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Q: CSS: how to implement loading bar animation So I wanted to copy a animated loading bar from here: https://www.cssscript.com/demo/animated-progress-bar-component-with-pure-css/
But my loading bar is not animating.
What's wrong with it?

.loading-bar {
  height: 18px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 100%;
  font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
  background-color: #EEE;
  box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

.loading-bar-animation {
  transition: none 0s ease 0s;
  width: 100%;
  height: 18px;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-size: 35px 35px;
  box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  background-color: #aaa;
  -webkit-animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
  animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
}

A: Your say that .loading-bar-animation has the animation cssProgressActive. Problem is that you don't define this animation. After research this animation is this one and is normaly defined in the cssProgress.css file. Are you sure that you have imported it ?

.loading-bar {
  height: 18px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 100%;
  font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
  background-color: #EEE;
  box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

.loading-bar-animation {
  transition: none 0s ease 0s;
  width: 100%;
  height: 18px;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-size: 35px 35px;
  box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  background-color: #aaa;
  -webkit-animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
  animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes cssProgressActive {
  0% {
    background-position:0 0
  }

  100% {
   background-position:35px 35px
  }
}

A: You forgot to add the animation to the CSS script.

.loading-bar {
     height: 18px;
     width: 100%;
     position: relative;
     overflow: hidden;
     width: 100%;
     font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
     background-color: #EEE;
     box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
 .loading-bar-animation {
     transition: none 0s ease 0s;
     width: 100%;
     height: 18px;
     background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 50%, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
     background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 50%, rgba(255,255,255,0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
     background-size: 35px 35px;
     box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
     background-color: #aaa;
     -webkit-animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
     animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
}

/* Must Include the animation below */
 @-webkit-keyframes cssProgressActive {
     0% {
         background-position:0 0
    }
     100% {
         background-position:35px 35px
    }
}
 @keyframes cssProgressActive {
     0% {
         background-position:0 0
    }
     100% {
         background-position:35px 35px
    }
}
 @-webkit-keyframes cssProgressActiveRight {
     0% {
         background-position:0 0
    }
     100% {
         background-position:-35px -35px
    }
}
 @keyframes cssProgressActiveRight {
     0% {
         background-position:0 0
    }
     100% {
         background-position:-35px -35px
    }
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

 <title>CSS Loading Bar</title>

A: I think you didn't include the CSS and your wrappers are not set properly.
Here how to make it work:

.loading-bar {
  height: 18px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 100%;
  font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
  background-color: #EEE;
  box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

.loading-bar-animation {
  transition: none 0s ease 0s;
  width: 100%;
  height: 18px;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-size: 35px 35px;
  box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  background-color: #aaa;
  -webkit-animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
  animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.cssscript.com/demo/animated-progress-bar-component-with-pure-css/assets/css/cssProgress.css">

A: You forgot to copy the animation

@-webkit-keyframes
cssProgressActive { 0% {
background-position:0 0
}
100% {
background-position:35px 35px
}
}
@keyframes
cssProgressActive { 0% {
background-position:0 0
}
100% {
background-position:35px 35px
}
}
.loading-bar {
  height: 18px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 100%;
  font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
  background-color: #EEE;
  box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

.loading-bar-animation {
  transition: none 0s ease 0s;
  width: 100%;
  height: 18px;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.125) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  background-size: 35px 35px;
  box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  background-color: #aaa;
  -webkit-animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
  animation: cssProgressActive 2s linear infinite;
}


Last week I published Do You Remember – A Tuesday List of Ten which was a list of things that have been become nearly obsolete because of changes in technology or social policy over the recent past. The responses from readers listed other things that fit the same category. This week I present a follow-up which includes some responses from readers as well as other items that were omitted from the first list.
This week Tuesday List of Ten is actually 3 lists as I respond to a challenge.
It took me long enough, but I am finally going to answer the invitation to the Love/Hate Challenge as nominated by Donna of Homemade Naturally. Thanks to Donna for nominating me, and my apologies for the tardiness of my response. Check out the wonderful, informative blog Homemade Naturally.
In this challenge, I have to list ten things that I love and then ten things that I hate. Then, I must nominate 10 bloggers to do the same.
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If I were naming a baby today, I am not sure which name I would select. I would like to think that I would choose something that fits the baby's personality, but I would probably already have something picked out well ahead of time.
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Yuletide: Jos North Chair seeks peace, unity among residents
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Again, a call has been made to residents of Jos North local government area of Plateau State to maintain the tempo of the peace being enjoyed and ensure they are united so that development can be achieved in the area.
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The capital city of Plateau had been plagued with violence conflicts for almost two decades and the city is polarized along religious and ethnic lines but is currently experiencing relative peace which must be sustained especially as the yuletide approaches.
The Transition Committee Chairman, Jos North local government area, Shehu Usman, appealed to citizens irrespective of religious difference to live in harmony with one another for the good of the society.
Usman, in press text by the Senior Information Officer, Phillip Eplong, reiterated he was determined to work with the people and ensure lasting peace is achieved in the area by persuading traders to "relocate from segregated business places base on religion and return to markets where people of different faith interact and transact businesses."
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The WHO has advised that the influence of Traditional medicine and healers in healthcare in Africa could be used to give an impetus to the AIDS initiatives.Anti-AIDS programs should include the contributions of traditional healers, by partnering with them to increase the awareness about AIDS. It would indeed be an intelligent move, to use the good relationship shared between the traditional practitioners and local communities in Africa, to impact a worthy cause.
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Mbappe, 20, joined Paris Saint-Germain on loan in the 2017/18 off-season and eventually signed a permanent deal at the end of that campaign as the second highest football transfer in history when they forked out €180m to prise him away from AS Monaco.
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A Las Vegas Police officer fired four rounds at an armed man engaged in a physical struggle with a woman outside a gas station last week, fatally wounding him. Watch the dramatic body cam footage of the shooting above.
According to the Las Vegas Sun, the incident unfolded when a citizen called 911 at 5:34 p.m. on Tuesday to report a man—who appeared to be armed—choking his wife in front of a gas station convenience store. The body cam footage starts as the unidentified officer steps out of his vehicle.
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"What's going on?" the officer yells as he sees the suspect—later identified as 41-year-old Phillip Pitts—holding his wife at gunpoint. "What's that in your hand? Drop the gun!"
The officer then tells the wife, who is screaming throughout the entire ordeal, to get away from Pitts.
"Step away from him. Step away. Step away from him now!" the officer says before addressing Pitts again. "Step away from her!" he orders.
Pitts ignores the officer. During a press conference after the fact, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts said Pitts pointed the gun at his head and threatened to shoot himself, while his wife pleaded with him not to pull the trigger.
The officer—who takes cover at various points behind his vehicle as well as another civilian vehicle—repeatedly tells Pitts to put the gun down and get down on the ground, to no avail.
At about one minute and 43 seconds into the video, Officer David Nesheiwat, 33, arrives on the scene. When he sees Pitts press his gun into his wife's stomach, he opened fire, shooting Pitts twice, the Sun says. Pitts goes down, but he's still holding the gun and pointing it at his wife, which prompts Nesheiwat to fire at Pitts two more times, killing him.
After the shooting stops, Pitts' wife stumbles over to a curb, sits down and says, ""I'm hit … I got hit!"
One of the bullets went through Pitts' arm and into the woman's stomach. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she underwent surgery. She's expected to survive. Roberts said the couple's 10-year-old daughter had tried to keep Pitts away from her mother before police got there, but she isn't visible in the body cam footage.
An investigation revealed that Pitts didn't have any priors in Las Vegas, but he did have multiple misdemeanor arrests in Hawaii, with his last being in 2007.
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Nesheiwat, an 11-year veteran of the Las Vegas Police Department, has been placed on administrative leave, per standard procedure.
During the press conference, Roberts discussed the decision-making process that leads an officer to discharge his weapon, stating that his LEOs are trained to assess the danger a suspect poses to themselves and bystanders.
"The intent is to save lives, not take lives … and trying to neutralize the threat as best as you can," he said.
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Kenyon currently works at Nomad Foods in the same same role.
Prior to that, he was also chief financial officer at Iglo Foods Holdings, a sub-brand of Nomad Foods.
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O Grande Sol de Mercúrio é o quarto livro da série Lucky Starr, seis livros infanto-juvenis de ficção científica escritos por Isaac Asimov, que originariamente foram publicados sob o pseudônimo de Paul French. O livro foi primeiramente publicado por Doubleday & Company em março de 1956. Desde 1972, re-edições incluem uma introdução de Asimov explicando que devido às avançadas condições de conhecimento sobre Mercúrio, algumas descrições se tornaram imprecisas.

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O Grande Sol de Mercúrio foi escrito em 1955, quando ainda se acreditava que Mercúrio era acoplado ao sol gravitacionalmente. Um dos personagens nota que em alguns lugares no lado do planeta virado para o Sol, não é quente o suficiente para derreter chumbo e ferver enxofre, enquanto seu lado escuro é a única superfície planetária do Sistema Solar que nunca recebe a luz do Sol. à maioria da ação do livro acontece entre e em volta de um observatório astronômico localizado no Pólo Norte do planeta, onde resultados de uma libração em meia milha no movimento de um terminador. O observatório foi construído 50 anos antes no lugar onde um complexo de mineração funcionava, há muito abandonado.

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Um ano se passou desde os eventos de Os Oceanos de Vênus, e nesse meio-tempo um projeto de pesquisas financiado pelo governo, o Project Light, é construído no observatório astronômico do pólo norte de Mercúrio, para pesquisar uma recém descoberta ótica sub-etérica na esperança de transmitir energia solar através do hiper-espaço. Encabeçando o Project Light, o líder cientista em ótica sub-etérica, Scott Mindes. Uma série de acidentes afligem o Project Light, que David "Lucky" Starr e Bigman Jones vieram investigar. Logo após se reunir com Starr e Bigman, Mindes leva-os para a superfície de Mercúrio e explica sua preocupações; mas entra em um frenezi e atira com um blaster em Starr, quando então Bigman ataca ele e ele é levado ao observatório inconsciente.

Starr e Bigman encontram com um amigo de Mindes,o dr. Karl Gardoma, o médico-cirurgião do observatório; Jonathan Urteil, que trabalha para um político de oposição ao Conselho de Ciência chamado Senador Swenson; o dr. Lance Perevale, o líder do observatório; e o dr. Hanley Cook, chefe-assistente de Perivale, que quer tomar o seu lugar. No dia seguinte, em um banquete em honra de Starr, Perevale afirma sua crença em que os Sírios estão por trás dos problemas que afligem o Project Light; quando então Starr responde que à maioria dos locais mais prováveis onde os Sírios poderiam estar são as minas abandonadas sob o observatório, e propõem um busca.

Falando com Cook depois do jantar, Starr aprende que na opinião de Cook, Perevale se tornou obcecado pensando na ameaça Síria. Enquanto Bigman se prepara para um viagem até as minas, Starr consegue dois micro-ergômetros, para pode detectar uma força atômica à distância. Nas minas, Starr conta à Bigman que sua sugestão sobre os Sírios estarem usando as minas foi um estratagema, e que ele pretende investigar o lado do planeta banhado pelo sol enquanto Bigman permanece nas minas e mantém a pretensão da presença de Starr lá. Depois que Starr sai, Bigman é atacado pelo blaster de Urteil, e liga para a redoma, à procura de ajuda. No lado banhado pelo sol, Starr encontra à origem das sabotagens em um robô Sírio, impulsionado pela radiação solar, renunciando às Três Leis da Robótica, e ataca Starr antes que ele possa questioná-lo.

Na redoma, Bigman desafia Urteil para uma luta na gravidade de Mercúrio. O dr. Cook reduz a gravidade artificial na sala de força da redoma, para níveis mercurianos; mas durante a luta, a gravidade retorna repentinamente para níveis da Terra, e Urteil cai e morre.

Quando Starr retorna à redoma e fica sabendo da morte de Urteil, ele pede para estar presente quando Perevale irá conduzir um inquérito oficial sobre isso, onde Bigman revela que foi Cook que causou à morte de Urteil e também revela que somente Cook poderia saber onde ele e Starr estariam nas minas, portanto Urteil tem que ter pego essa informação com ele. Cook então admite que Urteil tinha chantageado ele, e foi morto para salvar a carreira de Cook. Starr então revela que o robô foi trazido de Sirius por Perevale na esperança de usá-lo para implicar os Sírios na na sabotagem do Project Light. Starr coloca Perevale e Cook sob ordens de prisão, e assume o controle da Redoma em nome do Conselho de Ciência.

Na viagem de retorno à Terra, Starr admite a Bigman que a presente disputa entre o senador Swenson e o Conselho de Ciência está em empate, e que Urteil não foi capaz de manufacturar nenhum escândalo contra o Project Light, mas os dois homens principais no Observatório de Mercúrio foram expostos como criminosos. Embora Swenson seja cruel e perigoso, ele é o tipo de crítico que o Conselho precisa para manter sua honestidade.

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Embora os Sírios tenham sido apresentados em Vigilante das Estrelas, como os vilões da série, eles se tornaram nada mais do que uma vaga ameaça externa até esse livro em particular. O dr. Perevale descreve eles desta maneira, no capítulo 5:

"Os planetas de Sirius são pouco populosos e extremamente descentralizados. Eles vivem unidades familiares individuais e isoladas, onde cada uma tem sua própria fonte de energia e serviços. Cada família tem um grupo de escravos mecânicos — não tem outra palavra para descrever isso — escravos na forma de robôs positrônicos, que fazem todo o trabalho. Os humanos de Sirius se mantém como uma aristocracia guerreira. Cada um deles sabe usar um cruzador espacial. Eles nunca descansarão até destruírem a Terra...

"Eles nos desprezam. Eles consideram os terráqueos nada mais que animais. Os Sírios são uma raça muito consciente à respeito deles mesmos. Desde que os primeiros terráqueos colonizaram Sirius, eles tem se criado e reproduzido cuidadosamente até ficarem livres de doenças e outras várias características que consideram indesejáveis.

"Eles tem uma aparência uniforme, enquanto os homens da Terra são de todos os formatos, tamanhos, cores e variedades. Eles nos consideram inferiores. Por isso não nos deixam imigrar para Sirius".

Os Sírios, portanto, assemelham-se aos "Solários" de The Naked Sun, embora menos isolados e bem menos agressivos. Em O Grande Sol de Mercúrio, Starr nota que:

Se os Sírios são uma raça consciente e estão se reproduzindo em uniformidade, eles derrotaram eles mesmo em longo termo. É a variedade da raça humana que traz o progresso. É a Terra e não Sirius que está na vanguarda da pesquisa científica. Os homens da Terra colonizaram Sirius em primeiro lugar, e somos nós, não nossos primos Sírios que estão avançando em novas direções à cada ano".

Também é digno o fato de que em O Grande Sol de Mercúrio, com referências sobre robôs positrônicos e as Três Leis da Robótica, Asimov não tenta mais esconder que ele é o verdadeiro autor, embora por uma questão de continuidade, o livro ainda aparece sob o pseudônimo de Paul French.

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Uma crítica de O Grande Sol de Mercúrio feita por John H. Jenkins.

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If France Could Fire People There Would Be No Orange Suicide Case
It appears that former management of Orange – France Telecom as then was – are guilty of creating such a toxic workplace that it led to people committing suicide.
The correct answer to which is allow companies to fire people and you'll have peoples' lives.
Former executives at France Télécom have been given prison sentences and fines after being found guilty of "institutional harassment" and creating a culture of routine workplace bullying that sparked a number of suicides at the company.
The landmark ruling is likely to send shockwaves through the French business world. It is the first time managers have been held criminally responsible for implementing a general strategy of bullying even if they had not dealt directly with the staff involved.
It's worth pointing out that the "wave" of suicides is well within the normal statistical variation for a group of people that size. Each and every suicide is indeed a tragedy and yet they do happen. The French rate is some 15 per 100,000 per year, we'd thus expect around 15 suicides a year – around note, around – in a company France Telecom's size. The rate being complained of wasn't all that different from that.
But let's ignore that and carry on with what is actually being claimed. The suicides were driven to it by those intolerable working conditions. And some of them appear to have been pretty bad:
For two and a half months, the court listened to the families of the victims and projected letters and photos on a giant screen. One read: "I am committing suicide because of my work at France Telecom, it's the only cause."
OK. So, why were they doing this?
Prosecutors say the management created a hostile work environment to get employees to quit, in a restructuring process that former employees allege became so severe that it led some staff to take their own life.
That's the claim. But why in hell do it that way? Why not just fire people?
Because in France it's damn near impossible to fire someone who has an employment contract. Thus the only way to downsize the workforce is to terrorise into people leaving. That's actually the prosecution case.
And, well, shouldn't we be blaming the laws which mean you can't fire people? Or even, pointing out that if you can fire people then you don't need to terrorise them into leaving?
But there we have it, workers' rights, employment protection, they kill the workers. Not that anyone is going to take the correct message from this except us illuminati.
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They asked them to work through lunch?
Mr Yan
Or in the afternoon.
… or the morning.
Itellyounothing
But not more than one of those options in one day.
Odd, somehow the government won't put the government on trial.
I consulted to a company whose Vice-President of Engineering was notorious for berating and ridiculing individuals during meetings. (No one died, but everyone thought it was a "toxic" environment.) But it was an airtight remedy to deliver promised reports on time, or inform him well in advance if this was impossible.
Also note that the employees killed themselves rather than leave & go get another job. Curious if that also has something to do with French work regulations.
The Thought Gang
The law is an ass. But it doesn't justify the employer, presumably, breaking other laws in an effort to force people to quit. This is a big company. They can get meetings with the government. They can plead their case in the court of public opinion. If it doesn't work out they can slowly go bust and say "we told you that would happen". What they chose to do is take it out on the little guy.
Bloke on M4
I suspect the truth is that people who commit suicide are people who were prone to being suicidal, less able to cope with stress than the norm. A stressful event: the company tries to fire them, their wife leaves them, their mother dies and the extra level of stress pushes them over the edge.
We know that most people don't take this route.
bloke in spain
It probably does. Anyone familiar with the french employment scene will know how difficult it is to get a job. Employers are reluctant to employ because those regulations make it difficult to get rid of an employee once they've hired them. So the incentive is to stay with the job you've got rather than finding yourself permanently unemployed.
"………fire people and you'll have peoples' lives."
Possibly "fire people and you'll save peoples' lives?
Michael van der Riet
H and S are right next to each other on the keyboard. Easy mistake to make. (-sarc)
A slight caveat about suicide rates. The 15/100,000 figure is for the whole population. This is going to include people who would be unlikely to be employed by FranceTelecom. Those with serious mental illness. Elderly who prefer to choose their own time to depart. People with untreatable & debilitating medical conditions. Those are just three groups I can immediately think of might have higher than average suicide rates. No doubt there are others. So one might expect Orange's suicide rate to me markedly less than the population average.
The peak suicide rate in European countries tends to be among working age men I think …..maybe teen boys then working age men. Certainly, the male rate is vastly about the population rate. So, yes, you're right to think about rates and sub-populations but I think the effect here runs the other way.
Peak rate in the UK is middle aged men, by some distance.
On the other hand, having at one time spent a considerable portion of my life hanging on to the Orange Customer Service Line waiting for what's laughably called Customer Service, I'd think an investigation of suicide rates amongst Orange subscribers might show up some interesting data.
Is it illegal in France to say, "Tu n'avais qu'un travail!!" Or is it adding "Crétin!!!!" the terror part?
It's a very arduous and lengthy process to sack someone, particularly in 'large' businesses (more than 50 employees), who are subject to vastly greater bureaucratic control. For these reasons, France has a lot of 49-person small employers who won't grow to take on anyone else, and also a lot of contract workers.
Likewise in the US; at 50 employees the untouched Obama-care Employer Mandate kicks in with obligatory fringe benefits.
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Fast-charging stations are coming: how the infrastructure for electric cars will become suitable for large-scale use
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Long charging times keep some potential buyers from buying an electric vehicle. The automobile industry and government policy makers want to change this: automobile manufacturers are planning a fast-charging network, which will make recharging batteries as convenient as filling up a gas tank. The German federal government has also launched an incentive to help achieve this.
No juice, no power: What is true for cars with internal combustion engines is true for electric cars as well. Without fuel, whether gasoline or electricity, the drive does not work. Anyone who drives through sparsely populated areas of the US, the land of the automobile, knows how drivers of electric cars sometimes feel. While petrolheads worry about an empty tank when the next gas station is 250 miles away, electric car drivers often wonder if they will make it to the next charging station.
Just as the success of the conventional automobile depended on the number of pumps available in rural areas, the success of electric cars will depend on the charging options available. Experts speak about "demand-oriented infrastructure" more and more often. What this means is not only the number of charging stations, but also their distribution and the speed at which the car batteries are charged, all of which depend on the number of electric cars that are on the road. The German National Platform for Electric Mobility (NPE) estimates that "demand-oriented infrastructure" will have 7,100 publicly available fast-charging stations and 35,000 charging stations (generally with two charging points) by 2020, making the goal of one million electric vehicles in Germany achievable.
According to the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management (BDEW), there were 7,407 publicly accessible charging points at 3,206 charging stations in Germany at the end of 2016. This means an increase of 11% compared to mid-2016, when there were nearly 900 charging points. Given that there are roughly 14,500 gas stations in Germany, 3,200 charging stations does not sound like small potatoes, especially due to the fact that electric cars make up only a fraction of registered vehicles on German roads. Yet those wishing to drive across the country will run into infrastructure gaps.
Fast-charging stations, often capable of recharging batteries up to 80% within a half hour, are still in short supply. Above all, they are badly needed along highways and state roads. According to the NPE, 85% of electric car charging is done at private charging points, such as at work or in apartment building parking lots.
More and more people are thinking about buying an electric car; hence their concerns about how to get the necessary electric power have increased as well. According to a survey done by the DEKRA vehicle inspection company, more than a quarter (26 percent) of drivers would consider purchasing an electric car; although it must be added that reservations such as "long charging times" were voiced.
For this reason, the automotive industry is no longer limiting itself to developing and selling electric cars, but is also investing in charging networks. The German companies Daimler, Volkswagen, BMW, and Ford have teamed up for a joint venture to do this. They plan to create a network of 400 "ultrafast charging stations" along the main transportation routes in Europe; these will have a charging capacity of up to 350 kW, a value that lies far beyond what is currently possible, and will therefore set a signal for the future. On the other hand, this also means that electric vehicles able to charge this quickly will have to be introduced to the market. But the vision is clear: charging should become as convenient as conventional refueling. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler explains it like this: "We want to create a network which will enable our customers traveling long distances to recharge during a short coffee break."
According to existing plans, construction should already start this year and be completed by 2020. The automobile manufacturers consider long-range capability to be an "important step in establishing electric mobility in the mass market". With regard to connectors, the joint venture has chosen the EU standard CCS (Combined Charging System). With CCS, electric cars can be charged with alternating and direct current. For many electric car models, CCS cables still cost extra. Nonetheless, all vehicles that are compatible with the CCS standard, regardless of their make, will be able to use the charging network. At the same time, the partners are encouraging other automobile manufacturers and regional partners to participate in the charging network.
To give more impetus to electric mobility, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) has initiated an incentive program which plans to subsidize the charging network with 300 million euros. This is in addition to the environmental bonus cash incentive for electric cars. 200 million euros will go to the construction of 5,000 publicly accessible fast-charging stations (with a charging capacity of 22 kW or more) in major cities and along the interstate roads, and around 100 million euros is earmarked for about 10,000 normal charging stations (3.7 kW to 22 kW). Private investors, cities and municipalities have been able to submit applications since March 1. "The goal is to build a comprehensive charging infrastructure with 15,000 charging stations nationwide," a spokesperson from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure said.
"The use of fast-charging stations along highways and at rest stops is absolutely essential," says the president of the German Association of Electric Mobility (BEM), Kurt Sigl. The establishment of so-called mobility points would also be useful, such as commuter parking lots on the outskirts of town which have alternating current (AC) recharging facilities that function similarly to a conventional household outlet. To "significantly increase" consumer acceptance and willingness to buy, Sigl asks that "user behavior as well as the places of residence and employment of electric car owners and potential buyers" be considered during site planning for charging stations. This could also help do away with any concerns about long charging times the customers of tomorrow might have.
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I know being a teen is not easy. Especially when you are being bullied verbally; by students and sometimes friends. I am very proud of you. That you did not let anyone take over your life. That you did not feed into them, even though you were scared and vulnerable. You held your head high with a beautiful smile on your face and continued to be you. You have truly conquered so much as a teen. Between peer pressure, dealing with being a thicker girl with large breasts at a very young age and, of course, the boys.
You've had your heartbroken numerous times, but you seem to just dust yourself off and keep walking. My proudest moment was when you got cheated on by who you thought was "the one." I don't think any teenager or even a grown woman would have done what you did. You actually met with the teen girl he cheated on your with, and actually talked to her as an adult. You may have been heartbroken, but you clearly were a young lady that day. I know you weren't a perfect teen, but you handled yourself very well when it came to difficult times. I know you can't wait to be an adult. Stay young, enjoy life, love yourself, your family, and friends. Just stay strong, confident, humble, caring, respectful and classy. You never want to look back and think I wish I would have done things differently. It is easier said than done, believe me. But hear me out when I say DON'T RUSH IT. Being an adult is not all unicorns and rainbows. There are lots of obstacles, leaps, and bounds. You'll get hurt along the way, but that's how we all learn. As long as you make good choices everything will be ok. Stay beautiful!


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After reading this hub would you like to visit Olympia?
Only if my funeral train goes through Olympia.
If I'm on my way to Canada some day I might pull off the freeway do relieve my bladder.
Sounds like maybe, possibly, hypothetically a decent place to visit.
Hey, if billybuc lives there then I'm going there!
Don't you just love the word 'debunking'? It's one of those words that sounds exactly like what it does. When you debunk something it's no gentle slap on the wrist but rather a full haymaker designed to leave you with a jaw badly in need of wiring!
If you are expecting an article about self-fulfillment and growth then stop right here. This is just some FF…for those of you who have not followed along, FF stands for funny fluff, a natural occurrence for me when I have been serious for much too long and I need to break free. Now that you have been warned read on if you dare.
I have lived in the Pacific Northwest for sixty of my sixty-three years and I can tell you with no uncertainty that there are some serious misconceptions about our area of the world. Some amuse me; some just piss me off and it's never a good thing when this normally peaceful soul has had enough and registers high on his Pissed Off Meter. Have you ever seen a former flower child completely lose it? Ugliness in motion my friends…ugliness in motion!
So in order for me to have a tranquil afternoon I am going to DEBUNK several of my favorite misconceptions about my town of Olympia.
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OLYMPIA?
Well get a map if you want to know bad enough! That's what I used to tell my students and that's what I'm telling all of you who have no clue where the capitol city of Washington State is. I am feeling a bit generous today, though, so I will tell you that Olympia sits at the tail end of Puget Sound, about sixty miles south of the only city in Washington anyone ever talks about, namely Seattle….and that is the first misconception we need to talk about…there are more cities in our state than just Seattle!
True, Seattle has the Mariners and the Seahawks and Bill Gates; true they have some great theaters and the opera and a Starbucks for every person who lives there (I made that up), but there actually are people living in this state who don't wear clothes from L.L Bean and don't sport five-hundred dollar haircuts and don't drive SUVs.
See, I start talking about Seattleites and once again my Pissed Off Meter starts to spike. Sorry about that; a slight diversion but I'm back on track thanks to my Starbucks non-fat soy latte that cost six damn dollars and seventy-damn-five cents.
IT'S PRETTY DAMN RAINY IN OLYMPIA, RIGHT?
Well, that depends on your definition of rainy! Talk to just about anyone in the United States and quite a few in foreign countries and their first impression of Washington is that it rains a lot there. Well not so fast Bucko!
Olympia has on average 50.85 inches of rain per year. Sounds like a lot, right? You just might be interested to know that New Orleans has 62.7 inches per year; Miami has 61.9 inches per year and nobody ever talks about that. Birmingham, Alabama gets more rain than we do as does Memphis, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Florida and running neck and neck with us is Orlando, Florida.
I think someone needs to start a new ad campaign for Olympia explaining to the world that we get less rain than most of Florida! No, wait, we don't want to do that; with our luck the campaign will be successful and more people will move here and most of them from California and that just would not do. The last thing we need is more transplants from Crazy Land!
SO WHY DO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ALL THE RAIN THERE?
Well, earlier I said it depended on your definition of rainy. The fact is that is rains quite often in Olympia, as in drizzle and light rain seemingly every damn day of the year. In fact we are sixth in the nation for most rainy days per year with an average of 149. Without a calculator handy I can eyeball that and tell you that we get rain about 40% of the year. No wonder Olympia residents act like their brains are waterlogged. It's because they are! The only major U.S. cities that have more rainy days are Rochester, Buffalo, Portland, Cleveland and Pittsburg and seriously, who cares about any of those cities?
If that information wasn't enough to keep you Californians from moving here then consider that in Olympia we suffer through 228 cloudy days per year. Let that sink in for a moment: 228 of the 365 days in our little slice of heaven are cloudy and the sun doesn't shine. When the sun does shine we immediately crash into each other while driving because we are literally blinded.
Here's a great fact for you, and you can look it up if you think I'm lying: Seattle, and by extension the Puget Sound area, leads the nation in the purchase of sunglasses. I will stop right here so you can laugh for awhile; get it out of your system and then I'll continue.
Are you done laughing now? Can you figure out why an area that rarely sees the sun would have so many sunglass purchases? It's because we forget where we put the damn things and we have to go buy new ones like ten times per year. We never find the old ones until the day we move and we are packing up the house…then all of a sudden we have ten pair of sunglasses and off we go to Goodwill to donate once again.
I never claimed that we were real smart here in Olympia!
PUT AWAY YOUR PARKA GRANDMA, IT AIN'T THAT COLD HERE!
People think because Olympia is so far north it must be cold all the time here with frigid winters and snowbound residents. Sorry, Bucko, but we only average eight snowy days per year here. I don't even have to look it up to tell you that Flagstaff, Arizona and Taos, New Mexico have more snow days than we do in Olympia.
How can that be you ask? Well, we have this big puddle to our west called the Pacific Ocean, and that puddle greatly affects our temperatures. Air flowing over warm waters will become warmer and the Pacific Ocean, along our coast, is relatively warm. No, not warm like the Gulf of Mexico, but still warm enough to moderate any weather we do receive from the west. So no, we do not all walk around with goose-down parkas and ski masks; for the most part we wear whatever is on sale at Goodwill. We in Olympia take great pride in our ability to adjust to the rapidly sinking economy. That's why when things really tank in the United States those of us in Olympia will rule this nation. We have a master plan and we will not share it with you. I can give you one small hint, though: when we take over, people in California will not be allowed to vote. Just sayin'. We will allow them to keep making movies down there but voting will not happen as long as they have this tendency to elect actors as their governor.
HAVE YOU SEEN ANY COWBOYS AND INDIANS LATELY?
This is my favorite misconception about the West in general. We in Olympia really do look just like the rest of you. We don't have six-shooters strapped to our waists and in sixty-three years I have never seen a gunfight at the old corral. I have seen guns in cars in Idaho but they really don't count; Idaho is just a place you have to go through to get to Yellowstone. We have cars and trucks just like the rest of you; for the most part we leave our horses in our barns and we only chew Redman on weekends when the women folk are at church praying for our lawless souls.
Wait! We do drive Mustangs and Pintos! Does that count?
Well, only half of Washington deserves to be known as The Evergreen State. The other half is desert and wouldn't know green if they were slapped alongside the head with it. We let that half of the state vote but their vote will never count for much as long as Seattle is on the western side of the state. Sorry, Spokane, but you are much too close to Idaho and you know what that means.
Our state bird is the goldfinch. I've never seen one of those little darlings in my life; I'm guessing the next time I go on a snipe hunt I'll run into one, unless all of the wild Indians have killed them.
Hope to see you all soon. If you are planning on visiting for summer vacation make sure you book dates between July 5-10; we can almost guarantee sunny weather during that five-day stretch. Just remember to bring sunglasses because our stores will be sold out.
I am truly considering moving to Olympia from California to be closer to my family there, and so I can finally afford a home. The last time I was down there, I saw a huge homeless population right downtown. How is the housing situation in your community? I am a housing professional and would really like to help.
I don't think Olympia is much different from other cities with regards to housing and the homeless. Affordable housing is a tough find in most cities. Olympia is finally addressing this issue, but change comes slowly.
I read that Olympia, Washington crime is well above national and state averages, but I was thinking of moving there with my son. Is that crime really that bad?
I wasn't aware of those statistics. Honestly, if crime is that bad here, I haven't noticed it. It surely isn't something we talk about as an epidemic or anything. Vandalism is about the worst thing most of us run into.
Do all Washington state residents hate Californians?
No, not at all. This was all tongue in cheek -- we just don't want to see millions move up here.
Jan, as long as you stay in the Olympia School District, you will be fine. Stay away from Tumwater and Lacey schools. You can email me at holland1145@yahoo.com and I can tell you more.
I am moving in July of 2019 with my two kids, ages 10 and 7 from Florida to be closer to family. I've been researching the public schools in Olympia. Which schools do you recommend? Also, my boys are big on baseball. Does anyone know about the Cal Ripken League?
Thanks, bbbj! All in jest, but obviously I missed the mark with you.
Regarding California as "Crazy Land" may be true. Yes, there have been two actors elected governor. Both were elected after their democrat predecessors failed. Schwarzenegger replaced Davis who was removed from office in a recall election. The other actor didn't do so bad either. After he righted Calif., he went on to be one of the most popular presidents ever.
No one ever seems to mention who controls the legislature. How many of the last 50 years have the democrats (liberals) controlled both the Senate and Assembly?
Go ahead take a guess. . . .
Not even close. How about 46 years! The last 22 in a row. Over half of that with a dem in the governor's seat also. In '69-'71 , '94-'95 only time reps. controlled one or both houses. So go ahead and slam California for being last or close to it in SQLI but notice who put us there-Liberals. Good luck Washington.
Hubby and I recently bought a great home on acreage in S. Shelton. Where from? Yep, SoCal. We've only been here a month, but we really love it. We've already acquired WA plates lest anyone realize where wer'e from. Mostly we try and lay low and keep to ourselves. Enjoyed reading your musings though!
LOL...welcome, Kris! Give me a holler and I'll buy you a cup of coffee when you get here.
I'm from CA and I'm moving to Olympia just to piss off Bill...ha!!
Thank you Christine...I think they are real...LOL...is there something that bothers you about them?
Rebekah, thanks for stopping by....I was actually being a bit silly, for the amusement of some friends in Spokane. I don't have anything against Idaho....really....why don't you like it?
I'm curious as to what your opinion of Idaho is as you mentioned it towards the bottom of your article. "Sorry, Spokane, but you are much too close to Idaho and you know what that means." I am from Idaho, but I actually don't like the place very much.
Sounds like a good place to retire. I'm in Utah now and I really miss trees. Sounds weird I know, but I'd love to be able to smell pine trees after a rain again.
Hi billybuc! My fiance and I have been thinking of moving to Olympia from.....California! We can't stand it here either! I would love any information about Olympia and if it's changed since you originally wrote this awesome article :D.
Thanks Gg! I appreciate your candor.
AJoye, you seem to have the attitude we appreciate and embrace here. Come on down and join us! LOL Too funny...thanks for reading.
Well Billybuc this article just what I was looking for. I have a friend living here and I'm considering it as a retirement location. Since I hail from LA, by way of Virginia, do I have to sneak into Olympia undercover of darkness? Looking for a nice town to live in, volunteer my time for a useful purpose between traveling and visiting grandsons in Portland area. I'll keep reading your posts.
PS I didn't vote for any actor to be governor ... does that get me a pass on being from LaLa Land?
It is a good city, Matt. I've been here for 22 years now and greatly enjoy it.
I've lived in Washington for almost a year and have been to Olympia a few times. It's such a pretty city. What I like most about it is that it reminds me of my hometown of Austin, TX (Before the boom). Very similar feel.
Very true, Brian. It is a geographical division as well as a political one.
I lived for a few years in Moscow, Idaho, and got to know people in western Washington state. When they spoke of "going to the west side" and "coming back to the east side" they meant of the state, with the Cascade Mountains being the dividing line.
Luke, I'm glad you enjoyed it. We have to be able to laugh at it, right?
I was born in Everett but lived most of my life in Olympia. I moved away in 03 at age 25. This article was real funny. Thanks for clearing up the mistreated of our city. It is appreciated.
Tom, what you say is true, but those of us in Olympia don't recognize Lacey and Tumwater as cities. :) A little jurisdictional jealousy in this area. Drop me a line when you come through and we'll have that cup of coffee.
Hey billybuc, I thought you might mention that Olympia isn't that small of a town if you consider the Lacey and Tumwater towns on its borders. I'll bet with those three towns put together, it's almost as populated as Auburn!
We'll have to get a cup of coffee one day when I pass through on my way to the outlet stores in Centralia.
Audra, it really is lovely here with so much to see and do; it's just that nagging little problem of rain, rain and more rain! Hope you make it here soon; if so I'll buy you lunch and we will spend some time laughing.
I found my sunglasses Bill...lol!!! Great hub! I would like to explore the Puget Sound area! Learned new things today Teach!!! Thank you! Voted up!!!
Mark my friend, thank you! I just have to get silly occasionally. I'll let you know if I run across any honest to gosh Indians with painted war face on.
This was fun to read Bill, I have spent a lot of time in Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia during my engineer days.It is beautiful country and you are right, I never saw an Indian or a six gun there!
Scurlock is somewhat of a legend here my friend, and when you do come visit you for sure have to let me know so I can buy you a well-deserved dinner!
I'd love to go there, and damn near moved to some expensive coastal resort town a few hours away a few years ago...twas a domestic thing that didn't happen, not me having money, or anything like that...Port Townsend was the place.
I've a good friend I've not seen in years that used to live in Olympia, and whenever I get a vehicle again, I'm going to go visit the guy, he's not too far away from where I am.
I wrote a massive hub about William Scott Scurlock, the "Hollywood Bank Robber," who's probably a well known former citizen for lots of folks there, he had a three story tree house, tons of buried cash on the property, and robbed more banks than anyone in American history until his megalomania got too far out of hand, and he ended his life.
b. Malin, I guarantee that your hair would become ultra-curly after a week here...but in the process you would see some beautiful scenery. Thanks for taking the time to visit. I appreciate you following me.
This was a Fun Hub to read and Enjoy Billybuc. Lots of Information to think about, so much I didn't know...Yes, I aways thought it Rained a lot there... and I Loved the Movie "Sleepless in Seattle"...And I had a cousin who lived in Seattle for many years, and LOVED it. Olympia, Washington sounds like it could be a nice place to live if you don't suffer from Depression, when it comes to the Weather...ONLY KIDDING! But it does sound like my Natural Curly hair would be extra Curly!


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Q: LUN numbers not ordered when deployed through terraform I'm able to successfully deploying 5 data disks using terraform on Azure but when i check in portal these data disks are not ordered randomly like ( lun3, lun1, lun0, lun2, lun4) but when i deploy the same using ARM template they are updated in an order.
below is my code for attaching disks
resource "azurerm_managed_disk" "disk" {
  for_each             = toset([for index in local.map : j.index])
  name                 = ...
  location             = ...
  resource_group_name  = ...
  storage_account_type = ...
  create_option        = "Empty"
  disk_size_gb         = ..
}

resource "azurerm_virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment" "disk_attach" {
  for_each           = toset([for index in local.map : j.index])
  lun                = 0..n
  managed_disk_id    = azurerm_managed_disk.disk[each.key].id
  virtual_machine_id = ...
  caching            = "None"
}

terraform plan is generating resource in a sequential order but once the deployment is done the order in which they are populated in azure portal is random. I checked in documentation virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment & managed_disk but they are no flags/options/properties for such sequential ordering.
I have also checked az disk list but could not get much info to solve this.

Is there any way to make sure terraform generates & attaches data disks sequentially similar to how ARM template is doing i.e., in the order of LUN number ?

A: Here are two suggestions:

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*You may consider deploying ARM Templates with Terraform. Read this blog for more details.

*Try to create the data disk with count or for_each referring to examples in this blog.

For example:
resource "azurerm_virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment" "managed_disk_attach" {
  count              = length(var.instances) * var.nb_disks_per_instance
  managed_disk_id    = azurerm_managed_disk.managed_disk.*.id[count.index]
  virtual_machine_id = azurerm_linux_virtual_machine.vm.*.id[ceil((count.index + 1) * 1.0 / var.nb_disks_per_instance) - 1]
  lun                = count.index + 10
  caching            = "ReadWrite"
}

or use for_each, you can use
    locals {
      vm_datadiskdisk_count_map = { for k in toset(var.instances) : k => var.nb_disks_per_instance }
      luns                      = { for k in local.datadisk_lun_map : k.datadisk_name => k.lun }
      datadisk_lun_map = flatten([
        for vm_name, count in local.vm_datadiskdisk_count_map : [
          for i in range(count) : {
            datadisk_name = format("datadisk_%s_disk%02d", vm_name, i)
            lun           = i
          }
        ]
      ])
    }

resource "azurerm_managed_disk" "managed_disk" {
  for_each             = toset([for j in local.datadisk_lun_map : j.datadisk_name])
  name                 = each.key
  location             = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  resource_group_name  = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
  storage_account_type = "Standard_LRS"
  create_option        = "Empty"
  disk_size_gb         = 10
  tags                 = var.tags
}

resource "azurerm_virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment" "managed_disk_attach" {
  for_each           = toset([for j in local.datadisk_lun_map : j.datadisk_name])
  managed_disk_id    = azurerm_managed_disk.managed_disk[each.key].id
  virtual_machine_id = azurerm_linux_virtual_machine.vm[element(split("_", each.key), 1)].id
  lun                = lookup(local.luns, each.key)
  caching            = "ReadWrite"
}

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The Reckless Love Of God
Do you ever have those days where it seems God brings things together and you get that fleeting glimpse of the reality of Heaven on earth? For me, it was the convergence of several things that touched my heart and with which I was familiar, but they all came together in a flood of spirit consciousness of God's Goodness. I know that probably doesn't make much sense, but I honestly don't have the words to give this awareness its due. So let me just tell you how my day went....
It began with a Sabbath morning of worship. I am able to stream worship music from Bethel and Hillsong on my TV, so I spent the morning cleaning my house (and my soul) to the sounds of worship changing the atmosphere in my home and my heart. And I'm sure most of you are familiar with the award winning song, "The Reckless Love of God" by Cory Asbury. I heard it that morning, and the lyrics washed over me .... Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down, fights til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine...
For some reason, the tears that always come with that song were even more heart-rending than usual. Why, I wondered? As the day unfolded, it would become apparent. Mark and I were to spend the day with his parents, sister, and our niece -- always something we look forward to. And Mark had it on his heart to share the 2014 Darren Wilson film "Holy Ghost" with our niece, Kaylee, who has such a heart for Jesus (and is even writing her own blog about what faith looks like for a Millennial).
As we suspected, she was unfamiliar with this innovative -- and let's face it -- risky film. It's not exactly the kind of message that mainstream Christian churches embrace or even seek. Directed by film-maker Darren Wilson, the purpose of the film is unashamedly provocative: to prove the presence of God is real. And we hear Darren proclaim at the beginning of the film, "I wanna take the greatest risk possible as a filmmaker, to make a movie that is completely led by the Holy Spirit… just show up wherever he leads me, find the adventure, and make God famous".
So, we got our chance to suggest that we sit down, as a family, and watch one segment of the film, hoping to open up a discussion of God's immense ability to love. If you are unfamiliar with the film, there is a portion that focuses on the heavy metal band, Korn, and two of its members, Brian "Head" Welch and Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu. They give their testimonies of years of drugs and anti-God living, and their "lostness". But then they tell of how Jesus chased them down, and changed them forever. The film then goes on to show them accompanying radical evangelist Todd White (a former atheist and 22-year drug abuser, himself) among the crowds of fans to share a simple Gospel message of Jesus loving them and wanting to heal them, both physically and spiritually.
And here's where we had the opportunity to have a discussion with our family. How did they feel about these band members continuing to sing in the band Korn; singing lyrics that are obviously offensive and vulgar by society's standards? How does it coincide with their faith in Jesus? Can the two exist simultaneously? It was Kaylee's understanding I was most interested in, because she is the next generation to carry the Kingdom message forward. Would she get it?
She did! She saw that this particular segment of the population needed to hear about Jesus, see the miracles He had done in the lives of the band members, and be presented with a new way to live. Even my seventy-something in-laws recognized that the tattooed, heavy-metal crowd would never be willing to hear about Jesus from us. But, those band members could reach them with the life-giving message of Jesus and they would listen! As I told them, "Do I wish they would change their music, get rid of the f-word and other offensive language, and sing more wholesome songs"? Of course! But then they would lose their influence over the people who come to see them and like that form of music.
And here's an interesting fact: in 2005, Korn's management announced that after almost 12 years with the band, Brian Welch had left Korn, citing that he had "...chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end." In addition, as a single father he did not want to raise his daughter in an environment filled with drugs, sex, and explicit language. But after nearly eight years apart from the band, Welch says God told him to reunite with the band; he had a mission field he could sow into. He resisted, not wanting to return to the environment that fueled his depraved life. But he knew his victory was in Christ and there was no doubt that this mission field abounded with opportunities to bring lost sheep into the fold.
The bottom line is this: Does this style of the Gospel Message of the Kingdom offend mainstream Christianity? You bet it does! But isn't this picture similar to the reaction of the Pharisees, who objected to Jesus's style and message because it didn't align with their image of what religion was supposed to look like? Wasn't Jesus's method of showing the Father to the masses just as radical as using a heavy-metal band to present Him to those who would otherwise never hear of Him? Remember, the Bible tells us we are not to judge a Believer's heart, but we can judge their fruit for the Kingdom. And those band members are producing fruit among those fans that you and I could never reach.
So, remember how my day started, with the emotion of the song "The Reckless Love of God"? Well, those lyrics haunted me all day, and I found myself singing them over and over in my mind... Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down, fights til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine... Just like the Parable of the Lost Lamb in Luke 15, aren't these heavy metal lovers just like the lost lamb that Jesus would leave the ninety-nine Church-goers to chase down and fight for?
But let me let Cory Asbury, the writer of "The Reckless Love of God" explain it better than me. In his own words he wrote, "When I used the phrase, 'the reckless love of God,' when we say it, we're not saying that God Himself is reckless, He's not crazy. We are, however, saying that the way He loves, is in many regards, quite so. But what I mean is this: He's utterly unconcerned with the consequences of His own actions with regard to His own safety, comfort and well-being. ... He doesn't wonder what He'll gain or lose by putting Himself on the line, He simply puts Himself out there on the off-chance that you and I might look back at Him and give Him that love in return. His love leaves the ninety nine to find the one every time, and to many practical adults that's a foolish concept. Well, what if He loses the ninety nine in finding the one, right? What if, finding that one lost sheep is and always will be supremely important"?
Now, let's let Jesus express Himself: "There once was a shepherd with a hundred lambs, but one of his lambs wandered away and was lost. So the shepherd left the ninety-nine lambs out in the open field and searched in the wilderness for that one lost lamb. He didn't stop until he finally found it. With exuberant joy he raised it up and placed it on his shoulders, carrying it back with cheerful delight! Returning home, he called all his friends and neighbors together and said, 'Let's have a party! Come and celebrate with me the return of my lost lamb. It wandered away, but I found it and brought it home.'"
Jesus continued, "In the same way, there will be a glorious celebration in heaven over the rescue of one lost sinner who repents, comes back home, and returns to the fold—more so than for all the righteous people who never strayed away."
Can you see Him celebrating each and every heavy metal fan that turns from the dark side of that music genre to run to His arms? Have they wandered away? Yes. Does He want to work with us to find them and bring them home? Absolutely! And He has a willing partner with Brian Welch. Praise Him for not abandoning them and for sending Welch into their midst. Let us rejoice, for there is a glorious celebration in heaven!
So, there it is.... God speaking to me in a day that started with a song, which led to a movie, which led me back to Scripture, which ended up back at the song ... Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down, fights til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine... A perfect circle of His love. He never stops pursuing the one who is lost.
Father, may I never judge the methods and the ways You use to reach the lost lambs of this world. Instead let me lift up those in the Body of Christ who are reaching souls I could never influence, and may we learn to love our differences as we praise You for bringing us to unity in our shared faith. You've created us to walk in different lanes and paths, but all with the shared goal to reach the world for You. You paid it all for each and every one of us. Was that reckless in that You had no concern for what it would cost You, but were only devoted to what we would gain? Yes! And on behalf of all the "one lambs" You came after, I bow before You!
James 5:19-20 Finally, as members of God's beloved family, we must go after the one who wanders from the truth and bring him back. For the one who restores the sinning believer back to God from the error of his way, gives back to his soul life from the dead, and covers over countless sins by their demonstration of love!
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