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Tkachuk returns to the lineup after serving suspension
Kristen Odland • Postmedia
Calgary Flames' Matthew Tkachuk, right, is knocked down by Los Angeles Kings' Jake Muzzin during first period NHL action in Calgary, Alta., Sunday, March 19, 2017. Photo by Larry MacDougal /THE CANADIAN PRESS
ST. LOUIS – When the Calgary Flames drafted Matthew Tkachuk sixth overall in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, they knew he played with an edge.
At Buffalo's First Niagara Center, last summer, Flames president of hockey operations Brian Burke famously said that the former London Knights winger was kind of "a pain in the ass."
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And, frankly, it's been a while since the Flames organization has had a player like Tkachuk who is willing to go into the tough areas of the ice and play hard in front of the net.
So, when the 19-year-old rookie was slapped with a two-game suspension by the National Hockey League's department of player safety following an alleged high elbow in last Sunday's 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings, he served the sentence like a professional.
But he and the Flames, for that matter, do not feel that his game needs to be toned down.
"I wasn't trying to go out and hurt anybody," explained Tkachuk of the incident which occurred in the first period against Drew Doughty. "It's a play I've done millions of times. I'll continue to play hard and I want to play my game now more than ever. I'm not too happy with the outcome of everything. But it's out of my control and some guys definitely fought hard for me — Tree (Flames general manager Brad Treliving) being one of them. I'm happy to see the support I get from people."
The suspension was delivered Monday and was served by Tkachuk on Tuesday and Thursday while the Flames were at the Washington Capitals and Nashville Predators. He'll be back in the lineup when the Flames face-off with the Blues in St. Louis on Saturday (5 p.m., City, Sportsnet 960 The Fan).
Treliving released a statement via the Flames on Tuesday, expressing disappointment with the NHL's verdict but said the Flames and Tkachuk respect the process and accepted the decision.
Doughty, of course, was outspoken about the incident following the game, saying, "that kid is a pretty dirty player."
Tkachuk is fully aware of the varying viewpoints, thanks to social media.
"It seems like the Twitter world made a pretty big deal out of it when it happened, which is probably half the problem some of the times," he said. "But I'm not too worried about it now. I'm fortunate to be back now. I'm not going to comment on whether the suspension was enough games or I was expecting less, or anything like that.
"I'm just excited to be back and playing in St. Louis."
Coincidentally, the last time the Flames were in St. Louis was at the beginning of the season on Oct. 25 — a meaningful game in Tkachuk's young NHL career.
Prior to that game, a 4-1 win for the Flames, Tkachuk had been a healthy scratch for consecutive contests and returned to the lineup. With his dad Keith in the audience who, of course, starred for the Blues at Scottrade Center for nearly a decade, Tkachuk earned an assist, had three shots, two penalty minutes, and finished with a plus-one rating in 13:34 of ice time against the Blues.
His line? Mikael Backlund and Michael Frolik.
And you know how well that's turned out.
"With him, I put him there based on what he'd shown us through training camp and the games he played until that point," said Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan. "He was very responsible and had a hockey I.Q. He was real good with the puck, made great decisions.
"We just thought we'd try him with two veteran guys and it took off right away."
Keep in mind this was his sixth NHL game — ever.
"Tree told me that it was the game he realized I could play in the NHL," Tkachuk said. "It's obviously special it happened in St. Louis. That was the one they thought I'd made it in a sense, or whatever. But this will be way more fun, at this time of the year when you need these points bad."
But, back at the beginning of the season, Gulutzan and the Flames management were being cautious.
"For a young guy, that's breaking into the league like that, you want to give him as much practice time and when you make the decision, you can delay it by not burning the nine games right away," he said, recalling the decision to sit Tkachuk for the two previous games. "That was one of the reasons we did it."
As one of the integral parts of the Flames' 2017 NHL playoff push, Tkachuk has 13 goals and 33 assists in 68 games for the Flames.
The St. Louis native also leads the team in penalty minutes with 96 and two NHL fights.
"It's a way different story," said Gulutzan with a chuckle. "He's not going anywhere now."
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The species is named after its collector, a promoter of the research of Lepidoptera, Dr J.B. Heppner.

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PATRIOTISM ON PARADE IN STIRRING MUSICAL "1776" AT UCONN
BONNIE GOLDBERG
Were it not for the patriotic fervor of John Adams, would we be a free and independent country today? To determine the answer to that historical question, seek the good counsel and wisdom found in Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' stirring musical "1776" being performed splendidly by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre on the campus of the University of Connecticut until Saturday, June 10. Start waving your red, white and blue flags as you enter.
In the hot summer of that year in Philadelphia, representatives of each of the thirteen colonies are meeting at the Second Continental Congress to decide the fate of a fledgling nation. Should it surrender to the dictates of King George of England, the greatest protector on earth, or should it break free and declare its independence?
A series of impossible taxes are crippling the economy, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and blood has already been spilled at Lexington and Concord. The most incensed against these acts is John Adams of Massachusetts, where most of the abominations have been felt. Adams, portrayed with fervor and fire by Jamie LaVerdiere, leads the faction, including Ben Franklin (Richard R. Henry) and Thomas Jefferson (Will Bryant) to fight for freedom. Because he is so ill-liked, Adams convinces the "strutting popinjay" Richard Henry Lee (Simon Longnight) to plead his cause.
Heading the opposition, those who want to stay under England's protective wing, is Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, played with arrogant opinionated flair by Adam Harrington. How to convince this handful of leaders to pit a tiny nation of two million against a mighty power five times its size is accomplished with the penning of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Women in the guise of Adam's wife Abigail and Jefferson's spouse Martha, Gaelen Gilliland and Paige Smith, add their good counsel to their husband's causes.
Terrence Mann directs this stirring and spirited footprint in our nation's past with passion, on Tim Brown's sturdy congressional set, with a parade of colorful period costumes by Fan Zhang. The music adds a rainbow of sparks to the story, making for an evening of dramatic fever and comedic tension, all beautifully balanced and executed. Kudos to the entire cast.
For tickets ($12-55) call the Jorgensen Theatre, on the campus of the University of Connecticut at (860)486-2113. Performances are Tuesday to Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Watch how a farmer, Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer, John Adams, and a sage, Ben Franklin, convince the "cream of the colonies" to vote yea to a rebellion to become the first to break free from a parent in the history of the world.

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is great, and we mourn the family that could have been.
rises in Me, still the sorrow of betrayal and of ribbons burning lingers.
My grief–I have dyed My hair black, to erase you and your violence.
there is peace, Spring is here; your legacy of pain is being undone by Love.
in lines, and devotion in fragments of pencil shavings.
I thought I'd be the monastic, not that I'd be engaged to one.
our lives and the love we share work together.
My friend O. recently asked me about being a godspouse, and what it means to me; my response was longer than a simple WordPress comment, so I ended up making a separate post for it.
How do you interpret godspousery–is it domestic or magic-focused?
In my practice, being a godspouse simply means that I'm married to the Dreamer and the Madman. It doesn't come with any particular roles attached to it–my sacred Kingship path is separate from my deity Beloveds, though they do support me and offer advice if I need it.
What are the differences between deity and spirit marriage?
The main difference is that Jake is able to be around a lot more. The Dreamer and the Madman are often really busy with Duties associated with keeping Darkness running smoothly. Their Jobs can take up a lot of their time, and both of them being Kings is something that impacts not only how much time we can spend together, but how they see the world as well.
What do you provide your spouses and what do they provide you?
The main thing I provide them with, as I wrote about above, is with companionship and love. I see their more personal sides, and I also provide balance for them, just as they help balance me.
What they provide for me is the same, companionship, friendship, and love. So many of our interactions are so ordinary that it's difficult to describe being a godspouse in terms of a mystical experience.
What kind of offerings do you make a spouse, verses general deity worship?
I actually don't worship any of my deities. I'll occasionally write poetry to them or talk to them, and I keep a running eshrine, but worship isn't something I do.
I keep a shrine to my Spouses together, which has their icons, prayer beads, a candle, and small items that remind me of them (or that remind them of each other.) This shrine is separate from my general Darkness shrine, and I tend to pray at my Spouses' shrine more often. I don't have a shrine for Jake, since he's not a god or spirit, but he does have a small area on my bookshelf that's his. That has his drinking glass (for formal offerings), prayer beads, his oracle deck, and a crystal that reminds me of him.
I share coffee with my Beloveds in the morning if they're around (though Jake prefers tea over coffee.) Unless an offering of food is specifically requested, that's the extent of my food and drink offerings in my practice.
Another thing I'll do for my Beloveds is art, either of them or their family. Sometimes I'll draw places Over There (lately I've been drawing different types of flowers that are native to Darkness) or use drawings to help process stuff that happened in the Otherworld. The Dreamer is an artist himself, so he'll often sit with me and offer advice, or we'll just work on art together.
How I view being a godspouse has changed a lot in the past four years.
It has impacted my spiritual path, quite a bit. It impacts who I can and cannot deal with Over There, as well as what kind of relationships I can have with deities from other Pantheons. It's brought me closer to my Beloveds' families; it's taught me about chosen families, and about love in all its forms.
Being a godspouse has gone from something that I thought had to be really intense, to mostly being my Beloveds and I just spending time together (both as a couple/triad, and with our families) when our schedules permit it. Some really intense things have happened, but the majority of the time our relationship(s) are about supporting and loving one another.
I just wanted to make a quick post saying that I'm doing this.
The Dreamer requested this post; he wanted me to write a piece reflecting on how the past two years of my path–since he revealed to me that he wasn't a recorded god–have impacted me.
It was the day after the Spring Equinox, that my Spouse asked me to pull out his tarot deck and do a reading; he had something to tell me. Slowly, card by card, he revealed that all the shifts and changes–some large, some small–over the past nine months were leading up to one thing; he was not the god I thought he was.
When he had laid all his cards on the table (pun fully intended) he said that it was up to me, how I handled this and where our path together–if we even would have a path together–went next. He said that if I wished to leave him, that he would understand and respect my decision to separate–to the point that he would undo all energetic and magical bonds between us during the course of that separation.
While he did later release me from the oath I had given him, we made a mutual decision–after a rough period of difficult conversations, discussions with our families [this was before him and his father were estranged,] and a few shouting matches–to give our marriage a chance to continue.
It's been approximately two years now, since my Beloved revealed to me that he wasn't who I first knew him to be. At the time, it was an absolutely devastating revelation, since I'd felt like the rug had been ripped out from under me–but at the same time, so many little (and big) discrepancies between [who I first knew the Dreamer to be] and who I know him to be (both as a person and as a god,) began to made sense. Those differences weren't something I understood in an instant, it was something that came about gradually. There were some that had been rather obvious–the Dreamer detests dark, death related things, and [who I'd first known him to be] was a god heavily connect to death–while others were much more subtle.
He didn't suddenly drop the information on me out of nowhere, it had been developing since late June of the previous year. Several new associations, new epithets, a shift in appearance, the beginning of the pop culture side of my devotion to him…looking back, it seems obvious that he was not only showing me that he wasn't [who I thought he was] but that he was from a very different, and much more modern, Realm than I had first believed him to be.
There have been many changes in my path with him, in these past two years, as well as changes in how I see him. What hasn't changed, in all the ups and downs, is that he's still my Spouse, still my Beloved. Even as my path with him ebbs and flows, our love and support for one another is still a constant thing.
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THE PRODIGAL SON OF GOD
The Exodus Route To The Mountain Of God
Below are some claims and also some evidence that people do not want to acknowledge but are clearly evident in the documentary The Exodus Revealed, although this is not exactly what happened.
THE EXODUS REVEALED
Searching for the Red Sea Crossing
Josephus and the Exodus Route
Josephus 110 AD
by Steve Rudd
Josephus was only 56 years old when he wrote his Jewish Antiquities in 110 AD. Since the date of Josephus' death is unknown, we can safely say that he lived past 106 AD, since he, like Eusebius referred to Petra as the capital of Roman Arabia. Josephus' references to Petra being the capital of Roman Arabia, dates his death after 106 AD. If Josephus died before 106, it means that others changed the document to reflect new names for old places. We take the view, however, that Josephus lived long past 106 AD. To illustrate. If someone told you that a book was written in 1975 AD and in the book it describes how a band of Muslim Terrorists drove two airplanes into the twin trade towers of New York City, you would know that the book must have been written after 2001 AD. If not, then someone else amended the book to include the event. Since the Romans annexed Petra and the Sinai Peninsula in 106 AD, when Josephus refers to Petra as Arabia, it proves he was writing after 106 AD or that someone else updated the names of the places in his writings to reflect and new names.
Josephus is probably the most recognized of historians among Christians. He was a Jew, not a Christian. Josephus was of a high priestly and royal ancestry and recorded the destruction of the temple by Titus in 70 AD as prophesied by Jesus in Luke 21:20-21.
Josephus lived one generation after Philo and would surely be familiar with his writings. Both Philo and Josephus say that Mt. Sinai was "the highest of the mountains". But there are a number of other outstanding things we can learn from Josephus that strongly supports a location of Mt. Sinai in the Midian area and Kadesh Barnea at Petra.
Josephus believed Mt. Hor was at Petra.
Josephus' account of the exodus has been stripped of all geographic markers. He describes in great detail the exodus and the crossing of the red sea. However it seems unusual that these accounts have no geographic data attached to them from his day.
Josephus in refuting Apion, actually hurts those who attempt to make Paul's statement of Mt. Sinai being in Arabia. (Gal 4:25) Notice that Apion did not believe that the modern Sinai Peninsula was part of Arabia: "Moses went up to a mountain that lay between Egypt and Arabia, which was called Sinai" (Josephus, Against Apion 2-3) See our page on Apion for more.
A. Josephus believed Mt. Hor was at Petra:
The Bible says that Miriam died at Kadesh: " Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there." Numbers 20:1
"Then it was that Miriam, the sister of Moses, came to her end, having completed her fortieth year since she left Egypt, on the first day of the lunar month Xanthicus. They then made a public funeral for her, at a great expense. She was buried upon a certain mountain, which they call Sin; and when they had mourned for her thirty days ... Now when this purification, which their leader made upon the mourning for his sister, as it has been now described, was over, he caused the army to remove and to march through the wilderness and through Arabia; and when he came to a place which the Arabians esteem their metropolis, which was formerly called Arce, but has now the name of Petra, at this place, which was encompassed with high mountains, Aaron went up one of them in the sight of the whole army, Moses having before told him that he was to die, for this place was over against them." (Josephus, Antiquities 4.82-83)
B. Josephus seemed to indicate that Mt Sinai was in Midian:
Notice that the natural reading leads the reader to view Mt. Sinai as within the normal pasturing range of Midian. The natural reading antecedent of "highest of all the mountains thereabout" is where Jethro lived. "he [Pharaoh] was ready to undertake to kill Moses: but when he had learned beforehand what plots there were against him, he went away privately; and because the public roads were watched, he took his flight through the deserts, and where his enemies could not suspect he would travel; and, though he was destitute of food, he went on, and despised that difficulty courageously; and when he came to the city Midian, which lay upon the Red Sea, and was so denominated from one of Abraham's sons by Keturah, he sat upon a certain well, and rested himself there after his laborious journey, and the affliction he had been in. It was not far from the city, and the time of the day was noon, where he had an occasion offered him by the custom of the country of doing what recommended his virtue, and afforded him an opportunity of bettering his circumstances. Now Moses, when he had obtained the favor of Jethro, for that was one of the names of Raguel, stayed there and fed his flock; but some time afterward, taking his station at the mountain called Sinai, he drove his flocks thither to feed them. Now this is the highest of all the mountains thereabout, and the best for pasturage, the herbage being there good; and it had not been before fed upon, because of the opinion men had that God dwelt there, the shepherds not daring to ascend up to it; and here it was that a wonderful prodigy happened to Moses; for a fire fed upon a thorn bush" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, book 2, ch 11.2-12.1)
Josephus says that Mount Sinai was "the highest of all the mountains thereabout," yet Helena chose Mt. Musa at 7,497 feet when the highest mountain is nearby mountain Mt. Catherine at 8,625 feet. Mt. Al-Lawz in north Saudi Arabia is 8,464 feet. That is 100 feet higher than Mt. Musa. So much for tradition.
"Abraham after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born to him. ... Now, for all these sons and grandsons, Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis, and the country of Arabia the Happy, as far as it reaches [north] to the Red Sea [Gulf of Aqaba]". (Josephus, Antiquities 1.238)
he came to the city Midian, which lay upon the Red Sea (Josephus, Antiquities 2.257)
C. Josephus understood that Petra was the capital city of Arabia:
Josephus was only 56 years old when he wrote his Jewish Antiquities in 94 AD. Since the date of Josephus' death is unknown, we can safely say that he lived past 106 AD, since he, like Eusebius referred to Petra as the capital of Roman Arabia. Josephus' references to Petra being the capital of Roman Arabia, dates his death after 106 AD.
and went directly for Petra, in Arabia. (Josephus, Antiquities 14.362)
he escaped to the place called Petra, which is the royal seat of the king of Arabia (Josephus, Wars 1.125)
but he made haste himself to Petra of Arabia. (Josephus, Wars 1.267)
which is the bounds of Petra, in Arabia (Josephus, Wars 4.454)
The people mourned for Aaron thirty days, and when this mourning was over, Moses removed the army from that place, and came to the river Arnon, which, issuing out of the mountains of Arabia, and running through all that wilderness, falls into the lake Asphaltitis, and becomes the limit between the land of the Moabites and the land of the Amorites. (Josephus, Antiquities 4.85)
Scaurus made now an expedition against Petrea, in Arabia (Josephus, Antiquities 14.80)
E. Ishmael lived in Arabia:
That he left to Ishmael and to his posterity the country of Arabia (Josephus, Antiquities 2.213)
F. Josephus believed Judah bordered with Egypt (at the wadi Al-Arish) and Arabia (Arabah Valley). Egypt was distinct from Arabia. Judah was distinct from Arabia:
Moreover, the king built many ships in the Egyptian Bay of the Red Sea, in a certain place called Ezion-geber: it is now called Berenice, and is not far from the city Eloth. (Josephus, Antiquities 8.163)
When Moses had said thus, the multitude requited him with marks of respect; and chose twelve spies, of the most eminent men, one out of each tribe, who, passing over all the land of Canaan from the borders of Egypt, came to the city of Hamath, and to Mount Lebanon; and having learned the nature of the land and of its inhabitants, they came home, having spent forty days in the whole work. (Josephus, Antiquities 3.303)
The lot of Simeon (inside Judah), which was the second, included that part of Idumea [Edom] which bordered upon Egypt and Arabia. (Josephus, Antiquities 5.82)
This place is between Arabia and Judea, beyond Jordan, not far from the country of Heshbon. (Josephus, Antiquities 12.233)
So when Jonathan was returned thence, he went into Arabia, and fought against the Nabateans (Josephus, Antiquities 13.179)
Now Arabia is a country that borders upon Judea. (Josephus, Antiquities 14.15)
She also petitioned Antony to give her Judea and Arabia: and in order thereto desired him to take these countries away from their present governors. (Josephus, Antiquities 15.92)
But in the meantime the affairs of Judea and Arabia (Josephus, Antiquities 16.297)
its [Galilee] northern parts are bounded by Pella, as we have already said, as well as its western with Jordan; the land of Moab is it southern border, and its eastern limits reach to Arabia, and Silbonitis, and besides to Philadelphene and Gerasa. (Josephus, Wars 3.47)
G. Josephus believed the Amalekites inhabited what is traditionally called the "Sinai Peninsula" and did not live in Midian:
But when Saul had conquered all these Amalekites that reached from Pelusium of Egypt to the Red Sea, he laid waste all the rest of the enemy's country; but for the nation of the Shechemites, he did not touch them, although they dwelt in the very middle of the country of Midian; for before the battle, Saul had sent to them, and charged them to depart thence, lest they should be partakers of the miseries of the Amalekites; for he had a just occasion for saving them, since they were of the kindred of Raguel, Moses' father-in-law. (Josephus, Antiquities 6.140)
H. Josephus never included the modern Sinai Peninsula in Arabia:
"The people mourned for Aaron thirty days, and when this mourning was over, Moses removed the army from that place, and came to the river Arnon, which, issuing out of the mountains of Arabia, and running through all that wilderness, falls into the lake Asphaltitis, and becomes the limit between the land of the Moabites and the land of the Amorites. (Josephus, Antiquities 4.85)
"when he [Amaziah] had beaten them in battle, he slew of them ten thousand, and took as many prisoners alive, whom he brought to the great rock in Arabia [east Dead Sea valley], and threw them down from it headlong. (Josephus, Antiquities 9.191, see also 2 Chronicles 25:12)
And when he had brought the place to this state, he named it Tyre. This place is between Arabia and Judea, beyond Jordan, not far from the country of Heshbon [Moab]. (Josephus, Antiquities 12.233)
that he was forced to deliver back to the king of Arabia the land of Moab and Gilead, which he had subdued (Josephus, Antiquities 13.382)
As for Herod, the great miseries he was in did not discourage him, but made him sharp in discovering surprising undertakings; for he went to Malchus [East of Dead Sea], king of Arabia, whom he had formerly been very kind to" (Josephus, Antiquities 14.370)
"Now the length of Perea [literally: beyond Jordan] is from Macherus to Pella, and its breadth from Philadelphia to Jordan; (47) its northern parts are bounded by Pella, as we have already said, as well as its western with Jordan; the land of Moab is it southern border, and its eastern limits reach to Arabia, and Silbonitis, and besides to Philadelphene and Gerasa. (Josephus, Wars 3.47)
when Herod came to be king, he thought the place [Macherus in Edom/Moab area] to be worthy of the utmost regard, and of being built upon in the firmest manner, and this especially because it lay so near to Arabia; for it is seated in a convenient place on that account, and hath a prospect towards that country" (Josephus, Wars 7.172)
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CHAPTER 15. HOW THE HEBREWS UNDER THE CONDUCT OF MOSES LEFT EGYPT.
1. So the Hebrews went out of Egypt, while the Egyptians wept, and repented that they had treated them so hardly. - Now they took their journey by Letopolis, a place at that time deserted, but where Babylon was built afterwards, when Cambyses laid Egypt waste: but as they went away hastily, on the third day they came to a place called Beelzephon, on the Red Sea; and when they had no food out of the land, because it was a desert, they eat of loaves kneaded of flour, only warmed by a gentle heat; and this food they made use of for thirty days; for what they brought with them out of Egypt would not suffice them any longer time; and this only while they dispensed it to each person, to use so much only as would serve for necessity, but not for satiety. Whence it is that, in memory of the want we were then in, we keep a feast for eight days, which is called the feast of unleavened bread. Now the entire multitude of those that went out, including the women and children, was not easy to be numbered, but those that were of an age fit for war, were six hundred thousand.
2. They left Egypt in the month Xanthicus, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month; four hundred and thirty years after our forefather Abraham came into Canaan, but two hundred and fifteen years only after Jacob removed into Egypt.98 It was the eightieth year of the age of Moses, and of that of Aaron three more. They also carried out the bones of Joesph with them, as he had charged his sons to do.
3. But the Egyptians soon repented that the Hebrews were gone; and the king also was mightily concerned that this had been procured by the magic arts of Moses; so they resolved to go after them. Accordingly they took their weapons, and other warlike furniture, and pursued after them, in order to bring them back, if once they overtook them, because they would now have no pretense to pray to God against them, since they had already been permitted to go out; and they thought they should easily overcome them, as they had no armor, and would be weary with their journey; so they made haste in their pursuit, and asked of every one they met which way they were gone. And indeed that land was difficult to be traveled over, not only by armies, but by single persons. Now Moses led the Hebrews this way, that in case the Egyptians should repent and be desirous to pursue after them, they might undergo the punishment of their wickedness, and of the breach of those promises they had made to them. As also he led them this way on account of the Philistines, who had quarreled with them, and hated them of old, that by all means they might not know of their departure, for their country is near to that of Egypt; and thence it was that Moses led them not along the road that tended to the land of the Philistines, but he was desirous that they should go through the desert, that so after a long journey, and after many afflictions, they might enter upon the land of Canaan. Another reason of this was, that God commanded him to bring the people to Mount Sinai, that there they might offer him sacrifices. Now when the Egyptians had overtaken the Hebrews, they prepared to fight them, and by their multitude they drove them into a narrow place; for the number that pursued after them was six hundred chariots, with fifty thousand horsemen, and two hundred thousand foot-men, all armed. They also seized on the passages by which they imagined the Hebrews might fly, shutting them up99 between inaccessible precipices and the sea; for there was [on each side] a [ridge of] mountains that terminated at the sea, which were impassable by reason of their roughness, and obstructed their flight; wherefore they there pressed upon the Hebrews with their army, where [the ridges of] the mountains were closed with the sea; which army they placed at the chops of the mountains, that so they might deprive them of any passage into the plain.
4. When the Hebrews, therefore, were neither able to bear up, being thus, as it were, besieged, because they wanted provisions, nor saw any possible way of escaping; and if they should have thought of fighting, they had no weapons; they expected a universal destruction, unless they delivered themselves up to the Egyptians. So they laid the blame on Moses, and forgot all the signs that had been wrought by God for the recovery of their freedom; and this so far, that their incredulity prompted them to throw stones at the prophet, while he encouraged them and promised them deliverance; and they resolved that they would deliver themselves up to the Egyptians. So there was sorrow and lamentation among the women and children, who had nothing but destruction before their eyes, while they were encompassed with mountains, the sea, and their enemies, and discerned no way of flying from them.
5. But Moses, though the multitude looked fiercely at him, did not, however, give over the care of them, but despised all dangers, out of his trust in God, who, as he had afforded them the several steps already taken for the recovery of their liberty, which he had foretold them, would not now suffer them to be subdued by their enemies, to be either made slaves or be slain by them; and, standing in midst of them, he said, "It is not just of us to distrust even men, when they have hitherto well managed our affairs, as if they would not be the same hereafter; but it is no better than madness, at this time to despair of the providence of God, by whose power all those things have been performed he promised, when you expected no such things: I mean all that I have been concerned in for deliverance and escape from slavery. Nay, when we are in the utmost distress, as you see we ought rather to hope that God will succor us, by whose operation it is that we are now this narrow place, that he may out of such difficulties as are otherwise insurmountable and out of which neither you nor your enemies expect you can be delivered, and may at once demonstrate his own power and his providence over us. Nor does God use to give his help in small difficulties to those whom he favors, but in such cases where no one can see how any hope in man can better their condition. Depend, therefore, upon such a Protector as is able to make small things great, and to show that this mighty force against you is nothing but weakness, and be not affrighted at the Egyptian army, nor do you despair of being preserved, because the sea before, and the mountains behind, afford you no opportunity for flying, for even these mountains, if God so please, may be made plain ground for you, and the sea become dry land."
CHAPTER 16. HOW THE SEA WAS DIVIDED ASUNDER FOR THE HEBREWS, WHEN THEY WERE PURSUED BY THE EGYPTIANS, AND SO GAVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY OF ESCAPING FROM THEM.
1. WHEN Moses had said this, he led them to the sea, while the Egyptians looked on; for they were within sight. Now these were so distressed by the toil of their pursuit, that they thought proper to put off fighting till the next day. But when Moses was come to the sea-shore, he took his rod, and made supplication to God, and called upon him to be their helper and assistant; and said "Thou art not ignorant, O Lord, that it is beyond human strength and human contrivance to avoid the difficulties we are now under; but it must be thy work altogether to procure deliverance to this army, which has left Egypt at thy appointment. We despair of any other assistance or contrivance, and have recourse only to that hope we have in thee; and if there be any method that can promise us an escape by thy providence, we look up to thee for it. And let it come quickly, and manifest thy power to us; and do thou raise up this people unto good courage and hope of deliverance, who are deeply sunk into a disconsolate state of mind. We are in a helpless place, but still it is a place that thou possessest; still the sea is thine, the mountains also that enclose us are thine; so that these mountains will open themselves if thou commandest them, and the sea also, if thou commandest it, will become dry land. Nay, we might escape by a flight through the air, if thou shouldst determine we should have that way of salvation."
2. When Moses had thus addressed himself to God, he smote the sea with his rod, which parted asunder at the stroke, and receiving those waters into itself, left the ground dry, as a road and a place of flight for the Hebrews. Now when Moses saw this appearance of God, and that the sea went out of its own place, and left dry land, he went first of all into it, and bid the Hebrews to follow him along that divine road, and to rejoice at the danger their enemies that followed them were in; and gave thanks to God for this so surprising a deliverance which appeared from him.
3. Now, while these Hebrews made no stay, but went on earnestly, as led by God's presence with them, the Egyptians supposed first that they were distracted, and were going rashly upon manifest destruction. But when they saw that they were going a great way without any harm, and that no obstacle or difficulty fell in their journey, they made haste to pursue them, hoping that the sea would be calm for them also. They put their horse foremost, and went down themselves into the sea. Now the Hebrews, while these were putting on their armor, and therein spending their time, were beforehand with them, and escaped them, and got first over to the land on the other side without any hurt. Whence the others were encouraged, and more courageously pursued them, as hoping no harm would come to them neither: but the Egyptians were not aware that they went into a road made for the Hebrews, and not for others; that this road was made for the deliverance of those in danger, but not for those that were earnest to make use of it for the others' destruction. As soon, therefore, as ever the whole Egyptian army was within it, the sea flowed to its own place, and came down with a torrent raised by storms of wind,100 and encompassed the Egyptians. Showers of rain also came down from the sky, and dreadful thunders and lightning, with flashes of fire. Thunderbolts also were darted upon them. Nor was there any thing which used to be sent by God upon men, as indications of his wrath, which did not happen at this time, for a dark and dismal night oppressed them. And thus did all these men perish, so that there was not one man left to be a messenger of this calamity to the rest of the Egyptians.
4. But the Hebrews were not able to contain themselves for joy at their wonderful deliverance, and destruction of their enemies; now indeed supposing themselves firmly delivered, when those that would have forced them into slavery were destroyed, and when they found they had God so evidently for their protector. And now these Hebrews having escaped the danger they were in, after this manner, and besides that, seeing their enemies punished in such a way as is never recorded of any other men whomsoever, were all the night employed in singing of hymns, and in mirth.101 Moses also composed a song unto God, containing his praises, and a thanksgiving for his kindness, in hexameter verse.102
5. As for myself, I have delivered every part of this history as I found it in the sacred books; nor let any one wonder at the strangeness of the narration if a way were discovered to those men of old time, who were free from the wickedness of the modern ages, whether it happened by the will of God or whether it happened of its own accord; - while, for the sake of those that accompanied Alexander, king of Macedonia, who yet lived, comparatively but a little while ago, the Pamphylian Sea retired and afforded them a passage103 through itself, had no other way to go; I mean, when it was the will of God to destroy the monarchy of the Persians: and this is confessed to be true by all that have written about the actions of Alexander. But as to these events, let every one determine as he pleases.
6. On the next day Moses gathered together the weapons of the Egyptians, which were brought to the camp of the Hebrews by the current of the sea, and the force of the winds resisting it; and he conjectured that this also happened by Divine Providence, that so they might not be destitute of weapons. So when he had ordered the Hebrews to arm themselves with them, he led them to Mount Sinai, in order to offer sacrifice to God, and to render oblations for the salvation of the multitude, as he was charged to do beforehand.
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Take a sunny day, a boat tour and a waterfront that is home to a busy commercial port, super yachts and Team NZ and what do you have? A great day.
The Ports of Auckland tour leaves from downtown Auckland.
If you're lucky you'll see a jumper bungy from the Harbour Bridge.
Aucklander's love to hate their port. The reason is that the wharves, silos and cranes that a working port needs sit on prime real estate and separate the people of Auckland from getting close to their beloved harbour.
Hours of talkback radio have been devoted to lambasting poor city planning and offering creative solutions to the waterfront access issue. Instead of mountains of containers we should have open spaces and views of the harbour, they cry.
The truth is that the land area of the port has reduced by nearly a half since 1996, despite the volume of cargo doubling, and Ports of Auckland are working hard to be good neighbours to the city on its door step.
One of the things that they've done is to give us a glimpse of how the port operates by offering a free boat tour that cruises alongside the container terminals and commercial wharves. Part of the tour is a commentary crammed with history and interesting port annecdotes.
You'll learn that Ports of Auckland is the the largest container port in the country and handles more than 894 000 20- foot containers every year. It has 1800 power points to keep the refrigerated containers cold and there are more than 40 straddle cranes that are worth about $2 million each.
The Port Tour heads into the harbour and under the Harbour Bridge where, if you're lucky you'll see a mad person dangling on a bungy cord metres above the water. On the return journey, the tour meanders past hundreds of sailing boats, super yachts and commercial fishing boats, and pokes its nose into the Viaduct Marina, home to Team NZ and host to the Volvo Ocean race in 2012 and the America's Cup in 2000 and 2003. Further along the waterfront is Wynyard Quarter, formerly Ports of Auckland land and now home to apartments, restaurants, open spaces and interesting street sculpture. Anti-port talk back callers should be thrilled.
Ports of Auckland have won a Green Ribbon for environmental management which they are justifiably proud of. They've built a pohutakawa -lined walkway which hugs the shoreline and gives the public another view of port operations, and astounding photographic opportunities of the harbour.
For those without access to their own water transport, the Port Tour rare treat to see Auckland from an unusual perspective and on a sunny day it is hard to beat.


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WORX to Sponsor Brett Moffitt at Martinsville
By Justin Whapham March 18, 2019 News
Statesville, N.C. (March 18, 2019)— GMS Racing announced today WORX will sponsor the No. 24 Chevrolet Silverado of reigning NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series (NGOTS) champion Brett Moffitt in this Saturday's race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
WORX is a line of lawn and garden equipment and power tools owned and distributed by the Positec Tool Corporation, a manufacturing company based in Suzhou, China with North American headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
"WORX is proud to sponsor GMS Racing and Brett Moffitt's truck No. 24 in the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series on Saturday, March 23 at Martinsville Speedway," said Tom Duncan, President and CEO of Positec and the WORX brand. "For race fans, this will be the first weekend of the spring season. It's also a special time of year for homeowners seeking quality lawn and garden and DIY tools to tackle home and landscape projects"
In three NGOTS starts at Martinsville, Moffitt has earned two top-five and three top-10 finishes. He was third in the spring race and second in the fall in 2018.
"I'm looking to forward to having WORX on the truck at Martinsville this weekend," Moffitt said. "It's always great anytime we can reintroduce a partner to our sport. Martinsville has been a good track for me in the past. I came close to winning there twice last year, so hopefully we can improve on that and get WORX to Victory Lane this weekend."
Saturday's NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series 250 at Martinsville Speedway will be broadcast live on FOX and MRN at 2pm ET.
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Q: How to convert null values in pyspark dataframe to None? I have a pyspark dataframe which connects & read data from oracle database table. This dataframe has null values in some of the columns. I need to save this dataframe to a collection in mongodB.
pyspark dataframe looks something like this

col1
col2
col3

10
5
null

null
6
'abc'

If I write this dataframe to mongodB it is saving only col1 and col2 from 1st record to a document and col2 and col3 to another document.
But I need all the 3 columns available in the mongo document for each dataframe row. I need to convert this null values to None.
Then when If I write to mongodB I can see null value column names with value as null and type as null in mongo document.
I am using MongoDB Spark Connector for writing dataframe to mongo.
Please suggest how to convert null values to None.

A: Use dataframe.fillna(valuetoreplace, subset=[list of columns to replace null values]) to replace the null values of your choice and then write the result to mongodb. If you want to limit to certain set of columns use subset in the below code.
df.fillna('None')

This command will replace your null values with None string in your dataframe but not as None object.

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University of Vermont alumnus Jon Kilik '78 is having a good month. He produced the film that is currently No. 1 at the box office (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1) and the film that Esquire recently characterized as "the Oscar movie to beat." That's Foxcatcher, which tells the fact-based story of the ill-fated partnership between millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and two wrestler brothers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) whom he hoped to train for the 1988 Olympic Games.
On Tuesday, December 2, Kilik took time out to return to Burlington and talk with students in UVM's Film and Television Studies program. He spent the day visiting classes, then hosted a campus screening that marks the Vermont premiere of Foxcatcher. Already out in major markets, the drama directed by Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) won't reach Vermont multiplexes until early next year. In a rave review, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described it as "hold[ing] up a dark mirror to the American dream."
Accolades are nothing new for Kilik, whose filmography reads like a history of the past quarter century in independent film. After a post-grad job at WCAX, he headed to New York and embarked on a producing career that has included award-winning films by Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Last fall, Kilik drew industry press for his keynote speech at the Independent Film Week Conference, in which he argued that independent film is headed for a "renaissance," contra recent gloomy prophecies from Steven Spielberg and others.
In advance of Kilik's trip to Burlington, we asked him via email about the future of indies and what it's like to helm a huge franchise — one whose iconography has made surreal recent appearances in real-life politics. Students in Thailand have adopted the Hunger Games' three-finger salute as a sign of protest against the military junta, leading to the cancellation of Mockingjay screenings at one Thai cinema chain, as various news outlets reported on November 20.
JON KILIK: I guess to most people, Foxcatcher and The Hunger Games are as different as night and day. To me they are both night and share a common thread that runs through every film I've chosen to make.
I've been working on the same movie for the last 25 years. They all examine citizens of a country divided by class and race and power and greed. [The] disenfranchised living in isolation on the edge of society and the entitled living in isolation from within. The haves and the have nots. Katniss Everdeen and President Snow. Mark Schultz and John du Pont. In each case they inhabit worlds so different from one another that perhaps they should never meet. But they do.
Foxcatcher and The Hunger Games are my two sibling tragedies. Brother protecting brother. Sister protecting sister. Not wanting the dangers that find them. Thrown into an "arena" with little chance to survive, they become fierce warriors and reluctant heroes.
SD: You've said we could be headed for a "renaissance in indie filmmaking." What does this mean to students like those at UVM?
JK: I hope not. The screens do get gobbled up by the big commercial films, but a good number of indies always seem to break through. If the films are good, people will want to go, and the theaters will show them. This year again there is a great lineup of indie films that will all play in Vermont theaters — Boyhood, Birdman, Whiplash, Foxcatcher, to name just a few.
JK: I'm very curious. We'll see on Tuesday. I think they will be especially impressed by the acting and directing. Steve Carell is amazing to watch. All of the acting is great, but Steve's performance is really unbelievable.
The original print version of this article was headlined "UVM Alum Talks About Producing The Hunger Games and Foxcatcher"


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Photographer: Reginald William Skelton (1872-1956). Expedition: British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery). View of the starboard side of the ship Discovery, which is held fast in the pack ice. Snow covered mountains in background.


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Q: Agregar un nuevo item a mi lista - reactjs Estoy practicando un poco de react, y quise hacer un CRUD, el problema que tengo es al momento de agregar un nuevo elemento.
Logro que los datos nuevos le llegue a la funcion que esta en el padre llamada createNewItem (alli tengo un console.log), pero no puedo ver es nuevo item reflejado en la lista y ademas se agrega al segundo click sobre el boton "guardar", no al primero.
en que estoy fallando?
Gracias por su ayuda.
dejo un sandbox con el codigo
https://codesandbox.io/embed/wizardly-archimedes-x8jzn

A: Agrega una envoltura Link a tu botón cancelar y cuando regreses tu vista de detalle Home estará con los agregados que hayas aceptado en /details. Lo demás está correcto, aunque por ser de navegación la función del click no es necesaria.
<Link to="/">
  <Button variant="primary" type="submit" onClick={this.cancelForm}> Cancelar
  </Button>
</Link>