With Mormonism prominently in the public eye, this seminar will review the changes and the constants in Mormon faith, analyzing current trends and developments to equip you with the most recent strategies for engaging Latter-day Saints with the gospel.
Those of us who know Latter-day Saints respect their family commitments and moral values, although we may wonder about odd-sounding beliefs. Who are these people? What matters to them? How do they view us? How do they live out their lives? This seminar helps us understand the values and practices of our LDS neighbors and friends, so that we can be better prepared to have meaningful faith conversations with them.
The Book of Mormon occupies a central place in the belief and practices of Latter-day Saints. This workshop will help you understand why Latter-day Saints revere the Book of Mormon, evaluate the claims made for the book, and develop a sensitive but confident response.
The contemporary relevance of the Book of Mormon is found, not in its teachings, but in the formative role it plays in defining the identity and culture of Mormonism. We can be more effective in our witness to Latter-day Saints by understanding the multi-faceted relationship Latter-day Saints have to the Book of Mormon.
Evangelicals often approach Latter-day Saints in terms of theological statements, but Mormon beliefs are defined by powerful sacred stories such as the Restoration and the Plan of Happiness. The Bible itself presents a grand narrative: the good news story of God's saving action on our behalf. This workshop will compare and contrast the core sacred stories of Mormonism and biblical Christianity to explore a narrative approach to sharing our faith with Latter-day Saints.


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1. It is recommended to be in a state of wudhu always.
2. Always try and make wudhu at home and not in the masjid.
3. Perform Tahiyatul Wudhu – After completion of wudhu, the performance of two rakaahs is full of blessings. It is related in the hadith, that the performing of two rakaah Tahiyatul wudhu salaah makes paradise obligatory for the person (Muslim). It should not be performed at the improper times (makrooh times – then the sun rises, when its at Zenith and when it sets).
NB: Always remember when doing a good deed, have the correct intention/niyyah, do it for Allah's pleasure with sincerity. May all our good deeds be accepted. InshaAllah.


Once, dragons ruled the Rain Wilds, tended by privileged human servants known as Elderlings. But a series of cataclysmic eruptions nearly drove these magnificent creatures to extinction. Born weak and deformed, the last of their kind had one hope for survival: to return to their ancient city of Kelsingra. Accompanied by a disparate crew of untested young keepers, the dragons embarked on a harsh journey into the unknown along the toxic Rain Wild River. Battling starvation, a hostile climate, and treacherous enemies, dragons and humans began to forge magical connections, bonds that have wrought astonishing transformations for them all. And though Kelsingra is finally near, their odyssey has only begun.
Because of the swollen waters of the Rain Wild River, the lost city can be reached only by flight—a test of endurance and skill beyond the stunted dragons' strength. Venturing across the swift-running river in tiny boats, the dragon scholar Alise and a handful of keepers discover a world far different from anything they have ever known or imagined. Immense, ornate structures of black stone veined with silver and lifelike stone statues line the silent, eerily empty streets. Yet what are the whispers they hear, the shadows of voices and bursts of light that flutter and are gone? And why do they feel as if eyes are watching them?
The dragons must plumb the depths of their ancestral memories to help them take flight and unlock the secrets buried in Kelsingra. But enemies driven by greed and dark desires are approaching. Time is running out, not only for the dragons but for their human keepers as well.


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Practice Building: Reach out online part 2.
See Issue 103
The Energy of Money: Get into the Flow
Money, believe it or not, is not the root of all evil. Actually, money is energy. If more people understood this, with all its ramifications, there would be fewer court cases, fewer divorces, no wars, more generosity, more campassion and more love!
Actors, healers, artists and musicians have long lived with the notion that poverty leads to spiritual and artistic advancement. This assumption could not be further from truth yet many of us have become victims of this perception.
When I was studying to be an actress, I thought the more I subjected myself to struggle, the better performer I'd become. I would put myself through the most ridiculous situations that only led to pain and suffering. I was caught up in this predicament for years-and still, on occasion, I suffer houts of temporary insanity when I think this is the reality for a writer. No more.
Haven't you seen successful writers and actors and musicians? Havent's you met successful massage practitioners? Don't you know in the depths of your being that you can achieve not just prosperity consciousness, but prosperity itself-with all its joys of independence and freedom-by removing this veil of ignorance.
Until you change the vibration of your thoughts and join the collective consciousness of financial abundance and personal power; until you come from a place of higher awareness, integrity and professionalism, you will continue to spin around on the wheel of poverty. Visualize prosperity.
The good news is that there are many ways to change this cycle. For instance, today, this moment, see yourself as successful and begin to act, move and speak from that place. Sit down every morning before you start your day and create a visualization. See yourself as the abundant person you see in your dreams, and then act as if you are that person. Don't do this out of ego, but with the knowledge in your heart that you are here to help people; that your service is vital to the health and well-being of many; and that you are a channel for this divine energy to move through. As a result of coming from that pure place of light, God-awareness, consciousness, angelic presence, buddhi or whatever you choose to call it, the universe will provide you with the money you need.
Name that source of personal power, embrace it and bring it into your daily visualization. Offer your work to this source. When you move out of the place of "doership," this source can work through you to guide you to actions that will manifest the best results. Continue to offer your practice, your gifts and your financial situation to this source, and then move out of the way. You will eventually attract the clientele you wish to serve.
One of the wealthiest ment I know, a commodities trader on Wall Street, explained to me how to make all transactions fair. He told me this secret when I began a new business venture and asked him what I should charge clients. I wanted to be fair to my customers but also didn't want to undercharge for my services. "If it's fair to you and fair to the other person, it's a good deal. If it's not fair to one person, it's not a good deal," he said
I took his words to heart and before long discovered that the more I circulated money, the more money came back to me. I began to get into the flow of this circulation and realized that it didn't only occur when money was exchange, it occurred when there was an energy exchange. "I'll give you a neuromuscular treatment, and in exchange, you give me $65"; "Ill give you six Trager treatment and in exchange you design the first three pages of my Web site"; "I'll give you a reike session and you give me $60. Oh, you can't afford $60? That's OK, how about giving me $25 and cutting my hair?"
In other words, there's always a way to circulate money (energy) and have it work both for you and for the person you are having the exchange with. If you can define this paradigm for yourself and truly understand that money is about giving and receiving and that there are a billion ways for this energy to be exchanged, you'll never have to feel guilty about discussing money with clients, or asking for or receiving money again. Think of all the possibilities that would open up for you when talking to clients who perhaps can't afford your services. It's beyond barter. It's energy in exchange for energy.
The Lakshmi principle
Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth in the Hindu tradition, is most often portrayed sitting upon an open lotus flower. Lakshmi brings growth, generosity and abundance to whatever is life enhancing. We often see her with one or two of her hands fully open, from which shower gold coins. (When one hand alone is pouring coins, the other is often depicted with an open palm facing outward, poised in the gesture of blessing that means "fear not.") This gesture might serve as a reminder that the stream can stop, should our invocation and honoring of these gifts cease to flow from us with sincerity and devotion.
How can you keep Lakshmi flowing in your life and massage practice? Here's an interesting story that might help plant this message in your heart:
There was a successful orthodontist in Northampton, Massachusetts. Rumor had it that Dr. Rutherford (Not her real name) was by far the best orthodontist in all of New England. She had three offices throughout the state, and there were children on waiting lists at all three. I was a single parent, starting my own business, and could not afford braces for my son, although he needed them badly. So I mad an appointment with Dr. Rutherford. (I figured I might as well start with the best.) I explained my situation and asked if she would conseder bartering since I was starting my own public-relations firm. Without pausing, she invited me to lunch. I couldn't believe it. We met at a lovely restaurant the following week and she explained how she'd been thingking of ways to connect all three offices. I suggested creating a newsletter that would involve all the children she served. They could submit articles and jokes and poems. draw pictures of themselves before and after the braces. We could have a contest to name the nexsletter. She loved the idea and we shook hands. It was a great deal.
I produced the newsletter, Brace Yourself, for three years on a bimonthly basis, and Dr. Rutherford took care of all my son's orthodontic needs. It was a fabulous exchange. It became no surprise to my why her practice was so successful. I must have told 50 people about her generosity and several of my friends ended up going to her.
Here's another story for you. Joseph Brunetto, a certified hypnotherapist from Westchester, New York, usually receives his established fee, $55-65 per hour. However, he will make an exception when the situation warrant it. "There are times," he says, "When a can't afford my service and I will accept a trade. Last year, for instance, there was an artist who was out of work and recovering from a serious operation when he was recommended to me. Our understanding was that we would engage in a barter arrangement. So I worked with him for several sessions and afterwards received a work of art in exchange.
"Everything worked out fine," he adds, "but I do limit these situations; otherwise, they can get out of hand."
Joe Miglierie is a chiropractor from Northfield, New Jersey. His practice, Peak Performance, uses an honor-fee system (or "the box on the wall"), which allows patients to determine a set weekly payment based upon what they can afford. This concept has been in existence for more that 30 years and was used exclusively when chiropractic work was a cash-only business and, in some places, illegal. Miglierie feels it is the purest form of payment, and allows an entire famiy to come for spinal checkups on a regular basis, no matter what the can afford.
"Chiropractic care," Miglierie says, "should be made available to every human being, so they can express life to their maximum potential"
This honor system is not designed to be a charity or a bargain, nor is it to be taken advantage of. Miglierie explain that it is a privilege-and an obligation- to pay in this way. Patients who participate must come to the office at least once a week; pay the weekly fee that they determined on the first visit; and refer others to Miglierie's office. If a patient's financial situation changes, it is his or her responsibility to adjust the fee accordingly.
You Matter
If Migierie didn't feel worthy of receiving a just amount from his clients, he would starve. If he didn't have the attitude of gratitude, he would not attract people who were thankful for his unique billing system. What are the thoughts you are putting out there.
Joe Lubow, executive director of the Sarasota School of Massage Therapy, in Sarasota, Florida, told me an interesting story. He said he knew a therapist who charged $120 for a 10-minute session. Someone asked the therapist how he had the nerve to charge such an enormous amount of money for so little time. The therapist said, "I charge $10 for what I do and $110 for what I know."
On the other hand, there are practitioners who determine a set price for their clients and stay firm. They do not barter and have made the decision to offer charity through other means.
Decide what works for you and find the balance in your giving and receiving. When the flow stops, re-evaluate your situation. take a look at your priorities, see where they might have changed, and then make the necessary and appropriate transition.
Andrea Adler is a consultant, workshop presenter and the author of PR for the Holistic Healer and Creating an Abundant Practice: A Spiritual and Practical Guide for Holistic Practitioners and healing Centers (self published, 2003), from which this article is excerpted. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Massage Offers Respite for Primary Caregivers – Massage Magazine
Massage Therapy School Raises Funds for Make-A-Wish Foundation

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Programs to help cash-short borrowers achieve homeownership.
Follow these tips to help you navigate the housing landscape in the month ahead.
Find out why lenders impose this extra home-loan cost, and what to do about it.
The homebuying season is opening earlier this year, thanks to lower rates.
Everything you need to know about local property taxes.
Cut payments by shrinking the mortgage balance with a lump sum, then recasting the loan.
What you don't know can hurt you, especially when shopping for a mortgage.
In latest breach, more than 24 million loan documents were reportedly left unsecured.
Several benchmark mortgage rates ticked up today. If you're shopping for a home loan, see how your finances could be affected.
It's no longer a home seller's market in most metro areas.


Chase Castle is an active organist and collaborative musician from Norwalk, Ohio. Castle studies music history and organ performance with Nicole Keller at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio. He is on faculty at Far Around Recording in Norwalk, Ohio as a keyboard instructor and serves as Director of Music at Church of the Epiphany in Euclid, Ohio.
Castle enjoys exploring all aspects of organ repertoire, with particular emphasis on ethnomusicological and world music compositions. One of his areas of research includes the music of American Appalachia. He has published four volumes of poetry with influences from this style, and performs with a folk group called The Moonlighters in the greater Cleveland area.
Castle has performed in master classes with Todd Wilson, Marie-Louise Langlais, and James David Christie. He has played concerts in Ohio, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Florida, Mississippi, and Kansas. Castle spent summer 2017 as the resident organist and choirmaster of the Squirrel Island Chapel in Squirrel Island, Maine. He enjoys collaborating with other artists and musicians and promoting diverse artistic projects.
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When it comes to choosing the best way to prevent pregnancy, it isn't possible to make a blanket statement declaring one method better than all others. The birth control method that works for your friends may not be the best choice for you, and vice versa. Of course, it's always a good idea to talk to your gynecologist about your options, but it helps to go in with some idea of what to expect.
After all, if you have the basics covered, that gives you and your doctor more time to discuss the specifics for your lifestyle and preferences.
Keep reading to learn about six things you should consider when choosing a birth control method.
When it comes to convenience, not all contraceptive methods are created equal. For example, fertility awareness methods like the calendar or cervical mucous methods require frequent monitoring and can be easily misjudged. Oral contraceptives, also known as the Pill, must be taken at around the same time each day, which can be tough to keep track of if you are constantly on the go.
In contrast, the Depo-Provera injection is administered every three months. You'd just have to schedule a visit to the doctor and get the shot, then you won't have to think about it until your next visit. IUDs (intrauterine devices) can be effective for five to ten years after insertion.
No birth control method short of sterilization (such as elective hysterectomy) or complete abstinence is 100 percent effective. But most modern methods ensure a success rate over 95 percent with correct usage. So there are ways to ensure maximum effectiveness—as well as ways to compromise how well the method you're using works.
Fertility awareness methods like flow tracking and self-administered methods like the Pill can become less effective if you don't follow instructions properly. Some methods may lose effectiveness when paired with other medication like antibiotics.
Combining methods is recommended for decreasing the likelihood of pregnancy. Condoms are also the only contraceptive that help prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
One thing you should also consider is how long you want your contraceptive to be effective. For methods like the Pill, calendar method, cervical mucous method, you will find you're fully fertile as soon as you stop. Meanwhile, other methods like the IUD or Depo-Provera injection may need a procedure or some time before you can return to fertility.
Are you okay with birth control methods that require vaginal insertion? Do you have any problems swallowing pills on a regular basis? Do you have a fear of needles and injections? All these factor into your choice of contraception.
If you prefer natural methods, the cervical mucous method will require you to check your cervical mucous or discharge on a daily basis.
Another thing to factor in is your comfort in acquiring your birth control in a public setting. The Pill is available from drugstores with a prescription, and condoms are readily available at drugstores and convenience stores. However, if you don't feel comfortable purchasing these out in the open, you may want to opt for a method that can be administered from the privacy of your doctor's office.
Of course, budget may be an issue for you as well. Different brands of the Pill may range from over P200 per month to just under P1,000. If you get the Depo-Provera injection, you will have to pay the cost of the actual injection plus your doctor's administration fees. You may wind up paying anywhere from P600 to P1,200 per injection (every three months).
An IUD may cost up to P20,000, not including the cost for the insertion procedure. Still, this is a one-time cost for a method that works for five-to-ten years, so if you have the cash on hand, it may prove a very cost-effective measure in the long run.
Of course, your health should be your top priority when it comes to deciding which birth control method to use. We strongly encourage using condoms alongside other birth control methods as these not only prevent pregnancy, but they also reduce your risk of contracting STIs.
Allergies should also be taken into account. An allergy to copper may make you an unsuitable candidate for IUD insertion, while a latex allergy would make condoms very uncomfortable for you.
You may also want to consider whether changing your flow is an issue for you. Some methods, like the Pill, make your periods lighter and more regular. You may experience no periods or only light spotting when on Depo-Provera injections. Meanwhile, IUDs may sometimes result in heavier periods.
Your body's behavior should also be a factor. For example, if you have an irregular menstrual cycle, it is inadvisable to use the calendar rhythm method.
Finally, you may be looking for more than just pregnancy prevention in your chosen method of contraception. As we have already mentioned, some methods promote the regularization or lightening of your menstrual cycle. Certain hormonal methods, such as the Pill, may also result in reduced period pain and help you control hormonal acne breakouts.
Oral contraceptives are often recommended for preventing endometriosis from worsening and even reducing the pain this condition can cause. The Pill as well as IUDs have also been linked to reduced risk of cervical or endometrial cancer.
Whatever method you decide on, we strongly suggest speaking to your gynecologist about what might work best for you. You should also make sure to get a gynecological check up on a yearly basis or however often your doctor suggests it.


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Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out Live Tour Headed To Blossom in July 2022
By Jeff Niesel
Courtesy of Live Nation
Promo art for Nick Cannon's upcoming tour.
Self-proclaimed entrepreneur and media mogul Nick Cannon just announced dates for an upcoming tour dubbed Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out Live Tour, a run that will bring Cannon's MTV series to the road and will feature comedy, variety and game show elements all in one.
The trek stops at Blossom on July 1, 2022.
Each night, Cannon and the Wild 'N Out cast members will also invite members of the audience to join them for Wild 'N Out's most popular games.
A Citicard presale begins at 10 a.m. tomorrow, and tickets to Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out Live Tour's stop at Blossom go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Friday.
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In 2003 the Finger Lakes Ride was initiated and has now become known as the Syracuse Ride.
This year the goal is to reach 200 riders.
Sponsored by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/New York (NCMEC/NY), the Syracuse Ride for Missing Children is a paced bike ride made by bicycle riders or "Friends of Missing Children" that raises funds to support prevention education programs and to remember all missing children. More than 2,000 children are reported missing in the United States each day*, some in our own community. For most families, this is only a brief scare as the child turns up in a few minutes or hours. But for some, the nightmare of a missing child becomes a grim reality. NCMEC's mission is to help recover missing children, protect all children from sexual exploitation, and assist in the prevention of these crimes.
Funds raised by the Syracuse Ride for Missing Children remain in the local community to provide case assistance and spearhead prevention education services across upstate New York.


This article is about the number 61. For the year, see 61.
Sixty-one is a number. It comes between sixty and sixty-two, and is an odd number. It is also a prime number.
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A short 15-minute drive from the Schoenefeld Airport, just a 10-minute walk from the River Spree, and secluded from the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan Berlin, this hotel welcomes guests on business or leisure trip at a 24-hour reception desk. Work travellers can make use of the fully equipped conference room and facilities, and those arriving by car may take advantage of the car park and garage. After a busy day of sightseeing, meetings or just exploring the rich life and culture of the German capital, patrons of the hotel can unwind with a visit to the sauna or steam baths, while fitness buffs will appreciate the excellent on-site gym.


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Q: Magic Number output Alright so I have created this code. However, when i run it, it stops when it displays 104 for the counter??? I am so frustrated because I don't know how this could happen. The purpose of the code is to do the typical magic number output where the rows all add up to the same thing, the columns all add up to the same thing, and the diaganols all add up to the same thing. I believe the functions to do these calculations are correct, but the counter keeps stopping short of the 10000 attempts I am trying to do.
#include <iostream>
#include<time.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

void getrandom();
void insertnumber(int n);
bool magic();
void create();
const int rows = 3;
const int cols = 3;
int arr[rows][cols] = { {0,0,0}, {0,0,0} , {0,0,0} };

int main() {
    int counter = 0;

    do
    {
        counter++;
        cout << counter << endl;
        getrandom();

        if (counter == 100000)
            break;

    } while (!magic());

    create();
    cout << "It took " << counter << " tries." << endl;

    return 0;
}

void getrandom() {
    int n = 0;
    const int size = 9;
    int oldnum[size];
    for (int i = 0; i < rows * cols; i++) {
        oldnum[i] = 0;
    }
    srand(time(NULL)); // had to import the new libraries to use this
    bool used = true;

    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        do
        {
            used = true;

            n = rand() % 9 + 1;
            if (oldnum[n - 1] == 0)
            {
                oldnum[n - 1] = n;
                used = false;

            }

        } while (used);
        insertnumber(n);
    }
}

void insertnumber(int n) {
    for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; i < cols; j++) {
            if (arr[i][j] == 0) {
                arr[i][j] = n;
                return;
            }
        }
    }
}

bool magic() {
    int rowsum = arr[0][0] + arr[0][1] + arr[0][2];

    for (int i = 1; i < cols; i++)
    {
        if (arr[i][0] + arr[i][1] + arr[i][2] != rowsum)
            return false;
    }
    for (int j = 0; j < rows; j++)
    {
        if (arr[0][j] + arr[1][j] + arr[2][j] != rowsum)
            return false;
    }
    if (arr[0][0] + arr[1][1] + arr[2][2] != rowsum)
        return false;

    if (arr[0][2] + arr[1][1] + arr[2][0] != rowsum)
        return false;

    return true;
}

void create() {
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; i < cols; j++) {
                cout << arr[i][j] << " ";
            }
            cout << endl;
        }
    }
}

A: You can try using a debugger for such problems.
I think you code crashes because of this:
for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; i < cols; j++) {

It looks like you mean j < cols here :)

A: Check line 76. When I compile and run the code, line 76 is where the exception is thrown.
This line specifically
arr[i][j] = n;

It seems your insertnumber() function is the culprit.

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French Werewolves and the Space Alien Apocalypse
There's this guy on my connecting bus who usually tells me stories about UFO cover-up conspiracies and sci-fi violence. His name is Marvin and he looks kind of like Barack Obama but he can't stand Barack Obama's administration – particularly its policy on drone strikes. He loves talking about how our life on earth will end: space aliens will suddenly appear one day and blow our planet to smithereens. Resistance is futile.
I'm never sure if he shares his actual beliefs, his sense of humor, or some combination of the two. He's a hard worker who prefers to work alone and he loves to talk your ear off either about sports or space aliens – and since I'm useless with sports talk, space aliens it is.
My usual contributions to Marvin's one-way conversations are smiles and nods and the occasional "is that so?" – I gave up trying to challenge his beliefs when he got really fired up one day trying to convince me that all Muslims are evil. So now I just listen to his stories which are usually his descriptions of violent scenes from the latest DVD he's borrowed from the library.
Yesterday he was on about werewolves so he told me about an actual account of a werewolf the size of a cow who terrorized rural France in the 1700's, devouring somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 men, women, and children until a hunter shot him dead with a silver bullet: La Bête du Gévaudan.
An 18th century print of the Beast of Gévaudan ravaging a woman. I love old drawings of vicious creatures. (source: wikipedia)
There's a film about it called Brotherhood of the Wolf. I vaguely remember this film coming out but I never saw it. Marvin says it's good, but the story focuses mainly on the political challenges of gathering support to hunt the beast. He also warned me that the beast part is corny – some dumb robot or something – so it's not the best place to see the beast. If you want to see the beast, you should check your local library. Marvin claimed to have borrowed a very rare book from the Free Library of Philadelphia once that had photographs of its carcass.
La Bête du Gévaudan reminded me of Bisclavret, a Breton story told by Marie de France. I didn't have much time to tell the story, but I shared the gist of it:
There's a werewolf tale from 12th century France set in a region in the Northwest called Brittany. It all starts with a noble named Bisclavret. Now, Bisclavret spends several nights away from home each week. No one knows for sure where he goes – not even his wife. This bothers his wife as you can well imagine, so one day she finally asks her husband to tell her where he goes. He confesses that he has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years that he cannot bear to tell her. She assures him that she loves him so dearly and that whatever it is, no matter how terrible, knowing it will only make their love stronger. So moved is Bisclavret by his wife's display of her undying devotion to him that he finally decides to share his terrible secret with her: Each week he goes deep into the woods until he reaches an abandoned chapel. There, he takes off his clothes, and shortly after he hides them nearby, he turns into a werewolf and goes out terrorizing the countryside.
After a few days, he returns to the chapel and retrieves his clothes. He puts them back on and returns to his normal life as a man. He does this each week. The wife is horrified by Bisclavret's terrible secret. It wasn't at all the secret she was expecting to hear. Not knowing how to respond, she asks her husband which abandoned chapel he uses. Bisclavret pleads with her, promising that if she lets him keep just this one secret, he will never keep anything else secret from her as long as they live. She presses him for it though, so he finally gives it up.
Well, it turns out the wife had a paramour and since they had been trying to figure out a way to get it together for years, she plots with her lover to have him fetch her husband's clothes. The lusty bachelor goes out and takes the noble husband's clothes and brings them back to the wife, who hides them among her things.
A couple days later Bisclavret returns to the chapel but his clothes are nowhere to be found. You can imagine how he howled when he discovered he would be trapped in wolf form for the rest of his days.
Just then, Marvin has an epiphany, "I'll bet it's that same sucker and they finally got him!"
Bisclavret befriends the king (source: wikipedia)
Well, there's another whole half of the story! Here's how it ends according to Marie de France: Bisclavret manages to befriend a king and they devise a way to get his clothes back. The unfaithful wife and her paramour are then cursed with a deformity that will stay in their bloodline, afflicting their offspring for all eternity… but today I'll go with Marvin's ending of this tale – unless, of course, he's since found a way to tie it to drone strikes and the space alien apocalypse.
Tags 12th century, 18th century, aliens, apocalypse, Bisclavret, brittany, folklore, folktales, La Bête du Gévaudan, Marie de France, Old French, werewolves
Categories Breton Lays, Fantasy, Folklore, Marie de France
Today's Medieval Bloodfest: New Jack Sherwood
January 6, 2013 //
Robin Hood and Little John in Disney's Robin Hood (image: copyright 1973 Walt Disney Company)
Between the publication of Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version and Maria Tartar's The Annotated Brothers Grimm, there is some new discussion on the darker materials (sorry, couldn't resist that one!) found in these classic tales, so I thought I'd take a look at some Child Ballads from England to hear some of the stories English kids were being told and compare them to their German counterparts and wouldn't you know it – I found an especially violent scene from a Robin Hood story. Well, December escaped an installment of Today's Medieval Bloodfest – I only wish I could say the same for Guy of Gisborne…
This installment of Today's Medieval Bloodfest comes from a child ballad about Robin Hood called, "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne." It survives as a mid 17th century manuscript (Thomas Percy Collection, British Library, Additional Manuscript 27879) but a similar plot survives from a play dated 1475.[1] Since we can't say for certain how long this particular version of the song has been around, let's just say the scene is 15th century…
The language looks almost like it's deliberately trying to look old fashioned and still be clearly understood. Twinn for twain, for example – and the extra e's on so, go, and he to make them soe, goe, and hee give it a "Jolly Ole English" look and sound. I could be wrong – anyone out there with experience in 15-17th century colloquial English can tell if this poem is trying to emulate Middle English?
In any case, let's get on with the gore!
So, Robin Hood and Little John are hanging around drinking Thunderbird and shooting craps when, would you know it, Guy of Gisborne comes along. This tasty fellow's looking for none other than Robin Hood, that famous outlaw the peasants and guttersnipes "phone up" whenever they need some "wealth distribution."[2] The irony of it is Guy's found the guy he was looking for. The boys all have a short archery competition which Guy loses terribly. To save face with these expert woodsmen, he pokes fun at his uselessness with the bow by saying things like, "Whoa, I'll bet you're a better shot than Robin Hood!"
This corrupt cop, Guy of Gisborne, probably thinks he can make friends with these woodsmen and have some new marksmen – or at least forest informants – on Prince John's payroll. He's wrong. Dead wrong.
Earl of Huntington (Robin Hood – played by Douglas Fairbanks) helps Guy of Gisbourne up after defeating him in a joust in Robin Hood (1922) – this courtesy is a far cry from the Robin Hood of Child Ballad 118 "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"
So he asks Robin and Little John to tell him about themselves – you know, who they are. Robin tells Guy that they'll tell him who they are after they learn who he is. Since Guy's sort of on their turf, he obliges them and introduces himself first – and boy was he sorry he did, because, with a sadistic smile:
Robin pulled forth an Irish kniffe,
And nicked Sir Guy in the face,
That hee was never on a woman borne
Cold tell who Sir Guye was. (verse 42)[3]
Robin chopped Guy's face up so bad that no one – not even his own mother – would recognize him. The language downplays the violence by using the word "nicked" like it was a slight slip of the razor during a shave. The English are masters of understatement.
Poor Guy basically begs Robin to accept a ransom – any amount – in return for his release, but that's not Robin's style. Guy doesn't understand why Robin wouldn't want to become rich. In addition to not being able to understand Robin's motive, imagine his horror while he tries to reason with his captor:
"Thou art a madman," said the shiriffe,
"Thou sholdest have had a knights fee;
Seeing thy asking [hath] beene soe bad,
Well granted it shall be." (verse 51)[4]
They turn their captive loose and as he's running for his life, if only just to prove that Guy's bow isn't defective, Robin hands it to Little John so he won't miss out on a little target practice with their new acquaintance:
But he cold neither soe fast goe,
Nor away soe fast runn,
But Litle John, with an arrow broade,
Did cleave his heart in twinn. (verse 58)[5]
Little John's swift shot is so precise and powerful that it slices Guy of Gisborne's heart in two!
I wonder how Robin Hood and Little John spent the rest of their day…
For another installment of Today's Medieval Bloodfest, click here.
[1] "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne: Introduction", Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren (Kalamazoo, 1997). Available online: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/guyint.htm
[2] The Clash, "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" (CBS, 1978).
[3] "Robin Hood and the Guy of Gisborne", Tradtional British Ballads, ed. Bartlett Jere Whiting (New York, 1955), 98.
[4] Traditional British Ballads, 99.
[5] Traditional British Ballads, 100.
Tags 15th century, archery, fairy tales, folktales, medieval storytelling, outlaws, robin hood
Categories Ballads, Child Ballads, fairy tales, Today's medieval bloodfest
Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale tolde by the weye – Part Four (plus Four Swans)
Sequitur pars quarta.
People celebrating St. Patrick's Day today in Philadelphia (image: instagram.com)
Since today is Saint Patrick's today, I was reminded of the Celtic Tale The Children of Lir.[1] I thought of this story because the enchantment that turned Lir's four children into swans ended soon after Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland. Thinking of this story then turned my attention (I'll explain how later) to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale – which, of course, reminded me that I have really neglected tolde by the weye in recent months… So, remember we left Constance in a newly Christian Northumbria? King Alla took her as his queen. It seemed like happily ever didn't it? But it was not – at least not yet. Everyone in King Alla's land was overjoyed that Constance was their new queen and they were having a grand old time at the wedding feast. Well, everyone, that is, except one person – King Alla's mother Donegild:
But who was woful, if I shal nat lye,
Of this weddyng but Donegild, and namo,
The kynges mooder, ful of tirannye? (II 694-96)
Queen Grimhilde, stepmother of Snow White from Walt Disney's Snow White (image: pentopaper.wordpress.com, copyright 1937 Walt Disney Pictures)
King Alla's mother was not happy about her son's marriage to Constance. This was no ordinary case of the mother who needed a little time to warm up to her new daughter-in-law. Her despiteful disapproval of their union is strikingly similar to the Sultan's mother's hatred of Constance earlier in the tale. In the way the Sultan's mother knew that Constance was the reason the Sultan was giving up Islam to take her as his bride, King Alla's mother saw Constance as a foreign threat to their way of life as well:
Hir thought a despit that he sholde take
So strange a creature unto his make (II 699-700)
She bided her time, though, waiting for the perfect moment to take her vengeance upon Constance. Time passed and a war started with the Scots. King Alla entrusted Constance in the care of the Constable and a bishop and he left to fight the Scots. Constance soon gave birth to their little prince. The infant was christened Maurice and the Constable wrote a letter to the King announcing the birth. He chose a messenger and sent him off to deliver the joyous news. The messenger first passed by the Queen mother Donegild's house to share the exciting news with her. She suggested to the messenger that he rest for the night at her house and deliver the letter to the King the next day. The messenger, knowing there would be fine food and drink at Donegild's house, stayed for the evening. He drunk himself silly with ale and wine and soon passed out. As he slept like a swine Donegild exchanged his letter for a forged one.
(image: montalcino-tuscany.com)
The messenger left the next morning to deliver the letter to the King. The counterfeit letter told of a horrible demon child born out of the depths of hell. It also informed the king that Constance was really an elf and that the only reason why everyone loved her in the first place is because she was an evil sorceress who had everyone under her spell. Now that everyone in the castle knows the truth about the wicked Constance, they shun her and her savage spawn.
King Alla was terribly grieved by the letter but replied requesting that everyone show Christian charity to Constance and the child. He made it clear that no action should be taken against them until his return to the castle. As he sealed the letter tears burst from his eyes. He returned to battle and those Scots really took a beating that day.
The messenger sped off for the castle but instead of delivering the letter directly to the Constable, he went first again to the Queen Mother's court. Just where does this messenger's allegiance lie – in his King or the drink? She again entertained him with food and wine and exchanged his letter once more for a forged one.
When the Constable received the letter he was horrified by its contents. It told him that under penalty of death by hanging he must not let Constance and the demon child stay in the castle. He was ordered to put her and the infant back in the very boat from which Constance washed ashore and push them out to tide. The Constable couldn't believe that God could let such horrible things happen in the world to pious people, but he followed the King's orders.
The Irish folktale The Children of Lir shares a few elements with Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. The protagonists are loved by everyone except an evil mother figure who is bent on their destruction, these same protagonists must face dangerous waters on their own, and, finally, the events of the tale occur at the time the country is converting to Christianity. There are plenty more similarities but this post is too long already and I need to make it to market and back by sunset.
Children of Lir is set at the Hill of the White field, which today the Irish call County Armagh. There once were four kings, Bov the Red, Midir the Proud, Angus of the Bird, and Lir, father of the sea-god Manannan. They were all descendents of the goddess Dana. One day everyone in the land decided that among these great kings, one must be chosen to rule over everyone. Bov the Red was chosen. Lir was not pleased with this decision because he felt that he should be the king. Bov the Red allowed Lir to rule his own land and there was no ill will between them. One day, Lir's wife died. Bov sent Lir his condolences and words of friendship. He also offered him the choice of his three foster daughters for a new wife. Lir accepted Bov's offer and went to his hall to choose his new bride. The names of Bov's foster daughters were Aev, Eva, and Alva. They were all beautiful and Lir decided upon Aev who, being the eldest, he thought would be the most wise.
Lir and Aev lived happily together and had twins, a girl named Finola and a boy named Aed. A couple of years passed and Aev once again gave birth to twins – this time to two boys, Fiachra and Conn. Each year the children visited King Bov's Hall. Everyone at both King Bov's Hall and King Lir's Hall loved the four children and wherever they were, everyone was joyous.
One day, Queen Aev passed away. King Lir was devasted. King Bov heard of the tragedy and offered his foster-daughter Eva as King Lir's new wife. King Lir accepted Eva as his new wife. Eva was initially happy in King Lir's hall, however, after about a year she grew very jealous of the children. It seemed to her that everyone, including her own husband, loved them much more dearly than they did her. She feigned a terrible sickness and stayed in her chamber for several weeks. She thought the solitude would help, but the time spent alone obsessing over the problem only worsened her jealousy of the children of Lir. One day, she found a solution to the problem. She emerged from the her room and suggested to King Lir that she take the children to visit King Bov.
Along the way she stopped by Lake Darva. She ordered her servants to murder the four children and though this order came from the Queen they could not obey it. Queen Eva took matters into her own hands and made to kill the children herself, but she could not bring herself to murder them either. The Queen, instead, gathered the children and brought them down to the lake. She bade them remove their clothes and bathe in the lake. As they swam in the lake she pulled a wooden wand from her robe. The wand was inscribed with runes she had carved into it while she was going mad in her room. She muttered an incantation and suddenly the four children were magically transformed into white swans.
She left the children as swans in the lake and made for King Bov's hall. King Bov was happy to see that his daughter and glad to see she had recovered from his illness but he was surprised to see her arrive without the children. Queen Eva told King Bov that King Lir no longer trusted him and that he could never see the children again. King Bov was upset by this news and sent King Lir a letter requesting an explanation. King Lir, upon receiving the message and, learning that the children did not make it to Lough Derg to visit King Bov, he feared for their lives.
King Lir discovers the fate of his children at Lake Darva (image: wikipedia)
He immediately made his way to Lough Derg and as he passed by Lake Darva the four swans called out to him. Though they were swans, they could still be heard and understood by the people of Dana. He discovered the fate of his children. Now, I'm not going to talk of the chaff or stalk that makes tales so long as corn, but the children remained in swan form until someone from the North married someone from the South – which in itself could be another Irish fairy tale! But I can tell you this: before they changed back into their human forms, they spent three hundred years in Lake Darva, another three hundred years in the dangerous and stormy sea of Moyle, and yet another three hundred years on the Isle of Glora. Now, while they were on the Isle of Glora, Saint Patrick came and brought the Christian faith to Ireland. Well, since the Children of Lir survived as swans for three hundred years on the stormy sea of Moyle, something tells me that Constance and Maurice will not be swallowed up by the sea…
Explicit quarta pars.
[1] My telling of The Children of Lir is adapted and embellished from Barbara Leonie Picard's version which can be found in Celtic Tales (New York: Criterion, 1964).
Tags 14th century, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Constance, court poetry, folktales, Man of Law, medieval poetry, medieval storytelling, Middle English, Saint Patrick's Day
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Q: como retornar una variable con decimales en sql? Tal vez sea algo de principiante pero no lo encuentro leyendo ni googleando.
Cuando hago return en una función me aparece como entero y necesito que devuelva decimal. Por ej.
DECLARE @gastos decimal(20,2)

SELECT @gastos=SUM(precio)
FROM Vista_Boleteria_Gastos
WHERE estado=0 AND id_boleteria=@Codigo

RETURN @gastos

Donde SUM(precio) es en total por ej: 1073.4
pero return segun lo que lei devuelve valores enteros
y efectivamente al probar la funcion me devuelve 1073
como hago para q me devuelva efectivamente 1073.4
saludos y gracias de antemano por cualquier ayuda

A: Agradezco a todos los que comentaron ya encontré la solución
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fun_bolgastos]
(@Codigo int)
RETURNS int  <<=== error
RETURNs decimal(20,2) <<==correcto

hay que indicar que tipo va a retornar RETURNS
esta es la funcion original
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fun_bolgastos]
(@Codigo int)
RETURNS INT <<==aca se indica como va a devolver la variable en este caso esta indicando q a la variable la devuelva como INT
AS
BEGIN
-- Declare the return variable here
DECLARE @gastos decimal(20,2)

-- consultar gastos
select @gastos=sum(precio) from Vista_Boleteria_Gastos  where estado=0 and id_boleteria=@Codigo

-- Retornar el valor escalar
RETURN @gastos <<=== y claro devuelve la variable sin decimales
END

Esta es la funcion para q devuelva decimales
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fun_bolgastos]
(@Codigo int)
RETURNS decimal(20,2) <<==aca se indica como va a devolver la variable
AS
BEGIN
    -- Declare the return variable here
    DECLARE @gastos decimal(20,2)
    -- consultar gastos
    select @gastos=sum(precio) from Vista_Boleteria_Gastos  where estado=0 and id_boleteria=@Codigo
    -- Retornar el valor escalar
    RETURN @gastos <<=== devuelve decimales
 END


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Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk (; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk traditions.

Skoryk was awarded the titles People's Artist of Ukraine and Hero of Ukraine.

Early life
Myroslav Skoryk was born in Lviv, Ukraine, then a part of Poland on 13 July 1938. His parents were both educated in Austria at the University of Vienna and subsequently became educators. His father was a historian and an ethnographer, while his mother was a chemist. Although his parents did not have special musical training, his mother played piano and his father played the violin. Skoryk was exposed to music in the household from an early age. No less important was the fact that in his family was a well-known diva of the 20th century—Skoryk's great aunt was the Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska.

Skoryk entered the Lviv Music School in 1945, but two years later his family were deported to Siberia, where Myroslav grew up. The family did not return to Lviv until 1955.

Student years

Between 1955 and 1960 Skoryk studied at the Lviv Conservatory, There he received training in musical composition and music theory; his teachers included Stanislav Liudkevych and Roman Simovych.  Skoryk's final exam piece was  ('Spring'), a cantata for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra that was based on verses by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Other piano pieces written during Skoryk's student years include a piano sonata, and  ('In the Carpathian Mountains'), also for solo piano.

In 1960, Skoryk enrolled in the postgraduate research program at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He remained there for four years. During this time, Skoryk composed music in an array of styles: symphonic, chamber, and vocal. Some works from this period include the 'Suite in D Major for Strings', 'Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano', and 'Partita No. 1 for Strings' which quickly became popular, the 'Variations', 'Blues', and the popular 'Burlesque', which is performed in concert halls around the world. 'Burlesque' is a required work in some piano competitions, most notably the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kyiv, and as teaching piece.

Teaching career
In 1963 Skoryk became the youngest member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1964, Skoryk, then 25, began his first teaching position, becoming Ukraine's youngest composition lecturer at the Lviv Conservatory, where he remained until 1966. He then accepted a position at the Kyiv Conservatory where he focused on teaching contemporary harmony techniques. His dissertation, completed in 1964, concentrated on the music of the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Skoryk wrote a book, "Struktura i vyrazhalna pryroda akordyky v muzitsi XX stolittia" (The Structural Aspects of Chords in 20th Century Music) (Kyiv, 1983 Musical Ukraine Publishing House). His students included the composers Osvaldas Balakauskas, Ivan Karabyts and Yevhen Stankovych. Skoryk remained at the Kyiv Conservatory until 1988.

During his career, Skoryk was active within the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He was co-chair of the union with Yevhen Stankovych from 2004 to 2010.

Later years
In 1996 Skoryk moved with his family to Australia and obtained Australian citizenship, but later he returned to live in Ukraine.

In April 2011 Skoryk was appointed as the artistic director of the Kyiv Opera, a position he held until 2016.

Skoryk died on 1 June 2020.

Music

Skoryk was a composer, pianist and conductor. His works have been performed by ensembles and soloists that include the Leontovych Quartet, Oleh Krysa, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Oleg Chmyr, Mykola Suk, Victor Markiw, and Alexander Slobodyanik. He was one of the recipients of the Ukraine's Shevchenko National Prize in 1987 for his Cello Concerto.

Awards
People's Artist of Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine (Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State (2008));

References

Sources

Further reading

External links

  (includes audio files)

Skoryk in the Ukrainian Musicians' Directory

Ukrainian classical composers
1938 births
2020 deaths
Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery
Ukrainian music educators
Recipients of the title of Hero of Ukraine
Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize
Academic staff of Lviv Conservatory
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20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers

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You are living in the midst of the collapse of the American civil society. The Republic is already gone and lost. What comes next, will astound and horrify everyone who is not given over to strong delusion.
You feel it. You see it. You read it.
It's all beginning to unravel, exactly as designed and intended by those who rule us. They have knowingly set the myriad fuses to the powder keg alight and what they now intend, defies your ability to comprehend, even when their plans are hiding in plain sight.
Anger, fear, aggression, intolerance in the name of tolerance, radical zeal for political messiahs, racial strife, gender insanity, cultural calamity, all happening during an ongoing global economic collapse amidst fundamental transformation of the West that the vast majority of your neighbors and countrymen pretend is not happening, or is not that important to worry about.
The representative Constitutional Republic we were established as, is gone. Oh some still pay it lip service to it in the halls of power, but just as II Timothy 3 reveals the cultural rot of the last days – so too does America acknowledge the form of a Constitution, but they deny it's power and application. The Democrat Party went full Marxist-Communist while the Republican Party fully funded and empowered a Dictatorship of a pen and a phone then went to war against their own constituents in order to have a seat at the table of the new order.
Most Americans have been brainwashed to think we are a democracy, mob rule that can change our foundational underpinnings whenever the mood strikes. Who needs a First Amendment when society demands safe zones from any speech and biblical religious exercise they hate? Who needs a Constitution When the Ruling Class and Agitators stoke the masses into demanding rulings, policies and actions be imposed to placate their appetites and stoke their zeal for punishment of those they have been told to hate?
We are openly lectured by a presidential candidate that we should be transformed into a "Socialist Democracy", of which we already are in all practicality – but many now want to make that official. Imbecillic morons who leech like parasites off the remaining producers in the country zealously demand the empty promises of Marxists hawking overt Communism and are eager to wage violence to demand it's implementation in full.
And the rulers demand more people like the above be granted your property and your wealth, because they say it is their right to take your wealth and your stuff because you are the wrong color, the wrong religion and your intolerant bigotry must be met with government-imposed intolerance and punishment.
Eventually and soon – the milk and honey train will come to an abrupt halt as it has in most Socialist utopias like Venezuela. And just as we saw in Greece and Europe – conflagration and upheaval erupts, violence, bloodshed and the cries for a strong dictator to promise order and a return to a chicken in ever pot and a Smart Phone in every hand ensues. We are already in this process of collapse, witnessing the complete and catastrophic eruption of rage and revenge that is going to grow more pronounced, more virulent and widespread as the days wane on.
And I have not even mentioned the Caliphate, Jihadist Islam and Iran with nuclear weapons yet.
Monstrous events in such an environment usually trigger the societal powder keg to detonate, and usually the blast is much larger than even the experts suggest it will be.
But if you understand the genocidal game being played by the masterminds, the question of how to eradicate and kill tens of millions of useless eaters that the Ruling Class is convinced will not come along quietly to the new order that fundamental transformation has irrevocably initiated, everything happening suddenly becomes clear.
Then later, in the ruins of misery – the echoes of Bonhoffer and Rand and Satayana will ring in our ears if there is anyone left whose understanding of the world was not limited to TMZ and the Kardashians.
A conflagration is imminent. What sets it off – is yet to be seen as there are so many lit fuses flaring up, crackling and sputtering their way to the big keg of black powder that this nation has become.
Ruins, ala Rome is a guaranteed future for us all at this point.
There is a limit to how much stress can be put on something before it is finally and irreversibly destroyed. It goes by several different names. Critical mass, tipping point, and system overload are but a few. In each case, the term refers to an event that finally breaks the camel's back (to use yet another term for the same thing).
Society is not merely reaching its critical mass; it is reaching it so swiftly that predictably, there will be an abrupt and catastrophic breakdown of historic proportions, eclipsing even the fall of the Roman Empire.
This is not hyperbole. In modern times, humanity has witnessed such catastrophes. The French Revolution with its resultant Reign of Terror was followed in later years by the Communist Revolution in Russia and even later by the rise of fascism in Germany and Japan. Each of these events unleashed apocalyptic death and destruction. Nor were they the end of it.
Today, however, the event is taking place in a form both more subtle and more explosive than ever before. It is not merely the political, economic, and military structures being overturned, but the very core and foundation of humanity itself: the human psyche.
There is no need to list the examples of that. The litany of social upheavals eroding family, morals, and education in America and Europe is well known to those who follow such things. Likewise, the accelerating advance of technology has affected us all in its breathtaking speed. Beyond that, radical Islamist terrorism has become destructive not merely in terms of its death toll, but also in the fact that it has become the hate that dare not mention its name.
And therein is encapsulated the nature of the catastrophe about to engulf us. We are faced not with an enemy we cannot defeat, but with one we dare not offend. Almost literally, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
The backlash has up until recently been silent. That is changing. The Sanders and Trump candidacies are merely the rumblings of a volcano preparing to erupt. People are fed up.
No one can predict exactly what the spark will be that sets off the powder keg. All we can say with certainty is that there is a powder keg, and there is a lit fuse.
Peasants Rouseth A Worm Frometh The Pit!
Whilst I nay pledge Trump as my liege lord, the Serfs riseth behind the Breedbate to agauw the Nobles and terror taketh their thought.
Pay ear to thine minstrel who telleth the tale thou fop doodles nay understandeth we afterlings rage at the royal Beltway banners!
Once upon a time there was a fairy kingdom that lived inside a place called The Beltway, and was surrounded on all four sides by a land called America. The Beltway was aligned with another kingdom called Manhattan, inhabited by disembodied heads that spoke from the walls of bars, and with with yet another closed kingdom called Hollywood, the abode of half-educated narcissists. These kingdoms were in eternal political syzygy, and spoke not with the people of the surrounding lands, of whom they knew nothing. The following is a chronicle of what befell them, and why.
They had all dwelt in monasteries called Harvard and Princeton, where they learned that they were the wisest of men, and inerrant. They had no idea that they were hated in the strange lands without the walls, which on their maps were drawn as fog with notations such as "Here dwelleth dragons." They did not know that there were people who agreed not with them. For were they not right about all things?
The other reason for their puzzlement was a powerful spell called "Political Correctness." This strong magic prevented the outlanders from saying anything that the Three Kingdoms did not want to hear.
Anyone who engaged incantations called "slurs," which were truthful thoughts about sacred tribes, or who said Inappropriate Things about a certain little country whose only importance was being that little country, was thrown into durance vile. Thus the Three Kingdoms never heard anything they didn't like, and so believed that almost everyone without the walls loved them. They had scarce an idea what furies were roiling and boiling and stirring under the surface of the Outer Realms.
Now, until the Trump Monster appeared, the America was ruled by a pseudo-democracy of one bicephalous party with two names. The Only Party consisted of blackguards and Quislings and pickpockets bought and paid for by the plutocratic oligarchy of large corporations, AIPAC, and the. very rich. These told the two halves of the One Party what to do. Every four years there was played a great tournament in which candidates of the Two Names of the One Party engaged in the most savage combat imaginable. This was to distract the people outside the walls . Afterwards nothing changed and all went on as before, though the division of the spoils shifted a bit.
And in their ignorance and pride the Three Kingdoms engendered a monster called Trump, and it bit them.
The Only Party had always controlled the villeins because it controlled the choice of pretenders to the throne. A pretender gained the Presidency by buying it, and the rich who provided that money controlled as vassals those who accepted it. The pretenders were as straw and melons sold in a market.
Furthermore, the scribes and oracles of the Kingdoms said aloud only those things that were meet for the surrounding peasantry to hear. The puissant spell of Political Correctness amounted to a societal mute button and prevented the Holy Orders within the Three Kingdoms from noticing what stirred without.
Until the Trump Monster came raging, slouching toward Bethlehem, with which the Kingdoms confused themselves.
And there was afright and desperation and rending of teeth and gnashing of hair for many were the rice bowls threatened.
The darkest of horrors was that the serfs might come to choose the manner of their government. For long years the Bicephalous Party had presided over that most desirable form of democracy in which the people had no power. This laudable state they had maintained by never talking about anything of substance, such as unending wars in remote lands beyond the edges of the maps, or the importation of slaves from curious and unwholesome countries or the manufactures of all things by foreign dwarves.
A great broil ensured. The people saw for the first time a chance to manage their destinies and rose up for the Trump Monster. Inside the Beltway, the Wise and Good–for did they not so denominate themselves?–were greatly astonished. "What manner of wight can this be?" they asked in wonder. They said that the Trump Monster was beguiling fools, the cracked, and those who represented the worst in America. And the scribes and oracles were sore afraid, for most of the outlying populace appeared to belong to these tribes.
One of the Two Names of the One Party, the Democrats, sent forth a dreadful creature called Hillary to fight in single combat with the Trump Monster. Her very visage turned men to stone, it was said. She was held to be of one blood with Boadicea, Jeanne d'Arc, Lucretia Borgia, and Bonnie Parker.
The Three Kingdoms were at one with her, as she was corrupt, mendacious, criminal, and ugly, as well as suffering coughing fits and dizzy spells. Surely, said the scribes and oracles, any monster must fly screaming from her mere presence.
Yet it seemed that the Trump was no common monster. Every time he was beset by the scribes and oracles of the Beltway, he grew stronger, and a sulfurous smoke breathed from his mouth. With drawn swords the Trump Monster and the crumbling ruin yclept Hillary circled each other.
And beyond the parapets and crenellations of the Three Kingdoms the sky grew darker. Inside the Beltway and in Manhattan, the disembodied heads railed and raged, but with every blast the helots jointed the Trump Monster in larger numbers, for they hated the Insiders. In Hollywood the Half-Educated Narcissists said ever stupider things, but these had not their usual effect.
In their pride the Three Kingdoms had engendered Nemesis, and they watched in terror behind the ramparts as the sky grew darker and strange shapes twisted in the looming clouds and the Trump Monster strode ever nearer, breathing fire.
Last Night's pathetic GOP "Response" to Obama's Castro-esque SOTU was proof positive that America is ruled by a single Uniparty Statist Politburo that openly wars upon anyone not in their Elitist 'club'.
Of note: neither Obama or Nikki Haley made mention of the Act of War Iran perpetrated on us yesterday in the capture and humiliation of U.S. Sailors. We can expect John Kerry to 'apologize' and/or 'thank' Iran if they are released.
Feckless, appeasement surrender monkeys not only apply to Obama's Amerika towards Islamists, but applies to the Republican Party itself, that has allied itself with Obama's agenda.
Best case: The GOP is truly the Stupid Party. It committed suicide long ago. Bury the stinking carcass already. It's dead Jim.
Actual case: The Republican Party is simply the 'moderate' wing of the Socialist/Marxist Democrat totalitarians, and have joined their velvet coup of the country. The Republican Party has become every bit an enemy of liberty and freedom as Obama and his cabal of Leftist/Communist/Islamist minions are.
We will come to learn that the Republican party needed to be destroyed and rendered irrelevant as the WHIGs that they have become. They will not permit their party to be reformed by grassroots Conservative Patriotic Americans. They will invent and perpetrate ways to fortify their ivory towers that enable the GOP to continue to engage in crony Fascism.
Please note, the entire Republican leadership and party loyalists are the people who demand illegal immigration, open borders and are the originators of "Islam is a religion of Peace' B.S. mantra. At the same time they have declared war on Conservatives defining us to be 'a scourge"; 'Satanic'; 'Apocalyptic'; 'xenophobic' – terms the GOP NEVER uses on Democrats or Obama.
'Republican' analyst David (Crease-In-Obama's-Pants) Brooks said Obama's speech was triumphant as FDR, and issued an epic rant that Cruz and Trump are Satanic and 'Apocalyptic'.
The GOP Leadership has repeatedly made it clear that they will not tolerate any 'outsiders' from among the 'country class' Conservatives they disdain from achieving high office. Neither will they permit a self-made and self-funded eccentric billionaire that is not beholden to them to be the nominee of their 'closed' party. GOP leadership and loyalists have already stated openly that it will sabotage, destroy and even endorse and vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders if Trump or Cruz manage to overcome all the corruption and achieve the nomination of their Party. The Republican leadership would rather see the nation burned to the ground, run by Communists or overthrown by Islamists and/or Mexicans than see someone like Trump or Cruz become president.
Watch. They are doing all they can to see to it that Jeb is gifted the nomination. Even if they have to rig polls in concert with the Leftist mainstream media, create bogus charges to derail their campaigns and if needs be, hijack the convention to remove Trump or Cruz. The Republican Establishment does this because they hate them and those of us who support Cruz and Trump more than they do the people and ideologies that are hostile to liberty and the Constitution, of which they have already surrendered.
Americans have the entire apparatus of Federal government, the entire praetorian Pravda media, the Republican Party leadership and the Marxist Democrats being used against us as weapons to achieve our subjugation under their rule. Overcoming all of these agents of our destruction is not going to happen via a single election, even if Trump or Cruz is ever sworn in, but overcoming them all is going to be necessary if we ever want our posterity to breathe any semblance of freedom in their lifetimes.
This is code for welcoming illegal aliens. This is how liberals talk: they claim that illegals haven't broken any laws if they haven't broken any additional laws besides entering the country illegally. Nikki, they aren't abiding by our laws if they came here legally. And they certainly aren't abiding by our traditions if they don't learn English. And we don't dislike "foreigners"; we dislike "foreigners" who are here illegally, a distinction that eludes liberals, and apparently Nikki Haley.
The GOP is every bit the enemy of We The People that the Democrat Marxist Party is.


If your Kenmore Elite Dryer is running but not heating, it may be time to change the heating element. Changing out the heating element is not a difficult task if you have a few basic tools and a little bit of expertise.
Unplug the dryer. Locate and remove the front service panel on the bottom of the Kenmore dryer, located at the bottom of the dryer. The entire panel will pop off.
Remove 1 wire that runs from the heating element and test it by using a volt/ohm meter. You only need to remove 1 wire. This will provide enough ohms for a correct reading. If you are getting a zero reading, then the heating element is bad and should be replaced.
Take the heat shield off by pulling off the wires and removing the screws that secure the heating element in place. This will free the element. Remove the heating element.
Replace the heating element with a new element. Make sure it is securely in place and then screw the element back into the housing and reinstall the wires.
Reassemble the dryer by putting the front service panel back on. Plug the dryer back in, push it back into place and turn it on. Allow it to run for a few minutes to test the new element.


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Learn where to find Diamonds in Minecraft 1.18 from this guide.
By Darwin Last updated Dec 6, 2021
We all know how important Diamonds are in Minecraft. You use them to craft Armor, Tools, Weapons, Enchanting Table, etc. It is also needed in making the best equipment in the game, Netherite. Even though it is an important resource, it is rare to find compared to other resource ores like Iron and Gold. But after the 1.18 Update in Minecraft, the Ore Distribution and Generation has been completely changed. Now there are more Diamonds? In today's guide, I will show you where to find Diamonds as well as where they spawn in Minecraft 1.18.
Where to Find Diamonds in Minecraft 1.18
Like I have mentioned before, Diamonds are a rare resource and are not that easy to find. So, we will have to be smart on how we are going to find them in a Minecraft World. After the revamp to Ore Distribution in the 1.18 update in Minecraft, Diamond has become more abundant and easier to find when compared to before versions of Minecraft. Diamond starts to generate at Y16 and can be found till Bedrock Level. You will find a good amount of Diamonds in between Y-58 and Y-64. Although Diamonds can generate at Y-64, it drastically tapers off as Bedrock starts to generate before Y-64.
Along with the new Ore Distribution changes, there has been a change to how Diamonds generate as a vein. Diamonds can now be in a vein of max size 4 and lower instead of the 8 max size in Minecraft 1.18. So, you will find Diamonds commonly as a 2 ore vein. This seems like a big nerf but in Minecraft 1.18 you will find more Diamonds. The best way of finding Diamonds is to Strip Mine at Y-59. At that level, mine a 3×3 tunnel and you will come across a lot of Diamonds.
This was all about finding Diamonds in Minecraft 1.18. Hopefully, this guide has helped you. You can also check our guides on Ore Distribution and Dripstone Caves in Minecraft 1.18.
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744 THE KERALA PANCHAYAT LAW MANUAL Rule 2
and household use and consumption, and goods of any kind are ordinarily sold. It does not include a workshop;
(cm) 'side yard' means an open space extending laterally between any side of a building and the boundary of the plot facing that side other than front and rear/utility yard and forming part of the plot;
(cn) 'site' means a plot and its surrounding precincts;
(co) 'stair cover' means cabin-like structure with a covering roof over a staircase and its landing built to enclose only the stairs for the purpose of providing protection from weather and not used for human habitation; it is synonymous with stair cabin or staircase room;
(cp) 'stall' means any temporary structure other than a hut used solely for the display and sale of goods;
(cq) 'storey' means the portion of a building between the surface of any 'floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it;
(cr) 'street means a private street or a public street, synonymous with road and giving access to more than one plot or one building;
(cs) 'street line' means the line defining the side limits of a street;
(ct) 'street level' means the level at the centre line of the street;
(cu) 'structure' means anything that is built or constructed or building of any kind or any piece of work, artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner. The term 'structure' shall include "building";
(cv) 'sunshade or weather shade' means a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain;
(cw) 'tenement' means a part of a building intended or used or likely to be used as a dwelling unit for human habitation especially one that is rented to tenants;
(cx) 'to erect' means -
(i) to erect a new building on any site whether previously built up or not;
(ii) to re-erect any building of which portions above the plinth level have been pulled down or destroyed; and
(iii) to convert from one occupancy to another;
(cy) 'travel distance' means the distance an occupant has to travel to reach an exit;
(cz) 'tribal area' includes an area declared as tribal settlement by Government from time to time;
(da) 'unconnected latrine' means a latrine not connected to public sewer system; it may be connected to a septic tank;
(db) 'unsafe building'means building which is structurally unsafe, insanitary or not provided with adequate means of egress or which constitute a fire hazard or is otherwise dangerous to human life or which in relation to existing use constitutes a hazard to safety or health or public welfare, by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment;
(dc) 'use group' means the principal use for which a plot, a building or part of a building is used or intended to be used;
(dd) 'verandah' means a covered area with at least one side open to the outside with the exception of a parapet, trellis, jally or grill work on the open side;


Unintended Consequences Of Tax Jobs And Cuts Act On Canadian Citizens And Others Abroad | TaxConnections is a where to find leading tax experts and tax resources worldwide.
In early November 2017, it appeared that U.S tax reform "might" include a provision that would in effect impose retroactive taxation on the retained earnings of Canadian (and other non-U.S.) small business corporations. I wrote about that here.
On December 22, 2017 President Donald Trump signed into law the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act". The uniquely U.S. policy of imposing "worldwide taxation" on the tax residents and citizens of other countries continues. FATCA continues. In other words, in spite of the educational campaign orchestrated by individuals and groups (Americans Citizens abroad and Republicans Overseas) the U.S. Government (although aware of the aware of the problems) declined to make the changes necessary to allow U.S. citizens to live normal financial lives outside the United States. An earlier post, describing "How U.S. Citizens Can Live Abroad In An FBAR and FATCA World" demonstrates that the rules of the Internal Revenue Code involve far more than taxation, but include a number of "penalty laden, intrusive information reporting requirements". Significantly these rules impact people who are resident/citizens of other countries who are subject to the tax systems of those countries. Many of those impacted do not even consider themselves to be U.S. citizens. Some of them don't even speak English. Few of them can afford the expensive compliance costs. How could things get worse?
So, what does all this have to do with U.S. tax?
1. The U.S. Internal Revenue Code cannot impose direct taxation on Canadian (or other foreign) corporations.
3. The Internal Revenue Code has NOT previously attributed the active business of "Canadian Controlled Private Corporations" to the individual "United States shareholder".
4. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has added a new Sec 965 to the Internal Revenue Code that purports to retroactively impose U.S. taxation on this (previously untaxed) active business income RETROACTIVELY FROM 1986. Yes, you read correctly.
Have a question? Contact John Richardson.
Per usual, the best thing you can do if you are a Canada-US dual citizen living in Canada, without US assets or income, is to stay well away from the US tax system. The risks of non-compliance in this case are zero, as the US has no ability to collect taxes or penalties against Canadian citizens in Canada.
Certainly pay no attention to those members of the tax-compliance industry who insist that you should cut the IRS a cheque for a percentage of the retained earnings in your business.
Tax professionals are the only people who are really in a position to communicate with legislators about the effects, scope, impact, desirability of tax legislation.
Given the critical nature of tax legislation and the way it impacts the lives of ordinary people all of these things must be considered.
Because tax professionals are the only people who understand the language of the Internal Revenue Code, they should have a special and heightened responsibility to comment, criticize and educate.
In other words, tax professionals should become the "moral conscience of the nation". They should not allow themselves to be reduced to being the mindless enforcers of unjust laws.
It's not in the compliance industry's best interest to ask whether the law should apply, or to enlighten Members of Congress of the effects of their laws have on ordinary Americans abroad. They'd lose their 'raison d'etre'!


Software bugs are everywhere and they brings much harm. History is sprinkled with software horror tales: race condition in radiation therapy machine Therac-25 caused deaths and injuries, badly written automotive software caused unintended acceleration, bugs in the entertainment system allowed an attacker to take remote (full) control of a car, software glitches caused (many times) chaos in the stock market and so on... Unfortunately many think that bugs are like bad weather: annoying, but unavoidable, so that the only solution is to have patience and bear with them.


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Papers can be submitted for consideration in one of two tracks or both: Papers must be submitted in English. We welcome submissions in all areas of accounting for the Concurrent Sessions.
Papers submitted to the Concurrent Sessions only will be considered for presentation at the conference, but not for publication in the Journal of International Accounting Research. Barth who is the Joan E. Participants are invited to attend a number of social events including a gala dinner, which will be held on Saturday 1 July. Further details regarding registration will be available soon. Papers that address interesting and innovative research questions in all areas of international accounting are welcome but papers addressing issues such as the following are particularly welcomed for plenary sessions: The challenges of management and control in a global world.
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The Journal of Accounting Research conference will be held at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business on May 11–12, Funding for the conference is generously provided by the KPMG Foundation, in conjunction with the Accounting Research Center at Chicago Booth. On SSRN email today "To encourage submissions across a broad set of research areas, the theme of the conference is "Current Topics in Accounting Research." We invite the submission of theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies that advance our understanding of any area of accounting research.".
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Davis Shore Ferry Service is one of the Southern Outer Banks' few local ferry services that provides both passenger and vehicle transportation to the Cape Lookout National Seashore. Cruising across the Core Sound and landing on the South Core Banks, visitors who book a trip with Davis Shore Ferry Service will be close to the National Park Service's Great Island cabins, as well as miles of undeveloped shoreline that's famous for exceptional fishing, shelling, and plenty of room to move.
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Q: an idiomatic definition vs. an official definition I am writing some technical docs. There is a technical term that has no official definition, as there is no definition for that term in any formal specs. However, there is a widely-accepted definition for that term in the tech community. In this case, can I refer to that definition as "an idiomatic definition", as in

There is no official definition for what X is, as you cannot find it in the spec. However, there is an idiomatic definition that the community has been using over the years

A: I wouldn't say "idiomatic definition". I've not heard "idiomatic" used like this. It means "consisting of language that is natural to a native speaker" so literally, it means that the definition is written in idiomatic language.
If you don't want "unofficial definition" you could rephrase in terms of "understanding".

There is no official definition for what deep cloning is, as you cannot find it in the spec. However, the term is generally understood in the community.

There is no official definition of "Deep cloning", as you cannot find it in the specification, but it is generally understood to mean a fully independent copy of an object, duplicating all references within the object.

Or if there is a precisely phrased definition, just not in the spec, then cite that

There is no official definition of "Deep cloning", as you cannot find it in the specification, but Chris Chu defines it as "a copy of all elements of the original object" so that "changes made to the original object will not be reflected in the copy".

Finally, if you are describing something everyone knows and so you can't find a particular source you can say

There is no official definition of "Deep cloning", as you cannot find it in the specification. Here I use the term to mean...

A: The opposite of "official" is "unofficial". "Informal" or "casual" can also be used.


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As GM slashes, where do we go from here?
DETROIT — With General Motors filing for bankruptcy and announcing it will close 14 plants, throwing thousands of workers on the scrap heap, what is the way forward for autoworkers and their communities? A few quick thoughts.
The closing plants should be placed on stand-by status with the workers receiving full pay while being trained now to build fast trains, solar cells or wind turbines.
If there are no American-based companies ready to convert the plants to the new production, Canadian companies like Bombardier and European companies like Gamesa should be invited to bid to take the plants over and build the high-speed trains and wind turbines they have been producing for years.
Same goes with solar cell (Electronic Conversion Devices in Troy, Mich.) and plug-in hybrid battery (Sanyo from Japan) production, if U.S. companies are not ready to move in immediately.
I also understand that hybrid buses are mostly made outside of the U.S., as well. In any case, cities like Detroit will need tax credits to buy them no matter where they are made.
Tax credits will also be needed to motivate buyers to trade in their gas-guzzlers for plug-in hybrids (the Chevy Volt is going for $40,000).
Stimulus money needs to go into constructing fast-train tracks and not just into road construction.
The biggest causes for the current crisis, of course, are the state of the economy and the credit crisis. Both of these need to be fixed or nobody will be buying any cars, foreign or domestic.
I was struck by how easy it was to get the Detroit Three to accept the higher federal fuel-efficiency standards after attacking them for 20 years. It makes me wonder what would have happened if the United Auto Workers had bargained for a concession from GM and Chrysler — namely their endorsement of a public health care plan and using executive bonuses to pay UAW members' way to march in D.C. and lobby for it.
My main reaction, though, comes from seeing the contrast in how the worldwide crisis in auto was treated in different countries. When France and Germany gave public money to their domestic manufacturers, it was with the understanding that no jobs would be lost or plants closed.
It's looking like GM and Chrysler are using bankruptcy to wage the biggest union-busting campaign ever.
I also don't believe GM will ultimately be smaller worldwide. They will merely supplement their reduced U.S. production with even more imports from low-wage countries, particularly China.
Finally, the Detroit Big Three need to be held to the same standard Toyota has set for itself. Jim Press, its former VP, once said that whatever Toyota sells here, it intends to build here.
Sam Stark is a UAW retiree.
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