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Postcards from the Edge | A Letter to Compromising People | Revelation 2:12-17 | Week 4
This morning, we're going to be looking at the third letter in our series of these letters Jesus sent, through the Apostle John, to the churches in the book of Revelation.
I've had a love for coffee ever since my days in college. I actually worked for Starbucks while I was in college. This year, my obsession has grown a little bit. I've crossed over into 'craft' coffee now. Basically, it means I'm a snob, and I'm proud of it. (One year, I gave up coffee for Lent and I never felt so far away from Jesus in my life!) I was a few months into my "craft coffee" stage when I noticed my coffee tasted a little bit different from day to day. What was going on was I didn't know exactly how many beans to put in my coffee; what the bean-to-water mixture should be. #thestruggleisreal I was lamenting this to my wife Kelly and she was looking at me like I'm growing a third eye. She just Keurigs it and she's done in one minute. But for me, this is a whole process. I've had a number of friends tell me I should buy a scale so I can weigh my coffee beans and water, so I can make sure I've got the right combination of water and coffee beans. I hopped on Amazon and two days later my scale was there in the mail. Every morning I use it, my wife makes fun of me. But I'll tell you what, I've got the right ratio now of beans to water.
As a follower of Jesus, we live in a world where it can be hard to know how much of the world is infiltrating us and how much of the world we're infiltrating, can't it? It can be hard to know, in a myriad of different thoughts and different ideas, how much of it's seeping in and how much of it's being kept out. Sometimes the Bible is really clear on 'this is how to live and to follow the way of Jesus,' but sometimes it's a little bit murky, isn't it? If we try to align ourselves and our lives with the way of Jesus and the heart of Jesus—which is what it means to be a disciple—we can wrestle, even with the Scriptures, with Lord, how much should I reflect my culture? If our answer is not at all, well, I think we're being disingenuous. And I also think we're being inconsistent in what the Scriptures actually teach. Let me give you an example: In Acts 15, they have this thing called the Jerusalem Council. They decide a number of things that followers of Jesus MUST do and circumcision wasn't one of them. All the men that they were writing to did a little jig when they got that letter back. They also said don't eat food sacrificed to idols, so the church said great. Then if you look at 1 Corinthians 8, Paul writes to the church at Corinth and says listen, an idol isn't anything at all, don't worry about eating food sacrificed to idols. If it doesn't make somebody else stumble, it's just meat. Well, how do we do this dance? What does it look like to, as Jesus said, be in the world but not of the world? What does it look like to live true to the gospel in a cultural setting that we are genuinely in? That's an okay thing. There's beautiful things about our culture that as followers of Christ we should look at and go that's awesome, that's great, that's wonderful. And then there's things that don't align with our DNA as followers of Jesus. {Look up at me for just a second.} Have you ever wrestled with how do we decide which is which? Have you ever wrestled with man, is there too much water in this? Is it a little bit watered down, or am I living true to the way of Jesus? If you've ever struggled with that….and my guess is that if you're a follower of Christ here today, you've struggled with that on some level. If you're not a follower of Christ, let me challenge you to try to think through ways that you've struggled with the same thing, because we all have a set of ideals. We have a set of beliefs. We have a set of standards. Sometimes those get watered down, whether we follow Jesus or not. So you can relate to what Jesus writes to the church at Pergamum about.
Revelation 2:12. We're going to jump in to this church that maybe had a little bit too much water in their pour-over coffee. And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. Time out. That's his intro, and if you've been with us over the last few weeks, you know that Jesus customizes his introduction to each church to the setting that their in so that they go, oh, we can relate to this, Jesus. Keep that in mind. Pergamum was fifteen miles inland and just north of Ephesus and Smyrna. Pergamum was known as the capital of the Roman Empire in Asia Minor. It had been for roughly 400 years. It was a powerful city. There was a hill in the back of the city that you could see from almost anywhere in the city. It was between 800 to 1,000 feet tall. On the top of that hill, there was an altar to the god Zeus. You could often see a flame rising as people would put incense into the altar. They would burn it and bow and worship Zeus, or they would worship Caesar, or they would worship another god named Asclepius, the god of healing. Pergamum was known as a pluralistic city, many gods. As were all of these, back in the day. It was also known for a library that housed roughly 2,000 scrolls. That was a lot of books back in that day. Pergamum was a "culturally relevant" city. It had a 10,000 seat amphitheater, where they would have plays and gather together. The most impressive temple they had was the temple to Caesar, where people would come and bow, and they would participate in what was called the 'imperial cult,' which was the worship of the Roman emperor. This was very common in Pergamum. Pergamum, being the capital of the Roman Empire in Asia Minor, had a right that was absent from many of the other cities that we've studied thus far. They were able to exact capital punishment on behalf of the Roman Empire. No other city in this region could do that. Often the way that that happened was by way of the sword.
So, you have this city…..this city that's built on pluralism. Rome saying, "What's one more god? Just worship one more god." A city that's, in many ways, revolving around Caesar worship, has this other god, Asclepius, which was the god of healing. He was personified by snakes. In the temple of Pergamum, there would be a number of snakes on the ground. The way that you were healed by this god was that you would go down and you would lie on the floor of the temple and all of the snakes would slither over you. So it's no coincidence that because this god was worshipped in Pergamum, their coin reflected it. You can still see that crest of the serpent on the Royal Army Medical Corps crest today. That's why.
This is Pergamum, so it's no coincidence that this is the city where capital punishment was allowed on behalf of the Roman Empire. If you went against Rome, that's what you got. And it's no coincidence that Jesus opens his letter with: The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. He goes hey, you want to talk about swords? You want to talk about power? You want to talk about empire? You want to talk about influence? He says I have power and I have influence, but it's not the kind of sword that kills. It's the kind of sword that pierces to the heart and redeems. Let's talk about two kinds of power, Jesus says. And that's his intro. And that's this church. Just sort of anecdotally. . . . .because Pergamum had that big hill in the back, it was an easily defensible city. Back in the days of Alexander and beyond, it was the city that housed 9,000 talents of gold, which is roughly $11.5 billion of gold, today. It was sort of the Fort Knox of the early world. That's who Jesus is writing to.
If you've been here over the last few weeks, you'll remember that typically the way that Jesus writes these letters is by beginning with something really, really good that the church is doing. He transitions into something that he's calling them to correct. He moves on to an instruction he's giving specifically to the church he's writing to. It's the same pattern he follows here in this passage. Revelation 2:13 — I know where you dwell, {Literally, this word 'dwell' would mean that you have your permanent home in this place. You're not a sojourner, you're not an alien, you're not just passing through. This is where you live "permanently."} …where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. {Now, look up at me for just a moment.} Do you think it's any coincidence that Rome has its seat of power of Asia Minor in Pergamum and Jesus says, "This is where Satan has his throne?" Not a trick question. Absolutely NOT a coincidence! One of the things we do when we read the Scriptures is we typically bring an image and we bring baggage to the text that is often stories we've heard. When I read 'Satan,' I imagine a demonic figure with pointy ears and a red pointy tail and has a pitchfork in his hand. Jesus goes well actually, Satan (or 'the satan,' Hasatan) is a lot more like the Roman Empire than he is like a demon with a pitchfork. Don't let anybody ever tell you that the Bible doesn't confront and deal with things like systemic injustice, or racism, or empires that put people down and abuse those who are on the lowest rungs of their society. Jesus has very, very strong words for this empire, so strong that he says that they're Satan. There's power, there's this demonic power, behind the rise of this empire and they are just destroying the lives of people. There's a spiritual power and authority behind corrupt and abusive empires. That's what Jesus says.
Then he says something else that's fascinating. You dwell there. You live in the lion's den, church of Pergamum. What I want to read is 'and I'm coming to get you.' Help is on the way! But that's not what he says. He says you dwell there and you've been faithful. Good for you. You've been faithful even to the point of death. Here's what I want us to just lean into today….it's a difficult truth in the Scriptures, but this is what Jesus is teaching us. God designed us to influence the darkness, not to escape the uncomfortable. God designed us to influence the darkness, to impact evil, not to escape the uncomfortable. I don't know about you, but escape sounds a lot better and easier some days. Is anybody with me? Like, if we could just pull the rip cord and get out of the furnace, that's typically the choice that we would make. I love the way Eugene Peterson, the great pastor and author, puts it: "The church is designed to be the colony of heaven in the midst of the empire." The people of God—surrounded by evil, and pain, and abuse, and coercion, and corruption, and loss. Think about it. This is God's plan from the very beginning. This is the way he operates all throughout the Scriptures. That Abram, in Genesis 12—go back and read it this week—is called out of his "world," to be a voice of hope and blessing back into his world. But Abraham's only a blessing if he stands distinct, if he's different. He's not a blessing if he looks exactly like all the people who are worshipping a myriad of different gods and idolatry in his society. He's a blessing if he has a voice back in.
God's design for you and I is that his church would be a redemptive community, standing distinct from but passionate for, his world. Different, but passionate for. It's easy to be different and against, isn't it? We're different and we're loud and we'll tell you exactly how we're different. . . .and how you're wrong. Or, it's easy to be for, right? To just be a part of, just going along with it, whatever. More water in that coffee, right? But to be distinct from, but passionately for, that's the calling of the church. I think the Apostle Peter says it really, really well when he says this: But you are a chose race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9) You're different so that you can speak back into and be a voice, passionate change, and life, and love, and goodness, and wholeness. William Barclay, the great commentator, writes this: "The person who is not prepared to be different ned not start on the Christian way at all." Oh man, not a lot of tattoos of that one these days. That's something we go, oh man, we know that the Scriptures say that, but that can be hard to live sometimes, can't it?
Well, it was hard for the church at Pergamum, too. Verse 14 — But I have a few things against you. . . {Quick time out. He says well, you're standing up to Satan, which seems like quite the accomplishment, but I have a few things against you. We can survive some of the massive onslaughts of faith, but it's the little things that start to creep in, isn't it? You've stood up to Satan, but there's some other areas that you're starting to drift. Just a little bit more water.} …you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. There's this word play going on between this word 'Balaam,' which means 'to lord over,' in Hebrew, and 'the Nicolaitans,' which means 'lorded over.' Most scholars think he's talking about the same group of people, and he uses this story from the Old Testament about Balaam to illustrate his point. If you want to read more about Balaam, I'd encourage you to read Number 25-29, but let me give you the CliffNotes version of that story, because it's really important to the context of what Jesus is writing to the church about.
Balaam was a prophet. He was a prophet for hire. Balak was the King of Midian and he hired him to cast a bad curse over the people of God, over the Israelites. Balaam said to Balak, "I can only prophesy what God said." If God gives a blessing, I can give it. If God gives a curse, I can give it, but I can't come up with anything on my own. Balak tells him great, do your work. Balaam stands up and prophesies this beautiful blessing over the people of Israel. Balak's like, hey, I'm paying you to curse these people, not to bless them. How 'bout we go for round 2? Balaam says, "Okay, but I can only do what God wants me to do." He does the exact same thing again. Beautiful blessing over the people of God. Balak's like, "I want my money back!" What Balaam says is you're making this way to difficult. You don't need to curse the people of God; get the most beautiful women you have and go have them do a dance in front of the men of Israel, and they will fall in love with them, and they will want to marry them. Eventually, they will be worshipping your gods. You'll win them over through their affection for your women and eventually they'll be destroyed because of their idolatry. Balak thinks it's a good idea and does it. It worked. It's a tale as old as time, though, really. You look at King Solomon's trajectory in his life. . . it's the very thing that gets him off as well.
The Nicolaitans, in this day and time, were sort of a group that was reflective or similar to Balaam. They had a similar tactic. Their tactic was hey, Christians, it's no big deal if you go to the temple and visit a temple prostitute. It's no big deal if you bow the knee to Caesar; what's one god in addition to Yahweh, the True God. It's. No. Big. Deal. They stood up to Satan and they were starting to be destroyed by the Nicolaitans. The Nicolaitans argued that God's more concerned about your spiritual life than he is your body. Do whatever you want with your physical body, as long as worship God. In the ancient world, it was this heresy, this untruth, called dualism. Do whatever you want with your body, as long as you continue to worship and your spirit is healthy. What Christians have believed, and what Christians have ALWAYS believed, is that we are integrated beings. We are holistic people. We can't be completely unhealthy and going against the stream of what our convictions say on a physical level, and healthy spiritually. That cannot happen. That cannot be. Followers of Jesus have a far more complex and connected and unified understanding of what it means to be human. It ALL matters! Our bodies matter. Our sexuality matters. Our thoughts matter. Matter matters. We've been accused of being, and I think rightfully so, the most materialistic religion in the world. We say it matters. It ALL matters.
If we begin with this. . . . .Jesus calls us to live sometimes in the lion's den. He calls us to influence the darkness, not to escape the uncomfortable. We have to recognize that the next domino to drop is that potential for influence brings opportunity for compromise. Potential for influence, by definition, because we want to influence the darkness, we want to influence evil, we want to love in the face of people pushing it back against us, has the greatest opportunity for compromise. Think about it — when you're in an argument with your spouse. . . . That's what we call it as followers of Jesus. It's not a fight. . . .it's a disagreement, okay? In that moment, there's an opportunity either for influence or for compromise. Will I continue to love even when it's difficult? When you're faced with an opportunity at work to maybe cut a few corners, get ahead, and everybody else is doing it, you have in that moment the opportunity to either influence people towards integrity, towards good, towards honesty, or to compromise. The more opportunities we have to influence, the greater the pressure will be to compromise. Right? This is what we see happening in this world.
Notice the two things that are compromised: You're eating food sacrificed to idols, or you're going in the way of idolatry, AND you're practicing sexual immorality. Now, let's lay this over the teachings of Jesus. Jesus taught that there are two greatest commands. In fact, if you want to keep every other command, just keep these two and by definition, the others will fall underneath it. Love God and love others. The interesting part about what happened in the church at Pergamum is their compromise. . . . they're sort of taking a little bit of water to what God had intended them to live and just saying we'll just have a little of our culture in here and we'll just add a little bit of this. They went contrary to the two greatest commands Jesus had given them. Love God. . . .and they started to practice idolatry. Love others. . . .and they started to use other people. That's the opposite of love. It's not typically adverse hatred, it's typically I'm going to use you in order to get what I really want. Which is what sexual immorality is, because God designed us to live lives of love, to live lives of fidelity, to live lives of commitment and covenant. When we go against that, we go against the very DNA of the way God has designed us to live.
If a person wrongs me, I have the opportunity either for influence or compromise. Will I forgive in the way of Jesus and stay true and have an integrity of my soul to say this is the way that I want to live, or will I retaliate? When I get in an argument with my spouse, is it influence or is it compromise? We could go through a ton of different examples. I think Jesus is saying that there's more than one way for Satan to defeat you. It can either be an overt attack—like a roaring lion looking for someone to destroy. Or, maybe a little more like a Trojan horse, that just sneaks in and becomes a part of your life and eventually you realize that there's an enemy in it, and you've cozied up to it. Your convictions, and your ideals, and your beliefs eventually are starting to get pushed more and more and more to the peripheral of who you are.
I was reading about this interesting "study" that was done by the TV show, Candid Camera. They did this study. . . .this was back a number of decades ago, where they had three actors. They would wait for somebody to get into an elevator and then they would open it on the next floor. All three of the actors would get in and face against the back door. The person was sort of like, "What in the world is going on here?" The next floor, there was one more person (an actor as well) who would get in and look at the back door also. Every single person that found themselves in the elevator eventually turned around.
I don't know about you, but when Jesus talks about freeing our lives from anger, sometimes it's easier to turn around and go with the flow, isn't it? That's just a part of living. When Jesus talks about forgiving our enemies, can't it just be way easier to compromise? When Jesus talks about a sexual ethic that's built around fidelity, that's built around honor, that's built around covenant, isn't it easier to just go with the way that it seems like everything else is going? Isn't it easier to turn around? I think the truth of the matter is, friends, that the greatest danger in the Christian life is not that we'd lose our faith, but that we'd synchronize it with everything going on in our culture. Jesus plus it. Jesus plus whatever sort of makes me feel good. If you're wrestling with that today, let me try to get into the DNA of compromise. The DNA of how we start to live contrary to our ideals. No man who cheats on his wife ever thinks, "You know, that's what I planned when I stood at the altar." No one! No one who gets caught stealing money from their company ever thought that's where they'd get to or where they'd be. It always, ALWAYS, carries this burden of I never thought life would be like that. Maybe, just maybe, God will use this Scripture as a word for you today to say, "You've turned around but it's not too late."
I saw this "Babylon Bee" article that I thought just beautifully summarized what we're talking about today. The "Babylon Bee" is a parody, a satire, a Christian blog. They wrote: Man Bravely Abandons Unpopular Christian Belief to Affirm Extremely Popular Belief. I thought yeah, yeah. I think in many ways we're guilty, right?
Here's how compromise begins: We minimize. We go well, it's really not that big of a deal. For a follower of Christ it's like God's way is one way, but it may not be the only way. We minimize. The next thing that happens is we theorize. Typically it looks like — God's greatest goal is my ultimate happiness. Then the equation in our mind is X will make me happy, therefore God must want X for me, therefore I should do it. Even if I can't find anything in the Scriptures that would back up my perspective, I'm theorizing. Here's another way it sometimes looks — There's exceptions to every rule. . . .and I'm the exception! Finally, we rationalize. Sometimes we even rationalize after the fact. It's: I blew it, so who cares. No one else in my company does anything ethically anyway, so why should I? No big deal; it's just a little glance, it's just a little click on that website, it's just a little. . . .no big deal. Eventually this minimize/theorize/rationalize leads to—this is why Jesus is so passionate about writing to his church going, "You guys, wake up! You're letting everything infiltrate and you're not influencing. Wake up!" This is Jesus's heart. You're walking down a road that eventually is going to lead to your death. And I don't want that for you, he says. I've designed you for better. I've designed you for more.
Then he has this beautiful word. It may be one of the most beautiful words in all of the Scriptures. Therefore repent. (Rev. 2:16) You've turned around. You're along with everybody else now, but repent means literally 'to change your mind,' or 'to turn around.' It's not too late. Regardless of how far you've walked down that path, it's not too late. Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them {These are the people who are in with the Nicolaitans.} with the sword of my mouth. I will convict of sin. I will point towards righteousness. I will call home. . . .come on, you guys, come on! Then he gives this great promise.
So that's the command, right? We've walked through Jesus's commendation, Jesus's condemnation, Jesus's instruction, repent. Then there's this promise that comes and oh my goodness, it's awesome! He who has an ear, {If you're here this morning and you're going maybe that's me. . . . .maybe there's like a disproportionate amount of the world and faith in my life. He's going okay, okay, great, great, listen up!} …let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers. . . Or, to the one who overcomes, or to the one who's victorious. Let's stop there. In this instance, what does it mean to conquer? It means to stay true to who you are as a follower of Christ. It means to stay true to the two greatest commands — to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love others as yourself. To not bow the knee to another god, and to not use people instead of loving people, that's what it means. Jesus goes, to the one who turns, to the one who repents, to the one who comes back. . . .and is therefore, because they did that, victorious. Here's what he's saying: devoted commitment guards against destructive compromise. The best thing you can do. . . .if you're going man, I'm worried if I'm walking down that path of adding just a little bit more water into my coffee. I'm worried about that. Jesus would say here's the anecdote, here's what to do. You don't need to dissect every little thing, just bow and worship. Just come to my throne. Just submit your life. Just surrender. That's what victory looks like.
I read this story about a 12-year-old girl who was in class, and she was eating chicken nuggets. This boy looked at her and said, "Hey, give me one of those." She said, "No way!" The boy followed her down to the subway, took a gun out, put it to her head and said, "Give me some of those nuggets." She slapped the gun away and said, "Absolutely not!" I'm like, holy nuggets, Batman, right? I thought what would it look like to be a follower of Jesus to be THAT convinced of my convictions? Don't let a 12-year-old girl and her nuggets outdo you!
As you live the devoted life, here's what's going to happen: …I will give some of the hidden manna. You could read this as sustenance, as life, as bread, as goodness, as Jesus himself. So, as you live a devoted life, you are going to be filled up with life abundant, spiritual sustenance, to continue to keep you going along the way. Jesus said this in John 4:34 — My food {The thing that fills me up.} is to do the will of him who sent me. Here's what we see in this passage and others all throughout the Scriptures: Obedience reveals unseen sustenance. Maybe the reason that you're struggling in your life with Jesus is because you're resisting the way of Jesus. You're resisting obedience to Him. You're saying, just a little more water, that's fine, no big deal. Jesus says, oh man, if you just let me, I would fill you up time and time and time again, but I will not fill somebody who's living contrary to my way. I can't do it. I can't give you gasoline in your car, if you're going to drive it off the cliff. I can't do it.
Here's the second thing He says: …and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. Back in the first century, they used white stones for a number of things. One of them was if you were on a jury, you would take a white stone if you wanted to vote for somebody to be innocent. There would be a jar that you would drop it in and you'd be saying that you were casting your vote for innocence. The other usage was for an entrance to an Olympic game. You'd get a white stone as almost a ticket. See this imagery Jesus is painting? It's brilliant. You're innocent. You're in.
But he also says that there's a new name written on it. What's fascinating about that is these little stones were something the people in the ancient world would carry around in their pocket. They'd write the name of a god on them. It was sort of like a charm, a way to say 'May this god protect me.' Jesus reverses that a little bit and says instead of writing my name of that stone, I'm going to write YOUR name on that stone as a reminder of who you really are. Church of Pergamum, quit running contrary to the way of love, to the way of Jesus, to the way of fidelity, to the way of honesty, to the way of integrity. Quit running against that. Quit compromising. Instead, may your fidelity, may your trust in Jesus, expose a new identity. A new name. Like Abram becoming Abraham. Like Jacob becoming Israel. Like Saul becoming Paul. This would remind us who we really are. I don't know where you're at with Jesus today, and I don't know if you've been living in this place of adding a little bit more water, but I do know his invitation this morning is come home. You've turned around, come home. That invitation is always open, if you are still breathing, if you're still longing. . . . . .come home! What I'm convinced of today is that in all the things that we've said, and in all the ways that we've unpacked the Scriptures, the most powerful thing you can take away from this is maybe, just maybe, hearing a whisper of what that name is over your life today.
The name Pergamum means 'married.' This new name is this picture of commitment, it's this picture of covenant. {Ryan points out the bowls of white pebbles.} Here's what your invitation to practice is this week. I'm going to invite you to come and get a white rock. During this song, I'm going to ask that you prayerfully consider. . . .you can kneel on the stairs, or at your seat, or you can stand or sit and sing. . . .would you ask that Jesus just speak a word over your soul today? Of who you really are. Maybe it's the word beloved. Maybe it's the word pure. Maybe you're feeling weak today and his word over you is strong or warrior. Would you ask, "Jesus, what's my name? Help me live with integrity in line with who you say I am." We live in the place of influence, friends, all around us, which means that there's temptation for compromise. Let's remind ourselves who God is and who we are, that we might live all the more for him, for our joy and for the glory of his name. Let's pray.
Jesus, we want to be the kind of people who live true to who you say we are. We want to love you and we want to love others; we don't want to bow to other things and use other people. Lord, we want to live with integrity, to the deepest parts of our being. So, Lord, remind us this morning what you say about us and may what you say about us drive how we live in your world. In Jesus's name. Amen.

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Fugitive Shot After Attempting to Run Over Deputy U.S. Marshall, LIVINGSTON, June 9, 2009 - Rayford Leach, a fugitive from justice wanted on a felony warrant, was shot by a Deputy with the U.S. Marshals sponsored Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force after he attempted to run over law enforcement officers attempting to serve the warrant.
Leach was wanted by the State of Texas for a Parole Violation stemming from an earlier conviction for Aggravated Robbery. Deputy U.S. Marshals, Agents with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Office of Inspector General, and Officers with the Livingston Police Department were conducting surveillance of a RV Park where Leach was reported to be living with a girlfriend. At approximately 4:30PM Leach was observed driving north on U.S. Highway 59 in a gold Chevrolet Malibu. Officers attempted to block Leach in as he was sitting at a red light at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 190. As Officers approached the vehicle Leach threw it into reverse striking the vehicle behind him and then put it in drive and attempted to ram through the barricade. At that time a Deputy U.S. Marshal, fearing for his life, fired on Leach as he was attempting to run over Deputies and other Officers at the scene.
Leach received a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and was transported by life flight to Herman Hospital in Houston, Texas. A Deputy U.S. Marshal was transported to a local hospital in Livingston, the extent of his injuries are unknown at this time. Currently an investigation into the incident is underway and is being conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Ranger Service.
Four Texas Rangers were dispatched to investigate.
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16-Year-Old Unmade Bed Sold For $4 Million Because Art
Seth Richardson Contributor
A bed which hasn't been made for 16 years sold for more than $4 million at a Christie's art auction Tuesday, CNN reports.
The bed is actually an art installation by Tracey Emin, who appropriately calls the piece "My Bed." She spent four days on it in 1998 while she was "heartbroken and feeling terrible." After she got out of the bed she decided it was now art instead of making it like most people.
"Suddenly I had this vision of taking it out of the bedroom space and putting it into a white gallery space," she told CNN. "It suddenly made sense. Wow this is fantastic artwork."
The piece was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, an annual award given to a British visual artist under the age of 50.
But it's not just a bed. Also in the installation are an ashtray full of cigarettes, empty liquor bottles, dirty panties and a 16-year-old condom that we don't know why she had for four days while she was alone.
Christie's declined to comment on who the buyer was.
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Q: Practical Project Validation Error Thank you for troubleshooting some of my code when I was attempting to run the validator.  I'm working on a math project and had more code here that I seem to be having more errors with.  I'm trying to work through the errors slowly but will retry in the morning.  What do you guys think?
      <!Doctype html>
      <head>
      <Title 1. Mathematics Review </title>
      <script type ='text/javascript'>
      Var someValue;
      someValue='2+2=4';
      someValue='5+2=7';
      alert (someValue);
      </script>
      </head>
      </html>

A: There are lots of error in your code, I will explain them step by step.
In the first line, it should be:
<!DOCTYPE html>

Next, in the third line, you are missing a > symbol and should not make the first letter in the tag  capitalized. So it should be:
<title> 1. Mathematics Review </title>

When you are declaring a variable in javascript, you should use var, not Var. The fifth line should be:
var someValue;

At line six and seven, I don't know what you want to do.
If you are telling javascript to calculate an equation, you should do this:
someValue = 2+2 //not in qotes, and
someValue = 5+2

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Flutter app developmet – What is it? How does it work?
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Flutter app development is gaining popularity day by day as it can help in making almost any kind of mobile app that you want. Read this blog to find out why you should use flutter and how it works.
Flutter is one of the preferred choices for creating cross-platform applications as it allows developers to write a single codebase for platforms like iOS and Android. It is quite a developer-friendly framework due to its characteristics such as quick rendering, native end-user experience, and more user-centered designs. To help you gain more knowledge about the same, Let's begin with understanding more about flutter app development.
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Народна демократска странка је бивша политичка партија у Републици Српској. Основана је 2003. године. Предсједник странке је Крсто Јандрић. Према утврђеним резултатима Општих избора у Босни и Херцеговини из 2010. године, странка ће имати 2 мандата у Народној Скупштини Републике Српске, из изборних јединица 2 и 3. Кандидат Народне демократске странке за предсједника Републике Српске, Емил Влајки, изабран је за потпредсједника Републике Српске из реда хрватског народа.

Престала је с постојањем 2013. године наком уједињења са Демократском партијом.

Види још
 Политичке партије Републике Српске
 Општи избори у Босни и Херцеговини 2010.

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Политичке странке у Републици Српској
Бивше политичке странке у Босни и Херцеговини

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace PMDToolkit.Maps {
    public class GeneratorOptions
    {
        #region Constructors

        public GeneratorOptions()
        {
            TrapMin = 5;
            TrapMax = 30;

            ItemMin = 5;
            ItemMax = 30;

            Intricacy = 6;

            RoomWidthMin = 3;
            RoomWidthMax = 10;
            RoomLengthMin = 3;
            RoomLengthMax = 10;

            CellX = 6;
            CellY = 4;

            CellWidth = 12;
            CellHeight = 12;

            HallTurnMin = 0;
            HallTurnMax = 3;

	    	HallVarMin = 0;
	        HallVarMax = 3;

            WaterFrequency = 0;

            Craters = 0;
            CraterMinLength = 3;
            CraterMaxLength = 13;
            CraterFuzzy = true;

            MinChambers = 0;
            MaxChambers = 0;
        }

        #endregion Constructors

        #region Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the maximum number of traps that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 255 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int TrapMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the minimum number of traps that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 255 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int TrapMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the maximum number of items that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 255 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int ItemMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the minimum number of items that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 255 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int ItemMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the "magic number" that is responsible for deciding how many rooms (or split hallways) the dungeon has.
        /// </summary>
        public int Intricacy
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the maximum room width that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 48 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int RoomWidthMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the minimum room width that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 48 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int RoomWidthMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the maximum room length that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 48 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int RoomLengthMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the minimum room length that will be generated. Adjust to number between 0 and 48 to see changes.
        /// </summary>
        public int RoomLengthMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

        public int CellX { get; set; }
        public int CellY { get; set; }

        public int CellWidth { get; set; }
        public int CellHeight { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the min number of times there is a turn in a hallway. Adjust to number 0 or above to see changes.  May be overridden if the hall is too short.
        /// </summary>
        public int HallTurnMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

		/// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the max number of times there is a turn in a hallway. Adjust to number 0 or above to see changes.  May be overridden if the hall is too short.
        /// </summary>
        public int HallTurnMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

		/// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the min amount a turn swerves in a hallway. Adjust to number 0 or above to see changes.  May be overridden if the hall is too short.
        /// </summary>
        public int HallVarMin
        {
            get; set;
        }

		/// <summary>
        /// Gets or Sets the max amount a turn swerves in a hallway. Adjust to number 0 or above to see changes.  May be overridden if the hall is too short.
        /// </summary>
        public int HallVarMax
        {
            get; set;
        }

        public int WaterFrequency //How much water will be in the dungeon; based on /100 chance
        {
            get; set;
        }

        //After setting water, the algorithm will "blast" several craters of water into the dungeon map, to simulate how water appears in pools in PMD

        public int Craters //How many craters of water the dungeon will have
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public int CraterMinLength //the smallest a crater can get (diameter)
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public int CraterMaxLength //the largest a crater can get (diameter)
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public bool CraterFuzzy //determines whether the crater is diamond-shaped (false) or has a "spray-paint" aura around it (true)
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public int MinChambers //the fewest possible chambers
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public int MaxChambers //the most possible chambers
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        #endregion Properties
    }
}

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The Absolute Truth is a person, it is very difficult to understand. "Beyond our sense perception." They, generally they think that "How a person can create such huge cosmic manifestation?" That is their bewilderment. They cannot accommodate, accommodate in the teeny, poor brain that the original Absolute Truth is a person. That is their problem. So their idea is that by personal worship, one has to reach again to the impersonal transcendence. But we don't find from the sastra like that. Now, the most authentic sastra is Vedanta. Vedanta is accepted by all classes of men. Because without accepting Vedanta, nobody will be bona fide. Generally they think that the impersonalists are Vedantists. Generally they think, but that's a wrong conception. They… All the Vaisnava — Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya — they are also Vedantists. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Vedantist. We are also Vedantist. It is not that Vedanta is the monopoly of the impersonalists. No.
Now, the Vedanta, in the beginning it is, the first sutra is: athato brahma jijnasa. So to inquire about Brahman, the Absolute. Now, the next answer is janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Brahman, the Absolute Truth, is that from whom everything emanates. Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Now, this janmady asya yatah is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Therefore Srimad-Bhagavatam is explained by Vyasadeva himself. Vyasadeva is explaining Vedanta-sutra in his book, Srimad-Bhagavatam. Bhasyam brahma-sutranam **. Sri Vyasadeva says, "This is the real comment, or bhasya, of Vedanta-sutra, Srimad-Bhagavatam." Therefore Gaudiya Vaisnavas, Gosvamis, they did not write any comment on the Vedanta-sutra because they accept Srimad-Bhagavatam is the natural commentary on the Vedanta-sutra. So why they should write again? But still, when there was such question raised in Jaipur that the Gaudiya Vaisnava has no commentary on the Vedanta-sutra, at that time, Baladeva Vidyabhusana, he wrote Govinda-bhasya on Vedanta-sutra. But still, Vedanta-sutra does not mean to understand impersonalism.
No. That's not the fact.
Therefore in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the very beginning, the Vedanta-sutra is discussed. Unfortunately, the professional Bhagavata reciters did… Neither they have got brain, nor do they explain the, from the very beginning, Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, from the very beginning, Vedanta-sutra is explained: janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. In the Vedanta-sutra, the answer is: "The Absolute Truth is that from whom everything emanates." So Srimad-Bhagavatam explains: janmady asya yatah anvayad itaratas carthesu abhijnah sva-rat [SB 1.1.1]. As soon as we speak that the original source of everything, janmady asya yatah, so what is the nature of that original source? Whether He's a dead stone, or a living being? That is the next question. Everything that we experience is coming from the supreme source. Whether that supreme source is a living being or a dead stone? What will be the answer? From common sense? From common sense, suppose if we find out the original source of everything, what will be the nature of that original? The Bhagavata explains therefore: abhijnah sva-rat. He's not dead stone. Abhijnah. He has got consciousness. He has got consciousness. What kind of consciousness? Anvayat itaratas ca arthesu abhijnah. He knows everything, directly and indirectly.
Now suppose we are also conscious.
So what is the nature of our consciousness? Our consciousness is that I know directly everything of my body, or of my self. But I do not know indirectly about yourself. I cannot say what is going on in your mind, in your body, what pains and pleasure you are feeling. But I can speak about myself that "I am feeling like this. I am thinking like this. I am willing like this." That I can say. So my consciousness is not perfect. It is perfect so far I am concerned. But I, my consciousness does not spread upon you. But here it is said, anvayat itaratah abhijnah arthesu abhijnah. "The Absolute Truth knows everything, directly and indirectly." My knowledge is imperfect in this sense that I am eating something, it is being digested in the stomach. So many secretions are coming out. How they are forming into blood, and so many things are going on within the body, I am not directly concerned. Neither I know directly. But the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Being, He knows everything, in any corner of the cosmic manifestation. Therefore His consciousness and my consciousness is… As, so far possessing consciousness, the Absolute Truth and myself are one, but His consciousness is all-pervading. My consciousness is limited. So the Absolute Truth cannot be limited, but we are limited.
Therefore here it is said, bhejire munayah athagre bhagavantam.
So one who has not reached to that point, to realize Krishna, it is to be understood that his knowledge is still imperfect. But these persons who have got imperfect knowledge, they are passing as Vedantists and knows everything. They do not know. Krishna therefore says, bahunam janmanam ante: [Bg. 7.19] "These impersonalists, the so-called men of knowledge, after many, many births…" Because it is not so easy to understand Krishna, the Supreme Person. They'll have to wait to understand Krishna, the Supreme Person. They'll have to wait for thousands of births to understand Krishna. They'll have to wait. Although they are very much proud of their knowledge, we know where they are: partial realization. Of course, they are also in the same field. But they'll not understand the Supreme Person. Those who understood, the great sages in the beginning, in the beginning of the creation, munayah, great, great sages, Marici, Atreya, Vasishtha and others, so they worshiped the Supreme Person, bhagavantam, not the impersonal feature. Impersonal, actually, there is, there cannot be any worship of the impersonal feature, Brahman.
It is simply accepting some trouble. Klesah adhikataras tesham avyaktasakta-cetasam. It is simply troublesome. But unfortunately, these impersonalists have spread all over the world. They have no sharp brain to understand the Supreme Person, and they are misguiding the whole population that either impersonalism or voidism. Nirvisesha-sunyavadi.
But this Krishna consciousness movement is against this. We are giving directly the name and address and the activities, everything, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They are trying to find out the Absolute Truth. The Absolute Truth is the Supreme Person. Anvayat and abhijnah. Abhijnah means conscious. And what kind of conscious? What kind of knowledge? Sva-rat. Our, my knowledge, your knowledge is received from others. Without… The Vedantists… The Vedantists, they also receive their knowledge from another Vedantist—the so-called Vedantists. Vedantists are… Real Vedantists are the Vaishnavas. And the impersonalist Vedantists, because their knowledge is not perfect. Therefore their knowledge of Vedanta is also imperfect, because they do not know anything about the Supreme Person.
This is the version of Vyasadeva. The… Because they neglect the Supreme Person. Anadrita-yushmad-anghrayah. The Vedantists… There are many Vedantists in Vrindavana, but they do not come to see the temple, because they think themselves that they have become Krishna. That is the Vedanta, so-called Vedanta philosophy conclusion. But Bhagavata says that vimukta-maninah. "They are thinking that they have become liberated." That is their concoction. Maninah. If somebody thinks that "I have become the richest man in the world," although he has nothing to show… To become richest man, there must be some symptoms. But if a poor man says that "I am the richest man in the world," so one should test him, whether he has got the complete riches of the world.
So simply thinking, concocting, is one thing. And fact is another. Fact is that we are teeny, part and parcel of the Absolute Truth. But we are not actually absolute. We are relative. Relative truth. On the existence of the Absolute Truth, we are existing, but we have no independent existence, neither we have got independent knowledge. We are all dependent. The independent knowledge, Absolute Truth, is Krishna. Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. That is the beginning of Vedanta-sutra. Therefore, bhejire munayo 'thagre bhagavantam adhokshajam. Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, beyond the sense perception. This impersonal concept of the Absolute Truth is in negation of the material duality. But that is not absolute knowledge. Absolute knowledge is that when we reach bhagavantam adhokshajam. Sattvam visuddham. His existence is visuddha, not contaminated. Our existence in this material existence, this is not visuddha. This is contaminated by the modes of material nature.
But His existence is visuddha. Even Sankaracarya, he says, in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gita: narayanah parah avyaktat. Vyaktavyakta. There are two material features: manifested and nonmanifested. Sankaracarya agrees that Narayana… As soon as he says "Narayana," he means the person, person, the Supreme Person. Parah avyaktat. He's transcendental. His person is not the same person, personality as we have got. There, that is… Para means that is adhokshajam, beyond our sense perception. So… And there are so many other evidences. Krishna says that mattah parataram nanyat [Bg. 7.7], "There is no more superior existence than Myself." Aham sarvasya prabhavah [Bg. 10.8]. "I am the origin." Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. This verse, this code, is explained by Krishna Himself that "I am the origin of everything." And Arjuna, who understood Krishna, he said, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan purusham [Bg. 10.12]. He accepted the Absolute Truth a purusha, a person.
So the Absolute cannot be imperson. Imperson is one of the features of the Absolute Truth, but the Absolute Truth, in the original understanding, He is person. As Krishna says, brahmano 'ham pratishtha. The impersonal Brahman is situated in Him. It is His personal rays, effulgence of His bodily rays. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. He has got His bodily effulgence, just like the sunshine is the effulgence of the sun globe, and the sun globe, within the sun globe there is sun-god, Vivasvan. That is also… We get information from the Bhagavad-gita, the sun, sun planet, is not impersonal, not a lump of matter. There is the predominating Deity in the sun globe, and his name is also given in the Bhagavad-gita-Vivasvan. Vivasvan manave praha. Praha, he explained Bhagavad-gita. Therefore he's a person. As we get, get this experience that from the sun globe, within the sun globe there is a person, and, due to the effulgence of that personal rays of the sun-god, or the population there, every people being glowing, the whole sun planet is so powerful, glowing, and the glow is distributed all over the universe, similarly, there is a glowing effulgence of the Supreme Person. That is called brahmajyoti. That brahmajyoti is impersonal, but the brahmajyoti is resting on the Personality of Krishna.
So ultimate Absolute Truth is Krishna. That is the verdict of all Vedic literature, Vedanta, and Krishna says that vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah [Bg. 15.15]. Anyone who has not understood Krishna, he has not studied the Vedic literature very perfectly. Vedanta-vid vedanta-krid ca aham. Krishna says He's the compiler of Vedanta. So who will know Vedanta better than Krishna? The so-called Vedantists, they are very much proud of their knowledge of Vedanta, but the, the real compiler of the Vedanta philosophy is Vyasadeva. He's incarnation of Krishna. Therefore Krishna says, vedanta-krid vedanta-vit. He is the compiler of the Vedanta-sutra and He knows what is Vedanta-sutra, not the so-called Mayavadi philosophers.
So we have to learn Vedanta-sutra from Krishna, not from others. Not from others.
We are not going to be befooled. We know what is Vedanta-sutra. Vedanta-sutra points out that here is the person, Supreme Person, Krishna. Isvarah paramah krishnah. Brahma says, isvarah paramah krishnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. Krishna Himself says, aham sarvasya prabhavah [Bg. 10.8]. He is the origin. Because the Absolute Truth is the origin of everything, the Krishna is the origin of everything. Aham sarvasya prabhavah. He's the origin of even Narayana. He's the origin of Brahma. He's origin of Lord Siva. He's origin of the Brahman effulgence. He's origin of Paramatma. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrid-dese arjuna tishthati [Bg. 18.61]. So… But the origin from Paramatma is another expansion of Krishna. That is also explained: ete camsa-kalah pumsah krishnas tu bhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28].
Our, this philosophy, Krishna consciousness, we are pointing out the Supreme Person. Krishnas tu bhagavan svayam. Everyone is searching after God; we are delivering. Krishna is delivering Himself. That is His kindness. That is His mercy. And Lord Caitanya is delivering Krishna. Krishna-prema-pradaya te [Cc. Madhya 19.53]. Not only Krishna, He's giving love of Krishna. So the Krishna consciousness people, they should not be misled by so-called Vedantists or impersonalists, or voidists. They should stick to the principle, as it is described in the Bhagavad-gita. Therefore we present Bhagavad-gita as it is.


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Q: Running Selenium WebDriver tests using Web interface or any Visual tool I have a set of Selenium WebDriver tests written in Java.
Is there framework with web interface where I can run them?
This web interface should display list of all tests, ability to run one or all tests and display results of their running.

A: To Simplify:
You can use Jenkins (CI Tools) > Work with ANT (BUILD.xml) > Running with TestNG Framework > Incorporate with your WebDriver Script.

A: There is no readily available "web interface" per say, but this is the kind of thing that CI (Continuous Integration) servers and software do very well.
TeamCity, for example, can do exactly what you are after, but there is nothing available to you with just Selenium and your testing framework (NUnit, Junit etc) alone.

A: Hm. Can not definitely say about web interface, but it seems to me you shoulda investigate deeper in @Category annotation direction.
for my project I use maven build manager. And using @Category notation you are able to show maven what category of tests is supposed to be included in the build and what category is supposed to be exclueded.
here is my example of structure I use in my project:
  rms-web pom:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.11</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
                        <artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>
                        <version>2.12</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
                                <configuration>
                    <!--<includes>-->
                        <!--<include>**/*.class</include>-->
                    <!--</includes>-->
                    <excludedGroups>com.exadel.rms.selenium.SeleniumTests</excludedGroups>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

PassTest.java
package com.exadel.rms.selenium;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: ypolshchykau
 * Date: 8/28/12
 * Time: 8:38 PM
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
public class PassTest {

    @Test
    public void pass() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        assertTrue(true);
    }
}

SeleniumTests.java

package com.exadel.rms.selenium;

/**
 * Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: ypolshchykau
 * Date: 8/27/12
 * Time: 6:49 PM
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
public class SeleniumTests {
}

LoginPageTestSuite.java
package com.exadel.rms.selenium;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import java.io.IOException;

@Category(SeleniumTests.class)
public class LoginPageTestSuite extends BaseSeleniumTest {

    @Test
    public void pressLoginButton() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        doLogout();
        fluentWait(By.cssSelector(propertyKeysLoader("login.loginbutton"))).click();

        Assert.assertTrue(fluentWait(By.cssSelector(propertyKeysLoader("login.validator.invalidautentication"))).getText().trim().equals("Invalid authentication"));
    }
…..........
}

and I checked with maven my test categories with the following:
mvn -Dmaven.buildNumber.docheck=false -Dmaven.buildNumber.doUpdate=false clean test

Suppose additional  info you can get here
here
and about maven surefire plugin
Hope this helps you)

A: You can make Test Suite by Using Ant (build.xml) with TestNG framework. build.xml is run by Ant in 2 ways:
1. with an IDE (such as Eclipse)
2. from command prompt


Siida will change to winter opening hours on September 20, 2011. During the winter season, Siida is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Mondays Siida is closed.
The Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida will change to winter opening hours on Monday, 20 September. On the same day, the Open-Air Museum will close for the winter. Restaurant Sarrit will serve customers during the opening hours of Siida and on demand. Siida is closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The winter opening hours are valid until May 31. The Skolt Sámi Heritage House in Sevettijärvi will close its doors on September 25.
The schedule for Siida's Northern Lights Show will also change as the winter season begins. From September 20, the show which is included in the ticket to Siida will take place at noon and 3 p.m. on the days when Siida is open. The Northern Lights Show and the Lake Inari Show will also be available at other times by prior arrangement.
Siida´s transportations on Wednesday from Siida to Ivalo and Saariselkä will continue during the winter. Every Wednesday, there is return transportation from Siida to Ivalo and Saariselkä. Visitors can come to Siida by a regular bus and return by a charter bus. Customers should book for the return transportation by 4 p.m. on Tuesday at the receptions of hotels, at Saariselkä Central Booking Agency (Saariselän Keskusvaraamo), or at Kiehinen or Siida. Further information about transportation and opening hours at Siida's website and customer service.


Office holiday party: Should I host one?
Though it seems like an innocent party to show appreciation to your employees, it is important that employers and management understand that there are severe consequences for not considering the liabilities that go along with these little shindigs. Before you send out that invite to your employees, every employer and manager should take the time to make sure they have a clear understanding of their responsibilities.


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Q: How do i check if the steam account is a developer account with existing developed games on Steam? I have been reading through the Steam API but I can't seem to find anything that would allow me to check if the steam user is a developer account and also to check which games have been developed by the developer account.
What I am trying to achieve is to authenticate users using OpenID and then check if user a steamworks developer and also to check for developed games.

A:
Steam can act as an OpenID provider. This allows your application to authenticate a user's SteamID without requiring them to enter their Steam username or password on your site (which would be a violation of the API Terms of Use.)

You can't access this kind of data with Steam API.
Only Publisher can list his Games/Apps using his own Publisher's API Key.

https://lab.xpaw.me/steam_api_documentation.html#ISteamUser_GetPublisherAppOwnership_v2
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/ISteamUser#GetPublisherAppOwnership

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Check this link: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamID
Maybe with SteamID you will be able to detect if someone have Developer account.


This course covers the basic knowledge and programming and debugging techniques needed for the 8-bit RISC microcontroller PIC16F887. The microcontroller's instruction set is comprised of 35 "single word" instructions and is thus perfectly suited for technical training purposes. All of microcontroller's ports can be accessed and used as desired. The power supply is available either via the working platform or by way of the USB interface. The clock frequency is generated either by an internal or external generator. RESET can be realised via software or hardware.
The equipment set comprises the required hardware as well as interactive course ware.


Kragenmoor is situated in the smaller region of Varanis, which consists of southwestern Stonefalls. The land surrounding Kragenmoor is largely rural, with practically no organized settlement like Kragenmoor, or other cities and towns. Private plantations and plots of farmland are found throughout the Kragenmoor area, as seen with the successful Sathram Plantation, or the Davenas Farm, which is found just across the main road from Kragenmoor. Speaking of the main road, it runs straight through Varanis, without anything in between, even Kragenmoor is found off the road. The only other organized settlement is the Iliath Temple, perhaps the largest temple in Stonefalls. This portion of Stonefalls is also inhabited by two known Ashlander tribes in Stonefalls, the Kagesh and the Ulath, who live closer towards the Iliath Temple and the Fungal Grotto. The most well-known landmark in Kragenmoor is the Tormented Spire, which looms over Varanis. Only the leader of Kragenmoor has access to the Tormented Spire. But overall, Kragenmoor is found in west-central Morrowind, alongside the Valus Mountains. This area of Morrowind is generally considered the territory of either House Hlaalu, or House Dres.[nb 1] Kragenmoor is neighbored by several settlements, including Karththor Dale in the north, Oaktown in the southeast, and Stonefalls in the northeast.
Kragenmoor is built on a hill that overlooks the main road, nestled in a pocket around the Valus Mountains. But considering the poor quality of the land that the city is built on, Kragenmoor surrounds a stone foundation, which forms a circle that makes up the town square. The focal point of Kragenmoor is the Grandmaster's Palace, the seat of power that is found on the north side of the square and is seen overlooking the road. Kragenmoor is split into two districts, one is Upper Kragenmoor, which contains the Palace, as well as, various businesses like the local Fighters Guild and Mages Guild. These separate groups are found on hills that connect to the foundation through stone bridges. In the southern end of Kragenmoor is the Vanguard's Barrack, a traditional Dunmeri stronghold with a large tower. Somewhere in Kragenmoor is a private school dedicated to the Tribunal Temple. Then there is Lower Kragenmoor, where the slaves of House Dres and the less fortunate live in Kragenmoor. This portion of the city is connected to the main road. It is essentially a ravine that revolves around the ground around the stone foundation. Another stone bridge that continues west of Kragenmoor's square, which leads into the House Dres Crypts.
How Kragenmoor was founded, or when is unknown. But that general area of Dres territory has been their own since the 84th year of the Golden Peace. The House Dres Crypts in Kragenmoor were re-discovered by Khajiiti and Argonian slaves in the mid-First Era, after excavating into the Valus Mountains just west of town. At one point or the other, a cadet branch of House Dres, the Dreloth family had relocated from Vvardenfell to Kragenmoor a long time ago. During the Skyrim Conquests, from 1E 240 to 1E 416, the mainland areas of Morrowind, including Kragenmoor, were conquered by the First Empire of the Nords. It was until much later towards the latter years of the occupation, the Dark Elves of the Ra'athim Clan that central Morrowind was liberated from the Nords. Under the command of King Kronin and his three sons, the Dark Elves utilized guerrilla warfare against the Nords and reclaimed the area. Yoriss, the aunt of Moraelyn, assumed the role as Queen of Kragenmoor following the re-occupation of Morrowind.
During the Interregnum in 2E 582, the city-state of Kragenmoor was ruled by Grandmaster Omin Dres of House Dres. At the time, House Dres was allied with the Ebonheart Pact. At the same time, the Daggerfall Covenant had launched an attack onto Pact territory, from Bleakrock Isle, to the southern Inner Sea. The Covenant had taken the Coral Heart towards Fort Virak, where the Covenant would be defeated. Amidst the conflict, Garyn Indoril, the son of Tanval Indoril, was killed, bring severe grief towards the Indoril Grandmaster. In his rage, Tanval had taken the Coral Heart to Kragenmoor, where he would seek to enter the Tormented Spire. The Grandmaster had used Omin Dres' son as leverage to gain access to the Tormented Spire. Tanval had left his vanguard at Kragenmoor so that no one would follow, as he tries to summon Sadal, one of the Brothers of Strife. However, Sen Dres was rescued by an Agent of the Pact, and the alliance was given access to the Tormented Spire.
In the late Second Era, Tiber Septim had attempted to conquer all of Tamriel in what had become known as the Tiber Wars, the city-states of both Blacklight and Kragenmoor, along with smaller settlements like Silgrad Tower and Cormaris View were at the forefront of defense against the rising Third Empire. As time went on, the defense against the Imperial Legion had dwindled as the Great Houses decided to fend for themselves, negotiate peace, or just remain neutral. In the end, only House Redoran fought against them, in failure, and the Imperial Province of Morrowind was formed. Kragenmoor had become a city of the Third Empire. During the Imperial Simulacrum in the late Third Era, the city-state of Kragenmoor was an active settlement, being ruled by King Shalpar. It had a rivalry with Ebonheart.
^ Kragenmoor's house affiliation has teetered between House Hlaalu and House Dres through various sources. In a concept map of Morrowind and Caius Cosade's Letter, there are references to House Hlaalu in Kragenmoor, with the latter being an indirect example. All the while, House Dres would become the leaders of both Kragenmoor and Ebonheart in ESO. It was later retconned in the Understanding House Dres lorebook that House Dres had territory in central Morrowind, as well as, southeast Morrowind.


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In a long ago era, before airplanes and automobiles, the place we know as Spruce Creek was a secluded glade beside a picturesque Florida stream. A village flourished on the site at one time, but nothing remains today except a cemetery with century-old headstones. Now Civil war veterans and their families lie here beside their modern counterparts, mute witnesses to a rich past.
It took a war—and the urgent need for planes and pilots—to transform the marshy Spruce Creek flatland into an airfield. In 1942 the U. S. Navy was hurriedly constructing training fields throughout the eastern half of Florida, including a base at DeLand, Florida for pilots learning to fly the Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber. Outlying airfields were built at nearby New Smyrna and Samsula for the fledgling Navy pilots to practice take offs and landings.
The wartime field at Samsula, which eventually took the name Spruce Creek, had a single building and a control tower, with no permanent staff. The main northeast-southwest runway was joined by an "X" of two intersecting runways and another perpendicular north-south runway, providing four suitable surfaces for training regardless of the wind direction.
With the end of the war, the Samsula airfield was deactivated. Unlike the DeLand and Daytona Beach and New Smyrna fields, which were acquired by their adjoining communities as municipal airports, the remote Samsula airport had no takers. Over the years the unused airfield was the subject of various proposals, including becoming the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, but none of the plans materialized. The city of Daytona Beach acquired the field in 1957 for development as an industrial park, but once again nothing came of the scheme. Meanwhile the runways found use by drag racers, go-cart drivers, model airplane flyers, and, probably, drug traffickers.
In 1969 a group called Fly-In Concept, Inc., headed by a World War II Navy pilot and entrepreneur named McKinley "Mac" Conway, bought the property with the intention of developing a fly-in recreational facility. Before the development got off the ground, it fell victim to the economic downturn of the 1970s. Another developer, Jay Thompson of Thompson Properties Inc. of Florida, acquired the property in the late 1970s and began a more ambitious project—an upscale community that would encompass not only around the airport but an exclusive new country club and golf course.
Like the pieces of a sprawling mosaic, the community that would be Spruce Creek emerged, a phase at a time. The original northeast-southwest surface became the main runway, while another was turned into a taxiway and commercial avenue called Cessna Boulevard. The upper portion of the north-south runway became the taxiway known as Beech Boulevard.
From the original eight home sites on Lindy Loop, the community continued to grow, expanding to approximately 1,800 homes and 600 hangars. The country club blossomed into a facility with a modern club house, dining rooms, bar and lounge, fitness center, pool, tennis courts, and an 18-hole championship golf course that wends like a green belt through the heart of the community.
Today, the transformation is nearly complete. Almost all the available building lots have been developed. From Conway's original vision of a rustic fly-in recreational facility, Spruce Creek has metamorphosed into its present day form—the most successful and prestigious residential air park in the world.


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Wiley has rearranged his current tour, pushing the dates forward until January after last night's (December 16) show at The Garage in north London was cancelled following an unrelated incident outside the venue the previous evening.
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Home Cricket Asia Cup The spark in Khaleel Ahmed should get ignited
The spark in Khaleel Ahmed should get ignited
Sandipan Banerjee
Khaleel Ahmed has the potential to reach the top….
For India's new kid in the block, the 20-year old left-arm pacer Khaleel Ahmed, the past 12 months have been nothing sort of fairytale. By this time last year, he did not even make his First-Class or List A debut. And now, within a short span of time, the youngster has been fast-tracked to the highest level, where he has had an impressive debut against Hong Kong.
So, what is so special about Khaleel? Perhaps, his temperament.
Khaleel's hometown Tonk is a tiny little place In Rajasthan which is around 100 KM away from the capital city Jaipur. Over there, tennis ball cricket is hugely popular and he is the product of this informal version of the game. On those muddy and dusty pitches or at time cement pitches, he used to bowl his heart out with the softball in order to sustain as a fast bowler. So, having learnt his basics on those extreme conditions the youngster has developed a strong mentality as a bowler.
"Tennis ball cricket helped me grow as a fast bowler,"Khaleel told The Hindu in an interview earlier this year. "We would play mostly on cement pitches and had to bowl fast. The tennis ball is light and helps you improve your arm rotation."
At the age group level, Khaleel was a part of India Under-19 squad, which took part in the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh. However, he did not make much impact over there. Coming back from Dhaka, his career changed completely when he got in touch with Zaheer Khan during his IPL stint.
The former Indian pacer worked hard on his run-up and wrist-position. It helped him to generate more pace. Though at times still he finds it difficult to keep the seam upright but on dead surfaces in Indian domestic circuit, Khaleel is renowned for his effort balls. He is one of hit the deck kind of bowler, who extracts bounce from non-responsive pitches and hurries the batsmen.
His performance in the 2018 edition of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (Domestic T20 event) grabbed a lot of eyeballs. He scalped 17 wickets in 10 games at an impressive average of 15.52 and economy rate of 6.77 and finished the tournament as the second highest wicket-taker. He bowled with pace and in one of the games also clocked 148 km/hr. The youngster played an instrumental role behind taking Rajasthan to finals of the tournament.
Khaleel also made his First-Class and List A debut in the 2017-18 season. He has featured in just two Ranji Trophy matches for the state but was highly impressive in the last Vijay Hazare Trophy where he picked up 10 wickets from six games. His performance in the limited-overs competitions was enough to earn him a lucrative IPL deal as well as a call-up in the India A team for the tour of England, which he scalped eight wickets in five limited-overs matches.
Coming back from England, he played in the Quadrangular series against teams like Australia A and South Africa A. In this limited-overs tournament, representing India A under the watchful eyes of Rahul Dravid, he managed seven wickets in four matches at an average of 17. Perhaps, this consistent show was enough to convince the selectors to pick him in the Asia Cup squad. And so far, the Rajasthan lad hasn't disappointed anyone.
His 3 for 48 against Hong Kong bailed India out from a difficult position and a huge upset was avoided. When wickets were not coming, Khaleel was not hesitant to try out new things. He came round the wicket and bowled with a lot of fire. His control with the new ball was a bit iffy, perhaps nerves got the better of him but with the older ball he made things happen.
In recent years, there has been a scarcity of quality left-arm pacers in Indian cricket. The experiments with Jaydev Unadkat or Barinder Sran haven't been successful enough. But this kid seems to have something about him. Let's hope the spark in Khaleel will get ignited.
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Thank you for participating in the 2018-2019 Perceptual Survey by the Nebraska Department of Education and the ESU Coordinating Council. The link below contains the web addresses for your upcoming perceptual surveys at EUSTIS-FARNAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Please copy and paste the appropriate web addresses provided as you distribute the surveys to your students, staff, and/or parents. A Spanish translation of the student and parent surveys is available using the button located at the top right of the screen of the survey.


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Volume 22, No.3, Fall 2004
Goats to the Rescue
Linda Platts
The Rio Grande's cottonwood forest is overgrown with water-sucking, firefueling salt cedar and other invasive weeds. To clear the bosque, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District in New Mexico is hiring up to 1,000 goats to munch their way through the unwanted vegetation and preserve both the cottonwoods and the water flow.
Goats have already been used successfully on smaller projects and proved themselves to be both effective and economical. The larger 100-acre project is due to begin in mid-September after the migratory bird nesting period. The goats will be confined to plots of two to five acres by temporary fencing. Herders must supervise the goats around the clock to track down any escapees and monitor interactions with wildlife and domestic animals in the area. They will also have to move the goats once an area has been thoroughly munched.
The goat project provides an opportunity for livestock owners and goat herders in New Mexico to supplement their incomes while allowing the conservancy to improve the health of the bosque at a reasonable cost.
Linda was a former PERC editor and manager of media relations. She is author of Forest Fires, part of a series of environmental education books for high school students. She also wrote and produced Square One, a newsletter that introduced grassroots environmentalists to market approaches. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Connecticut College and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona. Before joining PERC in 1996, she was as a…
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