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Journey Chronicles
Letter to Joshua
Our dear son, our firstborn!
We are so pleased, and thankful, and humbled, that God has blessed us with you. It is exciting to have you as a son, and we look forward to seeing how God turns you into a man after His own heart. We want you to know and remember that you have been born into a Christian family. You will be baptized right away—and we believe that brings you into a covenant with Christ. He gives you the name Christian, and it is your responsibility to love Him, and thankfully live up to that name.
The Bible often describes how God names His people, and they then live up to that name. When he still had no children, Abram was re-named Abraham, which means father of many nations. Abraham had faith that God would do what he promised, and, indeed, from him many mighty nations came. Much later, fearful Gideon, threshing his wheat in hiding, was greeted by the Angel of the Lord, "The Lord is with you, mighty man of valor!" Though Gideon had done nothing already, God knew that he would be the man to rescue Israel from the Midianites. God gives his people names that have meanings, or tell a story: we imitate Him by giving you names of men whose lives have meaning, whose stories are worth living up to.
Your first name is Joshua, which means "Yahweh saves." You are named after Joshua, the son of Nun, who was Moses' servant, and eventually the leader of all of Israel. Joshua was one of the twelve men selected by Moses to spy out the land of Canaan. When they returned, they told of the great fruitfulness of the land and how it flowed with milk and honey. But ten of the men said, "But the people of the land are strong, their cities are fortified and very large, and the descendants of the giants are there. We are not able to go up against these people, for they are stronger than we are, and we are nothing but grasshoppers in their sight." But Joshua, and Caleb with him, assured the people, "The land is an exceedingly good land, and if the Lord delights in us, He will bring us into it. Do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land for their protection has departed from them and the Lord is with us." Because of their faith, Joshua and Caleb were the only men of their generation to survive the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and finally enter and conquer the fruitful land of Canaan. May you, our son, have the faith of Joshua when you are up against giants in your life that make you feel like a grasshopper.
Your second name is Robert. You are named after three men called Robert: Robert the Bruce, Robert E. Lee, and your grandfather. Robert the Bruce was a Scottish king in the 1300s who led his people in defending their country against English tyranny. Although a coward at first, he eventually gained the resolve to put his responsibility before his fear, and it is due in large part to his courage, perseverance, and energy that Scotland gained her freedom. Robert E. Lee was a general during the American Civil War. A true man of resolve, he had the opportunity to command the entire Federal army, but he chose instead to fight for the Southern Confederation because he believed it was the right thing to do. He knew this choice could cause him to lose everything he owned: and, in fact, the land that his family had owned for generations was confiscated and eventually turned into the Arlington National Cemetery. Finally, you are named after Robert Evans, your grandfather. He has always demonstrated resolve: he showed it in his determination to marry your grandmother, Patricia; he demonstrates it daily in his leadership at church, and in his home, and in his Christian witness in a secular workplace; and he has recently shown it again in his willingness to adopt your aunts Anisa and Gilma from Albania. His example and the lessons he taught did much to form the character of your father, and it is our hope that many of those lessons may be passed on to you. Always be thankful for the foundation he and your other grandparents laid for your parents to build upon!
We give you the third name, Resolve, because we want you to possess this character attribute. As the Lord said to Joshua, so we say to you:
Be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. The Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and you will have good success.
Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
May you grow up to say with Joshua, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
As a family, we want to stress the importance of story. Your first three initials are JRR, which is an intentional reminder of JRR Tolkien, one of the greatest human storytellers in history. But God is the Great Author: everything that has happened, everything that is happening, and everything that will happen is part of His story. We want you to remember that God is sovereign, and your life flows from His pen.
When the pastor asks us at your baptism, "What is the Christian name of this child?" we will reply, "Joshua Robert Resolve." We know that you, as a little baby in our arms, won't be able to conquer Canaan, defend Scotland from the English, or sacrifice everything for a cause. But just as God kept His promise to Abraham and just as He made fearful Gideon become a mighty man of valor, so God will help you as you grow to become another Joshua, another Robert, another man of resolve.
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PS4 exclusive pushed back by two months.
Earlier this morning, SIE Bend Studio revealed in a brief PlayStation blog post that Days Gone is now scheduled to launch worldwide on April 26th, 2019. This post-apocalyptic open world action-adventure game was originally slated for release on February 22nd, 2019. Below is a brief statement by the studio that dives further into why the game was delayed by two months.
The decision to push Days Gone's release date out a little further by two months is a smart one thanks largely in part to February 2019 already being a crowded month for releases. Bioware's Anthem and 4A Games Metro Exodus are both due on February 22nd while Microsoft's Crackdown 3 is expected to launch around the same time. At the end of the day, it's most important that the final product turns out great and the delay guarantees that this will happen.
Are any of you looking forward to checking out Days Gone when it debuts on April 26th? Please feel free to let us know your thoughts on the upcoming game, this brief delay and more in the comments section below.


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Antoni Khoraisz z Ain Ibl lub Antoine-Pierre Khoraiche, (ur. 20 września 1907 w Ain Ebel w archidiecezji Tyr, zm. 19 sierpnia 1994 w Bejrucie), duchowny Kościoła maronickiego, kardynał, maronicki patriarcha Antiochii.

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Absolwent Seminarium Patriarchalnego w Tyrze, Papieskiego Uniwersytetu Urbaniana w Rzymie i Papieskiego Uniwersytetu św. Józefa w Bejrucie. Święcenia kapłańskie przyjął 12 kwietnia 1930 roku. Przez dziesięć lat wykładał filozofię i apologetykę w bejruckim kolegium Sagesse, a następnie dziesięć lat był wikariuszem generalnym maronickiej diecezji Tyr. 25 kwietnia 1950 roku Pius XII mianował go biskupem tytularnym Tarsu, 15 października tego samego roku powierzył mu funkcję administratora apostolskiego sede plena diecezji Sydon, a 25 listopada 1957 roku mianował go ordynariuszem tej diecezji. W tym charakterze uczestniczył w obradach Soboru Watykańskiego II. 3 lutego 1975 roku został jednogłośnie wybrany na patriarchę maronitów, a 15 lutego tego samego roku Paweł VI zatwierdził jego wybór. Stał na czele tego Kościoła wschodniego, zjednoczonego ze Stolicą Apostolską, w okresie bratobójczej wojny w Libanie i na całym Bliskim Wschodzie. 2 lutego 1983 roku został kreowany kardynałem na konsystorzu razem z prymasem Polski, abp. Józefem Glempem. 3 kwietnia 1986 roku zrezygnował z kierowania patriarchatem. Zmarł w Bejrucie.

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne
 Sylwetka na stronie rodziny Khoraisz

Maroniccy patriarchowie Antiochii
Maroniccy kardynałowie
Libańscy kardynałowie
Uczestnicy soboru watykańskiego II
Urodzeni w 1907
Zmarli w 1994
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Q: Removing duplicates from two arrays in javascript based on a single attribute I have two arrays in javascript, where i want to do two different operations

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*Map an attribute upon each element in each lists

*filter out none unique values based on an attribute

I have this function so far
export function generateDisplayedLabels(systemLabels, masterState){
  const mappedSystemlabels = systemLabels.map(label => Object.assign(label, {type: "system"}))
  const mappedMasterlabels = masterState.map(label => Object.assign(label, {type: "master"}))
  const displayedLabels = _.union(mappedSystemlabels, mappedMasterState);
  return displayedLabels

}

This would work except for the fact, that whenever i map over the objects in the beginning, the "unique" elements are no longer unique, because they have another attribute mapped upon it. Is there a time efficient way, that i can filter out the none unique elements, ignoring the attribute, that have been mapped onto it.

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let ar1 = [
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    name: 'javascript',
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    name: 'overflow',
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"Wrong decision": Economists think little of the VAT reduction
"Wrong decision"
Economists don't think much of the VAT cut
08/18/2022, 4:01 p.m
The federal government will reduce VAT on gas. Economists think that's a mistake. This reduces the incentive to save. "Hopefully people don't think that gas won't get so expensive after all," tweeted Veronika Grimm.
The temporary reduction in VAT on gas from 19 to 7 percent announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has met with little approval from economists. Jens Südekum, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics, criticized that this was once again politics based on the watering can principle. It relieves many customers who do not need it. "It's a shame that the FDP has prevailed within the traffic light coalition with the next economically highly dubious proposal. The right thing would have been: let price signals take full effect, cushioned by socially graded income transfers," says Südekum. High earners, for whom the state is currently unable to provide relief, also benefited from the reduction. In addition, the incentives to save gas are reduced. "So exactly the opposite of what is actually needed is achieved," said Südekum.
Rüdiger Bachmann from the US University of Notre Dame has a similar view. "This is the wrong decision, both economically and politically. There are options for relief that don't interfere with the price mechanism," he tweeted. Like other economists, Bachmann fears that the incentive to save gas will decrease. According to estimates by the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, 20 percent of gas must be saved in order to get through the fall and winter well.
That's why the manager Veronika Grimm doesn't think much of the reduction. "Hopefully people don't think that gas won't get so expensive after all," the economist tweeted. Compared to the price increases to be expected, the move is just "a drop in the bucket." For many, the price increases would only be noticeable in the coming year with the heating bill. Relief "to the middle of society (not just transfer recipients)" is important. Due to the reduction in VAT, however, there would now be a lack of income that could help finance the relief. "The relief would also be the prerequisite for being able to pass on the prices promptly – which would make sense with a view to GASSPAREN!"
It would have been wiser not to distort prices and pay transfers instead, Jan Schnellenbach, an economist at the Technical University in Cottbus, tweeted. "The administrative problems (bringing energy money to the pensioners, etc.) could have been solved somehow. Hopefully this isn't a dam break for further price manipulation."
"An interesting decision (…) that is not a good decision," tweeted Marcel Fratzscher, President of the DIW economic research institute. For low earners, the move is better than nothing. "But it's not a good tool because it's expensive, not accurate and relieves people with low incomes far too little. People with high incomes and companies get the lion's share," tweeted the economist. A typical family of four with gas heating would be relieved by the reduction in VAT of around 500 euros per year, while the cost of gas would increase by around 3600 euros. Direct transfer payments are much better, Fratzscher suggests an "energy allowance of 100 euros per month and person for households with medium and low incomes".
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Yes, I'm going to bore you by talking about my Christmas, but I'll keep it brief and spare you most of the details. Essentially, I had a very good time, marred only by the continued presence of the cold/flu thing I've had for the past couple of weeks. Yes, I'm feeling considerably better now, thanks for asking.
Anyway, I was away at Jenny's parents' place near Cambridge, where we were both liberally showered with presents, all of which are lovely and many of which will prove very useful. I even got a book on photography, so if I can find some time to read and digest it my crappy pictures might actually improve a bit.
It was really good to get home yesterday afternoon, though. Being away is great but there's nothing quite like home, if you know what I mean. An evening spent lounging around in front of the TV and eating pizza was very much appreciated.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for the gifts, cards and messages. Now, onwards towards the New Year!


Dissertation or Thesis Benavides, Julio. 2011. Ecological of infectious diseases in social primates. University of Montpellier, France.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2009. Animal movement and some ecological implications. Ecological Complexity Seminar, 2009. Center for Complexity Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2009. Animal movement and some ecological implications. Ecological Complexity Seminar, Center for Complexity Sciences, 2009. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2009. Statistical physics of animal displacements. XI Latin American Worshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, 2009. Búzios, Brasil.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2010. Power-law distributions in the movement patterns of living organisms. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2010. Power-laws in animal movement patterns. Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems, 2010.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2010. Statistical-physical description of animal displacements. Seminar of the Theoretical Physics Department, 2010. Université de Toulouse. France.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2010. The movement of living organisms and statistical physics. Seminar of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 2010. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Mexico.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2011. Living organisms on the move: a perspective from complex systems. Seminar of the Masters on Nonlinear dynamics and Complex Systems, 2011. Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. Mexico.
Presentations Boyer, Denis. 2011. Space use by animals: Memory, home ranges and scaling laws. Ecological Complexity Seminar, Center for Complexity Sciences, 2011. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico.
Presentations Caillaud, Damien. 2010. Integrating feeding ecology and network theory to understand the transmission of infectious diseases in social primates. Harvard University Seminar, 2010. Harvard Universidad. Cambridge, USA.
Journal Article Caillaud, Damien; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Scarpino, Samuel V.; Jansen, Patrick A.; Garzon-Lopez, Carol X.; Winkelhagen, Annemarie J. S.; Bohlman, Stephanie A.; Walsh, Peter D. 2010. Modeling the spatial distribution and fruiting pattern of a key tree species in a neotropical forest: Methodology and potential applications. Vol: 5(11). Pages e15002.
Presentations Caillaud, Damien. 2010. Network and behavioral models for disease dynamics and control. Disease in Motion Conference, Princeton University 2010. Princeton University. Princeton, USA.
Presentations Caillaud, Damien. 2010. Ranging patterns in great apes: Roles of food resource distribution, spatial memory and inter-group feeding competition. Boyd Orr Seminar, University of Glasgow, 2010. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK.
Presentations Caillaud, Damien. 2010. Using Capture-Mark-Recapture to estimate gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus. Boyd Orr Seminar, University of Glasgow, 2010. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK.
Presentations Crofoot, Margaret C. 2010. No need for violence: Memory-based foraging and conspecific resource depletion can explain primate "war zones". 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, 2010. Kyoto, Japan.
Presentations Crofoot, Margaret C. 2010. No need for violence: Memory-based foraging and conspecific resource depletion can explain primate "war zones". 79th Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2010.
Presentations Salvador, Liliana. 2008. Animal movement and foraging strategies. PhD Program in Computational Biology Annual Meeting, 2008. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia. Portugal.
Presentations Salvador, Liliana. 2008. Foraging decisions and animal grouping patterns. Faculdade de Ciencias Seminar, 2008. Universidade de Lisboa. Portugal.
Presentations Salvador, Liliana. 2008. Foraging strategies and primate grouping patterns: "Not all who wander are lost". Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, 2008. Princeton University. Princeton, USA.
Dissertation or Thesis Salvador, Liliana. 2011. The ecological and evolutionary analysis of foraging animal movement. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.


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Dear Hoopers: Facebook Stalking His Ex-Girlfriend
Dear Hoopers
Relationship Advice for the Modern World
Facebook Stalking His Ex-Girlfriend
by dearhoop
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Dear Hoopers,
My husband and I have been married for 2 and a half years and dated for about 6 before taking the big step. He's a wonderful man, treats me like a princess and I'm certain I couldn't have chosen a better partner for me and I'm extremely positive that he is, indeed, the one. He's very caring, compassionate, effective, hardworking and humble. We do have discussions every now and then over small, trivial things and it's probably worth mentioning that we always work things out in the end.
Last week while doing some house work, my phone's battery died on me while I was on the phone with a customer service lady following up my case of a purchase gone wrong so she asked me to log in to my account on their website. My husband's laptop was there so I figured there wouldn't be any problem If I used it so I started typing this site's url and the first suggestion was his ex's Facebook profile. I finished the call and, unrightfully so, invaded my husband's privacy by checking his browsing history. Turns out he visits her profile pretty often, about 3-4 times per week. His URLs showed he also went to her photos and saw a good amount of them. I felt very upset and this incident led me to grab his phone while he was in the shower and noticed her instagram account was his top suggested profile, which means he's a regular visitor there too.
I suck at pretending everything's fine and he's noticed it. I'm acting distant and cold and he has asked me over 1000 times what's the matter with me. He has tried scoring extra points (bringing flowers, doing extra chores, cooking dinner) but I just can't let go of this, especially because when we first met, he was still kind of "seeing" her, but were already split up at the moment and the only time we ever broke up, was because of him not being able to distance himself enough from this chick. He knows those were some really awful moments for me and how I feel towards her. I'm in a huge dilemma now because as much as I'd like to talk it out, I know he won't be happy with me going through his stuff and the worst part of it all, is that I know the truth of him not being over her. This has completely scared me and I fear the beautifully-built trust we have is now cracked, if not shattered.
-Facebook Stalking his Ex-Girlfriend
Dear Stalking his Ex-Girlfriend,
What an unpleasant surprise to unearth. I can only imagine after 8 years you are feeling betrayed and shaken. I would too. This isn't a rare one-off search. As you've discovered it's frequent and on several social media sites.
In the world of social media, you are one click away from knowing an ex's whereabouts or stalking a former love interest. With that said, it's his decision to look. The question here is, why is he looking at his ex-girlfriend from almost a decade ago so frequently?
It's his decision to look.
You said that he's a wonderful man, treats you like a princess, and is caring, compassionate, hardworking and humble. These are wonderful relationship characteristics and you value them. This new discovery was a bit of a heart wrecker, but it doesn't mean that he's in love with her. He chose you. He chose to leave her for you. He chose to marry you.
There definitely seems to be an unhealthy infatuation with his ex-girlfriend that should be addressed. Talk to him honestly and let him know what you discovered. Be prepared for a reaction to snooping on his personal computer and take ownership of this. The beautifully built trust you have together is not shattered. It's always a work in progress. This was a hiccup that can be overcome through you expressing concern and him taking the action steps to help build your trust back.
Spying on his computer and phone is bad, but it happened. At this point, there is no turning back what you did. Most importantly there is no turning back what you learned about your husband. He is stalking his ex-girlfriend through social media and it has serious implications for where his heart and head is at. You have to get honest with him about what you did, what you learned, and how this has impacted your feelings and trust.
His obsession with this woman has been a struggle since the beginning of your relationship. Even though this obsession put your relationship at risk in the past, he has still found a way to return his attention to her. This is unhealthy for him and unfair to you. He may be a great guy and may be committed to you, but if he doesn't leave this woman and his obsession behind he will sink your marriage.
He may be a great guy and may be committed to you, but if he doesn't leave this woman and his obsession behind he will sink your marriage.
-Dr. Ryan
You two had built strong trust over your 6 years of dating and 2 plus years of marriage. That trust certainly has been strained from this incident but it doesn't have to be shattered. The first step comes from you and then the next steps come from him.
First, you need to reveal what you found and how badly this hurts you. Next, he needs to do what it takes to distance himself from her and to prove it to you that he did it. Unfriending and unfollowing her would be a start. He may feel as though that is unnecessary but when it's time to save your marriage, he should do what it takes.
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< 2 Chronicles 212 Chronicles 222 Chronicles 23 >
The Reign of Ahaziah of Judah
221 Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, their next king, since the marauding bands who came with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram reigned as king of Judah. 2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri. 3 Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab's family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong. 4 He did what was evil in the Lord 's sight, just as Ahab's family had done. They even became his advisers after the death of his father, and they led him to ruin. 5 Following their evil advice, Ahaziah joined Joram, the son of King Ahab of Israel, in his war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. When the Arameans wounded Joram in the battle, 6 he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramoth. Because Joram was wounded, King Ahaziah of Judah went to Jezreel to visit him.
Jehu Kills Ahaziah
7 But God had decided that this visit would be Ahaziah's downfall. While he was there, Ahaziah went out with Joram to meet Jehu grandson of Nimshi, whom the Lord had appointed to destroy the dynasty of Ahab. 8 While Jehu was executing judgment against the family of Ahab, he happened to meet some of Judah's officials and Ahaziah's relatives who were traveling with Ahaziah. So Jehu killed them all. 9 Then Jehu's men searched for Ahaziah, and they found him hiding in the city of Samaria. They brought him to Jehu, who killed him. Ahaziah was given a decent burial because the people said, "He was the grandson of Jehoshaphat-a man who sought the Lord with all his heart." But none of the surviving members of Ahaziah's family was capable of ruling the kingdom.
Athaliah Usurps the Throne
10 When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of Judah's royal family. 11 But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him. 12 Joash remained hidden in the Temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
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Q: How do i make an if statement have multiple strings? I an making a simple rock paper scissors game and I want to make a if statement there if the user enters in a word besides rock,paper,scissors it saya invalid choice, i tried "||" and i also tried "&&".
if(userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Scissors") && ("Paper") &&  ("rock")) {
    System.out.println("Invalid choice. Ending program.");

    // Exit program
    Main.main(args);
}

A: if(!(userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Scissors") || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Paper") ||  userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("rock")))
{
    System.out.println("Invalid choice. Ending program.");

    // Exit program
    Main.main(args);
}

A: You can use collection of correct choices and check if user choice is among them
List<String> correctChoices = Arrays.asList("rock","paper","scissors");
...

if (!correctChoice.contains(userChoice.toLowerCase()){
    //invalid input
}

To improve performance of contains method you can use HashSet instead of list
Set<String> correctChoices = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList("rock","paper","scissors"));

A: This should fix the problem:
if(!userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Scissors") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Paper") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("rock"))
{
    System.out.println("Invalid choice. Ending program.");

    // Exit program
    Main.main(args);
}

Using !String_name.equalsIgnoreCase(String s) is the same as != in case of comparing primitive data types, but you can't obviously use that on Strings, since by using != you would just evaluate if they are not the same object, which would always be false.

A: if(!(userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Scissors") || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Paper") ||  userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("rock"))

A: if(!userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Scissors") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("Paper") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("rock")) {
    System.out.println("Invalid choice. Ending program.");

    // Exit program
    Main.main(args);
}

Your syntax of && ("Paper") is invalid, only boolean types are allowed. What you want to check is that the choice does not equal "scissors" AND does not equal "paper" AND does not equal "rock".
Of course, it's not the only way since you can use negation binary logic to switch true with false and AND with OR.

A: A concise approach is to use a switch statement.
switch( userChoice.toLowerCase() ) {
   case "scissors":
   case "paper":
   case "rock":
      // Continue
      break;
   default:
      System.out.println("Invalid choice. Ending program.");
      System.exit(1);
      break;
}

A: Enum Possibilities {
    ROCK,
    PAPER,
    SCISSORS;

    public static boolean isInPossibilities(String input) {
        for (Possibilities possibilitie: values()) {
            if (possibilitie.name().equalsIgnoreCase(input)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false
    }
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Then do your check like this :
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Post Malone has had quite a day as he was aboard a plane forced to make an emergency landing following tires being blown after takeoff.
He was also the recipient of one of the mysterious objects Panic! At The Disco handed out during their performance.
Post Malone is slated to perform at this weekend's Reading & Leeds festival, so the plane was originally set to go to England. However, after the tires blew, it was rerouted to an airport in Westfield, Massachusetts.
The flight was rerouted a second time to Stewart Airport in New York as that location has a longer runway ideal for emergency landings.
The plane carried 16 people including Post Malone, his crew and flight personnel. The aircraft was forced to hover above the airport in order to burn fuel and make for a safer landing if it did indeed end up as a crash.
You can read the full story AltPress updated as the events unfolded here.
The plane safely touched down around 4 p.m. EST today, and the rapper tweeted to his fans and those who wished him ill soon after.


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Roma lives matter: Bulgarian Rom killed for "possession of pesticides"
April 27, 2017 derparia
By Swain Uber
A Romani father and son became the latest victims of Bulgarian police brutality when they were set up and badly beaten near their home in the village of Bohot in Pleven province on Thursday 13 April.
Moments after the men parked their car to collect kindling in a nearby wood, they were surrounded by a group of local police officers, who ordered them to lie on the ground, then proceeded to beat them with batons and repeatedly kick them.
The son survived this brutal assault, sustaining serious injuries, which included a broken arm, broken ribs and bruising and contusions all over his body. The father, who had a heart condition and a pacemaker fitted, was not so fortunate and died at the scene of this ferocious assault.
The authorities justified the police action by claiming that the men were found in possession of stolen pesticides and had resisted arrest. They also claimed that the father took a heart attack as a result of his attempts to evade arrest and not because of being beaten. The family claims to have photos of the deceased's beaten body, but these have not been released as yet. The results of the autopsy have yet to be made public.
Romani man from the village of Bohot in Pleven, Bulgaria after being brutally attacked by police. Photo credit: Ognyan Isaev
A recent survey conducted by the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) found over one-third of all arrestees surveyed asserted that they had been subjected to violence either at the time of arrest or later inside the police station. Unsurprisingly, Bulgarian Roma are twice as likely as non-Roma to report being abused in the police stations, a number which jumps to 70% for Roma minors.
The most recent report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) found similar damning evidence: anyone in the custody of Bulgarian police "run a significant risk" of being mistreated "both at the time of apprehension and during subsequent questioning". The CPT lamented that "very little progress, if any, has been made" to address this systemic problem.
Another recent report by BHC attempted to gather comprehensive information from the authorities about the number of victims who have suffered from abuse at the hands of the police as well as data about the outcomes of resulting investigations and proceedings to punish that abuse but they discovered that "no one really knows", neither local nor national authorities, how widespread police violence is.
The specifics of this latest incident are still somewhat unclear, but what is categorically beyond dispute is this: A Romani man died and his son was severely beaten in an encounter with Bulgarian police. It is beyond comprehension what kind of mitigating or extenuating circumstances could make this situation acceptable.
News of the attack spread somewhat slowly via social media networks rather than mainstream news outlets. That such a serious incident involving loss of life in such shocking circumstances could have slipped past reporters is hard to comprehend. Especially in a country saturated by media companies and news providers, ready and poised to pounce on any incident where the antagonist can be identified as Roma, regardless of the truth content of the story. (This is such a common occurrence in Bulgarian media that a campaign to raise awareness about the epidemic of fake news stories used similar scandalous headlines as their examples.)
Yet, it was not until nearly a full week after the incident that the first media organisation picked up the story. The broadcast itself zig-zagged between merely-just-somewhat-racist and full-blown-bigotry, which reflected the conversation between the host and the guest, Anton Sirakov. Sirakov was the former vice-deputy of the far-right, ethno-nationalist ATAKA party, known for its hostility towards ethnic minorities, Muslims, foreigners, and in particular, Roma. The party leader, Volen Siderov, its affiliated television channel, SKAT, and Sirakov himself have all been accused of promulgating hate speech with some cases resulting in fines-multiple times since their emergence into political relevance.
Sirakov suggested that it was very suspect that the family sought the assistance of the "criminal loving" Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. Watching footage of the deceased's family home, he remarked that while the furniture showed poor taste, it was clear that this family was not poor, therefore, they must be thieves. The host challenged his absurd assertion, cutting to the heart of the issue: "This is 'forest' justice" – similar to street justice or jungle justice, perpetrated by the police themselves. Sirakov continued unfazed, "they weren't in their own woods" and "when a man is very sick, he doesn't go to out to steal", clearly insinuating the father was responsible for his own death. Using militaristic language, he praised the police for "neutralising the two thieves, who were incompliant but eventually arrested".
Sirakov also remarked on the non-reporting of the incident, but with more sinister intent. He claimed that wide coverage of this story would send a clear message, spread fear and cause "all crooks and thieves to lay down and not attack."
When the host raised the point made on camera by the wife and mother of the two victims – Regardless of what happened… the police do not have the right to beat and kill individuals at will, even if they had committed a theft – Sirakov twisted her plea for mercy and understanding as an admission of guilt. He then cited an unrelated alleged incident – where public employees were threatened by a purportedly "similar group" of Roma who was also collecting wood as justification for a show of force in Botov. And Sirkaov finished off by complaining that no one asked whether either son or father have, or had, respectively, a job suggesting that they didn't and that they were therefore thieves.
Sirakov and many like him, even in the midst of tragedy dehumanise, denigrate and disparage this family, and by extension all Roma: they are nothing more than thieves, and as such, the police did nothing wrong. This kind of rhetoric sends out a message that emboldens police to use excessive violence and leaves victims without domestic recourse or remedy as evidenced by the numerous judgments of the European Court of Human Rights against Bulgaria.
The far-right in Bulgaria has worked hard to create a political and social climate where police violence against Roma is actively condoned by some, and tacitly accepted by a wider public as an unpleasant but tolerable fact of life, that performs a necessary function. Roma as a people are considered criminals, and violence towards them-including towards individuals, who may or may not have committed a crime is in itself justifiable. The chilling message from the far-right parties, law enforcement agencies and media outlets in Bulgaria, is that simply being Roma is a crime and a crime that carries the risk of summary execution.
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A murénafélék (Muraenidae) a csontos halak (Osteichthyes) főosztályának sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii) osztályába, azon belül az angolnaalakúak (Anguilliformes) rendjébe tartozó család.

A családba 2 alcsalád, 15 nem és 200 faj tartozik.

A felső és a köztiállkapocs, s általában az állkapcsok messzemenő visszafejlődése és átalakulása, továbbá többnyire a mellúszó hiánya különbözteti meg az angolnaalakúak többi családjától. Testük teljesen csupasz és többnyire élénken színezett, szabálytalan foltokkal és sávokkal díszítve. A legtöbb fajnak erős kampós fogai vannak. Ügyes és erős ragadozóhalak, amelyek 3 méterre is megnőnek. Leginkább a melegvízű tengerekben élnek, különösen a korallzátonyokat kedvelik.

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A családba az alábbi 2 alcsaládok, 15 nemek és 200 faj tartozik:

 Muraeninae - 10 nem és 164 faj tartozik.
 Echidna J. R. Forster, 1788 – 11 faj
 Enchelycore J. R. Forster, 1788 – 13 faj
 Enchelynassa (Kaup, 1855) – 1 faj
 Gymnomuraena (Lacepède, 1803) – 1 faj
 Gymnothorax (Bloch, 1795) – 124 faj
 Monopenchelys (Böhlke & McCosker, 1982) – 1 faj
 Muraena Linnaeus, 1758 – 10 faj
 Pseudechidna (Bleeker, 1863) – 1 faj
 Rhinomuraena (Garman, 1888) – 1 faj
 Strophidon (McClelland, 1844) – 1 faj
 Uropterygiinae - 5 nem és 36 faj tartozik
 Anarchias Bloch, 1795 – 11 faj
 Channomuraena (Richardson, 1848) – 2 faj
 Cirrimaxilla (Chen & Shao, 1995) – 1 faj
 Scuticaria (Jordan & (Snyder, 1901) – 2 faj
 Uropterygius Bloch, 1795 – 20 faj

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The availability of information on issues related to privatization is crucial for investors in Georgia, as investing in Georgia often involves the acquisition of State property.
Meaning Of Privatization
According to the Georgian legislation, privatization means the acquisition of State/Municipal property by individuals and legal entities (including foreign individuals and foreign companies) in accordance with the rules stipulated by the legislation.
This chapter addresses the property which is subjected to privatization.
Property which is subject to privatization
Property in Georgia may be in State, Municipal or Private Ownership.
State property may include State-owned movable and immovable property.
Municipal property includes Municipality-owned movable and immovable property.
Generally, Georgian legislation allows privatization of any State or Municipal property not subject to express restrictions and prohibitions under the law.
Accordingly, Georgian legislation includes an exhaustive list of the property that may not be privatized due to its utmost State or economic importance, Specifically, the following State property may not be subject to privatization:
Minerals and subsoil.
Water resources.
Territorial waters.
Continental shelf.
State forest fund except the woods of former collective and Soviet farms situated within the borders of settlements.
Air space.
State reserved territory;
National parks.
Monuments of nature.
Protected territory.
Recreational territories or/and special construction zones determined by the President of Georgia.
Objects of historic, cultural and artistic value approved according to the established rule, buildings and facilities of cultural and artistic purpose, also plots of land where the above mentioned objects are located, without adequate conditions and agreement with the Georgian Ministry of Culture and Protection of Monuments.
Religious buildings (active and inactive), their remnants, also plots of land where they are situated.
State archives of special historic and cultural importance.
State fund of cinema, photo and audio documents of exceptional importance
Special archives and funds of the ministries (entities) and scientific and research institutions of
Museum collections and funds of special importance.
House-museums of special importance.
Property used for performing dispatching activity in the energy sector.
Property utilized by legal entities of public law where public schools and high educational and scientific institutions are operating.
Berths, hydro technical buildings, lighthouses, light signals and waters of seaports of special importance.
Motorways (in case of absence of a road of alternative importance);
Means of operation and control of air navigation;
Runways of special importance.
Frequency spectrum.
Georgia's position in the geostational orbit;
State pantheons.
Property designated for deploying the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and Special State Protection Service of Georgia in accordance with the rules provided by the Georgian legislation.
Where to find information about the objects of privatization
As a rule, the State and Municipal Government publish information on the sale of a particular property in advance.
You can check the following links for more info:
www.eauction.ge
http://privatization.ge
Forms of Privatization
The privatization of State-owned property is carried out by the property manager. Privatization of Municipal property is carried out by the executive body of the respective municipality (municipal government).
The privatization of State/Municipality owned immovable property is carried out in several forms:
a) Auction (public/electronic);
Direct selling;
Direct selling on the basis of competitive selection.
Detailed information about each of these forms is provided below.
Public Auction
The public auction is one of the most widespread forms of privatization. It aims to sell a property at the highest price, and consequently, the participant who offers the highest bid wins the auction. The auction may also be announced under certain conditions. In this case, along with the price, the compliance with these conditions is also assessed.
Electronic auction
Privatization can be carried out by electronic auction. The electronic auction is announced and conducted on a web page designed especially for electronic auctions (www.eauction.ge) or/and on a web-page of the body conduction the privatization, transfer to use or manage the State property. Such an announcement of information about the auction amounts to the official announcement.
Right and conditions of participation in the auction
Any person, including foreign citizens and foreign companies, is entitled to participate in the auction and purchase property, wherein the share of the State or municipality is less than 25%. In order to participate in the auction, the interested person must submit an application to the organizer of the auction.
Direct selling and direct selling based on competitive selection
Direct selling and direct selling on the basis of competitive selection are separate forms of privatization.
a) In case of direct selling, the criterion for selection is the complete fulfillment of the conditions specified for the purchase of the property.
b) Direct selling can be conducted on the basis of competitive selection. This form is used when there exist several investment related preconditions or alternative proposals by the interested parties.
Privatization of agricultural land
For the purposes of the privatization of State owned agricultural land two cases are identified:
a) Privatization of rented agricultural land and
b) Privatization of non-rented agricultural land.
The privatization of rented agricultural land is carried out via direct selling and the buyer may only be the tenant of the land.
The Law on State Property mentioned the timeframe (the period before 1st May 2011) during which the tenant was entitled to require privatization of rented agricultural land. If the tenant would not request privatization of the land before the expiration of this period, privatization would take place in accordance with the rules applicable to un-rented land.
Privatization of agricultural land which is not rented may be accomplished in the following forms:
Direct selling on the basis of a decision of the President of Georgia;
Direct selling on the basis of competitive selection by decision of the President of Georgia;
Privatization of stocks and shares
Apart from tangible property, Georgian legislation provides for the privatization of State or Municipality owned intangible property (stocks and shares). The State/Municipality may be the founder of a Joint Stock Company or Limited Liability Company and/or non-entrepreneurial (noncommercial) legal entities and/or the owner of the shares.
The privatization of shares and stocks can be conducted via auction or direct selling (including direct selling on the basis of competitive selection), as well as privatization of shares or stocks or certified stocks directly or by the agent, in forms of public or private offer, also in the forms in accordance with the established practice at the recognized foreign stock markets or at international capital markets for that time.
The privatization of stocks and shares is carried out based on the decision of the President of Georgia with the initiative of the property manager or, in special cases, of the Government of Georgia. The rules for privatization and transfer to the use of the State property are defined by the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
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Megachurch pastor and author Erwin Raphael McManus deals with one of life's toughest questions, is Jesus the only way, and what about those who have never heard of Him?
In a re-podcast on the website of Mosaic, the church in Los Angeles, California, where McManus is the pastor, he read out questions sent to him by people from around the U.S. and Australia.
At the heart of the questions were two issues. How can we possibly conceive the fact that Jesus is the only way to God when the world is predominantly Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim? And what about those who have never heard of Christ but have lived a moral or just life?
The fundamental question we are asking is whether God cares more than us, McManus told the listeners. If the Bible is true and there is eternity, then God should be concerned about the human condition more than us, as some people think they can't believe in a God who doesn't care for all, the pastor said.
"Are all religions the same? Don't you just wish they were? … But all religions are not the same," he added.
We don't have the personal need for others to lose, though we want to win, he continued. "But to say that every religion and every philosophy, every belief system is the same, is really to dishonor the significance and value and intelligence of human beings. … We don't all choose the same thing. … We never know what people are going to choose."
A "religion" is either legalistic or fatalistic; they believe that God is either aloof or impersonal, the pastor explained. Those who believe that God is aloof come to the conclusion that people need to strive to live up to His standards so that He might accept them. And those who believe that God is impersonal say you have no control over your destiny.
The message of Jesus, however, is different than that, McManus underlined.
Referring to Genesis chapter 1, the megachurch pastor said God created us with the ability to choose. God's ultimate strategy with our free will was not to bring glory to Himself, he said, explaining that the majority of the people in the world are not glorifying God.
Even before God made humans, all creation declared the glory of God, the pastor stressed.
The freedom was given so that love could exit, he said, adding that God created humans as objects of love.
He then quoted Deuteronomy 30:11-20: "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in Heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into Heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
"See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
"But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
When Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me," He meant "no one else cares about you," the pastor explained. What about other paths? "Well, no one else has come for you," he said.
We need to choose between legalism and love, and between fatalism and freedom, McManus told the congregation.
Instead of asking how Jesus can be the only way, we should be happy that someone loves us enough to sacrifice Himself for us and has given us the freedom to choose Him or not.
There is a "religion" called Christianity which is not about love; it's about facts and information, the doctrines and truth, he said. The Kingdom of God is about love, he added.
But what about the people who have never heard of Jesus? The Bible says that God speaks with everyone through creation, McManus said, adding that, as Paul said in the NewTestament, there is evidence of God all around us. "He is not far from each one of us," he concluded.
Last February, McManus appeared on a CNN program to comment on the debate surrounding the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, Jesus Christ's purported burial cloth.
"What I think? I think no," McManus told the host, revealing that he did not think the shroud was authentic. "But I don't think that necessarily matters," he added. "I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was and did He really rise from the dead. ... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes' and that's why we're talking about Him today."


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Harry Potter is making his Los Angeles debut on Tuesday.
Executives from Universal Studios and Warner Bros. will unveil and for the first time publicly discuss their plans to build the Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood at a late-morning news conference.
Universal announced the event, stating in an email that it would be 'hosting a Butterbeer toast to celebrate a very special announcement.' People close to the matter but not authorized to discuss the event beforehand confirmed it would be the unveiling of plans to duplicate the massively successful Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction from Universal Studios Orlando at the L.A. theme park.
Top executives from Warner Bros., which made the 'Potter' films and controls licensing rights to author J.K. Rowling's books about the boy wizard, will be in attendance along with those from Universal. They will include the leaders of both companies: Warner Chairman Barry Meyer and Universal President Ron Meyer (no relation).
In addition, demonstrating the significance of what will likely be a huge investment in building the Potter-themed rides and shops, along with the longer-term boost to tourism, California Gov. Jerry Brown will be in attendance.
The Orlando Wizarding World of Harry Potter has brought in more than 7 million people in its first year and was the main driver in a 36% increase at Universal's park there in the first three months of 2011.
The attraction isn't expected to open at Universal's Los Angeles location — right next to its film and television studio in Universal City — until 2015 at the earliest.
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Baseball, bigots and the Hall of Fame
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Curt Schilling says his political beliefs are keeping him out of the baseball Hall of Fame.
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It's time for my annual turn from the front page to the back page (sports page) for some message on the meaning of life. Also, pitchers and catchers report any day now.
Typically, late January offers baseball fans an opportunity to argue (we don't debate) about who got into the Hall of Fame and who didn't and why. Last year was pretty mild, the only question being how one spiteful sports writer could've left Derek Jeter off his ballot, keeping the Yankee great from being named to the Hall unanimously of his first try. Baseball made up for that lack of drama when, in the same week, the Mets fired Carlos Beltran as their manager before he ever managed a game because he was part of a cheating scandal as a coach with the Houston Astros. Karma. So there was a lesson in good and evil on the back page.
This year, the January controversy revolved around Curt Schilling, who wasn't elected to the Hall of Fame, even though he and 71.1% of the 401 sports writers who voted thought he belonged. A player needs 75% of the ballots to get in. Schilling needed 16 more votes. A star pitcher for Arizona and Boston, he fancies himself as a bit of an outspoken character. As fate would have it, he seems to have run afoul of baseball's "character" clause. That is, he probably didn't get enough votes not because he wasn't a good enough player, but rather, because his presence in the Hall of Fame would somehow tarnish the name of Major League Baseball. He wasn't a good enough person.
A little about Schilling: His pitching credentials, in my opinion, are borderline Hall of Fame. He was a star in postseason play. I wouldn't be too put out if he got in. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of his human-being credentials. He has espoused far-right conspiracy theories, compared Muslims to Nazis, said Hillary Clinton should "be buried under a jail somewhere" and has spoken out vigorously against transgender people, among other things. He also enthusiastically endorsed a suggestion posted on social media that sports writers be hanged. (Since that's who votes on Hall of Fame candidates, this was also a stupid thing to do, in my opinion.)
But should stupidity or bigotry be reasons for disqualification from the Hall of Fame? (History says no.) And should baseball writers be the ones making that decision? These are the questions to ponder while waiting for the impeachment trial.
Schilling has asked that his name be taken off the list of next year's candidates. It would be his tenth and final year of eligibility and there's been a lot of speculation, based on the history of other players, that he probably would manage to eke out that 75%. Schilling said he'd rather put his fate in the hands of another committee, which considers umpires, managers and other non-players as well as those who did not make the hall during their eligibility period. Apparently, he feels this group wouldn't care how much he mouthed off about hanging sports writers or how much he hates Hillary and loves Donald Trump. The Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame said they would consider Schilling's request.
Of course, Schilling isn't the only one of current Hall-eligible players running up against the "character" issue. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two dominant players whose Hall of Fame credentials are beyond question, also did not receive enough votes. That's because they were part of baseball's "juicing era," when many players used steroids and other substances to enhance their performances on the field. To me, this would come under the heading of cheating, which one would think would qualify as being harmful to the image of baseball. Being not of good character. But neither man was penalized by major league baseball for using performance-enhancing drugs and both have been on the Hall of Fame eligibility list for nine years, just like Schilling.
It would seem to me, if baseball wants to have a character clause in deciding who gets into the Hall of Fame, it should apply that clause beforehand and decide which players do not even belong on the annual list, rather than leaving it to sportswriters. (I can't think of a more qualified group to do the actual voting, as has been suggested.) That makes the writers' task much simpler. If he's on the list, just judge him on his on-field performance and nothing else. His character is OK with us. In that case, Bonds and Clemens would be shoo-ins.
Schilling to me would still remain borderline, a man with far-right extremist views who was also a very good pitcher. Someone who, ironically, was removed by ESPN as its commentator on the 2015 Little League World Series because he posted something on social media comparing Muslims to Nazis and who the next year was fired by ESPN for an anti-transgender post on social media. In those cases, I think ESPN made the right decision, for the good name of baseball and for them as journalists.
So, this year's lesson from the sports pages: If you want to be fussy about what kind of people can come into your home, you set the rules and you make the decision. Don't give some strangers that responsibility. Also, if you're going to shoot your mouth off with hateful nonsense, be prepared for the consequences.
For me, Schilling can go to Cooperstown or not, just don't ask me to have lunch with that bigoted, loudmouth jerk.
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This article will focus on one of the most common image processing tasks, detecting edges. We will look at a number of ways to do this, and also look at one use for such information, an edge enhance filter. We will start with what we know from the last article, using convolution filters to detect edges.
Edge detection filters work essentially by looking for contrast in an image. This can be done a number of different ways, the convolution filters do it by applying a negative weight on one edge, and a positive on the other. This has the net effect of trending towards zero if the values are the same, and trending upwards as contrast exists. This is precisely how our emboss filter worked, and using an offset of 127 would again make these filters look similar to our previous embossing filter. The following examples follow the different filter types in the same order as the filters above. The images have a tooltip if you want to be sure which is which. These three filters also allow specification of a threshold. Any value below this threshold will be clamped to it. For the test I have kept the threshold at 0.
To perform an edge detection operation in just the horizontal or vertical planes, we can again use a convolution method. However, rather than use our framework for 3x3 filters, we are better off writing the code from scratch so that our filter ( which will be a Prewitt filter ) will be either very wide, or very high. I've chosen 7 as a good umber, our horizontal filter is 7x3 and our vertical filter is 3x7. The code is not dissimilar enough from what we've already done to warrant showing it to you especially, but it's there if you want to have a look. Following is the result first of our horizontal filter, and then the vertical one.
Convolution filters can do some cool stuff, and if you did a search online, you'd be forgiven for thinking that they are behind all image processing. However, it's probably more true that the sort of filters you see in Photoshop as especially written to directly do what a convolution filter can only imitate. I'd again point to the Photoshop embossing filter with it's range of options as evidence of this.
The problem with convolution for edge detection is not so much that the process is unsatisfactory, as much as unnecessarily expensive. I'm going to cover two more methods of edge detection, which both involve us iterating through the image directly and doing a number of compares on neighbouring pixels, but which treat the resultant values differently to a convolution filter.
If we are to perceive an edge in an image, it follows that there is a change in colour between two objects, for an edge to be apparent. To put it another way, if we were to take a pixel and store as it's value the greatest difference between it's starting value and the values of it's eight neighbours, we would come up with black where the pixels are the same, and trend towards white the harder the colour difference was. We would detect the edges in the image. Furthermore, if we allowed a threshold to be set, and set values below this to 0, we could eliminate soft edges to whatever degree we desires. The code to do this is followed by an example at threshold 0 and one at threshold 127.