This book is one of the most confusing I've ever read about the Christian life. Chan offers a mixed view of saying the Christian life is lived out of love and not out of fear-and-guilt, but then mainly tries through fear-and-guilt to persuade his readers to live the Christian life. Throughout the book Chan seems very confused and inconsistent in his approach to either stir up the idle Christian or convert the non-Christian. And you're never sure which of those actions he's trying to do. Frankly, I'm not sure he himself is quite sure at any given point which one he's trying to do.
For instance, he says on the one hand, we're basically all lukewarm, halfhearted, stagnant Christians (p. 22), only to say later that "lukewarm" Christians aren't even Christians at all (pp. 83-84ff), only later to assume again that his reader is a Christian and also a lukewarm believer (p. 111). The inconsistency abounds so greatly throughout the book that it would be difficult to list all the examples. But as a reviewer I would caution the reader to beware of this fact and to be on the lookout for a multitude of false dichotomies (either this, or that, when it very well could be both this and that, or something else entirely, etc.).
Now commendably, Chan recognizes a problem in the church where many Christians seem to have a very shallow Christian life. The reason for this I think Chan presents very well in his preface: "I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete. My view of God was narrow and small" (p. 20). "The core problem isn't the fact that we're lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it is because we have an inaccurate view of God" (p. 22).
To put it clearly, many Christians in today's church have shallow Christian lives because they have a narrow, small, inaccurate view of God. And I would whole-heartedly agree with this assessment. (For a particularly compelling article on this same assessment, I suggest A.W. Tozer's, "The Knowledge of the Holy," which to Chan's credit, he quotes in his book.) However, while Chan sets up the problem clearly in the preface, the rest of the book falls very short of the solution.
The title in full is, "Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God," with two arrows on the cover, the first one pointing down and the second pointing up. Now my first impression from all of this is that the book is going to be about God's relentless, overwhelming love toward us (the sinner), and then following from that, our response of loving Him (the Savior). It seems reminiscent of Paul's style of teaching - the teaching about who Christ is and what He's done (Rom 1-11, Eph 1-3, Col 1-2), then flowing from that, the teaching of our response to Him (Rom 12-16, Eph 4-6, Col 3-4). But when you actually read this book, it is far from any of this.
If the problem is a narrow, small, inaccurate view of God, one would think the solution would be to present a deep, grand, accurate view of God. But Chan seems to give little attempt at this; for he spends only three chapters on the person of God (and really not very well) and the next seven chapters on the person of the "Christian"? This is puzzling.
While the problem assessed is that the church has an inaccurate view of God, instead of writing to correct that, Chan spends most of his time writing to persuade the reader that he or she should be living a more "radical" "risky" "adventurous" life, not once recognizing that sometimes we truly are called "to aspire to live quietly, and to mind [our] own affairs..." (1 Thess. 4:12). This unbalance in his book is truly unhelpful.
It's very odd, because Chan himself recognizes that fear-and-guilt is not the solution (p. 101). Yet he can't seem to keep himself from that approach. For before that chapter and after that chapter there's just not a whole lot other than "Shouldn't you be giving more? Shouldn't you be working harder? Shouldn't you be loving better?, etc."
Yet the Biblical context has nothing to do with "spending ourselves" but is rather about abiding in the gospel: "No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you....And this is the promise that he made to us - eternal life. And now little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming" (1 Jn. 2:23-28). Abide in Him, in Christ, in His righteousness!
This is about abiding in the confession of the Son, not "spending" ourselves in human effort. So Chan makes this passage end up meaning the exact opposite of what it means.
There are many more, but probably the most interesting example of a passage out of context is when Chan says, "As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there's no such thing" (p. 83-84). And it is at this point that Chan "exegetes" (?) Revelation 3:15-18. He goes to great lengths to explain why these verses are about unbelievers and not true Christians - that lukewarm Christians are not really believers at all. Chan says, "Many people read this passage and assume Jesus is speaking to saved people. Why?"
I think the answer to his question is found in the following verse (Rev. 3:19) - the verse he for some reason leaves out of the passage: "Those whom I love I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent." Why do we think the passage is directed to a church of saved people? Because God loves them and disciplines them! Does God love the reprobate in a way so as to reprove and discipline them (Rom. 1:18-32; Heb. 12:5-11)? It seems clear in Scripture that He doesn't. It also seems pretty clear from the context of this passage that it's directed toward believers, who may have some professing unbelievers mixed in with them; but to say the whole group is purely unsaved...I'm not sure how that interpretation can stand.
But it's here where we start to see why Chan can interpret the Bible apart from context.
Chan again ably recognizes a problem: "In an earlier draft of this chapter, I quoted several commentators who agreed with my point of view. But we all know that you can find quotes to support any view you want to take. You can even tweak word studies to help you in your effort."
Yes, that's true. So what's the solution then? Compare the commentators and word studies in the original languages while examining the context of the passage to find the most likely meaning - given a historical-grammatical understanding of the text? No...instead: "I'm not against scholarship, but I do believe there are times when we come to more accurate conclusions through simple reading" (p. 85).
Translation: don't worry about context, original audience, authorial intent, etc. Just read it.
What?!?!? Let me get this straight. To understand the gospels better, we're not going to try to discover the historical/cultural context in which they were written, the original language that was employed in their composition, the original audience to whom they were written? We're not piecing all this together to ascertain the most likely authorial intent in the Scriptures? But instead, we're going to assume the ancient document capability of a twelve-year-old (um...none) and pretend we don't know anything about Jesus (we're in effect now an unbeliever)?
Is that the best way to interpret Scripture? Are we ever told in Scripture to take the mind of Christ off in order to come to a more "reasonable" "objective" conclusion (Eph. 4:17-24; Col. 2:6-10; 1 Jn 2:26-27)? And by the way, unbelievers are not objective (Rom. 1:18-21; Matt. 12:30)! Yet this is Chan's take on how to approach Scripture!
Want to know the Scriptures better? Ask the unbelieving twelve-year-old. This is a bad idea! Read the above referenced Scriptures and tell me if unbelievers are reasonable and objective and whether or not Christians should pretend we don't know anything about Christ when reading Scripture.
Yet this is Chan's approach. It's no wonder he so often confuses the accounts in the gospel literature, of what Jesus says to do to this person or that (and which were always written with their author's own [inspired] theological scheme in mind), with the Christian life laid out in the rest of the New Testament (the things Jesus had not yet said to His disciples but intended to after He was glorified - Jn. 16:12-14). This is why Chan is constantly mixing the aspects of the Old Testament law to which we are not bound (Rom. 7:4-6; Gal. 5:18), and the law of the Christian life of love to which we are bound (Gal. 5:1, 5-6, 13, 6:2).
This confusion is brought out in too many passages to cite, especially in the gospels and Old Testament. But for an instance, take the story of the rich young ruler (p. 74, 90). The point is not that he wouldn't give his money away (which Chan repeatedly makes it), but that this man thought he was actually good enough by himself or could be good enough by himself to inherit eternal life (Lk. 18:18-30).
Jesus plainly tells him, "No one is good except God alone" (v19); yet he stubbornly maintains, "All these [commandments] I have kept from my youth" (v. 21). The crowds are distraught, sure. If this rich man, for whom it's easiest to keep the commandments, and who by his own admission has kept them all from his youth - if he can't inherit eternal life, then what hope is there for the rest of us? "Who then can be saved?" To that Jesus replies, "What is impossible with men is possible with God" (v. 26).
You see, doesn't this in itself point to the very gospel of Christ? [But to interpret it this way we would have to know that Luke was writing with a theological point in mind... we would have to know some context.] Don't you see that Christ is the One (the only One) who was good and truly did keep all the commandments (1 Pet. 2:22), and He is the One (the only One) who was truly rich and gave it all up - and He did it for our sake (Phil. 2:6-8; 2 Cor. 8:9)! Only Christ can meet His own demands! And He did so on our behalf (Heb. 4:14-16, 7:23-25, 9:24, 10:14, 19-23). Truly such a great salvation is impossible with men, but with God it is possible!
But Chan fails to bring this out, as he does in many other ways. He speaks about our offering our best and quotes the older ceremonial covenant (p. 91), but he utterly fails to see that Christ is our best! And it was He who was offered, on our behalf, under the new and lasting covenant (Heb. 8:6, 9:15; 2 Cor. 3:4-18).
What then comes of the Christian life? It's clear throughout the Scriptures. We do love others (Jn. 13:34-35; Rom. 12:9-10; Eph. 5:1-2; Col. 3:14; 1 Thess. 4:9), we do give money (1 Cor. 16:2; 2 Cor. 8:8-15, 9:6-15), we do help those in need (Titus 3:14, Ja. 1:27, 1 Jn. 3:16-18). We do many other things out of love, but it's because we know who God is and what He's done (Gal. 5:5-6, 13). It is because we are free (Gal. 5:1), it is because Christ paid for our sins by his blood (Eph. 1:7), it is because everything has been accounted for and we know that we have no debt toward God (Col. 2:14), it is because of the redemption that we have in Christ and Christ alone that we are able to love the Lord and love others. While Chan somewhat recognizes this in theory, he fails to bring it out in practice in his book.
At one attempt in demonstrating (?) God's "crazy love" Chan says: "In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us" (p. 87). So after we try our hardest, that's when grace kicks in? Is that the kind of crazy love God has for us?
The Scriptures say that it's not just in the midst of our failed attempts that Jesus' grace covers us. It says that we were dead in our sins (Eph. 2:1), enemies of God (Eph. 5:6, 10), hostile in our minds (Col. 1:21), and hateful in our beings (Titus 3:3); and before even having the ability to give a God-ward failed attempt, that's when God saved us (Eph. 2:4-5; Rom. 5:6-11; Col. 1:21-22; Titus 3:4-7)! Grace doesn't just cover our failed attempts - grace does it all from beginning to end (Eph. 2:8-10)!
But grace is profoundly scarce in this book on God's crazy love. The problem that causes shallow, "lukewarm," stagnant Christian living is indeed an inaccurate view of God, as Chan rightly assessed. But this book is nowhere close to providing a solution. Even in the chapter about how much God loves us, Chan simply gives us the analogy of him loving his own kids (p. 55). Sure, it's a nice story, and I'm glad he loves his daughter. But it's natural even for unbelievers to love their own kids. Compare that though to Ephesians 2, where God sees us naturally as children of wrath, and yet still loves us. Or the same concept in Romans 5 where even while we were rebellious sinners toward God, it was then that Christ died for us! It's natural to love our kids; it's supernatural to love rebellious objects of wrath. And that is God's love! Yet that is what is missing from Chan's book.
Because of all these things I cannot recommend the book at all for Christian living. Yet if one must read the book, I would encourage the reader to contrast Chan's style with the apostle Paul. Notice even in Paul's prayer life, he didn't pray so much that believers would "surrender" themselves or "spend" themselves. (Surely he would mention this from time to time, but it was never his emphasis. He knew that the Spirit would bring that about in their lives as they grew in their walk with the Lord.) But what did he pray? He prayed that the eyes of their hearts would be opened (Eph. 1:17) so that they would know the greatness of the hope they have in Christ (Eph. 1:18), that they would know they are somehow counted as riches in God's eyes (Eph. 1:18), and that they would somehow understand that the same power God used in raising Christ from the dead is the same power He used in bringing them into the newness of life in Christ (Eph. 1:19-21, 2:1-7).
He didn't pray that they would do "more stuff." He prayed that Christ (His person and work) would dwell in their hearts (Eph. 3:17) through the power of the Holy Spirit (Eph. 3:16), so that they would somehow be able to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ's love, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge (Eph. 3:18-19). And from that knowledge Paul would encourage - and charge - the Christian life. But it's that knowledge that is absent from this book.
Contrary to the impression this book gives, the Christian life is not based on who wants it more. It's based on how well we know the Lord Christ our Savior. "And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (Jn. 17:3). Our eternal life is dependent on knowing Christ. Our Christian life is no different (Col. 2:6-10). The more we know Christ, the more we will do for Him because it is He who works in us (Col. 1:29; Jn. 15:1-5).
But how are we set-apart (sanctified) from the rest of the world? Chan stated it correctly. We need an accurate view of God. And how do we go about getting that? "Sanctify them in your truth; your word is truth" (Jn. 17:17). We gain an accurate view of God by gaining an accurate understanding of God's Word.
But we have to ask, does Chan know the Word of God?
Chan writes, "The Israelites hid themselves whenever God passed by their camp because they were too afraid to look at Him, even the back of Him as He moved away. They were scared they would die if they saw God" (p. 36).
The Israelites? Whenever? Is there a passage at all in the Old Testament that talks about God passing by the Israelite camp and the Israelites being scared they would die even if they looked at the back of Him?
There's no such passage! Search the entire Scriptures! There is nothing remotely close to this claim in the Bible. It's as if someone told Chan the story of Moses seeing God's glory (Ex. 33:18-34:8 - on the top of the mountain, away from the Isralite camp), and Chan contorted it into this regular occurrence with God and the camp of the Israelites.
Or take for example the time where Chan writes that Jacob "stole" Esau's birthright (p. 114). The Scriptures are explicit in the original story (Gen. 25:29-34) and in the summary story (Heb. 12:16-17) that Jacob "bought" it fairly - opposite of stole. While Chan uses it as an example of encouragement, he condemns Jacob for stealing Esau's birthright. But the problem is that, according to Scripture, Jacob (in this instance) bought it fairly (opposite of stole); and if anyone is condemned, in Scripture, it's Esau (Heb. 12:16-17), not Jacob.
So even in these two examples either Chan doesn't know the Scripture but he thinks he does, or he's making this up. Either option is not one from whom I'd want to learn a more accurate view of God (which, if you remember, is what he says is the solution to stagnant Christian living).
Chan ends his book saying "one day I will have to stand before a holy God and give an account of my life" (quoting Daniel Webster, p. 174). God's Word tells us that as Christians we've already been judged in Christ and have been found righteous in Him (Jn. 5:24; Rom. 5:1, 8:1, 33-39)! Therefore, we are free, not to do whatever our sinful nature wants (rather, we are free from that - Rom. 6:6-7, 20-23), but we are free and able, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to serve Him in love (Gal. 5:5-6).
So then, I would say, contrary to the message of this book let us not seek a more "radical" Christian life based on out-of-context readings of Scripture. But let us seek the true meaning of Scripture and let us seek Christ (Col. 3:1-4). Let us seek to know Him (Phil. 3:7-8). Let us abide in HIM and in his message of grace, that we may take hold of the promise of eternal life (1 Jn. 2:23-25) and through that have the ability in the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life (Rom. 8:9-11).
I'm glad Chan desires Christians to have a more meaningful Christian life. But desire without knowledge is not good (Prv. 19:2). Let us then seek to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3:18) and the live the Christian life from that grace and knowledge (Col. 2:6-7)!


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Am a fan of super hot masalas and if its NV I'll be in the queue. You can always find me making some spicy hot masalas in my kitchen to accompany my dishes. One such staple spicy food found very often in my menu is this maasi masala. I stock up packets of maasi/dry pounded fish masala in my pantry as they are very rarely available in markets and they are so handy that you can make dishes with them directly without prior processing like washing or chopping or cooking. Moreover it has good shelf life so keeps well for days. You can spice up your egg burji with maasi or make spicy masala like the following recipe or chutney in just few minutes. Whenever I don't have much time and hubby craves for a fulfilling menu I'd always prefer making this maasi masala to accompany dosas or chapatis. It needs very little time that my hubby wonders how infact did I make such a drool-worthy recipe that fast, moreover the making is fuss free. And the end result is a tasty quick side-dish with not much work and a satisfied husband. After all the end result matters a house-wife a lot right?. This spicy hot masala makes a great side-dish with dosa, chapatis, pooris and rice. Soft chapati with dollops of thick salted curd, sliced onions and this spicy dry fish masala makes our favorite dinner platter, try it and you'll know why. Dal, rice and this maasi masala is another hit trio. You can get pounded dry fish in certain super markets in India, these are coarsely powdered dry fish available in small packets that can be directly used in recipes without prior processing. The only thing to be taken care of is, maasi is salted already and so you will have to take care not to add excess of salt in your recipes. If you do not find maasi you can try following tip 2 that I have mentioned at the bottom. I will update the post soon with the pictures of this Maasi /pounded dry fish so that it would be easy to identify. Now lets check out the recipe.
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Place a pan on flame and pour oil. After it heats up, add curry leaves and let it splutter.
Then add the chopped onions and saute well until it turns translucent and cooked.
Then add tomato, little salt and saute on low flame until the tomato turns pulpy and cooked.
Now add the red chilli powder and saute really well until the raw smell leaves and the oil separates from the masala.
Now add the maasi (pounded dry fish) directly from the packet (no prior cooking or washing is needed) and stir well.
Pour 1/4 cup of water stir well, check for salt and add if needed. Cook on low flame and until the masala gets mixed up well with the pounded dry fish (takes about 3 minutes).
Finally when the water content reduces or when you get the masala consistency remove from flame and drizzle lemon juice over it.
TIP 1: Pounded dry fish/Maasi contains salt content, so do not add too much of salt initially. Check for salt after adding maasi and then add if necessary.
TIP 2: Pounded fish is available in all stores if not available you can just get rock hard dry fish pieces and pound it well using a stone pestle until it breaks into smaller pieces, then add it to a blender and coarsely grind it and use in recipes.
Super hot and tasty masala is now ready!! Serve with aapam, dosa, chapatis, rotis or as sides with rice!!
Chapati with a dollop of curd and this masala makes a great satisfying platter!!
looks mouthwatering dear..yummy & fab clicks!!
Love this maasi masala with lemon rice,my favourite combo,mouthwatering here sis.
Spicy and delicious.. Beautiful clicks!
Delicious curry it is very spicy and nice color.
Looks like a simple recipe, but looks very rich!!
I remember, my brother ordering a similar recipe in Chennai's Ponnuswami Hotel in Raahat plaza couple of years back, looks just the same.
The recipe is new to me Divya.
Super tempting and inviting dish... looks so spice..
love dry fish,so tempting,have to make it some time.
This recipe is totally new to me divya.. But now i want to try to see how it taste..
very tempting and inviting dish dear. yummy!


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Il figlio di Django è un film del 1967 diretto da Osvaldo Civirani.

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Tracy da bambino ha assistito alla morte di suo padre Django. Adesso segue le orme del padre, viene incaricato di uccidere un bandito che taglieggia un villaggio del West, anche se in realtà è lo stesso uomo che uccise il padre di Tracy.

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Finger food ideas are ALWAYS useful, either for a party, a picnic or just because you want to enjoy a beer with your partner outside of the house, on the stairs because you don't have a garden, so you want some cute petit four to make it look more fancy. Guilty!
Anyway, I don't know you but I LOVE sweet and savoury food! In France, my mum used to make lots of it when I was a kid, like pork roast with prunes (my favourite!), caramelised pork with pineapple, black pudding with apple… And because I looked into my fridge and saw some leftover pieces of cheese and fruits about to go off, I had no choice but to make a decision. Either pretend not to see them and push them inadvertently toward the back of the fridge (who never did it, right?) or find a creative way to use them.
Positive: I never ever had banana/gorgonzola together and it's… AMAZING! OMG, please try it and let me know what you think!
Negative: If you make different types of finger food like I did, it's a bit long (for my standards). So I would either just make a few of them or choose one type.
Here I used half of my ready roll puff pastry (375 g) because I used the other half for another recipe… :) So I cut exactly 17 rounds out of the pastry with a small glass.
Pieces of banana, dice of gorgonzola and a drop of honey.
Try to keep everything centred and don't add up too much.
Place in preheated oven at 180°C for about 15 minutes.
For a more golden result, you can brush your pastry with egg or milk, before to add toppings. I just always forget to do it.
And tadaaam! Some delicious sweet and savoury tartlets ready to eat!
My advice: I'm not a huge fan of industrial puff pastry, or at least that one I bought from Tesco. What would you suggest for a lighter and gluten-free version?
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Republican Senator Cory Gardner from the state of CO, along with four cosponsors, introduced bill S.CON.RES.13 on Apr 04, 2019.
Cory Gardner was born on a 1974 in Yuma.
Cory Gardner has held a number of positions, including United States representative, member of the Colorado House of Representatives and United States senator.
Served as Senator, 2nd Class for CO from Jan 2019 to Jan 2021 in the Senate 116th congress. He voted along party lines 88.71 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. During this period Cory Gardner missed 3.13% of the votes, sponsored 25 bills, cosponsored 75 bills.
Served as Senator, 2nd Class for CO from Jan 2017 to Jan 2019 in the Senate 115th congress. He voted along party lines 96.98 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Committee on the Budget, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. During this period Cory Gardner missed 0.33% of the votes, sponsored 53 bills, cosponsored 271 bills.
Served as Senator, 2nd Class for CO from Jan 2015 to Jan 2017 in the Senate 114th congress. He voted along party lines 89.61 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. During this period Cory Gardner missed 2.19% of the votes, sponsored 46 bills, cosponsored 192 bills.
Served as Representative for CO (district 4) from Jan 2013 to Jan 2015 in the House 113th congress. He voted along party lines 92.29 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. During this period Cory Gardner missed 2.01% of the votes, sponsored 27 bills, cosponsored 197 bills.
Served as Representative for CO (district 4) from Jan 2011 to Jan 2013 in the House 112th congress. He voted along party lines 92.6 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. During this period Cory Gardner missed 1.49% of the votes, sponsored 7 bills, cosponsored 175 bills.


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Q: JXcore vs Electron question
I am wondering what the main differences are between Electron and JXcore.
background
I was thinking about how I could make a NodeJS server into an app and I came across both of these. They seem to do the same thing, except that JXcore supports mobile and Electron doesn't.
side question
If Electron doesn't support mobile then how was the slack mobile app created?
Thanks in advance!

A: From the JXCore site(http://jxcore.com/tech/):

JXcore is a fork on the open source Node.js project

It uses LLVM to compile javascript as opposed to V8 which NodeJS does.
In terms of what are the main differences- Electron is a framework for building native, cross platform desktop applications, where it appears JXCore is a javascript engine forked from NodeJS.
Electron is built with NodeJS, and Chromium. So to make it fair, the comparison would be better stated "How does Electron work with NodeJS vs JXcore". Since I don't have any experience with JXCore, I can't answer that question. I would venture to say the only way to know that is to fork electron and replace Node with JXCore.
Based on your background, I would assume you are thinking about making one application that works cross platform across mobile and desktop environments. To that, I would say it is possible, but you are going to have 2 different projects. There are things in Electron that you wouldn't want included in your mobile app, since they are working with completely different operating systems. You are right that electron does not support mobile (it wasn't built for that).
As far as your side question goes, there are any number of technologies that slack could have used to create their mobile app. They could have used Java , Swift, Objective-C, .NET, Ruby, or Javascript.
There are cross platform tools such as RubyMotion, NativeScript, React Native, and Xamarin that could also be used to create native mobile apps, that all compile down into the native language the mobile OS understands.
A final approach could be the use of tools such as Cordova/Phonegap which create mobile apps via a "web view". Essentially, this is like creating an app that launches a web browser to interact with your phone.
If you are looking for an example on how to build once and use everywhere, I would look at the github repo found here https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular-seed-advanced. This shows a common codebase that can be used in Electron, Web, and Mobile.

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♛ Blues, Rock n' Roll and a whisper of Jazz… straight up, or on the rocks. Musician, songwriter and singer Eldon Olmstead is the King-o-Keys. Eldon's music is rooted in the Chicago-style blues piano of Otis Spann and Henry Gray, the rock n' roll piano swagger of Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, bursts of hot and cool jazz, folk and ragtime – all interwoven into songs.
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We'll Shutdown Aso Rock If Obasanjo Is Touched-ADC
June 9, 2018 Emporium Reporters
The African Democratic Congress, which has been adopted by Obasanjo, has warned the Federal Government that it will shut down the Presidential Villa if Obasanjo is harmed.
The Chairman of the ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, said this during a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday.
Nwosu said having failed to deliver on its campaign promises, the Buhari-led government had resorted to hounding opposition members into submission.
He said when Obasanjo was supporting Buhari during the run-up to the 2015 general elections; he was described as an advocate of change by Buhari and his supporters, but the same man was now being treated as a criminal because he was speaking against the government.
The ADC chairman said, "What we are witnessing is the desperation of a failed government. When you have mediocre persons that are not focused on handling state power, they often go to dictatorial levels to try to achieve their aim but this time, the people of Nigeria and God are on our side and we will do what our country needs.
"President Obasanjo cannot be touched. When in 2014 and 2015, he was in the vanguard of trying to effect change because of the situation then, they were applauding him as the champion of a new Nigeria."
"Now that things have gone wrong in the area of security and economy and he is speaking out, they are now chasing the champion of new Nigeria. We will mobilize the whole of Nigeria to take over Aso Rock Villa if the government steps out of line."
But two civil society organizations, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, said Obasanjo should be ready to face trial if there was any evidence of financial mismanagement traced to his administration.
The SERAP Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, said the former President's alarm of a witch-hunt by President Buhari was unnecessary as the anti-graft agencies must carry out their statutory responsibilities.
Mumuni said, "The truth of the matter is that Buhari should not be the one to set the EFCC against anybody; the anti-graft agency should do its job, investigate allegations of crime against anybody and begin prosecution. That Obasanjo is crying foul will not stop the agencies from going after him, if indeed there are admissible evidence against him.
"I don't think we should listen to Obasanjo. Rather, we should let the EFCC do what is legally appropriate and prosecute anyone who is supposed to be prosecuted. If Obasanjo has a case to answer, he should be ready to have his day in court under the due process."
Also, the CDHR President, Malachy Ugwummadu, said, "Obasanjo should not play to the gallery. For me, it will be a huge positive development if this government can muster enough courage to take on Obasanjo.
"If the government has credible information or evidence to take on Obasanjo, it will clearly show that all the people in the league of former presidents can be taken up."
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A founding member of the Laurentian Federation, the University of Sudbury is dedicated to maintaining the personal character and sense of community that only a smaller institution can offer. Our university inspires its students to become thoughtful and engaged citizens with strong leadership skills and commitment to shared responsibility in the development of social solutions, through quality liberal arts education, research and outreach, all within a bilingual and tri-cultural environment.
To be known as a student-centered university which inspires students to question assumptions, explore the big questions and be better prepared to serve their communities, in their professions of choice.
Founded as Collège du Sacré-Coeur in 1913, it was the first, and for many years the only, institution of higher learning in Northern Ontario. In 1957, it changed its name to "University of Sudbury" and began to exercise its full teaching and degree-granting powers. It entered into the Laurentian Federation as a founding member in 1960.
The University of Sudbury is a bilingual university based in the tradition of its founding Jesuit Fathers, and committed to promoting the traditions and culture of the Indigenous people.
Inspired by the Jesuit philosophy of education (the formation of the whole person in service to community), the University of Sudbury also has a special commitment to community engagement and service to others.
The University offers programs and courses in Philosophy, Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies, Folklore, and Études journalistiques – all of which are accredited towards a Laurentian University degree.
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The gala marked the end of a series of celebrations commemorating the opening of the Collège du Sacré-Cœur in 1913, which became the University of Sudbury in 1957. "The Jesuit Fathers' dream to provide quality education has touched more than one generation of young northern Ontarians who have certainly left their mark in our communities. We are pleased to continue this dream today." - stated Dr. Pierre Zundel, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sudbury (See the President's speech for the centennial year)
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SF Gov InAction: All of Life's a Game Show -- and Gaaaaavin Newsom Merely Wants To Give Away Fabulous Prizes!
Posted By Benjamin Wachs on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Monday, July 13, 9 a.m. - Rules Committee The first thing one will notice about this meeting is the massive pile of litigation that the city is hoping to settle out of court: A tower of Legal Babel stretching so high that it is an affront to God's own law firm of Cherubim, Seraphim, & Murdock. There's nothing new about this. People are always suing the city, and the city often settles out of court -- making the job of City Attorney a cross between Perry Mason and Ed McMahon: "According to my surprise witness, you could already be a winner!" But usually these cases are dispensed with one or two at a time. Today there are seven, ranging from a proposed $25,000 settlement for the PUC encroaching on a residential property to $312,000 for claims against the city's "Uptown Parking Corporation." In all, about a $800,000 is being dispensed by the City Attorney's Prize Patrol. Congratulations to all you lucky winners!
Your Host, Gaaaaavin Newsom -- tell 'em what they won, Ballard!
The only other items up for discussion at this meeting are two charter amendments: One is the budget cycle amendment (two years, with a five-year financial plan, blah blah blah) proposed by Your Host Gaaaaaavin Newsom!, along with special guests Chiu, Mirkarimi, Avalos, and Campos.
The other is an amendment, proposed by John Avalos, eliminating the 48.7 hour limit on the work week for firefighters and replacing it with a 52-hour work week, among other measures.
"Yikes!" says Your Host Gaaaaaavin Newsom! "Expect that to be red hot!"
You know, the man really did miss his calling as a game show host. Instead of campaigning for governor, he should be traveling around the state asking people if they want to choose door number two or the mystery box.
He'd barely have to tweak his stump speech.
10:30 a. m. - City Operations 7 Neighborhood Services Committee
This meeting has only two items on the agenda, and one of them -- I swear to God -- is a measure increasing the prize limit in charity bingo games from $250 to $500.
It's proposed by the surprisingly broad coalition of Dufty, Avalos, Campos, and Elsbernd.
The other is a hearing about giving a North Point restaurant a liquor license.
I think we can safely move on.
1 p.m. - Land use and Economic Development Committee
Hey, you know that last meeting, the one we just moved on from? Well, this one's pretty much like that.
The only item in this small meeting worth of note is the ongoing proposal by David Chiu and Bevan Dufty to require the owners of vacant or abandoned buildings to register them with the city, maintain the grounds, and keep them in good condition.
A semantic question: If the owner of an abandoned building does all that, in what way is the building "abandoned"?
I know, I know, that's the point, but still -- it seems like we'd need a new term for it.
Oh well. Back to you, Gaaaaaavin Newsom!
"Hi there! This is Gaaaaavin Newsom, reminding you to eat healthful organic fruits and vegetables!"
You see? His stump speech doesn't have to change a bit.
Tuesday, July 14, 2 p.m. - Full Board of Supervisors
Man, we're two weeks out from the budget agreement, and the supes are voting on whether to raise fees. Yes, we raised that many fees.
Actually, a lot of post-budget-agreement work is being done at this meeting ... to the extent you can call voting "work." Chris Daly will probably make a speech. Some of us are hoping that now, every time he makes a speech, he'll quote a different classic movie from the '90s. It could be his thing.
"You know what you're saying to Gavin Newsom?" he'll ask John Avalos in yet another very uncomfortable moment. "You know what the Board of Supervisors is saying to Gavin Newsom by voting for this budget deal? We're saying: 'I'll Call ya. Your number still 911? ALLLLLL Righty then.' That's what we're saying!"
Actually, Daly could get two chances to make very uncomfortable speeches today, as his proposed charter amendment allowing the supervisors to designate some city spending as mandatory -- whether the Mayor likes it or not -- is also coming up for a vote today.
"The Dude abides," Daly wills say, looking out over the assembled supervisors. Then he'll look into the camera, straight at Gaaaaaavin Newsom, wherever he is in California today: "You human paraquat!"
Wednesday, July 15, 1:30 p.m. - Budget and Finance Committee
Most of this meeting is stuff we've seen before -- including the bizarre charter amendment to authorize taxing people who have motor vehicles for the privilege of operating one in San Francisco, if and when the state allows cities to do such a thing.
Other repeat items include:
• The proposed parcel tax to put to the voters this year.
• A proposed ballot initiative allowing the city to rename Candlestick Park.
• A .50 percent sales tax increase to fund Human Services and Public Protection.
• The "new and improved" Greater Union Square Business District.
There more, but, honestly -- don't you have anything better to do? Go. Live a little. Let me roll the ending credits.
"This is Gaaaavin Newsom saying thanks for tuning in to San Francisco government! San Francisco government is a Don Fisher and Paul Getty production, distributed by PG&E, and sponsored by ClearChannel. Remember to eat healthful organic fruits and vegetables, pick up your cigarette butts, and compost -- or I'll be fining you! So long!"
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Calling Cards Blog: Hate Dialing Calling Card Pin Numbers?
Calling cards are great tools for keeping in touch with friends, family, and business partners worldwide, but many people who make frequent international calls get tired of dialing their pin numbers. There are workarounds, like storing the pin number in your phone's speed dial, but they usually compromise your card's security and just don't save that much time.
Yes, you heard it coming - we have a solution! We have added pinless dialing capabilities to many of the calling cards that are available on CallingCards.com. (Mobile Caller is another pinless dialing option.) We've also added speed dial to these calling cards, so you can complete your call with just 5 or 6 digits rather than having to enter your pin number and destination number. Add in auto-recharge and you've got a calling card that's just as convenient as a long distance calling plan, but with rates that are up to 90% lower!
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If you have any questions about pinless dialing, prepaid calling cards, or speed dial on a calling card, feel free to leave a comment below so I can help out.


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Lindsey Buckingham Breaks The Chain: New Solo Set + Newly Divorced
Steve Tanko Published: June 11, 2021
It appears you can break the chain and sometimes that can be a good thing. It also helps to keep publicists busy. In the short-period of one week, sometimes former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham announced the end of his 20-year marriage, his new solo album (the first true solo set in ten years), and a new tour for 2021; that tour will make a stop close to home with a show at Mystic Lake Casino in September.
The divorce came as sort of a surprise. Buckingham and Kristen Messner seemed happy since their marriage in 2000 - adding some stability to a life that sometimes wasn't so steady. Many sources have quoted Buckingham as stating that Messner was his one true love of his life - sharing "he was lucky to find love later in life". Buckingham and Messner shared a stable family life as well, with three kids together.
At the same time as the divorce became public, the singer also started publicity for a new self-titled solo set. While he had released new music in 2017, that album was a collaboration with some-time partner Christine McVie that has originally started out as a new Fleetwood Mac set; plans for the whole group being involved were shelved when Stevie Nicks dropped plans to join in. The new album is currently available to stream and a lead single called "I Don't Mind" has been public for a while. To promote the album, Buckingham will take to the road throughout the remainder of 2021 - stopping in 30 cities.
The spotlight will be on the new music when Lindsey Buckingham comes to Mystic Lake Casino's Showroom on Friday, September 3, with an 8:00 PM show. Tickets start at $29.00 and are already on sale through the Mystic Lake Box Office: 952-496-6563 or by going to their website.
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Q: What is the best way to implement both swipe and click over a Relative Layout in android?
I am creating a Relative Layout and want to add click as well as swipe(touch and move pointer over the layout to move it in real time) and detect left and right swipe. I have tried the following code so far.
public bool OnTouch(View v, MotionEvent e)
    {
        if (gestureDetector.OnTouchEvent(e))
        {
            //This is a Click
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            int initialTouchX = 0, initialTouchY = 0;
            int newx = 0;
            var x = v.Left;
            switch (e.Action)
            {

                case MotionEventActions.Down:
                    {
                        _viewX = e.GetX();
                        _viewY = e.GetY();
                        initialTouchX = (int)e.RawX;
                        initialTouchY = (int)e.RawY;
                        break;
                    }

                case MotionEventActions.Move:
                    {

                        var left = (int)(e.RawX - _viewX);
                        newx = left;
                        var right = (int)(left + v.Width);

                        var top = (int)(e.RawY - _viewY);
                        var bottom = (int)(top + v.Height);

                        v.Layout(left, top, right, bottom);

                        break;
                    }
                case MotionEventActions.Up:
                    {
                        int lastX = (int)e.GetX();
                        int lastY = (int)e.GetY();
                       if ((x - newx) > 40)
                        {
                          //Detect Right Swipe

                        }
                        else if ((newx - x > 40))
                        {
            //Detect Left Swipe
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            //Skip others
                        }
        break;
                    }

            }
        }
        return true;
    }

My code for gestureDetector.OnTouchEvent(e)
gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(this, new SingleTapUp());

class SingleTapUp : Android.Views.GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener
    {

        public override bool OnSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
           // Toast.MakeText(this,, ToastLength.Long).Show();
            return true;
        }

    }

My code is working fine on some devices as well as emulator. But not working sometimes and onclick the layout moves automatically(The layout out centers itself at touch pointer). I think something is wrong and causing the issue. You can suggest me the best/standard way to do it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

A: Im implementing swype in this way:
public class MainActivity : Activity, GestureDetector.IOnGestureListener
{
private GestureDetector _gestureDetector;

public bool OnDown(MotionEvent e)
    {
        return false;
    }
    public bool OnFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY)
    {
        bool result = false;
        int SWIPE_THRESHOLD = 80;
        int SWIPE_VELOCITY_THRESHOLD = 80;
        try
        {
            float diffY = e2.GetY() - e1.GetY();
            float diffX = e2.GetX() - e1.GetX();
            if (Math.Abs(diffX) > Math.Abs(diffY))
            {
                if (Math.Abs(diffX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD && Math.Abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_VELOCITY_THRESHOLD)
                {
                    if (diffX > 0)
                    {
                        //code for swipe right here

                    }
                    else
                    {
                        //code for swipe Left here

                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            //exception.printStackTrace();
        }
        return result;
    }
    public void OnLongPress(MotionEvent e) {}
    public bool OnScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY)
    {
        return false;
    }
    public void OnShowPress(MotionEvent e) {}
    public bool OnSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e)
    {
        return false;
    }
public override bool OnTouchEvent(MotionEvent e)
    {
        _gestureDetector.OnTouchEvent(e);
        return false;
    }

    protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate (bundle);

        SetContentView (Resource.Layout.Main);
        _gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(this);

    }
}

For ViewPager you can overlap Pages with something like this PageTransformation:
using System;

using Android.Views;
using Android.Support.V4.View;

namespace SomeName
{
public class SinkAndSlideTransformer : Java.Lang.Object, ViewPager.IPageTransformer
{
public void TransformPage(View view, float position)
{
if (position < -1 || position > 1)
{
view.Alpha = 0; // The view is offscreen.
}
else
{
view.Alpha = 1;

if (position < 0)
{
// 'Sink' the view if it's to the left.
// Scale the view.
view.ScaleX = 1 - Math.Abs (position);
view.ScaleY = 1 - Math.Abs (position);

// Set the translationX to keep the view in the middle.
view.TranslationX = view.Width * Math.Abs (position);
}
}
}
}
}

Which will give this effect:

With this Adapter:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Support.V4.View;

using Square.Picasso;

namespace StaffPro
{
public class SlideshowPagerAdapter : PagerAdapter
{
    List<Uri> _items = new List<Uri>();
    private readonly Activity _context;

    public SlideshowPagerAdapter (Activity context, List<Uri> items) : base()
    {
        _items = items;
        _context = context;
    }
    public override int Count
    {
        get { return _items.Count; }
    }
    public override bool IsViewFromObject(View view, Java.Lang.Object _object)
    {
        return view == ((RelativeLayout) _object);
    }
    public override Java.Lang.Object InstantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position)
    {
        var view = LayoutInflater.From (container.Context).Inflate (Resource.Layout.SlideshowViewPager, container, false);
        ImageView imageView = view.FindViewById<ImageView> (Resource.Id.slideshowImageView);
        Picasso.With(_context).Load(_items [position].ToString()).Into(imageView);
        container.AddView(view);

        return view;
    }
    public override void DestroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Java.Lang.Object _object)
    {
        container.RemoveView((View)_object);
    }
}
}

And to call the viewpages and the adapter with something like this:
var viewPagerAdapter = new SlideshowPagerAdapter(Activity, some_Uri_images);
        slideshowViewPager.Adapter = viewPagerAdapter;
        slideshowViewPager.SetPageTransformer (true, new SinkAndSlideTransformer ());

More Transformations you can find here.
Also keep in mind that the ViewPager has a method called setPageMargin(). This method can receive a negative value which will make the fragments/views to overlap each other.
You can also use view.Rotation inside your Transformation code to implement the photo randomly dropped and overlapped effect you want.
If you need to retain many images loaded and displayed check also ViewPager.OffscreenPageLimit it will override the default cache limit of storing pages for the next and previous item, be careful about high memory usage however.


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Split-Second Story Six: WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
June 2, 2014 at 9:04 pm	(Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Dublin, Ireland, memories, Menlo Park, Mondays, postaday, postaweek, summer, travel, Wordpress
. . . attempt to capture a candid moment . . .
Grafton Street, Dublin. This singer was fantastic.
St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, early May
Mary Ann Robbiano turned 90. Self rented a room from her when she was just a new graduate student at Stanford, many many years ago.
Oxford, Self, and "The X-Files"
June 2, 2014 at 3:17 pm	(Conversations, Links, Places, television, Traveling)
Tags: England, memories, Mondays, nostalgia, travel
The following Mulder/Scully exchange occurred in the Pilot Episode of cult TV show of the 1990s, "The X-Files":
FBI interviewer: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?
Scully: Yes, I am.
FBI: How so?
Scully: By reputation. He's an Oxford-educated psychologist who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult, that helped to catch Monty Props in 1988. Generally thought of as the best analyst in the violent crimes section. He had a nickname at the Academy: Spooky Mulder.
That was a great series, dear blog readers.
Self hugely enjoyed the episodes on such grotesque and apocryphal creatures as the Jersey Devil, Chimera, and Incubus.
But it's the mention of Oxford that really gets her attention, because it reminds her that Mulder was supposed to be some sort of genius who, yes, did indeed attend the august institution that self has been ogling for the past few days:
Christ Church, Oxford's oldest college, from across a meadow


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Marist Sisters College Woolwich founded
Home › Timeline › Marist Sisters College Woolwich founded
During the early 1900's, the Marist Fathers of Sydney were negotiating with the Mother General of the Marist Sisters from France about establishing a foundation in Sydney. In 1908, Mother Melanie established the first community of Marist Sisters in Hunters Hill. The sisters purchased a two-storey house from the Usher family overlooking Lane Cove River to represent a touch of France. It was classed early on as a Superior School for Young Ladies and was known as Mount St Mary's. 2010 saw the end of an era, after 26 years as Principal, Sr Fidelis McTeigue SM retired and the College appointed Mrs Christina Trimble as its first lay Principal. The College continues to be a vibrant educational Catholic community offering girls a broad range of curricular and extracurricular opportunities in the Marist tradition.


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Marc Michel est un historien français, né en 1935, spécialiste de l'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique, de l'histoire coloniale et de la décolonisation.

Biographie

Jeunesse et formation
Marc Michel est né le 14 mai 1935 dans le . Il passe sa petite enfance en Afrique puis effectue ses études secondaires et supérieures à Paris. Il est ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud et agrégé d'histoire.

Il soutient en 1968, à l'École pratique des hautes études VIe section, une thèse de  intitulée La Mission Marchand 1895-1899, sous la direction d'Henri Brunschwig. Elle est publiée en 1972 aux éditions Mouton.

En 1979, soutient ensuite une thèse d'État sur la contribution de l'Afrique-occidentale française à la Première Guerre mondiale, sous la direction du professeur Jean-Baptiste Duroselle. Elle est publiée, dans une version simplifiée, en 1982 par les Publications de la Sorbonne, puis en 2003 et 2014 par les éditions Khartala.

Dans cet ouvrage, Les Africains et la Grande Guerre : l'appel à l'Afrique (1914-1918) [2003], il évoque les  « tirailleurs sénégalais » d'AOF dont plus de  viennent combattre en Europe, où  meurent.

Carrière
Il enseigne plusieurs années, comme maître de conférences, à Brazzaville (Congo) et à Yaoundé (Cameroun), au moment où sont mises en place les universités d'Afrique centrale et du Cameroun.

Revenu en France en 1969, il occupe les fonctions de maître de conférences à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, puis de professeur à l'université de Clermont-Ferrand II, et à l'université de Provence, dont il devient professeur émérite à sa retraite. Il est membre du Centre d'études des mondes africains (CEMAf).

Activités
Marc Michel a effectué de nombreuses missions d'enseignement et d'enquête de terrain en Afrique au Sénégal, au Burkina, au Mali, au Cameroun, en RCA, au Burundi.

Il a dirigé l'Institut d'Histoire comparée des Civilisations (IHCC) à Aix en Provence (aujourd'hui section aixoise de l'Institut des Mondes africains, IMaf). Il a été président de la Société française d'Histoire d'Outre-mer de 1995 à 2003, également membre de la section des Lettres et Sciences humaines du CNL. II a été membre du Jury de l'Agrégation d'Histoire de 1993 à 1996.

Marc Michel fait partie du comité scientifique de l'Historial de la Grande Guerre à Péronne. Il a été le rédacteur en chef de la revue Outre-mers.

Publications

Ouvrages
 La mission Marchand, 1895-1899, Paris, Mouton, 1972, 290 p.
 Gallieni, Fayard, 1989.
 - Prix du maréchal-Foch 1991 de l'Académie française
 L'Ère des décolonisations, avec Charles-Robert Ageron, Karthala, 2000.
 Marc Michel, Yvan Paillard, Australes : études historiques aixoises sur l'Afrique australe et l'océan occidental, l'Harmattan, 2000.
 Colette Dubois, Marc Michel, Pierre Soumille, éd., Frontières plurielles, frontières conflictuelles en Afrique subsaharienne, Paris, L'Harmattan, IHCC, 2000, 460 p.
 Les Africains et la Grande Guerre : l'appel à l'Afrique (1914-1918), Éditions Karthala, 2003.
 Jules Isaac, Un historien dans la Grande Guerre, Lettres et carnets 1914-1917, Armand Colin, 2004.
 Décolonisation et émergence du tiers-monde, Hachette, 2005.
 « Soldats africains de l'armée française : mémoires et débats » dans Olivier Dard et Daniel Lefeuvre (dir.), L'Europe face à son passé colonial, Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2008.
 Marc Michel, Essai sur la colonisation positive. Affrontements et accommodements en Afrique noire, 1830-1930, Éditions Perrin, 2009.
- Prix Jean-Sainteny 2009 de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques
 Marc Michel et Charles-Robert Ageron (dir.), L'Afrique noire française : L'heure des indépendances, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2010.
 La France au Cameroun (1919-1960) : Partir pour mieux rester ?, Les Indes savantes, 2018

Articles
 Marc Michel, « Les plantations allemandes du mont Cameroun (1885-1914) », in Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 1970, vol. 57, , ,

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Tirailleurs sénégalais
 Joseph Gallieni
 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, de la mission Marchand
 Bakary Diallo
 Daniel Lefeuvre

Liens externes

 Émission de France-Culture, du 2 déc. 2006, titrée « 14-18 : les Africains dans les tranchées », avec l'historien Marc Michel

Historien français du XXe siècle
Historien de l'Afrique
Enseignant à l'université de Provence
Enseignant à l'université Clermont-Ferrand II
Naissance en mai 1935
Naissance dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris


The Department of Economics, which had its origin way back in 1959 as the extension centre of the University of Madras, blossomed into a full-fledged Department of Economics at the time of the formation of Madurai University in the year 1966. Department of Econometrics was created in 1982.
The Department of Economics made significant progress ever since its establishment and was selected by the UGC under the Departmental Research Support Programme (DRS) in 1991 for its further growth. Subsequently the Department of Economics was converted into School of Economics with seven constituent Departments namely Agricultural Economics, Econometrics, Environmental Economics, Human Resource Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Mathematical Economics and Rural Development Economics in the year 1991.
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Q: Java Sort Data From A File Using Arrays I have to write a method that reads the file integers.txt and return an array of integers. I have to convert each line of data from text to an integer.
However, I cannot figure out why I am getting an error when I try to assign the array x to the integers within the file and when I convert the data to integers. I am also getting an error with my return statement.
public static int[] processFile (String filename) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
    double number;
    double average;
    BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("integers.txt")));
    String line;
    while ((line = inputReader.readLine()) != null) {
        number = Int.parseInt(line);
        int[] x = (number);
        inputReader.close();
    }
    return int[] x;
}

A: Firstly it's Integer.parseInt()
 number = Int.parseInt(line);
        int[] x = (number);

number will contain a single int not an array of ints. so this int[] x = (number); assignment is wrong.
return int[] x; this is also invalid syntax.

A: There are a few problems here. To answer your question, you can't assign an int to an int array. Next, unless you entered your code incorrectly, you are closing the inputReader inside the while loop that is doing the reading. Also, you are returning int[] x. That is wrong. Return x.

A: There are multiple issues with your code:

*

*You are using return int[] x; instead of simply return x;

*x is only assigned inside the while, so you can't return it outside

*x = (number); isn't a correct method for adding a value to the array

*The int[] x; is never initialized

*You use double number at the top of the method, but then assign it with an int here: number = Int.parseInt(line);
My suggestions is to use this instead, which will give an ArrayList<int> as output.
public static ArrayList<Integer> processFile (String filename) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException
{
    BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("integers.txt")));
    String line;
    ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
    while ((line = inputReader.readLine()) != null) {
        int number = Int.parseInt(line);
        list.add(number);
    }
    inputReader.close();
    return list;
}

If you really need an int[] instead, you'll have to give it a size first like this: int[] x = new int[size_here]; For example:
public static int[] processFile (String filename) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException
{
    BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("integers.txt")));
    String line;
    int[] array = new int[100]; // Example size of 100
    int index = 0;
    while ((line = inputReader.readLine()) != null) {
        int number = Int.parseInt(line);
        array[index++] = number;
    }
    inputReader.close();
    return array;
}

And if you need an int[] instead, AND don't know the size beforehand, try this instead:
public static int[] processFile (String filename) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException
{
    BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("integers.txt")));
    String line;
    ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
    while ((line = inputReader.readLine()) != null) {
        int number = Int.parseInt(line);
        list.add(number);
    }
    inputReader.close();
    return convertIntegers(list);
}

public static int[] convertIntegers(List<Integer> integers)
{
    int[] ret = new int[integers.size()];
    Iterator<Integer> iterator = integers.iterator();
    for (int i = 0; i < ret.length; i++)
    {
        ret[i] = iterator.next().intValue();
    }
    return ret;
}


Black Stars coach has Avram Grant has outlined plans he has put in place for the development of the local league as well as coaches in the country.
The Israeli trainer who was mandated to upgrade standards of local coaches as part of his job as head coach of Ghana has earmarked plans to achieve this goal.
The first of such courses the Israeli will have with local coaches will be held on Friday at the Alisa Hotel in Accra. According to the GFA, the seminar will enable the senior national team boss share ideas with coaches of the various Premier League clubs.
Grant signed a 27 month contract with Ghana which started in December 2014 and has been widely criticised for his lack of commitment to staying in the country to do hands-on work.


after taking a first look at your f(x) using gnuplot my first tought was: -cos(pi*x).
What do you think about different tables for Y, Pb and Pr ?
Your qtable results in somewhat more sharpness at expense of color reproduction.


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Personality can be defined as an individual's characteristic pattern of feeling, thinking, and acting. Theorists view personality from several diverse perspectives.
Psychodynamic theories, descended from the work of Sigmund Freud, emphasize the importance of unconscious mental forces.
Freud and psychoanalytic theory. Sigmund Freud originated the psychoanalytic approach based on his experiences in his psychiatric practice and developed a technique called free association, which requires a patient to relax and report everything that comes to mind no matter how trivial or how strange it might seem. Using this technique, he found that patients often revived painful memories reaching back even to early childhood.
Freud believed that the mind is like an iceberg, mostly hidden (Figure ), and that free association would ultimately let a patient retrieve memories from the unconscious, memories not ordinarily available because they are threatening in some way. Conscious awareness (the visible part of the iceberg) floats above the surface. The preconscious (the area only shallowly submerged) contains information which can voluntarily be brought to awareness. The unconscious (the larger, deeply submerged portion of the iceberg) contains thoughts, feelings, and memories of which a person is unaware and many of which have been repressed, or forcibly blocked from consciousness. From his work, Freud developed psychoanalysis, a technique for treating psychological disorders by identifying and resolving problems stored in the unconscious.
Freudian personality theory. Concomitant with his development of psychoanalysis, Freud constructed a theory of personality, which includes the following observations.
Personality has three structures: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id, a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy, operates on the pleasure principle, seeks immediate gratification, and is not restrained by reality. It operates solely at the unconscious level. The ego, which develops in early childhood, operates through the reality principle, which seeks to gratify impulses of the id realistically and to bring long‐term pleasure without pain. The ego operates at both the conscious and pre‐conscious levels. The superego, a third structure, emerges as children reach 4 or 5 and internalize the morals of parents and society. The superego acts as a voice of conscience and operates mostly at the preconscious level of awareness. People also possess and are driven by a psychological energy called the libido.
Children pass through a series of psychosexual stages during which the id seeks pleasure from body areas, erogenous zones, that change during development. If children have difficulty passing through a particular stage, they are said to have become fixated. Fixation at the phallic stage may create an Oedipus complex for a boy (jealousy of a son toward his father in competing for his mother's attention) or an Electra complex for a girl (who competes with her mother for her father's attention). Children resolve these conflicts by identifying with the parent of the same gender.
During a child's development, the ego strategically uses defense mechanisms to deal with the anxiety produced by conflicting impulses from the id (operating on the pleasure principle) and the superego (using internalized representation of the parents' value system). Defense mechanisms include
repression, preventing dangerous or painful thoughts from entering consciousness
reaction formation, preventing expression of dangerous impulses by exaggerating opposite behavior
projection, attributing one's feelings, shortcomings, or unacceptable impulses to others
displacement, directing impulses toward a less threatening or more acceptable person or object
regression, retreating to an earlier stage of development
sublimation, rechanneling of unacceptable impulses into acceptable activities
denial, refusing to perceive reality, acting as if something did not happen
compensation, counteracting real or imagined difficulties or weaknesses by emphasizing other traits or excelling in other areas
intellectualization, separating emotions from threatening situations by thinking and acting impersonally
fantasy, meeting unfulfilled desires by imagination
Psychopathology can result if an individual does not pass through the stages of psychosexual development and becomes fixated, or fails to pass to the next stage. For example, a person fixated at the oral stage could, among other things, exhibit symptoms of obsessive eating or smoking in adult life. The problem could be identified and treated through psychoanalysis.
The neo‐Freudians. Other theorists, while they accepted much of the Freudian theory, differed on certain basic premises and introduced additional ideas.
Carl Jung, a contemporary of Freud, developed a variation of psychoanalytic theory called analytical psychology, which includes two well‐known concepts.
The collective unconscious, in contrast with Freud's unconscious, contains latent memory traces from a person's ancestors.
Archetypes, emotionally charged images and thoughts that have universal meaning, may be manifested in a culture's symbols, art, religion, and so forth.
Alfred Adler's approach to personality theory is called individual psychology, which de‐emphasizes the importance of sexual motivation and focuses on socially based motives. Adler believed that the behavior of adults is motivated by striving for superiority, a drive for perfection.
Karen Horney proposed that many adult characteristics are produced by attempts to deal with basic anxiety, a feeling of being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world. Horney was also a pioneer in the study of psychology of women. She suggested that outside the family, women experience harmful effects because society places a greater value on being male, an attitude that contributes to women's feeling of inferiority and lack of self‐esteem.


The life of Peter and what the resurrection meant to him.
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Will the real John Malkovich please stand up? Actor. Director. Producer. Clothing designer. Opera singer—it's hard to pin down the 63-year-old multihyphenate. Ever since Spike Jonze's surreal 1999 comedy Being John Malkovich, in which the actor blew up his own persona by playing a caricature of himself, it's been difficult to parse the genuine Malkovich from his fictive counterparts. Is he some kind of arrogant and effeminate tyrant, as he is depicted in the film—a hair's breadth from the maniacs, psychos, and cruelest of antiheroes he's become famous for playing, from the brutish brother Lee in Sam Shepard's play True West to the vicious seducer Valmont in the 1988 Oscar winner Dangerous Liaisons? Or is this just a ruse—one more variation on his chameleonic identity?
Earlier this year, Malkovich launched a short film called John's Journey promoting his new fashion line. In the film, he's tossing the pages of a screenplay into a fire, defending his fashion career ("If you're known for one thing, it's hard for people," he explains), and walking through Paris as we hear the voices of skeptics on the soundtrack ("Come on, John, we've got movies to make"). All the while, he's wearing an array of ornately patterned shirts, jackets, and scarves of his own design. But is it serious, or self-parody, or something in between?
While speaking on the phone from his home in France, Malkovich allows his many edges to come a bit more into focus. His interest in design relates to his acting, in that "they're both forms of self-expression, and they're both pretty detail-oriented," he explains in his famously crisp, silky diction.
But there's something else—a dark whimsy that underlies his work. If you look closely in his new line, for example, at one particular pattern—called Mr. Mudd—it stands out as eye-catchingly absurdist: the design features little images of a man's head, wearing the same Kufi-like, round, brimless hat, with different expressions on his face.
Malkovich gets his inspiration, for both design and performance, from a variety of people, places, and materials. In 2003, his first line, Uncle Kimono, was motivated by a photo of a mustached, dapper Japanese man in 1930s Los Angeles. His second venture, Technobohemian, launched in 2010, was a reflection of a newly perceived kind of cosmopolitan man of the world. Both collections included many of the same types of clothing as his current line, from linen jackets to Bermuda shorts to patterned shirts and scarves.
While he prefers certain high-end fabric manufacturers, he's also not afraid of blendingman-made fibers like polyester into his clothing. "Because it's going to wrinkle a little less. And that's a good thing if you travel a lot like me," he admits.
He speaks fondly of his rural American upbringing ("I don't think I could be more Midwestern if I made a conscious effort to be," he admits), which may explain his down-to-earthness. In fact, the more you speak with the thespian, the more he seems concerned with authenticity than obfuscation.
Over the years, Malkovich admits that his film roles have become less emotional because of the material; he also resists the idea that he identifies with the villains he's portrayed on stage and screen.
In the next year, Malkovich is displaying his full range as an actor, appearing in no less than six new feature films, including Hollywood flicks (Unlocked, alongside Noomi Rapace), independents (Valley of the Gods, as a reclusive trillionaire), crime thrillers (Unchained, with Antonio Banderas and Adrien Brody), and, yes, comedies (The Wilde Wedding, reuniting him for the first time with his Dangerous Liaisons costar Glenn Close).
"I keep doing what I'm doing," he says matter-of-factly. "I just finished three collections; I go on tour with a different classical music piece; I want to develop another music piece with a pianist; and I think I will go back to yet another classical music hybrid thingy called The Music Critic."He's also reprising another music-and-theater piece called Report on the Blind, attending film festivals in Kazakhstan and Angoulême, France, and will preside on the jury of the textile trade fair Première Vision Paris to decide the world's finest fabric. "That takes me through the autumn," he says. "Then, I don't know. But I don't want to just sit around.


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From Burundi, Africa to LIFE Pittsburgh: One Couple's Journey!
By Caitlin Bartley and Abigail Mason
Severino Nsaguye and Melida Bucumi are a married couple from Burundi, a small landlocked country in eastern Africa. They were farmers and were displaced when civil war broke out in their country in 1993, which lasted until 2006. They and their children fled by foot to a refugee camp in neighboring Tanzania. Eight of their children are still in Africa. One son, and his family, were brought to the United States. Severino and Melida joined them in 2015.
With the help of the United Nations and NAMS, Severino and Melida were settled in Pittsburgh in 2015 with their son and his family. In the summer of 2016, Severino was referred to LIFE Pittsburgh. Melida was referred shortly afterward. When they arrived in America, neither of them spoke English.
During their time at LIFE Pittsburgh, Severino and Melida are accompanied by a translator from ECHO International for both their regular center days and doctor appointments outside of the day center. The Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) and Registered Nurse at LIFE Pittsburgh translated the couple's pill box to their native language of Kirundi. The CTRS also made pictures of body parts on labels to be placed on medications to help with the language barrier. Shortly after they enrolled, the CTRS made a Kirundi-to-English dictionary available to staff to be used in both the center and at home. Staff was also provided with a website for online translations.
In 2017, with the translator's help, the social worker wrote a translation chart with commonly used phrases. The social worker also found a medical picture board to assist with communication. Both resources were used to build upon the Kirundi dictionary.
In the beginning of 2017, the CTRS started the Kirundi "Word of the Week". A Kirundi word was introduced to staff and other participants each week. While amongst their peers in recreation, the other participants would learn the Kirundi word while Severino and Melida would practice the English word. That word is a way to communicate with the couple in their language, while also encouraging them to learn English.
The social worker also assisted the couple in obtaining their own apartment. The couple was living with their son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren in one house and needed a more accessible and appropriate place to live. The social worker was able to assist the couple to obtain a senior apartment. The social worker and translator went with the couple to review and sign the lease. Upon moving in, the social worker made a referral to 'Off the Floor' charity to obtain furniture. The Life Pittsburgh Chaplain was also able to assist with obtaining basic household items through various charities. The social worker and Chaplain assisted in setting up the apartment and teaching the couple how to use some of their new items. When Severino was asked about his new apartment, he said "I feel like I am home."
Both Severino and Melida have expressed their gratefulness for LIFE Pittsburgh and the center programing. Recreation staff has provided activities that would fit their cultural needs. For example, an African drum circle will be scheduled during their center time. Severino quickly takes the lead in the drum circle with the other participant's following his lead. The couple was also quick to learn the word 'Bingo!' They are pleased with the medical care and are happy that they can come to LIFE Pittsburgh staff with their concerns.
For more information about LIFE Pittsburgh, call (412) 388-8050.


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Indiana Jones-style adventure all this week.
Scottish mysteries of all time.
Biblical proportions . . .
location of one of the most sacred mountains mentioned in the Bible.
No, I wasn't in Jerusalem — but the quaint Ayrshire town of Kilwinning.
the Crusades, returned to Europe.
you were being burned at the stake!
relics to a safe place.
kilted brother Knights led by Robert the Bruce.
Kilwinning who lived in the Abbey.
history with several valuable relics taken there for safe keeping.
used by Christ at The Last Supper is hidden in a chamber beneath Kilwinning.
is the location of Heredom — the sacred Biblical mountain.
while it also appears in the Bible as the name of a mystical holy mountain.
But it can also mean 'New Temple'.
Heredom where the first Lodge was held in Europe.
many conspiracy theories around the world — the Freemasons.
Masonic records confirm that Kilwinning Lodge is known as Mother Lodge No 0.
within Freemasonry is called the Royal Order of Scotland.
Master to himself and his successors.
extensive tunnels beneath Kilwinning Abbey.
which terminates at Eglington Castle near Irvine.
Lauchlan told how he was once shown a secret tunnel near the Abbey.
the Abbey and Mrs Longmuir's kitchen kept a secret.
indicate the presence of a subterranean tunnel created by the Templars.
lost Templar treasures, taken from vaults in Paris in 1307.
day these might lead me to my very own Heredom.


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Rural guesthouse located in San Vicente de O Grove. At the entrance of the Ría de Arousa and in the heart of the Salnés region. Area of beaches par excellence in direct contact with the beautiful nature of the Galician Rias Bajas.
In Casa Angelina the traveler has free parking, spacious rooms with bathroom, all exterior, some with terrace or balcony, heating, television and free WIFI. All within the framework of a natural environment of exceptional beauty by the proximity to the beaches, among which stands out the famous beach of A Lanzada.