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First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi
Up From the Grave He Arose (Website) Dead and Buried (Bulletin)
Series: Mark
Sermon by Derek Thomas on Apr 16, 2006
Mark 16:1-8 (website) Mark 15:42-47 (Bulletin)
The Lord's Day Evening
Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas
Now I want you, as you open up your Bible or the pew Bible in front of you, as you open it up to Mark 16, I want you to do something for me. I want you to take your bulletin and cover over verses 9-20. Just for tonight! Many of the older manuscripts...you understand, we don't have a single copy of an original manuscript of any part of the Bible — not Mark's Gospel, not any part of the Bible. All we have are copies of copies of copies — thousands of them. Some go back to the second century, but we don't have an original copy of Mark's Gospel anywhere...not in the Vatican, not in the Museum in London, not in the National Museum in Washington. We don't have them. And truth is that in the largest of the manuscripts that we have, and in some of the earliest of the manuscripts that we have, they are given very fanciful names like Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, and they are two very important sources from which we glean what the Bible should be. The longer ending of Mark isn't there, and some of the earliest of the church fathers, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius, Origen, Jerome in his Latin translation of the Bible, a very significant piece of work, seem to be wholly unaware of verses 9-20.
Now, I know - if you've got the King James Version of the Bible it's there, and it's part of the Bible and the cover says "Holy Bible" and it's part of Scripture. If you're not using the King James Version of the Bible, there's probably some indication in the text...there might be a line drawn, there might be something in parentheses in the New American Standard or the ESV...there's some explanation that says something like 'some of the manuscripts do not contain the following verses.'
Well, that's a very complex issue, and I don't have time to go into all of that tonight, just to say...just to say that as far as some of the earliest Christians are concerned, Mark's Gospel (or so we think) ended at verse 8. And for tonight I want us to take that as fact, so don't be peeking on ahead to see what Mark adds or what somebody else adds as an addition to the Gospel of Mark. Just for tonight go with me that Mark's Gospel ends at verse 8. And if it really did end with verse 8...and you know, it's one of those fifty questions I want to ask when I get to heaven. Mark, did you really finish the Gospel at verse 8? Because it's a very odd way to finish a Gospel." But there may well be a reason for it.
Mark had mentioned that there were two women who had been there on the Friday evening as Jesus had been taken down from the cross and had been placed in the tomb (Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses), there in verse 47 of chapter 15. In verse 1 of chapter 16, that Mary mother of Joses is now called mother of James. She was, in fact, the mother of James and Joses, and James was probably the better known in the church.
There are three particular women that emerge here. One is Mary Magdalene. This is the lady out of whom seven demons had been cast. She's not the woman taken in adultery. There are more legends about Mary Magdalene than you and I have had hot dinners. Gnostic documents, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Philip, portray her as an adversary of Peter, who would become, of course, important to the Catholic Church. And, as we will be sick to our gills in a few weeks time, Dan Brown's DaVinci Code, of course, has Mary Magdalene married to Jesus and bearing children of Him. She is the beloved disciple of John's Gospel. Well, away with all of that! Mary Magdalene is a wonderful, wonderful disciple of Jesus.
And then Mary the mother of James and Joses...Matthew and Mark refer to her as "the other Mary." John says that there was a woman called "the wife of Clopas" there. And if the two are the same, Clopas is also identified with Alpheus the brother of Joseph, Jesus' mother's husband, and that makes this "other Mary" a sister-in-law of Joses' mother.
And then we'll see that there is another lady here by the name of Salome. And at the cross, according to Matthew, there is a lady called the mother of the sons of Zebedee, James and John. John tells us that she was Jesus' mother's sister, and Mark calls her Salome. So now at the tomb on this Sunday morning you have Mary (Jesus' mother), Mary's sister-in-law, Mary's sister, and Mary Magdalene, and possibly a few others.
Before we read the passage together, let's come before God in prayer.
Father, as we turn now to Your word, we pray, Holy Spirit, that You would come and write it upon our hearts. We would see Jesus. And we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Let's pick up the reading in chapter 15 and at verse 46:
"Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid. When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him. Very early in the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. They were saying to one another, 'Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?' Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large. Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, 'Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.'' They went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid."
Amen. And may God bless to us the reading of His holy and inerrant word.
It is Sunday morning, early. The sun has risen...it may well have still been dark when they left their home in the city of Jerusalem. And they've gone through the quiet streets of Jerusalem — quiet now, in comparison to Friday morning and afternoon. They'd gone to the place where they had been, and seen and noticed, and taken note of — the place where the body of Jesus had been placed in a tomb. In Jewish reckoning, three days have elapsed — barely a day and a half, 36 hours or so by our reckoning. They had noted [verse 47 of chapter 15] precisely the place where Jesus had been laid, where the tomb was...a rock tomb, and over the mouth of it a channel on a slight incline in which a large circular stone was rolled down...probably a lot easier to roll it down than to roll it back...it was on an incline. There's a manuscript in the Cambridge library called Codex Bezae, which says 'a stone which twenty men could not roll away.' That may be a slight exaggeration.
Matthew tells us that the next day, Saturday, guards had been placed at the tomb and a Roman seal glued to the tomb itself to ensure that no one would come and steal away the body and claim a resurrection, as the Jews feared. And now it's early on Sunday morning, and the women have come to the tomb - Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, and Salome, and maybe, if we piece together all of the other Gospels, maybe some others — and their whole thought is consumed by 'Who is going to roll away the stone? How are we going to get into the tomb?' They had purchased some spices.
Now, Joseph of Arimathea had already anointed the body of Jesus very, very hastily on Friday afternoon. There wasn't much time; Sabbath was fast approaching. John tells us that. And now, or so it seems, these women are coming. In the cool of that tomb the body would not have decayed much. They come to finish off the anointing, to do it properly. And when they come to the tomb, the stone is rolled away and Jesus isn't there.
Christianity rests on this doctrine and the resurrection. Without it, without the resurrection, we have no basis on which to be here. We have no basis for explaining anything at all about the cross. It simply becomes an extravagant gesture on the part of a first century Jew who did something to try and move others to do something on behalf of others. That's the best thing that we could say about the cross. And we are still in our sins. Without the resurrection, we have no basis for saying that we can come into the presence of a holy, righteous, God. No basis for justification, no basis for peace with God, no basis for entry into heaven, no basis for saying there's going to be an afterlife, no basis for saying we're going to play cellos. No basis whatsoever for a bodily resurrection. All we have are platitudes and hopeful moral epithets, and no more.
What happened? What happened on that Sunday morning? Well, three things happened.
I. The first thing that happened was a surprise. It was a surprise. These women were not expecting the resurrection.
They did not come from the city to this tomb expecting that Jesus wouldn't be there. They're bringing spices. They're worrying about who is going to move the stone away. Mark gives us a little detail. "Looking up," he says in verse 4, as though he wants us to see that they were actually looking down, as you tend to do when you're miserable and dejected, and without hope.
Their dear Lord had been taken from them. They had seen Him. These women...these women had been there at the cross. They had seen the gory, bloody figure of Jesus. Unimaginable, the sight that they had witnessed: the brutality of it; the enduring of the 39 lashes that had torn into His flesh. They'd seen Him on that cross. They'd heard the violence of the mob.
They weren't expecting a resurrection. What happened on that Sunday morning was to these women a surprise. A little later when they've entered (we have to piece together the Gospels here), Mary Magdalene didn't enter at this point. Obviously, she ran back, according to other Gospels, to tell the disciples. So it is the other women who now enter into the tomb. And what do they see? They see a young man sitting, dressed in white, speaking to them. And they run...and they run! You know, none of them, even when they see the stone rolled away, they don't sort of say 'so it was true after all.' You know — 'Blow me down, it was true after all!' All the words of Jesus, all the promises of Jesus, all the prophecies, they were actually true! They didn't say that.
I'm not for one minute castigating these women at this point. The men are not there. The disciples have gone. If the resurrection claim was merely because of a geographical mistake as to the location of where the tomb was, as though these women had forgotten where the tomb was... or, supposing in writing the Gospel of Mark, Mark had, in order to bring encouragement to the church ten, fifteen years later — how do you think he would go about doing that? Well, not this way. Not this way. It was a surprise. These women were taken completely by surprise. Mark is saying to us the sheer power of unbelief that still resides in the hearts of His closest and dearest and nearest...they're afraid. Afraid of what the men now might say about them, perhaps. You know, if you're trying to fabricate the story, this would be a silly thing to do. Unless, of course, it's true.
II. But in the second place, not only is this a surprise, it's supernatural.
Who is this figure dressed in white? The response to this figure is that they are overwhelmed. They are [in verse 5] "amazed." It's the word rendered distressed in chapter 14 and verse 33, of Jesus in Gethsemane: the kind of bodily, overwhelming, response to news that engulfs you and paralyzes you. It's an angel. It's one of Good's ministering spirits. It's in the form of a young man.
Now, angels are sexless, but when they appear, they appear as male. When they take on human form, they have male names. We only know of two names: Gabriel and Michael. There's an apocryphal mention of Rafael. They can take on physical form. They are charged...these angels are charged with helping the people of God. They have a particular responsibility to bring encouragement, especially to His little ones in times of distress, and especially at death. Much of it is shrouded in mystery. God hasn't told us very much about angels, but it'll be one of those glorious discoveries in heaven.
Angels are always present in the Bible at significant moments of redemptive history: in Eden, with the patriarchs in the giving of the covenant, at Sinai in the giving of the Law, at the birth of Jesus, in the temptation of Jesus, in Gethsemane. You remember how Luke describes at the end of Gethsemane that an angel came and ministered to Him. Oh, who is that angel who comes and ministers relief and comfort in our Lord's most crucial hour?
You remember in the story of the Old Testament in II Kings 19, you remember one angel slew 185,000 Assyrians in one blow. No wonder these women are afraid. You see, God is saying here this is a significant moment in the history of redemption. It belongs with the birth of Jesus. It belongs with the death of Jesus. It belongs with the ascension of Jesus. It belongs with the Second Coming of Jesus, which also is surrounded by angels. It identifies who Jesus is with the story of the life of Jesus; that He had come in a supernatural way, and that He was engaged in a supernatural battle, and that there's more to Him than flesh and blood; that He truly is the Son of God; that He isn't just in some supreme way a great Jewish leader, but that He truly is the Lord of glory and the King of Kings.
What exactly did this angel say? He addressed their fear, and he said, "Do not be alarmed. You're looking for Jesus of Nazareth." Do you know, that's exactly what they were looking for? They weren't looking for the Son of God. They weren't looking for a resurrected Lord. They were looking for Jesus of Nazareth, the man who died on the Friday afternoon and was buried in this tomb. They were looking for a body. He knows exactly what they're doing, and he utters those beautiful words that have become so significant in the church: "He is not here; He has risen."
In the Eastern church in particular this has become something of a liturgical form, especially at Easter, the so-called Paschal Greeting: Christos anesti!; Alithos anesti!. ("He is risen; truly He is risen.")
Now think about it for a moment. This dead body has come to life. Could it possibly have been...could it possibly have been that they simply went to the wrong tomb? How in the world could that happen? It was Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. You know, even if they had gone to the wrong tomb, it would have been a simple thing for the authorities to go to the right tomb and produce the body. You know, even if they had had a lapse of memory — we all have lapses of memory — it would have been the simplest thing. They could have done it in an instant, and gone to the right tomb. And the Roman authorities (or the Jewish authorities, for that matter) could have pointed out to them, 'Look, you silly people. You've gone to the wrong tomb!'
Do you think it's possible (as Hugh Schonfield in his Passover Plot brought to life again the dreaded corpse of the "swoon theory") that this brutalized body of Jesus, into whose side had been thrust a Roman spear, in the cool of the tomb on the Saturday afternoon had come to again? And somehow or other managed to roll away the stone from inside, and walked out past the guards? It doesn't even bear thinking about.
Or what about the "stolen body theory"? Who stole this body? 'The Jewish authorities stole the body.' Why would the Jewish authorities steal the body of Jesus and provide for Christians the very proof that they were looking for? And if they had stolen the body, or for that matter, if the Roman authorities had stolen the body, as soon as the first person said "He is risen", they would have produced the body of Jesus. And they could disprove it in an instant.
What takes place here, this angel says, is a supernatural feat on the part of Almighty God. God has stepped in here. The power of God is at work here. It breaks asunder all of the constraints of post-Enlightenment thinking, and says to us that dead bodies do rise again by the supernatural power of Almighty God.
III. But what happened here was not only a surprise, and was not only an act of supernatural power, but it was also, in the third place, something that resulted in several negative responses.
Yes. Look at verse 8: They went out, they fled, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. And that's the end of the Gospel. (Now, I know! You're hiding verses 9-20!) That's the way the Gospel ended. They fled. It's the same word in the same tense of what the disciples did in chapter 14 when they abandoned Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane when He was arrested. The very same word.
What a way to end the Gospel. No appearance of Jesus. The women do not do what the angel asks them to do, namely, go and tell the disciples and go and tell Peter. (Remember, Peter is probably the one dictating this Gospel to Mark; very significant that Peter should be mentioned here.) You know, there's a contrast here, because right at the beginning of Mark's Gospel you have the story of the way in which a leper is healed, and he is commanded, you remember, not to go and tell anyone...and he goes and tells everyone! And here the women are told to go and tell, and they're silent. They tell no one.
Now, Matthew tells us they did go and tell the disciples later, and the disciples didn't believe them. You see, Mark is answering the question, not 'How do you know that Jesus is risen?' — (answer: The tomb is empty); but Mark is answering a different question: 'How come all Jerusalem didn't hear about the resurrection immediately?' Surely a bunch of hysterical women rushing through the streets of Jerusalem early in the morning, screaming about a resurrection...everyone would have known about it in an instant. And the answer: Because they were afraid...because they were afraid.
Now, why would Mark end the Gospel that way? Think about it for a minute. When did Mark write his Gospel? Probably A.D. 65, just at the onset of Roman persecution of Christianity. And do you see what Mark is saying? That the Christian church began not in a great bang of human power, but it began by the power of Almighty God.
You know, the church began out of nothing, out of a small little group of women who, when they saw the empty tomb, ran because they were afraid. Imagine, twenty, fifteen years later, you're trying to write this down and to give some credence to a movement that is now under attack from the authorities. Would you want to give the church an account of the resurrection which was the catalyst of the church and say nobody believed it at first?
And you know what? The first person who said "He is not here, but He is risen" - no one ever saw him except these women. No one was ever able to interrogate him. He disappeared. And why is Mark saying that? Because Mark wants us to focus not on the faith of the disciples, because they didn't have any; not on the faith of these women, because they didn't have much, either. But it wants us to focus entirely on the power of God that is manifested in that empty tomb. You can imagine it, can't you? The camera focusing on that empty tomb and panning out...and there's the start of it. There's the genesis of it. The putting forth of the sovereign, supernatural, power of God in raising His Son from the dead, and in so doing demonstrates the validity of Jesus' deity, underscores the validity of everything that Jesus ever said and did, assures us of the forgiveness of our sins by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone, promises to us a bodily resurrection in the life to come, and says to us with absolute certainty — not because it's based on the faith of some women or the faith of the disciples, but because it's based upon the power of God — that all of this...all of this...is true. May God write it upon our hearts, for His name's sake.
Let's pray together.
Our Father in heaven, as we come this evening to the end of another Lord's Day, we thank You from the very bottom of our hearts for the empty tomb. We thank You for those beautiful words, "He is not here, but He is risen." And that He was risen not because of some warm glow within our hearts, but because He truly was risen....
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Whether you realize it or not, odds are that you do some sort of stretching every day.
Most of us feel an urge to reach our arms up, stretching out our bodies, before we even leave our beds each morning. Even animals instinctively stretch after sleep. If you've ever seen a dog wake up, you likely witnessed it doing the aptly named yoga poses: downward and upward dog.
To stretch for better muscle health, movement and overall well being, instead of only focusing on areas of tension, it's best to stretch through all planes of motion (sagittal, transverse and frontal), using both sides of your entire body. That's because—in most cases—the areas of tension are simply symptoms/effects of a dysfunctional or compensatory movement pattern.
By moving your body functionally in all directions, you have a better chance of addressing and correcting the true cause of your tension…and preventing future tension!
The reason my MoFlows are only a minute is because stretching doesn't have to take a lot of time. In fact, if you're stretching in preparation for activity requiring muscular strength and power output (i.e., as part of a warmup for a workout, run, or sporting event), research shows that shorter-duration dynamic stretching is more beneficial than longer, static stretching—which can actually hinder performance.
Static stretching is generally characterized as any stretch done for more than 30 seconds; anything less is considered dynamic. Multiple studies have pointed to a decrease in muscle strength and power immediately following static stretching.
Confirming previous research, a study published in the December 2014 Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, found decreased vertical jump scores in participants immediately following bouts of 60-second stretches of their calves, hamstrings, glutes and quads versus those who only did 30-second stretches of the same areas.
Are Static Stretches Ever Appropriate?
Although longer static stretches can feel good after grueling workouts or sporting events, there is no research that clearly supports increased benefits over shorter-duration stretching. Moreover, longer-held stretches can increase the danger of over-stretching and causing a muscle tear or strain or, worse yet, ligament laxity and joint instability. Hypermobile people need to use extreme caution to avoid these risks.
I'm not saying you should never do static stretches. But I advise being cautious. Remember that stretching is sometimes uncomfortable, but it should never evoke a level of discomfort that feels cautionary. It should simultaneously feel uncomfortable and good/beneficial, like a deep-tissue massage.
It may sound like a lot of stretching throughout the day, but when done correctly, it only takes a few minutes here and there to reap the rewards.
Your body is your vehicle for navigating your life, so it's important to invest time and energy into keeping it moving effectively. If you stop stretching and moving regularly, your muscles will adapt to your sedentary lifestyle. Consistent, properly executed stretching will enable you to live an active, pain free life!
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Hi! If you're simply stretching away without workout after, is it ok to do static stretching?
ligament laxity and joint instability?


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The House System at Bishop Stopford's School
Coventry St George's King Alfred's Temple's Waltham Trinity
Our house system is important to our school and has been part of the life of our school since it opened in September 1967. When students join pour School at age 11, there are detailed conversations with primary schools and placement into Houses is carefully considered in the light of these conversations. In practice, most students with siblings at the School will join the House of their older brothers or sisters but occasionally parents or teachers may express their preference for another House.
As students almost invariably stay in the same House from age 11 to at least 16 or 18, there is an opportunity for House Staff to get to know them, and their families, very well indeed. This means that transition from primary schools is usually very smooth.
We have inter-House competitions in numerous sports and cultural activities such as music, drama, art, chess and debating. House colours are awarded for achievement in House activities. Our House system promotes community cohesion, encourages high aspiration, continues to develop our ethos, and most important, celebrates all success.
Each House also has a team of House Prefects. The importance and value placed upon our House prefects is very great indeed. Our students are keen to mature as individuals and to develop a sense of responsibility towards others within and beyond the School gates. House Prefects support other students in the Houses by activities such as:
Peer mentoring
Paired reading
Organising students to participate in House sporting and other competitions
Playing an active role in Collective Worship and Assemblies
Assisting at Taster and New Entrants' days
Organising charity events
Helping Form Teachers during Form time

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ATLANTA – March 3, 2015 – Metro Atlanta high school students are now eligible to apply for scholarship grants offered by the Atlanta chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy® (AABE®). Award consideration will be given to students who plan to major in business and/or the STEM disciplines and whose educational pursuits will lead to a career in the energy industry. All applications must be received or postmarked by March 27, 2015.
Additionally, students who were previously awarded scholarships from the AABE Atlanta Chapter will be able to apply for the Continuing Education Scholarship, which offers previous award recipients additional financial support to continue pursuit of a Bachelor's degree in energy-industry related fields at an accredited college or university.
All students who are interested in applying can visit AABE ATLANTA to download the application or contact Valerie Searcy (click name to email) .
Last year, AABE Atlanta awarded 38 metro Atlanta students with scholarships to further their education. Students who excelled in math, science and physical science were presented with awards totaling more than $35,000.


The 142,000 September payroll jobs reported today (2 Oct 2015) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is too small to be consistent with the still high stock averages or the alleged economic recovery. Moreover, the BLS says that it over-estimated the July and August payroll jobs by 59,000. The average workweek declined to 34.5 hours. The labor force participation rate fell further and is now the lowest in about 40 years. This is especially damning when we remember that in those long ago years many more households could exist as one-earner households.
The markets have been hit with yet another negative economic surprise today, this time concerning the indicator that is thought to have the full attention of the representatives of Anglo-Saxon central banking socialism huddling in the Eccles building. The professional soothsayer class has once again failed to foresee this development, but we hereby predict that won't keep it from continuing to apprise us of the results of its entrails readings.
Oh well, at least we will continue to get to make fun of the economic theory challenged "science is prediction" class of econometrists.
The ISM Manufacturing PMI was "unexpectedly" weak yet again in September. Continuing the theme spelled out by the regional manufacturing surveys (the Fed's and the Chicago BBI), economic momentum has clearly stalled right where the "dollar" said it would. The pattern is blindingly obvious, with a huge slowdown to start the year (coincident to the first "dollar" disruptions including crude oil prices), a pause around May/June (with the "dollar" much quieter after the March FOMC) and then a pickup in August and now more dramatic deceleration in September (after the July start to the latest "run").
At just 50.2, the headline ISM estimate was the lowest since May 2013. New orders fell sharply from 51.7 in August (which was a multi-year low) to just 50.1. While most fixate on the assumed 50 level as an actual dividing line between growth and contraction, these sentiment surveys aren't nearly that precise and at most offer relative interpretations about the economic direction, trends and the perhaps even the strength of those directions and trends.
The last few pieces of data for Q3 more than suggest the US economy faltered in August/September. That trend would be alarming on its own had it occurred in a financial vacuum (as if ceteris paribus actually existed), but following along against the "dollar" is especially so. There was the initial, large decline in early 2015 that "unexpectedly" shocked economists and commentary off their 2014, GDP is 5% perch. That slump was initially met by derision and disembodiment as if it were yet another aberration (continuous anomalies tend to be something other than anomalous) to be discarded in serious analysis.
When the "slump" continued on past snowfall and port strikes, it was upgraded to "transitory." That even appeared to be the reflection of the data as it, again, followed the "dollar" out of the first wave. The idea of "transitory", then, meant expectations (and monetary promises) that there would be no second wave.
Obviously, starting around July 6, there was a second hitting everything from oil to China to even the here-to-fore unthinkable denting of stock market certainty. With economic data, especially spending and related manufacturing (since inventory is stuck in between them), now falling again as the "dollar", all those prior benign interpretations risk undoing if not full repudiation. That is a big risk to markets in terms of prices caught wrong-footed about expectations (reordering assumptions to incorporate "transitory" being not that) but there is also great economic risk as at some point inventory imbalances demand correction.
The idea of "transitory" in that context is for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers (to a more limited extent) to only make slight adjustments to production and trade levels to reflect inventory (and the "dollar", by extension) but maintaining a positive outlook once the "temporary" problems abate and that 5% GDP comes roaring back as is proclaimed at every juncture. That had already occurred, as production levels have been declining but not sharply so. If business outlooks suddenly shift away from that orthodox tendency, then the inventory problem becomes much, much more than a temporary nuisance; deeper and sharper cuts to production become necessary.
A long-awaited meeting between Presidents of Russia and the U.S. will take place tomorrow in New York, apparently, in the room of the Russian delegation in the UN SC. Paul Craig Roberts, professor, Chairman of The Institute for Political Economy, the former Aid of the Financial Minister in the administration of Ronald Reagon, told Vestnik Kavkaza about his view on the Russian-American relations.
– Do you believe that the fact that presidents Barak Obama and Vladimir Putin agreed to meet is the sign of thaw in bilateral relations?
– No. Of course, not.
– What does it mean then?
– I think, it means that Putin is too hopeful. It can also mean that he went every possible length to calm down the hostility flowing towards Russia from Washington; but it does not really mean anything, because Putin wants to talk about Syria and ISIS, and Obama wants to talk about the breakaway republics and Ukraine and wants Putin to turn it all back to Kiev.
How Can China Blame Exports, Too?
Concurrent to more survey-based indications of a US manufacturing slowdown, economists have been quick to blame overseas problems such that it leaves a "strong" US economy as a baseline. On the other side of that equation, China's manufacturing likewise is rapidly declining but somehow with the same point of blame. Both Chinese PMI's were decidedly weak, with the private version far more so than the government's number.
The government's official gauge of factory activity improved with the manufacturing PMI rising to 49.8, up from August's three-year low of 49.7 but still marking two straight months of decline. Meanwhile, a private survey by Caixin/Markit revealed PMI fell to a fresh six-and-a-half year low of 47.2, ticking down from August's reading of 47.3 but still better than an earlier flash estimate of 47.
Total new work fell at the quickest rate in over three years, partly driven by a steeper fall in new export business, Markit said in a report. As a result, companies cut output at the sharpest rate in six-and-a-half years, while staff numbers fell at the quickest pace since the start of 2009.
US manufacturing declines on "overseas" weakness while Chinese manufacturing declines on "overseas" weakness as if the two economic systems never deal with each other, only the same, non-specific "global economy" that doesn't somehow count either of them within its growing malaise? It seems far more likely, beyond a doubt, actually, that with the amount of trade between them (especially from China to the US) if Chinese manufacturing is declining than US "demand" is a problem.
A Lehman Moment for Commodities?
Where do we begin? With how to add wealth? Or how to lose it? The way to lose it is simple. You buy something that is not worth the money you paid for it. You are instantly poorer, whether you know it or not.
DJIA, daily – still unsettled – click to enlarge.
If the continuing depression in precious metal prices has a silver lining, it is the enormous surge in demand world-wide for silver. With most mints & brokers experiencing higher than expected demand for silver coins, many are having to set weekly sales quotas after record coin sales.
With North American mints overwhelmed by orders, investors and collectors were forced to look overseas for increasingly scarce supplies, triggering a domino effect in Europe and Asia.


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Government considers plans to create national hub for court judgments
Plans to create the first single comprehensive repository of England and Wales court judgments are being considered by the government, the Gazette understands. Such a service, run by the National Archives, would publish almost every decision made by courts and tribunals, unlike the current selective system run by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII).
Data would also be open for bulk research and analysis, including for training artificial intelligence systems to forecast case outcomes.
Minutes of the National Archives' latest board meeting note a decision by the lord chancellor 'to engage with The National Archives in a partnership project'.
The prospect of statutory comprehensive judgments data was cautiously welcomed by technology experts and researchers. However, it will face opposition from senior judges, who are understood to be concerned about the loss of control over judgments. The move, which would require primary legislation along the lines of the 1958 Public Records Act, would also threaten the future of BAILII, which receives one quarter of its £200,000 annual budget from the Ministry of Justice.
Open justice campaigners have long called for reform of the patchwork of processes for disseminating judgments, which leave many hearing outcomes, especially routine extempore rulings, unpublished. Nearly two years ago a report commissioned by the MoJ called for the publication of all judgments in a structured, machine-readable format.
The issue has also surfaced in the controversy over judicial review reform, with one consultation respondent accusing the MoJ of making a 'fundamental error' in the number of successful reviews of Upper Tribunal decisions owing to the fact these are rarely reported.
Other prompts for change are the 2017 Supreme Court judgment in Unison, which stressed the public importance of 'unimpeded access' to the courts and the fact that BAILII's contract with the MoJ, already extended by one year, expires in 2022.
Legal technology experts pointed out that creating a judgment database would be a lengthy process, but urged the government to decide quickly how to go about it. Nick West, chief strategy officer at London firm Mishcon de Reya, said the government should either fund BAILII to provide a comprehensive service or create a system 'so that we know as a matter of course that case law will be there'.
The MoJ declined to comment.
(Courtesy: The Law Gazette Society)


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Consul;
using Orleans.Messaging;
using Orleans.Runtime.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using Orleans.Configuration;

namespace Orleans.Runtime.Membership
{
    public class ConsulGatewayListProvider : IGatewayListProvider
    {
        private ConsulClient consulClient;
        private string clusterId;
        private ILogger logger;
        private readonly ConsulClusteringClientOptions options;
        private readonly TimeSpan maxStaleness;
        private readonly string kvRootFolder;

        public ConsulGatewayListProvider(
            ILogger<ConsulGatewayListProvider> logger,
            IOptions<ConsulClusteringClientOptions> options,
            IOptions<GatewayOptions> gatewayOptions,
            IOptions<ClusterOptions> clusterOptions)
        {
            this.logger = logger;
            this.clusterId = clusterOptions.Value.ClusterId;
            this.maxStaleness = gatewayOptions.Value.GatewayListRefreshPeriod;
            this.options = options.Value;
            this.kvRootFolder = options.Value.KvRootFolder;
        }

        public TimeSpan MaxStaleness
        {
            get { return this.maxStaleness; }
        }

        public bool IsUpdatable
        {
            get { return true; }
        }
        public Task InitializeGatewayListProvider()
        {
            consulClient =
                new ConsulClient(config =>
                {
                    config.Address = options.Address;
                    config.Token = options.AclClientToken;
                });

            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        public async Task<IList<Uri>> GetGateways()
        {
            var membershipTableData = await ConsulBasedMembershipTable.ReadAll(this.consulClient, this.clusterId, this.kvRootFolder, this.logger, null);
            if (membershipTableData == null) return new List<Uri>();

            return membershipTableData.Members.Select(e => e.Item1).
                Where(m => m.Status == SiloStatus.Active && m.ProxyPort != 0).
                Select(m =>
                {
                    var endpoint = new IPEndPoint(m.SiloAddress.Endpoint.Address, m.ProxyPort);
                    var gatewayAddress = SiloAddress.New(endpoint, m.SiloAddress.Generation);
                    return gatewayAddress.ToGatewayUri();
                }).ToList();
        }
    }

}

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The San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas could be in for a wet week – relatively speaking, of course.
While the Southland has received less rain than normal for this time of year, a large storm system centered well to the north should start spinning off some of its moisture, sending bands of clouds our way along with a chance for rain, the National Weather Services said.
In fact, the system could give the area at least two chances for rain this week, the NWS said.
The first comes later today as part of the system breaks off and slides south into the Los Angeles area.
In the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas, the first signs of moisture probably will begin sometime after 11 a.m. today in the form of sprinkles.
The bulk of the rain will likely begin after 2 p.m. and should last into the evening.
Anywhere from one- to three-quarters of an inch was expected in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas, said NWS forecaster Stuart Seto.
If that happens, it could put the area over the amount of rainfall considered normal for this time of year, Seto said.
So far this season, 2.44 inches of rain have fallen at the Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles as of Monday. That's below the normal 2.73 inches, Seto said.
But at this same time in 2006, just 1.08 inches of rain had fallen at the Civic Center, he said.
"Any rain we get is welcome," he said.
Snow could get heavy in the local mountains, officials said.
Valleys should see highs in the lower 70s today, dropping into the 50s tonight. Similar temperatures are expected through Friday.
On Thursday, another weaker disturbance from the same northern system will probably move into the area, but it is expected to bring only a 20 percent chance of rain, Seto said.
Looking into the future, the NWS' climate prediction center's long-range forecast predicts the region will get below-normal rainfall amounts in January and February.


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Q: table inside a main table I want to have a table which contains many tables. I want its caption also.
MTab1 and 2 are single col and row matrix. length of Mtab1 and 2 should be equal to T1 and T2.It means
Row of MTab1 = 7 rows of T1

\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{lscape}
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{lscape}
 \newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
  \begin{document}
   \begin{landscape}
    \begin{tabular}{l l l}
     MTab1 & \input{./Mat1_out.tex} & \input{./Mat2_out.tex}\\ MTab2 & \input{./Mat1_out.tex} & \input{./Mat2_out.tex}\\

   \caption{This table shows some data}
    \end{tabular}
     \end{landscape}
      \end{document}

% Content
Mat1_out.text
\begin{tiny}\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
&\textbf{col 1}&\textbf{col 2}&\textbf{col 3}&\textbf{col 4}\\\hline
\textbf{row 1}&0.55&0.24&0.35&0.75\\\hline
\textbf{row 2}&0.14&0.93&0.83&0.38\\\hline
\textbf{row 3}&0.15&0.35&0.59&0.57\\\hline
\textbf{row 4}&0.26&0.20&0.55&0.08\\\hline
\textbf{row 5}&0.84&0.25&0.92&0.05\\\hline
\textbf{row 6}&0.25&0.62&0.29&0.53\\\hline
\textbf{row 7}&0.81&0.47&0.76&0.78\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{tiny}

% Mat2_out.tex
\begin{tiny}\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
&\textbf{col 1}&\textbf{col 2}&\textbf{col 3}&\textbf{col 4}\\\hline
\textbf{row 1}&0.93&0.79&0.69&0.83\\\hline
\textbf{row 2}&0.13&0.31&0.75&0.54\\\hline
\textbf{row 3}&0.57&0.53&0.45&1.00\\\hline
\textbf{row 4}&0.47&0.17&0.08&0.08\\\hline
\textbf{row 5}&0.01&0.60&0.23&0.44\\\hline
\textbf{row 6}&0.34&0.26&0.91&0.11\\\hline
\textbf{row 7}&0.16&0.65&0.15&0.96\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{tiny}

% latextable2.tex
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{|l|}
        \hline
        MTab1\\ \hline
        Matb2 \\
        \hline
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

A: Here is a version discussed in the comments with a frame and caption added.  Not sure I really like it but think it is what was asked for:

To eliminate the gap between columns 2 and 3, the @{} column specification was added to remove the \tabcolsep that gets added in between columns. This also necessitated the addition of a trailing % in the sub tables to eliminate the spurious space that would otherwise be introduced.
Code:
\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{lscape}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{latextable2.tex}
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{|l|}
        \hline
        MTab1\\ \hline
        Matb2 \\
        \hline
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{filecontents*}{Mat1_out.tex}
\begin{tiny}\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
&\textbf{col 1}&\textbf{col 2}&\textbf{col 3}&\textbf{col 4}\\\hline
\textbf{row 1}&0.55&0.24&0.35&0.75\\\hline
\textbf{row 2}&0.14&0.93&0.83&0.38\\\hline
\textbf{row 3}&0.15&0.35&0.59&0.57\\\hline
\textbf{row 4}&0.26&0.20&0.55&0.08\\\hline
\textbf{row 5}&0.84&0.25&0.92&0.05\\\hline
\textbf{row 6}&0.25&0.62&0.29&0.53\\\hline
\textbf{row 7}&0.81&0.47&0.76&0.78\\\hline
\end{tabular}%
\end{tiny}%
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{filecontents*}{Mat2_out.tex}
\begin{tiny}\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
&\textbf{col 1}&\textbf{col 2}&\textbf{col 3}&\textbf{col 4}\\\hline
\textbf{row 1}&0.93&0.79&0.69&0.83\\\hline
\textbf{row 2}&0.13&0.31&0.75&0.54\\\hline
\textbf{row 3}&0.57&0.53&0.45&1.00\\\hline
\textbf{row 4}&0.47&0.17&0.08&0.08\\\hline
\textbf{row 5}&0.01&0.60&0.23&0.44\\\hline
\textbf{row 6}&0.34&0.26&0.91&0.11\\\hline
\textbf{row 7}&0.16&0.65&0.15&0.96\\\hline
\end{tabular}%
\end{tiny}%
\end{filecontents*}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}

\begin{table}
\centering\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}%
\begin{tabular}{| l@{} l@{} l@{}|}\hline
MTab1 & \input{./Mat1_out.tex} & \input{./Mat2_out.tex}\\
MTab2 & \input{./Mat1_out.tex} & \input{./Mat2_out.tex}\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Caption for main table}
\end{table}

\end{landscape}
\end{document}

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Members of the House of Representatives bow their heads in prayer during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Sept. 9, 2016 (AP photo by Molly Riley).
Last week, President Donald Trump announced that John Bolton was replacing U.S. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as assistant to the president for national security affairs, otherwise known as the national security adviser. While Bolton is a longtime government official, having served every Republican president since Ronald Reagan, his appointment was immediately condemned across the political spectrum, given his well-documented views as a war hawk.


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'WhatsApp Desktop' app comes to the Microsoft Store
'WhatsApp Desktop' now available for download as an app from the Microsoft Store
WhatsApp Messenger, currently one of the most popular messaging services for instant messaging, voice, and video calling, is used by over a billion users around the world.
While WhatsApp has been offering a version of the Messenger for Windows PCs with a "classic" Win32 program since 2016, it has now finally released its 'WhatsApp Desktop' app for Windows 10 PCs in the Microsoft Store after testing it with a limited number of users as part of their desktop app beta program.
WhatsApp's desktop is a web wrapper for its web app, and looks almost like the previous desktop version that is bundled using the Desktop App Converter for Project Centennial. This version is not written specifically for Microsoft's native Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The WhatsApp team has instead used Microsoft's Desktop Bridge to bring their app to Microsoft Store.
The app includes features such as sharing files of various types, editing profile information, sending GIFs and Emojis, and viewing Status Updates. In addition, the app also supports push notifications so that you do not miss a message. However, the desktop app is missing a lot of features, such as video calls, which is available on the mobile app.
As usual, this additional version of WhatsApp only works as an extension of the smartphone app, which means that you will need a smartphone with WhatsApp installed to use this application. However, users still have the option to use the web version at web.whatsapp.com instead of the app or the older desktop version.
You can click here to download WhatsApp Desktop from the Microsoft Store. The app download size is approximately 250MB and Windows 10 in the 64-bit version is necessary for the new app, reads the description in the Microsoft Store.
Currently, only people who have been selected for beta testing will be able to successfully access the account using their Facebook credentials. If you are not on the selected beta testers list, you will receive the "403: Forbidden" error while attempting to login. In that case, you would need to wait for the application to be made publicly available in your country.
Prabhakar Nanavati January 15, 2020 At 7:50 pm
How do I install whatsup app on my HP computer desktop with windows 10?


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Q: What does |= (single pipe equal) and &=(single ampersand equal) mean In below lines:
//Folder.Attributes = FileAttributes.Directory | FileAttributes.Hidden | FileAttributes.System | FileAttributes.ReadOnly;
Folder.Attributes |= FileAttributes.Directory | FileAttributes.Hidden | FileAttributes.System | FileAttributes.ReadOnly;

Folder.Attributes |= ~FileAttributes.System;
Folder.Attributes &= ~FileAttributes.System;

What does |= (single pipe equal) and &= (single ampersand equal) mean in C#?
I want to remove system attribute with keeping the others...

A: *

*| is bitwise or

*& is bitwise and
a |= b is equivalent to a = a | b except that a is evaluated only once
a &= b is equivalent to a = a & b except that a is evaluated only once
In order to remove the System bit without changing other bits, use
Folder.Attributes &= ~FileAttributes.System;

~ is bitwise negation. You will thus set all bits to 1 except the System bit. and-ing it with the mask will set System to 0 and leave all other bits intact because 0 & x = 0 and 1 & x = x for any x

A: They're compound assignment operators, translating (very loosely)
x |= y;

into
x = x | y;

and the same for &. There's a bit more detail in a few cases regarding an implicit cast, and the target variable is only evaluated once, but that's basically the gist of it.
In terms of the non-compound operators, & is a bitwise "AND" and | is a bitwise "OR".
EDIT: In this case you want Folder.Attributes &= ~FileAttributes.System. To understand why:

*

*~FileAttributes.System means "all attributes except System" (~ is a bitwise-NOT)

*& means "the result is all the attributes which occur on both sides of the operand"

So it's basically acting as a mask - only retain those attributes which appear in ("everything except System"). In general:

*

*|= will only ever add bits to the target

*&= will only ever remove bits from the target

A:
I want to remove system attribute with keeping the others..

You can do this like so:
Folder.Attributes ^= FileAttributes.System;


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Trump's trip was his best week in office --- here's how he can repeat that success
By Marc A. Thiessen The Washington Post
President Donald Trump just recent foreign trip was the single most successful eight-day stretch of his presidency. But almost as soon as he landed at Joint Base Andrews, he abandoned the approach that gave him his best week in office, and returned to the form that gave him some of his worst weeks - tweeting against "fake news writers" and opining about how "Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S."
Trump needs to ask himself: What made his trip so successful?
For more than a week, he did not mention James B. Comey, Russia or "fake news."
Instead, he delivered a widely hailed address in Saudi Arabia where he pointed out that 95 percent of the victims of terrorism are Muslims and rallied the leaders of 50 Muslim nations to confront the terrorist threat. He brokered a massive arms deal with Saudi Arabia and forged the beginnings of a new regional alliance to confront the Islamic State and Iran. He became the first sitting American president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem and pledged to launch a new effort to forge Israeli-Palestinian peace. He had a cordial meeting with Pope Francis and urged NATO nations to finally meet their financial commitments to the alliance. He deftly smoothed a diplomatic row with Britain over the U.S. leak of intelligence on the Manchester, England, bombing.
The result? Critics were reduced to spreading false reports that he was not using his translation earpiece (actual "fake news"), criticizing his body language at photo ops and speculating about whether the first lady smacked away his hand at an arrival ceremony. They seemed small and petty while Trump was serious, substantive and - dare we say it - presidential.
Yes, some on the left were apoplectic about Trump's refusal at the Group of Seven summit to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change.
They were also apoplectic when President George W. Bush withdrew from the International Criminal Court and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. If Trump is being attacked hysterically for being a conservative, rather than for his tweets, he's winning.
Now that he's back, Trump needs to decide: Does he want the next four years to be like his foreign trip, or does he want to return to the morass of controversy he left behind when Air Force One took off for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
If it is the former, then the answer is simple: Keep doing what he was doing on the trip.
There is no reason he has to be on foreign soil to embrace the power and grandeur of the presidency. What worked abroad can also work at home. Washington is a jungle, but as president, Trump is the king of the beasts.
Trump needs to stop fighting with the lesser animals. One of the secrets of the presidency Trump has been slow to embrace is that the office confers a certain majesty on its occupants. There is a reason the opposing party's response to a State of the Union address invariably falls flat compared with the real thing. Trump's most successful moments - his terrific address to Congress, his nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, his foreign trip - all came when he embraced the dignity of the office. His worst moments came when he did not.
The lesson should be clear: Stay above the fray, ignore your critics, focus on substance, and use the presidency to promote your agenda. Go on a tour to highlight the achievements of your foreign trip. Visit defense factories that will get jobs because of your Saudi arms deal. Speak to Jewish organizations about your visit to Israel and plans to isolate Iran, defeat the Islamic State, and bolster the U.S.-Israel alliance. Barnstorm the country promoting your agenda. And never mention Comey or the Russia probe - not in an interview, not in a tweet.
Trump does not need the tactics of the campaign to succeed in the Oval Office. The presidency is more powerful than any of the tools that got him into the office. He needs to stop acting like a candidate for president and start being who he really is: president of the United States.
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Woodside Martial Arts Instructor Sentenced to 7 Years Prison for Raping Pre-Teen Student
Hugo's Tae Kwon Do at 50-14 Skillman Ave. (Google)
Aug. 25, 2020 By Christian Murray
An instructor at a Woodside martial arts studio who raped a 12-year-old student last year has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Hector Quinchi, 37, of Woodside, pleaded guilty in July to having sexual intercourse with a preteen student who took lessons from him at Hugo's Tae Kwon Do Studio at 50-14 Skillman Ave.
Quinchi had intercourse with the girl on multiple occasions between Aug. 15 through Oct. 5, according to the Queens District Attorney's office. The incidents took place at the school.
"This defendant was supposed to teach this youngster how to defend herself, but he was the one from whom she needed protection," said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz in a statement.
"He manipulated a child too young to consent to sex. The Court has sentenced him to prison for his reprehensible actions," she added.
Quinchi pleaded guilty to rape in the first-degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years' post release supervision. Quinchi will also be required to register as a sex offender.
Kathy August 27th, 2020
He should also be permanently banned from any type of teaching and forbidden to be around and children. He knew what he was doing. This should be a wake up to parents, talk to your children and you must supervise your children at all times! A 'teacher' does not equal safe environment.


Why is Mails sieve not used?
Now that procmail is not an option for managing email. Why is not Mail sieve used.
The current solution with setting filters via the web panel is not good since I can not let other people, that should not have access to the web panel, manage their own mail filters.
Also Mail sieve is standard, it supports numerous features, is integrated into some web mail clients and there is a plugin for thunderbird.
Having a good server side filtering is essential for me and I feel this is one thing where DH is severely lacking in an otherwise outstanding hosting.
But still it does not look neraly as powerfull or standardized as Mail sieve. It is specifically designed to be run on IMAP servers and is designed to be secure and light weight. And still support most of the features most of the users might have used porcmail for.
Our organisation changed their IMAP servers so I could no longer run procmail, first I was worried that it might cause a lot of problem for me. But in the end I became verry happy with the use of mail sieve. It is also very easy to set up and I guess you can have an even simpler interface for novice users that is compiled to a mail sieve script.
Sieve is a programming language that can be used for email filtering. It owes its creation to the CMU Cyrus Project, creators of Cyrus IMAP server. The language is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC 2822-compliant messages, but otherwise should generalize to other systems that meet these criteria. The current version of Sieve's base specification is outlined in RFC 5228, published in January 2008.
I must still say that DH is very good and I am happy with most of its functinallity. But this problem of DH not having a powerfull server side mail sorting functionality is something that might in the end lead me to switch hosting company.
Is there a particular implementation of Sieve you're recommending?
It may interest you to know that the Mail Filters stuff available through the panel actually compiles down to procmail internally.
Well that seams to be a nice solution to compile it to procmail rules.
But then why can't I use regexp or copy my incoming emails to different folders.
I can definitely see why DH disallows custom procmail processing, since it is possible to rather stupid things with it. But the current mail filtering solution is frankly not good enough.
As I said before Mail sieve is a standardized way of doing just this sort of thing. Which means that there will be support for it in more than one place (webmail clients, thunderbird, etc) and more people are working on improving it than just another custom mail filter solution. In my experience you never gain anything from reinventing the wheel. Even though we coders sometimes prides ourselves when we have done just that. I guess if you guys at DH get it set up properly you will save time supporting and maintaining your current, as I guess in house ad hoc solution.
As for what sieve version I recommend. I don't know what versions there are, but if you are interested I can ask the sysadmins at my work what they use.
Yet again, thanks for an otherwise outstanding web hosting, if you get this set up properly DH will definitely be the best!
I would like to ask this question again. I just discovered that my old mail account was moved to a new server and had to use the web solution. Which is to say it mildly, not good enough! Having to point and click for every filter is not professional mail administration. It is tedious and not very flexible.
As I said before, I can see why procmail was discontinued. But I can not see why you would spend time implementing some in house solution that is not as good as it can be. Mail sieve is an internet standard created for just this problem of server side mail filtering.
As I said before we run it at my work and it is a very neat solution and thunderbird has plugins to manage the sieve filtering rule file. I can ask the sysadmins here how they have set it up for the mail accounts if that would interest you.
Or at least let me write my rules in a text file I can upload and set all rules from my file.
To be honest I find you to be a very good web-hosting company, but this issue with simplistic mail filtering gives you a bad impression.
Has Sieve ever been implemented on Dreamhost's IMAP servers? I can't find any references to it, but it seems so unlikely that in 2014, Sieve extensions still haven't been added.


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Q: Add a new item on laravel 4 using different tables This is my Items model . Now i want to add a new item but i get this error: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048
<?php

class Items extends Eloquent
{

protected $guarded = [
    'id',
];

protected $fillable = [
    'name',
    'description',
    'price',
    'brand',

];

protected $table = 'items';

public function user()
{
    return $this->hasOne('User', 'user_ID', 'id');
}

public function size()
{
    return DB::table('sizes')->select('size')
        ->where('id', $this->size_ID)->first()->size;
}

public function color()
{
    return DB::table('colors')->select('color')
        ->where('id', $this->color_ID)->first()->color;
}

public function condition()
{
    return DB::table('conditions')->select('type')
        ->where('id', $this->condition_ID)->first()->type;
}

public function category()
{
    return DB::table('categories')->select('category')
        ->where('id', $this->category_ID)->first()->category;
}

public function images()
{
    return DB::table('images')->select('image')
        ->where('item_id', $this->id)->first()->image;
}

}

And this is my post method to save item.
     public function store()
     {

     $item = new Items;
        $item->user_ID = Auth::id();
        $item->name = Input::get('name');
        $item->description = Input::get('description');
        $item->price = Input::get('price');
        $item->brand = Input::get('brand');
        $item->category = Input::get('Category');
        $item->condition = Input::get('Condition');
        $item->color = Input::get('Color');

        $item->save();

       }

Here is a picture of category table , condition and color table has the same logic.
http://imgur.com/9NCMYui

A: You are creating a relationship between User and Item while not using it.
You can set the populate the relationship manually by filling in the id yourself, but then you don't use the power of the Eloquent ORM.
What I would suggest is getting the current user.
And saving it like this.
$item->user()->save($user);

I suggest for the name of the class Item and not Items.
I find it having much more logic and so do most of the programmers.
The table can still be called items.


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Q: Commutivity of $A$ and $\sqrt{AA^*}$ in the proof of existence of compatible complex struture The following contents is in de Silva's Lectures on Symplectic geometry.
I can't understand the sentence of "Since $A$ commutes with $\sqrt{AA^*}$ "
Why these commute with each other?
Thank you in advance.

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A: It is because $A$ is skew-symmetric, $A^*=-A$. So $B$ also diagonalizes $A$ (but with imaginary eigenvalues).


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The post relates to the ongoing narrative campaign that is being run by my gaming group. All the missions used for the first phase use fixed forces and have clearly defined objectives. As we have six members two of us tested the missions before those whom had not seen the missions prior to them being played took control of the forces.
Following on from the previous missions we now come to the battlefleet gothic portion of the campaigns first phase. You can find a play-by-play of this mission in my post about revisiting battle fleet gothic here.
Note that one ship had been upgraded with thunderhawks. It was the first to die. Using a point of stockpile and because the chaos value was 3 all imperial ships in the garrison fleet suffered a -1 penalty to their leadership values to minimum of 6.
The warp rippled as the chaos fleet transitioned into realspace. Early warning stations were silenced as the chaos fleet flexed its might and unleashed its weaponry. Firing up their engines the fleet started to move in system.
The bridge of the Emperors Vengeance erupted into action. Admiral Horst glared at the control readout. Twelve vessels had been picked out by the long ranges sensors far more than the four that had been projected by the astropathic readings. The support fleet was moving from further in system but would miss the opening salvo. Sighing he gave the order to advance while his com team fed firing solutions to the macro canon site on the surface.
The end of the defensive forces and the breath of the chaos fleet's survivors at the end of the BFG game.
The outcome of this mission and the missions before gave the forces of chaos +15 landing force strength for the planetstrike mission that followed. While all that remained of the imperial stockpile was 3.
So, moving on we had a near unwinnable planetstrike mission for the defenders. (the planet killer in orbit granted the chaos player 3+D3 orbital bombardments.) In this mission, no Alpha legion forces could be used. The imperial player spent the rest of his stockpile getting a paragon of metal thanatar, a magos prime and a unit of secutarri. The chaos player used half of his landing force strength on additional units while the other half was reserved for generating reinforcements.
Each force started with a 2000pts list which was then expanded upon.
Company command squad, commander bolt pistol, ccw, carapace armour, medipack, vox, lascannon team, master of ordinance, officer of the fleet, astropath.
Infantry platoon, command squad, vox, officer with bolt pistol and ccw.
Infantry squad, lascannon, flamer, vox.
Infantry Platoon, Command squad, vox.
Heavy weapon team, 3 mortars.
Special weapons team, 3 grenade launchers.
Leman russ exterminator, hull heavy bolter.
Arch magos prime, mrymidax, master crafted phased plasma fusil, graviton gun, machinator array, paragon blade, chainfist, djiin skin, cyber familiar.
Thanatar, hellix plasma mortar, twin linked mauler bolt cannon, paragon of metal, enhanced targeting array.
Magos Driel walked calmly into the defence area. His hulking thanatar and his attendant secutarri following closely behind.
Galrauch contemplated the planetary geometry and the scan results provided by the Regalia of sin. He highlighted the four viable landing sites for a full-scale invasion. One glowed a deep red showing the defensive fortress present at that location. The other three were then inspected. One had a pict capture of an ordinatus minoris engine and the other had heavy aerial activity. The final site was more sparsely defended but was further from the main objectives.
Bringing up the fleet disposition Galrauch planned the attack pattern. Leading the group the Nova would bombard the area before the long-range teleportation equipment would be used to deliver the first wave. The second wave would come from further back in the fleet if the first was successful in forcing a breach. Heldrakes and daemon engines prepared for this type of mission were added to the first wave.
The second wave would be spearheaded by the reaver titan epsilon which would be used to clear the site of any lingering resistance.
Magos Driel tapped into the information grid that existed between the bastions and the cadian's vox net. And used it to feel the area. The orbital bombardment was sudden and fierce smashing haphazardly along the imperial defensive line smashing into vehicles and throwing men into the air. Almost immediately after while the imperial forces were still recovering the chaos forces materialised amidst the defenders and started their attack.
The imperial battleline deployed and ready for the chaos attack.
After the orbital bombardment had been conducted.
Misplaced forces from the drop.
These misplaced guys are unable to make the distance before the game ends.
End of chaos turn 1, the leman russ exterminator, storm hawk squad and blood angels are awaiting redeployment.
Things are looking grim for the imperium as the chaos forces continue to tear through their lines.
The grey knights charge Oorlog and the blood angels charge the khorne berserkers as the thanatar charges into the decimator. The imperial guard platoon having killed the khorne bloodletters and their herald watching on.
The sensors were showing just how grim the situation was but Driel did not need them to be able to see the approaching chaos forces. Massive walking creations that had been conceived in the warp cut a swathe through the imperial defenders. While brave the space marines present were being pushed back. Flames licked out from the bastion he now stood on culling his secutarri bodyguard. Turning round he opened fire on the terminators advancing on him taking one down before they swarmed him.
Sensing that the death of the vessel was imminent Driel sent his consciousness into the network he had created. It sought out and found his Thanatar. His mind took control of the automata disconnecting its intelligence for now. Driel smashed the enemies' decimator daemon engine into the nearest bastion's wall before he trigged the pull-back signal. Burning vehicles and the dead were left as those with longer range weapons covered the retreat.
Grudgingly the remaining forces pulled back. Fire from the Warhound duo Driel had signalled stopped the main chaos advance. Smoke and dirt still hung in the air as a trio of heldrakes circled and attacked one of the warhound titans doing little more than overloading its void shields. The smoke cleared as a massive energy discharge slammed into the warhound that had suffered the attentions of the heldrakes, tearing its Vulcan mega bolter from its frame and removing a few layers of armour from the machines chin. Trailing cabling as its torn armour and ruined weapon crashed into the ground.
The Second warhound fired into the smoke as a chaos reaver titan strode forwards. Its gatling cannon now repeatedly striking the already damaged warhound tearing armour and machinery free as the chaos titan sought to cause as much suffering as it could.
Driel repeated the pull-back order and reluctantly the still mobile Warhound pulled back. The chaos titan reached the now crippled imperial warhound and rammed its laser blaster into the slot between the inferno cannon and the titans carapace and fired. As such close range and with no void shields the warhound's upper torso exploded outwards but it did not fall. In the head which now hung limp the princeps looked up and through his human eyes saw death as the gatling blaster spooled up and fired point blank into his titans head.
What little remained of the imperial titan crashed to the ground and in victory the chaos titan roared with its inhuman voice.
Driel observed the remaining forces.
There were perhaps thirty guardsmen left with a single leman russ. Six blood angels all of whom had minor wounds, four grey knight terminators and a storm hawk rhino which was again being used to ferry imperial guardsmen around.
He still had direct control of the Thanatar as the Warhound titan that had survived caught up with the convoy and started to provide what support it could.
The second defensive line needed to hold. He sent a pulse into his personal land factory and it started to prepare another vessel for him to inhabit.
There we have the report on the final part of the first phase of the narrative campaign. We are now on the chaos path for phase 2 can the forces of the imperium hold back the legions of chaos or will Mirum Ostentum fall?
Before posting any Phase 2 reports I shall explain how the forces are assembled which missions are being played and any special rules and unique mission objectives that are being used.
That was a damn big game. No surprise it didn't reach a natural conclusion, though it's too bad. Having to cut games short always bugs me.
Good stuff and a suitable send off for that phase. Phase 2 in 8th edition?
Hi Rory, Phase 2 and onwards are still being done with 7th edition as 8th has just come out and we wanted to finish the campaign with a massive apocalypse game to give 7th a suitable send off. (That and a couple of players are using 30k armies which are not compatible with 8th yet [we plan to just substitute these for marines/CSM when we do play 8th though]). We do have 46,000+ pts worth of models for both imperial and chaos, so we wanted to give these a last hurrah before we drop the points down to play some games with the 8th edition rules.


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