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package com.smart.cloud.fire.global;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.support.constraint.Constraints;
import android.util.Xml;

import com.smart.cloud.fire.utils.CompareVersion;
import com.smart.cloud.fire.utils.SharedPreferencesManager;
import com.smart.cloud.fire.utils.Utils;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * Created by Administrator on 2016/8/8.
 */
public class MainThread {
    static MainThread manager;
    boolean isRun;
    private Main main;
    Context mContext;

    public MainThread(Context mContext) {
        this.mContext = mContext;
    }

    public static MainThread getInstance() {
        return manager;
    }

    class Main extends Thread {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            isRun = true;
            while (isRun) {
                long last_check_update_time = SharedPreferencesManager
                        .getInstance().getLastAutoCheckUpdateTime(MyApp.app);
                checkUpdate(last_check_update_time);
                Utils.sleepThread(60 * 1000);
            }
        }
    }

    private UpdateInfo mUpdateInfo = new UpdateInfo();
    public int checkUpdate(long last_check_update_time) {
        try {
            if(!ConstantValues.isThe148Service()){
                return 1;
            }
            long now_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
            //1000 * 60 * 60 * 12
            if ((now_time - last_check_update_time) > 1000 * 60 * 60 ) {
                SharedPreferencesManager.getInstance()
                        .putLastAutoCheckUpdateTime(now_time, MyApp.app);
                // 创建地址对象
                URL url = new URL(ConstantValues.UPDATE_URL);
                // 打开链接
                HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                // 参数
                conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
                conn.setConnectTimeout(5000);
                if (conn.getResponseCode() == 200) {
                    InputStream input = conn.getInputStream();
                    // 解析 xml pull
                    //创建解PullParser析器
                    XmlPullParser parser = Xml.newPullParser();
                    //设置数据
                    parser.setInput(input, "GBK");
                    int eventType = XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT;
                    // 逐行
                    while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
                        switch (eventType) {
                            case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:// 标签开始
                                if ("versionCode".equals(parser.getName()//获取标签名
                                )) {
                                    mUpdateInfo.versionCode = parser.nextText();//获取文本值
                                } else if ("versionName".equals(parser.getName())) {
                                    mUpdateInfo.versionName = parser.nextText();
                                } else if ("message".equals(parser.getName())) {
                                    mUpdateInfo.message = parser.nextText();
                                } else if ("url".equals(parser.getName())) {
                                    mUpdateInfo.url = parser.nextText();
                                }
                                break;
                        }
                        // 执行下一行
                        eventType = parser.next();
                    }
                    // 更新
                    String serverCode = mUpdateInfo.versionName;
                    String clientCode = getlocalVersion();
                    int result = CompareVersion.compareVersion(serverCode,clientCode);

                    if (result>=1) {
                        if(last_check_update_time!=-1&&serverCode.equals(SharedPreferencesManager.getInstance().getData(mContext,"ignoreVersion"))){
                            return 1;//@@7.12
                        }
                        if(ConstantValues.isThe148Service()){
                            Intent i = new Intent("Constants.Action.ACTION_UPDATE");
                            i.putExtra("url", mUpdateInfo.url);
                            i.putExtra("message", mUpdateInfo.message);
                            i.putExtra("ignoreVersion",serverCode );
                            i.setPackage(MyApp.getAppProcessName(mContext));//@@7.13只传当前应用
                            MyApp.app.sendBroadcast(i);
                        }
                    }
                    if(last_check_update_time==-1&&result<1){
                        Intent i = new Intent("Constants.Action.ACTION_UPDATE_NO");
                        i.putExtra("message", mUpdateInfo.message);
                        i.setPackage(MyApp.getAppProcessName(mContext));//@@7.13只传当前应用
                        MyApp.app.sendBroadcast(i);
                    }
                }
            }
            return 0;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            return 1;
        }
    }

    public String getlocalVersion(){
        String localversion = null;
        try {
            PackageInfo info = mContext.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(mContext.getPackageName(), 0);
            localversion = info.versionName;
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return localversion;
    }

    public void kill() {
        isRun = false;
        main = null;
    }

    public void go() {
        if (null == main || !main.isAlive()) {
            main = new Main();
            main.start();
        }
    }
}


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Manga Review: My Hero Academia Vigilantes, Volume 4
January 13, 2020 January 13, 2020 SamRushing
Greetings and happy Monday! I'm a bit tired today, after a pretty busy weekend at Ohayocon, but it was so worth it. Damian and I had a lovely time with Colorworld Books, and we're basically using these convention experiences as training for if/when we decide to sign on to be a full-time team working the con circuit. Overall it's just a really fun time to go to a place filled with so many people who enjoy some of the same books and shows and movies that I do. Ohayocon was our first anime convention, but it will not be our last.
Speaking of anime, we are back to a new Manga Monday review post, and I have so many more of these posts planned out. I just need to write/prep them all. It's a pretty long list though, so I'll just get a few ready at a time.
Anyway, let's jump into the review.
Story by: Hideyuki Furuhashi
Art by: Betten Court
Original Concept by: Kohei Horikoshi
ISBN: 197470436X (ISBN13: 9781974704361)
In a superpowered society, there is nothing ordinary about evil anymore. Heroes, trained and licensed to protect and defend the public against supervillains, stand above all the rest. Not everyone can be a hero, however, and there are those who would use their powers to serve the people without legal sanction. But do they fight for justice in the shadows, or for reasons known only to themselves? Whatever they fight for, they are called…vigilantes.
The sinister Hachisuka continues to haunt the Naruhata district, distributing the Quirk-boosting drug Trigger. Knuckleduster continues to track her and is closing in. Meanwhile, Pop Step receives an unexpected invitation to perform at the Marukane department store's grand reopening. With Makoto helping out, it's going to be nothing less than an all-out entertainment extravaganza! But that's only if she can organize a disorganized group of performers in time for the show!
This was a good installment. Not necessarily my favorite, but it continues to be a decently solid series. If I'm being honest I think that sometimes this series feels like it struggles under the pressure of its parent series and the timeline and parameters.
However, I can say that I like that we keep expanding more on the backstories of the main characters, and I especially love all of the inclusion of heroes and such from the main series; it really helps to tie everything together. I mean, yes, it is easier to deal with the new original characters over the pro heroes from the main series, but even with the difficulty of maintaining the timeline and the world building and the character backstories and such, I think this series deals okay with the criteria. Like I mentioned though, sometimes it does feel like it struggles with it.
Obviously though, this series takes place several years before Midoriya and all of them go to U.A. In some ways I like that; if we were to see any of the big main cast of students from the main series, I think they would basically be children in this one, which would be a bit interesting.
Also, the more I read about Aizawa, the more I think he's becoming my favorite character. If they just wanted to have a series focused on the life of Aizawa/Eraser then I would totally read it.
You can grab your own copy of this volume from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-million, Book Depository, or your local independent bookstore through IndieBound.
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Did some updates on tardis, hygiene our general purpose linux server (all the servers have names from Dr. Who) – and updated the Dell OpenManage tools. Reboot. Simple, allergy right?
The machine responded to pings, viagra 100mg and nothing else.
The cert is generated by the boottime init.d script if it's missing.
The latter is a security concern, but should never be paired with the top. I've had servers hang for hours waiting for /dev/random to generate enough entropy.
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The above is about 300,000 rows.
billing has a clustered index around account_id. This makes perfect sense, the data is almost always referenced with respect to a particular customer, and ensuring that those records are all adjacent to each other on storage is common sense. However, the above query would be running all around the 9Gb table removing rows.
billing doesn't have an index on node_type, meaning each row has to be fetched before it can be selected for deletion.
The latter is less of a problem if the select and the delete were separated, but the table lock existed throughout the query.
In looking to solve it, one approach was to force MSSQL to use ROWLOCK (and disable escalation from ROWLOCK to TABLELOCK), but this was going to be a performance hit. I considered trying NOLOCK, but I wasn't sure of what the ramifications would be, and I really didn't want to spend hours fixing a crash database/corrupted data.
Delete 2000 rows. Wait a second. Repeat until all rows gone.
Ran the query, no locking issues at all, Table purged in about an hour. Victory!
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10 Bloody Reasons For Honor Is The Next Chivalry
Glory, Honor, Blood.
BY: Corey Matlak
Medieval Combat Evolved
Ubisoft takes us into the new era of swordplay with their new gruesome IP, For Honor. Hope you're ready for some gorey hack and slash, because we're expecting this game to become the next staple in competitive sword and board combat.
For Honor - E3 2015 Announcement Trailer
Here's 10 reasons you should be twitching to migrate those combat skills of yours to For Honor.
Reason 10. Diversity
Warriors, Come Out To Play.
For Honor is based in historical combat, no magic, no flying gryffin mounts. But it's not the standard knights charging knights we've grown used to in Chivalry.
For Honor spans the globe, seizing the deadliest fighters across continents. When the game releases it will be packed with Knights, Vikings, and Samurai, all eager to dice the other to oblivion.
Samurai at the gates to the West
Female warriors will also step into the fray, which is a nice change from the armies of male-exclusive combat we've grown accustomed to.
Named heroes are expected to be playable on release date. This is an extra perk for me, as I find playing Chivalry's same grunt soldiers each game somewhat repetitive.
Wear your colors proudly
Reason 9. AI Fills The Ranks
Fodder For The Blade
Players aren't the only ones clashing swords. Bots will fill the fields of war, making battles massive and extra bloody. After All, what kind of war is fought between 10 players?
That's more like it!
Small teams are all well and good for Counter Strike but I like my medieval siege to look more... well, like a siege.
Killing AI isn't just for fun, even though it's bound to be fun. Players can rank up their score counter by taking dozens of these guys out. There's the possibility that this score will be directly linked to player xp and leveling up, so, go get your hands bloody.
Reason 8. More Abilities
If The Sword Misses, The Boulder Will Hit.
Taking a page from big name AAA war games. For Honor is rewarding the players with added perks. Your D-Pad will be your key to using special skills as you rack up the kills.
Rain hell.
Knock your enemies out of the Iron Age by pinpointing catapult attack from the sky. We're expecting this to work similarly to modern war games' missile strikes. Only, this looks way cooler.
There will also be player buffs, and healing skills, making builds more flexible and helpful and critical to your teams' victory. A war is not fought alone.
Reason 7. Flair
Give Them Blood, But Make It Look Pretty.
For Honor's Combat is almost entirely timing and reaction based. But perfect timing with a heavy strike will earn you a stunning killing blow. It's nice to be rewarded with badass animations.
Who said decapitation couldn't be beautiful?
With epic kill screens, comes epic screenshots. We can't wait to see the player community flood the internet with killcams and gorey screens after launch.
Reason 6. Game Modes
Keeping Combat Fresh
For Honor is keeping us on our toes by switching up the familiar team-death match we've grown too comfortable with. At E3, Ubisoft showed off Dominion mode, which spans a large play area.
Check out this awesome gameplay commentary video.
In Dominion, players fight to control a series of territories -think king of the hills only there are many hills. This adds a stronger focus on team play and strategy.
Pushing the lane with minions
Not a team player? That's okay, For Honor is promising something for everyone. Ubisoft announced a variety of game modes that will be ready to play at launch.
We can expect to see a lot of familiar archetypes found in pretty much every competitive combat game, as well as some new unique modes to sharpen our swords for.
Reason 5. Multiple Platforms
Ubisoft Casts A Wide Net
When the game launches, PC Gamers won't be the only ones to feel the love this time. There is a severe lack of games like Chivalry on consoles. Mostly due to the lack of AAA companies' interest in the genre.
We're thankful that Ubisoft is working hard to share the gorefest with all gamers. Currently, we're looking at PS4, XboxOne, and PC releases. Ubisoft's been known to cover every platform possible with their games, so that list may grow longer in the coming months.
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We're doubting that cross-platform play will be a feature, but it's still something to consider. It's just a very difficult thing to balance in competitive genres. So, you might want to start figuring out which version you and your friends need to pick up.
Reason 4. No Button Mashing
It's Dead, Stop Clicking
90% of your controls are coming through your analog sticks. As you can see, holding the right-stick in any direction raises your guard in that direction. But how will this translate to PC.
Interesting Choice of Controls
Players will need to use timing to catch the enemy's blade at the last moment to make their counter attack as effective as possible. For Honor punishes button mashers, making poorly timed moves leave dangerous openings in their defenses.
Hacking and slashing will simply not be enough.
After an opening appears, you'll want to dive in to finish fights quickly. Death comes fast in For Honor. Health bars exist but a swift strike to the neck will take anybody down.
Finish him!
Throw your opponent off balance and strike when the opportunity's hot!
How will these controls carry over to PC though? I'm all for dynamic combat but I'm hoping for intuitive mouse and keyboard controls. But, we might just have to suck it up and use a controller.
Reason 3. Customization
Head To Toe Medieval Swag
It's rare to have any amount of character customization in an FPS, but Ubisoft has you covered, literally.
Looking good for the Valkyries
You'll be able to collect and unlock new armor, colors, patterns, capes, helmets, belts... well, you get the idea. Basically, you'll be able to deck you fighter out head to toe with hard earned apparel.
What better way is there to show off your achievements than by wearing them in battle? We like this decision. No doubt Ubisoft does too, because this means lot's of potential DLC.
Reason 2. Enthusiasm
Excited Devs Keep The Spark Alive
Developers for this game seem even more excited than the fans. It's great to see distinct personalities coming together to make something great. They've been completely open to in depth interviews and want us to know as much about this project as possible.
Jason VandenBerghe is the leading director and he always looks this happy.
I saw Jason's face and immediately recalled the bearded viking screenshot -I just had to do a side by side comparison. This project has been his dream for ages. Seeing it become a reality makes a AAA title feel more relatable.
Check out this awesome interview on the directors feelings about the E3 reveal.
Gamers celebrate hardest
Reason 1. Single Player Campaign
The best news about For Honor that others in the genre can't compete with, is a full on single player campaign... and wait for it... a story! This is the most exciting news.
It's a little harsh to ask players to drop $60 dollars on a game that requires a constant internet connection. The single player will be a full on game in itself which makes me all the more eager to run out to pick up a copy on launch day.
Check out the Single Player Campaign Interview, straight from E3.
For victory, for glory, For Honor!
I understand that gamers don't play Chivalry for the story, but in a game so unforgiving, having a meaningful single player option will definitely draw in more gamers, and give us a much funner way of honing our skills.
Hungry for more combat? Check out "Overwatch: 10 Interesting Facts About This Awesome FPS" and "11 Best Fantasy War Games To Play in 2015". Are you joining our crusade for honor? Comment and share.
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Currently Playing: ESO, POE, Trails in The Sky, Witcher 2
Top 3 Favorite Games:Dragon Age: Origins, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, Metro 2033
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Dashing in for the kill.
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Q: Roots Theme 6.4 Disappearing Homepage Content with decreasing screen size Good Day,
I have noticed today that for some reason using WordPress 3.6.1 and Roots 6.4.0 that the homepage had blank content between the footer and the logo. However, it only happens on the homepage, works fine on any other page, and it has only happened recently.
You may check out the website: http://jsteinhi.com.
I ask that someone please check it out, and tell me if this a media query problem, CSS, PHP, or WordPress problem. I want to know, so I can avoid this happening again if it was a mistake I made that or changes to a post that caused this.
I thank you for your time and efforts.

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Tag: LEARN FROM YOUR FOREBEARS MISTAKES
getthevoteoutcanada:
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"Are you really going to vote for Clinton just because she isn't Trump?"
Yes? I would literally elect Chef Boyardee because he isn't Trump.
My dear Americans:
When we here in Canada had our last election, we made a massive effort to vote strategically. There were even groups here who (since we don't elect our PM directly but rather elect a ruling party) were literally going around making sure everyone knew who in their voting area was most likely to beat the Conservative candidate so that we WOULD NOT GET HARPER.
At the time I explained at length to many people how at that point, @tkingfisher's beagle Gir would make a better PM than Harper. Then I paused and thought, "hey, she lost a dog … relatively recently? In the last year? Was that the beagle? I can't remember. … anyway it doesn't matter, because her beagle would make a better PM than Harper even if said beagle were dead."
You, my dear Americans, are now in this same position. Gir, all by himself with no advisors, would still make a better President than that POS, even if he were dead (the beagle, not that jerk; I am not sure that life or lack thereof would make much difference to that jerk's presidency).
You are not voting for anyone at this point. You are voting against Trump.
Do not be a fucking moron and end up with Trump because you didn't vote against him. Because Gir, even if dead, would make a better president. Do not mistake politics for a lifelong statement on your values. You will not benefit anyone or make any kind of statement by doing something that makes that piece of crap more likely to get elected, and every vote not cast for his best competition (that is, the person most likely to beat him, whoever they are!) is something that makes his election more likely.
Do not do this, my darling Americans.
Ideals are great. But so is long-term strategic thinking, and all of you young Americans reading me have many many years left of voting and doing your best to bring change and improvement to your country … unless you are foolish enough to let that jerk win.
In which case we all lose.
So please don't be fucking stupid. Whoever the not-Trump nominee is, vote for them. Even if you don't like them. Because you are not voting for whoever that is; you are voting against That Jerk.
Okay? Okay.
SERIOUSLY. It's worth noting, too, that there are actually a lot of parallels between the Canadian election and the one you guys are entering into now. We had our centrist candidate that a lot of people either outright hated or at the very least didn't like and didn't respect (yes, that was Justin Trudeau) and an older, somewhat charismatic socialist leader who was largely thought would win by a landslide. (That was Thomas Mulcair)
Except Mulcair, a lot like his American counterpart, fumbled key moments and key populations badly and the longer the election went on, the more people started drifting away to the Liberals. Who ended up winning by a landslide and, well, *shrug* it definitely worked out.
Now I'm not saying Hillary is going to win and magically transform into Justin Trudeau, but I am saying you've not really seen her as a leader yet. You've seen her work within the Senate and you've seen her carry out President Obama's policies as Secretary of State (yeah, if you're not pissed off at him for those policies, might want to ask yourself why) but as her own leader? Not so much. Not quite.
It doesn't mean you won't be freaking furious with her at times, or that she won't do things that make your gut churn, but for the love of God, the fucking KKK endorses Trump. They're excited by his candidacy.
Ever want a chance to save the world? Here's your shot. Suck it up and vote against him.
That's what we did. There were a shitton of hardcore NDP voters who should have voted for Thomas Mulcair (dodged a bullet there, lemme tell you) who sucked it up and voted for Justin Trudeau because they would not risk splitting the vote.
No matter who's name you write in on the ballet.a
vote for anybody but the Democratic candidate in this election is a vote for Trump.
A few words of help for our American friends, eh? #USA #Election
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SA Constitutional Court Issues Asylum Seeker Ruling
October 11, 2018 /in South Africa /by Quintin Coetzee
An application for leave to appeal against a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal was settled this week in South Africa's Constitutional Court. The case concerns the question whether asylum seekers, including those whose applications for refugee status have been refused, are eligible to apply for other visas and immigration permits in terms of the Immigration Act. The applicants also sought an order setting aside a Department of Home Affairs (Department) directive, Immigration Directive 21 of 2015 (Directive), which requires Departmental functionaries to refuse all applications for temporary and permanent residence visas made by the holder of an asylum seeker permit.
The order issued is as follows:
Leave to appeal is granted.
The appeal is upheld and the order of the Supreme Court of Appeal is set aside.
To the extent that Immigration Directive 21 of 2015, issued by the Director-General of the Department of Home Affairs on 3 February 2016, imposes a blanket ban on asylum seekers from applying for visas without provision for an exemption application under section 31(2)(c) of the Immigration Act 13 of 2002, it is declared inconsistent with the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 and invalid.
To the extent that Immigration Directive 21 of 2015, issued by the Director-General of the Department of Home Affairs on 3 February 2016, prohibits asylum seekers from applying for permanent residence permits while inside the Republic of South Africa, it is declared inconsistent with Regulation 23 of the Immigration Regulations, 2014 published under Government Notice R413 in Government Gazette 37697 of 22 May 2014 and invalid.
There is no order as to costs.
While this is good news for SA's asylum seekers, it remains to be seen what the Department of Home Affairs' reaction to the judgement will be.
To read the full case details, click here.
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Folly Field, SC
About Folly Field
One of Hilton Head Island's oldest and best-established communities. It's not just a great place to vacation, but also a wonderful place to live. Many island visitors had their first stay at Folly Field. But today's Folly Field is undergoing a large-scale renovation. What was once old is now becoming one of Hilton Head Island's premier vacation destinations. Located between Palmetto Dunes and the Port Royal, this is soon to become one of the top residential and vacation spots on Hilton Head Island.
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The Academy of Excellence provides world class strength and conditioning coaching. The programming has been designed to assist young athletes in their chosen sport and has been developed by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the area – if not the world!
It has been created for young elite athletes in the area to develop their sporting skills and fulfil their sporting potential. The Academy's main goal is to improve athletic performance, reduce the risk of injury, and condition their bodies in preparation for their sporting goals.
We currently have lots of different athletes taking part in the Academy so if your child is serious about a chosen sport and would like to develop their potential; the Academy is the best place to start!
My name is Jason Clarke, one of your Tribe Punch Coaches. I have a Graduate Diploma in Applied Science - Physical Conditioning Specialty, Diploma in Massage Therapy, Diploma in Sporting Performance, and I am a High Performance Sport New Zealand Provider. I have worked with several teams including: All Blacks, Wallabies Rugby Team, England Netball Team, Olympic Gold winning Fiji 7s Team, Warriors Rugby League team, and with this knowledge I'm looking forward to providing our tribe punch athletes with more understanding of the sport of boxing and kickboxing and a greater confidence within themselves. My aim is to ensure that every athlete is motivated and challenged not only mentally but physically to new levels of fitness, strength and of course fighting skills.
Shane grew up playing every sport he had access to and early on had a particular love for rugby and running and all things training. This lead him to Otago University where he did degrees in Physical Education and Psychology. Following Uni Shane spent some time working and cycling across Europe. After travelling and a decade of working as a social worker with youth, Shane returned to his roots and his passion for sport and performance . This lead Shane to completing a Masters in Psychology studying the work stressors of professional rugby players and a Masters in Sport and Exercise Science studying the importance of warm ups in cold environments.
For the past 8 years Shane has been working as a Strength & Conditioning coach for High Performance Sport New Zealand based in Wanaka and has been lucky enough to travel the world working alongside some of the best freestyle skiers and snowboarders in the business. His training & coaching approach revolves round doing the basics exceptionally well, giving athletes and clients a little of what they want and a lot of what they need. When not in the gym or travelling with the team, Shane can be found running or biking on the tracks around Wanaka, paddling on the lake or holidaying in warm places.


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Ryan Adams Issues New Statement About Abuse Allegations, Promises Comeback
"I have a lot to say. I am going to. Soon."
By Alex Hudson
Back in February, Ryan Adams was accused of abuse by multiple women, which resulted in an FBI inquiry into an alleged online relationship with an underage fan. His album and tour were subsequently cancelled, and Adams went silent, but he has now emerged with a new statement and promises of a comeback.
He shared a statement in the form of a lengthy Instagram post, which begins:
I have a lot to say. I am going to. Soon.
Because the truth matters.
It's what matters most.
I know who I am. What I am.
It's time people know.
Past time.
The statement never directly confronts the many accusations against him, although it does include a rundown of some of his personal hardships, including losing his brother and battling the inner-ear condition Meniere's disease.
There is a passage of the post that vaguely alludes to the #MeToo movement. It even possibly suggests that he accepts some degree of blame for his actions, as he mentions his "faults" and "self-reflection" and writes:
Believe Women.
Believe Truth.
But never give up on being part of solutions, and healing.
He talks about wanting to play shows and release records. Read the statement below. He's also made a number of other social media posts within the past day, although this is the only one that discusses the allegations.
"I have a lot to say. I am going to. Soon. Because the truth matters. It's what matters most. I know who I am. What I am. It's time people know. Past time. All the beauty in a life cannot be reduced to rubble for confusion, ignoring truths that destroy all the good in us. This madness and misunderstanding. There's enough of that in this world My work was always meant to be a map for the lost. I've tried my best to be open and accountable. Not a billboard. I mean, maybe for being flawed. I've always wanted to help. I'm trying. So, soon... because it's time to get back to what I do best. I'm here for the music, for the love and for making things better. I didn't have an easy life. I lost my brother the day the Prisoner Tour ended. Every night wondering if he would be alive. He was proud of me. My family and my friends were there for that. And so many great fans. For the Meineres community who suffer every day. This music was for then. It mattered. And that was always for it to help. So let's do that. THAT will matter. The amends made and things lost in the noise, that should've mattered too. I want to be a part of that healing. To go play have some great shows and put out these badass records. Believe Women. Believe Truth. But never give up on being part of solutions, and healing. I've lost friends who have passed away in this time of self reflection and silence. I can't be like that. There's been too much that mattered. Thank you for your kindness, your support and for this time I needed to decide how I could be a part of a better tomorrow for everybody. Sometimes that peace comes from opening yourself up. That's who I want to be. Here's to that. With love and with faith- In all of us and our best and our faults RA
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Pacher was a citizen of Bruneck in the Tyrol from 1467 to 1496. A painter and sculptor, his first known work was an altarpiece of 1465, now lost. He produced altarpieces in Gries, near Bolzano, St Wolfgang and Kloster Neustift in the 1470s and 1480s. 'The Virgin and Child Enthroned' in the Collection, which is attributed to Pacher, is dated to about the 1470s.
He worked in Salzburg in 1484, and again between 1496 and 1498, when he painted a high altarpiece for the Franciscan church there.


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Dr Mohammad Farhad Peerally
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George Davies Centre
Leicester, LE1 7RH
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Rethinking Hell: Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism Apr 15, 2014
by Christopher M. Date , Gregory G. Stump , Joshua W. Anderson , John G Stackhouse Jr.
Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earle Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.
Peter S. Grice - Igniting an Evangelical Conversation
Glenn A. Peoples - Introduction to Evangelical Conditionalism
Edward W. Fudge - The Final End of the Wicked
Stephen H. Travis - The Nature of Final Destiny
John R. W. Stott - Judgment and Hell
Clark H. Pinnock - The Destruction of the Finally Impenitent
John W. Wenham - The Case for Conditional Immortality
Basil F. C. Atkinson - The Doom of the Lost
E. Earle Ellis - New Testament Teaching on Hell
Ralph G. Bowles - Does Revelation 14:11 Teach Eternal Torment?
Harold E. Guillebaud - The General Trend of Bible Teaching
Anthony C. Thiselton - Claims about "Hell" and Wrath
Philip E. Hughes - Is the Soul Immortal?
Henry Constable - Divine Justice
Christopher D. Marshall - Divine and Human Punishment in the New Testament
Nigel G. Wright - A Kinder, Gentler Damnation?
Richard G. Swinburne - The Future of the Totally Corrupt
Kim G. Papaioannou - The Development of Gehenna Between the Old and New Testaments
LeRoy E. Froom - Conditionalism in the Early Church
Evangelical Alliance - Hell and Evangelical Unity
Roger E. Olson - Diverse Christian Beliefs About Life Beyond Death
Ben Witherington III - Equally Orthodox Christians
"As more and more people open their minds to rethink the doctrine of final punishment, this book will be a valuable resource and reference. I wish it had been available when I did my own research. This volume is extensive, inclusive, and impressive in scope and approach. I am delighted to endorse it! A book for our time, it should enjoy great success."
--Edward Fudge, author of The Fire That Consumes
"This volume is to be welcomed and recommended for its usefulness in gathering together some of the most significant contributions from leading scholars and preachers who question whether the eternal conscious punishment of the wicked is a correct interpretation of the biblical teaching."
--I. Howard Marshall, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Christopher M. Date is the principal blogger and podcaster of the Rethinking Hell project and works as a software engineer in the Pacific Northwest. Gregory G.
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Does God Predetermine the Eternal Destiny of Every Individual Human Being? (Essential Christian Debates) Jul 16, 2018
by Christopher M. Date , Gil VanOrder Jr.
In this inaugural debate to the "Essential Christian Debates" series, Christopher M. Date and Gil VanOrder Jr. examine the biblical teaching and philosophical implications of individual predestination to salvation. Does the Calvinistic position, as taught, render God a moral monster? Conversely, would the Arminian position logically lead one to pray like the Pharisee, "God, I thank you that I am not like other men?" A Calvinist and an Arminian tackle these pressing questions, among others, and explore a number of key biblical teachings, taking us beyond the caricatures of each position. This debate is for both beginning and experienced students of Scripture and provides an indispensible resource on a controversial topic hotly debated within the church for centuries.
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Is Jesus Human and Not Divine?: A Debate (Essential Christian Debates) Apr 29, 2020
by Dale Tuggy , Christopher M. Date
Jesus of Nazareth long ago asked his disciples this crucial question, and it remains a relevant one every person must answer today. In this essential debate on an all-important topic, two contributors offer competing views on who Jesus is.
Combining first-rate Christian scholarship with uncommon readability, this debate offers a treasure trove of biblical, philosophical, and patristic arguments regarding the person of Jesus. Reading this book will challenge you intellectually and nourish you spiritually, deepening your understanding of the most intriguing man who has ever lived. Be prepared to be informed.
A Consuming Passion: Essays on Hell and Immortality in Honor of Edward Fudge Jan 25, 2016
by Christopher M. Date , Ron Highfield , Stephen Travis
This diverse collection of essays in honor of Edward William Fudge explores the topics of hell and immortality, for which Fudge has been widely known through his magnum opus, The Fire That Consumes. Most Christians believe people will live and suffer in hell forever, but Fudge defends a view known historically as "conditional immortality." He and a growing minority of Christians believe God will grant immortality only to those who meet the condition of being united with Christ on the Last Day, while those who do not will perish forever. Although Christians sharing Fudge's view have defended it both before and after him, conditionalists today still point to The Fire That Consumes as the seminal treatment of the topic.
In July 2014, Christians from around the world gathered at the inaugural Rethinking Hell conference, to celebrate Fudge's life and work and to discuss the nature of hell in an open and respectful forum. This volume contains most of the essays presented at that conference, and several others volunteered by conditionalists since then, as a gift to Fudge for the tremendous impact he has had on them, and for the continued work he does for God's kingdom.
"This new set of essays on the topic of hell's duration is a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion on this important topic . . . What we have here is not a bunch of hobbyhorse theologians sitting around agreeing with each other, but a group of astute pastors and scholars wrestling with what God's inspired word says about hell. I commend this book to anyone who is wrestling with the topic of God's future judgment."
--Preston Sprinkle, Vice President for Eternity Bible College's Boise extension, coauthor of Erasing Hell and People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
"This excellent collection of compelling essays is not only a fitting tribute to the lifelong passion and work of a great scholar; it's a superb opportunity for readers to be relieved of the onerous weight of believing our loving Creator vengefully consigns people to an unending nightmare from which they will never awake. If you share this traditional view of hell, please do yourself a favor and devour this work!"
--Gregory A. Boyd, President of Reknew.org and author of Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
"This is a dangerous book. These eminently readable essays--by turns personal, exegetical, theological, and historical--have the potential to change the minds and hearts of the contemporary church on the question of final judgment. Read at your own risk!"
--J. Richard Middleton, Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College and author of A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology
Christopher M. Date is the editor of Rethinking Hell: Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism (2014), and blogs and podcasts for the Rethinking Hell project. He works as a software engineer in the Pacific Northwest.
Ron Highfield is Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is the author of The Faithful Creator: Affirming Creation and Providence in an Age of Anxiety (2015).


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Heroic neighbours scaled wall and kicked down doors to rescue elderly
Stefan Payne and his friends Billy Dean and Joseph Rogerson were first on the scene and rushed into the retirement home shouting the roof was on fire when they were told the policy was to keep the residents in their rooms.
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Stefan Payne, centre, with Joseph Rogerson, left, and Billy Dean rushed into the burning Beechmere Retirement Complex and rescued dozens of elderly and disabled residents
A Crewe man scaled up the wall of Beechmere using the lift as a ladder to get into the burning building with his friends and rescue residents before firefighters arrived.
Crewe care home fire does not appear to have been started deliberately
Pointing to the wall he scaled before he and his friends kicked down doors to get people out, Stefan told the Chronicle: "I ran up those ladders there to try and get them out - they're not even ladders it's the lift - but I just ran up them anyway with the fire extinguishers and then me and him (Billy Dean) have gone in and said 'your building's on fire' and they said the patients stay where they are in their rooms.
"I went mate your roof's on fire.
Beechmere fire 'Could have been a repeat of Grenfell' - Crewe residents react to disaster on social media as 'amazing community' praised
"They were saying they stay in their rooms, so me and him went upstairs and started bringing people out. There were people in wheelchairs. Me and him (Joseph) carried about 40 people down those stairs last night.
Clean-up continues at the Beechmere site in Crewe (Image: Cheshire Fire and Rescue)
Stefan said they were working with four other men they didn't know.
"But we were just ferrying people from the top room, people who couldn't move, people with arthritis, bed-ridden, we just knew we had to get them out here.
"We were bringing them to the bottom floor, pushing them as far as we could and then other people were there to bring them through," he said.
Stefan said the roof had already started to collapse.
These are the donated items available for residents of the destroyed Crewe retirement home
"We could hear the roof coming in above us when we were going in," he said.
"We had to tell everyone not to go into a stairway because bits of the ceiling were coming down. Then the fire brigade came and they took over. We stayed there helping until everyone was out," he said.
Joseph Rogerson added: "The fire brigade weren't here straight away because obviously they had to get here, so in the time they got here that roof could have collapsed and someone could have been in there so it was a fact of just get them out. We kicked the doors off."
The fire has completely destroyed Beechmere care home in Crewe (Image: Cheshire Fire and Rescue)
Nearby resident Ralph said as people became aware of what was happening more came to the aid of the elderly and disabled residents at Beechmere.
"We managed to get about 50 people out in their wheelchairs," he said. "We had plenty of people around to help us get them out."
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What is it like to work as a librarian, and to live a librarian's life? Sheila Craik worked at Glasgow University Library for 37 years. She worked firstly at the issue desk, and then she was made responsible for music recollections, including Henry Farmer collection. Farmer was "the first English-speaking scholar on Arab music", and his collection attracted scholars, for whom she provided assistance. Her support was sometimes beyond what was usually expected for a librarian. "I was just interested in Farmer and his work, and in the researchers."
She started to help the compiling of a bibliography of Farmer's work in 1983, and continued this after her retirement of 1992. Finally, "Henry George Farmer: a bibliography" was published in 1999, and it was credited to Carl Cowl, who had died two years earlier, and Sheila M. Craik. Another book, "Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932)" was published in 2015. It was credited to Israel J. Katz "with the collaboration of Sheila M. Craik." A librarian's work on Farmers collection seems to have enriched her life.
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© 2019 Japan Desk Scotland
You can watch this video on the homepage of Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland.
This is part of Japan Desk Scotland's documentary films production.
This has been screened:
(1) on Tuesday 4 June 2019 at University of Glasgow Chapel, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japanese Craft Documentaries co-organised by University of Glasgow Chaplaincy and Japan Desk Scotland as part of the West End Festival; and
(2) on Wednesday 6 November 2019 at Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of 'voices Heard (documentaries).


The ICU of the Specialized Hospital of Azerbaijan is located on the second floor of the main building of the hospital and provides intensive care of the patients in a quiet environment without any noise by experienced and experienced personnel with the best quality for improving the health with the aim of minimizing hospital complications such as bed sore and infections. Hospital and with the help of special equipment and equipment.
This section consists of eleven separate units, one of which is designed as an isolate for infectious patients.
Each bed has a wound dressing to prevent bedding, and at the top of each bed there is a separate console consisting of four sockets, a central oxygen system, a central suction system, a complete cardiopulmonary monitoring system connected to the central monitor. Also, each bed is equipped with a number of ambos.
This section also includes a viewing room equipped with a closed-circuit television system, which allows the patient's companions to be informed and observed at any moment by their patient.
In this section, there is a 24-hour specialist anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist and 20 nurses specialize in experienced, experienced and capable staff in this department. All ICU staff and nurses are continuously undergo special training to improve the level of science and update the therapeutic skills and care of patients admitted to hospital conferences or public conferences.
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Film & Pianola
By Alan French
Going through my old e-mails, I found a submission made to a journal whose name I shall keep anonymous. It was in response for memories of the Old Town Hall. After some searching, I did not find that my memories were published. Upon re-reading the article, I feel that people, who, like me, are interested in films and pianos, may enjoy the article. So in view of the fact that my memory is an unpublished item gathering microchip dust within a computer e-mail file, why waste it? There now follows the unpublished work:
Film and pianolas
The emphasis in the recent article regarding the Old Town Hall, seems to be that of live entertainment. But oddly enough my entertainment memories are that of film and pianolas. One of them involved a film which projected on a screen placed flat facing upward on a floor. The audience entered a small curtained enclosure and gazed at aerial views specially filmed and which now were projected by some mirror refracted system onto the screen. I am not sure who presented the event.
Hemel Hempstead Cine Society
Two other film events that I recall were presented partially or wholly by my film and video club. As Hemel Hempstead Cine Society, we had on occasion, presented the results of an international film competition called The Ten Best. The last time that we did this was in the Old Town Hall. The other event, was presented either just prior or after we changed our name to Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers. This was an all day event. We, on behalf or in conjunction with another club, presented films made on the single eight gauge. The other club specialised in this gauge. Single eight was a rival and similar gauge to super eight. However, where more than one company manufactured super eight, only Fuji made single eight film.
Pianola
However, there is one event that I attended one Saturday morning or afternoon that did not have anything to do with films. It was to do with mechanical piano playing. On display there was a pianola. The hammers were external and placed over a real piano's keyboard. A paper roll was placed inside the pianola and one could pedal away and allow the pianola to play the real piano.
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However, someone did take this invention further and invented a player piano, which was both a real piano and a mechanical one. Inside were two special pedals which when operated by foot, again, a paper roll would be operated, and with a combination of bellows pipes, cog wheels etc…… (hidden from view), a tune could be played. As years progressed, someone invented electric versions so that the pedals moved without the assistance of human feet. Now that the coming of everything being done by one piano, which could be played both by a pianist or a mechanical paper roll, many of the earlier pianolas were destroyed. These I gather are rare and very valuable.
Today the system is computerised. The player pianos were operated while the audience sat, listened and enjoyed tea, cakes and scones in the Old Town Hall. It was very enjoyable.


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It's Pretty Cold, So Senator Inhofe is Rambling About Climate Change
With the Polar Vortex threatening us all this week, Senator Jim Inhofe took to the Senate floor on Monday to run through just about every reason he personally does not think climate change is a real thing.
Abby Ohlheiser
With the Polar Vortex threatening us all this week, Senator Jim Inhofe took to the Senate floor on Monday to run through just about every reason he personally does not think climate change is a real thing. Because it's cold outside! Get it?
The Oklahoma Republican, in cause you weren't aware, believes that climate change is made up and pushed on the American public as "science" because of a giant evil conspiracy (seriously, he wrote a book about this), so his decision to take to the floor with his beliefs on Monday shouldn't be a huge surprise. Cold weather is more or less a written invitation for Inhofe to show up and talk about his personal feelings climate change. Here are his feelings today:
Inhofe has a bunch of concerns here, the first of which pertains to, in his words, "what's happening right now, up in Antarctica," a reference to the unusually thick ice forming on earth's southernmost continent. Somehow, to Inhofe, the anecdote of multiple ships getting trapped in that ice over the past months renders the evidence for climate change "almost laughable." Inhofe's counter-evidence to the consensus of over 95 percent of climate scientists also includes more anecdotes, especially those showing how it is sometimes cold when people want to talk about climate change. Here are the examples he cited:
It was cold during a 2004 "global warming rally."
It was also cold during a 2007 media briefing on a climate bill.
Another 2007 rally was snowy
Al Gore gave a speech at Harvard, and it was cold.
The British House of Commons discussed global warming, and it snowed. It was October, and that's pretty rare.
In 2008, Al Gore discussed global warming in Milan, and it snowed. This is also extremely rare.
In March of 2009, Nancy Pelosi had a "big global warming rally" and it snowed.
The Department of Public Works once had a hearing about climate change, and it snowed.
Inhofe added that he believes "the ones that were responsible for the whole global warming movement was the United Nations." And even though the scientific research into climate change actually helps to explain the unusual weather patterns behind the recent arctic chill in much of the U.S., Inhofe seems to think that the cold weather actually supports his theory, apparently because it, too, makes a good anecdote. Those ships trapped in the antarctic ice also make a good anecdote for Inhofe, because one of the vessels was carrying scientists who were researching the effects of climate change. Funny!
Inhofe then tries to transition this anecdote into a kind of unfortunate discussion of arctic sea ice (which is melting at an accelerated rate). As we've explained before, the ice near the two different poles are two very different things, suggesting that Inhofe is failing to understand not only that anecdotes aren't equivalent to data sets, but also the difference between the arctic and antarctic regions of the Earth.
Abby Ohlheiser is a former staff writer for The Wire.


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Tiki Pop. America imagines its own Polynesian Paradise
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Polynesian pop icon
How Tiki became an American dream
Published in connection with an exhibition at the prestigious Musée du quai Branly in Paris, this history of Tiki from urban archaeologist Sven Kirsten explores one of the most colorful pop culture phenomena of mid-century America. Through hundreds of previously unpublished images and ephemera, trace the Tiki trend from the first Pacific island exploration to Hollywood jungle fantasies and elaborate temples built to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation.
Hardcover, 9.8 x 12.8 in., 384 pages
Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture.
Published in connection with an exhibition at the prestigious Musée du quai Branly in Paris, Tiki Pop traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and cultural appropriation. Follow Tiki from James Cook's first Pacific Island expeditions, through Gauguin's exotic paintings, Hollywood jungle fantasies, and elaborate temples erected to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. With hundreds of previously unpublished images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds from its earliest, enthusiastic beginnings to its spectacular downfall in the dawning awareness of the Western world's colonial misdeeds.
This book is the culmination of the extensive research of Sven Kirsten, urban archaeologist, Tiki sage, and author of earlier TASCHEN books, The Book of Tiki and Tiki Modern, which first recovered the figure of Tiki from obscurity. In his widely lauded graphic style, Kirsten places venerable ancient godheads next to their Polynesian pop counterparts, movie posters next to matchboxes, comic strips next to Robinson Crusoe illustrations. The result is at once a visual feast, a piece of cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise.
Sven Kirsten was conceived on a freighter of his grandfather's Hamburg-Chicago Line. Following the call of the big world, he moved to California at the age of 25. Kirsten studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and began shooting music videos in the late 1980s for The Cramps, Tom Waits, Sergio Mendes and others. After years of hunting down pieces of the puzzle of Polynesian Pop, Kirsten has developed a singular insight into the Cult of Tiki and has become the country's most eminent Tiki archaeologist.
The lost continent of Tiki
Tiki Pop in Hollywood
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