Your thoughts can change worlds! Since you are here, chances are that you've already done some thinking on where you want to be in life. Most people aren't even aware of the immense power they have over the course of their life.
But, you must be aware that you are a deliberate creator! So, let's teach you how to make a DIY vision board to utilize your power and attract all the wildest things you desire.
Creating a vision board is an enjoyable way to say "Yes, I am ready!" to the Universe. A vision board is a visual way to "see" your goals before they manifest. This manifestation tool is available to literally anyone, from the billionaire you googled to see his net worth to the guy that begs for change at the corner of your street.
So, why people end up living such different lives even when they have similar backgrounds?
Because some are brave enough to create the life of their dreams, and some simply aren't.
Yet, these two categories of people have one thing in common: they both need vision boards! We are evolving – we are never done. So, learning how to DIY vision board will serve you literally a lifetime.
Are you bold enough to follow your dreams?
A DIY vision board project can turn into your biggest frustration if you can't make up your mind what to put on it. To avoid such a situation that might even make you cancel the entire project you need to make sure you know your true desires.
Ready? Stay tuned! In this article, you'll learn everything from how to DIY vision board to how to use this powerful manifestation tool to make things happen.
If you already feel lazy to run around and get your vision board supplies, just think of the amazing things you'll create with this powerful manifestation tool. Some craft stores may offer pre-made vision board kit that has most of the things you need to DIY this valuable tool.
The point is that you really don't have an excuse not to work on your dreams. If DIY vision board feels like too much work for you, consider making a vision board online.
You will need probably a few hours to make a DIY vision board. On the other hand, you can create a vision board online in a matter of minutes.
We made Amazer to help everyone who doesn't have the time, space, or nerves to a DIY vision board. Whether you are the hustler with a packed schedule or stay-at-home parent with 100 things on your to-do list, we got your back.
You do the fun part, choose the preferred design, colors, layout and we'll do the hard work. We believe that creating a vision board should be almost as enjoyable as the manifestation itself!
However, if you are willing to do all the hard work by yourself, we are going to teach you how to DIY vision board that will rock your world.
So, let's get into the crafty mood and put your creative skills in action!
Let's fuel your imagination a bit! Before you learn how to make a DIY vision board, take a look at all the creative options you have.
Choose this type of vision board if you want to have the flexibility to move it around. If you opt for the foldable version you can even keep your vision board with you whenever you go.
If you are living your life on the road or spend too much time outside of your home, consider making a vision board that you could take everywhere with you.
If possible, you can make a copy of your full-size vision board and attach it in your planer or keep it in your wallet. No matter where you decide to keep your dream board, it's important to have it with you and visualize every day.
If you want to add a mood board vibe to your vision board, spread your vision and goals across the wall in your room. You have endless options with the wall-style DIY vision board. One way to do it is to attach many photographs that inspire you and add decorative elements around them.
You already feel that you are a powerful manifestor, and you don't mind showing off your vision board? Great! This is your ideal type of dream board. You can put the collage in a frame and hang it in your room.
If you expect your DIY vision board to double as a decorative element, you might have a hard time to match it to your home decor.
If you are really picky about design, consider making a vision board online.
Our team works with expert designers who will create a vision board that perfectly blends with the decor in your apartment.
We offer a few options to satisfy even the pickiest manifestors. You can get a high-quality paper print ready to go into the frame and grace your room. We also offer gallery-quality premium canvas print made with archival inks that will stay true forever.
If you believe that your vision board is a piece of art, we'll tap one of the most famous contemporary artists from Eastern Europe to hand-paint it on a canvas for you.
If you already have a quality printer, we can even send you a high-resolution image of your vision board.
Each of the options will provide you with a unique vision board that is a pleasure to look at.
You can also use pre-made vision board template to make this powerful manifestation tool. These look like pieces of paper with gaps that you need to fill. They might have sections like "goals," "motivational quote," and so on.
A vision board template will cut you some work and keep your vision board neat. However, keep in mind that your DIY vision board won't be 100% unique. The template already has sections that you need to fill which kills your creativity right from the start.
The order that a particular vision board template dictates might not resonate with you.
There are also vision board printables you could use to decorate your DIY vision board. These could be quotes, stickers, inspirational words and etc. There is no harm in using vision board printables unless you are exaggerating. They will make your vision board more visually appealing.
Creating a powerful vision board is already a time-consuming process. Before anything else, you need to discover your core values so you can easily recognize all the right things that deserve a spot on your dream board.
Did you know that the process of making a vision board includes a spoil-yourself session?
You'll need to do some serious goal-setting and decision-making. So, you need to prime your mind, body, and soul for all that.
Set the mood. Create a relaxing atmosphere, even take a long bath if you need! Play some music that inspires you, treat yourself with a glass of your best wine, or that expensive chocolate you only eat once in a while. Even light some candles if that's your jam. You can later use this setting for a date, but at the moment make sure you are alone and there is no one and nothing that can distract you.
If you live with roommates, your parents, kids, you might have trouble to create a peaceful atmosphere. Unfortunately, making a DIY vision board isn't the same as those school projects you used to make.
A distraction-free atmosphere is needed throughout the entire process of creating a DIY vision board. If you don't have the space for this, it's better to rely on technology. Simply make a vision board online.
Here at Amazer, you could get a custom online vision board in ten to thirty minutes. You can even make it from your closest public library if you can't seem to find a peaceful spot at home.
Since you already know how to prepare the space and which supplies you need, let's talk about the pictures for your vision board.
This is one of the most important steps of creating a DIY vision board, often overlooked by many.
Your vision board represents your best life. You might want material things, dream job, ideal partner… Use magazines and other printed material as they are the best source for professional photos.
But what if you can't find photos that inspire you in the printed material you have at home?
Look further! If you want a yard with mini basketball court and a round pool, find that yard on a photo. If there isn't such thing in the magazines, search the web.
Finding the perfect pictures to put on your vision board might take hours. You need to acknowledge your core values first so you can decide what you want to see on your vision board every day.
If spending hours to find the right images is too frustrating for you, create your vision board online. Our team will make sure your desires are represented with crystal clear visuals that will inspire you to visualize and manifest!
Never settle for blurry, low-quality pictures. A photo with low-resolution is just not good enough for that million-dollar house with a garage full of luxury cars you'd love to move in next year!
Before you attach the photos and other materials on your DIY vision board, think about the structure. You don't want a random collage that barely keeps your attention.
Give a central spot to your priorities on your DIY vision board. Decorative elements are welcomed, but shouldn't be confused with your goals and desires. A giant puppy sticker might look insanely adorable, but unless your No. 1 priority is a house full of puppies, pass on it.
Go light on distracting decorative elements, because the last thing you want to attract is chaos in your life.
If you have trouble to structure your vision board, let our experts help you create your powerful manifestation tool online. Tell us your preferences, and we'll take care of all the boring stuff.
Congratulations! This step means that the hardest is behind you! You are so close to manifesting all the things you desire. Just put together all the images in a beautiful collage and move on to the next step with an ear to ear smile on your face.
You didn't go through all of this to hide your DIY vision board in some corner in your closet.
Put your dream board front and center in your room. If you don't feel like talking about your deepest desires before you manifest them, consider having a digital vision board.
Making a DIY vision board just to snap a photo and hide it somewhere around the house is simply not worth it. Not to mention that your heart will skip a beat everytime someone gets close to the place you hide your dream board.
Take it easy! No need for such drama. Just make your vision board online and keep it in digital format. You can use our custom vision board creation tool to make your ideal manifestation tool and we'll send it to you.
If you shift your mind, you can shift your reality. A vision board can help you create the reality you desire by utilizing the power of visualization.
Visualization is one of the most powerful exercises you can use to train your mind. And it's actually backed by science!
Psychology Today reported that the brain patterns react when a weightlifter lifts heavy weights in a similar way as when he is just imagining (visualizing) the action. Olympic athletes, as well as sports legends such as Jerry West, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Tiger Woods and more, have used visualization to perfect their performance.
The easiest way to utilize the power of visualization is with a vision board because you have all the things you want to attract right in front of your eyes. A vision board also reminds you to stay focused on your biggest goals daily.
When you are visualizing you are telling the Universe that you are so damn ready to receive all the greatness in your life!
You feel like you've tried "everything" and it seems that the Law of Attraction simply doesn't work for you? You need to go back to the basics and before you do anything else you need to define your true desires. The ones that actually evoke energy flow when you are visualizing.
Another important thing is that you should primarily focus on how certain things make you feel.
Let's say you want to manifest your dream home. Don't focus only on material things. Visualize the moment you tell the real estate agent you are buying the home. Think of the moment the real estate agent gives you the keys. How that does make you feel? Go through every detail from looking for furniture for your new home to inviting your friends over. Ask yourself how each of these situations makes you feel.
Feel the energy flow? Awesome! Just keep visualizing and you'll lounge on a brand new sofa in your dream home sooner than you think!
It's totally worth it to spend hours on a DIY vision board! This manifestation tool, if used in the right way, will help you attract life-changing opportunities in your life.
Once you decide to a DIY vision board, don't cut corners. Follow each of the steps, from goal-setting and determining what to put on your vision board to spending time each day to visualize.
If your schedule is too packed or you don't feel like getting crafty, just make your vision board online.
A DIY vision board requires space, time, materials, and creativity.
An online vision board requires an internet connection and less than half an hour of your time.
So, if you are not keen on going the hard way, there is a stress-free, enjoyable way to create your preferred future.
We'll also send you a practical guide that explains in details how to use your vision board to manifest all your desires.
It's up to you to choose whether you'll DIY your dream board or make it online. The sooner you decide to take advantage of this powerful manifestation tool, the sooner you'll get to live your wildest dreams!
So, are you excited to take a full control of your life, and create wonders?
What part of the DIY vision board process do you find most challenging? Let us know in the comments!


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Kent Bush: Skyping could have landed me in jail
Kent Bush
When in Ethiopia last January for the court work involved in adopting our son, we spent about half an hour one evening using the program Skype to tell students in Kansas about our trip and talk to friends and family who were taking care of things for me at home. According to a rule enacted last week, that conversation could have landed me in an Ethiopian jail for 15 years.
It is always fun to find out that you have done something that could have landed you in jail.
When in Ethiopia last January for the court work involved in adopting our son, we spent about half an hour one evening using the program Skype to tell students in Kansas about our trip and talk to friends and family who were taking care of things for me at home.
According to a rule enacted last week, that conversation could have landed me in an Ethiopian jail for 15 years.
Ethiopia is a very important country for United States national security concerns because of its proximity to Northern African terrorism hotspots. It is also a key cog in the work to stabilize the region's economy and famine prevention.
But in his almost two decades in office, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has proven himself to be authoritarian when it comes to controlling the press in Ethiopia.
Eskinder Nega knows that. He has been in jail since Sept. 2011 on charges of terrorism. In Ethiopia, terrorism is loosely defined which broadens its use for those in power to be able to punish their political enemies.
Nega was a political enemy of the ruling party.
He has been jailed seven times in less than 20 years. In 2005, he and his wife were jailed and their newspapers closed down because they refused to stop reporting about disparities in the controversial national election.
Now the government has included a provision that makes voice over internet protocol communications using software like Skype illegal.
The reasoning behind it is that those communication methods are much more difficult for the government to track and would be a great tool for terrorists. Of course, the fact that the government owns the telephone service in the country and sets the prices and enjoys the revenue from long distance calls is just a coincidence.
It also gives the government another weapon to attack its enemies.
Ethiopian journalists claim the government has sought to control the use of Internet-based telecom services for several years. They have cracked down on Internet cafés that offered Web-based telecommunications services and requiring them to keep records of the names and addresses of their customers, according to local reports.
One student was even arrested in December for showing a customer how to use Skype.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said, "The United States and Ethiopia share important interests, and the Administration's fiscal year 2013 budget requests $350 million in assistance for Ethiopia. However, to the extent that any of that assistance is intended for the Ethiopian government, the importance of respecting freedom of the press cannot be overstated. What happens to Eskinder Nega and other journalists there will resonate loudly not only in Ethiopia, but also in the United States Congress."
Nega was to hear his verdict June 21, but the proceedings were delayed – as many court proceedings in Ethiopia are.
I appreciate Leahy's desire to put pressure on the Ethiopian government to operate with openness and fairness.
But withholding funds from the country won't have the desired effect. The impoverished people of Ethiopia watch their leaders cruise past them in Range Rovers to palatial estates and lavish office buildings. Those in power will merely withhold more funds from those who need it most.
Answers to problems in Ethiopia are tough. The country battles an AIDS epidemic that has given rise to a total of more than 5 million children living without a parent. The government controls almost all property leading to a repressed economy with limited opportunities. The leadership – if not corrupt – is certainly willing to keep a lion's share of the wealth for itself.
I don't know what the answer is, but I understand Leahy's feeling that we can't let these injustices and abuses of power go unchecked.

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IAAF World Cross Country beckons
David Forrester competing in Toro in December 2007
UK Athletics today announced the Norwich Union Great Britain & Northern Ireland team to compete on home soil at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.
The senior and junior teams will take on the world's elite endurance runners at Holyrood Park on Sunday 30 March 2008.
The senior men will run over 12.1km, with six of the nine runners scoring in the team competition. The junior men will race over 7.9km, with four of six team members scoring.
The senior women will also run over the 7.9km course, with the junior women running 6km. Four athletes in both the women's teams of six will score.
The full teams are:
Norwich Union GB&NI men's team:
John Beattie (Winchester & District AC), Tom Humphries (Cannock & Stafford), Andi Jones (Salford Harriers & AC), Andrew Lemoncello (Fife AC), Michael Skinner (Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC), Frank Tickner (Wells City Harriers), Andy Vernon (Aldershot, Farnham & District), James Walsh (Leeds City AC), Phil Wicks (Belgrave Harriers). Reserve: Ian Hudspith (Morpeth Harriers & AC).
Norwich Union GB&NI women's team:
Faye Fullerton (Havering Mayesbrook AC), Laura Kenney (Royal Sutton Coldfield AC), Rachel Townend (Winchester & District AC), Jo Wilkinson (Bedford & County AC), Hayley Yelling (Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow), Liz Yelling (Bedford & County AC). Reserve: Gemma Miles (Kendal AAC)
Norwich Union GB&NI junior men's team:
Phillip Berntsen (Andover & District), David Forrester (St Helens Sutton AC), Dewi Griffiths (Camarthen Harriers), Mitch Goose (City of Norwich), Simon Horsfield (East Cheshire), Ross Murray (Gateshead). Reserve: Michael Gillespie (Central AC).
Norwich Union GB&NI junior women's team:
Jo Harvey (Exeter), Emma Pallant (Aldershot, Farnham & District), Laura Park (Ellenborough AC), Lily Partridge (Aldershot, Farnham & District), Emily Pidgeon (Gloucester AC), Charlotte Purdue (Aldershot, Farnham & District). Reserve: Hollie Avil (Rugby & Northampton AC).


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JANET MATTHEWS
Janet Matthews is a Maryland-based artist who explores psychological themes through evocative still life and landscape images. She graduated from the University of Maryland, earning degrees in Studio Art and Art Education. Her background in drawing and painting has influenced her approach to photography, as she often incorporates hands-on methods into her work. She taught art in the Montgomery County Public Schools system for a number of years, and has also taught classes for Photoworks at Glen Echo Park in Maryland.
Janet has exhibited her work nationally, in group and solo shows. Her work has been featured in numerous books and publications including Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual by Clay Harmon and Seeing in Sixes by Brooks Jensen and Maureen Gallagher. She was awarded Individual Artist Award grants by the Maryland State Arts Council in 2012 and 2015, and her work is in the collection of the University of Maryland.
Multiple Exposures Gallery
105 N. Union Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
www.multipleexposuresgallery.com
Arcangel Images
www.arcangel.com
Additional image libraries available as prints or licensing
janetmatthews.photoshelter.com
Selected Solo Exhibits
2017 Small Anxieties - Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2015 The Space Between - Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2014 On the Lot - Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2013 Retrospection - Galleries at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
2012 Vignettes - Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2010 Retrospection - Photoworks, Glen Echo, MD
Selected Two- or Three-Person* and Group Exhibits
2018 Altered Worlds - SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2017 Portals - SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2012 Alternative Visions - Photoworks, Glen Echo, MD
2012 Imagination - ASmith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2011 Hand + Eye - Through This Lens Gallery, Durham, NC
2010 *Carnival - Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show - RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 Carnival - Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2009 *Water Series - Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD
2008 Alternative Processes: A Traveling Exhibition - Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, TX
2008 Virtual Prince George's - Prince George's Arts Council, Hyattsville, MD
2008 Formerly and Hereafter - Plates to Pixels Online Exhibition, www.platestopixels.com
2008 Fourth Annual Alternative Processes Competition - Soho Photo, New York, NY
2008 Photography Re-Imagined - Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Seities Magazine, February 2019.
Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual, Clay Harmon, Focal Press, 2018.
Seeing in Sixes 2018, Brooks Jensen & Maureen Gallagher Editors, LensWork Publishing, 2018.
Shadow and Light Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 39, September/October 2018.
Adore Noir Magazine, Issue 6, August 2017.
Elan Magazine, Vol. 17, No.9, May, 2017.
Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual, Christina Z. Anderson, Focal Press, 2016.
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes 3rd Edition, Christopher James, Course Technology, 2015.
2015 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
University of MD Art Gallery, College Park, MD
1995 BA, Art Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1986 BA, Studio Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
janet@janetmatthewsphotography.com
All images ©Janet Matthews


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Vishwaroopam 2 movie cast: Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Shekhar Kapur, Rahul Bose, Anant Mahadevan, Waheeda Rehman, Jaideep Ahlawat
Vishwaroopam 2 movie director: Kamal Haasan
Vishwaroopam 2 movie rating: One and a half stars
The derring-do doings of RAW agent Major Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri aka Vis were mostly entertaining in a comic-book way in Vishwaroopam part one.
Part 2, sadly, is an incoherent mess.
It opens with a battered, stitched-up Vis (Kamal) being transported in an airplane with two familiar lovelies Nirupama (Kumar) and Ashmita (Jeremiah) on either side. The former is his wife; the latter is a clear case of wishful thinking, always coming on heavily flirtatious, making you wonder just what this threesome is up to.
The plot is choppy, carelessly hopping continents (India, US, Afghanistan) and time zones. When the characters—spooks and traitors, forgetful mothers and sentimental sons, and pretty women making up to the great spymaster— are not killing each other, either via hand-to-hand combat, knives and guns, they are busy flitting about in all manner of transport, and deploying weapons. Helicopters are whirring away, missiles are being launched, grenades are being flung, and Vis, armed and dangerous, is on top of everything, saving India's capital from being bombed out of existence.
Also read | Vishwaroopam 2 movie release live updates
The best spy thrillers give us plenty of high-octane action, colourful characters who blur the line between heroes and villains, and athletic male and female leads equally capable of kicking serious butt. No such luck with Vis and gang, most of whom are back, reprising their roles. Jeremiah is made to high-step archly around hotel rooms, looking for bugs (in one of the several unintentionally hilarious scenes which feature her) and has only one sequence in which she shows off her martial skills; Kumar, who is described several times as a 'nuclear oncologist', is all coy and coquettish.
Also read | Vishwaroopam 2 box office collection prediction
None of the others fare much better. Shekhar Kapur and Anant Mahadevan, both playing senior backroom boys who give orders to the guys in the field, add to the hilarity quotient. Rahul Bose re-appears as the man from Al Qaeda, who gets to scowl and throw about such dialogue as 'yahaan gadaaron ko takht nahin taaboot diya jaata hai'. Jaideep Ahlawat, as the guy with the hand on the trigger, is here too: all these parts are sloppy. About the only one who has a few good moments is Waheeda Rahman as an elderly woman struggling with Alzheimer's disease: her grace is immense, and lights up her scenes.
That leaves Kamal Haasan, who has co-written, directed and produced the film, as the patriotic RAW agent, to do all the heavy lifting. In the first edition, the veteran star-actor led from the front: here the 'dirty soldier turned bloody espionage agent' is all thundery lines like 'main mazhab nahin mulk ke liye khoon bahaata hoon'. But even he can't rise above the shockingly inept script, which he rescues only in a few places, when his trademark intelligent, wry self-awareness manages to kick in. The rest can be safely ignored.
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Q: Implementations of an Adder in VHDL comparison Can someone explain me why this implementation works
library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;

entity Adder is
    port(A: in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    B: in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    SUM: out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    CO: out std_logic);
end;

architecture DescriptionAdders of Adder is

signal temp:  std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);
signal temp1: std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);
signal temp2: std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);

begin

temp1 <= '0' & A;
temp2 <= '0' & B;
temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned(temp1) + unsigned(temp2));

SUM <= temp(3 downto 0);
CO <= temp(4);

end;

while this doesn't (the SUM is XX when it starts running, then it is always one step behind the real result, but the temps update well).
library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;

entity Adder is
    port(A: in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    B: in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    SUM: out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
    CO: out std_logic);
end;

architecture DescriptionAdders of Adder is

signal temp:  std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);
signal temp1: std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);
signal temp2: std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);

begin

process(A, B) is
begin
    temp1 <= '0' & A;
    temp2 <= '0' & B;
    temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned(temp1) + unsigned(temp2));
end process;

SUM <= temp(3 downto 0);
CO <= temp(4);

end;

Sorry if the question is too easy, I'm a begginer.

A: This question seems to be based about a common misconception of how VHDL simulation works.
process(A, B)

means the process will be triggered at an event of A or B. What happens in the process are assignments to additional objects
temp1 <= '0' & A;
temp2 <= '0' & B;
temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned(temp1) + unsigned(temp2));

This means three events will be scheduled, one to each of temp1, temp2 and temp. But the way VHDL works, the actual assignments will not occur until the next delta cycle. Which occurs after the process is evaluated. So even though the lines for assignment to temp1 and temp2 are located before the assignemnt to temp, their values have not been changed yet.
Considering values of temp1 and temp2 change after the process is finished, the assignment to temp is missed. Unless you re-enter the process, by adding the objects to the sensitivity list. E.g.
process(A, B, temp1, temp2) is
begin
    temp1 <= '0' & A;
    temp2 <= '0' & B;
    temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned(temp1) + unsigned(temp2));
end process;

An alternative solution would be to use variables, which can change inside of the process. But please note that variables can cause difficulties in logic synthesis if not properly used. This example will work:
process(A, B) is
    variable temp1, temp2 : std_logic_vector(4 downto 0);
begin
    temp1 := '0' & A;
    temp2 := '0' & B;
    temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned(temp1) + unsigned(temp2));
end process;

But the question is: why do you need temp1 and temp2 at all. Just write
process(A, B) is
begin
    temp <= std_logic_vector(unsigned('0' & A) + unsigned('0' & B));
end process;

Or a bit more flexible
process(A, B) is
begin
    temp <= std_logic_vector(
        resize(unsigned(A), temp'length) +
        resize(unsigned(B), temp'length));
end process;

Or even using the integer type (limited to 32 bits!)
process(A, B) is
begin
    temp <= std_logic_vector(to_unsigned(
        to_integer(unsigned(A)) + to_integer(unsigned(B))
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Submitted by Oddity on April 7, 2010 - 7:32am.
Parties like this are so epic! I have to see if they exist in Chicago. But was there really a guy there with a Powerglove?
Submitted by Branchlaw on April 7, 2010 - 8:11am.
Actually, Gary there is one half of the guys who set up the DDP. Apparently they got someone to rig the powerglove to skip tracks and control volume.
Submitted by kriztov on April 7, 2010 - 8:49pm.
Submitted by Kaff on April 8, 2010 - 5:01pm.
According to the website they're going to have instructions on how to create one. Organizing one in Chicago would be epic. I want to start scouring for boomboxes.
Submitted by Serbian Goth on April 7, 2010 - 8:14am.
Submitted by SpilledInkGuy on April 9, 2010 - 8:12am.
Submitted by Ktrd on April 10, 2010 - 4:30pm.
Submitted by MyDegeneration on May 10, 2010 - 7:52pm.
Ha, too much cowbell. Right now the ad is for Noisebot and it has a tee-shirt that says more cowbell.
Submitted by MyDegeneration on May 10, 2010 - 7:53pm.
Submitted by xynide on August 16, 2010 - 4:31pm.
THERE CAN NEVER BE TOO MUCH COWBELL, ONLY NOT ENOUGH!
Submitted by VikingV on May 23, 2011 - 5:08pm.
I'm jelly :<. Wish something like that awesome would happend in Stockholm, Sweden!
Submitted by A_Rod on August 25, 2011 - 12:56am.
I have got to get in one of those sometimes. My home is pretty boring. It seems Canadians know how to have a good time.
One giant portable radio transmitter + dozens of boomboxes spread out among hundreds of people, all blasting the same music as we dance-wander the streets of Vancouver = Decentralized DanceParty. One of the craziest nights of my life.


Tired of seeing granite countertops everywhere? Stainless steel countertops may be relatively new for home renovations, but that doesn't make them any less suitable. If you are after a hard-working, virtually indestructible kitchen countertop that still looks modern, stainless steel is probably your best choice. As with every other kind of kitchen worktop, this one has its pros and cons, but unless cost is your main concern, a stainless countertop is a great contender against granite and quartz countertops.
What Is A Stainless Steel Countertop Made Off?
Stainless steel is a steel type that contains at least a 10.5% of chromium to make it impervious to rush and corrosion. Austenitic steel, or type 304, is known as food-grade stainless steel because it can be used in kitchens where you would put a hot pot straight on top of it. This is because it also contains a high level of nickel to increases stain and heat resistance. It is manufactured in a variety of thicknesses, known as gauges, usually ranging from 14 (commercial use) to 20 (extremely light residential usage). For example, a 14 gauge is 1.4mm thick and is used on commercial kitchens, whereas a 16-gauge is more suitable for residential installations.
There are very few things that can seriously damage a stainless steel countertop, and you will most likely not have them in your kitchen. There is a reason why so many restaurant kitchens use this kind of surfaces: they are hygienic, chemical and heat resistant, they don't stain and you can use much harsher cleaners than with granite or wood. If you are worried about bacteria and molud taking hold of your kitchen, you will feel safe with steel countertops: microorganisms don't stand a chance against a cold, non-porous steel surface.
Stainless steel countertops are also heat resistant and won't crack if you put a hot pot on top. This kind of surface is also pretty much stain free so you won't need to worry about wine or juice spills. Just wipe it with a cloth whenever is dirty. However, these worktops show dirt easily, and you will be forever wiping off fingerprints and crumbs if you are the kind of person who prefer an immaculate look.
Another thing to keep in mind when considering steel worktops is that scratches and possibly the occasional dent will happen sooner or later through wear and tear. Stainless steel scratches relatively easy, so eventually you will need to get to terms with the fact that a pristine, high-gloss stainless countertop is a thing of the past. However, scratches are actually a good thing as the scratches will create a patina and give your worktop a used-but-still-awesome look that you can't get from a factory. Imagine a pair of jeans that have been used for a while, still look great but they are no longer totally uniform. However, if this bothers you then quartz may be more forgiving. Or if the scratches are superficial you can re-polish stainless steel countertops yourself or by hiring a professional to reverse the damage.
You can dent a steel countertop if you are careless and drop something heavy on it. However, if your countertop was installed by a professional over hardwood and it's not terribly thin, this is not likely to happen. If you are going for DIY stainless steel countertops, keep in mind that the hardness of the wood surface under it is what prevents the relatively thin sheet of metal from bending or denting. So it's worth investing in a good supporting frame to protect your steel top. The gauge defines the thickness of the stainless steel sheet, so when comparing prices for countertops you must avoid thin, higher gauges that may make the surface prone to denting. Residential countertops are usually fine with a 16 gauge sheet, but you may go for a 14 gauge one if you really intend to give it really heavy usage.
Stainless steel worktops are generally mid-range in terms of cost. They are 3 or 4 times more expensive than laminate, however they will last forever with proper care. When comparing with natural stone countertops, they are cheaper than quartz, granite and marble, and further savings can be achieved as you can actually install them yourself. Compared with solid surface countertops the price is similar, but depends a lot on the quality you are after.
Stainless steel countertops are usually custom made to measure, and that means you can install them in about any kind of kitchen area you can think of. The steel sheet can be folded to create a backsplash as well, giving a practical but edgy look. They are also available in a variety of finishes, so you can get different quotes depending on your exact requirements and how you intend your kitchen to look like. Expect to pay between 75 and 150 dollars per square feet, but you can get better pricing if you look around and compare quotes. If your kitchen has very standard sized worktops you may be able to get a bargain in the form of pre-made restaurant stainless steel counters from restaurant supply companies.
There are a couple of things that are unrelated to the performance of a stainless steel countertop, but have everything to do with your decision of installing it in your home: looks and noise.
It's a fact, stainless steel can look a bit industrial and even medical, as it's usually used in contexts such as hospitals and restaurant kitchens. You can totally offset this with your choice of cabinets and accessories, so using stainless steel doesn't mean your kitchen must look cold. However, it will be much more difficult to achieve a rustic look than say, with wooden worktops. Granite and quartz are more versatile, as you can choose different colours and patterns.
The other slightly annoying thing about stainless steel is that it will make noises. Expect a few jumps when a loud clonk signals that somebody just put a pot on the counter in a hurry. Noise doesn't mean you have a dent or damaged the worktop, but if you live in a flat with small walls or are really bothered about noises then solid surface or laminate worktops will be a better options as they are much quieter.
Are stainless steel countertops the ideal work surface for you? If you are a serious cook who likes the kitchen to look immaculate and be practical, stainless steel should be a serious contender. But if you are scared of creating an aesthetically cold look, you may be better off looking at other materials instead.


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On Monday, the results of two major Harvard studies were published, following more than 100,000 men and women—and their diets—for up to 22 years. They found that red meat consumption was associated with living a significantly shorter life—increased cancer mortality, increased heart disease mortality, and increased overall mortality. The studies were featured in the NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day yesterday, Harvard's Meat & Mortality Studies.
The American Meat Institute immediately sent out a press release: "A new study in today's Archives of Internal Medicine tries to predict the future risk of death from cancer or cardiovascular disease by relying on notoriously unreliable self-reporting about what was eaten and obtuse methods to apply statistical analysis to the data." Alas, yes, the Harvard researchers were not telepathic and did indeed have to ask people what they were eating. The Meat Institute criticized the esteemed researchers for using "survey data – not test tubes, microscopes or lab measurements…." No beakers either, I bet! Nor sizzling electric arcs, nor panels with pretty flashing lights. No, just cutting edge epidemiological science, however "obtuse" this may be to the American Meat Institute.
The Meat Institute asserted that "nutrition decisions should be based on the total body of evidence, not on single studies…." If two prospective cohort studies—the gold standard of observational studies—following more than 100,000 people for two decades published by one of the most prestigious institutions in the world isn't good enough for the Meat Institute, how about the largest such study ever—the NIH-AARP study, "Meat Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Study of Over Half a Million People." What does the largest forward-looking study on diet and disease in human history have to say on the subject? Watch Meat & Mortality for a distinct sense of déjà vu.
I think the most interesting finding in the new Harvard studies is that even after factoring out known contributors of disease, such as saturated fat and cholesterol, they still found increased mortality risk, raising the question: what exactly is in the meat that is so significantly increasing cancer death rates, heart disease, and shortening people's lives? A few possibilities include heme iron, nitrosamines, biogenic amines, advanced glycation end products, arachidonic acid, steroids, toxic metals, drug residues, viruses, heterocyclic amines, PCBs, dioxins, and other industrial pollutants.


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Карабия (Карабие; ) — озеро (болото) в районе Магжана Жумабаева Северо-Казахстанской области Казахстана. Находится в 5 км к северу от села Октябрьское.

Название Карабие переводится с казахского как вороная кобыла.

По данным топографической съёмки 1940-х годов, площадь поверхности озера составляет 2,56 км². Наибольшая длина озера — 2,1 км, наибольшая ширина — 1,4 км. Длина береговой линии составляет 5,9 км, развитие береговой линии — 1,03. Озеро расположено на высоте 129,8 м над уровнем моря.

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Озёра района Магжана Жумабаева

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GLUCURONIDATION AND THE UDP-GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Peter G. Wells, Peter I. Mackenzie, Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, Chantal Guillemette, Philip A. Gregory, Yuji Ishii, Antony J. Hansen, Fay K. Kessler, Perry M. Kim, Namita Roy Chowdhury and Joseph K. Ritter
Drug Metabolism and Disposition March 2004, 32 (3) 281-290; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.32.3.281
Peter I. Mackenzie
Jayanta Roy Chowdhury
Chantal Guillemette
Philip A. Gregory
Yuji Ishii
Antony J. Hansen
Fay K. Kessler
Perry M. Kim
Namita Roy Chowdhury
Joseph K. Ritter
This article is an updated report of a symposium held at the June 2000 annual meeting of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in Boston. The symposium was sponsored by the ASPET Divisions for Drug Metabolism and Molecular Pharmacology. The report covers research from the authors' laboratories on the structure and regulation of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) genes, glucuronidation of xenobiotics and endobiotics, the toxicological relevance of UGTs, the role of UGT polymorphisms in cancer susceptibility, and gene therapy for UGT deficiencies.
↵2 Abbreviations used are: UGT, UDP-glucuronosyltransferase; B[a]P, benzo-[a]pyrene; CN-1, Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 1; HCA, heterocyclic amine; HNF1, hepatocyte nuclear factor 1; OR, odds ratio; SN-38, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin; NNK, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone; P450, cytochrome P450; rAAV, recombinant adenoassociated virus.
This work was supported in part by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (P.G.W., C.G.), the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and the Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia (P.I.M., P.A.G., A.J.H., Y.I.), the Canada Research Chair Program and the Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec (C.G.), and United States Public Health Service Grants R01-DK46057, R01-DK34357 and P30DK41296 (J.R.C., N.R.C.), and R01ES07762 (J.K.R.).
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Health — October 30, 2020
Average human body temperature mysteriously declined, finds study
A new study seeks to understand why the average body temperature is no longer 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Average human body temperatures have declined, show several studies.
A new paper looked at an indigenous population in the Amazon over 16 years.
They found the new body temperature of the observed people to be 97.7°F, not the standard 98.6°F.
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Temperature checks have become part of the new normal in the world under Covid, but the average body temperature may not be what the thermometers say. A series of studies, including a new paper, propose that the average human body temperature has been dropping for decades and is currently much lower than the accepted 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, in fact, closer to 97.5°F.
The established standard for how warm your body should be came from the 19th century German physician Carl Wunderlich, whose 1851 measurement of 98.6°F set the bar for a long time. A 2017 study, however, that looked at 35,000 UK adults, found 97.9°F to be the average. A 2019 study measured 97.5°F as the normal temperature for Americans in Palo Alto, California.
Now, a team of physicians looked at the temperatures of the Tsimane, an indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon, and discovered a comparable decrease. Observations over a 16-year-period revealed that the temperatures of the Tsimane went down about 0.09°F per year. Today, they are at about 97.7°F.
Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, who led the research, commented that "in less than two decades we're seeing about the same level of decline as that observed in the U.S. over approximately two centuries."
The large study involved 18,000 observations of 5,500 adults and adjusted for factors that could have affected the body heat like outside temperature or body mass. They also used the same type of thermometer throughout, to make sure the instrument wasn't the issue.
Adjusting for various factors, they sought to figure out the reason for the decrease which was consistently noticed. They conjectured that fewer infections as a result of better hygiene, cleaner conditions, vaccinations, and improved medical treatments were possibly responsible for their find.
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While such possibilities are there, they did not account fully for the observations. Chances are, a combination of influences is responsible for the lower temps. "Declines might be due to the rise of modern health care and lower rates of lingering mild infections now as compared to the past," Gurven shared. "But while health has generally improved over the past two decades, infections are still widespread in rural Bolivia. Our results suggest that reduced infection alone can't explain the observed body temperature declines."
Some additional explanations offered by Gurven include the fact that we now have better anti-inflammatory drugs and even the advancements in air conditioning.
"While Tsimane body temperatures do change with time of year and weather patterns, the Tsimane still do not use any advanced technology for helping to regulate their body temperature," Gurven explained. "They do, however, have more access to clothes and blankets."
It should be noted that the study looked at average temperatures, and physicians do not think there is truly one temperature that everyone should have. What's considered "normal" is really a range of temperatures that depends on the individual. Still, the information is valuable in pointing to the population's overall health.
Check out the new paper in Sciences Advances.
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Close collaboration between parents, treatment specialists is essential to ensure that intervention is started at the right time to provide effective treatment for babies with plagiocephaly. Timing takes into account a number of contributing factors to the condition including, the age of the infant, the severity of the deformity and the presence or absence of other related issues such as facial deformity, torticollis and craniosynotosis.
There are three vital stages of plagiocephaly intervention that should be considered for effective plagiocephaly treatment in infants.
Parents should always adopt repositioning techniques from the moment their baby is born to help develop vital motor skills and protect against flat head syndrome. These techniques involve placing the infant in a prone position (tummy down) position during playtime when the baby is awake and parents are with them. This along with adopting the best ways to carry a baby to minimise pressure on the back of the head whilst feeding, dressing and bathing will help to prevent a flattening from developing.
Babies should always be placed on their backs to sleep in accordance with the Safe to Sleep Campaign (formerly known as the back to sleep campaign). Introduced in 1994, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), developed the campaign to educate and inform parents and guardians about a safe sleeping environment, addressing the issue of sudden infant death syndrome and its causative link to sleeping position.
The development of the Safe to Sleep Campaign is backed by thorough research and evidence and their advice should be followed by all parents and guardians. However, there seems to be a link to an increase in flat head syndrome symptoms as a side effect of babies spending prolonged periods of time on their backs. During the night and naptime, babies should always sleep supine (on the back), though there are a number of techniques which can be undertaken to subtly manipulate the head position whilst the infant is still sleeping on their back. For example, turning the baby head end to toe end once every week to encourage the infant to face alternate directions during sleep.
Our repositioning guide offers more detail on the most effective repositioning techniques and a more thorough understanding of 'tummy time'. It's important to remember that repositioning can only work in the earliest stages of a baby's life and significant results can only be achieved until the infant is able to roll over independently.
Repositioning techniques do strengthen muscles in a baby's neck and spine whilst reducing the tendency for a flattening to develop. This is the first stage of plagiocephaly intervention and if these techniques are introduced early enough, they can provide effective in preventing plagiocephaly. However, if there is no significant improvement by the time the child reaches four to five months, it is time to consider the next stage of plagiocephaly intervention.
The presence of torticollis can interfere with repositioning techniques and can also be a causative factor in the development of flat head syndrome. If you suspect torticollis, the baby should be treated with a course of therapy and should be referred to a paediatric Physiotherapist, Osteopath or Chiropractor.
Our recent blog post on physiotherapy for plagiocephaly and torticollis and how it can help details the most appropriate treatment for torticollis.
If the deformity remains moderate to severe at around five months of age, the paediatrician or therapist may refer the baby to a craniofacial unit to rule out craniosynostosis. At this stage, the only effective intervention for plagiocephaly is a cranial remoulding orthosis otherwise known as helmet therapy.
Helmet therapy is an effective form of flat head treatment using advanced cranial remoulding technology to treat moderate to severe cases of flat head syndrome. Technology in Motion have developed the TiMband which is made to exact specifications of a baby's head shape. Using advanced computer aided design techniques, a model is made which gives room for growth in the flattened areas of the skull and a helmet is made over this model. The TiMband allows the head shape to gently correct, giving time for the flattened areas to catch up with the rest of the developing head during growth. .
The TiMband is made by highly experienced clinicians who make all the necessary modifications and oversee the technical staff in the initial manufacturing process.
The device is worn for 23 hours a day, usually over a period of 3 – 6 months, and adjusted at regular intervals to ensure optimal fit and correction.
A revolutionary study published last year has provided crucial evidence that helmet therapy has proven effective for babies with flat heads. A significant study of 4,000 patients was undertaken to monitor rates of correction throughout treatment. While repositioning alone achieved acceptable correction in 77.1% of cases even then, 15.8% of patients required helmet therapy and were moved into helmet treatment group.
94.4% of the infants who started in the helmet-treated group achieved full correction, as did 96.1% of those who were transferred from the repositioning group into the helmet-treated group.
Technology in Motion offer a no-obligation assessment of a baby with suspected flat head syndrome, offering support and guidance for parents on the best form of treatment for their baby.
If you would like to know more about the treatment options for plagiocephaly, call Technology in Motion on 0113 218 8030 and speak to one of our clinical team and we will answer any questions you might have.


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We are still blessed with nice conditions for fishing, just warm enough for the naturals to make an appearance and light winds with the odd cloud....what more can you ask for late October! Best tactics have been early starts with a lot of fish being caught in the first hour or so, buzzers and Pennine biscuits still seem to be the best choices. Fish of the week goes to Mr Greg Hudson with a nice double caught on a bibio fished from a floating line. We have had another 7 double figure fish caught over the last weekend but all to sporting tickets so sadly no photos, hopefully the week day lads will pick them up during this week.....tight lines everybody!


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I was interested to see what things were coming to Little Rock (besides crime). I know Little Rock implements a lot of things you don't see over on the west side of the state.
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Nice to see all those raised crosswalks. They're not always wise for wide main arterials with high speed limits, but they work well on neighborhood streets and at crossroads IMO (especially when the whole intersection is raised).
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I am always surprised to see the state has their hands in something around Little Rock or North Little Rock. In this case it is ROW related, but there have been situations I never would have thought ArDOT would've been involved with.
Yeah, I was just watching the FHWA's YouTube channel and saw several illustrations in regards to pedestrian safety implementations, such as raised crosswalks, refuge islands and a few others that have slipped my mind.


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Q: Android: OnePlus 6T Compass Gets "Stuck" Until Placed on Magnetic Mount and Removed Hello and thanks in advance for the help.
I am working on an app which provides range bearing to a particular spot based on GPS and compass.
From time to time (every week or so) I have noticed that the compass orientation freezes. I have installed a different compass app and, it doesn't freeze, but it is clearly giving a very wrong reading (for example, north indicated directly to the sun).
Similarly, Google Maps is showing the wrong reading. I am sure the bearing are wrong because if the sun was in the north we'd be really screwed :). Plus I have another compass on my watch, and it is OK, so I know where north really is.
I suspect the reason my app is frozen, and the other app is not frozen, is just because of the different animation approaches. The root cause appears to be that the sensor is "jammed" even though it is in a solid state.
I have tried recalibrating (maybe 40 times), shutting off the phone, resetting the phone, clear the app's memory, stopping the app, etc..
What I noticed today is that if I place my phone on its magnetic mount, all of a sudden the compass started working again once I remove it from the mount. So, to be clear, I am out in the woods many kilometers away from my magnetic mount when it is jammed but when I return to my car and put it on/remove it from the mount everything works fine again for a few days.
I have never had an electronic compass behave like this. Unfortunately google searches invariably point me to suggestions to recalibrate.
If it matters, the phone is a OnePlus 6T with Android 11, Oxygen OS 11.1.1.1
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Today in the Mission Yearbook
Sikh activist and filmmaker Valarie Kaur electrifies College Conference at Montreat
Valarie Kaur addresses the College Conference at Montreat. (Photo by Emily Enders Odom)
At the conclusion of Valarie Kaur's electrifying keynote address at the College Conference at Montreat on January 4, the tandem lines on either side of Anderson Auditorium were at least ten deep with students all but on fire to have her respond to their questions.
In fact, "fire" was an operative word for Kaur, an American interfaith leader, lawyer, filmmaker, Sikh activist, and founder of The Revolutionary Love Project based at the University of Southern California. She had so galvanized the conference by charging her listeners "to have the courage to walk through those flames of hatred and bigotry and rage, and love anyway," that attendees were eager to stay well beyond Kaur's allotted time just to remain in her presence.
The January 2–5, 2017 conference, titled, "Beyond Babel," based on Genesis 11:1-9—for which over 1,000 college students and their advisors gathered—was designed to help participants see in the ancient biblical text "how God gave an ancient people a holy nudge towards diversity," while challenging them to consider how God is similarly nudging God's people today.
During the Q&A that followed Kaur's presentation—when she became aware that the evening's next event was already past schedule—she asked the gathering, in an act as gracious as it was personal, for its permission to hear each of the remaining unanswered questions, learn the names of those already in line, and then answer all of them in one single response: as if by magic.
Magic—the same word she had earlier used to describe her idyllic childhood in the California farmlands, its spell all at once broken when her elementary school classmates discovered that she wasn't a Christian and sent her home in tears. "My grandfather sat me down," Kaur said, "and told me a story about who I was."
As she described what she had learned from her grandfather about the beginnings of Sikhism five centuries ago in India, Kaur gave her rapt listeners helpful insights into the history of her faith tradition. She told of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, who, after emerging from a time of meditation, "began singing a song of oneness—God is one, humanity is one"— at a time when "Hindus and Sikhs were at each other's throats."
"When you quiet the voice within you that divides yourself from others, you lose yourself … you fall in love," she continued, relating Nanak's journey of discovery to her own awakening. "When you are in love, you see no strangers, no enemies. We are called to look at the faces of those who don't look like us and say, 'Sister, brother, I see you. I choose to love you.' But the path of love is not easy. It is not safe. For if I see you and I choose to love you, that means I must also fight for you when you need me. Sikhs—seekers of truth—began wearing their hair long to represent their commitment to love and justice when people were in need. They became warriors."
Kaur has characterized this type of love as "'revolutionary love'—the kind my mother showed me, my faith taught me—to walk into fires with a warrior's heart and a saint's eyes and walk toward them determined to birth new possibilities."
She said that her own "walk into the fire" began in the aftermath of 9/11 when she was a 20-year-old college student and "the fires first burned bright before my eyes."
"I was watching the towers fall again in my mind, when an image of a man in a turban flashed on a screen," Kaur recalled. "Suddenly our nation's new enemy looked like my grandfather. Within moments, there was news of violence, we who were Sikhs, not Muslims, were persecuted. I was afraid, I was overwhelmed—the America I thought I knew was no longer. I ran. I returned to my bedroom for days. I turned to books, not academic books, but Harry Potter books: a story of the young people wielding a kind of magic when the adults in their lives wouldn't or couldn't."
Although Kaur had neither wand nor sword like Harry Potter, she did have a camera.
"I thought about all of the stories that my grandfather passed down to me that would go invisible unless someone was recording them, telling the story," she said. "I grabbed my camera, got in my car with my parents' blessing, and started driving in the car toward the fires. I went from city to city, home to home, capturing the stories of my community, stories that weren't making the evening news. The first person killed in a hate crime after 9/11 was a man I called uncle. I was there with my camera, 20 years old, trying to capture it."
Drawing strength from a lesson she learned from Harry Potter—which resonated powerfully with her college audience—she reminded her listeners that Harry wasn't the strongest or the smartest, but he was brave, and he didn't do it alone. He was protected, just as she said she is "shielded by love" through ancient Sikh scriptures, and her hearers through the Christian scriptures.
"To the voice that told me to go back to where I belonged, I might have done it if I hadn't been protected," she said. "I'm standing here because of a love that was poured into me. There may be that voice of fear in you, but the fact that you are here tonight means that you have been loved. You are standing on a foundation of love—that love can shield you in the fire. That love can whisper to you, 'You are brave.'"
Kaur, who had opened her presentation by sharing the story of her son's birth—during which her mother had whispered to her laboring daughter those selfsame words, "You are brave"—again invoked her son.
"The path of revolutionary love is not safe, not easy," she said. "All this time when I was fighting, I thought I was helping to make the nation a safer place for the next generation, and then my son was born. In that moment, holding him in my arms, I felt like I failed him. The moment I was holding him, there were people marching, chanting, 'I can't breathe,' protesting the death of black lives. Then, mourning the lives of three Muslims [victims of violence], I bundled him up in my arms and I couldn't breathe."
In this "era of enormous rage," Kaur said that "love is the only thing I have ever seen to create lasting change."
Critical conversation leaders prepare the worship space at Montreat. From left to right: David LaMotte, Jessica Vazquez Torres, and the Rev. Andrew Wilkes. (Photo by Emily Enders Odom)
As she pointed toward the banners containing the names of victims of violence—originally created for Montreat's 2016 DisGrace Conference: "Seeking God's Grace Amid the Disgrace of Racism"—Kaur explained that "they are the names of my aunts and uncles."
"I remember that there would have been more caskets if it hadn't been for a white, Christian man named Brian Murphy, who took 15 bullets to protect my people," she said, referencing the 2012 massacre at a Sikh temple. "He knew more people would be killed. He was willing to give his life for me, for my people."
She described "revolutionary love" as a choice, an act of will. "It is a choice to extend the kind of love we have for our families to those outside of our tribe, to those who do not look like us, even those who hurt us," said Kaur. "Revolutionary love can sound impossible in a time like this, when those of us who are upset by the election are tempted to embody the same rage, but it is possible because I just witnessed it."
What she witnessed at the site of her uncle's murder in Mesa, Arizona, was a story of forgiveness and reconciliation on September 15, 2011, between her uncle's younger brother, Rana, and her uncle's murderer, Frank Roque, whom they decided to call in prison.
"How could I think this idea of revolutionary love could work in the face of a murderer?" she asked. "But Rana hears what I can't. 'Frank, this is the first time I ever heard you say you're sorry.' Frank said, 'I'm sorry for what I did to you and your brother and your family. When I go to heaven, I will see your brother and ask for his forgiveness.' 'But we have already forgiven you,' Rana said."
Kaur closed her presentation by reminding her listeners that revolutionary love is not the absence of anger—there is a role for anger in social change work.
"It is to let anger and anguish burst forgiveness, because forgiveness is not forgetting," she said. "Forgiveness is freedom from hate, because when we are free from hate, then we can begin to hear the story of even the murderer and those who disagree with us. Once we hear the story, then we can start to transform the communities and the cultures. You may feel in this moment that the future is dark … but what if this darkness isn't the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb? What if America is not dead but a country waiting to be born?"
Emily Enders Odom, mission communications strategist
Today's Focus: Courage to walk through flames of hatred and bigotry and rage
Let us join in prayer for:
PC(USA) Mission Co-workers
Choon Lim, Korea
Yen Hee Lim, Korea
Michael Ludwig, Niger
Rachel Ludwig, Niger
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Creator God, we pray for discernment and guidance as we try to walk the narrow path that has been put before us. We know that it will be difficult but that the rewards will be great. It is in your Son's name that we pray. Amen.
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First Reading Deuteronomy 6:1-15
Second Reading Hebrews 1:1-14
Gospel Reading John 1:1-18
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In an era of increasingly precise fighters, it's nice to have a game that's just silly. Gang Beasts is one of the more ludicrous brawlers on the market, tossing skill out of the window in favor of sheer absurdity. It's not the world's deepest game, but it's definitely something very special...[read more below]
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In an era of increasingly precise fighters, it's nice to have a game that's just silly. Gang Beasts is one of the more ludicrous brawlers on the market, tossing skill out of the window in favor of sheer absurdity. It's not the world's deepest game, but it's definitely something very special.
Gang Beasts feels like a mascot fighter, even though there are no mascots involved. Instead, players take on the role of semi-customizable humanoid blobs, each of whom has the same general move set. There's not a story so much as there are a few different set-piece levels, most of which feature a few clever environmental obstacles. The only real goal in the game is to toss the other players away after beating them down, something that is far harder than you might imagine. If you took Super Smash Bros. and removed the recognizable characters and precise controls, you might get something like Gang Beasts.
Graphics and Audio
Gang Beasts has a fairly minimal presentation. Everything looks like a game that has just barely made it through Early Access, which is actually a fair assessment of the game as a whole. There's nothing particularly bad here, of course, but nor is there anything particularly special. The game looks about as good as it needs to look to be playable, with nothing else thrown in. The sound design is very much the same, with a few neat sound effects and a lot of nothing throw around in-between. This game is all about the game-play, so the barebones approach isn't too much of a detriment.
There's a host of games out there that rely on touchy controls to provide fun. Games like QWOP and Surgeon Simulator are fun because of how hard they are to play, and Gang Beasts is very much a game in that same genre. It's a hilarious fighter as long as you don't take it too seriously, functioning more like a party game than anything else. This is one of those games that's great for a casual player but that is going to drive a fighting game fan nuts, which might be a good enough reason for some people to invest in the game. It's funnier than it is fun, but that's not always a bad thing.
Gang Beasts is a game that can't be judged by the same criteria as most others. From a purely subjective standpoint, it's a broken, ugly game that punishes players who try to take it seriously and absolutely defies the conventions of standard fighting games. If you can take it as it is, though, it's a game that manages to provide players of all skill levels with a good time while not taking itself too seriously. It's a fun way to waste time and it simply doesn't pretend to be anything more.
Gang Beasts is a flawed, frustrating game that knows its audience and exactly what it wants to be. It's not great, but it definitely makes for a great experience.
What follows is the official description of Gang Beasts, from the developers.
Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.
Customise your character and fight local and online enemies in the melee game mode or fight with friends against the gangs of Beef City in the gang game mode.
Gang Beasts is published by Double Fine and made by Boneloaf, a small independent game studio making a series of experimental multiplayer party games.
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