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No Lies Just BS
Listen to Nick Swartz tell stories about his life. From growin' up in the small VA mountain town of Clifton Forge to his entry into and career in the tattoo industry. All the rough upbringin', punk rock, family, country, skateboardin', good eatin', blues, ass-kickin', tattooed, hard to believe but addictin' to perceive bullshit that can be packed into each episode. His brother Josh helps out and the guests are the best of the best.
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Episode Twenty-Seven: Andrew Conner 0
*...formerly titled "Heat"
Kick back and relax with some regularly scheduled storytellin' from the boys. Nick sits down with Andrew and pick up a little bit where they left off so many episodes back and then just head all over the place with this one.
Porter joins in with a few gems and Trevor finally sits down with us for more than five minutes. Almost the whole crew kickin' it this time.
Nothin' specific goin' on here, just a whole lotta bullshit and a heck of a lot of fun! You won't want to miss out after things get rolling here. You'll see.
Shop Talk follows, so listen up and enjoy the tattoos!
Episode Twenty-Six: Timothy Hoyer 0
*...formerly titled "Pyramid"
Here it is. You knew it was coming. What you didn't know was how bad you wanted it. Well, you're about to find out.
Nick and tattoo legend Timothy Hoyer sit down for two and a half hours and discuss everything you want them to. Andrew Conner provides valuable assistance to this historical conversation.
We love bringing you bullshit like this and we're stoked to release this one. It's a long, epic talk that almost killed my computer tryin' to put it together. But I managed to scrape it off my hard drive and into existence for you, our loyal bullshitters. Or as Tatter has suggested, our motherfuckers.
I'll be surprised if the internet doesn't meltdown after putting this up one week after Mr. Bruno and not so long after Mr. Brown. So listen while you can before the apocalypse begins and enjoy!
Episode Twenty-Five: Brian Bruno 0
*...formerly titled "Magic"
You're just not gonna get great stories like these anywhere else! Hot damn. When you hear these guys reminisce, you know they're the best fuckin' friends and it's awesome. Nick chillin' with Brian Bruno. The master. And they kick it for quite a while and we get the honor of sittin' in on it.
Enjoy the hell outta that and stick around for another installment of Shop Talk. No lies, y'all.
Episode Twenty Four: Dave Boysno 0
*...formerly titled "Snakeskin"
I gotta tell y'all, this episode is long and it's strong and it's all about the stories when Dave "Boysno" heads back up to chill with Nick and Porter again.
In case you've ever wondered, this is Josh (Nick's bro, not Brown) writin' these things and man, this episode I felt more like a fan than ever, just listenin' to these guys cut it up. That's why this one is so late: I kept gettin' lost in the bullshit and having to go back and actually edit the damn thing! Over and over.
I really think you'll enjoy the extra length of this one, and I KNOW you're all going to enjoy everything we have ahead of us. Thanks so much for listening and giving the feedback and just hangin' out with us.
The bullshit never ends.
Episode Twenty-Three: Keith Harper 0
*...formerly titled "Krazy"
We've got Keith Harper in the No Lies Just Bullshit studio (actually recorded at Nick's house this time, so the quality dips a bit again, but y'all don't care, right?) this week to talk more about the infamous Absolute Art in Richmond and a bunch of other topics that are guaranteed to entertain.
There's even a Shop Talk on time this week. Well, sort of on time now that the episode is finally uploaded!
Thanks everyone again for stickin' it out as we learn about all this uploadin' and emailin' and all that good ol' shit. We're nailin' it down and it's been real good to hear from some of y'all in the process. Thanks to everyone who contacted Nick and let us know what you're diggin' so far. Hell, we'll probably be at fifty episodes before we know it, and who knows where that's gonna take us!
Keep on listenin', cuz we're gonna keep on bullshittin'!
Episode Twenty-Two: Josh Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Update"
Mainly wanted to get this episode out, our second one this week, to give everyone their "Shop Talk" fix since we didn't get it attached to our regularly scheduled Bullshit this week.
So here's that, and just a little bit of catching up from the brothers Swartz.
Josh found out he fucked up the email when settin' up the website and comes clean with that info. Still tryin' to get the kinks worked out on that one. And Nick recaps everything that has gone down so far on your friendly neighborhood No Lies Just Bullshit Podcast.
First twenty down, and we're down to keep kickin' it rough and tough and ready every week for you. Our loyal Bullshitters. No lies.
Episode Twenty-One: Andy Sherman 0
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This episode takes y'all back to the forested hills of eastern Virginia and down the backroads of wild & wonderful West VA as Nick sits down with Andy Sherman, a long time friend of Alley Cat Tattoo and a great artist to boot.
There's a lot of great stories in this one and some wonderful discussion of great music. I think there's plenty of bullshit to be enjoyed in this one.
Unfortunately, we couldn't get a Shop Talk stuck onto this one in time because of how busy we've been around here. But we've got a little something extra to release later on this same week and we'll attach one to that!
As always: enjoy the episode, and contact us if you've got anything to say.
Episode Twenty: Josh Brown 0
*...formerly titled "Hogtown"
More bullshit with another heavy hitter this week as Nick sits down with Josh Brown, currently working out of his place James River Tattoo in Lynchburg, VA. The bullshit gets deep and the hot air is long and drawn out on this one, y'all. A real treat for our twentieth episode.
Lots o' call backs in this one to other Richmond stories and artists as the cast of characters surrounding Nick and Alley Cat continues to fill in and entertain. So many good friends, so much great bullshit.
Tatter & AC jump in at the end for another great breakdown of some must-see artwork in this week's Shop Talk.
So sit down, with Josh Brown. No lies.
Episode Nineteen: Sara Pennington 0
*...formerly titled "Dubtown"
So this episode is a bit long, a bit wild and very much all over the place. I actually
considered recording an intro for this one to explain some of what's going on, but then I thought - nah! It's just bullshit! Right?
So Nick is talkin' with Sara, our body piercer at Alley Cat. But she's also just an all-out kickass chick who's become a celebrity for all the awesome shit she does, workin' at the shop and because - well, have you SEEN her?! Come on!
Sara's passion these days is burlesque performance, where she's known as the voluptuous Sindi Ray Boustier. She brought her fellow Harrisonburg Harlot, Beth along with her. Beth performs as Isla Palms, though you're treated to the back story about her former name.
Porter and Andrew pop in and out of this one. Nick was a bit under the weather. The vices were in short supply, and the bullshit was real deep. All that makes for a long and winding episode that's a bit different, but just another part this world that keeps us tight and tellin' it like it is.
Episode Eighteen: Chris Porter Pt. 2 0
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Alright. If you made it through last week's adventures and introduction, there's much more in this installment!
If you make it to the first hip hop song (and past Nick's bashing of one of my favorite bands, Clutch - PORTER, you should've defended them more fiercely!) then you'll enter a long and detailed discussion of rap history and MC descriptions beyond the norm. If you're into it, it's DOPE. If not, try it. If you can.
I fulfill Porter's request at the end of it all and make the episode super duper long by throwin' in a Shop Talk. Enjoy this shit!
Episode Seventeen: Chris Porter Pt. 1 0
*...formerly titled "Cherry"
Part One of Nick's conversation with our very own Porter.
No explanation necessary. And a Shop Talk.
Episode Sixteen: Florida 0
We debated whether or not to put this episode out. It's a weird story. Still has us shaking our own heads to this day. The last thing you'd ever catch us doin' is whining about our situation. That ain't the case. There's some interesting points in this one. And, in the end, it's all bullshit anyway and that's what we're here for.
This particular summer "vacation" is one of the reasons you don't hear us lovingly recounting any memories of the father we had before the mountain man who raised us proper came on to the scene.
Nick, Andrew and Porter finish things off on a much lighter note discussing some killer tattoos and the amazing artists sharing them on the internet for us to see. So y'all enjoy!
Episode Fifteen: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Cuz"
Hope everyone had some great holiday chill. If you were mellow enough that you remember the last few weeks, this one might sound a bit out of place since we talk about a few things that are 'coming up' that we actually already released.
We're pretty sure that fine bullshit aficionados like yourselves won't care about a few little discrepancies like that, though. So ignore anything that doesn't make sense. It IS bullshit, after all. We'd never lie to ya'. You're gonna get to meet another true character from the VanNess clan here anyway. And that's always a treat!
Still workin' on the sound issues. We've got some mics and do try them out in the Shop Talk portion of this one, but still have a lot to learn. This is a labor of love for us so far, so we don't have any funds to go full crazy bullshit with this, but we know that getting the stories to you every week comes first. Hopefully sound quality is coming later. If you know somethin' about it, or you know a guy who knows a gal who's cousin knew a dude who could do it - hook a bullshitter up!
Episode Fourteen: Dave Boysno Pt. 2 0
*...formerly titled "Spark"
Don't miss this episode! Even if you haven't heard part one (though, I highly recommend you do) you've got to hear some of the classic tales on this one.
Lots of recognizable names are brought up while Nick and Dave bullshit their way through this second hour of good times and stories.
This is why we do it, folks. Talkin' about good times and sharing stories about all the things we love. This time focusing on tattoos.
Who knows what's next. Keep listening and let us know if there's somethin' you wanna know.
Episode Thirteen: Dave Boysno Pt. 1 0
*...formerly titled "Absolute"
The wonderful Dave Boysno outta Absolute Art in Richmond VA joins Nick for some great stories and good times.
We hit a technical snag about three-quarters through this one, so it's gonna sound a bit like a dream sequence for about four minutes while Nick talks to our sister, Larami, and then Dave jumps back into some interrupted reminiscing - all the while sounding like robots. It gets back to normal after that, though.
No Shop Talk this week. Y'all have some great holiday fun until we catch you next week for the rest of Dave and more!
Episode Twelve: Scott Sterling 0
*...formerly titled "Tradition"
Scott Sterling stops by Alley Cat Tattoo all the way up from VA Beach to talk with Nick and Andrew about the current state of affairs in the tattoo industry as well as a lot of reminiscing on how things were and a lot of contrast and comparison of both.
Stories are shared involving a lot of familiar names and there's a lot of bullshitting about the daily operations of a tattoo shop. We try not to get bogged down in traditional style interviews on here, but you'll get to know Scott as though he decided to pop into your shop. So enjoy that.
Then you're in for a treat with the fourth Shop Talk. Pontificate Porter's precarious pronunciation and listen to the guys gush over some serious tats.
Have fun with this one!
Episode Eleven: Paul Somers 0
*...formerly titled "Star"
Paul Somers stops by Nick's office with a surprise for us and some great storytellin' for y'all. After a little back and forth with some growin' up drinkin' tales. Meet Uncle Rudy.
A love of Hank Williams is celebrated and there's talk of some great shows at Paul's restaurant and bar: The Golden Pony.
Then it gets excellent when talk turns to drinkin' at the Moose with Tony. Here's a link to the video discussed in that segment, cuz' you'll wanna see it for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9HcDa0Y2g&feature=youtu.be
Then we've got the third installment of Shop Talk with Nick, Porter & Andrew.
This segment is getting a lot of love, so it's going to continue. We're glad you all are enjoying everything.
As always, contact us if you have questions or comments!
Episode Ten: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Bunkhouse"
This episode takes you to a tattoo convention before cell phones were around to back up the crazy shit you're gonna hear about.
Then we lament the lack of halfpipe and skate session documentation of the ramp we built up in the holler with Tony.
You'll feel like you're in the bunkhouse with Nick on Cripple Creek when you get immersed in the unusual shit that went down one night.
Finally, a few animals might be abused in the last section of our talk today, but it's really just about doin' some hard work and the crazy things that might happen while it's happenin'. You know - bullshit.
Have at it.
Episode Nine: Josh Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Jedi"
Hear how we ended up in the little mountain town we grew up in. Some of the experiences that shaped us make us wonder how to implement those ordeals without havin' to recreate them.
We get into not knowin' one dad all the way up to the culture shock of livin' with our new one.
This episode also includes the second installment of our new segment "Shop Talk." Enjoy!
Episode Eight: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Tough"
Yeah, I made y'all wait a couple extra days on this one, but it's worth it!
Nick remembers what got him fascinated with tattoos way back in the day. Josh, unsurprisingly, struggles to share that memory. That leads to talk about ink-pen tattoos done by Josh on several people, all the way up to how Nick met the legend they call 'GRIZ.'
His name can still be seen around Alley Cat on old flash here and there, and meeting him led to the Griz & Troy partnership that eventually became Alley Cat and the rest of the story you've been gettin' pieces of.
Stick around towards the end of this episode because we have a brand new segment for you that all you tattooers are going to LOVE, and everyone else will find entertaining, too. It's called Shop Talk and this first one is with Andrew Conner who was featured on two earlier very popular episodes, and Chris 'Tatter' Porter. They bullshit with Nick and it's excellent.
Check it out now.
Episode Seven: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Buckle"
Hey bullshitters - this one's gonna sound a bit weird after those great Conner episodes. See - we're still figurin' this shit out and this one was recorded before we got Andrew on here. So I think we call it episode five and we talk about just getting our name and website.
Ignore that shit and enjoy the stories. It's a bit short, but I think talk about our new president is gonna be fillin' everyone's days for a bit anyway. Use this as a break from the insanity and enjoy!
That's Poor Farm playin' in the intro. You'll be hearing more from them and hell - maybe even live on on an episode. Keep listenin' - we're havin' a kick-ass time makin' em!
Episode Six: Andrew Conner Pt. 2 0
*...formerly titled "Damie"
I won't waste time with a long description on this one. If you didn't catch Episode Five, it was part one of Nick talkin' with the amazingly talented and loyal Andrew Conner.
This is Part Two.
Episode Five: Andrew Conner Pt. 1 0
*...formerly titled "Precedence"
Nick & Andrew have been best friends, roommates, coworkers and partners in crime for a long damn time. Listen in on some casual conversation between them beginning with their first house (or hovel) they rented and back and forth through the last couple of decades.
Hear stories from how Conner got involved in the tattoo game, nighttime shenanigans shared by the duo and just a lot of bullshit that we know you love.
This is part one of two since these guys had a LOT to talk about. We thought we'd split it up into two episodes. Part two will be up later this week.
Get to it and thanks for kickin' it with us.
Episode Four: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Bit"
On what would become the hill we learned to skateboard on, Nick's first encounter involves his face scrapin' down the sumbitch after fallin' out of the Scout.
What do you do when you're visitin' someone's house and their step dad takes a literal bite of your toe? That doozy and a bonus bitin' story by Nick in this episode. How could you not?
Finally, let's start talking about Nick's tattoos. Starting with the first.
We're takin' the liberty o' bullshittin' y'all. Enjoy.
Episode Three: Nick Swartz 0
*...formerly titled "Duck"
Nick goes on the road for A Captive Bead Co. solo and his first customer experience is freakin' memorable. Acquaintances reappear later.
The brothers begin to think about some of the characters they remember bein' around growing up and talk about a few stories involving them.
The Famous Cafe is introduced as a character sure to make a return.
We get a good Harlan story that may have had an effect on Nick.
Enjoy the bullshit and thanks for hangin' in as we tighten it up and get into this groove.
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Q: How to switch model iterator between train and validate datasets? I'm learning TensorFlow "lower API", where you manually specify layers using tf.layers, create datasets and iterators, and run the loops to train and validate the model. I am trying to run training and validation. Unfortunately, I am running into errors when trying to switch between training and validation datasets:
Here's what I have:
self.train_it = \
    train_dataset.batch(self.batch_size).make_initializable_iterator()
self.validate_it = \
    train_dataset.batch(self.batch_size).make_initializable_iterator()

...

input_layer = self.train_it.get_next()[0]
hidden1 = tf.layers.dense(
    input_layer,
    ... )

...

with tf.name_scope('train'):
  self.train_op = \
        tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate).minimize(self.loss)

...

for epo in range(epochs):
  # Train using self.train_it iterator.
  self.sess.run(self.train_it.initializer)
  total_loss = 0
  for iteration in range(n_batches):
    summary, _, batch_loss = self.sess.run([self.merged_summary, \
        self.train_op, self.loss])
    total_loss += batch_loss
  print('   Epoch : {}/{}, Training loss = {:.4f}'. \
            format(epo+1, epochs, total_loss / n_batches))
  # Validate using self.valid_it iterator.
  self.sess.run(self.validate_it.initializer)
  # HOW DO I TELL THE MODEL TO USE self.valid_it INSTEAD OF self.train_it ???

The problem here is that in the beginning I already told the model to use train_it : input_layer = self.train_it.get_next()[0] , and now I have to tell it to switch between train_it and validate_it every epoch. I must be missing something in the API on how to do that.

A: I would use reinitializable iterator and do the following.
train_dataset = train_dataset.batch(batch_size_train)
val_dataset = validation_dataset.batch(batch_size_val)

iterator = tf.data.Iterator.from_structure(train_dataset.output_types, train_dataset.output_shapes)

train_init_op = iterator.make_initializer(train_dataset)
val_init_op = iterator.make_initializer(val_dataset)

data, labels = iterator.get_next()

Then link the data and the labels in the model. Afterwards while training do the following:
for e in range(epochs):
    sess.run(train_init_op)
    for iteration in range(n_batches_val):
        ....
    sess.run(val_init_op)
    for iteration in range(n_batches_val):
        ....

Let me know if you find something confusing.

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Q: How to take fulllength screenshot not only the visible area in android real devices by using appium, python and selenium webdriver? I am trying to get full length screenshot for my webpage which is responsive .I am able to get the screenshot only visible part.Is there any chance to get the screenshot which is visible by scrolling down.I am using python,selenium webdriver and appium.Below is my code
desired_caps['platformName'] = 'Android'
desired_caps['platformVersion'] = '4.3'
desired_caps['deviceName'] = 'galaxy s3'
desired_caps['browserName']='Chrome'
self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)
self.driver.get('http://www.google.com/');(not exactly this url)
self.driver.implicitly_wait(30);
self.driver.save_screenshot('mobile_app.png')


Less than two weeks into its new term of office the government of Prime Minister Said Musa is slowly getting its house in order. Making good on its pre-election promise to brief the press following each session of Cabinet, that body's secretary this morning met with journalists in Belmopan to discuss a number of new appointments as well as what appears to be the new administration's first financial crisis. Patrick Jones reports.
Cabinet Secretary Robert Leslie was as informative as a code of confidentially allowed him to be in reporting to the media, the decisions coming out of Tuesday's first meeting of the new Cabinet. Among them were the Prime Minister's appointments to statutory bodies and government departments as well as the deployment of permanent secretaries to the various ministries. Leslie said that during yesterday's meeting, Budget Planning and Management Minister Ralph Fonseca reported to the Prime Minister on the state of public finances. In that report, Fonseca told Cabinet that the departing government had left the financial cupboard nearly bare.
That ceiling according to Financial Secretary Jaime Alpuche is fifty-six point four million dollars. Although it's not an enviable position to be in, Alpuche says there have been worst cases in past years. The Cabinet Secretary said that to improve the position of the public purse, some emergency measures will have to be taken although none were proposed at yesterday's Cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Said Musa then announced that he had named the elected representatives who did not get Cabinet posts to head the different House Committees which, according to the P.U.P. manifesto will be given expanded oversight powers.
Corozal Bay's Vildo Marin will head the Finance and Economic Development Committee. Toledo East's Mike Espat will chair the Public Utilities, Transport and Communications Committee. Dr. Gregorio Garcia will chair the Health and Human Development Committee, while Doctor Ted Aranda was put in charge of the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee. Remijio Montejo is chairman of the Education and Housing Committee. Dave Burgos heads the Works Committee.	Valdemar Castillo is chairman of the Public Service, Labour, Industry and Trade Committee. Salus Lizama is chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. Ainslie Leslie, Agriculture and Fisheries, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow will name the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and Patty Arceo will chair the Tourism and Environment Committee.
Leslie told reporters that the Standing Orders will be amended at the first business session of the House of Representatives, to give these chairpersons the oversight powers that they were promised.
Except for a couple of new additions, the pool of Permanent Secretaries was unchanged.
To round off the top postings in the public service, Paulino Castellanos is now the head of the Immigration and Nationality Department while Clifford Slusher goes back to being the Director of Telecommunications. Dr. Dennis Hoy is the new Director of Health Services and Dr. John Waight has been confirmed to the post as Medical Chief of Staff at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. These appointments are with effect from September first. Patrick Jones for News Five.
Key appointments to chair statutory bodies were also announced today. They include Dr. Amin Hegar to head the Airports Authority, Kay Menzies at the Port and her father Karl to chair B.E.L. Attorney Lisa Shoman will oversee B.T.L., Ray Lightburn gets WASA, former minister Glenn Godfrey leads D.F.C., while representative Pino Cawich will be watching over Recondev. Another elected representative to head a statutory body will be Patty Arceo at the Tourist Board. Social Security will be headed by Corozal's Ediberto Mai and Belize City's Marshall Nuñez will chair the National Sports Council. Future Cabinet press briefings will be held each Wednesday morning in Belize City, hosted by Chief of Staff Godfrey Smith.


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Thomas Eugene Kurtz (ur. 22 lutego 1928 w Oak Park) – amerykański uczony, współtwórca (razem z Johnem Kemeny) języka programowania BASIC (1964).

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Amerykańscy informatycy
Urodzeni w 1928
Twórcy języków programowania
Ludzie urodzeni w Oak Park (Illinois)

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How a courtroom ritual of forgiveness absolves white America
by J. Kameron Carter, RNS | Oct 7, 2019 | Commentary |
Botham Jean's younger brother Brandt Jean hugs convicted murderer and former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her after she was sentenced to 10 years in jail, on Oct. 2, 2019, in Dallas. Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed 26-year-old neighbor in his own apartment last year. She told police she thought his apartment was her own and that he was an intruder. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)
RELATED: A TEST OF FAITH: KEY WITNESS IN GUYGER TRIAL DEAD
Last week, fired Dallas police officer Amber R. Guyger, who is white, received a sentence of 10 years in prison for the murder of an unarmed black man, Botham Shem Jean.
While the sentence of 10 years for Jean's murder certainly didn't sit well with many, the other events of the courtroom are what have become the subjects of discussion — the words of grace, forgiveness, love and well-wishes offered by Jean's younger brother to Guyger, capped off by a warm embrace. And if that were not enough, Judge Tammy Kemp, also an African American, added grace upon grace by going to her office to retrieve a Bible. After handing it to Guyger, the judge, too, embraced Guyger tearfully and warmly.
This scene of grace, forgiveness and reconciliation operates almost like a ritual. We saw it in 2015 when relatives of the nine victims murdered by Dylann Roof in the shooting inside an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, told Roof "I forgive you." We saw it again when then-President Barack Obama eulogized Pastor Clementa Pinckney, one of those killed by Roof in that Charleston church, by singing "Amazing Grace How Sweet the Sound …"
The show of grace and forgiveness toward Guyger, like those before it, requires that we ask some hard questions. What if "grace" and "forgiveness" and their compulsory racialized performance are part of what makes this anti-black world keep on ticking? What if grace and forgiveness work in the interest of anti-blackness? And finally, what if grace and forgiveness are part of what must be refused in order to bring to an end an anti-black and brown world?
I know these are profane questions for a society that holds up forgiveness as hallowed virtues. But I raise them not to cast judgment on Jean's younger brother. The Jean family is grieving. They are in a process of healing in the wake of violence and irreparable loss. My questioning of the virtue of forgiveness and grace in civil society does not begin with the individual.
Rather, I raise these questions to get at how America is structured through race.
President Barack Obama leads mourners in singing the song "Amazing Grace" as he delivers a eulogy in honor of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney during funeral services for Pinckney in Charleston, S.C., on June 26, 2015. Pinckney was one of nine victims of a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters
That is, in asking about the value of forgiveness and grace within the American social and political structure, I am asking about how the anti-blackness of American society works through religion-like rituals and liturgies of grace and forgiveness. I'm interested in how grace and forgiveness function publicly, how they script roles around blackness and death within a society organized around whiteness as the sign of proper life, or the life that is properly human. In this context, police violence and forgiveness rituals work to secure the common good and civil society. They work to secure America as a project of religion. Such religion may be thought of as "the religion of whiteness."
Sociologist Robert Bellah coined the phrase "American civil religion" to explain how a secular nation maintains a religious dimension that suffuses public culture, from the political realm to civil society itself. That religious dimension has embedded within it beliefs, symbols, and ritual practices — the most well-known being the inauguration of U.S. presidents.
But Bellah's concern was not just with the history of American religious belief, symbols and rituals. He came to his insight about the working of American civil religion in a moment when the American fabric was being torn by internal strife. It's as if through his work as a sociologist Bellah was channeling the racial melancholy of a nation in fear and despair. The moment of crisis that he was trying to make sense of was the violence against black life and the protest movements of the 1960s.
Bellah's idea was that the belief in and commitment to the sacred ideal of equal rights to all humans as the natural law guiding the American project is what America has always drawn on. He makes a case that the Founding Fathers in their exodus from the Old World to the new drew from the reservoir of this civil religion to found the nation. Later in America's history, Abraham Lincoln, as a kind of savior, drew from the civil religion reservoir as well, though in his case, it was to preserve a nation in the internecine distress of the Civil War.
Notwithstanding Bellah's great insight about the operations of American civil religion, what he nonetheless failed to grapple with was the degree to which America as a religious project rooted in the higher ideal or the natural law of human equality and freedom for all rested on an inequality within the ranks of the human ideal of freedom.
Bellah failed to address how America, as a project guided by the ideal of human freedom and equality, was predicated on settler colonial genocide and the ongoing use of black lives as property to rework stolen land and to build the national treasury. Within this structure of violence and death, blackness cannot matter for itself but only for its usefulness. In short, Bellah did not account for anti-blackness, which is not America's original sin but its DNA.
J. Kameron Carter. Courtesy photo
It is within this framework that the sacredness, sanctity and compulsory rituals of forgiveness must be understood. American religion needs black (and native) forgiveness in order to keep the national fantasy of civil society, which is anti-black, alive. After racial crisis and distress, American religion turns to rituals of forgiveness and grace carried out by those structurally positioned as black to re-cohere itself around its ideals of being the beacon of human equality and freedom. In fact, the rituals of forgiveness can be thought of as structural performances of the ideal made visible for an instant. These rituals of courtroom forgiveness display the "rightness" and sacredness of America as a project, confessed, as it were, by those who suffer under that project.
Again, what I am dealing with here is the American racial structure, not individuals. I'm dealing with why, within the religion of whiteness, whiteness needs black forgiveness to maintain itself. Black forgiveness is part of the ritual work of absolving or extending salvation to America. It is part of the work of re-cohering or saving whiteness in a moment of crisis. Should such black forgiveness be withheld, whiteness or the American religious project would face a potential collapse. It might suffer a "white out," a possible end of the world or an end of its world.
But could the end of the world, a white out, be an alternative understanding of forgiveness, perhaps even an alternative religious orientation? Can there be a forgiveness that does not absolve guilt but brings the anti-black world to an end? Could there be a poetics of forgiveness that pressures forgiveness as we know it? Could there be a forgiveness that ends forgiveness, a forgiveness at the end of the world? Let's hope so.
(J. Kameron Carter is a professor of religious studies at Indiana University. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily represent those of Religion News Service.)
A Test of Faith: Key Witness in Guyger Trial Dead
by Shari Noland | Oct 6, 2019 | Headline News | 1 comment
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RELATED: BLACK CHRISTIANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA CONFLICTED ABOUT GUYGER AND FORGIVENESS
Joshua Brown, a key witness in former police officer Amber Guyger's trial, was shot dead on Friday night in the parking lot of his new apartment building, according to The Dallas Morning News. He lived right across the hall from Botham Jean's apartment at the time of the shooting and feared he might get shot one day for his testimony. S. Lee Merritt, Esq., a civil rights lawyer and social justice activist who represents the Jean family, said on Facebook that he will work to find justice for the Brown family. Although it's too early to say who or why Brown was killed, his mother suspects foul play as he reportedly had no known enemies and was a working guy.
I just spoke with Joshua Browns mother. She is devastated. We all are. Joshua Brown was key witness in the murder of Botham Jean that helped put Amber Guyger away. We need answers. pic.twitter.com/5BCdkVXoQ4
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) October 5, 2019
Botham's brother is teaching the nation the difference btw Justice & Mercy. The justice system should have given Amber Guyger more time. That is what her actions deserved. Brandt, however, was willing to extend to her forgiveness and love despite her actions, that's mercy. pic.twitter.com/8fZKrOTS05
This comes off the heels of Christians being conflicted on social media over the outward displays of forgiveness on behalf of Jean's brother and the judge in the case.
If it turns out that the killers were retaliating against a witness, It's almost as if they were hell-bent on making sure justice was not completely served for Botham Jean. (Of course, Guyger getting 10 years was somewhat of an injustice in itself.) Was it some kind of intimidation tactic to keep other witnesses from testifying against police officers — or white people in general? And more importantly, how do we muster up our courage to forgive the Brown killers, too? We know what the Bible says about forgiveness, but it's a test of faith indeed as social media is coming down pretty hard on Christians after this latest tragic event.
We're being executed and we are giving out hugs and bibles to the very people who murder us. #JoshuaBrown https://t.co/kH9AEVZFJE
— P. Gabrielle Foreman (@profgabrielle) October 6, 2019
So are black Christians ready to forgive Botham Jean's neighbor Joshua Brown, who was killed too or nah? Just trying to see how devout y'all really are. https://t.co/uhUmpwMtbc
— I'm Me & You're You (@strixtly4myngz) October 6, 2019
To Botham Jean's parents, fatal shooting still feels 'as if it just happened'
by Bobby Ross Jr., RNS | Jun 1, 2019 | Social Justice |
The nightmare never goes away.
Almost nine months have passed since Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer still in uniform, entered Botham Shem Jean's fourth-floor apartment and opened fire, killing the beloved song leader and Bible class teacher as he prepared to watch a football game on TV.
Still, the grief and the heartache never stray far from Bertrum and Allison Jean, parents of the 26-year-old accountant who left his native St. Lucia — a small island in the Caribbean — to attend Harding University in Searcy, Ark., and later worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas.
Botham Shem Jean sings at the Dallas West Church of Christ in September 2017. Photo by Namon Pope
The desire to see their son, to touch his smiling face, to hear his beautiful voice sing praises to Jesus once again grips the Jeans all the more during trips to this Texas city, where Botham Jean's life ended suddenly on a Thursday night in September.
"For me, every day it's going to be on my mind, especially as we are here in Dallas," said Bertrum Jean, who traveled with his wife to attend the recent Dallas Racial Unity Leadership Summit, hosted by the Dallas West Church of Christ — Botham Jean's home congregation — and sponsored by the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action at Abilene Christian University in Texas.
"It's as if it just happened," the father said of his son's death. "That's how I feel."
For Allison Jean, occasions such as the racial unity summit — dedicated in Botham Jean's memory — and a simultaneous mission trip by Harding students to St. Lucia make her proud of the difference her son made in his short life.
"I see his work in all of this," said the mother, wearing a #BeLikeBo T-shirt during an interview at the Dallas West church.
"It's like a roller coaster," she added. "There are days when I feel that God has taken him for a reason, and I get comfort that he's with the Lord. Then there are days when I miss his physical presence, and I miss his telephone conversations."
Months after Botham Jean's death, trauma strikes his parents in unexpected ways.
While in Dallas, they needed to obtain medical records for an insurer. At Baylor Medical Center, where their son was taken after the shooting, they learned he initially was identified as a John Doe.
"That hurts because Botham was not a John Doe," Allison Jean said. "He did so much, and he was so affable and always so upbeat in everything. He didn't deserve to die.
"I know there's a time to live and a time to die," she added, referring to Ecclesiastes 3, "but certainly not in the way he did. I feel a wicked act was inflicted upon him right in his own home. That, for me, is the most hurtful part of it."
Mugshots of Amber Guyger in 2018. Public records photo
WFAA-TV in Dallas recently obtained and broadcast a recording of Guyger's 911 call from Botham Jean's apartment.
Guyger has said she mistakenly parked on the fourth floor instead of the third floor, where she lived directly below Botham Jean's residence. She said she confused his place with her own and thought he was a burglar.
On the 911 tape, Guyger repeatedly insists that "I thought it was my apartment" and voices concern that "I'm going to lose my job."
Three days after the shooting, police charged Guyger with manslaughter. Later, she was fired and indicted by a grand jury on an upgraded murder charge. Her trial is set for September, a year after Botham Jean's death.
"That was very, very, very hard," Allison Jean said of the 911 recording.
"Listening to it, it sparked some anger within me because I'm not hearing the dispatcher pay much attention to him," the mother added. "I didn't hear the dispatcher ask about his condition, whether he was breathing, whether he was responsive. … And I'm wondering whether it was because it was a police-involved shooting that the victim didn't matter."
Allison Jean, a former top government official in St. Lucia, said she believes the tape was leaked in an effort to gain sympathy for Guyger.
At the Dallas Racial Unity Leadership Summit, an attendee wears a "Justice for Bo!" shirt. Photo courtesy of ACU's Carl Spain Center
"I think it's wrong," she said.
For many, "Justice for Bo!" has become a rallying cry seen on T-shirts and social media hashtags.
"In addition to grieving his loss, I'm consumed with ensuring he gets justice," Allison Jean said. "I read all the news articles that bear his name. I'm in touch with the attorneys from the DA's office to find out about progress from the case."
The family filed a civil lawsuit in federal court, arguing that the city and Dallas police "failed to implement and enforce such policies, practices and procedure for the DPD that respected (Botham) Jean's constitutional rights."
But lately, especially after a right-wing radio host characterized her as a scheming mom looking to get rich off her son's death, the fight has made her weary, Allison Jean said.
In a Twitter post, family attorney Lee Merritt condemned the shock jock's statement as "dangerous, defamatory and uniquely evil."
"Right now, since I came to Dallas, I've just been thinking about whether I should really fight for justice," Allison Jean said. "I know the one just God is the one whom I serve. So I keep thinking, 'Should I just leave everything up to him?'"
Asked what justice would look like, she replied, "I thought justice would mean some punishment to the person who inflicted harm (on Botham Jean). But right now, since I realize we're dealing with principalities and powers — we're dealing with a secular world and not only the spiritual that we believe in — I'll just leave it up to the Father."
For his part, Bertrum Jean said he knows "nothing could bring Botham back to me." No outcome in a criminal or civil court will change the fact that his son died.
Allison and Bertrum Jean, parents of Botham Jean, reflect on the Christian Acappella Music Awards paying tribute to their slain son after his death. RNS photo by Bobby Ross Jr.
"All my mind is on is, I want to see him again," the father said, his voice choked with emotion. "I know he's in a place where he should be, with the Lord. I want to be in heaven with him.
"Honestly, she's the last person on my mind," the father said of Guyger. "I don't mind seeing her, and I have no hatred for her. Everybody who knows me, I'm about love."
Whatever happens in the justice system, Bertrum Jean said, he'll leave it in the Lord's hands.
"Honestly, they could give her 100 years in prison, and I would take no pleasure," he said. "Until I could see my Botham again, I will not be happy."
Focus on positive change
The four-day racial unity summit brought the family — Bertrum Jean, Allison Jean, older sister Allisa Charles-Findley and younger brother Brandt Jean — to Dallas.
Bertrum and Allison Jean address the Dallas Racial Unity Leadership Summit at the Dallas West Church of Christ. Photo courtesy of ACU's Carl Spain Center
They sat close to the front as Jerry Taylor, founding director of ACU's Carl Spain Center, welcomed conference attendees. About 350 Christians from across the nation registered for the summit.
"Our presence here … speaks to our commitment to keeping the beautiful life and the horrific death of our beloved Botham Shem Jean alive," Taylor said. "We will not suffer memory loss when it comes to recognizing the great tragedy of what the Jean family lost, what Dallas West lost, what the city of Dallas lost and what the world lost when Botham innocently lost his life."
Dallas West minister and elder Sammie Berry, described by Botham Jean's parents as his "Texas father," told the crowd the slain Christian "was an outstanding young man with a bright future."
"While he lived, he let his light shine on all of those who came near him," Berry said. "So we're here to honor him, but we're also here to bring about some positive change."
Allison Jean said of the summit: "Anything that will promote what Botham stood for, I fully support it. Racial unity is one of the things that Botham really tried to do. In fact, I don't think he even recognized race because he was always with everyone. He blended very well at Harding, which is predominantly white."
A mission team from Harding with the Jean family and other St. Lucia church members during a trip several years ago. Photo courtesy of Todd and Debbie Gentry
At the same time as the Dallas event, a dozen-person mission team from Harding landed in St. Lucia.
That island nation of 180,000 people is where Botham Jean dreamed of winning souls to Jesus and running for prime minister one day.
Harding teams led by Todd and Debbie Gentry, college and outreach ministers for the College Church of Christ in Searcy, began annual trips to St. Lucia in 2013.
At the time, Botham Jean worked as a student intern for the campus ministry. The Gros-Islet Church of Christ, where Bertrum Jean serves as a part-time preacher, was a new church plant on the island's north end.
"We spent hours discussing the possibilities of how a team of Harding students could help grow and encourage those followers," said Debbie Gentry, who with her husband became Botham Jean's "Arkansas parents."
The shirt worn by Harding mission team members on a recent trip to St. Lucia. Photo courtesy of Todd and Debbie Gentry
On the latest trip, students spent four days in a Gros-Islet elementary school, teaching health and wellness, social studies and religion. That school is the same one where the original mission team coordinated a day camp that Botham Jean helped arrange.
"Our relationship not only with this school but with the ministry of education in St. Lucia has been cultivated," Debbie Gentry said. "We have been invited to teach in all the schools in the island.
"It is amazing how free we were to talk about God and our faith," she added. "We sang religious songs freely and prayed in all the classrooms. In all subjects, we were encouraged to speak about our faith in Jesus Christ."
Nonetheless, the trip was difficult for all who knew Botham Jean, she said: "This year, we are walking with the entire church through grief and healing. Our hearts are broken over the tragic death of our dear friend and brother. Without a doubt, we have felt Botham's absence in a big way."
But just as Botham Jean "served because he loved God with all his heart, soul and mind," she said, the Harding team did the same — knowing that he would be pleased.
The family has established the Botham Jean Foundation, with his sister serving as president, to keep his memory alive and serve vulnerable communities in the U.S. and St. Lucia.
Allison Jean, right, mother of shooting victim Botham Shem Jean, hugs a mourner after a prayer vigil Sept. 8, 2018, at the Dallas West Church of Christ. RNS photo by Bobby Ross Jr.
On Sept. 6 — the anniversary of his death — the foundation plans a "Be Like Bo" Day that will feature the launch of a mentorship program.
"It's a hard day, but we want to change it and bring good out of it," said Charles-Findley, a member of the Kings Church of Christ in Brooklyn, N.Y.
After the racial unity summit, Bertrum and Allison Jean flew home to St. Lucia to join the Harding group.
Even before returning to the island, though, they braced themselves for the torment that they'd experience there.
St. Lucia, like Dallas, stirs so many memories, so much anguish.
"I miss him being there, just going to the various homes that he visited," Bertrum Jean said of past St. Lucia mission efforts. "It breaks my heart that he won't be there for that work."
(Bobby Ross Jr. writes for The Christian Chronicle, where this story first appeared. The original version of this story can be found here.)

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The 10 Wildest Led Zeppelin Legends, Fact-Checked
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The Old Hermit in the 'Led Zeppelin IV' Gatefold Is a Character From 'The Lord of the Rings'
THE BACKSTORY: It's no secret that Led Zeppelin loved The Lord of the Rings. They even sing about "Mordor" and "Gollum" in 1969's "Ramble On." So when a mysterious cloaked figure with a lantern who seemed to be straight out of Middle-Earth appeared on the inside cover of their fourth album, many fans assumed it was a figure from J.R.R. Tolkien's books.
THE TRUTH: "The hermit" was merely inspired by a figure from a Tarot card. Page played the role of the Hermit during a fantasy sequence in Zeppelin's 1976 movie, The Song Remains the Same.
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SPILLER, Robert (c.1592-1637), of Woking, Surr.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Available from Cambridge University Press
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b. c.1592, 1st s. of Henry Spiller* of Laleham, Mdx. and 1st w. Dorothy. educ. Trin., Oxf. 1610, aged 18, BA 1611; L.Inn 1611.1 m. 11 Nov. 1615,2 Dorothy, da. of Sir John Dormer* of Dorton and Long Crendon, Bucks. and wid. of Sir John Dynham of Boarstall, Bucks., 1da.3 kntd. 27 July 1622.4 bur. 21 May 1637.5
Gent. of the privy chamber (extraordinary) 1631-d.6
Commr. Wey navigation 1635.7
Spiller's life was overshadowed by that of his controversial and popishly-inclined father, Sir Henry, whom he joined in the last two Jacobean Parliaments. The family's connections with the Howards saw him nominated for Castle Rising by Thomas, earl of Arundel.8 His Commons career was probably intended as a political apprenticeship, but the only mention of him in the records of either Parliament was an appointment on 6 Mar. 1621 to the committee to consider the Wey River navigation bill.9 Spiller, who lived at Woking, in Surrey, through which the river flowed, probably supported the bill, since he did not sign the petition against the project.10 The measure failed to become law, however, and in 1635 Spiller was appointed to a commission to make the Wey navigable.
Two years before his death Spiller sold to his father the manors of Kingsey and Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, which he had acquired on his marriage.11 He died intestate in 1637, leaving an under-age daughter, Jane, and was buried near his mother at Shepperton church, Middlesex. On 15 June administration of Spiller's estates was granted to Sir Henry during Jane's minority on condition that he provide her with a portion of £3,000.12 However, Sir Henry, a royalist, refused to pay his granddaughter's portion in 1646 when she married James Herbert, son of the parliamentarian 4th earl of Pembroke (Sir Philip Herbert*). The dispute was only settled in Jane's favour in 1650, a year after Sir Henry's death.13 No further members of the family sat in Parliament.
Authors: Alan Davidson / Chris Kyle / Rosemary Sgroi
1. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss.
2. WCA, St. Mary le Strand par. reg. unfol.; Bp. London Mar. Lics. 1520-1610 ed. G.J. Armytage (Harl. Soc. xxv), 269.
3. F.G. Lee, Hist. Thame Church, 510; G. Lipscomb, Hist. Bucks. i. 119, 298; PROB 11/151, f. 197.
4. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 179.
5. D. Lysons, Mdx. Parishes, 225.
6. LC5/132, p. 265.
7. T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 19.
8. SP14/135/42.
9. CJ, i. 539b; CD 1621, vii. 40-44.
10. Harl. 6803, ff. 30-37.
11. VCH Bucks. ii. 282, iv. 65.
12. PROB 6/16, f. 87.
13. CCC, 1146; C2/Chas.I/H116/172; 2/Chas.I/H87/9; 2/Chas.I/H88/15.


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Razan Zaitouneh, född 1977, är en syrisk advokat, journalist och människorättsaktivist. År 2011 grundade hon Violations Documentation Center in Syria (VDC). Hon, hennes make och två kollegor från VDC kidnappades den 9 december 2013 i Duma av okända personer. Den 11 december 2013 krävde 16 människorättsorganisationer att de släpps omedelbart. Hon har mottagit flera pris, däribland Anna Politkovskajapriset, International Women of Courage Award 2013 och Sacharovpriset 2011.

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Odwołania znakowe są często błędnie nazywane encjami, w rzeczywistości tylko jeden ich rodzaj (nazwane odwołania znakowe) korzysta z encji.

Rodzaje odwołań znakowych
Odwołania znakowe można podzelić na trzy grupy:
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 Nazwane odwołania znakowe, będące po prostu odwołaniami do encji znakowych; mają postać &encja;.

Z tego wynika, że odwołanie znakowe np. do "ó" może występować w trzech postaciach:
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Odwołania znakowe mogą pełnić dwie role:
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 Drugą jest możliwość stosowania znaków, które mają specjalne znaczenie w składni SGML/XML. Należą do nich: & (&) oraz < (<), a także > (>), " (") i ' (') – ten ostatni tylko w XML.

Nazwane odwołania znakowe
Większość z encji znakowych HTML jest częścią standardu SGML ISO 8879. Częścią standardu XML jest 5 encji znakowych o nazwach: amp, lt, gt, quot i apos.

Nazwy encji znakowych są tworzone na kilka sposobów:
 Nazwy encji liter łacińskich ze znakami diakrytycznymi są tworzone przez nazwę litery, odpowiednio wielką lub małą, i angielską nazwę znaku diakrytycznego. Tak np. é (é) to "e" z akcentem akutowym (ang. acute), a À (À) to "A" z akcentem grave. Wszystkie odwołania do encji znakowych z alfabetu łacińskiego można znaleźć w artykułach Alfabet łaciński w Unikodzie.

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Is Percy Jackson real?
Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
Is Tartarus a god or place?
In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born.
What did Hades fear?
As an ordered god, he feared overwhelming chaos; as a child of the Titans, he feared their rule over the world; and as a husband, he revered and feared the loss of his wife Persephone, bringer of death.
Who is Hades daughter?
Melinoë
Who did Hades punish?
To fight off her terrible hunger, she secretly ate seven pomegranate seeds. But a gardener of Hades had seen her and ratted her out to Hades. Persephone punished him for his indiscretion by turning him into a screech owl or Demeter punished him by burying him under an enormous rock. The deed having been done, Rhea?
Is Odysseus a god or mortal?
Who was Odysseus? Odysseus was a legendary hero in Greek mythology, king of the island of Ithaca and the main protagonist of Homer's epic, the "Odyssey." The son of Laertes and Anticlea, Odysseus was well known among the Greeks as a most eloquent speaker, an ingenious and cunning trickster.
Why is Ares hated?
Ares was the Greek god of war and perhaps the most unpopular of all the Olympian gods because of his quick temper, aggressiveness, and unquenchable thirst for conflict. He famously seduced Aphrodite, unsuccessfully fought with Hercules, and enraged Poseidon by killing his son Halirrhothios.
Is Poseidon Athena's uncle?
Poseidon was Athena's uncle, Demeter her aunt, Hades her uncle, and Hestia her aunt.
What was Hades worst thing?
Bad things Hades did: He kidnapped Persephone and forced her to marry him by trickery. (Note that he had Zeus's permission though, so Zeus was just as responsible for this) He trapped Theseus in the underworld for trying to kidnap Persephone, so he's a hypocrite.
Is Odysseus a hero or anti hero?
The protagonist of the epic poem Odysseus is often regarded as a great hero. However, Odysseus is not quite the glorious soldier that people often see him as. Odysseus shows that he is an antihero through his pride, disloyalty, and bloodthirstiness.
Why would Odysseus be considered as a hero?
Odysseus is considered an epic hero for his role as King of Ithaca, his participation in the war, and his journey home. A hero has some type of superhuman ability, such as intelligence, physical strength, or bravery: Odysseus was known for his ability to think himself out of tough situations.
How is Zeus able to free his siblings the Olympians?
What island is Zeus born in? How is Zeus able to free his siblings, the Olympianas? He frees his 5 Olympian siblings by Creating a potion , Puts it in his cup which makes him really weak causing him to vomit his 5 siblings. Ther rock kronos was given by Rhea insted of Zeus is believed to be where?
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Close tasks such as reading and sewing become difficult, particularly under poor lighting conditions. For example, you may find that you are holding your newspaper further away from your eyes to make the print clearer. Presbyopia does not affect distance vision. You may also have difficulty concentrating when reading, or you may find periods of close work result in sore eyes, headaches or tiredness.
Everyone experiences the ageing process which causes Presbyopia. The condition cannot be prevented.
No. Presbyopia is usually first noticed around the age of 40 to 45 years. Although difficulties with close work may seem to come on suddenly, the ageing process which causes Presbyopia is gradual and has been going on since childhood. Between the ages of 45 and 65 the amount of Presbyopia increases, making near work more difficult. From 65 years onwards, there are unlikely to be any further significant changes to vision due to Presbyopia.
Through discussion with your optometrist you will be able to decide which is the best way of preparing your prescription. The correction for Presbyopia will make near objects clear but distant objects blurry. This means that if you have a pair of spectacles just for reading you will not be able to watch television while wearing them.
Having different prescriptions for distance and reading can be a nuisance, especially if you have to change spectacles all the time. One way around the problem is the use of bifocals. These are special lenses which have a prescription for distance vision in the top half of the lens and the prescription for near vision (reading) in the lower half. Another form of spectacles used to correct Presbyopia are `look-overs' or half-glasses. Other options include the use of trifocals, progressive lenses and some special contact lens prescriptions.
Between the ages of 45 and 65 your prescription is likely to change significantly. Its sensible to have your eyes examined every two to three years to review your correction and your general eye health. If you experience vision problems within two or three years of your previous examination you should make a review appointment with your optometrist. Your optometrist will advise you of the most appropriate period between consultations.


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When cleaning your home. What do you do when it's time to tackle the stairs?
Cleaning floors are easy. Today's floor sweepers can do the job fast and efficiently. But, the stairs of your home is a different matter altogether.
First, they are small and have a crevice that is hard to clean.
Next, you have to figure out to get up the stairs, keeping your balance, and footing.
Lastly, you end up tired and sore lugging a heavy vacuum up and down the stairs. Leaving you tired with pain, and being cranky to boot.
Well, kiss those days goodbye.
We review 5 best vacuum for carpeted stairs, which will do the job simply and easily. So, continue reading to learn more.
Do you need a handheld vac that can clean at almost any angle? B&D has got you covered with an innovative cordless vacuum that has the power and the flexibility to clean your stairways and other hard to reach areas with ease.
You also will appreciate its lightweight design and how easy it moves across surfaces where other vacs get hung up on. It fits your hand easily, and there is no Repetitive Stress Injury in its use.
Cleaning a flight of stairs can be tiring and a drag. With the Black & Decker, Cordless Pivot It becomes effortless and natural.
Smaller and lighter and with 18 volts of power, it gets the job of cleaning your stairs done fast and easy. Like a robot from a space movie, it changes shape to adapt to where you are cleaning and when you are finished, it folds in half to take up less space that you ever imagined. An easy to remove dust bowl lets you dump it into the trash quickly when you will finish the cleaning process on a stairway in your home.
There is also a LED display that lets you know when it's charging. When you reach a hard to reach space, the crevice tool comes into play, and it is an integrated part of the vacuum cleaner.
This is very convenient, as you don't have any extra attachments to worry about losing or buying. The onboard brush is similar and is always ready when you have a mess to clean up. This is especially important if you have children as they are always getting into something.
Finally, the unit makes use of cyclonic action, and like a tornado in a jar, it accelerates dirt into a circle that separates air and dirt to maintain a constant suction while it is cleaning.
Plugs into any receptacle and after a quick charge it is ready to tackle the stairs and furniture.
Do not leave the machine on continuous charge. It states clearly that it does not use Lithium Ion batteries. So, if you keep it on a charger like you can do with a LION battery, after a year or so the unit will not take a charge at all and becomes a paperweight.
Your cleaning workload just got a whole lot easier. With the 71B, you can clean places that were unreachable for your regular vacuum cleaner. It cleans the bane of many homeowners, the stairs, fast and easy. You will be amazed at how fast you can finish getting your stairs free of dirt and animal hair in such a short period of time.
It then empties in a few seconds, and you can then give the living room furniture a quick once over as well. This is the perfect Hand Vac to get a home ready for an evening of fun or readying the Home Entertainment Center.
The Eureka's 71B is that heavy-duty hand vac that is like a light sabre when it comes to cleaning your stairs. It cuts through the dirt, and grime fast, effortlessly, and it's simple to use. First, it has 20-feet of cord. This means you plug it in once you can then do the stairs along with whatever else that needs sprucing up in the living room after the kids and pets have run amok.
Next, it has a detachable hose with crevice cleaning attachment that gets into tight spots. Then, there is also a front nozzle that flips open like a visor on a knight's helmet that gets the top of a step clean like gangbusters.
However, it is the sheer power of the 5.5 Amp motor that is the real star of this handheld vac. It has the sucking power of a whirlwind. It picks up dirt and dust like nobody's business. Your home never had it so good. You stairs become immaculate, and you can keep your stairs and furniture free of cat and dog hair as well.
Small disasters clean up quickly, and you do not have to go to the hall closet and break out your heavy canister or upright.
This is the most abused Hand Vac out there. People try to replace their full-blown vacuums with a handheld. This was not what the 71B was made for.
It cleans stairs and does furniture period. It is not made to be a floor sweeper for a 10-room house with plush carpeting.
In fact, all the carpeting in your home can be cleaned as if you brought in a team of professional carpet cleaning experts at great expense. Not only are your stairs clean but your whole home is carpeting looks like it was just laid that afternoon.
When guests stop by, and they wouldn't believe you didn't just have new carpeting installed. If your own pets, you can rid your carpeting of stains and urine odor as well. This is the ultimate in a carpet care cleaner.
The 360-degree SpinScub technology takes the backbreaking effort out of cleaning your carpeting on stairs as well as the rest of the house.
It automatically mixes soap and water to bring your carpeting back to its pristine condition; you had when it was first laid. It makes it easy to do your stairs as it has not only a crevice tool but also a cleaning head made especially for stairways. Combine this with a weight of only 19 pounds you have one of the lightest heavyweight carpet cleaners found anywhere today.
It also rinses the soap away in a second pass that you control with the flick of a switch. Now get your sofa, living room chairs, and recliners immaculately clean.
To top everything off, you will discover that with the 4 separate handles you can maneuver this Hoover through its paces simply and easily anywhere in your home.
So, now if you want the ultimate carpet, stair, and furniture cleaner, you only have to look to Amazon and Hoover to get your home looking great and keeping it that way.
Clean the unit it after cleaning. Run the motor a bit, to dry the bristles. The biggest problem with this unit, it is the fact; people do not finish the job of cleaning the unit before putting it away.
Another tip is that if you clean the stairs first with just water alone lets the detergent do a better job on the next pass. Your carpeting on the stairs or anywhere else comes out even cleaner.
When it is time to clean the stairs, many just keep putting it off as too difficult. However, you will never entertain these thoughts ever again. With the Bissell 3624, you can do a stairway faster than ever before. It has a streamline unit that has the ergonomic shape that lets you to do the work fast with no mishaps.
You have the right tool that attaches to make cleaning any mess on your stairs go away with almost no effort on your part. When you have finished cleaning the carpeting on your stairs, you'll wonder why you never thought of doing it this way before.
The Bissell 3624 has a 3/4 gallon tank so you can get your work done without having to change out the water. In addition, its 22-foot power cord makes it easy to cover an entire stairway without having to switch wall plugs. You can then get all those messy spots and places where you need a spot clean done. You also receive the professional cleaning tools you need, Tools that include a 6″ Stair Tool and a Tough Stain Tool. It also comes with a long hose as well.
This all gives you one of the easiest to use stair and carpet cleaners made. It will also do your upholstery as well that gets rid of pet stains and urine smell. When you use the special cleaning solutions that Bissell provides, you not only can get more cleaning power from this unit.
However, you can also Scotchgard your stair's carpeting as well as rugs, and your furniture coverings. You will then not only getting rid of the dirt and stains but preventing them from reoccurring as well. This protection can last for up to a year, and that means less work for you, as a mess can be cleaned off with just a damp rag.
Great little machine and the two-year limited warranty is a plus as well.
Opens up wide for cleaning when you are finished.
Gets that deep down dirt you never even knew was there.
After years of searching, I've finally found a cleaner that can keep up with 3 kids, a dog, cat, and a husband.
If you want to get a great job with cleaning your stairs, Use Oxyclean first, the oxygen breaks up the stain. Then, you follow up with the regular cleaning solution you use. You will get a better cleaning job and with just a little extra time spent.
When the hose breaks, Do the work yourself. It costs around 40 bucks. The hard part is knowing that to remove it you have to unscrew the hosing. You can find the screw under the sticker. Removing them voids the warranty, however.
Which Vacuum is Right for you?
This all depends on the type of lifestyle you are leading. For a single person in a small home, the B&D can take care of most of the cleaning chores, you will encounter. When you throw pets into the mix, you'll want either of the two Eurekas. The 41A is the smaller of the two and is best for lighter work. If you have kids and pets, The Hoover will go the whole hog and clean just about as good as a pro rig. (Almost is the key phrase) Finally, the Bissell deals with stairways, furniture, and spot cleaning.
We also recommend our another post "Best Vacuum for Stairs" .
That means you can't clean the whole house with them. However, for stairway and furniture, they are ideal. If you take care of them by cleaning them and in the case of the wet dry units, rinsing and drying them, it is the right decision to choose the best vacuum for carpeted stairs, they will last you well beyond their warranties.


Award-winning Onpex, The Online Payment Exchange, is proud to announce the launch of its new product: Payment Account Management.
ONPEX Payment Account Management allows customers to manage technical transaction information in relation to the real payment streams with any connected payment method. These Payment Accounts offer easy access and a wide selection from payment methods, cash management and fraud prevention solutions.
•	Virtual Accounts - allowing customers to create and manage customisable individual virtual accounts for their merchants or wallets.
•	Collection - Collect payments from all connected payment methods globally in many currencies in one place.
•	Settlements - Create settlements through multiple pay-out channels swiftly and safely.
•	Reconciliation - Technical transaction information from all payment methods matched to the payment account value on a single transaction level.
•	Cash Management - Moving value in real-time between payment accounts from and to connected real bank accounts.
Christoph Tutsch, ONPEX CEO, said: "The ethos of ONPEX is simplicity, transparency and automation and our Payment Account Management achieves this. It is simple to use because it is seamlessly integrated into our portal and APIs. It is transparent because our customers have full control of all its functions and all information is in one place. It is automated because it does all of this without manual effort of our customers."


Prime Minister David Cameron has publicly committed the UK government to legalizing homosexual 'marriage' within three years, despite strong opposition from churches and even members within his own party. He made the announcement at a reception for homosexual lobby groups at 10 Downing Street.
I don't even like saying that phrase, 'legalize homosexual marriage' because it conveys the notion that marriage is a 'right' that has been denied certain individuals. Marriage itself is not a 'right' to be granted or denied by the government. Marriage is a sacred institution established by God primarily for the purpose of procreation. Nobody has a 'right' to be married. And if the government defines marriage as a 'right' and says that people cannot be discriminated against based on their sexual 'orientation', then in the name of equality they will have to permit every deviation of 'marriage' imaginable. For instance, why restrict marriage to just two individuals? Isn't that discrimination? Muslims already practice polygamy in this country, albeit not legally. If the government says we can no longer discriminate on the grounds of sexual 'orientation', they will have to legalize polygamy, and possibly a few other things. It's the thin end of the wedge.
And it's not just a matter of granting rights to a few individuals to have their 'relationships' recognized by law. In reality the legalization of homosexual 'marriage' will have a profound effect on our education system. As we heard on the news recently, leaked emails sent by the Department of Education to the government reveal that teachers are concerned the proposed legislation will require them to promote homosexual 'marriage' in schools. Children, who are already under intense pressure from the media to push back the boundaries on sexual matters, will face an additional assault on their impressionable minds.
I believe that homosexuality is wrong. It's unhealthy. It's against nature. And God calls it sin (Leviticus 18:22). Sin is falling short of God's required standard (Romans 3:23). Some people will argue that homosexuals are born that way, that they can't help it. And so they should be allowed to 'marry'. The Bible teaches us that we are all born sinners (Psalm 51:5). We are all predisposed to certain sins from our youth. For some it may be homosexuality. For others it may be drugs, alcoholism, or something else. Just because we can't help it, that doesn't make what we do right. And that's where Cameron's argument, that the Church should be accepting of homosexuality, falls flat. Not being able to help it doesn't make it right. And legalizing it is not the answer to the problem.
Homosexuals who refuse to accept that what they are doing is sin in the sight of God are only locking themselves out of heaven. But those who confess their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour will never be turned away. The Lord Jesus Christ said in John 6:37, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out". Don't get me wrong, I'm not singling out homosexuals for condemnation. The Bible says all sin is the same in the sight of God (1st Samuel 15:23). But praise God that He has provided a way whereby our sin can be forgiven. He sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to bear God's punishment for our sin upon the cross of Calvary. Have your sins been forgiven? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation today.


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