W. A. Criswell Sermon Library | A Power or a Person?
The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled,came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you; as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.
Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose whosesoever sins you retain, they are retained.
A solemn and significant and meaningful passage in the whole breadth and height and depth of the kingdom of God, "When He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith, Receive ye the Holy Ghost" [John 20:22]. There are any number of tremendously gifted theologians who avow that here is the giving of the Holy Spirit, the coming of the Holy Spirit, and that Pentecost was but a baptism of power, but the coming of the Holy Spirit is here in the twentieth chapter of the Book of John. For example, I suppose the greatest writer and author of the study of the Gospel of John is Dr. Arthur Pink. And in his Exposition of the Gospel of John, volume 3, page 287, he writes, and I quote him, "What happened at Pentecost was the baptism of power, not the coming of the Holy Spirit."
I quote again from the Bible Commentary on the New Testament, volume 2, page 295, "The Spirit which the Lord imparted was the Holy Spirit here in verse 22. To regard the words and act as a promise only and a symbol of the future gift is wholly arbitrary and unnatural." In no uncertain terms he avows that in this twenty-second verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel the Holy Spirit came down from heaven, and Pentecost was just a baptism of power, and for us to look upon this as a symbol is arbitrary and unnatural.
I quote just one other from a learned theologian, "The Holy Spirit did not come at Pentecost. He was given, He came, here in John 20:22. Pentecost was a baptism of power."
Fine, but there are things about that interpretation that greatly trouble me, and I cannot understand the reading of the Word in the light of these interpretations. For example, the Book of Acts begins in chapter 1, the word of our Lord that His disciples, "should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father" [Acts 1:4]. Then in the next verse, "John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence" [Acts 1:5], the Holy Spirit Himself. And in verse 8, "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you" [Acts 1:8]. And in that the tremendous sermon of Simon Peter at Pentecost, in Acts 2:33 he avows this Lord Jesus whom "God raised up,being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Spirit, He hath shed forth this," the coming of the Holy Spirit, "which ye now see and hear" [Acts 2:32-33].
Well, as I study and ask God to enlighten my mind concerning the presence and the coming of the third Person of the Trinity, I cannot but believe that in John 20:22 our Lord speaks of a future event of which this Word in John 20 is a significant symbol and promise.
One of the problems that we have in seeking to understand the infallible mystery of God is this, it is hard for us to think of the Holy Spirit as a person. It is easy for us to categorize Him as a power, as an "it," but it is not that easy for us to think of the Holy Spirit of God as a person.
For example, it was not until the third Christian century that the churches began to use the word Trinity. Tertullian, the great church father in North Africa, was the first one to use the word Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And it was in that third century that the churches in controversy with the heretic Sabellius referred to the Holy Spirit as a person.
It is so easy for us to think of Him in terms of an enigmatic power, as an indescribable indefinite something, but not as a dynamic person, as somebody. We think of the Holy Spirit in terms of a power, like electricity; that's an "it." Or like gravity; that is an "it." Or like the rushing mighty wind; that is an "it." But to think of Him in terms of a personality is somehow difficult for us.
May I point out one other thing that is so true? And that is gender in human speech, in human language. English has natural gender. You are a woman, so you are referred to as "she." Or, you are a man, you are referred to as a "he." And if you are not feminine or masculine, you are referred to in the neutral gender. It is an "it." That is English. We have been speaking like that all our lives.
But other languages are not like that. Other languages have grammatical gender or assigned gender. German is one of those. German has der, die, and das, masculine, feminine, and neuter. And in the German language a girl is a neuter. She is not feminine, it is das mädchen. Doesn't that beat anything you ever saw, that a girl is neuter? Well, that is the way they talk.
Now Greek is like that. Greek has gender that is grammatical, assigned. For example, in Romans 8:16 the King James Version is translating the Greek very, very actual. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God," the Spirit itself, not Himself, the Spirit itself, neuter. Well, that's the Greek language. But by no means does that reflect the revelation of God. In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Gospel of John, the Lord refers constantly to the coming of the Holy Spirit as a "Him" and as a "He." The presence of the third Person of the Trinity in our midst is a somebody. As God the Father is a person, a somebody, as God the Son is a person, a somebody, so God the Holy Spirit is a person, He is a somebody.
And the Lord speaks of His presence with us, in this marvelous verse that I am expounding today, "And when the Lord had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, 'Receive ye the Holy Spirit'" [John 20:22]; emphusa, the only place in the New Testament where that word is used, breathed, "He breathed upon."
This is the only time that word is used in the New Testament, and it is so significant, "He breathed upon them" [John 20:22]. It is a mighty symbolic act of what God is doing in the kingdom of Christ in the earth. For one thing, it is a one-time expression and symbol. One time He uses the word, "As the Father hath sent Me, so send I you" [John 20:21]. The Lord, in the beginning of His ministry, was anointed by the Holy Spirit for His work [Matthew 3:16]. So we, Jesus says here, so we will be anointed by the Holy Spirit of God for our work [John 20:22].
And as I have said, it is a meaningful and significant symbol. The Holy Spirit is coming, the Promise of the Father, on the day of Pentecost [Acts 1:4]. But this is a symbol of His arrival. It is a seal of their prophetic calling. It is an earnest of the power and the presence by which they will witness to the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [John 20:22].
Just look at that for a moment. It is a symbol of the presence of the Holy Spirit of God. First is the breath [John 20:22], then is the Pentecost [Acts 2:4]. How often do I see that in the working of the kingdom of God? First, there will be Moses on the back side of the desert, there looking at the bush that burned and was not consumed [Exodus 3:1-3]. Then there is the same Moses standing in confrontation to Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt [Exodus 7:1, 12:31]. First, there is here Gideon and the dew upon the fleece [Judges 6:36-37]. Then there is the blowing of the trumpets and the breaking of the pitchers [Judges 7:16-22]. First, there is David and the green pastures and the still waters [Psalm 23:1-2]. Then there is the slaying of Goliath [1 Samuel 17:48-51].
First, there is Elijah and the still small voice [1 Kings 19:12]. Then there is the whirlwind and the golden chariot [2 Kings 2:11]. First, there will be Daniel on his knees before the open window toward Jerusalem, praying and interceding [Daniel 6:10]. Then there is the closing of the mouths of the lions [Daniel 6:22]. First, there is Nehemiah weeping before God [Nehemiah 1:4]. Then there is the defiance of Sanballat and Tobiah and the rearing of the walls in Jerusalem [Nehemiah 4:7-23].
First, there is Saul of Tarsus, there is Paul as he is for three years in the silence of Arabia [Galatians 1:17-18]. Then there is the great apostle, proclaiming the message of salvation to Damascus and to the Empire of Rome [Acts 13:1, 28:31].
First, there is, and you read it just now, first, there is John, "in the Spirit" on the Lord's Day [Revelation 1:10]. Then there is the marvelous vision of the Apocalypse, the coming and the victory of our Lord [Revelation 1:11, 22:21].
Always it is that. First, there is your preacher in his study with an open Bible, reading and praying and preparing. Then, there is your pastor, standing here before this pulpit and before the radio and before the television, proclaiming the marvelous message of Christ. You have the Sunday school teacher or your own personal life in a devotion, in a quiet time before the Lord, then facing the vicissitudes and the fortunes and the providences of life. Just like this. It is a wonderful and a marvelous thing how God has done it: the quietness, the breath, the symbol, then the outpouring of the presence of the coming of, the Lord.
Now, what an awesome responsibility and assignment, "Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins you retain, they are retained" [John 20:23]. Dear God, what an awesome responsibility! And that is why He says, "Labete, take, the Holy Spirit." Labete, an imperative of lambanō, "Take the Holy Spirit" [John 20:22]. They are not to be passive. We are to seek Him and to ask His presence, because of the awesomeness of our assignment. "Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted; whosoever sins you retain, they are retained" [John 20:23].
Of how much more punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who saith, Judgment is Mine, saith the Lord, I will recompense. And again, God shall judge His people.
And finally, "It is a fearful thing," the author writes, "to fall into the hands of the living God" [Hebrews 10:31].
That is what God hath placed in our hands, "The sins you remit, they are remitted; the sins you retain, they are retained." It has a double reaction. Those that listen and turn are saved. And those who listen and refuse are damned. They are lost. O God, what a responsibility!. The same heat that melts wax will harden clay, a double response to the message that is delivered from God.
We don't have any other hope; there is no other way of salvation except in our Lord [John 14:6, Acts 4:12]. The forgiveness of our sins and our hope of redemption lies completely in Him. There is no other way. John the Baptist preached, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world" [John 1:29]. Simon Peter preached, "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" [Acts 4:12]. The apostle Paul preached in Pisidian Antioch, "By this Man is the forgiveness of sins" [Acts 13:13-41]. The sainted apostle John, who wrote this Revelation and who wrote this Gospel, writes in 1 John, "By Him, in Him is the forgiveness of sin" [1 John 1:9]. We don't have any other message. We don't have any other hope. We don't have any other way.
Standing here beneath the cross of Christ and with the Holy Spirit by our sides, witnessing to the Lord, we carry on His work. We are Christ's incarnations. His work and His power and His presence are in us. Dear God, if He is the light of the world [John 9:1], we are to be the light of the world. If He came seeking to save those who were lost [Luke 19:10], we are to seek and to save those who are lost. If He came not to do His will, but His Father's will [Luke 22:42], we are to do the Father's will, not ours. The whole message of Christ is given unto us. And if there is any salvation, it lies in the message that we deliver. There is none other.
To the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Great God, if our eternal destiny depends upon us, O Lord, who is sufficient? Great God, how can we be responsible? Study; yes. Try to understand; yes. Pour our lives into the ministry; yes. But O God, still who is able? That is why we pray for the coming of the Holy Spirit of God anew in our hearts, and in our minds, and in our pulpits, and in our church, and in our own witnessing.
O Lord, how we need Him to work with us! In ourselves so feeble and so unable, how we need God. I think of our opening our hearts to the presence of the Spirit of God and opening our church and opening our witnessing.
O Lord God, in power come and move in our midst, like a mother receiving in her heart the gentleness of love, or like an olive tree receiving the infusion of oil, or like a green pasture receiving the freshness of the morning dew, or like a furnace receiving the blast of fire, or like a ship receiving in the sail the fullness of the wind, or like a storm receiving the outpouring of the rain, or like a marsh receiving the tide from the sea. Lord God, how we pray that the Holy Spirit will come and live and move and empower in our witnessing work, and in our dear church, and in all the ministries of our dear, dear people.
May I illustrate that? I cannot tell you how I feel when a mother or a father will bring to me the smallest, littlest child and say, "Pastor, my little boy or my little girl wants to be saved. And I brought the child to you that you teach the youngster how to be saved. Show him how to be saved."
When I get through with this sermon today, I am to go over to the study. And there is a man with his wife coming to see me, wanting to know how to be saved. Well, what do I do in the presence of this humblest little child to convert the child, to save the child, to "born-again" the child? How can I do that? O God, I feel so Lilliputianly inadequate. God has to do it. God has to rebirth the child. God has to bring into the child the conviction and the faith and the commitment that makes the child a kingdom of heaven. God has to do it.
We are dependent upon the presence of the Lord, and it is thus in all of our work in the church. O God, Your presence and the might of Your power must work with us. God, You must do it, and we are but instruments, pawns, in Thy hands.
Joy is coming, sorrow growing.
Thy ransom host is growing, growing.
But let the tide, O God, come in.
Men are dying, always dying.
Thy pleading church is crying, crying.
"O God, let the tide come in."
Signs of conquest now appearing.
The day of victory is nearing.
Thank God, the tide is coming in.
God, grant it! Lord, grant it: the presence and power of the Holy Spirit of God falling upon us and moving in saving grace in our midst!
And sweet people who have listened on radio and on television, may this be the day of salvation in your heart, in your house, and in your home. On the screen you will find and telephone number and to answer it will be a godly counselor. If you want to know how to be saved, how to accept Christ as your Savior, you call us. It will be the infinite joy of our deepest souls to point you to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world [John 1:29]. Thank you for listening. Thank you for praying and welcome into the kingdom of our Savior, and I'll see you someday in heaven.
And to the great throng in the presence of God in this sanctuary; to give your heart to the Lord, come and welcome; to accept Jesus as your Savior, a family you to come into the fellowship of our dear church; a couple you to give your house, and home, and marriage to the Lord; a one somebody you, answering the call of God in your heart, on the first note of the first stanza, come. May angels attend you in the way, while we stand and while we sing.


And now for the final product to review out of my Influenster Rimmel Goodie Box! These are my favorite things in the box, the Lasting Finish By Kate Lipsticks. Oddly enough, it's something I didn't think I was going to like!
They sent the colors 104 (left) and 107 (right). The packaging is bright red and cute, it has the Rimmel crown on top and Kate's signature with a little heart on the cap.
104 is a mauvey pink. These don't have any names, just the numbers. And they are matte! I've been loving matte lips lately, don't know what it is.
A few shots of it on my lips.
Then we have 107, which is a nice berry pink. At first I was SURE this was going to be too dark for me. But you know what? I ended up loving this!
This is another of my new favorite lip colors for fall. It's perfect!
Okay so what I REALLY love about these is their insane wear time. I've noticed the drug store lipsticks are really starting to become great! These are no exception. Even after eating pizza, these colors stay on my lips. I think a lot of the new matte lipsticks also act as stains because every one that I've tried lately leaves a nice even stain on your lips so that it doesn't look weird as it starts to wear down. That was always my biggest issue with dark lip colors - I never liked wearing them because I felt like I constantly had to check my lipstick. It's not cut when you have dark red around your mouth and nothing in the center!! So I have become braver over the last year or so in venturing outside of the house in darker lip colors, and I am happy about it!


Machine Vision and Applications, 27 (4), pp. 483-497, 2016.
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 26 (3), 2016.
International Journal of Control, 89 (7), pp. 1342-1358, 2016, ISSN: 1366-5820.
In this paper, we address the problem of humanoid locomotion guided from information of a monocular camera. The goal of the robot is to reach a desired location defined in terms of a target image, i.e., a positioning task. The proposed approach allows us to introduce a desired time to complete the positioning task, which is advantageous in contrast to the classical exponential convergence. In particular, finite-time convergence is achieved while generating smooth robot velocities and considering the omnidirectional waking capability of the robot. In addition, we propose a hierarchical task-based control scheme, which can simultaneously handle the visual positioning and the obstacle avoidance tasks without affecting the desired time of convergence. The controller is able to activate or inactivate the obstacle avoidance task without generating discontinuous velocity references while the humanoid is walking. Stability of the closed loop for the two task-based control is demonstrated theoretically even during the transitions between the tasks. The proposed approach is generic in the sense that different visual control schemes are supported. We evaluate a homography-based visual servoing for position-based and image-based modalities, as well as for eye-in-hand and eye-to-hand configurations. The experimental evaluation is performed with the humanoid robot NAO.
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 87 (5), pp. 2113–2134, 2016, ISSN: 1433-3015.
This paper presents three main contributions: (i) an experimental analysis of variables, using well-defined statistical patterns applied to the main parameters of the welding process. (ii) An on-line/off-line learning and testing method, showing that robots can acquire a useful knowledge base without human intervention to learn and reproduce bead geometries. And finally, (iii) an on-line testing analysis including penetration of the bead, that is used to train an artificial neural network (ANN). For the experiments, an optic camera was used in order to measure bead geometry (width and height). Also real-time computer vision algorithms were implemented to extract training patterns. The proposal was carried out using an industrial KUKA robot and a GMAW type machine inside a manufacturing cell. We present expermental analysis that show different issues and solutions to build an industrial adaptive system for the robotics welding process.
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 83 (1), pp. 217–231, 2016, ISSN: 1433-3015.
In this paper, we propose an architecture based on an artificial neural network (ANN), to learn welding skills automatically in industrial robots. With the aid of an optic camera and a laser-based sensor, the bead geometry (width and height) is measured. We propose a real-time computer vision algorithm to extract training patterns in order to acquire knowledge to later predict specific geometries. The proposal is implemented and tested in an industrial KUKA KR16 robot and a GMAW type machine within a manufacturing cell. Several data analysis are described as well as off-line and on-line training, learning strategies, and testing experimentation. It is demonstrated during our experiments that, after learning the skill, the robot is able to produce the requested bead geometry even without any knowledge about the welding parameters such as arc voltage and current. We implemented an on-line learning test, where the whole experiments and learning process take only about 4 min. Using this knowledge later, we obtained up to 95 % accuracy in prediction.
Journal of Sensors, 2016 , 2016.
Using visual sensors for detecting regions of interest in underwater environments is fundamental for many robotic applications. Particularly, for an autonomous exploration task, an underwater vehicle must be guided towards features that are of interest. If the relevant features can be seen from the distance, then smooth control movements of the vehicle are feasible in order to position itself close enough with the final goal of gathering visual quality images. However, it is a challenging task for a robotic system to achieve stable tracking of the same regions since marine environments are unstructured and highly dynamic and usually have poor visibility. In this paper, a framework that robustly detects and tracks regions of interest in real time is presented. We use the chromatic channels of a perceptual uniform color space to detect relevant regions and adapt a visual attention scheme to underwater scenes. For the tracking, we associate with each relevant point superpixel descriptors which are invariant to changes in illumination and shape. The field experiment results have demonstrated that our approach is robust when tested on different visibility conditions and depths in underwater explorations.
IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots, IEEE, 2016, ISSN: 2164-0580.
A visual memory (VM) is a topological map in which a set of key images organized in form of a graph represents an environment. In this paper, a navigation strategy for humanoid robots addressing the problems of localization, visual path planning and path following based on a VM is proposed. Assuming that the VM is given, the main contributions of the paper are: 1) A novel pure vision-based localization method. 2) The introduction of the estimated rotation between key images in the path planning stage to benefit paths with enough visual information and with less effort of robot rotation. 3) The integration of the complete navigation strategy and its experimental evaluation with a Nao robot in an unstructured environment. The humanoid robot is modeled as a holonomic system and the strategy might be used in different scenarios like corridors, uncluttered or cluttered environments.
Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 42 (2), pp. 156-166, 2015.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to propose a method based on an Artificial Neural Network and a real-time vision algorithm, to learn welding skills in industrial robotics. Design/methodology/approach – By using an optic camera to measure the bead geometry (width and height), the authors propose a real-time computer vision algorithm to extract training patterns and to enable an industrial robot to acquire and learn autonomously the welding skill. To test the approach, an industrial KUKA robot and a welding gas metal arc welding machine were used in a manufacturing cell. Findings – Several data analyses are described, showing empirically that industrial robots can acquire the skill even if the specific welding parameters are unknown. Research limitations/implications – The approach considers only stringer beads. Weave bead and bead penetration are not considered. Practical implications – With the proposed approach, it is possible to learn specific welding parameters despite of the material, type of robot or welding machine. This is due to the fact that the feedback system produces automatic measurements that are labelled prior to the learning process. Originality/value – The main contribution is that the complex learning process is reduced into an input-process-output system, where the process part is learnt automatically without human supervision, by registering the patterns with an automatically calibrated vision system.
Evolving Systems, 6 (2), pp. 101–114, 2015, ISSN: 1868-6486.
The assembly operation using industrial robots can be accomplished successfully in well-structured environments where the mating pair location is known in advance. However, in real-world scenarios there are uncertainties associated to sensing, control and modelling errors that make the assembly task very complex. In addition, there are also unmodeled uncertainties that have to be taken into account for an effective control algorithm to succeed. Among these uncertainties, it can be mentioned disturbances, backlash and aging of mechanisms. In this paper, a method to overcome the effect of those uncertainties based on the Fuzzy ARTMAP artificial neural network (ANN) to successfully accomplish the assembly task is proposed. Experimental work is reported using an industrial 6 DOF robot arm in conjunction with a vision system for part location and wrist force/torque sensing data for assembly. Force data is fed into an ANN evolving controller during a typical peg in hole (PIH) assembly operation. The controller uses an incremental learning mechanism that is solely guided by the sensed forces. In this article, two approaches are presented in order to compare the incremental learning capability of the manipulator. The first approach uses a primitive knowledge base (PKB) containing 16 primitive movements to learn online the first insertion. During assembly, the manipulator learns new patterns according to the learning criteria which turn the PKB into an enhanced knowledge base (EKB). During a second insertion the controller uses effectively the EKB and operation improves. The second approach employs minimum information (it contains only the assembly direction) and the process starts from scratch. After several operations, that knowledge base increases by including only the needed patterns to perform the insertion. Experimental results showed that the evolving controller is able to assemble the matting pairs enhancing its knowledge whenever it is needed depending on the part geometry and level of expertise. Our approach is demonstrated through several PIH operations with different tolerances and part geometry. As the robot's expertise evolves, the PIH operation is carried out faster with shorter assembly trajectories.
Computación y Sistemas, 19 (2), pp. 255-272, 2015.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 2 (2), pp. 121-139, 2014.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish analytical and numerical solutions of a navigational law to estimate displacements of hyper-static multi-legged mobile robots, which combines: monocular vision (optical flow of regional invariants) and legs dynamics. Design/methodology/approach – In this study the authors propose a Euler-Lagrange equation that control legs' joints to control robot's displacements. Robot's rotation and translational velocities are feedback by motion features of visual invariant descriptors. A general analytical solution of a derivative navigation law is proposed for hyper-static robots. The feedback is formulated with the local speed rate obtained from optical flow of visual regional invariants. The proposed formulation includes a data association algorithm aimed to correlate visual invariant descriptors detected in sequential images through monocular vision. The navigation law is constrained by a set of three kinematic equilibrium conditions for navigational scenarios: constant acceleration, constant velocity, and instantaneous acceleration. Findings – The proposed data association method concerns local motions of multiple invariants (enhanced MSER) by minimizing the norm of multidimensional optical flow feature vectors. Kinematic measurements are used as observable arguments in the general dynamic control equation; while the legs joints dynamics model is used to formulate the controllable arguments. Originality/value – The given analysis does not combine sensor data of any kind, but only monocular passive vision. The approach automatically detects environmental invariant descriptors with an enhanced version of the MSER method. Only optical flow vectors and robot's multi-leg dynamics are used to formulate descriptive rotational and translational motions for self-positioning.
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE 2014.
Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, 2014.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 116 (6), pp. 742 - 753, 2012, ISSN: 1077-3142.


The day went well for our first in New Hampshire, we got moving in reasoable time, well fed and dry. The wind was workable. Forward motion was achieved. I was unable to have the moments I had yesterday and my energy was low. The back pack was heavy and awkward, though it had the same weight as he day before. I stepped in a rut on a well cut lawn and turned my ankle. Good thing it's the bad foot. I'd hate to have two bad feet. I did have some great help and the people are friendly. I was just not having the fun I did yesterday. we had our picture taken for two newspapers, spreading the word of exersize and awareness for diabetes. But the flow and 'dance' wasn't there, I was working. The world is my roller coaster. Some days a better than others.


Shot in available light early in the morning on the beach in Goa, India. No reflectors or light modifiers was used, just camera and lens. I'll explain more about the light and how to get this "glow" in the video.


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Tesla to reverse solar price hike for some customers, legal filing says
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Tesla is trying to placate some solar customers who say they faced sudden price hikes earlier this year, according to new filings with the U.S. district court in San Jose, California.
In a Thursday filing, customers' attorneys wrote, "Tesla informed counsel for Plaintiffs that Tesla had recently launched a program for customers who signed Solar Roof contracts before the April 2021 price changes to return those customers to their original pricing (if they were subject to a price increase in April 2021)."
As of Friday afternoon, further details of this program were not apparent on Tesla's solar websites nor the Engage website for customers and advocates of the company. CNBC reached out to plaintiffs' attorneys and Tesla to get further details about the program. They did not immediately respond.
This spring, frustrated Tesla solar customers sued the company after experiencing surprise price increases.
Filings in three separate lawsuits alleged that Tesla solar customers had already signed contracts with Elon Musk's electric vehicle and renewable energy venture, and even prepared to have solar photovoltaics installed at their homes, when they were surprised by sudden price hikes that required additional payments to move ahead with their installations.
The price hikes were not trivial. For example, plaintiff Matthew Amans' solar roof price shot up from around $72,000 per his original contract to around $146,000, according to lawsuit filings.
Those lawsuits were later consolidated into Amans v Tesla, Inc.
Tesla hiked prices for its solar installations at least twice early this year, and made it a requirement for customers ordering solar panels or roof tiles to order the Powerwall home energy storage system as well. Later, CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company would not be able to make enough Powerwalls to keep up with demand this year because of the ongoing microchip shortage.
Overall, solar remains a fairly small part of Tesla's business. Tesla reported energy generation and storage revenue of $801 million in the second quarter of 2021, with a cost of revenue of $781 million for that division. The company does not break out revenue from solar on its own — the unit includes revenue from its lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, which range from home backup batteries to giant, utility-scale systems.
By way of comparison, Tesla booked $10.2 billion in automotive sales during the quarter.
Here's the legal filing.
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Q: Any way to iterate over controls of a view? I wanted to get all of the textfields for my view, but I can't figure out if there's a control tree property somewhere that would allow me to iterate over the set of controls. I'm positive it's there somewhere.

A: Cocoa uses its view hierarchy for event handling. I don't think there is a separate tree for controls only. However, you can easily inspect the view hierarchy through the subviews property and the superview property. Use introspection to find out the controls you want to work on (e.g., [aView isKindOf:[UITextField class]]).
An alternative is to give tags to your controls and ask its superview to give the reference to a control with a specified tag.

A: Not sure if there is a better way, but when I've needed to do something like this, I've used a for each loop over the subviews and then checked for the needed class (so test each view in the loop if it is a UITextView in this case, then perform the needed actions on it).

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Is 'Red at Night' Truly Sailor's Delight?
Weather lore has been around for ages, since people needed to forecast the weather in order to plan their activities and effectively do their job. This rhyme was even mentioned by Jesus in the Bible, in Matthew 16:2-3: "He answered and said unto them, 'When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering.'" Shakespeare even referenced it in his play Venus and Adonis. "Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul fawn to herdman and the herds." These are some powerful references to the validity of this saying, but is there scientific validity to this proverb?
In order to answer that question, we have to understand why we are seeing the red in the first place. Light from the sun is made up of all the colors in the rainbow, which correspond to different wavelengths of radiation. The blues are made up of short wavelengths and the reds are of longer wavelengths. This is why the sky is blue when the sun is high in the sky, and more yellow or red when it is lower in the sky. How light is scattered is also dependent upon how clean or dirty the atmosphere is, since air molecules and dust/dirt/aerosols all scatter light differently. Air molecules scatter shorter wavelengths more efficiently, which is why on clear days the sky is a light blue. Dust or aerosols scatter the longer (red) wavelengths more efficiently, and most of that light is scattered in the direction in which the light is moving.
These longer wavelengths are also viewed during sunrises and sunsets, due to the long path the sun's rays have to travel through the atmosphere – scattering these longer waves because they encounter much more aerosols and dust on their journey toward Earth. Therefore, sunlight travelling through a long path of a dirty atmosphere at sunrise or sunset is made up or primarily the reddish wavelengths when it reaches the observer. A cleaner atmosphere at sunrise or sunset is colored by a mixture of all but the blue colors, giving it a more yellowish appearance.
High and low pressures are synonymous with sunny and stormy weather patterns. That is due to air converging at these low pressure centers and causing upward motion that produces clouds and precipitation.
High pressure is just the opposite, where we have downward motion that keeps skies sunny and cloudless. This downward motion keeps dirty air that contain suspensions of soot, dust, and aerosols trapped near the ground surface.
Weather systems normally travel from west to east across the mid-latitudes (30°-60° latitude) in the northern and southern hemisphere. That means that in the morning, the sunset is illuminating the weather pattern that has most recently passed and in the evening it is illuminating the weather system that is on its way toward you. If the sunset or sunrise is red, then high pressure is in the direction you are looking, since high pressure keeps dust and aerosols close to the ground surface and in the lower part of the atmosphere. 'Red at night' indicated that high pressure is to your west and that it should be sunny tomorrow – 'Sailor's Delight'. 'Red in the morning' means that high pressure is to the east, likely moving out of the area as a low pressure system and rainy conditions moves in – 'Sailor's Warning'.
So this old weather saying usually does hold true, but not necessarily all the time. It only works in the belt of the westerlies, from between 30 degrees to 60 degrees latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The region 30 degrees on either side of the equator is characterized by easterlies (trade winds), which the opposite would hold true as weather usually tracks east to west. This is why hurricanes travel west across the Central Atlantic until crossing north of the 30th parallel. There are also instances where weather patterns (pressure systems) do not travel west to east, but instead south to north, in which the proverb would also not hold true since the sunset/sunrise would not illuminate a system moving into or out of the region.


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Yazmin Lacey Delivers Mesmerising New R&B Number "Not Today Mate"
Singer-songwriter Yazmin Lacey is back with her latest offering of soothing and uplifting R&B on her latest single "Not Today Mate".
The born and raised East Londoner now lives in Nottingham where she's taken the time to perfect her unique fusion of jazz, soul and R&B. On "Not Today Mate", Lacey dishes up her much-adored silky vocals over a smooth and jazzy instrumental produced by Jake Milliner, giving us a potent taste of what to expect from her forthcoming EP (due imminently via Own Your Own Records).
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Philippine archbishop: No neutrality in choices between good, evil
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- Two senior Catholic prelates have urged fellow clergymen and the public to shun political neutrality when oppression exists.
People cannot remain neutral in the battle between good and evil, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan and retired Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes said Dec. 12.
Ucanews.com reported they were responding to critics who say the separation of church and state means that no clergyman can endorse political candidates.
"When we are neutral and there is oppression, we end up empowering the oppressors," Archbishop Villegas said during a Mass Dec. 12. He said that when someone becomes neutral by not denouncing death and corruption, they become an ally of sin or the murderer.
"If the murderer is here present as well as the one being killed, if you are neutral, you are aiding the murderer, because neutrality in the face of murder favors the murderer," Archbishop Villegas said.
"For example, if there is a thief and the victim is also present, you cannot be neutral in that case. If you are, you are siding with the thief, because the moral choice is to defend the victim."
The church has been a vocal critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his war on drugs, which has seen thousands of drug suspects killed, as well as the deaths of activists after being branded rebel sympathizers, reported ucanews.com.
Archbishop Villegas also took aim at politicians who use professional online trolls to falsely discredit others and spread lies to make themselves popular among voters.
Bishop Bastes backed Archbishop Villegas' comments, saying clergymen like bishops could not remain neutral when a moral choice needed to be made.
"We must choose the right person," Bishop Bastes told ucanews.com, adding that he personally would back current Vice President Leni Robredo in next year's presidential polls.


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CDC study finds Hispanics hit disproportionately hard by workplace outbreaks
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August 17, 2020 10:20 p.m.
A COVID-19 test is collected in Salt Lake City, Utah. A federal study published Monday found that Hispanic and non-white workers make up a disproportionate share of COVID-19 cases associated with workplace outbreaks in Utah.
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published on Monday is the latest to confirm that the coronavirus disproportionately impacts communities of color in the U.S.
The study looked at COVID-19 cases associated with workplace outbreaks in certain industries in Utah between March and June. It found that Hispanic and nonwhite workers made up 73 percent of those cases — despite representing just 24 percent of the workforce in sectors where outbreaks occurred.
"Systemic social inequities have resulted in the overrepresentation of Hispanic and nonwhite workers in frontline occupations where exposure to SARS-CoV-2 ... might be higher," researchers wrote, adding that "extra vigilance" is needed to combat the spread of the coronavirus among the populations over-represented in these sectors.
Health officials defined workplace outbreaks as two or more lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases occurring within the same two-week period among coworkers in a shared space. Of the 277 outbreaks in Utah reported during these months, 76 percent were in workplaces.
Between March 5 and June 6, workplace outbreaks occurred in 15 industry sectors in Utah, from agriculture to educational services to transportation. A majority of those outbreaks — 58 percent — were in three sectors: manufacturing, wholesale trade and construction.
In those 15 sectors, people who identify as Latino or a race other than white comprise just under one quarter of the workforce. But they accounted for nearly three quarters of the COVID-19 cases associated with workplace outbreaks.
NPR and other news outlets have reported that Hispanics make up a greater share of confirmed coronavirus cases than their share of the population in much of the country.
That is the case in Utah, where Health Department data shows that they comprise 14.2 percent of the state's population and more than 37 percent of its COVID-19 cases.
Researchers involved in the study say racial and ethnic disparities in workplace outbreaks are likely driven by long-standing health and social inequities.
Those inequities manifest in several ways, according to researchers. For one, they result in the overrepresentation of Hispanic and nonwhite workers in front-line occupations that carry more risk of COVID-19 exposure.
Hispanic and nonwhite workers also have less flexible work schedules and fewer options to telework compared with white workers, researchers added.
That lack of flexibility, especially when combined with "unpaid or punitive" sick leave policies, can prevent workers from staying home when ill, which in turn can lead to more workplace exposures and worse health outcomes.
In fact, even before the pandemic hit, Hispanics were more likely to face health and safety risks at work.
According to Econofact, Hispanic low-wage workers are both less likely to be in consumer-facing sectors and less likely to benefit from Occupational Safety and Health Act regulations.
And a report from the National Urban League, released last week, noted that white people were nearly 50 percent more likely to be able to work from home as their Latino counterparts, and 35 percent more likely than Blacks.
So what should health officials armed with this new data do about it?
Researchers say knowing how workplace outbreaks are distributed across industries can help health departments target those where additional mitigation efforts are needed.
And they say such interventions should be tailored to the demographics of workers who are over-represented in those industries.
"Care must be taken to ensure that prevention and mitigation strategies are applied equitably and effectively using culturally and linguistically responsive materials, media, and messages to workers of racial and ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19," they wrote.


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World Heritage Site Designation For Lakeland – Some Thoughts
May 23, 2017 by cumbrianwa	in Cairns, Conservation Matters, Cumbrian Business Matters and tagged The British Lake District, World Heritage Site designation
Lakeland landscape with Derwentwater Fells. C. Paxton image and copyright.
The pride is real. The British Lake District is worthy of World Heritage Site designation.
Elterwater with mallard duck presents idyllic Lakeland scenery. C. Paxton image and copyright.
I feel compelled to write my reaction to George Monbiot's May 19th article "Fell Purpose" , a highly stimulating article. Monbiot begins by saying that "The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster". I disagree, but he is right in saying that it is an almost irreversible move and worthy of due consideration, especially in the light of Brexit, as the area currently benefits from three billion pounds of E.U. funding annually. If people turn against the idea of designation as a UNESCO WHS then at least the gauntlet has been dropped and similar funding can then be sought from other more local sources.
The fact is that the Lakeland that we know and love depends very much upon active management from farmers, landowners, non-profit groups and volunteers as well as local and national government. There's no way they'd let a disaster happen to Lakeland. They love it too.
In short Monbiot's article presents an illusion of reality from selective observations and condemns plans to assist 'preservation' of English Lakeland at international expense begging the question of whether it would be developed in other (better?) ways if the area wasn't made a WHS. Not only is there no evidence that that would happen, but he needs to explore the ideas of betterment out loud so that we can see the extent of them and ask why they couldn't happen in a WHS? In terms of 'improvement' he can't simply equate progressive development with general aforestation. That image of the screes that he has selected for criticism of the region at large, is of Wastwater in Western Lakeland near Scarfell, which is famous for … its craggy screes. There are few other such dramatic screes elsewhere, they continue underwater in what is one of our deepest lakes, yet he would hold that glacial feature as an example of widespread ecological mistreatment and blame sheep for it. He's being a bit heavy handed there. Wastwater was never rainforest in the time of man, if you want that visit Lodore Falls. If people want clear views of Fell tops on the whole, and they do seem to, then cluttering them with trees isn't a particularly bright idea. In fact the report notes that many fine viewpoints that were clear in Wordsworth's day would benefit from sensitive and judicious clearance. There are already areas of native deciduous forest around Haweswater, Ulswater and Derwentwater for example that are gorgeous and on marginal rocky lowland and grazed.
On p.534 Only landscape character types B, E, F and G are listed as being in any condition equal to or lesser than moderate! I is moderate to good. So, it's not in a parlous state by any means but there's quite a lot of room for improvement. On page 535 the biodiversity table shows the bulk of SSSIs 66%, as recovering. Monbiot is right, this could be better.
However, the real eye opener, I think is Table 4.1 the percentage of listed buildings and scheduled monuments at risk! A lot of the scheduled monuments will be archaic ones such as the Cockpit. The Lake District has a wealth of heritage that is appreciated worldwide, why should it not receive the official recognition and accompanying financial support that it so richly deserves?
The supporting documents for the bid proposal make good reading for anyone interested in Cumbria's Lake District (http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/caringfor/projects/whs/lake-district-nomination).
While there's some truth in what George says about the size of the farms increasing and the need for subsidies to continue even in the face of Brexit, World Heritage Site status would probably suit the Lake District perfectly well as far as I can see because:
a) it's mainly the farmers, landowners and teams of volunteers who maintain the landscape and culture nexus that UNESCO wants to preserve. They wouldn't want to cover the fells with trees anyway, some ravines and along watercourses perhaps but not the felltops, WHS would give a shot in the arm to the cultural and historical sites (some that have struggled to thrive through tourism only, e.g. my wife and I miss Cockermouth's Sheep and Wool Centre now gone) and offer some degree of maintenance for scheduled monuments that are mostly looked after gratis by landowners.
b) UNESCO would likely act on the advice of the National Trust and Natural England, Eden Rivers Trust, English Heritage etc. with regard to policy decisions and improving public access facilities in a sensitive manner, they have acted sensibly elsewhere.
c) much of the tourism infrastructure is already in place, the grant money could be usefully employed repairing essential infrastructure and improving access and interpretation that benefit locals and visitors alike.
d) The Lake District has large tracts of sheepscape but there is native woodland with deer, cattle pasture with rare breeds, and there are pine plantations e.g. Grizedale some of which could be systematically replaced with native mixed deciduous forest over time, though our red squirrels like the pines too, as do many birds, so some conifers should certainly remain. Herdwicks are one of the few types of animal that will live year-round on some of the higher fells.
e) the elements considered most at risk are scheduled monuments and listed buildings – this is a primary concern of UNESCO.
f) there's a lot of scope for sensitive and imaginative development for recreation and education.
The Carles of Castlerigg, situated in some of England's finest landscape near Keswick. One of Cumbria's great Neolithic stone circles, it is also one of the oldest. C. Paxton image and copyright.
Fell walkers pause to admire the Cockpit on Moor Divock, Askham Common. C.Paxton. image and copyright
I think there are a lot of prehistoric sites that could benefit from the WHS status; a lot of cultural treasures made more accessible. When you consider that the amazing rock art on the boulders at Chapel Style were only officially recognized in the 1990's you can appreciate that there are other wonders awaiting (re)discovery! It's really a very exciting area. The Moor Divock Necropolis leaps to mind as an example. A plateau 1000 ft above sea level, where chariots raced through one of Europe's most interesting funerary complexes. You could walk through it now without learning a thing about it. Sensitive archaeological exploration and interpretation would be great! Much of the local archaeology was conducted in previous centuries. Amongst other notable monuments there's a very rare 'starfish cairn' in the form of White Raise.
If farmers / landowners are paid to help maintain heritage sites that would be good, because many are maintaining them for nowt at the moment.
Moor Divock's Standing Stones, site number 4 on Askham Common.
Lodore Falls, dramatic waterfall set in lush forest.
There's certainly plenty of scope for selective reforestation and riparian improvements through re-meandering and restablishing water meadows, otteries, heronrys etc. Eden Rivers Trust have the know how.
Landowners / managers could perhaps be encouraged not to kill otters, foxes, badgers, eagles, harriers etc. Is there scope for one or two beaveries and bear parks? Lordly stags and sounders of wild pigs might yet have their place.
The White Raise burial cairn has a rare 'starfish' shape.
Author with his father at Swinside great circle in November 2013.
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Phoenix is famous for picturesque erosion-sculpted landscapes, and the beauty of the desert beckons to be explored in Arizona. Here are five of the best places for outdoor activities in Phoenix.
This awesome reservoir is the largest lake in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and offers almost unlimited opportunities for aquatic fun. Recreational boaters can take advantage of 10,000 acres of water surface and 116 miles of shoreline. The average depth of Lake Pleasant is 70 feet deep. Its deepest point is at the dam, 260 feet.
Water enthusiasts will have ample opportunity to get pulled behind a boat on water skis, wakeboarding or go to the extreme during an exhilarating personal watercraft adventure. If you're on vacation with the family, rent a houseboat and go for a cruise.
Be sure to look for wild burros wandering the shoreline—and for majestic bald eagles up above.
Those in search of physical activity can hike or bike along marked trails. There's even a Desert Education Center to help introduce you to a world of outdoor wonder in Arizona.
Humongous sandstone formations that look like they came from another world dominate Papago Park—and make it stand out in a state known for natural attractions.
Hikers can always explore new areas thanks to the park's vast network of trails through the Sonoran Desert.
Those who like to reel in prize catches can fish (Arizona urban fishing license required) 7.8 acres of lagoons stocked with catfish during the summer and trout during the winter.
Visitors can also explore two major family-friendly attractions located in Papago Park: Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden. The Tomb of Governor George Wiley Paul Hunt, visible from virtually everywhere in the park, is another great stop inside this immense playground.
Canyon Lake is a wondrous playground with cactus-lined shores, spectacular rock formations and amazing sunsets that will take your breath away. There are also many species of animals roaming around, like Big Horn sheep and deer.
Take part in a myriad of watersports including swimming, waterskiing, windsailing and personal watercraft experiences. With more than 950 surface acres of water to play on, you'll never run out of things to do.
Anglers can boat into hidden coves for an afternoon of bass and trout fishing.
Sparkling water and pleasant year-round temperatures make Canyon Lake the perfect place to enjoy a leisurely boat ride surrounded by beautiful scenery.
With an elevation of 2,704 feet, Camelback Mountain is an exceptional destination to take a hike. This local landmark gets its name because it resembles a resting camel.
Located in the center of the Phoenix Valley, this paradise offers two summit trails: Echo Canyon (steeper) and Cholla (longer). Be sure to keep your eyes open for critters like cottontail rabbits, lizards, antelope squirrels and snakes. If you spot one, always give the animal time to move along and never try to touch it.
Do you have a competitive nature? Then post the time it took you to reach the top of the summit—and see how long it took others to get there.
Inside the diverse desert landscape of the Dreamy Draw Recreation Area is its magnificent focal point: Piestewa Peak. Hikers will be tempted to ascend the 1,190-foot trail to the summit. Others less adventuresome can just take out their cameras and snap awe-inspiring pictures.
As far as geology goes, the rock formations here are relatively young—just 14 million years old, when the earth was stretching across the land from the northeast to the southwest. The area's indigenous rock is a metamorphic type of granite known as schist. Long before the location became a tourist attraction, it was used as a mercury mine.
As you might expect, cactus thrive in this part of the Sonoran Desert. In fact, you'll just about every variety found in Arizona. They include saguaro, barrel, hedgehog, pincushion, jumping cholla and prickly pear.
You'll also see colorful flora standing against the painted-desert landscape. Palo Verde, mesquite, ironwood trees, brittle bush and desert lavender all call Dreamy Draw Recreation Area home.


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FS #228: Miracle at St. Anna / The Lucky Ones / Neil Burger / Top 5 Spike Lee Scenes
Sept. 26: This week's Filmspotting Joint is brimming with reviews of two new disparate war films. First up, Sgt. Kempenaar and PFC Ballgame dissect Spike Lee's latest skirmish in the war movie genre with "Miracle at St. Anna."
They then join Tim Robbins, Michael Pena and Rachel MacAdams for some R&R on their leave from the Iraq war in "The Lucky Ones." Plus, Adam sits down for a debriefing with "Lucky Ones" director Neil Burger... and the mission concludes with Filmspotting's Top 5 Spike Lee Scenes. Semper fi, son, semper fi.
Also on the show: Massacre Theatre and music by Posterboy.
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:24-15:21 - Review: "Miracle at St. Anna"
Music: Posterboy
16:14-19:44 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: M. Fussell)
19:45-28:18 - Review: "The Lucky Ones"
29:29-44:25 - Interview: Neil Burger
52:23-1:08:23 - Polls, Top 5: Spike Lee Scenes
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We're going to show you how to set up your camera to photograph balls of light that look like mysterious glowing spheres of energy. You can make these energy balls in any landscape and in any weather, but you do need a bit of extra kit to make it happen.
If you already have a camera and a tripod, this project is a no-brainer. It's light on your wallet and takes up next to no space in your bag. Most of the technique is simple too, though you might need to practice creating the energy balls.
After our first few attempts we found the trickiest part wasn't taking the photo itself, but getting the spin just right to form a perfect sphere. The important thing is to choose a point on level ground to spin your lights over. As you move around that spot, the circles of light you're making will be at slightly different angles to the camera with each step, and all these circles are what creates a ball of light in the final image.
To capture the movement of the light, you'll need to use a long exposure, and that requires a tripod. The only thing moving should be you and the lights.
You don't have to buy expensive lights, but they need to be sturdy enough to survive the spinning process, and portable enough to take on location.
Wear all black, even black shoes. Any clothing of a lighter shade might show up in the final image. White is a definite no-no for this type of shoot!
If your surface is uneven you'll get an uneven ball of light in your photograph, which spoils the overall effect. So, only do this if this is the effect you actually want.
We can't stress enough how much practice it took to get a good-looking sphere. Many of your early attempts will probably be good but not quite right. Unless you're particularly skilled at twirling things already, it might take an hour or two until you get the knack.
We picked up our cheap fairy lights for £1, so you should be able to find something similar. However, they're not ideal for this project straight out of the packet, as all the individual bulbs are spaced out along the length of the cord, rather than in a tight cluster.
Unless you want a big mess, bunch a load of lights at the end of the cord together with a rubber band, then cover any remaining bulbs with gaffer tape to stop the light leaking from them. Now you have a collection of bright lights at the end of the wire to create your sphere.
Head out at dusk for this project. The lights won't show up very much in daylight, and you're going to need to set a very long exposure. The lights will illuminate the immediate vicinity, and that glow will make their trails look like a sphere suspended above the landscape.
This is probably the most overlooked step, and one we had most trouble with on location. Making the energy balls is quite tricky, but if you're on a lopsided rock it's even harder to make a perfect sphere. Practise on level ground before you advance to uneven locations.
Wrap coloured film around the lights to change the colour of your sphere. You could use flashgun gels, plastic acetate bought online or even chocolate wrappers.
If you buy the cheap kind of LED lights like we used, you'll find that the wire is flimsy and prone to breaking if twirled a lot (which is what you're going to be doing). Tape it to another, thicker, wire to protect it. You could use an old USB cable or buy some wire from a hardware shop.
The faster you spin the lights, the quicker your shutter speed can be.
Shutter speed is the most important camera setting when you're creating light spheres. The exposure has to be long enough to capture an entire sphere; we found 25 seconds was long enough if we spun the lights fast, but you may need to experiment.
With the shutter speed set, adjust the aperture until the exposure level indicator lines up with -1.3 on the scale (as you want the image to be darker than a midtone). Take a test shot at IS0 100. If the shot is too light, close down the aperture: if it's too dark, open it up or increase the ISO.
Set the self-timer to 20 seconds, trigger the shutter and get in front of the camera. Spin the lights, and slowly circle around a specific spot on the ground, making sure that the lights pass this spot at the bottom of each revolution. Try to complete a full turn around this spot.


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Wedding Music Planning
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An accomplished young conductor, Trevor Kroeger is Director of Music and Organist at St. Rose Church in Cincinnati, where he founded the Choir of St. Rose in 2014. This professional chamber choir performs for weekly liturgical observances and presents acclaimed concerts of choral masterworks throughout the year. With a repertoire that spans nearly six centuries, the ensemble has been praised for its captivating and refreshing performances of sacred choral music. In August 2018, Trevor accepted the position of Artistic Director of Cincinnati Camerata, an accomplished volunteer chamber choir. In addition to these responsibilities, Trevor is the Assistant Organist at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. Previously, Trevor was the Assistant Conductor for the advanced division of the Cincinnati Boychoir.
When he's not on the podium, Trevor shares his passion for choral music with ensembles throughout Cincinnati, singing regularly with Vocal Arts Ensemble, where he serves as the Bass Section Leader, and Coro Volante, an emerging professional choir dedicated to recording choral music by living composers. He has also sung with the May Festival Chorus, the Choir of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, the Bach Ensemble of St. Thomas, Collegium Cincinnati, and Isaac M. Wise Temple. As a dedicated arts advocate, Trevor proudly serves as the President of the Greater Cincinnati Choral Consortium Board of Directors.
Trevor holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). His conducting mentors include Marie Bucoy-Calavan, Aik Khai Pung, Earl Rivers, and Brett Scott. Trevor has served as a conducting fellow for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Conductors' Symposium, and the Chorus America Choral-Orchestral Conducting Academy. He placed second in the 2019 American Choral Directors Association National Graduate Choral Conducting Competition, held in Kansas City, Missouri. Trevor is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at CCM.
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Co-Head Coaches Alec Rutkowski and Cindy Sommers, along with their assistant coaches, teach new swimmers the basics and help advanced swimmers improve their competitive strokes.
The Quail Valley Swim Team competes in the Columbia Swim League and is consistently on the medal stand at the CSL City Championship meet. Last summer Quail Valley won the meet and is the 2018 Columbia Swim League Champion!
Little Quails is a pre-swim team developmental program for swimmers 3-5 years old working on water adjustment and beginner swimmer skills. The Columbia Swim League does not allow 3 year olds to participate in the meets so all 3 year olds will participate with Little Quails. Four and 5 year olds will be screened on Monday, May 6th to determine if they should participate with the 6 and under swim team practice or begin with the Little Quails pre-swim team program on Monday, June 10th at 10:00 am. Little Quails DO NOT participate in swim meets but 4 and 5 year old Little Quails may be moved up to the 6 and under practice if their progress warrants. Four and 5 year old swimmers comfortable putting their faces in the water for 5 or more seconds, blowing bubbles and performing front and back floats will be placed in the 6 and under swim team practice. Tuesday, May 7th is the first full practice for swimmers age 8 and under. Swimmers ages 4 to 6 participate in swim meets as soon as they can swim a length of the pool independently.
Questions about the swim team? Want to join?
To join our swim team, you must either be a member of Quail Valley Swim & Racquet Club OR register as a Swim Team Only Swimmer. For full membership, first visit here to complete a club membership then complete the new swim team registration online.
The registration link will be open from April 6th – May 6th so register early!
Ready to see you at the pool! Go Quails!!
Head Competition Coach Alec Rutkowski has been part of the Quail Valley Swim Team since he was 9 years old. After a stellar career which boasts many city and state championship swims, he earned a spot on the College of Charleston and then the University of South Carolina Swim Teams. He is currently a physical education teacher in Richland & Lexington School District 5. He has held a coaching position with Quail Valley since he was 15 years old and has experience coaching with the Columbia-based, year-round club, Palmetto Aquatics. Coach Alec's favorite stroke is breastroke.
This year Coach Alec will be sharing head coaching duties with Coach Cindy. In addition to working with swimmers during practice he will take care of all head coaching responsibilities for our swim meets including building/submitting line-ups for the scored A meets and CSL City Championship meet. He will also be the liaison between the Quail Valley Swim Club program and the Columbia Swim League Board.
When he is not coaching he enjoys spending time on the lake and eating Mexican food.
Head Coach Manager Cindy Sommers holds the record for the longest tenure of any active swim coach in the Columbia City League. She has coached the Quail Valley team since 2001. She is currently the Coach of the Irmo High School Swim Team and also coached the girls' and boys' varsity swim teams at Dutch Fork High School for seven years.
Coach Cindy began swimming on a Columbia Swim League swim team when she was 9 years old and continued to compete in the league through the age of eighteen. She also branched out into year round swimming at the age of eleven, eventually earning a spot on the College of Charleston swim team. Her favorite stroke is butterfly.
This year Coach Cindy will be sharing head coaching duties with Coach Alec. She will manage and supervise the coaching staff, supervise practices and the Little Quails Program, act as the liaison between the Quail Valley Swim Team committee and the Quail Valley Swim & Racquet Club Board and work with swimmers during practice.
When not coaching, she loves to teach math, read, kayak, whitewater raft, trail bike ride, complete projects around the house, garden and snuggle with her three dogs and four cats.
Please arrange lessons with instructors. Contact Coach Cindy at cindysommers4@gmail.com if you need contact information for any of the coaches. Thanks!


The students should have visited the lecture "Data Networks" or "Verification".
The course will guide you through a wealth of contemporary research trends in the design of distributed systems with predictable quality of service (QoS).
A first preparatory part is a crash course that brings you to level for the main part if you have followed only one of the required courses.
The main part takes place March 7-18 in room SR 015.
In the main part, each day starts at 09:15 with about three lectures of 45 minutes in the morning, together with exercises held in the early afternoon every second day.
extasy optimisation (if time permits).
Here is how to use the MoToR/Moebius tool. The "reliable data transfer" models in MoDeST can be found here.
Fri, March 18, 2005. Part 1 and Part 2.
Henrik Bohnenkamp, Pedro R. D'Argenio, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen: MoDeST: A compositional modelling formalism for hard and softly timed systems. CTIT TechRep. 04-46.
Here is Figure 1 of this paper in colour.


There are five primary types of term life insurance, each one with its own advantages or intended uses. Choose the type of policy that best suits your needs. Remember that you can have as many term life insurance policies as you need, so it is not necessary to use the same type of policy for every eventuality you are trying to plan for.
Level Term - This is the most common type of policy. It keeps the premiums the same throughout the duration of the policy term. Most term life policies are based on 1-year increments, but it is possible to buy a term life insurance policy for any length of time you want to insure.
Increasing/Decreasing Term - This type of term life policy is variable, meaning that the value of the policy either increases or decreases over time. The premiums usually remain the same throughout the policy.
Renewable Term - This type of term life insurance is designed to be renewable at the end of the initial policy term. Keep in mind that renewing the policy will usually mean paying increased premiums with each renewal, because the odds of personal mortality increase over time.
Convertible Term - A convertible term life policy has the option of converting the policy to a permanent life policy during or at the end of the policy term. Conversion may require paying a lump conversion sum and generally mean paying higher premiums than you would if you had chosen a whole life policy to begin with.
Group Term - This type of policy is intended for groups, and is usually paid for in whole or part by an employer. The benefit of this type of policy is that it is less expensive than other term life policies, but the policy may also include restrictions that would not be faced if purchasing an individual policy.
Is Fireman's Fund a good insurance company?


Amazon's Cyber Monday lightning deals have largely been selling out within minutes, but a few discounts still exist for Xbox 360 owners looking for a good deal on Kinect games.
As of this writing, Amazon's Cyber Monday video game discounts give would-be Kinect buyers $10 (or more) off of 16 different Kinect games. That amounts to a 20% discount, just for shopping online at Amazon today.
Among the Kinect games eligible for Amazon Cyber Monday Kinect sale are Dance Central, Kinect Sports, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Dance Masters and Kinectimals. Each of those games is at least $10 off right now, but you'll have to act fast to get them at that price.
Click here to get that price before it's gone. Or, you can click here to check out all of Amazon's Cyber Monday deals.


Early Bergman, and from the onset it is clear an artist is at work. The first conversation piece, with all 5 waiting women in the same room, is a long shot approaching 4 minutes, with various of the women talking. There are also already some typical Bergman postures, with one woman talking intensely and the one next to her staring vapidly past her downwards, seemingly lost in her own inner world. All that in well and good, but as soon as I heard the first monotonous monologue from the mother, her eyes turning to heaven, speaking of how she can not reach out to her husband", not even to scratch his eyes out, my Bergman-radar immediately hit the red zone. And surely enough, we are in for group therapy all the way, as each woman tells of one significant episode from their lives with their husbands. But it is a very elegant movie, and along the way you become quite sympathetic, even though all the stories describe infidelity and frigid bourgeous lives. My eye was caught by Eva Dahlbeck, who I also recently saw in Sommarnöje sökes. Here, at 32, she is sizzlingly hot. Overall it is a movie not to be missed by Bergman lovers, if mainly for historical reasons. His next movie was Monika, so this one can be said to commence his golden period. For the trivia-consumers: IMDb informs that Eva Dahlbeck has recently filed for divorce, after, ahem, 67 years of marriage. You go, girl!


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Q: Exclude anything inside double quotes in Java I am doing my FYP and i am numbering all the blocks in any java code. My program takes a java code file as input then identify blocks inside it. like
class A{/*B1*/
  public static void all(){/*B2*/
    int a=10;
    /*B3*/if(a>10){/*B4*/

    }
  }
}

I have done all this but my problem is when if, for , else or any such word comes in double quotes my program gives a block to it as well while it should not as per my requirements. Now i just want to not number anything inside double quotes.

A: So change your scanning code (which you haven't posted so I can't be more specific) to ignore anything inside quotes. You will also want to ignore anything inside Java comments as well.
For example you could have a boolean inQuote that you set to true when you reach a quote mark and false when you leave it.
While inQuote is true then ignore anything you find.


CHICAGO — Snip, snip, abbreviate the scissors went, acid up United-Chase acclaim cards and common flyer affiliate cards.
Phyllis Brown told CNN is acid up his United MileagePlus Agenda afterwards Delta booted a man off an overbooked flight.
The accessible abuse flared on amusing media afterwards a commuter was abject off a United flight at Chicago O'Hare Airport.
Aninda Sadhukhan visited his shredder to actuate of his United MileagePlus Explorer agenda with Chase Bank on Monday night afterwards he canceled the account. It's a abeyant biking cede for the IT auditor, who lives in Indianapolis and and flies United frequently.
His "general disatisfaction" with aerial United in the accomplished few years, some issues with the acclaim agenda rewards affairs and videos of added bad adventures on United all contributed to his decision, he said. But the images of what happened to the commuter actuality removed from the alike were too abundant for him.
"The blood-soaked pictures were bridge a red band for me," the 35-year-old told CNN.
Others with the aforementioned acclaim agenda took agnate measures to appearance their acrimony with the airline.
"Cutting up my United acclaim agenda in beef of their contempo barbarous analysis of a acknowledged advantageous passenger. Please do the same," wrote Phyllis Brown on Facebook.
Some bodies alike went through the agitation of award their common flyer cards to chop them up in beef and acknowledge they were done with United.


From the legendary Jim Henson Company, Dinosaur Train is an animated series for 3-6 year olds that encourages basic scientific thinking skills as kids learn about life science, natural history and paleontology. Each half hour episode features Buddy, an adorable preschool age Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his adoptive Pteranodon family as they board the Dinosaur Train and embark on whimsical voyages through jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans. Dinosaur Train is available now for corporate sponsorship.


The further redacted affidavits filed in the Miller case are now available online. Two interesting facts have struck Just One Minute commenters as we skim through this newly available material.
First, Fitzgerald granted Ari Fleischer immunity without requiring him to provide waivers, so that Fitzgerald could not confirm Ari's story with reporters. This seems remarkable, and when you add to it that Fitzgerald claimed in court that he granted immunity to Fleischer without having any idea what he'd testify to, it is astonishing. It may explain why he believed for so long that Libby had been the source to Walter Pincus, who at trial testified it was not Libby, but Fleischer who told him about Plame.
48. The investigation of Armitage's conduct is near complete and, indeed, Armitage testified for the second (and final) time before the grand jury on September 22, 2004. Armitage testified that he did not recall discussing Wilson's employment with any reporter other than Novak prior to July 14, 2003, and specifically denied any recollection of discussing the matter with Cooper or any of his Time colleagues.
LARRY KING: Doesn't it appear a little that way though when your other source won't let it be public who he or she is? That sounds conspiratorial.
I made efforts to get the source, this year, earlier, and last year, to give me some information about this so I could put something in the newspaper or a book. So, I could get information out, and totally failed.
Then, the day of the indictment I read the charges against Libby and looked at the press conference by the special counsel and he said the first disclosure of all of this was on June 23rd, 2003 by Scooter Libby, the vice president's chief of staff to "New York Times" reporter Judy Miller.
I went, whoa, because I knew I had learned about this in mid- June, a week, ten days before, so then I say something is up. There's a piece that the special counsel does not have in all of this.
I then went into incredibly aggressive reporting mode and called the source the beginning of the next week and said "Do you realize when we talked about this and exactly what was said?"
And the source in this case at this moment, it's a very interesting moment in all of this, said "I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth."
And so, I realized I was going to be dragged into this that I was the catalyst and then I asked the source "If you go to the prosecutor am I released to testify" and the source told me yes. So it is the reporting process that set all this in motion.
It's easy to see why the prosecution fought so hard to keep this material from the public eye. I can't wait to see the still redacted portions of the prosecutor's affidavit and the opinion.
Each bit of information makes this prosecution look more focused on finding a scapegoat--Libby- than on finding out the truth.
In reading the Sept 2004 affidavit I am slack-jawed about the Cooper testimony - Cooper apparently testified that he had heard about Plame from one government source (presumably Rove) and one reporter prior to talking with Libby on July 12. The affidavit also says that "it appears likely" that the reporter in question was John Dickerson, since Ari claimed to have leaked to him and David Gregory on July 11.
But Dickerson denied that, and I don't recall Cooper contradicting Dickerson at the trial.


Nashville isn't just a great place to come eat, drink, ride a pedal tavern and take a selfie with a mural. It's also a great place to read about, no matter how old you are. That's why today's Valentine gift idea is all about Nashville books.
Whether it's looking and what makes Nashville so Nashville, learning how to cook Nashville, or sharing Nashville with the next generation, we've got books that have got you covered.


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Facebook's ad library still shows some political ads as 'active' despite ban
Nathan Ingraham
In advance of the 2020 US presidential election, Facebook said it would temporarily ban political, electoral and "social issue" advertisement starting on November 4th, the day after the election. Well, today is the day after election day, and CNBC is reporting that some political ads are still showing as "active" on the platform's ad library despite this planned restriction, which was announced nearly a month ago. However, Facebook has confirmed that the ads are not delivering impressions to users, which essentially means that they aren't visible to anyone using the site.
As of this morning, CNBC had found dozens of active ads, but it appears the explanation is pretty straightforward. A Facebook spokesperson said that such ads were paused at midnight, but it could take up to 24 hours for the changes to be reflected in Facebook's political ad library.
Political ads were paused as of midnight on Nov 4. Once an ad has been actioned (e.g. paused, stopped or deleted – whether by FB or by the advertiser) it can take up to 24 hours to reflect that action in the Ad Library. Ad Library data will soon reflect that.
— Rob Leathern (@robleathern) November 4, 2020
Rob Leathern, a product manager at Facebook, posted on Twitter noting that when an ad is paused, deleted or stopped, it can take that 24 hour period for the changes to show up. This is the case whether the advertiser itself stopped the campaign, or if Facebook made the change (as is the case here). From Leathern's tweets, it sounds like the ads were paused at midnight as planned and that this is just a big database catching up. Since Facebook has confirmed that the ads are viewable by users of the site, this is more of a technical issue than the company not delivering on what it said it would do.
Update, 10:50AM ET: Added details from Facebook confirming that political ads aren't delivering impressions to Facebook users.
Active Despite Facebook's Library Political Shows Some Still


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import com.conveyal.gtfs.model.Entity;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * This is an interface for classes to create, update, or delete a GTFS entity given an Integer ID and/or JSON string.
 * Created by landon on 2017-12-20
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public interface TableWriter <T extends Entity> {

    // FIXME: add optional auto-commit boolean so that additional changes can be made?
    String create (String json, boolean autoCommit) throws SQLException, IOException;

    String update (Integer id, String json, boolean autoCommit) throws SQLException, IOException;

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The Loss Of Patrick Day Is Particularly Painful for Charles Conwell
"Dear Patrick Day," undefeated super welterweight Charles Conwell wrote in an open letter made public on Monday, "I never meant for this to happen to you. All I ever wanted to do was win. If I could take it all back I would no one deserves for this to happen to them." Conwell was addressing his opponent from last Saturday night in Chicago, Patrick Day, of Freeport, New York. Conwell stopped Day in the 10th round on the undercard of the Oleksandr Usyk-Chazz Witherspoon bout, which was aired live on the DAZN streaming service. Conwwell had dropped the game Day twice during the fight before finally knocking the 27 year old out later in the bout.
Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing Twitter Account
Day lost consciousness and never recovered. He passed away Wednesday at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital from a brain bleed presumably suffered during, or as a result of, the fight. As of press time, Conwell had not publicly commented on Day's death. It's been abundantly clear, however, that the Cleveland, Ohio native is deeply distraught by what has happened.
"I replay the fight over and over in my head," Conwell says in the letter, "thinking what if this never happened and why did it happen to you. I can't stop thinking about it myself I prayed for you so many times and shedded so many tears because I couldn't even imagine how my family and friends would feel." Conwell admits in the letter that he has considered quitting the sport since last Saturday.
"I see you everywhere I go," he wrote, "and all I hear is wonderful things about you. I thought about quitting boxing but I know that's not what you would want I know that you were a fighter at heart so I decided not to but to fight and win a world title because that's what you wanted and that's what I want so I'll use you as motivation every day and make sure I always leave it all in the ring every time."
Day's trainer, Joseph Higgins, has offered his support to the man who bested his fighter. "Hello Charles, " Higgins stated, via Twitter, "I am Patrick Day's trainer Joe Higgins. I just wanted you to know that we do understand what you must be going thru as well. As devastated as we are we realize you are equally devastated. We know if it was the other way around we would be just as distraught."
Conwell's sorrow at the tragedy his opponent suffered at his hands has turned the rising fighter into a sympathetic figure in his own right. It's a thoroughly horrible position for any person, especially someone as young as the 21 year old Conwell, to be in. Yet he has, in a sense, brought people to his aid as well. Higgins, who was the general in Day's camp the night of the fight, knows all too well what Conwell is going through. "I too am distraught," Higgins tweeted, "because I feel responsible, but do realize there is no fault. Stay strong and please don't think we blame you."
There are no villains in this story.