This song is written for someone very close to me that I love so much. You will not always struggle!!!
My life feels like a dark and dreary day.
My spirit is broken in two.
My eyes have cried until they barely see.
It's hard to find a future for me.
I won't give up this battle , and somehow I'll win.
But till then, I'll need You to carry me.
I'm so tired from the struggle, too tired to even pray.
I can hardly speak your name.
My nights are the longest as loneliness sets in.
Exhausted from my endless thoughts, I'm tempted to give in.
But I won't fall, though I may stumble.
Somehow, I'll keep my faith; I won't be crushed into pieces.
I'll keep whispering your name.
I will rise above this–in time my heart will sing.
Hold me softly in your arms, dear Lord for I cannot walk alone.
And in Your still small voice speak life into my soul.
Fill the void deep within.
Embrace me with Your everlasting and all consuming love.
Just You and me, until my eyes can see.
Words and Music by Quita Feeley, copyright 2015 all rights reserved.
Moving to a small town in a different state was a transition, but I loved it and made many wonderful life long friends.
I was 17 when I first met the man I would eventually marry; however, we didn't date until a little over a year later. He was several years older, so I'm sure at 17 I was way too immature for him. I know it sounds odd to some, but all my life I wanted to be a wife and mom more than anything. I wanted four children (of course I had no idea how much work that entailed ).
We lived on a farm in an even smaller area (Pine Ridge) in a mobile home. I was happy and life was good. This will shock some of you, but I actually have experience in driving a tractor and working cattle. I was raised in the city but happily became a farm girl. I taught a few piano lessons at the local school in Oden, but otherwise stayed home and enjoyed cooking and keeping house (a bit old fashioned but for me, living the dream).
1985 or thereabouts, we began to pastor a small baptist church in Oden, Arkansas. This was also a very, very small community but filled with loving people….according to the internet about 200 population in 2012, a 😊 typical little community where everyone knows everyone and will come together to help like nothing you've ever seen. I loved (and still love) Oden. The church holds precious memories for me and the people from it. My husband would preach and I would sing and play the piano. Life seemed very simple and pure, and at the time in my mind, perfect.
We bought a home which was so exciting and a very big deal at the time. It was on about 3 acres if I recall correctly and just a simple little 3 bedroom farm home, but to me it was magnificent. I was pregnant with my second baby by this time and on May 29,1987 my second son was born…..little Caleb James. A blond haired brown eyed beauty all of 7lb 5oz. I was only in labor with him for about 19 hours, so a bit better….but still nothing for pain.
Both boys were healthy, happy and life was sweet. My boys were such gifts from God (and still are). I'm so grateful I was able to stay home with them and all that comes with that.
The church was growing and everything seemed to be going exactly as it should. I was completely happy and content and oblivious to any problems there might have been. I loved staying home with the boys; and to this day, being a mom is the highest calling I have ever had. I was not perfect nor would I ever claim to have been, but I was completely dedicated to be being the best I could. My husband and children were the most important thing in my life. In fact looking back that was one of my flaws: I had let God slip into second place behind them. They were my everything and I poured all I had into them. But what a joy it was to me.
Charley turned 5 in August of 1989 and that meant he would start all day kindergarten (3 days later) and be picked up by the school bus at 7:00 am and return at 4:00 pm. It was a very long day, and I can still see him in the back of the bus fast asleep when the bus would pull up to our house. It proved to be more than he could handle. After a week or so and some great advice from his wonderful teacher, I felt we should take him out and give him another year. This turned out to be a great decision(for many reasons) but mostly since his life would soon be turned upside down.
I'm sure it had been building for some time, but for me it was "out of the blue." In a matter of weeks we went from being normal (in my eyes) to a point where my husband told me he could no longer live with me and filed for divorce the day after our 7th anniversary and my 26th birthday. I was devastated (a huge understatement). In a few short weeks my life crumbled at my feet in a million tiny pieces, shattered not just broken. To this day it was the worst feeling I have experienced in my life. Watching my family torn apart and in the process loosing the person I planned to love forever for better or worse. I couldn't comprehend it since I always thought only unhappy people got divorced and I had been happy. I realize now that you can feel like all is well and even be happy yourself ….all the while things may very well be coming apart at the seams. I begged, groveled, made a fool of myself…..all the things you think you'd NEVER do, but then you find yourself doing all the above. Humiliation, despair, heartbreak……then simultaneously I entered a deep, dark tunnel. This is how I refer to the depression that closed in on me and began to choke the life from me. I felt my everything slipping away, EVERYTHING, and the depression was so thick I could barely breath. There was no light in this tunnel, not even a flicker……only tears, regrets, brokenness, fear, and pain. My heart and life had just been crushed. I cried for days; hopelessness began to settle in all around me until I was immersed to the point of drowning in it…..I knew I needed to pull myself together for my sons. They were only 2 and 5, and their little lives had just been turned upside down as well. I tried but the depression was too deep and thick and I felt powerless. I did not want my marriage to fail, I was desperate and at times I'm sure seemed a little crazy. I felt like I was loosing my mind. Divorce and all it entails will do that to you. I questioned everything, read every book I could get my hands on, clinging to any hope I could but feeling it slipping from my fingers. I knew we were the conversation at a lot of dinner tables in that small community. I felt the sting of that as well…..I didn't want to leave my house. I remember one particular afternoon lying on my floor (I was alone) I had some music playing and I just laid there and cried for hours. Eventually the sun set and I was there in the dark, too distraught to even get up and turn on a light. There's no way to describe the emptiness I felt, I ached not only for myself but for all of us. Our lives would never be the same, and at the time for me that meant life was over. The rest would be just be pain and loneliness, going through the motions but not really living.
I cried out to God for help, spent days and nights crying, not caring if I lived or died. Most of the time I had no words to pray; but I know God collected my tears, each one representing a prayer, a piece of my shattered heart.Even though at the time I thought he didn't hear, I know now he did. His plans for me and my boys had never changed. People change, circumstances change; but God remains the same. I felt alone….SO alone, but I wasn't not for a minute. Even there in my darkest days,when I would cry out and say "God where are you? Why aren't you hearing me?" I know now He had not abandoned me. When I thought nothing was changing, prayers weren't being answered, that things were going from bad to worse, God was answering them all but in His way not mine. For this situation had not surprised him like it had me. No, He knows what's in our path before we are ever born and He goes ahead and makes provision ….I was asking God where are you and He was busy answering my prayers with the preparation of my plan B, which would not be second best but the very best. My future was bright, very bright, I just had no idea, could not fathom I would ever be happy again. Little did I know my best days were ahead of me, being drawn out like a beautiful painting, down to every detail and in colors of beauty I could not fathom I just needed to hold on to His hand, let His love comfort me… for even when He seemed so far away and almost nonexistent, He was right there holding me in His arms and whispering sweet peace to me.
Not long after the wedding I was able to meet Mike's sister, Sheri, and her family as well as his parents, Bob and Alice. His entire family completely welcomed Charley, Caleb, and me with open arms as part of the family. They accepted and loved us and made us feel like we had always been in the picture. I still feel so blessed with that fact! The first year was filled with lots of "first's," including a honeymoon trip to Cancun in June of '91and then a family vacation to Disney World in September. We also bought a new house that July. Mike taught the boys how to swim right away (in our very fun indoor pool), and they both started playing soccer.
They loved their school, Grace Fellowship, and continued to attend there for several years. Our church home became Victory Christian Center, where we still attend.
Stephani was such a little princess; I couldn't believe I finally had a girl, and she had two very proud big brothers. I was wondering one day (as moms will do) if in their minds they might think Mike loved her differently?! One of the boys had been told by another child that Stephani was only their half sister, and man did that ever cause an argument. Ha! So I decided to have an impromptu talk with them one day about the whole dynamics, and most likely made it a little more complicated than I should have. I had never for a moment sensed a difference in Mike around the boys; he truly loved them as his own, but I went ahead and took the opportunity to ask them. I finally got to the point and said, "Sometimes in these situations where there is a new baby, children might feel like their step parent loves the baby more." They looked at me with big brown eyes full of mostly interest but also dipped in little confusion. Before I made my closing statement about how that wasn't true and all…..I asked, "Do you boys ever feel like Dad loves baby Stephani more?" I assured them that they could tell me honestly.
They looked almost startled and Charley (who was now 8) looked up at me and in the most matter of fact voice said, "Oh…..I think he loves US the most," to which Caleb nodded in agreement. I can assure you that was the truth in their little hearts, and that describes the type of dad Mike was (and is) to this day.
Our children have always been close, and we cherish each one of them!
Life's road has taken many turns, as it's known to do; but I have been abundantly blessed, and I'm forever grateful.
This year Mike and I will celebrate our 24th anniversary. It seems so hard to believe that he was ever not a part of my life.
The past year we became "empty nesters," and we love this part of our lives just like we have loved every season through the years. This is quite different for us, however, because we were never "just us two;" but how we treasure our alone time together…..making plans, being grandparents, we just never get enough of each other.
My heart still skips a beat when I hear the garage door raise and know he's home from work. He still tells me I'm perfect (which I know I'm not :), but it always makes me smile. He loved me right through those first few years when my insecurities and fears would creep up, always being faithful and true to me, never giving me any reason to doubt him or lose trust. He's never made me cry (except in a good way:), never spoken a harsh word or shown any anger towards me. We cherish each other, and not one day goes by that I don't stop at least once (often more) and thank God for my husband and this Plan B that I'm living. Sometimes things don't turn out like you planned……sometimes they turn out BETTER!
I'll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.


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Fitzpatrick confident, eases back into role as Jets starter
New York Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, left, and Bryce Petty participate in a NFL football practice in Florham Park, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Seth Wenig
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) Brandon Marshall's lime green T-shirt said it all.
Emblazoned on the New York Jets wide receiver's chest were the words ''Fitz Magic 2.0'' with an orange beard protruding from a small white and green helmet.
The shirts were made in the offseason, but with Ryan Fitzpatrick back as the Jets' starting quarterback, Marshall dusted one off and wore it.
''I thought it would be perfect timing,'' a smiling Marshall said Wednesday.
Fitzpatrick went from struggling starter to frustrated backup and back to the man under center for the Jets in a span of a week. With Geno Smith out for the season, it's Fitzpatrick's turn again - and he has every intention of keeping his job this time around.
After coming on in relief of the injured Smith last Sunday, Fitzpatrick helped lead the Jets on three scoring drives in a 24-16 victory over Baltimore. The veteran quarterback talked about continuing to have confidence, even after saying that the Jets' brass - owner Woody Johnson, general manager Mike Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles, among others - had lost faith in him after 11 interceptions in six starts.
On Wednesday, Fitzpatrick insisted he did not regret his postgame comments.
''The underlying message there, really, is I believe in myself,'' he said. ''That's kind of what I'd like to even get across today. You don't make it as long as I have in the league and playing on as many teams as I have been on in the league, having to pick myself up over and over again, without believing in yourself.''
Some fans and media thought Fitzpatrick's comments were selfish, possibly taking away from the victory. They were also a bit surprising from the quarterback, who rarely makes any controversy with his mouth.
''I don't really care how they were construed,'' Fitzpatrick said. ''That's what I was talking about. We're here to play football. I think the biggest thing is we need to win games. I stand before you guys every week, even after getting benched. I was disappointed that I got benched, but I was disappointed in the way that I had played, too.
''There's a lot of things that I'm continuing to work on, but I continue to keep the faith in myself.''
Fitzpatrick indicated that he spoke with Bowles about his comments, and neither seemed to think it was an issue at this point.
''Basically, the discussion has been: we're all here to do the same thing, which is to win football games,'' Fitzpatrick said. ''It doesn't matter how it happens. This business, he always says, is a show-me business. This business is based on production. And you've got to go out there and produce.
''That's what I'm working at right now and that's what I intend to do for the rest of the year.''
Fitzpatrick is set to start at Cleveland on Sunday, just a week after not knowing if he'd ever play a snap for New York again.
Bowles opted to turn back to Fitzpatrick, who set a franchise record last season with 31 touchdown passes, rather than inexperienced youngsters Bryce Petty and Christian Hackenberg. The coach wouldn't rule out one of them playing at some point this season, but both Petty, a fourth-rounder last year, and Hackenberg, a second-rounder this year, need some more time to develop.
So, for now, at least, it's back to Fitzpatrick.
''I'm expecting Fitz Magic 2.0,'' Marshall said, playing off his T-shirt. ''We need it right now.''
Fitzpatrick will face a team against whom he is 4-1 in his career, with eight touchdowns and four interceptions in those games against the Browns.
While that's a solid history of performances, Fitzpatrick will be motivated by even more against 0-7 Cleveland. He embraces the underdog label he has held throughout his career as a seventh-round draft pick out of Harvard in 2005 who has bounced around the league and played for six NFL teams.
He said he plays better when he's angry, and right about now, he's pretty ticked.
''My angry is probably a little different than other people's angry,'' he said. ''My angry is still pretty controlled. I think that has been a mentality that I've had my whole career in terms of what I feel about myself versus plenty of doubters out there. There are other things that drive me, I think, that may help me with my play. Getting these guys winning games again and getting us as a team playing well again, that's the stuff that we have to continue to try to work on.''
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Allan Thigo is a former Kenya international football midfielder.

Career
Born in Kenya, Thigo began playing club football for local side Kisumu Hot Stars at age 18. He spent most of his playing career with Gor Mahia F.C., helping the club reach the final of the 1979 African Cup Winners' Cup.

Thigo made 81 appearances for the senior Kenya national football team, including two FIFA World Cup qualifying matches, and he played at the 1972 African Cup of Nations finals.

After Thigo retired from playing football, he became a coach. He has managed Gor Mahia.

He is now coaching the Africa Nazarene University football team!

References

External links

Profile at Safaricom

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Kenyan footballers
Kenya international footballers
1972 African Cup of Nations players
Gor Mahia F.C. players
Association football midfielders

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CHRISTIANITY vii. Christian Influences in Persian Poetry
vii. Christian Influences in Persian Poetry
Persian poetry contains a good number of allusions to Jesus Christ (ʿĪsā Masīḥ), Mary (Maryam), and Christians (naṣārā, tarsā) in general. But that does not mean that one can speak of Christian influences in the strict sense of the word, for most of the images and ideas expressed in poetry are elaborations of the Koranic data about Jesus and his virgin mother, though sometimes developed very ingeniously. Only among a few poets who had firsthand contact with Christian communities of Persia and Anatolia, such as Ḵāqānī and Rūmī, do some lines betray more intimate knowledge of Christian customs and concepts.
As was the case in early Arabic poetry, the Christian monk is alluded to thus in Kesāʾī Marvazī's (Rīāḥī, p. 85) comparison of the blue lotus flower (nīlūfar-e kabūd) with a pale monk in his bluish robe. A large number of Christian monasteries (dayr) existed in Iraq and Syria under the caliphs. The pleasant, serene location (e.g., Yāqūt, Boldān II, pp. 658, 660, 666, 669) of such monasteries offered the liberal-minded Muslims and even the caliph himself a safe haven where drinking bouts could be held (e.g., Yāqūt, Boldān II, pp. 649, 658, 663, 693). Many poems were made in Arabic about these monasteries, their residents, and Christian customs. Some people became infatuated by the beauty of the Christian youths (see, e.g., Yāqūt, Boldān II, pp. 662-63), who associated freely with guests and often served as cupbearers. Thus a handsome young monk or Christian boy came to be the beloved who gives wine unstingily, and Christian imagery was used by poets to describe the beloved (see, e.g., Rādūyānī, p. 48; Dehḵodā, s.v. čalīpā).
It is well known that the early Sufis were in close contact with Christian ascetics and that the figure of Jesus plays an important role in early Sufis' sayings (see Andrae, passim). His kindness and generosity were always praised, a fact that is most notably seen in Neẓāmī's story (borrowed in German by J. W. von Goethe after H. Hammer-Purgstall's Geschichte der schönen Redekünste Persiens and then frequently retold in the West): Jesus passed by a dead dog and silenced his disciples' complaints about its foul smell by pointing to the animal's beautiful white teeth. In such stories, Jesus appears as the representative of love of God—not, as John the Baptist, of fear of God. This gentle aspect of his character prevails in poetry. Some of the Sufis found the asceticism of Jesus not completely perfect, however, and there was a story that he carried a needle with him, which showed that he had still some relations with the "world" (p. 85). For this reason he was lifted up only to the fourth heaven, not into the immediate presence of God. Such ideas may help explain why Jesus appears in Ḥāfeẓ's verse as dancing, listening to the music of Zohra (Venus), who is located in the third heaven:
Dar āsmān na ʿajab gar be-gofta-ye Ḥāfeẓ
Samāʿ-e Zohra be-raqṣ āvarad Masīḥā-rā.
The most frequently mentioned miracle of Jesus is his capacity to revive dead bodies, taken from the Koran, which mentions his blowing into clay birds to bring them alive (5:110). This story offers the poets innumerable ways of comparing their beloved to Jesus, and expressing their hope that the beloved would grant them a kiss in order to restore their fading soul, which appears generally under the image of Jesus breathing into them. Sometimes the lover appears as a clay bird brought to life by Jesus's breath, and understandably his healing power makes him appear as the true physician of the soul. His quickening breath usually appears in connection with Ḵeżr's water of life—both prophets are immortal and grant life to the mortal lover. Rūmī says in a charming verse (Dīvān-e kabīr IV, p. 121 v. 19180):
Gar ze Masīḥ porsad-at morda če-gūna zenda kard,
Būsa be-dah be-pīš-e ū bar lab-e mā ke ham-čonīn
"If he asks you about the Messiah, how he quickened the dead/Give in his presence a kiss on our lips: Thus!"
In the 13th/19th century Mīrzā Ḡāleb claims: "Ḡāleb died from one movement of his lips./Unfortunately the breath of Jesus was not at hand." This imagery was so common in later Persian, Turkish, and Urdu poetry that the lover claims to have been killed by the beloved—"and whose Jesus have you been last night?" that is, "Whom have you kissed?"
The idea of the quickening breath can also be applied to the ruler, and Ḵāqānī compares a prince to Jesus, who revives his country "as Jesus revived Lazarus" (Dīvān, p. 146). Ḵāqānī also alludes to the table that was sent down to Jesus in an inverted image stating that even Jesus comes to Ṭāhā's, that is Moḥammad's, table to gather the leftover crumbs (Dīvān, p. 99; cf. Koran 5:112, 114). More frequent than allusions to the mysterious table, however, are verses mentioning Jesus's donkey. In the Golestān Saʿdī had written the oft-quoted lines:
Ḵar-e ʿĪsā gar-aš be Makka barand,
čūn bīāyad hanūz ḵar bāšad
"If Jesus's donkey went to Mecca,/When he returns, he is still a donkey."
But much more common is the association of the donkey with the body and Jesus with the soul. This is found dozens of times in Rūmī's verse: When Jesus went to heaven, his donkey had to stay back on earth. In Rūmī's verse one finds very coarse association of the donkey's smelly, foul backside with the fragrance that emerges from Christ, the soul—"what has Jesus's cradle to do with a donkey's tail?"
The idea that Jesus is the innermost soul, "a Christ in the cradle of the outward form," occurs not only in his Dīvān but also in Fīh mā fīh (chap. 5): The "birth of Christ in the soul," which is preceded by many birth pangs, is an expression used by Rūmī half a century before it appears in the writings of Meister Eckhart. For Jesus is the rūḥ Allāh, God's spirit, and this leads to admiring verses about the Virgin Mary: Persian poets have loved to allude to her purity, and as early as in Kesāʾī's poetry (Rīāḥī, p. 77), one finds a description of a spring morning:
Nasīm-e nīm-šabān Jabreʾīl gašt magar,
Ke bīḵ o šāḵ-e deraḵtān-e ḵošk Maryam gašt.
"Perhaps the midnight breeze has become Gabriel/That the roots and the branches of the dried-up trees became Mary."
The rosebud, too, can be compared to the Virgin, the rose's fragrance to the life-giving breath of Jesus—ideas repeated many times in the following centuries and especially in Rūmī's verse. In fact, Rūmī's description of the Annunciation as told in the Maṯnawī (bk.3, vv. 3700ff.) could be easily taken to be a piece of Christian devotional literature. Mary's image also helps Rūmī, and others, to show that divine help will come when despair is greatest: Did not the dried-up palm tree shower dates upon her when she grasped it during her birth pangs, as the Koran tells (19:23ff.)?
In Rūmī's case, there may have been some direct influences from his Christian surroundings; it is known that he conversed with monks and Greek priests who were still very active in Konya and neighboring Cappadocia. He alludes in Fīh mā fīh to the fact that Jesus had no place in which to place his head, while the young jackals had a resting place, but shows the superiority of a lover who is driven from place to place by his beloved to those who may rest peacefully. One finds also an allusion to Matthew (5:59), that one should offer the second cheek after receiving a blow on one cheek (Dīvān I, p. 551.937), and in a strange image he compares the long, confused talk of an Arab to a Christian who confesses the sins of a whole year to a priest (Maṯnawī V, vv. 3255-56).
Yet, despite the positive role of Jesus and Mary, Christianity is usually seen, again in accordance with the Koran, as the religion of monastic otherworldliness, and in Fīh mā fīh (chap. 17) Rūmī warns people who are too weak to take the way of Moḥammad, that is, constant struggle, that they should at least take the way of Christ, for example, to recede from this world. He also criticizes people who cling to their Christian faith and do not acknowledge the superiority of Islam.
The "weakness" of Christianity in the eyes of the poets is shown by combining the word tars "fear" with tarsā "Christian" (Rūmī calls doubtful thought (gomān) "a Christian"), and Ḵāqānī says in an ingenious complaint about the spheres' revolving: Falak kajrowtar ast az ḵaṭṭ-e tarsā (the sphere goes more crooked than the Christian's, i.e., the Greek's, writing, which, of course, goes from left to right and not, like Arabic, from right to left, that is, everything goes wrong).
Verses in which the colorful "world" is compared to a dayr or a church may have been inspired by the colorful iconostases in Orthodox churches—temptingly beautiful and variegated but dangerous for the believer's soul. In later times the traditional imagery developed in comparisons of questionable taste, as when an 11th/17th-century Kashmiri poet compares the lovely wine in the glass bottle to Jesus in Mary's womb (Aṣlaḥ). One finds also instances of allusions to the cross but, as Islam does not accept the Christian version of Christ's death on the cross, such allusions (e.g., "roses like bleeding heads on the cross") are usually to the martyr mystic Ḥallāj. As for Rūmī, the four wooden pieces of the cross reminded him of the four elements, from which one can be freed only when reaching the true tawḥīd, the acknowledgment of the One God (Dīvān, no. 693 l. 7215).
It is interesting to note that all the above-mentioned concepts and images have survived into the 14th/20th century, and in some cases Rūmī seems to prefigure some modern attacks on the churches, as when he describes at length the confusion of the Christian sects (Maṯnawī, bk. 1, vv. 335ff.) or asks: "What should Jesus do with the church since he went to the fourth heaven?" (Dīvān I, v. 1283). Such questions occur in the Persian and Urdu verse of Moḥammad Eqbāl, often in even more aggressive language; for him and for many modernists in a colonial age Christianity was associated with the colonial powers, and the poets in Turkey and India wondered why the behavior of modern Christians had so little similarity with the lofty ideals of the Gospels and why they betrayed Christ's noble spirit for economic and political purposes. Part of the traditional imagery thus became imbued with new, more negative connotations, while maintaining the high spirituality of the founder of Christianity.
T. Andrae, In the Garden of the Mystics, Albany, N.Y., 1988.
Moḥammad Aṣlaḥ, Taḏkera-ye šoʿarāʾ-e Kašmīr, ed. Ḥ. Rāšedī, Karachi, 1967.
H. B. Dehqani-Tafti, Christ and Christianity in Persian Poetry, Basingstoke, Eng., n.d. [1987].
Mīrzā Ḡāleb, Moraqqaʿ-e Ḡāleb, ed. P. Chandler, Delhi, 1966.
Afżal-al-Dīn Bedīl b. ʿAlī Ḵāqānī Šervānī, Dīvān, ed. Ż. Sajjādī, Tehran, n.d. [1338 Š./1959].
M.-A. Rīāḥī, Kesāʾī Marvazī. Zendagī, andīša wa šeʿr-e ū, Tehran, 1367 Š./1988.
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Idem, Maṯnawī-e maʿnawī, ed. and tr. R. A. Nicholson, 8 vols., London, 1925-40.
Idem, Fīh mā fīh, ed. B. Forūzānfar, Tehran, 1330 Š./1951; repr. Tehran, 1363 Š./1984.
Abu'l-Majd Majdūd b. Ādam Sanāʾī, Dīwān, ed. M. T. Modarres Rażawī, Tehran, 1341 Š./1962.
A. Schimmel, Gabriel's Wing, Lahore, 1988.
S. Soroudi, "On Jesus' Image in Modern Persian Poetry," The Muslim World, 1979, pp. 221-28.
(Annemarie Schimmel)
Annemarie Schimmel, "CHRISTIANITY vii. Christian Influences in Persian Poetry," in Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. V, fasc. 5, Costa Mesa, 1991, pp. 342-44; available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/christianity-vii.
CHRISTIANITY i. In Pre-Islamic Persia: Literary Sources
CHRISTIANITY ii. In Pre-Islamic Persia: Material Remains
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Following the remarkable achievements by Indiana to improve public safety through the application of proven research in criminal justice decisions, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has selected Indiana to participate in Phase 5 of its Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) Initiative.
The NIC's EBDM framework represents an evolution of today's criminal justice system, designed to build collaborative, evidence-based decision making and practices in local criminal justice systems by equipping criminal justice policymakers with the information, processes, and tools to reduce pretrial misconduct and post-conviction reoffending. The NIC introduced the EBDM criminal justice framework in 2010 after extensive research and input from leading professionals across the nation. View the EBDM criminal justice framework.
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"The National Institute of Corrections provided technical assistance to Grant County, Indiana to help them implement strategies, processes and methods to advance constructive change in their local criminal justice system, resulting in a reduction of risk and harm in their community. We are pleased that Indiana is being supported by the NIC to continue this approach in other localities in our state," said Mary Kay Hudson, Court Services Director, Office of Court Services.
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As debate on social media intensifies, President Trump must listen
Rob Miraldi discusses the court decision that Presidents cannot block people on social media.
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Rob Miraldi, First Freedom Published 7:00 a.m. ET Aug. 7, 2019
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza was a 32-year-old lawyer with impressive credentials: an undergrad degree from Harvard, a law degree from Yale, and clerkships with two important federal judges. She had helped three major public figures edit their books. If she has opinions on public policy and politics, we should want — and be able — to hear them.
On June 16, 2017 she read one of Donald Trump's ubiquitous tweets. He was bragging that he would have had "zero chance" of winning the Presidency if he had believed the "fake news" from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN. It was his old refrain.
Buckwalter-Poza, one of 60 million Trump Twitter followers, could not resist responding. "To be fair, you didn't win the White House," she wrote. "Russia won it for you."
Suddenly, she recalled, "I stopped getting alerts for Trump's tweets. When other people were commenting on them, I would see all these gray boxes in my feed. I didn't realize what was happening immediately." She thought it was a Twitter error.
Buckwalter-Poza had been banned, censored, muted, gagged, silenced. In legal parlance, she had a "prior restraint" put on her by the man who described Twitter as "an incredible way of communicating." Unless, of course, you disagree with or criticize him.
In olden times, when the king did not like your words, he cut off your tongue or severed your writing hand. The Framers remembered this, which is why they insisted on an amendment to our constitution that would stop central authorities — and bullies — from silencing the opposition and muting dissent.
Old or new world, the result was the same: The most powerful government official in America had chosen to "block" a citizen. We do it all the time on social media when someone offends or annoys us. But we are private citizens; the President is not and court after court has made clear, the government cannot engage in "viewpoint discrimination." Respond, rebut, even call someone by those sixth-grade nasty names the President likes. But you can't censor.
"It felt so surreal," Buckwalter-Poza said. "It's really startling to think that the President of the United States is taking the time to individually block people.
You'd think he would be busy doing other things."
Nothing, of course, should ever surprise us from this White House. But when the actions violate the U.S. Constitution it should certainly make us furious — and scared. Because silencing Buckwalter-Poza was unconstitutional — at least to everyone but Donald Trump.
"It was unbelievable to me that the leader of the U.S. would be suppressing speech and blocking voices," she wrote. And thus far it has been unbelievable to two federal courts where she and seven others filed a lawsuit in 2018. The appeals court called the evidence "overwhelming that the President's feed is public, not private."
"He may not selectively exclude those whose views he disagrees with," the judges wrote. The reason is simple: We need to hear from each other, not just the chosen few who support the authorities.
This Twitter case is not frivolous. It makes clear to government that social media forums are the new public square, places where citizens need to be able to engage each other — and elected officials. Where we can talk to each other in an uninhibited fashion. Where we can air our grievances and offer our views.
But the larger issue is about the ability and right to dissent, to disagree with our government and to not have the central authorities muffle the opinions they don't like.
Said the court: "While he is certainly not required to listen, once he opens up the interactive features of his account to the public at large [the President] is not entitled to censor."
One would have thought all this was settled eons ago. John Peter Zenger in 1735 criticized the royal governor of New York for what he saw as a series of abuses. Zenger was jailed but a jury of New Yorkers quickly said that a fundamental right in the colonies should be the ability to criticize its rulers. Zenger was free to dissent, as is Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
But this President just doesn't get it. He is a direct descendant of the European authorities who would cut off your tongue if you dissented.
Ask Dan Coats, Trump's director of national intelligence, who was recently pushed out. He had the audacity to be the adult in the room on foreign policy for more than two years, regularly challenging the President. So he had to go. Ask the kneeling football players who dare protest police brutality. It is the President's prerogative to fire and to disagree but it speaks to his "don't confuse-me-with-the-facts, my-mind-is-made-up" mentality.
And while the First Amendment's meaning is often disputed, some things are clear. The Framers wanted to ensure that the authorities could not silence their opponents — including the press — as they would naturally want to do, and as this President has consistently tried. They wanted a nation where people were free to voice opinions — misguided or not. The debate was to be a central part of democratic self-government.
The irony in this, the court concluded recently, "is that we write at a time in the history of this nation when the conduct of our government and its officials is subject to wide‐open, robust debate." The debate "generates a level of passion and intensity the likes of which have rarely been seen."
But, the judges reasoned, "as uncomfortable and as unpleasant as it frequently may be" the debate "is a good thing. If the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less."
The Twitter case speaks to an even larger issue that is destroying America: the President's inability to listen, to accept other viewpoints, to be civil, and to be tolerant. The shooter in El Paso who killed 20 people was responding to cues: We will be intolerant of other people. The First Amendment was meant to promote the opposite — mutual toleration of contrasting points of view.
Rob Miraldi's writings on the First Amendment have won numerous state and national awards. He teaches journalism at SUNY Paltz. Twitter @miral98 and e-mail miral98@aol.com.
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**This chart is DEPRECATED and moved to https://github.com/appscode/charts**

# swift
[swift by AppsCode](https://github.com/appscode/swift) - Ajax friendly Helm Tiller Proxy
## TL;DR;

```console
$ helm install stable/swift
```

## Introduction

This chart bootstraps a [Helm Tiller Proxy](https://github.com/appscode/swift) deployment on a [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io) cluster using the [Helm](https://helm.sh) package manager.

## Prerequisites

- Kubernetes 1.6+

## Installing the Chart
To install the chart with the release name `my-release`:
```console
$ helm install stable/swift --name my-release
```
The command deploys Swift proxy on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The [configuration](#configuration) section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

> **Tip**: List all releases using `helm list`

## Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the `my-release`:

```console
$ helm delete my-release
```

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

## Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the swift chart and their default values.

| Parameter                 | Description                                                   | Default          |
| --------------------------| --------------------------------------------------------------| -----------------|
| `replicaCount`            | Number of swift replicas to create (only 1 is supported)      | `1`              |
| `swift.image`             | swift container image                                         | `appscode/swift` |
| `swift.tag`               | swift container image tag                                     | `0.7.3`          |
| `imagePullSecrets`        | Specify image pull secrets                                    | `nil` (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods) |
| `imagePullPolicy`         | Image pull policy                                             | `IfNotPresent`   |
| `logLevel`                | Log level for proxy                                           | `3`              |
| `nodeSelector`            | Node labels for pod assignment                                | `{}`             |
| `rbac.create`             | If `true`, create and use RBAC resources                      | `true`           |
| `serviceAccount.create`   | If `true`, create a new service account                       | `true`           |
| `serviceAccount.name`     | Service account to be used. If not set and `serviceAccount.create` is `true`, a name is generated using the fullname template | `` |

Specify each parameter using the `--set key=value[,key=value]` argument to `helm install`. For example:

```console
$ helm install --name my-release --set image.tag=v0.2.1 stable/swift
```

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while
installing the chart. For example:

```console
$ helm install --name my-release --values values.yaml stable/swift
```

## RBAC
By default the chart will not install the recommended RBAC roles and rolebindings.

You need to have the flag `--authorization-mode=RBAC` on the api server. See the following document for how to enable [RBAC](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authorization/rbac/).

To determine if your cluster supports RBAC, run the following command:

```console
$ kubectl api-versions | grep rbac
```

If the output contains "beta", you may install the chart with RBAC enabled (see below).

### Enable RBAC role/rolebinding creation

To enable the creation of RBAC resources (On clusters with RBAC). Do the following:

```console
$ helm install --name my-release stable/swift --set rbac.create=true
```


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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has guest edited the September issue of British Vogue with the theme "Forces for Change."
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In India, 13 states have legalized the conduction and playing of lottery games while in the rest of the states, there is
By menpuma54 07 Jan 2022
Important Information regarding Nagaland State Lottery
The Nagaland State Lottery is conducted every day at P. R. Hill Junction, Kohima 797001, and the lotteries are managed and organized by the Director of Nagaland State Lotteries. If you happen to be one of the lucky winners then you have to:
Turn in your ticket with a copy of the lottery claim form
The ticket should be intact and not damaged
You should attach a government-recognized Photo ID and Passport size photographs with the claim form
Tampered or mutilated tickets are not accepted
The State Government authorizes the Distributor to make the payment of the prize on behalf of the State Government, up to the value of ?10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) only to the prize winners from the respective distributor/stockist/agents/seller.
All claims above ?10,000 shall be submitted only to Director, Government of Nagaland, or Nodal Office in respective States within 30 (Thirty) days from the Draw Date along with the forms for claims in the prescribed format along with the Original Prize Winning Ticket duly signed by the prize winner and other documents to receive the payment within 60 (sixty) days.
Q. Is lottery legal in India?
Ans. Lotteries are legal in 13 states of India, which include Nagaland, Assam, Mizoram, Kerala, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh Goa, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, and Sikkim. West Bengal consists of more players than any other state in India, as a result, West Bengal wins the mostLottery Sambad(????? ?????) prizes.
Q. Who manages and organizes the lotteries?
Ans. The lottery in every state is managed by the respective government of the state such as in the state of Nagaland, the lottery is managed and organized by the Director of Nagaland State Lotteries.
Q. From where can I buy Nagaland State Lottery Ticket?
Ans. Lottery tickets can be bought offline from a local agent or online through authorized retailers.
Q. Can I buy Nagaland State Lottery Tickets online?
Ans. There are a couple of online vendors available from where you can buy Nagaland State Lottery Tickets
Q. Who is eligible to buy a Nagaland Lottery Ticket?
Ans. Anyone can buy a lottery take and play the Nagaland State lottery game but only those people will be able to claim their prize if they have a valid state domicile so, it is recommended that if you are not from the state of Nagaland then you shouldnt take part in it as you wont receive the winning prize.
Q. What are Nagaland Bumper lotteries?
Ans. In addition to the lotteries mentioned above, Nagaland State runs bumper lotteries which are scheduled few times a year: Dear Diwali, Kali Puja, Happy New Year, Winter Special, Lohri Makar Sankranti Bumper lottery, offering more than ?1 Crore jackpot.
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Merci pour Blood!, j'attendais avec impatience de pouvoir l'acheter et quand j'ai vu que les frais de port faisaient le double du prix du LP, j'ai laissé tomber. Je m'étais convaincu que c'était juste une question de top-visibilité pour un groupe sur le retour, et de top-crédibilité pour D.G.
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Q: Atomic variables in synchronized blocks I'm referring to the Java language but I think it can concern other languages as well.
The question is: does it make sense to put an atomic variable in a synchronized block? Or the fact that the synchronized block will not be executed by two threads at the same time is enough to guarantee that the operations performed in the synchronized block are atomic? (Example 1 vs. Example 2)
Example 1:
public class SharedVariables {
  public static AtomicInteger i;
}

public class MyThread extends Thread {
  public void run() {
    synchronized(SharedVariables.i) {
      i.getAndIncrement();
    }
  }
}

Example 2:
public class MyIntegerWrapper {
  public int i;
  public void increment() {
    this.i++;
  }
}

public class SharedVariables {
  public static MyIntegerWrapper i;
}

public class MyThread extends Thread {
  public void run() {
    synchronized(SharedVariables.i) {
      i.increment();
    }
  }
}

A: Not by itself no. But if you're doing an operation that involves a thread-safe class like AtomicInteger and other variables (even if they're other AtomicIntegers), you might need to.
AtomicInteger guarantees that operations on it are thread-safe and atomic without you needing to do anything. But let's say that you increment one and decrement another, and their sum always needs to be the same. You have 2 atomic operations, but to combine them into a single atomic operation you'll need additional synchronization. Only then can you be sure that other threads will read a constant sum of those variables.
I'd still be careful when combining manual synchronization with java.util.concurrent classes, as there's most likely a far cleaner solution provided by the concurrent classes.

A: synchronized is not required in your first code, the guarantees of atomic variables are sufficient.
Your second code has one issue: the int variable is public, so you can't guarantee that it will always be called from a synchronized block.

A: Atomic variables use non blocking algorithm (it uses compare and swap mechanism), so you should not use it inside synchronized block, rather try to use atomic variable wherever possible for better performance.

A: In your examples its totally ok to use either AtomicInteger without synchronized or your MyIntegerWrapper inside synchronized.
But in general case it depends on your variable visibility scope. For example if you decided to use MyIntegerWrapper instead of AtomicInteger, then you must ensure that there is no other method which uses it without synchronization.
Also what to choose depends on how often is the variable modified by different threads. AtomoicInteger uses compare-and-set(or just cas) operation inside instead of synchronization. CAS is believed to be faster as there is less overhead comparing to entering synchronized block, however in a high contention case(when there lots of threads trying to modify this variable at the same time) synchronized block can be more efficient. Also synchronized gives jvm a space for some optimizations, like lock coarsering. So just keep that in mind when choosing AtomicInteger over synchronized.

A: In first example you use two synchronizes.
AtomicInteger implements "Non-blocking synchronization algorithm"
Exactly Look free algorithm that allows individual threads to starve but guarantees system-wide throughput.
This algorithm works with helping of machine instructions. For example in the x86 (since 80486) and Itanium architectures this is implemented as the compare and exchange (CMPXCHG) instruction.
Your key word "synchronized" is redundant and even does not allow to work Lock free algorithm which gives good advantages.
Therefore, in your case don`t use synchronized block, use AtomicInteger.

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Q: Trying to convert a POSIX based system to Windows I'm currently trying to convert a multithreaded LAN tic tac toe game so it compiles / works on my Windows system. I'm quite new to networking but I've managed to translate a lot of the system calls to Socket API calls however I am having trouble understanding how to convert the 'pthread' functions. Most of the questions I see online are asking how to compile it, but I want to change it instead of adding new libraries etc.
Can someone please shed some light on what exactly pthread does and how I can change it to compile in the native windows environment.
Thanks!
Main Function
pthread_mutex_t games_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;

int main() {

    //Initialise Winsock
    WSAData data;
    WORD ver = MAKEWORD(2, 2);
    int wsResult = WSAStartup(ver, &data);

    if (wsResult != 0) {
        std::cerr << "Can't start Winsock, Err #" << wsResult << endl;
    }

    // Signals used to kill the server gracefully
    if (signal(SIGINT, sig_handler) == SIG_ERR)
    {
        perror("Can't catch SIGINT");
        exit(1);
    }

    if (signal(SIGTERM, sig_handler) == SIG_ERR)
    {
        perror("Can't catch SIGTERM");
        exit(1);
    }

    // Initialize the server and get the server's socket
    server_sock = init_server();

    int new_socket = 0;

    // Infinitely accept clients and spawning threads
    while (true)
    {
        // Wait for a client, and then accept
        if ((new_socket = accept(server_sock, NULL, NULL)) < 0)
        {
            perror("Failed to accept client");
            closesocket(server_sock);
            exit(1);
        }

        cout << "New client connected" << endl;

        // Spawn thread to handle the client
        pthread_t threadid;
        pthread_create(&threadid, NULL, handle_client, (void*)&new_socket);
    }

    return 0;
}

Client Handle Function
{
    int client_sock = *(int*)arg;
    char buffer[BUF_SIZE];
    bool client_connected = true;
    char temp = '\0';
    int row = 0, col = 0;
    int i = 0;

    // Create the player
    Player player(client_sock);

    // Always handle the client
    while (client_connected)
    {
        // Process commands or pass game data
        if (player.GetMode() == COMMAND)
        {
            // Read a line of text or until the buffer is full
            for (i = 0; (i < (BUF_SIZE - 1)) && temp != '\n' && client_connected; ++i)
            {
                // Receive a single character and make sure the client is still connected
                if (recv(client_sock, &temp, 1, 0) == 0)
                    client_connected = false;
                else
                    buffer[i] = temp;
            }

            // Reset temp so we don't get an infinite loop
            temp = '\0';
            buffer[i] = '\0';
            buffer[i - 1] = '\0';
            cout << "Received command \"" << buffer << "\" from " << player.GetName() << endl;
            buffer[i - 1] = '\n';

            // If there's an invalid command, tell the client
            if (!ProcessCommand(buffer, player, client_connected))
                SendStatus(player.GetSocket(), INVALID_CMD);
        }
        else if (player.GetMode() == INGAME)
        {
            // Get the game the player is a part of
            pthread_mutex_lock(&games_lock);
            auto game = find_if(game_list.begin(), game_list.end(),
                [player](TTTGame* game) { return game->HasPlayer(player); });
            auto end = game_list.end();
            pthread_mutex_unlock(&games_lock);

            // Something horrible has gone wrong
            if (game == end)
                cout << "Somehow Player " << player.GetName() << " isn't a part of a game but is INGAME" << endl;
            else
            {
                StatusCode status;
                client_connected = ReceiveStatus(player.GetSocket(), &status);

                // If the player is still connected, then perform the move
                if (client_connected)
                {
                    switch (status)
                    {
                    case MOVE:
                        // Pass the row and column right along
                        ReceiveInt(player.GetSocket(), &row);
                        ReceiveInt(player.GetSocket(), &col);
                        cout << "Received moved from " << player.GetName()
                            << ": row=" << row << ", col=" << col << endl;

                        SendStatus((*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetSocket(), MOVE);
                        SendInt((*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetSocket(), row);
                        client_connected = SendInt((*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetSocket(), col);
                        cout << "Sent move to " << (*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetName() << endl;

                        break;
                    case WIN:
                        cout << player.GetName() << " won a game against " << (*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetName() << endl;
                        client_connected = false;
                        break;
                    case DRAW:
                        cout << player.GetName() << " tied against " << (*game)->GetOtherPlayer(player).GetName() << endl;
                        client_connected = false;
                        break;
                    default:
                        client_connected = SendStatus(player.GetSocket(), INVALID_CMD);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // The client disconnected on us D:
    cout << "Player \"" << player.GetName() << "\" has disconnected" << endl;
    DisconnectPlayer(player);
    closesocket(client_sock);
    WSACleanup();

    return (void*)0;
}

These are just some examples of the code. I am happy to post more if needed.


The B9113 around one mile from Forfar.
A woman an two children escaped serious injury after a car landed on its roof in an accident on a local road.
Police and an ambulance crew were called to the scene on the B9113, Forfar to Montrose road, approximately one mile from Forfar.
The woman and children suffered minor injuries in the smash and were treated by paramedics at the scene.
The road was closed for a couple of hours while the incident was being dealt with.
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We received a call at 10.09am about a road traffic accident on the B9113.
"We sent one A&E crew to the incident.
"Any person who witnessed the accident is asked to contact Police Scotland via 101 quoting inc 1583 of August 12," a spokesman said.