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Mitchell S. Jackson
Author • Filmmaker
No one wanted the night to end. Mitchell showed up with his intelligence, integrity, energy, and an unapologetic approach to delivering the much-needed and sometimes uncomfortable truth. Equal parts story teller, historian and catalyst for thought. All walked away energized and wanting the conversation to continue.
— President, Categories & Product, Nike
Mitchell Jackson's presentation resonated with our adult audience, as well as the formerly incarcerated youth who attended. He was mesmerizing!
— Director of Development & Community Relations, Second Chance
He was lovely…I got more compliments from students and faculty yesterday about his presentation than just about anyone I can remember!
— Director Distinguished Writers Series & Jonske Memorial Speakers Series, Catlin Gabel School
Jackson writes with a keen attentiveness to the social contexts shaping the lives of his family, offering nuanced depictions that upend the stereotypes that often cage us in.
— The New York Times Book Review
Powerful… Jackson's prose has a spoken-word cadence, the language flying off the page with percussive energy…there is a warmth and a hard-won wisdom about the intersection of race and poverty in America.
— The New York Times
An unforgettable mix of sharp humor, wide interrogation, and indelible tragedy.
— Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black
Selected Lecture Topics
The Other America II: Dr. Martin Luther King's Vision of America Today
Prison to the Pen: Mitchell S. Jackson's Extraordinary Journey
Revision: Finding Restoration and Empowerment with Creativity
No Black/No White: Eradicating Problematic Identities in America
Life Beyond the Walls: The Remedy of Reading and Writing For Ex Prisoners
R.E.S.P.E.C.T: Truths About Black Manhood
"Mitchell Jackson writes into Portland like Edward P. Jones writes into Washington, DC, with his judicious left eye on the full hearts of his characters and his vigilant right eye attuned to the wolf at their door. His classically orchestrated novel, The Residue Years, is suffused with humor, lyricism and compassion… Jackson is a powerfully confident writer, with an unerring ability to embody voices."
—From the Whiting Award for Fiction citation
Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Mitchell S. Jackson is a native of Portland, Oregon. Jackson's work explores his hometown, including the systemic forces that shaped his community, his family, and his early life. That exploration began with a novel titled The Residue Years—a book that announced Jackson as a bright new voice in literary fiction.
The Residue Years earned high praise from The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times of London, among many others. The novel won the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/ Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson also won a Whiting Award, one of the country's most prestigious literary awards for emerging writers.
Jackson's newest work is Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. In his hybrid nonfiction—part essay, part memoir, part history—Jackson examines the hardships that shaped his life, his family, and his community. The book serves as a cultural critique of the racial history of Oregon, American whiteness, mass incarceration, sex work, violence, and broken families—phenomena of which Jackson is intimately familiar— and ultimately presents a microcosm of the forces blighting the lives of untold disenfranchised Americans. An endlessly fascinating and lovingly rendered portrayal of the victories and injustices that defined Jackson's youth, Survival Math is at once elegiac and hopeful.
"With a kind of tenderness not reserved for people who've suffered, Jackson's Survival Math explores more than just the highs and lows of his loved ones, he gets at the texture and nuance, the grit and fight of those grasping onto to the hope of getting through the worst of it. Put another way: this book is dope. Awash in the kind of stories that easily get written as voyeurism, Jackson turns these lives and his own, into an American epic."
—Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Bastards of the Reagan Era and A Question of Freedom
Mitchell S. Jackson's other honors include fellowships from TED, the Lannan Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the BreadLoaf Conference, Right of Return USA, and the Center for Fiction. He is a member of Black Artists for Freedom, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House, among other places. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, a contributing writer for Esquire, and currently serves on the board of Literary Arts. Jackson is at work on his next novel, John of Watts, which follows the rise and fall of a cult leader in Oregon.
For more information on Mitchell S. Jackson, please visit him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and at mitchellsjackson.com.
Download Mitchell S. Jackson's press kit here.
Praise for Survival Math
Survival Math is the best memoir I've read in ages. With honesty, insight, and a tremendous amount of heart, Mitchell S. Jackson takes us deep into the stories that made, ruined, and saved him. It's intimate and wise; poignant and compassionate; redemptive and raw.
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Praise for The Residue Years
[A] powerful debut…full of impossible hope…Jackson's prose has a spoken-word cadence, the language flying off the page with percussive energy…There is warmth and wit, and a hard-won wisdom about the intersection of race and poverty in America.
Roxane Gay, The New York Times Book Review
2021 Creative Capital Award
2019 Right of Return USA Fellowship
2019 New York Public Library, Cullman Center Fellowship
2018 PEN America, Writing for Justice Fellowship
2016 Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction
2016 TED, Senior Fellowship
2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, The Residue Years
2014 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, The Residue Years
2014 Honor Book for Fiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, The Residue Years
2014 Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, The Residue Years
2014 Finalist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, The Residue Years
2013 Finalist, Center For Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, The Residue Years
John of Watts (FSG, 2024)
Survival Math (Scribner, 2019)
The Residue Years: A Novel (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Selected Contributions
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021)
Calendars, short fiction featured in The Washington Post Magazine: The Prison Issue (2019)
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (Scribner, 2016)
Selected Articles and Essays
On Election Night, American Racism Was Quantified, Esquire
Juneteenth: A Primer, Harper's Bazaar
Twelve Minutes and a Life: Ahmaud Arbery and How Running Fails Black America, Runner's World
Fight for Your Rights, Portland Monthly
When Michael B. Jordan Promises to Come Home, He Means It, Esquire
Toni Morrison Showed Us That Our People Were Always, Always Enough, Esquire
Childish Gambino captures the grim surrealism of being black in America, The Guardian
N-Words, The Writing Life, The Authors Guild
Mitchell S. Jackson speaks with Amanpour & Co. about changing paths
Mitchell S. Jackson speaks with PBS Books at AWP
Mitchell S. Jackson at TED
Watch Mitchell Jackson give away 125 copies of his memoir on 125th Street in Harlem
Mitchell S. Jackson speaks to 1,700 Portlanders as part of the Portland Literary Arts Everybody Reads series
The Residue Years: The Documentary trailer
Mitchell S. Jackson on 'Stitching Together Imagined Communities', Lit Hub
Review of Survival Math, NPR
Review of Survival Math, The New York Times
Opportunity Cost (excerpted from Survival Math), Harper's Magazine
LISTEN: The Rest of His Life, This American Life
LISTEN: The Archive Project: Jesmyn Ward and Mitchell S. Jackson in Conversation at AWP 2019
LISTEN: All Things Considered: Mitchell Jackson, NPR
WATCH: Mitchell S. Jackson on Book TV, CSPAN
Bestselling Author • Social Critic • Essayist
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Bestselling Author • Novelist • Essayist
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Bestselling Author • Memoirist • Social Justice Advocate
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Rice football must build a winning culture
By Madison Buzzard 9/26/17 11:19pm
It's the perfect Saturday night: Hundreds of trucks are tailgating, thousands of students are waving their arms in unison and a crowd of over 50,000 is cheering on your school's pride and joy, a program with a rich tradition and history — your football team.
Close your eyes and picture this moment shared by students at universities across the country.
Rousing, isn't it? A dream, perhaps?
For students at Rice University, this dream has never come true.
Not during last year's game against Baylor University. Not during this year's home opener against Florida International University. The only exception may be for a few students who witnessed the Cougar tradition in a blowout to the University of Houston at TDECU Stadium, but does that really count?
For a university with a proven track record in academics, with a proven social and party culture, with a proven residential college system, our football team has yet to prove its worth to the student body.
Don't believe me? Go to any home game. You'll be lucky to find more than 200 fans in the student section. One could assign ourselves blame for our apathy, but the underlying cause perpetuates our entire football program.
The Rice football team lacks a winning culture.
From the administration, to the athletic directors, to the coaching staff, to the players, to the students, to the fans, and to everyone affiliated with the Rice football program, it's crystal clear: there is a lack of investment in a winning football team.
Take the decision to retain Head Coach David Bailiff after Rice finished last season a meager 3-9 with two wins to Conference USA bottom-feeders University of North Carolina, Charlotte and the University of Texas, El Paso, for example. Our athletic directors witnessed a team win only one in four games, finish last in C-USA and miss a bowl game for the second straight year; yet, they remained complacent.
Florida Atlantic University finished with an identical record to Rice last season. And what did they do? They fired head coach Charlie Partridge and replaced him with Lane Kiffin, a man with coaching experience at the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee, the University of Southern California and the Oakland Raiders. Kiffin has experience coaching at the highest levels of football. Sure, FAU is still 1-3, just like Rice — but at least their athletic department knew it was time to make a change when their football program was underwhelming.
I respect Bailiff. He is an outstanding representative for the university and has led Rice to several bowl wins. But this game is all about "what have you done for me lately?" and right now, our football team hasn't done much at all.
This doesn't excuse the student body for not showing up to games. Every one of us must take the responsibility to support our student-athletes more seriously and attend Rice sporting events. We are all one student body, and we can join together by cheering for our Owls.
We also desperately need a more exciting stadium environment. Sure, there may be 50 Rice students who love college football enough to happily sit and watch the game. But for everyone else, the game day experience needs a little more beef. New and frequent crowd chants, improved on-field performances and a revamped tailgating experience would bring hundreds of Rice students from their dorm rooms to Rice Stadium.
I can think of a multitude of ways to improve the Owl fan experience. Unfortunately, no change will drastically impact our football program unless the administration demands more from athletics, athletics demand more from coaches and coaches demand more from players.
We cannot sit back and let this time go to waste. For our athletic department, the success of Rice football is an acknowledgment of their professional success. For our students, each of us has four years to leave this university better than we found it — and it starts with making Rice football games more exciting, more loud, and more hype. Our players deserve it. Our students deserve it. Together, we can make that Saturday night dream a reality.
SPORTS 4/27/19 1:20pm
Diagnosing NCAA play with women's tennis head coach Elizabeth Schmidt
By Madison Buzzard
After earning victory in the Conference USA Championship final for the sixth time in seven years, the Rice Owls women's tennis team is set to compete in both team and individual postseason play at the NCAA Championship.
Millora-Brown to transfer; Kreider to leave for new job
By Eric Barber
Rice men's basketball will experience a shakeup in both its player roster and staff next year. According to multiple anonymous sources, freshman center Quentin Millora-Brown has entered the NCAA transfer portal with intent to transfer and assistant coach Chris Kreider has left his position to join Georgia State University as an assistant coach.
SPORTS 4/17/19 12:10am
Freshman Diae El Jardi making immediate impact for women's tennis
By Spencer Moffat
Freshman tennis player Diae El Jardi began playing tennis at the age of six with her father on the clay courts in Meknes, Morocco. According to El Jardi, the rigors of daily practice fostered a bonding with her father.

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New machine can transcribe discussions in real-time, capture emotions
Serkan Toto	@serkantoto / 11 years
Japan's telecommunications behemoth NTT is working on a device that can transcribe discussions in meetings automatically and in real-time. Japanese daily The Nikkei is reporting that the current prototype features two cameras with fish-eye lenses and eight microphones to capture what is being said and detect who is speaking.
Technical details are scarce at this point, but the system apparently identifies a speaker by i.e. calculating the time it takes for their voice to reach the microphones and visually identifying them via the cameras. NTT claims that in contrast to existing transcription systems, its own device can handle speeches by multiple people during meetings.
All spoken words are captured by the microphones, processed by proprietary voice recognition technology and turned into documents. The company even claims the device is able to detect certain emotions during meetings, for example when a speaker draws laughter or stares from other people. It can then "transcribe" those emotions and work them into the document in order to reflect the atmosphere during meetings.
Sorry, NTT hasn't released pictures of the device yet.


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Happy Anniversary - Bob Lehman!
Our anniversary celebration in March is dedicated to Bob Lehman.
Bob Lehman is one of our original software developers. He has been focused on Finance for 18 years. Never one to slow down, in the last year, Bob has brought us some complex features, like selecting which account components to use when balancing, customer record defaults, detailed logic for unpaid taxes, and, most recently, user-based permissions for all of the tasks in the year end activity, also known as Fiscal Year Status. And, as if that wasn't enough, he was also part of the team that brought us the Office Depot online shopping integration.
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Researchers from the the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), the Centre for Biomedical Research in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Cambridge University have developed a new system that allows the detection of senescent cells in vivo without damaging tissue. Their paper has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The main objective of cellular senescence is to avoid the proliferation of damaged or stressed cells and, at the same time, initiate tissue repair. However, when the damage persists or during ageing, the tissue repair process becomes inefficient and senescent cells tend to accumulate. This accumulation affects tissue functions and accelerates ageing.
"It has been shown that the elimination of senescent cells improves a variety of diseases associated with ageing, reverses long-term degenerative processes and extends longevity. Consequently, strategies capable of identifying and removing senescent cells have become increasingly interesting in recent years," says Manuel Serrano, a researcher at the CNIO.
In their paper, researchers at the University of the Basque Country, CNIO, CIBER-BBN and Cambridge University have developed a new probe capable of detecting senescent cells in an in vivo model. "The probe significantly and selectively increases fluorescence in senescent cells," says Beatriz Lozano, a researcher at the Interuniversity Institute of Molecular Recognition Research and Technological Development (IDM) at the Universitat Politècnica de València.
"Chemically speaking, the probe consists of a fluorophore attached to a galactose using a histidine linker. When the probe enters a senescent cell, it hydrolyses, resulting in increased fluorescence, which is the signal we detect by exciting it with a laser. However, when the probe enters a normal cell (non-senescent), no signal is observed," says Ramón Martínez Máñez, director of the Institute IDM-UPV and scientific director at the CIBER-BBN.
The probe has some properties that means it can be excited by absorbing two photons, which means far less laser energy is required to view the tissue than in conventional probes. In addition, the two-photon technique reduces tissue damage and provides greater penetrability.
"The probe is injected intravenously in animals with senescent and non-senescent melanoma tumours, and the signal is observed very selectively in senescent tumours only. Animals with senescent tumours did not display any signal in any other organ or tissue," says Beatriz Lozano.
The probe is potentially applicable to other models of senescence; various research groups have already begun to test the probe on their biological models.
Together with the IDM Institute, several groups have participated in this project, such as the Tumour Suppression Group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and the Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme, of the University of Cambridge.


The American Saddlebred Museum is pleased to announce its annual fundraiser at the World's Championship in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday, August 22 at the KEC South Wing from 9:30 – 1:00 p.m. Buckles, Boots and Blues will be an exciting evening of food, fun and music. Entertainment will be a private concert by Pryor Baird. The event will include drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres, live auction, and dancing following the concert.


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Army tests wearable computers
By - The Washington Times - Tuesday, August 28, 2001
The once-fictional vision of Dick Tracy's wearable computers has given way to reality for the military.
The Army is using wearable computers daily at repair depots nationwide. The devices allow users to get untethered from desks, crawl under a plane and have all their technical manuals online.
"They can crawl in and around their systems, like a helicopter, tank or a truck, and they don't need to carry anything around. Everything is preloaded and strapped onto their body," said Jay Koerner at the Army Communications Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
But the Pentagon has bigger plans with its Land Warrior experiment.
Over the next decade, soldiers will be able to fight in combat with satellite imagery of the battlefield, ballistic-accuracy calculations and instant communications a click away on the computers embedded in their uniforms.
With a Global Positioning System unit, thermal-weapon sights and other gadgets, a soldier can immediately identify friends and enemies and see where his shots will hit.
"He's a totally 100 percent integrated system," said Maj. Brian Cummings, a system manager with the Land Warrior program at Fort Benning, Ga. "That computer is basically controlling and managing all the subsystems he's wearing."
The Land Warrior experiment plans to field-test wearable computers by 2003 and outfit all soldiers by 2008. The Army has spent nearly $400 million over the past five years developing the program.
Wearables are likely headed for space, as well. NASA researchers are testing ways to fit the devices into Mars space suits, and the computers will be used for a mock Mars mission this year.
NASA and the SETI Institute which is dedicated to the search for extraterrestrials will test space gear on Devon Island in northern Canada. The frigid site is the world's largest uninhabited island and represents some of the extreme conditions on Mars.
"Wearable computers may be the future not only for Mars expeditions, but for many future space missions," said Pascal Lee, project scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Major companies like General Electric, Northwest Airlines and Ford Motor Co. also are experimenting with the devices. Two major contractors, Xybernaut of Fairfax, and Via of Burnsville, Minn., are competing to expand the government's use.
With Xybernaut's machines, the computer's processor, hard drive and battery attach to a belt around the user's waist. A keyboard straps to the wrist and a headset includes the speakers, a display positioned over the user's eye and a small video camera to let other people see what the user sees.
The latest wearables are more durable and more mobile than laptop computers.
One application the Navy is considering would enable a technician wearing a wireless, headmounted camera to send an image to a remote expert who could "literally walk you through whatever the repair may be," Xybernaut Senior Vice President John Moynihan said.
"A notebook is not a mobile computer, it's a stationary computer that's easy to move," Mr. Moynihan said, adding that the Xybernaut device can withstand a three-foot drop and is water-resistant. "It's not designed to be dunked, but it can certainly withstand exposure to the elements," he said.
Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers. A top-of-the-line model could run about $10,000.


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'The Walking Dead's' Showrunner Confirms What You're Thinking About Glenn
By Cindy Davis | The Walking Dead | October 27, 2015 |
Well, here we Jon Snow again.
First, a ***Spoiler Warning: This post discusses events through TWD season 6, episode 3. If you're not caught up, back out now.***
It looks like TWD showrunner Scott Gimple isn't quite as adept at maintaining his poker face as the Game of Thrones gang, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad. Speaking with THR about what apparently happened to Steven Yuen's Glenn Rhee this past Sunday, Gimple basically confirms what many of you think. Glenn most likely isn't dead. Though he danced around some of the very direct questions, it sounds like we're just going to be in limbo about a week — following this coming weekend's supersized, Morgan-centric "He's Not Here" — before we find out Glenn is either a) alive underneath Nicholas' chewed-up body, or b) Glenn or Nicholas imagined/hallucinated what we saw in "Thank You." The showrunner isn't shy about defending his emotional manipulation of the series' audience, comparing our journey to Maggie's (Lauren Cohan), and our feelings about what Glenn's arc might be to our acceptance of another longtime character's storyline.
After that very ambiguous statement Gimple released to Talking Dead,
"In some way, we will see Glenn, some version of Glenn or parts of Glenn again, either in flashback or in the current story to help complete the story."
many viewers believe Glenn did not die (his character was also omitted from TD's "In Memoriam" segment), Gimple confirms we'll get a definitive resolution quickly.
"[His "death" will be addressed] this half-season. I'd say sooner rather than later…People will know pretty damn quick. Even getting into the thematics, it tips it one way or the other.
We will complete the story."
On whether some fan theories — like that we were watching Nicholas' hallucination — could be correct:
"Some of those theories could be correct. I read all sorts of things about this, and some of it is right and some of it is wrong. But I love that people are this passionate and engaged and are looking at this like a CSI thing. It's incredible. But back to Nicholas: He did put a gun to his head. We did hear a trigger go off and we saw a lot of blood go. I'm a lot more comfortable saying Nicholas is dead."
***Note: Comic Spoiler, and possible show spoiler in this next quote. Skip over if you don't want to read***
One of Gimple's most telling comments involved the possibility that Glenn's brush with death is just a lead-in to his comic arc. Rumor has it Negan, who in the 100th TWD issue kills Glenn, will show up toward the end of Season 6. Why fake it now, and risk possibly lessening the impact of that moment?
"That's one of those questions that any way that I answer could spoil five different parts of the story. But I hope to show you. We will be showing it. You will be learning the answer to that question as you watch. If I were to answer it now, I would wind up revealing all sorts of stuff from different directions. The lame way of saying it is: You'll have to see."
This to me is stating the obvious; Glenn did not die in Sunday's episode, but he's on target for a future death. The fakeout will cause the audience to reevaluate and appreciate Glenn, who I think has often been dismissed as a less emotionally important character, and then (after we've learned he's alive and relaxed a bit) Gimple will cruelly take him away. It's actually a kind of genius way to kill off a "major" character, without taking away one of the core characters fans tend to be rabid over (Daryl, Carol, Rick, Michonne, Morgan).
***End Comic Spoilers***
The showrunner also spoke about how fan reaction to Carol Peltier (Melissa McBride), who some believed dead in Season 3, has evolved, noting that he doesn't think it's damaging to the series' credibility to have a character return from an ambiguous fate.
"In an episode that I wrote and story I helped craft with Carol, it very much looked like Carol died in season three. She was found in a cell [in the prison]. The show wasn't quite as big as it is now, but people went through that story and seemed like they enjoyed it. Carol went through something pretty big there. I have read comics my whole life and go to the movies and watch TV, and twists and turns are part of storytelling. I love that people are having this huge response [to Glenn]. What's interesting to see is some of the pieces you're talking about. But I'd encourage everyone to keep watching. I think it's wonderful that people are speculating about the story. And why not? We have some time between the episodes [every week], but let's watch the story and see how it turns out."
In other words, see you soon, Glenn!
(read the full interview)
Cindy Davis, (Twitter)
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In the "Wikipedia" about this artist collected little bits of information. In principle, it is completely unknown to us. And first of all, precisely because he left the USSR and remained to live in the West. He worked a lot, he has a lot of canvases, which are now at Russian auctions "Sotheby's" are valued in decent money. But at the same time, he exhibited many times in the Tretyakov Gallery, but this was before the revolution. And in pre-revolutionary Russia, he was very popular.
Before us are two canvases on what seems to be the same theme – "Landscape with a Rainbow". But there is something the same in them. The top canvas was created in 1915 and therefore it blows from it some kind of romanticism, some even mercantile spirit of village life. One can see a park with flowering beds and "walls" of climbing plants. And in the clearing freely cows roam.
The rainy weather is their only joy, for the sweltering summer sometimes exhausts not only people, but also cattle. And in the arch hid the girl. But the thunderstorm had already passed, and the sun came out from behind the clouds, and therefore a rainbow formed on a dark background.
On the second canvas, which was written in 1919, almost all the same. The same thunderstorm, but no animals. But now there are already two women with a child, who hid from the blind summer rain under the crown of trees. Changed colors.
The first canvas was a bit gloomy, despite the colorful decoration of the flower bed; the second is bright and radiant. The landscape has changed – it has become more free, many trees. There was a place for both birch and shrubs. And the rainbow here is not against the background of dark clouds, but against the background of well-lit clouds.
By the way, the drawing style has also changed a little. On the first canvas, everything was drawn in more detail, but in the second – somehow more boldly and without dwelling on the details.


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Q: Spatstat - how to compare two temperature spatial domains? I would like to compare a satellite pseudo-image generated by the WRF model and a real satellite image with the R-package named Spatstat. However, I do not know how to begin. I have read that it is possible to carry out a spatial pattern comparison but I do not know which function I should use. I have two temperature images in a predefined domain and I would like to know if the comparison is carried out point-by-point over those images or I have to facilitate the model output and satellite data. In that case, how should I do that? Is there any available script?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards, Lara.

A: The spatstat package is designed mainly to analyse spatial patterns of point locations (like the pattern of locations of accidents that occurred in a given year). It does have some basic facilities for comparing pixel images. If A and B are two pixel images, you can do arithmetic by typing e.g. mean(A-B) or mean(abs(A-B)). There are also some image metrics (distances between images) available. Please visit the spatstat.org website for more information.

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UEFA ran a vote on their official website for the Champions League player of the week - here is how the eight nominees did.
A Premier League star came out on top with over 50% of the votes - but was it a Tottenham, Liverpool or Manchester United player?
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi and his Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo both made it onto the eight-man shortlist, but neither of the multiple Ballon d'Or winners got the most votes.
It was a brilliant first week of Champions League group stage action, with Chelsea's 6-0 win over Qarabag and Paris St-Germain's 5-0 thrashing of Celtic among the highlghts.
Tottenham impressed by beating Borussia Dortmund 3-1 at Wembley, while Manchester United beat Basel 3-0, Manchester City spanked Feyenoord 4-0 and Liverpool drew 2-2 with Sevilla.
CLICK THROUGH THE GALLERY ABOVE TO SEE THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK RESULTS.
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Chennai: Even if a crime is perpetrated with extreme brutality, it may not constitute "terrorist activity" within the meaning of Section 3(1) of TADA. For this, the activity must be intended to strike terror in people or a section of the people or bring about other consequences referred to in Section 3(1). It is the impact of the crime and its fallout on society and the potentiality of such crime in producing fear in the minds of the people or a section of the people that makes a crime a terrorist activity under Section 3(1) of TADA. The question that arises is whether the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) is the ultimate weapon against terrorism as well as cross-border terrorism. POTO seeks to arms the agencies with powers to detect and prevent terrorist activities; detain suspects and freeze properties and funds held by terrorists. TADA was allowed to lapse because the conviction rate was less than 2 per cent and also because a National Human Rights Commission survey found that it was being abused for which one has to blame the enforcement agencies. Hence, POTO is imperative for national security. Experience shows that because of the failure of the prosecuting/enforcement agencies to collect material evidence and prove the intention of the conspirators to strike terror in the people of India, courts have refused to convict offenders for the offence under Section 3 of TADA. While the conviction rate under TADA was 2 per cent, under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), the conviction rate is 78 per cent which only shows that the success or failure of any such special enactment ultimately rests with the investigation/enforcement agencies and the failure of the agencies cannot be attributed to the law itself. The success or failure of any stringent law ultimately rests with the enforcement agencies. The former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated in a gruesome blast at the venue of a public meeting at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on May 21, 1991. Eighteen persons, including 9 police personnel, were killed and 45 injured, including 16 police personnel. When the matter finally reached the Supreme Court, it acquitted the appellants of the offence under Sections 3 and 4 of TADA and held as hereunder (in the case reported in State vs. Nalini (1999) 5 SCC 253: "The mere fact that their action resulted in the killing of 18 persons which would have struck great terror in the people of India has been projected as evidence that they intended to strike terror in the people. It is true that the aftermath of the carnage at Sriperumbudur had bubbled up waves of shock and terror throughout India. But there is absolutely no evidence that anyone of the conspirators ever desired the death of any Indian other than Rajiv Gandhi. Among the series of confessions made by a record number of accused in any single case, as in this case, not even one of them has stated that anybody had the desire or intention to murder one more person along with Rajiv Gandhi except perhaps the murderer herself. Of course they should have anticipated that in such a dastardly action more lives would be vulnerable to peril. But that is a different matter and it is not possible to attribute an intention to the conspirators to kill anyone other than Rajiv Gandhi and the contemporaneous destruction of the killer also." In view of the paucity of materials to prove that the conspirators intended to overawe the Government of India or to strike terror in the people of India, it is not possible to sustain the conviction of offences under Section 3 of TADA. However, when Banarsidas Gupta, a former Haryana Chief Minister, was shot at in broad daylight at a public function on September 23, 1990, on the occasion of celebration of Maharaja Aggrasain Jayanthi at Bhiwani, the designated court convicted the accused in the said case under Section 307 of the IPC and Section 6 of TADA. The Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of the designated court convicting the accused under Section 6 of TADA by holding that the action of the accused in shooting a former Chief Minister at a public function was aimed at creating terror among the people and the offence committed by the appellant would therefore fall within the definition of "terrorist activity" within the definition of Section 2(h) of TADA punishable under Section 3 of the TADA. The said case is reported in (1996) 7 SCC 86 Rajbir vs State of Haryana. In the case reported in (1990) 4 SCC page 76 Niranjan Singh Karam Singh Punjabi, Advocate (Applt) vs. Jitendra Bhiwraj Bijjaya & ors (Respts), the Supreme Court confirmed the order of acquittal passed by the designated court discharging the persons accused of eliminating the rival group in the underworld. Admittedly, the accused desired to gain supremacy in the underworld by eliminating the other group and committed the offence using lethal weapons such as knives and iron rods. In the said case also, the Supreme Court upheld the view taken by the designated court that there was no material or documents placed before it to come to the conclusion that the accused intended to strike terror in the people or a section of the people and thereby committed an act of terrorism. Such cases show that the investigating agencies have miserably failed to collect material to prove that the intention of the accused was to terrorise the public, one of the essential ingredients of the definition of "terrorist act". In 1996, the Criminal Law Amendment Bill was brought to replace TADA but since the said Bill did not have sufficient provision to meet the situation, the matter was referred to the Law Commission and the draft of the present Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, 2001, was sent to the Government by the Law Commission. After its approval by the Consultative Committee of Parliament, POTO was promulgated by the President on October 24, 2001. One of the salient features of the POTO was broadening of the definition of "terrorist act". While TADA was mainly concerned with punitive measures, POTO has been designed primarily as a preventive measure. After the December 13 terrorist strike against Parliament, there is an urgent need for combating cross-border terrorism. We have a 740 km Line of Control dividing Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Some of the Indian posts along the LoC are located at heights up to 15,000 to 17,000 feet. It being a Herculean task to maintain constant vigil at all points of the long border, fear of punishment under special laws is an effective deterrent to the commission of a terrorist crime. However, this is not true in the case of organised international terrorists who infiltrate as suicide squads. Hence, however deterrent the law is, it cannot by itself address the complex problem of cross-border terrorism. The ultimate solution lies in strengthening the intelligence capabilities and security measures along the LoC and other sensitive areas. Covert operations against terrorists and their camps appear to be one of the ways to crush them. India has to fight its own war with terrorist groups. The Israelis have successfully guarded their borders with Lebanon using sophisticated vibration sensors, electronic devices and thermal imaging devices. We may also have to adopt some of these tactics. Apart from legal measures such as promulgating POTO, the Government may have to seriously consider implementing some of the specific recommendations of the Justice J. S. Verma Commission of Inquiry which enquired into the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.


Guitarist Christopher Ladd will be at Bayside Community Hall as part of their Summer Arts series on Sunday, July 15th at 7:30 p.m. Award-winning and internationally renowned classical guitarist, Christopher Ladd, is recognized throughout North America and abroad as one of the most promising musicians of his generation.
The Belfast Creative Coalition in collaboration with the 52nd Bar Harbor Music Festival is bringing three classical music performances, for the second year, to the Belfast area in July with classically-trained, world-renowned musicians. Thes performances are also supported by the Maine Community Foundation.
The next performance will be renowned concert pianist Christopher Johnson at the Belfast Free Library on Friday, July 20th at 7:30 p.m.
And finally Sunday, July 22 at 4:00 p.m., the Ardelia Trio returns with their dynamic presence to the Gammans Room at the Belfast Free Library.
Adults: $20 per concert or $50 for all three. Ages 11-18 $10 per concert or $25 for all three. Youth under 10 are free but must have a ticket.
Tickets are on sale at Left Bank Books, at the door (space is limited) or you may reserve them at 207-218-1144 or buy them online here.


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Netflix has confirmed that it's publicly testing ads (for now: trailers for Netflix-original series) both before and after shows. What you see as a test subject varies in length and whether or not it's skippable, so it's not certain just how tolerable these promos would be. However, Netflix is quick to note that a lot of things are up in the air, and that you might not see these clips at all
However, the ad trial is likely meant to open the door to new pricing options that do more than tweak the number of simultaneous streams. Netflix could offset price hikes (and undercut streaming rivals) by launching a cheaper, ad-supported tier; alternately, it could compensate for slowing growth by asking you to pay more for ad-free viewing.
Netflix has confirmed that it's publicly testing ads (for now: just trailers for Netflix-original series) both before and after shows. What you see as a test subject varies in length and whether or not it's skippable, so it's not certain just how tolerable these promos would be. However, Netflix is quick to note that a lot of things are up in the air, and that you might not see these clips at all


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ANSF in full Control of Strategic Kunduz Town
Kunduz: The embattled Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) managed to enter and regain control over the strategically important town of Qala-e-Zal in northern Kunduz province after engaging in heavy clashes with the Taliban. No details have been given regarding casualties among either security forces or civilians so far. Tolonews
15 Militants Killed during Ongoing Silab-5 Operations in Laghman
Laghman: At least fifteen anti-government armed militants were killed during the ongoing Silab-5 operations in eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan while fifteen insurgents were critically wounded. The operations were launched covering the areas in Alingar district. The militants were targeted in Basram, Katal, Maidanio, Hakimabad, Qasaba, Salimgar, and other areas. Khaama
Taliban Suffer Casualties after Launching major Attack on Kunar Districts
Kunar: At least 22 militants were killed and five others wounded during clashes with the security forces. The Taliban insurgents suffered casualties after launching a major coordinated attack on several districts of eastern Kunar province. They attacked the security posts located in Shegal, Watapur, Chapadara, Marwara district and several other areas. Khaama
Explosion in a House Leaves Two Civilians Dead in Jalalabad City
Nangarhar: At least two civilians were killed in an explosion in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The blast took place inside a house belonging to an individual identified as Habibullah. No group has yet claimed the responsibility. Khaama
Fighter Jets Target Taliban Insurgents in Nangarhar, Leaving Four Dead
Nangarhar: At least four Taliban insurgents were killed in an airstrike involving fighter jets in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan while two others were wounded. The airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Chaparhar district. Local residents did not suffer any casualties in the airstrike. Khaama
Twin Explosions Rock Kandahar City in South of Afghanistan
Kandahar: At least one civilian was killed while ten others wounded in twin explosions in Kandahar city. According to the local government and security officials, the incident took place in the first police district of the city. No group including the Taliban insurgents has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident yet. Khaama
12 Rebels Killed, 15 Injured in Logar Clashes
Logar: At least twelve militants have been killed and 15 others wounded during clashes with security forces in central Logar province. Four security personnel were also wounded in the clashes that erupted in Babos. Pajhwok
Two ALP Personnel Shot Dead in Nangarhar
Nangarhar: Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel who had link with the Taliban gunned down his two colleagues in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province. Pajhwok
Policeman among Five Killed in Badghis Clash
Badghis: At least one Afghan Local Police (ALP) member and four Taliban have been killed during a clash in northwestern Badghis province. Pajhwok
Taliban Attack on Maimana Repulsed
Faryab: Taliban attack on Maimana, the capital of northwestern Faryab province, has been repulsed effectively by security forces. Report of any type of causalities from both sides has not yet produced. Pajhwok
Corruption Weakening Security Sector, says Attorney General
Farid Hamidi, Afghanistan's Attorney General said that poor performance on the battlefields by Afghan security forces was because of the rampant corruption within these structures. He said that corruption within security and defense institutions was a reason for the success of the enemy. To help the security forces, it was vital to fight against corruption and corrupt people within the security departments. Tolonews
U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Rallying for more Troops
General Joseph Dunford, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staffs of the U.S army, rallied for more troops to Afghanistan, warning that terrorist groups in Afghanistan "have the desire" to attack the West. He said that such a move would help prevent terrorists from executing their plans. He further said that where the attackers planned and executed the attack on 9/11, and there's about 18 or 19 extremist groups in that region who indicated they had the desire – if not currently the capability – to attack the west, and so our job was to keep pressure on them and preclude that from happening. Tolonews
UNAMA Chief Meets Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), held an introductory meeting in Kabul with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami. The meeting took place as part of the United Nations support to the Afghan government's efforts to engage all those interested in establishing equitable peace. He welcomed the continued implementation of the agreement between the government of Afghanistan and Hizb-e-Islami Gulbuddin. Tolonews
Mohib, Grieco Discuss Afghan-US Trade Relations
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan ambassador to the US met the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) chairman, Jeffrey Grieco and discussed future plans for AACC as well as a wide range of topics surrounding US-Afghanistan bilateral economic and trade relations. Pajhwok


Explore the work of American artist Grant Wood (1891-1942). Iowa's most famous artist, Grant Wood's iconic painting "American Gothic" is one of his many depictions of the rural American Midwest. In addition to "American Gothic," we've selected a number of his vivid landscapes that capture his vision of America.


Earlier this week, the South Dakota Legislature began its 2017 Legislative Session. It is important that gun owners and sportsmen across the state of South Dakota stay actively involved throughout 2017 as well as stay-tuned to NRA-ILA email alerts and www.NRAILA.org as the session progresses.
Your NRA-ILA has learned that state Representative Lynne DiSanto (R-35) is expected to introduce constitutional carry legislation in the near future. This pro-gun legislation would allow any law-abiding individual who can legally possess a firearm to carry a handgun for self-defense in South Dakota without having to obtain a permit to do so.
Your NRA-ILA will continue to work hard to promote and protect your Second Amendment rights, and keep you updated on the status of legislation impacting your Second Amendment rights in South Dakota.


This is an excellent druid bear tank item thanks to the 214 Armor and +5 Defense.
You may also want to think about adding Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense http://www.wowhead.com/?item=16224 for 70 additional armor.
Yes, the reason it's so good for bear (especially with +70 armor) is because feral droods in bear form get 360% of the armor, effectively making this a 642 armor cloak, 704.2 armor with the 1+10% armor talent. Also, the +5 defense never hurts =) This is craftable and not that expensive (only about 60-90g on most servers), so it isn't hard to get at ALL. I'd say it's the best pre-raid cloak a bear druid can get! Not too shabby for warriors, too.
Remember that the armor cloak enchants DO NOT multiply in bear form!
There's a +12 Agi enchant in TBC.
Still a useful cloak for appropriate level tanks, if you can find a tailor who still has the pattern to make it. This is becoming more difficult as time goes on, since the pattern has not been available for quite some time.
It has the second highest armour of any currently available cloak from vanilla WoW, with only Elementiumdurchwirkter Umhang being superior to it.
currently the BiS for protection specs as of the prepatch and launch of warlord's of draenor because it has 58 bonus armor. bonus armor for any protection spec is equal to one attack power therefore this cape has 58 attack power for any protection spec including protection paladin, prot warrior, guardian druid, blood deathknight, and brewmaster monk.
only other one that comes close is sandstorm cloak from aq20 (for plate wearers) and elementium threaded cloak from bwl.


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V remembers the day he met his BTS peers
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In the documentary series 'Break The Silence', BTS's V reflected on how he met his teammates and the process to become an idol.
BTS has become a world music phenomenon, the seven boys arduously formed to offer their fans a show full of dance, emotional melodies and unforgettable performance.
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During episode 6 of the documentary series 'Break The Silence', V talked about the process he went through when he entered Big Hit Entertainment, what he thought of his peers when he first met them, and what are BTS's future plans.
V said that he had come to Big Hit Entertainment without knowing who the BTS members would be, so he met many new people, he was glad after Jimin, V, Jungkook Jin, Suga, J-Hope and RM were selected to form the group.
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Taehyung explained that due to their personalities some of the BTS members took a little longer to polish their singing, dancing, and rap skills, but that their peers supported each other at all times, and that there was never any kind of rivalry. .
The singer of 'Winter Bear' commented that they still have many projects to carry out, said that the group has proposed to go further:
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Life can be challenging. These days, kids and families face more challenges than ever. Now, it's easy for children, teens, parents, and families, to get effective, professional, confidential support from a therapist in a comfortable, relaxing environment right here in Sammamish. Now, you and your kids have a place to go that is close to home and school where you can get support to address and overcome the challenges you're facing. The dedicated counselors at CrossPath are here for you.
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Lewis H. Thompson, of Cahaba Heights, passed away on Thursday, November 22, 2018 at the age of 99. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII and was retired from the U.S. Postal Service after 30 years service. He was a member of Cahaba Heights Baptist Church. He loved Big Band music and kept everybody laughing with his endless supply of jokes.
He was a loving and faithful husband, father and grandfather who was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Betty Thompson and a daughter, Pricilla Mulder.
He is survived by a son, David Thompson (Pat); a daughter, Betty Wright (Wayne); 5 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends on Monday, November 26, 2018 from 10:00 to 11:00 AM at Currie-Jefferson Funeral Home. Funeral service will follow at 11:00 AM in the funeral home chapel with entombment in the Abbey Mausoleum at Jefferson Memorial Gardens, South in Hoover.


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Q: Prevent tab change on PrimeVue TabView component I am using the TabView component from PrimeVue (Vue 3), and I want to stop the tab change if any changes are made by the user, the problem is that I don't know how. I've already tried passing the event and using preventDefault and stopPropagation but seems that it doesn't work and click event is still happening.
The procedure should be:

*

*If any changes are made, user press the tab and a dialog appears.

*If user clicks 'No', I should prevent the tab change and stop the click event
Here is the demo of what I'm trying to archive, should be simple https://codesandbox.io/s/aged-wave-yzl1k?file=/src/App.vue:0-1753
If a flag is true I want to show a confirm dialog and prevent the tab change if user dismiss it.
The component that I'm using for the TabView: https://primefaces.org/primevue/showcase/#/tabview
Thanks in advance,

A: From the docs it looks like that internally the component will first switch tabs and then emit "tab-click", which explains the issue you're seeing. The exception is if the tab is disabled, in which case it won't change tabs but will emit "tab-click".
It took a bit to figure out, but there is a way to get the functionality you need with only a small adjustment. It requires a change in your main.js as well as in your App.vue file.
// main.js

/*
 * Put this after you import TabView.
 * This will prevent automatic tab switching but still emits
 * the event to your application.
*/
TabView.methods.onTabClick = function(event, i) {
  this.$emit('tab-click', {
    originalEvent: event,
    index: i
  });
}

// App.vue

const onTabClick = (event) => {
  if (changes.value) {
    confirm.require({
      message:
        "Are you sure that you want to leave this tab? You'll lose your changes",
      icon: "fal fa-exclamation-triangle",
      acceptLabel: "Yes",
      rejectIcon: "No",
      accept: () => {
        alert("here we should allow tab change");
        activeIndex.value = event.index; // manually set activeIndex
      },
      reject: () => {
        alert("stop tab change");
      },
    });
  }
};

These changes modify what the onTabClick library method to only emit the event, without automatically switching. Then in your app you can check the index property of the event to determine what should be set to active.


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The U.S. needs to start writing the guidelines for 21st century strategic deterrence, focusing on methods beyond nuclear options.
True victory in military operations arises through the acceptance of defeat by one of the antagonists. Despite this, military decision making frequently devolves into analysis of things over thoughts. Grant demonstrated mastery of this concept at Vicksburg.
Reflexive control is a term that has recently surfaced as a description of Russian strategic and operational planning and goals. However, as a concept it has been around for ages. More coming on Monday.


Desktop laser engraving machine is easy to use and supports jpg format images with high precision, stability and strong structure. It's Frame position makes the image positioning easier. It works on 12V 5A DC power supply. It is GRBL compatible so can be control by arduino board. It comes with all spare parts including 500mw laser head and Control panel ( Arduino + CNC shield V3 +4 A4988 ).
Control Software : GRBL Compatible.


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The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) was part of the British Army during World War I, that commanded all Allied forces at Gallipoli and Salonika. This included the initial naval operation to force the straits of the Dardanelles. Its headquarters was formed in March 1915. The MEF was originally commanded by General Sir Ian Hamilton until he was dismissed due to the failure of the 29th Division at Gallipoli. Command briefly passed to General William Birdwood, commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, but for the duration of the Gallipoli campaign it was General Sir Charles Monro who led the MEF.
While the Gallipoli theatre was the only active Mediterranean theatre, the MEF was used to refer to the forces at Gallipoli. With the opening of the Salonika front in October 1915, the forces at Gallipoli were referred to as the Dardanelles Army and the Salonika contingent became the Salonika Army on the Macedonian front (World War I).
Once Salonika became the sole Mediterranean theatre the MEF was commanded by General Archibald Murray who was based in Egypt and whose command also involved defence of the Suez Canal from Turkish attacks. As the importance of the Sinai front grew, a separate headquarters called the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was formed (in March 1916).
Supposedly when the British Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener, was preparing the Mediterranean expedition he intended to name the headquarters the Constantinople Expeditionary Force but Hamilton suggested this might be a bit of a giveaway.
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To walk in Christ as we received him is to retain the sense of our need of him, as when we felt the Day Spring from on high first visited us, and the terrors of the Lord made us afraid. O how plainly and feelingly did we then feel the need of a Saviour. Then we hastened, we fled from the wrath to come. Hell seemed close to us, and law and justice seemed ready to push us in. How sweet was the news of pardon then! How sweet a promise, when we could believe the Holy Spirit applied it to us personally. There was no halving it then, we felt we needed a whole Saviour, a Prophet to teach, a Priest to atone, and a King to reign. Christ Jesus was gladly received as such with all the heart.
How is it we walk not so with Christ now?
Surely because we have lost our first love, and the powerful impression of our wants we once had; hence comes that indifference towards Christ and his appointed means. A spiritual appetite is wanting where the heavenly manna is loathed as light bread.
Watch this point, if you grow cool and indifferent in your attendance on the ministry, you may rest assured this springs from a back-sliding heart. If you walk with Christ, it must be manifest by keeping up communion with him, with the same feeling and desire as when you first received him, and often sought him with many tears. And [there was] seldom any attendance on the appointed means but his comforting presence was found. Creature comforts withered and none but Jesus, a loving God could refresh and satisfy your soul.
How is it now that we cannot find our way to a throne of grace, unless driven by affliction? We then could not live without his presence. And when we felt that, we could trust to him to supply all our temporal wants. Watch and be sober, and notice the very first beginning of declension. Let it at once be brought with much confession and prayer and [do] not suffer that which is lame to be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. labour to feed upon the truths you hear, to be established in the experimental knowledge of them. Religion lies not in talking of Christ, but in the walking in him, therefore be very watchful of inward decays, dread the universal, general profession of the day. Seek to keep your conscience blameless, by continually coming to the Fountain open for sin, and not resting without the sealing of the Spirit to you adoption. Seek to keep up much tenderness of the honour of God.
If these things are kept alive, the soul must be often refreshed with the water of life. Hold fast the pure Word, be very jealous of error of all sorts. Seek to maintain the character of a true church according to the Word of God, where it is called "the pillar and ground of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15) Christ has left his truths as a trust to his people, and it is our mercy to keep them with faithfulness and prayer. A lukewarm spirit will make them too general, and this is the beginning of the ruin of all churches. First goes the zeal, simplicity and purity, and then goes their being.
Suffer none to deny the sovereignty of God, in his eternal election of his people, and their final perseverance. In the experimental knowledge of these truths lies much of our stability. It is worthy [of] our attention, that which is worth having is worth owning, therefore let us always keep in mind the means which God has appointed for the nourishment and building up his people in saving knowledge. Remember carefully to maintain that doctrine that lays us low at the feet of the Saviour, and exalts his free grace. Strive for the faith once delivered to the saints that our souls may be fed, and not merely the head furnished with dry notions. Be sure your example be stronger than your words.
If we be of God's family, we are often distressed with temptations of all sorts, and have need of exhortation, instruction, caution and consolation; let us be an example to one another; let us by much prayer guard against the fear of man and applause. If you feel your need of the presence of the Beloved, let that be seen by earnest cries, for where he is not, there is no sense of pardon. It will not do to say with the church in the Song [of Solomon]: "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." (Song of Solomon 3:1) Such sort of seeking is not likely to find. It is as if she would wait till he came; but she found that would not do, therefore she says, "I will arise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth." (Song of Solomon 3:2) This is making use of the means, and she found him and held him. She would not let him go.
Thus we see the necessity of diligence in the use of means as appointed of God, to convey the blessings God designs to give. "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him." (Psalm 62:5) Those who watch for the morning, do not only desire it, but expect it and know assuredly that it will come. None can set forth their walking with Christ more than they who stand upon the watchtower to see what the Lord will say unto them and what they shall answer when they are reproved. (Habakkuk 2:1) There may be much weakness felt, but the Lord has promised to strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees, and to say unto them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not, behold your God will come. (Isaiah 35:3-4) Do not forget that your walking with Christ will be attended with much sensible weakness, but the Lord will counteract this with seasons of hope and expectation. "Your heart shall live that seek God." (Psalm 69:32) Only let us always remember all our times are in God's hands, our times of trouble; times of peace; of darkness; and of light, so that we must learn patiently to wait and quietly hope for his salvation.
Even when sorely cast down and depressed, Jeremiah says, I will call to mind that there is forgiveness with God for distressed souls and therefore will I quietly wait and hope. But, alas, such is the degeneracy of professors of the gospel in this our day, they scarcely know the fundamental doctrines, the main pillars of our Reformation. The doctrine of God's eternal election; the efficacy of free grace in the regeneration and conversion of sinners; (Titus 3:5) justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ; (Galatians 2:16) and the final perseverance of the saints. Our forefathers put no doubt upon these establishing truths.
Let us consider what our Lord says, he that is not walking with me, is contrary to me in all things. Let the whole of our profession and lives contend for the true faith, and remember in this contention, we not only contend for our own salvation, but also for the honour of God. God's Holy Spirit does neither teach nor lead to uncertainties in matters of faith. The more he is pleased to enlighten us, the more we understand the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. There was a time when the children of God could redeem an hour in the week for either godly conversation or public worship, but now we scarcely can give the Lord the full time we profess to give him on the Lord's Day.
What can be said of families professing godliness to be prayerless?
This denotes a sad weariness and cannot be called walking with Christ.
May the Lord cause us all to lay these dreadful backslidings to heart. And if we have ever known anything aright, call to mind the godly simplicity with which we first received Christ.
To him be all the glory. Amen.


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Strawberry tree is a common name for:

Arbutus, a genus in the family Ericaceae with edible red fruits
Arbutus unedo, the tree from which the genus Arbutus derives its name
Arbutus andrachne, known as Greek strawberry tree
Calycophyllum candidissimum, in the family Calycophyllum
Cornus capitata, a species of dogwood known as Himalayan strawberry-tree
Muntingia calabura, in the family Malvaceae, native to the American tropics
Myrica rubra, in the family Myricaceae, referred to as the Chinese strawberry tree

Other uses
Strawberry Tree (solar energy device)
Strawberry Tree (national symbol of Italy)
The Strawberry Tree, a 2011 Spanish-language experimental film

See also
 Strawberries and Cream Tree, a graft hybrid cherry tree

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Australians now have until January 2019 to decide whether they should have a My Health record.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has vowed to continue his fight to introduce new digital health records after the Senate forced the government into an embarrassing backdown.
The Senate voted on Wednesday to force the government to extend the deadline for patients to opt out to January 31, 2019.
"Today the government worked with the Senate crossbench to extend the opt-out period for My Health Record," Mr Hunt said.
"The opt-out period will be extended until January 31, 2019. However, it's important to note that people can opt-out at any time.
"You're a liar, Minister," opposition health spokesman Catherine King said.
"You could have extended the opt-out period any time you liked. You refused to do so for months, repeatedly insisting it wasn't necessary.
Meanwhile, the Australian Digital Health Agency insisted the website was not in "meltdown".
"The opt-out website and the My Health Record help line are both operational. We are experiencing high demand, which has slowed the system down, and some people have experienced difficulties opting out this morning. These issues have now been resolved," a spokesman said.
The new deadline gives about 17 million Australians more time to voluntarily opt out of having a national online health record, if they wish to do so.
Just over one million Australians have already chosen to opt out of My Health, including some Liberal MPs.
Anyone who does not actually choose not to be enrolled will be automatically included in the digital system, which is designed to allow medical professionals at different sites and practices to share a patient's medical information.
My Health will include information such as prescriptions, allergies and medical summaries.
While the plan could prove life-saving in some circumstances, significant concerns have been raised over protecting patient privacy with the records to be held for 130 years.
In June, the Australian Privacy Foundation told The New Daily that the presence of digital security systems was no guarantee that private medical information will be completely safe.
"Recent cybersecurity breaches point to the privacy risks," APF chair Bruce Baer Arnold said.
However, the system does have the cautious backing of the Australian Medical Association.
"Though the Australian Medical Association supports My Health record and its benefits, many GPs are concerned there may be a current lack of public awareness about what it is and how it works," AMA president Dr Tony Bartone said in June.
On Wednesday, Labor first tried to have the My Health opt-out period extended for 12 months.
That motion failed, but an attempt by One Nation for an extension until January 31 won Senate support.
Hearing reports of people having trouble opting out of #MyHealthRecord today as the website keeps crashing and the phones have a recorded message that they are too busy.
Earlier, the new independent MP for Wentworth, GP Kerryn Phelps, said patients would have no option but to opt out of My Health unless improvements were made.


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The ARCTIC refrigerator/freezer (ARCTIC) provided a thermally-controlled environment for storing biological samples prior to their return to Earth in the early stages of the International Space Station (ISS). The ARCTIC freezers supported several of these experiments on ISS during Expeditions 4 and 5.

References

International Space Station
International Space Station experiments


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The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 - 1939)
Wed 10 Mar 1926
DR. H. F. PERKINS.
Deep regret will be felt at the death, which occurred last evening, of Dr. H. F. Perkins Medical Superintendent at the Mareeba Public Hospital. ...
HEAVY FINES.
Conternation was caused in the Cairns Traffic Court yesterday morning, when a number of cyclists were each fined £5 with costs, in ...
MR. JOSEPH BALL.
There passed away in Cairns early yesterday (Thursday) morning Mr. Joseph Ball, a highly respected and well-known citizen of this town. ...
SOLDIER SETTLERS.
So acute has become the position of many soldier settlers on the Tableland that the Atherton Tableland sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. has ...
MR. LOUIS SOLOMON.
Mr. Louis Solomon, auctioneer and commission agent, who was for 52 years a resident of Cooktown, died on Wednesday night. The deceased was ...
CHARGE OF SPEEDING.
An adjourned case of motor cycle speeding was heard in the Traffic Court yesterday. Thomas Banks Gibson was ...
Tributes to Miss Henry.
Our Innisfail correspondent writes: At the funeral of the late Miss Henry wreaths were sent by the following: Uncle and Nell, Mr. S. Wilson and ...
THE LATE MR. JOHN RANKINE.
IMPUDENT THEFT.
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, at 2.30 o'clock the carpenter who sleeps at the new Golf Club house was awakened by a noise of moving iron ...
WORK OF RETURNED SOLDIERS' LEAGUE.
Mr. G. Simpson. State Secretary of the R.S.S.I.L.A. arrived in Cairns from Brisbane last night in company with Messrs. M. Hoare and ...
(1926, March 10). The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 - 1939), p. 7. Retrieved January 18, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page18005171
The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 - 1939) 10 March 1926: 7. Web. 18 Jan 2021 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page18005171>.
1926, The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 - 1939), 10 March, p. 7. , viewed 18 Jan 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page18005171
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The Northern Herald (Cairns, Qld. : 1913 - 1939), Wed 10 Mar 1926, Page 7


python-fu: apply effect only on selected areas.
GIMP Forums / GIMP / Plugins / python-fu: apply effect only on selected areas.
now i'm getting into python-fu.
I want to "soft blur" just a part of an image using a python script.
In GIMP, i usually create a layer with a gradient, then select alpha values and use that selection to blur some parts of an other layer.
in python-fu there I could just find the plug_in_gauss(), that works on a whole layer or image. but how can i use that effect only on that selection?
RE: python-fu: apply effect only on selected areas.
ah ok! good to know.
another question... is there a possibility to add a description to the applications window?
in the window there is the title "video blurrer" but no description on how to use it.
I know, i can type the description into the register part, but it is not shown up properly.
i thought, there might be a field like PF_DESCRIPTION (non interactive) but i didnt find something like that. so do you have a hint for me?
i want to get my script more userfriendly.


Under the FASB current expected credit loss (CECL) accounting standard, public entities are required to estimate losses over the contractual term of the financial asset or group of financial assets. However, this requirement is eased to allow entities to make or obtain "reasonable and supportable" forecasts of expected credit losses before reverting to historical information to estimate loss over the full life of the instrument. FASB guidance is clear that measuring expected credit losses for a long-dated financial asset may consist of two components, a "reasonable and supportable" forecast component, and a component based on historical data. The entity should then use a rational and systematic mean-reversion method to link the reasonable and supportable component with the historical component.
In this blog we offer answers to four key questions raised by this requirement.
How long should our "reasonable and supportable" period be?
It is important to understand that greater precision and accuracy in your loss estimate will likely result in greater volatility. Extending the length of the reasonable and supportable forecast period would mean that the forecast is driving more of the loss estimate, and depending on the variability of economic conditions, will introduce more volatility to the loss estimate. Shortening the length of the forecast period would mean that the mean reversion and historical loss information is driving more of the loss estimate, which will be less volatile than the forecast period. However, the gains in lower volatility will produce a loss in accuracy.
Back-testing. The closeness of fit of a back-test will provide strong support to the choice of the forecast length. When building CECL models, entities should ensure that they have the flexibility to adjust the forecast length and measure its impact on actuals vs. estimates.
Confidence Intervals. Entities can use confidence intervals to justify the length of their forecast period. The confidence intervals of economic forecasts widen at a rate that is proportional to time. An entity may decide to not use an economic forecast once the confidence interval exceeds a certain threshold.
The "right" length of a reasonable and supportable forecast period will balance accuracy vs. volatility, provide a close fit between actuals and estimates when back-tested, and not produce confidence intervals that exceed a threshold of tolerance.
How is the historical loss information calculated?
The length of the historical time period used to calculate the historical loss information should cover, at a minimum, one business cycle. A historical period of two to five years is consistent with regulatory standards for CCAR and Basel models. The time period used to calculate historical loss information will likely differ depending on the portfolio type. While five years of historical data might be sufficient to calculate historical losses for some portfolios, for low-default portfolios, or portfolios with little recent default history, five years might not be sufficient. Data relevance should also be a consideration when calculating the historical loss information. Just because an entity possesses 15+ years of historical data doesn't mean it should necessarily be used, as the older information might not be relevant to the current state of the portfolio.
Does it matter which mean-reversion method I use?
The choice of mean-reversion method used can significantly impact the loss estimate. FASB guidance does not prescribe a mean-reversion method, instead saying that entities may revert to historical loss information immediately, on a straight-line basis, or use another rational and systematic basis. We believe that entities will want to avoid any jump discontinuities between the forecast period and the historical loss period. Therefore, a straight-line method of mean reversion might be used, which may consume several quarters and constitute a significant portion of the loan's average life. The speed of the mean-reversion, from forecast to historical, is another parameter that must be calibrated. Entities should test different mean-reversion methods (e.g. straight-line, weighted) keeping in mind the considerations of accuracy and volatility and the closeness of fit between actuals and estimates.
For USDA's $120.1B Single Family Mortgage Guarantee Program we developed a custom House Price Index (HPI) forecast for rural counties, where third-party HPI forecasts for lightly populated rural counties do not exist. We developed time-series based forecasts that mean-reverted to a long-run national HPI trend based on historical data. Our model produced HPI forecasts for eight quarters, before gradually mean-reverting to the historical trend. Testing showed that loss estimates derived from this mean-reversion method closely matched historical loss estimates collected under similar macroeconomic conditions.
Should I mean-revert inputs to my credit loss models, or only the model output?
Banks that are re-purposing a loan-level CCAR/DFAST model for CECL may choose to mean-revert at the input level, using a bottom-up approach. However, a frequent problem with the bottom-up approach is that the model output from mean-reverted inputs might not align with the mean-reversion of the entire estimate. However, if you have the ability to mean-revert at the input level and produce an accurate expected credit loss, it is recommended over mean-reverting the model output. Mean-reversion at the input level provides additional benefits such as more opportunities for scenario testing and other types of 'what-if' analysis. It is unclear how favorably or unfavorably regulators will judge inconsistency in model frameworks within an institution. For this reason, entities may choose to mean-revert at the model output level, as it is easier to implement across all portfolios.
In summary, the FASB guidance for forecasting expected credit losses is not prescriptive, and the "right answer" for your model framework will depend on the size, complexity, and other unique characteristics of your portfolios. Here we summarize key considerations when developing a CECL model framework in the following table.


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Q: How to save transformed file into new excel file using Openpyxl Python? I have 3 excel files currently  in my working directory. All 3 files has name that ends with "_Updated.xlsx". I wanted to transform the files such that all empty rows in each of the files get deleted. I have created function for it, but the only issue is I cannot save all transformed file using below code. Not sure what is wrong ? The reason for creating new file is I would like to save my raw files.
Python code
import openpyxl
import os
from openpyxl import load_workbook,Workbook
import glob
from pathlib import Path

Excel_file_path="/Excel"

for file in Path(Excel_file_path).glob('*_Updated.xlsx'):
    wb=load_workbook(file)
    wb_modified = False
    for sheet in wb.worksheets:
        max_row_in_sheet = sheet.max_row
        max_col_in_sheet = sheet.max_column

        sheet_modified = False
        if max_row_in_sheet > 1:
            first_nonempty_row = nonempty_row() # Function to find nonempty row
            sheet_modified = del_rows_before(first_nonempty_row) #Function to delete nonempty row

            wb_modified = wb_modified or sheet_modified
            if wb_modified:
                for workbook in workbooks:
                    for sheet in wb.worksheets:
                        new_wb = Workbook()
                        ws = new_wb.active
                        for row_data in sheet.iter_rows():
                            for row_cell in row_data:
                                ws[row_cell.coordinate].value = row_cell.value
                                new_wb.save("/Excel/"+sheet.title+"_Transformed.xlsx")

A: In case, if any one is still looking for answer to my above question. Below is the code that worked for me.
import openpyxl
import os
from openpyxl import load_workbook
import glob
from pathlib import Path

Excel_file_path="/Excel"

for file in Path(Excel_file_path).glob('*_Updated.xlsx'):
    wb=load_workbook(file)
    wb_modified = False
    for sheet in wb.worksheets:
        max_row_in_sheet = sheet.max_row
        max_col_in_sheet = sheet.max_column

        sheet_modified = False
        if max_row_in_sheet > 1:
            first_nonempty_row = get_first_nonempty_row() # Function to find nonempty row
            sheet_modified = del_rows_before(first_nonempty_row) #Function to delete nonempty roW
            file_name = os.path.basename(file)
    wb.save("Excel/"+file_name[:-5]+"_Transformed.xlsx")
wb.close()