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"God Bless America" Under Fire in Schools – Constitution Supports Faith
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | By Robert B. Charles | 2 Comments
You knew it was coming. First, they took prayer out of schools and off America's playing fields, out of high school books and graduations. They took Ronald Reagan's "moment of silence" from schools. Now, public schools are running scared again – afraid to accommodate faith. They should not be. History and law are with them. Knowing the law is key.
Vocal leftists, animated by resentment, atheism, socialism and undisguised hostility to faith – are on the march. They seek greater control over our lives, and our faith. But these bold assertions are historically and legally misplaced. America is not hostile to faith and should not become so now out of fear.
Our Founders knew America was protected by the Hand of Providence. Odds were too long, miracles too many to ignore. From daring Declaration to Washington's improbable escape from New York under sudden fog, from Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown, faith grew – and was put in the Bill of Rights.
Later Americans found their bearings by faith – after the Civil War, defending Europe in WWI, laying down their lives for others in WWII at places like Normandy, Anzio, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Midway – later Pork Chop Hill, Inchon, Pusan, then Vietnam, Kuwait, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Do not doubt, Americans rose from faith, defended the right by faith, and returned to give thanks for their faith. It matters.
Nevertheless, last week, the Associated Press reported: "A Pennsylvania elementary school principal will no longer say 'God Bless America' following the Pledge of Allegiance, after the district received a legal complaint on behalf of a parent who claimed that doing so broke the law." The parent threatened a suit, the school cowered. Both were wrong.
The Supreme Court, in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 US 1 (1947), ruled our First Amendment "requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and non-believers" but "it does not require the state to be their adversary." Explicitly, "state power is no more to be used … to handicap religions than it is to favor them."
A longstanding principle of American constitutional law is "accommodation-ism." The principle is why we have "In God We Trust" on currency and coins, as well as why presidents, governors and university leaders may conclude speeches with "God bless America." The doctrine is historically rooted, and well-established in law and practice.
While statutes protect "In God We Trust," federal courts are clear. These phrases have beneficial consequences for human behavior, fortify moral norms. That is the practical argument, faith notwithstanding. Efforts to ban, bar, chill or take God from the public square – are patently anathema.
In America, profession of faith in God should be accommodated – so long as offering equal treatment and not establishing one religion over another, which neither "In God We Trust" nor "God Bless America" do. As a result, phrases like "God bless America" and "God bless you" in thanks, "mercy be" in wonderment and "Thank God" in relief, "God only knows" in befuddlement to "Godspeed" at a sendoff, should be accommodated. None violate the establishment clause, which prohibits priority of one religion over others. In effect, these phrases show no inter-religion "preferential treatment," so are within bounds.
Sadly, we are losing our way. Those in government are harassed, condemned, and vilified for following longstanding accommodation. Societally, we are doing what the Supreme Court said we never should. We are allowing "the state" to become religion's "adversary," to become a source of hostility to religion. We are "using State power… to handicap religion" – and we are staying silent.
This is where "chilling" starts. Where it ends is society-wide fear, underground churches, and Soviet-style violence against those of faith. Having spent time behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, this statement is from experience. From small missteps, terrible errors grow. This Pennsylvania school was abiding lawful accommodation, got threatened, scared and caved. They retreated into favoring agnosticism over faith, fear over constitutional principle.
To be clear: Promoting repression of religious faith in American schools – favoring no official references to God over reference to God – is suppression of free exercise, a guarantee in our First Amendment. And while it is hard to step up, it is also necessary – to defend the right.
Facts: We are not a nation of atheists, but of citizens who believe in God. Roughly 83 percent of Americans are Christians, a smaller percentage Jewish, healthy slivers devotees of Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Deism, Baha'i, and Rastafarianism. In short, we are a nation of believers. Just a fact.
Americans believe in God, not supremacy of mankind over God, irrelevance of God, or sanctity in irreverence. We differ on particulars – and that is part of America's genius, but we are pluralistic, not faithless. Most are aware that our past is exceptional; most believe our future, quoting Ronald Reagan, may be better yet that we have a "rendezvous with destiny." Faith is central to that rendezvous.
While most never say it, except in families and places of shared prayer, we take comfort in freedom of religion, pride in tolerance for others of faith. What we cannot indulge is this unconstitutional slide into hostility to faith – permissive chilling of our faith – by those who want to kill that freedom. It lives and should in legislatures and landmarks, courthouses and schoolhouses. When Americans cower in the face of those who disparage faith, we fail the past – and the future.
That is why many shudder at news of one parent misguidedly silencing an entire school from saying "God bless America." Freedom – of speech, religion, press, association, and varying other types – is lost by inches. We stand at an intersection of free past and undefined future. We must define America's future with conviction and courage. We owe that to countless unborn Americans, and also to those who gave us the right, in our schools and out, to say: "God bless America". This is the time.
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To me, the U.S. Supreme Court ban on school prayer (Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, June 24, 1962) was a landmark in the moral decline of our country. From that day to the present, anyone who invokes Christian prayer at any public school event is automatically targeted by those with an ax to grind against religion. Specifically, by atheists and others whose agenda is to ostracize and silence Christians; to ultimately destroy Christianity in America; to replace tolerance and respect with retribution and reprisal; to substitute rejection for acceptance; and to deny God's rightful role in our lives by promoting a false secular view of human affairs. Like an insidious disease that sneaks up on you before you realize what's happening, "moral relativism" and "political correctness" have become the enemy's primary weapons against anyone who disagrees with their anti-Christian, anti-God viewpoint. And it is an assault on religious liberty… Read more »
Notice it is in the programs on tv. Did you see Young Sheldon as he became class president, wanted one nation under God removed from the pledge of allegiance, then announced he didn't believe in God. This show started out as family with morals and faith. May it fail to stay after this next season coming up. We have allowed too many value and morals to be destroyed by media outlets.
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Q: Magento migration from localhost to cloud server - local.xml mySQL issue I am migrating a Magento installation (1.9.2) from my localhost to my cloud server on Digital Ocean.
Here is where I am at:
(I copied some of these steps from another thread)

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*zipped and transferred all files from localhost to cloud server

*imported the mysql database

*edited the app/etc/local.xml to connect to the cloud mySQL DB

*tweaked core_config_data table in phpmyadmin and replaced 2 values with new URL (IP address)

*cleared var/cache, var/session, var/report, var/log

*checked all file and folder permissions.

(I have removed my server IP address for privacy)
After all that I receive the following error:
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/var/www/html/magento/lib/Varien/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php(396): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->_connect()
/var/www/html/magento/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(460): Varien_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->_connect()
/var/www/html/magento/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(238): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query('SET NAMES utf8', Array)
/var/www/html/magento/lib/Varien/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php(504): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query('SET NAMES utf8', Array)
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource.php(179): Varien_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->query('SET NAMES utf8')
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource.php(110): Mage_Core_Model_Resource->_newConnection('pdo_mysql', Object(Mage_Core_Model_Config_Element))
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(141): Mage_Core_Model_Resource->getConnection('core_setup')
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(234): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup->__construct('core_setup')
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(428): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup::applyAllUpdates()
/var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(354): Mage_Core_Model_App->_initModules()
/var/www/html/magento/app/Mage.php(684): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
/var/www/html/magento/index.php(83): Mage::run('', 'store')
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Here is my local.xml file (IP Address edited):
<config>
    <global>
        <install>
            <date><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:09:46 +0000]]></date>
        </install>
        <crypt>
            <key><![CDATA[5c83b31252cb9b042055a802b2d3dbdf]]></key>
        </crypt>
        <disable_local_modules>false</disable_local_modules>
        <resources>
            <db>
                <table_prefix><![CDATA[]]></table_prefix>
            </db>
            <default_setup>
                <connection>
                    <host><![CDATA[111.222.333.444]]></host>
                    <username><![CDATA[root]]></username>
                    <password><![CDATA[password]]></password>
                    <dbname><![CDATA[magento_ultimo]]></dbname>
                    <initStatements><![CDATA[SET NAMES utf8]]></initStatements>
                    <model><![CDATA[mysql4]]></model>
                    <type><![CDATA[pdo_mysql]]></type>
                    <pdoType><![CDATA[]]></pdoType>
                    <active>1</active>
                </connection>
            </default_setup>
        </resources>
        <session_save><![CDATA[files]]></session_save>
    </global>
    <admin>
        <routers>
            <adminhtml>
                <args>
                    <frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName>
                </args>
            </adminhtml>
        </routers>
    </admin>
</config>

What could be wrong?

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Transformation Games | What is within? by Aron Birtalan
Áron Birtalan
Áron Birtalan is a Hungarian-born artist who makes games and rituals in everyday environments. Working together with participants and their imagination as an artistic medium, he explores the nature of human interaction by facilitating collaborative experiences, called Transformation Games. Through his work, Áron encourages people to tap into a playful territory, where art, games and magic mingle. His work draws upon the history of transformation through playing and, as a whole playfulness' role in society.
He currently lives in The Netherlands, running the experimental platform Secret Fiction.
With a background in music, writing and role-playing, Áron is interested in delivering his practice outside of the conventional realms of art and into alternative platforms of politics and education. He is also active as a musician and co-runs a three-week children's fantasy camp in rural Hungary.
'Transformation Games - a practice of social playing as an autonomous form of art and as a tool for political agency.'
by Áron Birtalan
In my practice, I facilitate playful experiences where art, magic and everyday life mingle. I call these experiences Transformation Games.
In playing a game, one is introduced to a fictional world, within our world, where the structures are the rules of the game. Conversely, the rules, roles and structures of the outside world are temporarily suspended, inviting the participants of the game to step outside of their everyday reality. The rules of any game are purely functional: they encourage different ways of seeing, thinking and behaving from the player, in order for them to undergo an experience where they truly embody the act of playing.
This leads to an understanding of playing as both an artistic and a political practice, since the creative potential of any playful activity leads to experiences that would not happen otherwise.
On one hand, embodying playing allows us to undergo experiences that are beyond the mundane norms. On the other hand, stepping into the artificially created structure of a game also points back at the artificially created structure of one's everyday life.
Through playing, we can understand that our daily social and political structures are no different than the arbitrary structure of a game. And through this understanding, we gain the agency to re-imagine it, to change it, to transform it.
Playing, Transformation, Social, Embodied, Analog
Transformation games
Transformation Games is an artistic and political practice that attempts to re-imagine the world around us through playful social experiences. Transformation Games blend techniques of live role-playing, rituals, movement practices, storytelling and everyday routines into a new, embodied form of experience. It happens in real life, involving real people. This is important because the Games operate through the temporary rearrangement of social systems and constructions that govern our everyday life.
Proposing to facilitate 'collaborative' experiences, Transformation Games points to an understanding of art, that precedes the division between maker, performer and spectator.
Instead, the artist becomes the facilitator for participants, through creating the conditions of the game and guiding them through it. The rest of the experience is created by the participants, making each event unscripted, unique and unrepeatable.
There is no-one to 'perform to', no external gaze through the eyes of an audience. This allows an intimate place where the artwork is not the spectacle (how does it look from the outside), but the participant's experience (how is it to be within).
What is Within?
What is Within? is a publication-in-the-making that explores playing and playfulness both as an autonomous form of art and as a tool for political transformation.
Taking Áron Birtalan's own practice of Transformation Games and its roots found in a Hungarian counter-cultural tradition, 'What is Within?' sets out to reintroduce playing as the active social agent it is, in exercising autonomous thinking and behaving.
Furthermore, the publication is meant to act as a manual, in how to create and recreate new structures, new systems, new ways of seeing and understanding - all through the act of playing.
The first draft of the publication is scheduled to be introduced in June 2018 and further developed in the two years to follow.
The publication is a collaboration between artist Áron Birtalan and graphic designer Márton Kabai, with the support of AHK Amsterdam, STROOM Den Haag, and Fonds Kwadraat.
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes: Graphic Masterpieces from a Private Collection
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
Los Proverbios (D. 202-219; H. 248-265)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Los Proverbios (D. 202-219; H. 248-265) the complete set of 18 etchings with burnished aquatint and drypoint, before 1824, on smooth wove paper, without watermark, a very rare, uniform set of trial proofs (Harris II.1.), before the scratch through the phantom on plate 2, before numbers and before the first edition of 1864, presumably printed around 1854 (possibly the Provôt set cited in Harris), fine, cleanly wiped impressions printed in black, with wide margins, presumably the full sheets, generally in good condition P. 9 7/16 x 13¾ in. (240 x 350 mm.), S. 14 x 20 7/8 in. (357 x 530 mm.)
(Presumably) Georges Provôt; his sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 April, 1935, lot 84.
Richard H. Zinser (circa 1883-1983), Forest Hills, New York, (not in Lugt).
Possibly Hôtel Drouot, 7 June, 1962, lot 155.
N.G. Stogdon, New York, and Artemis Fine Arts, London; Prints from the Nineteenth Century, Spring 1987, no. 3.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Francisco de Goya created his final and most enigmatic print series in the years between 1815 and 1824. The series was published under the
title Los Proverbios, although Goya's own captions for the working
proofs include the word 'disparates', meaning 'follies'. As a result,
this print series is known by both titles.
Like Goya's 'black' paintings, begun in 1819 after his recovery from a serious illness and filled with macabre visions, Los Proverbios is
imbued with an overwhelming sense of pessimism and appear to reflect
Goya's precarious mental state at the time. Each of the etchings
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monsters or attacks on innocents. The compositions have few precedents and virtually no parallels in 19th century art, but may be connected
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them for a wider public.
The fate of the plates after completion is only partly understood. It
is known that the series originally comprised 22 plates, and these were left with Goya's son Javier upon the artist's departure from Spain,
remaining hidden until Javier's death in 1854. Eighteen of them passed through two owners before coming to the Royal Academy of San Fernando
in 1862, where they were cleaned and published in a posthumous
edition in 1864 - it was at this point the proverbs were assigned.
The four remaining plates independently made their way to Paris, where they were discovered in the early 1870s. They were eventually published in the French periodical L'Art in 1877 (see lot 30).
In the entry to his 1987 catalogue Nicholas Stogdon discusses the similarity between this set and the description of the one offered at Drouot in 1962. Whether or not they are one and the same, the fact remains that sets of the Proverbios printed circa 1848 are both exceptionally rare (Harris lists five, four of which are in institutions) and markedly different to the edition of 1864, which is printed very much in the style of the day, with heavy, dark umber inks that obscure detail and give a stultifying, leaden feel. Whilst the five '1848' sets vary in character the present set is, like the others, brighter and more transparent, much closer to prints known to have been made for Goya.
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When a couple are so fab they go by their combined surnames... meet Jooley! Another impossibly gorgeous bride and a very smitten boy, these hotties are being featured in Festival Brides real soon. I loved Sarah's Belle and Bunty dress so much I even tried on the same style for my own impending nuptials but alas fled the shop feeling like a bag of spanners in comparison. And that flower crown! Stunner. Px
Keyan and Andrew married on a wintery Friday in December in North London. Their Civil Partnership was witnessed by close family and friends, with a cosy fireside pub tea in Walthamstow Village. What lovely gents. Congrats, guys! Px
I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of two of groom Sam's sisters so it was lovely to catch up with this family, and meet all the babies that have since appeared! Yiran's parents flew in from China for this lovely intimate ceremony in Kew, South London. A beaut day. Px
Tam and Bruce
These South African love birds got to have two weddings! One in their home town and one in the UK, where they now live. The church was one of the most beautiful I've ever shot in, and it was a grand day all round. And there's now a bambino on the way! Congrats, guys! Px
Love in Mexico
No puede ser bueno aquél que nunca ha amado....
Sarah and Wilkie in a Cornfield
Sarah and Wilkie were married in a beautiful church in Shropshire, with a gorgeous garden party reception at her family's farmhouse. They received a Guard of Honour coming out of the church, a nod to Wilkie's former profession. And with the beautiful countryside that was all around us, I couldn't resist the urge to pop them in a cornfield for their couple's shoot. A gorgeous day. Px
Carly and James Loving Life
When Carly and James suggested meeting for cocktails on Carnaby Street, I knew I was going to like them. We hit it off instantly and ended up drinking and chatting the evening away, leaving firm friends.
I was excited for their wedding, not only for the sweeping staircase at Leigh Court in Bristol, but because I knew that they had their priorities right. They are such lovely people, and I knew their wedding would be full of laughter and love. And I wasn't wrong. Px
Rob and Jo's Tuscan Wedding (Nuff Said)
Rob and Jo decided to get married in Villa Catignano, just outside Siena in Tuscany, because, well why not? The most stunning venue, I can see what attracted them to having an Italian wedding. The lemon grove ceremony, the outdoor 5 course Tuscan feast, the stunning scenery at every turn. Yep, good choice guys. Px
Dublin FTW
I went to Dublin for a conference but pencilled in half a day just for me and my camera. The last time I was in Dublin was over ten years ago, when my Mum and I decided to do a day trip, a little ambitious from Manchester!
The first night we stumbled into a fabulous little pub for the obligatory pint of Guinness. There I discovered my love for soda bread, which is not ideal when you're gluten intolerant!
I loved the warmth of the locals, the bustle of the tourists and the singers in every pub. There is literally nothing I don't like about Dublin. Made me really want to go and explore the rest of Ireland. And eat more soda bread. Px
Sarah and Johnny's Weekend Bonanza
Sarah and Johnny were the winners of my 'Win Your Wedding Photography' competition in collaboration with Way Out Wedding blog. I ran this competition to get in touch with creatives who really cared about the details of their day and valued photography. Sarah and Johnny were so enthusiastic about their big day and planned it with joy, rather than stress. I loved that they were marrying in a quaint village church in Somerset, then partying at the stunning Tonedale House Sarah is a singer and Johnny makes beer, so I knew that those aspects of the day would be spot on! I loved Sarah's bubbly email, entering her and Johnny into the competition. She was so excited to be a bride! And I must say, it really suited her. Px
Ed and Elaine's VE Day Celebrations
The word 'vintage' is banded around a lot these days, but Ed and Elaine's style is the real deal. Their home is full of amazing finds, many of which were incorporated into their amazing DIY wedding. As Ed said in his speech, pointing around the village hall, "this is all Elaine's mind!!" From the ration card place settings to the authentic hats in the photo booth, Elaine did pretty much everything herself. They transported their guests from the registry office in a green Routemaster bus (the only one in the country, most are red) to a decked out village hall for a VE day celebration style day with afternoon tea, fish and chips, and vinyl records. The sun even made an appearance after a dreary week and the picnic blankets came out. I'm sure you'll all agree they did an amazing job pulling off an amazingly stylish wedding. Px
IoW
Unlike a lot of my friends, I never went to the Isle of Wight as a kid (not that I can complain with grandparents in Australia!) So I decided to go for my 34th birthday instead. Mainly, to feed my obsession with American Airstreams by staying at Vintage Vacations (which was AMAZING!) For those people who accuse me of being a little bit of a hipster, on this occasion, yup, I hold my hands up. I drank Babycham with pink hair.
The Isle of Wight itself was lovely. Quintessentially English with its thatched cottages and cream teas, we pottered and mooched and had a jolly old British seaside time. Recommend! Px
Freya and I met up in Victoria Park in East London on the only cold day in an otherwise glorious spell of Spring weather. Ah well, favourite jumpers and boots did the trick and we had a jolly old time. Isn't she a beaut?
Wendy's Window
My lovely friend Jen is a manager of a fantastic charity shop, Ace, in Clapham. It raises money for the homeless and vulnerable in London which you can learn more about and get involved with here
Driven by my love of Jen's work stories, some sad, some hilarious and many downright weird, I decided to go and hang out at the shop one afternoon to meet some of these characters myself. I wasn't disappointed....
Berlin For The Win
It's easy, in the photography business, to have friends you don't actually know in person. Brilliant, creative friends, all around the world, that share the same loves. So we decided to hop on a plane to Berlin and meet one of them. The lovely Serena and her boyfriend (who looks so much like Homeland's Quinn that I slept with one eye open) opened their home to us and showed us the sites of this great city. Not the Brandenburg Gate or Checkpoint Charlie, which I had seen before, but the real heart of Berlin. The markets, the coffee shops, a disused airfield, the best burgers in town. It was wonderful. Px
Paula Broome. Alternative London Wedding and Portrait Photographer.


Hope your summer has been amazing thus far!
My new "Make The Booty Go" single is out now on UFO Recordz!
My twerk track has already made it to Beatport's Trap & Future Bass Top 100. Please download it from Beatport and help me make it to Top 10! You may also stream and download it on any of the major music platforms including iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, and Juno.
TOUR UPDATES! A few weeks ago I made my way to the East Coast to perform at Miami's Clevelander, Mondrian, Shots, and Fado. The shows continued in New York where I spun at Slate, Royalton Park Avenue, Solas, Samsung 837, and Dos Caminos. My last stop in the East Coast included a trip to Washington, D.C. where I performed at Heist, InterContinental and The W Hotel; I also put down a set at Bygone in Baltimore. I'm now in Honolulu and have a couple gigs lined up for the weekend!
Catch me spinning at The District Nightclub in Honolulu this Friday and at Rumfire Waikiki on Saturday. It's my first time here and I'm excited to perform!


I run Lightwave 7.5c on a PC. I have just bought a Mac G5 dual 2Ghz machine. Can anybody recommend the best 3rd party software for cross platform rendering. I only have 1 Lightwave license.
Lightwave comes with unlimited rendering nodes so hook the two to a network, copy over the necessary files for the rendering [ie screamernet] and iniate the render with you main system. If all goes right the host machine will notice the other machine [mac] and assign frames to it. There are programs free and commercial that make this process a little easier as sometimes screamernet does not act the way you think or it just takes a while to set up correctly.
go to flay to check to see if there are others.
The PC will find the render node on the Mac, but it goes wrong in the file/scene/object names and the ack files behave strange.
It is possible however by using Screamernet Controller for the Mac (http://www.catalystproductions.cc/screamernet/) as it 'repairs' the directory delimiters.
Just try the demo version.
Well then I guess you will have to write a proprietary tool to work with it. I've worked in enviroments in a network sharing stuff with Mac an Pc and everything work perfect. I did not set it up so I would have no clue then.
I don't think it will work in a direct way. You would have to have a server (Win, Linux, Irix or whatever) that does the conversion from Mac to PC and vice versa "on the fly" like Windows Server with AppleTalk does. BTW, it#s not just the path delimiters. There's also different LF/ CR interpretation, certain ASCII characters are mapped differently, file headers may be different (could matter for image files) etc.
Besides all these issues - don't do it! AMD, Intel and PowerPC chips all render scenes slightly differently. Stick to one processor type for your renderings otherwise you could risk getting pops in your animations, or having shadows changing density, or reflections not looking quite the same or any number of different things.
Well Intel and AMD on the same OS will render the same (at least here) but if you mix OS (like win and linux) you will get different results.


Today, thousands of people will march through the streets of my city. Some will march for equality, others for the right to be acknowledged and some simply for the community found in the love poured out during NYC Pride. You will find as many reasons as people but for me Pride has a special place in my heart because it is the anniversary of the day God broke my heart and caused me to come undone.
A year ago today, I went to my first march and volunteered at the closing event to Pride. I didn't understand why I felt so compelled to go but I knew walking in there was something God wanted to accomplish in my serving. I saw and experienced things that day that showed me so much about myself, how people in the LGBT are seen and treated and how my heart needed to change because I was guilty of treating members of that community without the love God calls us all to.
This last year has been one tempered by me gauging if I've been living that verse out with all people; am I loving someone else like Jesus loves me? The love Christ offers is without condition and permits no condemnation so I am never ashamed to come to God. I know the God loves me without limit and so I am learning to be limitless is my confession and try to be honest so that he can fortify my strengths and walk with me in my weakness.
I confess that is not the love I possessed for other people a year ago. I was very "love the sinner, hate the sin" in my thinking. I have challenges with that sentiment because I now feel it reduces beautiful, complex, broken people who need grace to the sum of their wrong or our perceptions of such. We seem to have forgotten Romans 3:23-24 which reminds us that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus". We all do things that could keep us from God but that very love Jesus spoke of is what changes all that for us and if we allow it, could change the lives of others.
Possessing that "love the sinner…" mentality creates a distance between those who offer that statement and those seen as sinners. I'm ever learning that love is not distant, it is close, it is personal and can even be uncomfortable because it's challenging. Over this last year I have prayed with strangers, offered things beyond what was comfortable for me and spoken with people who just need someone to listen and receive their story, all in my journey to love more like Jesus.
So today I celebrate Pride because God used it to change me. I'm so grateful for the Holy Spirit opening up my eyes and my heart so that I can receive the gift of fellowship with a whole new community. I'm not saying I've got this whole love thing together but I'm thankful that a year ago today, God used people to touch and break my heart so it can be recast in a way that better reflects his.


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Offices attacked, vital evidence stolen and burned. Write a letter in support of El Salvador's Pro-Búsqueda
Posted 29 Nov 2013, 10:56am By Sheila Royce
In the early hours of 14 November, three armed men forced their way into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda, an organisation dedicated to locating children who 'disappeared' during El Salvador's civil war.
Three staff members were held captive while two of the men went room to room to find laptops and computers, in what appeared to be a targeted effort to steal information vital to Pro-Búsqueda's work – legal information on cases currently before El Salvador's Supreme Court.
Before leaving, the attackers poured petrol over filing cabinets and set them on fire, destroying files and key details on cases the organisation has worked on since 1994. A few hours later, one of Pro-Búsqueda female employee's was followed.
In a little more than half an hour, two decades of Pro-Búsqueda's work was almost entirely destroyed.
Pro-Búsqueda is dedicated to locating children that were "disappeared" El Salvador's civil war, in which over 700 children 'disappeared'. Some were taken in by soldiers, some were placed in orphanages, while others were put up for adoption in El Salvador, the United States and Europe.
More than 300 children have been found, and most of these have been reunited with their biological families.
Children like Martina, who along with her sister Silvia was forcibly separated from their biological family in 1982. Their father was killed in the conflict, but their mother survived. Both girls were adopted by different families in Italy, where they were well cared for. Neither knew of the circumstances of their adoption, or of the other's existence, until 2003.
Martina and Silvia were reunited by Pro Búsqueda and six years later they took the decision to travel to El Salvador with their adopted families, to discover their roots and find their biological family. They were finally reunited with their biological mother, sisters and extended family in December 2009.
This is the type of work that has been put at risk by the attack on Pro-Búsqueda's office. But there's another sinister angle. This attempt to steal and erase records from the past follows hot on the heels of the sudden closure of the Catholic Church's legal aid office (Tutela Legal). This office had spent decades documenting the very worst human rights violations of El Salvador's civil war, including the massacre at El Mozote.
It's no coincidence that both these events have taken place shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments challenging the Amnesty Law. Passed in 1993, it has so far protected all those who committed human rights violations during the conflict. It has protected those who abducted children, massacred whole villages, murdered government opponents, tortured and killed thousands of activists, trade unionists, lawyers, journalists...
You can help protect Pro-Búsqueda staff and call for an urgent investigation into the raid.
It couldn't be easier. Simply download the urgent action file and a pre-prepared letter you can send just below. For the cost of a stamp you could stand up for the hundreds of 'disappeared' children that Pro Búsqueda help.
Posted 29 Nov 2013, 10:56am
By Sheila Royce
Enforced disappearance
Urgent Action Network


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Острова Басс ( или ) включают два главных острова — Рапа-Ити и Маротири — и несколько мелких. Острова Басс, лежащие недалеко от тропиков, являются самыми южными островами Французской Полинезии.

Геологически, острова отличаются от остальных Южных островов тем, что их вулканы поднялись над морем значительно позднее.

Острова Басс были колонизированы примерно в одно время с Таити и Маркизскими островами, а культура и язык (рапаский) обособились примерно в то же время. Также вероятно, что они развивались в относительной изоляции со времён первого поселения.

Рапа, иногда называемый Рапа-Ити (в переводе «маленький Рапа», тогда как Рапа-Нуи — «большой Рапа»), — крупнейший и единственный обитаемый остров в архипелаге. Старое название острова — Опаро. Его площадь составляет 38,5 км2, население 530 чел., максимальная абсолютная высота 650 метров.

Маротири — это группа из четырёх необитаемых скал, выступающих из моря. Маротири также известны как Скалы Басса (Îlots de Bass). Название дано в честь европейского исследователя Джорджа Басса. Маротири очень изолированы; они расположены в 1167 километрах к западо-юго-западу от острова Питкэрн. Ближайший остров Рапа-Ити находится на 75 км северо-западнее и отделён от Маротири океаном глубиной более 1500 метров. Скалы принадлежат муниципалитету Рапа и непригодны для жизни людей.

См. также
 Заморские территории Франции
 Административное деление Франции
 Список островов Французской Полинезии

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Q: Does the antiderivative of an indicator function? I have an indicator function of the form $I\{a<t<b\}$ and I need the antiderivative of it with respect to $t$.
I believe I can't use the fundamental theorem of calculus to simply write it as $\int_0^t I\{a<s<b\} ds$ (which would be very convenient) since it's not a continuous function.
It's not clear to me whether such a function even exists or how I would write it.

A: For $t\in(a,b)$ we have $I(t)=1$, so the antiderivative, say $F$, would be $F(x)=x+C_1$. For $x>b$ it would be $F(x)=C_2$ and for $x<a$, $F(x)=C_3$. It is impossible to find $C_1, C_2, C_3$ to make $F$ a differentiable function on the whole $\Bbb R$, or on any interval containing properly $(a,b)$.

A: There does not exists a function $f$ defined on an open interval properly containing $(a,b)$ and such that $f'(x)=I\{a<x<b\}(x)$. The reason is that derivatives have the intermediate value property, but the indicator function doesn't.


I've said as much before, but I love a good mixtape. One from the recent past that deserves some shine: a little thinking-of-Paris collection dubbed Ceci N'est Pas Une Mixtape and artfully curated by Bobby of Kitsune Noir. If you're feeling like the French Nas and been in a Parisian state of mind, this one found you at the right time. Have a coffee at an outdoor cafe, smoke a cigarette or two, and watch the day pass you by.


The Pilates exercise and Pilates tools as we understand it was created by Joseph Pilates. What units Pilates aside is its concentrate on firming the muscular tissues with springs, bands, or your own body weight. For 30 years, the world's most revered Pilates instructors have used and advisable the Balanced Physique Pilates Studio Reformer. Mat-based Pilates uses a pre-set sequence of exercises which are launched weekly with individual variations if needed.
They promote long, lean muscle mass and a wholesome steadiness of flexibility and energy. In Pilates, your muscles are never worked to exhaustion, so there is no such thing as a sweating or straining, just intense concentration. Our exercise gives you the heart-pumping, muscle-quivering, physique-lengthening, muscle-strengthening exercises our physique desires. Experience personalised 1:1 instruction with our greatest-in-class Pilates coaches as they work to know your goals and physique, and develop the best program for you.
Though some Pilates workout routines are similar to yoga, Pilates does not contain holding poses. Lessons could be tailor-made to supply both a mild train program for providing core energy, flexibility and steadiness or a complete exercise for a extra rigorous exercise program. At GHF Pilates, our Licensed Pilates Instructors will guide you in the direction of physique consciousness, flexibility, and power all whereas serving to you obtain your fitness targets.
Yoga is taught in classes, catering for novices via to advanced practitioners. We're Pilates reinvented into a cardio and strength training workout. If you observe Pilates, you construct strength and stability – particularly in your abdominals, legs and back, improve your flexibility and cut back your danger of harm. Pilates workouts are safe and appropriate for a large age spectrum Pilates could be practiced within the health club or by yourself , at residence.
Pilates strengthens the stomach muscle mass , improves stability and coordination , and reduces stress. Every yoga posture, or asana, is held for a period of time and linked with respiration. Whereas the main target of Pilates is power coaching, you may get some cardio in with strikes like this. Pilates teaches consciousness of breath and alignment, restores muscular steadiness, and builds power and suppleness.


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Letting go of Offenses from 2016
There are very few sports events I've ever cared about, and when there's an exception, it's a big deal. The last time it happened to me was in 2001.
I was attending law school in Oxford, Mississippi, where the official religion is a mix of Protestant Christianity and Ole Miss football. The Rebels were playing the Arkansas Razorbacks and I was bored on a Saturday night, so I watched the game with my elderly landlady. Although the game was initially a dud, it started heating up, so I figured I should cheer for somebody. I flippantly decided to go with Arkansas since I was born there.
Good pick.
As it turns out, the game actually went into seven overtimes and Arkansas won by two points. For whatever reason, I was really pumped about it.
Fumbling the Ball
The next day in my adult Sunday school class, I was the first one there, and then this Ole Miss student walked in with his girlfriend. We were becoming friends at the time, which was kind of nice because I studied way too much to have many of those back then. But then I made the fateful move that ruined everything: I did the Arkansas Razorback cheer.
"Wooooo pig sooie!" I exclaimed, waiting for a chuckle in return. The guy and his girlfriend glanced over at me, sat down with a sour look on their faces, and didn't even respond. Awkward.
When I saw him after that, he was notably less friendly and I'm still convinced it was over that damnable pig cheer. If so, that's really too bad, because I was needing some friends back then, and I'd hate to think the rift was over something so insignificant. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened though.
If you've been on social media in the past year, particularly Facebook, you've got a mental list of folks who lost your respect during the various news events of the year (election 2016, anyone?). While claiming to be genuine Christians, they wrote rude status updates and tweets, posted way too many articles supporting their offensive views, and generally just did their best to make you and yours look like immoral losers.
Woo-pig sooie.
I get it, I really do — it was annoying and, frankly, I've got a few people who grated on me too. So now that we're being honest with ourselves, we've got to seriously ask what it's going to look like for us to "[m]ake every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace" (Ephesians 4:3). While I wish Scripture weren't so direct about this, here's what we've got: We must "put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you" (Colossians 3:12-13).
We're called to bear with people. Forgive them. Let go of complaints. Love people like Jesus loves us. And one practical way we can do that as fellow believers is to declare the cleansing blood of Jesus over all the careless words of last year and all the careless words that are coming in this one. I mean, seriously, we're talking about the people we're going to be spending the rest of eternity with — so for Christ's sake, you'd think we can let go of our fleeting offenses that hardly even matter now.
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Domestic listing should start trading in December
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DHAHRAN – Saudi Arabia officially launched the initial public offering (IPO) for state oil company Saudi Aramco on Sunday, announcing that a domestic listing will take place in December.
The Kingdom market regulator approved the listing early Sunday but exact details about the size and scope of the IPO remain unknown. In a statement from Saudi Aramco, the company said that "the final offer price, the number of shares to be sold and the percentage of shares to be sold will be determined at the end of the book-building period."
Amin Nasser, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, said in a statement that the company's vision "is to be the world's leading integrated energy and chemical company."
"Our mission is to provide our shareholders with long-term value creation through crude oil price cycles by maintaining our prominent role in oil and gas production, capturing added value across the hydrocarbon value chain and profitable expansion of our portfolio," he said.
In a follow-up press conference on Sunday, Nasser said the company's IPO prospectus would be released on November 9, telling CNBC that the listing of Aramco would help diversify the economy, and was a way to strengthen the domestic Tadawul stock exchange by attracting both domestic and international investment. [1[ads1]9659002] "For us as Saudi Aramco, I think we are proud of the listing of Aramco. It will increase our visibility internationally. We are a very strong company. By sharing a lot of information, as required by any listed company, it will be Many analysts want to review our data and compare it with other listed companies, and we would like to have that kind of comparison because we are a company that prides itself on our results, "he said.
Also at the press conference, Aramco's chairman Yasser al-Rumayyan said that the international listing would be decided "going forward." He also said he could not comment on the valuation of the company, or the percentage to be displayed.
He told CNBC that the company was a safe bet for investors despite some concerns about the security of Saudi oil infrastructure following a drone and missile attack on Aramco facilities in September.
"We also have the resilience of the company, and it was really demonstrated in the attacks of September 14 … We have one-eighth of oil production in the world, and the oil traders, they saw this as a one-time event, which means it's very That's what the money says. So security, I think the whole world is not just Saudi Arabia, will safeguard the security of this region and this company, "he said.
Previous reports have suggested that the Kingdom will list 1% to 2% of Aramco on its local stock exchange, and then notes another slice on an international stock exchange at a later date – with a total public sale of about 5% of the company . The stock exchanges in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo have all fought for the international listing.
Saudi Aramco is the world's largest integrated oil and gas company. The company has been valued at around $ 2 trillion by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but Reuters quotes bankers and business insiders as saying the value is closer to $ 1.5 trillion.
Saudi Aramco's stock exchange listing has been carefully anticipated in recent years, but has been delayed amid oil price volatility, world uncertainty, the listing of stocks and geopolitical events such as the drone and missile attacks in September. The stock exchange may be the world's largest, and if it achieves a valuation of $ 1.5 trillion, Saudi Aramco will far surpass the market capitalization of market giants such as Apple and Microsoft.
The public listing is seen as part of the Crown Prince's economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030.
The company said that one of its priorities was to deliver "sustainable and growing dividends through crude oil price cycles"; Aramco said Sunday that "subject to the Board's discretion after considering a number of factors, the Board intends to declare a total ordinary cash dividend of at least $ 75.0 billion for the calendar year 2020, in addition to any special dividend." [19659002] Last week, Reuters reported that the company would begin trading on Tadawul on December 11. Citing anonymous sources, Al Arabiya said the pricing will start on November 17 with a final price for the float expected to be announced December 4.
Aramco noted on Sunday that crude oil production accounted for approximately one in every eight barrels of crude oil produced globally from 2016 to 2018. During the first six months of 2019, the company produced 13.2 million barrels per day of oil equivalent, including 10.0 million barrels per day of crude oil (including mixed condensate).
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Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc.
By Chris O'Shea
Josh Quittner, a Time Inc. veteran of 15 years, is leaving the company. According to The New York Post, Quittner is headed to Flipboard, a California-based startup. Quittner most recently worked as Director of Digital Editorial Development for Time.
Quittner will join Flipboard as its Editorial Director. He told the Post that he will start there after July 4th.
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The film, Amazon Tears - Through Her Eyes provides a rare opportunity to meet the women of the Peruvian Amazon, as they face rapid changes in their remote area, due to international industry, technology and population growth.
Since 2003 the government has leased more than 70% of the Peruvian Amazon to oil companies, forever altering the way of life along the river. Each woman opens up about the reality of their day-to-day existence, challenges, relationships and hopes for their future.
The village of Santa Clotilde is introduced and Lilian gives an overview of the changes in respect to work, technology and population growth. Then we meet Ines, who represents the older generation, sharing what life was like then as compared to now.
Liz is a Canadian missionary who has lived in Santa Clotilde since 1992. She shares valuable insight into the lives of the women and what their future may hold.
Neo overcame her humble beginnings to find success as a nurse in the local hospital. Her daughter, Anagaly, following in her footsteps studied for many years, in order to return and work along side her mother.
Mother Socorro runs the boarding school and she has witnessed more young girls attending than ever before. She is hopeful and enjoys the technological advancements the village has undergone.
Another mother and daughter, surviving only on the food they grow in their small gardens. Unable to find work, the economic advancements in their village will not improve their day-to-day life.
We revisit Lilian, in order to understand the cultural loss. She has watched traditions simply fade away. Her work in community development is aligned with her passion to give women a voice, better healthcare and a strong future through education.


By Emily Sanderson , Tessa Weinberg on Saturday, October 21st, 2017 at 11:08 a.m.
In his August Facebook Live video, Gov. Eric Greitens encouraged viewers to submit their questions. One viewer asked, "What do we do for our veterans except use them as our reason to get mad when it fits our agenda?"
In response, Greitens touched on providing jobs for veterans, in addition to citing the rate of veterans graduating from treatment courts in Missouri.
"Our veterans in our veterans court, are graduating — 73 percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts," Greitens said. "By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate's like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
We were wondering: Are 73 percent of veterans graduating from treatment courts? While we never heard back from Greitens' spokesman, a Supreme Court of Missouri spokeswoman pointed us in the direction of where those numbers came from.
According to the Missouri Courts website, treatment courts began as a way to battle increasing substance abuse problems.
Treatment courts have existed in Missouri for nearly 25 years. The first treatment court was started in 1993 in Jackson County. Legislation in 2013 established the first veterans treatment courts programs, which "are hybrid drug and mental health court dockets that use the treatment court model to serve veterans struggling with addiction, serious mental illness and/or co-occurring disorders," according to a treatment courts fact sheet.
As of August 2017, there were 147 treatment court programs throughout the state. Of those, 12 are veterans treatment courts, with the remaining being adult, juvenile, family and DWI courts.
Veterans can be accepted into treatment courts for drug-involved offenses and DWI offenses, Beth Riggert, communications counsel for the Supreme Court of Missouri, wrote in an email.
According to the treatment courts fact sheet, "The graduation rate for all programs in fiscal 2017 exceeds 61 percent."
However, the most recent data on veterans treatment courts is from calendar year 2016, Riggert said.
In that time frame, there were a total of 247 veterans participating in veterans treatment courts in the state, Riggert said. However, because the program is rolling, only a total of 82 veterans exited the program in 2016.
Of those, 60 successfully graduated the program and 22 did not.
That translates to a success rate of 73.17 percent, or just about what Greitens said.
Since 2011, the graduation rate from veterans treatment courts has steadily been increasing as more veterans have gone through the program.
Greitens also said, "By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate's like 53, 55 percent."
Because we were unable to reach Greitens' spokesman for comment, we are unsure which specific treatment courts program Greitens was referring to when he said "the very good drug court program." However, Riggert elaborated on the graduation for other treatment court programs.
In the same period, the graduation rate from adult drug courts was 52 percent, and the graduation rate from DWI courts was 90 percent, Riggert said.
While Greitens is correct that the veterans treatment courts' graduation rate was higher than some, such as the adult drug court's rate, it is still not as high as the DWI court's graduation rate of 90 percent.
However, Riggert said it may not be accurate to compare graduation rates between treatment courts to prove one program's success.
"The various types of treatment court programs are distinct, and so it is not helpful to try to make a side-by-side comparison," Riggert said.
While 73 percent of veterans exiting the program did graduate in 2016, it is unclear how many veterans who graduate from the program have to return for additional treatment.
"Because veterans treatment courts are relatively new, we do not yet have sufficient quantifiable data from which to determine recidivism rates for these programs," Riggert said.
Greitens said, "73 percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate's like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
While the overall numbers are small, Greitens is correct that in 2016, 73 percent of veterans successfully completed treatment court. Over the same time period, the overall graduation rate from adult treatment court was 52 percent, officials say.
However, officials also pointed out that the two programs are not identical, which makes comparing them imprecise. In addition, while graduation rate is one measurement of success, it's not the only one, and as Riggert noted, veteran treatment courts are so new that no data on recidivism rates have been collected.
We rate Greitens' claim Mostly True.
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2017 at 11:08 a.m.
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