motivational speaker and HR consultant by day. This multi-talented woman believes her two careers go hand-in-hand because the outcome of both is to make a difference in people's lives. Confer grew up in a large family of 12--all of them singers. "Everybody sang--from the old folks down to the kids," she says.
The tie between Jackson's two best original bands says plenty about our city's rich heritage and bright musical future. Indie-rockers Furrows meld old-fashioned Americana rock with tasteful distortion and bouncy but haunting piano, while the self-professed "instant party" that is the Southern Komfort Brass Band dips its finely tuned fingers into just about every available genre. Yes, "original" is just about the best way to position these two groups under one adjective, though it is nowhere near doing them justice.
Southern Komfort's music blends the best of New Orleans' signature jazz sound with revival funk that makes it utterly impossible not to dance, painting each performance as a new experience rather than more of the same.


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Quartararo and Vinales Secure P3 and P9 in Styrian GP Qualifying
Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo was a strong contender for pole in this afternoon's Q2 session. Though his fastest time was cancelled due to exceeding track limits, he still secured third place on the grid for the ninth time out of ten GPs so far this season. Maverick Viñales had a fierce start to Q2 but ultimately took ninth place on tomorrow's grid.
Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo and Maverick Viñales went all out in this afternoon's Q2 session at the Spielberg circuit. Quartararo gave his utmost in the 15-minute shoot-out and secured third place on the first row of the grid. Viñales also impressed with his speed at the start of Q2, when he briefly held first place, but later struggled to put in a competitive bid for pole. He found some extra time in the final moments and will start tomorrow's race from ninth.
Quartararo was on the mark right from the word 'Go'. Though he had waited for a while to let his fellow Q2 contestants go out ahead of him, the Frenchman soon made his presence known with a 1'23.259s benchmark lap that was 0.643s faster than the rest of the field. He went on to improve it to a 1'23.075s, before entering pit lane with seven minutes on the clock.
Having been pushed back to second whilst in the pits, El Diablo was keen to reclaim the number one spot and was quickly back on his way with a fresh set of tyres. It briefly looked like he would claim his sixth pole position of 2021 when he dropped a 1'22.958s. It would have been a new All Time Lap Record at the Spielberg circuit, but it was later cancelled due to exceeding track limits in Turn 9. His 1'23.075s set on lap 3/8 put the number-20 rider in third place in the results, 0.081s from first, allowing him to start from the front row for the ninth time out of ten races so far this season.
Viñales was following a similar strategy as his teammate and waited at the start of Q2 for most of his rivals to clear off before he stepped aboard his M1 to set a hot lap. His benchmark time looked promising. He posted a 1'23.902 for provisional first place, but soon his teammate took over at the top of the standings. The Spaniard made a further time improvement on his next try, but he still dropped back to fifth place before he returned to the box with a little more than eight minutes remaining.
Top Gun headed back out on track with nearly five minutes still to go. He was eager to breach the 0.604s gap to first but wasn't able to reproduce the feeling he had on the start of the first run until his very last lap. He wrapped up the session with a 1'23.508s for ninth place, 0.514s from pole, putting him on the third row of the starting grid for tomorrow's Styrian GP. Image Gallery
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Starting from third and ninth on the grid is pretty good, considering this is a track that isn't our best on the calendar. Fabio was so close to snatching pole. It's a shame he exceeded track limits, but clearly he has great speed. We had hoped to have Maverick a bit further towards the front of the grid, but third row is still okay. Overall, today was a very productive day for us. We got a lot of work done in FP3, but we are the most pleased with the long runs we did with both riders during the FP4 session. Our race pace is really promising. However, this is in dry conditions… It seems pretty likely that we will experience some very different circumstances tomorrow, so this will make the race very interesting. One thing is for sure, we will have to be prepared for all possible scenarios and the race preparations done in Warm Up will be absolutely crucial.
This is still an important front row, but it's such a shame that my best lap got cancelled. On that lap I saw that Bagnaia was first, and I pushed myself to the limit. I said, 'Ok, I already have a lap time that is good' and I pushed so much in Turn 4 that I lost the front. It was quite heavy, but I said, 'I'm going to push until the end'. Then I went over the track limits. I was actually expecting to be 0.3s or 0.4s slower than that 1'22.9s. When I saw the 1'22.9s lap I said 'No way!'. Unfortunately, that lap was then cancelled, but I lost more time going onto the green than I would have done had I stayed on the curbs. It's a shame, but it was already good to see the 1'22.9s on the dashboard screen of my Yamaha. I have no idea what to expect for tomorrow. If it's dry of course I feel strong to fight for the podium, and if it's wet we will have a new adventure on the Sunday. I'm feeling good on the bike. We will find something tomorrow and I'm praying for the sun to come out for the race.
I was expecting much more from today's qualifying session because the feeling this morning was really good. I could make 1'23.7s on race rhythm, which is fast. I was very happy in that moment. For sure, I'm a bit frustrated because, if not pole, I thought I would be on the front row. I think this was a realistic possibility. But it didn't turn out that way. We need to accept it, and tomorrow we need to make a good start and push. But even more than the first lap, having the chance to overtake is crucial. If I can do that, I think we are going to go forward, because the bike is on a good level.
Grand Prix of Styria. Miller and Bagnaia finished respectively in tenth and twelfth place the first day of free practices as they were hindered by rain in the afternoon
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Q: how to get a return type of a member function pointer Is there a way to determine a return type of a member function pointer?
Code sample:
///// my library
void my_func(auto mptr) { // have to use `auto`
  // some logic based on a return type of mptr: int, string, A, etc.
}

///// client code
struct A {
  int foo();
  std::string bar(int);
};

class B{
public:
  A func(int, double);
};
// ... and many other classes

my_func(&A::foo);
my_func(&A::bar);
my_func(&B::func);
// ... many other calls of my_func()

I need to "fill in" my_func().
Edit:
I can't use std::result_of/std::invoke_result as I don't know the full list of parameters of mptr. It's not important with which params a method is supposed to be called as I'm not calling it. I would like to avoid creating an object of base class of mptr even if I'm able to determine it (using declval is ok).

A: You can use partial template specialization to determine the return type of mptr:
template <typename T>
struct ReturnType;

template <typename Object, typename Return, typename... Args>
struct ReturnType<Return (Object::*)(Args...)>
{
    using Type = Return;
};

void my_func(auto mptr) {
  typename ReturnType<decltype(mptr)>::Type obj;
}

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A: You can write a function that deduces the type of a member function pointer, and returns the deduced return type. Note that only a declaration, and no definition is needed
template <typename C, typename Ret, typename... Args>
auto ret_type(Ret (C::*)(Args...)) -> Ret;

void my_func(auto mptr)
{
  using type = decltype(ret_type(mptr));
}

In my opinion, this is also easier to read than the specialization solution.
Here's a demo
You can also account for cv-qualifiers by adding overloads. e.g.
template <typename C, typename Ret, typename... Args>
auto ret_type(Ret (C::*)(Args...) const) -> Ret;

Here's a demo

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I am writing to enquire about the following item which I saw on the Timothy Langston website: "A Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Occasional Table"
A Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Occasional Table
Height 55 cm (21.65 inches)
Width 40 cm (15 3/4 inches)
Depth 40 cm (15 3/4 inches)
A late 19th century Aesthetic Movement occasional table, the square mahogany top supported upon four ebonised splayed turned legs with internal spindle decoration and a lower mahogany shelf. In the manner of Liberty & Co.
The Aesthetic Movement began in the 1860s in the studios and houses of a radical group of artists and designers, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris . These young reformers explored new ways of living in rebellion against the design standards of the age.
Over the next two decades, aestheticism germinated, created by architects, craftworkers, poets, critics and philosophers in order to generate a movement dedicated to the concept of pure beauty. The Aesthetic Movement, whose slogan was "Art for art's sake", was sometimes in deep contrast with the professed materialism of Britain in the 19th century. Aestheticism spread with a conspiratorial excitement, combating the popular morally sententious, anecdotal art of the Victorian age.
This was mainly a painter's movement, and it had its own dedicated showplace, opened in 1877: The Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, which, with its palatial décor of gilt and inlaid marble and silk walls, was a sensuous experience in itself. This became the primary display case for works of artists such as GF Watts, JM Whistler, Albert Moore and especially Edward Burne-Jones.
The cult of beauty expanded way beyond the gallery. Art was as much related to architecture and interior design, including Oriental, Arts and Crafts and 'the modern country cottage' styles
At first, English designers and manufacturers followed the pattern of conscious imitation established on the Continent. Apart from prints, free use was also made of Japanese cloisonné wears, ivories, bronzes, lacquer and textiles. English potters in particular were well accustomed to the decorative principles of oriental design and so began almost immediately to turn the pure European form of Japonisme into an essentially decorative chinoiserie. The speed with which Japanese styles were accepted in England was a result of a well-established decorative Oriental tradition that blurred the boundaries between Japanese and Chinese arts as styles became increasingly Oriental.
Throughout the history of the Aesthetic Movement, Liberty & Co, with its imaginative design and high quality construction and simple practicality, always enjoyed a prominent position. It was responsible for some of the most beautiful and enduring pieces of furniture from that period. This table relates very closely to the furniture of Liberty & Co and its structure shows the direct influence of Japonisme.
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Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate
Patrick Masson, Boris N. Goldstein, Jean Claude Debouzy, Marie Thérèse Froment, Oksana Lockridge, Lawrence M Schopfer
Steady-state kinetics for the hydrolysis of benzoylcholine (BzCh) and benzoylthiocholine (BzSCh) by wild-type human butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and by the peripheral anionic site mutant D70G were compared. kcat/K m for the hydrolysis of BzSCh was 17-fold and 32-fold lower than that for hydrolysis of BzCh by wild-type and D70G, respectively. The rate-limiting step for hydrolysis of BzCh was deacylation, whereas acylation was rate-limiting for hydrolysis of BzSCh. Wild-type enzyme and the D70G mutant were found to reach steady-state velocity slowly with BzCh as the substrate. At pH 6, the approach to steady-state for both enzymes consisted of a mono-exponential acceleration upon which a set of damped oscillations was superimposed. From pH 7 to 8.5, the approach to steady-state consisted of a simple exponential acceleration. The damped oscillations were analyzed by both a numerical approximation and simulation based on a theoretical model. BuChE-catalyzed hydrolysis of the thiocholine analogue of BzCh showed neither lags nor oscillations, under the same conditions. The frequency and amplitude of the damped oscillations decreased as the BzCh concentration increased. The apparent induction time for the exponential portion of the lag was calculated from the envelope of the damped oscillations or from the smooth lag. Wild-type BuChE showed a hyperbolic increase in induction time as the BzCh concentration increased (τmax = 210 s at pH 6.0). However, the induction time for D70G was constant over the whole range of BzCh concentrations (τ max = 60 s at pH 6.0). Thus, the induction time does not conform to a simple hysteretic model in which there is a slow conformational transition of the enzyme from an inactive form E to an active form E′. No pH-dependence of the induction time was found between pH 6.0 and 8.5 in sodium phosphate buffers of various concentrations (from 1 mM to 1 M). However, increasing the pH tended to abolish the oscillations (increase the damping factor). This effect was more pronounced for D70G than for wild-type. Although the lyotropic properties of phosphate change from chaotropic at pH 6.0 to kosmotropic at pH > 8.0, no effect of phosphate concentration on the oscillations was noticed at the different pH values, suggesting that the oscillations are not related to a pH-dependent Hofmeister effect of phosphate ions. Simulation and theoretical analysis of the oscillatory behaviour of the approach to the steady-state for BuChE led us to propose a model for the hysteresis of BuChE with BzCh. In this model, the substrate-free enzyme is present as an equilibrium mixture of two forms, E and E′. Substrate binds to E and E′, but only E′S makes products. It is proposed that oscillations originate from a time-dependent change in the local concentration, solvation and/or conformation of substrate in the bulk solution. 1H-NMR measurements provided evidence for a slow equilibrium between two BzCh conformers. Binding of the conformationally preferred substrate conformer leads to products.
European Journal of Biochemistry
Benzoylcholine
Butyrylcholinesterase
Thiocholine
Acylation
Solvation
Damped oscillations
Slow conformational change
Masson, P., Goldstein, B. N., Debouzy, J. C., Froment, M. T., Lockridge, O., & Schopfer, L. M. (2004). Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate. European Journal of Biochemistry, 271(1), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03924.x
Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate. / Masson, Patrick; Goldstein, Boris N.; Debouzy, Jean Claude; Froment, Marie Thérèse; Lockridge, Oksana; Schopfer, Lawrence M.
In: European Journal of Biochemistry, Vol. 271, No. 1, 01.01.2004, p. 220-234.
Masson, P, Goldstein, BN, Debouzy, JC, Froment, MT, Lockridge, O & Schopfer, LM 2004, 'Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate', European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 271, no. 1, pp. 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03924.x
Masson P, Goldstein BN, Debouzy JC, Froment MT, Lockridge O, Schopfer LM. Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate. European Journal of Biochemistry. 2004 Jan 1;271(1):220-234. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03924.x
Masson, Patrick ; Goldstein, Boris N. ; Debouzy, Jean Claude ; Froment, Marie Thérèse ; Lockridge, Oksana ; Schopfer, Lawrence M. / Damped oscillatory hysteretic behaviour of butyrylcholinesterase with benzoylcholine as substrate. In: European Journal of Biochemistry. 2004 ; Vol. 271, No. 1. pp. 220-234.
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Transport strike for showing muscle power of minister's organisation!
Transport workers have enforced the countrywide 48-hour transport strike demanding amendment to the recently passed Road Transport Act despite knowing that it is not possible to amend the act now, according to associations of transport owners and workers.
"The aim of this strike is to merely show muscle power of the minister's organisaiton. There is no scope to amend the act now as the session of the current parliament is to be ended today, Monday," said a transport leader seeking anonymity.
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader at a function on Sunday told newsmen that there is no scope to amend the act now.
Speaking to Prothom Alo, former adviser to a caretaker government Sultana Kamal said such movement is not acceptable. "You cannot demand people responsible for road accidents cannot be brought to book," she observed.
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation (BRTWF) began the 48-hour strike at 6:00am on Sunday, causing immense suffering to the commuters in the city as well as elsewhere in the country.
Following students' movement for safe raod, the associations of transport workers were cornered and were unable to oppose the transport act, sources at the ministry and transport associations said.
Transport leaders said the muscle power of the leaders and associations may seem vulnerable to the general workers and owners if they do not show their strength now.
Steps are not taken to call off strike through discussions to end public sufferings, ministry officials and transport leaders said adding, as per the government wishes, the owners and workers plyed their vehicles braving risks during the opposition's violent movement in 2014-2015.
The source said the transport workers normally enforce strike for an indefinite time, this time their programme is for only two days. As a result the government has accepted the programme, according to officials and transport leaders.
"The transport workers have enforced the strike and the owners have nothing to do," Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association president Mashiur Rahman Ranga told Prothom Alo.
Mashiur, also state minister for local government, rural development and co-operatives, admits that opinions from the workers and owners were taken before the passage of the act.
As the representative of the workers, shipping minister Shajahan Khan, who is the executive president of BRTWF, also engaged in all procedures of preparing the draft of the act.
Despite, his organisation BRTWF enforced the strike causing suffering to the people, demanding the amendment of the act.
The demands include making all the offences by road accident 'bailable', cancellation of the provision of fining Tk 500,000 for involvement in a road accident, keeping a representative from their federation in any probe body formed for road accident, fixing minimum educational qualification for getting driving license to class-V, and stopping police harassment on roads.
Workers federation general secretary Usman Ali said their oppinions were taken before passage of the act. "Half of our recommendations were complied while half were not," he said.
Usman said the next course of action would be taken after holding a meeting if the demands are not met.
Two cabinet members -- Shajahan Khan and Masihur Rahman Ranga, however, did not oppose the draft act when it was approved in the cabinet. They also did not give any statement against it when the bill was passed in the parliament.
Following the students' movement for safe road after the death of two students on 29 July, the draft act was approved in the cabinet on 6 August, and the bill was passed in the parliament on 19 September, with five-year jail term and Tk 500,000 fines for casualities in road accidents.


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25 APRIL 2019 / Supporting HALC in its Efforts to Cultivate Future Leaders
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced a $1 million grant to Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC). The grant will endow HALC's Leadership 2030 Fellowship Program, in honor of the late Nikos Mouyiaris. The program will be renamed the Nikos Mouyiaris Leadership 2030 Fellowship Program, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
The Nikos Mouyiaris Leadership 2030 Fellowship Program is an intensive two-year fellowship program in which young Hellenes have an opportunity to dramatically improve their knowledge and skill base, receive mentorship to further their personal development and civic engagement, and begin exercising leadership now.
"Nikos Mouyiaris deeply believed that the biggest challenges both Hellenism and humanity face can be solved with better leadership," said Endy Zemenides, Executive Director of HALC. "Nikos founded HALC with the express purpose of cultivating such leadership. It is our honor to continue this mission in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the gold standard among foundations in the Hellenic world."
"The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is proud to honor the legacy of Nikos Mouyiaris for his extraordinary contributions to Hellenism and to the Greek-American community in particular. Nikos understood better than most the fact that the Greek-American community has reached a critical inflection point, and he truly believed in the ability of its youth, empowered by the proper preparation, to chart its trajectory from here," said Andreas Dracopoulos, Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. "The real tribute to his legacy, consequently, will be all that these young leaders achieve and all the good they do in the years and decades to come."
"Our initial class of 2030 Fellows – based in Chicago – has exceeded all expectations," according to Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director of HALC and Director of the Nikos Mouyiaris Leadership 2030 Fellowship Program. "They have both learned and led. Our community's political advocacy, public education, and networking infrastructure is already stronger because of their energy and leadership. We are excited to welcome the new class based in New York."
More information on the program can be found at www.hellenicleaders.com/2030.


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"Stories for the Telling" Tim Couch
Tim is a nationally known storyteller. He will spin tales that will inspire and excite.
After practicing law in Dallas for fourteen years, most of those years as an Assistant District Attorney handling child abuse cases, Tim Couch changed careers. He took a job at the Episcopal School of Dallas teaching religion to Middle School students. Tim is now in his twenty-third year in the classroom. It was his change in career that caused Tim to discover his love of storytelling. Tim has told stories in the classroom, libraries, museums, churches, the Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas Heritage Village, and the State Fair of Texas.
Tim was a Featured Teller at the 2014 Texas Storytelling Festival. He has also been a Featured Teller at the Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival. He has lead storytelling workshops for storytelling guilds, teachers in the Fort Worth School District, and at the Texas Storytelling Conference. He is a past-president of the Tejas Storytelling Association and the Dallas Storytelling Guild.
"Stories We Don't Hear" Hal Recinos
Dr. Recinos is on the faculty at Perkins and has a passion for those on the margins. Through his work in El Salvador, he will tell stories of people and places that often go unseen or ignored.
Harold Recinos is professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Professor Recinos received his Masters in Divinity in 1982 from Union Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry in parish ministry in 1986 from New York Theological Seminary and the Doctor of Philosophy with honors (Ph.D.) in cultural anthropology in 1993 from the American University in Washington, D.C.. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly publications and chapters in collections, Recinos' publications include Hear the Cry! A Latino Pastor Challenges the Church (Westminster John Knox Press, 1989), Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep (Abingdon Press, 1992), Who Comes in the Name of the Lord? Jesus At the Margins (Abingdon Press, 1997), Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church(Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), Harold J. Recinos and Hugo Magallanes, eds. Jesus in the Hispanic Community: Images of Christ from Theology to Popular Religion (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009). Harold J. Recinos ed. Wading Through Many Voices: Toward a Theology of Public Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011). Recinos is an accomplished poet with pieces in Anglican Theological Review, Sojouners, The Other Side, Monthly Review Press, Weavings, Perspective, and Spiritus: A Journal for Christian Spirituality. More recently, he published his two collections of poetry, Voices on the Corner (RP press) and Long Way Home (Floricanto Press, 2016). Since the mid-1980s, Professor Recinos has worked with the Salvadoran refugee community and with marginal communities in El Salvador for social justice. He is an ordained elder and member of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
"Stories through Song" Micah Peacock
Micah is a singer/songwriter and will be sharing stories of his music and singing some songs.
From our first breath to our final sigh, music soundtracks our lives. Verses benchmark our greatest successes and deepest regrets. Melodies map our highest hopes and most harrowing heartaches. A cacophony of sound inaugurates our living and memorializes our dying. And perhaps through more than any other form of communication, the medium of music recognizes, clarifies and provokes the spiritual realm – where Heaven meets Earth.
Texas-based independent singer-songwriter Micah Peacock can attest to music's potent play in our spiritual lives. As a worship leader at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, a two thousand-member congregation located in the sprawling Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, every week Micah witnesses the holistic spiritual perspectives music motivates in the day-to-day life of a Christ follower. "To see people embrace fresh ways of worshiping the Lord and beginning to realize what true worship is," Micah relates, "and what that kind of encounter with Jesus can mean in our lives, is amazing."
As stories of fresh spiritual awareness began to surface in his life and the lives of his fellow congregants, Micah started journaling the best way he knew how – by writing songs that birthed his first full-length record, Shadow to Sunlight.
"As I heard the stories in our congregation, and as a new season in my life was unfolding in Dallas, I began to pick up on the glimpses of eternity right in front of us," he relates with the same manner of thoughtfulness that wisely shapes his songwriting and humble leadership posture. "Writing about these stories evolved into this album."
"Truth is not a battlefield for fights among the intellects / It's Who we're pointing to and how we're looking at the rest…" – from "Mystery"
For many songwriters, leading worship is a forum to publicize their original art and help in establishing a professional name among peers in the industry. For Micah, a history of leading worship for congregations across the country has thoughtfully informed his songwriting craft, causing musical worship of God, and the experience that creates for the church, central to his musical message.
"When I lead worship, I see the light bulbs turn on in people's minds as we discover what worship can mean in our lives," he explains of his motivation to connect corporate worship with personal connection to God. "There seems to be an overarching call to crack the veneer of Christianity and push forward to a more through-and-through commitment."
"Our culture is full of people who long for deep experiences – within our faith, within our jobs, within our marriages and relationships – but our spiritual eyes have been conditioned to see things as a fraction of what they are meant to be," Micah opines. "We have set our sights on building a personal, future empire, instead of opening up our hearts to the possibility that Heaven itself is being built in the stillness of the here and now."
Influenced by his experience at St. Andrew, Micah began exhuming a deeper definition of worship, directly shaping the lyrical outcome of Shadow to Sunlight.
Beginning with the slow burn of the title track's awakening anthem, Shadow to Sunlight musically imprints the personal, yet corporate, cry of disciples eager to dive into the deep end of faith. "When light hits an object, a shadow is cast. You can't have one without the other," he says, explaining the lyrical wherewithal of the record's initiating track. "I want to have eyes to see all the glimpses of God and His Kingdom that are infused throughout our day-to-day lives. I think the Lord is ready to give us a new lens to look through. We have a choice to participate and dive in. That may not be comfortable, but I have found it is by far a more rich and dynamic way of living."
Continuing his musical plight to encourage spiritual consciousness among the saints, the lyrics of "Mystery" follow the track's musical transition from the verses four-on-the-floor alt-country pulse to the chorus' half-time backbeat, prompting movement from open-ended questions to openhearted surrender as we chip away at the incomprehensible character of God. The exercise of surrender is difficult, Micah says. "We, as the Church, use our blocks of theology to build a framework for our understanding of who God is and even for our encounters with Him. That's natural and good. But sometimes we use these intellectual blocks to erect walls around our hearts that harden us to the truth that our thoughts are not His thoughts, that some things are meant to remain mysteries to be explored and enjoyed, not equations to be solved.
Sadly, I have seen too many examples of folks who don't have enough room in their hearts, minds and churches for different – albeit still Biblical – interpretations of gray areas of Scripture."
As Micah waded through the plague of gray in his own life, the vulnerable balladry of "Stop Your Striving" was born. Gentle acoustics, tender mandolin tremolo and sweeping strings emphasize Micah's newfound lesson in grace. "I have always struggled with feeling responsible to right my own wrongs," Micah confesses. "But recent seasons of life have proven that God has been the author all along. I never could have imagined or manufactured the life He's given me. That awareness frees me from carrying around a lot of guilt and shame."
"No promise of tomorrow makes it worth it to borrow from the beauty of today / So blink once, blink twice, uncover my eyes / Bring Your color to the gray…" – from "Shadow to Sunlight"
Growing up in a musical household in Friendswood, Texas, a Houston-area bedroom community, melody and verse were fundamental to his foundations of family and faith, where he honed his live chops with his dad – who he had the honor of co-writing "Stop Your Striving" with – in local churches and as a worship leader for peer services in high school. But it wasn't until he attended the University of Houston as a music major that music began to cement its place in Micah's professional life, a young career that has produced a resume of full-time worship positions in Kansas and Texas, three self-released EPs in three years – 2010's What Surrounds Us, 2011's Anywhere But Home and 2013's love song EP, Unnamed Shades, and national road gigs with Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter and Houston dweller, Matt Brouwer – a working relationship that would evolve into a lifelong mentorship bond.
"Matt taught me why we do what we do, " Micah explains, describing Brouwer's indelible influence on his musical maturation. "He taught me to honor every relationship the Lord gives us, no matter how small or insignificant we may be tempted to think it is, and how to take delight in the unexpected ways God chooses to use us."
One of the practical benefits of Matt's investment in Micah's music was an introduction to Grammy Award-winning producer-songwriter-musician extraordinaire Michael Omartian (Rod Stewart, Christopher Cross, Amy Grant). Impressed by Micah's overall musicianship, he was happy to oblige his veteran production hat to the creation of Shadow to Sunlight. "Micah's lyrics are steeped in prose and poetry," Omartian reflects, "and transcend the more mainstream worship themes of today's CCM market, which I find completely refreshing. The themes are approached so creatively."
For Micah, the admiration is mutual. "Though I was familiar with his astounding portfolio, it was such a thrill to see how expansive his creative pallet really is and to see that experience being poured out on this album. Here's a guy who has achieved just about everything there is to achieve in music, and he truly counts it all as loss compared to knowing Christ."
Sonically speaking, Micah says Omartian's recording prowess, paired with his long-time mixing and engineering partner Terry Christian's expertise and A-list players, accomplished the musical outline he desired for this journal of songs. "I wanted the album to sound analog with classic rock band instrumentation, minimal programming elements and limited overdubs," Micah explains the audio outcome. "The record is characterized by the fluidity of the live-tracking setting. You can almost visualize the band playing the record together at a venue. I'm proud of the dynamic journey each of the songs takes."
"Not in wind nor shaking / There's a whisper and it's waking / Waking me somehow…" – from "Not Over Now"
Song by song, Micah seizes the opportunity to connect spiritual dots through music for his local congregation and burgeoning national audience. And it's through this illuminated connection to God that he hopes followers of Christ will be motivated to more lovingly, wisely and carefully connect with their neighbors.
To practice what he preaches, Micah is gifting Shadow to Sunlight with hands and feet beyond his artist platform, with record sales directly benefitting the work of Project Transformation (PT), a Dallas-founded program synergizing three city subcultures – to help low socio-economic children reach their potential, engage college students in the call to ministry, and aiding in the renewal of urban churches. The program's initial start has been so successful, city centers across the nation are beginning to implement their own PT model.
"The idea of 'living into our potential' – as children, as students, and as churches – resonated with what the record was shaping up to be about," Micah shares. "I come from a family of educators, I cut my ministry teeth in college, and am deeply committed to renewing how churches engage the Lord and what He's doing, so those three areas are close to my heart.
"Worship leading was never something I went looking for," Micah conclusively admits. "The Lord opened doors and I followed. And the more I lead, the more I realize the whole concept of worship is vast and imaginative and dynamic. Though I feel adequately employed in my gifting when I lead, I am still learning how my own songwriting can serve the Church, and how the Church spurs on my own songwriting."
"Stories of Service"
FUMC members Jim Byrd and Betty Black, and summer interns Kyle Walden and Kelsie Rogers will each share short but powerful stories of service from their lives.
"Story of Self" Rev. Becky Walker
Through her work at First Dallas and in the Conference Office Center for Leadership Development, Rev. Walker will help us to see how we might live into our own stories.
Rev. Becky David Hensley is the Associate Director of the Center for Leadership Development for the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She is a native Texan – born in Harlingen – but spent the bulk of her childhood years in the rural community of Bethel Acres, Oklahoma. She holds a Bachelor's in Religious Education from Oklahoma City University and a Master's in Theological Studies from Perkins School of Theology. Prior to her current appointment, she has served as Associate Minister of Discipleship at First UMC Dallas, and Associate Minister of Children, Adult, and Missions Ministries at Flower Mound UMC.
As an ordained Deacon in the UMC, Becky has a strong passion for connecting churches with the needs of the world through ministries of compassion and justice, and enjoys the opportunity to work with churches throughout the North Texas Conference (NTC) to develop leaders that transform the world. She has served on the NTC Board of Church and Society since 2012, and currently serves as the staff liaison for the NTC Committee on Religion and Race.
In December 2014, Becky married Rev. Ben David Hensley, Minister of Worship and Discipleship at Oak Lawn UMC. They live in Dallas with their two cats, Neo and Thunderbob, and enjoy Stars hockey games together (because football gets ugly with Ben's affinity for the Washington Redskins and Becky's lifelong devotion to her Cowboys).
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Conjugate rotor-stator interaction procedure for film-cooled turbine sections
Joshua Gottlieb (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA)
Roger Davis (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA)
John Clark (Turbine Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA)
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
Article publication date: 2 May 2017
The authors aim to present a procedure for the parallel, steady and unsteady conjugate, Navier–Stokes/heat-conduction rotor-stator interaction analysis of multi-blade-row, film-cooled, turbine airfoil sections. A new grid generation procedure for multiple blade-row configurations, including walls, thermal barrier coatings, plenums, and cooling tubes, is discussed.
Steady, multi-blade-row interaction effects on the flow and wall thermal fields are predicted using a Reynolds's-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulation in conjunction with an inter-blade-row mixing plane. Unsteady, aero-thermal interaction solutions are determined using time-accurate sliding grids between the stator and rotor with an unsteady RANS model. Non-reflecting boundary condition treatments are utilized in both steady and unsteady approaches at all inlet, exit and inter-blade-row boundaries. Parallelization techniques are also discussed.
The procedures developed in this research are compared against experimental data from the Air Force Research Laboratory's turbine research facility.
The software presented in this paper is useful as both the design and analysis tool for fluid system and turbomachinery engineers.
This research presents a novel approach for the simultaneous solution of fluid flow and heat transfer in film-cooled rotating turbine sections. The software developed in this research is validated against experimental results for 2D flow, and the methods discussed are extendable to 3D.
Fluid flows
MBFLO
Reynold's-averaged Navier–Stokes
The authors would like to thank the managers at the Air Force Research Laboratory for their support of this effort under contract 09-S590-0009-20-C1.
Gottlieb, J., Davis, R. and Clark, J. (2017), "Conjugate rotor-stator interaction procedure for film-cooled turbine sections", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 89 No. 3, pp. 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-10-2014-0159


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Home Firefighting Possible Casualties as London Theater Partially Collapses During Performance
Possible Casualties as London Theater Partially Collapses During Performance
From http://online.wsj.com:
London (England) (AP) — A theater is central London collapsed during a performance at the height of the Christmas season, with police saying there were "a number of casualties."
It wasn't immediately clear if the roof, ceiling or balcony collapsed at the Apollo Theatre during a performance of "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime."
Police said officers were called at around 8:15 p.m. local time (3:15 p.m. EST) to reports of a ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue in central London. It said police "are aware of a number of casualties," but had no further details.
London's fire department said eight engines are on the scene in the SoHo neighborhood, and the city's ambulance service said it had sent "a number" of crews to the theater.
Martin Bostock was in the audience with his family, and said "complete chaos" erupted in the theater. "At first we thought it was part of the show," he told Sky News. "Then I got hit on the head."
The Apollo Theatre, named for the Greek and Roman god Apollo, god of music and the arts, was built in 1901 and has 775 seats.
London was hit by a freak thunderstorm about 7 p.m. that dumped heavy rain on the city, but it wasn't immediately clear if that was related to the collapse.
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Q: jquery textarea (+field) focus not working I'm trying to focus (make caret go to, as if it was clicked) a textarea and/or textfield, according to this: How to focus on a form input text field on page load using jQuery?
I really dont get why its not working. On this page: http://gojobr.com.au/blog/working-as-a-teacher/
This, does NOT work (it doesn't do anything):
$("#author").focus()

Same with this page: http://twoggle.com
$("#BlogRequestForm_name").focus()

I can hide and show elements using this selector, but .focus() does nothing. Zero. Zilch.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Using firefox (but it doesn't work in Chrome either).
Does it work for anyone else (using Firebug's console) ?
thanks
gvanto

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Does it work for anyone else (using Firebug's console) ?

It works fine, however executing .focus() from the console will not steal the focus from the console window. After executing the command, close the console window (which automatically returns the focus to the web page) and the focused element will be the one you expect. Tested with Firebug/DevTools.


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102 Lawsuits Filed After Allegations of Abuse at New Hampshire Youth Detention Center
By Ayumi Davis On 12/7/21 at 5:43 PM EST
News Sexual abuse Lawsuits Manchester
There are 102 lawsuits filed against Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, after allegations of physical and sexual abuse.
Over the past two years, over 430 men and women have come forward, accusing 150 staffers over a span of 60 years at the youth detention facility. The center has been under investigation since 2019, the Associated Press reported. There have been 11 former staff members criminally charged.
Some of the allegations include staff members choking children, burning them with cigarettes, beating them until they were unconscious, and breaking their bones, attorney Rus Rilee, who represents all the plaintiffs, said, according to AP. He also said children were locked for weeks or months in solitary confinement while shackled or strapped naked to their beds sometimes.
Rilee filed the 102nd lawsuit Wednesday. Just a day before, Attorney General John Formella released a statement saying that he would dismiss two of the cases.
"Most of these suits are being filed with very limited information regarding the claims," Formella said. "The State has a need to have sufficient information regarding these claims."
"The fact that the State is filing these motions should in no way be considered as a lack of support for the victims of crime," Formella stated, pointing out that the suits can be refiled with addition information.
However, Rilee said that the state is "revictimizing them for telling their stories," not treating his clients with the dignity and respect they deserve.
"The idea that the state doesn't have enough information to defend these cases is absurd since it is the state that is prosecuting these same employees who beat, raped and tortured these survivors," he said.
Attorney Rus Rilee, who represents all the plaintiffs, filed the 102nd lawsuit against Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. In this photo, teens are shown being confined to a jail cell because there was not enough room for them in Juvenile Hall, in Los Angeles, California, on October 20, 1948. USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images
A judge dismissed a class action lawsuit in May, leaving only the lead plaintiff's claims intact and setting off a flood of nearly identical individual lawsuits against the state and former employees over the last few months.
While one division of the attorney general's office has been defending the state against the lawsuits, the criminal division launched a broad investigation into the center and its operations in 2019. Together, the 11 former staffers arrested in April are charged with nearly 100 counts of either sexually assaulting or acting as accomplices in the assault of more than a dozen teenagers from 1994 to 2007.
The Manchester facility, formerly called the Youth Development Center, serves children ordered to a secure institutional setting by the juvenile justice system. The average population last year was just 17 residents overseen by about 90 employees, though it once housed upward of 100 youths and employed a larger staff. The current state budget calls for replacing it with a much smaller facility by March 2023.
Over the past two years, over 430 women and men have accused staff at Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, of physical and sexual abuse over a span of 60 years. In this photo, police patrol the area around supporters of U.S. presidential campaigns as they cheer and rally outside the Democratic Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, on February 7, 2020. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
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