The days go by so fast here.. Because we have multiple concerts in one day, all of the days get jumbled up and we can't seem to keep track! Day 5 was a lot like that. We had two concerts in one day. One at Koh Jahn Church and another at Dong Kwang Church. It was awesome as usual: the kids did great, God moved mightily on stage and behind the scenes, and people were blessed! We always receive an amazing amount of love and blessings whenever we perform at a church, but the amount of love and service we received at Dong Kwang Church was just completely insane. Whenever we perform, the kids need a place to change their uniforms. However, because the closest room to change in was two floors up, the church had BUILT changing rooms JUST for the kids. Beautifully hand-constructed with wood, it had everything from doors to a curtain on the inside.. We were amazed and awestruck by the amount of sacrifice and love they had poured out onto us. We were so blessed not just because of the physical changing room itself, but the heart and thought behind it. THANK YOU DONG KWANG CHURCH!! One million times thank you.
This tour is different than many of the others tours in many ways. But the biggest difference is our spiritual mentality. We know how real our God is and therefore know how real the enemy is. Satan has been working OVERTIME against us. It's crazy to know and crazy to experience the opposition. However, our God is GREATER and STRONGER and He cares for us. We have experienced so many attacks from the enemy, both physical and spiritual, but every single time, God was faithful. The power of prayer is so evident during this tour and we cannot thank you enough (to those who are reading) for praying for us back at home. The kids may be the ones on the stage, but it would not be possible without the prayer and support from those back at home. We thank you and we love you.


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What is Gender Neutrality and Why is it Important
Gender neutrality is the concept of removing gendered language from everyday speech and communication. To understand neutrality and why it's important, we must first understand gender. The working definition of gender is: a complex combination of roles, expressions, identities, performances, and more which is assigned a gendered meaning; gender is self-defined, as well as defined by our larger society and how gender is embodied and defined varies from culture to culture and from person to person. (This definition was found at these lists.) All of that basically boils down to a basic truth: gender is a societal construct, and each society has a different idea of what it means to be a "woman" or a "man."
But wait, you might be thinking, societal constructs are not inherently bad, and there are plenty of societal constructs that are useful (time), necessary (money), and incredibly important in the context of our history (race). This is true, social constructs aren't nonfunctional -- they do have an effect on lived experiences and realities. To be sure, it is important to be aware of the context of gender, and the oppression the gender binary has placed on certain people. In a perfect world, binaries wouldn't exist, but we don't live in a perfect world, and so it is important to recognise that while gender is a societal construct, and people can self-determine their own gender, there are real world consequences which harm people who dare to exist comfortably outside of the binary.
Keeping this sobering information in mind, the next question might be, what does this have to do with me, and why is it important to be gender neutral? The simple answer is that being gender neutral allows you to be much more inclusive of everyone, no matter their gender identity or expression.
You may be familiar with the terms "transgender," "gender non-conforming," "nonbinary," "cisgender," and "gender expression." If you're not, don't worry, this section will help you to become more familiar with those terms! In safer spaces, there is a push for gender neutrality in our language in order to be more inclusive of these identities. This type of language and thinking recognises that a stereotypical "female" or "male" experience is not identical for all people, and that generalisations of the "female" or "male" experience shouldn't be made because it excludes people and makes them feel as though they don't belong. It's important not to make people feel as though they don't belong, because we want our safer spaces to be safe and inclusive for everyone.
Transgender (or "trans") - an adjective describing an individual whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned at birth. Trans people can fit along the wo/man
binary (a trans woman was assigned "male" at birth and identifies as a woman, a trans man was assigned "female" at birth and identifies as a man), or they can fall outside of the binary (a person who was assigned "male" at birth, but identifies as nonbinary -- this person's gender identity is different from what they were assigned at birth, and so falls under the trans identity). "Trans," as it is used in biology, means "on the other side," and it is used to mean that the gender of a person and the gender they were assigned at birth is not the same. The transgender umbrella does not include crossdressing or drag kings and queens, because this is gender as a performance and not as a gender identity. Identities such crossdressers and intersex (which we will get into detail about later) may self-identify as trans, but these identities are not inherently transgender.
Gender Non-Conforming (GNC) - an individual who does not conform to the wo/man gender binary. This can function as an umbrella term for folks outside of the binary or as an adjective for a specific person.
Nonbinary - an individual who identifies with a gender identity that is neither exclusively "woman," nor "man." Their gender identity can be either completely outside of the wo/man binary, or have aspects of "woman" or aspects of "man," or sometimes aspects of both simultaneously. Nonbinary can refer to a specific person's gender, or function as an umbrella term.
Cisgender (or "cis") - an adjective describing an individual whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth. A cis woman was assigned "female" at birth and identifies as such, a cis man was signed "male" at birth and identifies as such. "Cis," as it is used in biology, means "on the same side as," and it is used to mean that the gender of a person and the gender they were assigned at birth is aligned or "the same." It is used in lieu of stigmatising words like "normal" or "natural," which imply other people's experiences are abnormal, weird, or unnatural.
Gender Expression - how an individual expresses their gender outwardly; there is no right or wrong way to do this. Sometimes someone's gender expression, or gender presentation, doesn't match up with their gender identity because they cannot afford to express themselves fully or safely. It is still legal to be fired for being transgender in 32 states. Additionally, people who may present or express a gender different than the one they were assigned at birth are more likely to be the target of bullying, harassment, health issues, and sexual or physical abuse, as studies have shown.
Sex as A Societal Construct
While many people are aware gender is self-determined, people still espouse harmful ideas about the sex binary, which is also a societal construct. Even in progressive spaces, well-meaning people will use the tired slogan, "Gender is what's between your ears, sex is what's between your legs!" This is incorrect and harmful to many folks, even for those transitioning within the binary.
Gender "assignment" (assigned female at birth, AFAB; assigned male at birth, AMAB) is usually based on genitals alone. It is assumed that our identities should and will match this assignment. Terrifyingly enough, our hospitals still run on a "1 inch rule," which has been used to hurt intersex people even continuing into present day.
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This means that babies whose genitals protrude less than ⅜" are designated female, and babies whose genitals protrude over 1" are designated male, but anything in between given an invasive surgery where the parents and doctor decide the infant's gender and perform the surgery accordingly.
The sex binary of fe/male is an oversimplification of a much more complex system than people realise. Intersex individuals are people born with any manner of supposed "ambiguity" in terms of gendered physical characteristics. This can include reproductive organs, genitals, hormones, chromosomes, or any combination thereof. Commonly, people assume that all intersex individuals have "both" systems of sexual organs ("both" implies there are only two, and is exclusionary language), which gave rise to the term "h*rmaphrodite," which is an out of date term and considered a slur (and incorrect, because intersex individuals are not born with two functioning sexual reproductive systems). For more myths regarding intersex individuals, click here. (This article is slightly outdated and still used "intersex" as a verb. More recently, terms like "transgendered" and "intersexed" with the "ed" suffix are considered grammatically incorrect.)
There are many intersex individuals who go their whole lives unaware they are intersex because the manifestation is not physical (not exhibited in external genitalia). So, plainly put, the XX and XY binary of biology is actually not a binary at all, and includes many different combinations of sex chromosomes. Assigned female at birth individuals can have XX, XXX, XXXX, XO, and XY chromosomal alignments, and assigned male at birth individuals can have XY, XXYY, XYY, and XX chromosomal alignments.
Since the majority of the population has never had their karyotype examined, many people are unaware of whether or not they are intersex until they go to their doctor for other medical issues (sometimes these issues are related to being intersex, but not always). Also, unless someone is seeing an endocrinologist regularly, not a lot of folks are aware of their hormone patterns or levels, which is another fashion in which someone can be intersex (the body making too much or too little of any hormone, such as testosterone or estrogen). Someone with XY chromosomes could have a hormonal pattern that is usually associated with what people consider "female," and someone with XX chromosomes could have a hormonal pattern that is usually associated with what people consider "male." Intersex people are about as common as redheads -- 1 in 100 people -- and this is important because so few people are aware of how common it is that they fail to educate themselves beyond the 9th-grade-biology sex binary.
This is why words such as "female-bodied," "male-bodied," "male-to-female (MtF)," and "female-to-male (FtM)" have been phased out of inclusive language spaces. Nonconsensual gendering of bodies is not okay, and there are many ways for "female" and "male" bodies to look. Breasts/vaginas are not inherently "female" and penises/scrotums are not inherently "male," and as we discussed above, sometimes people who are assigned a certain gender at birth may not have the "stereotypical body parts" or hormones that go with that designation. For example, a person assigned female at birth can have "male" hormonal patterns or internal testes, etc. As for transitioning folks, a trans woman may not identify with the term MtF because she never identified as a male, and therefore is not "male-to-female" but simply a woman.
People get flustered when sex, as a binary is shown to be fallible and full of problems -- they insist that it's important when going to a doctor to tell the doctor what you're working with. And this is true, but it's actually much clearer to state the problem (e.g., "My scrotum is itchy, I think I have a rash," or "My menstrual cramping is worse than usual, is something wrong?") than conflating body parts with gender and sex, and none of these statements have gendered attachments.
For more reading on the breaking down of the hormonal and chromosomal binary, click here.
See this helpful diagram on sex, gender, orientation, and gender expression!
After going over terms and the gender and sex binaries, you may be wondering how to quickly spot cisnormative language in your spaces, so you have a better idea where to focus on being more inclusive.
Cissexism, or cisnormativity, is the systemic overarching idea that cisgender people are the "norm," and language that contributes to this harmful system can fall into four basic categories:
Blatant cissexism: insisting upon and enforcing the binary. Stating that trans and nonbinary people don't exist, or that intersex individuals need to pick "just one." This can range from slurs (tr*nny) and bullying behaviour to removal of basic rights (not allowing trans people to use the restroom they are most comfortable in) to outright violence ("trans panic" is still a legal defense in 49 states).
Casual cissexism: associating genitals with gender (statements such as "I'm a lesbian, that means I love vaginas!" or "Men will never understand periods!" Are harmful -- some men have vaginas and uteri, some women have penises!) or conflating penises with "maleness," and vulvas/breasts with "femaleness."
Nonbinary/Intersex erasure: simple statements such as "opposite gender" or "opposite sex," not only implying there are only two, but also implying that "masculinity" and "femininity" exist on opposite sides of a binary scale. Try saying instead "other genders," or "different genders." Instead of saying, "both men and women," or "both genders," try saying, "people of all genders," or "this can be for any gender!"
Appearance assumptions: if someone hasn't told you their gender, don't assume! Just because someone "looks" like a man or a woman to you doesn't mean they are! Practise using "they," and "them" when talking about individuals whose gender you are unsure of until you get a chance to ask them about their pronouns! (Remember it is never okay to ask anyone about their genitals!) If you accidentally misgender someone, apologise and make sure to use the correct pronouns and terms for their identity following your misstep. (If you need help practising someone's pronouns, try this site!)
Now that we've discussed gender neutrality and its importance in our safer spaces, keep an eye out for our following blog post on how to keep our language gender neutral, and also how to incorporate it into our sexytimes, such as with sexting, foreplay, and dirty talking!


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Do you need a K-9?
Kenny Licklider, owner of Vohne Liche Kennels and star of National Geographic WILD's show Alpha Dogs, shares why dogs trained for executive protection may be the best investment you'll ever make.
(Alpha Dogs premieres on February 8 and airs Fridays at 9 p.m on Nat Geo WILD. You can see a preview here.)
The blades of an army-green helicopter chop frantically through the air. Inside, six special forces officers scream "Go, go, go!" as the aircraft skims a wide-open field. A camo-clad fighter and his furry partner jump to the ground, ready to run, while across the pasture, a turbaned enemy tries to flee. When the soldier commands his partner to attack, there are no gunshots and no explosions—just the sound of gnashing teeth and a flash of pure muscle sprinting across grass.
In an instant, the German Shepherd turns from soldier's best friend to an enemy's worst nightmare. The decoy terrorist is downed with one debilitating bite. The soldier pulls out a tennis ball and smiles. "Yabrav!" he says to the panting pup at his side. "Good boy!"
Just another day at Vohne Liche Kennels in Denver, Indiana—the nation's premier full service K-9 training facility, and the subject of National Geographic WILD's new reality show, Alpha Dogs. As it turns out, a well-trained dog may not be limited to those in uniform. Thanks to VLK's new executive protection program, individuals and businesses alike will have the chance to invest in their own four-legged defense.
We Didn't Really Have Pets
Meet the head alpha dog himself: Kenny Licklider, a retired senior master sergeant from the U.S. Air Force—a man who wears both his tattoos and his grey beard like medals of honor. His kennel has trained police and military service dogs for more than 5,000 law enforcement and government agencies, including the National Security Agency, Pentagon Police, U.S. State Department, all military branches, and more than 500 civilian and police agencies. From bounty hunters who need a little extra protection to executives across the world, Vohne Liche Kennels is in the business of serious self defense.
"There's no better protection than a well-trained dog," Licklider says with an equal measure of sincerity and certainty. As sexy as the first clip of his new show might look, the kennel master says that training is not all about the bite. "If a dog never gets a bite in his career, we're happy. These dogs are primarily a deterrent. They're there to protect and to save lives."
Licklider grew up in a lower-middle-class family in Springfield, Indiana. For a guy who has spent every one of the last 36 years with four-legged friends, he wasn't your typical dog-loving Timmy as a kid. "I wish I could tell you I was, but I wasn't a big dog person," he says regretfully. "I liked them, and my dad had a dog every now and then to hunt rabbits with, but we came from a kind of poor background and we didn't really have pets a lot."
Instead, Licklider focused his energies on baseball. Right out of high school, he joined the Air Force and began to make a reputation for himself as a dependable outfielder on his general's baseball team. "We were winning, and kept winning. I was pretty fast and lean back then," Licklider laughs. "Course that's all changed over the years."
Ultimately, his success on the baseball field kept Licklider from being shipped overseas: his superiors assigned him to a K-9 unit so he could finish out the baseball season. A strategic move on behalf of intramural Air Force athletics has never been so providential.
As the baseball season waned, Licklider unwittingly began his journey to becoming one of the world's leading military and police dog trainers. "I loved working with the dogs and the total commitment the dog would give you," the trainer says with an air of nostalgia. "I was good at it."
Starting as a patrol dog handler, Licklider climbed the ranks, eventually training drug dogs and bomb dogs. Later, he became a military kennel master. In 1993, five years after he retired from the military, Licklider decided to open a dog training facility of his own.
Though he may not have been a dog-lover as a kid, there's no mistaking love in Licklider's growly voice as he talks about the dogs he's trained over the years. One, he recalls, tracked down a lost child in the middle of winter, a moment that left him in "pure blubbery tears." His favorite dog of all was a pit bull named Flash, a whip-smart pup when Licklider bought him during a training gig in Brazil.
Today, Flash's image is tattooed on Licklider's right bicep.
Though he continually falls in love with the intelligent animals that pass his way, Licklider says he doesn't keep them by his side anymore. "I've had several that were stars in my eyes that I'll always remember," Licklider says. "Now when I get the really great ones I don't keep them because I know what they can do out in the field. To put a special dog out in the field knowing he's going to protect somebody, like a soldier or a police officer—if I find a special one, I put it right out."
The Alpha Dogs of VLK
That attitude, along with the high performing dogs that Licklider trains, propelled Vohne Liche Kennels to prominence. He launched VLK as a single facility in Indiana, but his operation has expanded to include operations in Banning, California; Yuma, Arizona; South Africa, Turkey, and Holland.
Today, at the 600-acre kennel in Indiana, Licklider is surrounded by his military and law-enforcement trained staff—a ragtag bunch of tattooed, motorcycle riding men: the perfect combination of Duck Dynasty and K-9 Cop. But don't let the long hair, big bellies, and rough exteriors fool you.
"If you saw them in an alley you'd run in the other direction," says producer Rob Worsoff, who teamed up with Jack Osbourne and Schweet Entertainment to develop Alpha Dogs. "They look like the bad guys, and yet they are a tight-knit group of funny guys who have top security clearances and amazing backgrounds in keeping our nation safe."
As for the television show, Licklider says it hasn't changed much of his day-to-day operations, other than to make the work about twice as time consuming. "I was really adamant that we did this thing straight up," he says emphatically. "Everything that we did on the show we've actually done, there's nothing made up or sensationalized. This is real stuff that these dogs can do."
Within the first few episodes, audiences will see dogs rappelling down buildings, sniffing out explosives, jumping from helicopters, tracking enemies, and staying calm through live gunfire and explosions. The overdubbed rock music, loud explosions, and growling dogs are all drowned out by Licklider's constant reminder that what they're doing isn't just for show—lives depend on their work.
Although the kennel (and the show) is stacked with Army, Navy, special ops, and police handlers, Licklider is adamant that even for private citizens, a well-trained dog is the best, most affordable form of self defense.
When a dog is matched to the right handler, Licklider says the combination is better than an alarm system or even a police officer for deterring crime. Plus, he says, "A dog would give its life up for you."
In an early episode of Alpha Dogs, Licklider's team trains their first executive protection dog for a woman whose job keeps her out on the road alone. It's a painstaking process, and one that shows just how much care goes into coaching and choosing the right dog for each particular client. Licklider explains that the cost of a dog includes visits to the handlers' home and an intensive screening process to make sure the dog is well-matched to its owner. As it turns out, personality matters.
"You can train Lassie, but if Timmy is a dumbass handler, he's never getting out of the well," Licklider says with a hearty laugh. It's a line he's used before, but it gets across an important point. "The match is everything. If you don't do that right, you're doomed for disaster."
Because the stakes are so high, VLK works with dogs for 8-12 weeks before selling them to handlers. Dog prices at VLK can reach as high as $50,000, depending on the level of training—but to Licklider and his team of Alpha Dogs, there's no price too high for security.
After all, it could be the one investment you make that ends up saving your life.
Alpha Dogs premieres on February 8 and airs Fridays at 9 p.m on Nat Geo WILD. You can see a preview here.
"We may look like a bike gang. But we all have top security clearances."
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Kim Green February 6, 2013 at 9:39 am
Fantastic story! Love the comments by Mr. Licklider—what a character—and also the quote from the trailer: "We may look like a biker gang, but we all have top security clearances."
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Here's what you need to get started: a genuine Oculus Rift DK2 VR headset with tracking camera and all cables (duh), a computer with a decent CPU and graphics card running some version of Linux, vendor-supplied drivers for your graphics card, the Vrui VR toolkit, version 4.2 or newer, and the last released Linux version of Oculus' run-time/SDK, 0.5.0.1-beta (if you can't find that run-time for download anywhere, look below).
If you don't have Linux on your computer yet, I recommend using the current 64-bit release of Linux Mint with the MATE desktop environment. It's easy to install, well-supported, and overall no-nonsense. If you have an Nvidia or AMD graphics card, install appropriate vendor-supplied drivers through the Driver Manager in the control panel. Here is a video showing the entire installation process for Linux Mint 17, starting from a blank PC: From-scratch AR Sandbox Software Installation. You can stop watching the video after Vrui has been installed (unless you also want to build an AR Sandbox while you're at it).
and then enter your password once or twice, as prompted. If everything succeeds, you will be greeted by a window with a spinning globe. If you are using Fedora Linux instead of Linux Mint or Ubuntu, replace Build-Ubuntu.sh with Build-Fedora.sh above.
Go to Oculus' front page, http://oculus.com.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and click on "Downloads" under the "Developers" heading.
On the "Downloads" page, first select "PC" from the left-side drop-down list (which starts out on "All categories"). This populates the right-side drop-down list with different PC SDK versions. Afterwards, select "0.5.0.1-beta" from the right-side drop-down list.
On the SDK download page, check the license check box, and then click the "Download" button to download the run-time/SDK.
When your web browser asks you what to do with the SDK package, select "Open with Engrampa Archive Manager (default)" (or use whatever archive manager is offered to you), and press OK.
The only component of the run-time/SDK that's actually needed is the stand-alone tracking driver, ovrd, which is buried in ovr_sdk_linux_0.5.0.1/Service/OVRServer/Bin/Linux/x86_64/ReleaseStatic. Click through to that location, select ovrd, press the "Extract" button, de-select "Re-create folders" in the file selection dialog that pops up, and store ovrd somewhere. You can later copy ovrd into a system location such as /usr/local/bin.
Once you have ovrd extracted, you can throw away the rest of the SDK package.
Now connect your Rift DK2. Place the tracking camera somewhere (I like putting it on the top edge of my monitor) and plug it in, then plug in the Rift's power, USB, and HDMI cables. Connect the camera's synchronization cable to the Rift's break-out box.
The Rift's display might already light up at this point, but either way, open your display configuration panel (if you have an Nvidia graphics card, open nvidia-settings). In nvidia-settings, go to "X Server Display Configuration" and select "Oculus VR Inc. Rift DK2 (…)" from the "Selection" drop-down list. Then select "X screen 0" from the "Configuration" drop-down list, and set the resolution to 1080×1920, and the refresh rate to 75 Hz. Set the orientation to "No Rotation." Finally, click on your main display in the "Layout" panel, select "Make this the primary display for the X screen," and press the "Apply" button. Your main screen should turn black momentarily; once it comes back, select "OK" in the "Confirm Mode Switch" dialog that pops up. Other display configuration panels might show different options, but all should allow you to enable the Rift's display as a desktop extension, and set its resolution and refresh rate to their native values (1080×1920, 75 Hz, no rotation).
At this point, the power LED on the top of the Rift should glow solid blue, and the Rift's screen should show your desktop's background image.
If it shows a final HMD count of zero (or simply crashes), the driver was not able to find the Rift's display. As a first step, try logging out and logging back in, and then restarting ovrd. Some desktop environments do not properly update all internal display state, specifically EDID blocks, after a display is hot-plugged, and need to be re-initialized this way.
If you now put on the headset, you should see a standard vision test chart floating 20 feet (6m) in front of you. Go ahead, see how good your eyes are! (Just kidding; unless you're legally blind, your vision will be limited by the Rift's display, not by your eyes.) To exit the application, press Esc.
(note that there is a double underscore before GL_…, and replace DFP-1 with whatever nvidia-settings tells you the correct display name is). If you run a Vrui application from the same terminal window afterwards, it should look smooth. You can double-check by measuring a running Vrui application's frame rate. While the mouse is on the Rift's screen, press Win+Scroll Lock to enter "burn mode" (Vrui will print "Entering burn mode" to the terminal). Wait a few seconds, and press Win+Scroll Lock again to leave burn mode. Vrui will print the average frame rate and the minimum/maximum frame time range. The average frame rate should be close to 75 fps, and both ends of the frame time range should be close to 13.333 ms.
Move the mouse over to the Rift's screen. You can rotate the globe by dragging with the left mouse button, or pan the globe in the virtual screen plane by dragging with the middle mouse button. You can zoom in or out either by dragging up/down with the left and middle mouse buttons together, or by rolling the scroll wheel.
Pressing and holding the right mouse button opens any Vrui application's main menu. Here, you can change rendering modes, such as drawing the globe transparently or showing the mantle-core boundary, or reset the view through the "View" submenu of the Vrui system menu.
If you open a dialog window, say by selecting "Show Render Dialog" from the main menu, you can interact with it with the left mouse button. As you drag the dialog by its title bar, you'll notice it's also mapped to a spherical shell. To close a dialog, select the "X" button in its top-right corner. If you accidentally move a dialog out of reach, you can bring it underneath the mouse cursor by selecting the dialog's name in the "Dialogs" submenu of the Vrui system menu.
For a more detailed introduction to Vrui's mouse-based user interface, read "Using Vrui Applications" in Vrui's online HTML documentation.
Vrui has a bare-bones video player among its example programs. It's based on the Xine engine, and can play complete DVDs or regular video files in a variety of formats. To use it, you first need to install the Xine engine and video player front-end and its codecs, and the libxine development library. This is left as an exercise for the reader.
The "Stream Settings" dialog controls video format details, such as stereo modes and layouts and crop borders to mask out unwanted padding areas present in some video formats.
The "Screen Control" dialog lets you switch between different screen types (window, theater, half sphere, full sphere) and adjust each screen type's settings.
The "DVD Navigation" dialog lets you navigate through DVD menus or chapters, has a volume slider on the right, and an "Eject" button to load a different video file.
The "Playback Control" dialog has a scrub bar to select the playback location, and buttons to skip forward and backwards in 10 second increments.
Before turning on stereo mode when watching stereoscopic video files, be sure to crop out any padding areas around the real video frame, usually indicated as green borders (these are due to some issue with Xine's raw frame decoder, which I haven't figured out yet). Drag the cropping sliders until all green pixels just disappear, and then round up all crop borders to the next larger even value (to correctly account for sub-sampled chroma planes). If you don't crop out the padding areas, the left/right views in stereo videos will not line up correctly, and there will be pain.
VruiXine also offers several tool classes, under the "VruiXine" submenu of Vrui's tool selection menu, that can be used to bind playback functions directly to input device buttons, such as keyboard keys or controller buttons, through Vrui's standard tool binding mechanism. For example, to bind the pause function to the "p" key, press and hold "p", which will pop up the tool selection menu, and move the mouse to highlight "Pause" in the "VruiXine" submenu (without pressing any mouse buttons, or letting go of the "p" key). Once there, let go of the "p" key. Afterwards, press "p" once to pause the current video, and press "p" again to resume playback.
VruiXine routes audio output through the default sound device. Use the desktop environment's sound control panel to route audio to the appropriate speakers or headphones.
In this example, the third component of the translate vector, 50.0, is the camera's elevation above the floor in inches. Adjust this to your actual camera height, and leave the rest of the values alone (the rotation at the end flips the coordinate system from Oculus' standard of Y up to Vrui's standard of Z up).
With head-mounted VR, it is important to configure the headset to each user's facial structure to reduce eye strain and avoid nausea. Here is a video of me talking about that in detail at this year's VRLA Summer Expo: How VR Works: A Perceptual Point of View.
In Vrui, users viewing VR screens (either fixed or head-mounted ones) are represented as so-called "viewers," which have two eyes defined as 3D points. This gives a large degree of flexibility for cases such as asymmetric eye positions, but in general configuration boils down to inter-pupillary distance (IPD) and eye relief, i.e., lens-eye distance.
The numbers are in inches. As you can see, IPD is currently configured to 2.5″ (1.25″-(-1.25″)), and eye relief is configured to 0.9″: the pupils are positioned 2.2″ in front of the headset's screen plane, and the lens-screen distance in the Rift DK2 is 1.3″. Adjust these settings to your parameters (or liking), and finally set the mono eye position to be the center between the left and right eyes.
Given that eye relief is very hard to measure, you might have to experiment with values until you get the field of view just right. You can test this by putting on the headset and looking around inside a larger virtual space; eye relief is correct when the environment appears stable, and no longer "warps" as you rotate your head left and right.
To simplify this iterative setup step, Vrui contains an in-application viewer configuration utility. To load it, append "-vislet ViewerConfiguration" (without quotes) to an application's command line. In Vrui, vislets are small independent components that can be loaded into any Vrui applications.
Once started, go to the "Vislet" submenu of Vrui's system menu, and select the "Viewer Configuration" vislet. This will open a dialog window with three sets of sliders. The first set adjusts the position of the "mono eye" in 3D, and has an explicit IPD slider. This is for the general symmetric case. In addition, there are two sets of sliders to set the left and right eye positions independently. You should only use these if you know your face is asymmetric, or if you can't get a good configuration from the first slider set. Once you've found a good set of numbers, note them and enter them into the patch configuration file to make them permanent.
Now all positions and distances will be shown in millimeters.
After this basic installation, there are many places to go. You can install external 6-DOF tracked devices such as Razer Hydra controllers for an improved 3D user interface, or connect joysticks or gamepads. You can set up multiple windows, to be able to use a VR application in VR mode and desktop mode simultaneously, potentially by multiple people, for asymmetric collaboration. Or you can set up a mixed-reality capture system using a 3D camera like a Microsoft Kinect. Or you can install additional Vrui applications such as 3D Visualizer or LiDAR Viewer. Or you can start developing your own applications using the Vrui toolkit.
We'll talk about all that later.
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This is great news! Does this mean Vrui is now combining the camera and IMU tracking using eg. a Kalman filter?
Time to undust our DK2!
Yes, but it's using Oculus' own tracking driver, ovrd, to do that.
Got spinning earth on my Linux box. Cool!
… but don't have DK2, but do have PSVR which I'm helping hack. How can I get full screen side-by-side stereoscopic for testing?
End goal is tracking through PSMoveService, but that's a little way off. We're closer to 'just' orientation tracking with PSVRframework.
Are you asking how to render side-by-side stereo to your PSVR's screen using Vrui?
That's easy; you need to know the screen's resolution (1920×1080), and its position on your extended desktop, or the display name for the PSVR as used by Xrandr. To get around lack of tracking, you need to set up a "fake" tracking driver.
To adapt it for PSVR, adjust the window position of HMDWindow, and then play with the distortion formulas.
You can use the auto screen finder, too: in the HMDWindow section, there's an empty outputName tag. Put a random string in there, and run the above command line with -vruiVerbose appended. That will list the names of all video outputs on your X server. Find the output or monitor name that looks like it could be the PSVR, and paste it after the outputName tag. Then set windowSize to (1920, 1080) and decorate to false, or windowFullscreen to true.
FYI just tried it, no luck.
could get right the way up to the show eye test, but the HMD just shows a black screen, the camera light is on, and the HMD backlight is on, just no picture. moved my head around to see if it was tracking no luck.
I haven't run into that before. It looks like ovrd is not posting any tracking data due to 3D reconstruction error being too high, but also not throwing an error.
As a result, Vrui will not get any head position data, and render from whatever the initial head position was, which is most probably off in outer space. Hence the black screen. If you tried another Vrui application that surrounds you with 3D data, such as the Quake III viewer, you should see something, but the 3D environment will be locked to your head.
Vrui works with HTC Vive, using OpenVR's Lighthouse tracking driver plug-in.
Vrui works with Oculus Rift DK2, using Oculus' ovrd tracking driver.
Meaning, the common ground here is Vrui, not Steam/SteamVR.
BTW, thanks for all your great posts. They're very informative and thorough!
Yes, correct on both counts. There are separate radios to connect additional controllers (basically Steam controller dongles with replaced firmware), and I have two of them from my Vive DK1, but I haven't yet tried whether I can get the tracking driver to work without a headset connected. It might work.
If you are using Fedora Linux instead of Linux Mint or Ubuntu, replace Build-Ubuntu.sh with Build-Fedora.sh above.


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Melmoth by Sarah Perry
by Shiny New Books	| Posted on January 31, 2019 April 27, 2020
Review by Alice Farrant
Helen Franklin is self-repressed, restricting herself from all that is pleasurable or happy. She merely exists alongside Prague, parallel to its beauty. When suddenly, she is given a manuscript of accounts all linked to a spectre named Melmoth, she is forced to look back to the events that built her self-imposed prison.
Once literal and now mythical, Melmoth was one of the women who opened Christ's tomb after he was crucified and buried and saw he was no longer there. When the group of women went to tell the men what they had seen she was the only one to deny Christ's resurrection and said they had made it up. She was punished not with death, "but with deathlessness" cursed to wander the earth until Christ returned again. "Condemned always to appear where all's most cheerless, dark and deadly."
Helen is drawn to these dark papers, all the while sensing something is watching and following her. As the weeks' events unfold Helen must either face what she did or wander the darkness forever
"Helen Franklin, forty-two, neither short nor tall, her hair neither dark nor fair; on her feet, boots which serve from November to March, and her mother's steel watch on her wrist." (p1)
Helen, the main character of the novel, is a quiet woman, conservative with possessions and friends. Her only acquaintances are the intellectual, Karel and his wife, Thea. She shrouds her past protectively and denies herself pleasurable human interaction.
"Nor can she recall when Albína first observed her rituals of discomfort: the uncovered mattress, the unheated room, the bitter tea. But she did notice, as she noticed all things: slyly, from the corner of her black eye."
She rents a room from Albína, a 90 something woman who is decedent both in possessions and cutting criticism. Helen residence is no accident, living with Albína is as much a punishment as the bare mattress she sleeps on. Albína is fascinated by Helen, ignoring her quiet and privacy regularly. Yet Helen is one of her only friends, in her longevity living there and seeming tolerance of Albína's insults Helen has made a relationship without even meaning to.
Melmoth haunts the pages of the novel. Perry is fantastic at taking myths and fairytales and breathing life into them for not only the characters, as they heal themselves or come to some understanding or acceptance of who they are, but the reader too. Melmoth sat with me as I read the novel, guided me to its end. It is human nature to find meaning in the spiritual or inanimate, and Melmouth embodies this.
"A brighter child than I might have found himself living in bewilderment and delight, for in place of a modest village and a single church, I had within arm's reach the city of a thousand spires, which glittered on the banks of a great river: of staircases steep as mountainsides, and buildings plastered and painted in the colours of girls' dresses in spring, and Prague castle which rose up from the Vltava seeming black and terrible."
Perry writes as though she is a native, Prague and the Czech Republic comes alive in her prose. Both the beauty and darkness of the city. Melmoth covers time, and we see Prague at it's best and worst. Hiter's occupation from the eyes of a small boy was fascinating, the confusion at his parent's emotional reaction to this man — tears of reverence.
The narration takes different forms, switching between third and 1st person. While I enjoyed this Dracula-esque mix of omniscient narration, letters and character narration, the omniscient narrator irritated me. It reminded me strongly of The Book Theif and I felt myself resisting everytime it told me where to look. It removed me from the storytelling, I was lost in the story and then pulled out by the narrator tugging at my sleeve and pushing me into the direction of where I was meant to be looking. Subjectively, I prefer not to be told, it makes me want to rebel, trick me into thinking I came to these decisions on my own instead
It was rarely clear to me (in the best of ways) whether Melmoth was real or a metaphor for Helen having and recovering from a breakdown. Melmoth encourages change and revitalisation, pushes characters to change their lives. For Karel this is going off to England to fight for a cause, for Helen, it is to escape her self imposed prison and confront her past.
To accept Melmoth is to give in, to accept a less than satisfactory way of living or a self-loathing. Which is why she wanders alone, she inspires more change than a desire to escape.
Melmoth is another wonderfully clever novel by Sarah Perry. At times it felt long and I wanted Melmoth to be more figurative than literal, but overall this was an enjoyable and escaping read.
You can read more by Alice at her blog, of Books, or find her on Instagram @nomoreparades
Perry, Sarah Melmoth, (Serpents Tale: London, 2018). 978-1788160650 288pp., hardback.
FictionAuthor: Perry S Reviewer: Farrant A
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What are the types of Postponement?
Delay buying of some expensive and delicate stuffs.
Merchandises in semi-finished signifiers and can be customized rapidly in production installations.
Merchandises in semi-finished signifiers and can be customized rapidly in production installations near to clients.
Finished merchandises are kept in cardinal location and are distributed rapidly to clients.
There are besides other Postponement schemes such as Product development delay, Price delay, Postponement of transition of rubric, Demand delay.
Why utilizing a delay or Delayed Differentiation?
Imation is US based company, a universe leader in the removable informations storage device industry. Their commercial merchandise line includes Cadmiums, DVDs, floppy discs, cassettes, informations cartridges, and USB flash devices. They besides specialize in high-end tape storage devices which are used by Bankss and fiscal establishments to hive away informations, fiscal records, and insurance information. Imation serves all the major office supply retail merchants such as Office Depot, Office Maxx, Staples, and Best Buy every bit good as consumer merchandise retail merchants like Wal-Mart and Target.
Imation is a premier instance survey for delay because it uses this scheme in multiple ways to maximise efficiency and flexibleness throughout the supply concatenation. In 2001 informations storage devices were going a trade good and Imation started looking for ways to distinguish within their supply concatenation. Additionally, the industry was plagued with long lead times, monetary value eroding, and short merchandise life rhythms of three months or less. With an mean entire merchandise lead clip ( from production to distribution ) of 100 yearss, the company knew it needed to happen ways to streamline its operations. Gillette 's packaging scheme became the theoretical account from which Imation built its ain delay scheme. In add-on to packaging, Imation realized that there was besides value added in customizing merchandises for some of its smaller clients. Therefore, they besides looked into ways to prorogue within the assembly procedure for both their high and low-end merchandises.
Imation 's supply concatenation is really decentralized with the chief central office located in Oakdale, MN. Before delay was implemented providers in Asia would fabricate the devices, a procedure that took anyplace from 30-45 yearss depending on the clip of the month. The merchandises were packaged at the point of fabrication, placed in stock list, and shipped direct to clients. This procedure normally took between 40-50 yearss conveying entire merchandise lead clip to 100 yearss. It was the realisation of long merchandise lead clip coupled with short life rhythms and monetary value eroding that lead Imation to see alternate methods for fabrication and administering their merchandises.
Several alterations were made to ease the passage to delay. Imation began utilizing providers in India alternatively of Asia despite the longer theodolite clip to the US. " It was capacity along with cost and they [ India ] were besides germinating the velocity of their operations so that they could acquire the higher borders " [ 30 ] . This is a signal that shows how seaward makers are get downing to vie for US fabricating occupations by seeking to offer faster turnaround – a beginning of competitory advantage for local manufacturers.
Part of the trouble in taking and maintaining providers besides had to make with taking away the value added measure from the providers and necessitating them to alter the merchandise design. " They like to be involved in the value added portion because they likely generate more value for themselves… The 2nd issue is that you need to acquire them to redesign the merchandise and the manner it is traveling to acquire shipped to you in more of a majority battalion. Otherwise you end up seting a batch more added cost into your merchandise that you end up throwing off " .
The following measure was to place the delay points for their broad assortment of merchandises. The solution was to hold two distinguishable delay points for the low-end trade good merchandises. Imation saw that there was value added by offering the customization of discs and Cadmiums for smaller clients such as private companies and universities who custom order media and informations storage devices with a logo printed on them. Therefore, they created a secondary fabrication works in Oakdale where logo printing takes topographic point.
The 2nd delay point occurs at the point of packaging. Merchandises are shipped in majority to a packaging Centre in Kansas City, MO where different size bundles are assembled-to-order. By holding two postponement points Imation has been able to detain adding value at several stairss until more information about client demand is known. The consequence has been less obsolescence, lower stock list costs, and the creative activity of new domestic occupation chances.
Manufacturing for all of the high-end merchandises ( tape libraries and big informations storage devices ) takes topographic point in the US because of the location to the client and an unwillingness to wait for fabricating offshore. Imation holds stock list of these high border points but adds labels and initializes the tapes for a specific client order. In this instance it is the client which drives the location of the concern every bit good as the degree of stock list.
Before implementing delay, strategians at Imation built a theoretical account to assist quantify the benefits and costs associated with altering their operations. Expenses for the company came in three countries: faster transporting methods, obsolescence, and increased stock list cost as a consequence of monetary value eroding. " The theoretical account looks at all the constituents and says, 'based on this type of monetary value eroding and life rhythm, this is the sum of delay you should make. ' The supply concatenation squad and finance can stop up those figures in and so we do a computation and state 'ok, based on these standards, this is the best solution for us. ' We are seeking to minimise the sum delivered cost alternatively of the entire unit cost " . As a consequence, fabricating cost increased and there was opposition from providers because Imation wanted to presume more duty for the value-added procedure, or customization. Geting direction support was hard because they would see cost additions in fabrication. However, recognizing that they minimized entire delivered cost, Imation saw their stock list turns dual and transit costs offset by the ability to transport merchandises to the US in bulk alternatively of in packaged signifier. In add-on, market portion for merchandises that are non postponed is anyplace from 10-15 per centum as opposed to 80-90 per centum for those that are postponed.
In farther developing their delay scheme, Imation uses cautiousness because some merchandises do non necessitate delay activities in order to be profitable. It is a combination of market monetary value and life rhythm alterations that dictate whether or non postponement is a feasible option. Using the theoretical account is helpful to understand the extent to which Imation should prorogue. " It 's non a fixed figure. We look at all these variables and our figure will fluctuate. We are less likely to prorogue points at the launch of a new merchandise " . Postponement assumes certain features about demand and market factors. At merchandise debut some lacks of the merchandise may non be seeable until the adulthood stage. Decisions on sourcing are non concluding until the market reacts to competition and providers are strategically chosen based on client willingness to wait.
Imation highlights the benefits that come from proroguing at assorted phases in a merchandise 's entire lead clip. The instance emphasizes that increased costs in fabrication are inevitable and the importance of minimising entire merchandise cost alternatively of unit cost. It besides points out the importance of timing when implementing delay. Leting a merchandise to make adulthood may turn out to be a better overall attack in order to find whether demand features even back up such a move.
The most common strategic motives for get downing delay were to better service degree and to cut down stock list keeping cost as a consequence of an addition in merchandise assortment. Postponement schemes start with the end of minimising one metric and frequently consequence in betterments in other countries. Figure 6.1 shows a list of the primary drivers of delay for each company and the primary ensuing benefits. Another cardinal factor in successful execution is merchandise modularity.
While delay is a new construct for some companies it is now the criterion for those who have seen its benefits. Postponement has proven itself as a valuable scheme for turn toing the inevitable uncertainness of client demand.


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Esports tipster service "Etipster" unveils Worlds 2022 team power rankings
The following has been sent to Inven Global as press release.
The esports tipster service "etipster" announced on the 22nd that it has unveiled the power rankings of all leagues participating in the 2022 League of Legends World Championship (Worlds).
Etipster's AI-powered platform processes various sources to analyze teams' performances and calculate rankings. In addition to the rankings of the 24 teams participating in the Worlds 2022, it provides the rankings of all 106 teams of the participating leagues.
Gen.G, LCK's first seed and the winner of the 2022 LCK Summer Split, took the first place of etipster Team Power Rankings. Gen.G was followed by JD Gaming, LPL's first seed. Third place was taken by TOP Esports, who is heading into Worlds as the LPL's second seed after finishing first in the LPL 2022 Summer and second in the Summer Playoffs.
Etipster Team Power Rankings also plans to show rankings of teams that did not make it to the Worlds. LPL's V5, the highest-ranked team not to participate in the Worlds, ranked seventh in the Power Rankings. The highest-ranked team among European teams was G2, ranking 10th in the Power Rankings. The lowest-ranked team currently participating in the Worlds was Chiefs Esports Club, which ranked first in the LCO.
In addition to the Team Power Rankings, it will unveil Player Power Rankings on the 25th. Once the Worlds Play-In Stage begins, etipster will be providing various odds and indexes, previously unseen in the market, based on its advanced AI-powered platform that analyzes various aspects of game data.


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Calvary Cemetery - Santa Barbara
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Rich in heritage, Calvary Cemetery has been a peaceful resting place for Catholics in Santa Barbara since the late 19th century. The sprawling acres still reflect the care of Calvary's founder, a missionary priest who was also a botanist. Be inspired by Calvary's traditional works of religious art – and amazed by the beauty of the Santa Ynez Mountains, which stand as the cemetery's natural backdrop. Join us for special Masses and prayer events during the year.
Visitation Hours
Current Gate Hours:
(Monday - Friday)
(Saturdays)
(Sundays & Holidays)
Outdoor Community Masses
celebrated annually on
All Souls Day and Memorial Day
at 10:00 am.
calvarysb@catholiccm.org
199 N Hope Avenue
Cemetery Management:
Amanda Caracheo
Preneed/Advance Planning:
Ernie Maldonado
For those with an immediate need to make funeral or burial arrangements, 24-hour phone assistance is available at (805) 687-8811.
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We'll walk you through the steps you'll take when a family member passes and explain why preplanning for yourself is so important. Our online seminar provides essential information for you to review from the comfort of your home or office. English and Spanish Sessions Available.
Catholic Cemeteries and Mortuaries will be hosting a Career Fair on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm, at Calvary Cemetery and Mortuary in Los Angeles. A second Fair will occur on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm, at Santa Clara Cemetery and Mortuary in Oxnard.
Please share the links and printable flyer with potential candidates, fellow parishioners, colleagues, and friends.
St John Paul II Garden - Resurrection Cemetery
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Resurrection Cemetery is excited to announce the release of the next phase of the St. John Paul II development. This attractive new section utilizes preset lawn crypts which can accommodate two burials and are now available for both at-need and pre-need purchases. Due to requests from patrons, the new development also includes several hedge estates of various sizes, allowing families to build a legacy for multiple generations. Hedge estates include (more...)
Christmas Flower Schedules
Catholic Cemeteries have published our annual Christmas Flower Schedules. In observance of Advent, our flower policy is relaxed, allowing families to use permitted decorations. Flowers and decorations may be left starting Friday, December 9. 2022, and will remain through Wednesday, January 11, 2023. It is important to note that lawns will not be mowed or trimmed during this period. Visitors are encouraged to review our Flower Policy for complete details prior to your visit.
Our Lady of Guadalupe School Celebrates Día de Los Muertos
- Ana Pescador, Community Outreach
With great enthusiasm, students from Our lady of Guadalupe School (OLGS) in East Los Angeles impatiently wait for teacher Florencia Teran to begin the class. However, today is not an ordinary day; Ms. Teran will talk about a very special ancient cultural tradition in our Catholic belief: Día de Los Muertos. (more...)
It's Back! Three Locations Mark 2022 Day of the Dead
- David Brackney, Community Outreach
For the thousands of faithful who enjoy celebrating the Day of the Dead (Día de Los Muertos) at our Catholic cemeteries, the last two years brought a sad interruption to a longstanding tradition. Pandemic restrictions forced the cancellation of in-person events at our locations, forcing people instead to watch celebrations streamed from near-empty cemeteries via our website and Facebook pages. (more...)
MONTHLY MEMORIAL MASS
Catholic Cemeteries & Mortuaries invites you to remember and pray for those we have lost by joining us on the second Tuesday of each month for our Memorial Mass. Special intentions are offered for those recently served by our Catholic Cemeteries and Mortuaries.
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Today's Readings / Lecturas Del Día
Reading I Heb 12:1-4
Responsorial Psalm Ps 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32
Gospel Mk 5:21-43
Memoria de San Juan Bosco, presbítero
Primera Lectura Heb 12, 1-4
Salmo Responsorial Salmo 21, 26b-27. 28 y 30. 31-32
Evangelio Mc 5, 21-43
MASSES, PRAYER SERVICES AND COMMUNITY EVENTS 2022
Catholic Cemeteries are happy to announce a return to in-person Masses, Prayer Services, and Community Events. Livestreams of our services are also available here and on our Cemetery & Mortuary Facebook pages.
CHRISTMAS PRAYER SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE Livestream Available Here
Mother's Day Rosary 2022 Livestream Available Here
Memorial Day Mass 2022 Livestream Available Here
All Souls Day Mass 2022 Livestream Available Here
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Rogue, Anti-Trump Elector Warns: I'm Not The Only One
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DALLAS — The lone Republican elector who has pledged to vote for someone other than Donald Trump in the electoral college says he won't be the only one to abandon the GOP president-elect.
"At this point there are people who have reached out to me. Again, it wouldn't be my place to name who they are," he told the ABC Powerhouse Politics Podcast. "I am confident in saying, at this point … I don't think I will be the only one voting for someone other than Donald Trump who is carrying a Republican elector seat."
The Dallas resident did not identify the other rogue electors or say how many there are. The Electoral College is scheduled to vote Dec. 19. Suprun is one of 306 electors won by Trump, with 270 needed to secure the nomination. All total, 37 would have to abandon Trump for him to fall short; if no candidate got 270 votes the election then would be tossed into the House of Representatives.
Suprun has become something of a celebrity among Trump's opponents after he penned a New York Times op-ed explaining his vote against Trump.
He said there's more than one reason he opposes Trump.
"It's been the buildup," Suprun said of Trump. "It's not one raindrop that's caused the flood. It's been the undercutting of the Constitution, the undercutting of the First Amendment, the attacks on people critical of him and the attacks on the election itself. You can't claim 3 million illegal votes without evidence.
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"I was told if we elected Donald Trump he would transform his personality into being presidential. He isn't," Suprun said. "I wanted him to be presidential, but since the election he hasn't grown into our institution; he's attacked them. I am here to elect a president, not a king."
Suprun said he has heard from other Republican electors that share his opinion of Trump.
"As electors come forward, and I have had conversations with other Republican electors in particular, I think we will start discussing names specifically and see who meets the test that we could all get behind," Suprun said.
Suprun received support and pushback in the comments section of his Times article.
"Whatever Mr. Trump's shortcomings may be, he won the election," one person named Fred wrote. "Any other candidate chosen by a rogue electoral college would have no legitimacy. The election of the next President (or any subsequent President) should not turn on the judgment of 538 people who are unknown to most of us."
Another commenter, Rick Harris, wrote, "I do not believe that your vote is endowed with a superior value to that of the 60 million American's who voted. It invites anarchy rather than enhances Democracy. If the American people, voting in their respective states, cannot act to maintain the individual freedoms granted in the Bill of Right, the 14th and 15th Amendments, as well as the need for honest in political discourse, it is sorrowful. But your electoral vote, however cast, will not change the fact that voters were prepared to reject the conventions that usually abide during American elections. Now we, as well as they, will have to live and react to that decision."
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Az Everything Louder than Everything Else videó a brit Motörhead zenekar 1991-ben megjelent koncertfilmje, melyet Németországban forgattak az 1916 album európai lemezbemutató-turnéjának március 11-i müncheni állomásán. A videó képi világát az akkoriban divatos, a régi dokumentumfilmeket idéző, szemcsés, fekete-fehér megközelítés jellemzi. A koncertfelvétel mellett a zenekar egyes tagjaival is készültek interjúk.

A felvételt 2004-ben DVD formátumban adták ki újra. Hasonló (de nem azonos) címmel 1999-ben koncertalbuma jelent meg a Motörheadnek, az Everything Louder than Everyone Else. Mindkét kiadvány címe a Made in Japan (1972) Deep Purple koncertalbumon elhangzott híres Ian Gillan mondatot idézi.

A koncert dalai
 "Metropolis"
 "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)"
 "Going to Brazil"
 "Traitor"
 "No Voices in the Sky"
 "Just 'Cos You Got the Power"
 "Angel City"
 "Love Me Forever"
 "R.A.M.O.N.E.S."
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 "Killed by Death"
 "Ace of Spades"

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Infosecurity Magazine Home » Slackspace » Nigerian Fraudster Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
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Nigerian Fraudster Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
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Ah, the boys from Lagos. From princes and other royalty needing help transferring money to CEOs with too-good-to-be-true business opportunities, Nigeria has been a hotbed for online scams for more than a decade.
Researchers at Dell SecureWorks decided to target a Nigerian kingpin that sat atop a complex business email compromise (BEC) operation in an effort to give these folks a taste of their own medicine—with wildly successful results.
It's important to note that while most overseas scams are easy to spot—broken English, easy riches, asking for wire transfer information—this is starting to change.
"Whether the goal is to convince a victim to divulge their email password or send a wire transfer to a CEO impersonator, the criminals have fine-tuned their pitches and are becoming difficult for the average victim to detect," Dell SecureWorks researchers noted. "Even worse, the fraudsters are teaching each other these improved methods, creating a problem that is growing exponentially over time."
To help the side of the good arm itself a little better, Dell researchers Joe Stewart and James Bettke have made an effort to infiltrate and study groups involved in wire fraud, down to learning local dialects used by the criminals, such as Pidgin.
"We've gotten a good handle on local dialects and learned how to speak as they speak to one another," Stewart said, speaking at RSA last week. "This gave us the opportunity to go deeper with these operations."
And in one case, they were able to scam the scammer. It was a campaign targeting the CEO of an American private equity firm specializing in investments in technology services. They used spear-phishing emails to establish a rapport with the executive, going on to try to convince him to make a large transfer of money to a third party. The "ask" came complete with wire instructions that included necessary account numbers and SWIFT transaction codes.
Stewart and Bettke decided to see what they could entice from the crooks, to learn about their numerous third-party money mule accounts and potentially identify the criminals behind the scam. They started by impersonating the CEO, and then later, a fellow scammer.
First they stalled, telling the bad guys that the banks involved in the transactions were returning payments. They asked for new account information to gain further details on the mule accounts used to launder money. Then, they claimed to need a second form of authentication from the scammer to collect the wire transfer receipt—and presented an elaborate, customized front-end for harvesting this information. Which the kingpin fell for hook, line and sinker.
Unable to download the non-existent payment slip, the bad actors entered more and more information into the phony interface—allowing the researchers to gain a real mobile number, which led them to a personal Facebook account. They dubbed their mark "Seun."
From there, the researchers posed as yet another Nigerian fraudster, telling the original scam artist that he also was targeting the same executive, and had in fact compromised the CEO's email with a RAT. From there they strung the scammer along, amassing more information and eventually leading to seven email addresses and numerous mule accounts being taken offline and frozen.
It's unlikely that the coup will deter future Nigerian scammers from doing what they do, on a regular and endemic basis. But it's nice to know the tables can be turned.
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Q: Spring boot seems could not find mybatis mapper configurations(Mapped Statements collection does not contain value) I am working with mybatis and spring-boot.
I have been suffered for several hours with follow message.
2018-02-18 15:25:13.774 ERROR 77556 --- [nio-8080-exec-5] o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/].[dispatcherServlet]    : Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.mybatis.spring.MyBatisSystemException: nested exception is org.apache.ibatis.exceptions.PersistenceException:
### Error querying database.  Cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapped Statements collection does not contain value for org.owls.mybatis.mapper.TestMapper.selectTimestamp
### Cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapped Statements collection does not contain value for org.owls.mybatis.mapper.TestMapper.selectTimestamp] with root cause

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapped Statements collection does not contain value for org.owls.mybatis.mapper.TestMapper.selectTimestamp

My source is based on this(Spring boot get started with project) and add Mybatis settings.
I think somehow mybatis could not find the mapper information, So I would like to print registered mybatis mapper list in the console. (Is it possible?)
FYI, follow is the things I implemented.
I uses application.yml to add mybatis
mybatis:
    type-aliases-package: org.owls.mybatis.model
    type-handlers-package: org.owls.mybatis.handler
    mapper-locations: classpath:/resources/mybatis/mapper/*_mapper.xml
    configuration:
        map-underscore-to-camel-case: true
        default-fetch-size: 100
        default-statement-timeout: 30

And this is /resources/mybatis/mapper/test_mapper.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE mapper
        PUBLIC "-//mybatis.org//DTD Mapper 3.0//EN"
        "http://mybatis.org/dtd/mybatis-3-mapper.dtd">
<mapper namespace="org.owls.mybatis.mapper.TestMapper">
    <select id="selectTimestamp" resultType="map">
        SELECT NOW() FROM DUAL
    </select>
</mapper>

From here is Java codes.
First, Mapper interface TestMapper which in org.owls.mybatis.mapper package is
public interface TestMapper {
    @Select("SELECT NOW() FROM DUAL")
    public Map selectTimestamp() throws Exception;
}

Second, I made a Service which generate SqlSessionTemplate. Here is the code
@Service
public class MybatisService implements ApplicationContextAware {

    private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(MybatisService.class);
    private ApplicationContext context;

    @Autowired
    DBService dbService;

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
        this.context = applicationContext;
    }

    // Register a Object with a name, if not exists
    private void registerBean(String beanName, Object newBean){
        BeanDefinitionRegistry registry = (BeanDefinitionRegistry)  context.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
        BeanDefinitionBuilder builder = BeanDefinitionBuilder.rootBeanDefinition(newBean.getClass());
        BeanDefinition def = builder.getBeanDefinition();
        if(!registry.containsBeanDefinition(beanName)) registry.registerBeanDefinition(beanName, def);
    }

    /*
    * Managing SqlSessionFactory
    * */
    private SqlSessionFactory generateSqlSessionFactory(String dsId, DataSource ds) throws Exception {
        String beanName = dsId + "SqlSessionFactory";

        SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory = null;
        try {
            Object registeredBean = context.getBean(beanName);
            logger.info("Found SqlSessionFactory bean [ " + beanName + " ]. Returns the instance");
            sqlSessionFactory = (SqlSessionFactory) registeredBean;
        } catch (NoSuchBeanDefinitionException e) {
            logger.info("Not found SqlSessionFactory bean [ " + beanName + " ]. Generate new one");
            SqlSessionFactoryBean sqlSessionFactoryBean = new SqlSessionFactoryBean();
            sqlSessionFactoryBean.setDataSource(ds);
            sqlSessionFactory = (SqlSessionFactory) sqlSessionFactoryBean.getObject();
            registerBean(beanName, sqlSessionFactory);
        }
        return sqlSessionFactory;
    }

    /*
    * Managing SqlSessionTemplate
    * */
    private SqlSessionTemplate generateSqlSessionTemplate(String dsId, SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory) throws Exception {
        String beanName = dsId + "SqlSessionTemplate";
        SqlSessionTemplate sqlSessionTemplate = null;
        try {
            Object registeredBean = context.getBean(beanName);
            logger.info("Found SqlSessionTemplate bean [ " + beanName + " ]. Returns the instance");
            sqlSessionTemplate = (SqlSessionTemplate) registeredBean;
        } catch (NoSuchBeanDefinitionException e) {
            logger.info("Not found SqlSessionTemplate bean [ " + beanName + " ]. Generate new one");
            sqlSessionTemplate = new SqlSessionTemplate(sqlSessionFactory);
            registerBean(beanName, sqlSessionFactory);
        }
        return sqlSessionTemplate;
    }

    public SqlSessionTemplate getSqlSessionTemplate(String dsId) {
        SqlSessionTemplate template = null;
        try {
            DataSource ds = dbService.getDS(dsId);
            SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory = generateSqlSessionFactory(dsId, ds);
            template = generateSqlSessionTemplate(dsId, sqlSessionFactory);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.error("Failed to fetch SqlSessionFactory. returns null value ", e);
        }
        return template;
    }
}

Finally, in the Controller, I call it with ...
@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = {"/test"})
public class TestController {

    @Autowired
    MybatisService mybatisService;
    private SqlSessionTemplate sqlSessionTemplate;

    private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TestController.class);

    @PostConstruct
    public void init(){
        sqlSessionTemplate = mybatisService.getSqlSessionTemplate("test");
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = {"getCurrentTimestamp"})
    public @ResponseBody String getCurrentTimestamp() throws Exception {

        logger.info("=== SqlSessionTemplate Info in Controller :: " + sqlSessionTemplate);

        Map<String, Object> data = (Map) sqlSessionTemplate.selectOne("org.owls.mybatis.mapper.TestMapper.selectTimestamp");
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        return mapper.writeValueAsString(data);
    }
};

I think the error message is little bit vague. (I could not find any clue which is wrong among settings - mapper xml, application.yml, db connection)
Thanks for answers.
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I found it out that SqlSessionFactory Configuration does not have any mapper at all.
I could print mapper list via follow way.
In code where generates SqlSessionFactory ...
// FOR TEST 0219
MapperRegistry registry = sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().getMapperRegistry();

logger.info("=== Printing Mapper Registry starts");
registry.getMappers().forEach(mapper -> {
    logger.info("Mapper Registry :: " +  mapper.getName());
});
logger.info("=== Printing Mapper Registry ends");
// FOR TEST 0219

In my case, it prints nothing, but it is able to add mapper or package through MapperRegistry instance.
Here is what I thought

*

*SqlSessionFactory(provided by ibatis) requires DataSource

*SqlSessionTemplate(provided by ibatis) is endpoint and it requires SqlSessionFactory

*In conclusion, SqlSessionTemplate depends on SqlSessionFactory which depends on DataSource.

If so, how could I properly generate SqlSession* as bean in a project which uses dynamic Datasource?
In my upper code(edited one), I was able to add mapper as bean but every SqlSessionFactory has same Mappers(duplicated, since MapperRegistry get a package name as a parameter)
How could I set different mappers to corresponding SqlSessionFactory?

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and also access all their files when connecting it to a pc.
internal storage either directly or indirectly.
** USB Host hardware in more costly than SPI/I2C for Mass Storage only.
while still allowing access to the devices internal storage.
version that could have a RPi added at a later date.
This would be marketable at people where lower cost in paramount.
problem. Powering the device might be though.
This will form the basis of our development for the immediate future. We cannot assume that the Pi will always the best computer on a chip to integrate, even if there were always to be an integrated SoC of some kind, so this gives us that flexibility. There is no reason not to present this as a plain display, but I think the added functionality of the other options make them of more general use.
You raise an important point. Given the relative simplicity of the timing and actions it makes sense to use a separate cheap chip which allows us to swapt inputs freely. See no.5.
I don't think it would be possible to integrate the Quixote into any XO1s. OLPC relies on very large orders (100,000+), which the Braille market probably cannot reliably supply.
The challenge will be getting the Quixote to work with their custom 'Sugar' interface. This is probably best left for a later date. We can, however, hope to get it working with those XO1s running Windows XP or Linux with the XFCE interface.
This is a very interesting suggestion. This could present a saving of approximately 10% on the final unit cost. The Natesan display has something of this kind built in for this reason. However I think it could prove to be a false economy as it is a serious reduction in features for only a small saving.
Coupled with the discrete micro-controller (no.2) I think this presents the best option. The Raspbery Pi would not only serve as a fully fledged PC, but also as an ebook reader and note-taker. these features would not have to be built from scratch as there are Linux distros out there that provide this. This way the Quixote could also be kept up to date with changes and improvements in technology, such as better screen readers.