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Two years ago, the French-born, Peru-based textile specialist Thomas Jacob accompanied a friend on a trip to the San Jorge prison in Lima. "I was struck by the dignity of the inmates," the 27-year-old recalls. "They didn't have a mind for pain, they just accepted their fate with sobriety and humility." He located two similar correctional facilities near the country's capital — Santa Monica in Chorrillos and San Pedro in Lurigancho — and established a system that would enable the inmates at each to work together making clothes. The nascent fashion collective took its name, Project Pietà, from a masterpiece by Michelangelo.
The Project Pietà collection is available at projectpieta.com/shop and ranges from $25 to $350.


Joy-Anna Duggar and Kendra Caldwell just gave fans their first good look at the homemade bridesmaid dresses that they walked down the aisle in when Josiah Duggar and Lauren Swanson tied the knot. The two girls both gave birth to their first children this year, and fans think that motherhood looks good on them.
On Tuesday, the Duggars celebrated the marriage of 21-year-old Josiah Duggar and 19-year-old Lauren Swanson by sharing a collection of congratulatory videos on The Duggar Family website. The members of the family who made appearances in them included the two Counting On couples who most recently became parents. Joy-Anna Duggar, 20, and Austin Forsyth, 24, welcomed their baby boy, Gideon, on February 23. Their son appeared with them in their video, but neither Joseph Duggar, 23, nor Kendra Caldwell, 19, held their newborn while they informed Josiah and Lauren that they're excited for the newlyweds. Their son, Garrett, was born on June 8.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Josiah and Lauren tied the knot on June 30, so Kendra only had three weeks to recover from giving birth before she had to slip on her bridesmaid dress. After seeing her in the YouTube video, some fans were seriously impressed at how fast she bounced back from having a baby.
"Kendra looks fantastic! Can't tell she just had a baby," wrote one commenter on the Duggar Family Facebook page.
Josiah Duggar's older sister, Jana, and his sister-in-law, Anna, sewed the bridesmaids dresses that Kendra and Joy-Anna are wearing in the congratulatory videos. The blush gowns are banded right beneath the bustline, and they feature cap sleeves and collarbone-covering necklines.
In Joseph and Kendra's video, the former reminisced about his own wedding day.
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"Joy looks identical to Michelle. So very beautiful!" remarked the admirer.
There were also a few fans who argued that she more closely resembles one of her older sisters.
"I thought Joy was Jessa at first. All the girls are so beautiful!" read another Facebook comment.
In her video, Joy-Anna offered Josiah Duggar and Lauren Swanson a little marriage advice.
Duggar fans can catch up with all of their favorite couples and their cute kids when the summer season of Counting On premieres July 30 on TLC.


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[2000] Traffic
Traffic, for all intents and purposes, is what Crash (winner, 2005) should and could have been if Crash wasn't a misanthropic and clear and utter disaster.
It's quite a laugh the timeline of events in that last sequence. Crash had before it five years' worth of knowledge from a critical and stylistic standpoint from the point-of-view of Traffic and its offerings, which are plenty. And the team behind Crash still managed to offer a too-long and pedantic tale of race and relations that somehow managed to trick The Academy to offer its top prize. Crash fails, in a broad stroke, in the banal presentation of its message; it tells instead of shows. It does instead of is.
Traffic, in a word, is anticlimactic. Where Crash throws the "point" in your face, Traffic is mostly back story and denouement. Where Crash tries to push a message, Traffic is deliberately restrained. There are three main story-lines: Michael Douglas' Robert Wakefield, a conservative judge appointed to head the "war on drugs," which he approaches in truly a bullish fashion until he discovers that his own daughter (Erika Christensen) is one of the many players in this fight against futility.
As a character, Wakefield is an open and reserved man wanting to understand the nature of his problem, while approaching it with an open mind. We follow him as a man from ruralish Ohio entering the sharp incisors of the Mexican/American drug trade. He questions the demand to the usual supply. More importantly, he questions his motives and ideals when he finds that his daughter is a victim of the cycle. He is no ideologue: a fountain through which many a film auteur has decided to spout "wisdom." He is, however, an idealist, and in a brilliant piece of screenwriting, more value exists in that one sentence that isn't said than what is and you, as the audience, can soak in the message. There's no pandering here.
The second arc follows Benecio Del Toro (who later won a Best Supporting Actor for his work) in another brilliant and understated role as Javier Rodriguez,a mexican police officer intent on following a "good" and perhaps godly path. But Javier is not a "good" man; he watches his friend and partner die in an attempt to infiltrate a cartel to detonate it from inside. He constantly is at war with his morals and sacrifices himself for what he seems is a greater cause. He, like Wakefield, questions the motives of everyone around him. There is no climax to his story; in the end, he exchanges testimony for electricity and running water for the children in his neighborhood. As one man in an important position, he does what he can to help budge an unmovable mountain. If his actions can prevent even one child from succumbing to the pressures of the various cartels, he'll consider his mission a success. In this way, Javier is a hero and a hardened idealist, much like Wakefield. We last see Javier sitting in the stands of a local neighborhood baseball game. No further explanation or obtuse message is necessary.
In a loose attempt to tie these stories together, our third arc follows the do-gooder intentions of two DEA agents intent on solving the supply end of the drug war. Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman do a fine job portraying altruistic pawns who attempt to bring down a heavy hand on a wealthy kingpin. This arc offers a slightly more nebulous take on the issue; it shows survivalism in the face of clear and present danger. Above all, above Money and Power and Fame, comes Family, as we follow Zeta-Jones' Mrs. Ayala contract to have her husband's trafficking charges dropped, while plowing over the best laid plans of the agents. She knows they exist and their case relies on the testimony of a mid-level pusher. So she does what is necessary.
Necessity is a constant theme explored throughout the movie, across all the story-lines. It explores the ultimate nature of the word from the perspective of a drug user, who'll do almost anything to get a fix, a goal-oriented officer, who watches a friend die to achieve an end and of a desperate wife, whose child is threatened in a very real way. And borne from necessity is desperation. The film navigates so effortlessly from story to story that it highlights the themes implicitly. And the characters are so compelling as vehicles that when the finality of all things does seem to pass like the ephemeral truth, but without the overstatement and hubris of a much larger "point."
But standing above all the messages filtered through our characters, the pacing and development of the characters set this movie apart and unmatched since. In many reviews and thought-pieces about Traffic, the word "meanwhile" is used quite frequently, and not in a shape-shifting kind of way. Soderbergh, as director and cinematographer, can control the framing and even the tint of the shot to glide through this vortex of storytelling only he knows exists. When we feel like we've had enough Javier, the camera shifts back to either Wakefield or to Helena Ayala. When Helena becomes tiresome, we catch up with the DEA agents bugging Helena's house and the duplicitous characters behind the border-trafficking. This happens for two hours and twenty minutes. One hundred and forty minutes of dramatic masterpiece.
As a year for Best Picture, 2000 featured Gladiator as its crown and lead actor Russell Crowe as Best Actor, the last film to award such a pair of accolades. Gladiator beat Traffic and another Soderbergh film, Erin Brockovich, Chocolat and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the award. Itself an epic work of great storytelling and acting, Gladiator is in its own right a masterpiece, but if I had to pick a movie to watch from 2000 based on pacing and message alone, I would watch and then mercilessly recommend Traffic.
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Breaking: Pope Francis makes big changes to canon law
The Tuesday Pillar Post
JD Flynn
Hey everybody,
Welcome to the Tuesday Pillar Post.
For canon lawyers, today is a long-awaited day. Pope Francis has promulgated the new Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which contains the Church's universal penal law. This is a big deal in the life of the Church.
I have been hearing since I was a canon law student in 2005 or 2006 that a new Book VI was forthcoming, and would soon be released. While 15 years is like the blink of an eye for a Church which thinks in centuries, it is nonetheless hard to believe the day is really here.
Of course, the Church's new penal law won't actually take effect until December 8, which will give bishops, canonists, and the dicasteries of the Holy See time to prepare for actually taking up and operating under a new set of laws.
After some links to the news, I'll break down everything you need to know about the new Book VI.
But first:
'The pope issues new rules, but everyone has their own plan'
Five months after Pope Francis ordered that the Vatican Secretariat of State hand over control of some funds to the Secretariat for the Economy, the handover hasn't happened, according to senior Vatican officials.
"Every effort is being made," a senior Vatican official close to the Secretariat for the Economy told us. "And every effort is met with evasion, obstruction, or just silence."
Stalling and simple non-compliance seem aimed at thwarting the pope's financial reform measures, Vatican officials said, even amid an ongoing criminal investigation into financial management at the Secretariat of State.
'Hallow' be thy app
If you're Catholic, and you spend any time scrolling through Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, you've probably seen ads for the Hallow app — purportedly the Catholic answer to wildly popular meditation apps like Headspace or Calm.
I've been seeing Hallow ads for a while, but I wasn't curious about the app until I saw in April that a large Silicon Valley venture capital firm, General Catalyst, had invested $12 million into the company that produces the Hallow app. The firm said it believes the app represents "the future of faith for the emergent digital world."
To see what the hype is about, we asked freelance writer Mary Farrow to put Hallow on her phone and use it to guide her prayer life for two weeks. Mary also talked to Hallow's CEO, to the General Catalyst investor who connected with the company, to a few Hallow users, and to some spiritual directors.
Here's what she found out.
And if you're curious whether Mary prayed more with Hallow, or even decided to keep it on her phone, well, read the story.
May perpetual light shine upon them
Yesterday was Memorial Day, the annually weird tradition in which a national day of mourning pulls double duty, to serve as the official three-day-weekend kickoff to summer. It's a strange juxtaposition.
Hopefully, between spikeball matches, plates of smoked brisket, and cans of White Claw (the official summer drink of The Pillar), you remembered to pray for the souls of America's war dead.
But if you didn't, you can pray today for the souls of American men and women killed in action as members of our armed forces. Among them are at least 30 priest chaplains who have died in America's wars. You might also remember Catholic religious sisters who have died while serving as nurses in military hospitals during American wars, especially during the Civil War.
For Memorial Day, we told some of their extraordinary stories. Like this one:
Fr. Aloysius Schmitt was a farm boy, a North American College graduate, a priest of Dubuque, Iowa, and a war hero.
He became a Navy chaplain in 1939, and by December 1941 was serving on board the battleship USS Oklahoma. The ship's home port was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. That's the port where she was moored on December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes launched a sneak attack, firing torpedoes on the naval ships at Pearl Harbor.
Fr. Schmitt was below deck when torpedoes hit the Oklahoma, and the ship began to capsize. The only means of escape from that part of the ship was a small porthole. The priest helped a number of sailors escape, but when it was his turn to swim through the porthole, he instead turned back into the ship, looking for more sailors who might need help.
Read more about Fr. Schmitt's heroic story, and about others like him, here.
Book VI 2.0: 'The restoration of justice' and the Church's new canon law
The history of canon law is as old as the Church herself, but universal canon law has only existed in codified singular texts since 1917, and since that time, two codes have been promulgated: the code of 1917, and then replacing it, the code of 1983.
Never before today has an entire book of the Church's codified universal law been replaced in one fell swoop, so the promulgation of the new Book VI is a big deal.
And it's especially a big deal right now, as it comes on the heels of the Theodore McCarrick scandal, with all that entailed. In a number of concrete ways, it is obvious that the newly revised text has been dramatically influenced by the events of the past years.
Ok, so, here's what you really need know:
Pope Francis' introduction to the new text, the apostolic constitution Pascite Gregem Dei, took a very hard swipe at the pervasive trend of antinomianism, or indifference to the application of penal law in the Church, that has cropped up in the Church's life most especially in the past 5 decades. The pope wrote:
"Many have been the damages caused in the past by the lack of understanding of the intimate relationship that exists in the Church between the exercise of charity and the performance of punitive discipline, whenever the circumstances and justice require it. This way of thinking –experience teaches it– carries the risk of temporizing with behaviors contrary to discipline, for which the remedy cannot come only from exhortations or suggestions. This attitude often carries with it the risk that, with the passage of time, such ways of life crystallize, making correction more difficult and in many cases aggravating the scandal and confusion among the faithful."
If you've spent any time around The Pillar, you know that we've attributed much of the sexual and financial scandals of recent years to a basic failure on the part of many Church officials to understand the application of penal law as an act of justice, good governance, and charity. That failure has led, we've argued, to an environment of increasingly lax standards, on the one hand, and an increasingly draconian approach to punishing the few canonical crimes the Church actually punishes with regularity. So the pope's exhortation to more concretely incorporate penal law as an ordinary and charitable expression of the Church's life is not a throwaway comment, but a strong and serious exhortation to diocesan bishops and religious superiors.
In several places, the new text requires bishops and religious superiors to initiate penal processes or impose punishments when canon law has been violated, even for relatively minor offenses, while the old text in those places encouraged them to, but left the matter to their judgment. This emphasizes the new text's general expectation that bishops and superiors will incorporate penal law into their ordinary governance of the Church's life, as part of a general tightening of Church discipline.
The new text also emphasizes that bishops and episcopal conferences should develop a more graduated system of penalties for canonical crimes than is currently in place, which would include things like the payment of monetary fines for infractions. The text clarifies that certain measures previously called into question - like a prohibition against wearing clerical dress - are regulated by canonical processes. It also clarifies that bishops can impose penalties and prohibitions tailored to offenses at differing levels of gravity, which can escalate if offenses against Church discipline escalate.
The new text asserts directly the presumption of innocence in canon law. It also changes the way that canonical statutes of limitation — called prescription — work, in order to ensure that priests accused of misconduct can't sit in limbo forever.
If a penal process begins, but then sits for a long time with no real movement — something which is known to happen in canon law — the clock can run out on imposing a penalty on the priest.
The text establishes that if a person abuses his office or power in order to commit a canonical crime, the person should be punished more severely.
The text incorporates several canonical crimes related to sex, grooming, and child pornography that had already been promulgated in canon law, but were contained in decrees and documents outside of the universal code. These include committing sexual abuse against a person "who has imperfect use of reason," and "grooming or inducing" a minor "to expose himself or herself pornographically."
Canonists and Vatican officials will have questions about how broadly the notion of "vulnerable person" will apply in penal law related to sexual offenses. The term is not used in the new text, but is alluded to, without resolving an ongoing technical dispute among Vatican offices about how broadly that notion applies to parishioners and other Catholics who interact with clerics. The dispute could impact considerably how many cases involving priests falling into sexual sin with adults are regarded as potentially criminal situations of abuse.
A rather dramatic change is that religious brothers and sisters, and even lay Catholics, can also be punished in canon law for various canonical offenses related to sexual abuse. For most of the last two decades, ambiguity about that possibility has been raised as a major gap, or lacuna, in the Church's existing penal law.
The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating.
The text includes some major clarifications, changes, and developments in canon law, and is accompanied by a strong exhortation from Pope Francis to actually take seriously the notion that punishment can be an important part of good leadership. But the onus is on bishops to actually take that exhortation seriously, and use the tools given to them to ensure better discipline in their local dioceses. If that doesn't happen, legal changes at the universal level will only exist on paper.
Another canonical thing: Boris Johnson gets married, and people get angry
Even before the promulgation of the new Book VI, canon law was in the news this week because the twice-divorced Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom was married on Saturday at London's Westminster Cathedral. The wedding prompted a tremendous backlash in the British press, and then on social media, from people who said the Catholic Church had been hypocritical to allow a powerful divorcee to be married in a cathedral of national importance.
What followed was bad media coverage from the secular press, near equally bad and erroneous explanations of canon law and sacramental theology from some Catholic apologists, radio silence from most British Catholic officials, and then some political grandstanding from activist clerics inside and outside the Catholic Church.
So here is a very direct and basic explainer of what the Church teaches about marriage:
Marriage is a lifelong partnership between one man and one woman that exists for the good of spouses and for the procreation and education of children. Marriage is an institution of natural law established by the Creator, into which people both baptized and unbaptized can enter validly.
If two unbaptized people contract marriage freely, they have a valid marriage. If an unbaptized person and a baptized person contract marriage freely, they have a valid marriage.
If the two parties in a marriage are both baptized, the marriage is a sacrament. Marriage is unique among the sacraments, because it is a natural institution that is raised into the sacramental order when it exists between the baptized.
Unbaptized people and baptized non-Catholics can generally contract marriage validly as long as they follow the requisite civil laws of the place where they are.
Catholics can only contract a valid marriage (with certain limited exceptions) when they do so by observing the "canonical form" prescribed by the Church, which is to say, generally, that Catholics can only contract marriage when the exchange of consent is witnessed by a properly delegated minister of the Church, and when the marriage takes place in a sacred space. This norm has been a requirement for Catholics since the 16th century.
It is impossible for two Catholics to have a valid but non-sacramental marriage, or to differentiate the sacramentality and the validity of marriages between the baptized. Marriage is one thing, and when it exists between the baptized, it has a sacramental character. But for Catholics, it only exists if the form prescribed by the Church has been followed.
Now, as regards Boris Johnson, Mr Johnson is a Catholic. His new wife is a Catholic. He previously attempted marriage, twice, but neither attempt observed canonical form, and thus Mr. Johnson did not contract marriage validly in either case. He was therefore free to marry. So was his new wife. In light of that, they married one another on Saturday.
Such things happen in Catholic Churches around the world every day of the week. Insofar as I can tell, Mr. Johnson received no special treatment with regard to his being "allowed" to attempt marriage on Saturday. Instead, the Church regards the right to attempt marriage to be an ordinary human right, which it seem Mr. Johnson and his wife exercised on Saturday.
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us
Today is the feast of St. Justin Martyr, a second century Christian martyr, whose "Apology" is an enduring testimony to the faith, as it was understood and explained by a believer who lived very close to the time of Jesus Christ himself.
Justin was martyred in Rome in the year 165. Before he was beheaded, he faced a trial, or an inquiry at least, before the Roman prefect Junius Rusticus. A record of the trial is fascinating reading.
Shortly before he died, Justin was asked what he believed. Here's what he told the prefect:
"Worship the God of the Christians. We hold him to be from the beginning the one creator and maker of the whole creation, of things seen and things unseen. We worship also the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He was foretold by the prophets as the future herald of salvation for the human race and the teacher of distinguished disciples. For myself, since I am a human being, I consider that what I say is insignificant in comparison with his infinite godhead. I acknowledge the existence of a prophetic power, for the one I have just spoken of as the Son of God was the subject of prophecy. I know that the prophets were inspired from above when they spoke of his coming among men."
Among the most compelling aspects of St. Justin's famous "Apology" is his account of Holy Mass:
There is then brought to the president of the brethren bread and a cup of wine mixed with water; and he taking them, gives praise and glory to the Father of the universe, through the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy to receive these things at His hands. And when he has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings, all the people present express their assent by saying Amen...And when the president has given thanks, and all the people have expressed their assent, those who are called by us deacons give to each of those present to partake of the bread and wine mixed with water over which the thanksgiving was pronounced, and to those who are absent they carry away a portion.
And this food is called among us Eucharistia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.
You can read the entire text here.
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A comment from the author: If you're reading this in your email, you may see me say "It is impossible for Catholics to have a valid but non-sacramental marriage."
This should say that it is impossible for "two Catholics to have a valid but non-sacramental marriage." I've corrected the text, but the correction won't carry over to your email.
It is possible for an individual Catholic to contract a valid non-sacramental marriage, if he marries an unbaptized person, but he is still bound to canonical form in order to do so validly.
Thanks for letting me clarify.
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3 Crypto Kingpins Have Died Under Mysterious Circumstances in the Past Few Weeks
Are we the only ones that find it super weird?
Yusha
The world of crypto is usually met with raised eyebrows and sideways glances, almost like the very notion of the subject is illegal. In some countries, that may be true, but for the wider world crypto is ever changing and developing from day to day.
Those of you following crypto news recently will recall the recent demise of the exchange empire FTX, seeing his CEO John J. Ray III face legal prosecution, and one of its founders Sam Bankman-Fried unceremoniously fired from his position on market manipulation suspicions. In the midst of these events, come the deaths of three large scale crypto-investors.
Vyacheslav Taran, a Russian crypto typhoon, was the most recent victim in a helicopter crash along the French-Italian border. According to Russian media sites, Taran was in charge of the growth and collapse of Forex Club, which had its license revoked in Russia in 2018 for allegedly defrauding investors.
The news of his death was followed by the passing of 30-year-old Tiantian Kullander, who allegedly died in his sleep. Kullander was a co-founder of Amber Group, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency trading company that was reportedly valued at $3 billion. On Nov. 25, the company announced on its website that he had passed away.
However, the Internet is looking at this with great suspicion, as he had no history of ill health prior to his passing.
And, most recently, it has been reported that 29-year-old wealthy bitcoin developer Nikolai Mushegian drowned in Puerto Rico. After the news of Mushegian's death started circulating, people were quick to refer to a series of cryptic Tweets allegedly posted by an account belonging to him shortly before his passing.
3 possible futures for me 1) suicided by CIA 2) CIA brain damage slave asset 3) worst nightmare of people who fucked with me up until now, I am sure these are the only options
— ☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀ (@delete_shitcoin) September 5, 2022
Following this pretty morbid news, some users looked back online at previous enigmatic or inexplicable deaths and disappearances, but again, there was little to link the three together, other than crypto.
Cryptocurrency's volatility, the numerous scandals that have surrounded it, and its promotion as a decentralized alternative to traditional banking systems have encouraged heated debate and theorizing from all sides. But one Twitter user summed up my opinion best:
Someone must really hate these Crypto Billionaires. pic.twitter.com/JqaRGp9PJF
— Dj Banzow (@bxnzow) November 29, 2022
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L.A. Noire Remastered
Available on:Nintendo SwitchNov 14, 2017
Xbox OneNov 14, 2017
Xbox Series X/SNov 10, 2020
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Interactive Story
A dark and violent crime thriller set against the backdrop of 1940's Los Angeles. Amid the post-war boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, Cole Phelps, an LAPD detective is thrown headfirst into a city drowning in its own success. Corruption is rampant, the drug trade is exploding, and murder rates are at an all-time high. In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, racketeering conspiracies and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department to uncover a secret that could shake the city to its rotten core. Utilising revolutionary facial animation technology that captures every nuance of an actor's facial performance in astonishing detail, L.A. Noire blends the breathtaking action with true detective work for an unprecedented interactive experience. Solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by real crimes from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in L.A. history. Search for clues, chase down suspects and interrogate witnesses as you struggle to find the truth in a city where everyone has something to hide. Includes the complete original game and all additional downloadable content plus new collectibles and detective suits to unlock, each with unique special abilitiesFeatures an array of new enhancements specifically for Nintendo Switch gaming including a Joy-Con mode with gyroscopic, gesture-based controls, HD rumble and new wide and over-the-shoulder camera angles, plus contextual touch screen controls for portable detective work
L.A. Noire Remastered Critic Reviews
Alanah Pearce
The most important parts of LA Noire have aged beautifully, with incredibly detailed faces, diverse characters, and unique, challenging crimes to solve as a detective. The top-notch writing and voice acting bring 1940s Los Angeles to life, but are let down by a dull open world with frequent frame rate drops. Aside from difficulty aiming in gun fights, it's a smart port with accurate motion controls and the ability to play almost entirely touchscreen, too.
GameCentral
Still arguably the best detective game, and an impressively ambitious example of adult storytelling – despite a few structural and narrative flaws.
Matt Bertz
8.5 / 10.0
Improved interrogation options help these cold cases hold up six years after they originally released. However, the fantastic open-world setting is still underutilized
Matt Espineli
Despite a few technical issues, L.A. Noire is well worth playing on Switch.
the.Mahatma
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With wounds from the war he managed to escape from, Cole Phelps joins the distinguished LAPD, eventually getting entangled in a series of grisly crime and murder he must solve. Set in a faithful recreation of post-WWII Los Angeles, L.A. Noire is a third-person detective simulator about piecing clues together to solve a series of crimes, through thorough picking of random ****
With wounds from the war he managed to escape from, Cole Phelps joins the distinguished LAPD, eventually getting entangled in a series of grisly crime and murder he must solve. Set in a faithful recreation of post-WWII Los Angeles, L.A. Noire is a third-person detective simulator about piecing clues together to solve a series of crimes, through thorough picking of random **** and reading peoples' faces for guilt or otherwise. PROS: ● The game's recreation of 1940s Los Angeles is ***-tier, from the architecture to the art to the people's dresses the shitload of cars to the tunes on the radio, like you'll feel really old it's so authentic ● Interior locations are so ******* detailed and amazingly not broken by those Bethesda-trademark loading screens ● Every single one of the 21 cases boast a compelling and riveting (and sometimes interweaving) plot to get through the eventually repetitive gameplay sequences ● ***-tier voice acting and animations from the game's shitload of characters, apparently made possible by first-of-its-kind motion capture technology that allowed for some of the most realistic faces in gaming, even against today's triple As ● Character movement animations are stiff and slow but realistic and immersive, just like how Rockstar likes it, smothered with tons of nice incidental animations you'll probably never notice ● Roaming around Los Angeles is such a delight, with the nice driving mechanics from the shitload of cars available for no-strings-attached GTA ● Terrific period-accurate in-game radio, and the similarly fantastic soundtrack and original tracks ● Some cases deal with some pretty dark and messed up stuff, which is how it should be ● Gunplay can take some time getting used to with its clunky as **** controls and animation, but it eventually comes off as pretty satisfying, with enemies realistically rag dolling and the environment getting all ****** up a la Mafia 2 before it ● Dialogue feels really dynamic depending on how much poking around you did and the number of clues you got CONS: ● Side quests are nice diversions that break the monotony of the campaign, but they also break your train of thought to the case at hand and eventually they do feel kind of repetitive – but I suppose real life police work is repetitive ● I would've preferred GTA's campaign structure in that Phelps is allowed to free roam in between cases, take on those pesky side missions meanwhile and appreciate the intricate map much more ● The soundtrack often buries that terrific in-game radio, which is a shame ● Phelps sounds really unnecessarily angry all the damn time ● If you think about it, staring at suspects at extended periods of time while they make those faces is pretty ******* silly
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Robert George Marshall Sr. (March 4, 1893 – March 20, 1957) was an American businessman and politician.

Marshall was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to the Minneapolis public schools. He served in the United States Army during World War I. Marshall lived in Minneapolis with his wife and family. He was involved in the advertising and lumber businesses. He served in the Minnesota Senate from 1931 to 1938. Marshall died in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The countdown is on! As of the morning that this issue hits the stands, my kids have seven days of school left. When I was in school, I always referred to it as the "why assign any schoolwork days." I mean, we're almost done right? The last couple of weeks should just be easy, coast-through days. That was my genius logic as a kid.
Now that I'm older, my thought during these last weeks before summer break is always: "Why didn't I become a teacher?" Which, now given my semi-unemployed/self-employed status, becoming a teacher could be an option as I am currently entertaining the idea of returning to school.
I find myself getting really excited about summer break this year. With each passing day, I get almost as excited as the kids for that last day of school. There are many reasons for this. I plan on kicking off their summer vacay with a trip to the beach. I also am looking forward to many day trips to Six Flags, Stone Mountain, Riverbanks Zoo, perhaps some educational trips among many others. Then, of course, there will be many days lounging by the pool as the kids play since I have my days off now.
All those things are exciting. But I think I'm more excited about not having to figure out the "bear system" in No. 4's send-home folder any more. Like many kindergarteners, his teacher sends home a behavior report each day. The way they chart the behavior is by coloring their daily bear green, yellow or red. Obviously green means he had a good day. Yellow means he had trouble listening, following directions or whatever. Red means bad. Red means they got reminded a few times to mind their behavior but the kid wasn't having it.
Now I give teachers tons of credit for what they do. They have to keep up with quite a few kids with all kinds of different needs and temperaments, especially the younger kids. But sometimes I just don't get the bear system.
At the beginning of the year, the wife and I were devastated when No. 4 came home with a red bear. Like, "Oh no! We have THAT kid! The problem child of the class! Whatever do we do?" The answer to that was usually some sort of punishment: No TV or games, time outs or just taking away whatever his favorite toy was at the time. However, as the year passed along, the red bears would still come. Sometimes yellow bears and, yes, sometimes green bears. We made a huge deal about green bears: high-fives, rewards, etc.
The confusion comes in with the reasons he gets the red bears. Most times it's the usual stuff you expect a 5-year-old to do: talking in the line, playing during nap time and picking up sticks. Wait, what? Picking up sticks? I could understand if he were throwing the sticks or poking other kids with the sticks after picking them up. After the winter we've had, the kid's been picking up sticks in our yard since February! Hell, we encourage it! So I guess it's our fault.
That was the red bear that made me realize that maybe the red bears aren't quite the cause for panic that we previously thought. But, bottom line: if the teacher says don't pick up sticks, then you don't pick up sticks. We let him know that and I'm happy to say we have had no stick incidents since.
Now with the end of the year looming, I've been spending a lot of time at the school. Field days, lunches and presentations (No. 2 made the honors program at his middle school! YES!). On a few of these visits I've noticed that No. 4 seems to be fairly well behaved. Often much better behaved than some of the other kids. My first thought is that he's behaving because he knows I'm there. Then I think about how he sometimes behaves around the house, so that's definitely not the case. I know my sample time is small, but all I really see is a kid acting like a 5-year-old.
I am by no means saying his teacher is wrong. In fact, there are times at home when I feel like wringing his neck. I do like knowing his behavior for the day. But if the little incidents of being an excitable 5-year-old are the reasons for the red bears, I guess I'm okay with that as long as he's not being blatantly disrespectful.


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An Inlay Restoration is a custom made filling made of composite material, gold, or tooth-colored porcelain.
It is made by a professional dental laboratory and is permanently cemented into the tooth by Dr. Arakelian.
are more conservative than crowns because less tooth structure is removed in the preparation of inlays.
They are highly durable and long lasting, giving you a beautiful long lasting smile.
A) An inlay procedure usually requires two appointments. Your first appointment will include taking several highly accurate impressions (molds) that will be used to create your custom inlay and a temporary restoration.
B) While the tooth is numb, the dentist will remove any decay and/or old filling materials. The space will then be thoroughly cleaned and carefully prepared, shaping the surface to properly fit an inlay restoration. A temporary filling will be applied to protect the tooth while your inlay is made by a dental laboratory.
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Q: CTE works but a simple JOIN will not? I am trying to figure out why utilizing a CTE to strip out erroneous information works but I cannot use the same data transformation directly in the JOIN. So for instance, I have the following DOCUMENT table that look as so:
RECTYPE  TYPEDESC               PAGE    DOCIMGLINK
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
D        Delayed Birth Record   00127   1910-007704118500089870170008786670
D        Birth Record           00056   1910-007701897300089870160008810074
D        Delayed Birth Record   00118   1912-007704116600089870180008786651
D        Birth Record           00004   1913-007702338100089870200008804037
D        Birth Record           00249   1913-007702362500089870210008804281

I then have a table DM_CONTENT with the following information:
DM_ID   DM_PATH
------------------------------------------------------------
1       BR\1910\1910-007704118500089870170008786670.TIF
2       BR\1910\1910-007701897300089870160008810074.TIF
3       BR\1912\1912-007704116600089870180008786651.TIF
4       BR\1913\1913-007702338100089870200008804037.TIF
5       BR\1913\1913-007702362500089870210008804281.TIF

As you can see, DM_PATH is the DOCIMGLINK with additional information embedded. I wanted to use the DOCIMGLINK as a unique identifier to JOIN the two tables and bring back all the information. I thought, let's just parse out the part I'm trying to compare and that should do the trick.
SELECT
   D.RECTYPE
   ,D.TYPEDESC
   ,D.PAGE
   ,D.DOCIMGLINK
   ,DMC.DM_ID
   ,DMC.DM_PATH
FROM
   DOCUMENT D
   LEFT JOIN DM_CONTENT DMC
      ON D.DOCIMGLINK = PARSENAME(REPLACE(DMC.DM_PATH, '\', '.'), 2)

No results... odd, that should work but it doesn't. My solution instead was to use a CTE with the same exact PARSENAME function:
WITH CTE AS
(SELECT
   DM_ID
   ,PARSENAME(REPLACE(DM_PATH, '\', '.'), 2) AS 'DM_PATH'
FROM
   DM_CONTENT)
SELECT
      D.RECTYPE
      ,D.TYPEDESC
      ,D.PAGE
      ,D.DOCIMGLINK
      ,CTE.DM_ID
      ,CTE.DM_PATH
   FROM
      DOCUMENT D
      LEFT JOIN CTE
         ON D.DOCIMGLINK = CTE.DM_PATH

Brings back positive results! While I have this working solution, I want to understand why I can't do it the other way. There has to be something simple I am missing and it's driving me mad. Thanks in advance for assisting my ignorant filled brain fart!

A: Are you sure this is the same code??? Your posted example works fine...well once I turned into something consumable.
create table #Document
(
    RECTYPE char(1)
    , TYPEDESC varchar(50)
    , PAGE varchar(10)
    , DOCIMGLINK varchar(50)
)

insert #Document
select 'D', 'Delayed Birth Record', 00127, '1910-007704118500089870170008786670' union all
select 'D', 'Birth RecorD', 00056, '1910-007701897300089870160008810074' union all
select 'D', 'Delayed Birth Record', 00118, '1912-007704116600089870180008786651' union all
select 'D', 'Birth RecorD', 00004, '1913-007702338100089870200008804037' union all
select 'D', 'Birth RecorD', 00249, '1913-007702362500089870210008804281'

create table #DM_CONTENT
(
    DM_ID int
    , DM_PATH varchar(100)
)

insert #DM_CONTENT
select 1, 'BR\1910\1910-007704118500089870170008786670.TIF' union all
select 2, 'BR\1910\1910-007701897300089870160008810074.TIF' union all
select 3, 'BR\1912\1912-007704116600089870180008786651.TIF' union all
select 4, 'BR\1913\1913-007702338100089870200008804037.TIF' union all
select 5, 'BR\1913\1913-007702362500089870210008804281.TIF'

SELECT
   D.RECTYPE
   ,D.TYPEDESC
   ,D.PAGE
   ,D.DOCIMGLINK
   ,DMC.DM_ID
   ,DMC.DM_PATH
FROM
   #DOCUMENT D
   LEFT JOIN #DM_CONTENT DMC
      ON D.DOCIMGLINK = PARSENAME(REPLACE(DMC.DM_PATH, '\', '.'), 2)

drop table #DM_CONTENT
drop table #Document

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DR. ANDREW FORREST
Dr. Andrew Forrest is Australia's most active philanthropist and among the most effective business leaders of his generation. Andrew is Founder and Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue), a US$60 billion listed natural resources company that's invested US$40+ billion developing global scale infrastructure and some of the world's most efficient resource extraction and transport techniques. Fortescue is Australia's highest growth company over the last two decades and has devoted its future to leading the industrial world into a clean energy future. In 2001, Andrew co-founded Minderoo Foundation with his wife Nicola, and to date they've donated more than US$1.6 billion supporting 300+ initiatives addressing modern slavery, ocean health, cancer, indigenous disparity, early learning, artificial intelligence, disaster resilience, and plastic waste. He recently completed a four-year PHD in Marine Ecology, is an IUCN Patron of Nature, a WEF Friend of Ocean Action, and a member of the UNEP Scientific Advisory Committee on the Assessment on Marine Litter and Microplastics. He is Global Patron of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and recipient of the Australian Sports Medal and the Australian Centenary Medal. In 2016, he served as a Councillor of the Global Citizen Commission, charged by the UN to modernise the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2017, Andrew was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to philanthropy, mining, employment, and sustainable foreign investment.
In 2021, Fortescue announced its commitment to become zero-emissions by 2030, and created Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a developer, financier, and operator of a global portfolio of renewable energy resources. FFI is investing in zero-emissions energy resources to produce green energy at a scale equal to the oil and gas super-majors. FFI will produce 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen per annum by 2030, to break the supply and demand conundrum, through a global multi-hub supply chain.


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ESO 510-G13 es una galaxia espiral a unos 150 millones de años luz de distancia en la constelación de Hidra. La nube de polvo ecuatorial está fuertemente deformada; esto puede indicar que ESO 510-G13 ha interactuado con otra galaxia. Si este es el caso, proporcionaría una excelente ilustración de la distorsión provocada por galaxias interactuantes.

Esta galaxia fue examinada por el Telescopio Espacial Hubble en 2001.

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Murdered woman found in East End flat in Hoxton is named
Published: 10:41 AM April 14, 2014 Updated: 8:39 AM October 14, 2020
Hoxton murder victim Judith Nibbs - Credit: MPS
A woman found murdered in her flat in London's East End has been named by police today as 60-year-old Judith Nibbs.
Officers were called by the Ambulance Service to a flat at Charles Square in Hoxton where they found her body at 5am on Friday.
A post-mortem examination is being carried out at Poplar Mortuary tomorrow. No formal identification has taken place, but detectives say they knew who she was and have told the next of kin.
A 67-year-old man was taken by ambulance to hospital from the address where he was said to be in a critical condition.
Police investigations continue, but there have been no arrests, Scotland Yard has confirmed today. They are not looking for anyone else in the inquiry.


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A deductible is the out-of-pocket expense that insurance providers require patients to pay before they begin to cover expenses. High deductibles are often a strong deterrent to purchasing a health insurance plan in the first place, and one of the obstacles the Obama administration has attempted to rectify with the Affordable Care Act.
Unfortunately, the expansion of the ACA has not been without its missteps. As the Wall Street Journal writes in its review of Zeke Emmanuel's Health of Nations, "The rapid spread of high-deductible insurance among employers [was] one of the immediate and unanticipated consequences of the ACA." Indeed, manyACA plans have proven much too expensive for many of its recipients to partake in.
In profiling multiple people who bought health insurance after the ACA was implemented, the New York Times found that the Affordable Care Act may not be as affordable as its name would indicate. While upfront payments may be reasonable, Obamacare does little to cover costs when medical attention is actually needed.
The Times reported that over half of the plans offered through HealthCare.gov (also called "the marketplace") have deductibles of $3,000 or more. North Texas resident Kevin Fanning purchased one of these plans but said, "We could not afford the deductible. Basically I was paying for insurance I could not afford to use." Eventually, he dropped the plan and opted to pay the penalty.
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As it turns out, the cause for such high costs can't be traced to one source. The Incidental Economist notes that for the past decade, "rising costs have led employers to trim away at the benefits offered to their workers." Conservative policy shifts in the 1990s led employers to hold onto high-deductible premiums in order to keep their own costs down.
In 2003, Gail Shearer of the Consumers' Union aptly predicted that "the year 2003 may well go down in health care history as the year that the health care system began to rapidly evolve toward a system characterized by health insurance deductibles in the range of $1,500 to $2,000".
In essence, the high-deductible issues of the ACA are symptomatic of an already-existing problem within the healthcare sector. The most recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics reveals that, from 2007 onwards, high-deductible insurance plans have grown in number among the wealthy.
Those with means can save on lower upfront cost but still afford the high fees should they need medical care. However, as the APA reports, the wealthy suffer fewer health issues than people with lower incomes. While these plans are made popular by people who have more wealth, they are harmful to those who don't.
While the quality and prices of the revamped policies this year may have improved, affordable health insurance still remains out of the reach for millions of Americans who need it. This is where SingleCare can help.
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Q: How to connect to an FTP server with sockets? I am trying to create a simple FTP client but somehow the FTP connection can not be established.
I used the following code:
import socket
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect(('localhost', 21))
data = 'USER adm\r\n'.encode()
sock.send(data)
print('Close')
sock.close()

The logs of the FTP server I try to connect to look like this:

(048507)01.05.2018 06:00:03 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)>
  Connected on port 21, sending welcome message...
  (048507)01.05.2018 06:00:03 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)>
  220-FileZilla Server 0.9.60 beta
      (048507)01.05.2018 06:00:03 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220-written by Tim Kosse (tim.kosse@filezilla-project.org)
      (048507)01.05.2018 06:00:03 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> 220 Please visit https://filezilla-project.org/
      (048507)01.05.2018 06:00:03 - (not logged in) (127.0.0.1)> disconnected.

I tried to send the USER adm command but can not find it in the logs. How can I establish a successful connection to a FTP server with sockets?

A: There are a couple of possible timing issues.
FTP is a "server speaks first" protocol. The 220 banner that you see in your log is sent by the server immediately after the connection is accepted. The client is supposed to read that banner before sending any commands. (If you get any numeric code other than 220, the server is unwilling to talk.)
For testing purposes, I recommend that you read from the server and print whatever you read to stdout. Your server's 220 banner is an example of a multi-line FTP response, in which the numeric code is followed by a hyphen on the first line, and followed by a space on the last line. You should keep reading until you get a line with a space after the numeric code.
If you don't do that, and just send USER immediately after the connection completes, you are speaking out of turn. Depending on how fast your client code is running, the server may get the command before it is expecting one, and that could explain why it doesn't respond.
The other possible problem is that you are closing the connection immediately after sending USER, without waiting for the response. The server might notice that too. Even if it's not trying to detect odd client behavior, it might be getting a write error when it tries to send its response, and that could explain why it's not logging normally.
The overall structure of an FTP client in pseudocode is
connect
read response (banner)
while not done:
    send command
    read response
send QUIT
read response
close

(That omits the really interesting part, which is managing the data connection, but you haven't got that far yet).
For your test where you just want to get as far as USER, you at least need to:
connect
read banner
send USER
read response
close

(Skipping QUIT probably won't do any harm)
Note that the server is allowed to return a multi-line response to any command, including USER, so you should always check for the space after the numeric code. It's a good idea to write a subroutine to read a single FTP response, and call that after every command.

A: Do a "first response" read from server to verify if it "hears" you or not and as the server hears you and it "talked back" once, make a loop to read all of the responses from the server until the server go quiet with no response, just like waiting for it to finish "talking". Then you may continue your "talk" with the server by sending new data to it.
Based from other answers and your comment replies, it seems that you went from ignoring when will the server itself finish "talking" to expecting it to finish "talking" after your 5 second sleep timer, which is not good. The most efficient way is to "listen" to all of the server's "talk" response before "talking" to the server again as client.
That way you can immediately "talk" to server after it finishes "talking" with you, the client.


This is the 23rd and last class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. 3Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. 4Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." 6So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?" 7Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so. 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. 14For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. 15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. 17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.
20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 22Brothers and sisters, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you quite briefly. 23I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you. 24Greet all your leaders and all the Lord's people. Those from Italy send you their greetings. 25Grace be with you all.
Jesus both God and man and His children.
This is the 22nd class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
Faith will enable us to run the race of life.
5And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son." 7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! 10They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. 12Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13"Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
14Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness, no one will see the Lord. 15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done.
This is the 21st class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
0ne point, have faith in God and be patience and He will give you all that He has promised.
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction ofthings not seen. 2For by it the men of old gained approval.
James 2:23(KJV) 23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
2. Abraham is the father of all who believes Romans 4:11-12 11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 18it was he to whom it was said, "IN ISAAC YOUR [n]DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED." 19 [o]He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back [p]as a type 20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come. 21By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. 22By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26considering the reproach of [q]Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen. 28By faith he [r]kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. 29By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were [s]drowned.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies [t]in peace. 32And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, 33who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their [u]release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; 36and others [v]experienced mockings and scourging's, yes, also chains and imprisonment. 37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, [w]they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38(men of whom the world was not worthy),wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes [x]in the ground.
This is the 20th class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and [h]without reproach, and it will be given to him.
32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions 35Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37For, "In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay."[38And, "But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back." 39But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Things that are called faith but are not.
2. Faith is not a hunch that is followed.
3. Faith is not hoping for the best, hoping that everything will turn out all right.
Faith commences with "things hoped for," that is, it starts with a sense of discontent.
3. "He that comes to God must believe that he is, that God exists." There are some who say, "That's the hard part, that's what is difficult." No, it is not.
4. "The assurance of things hoped for." achieved by acting on the revelation of the things unseen.
By faith, we understand that the world was created by the word of God so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. (Hebrews 11:3 RSV)— That statement was made in the first century.
• Biblical faith puts us immediately in touch with reality. Faith is a way of piercing the illusion that tends to distract us and lead us into chasing rabbits of thought all over the pasture and bring us right to the point, to show us things as they really are. Do not laugh at faith. Faith is dealing with facts. Faith grounds one immediately on reality.
Grounds one immediately in reality. What science can't tell us, faith can.
How human history is going to end, but by faith, I know.
2. Science cannot tell me what is wrong with human life, what is the reason why I act the way I do, and you act the way you do but by faith I know.
3. Cannot tell me what lies beyond the door of death. Even to the scientists, it is an enigma, a mystery, but by faith, I know what lies beyond. Mystery, but by faith I know what lies beyond.
4. Cannot explain the mysteries of my own makeup, and tell me how to fulfill my manhood, how to realize my dreams, but faith can.
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2For by it the men of old gained approval.
21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.22After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more because God took him away.
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this, he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith. 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. The 9by faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. 13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
This is the 17th class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
26Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
This is the 15th class on the book of Hebrews. This Bible class was taught at the Pilot Point Church in Pilot Point Texas.
As a system Old Testament Aaronic was inadequate because a new priesthood was prophesied.
2. It was inadequate because it was made up of dying men, where this new priesthood of Jesus isn't.
3. The Old Testament Aaronic priesthood was appointed by God but there was never an oath given to them.
4. The Old Testament priesthood was tied to the law.
5. With the new priesthood of Jesus we can draw near to God.
22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant. 23Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them 26Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! 26Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being. 3Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.
Peter's references to Christians as a "holy priesthood" or a "royal priesthood" (1 Peter 2:5, 9; cf. Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 20:6).
Paul viewed his evangelistic work among the Gentiles, in a manner of speaking, as a priestly work (see "ministering" [Romans 15:16]). His converts were thought of as an "offering" to God.
2. The Philippian Christians were a joy to Paul. Their faith was like a sacrifice that had been given up to God; if necessary, he was willing for his own life to be "poured out as a drink offering" to complement that sacrifice (Philippians 2:17, 2 Timothy 4:6).
3. As the apostle wrote from his incarceration in Rome, he reflected upon the recent support conveyed by Epaphroditus from the church in Philippi. It was an "odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God" (Philippians 4:18).
4. Note the similar imagery set forth in Hebrews 13:15-16.15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
6. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God (12:1-2).
10This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest 12For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." 13By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.


Crowdfunding for the "Open Research Boat"
Even though the Crowdfunding Campaign is not successful we manage to get a bit of traction and more outreach with TV Interviews, Radio appearances, Newspaper Articles and even an appearance on the TED stage.
We make a leap to the Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar and take over Operations of the Mergui Archipelago Biodiversity Research. During the Season of 2015/2016 we visit more than 20 islands of the Archipelago, establish valuable relationships in the area and document well over 400 different terrestrial and marine species - more than 10 of them endangered around the world, including one coral that is close to extinction but abundant in the Mergui Islands.
In the latest season Project Manaia created a Research Base on Boulder Island, together with the "Boulder Bay Eco Resort" we have a team of two (Marine) Biologists permanently stationed on the remote island.
During this season we established the very first Coral Garden and Coral Nursery of Myanmar and possibly the entire Andaman Sea!
With Projects in Myanmar moving along we relocated ones again and managed to get more engaged in the Mediterranean and finally create the Open Research Boat we always dreamed of - SY Independence.
Currently based in Turkey we will be setting out to help with Cetacean data collections at sea as well as a turtle project in which we will help quantify the populations along the northern shore of Cyprus!