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Old Testament PDF's. Please note a few rules before or section you want from that page. Note: Books below are in order as they appear in the Old Testament. NOTE: To quickly navigate through the PDF document, use the bookmark You can also go to the beginning of a Bible book by clicking on the book in the list. Rev. ed. of: An introduction to the Old Testament / Raymond B. Dillard and Tremper Longman. c .. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, IVP.
See also: Development of the Hebrew Bible canon , Development of the Old Testament canon , Septuagint , and Books of the Latin Vulgate The interrelationship between various significant ancient manuscripts of the Old Testament, according to the Encyclopaedia Biblica Some manuscripts are identified by their siglum. LXX here denotes the original Septuagint. The process by which scriptures became canons and Bibles was a long one, and its complexities account for the many different Old Testaments which exist today. Timothy H.
Book of 1 Samuel. Book of 2 Samuel. Book of 1 Kings. Book of 2 Kings. Book of 1 Chronicles. Book of 2 Chronicles. Book of Ezra. Book of Nehemiah. Book of Esther. Book of Job. Book of Psalms - 1 to Book of Psalms - 25 to Book of Psalms - 50 to Book of Psalms - 76 to Book of Psalms - Book of Proverbs.
Book of Ecclesiastes. We highlight the direction of this introduction and also some of the ways in which it differs from typical introductions. Theological Perspective In the first place, this introduction represents a Protestant and evangelical approach to the text.
This theological orientation will become immediately obvious in the discussion of various critical issues.
An evangelical doctrine of Scripture, however, does not answer all hermeneutical and interpretive questions, nor does it prevent us from learning from the tradition of historical criticism. Indeed, our introduction will provide example after example of dependence on the previous labors of scholars in both the evangelical and critical camps.
Among other things, it means treating the text as the church has received it. This introduction will depart from many of the well-entrenched conclusions of critical study, but it will do so with respect and not with rancor. We also concur with R. Gundry in his warning that evangelical scholarship sometimes simply uncritically follows in the steps of nonevangelical scholarship in order to find acceptance.
We will do our best to avoid that temptation. What does it mean to write an introduction from an evangelical perspective? While not denying the possibility of sources and the history of development of individual biblical books, the focus of this introduction will be squarely on the finished form of the canonical text.
This approach dovetails with recent interests in canonical theology and literary study of the Bible. However, the similarities, though welcome, are in some sense superficial, since most critical scholars who take a synchronic approach to the text merely bracket diachronic issues for the moment. Childs is a good example. He is careful never to disown typical historical criticism, while in his introduction and elsewhere he downplays these concerns in order to highlight the canonical role that the Bible plays in theology and the church.
His commentary on Exodus is a prime example of both his synchronic and diachronic concerns. They are both present but are not integrated with one another.
Old Testament Books - Introduction to the Old Testament
Scope Old Testament introduction is often subdivided into two areas: general and special introduction. General introduction treats topics that cover the whole testament: issues such as text and canon. Special introduction handles individual books. Our introduction will focus on special introduction and will proceed book by book. The order adopted will be that recognized by readers of the Bible in English. This differs from a number of introductions that follow the order of the Hebrew Bible in the Masoretic tradition for instance, the introductions by Young and Childs.
Most of the introductions mentioned above concentrate on historical questions surrounding a biblical book. This diachronic impulse crosses the conservative-critical line. Issues such as who wrote the book and when, the history of the development of the text, and the historical background of its contents are typical. These are important problems that will be treated here when necessary. Nonetheless, there are other equally important topics that help introduce the reader to the books of the Old Testament.
For instance, the literary genre, shape, and style of a book are essential keys to its proper interpretation. In addition, while a book of the Bible may have been produced separately from the rest of the canon, its meaning now resides in the context of the other books of the Old Testament and, for Christians, the New Testament. Three general topics constitute the discussion in each chapter: historical background, literary analysis, and theological message.
By now our readers may be asking how we intend to cover all of these topics while keeping the introduction to a reasonable length. We feel that it is important, especially if the book is to be used effectively in the classroom, to limit its size. One area that will get less coverage than is found in some other introductions is the history of research.
Except in some critical areas such as source analysis of the Pentateuch and even here the discussion is brief , we will feature only the high points in research and mention representative scholars rather than attempt an exhaustive delineation of past scholarship. We will, of course, be careful to give credit to those whose research has enlightened us.
Furthermore, the bibliographies at the beginning of each chapter refer to the works that can lead interested students to the history of research on any given book. In these bibliographies a premium is placed on books and articles written in English.
In part, this signals the end of the period when German scholarship was considered the vanguard in the field. But more significantly, it is part of our attempt to tailor these bibliographies for the English-speaking seminary student. Foreign language references are added to the bibliographies only when they are crucial for the discussion. The Major Topics As we said above, each chapter deals with the historical background, literary analysis, and theological message of the book under discussion.
The rest of this introductory chapter is devoted to explicating these three topics. What follows will allow readers to understand the orientation of the authors and will also allow the authors to refer back to these more general statements.
While these three topics are treated separately, it must be borne in mind that they function in a fully integrated manner in the biblical text Sternberg The history has theological meaning; the theology is based on historical events.
The texts that narrate this theological history or historicized theology are fittingly described as literary art. Howard Jr. Millard, J. Hoffmeier, and D.
Authorship of the Bible
Baker, eds. Provan, V. Long, and T. However, many understand the context to be literary only and then forget to read the Bible in its historical context, that is, the time period in which it was written and about which it narrates. One cause is the misunderstanding that describes the Bible as a timeless book.
The Bible is a timeless book only in the sense that it has an impact on every generation. The books of the Bible are also culture-bound. They were written for people in antiquity in a language and culture and with literary conventions that they understood.
As modern readers, we are distanced from the events that motivated the writings of the book. So even though the authority of the Bible is focused on the text and not on the events it narrates, it is still of utmost importance to read the Bible in the light of the time period from which it comes.
As such, the books of the Bible are careful to signal their relative age. Not every book is able to be dated with precision, but with few exceptions, each book informs the reader of its time of composition and describes events of a historical character. While ignorance of the historical context of the Bible threatens a correct understanding of the Bible, a second major danger confronts the reader.
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This danger is the imposition of contemporary Western values on the historical writings of the Old Testament. It is thus of great importance that we not only describe the value of a historical approach to the Old Testament but also explore the nature of Old Testament historiography.
In the first place it is important to differentiate history and historiography. The first refers to the events that have taken place in the past, and the second, to writing about the events. To ask whether a book is historical or not is a complex question. It could refer to the intention of an author or to his success in achieving his intention. We must, however, go even further. A book may intend to be historical but not be a history textbook in the modern sense of the word.
In other words, history is different from a videotaped representation of the past in that it involves a historian, one who must interpret these events for his contemporary audience. Biblical history does have an antiquarian interest. However, the historicity of these acts is assumed in that they are stated and not proved.
The concern of the text is not to prove the history, but rather to impress the reader with the theological significance of these acts. History and theology are closely connected in the biblical text. Indeed, biblical history is not objective history—that is, uninterpreted history—but rather, history narrated with a divine purpose.
Moreover, we must explore the relationship between history and fiction, especially in light of the work of scholars such as Alter who tend to confuse the two. Is it important that the events actually took place in space and time in the past?
The phrasing of the question lures one to a simplistic answer. The destruction of Jericho has no direct bearing on our faith in Christ.
Nonetheless, indirectly the question is crucial. It certainly raises the issue of the epistemological basis of our faith. The Gospels present themselves as historical, though theological and artistic, accounts of the resurrection.
The book of Joshua, as an example of an Old Testament historical book, also presents itself as an account of the past acts of God to save his people. On what basis, besides arbitrary modern sensibilities and desires, would we accept the teaching of the Gospels and reject the teaching of Joshua? Thus, to suspect or reject the historical facticity of the razing of Jericho does indeed raise an obstacle to faith. At the most fundamental level, at the central core of Christian beliefs, is the fact that Christ did indeed die for the sins of humanity and then rose from the grave in a great victory over death.
History and the Supernatural A major issue as one approaches the subject of history and the Bible is the occurrence of supernatural events.
If an interpreter approaches the Old Testament as he would any other book—that is, if he perceives it as written from a human vantage point, about human affairs—skepticism is warranted. However, a second 2See the introductory chapters to Provan, Long, and Longman for an exten- sive discussion of these issues, and the rest of the volume for an attempt to write a history of Israel with sensitivity to the literary and theological concerns of the text.
This, of course, is where the dialogue between conservative and critical scholars gets stalled. Nonetheless, conservatives must guard against the tendency to overhistoricize the Bible. Legitimate genre questions must be addressed in the interpretation of certain books.
Why are there differences between the narration of the same events in Samuel—Kings over against Chronicles? What is the historical kernel of the Job story?
Is Jonah history or parable? These issues will be addressed in later chapters. The Challenge of Minimalism The s saw the rise of growing skepticism concerning the possibility that actual history could be reconstructed based on the Hebrew Bible. Such authors as Davies, Thompson, Whitelam, and Lemche, among others, have, despite their differences, come to be regarded as a school of thought that is commonly referred to as minimalism, after their conclusion that a minimum of historical memory may be found in the text.
The minimalists will even cast doubt on the scant direct evidence that we do have the Merneptah Stela, the David inscription, and so forth. It appears that the minimalists are intent on undermining the text as reliable history.
Instead, they propose what they think is a more objective way of reconstructing the history of Palestine, namely, archaeology, ignoring the obvious hermeneutical and ideological problems inherent in that discipline see below.
The wholesale skepticism of the minimalist is hardly justified and has received significant critique see Provan; Provan, Long, and Longman.
Even so, their critique can lead to a more sophisticated view of the nature of biblical historiography, a subject to which we now turn our attention.
The Nature of Biblical Historiography Biblical history is not an objective reporting of purely human events. No history can tell everything about its subject. Thus all history writing involves selectivity. What will be included and what excluded?
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But selectivity is not only a necessity of space but also a part of the function and intention of the historiographer. The biblical historian is not interested in every aspect of the past but focuses on the community of Israel often as represented by its king. These issues will be addressed in the following chapters as we study specific books, but we can illustrate our point quickly, though not exhaustively, by comparing Samuel-Kings and Chronicles.
Samuel-Kings emphasizes the sins of the kings of both Israel and Judah, particularly their rejection of the law of centralization. There is also an emphasis in reporting on the temple. This trait is closely connected to the previous one. Not all acts of God, not everything that occurred to Israel, was equally important to the biblical historians. Some events are emphasized over others. Thus emphasis often supports the intention of the book in a way similar to that of the principle of selectivity.
For instance, the emphasis on the temple in Chronicles in contrast to Samuel-Kings arises, in part at least, because of the fact that the temple was being rebuilt at the time. Thus through the use of emphasis and by drawing analogies with the past, the Chronicler shows the continuity between the people of God at the end of the period of the Old Testament and the people of God at the time of Moses and David.
Of the many cities that were overrun at the time of the conquest, two stand out in the narrative in terms of emphasis: Jericho and Ai. See also: Development of the Hebrew Bible canon , Development of the Old Testament canon , Septuagint , and Books of the Latin Vulgate The interrelationship between various significant ancient manuscripts of the Old Testament, according to the Encyclopaedia Biblica Some manuscripts are identified by their siglum.
LXX here denotes the original Septuagint. The process by which scriptures became canons and Bibles was a long one, and its complexities account for the many different Old Testaments which exist today. Timothy H. Lim, a professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Edinburgh , identifies the Old Testament as "a collection of authoritative texts of apparently divine origin that went through a human process of writing and editing.
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I have an old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5515... It was running Vista and was taking 5-10 seconds to just do anything, even as simple as opening a folder. So I decided to install a windows-user-friendly version of Linux - something I've wanted to try for a long time. I ended up settling on Kubuntu because I read somewhere that it's medium-light weight, and good for people used to running windows, after all, I can always replace it with something different later on.
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So I'm assuming that means there's a problem with the CD/iso? The check sum was supposedly correct and it was burnt on the lowest possible burn with trusted software. Also, the cd drive works just fine and the disk itself is brand new without a scuff on it.
I'm pretty stumped what to do. I'm going to try to find a cheap flash drive at the dollar store or something to try to boot from USB, but if there is any troubleshooting I could do to get this to work without having to spend money I can't really afford, that'd be really helpful.
As it stands I have a nearly 10-year-old computer with no OS whatsoever on it because the windows section is all deleted, but the Ubuntu section is not fully installed.

A: This type of error can occur when there are too many bad sectors on the hard drive. No matter what, the Ubuntu installer will stop somewhere in the middle until you replace the hard drive. This is easy to check if you have a replacement hard drive handy. Pull out the existing hard drive and try installing Kubuntu again on a different hard drive.
If you are installing Kubuntu, it's recommended that your laptop has about 2GB of RAM or more. If your laptop has only 1GB RAM, you'd be better off installing a more lightweight version such as Ubuntu MATE, Xubuntu or Lubuntu. For a computer with less than 3GB of RAM you should download the 32-bit version.

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3. An error in the object Location. This can be exploited to bypass security restrictions and implement a cross-domain object reading Location.


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While this provides a great opportunity for property owners to save money, it is also an ideal situation for mortgage brokers.
Low mortgage rates allow brokers to increase the volume of their businesses because homeowners across the country use the real estate professionals' services to lower their monthly payments.
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Of course, although a face-to-face meeting is an ideal way to complete the refinancing process, it is not always a feasible option. During busy months, brokers may find themselves traveling quickly between clients and properties, and they may not visit their offices for days at a time.
Traditionally, the fax machine has been a valuable tool for brokers to send documents to clients. The ability to send authorized documents instantly is important for real estate professionals hoping to complete the home-closing process as efficiently as possible.
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That's why internet faxing has been such a revelation. Instead of staying close to an office fax machine or driving for hours between clients, real estate professionals can now conduct business wherever they are. A refinancing homeowner can easily fax a signed document over to a broker, who can then receive the file on a smartphone and store it digitally.
Along with mortgage rates being near historic lows, many feel the market is beginning to pick up, and agents are reporting increased interest and volume. Listen to this podcast interview with real estate agent, and eFax user, Jeff Annis.


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package autodispose2;

import static autodispose2.AutoDispose.autoDisposable;
import static autodispose2.TestUtil.makeProvider;
import static autodispose2.TestUtil.outsideScopeProvider;
import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;

import autodispose2.observers.AutoDisposingSingleObserver;
import autodispose2.test.RecordingObserver;
import autodispose2.test.RxErrorsRule;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.SingleObserver;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.functions.Consumer;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.observers.TestObserver;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.plugins.RxJavaPlugins;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.subjects.CompletableSubject;
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.subjects.SingleSubject;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;

public class AutoDisposeSingleObserverTest extends PluginsMatrixTest {

  private static final RecordingObserver.Logger LOGGER =
      message ->
          System.out.println(AutoDisposeSingleObserverTest.class.getSimpleName() + ": " + message);

  @Rule public final RxErrorsRule rule = new RxErrorsRule();

  public AutoDisposeSingleObserverTest(boolean hideProxies) {
    super(hideProxies);
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withMaybe_normal() {
    RecordingObserver<Integer> o = new RecordingObserver<>(LOGGER);
    SingleSubject<Integer> source = SingleSubject.create();
    CompletableSubject scope = CompletableSubject.create();
    source.to(autoDisposable(scope)).subscribe(o);
    o.takeSubscribe();

    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isTrue();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isTrue();

    // Got the event
    source.onSuccess(1);
    assertThat(o.takeSuccess()).isEqualTo(1);

    // Nothing more, scope disposed too
    o.assertNoMoreEvents();
    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isFalse();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isFalse();
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withSuperClassGenerics_compilesFine() {
    Single.just(new BClass())
        .to(autoDisposable(ScopeProvider.UNBOUND))
        .subscribe((Consumer<AClass>) aClass -> {});
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withMaybe_interrupted() {
    RecordingObserver<Integer> o = new RecordingObserver<>(LOGGER);
    SingleSubject<Integer> source = SingleSubject.create();
    CompletableSubject scope = CompletableSubject.create();
    source.to(autoDisposable(scope)).subscribe(o);
    o.takeSubscribe();

    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isTrue();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isTrue();

    // Lifecycle ends
    scope.onComplete();
    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isFalse();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isFalse();

    // Event if upstream emits, no one is listening
    source.onSuccess(2);
    o.assertNoMoreEvents();
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withProvider() {
    RecordingObserver<Integer> o = new RecordingObserver<>(LOGGER);
    SingleSubject<Integer> source = SingleSubject.create();
    CompletableSubject scope = CompletableSubject.create();
    ScopeProvider provider = makeProvider(scope);
    source.to(autoDisposable(provider)).subscribe(o);
    o.takeSubscribe();

    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isTrue();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isTrue();

    source.onSuccess(3);
    o.takeSuccess();

    // All cleaned up
    o.assertNoMoreEvents();
    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isFalse();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isFalse();
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withProvider_interrupted() {
    RecordingObserver<Integer> o = new RecordingObserver<>(LOGGER);
    SingleSubject<Integer> source = SingleSubject.create();
    CompletableSubject scope = CompletableSubject.create();
    ScopeProvider provider = makeProvider(scope);
    source.to(autoDisposable(provider)).subscribe(o);
    o.takeSubscribe();

    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isTrue();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isTrue();

    // Lifecycle ends
    scope.onComplete();
    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isFalse();
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isFalse();

    // No one is listening even if upstream finally does emit
    source.onSuccess(3);
    o.assertNoMoreEvents();
  }

  @Test
  public void verifyObserverDelegate() {
    final AtomicReference<SingleObserver> atomicObserver = new AtomicReference<>();
    final AtomicReference<SingleObserver> atomicAutoDisposingObserver = new AtomicReference<>();
    try {
      RxJavaPlugins.setOnSingleSubscribe(
          (source, observer) -> {
            if (atomicObserver.get() == null) {
              atomicObserver.set(observer);
            } else if (atomicAutoDisposingObserver.get() == null) {
              atomicAutoDisposingObserver.set(observer);
              RxJavaPlugins.setOnObservableSubscribe(null);
            }
            return observer;
          });
      Single.just(1).to(autoDisposable(ScopeProvider.UNBOUND)).subscribe();

      assertThat(atomicAutoDisposingObserver.get()).isNotNull();
      assertThat(atomicAutoDisposingObserver.get()).isInstanceOf(AutoDisposingSingleObserver.class);
      assertThat(
              ((AutoDisposingSingleObserver) atomicAutoDisposingObserver.get()).delegateObserver())
          .isNotNull();
      assertThat(
              ((AutoDisposingSingleObserver) atomicAutoDisposingObserver.get()).delegateObserver())
          .isSameInstanceAs(atomicObserver.get());
    } finally {
      RxJavaPlugins.reset();
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void verifyCancellation() {
    final AtomicInteger i = new AtomicInteger();
    //noinspection unchecked because Java
    Single<Integer> source = Single.create(e -> e.setCancellable(i::incrementAndGet));
    CompletableSubject scope = CompletableSubject.create();
    source.to(autoDisposable(scope)).subscribe();

    assertThat(i.get()).isEqualTo(0);
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isTrue();

    scope.onComplete();

    // Verify cancellation was called
    assertThat(i.get()).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(scope.hasObservers()).isFalse();
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_withScopeProviderCompleted_shouldNotReportDoubleSubscriptions() {
    TestObserver<Object> o =
        SingleSubject.create().to(autoDisposable(ScopeProvider.UNBOUND)).test();
    o.assertNoValues();
    o.assertNoErrors();

    rule.assertNoErrors();
  }

  @Test
  public void unbound_shouldStillPassValues() {
    SingleSubject<Integer> s = SingleSubject.create();
    TestObserver<Integer> o = s.to(autoDisposable(ScopeProvider.UNBOUND)).test();

    s.onSuccess(1);
    o.assertValue(1);
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_outsideScope_withProviderAndNoOpPlugin_shouldFailSilently() {
    AutoDisposePlugins.setOutsideScopeHandler(e -> {});
    ScopeProvider provider = outsideScopeProvider();
    SingleSubject<Integer> source = SingleSubject.create();
    TestObserver<Integer> o = source.to(autoDisposable(provider)).test();

    assertThat(source.hasObservers()).isFalse();
    o.assertNoValues();
    o.assertNoErrors();
  }

  @Test
  public void autoDispose_outsideScope_withProviderAndPlugin_shouldFailWithWrappedExp() {
    AutoDisposePlugins.setOutsideScopeHandler(
        e -> {
          // Wrap in an IllegalStateException so we can verify this is the exception we see on the
          // other side
          throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        });
    ScopeProvider provider = outsideScopeProvider();
    TestObserver<Integer> o = SingleSubject.<Integer>create().to(autoDisposable(provider)).test();

    o.assertNoValues();
    o.assertError(
        throwable ->
            throwable instanceof IllegalStateException
                && throwable.getCause() instanceof OutsideScopeException);
  }

  @Test
  public void hideProxies() {
    SingleSubscribeProxy proxy = Single.never().to(autoDisposable(ScopeProvider.UNBOUND));
    // If hideProxies is disabled, the underlying return should be the direct AutoDispose type.
    if (hideProxies) {
      assertThat(proxy).isNotInstanceOf(Single.class);
    } else {
      assertThat(proxy).isInstanceOf(AutoDisposeSingle.class);
    }
  }
}

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I know this tread is very old, but I hope someone can help me.
I've made a THAT2181A upgrade on VCA boards but now I need DPR-402 Service Manual to calibrate -10 and -20 trimmers.
Does someone have the Service Manual or maybe knows the procedure to calibrate the unit?
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Herculean coach: Sabine Appelmans!
By: frederikesterckx April 8, 2014
Herculean coach: Sabine Appelmans! Who doesn't know Tennis Wonder Sabine Appelmans?
Sabine started playing tennis at the neighbour's court at the age of 7. Her first trainer, Fred Debruyn, saw that she was very talented. She turned pro in 1988, and won her first title in Phoenix in 1991. In 1997, she married her coach/trainer Serge Haubourdin. Throughout her career, she won 7 singles titles and 4 doubles titles. In February 2007 she was elected captain of Belgium's Fed Cup squad. Sabine was chosen as the Belgian Sportswoman of the year 1991.
In 2013, she participated for the first time at the Hercules Trophy and won with her team. One year later, teams could win her as a coach. Watch her interview on the Herculean Coach Selection Night here.
Sabine is now one of the Herculean Coaches in the Hercules Academy. She's an excellent inspirational speaker and host and she's expert on body and nutrition. Want to work with her in your corporate wellbeing programs? Give us a shout.


Indonesian and Australian scientists are part of a team searching for buried treasure: using the movement of tectonic plates to predict when and where giant deposits of gold and copper should form, while building an understanding of the conditions these deposits are created in.
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To 'go back in time,' the researchers have to know the exact age of the deposit, then use satellite data to infer present-day rates of movement of the earth. They then run analyses to see what the specific conditions were at the time that deposit formed.
It's not certain whether giant ore deposits are formed in a special way and under unique conditions, or if they're simply large accumulations formed in the same way that deposits of all sizes are. Knowing whether distinct geological conditions are needed for these giant deposits of metal to form could help with exploration. The researchers will also produce a toolkit, which will allow four-dimensional virtual exploration of how to apply their search methods.
The project involves collaboration between the Bandung Institute of Technology; the Australian National University's Satellites, Seismometers and Mass Spectrometers initiative; AngloGold Ashanti Australia; Agincourt Resources; Vale Australia; Utrecht University in the Netherlands; the South East Asia Research Group Royal Holloway University of London; and Aberdeen University in Scotland.
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Cryptacanthodidae é uma família de peixes da subordem Zoarcoidei.

Espécies
 Cryptacanthodes aleutensis
 Cryptacanthodes bergi
 Cryptacanthodes giganteus
 Cryptacanthodes maculatus

Perciformes

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Q: Download a dmg file by http link I am trying to download a .dmg file over the http link using ruby script. I have tried NET::HTTP and HTTParty methods described at http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html
These methods work well with images and other web content but doesnt work for a dmg file.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'fileutils'
require 'pathname'
require "open-uri"
require 'net/http'
include FileUtils

#download Software

#Method1
open("VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg") do |file|
 file.write('http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg').read
end

#Method2
Net::HTTP.start("download.virtualbox.org") do |http|
resp = http.get("/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg")
open("VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg","wb") do |file|
file.write(resp)
end
end

#Method3
uri = URI('http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-    OSX.dmg')
Net::HTTP.get(uri)

#Method4
Net::HTTP.start(uri.host) do |http|
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri
response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object
end

#Method5
File.open("~/Desktop/", "wb") do |f|
f.write HTTParty.get("http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18- 88780-OSX.dmg").parsed_response
end

#Method6
File.write('VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg',         open('http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg').read,  {mode: 'wb'})

#Methos7
puts "#{uri}"
res = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
puts res.body if res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)

How to get dmg file through http link.

A: i assume that this is due to a redirect:
→ curl -I http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg

→ curl -I http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 110667450

downloading the real url works like this:
require 'net/http'
url = "http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg"
File.open('tmp.dmg', 'w') { |f| f.write Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url)).body }

A: For me this code worked like a charm:
Net::HTTP.start("dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net") do |http|
begin
file = open("VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg", 'wb')
http.request_get('/' + URI.encode("virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88780-OSX.dmg")) do  |response|
  response.read_body do |segment|
    file.write(segment)
  end
end
ensure
end
end

A: try shell command like wget and execute it with system in Ruby
system('wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18- 88780-OSX.dmg')


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Чиррут Имве () — один из героев кинокартины «Изгой-один. Звёздные войны: Истории». Монах, чья слепота и вера позволяла ему взаимодействовать с Силой. Роль исполнил Донни Йен. Первое появление в качестве повстанца с планеты Джеда. В первоначальном сценарии картины, который имел счастливый финал, персонажа не было.

Персонаж

Создание

По задумке режиссёра, Чиррут — это тот персонаж, который говорит от имени Силы в фильме. Бейз Мальбус (Цзян Вэнь) и Чиррут должны олицетворять «Войну и Мир». Режиссёр противопоставляет философию Мальбуса, которая гласит — «Чтобы что-то изменить, нужно что-то делать, и если надо — убивать», философии Имве — «Верь и всё будет в порядке». Фил Шостак, креативный арт-менеджер Lucasfilm, написал в Twitter, что Чиррут Имве и Кэнан Джаррус основаны на популярном герое японских фильмов Дзатоити.

Агент Донни Йена сообщил ему о том, что студия Disney ищет его для съёмок новых «Звёздных войн». Он предположил, что требуются его навыки фехтования. Однако с ним связался режиссёр Гарет Эдвардс и рассказал о том, что в фильме не будет джедаев и фехтования. Донни Йен рассчитывал на получении другой роли, поэтому не был в восторге от идеи сыграть персонажа. Впоследствии персонаж стал настоящей звездой фильма, и актёр был рад тому, что сыграл его. Йен сетовал на то, что оставить семью на 5 месяцев, уехав на съёмки в Лондон, было не просто. Он посоветовался со своими детьми, которые узнали о его участии в «Звёздных войнах» и дали своё согласие. Актёр признался, что когда он жил в Бостоне и смотрел «Новую надежду» и «Империя наносит ответный удар», то он никогда не думал, что станет участником франшизы.

Йен напрямую спросил у режиссёра, почему тот хочет, чтобы он играл в его фильме, так как полагал, что это делается ради азиатского рынка, и ему просто нужно будет побить нескольких штурмовиков. На что режиссёр сказал, что следил за его творчеством и ему нужен актёр, сумеющий сыграть непростого персонажа. Йену очень понравился сценарий, он обнаружил, что:

Сыграть бесстрашного слепого для актёра было настоящим вызовом. Йен сыграл множество персонажей, похожих друг на друга, и предложил Эдвардсу сделать персонажа слепым, чтобы он был похож на простого уязвимого человека, режиссёру понравилась эта идея. Он также предложил наделить его чувством юмора, несмотря на его веру и монашество, и был рад, что эта идея также была принята.

Хотя Йен всю свою жизнь занимался фехтованием, ему приходилось носить контактные линзы, снимать их каждые 3 часа и капать капли, что делало мир вокруг расплывчатым, что не помогало в съёмках боевых сцен. Но он считал, что это помогло ему лучше исполнить роль слепого. Но самым сложным для него было не смотреть другим актёрам в глаза.

Первая боевая сцена с участием персонажа была отснята за день. Режиссёр тогда не имел возможности оценить актёра на съёмочной площадке, но после первой же сцены был в восторге, добавив, что отныне хотел бы видеть актёра во всех своих фильмах.

На экране

Персонаж появляется на планете Джеда со своим другом Бейзом Мальбусом, где спасает жизни Джин Эрсо (Фелисити Джонс) и её спутникам.

Продолжение
После того, как персонаж Имве и его немногословный друг Мальбус привлекли внимание поклонников франшизы, было принято решение написать историю для них, автором которой стал Грэг Рука. Новелла под названием «Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills», рассказывает о том, что персонажи раньше были хранителями храма Кибера на Джедхе до того момента, как прибыли солдаты Империи, захватившие планету и разрушившие храм, поэтому герои присоединились к сопротивлению.

См. также
 Список персонажей «Звёздных войн»

Примечания

Ссылки

Персонажи «Звёздных войн»
Вымышленные слепые
Вымышленные монахи
Вымышленные фехтовальщики


Original Artwork. Watercolor on Paper. Framed.
Note: This is a stretch of creek in what is now Rivercut Subdivision, just above the pond close to the James River, circa 1985 (which is the year I painted this).


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Students, faculty find common ground in math and art
by Jennifer Johnson, September 17, 2017
Artwork by Willamette art and math students for an exhibit called "Creating Problems." The exhibit ran in the Art Building earlier this month.
Peri Hildum '18, a studio art major, used an algorithm to determine the color scheme for one of her art projects.
Peri Hildum '18, a studio art major, drew an array of pentagons across 16 sheets of paper to see how they behaved on a flat surface.
Associate Professor of Math Josh Laison and Zech Hazel '19, a math major, check out Hazel's artwork.
Zech Hazel '19, a math major, created complete graph K51 (left) and a pentaract, which is otherwise known as a 5-dimensional cube.
Allie Kerkhoff '19, a math major, incorporated the traveling salesman math problem — finding the fastest route between a set of points — in one of her projects.
Allie Kerkhoff '19, a math major, hangs her artwork on an Art Building window. She says the piece "literally looks at the world through a lens of math."
Arthur Stamey-Mills '19, a studio art and film major, filmed faculty and students lip-synching to famous songs.
Art projects ask viewers to read between the lines.
When you think about math-based art, a video of a Willamette professor lip-synching to The Jackson 5 might not be the first thing that comes to mind.
But students and faculty members recently challenged traditional assumptions about math and art — including their own — in a wide-ranging art exhibit featured in the Art Building Sept. 7-12.
Helmed by Associate Professor of Math Josh Laison and Assistant Professor of Art Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, the project tasked students with solving problems through both math research and the art process. Their work was supported through one of three interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Research Collaborative (LARC) grants awarded last summer.
Arthur Stamey-Mills '19, a studio art and film major, filmed faculty and students lip-synching to famous songs. He used arithmetic to warp footage during the editing process and set rules to distort each song's speed. But his work also allowed the viewer to discover patterns in the overlapping images — similar to the way mathematicians might look for patterns in their research. To Laison, that feature best exemplified the exhibit's title, "Creating Problems."
Peri Hildum '18, a studio art major, drew an array of pentagons across 16 sheets of paper to see how they behaved on a flat surface and created an algorithm to determine the color scheme.
Hildum says she'd "always struggled with math," but felt more confident when she applied it to a medium she knew.
Two math majors — Allie Kerkhoff '19 and Zech Hazel '19 — found inspiration in graph theory, the study of the relationships between points and lines called vertices and edges.
Kerkhoff wanted to "give some meaning to abstract math," so she created a map that represents the connection between several friends and cities. She also incorporated into the map the classic traveling salesman math problem of finding the fastest route between a set of points.
One of Hazel's contributions was an intricate, digitally rendered complete graph — an elaborate Ferris wheel-like shape of circles and points connected by hundreds of lines. His goal, as well as Kerkhoff's, was to find a new way to make graphs nonsymmetrical with the least number of "stamps" represented by different-colored shapes.
Comparing processes
Faculty members also created art, and along with students ran into expected differences between the fields in terms of outcomes.
"When mathematicians are writing a proof or theorem, there's one way to do that," Skillin-Brauchle says. "But in art, we have multiple ways to communicate the same idea."
They also discovered some surprising similarities. Both fields provide rules or theories to help develop ideas for projects or proofs. Mathematicians and artists also take risks during their respective processes and accept failure as integral to the effort.
Students often think they're not a math person because they didn't understand it at first, but Laison notes that mathematicians, just like artists, keep trying.
In addition to being a great learning experience, the final art exhibit provided an opportunity for the public to see math in a different light.
Laison says, "You could walk through the mathematical ideas in a way that I've never done before. It was a living thing."


More and more these days the lines between whether a company is strictly servicing a Business-to-Business market or a Business-to-Consumer market is blurring. Traditional B2B companies that once serviced a small number of large customers are being called on to scale their reach and provide online options to a much larger customer base.
Partly this is because the traditional B2B Customer is changing. The distinction between business user and consumer itself is blending. With an increasing mobile workforce who use smart phones and tablets as well as the practice of Bring-Your-Own-Device, products and services now exist where the user decides whether it's used for business or personal use, and floats between the two. This customer wants the splash and accessibility that has traditionally been the realm of B2C, while retaining the professionalism and reliability of a B2B offering.
Tech-savvy software companies need to be concerned with providing an online SaaS offering because failing to do so may not just mean not growing; it may also mean losing customers who find better cheaper alternatives. Companies wanting to scale by offering online services need to make sure that costs don't scale with providing what is often a less expensive per-seat price.
One way to do this is to provide a version of an existing product as a SaaS offering. But in doing so they need to figure out how to offer the same service cheaper, without incurring the same cost structures around sales, service and support that is often associated with a tailored B2B licenced software product.
Though some people think of this is accomplished by dumbing down the product, it's not. It's not trying to find the lowest common denominator of services for every possible market. It's about providing an efficient service that would be of value to that one big customer, and to many more like them. Then the customer's decisions aren't around features, they are around cost vs ownership, accessibility and their own business processes.
It requires taking a step back, and building up a detailed user & buyer Persona of a specific market segment rather than looking at customer's individual needs. It can be helpful to initially model this Persona on an existing face-to-face customer. It can also mean to schedule ongoing face-to-face time with a subset of your online market. You may not be able to talk with all your customers in a SaaS offering, but you can continually reach out to a sampling for research purposes.
Marketing and Sales processes have to be setup with the purpose of shortening sales cycles and making them less reliant on personal. It may mean offering tiers of service, with an easy upgrade path from freemium to professional. Efficiencies can be gained through focusing on streamlining business processes around onboarding and support as well as providing easily customizable options and preferences. The easier the smaller tasks can be done by the customer themselves, then the better you can support many customers with a smaller more effective team.
In the end, the SaaS version of your product will be the best of both worlds; a successful reliable professional online service that is also a business-ready consumable.


As I gazed from the tuna tower, a sparkle on the horizon caught my attention. Training my eyes on the spot, I saw what appeared to be a disturbance on the surface about a mile from our boat. Excited, I shouted down to Captain Rogelio for confirmation. "No, just bonito," came his reply. We continued the search, and 10 minutes later that disturbance was still in the same position. Bonito move fast and savage their prey in minutes, so I knew something else was out there. Closer investigation was needed, and with guarded excitement we set an intercept course.
All eyes fixed on the horizon as a hush fell over our team. Six months of anticipation had led up to this expedition — one that depended solely on our captain's intuition and our best guess at timing. A dozen miles off the coast of Mexico's Isla Mujeres, we had been searching these empty seas for hours and had not found anything. But that changed in an instant as a large fin suddenly appeared and cut across the surface only 50 yards from our boat. Beyond it more fins appeared — five, 10, 50 … hundreds. Our team erupted into cheers — we had found it.
Whale sharks were everywhere, feeding on the surface for as far as the eye could see. Like combines harvesting a field, lines of whale sharks with mouths agape plowed back and forth in the water. We could not believe our eyes, and we had no idea how long the feeding would continue. A mad scramble ensued as each of us fumbled for our snorkel gear, snatched our cameras and tumbled into the sea. When the bubbles cleared, what I witnessed was beyond anything I had ever imagined possible.
The whale sharks appeared as dark silhouettes against the deep, blue water in the early morning light, and they were bearing down on me from all directions. Closer and closer they approached until I realized they were not going to stop. These whale sharks were on a mission, and my presence was of no concern. At the last moment I kicked out of the way, just as the huge mouth of a gulping shark filled my viewfinder. There were spots, a dorsal fin and more spots followed by powerful surge from a massive tail that brushed within inches of my mask. I whooped and hollered, but my celebration was premature. In averting this group of whale sharks, I had landed in front of another one coming from behind me. Moments later I felt my back being sucked into a shark's mouth, and suddenly I was tumbling in its slipstream. A group of whale sharks steamed by, running headlong into another whale-shark train and colliding like a rush-hour pileup. The action continued well into the afternoon until our bodies were spent, our batteries drained and flash cards full. Exhausted and all grins, we headed back to Isla Mujeres to celebrate with cervezas and guacamole.
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Valerianus war ein römischer Decurio.

Er diente während des Jüdischen Krieges unter dem Feldherrn Vespasian, von dem er mit einer Einheit von 50 Reitern als Unterhändler in die Stadt Tiberias gesandt wurde. Vor der Stadtmauer angekommen, stieg er ab, um seine friedliche Absicht zu bekunden. Noch bevor er die Botschaft Vespasians überbringen konnte, wurde die Gruppe von einer Horde bewaffneter Juden, unter der Führung eines gewissen Jesus, eines der Rebellen angegriffen, sodass den römischen Reitern nichts übrig blieb, als zu Fuß zum Lager zu flüchten. Die Pferde wurden im Triumph in die Stadt geführt und als Zeichen des Sieges angesehen, obwohl sie, wie Flavius Josephus schreibt, nur Beute eines Raubes waren.
Eine Abordnung der Bürger Tiberias sprach darauf bei Vespasian vor und bat erfolgreich um Gnade für die Stadt.

Quelle
 Flavius Josephus:  Geschichte des Jüdischen Krieges 3, 448–452.

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Victoria Lynn Morgan (August 9, 1952 – July 7, 1983) was the mistress of Alfred S. Bloomingdale, heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune. The details of their tumultuous relationship became known after Morgan sued Bloomingdale's estate for palimony in 1982. Morgan was murdered in 1983.

Early life
Vicki Morgan was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her mother, Constance Laney, and Vicki's father, a United States Air Force veteran, divorced soon after Vicki's birth. Constance remarried, but that husband died when Vicki was about 9 years old. Vicki and her mother relocated to Montclair, California. At 16, Vicki Morgan became pregnant, dropped out of Chaffey High School, and bore a son, Todd. Leaving Todd with her mother, Morgan ran away from home in 1968.

Bloomingdale mistress
She found work as an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. She soon married 47-year-old Earl Lamb.

In August 1969, whilst still 17, Morgan met 53-year-old financier Alfred S. Bloomingdale, a married multi-millionaire from the famous department store family, in a restaurant on the Sunset Strip. Bloomingdale soon took Morgan as a mistress, and would have her watch as he lashed naked prostitutes with his belt. When Morgan was 18, Bloomingdale offered Lamb a large cash payment to end his marriage with Morgan. Bloomingdale provided an apartment for her.

As Bloomingdale's mistress, her social circle would include politicians, businessmen, and the wealthy playboy Bernie Cornfeld. With Bloomingdale's financial support, she lived a lavish lifestyle. In 1973, Bloomingdale's wife, Betsy, learned of Bloomingdale's affair and told him to break off the relationship. He complied, and Morgan spiraled into poverty and depression.

By 1979, Morgan had been through two more marriages and long periods of sex work, and had become a drug addict. That year she entered rehabilitation, where she met Marvin Pancoast, a gay man who was infatuated with Morgan and her stories of the high life she led with Bloomingdale. They vowed to live together once released from treatment. Three years later, Bloomingdale was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He purportedly told Morgan that he had only two months to live and assured her she would be well cared for and never have to worry about money again.

Palimony and murder
The financial situation for the 30-year-old Morgan quickly turned desperate. To protect herself, she hired the famous Hollywood palimony attorney Marvin Mitchelson to file an $11 million lawsuit ($ million today) for financial compensation as Bloomingdale's mistress. The pre-trial media coverage of the initial complaint revealed details of the couple's sexual relationship that grabbed headlines nationwide, causing particular embarrassment amongst Bloomingdale's friends in Washington, D.C. However, when Morgan learned that Mitchelson had dinner and a meeting with President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy  the latter of whom was friends with Betsy Bloomingdale  Morgan lost trust in Mitchelson, fired him, and hired attorney Robert Steinberg in his place.

Later court documents and news stories revealed that Morgan supported herself by selling off the jewelry and the expensive car purchased for her by Bloomingdale. It was later reported that she was preparing to write a tell-all book which was going to name influential politicians and businessmen who had been clients of hers. Bloomingdale died of cancer less than two months after the lawsuit was filed.

Morgan contacted her friend from rehab, Marvin Pancoast, and moved into an apartment with him. She returned to working as a prostitute while he worked odd jobs. Although Pancoast was a homosexual, their relationship was occasionally sexual. Pancoast thought he had contracted HIV and was terminally ill. He was distraught and unstable after his daily counseling sessions were terminated by psychiatrist Dr. Paul Cantalupo.

On the evening of July 7, 1983, less than eleven months after Bloomingdale's death, Pancoast walked into a police station and confessed to murdering Morgan in their apartment. Police found Morgan, apparently beaten to death with a baseball bat. She was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. Pancoast was sentenced to 26 years-to-life in prison and died in 1991 in Chino, California, while undergoing treatment for AIDS-related illnesses.

Morgan's 1982 palimony lawsuit against Bloomingdale's estate continued on behalf of her son Todd (born ). She had referred to a contract in which Bloomingdale would have given her $240,000, but instead she was given $40,000. During the trial, the judge ruled the agreement unenforceable as it was for the illegal act of "sex for hire." In December 1984, a jury awarded Morgan's estate the remaining $200,000 ($ today).

In popular media
Morgan's story received considerable print coverage and in 1985 author Gordon Basichis wrote the book Beautiful Bad Girl: The Vicki Morgan Story. In 1990, Dominick Dunne wrote a fictional portrayal of Morgan in his book, An Inconvenient Woman.  The story of her life and death was the topic of Vanity Fair Confidential (Season 4, Episode 7: Murder Most Obsessive) which first aired on March 19, 2018. Her BDSM-based relationships with Alfred Bloomingdale and Marvin Pancoast are also explored in the Poisoned Passions episode "Sadistic Pleasure".

Morgan's story is mentioned in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt in a courtroom scene in which Larry is asked about his source of the John DeLorean video.

In the feature film Fletch (1985), Chevy Chase's character Fletch mentions "Vicki Morgan tapes" when talking to his boss about two witnesses rummaging through his boss's office.

The Song "Der Mord an Vicky Morgan" from the German music group Die Toten Hosen is based on the story of Vicki Morgan.

References

Further reading
 Beautiful Bad Girl: The Vicki Morgan Story by Gordon Basichis, uPublish.com (2000)
 An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne, Ballantine (1991)
 Vicki by Joyce Milton and Ann Louise Bardach,

External links
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1983 deaths
Female models from Colorado
American murder victims
American prostitutes
Deaths by beating in the United States
Mistresses
People murdered in Los Angeles
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
20th-century American women
 1983 murders in the United States
Sex workers murdered in the United States


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The best way you can use Discord as a graphic designer!
Leave a Comment / Artificial Intelligence, graphic deisgn, Technology / By Kailash Chandra / 30 December 2022 31 December 2022
Discord is a communication platform that allows users to chat via text, voice, and video. But it's more than just a communication platform.
Discord is available as a free app on various web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
Some of the main features of Discord are:
Collaborative writing: Discord servers can be used to facilitate collaboration on writing projects. Members can use text channels to share ideas, discuss plot points, and give feedback on drafts.
Podcasting: Discord's voice channels can be used to record and edit podcasts with multiple people. Members can join the channel, speak on their microphones, and use Discord's built-in voice chat features to communicate with each other during the recording process.
Live Streaming: Discord has integrations with popular streaming platforms such as Twitch and YouTube. Users can use Discord to discuss their streams and interact with their viewers in real-time, that's why it's primarily used by gamers.
Creative feedback: Discord servers can be a place for creators to share their work and receive feedback from other members. This can be especially useful for writers, artists, and musicians who are looking for constructive criticism and ideas for improvement.
But then I thought if it's most of the functions are similar except the live streaming which I also can do with other streaming software such as OBS Studio, or Streamlabs OBS, then when shall I learn or use this platform which has a very complex interface and looks weird and gives a feel or similar vibe of GitHub.
Then as a creative professional or a graphic designer, I came to know about an artificial intelligence platform called MidJourney.
Initially, I ignored it. But then I came to know how powerful it is, that which can give me an initial boost that can impact on my career and creativity process tremendously.
I looked on YouTube, and go through some tutorials, videos, blogs, and articles. Understood the basic procedure to use the platform of Mid journey on Discord. And then forget Discord I started using the Mid journey AI platform on Discord. It's so easy.
Now I can certainly say that learning AI made it easier to integrate and learn a platform that was looking much more complex earlier, now become very much familiar to me.
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