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On the occasion of International Women's Day, Rang De team member Lydia Thomas writes about the struggles of a domestic worker and why it is important to include 'her' in our conversations
Imagine your life partner made most of the decisions of the household finances, including what you earn, leaving very little up to you. Imagine having to spend almost half your combined annual income on expenses for your children's education, from school fees and books to uniforms and tuition.
Now imagine having to wait for over half an hour in a bank just because you cannot read or write and there is no one available to help you withdraw some money you desperately need, from your own bank account. Having to get through life like this, would you not do your best to give your children the best education and future that you possibly can? Choose to make a difference by investing through Rang De's new platform rangde.in
These are questions that struck us from just a few hours of a day in the life of some of the domestic workers we met in Bangalore city, who figure among 50 million others across the country. For decades, they have been essential to the smooth functioning of most of our homes, but have had to collectively struggle and bargain for rights as basic as social security and minimum wages.
For most domestic workers, working in more houses doesn't necessarily mean an increased income. While many households take advantage of their toil and labour, the fact that there are so many of them desperate to make a living makes it harder for them to earn a better wage. And to add to it, market forces of supply and demand predetermine the price of their work regardless of its value, leaving very little to be gained from bargaining for more.
Anjali*[1] is one such domestic worker in her mid-thirties. We spoke to her sitting on the doorsteps of her neighbour's house situated in a group of tenements somewhere in Jayanagar, Bangalore. The smile on Anjali's face was betrayed by her invariably soulful eyes the whole time she spoke to us. Anjali went to school only till class 8, so cannot read or write much. She tells us she bought a smartphone recently, just because the private school that her children go to sends parents important updates about school fees and leaves only over WhatsApp or SMS.
The children's school fees increases every year without fail, she says. This year, the top management took a decision to change the board to CBSE without consulting parents like her, who will find it extremely difficult to meet the higher fee amount that comes with such a change. In addition to that, the school authorities suggest to her that she may want to move her children to a government school if she cannot afford the fees. She says she didn't go to school, so "I have had to struggle and work really hard to be able to send my children to a private school so that they one day have a chance at a good job."
Anjali and her husband bring in less than Rs 2 lakh annually between the two of them. Including school fees and expenses for their two children that amount to almost Rs1 lakh, she spends Rs 1000 on each child's tuition fee because school lessons clearly aren't enough. The school charges an annual donation fee every year, which if not paid in time, the children cannot enter school. When we ask how long she's worked as a domestic worker, she goes on to tell us that this is what she has always done for a living. "If I was educated, I would have got a better job. I can't even read my children's school diary, how will I teach them?"
In India, domestic work is the employment of choice for most women like Anjali because it needs no special training or skill or education. Just by virtue of her gender – the expectation of being centred in motherhood and the home and everything to do with it – she is qualified to take up the job. In no pre-employment interview she must have been asked, "are you sure you can do a good job of the dishes and mopping the floor?"
In history, Women's Day has its origins in drawing attention to the difficulties of women workers. In fact, the first ever nationally observed Women's Day in 1909 took place in New York in the United States where garment workers came together to protest their working conditions. Almost a hundred years later, we still have domestic workers in India having to struggle to draw attention to their difficulties.
This International Women's Day on March 8 and every other day, let us be mindful of the fact that household domestic labour is invariably expected to be the duty of women force, including our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, wives. Make an impact in the lives of fellow Indians. Invest through Rang De's newly launched platform rangde.in
It is not enough that we say "we should treat our domestic helps better" and put the onus on the individual. However important that is, we must not fail to consider the larger economic, social and political context in which inequity exists. In our capacity at Rang De, we're currently working on a product that will help extend our dream of financial inclusion for all – including this indispensable labour force – in the work we do. If you're curious or interested to know more about what we've got up our sleeve, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at support@rangde.org
About Lydia: Lydia Thomas is a member of the Impact Team at Rang De. She met and interviewed domestic workers in Bangalore as part of research for Rang De's upcoming P2P platform.
Impact team at Rang De consists of go-getters who take every challenge in their stride and is forever ready to walk that extra mile to make change happen!
Sources: https://www.epw.in/engage/article/domestic-workers-rights
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Q: Fix double componentDidMount in React when add jQuery carousel When I would like to add an old jQuery carousel (jCarousellite) into my React project I have faced with double componentDidMount update in case when I work within React component. Such behaviour of React produces by the dynamical insertion of additional tags (carousel items) into the carousel cause It needs It to some functionality like circular switching. So I have found only one working relatively good solution just to copy the embbed into the main container of the carousel tags to some local variable and use the variable in componentWillUnmount like this
import $ from "jquery"
window.jQuery = $;
require("jcarousellite/jcarousellite");

class Footer extends Component {

main_slider_items; //variable to copy the carousel items into

componentWillUnmount() {
    $('.brand_slider ul').html(this.main_slider_items); //insert into the carousel saved during the first mount items
}

componentDidMount() {
    this.main_slider_items = $('.brand_slider ul li'); //save items of the carousel here

    $('.brand_slider').jCarouselLite({ //assign jQuery plugin to the element
        btnNext: '.brand_slider_wrap .next',
        btnPrev: '.brand_slider_wrap .prev',
        mouseWheel: true,
        visible: 4,
        scroll: 1,
        speed: 150,
        circular: true
    });
}

render() {
(
{/* some render code here */}
)
}
...

Either If I would like to use indicators functionality of my carousel for instance then I have to do the same trick with them otherwise they also would have been mounted twice and the second time It would be the wrong value. Unfortunalety that solution has at least one disadvantage - items switching within unpredictable movement sometimes but the order of the switching is right. I tried to suppress It somehow by decreasing the speed of the switching but nevertheless I just wonder If there another efficient solution cause sometimes I need to work with very legacy projects and plenty of old code such as various jQuery plugins those wouldn't be rewritten to React style immediately. Thank you.

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November 12 - January 14, 2023
COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada
COOPER COLE is pleased to present Plant Dreaming Deep, a solo exhibition of the work of Brie Ruais. This is the artist's third exhibition at the gallery.
Plant Dreaming Deep features a series of new sculptural and video works that meditate on the transformational effect of "putting down roots." In this context, we cast the 130lbs of clay that Ruais uses for each sculpture as a plot of land mapped by her own body, and the encircled locations, torn holes, and peeled back surfaces as metaphorical openings for seeds/growth.
Employing gestures like spreading, pushing, scraping and peeling back clay, Ruais' large-scale circular wall works address dualisms between absence and presence, internal and external, trauma and healing. Reflecting this, the exterior of Scraping the Surface, 130lbs is heavily glazed, marked, and tread upon, while the peeled back swathes are nude, or unglazed, pink and terracotta clay, recalling a raw bodily interior.
The land is imbedded in Ruais' work both conceptually and materially. In addition to the foundational role of clay in her practice, pieces from the land—such as dirt or sand—are often visible on the surfaces of the sculptures. Many of the circular works contain holes, or imprints of the artist's hands pulling clay out from the centre, referencing the act of digging and planting seeds in the earth for restoration and healing.
The monumental work Intertwining Bodies, Roots, Hair (three times 130lbs) inquires into the interdependency between bodies like water, plants, and animals, as something that is ongoing and reciprocal. Ruais' practice has a history of negotiating the relationship between bodies and land, this is reflected in her use of her own body weight as the measurement for the amount of clay that constitutes each piece.
The title of the exhibition Plant Dreaming Deep is borrowed from a novel of the same name by May Sarton, published in 1968. In it, Sarton speaks about how creating a home can nurture growth in art, community, and the natural world. This text is pertinent to Ruais, who recently settled in Santa Fe on a piece of unceded, overgrazed land, with plans to build, plant, and nurture in the ways she explores in her works. The video piece in the exhibition, Plant Dreaming Deep depicts the artist on her land making an earthwork out of clay embedded with native seeds. Sarton describes that her "…house [felt] like a ship. I did not know where the house would take me, but I knew it was snug and beautiful, and I knew that its passenger was both inward and outward bound." Ruais' work is not only about contact, but also the relationship between our emotional interiority, and our corporeal exteriority.
Brie Ruais (b. 1982, Southern California, California, USA) is an artist working in ceramic sculpture, installation, and performance video. Ruais received her MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2011 and her BFA from New York University in 2004. She has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries including Museum of New Art, Portsmouth (2022); Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston (2021); Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam (2021); Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2020); Albertz Benda Gallery, New York (2021); The Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2020); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (2019); Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2019); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2019); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC (2017); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015); Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (2013); among others. Ruais' work is currently featured in the exhibition "Strange Clay" at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK. Ruais lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Speaking by video during the general debate of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused the Armenian leadership of thwarting negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and of 'preparing for a new war.'
Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan responded to Aliyev's accusations. His main message was that "Armenia and Karabakh both have very constructive positions," and the Karabakh issue does not require a forceful, military solution. The Armenian prime minister advised the Azerbaijani president to "return to a constructive place" himself, noting that the conflict can truly be resolved.
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Aliyev's statement
The President of Azerbaijan said that for over 30 years, about 20 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan has been under the occupation of Armenia.
"Armenia is trying to disrupt the peace process carried out with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs. Armenia's goal is to maintain the current status quo associated with the occupation and achieve the annexation of the occupied territories. In contrast to the constructive position of Azerbaijan, the Armenian PM deliberately undermines the format and essence of the negotiation process", said Aliyev, claiming Pashinyan's statement from several months back that 'Karabakh is Armenia' deals a serious blow to the negotiation process:
"His unacceptable 'seven conditions' were rejected by us. We have the only condition for achieving peace: the armed forces of Armenia must be withdrawn from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. The whole world recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as an integral part of Azerbaijan".
The president also said that Armenia threatens to strike at large cities and important civilian infrastructure in Azerbaijan: the Mingachevir reservoir and the Sangachal oil and gas terminal, which is one of the largest in the world.
"Armenia is bringing in mercenaries and terrorists from different countries and uses them against Azerbaijan. The hostile Azeri-phobic statements of the Armenian leadership and the provocations carried out demonstrate that Armenia is preparing for a new war against Azerbaijan. We call on the UN and the international community to restrain Armenia from another military aggression", said Aliyev.
Pashinyan's response
Nikol Pashinyan once again noted that after taking up the premiership, he "made an unprecedented statement" that the solution to the problem should be acceptable to "the peoples of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh". The prime minister says that he expected this statement would find a proper response in Baku, as it "would create great opportunities for a breakthrough in the negotiations".
"However, the answer was that the issue can be resolved exclusively within the framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. In essence, this statement means that Baku is putting forward a formula for the settlement of the conflict as a precondition, the essence of which is a return to the status quo of 1988", said Pashinyan.
The prime minister said that all statements "against the leadership of Azerbaijan are a commensurate response to their destructive statements".
Baku is trying to achieve unilateral concessions, threatening to resolve the issue by force, said the prime minister.
"We have stated from the very beginning that one should not speak with Armenia in the language of force and threats. It is pointless. I have publicly stated our position: the Karabakh issue has no military solution. If the Karabakh issue had a military solution, then the people of Artsakh would say that they had already solved it long ago".
Disclosure of confidential information
Pashinyan also emphasized that Baku has recently decided to introduce a new component in the propaganda campaign – "the so-called disclosure of confidential information":
"I advise my Azerbaijani colleagues not to follow this path, because if we start distributing confidential information, it will destabilize the internal political situation in Azerbaijan."
Speaking about the disclosure of confidential information, Nikol Pashinyan may have been referring to the recent scandal involving Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The press service of the Azerbaijani parliament published a press release, which presented Lavrov's opinion on the Karabakh settlement and the role of the Armenian prime minister in it, allegedly expressed by him during a meeting with the speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament. The press release was edited and the statements were removed, but only after they were refuted by the Russian side.
In addition, hacker attacks have recently intensified from the Azerbaijani side. In particular, a fake message appeared several days ago within Armenian social media communities – a photo of an allegedly official document from the National Security Service and the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, in which they urge the population to be ready for an emergency evacuation.
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package ghidra.program.database.properties;

import java.io.IOException;

import db.*;
import db.util.ErrorHandler;
import ghidra.program.database.map.AddressMap;
import ghidra.program.model.address.Address;
import ghidra.program.model.util.StringPropertyMap;
import ghidra.program.util.ChangeManager;
import ghidra.util.exception.CancelledException;
import ghidra.util.exception.VersionException;
import ghidra.util.task.TaskMonitor;

/**
 * Property manager that deals with properties that are of
 * String type and stored with a database table.
 */
public class StringPropertyMapDB extends PropertyMapDB<String> implements StringPropertyMap {

	/**
	 * Construct an String property map.
	 * @param dbHandle database handle.
	 * @param openMode the mode that the program was openned in.
	 * @param errHandler database error handler.
	 * @param changeMgr change manager for event notification
	 * @param addrMap address map.
	 * @param name property name.
	 * @param monitor progress monitor that is only used when upgrading
	 * @throws VersionException if the database version is not the expected version.
	 * @throws CancelledException if the user cancels the upgrade operation.
	 * @throws IOException if a database io error occurs.
	 */
	public StringPropertyMapDB(DBHandle dbHandle, int openMode, ErrorHandler errHandler,
			ChangeManager changeMgr, AddressMap addrMap, String name, TaskMonitor monitor)
			throws VersionException, CancelledException, IOException {
		super(dbHandle, errHandler, changeMgr, addrMap, name);
		checkMapVersion(openMode, monitor);
	}

	@Override
	public void add(Address addr, String value) {
		lock.acquire();
		try {
			long key = addrMap.getKey(addr, true);

			String oldValue = null;
			if (propertyTable == null) {
				createTable(StringField.INSTANCE);
			}
			else {
				oldValue = (String) cache.get(key);
				if (oldValue == null) {
					DBRecord rec = propertyTable.getRecord(key);
					if (rec != null) {
						oldValue = rec.getString(PROPERTY_VALUE_COL);
					}
				}
			}
			DBRecord rec = schema.createRecord(key);
			rec.setString(PROPERTY_VALUE_COL, value);
			propertyTable.putRecord(rec);
			cache.put(key, value);
			changeMgr.setPropertyChanged(name, addr, oldValue, value);
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			errHandler.dbError(e);

		}
		finally {
			lock.release();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public String getString(Address addr) {
		if (propertyTable == null) {
			return null;
		}

		String str = null;

		lock.acquire();
		try {
			long key = addrMap.getKey(addr, false);
			if (key == AddressMap.INVALID_ADDRESS_KEY) {
				return null;
			}
			str = (String) cache.get(key);
			if (str != null) {
				return str;
			}

			DBRecord rec = propertyTable.getRecord(key);
			if (rec == null) {
				return null;
			}
			str = rec.getString(PROPERTY_VALUE_COL);
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			errHandler.dbError(e);

		}
		finally {
			lock.release();
		}

		return str;
	}

	@Override
	public String get(Address addr) {
		return getString(addr);
	}

}

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On the middle thirds of ΔABC construct (similarly oriented) equilateral triangle, KLF, MND, and PQG. Then ΔGDF is equilateral.
The proof is said to be computational but not tedious.
ΔAKF is isosceles, with ∠AKF = 120°. So its base angles (KAF and AFK) are both 30°. It follows that ∠AFL = 90° which makes ΔAFL right. If, as usual, AB = c, then in ΔAFL, AL = 2c/3 and LF = c/3. By the Pythagorean theorem, (AF)² = c²/3.
Similarly, ΔAMD is right and (AD)² = b²/3.
We are now in a position to apply the Law of Cosines in ΔADF to determine the length of DF. Note that ∠DAF = ∠A + 60°.
where S is the area of ΔABC. (We again used Law of Cosines and also a formula for the area of a triangle.) The expression is symmetric in a, b, c so that (GD)² and (GF)² are bound to be equal to the same quantity, proving that indeed ΔGDF is equilateral.
with the same conclusion. Thus we are led to two equilateral triangles related to a base ΔABC. From the above relations it follows that the difference in areas of the two triangles is exactly that of ΔABC.
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By 2016, it is expected that LTE femtocells will represent as many as 10 % of all unit shipments. Overall the industry is expected to be worth 3 Billion USD by then, growing at a CAGR of nearly 100 % over the next five years. Spanning over six detailed datasheets, the "Femtocells: Shipments, Revenue, Market Share and Growth by Vendor, Region, Technology Database: 2011 – 2015" tracks historical shipments, revenues, market share, growth and yearly forecasts for the femtocells industry by vendor, industry segment and region.
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The Pavamana Mantra (pavamāna meaning "being purified, strained", historically a name of Soma), also known as pavamāna abhyāroha (abhyāroha, lit. "ascending", being an Upanishadic technical term for "prayer"[1]) is an ancient Indian mantra introduced in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (1.3.28.)[2][3][4] The mantra was originally meant to be recited during the introductory praise of the Soma sacrifice by the patron sponsoring the sacrifice.[5]
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The text of the mantra reads:[2]
असतो मा सद्गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ॥
asato mā sadgamaya,
tamaso mā jyotirgamaya,
{{IAST|mṛtyormā'mṛtaṃ gamaya
From the unreal lead me to the real!
From the darkness lead me to the light!
From death lead me to immortality!
The more common modern translation differs slightly in the translation of the first line[citation needed]:
From falsehood lead me to truth,
From darkness lead me to light,
From death lead me to immortality.
These three statements are referred to as the three Pavamana Mantras. Some renderings — generally modern[6][7][8] — add ॐ (oṃ) at the beginning and/or ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ (oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ, 'om peace peace peace') as a fourth line. This is a stylistic addition that concludes a recitation; as such it is often included with the verse. The Upanishad itself does not end the line that way.[2][4]
Sanskrit word meaningEdit
asataḥ — "from falsehood"; ablative case of asat "falsehood", from a (negation) + sat "truth"; becomes asato due to sandhi; can be a synonym for "evil"[9]
mā — "me"; first person pronoun, singular number, accusative case
sat — "to truth"; accusative case of sat "truth"; here accusative case shows the destination; see also Sat (Sanskrit); becomes sad due to sandhi; can be a synonym for "good" [10]
gamaya — "lead"; causative, imperative mood, active voice, singular number, second person of root gam "to go".
tamasaḥ — "from darkness"; ablative case of tamas "darkness"; becomes tamaso due to sandhi
jyotiḥ — "to light"; accusative case of jyotis "light"; becomes jyotir due to sandhi
mṛtyoḥ — "from death"; ablative case of mṛtyu "death"; see also Mrtyu; becomes mṛtyor due to sandhi
amṛtaṃ — "to immortality"; accusative case of amṛta "immortal", literally "not dead", from a (negation) + mṛta "dead"; becomes 'mṛtaṃ due to vowel elision.
The Sanskrit term sat, which means "truth" or "what is existing, real", has a range of important religious meanings including "truth" or "the Absolute, Brahman". The passage immediately following the mantra explicitly identifies the unreal and darkness with death and the real and light with immortality, saying that all three portions of the mantra have the same meaning of "Make me immortal."[4][5] In the interpretation of Swami Krishnananda (1977), "From the nonexistent, from the unreal, from the apparent, lead me to the other side of it, the Existent, the Real, the Noumenon." According to this interpretation and in keeping with the philosophy of Vedanta, the text rejects the material world as "unreal", "dark" and "dead" and invokes a concept of the transcendental reality.[11]
^ Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit Dictionary (1899) page 77
^ a b c Eighteen Principal Upanisads, vol. 1, ed. by V.P. Limaye and R.D. Vadekar, Poona 1958, page 183
^ Brhadaranyaka-Upanisad (Brhadaranyakopanisad), Kanva recension; GRETIL version, input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b c Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter 1, Translator: S Madhavananda, page 86
^ a b Patrick Olivelle (1998). Upaniṣads. Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-19-283576-5.
^ "Om Asato Ma Sadgamaya - In sanskrit with meaning". Green Message: The Evergreen Messages of Spirituality, Sanskrit and Nature. greenmesg.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
^ "ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय । मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ - BrahmaShlok". Brah.Ma. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
^ "Meaning of the mantra Asatoma Ma Sadgamaya". amritapuri.org. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
^ Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit Dictionary (1899) page 118
^ Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit Dictionary (1899) page 1134
^ Swami Krishnananda, The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1977) (swami-krishnananda.org) "The light that we see in this world is really a form of darkness, [...] all forms of life are forms of death only. They are not realities. The sunlight is not real light, because it is not intelligent. [...] So, the prayer is for a total rise from this involved, insufficient, conditioned 'being' to the absolutely independent, unconditioned 'Being' which is simultaneously Sat, Jyotir and Amrtam – Existence, Light, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Omniscience and Immortality. No rebirth is possible there. "
Ram K. Piparaiya, Ten Upanishads of Four Vedas, New Age Books (2003), p. 101.
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Q: plotting in matlab, increase number of divisions on Xaxis I want to increase number of tickmarks on the X-axis in a Matlab Dft graph (magnitude vs. frequency). The precision is OK, but I'd like to increase the number of values displayed on the X-axis.

A: To set the XTick property of the current axis (gca, get current axis), use:
set(gca,'XTick',tickVector);

with tickVector being a vector containing the desired tick positions.

A: You can achieve this by turning on minor tickmarks.
set(gca,'XMinorTick','on');

This saves you from determining explicit tick mark positions when you just want more.


U.S. officials have laid out a wealth of details about how they believe Moscow executed its plot.
The White House's verbal gymnastics over Russia's alleged campaign to hack American democracy threaten to obscure a basic fact: U.S. authorities have laid out a wealth of details about how they believe Moscow carried out its plot in 2016.
And, they say, Moscow is continuing to meddle in this year's elections.
The U.S. intelligence community has offered specifics about the 2016 plot, which are also outlined in special prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictments against Russian spies and internet saboteurs — conclusions that congressional leaders of both parties have endorsed.
That leaves one prominent waffler: President Donald Trump, who has said both that Russia "would" or "wouldn't" have tried to tamper in the 2016 election, and whose staff was scrambling Wednesday to explain whether he thinks Russia continues to target the U.S.
An indictment that Mueller secured in February charged 13 Russian nationals and three entities with conducting an illegal "information warfare" effort to disrupt the 2016 presidential election and assist Trump's candidacy. And it offered a detailed timeline of how the plot occurred — saying the scheme took years to carry out, cost millions of dollars and involved dozens of people, some of whom journeyed to the United States or organized political rallies on American soil.
The IRA also started an operation that used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to influence the U.S. voting public, mostly through thousands of fake "bot" accounts and misleading advertising, according to the Mueller indictment. For example, IRA trolls produced materials intended to promote pro-Trump and anti-Clinton hashtags on Twitter, including #TrumpTrain, #MAGA and #Hillary4Prison. The alleged trolls also encouraged minority groups either to not vote or to vote for a third-party candidate starting in the latter half of 2016.
More than 80 individuals were allegedly assigned to the team, which "procured and used computer infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement," the indictment said.
The firm has denied the charges and is challenging the legal basis for the federal indictment.
The plot included an operation in mid-2016 that injected malware on "at least ten DCCC computers," which then lurked on the DCCC network, stealing employees' passwords, the indictment leaks. That allowed the hackers to watch Democratic staffers' keystrokes and spirit away DCCC files to a server the Russians leased in Arizona.
The hackers then got into the DNC's computers and transferred several gigabytes of data to a server they leased in Illinois. The hackers also breached the DNC's Microsoft-hosted email service and stole "thousands of emails" from committee workers, according to the indictment.
The Russians then published their stolen files, using both outlets they created — a website called DC Leaks and a lone-hacker persona called Guccifer 2.0 — as well as an unidentified organization that's believed to be WikiLeaks. The timing of the releases was no accident, said the indictments, which described private online conversations involving efforts to seize on the "conflict between bernie and hillary" before the Democratic National Convention.
The indictment names specific Russian intelligence officers as among the perpetrators, even describing particulars about the hackers' search histories and Bitcoin transactions.
"Since early 2014, Russian intelligence has researched US electoral processes and related technology and equipment," the U.S. intelligence community said in its initial assessment of Russian activities before the elections. Then, according to multiple accounts of Russian activity to interfere with the 2016 vote, they put that knowledge to use.
"The Kremlin's campaign aimed at the US election featured disclosures of data obtained through Russian cyber operations; intrusions into US state and local electoral boards; and overt propaganda," according to the intelligence agencies' assessment, which Trump himself has said he backs.
The FBI went public about the threat roughly two months before the 2016 election, issuing a nationwide warning about possible attempts to hack state election offices after intruders hacked voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona. But it wasn't until January 2017 that the government blamed Russian operatives for those attacks and accused the Kremlin of targeting 21 states' election systems.
The latest Mueller indictment added more details, such as a July 2016 breach in which hackers stole information on 500,000 voters from an unnamed state election office's website, including their names, addresses, partial Social Security numbers, birthdays and driver's license numbers. That state is probably Illinois, which has acknowledged such a compromise.
Furthermore, the indictment says, Russians breached an unidentified company that sells voter registration software and then posed as an employee of that company in "over 100" fake messages to election administrators in several Florida counties. Those emails contained malicious software embedded in Word documents.
Both Mueller and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats have said the Russian efforts are continuing.
"It is 2018, and we continue to see Russian targeting of American society in ways that could affect our midterm elections," Coats said during an early June appearance in France. He offered a less-specific warning last week, saying that "today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack" — comparing the threat of cyberattacks to what America faced before 9/11.
Mueller's office offered a similar caution in a court filing in June, writing that "uncharged individuals and entities … are continuing to engage in interference operations like those" outlined in February's indictment on social media trolling and fake news.
Neither Coats nor Mueller has offered a public explanation of what kind of threat they're talking about, and lawmakers have complained that the Trump administration is keeping them in the dark. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security say they haven't seen any evidence of digital tampering with election organizations, individuals or systems — though that doesn't rule out some broader effort to undermine public faith in the U.S. political system or sow unrest.
According to a POLITICO survey of election upgrades in all 50 states, most states' election offices have failed to fix their most glaring security weaknesses and few states are planning steps that would improve their safeguards before November. That's even after they receive their shares of the $ 380 million in election security funding that Congress approved in March.
Only 13 states said they intend to use the federal dollars to buy new voting machines. At least 22 said they have no plans to replace their machines before the election — including all five states that rely solely on paperless electronic voting devices, which cybersecurity experts consider a top vulnerability.
In addition, almost no states conduct robust, statistics-based post-election audits to look for evidence of tampering after the fact. And fewer than one-third of states and territories have requested a key type of security review from DHS.
Eric Geller, Michael Crowley, Louis Nelson, Brianna Milord and Maria Curi contributed to this report.


The horses, camels and cattle you will see around Silverton are all owned by people living in Silverton. They live on the Common which is managed by the Silverton Temporary Common Trust. The Trust keeps an eye on all the livestock and if feed or water is becoming scarce, the number of animals on the Common is reduced. All the livestock roam freely, so please drive carefully, especially at night.
The horses are quite friendly and are usually happy to pose for photos. As with the donkeys, if you stop your car, you will soon be surrounded and if you wind down the window, you will have a furry head in there!! The camels are quite photogenic too.
You can sometimes get a good shot of our stock creating a "Silverton traffic jam"…..that's any or all of the horses, cattle or camels standing in the middle of the road holding up traffic. Not quite up to city traffic standards, but so much more fun!
The cattle are all well-handled and shouldn't pose a problem to anyone if left alone. They are mustered regularly and managed the same way as they would be on a cattle station. They frequently walk through the town on their way to water or a new feeding area, so drive carefully and give them a little space. And don't worry if you are walking, they will just wander past you.
Please do not feed bread, cakes or any other processed food to the horses or livestock. Carrots and apples are okay, but other "human" foods can cause serious illness and possibly death, so please, if you don't have carrots or apples, DON'T FEED THEM!!!


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Q: How to display what I drew on a custom View's canvas only at certain times? So I have a custom View which has a BitmapDrawable as its background which I draw to:
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
    super.onDraw(canvas);
    draw_game_map();
    draw_player();
    draw_overlay_with_circle();
}

(each of these methods just draws bitmap(s))
Now I'm calling View.draw(Canvas) 60 times per second and it works fine, except I want to have something like this:
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
    super.onDraw(canvas);
    //From this point, don't show what I'm about to draw
    draw_game_map();
    draw_player();
    draw_overlay_with_circle();
    //Show what I just drew
}

Any code I can add to only display the changes made only after I'm done drawing, rather than during?


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Q: A question about connected sets
Consider the normed space $C([0, 1])=\{f:[0, 1]\to\mathbb{R}\mid f\text{ is continuous}\}$ with the sup norm
  $$\|f\|_{\infty}=\max_{x\in [0,1]}|f(x)|.$$
  Let
  $$B=\left\{f\in C([0, 1])\;\middle|\; \int_{0}^{1}f(x)^2\,dx<1\right\}.$$
  Is $B$ connected?

I only proved that $B$ is an open subset of $C([0, 1])$.

A: It is sufficient to prove that $B$ is path-connected, because path-connectedness implies connectedness.
Suppose that $f,g$ are two elements of $B$, and define the function $p$ from $[0,1]$ to $B$ by:
$$p(s) := (1-s)f + sg.$$
Clearly, $p(0) = f$ and $p(1) = g$. In addition $p(s) \in B$, because a linear combination of continuous functions is continuous and
$$ \int_{0}^{1} p(s)(x)^2 \, dx \leq \int_0^1 (1-s)f(x)^2 + sg(x)^2 \leq 1 \, dx.$$
Here we used the convexity of the square function.
It remains to prove that $p(\cdot)$ is continuous. Let us assmue that $s_n \to s$ in $[0,1]$. Because  $p(s) - p(s_n) = (s-s_n)(g-f),$
we see that
$$\|p(s) - p(s_n)\|_{\infty} = (s-s_n) \|g -f \|_{\infty} \to 0,$$ which concludes the argument.


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Writer: Bryan Hill	Artist: Dexter Soy Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: July 8, 2020 Cover Price: $3.99 Critic Reviews: 11 User Reviews: 8
Batman is going to push the Outsiders to their absolute limits in order for them to stop Ra's al Ghul once and for all. He'll force them all to use their powers in ways they never imagined and possibly push them over the edge in the process! Batman and Black Lightning will need to decide who the true leader of the team is, or Ra's's victory will be assured!
DC Comics News - Derek McNeil Jul 11, 2020
Batman and the Outsiders #14 is another fine issue from Bryan Hill and Dexter Soy. Each month they maintain a consistent level of excellence. I look forward to seeing how the story progresses as the Outsiders' war against Ra's Al Ghul plays out. Read Full Review
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Batman and the Outsiders #14 presses the pedal to the gas, darting back and forth between two different storylines with ease. Now that the story is starting to pick up speed, I'm eager to see how the Outsiders deal with Ra's doomsday weapon and what Lady Shiva's ultimate endgame is. Hopefully, Soy and Gandini continue to stick around for the rest of the arc. Read Full Review
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally Jul 8, 2020
Dexter Soy delivers some beautiful visuals throughout this issue. Not only does his style perfectly match the tone and themes of Hill's story, but it also visually stunning in various moments including Jefferson using his powers as well as a subtle conversation between Shiva and Katana. Read Full Review
Black Nerd Problems - Morgan Hampton Jul 8, 2020
The Outsiders continue to inch ever so slowly toward their retaliation against Ra's Al Ghul. If you wanna see Black Lightning levitate or Duke teeter over to the dark side, you're gonna want to pick up this issue. Read Full Review
Razorfine - Alan Rapp Jul 15, 2020
Batman & the Outsiders #14 (thankfully) marks a more proactive turn for the heroes who up until this point have been reacting to Ra's plans. It also reveals to the Outsiders that Shiva is in communication with Batman and has been working, at least in part, with him for the last few issues. Read Full Review
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Batman and his team have literally made the walls come tumbling down this month, so the Demon's wrath will be terrible indeed. I can't wait to see his response! Read Full Review
Comic Watch - Kevin Rossi Jul 30, 2020
Batman and the Outsiders #14 (Hill, Soy, Gandini) is a pleasant surprise in a series that seems to have had a slow start. Hill has several power dynamics going with Batman, Lady Shiva, and Black Lighting that could be extremely interesting, which just might be the spark the series needs. Read Full Review
Batman-News - Joshua McDonald Jul 8, 2020
This is far from a perfect issue and overall falls short as far as plot progression is concerned. There are some strong moments though " even if they are low-key. If there's one thing I've learned though, it's to trust Bryan Hill and Dexter Soy. They clearly have a vision, and I haven't been disappointed yet. So, while I do wish for the pace to pick up a little, I know there's a purpose to everything we're getting now. Read Full Review
ComicBook.com - Nicole Drum Jul 8, 2020
Batman and the Outsiders had definitely hit its stride in terms of story and while things do drag a little in terms of pacing in Batman and the Outsiders #14, the issue rightly focuses on a bit of character development"Black Lightning getting his upgraded powers in particular"in a way that starts to truly set things up for a coming battle with Ra's al Ghul. Read Full Review
Weird Science - Jim Werner Jul 6, 2020
This issue takes a huge step backward with scenes that make no sense based on previous issues, and little to no plot progression by the end. Dexter Soy's art is good, but that's it. I hope the next issue rebounds because this one was plain bad. Read Full Review
Spacey Medicine Jul 12, 2020
This was an okay issue but I just really have a hard time connecting with the characters or their dialogue. I didn't love the pace.
EDiakota Jul 14, 2020
" Be adults. Talk. Not fight."
- CASSANDRA CAIN
Psycamorean Jul 9, 2020
This is another so-so issue of a so-so series. Bryan Hill can, on occasion, write some fantastic comics. I'm 100% genuine when I say that. Although, a big problem with his writing is his dialogue. It can be overwrought and clinical, especially when he's writing characters with a mystic sort of side to them. It really hurts this book. I mean, it's not Fallen Angels, but it's also not Angel. It's in the middle between a garbage fire and a decent time. It is, perhaps worst of all, mediocre. On top of that, some of the story decisions only make sense in the context that this guy writes for DC Universe's Titans. Some scenes here genuinely do not work and makes previous issues pointless. I don't understand what that's about. And all this is a shame because the art is honestly good. more
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Results of revival
Walking With Giants Posted on March 23, 2008 by admin December 11, 2019
This entry is part 10 of 21 in the series: Revival
The Biblical idea of revival
Divine and human agency in revival
Examples of revival
Conditions prior to revival
Experience of God in revival
Repentance and revival
Prayer and Revival
The Word of God and revival
Preaching and revival
Physical and emotional phenomena of revival
The miraculous element in revival (I)
The miraculous element in revival (II)
Demonic activity in revival
Problems associated with revival
Evaluating Revivals
Pentecostalism, baptism in the Spirit and revival
Prospects for Revival
'Lord, I have heard of your fame' – stories of revival
'Renew them in our day' – prospects for revival
It is time to consider some of the effects of revival upon the individual, the church, and society. We take as our starting-point the great results of the Pentecostal outpouring:-
Acts 2:43ff Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Acts 4:32ff All the believers were one in heart and mind. No-one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was with them all. There were no needy persons among them.
Referring to passages such as these, J.S. Stewart remarks:-
Here is a thumb-nail sketch of the type of local church that revival produces.
Opened windows, 78.
Stewart goes on to analyse the features of the Christian church in that dramatic period following Pentecost. First, he says, 'It was a steadfast church'. Second, 'They continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and the apostles' fellowship'. Third, 'It was a prayerful church'. Fourth, 'It was an overflowing church'; they overflowed in liberality and also in praise. Fifth, 'It was a powerful church' – powerful in its Gospel presentation, and powerful in holiness.
It is clear, then, that the Pentecostal outpouring had immense effects both on the church and on the wider community. In the remainder of this chapter, two great results of revival will be singled out for special consideration: first, the unusual success of the gospel, resulting in large numbers of people being converted to Christ; and second, the moral and social changes resulting from outpourings of the Holy Spirit.
1. The success of the gospel
One of the great effects of revival is that large numbers of people embrace the gospel of salvation. The Scriptures contain many passages which predict and describe such seasons of harvesting of souls:-
Isa 2:2f In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it…
Summarising the teaching of the Old Testament concerning God's attitude towards 'the nations', G.A.F. Knight remarks:-
Amos can stand upon his mountain-top at Tekoa, and see in imagination the nations all around him being moved about the earth as a player would move his pawns upon a chessboard (Amos 9:7; cf Isa 37:29). But God, who is the God of purpose, would not move them thus in vain. Even the pagan nations of the earth are to be understood as living within God's plan, and in the end his redemptive purpose will be known to all the earth (cf Isa 2:1-4; 19:18-25, etc.)
Knight, A Christian Theology of the Old Testament, 120.
The phrase 'the last days' in Isa 2:2 has already pointed us towards the future; later in Isaiah comes another prediction of the glorious success of the gospel which seems to suggest the Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit:-
Isa 44:3ff For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing upon your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. One will say, 'I belong to the Lord'; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The Lord's,' and will take the name Israel.
Christ himself established the connection between the outpouring of the Spirit in evangelistic success:-
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
And subsequently, we learn of the mighty fulfilment of our Lord's promise:-
Acts 2:41 Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Acts 2:47 And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 4:4 But many of those who heard the message believed; and the number of the men grew to about five thousand.
Acts 5:14 More and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.
Acts 11:21 The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 11:24 And a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
Iain Murray gives the following survey of evangelistic success in revivals:-
In a single day, at Pentecost, the number of Christ's disciples was increased an hundredfold and similar, sudden growth has been characteristic of all revivals. It was not only in Jerusalem that the church has grown by thousands. It is computed that 'the Great Awakening' of 1740-1742 added some 50,000 to the churches of New England and perhaps 300,000 in all the thirteen colonies. Revival at Yale in 1802 brought 70 students to Christian commitment and similar events were seen at other colleges in the same period. Half a million were estimated to have joined the Protestant churches of North America in the remarkable years 1857-59. Northern Ireland in 1859 had in increase of around 100,000 in the number of Christians. Wales in the same years saw some 50,000 added to the churches.
Murray, Necessary Ingredients of a Biblical Revival, 5.
The ministry of the Puritan Richard Baxter has already been mentioned as being marked by many conversions:-
He ministered in Kidderminster for two periods between 1640 and 1660. He reported, 'When I came thither first, there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on his name; and when I came away, there were some streets where there was not past one family in the side of the street that did not so; and that did not, by professing serious godliness, give us hopes of their sincerity.
in Gillies, Historical collections, 148f.
The power of the gospel in times of revival is such that many true believers experience it afresh, almost as though they had been 'reconverted':-
Many that had been formerly wrought upon, that in the times of our declension had fallen into deep decays, and had in a great measure left God, and gone after the world, now passed under a very remarkable new work of the Spirit of God, as if they had been the subjects of a second conversion.
Edwards, in Gillies, Historical collections, 360.
David Brainerd, missionary to the North American Indians, witnessed the fruit of his evangelistic labours:-
It was an amazing season of power, as if God had bowed the heavens and come down. So astonishing was the operation upon old as well as young, that it seemed as if none would be left in a secure and natural state, but that God was now about to convert all the world. It is impossible to give a just description of the appearance of this influence. Some were rejoicing to see so many striving to enter in at the strait gate, and wanted to push them forward as some expressed it. Others, both old and young, of both sexes, were in tears, and in anguish of spirit, with downcast looks like condemned malefactors. So that there seemed to be a lively mixture of heaven and hell. Their concern and religious affection was such, that I could only discourse to one and another, and sometimes address them all together, and at last concluded with prayer.
Brainerd, in Gillies, Historical collections, 479.
Many who had laboured for a lifetime without apparently little success now found their ministry attended with extraordinary power and effectiveness:-
In those days, more success sometimes attended one sermon than had been accomplished in a lifetime's ministry before.
Evans, Daniel Rowland, 367.
Thomas Charles, of Bala, commented as follows on the success of the gospel in Wales in 1791:-
It is an easy and delightful work to preach the glorious gospel here, in these days. Divine truths have their own infinite weight and importance in the minds of the people. Beams of divine light, together with irresistible energy, accompany every truth delivered…I bless God for these days, and would not have been without seeing what I now see in the land. – No, not for the world.
Thomas Charles, in Murray, The Puritan hope, 122.
There have been times when it has seemed that the majority of conversions taking place have been under revival conditions, as during the 2nd Great Awakening in America:-
It has come to pass in these days in which we live, that far the greater number of those who are turned from darkness to light, so far as we can judge, experience this change, during revivals of religion.
Sprague, Lectures on revivals, 3.
It is noteworthy that the gospel in such times often has a wonderful effect on children. For example, in a parish in Scotland during the 1740s:-
Some children, boys and girls, in the easter end of the parish, about twelve in number, betwixt nine and fifteen years of age, began last winter to meet in a private house, (the landlady being a godly poor widow,) every Lord's-day evening, and Monday's night, where they exercise themselves in prayer by turns, singing and conferring about what they hear in public. They keep strict discipline among themselves, and admit none to their society, but such as undertake to pray with them…they watch close over the behaviour of each other. They are constant hearers of the word, and examine one another about it. Their outward deportment is grave and quiet, without any childish levity yet discovered about them. They are illiterate, but fond of learning.
in Gillies, Historical collections, 455.
Buildings sprang up which remained as silent witnesses to the harvest of souls during the revivals:-
Travellers in Wales could notice testimonies in brick and stone across the country – churches and chapels with foundation-stones marked 'Built 1860, enlarged 1905,' citing the dates of the years following the revivals.
Orr, The Light of the Nations, 234f.
Of course, when Christians have seen and experienced afresh the power of the gospel in revival, they are very likely to renew their efforts to propagate the Christian message:-
It is significant that Taikyo Dendo anticipated a Latin American movement of fifty years later, Evangelism-in-Depth, in emphasising the role of every Christian witness rather than that of an evangelist and his team; in preparing all believers as soul-winners instead of training an elite group to counsel inquirers; in multiplying the number of active evangelists rather than multiplying the number of hearers for the evangelist; in urging 'go and preach' instead of 'come and hear'; and in mobilizing the church instead of doing the work for its members.
Orr, Evangelical awakenings in Eastern Asia, 25.
2. Effects on the wider community
When a pebble is thrown into a pond, the ripple-effects may extend a considerable distance and may be long-lasting. So it is with revival: the beneficial effects may be seen in individuals, churches, and even whole communities for many years afterwards. Indeed, it is one of the acid-tests of revival, that it does in fact produce such beneficial and lasting effects. Wise revival leaders knew that they must look, not to the excitement of the moment, but to the longer-term effects on those who had apparently been 'wrought upon'
Earnest Baker remarks that:-
A revival of spiritual life is the quickest way to improve social conditions. A revived spiritual life means a quickened conscience all round. A new man means a new home, new homes mean new streets, new streets mean a new city. And an interest in the public welfare comes to the new man. A quickened conscience will put into operation good laws which are now practically a dead letter because of the lack of a healthy public opinion to make them effective; and it will also be productive of better legislation to remedy other evils still awaiting improved laws.
Baker, The Revivals of the Bible, 15.
In the accounts of revival in the Bible, we find hints that a spiritual awakening can have deep and lasting effects on the wider life of church and society. This is apparent in the best-known passage about revival:-
2 Chron 7:14 '…then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.'
One great result of revival, then, is that it will lead to a greater measure of social health ('I will…heal their land'). And this indeed was one result of the revival under Jehoshaphat:-
2 Chron 29:f And the fear of the Lord came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel. So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest round about.
And the early chapters of the Acts indicate the moral and social effects of the Pentecostal outpouring (see Acts 2:44ff; 4:32ff).
A number of wider and longer-term effects of revivals may be noted, which are such that the ripples caused by a revival can continue to influence church and society for good many years afterwards. August Francke, for example, was a German Lutheran minister and early advocate of Pietism. He was converted in 1687, and his Bible classes in Leipzig led to revival amongst both students and townspeople. Apart from his many intellectual endeavours (he was a professor of theology) he expressed his concern for poor children in many practical ways. He founded an orphanage, schools, a teacher training school, and various industrial enterprises designed to train his children and help finance the work. In a sermon, he said:-
If I find my mind never so well disposed to relieve the wants of the poor and necessitous; yet in all this, I do no more than barely answer my duty. I own God almighty to be my Lord, and my Sovereign, and the supreme disposer of all that I have. And since He hath commanded me to exercise charity to the poor; why should I be so bold as to rebel against His holy will, by withdrawing that from the poor, which He will have bestowed upon them? God forbid!
in Shaw, Christian Social Work? reflections from church history, in Foundations, 6 (May, 1981), 34f.
Jonathan Edwards, too, emphasised the importance of the care of the poor:-
It is…our bounden duty, as much a duty as it is to pray, or to attend public worship, or anything else whatever…I know of scarce any duty which is so much insisted upon, so pressed and urged upon us, both in the Old Testament and New, as this duty of charity to the poor.
Edwards, Works, II, 164.
D.W. Bebbington has pointed out that the Evangelical Revival in Britain led to a notable improvement in the quality of ministerial labours:-
Ministers of religion were roused to greater zeal in the performance of their duties. Although in Scotland the custom of visiting the flock had been generally maintained, in England, as the clergy rose in income and social status during the eighteenth century, mixing with their inferiors became less expected of them. The hunting, shooting and fishing person was a common type. It was the Evangelical movement that prompted the clergy to greater diligence, especially in cottage visiting.
Bebbington, Evangelicalism in modern Britain, 70.
Many societies for the promotion of the spiritual life and for the propagation of the gospel came to birth in the aftermath of the 1859 revivals:-
Out of the 1859 Awakening arose the Keswick Movement for the Deepening of the Spiritual Life (1875). In the eastern hemisphere, it became a unifying force in Evangelicalism, a missionary recruitment rally of the highest quality. Out of the same agitation in America, the organisation of the Holiness Movement resulted in splintering, giving birth to vigorous denominations in the Wesleyan tradition.
Christian Endeavour, a movement for training young people in church-related activity, began in a local revival in Maine in 1881, under Francis E. Clark. Within fifteen years, there were more than two million members in forty thousand local societies: they were ecumenical and evangelical.
Albert B. Simpson, a convert of the 1858 Revival in Canada, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1886, at first as an inter-denominational organisation but later itself becoming a denomination as missionary minded as the Moravians.
Orr, Evangelical awakenings in Africa, 51.
The UCCF (formerly IVF) is still a very active force in the promotion of evangelical Christianity in universities and colleges. The first seeds of this, too, were sown in 1859:-
[In 1859] prayer meetings at Oxford and Cambridge gave rise to Christian Unions which later united to form the Inter-Varsity Fellowship.
Some revivals have succeeded in uniting Christian people where man-made plans have often failed:-
It was most significant that the Awakening of the 1900s was ecumenical, in the best senses of the word. It was thoroughly interdenominational…There is a total lack of evidence of any response on the parts of Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox communities, but this is not surprising, for it was so in the days of the Puritans, of Wesley, of Finney, and of Moody. Only in the mid-twentieth century, when their changing attitude to Scripture has accompanied a changing attitude to dissent, have heretofore non-evangelical church bodies been affected by evangelical movements.
The great revivals of the past have had a profound effect upon the establishment of popular education:-
The connexion between the great Evangelical Awakenings and popular education is not hard to establish. The Lollards and the Reformers were led by scholars who were ready to share all the blessings of education with their followers. The Puritans established universities and colleges where none previously existed. The Revivalists of the eighteenth century founded schools and colleges as a matter of course. The nineteenth-century awakenings led to the foundation of numerous schools, high schools and colleges both in the United States and Europe and elsewhere, extending general education until the State took over the fully-fledged popular education programme.
Orr, The light of the nations, 268.
And many have been the philanthropic initiatives which came to birth during, or as a result of, revivals:-
Philanthropy was actively promoted by Evangelicals from the beginning of the movement. Wesley's generosity was legendary. He would scatter coins to beggars, he waded through snow in old age to raise money for the relief of the poor and he died worth virtually nothing because his considerable income from publications was given away. Evangelicalism as a whole taught that good works are a fundamental element of Christian duty. There was a continuity between traditional teaching on concern for the poor, as expressed for instance in the religious societies of the Church of England, and the charitable work of Evangelicals. What the revival added was its characteristic zeal. There was a proliferation of local schemes for doing good. Wesley encouraged his followers to visit the sick, going in pairs. The Calvinistic Methodist London Tabernacle ran a work shop for a while and later an employment exchange. Perhaps most strikingly, there were the orphan houses. Halle provided the model. Both Whitefield and Wesley lavished their care on similar institutions, in Georgia and New castle respectively. Whitefield expended enormous energy on planning, organising, supporting and defending his orphanage. 'I called it Bethesda', he wrote, 'that is, the House of Mercy; for I hope many acts of mercy will be shewn there…'
And so these earlier initiatives sowed the seeds for more organised projects aimed at the general improvement of society:-
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in London in 1824, and became the largest as well as oldest society of its kind in the world. Not only did it endeavour to stamp out cruelty, but it offered free vetinary service to as many as one quarter of a million mute creatures annually. It is not surprising to learn that the founder of the Society was an evangelical clergyman named Arthur Broome, and that Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the famous evangelical emancipator, chaired the first meeting assisted by Wilberforce and Mackintosh.
Orr, The light of the nations, 93.
As is well known, the trade union movement in this country had its roots in revival Christianity:-
All of British Trade Unionism owes much to the six Dorchester labourers who were transported for seven year's servitude to the Australian penal colonies. Their crime was that of forming an Agricultural Union to resist further depression of their wages as farm hands, wages already cut to a below-subsistence level of a shilling a day. These labourers were guilty of no violence and no intimidation, not even strike. In 1834, all six were dragged from their homes and given short shrift at a trial. On April 30th, thirty thousand men bearing thirty-three trade union banners marched on Whitehall to petition the government against the harshness of their sentence.
These Dorchester labourers, often called the "Tolpuddle martyrs", included three Methodist local preachers and two others who were active in the Tolpuddle Methodist Chapel. A sixth man professed no religious convictions, but was so impressed with the religious life of one of his companions, who slaved with him in a convict gang, that he became a Christian and a Sunday School superintendent in later life.
There were men like Lord Shaftsbury who, spurred on by an evangelical commitment, used their influence and ability to improve the lives of the oppressed and disadvantaged:-
Lord Shaftsbury once described himself as "an Evangelical of the Evangelicals," and his spiritual experience led him into a crusade for human betterment which was an unparalleled demonstration of Christian love…harnessed to the improvement of the lot of the working poor.
Before Lord Shaftsbury's reforms, workers were caught in a treadmill of competitive labour, which served to keep them straining for sixteen hours a day. Shaftsbury and his friends put an end to that by legislation limiting the operation of the factories to ten hours a day, introducing a Saturday half-holiday, as well as abolishing all unnecessary Sunday labour.
Shaftsbury's Mines and Collieries Act made impossible any further exploitation of women and children in coal mines…His Chimney Sweep acts prohibited the vile use of little boys to clean narrow chimneys of soot…Shaftsbury, by his Lunacy Acts, transformed the lot of the insane from that of abused prisoners to protected patients.
Shaftsbury promoted public parks, playing-fields, gymnasia, garden allotments, workmen's institutions, public libraries, night schools, choral and debating societies, and other self-help. Not only did Shaftsbury accomplish the work of ten men in social reform, but he also kept busy in evangelical ministry, being president of the Ragged School Union, the World YMCA, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the Religious Tract Society and many others – so many, in fact, that at his memorial service in Westminster Abbey in 1885 no less than two hundred religious, social and philanthropic organisation were represented by officials, with all of which Lord Shaftesbury was more or less directly concerned.
The movement for the abolition of slavery drew many of its most energetic supporters from the ranks of those converted during revivals:-
The pioneer advocates and engineers of the abolition of slavery within the British Empire were almost all the products of the Evangelical Revival. William Wilberforce and his colleagues were evangelicals, many of them the pillars of the then-derided, now-extolled Clapham Sect, a group of Church of England Evangelicals and Free Church adherents with a greater concern for the souls and bodies of men than for current ecclesiastical strife.
Historians have differed in their evaluations of the reasons for the ending of the slave trade. But, as Bebbington remarks:-
The ending of the slave trade did not come about (as was once held) because it had ceased to be profitable to Britain. Evangelicals were by no means pawns in the hands of economic interests. There is nevertheless a tendency in contemporary historiography to play down the Evangelical contribution to anti-slavery. It is true that other groups took important parts. The Quakers, only beginning to be touched by Evangelical religion, supplied money, manpower and ideas, moving into action before the Evangelicals. There was popular radical participation in anti-slavery from the 1790s onwards. The slaves, by their frequent rebellions that created problems of colonial administration, helped free themselves. Yet Evangelicals were central to the whole enterprise. Wilberforce contributed able leadership, his college friendship with Pitt, the Prime Minister, proving a huge advantage to the cause; information was assiduously collected by Thomas Clarkson and the James Stephens, father and son; missionaries fostered sympathy for the oppressed blacks; and in 1831-3 there was a mighty upsurge of Evangelical public opinion in favour of ending slavery. A number equivalent to ninety-five per cent of the connexion's membership signed Wesleyan anti-slavery parliamentary petitions in those years…Evangelicalism cannot be given all the credit for the humanitarian victory over slavery, but it must be accorded a large share.
The emancipation of slaves was just one benefit of the nineteenth-century revival:-
The first social impact of the awakening of the nineteenth century was felt in the emancipation of the slaves, in the protection of prisoners, in the care of the sick and wounded, in the betterment of the standards of workers, in the defence of women and children and of helpless animals.
Likewise, the revival in the early years of the present century contributed in many ways to the good of society:-
On mission fields, the missionaries multiplied their schools and hospitals. In twenty years, pupils in Christian schools in India doubled to 595,725; 90% of all nurses were Christian, mostly trained at mission hospitals. In China, missionaries pioneered secondary and higher education and laid the foundations of the medical service; the beginnings of the African educational systems and medical service were due likewise to the missionary impulse.
These revivals often drastically changed and improved the life-style of a district or even a whole country, as in Wales immediately following the revival of 1903/4:-
The story of the Welsh Revival is astounding. Begun with prayer meetings of less than a score of intercessors, when it burst its bounds the churches of Wales were crowded for more than two years. A hundred thousand outsiders were converted and added to the churches, the vast majority remaining true to the end. Drunkenness was immediately cut in half, and many taverns went bankrupt. Crime was so diminished that judges were presented with white gloves signifying that there were no cases of murder, assault, rape or robbery or the like to consider. The police became 'unemployed' in many districts. Stoppages occurred in coal-mines, not due to unpleasantness between management and workers, but because so many foul-mouthed miners became converted and stopped using foul language that the horses which hauled the coal trucks in the mines could no longer understand what was being said to them, and transportation ground to a halt.
We should not forget, either, the effects on individual behaviour and morality. Here is an example from Wales in the 1859 revival:-
In an evening service, a coarse and callous farmer was strangely affected. In the morning he was alarmed by the consciousness of a mysterious and revolutionary change in himself. He was unable to swear. He said to himself like Samson, 'I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.' But his evil strength had departed, and he was weak and was as another man. He sought his servants at their work, imagining that he would there find sufficient reasons for the exercise of his cherished habit, but for the life of him he couldn't rap out a single oath. Then he realised that his ailment required a drastic remedy, and thought, as a last resort, that if he could see some neighbour's sheep trespassing on his pasture the lost faculty would be recovered. So he climbed a hill that was near, but nothing availed. He began to tremble in every limb. 'What is this?' cried he. 'I can't swear; what if I tried to pray?' He fell on his knees among the furze-bushes, and continued a man of prayer as long as he lived.
in Evans, Revival comes to Wales, 96.
The assertion of this chapter has been that it is an unfailing characteristic of revival to contribute to the spiritual and moral well-being both of church and society. No religious movement which fails to much such a contribution can be rightly called a revival. Many and varied are the religious movements which clamour for our attention: but if all they offer is 'good feelings' or purely personal 'benefits', they must be pronounced, if not fraudulent, then deeply inadequate. Part of our prayer and part of our task, under God, must be to make individuals, churches, and societies as good as they possibly can be in a sinful and broken world.
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Marty Fenn
When the Chicago Bulls drafted former Duke standout Wendell Carter Jr. with the seventh overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, they were hoping that they had selected the perfect player to complement Lauri Markannen in the frontcourt.
Those hopes seemed to come to fruition during the NBA Summer League, when Carter averaged 14.6 points, 9.4 blocks and 2.6 blocks and showed his potential as the next "man in the middle" in Chicago.
The 19-year-old got off to a decent start in his rookie campaign, including an excellent month of November where he averaged 12.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks.
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